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Braceros Then and Now: Brutality and Pathological Dishonesty Greet Immigrants in the Age of Trump
by Bruce Neuburger
Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library • Public domain
Do a Google search of braceros and you’ll find a picture of a line of shirtless young men being sprayed with DDT as they pass through a gate of a farm labor intake center. In another photo, naked men are lined up in a large room being inspected by men in white coats. The photos tell a story the name bracero (from the word brazos, or arms) itself implies.
When the U.S. and Mexico made an agreement to bring up hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers under the Bracero program to supply essential labor for a country at war in 1942 the bracero was neither regarded, nor treated as a human being, but as an instrument of production.
Most were Mexican farmers and rural workers whose economic situation was precarious in a country plundered by foreign businesses and dominated by domestic and foreign landowners who controlled almost all the good land.
From 1942 to 1964, bracero workers did a large part of the work on farms from California to Texas and beyond. They were welcomed as laborers in a time of dire need – a welcome that extended to the length of their “contracts”, usually six months, or to the end of the harvest. Once the crops were in, braceros became criminals and were hunted down and deported as such, if they did not leave quickly enough on their own.
I was thinking about this while working at a El Paso refugee center, and as the immigrants, the large majority indigenous Guatemalan rural workers and farmers, passed through. These workers too are coming north to escape crushing economic, and, also, social horrors. Sometimes the analogy to the braceros seems direct, as when those I met were headed to Salinas to work in the celery fields or Florida to work in tomatoes. But this modern day bracero-like flow, has as many women (and children) as men. They are headed to every point on the U.S. map — indicative of the fact that cheap labor from countries to the south is now an essential part of a broad swath of the U.S. economic system nationally, from the fields to office buildings, construction to restaurant and hotel workers, elder and childcare, and so on.
As the original bracero was under “contract” and constant scrutiny, and subject to deportation for any sign of errant behavior, ie protesting unjust conditions, these new refugees, who come seeking asylum, are fitted with ankle monitors and will be kept under the constant eye of authorities.
As was the bracero in the past, these present day immigrants are regarded and treated as less than human. On the way to take a mother and two teenage sons to the bus station for a trip to the city where their sponsor awaited them, I asked one of the youths how things were in ICE custody. “Malo”, he said. For several days a large group of refugees he was part of, waited under a bridge just inside the U.S. border for CBP/ICE (Customs and Border Patrol/Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to show up. When they did, the agents got out of their trucks and began yelling, “levantate perros!” — get up dogs! before loading the refugees on to buses. The boy was quiet for a while. “No somos animales”, he said in a low voice.
At the refugee center I was a accompanying a man with his teenage son to his room when he stopped to tell me a story of his ICE detention. He went on to describe the brutality he saw there. One of the detainees he was with was an indigenous farmer who spoke little Spanish. A guard yelled at this man to take off his hat, using a Mexican slang term in Spanish not used in Guatemala. Not understanding the command, the refugee just smiled at the guard, at which point the guard grabbed him and threw him to the ground, which was covered with gravel. While the guard forced him on his stomach and handcuffed him, the refugee’s son stood near crying in terror for his father.
In another account a group of refugees were sitting on the ground when ICE people brought some sandwiches. ICE sandwiches are notoriously bad — ham and cheese, usually served frozen. When the refugees showed no inclination to get up to get these sandwiches some guards came over and started kicking them.
I heard various accounts from refugees – of men, women and children, including very young children – being kept outside in the cold for 12 to 15 hours unprotected from the biting wind with no effort whatsoever to relieve their suffering.
Another described being terrorized by the sight of large quantities of blood on the floor and walls in an area they were brought to register.
Refugees’ possessions, including extra clothing, cellphones, bags, suitcases, even shoe laces were routinely taken from them and thrown away. Most refugees arriving at the shelters had nothing but the clothes on their back, without even toothbrushes or combs. Refugees arrived at the center without needed medications for ailments like asthma, because these too were taken by ICE and discarded.
In the 1950s song Deportee, Woody Guthrie describes the bracero, once the harvest is over, being chased out of the country “like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves”. The description seems naïve and innocent compared to the way those coming north now are regarded. Today they are denigrated as “criminals”, “rapists” and “gang members”. They are denounced as “invaders”. Trump and his ilk make no secret of their racist contempt and violent provocations. In the case of braceros, at least it was acknowledged that they were coming to the country to do necessary work. In this Trumpian age of hyper hypocrisy and pathological dishonesty, even this modest recognition is denied refugees – and us.
Abuses against immigrants are, as we are seeing, a part of a broader panorama of white supremacist assaults, including murderous assaults, on non-white people. This is a fascist mentality at work.
The militarized border system and vast network of detention camps built up especially over the past 25 years, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, is now at the service of a fascist government, which, among other things, has dramatically expanded the detention of children and teenagers. The system is not only brutal and repressive, it is a training ground for instilling a mentality that regards immigrants as less than human and justifies treating them that way. According to a recent Supreme Court ruling immigrants who have been convicted of a crime any time in their past, can be held in these immigrant prisons indefinitely!
At the border and across the country there are many, many people engaged in work to help, protect and defend immigrants. There are churches, secular groups, immigrant rights groups, lawyers and lawyer groups, other political groups and individuals who are engaged in accompaniment, advocating for those detained, promoting sanctuary, and in other efforts to defend immigrants from a system that both uses and criminalizes them. All this is important. All this needs to continue and intensify. But it is clearly not enough.
The level of abuse, the intensity of the racial hatred being directed against immigrants (and others outside the narrow frame of white supremacy), is such that we are in ugly, dangerous territory. There is an urgent need to repudiate and denounce these policies and actions — not only in meetings and private spaces, but in the streets, in public and in a massive and determined way. For the sake of our own humanity, for the sake of our collective moral well being and for the future of this society and world, there needs to be a massive and sustained mobilization to make clear to all who care to pay heed that we will not tolerate, we will not abide by the racist abuse being visited on our immigrant and refugee populations, people of color in general, Muslims, Jews, etc.
In other words, this whole white supremacist onslaught needs to be confronted in a way it has not been confronted before.
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Date: BOOKING UNTIL JUNE 2018
Thirty-five years after the groundbreaking original Broadway production, this UK and West End premiere of the sensational and iconic six-time Tony Award®-winning musical Dreamgirls is now playing at the Savoy Theatre, London, led by Glee star Amber Riley.
Dreamgirls transports you to a revolutionary time in American music history and charts the tumultuous journey of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called ‘The Dreams’. They learn the hard lesson that show business is as tough as it is fabulous.
Dreamgirls features the classic songs ‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’, ‘I Am Changing’, ‘Listen’ and ‘One Night Only’. This much-anticipated new production is directed and choreographed by the hugely successful, Tony® and Olivier Award-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Something Rotten!), and Riley plays Effie White.
*The producers cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular artist(s). Amber Riley is currently scheduled to play the role of Effie White for 7 out of 8 performances per week. One of the alternates will perform on 1 out of 8 performances per week, currently scheduled for Monday evenings. This is subject to change and may be affected by holiday, illness, or events beyond the producers’ control.
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A Rube's Trip to New York
I went to New York once when I was 15 and once when I was 21. Then I didn’t go for a long time. I went back in May 2011 for work and wrote up some ramblings about it all in an email to a friend. I randomly stumbled across it today and liked it so, with some slight editing, here it is.
I landed in New York at 8AM. A gypsy cab driver tried to intercept me before I made the cab stand:
“You go to the city?” He asked, attempting to take my suitcase from my hand.
“Yeah, how much?” I said, wondering what the gouge-rate was or, if possible, if I could save a buck by helping him break the law.
Um, no.
A regular cab costs around $30 to where I was going. I can’t even begin to understand the business model for the gypsy cab driver who wants to charge more than the Yellows. I guess he’s hoping to get someone in the car and get moving before they ask how much it is. Then I wonder what about me made me seem like an obvious mark. I was wearing smart business clothes and carried a decent business-style bag. Who knows? At this point I have no hope of knowing. I am so of Ohio and the Midwest that I’m sure I’m oblivious to what makes me stick out like a rube. Maybe it’s because most of the flights to the U.S. Airways terminal are from places like Columbus and Indianapolis and Pittsburgh and other towns where honest, wholesome, easily-duped people reside. Oh well. I got into a real cab and to the hotel, dumped my stuff and then made my way to the train station.
Grand Central Station is wonderful. Trains are wonderful. I wish there more of them. In my mind I’ve created an alternate universe which, as a shorthand, I’ve decided to call “those perfect two weeks in 1948 after WWII misery had subsided a bit before Cold War Paranoia had fully set in.” It never really existed in history, but I’ve decided that, say, October 1948 is where it best fits. I’ve thought about it for a good ten years and I’ve terraformed this fantasy city in my mind, mostly in absent moments while waiting for something or otherwise killing time.
It’s a mashup of Edward Hopper paintings, cyber punk and the movie “Dark City.” Well, it’s less sinister than that, but the upshot is a mid-century aesthetic and scale with modern technology grafted over it. The tech is subtle and more integrated than it is today. The iPads would be carried in clunky 1948 leather satchels, for example, and the computer terminals would be embedded in large metal or wooden cases. There would be automats. Human-scale apartment buildings clustered in neighborhood pods separated by green spaces big enough allow people to breathe but small enough to keep everything walkable. Art Deco signage. Shops rather than megastores. A lot of WPA-style art. Movie houses. Blues, browns, grays and blacks. Hats and ties for everyone. Hotel detectives and house phones. City hub structures separated by trains travelling between stations that look a lot like the fascist-era Ferrovia in Venice but, you know, without the baggage. A world that would be the wet dream of forward-thinking urban planners but which, in reality, could only be created by a supreme dictator and could only avoid being a hellscape if that dictator were truly benevolent. In short: an impossibility.
One can walk through New York and find the essential elements of my neo-noir utopia, but the place is so big and so packed that it never existed in real life outside of quick scenes in movies and my beloved pulp novels. A coffee shop here. A newsstand there. A park two blocks over. That nice set of brownstones. Grand Central Station. Alas, there is too much else one encounters while walking between those things preventing the fantasy from taking hold even in New York. Damn International-style buildings. And while I’m thinking about it, skyscrapers don’t fit into it either no matter what their aesthetic. Maybe it’s more of a mid-sized city in my mind with a building height law, not New York, even if New York makes me think of it most strongly. If I’m ever truly lost in thought, though, you can bet that I’m in that city. Probably working for a newspaper.
I made it to my train and up to Stamford where I had my meetings. Then I went to lunch with my boss. We went to a Mitchell’s Fish Market, which is the chain that was built off Cameron’ Mitchell’s Fish Market here in Columbus, before it was sold off to the Ruth’s Chris people and taken nationwide. I explained to my boss that we were eating in a restaurant with Columbus roots. He asked how a quasi-upscale seafood chain got started in Ohio. I told him I had no idea. Ohio is full of mysteries like that.
I was back down to New York by 6 PM where I met some baseball writers/Internet friends for drinks. It’s always strange interacting with people I have only previously known online, but that’s life for me now. Apart from my wife and kids my whole world exists online. I’ve never met my coworkers, for crying out loud. One of the crowd there told me he was pleased to meet me. Then he said it again. Then he said it again and then fell on the floor of the bar and appeared to be unconscious. Seems he had been drinking since 3 PM. Another of the group put him in a cab but he couldn’t make his mouth function to tell the driver where he was going, so the guy who walked him out rode home to Brooklyn in the cab with him. When his companion returned to the bar nearly two hours later he told us the guy threw up, after which an argument with the cabbie and a police officer ensued. At some point a car service car got involved and between paying the cabbie to make him happy and getting the car to and from Brooklyn the whole ordeal cost $120. I have no idea, really. All I know is that if that all happened here in Ohio someone would have likely driven home drunk, so viva New York.
I left the bar at about 11 or so and walked back uptown with another writer who lives a bit more uptown past where I was going. During the walk we realized that neither of had really eaten, and it was then that the beauty of New York dawned on me: everything is open late. Just before midnight we stopped at Brasserie and ordered fries. And tuna tartare. And the best spinach I’ve ever had anywhere. And a martini because it seemed like the right thing to do. Besides us the place was packed with people eating steak and fish as if it were the dinner hour. All at a time which the only thing still open in Columbus are actual bars. Everyone always seems in a hurry in New York, but it’s the one city I’ve been to where time matters very little.
Saturday I was up early, ate breakfast and took a winding walk through Central Park. When I was 15 we visited the little area outside the Dakota and saw all of the tacky John Lennon tributes and souvenir stands. Back then I thought it was cool because I didn’t know anything. This time I was fairly appalled. I understand that Yoko Ono still lives in the building. I’m guessing she doesn’t venture across the street to that place ever, but just knowing it was there probably creeps her out. Though, now that I think about it, it can’t creep her out any more than walking past the place where her husband was murdered everyday does.
Back across the park, up the park, down the park simultaneously enjoying it while standing amused that, for most people in New York, this is what passes for nature. Which is kind of sad, even if it is a nice park.
The Whitney Museum. After hearing about my fantasy 1948 world it’s probably no surprise that I’m a sucker for 20th century American realism. Hopper. Bellows, Those guys. There’s a lot of that there, so it made my day. The more modern stuff on upper floors was hit and miss. I like a good deal of modern art but I failed to grasp the import and artistic merit of mere printed slogans on white canvas. If that makes me a philistine, so be it. Overall the Whitney gets a solid A-, with that grade mostly owing to Hopper and Bellows and their Ashcan friends.
Inspired, I made it over to the subway and took it down to Greenwich Village where I decided that it was important that I find Edward Hopper’s house. He lived right off Washington Square from 1913 until he died in the late 1960s and painted most everything he ever did that mattered there. Now NYU owns the building – they seem to own every building down there, turning what I imagine was once a nice neighborhood into a playland for rich college students – and there isn’t a sign or anything. The south-facing windows of his top floor studio which allowed in all the fabulous sunlight he painted were closed tight with shades. What a waste.
Back across the Village for a canoli, cappuccino and busker-watching. I watched two guys sing southern gothic murder ballads. They were 25 year-old hipsters, likely NYU dropouts, who will one day conveniently forget that they spent a couple of years pretending that they were from some swamp in Tennessee.
I took the subway back uptown to my hotel and laid down for a nap. I woke up just as the sun was going down. I used to do that a lot but hadn’t for years. It’s the most disorienting yet strangely refreshing thing. A lot like a 60 hour trip to New York.
But no more than that. I’m just a rube and I sort of like it. I will visit New York a lot in my life, I imagine. But I don’t think I want to do more than visit.
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Competition among the ‘war writers’
"Mike's Booknotes" looks at the literary aftermath of "King Philip's War."
In the winter of 1675, John Sassamon hiked over a dozen miles through the snow in order to reach Plymouth, the main Puritan settlement of New England. Sassamon was a member of the Wampanoag Indian tribe, and he had stumbled upon a horrible secret. The leader of the Wampanoag people, Metacomet, was planning to eradicate the Puritan settlers at Plymouth.
Metacomet — whom the New England settlers called King Philip — had just inherited his position after his father, Massasoit, passed away. Although Massasoit had saved the lives of the first settlers off of the Mayflower, he ended up surrendering most the Wampanoag’s land to them.
His son intended to get it all back.
John Sassamon faced two obstacles that fateful day: the first was the settlers at Plymouth didn’t believe him — they were wary and distrustful of Native Americans. The second obstacle was Metacomet himself. He had somehow learned of Sassamon’s betrayal, and had him killed when he returned.
Learning of Sassamon’s murder, the New Englanders rounded up three of Metacomet’s closest councillors, and hung them in retaliation. In response, the Wampanoag launched a series of raids on smaller villages, before Metacomet ordered a full scale attack.
What would become known as “King Philip’s War” lasted 14 months, destroying much of New England and its male population. Largely forgotten today, King Philip’s War remains the bloodiest and most horrific war ever to take place in America; eclipsing both the American Revolution and the Civil War.
In the middle of this war, the Puritan settlers did what they did best: they wrote about it. And wrote about it. By the war’s end, dozens of publications appeared, most going through numerous printings. Some were written anonymously; some were written by committees. None were written from the Wampanoag point of view.
One of the first persons to write a book about the war was Increase Mather — a Puritan minister and one of the more prominent citizens of New England. Yet while he was writing his book, Nathaniel Saltonstall’s “Present State of New-England with Respect to the Indian War” appeared. This was followed by Edward Warton’s “New England’s Present Sufferings,” and then by Peter Folger’s “A Looking Glasse for the Times.” By the time his “A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England” appeared, more than a dozen books describing the war were already in print.
While these books incensed him to no end, he was more than pleased to have beaten William Hubbard to publication. Hubbard was a Puritan minister and Mather’s main rival for the spiritual leadership of New England. Mather was obsessed with discrediting his competition. Beating him to publication was a major coup.
A short lived one. That winter a London bookseller had returned all of Mather’s books to him; they weren’t selling. Hubbard had created so much buzz about his forthcoming book, no one in Europe wanted to read anything else; even though it had yet to be published. Mather was horrified. He quickly wrote two more books after Hubbard’s did appear. “A Relation of the Troubles” and “An Historical Discourse” both appeared in 1678. With three books to Hubbard’s one, Mather felt assured he would be the most popular author of the war.
All this became moot though, five years after the war’s end (Philip was shot and killed in 1676 by a fellow Wampanoag). “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God” was published in 1682, and it was drastically unlike all books previously published. It was written by a woman. Mary Rowlandson, the wife of yet another Puritan minister, had been taken captive by the Wampanoag during the war. “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God,” was the account of her captivity, and was so popular it had to be reprinted four times in less than a year. Both Europeans and New Englanders couldn’t get enough of it, and it became America’s first bestseller.
One can almost hear Increase Mather’s screams.
Mike Selby is Reference Librarian at the Cranbrook Public Library
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Building a Bigger, Greener Bunker
The Bunker in Kent, UK is one of the pioneers in the data bunker niche, and is now expanding with a new facility that seeks to combine "military grade" security with the latest energy efficiency techniques.
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The entrance to an ultra-secure data center operated by The Bunker in Kent, UK.
The Bunker in Kent, UK has been one of the success stories in the niche market for ultra-secure "military grade" data centers housed in nuke-proof subterranean fortresses. Many data bunkers have an abundance of security features, but The Bunker also has an abundance of customers.
The Bunker, which has hosted clients in underground facilities since 1994, is now expanding with a 12,000 square meter (130,000 square foot) data center on its existing campus in Sandwich, Kent.
The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd. received final planning permission this week for The Bunker 2, which will offer hosting and disaster recovery services from the N+1 facility. As with the company's two existing data centers, The Bunker 2 offers space for companies that need to be in the London market but are wary of the risk of disaster or terrorism. The design for the new facility will focus on energy efficiency, typically a secondary concern for ultra-secure data storage facilities.
The new data center "will provide a highly secure, low risk Internet hub outside of London to service clients who wish to house internet-connected systems in the UK, without being reliant on high risk London zones," said Peregrine Newton, CEO of The Bunker.
The Bunker's two existing data centers are housed in former Ministry of Defence nuclear bunkers in Kent and Newbury that were initially built to house the UK's air defense system. Both are outside the M25, the major perimeter highway serving London and a key geographic boundary for companies seeking data center space that would remain operational through a regional disaster affecting central London.
Concrete Walls and Blast Doors
The Bunker's security features include three-meter thick concrete walls, blast doors and Faraday cages to protect servers from electromagnetic pulses that can accompany nuclear explosions. That muscular security infrastructure has attracted more than 130 clients, including financial services conpanies and other customers with regulatory data protection requirements.
While security is typically the key attraction for data bunkers, the company says the design for The Bunker 2 will emphasize energy efficiency and aims to achieve a high BREEAM rating - short for BRE Environmental Assessment Method, the UK equivalent of the LEED standard for green buildings in the U.S. The building will use a low modular design with facilities cut into the surrounding landscape and featuring grass roofs. Plans call for six modules that are each 2,200 square meters (about 24,000 square feet).
Inaudible, Invisible and Green
“Our design brief was to create a facility that was inaudible, invisible and green.” said Simon Neal, director of data center services for The Bunker 2. “Sustainability was a key factor in the design of The Bunker 2 and the materials used and construction techniques will reflect this.”
This brief video provides an overview of some of the physical infrastructure in place at The Bunker's data center in Kent. It runs about 1 minute, 30 seconds.
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Grammy-nominated composer and pianist David Lanz has dipped into The Beatles songbook once again for Here Comes the Sun. Last year Lanz released one of the most inspired tributes to their music I’ve h.
10-25-2016 New Zealand. The details are correct Brad, thank you. Hawaii is a beautiful place – I imagine that you will be missing it at times. We used to visit Hawaii quite often some years ago, and of have travelled quite extensively in mainland USA as well as Europe.
David Lanz Takes a Fab Trip to Liverpool was a top story. David Lanz was enamored of the music of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Age 13 and already an accomplished pianist when he first saw the Beat.
"Seasons in the Sun" is the story of a dying man, bidding farewell to loved ones who have shared his life. Shortly before Terry’s recording came out, Jacques Brel retired, at the peak of his popularity.
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Now, with more than four decades of experience behind him, David Lanz is finally paying tribute to his first musical heroes with Liverpool: Re-Imagining the Beatles Liverpool (to be released September.
Marius Nooyen, beloved husband of the late Mary (Kerkhof) Nooyen (2015) passed away on Wednesday February 27, 2019 at the age of 84 years. He will be missed by his daughters Kellie Gillier (Tim) of Kent Bridge, Marietta DeLaet (Ken) of Blenheim and his sons Gary Nooyen of Blenheim and Erick Nooyen (Jill) of Rondeau.
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Rain falls today, April 26, in Hamilton as part of movie-making special effects. “The Old Man and the Gun,” a movie being produced by and starring Robert Redford is filming scenes in downtown Hamilton.
Photo: GREG LYNCH/STAFF
It’s raining in Hamilton?! Yes, but just for a movie
Greg Lynch
HAMILTON —
Rain was falling in Hamilton this afternoon — but only as part of movie-making special effects.
“The Old Man and the Gun,” a movie being produced by and starring Robert Redford is filming scenes in downtown Hamilton.
MOVIE CLOSES HIGH STREET: Here’s what you need to know to get around town this week
In addition to Redford, the movie will also star Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover and Casey Affleck.
MORE: Local bank tellers to appear in Redford movie
According to IMDB, the movie tells the story of an elderly bank robber now living in retirement community and “looks to spice things up with another heist.”
"Rain" falls off the former Fifth Third building in downtown Hamilton on April 26. The rain was a special effect for “The Old Man and the Gun,” a movie being produced by and starring Robert Redford that is filming scenes in downtown Hamilton.
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In 2016, Ohio Gov. John Kasich increased the tax incentive that Ohio offers for film projects to be produced in Ohio from $20 million a year to $40 million a year for the next two years.
“The Old Man and the Gun,” a movie being produced by and starring Robert Redford, is filming scenes in downtown Hamilton.
Extras in downtown Hamilton today for the filming of “The Old Man and the Gun,” a movie being produced by and starring Robert Redford.
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How the U.S. Is Being Set Up to Lose World War III
November 29, 2014 Dave Hodges Uncategorized 0
If World War III were to break out today, the U.S. would lose to its enemies, both foreign and domestic, that have conspired to change the balance of power on the planet.
There is no doubt that the Russians are being antagonistic and provocative with regard to their military activities. America and her NATO allies should and do feel threatened by an ongoing series of Russian military provocations accompanied by a record setting Russian military buildup.
Russia Military Activity Demonstrates Deliberate Preparations for World War III
The Russians just announced that a full squadron of ships from the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet is holding drills in the English Channel! NATO has to be very nervous as war games have historically been used to launch an attack.
In what can be labeled a strategic game changer, the Russians have announced that they are going to sell to their newest and most powerful ally, China, a sophisticated air defense system. This is a highly significant development because the Russians have always been reluctant to supply the Chinese with high level military equipment because they do not trust China. This technology transfer of highly sophisticated air defense clearly speaks to the fact that Russia believes that it will be fighting the United States long before it will have to face off with the Chinese. And who are the Chinese anticipating that will be attempting to drop bombs on their homeland? These developments identify the antagonists who will comprise the opposing sides of World War III: Russia, China with an assist from the BRICS vs. The United States and what’s left of NATO. And, yes, I believe that Germany will sit out this conflict on the sidelines.
The air defense weapons system sold to the Chinese is described by Russian officials as “A contract between Rosoboronexport and the Chinese Defense Ministry was signed at the beginning of this fall for the delivery of at least six battalions of S-400 air defense missile systems worth of more than $3 billion.”
Can there be any doubt that China and Russia are cooperating with regard to their efforts towards gearing up for a war with the United States? The Russians must be feeling desperate to put the Chinese on equal footing to the Russians with regard to an all-important air defense system.
This air defense system is the best the Russians have to offer.
The Russians have demonstrated their aggressive military intentions as they have already illegally annexed Crimea. This action parallels what Hitler did in the Sudetenland as he seized as much territory as he could without firing a shot, prior to attacking Poland, in World War II. It would also appear that the Russians have been on a war footing for over three years at minimum. Take a moment and examine the following chart:
Courtesy of Voting American
Russia Is Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
Moscow is in the midst of the most expensive weapons modernization program in world history. From the period of 2016 through 2025, Russia’s defense spending is expected to reach $540 billion. No wonder Putin is “borrowing” from Russian retirement funds.
Much of the money is being spent making much of Russia’s nuclear arsenal “go stealth”, in which by 2016, Russian nuclear missiles could hit targets without being detected prior to striking the desired target. So much for mutually assured destruction (MAD).
The Russians next-generation bomber is nearly invisible to radar and their super-silent nuclear submarines are deadly, and according to the U.S. Navy, will be fully operational by 2025.
The X-Factor: The Traitor In the White House
As concerning as the Russian military build up is, nothing is more frightening than the blatant treason on display in the White House. Everything that this President has done is designed to weaken the U.S. military.
In a series of widely publicized reports back in 2012, Russian paratroopers rehearsed seizing Denver International Airport and seizing the newly constructed underground CIA headquarters in the same area.
***** “One speculation in this report, however, does note that the scenario to be played out in late May (2012), in Colorado, as planned by the Americans, does, indeed, mirror similar plans of the Russian General Staff of actions to be taken in the case of sudden civil war where “outside forces” would be called upon to protect the government from overthrow by internal forces or armed rebellion by the military.“ *****
In Obama’s mind, what event could compel an armed rebellion by the military of such a magnitude that it would require a Russian invasion of Denver, CO?
It has been widely reported that following the failed rescue attempt by the Navy and the Army at Benghazi, which was nothing short of an attempted military coup, Obama has been a one man wrecking crew for U.S. military leadership.
Within two months after the Benghazi attack, four very senior U.S. military officers were purged by Obama:
Gen. Hamm, on October 18, 2012.
Adm. Gayouette, on October 18, 2012.
Gen. Petraeus, on November 9, 2012.
General Allen, on November 13, 2012.
This event reminds me of when Hitler discovered he had been betrayed by German General Irwin Rommel and other senior level German officers who attempted to assassinate Hitler. The Nazis killed these Generals and covered it up as war casualties. Obama politely retired our offending officers in disgrace. The deposed military senior command officer body count has reached over 260 officers removed by Obama. The net effect of these moves by Obama is to destroy the military leadership just in time for World War III.
“With regard to missile defense, I will have more flexibility after the election.”
Why were Russian troops allowed into the previously conducted Grid EX II simulated EMP attack drill? Russian troops have also been used to police major events on American soil. This is martial law desensitization training in which the Russians are trained to interact with American citizens. Also, FEMA signed a bilateral agreement with the Russian military to permit a minimum of 15,000 Russian soldiers to train on American soil and this was at a time when both Russia and China threatened to nuke the United States if we dared to invade Syria or Iran in the Fall of 2013.
The following is a quote from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry:
“The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry and the USA Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are going to exchange experts during joint rescue operations in major disasters. This is provided by a protocol of the fourth meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Working Group on Emergency Situations and seventeenth meeting of Joint U.S.-Russia Cooperation Committee on Emergency Situations, which took place in Washington on 25 June 2013.
The document provides for expert cooperation in disaster response operations and to study the latest practices. In addition, the parties approved of U.S.-Russian cooperation in this field in 2013-2014, which envisages exchange of experience including in monitoring and forecasting emergency situations, training of rescuers, development of mine-rescuing and provision of security at mass events.”
Russian defectors have long warned the United States about a multi-generational plot to conquer the United States from within. We know that former communist inspired Weathermen Underground leader, Bill Ayers, launched Obama’s political career from his Chicago home. Ayers still visits the White House.
Does any reasonable person think it is safe to follow Obama into World War III against the Russians?
It is not a matter of “if” we will be fighting World War III, in a Red Dawn scenario, it is a matter of “when”.
Let’s not forget about the giveaway, to Russia by Obama, of seven strategically important oil-rich Alaskan Islands. I have been calling attention to this event for over two years. Maybe in light of everything else, we will start to pay attention to the significance of the giveaway of these Islands to the Russians.
The coalescence of these events will become more clear in the next part in this series as I believe I know where hostilities will likely first occur. The giveaway of Alaskan Islands to the Russians provides a clear and unmistakable clue.
Dave Hodges is the Editor and Host of The Common Sense Show.
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The Shin Bet confirms Ori Ansbacher’s murder was an act of terror
Feb 10, 2019 @ 21:07 Diane Shalem 860 Views 2 Comments
The Shin Bet security service finally confirmed on Sunday night, after wavering for three days over motive, that the sexual assault and murder of 19-year old Ori Ansbacher by a Palestinian was an act of terror. The Ansbach family in Tekoa was notified of this decision by the prime minister when he and Sarah Netanyahu paid a condolence visit at the home of her parents.
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all hamas affiliates should be tortured and killed
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Bombardier Inc.
Brazil Files First Written Submission to WTO Challenging Canada’s Subsidies to Bombardier
Embraer/Bombardier
The Brazilian government has filed its first written submission to the dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva.
The Panel is examining more than $4 billion in subsidies that Bombardier received from the Governments of Canada and Quebec. In 2016 alone, these governments provided over USD 2.5 billion to the Canadian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer said in a statement Friday.
The Submission provides detailed legal and factual argument regarding why the 19 subsidies to Bombardier for its C-Series aircraft (now renamed as the Airbus A-220 aircraft) are inconsistent with Canada's WTO obligations. The Brazilian Government’s understanding, shared by Embraer, is that the Canadian Government’s subsidies to Bombardier violate these obligations, the company release stated.
“Canada's subsidies have allowed Bombardier (and now Airbus) to offer its aircraft at artificially low prices. These subsidies, which have been fundamental in the development and survival of the C-Series program, are an unsustainable practice that distorts the entire global market, harming competitors at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. Embraer considers that this proceeding will help to restore a level playing field and ensure that competition in the commercial aircraft market is between companies, not governments,” said Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, Embraer’s President & CEO.
In December 2016, the Council of Ministers of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX) authorized the opening of dispute settlement proceedings against Canada. In February 2017, Brazil formally requested consultations with the Canadian Government at the WTO, and because consultations were unable to resolve the dispute, the Panel was formally established in September 2017.
Embraer Completes KC-390 Troop Unloading And Evacuation Tests
November 21, 2018 @ 03:02 PM
Embraer has completed Troop unloading, evacuation by hatch and evacuation tests through the front and rear doors of the KC-390 airlift. The tests were held at Brasília Air Force Base, Brazil
Embraer Completes First Flight of Series Production KC-390 Airlifter
October 10, 2018 @ 09:02 AM
Embraer has completed the maiden flight of the first series production multi-mission medium airlift KC-390. As agreed with the Brazilian Air Force, the aircraft will now join the flight test campaign, in which more than 1,900 flight hours have already been logged
Boeing, Embraer in Talks to Set Up KC-390 Cargo Jets Assembly Line...
October 6, 2018 @ 03:52 PM
Boeing and Embraer are in talks to set up an assembly line for the production of KC-390 cargo jets in the United States. The two aircraft manufacturers announced a deal for sales and services partnership on the new KC-390 jets through a separate defense venture that they said was likely to eventually receive a joint investment in July,
Boeing to Take Over Embraer's Commercial Aircraft Business for $4.75 billion
July 5, 2018 @ 02:16 PM
Boeing and Embraer today announced they have signed a MoU to set up a joint venture comprising the commercial aircraft business of Embraer that would strategically align with Boeings commercial development, production, marketing and lifecycle services operations. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing will hold an 80 percent ownership stake in the joint venture and Embraer will own the remaining 20 percent stake
Canada Receives First Two Australian F/A-18A Fighter Jets
Canada has received the first two F/A-18 multirole combat fighter jet from the Government of Australia. “Today, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) marked the arrival of the first two interim fighter aircraft, an important milestone and investment in sustaining our current CF-18 Hornet fleet,” Canadian Ministry of Defense said in a statement Sunday
Combat Ship Team Wins Canadian Surface Combatant
Canada's Combat Ship Team comprising of BAE Systems, CAE, Lockheed Martin Canada, L3 Technologies, MDA and Ultra Electronics as partners has been awarded the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) design contract by Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding is the CSC prime contractor and will build all 15 ships at Halifax Shipyard, Lockheed Martin said in a statement Friday
Brazilian Navy to Receive First Two Modernized Super Lynx Helicopters Next Month
January 18, 2019 @ 12:43 PM
The Brazilian Navy will receive the first of eight upgraded AgustaWestland Super Lynx AH-11B helicopters in February. Leonardo Helicopters is modernizing the helicopters under a June 2014 contract issued by the Brazilian Navy Aeronautical Directorate (DAerM) for $113 million,
HAL's Light Utility Helicopter Project Close to Production Clearance
Indian HALs Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) project moved closer to production clearance with the flight of the third prototype yesterday, which is built to the standard of deliverable configuration. HAL flew the third prototype (PT3) for the first time on December 14, 2018
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Big Lizzie shows off her strength: Video captures the incredible moment the Royal Navy's new £3billion aircraft carrier sailed alongside USS George HW Bush in the North Sea
HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed through the North Sea off Scottish coast alongside US carrier strike group
Royal Naval carrier taking part in a series of war games with US counterparts ahead of entry into service
Senior Royal Navy commanders said £3billion ship is 'firmly the right thing' for Britain to invest in
By Alex Matthews and Mark Duell for MailOnline
The Royal Navy's new £3billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth met up with a convoy of British and US warships as they sailed off the Scottish coast in the North Sea.
A video showed the majestic ship cut through the waves as the USS George HW Bush and her carrier strike group followed, during a break in an exercise.
Other members of the group included the HMS Westminster, HMS Iron Duke, HNOMS Helge Ingstad from Norway, USS Donald Cook and USS Philippine Sea.
HMS Elizabeth, the jewell of the British fleet, has been taking part in a series of war games with her US counterparts as carrier strike skills are honed ahead of her entry into service at Portsmouth in two weeks time.
Military leaders have said the Elizabeth and her sister ship HMS Prince of Wales would mark Britain as a player on the world map, and be able to match the capabilities of the larger fleet of US warships.
Commodore Andrew Betton said the flagship was 'firmly the right thing' for the UK to invest in, given its role as a permanent member of the United Nations security council.
Extensive preparations have been under way at the naval base to accommodate the 280-metre, 65,000-tonne ship, including a dredging operation that unearthed more than 20,000 items including a human skull and sea mines from Portsmouth Harbour.
Aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth (second right) and the USS George H.W. Bush (third right) together with HMS Westminster (right), the HMS Iron Duke (left), the HMNOWS Helge Ingstad (second left), the USS Donald Cook (third left) and the USS Philippine Sea (centre)
U.S. Navy F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornets fly in formation above the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
An MH-60S Sea Hawk, attached to the 'Tridents' of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9, patrols while the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush
A sailor on the USS George H.W. Bush operates artillery during the war games off the Scottish coast in the North Sea
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) fires the five-inch gun during exercise
Fire Controlman 2nd Class Jaileen Cruz, from Dallas, fires the five-inch gun while conducting a naval surface fire support training evolution aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook
U.K. Carrier Strike Group Commander Cdre. Andrew Betton, OBE, right, shakes hands with Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Hannahmae Kim
Operations Specialist 3rd Class John Jefferson makes notes aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook
HMS Trenchant submarine & Wildcat HMA2 helicopter operate together during the exercise in the North Sea this week
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke-class frigates HMS Westminster, centre, and HMS Iron Duke, right, along with the Royal Norwegian Navy frigate Helge Ingstad sail through the North Sea
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HMS Queen Elizabeth sails alongside USS George HW Bush
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Jump to Industry Production and sales Butter
In 2017/18 Australia produced approximately 93,000 tonnes of butter and anhydrous milkfat (AMF) in commercial butter equivalent terms (CBE).
AMF is butter with the water removed, similar to ghee. It is primarily produced for export and domestic food manufacturing applications, such as bakery and confectionery.
Approximately around 50% of the domestic sales of Australian dairy spreads were through supermarkets.
Information on the production, sales, and trends for Australian manufactured butter.
Butter and AMF production (tonnes)
Butter/Butter blends (CBE)
AMF (CBE)
AMF is butter with the water removed, similar to ghee. It is primarily produced for export and domestic food manufacturing applications, such as bakery and confectionery. While these sectors also use butter, the majority of domestic butter sales are through retail and foodservice outlets. The manufacture of butter results in the creation of skim milk powder as a co-product, utilising the solids nonfat components of the milk.
Approximately around 50% of the domestic sales of Australian dairy spreads were through supermarkets. In 2017/18 supermarket sales volumes decreased 2% to 48,000 tonnes, following a 20% increase in average retail price. International butter prices increased over the year causing the Australian price to grow. The spike in price resulted in an increase in retail sales value of 18% over the previous year, to more than $555 million. Changing consumer attitudes towards butter and saturated fats have seen butter and butter blends increase their share of the tablespreads market, at the expense of margarine.
Butter imports to Australia accounted for more than a quarter of the butter market by volume in 2017/18. Approximately 90% of the 36,000 tonnes of butter and butteroil imported into Australia came from New Zealand. The majority of remaining butter was sourced from various European countries.
Australian exports of butter and AMF can vary significantly from year to year, depending on milk availability during the season and local dairy company responses to international prices for competing products. Export volumes fell roughly 25% last year, down to 15,000 tonnes, as Australian processors devoted milk into other production streams. Australia’s most important overseas markets for butter and AMF were Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Greater China; out of nearly 40 countries.
Casein is used in foods such as chocolates and noodles. Whey is used in the manufacture of products like ice cream and infant formula.
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NKSJ Holdings awarded ‘Bronze Class’ in RobecoSAM’s Sustainability
NKSJ Holdings, Inc has received the RobecoSAM Bronze Class distinction in RobecoSAM’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment.
Having earned the RobecoSAM Bronze Class distinction in 2013, NKSJ Holdings has been recognised for the fourth consecutive year since the company was founded in April 2010, and for the seventh consecutive year including distinctions received by its subsidiary, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (hereinafter “Sompo Japan”).
NKSJ Holdings will continue to play an active role in efforts to resolve social issues and contribute to the building of a sustainable society.
The Corporate Sustainability Assessment is a survey conducted by Swiss asset management advisor RobecoSAM to assess companies from the perspective of sustainability performance. It has been carried out annually since 1999.
The companies participating in the Assessment are those which were assessed for that year’s DJSI indexes*2. Their activities are assessed based on economic, environmental, and social criteria. The world’s 2,500 companies were invited to participate in the latest Assessment.
See: http://yearbook.robecosam.com/companies.html?file=files/rs_data/pdf/RobecoSAM_company_overview_2014.pdf
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI)
The DJSI are SRI indexes developed by RobecoSAM in 1999 in collaboration with US-based Dow Jones & Company. Based on independent surveys, publicly available information, the Dow Jones Global Indexes (DJGI; performance indexes evaluated by institutional investors considering international investments), among other sources, RobecoSAM works under the DJSI brand and selects companies across the world engaging in progressive economic, environmental, and social efforts.
