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Linebacker Bowman retires from NFL as a 49er
Nick WagonerESPN Staff Writer
Covered Rams for nine years for stlouisrams.com
Previously covered University of Missouri football
Member of Pro Football Writers of America
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman is calling it a career. But before he does, he wanted to make sure he was going out with the team that brought him into the league in 2010.
The Niners announced Tuesday that Bowman stopped by the team's training facility to inform the organization that he would be retiring and that he wanted to retire as a member of the team for which he played seven-plus years.
At the moment, the 49ers have a full 90-man roster and can't sign Bowman to a ceremonial one-day contract so he can officially retire with the team. Regardless of the formality, Bowman wanted it to be known that he was going out as a 49er.
Forever a Niner.@NBowman53 came by the #49ers facility today to inform the team he plans to retire and will be doing it as a 49er as he had always intended.
Read: https://t.co/JpNRlwAkp1 pic.twitter.com/KPJMLA1IBs
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) June 4, 2019
Bowman did not play in the NFL in 2018 after starting the final 10 games of the 2017 season with the Oakland Raiders. As it turned out, those 10 contests were the only games in his career in which he didn't suit up in the 49ers' scarlet and gold.
San Francisco selected Bowman in the third round (No. 91 overall) of the 2010 NFL draft out of Penn State, and he immediately helped form one of the league's most feared linebacking duos with Patrick Willis.
Bowman went on to be named first-team All-Pro four times with three Pro Bowl appearances and was at the center of a dominant defense that led the Niners to three straight NFC championships beginning with the 2011 season. He finished his time with the 49ers with 709 tackles, 12.5 sacks, seven forced fumbles and four interceptions.
Bowman also provided some of the franchise's most memorable moments, including an 89-yard interception return for a touchdown that nailed down a playoff spot in 2013 and closed down Candlestick Park and the pass breakup in the NFC Championship Game that sent the Niners to Super Bowl XLVII.
For his career, Bowman had 764 tackles, 14 sacks, seven forced fumbles and five interceptions.
All of that production came despite a knee injury that kept Bowman out for the entire 2014 season and an Achilles injury that cost him the final 12 games of the 2016 season.
The 49ers released Bowman on Oct. 13, 2017, after they began to reduce his workload and he expressed frustration because of it. But Niners general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan made it clear at the time that they understood and respected all Bowman had done for the franchise.
"Bo's been great to me," Shanahan said then. "I've always had the utmost respect for him, just from film and playing against him since I've been here to get to know him as a person. He's as cool as any guy I've been around."
Bowman watched Tuesday's organized team activity with his family from the sideline before breaking down the team huddle at the end of the practice.
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Scores News Standings
Bill Barnwell, ESPN Staff Writer 21d
NFL, Fantasy NFL, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears
NFL contracts are wildly different from those of the other big four American sports. For one, baseball, basketball and hockey deals are mostly guaranteed. Football deals are the opposite. When you hear about a contract in one of those sports, you can usually feel pretty comfortable judging it by the total, cumulative numbers. In football, we're usually stuck waiting for days to find the actual terms of the deal, which might vaguely approximate the initial reports. Kwon Alexander's four-year, $54 million deal with the 49ers, for example, really boils down to a one-year, $14.5 million pact.
Contracts are also different in the NFL because there are huge differences in what players are paid at different positions. A truly great player is going to get a max deal in the NBA, regardless of whether he's a center or a point guard. The highest-paid players in hockey are a mix of skaters, although goalies are left aside. Relievers don't typically make as much as starting pitchers by virtue of their (relative) lack of usage, but hitters and pitchers are mostly an even split at the top of the baseball market. In the NFL, it's quarterbacks and then a huge drop off to everyone else. Fifteen of the 16 largest cap hits in football in 2019 belong to passers.
As a result, it can be tough to gauge what actually represents a huge deal for a player at a given position. Every year, this column steps in to try to figure out which players actually have the biggest commitments in football after adjusting for their respective positions. It's more than trivia; evaluating these contracts and finding the most expensive outliers in the league give us a sense of how well teams negotiate and who they see as transcendent players. This year's free-agent safety class, as an example, might have seemed six or seven deep with similarly promising pieces. When you actually look at their deals, though, it's clear that there is a three-person tier at the top and a huge drop off to the rest of the bunch. (All three of those deals made this column.)
To measure outlier deals, I've gone through each multiyear deal of three seasons or more signed since the league adopted its current CBA in 2011 and sorted them by position. As a measure of contract value, I'm using the three-year compensation for each deal, which I've found several salary cap managers in the NFL to use as a reasonable shorthand for value. This is the actual cash a player stands to take home over the first three years after he signs an extension. Few deals have any guaranteed money after three seasons, at which point organizations usually opt to sign a player to a new deal or move on.
I compare each contract's three-year value to the top 20 deals signed at that contract's position since 2011, and that yields our difference. Landon Collins, as an example, will make $45 million over the first three years of his deal with Washington. Our baseline for the top 20 safety deals in football currently comes in at $30.1 million over three years, so Collins is right around 50% above his positional average.
Two notes, and then we'll get started with the 20 biggest outliers in football. One is that we don't have firm numbers for the Carson Wentz extension, so I've temporarily excluded him from the discussion. In addition -- and this is very important -- an expensive outlier of a contract doesn't necessarily make for a bad deal. Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack make this list after signing huge extensions in 2018, but they're franchise-altering superstars. You would happily have them on your roster at an enormous salary. I've tried to mention where I think a deal hasn't gone well for each respective team.
Let's start with the 20th-largest outlier currently on NFL books. What do you know? It's a quarterback:
Jump to a mystery player:
15. The biggest O-line contract ever
10. An RB with major questions
7. This pass-rusher is worth it
4. The DB who reset the market
1. The three-time champ
20. Matt Ryan, QB, Atlanta Falcons
Three-year compensation: $94.5 million
Percent above average: 28.1
The Falcons surprisingly didn't give Ryan an extension after his MVP season in 2016, instead choosing to wait until the final year of the Boston College product's first extension before handing him a five-year, $150 million pact in May 2018. Julio Jones, meanwhile, attempted to get a new deal done around the same time with three years left on his existing extension, and he seems likely to reset the wideout market this summer with two years left on his contract.
Owner Arthur Blank has never been shy about paying Ryan like the best quarterback in football. His first extension in 2013 set a record at the time for three-year compensation. This most recent contract made Ryan the first member of the $30 million club, and the structure of the deal basically guarantees he will take home $117.5 million over four seasons through 2021, when he'll be 36.
19. Kevin Zeitler, G, New York Giants
Three-year compensation: $38 million
While Sashi Brown might have been tanking for the entirety of his run as Browns general manager, he handed out a pair of huge deals to entice veterans in their primes to play in Cleveland. John Dorsey got rid of both of those contracts this offseason by cutting Jamie Collins and trading Zeitler to the Giants for Olivier Vernon. Zeitler is yet to make a Pro Bowl in seven seasons with the Bengals and Browns, but his contract is safe as long as Dave Gettleman is in charge of the Giants. An expensive hog molly is still a hog molly.
18. Taylor Lewan, OT, Tennessee Titans
Washington tackle Trent Williams wants a new deal, and the contract he'll be targeting is Lewan's five-year, $80 million pact. The ornery Michigan standout is the league's highest-paid left tackle, as his $50 million three-year cash flow topped the $48 million Nate Solder netted in his free-agent deal with the Giants last March.
The only hole you can poke in Lewan's game is penalties. The three-time Pro Bowler has averaged more than eight flags and three holding calls per season across his four seasons as a starter.
17. Kawann Short, DT, Carolina Panthers
With the Jaguars restructuring Marcell Dareus' deal, Short is now the NFL's second-highest-paid defensive tackle behind Aaron Donald. The 30-year-old is unquestionably an asset to any defense, but he's not quite at Donald's level. Short racked up just three sacks and seven knockdowns last season, although he did lead all defensive tackles with nine tackles for loss against the run. The Panthers will show more 3-4 looks this season after signing Gerald McCoy, but Short's numbers shouldn't suffer much since they'll still spend plenty of time with four down linemen against pass-happy teams like the Falcons, Saints and Bucs.
The Panthers will hope for increased production from their star tackle after adding McCoy and edge rushers Bruce Irvin and Brian Burns to shoulder the workload this offseason. If not, they could ask Short to take a pay cut from his $12 million base salary in 2020. Stats aren't everything, of course, but at this price point, defensive linemen simply have to produce sacks and terrify opposing quarterbacks to return value.
16. Jimmy Graham, TE, Green Bay Packers
Graham has been atop the tight end charts for six seasons running, having signed a four-year, $40 million deal with the Saints in 2014 before the Packers followed up last offseason with a three-year, $30 million pact. No other tight end has hit an annual average of $10 million or more on a multiyear deal, although George Kittle could become the first next offseason.
After a 10-touchdown season in 2017, it was easy to imagine Graham and Aaron Rodgers dominating in the red zone during the former basketball player's debut season in Green Bay. That didn't happen. Graham's touchdown rate from the previous season wasn't sustainable, given that he caught just 57 passes all season. While Graham caught 55 passes last season, he managed only two touchdowns. Rodgers posted the third-worst red zone QBR of his career. Graham's touchdown rate will likely fall somewhere between those extremes in 2019, but the Packers can -- and likely will -- save $8 million on their 2020 cap by cutting Graham, 32, after the season.
15. Trent Brown, OT, Oakland Raiders
Three-year compensation: $50.75 million
This figure actually undersells Brown's deal because I'm comparing his contract to all other tackles. With the Raiders moving him back to the right side after his revelatory season at left tackle with the Patriots, Brown's three-year cash flow dwarfs the competition. The only other right tackles topping $30 million over three years are former top-five pick Lane Johnson ($30.9 million) and newly signed Broncos tackle Ja'Wuan James ($38 million). Brown would be the highest-paid left tackle in the league on this deal, let alone where he stands on the right side.
The Raiders were able to keep this deal relatively short, as they can get out of this contract without any dead money after two years and $36.8 million if Brown doesn't live up to expectations. Given that he's moving from arguably the best offensive line coach in football (Dante Scarnecchia) to the worst (Tom Cable), it'll take a huge individual effort from the 6-foot-8 Super Bowl champion.
14. Mitch Morse, C, Buffalo Bills
The Bills generally went for volume this offseason to help Josh Allen, as general manager Brandon Beane added as many as eight new offensive starters to both seal up a leaky offensive line and surround Allen with weapons. Morse's deal -- four years, $44.5 million -- isn't shocking in terms of total compensation, but it's a record for a center and clearly patterned on the four-year, $42 million pact Ryan Jensen signed with the Bucs as the top center available last offseason. The cap rose by 6.2 percent this offseason, so after accounting for inflation, $42 million turns into ... $44.6 million.
Injuries are the biggest concern for Morse, who has completed just one 16-game season in his four years in the league.
13. Le'Veon Bell, RB, New York Jets
In the end, while Bell didn't get the mammoth deal he expected, the Jets ended up paying the player, not the position. He comfortably has the second-largest deal of any back in football until Ezekiel Elliott signs his extension with the Cowboys, and there's a significant drop-off between the former Steelers star and David Johnson ($31.9 million) in third.
The Jets can get out of Bell's deal after two years and $28.5 million, but even that would put Bell back on the market as he turns 29 for one more payday.
12. Aaron Rodgers, QB, Green Bay Packers
Three-year compensation: $103 million
You're familiar, I hope. Rodgers had two years and $41.6 million remaining on his previous contract when he signed a four-year, $134 million extension with the Packers last August.
In practical terms, Rodgers is now entering the second year of a four-year, $125 million deal, with $51 million in unguaranteed base salaries tacked on over the final two seasons for cap purposes and to inflate the overall value. Rodgers will be 38 by then, at which point the Packers will either likely hand him a new deal or move on from their future Hall of Fame quarterback.
11. Tyrann Mathieu, S, Kansas City Chiefs
What a difference one year makes! Last offseason, the Cardinals decided to cut Mathieu to get out of guaranteeing the star safety $18.8 million between 2018 and 2019. Mathieu ended up taking a one-year, $7 million deal with the Texans, where he stayed healthy and showed more of the range he exhibited during his peak with the Cards.
The Chiefs promptly won a bidding war to hand Mathieu a three-year, $42 million deal with nearly $27 million guaranteed. Is it too much? On one hand, Mathieu wasn't coming close to that sort of a deal a year ago, and while he played well last season, it wasn't like we saw the consistent Defensive Player of the Year candidate that Mathieu looked like in 2015. At the same time, the Chiefs had a $13 million cap charge in 2018 for Eric Berry, who played 71 snaps all season for a team that desperately needed difference-makers in the secondary. With Patrick Mahomes still on his rookie deal, you can understand why the Chiefs took a swing on Mathieu.
10. Todd Gurley II, RB, Los Angeles Rams
What a difference a few weeks make. Gurley was a borderline MVP candidate in 2017 and continued to produce like a superstar for most of 2018, only to miss time in December with a knee injury. C.J. Anderson came off the street to excel in Gurley's absence, then looked like the better back during the postseason. Reports after the offseason have suggested that Gurley is dealing with arthritis in his knee, which was surgically repaired in college. The Rams then used a third-round pick on Memphis back Darrell Henderson while suggesting that they plan to use more two-back sets in 2019, getting Sean McVay away from the 11 personnel he used on virtually every snap between 2017 and 2018.
The case for paying Gurley was built around the idea that he was a uniquely gifted back who could both shoulder one of the league's largest workloads while remaining extremely efficient. Both arguments seem shaky at best as we head into 2019. The Rams reset the running back market when they paid him last July, as the previous leader for three-year cash flow on an active extension was LeSean McCoy at $27.3 million. Even now, Gurley and Le'Veon Bell are way ahead of the running back pack by virtually every contractual measure.
What makes this even more difficult is that the Rams didn't need to do this. As I mentioned last July when Gurley signed his deal, the Georgia product still had a year left on his original rookie deal. The Rams could have picked up a fifth-year option for 2019 and would have also been able to franchise him on a relatively modest number for 2020. My best estimate is that the Rams would have been able to go year-to-year with Gurley and paid him somewhere around $24 million without having to commit on a long-term deal.
Instead, the Rams virtually guaranteed Gurley $40 million over three years by signing him to an extension. That's an enormous bet that the guy we saw in 2017 was going to continue to play at that same level for years to come. The Rams theoretically ran the risk of upsetting Gurley by not handing him a deal at the first opportunity, as Washington did with Kirk Cousins, but this is the same organization that waited until Aaron Donald finished the fourth year of his rookie deal before handing out an extension. Neither Cousins nor Donald was dealing with an arthritic knee or playing at a position with significant attrition rates. It's too early to write off Gurley -- he was living up to expectations as recently as November of last season -- but it's hard to believe that the Rams would do this deal again if they had the chance.
9. Andrew Norwell, G, Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars rolled over oodles of cap room for years during their rebuilding process, one of the reasons they were able to commit more than $198 million to their roster during the 2018 season. Only the 49ers spent more on their cap last year. Executive vice president of football operations Tom Coughlin aimed to make life easier for his running game by signing Norwell, who was an All-Pro for the first time with the Panthers in 2017, to a five-year deal worth $66.5 million.
Things didn't quite work out in Year 1, although the problems with the Jacksonville offense were beyond Norwell's paygrade. The Jags struggled with injuries at virtually every position, which included Norwell, who went on injured reserve in November with an ankle injury. As is typical with Jacksonville free-agent signings, the Jags only guaranteed the first two years of Norwell's deal, so they could theoretically move on from him after 2019 and eat $9 million in dead money. It would probably be too early to move on from him, but given that the Jags are projected to land well over the 2020 cap before extending Yannick Ngakoue, they might need to lean on Norwell's deal to create space.
8. Earl Thomas, S, Baltimore Ravens
Did the Ravens panic after cutting Eric Weddle and losing both C.J. Mosley and Za'Darius Smith in free agency? Maybe. If a team is going to hit the panic button, though, going after a future Hall of Famer is a pretty good fallback. It's clear the Seahawks had decided they were going to move on from Thomas even before he flipped Pete Carroll the bird while being carted off last September, but the Ravens had no qualms about giving Thomas $32 million in guarantees over the next two seasons.
Injuries are an understandable concern for a player who has missed 18 games over the past three seasons, but the Seahawks have been a significantly better defense over that time frame with Thomas in the lineup:
7. Khalil Mack, LB, Chicago Bears
When the Bears traded two first-round picks as part of a package to acquire Mack, they were simultaneously handing him and his agent what amounted to a blank check. There was no way, of course, that the Bears were going to trade a franchise-altering haul for Mack without signing him to an immediate extension. Contracts are about leverage, and Mack had more leverage than just about any player in the league.
The former Raiders star signed a deal which dwarfed the deals signed by the likes of Von Miller and J.J. Watt, let alone the contracts top edge rushers signed this offseason. His six-year, $141 million pact included $60 million guaranteed at signing, $18 million more than Miller's deal, which had been the standard-bearer at the position. Miller had been the only one to top $54 million in three-year cash flow at $61 million; Mack went $12.3 million past Miller's deal. When you factor in the surplus value of the draft picks the Bears sacrificed as part of the deal, Mack is being paid like a top-of-the-line franchise quarterback.
Having said all that, after Year 1 in Chicago, I think Bears fans would happily pool together the money and pay Mack out of their own pockets if need be. Mack was expensive, but he was worth every penny to the Bears last season.
6. Russell Wilson, QB, Seattle Seahawks
To put quarterbacks in context, Mack has the largest three-year cash flow of any non-quarterback at $73.3 million. In terms of raw total, he would have the eighth-largest three-year cash total of any player in football, which would mean that there are seven quarterbacks ahead of the rest of the league. When you consider that group includes midtier passers like Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo and Matthew Stafford, it's clear just how significantly quarterbacks stand out.
Wilson has the biggest contract in the league, which in itself isn't really very interesting for the purposes of this piece. He's a great quarterback. When great quarterbacks come up for extensions, they get record deals. It was his turn. Wentz got a similar sort of contract, as will Dak Prescott. When Mahomes signs his extension, which could come as early as next January, the Chiefs star will likely top them all.
5. Zack Martin, G, Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys are the king of the never-ending contract. The longest contract in the league is the eight-year, $97.6 million extension signed by Dallas left tackle Tyron Smith. No player is currently signed to a seven-year contract, but two of the 15 players signed to six-year deals are Martin and Cowboys center Travis Frederick. It would hardly be a surprise if Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott join this list when the two other Dallas cornerstones sign their own extensions as early as this summer. (You can read more about the pros and cons of this contract philosophy here.)
It would be hard to raise any serious reservations about the Cowboys giving Martin the largest contract for a guard in NFL history and one of the most significant position-independent deals in all of football. Martin has now made the Pro Bowl in each of his first five seasons, with three first-team All-Pro nods along the way.
The list of guys who can say they've done that across their first five pro seasons is 14 players long. Nine of those players are eligible for the Hall of Fame, and eight -- Lou Creekmur, Ollie Matson, Jim Brown, Dick Butkus, Lawrence Taylor, Dan Marino, Emmitt Smith, and Barry Sanders -- are enshrined in Canton. Patrick Willis and Joe Thomas are locks when they become eligible, and fellow active players Aaron Donald and Patrick Peterson are on course themselves. Martin is a 28-year-old and his peers all have gold jackets. Of course he's going to get paid.
4. Landon Collins, S, Washington
Washington really, really wanted to sign Collins this offseason. After moving on from D.J. Swearinger and seeing the Ha Ha Clinton-Dix trade fail to work out, Jay Gruden's team desperately needed a solution at safety. You could understand why they preferred Collins. The former Giants standout only turned 25 in January, making him the youngest of the free-agent safeties. He has a relatively clean injury history, although he did miss the final four games of 2018 with a torn labrum. The Alabama product has been a dramatic playmaker at times, although much of that leads back to his 2016 season, which is still his best by a considerable margin. Collins also famously idolizes late Washington safety Sean Taylor.
When the Giants turned down the option to stick Collins with the franchise tag for one year at $11.2 million, Washington pounced with a six-year, $84 million deal. Those numbers seemed shocking for a safety, and there was some assumption that the contract specifics would yield a much less impressive deal, but that's not really the case. Collins is only guaranteed $26 million, but the structure of this deal makes it extremely likely that he will take home that full $45 million figure over three years. (The only way Washington could get away with paying Collins $26 million would be if they cut him after one year, at which point Daniel Snyder & Co. would owe $22 million in dead money.)
How much is $45 million over three years for a safety? Before 2019, the only safety to make more than $33 million in cash over the first three years of his deal was Eric Berry, who was coming off of one of the most impactful seasons a safety has had in the modern NFL. The Collins deal was a huge leap forward for the position, and it helped reset the market for guys like Mathieu and Thomas, who signed shortly thereafter.
3. C.J. Mosley, LB, New York Jets
There's a big leap from No. 4 to No. 3, which brings us the second Jets free-agent signing of the offseason. Collins was in a similar ballpark to Berry, but there was no player close to Mosley's three-year cash flow playing a similar sort of role for an NFL team before the former Ravens star signed his deal with the Jets.
Before this offseason, the top three-year figure for a linebacker who doesn't primarily rush the quarterback was that of Jamie Collins, who the Browns gave $37.3 million to stay in Cleveland during a rebuild. The 49ers gave Kwon Alexander $40.1 million in the first three years of his four-year, $54 million pact, but only $14.5 million of that is guaranteed. Anthony Barr ended up getting $39 million over three years when he reneged on his agreement with the Jets to sign with the Vikings.
There are no qualifiers needed for Mosley's deal. He is a classic middle linebacker and is getting paid like nobody else at his position. Mosley tops Alexander's three-year cash flow by more than $10 million. He had $43 million guaranteed at signing when the previous record-holder for an inside linebacker was Luke Kuechly at $27 million. Unless the Jets want to eat $30 million in dead money to get out of this deal after one year and $43 million, Mosley will end up seeing all of this $51 million before turning 30.
Some might note that the Jets followed this offseason spending spree by firing general manager Mike Maccagnan and suggest that the organization was simply throwing gobs of money at whoever might take it. That's probably true, at least to some extent. If you're looking for a slightly more coherent plan, the Jets seemed to go out of their way to pay a premium for top-level talent at positions the league typically doesn't pay. Mosley's a cover linebacker. Barr would have rushed the passer more in New York, but those haven't been his primary duties in Minnesota. Bell is a running back. Jamison Crowder is a slot receiver. Even third overall pick Quinnen Williams, arguably the best player in the draft independent of position, is likely to line up as a nose tackle frequently during his debut season in the NFL.
2. Aaron Donald, DT, Los Angeles Rams
How many players win Defensive Player of the Year and then have a significantly better season the following year? Donald claimed the award for the first time in 2017 after racking up 11 sacks, 15 tackles for loss and 27 knockdowns in 14 games. That's a career season for most defensive tackles, and the Rams rewarded Donald by handing their former first-round pick a six-year, $135 million extension last August.
Donald followed up a season where, again, he was regarded as the best defensive player in football by nearly doubling his sack total from the prior year. He finished with 20.5 sacks, 25 tackles for loss and 41 knockdowns, leading the league in all three categories.
He won Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, and the two-time winners of this award usually need to keep their summers free for a trip to Ohio five years after they retire. The full list of players to win DPOY two or more times includes Joe Greene, Ray Lewis, Mike Singletary, Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor, J.J. Watt and Reggie White. That's six inner-circle Hall of Famers and a seventh, Watt, who will also be an immediate inductee when eligible. Donald is in rare company. As bad as the Gurley deal looks one year later, the Rams probably consider Donald's deal to be a bargain, even given that he's the second-highest-paid player in the league by this metric.
1. Kyle Juszczyk, FB, San Francisco 49ers
Percent above average: 174.3
For the third consecutive year, Juszczyk ranks head and shoulders above the pack. To put his four-year, $21 million deal in context, Donald would need to make about $108 million over three years to be similarly ahead of the defensive tackle market. Russell Wilson's four-year, $140 million extension would need to be a four-year, $202.9 million deal to rank similarly ahead of the quarterback class.
Nobody has joined the 49ers in rewarding the fullback position, either. Juszczyk is one of just four veteran fullbacks in the league signed to a deal of three seasons or more. The former Raven averages $5.3 million across that deal; the other three players average $5.6 million combined. Most of the league's multiyear deals at the position are rookie contracts, including several undrafted free agents. The only other fullback in the league with an average salary over $2 million is Patrick DiMarco, who is at $2.1 million.
You can understand why Kyle Shanahan might want to target a fullback like Juszczyk, who would help mask San Francisco's pre-snap tendencies while potentially creating a mismatch against a linebacker. I advocated for the Patriots to use James Develin in a similar way in advance of the Super Bowl, and their breakthrough came when they were able to use Develin and their tight ends to create mismatches out of a running formation in the passing game. Juszczyk offers similar flexibility.
The issue isn't wanting Juszczyk on the roster. It's paying him more than twice as much as any other fullback in the league. He has offered little as a runner over his first two seasons in San Francisco, carrying the ball 15 times for 61 yards. Those 15 runs include a pair of fourth-and-1 stuffs and a third-and-1 stuff which resulted in a lost fumble. Juszczyk has fumbled four times across 98 touches, which is the seventh-worst rate in the league over the past two seasons among players with 50 touches or more.
It's almost impossible for a back to be valuable with that sort of fumble rate. Niners fans might argue that Juszczyk was signed to serve as a receiver, and indeed, he has been more productive catching passes. Juszczyk has caught 63 passes for 639 yards over the past two seasons, and Shanahan has been able to scheme him open for big plays, most notably this 56-yard catch against the Vikings last September. Of course, Shanahan would also theoretically be able to scheme open another fullback or H-back, too.
Juszczyk's production as a receiver has been similar to players like Antonio Gates, Brandon LaFell and Jaron Brown over the past two seasons, guys who are on the fringes of NFL rosters at this point of their careers. It's hard to make a case that he has been a good enough receiver to overcome the fumble issues.
If the argument is that Juszczyk helps as a blocker, that's also tough to trust, as 36.8 percent of San Francisco's running plays with Juszczyk on the field result in a successful run by expected points added (EPA). Without Juszczyk on the field, though, that figure rises to 42.8 percent.
In the bigger picture, there just isn't much evidence of Juszczyk making a consistent difference. The 49ers are successful on offense by EPA for 41.9 percent of their snaps with Juszczyk on the field. Without him, they've been successful on ... 41.8 percent of their snaps. I don't think those on/off stats are enough to totally discount Juszczyk, but it's also fair to say that there isn't a clear case he's making a difference.
Is spending too much on a fullback going to make or break the 49ers' chances of competing? Of course not. Juszczyk's deal, though, is one of a series of shocking contracts the 49ers have handed out to make sure they get their guy at a given position, even if it means paying something well above market value or expectations.
Those deals have not aged well. Malcolm Smith, who signed a five-year, $26.5 million deal after relatively anonymous play with the Raiders, missed all of his debut season with a torn pectoral and only started five games in his second campaign while dealing with a hamstring injury. The 49ers paid him more than $12 million for two years of injuries and replacement-level play before forcing him to take a pay cut this offseason.
Jerick McKinnon, signed last March to a four-year, $30 million deal after struggling as a runner during his final two season in Minnesota, went down with a torn ACL in training camp. The 49ers couldn't have predicted that McKinnon would get hurt, of course, but there was never much logic in paying nearly $12 million in guarantees to a running back in a Shanahan scheme which has been finding useful backs out of nowhere for two decades. The NFL has been devaluing fullbacks for about as long. Juszczyk has bucked the financial trend, but the 49ers haven't reaped much benefit halfway through the league's largest outlier of a deal.
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IRB InvIT Fund seeks Rs 4,300 crore in IPO
Mumbai | Published: April 26, 2017 5:18:09 AM
IRB InvIT Fund, which is sponsored by engineering company IRB Infrastructure Developers, is seeking to raise about Rs 4,300 crore in an initial public offering (IPO) next week, kicking off the first-ever listing of an infrastructure investment trust in the country.
The IPO will have a price band of Rs 100-102 per unit. The issue, which opens on May 3 and closes on May 5, also has an offer for sale of up to 3.47 crore units.
IRB InvIT Fund, which is sponsored by engineering company IRB Infrastructure Developers, is seeking to raise about Rs 4,300 crore in an initial public offering (IPO) next week, kicking off the first-ever listing of an infrastructure investment trust in the country. The IPO will have a price band of Rs 100-102 per unit. The issue, which opens on May 3 and closes on May 5, also has an offer for sale of up to 3.47 crore units.
Overall, the trust will be raising around Rs 5,035 crore as part of this first public offering, which includes fresh issue of Rs 4,300 crore, offer for sale and over subscription.
The bids can be made for a minimum of 10,000 units and in multiples of 5,000 units thereafter.
Minimum application size for bidders other than anchor investors and strategic investors bidding in the anchor investor portion is Rs 10 lakh. Anchor allotment will be on May 2, a day before the issue opens.
Speaking at the IPO media conference, Virendra D Mhaiskar, chairman and MD of IRB Infrastructure Developers, said the majority of the money amounting to Rs 3,350 crore would be utilised to repay the external debt of the underlying SPVs and the balance Rs 1,700 crore would be utilised to pay back the sponsor – IRB’s sub debt and equity.
At an enterprise value of about Rs 5,922 crore, IRB as a sponsor would be holding around Rs 900 crore worth of units, which is 15% of the enterprise value. There are six project entities proposed to form part of the initial portfolio of the Trust.
“All the six projects have proven track record and have been operational for good number of years and have demonstrated significant CAGR of 11.4% since they became operational,” Mhaiskar said.
The issue is being made through the book building process and in compliance with the InvIT regulations, wherein not more than 75% of the issue shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to institutional bidders.
Further, not less than 25% of the issue shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to other bidders, in accordance with the InvIT regulations.
IRB Infrastructure, which is the investment manager, reserves the option to retain oversubscription of up to 25% of the issue size in accordance with the InvIT regulations. The issue will constitute at least 25% of the total outstanding units on a post-issue basis.
IDFC Bank and Credit Suisse are global coordinators to the issue and ICICI Securities and IIFL are the book running lead managers.
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Gavin Rossdale on divorce from Gwen Stefani: It was the 'opposite to what I wanted'
Singer Gwen Stefani (R) and her husband musician Gavin Rossdale. (Reuters)
Gavin Rossdale has remained quiet about his divorce from Gwen Stefani in 2015. But in a new interview with The Sun's Fabulous magazine, the rocker admitted his regrets and how he still thinks his ex-wife is "incredible."
"[Divorce] was completely opposite to what I wanted. Really not…but here we are," Rossdale told the mag. "Apart from death, I think divorce is one of the hardest, most painful things to go through."
Looking back, there are plenty of things the 51-year-old would do differently.
"I know we all wish that, but we can’t, so I have to deal with reality," he said. "You can't not have regrets and be human at the same time."
The musician said the 20 years him and Stefani spent together were "lovely" and he still thinks highly of his ex.
"It was a lovely 20 years and we have three amazing children. There were a lot of positives, and with time they’ll become more and more obvious."
Unlike Rossdale, Stefani has been fairly vocal about the pair's split.
"i had to work really hard at marriage, all the time, like everybody, but ours was extra hard, when you add that we’re from different countries, both of us being in music, and celebrity," she told Glamour in November 2016. "[Marriage] was the one thing I didn’t want to fail at."
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Afghan Soldiers May Have Beheaded Taliban Captives
KABUL, Afghanistan – A senior Afghan militia commander said Wednesday that troops from Afghanistan's U.S.-trained national army beheaded four Taliban fighters to avenge the similar slaying of an Afghan soldier and a military interpreter. He later retracted his statement after a strong government denial.
Naimatullah Khan, corps commander of southeastern Zabul province (search), initially said the killings occurred Monday in the Arghandab district of the province.
Afghan National Army (search) troops sent to look for an interpreter and soldier who became separated from a combined Afghan-U.S. force found their corpses and severed heads on a mountainside, Khan said. Four Taliban fighters were caught in a search of the area, he said.
"The ANA soldiers did the same thing. They cut off their heads," Khan told The Associated Press by telephone. Troops left the bodies where they found them, he said.
If verified, the decapitations would mark an escalation in violence plaguing much of Afghanistan's south and east, especially Zabul, in recent weeks. The U.S. military says it has killed more than 80 rebels in the area since May 25.
It would also be a setback for the American-led attempt to build a disciplined, professional Afghan fighting force so that foreign troops can ultimately leave. The national army currently numbers about 10,000, far short of the projected 70,000.
American soldiers typically accompany ANA units during operations, but Khan said none was present when the decapitations took place.
Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager, a spokesman for the U.S. military, said Wednesday it had "no independent confirmation" about the beheadings. He declined to comment further.
But a Defense Ministry spokesman said the report was "not correct."
The national army "treats prisoners properly. They have been taught the laws of war," spokesman Mohammed Zahir Azimi said. "They even take injured prisoners to hospital."
Khan, who gave a similar account of the beheadings to other news organizations, later called the AP to retract his statement. He offered no explanation.
Also Wednesday, five Afghan soldiers were killed and two others were seriously wounded when their vehicle hit a mine in a desert area near the border town of Spin Boldak (search), a local commander said.
"It was a newly laid mine," said Abdul Raziq, the commander of a militia unit guarding the border with Pakistan. "The vehicle was totally destroyed."
Mansager said seven rocket-propelled grenades were fired Tuesday at a U.S. military base in the southeastern town of Khost, slightly wounding two soldiers and three Afghan interpreters.
All have returned to duty, he said.
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Marshals Posed as Supporters to Arrest Convicted Tax Evaders
CONCORD, N.H. – U.S. marshals posing as supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their rural, fortress-like home, the head marshal said Friday.
"They invited us in, and we escorted them out," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, releasing the first details of Thursday night's arrests.
A small team of marshals pulled off the ruse, arresting the Browns without incident on the front porch of their Plainfield home in west-central New Hampshire, Monier said.
The arrests ended a months-long standoff that began in January, when Brown, 65, a retired exterminator, and his dentist wife, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord. She returned to the trial but soon joined her husband at home, where they vowed to resist violently if authorities tried to arrest them.
"We either walk out of here free or we die," Ed Brown said.
At a news conference, Monier said officials found booby traps in the woods on the 100-plus-acre property and weapons, ammunition and homemade bombs inside and outside the house. He said more charges are likely.
"By their continuing actions, allegedly, to obstruct justice, to encourage others to assist them to obstruct justice, by making threats toward law enforcement and other governmental officials, they have turned this into more than a tax case," Monier said.
The Browns were turned over to federal corrections officials to serve prison terms of 63 months. They were convicted in January of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003 and were sentenced in April.
The couple claims the federal income tax is not legitimate. Their argument — repeatedly rejected by courts — is that no law authorizes the federal income tax and that the 1913 constitutional amendment permitting it was never properly ratified.
Experts had praised authorities' hands-off approach before the surprise arrests, but patience had worn thin among some of Plainfield's 2,400 residents. During the summer, town selectmen asked Monier to stop the influx of militiamen and other anti-government groups to the Browns' home and to bring the couple to justice.
Last month, authorities arrested four men accused of helping obstruct justice in the Browns' case. Charges ranged from accessory after the fact to possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Authorities also blocked access to a fundraising event on the Browns' property.
Earlier this year, officials cut power and telephone service in an effort to increase pressure on the couple.
The home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property and a driveway that had sometimes been barricaded with sport utility vehicles.
Heavily armed police surrounded the home in June while they seized commercial property the couple owned in a neighboring town. SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles marshaled in the tiny town and sparked rumors of a raid.
Monier said then the gathered forces were only for surveillance. On Friday, he would not discuss details of the operation, including the exact number of deputy marshals involved, what they said to the Browns or how the couple reacted.
"Last evening, the Browns invited yet another what they thought were like-minded individuals to their home. Unfortunately for them, the supporters actually turned out to be deputy U.S. marshals," he said. "By the time Ed and Elaine Brown realized this, they were in custody. Ultimately, this open-door policy they seemed to have, which allowed the Browns to have some supporters bring them supplies, welcome followers, even host a picnic — this proved to be their undoing."
The arrests "will be a relief to everyone in the community," said state Agriculture Commissioner Stephen Taylor, a Plainfield resident. "This has been such a distraction to everybody."
A message left for Elaine Brown's son, David Hatch-Bernier of Worcester, Mass., was not returned.
Supporters of the Browns called them leaders who were trying to protect their freedom.
"In many ways this was like a stab in the heart," said Mike Chambers, a talk show host on Republic Broadcasting Network, an Internet-based radio program based in Round Rock, Texas, that has defended the Browns in the past.
On another Web site, supporter David Ridley of Manchester said Brown supporters should take part in "peaceable protests" at places such as federal court.
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Maryland Sixth-Grade Teacher Guilty of Making False Bomb Threats on Students
FREDERICK, Md. – A sixth-grade teacher was convicted Monday of making false bomb threats targeting five male students in the middle school where she taught.
A prosecutor said he will seek an 18-month jail term for Michelle J. Dohm, 41, when she is sentenced on June 26. The five felony counts carry a combined maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.
Dohm, of Thurmont, was convicted by Frederick County Circuit Judge Julie Stevenson Solt in a bench trial that was part of a plea bargain. Dohm pleaded innocent but agreed to a written statement of facts on which the judge based her verdict. In return, prosecutors dropped seven other felony threat counts and four misdemeanor counts of stalking.
Solt ordered a pre-sentencing investigation that will include a psychiatric examination.
State's Attorney J. Charles Smith declined to comment on the case until after sentencing.
Defense attorney Thomas C. Morrow said Dohm continues to insist upon her innocence. "She just wanted to avoid the pain and anguish of a two-week trial on her family and the community," he said.
Dohm, a married mother, made the threats during a period from September 2005 until April 2006. The threats were in notes found in the boys' lockers, a Thurmont Middle School bathroom and envelopes mailed to two of the victims' homes. Some of the notes began, "Tick Tock Tick Tock. Is it a bomb or is it a clock?"
Dohm is on unpaid leave from her job as a social-studies teacher at Thurmont Middle School. She told The Associated Press in December 2005, after the first round of charges, that the real perpetrator may be someone who was jealous of the attention showered on a local Little League all-star team in the summer of 2005. Four of the victims were members of the team and one of the messages began, "Tick Tock Tick Tock. You play ball just like a rock."
Dohm told the AP in December 2005 that wasn't interested in the team because her own 12-year-old son doesn't play baseball.
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Terminating Internet Service May Cost You
Breaking up with your Internet service provider isn't hard to do — but it may cost you.
Customers who subscribe to a high-speed Internet plan may pay $150 or more if they terminate their service before their contract has expired, according to a new survey from Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
The practice is well known among cell phone providers — early termination fees in that industry run from $150 to $240 per line, according to the group.
The goals of the fees are largely the same — to cut down on "churn," the process of customers dumping one service provider to pursue greener pastures with another.
Jeannine Kenney, a senior policy analyst with the group, said the penalties "deprive consumers of the benefits of competition."
Broadband companies that assess termination fees, such as Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), say they are justified because customers who sign up receive a special low rate and other benefits.
Bobby Henson, director of media relations for Verizon, told Consumers Union that the company charges the fee to "regain what we have been giving the customer for free."
Henson said in addition to offering free installation and sometimes free equipment, customers also save $2 to $8 on their monthly rate.
Pricing broadband competition can be difficult. Broadband is rarely priced as a stand-alone service. Whether offered by a telephone company or a cable company, it is usually bundled with other services such as voice and video.
The advantage to the customer is easier billing and usually a price break. But the down side is if they drop one of the services to pursue a better deal elsewhere, they lose the discount.
Loyal customers produce steady, predictable revenue. Churn is an important measure when Wall Street analysts evaluate the health of subscriber-based companies.
It remains to be seen whether penalties for Internet customers will cut down on churn. Consumers Union in its annual cell phone survey found that nearly half of all cell phone subscribers who were considering switching carriers were deterred from doing so because of early termination penalties.
The organization surveyed several broadband service providers and found that the two largest cable companies, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWX), do not assess early termination fees.
AT&T Inc. (T) charges a $99 early termination fee, but subscribers get a month's service free for signing a long-term contract, according to the survey.
Verizon charges $69 for its FiOS fiber optic broadband service and $79 for its digital subscriber line (DSL) service, but the penalty can be avoided if service is canceled in the first month.
Qwest Communications International Inc. (Q) charges a $200 early termination fee on a two-year contract, according to the survey, with rates the same as month-to-month service. But customers are not subject to future price increases.
Earthlink charges a $149 early termination fee on a one-year contract.
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Education hope for Haiti’s children
Freemasons’ donations rebuild local school and help children overcome trauma of 2010’s devastating earthquake
In January 2010 an earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 230,000 people and causing much of the island’s infrastructure to crumble. Immediate emergency grants were made by The Freemasons’ Grand Charity to the British Red Cross and Plan International for their relief efforts.
In addition, and in response to requests from members of the Craft, the council of the Grand Charity opened a dedicated Relief Chest and £93,000 was raised thanks to the generosity of Freemasons and their families. A decision was made to use the money to rebuild a community school in Léogâne, which was at the epicentre of the earthquake, in partnership with aid organisation Save the Children. The construction of six new primary school classrooms and an Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centre is now complete.
New water and sanitation facilities have also been built, contributing to the health and well-being of both children and teachers. In contrast to the past, classes in the new buildings have not been interrupted due to bad weather conditions as the new structures can withstand Haiti’s heavy rains. Before the earthquake, Haiti’s education system was poorly resourced, with primary school teachers on average completing only one year of secondary education. Part of the donation has been used to train six teachers, and the community school director has also received training in leadership and supervision, to aid the effective running of the school.
Hermalie, 14, attended the school before the project started and hopes to become a nurse when she is older: ‘I feel safer in the new buildings. I now understand the lessons better and the teachers give me more explanations and encourage me to ask questions.’
New materials have also been supplied, with 500 textbooks, tables and chairs, as well as teaching kits ensuring that teachers have the equipment they need to run high-quality and inclusive primary education classes. Schoolchildren have also been provided with school kits, including notebooks, pencils, a school bag, raincoat and crayons.
The council of the Grand Charity would like to thank all those who have donated, and the local community in Léogâne has also expressed its deepest gratitude to Freemasons for their generous support.
For more information on how Gift Aid envelopes can enhance your fundraising efforts, please telephone the Relief Chest office on 020 7395 9246 or visit www.grandcharity.org/reliefchest
Published in The Grand Charity
Grand Secretary’s column - Spring 2012
This year started on a high note. As part of our communication strategy and as a build-up to our tercentenary in 2017, we commissioned an independent report on the future of Freemasonry. This report, specifically for the media, was produced by the respected Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford.
To launch the report I have just completed a successful regional media tour around the Provinces, talking to local radio and press, followed by national media activity. This is a classic example of our proactive approach. I plan to tell you about the report and the actual tour in the next issue, but let me give you a flavour of some of the important and encouraging findings.
The Future of Freemasonry report suggests that, contrary to much misleading commentary, Freemasonry does in fact demonstrate genuine openness and transparency. It concludes that Freemasonry is arguably more relevant today than ever before. In particular, the report highlights that Freemasonry acts as a ‘constant’ and provides members with a unique combination of friendship, belonging and structure, all of which can sometimes be absent in today’s fragmented society.
The report covers a fascinating range of topics including a section that highlights the importance Freemasonry places on the role of the family and the care of the less fortunate in society. It goes on to say that Freemasonry instils in its members a moral and ethical approach to life: it seeks to reinforce thoughtfulness for others, kindness in the community, honesty in business, courtesy in society and fairness in all things.
In this issue, you will find a fantastic collection of features and stories that clearly illustrate Freemasonry’s core values. On page 16 you can read about a Gravesend garage that is giving hope to unemployed young people by not just training them to be auto mechanics but also giving them the confidence to grow. Freemasons continue to support this and many other projects that are aimed at helping disadvantaged young people into employment or education.
Teddies For Loving Care donates teddy bears to comfort children in hospitals across the world. We talk to its founder, Freemason Ian Simpson, about how he started the project and the people whose lives it has touched. Later in the issue, we find out how Joshua Tonnar is rowing his way into Olympic contention with the support of a grant from the Freemasons. Meanwhile, a profile about the creation of the Royal Life Saving Lodge shows how the Craft brings together people from all walks of life, creating an environment where they not only discuss masonry but also share common interests, values and aspirations.
These stories all point to the sense of community, courtesy and honesty that are characteristic of the intrinsic strengths of Freemasonry today.
Grand Secretary
Published in UGLE
The river giant
With the support of a grant from the Freemasons, Joshua Tonnar is rowing his way into Olympic contention as he subjects himself to a gruelling regime on the Thames, finds Miranda Thompson
The calm of a crisp January morning on the banks of the Thames is shattered by the hollering of eight sixty-somethings from a rowing boat looking for assistance. Luckily, there's an oar on hand to drag them back to shore. A twist of the Thames away from Hampton Court Palace, Molesey Boat Club welcomes rowing veterans onto the water. It's also home to the next generation of British rowers. Joshua Tonnar is a 21-year-old who is pursuing his Olympic dream with the help of funding from the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys' (RMTGB) TalentAid scheme.