NKSJ Holdings has been listed on the DJSI World for 14 consecutive years, including years when its subsidiary Sompo Japan was listed.
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Girl's Birthday Invite Goes Viral With 1.2 Million RSVPing
By Amanda Fama
How many people is too many at a birthday party?
Well... uh, 1.2 million people, to be exact.
Crescencio Ibarra, proud father of 15-year-old Rubi Ibarra Garcia, posted a public Facebook event for Rubi's birthday bash on December 26 and definitely wasn't expecting the response he received.
On the event page — which quickly went viral — he posted a video invitation that grabbed the attention of the masses.
Jaime Duarte on YouTube
According to BBC News, more than 1 million people said they would attend after watching the clip and discovering there'd be local bands, a horse race and food at the event.
PSH, I would jump on top of that too. (Emphasis on the free food.)
In the video, Crescencio is standing with his wife, Anaelda Garcia, and his daughter, who is wearing a glamorous leopard print dress.
He begins by inviting "everybody" to Rubi's 15th birthday bash, and says,
Hello, everybody. We invite you this December 26 to our daughter's 15th birthday party, Rubi Ibarra Garcia.
Something tells me he should've been a little more specific when he addressed the audience.
Apparently, the extremely giving father goes on to explain the local bands that will be performing, along with a horse race that will take place where the winner will get 10,000 pesos ($490).
Yup. It sounds like the freakin' party of the year!
Espero todos estén listos para mis XV #EnLosXVsDeRubí pic.twitter.com/Z9BNrF2wbU — ruby(@rubyig01) December 4, 2016
However, Rubi's dad had only intended to invite their neighbors and friends to the party and was saddened by the fact so many people RSVPed.
In a TV interview, Crescencio talked about how shocked he was at the amount of people who confirmed they're coming to the party on the Facebook event.
He reportedly said,
We wanted to invite the people from the area, that's all. [...] Rubi is my daughter and she has always been our queen.
He also explained on the show that the family will continue with their plans and hold the party in a field outside the village of La Joya in San Luis Potosi.
Apparently, his daughter is "very excited," and I don't blame her at all.
Shit, I'd go to the bash. Who wants to be my date?
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Nanotechnology Degree Program at Northeastern University
What Can be Done with Nanotechnology Today?
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For those interested in using nanotechnology in the healthcare field, Northeastern offers a PhD in Nanomedicine. The program is made possible through an initiative called IGERT (the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) with support from the National Cancer Institute.
The program boasts a “tightly-integrated interdisciplinary team of medical researchers, pharmaceutical scientists, physicists, chemists, and chemical engineers” who help students with nanomedicine research and studies. The school stresses the interdisciplinary nature of studies, as well as opportunities for real-world experience and international research options.
Northeastern offers two other resources for students interested in nanomedicine:
The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine grants MS and PhD degrees in Pharmaceutical Science. They offer a focus on Drug Delivery/Nanomedicine, as well as other areas of focus with logical ties to nanotechnology, such as imaging.
The Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine was approved in late 2010, so it won’t be active for a few years, but its plans include finding a path from research to actual nanomedicine cancer cures available for clinical use. The Center is funded by a grant from NCI and will be led by the current director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine.
Finally, the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing is a great resource for students interested in nanomanufacturing, including large-scale directed assembly and transfer, environmental health and safety, and regulatory and ethical issues.
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TOP STORIES / World / Americas
George H.W. Bush viewed Germany as friend and partner, says ex-World Bank boss
The former US president supported German unification when others would not. He did so because he believed German democracy had succeeded, Bush's point man for German unification, Robert Zoellick, told DW.
DW: You worked closely for and with President George H.W. Bush. Can you share a personal anecdote that sums up the person he was?
Robert Zoellick: Referring to the difference to the current era, he was very much a man of honor and service while also being a very fierce competitor, both politically and in terms of America's international role. I would sum him up as a consummate alliance manager.
Particularly important for Germany [was that] Bush took office when [Soviet President Mikhail] Gorbachev was the phenomenon. Part of Bush's challenge was to solidify the alliance given the ice-breaking at the end of the Cold War. Many people forget that by May of 1989, only a few months after he took office, he come forward with a rather bold proposal to cut and equalize conventional armies in Europe.
The Soviet Union is dead, but its weapons live on
Seven decades of Kalashnikov
The 30-round AK 47 is arguably the most recognizable firearm in the world. The Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov (pictured above in 2002) created the automatic rifle after World War II. It quickly earned a reputation for being cheap and reliable, with various armies, guerilla groups and street gangs all using the weapon to this day.
Makarov goes to space
The 9mm Makarov pistol entered service in 1951 as a staple sidearm for the Soviet army, police and Spetsnaz special forces. Soviet cosmonauts even took the weapon to space as a part of a special survival kit, which was provided to them in case they become stranded upon landing back on Earth.
MiG-29 still flying high
The Mikoyan MiG-29 first entered production in the early 1980s, and was praised as a highly maneuverable and agile dogfighter. The original model has since been upstaged by both NATO fighters and its more expensive brother Sukhoi, but its variants are still deployed in combat. The Russian air force uses MiG-29s to target the so-called "Islamic State" forces in Syria.
The Red Army used Katyushas to devastating effect against German soldiers in World War II. The multiple rocket launchers were attached to army trucks, making them cheap and highly mobile. Its distinctive whine and appearance reminded the German soldiers of a church organ, prompting a nickname "Stalinorgel" or "Stalin's organ."
S-300 and its descendants
In 2016, Russia sold its advanced aerial defense system to Iran, but kept quiet on the details. The Cold War-era version of the S-300 had a range of 150 kilometers (93 miles), and could hit targets at altitudes above 27 kilometers, with the more modern Antey 2500 system reportedly expanding the range to 400 kilometers. India and China are seeking to buy the even-more-advanced S-400 missiles.
Dragunov sniper rifle
The Dragunov sniper rifle was first introduced to the Soviet army in 1963 and has since found its way to war theaters across the world. It was reportedly used against US soldiers in Vietnam. In 2015, the SITE Intelligence Group published photos of the "Islamic State" soldiers with Dragunov rifles.
T-34, a symbol of an era
The Red Army owes much of its victory over Germany to the iconic T-34, which first appeared on the battlefield in 1941. The battle-tested T-34 eventually became the most widely produced tank of the war and influenced armored vehicles for decades. The Russian military still honors it by having it lead the Victory Day parade.
Author: Darko Janjevic
It was a shift from the discussion about nuclear weapons from the INF treaty and it was important for Germany because it took the focus off the short-range missiles that were left, which is when Germans said: "The shorter the missiles, the deader the Germans." He faced some resistance from [UK Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher, but had strong support from Germany and helped really built the core of the US-German relationship.
The next step came in December that year at the Malta meeting. Bush was very eager to see Gorbachev. Some people in the administration were holding back, but I worked for Secretary [of State James] Baker at the time, who knew Bush wanted to engage Gorbachev. He came forward with a series of proposals — some economic, some political — that highlighted his willingness to embrace what Gorbachev was trying to do. And that was critically important in Gorbachev's state of mind because this was right after the opening of the Berlin Wall and the Soviets were having to determine their relationship to Germany. Bush went from that meeting to Brussels, were he briefed all the NATO countries and laid out some of the structure the US would take for the German unification process.
The fighter: Helmut Kohl
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The fighter: a portrait of Helmut Kohl
The third aspect of that was as part of his alliance management: He really worked arm-in-arm with Chancellor [Helmut] Kohl in recognizing the historic moment for Germany, being supportive of the drive for German unification when frankly most of Europe was hesitant other than [then-President of the European Commission] Jacques Delors. But he did so in a way that also kept an eye on the overall interests of others in Europe. He obviously was focused on having a united Germany in NATO because that was also important to reassure people in Europe that the united Germany would follow the path of West Germany of the past 40 years.
On the domestic side just one more example: People often just look at Bush as a foreign policy president, but actually if you look some of his domestic legislation, he did some landmark legislation with the American with Disabilities Act, revising the Clean Air Act and obviously his gutsiest step was, as he was approaching the Gulf War, he took the step of being willing to raise revenues for a budget deal, which really was the precursor of what Clinton then also did, which put us in a much better budget path for the 1990s, because it put caps on spending. That was a political debacle for him that he was willing to take that step and combined with a recession, he paid a huge price in failing to get reelected.
I hope that historians will recognize more what he accomplished in four years both internationally and domestically.
Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick
In Germany, President Bush senior is remembered as the US president who was instrumental in achieving German unification. How did he view Germany and why was he, unlike many other international leaders, supportive and not opposed to German unification?
He viewed Germany as a friend and partner. Quite early on he gave an interview where he supported the idea of German unification even at a time that Germans were a little hesitant to speak about the topic. I think he gave some freedom for Kohl and others to take those steps.
He believed that German democracy had succeeded, that Germany was a strong ally and that this was one of the good qualities of the American experience — we Americans didn't fear Germany, we saw Germans as our partners. It was a sign of confidence and faith in working with Germany, and it reflected the kind of assurances he could give others that were anxious like Britain or France and others, that the United States remained committed to transatlantic relations and also to those in Eastern Europe.
To give Kohl his credit, he partly earned this in that he had taken some very courageous steps in the 1980s with the dual track commitments and the intermediate range missiles. Everyone knew this was a very gutsy thing for Kohl to do. It lead to the INF treaty and the success of eliminating those weapons. So Kohl and Germany had earned the trust.
Read more: What does it mean to be German in a unified country?
Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, and George H.W. Bush and remnants of the Berlin Wall
Do you think that his role in making German unification possible could be his most important foreign policy achievement?
Our policy, while focused on German unification, was also focused on a Europe whole and free. I would put German unification kind of as the key stone of a peaceful end of the Cold War in a way that created structures for the future. I personally think that historians don't recognize enough that Bush not only ended the Cold War peacefully, but that he laid the foundation stones for a future structure — transatlantic relations, the NAFTA negotiations and he almost completed the Uruguay round [of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT]. So in that sense he is a key transitional figure in the international order.
All those things you mentioned — that he was a friend of Germany, a supporter of transatlantic relations and opposed to nationalism, economic or otherwise — that seems like a total contradiction to the current president, doesn't it?
I want to draw a key distinction, because it might be helpful to your readers. I know that nationalism in some European and German quarters is seen as a negative term. And Macron obviously emphasized this. Nationalism with American internationalists is not a bad term.
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Let me relate that to the German unification story. You asked why was Bush comfortable with German unification where others in Europe weren't? We weren't afraid of German nationalism. We thought that a successful Germany could be a pillar of the future. He in a very practical way realized that Germany would eventually become the dominant player in Europe, even though it didn't want to be seen as acting dominantly.
[Current US President Donald] Trump is unusual in that he sets nationalism against internationalism, which I think is a terrible mistake.
And he has a very different worldview, right?
Trump views the 40-year-old order that took us through the Cold War and afterwards as having cost the United States too much, and he thinks that others should bear a greater burden. He doesn't value the systems and institutions that the US helped create. And this story begins way before 1989: this is the story of the Marshall Plan, GATT, the World Trade Organization, and the story of creating NATO. Those structures were overhauled and adapted at the end of the Cold War. Bush actually had ideas about the future roles of NATO and the trade area.
At the same time we were dealing with those issues in 1989, we had the events of Tiananmen Square in China. Bush took a great political hit to maintain the relations with China, because he saw trying to have a constructive relationship with China as important for the future world order. Now contrast that with today.
Read more: What you need to know about NATO
The country President Bush led, but also his Republican Party, have changed a great deal since the time he served. Would you say President George H.W. Bush was the last traditional, old school Republican president?
These traits carry forward. I know that his son, George Bush 43, didn't create the same warmth in Europe as his father did, but if you look at his commitment [to] the overall international order, this is not a man who abandoned that structure by any means.
Clearly, Bush 41 kind of represented and was the last president of the World War II generation. And one of the ironies of him as a human being is that he is modest in manner and he actually was kind of a heroic figure in young age as an aviator in the Pacific — almost lost his life and yet politically people said "oh, he is a wimp" — which is kind of odd for a guy who won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But politics is a rough business.
Robert Zoellick, a former president of the World Bank, was the US Chief Negotiator for the 2+4 negotiations that led to German unification. He also served in various other key positions under President George H.W. Bush, among them Deputy White House Chief of Staff and presidential "Sherpa" for the G7 summits.
The Berlin Wall: A city torn in two
Barbed wire divides Berlin
East German authorities began patrolling the inner-German border in 1952. Until then it had been relatively easy to pass between the two. They sealed off West Berlin in 1961. Here, soldiers keep people from crossing as the Berlin Wall is built.
The day the wall went up
In 1961, communist East Germany was having trouble keeping its young, educated population from emigrating to the West. The Berlin Wall was erected almost to completion in a single night, without warning, on August 13.
Escape atempt
This famous photo from September 1961 shows a woman trying to escape East Berlin through an apartment block where one side of the building faced the West. Some men try to pull her back inside while others wait underneath, hoping to aid in her escape.
Fall of the Wall
Amidst mounting internal and international pressure, a mistaken announcement by an East German official on November 9, 1989 led to the wall being opened. Germans on both sides of the border celebrated for days. New openings were made in the wall, like here at Potsdamer Platz two days later.
Today, some parts of the Berlin Wall still stand as a memorial to hard-won freedoms. The famous East Side Gallery allows different artists from around the world to add murals to the part of the wall that remains on Mühlenstrasse in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
Berlin remembers
Politicians for the state government of Berlin lay flowers along the site of the Berlin Wall on Bernauer Strasse, 56 years to the day after it was constructed. At least 140 people were shot dead by East German border guards at the wall from 1961 to 1989.
Author: Elizabeth Schumacher
Germans and Americans 'worlds apart' in view of relations
People in Germany and the United States appear to have very different ideas about the state of relations between their countries. Germans see Berlin and Washington increasingly at odds, but Americans are more positive. (27.11.2018)
Angela Merkel honors Helmut Kohl, calls him a 'great German'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has honored her former mentor, the late Helmut Kohl, in the official book of condolences for the former chancellor. The European Union is also planning a special commemoration. (18.06.2017)
Wolfgang Schäuble: Reunification a 'second chance' for Germany
Speaking on German Unity Day, Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble said Germany must not evade the past. October 3 commemorates the anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. (03.10.2018)
Defining what it means to be German in a unified country
The Berlin Wall fell 29 years ago, and Germany has been a united country again since 1990. About 83 million people live here: "original inhabitants," newcomers, migrants. Can they be characterized? (02.10.2018)
'Cultural sovereign' Helmut Kohl built an unlikely legacy
Helmut Kohl initiated a large number of national artistic institutions that changed Germany's cultural landscape. The government's art expenditures trebled under Kohl's 1982-1998 tenure as chancellor. (01.07.2017)
What is the INF nuclear treaty?
As the US is poised to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, DW takes a closer look at the nuclear arms control agreement and its significance. (22.10.2018)
NATO in a nutshell: What you need to know
NATO has been at the heart of defense policy for many Western European nations for decades. As time has gone on, it's moved eastwards. But how did the alliance become what it is? Who pays for it? Where is it going? (10.11.2017)
Steinmeier: Berlin and Moscow must renew trust
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Germany and Russia to "rebuild a minimum of trust." He's the first German head of state to visit Russia in seven years. (25.10.2017)
Cold War armaments still serve as staples of armies across the world, with Eastern bloc designs outlasting the system they were created to protect. DW looks at some of the best-known Soviet-made weapons. (09.09.2017)
The Berlin Wall went up in almost a single night in 1961. It would take nearly three decades to come down. (13.08.2017)
Audios and videos on the topic
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Russia shows no 'sign' it's willing to comply with INF nuclear treaty, NATO says 05.07.2019
There is little hope a key nuclear arms treaty can be saved, as Russia refuses to come back into compliance, says NATO's Jens Stoltenberg. He spoke after a NATO-Russia Council meeting on the INF arms control treaty.
When America landed on the moon, the whole world did 15.07.2019
It was an American mission to land on the moon. But it would have been impossible without the rest of the world. The Apollo program relied on a global network of tracking stations and their engineers.
From the Beatles to Brexit: Exhibition explores German perspectives on the Brits 10.07.2019
While many are focused on the UK's exit from the EU, a new exhibition titled "Very British" looks at the way sport, pop culture, the Cold War and the Queen bring Germany and Britain together.
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Unruly Crew
Accountability lessons from the Clinton administration's attempts to cajole the states into complying with federal mandates for standards-based reform
By MICHAEL COHEN
Fall 2002 / Vol. 2, No. 3
Illustration by Greg Clarke.
The No Child Left Behind Act, signed by President Bush in January 2002, builds squarely on the framework of standards-based reform established in Goals 2000 and the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). These two pieces of legislation, proposed by President Clinton, forged a new federal-state partnership to implement in every state an accountability system based on challenging standards and aligned assessments for all students. They also targeted federal resources to high poverty schools and provided states, districts, and schools with greater flexibility in the use of federal resources in order to achieve results.
While there are substantial continuities between the Clinton and Bush reforms, there are also some important differences that will bear significantly on the implementation challenges now facing states and the federal government. The 1994 legislation recognized that states had been leading the education reform movement for more than a decade, and it sought to bring the federal government into line with the standards-based reforms being formulated at the state level. Together Goals 2000 and the 1994 ESEA reauthorization provided a broad and flexible framework for state action, and deliberately placed considerable trust in states to work out the details themselves.
In contrast, the No Child Left Behind Act reflects significant impatience in Washington with the pace of state-led improvement and, in particular, with the slow pace at which states have instituted tough accountability systems. The legislation contains new and highly prescriptive testing and accountability requirements for states. It requires more testing and more frequent testing, sets a 12-year timetable by which every state and every school must bring every student and every demographic subgroup of students up to proficiency, and spells out in more detail than previously the consequences for schools that fail to make adequate progress toward this goal.
These provisions substantially shift the historic balance of federal vs. state control over education. They combine new federal dictates over the timing of improvement with continued state control over the standards for improvement, perhaps providing perverse incentives for states to lower the academic standards they recently adopted. In addition, most analysts believe that the new definition of “adequate yearly progress” included in the statute will result in a substantial proportion of the schools in each state immediately being identified as failing, due as much to the statistical properties of the definition as to the quality of the schools in question.
Implementation of the new law will therefore pose significant challenges to the states and the federal government. States will be looking for ways to meet new federal requirements without seriously disrupting their own standards-based reforms. The U.S. Department of Education will be working to ensure full compliance with the new requirements, but realistically must also provide states with enough flexibility to adapt the requirements to the states’ varying circumstances.
Requirements for states to implement systems of standards, assessments, and accountability have been the central feature of federal elementary and secondary education programs since 1994. They have also been the most politically difficult to craft and implement. Their successful implementation this time will depend on the willingness and ability of federal and state officials to negotiate a complex set of technical, political, and organizational challenges-and a good deal of luck.
The actions that state and federal officials take to address these requirements will determine whether they provide the right pressure to drive needed changes in state and local practice, prove to be utterly unworkable, or are relegated to the margins of state and local improvement strategies. The experience of implementing the 1994 requirements can shed some light on the choices facing federal and state officials this time around.
The Limits of Enforcement
It is often said that the federal government has little power when it comes to education reform because it kicks in less than 10 percent of the total cost of K-12 education. The 1994 reforms belie this notion; in fact, federal legislation can move the states quite far, even if their actions don’t all comply with the letter of the law. In 1993, at the onset of the Clinton administration, only a handful of states were developing standards and aligned assessments and preparing to use them as the cornerstone of their education reform strategy. Now every state is organizing its K-12 system around standards-based reform. The point here is simple but important: much of the federal impact lies in the overall direction it provides; it is not solely a result of the specific strings tied to federal funds. Significant changes in existing federal programs frame the terms of the deliberations that go on in every state and community. They mobilize supporters and create an expectation that states will act in a manner consistent with the new law.
Still, that doesn’t mean states will walk in lockstep with federal mandates. States won’t implement requirements that are unworkable or meet deadlines that can’t be met, no matter what the law says. The 1994 law required states to establish content and performance standards (the cut scores that indicate different levels of mastery on the assessments) in reading and math by the 1997-98 school year, and final assessments aligned with the standards by the 2000-01 school year. While most states met the deadline for content standards, almost none met the deadline for performance standards. States found it almost impossible to develop, define, and describe performance standards in the absence of the assessments that made them real and concrete. As a result, the Department of Education agreed to waive the deadline for performance standards.
This was the right decision, but it wasn’t without consequence. Freely granted waivers contributed to a belief that the department would not strictly enforce any of the law’s provisions and may therefore have undermined state compliance over time.
The 2000-01 deadline for having a testing system up and running was workable if a state started development work soon after the law was enacted. However, many states delayed the development of assessments for several years. Once that delay occurred, and once a state began good-faith efforts to develop the assessments, there was little either the state or the federal government could do to speed up the process. Creating and field-testing questions, developing scoring procedures, and conducting validity and reliability studies all take time. Moreover, full compliance required significant changes in test design, administration, and reporting practices. States had to shift from norm-referenced to standards-based assessments and to end longstanding practices of excluding students with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency from the state testing, reporting, and accountability programs. As the deadline approached, a number of states clearly weren’t going to meet it despite working in good faith to complete the development process. No sanctions could speed the process at that point. The department’s response was to waive the statutory deadline and hold the state to its planned timetable. Some view these decisions as evidence of lax enforcement, but I see it as evidence of the limits of the department’s enforcement ability.
These limits will become apparent again soon because some states will not be able to meet the deadlines in the new law. For example, the results from tests administered this spring are to form the baseline for defining adequate yearly progress. However, those states that still do not have final assessments in place or that plan necessary changes in their current assessments will be unable to use this year’s results for that purpose, since they will be using different tests in a year or so.
Knowledge Counts
States failed to meet some requirements not for lack of trying, but because they didn’t have a clear sense of how to do certain things well. The best example is their setting of standards for school improvement-known in the law as “adequate yearly progress.” States vary widely in the annual progress-in terms of increases in test scores-they expect from schools. As a result, they also vary widely in the percentage of schools identified as “needing improvement.” Texas and North Carolina labeled only 1 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of their Title I schools as “needing improvement.” Kentucky and Arkansas, by contrast, applied that label to 71 and 64 percent, respectively, of their Title I schools.
One of the reasons for this is that states, and the education community overall, do not have a clear, research-based idea of how to effectively set performance or progress targets for individual schools or school districts. Some states set absolute standards for schools, others looked at improvement over time, and others used a combination of the two. Few states or educators had a clear understanding of the behaviors they were rewarding or the incentives they were providing as a result of the design choices they made. And no state had sufficient research or experience to guide it in understanding the rate of progress it could reasonably or even ideally expect a school to make.
By tightly prescribing the definition of adequate yearly progress that states must adopt, the new law eliminates most of the difficult design decisions states must make. However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.
Going Their Own Way
While state education agencies are responsible for implementing federal programs, in many states the governor and the legislature, not the chief state school officer and the state education agency, are in charge of testing and accountability policy. In general, legislators and governors don’t pay attention to Title I requirements; they may not even be aware of their existence. While the relevant aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act generated a fair amount of media attention, few state policymakers will give them much thought six months to a year from now-let alone by 2005 and beyond, when the new testing requirements must be implemented. Odds are that governors and legislatures in most states will continue to think they have a free hand on these issues.
For instance, the Department of Education found that the assessment systems in California, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Alabama were substantially out of compliance with the requirements of the 1994 legislation. In each of these cases the main problem was state-level decisions by the legislatures to mandate norm-referenced tests that were not aligned with state standards. Chief state school officers in those states made clear that the legislature acted without much knowledge of or attention to the Title I requirements. Now consider that during the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, the National Conference of State Legislatures sent members of Congress a letter criticizing the testing requirements as “an egregious example of a top-down, one-size-fits-all federal reform.” Clearly, given the deep ambivalence about the federal role in education among many elected state officials, no one should assume that state compliance will be voluntary or automatic.
Hints of future problems have already surfaced. In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test-focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others. Schools will receive their first “grades” in 2003, but sanctions cannot be applied until 2005. Almost none of the accountability features appear to comport with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the basic provisions of which have been known since the summer of 2001. The federal law permits multiple measures as long as those added to the state assessment program don’t reduce or change the schools identified for improvement. Interventions in low-performing schools must begin immediately, at least for those already identified under the 1994 provisions. Michigan has already identified some 80 percent of its Title I schools as needing improvement, so widespread interventions should be occurring now, not delayed until 2005. In brief, it appears that, at least in Michigan, the state’s accountability system and the Title I accountability system operate in parallel universes.
Lax Track Record
The Department of Education does not have a strong track record of monitoring compliance in ESEA programs, a problem that has spanned administrations of both parties. The department is widely viewed as impotent, since no one believes that it will ultimately withhold funds from states or local districts.
The weakness of this longstanding track record was surely compounded by both the intent of Goals 2000 and the politics surrounding its enactment and implementation. Goals 2000 was intended to help states jump-start standards-based reform, while deliberately providing states with a great deal of flexibility in the design of reform strategies and the use of federal funds. While the secretary of education was required to review and approve each state’s education reform plan, we were keenly aware that Goals 2000 provided less than 1 percent of total state education expenditures and worked hard to ensure that the peer review of a state’s plans recognized the limits this imposed. Many states understood and appreciated this approach, but others saw it as another indication that the department lacked the will for tough-minded compliance monitoring.
The political assault on Goals 2000 in a number of states (the governors of Virginia, California, Alabama, and New Hampshire refused to accept Goals 2000 funds because of the “federal intrusion” and “strings” that accompanied it), coupled with simultaneous efforts in Congress to abolish both Goals 2000 and the Department of Education, also contributed to a widespread view that tough enforcement would be a particularly hazardous course of action for the department to pursue. Ironically, many of those who pressured the Education Department to give states a free rein during the 1990s have now championed a much more intrusive set of requirements a decade later.
Laboratories of Democracy
Still, in its effort to ensure compliance the Department of Education must avoid choking off creativity. As states work to address these issues, they need the flexibility to take advantage of emerging solutions and opportunities and to address problems not foreseen in, or perhaps created by, the legislation. Here are a few areas where the department should not let compliance get in the way of quality and innovation:
• The requirements for adequate yearly progress and school improvement apply equally to high schools and elementary schools, yet it is not clear that they make as much sense at the secondary level. For example, states with high-stakes high-school graduation requirements must find effective ways to intervene in high schools with high failure and/or dropout rates, even if the percentage of students passing the test increases significantly each year. A school where the pass rate goes from 65 to 75 percent in a year may be making exceptional progress, but it is hardly adequate if a quarter of the students can’t meet the graduation requirements. Consequently, many states will need to find different yardsticks for judging the performance of high schools and more powerful and swift intervention strategies than the graduated series of steps provided for in the statute.
• Online assessment appears to offer many advantages for states, teachers, and students. It holds the promise of immediate results and feedback so that the tests can be used to improve teaching and learning for the students who take them. They can be administered at different times, enabling students to take them when they are ready to demonstrate that they have met the standards, rather than on a single “one-size-fits-all” testing date. They may be customized for individual students, enabling them to take fewer questions that are better geared to their level of performance, potentially increasing both the efficiency and the diagnostic value of the tests. Yet Education Week reported in February that department officials have indicated that Idaho’s approach to online testing may not meet Title I requirements. How this pans out will depend on the particulars of the Idaho situation, but in general the Title I requirements must not become a barrier to the necessary development and experimentation of online testing in the states.
• The annual testing in grades 3 through 8 required by the federal law will make it possible for states and districts to use “value added” approaches to measuring the performance of schools. It isn’t clear whether this approach is necessarily superior to the cohort approach the law builds in to the definition of adequate yearly progress, but it certainly deserves serious consideration. In any event, value-added analysis would almost certainly identify as low performing a set of schools different from those the prescribed approach might identify, and thus it may not be permissible under the statute. The Title I requirements should not be a barrier to sorting out the most appropriate approaches to identifying low performing schools.
The bottom line here is simple. We don’t yet know all that we must in order to translate the principles guiding No Child Left Behind into effective policy. Yet the specific requirements appear to leave some approaches off the table, even if they may turn out to be more promising. While the Education Department has a clear responsibility to ensure that every state complies with the new requirements, it also has a responsibility to help states find the most effective approaches to meet the overall purpose of improving achievement.
In the end, even 100 percent compliance will not be enough to bring about adequate gains in student achievement. Translating tougher accountability measures into large-scale achievement gains for all students will require substantial investments at the federal, state, and local levels. States and districts will need to recruit, prepare, and retain talented teachers and principals and support them with high-quality professional development, curriculum and instructional materials aligned with standards, and the tools to support data-based decisions. It will also require substantial investments to give students the opportunities to learn, including smaller classes, modern buildings, 21st-century technology, and extended learning opportunities through after-school and summer programs. The key here is that compliance is a means, not an end. The end is excellence.
-Michael Cohen is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute and the former assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education in the Clinton administration.
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Middle-Class Children Learn to Be Squeaky Wheels
By Sarah D. Sparks
If it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, middle-class children are more likely than their lower-income peers to grow up learning how to make the gears of the education system turn smoothly.
Working-class parents, meanwhile, tend to raise their children to avoid conflict and be self-sufficient in problem-solving, an Indiana University researcher says.
The findings, the latest from a longitudinal study of Pennsylvania students, suggest parents of different classes may teach their children very different approaches to navigating the school system and championing their own education, priming them for later academic challenges or success.
The study, presented at the American Sociological Association conference in Denver this month, comes as the National PTA expands an initiative intended to help parents learn education advocacy.
"What we see typically is, often those parents had problems themselves in school," said Sherri Wilson, the National PTA's senior manager of family and community engagement. As a result, "they are reluctant to ask for help from school themselves, and also they do not encourage their children to ask for help because they don't want to draw attention."
As part of an ongoing series of studies in an outlying suburb in Pennsylvania, sociologist Jessica McCrory Calarco of Indiana University in Bloomington observed and interviewed 56 white students from 3rd through 5th grades and their working- and middle-class families, and then conducted follow-up interviews when the students were in 7th grade.
Through observations of classroom interactions with teachers, and interviews with the students and their parents, the researcher tracked students' confidence and their ability to seek help from teachers, clarify assignments or concepts they didn't understand, and resolve problems around academic issues—what Ms. McCrory Calarco called educational advocacy.
"I find that although both middle-class and working-class parents teach children skills for negotiating with institutional authorities on their own behalf, the nature and content of these lessons varies along social class lines," she said. "Whereas middle-class parents stress the development of children's self-advocacy skills, working-class parents instead emphasize skillsfor problem-avoidance."
While the study is small, its findings build on studies suggesting that students' ability to seek help and successfully navigate the school system can make a big difference in their academic achievement.
For example, Stuart A. Karabenick, a research professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, found that students who sought help appropriately were more likely to try to master educational content, rather than simply trying to pass a given test—a mind-set associated with both better academic and life achievement.
In addition, research by special education professors David W. Test and Catherine H. Fowler, both of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, found that students who participated in programs that improved their help-seeking and advocacy skills became more engaged and better-behaved in school.
Varied Approaches
Ms. McCrory Calarco found that the middle-class parents often engaged in role-playing to help their children practice asking for help, but did not—as commonly thought—swoop in to "save" the student from problems in school.
"That was one of the most surprising findings," Ms. McCrory Calarco said. "They recognize, and many of them actively resisted, the 'helicopter parent' stereotypes, but they wanted to equip their students with very important skills to know how to get help at school." By contrast, working-class parents stressed respect for the teacher and directed their children to solve problems on their own; they did not encourage students to ask for help or discuss questions with the teacher, Ms. McCrory Calarco found.
For example, the study describes a single father, "Mr. Graham," who tells his daughters to ask classmates but not their teacher for help when they don't understand an assignment. He recalled his own childhood experience with a teacher who yelled at the class for questioning an assignment.
"Unfortunately, it seemed very much like a cycle," Ms. McCrory Calarco said. "It almost seemed he wished there could be a different relationship for his children, but … he thought that would be unlikely."
Teaching Advocacy
Schools can play a role in helping students feel comfortable asking for help and discussing academic issues, the study suggests.
Ms. McCrory Calarco found students whose teachers approached them directly and clearly explained how to ask for help were more comfortable discussing problems.
In spring 2008, Terry Simpson, a special education teacher at Windsor High School in Windsor, Colo., launched a class called Learning and Educating About Disabilities, or LEAD. Advocacy lessons in the class, originally just for special education students, were soon after included in a transition class for all incoming freshmen.
"My role is encouraging and actively teaching how to be assertive versus aggressive, and what is your purpose in advocating for yourself," Ms. Simpson said.
Yet Ms. McCrory Calarco said educators alone can't ensure students will know how to advocate for what they need, particularly if they come from backgrounds that discourage asking for help. "It seems as though even if you are taught those skills at school, it's not going to work if it's not reinforced at home by the parents," she said.
That's why the National PTA takes a different tack. The group has just completed the initial three-year cycle of its Urban Family Engagement Network, which trained 750 parents in nine cities—Albuquerque, N.M., Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Philadelphia, and the Queens borough of New York—on how to seek help from schools and work with them on school policies.
Parents attend training outside of schools—in a housing-project recreation room or a community center, for example—on their legal rights and responsibilities with regard to their children's education and ways they can work with teachers and administrators. Ms. Wilson said the program is starting a new three-year cycle and evaluation with the original and eight new cities to be selected this fall.
"We teach parents advocacy skills so that they feel comfortable going into school and advocating on behalf of their kids," she said. "Our belief is that once they have that skill set for themselves, parents will feel more comfortable teaching their children how to do that."
Coverage of school climate and student behavior and engagement is supported in part by grants from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the NoVo Foundation, the Raikes Foundation, and the California Endowment.
Vol. 32, Issue 02, Pages 1, 11
Published in Print: August 29, 2012, as Advocacy Tactics Found to Differ By Families' Class
“Outside Advocacy Groups Target Local School Board Elections,” May 23, 2012.
“Growing Gaps Bring Focus on Poverty's Role in Schooling,” March 7, 2012.
"Report Finds Child Poverty Rising in the States," (State EdWatch Blog) December 30, 2011.
“The 'Wave' of Poverty Flows Through Schools,” July 9, 2012.
“We Can Overcome Poverty's Impact on School Success,” January 18, 2012.
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ESi SoCal Office Relocates to Accommodate Growth
ESi today announces the move of its Southern California office from Foothill Ranch to Irvine, a key development as the company works to further strengthen its service capabilities in the region and abroad, and accommodate recent staff growth. Located just five miles from its previous location, the new office features a 9,985-square foot space with fully equipped conference rooms, larger testing and joint inspection areas, a full range of multidisciplinary testing abilities, laboratory and inspection equipment, and secure evidence storage facilities.
The new address is 15235 Alton Parkway, Suite 120, Irvine, CA 92618.
“The relocation of our Southern California operations to Irvine provides us with a great new platform from which we can support our clients,” said Kristina Cydzik, P.E., LEED AP, Manager of ESi’s California operations. “Quite simply, we've outgrown our existing premises, and this move positions us to continue building on our recent momentum. It also comes at a perfect time, as we expand our local technical capabilities and welcome Adam Abbes Yala, Ph.D., P.E. and Carol Benassi, AIA to our team.”
Conveniently located near the intersection of I-405 and I-5, the new office offers easy access to John Wayne Airport, the Irvine train station, and the Irvine Spectrum, one of Southern California's most popular entertainment and shopping destinations.
“We are especially proud of the fact that our recent growth is a result of the confidence placed in us by both longtime and new clients,” said ESi Principal Alfred Pettinger, Ph.D., P.E. “This move enables us to be forward-thinking and fully focused on doing what we do best: delivering the highest levels of engineering consulting services to our clients. Irvine is a dynamic, high growth environment and we are eager to tap into its diverse, technically-fluent workforce as we continue to grow our team and our service offerings.”
ESi is a full-service engineering, scientific, and technical consulting firm with locations coast-to-coast. With state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, and an extensive national network of qualified professionals in almost every technical discipline, ESi can deploy the right team for virtually any project. For more information about our capabilities and to learn how we help clients solve their most challenging technical problems, visit http://engsys.com.
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What is Diffuse Axonal Injury & How is it Treated?
Reviewed By: Pramod Kerkar, MD, FFARCSI
What is a Diffuse Axonal Injury?
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) is a one of the most fatal and common brain injuries. Severe diffuse axonal injury is one of the major causes of death in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury. In Diffuse Axonal Injury, patient has extensive damage where there is formation of widespread lesions in the white matter tracts over a widespread region. Diffuse axonal injury is the leading cause of unconsciousness and constant vegetative state after serious head injury. Diffuse axonal injury is seen in about 50% of patients who have suffered severe head injury. The prognosis of diffuse axonal injury is not good as it often results in patient being in a coma, where more than 90% of them with severe diffuse axonal injury do not regain consciousness and those who do, mostly become significantly impaired.
There are different degrees of severity of diffuse axonal injury. It can be mild to moderate to severe. Concussion is thought to be a milder form of diffuse axonal injury.
Classification of Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
Diffuse axonal injury comes under the heading of a diffuse brain injury, which means that it is not restricted to a specific area and occurs in a widespread area. Based on the severity of the injury, diffuse axonal injury is classified into:
Grade-I Diffuse Axonal Injury: There is widespread axonal damage without any focal abnormalities.
Grade-II Diffuse Axonal Injury: Along with widespread axonal damage, focal abnormalities are also present, particularly in the corpus callosum.
Grade-III Diffuse Axonal Injury: There is widespread axonal damage, focal abnormalities along with injury to the rostral brainstem which often results in tears in the tissue.
Causes of Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
The cause of diffuse axonal injury is not a simple blow to the head, but a severe cutting force to the head, which results in rapid acceleration or deceleration; or backwards and forwards movement of the brain, within the skull. Some of the causes where this type of head injury leading to diffuse axonal injury includes: An automobile accident, physical violence/abuse, sports injuries, falls and shaken baby syndrome, which is child abuse.
Violent and rapid acceleration or deceleration of the brain leads to its displacement within the skull resulting in disruption of axons, which are responsible for sending messages between neurons; and are also parts of nerve cells. Patient has shearing injury to the brain where there is sliding of tissue over tissue resulting in development of lesions, which are responsible for unconsciousness and the vegetative state occurring after a traumatic brain injury. Death of brain cells also occurs from a diffuse axonal injury resulting in swelling in the brain. This in turn leads to increased pressure within the brain causing diminished blood circulation to the brain adding further brain injury. The shearing force also discharges chemicals which further damages the brain.
Symptoms of Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
Loss of consciousness is the primary symptom of diffuse axonal injury. This can persist up to 7 hours or more. Depending on the region of the brain that is most affected, patients suffering from mild to moderate diffuse axonal injury, and who are conscious, can exhibit other signs of brain damage. It is imperative to seek immediate medical treatment if someone suffers from such symptoms.
Diagnosis of Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
If the patient is conscious and has sustained mild diffuse axonal injury, then patient’s medical history will be asked along with other questions, such as the method of the injury and the type of symptoms experienced by the patient. Patient’s cognitive function is also tested along with other tests to determine the degree of the axonal injury. As majority of the patients suffering from severe diffuse axonal injury do not regain consciousness, certain imaging tests are done to assess the extent of injury and these tests are:
CT Scan: An x-ray machine along with a computer monitor is used where detailed images of the structures inside the brain can be viewed. The results of CT scan can be false negative, so this test is not always dependable in case of diffuse axonal injury.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): In this test, radio waves and magnets with a computer screen are used, so that detailed cross-section images of the brain can be seen. This is the most preferred imaging test for diagnosis of diffuse axonal injury.
Electroencephalogram (EEG): The electrical activity in the brain is measured with the help of this test.
Diffusion Tensor Imaging: This is one of the newer tests that help in finding out the degree of injury to the white matter fiber tract even if the result of a standard MRI is negative.
Evoked Potentials: Also known as Somato-Sensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) test, Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) test, Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) test; these are the tests which look at the auditory, visual and sensory pathways of the brain.
Treatment for Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
There is no specific treatment for Diffuse Axonal Injury and treatment comprises of standard treatment to any head injury which consists of trying to halt the increase in the intracranial pressure and stabilize the patient.
Immediate steps are taken to bring down the swelling within the brain, as it causes further damage. Medications, such as steroids are given to bring down the swelling and inflammation associated with diffuse axonal injury after which the patient will be put under observation. For patient with diffuse axonal injury, surgery is not an option. Patients who have suffered mild or moderate diffuse axonal injury will undergo rehabilitation after they have regained consciousness and have stabilized. For this, patient needs attention from a multidisciplinary staff which consists of nurses, doctors, physical and occupational therapists along with other specialists who have to design an individualized recovery program for traumatic brain injury that will facilitate the patient to perform the maximum level of his/her daily function. The stage of rehabilitation for patients with Diffuse Axonal Injury includes: Physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, adaptive equipment training, recreational therapy and counseling.
Prognosis of Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
The prognosis of Diffuse Axonal Injury is usually not good. Recovery is possible in mild to moderate types of diffuse axonal injury, where the patient can end up with some long-term problems. There are different degrees of severity for diffuse axonal injury where concussion is considered one of the milder forms of it.
Around 90% of patients who survive Diffuse Axonal Injury do not regain consciousness and remain in a vegetative state; whereas, the remaining 10% who regain consciousness are usually left with some type of severe impairment.
Written, Edited or Reviewed By:
Pramod Kerkar, MD,FFARCSI
Pain Assist Inc.
Last Modified On: February 22, 2018
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URGENT ALERT: Aggressive Legal Assault on LGBTQ Rights October 29, 2018 at 2:49 pm The proponents of religious refusal laws are on the offensive in Texas. As you may have heard, a group of extremists known for aggressive anti-LGBTQ advocacy filed three lawsuits in a matter of hours earlier this month seeking to undermine existing civil rights protections and twist the First Amendment into a new constitutional right to discriminate. This alarming development makes your vote for pro-equality candidates all the more critical.
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Home Features The Manufactured US Veteran Threat Against Obama That Will Justify Martial Law
The Manufactured US Veteran Threat Against Obama That Will Justify Martial Law
Susanne Posel
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Forget about al-Qaeda and state-sponsored radicalized Muslims, the newest Boogeyman that the US government wants the American public to fear are our own US veterans.
The US Armed Forces are preparing to fight what they call “rahowa” or racial holy war. They claim that white supremacists are joining the military to infiltrate and overthrow what is referred to as the Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG). Academics are proposing that the infiltration scheme includes white supremacists hiding their ties to neo-Nazi groups is secret in order to get passed screeners when applying for the armed forces in recruitment offices.
In reality, there is a great deal of former and current soldiers who have realized that our government has been takeover by the global Elite who are the front for the Zionist Movement that have been working in the shadows to instill global governance.
The mainstream media are using the false flag attack on the Sikh Temple because the patsy, Wade Michael Page was a US veteran who was purported to have ties to white supremacy groups according to the FBI-sponsored Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The Pentagon has banned military involvement in any group they deem a threat to the agenda of the US government. Author Matt Kennard has written about how the US military would recruit members of supremacy groups when they could not fill in their ranks by normal means with what was called a “moral waiver”.
The SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are working with the military to train soldiers on how to spot extremists in their ranks. These “watchdog groups” point out that some soldiers have tattoos that could be construed as racist.
We can look back at assassination attempts on Obama and see a pattern. They all have been US veterans who were somehow tied to white supremacy groups. This sets the stage for what could be the biggest false flag since 9/11.
Anton Caluori, resident of Federal Way in Washington State, was arrested by the Secret Service who were assisted by paramilitary police, for making threats against President Barack Obama. Caluori showed police his handgun when they came to his door.
Caluori was a US veteran with an impeccable record. His mother told the MSM that her son has a legal permit for a handgun and that he had never done anything wrong before.
A neighbor who refused to be identified also remarked that Caluori was a quiet man who never bothered anyone; however he was being taken to a psychiatric hospital to be evaluated.
Another arbitrary witness claimed that Caluori was wearing an “ammunition belt like Rambo” when he met with the police.
The mainstream media is painting a picture of a man who threatened the police with his firearm. Cathy Schrock, representative for the Federal Way police department said: “The shotgun was coming up to point in the direction of the agents. The two officers were able to close in and take control of the weapon before anyone was harmed.”
Curiously, the FBI says Caluori sent a threatening email to the FBI’s general email address, according to Emily Langlie, US attorney spokesperson. The details of the email are being kept secret; however Langlie believes that it was a clear threat to kill Obama.
Brian Leary, Secret Service spokesperson in Washington, DC, said that Caluori assaulted one of the police officers that came to arrest him. Leary goes on to say that the email Caluori allegedly sent was “alarming”.
According to Schorck, the police who accompanied the Secret Service claim that Caluori had improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in his apartment. The bomb squad was called to the scene. Although no explosives were found, the police continued to tout that they believed it was a viable threat.
This latest threat against Obama has justified the previous fears of possible assassination attempts by white supremacist groups who are upset about having an African-American president. Although Congress passed legislation in 1994 stating that US Presidents would not have Secret Service protection during their lifetime, Obama has had federal agency protection in anticipation of an assassination attempt. Despite the fact that the majority of the “threats” have been negative commentary criticizing Obama’s presidency, the Obama administration is convinced that a white supremacist will become a viable threat to Obama’s life.
In 2008, Shawn Robert Adolf and Tharin Robert Gartwell were arrested in Denver, Colorado for allegedly stating racist views against the Obama during a meth binge. The two men had rifles, sniper scopes and were reported to be focused on killing Obama before he could become the Democratic Presidential nominee.
That same year, a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina was arrested after having made known his supposed intentions to kidnap Obama and “inflict harm” while being in possession of a military grade sniper rifle.
In the MSM, a story about a Washington, DC police officer that made a threat against the First Lady to fellow officers surfaced, yet just as quickly disappeared. Over breakfast, the officer allegedly said he would shoot Michelle Obama, the showed a picture of a gun he’d use on his cellular phone. Although the officer was not identified the idea was placed into the social meme. And it follows the plans cited by the DHS informant and lends credibility to his story.
In 2010, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis published a report entitled Rightwing Extremism , wherein domestic extremists, particularly white supremacists, were proposed to be the newest and most dangerous threat to the US since al-Qaeda.
Stated in the report, the DHS admitted that they had “no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”
The DHS wanted to instill the idea that veterans were being recruited to become “right-wing extremists” upon returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Janet Napolitano intimated that military veterans could become instruments of domestic terror. When Napolitano’s comments were met with public distain, the DHS amended their assertion that extremist groups were highly-marked; but rather it was a lone wolf type that would carry out the biggest act of domestic terrorism.
A DHS whistleblower states that there is a planned false flag attack that will involve a staged assassination attempt on Obama linked to a white supremacist that will incite a race war. Because of the violence, the US government will have to implement martial law to control the population.
The DHS informant stated: “The DHS is actively preparing for massive social unrest inside the United States. He then corrected himself, stating that ‘a civil war’ is the more appropriate term. Certain elements of the government are not only expecting and preparing for it, they are actually facilitating it.”
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Top 10 Badlands Around the World
When you imagine badlands, the mind goes to alien looking formations, minimal vegetations, fascinating colors and other geological forms. Badlands are actually a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. These badlands can be found all over the world, from Canada to the United States and all the way to New Zealand. What fascinates people most about these landscapes are the incredible formations that look as they have come from another planet. They may be designated as parks, hidden along deserted roads or turned into tourist destinations but one thing remains the same; these badlands are “badass.”
10. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was just a young guy from New York. The rugged landscape and strenuous life that he experienced here would help shape a conservation policy that we still benefit from today. During his administration his conservation efforts led to the founding of the National Park Service, established to protect and preserve unspoiled places, just like his beloved North Dakota Badlands. Visiting this park can be done year round and visitors have their choice of seeing the North and/or South Unit of the park. In the north visitors will be treated to an abundance of wildlife, along with deep gorges, and colorful badlands; making this sweeping vista absolutely incredible. The South Unit offers the chance for visitors to see the badlands that have been shaped from millions of years of wind, rain, erosion and fire. The Painted Canyon Visitor Center is also a stop along the way, giving you a first glimpse of the badlands from above.
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Public Release: 14-Apr-2018
2018 AACR Annual Meeting presentations highlight the clinical utility of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR technology for discovering epigenetic biomarkers and measuring immunotherapy response
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HERCULES, Calif. -- April 14, 2018 -- New research showcasing the importance of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) technology in clinical applications will be featured in more than 60 presentations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 14-18.
One growing application area of ddPCR technology is guiding therapeutic decisions. Doctors need to know as quickly as possible whether their prescribed treatment is working or not so they can adjust the regimen. The key in making that determination is identifying and consistently measuring a biomarker that can indicate treatment outcome. Use of ddPCR technology in the clinic is increasing due to the technology's ability to reliably detect and quantify these biomarkers, as well as ddPCR's technical simplicity, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Researchers continue to find novel ways to explore these biomarkers using ddPCR technology, whether they are epigenetic markers to determine cancer recurrence after surgery or cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived from a tumor that reveals the effectiveness of immunotherapy. Below, we highlight a few of these studies that will be presented at this year's AACR meeting.
Using ddPCR Technology to Identify a Potential Epigenetic Biomarker of Lung Cancer
For patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the only recommended treatment option is surgery. Following surgery, approximately a third of these patients relapse after five years. Drs. Ana Robles, Delphine Lissa, Curtis Harris, and collaborators at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, sought prognostic biomarkers that could predict relapse in patients with stage I lung adenocarcinoma, a major subtype of NSCLC.
With the knowledge that the HOXA9 promoter is methylated in stage I tumors, Robles, Lissa, and team used ddPCR technology to analyze HOXA9 promoter methylation in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor specimens. They found an association between higher methylation levels and increased recurrence rates after five years. This indicated that HOXA9 methylation levels, as detected via ddPCR technology, could be used in combination with other biomarkers to identify high-risk stage IA and IB patients and potentially steer these patients for follow-up chemotherapy to prevent recurrence.
This poster (abstract #4208) will be presented on Tuesday, April 17, 1-5 PM in Section 10.
ddPCR Helps Detect Metastatic Cervical Cancer and Monitor Immunotherapy Response
Human papillomavirus (HPV) cfDNA in the blood is a unique tumor marker for metastatic cervical cancers. Dr. Liang Cao and his team at the National Cancer Institute investigated whether this biomarker could be used to identify patients with HPV16- or HPV18-positive metastatic cervical cancer and to assess the patient's response to tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) immunotherapy.
Using ddPCR, Dr. Cao's team genotyped and quantified circulating HPV cfDNA in serum samples from patients with HPV-positive metastatic cervical cancer. They found HPV cfDNA in all samples from known cancer patients and none in samples from healthy blood donors. In patients who exhibited a positive response to TIL therapy, the researchers were able to use ddPCR technology to detect a transient peak in HPV cfDNA, a sign of tumor death.
This poster (abstract #1581) will be presented on Monday, April 16, 8 AM -12 PM in Section 26.
Early Prediction of Treatment Response in HPV-associated Oropharyngeal Cancer with ddPCR Technology
HPV is also associated with most oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs), a disease in which distant metastatic disease can occur in up to 10% of patients. Monitoring this condition with imaging can be challenging and slow, so Dr. Glenn Hanna and his colleagues at the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigated the feasibility of using ddPCR technology in identifying signs of OPSCC and monitoring patients' response to treatment.
"While HPV-specific serum and salivary antibody testing has been evaluated, HPV cfDNA has not been well studied as a biomarker to characterize metastatic or advanced oropharyngeal cancer causally related to HPV," said Dr. Hanna. "Some small studies have looked at HPV DNA via qPCR or antibodies in patients with newly diagnosed HPV oropharynx cancers to try and understand viral clearance after chemoradiation, but these efforts have been limited by the sensitivity of the assays."
Using ddPCR, the team detected and quantified five strains of HPV cfDNA in blood samples from a small cohort of patients with recurrent metastatic HPV-positive OPSCC, who were undergoing either conventional treatment or immunotherapy. They found that HPV cfDNA levels strongly correlated with both disease burden and distant sites of metastasis. In three cases, Dr. Hanna and team detected a decline in cfDNA levels up to 14 days prior to imaging evidence that later confirmed treatment response.
"This study shows that ddPCR is a feasible alternative to imaging for measuring disease burden: it offers greater sensitivity for detecting HPV cfDNA with relatively low sample volumes," Dr. Hanna said. "It also uses peripheral blood and therefore could potentially act as a liquid biopsy if it were validated for clinical use."
Financial support for this study was provided by the Expect Miracles Foundation and the Robert A. and Renée E. Belfer Foundation.
This poster (abstract #2581) will be presented on Monday, April 16, 1-5 PM in Section 25.
Bio-Rad will also host an Exhibitor Spotlight Presentation in Theater A, McCormick Place South, entitled: "Droplet Digital PCR and the Power of Partitioning: Advanced Applications for Liquid Biopsy" on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:30 PM. The presentation will feature scientific talks by Dr. Marzia Del Re, PharmD, PhD, from the University Hospital of Pisa, Italy, and Dr. Ed Schuuring, PhD, from The University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.
Bio-Rad's new, fully automated 4-color multiplexed digital PCR system, the QX ONE ddPCR System, will be on display at Bio-Rad's booth (#1031). The booth will also feature the company's award-winning QX200 Droplet Digital PCR System, the Illumina Bio-Rad Single-Cell Sequencing Solution, and several new ddPCR assays available on Bio-Rad's Digital Assay Site.
Please visit bio-rad.com/digitalPCR to learn more about Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR technology at AACR.
Bio-Rad, QX200, QX ONE, Droplet Digital, and ddPCR are trademarks of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. in certain jurisdictions. Illumina is a trademark of Illumina, Inc. in certain jurisdictions.
The QX ONE and QX200 Droplet Digital PCR Systems are for research use only and are not intended for use in diagnostic procedures.
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Gorillas (conducted by Martha Robbins)
Gorillas are fascinating animals to study because they live in a wide variety of environments, they have a flexible social system, and they are one of our closest living relatives. Gorillas live in a broad diversity of habitats in ten Central African countries, ranging from coastal lowland forests to the high altitude, afromontane rainforests. They live in cohesive social groups that typically consist of one or more silverback (adult male), several adult females, and immature offspring. There are two species of gorillas, western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei). Each species has two subspecies. Despite their wide distribution, all four subspecies of gorillas are critically endangered, meaning they are at risk of going extinct. A major goal of the gorilla group at the MPI-EVAN is to understand the causes and consequences of variability in ecology, behavior, life histories, and population dynamics of gorillas.
Our main project is the Bwindi Gorilla Project, located in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, where we have been researching mountain gorillas since 1998 [see more about the Bwindi Gorilla Project here]. This is the second longest running research project on habituated gorillas. Our other main project is the Loango Gorilla Project, studying western gorillas in Loango National Park, Gabon [see more about the Loango Gorilla Project here]. This project has been running since 2005 and we have been making systematic behavioral observations one group of habituated gorillas since 2014 [see more about Loango here]. We have collaborative projects with several other field sites including the Karisoke Research Center run by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and the Mbeli Bai Project in the Republic of Congo run by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Lastly, we run a conservation education program (BACEP: Bwindi Ape Conservation Education Partnership in collaboration with the North Carolina Zoo and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo), working with four primary schools located on the edge of Bwindi [see more about BACEP here].
Specific Research Topics Include:
Living in social groups involves both costs and benefits revolving around feeding competition, cooperation, affiliation, and reproductive strategies. Gorillas are particularly interesting species to examine the causes and consequences of social behavior because of the variability environments they inhabit, the high level of reproductive competition among males, and their variable grouping patterns. The main research questions we address are:
How do gorillas cope with the various costs and benefits of living in cohesive social groups?
How do differences in diet influence the social relationships and nutritional intake of group members?
What reproductive strategies are used by males and females?
Our group has tested basic principles of socioecological models, notably how the distribution and abundance of food resources influences female social relationships (Grueter et al., 2016; Robbins, 2008; Wright & Robbins, 2014; Wright et al., 2014). Our studies on feeding competition, dominance rank, and food intake of adult female gorillas using similar methodologies in the Virungas and Bwindi suggest that even in primates feeding primarily on abundant herbaceous vegetation, high rank confers priority of access to relatively valuable food patches (Grueter et al., 2016; Wright & Robbins, 2014).We study the reproductive strategies of gorillas, particularly focusing on factors that may influence why gorillas live in both one-male and multimale groups. We have examined male-female social relationships to elucidate if male agonistic behavior is coercive or simply courtship (Robbins, 2009; Breuer et al., 2016; Habumuremyi et al., in review). We have combined behavioral observations with endocrine measures to study female reproductive behavior (Habumuremyi et al., 2016). We have used genetics to determine paternity of offspring and estimate reproductive skew in males (Bradley et al., 2005; Vigilant et al., 2015) as well as agent-based modelling to estimate the fitness consequences of dispersal versus philopatry (Robbins & Robbins, 2005). We currently are studying how male-male aggressive interactions are influenced by body size (measured with photogrammetry), which will help us understand male reproductive success and the variable social system of gorillas.We plan to maximize the use of the nearly 20 years of long-term data from Bwindi to study topics including affiliation and social bonds. To understand how development influences sociality, we are examining the ontogeny of feeding behavior and social relationships in immature gorillas. We also conducted a comparative study of gorilla behavior at five field sites and concluded that some behavioral variability in both species of gorillas may be due to potential cultural traits (Robbins et al., 2016).
Life History Strategies
The gorilla group focuses on the factors that shape the variability in life history events, grouping patterns, and reproductive success in gorillas. Gorillas are interesting species to examine life history strategies because they have the fastest reproductive rates of any extant ape and both males and females have flexible dispersal patterns. Through various collaborative projects, we have worked with demographic datasets for three populations of gorillas that each span more than 20 years with each containing more than 300 individuals: the Virunga Volcanoes, Bwindi, and Mbeli Bai.
The overarching questions we address are:
How do individual behavioral and demographic factors (eg. dispersal patterns, group size, birth and mortality rates) influence individual reproductive success?
How do individual life history variables and environmental factors translate into population level phenomena (e.g. population structure and growth rates)?
We have conducted several studies on age, dominance rank, and longevity that lead to variation in reproductive success of both males and females in both species of gorillas (Breuer et al., 2010, 2012; Nsubuga et al., 2008; Robbins et al., 2006, 2007, 2011; Vigilant et al., 2015). The interval between surviving births of Bwindi mountain gorillas is five years compared to four years in the Virunga mountain gorillas (Robbins et al., 2009). Despite this difference, the age of first reproductive for females is similar, but males appear to reach maturity at a later age in Bwindi, suggesting that there may be differences for males and females in energetics and/or life history trade-offs between growth and reproduction. Analysis of these parameters for western gorillas is underway to enable a broader comparative perspective. We also are conducting a study of body size and growth trajectories for a comparison of Bwindi and Virunga mountain gorillas in collaboration with Drs. Shannon McFarlin and Jordi Galbany of George Washington University and DFGFI.Male dispersal is universal in western gorillas, but only about 50% of male mountain gorillas disperse. As a result, multimale groups are common in mountain gorillas but almost never occur in western gorillas. Several factors may be responsible for this difference including variation in group size, risk of infanticide, and the presence of mothers (Robbins et al., 2013, 2016). We also have ongoing studies comparing population dynamics on a larger spatial scale via long-term genetic sampling to estimate changes in population size, structure, and individual group movements over a 10 year period in both Loango and Bwindi [building on Arandjelovic et al.,2010; Roy et al., 2014).
Feeding Ecology
Food resources vary in time and space, resulting in animals needing to adopt strategies to maximize their foraging efficiency within changing environments. How animals respond to the abundance and distribution of food resources in their environment has implications for many key elements related to survival and reproduction including patterns of habitat utilization, group compositions, and social interactions, and population dynamics.
How do differences in food availability influence variability in the diet and nutritional ecology of gorillas living in different habitats?
How are patterns of habitat utilization influenced by food availability and dietary patterns?
Research done by the gorilla group has shown that there is large variability in the food availability and diet of gorillas, and most notably, that gorillas incorporate a significant amount of fruit in their diet in all locations except the Virunga Volcanoes (e.g. Ganas et al., 2004; Head et al., 2011; Masi et al., 2015). Comparative studies on food availability, dietary intake and energy balance at three locations have advanced our understanding of the relationship among these factors in differing environments (Wright et al., 2014; Greuter et al., 2016; Head et al., 2011). We have analysed macronutrients to estimate energy content of food, and using C-peptides have shown that Karisoke gorillas, living in a seemingly aseasonal environment, exhibit seasonal variation in energy balance that is related to bamboo consumption (Grueter et al., 2014).
Variability in food availability determines patterns of habitat utilization, which is linked to between-group competition and population dynamics. A study on ecological and social influences on space use in 10 groups of Bwindi gorillas has shown that the gorillas alter their movement patterns on daily, monthly and annual scales according to food availability, even in environments with highly abundant food resources (Seiler et al., in review). Furthermore, social factors (group size, density of groups, and intergroup encounters) influence movement patterns. Interestingly, we showed that non-territorial gorillas have overlapping home ranges but maintain largely exclusive core areas, which may reduce intraspecific competition for both food and mates. These findings emphasize that within and between-group interactions are driven by both social and ecological causes.
Collaborative projects have also included examining niche partitioning among sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas using indirect measures of diet (Ganas et al., 2004), remotely triggered camera traps (Head et al., 2012), and stable isotopes (Oelze et al., 2014, 2016). An expansion of our previous work on feeding ecology will include examining processes of spatial cognition as well as making direct comparisons of patterns of dietary intake and habitat utilization between mountain and western gorillas.
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Gurinder Chadha Overview
Indian-born director Gurinder Chadha was raised in Southall, England, where she began her career working for the BBC. She produced a documentary for Channel 4 in 1989 called I'm British But. . ., which explored the experiences of young British Asians, and by the next year the burgeoning director had launched her own production company, Umbi Films. She would direct...
Blinded by the Light 2019
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Paris Je T'aime 2006
Mistress of Spices 2005
Bride and Prejudice 2004
Bend It Like Beckham 2002
What's Cooking? 2000
Bhaji on the Beach 1994
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Hospira Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd. - 557890 - 03/04/2019
Hospira Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd. MARCS-CMS 557890 — Mar 04, 2019
VIA UPS
Mr. Albert Bourla
Recipient Title
Hospira Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd.
235E 42nd St.
Issuing Office:
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Dear Mr. Bourla:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected your drug manufacturing facility, Hospira Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd., at Plots B3, B4, B5 (pt); B6 (pt); B11-B18 and B21-B23, SIPCOT Industrial Park, Irungattukottai, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India, from March 27 to April 3, 2018.
This warning letter summarizes significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals. See 21 CFR, parts 210 and 211.
Because your methods, facilities, or controls for manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to CGMP, your drug products are adulterated within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), 21 U.S.C. 351(a)(2)(B).
We reviewed your April 24, 2018, response in detail and acknowledge receipt of subsequent correspondence.
During our inspection, our investigators observed specific violations including, but not limited to, the following.
1. Your firm failed to ensure that laboratory records included complete data derived from all tests necessary to assure compliance with established specifications and standards (21 CFR 211.194(a)).
Your microbiology laboratory did not accurately report test results. On March 27, 2018, during a walk-through of your laboratory, our investigator observed microbial growth on (b)(4) personnel/environmental monitoring media plates associated with (b)(4) aseptic processing lines. However, our review of laboratory records found that analysts had recorded a result of “Nil” (no growth) for each of these plates. On the same day, our investigator also observed that your microbiologist had significantly underreported microbial results for three (b)(4) samples.
During the inspection, your staff confirmed that laboratory records did not accurately reflect the actual microbial growth observed on plates.
Your written response acknowledged the significance of these microbial growth count discrepancies. Your firm also stated that, after implementing extra plate-reading oversight in the microbiology laboratory, a notable increase in counts emerged in environmental monitoring results, with a particularly “sharp” increase in personnel monitoring excursions across the facility.
Accurate microbiological data is fundamental to evaluating and maintaining the state of control of an aseptic processing operation. Awareness of microbial excursions in an aseptic processing operation is essential to trigger prompt actions that maintain environment control. Your failure to report accurate data compromised the sterility assurance of drug products released from the facility and may have increased risks to patients.
The critical data integrity breaches identified in our inspection also raise serious concerns regarding the validity of all results reported by your quality control laboratory. We acknowledge your decision during the inspection to suspend release of drug products until the data integrity issues were thoroughly investigated. We also note that during the FDA regulatory meeting held on May 8, 2018, your management further acknowledged the significant data integrity problem identified in the inspection and discussed a comprehensive plan to address root causes.
Your response included adding corporate and third-party oversight of microbiology laboratory tests and data reporting, and several other remediation measures. However, your response did not describe the scope of inaccurate reporting of data, and the extent of management and staff involvement with data manipulation.
In your response to this letter, include:
A final report on corrective actions and preventive actions (CAPA) that were implemented to assure that aseptic processing operations are maintained in a state of control, including fully requalifying personnel involved in these operations.
The final report on changes implemented in the site’s quality control (QC) laboratories to enhance procedures, training, and CGMP documentation practices observed during the inspection and as a result of post-inspection assessments.
A comprehensive, retrospective review of reliability of all microbiology laboratory data, including but not limited to data relating to water system control and environmental monitoring (personnel, surfaces, air). Assess all batches within expiry and distributed in the United States.
2. Your firm failed to thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or failure of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications, whether or not the batch has already been distributed (21 CFR 211.192).
Your firm failed to adequately investigate poor control and critical defects in your (b)(4) manufacturing process.
Our inspection found that you initiated multiple investigations because batches exceeded critical defect limits for visual inspection. For example, during four months in 2017, three batches yielded excessive critical defect rates ranging from (b)(4)% to (b)(4)%. The limit is no more than (b)(4)%.
Manufacturing investigations indicated that high rates of significant (b)(4) appearance defects were caused by power failures and (b)(4) that disrupted the (b)(4). These events delayed reaching appropriate (b)(4) during the (b)(4), leading to insufficient and non-uniform (b)(4). However, your investigations did not sufficiently determine the root cause of recurring batches with significant (b)(4) defects when no power interruptions and cycle deviations were documented. Your process control problems permitted excessive (b)(4) to remain in finished product units and caused persistent defects. The (b)(4) caused by these (b)(4) process control difficulties were found to lead to quality attribute specification failures including impurities, assay, or (b)(4).
The extent of these critical drug quality defects was further revealed when examination of reserve samples identified many (b)(4) appearance defects, although the lots had undergone the required 100% visual inspection and had met AQL sampling criteria.
The investigations did not include a timely CAPA plan to address (b)(4) design deficiencies and inappropriately high tolerances for critical defects such as (b)(4). You also did not adequately address the need to highly scrutinize variances in pressure control in your (b)(4) equipment, including better triggers for investigation.
Excessive defects and major manufacturing deviations are both signals of unacceptable manufacturing variation and the need for thorough investigation into the sufficiency of process design and controls. The failure of your firm’s operations and quality departments to promptly detect adverse signals in manufacturing permitted the conditions that allowed several batches with critical quality defects to be distributed.
We acknowledge your decision to recall all batches of (b)(4) injection USP (b)(4) and (b)(4) within expiry in the U.S. market, after your testing of retain samples showed subpotent test results.
In your response, you committed to enhance process understanding and control. You stated that you would improve and validate a modified (b)(4) process and remediate deficiencies in the visual inspection program. Your response was inadequate in that:
It did not include a reassessment of the adequacy of your CAPA to address handling out-of-specification (OOS) (b)(4) results obtained by your laboratory.
It lacked sufficient details on the evaluation of additional (b)(4) products produced with the same manufacturing equipment used for the (b)(4) injection (b)(4) and (b)(4).
In your response to this letter, provide:
Your final report on the improvements needed to ensure that (b)(4) processes will reproducibly meet required quality attributes.
An evaluation of the design and state of control of each (b)(4) cycle used to produce drug products for U.S. supply. Include a retrospective assessment of all investigations (e.g., process deviations, failures, complaints) related to (b)(4) drug products not recalled from the U.S. market. Summarize the root causes assigned for identified defects, the adequacy of the CAPA, and any further steps needed.
Your CAPA for routine, vigilant operations management oversight of facilities and equipment to assure prompt detection of equipment performance issues, execution of repairs, completion of preventive maintenance, upgrades to equipment and facilities, and other appropriate actions.
3. Your firm failed to have, for each batch of drug product, appropriate laboratory determination of satisfactory conformance to final specifications for the drug product, including the identity and strength of each active ingredient, prior to release (21 CFR 211.165(a)).
From February 16 to March 20, 2018, you tested (b)(4) batches of (b)(4) API for (b)(4). All results were reported as passing. However, during the FDA inspection on March 28, 2018, we requested retesting the same batches under our observation. All retest results were OOS.
A batch of (b)(4) finished product, initially tested on May 25, 2017, was also retested on March 28, 2018, and found to be OOS.
Further, on April 2, 2018, your management informed our investigator that the (b)(4) test for (b)(4) batch (b)(4) raw material was repeated and that all (b)(4) replicates failed to meet the specification.
Our investigators noted that your analysts did not have a timer to indicate the start and end of (b)(4) reported in your laboratory record of analysis. It was unclear if analysts were (b)(4) the (b)(4) samples for the full (b)(4) required.
In your response, you indicated that your investigation had revealed data integrity issues related to reporting (b)(4) test results. You also indicated that your investigation, still in progress, has identified laboratory equipment failure as a probable root cause for the failing (b)(4) results. More specifically, inefficient removal of (b)(4) from the (b)(4) is considered to be the cause of incomplete (b)(4) of the sample.
We acknowledge your decision to suspend all (b)(4) testing. However, you did not include an assessment to determine whether other QC laboratory tests performed in the same laboratory were compromised by data integrity issues. Your response also fails to discuss the extent of data integrity breaches in your facility.
In a Field Alert Report (FAR) of July 20, 2018, regarding OOS (b)(4) results, you indicated that “analysts performing the (b)(4) test did not perform the analysis in accordance with procedures and did not record the data accurately in the past.” Also, “there may be instances where testing results for the Karl Fisher test, gas chromatography, infrared spectroscopy and ultraviolet spectroscopy were not recorded accurately.”
A comprehensive CAPA to ensure all batches of (b)(4) finished product intended for the U.S. market meet all established specifications. Include your results from testing reserve samples of all drugs (active ingredient and finished drug product) that remain within retest period or expiry in the U.S. market.
Your market action plan for all batches with reserve sample testing found to be OOS or inaccurately reported (e.g., as identified by your independent third party).
Data Integrity Remediation
Your quality system does not adequately ensure the accuracy and integrity of data to support the safety, effectiveness, and quality of the drugs you manufacture. See FDA’s guidance document Data Integrity and Compliance with Drug CGMP for guidance on establishing and following CGMP compliant data integrity practices at https://www.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/guidances/ucm495891.pdf
We acknowledge that you are using a consultant to audit your operation and help you meet FDA requirements. In response to this letter, provide the following.
A. A comprehensive investigation into the extent of the inaccuracies in data records and reporting. Your investigation should include:
A detailed investigation protocol and methodology; a summary of all laboratories, manufacturing operations, and systems to be covered by the assessment; and a justification for any part of your operation that you propose to exclude.
Interviews of current and former employees to identify the nature, scope, and root cause of data inaccuracies. We recommend that these interviews be conducted by a qualified third party.
An assessment of the extent of data integrity deficiencies at your facility. Identify omissions, alterations, deletions, record destruction, non-contemporaneous record completion, and other deficiencies. Describe all parts of your facility’s operations in which you discovered data integrity lapses.
A comprehensive retrospective evaluation of the nature of the testing and manufacturing data integrity deficiencies. We recommend that a qualified third party with expertise in the area where potential breaches were identified, evaluate all data integrity lapses.
The protocol and reports from your independent third parties that summarize the findings relating to data integrity at your facility. Include their findings regarding all laboratories, equipment, and staff involved with data manipulation and inaccurate reporting. Include details such as product, test type, test date, results that may have been compromised, description of data integrity issue, and any root cause identified.
B. A current risk assessment of the potential effects of these observed failures on the quality of your drugs. Your assessment should include analyses of the risks to patients caused by the release of drugs affected by a lapse of data integrity and analyses of the risks posed by ongoing operations.
C. A management strategy for your firm that includes the details of your global corrective action and preventive action plan. Your strategy should include:
A detailed corrective action plan that describes how you intend to ensure the reliability and completeness of all the data you generate including analytical data, manufacturing records, and all data submitted to FDA.
A comprehensive description of the root causes of your data integrity lapses including evidence that the scope and depth of the current action plan is commensurate with the findings of the investigation and risk assessment. Indicate whether individuals responsible for data integrity lapses remain able to influence CGMP-related or drug application data at your firm.
Interim measures describing the actions you have taken or will take to protect patients and to ensure the quality of your drugs, such as notifying your customers, recalling product, conducting additional testing, adding lots to your stability programs to assure stability, drug application actions, and enhanced complaint monitoring.
Long-term measures describing any remediation efforts and enhancements to procedures, processes, methods, controls, systems, management oversight, and human resources (e.g., training, staffing improvements) designed to ensure the integrity of your company’s data.
A status report for any of the above activities already underway or completed.
Cessation of Manufacturing at the Facility
We acknowledge your decision to cease all production and distribution of drug products from the site due to the significant long-term loss of product demand. We also acknowledge your commitment for third-party consultants to continue performing product quality assessments, including ongoing review of adverse events and customer complaints for drugs remaining in distribution from this facility.
Note that remediating these CGMP violations will be necessary if Pfizer, a successor, or an acquirer resumes drug manufacturing operations at this site for the U.S. market.
Violations cited in this letter are not intended as an all-inclusive list. You are responsible for investigating these violations, for determining the causes, for preventing their recurrence, and for preventing other violations in all your facilities.
If you are considering an action that is likely to lead to a disruption in the supply of drugs produced at your facility, FDA requests that you contact CDER’s Drug Shortages Staff immediately, at drugshortages@fda.hhs.gov, so that FDA can work with you on the most effective way to bring your operations into compliance with the law. Contacting the Drug Shortages Staff also allows you to meet any obligations you may have to report discontinuances or interruptions in your drug manufacture under 21 U.S.C. 356C(b) and allows FDA to consider, as soon as possible, what actions, if any, may be needed to avoid shortages and protect the health of patients who depend on your products.
FDA placed your firm on Import Alert 66-40 on August 1, 2018.
Until you correct all violations completely and we confirm your compliance with CGMP, FDA may withhold approval of any new applications or supplements listing your firm as a drug manufacturer.
Failure to correct these violations may also result in FDA continuing to refuse admission of articles manufactured at Hospira Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd., at Plots B3, B4, B5 (pt); B6 (pt); B11-B18 and B21-B23, SIPCOT Industrial Park, Irungattukottai, Sriperumbudur, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India into the United States under section 801(a)(3) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 381(a)(3). Under the same authority, articles may be subject to refusal of admission, in that the methods and controls used in their manufacture do not appear to conform to CGMP within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 351(a)(2)(B).
After you receive this letter, respond to this office in writing within 15 working days. Specify what you have done since our inspection to correct your violations and to prevent their recurrence. If you cannot complete corrective actions within 15 working days, state your reasons for delay and your schedule for completion.
Send your electronic reply to CDER-OC-OMQ-Communications@fda.hhs.gov or mail your reply to:
Rafael Arroyo
White Oak Building 51, Room 4235
Please identify your response with FEI 3008386908.
Francis Godwin
(Acting) Director
Office of Manufacturing Quality
Office of Compliance
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Isabelle Adjani (1955) is an actress and movie producer.
Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjani in Gennevilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, she is the daughter of an Algerian-Turkish father and a German mother.
One of her country's best known actresses, and recognized worldwide, at a young age Isabelle Adjani was drawn to acting, playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first motion picture. After minor roles in several films, in 1974 she received positive reviews and much public acclaim for her performance in the film, La Gifle, (The Slap). The following year she was cast in her first starring role in François Truffaut's film, L'Histoire d'Adele H., (The Story of Adele H.). For her work, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress bringing offers for roles in Hollywood films.
In 1981 she received the Cesar Award, France's equivalent of an Oscar, for her role in Possession. In 1983 and 1988 she won the Cesar again. In 1989, she co-produced and starred in the film Camille Claudel. She would receive her fourth Cesar Award and second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film as well as a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Following this publicity, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
Multi-lingual, Ms. Adjani performs in her native French language, English and German.
Read earlier biographies on this page.
Isabelle Adjani Facts
Birth Name Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
Occupation Actress, Producer
Birthday June 27, 1955 (64)
Sign Cancer
Birthplace Gennevilliers, Paris, France
Height 5' 4" (1m63) How tall is Isabelle Adjani compared to you?
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Voters Question Clinton's Qualifications, Now Rate Trump Equal
The FINANCIAL -- Most voters have difficulty swallowing President Obama's superlatives for Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail last week and now rate her and Donald Trump equally when it comes to their preparedness for the White House.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Obama's statement that "there has never ever been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton." Sixty-five percent (65%) disagree with the president's statement. Thirteen percent (13%) are undecided.
It's important to note that the question did not identify the person who made the statement. Obama praised Clinton while campaigning with her in North Carolina on the same day that FBI Director James Comey announced his agency would not seek any indictments of the former secretary of State despite her "extremely careless" handling of classified information. Most voters disagree with Comey’s decision.
Not surprisingly, just five percent (5%) of Republicans and 15% of voters not affiliated with either political party agree with the president's high praise of the likely Democratic presidential nominee. But even Democrats aren't convinced: 42% of voters in Clinton's and Obama's party agree with the statement, but 36% do not, with another 21% who are not sure.
When given the choice, 41% of all voters think Clinton is better qualified to be president, but just as many (40%) say that of Trump. A sizable 19% are undecided.
That's a noticeable shift in Trump's favor from April when 50% said Clinton is qualified to be president, but only 27% felt that way about the billionaire businessman.
The race between Clinton and Trump has grown tighter in our latest White House Watch survey.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans see Trump as the more qualified candidate, while 77% of Democrats say that of Clinton. Forty-one percent (41%) of unaffiliated voters think Trump is more qualified, compared to 31% who feel that way about Clinton, but 28% of these voters are undecided.
Blacks are closely divided over Obama's characterization of Clinton as the most qualified person ever to run for the presidency. Most whites (70%) and other minority voters (64%) disagree.
A plurality (45%) of self-identified liberal voters agree with the president about Clinton's qualifications, but 87% of conservatives and 62% of moderates disagree. Eighty-five percent (85%) of liberals and moderates by a 45% to 30% margin believe Clinton is more qualified for the White House; 68% of conservatives view Trump as more qualified.
The gender gap is here, too. Women see Clinton as more qualified; men feel Trump is better for the job. The older the voter, the more likely he or she is to consider Trump more qualified.
Among voters who consider Clinton more qualified than Trump for the presidency, 52% agree that there has never been a candidate more qualified than her. Ninety-eight percent (98%) of those who say Trump is more qualified disagree with the president’s statement.
Generally speaking, when it comes to national security, the economy and other major issues, voters expect Clinton to continue Obama's policies and Trump to change them, for better or worse.
The president is garnering unusually high approval ratings lately, but voters are closely divided as to whether his support would help or hurt candidates running in their state.
Back in January, voters said a candidate endorsement from Obama will not impact their voting decision this November, but most in his own party said it would.
Following the release of a final report by the special congressional committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, 49% of all voters believe Clinton lied to the families of those killed in Benghazi about the cause of their deaths.
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Young Cyclist Knocked Down By Car Was Left In Coma
A young boy from East Yorkshire has suffered severe injuries after he was knocked off his bike by a car in West Hull.