At six foot six inches, Joshua was originally a rugby fanatic. However, his Freemason grandfather Len Howard spotted the potential for his height after his wife Charlotte read about the Sporting Giants campaign. In 2007, Steve Redgrave spearheaded this initiative to find those who fitted the tall, athletic physical requirements for rowing.
'I went to a meeting at Stonemarket and Ray Collings, the fundraising manager at the RMTGB, was there,' remembers Len. 'I asked him whether they still supported Freemasons' grandsons and I put Josh's name forward. The money has been invaluable.'
Joshua has just completed a ferocious fifteen-minute testing session and is about to devour a gigantic plate of beans on toast – his exercise regime means he's got to consume six thousand calories a day. He recalls how he got started: 'I was talent tested in a national search for potential Olympian talent. According to the scores, you were categorised into the sports you were suited to.' Joshua was a natural, smashing three records on his first day and his first ever ergometer test on a rowing machine saw him finish just eight seconds behind a record set by Matthew Pinsent.
FUNDING POTENTIAL OLYMPIANS
In 2008, Joshua was taken on by the Sporting Giants scheme, which quickly propelled him into the GB Rowing Team Start Programme. His coach, Team GB Start's Neasa Folan, explains her role: 'We identify, recruit and develop potential Olympians. We try to develop them as athletes, so we look at their physical capacities and technical rowing skills.'
With the rowing season running from September to June/July, the months are packed with assessments and trials testing, before invitations to join a squad are issued. This year, the focus is on making the Under 23 World Championships squad. '2016 would be his Olympics,' says Neasa. 'I think he's got reasonable prospects – he's certainly got a lot of the physical characteristics and potential.'
Studying sports sciences at St Mary's in Twickenham, Joshua relishes the opportunity he has been given. 'I want to win gold at 2016 and the two after that,' he says. 'I'm here for 7am. We train until 9.30 or 10am at the first session, have breakfast and then we're back at 11. In the afternoon I go to university, but I'm back here in the evening.'
The amount of work Joshua has to do makes the funding from the RMTGB even more crucial, as Neasa says, 'The athletes might be part of the Team GB rowing programme but they're not funded.'
'Everything about rowing is expensive. I can't live off my student loan and sponsorship, I need constant funding and that's where the Freemasons are helping me. Without the RMTGB's support, I probably wouldn't be able to train full time. I'm very grateful,' says Joshua, hoisting his boat onto colossal shoulders before making his way to the banks of the Thames.
TALKING TALENTAID
Founded in the eighteenth century, the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys (RMTGB), supports children and young people who have been affected by poverty, and aims to help improve their potential in life. TalentAid is just one of the schemes run by the charity and aims to ensure that those with exceptional talent pursue their dreams of becoming a professional in their field by providing grants to cover some of the costs associated with the talent. All TalentAid beneficiaries are required to have a masonic connection via their father, grandfather or guardian and all applications are subject to a financial test.
Since TalentAid’s launch in 2001, over two hundred and fifty exceptionally gifted young people have been supported by the RMTGB at a cost of around £3 million. Other TalentAid successes include rising stars in British swimming, kayaking and women’s football. Chief Executive Les Hutchinson explains, ‘These are the people with the highest level of talent, and quite often this talent represents their main opportunity to make a success of their lives. It’s vital they have support for it.’
Les is positive regarding the scheme’s support for Joshua. ‘It was obvious from the outset that he was participating in a very competitive training programme as well as being a holder of several records for his age. His desire to succeed and make a success in his chosen field was quite clear – and his potential ability to compete in the Olympics is very exciting. It really doesn’t come much more high profile than that.’
Letters to the Editor - FreemasonryToday No.18 - SUMMER 2012
Following your coverage of the RMTGB’s assistance to talented young people, I was prompted to let you know about another such case. Freemason Carlton Johnson was a massive influence on Beehive Lodge, No. 6265, and a masonic mentor for so many. Despite his ailments he was determined to participate in Freemasonry to his utmost, notably as a charity steward. Following a long battle with Motor Neurone Disease, he died in March 1996 in his mid-fifties.
Stephen Rolley is the grandson of the late Carlton Johnson. Now in the final year of his diploma at Italia Conti, Stephen has been helped by the TalentAid scheme through the RMTGB. The purpose of his course is to further equip him with the skills required to enable him to work in a very competitive industry.
That Freemasonry has been able to help Stephen is but a tiny repayment of the debt owed to Carlton for the support he was able to offer others. Stephen is clearly showing many of the qualities that characterised his grandfather, such as resilience, focus, resolve, determination, an ability to relate to people and a great natural talent.
Roger Gale
Lodge of St Illtyd, No. 6078
Neath, South Wales
Published in RMTGB
Canine partnership
When the brethren of King Henry the Eighth Lodge raised substantial funds for the charity Canine Partners two years ago, wheelchair-bound Brian Haynes and his dog Beasley were invited to the lodge to receive a cheque for the charity. He was so impressed with what he saw that he became a mason.
Last year, Brian presented another cheque on behalf of the lodge for £3,000 to Canine Partners, which enables working dogs like Beasley to assist disabled people in living an independent life. The lodge, which meets at St Albans in Hertfordshire, wants to fully fund the training of a puppy through to it becoming a fully-fledged canine partner. With the 22-month training of a dog costing up to £12,000, continued fundraising is needed.
Once trained, the dogs’ repertoire is virtually endless: they can pick up the phone, open doors, take off socks, open refrigerator or washing machine doors, help an owner who may have fallen, summon help, switch the lights on and off, and go shopping with their owner, where they can take items from the shelf before gently offering the sales person a credit card or wallet.
Published in Lodges, Chapters & Individuals
POOLING INTERESTS
Specialist lodges offer the opportunity for members to combine their personal interests while learning about the principles of Freemasonry, as Terry Draycott shows in his history of the Royal Life Saving Lodge
At first glance you might be forgiven for thinking that ‘Quemcunque Miserum Videris Hominem Scias’ is a quote from a Roman Emperor’s tomb. However, you would be wrong. It is actually the motto of the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS), which was formed in 1891 by, among others, William Henry and Archibald Sinclair, and translates to: ‘Whomsoever you see in distress, see in him a fellow Man.’
Originally called the Swimmer’s Life Saving Society, the aims of the society were to try to reduce the significant numbers of fatalities caused by drowning, through teaching self-preservation and rescue skills. The title was subsequently changed to The Life Saving Society with members delivering lectures and demonstrations on life-saving techniques around not only the United Kingdom, but also the world. It is rumoured that William Henry visited almost every swimming pool in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden and several other countries, lecturing, teaching and promoting the work of the society. As a result, several life-saving organisations were formed within these countries.
In 1904, King Edward VI granted royal patronage and the Royal Life Saving Society was born. The society continued to flourish both within the UK and globally, and today there are RLSS clubs throughout the country. Its network of volunteers deliver instruction on water safety, life support and rescue. The society is a registered charity and a member of the RLSS Commonwealth as well as the International Life Saving Federation.
You may be asking, where is all this leading? Well, back in 1908, a group of RLSS members, finding themselves to also be masons, conceived the idea of forming their own lodge, which would be affiliated to the RLSS. Plans were made and a petition submitted to the Grand Master, and on 9 November 1908 a warrant was granted to the Royal Life Saving Lodge. The lodge was consecrated on 19 February 1909 at the Frascati restaurant on Oxford Street in London. The Grand Secretary, Sir Edward Letchworth, conducted the consecration, acting as Worshipful Master, assisted by Charles F Quicke, Senior Warden; James Stephen, Junior Warden; Rev H W Turner, Chaplain; Charles W Cole, Director of Ceremonies; and W J Songhurst, Inner Guard.
All these worthy brothers were elected honorary members of the lodge after the ceremony. The First Worshipful Master was Herbert Grimwade with Lord Desborough the first Immediate Past Master. All of the founders were active members of the RLSS, and included within the annual subscription was annual membership of the RLSS. William Henry became the first initiate into the lodge in April 1909 and rose to become Worshipful Master in 1917.
two societies, one bond
The connection between the lodge and the society remained strong for many years. When the society moved into premises in Devonshire Street, London, it immediately became Desborough House, with rehearsals and meetings regularly held there. Indeed, chairs for the Worshipful Master, Senior Warden and Junior Warden were still in use up to the move to the society’s present headquarters in Broom. The Master’s Collar is adorned with several enamelled pictures of early life-saving scenes and the loose chain box is wrought in the form of a lifebelt.
Until a few years ago, a toast was taken by the Worshipful Master to all holders of RLSS awards. However, the connection with the RLSS has been reinforced recently, with several members becoming joining members and no doubt the toast will soon be reintroduced. Some of you might remember being taught rescue skills and might have gone on to take the society’s flagship award, The Bronze Medallion, or indeed may still be members of the RLSS but never knew of its own lodge.
I have been a member of the RLSS for over forty years and a Freemason for seventeen but only discovered the existence of the lodge thanks to the wonders of modern technology – the internet, and more specifically, eBay. Back in 1992, while surfing (the dry type), I saw a founder’s jewel for sale for the Royal Life Saving Lodge, No. 3339. I investigated and subsequently made contact with the secretary – and the rest, as they say, is history.
I believe that the principles of Freemasonry are compatible with the aims of a great number of other organisations. The creation of a specialist lodge means we can discuss Freemasonry and share common interests and values. The union of two worthy causes helps to keep the memory of William Henry alive and encourages the next generation of Freemasons.
For more information on the RLSS Lodge, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
It was a very pleasant surprise to me to discover that there was a Royal Life Saving Society Lodge. As a young trainee police officer, along with many of my compatriots, I was taught life saving in the swimming pool in Durham and, again along with many others, gained the Bronze Medallion and the Bronze Cross. During subsequent courses, some of us were awarded the Award of Merit. In later years, I was involved in the training of a team of competition life savers. It is a pity that age and distance preclude a visit to this worthy lodge.
Peter Hyde
Sykes Lodge, No. 1040
Great Driffield, Yorkshire
While reading Freemasonry Today, Spring 2012, I was very interested in the article about the Royal Life Saving Society Lodge. It prompted me to find my Bronze Medallion and bar that I attained at the age of 14. I am now 80 and have been a member of the Craft for 45 years. I still like to swim at the local baths and on holidays. The article brought back some very pleasant memories. I send greetings to the RLSS Lodge and wish them well.
Ken Evans
Proscenium Lodge, No. 9059
In your Spring 2010 edition, an article was included that asked if any brother would be interested in a lodge for former members of the Queen’s Regiment. The lodge has now been formed and I am the charity steward. At our fifth meeting in May, we will claim a membership of around 50. That meeting will be our installation and renaming from Justinian Lodge, No. 2694, to Queensman Lodge, No. 2694. Any brother who would like to join a military lodge in Berkshire should contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Ron Baker
Theodore White Temperance Lodge, No. 3795
Windsor, Berkshire
Understanding the light touch
With mentoring high on the agenda, Pro Grand Master Peter Lowndes takes the opportunity to give clarity and perspective to what it means for Freemasons
You have all heard that the Mentoring Scheme is designed to eventually mentor members at all stages of their masonic progress. Initially this is especially for candidates – the next generation – during the three degrees and then to encourage them to continue their progress into the Royal Arch. London and all Provinces now have a Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Mentor who currently is responsible for liaising with the lodge mentor. For the avoidance of doubt, the lodge mentor is responsible for coordinating and selecting suitable brethren to be the personal mentors. It is most certainly not the intention that the lodge mentor should carry out the task himself – the personal mentor is best described as a friend and guide.
We all have our own ideas about what mentoring is and, for that matter, what it is not. Indeed, some believe there is no need for mentoring and some believe they are already mentoring perfectly satisfactorily. These sentiments are understandable without an explanation of what we actually mean by mentoring and what we are trying to achieve. In an ideal world, mentoring would happen naturally, everyone would be looked after as a matter of course, and this, in turn, would take care of issues such as recruitment, retention and retrieval – the three ‘Rs’.
Whatever your idea of mentoring might be, one of the aims we should all keep in mind is the promotion of an environment of belonging, understanding, involvement and enjoyment within the lodge. The skill will be to achieve this with a ‘light touch’.
three stages of mentoring
But first, let’s look at the word ‘mentoring’, which is translated in so many ways – rather like our masonry. Let me be quite clear: mentoring is not just about the Lodge of Instruction, valuable though that is for advancement in masonic ritual. Rather, it is mostly about pastoral care: seeing that the candidate is looked after, kept informed and that that support and care remains throughout each member’s masonic life.
In terms of the mentoring scheme, I see pastoral care being eighty per cent of what mentoring is all about. Put simply, the real test is how you would like to have been welcomed when you first joined and how you would like to have been supported from then onwards. I do not want to have a complicated or onerous scheme but rather one that is as natural as possible yet, at the same time, allows consistency of advice and support.
Mentoring has essentially three stages. The first two are straightforward as they cover logistics, basic ritual meaning and developing a sense of belonging. The third – how to talk about our Freemasonry to the non-mason – needs more explanation as it links in with our overall communications strategy that supports an external-facing organisation and underpins our new ambassadors’ scheme.
The first stage is for each candidate to understand the basic logistics that are involved in becoming a Freemason. Essentially, they should get a proper welcome. A candidate should never feel under-briefed and should be made aware of his financial and time commitments. During this stage the personal mentor answers any questions the candidate may have for him to gain a sense of belonging. In other words, there should never be any surprises.
common understanding
The second stage is to understand the basics of the ritual, especially after initiation and then passing and raising. But this understanding should be about the ability to answer questions about the myths that non-masons have. Right from the start, members can counter the questions about the so-called funny handshakes, the nooses and trouser leg being rolled up. The questions need to be answered accurately and without embarrassment – I am not talking about an in-depth knowledge, but more a common understanding. The mentor can, of course, point them in the right direction for this additional and important information as they require it. It is not, however, part of the new mentoring scheme.
We all understand the need to look after candidates, but it is the third stage of giving them the confidence from the very outset in order that they can speak to family and friends about Freemasonry. This is vital to ensuring our future. A candidate needs to understand how to talk to the non-mason about what Freemasonry means and we aim to have as many members as possible being ambassadors for Freemasonry. An ambassador is not a rank or office, it is a mode of behaviour. On the fundamental understanding that we recruit only people who live up to our principles, an ambassador will not only understand the basics of ritual but will also talk to others about their Freemasonry.
To quote the Grand Master: ‘Talking openly about Freemasonry, as appropriate, is core to my philosophy, central to our communications strategy and essential to the survival of Freemasonry as a respected and relevant membership organisation.’ It is with these three stages in mind that the Grand Secretary’s working party is producing succinct mentor guidelines. I see mentoring as a ‘light touch’ resulting in everyone enjoying their Freemasonry even more and feeling comfortable in talking
to their family and friends in an informed and relaxed way.
I was delighted to read the Pro Grand Master’s article, ‘Understanding the Light Touch’. I have always considered that one’s mentor should ideally be one’s proposer or seconder and not a lodge officer. In 1998, I was part of a workshop on the future of Freemasonry at Manchester Freemasons’ Hall, addressing the thorny issue of retention, which proposed a mentor as a substitute for the candidate’s proposer when the proposer was himself too inexperienced to carry out the role.I personally never needed a mentor because my proposer (my father-in-law) took me to every practice meeting of our lodge, arranged many visits to his friends’ lodges and encouraged me throughout my progression to the chair. In other words carried out the mentor’s role in full.
I believe the one-to-one relationship is essential between candidate and mentor and it is good to see the lodge mentor’s role described as ‘co-ordinating and selecting brethren to be personal mentors’. Freemasonry proved to be a strong bond between my father-in-law and myself and I have always been appreciative of the shared interest, as well as the support he gave me.
Graham Holmes
Ben Brierley Lodge, No. 3317
Middleton, East Lancs
A couple of years ago, I invited half a dozen or so of the most junior brethren of my lodge to a very informal meeting. They came and we had a very positive meeting, followed by another in 2011, and it will be repeated later this year. As the brethren progress, I let them drop off and add newcomers. The lodge mentor joins us and we have had enjoyable as well as constructive meetings. When I was new, grand officers were not addressed until they spoke to you and then you called them ‘Sir’. I am proud to be called Ken by an entered apprentice. I intend to continue as long as the GAOTU spares me and, of course, my wife, since she provides the refreshments.
Ken Mason
Beacon Lodge, No. 5208
Loughborough, Leics & Rutland
pulling out all the stops
While organ music has become part of the rich fabric of masonic meetings around the country, Naunton Liles wonders whether lodges should seek to preserve these historic but expensive instruments
Look at any masonic music books in use today and you’ll find that the music you sing in your lodge would be familiar to your grandfather and those before him. Many lodges have a reluctant organist who has been persuaded to play a little and is unlikely to introduce fresh ideas while the senior grandees keep reminding everyone ‘that’s not how we used to do it’. So we sing music that is well known and well proven – we all enjoy singing familiar tunes.
Outside Freemasonry, the organ has been constrained in its development by cost. No church council or town hall likes spending money on organs when other priorities seem more worthy. It is the same within Freemasonry. If a masonic hall committee has to choose between a stairlift and a new organ, mandatory legislation and similar pressures push the organ aside.
So why do we continue to have music in masonic ceremonies? Most people agree music enhances the occasion and a private lodge meeting without music can be a bit dull. Our annual assemblies of Grand Lodge and of Provincial Grand Lodge and in all masonic orders need to be occasions of great dignity and splendour, and to give pleasure to those present.
Usually a venue is chosen with an organ suitable for playing processional music, fanfares for the high spots and background music to maintain a suitable atmosphere. For our big showcase events in London, the Grand Temples at Freemasons’ Hall and Mark Masons Hall are best. The history and costs of the instruments found in these buildings demonstrate two very different approaches to organ music.
In 1933, organ builder Henry Willis & Sons was commissioned to construct an instrument fitting for the new art deco building in Covent Garden. It was agreed the instrument would be heard but not seen, so it was placed behind grills. This concentrates the sound at one end and when accompanying 1,500 people, it can be a bit deafening for those occupying the tiered seats in the east of the temple. Another feature was to conceal the console so the organist was not higher than the Grand Master. There is many a non-conformist chapel where the organ occupies a prominent place and a flamboyant organist can outshine the preacher. Not so in Freemasonry.
The downside at the Grand Temple in Freemasons’ Hall is that the organist has no line of sight. Forty years later, CCTV was installed, with one camera and one screen. The organists could then see the assembled brethren, but not much of the west door where processions enter, so you will always see a second organist alongside advising the player what is going on. The 1970s equipment has been replaced by a flatscreen colour monitor, but still there is only one camera. By contrast, cathedrals have a split-screen system whereby the organist can see four views as the ceremony unfolds – but this costs money.
In 1933, organ builders were much exercised by the demands of the cinema, theatre and town hall clients. The thinking of the time was that you could produce a huge sound with fewer pipes by doubling up their use in an ingenious manner. The proposal for Freemasons’ Hall included this kind of scheme and the organ has a lot of sound in a compact space.
digital alternative
We live in a time when many people think any object worthy of its period – Willis’s design is an excellent example of mid-1930s workmanship – should not be altered or improved. Indeed, grant funds usually insist this is so. But few would disagree that a change that enabled the pipework to speak out more clearly, and enabled some additional resources, would be sensible if we are to serve the next generations well.
The Grand Temple is quite different at Mark Masons Hall. A long auditorium that seats four hundred, it has a relatively low ceiling, lots of carpet and a propensity to attract men in heavy suits. The acoustic is dead by comparison with any church. As a Grade II-listed building of great beauty, we are not permitted to alter the appearance by installing a pipe organ. An electronic organ was in use for around twenty-five years and in February this year it was replaced by the very latest digital organ.
Good digital technology has now been with us for a decade or more and a market has emerged far removed from the disco and home organ. It is said you can blindfold the experts in the back of a church, play them a pipe organ and a new digital organ, and they’d be hard-pressed to pick the imposter.
The process of acquiring a new organ for Mark Masons Hall was lengthy. Many orders, Provinces, lodges and individual brethren gave generously to raise the necessary funds. Three leading makers then submitted proposals for a digital organ and the contract was awarded to Wyvern, which builds its organs in the UK using mainly British components.
Digital organs now use a sampling technique. For this they record each individual note from the pipework of an organ of merit. During installation and commissioning much time was spent at night, when the surroundings were quiet, to voice each stop. It is this that makes the organ so much better than a standard one. Care was also taken to position the speakers to best effect.
Not every masonic temple can afford a custom-built organ and the story so far has described those used for important Grand Lodge ceremonies. Back at home, you may find a more modest instrument, but even these can be entirely suitable for our purposes. So, should we preserve and repair the old pipe organ or buy an electronic one? My guess is there are but a dozen pipe organs in masonic premises that are worth the cost of rebuilding, especially now that such good results can be achieved with digital equipment.
Within Freemasonry there is a shortage of funds, so it is prudent to go for the best sound per pound, and there is a compelling argument in favour of digital instruments for masonic purposes.
Independent advice is available at no cost from Naunton Liles at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
blow by blow: HISTORY OF THE PIPES
The origins of the organ can be traced back to the third century BC, when an octave of pipes was first strung together and attached to some fireside bellows. However, it took until the twelfth century AD to refine the organ into something workable that would become the ‘must-have’ accessory for every monastery. By the seventeenth century complex instruments were in use that would be broadly familiar to us today. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a religious revival and increased wealth led to the building of new churches. At the same time, Freemasonry expanded rapidly and organs were installed in every temple that was built.
By the end of the century there were many lodges and plenty of organists. Many people had a piano at home and a generation of Freemasons was born who were not bashful about singing. Small pipe organs appeared everywhere and survived because of their relative simplicity, and several masonic temples continue to use them a hundred years later.
I was interested to read Naunton Liles’ article on the Grand Temple organ and the new one in Mark Masons’ Hall. I am an organist based in the London area and play at both these venues and others. Most of the readers of Freemasonry Today will not know the history of the Grand Temple organ, but Henry Willis was probably the builder of the organ equivalent of a Rolls-Royce. It is of historical significance, as the author says, but would be extremely expensive to restore.
To the great majority of brethren, the difference in the tone of a pipe organ and the modern digital ones would certainly be unnoticeable, and for myself I look forward to being able to use the new one at Mark Masons’ Hall.
Anthony Perch
Fortitude Lodge No. 6503
Kenton, Middlesex
Published in Features
Technology boost for hospices
Lifelites, the children’s technology charity, has expanded its operations, picking up several awards and securing record funds in the process
A subsidiary of the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys (RMTGB), Lifelites donates packages of fun and educational technology for children who stay, learn and play in all 44 children’s hospices in the country.
In addition to providing the equipment, Lifelites installs and maintains it, as well as training care staff. It became a charity in its own right in 2006, and since then the RMTGB has provided in-kind assistance rather than financial support. This means Lifelites relies on donations from other sources including Freemasons, the public and companies such as Thomas Cook – whose Children’s Charity donated £60,000 in 2011 – and organisations like GamesAid, the gaming industry’s charity.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTION
Most of the charity’s volunteers are Freemasons, who assist in providing technological support in many of the projects and acting as trustees. ‘Our success is underpinned by our links with Freemasonry,’ explains Lifelites chief executive Simone Enefer-Doy. ‘Their support is vital to our continued growth. We also have a great relationship with both the RMTGB and Provinces across the country.’
A major masonic contribution last year came from the West Riding Masonic Charities that enabled a Soundbeam to be installed at the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice in Huddersfield. By using movement to produce sound, the Soundbeam enables children with even the most profound physical and learning disabilities to make music using whatever movement they can manage.
Provinces can become involved with Lifelites – who can showcase the equipment at masonic or other events – thanks to a donation from the Province of Surrey, which enabled the purchase of demonstration equipment. Lifelites staff can also attend after-dinner sessions and provide promotional material.
Published in Lifelites
Rebuilding and remembering: James Terry Court care home officially opened
Phase 1 of the rebuild at the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) care home James Terry Court, in Croydon, has been officially opened. The event was attended by more than 40 representatives from the Province of Surrey, the Association of Friends and the RMBI.
RMBI President Willie Shackell opened the event and spoke about the history of the RMBI, which started in East Croydon with its first home, named ‘Asylum for Worthy, Aged and Decayed Freemasons’ in 1850. Shackell went on to explain why the rebuild of the home was necessary, as it needed to adapt to the changing needs of older people.
Thanks were given to Dennis Vine, who oversaw the development of the home in his role as Co-opted Trustee. Julian Birch, Regional Property Operations Manager, who sadly passed away in October, was remembered for all his efforts in the rebuild. The Association of Friends and the Province of Surrey, Metropolitan Grand Lodge, and the Province of Hampshire & Isle of Wight were also thanked for their support. The event saw the official opening of the lounge and library by Eric Stuart-Bamford.
Published in RMBI
The essence in change
Freemasonry has thrived for centuries because it adapts while staying true to its principles, as Director of Special Projects John Hamill explains
As we begin the countdown to the tercentenary celebrations of Grand Lodge in 2017, a great deal of research is being undertaken to establish how Freemasonry has developed and what we have contributed to society. Despite nearly one hundred and fifty years of serious masonic research, we have yet to answer the questions of why, when and where Freemasonry as we understand it originated. Even with the great amount of work going on now, I doubt if those answers will be found by 2017.
There is another question, to my mind, as important and interesting as that of our origins: why has Freemasonry survived on the scale to which it exists today? Those four London lodges that came together in 1717 cannot in their wildest imaginings have thought that three hundred years later their Grand Lodge would have in excess of 250,000 members in more than 8,000 lodges across the world.
We regard Freemasonry as being something special and different. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, it was only one of a myriad of fraternal and benevolent societies and associations. Many of them copied Freemasonry in their organisation and use of ceremony and regalia. For the majority, the benevolent and charitable aspects predominated and the ritual became less important. Most of them completely disappeared in the twentieth century as the developing welfare state began to offer the safety net they had provided. Freemasonry, however, flourished.
For much of the eighteenth century Freemasonry was not so different from many other organisations. The ceremonies, while they attempted to instil a basic moral code, were often seen as simply a curious means of entering what was basically a social and benevolent association. The watershed came in the aftermath of the of the two Grand Lodges on 27 December 1813. A great deal of reorganisation and standardisation took place that resulted in the ceremonies, and above all the meaning behind them, becoming the basis of the institution itself.
This fundamental shift in emphasis was the first step in ensuring the survival of Freemasonry. It demonstrated an ability – sometimes deliberate and almost accidental at others – to adapt Freemasonry to its era. Changes were always made to the outward customs and never to the basic principles, tenets and landmarks of the Order. These are rightly seen as the essence of Freemasonry and are inalienable.
deeper reasons
There are, however, deeper reasons as to why we are still a living organisation. Grand Lodge has always refused to define or explain the meaning of the several ceremonies. This has prevented the rise of any form of dogma. It is up to the individual to make their own journey and to find their own understanding. Hence, the membership forms a wide spectrum, from those who simply view it as a social opportunity to those who, wrongly, believe it will provide the answer to all of life’s questions!
Freemasonry has a breadth that appeals to those who are seeking friendship and moral guidance; an opportunity to be of service within the community; a quiet haven for a few hours from the troubles of the world; or just the pure, simple enjoyment in being in the company of like-minded people.
After forty years of study I remain convinced that, whatever fate may throw at Freemasonry – and provided we remain true to our principles yet adaptable to our times, and retain the breadth of our membership – the Order will survive. It will continue to give to future generations the pleasure that we and our predecessors have found in it.
I would like to comment on John Hamill’s ‘Reflection’ article in your Winter 2011 edition. If I may, I would like to put an opposing view. I suspect very few would like to return to earlier days of meeting in halls and pubs and not having a home for Freemasonry. Perhaps the real problem is that rather than spending money on the buildings, every penny has gone to charity.
There is nothing wrong whatsoever in maintaining a building and using lodge non-charitable funds for this end. I believe that if a particular building suddenly requires major expenditure then that lodge should be allowed to say to the Province that their charitable donations for a short period of time may well be diminished while they give attention to whatever problem has arisen. This should be perfectly acceptable because it secures the lodge building for future generations. The lodge can return to charitable giving in due course and this further ensures that future generations also give to charity.
Keith Metcalfe
Lodge of St Marychurch, No. 5148
Torquay, Devonshire
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Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the bestselling author of nineteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than thirty five languages and are used in hundreds of universities, corporations and government agencies around the world. His most recent books includeThe Third Industrial Revolution, The Empathic Civilization, The Hydrogen Economy, The European Dream, The End of Work, The Age of Access, and The Biotech Century.
Jeremy Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union for the past decade. Mr. Rifkin advised the government of Spain during its presidency of the European Union (January 1st – June 30, 2010). Mr. Rifkin also served as an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Jose Socrates of Portugal, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain, and Prime Minister Janez Janša of Slovenia, during their respective European Council Presidencies, on issues related to the economy, climate change, and energy security. He currently advises the European Commission, the European Parliament, and several EU heads of state.
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What Is Android Auto?
When it comes to staying in touch with your family and friends while behind the wheel, we all know that it’s best to keep your cellphone in your pocket or purse. What do you do when you just have to communicate? Do it intelligently and safely with a smartphone integration system like Android Auto. Let’s look at the functionality of this unique communication solution.
Android Auto is a software suite that runs on a multimedia source unit. Android Auto will work with most Android-based cellular phones running version 5 (Lollipop) or newer of the Android operating system.
Android Auto provides users with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that allows them to make phone calls, send and receive text messages, play music, and use Google Maps for GPS-based navigation. The entire interface was designed specifically to be used while in the car. The icons are large and easy to read, and you can use Google’s voice recognition interface to execute commands for most functions.
It’s very easy to use Android Auto. Start by downloading and installing the Android Auto application on your smartphone from the Google Play store. Pair your phone to the radio over Bluetooth. Plug the USB cable into your phone. Depending on the model of your source unit, Android Auto should launch automatically or may require that you should press the Android Auto button. From there, you will see the home screen with information such as recent navigation searches and weather information. All you have to do to start using Android Auto is press the microphone button and talk. If you prefer to press buttons, there is a row of smart keys at the bottom of the screen.
Let’s say you get stuck in traffic and you need to call someone with whom you have an appointment. Press the voice button and simply say, “Call Sam Smith” or “Call 321-555-1234.” The radio and phone will take care of the rest. The same goes for sending a text message; simply press the voice button and say “Send Sam Smith a text message.” The system will respond by asking what you want to say, to which you can reply, again verbally, “Hi, Sam, I’m stuck in traffic. I will be 20 minutes late. Please accept my apologies.” Google will send your text message. If and when Sam responds, you can ask Android Auto to read you the reply message.
Picking a song from the music stored on your phone is just as easy. Press the voice button and ask it to “Play Lorde” or anything else you have available.
You can use the voice recognition system to select a navigation destination just as easily. Simply press the voice button and say, “Take me to the nearest gas station” or “Find me an Italian restaurant” or “Plot a route to 555 Renegade Road in Bismarck.” There are several benefits to using Google Maps to assist in planning your route. You have access to the latest destination information from the inconceivably massive Google database. You always have the latest mapping. There is never a need to buy anything. Google provides real-time traffic flow information to help plan your route efficiently.
Additional Android Auto Applications
Android Auto has released a development kit to allow third-party companies to create applications that will integrate with Android Auto. These apps include Pandora, iHeartRadio, Spotify Music, TuneIn Radio, Skype and many more. You also get access to Google Play Music for free for 90 days when you first start using Android Auto. That’s 30 million songs, right at your fingertips.
If you have an Android phone and are looking for a safe way to stay in touch, be entertained and get the best driving directions available, all while driving, then drop into your local car audio specialist retailer. Bring your phone along – chances are they will have a unit on display that you can try out.
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‘Genetic unicorns’ hint at how we can defy our molecular destiny
By Aaron Krumins on April 21, 2016 at 11:00 am
There’s a common misconception that genes determine our physiologic destiny. And it’s well and good to go around exploding such untruths — except when they turn out to be true. For a minority of people, those with inherited Mendelian disorders like cystic fibrosis, genes do in fact seem to determine destiny so far as the disease is concerned. Mendelian disorders are due to genetic mutations that cause an essential protein within the body to malfunction, resulting in various degrees of physiologic breakdown.
While the severity of such diseases varies widely, the actual prognosis was thought to be far more predictable. If you possessed the mutation, disease was sure to follow. This is in marked contrast to “complex” diseases like cancer and diabetes, where genes can predispose a person to developing a condition, but other factors like environment and lifestyle play an equal, if not larger role. This is why it came as a surprise to scientists when they started discovering people with inherited Mendelian disorders who, despite having the disease mutation, showed no symptoms of the condition.
Overview of the Nature study exploring the unknown source of human genetic resilience
Though such cases are not nearly as glamorous as those for rare genetic mutations conferring superhuman-like abilities — unbelievably strong bones for example — from a scientific standpoint they are, perhaps, even more interesting. Most crucially, someone whose body manages to sidestep a genetic disorder that by all accounts should have left them dead or severely disabled, could gives answers to how scientists might develop cures for these maladies.
This was precisely the motivation behind a recent study published in Nature Biotechnology, which examined over 600,000 people for rare mendelian disorders to discover any who showed evidence of possessing a genetic mutation for these diseases, but proved resilient to the condition. They found a total of 13 such people. These people could be likened to the “anomalous” precession of the planet Mercury, a phenomena which defied Newtonian physics and ultimately proved the superiority of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Similarly, the Nature study suggests there is more to genetic mutations than is currently accounted for by our present understanding of the subject.
But there is a more disturbing side to the discovery of these genetic “unicorns.” Each year, thousands of babies are screened for Mendelian disorders and terminated or brought to term on the basis of the results. After hearing the results of the Nature study, this practice might not sit so well with would-be parents, let alone right-leaning politicians in search of fodder for an anti-abortionist agenda. Another practice that the Nature study may have implications for is the use of human embryos in scientific testing. Some “non-viable” embryos are selected for scientific testing on the basis of possessing genetic mutations that render them non-viable.
Perhaps most notably is a recent Chinese study involving the use of CRISPR on non-viable fetuses. If a small percentage of these embryos might have survived to become perfectly normal children, it could throw a different moral light on such practices. Wherever one stands on these thorny ethical questions, the world of genetic testing and pre-natal screening is probably due for an overhaul in light of the recent findings.
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The fourth-generation leader of Johnson Wax praises the enduring advantages of the privately held family firm: Secrecy. Stability. Flexibility. And, yes, generosity.
By Samuel C. Johnson
There are distinct advantages to being a family corporation, especially when you are competing against public firms. Public companies do have some advantages, principally, unlimited access to the public equity financial markets and the ability to make acquisitions with stock. Also, in some cases the public market is the only way minority family shareholders can diversify investments or settle their estates. But the burden of dealing with thousands of shareholders with diverse expectations, as well as worrying about a potential takeover, encumbers the chief executive of virtually every public corporation.
The preeminent edge for a family firm, if it is totally private, may well be secrecy from your competition, a cherished privilege among private CEOs. You can even liken this to a game of poker. Take a public and a family corporation that are roughly the same size, with comparable market shares for competing products: the private firm can hold each and every one of those cards tight to its vest, right through the betting and until it's time to lay them down. But the public firm has to expose the majority of its cards almost from the start, keeping only a proprietary ace or two until its hand is called.
The private company can see many of the strengths and weaknesses of its public competitor and act accordingly. Curiously enough, the private player doesn't even have to show much of its hand when the moment of truth arrives. And if it wins, it simply takes the money off the table, with the public company never really knowing the amount.
Some people assume that public companies represent the benchmark of better business that if you want profits to soar, it's best to operate as a public enterprise. But it is difficult to compare earnings between the two. A public company does its utmost to enhance short-term earnings, those numbers that appear in quarterly and annual reports, those columns of black ink that keep shareholders content and quiet. But a family-controlled company measures its success in terms of years and decades, not merely quarter by quarter. It can accept lower earnings in lieu of stiff tax liabilities; certain tax writeoffs are viewed as long-range opportunities, not as drawbacks. Comparing the performances of public and private firms given the different arenas in which they function can produce dubious results.
Logically, one might think public companies would show higher profit margins. But a study of public and private earnings conducted by the University of Southern California business school one of the few ever attempted since acquiring data on private firms is so difficult concluded that private companies had earnings margins substantially higher than those of public corporations. The private outfits also earned higher returns on assets.
Essentially a private company can conduct its business free from public scrutiny. Your competitors, moreover, have little idea of how strong you are, where problems might lie, or even if you're winning. They can figure your share of a given market though Nielson and SAMI reports, but they don't have any notion of your bottom line. More important, they don't know how other parts of your enterprise affect the company, positively or negatively. In sum, you are a downright mysterious entity.
A CEO of a public company is beholden to literally thousands of individuals and interests. The time he spends actually managing the business, trying to make money, is cut appreciably by the necessity of taking to the road to pump the company's stock, meeting with security analysts, talking to investment bankers, and informing Wall Street journal reporters and other newsmen. He must also spend countless hours with government agencies. And when shareholders call to complain about the company's quarterly earnings report, or even to compliment the CEO, he's forced to talk with them.
The outright financial costs of SEC compliance are also high. Indeed, were we totally public, we clearly would be forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year on legal fees, registration fees, filing requirements, publishing quarterly and annual reports, and so forth. When Congoleum Corp. was public (it went private in 1980), its chairman figured that all the requirements of being a public corporation cost his company in the neighborhood of $7 million a year!
A private company is also free from the vagaries of the stock market ups and downs that sometimes, through no fault of the management, can send shudders through a corporation. How well these fluctuations are accepted depends a lot on the common sense of the shareholders. A large number of public shareholders are a more volatile audience than a few members of one's family.
The best situation, in my view, occurs when the majority of the stock in a private company is concentrated in the hands of one family member, who is then free to make the decisions that are in the best long-term interest of the company. If there are periods of poor performance, one hopes the family and employee shareholders are understanding, aware that short-term profits must sometimes be sacrificed for the firm's future health.
A truly public company that has thousands and thousands of shareholders is a different matter. Most of the time the inside management group has enough control: shareholders supportively sign their proxies, inside managers and board members control nomination committees as well as the agenda of the annual meeting, and so on.
Nonetheless, they do take lumps from dissidents, suffer serious inquisitions if earnings don't meet expectations, and are picked at by securities analysts and government agencies, if they are not taken over by a hostile raider or even one who seems friendly. But usually the management endures.
A better scenario is a public company controlled by one or a small group of family or management shareholders where there is access to the public market for acquisitions or additional capital, but no fear of internal strife or outside takeovers. The worst situation I can imagine is being CEO of a public company that is heavily family-owned, in which no more than 5 percent of the stock is concentrated in any member's hands. There you have the disadvantages of public scrutiny without concentration of control. Not only do you have to argue with Wall Street, but also with uncles, cousins, and nieces.
While we at Johnson are free from the uncertainties of the stock market and the family bickering that's described above, we do care about the value of our stock. Shares are sold to our key executives on a select basis; a formula regulates the value according to the company's performance. We don't get the huge upward or downward swings that you see in the stock market, but then I genuinely feel that the performance of the company is a better measure of long-term stock value than the psychological enthusiasm of the market.
Family ownership of a company is usually an advantage over public ownership, provided there is enough concentration of ownership in one or two members. Management of such private organizations can, to be sure, take several forms. Professional management, brought in by the family owners, often serves a company's interests best.
In a family enterprise that does not bring in outside management, one hopes that ownership and perhaps more important, control is vested in the most talented member of the family. Should this go on for generations, it results in a continuity of management and management philosophy. When good things are passed along, they gain even more credibility with age.
Johnson Wax was one of the first companies to institute profit sharing, a practice established by my grandfather. My father initiated a no-layoff policy during the Great Depression of the thirties. For many years the company has been committed to giving 5 percent of pre-tax profits to charity. My father followed through with those ideas, as have I.
Not long ago I received a letter from one of our employees, a mechanic I, frankly, had never met, who had been working for the company for 23 years. He said he had been reading about the layoffs at companies in our area in the local newspaper, the Racine (Wisconsin) Journal Times. "I just felt moved to write you a letter and say 'Thank you' for all the good years that I've had at the company." I don't believe that kind of feeling is engendered in many public companies.
The vast majority of our people know we're not going to change direction and abuse them. And in turn, I know I can count on their loyalty. There have been only a couple of times when I've had to go in front of the employees and ask them for exceptional efforts, when I've said, "Honest to God, help us and pitch in." Invariably, they have responded.
They also know that competitive realities at times require restructuring, and while no one wants to be among those whose jobs are cut out, everyone knows that those affected will be treated fairly.
Of course, if the company founder is a miserly, tough old goat, and his disagreeable ways are genetically and psychologically transmitted to the next generation of management, then you're talking about continuity with no redeeming social value.
However, when a family member is placed in control of a company, and everyone knows clearly who the boss is, and who will still be the boss five or ten years hence, then there's a palpable air of stability.
When it comes to hiring at S. C. Johnson & Son, having the owner-manager's name on the building is a big plus. Since the average tenure of a public CEO is a little more than six years, a skilled, next level professional manager in search of a secure position can't be sure whom he will be working for several years down the line. A new CEO is likely to change the way a company does its business, making his mark as quickly as possible. Professionals are aware of this. Moreover, they know when they join a public company they risk being the victim of a takeover and purge a year or two later. But in a private company, they can settle into their jobs, work steadily with the same top management, use their talents to the fullest, and see a well-functioning relationship stay that way.
There's an old and often repeated scenario that goes like this: The first generation starts the company, the second builds it up, and the third generation screws it up. Well, I represent the fourth generation at Johnson, and my father certainly didn't screw it up during his turn.
My great-grandfather, who was in his fifties when he started the company, got the enterprise rolling. My grandfather was really the initial builder; he diversified the fledgling product line of waxes and polishes. My father took a regional manufacturer of waxes and polishes and turned it into a international company. If there is any major contribution I've made, you might say it's diversification, expanding the product line even more into insecticides, personal-care products, industrial products, financial, commercial, and home services and expanding foreign operations from 11 to 45 countries.
Not only is it important that the next generation bring something new to the enterprise, it is equally important that they feel the great personal satisfaction that results from contributing a new dimension to the business, which they often do in spite of those who prefer the status quo.
None of us were clones of our fathers or mothers in management style, the scope of our ideas, or any facet of our lives. Yet each of us built upon what we believed to be the positive parts of the family heritage. In a public firm, or even a private one controlled by professional management, a successor is less likely to build on the heritage of someone he worked for and may not even have liked, to boot. Change may be refreshing, but a company that makes radical shifts every five years, without foundation or consistency, grows schizophrenic and suffers.
Untalented, misdirected, and poor CEOs of public corporations do not, however, last as long as similar managers in a family company. If the CEO of a public company is doing a terrible job, Wall Street is going to drive him out. The stock will fall so low that some raider may be tempted to make a bid or come in with a lineup of opposing shareholders' votes at the annual meeting and simply chuck the CEO (that is, if the directors don't do it first it doesn't happen often enough). Strangely, a family corporation can likewise end up placing a family member in control who turns out to be putting it mildly incompetent.
This is why I believe that one of the prime requirements for a healthy, family-owned company is a strong and independent board of directors. It should contain members who are well-recognized professionals, high-level business people who are not family members. If I go around the bend the day after tomorrow, and as a result the company begins to suffer, my independent board can say, "Sam, we think it's time to turn it over to the next generation, or give your seat to professional management until the next generation is properly groomed."
One can't forget that I could, in turn, just call a special board meeting and fire all the independent directors. But this is unthinkable and would incur the wrath of the rest of the family and the management not to mention possible lawsuits. Successful boards are collegial bodies, and the practical point of the matter is that a CEO/owner simply doesn't fire a group of people of the caliber chosen for the board of a respected private company.
However, a family company can reach a point in its history when the lines of succession are not clear. Our firm has been fortunate in that there has been only one logical successor in each generation. (The fact that the stock was concentrated by archaic male-chauvinistic or age-biased principles won't hold today, but that offering no apologies is how it has been up until now, a situation that may change after my tenure is over.) When a strong leader departs, and several people fight to take that place, it's obvious how messy the situation can become.
A public company may indeed have the edge in succession over a private, family-managed business, unless the private company can hand concentrated control from one individual to another.
This will not be the case with the next generation of Johnsons. There are two boys and two girls in our family, and we face the risk of losing that "concentration." But today I can add an important caveat: Our business has become diversified, and even though there are several family members who may take leadership roles, I envision no major problems, primarily because of that business diversity. Authority and in some cases, ownership can be split along the lines of the greatest talent or interest on the part of our children. While it isn't the easiest trick to manage, it can be done. For example, we spun off Johnson Worldwide Associates, a group of companies that makes products for the outdoor leisure market, which has become a family-controlled, public company.