The 12 year old, was cycling to the fishing tackle shop when a car travelling in the opposite direction hit him. One of the boy’s friends raised the alarm to his mum by telling her that her son had been knocked down and was bleeding from the head. On hearing the news, his mother, said: “All I could think of was ‘was he alive? Is he OK?”
She said that when she first saw her son he was in the back of an ambulance and his face was covered in blood. He was taken to hospital where doctors put him in a coma after finding a large fracture to his skull.
Ms Morgan said: “He had started to have a fit and was vomiting. “There were 14 doctors around him. At that point, I thought the worst. I thought he was going to die! She said.
Multiple Injuries Suffered
Other injuries he suffered were a broken nose, fractured cheekbone plus a large cut to his leg. When her son eventually awoke from his coma, his first words were: ‘where’s mum?’ The boy’s mother says that her son is slowly getting better although he will need more surgery and faces a few more weeks ahead in hospital.
The boy’s family have now begun a campaign to encourage parents to make sure their children wear safety helmets having been told that the boy’s injuries would be more minor had he been wearing one. She said: “I just want parents to make their kids think and get their helmets on.”
Claiming Compensation For A Cycling Accident
If you have been involved in a road traffic accident where you were the cyclist then it could mean you have suffered a serious injury. As one of the more vulnerable of road users, it is more likely that you have experienced a severe injury such a brain or head injury if you have been involved in an accident.
Many road traffic accident injuries can leave victims with permanent injuries meaning they will need care and assistance for the rest of their lives. If you have been injured through no fault of your own then you are legally entitled to begin a personal injury compensation claim.
First Personal Injury is a team of no win no fee personal injury solicitors who can help with all types of road traffic accident claims. Please get in touch for more information on 0800 808 9740 or complete our online claim form.
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What Does it Take to Treat Millions of Kids? Partners, Speed, and A Willingness to Learn
Jessica Harrison Fullerton
What does it take to become a global leader in tackling debilitating parasitic worms in children? Speed and willingness to learn from other countries who have already done it.
This is the story of Ethiopia where in January of this year, the Federal Ministry of Health announced a national school-based deworming program that will treat over 80% of at-risk children for parasitic worms (namely, soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis) by 2020. In the course of the next five years, the Ministry of Health will collaborate with teachers and health extension workers to distribute over 100 million worm treatments to at-risk children in all corners of this vast country.
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“Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize
“Hearts and Minds” shown in the CAVE2™ virtual-reality environment. Performer wears stereo glasses with markers for wireless tracking and holds a wand controller for interacting with virtual objects in the scene.
Participants: Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Roderick Coover (Temple University), Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Mark Partridge, Mark Baratta, John Tsukyama, Dr. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (St. Andrews University, Scotland)
On June 11, 2016, at the annual Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference at University of Victoria in Canada, “Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” won the ELO’s 2016 Robert Coover Award for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre. The award, which consists a monetary prize of $1,000, a plaque, and a one-year membership in the ELO, recognizes creative excellence.
Developed by Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Roderick Coover (Temple University), and Daria Tsoupikova and Arthur Nishimoto (University of Illinois at Chicago [UIC]), “Hearts and Minds” is a 3D narrative experience that was initially developed for the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s (EVL) CAVE2™ virtual-reality environment. Based on interviews that John Tsukayma conducted with American soldiers who participated in or witnessed acts of abusive violence towards detainees in the counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan during the early 2000s, “Hearts and Minds” explores the circumstances and consequences of battlefield torture and its effects on those who participated in it.
One jurist wrote, “A major achievement. Rettberg and Coover harness the power of digital technologies to tell a powerful story and in doing so go far in changing the audience’s hearts and minds about torture.”
“Hearts and Minds” premiered at EVL in June-July 2014. It was subsequently ported to run on large, interactive 3D displays, and there is now an iPad version in the works. It has been shown at the IEEE 2014 Visualization conference in Paris; the Literature, Media, Sound conference at Aarhus University in Denmark (November 2013); the Paris 8 University (November 2014); the Human Rights/Human Wrongs International Film Festival in Oslo, Norway (February 13, 2015); the IEEE 2015 VR conference in Arles, France; the ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 conference (poster session) in Los Angeles; the HASTAC 2015 Conference at Michigan State University; the 2015 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver, Canada; and, the 2016 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Hong Kong.
The UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the UIC School of Design, Temple University, and the Norwegian Research Council supported the development of this project.
To learn more about this award, see:
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To learn more about the “Hearts and Minds” project, see:
http://retts.net/index.php/works/
http://astro.temple.edu/~rcoover/HeartsAndMinds/index.html
Learn more about “Hearts and Minds” premiere at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, and watch a video.
Email: datsoupi@evl.uic.edu
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“Hearts and Minds” Exhibited at ISEA2016
Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project
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Kawasaki C-2 to get an electronic warfare variant
BY: Greg Waldron
Tokyo plans a major investment in electronic warfare (EW) to help counter rising threats in the region.
According to a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo plans to adapt the Kawasaki C-2 tactical transport aircraft as an EW platform, with deployment planned for 2027.
Citing sources, the report adds that the P-1 maritime patrol aircraft may also be adapted for the electronic warfare mission. Other media reports have suggested that Tokyo is interested in acquiring the Boeing EA-18G Growler, the EW variant of the F/A-18F Super Hornet.
Tokyo’s recently approved Medium Defence Program reportedly calls for a greater emphasis on electronic warfare.
There is a precedent for adapting the C-2 platform for other uses. In February 2018, images and video of a C-2 modified for electronic intelligence appeared on social media. The aircraft was conducting test flights from Japan’s Gifu air base.
Modifications included large blisters aft of the wing, several antennas under the fuselage, and a dome on the upper part of the fuselage, aft of the cockpit and forward of the wings. In addition, the top tail was modified with an additional fairing, while the radome is larger than on the baseline C-2.
Japan’s strategic rival, China, is also boosting its electronic warfare capabilities. Among other efforts, it is developing a two-seat variant of the Shenyang J-15 and J-16 fighters with pods that resemble the Northrop Grumman AN/ALQ-216 wingtip pods used on the EA-18G.
In addition, US ally Australia has 11 EA-18Gs – the 12th was lost in an engine fire during takeoff. In 2018, L3 Technologies secured an $83 million deal from Canberra to upgrade two Gulfstream G550s to the MC-55 electronic warfare version.
Flight Fleets Analyzer shows that the Japan Air Self-Defence Force operates a fleet of eight C-2s, with an additional 14 examples on order.
PARIS: C-2, P-1 underpin big Japanese presence
AVALON: Kawasaki C-2 makes Down Under debut
JAPAN AEROSPACE: Honeywell zeroes in on upgrade market
ELINT version of C-2 transport conducts flight tests
Japan partners with UK to study future fighter
JAPAN AEROSPACE: Kawasaki sees unique niche for C-2 transport
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Persecution Update, August 2018 - NIGERIA
Nigeria is one of the most dangerous nations for Christians. Muslims comprise about half of the nation’s population, and several radical Islamic terrorist groups have vowed to eradicate Christianity from Nigeria through “religious cleansing.” In 2014, Boko Haram killed more people in Nigeria than ISIS did in the Middle East. Thus far in 2018, more than 1,400 Christians have been murdered by Muslim terrorists, including 233 Christians that were brutally killed one weekend in June. Christian girls continue to be abducted by Boko Haram and made child brides with the attempt to force them to convert to Islam. Please pray for special grace for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Nigeria and that they will shine as lights for Christ as they follow the way of the Cross.
Tagged: Persecution Update, persecuted Christians, Nigeria
Persecution Update, February 2016: Nigeria
Image Credit: Morning Star News, copyright 2016
Nigeria, the most populous of any African nation, is home to one of the deadliest Islamic terrorist groups, Boko Haram, which is committed to driving Christianity out of Nigeria and imposing extreme sharia law on the country. In 2014, Boko Haram killed more people in Nigeria than ISIS did in the entire Middle East. In April 2015, Boko Haram kidnapped 275 high school girls, the majority of whom were Christians, and many are still missing. Recently, on Monday night, January 25, Pastor David Onubedo was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists with a demand for ransom of a quarter of a million dollars. Because Nigeria’s government is so weak and corrupt, the Christian population is left unprotected and very vulnerable. Please pray for Pastor Onubedo and his family, and pray for special grace for other persecuted brothers and sisters there as they follow the way of the Cross.
Tagged: Persecution Updates, Nigeria, Persecution
The Fellowship of His Sufferings in Nigeria
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christ’s resurrection this Sunday, believers in Nigeria have experienced the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings on an unprecedented scale.
The Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, has dramatically escalated attacks on Christians during Holy Week. On Palm Sunday they massacred 71 believers and wounded 130 in the capital city, and 8 teachers have been murdered this week. Also, this past Monday night insurgents kidnapped 243 girls from an all-girls school, and only about 100 have been recovered.
As we celebrate the joy of our risen Savior, please remember to pray for grace, comfort and deliverance for brothers and sisters in Nigeria during this time of great need.
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Nintendo claims Wii U's performance gap with next-gen consoles will decrease
by on05 July 2012
Compared to Wii-Xbox 360\PS3
President of Nintendo Satoru Ivata has revealed that the performance gap between Wii U and the competition's next-gen consoles will be smaller than it was with Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Ivata said the company hasn't been sucessful in keeping the Wii's momentum in the last two years. He attributed the problem to smaller number of titles, brought about by the launch of 3DS and Wii U.
As far as sales go, Wii has been beating PS3 and Xbox 360 silly for most of its career, but did not get far from the casual gaming market. This means that although the console sold like hotcakes, it never actually catered to serious gamers.
Microsoft and Sony, on the other hand, raked in plenty of dough from multi-platform titles not available on Nintendo's console. The reason for this was Wii's lack of horsepower, something which Ivata claims will be fixed on Wii U. Unfortunately, Ivata says he cannot guarantee that Wii U will not end up just like Wii when it comes to multi-platform gaming.
He said the performance gap between Wii U and the competition will not mimic the scenario with the original Wii and its competitors, and will in fact be much thinner. He conceded that the competing consoles may indeed be faster, especially since they will launch in 2013 or 2014. However, he said that future console support for 720p and 1080p will mean Wii U will not lag behind the competition.
Ivata once again talked up Wii U's GamePad controller, reminding the world of just how practical it can be. He pointed out that game consoles "have long been 'parasites' of TV sets at home", and I bet many a mother would agree with this. So, gamers will now be able to continue games even after that cranky person who pays for their upbringing takes over the picture box.
In related news, the company revealed that its 3DS hasn't had the desired momentum in the States and the EU, and, when we're already stating the obvious here, I'd like to add that the sky is very blue, or at least it seems so most of the time.
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David O’Doherty bringing the laughs to the Engine Shed
Stand-up comedy with David O'Doherty comes to Lincoln this autumn
Published: 16:00 Wednesday 15 August 2018
Irish comedy star David O’Doherty brings his new live show You Have To Laugh to Lincoln later this year.
Join David for an evening talking and songs, all played on a useless keyboard from 1986.
David is well known on TV for his appearances on 8 out of 10 Cat Does Countdown (Channel 4) as well as Have I Got News For You and Live At The Apollo (both BBC1).
He is at the Engine Shed in Lincoln on November 25 at 8.15pm (doors open 7.15pm).
Tickets are £19 on 0871 2200260 or www.engineshed.co.uk
Please note: This show is for over-14s only.
Follow the Engine Shed on Twitter at @engineshed
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The Legend Of Knelson Concentrators
In 1976, Benjamin Virgil (Byron) Knelson changed the face of the gravity concentration industry to what mining professionals know it as today. This was the year the the first Knelson Concentrator was tested and Knelson Concentrators, now owned by FLSmidth, has pioneered and led gravity concentration technology ever since. But how exactly did Byron do it? How did Knelson become such a well recognised name, and excellent product? And what makes Knelson Concentrators the best technology in the industry?
Byron Knelson grew up in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, where he gained experience in both mechanical maintenance and excavation in the family business, and in the mid 1970’s he found himself on a placer gold mining operation in Yukon – having set out for greener pastures. After spending just five days on the plant, watching fine gold particles routinely run off the end of the sluice boxes, Byron had a brainwave to build a machine that could do a similar job, but better and more efficiently. So he set to it. By using a centrifugal concentrator, with a fluidised feed to stop packing, Byron was able to achieve higher gold recovery levels with less effort and waste, and in 1976 he tested the first Knelson Concentrator prototype. The results spoke for themselves, and with some mechanical fine-tuning the first ever Knelson Concentrator came to fruition.
This machine not only outperformed all predecessors in recovering precious metals, but set the standard forever after for concentration of gravity recoverable gold (GRG). The patented water injection process combined with centrifugal force allowed Knelson Concentrators to recover gold that was previously considered too fine for gravity devices. The concentration cone in Byron’s first ever Knelson Concentrator spun at 60 G force, and since then extensive research has proven that for 90% of gravity gold applications, 60 G’s is near optimum. Byron had struck gold!
In addition to being a creative thinker and pioneer, Byron Knelson was the most likeable man you could hope meet, and an exceptional businessman. With his unparalleled character and ground-breaking design, it did not take long for Knelson Concentrators to become a household name in mining industries and companies worldwide.
In the words of the great man himself: “The key to our success is remarkably simple. If you give the customer more than he expects, business takes care of itself.”
AGENTS IN AFRICA
Then in 1988 Peacocke & Simpson, a partner affiliate of GCA, became the first African representatives of Knelson Concentrators. This came about after Kevin Peacocke met Byron at a conference in Quebec, having been sent there by the Chamber of Mines in order to be exposed to new mining technologies. The two met under strange circumstances – racing remote control cars at an ice-breaker event – and became fast friends, with Byron even asking Kevin to help him with a sale the following day. Kevin spent a lot of time carrying buckets to and from the Knelson, whilst Byron did what he did best, but Kevin was so impressed with the Knelson Concentrator (which Byron obviously sold on the spot) that he asked if Peacocke & Simpson could represent Knelson in Zimbabwe.
Some years and many success stories later, it was decided that there should be a Knelson Concentrator agent for Africa as a whole, and in 1997 Knelson Concentrators Africa opened its doors in Johannesburg., In 2012 the company changed its name to GCA (Gravity Concentrators Africa) after the acquisition of the Knelson name and brand by FLSmidth. Today, GCA operates a registered FLSmidth Knelson G-TEC (Gravity Technology Evaluation Centre) and commissions and installs FLSmidth Knelson Concentrators not only throughout Africa, but around the world.
THE RISE OF KNELSON CONCENTRATORS
By the time Knelson Concentrators Africa was formed to handle Knelson’s business in the continent, the Knelson Concentrator had improved dramatically from the earlier models, and Knelson Concentrators as a company had continued to expand, enhance and pioneer gravity concentration. In 1992, Knelson installed an automated, central-discharge concentrate harvesting system, allowing for hands-free operation and diversification from small alluvial operations into large hard-rock processes.
Along the way several companies had cottoned on to Byron’s master idea and had started manufacturing similar devices, and when GCA began operating there were many contenders to the throne. However, the superior build quality, better performance and higher availability of Knelson Concentrators kept them at the top of the field, and continues to do so to this day. (See our previous article about why Knelson Concentrators are the best gravity concentrators ). One of Byron’s favourite sayings was “Unless you’re the lead dog the view never changes”, and he and his team made sure that their innovation and R&D spending kept them out front.
The revolutionary design and success of the early Knelson Concentrators made them the industry standard for almost all gold plants, both brown and green-field. In addition to this, academics who realised the potential of the technology were attracted to the field, chief amongst them being the late Professor Andre Laplante of McGill University Montreal. Professor Laplante dedicated his career to the R&D of gravity recovery, and became close friends with Byron. Known around the world as “Mr. Gravity”, he developed gravity recoverable gold (GRG) and extended GRG (EGRG) tests that fast became the recognised standard procedures for gravity gold recovery. Knelson Concentrators adopted and used these procedures to develop their KC-MOD*Pro circuit simulator, which allows accurate modelling of plant recovery on the basis of lab test results.
GRG, EGRG and modelling now allow fully informed decisions about gravity processing to be made long before the casting of first concrete on a new plant. The Knelson database has hundreds of GRG and EGRG results in its archives, and Knelson’s advanced modelling techniques allow prediction of the recovery of a plant or mine, often to within one or two percentage points.
After Professor Laplante’s untimely passing, the title of “Mr Gravity” passed to Mike Fullam of FLSmidth (formerly Knelson). Mike has analysed more GRG, EGRG and KC-MOD*Pro data, and conducted more on-site plant audits than anyone else in the world, Andre Laplante included. No one on earth knows more about gravity than Mike, and to this day he is a loyal and hugely beneficial asset to Knelson.
THE BEST GRAVITY CONCENTRATOR
Byron’s family showed similar attention to detail and quality, inventiveness and customer focus as did the great man himself. From a one-man show in 1976, Bryon, his son Brett (head of engineering) and son-in-law Doug Corsan (head of sales) built the company into a globally-recognised success story and industry gold standard.
Significant milestones included the development of the continuous variable discharge (CVD) concentrator for recovery of base and industrial minerals, a merger with an ultrafine grinding equipment manufacturer that resulted in Knelson Milling Solutions, and the formation of Knelson Processing Solutions for full turnkey projects.
By 2010 the success of Knelson Concentrators had drawn the eye of global minerals giant FLSmidth, and Byron & his team entered into negotiations for acquisition, whilst also ensuring that their employees and agents would not be affected by the acquisition. Unfortunately, Byron never saw these negotiations come to fruition, as he succumbed to cancer a year later on 29 August 2011, just 21 days before the finalisation of the acquisition. However, he did leave behind a lasting legacy that will continue to reshape the industry.
In Byron’s honour, Brett and Doug set up the Byron Knelson Memorial Scholarship. Byron Knelson was a father, brother and friend to many of his Knelson agents around the world and will forever live on in the lives of those he touched, inspired and mentored.
For almost 40 years Knelson Concentrators has lead the world in gravity concentration of minerals and metals. Whilst names have changed, most faces –employees and agents alike – have stayed, and the strengths that made Knelson Concentrators great remain very much intact. With vast and lengthy experience now further supported by the extensive global resources of FLSmidth, the future is bright, and the lead dog forges ahead.
GCA is proud to announce that we recently renewed our agency agreement in order to continue to represent FLSmidth Knelson in Africa for another five years. It has been both an honour and a privilege to work with such outstanding technology and people, and we look forward to doing so for years to come.
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Play Thousands of Tetris-Like Puzzles in Ubongo - Puzzle Challenge
December 01, 2015 / Eric Pramono
Ubongo offers thousands of Tetris-like puzzles in three single-player modes and one multiplayer mode.
Both my six-year-old Philip and I love puzzles. This includes abstract puzzles, such as Tetris. So it’s no wonder that when the developers of Ubongo - Puzzle Challenge contacted us about their brand new game, Philip quickly took a liking to it.
Ubongo is a familiar name for me because I used to own a physical board game store a few years ago. I’ve always loved playing Euro board games, and I’m looking forward to the days when my kids are old enough to play them. In the mean time, Ubongo - Puzzle Challenge has shown me that maybe my kids are ready for them sooner than what I estimated.
The Game Modes
The gameplay is straightforward. For each puzzles, you are given three or more Tetris-like pieces. You can tap to rotate them, double tap to flip them, and drag to position them correctly within the puzzle. Your task is to fit all the pieces to solve the puzzle.
To keep things interested, Ubongo Puzzle Challenge has three different single-player game modes and one multiplayer game mode. The first game mode is called Level Rush. Within a given time limit, you’re tasked to solve the puzzle and unlock the next level. In total, there are 330 levels that you can play in this game mode.
The second game mode is called Time Attack. You start with an allowance of 150 seconds, and you work your way to solve one puzzle after another. Each time you solve a puzzle, you will get a 15-second time bonus and some jewels as your reward. Try to beat your own high score by going as far as you can with the starting 150 seconds.
The last single-player game mode is called Free Mode. In this game mode, you’re not rushed by any timer. Instead, you get to play with a puzzle for as long as you need. You can even choose the number of pieces that you want to include in the puzzle. The game is capable of generating more than 6,000 random puzzle combinations within the Free Mode.
Watch trailer video for Ubongo - Puzzle Challenge on YouTube
Ubongo Puzzle Challenge is an adaptation of a popular Euro board game series with the same name. In the original board game, players compete to solve individual puzzles as quickly as they can in order to make progress in the game.
The game is an abstract puzzle game. Because of this, both the board game designer and the app developers recommend this game for kids ages 8+. But, based on my experience playing it with my six-year-old, younger kids can enjoy the game if they’re familiar with the abstract concept of the game.
Most of the gameplay modes in Ubongo Puzzle Challenge do not require an Internet connection. The multiplayer may require one, but I didn’t try it. Personally, I much prefer solving the puzzles on my own when I’m relaxing. The app is a paid app, and it doesn’t have any third-party ads and in-app purchases.
In Time Attack mode, you will try to solve as many puzzles as possible with the time allowance. You're given 150 seconds at the beginning and an additional 15 seconds each time you solve a puzzle.
The gameplay in Ubongo Puzzle Challenge is intuitive to learn. Once you’ve learned how to flip, rotate, and position the pieces, you can basically play any puzzle the game throws at you. Yet, it has the characteristics of a great game by being challenging enough to master. For example, both the Level Rush and Time Attack modes give you a limited amount of time to solve the puzzle. With a time pressure, suddenly solving puzzles isn’t so trivial as you would with no timer.
The game difficulty also increases when there are more pieces involved. Even the Free Mode can show a good illustration of this when a 6-tile puzzle is much more difficult to solve than a 3-tile puzzle.
In the Level Rush mode, you can play with up to 330 levels of finely-tuned puzzles that need to be finished within a specific time limit.
If you love puzzles, you're going to love Ubongo Puzzle Challenge. It has thousands of levels to keep you company for many hours. It it's intuitive to learn yet far from trivial to master. And, it's accessible to anyone in the family.
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Somersworth teacher to address literacy at national convention in November
By AMANDA BELANDabeland@fosters.com
Oct 27, 2011 at 3:15 AM Oct 27, 2011 at 9:42 AM
SOMERSWORTH — School Board Chair Don Austin, along with the rest of the School Board and the SAU 56 staff, recognized Middle School teacher Jacqueline Hanlon for being chosen to speak about literacy at a national convention next month.
Hanlon, according to Austin, was chosen from more than 1,000 educators who applied for the opportunity to speak at the 2011 National Council of Teachers of English. The lecture she will give, called "Literacy Gone Wild: Teaching Comprehension and Vocabulary Using 21st Century Tools," will be presented to thousands of teachers from K-12, as well as college faculty and administrators, from across the country in Chicago, Ill., on Nov. 19.
In other news, SAU 56 Superintendent Jeni Mosca updated the board on the happenings of the wellness committee, including the group's desire to offer CPR certification classes to all interested faculty within the district. Mosca also announced the committee will be hosting a wellness fair at Idlehurst Elementary School on March 22. While the details of the event are still being worked out, according to Mosca, she urged everyone to mark the date.
Business administrator Marie D'Agostino updated the board on some issues that have risen so far into the school year relating to bus transportation. According to D'Agostino, more children are taking the bus this school year than in past years because of the closing of Hilltop School and the opening of Idlehurst. Many students who now need to take the bus to attend Idlehurst used to walk to school when they attended Hilltop.
The extra kids are causing some "behavioral issues" according to D'Agostino.
The Building, Grounds and Transportation committee, according to D'Agostino, has discussed either bringing another bus onto the already existing fleet or hiring bus monitors for the existing buses.
No definite plans have been decided upon yet, according to D'Agostino.
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About Fowlers Scooters - Scooters & 125cc Motorcycles Bristol
Fowlers - The Destination Dealership! Since moving in 1982 to its current, prominent position on Bristol's A38 inner ring road, which is also immediately adjacent to Temple Meads mainline railway station, Fowlers has continued to expand its range of new and used on and off road motorcycles and scooters, as well as clothing helmets accessories and parts.
Customers are offered a huge choice of motorcycle and scooter marques (see the page footer) together with many leading brands of Clothing and Accessories: Belstaff, Alpinestars, Dainese, Weise, Rukka, Spyke, Rev'it, Buffalo and Richa. Helmets : Shoei, HJC, Shark, Schuberth, Box and Bell. As well as a fantastic range of casual wear and accessories from Oakley, Fox, KTM, Triumph, Ugly Fish and others and One Industries Motocross clothing. We also stock a large range of quality accessories and tools from Gear Gremlin, Oxford, King Dick, Scottoiler, R&G, Pro bolt and Sealey to name a few.
The extensive warehousing facility stocks a massive range of genuine parts and accessories for all of our bike franchises. There is also a state-of-the-art servicing facility with highly-skilled, factory-trained technicians for all the brands represented.
There's probably no motorcycle retailer in the UK - or even Europe! - offering its customers more choice and for those who wish to travel to visit this truly spectacular dealership, there is a large car park and Harry's Cafe provides a spacious and relaxing environment in which to kick off your boots and tuck into some delicious grub. The premises are fully air-conditioned and accessible for disabled persons. There is also a kid's play area, plasma TV and even a baby-changing facility!
Fowlers is a family-owned company dedicated to serving its customers by offering a range at least as comprehensive as its best competitor plus a guaranteed offer of value for money. The company's whole approach to its customers is to promote the pleasure and fun of motorcycling, using skills and knowledge built up over 9 decades of experience. The company would like to be acknowledged for the depth and breadth of its product range, the friendly and professional attitude of its staff and the easy accessibility of its skills and resources.
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What is Joe Biden’s net worth?
By Ann Schmidt Published June 28, 2019 PoliticsFOXBusiness
2020 election: Will Joe Biden be the Democratic nominee?
Layfield Report CEO John Layfield, FOX Business’ Susan Li, Trump 2020 Strategic Communications Director Marc Lotter and Kingsview Asset Management’s CIO Scott Martin on DoubleLine Capital co-founder Jeffrey Gundlach’s claim that former Vice President Joe Biden’s “time has passed.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden calls himself “Middle-Class Joe” — but his net worth might suggest it's time for a new nickname.
As the frontrunner in the 2020 presidential campaign, the 76-year-old has tried to appeal to blue-collar workers and maintain a reputation as a centrist who works with Republicans.
He cultivated that reputation when he served 35 years as a U.S. Senator from Delaware. During that time, his salary increased significantly — from $42,500 a year when he started in 1973 up to $169,300 a year in 2008, according to U.S. Senate salary listings.
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Biden left the Senate in 2009 to serve as vice president for newly elected President Barack Obama, who he worked alongside for eight years and made an estimated $230,000 annually.
It was during his time in the White House that Biden had stopped publicizing his tax returns.
But after years of silence, the now 2020 presidential hopeful released his federal tax returns. Biden released his federal tax returns from 2016, 2017 and 2018 on July 9, revealing he and his wife Jill have taken in more than $15 million since leaving the Obama White House.
According to those returns and a financial disclosure document, Biden’s income has surged thanks to a lucrative book deal and constant publicity tours that brought in more than $4.5 million before taxes.
Biden's disclosure showed he also made at least $2.7 million in business income as part of his publicity tour and writing and took a $425,000 salary from CelticCapri Corp., the business entity the Bidens used for their post-White House work. Biden and Jill also signed a multi-book deal with Flatiron Books valued at $8 million, according to Publishers Weekly. Biden's first book, an account of his son Beau's death from cancer, briefly topped bestseller lists in 2017. He and his wife have also worked on two other book projects.
Biden earned $540,000 as a professor and namesake of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Jill Biden made at least $700,000 in her own speaking engagements, the disclosure shows.
The former vice president's basic speaking fee was reportedly $100,000 a speech, but his disclosure showed that while some appearances were priced as low as the $40,000 range, others ranged as high as $190,000 for a lecture at Drew University in New Jersey.
Biden's three newly available tax returns show his family income jumped from $400,000 in 2016 to $11 million in 2017 as a result of his book deal. His total income in 2018 was about $4.6 million.
In total, Celebrity Net Worth estimates Biden alone is worth $9 million — though it's likely he's worth even more, especially after launching his 2020 campaign.
After announcing his candidacy for president on April 25, Biden said his campaign raised $6.3 million in the first 24 hours, from 96,926 people. About 97 percent of donations made online were for less than $200, according to his campaign, while the average donation was $41.
And though Biden has worked to maintain an image of being “Middle-Class Joe,” he reportedly defended the nation’s wealthy at a fundraising event earlier this month.
During a speech in New York on June 18, Biden suggested that being rich doesn’t mean you love the U.S. any less.
“What I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people,” he said, as reported by a number of media outlets. “Not a joke. I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money.”
Fox Business’ Brittany De Lea and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Giants' Saquon Barkley receives 'Quads' chain from Browns' Baker Mayfield for winning award
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield paid off a bet with New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley on Friday night.
Mayfield and Barkley bet whoever won the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award the other person would have to buy them a chain. Mayfield came through and got Barkley a chain that suits him perfectly.
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A picture posted on social media showed Mayfield holding up a chain that read “Quads” – a nod to the Giants star’s gigantic legs that captured the attention of many fans during the season.
Barkley, who nearly led the league in rushing yards, just edged out Mayfield for the award. He rushed for 1,307 yards and scored 11 rushing touchdowns in his first season. He also had 91 receptions, 721 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns.
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Mayfield had 27 touchdown passes – a rookie record – along with 3,725 passing yards. He only started in 13 games for the Browns, whereas Barkley played and started each game for the Giants.
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Fugitive ex-Utah corrections officer captured in Hawaii
HONOLULU – The U.S. Marshals Service says a former Utah corrections officer who went on the lam 11 years ago after being convicted of sexual abuse has been captured in Hawaii.
William Lawrence was arrested Monday at a fast-food restaurant on the island of Kauai.
Marshals say Lawrence was an officer for the Utah Department of Corrections when he handcuffed a girl to a bed and forced her to perform sex acts. He was convicted of forcible sexual abuse and forcible sodomy.
Before his sentencing hearing, he fled and has been considered a fugitive since 2006.
Marshals say they discovered he was living in Hawaii while reviewing cold cases last month.
Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Derryl Spencer says that as a former law enforcement officer, Lawrence knew strategies to evade capture.
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More spending cuts on the way: The big issues
The deficit reduction package signed by President Barack Obama ends one standoff but makes it likely there will be another before the end of the year. The package initially cuts spending by $917 billion over the next decade. It also creates a new joint committee of Congress that will attempt to come up with more cuts. If Congress doesn't approve the committee's plan, additional automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion would be imposed, starting in 2013.
The big issues facing Obama and Congress:
— Congressional Democrats successfully opposed cuts to Medicare benefits, but lawmakers didn't completely shield the program. Although there will be no initial reductions, there would be an automatic 2 percent cut to providers if the new joint committee cannot agree on a new deficit reduction package. The joint committee can include Medicare changes in its package.
— Republicans have endorsed a plan that would transform Medicare into a voucher-like system for new retirees. Private insurance plans, not the government, would pay medical bills.
— Obama was willing to raise the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67, and to increase co-pays and premiums, based on income, but only as part of a "grand bargain" that included tax increases.
— The Medicaid health care program for the poor was exempted from the deficit reduction package, though cuts could be on the table when the new joint committee meets.
— Many Congressional Democrats oppose benefit cuts, and they were successful in excluding Social Security from the deficit reduction package. Changes to the massive retirement and disability program, however, could be on the table when the new joint committee considers further spending cuts.
— Many Republicans have endorsed a range of changes, including raising the early retirement age (currently 62) and the age when retirees qualify for full benefits (currently 66, gradually increasing to 67). GOP lawmakers generally oppose tax increases to shore up Social Security.
— Obama proposed adopting a new measure of inflation that would reduce annual cost-of-living increases in benefits, but only as part of a "grand bargain" that would raise taxes.
— Congressional Democrats were unable to include tax increases in the deficit reduction package. They will try again when the new joint committee considers further ways to reduce the deficit. Democrats would target high-income taxpayers, oil and gas companies, and U.S.-based multinationals.
— Republicans opposed tax increases in the deficit reduction package and have vowed to fight them again in the new joint committee. Many GOP lawmakers say they favor reducing or eliminating deductions, credits and exemptions, but only as part of a tax reform package that lowers overall tax rates. House Speaker John Boehner says he was willing to accept $800 billion in new revenue over the next decade as part of a grand bargain. That sparked a revolt among many GOP lawmakers.
— Obama unsuccessfully pushed for tax increases as part of the deficit reduction package. The White House has said it will urge the new joint committee to propose raising more revenue through tax reform, though Republicans and some Democrats oppose the idea and congressional budget rules would make it very difficult to do. There are no automatic tax changes like the automatic spending cuts that will take place if the joint committee doesn't produce a bill that is enacted into law.
Debt Limit
— Congressional Democrats were split over whether raising the debt ceiling should be tied to deficit reduction. Many Democratic leaders wanted a clean increase in the borrowing limit, with no strings attached, as had been done dozens of times in the past. Other Democrats wanted it tied to deficit reduction.
— Republicans successfully demanded spending cuts in exchange for increasing the government's ability to borrow, perhaps setting a precedent that could lead to similar debt crises in the future.
— Obama initially asked for a clean increase in the debt limit. He lost on that issue, but he was able to ensure that the government's borrowing authority will be extended through the 2012 presidential election, when the government will operating under a debt ceiling of at least $16.4 billion.
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Ocean County Audiology Is the 490th Business to Join the Lakewood UEZ
Posted on November 1, 2011 By Blog Admin
Patricia Komsa, the executive director of the Lakewood Development Corp. (LDC), Urban Enterprise Zone program, announced that Ocean County Audiology Center, 921 East County Line Road, Lakewood, N.J., has become the 490th certified UEZ business in Lakewood and the first to join the UEZ in the newly approved boundary modification zone that included office buildings at 910 and 921 East County Line Road.
“Our goal is to enroll 500 businesses by January 1, 2012,” says Yehuda Abraham, director of business development. Being a certified UEZ (Urban Enterprise Zone) business gives business owners advantages and costs nothing to belong. Some advantages are that purchases made for the business are tax exempt; sales tax is 3 ½ percent; and special grant and loan opportunities are available.
Ocean County Audiology Center, a private practice owned and operated by Dr. Adam Enock, provides such services as hearing and balance testing, and hearing aids with the newest technology for people of all ages, ranging from newborn hearing screenings through geriatric patients.
Dr. Enock said, “For many, the word ‘hearing aid’ is synonymous with being old, but that’s not true at all. People of all ages can suffer from hearing disorders. For those concerned about looking old, some hearing aids today are practically invisible.” The oldest person Dr. Enock has fitted with a hearing aid was 103, but the youngest was only six months.
Dr. Enock earned his Sc.D (Doctor of Science) from Montclair State University, 2010. He holds a B.A. from Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, and Touro College, Brooklyn. He completed internships at Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick; Speech and Hearing Associates, Somerville, N.J.; the VA Hospital, Brick, N.J.; the Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation, Pomona, N.J.; and Alliance Speech and Hearing, Howell, N.J.
Dr.Enock is a licensed audiologist in New Jersey and New York and holds Hearing Aid Dispenser licenses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Besides his own practice, Dr. Enock is an audiologist for the hearing conservation program at the navy bases in Lakehurst and Earle, N.J.; and Philadelphia and Mechanicsburg, Penn. Almost all insurances are accepted. For further information, contact Dr. Enock at 732-987-6590.
About the UEZ The Urban Enterprise Zone program was designed to foster economic growth to revitalize and stimulate designated urban communities. The program encourages businesses to create private-sector jobs though public and private investment. More than 8,000 businesses throughout the state and 490 businesses in Lakewood benefit from tax and financial incentives.
For more information about the UEZ, contact the Lakewood Development Corporation at 732-364-2500 Ext. 5257 or visit www.lakwoodnj.gov. The UEZ office is located in Room 12 of the Lakewood Municipal, 231 Third Street, Lakewood.
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Asia Prepares for New Bail-in Bonds
By Sean Creehan and Cindy Li
A decade removed from the global financial crisis, the world’s most systemically important banks are preparing to meet new rules on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) by 2019. New TLAC-eligible debt securities, popularly known as “bail-in” bonds, have emerged post-2008 as part of efforts to minimize the need for taxpayer bailouts in future banking crises. In Asia, banks in Japan and China will face tailored versions of these requirements based on the unique features of each country’s banking system. Below, we examine the state of TLAC in Asia.
Japanese and Chinese Regulators Get Ready for TLAC
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued TLAC standards for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) in order to enhance loss absorption in the event of financial stress and simplify the resolution process through a single point of entry.1 As in other jurisdictions, Asian G-SIBs will need to hold total TLAC—which includes common equity and other regulatory capital in addition to special TLAC-eligible debt—equivalent to 18% of total risk-weighted assets or 6.75% of all assets to reflect total leverage (see Table 1) when the requirements fully phase in.
Table 1: TLAC Requirements (% Risk-weighted assets, % Total assets)
2019 13.5%, 6% Exempt 16%, 6% 16%, 6%
2022 14.5%, 6.75% Exempt 18%, 6.75% 18%, 6.75%
2025 14.5%, 6.75% 16%, 6% 18%, 6.75% 18%, 6.75%
2028 14.5%, 6.75% 18%, 6.75% 18%, 6.75% 18%, 6.75%
1. Japanese banks will be able to count deposit insurance funding towards the TLAC requirements.
2. Based on FSB’s common minimum requirements for emerging markets.
TLAC-eligible debt must also represent a minimum of 33% of all TLAC. Sitting between secured debt and common equity, TLAC-eligible debt instruments, which can vary in structure by jurisdiction and issuing entity, act as a type of contingent convertible bond. The instrument converts into loss-absorbing equity in the event of a certain pre-specified trigger, which could be the breaching of a certain minimum capital threshold or the more subjective declaration of non-viability by a national regulator.
Japan and China are home to Asia’s only G-SIBs, though national regulators around the region may choose to impose TLAC rules on domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs). In Japan, the TLAC requirement will be applied to the three Japanese G-SIBs, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, as well as one D-SIB, Nomura Holdings. The four largest Chinese banks—Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Agricultural Bank of China—are all in the Financial Stability Board’s G-SIB list, and will therefore be subject to the TLAC requirements, though they will likely be given an additional six years to comply given China’s emerging market status and less developed capital markets.2 China’s banking regulators encouraged the issuance of TLAC bonds for the first time in March 2018, but it remains unclear whether other Chinese banks besides the G-SIBs will need to comply with TLAC.
Notably, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), which hosts major operations of many G-SIBs including China’s, has already published its own TLAC rules. The HKMA currently treats Chinese G-SIBs in the same way as non-G-SIBs given their near-term emerging market exemption.
TLAC Debt Requirement will Challenge Deposit-reliant Asian Banks
Japanese and Chinese G-SIBs, which largely rely on deposits to fund their activities, will need to issue more debt instruments than their global peers to comply with the TLAC debt requirement. Banks in the United States and Europe also have to issue new TLAC-eligible bonds to meet the requirement, but they typically already fund themselves with a large share of bonds.
The TLAC requirement for Japanese banks will be effectively reduced by 2.5 percentage points in 2019 (rising to 3.5 percentage points in 2022) due to pre-funding of potential losses by the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DICJ). This DICJ funding would then be replenished by the banking industry in the event of its use. As of July 2017, Fitch estimated the Japanese megabanks would need to issue as much as US$50 billion in TLAC-eligible securities to meet the 2019 requirement having already issued US$33 billion in fiscal year-ended March 31, 2017.
That is a significant fundraising lift in Japan, but the requirement will be even greater for Chinese banks when the time comes, in part due to their sheer size. According to the FSB’s preliminary rules for emerging markets, Chinese banks will likely have six more years to prepare for TLAC compared to their global peers, but the clock has started ticking. According to Moody’s estimates, China’s four G-SIBs need to issue an extra US$453 billion of bonds in order to meet TLAC buffer requirements by 2025. To put this number in perspective, Chinese commercial banks issued a total of RMB 380 billion (US$59 billion) in bonds on the domestic interbank bond market in 2017. In March 2018, the People’s Bank of China indicated in a statement that banking institutions should start to explore TLAC bonds as an option to supplement capital. Analysts interpreted this move as a positive signal that China is taking concrete steps to prepare for TLAC compliance.
The TLAC funding gap is challenging because China relies heavily on financial institutions to buy senior and regulatory capital, far more than is the case in places like Europe, where banks tend to buy only a small share of each other’s debt and the investor base is more diverse. Currently bank-issued capital instruments are often bought and held by other Chinese banks, while the Basel Committee does not allow G-SIBs to count each other’s TLAC securities towards capital. The still nascent domestic bond markets do not have the capacity to support the massive TLAC issuance that is forthcoming in the next several years. Expected continued development of China’s bond market could create the depth of investors required to supply funding, but it will still be a heavy ask, requiring a step-up by non-bank investors and likely a large share of foreign funding. Chinese banks will therefore need to frequently tap offshore markets in order to close the funding gap, testing global investors’ appetite for Chinese TLAC bonds.
Given the role of TLAC instruments as “bail-in” debt, it is important to understand the political context around so-called “too big to fail” banks in Asia. While all of the Japanese entities covered by TLAC are private, all four large Chinese banks are state-controlled with very high probability of government support should they get into trouble. In both China and Japan, , the notion of “too big to fail” is not as politically sensitive as it is in Europe and the United States, where the global financial crisis was centered and the concept of bail-in bonds was born. Indeed, even for the private Japanese mega banks, global ratings agencies tend to assume a “very high” probability of government support as compared to their peers in Europe and the United States given this political and policy context.3 China also does not face the political pressure to let the market force play a bigger role in the resolution regime of G-SIBs, as it does in other countries.
The challenge for Chinese and Japanese banks may be compounded by the activity of foreign G-SIBs looking to issue TLAC in Asia. With one of the world’s largest and most active bond markets, Japan has already seen several global banks issue TLAC-eligible, yen-denominated Samurai bonds. These include British G-SIBs Barclays and HSBC and France’s BPCE (which was removed from the list of G-SIBs by the FSB at the end of 2017). In China, French bank Credit Agricole has reportedly requested regulatory permission to issue a TLAC-eligible, renminbi-denominated Panda bond.
As the world’s largest banks prepare for new TLAC rules, Asian regulators are tailoring requirements in acknowledgment of the deposit-centric nature of bank financing in the region. With Japanese and Chinese G-SIBs historically less reliant on long-term unsecured debt than their global peers in the United States and Europe, the fundraising challenge will be substantial, particularly in China, given the still-limited development of local bond markets. Compounding the challenge will be the fundraising activity of non-Asian G-SIBs seeking support from Asian capital markets. Thankfully, the region has a decade to prepare for full implementation of TLAC for its existing G-SIBs.
1. According to the FSB: “The TLAC standard defines a minimum requirement for the instruments and liabilities that should be readily available for bail-in within resolution at G-SIBs, but does not limit authorities’ powers under the applicable resolution law to expose other liabilities to loss through bail-in or the application of other resolution tools.”
2. The FSB plans to confirm the conformation dates for emerging market G-SIBs by the end of 2019, after undertaking a review of the technical implementation of the TLAC standards. The FSB can decide to move up the conformation date if the aggregate amount of China’s private sector debt securities or bonds outstanding (as measured using BIS statistics, excluding issuance by policy banks) exceeds 55% of China’s GDP. As of end-2017, the ratio is less than 20% assuming policy banks account for 80% of outstanding financial bonds.
3. See, for example, Moody’s language on the “very high” probability of government support for Japanese banks versus “moderate” probability of government support for German banks.
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Sean Creehan
is an analyst in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Country Analysis Unit (CAU). He monitors financial, regulatory, and economic developments in Asia with a focus on Northeast Asia and South Asia. His research interests include financial inclusion, cross-border capital flows, and financial technology.
Cindy Li
is the manager of the Country Analysis Unit in the Division of Financial Institution Supervision and Credit (FISC) at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She monitors banking, regulatory, and economic developments in Asia, with a special focus on Greater China and the ASEAN region. Her research interests include financial regulation, financial vulnerability, and economic development.
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Here's what I remember - Phil Collins playing both shows, Thomas Dolby backing up David Bowie (and getting zero camera time), Howard Jones playing piano, the Pepsi cup on top of Phil Collins' piano, Paul McCartney's microphone going out, Paul Shaffer being blamed for the satellite cutting out during the Who, great performances by U2 and simple minds, Madonna saying that she wasn't going to remove any clothing in the wake of those photos appearing in Playboy and Penthouse, sound coming from Nick Rhodes keyboard before his fingers actually hit the keys during "A View to a Kill," Tom Petty looked like crap, Prince's video "For the Tears in Your Eyes," Kiki Dee looking happy to be performing at all, Mick and Tina, the awesome Led Zep reunion, rumors of a Springsteen appearance, Lionel Richie's great voice, Queen "Radio Ga Ga," Bono leaving the stage to dance with a girl, Michael DesBarres looking like a total dork playing for the cameras while fronting the Power Station, wondering if Michael Jackson was going to show up, Hall and Oates light show, "who the fuck are the Hooters?," and last but not least - taping the entire concert on Beta. Now, if only I could find a Beta machine...
Mark Rickard
I remember the day of Live Aid...
Our high-school marching band was preparing to go to the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena. We were supposed to be out collecting aluminum cans door-to-door, so that we could cash them in for $0.05/can. We eventually did go out to do this, but for about an hour. See, we were too busy watching Live Aid. If I remember correctly, we did the can thing up until Phil Collins performed in the UK, i.e., pretty early in the morning.
Colleen Dowda
It's ok to put this on the web if you want to.
I remember a lot of little things about Live Aid and one big thing. I remember the caption for INXS being broadcast as "In Excess". I remember how tired Phil Collins looked when he arrived in the US to play there after a frantic transatlantic flight from his performance in the UK. I remember images and bits and sound bytes from some of my favorite bands, the Boomtown Rats, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Sting, INXS, Alison Moyet, Judas Priest, B.B. King, David Bowie, and oh so many others.
But most of all, I remember being seventeen, being glued to the tv and the radio, and thinking "This is the ENTIRE WORLD getting together at the same time for the same reason, and it isn't a war." I'd like to see something bring the world together like that again.
Let me begin with a couple of the memories of the concert that I have:
When Phil Collins did his set at JFK Stadium, he did "Against All Odds" and "In The Air Tonight" alone at a piano with no backup band or special vocal effects. At the point in "In The Air Tonight" where the vocals echo ("I remember...I remember don't worry (worry worry worry)"), Phil Collins just said the word once and stopped for the few beats it would take for the echo to be completed. However, the crowd added the echo for him. It was a really special moment...nobody planned on doing it, we all just got the same idea. Once each of us realized we were not alone, the next echo was louder, and we even played "air drums" and filled in the sound of the drums later in the song ("ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da...").
During the show they made a stage announcement that someone who was waiting for an organ transplant was needed at the main stage - they had found him an organ and they were waiting in the parking lot to rush him to the hospital. Later on, they announced the guy was found and on his way.
The audiance was bored at one point (there were lulls at the stadium, and this may have been during the point where The Who set was interrupted). Someone on the other side of the stadium started the wave. But then we started to get creative with the wave...we timed the wave to start at each end of the stadium (JFK was "U" shaped) and "crash" in the middle. Then we had the "crash" in the middle cause a wave on the ground that went from the back of the stadium to the front.
When Led Zepplin was on stage, I remember Robert Plant demanding total silence before he would sing "Stairway To Heaven". At first, we thought he was kidding, but when he walked back, picked up a towel, dropped it on the stage and then place the microphone stand on it and stood there, we figured he was serious and shut up. But it was worth it - we got to see Led Zepplin play live!
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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. Reports Improved Third Quarter Operating Results
Nine-Month Diluted E.P.S. More Than Double to $0.45, Versus $0.22 in Prior-Year Period
January 21, 2014 07:00 ET | Source: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.
DURANGO, CO--(Marketwired - Jan 21, 2014) - Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. (NASDAQ: RMCF) (the "Company") today reported its operating results for the third quarter and first nine months of FY2014. The Company franchises and operates gourmet chocolate and confection stores and manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolates and other confectionery products. Its majority-owned subsidiary, U-Swirl, Inc. (OTCQB: SWRL), franchises and operates self-serve frozen yogurt cafés. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory will host an investor conference call today at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss its operating results and other topics of interest (see details below).
THIRD QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
Net income attributable to RMCF shareholders totaled $699,000, or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, compared with a net loss of $509,000, or $(0.08) per share, in the third quarter of FY2013. For the first nine months of FY2014, net income attributable to RMCF shareholders increased 110.4 percent to $2,906,000, versus $1,382,000 in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.
The Company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") before non-cash equity compensation and impairment charges ("adjusted EBITDA") declined 5.7 percent to $1,381,000 in the third quarter of FY2014 compared with $1,464,000 in the third quarter of FY2013. In the first nine months of FY2014 adjusted EBITDA increased 10.3 percent to $5,574,000 compared with $5,053,000 in the first nine months of the prior year.
The Company's majority-owned subsidiary, U-Swirl, Inc. ("U-Swirl"), reported income from operations of $130,255 in the nine months ended November 30, 2013, compared with an operating loss of $226,672 in the prior-year period.
The Company's total revenue increased 7.5 percent to approximately $9.3 million in the quarter ended November 30, 2013, compared with approximately $8.6 million in the third quarter of the previous fiscal year. Same-store sales at domestic franchised Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory locations were unchanged from the prior-year period.
Factory sales increased 4.7 percent in the most recent quarter, relative to the year-earlier quarter, while factory gross margin narrowed slightly to 30.8 percent, from 31.2 percent a year earlier.
Retail sales rose 17.4 percent in the third quarter of FY2014, when compared with the prior-year period. Retail gross margin improved to 59.3 percent of retail sales, versus 58.1 percent in the year-earlier quarter.
Royalty and marketing fees increased 16.9 percent from the prior-year period, primarily due to the acquisition of a majority ownership position in the U-Swirl franchise system.
Operating income improved to $1,004,000 in the most recent quarter, compared with an operating loss of $833,000 in the third quarter of the previous fiscal year.
The Company's franchisees and licensees opened one domestic Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store, three international licensed stores, and two co-branded Cold Stone Creamery stores during the third quarter of FY2014. U-Swirl, Inc. expanded its network of self-serve frozen yogurt stores with the addition of 11 franchised Josie's Frozen Yogurt locations and the opening of one franchised U-Swirl café in the quarter ended November 30, 2013.
Subsequent to the end of the third quarter, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Wells Fargo Bank finalized a $7.0 million bank credit facility agreement for the purpose of funding acquisitions by the Company's majority-owned subsidiary, U-Swirl, Inc.
Subsequent to the end of the third quarter (on January 17, 2014), Rocky Mountain's majority-owned subsidiary, U-Swirl, Inc., completed the acquisition of two self-serve frozen yogurt chains. On a combined basis, the acquisitions more than tripled the number of frozen yogurt cafés operated by U-Swirl, its franchisees and licensees.
The Company paid its 41st consecutive quarterly cash dividend in September 2013. The 42nd consecutive quarterly cash dividend, in the amount of $0.11 per share, was paid on December 13, 2013.
MANAGEMENT COMMENTS
"We are pleased to report sharp improvements in earnings for the three and nine months ended November 30, 2013, which resulted from higher revenues, slightly improved gross margins, and the absence of non-recurring prior-year asset impairment charges associated with the restructuring of our frozen yogurt operations," stated Bryan Merryman, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. "The inherent profitability of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory business model, combined with creating a roll-up vehicle in the frozen yogurt industry, allowed net income attributable to RMCF shareholders to more than double in the first nine months of Fiscal 2014."
"The improvements in factory sales during the third quarter were primarily due to a 31.8 percent increase in shipments to customers outside our system of franchised retail locations and an increase in sales to international and co-branded store locations. A 4.9 percent decline in same-store pounds of product purchased by our network of franchised stores was due, we believe, to a change in retail shopping days following the Thanksgiving holiday in 2013, when compared with the previous year."
"We were pleased with the improved operating performance of our majority-owned frozen yogurt subsidiary, U-Swirl, Inc., which recorded operating income of $130,255 in the first nine months of Fiscal 2014, compared with an operating loss of $226,672 in the prior-year period," continued Merryman. "We believe U-Swirl is well-positioned to become a leading consolidator in the self-serve frozen yogurt segment of the $6 billion away-from-home frozen desserts industry. Subsequent to the end of our third quarter, U-Swirl completed the acquisitions of CherryBerry Enterprises, LLC and Yogli Mogli, LLC. On a combined basis, these acquisitions increased the number of frozen yogurt cafés operated by U-Swirl and its franchisees and licensees by more than 200%, to 267 locations in 35 states and three foreign countries. Rocky Mountain provided the cash portion of the acquisitions' funding through the issuance of a $7.75 million convertible note to U-Swirl."
"On the licensing front, sales of Kellogg's Limited Edition Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Chocolatey Almond Cereal exceeded our expectations during the test marketing phase, and we were recently pleased to learn that Kellogg is rolling out the specialty cereal to a majority of its retail distribution channels. We have always believed that the strength of our national brand represents an asset that can be leveraged, through licensing agreements, into other product categories, and we are hopeful that our success in the cereal industry will lead to additional licensing opportunities going forward."
"Internationally, we continue to identify countries where Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores can appeal to consumers, and we have significantly expanded the geographic scope of our negotiations with potential licensees during Fiscal 2014," added Merryman. "Licensees are now operating stores in Canada, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Japan. The first two store locations in Saudi Arabia are expected to open in the first quarter of FY2015, and we are in discussions with potential licensees and/or have business development activities underway in an additional eight countries."
"Bolstered by a strong balance sheet, we are confident in the Company's ability to move forward with new growth initiatives in coming years," noted Frank Crail, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. "At the end of our most recent quarter, we had approximately $3.4 million of cash in the bank and working capital of $10.0 million. We recently paid our 42nd consecutive quarterly cash dividend, in the amount of $0.11 per share, which provides investors with a current yield of 3.8 percent, based upon Friday's closing stock price of $11.65 per share."
THIRD QUARTER RESULTS
For the three months ended November 30, 2013 (Q3 FY2014), revenue increased 7.5 percent to approximately $9.3 million, compared with revenue of approximately $8.6 million in the quarter ended November 30, 2012 (Q3 FY2013). The revenue increase was attributable to higher factory sales, increased retail sales from Company-owned stores, and an increase in royalty and marketing fees.
Same-store sales at franchised Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory retail outlets were unchanged in the most recent quarter when compared with the prior-year period.
Total factory sales rose 4.7 percent to approximately $6.6 million in the third quarter of FY2014, versus approximately $6.3 million in the three months ended November 30, 2012, due to a 31.8 percent increase in shipments of product to customers outside the Company's network of franchised and licensed retail stores and an increase in sales to international and co-branded locations, partially offset by a 4.9 percent decrease in same-store pounds of factory product purchased by franchised and licensed retail stores, and a 5.1 percent decrease in the average number of domestic Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores in operation. The Company believes the decline in same-store pounds purchased was largely the result of a change in retail shopping days following the Thanksgiving holiday in the most recent quarter when compared with the prior-year period. Factory gross margin declined by 40 basis points to 30.8 percent of factory sales in the most recent quarter, compared with 31.2 percent in the prior-year period. The decrease in factory gross margin was due primarily to increased costs of certain materials.
Royalties, marketing fees, and franchise fees increased 13.0 percent to approximately $1.5 million, compared with approximately $1.3 million in the year-earlier quarter, due to a 23.7 percent increase the number of domestic franchise stores in operation. This increase was primarily the result of royalty and marketing fees associated with the U-Swirl franchise system, partially offset by a decrease in the number of domestic Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchised stores in operation and fewer domestic franchise store openings. During the third quarter of FY2014, domestic franchisees opened two new stores, versus five new stores opened in the third quarter of FY2013.
Retail sales increased 17.4 percent to approximately $1.2 million, from approximately $1.0 million in the prior-year quarter, primarily due to a greater number of Company-operated stores in operation resulting from the acquisition of a majority ownership in U-Swirl, Inc. Same-store sales at all Company-owned stores decreased 7.6 percent in the most recent quarter relative to the third quarter of FY2013. Retail gross margin improved from 58.1 percent of retail sales in the three months ended November 30, 2012 to 59.3 percent of retail sales in the three months ended November 30, 2013, due primarily to an increase in U-Swirl stores in operation and the higher gross margins associated with such stores.
Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders improved to $699,174, or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, in the third quarter of FY2014, compared with a net loss attributable to RMCF shareholders of $509,484, or $(0.08) per share, in the third quarter of FY2013. The year-over-year increase in net income was due primarily to a $1,978,000 asset impairment charge for Aspen Leaf Yogurt operations that was recognized in the third quarter of FY2013. No such charge was recognized in the third quarter of FY2014.
During the third quarter of FY2014, domestic franchisees opened one new Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory kiosk store in Phoenix, Arizona. U-Swirl Frozen Yogurt franchisees opened one new store in Pearl, Mississippi. Two new Cold Stone Creamery co-branded stores were opened in Ammons, Idaho and Spanish Forks, Utah. International licensees opened two new Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores in South Korea and one new Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store in Canada. Complete lists of stores are available on the Company's websites at www.rmcf.com and www.u-swirl.com.
NINE-MONTH RESULTS
For the nine months ended November 30, 2013 (First Nine Months of FY2014), revenue increased 8.1 percent to approximately $28.1 million, compared with revenue of approximately $26.0 million in the first nine months of FY2013. The revenue increase was attributable to increases in factory sales, retail sales from Company-owned stores, and royalty, franchise and marketing fees.
Same-store sales at franchised Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory retail outlets increased 1.8 percent in the nine months ended November 30, 2013 when compared with the prior-year period.
Total factory sales increased 1.2 percent to approximately $17.7 million in the first nine months of FY2014, versus approximately $17.5 million in the nine months ended November 30, 2012, due to higher sales to international licensed stores and a 2.7 percent increase in shipments of product to customers outside the Company's network of franchised and licensed retail stores. These increases were partially offset by a 5.1 percent decrease in the average number of domestic Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores in operation and a 0.1 percent decrease in same-store pounds of factory product purchased by franchised and licensed retail stores. Factory gross margin declined by 20 basis points to 32.0 percent of factory sales, compared with 32.2 percent in the prior-year period, due primarily to higher costs for certain materials.
Royalties, marketing fees, and franchise fees increased 24.7 percent to approximately $5.5 million, compared with approximately $4.4 million in the year-earlier period. The increase was due to a 19.4 percent expansion in the number of domestic franchise stores in operation, primarily as a result of royalty and marketing fees associated with the U-Swirl franchise system and franchise fees associated with license agreements in South Korea and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Retail sales increased 19.2 percent to approximately $5.0 million, from approximately $4.2 million in the prior-year period, primarily due to changes in units in operation resulting from the acquisition of a majority ownership in U-Swirl, Inc. Same-store sales at Company-owned locations decreased 1.4 percent in the most recent nine-month period relative to the first nine months of FY2013. Retail gross margin improved from 61.3 percent of retail sales in the nine months ended November 30, 2012 to 64.7 percent of retail sales in the nine months ended November 30, 2013.
Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders increased 110.4 percent to $2,906,265, or $0.48 per basic and $0.45 per diluted share, in the first nine months of FY2014, compared with net income attributable to RMCF shareholders of $1,381,627, or $0.23 per basic and $0.22 per diluted share, in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The year-over-year increase in net income was due primarily to the recognition of a $1,978,000 impairment charge related to Aspen Leaf Yogurt assets in the third quarter of FY2013. No such loss was recognized in the first nine months of FY2014. Also, U-Swirl recorded an operating profit in the first nine months of FY2014, compared with an operating loss in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.
On December 13, 2013, the Company paid its 42nd consecutive quarterly cash dividend, in the amount of $0.11 per share, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 29, 2013.
Investor Conference Call
The Company will host an investor conference call today, January 21, 2014, at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time, to discuss its operating results for the quarter and nine months ended November 30, 2013, along with other topics of interest. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-877-374-8416 (international and local participants dial 412-317-6716) approximately five minutes prior to 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 and ask to be connected to the "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Conference Call."
A replay of the conference call will be available one hour after completion of the call until Tuesday January 28, 2014 at 5:00 pm EST by dialing 877-344-7529 (international and local participants dial 412-317-0088) and entering the conference I.D. # 10039052.
About Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc., headquartered in Durango, Colorado, is an international franchiser of gourmet chocolate, confection and self-serve frozen yogurt stores and a manufacturer of an extensive line of premium chocolates and other confectionery products. As of January 21, 2014 the Company, its subsidiary and its franchisees operated 623 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and self-serve frozen yogurt stores in 44 states, Canada, Japan, South Korea, The United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Turkey. The Company's common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "RMCF." The common stock of U-Swirl, Inc. trades on the OTCQB market under the symbol "SWRL."
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that could cause cash flows to decrease or actual results to differ materially include, without limitation, seasonality, consumer interest in the Company's products, general economic conditions, consumer and retail trends, costs and availability of raw materials, competition, the success of the Company's co-branding agreement with Cold Stone Creamery Brands, the success of international expansion efforts, including but not limited to new store openings, the success of U-Swirl, Inc. and other risks. Readers are referred to the Company's periodic reports filed with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. The information contained in this press release is a statement of the Company's present intentions, beliefs or expectations and is based upon, among other things, the existing business environment, industry conditions, market conditions and prices, the economy in general and the Company's assumptions. The Company may change its intentions, beliefs or expectations at any time and without notice, based upon any changes in such factors, in its assumptions or otherwise. The cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release should be considered in connection with any subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements that the Company or persons acting on its behalf may issue.
For Further Information, Contact Bryan J. Merryman COO/CFO (970) 259-0554
(Financial Highlights Follow)
New stores opened
Stores open as of
Franchise Stores 1 222
Company-Owned Stores 1 7
Cold Stone Creamery 2 59
U-Swirl, Inc.
Franchise Stores 1 77
International License Stores 3 72
Total 8 445
SELECTED BALANCE SHEET DATA
(in thousands)
Current Assets $ 14,373 $ 14,544
Total Assets $ 24,242 $ 23,834
Current Liabilities $ 4,340 $ 5,563
Stockholder's Equity $ 18,968 $ 17,389
Interim Unaudited
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share data)
Three Months Ended November 30, Three Months Ended November 30,
Factory sales $ 6,622 $ 6,323 71.4 % 73.2 %
Royalty and marketing fees 1,426 1,220 15.4 % 14.1 %
Franchise fees 53 89 0.6 % 1.0 %
Retail sales 1,179 1,004 12.7 % 11.6 %
Total Revenues 9,280 8,636 100.0 % 100.0 %
Costs and expenses
Cost of sales 5,062 4,769 54.5 % 55.2 %
Franchise costs 511 458 5.5 % 5.3 %
Sales and marketing 556 448 6.0 % 5.2 %
General and administrative 1,146 848 12.3 % 9.8 %
Retail operating 803 744 8.7 % 8.6 %
Depreciation and amortization 198 223 2.1 % 2.6 %
Impairment of long-lived assets - 1,978 0.0 % 22.9 %
Total Costs and Expenses 8,276 9,468 89.2 % 109.6 %
Income from operations 1,004 (832 ) 10.8 % -9.6 %
Interest income 17 10 0.2 % 0.1 %
Income before income taxes 1,021 (822 ) 11.0 % -9.5 %
Provision for income taxes 407 (313 ) 4.4 % -3.6 %
Consolidated Net income 614 (509 ) 6.6 % -5.9 %
Less: Net income attributable
to non-controlling interest (85 ) - -0.9 % 0.0 %
Net income attributable to RMCF $ 699 $ (509 ) 7.5 % -5.9 %
Basic Earnings Per Common
Share $ 0.11 $ (0.08 )
Diluted Earnings Per Common
Weighted Average Common
Shares Outstanding 6,115,860 6,050,279
Dilutive Effect of Employee Stock
Options 364,692 130,577
Shares Outstanding,
Assuming Dilution 6,480,552 6,180,856
Nine Months Ended November 30, Nine Months Ended November 30,
Factory sales $ 17,704 $ 17,485 63.0 % 67.2 %
Franchise fees 391 248 1.4 % 1.0 %
Total Revenues 28,121 26,024 100.0 % 100.0 %
Cost of sales 13,790 13,461 49.0 % 51.7 %
Franchise costs 1,509 1,559 5.4 % 6.0 %
Sales and marketing 1,524 1,318 5.4 % 5.1 %
General and administrative 3,625 2,390 12.9 % 9.2 %
Retail operating 2,588 2,568 9.2 % 9.9 %
Impairment of long-lived assets - 1,978 0.0 % 7.6 %
Total Costs and Expenses 23,706 23,966 84.3 % 92.1 %
Income from operations 4,415 2,058 15.7 % 7.9 %
Income before income taxes 4,459 2,091 15.9 % 8.0 %
Provision for income taxes 1,502 709 5.3 % 2.7 %
Consolidated Net income 2,957 1,382 10.5 % 5.3 %
Less: Net (loss) income attributable
to non-controlling interest 51 - 0.2 % 0.0 %
Net income attributable to RMCF $ 2,906 $ 1,382 10.3 % 5.3 %
Share $ 0.48 $ 0.23
GAAP RECONCILIATION
EBITDA EXCLUDING IMPAIRMENT CHARGES AND
Three Months Ended November 30, Change
GAAP: Income from Operations $ 1,004 $ (832 ) 220.7 %
Depreciation and Amortization 198 223
Equity Compensation Expense 179 95
Impairment and Restructuring - 1,978
Non-GAAP, adjusted EBITDA $ 1,381 $ 1,464 -5.7 %
Nine Months Ended November 30, Change
GAAP: Income from Operations $ 4,415 $ 2,058 114.5 %
Equity Compensation Expense 489 325
Non-GAAP, adjusted EBITDA $ 5,574 $ 5,053 10.3 %
For Further Information, Contact
Bryan J. Merryman
COO/CFO
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.
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Australian GP 2018
Friday Team Quotes
Lewis Hamilton (1st, 1:23.931): "Coming to the first race, you really have no idea what it's going to be like. You don't how you're going to feel physically, you don't know how the tyres are going to react to the circuit. But we started on the right foot today, we got through everything we needed. It closed up a little bit in FP2 in terms of the gap between us all, but that's exciting. It's more challenging for me to try and eke out a little more from the car. It's been such a nice day, Albert Park is a really beautiful place to be and work when the weather is like this. The tyres definitely didn't seem to have the same issue that we had in Barcelona where they were blistering, so it felt a lot more normal. Obviously the car is quicker here than it was last year, so it feels better everywhere. Turns 11 and 12 are crazy, we're not even braking into that corner, it's insane. It's going to rain tomorrow and on Sunday as far as I'm aware. I've not driven in the rain yet on these tyres, so that'll be interesting."
Valtteri Bottas (3rd, 1:24.159): "FP1 was tricky for me, we had a bit of an issue with the suspension and also with the fuel system, so it was difficult to get a good comparison. I don't think these issues are something to worry about, just something we discovered in the session. In second practice the car felt a lot better but there's still more to unlock. I have to say thank you to the team because we are looking strong at this point, so I think it's a good start. It's good to be back on track and go racing. It's looking really close between us, Ferrari and Red Bull but that was more or less expected. Let's see what tomorrow brings. We got some information for the long runs if it's a dry race, we got some tyre data and we can see that a lot of things are behaving differently to testing in Barcelona because it's much warmer and it's a different tarmac. We've definitely learned a lot and we'll keep on learning."
James Allison, Technical Director: "It was a good day. We had a programme of finding out how the tyres behaved and we've been able to work through that without any drama. It's brilliant as always after the winter testing to actually be racing again and to be finding out for real where our car stands. If we were in any doubt before, we're in no doubt now that it's going to be a tight weekend with both Ferrari and Red Bull. But we're looking forward to the fight tomorrow and again on Sunday."
Toto Wolff:
Kimi Raikkonen (4th, 1:24.214):
Sebastian Vettel (5th, 1:24.451):
Maurizio Arrivabene, Team Principal:
Max Verstappen (2nd, 1:24.058): "For me this has been a positive start to the weekend so I am really happy about that. The car has behaved well on this track which is always pleasing after only running in Barcelona to date. Of course we have only done two practice sessions so it is still hard to see who is strongest and how we will finish come race day. It is a bit of a guess when you come to the first circuit of the season. It takes at least two or three Grand Prix to understand what is going on, it then also depends on everyone's development rate throughout the year. Race pace looks good, I think there is definitely some room for improvement and Mercedes look pretty strong, but I'm not concerned with how it looks at the moment. A little bit of rain over the rest of the weekend would help us out. Being wet means performance is less engine dependent and makes the power tricky to control. Our car is usually strong in the wet and I enjoy myself so fingers crossed we get some rain."
Daniel Ricciardo (7th, 1:24.721): "The car was ok today but I was definitely happier with the long runs than the short. My low fuel run got cut short by the red flag, but to be honest, after doing about nine turns on that lap I wasn't fully happy with the balance. I think I would have been a bit quicker than on the soft tyre and moved up from where we are but I still don't think it would have been a P1 lap time. We still have a bit of work to do but generally it's not been a bad day. I got a good feel for the car and I think tomorrow is going to be wet so I don't know how relevant today will be. Looking at the times it's nice to see that everyone seems to be pretty close and hopefully that's the reality. It would be great if the top three teams and even Haas can be close as it would be a pretty nice start to the new season."
Sergio Perez (12th, 1:25.413): "We achieved a lot today. There were a lot of new parts on the car and we needed to learn quickly. It's only Friday and I think we can find more performance before qualifying. That's always been our strength as a team and we need to work hard tonight understanding the data. I said during testing that all the teams are much closer together and if you look at the times it's certainly the case. We need to be perfect in qualifying because a small mistake will drop you a long way back."
Esteban Ocon (15th, 1:25.888): "For the first day of the season it was actually quite a normal day of practice. We had a lot of things to try on the car, but everything went to plan. It was all about learning and understanding the directions we need to take with the new package. We have already seen a step forward in performance compared to testing, but there' is obviously some tuning to be done. The afternoon session was a bit frustrating because of the red flag and I always seemed to be stuck in traffic. Tomorrow is what counts, though, so we need to make sure we are ready and do our homework tonight."
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "A solid start for us in Melbourne. The main job was fitting all the new aero parts to the car and starting to understand how to get the most from them. We made good progress with that and also worked through the usual tyre evaluation programme. Both sessions went pretty smoothly and we have lots of data to help us make the right decisions tonight. It was a shame that the red flag interrupted both drivers during their performance runs, but fortunately it was only a short disruption. It's clearly very tight in the midfield and a tenth here and there will make a huge difference in qualifying. It's hard to know exactly where we stand just yet and I wouldn't want to make any predictions for qualifying."
Lance Stroll (14th, 1:25.543): "I think it was a positive day, looking at the laptimes and everything. I think we can improve quite a bit, because we got the red flag and I went back out and did my time on a one lap tyre, so there is definitely a few tenths in that. If you ask me I think we are in a decent position. We don't know where the other cars are on fuel and everything, and we don't know what engine mode people are running, so that is a question mark. It seems like the car is a bit better here than in testing. At the end of the session the engine went into a safety mode. At the practice start seeing the red lights with the halo is fine."
Sergey Sirotkin (18th, 1:25.974): "Both sessions were quite good today. I went through different stuff, going through normal things to understand the car and the track. It's not easy, but it's as expected. Overall, everything feels very different to Barcelona. It's still a bit early to say, but I think we look OK. You get more confidence with every lap and every corner, especially when you try different things. There are still many new things for me to learn procedurally. Q3 is obviously the target, but the midfield is very close. It's not going to be easy but if we do a perfect job we could be there. We're improving, but altogether the picture compared to Barcelona looks very different."
Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: "Today went well from the perspective that we achieved all the things we set out to do. There was a minor problem with the radio which lost Sergey some time this morning, and then this afternoon Lance's car got too close to the power unit limits doing practice starts, so we stopped on track after the chequered flag to preserve the engine. But, other than that, it was a trouble-free day. We chose to run an extra set of tyres in FP2 because we anticipate wet weather for FP3 tomorrow and we won't be able to make use of these tyres. We worked on balance, which is not too bad at the moment and the drivers were learning the track, particularly in Sergey's case, and learning how to get the best from the tyres, which are working properly here, unlike during pre-season testing where the conditions were so cold. There's clearly a very competitive midfield, so there's a lot of work to do overnight to ensure we can perform at our very best in qualifying tomorrow."
Renault Sport Formula One Team
Carlos Sainz (11th, 1:25.390): "It was a calm and fairly straightforward day for me and that was great to have for the first Friday of the season. The midfield is extremely tight so it's difficult to say where we'll be tomorrow. We do need to work on getting the Ultrasoft working a bit better as we didn't manage a clean lap with it today. Conditions were great on track; it was an ideal day for Melbourne, but I think tomorrow we might have more of a challenge."
Nico Hulkenberg (13th, 1:25.463): "We had a decent amount of work to get through but a reliable car to get all the work done. I wasn't so happy with the balance of the car on lighter fuel loads, but it felt much better when we went for the longer runs so there's a sweet spot yet to be found. I would say there's a decent amount of pace to come when we get the car working as I want it. It's just general improvement in pretty much every area; the brakes, better balance and grip and the usual things you look for to go faster."
Nick Chester, Technical Director: "A pretty smooth day for us, where we ran through our planned programme without any issues or concerns. Carlos was able to find a decent car balance pretty early in the day whilst it wasn't till Nico went out on the longer runs that he was much happier. Between the two cars we have a decent baseline and plenty of data to refine this further for tomorrow."
Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda
Brendon Hartley (16th, 1:25.925): "We missed a little bit of track time this morning in FP1 but we made up for the lost time with a good second session. Managing tyres is going to be a big topic for all the teams but we got some good data on both the long and the short runs. It looks like we're in the battle with the midfield, but there's still a bit to improve before qualifying tomorrow."
Pierre Gasly (17th, 1:25.945): "The first Friday of the year… it felt good to be back in the car to start the season properly! We tested many things for Qualifying and the Race but we still don't really know what the weather will be like both tomorrow and on Sunday - it looks like it might rain. Let's see how it goes, at least we did many tests and now we need to analyse the positives and negatives from today. I think tomorrow is going to be tight in the midfield, so we really need to put everything together - it can make a big difference on the starting grid."
Jonathan Eddolls, Chief Race Engineer: "It was a very productive day, FP2 more so, and we managed to cover a lot of laps and our full programme. In FP1, with Pierre we managed to cover our full test plan quite successfully, but with Brendon, a few operational issues meant that we lost some track time which obviously isn't ideal with him trying to learn the circuit, especially the first race of the season, in a new car. Fortunately, he recovered well in FP2. I think the big thing for us is understanding the tyres, as we seem to be suffering quite heavily with tyre overheating, especially in the last sector - it's something we certainly need to work on. The weather forecast isn't looking great tomorrow, so maybe the tyre problems are not such a big issue for qualifying, but obviously we need to understand it for the future. In the background we were covering lots of mechanical tests and we've been working a lot for the race so we've got an awful lot of data gathered that we need to go through tonight in preparation for Sunday - we have to see what the weather brings tomorrow."
Toyoharu Tanabe, Honda F1 Technical Director: "At last, the 2018 season has begun. Thanks to the enthusiasm of the Australian fans, which I last experienced here ten years ago, there was a good atmosphere for the first day of practice. Overall, things went smoothly today, with practice held in perfect weather. As this was the first time that both our drivers have driven this track, our target was to let them get in as many laps as possible. On the Power Unit front, we concentrated on adjusting the drivability and the energy and fuel management, to suit the characteristics of the track. We were able to complete almost all our programme and it has been a good preparation for tomorrow. However, the forecast for tomorrow is very different, with rain and cooler temperatures expected. This means that during FP3 we will have to focus on finding the best settings for qualifying."
Romain Grosjean (6th, 1:24.648): "It's been a good day. I'm happy with the car and the guys did a great job getting everything ready. We had a successful winter test, and it's good to confirm that the car is up there on a different track and with different temperatures. Obviously, it's early stages and we need to keep up the work and keep building everything. There are areas where we can improve the car but, generally, I'm very happy with how today went."
Kevin Magnussen (9th, 1:25.246): "I'm fairly positive, but we still have some work to do. I had quite a few abnormal issues today - nothing big - but little annoying issues with small things that were breaking. That stopped us from running as much as we'd hoped for, at least on my side. We got at least one run that was representative where I got to feel the car, and I was happy with the feeling. I'm looking forward to trying again tomorrow. Obviously, we don't know what the weather's going to do, but if it's dry, I have a feeling we have a good package."
Guenther Steiner, Team Principal: "Not a bad day, but not a perfect one either. We had some small issues with Kevin in FP1 which carried into FP2. In the end, though, we came out not too bad. We have a good understanding of what we can do. We've got some more work to do tomorrow, but then I think everything changes a bit, because it's supposed to be raining all day long."
McLaren F1 Team
Fernando Alonso (8th, 1:25.200): "It's good to be back in the racing spirit, and it's a nice feeling to be with all the cars on track after the lonely winter tests where you are the only car per team on track and have empty grandstands. Being the first day of the season, there were a lot of things we wanted to test. However, the weather conditions will be changeable from tomorrow, so we need to be careful with the information we have gathered. We lost a little bit of time in first practice with some issues but we managed to recover everything in the second session, and now we need to analyse everything to get the best package for tomorrow. The weather is going to affect everyone and we're used to these changeable conditions here, so hopefully we can maximise every opportunity."
Stoffel Vandoorne (10th, 1:25.285): "Today was a pretty good day. We lost a little bit of track time in the first 45 minutes of FP1 but had a very good run after that and got some good learning from the car, which was the most important thing after winter testing. The issues we had weren't big problems, and we got on top of everything pretty quickly. We had a very productive day, so I'm looking forward to putting all the pieces together with the set-up for tomorrow and seeing where we're at. I think we're in reasonable shape and the feeling in the car is positive - it feels like we've got something to work with. Everything is running as we want it to, and we just need to keep pushing forward to gain performance. The most important thing was to go through our programme and we did that, and I'm excited about the possibility of running in a wet qualifying tomorrow. I think we're in a very close group with some other teams, and the conditions will make things a bit more difficult for everyone. Hopefully we can benefit from the rain that's on the radar this weekend and make the most of it."
Eric Boullier, Racing Director: "Today has been a productive day of running, and for the first time in more representative conditions. Track temperatures were much higher than they were on any day during testing, which has meant we've been able to test certain set-up parameters that we couldn't in Barcelona. Although we had a slightly interrupted start to the day with a couple of initial teething problems with bodywork around the exhaust, these were quickly addressed and both drivers got out on track for some valuable mileage in the second half of the session. This afternoon ran much more smoothly, and we were able to collect a lot of useful data on the behaviour of the car in various scenarios, that will stand us in good stead for the rest of the weekend. Both drivers have provided positive feedback about the car and we have some solid information that our engineers are now busy analysing. Now, we look ahead to our first qualifying session of the year. Ironically, the weather conditions look like they'll change again, but we'll maximise what we already know and keep pushing to make progress through each session. It's great to be back in Melbourne and we're all very happy to be racing again."
Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team
Marcus Ericsson (19th, 1:26.814): "It was a positive day - we completed a lot of laps testing different compounds. We continued developing our understanding of the new car, building on what we learned during winter testing. We still have lots of work ahead of us to get to where we want to be. Today's sessions were good in preparing us for the rest of the weekend. In any case, it is great to be back racing, and fun to be here."
Charles Leclerc (20th, 1:26.815): "Overall, it has been a productive day for me. There are a lot of things going on that are new - I can already tell that I have learned a lot since this morning. It was my first time driving on this track in Albert Park which was exciting. We mainly worked on finding the best set-up for the car and drove on different tyre compounds today. By FP2, I already felt quite comfortable in the car. I really look forward to being back on track tomorrow."