I don't believe, though, that it's sound to have siblings competing. This can be avoided by spreading authority to various parts of the operation. Our firm currently has some existing separation of businesses; unit companies each serve as bases of operation, reporting all the way to an executive vice-president. There is some sharing of manufacturing facilities, but the system works well. So, should the family need to "break up" the company, either in terms of spheres of management authority or ownership, the structure is already in place. We may take more segments of the company public to allow family shareholders to diversify, to bail out their estate, or to allow that segment to acquire additional companies for stock. In any event, family control should prevail.
The family-controlled firm also has the mechanics to make decisions faster than public corporations. This again goes back to having one person, with clear authority, in charge of each major unit of the company. It's the mark of a well-run company.
A good example is our decision in 1975 to take fluorocarbons out of our products. We had done some homework on the matter, but when it became apparent that keeping them in the products would harm our reserve of consumer trust and loyalty, we made the commitment to remove the propellant within a week. Bang.
On occasions when we have been beaten to the market for a new product as in the case of lemon scented furniture polish we have been able to come up with a quick counter-punch. I would have preferred to be the innovator of the lemon idea, but you can't always be the first. We ultimately won that battle, though. Sometimes you have to play catch-up, and it's important to do that as well as being an innovator.
Lastly, a family firm can do things of social or cultural value that a public company might be reluctant even to consider, if only for fear of shareholder fury. Granted, many major public companies give millions of dollars to the humanities, the arts, charity, education, and public television, among other causes. This has been recognized over the last decade or so as necessary "corporate responsibility."
However, public firms that are about the size of Johnson Wax frequently have shareholders who don't view philanthropy as necessary; they don't see funding an art exhibit as anything but a cut in their dividend check. We, on the other hand, can do things that enhance the communities in which we live and work without having to explain it to thousands of people.
Being part of a family company compels you to think of the community. You certainly do not want to dump toxic wastes on a site that your children or grandchildren may one day occupy.
As I explained, the private company has an edge over public firms because of secrecy. But this can be taken too far. You don't need to cloak your operation as if you're in the Kremlin. I read where an official of one private corporation said: "It will be a cold day in hell before [his company] talks to the press." That's ridiculous. A CEO can talk about his business without giving away secrets. Isolating oneself and belligerently refusing to become part of the greater public does a disservice to the corporation and the community.
Each generation in a family-owned company probably adapts to and creates change, to win under the conditions of the business and society of the day. The one constant is the family focus on the long-term success of the company, for the next generation and ones even further down the line. It can be said that this is more a matter of pride than success for the family pocketbook. And its a luxury that public corporations-with all the pressures that being public creates-simply cannot afford.
A father's question: Where's the wax?
I can remember when I was the first new-products director of the company back in the fifties. My father, who recognized the need for new products because the wax business wasn't growing, told me, "Sam, it's up to you to find something new."
After a few months, I came up with a proposal for a new product-a Johnson's aerosol insecticide. He looked skeptically at the prototype can and commented, "Don't you know we don't make any product without wax in it?"
"We could put some wax in it," I answered, "but I doubt if it will improve the insecticide."
"What's better about it than the competition's products?"
"It's an aerosol," I noted.
"There are other aerosols on the market" he responded.
"Well," I said. "We've got a nice label."
"There are other nice labels out there. What's really better about it?"
"It's a very good formulation, but I doubt that it's better than what's out there," I admitted. His final comment was, "When you come up with something that's really better, then we'll talk about getting into the insecticide business."
It was a great lesson. I went back to the lab, authorized further research, and discovered that all of the insecticides then on the market were solvent based, and they smelled bad. Also, if you used them near house plants, the solvent (not the insecticide) killed them. We reformulated the insecticide into an aqueous system that could be used safely on plants and didn't smell like kerosene. We named it "Raid House and Garden Insecticide." It was a winner, and we're now the world's largest producer of insecticides. If you're going to get into a new field, you have to have a better product, one the consumer recognizes as demonstrably superior to that of your competitors.
S.C.J.
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The top 10 pharma R&D budgets in 2018
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Jun 3, 2019 12:00pm
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Big Pharma companies are still, naturally, the big spenders in drug R&D, and the numbers are impressive: Last year, and for the first time, the top 15 largest companies (by sales) funneled more than $100 billion into research, and we also saw the FDA approve more drugs than ever before.
Big Pharma should get a pat on the back, right? Well, yes and no: The FDA had something of a backlog of drugs from 2017 that helped budge 2018 into more approvals, and some of the ways they classified approvals also slightly flattered the numbers (see our report below).
RELATED: Special Report—2 years after sluggish 2016, new drug approvals hit their stride in 2018
The tally of more than 50 new molecular entities is an impressive one, and borne from the well-funded R&D engines of life science companies; but earlier this year, a new report by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science showed that in fact, large pharma companies (those with more than $10 billion in yearly drug sales) have seen their R&D share drop from 31% to just 20% in the past decade.
And when it comes truly new, innovative, exciting drugs in the pipeline, the report found that the smaller biotechs are punching well above their weight.
Last year, we saw 59 new therapies get the thumbs-up under the leadership of (now ex) FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. But the report points out that large pharmas were the filing companies for fewer than half of these launches. Emerging biopharma companies, on the other hand, were the originators of 38 of the 59 therapies (64%).
The report says that the “importance of large pharma in originating molecules is decreasing,” but they “remain important partners” for biotech. Still, they see the need for smaller biopharmas to team up with Big Pharma companies—and their large sales teams—decreasing.
“The dynamics of development, M&A and licensing activity seem to be shifting, and emerging companies are retaining control of their assets to a greater degree,” the report's authors wrote.
Coupled with this is the fact that, according to the index, emerging biopharma companies (those spending less than $200 million annually on R&D and having less than $500 million in sales) account for 72% of all late-stage pipeline activity, up from 61% a decade ago.
Roche, J&J, Novartis and the like are still the unmatched big boys when it comes to R&D budgets, with Roche once again coming out on top with a staggering $11 billion in R&D spend last year (though this also includes its diagnostics business).
The names and numbers don’t change much over the years (in fact, Roche, which has been at the top for a few years now, is down nearly half a billion in terms of R&D spend since 2016), but there is one big exception: Sanofi, which has penned several biotech deals and M&As, is up more than $1 billion in two years, from $5.45 billion in 2016 to $6.6 billion in 2018, as it attempts to get back into oncology, which it seemed to be walking away from.
Merck also deserves a shoutout: While its R&D budget was down from last year (when it spent $10.33 billion), its $9.75 billion spend has put it third, ahead of Novartis, in terms of overall spend, jumping from $7.19 billion, when it was the fifth highest Big Pharma R&D spender, in 2016. This coincides with now more than 1,000 trials for its cancer drug star Keytruda.
With more approvals and big topline numbers in R&D, it’s easy to think the big boys are doing all the heavy lifting, but as the IQVIA report found, don’t forget the smaller teams with supertight budgets that continue to outpace their Big Pharma rivals. — Ben Adams
1. Roche
3. Merck & Co.
4. Novartis
5. Pfizer
6. Sanofi
7. Bristol-Myers Squibb
8. AstraZeneca
9. Eli Lilly
10. GlaxoSmithKline
Book traversal links for The top 10 pharma R&D budgets in 2018
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‘More negative’ – Hartson can’t understand criticism of player who could net Celtic a fortune
Date: 24th June 2018 at 1:51pm
Written by: support
Former Celtic striker John Hartson has claimed that he can’t understand the criticism aimed at Stuart Armstrong for his performances last season.
Armstrong, who is reportedly set to net the Hoops a windfall of £7million when he joins Southampton, was under fire for not matching the 17 goals he scored in 2016-17 last season, but Hartson feels that the player didn’t deserve the criticism that he got.
“Good luck to Stuart Armstrong. Disagree that Stuart was the only Celtic player under par last season, but he seems to be getting more negative comments than several other players who never hit the heights of the first treble winning season. Thought he did well for Celtic” Hartson said, as quoted on his personal Twitter account.
Good luck to Stuart Armstrong.. disagree that Stuart was the only Celtic player under par last season.. but he seems to be getting more negative comments than several other players who never hit the heights of the 1st treble winning season. Thought he did well for Celtic.. ????????
— John Hartson (@JohnHartson10) June 22, 2018
In contrast to his flurry of goals in 2016-17, Armstrong only managed to net four goals last season, but the 26-year-old was still a key part of the Hoops side which clinched another domestic treble.
Did Stuart Armstrong receive more criticism than other players last season? It is hard to say. Whilst John Hartson is correct to say that a lot of players failed to live up to their performances last season, it did not stop the Hoops from winning another treble. And it could be argued that the likes of Dedryck Boyata, Jozo Simunovic and Scott Sinclair received as much if not more criticism from fans at various stages of the season. Perhaps the frustration with Armstrong was because there was a worry that his 17 goal season was going to be an anomaly, as that was by far his best season playing for the Bhoys. That could have turned out to be the case, as his performances last season were a step down, and he ended up losing his place in the first-team towards the end of the season. That being said, Hartson is correct about the Scotland international being a good player overall for the Hoops, and there is no doubt he will be missed when the Bhoys are looking for a goal from midfield.
In other Celtic news, the Hoops must sign defenders with the Stuart Armstrong money
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James Gallagher: Conor McGregor Will Show Khabib Nurmagomedov Who's Boss At UFC 229
Trent Reinsmith Contributor
Bellator bantamweight James Gallagher has been a teammate of Conor McGregor’s at SBG Ireland for quite some time. Gallagher, who was knocked out in the first round of his Bellator 204 fight against Ricky Bandejas on Friday night, is impressed with what he sees as the former two-division UFC champion prepares for his UFC 229 fight against current UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Conor McGregor's training partner Jame Gallagher thinks McGregor will dominate UFC featherweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on October 6. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)
“(Conor) looks better than ever,” Gallagher told MMA Fighting.
“He’s got that fire back inside of him. When you’re on the top of the world like he’s been for so long, you need to chill out for a little bit to get that hunger back. It’s hard to keep that hunger when you have everything that you’ve ever wanted.”
The way Gallagher sees it, that, Nurmagomedov is somewhat responsible for lighting a fire under McGregor, who has not fought for the UFC since he defeated Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 in November 2016. McGregor captured the lightweight title with his second-round TKO victory over Alvarez. He was later stripped of that belt when he did not defend the title. Nurmagomedov earned that vacant strap at UFC 223 with a decision win over Al Iaquinta.
“While he’s been away, Khabib has been creating some hype and getting himself in a position to fight Conor. There are a lot of people who see Khabib as a serious threat, so I think that’s given Conor a push to step up and say, ‘Nah, mate, I’m the champ around here — you’re not on my level.’ I think Conor’s going to show Khabib who’s boss and put him back in his box.”
Nurmagomedov, who has not tasted defeat in 26 professional bouts is a slight favorite (-170) over McGregor (+160).
UFC 229 takes place on October 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Nurmagomedov vs. McGregor headlines the pay-per-view portion of the fight card.
Trent Reinsmith
I am a freelance writer who has covered a wide variety of topics over the years. I’ve written about crime, technology, fitness, and entertainment for a variety of outlet...
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Home Arts Books Road to Jonestown: Twists and Turns
Road to Jonestown: Twists and Turns
In his new book, Fort Worth’s Jeff Guinn elegantly traces Jim Jones’ transformation from social justice warrior to madman.
Jeff Guinn spends a lot of time with monsters.
An award-winning investigative journalist and member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, the Fort Worth writer has spent the last seven years writing great biographies of humanity’s worst. In his 2010 book, Go Down Together, he followed notorious Dallas degenerates Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker from the slums of their youth to their bullet-riddled end. In 2014’s Manson, Guinn traced the life of the granddaddy of all desert demagogues from his tragic boyhood to the murders that ended the 1960s.
In Guinn’s latest book, The Road to Jonestown, the author focuses on Jim Jones, the reverend from Indiana who led his Peoples Temple (Guinn notes that to discourage any senses of personal ownership, Jones excised the apostrophe from the name) to their deaths in a Guyana jungle. The book is much more than the well-trodden story of blind faith run amuck. Guinn masterfully combines unparalleled document research and interviews with those left behind to understand how a man of God could go from minister to maniac, how people could go from congregants to victims, and how ideals move from beneficial to dangerous.
Jones’ life reads like two different biographies stitched together. In the first half, he comes off as a kind of evangelical heavy hitter, a Billy Graham or Joel Osteen. Jones was the son of a wounded World War I veteran and an eccentric woman who swore and smoked in public to shock her neighbors. From a young age, Jones wanted to be a minister, and Guinn foreshadows what kind of minister in a formative lesson from Jones’ mother: “There was always some Them out to get you, and reality was whatever you believed.” (Guinn’s italics.)
Despite his mother’s lesson and youthful admiration of Hitler – major red flags in hindsight – Jones rose to religious prominence through a practical social justice message. The young reverend would do the unthinkable in Indiana at that time by reaching out to and fighting for African Americans. In the Temple’s early days, it was called “Community Unity,” and the congregation met in a small storefront. One Sunday, Jones asked them “What’s bothering you?” An elderly black woman raised her hand and said she had a problem with her electricity. Though she had complained multiple times to her electric company, the problem persisted. And she was still getting billed. Jones penned a letter and had the entire congregation sign it. “This show of unity,” Guinn writes, “proved they were a real family in this church. They worked together to help each other.”
The letter worked, and at the next service, the woman announced that the company had sent someone to fix her electricity.
Jones’ status as social warrior would eventually give way to ever-increasing paranoia and more ridiculous spectacles like removing cancers, healing the sick, and not denying – albeit not directly encouraging – being deified by his congregants. Except the “cancers” were actually rotting chicken innards, the sick were accomplices planted in the audience, and Jones, as it turned out, was a mortal. The good of Jones’ mission, apparently, justified the lies. “Yes, there would be trickery,” Guinn writes. “But [his] accomplices believed that Jim was simply doing what was necessary for the continued survival of Peoples Temple.”
Jones and the Temple did indeed do good work before escaping troubles in the United States to settle a doomed commune in the Guyana jungle. The years of the good, the ethically dubious, the ever-increasing paranoia, and delusions of grandeur swirled into a poison that corroded his mind, Guinn writes.
The second half of The Road to Jonestown reads more like the biography of those quasi-religious demagogues whose madness would propel their groups to violence – Charles Manson and Shoko Asahara spring to mind. All of the good works and working together eventually devolved into Jones telling a Temple official, “Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they’ll never leave.” Many never would.
Since the discovery of the dead in 1978, many have tried to explain Jim Jones, Peoples Temple, and the mass suicide. The breadth of Guinn’s research and depth of his interviews contextualize, personalize, and analyze the Peoples Temple in a whole new way, for a whole new generation. Here is where Guinn soars. No person is too minutely involved not to be interviewed. No document is too mundane not to be cited. No contemporary news article is too small to be ignored. He spoke to the Temple’s surviving higher ups and regular Temple goers, Jones’ surviving children, early detractors, family members who fought to rescue their loved ones both at home and abroad, and government officials from the United States and Guyana.
Through elegant, nonjudgmental prose, Guinn synthesizes the facts through personal stories of those who survived, those who lost, and those who failed to stop it. He writes so compellingly that the reader, fully aware of what lies at the end of this road, has no choice but to complete the journey. It’s like watching a horror movie, wanting to call out and warn the doomed of the monster in their midst. The reader can do nothing as nearly 1,000 Americans line up to drink poisoned Flavor Aid at the behest of a reverend from Indiana.
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All the major crashes in Formula E this season
Published on 11 Aug 2017 14:22
Crashes are obviously a part of racing that no driver or mechanic want to go through, but seem almost inevitable in all forms of motorsport. After another intense season of Formula E, which featured five different race winners, and a drivers championship that went down to the final race for the third year in a row, as the competition was as tight as ever. Because the racing was so close on tight and twisty circuits, there was a series of spectacular crashes for spectators to marvel at.
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It’s a guy thing
Q: Hi, guys. Is it true that the term “guy” is derived from Guy Fawkes?
A: Yes, it’s true, according to John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins, but there were a few twists and turns along the way.
To begin at the beginning, the word “guy” first appeared in English in the mid-1300s, meaning a guide or a conductor, but that usage is now considered obsolete.
In the early 1600s, the term came to mean a rope used to guide or secure something on a ship. It still has that nautical meaning today. And we often refer to guide wires as “guy” wires.
So who’s responsible for the “guy” that refers to a man or a fellow? The culprit, as Ayto points out, is indeed Guy Fawkes, one of the leaders of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in England.
The term “guy” later came to mean an effigy of Guy Fawkes paraded through the streets and burned on the anniversary of the plot. The first published reference for this usage in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1806.
By the 1830s, the word “guy” was being used for a person of grotesque appearance, especially someone dressed in a bizarre way. And a decade later, bingo, it meant a man or a fellow – that is, a regular guy. (These days, even gals are often referred to as “guys.”)
Although the OED says the use of guy to mean man or fellow is of American origin, the first citation in the dictionary is from Swell’s Night Guide (1847), a book about nightlife in London: “I can’t tonight, for I am going to be seduced by a rich old Guy.”
The OED doesn’t go as far as Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins in linking this usage to Guy Fawkes, but it says the “earliest examples may be influenced” by the grotesque sense of the word “guy.”
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Integris Grove pharmacist named director of state board
By Jeanene MooreSpecial to the Grove Sun Daily
After serving ten years with INTEGRIS Grove General Hospital as Pharmacist, John Foust has left and joined the Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy in Oklahoma City, as executive director.
�It�s really going to be hard to leave, as I have a great deal of respect for all the people at INTEGRIS Grove,� explained Foust before his departure. �And the staff in the hospital�s pharmacy is second to none!�
Awarded the prestigious Commodore Brixey Award in 2006, Foust was recognized and honored for performing duties above and beyond�in maintaining the highest level of professionalism and demonstrating genuine Christian compassion.
Foust spearheaded the sending of care boxes to deployed soldiers. What began in the heart of this Scout leader/pharmacist was taken up by the INTEGRIS Grove General Hospital Foundation in 2004, and continues to provide needed and appreciated supplies to troops within the INTEGRIS Grove family. The outreach remains a team effort involving contributing hospital auxiliary and staff, and 874 packages containing supplies weighing more than 16,000 pounds have been shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004.
During his tenure as INTEGRIS Grove pharmacist, John received his doctorate in pharmacy in 2001, and served as adjunct faculty for the Oklahoma University Pharmacy School. About his new position with the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy, John explains, �It will be a challenge, yes, but exciting to be in the forefront of changes in pharmacy.�
The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy is responsible to promote, preserve and protect public health, safety and welfare by and through the effective control and regulation of the practice of pharmacy. It oversees the licensing and regulation of pharmacists, interns and technicians, as well as the pharmacies, medical gas suppliers, medical gas distributors and prescription drug wholesalers, packagers and manufacturers that do business in the State of Oklahoma.
Charged with the enforcement of federal and state controlled dangerous substance and prescription drug laws, the Board investigates complaints and conducts hearings on all types of registrants, and has authority to reprimand, fine, suspend or revoke licenses and permits.
Foust�s personal motto, which is the same motto as the Boy Scouts, is �to help other people at all times,� and he modeled it well at INTEGRIS Grove, as pharmacy staff report that Foust was like family�someone they could talk to in confidence�generous, and always concerned about their personal needs.
�When I think of John Foust, I think of two words: humble and gracious,� says Debbie Totty, INTEGRIS Grove General Hospital Foundation Director. �And our state Board will benefit greatly under his leadership.���� ��� ��� ���
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When two solid objects interact in a mechanical process, forces are transmitted, or applied, at the point of contact. But when a solid object interacts with a fluid, things are more difficult to describe because the fluid can change its shape. For a solid body immersed in a fluid, the "point of contact" is every point on the surface of the body. The fluid can flow around the body and maintain physical contact at all points. The transmission, or application, of mechanical forces between a solid body and a fluid occurs at every point on the surface of the body. And the transmission occurs through the fluid pressure.
Variation in Pressure
The magnitude of the force acting over a small section of an object immersed in a fluid equals the pressure p times the area A of the section. A quick units check shows that:
p * A = (force/area) * area = force
As discussed on the fluid pressure slide, pressure is a scalar quantity related to the momentum of the molecules of a fluid. Since a force is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction, we must determine the direction of the force. Pressure acts perpendicular (or normal) to the solid surface of an object. So the direction of the force on the small section of the object is along the normal to the surface. We denote this direction by the letter n.
The normal direction changes from the front of the rocket to the rear and from the top to the bottom. To obtain the net mechanical force over the entire solid object, we must sum the contributions from all the small sections. Mathematically, the summation is indicated by the Greek letter sigma ( ) The net aerodynamic force F is equal to the sum of the product of the pressure p times the area A in the normal direction.
F = p * A * n
In the limit of infinitely small sections, this gives the integral of the pressure times the area around the closed surface. Using the symbol for integration, we have:
F = (p * n) dA
where the integral is taken all around the body. On the figure, that is why the integral sign has a circle through it.
If the pressure on a closed surface is a constant, there is no net force produced because the summation of the directions of the normal adds up to zero. For every small section there is another small section whose normal points in exactly the opposite direction.
F = (p * n) dA = p * n dA = 0
For a fluid in motion, the velocity has different values at different locations around the body. The local pressure is related to the local velocity, so the pressure also varies around the closed surface and a net force is produced. Summing the pressure perpendicular to the surface times the area around the body produces a net force.
Definitions of Lift and Drag
Since the fluid is in motion, we can define a flow direction along the motion. The component of the net force perpendicular (or normal) to the flow direction is called the lift; the component of the net force along the flow direction is called the drag. These are definitions. In reality, there is a single, net, integrated force caused by the pressure variations along a body. This aerodynamic force acts through the average location of the pressure variation which is called the center of pressure.
Velocity Distribution
For an ideal fluid with no boundary layers, the surface of an object is a streamline. If the velocity is low, and no energy is added to the flow, we can use Bernoulli's equation along a streamline to determine the pressure distribution for a known velocity distribution. If boundary layers are present, things are a little more confusing, since the external flow responds to the edge of the boundary layer and the pressure on the surface is imposed from the edge of the boundary layer. If the boundary layer separates from the surface, it gets even more confusing. How do we determine the velocity distribution around a body? To correctly determine the velocity distribution, we have to solve equations expressing a conservation of mass, momentum, and energy for the fluid passing the object. In some cases, we can solve simplified versions of the equations to determine the velocity. For coasting rockets, this is particularly difficult because the flow normally separates at the nozzle end of the rocket. To determine the aerodynamic force on the rocket in this situation, we usually build a model of the rocket and measure the aerodynamic force in a wind tunnel. Using the lift and drag equations we can scale the measured forces from the test conditions to flight conditions.
To summarize, for any object immersed in a fluid, the mechanical forces are transmitted at every point on the surface of the body. The forces are transmitted through the pressure, which acts perpendicular to the surface. The net force can be found by integrating (or summing) the pressure times the area around the entire surface. For a moving flow, the pressure will vary from point to point because the velocity varies from point to point. For some simple flow problems, we can determine the pressure distribution (and the net force) if we know the velocity distribution by using Bernoulli's equation. For more complex flow problems, we use wind tunnel testing to determine the aerodynamic force.
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Greeley Fire Department celebrates new station with ribbon-cutting ceremony
Local | August 18, 2017
Tommy Simmons
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In this August 2017 file photo, Olivia Miller, 6, and her brother, Logan Miller, 8, explore the Greeley fire station downtown, 1155 10th Ave. (Joshua Polson/jpolson@greeleytribune.com)
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A crowd gathers around the bay doors as one of the large brick art pieces stands over them Friday during a ribbon cutting for the new fire station in downtown Greeley.
Kaleb Clark, 4, glances back as his brother, Noah Clark, 9, investigates the ladder truck at the new fire station in downtown Greeley.
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Giving credit
In his speech to the crowd assembled for the new station’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, Greeley Fire Chief Dale Lyman thanked Becky Safarik, Greeley’s assistant city manager, as well as Joel Hemesath, the city’s public works director, and his team for their help with the new building’s construction.
There was a moment just after the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Greeley Fire Department’s new station at 1155 11th Ave. when it looked like the 100 or so people assembled were going to see their firefighters in action.
A call came in, broadcast across the new station’s PA system, and the firefighters who had minutes before been talking and laughing with Greeley residents who turned out to see the new building began to prepare themselves for an emergency. Greeley Fire Chief Dale Lyman — still dressed in his navy dress uniform — ushered the crowd against the wall, where they stood entranced.
It was not to be. Other crews were in the area of the call and were able to respond. The event’s festive mood returned.
The scene illustrated the importance of the new station, which was completed as part of the first phase of Greeley’s city center project. The multi-story brick building is the Greeley Fire Department’s headquarters, and it houses the department’s administrative and training units, but it also serves as a working fire station from which crews can respond to emergencies.
It’s a project that has been in the works for almost two years.
“I’m amazed that within this short period of time we have this building,” Lyman told the crowd. “We had an amazing team working on this.”
The Greeley City Council bought the land as part of its City Center project, which also includes the construction by private investors of a downtown hotel, the relocation of the downtown library and the construction of a new city hall. Previously, a Safeway occupied the lot where the fire station now sits. On Friday, though, the fire station dominated the location, with its vaulted garage doors and two enormous pieces of art sculpted into the brick of the walls.
Those three-dimensional pieces, formed from the building’s bricks, were designed by Pueblo artist Ken Williams, who also designed art for another Greeley fire station in 2007. One of them is the likeness of a Greeley Fire Department badge, set into the building’s west wall. The other, titled “Preventing Harm,” shows firefighters in a training exercise dressed in full gear.
“I’m glad to be here,” Williams said. “I’m grateful and honored to work for the city of Greeley.”
He designed “Preventing Harm” from a photograph. At first, he wanted to create a piece depicting a historic firefighting scene, but Lyman asked for a more modern take. He said a Greeley firefighter took a quick photograph of his crew members training and the department sent the photo to Williams. The result was the piece on the building’s wall, which is about 20 feet high.
“It’s just incredible what he created,” Lyman said.
The artwork is a final, ornamental touch on the rest of the building, which is sleek and functional. Lyman said while the station was under construction, the department’s resources — such as its ladder truck and training unit — were scattered throughout the city. He said it was a relief to have it all back in one place.
“On behalf of the Greeley Fire Department,” he said, “I just want to say thank you to the entire Greeley community.”
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Green Seal Publishes a New Insulation Standard
The nonprofit certifier lays out benchmarks for certifying many types of residential insulation
Spray polyurethane foam is one type of insulation covered in a new standard published by Green Seal. A potential seal of approval for SPF is one point of contention.
Image Credit: Dunktanktechnician / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr
Green Seal Inc., a nonprofit certifier of green building products, has published a green standard for insulation, giving builders and homeowners the most comprehensive guide to date for choosing products with the lowest potential to damage human health and the environment.
In a recent statement, Green Seal said that its Architectural Insulation Standard (GS-54) sets “challenging yet achievable requirements” for the country’s insulation industry. It covers a variety of health and environmental concerns and sets benchmarks for the global warming impact of blowing agents, the presence of toxic chemicals, the amount of recycled content, and even installation and packaging.
“It is designed to make it easier for the market to identify green insulation products that work and protect human as well as environmental health,” a statement posted at the group’s website says.
The standard covers all types of insulation used in both residential and commercial projects: fiberglass, rock wool, polyurethane, polystyrene, polyisocyanurate, cellulose, denim, vermiculite, perlite, and animal wool. It doesn’t cover polyurethane sold in containers of less than 55-gallon drums (exempting canned foam used to seal gaps around windows, for example); nor does it extend to a variety of specialized insulation materials used in such things as ovens, cars, and airplanes.
In writing new rules on what makes a particular insulation environmentally superior, Green Seal also made some compromises by exempting certain chemicals that don’t have a commercially available substitute. The final language on spray polyurethane foam is especially troubling to environmental activists.
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What the standard requires
Green Seal says that its new certification requirements are the most comprehensive and up-to-date for the U.S. market. (Green Seal also has produced a summary of the requirements.) Here are some of the benchmarks:
Global warming potential. The blowing agents used to make foam insulation must have a global warming potential (GWP) of no more than 25 — meaning that it’s no more than 25 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. However, the standard exempts blowing agents now used in extruded polystyrene insulation, allowing those compounds to have a GWP of up to 1500 until January 2019. Most manufacturers now use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to make XPS. They have been testing an alternative, a hydrofluoro-olefin (HFO) with a GWP of less than 1 in anticipation of a government ban on HFCs coming up in 2021, but have resisted calls for an earlier transition.
Ozone depletion potential. Blowing agents must have an ozone depletion potential of zero.
Volatile Organic Compounds. Insulation will have to meet VOC requirements as specified by a California Department of Public Health standard called V1.1-2010.
Prohibited substances. Manufacturers will not be permitted to use more than trace amounts of compounds classified as known or probable carcinogens. Also banned: substances listed by the state of California as reproductive toxins, or those that carry any one of a number of toxicity warnings. But there are two important exemptions. One is for MDI (methylene biphenyl diisocyanate), which is used in spray polyurethane foam and has been blamed for a variety of health problems. The other is for sodium borate and boron oxide.
No intentional addition. The standard also lists a number of compounds that can’t be added to insulation on purpose. They include polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) and brominated paraffin flame retardants, chemical compounds containing formaldehyde, neonicotinoid pesticides, triclosan, and compounds containing heavy metals such as lead, chromium, cadmium, and mercury. Asbestos, arsenic, and phthalates above certain thresholds also are forbidden.
Not intended to steer the market
Daniel Pedersen, Green Seal’s vice president for science and standards, said in a telephone interview that the new standard was unlike the few rating systems covering insulation now available to consumers. One standard developed in the U.S. by Underwriter Laboratories hasn’t been updated since 2005, he said, and Environmental Product Declarations and Health Product Declarations provide more technical information than most people could absorb.
“There really is not a simple and easy tool that looks at the whole picture,” he said. “You have self-declarations by manufacturers that say our insulation is green for whatever reason. Then the consumer has to evaluate those claims and put them in context. You also have single-attribute certifications, like formaldehyde-free or low-VOC, but the environmental and health impacts are much broader than that. All these tools available for purchasers are not practical for making informed choices.”
Pedersen said that the purpose of the standard was not to steer the market in any particular direction, but to recognize manufacturers already addressing health and environmental concerns. As many as 20% of the insulation products now on the market are likely to be able to meet the criteria, he said, and some manufacturers have already approached Green Seal about certification.
The nonprofit has been careful not to set the bar so high that no products would qualify.
“We really do try to recognize the existing leaders in the market, which means we’re not as far ahead as some groups would like us to be, or our standard does not serve the purpose that other organizations would like,” Pedersen said. “We had a lot of comments saying, ‘You can set this requirement to nudge the industry in the right direction.’ That’s not what our standard is for. That’s what regulations are for. That’s what activism and consumer education are for, but our role is not to set criteria the industry can’t meet.
“Very briefly,” he said, “our standard has to reflect the current status of the market, or strongly emerging initiatives on the market right now.”
Some activists are unhappy with the outcome
The blowing agent used in extruded polystyrene, flame retardants, and the MDI used in spray polyurethane foam are among the contentious issues Green Seal tackled, and the outcome didn’t please everyone.
Writing at the website Pharos, Jim Vallette of the Healthy Building Network praised Green Seal for barring HBCD (hexabromocyclododecane) flame retardants but was critical of its decision to permit other flame retardants as well as MDI in spray polyurethane foam.
“While we welcome HBCD prohibition, unfortunately it does not appear that Green Seal restricts other halogenated flame retardants,” he wrote. “It chose to except toxic substances for which no substitutes are yet commercial available… This exemption means that the new standard will certify as ‘greener’ spray polyurethane foam loaded with asthma-inducing ethylene diisocyanates, halogenated flame retardants and other chemicals of concern.”
Healthy Building Network Policy Director Tom Lent struck the same notes. In a telephone interview, Lent praised Green Seal for making a number of modifications to the standard based on public comments. But he added that Green Seal’s decision to certify products that contain MDI was a disappointment. He would have preferred no certification pending a bigger industry push to find a chemical replacement for MDI.
“My major disappointment is on SPF,” he said. “I consider spray polyurethane foam to be a significant problem for the industry right now… It’s a unique product. It’s manufactured in the field. The chemistry happens out in the field, and we have a disturbing number of cases of it going very wrong and indications below that there may be more sub-acute problems that aren’t very well captured yet.
“We have a lot of respect for [Green Seal] and really appreciate what they do in the industry and so we’re disappointed to have this one go forward because we think it undermines the understanding of their role and the meaning of the Green Seal,” Lent added.
Polyurethane foam is too big a player to ignore
Pedersen, however, said that spray polyurethane insulation represents an important part of the market, and in some cases is the only practical choice for insulation. And it can’t be made without MDI, so Green Seal’s unenviable choice boiled down to putting up with MDI or barring a whole class of insulation from certification.
“We can’t ignore a major component of the insulation market just because it’s not where we want it to be,” he said. “If the issue is improper insulation, let’s institute protective measures for that. Would it be better not to deal with MDI? Of course, but that’s not the situation.”
In addition to posting the full text of the standard at its website, Green Seal offers more information to anyone who wants to dig a little deeper: an explanation of how the standard was developed and Green Seal’s responses to the many comments about the proposal, including an explanation of its position on HFC blowing agents. Green Seal points out two changes it made it a draft of the standard to address the concerns, including its decision to require low GWP blowing agents two years earlier than the Environmental Protection Agency.
Stephen Youngquist | Aug 23, 2016 10:23am | #1
Certifying a product as "Green", just because the toxic or environmentally damaging stuff they are using doesn't have an alternative is like certifying a steak as "vegetarian" because you can't make a steak without meat. Just because SPF is a big part of the market and, arguably, is sometimes the best alternative, doesn't mean it needs to be labeled as "Green" if it isn't!
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The Department of Energy has updated its testing and labeling standards for residential water heaters, replacing Energy Factor (EF) with a new metric called the Uniform Energy Factor (UEF). Manufacturers…
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ASHRAE Will Help Develop National Green Standard
The National Green Building Standard is getting an update, this time with the assistance of a well-known society of engineers. The National Association of Home Builders announced that the 2015…
Spray Foam Insulation Is Not a Magic Bullet
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been pretty hard on batt insulation in the past. I feel that my complaints and concerns are well justified, but no matter which insulation…
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Brief History of Geological Survey of India
1821 First Geological Map of parts of India was of Hyderabad region by Dr H. W. Voysey
1840 Museum of Geology established in Calcutta in three rooms of Asiatic Society of Bengal
1846 D. H. Williams of British Geological Survey appointed geologic advisor to the East India Company for the purpose of carrying out geological survey of three coal bearing districts. He developed a number of deposits in Raniganj, Jharia and Karanpura coal fields
1851 Thomas Oldham arrived in Calcutta on 4th March and took charge of office on 5th March, 1851, which marks the establishment of the Geological Survey of India.
1854-55 H. B. Medlicott establishes three fold subdivision of the Vindhyans
1857 H. B. Medlicott surveys Himalayan Ranges between Ravi and Ganges and lays down the foundation of Himalayan Geology.
1858-60 Geological map of the Ranigunj coal fields by W. L. Wilson published. This is the first geological map of 1" = 1 Mile published by the Geological Survey of India
1860 J. G. Medlicott recognises three principal subdivisions of the coal bearing series and applied the names Talcher, Damuda and Mahadevas.
1873 Ram Singh becomes the first Indian to join Geological survey of india (as an apprentice)
1877 Geological Gallery in the new Indian Museum was thrown open to public on January 1
1892 Geology Classes started in Presidency College, Calcutta with T. H. Holland as the first part time professor of Geology.
1911 Revised Geological Map of India in 1"= 32 Mile scale was published under H. H. Hayden
1921-33 E. H. Pascoe's "Manual of Geology of India" published in four volumes
Some of the major memoirs published in the period 1921-35
C. S. Fox's memoir on the Gondwana system and the lower Gondwana coalfields of India
E. R. Gee: Geology and coal reserves of Ranigunj Coalfields
J. B. Auden's Vindhyan Sedimentaion in the Son Valley
H. C. Jones Iron Ore deposits of Bihar and Orissa.
L. L. Fermor's Mineral Resources of Central Provinces of Bihar and Orissa.
D. N. Wadia's Geology of Poonch State (Kashmir) and Syntaxis of the Northwest Himalaya
1951 M. S. Krishnan becomes the first Indian to be a Director of the Geological survey of India
After independence, the country undertook programme of planned development. Since then governmental policies and priorities are going through paradigm shifts in response to the market forces. GSI has been reciprocating to these changing scenarios time and again in a prompt and apt manner.
In 2001 GSI celebrated 150 years of its dedicated service to the nation
................and the Odyssey goes on......
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Cambodia, the short version
tags: Travel Asia Cambodia
The shadow of former wars haunts most of southeast Asia, but nowhere so much as the Khmer Rouge haunts Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge and their atrocities are memorialized across the country by heaps of bones and skulls, but most infamously at S.21 and the Killing Fields outside Phnom Penh. Cambodia has more UXO (UneXploded Ordinance) than any other country in the region, and a correspondingly higher number of people, usually beggars, who are missing limbs - it's very disturbing to see. The moto (motorcycle taxi) drivers are commoner than anywhere else in southeast Asia, and more irritating by dint of numbers. One of the commonest vehicles is the "remorque-moto," also called "tuk-tuk," a covered trailer that seats two to four pulled by a motorcycle. Approximately 20% of the cars on the road are Toyota Camrys, although it's a crapshoot which side the driver sits on (but driving is on the right side of the road). The country lives with the memory of former greatness, the Khmer empire that dominated the entire region for centuries and left behind the world's largest religious building, Angkor Wat. Most of the visitors to Angkor seem to be Japanese or Korean, and French. Political billboards are incredibly common for the three parties, even though there isn't a pending election: the Sam Rainsy Party, Funcinpec, and the reigning Cambodian People's Party. Hun Sen of CPP pretty much has the country wrapped up, despite (or because of) endemic corruption in the political system. Bootleg gasoline is available by the roadside in Johnny Walker bottles and large soda bottles for about 20% less than at the gas stations. The roads are horrible. Condom ads are remarkably common given that this is a country where most people bathe at the beaches fully clothed - only the barang (foreigners, literally "French") wear bikinis.
Looking back on what I've written, I make the whole country sound depressing. The Cambodians are generally very nice, and I had a good time in the country - although the ghosts of the Khmer Rouge and the landmines did make for some depressing visits. Cambodia is also renowned for its beaches: reportedly as beautiful as those in Thailand, but much less crowded. I went to Sihanoukville to see its beaches, but after about three hours in town I remembered that 1) I don't swim, 2) I don't tan, and 3) I don't sit still well (except possibly in front of a computer) so I left town the next day and can't tell you much about the beaches myself.
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Ridge Loop
Round Trip Distance: 6 miles (Turkey Flats)
Round Trip Distance: 8 miles (Fruita Picnic Area)
Difficulty: Strenuous
Cellphone: 0-2 bars
Time: 3 hrs. 45 mins.
Trailhead: Fruita Picnic Area (or Turkey Flats)
Attractions: Forest, wildlife, wildflowers, solitude
The Ridge Loop is put together by making use of the Reservoir #1, Ridge, Hay Press and Turkey Flats trails. All of these trails are located south of Glade Park in the Fruita Division of the Grand Mesa National Forest. The Fruita Division of the Grand Mesa National Forest is about 27 miles due west of the main reservation on top of the Grand Mesa. One of the purposes of national forests is not only to preserve the trees but to manage and protect the water supplies. For the sole purpose of protecting the Town of Fruita's water supply the Fruita Division was added to the Grand Mesa National Forest reservation in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Access to the trailhead can be made with a 2-wheel drive vehicle on dry roads by turning south at the Glade Park Store on 16 1/2 Road. The pavement ends after 2.6 miles and you pass the Mud Springs Campground at 6.4 miles. Take the right fork at 7.6 miles and continue on 16 1/2 Road. Stop at the turnoff to Fruita Reservoir #1 after about 9.5 miles and park at the Fruita Picnic Area. Forest Road 400.2C which leads from 16 1/2 Road to Fruita Reservoir #1 is closed between December 1 and May 30 of every year. The road is supposed to be closed at all times to cars and trucks but that doesn't seem to be something that is enforced.
The road gains about 300 feet of elevation in the first mile where it passes the east trailhead for Turkey Flats. This point marks the beginning of the loop that this particular hike is going to make.
Following the road for another half mile, gaining another 150 feet of elevation, brings you to the beginning of the Reservoir #1 trail. There is a vault toilet and a spigot for non potable water at the trailhead. With all the cows in the area it is a must to filter drinking water no matter how pristine it looks.
The Reservoir #1 trail travels around the west side of the lake. Once it nears the south end of the lake it begins the climb up to the Ridge trail.
The trail gains another almost another 400 feet of elevation over the mile and a half length of this section of the trail. Most of the climbing is fairly gentle with only a few steeper spots.
A commemorative plaque on an aspen tree of a former patron and the one left behind who has adopted this section of trail in loving memory.
The Reservoir #1 trail comes to an end when it meets up with the Ridge trail. This is also the junction where the Black Pine trail comes up from the south and meets with the Ridge trail. To continue with the loop we follow the Ridge trail to the right as it heads on west.
The Ridge trail section of the loop lasts for just over a mile and a quarter. The trail is mostly flat through here and there is one gate to pass through. The cows have made paths along the fence line that look like good trails but the correct route is to go through the gate.
The sign for the Hay Press trail comes along before reaching the official end of the Ridge trail. You might encounter ATV or dirt bike traffic while you are hiking the Ridge trail but once you turn onto the Hay Press trail it is open only to hiking, equestrian and mountain bikes.
The Hay Press trail begins following the back of a narrow ridge before dropping down a switchback that carries the trail over to the opposite side of the drainage. From there the trail continues to descend at a gradual pace as it heads down to the junction with the Turkey Flats trail.
Some fun loving mountain bikers have made a jump over a log that the trail makes a dog leg around.
I came upon some deer that were very close to the trail as I passed by a meadowy slough. With ears like that it's no wonder that deer can normally hear you coming a mile away.
The Hay Press trail meets up with the Turkey Flats trail in a clearing at about the mid point of that trail. To complete the loop we make a right turn and head back to the east toward Forest Road 400.2C.
This section of the Turkey Flats trail is mostly flat except for one wash that is about 50 feet deep. The Turkey Flats trail is very pleasant and picturesque.
The Turkey Flats trail comes out on Forest Road 400.2C where the loop began. As you can see from the vehicles parked here the sign at the bottom of the hill about no vehicles doesn't have much impact. If they really want to keep vehicles off the road maybe they need to come up with something different.
The picnic sites look pleasant enough if you are ever just looking for a place to take your family. There is a nearby stream to play in and a restroom.
Most mountain bikers would probably do this loop by beginning at the Turkey Flats trailhead on 16 1/2 Road. If you continue past the picnic area for about another half mile you will be there. While the Ridge Loop isn't an official name for any trail it seems appropriate enough to describe this combo. The hike is a great route for seeing a lot of the Fruita Division of the Grand Mesa in one outing. If you would like to see it for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
Labels: 3 Star, Colorado, deer, dogs, elk, Fruita Division, Glade Park, grand junction, Grand Mesa, Grand Mesa National Forest, mountain biking, Picnic, Strenuous, Toilet, water, wild turkey
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Slime-San: Superslime Edition Review
Slime-San: Superslime Edition is an excellent platformer, and the amount of support the developer has shown makes it an absolute must-have. Get it on whatever platform you can, you're in for a good time.
By Jitalic on 2018-07-11 | Version reviewed: PlayStation 4
There's something interesting about coming back to a title after some extra polish.
A little while back, we actually did a review for Slime-San upon it's original release on the Switch...Well, I say 'we'. I. I did the review. Game's still on my Switch. If you don't want to go back and read that review to see my initial impressions of the core game, the incredibly short version is that it's a really really good 2D platformer that looks like a Super Gameboy game. Thank you, come back next time, could you click an ad on the way out? You're the best.
Okay, everyone that's still here, let's start talking. Slime-San sits as a unique item in a lot of different ways. First, let's run down what you're actually getting. Slime-San is, at its core, a basic 2D platformer of the single screen variety. You spawn somewhere, you need to get to a goal, there's a bunch of stuff to navigate between the A and the B. You've probably played one of these before.
Where Slime-San sets itself apart is...Well, three places. The first is just that it's a very well executed game. The mechanics are interesting, the designs fair, and the levels tend to make survival really straightforward, but getting the collectable apples or meeting the par time pretty tricky...And doing both is super hard.