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Sarah Phillips Casteel. Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17440-4.
Reviewed by Patrick Taylor (York University)
Published on H-Caribbean (January, 2017)
Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee (Carleton University)
Rethinking "Calypso Jews" in the Caribbean Imagination
Although the Jewish presence in the Caribbean has often been commented on there are few studies of Jews in Caribbean literature, and nothing that can compare with Sarah Casteel’s Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination. In terms of sheer scope and breadth of literary and historical scholarship, this is a path-breaking study, fully deserving the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship which it recently won. Deftly moving between and beyond the fields of Jewish studies and black studies, Casteel demonstrates that Caribbean writers from across the region’s linguistic divides have inscribed Jewish experience in the Caribbean region as an integral aspect of the Caribbean experience of creolization, thereby productively transforming conceptions of the Jew as other, on one hand, and static notions of Caribbean identity and ethnicity, on the other.
Casteel structures her book in accordance with the two major dimensions of modern Jewish history as it relates to the Caribbean, the Sephardic experience, following expulsion from Spain in 1492, and the Holocaust. This allows her to explore the ways in which Caribbean authors have dealt with Jews in relation to the history of colonial conquest and African enslavement on one hand, and the Nazi genocide, on the other. As in studies linking early colonial racism to antisemitism such as Irene Silverblatt’s Modern Inquisitions (2004), the echo of Hannah Arendt is present in the very organization of the book, and it does not escape the author’s attention that Caribbean thinkers such Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon likewise made the connection between colonialism and antisemitism, a tradition in black thought subsequently pursued by Paul Gilroy, among others.
But if antisemitism was one way in which European modernity constructed its internal others and colonial racism an analogous way of constructing Europe’s external others, what was the meaning of the Jew in the Americas, potentially both victim of antisemitism and beneficiary of colonialism? This is the delicate issue that Casteel negotiates in part 1 of the book. Derek Walcott’s Pissarro is her point of departure for reading Caribbean literary Sephardism, where the Caribbean stands at the centre of the inter-diasporic crossroads or contact zones binding the African and Jewish diasporas. Thus in Tiepolo’s Hound (2000) Walcott sees his own diasporic experience in that of Camille Pissarro, the nineteenth-century impressionist born in the Danish West Indies, but finds he also has to distance himself from Pissarro’s colonial gaze.
In subsequent chapters Casteel traces other representations of Sephardim in Caribbean literature. In The Loneliness of Angels (2010), Myriam Chancy brings Jewish themes into relation with African spirituality, thereby reclaiming the Jewish (or crypto-Jewish) presence in the creolization process at work in early Saint Domingue, while in Free Enterprise (2004) Michelle Cliff links marranism directly to maroonage, the two forms of resistance coming together when a descendant of a Marrano (crypto-Jew) joins Surinamese Maroons. If Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (2009) depicts the slave-owning “port Jew” as a victim of vicious antisemitism who frees his lover in an act of ethical remorse, David Dabydeen plays with stereotypes of Jews and enslaved Africans in A Harlot’s Progress (2000) in order to reveal the ways in which both are victims of empire.
Casteel argues that the relationship between the Jewish and African experience in the Caribbean is sometimes romanticized in these works, and the portrayal of Jews often depends on external stereotypes, no matter how positively or sympathetically Jews are presented. Cynthia McLeod’s The Cost of Sugar (2013) stands out, however, because Jews are presented from the inside as the central characters in a family epic revolving around the large number of plantation-owning Sephardim in Suriname’s early history. McLeod’s plantation Jews contribute significantly to building a racialized, slave-based society, yet they are also agents of creolization who challenge Dutch antisemitism and racism. Enslaved Africans resist their enslavement by Jews as well as Christians, yet the presence of a Maroon leader of mixed Jewish descent in the novel signals the ambiguous, multidirectional nature of the Jewish experience in the region.
Part 2 of Casteel’s book addresses the historical impact of the Holocaust in the Caribbean, where some Ashkenazi Jews found sanctuary, and the broader meaning of the Holocaust for Caribbean writers, who drew parallels to the black experience in the Americas. The waves of refugees who fled Nazi terror were often greeted with ambivalence in the Caribbean, and those Jews who arrived were themselves often ambivalent about their host countries. If John Hearne’s narrator in Land of the Living (1961) is a Jewish refugee whose victimhood is identified with that of the Jamaican underclass, Jamaica Kinkaid’s Mr. Potter (2003) presents the relationship between the Jewish refugee doctor and black Jamaicans in more ambiguous terms, even as the Holocaust serves to shed light on the trauma of enslavement. Other authors focus directly on what Casteel argues is a productive rather than a competitive relationship between the Jewish and black experiences. Thus the Holocaust serves as a site of surrogate memory in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Showing Grit (1993) and Harriet’s Daughter (1988), providing access to the experience of enslavement. Michèle Maillet’s L'étoile noire (2006) focuses on blacks who were deported to concentration camps like Jews, noting how they sometimes experienced the racializing gaze of Jewish deportees.
Casteel’s study culminates with the Caribbean novelist’s engagement with Anne Frank (who, she observes, might have found herself in Cuba had her visa not been cancelled.) In Abeng (1984), Michelle Cliff’s main character begins to interpret her surroundings in relation to The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), and the Holocaust opens her mind to the experience of slavery and her own relationship to it as a person of privilege. Caryl Phillips creolizes the Holocaust diary form in The Nature of Blood (1997), interweaving it with a memoir by Othello in the Venice Ghetto, the Jew and the Moor sympathetic allies in a Christian world. Acknowledging her deep indebtedness to Frank, Cliff states that the diary gave her “permission to write,” while Phillips remarks that Frank was “partly responsible for my beginning to write” (pp. 248-249). If Cliff tends to adhere to a narrative of victimhood, however, Phillips, who discovered as an adult that his own grandfather was a Sephardic Jew, complicates that narrative by introducing themes such as intra-Jewish racial tension in Israel.
Casteel’s reading of Jews and Jewishness in Caribbean literature is rich with comparative analysis and historical detail, and throughout her book she supplements close readings of her chosen texts with commentaries on related Caribbean and non-Caribbean literary works. Drawing widely on contemporary literary and cultural theory, she emphasizes her own indebtedness to scholars of Caribbean background such as Édouard Glissant and Stuart Hall. At the center of her analysis are notions of pluralism and creolization, major concepts in Caribbean studies that address cross-cultural interrelationships between different racial and ethnic groups within the context of the plantation system and colonial power relations. Calypso Jews is a book about the representation of Jews in Caribbean literature, but it is about much more. It is a book about the Caribbean experience, the Jewish experience, the black experience, and the interconnectedness of these from the early modern period until today. By bringing a fresh approach to a much-neglected area of scholarship, Casteel has made a major contribution to our understanding of the Caribbean writer’s commitment to bearing witness to the traumas of modernity.
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PERG 16.3 Managing an AIF
Question 3.1: What does managing an AIF mean?
A person manages an AIF when the person performs:
(1) risk management; or
(2) portfolio management;
for the AIF.
Question 3.2: If a person performs only one of the activities listed in the answer to Question 3.1 does it manage an AIF?
Yes. However, an AIFM is not permitted to be authorised to manage an AIF on that basis (see FUND 1.4.4 R (4)). An undertaking that is seeking permission to manage an AIF will not be given permission to provide portfolio management without also providing risk management or vice versa.
Question 3.3: Are the activities mentioned in the answer to Question 3.1 the only activities included in managing an AIF?
No. If a person manages an AIF (within the meaning set out in the answer to Question 3.1), and also carries on:
(1) one or more of the additional activities listed in the answer to Question 3.4); or
(2) one or more other activities in connection with or for the purposes of the management of that AIF;
those activities are included in the regulated activity of managing an AIF.
Question 3.4: What are the additional activities referred to paragraph (1) of the answer to Question 3.3?
They are as follows:
(1) administration:
(a) legal and fund management accounting services;
(b) customer inquiries;
(c) valuation and pricing (including tax returns);
(d) regulatory compliance monitoring;
(e) maintenance of unit / share holder register;
(f) distribution of income;
(g) unit issues and redemptions;
(h) contract settlements (including certificate dispatch) and;
(i) record keeping;
(2) marketing; and
(3) activities related to the assets of AIFs, namely:
(a) services necessary to meet the fiduciary duties of the AIFM;
(b) facilities management;
(c) real estate administration activities;
(d) advice to undertakings on capital structure, industrial strategy and related matters;
(e) advice and services related to mergers and the purchase of undertakings; and
(f) other services connected to the management of the AIF and the companies and other assets in which it has invested.
Question 3.5: Does anyone carrying on only the activities listed in the answer to Question 3.4 carry on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
No. Those activities only involve managing an AIF for a particular AIF if the person doing them is carrying on, for that AIF, the part of the regulated activity of managing an AIF described in the answer to Question 3.1. If an AIFM carries on the activities listed in the answer to Question 3.4 in relation to a fund of which it is the AIFM those activities are included in the regulated activity of managing an AIF. But, if the activities listed in the answer to Question 3.4 are carried on by a third party, that third party will not be carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF for that AIF, although that third party may be carrying on other regulated activities, such as arranging (bringing about) deals in investments or making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments.
Question 3.6: Can an AIF manage itself?
Yes. An AIFM may be:
(1) another person appointed by or on behalf of the AIF and which through that appointment is responsible for managing the AIF (an external AIFM); or
(2) where the legal form of the AIF permits internal management and where the AIF's governing body chooses not to appoint an external AIFM, the AIF itself (an internal AIFM).
Question 3.7: What effect does delegation have?
An AIFM is permitted to appoint a delegate to provide portfolio management and/or risk management services for the AIFM (see FUND 3.10 and regulation 26 of the AIFMD UK Regulation).
If the delegation relates to the additional services described in the answer to Question 3.4 (What are the additional activities referred to paragraph (1) of the answer to Question 3.3?) the delegate will not be managing an AIF, for the reason in the answer to Question 3.5 (Does anyone carrying on only the activities listed in the answer to Question 3.4 carry on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?).
In any case, under article 51ZC(3) of the RAO a person does not manage an AIF if the functions it performs for the AIF have been delegated to it by another person, provided that such other person is not an AIFM that has delegated such functions to the extent that it is a letter-box entity. So a person who has received a delegation of some of the AIFM's core functions (ie, the functions listed in the answer to Question 3.1 (What does managing an AIF mean?)) generally does not manage an AIF. Letter box entities are described in the answer to Question 3.8 (Does this mean that delegation can never affect who is doing the regulated activity of managing an AIF?).
This answer reflects AIFMD, which envisages that generally an AIFM may delegate functions without the delegate becoming the AIFM in place of the original manager, or the delegate becoming the AIFM alongside the original manager, in breach of the requirement that there be only one AIFM.
Question 3.8: Does this mean that delegation can never affect who is doing the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
Delegation can sometimes affect who is managing an AIF.
Article 82 of the AIFMD level 2 regulation says that an AIFM shall be deemed a letter-box entity and shall no longer be considered to be the manager of the AIF at least in any of the situations set out in that article, which is reproduced in FUND 3.10.9 EU.
This raises four questions. First, whether an AIFM that delegates in such a way as to make itself into a letter-box entity is still carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF. This is dealt with in Question 3.9. Secondly, whether the delegate is carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF. This is dealt with in Question 3.10. The third question is whether this only applies when article 20 of AIFMD (which contains the letter-box entity provisions elaborated by article 82) applies. This is dealt with by Question 3.12. The fourth question is what the test for a letter-box entity is. This is dealt with in Question 3.13.
Question 3.9: Does delegation by the manager mean that it is no longer carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
The fact that article 82 of the AIFMD level 2 regulation says that a letter-box entity shall no longer be considered to be the manager of the AIF would appear to mean that an AIFM that delegates in this way is no longer managing an AIF. However, in our view, an AIFM that delegates in such a way as to make itself into a letter-box entity is still carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF. The following points support this:
(1) Article 82 of the AIFMD level 2 regulation describes who is acting as the manager. The regulated activity does not refer to acting as an AIFM; it simply refers to managing an AIF. The regulated activity does not expressly incorporate article 82 as part of the definition.
(2) The RAO does not include the requirement in the AIFM definition that the AIFM be a legal person, which shows that the definition of AIFM is not fully aligned with the definition of managing an AIF.
(3) Regulation 4(3) of the AIFMD UK Regulation envisages that the AIFM will be appointed by or on behalf of the AIF or by its governing body. This is not reflected in the RAO either.
(4) Article 20 of AIFMD (which contains the letter-box entity provisions elaborated by article 82) deals with regulating how an AIFM should manage its AIF.
(5) There is a good reason why an AIFM that has delegated its functions in a way that means it has become a letter-box entity should still be carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF. It is necessary to avoid the risk that a manager that delegates to this degree falls out of regulation, because it stops carrying on a regulated activity. One of the purposes of regulation is to stop a manager doing this and effective implementation of AIFMD requires us to be able to do so.
Question 3.10: Does delegation by the manager mean that the delegate is carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
The factors listed in the answer to Question 3.9 (Does delegation by the manager mean that it is no longer carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?) support the view that a delegate of a letter-box entity does not manage an AIF. However, despite this, we believe that a delegation by the AIFM to a delegate can result in the delegate managing an AIF if the delegation results in the AIFM becoming a letter-box entity.
(1) Recital (9) of AIFMD confirms that the letter-box entity provision is an anti-avoidance provision preventing circumvention of AIFMD by means of turning the AIFM into a letter-box entity. A provision of this kind reflects a more general principle that rights given by European law (such as the right of a manager to delegate or the right of a delegate to carry on its business without being authorised as an AIFM) should not be abused. It is important to know who the real manager of an AIF is, so as to know whether an EEA State is responsible for its supervision or whether the AIF is managed from outside the EEA. If the real manager is not managing an AIF, it may not be carrying on any regulated activity and may not fall under any EEA financial services regulation, even though effective implementation of AIFMD would require the situation to be regularised.
(2) Article 51ZC(3) of the RAO implies that a person that has accepted a delegation from a manager that results in the manager becoming a letter-box entity, can be managing an AIF.
(3) It is not unreasonable to say that, if the delegate is in practice carrying out the management activities described in the answer to Question 3.1 (What does managing an AIF mean?), it should be treated as carrying on the regulated activity.
Question 3.11: Does this mean that delegation that results in the manager being a letter-box entity always means that the delegate will be carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
No. In each case it is necessary to apply the tests set out in PERG 16.3. If all the functions that have been delegated by the letter-box entity manager have been delegated to the same delegate, it is likely that that delegate is managing an AIF. However, if the delegation is to a number of delegates, it may be that none of those delegates is managing an AIF.
Question 3.12: Do the answers to Questions 3.7 to 3.11 apply just to delegation by a full-scope UK AIFM?
No. For example, they would be relevant to whether a delegate in the UK is managing an AIF if it accepts a delegation from an overseas manager. We take this approach for the following reasons.
(1) The arguments in Question 3.10 (Does delegation by the manager mean that the delegate is carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?) are also in favour of the view that the effect of delegation on a delegate should not be confined to delegation by an authorised AIFM. In any case, it would be anomalous for delegation to affect who is managing an AIF only when article 20 of AIFMD applies, particularly given that article 82 is, in our view, an anti-avoidance provision (see the answer to Question 3.10).
(2) Article 51ZC(3) of the RAO is not specifically limited to circumstances in which article 20 applies. It applies in any situation in which it is necessary to decide whether a person is managing an AIF for the purpose of the general prohibition.
Question 3.13: What is the test for a letter-box entity?
In our view, the test of whether delegation results in the delegate managing an AIF is decided by article 82 of the AIFMD level 2 regulation in circumstances when article 82 and article 20 of AIFMD apply to the delegating AIFM.
When article 20 does not apply we look at whether the delegation is to such a degree that the manager can no longer be considered to be carrying out the activities in the answer to Question 3.1 (What does managing an AIF mean?). We take the various factors elaborated in article 82 into account but they will not necessarily decide the matter because article 82 is, on its face, linked to article 20 and article 51ZC(3) of the RAO does not specifically refer to article 20 or 82.
If a manager to which article 82 does not apply can nevertheless satisfy all the conditions set out in that article to demonstrate that it has not become a letter-box entity, any delegation by it will not result in the delegate managing an AIF.
However, we do not necessarily require that delegate to demonstrate to us that every condition of article 82 is satisfied, to conclude that the manager is not a letter-box entity and that the delegate is not managing an AIF. The importance of the tasks carried out by the manager is a key consideration, taking particular account of the right and ability of the manager to exercise oversight and control and the degree to which these rights are exercised. In our view, these factors reflect the fact that we are applying a broad anti-avoidance approach to a letter-box entity rather than the detailed requirements of article 82.
Question 3.14: Is the material in PERG 16.3 about delegation relevant to delegation between branches of the same firm?
No. Please see Question 8.4 (Is the material in PERG 16.3 about delegation of management functions from one firm to another relevant to delegation from one branch to another?).
Question 3.15: If a person is not eligible to be appointed as an AIFM because it is not a legal person but is appointed to manage an AIF, does that mean that it cannot carry on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?
No. The fact that it is not eligible to be appointed as an AIFM does not mean that it is not managing an AIF. That means that an unauthorised person may breach the general prohibition by carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF, even though the person does not qualify for a Part 4A permission because that person is not a legal person.
Article 6(1) of AIFMD provides that no AIFMs should manage AIFs unless they are authorised in accordance with that Directive. An AIFM must be a legal person. So it appears that the regulated activity of managing an AIF cannot apply to someone who is not a legal person. However, in our view, this is not the case. As explained in the answer to Question 3.9 (Does delegation by the manager mean that it is no longer carrying on the regulated activity of managing an AIF?), the definition of an AIFM is not fully aligned with the definition of managing an AIF. In particular, the regulated activity does not refer to acting as an AIFM (the definition of AIFM in the AIFMD UK Regulation includes the legal person requirement), it simply refers to managing an AIF. There is a good policy reason for this. It is not the intention of the legislation to allow someone who is not a legal person to manage an AIF without being authorised, but to stop an AIF being managed by someone who is not a legal person.
Question 3.16: Can an AIF in the form of a limited partnership under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 appoint its general partner as the AIFM?
Yes. If the general partner is the AIFM it will be an external AIFM.
Strictly speaking this question is not relevant to the definition of managing an AIF but this is a convenient place to discuss the point.
On the face of it the answer should be No. The starting position is that if an AIF is managed by the body that has responsibility for governing it under the legislation under which the AIF is formed, the AIF is internally managed, particularly if there is no governing body that appoints and supervises the manager and the manager is a member of that AIF. A general partner is a partner and there will usually be no governing body separate from the general partner. Under this approach, a limited partnership would be internally managed, which would be contrary to AIFMD, as an AIFM must be a legal person and an English and Welsh limited partnership is not a legal person.
However, in our view, the roles of the limited and general partners are sufficiently distinct for one to be able to say that the limited partnership does not manage itself. The distinction between the two roles does not stem from the fact that the general partner manages the partnership, but from the facts that:
(1) the roles of general and limited partner are provided for by the legislation under which limited partnerships are formed; and
(2) the legislation, in practice, prevents the limited partners from managing the partnership (because for as long as a limited partner takes part in the management of the partnership business, it is liable for the partnership's debts as though it were a general partner).
In principle, the same should apply for jurisdictions outside England and Wales with legislation drafted in the same way. We understand that this is the case with a Scottish limited partnership (which has legal personality) and so if its general partner is appointed as its AIFM it will also be an external AIFM.
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£3,000 grant agreed for 2019 Hawick Reivers’ Festival
This year's Hawick Reivers' Festival.
Joseph Anderson, local democracy reporter
Hawicks Reivers’ Association has been given a £3,000 grant by the town’s common good fund to help it foot the bill for staging next year’s festival.
The festival has grown in popularity since its launch in 2003, attracting hundreds of visitors to Hawick every March.
The annual event struggles to make ends meet because it offers free access to many of its activities, however, so it remains reliant on outside funding to keep going.
Association chairperson Catherine Elliott-Walker told last week’s meeting of the common good fund : “I know that we have come each year to the common good fund for funding, but, as you’ll appreciate, a lot of the events we put on are free.
“The money has assisted us to maintain the fact that a lot of our events are free.
“Last year, we had a successful year, and we also received funding through Event Scotland’s Scottish clan event fund that allowed us to market the event and focus on families, so we’re hoping to build on that success, and we have applied to the clan fund again.
“The funding we get from elsewhere is very much about new developments and targeted at specific things.
“We have to ask the common good fund for funding just to help us maintain the day-to-day aspects of the organisation.”
Hawick and Hermitage councillor Watson McAteer welcomed that application, saying: “I always apply the test of is this for the benefit of the town, and this definitely is.
“Last year, they built on previous years to put on an exceptional event. It was a stylish event, and lots of visitors came.
“This a volunteer group running an event which has such a high professional standard, but somehow they keep having to come to us for money. From my point of view, you deserve everything you get for running an event of this quality. They’re not asking for a lot of money, and I wholly support this.”
Hawick and Denholm councillor Stuart Marshall echoed Mr McAteer’s sentiments, saying: “I wholeheartedly support this application.
“When Catherine comes along here, you know she’s looked under every stone for money before she comes here.
“The reivers’ festival is great. Imagine Hawick without it now – it’s unthinkable – so let’s get behind it and support it.”
However, Hawick and Hermitage councillor Davie Paterson voiced concerns about the festival’s finances, pointing out that between 2014 and 2018 it received £19,862 of public money from various sources.
He said: “I’ve got to ask, and I can’t help but wondering, is enough enough?
“I realise it’s a great success in the the town, and you’re making money, but how many years has it been they’ve had funding – 10 years, 12 years?”
Ms Elliot-Walker told him: “We’ve had funding just about every year, although there has been three years where we’ve had enough to not need to apply because we’ve had funding from other sources.
“I totally understand what you’re saying, but if I turn that back, that if we didn’t have common good funding, we’d have to start charging for a lot of things, and that would have quite a detrimental effect on a lot of our families who, at the moment, can come along and enjoy the event.
“We have tickets to the events which raise a certain amount of money. The festival is not making money as such. I think the last two years we’ve maybe made£1,000 over the weekend, which has helped us build up our resources a little so that we can actually hold another festival.
“We’ve been very lucky that we’ve had good weather the last couple of years. If we have a bad year, it would probably wipe out any surplus we have.”
Mr Paterson also accused his fellow councillors of being too generous with public money, saying: “I understand that, but you’ve come to us for funding every year. Is there nothing else you can do? You can’t keep coming here every year and getting funding.
“I understand some people are trying to get votes, but it’s public money were dealing with here – sorry, but it’s got to be said.”
Councillors voted to grant the festival £3,000, with Mr McAteer adding: “I’m not being accused of buying votes.
“The common good fund is public money, but it’s Hawick public money. It’s for Hawick projects and run by Hawick people for the benefit of Hawick. That is the clue in the name of the Hawick common good fund, so I take exception to that remark.”
Next year’s festival, the 15th, will be held from Friday, March 22, to Sunday, March 24. Go to www.hawickreivers.com for details.
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VIDEO: Research supports Parkinson's disease etiology, may provide new treatment options
WASHINGTON — Martin A. Samuels, MD, DSc (Hon), MACP, FANA, chair of the department of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Miriam Sydney Joseph Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, shared several updates in the field of neurology, including advances in stroke, Parkinson's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Samuels discussed a specific theory about Parkinson's disease, and how it may have been validated via research this past year.
"There has been a theory about the cause of Parkinson's disease that was created by the distinguished neurologist and neuroanatomist Heiko Braak, which argues that the agent that causes Parkinson's disease, whatever that agent may be, might be inhaled, damaging the olfactory bulb, and then swallowed into the gastrointestinal tract," he said. "Then it's absorbed into Meissner’s' plexus from the gut and from there it enters the vagus nerve and passes up the vagus nerve, back into the brain stem and then gradually ascends the brain stem from the medulla to the pons to the midbrain. And when it reaches the midbrain, this is when we see the classic triad of Parkinson's disease, of the tremor, the rigidity and the bradykinesia. So there's a long, long presymptomatic phase of Parkinson's disease, according to this theory."
Samuels said that a group of investigators reviewed medical records that spanned multiple decades for patients who had undergone a truncal vagotomy.
"They compared those patients with regard to their risk for Parkinson's disease to people who underwent a superselective vagotomy... and to a control population, and remarkably, those people that had a truncal vagotomy, were protected significantly against the development of Parkinson's disease," he said.
This indicated strong support for the Heiko Braak hypothesis of the etiology of Parkinson's disease and may provide a new approach to thinking about treatment.
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New XSET Imaging Holds Potential for Revealing Trace Metals' Role in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
The new technology could provide critical information for studying the relation between the presence of trace metals in the brain and certain neural degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as provide a more precise way for image-guided anti-cancer drug delivery and release processes.
The National Institute of Health recently granted $1.9 million to a team of researchers that Meng and Patrick J. La Riviere from the University of Chicago lead to develop a state-of-art X-ray imaging facility that allows detailed mapping of naturally occurring trace metals in biological samples. “Several research teams have indicated that the abnormal presence of certain trace metals could be correlated to the onset of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases,” Meng said, “However, at this point, most methods allowing for mapping of trace metals only work with excised tissue samples.
“The trace metals in the brain are radioactively stable, so they do not radiate signals,” he explained. Meng’s approach is to shoot a beam of x-rays into the object to stimulate the metal to radiate fluorescence X-rays. By collecting the fluorescence X-rays with dedicated X-ray cameras, one could form 3-D tomographic mapping of the trace metal in intact biological samples. This technique would therefore have the potential of allowing in vivo imaging of trace metals in mouse brain.
To conduct the work, Meng and his students will build a one-of-a-kind imaging facility that consists of four different x-ray sources, a wide array of advanced x-ray detectors for X-ray imaging and spectroscopy measurements, an optical photon imaging camera based on state-of-art intensified EMCCD detectors, and an emission tomography system integrated ion beam line. This facility will allow Meng’s team to image biological objects using a broad spectrum of electromagnetic radiations, ranging from optical photons to energetic gamma rays.
The facility is expected to be available within the next year, and would offer a highly unique X-ray imaging capability for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications.
The new X-ray facility would also allow Meng’s team and his collaborators to study X-ray induced/modulated anti-cancer therapeutic techniques. With the strong X-ray beam tuned at specific X-ray energies, one could selectively stimulate a micro-area around or inside a tumor tissue. This stimulation could trigger local therapeutic effect by releasing anti-cancer drugs carried to the target by specifically engineered nano-particles.
“With the bench-top system, we can focus the beam to stimulate an area as small as 30 microns in diameter,” Meng said. “By working with Dr. Leuwei Lo’s group at the University of Chicago, we plan to explore a combined X-ray induced photodynamic therapy (PDT) and localized X-ray imaging strategy that could allow researchers to visualize the exact therapeutic delivery process, and potentially visualize the inhomogeneous response of the tumor to the treatment.”
In addition to providing a new path for radiological research, Meng plans to use the setup as a teaching facility for the current NPRE 435 Radiological Imaging course, and create a new course, NPRE 436, Radiological Imaging Lab. The new course would begin in Fall 2015, according to the plans.
Meng’s group is collaborating with several groups from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University on building the new facility and on several biomedical applications. While the Illinois team is building the imaging hardware, the University of Chicago team is developing image-processing software and the X-ray induced photodynamic therapy approaches. The Northwestern team is examining various applications for the device.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 216 Talbot Laboratory, MC-234 | 104 South Wright Street | Urbana, IL 61801 217/333-2295 | fax: 217/333-2906
Susan Mumm, Editor
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Is an Audiologist a Doctor? Analyzing the ‘Married to Medicine’ debate
Published by Stacey Rich on November 21, 2016
photo courtesy: NBCUniversal MediaVillage
The new reality TV show “Married to Medicine Houston,” which follows five female doctors in their social and professional lives, recently exposed an interesting question: Is an audiologist a doctor?
In the premiere episode, audiologist and cast member Elly Pourasef, gets in a debate with her co-star medical doctors who questions Pourasef’s “doctor” title.
The show highlights the fact that Audiologists in the US are required to have a Doctorate degree, either a Ph.D. or an Au.D..
I thought it might be interesting to share a little about the hard work that goes into becoming an audiologist today.
Let me first start by saying, I studied Audiology and worked as a Pediatric Audiologist in Australia and therefore am not a Doctor of Audiology. Currently, the United States is the only country that requires an Audiologist to complete a 4-year doctoral degree in order to practice.
Although, not a medical doctor or physician (M.D.), Au.D.s complete a minimum three years post-graduate education with increasing clinical experience each year, as well as a fourth-year externship at a clinical site. An audiologist’s education is a similar track to other professionals, such as Dentists (D.D.S.) and Pharmacists (Pharm.D.) who are also called “doctors.”
It was only in 2007 that it became mandatory to have a doctoral degree to practice audiology, so many experienced audiologists in the US (and most of those outside of the US) have completed at least a two-year post-graduate degree and a one-year internship program. In fact, a significant number of experienced audiologists have also returned to the classroom to advance their education and become Doctors of Audiology.
(Watch: “Married to Medicine Houston” Season 1, Episode 2: The Ultimate Dr. Ditch)
After graduation, all audiologists must pass a board certification exam and maintain a certain number of continuing education credits every year in order to keep their certification. This ensures that the profession as a whole stays current with the latest research, technology and medical advances related to hearing loss and vestibular function. Speaking of vestibular function, that’s something many people don’t realize. Audiologists are also experts on the vestibular or balance system, as it’s housed in the inner ear. Audiologists test, diagnose and treat balance disorders and work very closely with Otolaryngologists in managing these patients also with those who have hearing loss.
The American Board of Audiology also offers specialty certifications in Pediatric Audiology and Cochlear Implants which requires practicing audiologist to demonstrate a high level of knowledge in working with these specialized populations. An audiologist that holds a specialty certificate must have practiced for a certain number of years and pass a stringent board examination.
So, is an audiologist a doctor? Audiologists are essentially experts in hearing disorders, hearing technologies (hearing aids and cochlear implants) as well as anatomy, physiology, speech and language development and even pharmacology. Audiologists have completed 6 to 8 years of higher education and training and work continuously to stay abreast of the latest research so they can offer their patients and their patients’ families the best audiological care possible.
To sum it up: Yes, an Audiologist with an Au.D. is in fact a Doctor of Audiology.
Drawing on clinical and educational experience as a pediatric audiologist, Stacey is driven to help develop and market better hearing technologies for children with hearing loss and their families.
Marlee Matlin to star in Disney’s ‘Life and Deaf’
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Florida State University, William Johnston Building
Open to a new world of learning
Tallahassee, Florida, US
Photo credit: Adam Cohen
The historic renovation and expansion of Florida State University’s William Johnston Building presented an ideal opportunity for Gould Evans, an architecture firm specializing in higher education projects that promote student success. The overall goal of the 145,000-square-foot space was to preserve the integrity of the Jacobean architecture of the two original buildings (built in the early 1900s) and at the same time, create a dynamic new space that would support 21st century teaching and learning.
The three colleges and seven departments that were going to be housed in the new space demanded a wide array of classrooms, lecture halls, learning studios, tutoring spaces, exhibit space, laboratories, faculty offices, meeting rooms, and public/common areas. It also had to support multidisciplinary collaboration and interaction among the various faculty members and students. “So the space had to be flexible enough to meet an enormous amount of needs,” says Tom Wilkinson, Herman Miller representative.
Campus leaders also wanted the new space to be open and transparent, “so that people could see the whole range of student involvement and all the amazing things going on at Florida State,” says Karen Laughlin, Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
Oh, and the building needed to be LEED Gold certified too.
“Way-finding was another important aspect,” notes architect Beverly Frank, as was creating visible but separate identities for the many departments that would be calling the new building home.
And that’s what led the architectural team to the idea of glass, lots of glass; a 5-floor curtain wall of glass that would connect the two older buildings, bring in lots of natural light, provide the highly visible environment they wanted, make it easy for people to find their way around, and give them nearly 70,000 square feet of space that could be designed with virtually unlimited flexibility.
The building’s 20th century Jacobean style architecture was preserved as a 21st century interior was created.
Furniture To Support Function
The next challenge? Furniture. Architects aren’t always involved in the selection of furnishings, “But we realized it would play a key role in how this building would function, particularly in the classrooms and learning studios, so we asked the college if we could be part of that process and they agreed,” says architect and Gould Evans Principal Steve Carpenter, who worked with Frank on the project.
The School of Art and Design’s Interior Design department was one of those that would be in the Johnston Building, and who better to help select furniture for the project than its department chair? Eric Wiedegreen, now retired from the university and working as an architect and interior designer, was happy to oblige. He said later that the experience was “the best I’ve had in my entire career.”
The architects invited two furniture vendors to present their ideas, “and it was clear from the start that Herman Miller was very much in tune with what we were trying to do,” says Carpenter.
Natural light is captured and reflected throughout the main atrium.
A Solid Partner Becomes Model
In fact, architect Beverly Frank says the relationship the design team developed with the Herman Miller dealership Office Environments proved invaluable. “Jack Mozley (Account Manager) was on site every day, and he wasn’t just engaged with us, but with everybody, whether it was a contractor or a user, whenever anybody needed him to do something he was there,” says Frank. “Office Environments really became the model of the type of partners we want to deal with because that’s the kind of service we offer our clients. Ultimately, it all reflects on us and they really helped to make us look good.”
Office Environments designer Kim Gray made the selection of individual products easy, too. “I’d tell Kim what we needed in a particular space and she’d come back to me with three or four solutions and that’s how we worked, all the way through the project,” recounts Frank.
Tables and chairs provide quick gathering spots for students in many areas of the building.
Faculty and students appreciate that activities taking place in the building (here Digital Media and Production) are visible to all.
“We tried to come up with the best solutions that would fit their budget and give them the mobility and flexibility they needed,” says Mozley.
"Herman Miller really helped us solve some issues not only in terms of economy, but in student engagement and success,” continues Frank. “The faculty at FSU is very progressive in the way they think, and so is Herman Miller. It was a matter of getting the most bang for the buck and they were very smart in where they put the emphasis and how they helped us strategize.”
Broad Product Lines Simplifies Selection
Another advantage, says Frank, is Herman Miller’s broad product lines. “Selecting furniture for this huge building with all its different users could have been incredibly time-consuming—catastrophic even—but it was fantastic because we could get so much variation in a minimum of product lines. For example, the Caper Chair, which everybody really loves, can be either freestanding, a tablet arm, or a bar stool, so we used it everywhere.”
Students and faculty love all the movable tables and chairs, both in classrooms and around the open spaces. “Our students are a new generation; they don’t like to sit in one spot,” notes FSU Vice President Sally McRorie, former Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance. “The fact that they can move the chairs around to spread out or gather in small groups is really important. Plus, they have their backpacks and laptops with them all the time, and can just stash them under the tables.”
The building offers a diverse range of classroom configurations to support three colleges and numerous departments.
Professors appreciate the mobility, too. “I can break my class into small groups in a split second and there’s no horrible scraping of chairs across the floor, or worse yet, no choice because the seating is bolted onto the floor,” says Lisa Waxman, Department Chair of Interior Design, who also loves the new gallery space which is filled with natural light.
Movable tables and chairs mean classrooms can be quickly rearranged to meet a variety of needs.
Herman Miller Classics A Big Hit
Appropriately enough, the first exhibit shown in the gallery was called “CLASSIC Herman Miller” and featured the personal furniture from the estate of a long-time Herman Miller employee, including iconic pieces by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, and Alexander Girard. The exhibit was so popular it stayed up for nearly a year.
“Students today see an Eames Lounge Chair and they almost take it for granted, but seeing one from the 1950s, which was used every day by someone in their own home, shows them that good design lasts a long time,” says Wiedegreen. “It also helps make the connection that the furniture we’re using in our building will do the same thing.”
A blend of contemporary and classic gives the building energy and vitality.
There are numerous areas where one-on-one meetings between faculty and students can take place.
Offices Also Appreciated
The office furniture choices proved to be winners, too. As Gray, an FSU grad herself, explains, “Canvas Office Landscape is easily reconfigurable, comfortable, user-friendly, and very functional, so it was a good choice for those areas.” Small side tables, included in some faculty offices, can be tucked away and then pulled up when meeting with students.
“The offices are also very clean and open, which mirrored what was going on in the rest of the building,” says Wiedegreen, adding that they employed a non-hierarchical philosophy, “where everybody from the ‘boss’ on down got the same thing, which was a good message for our staff.”
Glass was used throughout the building for both light and transparency.
“It not only looks good, it helps people do their jobs well, and I think they feel they’re being rewarded for doing a good job,” adds McRorie, who believes that FSU’s Interior Design department now offers the very best of facilities, “and the Herman Miller furnishings are a part of that success. Once people get past the ‘awe’ of the building, they see how well the furniture functions, particularly the flexibility aspect of it.”
“People are finding all kinds of creative ways to use every inch of space,” agrees Laughlin. “The idea of giving students a true learning environment is a really wonderful concept. They can embrace the space and make it their own, and that’s what they’re doing.“
All agree that the success of the William Johnston Building was the spirit of collaboration that went into it. “The architects really listened to what we had to say and the dealership was very responsive to our needs,” says Wiedegreen.
The glass atrium has become the focal point of the entire project, “like a lightning bolt,” says Mozley, of the dramatic impact it’s had on the campus. It’s a welcoming beacon to all, and a “beautiful marriage of old and new,” adds Laughlin, who admits to being surprised herself at the “spectacular” end result.
The building received the AIA Florida Honor Award of Excellence for Historic Restoration, but most important, says McRorie, is that “It’s an engaging environment that is as conducive to learning as it is beautiful.”
From media centers and libraries to classrooms and learning labs, flexibility and mobility are key to creating successful learning environments.
Spaces were designed and equipped for the way students learn today.
Canvas Office Landscape
Caper Stacking Chair
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David Scearce/Record File Photo: South Caldwell's Curtis Massagee (9) and the Spartans are one of four area baseball teams still alive in state playoffs.
Prep Baseball: State playoffs continue for four area teams this week
By Aaron Schnautz aschnautz@hickoryrecord.com
And then there were four.
A quartet of area baseball teams continue their chase for a state championship this week in the third round of the NCHSAA state playoffs. It’s business as usual for some, while others are attempting to continue historic runs.
Take a look at all four games scheduled to take place Tuesday evening:
4A: No. 4 South Caldwell vs. No. 5 Davie County, 6:30 p.m.
Playoff success has become the norm at South Caldwell, where the Spartans are two-time state champions (1982, 2007) and consistently advance to postseason play. Only seven other schools statewide had won as many playoff games as the Spartans’ 54 coming into this year.
But the third round has been their downfall of late, providing their exit in five of the past seven seasons. They will look to eclipse that plateau for the first time since 2016 against a Davie County team that is much better than its seeding suggests.
Despite their record, the War Eagles (16-9) came into the playoffs as the top-ranked team in 4A according to MaxPreps. That’s because they stood at 21-3 before it was determined they had used an ineligible player for six nonconference wins and those contests were changed to forfeit losses.
Regardless, it’s been a banner year for Davie County. The Central Piedmont 4A Conference regular-season champions earned a bye in the first round before beating No. 21 Grimsley 9-2, snapping a four-game playoff losing streak for the program dating to 2013.
South Caldwell (21-5) repeated as Northwestern 3A/4A Conference regular-season champions this year, and it’s the sixth time in eight seasons the Spartans have reached 20 or more wins. They also earned a first-round bye in the 4A playoffs before eliminating No. 13 Porter Ridge 4-2 in the second round.
Next up: No. 1 Myers Park or No. 8 Ronald Reagan
3A: No. 3 Alexander Central vs. No. 6 Cox Mill, 7 p.m.