The second is in its broader aesthetic, which rides a very careful line between cute and gross. It's, and I'm genuinely surprised I never seemed to have written this in the first review, almost in the vein of the superflat art movement. Now, the cute and gross thing is not a terribly uncommon combination, but Slime-San feeds it very carefully so both are maintained, instead of just shifting from one extreme to the other for effect. And it's all enhanced by...
The third point of setting itself apart, the color scheme. I briefly mentioned it at the top, and did some history talk in the original review, but Slime-San uses a very strict 4+1 color scheme that looks straight out of a game built exclusively to use the Super Gameboy's hardware mix. The other thing this does, is it makes Slime-San the single most color-accessible game I have ever played. It has complete color shifts for every major type of color blindness, plus a customizable mode that lets you completely adjust each of those major colors.
This all comes together into a game that's a bit different from almost everything else I've played. Now, of course, just about everything I've said so far applies to both versions of the game. The original release I played last year had all of this be just as true.
So what's the new version bring? It's an ultimate edition, which means DLC out the colossal worm hiney, but what does that actually mean? And is the stuff you get any good? Ah, now there's the key question. The main additional content brought forth from the additional content are three new campaigns: Blackbird's Kraken, Sheeple's Sequel, and an additional set of levels, each built around a different member of the Slime family and their unique mechanics. This all adds up to, quite frankly, an absurd amount of content.
Content you probably won't be seeing for a bit, though, because these are hard. The DLC stages are absolutely built under the assumption that you've completed the core game, and while a good chunk of the levels are still reasonably fair to survive, trying to get the fruit and come under par is a genuine madness-inducer on some of these stages.
Not that that's the end of the world, though. After all, this is a lot of content, after a lot of content. And when combined with the core campaign, you get a very smooth ramping up of difficulty that teaches you a lot of the skills you need. There are even training areas all about learning new, complicated techniques to turn them into raw and brutal muscle memory.
So all of this is to say that the Superslime Edition is well worth your time if you're just getting into the world of Slime-San, now that it's available on PS4. But what if you're on the Switch version still, like I have from when I reviewed that original version last year? Is it worth the money to upgrade?
I have good news for you.
You don't have to.
Because you already did.
All of the content was patched into pre-existing versions, for free. That's right. If you bought and mastered Slime-San at some point in the past, there are roughly 60 new stages just waiting for you to go play. Right now. On whatever device you own.
That's...That's bananas, right? Like, I'm literally sitting here, doing some research, I go to boot up the original Switch copy of the game to do some quick comparisons and see just what content is only in the new Superslime Edition, and it does a patch update and is the new Superslime Edition.
So, here's the thing I'm left with. Go get this game. It has become massively more than it was when I reviewed it last year, and it was a fantastic game then. I can only speak to the Switch and PS4 versions I've reviewed, but they're gold. Even if you're working with just an Xbox or a Steam account, in which case I'm a little surprised you're reading this, but I have no reason to believe you'd be getting anything less. It is so, so worth your time and money.
Slime-San started great, and got better. You need this one in your collection.
Slime-san
For MAC, PC, WIIU, XboxOne, PS4, Linux, NSW
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Source: King & Spalding LLC
October 01, 2013 09:30 ET
King & Spalding Creates Corporate Governance Center Offering Insights and Resources for Public Company Directors
ATLANTA, GA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - The international law firm King & Spalding has established an online Directors Governance Center that will provide public company directors with curated and original content on corporate governance issues, as well as practical resources, commentary from governance thought leaders and insight from the Center's editors.
King & Spalding established the Center, at www.directorscenter.com, to provide directors with the best available information on evolving governance issues and best practices to support their board and committee service. The Center will present articles, reports and research from a broad array of sources, along with additional interpretation and insight from King & Spalding experts. Users can browse by topic, board committee, "tagged" cross-references and subjects, or use the site's full-text search feature.
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Goldberg: Health-care hell nears
JonahGoldberg
The time for talk is over. So proclaimed the most talkative president in modern memory.
I can't remember when Barack Obama said that. Maybe it was during the first "final showdown" on health care. Or maybe it was the third. The fifth? It's so hard to tell when pretty much every week since the dawn of the Mesozoic Era, Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid has proclaimed that it is now "go time" for health-care reform.
So you'll forgive me if I'm somewhat skeptical about the possibility that the health-care reform debate is about to come to an end.
The president recently said, "Everything there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it."
But wait. If everything, pro and con, has been said about the subject, by everybody, that means someone isn't telling the truth, right? I mean, if you've said X and not-X, that means you've probably said something that isn't true.
That, at least, is the impression I got last week listening to Obama make his closing arguments for health care at rallies in Pennsylvania and Missouri. It's telling that the president -- long in favor of a single-payer system -- is selling his health-care plan on the grounds that it will increase "choice" and "competition," reduce "government control" and "give you, the American people, more control over your own health insurance."
You know your sales pitch for a government takeover of health care hasn't worked when you have to crib rhetoric from free-market Republicans. And that's after you've already tried to pin your plan's unpopularity on the ignorance of the American people.
Obama's talking points track reality about as well as the screenplay for "Avatar." Indeed, the same week he was hawking competition, choice and less government, Obama backed a new Health Insurance Rate Authority that would do even more to cement big health insurance companies into their new role as government-run utilities.
This latest gambit is of a piece with the White House's demonization of the health-insurance industry. I have no love for that industry myself, but let's get some perspective. As of August, the health-insurance industry ranked 86th in terms of profit margins -- behind anemic industries such as book publishing (38th), specialty eateries (71st) and home furnishing stores (84th), according to data compiled by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute.
Insurance companies account for less than 5 percent of American health-care spending -- less than hospitals (31 percent), doctors (21 percent) and medicine (10 percent). But because health-insurance companies are unpopular, Democrats are beating up on them, even though if Democrats are serious about containing costs, the cuts will have to come from those other slices of the pie.
But enough with the substance. The health-care debate ceased being about substance a long, long time ago. Fair or not, the Democrats' plan is unpopular, period. There is simply nothing Obama can say that will change that fact before Democrats vote for it. That hasn't stopped him from talking out of every side of his mouth. But outside the Obama bunker, no serious pollster, pundit or pol in Washington disputes this basic point: Obama cannot take the stink off this thing.
And that's why the Democrats are contorting themselves like a yoga swami in a hatbox trying to figure out how to pass it. Note: If it were simply popular among Democrats, it would have passed months ago.
The latest idea involves the "Slaughter Solution" -- named after House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter -- that would allow the House to fix-and-pass the Senate version of the bill without ever voting on the Senate version, or something like that.
But here's the thing: There is no "over" to this debate. Obama, Pelosi & Co. have demonstrated time and again that no deadline is final if it means losing. Meanwhile, if ObamaCare passes, Republicans will run on a promise to repeal it, and that means we'll be debating health-care reform at least through 2010. Then, depending on how the election goes, the repeal debate will become part of the legislative process. That will in all likelihood carry the debate into the 2012 presidential election. In other words, there will be time for talk as far as the eye can see.
Now, part of me thinks this is too cruel a future to contemplate. I can't remember whether it was pederasts or mattress-tag removers, but I'm pretty sure someone in Dante's Inferno is condemned to spend eternity listening to a C-SPAN panel on community rating, pre-existing conditions and rate pools.
But it's a better prospect than losing. That's one point that has bipartisan support.
JONAH GOLDBERG is a syndicated columnist (JonahsColumn@aol.com).
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Keep Sherman Beautiful seeks new logo for relaunch
When the six impaneled members of the newly resurrected Keep Sherman Beautiful commission met for the first time late last year, they realized quickly that the organization needed a new image. The logo used by the commission’s previous iteration, which disbanded in 2007, could politely be described as "corporate."
"It looked like we’re trying to sell people something," said commission Chairwoman Lauren Roth of the old logo, which prominently featured the initials "KSB" in block font. "(The commission is) brand-new to us, because it’s been six years since it’s been active. So we need a new logo, a new face."
To that end, the organization is sponsoring a contest for school-aged children to design a new logo to headline its renewed charter. Submissions are due by the end of the month, and may be submitted at the city library, by email or through the group’s Facebook page.
Sherman Mayor Cary Wacker said she hopes the new logo will highlight the volunteer-led group’s mission.
"My thought (in reestablishing the commission) was that, to get our community looking better, we need community input and we need people who will provide leadership in terms of big-picture projects that will really make a long-term difference," said Wacker. "So when we put the Keep Sherman Beautiful commission back together, we were looking for people who had (experience) in business or leadership in the community who can help bring resources to help accomplish some of their goals."
The City Council began appointing members over the summer, and the group met for the first time in October. Roth and Wacker both emphasized the Council’s deliberate approach to appointing people who could have an impact.
"Currently, it’s just the six member board. Once we get our projects lined out, we’ll put together committees of community members that will help us carry out what’s on the board agenda," said Roth. "(Long term), I would like it to at least be a small office, with one to two people hired full-time that can at least take care of the finances, the admin, the coordination of events, but still be a volunteer-based organization. Obviously, with an organization like this, you need the community backing it; you can’t do it without the support of the community."
That kind of support can’t be ginned up if people don’t know about the opportunities to serve, said Roth. Increasing the commission’s public profile is its initial goal.
"I think that was one of the major problems with Keep Sherman Beautiful originally, is that people just didn’t know about it. So our big thing is awareness," said Roth. "Once we have our logo and we get a kick-off going, and we have more awareness here, we can start listing our projects and applying for grants. We’re trying to find different ways to help beautify Sherman, but also help with recycling, waste management, those kind of things."
The new logo will be unveiled at a community event on April 5. The mayor said she hopes the commission will be able to forge partnerships that will give it the financial and human resources to tackle large-scale improvement projects around town.
"Our goal is to do some projects that really make a noticeable difference in the appearance of Sherman and make people feel good about our city," said Wacker. "It’s not just planting some flowers. It’s really addressing issues that cause blight or things where places in the city look run down. … I think we just recognized that this (commission) is a piece we need to be the kind of community we want to be."
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Home > BOOK SUBJECTS > RACE / RACISM / SLAVERY / COLONIALISM > 40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Item# 9780307353146
by William C. Rhoden
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.
Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes' "evolution" has merely been a journey from literal plantations-where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings-to today's figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Weaving in his own experiences growing up on Chicago's South Side, playing college football for an all-black university, and his decades as a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that black athletes' exercise of true power is as limited today as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today's shackles are often of their own making.
Every advance made by black athletes, Rhoden explains, has been met with a knee-jerk backlash-one example being Major League Baseball's integration of the sport, which stripped the black-controlled Negro League of its talent and left it to founder. He details the "conveyor belt" that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they're cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason.
Sweeping and meticulously detailed, Forty Million Dollar Slaves is an eye-opening exploration of a metaphor we only thought we knew.
The Washington Post - David Leonard
Forty Million Dollar Slaves is a beautifully written, complex and rich narrative. Rhoden offers a wonderful balance between the often-forgotten histories of great black athletes, such as bicyclist Major Taylor, Negro League entrepreneur Rube Foster and college football great Sam Cunningham, and nuanced social commentaries on the commercial exploitation of blackness, white control of the sporting world, and the devastating effects of integration on the Negro Leagues and the sports teams at historically black colleges and universities.
William C. Rhoden has been a sportswriter for the New York Times since 1983, and has written the “Sports of the Times” column for more than a decade. He also serves as a consultant for ESPN’s SportsCentury series, and occasionally appears as a guest on their show The Sports Reporters. In 1996, Rhoden won a Peabody Award for Broadcasting as writer of the HBO documentary Journey of the African-American Athlete. A graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, he lives in New York City’s Harlem with his wife and daughter.
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2015 Stephen H. Hart Awards for Historic Preservation
13th Annual Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation
Group of nine recipients accepting one of the 2015 Hart Awards on behalf of Boulder County
Proactive consideration of historic buildings during disaster planning, response, and recovery
Boulder County has emerged as a model regarding consideration of historic buildings and structures in disaster planning, response, and recovery. The county proactively developed a program over several years, resulting in saving historic buildings and structures and providing an example to other local governments regarding disaster planning. Within a month of the September 2013 flood, as a result of its two-decade survey history and disaster planning, Boulder County was able to provide to FEMA and the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation a list of all properties 45 years old and older that received some level of damage in the flood.
The county focused its resources on the damaged and endangered historic properties; they enlisted and managed volunteer engineers, provided county historic preservation grants, and processed landmark applications for properties to become eligible for local grants. Properties such as the Wood-Cobb Cabin and the Salina "Red Barn" might no longer be with us but for county intervention.
6th Annual History Colorado President’s Award
Ernest House - 2015 History Colorado's President's Award winner
Ernest House, Jr.
His Great Service to Tribes and Historic Preservation in Colorado
As the Executive Director of Commission of Indian Affairs (CCIA), Ernest House, Jr. has worked closely with History Colorado to maintain a government-to-government relationship between the State of Colorado and tribal governments. Ernest is well known for his ability to bring disparate groups together to find solutions to challenging and long-standing issues. His current service on the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission and the Colorado Repatriation and Reburial Workgroup are but two illustrations of the vital role he plays as an informal, yet highly respected, liaison for tribal issues.
His attention to detail and ability to assess situations in real-time have helped History Colorado conduct unmarked human burials in consultation with the two resident Ute Tribes and forty-six other consulting tribes in an effective and efficient manner. Moreover, Ernest House has helped many of us to understand that what some call “historic preservation” is actually a subset of a much larger set of concerns that involve cultural landscapes, community renewal, and sustainable environments. A true leader not only has answers when you need them, but makes one consider the most difficult questions that we must confront as public servants.
6th Annual Hart Archaeology Award
Marilyn Martorano - 2015 Hart Archaeology Award winner
Marilyn Martorano
Her Studies of Culturally Modified Trees in Colorado
Archaeologist Marilyn Martorano has been studying Colorado’s prehistory since the late 1970s. While she has made a variety of contributions to the field, one of her main areas of interest over the years has been the study of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs), or living trees that have been modified and used by Native American peoples.
The best documented sets of resources in Colorado are those in the Rio Grande River area, studied by Martorano in the 1970s and ‘80s. Martorano documented hundreds of CMTs at 22 sites in Great Sand Dunes National Park and in the Conejos Creek and Saguache Creek areas. Martorano’s studies of CMTs over the last four decades have greatly increased our understanding of the way ancient peoples used natural resources, culminating in a CMT workshop at the 2014 annual meeting of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, in Glenwood Springs. These studies also serve as catalysts for connecting with the Ute Tribes of Colorado.
29th Annual Stephen H. Hart Awards
Example of preserved mid-century modern property in Aspen - Winner of one of the 2015 Hart awards
City of Aspen and Aspen Historic Preservation Commission
Mid-Century Properties Individualized Incentives Program
Aspen is a small city of 6,700 residents, and the average price of a house is $3 million. High property values render development pressure intense, making historic preservation a tough sell.
Following the silver bust of 1893, there was virtually no construction in this mining town until the postwar ski boom. Early postwar structures were based on tourist-oriented rustic style log buildings and Swiss chalets. Later, as the town became more nationally renowned for skiing and cultural opportunities, clients engaged architects such as Fritz Benedict, Herbert Bayer, and Victor Lundy to design their dream homes, commercial edifices, and educational institutions.
Prioritizing the city’s postwar resources took more than a decade, with many losses along the way. But a 25-member Aspen Historic Preservation Task Force, community members, and preservation partners have worked hard to preserve the city’s mid-century properties, and today fifty percent of the properties on the city’s original list of postwar resources have been designated. The launching of the website www.aspenmod.com has resulted in additional voluntary designations. In July 2014 Aspen was honored by the National Alliance of Preservation Commission at its biennial forum in Philadelphia as the “Commission of the Year” for its persistence and successful program.
Steve Turner shaking hands with recipient of 2015 Hart Award on behalf of the Cultural Resources Staff of the Colorado Department of Transportation
Cultural Resources Staff of the Colorado Department of Transportation
Collaborative Mitigation Program
The Section 106 Process of the National Historic Preservation Act requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their projects on historic properties. In Colorado, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) carries out the Section 106 process on the behalf of the Federal Highway Administration, which retains final authority over the project.
CDOT has developed and implemented many collaborative mitigation measures by opening more meaningful dialogue with a wide-range of Section 106 consulting parties. CDOT has done this on its own accord and not out of any additional regulatory trigger. CDOT could easily default to the past practice of “Document & Destroy,” but has chosen to take a more collaborative approach with other Section 106 consulting parties to produce more meaningful and useful mitigation products that can be used by the larger public, from research publications to YouTube videos to heritage tourism guides.
Single story log cabin as part of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Preservation of the Gothic Townsite and Structures
The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) is a biological field station whose mission is to advance the scientific understanding of nature that promotes informed stewardship of the earth. Through the initiative of Dr. John C. Johnson, RMBL was founded in 1928 on the remains of an abandoned mining town, known as Gothic, which grew during the 1880s but was mostly deserted by 1893, the year of the Silver Crash.
Today RMBL has extensive experience managing historic preservation and rehabilitation projects, owning more than 70 structures. The State Historical Fund has partially funded seven construction projects at RMBL. These and their many other projects have helped spread knowledge of preservation. RMBL conducts numerous public tours of the townsite throughout the year, and each fall, the RMBL holds an annual Historic Preservation Dinner, welcoming usually more than 100 guests, including local members of the public. Moreover, Gothic is a stopping point for numerous people (topping 100,000 last year) on their way to hikes, nature painting/photography, mountain biking and camping, and many of these people stop at the Visitor Center and can gain information about the town site and surrounding area.
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Speeding up drug discovery with rapid 3D mapping of proteins
LA JOLLA, CA—A new method for rapidly solving the three-dimensional structures of a special group of proteins, known as integral membrane proteins, may speed drug discovery by providing scientists with precise targets for new therapies, according to a paper published May 20 in Nature Methods.
The technique, developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, provides a shortcut for determining the structure of human integral membrane proteins (hIMPs), molecules found on the surface of cells that serve as the targets for about half of all current drugs.
Knowing the exact three-dimensional shape of hIMPs allows drug developers to understand the precise biochemical mechanisms by which current drugs work and to develop new drugs that target the proteins.
Using their new rapid technique, Choe’s team generated the structure of a hIMP known as TMEM14A, shown here in multiple three-dimensional conformations.
Image: Courtesy of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Our cells contain around 8,000 of these proteins, but structural biologists have known the three-dimensional structure of only 30 hIMPs reported by the entire field over many years,” says Senyon Choe, a professor in Salk’s Structural Biology Laboratory and lead author on the paper. “We solved six more in a matter of months using this new technique. The very limited information on the shape of human membrane proteins hampers structure-driven drug design, but our method should help address this by dramatically increasing the library of known hIMP structures.”
Integral membrane proteins are attached to the membrane surrounding each cell, serving as gateways for absorbing nutrients, hormones and drugs, removing waste products, and allowing cells to communicate with their environment. Many diseases, including Alzheimer’s, heart disease and cancer have been linked to malfunctioning hIMPs, and many drugs, ranging from aspirin to schizophrenia medications, target these proteins.
Most of the existing drugs were discovered through brute force methods that required screening thousands of potential molecules in laboratory studies to determine if they had a therapeutic effect. Given a blueprint of the 3D structure of a hIMP involved in a specific disease, however, drug developers could focus only on molecules that are most likely to interact with the target hIMP, saving time and expense.
In the past, it was extremely difficult to solve the structure of hIMPs, due to the difficulty of harvesting them from cells and the difficulty of labeling the amino acids that compose the proteins, a key step in determining their three-dimensional configuration.
“One problem was that hIMPs serve many functions in a cell, so if you tried to engineer cells with many copies of the proteins on their membrane, they would die before you could harvest the hIMPs,” says Christian Klammt, a postdoctoral researcher in Choe’s lab and a first author on the paper.
To get around this, the scientists created an outside-the-cell environment, called cell-free expression system, to synthesize the proteins. They used a plexiglass chamber that contained all the biochemical elements necessary to manufacture hIMPs as if they were inside the cell. This system provided the researchers with enough of the proteins to conduct structural analysis.
Scientists, Christian Klammt, Senyon Choe and Innokentiy Maslennikov using a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for structural studies of membrane proteins.
The cell-free method also allowed them to easily add labeled amino acids into the biochemical stew, which were then incorporated into the proteins. These amino acids gave off telltale structural clues when analyzed with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a method for using the magnetic properties of atoms to determine a molecule’s physical and chemical properties.
“It was very difficult and inefficient to introduce labeled amino acids selectively into the protein produced in live cells,” says Innokentiy Maslennikov, a Salk staff scientist and co-first author on the paper. “With a cell-free system, we can precisely control what amino acids are available for protein production, giving us isotope-labeled hIMPs in large quantities. Using a proprietary labeling strategy we devised a means to minimize the number of samples to prepare.”
Prior methods might take up to a year to determine a single protein structure, but using their new method, the Salk scientists determined the structure of six hIMPs within just 18 months. They have already identified 38 more hIMPs that are suitable for analysis with their technique, and expect it will be used to solve the structure for many more.
Paul Slesinger, an associate professor in Salk’s Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, contributed to the research, as did scientists at the Joint Center for Biosciences in Korea, ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the University of California San Francisco.
Other authors on the paper were Monika Bayrhuber, Cédric Eichmann, Navratna Vajpai, Ellis Jeremy Chua Chiu, Katherine Blain, Luis Esquivies, June Hyun Jung Kwon, Bartosz Balana, Ursula Pieper, Andrej Sali, Witek Kwiatkowski and Roland Riek.
The research was supported by the World Class University Program and the National Institutes of Health.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world’s preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
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Home News Michael Fassbender In Talks For Role Of Steve Jobs In Sony Movie
Michael Fassbender In Talks For Role Of Steve Jobs In Sony Movie
What is bad luck, and how to deal with it know the company Sony Pictures. Once the first attempt went wrong they find an actor for the lead role in a biopic about the life of Steve Jobs. First DiCaprio refused to participate in the filming, and now Christian Bale.
Approved by the actor had already discussed all the world’s media, praising his immense talent and a certain visual similarity with Steve. But yesterday, Christian refused the role, citing its own unwillingness to play so complex character.
A holy place is never empty. So Sony Pictures did not waste time and have already announced the day after a new candidate for the role. She turned Michael Fassbender, known by moviegoers such films as Inglourious Basterds, Centurion, X-Men or Prometheus.
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Usain Bolt will be expected to burst into song if he gets a contract with A-League club Central Coast Mariners. The legendary Jamaican track athlete is currently trying out with the NSW side. If the Mariners sign him up, Bolt will be prevailed upon to undergo a club ritual. "Usually you've got to do an initiation song, but you have to be a contracted player to do that, for the first away trip," Mariners' striker Matt Simon said on Tuesday. "If he eventually does sign, I'm sure he'll be singing. "There is a fine in place if you don't sing, but I'm sure he would be right to pay it if he doesn't want to do it." Simon said Bolt was very humble and fitting in well with the Mariners. He said the extra media attention the club had got since Bolt arrived was not a distraction. Mariners coach Mike Mulvey welcomed the interest Bolt's presence was generating in what is normally a quiet part of the season buildup, sparsely attended by both media and fans. "Unless you're in the UK or some parts of Europe, you don't see many big crowds for a pre-season game," Mulvey said. "What the lads in the office are telling me, there could be 10, 12,00 people there (on Friday), that's quite unbelievable for a pre-season game." A local paper is printing 100,000 Bolt face masks, which the man himself can expect to see plenty of on Friday. "I think that will be weird a little bit, but I've seen a little bit of that in track and field," Bolt said. He has been well received by the local community. "Me and the boys, we went out for lunch and a lot of people came up and welcomed me to the coast, so I'm very happy about that," Bolt said. Among the interested observers at Tuesday's training session at Gosford's Central Coast Stadium was television presenter and former Australian Olympic sprinter Matt Shirvington, who ran one 200 metre race against Bolt, and NSW Blues State of Origin rugby league coach Brad Fittler. "He (Bolt) held his own, I thought he was awesome," Fittler told AAP. Australian Associated Press
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Bolt to sing if he signs for Mariners
NSW Origin coach Brad Fittler (c) was among the admirers when Usain Bolt trained with the Mariners.
Usain Bolt will be expected to burst into song if he gets a contract with A-League club Central Coast Mariners.
The legendary Jamaican track athlete is currently trying out with the NSW side.
If the Mariners sign him up, Bolt will be prevailed upon to undergo a club ritual.
"Usually you've got to do an initiation song, but you have to be a contracted player to do that, for the first away trip," Mariners' striker Matt Simon said on Tuesday.
"If he eventually does sign, I'm sure he'll be singing.
"There is a fine in place if you don't sing, but I'm sure he would be right to pay it if he doesn't want to do it."
Simon said Bolt was very humble and fitting in well with the Mariners.
He said the extra media attention the club had got since Bolt arrived was not a distraction.
Mariners coach Mike Mulvey welcomed the interest Bolt's presence was generating in what is normally a quiet part of the season buildup, sparsely attended by both media and fans.
"Unless you're in the UK or some parts of Europe, you don't see many big crowds for a pre-season game," Mulvey said.
"What the lads in the office are telling me, there could be 10, 12,00 people there (on Friday), that's quite unbelievable for a pre-season game."
A local paper is printing 100,000 Bolt face masks, which the man himself can expect to see plenty of on Friday.
"I think that will be weird a little bit, but I've seen a little bit of that in track and field," Bolt said.
He has been well received by the local community.
"Me and the boys, we went out for lunch and a lot of people came up and welcomed me to the coast, so I'm very happy about that," Bolt said.
Among the interested observers at Tuesday's training session at Gosford's Central Coast Stadium was television presenter and former Australian Olympic sprinter Matt Shirvington, who ran one 200 metre race against Bolt, and NSW Blues State of Origin rugby league coach Brad Fittler.
"He (Bolt) held his own, I thought he was awesome," Fittler told AAP.
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Born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Herbie Hancock is an American actor that was born. Herbert Jeffery Hancock, on April 12, 1940, Chicago, IL. He is best known as a piano player, jazz star, and a composer. He has won many Grammy Awards and has performed with many famous musicians beginning with Miles Davis in the 1960s. He achieved fame with the Mtv generation in the 1980s with his instrumental hit, "Rock it". He and his wife Gigi, have been married since 1968. Later in life, Herbie returned to fame by acting in movies such as. Hitters, Round Midnight, and "Valerarian, World of a Thousand Cities" (2017).
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Spouse (1)
Gudrun Mexines (31 August 1968 - present) ( 1 child)
Has one daughter, Jessica
He plays jazz piano, keyboards, synthesizer and is also a composer.
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.
Recipient of a Jazz Masters Award from the USA's National Endowment for the Arts in 2004.
Is named as one inspiration for the Massive Attack album "Blue Lines".
Has received ten Grammy Awards since 1983.
Collaborated with Sting, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Damien Rice and Annie Lennox for his 2005 album "Possibilities".
Converted to Soka Gakkai Buddhism (1972).
Made his stage debut with the Chicago Symphany Orchestra at the age of 11.
Die Fantastischen Vier sampled "Hang Up In Your Hang Ups" for their song "Nenn ihn Präsident" on their album "4 gewinnt".
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Hancock's jazz standard "Watermelon Man" (1962) (from debut album "Takin' Off") provided the breakthrough release of his career.
Personal Quotes (9)
[on the influence of Clare Fischer] Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
My main work is to grow and expand, and to investigate what else I'm made of besides being a musician. We all manifest ourselves in a lot of different ways. But most of us define ourselves by that one single thing that we're probably best known for. And my belief is that we shortchange ourselves in that way, whereas if we define ourselves as a human being first, it includes that and every other aspect of what we are. So when you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
[on 'The Imagine Project'] It's the 21st century, and already it's quite clear that we're at the beginning of a more global connectivity on the planet. That carries with it its own challenges. We can see that it's a very difficult world that we live in, and the idea of global collaboration is something that I think needs to be promoted over and over again. In other words, if we're active participants in creating the kind of globalized world that we want to live in and want our children to live in, there's much more of a chance for us to be happy about the future than if we sit on our hands and wait for somebody else to create the globalized future of the planet.
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. The wonderful thing is that jazz itself is a wonderful model of that kind of thinking, because it's a music that's in the moment. It's also collaborative, so it's unselfish in that way. And it certainly is creative.
Playing in stage with Mwandishi ginally the Herbie Hancock Sextet] meant treading a fine line between brilliance an chaos. Everything was intuitive, in the moment. Nothing was planned. When it worked it was so, so powerful. When it didn't, it was truthfully kind of a mess. Adding synthesizers opened up whole new territories for us to explore. It was when they came along that I saw that the dream in the back of my head of marrying two things - technology and music - could happen.
The great thing about jazz musicians is that they freely share information. By the time I got to college where I formally studied theory, I knew the stuff they were teaching me because I had learned it on the street.
I wanted to find a way to tap into the younger generation's creativity. In the city's streets and playgrounds, especially in the Bronx, people were exploring spoken-word poetry and sharp, percussive beats, combining them in a new musical form called 'rap'. This was a music revolution! It was exciting and unpredictable, [including 'scratching'] which let you change direction suddenly, cutting to another sound or groove. Exploring all these possibilities made me feel more energized than I had in years.
[on Miles Davis] He was unquestionably my favorite musician. Miles represented everything I wanted to be in jazz, though at twenty-two I couldn't imagine achieving it. He never said much about our playing. He wasn't the kind of leader who gave notes or made suggestions. We did our best, and if he didn't say anything it must have been okay. These are the cornerstones of jazz: living up to the idea of playing in the moment, and not just repeating something that you did before because the audience liked it. He would hate it if you did something just for applause. Thanks to him I discovered an unexpected love for electronic instruments that would change the way I made music.
I never chose what kind of music to make, strictly for the goal of maximizing sales. I made the music my heart led me to make - and some records sold millions of copies while some sold very few.
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Lilim is a persona of the Devil Arcana. It specializes in the Darkness element. Its default level is 10.
Lilith’s children. Like thei mother, they have sex with men at night. Their legend spread to Greece where they are known as the ‘Empusa.’
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May 15, 2013 BlaBlaBla Reply
Seriously, LOVE your IGN Guide!
But….it only goes up to May 19th….where’s the rest?
You mention here that it’s a complete guide so…what happened to the rest of it??
May 15, 2013 Hector Madrigal Reply
I didn’t do that day by day walkthrough. I did the abridged walkthrough. Check out those pages. They’re complete and everything.
July 6, 2013 Kez Fitzgerald Reply
I was disappointed as well, but then I decided to help myself to it, so I’m currently working on the day-by-day walkthrough. Since I was puzzled on what to do for a little bit, I went ahead in the game on my own, so you’ll notice that the guide will resume on May 21st. I started about a month ago, so it hasn’t gotten very far. (June 1st, right now.) Also, there is a long process of making sure I have every little aspect of the game complete, which involves creating multiple saves, multiple experiments, and sometimes, multiple playthroughs.
And of course, I have a part-time job and my parents are pleased when I have social outings. So, it may be a while before it’s “complete.”
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White nationalist Richard Spencer says Trump criticism of neo-Nazis was 'kumbaya nonsense'
The alt-right leader maintained Trump has not rejected his movement after Charlottesville bloodshed.
By Josh Robbins
Updated August 15, 2017 16:00 BST
White nationalist Richard Spencer says Donald Trump and alt-right are connected at a 'psychic level' Richard Spencer
Alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer has said that President Donald Trump's recent rebuke of white supremacists did not amount to a rejection of the alt-right movement and white nationalism in general.
Spencer came out fighting during an hour-long press briefing in which he covered the deadly events in Charlottesville this weekend and President Trump's belated condemnation of racist groups.
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Speaking on 14 August, Spencer dismissed Trump's recent criticisms of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as "kumbaya nonsense" and "silliness".
But the president of National Policy Institute, who rejects the label white supremacist, referring to himself instead as an Identitarian, maintained that his movement and Donald Trump were still fundamentally connected.
He said: "Donald Trump is not Alt-Right. He is not an identitarian. But, we were connected with Donald Trump on this kind of psychic level, where Donald Trump was a nationalist. He was the first true authentic nationalist in my lifetime."
Trump was roundly criticised in the aftermath of the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville where clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters spilled over into violence and climaxed when a car was driven into crowd killing one and injuring 19 others.
Initially, the president seemed loath to criticise the crowds that had gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
However, on Monday he appeared to succumb to pressure from across the political spectrum to condemn extreme right-wing elements that had gathered in the Virginia city.
He said: "Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs — including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."
When asked specifically about whether this statement amounted to a rejection of the alt-right, Spencer said: "I don't think he condemned it, no. Did he say 'white nationalist?' 'Racist' means an irrational hatred of people. I don't think he meant any of us.'"
Spencer also told reporters he was not ready to condemn James Fields, the 20-year-old charged with murder after allegedly ploughing into a group of counter-protests in Charlottesville on Saturday.
He said that despite judging the incident to be a "malicious act of violence" when first seeing it, additional footage had "raised doubt" in his mind as to "what exactly happened".
He added: "There are videos that show the car being attacked by baseball bats before it accelerated into the crowd." Spencer also claimed that that state officials had "blood on their hands" for failing to police the rally.
What is the alt-right?
The alt-right is a loose collection of people with far-right views that came to prominence during Donald Trump's election campaign. Many members operating online profess views related to white supremacism, nationalism, anti-feminism and Islamophobia, amongst others. There isn't a defined core ideology to the movement, aside from a rejection of America's mainstream conservatism. Alt-right members generally supported Donald Trump and hailed campaign promises to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and ban Muslims from entering the country.
With the rise of Stephen 'Steve' Bannon, who was appointed as chief strategist and counselor to the president in Trump's White House team, there are fears that the alt-right now has a voice in the Oval Office. Bannon was previously executive chairman of the Breitbart News website, which he once called "a platform for the alt-right".
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Pyongyang postpones preparatory meeting for Inter-Korean summit
Korea North Supreme leader Kim Jong-un. (File Photo: IANS) IANS
North Korea requested a one-day postponement to the working-level meeting with South Korea, initially planned to be held on Wednesday to discuss details of an inter-Korean leader summit in late April, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
The meeting has been postponed to Thursday by North Korea, which did not specify the reasons behind the delay, a spokesperson for the South Korean Unification Ministry told Efe news.
Delegations from Pyongyang and Seoul were scheduled to hold a working-level meeting on Wednesday at the militarised border to specify details on the protocol and security of the summit.
North Korea also proposed that the two Koreas hold another talk on Saturday to discuss ways to establish a direct hotline between their leaders, Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in, with the aim of facilitating preparations for the summit, according to the Ministry.
Seoul and Pyongyang have not yet publicly detailed the contents of the summit's agenda, which will be the first encounter between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea in 11 years, and also mark the first time ever that a North Korean leader sets foot on South Korean soil, as the summit is planned to be held on the southern side of the border.
South Korea will send a seven-member delegation, led by the presidential secretary on protocol, Cho Han-ki, to the upcoming working-level meeting, while the North has yet to confirm its plan to send a six-member delegation to the talks.
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The author's 20th title in this "Deborah Knott Mystery" series titled Long Upon the Land is newly released and reminds me how much I have enjoyed the character and locale over the past 24 years. Deborah has grown from the rebellious baby sister of 11 brothers and only daughter of the infamous Kezzie Knott to become an elected Judge. This is the first in this series and I am envious of those of you who start now - how delightful to find a new series, knowing many more are available.
Attorney Deborah Knott is running for district judge in good-old-boy-ruled Colleton County, N.D.
MARGARET MARON grew up in the country near Raleigh, North Carolina, but for many years lived in Brooklyn, New York. When she and her artist husband returned to the farm that had been in her family for a hundred years, she began a series based on her own background. The first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, became a Washington Post bestseller that swept the major mystery awards for its year-winning the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for Best Novel-and is among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Later Deborah Knott novels Up Jumps the Devil, Storm Track, and Three-Day Town each also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Margaret is also the author of the Sigrid Harald series of detective novels. In 2008, Maron received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the highest civilian honor the state bestows on its authors. And in 2013, the Mystery Writers of America celebrated Maron's contributions to the mystery genre by naming her a Grand Master-an honor first bestowed on Agatha Christie. To find out more about her, you can visit MargaretMaron.com.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Hardcover (May 1992): $28.99
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Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-a-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon. Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustable styles into their ever evolving sound, to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style.
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Directed by Alexander Korda, Starring Alexander Korda, Edward Chapman, Roger Livesey, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Marius Goring
Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored an international success with the 1933 quasi-biopic The Private Life of Henry VIII, they couldn't make the magic happen again with 1936's Rembrandt. Laughton's performance is solid throughout, and Korda's recreation of Rembrandt's Holland is meticulous, but the film suffers from a lack of overall dramatic tension. Except for his artistic achievements and the deaths of his two wives, nothing really "happens" to Rembrandt--at least nothing as colorful as the escapades of Henry VIII. The best element of the film is the successful effort by cinematographer Georges Perinal to recreate the famous "Rembrandt lighting" effect in each scene. Laughton is given fine support by Elsa Lanchester (his real-life wife), and by legendary stage star Gertrude Lawrence in a rare film role. Hal Erickson, Rovi
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Sramana Mitra, Contributor
Founder, 1Mby1M
Artificial Intelligence - Just Because We Can, Should We?
As a technologist, Artificial Intelligence fascinates me. It always has, since the beginning of my forays into Computer Science. I did two startups in the nineties, at the heart of which were AI-driven innovations.
The world's recent embrace of AI, thus, also fascinates me.
Driverless cars are all the rage these days. Uber is chomping at the bit to replace the headache of having to pay anything at all to their drivers, having driven the labor cost down already to the minimum. Drivers still cost them 75% of the fare.
Yes. An entire profession of drivers of trucks, taxis, buses and such are about to get wiped out.
Zack Canter has written a thoughtful piece on his blog titled How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million Jobs and Reshape the Economy by 2025:
A Columbia University study suggested that with a fleet of just 9,000 autonomous cars, Uber could replace every taxi cab in New York City - passengers would wait an average of 36 seconds for a ride that costs about $0.50 per mile. Such convenience and low cost will make car ownership inconceivable, and autonomous, on-demand taxis - the 'transportation cloud' - will quickly become dominant form of transportation - displacing far more than just car ownership, it will take the majority of users away from public transportation as well. With their $41 billion valuation, replacing all 171,000 taxis in the United States is well within the realm of feasibility - at a cost of $25,000 per car, the rollout would cost a mere $4.3 billion.
The effects of the autonomous car movement will be staggering. PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the number of vehicles on the road will be reduced by 99%, estimating that the fleet will fall from 245 million to just 2.4 million vehicles.
Ancillary industries such as the $198 billion automobile insurance market, $98 billion automotive finance market, $100 billion parking industry, and the $300 billion automotive aftermarket will collapse as demand for their services evaporates.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists that 884,000 people are employed in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, and an additional 3.02 million in the dealer and maintenance network. Truck, bus, delivery, and taxi drivers account for nearly 6 million professional driving jobs. Virtually all of these 10 million jobs will be eliminated within 10-15 years, and this list is by no means exhaustive.
Sobering thoughts, even if it happens not by 2025 but by 2050.
There is no doubt that Uber would want self-driving cars to become legal as soon as it is technologically viable and safe. That eventuality is not that far off in the future.
There is, however, another obstacle on that path of self-driving cars: regulation.
Governments will have to legalize this innovation before this transformation can begin.
Uber and others who stand to gain from this movement will present the following case, also, succinctly articulated by Zack:
Morgan Stanley estimates that a 90% reduction in crashes would save nearly 30,000 lives and prevent 2.12 million injuries annually. Driverless cars do not need to park - vehicles cruising the street looking for parking spots account for an astounding 30% of city traffic, not to mention that eliminating curbside parking adds two extra lanes of capacity to many city streets. Traffic will become nonexistent, saving each US commuter 38 hours every year - nearly a full workweek. As parking lots and garages, car dealerships, and bus stations become obsolete, tens of millions of square feet of available prime real estate will spur explosive metropolitan development.
The environmental impact of autonomous cars has the potential to reverse the trend of global warming and drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Passenger cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans account for 17.6% of greenhouse gas emissions - a 90% reduction of vehicles in operation would reduce our overall emissions by 15.9%. As most autonomous cars are likely to be electric, we would virtually eliminate the 134 billion of gasoline used each year in the US alone. And while recycling 242 million vehicles will certainly require substantial resources, the surplus of raw materials will decrease the need for mining.
Compelling case. Do you buy it?
Unlike the case with certain AI-driven areas like factory automation that lead to elimination of manufacturing jobs, the self-driven car phenomenon actually has a regulatory hurdle. While the government cannot dictate the level of automation at a factory, it can decide not to make self-driving cars legal.
So, if you were the Government, what would you do?
Note: There are other areas where the Government has power to legalize or not AI-driven automation, one of them being robotic surgery. This post aims to stir thought on policy that will shape society of our future.
Photo credit: Lars Plougmann/Flickr.com.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Contributor
Author, The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press, 2015)
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent with liberal democracy. That there is no alternative.
A little over thirty years ago, before most of us millennials were born, President Ronald Reagan prophesied that what alternatives there were would be consigned to the "ash-heap of history" by the "march of freedom and democracy." With the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism would emerge triumphant, presaging, in the immortal words of Francis Fukuyama, "the end of history as such: that is...the universalization of Western liberal democracy."
Four years ago this month, the partisans of freedom and democracy were on the march once more, from the streets of Cairo to the Wisconsin state capitol. Within months, youthful protesters would occupy the squares of a thousand cities, demanding "real democracy now" and declaring an end to the end of history. The occupations would become focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity and restricted democracy.
As it happened, it was not the Communist Party, but the Tea Party and the party of Wall Street that would stand in their way. Reagan's logic, it seemed, had been turned on its head. Capitalism no longer stood for democracy. On the contrary, capital could not stand democracy.
From the financial crisis of 2008 to the present era of political paralysis, the path to democratic reform has been blocked at every turn. Between Wall Street and Washington, Congress and the courts, state houses and city halls, the will of the many has been subordinated to the will of the few (as it has been, sadly, for much of our history as a nation).
As study after study has shown, politicians are far more attuned to the whims of the wealthy than they are to the will of the other 99 percent. A recent analysis of 1,779 policy outcomes by two leading political scientists found that, in the United States today, "the majority does not rule," and that, "when a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites...they generally lose," causing the authors to question the claim that ours is a democratic society.
The class bias of American politics has not only cost us our democracy. It has also cost us our jobs, our health, and our security. For years, the recovery was crippled by the politics of austerity, as a bipartisan coalition took a butcher's knife to the public sector, and as balanced budgets took precedence over basic needs. The public option was taken off the table before the public even had a chance to debate it. Financial reform was gutted, then gutted again by unreformed bankers, together with their armies of lobbyists and their allies in the legislature.
Participation in the political process has been increasingly restricted to those with the means to participate, namely, money, time, and a photo ID. Given the constraints--and the disconnect between electoral politics and people's everyday lives--it should come as no surprise that we have seen seven years of declining voter participation. Nor should it come as a surprise that the decline has been disproportionately concentrated among the young, the non-wealthy, and the non-white.
Meanwhile, the organizations that used to represent ordinary people--unions--have beaten a retreat in the face of the business offensive. Union membership has plummeted to its lowest level in 70 years, leaving workers unrepresented and corporate power unchecked. Fewer than 1 in 9 Americans are in a union, even though more than half of them say they would join one if they could. There is no more telling statistic about the democratic deficit in this country.
The contradiction between capitalism and democracy is already becoming a live issue on the campaign trail. Some in the Clinton campaign are seeking to lure the critics back to the fold with elusive promises of a more "inclusive capitalism" (as Larry Summers likes to call it). Others, such as the self-proclaimed Occupy Democrats, look to Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to save democracy from the power of the "1 percent." Still others look longingly for an American Tsipras, a third-party challenger who can change the game for good.
But there are no easy fixes within the framework of the present political system, in which the market is king, money is speech and dollars speak louder than words.
New interviews with forty young activists involved in the 99 Percent movement reveal an overwhelming sense of disenchantment with our political system. If they are not voting, they say, it is because they are living, not in a liberal democracy, but in a "plutocracy" or "corporatocracy," in which "money controls politics" and "corporations buy elections."
As one of the occupiers put it to me, "You reach a certain point where the people who have been elected to represent you don't represent you anymore. And it is really just beneath our dignity to continue to beg for the politicians to listen to us and not to their campaign donors."
The crisis of liberal democracy has led many young Americans to vote with their feet and to take to the streets in nonviolent protest, from the Occupy moment of 2011-12 to the Black Lives Matter movement of 2014. But here, too, as I document in my new book, they have found the path to reform blocked, this time by the batons and the rubber bullets of militarized police forces--always a reliable last line of defense for elites who have lost their legitimacy.
In the process, the rights of the public to peaceably assemble and to petition for redress of grievances have become rights in name only. Public servants, police commissioners, and private security contractors have conspired to create "frozen zones" in America's cities--places where the Bill of Rights is suspended, civil liberties superseded, and the most innocuous act of protest met with military-grade weaponry. Democracy cannot thrive where the demos cannot breathe.
If structural reform proves impossible, then American capitalism will prove incompatible with liberal democracy. In that event, the millennial generation--the generation that birthed Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter--is likely to become further radicalized.
Yet Americans need not fear the new radicalism, for it may be the last, best hope for democracy in America. Just as the Wobblies did for the Progressive movement a century ago, and as the Reds did for the New Deal coalition during the Great Depression, the radicals could give the reformers the leverage they need to defend democracy from the ravages of corporate rule. But first we will have to reclaim the basic rights that make such a democracy possible.
We have been living all our lives under the dictatorship of the free market. But that tyranny may have finally found a worthy adversary in the radically democratic politics of a new generation.
Originally published on Salon.com.
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Home >> Tax Law and Taxation
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Israeli tax law has many traps that require the management of a company, particularly publicly traded companies, to carefully review the tax consequences of almost every transaction and/or action of the company over its life span. For example, distribution of a dividend may be exempt from taxation if the recipient is an Israeli resident company and taxable if the recipient is an individual or a non-Israeli resident, whether an individual or a corporation. Accordingly, before taking any action or accepting any major resolutions, it is advisable to consult with a tax expert with regard to the tax aspects of the proposed action.
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Our law firm is advising our clients on the various possible structures, the advantages and disadvantages of each structure in light of the particular circumstances of the contemplated transaction and the tax attributes of the client and recommend on the most beneficial way of doing the deal. We have a vast experience in designing, structuring and doing M&A transactions and may provide our clients with a thorough review of the Israeli tax aspects.
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Non Israeli resident investors may be fully exempt from capital gains tax in Israel commencing from 2009. However, the structure of their investment may substantially affect their tax consequences in their country of residence. In addition, the proper structure of financing of the investment may be important and may have substantial impact on the tax aspects depending on whether the investor's country of residence is a party to a tax treaty with Israel or not.
Our law firm advises our client on the proper structure of their investment in Israel, including the form of the investment, whether partnership (general of limited), joint venture or a limited company; We further assist our client in structuring the financing of the investment as equity or loan and provide in general the guidelines of how to do the investment with a minimal exposure to Israeli taxation.
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Under Israeli tax law a partnership is a pass through entity. The taxation is imposed on the partners and not on the partnership whose profits, loses and expenditures are allocated to the partners. There are special tax regulations that provide certain tax benefits to partnerships involved in petroleum oil and gas exploration in order to provide an incentive to investors in such partnerships.
Our firm has represented in the tax matters most of the oil and gas partnerships traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. We provide these partnerships with on going tax advice on their taxation, including legal opinion on the tax aspects when the partnership raises funds on the stock exchange and a pre ruling from the Israeli Taxation Authority as to the tax consequences of the partnership which is a condition for going public and later when the partnership wishes to raise additional funds.
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Dr. Zeev Holender holds S.J.D from Harvard Law School, done the field of taxation of M&A's, and has served as a lecturer in taxation and corporate taxation at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University as well as at other universities and colleges in Israel
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Tom Petty's Former Encino Home Lists for $5 Million
12:20 PM PDT 5/17/2018 by Peter Kiefer
Courtesy Photo; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
Petty called the house on Encino Way his home for more than two decades.
When renovating the former home of a rock legend like Tom Petty, one is likely to encounter some peculiar amenities. The house on Encino Way, which Petty called home for more than two decades and which is now back on the market for $5 million, did not disappoint.
"There is still a secret ladder that connected the costume room to the master suite," says Jenna Mattison, who recently completed an 11-month overhaul of the 11,483-square-foot home. The exact reason for the ladder is unknown, but rumor has it that Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks would hole up in the costume area for brief stints.
"Every inch of that house had to be reinvented and redesigned. It wasn't a disaster in that it was dilapidated, but it was definitely rock star bizarre," says Mattison, a film director who has a side hustle flipping homes. Mattison, along with her partner Donald Woolhouse, purchased the home out of foreclosure last year for $2.6 million and when they first walked in were struck by the leopard skin carpets and neon-blue tiling. "You definitely knew someone very eccentric had lived there."
It's impossible to tell from the staging photos, but the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home that includes a special guest quarters survived everything from an arson attack, a foreclosure and a SWAT team invasion. And those are just the things that we know about.
Early one morning in 1987, Petty and his family were eating breakfast when an arsonist lit the wooden staircase on fire. Almost everything burned down except for the basement recording studio. The house was promptly rebuilt in a style that resembled a mountain cabin.
Petty's first wife, Jane Benyo, acquired the home in their 1996 divorce settlement. JPMorgan Chase would later foreclose on the home, but before it did, the property was reportedly rented out to a party planner who held a series of raucous parties there, which drew the ire of local neighbors. When the bank took possession of the home, a SWAT team was required to evict the tenant, who had refused to leave the premises and threatened the authorities.
The home sits on an enormous 38,000-square-foot lot and has a swimming pool and waterfall along with ample outdoor space and a nine-car garage.
"It's a really unique home, and you have to be a bit of a genius to get it," says Mattison. "It won't be for the average family with a Volvo in the garage. The person buying this house is probably going to be a creative type."
The home is being listed by The Agency's Craig Knizek and Ninkey Dalton, and for the those curious about a little slice of L.A. rock and roll history, the open house starts on Saturday.
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Profile in School Reform: Terry Moe
by Emily Esfahani Smith
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Sitting in his book-lined office at the Hoover Institution, overlooking Stanford University’s handsome campus, education guru Terry Moe bluntly tells me, "Most political science has no impact on anything."
Moe, by the way, has been a member of Stanford’s political science faculty for over twenty years, and is a political scientist by training.
But his unpredictable academic path—lined with history’s serendipitous accidents, mountains of empirical data, and, of course, painstaking work—is not one completely devoted to political science. Rather, Moe has achieved scholarly stardom with the work he has done on K-12 education: he is one of the leading experts on education reform in the country.
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Recalling the early tension between his education work and his political science work, he says, "When I’m on my death bed looking back on my life, I suspect I’ll regard the most important things I’ve done with my career as those having to do with education—because they have actually had some sort of impact on the world."
One of the bullet points on that list will be Moe’s new book. He shows me, with noticeable excitement, a bound galley of Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools.
"Most political science has no impact on anything."
"I’ve been working on this for years." It is his masterpiece, an A-Z on teachers unions that has just been published. Explaining the thrust of his book, Moe emphatically tells me that "The teachers unions are the main reason why the quarter-century-long movement to reform this nation’s schools has been such a disappointment."
But in the decades ahead, Moe says with conviction, that obstacle will eventually be removed. In the concluding chapter of his book, he explains that there are important political forces at work these days—Race to the Top, for example, and a burst of reformist sentiment within the Democratic Party—that are putting the teachers unions on the defensive. He argues that the decisive blow to union power will not come from inside the education or political systems, but rather from an outside force whose magnitude is so great and so overwhelming that the unions cannot fend it off.
That force is the revolution in information technology: a revolution that is fast transforming human society throughout the world—and is about to invade and transform American public education. One major impact: the eventual dissolution of teachers unions, the largest and most powerful impediment to school reform. The other impact? Well, do not be alarmed if your child comes home from school and gleefully announces that he spent his day playing "games" on a school computer.
If you ask Terry Moe where he’s from, his line is that "I didn’t grow up anywhere. My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved a lot." Moe spent his youth in states as varied as Tennessee, Indiana, California, and Alabama. But one theme that persisted through his childhood, and which of course stayed with him in his later years, was politics: "I’ve been interested in politics my whole life. My dad was very interested in politics too. When I was just a little guy, I was following President Eisenhower, national politics, the Cold War, and the Soviet Union—and trying to talk to my dad about these things."
Moe was also a little guy when school choice arguably received its official debut on the American scene in 1955. In that year, Milton Friedman made an early proposal for a voucher system in "The Role of Government in Education" (followed in 1962 by his more widely read Capitalism and Freedom). "From that point on, during the sixties and seventies," Moe says, "there was some discussion of vouchers, but not a whole lot."
Meanwhile, as Moe was finishing up high school in the early sixties, his father was sent to Vietnam, and his family moved to Southern California—San Diego specifically. He eventually attended the public university in town, intent on studying political science. But he explains, "UCSD didn’t have a political science department in the late 1960s. It was a new campus at that time. So I majored in economics instead—and as it turned out, I got a great background in rational choice theory and quantitative analysis, which provide a great foundation for studying political science."
In 1971, after he graduated from UCSD, Moe enrolled in a doctoral program in political science at the University of Minnesota. "It was a struggle in the beginning. Even though I knew a lot about the substance of politics, I knew nothing about political science as an academic field." But he found his way at Minnesota and eventually met a fellow student there who has since become his friend and longtime colleague, John Chubb.
Moe believes that the unions’ days are numbered.
Moe earned his PhD in 1976, with a dissertation that explored the membership and organizational foundations of political interest groups. The Organization of Interests was later published in 1980 by the University of Chicago Press.
As Moe was entering into the world of academia, there was one specific interest group that was organizing itself and gaining some serious traction: the teachers unions. Walking me through the history of the reform movement, he tells me, "Unions were not a force in public education prior to 1960. But starting in the sixties, the states started to change their laws—authorizing and promoting collective bargaining—and this is when unions began to get established and become powerful."
Moe explains that it started in New York City, but quickly spread to other states: "The American Federation of Teachers wanted to organize teachers all across the country—and the National Education Association, which until then had just been a professional association, needed to decide whether to transform itself into a union and compete with the AFT for membership. That, of course, is what it chose to do."
"The two organizations competed for 15 to 20 years, and when the dust settled in 1980 or so, public education was thoroughly unionized. Collective bargaining was the norm, and unions were by far the most powerful force in public education. The result was a fundamentally different kind of education system, with the teachers unions as its chief spokesmen and defenders."
That said, in the early 1980s, Moe was not too concerned with teachers unions, nor with education—but that would all change very soon.
After working at Michigan State University for five years, Moe returned to California for a job at Stanford in 1981. His old friend, John Chubb, was in Stanford’s political science department too. Moe recalls that in those days, Chubb was researching political bureaucracies. "He had done some work on how federal grants are made to the states and his focus had been on education. He kept telling me ‘why don’t we do something together’ and I kept saying, ‘I’m not interested in education.’" Moe resisted Chubb’s siren call, focusing his scholarship on topics like the presidency, bureaucracies, and political institutions more generally. "I wasn’t an education guy," he explains.
"The school choice movement was not much of a movement until 1980, when two important things happened..."
Right at that same time, Chubb became involved with a group of education scholars from around the country, including a small group at Stanford, who were involved in designing an enormous national survey of high schools, students, teachers, and administrators. Reluctantly, Moe decided to join the project, "so that John and I would have an opportunity to work together. We weren’t quite sure what direction we were going in, but from the outset we thought we would probably explore differences between private and public schools and try to understand why those differences were occurring."
While Moe and Chubb were crunching the numbers from their survey, "in 1984, we both got jobs at Brookings," the Washington DC-based think tank. Paul Peterson, the education scholar who was then head of Government Studies at Brookings, hired the duo. Today, all three of them serve on Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 education.
History was converging because it was in those years that the choice movement was picking up steam after hanging in the air for the decades since Friedman’s pronouncement on vouchers. "During the sixties and seventies, the school choice movement was not much of a movement," Moe tells me. "But that all changed in 1980 when two important things happened. One is that, when Ronald Reagan became president, attitudes towards markets, choice, and competition became much more favorable."
The second was the publication of "A Nation At Risk," a report detailing the rising tide of mediocrity in America’s schools. The tenor of the report, Moe says, "was that the performance of the nation’s education system was a serious problem and something needed to be done about it." Recall that it was in the 1980s that the teachers unions reached the zenith of a wave of power that they have been riding ever since.
Moe sees an irony in this: "Unions achieved this position of extraordinary power at about the same time that 'A Nation At Risk' came out. It was a weird confluence of historical events: just when the nation realized it needed to significantly improve its public schools, the unions were in a position to stop reform. This is why education reform has failed: because it occurred at a time when unions could prevent it."
But there was a third event that would color the future of the reform movement. Nearly a decade after starting the education project with Chubb—"it just took forever to complete our analysis, and in the meantime our ideas had evolved considerably," says Moe—the two of them published a seminal book in 1990 called Politics, Markets and America’s Schools, a book about "why the public school system was not performing well" and why reforms aimed at fixing it were unlikely to succeed.
"Just when the nation realized it needed to significantly improve its public schools, the unions were in a position to stop reform. This is why education reform has failed."
According to a summary of the book, "The fundamental causes of poor academic performance…are not to be found in the schools, but rather in the institutions of direct democratic control by which the schools have traditionally been governed"—institutions which the unions hold in their tight, iron grasp. The solution to this problem, the book argued, is an approach to reform that gives schools much more autonomy and parents much more choice.
The publication of Politics, Markets and America’s Schools, Moe observes, "basically changed my life."
To say that the book rocked the education work would be an understatement. It gave school choice advocates the kick they needed to take off as a real movement, synthesizing a body of thought that lawmakers and policymakers could actually implement. "There was a big conference for the book and a lot of news coverage. I never expected we’d receive so much attention. Everyone was reporting that the book would give the choice movement a big boost."
Moe goes on, "It’s one of those accidents of history, but the book came out at exactly the right time." In 1990, the same year Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools came out, the first American voucher program was adopted in Milwaukee. "What happened in Milwaukee," Moe tells me, "was stunning because it was a revolt of poor people, who were demanding the right to escape from the abysmal public schools in their city. Up to that point, vouchers had always been associated with Milton Friedman and conservatives. But from then on, vouchers were about bringing equity to the poor."
Then in 1991, Minnesota became the first state to adopt charter school legislation. These two achievements, although limited in scope, were monumentally symbolic. "Before 1990, school choice involved magnet schools or choosing between public schools. But now, with these new victories by the choice movement, parents were allowed to choose alternatives that were not under the control of school districts at all. Charter schools and private schools were highly autonomous compared to regular public schools. And they were almost always nonunion."
This spelled bad news for the unions, which were concerned about the impact these reforms would have on their membership numbers—and thus on their finances and their power. "At this point, the reform movement became a serious political threat to the unions and the traditional system they sought to protect." The unions responded by using their formidable power in the political process to block or weaken charter school and voucher legislation, to thwart accountability standards for teachers, and to maintain their stronghold over the educational establishment.
But Moe believes that the unions’ days are numbered. In the twenty years since Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools was published, and especially in recent years, Moe has devoted a portion of his research time to a study of the revolutionary impact technology will have on the classroom—and on the educational establishment. "The effects of technology stand to be so far-ranging and profound that the unions are literally trying to stop it. It threatens their jobs—and ultimately their power."
The publication of Politics, Markets and America’s Schools, Moe observes, "basically changed my life."
He goes on, "in the final analysis, what technology requires is a substitution of technology for human labor. Computers will do a lot of what teachers do now." Jumping forward in his chair, he lights up: "Technology is cheap. Labor is really expensive. Education has always been very labor intensive, so if our education system can substitute technology for labor and still provide kids with high quality education, then great!"
Moe explains that technology will fundamentally change the politics of education. "In the future, we will have fewer teachers per student. This means fewer union members per student. Also, teachers don’t have to be concentrated in the same geographic place—because when students do their learning online, their teachers can be anywhere. This fragmentation and dispersion will make it harder for unions to organize."
Another blow to unions will be the myriad of choices families will have: "There will be state-level virtual schools. There will be virtual charter schools. And there will be hybrid schools: where kids actually attend a physical school in a geographic place, but take perhaps 80 percent of their coursework online. Most schools of the future, I suspect, will be hybrids."
This revolution in education technology is already underway. Consider PA Cyber, an online charter school in Pennsylvania that was set up some ten years ago as an alternative high school for the students of Midland, Pennsylvania. The district was expecting fewer than 50 students to enroll—but by opening day, an astounding 500 had done so. Today, the school enrolls 8,000 students, graduates 1,000 of them yearly, meets all federal achievement standards—and does all of this with a student/teacher ratio of 35:1. The money it saves on labor it reinvests in technology.
One reason PA Cyber has been so effective is that an online education allows a student to work at his own pace. In virtual schools, computer visuals and audios walk students through a lesson on math or reading, and are completely tailored to the students’ academic needs. Via exercises the computer has the student perform, and other interactive features, the computer is able to gauge whether the student can move at a quicker rate, or needs to review some fundamental concepts from the lesson.
These are the themes of the latest book that Moe has co-authored with Chubb titled Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education, which was published in 2009.
Typically, critics of virtual education voice two major concerns. The first is whether it will be as effective as a traditional one. The second concern has to do with whether students receive less attention from their teachers, since there will be fewer teachers per student.
"Technology will provide the biggest boost to school choice that has ever occurred in the history of education."
Addressing the first point, Moe notes that more than a decade of research shows that virtual education is as effective as traditional education—even though computer learning is still in its infancy.
He adds that he would also expect virtual schooling to be especially consequential for social equity. "Take the kids who are doomed to go to school in downtown Detroit, where many of the schools are failing and many of the teaches are inadequate. Well, with virtual learning, these kids can have access to the best curriculum the world has to offer—and the best teachers too—precisely because technology makes geography and physicality irrelevant." In other words, the kind of education a student receives is not dependent on whether the student is from the inner city. Wherever they are, they can have the best.
As to the second critique, Moe assures me that "for most of these computer programs, there are teachers. The teachers may not be in the room, but they are still connected electronically with their students, and are interacting with them. The teachers, moreover, are in a position to know a great deal about every aspect of their students’ learning process: when they are logged in, what material they have covered, what questions they got right and wrong, and more. The teachers can be in frequent contact with their students; they can also be in contact with parents. And the students in virtual classes will often have email, chat, and other kinds of interactions with one another—perhaps many more interactions than they might have in a regular classroom setting."
In the case of hybrid schools, there will be real live teachers at the school. "Let’s say a third-grade kid is taking math from an online learning program. The computer is doing most of the teaching, and that frees the teacher up—to be a tutor, to address questions and problems, to provide support, and to enhance the learning experience in other ways."
Beyond that, education may become more fun. "What is happening is that you have a lot of smart people in the education technology business saying, ‘ok how can we create a computer program that teaches U.S. history to fourth graders or math to second graders in a way that will hold their interest, motivate them, and get them excited about learning?’ It’s not a question of just teaching the material, but of making it engaging and fun. How do you keep kids interested? The answer may be video games. It may involve more visuals, more action, brighter and different colors. Compare that to 30 kids sitting in a classroom for forty minutes watching a teacher at the chalkboard."
In 1990, when Politics, Markets and America’s Schools was published, Moe had declared that the school reform movement was likely to prove a failure. These days, he is more optimistic. "Technology will provide the biggest boost to school choice that has ever occurred in the history of education. Unions are trying their best to see that this revolution never happens, and that the traditional system is preserved—but they will ultimately fail."
He concludes saying, "The revolution in information technology is historic in its magnitude and sweep, and far too powerful for the unions to hold back. There will be virtual options. The unions can delay it. They can dilute it. They can stand in the way. But they can’t stop technology from seeping in—and as it seeps in and continues to grow and develop and take root, it will change education as we know it. It may take twenty years, but it will happen. And that’s a very good thing—good for education, good for children, good for the nation."
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Civil servant gets mortgage debt halved to €160,000 after court told of husband's gambling addiction
Tim Healy
February 11 2019 4:36 PM
A personal insolvency arrangement, involving a €343,785 mortgage debt being written down by more than half, has been approved by the High Court for a woman who ran into mortgage arrears due to her husband's gambling problem.
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Permanent TSB had objected to the PIA, insisting the proposed writedown to €160,000, the current agreed market value of the woman’s home, was “draconian”
Mr Justice Denis McDonald said the woman, a public servant in her forties with net monthly earnings of some €2,900, is separated from her husband and lives with their teenage daughter in the family home.
She had said in a sworn statement her ex-husband moved to the UK in 2015 and makes no contribution towards mortgage repayments or child maintenance.
The couple jointly bought the house in 2005 with a PTSB loan and the woman experienced financial difficulty for the first time in 2007.
She said her husband developed a gambling addiction and borrowed €7,000 from “loan sharks” to place bets.
His debt became too much to repay, the people from whom he borrowed applied increasing pressure for repayment and she borrowed from her sister to do so.
Her husband’s gambling problem became worse and she fell into arrears with the mortgage repayments and incurred other debts.
PTSB took proceedings against her in the Circuit Court and her Personal Insolvency Practitioner proposed a PIA under which the mortgage debt would be reduced to €160,000.
The €173,785 balance would be treated as unsecured debt and PTSB, and a credit union owed some €3,752, would each get a dividend of 8 cent in the euro of that.
At the end of the PIA’s six year term, the rest of the unsecured debt would be written off.
PTSB voted against the PIA and the credit union voted in favour.
After the Circuit Court rejected PTSB’s objection to the PIA, it appealed to the High Court.
Mr Justice McDonald, in a recently published judgment, held the PIA did not unfairly prejudice PTSB.
He stressed there can be “no question” of any automatic write down of a mortgage debt to the value of the underlying security and the extent of any write down of secured debt is related to affordability.
He had concluded, “with some hesitation”, there was just about enough evidence to allow him find the woman was unlikely to be able to afford larger mortgage repayments than the €900 provided for in the PIA and thus to conclude the proposed write down “is not excessive”.
The form of “warehousing” of the secured debt proposed by PTSB was not appropriate because it would mean a large debt for the woman at retirement age, he held.
It was a “fallacy” for PTSB to suggest that everything above the Insolvency Service of Ireland’s reasonable living expenses can be treated as surplus to the woman’s needs, he said.
The woman’s daughter hopes to go to college and the woman would be doing very well to keep monthly college costs to €550, he said.
While details about possible salary increases for the woman should have been set out, the failure to do so was “not fatal” because, as a public servant, any increases were likely to be “extremely modest”. The court was not entitled, at this stage, to have regard to her pension entitlements.
He agreed with PTSB too little detail was provided by the woman’s PIP concerning her means and expenditure and stressed there must be “clear evidence” in future cases as to how writedowns have been calculated.
PTSB’s own evidence in the Circuit Court also fell short of making the case it was now making, that the PIP was relying on wholly unsupported and general sworn statements “of a template nature” concerning income and expenditure.
He said PTSB would do better from the PIA than in a bankruptcy; has protection if the house is sold in the future at a value higher than the agreed market value and can pursue the woman’s husband over the mortgage debt.
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Alton Sterling, Father of Five, Murdered by Police in Baton Rouge
by Democracy Now!
Thursday Jul 7th, 2016 1:08 PM
Hundreds gathered for a vigil last night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to honor father of five Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police early Tuesday morning, July 5. Sterling was a 37-year-old African-American. The two officers involved are both white. Bystander video shows Sterling was pinned to the ground when he was fatally shot. The Justice Department has announced it will investigate the killing. Sterling’s death has sparked two days of protests in Baton Rouge, as well as protests last night in Ferguson, Missouri, and Philadelphia, where activists were arrested for blocking Interstate 676. For more we speak with Louisiana State Representative Ted James and artist and activist Donney Rose. Speaking about the Department of Justice investigation, Ted James said: "The federal government has responded in record time. I guess the sad part is, it has happened so many times that the federal government and states know what to do when police officers murder black man in their community." (Triple S Food Mart owner Abdullah Muflahi's video below)
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Alton Sterling, Father of Five, Murdered by Police Two Months After "Blue Lives Matter" Bill Signed
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Vigils are continuing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to remember Alton Sterling who was fatally shot by police early Tuesday morning. Sterling was a 37-year-old African-American, father of five. The two officers involved are both white. Bystander video shows Sterling was pinned to the ground when he was fatally shot. Sterling is at least the 38th person killed by Louisiana police since 2015. The Justice Department has announced it will investigate the killing, which has sparked two days of protests. At least two bystanders filmed the shooting on their cell phones. New video posted online Wednesday was filmed by Abdullah Muflahi who owns the convenience store where Sterling was killed. A warning to our TV audience, the footage you are about to see is very graphic.
ALTON STERLING: Please, come on. Don’t [beep].
POLICE OFFICER: He’s got a gun. Gun. Hey bro, you [beep] move, I swear to god.
[shouting]
[gun shots]
POLICE OFFICER: Get on the ground.
BYSTANDER: What was that for man?
POLICE OFFICER: [indiscernable] shots fired, shots fired. [beep]
AMY GOODMAN: The officers involved, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, have been placed on paid administrative leave. In 2014, Lake was placed on paid leave after being involved in the shooting of another African-American man, Kevin Knight. On Wednesday, Alton Sterling’s family addressed the media. This is Quinyetta McMillan, the mother of Sterling’s son, Cameron. At the beginning of the press conference, the 15-year-old Cameron consoled his mother as she spoke. But after a few minutes, he broke down into the arms of supporters standing behind the two of them.
QUINYETTA MCMILLAN: Alton Sterling, regardless if you knew him or not, he is not what the mass media is making him out to be. This is a play to try and obscure the image of a man who’s simply trying to earn a living. To take care of his children. With that being said, the individuals involved in his murder took away a man with children who depended upon their daddy on a daily basis. My son is not the youngest. He is the oldest of his siblings. He is 15 years old. He had to watch this as this was put all over the outlets. And everything that was possible to be shown. As some may know, Alton sold CDs, and was doing just that. Not bothering anyone. And had the consent of the store owners as well. And then the events that recorded during the two officers, that this event would not go unjustice.
CONFERENCE ATTENDEE: That’s right.
QUINYETTA MCMILLAN: It would not go unnoticed, especially for the future.
CONFERENCE ATTENDEE: No justice, no peace.
QUINYETTA MCMILLAN: I, for one, will not rest or not allow him to be swept in the dirt.
AMY GOODMAN: That’s Quinyetta McMillan ,the mother of Alton Sterling’s 15-year-old boy Cameron, who broke down and was held and supported by the people at the news conference. As we go to Baton Rouge where we’re joined by two guests. Edward "Ted" James is a Louisiana State Representative whose district includes part of East Baton Rouge Parish. And Donney Rose is with us, poet, activist, and youth development worker with Forward Arts, a non-profit youth spoken word program in Baton Rouge. We welcome you both to Democracy Now!. Ted James, let’s start with you. Your reaction to what has taken place and to what the police and the governor has said since? But first, talk about what you understand happened to Alton Sterling.
REP. EDWARD "TED" JAMES: To my understanding, both videos speak for themselves and Alton was a man that was well respected, well known in the community. He was there with the consent of the store owner selling CDs as he has done many days and many nights on that same street, the street on which I grew up and spent many, many years. And before Alton was shot and killed, he was tackled against the car. He was tased several times, and then he was murdered, as you see depicted in the two videos. I can’t even watch the second one. Just sitting here listening to the audio, it frightens me to even hear it.
The community, I will tell you, has shown an outpouring of support for the family. I’m extremely proud of the work that we have been able to do through our governor here. The federal government has responded in record time. You hadn’t seen that across the country, and it speaks to the level of — I guess the sad part is, it’s happened so many times that the federal government and states know what to do when police officers murder black men in their community. So the governor’s office reached out. There was a lot of coordination between our congressional representative Cedric Richmond and those local leaders on the ground. the federal government is here now taking over the investigation, which many of us called for — that was the first thing that we asked for, independent investigation. That’s only one small step. We don’t want the federal government to just investigate. We want them to do a thorough investigation. We don’t want any stone unturned. And as the family has continued to pray with us, they want justice and we want to see justice for Alton Sterling as well.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And Donney Rose, can you talk about your reaction to Alton Sterling’s killing, and also about the Blue Lives Matter bill which was just signed into law in May?
DONNEY ROSE: My reaction was definitely one of devastation. It was traumatic to watch the videos. I initially saw the first video — I watched it with apprehension and then I watched the second video and it was even more horrifying. Tragic — unfortunately, there are certain precedents that had taken place prior to this killing that almost set — set the stage for it. So, a few months back, a young man was beaten by police officers at an Earth Day Festival.
And then in reference to the Blue Lives Matter bill, which essentially makes killing a first responder or police officer a hate crime, it puts the precedent over the lives of — puts the precedent of the lives of officers over those of regular civilians. So, there’s almost a level of lawlessness that’s at play that is not — that goes unchecked. And so, it’s devastating that our community is now present-day Baltimore, is [Ferguson], New York City, and even now is also aligned with St. Paul and what’s going out there.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go through, State Representative Ted James, the timeline. We’re talking about, what was it, 12:35 Tuesday morning, so this is Monday night into Tuesday morning. The police say they get a call from an anonymous person that someone has brandished a gun. Now, the police move up. They —-what do you understand happened at this point? Now, we hear this differently in New York than people here and around the country because you have, what, open carry laws? You can carry guns in Louisiana? Like, when we hear it, it’s a totally different -— since we have what’s going on when a civilian is holding a gun.
REP. EDWARD "TED" JAMES: Yes, we, we do have open carry in, in Louisiana. Louisiana, you know, a lot of my colleagues, you know, probably proclaim that we are the most pro-gun state in the country. But when a black man is carrying a gun, he is always perceived as a criminal. And we still don’t know who made that, that call to 911. We still haven’t heard a name there. But we do know that the police officers who have not been on the force — neither one of them had been on the force for five years. Both of them are perceived as royalty in our police department because of the long tenure of their parents. They’re in a specialized unit that most of our officers have to go through many, many years on the force before they’re even placed in this unit. And what we’ve learned is that those folks who we rely on to serve and protect us, rushed to judgment. And what happened, because of their rush to judgment, they killed an innocent man for doing what he does legally every single day and standing outside minding his own business.
You know, we still have not heard anything about this person who made the call. The store owner, he was the first eyewitness to come to us. And everything that he said happened was depicted on the video. And we’re relying on that eyewitness testimony. And certainly, you know, I’m excited that he was brave enough to share that video. He was under a lot of stress and scrutiny. The police officers had him in the back of a police car while they took his surveillance video — no warrant, did not ask him, just took his video. We still haven’t seen that. That’s the next big push for us, is to — we want to see that video. We want to see what was depicted there.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I want to go to a clip of Abdullah Muflahi, who owns SS Food Mart, the convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police early Tuesday morning. Muflahi told reporters he witnessed the shooting.
ABDULLAH MUFLAHI: I was shocked. I thought it was like a nightmare. It was crazy, seeing your own friend getting shot in front of you. It’s, it’s horrifying. Scary. By the time I get outside, they are throwing him on top of the car. From there they tasered him. Then other cop tackled him onto another vehicle. From there they throw him onto the ground where both of them got on top of him. One of them screaming, was like, "gun, gun," shot him three times. Then they telling him get on the floor. He’s already on the floor. They shot him three times already. Then they shoot him another three times. He was a nice guy. Always smiling, always happy, always joking around with people. Never seen him get into fights with anybody. Never seen him get into any kind of even arguments out there with people.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: That was Abdullah Muflahi, who witnessed the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling.
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Wait, What? Tobacco Giant Backs Foundation to End Smoking
September 18, 2017 / Caitlin Reilly
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An old adage in journalism states that when a dog bites a man, it’s not news. But when a man bites a dog, now, that’s news. Well, the proverbial man just bit the dog in the form of a nearly $1 billion pledge to reduce smoking from the maker of Marlboro cigarettes.
Philip Morris International will donate $80 million a year for the next 12 years to the recently launched Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The new foundation stresses independence from its donors and their agendas, but so far, the company behind Marlboro is its only backer.
The donation comes as Philip Morris is said to be preparing for a smoke-free future. More than 3 million smokers have switched to the company’s e-cigarette IQOS, according to Bloomberg. IQOS heats tobacco to produce a vapor instead of burning it, which the company believes makes it less harmful than conventional cigarettes. The company asked the FDA to approve marketing that sells the product as a device that may reduce the chance of smoking-related diseases.
Derek Yach, the man heading the new foundation, is a vocal supporter of e-cigarettes. The devices, which don’t contain tar, provide a safer alternative for smokers to use while weaning themselves off traditional cigarettes, Yach wrote in a 2015 editorial. Opponents argue that “safer” is not the same as “safe,” and claim that e-cigarettes act as a gateway drug for conventional cigarettes.
Yach is a former World Health Organization official who led the organization’s campaigns against health issues arising from unhealthy diets and smoking. He worked on a global tobacco treaty while at the organization, but has a history of making deals with the devil in the name of progress. Yach worked for PepsiCo for six years after leaving WHO, where he says he pushed the company to make products healthier, including chips with less salt and fat and drinks with less sugar. It’s hard to miss the parallels to Yach’s latest endeavor and its backer.
The Philip Morris donation to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was met with skepticism from some.
Deborah Arnott, the CEO of Action on Smoking and Health, a public health charity based in the U.K., criticized the announcement. “Tobacco industry claims can never be accepted at face value,” she said. “The tobacco industry has a terrible track record of funding research designed to support its efforts to block policies to cut smoking.”
Arnott has a point. The tobacco industry has a long and checkered past in meddling in medical and research fields to benefit its bottom line. From the 1920s through the 1940s, the industry leaned heavily on advertising that claimed cigarettes were “physician approved.”
More recently, the industry funded research designed to support the claim that secondhand smoke posed no danger to non-smokers, a review of millions of pages of industry documents revealed. Research proving the opposite was used to support smoking bans in public and private places.
Some worry that the new foundation bankrolled by Philip Morris will also produce research and disseminate information that misleads the public. The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease denounced the gift as "a billion-dollar bribe the tobacco company hopes will secure it a seat at the table with public health policymakers around the world... Through propaganda, it only has the potential to undermine, delay and obfuscate the work of public health policymakers and advocates who champion evidence-based measures to reduce tobacco use." The Union said that the company will continue to spend exponentially more money to hook people in poor countries on smoking than on preventive efforts through the foundation.
Although smoking is on the decline in the U.S., tobacco use is still the leading preventable cause of death in the country, according the Center for Disease Control. Worldwide, tobacco kills about 6 million people a year, which is more than AIDS and malaria combined. The number is projected to rise to 8 million by 2030.
Despite that, there’s not a widespread effort among funders to curb smoking, which is another reason the Philip Morris gift is notable. The two biggest names in the space right now are Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Gates Foundation. Back in 2015, the two teamed up to take on companies like Philip Morris that sue low- and middle-income countries to prevent their governments from enforcing strong tobacco control laws.
The tobacco giant’s intentions and the young foundation’s integrity remain to be seen.
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Tokyo 2020 unveil locations for special display of Olympic flame in disaster-hit areas in East Japan
By Daniel Etchells
Tokyo 2020 has today announced the locations where the Olympic flame will be on public display prior to the Torch Relay in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures, which bore the brunt of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.
This follows an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, Japan's Reconstruction Agency and the three prefectural authorities.
The planned display is based on the concept that the Olympic Games should aid reconstruction in disaster-hit areas of Japan.
It will align with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay concept "Hope Lights Our Way" in what will be the 10th year since the Great East Japan earthquake.
Tokyo 2020 will exhibit the Olympic flame, which will be lit in Greece, in the three most affected prefectures for two days each from March 20 to 25.
This is with the aim of giving the public in those areas the best opportunity to view it before the start of the Torch Relay.
The Torch Relay itself is due to begin at the National Training Center J-Village in Fukushima on March 26.
It will pass through all 47 prefectures in Japan over 121 days, giving these a chance to showcase what Tokyo 2020 describes as their "diverse cultural and scenic attractions".
The flame will arrive from Greece at Matsushima Airbase in Miyagi on March 20, when it will be displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park.
The Minamihama district of Ishinomaki city lost 400 of its inhabitants to the tsunami and the spread of fire, and part of the site will be completed in March 2020 as a memorial and as a symbol of reconstruction.
The flame will then move to Sendai Station East Exit on March 21 before being displayed the following day aboard the Sanriku Railway line and the SL Ginga Steam Locomotive Express between Miyako, Kamaishi and Hanamaki stations in Iwate.
The Torch Relay itself will commence at the National Training Center J-Village in Fukushima on March 26 ©Tokyo 2020
On March 23, it will be visible at the Kyassen Ofunato retail and entertainment complex in Iwate prior to going on display at Fukushima Station East Exit on March 24.
The East Exit is located in the centre of Fukushima city, the prefectural capital, and home to the Azuma Gymnasium.
A total of 110,000 people were evacuated to the Azuma Gymnasium in 2011, and the city became a major support base for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami.
The flame will then visit Aquamarine Park, a base for sightseeing and cultural exchange in Iwaki and the location of the environmental aquarium "Aquamarine Fukushima" and the Tourism and Commerce Center "Iwaki La La Mew".
"Aquamarine Fukushima" was badly hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and became a symbol of reconstruction of Iwaki upon its re-opening in July 2011.
The Japanese leg of the Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay will then commence at the National Training Center J-Village, which straddles the towns of Naraha and Hirono in Fukushima.
In 1997, the J-Village complex was opened as Japan's first national football training centre.
After its opening, Japan's national football team had taken advantage of the facility for its training camp.
However, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, the facility was forced to cease operations, and had been used as a support base for the nuclear power plant accident.
The facility has undergone a remarkable recovery and resumed its operation as a symbol of reconstruction, with a newly-established annex building and an all-weather training field.
"I hope the reconstruction will continue to progress steadily, and that when the Olympic flame is lit in Greece exactly one year from today, on March 12, 2020, it will be a source of hope for many people, marking as it will the first step into the 10th year since the earthquake," Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori said.
December 2018: Tokyo 2020 confirms it will use Olympic flame cauldrons in stadium and on the waterfront
September 2018: Schedule announced for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay
September 2018: IOC approves idea to light Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame on ninth anniversary of 2011 earthquake
April 2018: Tokyo 2020 unveil "Hope Lights Our Way" slogan for Torch Relay
October 2017: Eternal flame from Tokyo 1964 Olympics was relit four years ago
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Intuit®: Official Blog > Powering Prosperity > What Does it Mean to be an Entrepreneur?
What Does it Mean to be an Entrepreneur?
November 20, 2018 November 20, 2018 / Intuit Blog Team
An “entrepreneur” is defined as someone who conceptualizes, builds, and runs a business on their own terms. But any entrepreneur will tell you it’s so much more than that.
Whether you’re self-employed, working a side hustle, or managing your own small business, it’s never easy to take on such a massive effort on your own. But those who do and make it through find it incredibly rewarding.
Don’t take it from us – in recognition of National Entrepreneur Day, we asked five female entrepreneurs what it really means to be an entrepreneur. Here’s what they said.
“To me, being an entrepreneur means being a strong independent woman who isn’t afraid to go her own way and pave her own path. She doesn’t take the easy road, because she’s fierce and isn’t afraid to take risks in order to grow her business and create a prosperous future for herself. It means being a woman who takes control of her life and destiny.”
– Melissa Garcia, owner and founder of Treat Lord
Melissa began making custom denim jackets for dogs as hobby, but once she discovered that people wanted to purchase the jackets, she took a risk and turned it into a business. You can learn more about Melissa and her self-employed journey here.
“I built my small business to define entrepreneurship and educate women. We mentor students to prepare them for careers in engineering and tech. Girls aren’t choosing careers in these fields, because there is a lack of role models. The industry is predominantly male, with a common misconception of being ‘nerdy.’
Being an entrepreneur means setting yourself up to create value for your community. I’m doing so through a female mentorship program, and rebranding STEM to be feminine, cool, and simple to understand. We believe that all girls interested in STEM can push the movement by embracing being themselves.”
– Khanna Bell, founder and executive officer of Pretty Tech
Khanna got her B.S. and M.S. in engineering from Georgia Tech, and was accepted into Georgia Tech’s Create-X Accelerator where she received the funding and mentorship to launch Pretty Tech. Pretty Tech is an organization that provides educational resources and trains student sin marketable tech skills to prepare them for careers in engineering, tech and entrepreneurship. You can learn more about her story in here.
“Being a female entrepreneur means honor, self-control, self-discipline, privilege, and the limitless pursuit to become someone greater than you could have ever imagined possible for yourself. You hold power and influence within you that will only go as far as you choose, while comfort zones are no longer existent. As an entrepreneur, you need to believe in something so much and want it so bad, that you’re willing to put yourself out there, go against the grain, and stand out from the crowd.”
– Daisy Teh, creator of the blog The It Mom and co-founder of the e-commerce site, Style Wanderlust
Daisy is the mother of four, who worked various jobs before becoming an entrepreneur. She is currently a full-time professional blogger, writing about lifestyle, fashion and beauty for busy moms on her blog, The It Mom.
“Being a female entrepreneur means that I get to be the boss! Every day, I make decisions that will shape the future of my business, whether it’s how hard I work or who I work with. I love the flexibility of my job, the power to say no, and the ability to set my goals and work toward building my own dream rather than someone else’s. I get to decide when I need a vacation and who my co-workers are, and this allows me to help control my mental health and live the lifestyle I want – being my own boss and pursuing my dreams, on my timeline.”
– Diana Elizabeth Steffen, founder of Silver Spoon studio, Diana Elizabeth Photography
Diana Elizabeth is a recovering journalist, a lifestyle blogger and small business owner. In 2006, she opened her graphic design boutique, Silver Spoon Studio, and went on to launch Diana Elizabeth Photography. She continues to exercise her journalism skills via her blog where she covers lifestyle, photography, travel and other interests, including life as an entrepreneur.
“Being a female entrepreneur is powerful, because we can shape both the business and cultural climates of the future. By becoming financially empowered via solving a global or local business problem, we enable ourselves to unleash our full feminine energy onto the world. We use our female voices to fight for women’s rights, children’s rights, and human rights. I also believe that we need to encourage more women to pursue entrepreneurship, because female entrepreneurs approach conflicts in business and in life with distinct compassion, respect, conversation, positivity, grit, and rationale mindsets.”
– Shinjini Das, CEO at the Das Media Group
Shinjini is the founder and CEO of the media production agency, The Das Media Group, which builds innovative digital and experiential branded experiences. She is a true go-getter with a mission is to bridge the content gap between intellect and pop culture.
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Like States, American Families Are Blue and Red
Political scientists say your father has a lot to answer for.
By Sarah Sloat
Filed Under Demographics & Psychology
The shading of the American map into “Red States” and “Blue States” has become so accepted by the voters and the talking heads that hector them that it’s easy to forget these distinctions are fluid. One almost credits the redness of the Mississippi dirt to voting records rather than iron ore. It’s a collective fiction, but collective fictions can beget real facts. And the self-conscious sorting of America down political lines has absolutely affected Americans by affecting American family dynamics.
For a 2016 paper published in the journal Political Psychology, Jeffrey Lyons, a political science associate professor at Boise State, examined how competing social influences affect someone’s political beliefs over the course of their life. He examined data from the Youth-Parent Socialization Study, a long-term study tracking the influence of parents on their children’s politics from 1965 to 1997 — an outdated work to be sure, but currently the best data on the subject that political scientists have. He found parental influence to be the single strongest indicator of one’s eventual party affiliation. In 1965, when basically all the subjects were 18 years old, community attitudes basically didn’t matter at all. What mattered were their parents.
This finding was in keeping with accepted political science, but Lyons parts from the established consensus on the idea that attitudes necessarily crystallize in peoples’ 20s and 30s.
“They basically say you’re shaped early in life, you become stable, and you’re kind of set on a trajectory,” says Lyons. “What that suggests is that we kind of forget about the social side of things later in life. What I’m saying is that we need to keep looking at how socialization affects the conversation later in life — we shouldn’t just be talking about it for adolescents and young adults.”
Parents have about a six- to eight-year window in which they are the most powerful force in the forming of their children’s partisanship. While this leaves an impression, children are subsequently put into social situations that tend to change their perspectives. Lyons found that the most influential agent for forming party affiliations was, after the early family unit, one’s spouse. The Youth-Parent Socialization Study revealed that, by age 35, the spouse is more influential than either parent was on the subject at age 18. Proximity doesn’t only affect children.
“We do see really close associations typically between spousal political attitudes,” says Lyons. “That’s a really tricky thing to figure out what’s going on — is it the fact that people just marry somebody like them, or is it that you actually become more like your spouse over time? There’s some conflicting evidence on that.”
If you love President Obama, your kids probably do too.
These influences — a family, a spouse — serve as the microenvironment of somebody’s world. But while intimate ties are the most influential factors on political beliefs, we can’t forget the macro - - environmental pressures like actual cities and states where people live. In earlier research, Lyons looked at what happens to the attitudes of Republicans and Democrats who move from a county that’s reflective of their political beliefs to one that is not. He found that, at the end of a four-year timespan, about 15 to 20 percent of people would actually switch to the party of their adopted home.
“When we look at somebody who moves from Texas to Massachusetts, we see them kind of getting pulled into a more liberal direction,” says Lyons. “One thing I’ve done is look at county-level data and try to figure out why, for example, if your county environment becomes more democratic your political attitudes are likely to become more democratic. Is it something like, ‘I don’t want to be the one Republican in Cambridge, Massachusetts?’ I think the exact why is still up in the air.”