Since longtime Watauga coach Pete Hardee came to Alexander Central four years ago, the Cougars have gone one round deeper in the state playoffs each season. They were eliminated in the first round in 2016, the second round in 2017 and the third round last year. They’ll have a chance to continue their progression toward a state championship Tuesday against a Cox Mill side that is in the midst of arguably its best season in program history.
Alexander Central (22-7) opened its postseason last week with a 3-2 victory over No. 30 North Iredell and followed that by beating No. 19 Cuthbertson 4-1. The third-seeded Cougars are currently riding an 11-game winning streak that already includes two titles - the Easter Baseball Classic and the Northwestern 3A/4A Conference tournament.
The Chargers (20-6) also have two championships this year after claiming the South Piedmont 3A Conference double by winning the league and the tournament. Basketball usually grabs the headlines at Cox Mill, but the baseball team is showing its chops as well with the program’s first-ever appearance in the third round of a state tournament. They got here by beating No. 27 South Iredell 2-0 in round one, then setting a season high in runs in a 19-12 victory over No. 11 East Rowan.
Next up: No. 2 Crest or No. 10 Marvin Ridge
2A: No. 2 North Lincoln vs. No. 23 West Stokes, 7 p.m.
A drop from the 3A classification has brought new postseason fortune to the North Lincoln baseball program. The Knights were 0-10 in state playoff competition, including a pair of first-round exits in 2016 and 2017, before moving to 2A to start the 2018 season. Not only did they record their first-ever playoff win last year, but they went all the way to the state semifinals before succumbing to Ledford Senior.
Hopes are high that the Knights (20-5) can get back there again – or go even further this time – but first they’ll have to get through upset-minded West Stokes. The Wildcats (16-10) won at No. 10 Chase 3-2 in the first round before holding off No. 26 Maiden 9-6 late last week. Their reward is a date with the co-South Fork 2A Conference champions in North Lincoln, who needed a seventh-inning rally to beat No. 31 Central Academy 5-4 before run-ruling No. 15 Wilkes Central 10-0 in five innings in the second round.
Next up: No. 3 West Wilkes or No. 11 North Davidson
2A: No. 13 West Lincoln vs. No. 28 Smoky Mountain, 5:30 p.m.
Upsets have been the name of the game for both West Lincoln and Smoky Mountain to get to the third round. The Rebels (19-7), who shared the South Fork regular-season championship with North Lincoln this year, earned a conventional 5-1 win over No. 20 South Point in the opening round. But then they went on the road and knocked off fourth-seeded Franklin 7-4 to advance to the third round for the first time since 2015.
Meanwhile, the Mustangs (13-9) have shown that they don’t care what their opponents are seeded. They opened the postseason by beating No. 5 Mount Pleasant 8-3 and followed with a 5-1 win at No. 12 North Surry. But current South Fork competition has been their playoff downfall lately. Lake Norman Charter knocked them out in the second round in both 2015 and 2017. And last year, it was North Lincoln who sent Smoky Mountain packing in a fourth-round defeat.
If the Rebels can continue that trend, they’ll reach 20 wins for the first time since 2016 and just the third time this decade. The Mustangs, however, beat West Lincoln in the most recent matchup between these two, a 6-1 victory in the fourth round of the 2013 playoffs.
Next up: No. 8 Madison or No. 17 Oak Grove
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HollywoodNews.com > *NEWS > The Dark Night Rises continues to dominate the Box Office
Sun, Jul 29 2012 | Published in *NEWS, AWARDS, CELEBS, FEATURED, HEADLINE, HEADLINES, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV
The Dark Night Rises continues to dominate the Box Office
By: HollywoodNews.com
HollywoodNews.com: In the next couple days you’re going to hear a lot about how the Aurora, Colorado shootings had some kind of negative effect on the box office this weekend. You’re going to hear about how The Dark Knight Rises is some kind of disappointment and that it surely left money on the table due to the aftermath of said mass murder. So without getting too pompous about discrediting such malarky, let’s get something out of the way right now. After ten days, The Dark Knight Rises has earned $289 million. That’s the third-best ten-day total of all-time behind only The Dark Knight ($313 million) and The Avengers ($373 million) and a good $10 million ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($373 million) without the 3D advantage. Yes, the third Batman sequel dropped 60% from last weekend, but it still earned $64 million in weekend two, the sixth-biggest second weekend of all-time (The Dark Knight earned $75 million in weekend two, a 53% drop).
In short, the threequel is playing like a normal insanely anticipated but also heavily front-loaded genre sequel that has its fan-base firmly entrenched without picking up many new viewers this time around. In other words, it’s playing a bit like a Harry Potter/Twilight sequel. The Dark Knight Rises merely isn’t the pure phenomenon that The Dark Knight was, and anyone that told you it would be was probably delusional or lying. The Dark Knight was an event. The Dark Knight Rises is just a heavily-anticipated genre sequel.
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Africa at ICSID
Tullow’s Shs3 trillion sale approval nears completion
The farm down deal once approved, will see both Total E&P and CNOOC each retain 37.5 per cent shareholding in Uganda’s oil fields while Tullow plans to remain in a non-operator position with an 11 per cent stake. In its half year results released yesterday, Tullow also revealed that the technical Front End Engineering Design (FEED) studies and Environment Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) for two exploration areas—EA1 and EA2—have been completed and contract awards for the developers are “under evaluation.” “Overall project sanction is expected around the end of 2018,” Tullow said.
Total E&P and CNOOC, entered Uganda in 2012 after each acquiring a 33.33 per cent interest from Tullow under a joint venture arrangement.
Tullow first announced plans to sell its assets, first to Total E&P behind CNOOC’s back in January last year but the latter put the spanner in works in March by invoking its preemptive rights—to acquire half of the shares floated to Total E&P. The trio then deadlocked over operatorship of oil fields in Buliisa District, part of EA2, previously operated by Tullow Oil. Total E&P and CNOOC equally held non-operator interests in EA2. But in the ensuing discussions, it was agreed that Total E&P takes over the Buliisa field and CNOOC the Kaiso Tonya fields, also part of EA2.
At completion of the farm-down, Tullow in a statement issued yesterday, said it anticipates receiving a cash payment of $100m (Shs370b) and a payment of the working capital completion adjustment. It deferred consideration for the pre-completion period $59m (Shs218b) for 2017 and an estimated $70m (Shs260b) for 2018. “A further $50m (Shs185b) cash consideration is due to be received when Final Investment Decision (FID) is taken,” the statement indicated.
Tullow also said, together with Total E&P and CNOOC, are continuing to work towards reaching FID around the end of 2018 with operational activity continuing as planned.
“The upstream FEED is now complete and initial technical and commercial reviews of this work have begun, which will result in the award of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts.” “Important geophysical and geotechnical surveys across the upstream area, including at the proposed location for the Central Processing Facility, were completed in June. The upstream ESIA has been completed and has been submitted to the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) for review with approval expected in the third quarter,” Tullow’s statement added.
The deal is also expected to attract Capital Gains Taxes, a tax on profit when you sell (or dispose of) something (for example an asset) that has increased in value, which is still unknown. In 2012 when Total first sold to Total E&P and CNOOC for $2.9b (Shs10 trillion), making it the largest transaction to date in Uganda’s history, the deal attracted close to $700m which was battled in arbitration. In the first quarter of 2018, Tullow reported revenues of $905m (Shs3.3 trillion), up from $788m (Shs2.9trillion).
The company’s gross profit jumped to $521m (Shs1.9 trillion) while profit after tax was $55m (Shs203b) up from a previous loss of $348m (Shs1.2 trillion).
The company’s chief executive officer, Mr Paul Mcdade, said, “The results are further evidence of the progress that Tullow has made in the first half of 2018. With this firm financial foundation, we can concentrate on growth across our three core businesses.”
Meanwhile, Tullow revealed that discussions on the key pipeline project agreements continue between the joint venture partners and governments of Uganda and Tanzania.
“The pipeline FEED and EPC tender process for the pipeline have been completed with the award to be made in the second half. Project financing for the pipeline is also progressing with the development of the financial model ongoing.”
“In the second half, Tullow anticipates completing key commercial, technical and land agreements with the governments of Uganda and Tanzania as well as the submission of the ESIA for the pipeline to both governments.”
The 1,445km \pipeline that is expected to cost $3.55b (Shs13 trillion), will run Hoima in mid-western Uganda to the Tanga port in Tanzania. The Ugandan section of the pipeline, about 296km, is expected to cost $700m (Shs2.5 trillion).
At least 80 per cent of the pipeline, 1,147km, will be on the Tanzanian side. Technocrats from Uganda and Tanzania are currently discussing the Host Governments Agreement that defines the rights and obligations between each country on the project and will be ratified by the respective Parliaments once signed.
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Should Have Been Bigger: Katy Perry’s “Bon Appétit”
Mike Wass @mikewassmusic | May 14, 2019 1:54 pm
Katy Perry & Zedd's '365' Video
Love and robots don't mix in Katy & Zedd's blockbuster '365' video.
In this franchise, we look back on singles that deserved a little more love and attention.
Katy Perry’s history-making streak of 20 consecutive top 40 hits, stretching back all the way to 2008’s “I Kissed A Girl,” came to a screeching halt in 2017 when “Bon Appétit” stalled at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. The unforgivable irony is that it’s one of the pop star’s best singles. Featuring Migos and produced by Max Martin & cohorts, “Bon Appétit” is a bouncy, sex-positive banger that deftly blends pop, trap and house elements. It also boasts one of the catchiest choruses in recent memory. So what went wrong?
The not-exactly-subtle lyrics were pilloried by some, but Katy has never shied away from a double entendre. (Exhibit A is “Peacock”). Then there was the faux outrage about the involvement of Migos. The “365” diva was criticized for working with alleged homophobes, but the same energy was nowhere to be seen when other artists hit them up for a feature. In the end, I think it came down to the right song at the wrong time. A campy banger with ’90s house elements didn’t have a place on top 40 radio in 2017, which is the kiss of death for a commercial pop release.
This tragic tale of woe does have a happy ending, however. “Bon Appétit” has already been embraced as a firm fan favorite and is widely acknowledged, at least by the great minds of Stan Twitter, as a cult classic. And then there’s the (incredible) video. Which has taken on a life of its own, amassing close to 700 million views on YouTube. Revisit Katy’s misunderstood and sorely slept-on bop below.
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February 2018 Contact Us: 800.286.4BMW
BMW M4 GT4 Already Making Waves in Competition
Successor to BMW M3 E92 earns podium finish in IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge debut
It didn’t long for the new BMW M4 GT4 to establish itself as a force to be reckoned with on the track. The BMW M4 GT4 — direct successor of the BMW M3 E92 that was last seen taking victory at Road Atlanta in 2015 — made its North American competition debut in impressive fashion this past January, taking second and fourth place in the opening race of the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSC).
BMW made its long-awaited return to IMSA’s Grand Sport (GS) class at the four-hour BMW Endurance Challenge at Daytona on Jan. 26 with two entries: The BimmerWorld Racing No. 82 BMW M4 GT4, driven by James Clay and Tyler Cooke; and the Classic BMW / Vess Energy Group No. 72 BMW M4 GT4, driven by the trio of Mike Vess, Jason Hart and Toby Grahovec. Starting from 18th and 27th, respectively, in a 28-car grid, the two BMW M4 GT4 carved through a field of consisting of six other manufacturers to just barely miss out on a double-podium finish.
Coming down the stretch, the No. 82 BMW M4 GT4 overtook and staved off the advance of the Multimatic Motorsports No. 15 Ford Mustang GT4 to take second place by just 0.903 seconds. The No. 72 BMW M4 GT4 just missed taking third, finishing 0.684 seconds out of podium position. This performance immediately establishes the BMW M4 GT4 as a contender in the GS class, and seemingly indicates more successes ahead in the 2018 IMSA CTSC season.
Prior to the BMW Endurance Challenge, the BMW M4 GT4 made its customer racing debut at the 24h Dubai. All three cars in the field made it to the finish line, and the Team Securtal Sorg Rennsport BMW M4 GT4 managed a fifth-place class finish.
“We have many months of intensive development and testing behind us,” said Jens Marquardt, BMW Motorsport Director. “I am delighted to see the BMW M4 GT4 in action for customers. During the course of the season, it will prove itself in countless races across the globe.”
The addition of the BMW M4 GT4 makes BMW Motorsport’s lineup one of the most well-rounded in competitive racing, fitting in between the BMW M235i Racing coupe and the updated BMW M6 GT3. The BMW M4 GT4 will next see U.S. competition in March at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
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Iron Mountain Earns Top Marks in 2019 Corporate Equality Index
Company Earns 100 percent on Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 17th Annual Scorecard on LGBTQ Workplace Equality for the second consecutive year
BOSTON, April 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Iron Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, today announced that for the second consecutive year, it received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation's premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. Iron Mountain joins the ranks of over 560 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this year.
"Iron Mountain has a core value to build and sustain an inclusive culture that encourages our employees to bring their whole, authentic selves into the workplace," said Ty Ondatje, senior vice president and chief diversity officer, Iron Mountain. "Our diverse employee base reflects the customers and communities where we operate and live, and we believe it is a competitive advantage for our business and critical to our success. We benefit from the unique and different abilities, perspectives and backgrounds of our global employees, each of whom contribute to the diversity of thought and talent that help us innovate. Our CEI score is a reflection of that belief and our commitment to an inclusive environment where all of our employees can thrive."
"The top-scoring companies on this year's CEI are not only establishing policies that affirm and include employees here in the United States, they are applying these policies to their global operations and impacting millions of people beyond our shores," said HRC President Chad Griffin. "Many of these companies have also become vocal advocates for equality in the public square, including the dozens that have signed on to amicus briefs in vital Supreme Court cases and the more than 170 that have joined HRC's Business Coalition for the Equality Act. Time and again, leading American businesses have shown that protecting their employees and customers from discrimination isn't just the right thing to do -- it's also good for business."
The 2019 CEI evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. Iron Mountain's efforts in satisfying all of the CEI's criteria results in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
For more information on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index, or to download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei. In addition, to read about Iron Mountain's commitment to diversity and inclusion, visit http://www.ironmountain.com/About-Us/Corporate-Social-Responsibility/Our-People.aspx.
About the Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 85 million square feet across more than 1,400 facilities in over 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include information management, digital transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working. Visit www.ironmountain.ie for more information.
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Issaquah’s Kranick Family and the Year 1908
March 2, 2017 /in Blog /by IssqErica
George Kranick: Murder Most Foul
In the January 11, 1908 issue of the Issaquah Independent (forerunner of today’s Issaquah Press), community news included mention of a New Year’s party hosted by Miss Olive Gibson (at which Mary Wold, dressed as a witch, told fortunes). A new piano had been purchased for the IOOF Hall and a “rousing dance” was to be held to celebrate on January 18. The Masons and Eastern Star installed officers for the new year, and the City Council met to appoint a new Town Marshal and conduct other business. Residents of the busy mining town were going about their usual business.
But the following week’s newspaper bore a shocking headline: George Kranik Fatally Shot.
Issaquah Independent, January 18, 1908
In spite of the town’s many saloons and frequently used jail, murder was not common. Most citizens of the town knew each other. While familiarity might breed contempt, it also prevented some crimes from being committed because few could remain anonymous.
George Kranick (as the name was generally spelled) was one of many immigrants from Austro-Hungary who came to the area to work as a miner. He immigrated to the USA in 1887 along with his wife Anne. In 1889 the family made their home in Washington state. Kranick was, by all accounts, a solid and reliable citizen. In 1900 he owned his own home and was employed as a coal miner. He spoke English (although he could not read or write it) and had been a naturalized citizen since shortly after his arrival in the USA.
It is not known what errand sent George Kranick to George Bennett’s house on the evening of January 12. George Bennett, also known as George Curry, was the adopted son of J.E. Bennett. He married in 1899 and came to Washington state from Nebraska sometime between 1900 and 1908. Also at Bennett’s house that night was Joe Pete, about whom very little is known.
Kranick was reportedly returning from a piece of property he had recently acquired and stopped to see Bennett. It is not known what transpired between the men, but Kranick fled the house at about 6:30 PM after shots were fired. He collapsed within 40 feet of the door and died an hour later, never having regained consciousness. The fatal shots were fired by Bennett’s single-barreled shotgun, which was loaded with bird shot. The shot entered under Kranick’s arm and “ranged forward and upward,” according to the newspaper’s report.
Bennett and Pete, who were inebriated at the time they were taken into custody, attempted to tell the Town Marshal a tale of suicide. This explanation was deemed implausible at an inquest the next morning. On January 14, Bennett and Pete were transferred to the county jail, where they languished for two months. Bennett would remain in jail until April, but Joe Pete was released from the county jail on March 7, after Bennett had confessed to having fired the fatal shot by accident.
In early April, a number of Issaquah residents traveled to Seattle to testify at Bennett’s trial. Among them were George Kranick’s widow, Anne, and the Kranick’s two oldest children, George and Mary (ages 21 and 15 respectively). After the evidence was presented, the jury deliberated for 21 hours and then returned a verdict of not guilty. Bennett returned home to Issaquah that night. By 1910 he and his family had moved on to Idaho; in 1920 they were living in Pierce County. George Bennett died at the age of 90 in Sacramento, California.
The Kranick family, recipients of a great deal of sympathy from community members, continued to experience hardships in the months to come.
Mary Kranick: Wayward Girl
In 1908, Mary Kranick was sixteen years old. In that era of Issaquah’s history, there were a relatively small number of reasons why the average 16 year old girl might have her name printed in the newspaper. Church and school-related mentions were most common. Bessie Cubbon co-led a discussion topic at church entitled, “Immortal Until My Work is Done,” and Mabel Ek attended a Baptist convention. Anna Johnson was the secretary of the Busy Bee Club, an organization dedicated to raising funds for new windows at their church in Monohon. Alice Miles and Olive Palm were celebrated for their perfect attendance at school. Olive Gibson gave a reading of children’s poetry by Longfellow at a literary society meeting.
Mary Kranick appeared first as a tragic figure in the pages of the Issaquah Independent. First, she was one of the survivors of her father, George Kranick, who was shot and died on January 12, 1908. In April of 1908, Mary herself was called upon to testify as a witness at the trial of her father’s killer. The jury found Bennett not guilty.
Two months later, on June 19, the Issaquah Independent presented Mary Kranick in a different light. Under the headline, “Petit Larceny is Charged” was an account of the arrest of Mary and a companion, Lilly Hosko, for theft of items belonging to J.S McNenimee. The girls were arrested on June 18 and examined by Judge Enos Guss. Search warrants were issued and stolen goods were found in the girls’ homes. Both girls plead guilty and Judge Guss referred the case to the juvenile court in Seattle. Issaquah’s town marshal, Howard Case, escorted the girls into the city that night.
Issaquah Independent, June 19, 1908
On June 19, Judge Archibald Frater dismissed the case against the girls and they were allowed to return home. Lillian Hosko returned to Issaquah by train on Monday night while Mary Kranick returned on Tuesday. Instead of taking the train all the way into town and disembarking at the Depot just blocks from her home, Mary got off at Bush’s siding. Bush’s siding was about a mile north of downtown Issaquah, near the home of the Bush family (roughly speaking, across the street from today’s Fred Meyer shopping center on East Lake Sammamish Parkway). This area of the Valley was home to the Bush, Tibbetts, Pickering and other farming families.
After disembarking from the train, Mary “loitered in the Valley” according to an Issaquah Independent article titled, “Girls in More Trouble.” She was subsequently arrested again, this time for taking wearing apparel from the Pickering home. On Wednesday morning she appeared before Judge Guss, and made a statement implicating Lillian Hosko in the theft. Both girls plead guilty once more, and once more they were sent to Seattle to face Judge Frater. And so the girls made their second appearance in juvenile court in scarcely a week.
Mary’s companion, Lillian Hosko, was 14 at the time of their arrest. There are so many similarities between Lillian and Mary that their comradeship comes as no surprise. They were both from Austro-Hungarian families, their parents having immigrated in the 1880s. Both families were active in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. They lived within a block of each other. The Hoskos lived on Jones Street and the Kranicks on White (today’s 1st Avenue NW and 1st Place NW, respectively), an area where many Austro-Hungarian and Finnish coal mining families also lived. George Kranick and Joseph Hosko, their fathers, worked as coal miners and probably walked the path to Mine Hill together. Hosko was one of Kranick’s pallbearers.
Both girls were the third of five children. None of their respective siblings seem to have a blemish on their reputation. Mary’s older sister Anne was married and had two children by 1908; younger sister Kate excelled in school and later worked as an operator for the telephone company. Lillian’s sister also married, and the Kranick and Hosko sons worked in local industry. If they were involved in anything scandalous or unsavory, it was not mentioned in the Issaquah newspapers. The Kranicks and Hoskos were, by all accounts, upstanding citizens and respected by their peers.
As for those they stole from, little is known about Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McNenimee. What is known suggests that J. S. McNenimee was an engineer who worked for local mining companies. Their primary residence may have been in Seattle. Between 1908 and 1910, the Issaquah Independent notes frequent rail trips between Issaquah and Seattle by the McNenimees.
The Pickering family was (and is) well known in the Issaquah Valley. Mary and Lilly probably stole from the family of Ernest Pickering and his wife Camellia. Pickering operated the family dairy farm for most of his life; he also worked as the bookkeeper for the Issaquah & Superior Mine from roughly 1904 to 1907.
Why Did They Do It?
Just as we will probably never know the details surrounding George Kranick’s death, we may never know what impulse led Mary and Lillian to petty larceny. We do know that their families’ status as immigrants, Catholics, laborers already set them apart from other teenage girls whose accomplishments were remarked upon in the Issaquah Independent – and from the well-established, well-to-do families Mary and Lillian stole from. It is also hard to ignore the fact that loss of Mary Kranick’s father was fresh at the time of her trial.
After the second theft, the girls appeared in juvenile court on June 26, 1908 and were pronounced delinquent. They were both assigned to rehabilitation centers. Lillian Hosko was sent to the State Training School, while Mary Kranick was assigned to the Home of the Good Shepherd in Seattle. The companions’ paths diverge after this point. Lillian Hosko returned to Issaquah the following year; a brief note in the April 9, 1909 Issaquah Independent noted “Lillie Hosco [sic] arrived home Sunday evening after an absence of several months.” At the time of the 1910 census, she was living in her family’s home and working as a chambermaid in a hotel. She had not left her delinquent ways completely behind, however. In November of 1910 she appeared in juvenile court again. This time she was assigned to the Home of the Good Shepherd, where she remained until April of 1912.
Home of the Good Shepherd
The Home of the Good Shepherd was established in 1907 in order to provide shelter, education and guidance to young women. The building still stands in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood; it is a registered historic landmark and houses a number of non-profit organizations.
In the early 1900s, half of the home’s 170-some residents were orphans; the other half were “penitents.” The wayward girls who made up the penitent ward were either referred by the courts or brought in by their families. The home operated a commercial laundry, which provided revenue as well as an occupation for its tenants. Mary would have worked in this laundry, whose two largest clients were the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific Railroads.
According to a HistoryLink.org article on the Home of the Good Shepherd, Mary Kranick and her peers would have studied “character education, voice, piano and other instrumental music, needlework, dressmaking, public expression, catechism, vocational training, basic academics, and physical education.” For those girls sent to the home through the court system, the intent was to rehabilitate rather than punish.
When Mary was sentenced there, the school had only been open for just 11 months. She was still a resident there in April of 1910, when the census was taken. It is not know precisely when she was released. We do know that by 1911 she had married Elmer R. Cox. Cox lived with his family on 14th Avenue near Brooklyn Avenue, in what is today’s University District of Seattle. His father was occupied as a salesman in a clothing store. It is not certain whether Mary met him while a “pupil” at the Home, or after she was released. In any case the Cox home and the Home of the Good Shepherd were within an easy ten minute walk of each other. The couple moved to Tacoma, where their sons Frederick and Donald were born, moving to Oakland, California by 1920.
Although Mary Kranick’s experiences in 1908 separated her from her peers in many ways, her later life was much more similar to that of Bessie Cubbon, Mabel Ek, and all the others than any of them might have guessed in 1908. The last mention of Mary Kranick Cox in the Issaquah Press occurred in 1933, when she made a month long visit home from California to visit her mother.
Sources for this article include The Issaquah Independent and the Issaquah Press, Puget Sound Regional Archives court dockets, HistoryLink.org, and federal census records for 1910, 1920 and 1930.
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Dott announces $34 million Series A funding
July 4, 2019 • Startups, Top Stories
Dott aims to launch its custom-designed e-bike by the end of the year. Image sourced from Dott.
Dott, a European micro-mobility company, announced on Thursday, 04 July 2019 a commitment for a $34 million Series A funding. The investment is co-led by existing investors EQT Ventures and Naspers Ventures. Other investors include Felix Capital, Axel Springer Digital Ventures, Angel Investors, U-Start Club and FJ Labs.
The $34 million investment will be used to:
Accelerate the go-to-market for Dott’s custom-designed products:
E-bike: the design is complete and pre-production is complete. Dott’s e-bike will release within months and is produced in China and Europe and is assembled in France.
E-scooter generations 2 and 3: Gen 2 will be available by the end of 2019 and will include a swappable battery. Gen 3 is currently in design and will be available in 2020.
Continue investing in the best service available, in-house operations and innovative warehouses and repair workshops.
Launch in additional cities: Dott will launch in select cities in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands within the coming months. Dott is currently operating in Lyon, Brussels and Paris with a first pilot in Milan.
Along with offering a more stable scooter and bigger wheels, lower centre of gravity and a double-brake system, Dott aims to be the first company to offer comprehensive insurance coverage to its users in Belgium and France. This service will be in partnership with Zego and La Parisienne Assurances. This insurance will cover both personal injury and third-party liability. The insurance is automatically integrated into the sign-up process for new riders and before the next trips for existing riders with no extra cost.
“We’ve shown in the first months that we can offer a true alternative in European cities, taking the lead both in terms of sustainability and best user experience. We think we have a winning combination now, starting with our great results in Paris, along with scooters designed for shared mobility and fully integrated operations from start. Our aim is now to accelerate, take the full lead in cities where we operate, expand to new countries and launch our own Dott e-bike as well as the two next generations of e-scooters in the coming months,” said Maxim Romain, CEO and co-founder of Dott.
“Over the last six months, Dott’s world-class team has proved they can develop and deliver the best product in the market, iterate quickly, and execute on their ‘locals with locals’ approach to ensure each roll-out meets the needs of the city it’s in. All while maintaining their focus on safety and ensuring that micro-mobility is environmentally friendly. EQT Ventures looks forward to supporting the team as Dott expands into new countries and launches new offerings,” said Lars Jörnow, partner and investment advisor at EQT Ventures.
“The dense nature of cities in Europe is ideal for e-scooter and e-bike sharing for short commutes – most trips are much more efficiently covered than with a car. Dott has experienced good traction in its first few months of operation and is leading with a local, sustainable and safety-first mindset, which is appealing to Naspers,” said Martin Tschopp, COO of Naspers Ventures.
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Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Another security issue for Facebook.
Facebook is in hot water again, after it was revealed it stored passwords for hundreds of millions of users in plain text, searchable to as many as 20 000 employees who had internal access to the files.
According to Krebs on Security, who first noticed the flaw, some cases go back as far as 2012, and between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users are believed to have been affected.
Facebook says there is no evidence that plain text passwords were exposed outside of itself, or that any were abused by employees. However, it admitted the issue has affected "hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users".
Despite there being no evidence of abuse, at least 2 000 Facebook staff searched through the files containing passwords, although nobody knows specifically what for.
In a blog post, Pedro Canahuati, VP Engineering, Security and Privacy at Facebook said the company discovered this flaw as part of a routine security review in January.
When dealing with large technology companies, be prepared to understand that they know everything about you. Ilia Kolochenko, High-Tech Bridge
"This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way."
He added that during the course of the review, Facebook had been scrutinising the ways it stored certain other categories of information, such as access tokens, and has fixed problems as it has discovered them.
Protecting users
"There is nothing more important to us than protecting people's information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook," he adds.
Security Summit 2019 has secured eight international keynote speakers to discuss the latest trends and threats facing SA's security community. We have Graham Cluley, an independent computer security expert and public speaker, Ofir Hason, CEO & co-founder, of CyberGym in Israel, and Pete Herzog, MD of The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) in Spain and many more. To find out more and to register, click here.
He says Facebook masks users' passwords when they create an account so that no one at the the social network can see them. This is called 'hashing' and 'salting' the passwords, and includes using a function called "scrypt" as well as a cryptographic key that lets Facebook irreversibly replace the actual password with a random set of characters.
"With this technique, we can validate that a person is logging in with the correct password without actually having to store the password in plain text," he adds.
However, Facebook has been beleaguered by security and improper data sharing issues. Towards the end of last year, an attacker stole access tokens for 30 million accounts, enabling them to gain complete access to the profiles. Earlier in the year, the BBC reported that hacked private messages from 81 000 users were found up for sale online.
And let's not forget the scandal in early 2018, when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of millions of Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political purposes.
Shadow data
Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of Web security company High-Tech Bridge, says this sort of incident is fairly widespread in large technology companies.
"The problem is that shadow data and its usage are virtually uncontrollable, and even now it would be premature to conclude that the [Facebook] issue is fully remediated - numerous backups, including custom backups made by employees, may still exist in different and unknown locations.
"When dealing with large technology companies, be prepared to understand that they know everything about you and [internally] may handle this data differently from what their policy or terms of services say," he warns.
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Panda Patch Management helps lower risk of a data breach
Issued by Security Summit 2019
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In 2017, we saw one of the largest data breaches in history, when the personal data of 147 million people was stolen from Equifax. The breach was enabled by an application that had not been updated. A vulnerability in the Web application, Apache Struts, allowed hackers to access the data. The most shocking part of this breach was that it could have been avoided by a simple patch, which had become available months before the attack.
Predictions from Gartner suggest that by 2020, 99% of the vulnerabilities that cause security incidents will be known before the incident takes place, meaning that a timely update will be enough to stop it from happening.
The difficulty in preventing this kind of attack lies in the mammoth task of keeping applications updated. Digital transformation has resulted in an increase in the number and complexity of vulnerable endpoints, systems and applications; as well as the decentralisation of organisations, and a siloed approach to managing IT infrastructure.
Organisations need to develop a comprehensive cyber security strategy, leveraging next-generation technology that has been built to purpose: solving today's complex cyber security issues.
Innovative cyber security company Panda Security has launched a solution that manages vulnerabilities and their corresponding updates and patches, both for systems and for hundreds of applications: Panda Patch Management.
Panda Security is a sponsor of the ITWeb Security Summit, southern Africa's definitive conference and expo for information security, IT and business professionals. This year, over 70 expert speakers will deliver key insights across seven tracks, including workshops and training courses, during the expanded five-day event. The ITWeb Security Summit will be staged at Vodacom World, Midrand, from 22 to 23 May 2018; and at CTICC in Cape Town on 29 May 2018. Focused and interactive workshops as well as in-depth training courses will be run in the days around the main conference and exhibition.
For more information, go to www.securitysummit.co.za.
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Panda Patch Management is a key module in Panda Security's comprehensive cyber security architecture. It reinforces vital prevention capabilities, drastically reducing the attack surface on Endpoints. The module integrates seamlessly with Panda's Aether management platform, which facilitates rapid response to security incidents, enables isolation of compromised devices and applies updates in real time.
Panda Patch Management can be added on to the range of Panda protection solutions, including Endpoint Protection and the new-generation offerings: Adaptive Defense and Adaptive Defense 360.
Benefits of patch management
* Visibility of endpoints in real-time, indicating vulnerabilities, patches, pending updates.
* Identifies any software that is no longer supported by the manufacturer (EOL). This software no longer receives patches or updates, leaving it vulnerable.
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* Prevents incidents by systematically reducing the attack surface created by software vulnerabilities.
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* The central Web console is used to remotely launch updates and provide visibility across the network, drastically reducing operating costs.
* Aids regulatory compliance in terms of accountability.
"Today, 99.96% of active vulnerabilities in corporate endpoints are related to missing updates which, if installed, would greatly reduce the security risk. Additionally, 86% of corporate endpoints are missing critical patches for third-party applications," says Jeremy Matthews, regional manager of Panda Security Africa.
"In order to mitigate attacks, organisations must have visibility and control over their network. The ability to view all aspects of your IT infrastructure, and act remotely and automatically, is invaluable in securing your organisation from today's advanced threats," explains Matthews.
Panda Patch Management provides all necessary tools to manage, from a single console, the security and updates of the operating system and third-party applications.
Matthews will speak at the ITWeb Security Summit in May, sharing his insights into how Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology can be used to protect organisations against advanced threats, and into the different approaches to EDR and how to decide which approach is best for your organisation.
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Henderson, Bobby
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
It all began in June 2005 when Bobby Henderson wrote an open letter to the Kansas School Board proposing a third alternative to the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools. Bobby is a prophet of sorts, the spiritual leader of a growing, world-wide group of followers who worship the teachings of The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM). The FSM appeared to Bobby as a giant ball of spaghetti, with meatballs for eyes, and touched Bobby with "His noodly appendage" - resulting in the revelation that the FSM is the real creator of the universe. The FSM faithful look to Bobby as their prophet and spiritual leader. Shortly after Bobby's revelation a website came into existence to promote the word. Then came the articles, which were worldwide: "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Guardian" (UK), "Die Welt" (Germany), "Surprise" (Austria), and many others chimed in to report the existence of the FSM. Bobby received letters of support from academics and Kansas School Board members alike - not to mention a couple million hits per day on the website - and it was all-too-clear that there needed to be a book to lay out FSM scripture, rites and observances, proofs, and answers to the Big Questions. This is that book.
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Online crowdfunding offers success for any entrepreneur
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Facebook redesigns logo for mobile
You probably didn't notice, but last week Facebook unveiled a new logo.
Well, not so much new as it is improved.
The updated logo features the same white text backed by a blue background, but totes thinner letters and a rounder, shorter “a”.
These changes may seem trivial, but Facebook is no stranger to making hard-to-spot, minor changes.
In 2013, Facebook changed their familiar “f logo” so that the “f” bled through the blue box that framed it, instead of floating above a thin blue line.
But is there any reason for these seemingly meaningless redesigns?
In 2013, the logo change was the first step for the company to redesign all of the icons for the various pages available on the platform. Shortly after the "f logo" was changed, so were the icons for the pages like "sports", "universities", and "politics", giving Facebook a much-needed, consistent look.
This time, it all revolves around mobile.
Facebook's new logo is slimmer and fits better on mobile devices, which is where the company has been focusing all of its effort for future projects. According to CNET, 85 percent of people who log into Facebook in a given month do so from a mobile device, giving the company good reason to further optimize the platform, and design, for phones and tablets.
Curiously however, on July 7, Facebook released a new feature that allows users to detach videos from their feed and have them stay on screen as the user scrolls. As of now the feature is not available on mobile devices. It's surprising that just one week after redesigning the logo for mobile, the company would put out a new feature exclusively for desktops.
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‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report
Patsy McGarry
On May 20th, 2009, the Commission into Child Abuse published its shattering 2,600-page report. It investigated 215 residential institutions for children, run by 18 religious congregations, which had existed in the Irish State until the early 1970s. An estimated 170,000 children passed through them.
Set up in 2000, the Commission’s Investigation Committee heard from approximately 1,400 complainants, as well as representatives of the 18 religious congregations, relevant politicians and government officials.
The Commission’s Confidential Committee heard evidence from 1,090 people, and the Residential Institutions Redress Board made awards to 15,579 people, each receiving on average €62,250, costing €1.5 billion.
Justice Seán Ryan, who chaired the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, talks to Patsy McGarry.
Justice Seán Ryan. Photogrpah: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times
Q. Ten years after publication of one of the most significant documents in the history of the Irish State, how does it appear to you now?
A. Very remote, I have to confess, because a lot of things have happened since then. I’ve moved on in my own life and career. I went back to the courts and was a High Court judge for five years and then became president of the new Court of Appeal, so that took up a lot of my time.
But looking back, when we were doing the inquiry we didn’t realise how big the whole thing was going to be.
The way I got involved in this was I was asked as a barrister to chair an expert group to advise on redress payments for survivors of abuse. I didn’t know the background to this at the time. I knew that the Commission had been set up in 1999, and the Act was published in 2000 and now, that was about late 2001.
We had hearings at that stage. It seemed like a good idea to invite people to make submissions to us and we did and we produced a report. I think that was in January 2002.
Q. Didn’t you use a Canadian model as to how redress was to be assessed?
A. No, we didn’t. I visited Canada and spoke to people there, and that scheme they were thinking of, I think that petered out because they established a different system.
No, we worked it out ourselves. We came up with the idea of a scale of payments, calibrated. We agreed there is no such thing as mild sexual abuse or mild physical abuse, no such thing. You have to acknowledge at the same time that there are degrees of heinousness.
So we produced what we thought was a fair and reasonable mode of calculating. We also said, ‘If you don’t think this is appropriate, if you think it should be higher, that’s ok. But just explain why you think it should be higher’. I’m not sure it quite worked out that way but I wasn’t concerned with the implementation of it. Once I had done that, that was the end of my involvement in it.
Q. Did you recommend the non-adversarial approach?
A. We didn’t have to recommend that because it was already in the Act. This was the provision that was in the Bill as it was being processed. The provision which was enacted was that a person was entitled to redress on satisfying the board/tribunal that the condition they suffered from was of a kind that was consistent with it being suffered in an institution by reason of abuse.
Under the legislation you didn’t have to prove you had been abused or by any particular person, but what you had to prove was the condition you were suffering from was the kind of thing that... You had to prove that you were in the institution and that you brought yourself within the categories of abuse as defined in the legislation, which was a standard definition: physical, emotional, sexual, and psychological.
Q. Your expert group at that stage had no idea of what you uncovered with the Commission subsequently?
A. This is true, although somehow the indications were that this was very significant. After all the taoiseach of the time, Bertie Ahern, had made this apology in a big glare of publicity in 1999, apologising on behalf of the State. It was clear there were many thousands of people that were in these institutions so we were thinking that this was no small affair, this was going to be big.
We thought the redress would have to be significant. In effect what we recommended was that the scale should go up in accordance with the maximum that would be awarded in a court. There would be no distinction, there would be no reduction because you were getting it from the Redress Board.
Q. And the maximum was €300,000 I think?
A. We recommended you could also give aggravated damages of 20 per cent on top of that. I’m not sure it was €300,000 or €350,000 , but whatever it was you could get something more than that.
Q. But the greater amount of awards were smaller. The average was around €62,000?
A. So it turned out, but that wasn’t my business.
Q. Was there an expectation at the time of the numbers? Did you expect it would be around 16,000?
A. Probably, some notion of that kind. That sounds about right. I think there was an idea it would come out at about a half a billion [euro]. It wasn’t our function to worry about that. Our task was quite specific, to recommend a scheme of payment.
We published that report, I think, in January 2002.
There were real difficulties about how the Commission was going to conduct the Investigation Committee’s work. How was it going to deal with… at the time it was estimated there were 1,700 potential applicants or people who had notified or were expected to notify. The Confidential Committee had proceeded along all the time, for people who didn’t want to subject themselves to the ordeal of a hearing, of an examination or cross examination.
I was in limbo at this point because the Commission was going to produce an interim report dealing with where they were. They were writing that report at the time. There was no vacancy in the High Court so the government had said ‘this will be passed very quickly’. Inevitably there are delays and so they asked me to conduct a review with the intention of seeing how we were going to achieve the task of completing a report within a reasonable time.
They had announced I was going to take over. So, from the outside, I produced a report… and it was published. Then in January I took over.
Q. The Christian Brothers had challenged the Commission in the Courts to prevent members being named?
A. They were really challenging, as I recall, their big challenge was … ‘we have members who are deceased and members who are frail of intellect or of memory by reason of old age, and it is unfair and unreasonable to expect to be naming and shaming them in a report’. That was their case and it was rejected in the High Court and they promptly said they were going to appeal.