Kids "vote" at Civic Fest in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What we do know is that different United States regions seem to have been colonized by groups with different psychological profiles. In 2013, the American Psychological Association published an analysis of the psychological traits of 1.5 million Americans. Data collected over a 12-year period helped the psychologists identify three psychological profiles pegged to the different regions. Traits like being temperamental and uninhibited were pinpointed to New Englanders and Mid-Atlantic residents, Southerners and Midwesterners proved to be the most conventional and friendly, while East and West coast folk were found to be relaxed and creative.
Personality traits, says Lyons, can be tied to the competing belief systems. Research confirms this: Conservatives value social belonging while liberals are more autonomous. Liberals care more about fairness while conservatives care about safety. Conservative tend to be more methodical while the cognitive process of liberals is often “realization” centric. These traits — going back to the idea of familial interest — appear to set in early: A 2006 study in the Journal of Research in Personality found that childhood personality during preschool accurately predicted conservatism in adulthood.
In other words, parents shape their children’s long-term politics by shaping their children’s personalities. And those personalities play into where people live. And where people live often has a lot to do with how parents decide to raise their children.
It’s worth noting that researchers Laurel Elder and Steven Greene have thoroughly demonstrated that Republican and Democratic families aren’t particularly different. They have kids at the same time, average the same number of kids, and break up labor in similar way. The main difference is how the fathers conceptualize their roles: Democratic fathers struggle more with having a work-family balance, and appear to be less satisfied with themselves as parents. Republican fathers embrace traditional parenting roles and rate themselves more highly as paternal figures.
Party affiliation by state.
Different sorts of fathers create different sort of children. And different sorts of children become different sorts of adults. Then they self-sort. Does this mean that red stays red? No, but it does mean that American kids are likely to inherit a worldview strongly correlated to their physical location. It means that growing up in an Alabama family in Alabama leaves a mark in a way that growing up in an Alabama family in Massachusetts wouldn’t — not that such a scenario would be likely to begin with.
Lyons believes that if another Youth-Parent Socialization Study started today, the results would be broadly similar to the one that started in 1968. While the internet allows for the more efficient distribution of information, data indicates that personal connections are still the most powerful force in shaping one’s mind.
“We could probably find even stronger effects because now, we have more homogenous communities on average,” says Lyons. “There’s been this sort of deepening of red and blue and diminishing of purple in America.”
Media via Wikimedia Commons, minnemom/Flickr, Gallup
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How does Cancer affect Fertility in Men and Women?
HomeInfertility, Sterility & Subfertility
By Juan Antonio García Velasco MD, PhD (gynecologist), Zaira Salvador BSc, MSc (embryologist) and Marie Tusseau (invitra staff).
The appearance of tumor or cancer is one of the worst experiences in people's lives. At this point, they must begin a hard path and undergo cancer therapies necessary with the sole aim of healing and being able to move on with their lives.
However, some of these people who have had some form of cancer and have managed to overcome it must face another concern:the infertility derived from cancer treatments.
Today, assisted reproduction and fertility preservation programs allow these affected people to fulfil their dream of becoming parents.
Effects of oncological treatment
Masculine infertility
In men
FAQs from users
How do treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy affect a person's fertility?
For many cancer patients it is necessary to preserve fertility. When should this decision be made?
What possibilities does reproductive medicine offer for preserving fertility in cancer patients?
How should one act or what guidelines can be followed in the case of cancer in a patient of reproductive age?
If cancer occurs in a pregnant woman, what are the chances of treating the disease during pregnancy?
Once the cancer has been overcome and the quality of the semen is low, would conventional IVF be recommended or would it be passed directly to an ICSI?
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments to fight cancer can affect male and female fertility, causing both temporary and permanent infertility.
However, the risk of infertility and not being able to have a child naturally will depend on a number of factors:
Type of tumor, stadium and location
Age and sex of patient
Type and dosis of drugs used in chemotherapy
Dosis of radiation and parts of body at which radiotherapy is applied
Stadium of fertility before cancer therapy
The types of cancer that can most affect male fertility are testicular cancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, and Hodking's lymphoma.
Factores which increase the risk of being infertile due to cancer
In terms of female fertility, the most relevant types of cancer are breast cancer, cancer of the uterus or cervix, ovarian cancer and lymphomas.
That is why the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends that all individuals who are initiating oncology treatment talk to a member of the medical care team about the effects on their fertility and whether there are fertility preservation options that are compatible with such treatments.
Chemotherapy aims to kill rapidly dividing cells in the body, such as tumour cells.
However, males have other cell types with rapid division: sperm. This makes both sperm and spermatogonies (testicular stem cells) easy targets for antitumor drugs.
On the other hand, the high-energy rays used in radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells can also affect these sperm-producing stem cells, especially if the radiation is directed at the testicles.
Chemotherapy and masculine infertility
The type of infertility that men can suffer once the cancer is over, temporal or permanent, will depend on the damage caused to the spermatogonial stem cells of the testicles. If they are severely damaged, they will not be able to divide further and produce new sperm.
In addition, radiation therapy may also affect the brain, specifically the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, and alter the entire hormonal production that regulates spermatogenesis. This would also result in a drop in sperm production and sex hormones such as testosterone.
In women, the main consequence of oncological treatments is the decrease in ovarian reserve, especially in the case of radiotherapy in the pelvic area.
In these cases, age is a crucial factor. The younger a woman is, the more likely she is to keep a small part of her eggs after overcoming cancer.
However, it should be noted that all women who have received chemotherapy or radiation therapy are prone to premature ovarian failure or early menopause.
On the other hand, radiation directed at the uterus can also cause damage that prevents the embryo from being implanted in the endometrium or stretched during gestation, leading to miscarriages or premature babies.
Radiotherapy and female infertility
As with men, cancer therapies can also affect the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis and cause menstrual cycles to maladjustment.
Many of the fertility alterations discussed throughout this article may have a solution if the person affected by the cancer makes the decision to preserve his or her fertility.
This is why it is essential to consult a specialist before receiving cancer treatment.
The options men have to preserve their fertility are discussed below:
Freezing of semen
this is the best option because it is very simple, it is just necessary to collect a semen sample per masturbation. If the male enjoys good semen quality, it would even be possible to attempt pregnancy with artificial insemination. The most important thing is to realise it before initiating the oncological treatment, otherwise there would be risk of producing genetic damage to the sperm.
Cryopreservation of the testicular tissue
this is a method still under investigation which consists of the extraction, the freezing and storing of the testicular tissue, which later can be reimplanted in order to reestablish fertility by undergoing oncological treatment. In case of the children who have still not reached puberty, this is the only option to preserve fertility.
If you are considering preserving your fertility to have a baby in the future, we recommend that you start by getting a Fertility Report. In 3 simple steps, it will show you a list of clinics that fit your preferences and meet our strict quality criteria. Moreover, you will receive a report via email with useful tips to visit a fertility clinic for the first time.
Regarding women there are various alternatives although some of them are more complicated or are currently in an experimental period.
Ovule vitrification
consists of ovarian stimulation to obtain and freeze ovules. Later, these can be used in an in vitro fertilization treatment to achieve pregnancy. It should be noted that this process requires a certain amount of time, which not many patients dispose of before starting chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Furthermore, in the case of hormone-dependent tumours, ovarian stimulation could lead to a worsening of the cancer.
Ovariopexy or transposition of ovaries
in order to prevent damage, Ovaries are surgically transferred to a different place of the body, away from the area which is being affected by the radiotherapy.
Preservation of ovarian tissue
a portion of the ovarian cortex, where the preanatal follicles are found, is surgically obtained and frozen and placed back into the body after cancer treatment. This procedure is in its experimental stages, especially for girls with cancer who have not yet reached puberty and are therefore unable to vitrify their eggs.
Oocyte in vitro maturation
is the collection of immature ova from the ovary and their subsequent maturation in the laboratory so that they can later be used for in vitro fertilisation treatment. It is used in cases where there is no time or ovarian stimulation is not possible.
Ovarian suppression
experimental method involving the use of GnRH agonist hormones to stop the ovaries from functioning. Current research suggests that this is not a good option for protecting fertility during cancer treatment, but clinical trials continue.
Fertility preservation of patients with cancer
By Juan Antonio García Velasco MD, PhD (gynecologist).
It has been known for years that cancer treatments damage the male and female germ line. Until recently, the priority in the face of cancer was to be cured. Due to the great advances achieved in the treatment of cancer and the high survival rates that are obtained today in some types of tumours, the importance of controlling the side effects of these treatments is gaining ground. One of them is infertility and, although men have been able to store sperm from the ejaculate for years, today women can also freeze eggs and ovarian tissue.
The approach must be prior to the start of chemotherapy or radiotherapy, otherwise it will be too late to do anything. Therefore, adequate information on the part of your oncologist is a matter of priority, as it will depend on the type of tumour, the type of oncological treatment to be used, the patient's age, the time available, etc.
Nowadays, men can freeze semen as they did years ago, with a very good chance of success if this semen is used in inseminations or in vitro fertilization.
Women can opt for two options: a) freezing of ovarian tissue, which requires surgery to remove part or all of the ovary, and freezing this tissue in small fragments, to be re-implanted once the cancer has been cured, or b) freezing of oocytes, which requires a period of 2 weeks to be able to carry out ovarian stimulation and remove the oocytes as is done in conventional in vitro fertilization, but with a very specific medication protocol to avoid harmful effects on hormone-dependent tumours.
There are indeed medical practice guides of scientific societies, where in a consensual way they try to establish the behaviors or offered treatments in those cases, and to inform objectively about the advantages and disadvantages, as well as what is not known about these issues. Specifically, and in Spain, the Spanish Fertility Society has a group that is working precisely on this consensus document.
If cancer is diagnosed once the woman is pregnant, the options will obviously depend on the type of tumor and the treatment needed (Surgery? Chemotherapy? Radiation therapy? Combinations?).
There are many cases treated, but it is true that in the first trimester of gestation there is a great risk of abortion and even malformations, and when it occurs in the third trimester, of premature birth, but in this case the collaboration of the multidisciplinary team that weighs the risks and benefits of the decision to take is fundamental.
Once cancer has been treated, the male may be fertile. If this is not the case, he may resort to using the sperm he had frozen before his treatment. In these cases, since the semen is very valuable because of its scarcity (only one or two frozen samples), ICSI is used directly, since gestation can be achieved with a single spermatozoon. Thus, if more children were desired, there would still be a frozen sample.
If you are interested in finding out more about how to preserve fertility in the face of cancer or other reasons, we recommend that you read on here: Fertility Preservation – Cost & Options for Retaining Your Fertility.
On the other hand, it is possible for cancer to appear during the gestation period, which has an increased risk for both mother and baby. You can read more about this here: Cancer during Pregnancy – What to Expect.
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American Society of Clinical Oncology. ASCO Recommendations on Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients: Guideline Summary. J Oncol Pract. 2006;2(3):143-146.
Metzger ML, Meacham LR, Patterson B, et al. Female reproductive health after childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers: Guidelines for the assessment and management of female reproductive complications. J Clin Oncol. 2013;31(9):1239-1247.
Nieman CL, Kazer R, Brannigan RE, et al. Cancer Survivors and Infertility: A Review of a New Problem and Novel Answers. J Support Oncol. 2006;4:171-178.
FAQs from users: 'How do treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy affect a person's fertility?', 'For many cancer patients it is necessary to preserve fertility. When should this decision be made?', 'What possibilities does reproductive medicine offer for preserving fertility in cancer patients?', 'How should one act or what guidelines can be followed in the case of cancer in a patient of reproductive age?', 'If cancer occurs in a pregnant woman, what are the chances of treating the disease during pregnancy?' and 'Once the cancer has been overcome and the quality of the semen is low, would conventional IVF be recommended or would it be passed directly to an ICSI?'.
Juan Antonio García Velasco
Graduate in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid. Intern specialist at Obstetrics & Gynecology at La Paz Hospital, 1992-1995. Graduate in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University. Subspecialist in Assisted Reproduction from Yale University (USA). Main Lecturer of Gynecology at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. More information about Juan Antonio García Velasco
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Zaira Salvador
Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Valencia (UPV). Biotechnology Degree from the National University of Ireland en Galway (NUIG) and embryologist specializing in Assisted Reproduction, with a Master's Degree in Biotechnology of Human Reproduction from the University of Valencia (UV) and the Valencian Infertility Institute (IVI) More information about Zaira Salvador
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Marie Tusseau
Editorial Director of Babygest magazine in French and English More information about Marie Tusseau
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Alexander Fredro. Courtesy of City Council
Seated handsomely on Wrocław's main market square, Alexander Fredro is one of Poland’s most distinguished literary figures. His story dates back to 1793 when he was born into a family of aristocrats from the village of Surochów – then part of the Habsburg empire. At the age of 16 he enlisted into the Polish faction of Napoleon’s army and saw action on the plains of Russia, including Napoleon’s fateful entry into Moscow. Captured by the Russians he escaped captivity in spite of a typhoid infection and was awarded the Virtuti Militari in recognition of his bravery. He settled in Bieńkowska Wisznia, close to Lviv, where he fell for the fifteen year old Zofia, then married to Count Skarbek – one of the richest men in Galicia. Following divorce proceedings that lasted ten years the two were finally joined in matrimony in 1828. Spending most of his time in Lviv, Fredro concerned himself with writing farcical comedies about the nobility, many of which have since been translated onto the screen, including his most famous work, Zemsta ('The Revenge'). He was successfully acquitted of high treason and lived to the grand age of 82 – quite an accomplishment in those times.
Many examples of his wit have found their way into the Polish lexicon, and it’s not uncommon to hear his words interjected into everyday conversation: Niech sie dzieje wola nieba z nią się zawsze zgadzać trzeba ('Do as the heavens wish, for you’ll always need to agree with them') being one such example.
But just why is Fredro relevant to Wrocław? In a nutshell, he isn’t really. The statue, designed by Leonard Marconi, originally stood in Lviv, the city which Fredro dedicated so much of his time to. As we know after the war Lviv was ceded to Ukraine, and many of its Polish inhabitants migrated westwards to Wrocław. Like so many of their cultural treasures the Fredro statue accompanied them, albeit following a four year stint housed in a Warsaw stable. The hold-up was understandable; in the post-war chaos and bureaucracy it took two years alone for the city elders to decide where to position Fredro. In the end they went with one of the most high-profile stations imaginable - smack on the Rynek in front of Town Hall. Fredro's appearance there prompted one magazine to proclaim in horror that he ‘looked like a vagrant outside a church.' Today his displaced figure is actually one of the symbols of Wrocław, his adopted city. Like so many who adopted Wrocław as their home, it's a fitting metaphor, no?
Fredro wasn't the first to loiter here, however. The humorist's monument actually replaced that of Kaiser Wilhelm, which stood on the same spot during Wrocław’s incarnation as the city of Breslau. Although unharmed by the bombs and bullets of the war Wilhelm fell foul of the iconoclastic fury that was to follow in peacetime, and most likely ended up being tossed into a blast furnace. When Fredro was unveiled to the people of Wrocław in 1956 his plinth came without the aristocratic initials 'HR.' Following popular condemnation the communist authorities relented and Fredro has since stood gazing forth in all his noble brilliance. Like the Mickiewicz monument in Kraków, or Zygmunt in Warsaw, the Fredro's statue has become a city icon, and is the principal meeting point for canoodling couples, students bashing bongo drums and political agitators.
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The decision taken by the Ministry of Shipping to implement Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Policy will give a big push to indigenisation and shipbuilding as part of the 'Make in India' programme.
Experts express satisfaction over finalisation of guidelines for implementation of the policy - a long pending demand of the industry. Almost 90 per cent of the Indian trade is handled by the vessels carrying foreign flags.
An institutional mechanism has been created within the ministry for redressal of grievances arising out of issues related to the implementation of the policy. The policy approved by the Union Cabinet in December last will provide financial assistance to Indian shipyards for shipbuilding contracts signed between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2026.
Shot in arm
"The policy will give a shot in the arm to 'Make in India' programme in the shipping industry. Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, which is now under the Ministry of Defence, should take up construction of bigger vessels with a capacity of 1,00,000 to 1,50,000 DWT capacity," veteran stevedore Garuda Pattabhiramayya told The Hindu on Sunday.
He said Shipping Corporation of India, the largest Indian shipping company, should also reorient its strategy on increasing its fleet by acquiring ships built in the country. He said domestic shipyards should go for massive modernisation to construct bulk carriers like Very Large Crude Vessels, Panamax and Cape size vessels.
"Our carriage of containers is not up to the mark. Incentives promised in the policy will go a long way for shipbuilding industry to go for capacity augmentation/diversification/modernisation," Mr. Pattabhiramayya remarked.
The buzz is there that the policy will motivate Reliance and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) to expedite their proposals to set up shipbuilding facilities at Rambilli, about 50 km from the city.
Academic coordinator of Indian Maritime University Bhavana Venkata Ramalingeswara Rao said there was bright scope to strengthen the Indian shipbuilding industry.
According to the policy, the financial assistance will be 20 per cent of the 'contract price' or the 'fair price' whichever is lower, as determined by international valuers for any vessel built in India subsequent to its delivery. The quantum of financial assistance shall reduce by 3 per cent after every three years of the policy.
The policy will be in force for 10 years from the date stipulated in the guidelines formulated by the government for the purpose. Under the policy, only those vessels which are constructed and delivered within a period of three years from the date of contract will be eligible for assistance.
Centre decides to implement financial assistance policy as part of 'Make in India'
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Special Enforcement Operation
Crime Reduction Effort.
On December 6, 2018, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and the Warrensburg Police Department assigned additional law enforcement personnel to a special enforcement operation throughout Warrensburg and Johnson County. As a result of the operation, several arrests were made relating to the use, distribution and delivery of controlled substances.
At approximately 10:30 p.m., a Sheriff's Deputy and the Department's K9 Unit attempted to stop a vehicle when Central Dispatch advised the license plates displayed on the vehicle were stolen. When the Deputy attempted to initiate a traffic stop, the vehicle accelerated and traveled southbound on MO.13 from Warrensburg. The vehicle continued south into Henry County and as it entered into the City of Clinton, Clinton officers deployed four sets of stop-sticks in an effort to deflate the fleeing vehicle's tires. After a successful deployment of the stop-sticks the vehicle's tires began to deflate as it continued southbound on Business Mo.13. The vehicle continued southbound until leaving Business Mo.13 and continued south on 2nd Street to where it came to a dead end at water's edge of Truman Lake. Once the vehicle came to a stop, both the driver and the passenger exited their vehicle and fled on foot into the wetland area. The suspects were then tracked, located and placed in custody by the Johnson County K9 Unit, Clinton Police officers and Henry County Deputies.
The driver of the vehicle was identified as Corey Stephen Metcalf, age 39 from Kansas City, Kansas. He was arrested on 24-hour investigative hold for felony resisting arrest, theft of a motor vehicle, failing to yield to and emergency vehicle and several other traffic violations. Metcalf was also arresting on a Franklin County, Kansas arrest warrant for Nonresidential Burglary and a warrant from the Kansas Department of Corrections for involuntary manslaughter. During the 24-hour investigative hold, Johnson County issued a Fugitive From Out of State Warrant with a cash only bond of $50,000.00.
The female passenger in the vehicle, identified as Nichole Mae Andrews, age 36 from Warrensburg, was also taken into custody and held on a 24-hour investigative hold for resisting arrest/detention/stop.
Sheriff Munsterman would like to thank his Johnson County Deputies, the Warrensburg Police Department, the Henry County Sheriff's Office, the Clinton Police Department, the Missouri State Highway Patrol as well as the Central Dispatch Centers from both Johnson and Henry Counties for their hard work and dedication during this operation. Sheriff Munsterman states, "One of the greatest tools law enforcement can possess and utilize is the team work among all agencies as well as the citizens they serve". These types of enforcement operations will continue in an effort to deter criminal activity and to apprehend fugitives from justice. Because of operations such as this one, our communities will be a safer and happier place to live and raise our families.
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About Jack Arbor
Jack Arbor is the Amazon best selling author of three thriller novels: The Russian Assassin, The Pursuit, and The Attack. All three stories feature the wayward KGB assassin Max Austin as he comes to terms with his past and tries to extricate himself from a destiny he wants to avoid. A published novella titled Cat & Mouse provides a unique perspective on Max’s backstory. The Hunt, the fourth novel in the series, will be published in April 2019.
Jack works as a technology executive by day and writes at night and on weekends with much love and support from his lovely wife Jill. Jack and Jill live near Aspen, Colorado, where they enjoy skiing, biking, and running through the natural beauty of the Roaring Fork Valley. Jack also likes to taste new bourbons while listening to jazz and enjoys debating his father on whether jazz on vinyl is better than jazz on digital. Jack and Jill both miss the pizza on the East Coast.
For snippets of Jack’s life, follow his Instagram feed here. For updates on his books, join his email list below or like his Facebook page here.
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SEC delays decision on 9-game schedule
Mark Long
DESTIN - The Southeastern Conference held one of its shortest business meetings in league history Friday.
The powerful conference wrapped up its annual spring meetings with presidents and chancellors not taking a single vote, quite possibly the first time that's happened in the league's 80-year history.
"Shortest meeting in the history of the league," Florida President Bernie Machen said.
Presidents and chancellors delayed a decision about potentially moving to a nine-game league schedule. As expected, they agreed that 2014 and 2015 slates will follow the current 6-1-1 model, with teams playing six division opponents, one permanent, cross-division rival and one rotational game against the remaining six teams.
The SEC might switch to a nine-game schedule in 2016. If so, the league would join the Big Ten, the Pac-12 and the Big 12 in having that model.
Commissioner Mike Slive said the 2014 schedules should be released in the next few weeks. As for 2016 and beyond, he hopes to have a decision on that model by next May.
"It's an important exercise because it's hard to conceive of a schedule that will make everyone happy," Slive said.
Coaches voted 13-1 earlier in the week to maintain an eight-game schedule. Alabama's Nick Saban was the lone dissenter. He prefers a nine-game schedule that would make teams more appealing when a four-team playoff begins in 2014.
Others, most notably LSU's Les Miles, would prefer to see the SEC eliminate those permanent, cross-division games. Miles argues that those fixed games give some teams an advantage and put others at a disadvantage each year.
Slive said presidents and chancellors wanted to see scheduling models before making any rulings.
They did, however, leave the beachside resort with another record payday.
The SEC announced a payout of approximately $289.4 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, giving each school $20.7 million. That number is expected to rise significantly in two years, after the launching of the SEC Network.
"We feel like we'll be able to support our 5,000 student-athletes well into the future," Slive said.
STIPENDS FOR ATHLETES
Slive reiterated the league's stance on supporting giving student-athletes a stipend that would cover the full cost of attendance. The measure, which has been supported by the Big Ten but contested by other conferences, would need NCAA approval.
"This is an issue that's not going to go away and we need to satisfy it," said Slive, adding that the SEC's proposal would be capped at $4,000 annually.
The league also is exploring new bowl tie-ins. The league lost two bowl spots beginning in the 2014 season because the Cotton and Chick-fil-A were included in the future playoff and is working to replace those. Slive also said he plans to have more say in where SEC teams end up in the bowl-selection process, essentially taking some power out of the hands of the bowl executives.
"As I think about the bowl system moving ahead, should we just keep going ahead because that's the way we've always done it or is it time, given all the other changes, to make a bit of a paradigm shift and maybe we have more say-so than maybe has been the tradition in the past," Slive said, adding that all bowls tie-ins except for the Sugar Bowl are being renegotiated. "So we expect to come to the table with some different ideas that our athletic directors feel very strongly about."
In other SEC news:
� After establishing a working group on concussions last June, the league made a formal request that the NCAA take the lead in "organizing and spearheading a national research effort and examining possible revisions to playing rules in football and other sports," Slive said.
� The SEC opted not to try to develop a uniform drug policy. Instead, the league said it will continue to update and evaluate the drug-testing procedures and policies.
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2016 IJSBA World Championship
After 365 days of work, pressure and nerves — the biggest week of the year is over. Thousands of racers from around the world came out to Lake Havasu to compete for the chance at a world championship, and I was one of them.
Two weeks ago, I gave my dad the daunting task of fixing not one, but three machines. After hammering my skis all summer on one of the roughest lakes in the country, just about everything had shaken loose. Typically, when things break (especially when it comes down to the wire) I get stressed. But after five years of racing with the Boss Man, I’ve learned that he knows what he’s doing. So with faith, I reached out to our friends in the industry and rush ordered everything we needed to get the skis ready to race against some of the best equipment in the world. Just a few days before we locked and loaded the trailer, he was finished. My three skis were rebuilt, and running great after he spent hours in the shop wrenching while I was away studying.
Before leaving, I had to take my university midterms early (not fun) and get a week’s worth of school work done before I could board the plane to Las Vegas.
BODY BEACH
Arriving in Havasu is something I look forward to every year. There’s something exciting about seeing so many cars cruising around with race skis, and seeing people from around the world you haven’t seen for a year. People always talk about Body Beach, and if you haven’t been, you’re missing out. Seeing the beach packed with Jet Skis, and thinking about how many of your favorite riders have walked and ridden at Body Beach — that’s just neat. And nothing beats a Body Beach sunset.
JUNIOR STARS
The Junior Stars “Day with the Pros” event is one of my favorite days of the year. Having the opportunity to hang out and mentor the up and coming racers from around the world isn’t something I ever imagined I’d have the chance to do. Nedra Attwood did an incredible job of organizing the event and getting some super cool goodies for the kids. I had the honor of sharing my experiences dealing with social media and sponsorships with these young kids, and I was so excited to hear that they had applied what they have been learning from me in the past three years of my participation in the event. I can’t believe how much these kids have grown and advanced since my first year as a part of the event — the future of our sport is so bright with these kids.
Racing kicked of on Tuesday, and I was up at the crack of dawn to race the girl’s class. Everything went flawlessly, except the Hydrospace that kept getting away from me on the back stretch. It was a good day of racing, I managed to surprise everyone with my improvement, but couldn’t quite grab the title like I wanted.
I was disappointed, this being my second year of coming so close, but missing it so narrowly. Wednesday morning I was set to line up against the boys in Classic Ski Two Stroke Limited, and I didn’t have winning on my radar whatsoever. In this class, I was lined up against my former mentor, Jeff Wright. One of the best riders in the midwest, and a very good friend of mine. It had been four years since our last race (where he whooped me), and my main focus in this class was seeing how I compared to him four years later. In the heat and first moto, I was met by several very fast skis and riders, and had to fight to move up through the pack after some clustered starts. In the first moto, I finished fifth — and assumed the championship was out of my reach.
By the second moto, the heat had dried me up and I was tired. I was ready for the day to be over. As we made our way to the starting line, the waves had begun to churn up a little, and as the band snapped the Casino ferry cruised by. All my time of riding at the Lake of the Ozarks worked to my advantage, and as the waves got higher other riders started going down, and I kept pushing on. By the final lap, I looked to the beach and saw the Boss Man holding the pit board with the message “#1” written on it. Thinking I was in first, I fought to keep the two SuperJets behind me. As I hit the final backstretch, I saw two lappers ahead of me, and thought that putting them in between myself and the riders behind me would slow them down — but it wasn’t until I finished the race that my dad told me one of the lappers, was actually the leader. Finishing 5-1, and the other riders getting tossed up in the rough waves helped me edge out the would-be winner by one point — earning my first world championship. Had I given in to my temptation to quit, or slow down because of the soreness, the tiredness, or because I thought I had no chance — I would never have won. Something in the back of my head told me to keep going, and I’m glad that I did.
PRO WEEKEND
My team and I made the decision to move up into the Pro Ladies’ division to see how we stacked up. In the qualifying heat, we broke out from everyone, coming out quickly off the start and hanging with Pro Ladies’ who had more than 20 years of racing experience. We finished fourth in the heat, and then we did it again in the first moto — placing fourth. In the final moto of the day, as we stood on the starting line, Boss Man tells me “hang it all out, win or swim”. With no pressure to perform, I came into the first turn bumper to bumper with another rider and ejected from my ski. A rider bringing up the rear skimmed over my legs, and I was left a lap down from the pack. When I got back on my ski, I wondered if I should even try — but I wanted to prove that I was going to be a future threat to the Pro Ladies’ World Championship, so I grabbed the throttle and went for it. By the end of the race, I had made up nearly the entire half a lap I was down, and in another lap or so I would’ve been in a position to try and pass my way back into the ranks. Although my results on paper were not what I wanted, I found in myself the ability to perform at the highest level, under tough circumstances.
At one point, I had so much doubt in my abilities. I did not think I ever had a true chance, because I did not think I was tough enough, or capable. This week I did things on the track I never imagined I could do, without thinking. It was like second nature, making smooth passes, making strategic choices, and pushing myself further than I thought I could. All of these things I never imagined I would do. After this week, I know that myself and my team have the capability to achieve great things, and this week has given me new hope and motivation to continue to excel.
There are so many people I need to thank. My dad worked endlessly to provide me with one of the fastest skis on the line, and spent hours working to make sure everything was how I wanted it. My mom kept me in good health, and my sister supported me even when she wanted to be playing her guitar. Chris Hagest at Pro Watercraft Racing.com provided me with top of the line handling components which gave me 110% trust in my ski, even when the water got rough. Steve Webster from Kommander Industries has provided us with performance parts and has always been an incredible resource whenever we’ve had questions. ADA Racing has provided us with great billet parts, Fly Racing has sent me the best helmets and gear, My Oil Depot has provided us with all our oil for four years, Gasket Technology has kept us stocked up and helped with our rebuilds. Hurricane Industries made me some awesome custom graphics, and was a massive help in the pits during the World Championships. And as always, the Rad Dudes have been there since day one.
I also want to thank everyone who has been cheering me on throughout my racing career. I have not always been the fastest, or the strongest rider, but I have never given up; and it’s so many of you that have kept my hopes up when I thought I would never have a chance. Racing can be hard, you can’t win them all. But what I love most about celebrating a win is celebrating with all of the people who believed in me.
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Spiekerman Named Full Professor
Home – Along Middle Path – Spiekerman Named Full Professor
From Kenyon News - November 9, 2016
The Kenyon College Board of Trustees in its fall meeting promoted one faculty member to full professor, effective July 1, 2017:
Tim Spiekerman, professor of political science
B.A. Carleton College, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago
Tim Spiekerman came to Kenyon College as a Bradley Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1996 and has taught in both the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Program in Humane Studies (IPHS).
In addition to teaching the introductory course, “The Quest for Justice,” Spiekerman teaches courses in political theory and politics and literature for the Department of Political Science. He is the author of Shakespeare's Political Realism and has published articles such as “The Making of a Politician: Shakespeare’s Prince Hal at Work and Play” and “The Inevitable Monarchy: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.”
Provost Joseph Klesner said, "Tim is one of the most renowned seminar leaders on campus. Using his wry sense of humor and inviting students to enter the conversation by relating their own personal experiences, Tim builds the class discussion to yield deeper and deeper insights on theses as important as the nature of community and the obligations of the individual to the larger society."
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‘Astray’ by Emma Donoghue
Sandy Leonard
A young woman in Victorian London, forced into prostitution to support her family, grasps at a new life. A childlike German mercenary, fighting for the British during the American Revolution, is pressured into using rape as a weapon. Two prospectors in the Yukon Gold Rush bed down together to survive a bitter winter. These are just some of the wanderers who populate Emma Donoghue’s fascinating new collection of stories…. read more
John Cheever Turns 100
In his personal essay, “John Cheever Turns 100”, Lambda Award-winning author Allan Gurganus reminisces about his time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where John Cheever became his close friend and mentor. From his first step into Cheever’s classroom to their reunion years later in New York, Gurganus tells the story of an intimate, caring friendship—revealing… read more
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Diana Denza
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Reginald M. Harris Wins the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize
Vanesa Evers
Do you know how to navigate your autogeography? Reginald M. Harris does! In his forthcoming collection Autogeography, Harris explores “self” and “earth writing” in his personal life, through his culture of being an African American and his sexual identity as a gay man. This manuscript, which was awarded the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry… read more
PEN/Faulkner Presents: Emma Donoghue and Chris Adrian
Please join PEN/Faulkner at the historic Folger Shakespeare Library on November 7 for an evening of readings highlighting the boundlessness of the imagination, featuring two of literature’s most groundbreaking authors, Emma Donoghue and Chris Adrian. The event begins at 7:30, and tickets are $15. More info below: Emma Donoghue and Chris Adrian 7:30 PM… read more
Eileen Myles accepts Lammy from Emma Donoghue
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“We all belong here.” Two rock star novelists share the stage (if only briefly). Eileen Myles accepts her Lammy from Emma Donoghue at the 23rd annual Lambda Literary Awards in New York City, on May 26, 2011. Makes us wish we’d captured a photo of these two sublimely talented writers while we had the chance…. read more
'Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature' by Emma Donoghue
Howard G. Williams
Lambda Literary Award Finalist How were women’s relationships depicted in plays, dramas, poetry, and novels before the 21st Century? In Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (Knopf), Emma Donoghue reveals that authors have shown “desire between women” as accidental, mildly erotic, predatory, thoughtful, and, of course, lusty and lesbian. Both male and female authors of… read more
Emma Donoghue's 'Endless Immersion'
Karen Schechner
From Shakespeare to Sarah Waters Emma Donoghue launched her writing career (after she was fired from her job as a chambermaid) at 23 with a two-book deal with Penguin. She’s since written more than a dozen books in almost as many genres, including the Man Booker finalist Room (Little, Brown), and Slammerkin (Mariner), a historical… read more
Over the Rainbow's Top 11 Books
Antonio Gonzalez Cerna
Last night “Over the Rainbow Book List” from the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table announced their Top 11 of 2011 books along with their inaugural list of 108 books published in 2010 and 2009. The Top 11 list includes a diverse assortment of titles (poetry, illustrated, essays, anthologies), a few LLF favorites like Lambda… read more
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Real Expat Stories Straight From Our Panama Conference
Your Fellow Readers Biggest Complaint About Panama Last Week
by Rodolfo Restrepo
in Lifestyle, Panama
For me, the best part of my job is the people I get to meet.
I look forward to every one of our LIOS conferences for the chance they offer to make new friends… while catching up with old ones.
Last week in Panama City, during our Live and Invest in Panama Conference, I was able to spend time with readers I’ve formed friendships with from previous events…
But the majority of the crowd last week was first-timers… and, for me, that’s super fun. I really love watching people experiencing these live-and-invest overseas ideas for the first time.
One woman, for example, told me that she had traveled outside the United States only two times before in her life. Her husband had convinced her to come to the conference because he has been thinking about retiring overseas for years and has his sights set on Panama.
She admitted that she had been super reluctant about the whole idea of moving out of Virginia and wasn’t on board even with the idea of coming to Panama for the conference.
“Don’t tell my husband,” she whispered to me with a big smile, “but I’m having a great time!”
She was joking, of course. She couldn’t hide her enthusiasm from her husband very long.
In fact, she and her husband are already making plans to return to Panama. They want to come back before the rainy season so they can take the trip out to see Panama’s Azuero Sunset Coast and Los Islotes.
This visit, they were able to arrange a custom tour of Casco Viejo followed by a rain forest excursion. They were excited for the chance to see some monkeys.
“This conference has been a serious eye-opener,” the lady told me. “We’ve learned so much about all our options in this country.
“Now I’m no longer worried about moving away from our children and grandchildren. I’ve spoken to many people who’ve had great suggestions for how to stay in touch.
“Now I just feel really excited about what the future has in store for us,” she said.
Another woman I spent time with was here with her boyfriend. Her name was Kathleen. She’s from Florida, and her boyfriend is from Canada.
The couple met in Costa Rica six months ago. They impressed me with their clear vision of what they want their life together to look like.
“We want a life full of adventure, culture, and travel,” Kathleen explained.
She found out about our event at the last minute and wasn’t able to make it for the first day. When I asked her how everything was going during the Friday morning break, she replied:
“Really fantastic. I’m making friends and memories and learning so much and really kicking myself for not making it to the first day.”
I told her not to worry because she would receive all of the recordings from every presentation within about two weeks of the close of the event. These are sent with our compliments to all attendees as part of their registration.
Friday afternoon, after the conference was over, I caught up with Kathleen again in the lobby of the hotel. We were both waiting for Ubers…
She was elated with the abundance of information she’d had access to.
“I really just learned so much at this conference, the real nuts and bolts,” she said.
“I know others put on Panama conferences, but I don’t think that any other event could compare. You guys just have such an impressive boots-on-the-ground presence in this country.”
Indeed we do (if I say so myself), and I take great pleasure and pride in being able to make our extensive Panama infrastructure and network of resources available to our conference attendees.
Over the course of the event, I helped folks connect to the local phone networks… order Ubers… find their way around the city… make dinner reservations… plan outings and adventures for after the conference had concluded…
I also helped to arrange dozens of personal appointments with bankers, attorneys, and tax and residency advisors. It’s all part of the service we offer, and, again, for me, it’s just great fun. I feel like I’m helping people reinvent their lives for the better in real time… and what job could be more rewarding than that?
Most in the room with us last week were newbies… but not everyone was a LIOS conference virgin.
I reconnected with one longtime reader whose first event with us was our 2014 Retire Overseas Conference in Nashville.
“That event,” he told me, “helped me to narrow down my list to a few countries in particular—Colombia, Panama, and Portugal.
“I attended your Live and Invest in Colombia Conference in 2015,” he continued, “and now here I am taking a close look at Panama, again with your help.
“Your conferences really are the best and most efficient way possible to understand and process all the options.”
He wanted to join us for our Portugal conference but can’t… so he took advantage of his attendee discount to purchase the Live and Invest in Portugal Home Conference Kit from last year.
“I figure it’s the next best thing to being in the Algarve with you in July,” he chuckled.
The biggest complaint from attendees during last week’s event?
That the cocktail receptions were too much fun. Our early-morning sessions were noticeably under-attended because our conference-goers were still recovering from the parties the evenings before…
Allison Jokinen
LIOS Conference Assistant
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The OTT video streaming market in India is set to touch $5 billion by 2023 (Photo: Reuters)
Opinion: Self-regulation is the best kind of regulation
3 min read . Updated: 31 Jan 2019, 12:21 AM IST Shuchi Bansal
Stakeholders thought it wise to adopt the code before govt imposed censorship
HotstarNetflixEros NowAmazon Prime
Earlier this month, a clutch of over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platforms adopted a self-regulatory content code to avoid probable government censorship. Among the signatories are streaming platforms of big broadcasting companies such as Hotstar, Voot, Zee5 and SonyLIV as well as independent firms such as Arre, ALT Balaji, Netflix and Eros Now. In the self-regulatory Code of Best Practices signed under the aegis of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the streaming platforms have been referred to as Online Curated Content Providers.
The code is based on the premise that as the OCC industry grows, it will play an increasingly important role in the socio-economic landscape of the country. According to Uday Sodhi, business head, digital, at Sony Pictures Networks, which owns SonyLIV, as the OTT industry achieves scale, “it is time to lay down guidelines for ourselves. The consumer has expectation of maturity from us. We should start building the processes of protecting him." OCC providers have changed the way content is created and consumed. It offers freedom from appointment viewing and allows flexibility in terms of time, place and the device it is consumed on. What prompted the code is easy to see. The stakeholders thought it wise to adopt best practices before a government department stepped in and imposed unnecessary censorship. The pressure mounted as public interest litigations (PILs) and complaints against the OTT platforms started emerging. An NGO filed a complaint in Delhi high court against sexually explicit and vulgar content on a streaming site. A few months ago, another lawyer filed a PIL before the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court complaining about gory content and sexually explicit scenes in some web series.
Sodhi says that mature industries like advertising and television follow self-regulation through the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) for non-news channels respectively. “Even when BCCC was formed, naysayers predicted its failure but it has been widely accepted and the government has recognised its role," says a media executive declining to be named. Will the code impinge on the creative freedom of writers and directors of content? Sodhi doesn’t think so. “We are only classifying content. It is not like a cinema hall where a viewer walks in and watches a film. On OTT, he’s making a choice. We are giving him appropriate information to make that choice," he explains. Supporters of creative freedom of the streaming services expect their content to travel across the world. According to the code, “This effort brings together the key pillars of protecting interests of consumers in viewing content of their choice and defending creative freedom."
The significance of the code should be seen against the backdrop of the projected growth in the streaming industry. The OTT video streaming market in India is set to touch $5 billion by 2023, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report titled Entertainment Goes Online. The online video base is expected to expand on the back of rising affluence and increase in data penetration in rural markets. According to the report, 82% of the users in the Indian market are engaged on advertising-led video-on-demand platforms (AVoD) versus 18% who pay for content on subscription-led (SVoD) services. The report estimates that by 2023, 40-50 million users will be paying subscribers of content while 600 million will be engaged on advertising-led platforms. Clearly, there will be a surge in viewers consuming entertainment online. Although most video-on-demand services launched with movie libraries, the focus has now shifted to creating original content. Star India’s video platform Hotstar has recently announced its foray into originals with an investment of ₹120 crore and a tie-up with 15 filmmakers. As the Indian entertainment market is dominated by single TV households, affordable data is creating an alternative in the mobile as the second screen. This has allowed viewers to consume content at their own convenience. Besides, increasingly, consumers are more open to paying for this convenience.
By 2023, 650 million or 48% of India’s internet users are expected to be from rural areas, the BCG report said. Video-on-demand platforms are likely to tap into this rural boom with regional language content. The creators of the code have also made a provision for a complaints redressal mechanism for consumers. Not surprisingly, the guidelines are being touted as those balancing creative freedom and consumer interests.
Shuchi Bansal is Mint’s media, marketing and advertising editor. Ordinary Post will look at pressing issues related to all three. Or just fun stuff.
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Facebook Research is an app that the company used to pay teenagers who volunteered to install it. (Reuters)
Many Indians too shared data with Facebook Research to earn money
3 min read . Updated: 01 Feb 2019, 06:21 PM IST Prasid Banerjee
Apple initially withdrew Facebook’s ability to test consumer facing apps on its platform but has since restored the same; Google yet to take any action
The app asked users to keep Facebook’s virtual private network (VPN) service running on their phones, allowing the social network to monitor their regular usage
Thousands of Indian users may have used Facebook Research over the past few months and unwittingly parted with their personal data. This has come to light ever since reports went viral over Facebook Inc. using its Facebook Research app to monitor the phone activity of those users who were paid by the company to install it.
First reported by TechCrunch, Facebook Research is an app that the company used to pay teenagers who volunteered to install it. The app asked users to keep Facebook’s virtual private network (VPN) service running on their phones, allowing the social network to monitor their regular usage.
The Facebook Research app asked users to keep Facebook’s virtual private network (VPN) service running on their phones, allowing the social network to monitor their regular usage.
Following reports of the app, Apple initially withdrew Facebook’s ability to test consumer facing apps on its platform but has since restored the same, while Google is yet to take any action. In fact, the search giant in turn removed one of its own apps (Screenwise Meter), which worked similarly to Facebook Research. Further, there are many more Android phones in India than iPhones.
Vishal Darsheel, a 22-year-old blogger and Internet marketer from Bihar, said the Facebook Research app has earned him $5,000.
Questions sent to Google remained unanswered at the time of publication of this report. In a statement, Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, said, “This is a Facebook research app - it's very clear to the people participating that it's completely opt in, they go through a rigorous consent flow and people are compensated. That said, we know we have work to do to make sure people's data is protected. It's your information and you put it on Facebook so you need to know what's happening. We continue to focus on this work. In this case, the important thing is that the people participating in the research project knew they were involved and consented. As soon as we realized we weren't in compliance with the rules on their platform we pulled it."
The Facebook Research app was downloaded by at least 48,000 users in the country.
According to Harshit Ahuja, one of the users of the app, the Facebook Research app was downloaded by at least 48,000 users in the country. Ahuja, who is 19 years old, told Mint that he joined the app on April 16, 2018, and has been getting people to sign up since. He claims to have been responsible for 500-700 installs of the app in the country, earning him over ₹5,00,000 till date, transferred to his PayPal account, because of the referrals Facebook gave for signing up. Ahuja provided us with a screenshot from the uTest platform, claiming the number of users shown in the screenshot was the number of Indian users on the app. Further, Ahuja also directed us to the Facebook profile of a person called Kewal Krishan, who has put up pictures of his earnings from the platform. According to these pictures, Krishan earned upwards of ₹1 lakh by referring people.
Another user, Vishal Darsheel, a 22-year-old blogger and Internet marketer from Bihar, said the Facebook Research app has earned him $5,000. Darsheel said he found the app from a Facebook Group called Tricky Inbox but used it only for a few months. He posted a Google form on Quora, asking others to sign up. The same thread also has other users who were trying to get referrals.
Ahuja told Mint that he was aware of the fact that Facebook would be using his data if he downloaded the app. He said he put the app on his secondary phone, which he only uses for running a mobile hotspot, so he wasn’t worried. He mentioned another user who had cloned his device to install multiple instances of the Facebook Research app, and used to earn over ₹10 lakh per month.
While the 48,000 number claimed by Ahuja is quite big, the actual number of installs may be bigger. Indranil Dutta, another user of the app, said he came across it via YouTube videos. He even shared the link of a video that has 20,000 views. According to Facebook, the total number of users who used the app globally is under 150,000.
Facebook has currently closed the new sign-ups for the app from India. Both Ahuja and Darsheel confirmed that not only are new sign ups not possible anymore, the referral amount has also reduced. In fact, Ahuja rued that the new referral amount (about 25 cents per referral) is too low. The referral amount used to be $10 per month per referral earlier.
How Facebook Reasearch paid users:
$5 for activity
$10 per refer within 30 days of joining
$5 per refer after 30 days of joining
$20 bonus on every 5 people referred
$1.5 for activity
$0.25 per refer within 30 days of joining
$0.13 per refer after 30 days of joining
$5 bonus for every 5 people referred
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SOCIAL | 2017 Summer Party
event Thursday, 10 August 2017
access_time 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
£ 15/35
location_on 18 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG (corner of Carlisle Lane and Royal Street)
Join us to celebrate summer in style at Oasis Farm, an urban farm tucked away in the heart of Waterloo just moments from the Southbank, and the closest farm to Parliament!
We'll have food, drink, music and the chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. There's also the opportunity to admire the magnificent new wooden barn (designed by Feilden Fowles) that has helped transform what was a strip of wasteland into a flourishing community resource. It's a true rus in urbe!
Opening in May 2015, Oasis Farm is a partnership between Oasis Hub Waterloo, a charity that aims to create a local community where people of all ages and situations feel included, and Jamie's Farm, a unique organisation that helps disadvantaged young people thrive through its programme of Farming, Family and Therapy. The farm is now a haven for nature, where the aim is to learn how to care for ourselves, others, plants, animals and the environment. Oasis' vision is to provide a safe, supportive and inspiring space for the community where the themes of food and farming are used to help people feel more connected, empowered and to reach their full potential.
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Rory Stewart is ‘active MI6 agent infiltrating extreme right-wing organisation’
RORY Stewart is an active MI6 agent currently in deep cover in an extreme right-wing group planning to devastate Britain, sources have revealed.
Stewart has worked his way to a prominent position in the organisation and has informed his superiors that the fanatics are seizing control, that they intend to wreck the UK to spread terror across Europe, and they must be stopped.
Speaking through an encrypted phone connection, he said: “It’s worse than we thought. I’m going to need clearance for the ultimate sanction.
“I’ve been undercover for nine years watching them move from essentially being a fringe group of dabblers to a hardcore of radical terrorists determined to destroy Parliament and take Britain back to medieval times.
“Like ISIS, there’s no one leader. Kill the main guy and another six will pop up in his place, each one a wild-eyed lunatic worst than the last.
“The only option is to terminate with extreme prejudice. I’ve managed to get myself invited to a TV event the leaders are attending tonight. It’ll be a bloodbath, but there’s no other way.”
He added: “Do they suspect me? No. They’re all thick as f*ck.”
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Mark Podvia
Contact Information for
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Head of Faculty Services, Special Collections Librarian, & Archivist
The Pennsylvania State University,
Middletown, Pennsylvania
Master of Arts in American Studies, 2006
Clarion University of Pennsylvania,
Clarion, Pennsylvania
Master of Science in Library Science, 1993
The Dickinson School of Law,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
Juris Doctor, 1986
Grove City College,
Grove City, Pennsylvania, 1983
Bachelor of Arts cum laude
Majors: Political Science (High Honors), History (Honors)
Head of Public Services, Special Collections & and Instruction Librarian
West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, 2014-present
Associate Law Librarian and Archivist (1996 – 2014), Assistant Law Librarian and Archivist (1989 – 1996)
The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1989-2014
Instructor/Assistant Professor of Political Science (Part Time)
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 2007-2010
Judicial Clerk and County Law Librarian
57th Judicial District, Bedford, Pennsylvania, 1987-1989
Civics and You: Your Key to Pennsylvania Local Government, Chapter 6: The Courts
(e-book), (Pennsylvania Municipal League, 2014), available at
http://www.civicsandyoupa.com/index.php/english/6-the-courts.
A Citizens’ Guide to a Modern Constitutional Convention in Pennsylvania (with Kerry L.Moyer, Ph.D.), (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Civic Research Alliance, 2009), available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/22660010/CITIZENS-GUIDE-to-Modern-Constitutional-Convention-in-Pennsylvania.
“Introduction” (with Professor William E. Butler), pp. iii-xix, Hon. John Reed, Pennsylvania Blackstone; Being a Modification of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, With Numerous Alterations and Additions (Reprint), (Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2006).
Part I, “The Early Years, 1750-1920,” pp. 1-87, Cumberland Justice: Legal Practice in Cumberland County, 1750-2000, (Carlisle, Pa.: Cumberland County Bar Association, 2001).
“Northwest Ordinance” and “Titles of Nobility,” Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, David Schultz, ed. (NY: Facts on File, 2008).
“Dedication: Louis F. Del Duca,” 117 Penn State Law Review 1337-1342 (2013).
“Frederick Douglass in Carlisle,” LH&RB, Spring 2012, at 17-25, reprinted in 5 Unbound 17-28 (2012).
“A Visit to Grandfather’s Law Office, or The Picture Book,” LH&RB, Fall 2011, at 10-15, reprinted in 5 Unbound 61-70 (2012).
“The ‘Japanese Memorial Law Library,’” LH&RB, Fall 2010, at 7-11, reprinted in 4 Unbound 59-65 (2011).
“The Honorable Frederick Watts: Carlisle’s Agricultural Reformer,” 17 Penn State
Environmental Law Review 299-328 (Spring 2009).
“Pennsylvania Courthouse Architecture and Changing Attitudes Towards the Judiciary,” LH&RB, Spring 2009, at 1, reprinted in 2 Unbound 21-35 (2009).
“Twenty-Five Years of Excellence: Dickinson International Law Annual; Dickinson Journal of International Law; Penn State International Law Review,” 25 Penn State International Law Review 479-491; 589-614 (Fall 2006).
“Dedication: Professor Joseph B. Kelly, “ 25 Penn State International Law Review 1-3 (Summer 2006).
“Researching, Writing and Publishing Institutional History: An Ideal Quest for the Inquisitive Librarian,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, February 2006, at 6.
“The Victorian-Era Law Office: How to Furnish Your Workplace for Under $100,” 96 Law Library Journal 727-31 (Fall 2004).
“The Use of Trivia as a Tool to Enhance the Teaching of Legal Research,” 12 Perspectives 156-159 (Spring 2004).
“The Trials and Travails of Interlibrary Loaning for Law Review Cite Checks,” RIPS Law Librarian, Winter 2004, at 2.
“The Dickinson Law Review: A History,” 108 Penn State Law Review 747-853 (Winter 2004).
“Yes, Pittsburgh, There is a Santa Claus,” 7 Green Bag, 2d Series 33-39 (Autumn 2003).
“A Brief Introduction to the World War II Memoirs of Professor Joseph B. Kelly,” 21 Penn State International Law Review 445-448 (Spring 2003).
“The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America ed. by Brian P. Levack,“ LH&RB, Fall 2014, at __.
“The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics and the Character Wars of the New Nation by R. Kent Newmyer,” LH&RB, Spring/Summer 2014, at 16-17.
“Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle by Margaret A. Leary,” 104 Law Library Journal 184-185 (Winter 2012).
Selected Professional Presentations
“Witchcraft Laws and Trials: Salem and Beyond,” Dauphin County Bar Association CLE Program (August 2014).
“Highlights in Pennsylvania Library History: Pennsylvania’s County Law Libraries,” Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference (October 2013).
“Wine and the Law: An Overview of Wine and Winemaking from Ancient Babylon to the Modern Washington State Wine Industry,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 2013).
“Highlights in Pennsylvania Library History: The Interlibrary Delivery Service of Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference (October 2012).
“The Law of the Salem Witch Trials,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 2012).
“Legal Research: Is There a Generational Gap?” 2011 Berks County Bench-Bar Retreat (September 2011).
“Contemporary State Constitutional Conventions: Proposals for Pennsylvania and Beyond,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 2011).
“Law Resources on the Web—A Workshop for Public and Law Librarians,” Pennsylvania Department of Education (September 2010).
“Beer and the Law: A Legal History of Beer, Brewing and Government Regulation from the German Purity Law to the Microbrew Movement,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 2008).
“The Ghosts of the Pennsylvania State University,” Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference (October 2007).
“Researching, Writing and Publishing: Making Institutional History Come Alive!,” Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference (September 2005).
“Researching and Writing Institutional History,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 2003).
“Interlibrary Delivery Service of Pennsylvania,” Governor’s Advisory Council on Library Development (June 2002).
Activities and Areas of Interest
Travel, Reading, Photography, Hiking, Photography, Microbrew Beer, Wine, Music and Theatre, Ghosts, Haunting and Other Paranormal Activities, Canals and Railroads, Military History
– Introduction to Legal Research
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Government Violated D.C. Local Rule in Concord Management Case, Court Finds
Vishnu Kannan Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 11:04 AM
On July 1, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling in United States of America v. Concord Management & Consulting LLC (related to the Internet Research Agency case) limiting public statements about the case in the future. The court ruled that, because the Mueller Report released to the public information about the case not included in the original Internet Research Agency indictment, the government violated Local Criminal Rule 57.7(b).
Read more about Government Violated D.C. Local Rule in Concord Management Case, Court Finds
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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling striking down the FAA’s regulation, though it failed to block an additional notice placing further restrictions on drone flights in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Simon v. Republic of Hungary—Summary in Brief
Alex Loomis Fri, Feb 5, 2016, 12:07 PM
The D.C. Circuit has removed a hurdle for a pending suit against the Republic of Hungary and the Republic’s state-owned railway company concerning the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act.
Read more about Simon v. Republic of Hungary—Summary in Brief
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February Critical Issues Luncheon - Black History Month Observance with Dr. Darin Waters
Country Club of Asheville 170 Windsor Road Asheville, NC, 28804 United States (map)
In observance of Black History Month, our featured speaker will be Dr. Darin Waters, assistant professor of history and special assistant to the chancellor at UNC Asheville. Prof. Waters’ family roots in Western North Carolina date back more than 150 years. His topic will be "Life Beneath the Veneer: Reflections on the Early History of African-Americans in Asheville and Western North Carolina."
Dr. Darin J. Waters is an Assistant Professor of History and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Community Outreach and Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Asheville where he teaches courses in American history, North Carolina History, Appalachian History, African American and Brazilian History. He also specializes in the history of race relations in both the United States and Latin America.
Dr. Waters received his doctorate from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. Dr. Waters’ research focuses on the history of African Americans in Asheville and Western North Carolina. More recently, Dr. Waters has written about issues surrounding the construction of the nation’s collective historical memory, exploring the impact that that memory has on the present. In his role as Special Assistant to the Chancellor of UNC Asheville, Dr. Waters works closely with community leaders and organizations to strengthen old and build new partnerships for and with the university. For the past three years, he has successfully organized three major conferences on the history of African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia. The conference has grown to become a major annual event for the university. Dr. Waters is also the co-host of The Waters and Harvey Show, a weekly radio program that airs on WCQS the local NPR/Public radio station in Asheville.
TIME: 11:45am – 1:30pm (food service begins at 11:45; program begins at 12:15)
LOCATION: The Country Club of Asheville. (Click link for map)
COST is $25 for LAF members, $30 for all others, payable at the door. Check or cash only.
Please RSVP to Nancy Williams at 828-250-2353 or events@leadershipashevilleforum.com (email preferred), and specify which event you will be attending.
January Event
Asheville's Vibrant Theatre Scene
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Ann M. Martin Audio Books
by Ann M. Martin
Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life than to think about the vast world beyond her own...
Everything for a Dog
Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Bone and his sister, Squirrel, are stray dogs born in a shed. Left motherless as puppies, they survive together for a while, but are soon wrenched apart, and Bone must go on, alone. Charlie is a boy who has suffered a terrible loss. And, as he's healing with the help of his dog, another tragedy occurs.
In 1963, Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's mother was crowned the Bosetti Beauty of Spectacle, New York, Ellie's classmates decided she was invisible, and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated....
The Meanest Doll in the World
Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane....
Spring has arrived in Camden Falls, and with it have come many joys and challenges. As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in town, Flora prepares for a visit from her old best friend, Annika.
The Secret Book Club
Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki don't understand it. Someone - they don't know who - is leaving books on their doorstep.
It's autumn in Camden Falls, and Flora and Ruby are just starting to settle into the town. Flora is worried about spending the first Thanksgiving without their parents.
The Runaway Dolls
Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May.
Christmas is coming to Camden Falls, and Flora and Ruby don't know how to feel about it; it's their first Christmas without their parents, and the memories are both happy and sad.
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Randy Pausch Audio & Video
by Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.
The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
The Last Lecture
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....
Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates at 2008 Carnegie Mellon Commencement
Professor Randy Pausch made a surprise return to Carnegie Mellon University to deliver an inspirational speech to the Class of 2008 at the Commencement ceremony on May 18, 2008.
A lot of professors give talks entitled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
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Skippy burgers and continental flavour unexpected hits at Belfast Christmas fair
Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 00:00
ROISIN INGLE
THE MEATS of the World shack at the bustling Belfast Christmas market in the grounds of City Hall does a roaring trade in burgers of the unexpected kind. A sign advertises kangaroo, wild boar, venison, ostrich and springbok burgers. They are clean out of alligator at the moment, says Tara Watson, who runs the stall with her husband.
According to Watson, when the stall first arrived locals were wary of tucking into a Skippy quarter pounder. “Now we have people who come every day. We’ve even had vegetarians trying the burgers,” she says, doling out exotic meats to a steady queue. Local Ben Townsley (18) was enjoying some wild boar, having already tried the others a few times. “It’s nice, yeah, really meaty. The only one I didn’t like was the ostrich one,” he says.
This is the sixth year of the Christmas market, which is the largest of its kind on this island and brings an estimated €28 million to the city. The market, with traders from 27 countries including Peru, Russia, Kenya, Poland and Thailand, is, according to organiser Alan Hartwell of Market Place Europe, the third biggest continental market in the UK after Birmingham and Manchester.
On a cold winter’s day, your eyes half closed, clutching a hot chocolate and listening to the patter of George the Greek – who, by the way, does a great line in smoked garlic and taramasalata – you could be at a Christmas market anywhere in continental Europe.
While it feels authentic, some of the stalls set this market apart. Cork-born Aaron Leach won his place here through First Pitch Plus, an annual contest that provides one local business with a free stall at Christmas and a space at the city’s famous George’s Market for a year.
Leach, from Islandmagee near Larne, Co Antrim, is an artist blacksmith. At his stall, which includes a forge, he is busy all day with his anvil, hammer and tongs working on both commissioned pieces and his passion: barbecues inspired by Japanese food culture. “It’s functional art,” he says. The most expensive of these is £2,500 but he has unique Christmas tree decorations and beautiful copper spoons from £6.
Stalls feature everything from decorations and Peruvian jumpers to Dutch flowers and Russian dolls, but really it’s all about the food. Welsh hog roast, Italian chocolates, French tarts, Belgian waffles and South American churros are on offer.
When the shopping and eating get too much, visitors can choose between a German beer keller and an impressive reproduction of local hostelry Lavery’s pub, where skeins can be supped and cigarettes smoked in the beer garden.
About a million visitors, mostly from Northern Ireland, are expected to have passed through the market before its four-week run ends on December 19th, but traders are keen to welcome those from further afield. “Can you please place a large ad in your paper and tell the people of southern Ireland to come to Belfast?” says Drexel Gillespie, who is selling his wife’s handmade soaps on a busy stall. Gillespie will be at the craft fair in Dublin at the weekend, in case you like your soap filled with essential oils and looking good enough to eat.
“I think there are still serious misperceptions about this wonderful city for obvious reasons,” he says. “Some people think it’s still a demolition site and that we are still rebuilding it. The people from the Republic who have visited the market say they are having a great time here and I hope more of them will come. If they don’t, it’s their loss.”
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Waterford runner Joe Gough wins World Masters athlete award
Gough has enjoyed a stellar year which included double gold at the World Masters Athletic Championships
Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 10:29
Ian O'Riordan
Joe Gough has been named World Masters athlete of the year.
In a first for Irish distance running, Joe Gough has been named World Masters athlete of the year, the icing on the already sweetly layered cake that was his 2018 season, both indoors and out.
With multiple European and World titles to his name already, Gough enjoyed arguably his best 12 months, the highlight being double gold in the over-65 division at the World Masters Athletic Championships in Malaga.
In his preferred event, the 800m, Gough ran 2:16.37 to set a new European record, before winning his first 1,500m world medal at the longer distance. He also completed a European Master indoor double in Madrid earlier in the year, and set an O/65 world record over 800m. The Dungarvan runner, who turned 66 last month, first took to the Masters competition in the O/45 division, showing no signs of slowing down in the years since.
“I’m flabbergasted, didn’t expect it at all,” Gough said of the award. “Of course the awards are nice, it’s great to be acknowledged, and I also feel it’s recognition for the Irish family of Masters athletics, a vast number of people, one of the biggest sporting memberships in Athletics Ireland.”
World Masters Athletics (WMA) is the worldwide governing body of the sport, for track and field, cross country and road: originally founded as the World Association of Veteran Athletes, in 1977, it became the WMA in 2001, and follows all the rules and event specifications of the IAAF, the governing body of world athletics
Gough was nominated for middle distance award having already won that category when named European Master Athlete of the Year in December: “After another excellent year in 2018, athletes from every discipline have once again shone high and bright, being a beacon for the world of Masters Athletics,” said WAM, the overall women’s winner being 75 year-old Canadian sprinter Carol LaFayette-Boyd, American sprinter Charles Allie, 71, the outright men’s winner.
Gough, who competes with West Waterford AC, also picked up the Masters Athlete of the year at the Athletics Ireland awards in January. The highlight of the year, he admits, was his double World gold, completing his unbeaten championship run of the year.
“I’d won the 800m before, but never the 1500m. I took a decision to train for it, go for gold, which was a big challenge, because I’m not really a 1500m runner. To win it and break the Irish, and also broke the European record to win the 800m, means the World Championships were very satisfying.
Next up is the World Indoor Masters in Torun, Poland at the end of in March, and later the European Outdoors in Venice in September. Last year’s World outdoors attracted some 7,000 athletes from 102 countries.
Joe Gough’s Master Athletics success, 2018
Munster Championships: 1st 200m/400m (Nenagh)
National Championships: 1st 200/400/800 (Athlone)
European Championships: 1st 800/1500 (Madrid)
Irish Records O/65 200m/400m/800/1,500m
World Record O/65 in the 800m (Abbotstown)
Munster Championship 4 Mile. (Castlelyons)
Munster Championships 1st 400m (Castleisland)
National Championships 1st 800m (Tullamore)
World Championships 1st 800/1,500m (Malaga)
Irish Records in the 400m ,800m/1,500m
European Record O/65 800m.
Munster Championships 1st (Clarecastle)
Munster Athletics International Athlete of the Year; Irish Master Athlete of the Year; European Master Athlete of the Year (Middle distance); World Master Athlete of the Year (Middle distance).
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¿Es posible que yo tenga Chagas?
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Could I Have Chagas Disease?
Twenty years ago, even doctors in Spain knew nothing about Chagas, a disease caused by infection with the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. It was not so much a forgotten disease as one that had never existed. Endemic in parts of Latin America, Chagas disease was basically considered to be a problem “over there”. Over the last two decades, however, we have started to see cases of local transmission in Spain.
Following the arrival of large numbers of people from the parts of the world where the disease is endemic, doctors in Spain are now faced with a new challenge: the diagnosis and treatment of a condition that the World Health Organisation classifies as being a neglected disease. Our health system has discovered that the absence in Spain of the kissing bug— the insect vector that transmits the parasite—is not an insurmountable obstacle to local transmission of the infection: T cruzi can also pass from an infected woman to her child or hitch a ride as an unwelcome stowaway in blood transfusions and organ transplants from infected donors.
The warning first served by Chagas disease, and reinforced by the current Ebola outbreak, is that when it comes to health the problems are no longer “ours” or “theirs”. Health has, for once and for all, become globalized. It is estimated that between 8 and 10 million people worldwide are currently infected with T cruzi and between 75,000 and 80,000 of those affected live in Spain. The figures available are only estimates because a number of factors make it difficult to obtain more precise statistics: Chagas disease is a silent process that produces symptoms in only 4 out of 10 cases; most of those affected live in rural areas; and the symptoms can be confused with those of other conditions.
Chagas is still a neglected disease to which insufficient resources are allocated. The only two drugs on the market today are the same ones that have been used since the 1970s. The disease is still associated with the stigma of poverty and, for many people, this makes it a taboo subject—a wretched condition which is better not mentioned. As a result, fewer than 1% of those affected are receiving treatment. In order to combat this stigma and address the lack of accessible information, the Chagas Initiative of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has created InfoChagas.org, a website in Spanish and English that provides straightforward answers to the questions people have about this infection.
Among other resources, the site offers a test that allows the anonymous user to get a answer to a disturbing question: Could I have Chagas disease? The tool, which is also available as a Facebook app, advises users on whether or not they are in the population at risk. We should not forget that, left untreated, Chagas disease can damage the digestive system or cause heart disease, with fatal consequences in some cases.
The time has come to ensure that Chagas disease receives the attention it deserves given the seriousness of the global health threat it poses.
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Hundreds of staff at luxury Braunstone Frith firm Watches of Switzerland Group get £1k 'thank you' bonus
Retailer thanked staff at global HQ on modest industrial estate
Tom PegdenBusiness Editor
A new Watches of Switzerland branch has opened in the $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor Resort
More than 500 staff at the Watches of Switzerland Group headquarters in Leicestershire have been given a £1,000 'thank you' bonus.
Staff at the two Goldsmiths stores in Highcross were also among a total of 2,500 employees in the UK and US who received the payout when the company floated on the London Stock Exchange.
The group owns Watches of Switzerland, Goldsmiths and Mappin & Webb shops up and down the country.
It is now said to be the number one retailer of luxury watch brands, such as Rolex, Omega, Cartier and Patek Philippe, in Britain, and equal top in the US.
Chief executive Brian Duffy said all staff got the extra payment in recognition of the part they played in the success of the luxury watch and jewellery chain.
Watches of Switzerland chief executive Brian Duffy
Without them, he said, the group would not have been able to go public on the London Stock Exchange or plan the estimated £30 million a year it expects to put into its UK and US stores to improve, move and open new branches.
Speaking to BusinessLive from Geneva, Mr Duffy said: “We’re now on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
“There has been a great response to what we’ve done from our teams, so we gave them an unexpected bonus of £1,000 each – or $1,300 for those in the US.
“That recognised the huge contribution every one of them made to the flotation, and we’ve had dozens and dozens e-mails since saying how much they appreciated it.
“I really believe in the business.
“I love the business and our teams and people up in Braunstone Frith, and the great job they do.”
The new Watches of Switzerland branch in Greene Street, New York
He said the May 30 stock exchange flotation, which valued the group at around £650 million, was seriously oversubscribed, and the investment meant they could continue to build the business.
Two years ago the group bought US jewellery chain Mayor’s for almost $105 million, giving it 17 stores – 15 with Rolex concessions – in Florida and Georgia, and a US headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Today there are 23 American stores, including two in New York – one in the new Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan which opened in March, and an 8,000 sq ft store which opened in Manhattan’s SoHo neighbourhood, last November.
There are also four Vegas shops, and a Watches of Switzerland branch opened in the $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor Resort a fortnight ago.
Watches of Switzerland in Greene Street, New York
The US contributed 23 per cent of the total group sales of £773 million last year.
In 2020 a new boutique opens in the American Dream shopping complex in New Jersey, while in the UK the first Watches of Switzerland store opens at Gatwick in August.
There will also be new stores in London, including one in the Battersea Power Station development, and in the Edinburgh St James quarter.
Mr Duffy said the business was committed to its global headquarters on the modest Braunstone Frith Industrial Estate, off the A47, just outside of Leicester.
There are now 504 people based there at offices which have seen recent investment and the addition of new technical and digital teams supporting the work going on in the US.
Mr Duffy said that although footfall was down in most major UK shopping centres, Watches of Switzerland sales were up thanks to the company's ability to stay in touch with existing customers, many of whom want to build their watch collections, to keep them up to date on products.
“Empowered” sales teams also help, as does advertising, he said.
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Winston Churchill as only a trusted few ever saw him
A behind-the-scenes look at how he used his Finest Hour speech
to win over a nation—and win a war
The Making of the Finest Hour sets a new historical precedent. It is the first time that both the first and final drafts of Winston Churchill's Finest Hour speech have been reproduced in their original format, with all of his markings, and published together.
Included with them is a CD that reproduces the BBC’s original broadcast of the speech that Churchill delivered on the evening of June 18th, 1940.
Richard Langworth, the founder and co-chairman of Trustees of The Churchill Centre, provides an introduction that draws on his own interviews with members of Churchill's inner circle.
Introduction by Richard Langworth of the Churchill Centre
Facsimile of pages 1, 7, and 9 of the first draft.
Click each page to see a larger version and the notes Churchill made.
Here is the unguarded, behind-the-scenes work of an orator who chose his words with the utmost care—and had many from which to choose. Among other famous works, Churchill had memorized the entire Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Reading these pages is a history lesson like no other. Churchill combines precise details on regiments and battles with sweeping statements on the fate of England and America.
Churchill's secretaries typed on Remington Noiseless models as he dictated so that the clatter of keys would not distract him. All the corrections and notes are in his hand. Turn these 24 pages as you listen to the CD of Britain's Prime Minister delivering his speech to the nation. It is a memorable, and moving, experience.
You hear what the people of Britain heard on the evening of June 18, 1940. Churchill, more than most, understood that "rhetorical process is neither wholly bestowed nor wholly acquired, but cultivated" (his words).
He did not stutter, as some thought (that was a pause that he cultivated). But he did, in fact, have a lisp.
The CD replicates Churchill's original BBC radio broadcast to the nation.
Click here to hear an excerpt. Click here to see the CD label.
Winston Churchill: The Making of the Finest Hour. Presented by Levenger Press, 2006.
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Obama opens international Gay Games with surprise video message
CLEVELAND -- President Barack Obama has helped kick off the international Gay Games in Cleveland with a surprise video message shown at the opening ceremonies. Obama welcomed athletes, coaches, families and spectators from around the world to Ohio and the United States as the event began Saturday night. The president said the United States...
By Associated Press Sunday, August 10, 2014
CLEVELAND — President Barack Obama has helped kick off the international Gay Games in Cleveland with a surprise video message shown at the opening ceremonies.
Obama welcomed athletes, coaches, families and spectators from around the world to Ohio and the United States as the event began Saturday night.
The president said the United States has come a long way in its commitment to equal rights for LGBT people. He also noted that some athletes come from places where publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation can put them at risk.
He affirmed the United States’ commitment to standing “with you and for your human rights.”
Performers Lance Bass and the Pointer Sisters also helped kick off the weeklong games. About 8,000 people are registered to participate.
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Roger Clemens to start again for Sugar Land Skeeters on Sept. 7
KRISTIE RIEKEN
HOUSTON - Roger Clemens plans to make a second start for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Sept. 7.
His agent, Randy Hendricks, says in an email that it's his "understanding" that Clemens will pitch again for the Skeeters against the Long Island Ducks. The news was first reported by Houston television station KRIV and the Houston Chronicle.
Pitching for the first time in five years, the 50-year-old Clemens tossed 3 1-3 scoreless innings Saturday night against the Bridgeport Bluefish and struck out two.
Some believe the seven-time Cy Young Award winner's work with the Skeeters is the first step in a return to the majors. But he has said he isn't thinking about a big league comeback yet.
For the first time, Clemens is set to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot going out to voters late this year. If he plays in another major league game, the timetable would be pushed back five years.
The Rocket last pitched in the majors for the New York Yankees in 2007.
Two months ago, he was acquitted of charges he lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
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Introducing, the 2 week Twitter film
Wednesday--this Wednesday--what started as a joke between a couple of filmmakers on Twitter turned into a challenge: make a feature-length film in two weeks. Yes, two weeks. And I know what you're thinking, that's an insane idea. True, but that's exactly why it's a great one.
You spend two weeks in hell making a film that no one expects to be any good at all. And if you can clear that hurdle and make something people actually want to see, you've got a film that you can say, "We made this in two weeks on a Twitter challenge". That's a pretty good promotional hook, don't you think? There's festivals that would love to show a film like that.
And if it's terrible? Oh well. I doubt anyone will hold that against us.
The rules (such as they are): feature-length (60+ min), have 2 weeks from start of filming to fine cut (but not final cut, so we can color correct and whatever before sending to festivals), and it must be done by the end of May.
Reid Gershbein has put up a FAQ you can read.
I'll be posting updates on Twitter (@lmcnelly), and there's a Twitter tag (#2wkfilm), and I'll post longer updates on this blog. So far there's anywhere from 2-5 filmmakers from around the country (actually, one's in the UK) considering this, so it's not just me being crazy.
So we're going to give it a shot. Currently we have no script (but an interesting premise), and a handful of people have said they'll help, schedules permitting. Normally, I wouldn't tell you guys about a film this early in the process, as there's too many ways it could go wrong, but we're on such a tight schedule, that I feel like I kind of have to.
Let's say you want to help with this insanity. Here's what you can do: if you have any artistic ability you want to lend us, that'd be awesome. Currently I'm figuring out who's willing and able and what they can do and using that to decide what, exactly, we're going to do.
So I think that's it. I'm going to be in a US Territory next week, but AT&T tells me my phone will work just the same down there, so I should be sort of kind of reachable, maybe.
Get excited. Good or bad this will be fun.
10:59 PM 1 comment
Good luck! Sounds interesting.
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Ratranavona
Ratranavona is an isolated village located in a small bay on a sandy beach in the southern part of the Masoala Peninsula. About two kilometres from the village starts the Masoala National Park.
Most of the villagers live from fishing, rice farming and harvesting cloves. During the months of September, October and November the cloves are picked and thereafter dried in the sun in front of the houses. During the drying period the whole village scents like a giant Xmas bakery.
There is a shop with bar/restaurant and an attached cinema at the end of the village where films are shown on Saturdays at 9pm. The entrance fee is 300 Ariary (2015). Behind the bar is a separate building which has two rooms for rent. The rooms are very simple with only a mattress on the floor and a not recommended outside shower and toilet. In 2015, the price for the room was 5,000 Ariary a night.
A bit confusing can be the name of the village. In Malagasy ratra means a wound or injury and navona can be translated into the core of boils. Together Ratranavona translates into a wound/injury from boils. However, there were no signs of any skin irritations throughout a visit to this village in 2015 :-)
The next village direction south is Namantoana. The next village direction north through the rain forest is Antalavia.
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Maroantsetra - Antalaha trek around the Masoala peninsula - The village of Ratranavona lays on the path sneaking around the Masoala Peninsula.
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RIMPAC Begins Without China but Adds Army and Air Force Firepower
Adm. John C. Aquilino, commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet answer questions about the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018 exercise during a press conference on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, June 28, 2018. (U.S. Navy photo/Natalie M. Byers)
Stars and Stripes | By Wyatt Olson
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The absence of China's rising navy won't have much impact on this year's Rim of the Pacific drills, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet said during a dockside launch of the month-long exercise.
The U.S. rescinded China's invitation last month over actions the nation has taken in the South China Sea.
"This entire exercise is about nations cooperating for peace, stability, security and a free and open Indo-Pacific region," Adm. John Aquilino told reporters gathered at Pearl Harbor Thursday.
Last month, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that "China continues to militarize features in the South China Sea" by utilizing "weapons that just a few years ago they said they would not be putting there."
According to Aquilino, China's actions in the South China Sea are "exactly contradictory to the entire purpose" of RIMPAC.
In 2016, China brought five ships and about 1,200 personnel to the biennial exercise.
"I would say that very little will change," Aquilino said of China's absence from RIMPAC. "The events that they were scheduled to participate in, they will not -- but all of the same benefit exists from the like-minded nations that are participating in this particular event."
The countries participating in this year's exercise are: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.
Those 25 nations will bring together a fleet of 46 warships and five submarines and troops from 18 national land forces -- along with more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel.
"We are all maritime nations," said Vice Adm. John Alexander, commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet and head of RIMPAC's combined task force. "We all prosper through trade, and the majority of trade goes through the Indo-Pacific region."
New at this year's exercise are live-fire drills that involve the Army's Multi-Domain Task Force shooting a Navy missile to sink a ship at sea, and the Air Force dropping long-range anti-ship missiles, Alexander said.
"It's the first time we've done something like this [at] RIMPAC," Alexander explained. "We're looking to expand this in 2020.
"It's a maritime exercise, but we have ground forces supporting a maritime environment," he added.
For the first time, the Philippines has brought two ships, a frigate and a landing platform dock, to the exercise.
The first non-founding member of RIMPAC, Chile, will command the combined-forces sea component during this year's event.
"This is the largest maritime exercise in the world, and it's a tremendous responsibility," said Chile's Commodore Pablo Niemann, who will head the sea component.
This is the 12th time Chile's navy has participated in RIMPAC, and its sailors have been "working up the ladder of responsibilities" to earn the command spot in 2018, he said.
According to Niemann, Chile's is a small navy, with eight frigates, four submarines, an amphibious task force and a host of small boats for patrolling its long coast.
"We thought that this year, being our 200th anniversary as a navy, would be a good time to challenge ourselves with a responsibility of this size and scope," he said.
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Tour de Pier Recap
Steve, Stan, and Mike with volunteers from the Mira Costa Key Club at the Kiwanis Bike and Stroller Valet at Tour de Pier in Manhattan Beach.
On Sunday, May 21st, the Manhattan Beach Kiwanis Club, with help from our friends at the Mira Costa Key Club, manned the bike and stroller valet at Tour de Pier. Tour de Pier is an event at which hundreds of people gather at one of the most beautiful spots on the planet, the Manhattan Beach Pier, and ride stationary bicycles in shifts to raise money for cancer research. It's a quirky and fun and wonderful event that is very indicative of Manhattan Beach in so many ways.
Many of the folks who ride can't get enough of cycling! Not only do they ride to raise money but they ride to the event on their own bikes. That's where Kiwanis comes in! In the true spirit of community service, we provide a secure location for bikes, strollers, skateboards, and more free of charge. This service keeps bicycles off of lampposts, fences, and storefronts where they get in the way and makes it easier for folks to get to the event without having to worry about where to park.
It's a humble service that we provide but it's one that we think adds a lot of value to a fantastic event. We couldn't do it without the support of the community and without the extra help from the Key Clubbers. Thanks to all of you who participated in the event!
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How does rheumatoid arthritis affect the ankles?
Last reviewed Tue 11 September 2018 Last reviewed Tue 11 Sep 2018
By Aaron Kandola
Reviewed by Nancy Carteron, MD, FACR
Rheumatoid arthritis can affect the ankle joints in a similar way to other joints, causing stiffness, swelling, and pain.
Most often, rheumatoid arthritis or RA affects the hands and feet, but, less commonly, it can also affect the ankles.
The condition typically impacts on smaller joints first, such as the toe joints in the foot. It may then move to larger joints, such as the ankles. RA in the ankles can impede walking and cause considerable discomfort.
In this article, we take a close look at how RA affects the ankles, including the symptoms, and how people can relieve pain and swelling.
How does RA affect the ankles?
RA can cause inflammation in the ankle joints.
Image credit: 'ιπλή, 2010
Symptoms of RA tend to come and go in cycles called flares that may last a few days or several weeks. People may notice their symptoms are worse in the morning or at night.
As it does in other joints, RA can cause inflammation and stiffness in the ankle joints as a result of long-term inflammation. Over time, the structure of the ankle joints can be affected, leading to permanent changes in the shape of the joints.
The ankle joint connects the bones of the leg to the foot. It is made up of two smaller joints that act as a hinge to move the foot. Movements, such as walking, rely on properly functioning ankle joints.
The bones in the ankle joint contain cartilage that protects them from rubbing against each other. RA causes this to break down over time, increasing the friction between the bones.
This friction between bones can produce inflammation around the ankle joint. The surrounding tissues that support the ankle may also be damaged, causing them to become weak and unstable and unable to support the joint fully.
In many cases, people with RA in the ankles also have other symptoms in their feet. Commonly affected areas are:
the heel of the foot, particularly the Achilles tendon when nodules appear
the middle of the foot and bones below the ankle (if the tendons and ligaments become lax, this can cause a flat foot)
the front ball of the foot
the toes
How does RA in the ankles feel?
The main symptom of RA in the ankle joint is inflammation, making the joint swollen, painful, and stiff. This can restrict the joint's mobility, and impair a person's ability to walk and stand.
In the early stages, symptoms may be mild and infrequent. For example, people may begin to feel discomfort when walking up a hill, as this places the ankle joints under extra pressure.
Over time, inflammation can become worse, causing damage to the joints and their surrounding tissues. Symptoms then become more pronounced. The ankles may frequently become painful and stiff, particularly when walking or standing.
In longstanding disease, the ankle joint can become fused and range of motion lost, which impacts gait significantly because the foot cannot flex to allow the necessary push off. However, due to developments in treatments, this is now rare.
When chronic RA causes changes to the structure of the foot, it can lead to callouses, bunions, nodules, and corns.
Aside from inflammation in the joints, other symptoms of RA may include:
A doctor will recommend an X-ray to assess the extent of the joint damage.
Doctors can often diagnose RA with a physical examination. They will also visually inspect the ankles for signs of inflammation or other signs, and test their range of motion.
While doctors will diagnose RA mainly based on symptoms, they may also recommend other tests to look for finer details.
For example, doctors often recommend X-rays, ultrasound, or sometimes MRI scans to assess the extent and location of joint damage. This may be more likely when the doctor suspects RA in the ankle, as the early damage is less immediately obvious than in other areas.
Blood tests can help to determine whether antibodies in the blood indicate RA or rule out other conditions.
Treating RA in the ankles
The exact cause of RA is unknown. Researchers are still investigating the best treatments for the condition.
Treating RA can involve a combination of different methods, including exercises, adopting an anti-inflammatory diet, and using medication to reduce inflammation and pain.
Smoking is a known risk factor for developing RA and for symptoms worsening, so if a person quits smoking, they may benefit their long-term outlook.
Exercising the ankle joints
For a person with RA in the ankles, a physical therapist can create an exercise plan.
Keeping the ankle joints mobile throughout the day can improve flexibility and range of motion in the area.
Exercises can be designed to ensure the ankles stay mobile but without adding too much strain and causing further damage.
Strengthening the muscles around the joints can also reduce further damage by providing extra support.
People can try specific exercises that stretch and strengthen the ankle joints to reduce pain, stiffness, and swelling, including:
exercises to strengthen the foot and ankle muscles to relieve pressure on the joints
stretches to alleviate stiffness in the tissue surrounding the ankles
Physical therapists can create exercises plans that they tailor for the individual. People will need to find out what exercises are best for their needs.
People may need to stop or limit activities that put too much strain on the ankles in some cases.
When walking, a person may need to use equipment that offers support, such as a cane or walking frame, to limit the impact on the ankles. Orthopedic shoes may also be beneficial.
Maintaining a healthy weight can help reduce discomfort. Being overweight can put additional strain on the ankle joints. A doctor may encourage a healthful, anti-inflammatory diet, or a new exercise routine.
Rheumatoid arthritis can make the ankles swell. Learn more about why RA causes swelling, and how to treat this symptom, here.
Reducing inflammation is critical to enable a person to limit swelling in their ankles and manage their pain.
The following medications can help with the symptoms of RA and may reduce long-term damage in the joints:
painkillers to manage uncomfortable symptoms
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to reduce inflammation
disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
Managing inflammation can help restore mobility in the ankle and other joints. If RA has caused permanent damage to the ankle joint, medication will not reverse this but may assist with pain, preventing further damage, and improving quality of life.
Doctors can also use corticosteroid injections into the ankle to quickly reduce severe inflammation to prevent damage or reduce pain.
People should be aware that they may be more likely to get infections if they take DMARDs and biologics, as these can suppress the immune system.
People who have advanced forms of RA or do not respond sufficiently to treatment may require surgery.
What surgery doctors offer will depend on the type of arthritis and extent of the damage. Some surgeries involve fusing parts of bones in the ankle to prevent them from rubbing and causing inflammation and pain.
Ankle replacement surgery may be an option to reduce someone's pain and restore their joint mobility in more severe cases, such as if fusion has not been effective.
RA is a chronic condition. The symptoms usually start mild but can progress to produce significant discomfort and mobility issues. When RA affects the ankles, it can limit the ability to stand or walk properly.
However, a range of effective treatments is available, and a combination of treatments can help improve people's quality of life during flares.
Swelling in rheumatoid arthritis and where it occurs Swelling around a joint is a common symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. It often appears around the hands and feet and is caused by inflammation or a buildup of fluid in the lining of the joint. Learn how this swelling occurs, where it can appear, and how people can treat this symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. Read now
How does rheumatoid arthritis affect the elbow? Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can affect any joint in the body, including the elbow joint. RA in the elbow can change the shape of the joint, which can reduce mobility. Some people may also develop nodules around the elbow. In this article, we look at how RA affects the elbow, what it feels like, and ways to treat it. Read now
Twelve early signs of rheumatoid arthritis In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a person's immune system attacks their joints, causing them to become inflamed. Early signs include fatigue, fever, and weight loss. In time, inflammation can develop throughout the body, affecting not only the joints but also the eyes, heart, and other functions. Read now
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Suter, L. G., Fraenkel, L., & Braithwaite, R. S. (2011, May). Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care & Research, 63(5), 675–688. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acr.20409
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Antibiotics Still Misused in Babies With Viral Lung Infections
THURSDAY, Jan. 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. emergency rooms routinely prescribe antibiotics to babies with the common viral lung infection bronchiolitis, counter to recommendations issued more than a decade ago, a new study finds.
Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of hospitalization for U.S. babies in their first year of life. In bronchiolitis, the lung's small airways (bronchioles) become inflamed and congested, typically due to a virus. Antibiotics are not effective against viruses.
A 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics (APA) guideline recommended against antibiotics for bronchiolitis in children without a documented bacterial infection.
An analysis of emergency department visits between 2007 and 2015 found that about 25 percent of children under age 2 with bronchiolitis were prescribed antibiotics, similar to the rate before the APA guideline.
Of babies given antibiotics for bronchiolitis during the study period, 70 percent had no documented bacterial infection, according to the study published Jan. 17 in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
But antibiotics have drawbacks. Their side effects lead to about 70,000 emergency department visits among U.S. children each year, according to a previous study.
And misuse also contributes to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can cause infections that are harder to treat, a growing public health threat.
"Targeted interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing among clinicians are essential," study senior author Dr. Brett Burstein said in a journal news release.
"But at the same time, informing the lay public about the potential downstream consequences and why it is important not to overtreat viral conditions are equally important," he added.
Burstein is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, Canada.
The study also found that kids with bronchiolitis who were seen at emergency departments not located in teaching hospitals or pediatric hospitals were more likely to be prescribed antibiotics.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more on bronchiolitis.
SOURCE: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, news release, Jan. 17, 2019
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Kix guitarist goes missing, found “not in great condition”
If you went to see Baltimore ’80s rockers Kix play last night at the Hummel’s Wharf Fire Company in Selinsgrove PA, you might have noticed there was something missing, as the band played the show as a four-piece. TMZ reports that the band went to pick up guitarist Ronnie Younkins, and couldn’t find him. They attempted to call him, but couldn’t get in touch with him. Ultimately, they played the show as a quartet, telling the crowd that Younkins wasn’t able to make the show.
The guitarist has since been found, and while details are vague, he was said to be found “not in great condition.” He apparently has a history of substance abuse, and went to rehab for alcohol in 2015. With specific details unknown, it’s unclear whether the band will continue to play without Younkins, but they have a number of shows lined up, the next being on April 7 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT. Here’s hoping he’s better soon. Below, you can see the band playing last night as a four-piece.
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Nuda Veritas. Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession 1895–1905
- 23 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts will stage an exhibition of the outstanding works dating from the early period of the Vienna Secession with Gustav Klimt as its emblematic figure. The core material of the two hundred or so pieces, mainly drawings and prints, is formed by the works from the collection of the Albertina in Vienna, complemented by drawings and some excellent paintings from Austrian, American and Japanese public and private collections. The exhibition will also include pieces from the Museum of Fine Arts’ own collection: works by the various members of the Secession group and pieces by foreign contemporary artists who once exerted great influence on them.
“Nuda Veritas. Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession 1895–1905” forms part of the series launched by the Museum of Fine Arts to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of Modern art. Following previous exhibitions about Gustave Moreau, Alfons Mucha, Ferdinand Hodler, and the show Degas to Picasso, “Nuda Veritas” also provides an overview of an important chapter in the renewal of the fine arts from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
The early years of the Vienna Secession can be regarded as the most fascinating and diversely influential period in the history of art in Austria. This brief but all the more intense period is clearly defined by dates: it began on 3 April in 1897 with the formation of the Union of Austrian Artists (Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreich), also known as the Vienna Secession, and its end is marked by the separation of the Klimt Group from the union on 14 June 1905. Over the course of a few years, starting in March 1898, the members mounted twenty-three exhibitions, representing the milestones of the early history of the Secession, which it was possible to reconstruct with the help of contemporaneous photographs and written records. The “golden era” was characterised by an inspired and intense activity, faithfully documented by the six volumes published until 1903 of Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring), the highly informative publication of the Vienna Secession executed at a high artistic standard. In addition, the exhibition posters and individually designed catalogues are similarly valuable sources of the art group’s history.
The most striking feature of the early years is a radicalism manifest in the work of each artist – most especially Klimt – as well as in the development of the group. This is apparent in a diverse way, ranging from style, taste, and a change in approach to the international art scene, to programmatic self-representation and the didactic teachings of their texts. At the same time, the language and criteria of evaluation used by the art critics – often referred to as “fellow fighters” – were also continuously changing. The concept of the present exhibition and the selection of the works were based on our search to identify the reasons for this radicalism, as was our intention to present the “young” Secession in its historical development.
The exhibition seeks to display a rich selection of this artistically productive period mainly through prints and drawings but will also include the genres of painting and sculpture through some crucially important works. The ten years will be introduced by those works that the artists who played a main role in the foundation of the Secession group (Gustav Klimt, Josef Engelhart, Maximilian Lenz, Alfred Roller, Kolo Moser) and art groups (Hagen Circle, Club of Seven) produced prior to 1897. The period portrayed by the exhibition virtually signifies the birth of Modern art in Vienna and will be broken down into several chapters: a separate section will be devoted to the overture of the Secession, marked by the year 1898, the most active in the history of the group, as well as to the illustration activity connected to Ver Sacrum. The spiritual leader and first president of the Vienna Secession, Gustav Klimt, will be accorded a highlighted place in the exhibition, which will not only display his significant paintings, such as Nuda Veritas – “naked truth”, included in the title of the exhibition, but also a group of his drawings evocative of a work that has not survived but which represented an important phase of his artistic career: the three murals symbolising the faculties of the University of Vienna. The preparations made for the Beethoven frieze of 1902 will be documented through numerous excellent sketches, and drawings revealing a sensitive artist will provide an insight into Klimt’s portraits. His erotic drawings that challenged a taboo at the time were made as preparatory works for his painting Water Snakes II. An individual chapter will be devoted to the Beethoven exhibition of 1902, the culmination of the era’s ambition to create total art. A separate section will focus on how the sudden popularity of the woodcut – reintroduced by the Secession by Ferdinand Andri, Carl Moll, Kolo Moser and Emil Orlik, among others – made the group an important agent in the Modern revival of the genre.
One of the ambitions of the Secession was to acquaint the Viennese public with the best of contemporary foreign art, which provided the international context for their work. The Budapest exhibition will, therefore, include a selection of the diverse collection of prints and drawings from the Albertina in Vienna and the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest – works by Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Max Klinger, Ludwig von Hofmann, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, Jan Toorop, Edvard Munch and Ferdinand Hodler – in the same vein. A work of special interest is Angel of Life by Giovanni Segantini, which was received with great success at the exhibition of the Secession at the time and was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts in 1901.
“Nuda Veritas. Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession 1895–1905” seeks to present a comprehensive picture about the birth of the Secession and the first years of its golden era. Worthy of the high standards set by the previous, prominent shows it staged, the Museum of Fine Arts temporarily bids farewell to visitors with an exhibition of masterpieces by the key figures of the Secession. According to plans, the Museum of Fine Arts will be closed from January 2011 while a major development aimed at the extension of the institution is carried out.
The curator of the exhibition: Marian Bisanz-Prakken, art historian at the Albertina in Vienna; co-curators in Budapest: Zsuzsa Gonda and Kata Bodor, art historians at the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Museum of Fine Arts.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Deutsche Bank. Partner organisation: Kempinski Hotel Corvinus
23 May 2019 - 4 August 2019
The Triumph of the Body – Michelangelo and Sixteenth-century Italian Draughtsmanship
6 April 2019 - 30 June 2019
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District of New Jersey Finds the Government Not Liable for Remediation Costs Associated with Former Chromite Defense Site
Posted on December 4, 2018 by: Maria C. Salvemini
In an unpublished opinion, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey held that the Government was not liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) for remediation costs incurred at a former defense site. PPG Indus., Inc. v. United States, No. 12-3526, 2018 WL 6168623 (D.N.J. Nov. 26, 2018). Last year we reported on TDY Holdings v. United States, in which the Ninth Circuit rejected a zero percent liability allocation to the government for remediation costs incurred at a former aeronautical manufacturing plant. In PPG Industries, the District of New Jersey found that the Government’s general wartime control over a New Jersey chromite facility was insufficient by itself to impose liability absent a direct connection between the Government and waste disposal activities. The District Court’s decision highlights a hurdle for private parties hoping to hold the government responsible for cleanup costs incurred at former defense sites.
PPG Industries, Inc. (“PPG”) was the owner and operator of property in Jersey City, New Jersey (the “Site”) from 1954 to 1962 where a chromite ore processing plant was located. PPG purchased the Site from Natural Products Refining Company (“NPR”), which had owned and operated the Site since 1910 and whose operations included converting chrome ore to chromium chemicals. The production process created “mud” or “sludge,” containing hazardous substances—some of which was stockpiled on the Site. During World Wars I and II, NPR produced chrome chemicals at the Site for the Government and civilian consumption. During these wars the Government designated chromium chemicals as a critical war material and implemented price and labor controls, and subsidies.
In 1982, the City of Jersey City notified PPG that its Site posed a danger to public health, safety, and welfare. After conducting sampling that confirmed the contamination, PPG engaged in remedial activities—incurring $361 million in remediation costs since December 2015. PPG filed its Complaint and Amended Complaint in 2012, seeking cost recovery and contribution under CERCLA, assistance in remediation under RCRA, and relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act. The parties cross moved for summary judgment on the issue of the Government’s liability for cleanup costs under CERCLA and RCRA.
PPG alleged that the Government was liable under CERCLA as both an operator and arranger. First, the District Court explained that under the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51 (1998), that “the government’s general wartime control over an industry is insufficient to establish operator liability.” PPG, 2018 WL 6168623, at *12. Rather, a direct nexus must exist between the government’s involvement and the waste disposal activities at issue. Moreover, mere recommendations by the government are insufficient for imposing operator liability when such recommendations can be disregarded. The court explained that even though the Government had various interactions with the Site, it “never directly managed or conducted NPR’s operations regarding pollution—either the release and disposal of hazardous substances or the implementation of environmental remediation.” Id. at *13. Thus, the court concluded, that “[a]ll of the Government’s actions in relation to NPR’s plant are consistent with general wartime influence over an industry—not control over NPR’s pollution-specific activities.” Id. Accordingly, the court held that the Government was not liable as an operator under CERCLA.
Next, the District Court found that the Government was not liable as an arranger under CERCLA. In reaching its decision the court emphasized that the Government never took ownership or control over the hazardous waste at the Site. Further, the court found PPG’s failure to produce evidence that the Government took ownership over the hazardous waste in any capacity was, by itself, sufficient to defeat arranger liability. The Court also noted that the Government lacked control over the process that produced the hazardous waste at NPR’s facility. The court found the Government’s knowledge that certain processes would increase the amount of pollution insufficient by itself to impose arranger liability. Thus, the Court found that the Government was entitled to summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ arranger theory of liability.
The Court also found that the Government was entitled to summary judgment on PPG’s RCRA claim. As the Court explained, liability under RCRA can only be imposed on a party who actively manages or disposes solid or hazardous waste. Because the Court found that the Government was not an operator of the site and never managed or disposed of the hazardous waste at the Site, it found that the Government could not be held liable under RCRA. Accordingly, the court granted the Government’s motion for summary judgment and denied PPG’s motion.
The District of New Jersey’s decision in PPG highlights a significant challenge plaintiffs face who want to hold the Government responsible for environmental cleanup costs associated with wartime activities. Owners should heed warning from the District Court’s decision, but at the same time keep an eye on any appeals in the event of a reversal like the one in TDY. In the meantime, however, parties hoping to recover from the Government under CERCLA or RCRA must establish a direct connection between the Government and disposal activities at a contaminated site to impose liability under either statute.
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Revised Rural Call Completion Reporting Requirements Effective April 1
Covered providers must begin collecting and retaining rural call completion data as of April 1, to be reported beginning August 1.
On March 4, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) published in the Federal Register a notice that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection requirements associated with the FCC’s Rural Call Completion Order (the Order). The information collection, retention, and reporting requirements under the Order begin on April 1. The FCC also issued a public notice that provides further information about recording, collection, and reporting deadlines and electronic filing.
The Order contains a host of new data collection, retention, and reporting requirements aimed at ensuring completion of calls to rural areas.
Providers Covered by the Rules
The Commission’s recording, retention, and reporting requirements apply to providers of long-distance voice services that make the initial long-distance call path choices for more than 100,000 domestic retail subscriber lines. This 100,00 number is arrived at by counting the total of all business and residential fixed subscriber lines and mobile phones and aggregated over all of the providers’ affiliates, regardless of whether the providers are facilities based or not (covered providers). In most cases, this is the calling party’s long-distance provider. Covered providers include voice over Internet protocol service providers (interconnected and one-way), local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and commercial mobile radio service providers. The rules do not apply to intermediate providers. Originating long-distance voice service providers that do not make the initial long-distance call path decisions for more than 100,000 domestic retail subscriber lines are not required to comply with the recording and reporting requirements. Instead, the entity or entities that make the initial long-distance call path decisions for calls from those providers’ end-user customers must record and report data for those calls. All originating long-distance voice service providers that have more than 100,000 domestic retail subscriber lines but that are not required to file quarterly reports must file a one-time letter with the Commission and certain affected carriers on April 1.
Information Collection Effective Date
Covered providers must begin recording the required data on April 1.
Information Collection Requirements
The rules require covered providers to collect and retain the following information for each long-distance call attempt: calling party number; called party number; date; time of day; whether the call is handed off to an intermediate provider and, if so, which intermediate provider; whether the call is going to a rural carrier and, if so, which rural carrier, as identified by its Operating Company Number (OCN); whether the call is interstate; and whether the call attempt was answered. The rules also require certain “cause code information” to be retained. The rules require covered providers to record data for all domestic long-distance calls, regardless of whether the calls are interstate or intrastate, and to report data on interstate and intrastate calls separately.
Autodialer Traffic
Covered providers must include autodialer traffic in their collection, retention, and reporting. Covered providers may, however, submit separate calculations in their reports that segregate autodialer traffic from other traffic, accompanied by an explanation of the method that the provider used to identify the autodialer traffic. Call attempts of short duration must also be included, but the rules exclude both call attempts handed back to an upstream provider and call attempts to toll-free numbers.
Data-Retention Requirements
The rules apply a six-month retention period for covered carriers to retain the required collected information for calls made to rural telephone companies as identified by OCNs.
The rules require covered providers to submit a certified report to the Commission once per calendar quarter that includes for each full month in that quarter (1) for each rural OCN, the OCN, the state, the total number of attempted interstate calls, the number of attempted interstate calls that were answered, the number of attempted interstate calls that were not answered, and the number of those calls reported separately for call attempts signaled as “busy,” “ring no answer,” or “unassigned number”; (2) the same information described in (1), but for intrastate calls; (3) the same information regarding attempted interstate calls described in (1), but for nonrural OCNs in the aggregate; and (4) the same information regarding attempted intrastate calls described in (2), but for nonrural OCNs in the aggregate. Affiliated providers can report individually or aggregated to the holding-company level.
The rules require covered providers to report data that will allow the Commission to calculate the call answer rate, rather than requiring covered providers to report the call answer rate themselves. The rules also require covered providers to report data regarding unanswered calls. Specifically, covered providers must report, for each rural OCN and for nonrural OCNs in the aggregate but separated by interstate and intrastate call attempts (a) the total number of call attempts, (b) the number of answered calls, (c) the number of call attempts that result in a “busy” code, (d) the number of call attempts that result in a “ring no answer” code, and (e) the number of call attempts for which the called number was reported to be unassigned.
Pursuant to the Commission’s rules, the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) has provided a list of rural and nonrural OCNs on its website here.
The reports must be submitted in electronic form using a template specified by the Commission. Generally, the quarterly reports will be due each year on February 1 (reflecting monthly data from October through December), May 1 (reflecting monthly data from January through March), August 1 (reflecting monthly data from April through June), and November 1 (reflecting monthly data from July through September).
Covered providers that file reports may request confidential treatment of all or portions of the data that they submit without filing the detailed confidentiality justification required by section 0.459 of the Commission’s rules. The Commission will release information to states on request if those states are able to maintain the confidentiality of this information. The Commission will also inform carriers of any data requests made covering reported information.
The Commission will encourage, but not require, rural incumbent local exchange carriers to report quarterly on the number of incoming long-distance call attempts received, the number answered, and the call answer rate calculation for each of the previous three months by the reporting dates for covered providers.
Exceptions, Safe Harbors, and Waivers
The rules include a “managing intermediate provider safe harbor” measure, which will provide reduced collection, retention, and reporting requirements. This safe harbor will apply to providers that use no more than two intermediate providers in a given call path before the call reaches the terminating provider. The rules provide additional detail on how the safe harbor will be applied and specific qualification requirements.
The rules also contain a waiver process to enable providers that have taken steps in addition to satisfying the requirements for the safe harbor to ensure that calls to rural areas are being completed to receive a waiver of the data-retention obligations. The Wireline Competition Bureau, in consultation with the Enforcement Bureau, has been delegated authority to consider requests for waiver of the specific reporting and data-retention rules. The rules provide additional detail on how to apply for a waiver and what waiver requests must demonstrate.
If you wish to further discuss the Commission’s Order and the notice of proposed rulemaking, please do not hesitate to contact any of the following Morgan Lewis lawyers:
Ronald W. Del Sesto, Jr.
Tamar E. Finn
William B. Wilhelm, Jr.
William B. Wilhelm Jr.
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Morgan O'Kane plays banjo like no other. Originally hailing from Virginia; O'Kane currently resides in Brooklyn when he is not on tour, where he sometimes plays in the subway and on the street. The music is "to bluegrass and old timey what punk was to rock in the late seventies" (Ian Spafford / www.stirrings.org.uk) Deeply steeped in old traditions, O'Kane treats the banjo differently than you've heard it before and brings a punk sensibility to his music.
Of his new song, “Shroud Of Turin,” virtuoso banjoist/songwriter/activist Morgan O’Kane says, “It’s not an atheist or anti-religion song by any means. It’s actually very spiritual. It’s about how faith has twisted minds.” O’Kane goes on to tell the story of a West Virginia town, not far from where he grew up (Charlottesville, VA- he lives in NYC now), ravaged by an unusual epidemic of cancer, allegedly brought on by the strip mining activities of a handful of local corporations. The townspeople have been hoodwinked, the companies using their faith as a conduit, that their passivity in the matter is virtuous in the Eyes of the Beholder.
“Shroud Of Turin” is just one of the songs on his latest, and 3rd full-length album, The One They Call The Wind due out on March 25th on Dollartone Records that illuminates O’Kane’s inspiration, and it’s par for the course. He not only talks about what he loves, what he’s passionate about, what he won’t stand for and what he can’t stand, he writes and sings about, as well.
For the past handful of years, O’Kane has been actively involved in the Anti-Mountaintop Removal movement, and has aided the efforts of the Mountain Justice Organization. In fact, Morgan and band-mate, Sufi wizard Ezekiel Healy provided the score for Jordan Freeman’s powerful documentary film, Low Coal, a must-see for anyone interested in issues of inequality and the affects of corporate and political decisions on the working class.
But like historical folk/blues predecessors Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Reverend Gary Davis, Aunt Molly Jackson and the late Pete Seeger, among others, of course, transformative personal events are put to light, first and foremost…
For example, “Fiddler’s Green” is a tune that pays tribute to fiddler/band mate Ferd Moyse IV’s Freeport 36 sailboat, and the transcendent Carribean jaunt that O’Kane and his group of musicians took with the vessel a few years back. O’Kane says, “The song is about that trip—surrounded by the phosphorescence and the call of the sea bird, you remember loved ones in a different light.” It points at how a shift in perspective could inspire a shift in perception.
Speaking of which, the new album features a noteworthy posse of music maker friends- Moyse IV, who also plays with the Hackensaw Boys; Healy on dobro; NYC brass band veteran J.R. Hankins on flugelhorn, and Liam Crill on drums, (Kings of Nuthin). NYC-based chanteuse Domino Kirke also guests on backing vocals for a number of the album’s tunes.
“Monarchs” is a song about direction, as well-- about how we all have a built-in compass that guides us along: Monarchs in the wind/Remember where they've been/Holding on to life/Migration in flight.
“Compass Rose” is a particularly brilliant display of talent, boasting O’Kane’s relentless banjo picking and divine bellow, encircled by Hankins’ flugelhorn, Healy’s dobro work and Kirke’s lovely backing vocal, and the album’s title track is a showcase for Crill’s insistent percussion and Moyse’s fiddle over O’Kane’s refrain, “This old church is going up in flames/Worship the one they call the wind.”
The One They Call The Wind does owe a lot to Morgan’s 2 prior album releases. 2010’s debut LP, Nine Lives which was heralded by, among others, Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour who quipped, “If Uncle Dave Macon married Bruce Springsteen their love child would be Morgan O’Kane” (the album also made MOJO Magazine’s Top Ten playlist). And 2011’s Pendulum prompted Dutch outlet, LUST FOR LIFE to say, "Morgan O’Kane is a phenomenon… raw and intense… he revives old heroes of traditional music while hypnotically channeling the heartbeat of the country. Fiercely, together with Ezekiel Healy, Ferd Moyse, Leyla McCalla as though they come from a deep and dark past of a not yet mapped out American mountain scene.”
But the new long player takes it from there and steps it up. It is a concise masterpiece of virtuosic musicianship, infinite spirit and unyielding passion, and in this way The One They Call The Wind is, at once, transporting and timeless.
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Creative Partner
Deborah van Dam
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BeamSystems
Projection & Composition
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VAN GOGH MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM
The Van Gogh Museum is a renowned museum in Amsterdam, dedicated to the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. It is located at the Museum Square in Amsterdam-South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. Even the building is special: it is designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa, both famous architects. The museum’s collection is the largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors, and was the most visited museum in the Netherlands and the 23rd most visited art museum in the world.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, who lived from 30 March 1853 to 29 July 1890. He was one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art. His characteristic paintings are known for the bold bright colours, dramatic and expressive brushwork. Most of his work include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. Even though he was not commercially successful during his time, after his death his work was recognized worldwide and became of great influence for the modern art.
Van Gogh started drawing as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. Later in his life he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. The artist was known for his psychotic episodes, delusions and neglecting his physical health. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter. Despite his mental illness, Van Gogh moved to Paris to live, work and eventually die. He remains remembered as an important but tragic painter and therefore it’s only fair for him to play an prominent part within the exhibition The Dutch in Paris.
EXHIBITION: THE DUTCH IN PARIJS
Paris! The City of Light has been an inspiration for centuries. The Dutch in Paris exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, shows Paris through the eyes and hearts of eight Dutch artists : Van Spaendonck, Jongkind, Van Gogh, Van Dongen, Mondrian.
Mr.Beam studio was asked to create a collage-like mapping installation to visualise the story of the famous artists.
EXPERIENCE AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM
We were asked to tell the story about the life and work of some of the most famous Dutch painters based in Paris. What brought them to the city of love and light, and what was their influence on the modern art?
Artist like Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso influenced the work of Dutch artists, but the Dutch left their mark on French art too. For instance, Jongkind taught Monet, Boudin and Sisley how to capture light on the canvas. The knowledge and inspiration gained in Paris, was later brought back to the Netherlands by the Dutch painters. Breitner brought French impressionism back home, prompting Isaac Israels to paint ballerinas and nudes. These were subjects that had previously been quite unusual among Dutch artists. The exhibition The Dutch in Paris is the first large-scale exhibition to illustrate this thrilling artistic interaction, and we were more than honoured to be able to use contemporary multimedia techniques and animation designs to tell the story in anno 2017.
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SuperValu to invest over €3m in solar panels for 30 stores
Oct 30, 2018 | News, Sustainability
SuperValu has announced plans to install solar panels to its stores. Under the terms of the energy-efficiency scheme, Ireland’s leading grocery retailer will invest over €3m in the next two years to install solar panels to 30 stores. Pictured at the launch at SuperValu Fermoy are (from left) Daniel Murphy Sustainability Manager, SuperValu and Michael Riordan, SuperValu Fermoy.
Retailer to introduce energy-efficient scheme as part of two-year plan
28 October, 2018 – SuperValu, Ireland’s leading grocery retailer, has announced an innovative plan to introduce solar panels to up to 30 of its stores over the next two years. The retailer will install the energy-efficient PV panels to its store network as part of an investment of over €3 million.
The move to introduce solar panels is part of SuperValu’s commitment to the reduction of energy consumption across its estate by 20% over the next two years. Once installed, the solar PV panels will generate electricity from the sun and will feed directly into the electricity supply to the store. This will offset some 60,000 kg of CO² annually per store.
Apart from providing electricity to each store, some of the electricity generated by the solar panels will also be used to supply energy to electric car charging points at selected stores.
Speaking at the launch of the plan at SuperValu Fermoy, Cork, Daniel Murphy, Sustainability Manager, SuperValu, said, “I am delighted to announce the launch of SuperValu’s plan to introduce solar panels to 30 stores. It will greatly reduce energy consumption across the store network and means that SuperValu retailers serve their communities in a more sustainable manner. This investment in solar panels demonstrates once again that as a community-focused retailer, SuperValu has taken a leadership position on sustainability.”
While SuperValu Baltinglass and SuperValu Portlaoise installed solar panels in recent years, SuperValu Fermoy is the first SuperValu store in the country to install solar PV panels as part of the sustainability initiative. To assist with the project, retailer Michael Riordan from SuperValu Fermoy received grant funding for the project under the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Better Energy Communities grant scheme.
Speaking at his SuperValu store in Fermoy, Mr Riordan commented, “As a retailer who works and lives in Fermoy, I am passionate about supporting local charities and sporting organisations. I am also conscious that as a business with deep roots in Fermoy, Riordan’s needs to reduce its impact on the local community. This is why I am delighted to install solar panels to SuperValu Fermoy. It will greatly reduce the store’s energy consumption, but more importantly, it will help to make Fermoy a great place for future generations to work and live.”
SuperValu has become one of the leading brands in Ireland in the area of energy reduction, thanks to its strong track record of introducing energy-efficient equipment to its independent stores. These initiatives include retrofitting energy-saving doors to refrigeration cabinets in 40% of its stores and installing LED lighting in over 60% of its store estate.
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The New York Times » Favorites » Why Some Israelis Still Support Netanyahu | Dispatches
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught up in a corruption scandal that has clouded his campaign ahead of Tuesday’s election, but some Israelis ... (more)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught up in a corruption scandal that has clouded his campaign ahead of Tuesday’s election, but some Israelis still support him. We went there to understand why they are sticking with him.
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Town of Oak Bluffs seeks permit to repair, expand stone revetment to reduce erosion in Oak Bluffs
CONCORD, Mass. – The town of Oak Bluffs is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District to conduct work in waters of the U.S. in conjunction with the rehabilitation and expansion of a deteriorated stone revetment in Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
This work is proposed along the northeastern shoreline of Oak Bluffs seaward of East Chop Road in Nantucket Sound in Oak Bluffs. The proposed project involves the discharge of approximately 11,158 cubic yards of rip rap material over an approximately 34,500-square-foot area below the high tide line for the rehabilitation and expansion of an existing, deteriorated stone revetment to mitigate future erosion of the bluff.
The town of Oak Bluffs has taken measures to reduce impacts to Waters of the United States by limiting seaward encroachment to the maximum extent practicable to achieve the project purpose. A majority of the proposed rehabilitation will occur within the historic and existing footprint of the revetment.
The decision whether to issue a Corps permit will be based on an evaluation of the probable impact of the proposed activity on the public interest. That decision will reflect the national concern for both protection and utilization of important resources. The benefits which may reasonably accrue from the proposal must be balanced against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. All factors which may be relevant to the proposal will be considered. The Corps is soliciting comments from the public; Federal, state, and local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other interested parties in order to consider and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity.
The application for the federal permit was filed with the Corps in compliance with Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, which provides for federal regulation of any work in, or affecting navigable waters of the U.S.; and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which regulates the discharge or fill of material in U.S. waters, including wetlands. The public notice, with more specifics on the work proposed by the town of Oak Bluffs, can be viewed on the Corps website at www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/PublicNotices.aspx.
Public comments on this work proposed by the town of Oak Bluffs (file # NAE-2017-01616) should be forwarded no later than May 2, 2019 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Regulatory Division (ATTN: Mike Wierbonics), 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751. Additional information is available from Permit Project Manager Mike Wierbonics at 978-318-8723 or toll free 800-343-4789 or 800-362-4367 (if calling from within Massachusetts) or by email to: michael.s.wierbonics@usace.army.mil.
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NALIP's New Executive Director
2017 is here and NALIP has new transitions and exciting goals set for the new year!
For over 17 years, NALIP has been promoting and advocating for Latinos in the entertainment and media industries. In the last several years, under the leadership of Executive Director, Axel Caballero, NALIP has restructured and repositioned itself for the future and, as a result, there has been unprecedented growth in membership, partners and programs.
As of January 1, 2017, Mr. Caballero has stepped down as Executive Director. However, NALIP is pleased to announce that he will continue his relationship with NALIP as a member of the board of directors.
NALIP is also pleased to announce that NALIP’s Projects Director, Ben Lopez, will assume the leadership of the organization as Executive Director. Axel and Ben have been a dynamic team in developing and promoting NALIP’s program offerings, such as the NALIP Media Summit, the Latino Lens Incubators, the Latino Lens Festival and the Diverse Women in Media Initiative. Under Ben’s leadership, these programs will continue as NALIP's signature programs and Ben is looking forward to developing new ways to promote the membership and serve Latino content creators and industry needs.
“Ben and I have been a strong team in developing and promoting NALIP. It has been an incredible and transformative few years and Ben will undoubtedly continue NALIP's growth."
- Axel Caballero
We are excited about what the future holds knowing our organization is stronger than ever before and we are excited at this next step knowing our members and partners are ready to double down with us in our mission, and will continue to #CreateWithUs.
The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) introduces Ben Lopez as the new Executive Director.
Ben is a Latino content creator, former NALIP Projects Director, and talent curator. In addition to his three year term as Projects Director and 12 year relationship with NALIP, Ben maintains and acts on his strong desire to ignite connections between talented people. In recent years he has developed and overseen NALIP signature programs including the annual NALIP Media Summit, Latino Media Market, Latino Media Awards, the Latino Lens program and festival, and the Diverse Women in Media Initiative. Now, Ben will serve NALIP, and its members, as the new face of one of the largest Latinx organizations in media and entertainment.
Ben’s experience is rooted in TV, film and digital production. After graduating from the University of Arizona, he served in various production roles including: unit production manager, production supervisor, and independent producer. With his experience, Ben took the hat of an independent producer, where he wrote, produced, and directed Spanish-language feature films. Before joining NALIP, Ben also served in production roles internationally, including Mexico, Asia, and South America.
Since joining the NALIP team in 2011, Ben has taken on many more hats and continues to push NALIP into new terrain with greater standards of talent curation, programming, visibility, and networking.
“For years I have been passionate about NALIP and its potential. I am excited to continue its growth as an organization, empowering our membership and working with our sponsors and partners to enhance the tools, opportunities and pathways of success for Latinx creators in media. Collectively, we hope to bring out the best of our members and creative community via our programs and initiatives.”
-Ben Lopez, NALIP Executive Director
In addition to developing into a strong ally of Latinxs, Ben stands for youth, people of color and the LBGTQ community. He has served as a consultant, content creator, judge, and speaker. This past spring, Ben earned a Professional Program in Producing certificate from the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. His term as Executive Director begins at the start of the new year.
NALIP (@nalip_org) is a nonprofit media organization committed to serving the Latinx creative community and pushing for greater diversity across all media. Our 18th annual NALIP Media Summit unites Latinxs for the largest gathering of content creators this coming June 22-25, 2017 in Los Angeles .
For more information on NALIP and how to get involved visit our website: www.nalip.org.
Mario Valdez Juarez commented 2017-01-04 17:20:59 -0800
Best wishes to Axel & Ben !!!! Mario Valdez Juarez Presents ….
Vincent Gonzales commented 2017-01-04 10:07:12 -0800
Congratulations Ben! NALIP is in good hands!
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Sundance Breakout: 'Monsters and Men'
'Monsters and Men' takes home U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award at Sundance
Congratulations to Reinaldo Marcus Green in being awarded the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature was presented for his film "Monsters and Men" at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Green’s rising trajectory is noted, from being selected earlier for both the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and 2015 Tribeca Film Festival for his short, “Stop” and now having his feature film directorial debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for “Monsters and Men.” Reinaldo Green’s success is marks an important step for the media landscape in terms of seeing the rise of more inclusive filmmaking. In his film not only being programmed but also acquired from an Afro Latino director, (Green is half Puerto Rican and half African American), signals the need for talented directors that are able to tell these diverse stories.
Monsters and Men / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Reinaldo Marcus Green, Producers: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Josh Penn, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Luca Borghese) — This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man. The film is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand. Cast: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan.
Neon Takes Domestic Rights to Police Brutality Drama ‘Monsters and Men’
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Neon has picked up Monsters and Men from director Reinaldo Marcus Green.
For Green, being able to write from his own experiences and tell his story through filmmaking gave him an opportunity to tackle a controversial issue in a way that sparks conversation on both ends. Offering differing perspectives on an incident involving the police and a young man of color, the film, comes from a point of individuals trying to understand each other’s views. “I was having a conversation with a cop friend and we were talking about the Eric Garner case. We just saw two different things on that tape. I saw a man that should be alive and he saw something different. He just thought it was unfortunate that the guy was dead but that he was resisting arrest.”
The deal was negotiated by the company and Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. Terms were not disclosed.
The plot interweaves the story of what happens in the aftermath of a police shooting in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer and a high school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand, showing the impact of racism and violence on a community.
The cast includes John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan and Cara Buono.
Elizabeth Lodge Stepp and Josh Penn of The Department of Motion Pictures, Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev and Luca Borghese produced. Executive producers are Sight Unseen’s Leonid Lebedev and Oren Moverman, Chiara Bernasconi, Charles Miller and The Department of Motion Pictures’ Noah Stahl. Read more at Deadline.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/intelligent-travel/2015/12/04/local-flavor-the-venetian-spritz-2.html
Photograph by Guillem Lopez, Alamy Stock Photo
During Hapsburg rule of the Veneto region (northern Italy), Austrians, unaccustomed to the higher alcohol content of Italian wines, would often request a splash of water (spritzen, in German) be added to their glass. And so, the story goes, the spritz was born.
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Local Flavor: The Venetian Spritz
Chances are, if you’ve been to Venice you’ve had at least one. Likely a dozen or more.
I’m talking about the spritz, a wine-based cocktail that’s served in about every watering hole in Italy’s Veneto region.
Far less boozy than typical cocktails, spritzes are ridiculously refreshing. Typically served as aperitifs (before a meal), they also happen to be ideal anytime drinks. Which is why, even back home from a recent visit to Venice, my wife and I have been making them almost daily.
Of course, as with most good cocktails, this one’s origins are cloudy. Plus, it seems everyone has his or her own way of making them.
For help, I turned to Talia Baiocchi, co-author of Spritz: Italy’s Most Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail (complete with recipes). Among various creation myths, the most plausible puts the spritz’s birth in 19th-century northern Italy, during the Habsburg Empire’s domination of the area, she says. Locals took to adding a little water in their wine, probably to make it less alcoholic.
But it wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century, when tipplers swapped still for sparkling water, that these drinks really became true spritzes, she says. A true spritz today is made by pairing wine and carbonated water (or simply a sparkling wine, such as Prosecco) with a bitter liqueur of some kind—often an aperitivo such as Campari or Aperol—and serving the mixture over cubed or crushed ice.
In a country where neighboring towns engage in fierce and proud rivalries—especially when it comes to local traditions and soccer teams—the favored spritz recipe depends on where you are. Indeed, folks in Italy’s Trentino Alto Adige region tend to have their own iteration, called the Hugo Spritz. Here, instead of a bitter component, the cocktail is made with a sweet elderflower cordial.
Down in Brescia, the preferred bitter is Cappelletti. And while the Milanese are partial to hometown hooch Campari, Venetians like their spritzes made with Select, a sweeter aperitivo born on the lagoon islands of Murano.
All of which means, Baiocchi says, that there really is no such thing as the perfect spritz. “To me, what makes the drink so special is the improvisational nature of it,” she says. “It’s a drink that’s tossed together with a kind of rakish, devil-may-care attitude. Which is why I think the drink has become so iconic in Italy. The spritz is the perfect representation of Italian-ness.”
A few of the best spots in Venice to get your spritz on:
Local favorite All’Arco is a can’t-miss spritz destination. Conveniently located near Venice’s famous Rialto Market, All’Arco also serves up great cicchetti, the city’s version of tapas.
Grab a canalside seat and order up a refreshing spritz at Al Timon, a popular haunt in less touristy Cannaregio, the northernmost of the city’s six historic sestieri (districts).
Another hopping osteria in Cannaregio, Paradiso Perduto (Paradise Lost) features regular live jazz performances along with its winning spritzes.
If you prefer to take your spritz with a view, Osteria Bancogiro is a great option. Its ample outdoor terrace overlooks the city’s famed Rialto Bridge spanning the Grand Canal.
Regarded as the world’s oldest coffeehouse in continuous operation, Caffè Florian is a must-visit. Sit outside on Piazza San Marco to hear the orchestra and partake in some of the city’s best people-watching.
Paul Abercrombie is a freelance writer who specializes in travel and wine-and-spirits coverage. Connect with him on Twitter @paulabercrombie.
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About Natural Health Products NZ About Natural Health Products NZ
About Natural Health Products NZ
The collective voice of the natural health products industry of New Zealand
Natural Health Products New Zealand represents an innovative and collaborative industry that is trusted worldwide as a leading provider of natural health products.
The Voice of New Zealand Industry
Natural Health Products NZ (formerly Natural Products NZ) is a national industry organisation representing the natural products, functional foods, complementary medicines, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals industries.
We were established in 2002 by industry and with support of the New Zealand Government’s business and export development agency, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. Our mandate is as follows:
Maximise the industry’s competitive advantage by building upon its significant and growing contribution to New Zealand’s economy
Increase New Zealand’s international profile, enhance its reputation as a source of high quality natural products and represent the industry at international trade fairs and conferences
Facilitate the growth and development of a vibrant, collaborative and innovative industry
Provide a cohesive and consistent national voice for the New Zealand industry, representing members at all levels including communications with government, media, industry commentators and related professional bodies
Advocate for workable regulation
Promote natural health products’ recognised complementary role in health management and support
Ensure the industry maintains high product quality, safety and efficacy standards
The New Zealand Natural Products Industry
New Zealand’s historical focus on agriculture and food production, its natural environment, and wealth of unique resources have combined to create a lucrative and growing natural health and nutraceuticals sector.
From harnessing the antibacterial properties of manuka honey, to research and development that has identified a non-calorific natural sweetener, the country has a long track record of identifying and utilising the medicinal and nutritional uses of natural products.
Exports include mussel extract powder, plant and marine oils, kiwifruit-based specialised ingredients, berry fruit powders and concentrates, natural honey products, deer velvet, skincare, botanical and dairy products.
New Zealand’s natural products industry is worth NZ$1.4 billion annually and growing, with major markets already established in Asia and North America, and a developing presence in Europe. Stringent processing and food export regulations, and a commitment to maintaining New Zealand’s world leading animal health status, underpin the expanding sector.
Natural Health Products NZ People
KERRY WARN
GENERAL MANGER
Natural Health Products NZ
Kerry is responsible for managing the organisation’s day-to-day operations and member support activities including the annual Summit, annual industry Awards, Natural Health Products NZ Suppliers Days and member communications. She was promoted to the General Manager role in early 2017 after having been the organisation’s Business Manager.
Before joining Natural Health Products NZ in 2013, Kerry previously enjoyed a 15-year career in the advertising industry, working in large multinational agencies in Auckland and London.
ALISON QUESNEL
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
Alison has been involved with Natural Health Products NZ in a variety of roles since 2009, including a Board member, Executive Director and, more recently, Government Affairs Director.
In this role she is responsible for assisting the natural health products sector to achieve important regulatory and public affairs goals, particularly in relation to the Natural Health Products Bill.
Before joining Natural Health Products NZ Alison had extensive experience in the health supplements, food manufacturing and business service industries. She has also held several government advisor roles in relation to the natural health products, small business, and food and beverage sectors.
Under Alison’s tenure as Natural Health Products NZ’s Executive Director, the organisation increased its membership, reach and support for the sector to further grow its contribution to New Zealand’s economy.
LORRAINE MOSER
VITACO HEALTH LTD
Nearly two decades in the natural health industry has given Lorraine a wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts in the New Zealand, Australian and export markets.
Lorraine originally began her natural products career with Nutra-Life Health as Marketing and Sales Manager. During this time she played an active role in Australia and New Zealand’s natural health industry and retail trade including being a member of the Complimentary Healthcare Council (CHC) of Australia and the Self Medication Industry Association. In more recent years she been Vitaco’s Innovation Manager for supplements, sports and food. She has been part of the Natural Health Products NZ Board since 2016.
Lorraine is passionate about proactive health and wellness and the natural health industry. She uses her Natural Health Products NZ Board role to work with the membership and extended industry partners in a capacity that will make a difference and ultimately help tackle the challenges and opportunities that face the industry.
SAMANTHA GRAY
BIOEQUITAS LTD
Samantha, a molecular biologist by training, has over 20 years’ experience in the natural health products, pharmaceutical, medical diagnostic, and biotechnology industries. She was Technical and Process Improvement Manager for Healtheries of New Zealand and an independent consultant to Vitaco Health NZ Ltd and Lifestream International Ltd. She has also held a variety of roles with the US blue-chip companies Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Diagnostics & Invitrogen Life Technologies.
As Managing Director of BioEquitas Ltd, she directs a consultancy specialising in the provision of scientific, research and development, new product development, regulatory, technical troubleshooting, due diligence and management consulting services, to the dietary supplements, health food and biotechnology industries.
JACKIE HERBERT
NZ HEALTH MANUFACTURING
A qualified Food Scientist, Jackie has amassed a depth and breadth of Technical, NPD and Regulatory experience across the NZ Natural Health industry.
Initially from the Food Industry, she has over 18 years’ experience in the Natural Health industry, previously working for a number of local manufacturers such as Nutralife, Vitaco Health NZ Ltd, Good Health Ltd and New Image Group.
Jackie is the current Technical Manager at New Zealand Health Manufacturing Ltd (NZHM), a GMP certified contract manufacturer of complementary medicines. In her current role at NZHM, Jackie leads the Technical function, responsible for the delivery of the QA, NPD and Regulatory functions.
A founding Anagenix director and investor, Chris is an experienced investor and business advisor who understands the path to success in the nutraceutical ingredients market. Before joining Anagenix, he assisted a number of New Zealand businesses to successfully export premium gourmet foods to the USA and UK. He also founded and grew a New Zealand tech company to become a global leader in the printing and graphic arts industry.
With his time at Anagenix, Chris has become passionate about the health and wellness sector and developing solutions from New Zealand grown bioactives that can deliver beneficial solution to health.
Chris has been on a number of boards either as Chairman or Director and understands the importance of good governance and working collaboratively with the management team. He brings to the Natural Health Products NZ Board first-hand experience of growing a New Zealand-based company in the natural products sector and the issues and challenges that companies encounter
LEIGH KITE
KITE CONTRACTING
Leigh is a highly experienced senior executive and marketing professional who has been a passionate contributor to the natural health & beauty sectors since 2001.
She has been a Director on the Natural Health Products NZ Board since 2012 and was an executive member of Cosmetics NZ for 8 years, including 2 terms as President.
With natural products industry experience gained from senior management roles with Healtheries, Blackmores, Comvita and Artemis, she has most recently started her own business.
Kite Contracting specialises in sales, marketing and strategy including advisory services, fixed term projects and temporary staff cover.
PETER LEHRKE
As a biochemist and nutritionist Peter has extensive technical, R&D and general management experience in the foods, pharmaceuticals, supplements and cosmetics industries, bringing more than 30 years of industry experience to the Board.
His career began at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals where he developed generic medicines and then managed the tablet manufacturing department. From there Peter moved to animal health formulation development for Nufarm (now Agenta), and then to Douglas Pharmaceuticals. It was here that Peter led the design and project team for a $9 million pharmaceutical facility in Fiji, which he commissioned, obtained GMP certification and established the operations for.
After returning to New Zealand Peter set up technical consulting company Pharmatech. Clients range from large exporters, to smaller companies in the natural health and cosmetic industry that need technical advice.
Peter has also established a new contract manufacturing factory in Hamilton called PharmaNZ Limited.
Peter has been on the Natural Health Products NZ Board since 2003.
AVIETTE MUSIN
BIOBALANCE / HEALTHPOST
Aviette is COO at both HealthPost, New Zealand’s leading online retail store for natural wellness, beauty and health products, and BioBalance, quality natural health supplements and superfoods.
Aviette is a new comer to the natural health industry and enjoyed a 20-year career in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare industries before working with the teams at GO Healthy and New Zealand Health Manufacturing in 2018. She is an experienced business and people leader who has operated at a senior level at GlaxoWellcome, GSK, Jansen and AbbVie across the functions of commercial leadership, marketing, project management, business development, health economics and government affairs.
Aviette sees through complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty to possibilities and has a passion for turning those possibilities into reality.
CLAIRE QUIN
ALARON PRODUCTS LTD
Claire has over 16 years’ of experience working within the natural health food, complementary medicine and personal care sector. Claire has held positions across numerous areas of the sector, such as Quality, Technical, Sales and Marketing, Business Development and Management, demonstrating her extensive and comprehensive knowledge across crucial areas of the industry.
Claire currently holds the position of General Manager for Alaron Products Limited, a GMP Certified Contract Manufacturer of health supplements and natural skincare. Not only does Claire have a strong quality and technical focus she also brings a practical and operational perspective to any undertaking and under Claire’s management Alaron took out the Natural Health Products inaugural Supplier of the Year award in 2018. Her understanding of customer requirements, market access constraints and regulatory environments would help to strengthen the breadth of knowledge on the executive team for the broad range and ever increasing number of member companies.
Claire studied Food Technology at Massey University where she graduated with honors. She also holds a Postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from Massey University. Claire started her career in the Natural Health Products sector working with some of the first medical grade Manuka Honey developments, studying the quality of the honey from hive to processing and every stage in between. Claire’s work in this area contributed to the early specifications for medical grade and food grade honey.
Claire understands the importance and value an industry organisation provides and currently holds an executive position on the Cosmetic New Zealand board. She is highly motivated and passionate about the Natural Health Products sector. She is proud to work with innovative natural health ingredients, manufactured to the highest quality, for New Zealand and the rest of the world.
PHIL RASMUSSEN
PHYTOMED MEDICINAL HERBS LTD
Phil founded Phytomed Medicinal Herbs, which manufactures practitioner-only herbal products as well as the Kiwiherb® range of OTC herbal products. He is also an experienced phytotherapist and has practiced at a clinic in Auckland for 25 years.
Before pursuing herbal medicine he worked for more than 10 years as a pharmacist.
Over the years, Phil has lectured at natural medicine colleges and universities, written extensively on herbal subjects for practitioner and consumer publications, and presented at conferences in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. He is the former Deputy Chair of the Interim Expert Advisory Committee on Complementary & Alternative Medicines (IEACCAM), established by the New Zealand and Australian governments, and in 2016 was appointed Chair of the Interim Technical Expert Advisory Committee on Natural Health Products – Permitted Substances List (PSL) Subcommittee, established by the NZ Ministry of Health.
As the founder of a relatively small but fast growing GMP certified company, Phil feels strongly about the need to represent the interests of small to medium sized businesses, on the Natural Health Products NZ board.
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