The critical section in the Act said the Commission in its report could not identify an individual as being responsible for a specific act of abuse. It struck me, on an interpretation of it, I could say, ‘Well, Br Ryan is an abuser. Br Ryan is a sexual abuser’, but I couldn’t say that ‘he sexually or physically abused on such a day in the following circumstances’.
So that struck me as being an impossible conundrum. I think the reason why that section was there at all was in the belief or expectation that it might be possible, after the Commission reported, to have prosecutions. I thought ‘this is a very difficult section to apply’ and, secondly, ‘how are we going to deal with the 1,700?’.
We engaged in a series of meetings. We came up with a policy paper. We were not proposing to name people. It did strike me that it’s much more likely someone is prepared to admit something, so the people who got named were more likely to be the honest, confessional souls.
It was decided to drop names and the Christian Brothers dropped their appeal.
It began with two groups, the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers, but the Sisters dropped out and the Christian Brothers continued to the end.
Artane Industrial School
Q. How did you decide to hear evidence from the 1,700?
A. We took the big institutions. In some there was no problem as the number wasn’t intimidating. There were some like Artane and Letterfrack and I think Ferryhouse, possibly Upton as well
So we said we will take as many as we reasonably can to make sure that we get a full range of all the allegations of abuse, all the periods, all the circumstances, and so on...
That left another group. So we suggested they could go to the Confidential Committee if they feel like it. Alternatively, we devised another [way] whereby you could go and speak to one of our lawyers, the idea being that would give people an opportunity to be heard. That covered everybody.
Q. How did you select institutions out of the 215?
A.We worked on the basis of every institution that had more than 20 people who applied to us….
Q. You had that element of your investigation in private?
A. Correct. As required by the legislation. We tried to do as much of this as we could in public. We thought it was important to get started and get started early, so the first thing we devised hearings on how the whole thing emerged. So the taoiseach came along, minister [Micheál] Martin, minister [Michael] Woods, ministers of all kinds. People complained because we said there is no cross examination on this. We simply wanted to hear from people on how they recalled it. So we got that started.
Then, let’s say, we started with Artane. We gave the institution an opportunity to say what it wanted, about what we were about to embark on… no cross examination. The idea was, now is your chance to say…
Q. The performance of some congregations before the Commission were very different to others?
A. Very much.
Q. I remember the Rosminians being very co-operative but I also remember the Christian Brothers being anything but, and I remember the recalcitrance of the [Sisters of] Mercies and, in particular, the Oblate over Daingean...
A. That’s very true. The Sisters of Mercy oscillated, it seemed to me, from one position to another, and I do remember that different representatives seemed to take different positions.
Just shortly before we had a public hearing, I remember it was in the Hilton Hotel overlooking the canal, and that very morning I think there was a new statement from the Sisters of Mercy that was significantly, maybe subtly, but significantly different from the existing one. They did take a tougher line afterwards and essentially their line was a tough one.
'When you looked at the things the boys were incarcerated for, they were small things, or they were not attending school, or whatever. Ranging from that to poverty'
The Rosminians, pretty uniquely it seems to me, faced up to the fact that their institutions had been very abusive, and the witnesses themselves were quite candid and their attitude, their instructions to counsel in how they handled the witnesses, and which they told us about, were very different. They were very much non-confrontational. And I seem to recall that they were the only one. I think they were the only congregation where we had a witness who was a member of the congregation who had been in the industrial school.
It tells you something that only one, actually, there was no progression. In a way this was the natural way, if things had been different. Whatever you might think about industrial schools, this might have been a possible recruiting ground, given that kids were recruited into the Christian Brothers at 14. So here they were up to 16 in these institutions but that wasn’t [how it played out].
Q. I recall that, when it came to the Christian Brothers giving evidence, it was raised with them that they had left it very late to do a search of their archive in Rome.
A. Yes. They were queried about this because that’s where they found huge records, numbers-wise [of abusers]. They adopted a very aggressive defensive stance with counsel for the Commission...
I think they were very defensive, there’s no doubt. There’s two ways of looking at this. Their position was: ‘How can it be? We have a duty to our own members, our dead former colleagues and we have a duty to defend them.’ But they also had information in their records. They knew what was there. They had actually some good systems of inspection and it was a strange attitude when all this material was going to come out. It would have been easier if they had said, ‘We know these institutions were abusive, we know they couldn’t work’.
I mean it’s hard to think how you could have imagined that they would work. Take kids ranging from – kids who got into trouble with the law, the trouble was pretty minor. When you looked at the things they were incarcerated for, they were small things, or they were not attending school, or whatever. Ranging from that to poverty.
Then you had, in the case of boys, little orphans, a curious expression which doesn’t quite mean what it says… kids who had been brought up from birth in nuns’ institutions, and where there were boys they were shipped off at the age of 10...
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There were pictures conjured up of a little group of kids in this situation brought into Artane where – I mean it was like the Wild West – Artane had 800-plus boys ranging from 10 to 16 and these little munchkins come in. They stuck together as best they could but they were … it was a feral atmosphere. And that wasn’t to condemn the kids who were already there.
The whole regime was one of incarceration. When you think back on it, how could it have worked, and the people looking after them got no training. They didn’t even get training in the sense that somebody who had been there previously would give a talk when they were going in. The youngest members of the Christian Brothers, with the deal made with the Department of Education for the two-year National Teacher training, they did Year 1 at the beginning and, so as to give you a golden hand cuff, you couldn’t do Year 2 as a Christian Brother for maybe five years.
The Department sanctioned this deal naturally enough because the Christian Brothers wanted it, so you now had people of say 18-19 looking after kids ranging up to 16, some of them rough kids. The whole situation was a kind of powder keg. My sense was... how could anybody have thought it was going to work?
St. Conleth's Reformatory School, Daingean, County Offaly. Photograph: James Flynn/APX
Q.Daingean [reformatory in Co Offaly] was another brutal institution…?
A. Shocking, shocking. I mean utterly. That was, this is where a lot of people who were later notorious criminals came out of [The General, Martin Cahill being one]. Frankly, no surprise. The conditions and the way they were treated were truly shocking and there was an episode where the resident manager was... he described how this was happening within earshot. It was truly awful. Kids were lined up in a big old barrack of a building at the bottom of a stair well and they had nightshirts on or were completely naked for the purpose of being beaten by two Brothers and the screams, of course, in waves went all over the place…
The details of the physical abuse in Daingean was quite shocking and the terror of the place. In the Christian Brothers’ institutions, one of the problems was that nobody was there long enough to actually become knowledgeable and experienced about it and pass it on to anybody else. In Daingean [run by the Oblates] the problem was the opposite, they couldn’t get out of it. So a person was there, and was there for life, more or less, as far as I can recall.
There were some people, some members of the congregation who were quite candid about the way things went and there were records. All I can say is that the physical abuse in Daingean was quite shocking...
Q. In evidence the Oblates [who ran Daingean] too were very defensive…?
A. I think the Oblates said that they would make no apology.The Christian Brothers and they had one thing in common. They said [to the Commission] ‘it’s your job to find out what happened’, in effect. I think the Christian Brothers may have said it in those words.
The Christian Brothers had apologised, but to anybody who knows anything about words it was obvious that it was written by a lawyer and it was designed to say – you could say it about the people of Lithuania – that, in so far as I have done anything to injure them I apologise deeply and profoundly for it. It was calculated to say nothing. We [the Commission] did a bit of analysis on it…
The orders
Q. Then there were the female congregations, with the Sisters of Mercy running the largest number of institutions. They apologised, then rowed back, then apologised again…?
A.I think it very much depended on who was in the driving seat.
Q.Was there any marked difference between co-operation of male and female congregations with the Commission?
A. You have to draw a distinction between the official congregational posture and individual people, and it was often quite surprising what even the apparently toughest people would [say]. In some respects it appeared to me the individual religious – I’m not sure you could say [it] – welcomed the Commission but were quite satisfied to talk with a reasonable degree of candour. Obviously it wasn’t easy for them, and in some instances they were there with the Superiors from their own order in attendance and there were some differences…
Sometimes they were pretty candid. The Christian Brothers tended to be more defensive. Some of the nuns were defensive, others were more prepared to acknowledge the faults to the system. They had reflected on it.
The Sisters of Mercy, in fairness to them, I think after Dear Daughter [documentary about abuse by Sisters of Mercy at Goldenbridge orphanage in Dublin, broadcast on RT É in 1996] they got a person to do an investigation to inform them as to what position they should take re the Commission, and they made all this available. Whoever it was spoke to Christine Buckley and Bernadette Fahy [who had been in Goldenbridge as children and featured in Dear Daughter] and some of the other people...
There was the stuff about making rosary beads and that could be very cruel because some girls, like some boys, would be naturally adroit and dexterous and others would be clumsy about this. And there’s not much use beating me if I’m not able to do it and keep up my quota…
For some people it could have been, at certain times of the day, of occupational use but the tyranny with which it was imposed meant that was impossible. When people were to be punished they were often told to wait on the landing, cold and miserable in your nightwear, and the nun who was to discipline them mightn’t come up until 11 or midnight and you were waiting there wondering what was going happen, knowing it was not going to be nice, not knowing how bad was going to be…
Somewhat to my surprise there was no dispute [by the nuns] about that.
One of the things I was just curious about was who was the most savage person, who was the person against whom most complaints were made and it turned out to be a Brother in Artane named in, I think, over 80 complaints.
'I left school in 1966. There was an awareness, there was a consciousness, but there was no idea... there was the story of the few bad apples and that sort of thing'
A very curious thing happened. He was the disciplinarian, a fairly chilling title. So while I expected an awful lot of criticism to come about him in fact people said ‘Oh no. He was very tough but he was fair.’
And it’s funny, he would punish, maybe on the severe side,but for something you had done wrong. And that’s an illustration of one of the biggest complaints in the whole inquiry – getting abused and beaten around for nothing, or because it was wrong, or because nobody had listened to you that you hadn’t done it, being blamed in the wrong. The sense of injustice remained. That was a big thing.
Q. How was it decided to hear evidence in public?
A. If you gave evidence in public it was because you weren’t a respondent, in the sense of an allegation being made against you. But everybody who was alive and able to give evidence we called them in. Everybody who had been accused by somebody else.
Q. How long was the investigating period itself?
A. We began in or about September 2004, and after the emergence hearings we proceeded more or less to the end. Then there was a massive amount of material to be absorbed and discussed, and to actually write the report. We also got experts in to do things. We produced the report in May 2009. I would say it took us a year and a half of writing the report, even say a year…
Q. Were you shocked at the discovery that sexual abuse was endemic in all boys’ institutions, and considering that period of time in Ireland, up to the 1970s?
A. I think, in short, everybody was. I mean I left school in 1966. There was an awareness, there was a consciousness, but there was no idea. When I think back, let’s say 820 boys in Artane aged between 10 and 16, and let’s say 50 Christian Brothers aged between 18 and 35. I thought, at various times, that there had to be a cloud of testosterone, a cloud of sexuality hanging over that area of Dublin and not terribly high up in the sky because here was this enormous group of kids in very close confinement and yet most of the evidence was sex didn’t come up. Then there was the story of the few bad apples and that sort of thing.
But when you actually think about it the conditions were not, just conducive. We knew from the discovered materials that the Brothers had wrestled with this problem – ‘How do you deal with Br Ryan?’ or ‘Br Ryan is at it again’. You mightn’t have a specific description.
I remember certainly there was a case where they’d be writing off to the... the Rosminians would be writing to the superior in Italy and he’d be writing back about ‘the usual problem’... there was a sort of code it’s clear.
There’s an example in the report on Salthill [Co Galway], because that’s where this problem first manifested itself… first came to notice of the Congregation...way back.
This Br began his career in Salthill. A kid woke up in the dark, recognised his voice. Unusually the kid went to the resident manager, very unusually. And he said he recognised his voice and the Br said, the classic, ‘I was just checking under the bedclothes to see if he had wet the bed’. That was an old one. He [the manager] records this, all this is quite unusual. And when the Visitor [from head quarters] comes down that year he interviews your man. Then he writes his report and said ‘I’m not very convinced about this from Br X. I think we have a problem here’.
He’s quite candid about his thoughts and so on. As I say, very unusual. So they shift him and a whole succession of events now takes place and the guy ends up many years later after a career that we get episodically, having what he’s pleased to call an affair with a boy.
St Conleth’s Reformatory School, Daingean, Co Offaly
This came out in public at some stage. There was a family who protested and the Christian Brothers treated them shamefully. They said ‘how dare they?’, and thought they had gone to the press.
Everywhere you went with this story … it was very complicated to get the story down, and what it showed was that the man had abused left, right and centre, all over maybe a career of 40 years, and these are only the bits we knew about, and it progressed from one level up to actually his having an affair with a boy. The Brothers didn’t tell the parents this was the story. They pretended they were investigating.
Q. What about the State's role in all of this? Is there an explanation for why it failed so miserably?
A. We’re looking at this from the 21st century. It’s very hard to put ourselves back into the 1960s. When the State was founded, 1922, you removed one element, namely the British influence, that was not in thrall to the Church and the vacuum was filled by the Church. My sense is that the Catholic Church – and it’s easy to blame the Catholic Church for everything – my sense is that the attitude was this is our responsibility. We own this. Butt out.
Q. To the State?
A. To the State. ‘Now you have to pay for it’. But in a sense the State is us, because the civil servants are all sorts of Catholic Christian Brothers’ boys, everything else and so on, and the bishop is. The politicians are scared out of their wits. Nobody is going to challenge the Church and the Church owns the system.
One of the things, a lesson, is ‘who owns the system?’. You could say the same about the health service, education, anything you like, ‘who own’s it?’. The State technically had the legislative capacity to affect things but the relevant people could say ‘Oh no you don’t’…
The State, in fairness to them, in the 1930s set up the Cussen Commission. It was wondering about Artane and its 800, and the Christian Brothers made a big submission to them, ‘how dare they?’ , there were ‘alien influences and so on’, an alien and the native thing , a real pulling out of all the stops.
Nevertheless the Cussen Commission recommended [in 1936] that Artane be divided into four in the belief, naive in my opinion, that 200 was a reasonable number. But whatever about 200, 800 was monstrous.
Eight hundred suited the Christian Brothers, there was a huge income from it.
Q. It was profitable?
A. Hugely. In one of the inter-party governments ... the congregations come up [seeking more funds]. And of course the Christian Brothers would have their clique meeting beforehand, like the Communist Party, a meeting before the managers’ association. The Christian Brother’s association would meet and they’d agree their line. They went to the minister and the minister was very impressed and he thought ‘these fellas are pretty good’. Even in poor times. He said ‘send me up your accounts’ in an entirely sympathetic way with the intention of bolstering the case he was going to make to his colleague in the Department of Finance.
‘How dare he ask for this’ [was the Christian Brothers response]. And of course that reflected the reality. The civil service was as defensive about the system as the Christian Brothers were. They were invested in the system ‘I know you well. You’re running the system. How could there be anything wrong in Br McGarry’s place when he assures me that nothing is wrong and we couldn’t have scandal getting out.’
Q. You and your team were up close and very personal with some of the most shocking things that have ever been revealed about Irish society. Did it affect yourselves?
A. Inevitably. Let’s take the Investigation Committee. I had Marian Shanley, an experienced solicitor, and I had Fred Lowe, principal psychologist. So everybody brought something different to this and I dare say everybody was affected in different ways. We did agree that there were certain people or kinds of evidence that were more affecting on one person than the others. It wouldn’t always be the same thing. Inevitably it had an impact.
In my own case, first there is the kind of lawyer thing that says ‘well look, I’ve been around. I’ve seen it all. I’m not going to get shocked by anything’. That’s true up to a point. One is used to the discipline of being a little distant from the task. And there’s a job to be done. This is a project. There’s a report to be written. So, I can’t get too involved and I can’t declare that I’m accepting everything you’re saying because I have to hear the other person, and then we have to try to make a decision on it as best we can. And people are very understanding about that.
But, of course it has an impact. Even when you allow for all the things.
But I think I’m the worst person to say what the impact was on me personally, but I have to say I found the people very interesting. I found the challenge of finding a way of doing this job intriguing, was hugely interesting and the people were very nice. Occasionally, people would get very upset...
The former Christian Brothers industrial school at Letterfrack, Co Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Q. Occasionally people could get quite disruptive, as I recall at hearings. You had to suspend a couple of hearings, when some survivors interrupted..?
A.But for the most part people were… at the beginning people were not sure what was happening. One lady said ‘why should we trust you?’.
I said ‘I think that’s a very good question to be honest. If I were you I wouldn’t. Wait until the report comes out.’
Her repost was very good – ‘What’s your address?’
Q. Any stand-out individuals?
A. There were some. There were some genuinely charming, amusing people. Sometimes counsel would be able to solicit something wonderful that you weren’t expecting. There were some very impressive people. And there were pictures of the kind of world we had left behind.
Some people who showed extraordinary courage, resilience.
Q. On both sides?
A. Yes, in fairness. I had a notion at one stage that you could talk about parallel lives, of somebody who left school at 14 to go into the Christian Brothers, as compared to somebody who found himself in an institution. Yes, there were people on both sides, in circumstances, in truth, that children in the institutions, they had very little chance. Whatever age you went in at, if you went in by the courts you were there until 16.
And if you were in from 10 to 16, you then came out as a 16 year old and whatever home you had, you were a stranger. Brothers, sisters, mother, father, whoever was there, you hadn’t, in effect, seen them for six years. If you were in Letterfrack it would have been very difficult for them to get down to see you because there was very little transport and no way I think for people to go down and visit and get back the same day. So, your heart would go out to them.
Seán Ryan, after being appointed chairman of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in 2003. Photograph: by Frank Miller
Q. You produced a huge report, 2,600 pages, an enormous work. Did you or your team - or were you so close to it?- realise the impact it was going to have?
A. Frankly, no. We wanted to present ourselves when the report was coming out. We wanted to say, ‘here we are, here’s the report’. I do remember in the morning looking out and seeing television crews lined up in Earlsfort Terrace and I began to think ‘my goodness, where is this going?’.
After the report was published and it was on all the news and everything else, Ruth [his wife] and I went out for dinner, didn’t watch the news or anything. There was a kind of eerie silence for a few days and I didn’t know if the report was going to be challenged. I’m guessing that people considered challenging it but if they did they did, it was now out of my hands.
It was certainly eerie for a while, then the Sisters of Mercy came out and they accepted the report and it took some time for other congregations to accept the report. It was only really then I began to realise what we had been doing and just how much we’d all been tied up in it.
Q. Recommendations? Happy with how addressed since?
A. In one way, and I don’t mean this in a cynical way, in one way I felt that our job was complete and I know a Ryan report implementation scheme was set up and they outlined a large number of items.
Here’s a point about the recommendations: We were keen that the recommendations would emanate from the investigation, that was our job, to investigate child abuse. And obviously there was this issue, we were looking at something that had happened. Different people were now experts at what should happen now and obviously the circumstances were different, there weren’t industrial schools.
The level at which I can look back and see lessons really are at a more general level: about ownership of the system; control, management, inspection, issues of that kind. But the detail of how should children be looked after in Ballydowd, what do you do with troubled children, how do you deal with them, I have no more expertise in that than anybody else has.
So mine was more a quasi-judicial job, which is a long way of saying I’m not the best person to say what’s the best way of dealing with children now. And in a way experts in that field are much better to say how the conclusions and recommendations of our report should be dealt with.
'One of the issues we looked at was what’s the story with the money, and it’s clear that the State was providing a lot of money to the institutions'
Certainly I am satisfied with one thing, inspection is vital and outside inspection is vital. I’m not sure that you always need an expert to inspect. Of course you need experts, but I’m not sure that you always need experts to conduct inspections. For example, suppose in an institution you had former inmates to conduct an inspection, well who better?
I don’t need to look after an old folks home to see that people are being properly looked after. If somebody said, ‘show me the food bill’, or if somebody went in and simply said to the people around the place ‘how are you doing?’, and somebody has a black eye and somebody complains bitterly. They might all be totally wrong but you don’t have to have a degree in nursing or medicine in order to carry out that. A lot of these things are common sense.
One of the things that I am pleased about, and I can boast about this because I didn’t actually do them, is the expert reports. In the last volume of report we have a series of these.
Q. Do you feel that the report represented a cultural shift in attitudes to children and child care in Ireland?
A. I think for an official report to endeavour to assess a whole system of dealing with children – that was very unusual, if not the first. And to do it on a national scale, to try to reach clear conclusions based on our evidence. The very fact that we were doing that, the very fact that the Government set that up as a Commission and that it followed the taoiseach’s public apology, they were the unusual features. That was already suggesting a sea change. I think it reflected it. It may have assisted it…
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Q. You grew up in the Ireland where a lot of this happened. These places were opened until the 1970s. You were educated, presumably, by the church, because the free education didn't come in until te year after you left school in 1967. So you came out of that system. When you were growing up and going through that system, did you suspect this was going on? Or the scale of it?
A. I was educated by the Christian Brothers. Tom Boland, principal officer I think at the time in the Department of Education, gave evidence at the emergence hearings and he said – and it resonated with me – he said people knew these were not nice places.And John Banville, a couple of days after the report [was published] on the front page of the New York Times, said ‘we knew and we didn’t know’.
Q.Where were you at school?
A.O’Connell’s [Christian Brothers school in Dublin].
The Christian Brothers’ commitment to education was tremendous, in my view. I am a huge admirer of their work in education. But that didn’t apply in industrial schools. Here was an opportunity to give kids who had no other chance. It was a way of giving their young members a real opportunity to teach, to make something extraordinary out of this. That surprised me, I have to say. Leave aside being shocked or anything else I would have thought with such a commitment the primary focus being on incarceration was strange…
Q. It has been argued that monies made by the Christian Brothers in Artane and such places was used to fund their middle-class schools. Is that facetious?
A. One of the issues we looked at was what’s the story with the money, and it’s clear that the State was providing a lot of money to the institutions. There came a point, and we say this, that there was a bizarre inversion. Instead of the institutions existing for the children, it was the other way round. And the Brothers were complaining bitterly that the District Justices weren’t sending enough kids to the institutions, loud in their complaints. So we tried to investigate this.
We said look, please give us your accounts and they produced their records . And we sent them to a professional firm, Mazars, and we said please do a report on that. Certainly the original idea was that they would produce fact and comment and the Christian Brothers’ advisors would say there were mistakes of fact, if they so thought.
It worked to a degree. What was clear is that a lot of money was coming in but whether it was funding the institution as a whole or the institution including the retired members it had to carry, who might also be getting pensions or whatever from the State, it is difficult to see that the money was all spent on the children...
One of the extraordinary events that happened in or about 1960/1961 was that a District Justice in Kerry wrote a play called The Evidence that I have Heard. That was Richard Johnson. His son is the former president of the High Court, Ricky Johnson. It went on in the Abbey. Here’s a mystery. Here’s official Ireland going to the Abbey. It had a long run and that was that. As far as I could see there wasn’t a single reference to it in Department documents.
It was quite dramatic because it concerned shaving the heads of girls. Apparently Earnán de Blaghd [in charge at the Abbey then] insisted on a happy ending, contrary to what Johnson had written. He had heard this case and wrote a play about it. And that was about a situation where kids were forced into an institution where their mother died and their father was living on his own, and according to the play they were escaping to see how he was.
Q. There were 215 of these institutions, 10 Magdalene Laundries, 14 mother-and-baby homes along with four county homes – all the latter currently being investigated by the Mother and Baby Home Commission – and all those psychiatric hospitals. This is the Ireland we came out of. What is your judgement on that Ireland?
A. Ian O’Donnell and Eoin O’Sullivan in Coercive Confinement in Post Independent Ireland described all the various types of institutions.
Eoin O’Sullivan is a fantastic expert on this whole area. He gave evidence, he opened our emergence series. He gave evidence for a day and a half and one of the things that sticks out in my mind was he said the number of people in institutions in Ireland was, he said, an astonishing percentage of the adult population.
If you include in it the number of religious serving in the institutions, the number of nuns enclosed and not enclosed orders, the number of priests and Brothers and religious, and the number of people, children, old, young. You mentioned psychiatric institutions, I mean anybody awkward was put somewhere.
If you were a closed, defensive, nationalistic, xenophobic [state]… no television .. there was Radió Éireann, that was it. Look at the situation, extreme poverty, no jobs, no prospects, contraception unlawful, sex for procreation only, desertion among poor people widespread – a fella gets fed up of all this, he had no job and he goes to England. There were no children’s allowances until sometime in the 1940s. So the depths of need and sheer total deprivation…
Censorship. You couldn’t buy a book. When McGathern produced The Dark, it flew out of the Eblana bookshop before the ban hit...
Q. There is controversy over Government’s plans to lodge documents from the Commission, the Redress Board, and the Redress review committee to the National Archives and that these be closed to the public for 75 years, subject to a review 25 years after this becomes law. Do you have a view on this?
A. The problem about the publication of records is, from the survivor’s point of view, they gave their evidence on the basis of the legislation of 2000 and 2005. That has, as far as possible, [provided] absolute protection for Confidential Committee material, and as for the Investigation Committee there is a prohibition in legislation from revealing not only the identity of an alleged abuser described in the private hearings but on giving information that might lead to the identification of that person. That’s a problem. The material will reveal the names of the survivors who participated in the Commission’s work.
From the Congregations’ point of view, they will contend that the materials that are not in the report are allegations that may or may not have been proven. What was proven, and the way it was proven, is the way it’s set out in the report, and that was the original intention of the legislation. So there could be issues, and as a lawyer, leaving aside any view I may have, I have to acknowledge that there are issues of considerable legal complexity in trying to resolve either of those interests. And of course it depends also on how people choose to respond when the legislation is actually proposed.
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Questions »Country Health SA
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The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (14:48): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Health and Wellbeing a question about Country Health.
The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS: Members of the council will know of my support for country South Australians across a range of issues, from my sponsorship of the Country Press SA Awards, some of which have highlighted mental health awareness, to other particular health challenges faced in rural and regional areas. Will the minister update the council on improvements to health services in rural and regional South Australia?
The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:49): I thank the honourable member for his question and his ongoing support for rural and regional South Australians and their health care. The former Labor government had no interest in country SA; the focus throughout its 16 years of government was the metropolitan area. The Marshall Liberal government has made a strong commitment to change that and this government is committed to addressing the imbalance.
We have already seen changes, and one of which we are very proud is the rollout of clinical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for potential stroke patients in rural and regional hospitals. Through this program, neurologists at metropolitan stroke units will be able to support country stroke patients at the state's 61 country hospitals via phone and videoconference at any time of the day. This new and improved model of care enables faster and more accurate decision-making, which will lead to improved patient outcomes.
In the case of a potential stroke, it is important to identify quickly which patients are suitable for transfer to Adelaide and which can receive their treatment close to home. Neurologists from metropolitan hospitals will be able to assist in this process. The two main types of acute stroke treatment are thrombolytic therapy, which uses medication to break down clots and remove the blockage and blood flow to the brain, and endovascular thrombectomy, which involves surgery to remove the clot from the brain.
Thrombolytic therapy has been available for several years to stroke patients at three country stroke services—Mount Gambier, Whyalla and the Riverland—with the support of metropolitan stroke units. Until last month, this service was only offered during business hours, Monday to Friday. Now, with additional support from metropolitan neurologists, this will expand to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The new model is especially important for those country hospitals where there are no CT facilities. Being able to videoconference will allow the neurologist at the metropolitan stroke unit to examine the patient remotely, supporting the local care team in determining the best care pathway.
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Middletown is looking for a qualified applicant to acquire and redevelop a former fire station. Requests for proposals have been recently released for the former fire station located at the corner of Tytus Avenue and Jackson Street. The city been selling various properties in hopes of returning them to productive use. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
Middletown looking for buyer to redevelop former fire station
Ed Richter, Staff Writer
Middletown is looking for a qualified buyer to purchase and redevelop a former fire station.
Requests for proposals have been released for the former fire station located at the corner of Tytus Avenue and Jackson Street.
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For the past two years, city officials have been selling various properties in an effort to return them for other business uses, according to Jennifer Ekey, city economic development director.
The Tytus Avenue Fire Station sits on three lots totaling 0.8381 acres, and has 3,413 square feet of space with 1,408 square feet of blacktop. It was decommissioned in 2014 due to budget cuts and a reduction of firefighters at the time. The building is being offered “as is” and there is a minimum bid of $95,000, according to City Manager Doug Adkins.
“With the new fire strategic plan, we do not anticipate ever opening up or using that fire station in the future,” Adkins said.
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Among the goals in the new fire department strategic plan is to determine the best deployment of firefighters and new station locations.
In the past, Adkins has said the existing fire stations are old, nearing the end of the their useful life and they are not well positioned in relation to the growth of the city in the past three decades.
Interested developers are required to submit an executive summary, project timeline, proof of the financial resources needed to support the project, a business plan, and a development plan for the selected site. Another requirement is for interested buyers to view the property prior to submitting their proposal. The viewing date is 3 to 4 p.m. Nov. 15; and the deadline to submit proposals is 11 a.m. Dec. 12.
In 2016, there was some discussion about using the former fire station as transitional housing for recovering addicts.
“While the nonprofits had funding to renovate the station, the ongoing expenses of operating such a facility were beyond their ability to sustain, so the project never came together,” Adkins said.
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Livni defends Friedmann - who focuses on reforms
"There are people outside this building who have the feeling there are two sides; There are not different sides here, only one side."
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Outgoing Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday stole the show not only because of her popularity, but because she was the only one who directly addressed the uproar over the appointment of her successor, Daniel Friedmann, during a change-of-the-guard ceremony at the Justice Ministry. "There are people outside this building who have the feeling there are two sides, one of which wants to destroy the Supreme Court and the other which is trying to frame victims," she said. "Worse than that, some people are beginning to believe that this is normal." Livni said this portrayal of the situation was completely unfounded. On the one hand, there was nothing wrong with disagreeing with the Supreme Court justices and having an agenda, just as there was nothing wrong with the justices having an agenda. On the other hand, "in Israel, no one frames anyone, not in this building and not elsewhere." Livni said the entire legal system had the same goal, to restore public confidence in the judicial and law enforcement systems. "There are not different sides here," she said. "There is only one side." Friedmann did not refer to the controversy at all. Instead, he presented an outline of some of the changes he wanted to implement. These included: Upgrading the magistrate's and district courts, which, in his opinion, do the bulk of the judicial work and have direct contact with the public. Bringing civil and criminal lawyers from the private sector into the judicial system because of their experience and familiarity with real life situations. Cope with the "huge" crime situation by establishing a team of judges that deals only with serious crime cases and hears cases daily. Friedmann said he had received a promise that he would get a few new judicial slots and a few more slots for prosecutors to handle these cases. Friedmann added that the Attorney-General's Office was already preparing two new laws, one establishing a disciplinary court for elected officials and another establishing standards for punishment in criminal cases. He said the law should distinguish between chronic criminals and people who have erred once. He also said he was interested in legislation to fight bureaucratic ineptitude such as failing to respond to letters from the public within a reasonable amount of time. Friedmann added that he had also met with Interior Minister Roni Bar-On to discuss legislation aimed at protecting the rights of new immigrants and other minority groups.
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No Boundaries: Hypersonic BOLT Experiments
Part of the team of APL staff members and interns working on BOLT, from left to right: Dennis Berridge (APL), Brad Wheaton (APL), Heather Kostak (Texas A&M), Greg McKiernan (Purdue University) and John Thome (University of Minnesota).
Credit: APL
Brad Wheaton and a team in the Precision Strike Mission Area of the Force Projection Sector are tackling a challenge that is critical to hypersonics: accurately predicting the state of the boundary layer, or the thin layer of air near the surface of these incredibly fast-moving vehicles.
Hypersonic vehicles move fast — faster than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5. Being able to pinpoint boundary layer transition — whether the air around the surface of a hypersonic vehicle is laminar (moving in a smooth, straight line) or turbulent (swirling in circles, and up to eight times the heat transfer) — is critical for determining what materials to use when designing hypersonic aircraft and missiles.
Figuring out where boundary layer transition occurs also helps better predict vehicle controllability and aerodynamic drag. However, multiple factors — including vehicle shape, speed and altitude — make identifying boundary layer transition extremely difficult.
Enter Wheaton and his team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). After being awarded a research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the team set out to advance the knowledge of boundary layer transition physics through so-called Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) experiments.
“In recent years, transition has been studied in simple conical shapes and used to develop new physics-based transition prediction tools,” said Wheaton. “The idea behind BOLT is to apply these state-of-the-art tools to a new more complex geometry, where the physics of transition is not yet known.”
To achieve this, the team is conducting computational analyses and wind-tunnel tests to characterize boundary layer transition on the geometry over the course of the next three years, culminating with a test to measure boundary layer transition in hypersonic flight.
With BOLT, Wheaton and fellow APLers Dennis Berridge and Thomas Wolf lead a diverse multi-organizational team that includes some of the nation’s top academic, commercial and government research groups, including the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, Texas A&M University, CUBRC, NASA Langley, the Air Force Research Laboratory and VirtusAero. They are also supported by Air and Missile Defense Sector staff members who are predicting in-flight temperatures during the experiment, and the Research and Exploratory Development Department’s Advanced Mechanical Fabrication Group and machine shop, where wind-tunnel models and the flight experiment hardware are being built.
The BOLT effort also features graduate students from around the country, said Wheaton, adding that several of these students joined APL as interns during summer 2018 to analyze data and help design the flight experiment. The interns also had an opportunity to work on other projects to see firsthand how scientific knowledge can be used in the design of real-world systems.
Wheaton hopes the cross-collaborative BOLT experiment will help APL and the greater hypersonics community gain important knowledge they can use to improve prediction of boundary layer transition on future hypersonic vehicles.
BOLT is an example of APL’s role as a trusted partner between academia and research and the government — taking research and turning it into a concept by designing, prototyping and engineering to make science a reality.
Media contact: Justyna Surowiec, 240-228-8103, Justyna.Surowiec@jhuapl.edu
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Justia Lawyer Directory West Virginia Winifrede Attorneys
Winifrede, West Virginia Lawyers
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Shane Harvey Esq
Charleston, WV Lawyer with 25 years experience
(304) 926-0075 315 70th St SE
Phillip Monroe Esq
Patrick Jacobs Esq
Charleston, WV Attorney with 40 years experience
(304) 926-6676 7020 Maccorkle Ave SE
Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Jon Howard Snyder Esq
(304) 925-9100 6700 Kanawha Ave SE
Sean McGinley Esq.
(304) 342-0133 604 Virginia Street East
Free ConsultationAntitrust, Appeals, Business and Consumer
Sean McGinley is a trial and appellate attorney. His statewide West Virginia law practice includes personal injury and accident cases, medical malpractice, coal mine injury and accidents, serious workplace accidents, commercial and business litigation, and class actions. During his twenty years practicing law, Mr. McGinley has helped his clients recover tens of millions of dollars. He is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. McGinley was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, and attended college at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, receiving an A.B. degree in 1987. He studied law at Oxford University (Keble College) in Oxford, England, where he obtained...
Seth S. Gaskins
Charleston, WV Lawyer with 6 years experience
(888) 451-1757 303 Washington Street, West
Divorce, Family, Immigration and Personal Injury
Seth has had a varied career and has taken a winding road to get to where he is today. "I'm kind of a jack of all trades," says Seth. Before founding Gaskins Law Group with his wife, Chelsea Walker-Gaskins, Seth was a coal miner, a teacher, Deputy Clerk of the West Virginia Court of Claims, and most recently serving as Chief Counsel to the House of Delegates' Committee on Energy. Seth also regularly performs consulting work for the energy industry on numerous issues involving insurance risk.
Seth attended Marshall University and later attended law school...
David Roger Pence Esq
(800) 303-3030 205 Capitol Street
DUI and Social Security Disability
For over ten years, my office has been defending West Virginia citizens accused of driving under the influence and assisting disabled individuals secure the Social Security Disability Benefits they deserve.
Michelle Johnson Esq
(304) 768-5291 410 Tennessee Ave.
Free ConsultationDivorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Personal Injury
In 1997, Michelle Johnson graduated West Virginia University College of Law. With over 20 years of experience under her belt, Ms. Johnson has worked with cases involving auto accidents, premise liability, wrongful death, intentional acts, Mandolitis, product liability, nursing home negligence and medical malpractice. Michelle Johnson has worked in the federal district, state circuit, and magistrate courts in numerous bench trials, jury trials, and before Administrative Law Judges. On top of all of the experience Michelle has in the court, she is also a Professional Registered Nurse. With 30 years in the nursing field, Michelle can help you better than...
Christopher Sears
(304) 444-8780 1471 Brook Road
Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Since 1999, he has been representing individuals, businesses, and insurance companies in both West Virginia and Ohio in a wide range of matters. He has gathered a vast wealth of experience at every stage of the litigation and appellate process in both state and federal courts and has appeared before numerous state agencies and boards. From pre-litigation activity to the final step of the appellate process, Mr. Sears has both the knowledge and tenacity to be the zealous advocate you are seeking.
What Mr. Sears loves most about the practice of law is both the written and oral advocacy....
Anthony Cicconi Esq
(304) 344-8716 2116 Kanawha Blvd E
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
I take pride in doing a good job for the people i represent and being available to them when they need to speak with me. Just check out what my clients say on lawyers.com. For almost 35 years i have been handling social security disability cases, workers’ compensation claims, long term disability claims, and insurance and accident claims. I graduated from the West Virginia University College of Law, where I was a member of the Board of Editors of the West Virginia Law Review. My workers’ compensation practice covers all of West Virginia and my Social Security disability practice...
Mark Troy
Free ConsultationHealth Care, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
With over two decades of professional practice, I’ve assisted numerous clients throughout West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky in litigation, mediation, and arbitration, helping obtain millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements. No matter how complicated the case, my goal is to provide high-quality, results-driven service.
I am proud to hold an AV Distinguished® Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®, the most recognized attorney rating service in the country. This peer rating is based upon the comments of more than 20 attorneys and up to 4 judges in our community. I’ve also received Martindale-Hubbell’s® “Premier” Client Review Rating, which is the highest recognition given based...
Thomas Wilson Esq
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
30 years of litigation experience. Admitted to practice in WV, FL & CA.
Charles Love IV
(304) 344-5683 405 Capitol Street, Suite 309
Personal Injury and Products Liability
Charles "Chad" M. Love, IV, earned a Juris Doctorate from the West Virginia University College of Law. He graduated in economics and French, cum laude, from Denison University. Mr. Love has been acknowledged as being a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers Magazine in general plaintiffs litigation area for last seven years. He is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the West Virginia Association for Justice. He is right now an individual from the West Virginia Law Institute and also licensed as an Athletic Agent with the State of West...
Tony O'Dell Esq
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Tony O'Dell has 20 years of experience helping his clients navigate through some of the toughest times in their lives. He has handled multi-million dollar cases involving auto accidents, medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, nursing home neglect and abuse, insurance bad faith and trucking accidents. Tony prides himself on providing diligent and aggressive representation to his clients, while ensuring that he is responsive to their needs and questions. Many clients continue to call him well after their cases are resolved, seeking advice or just to stay in touch. It is for this reason that many of Tonyâs clients and former...
Brooks West II
(877) 943-9378 1201 Jefferson Road
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brooks earned his Bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University in 1996. He then earned a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Personal Injury Law (Torts) for achieving the highest grade. He was also named to Thomas Jefferson’s Dean’s List and the National Dean’s List for outstanding academic performance. Brooks then spent several years working for a large personal injury law firm where he litigated complex, high value personal injury cases and environmental lawsuits, like the Nitro Dioxin Class Action against Monsanto. Brooks then...
Benjamin Salango
(304) 902-4266 108 Capitol St #300
Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Are you looking for a Charleston attorney who may be able to assist you in filing a personal injury claim? If so, it may be helpful for you to contact a lawyer from Preston & Salango, PLLC. The team of attorneys has over 40 years of combined legal experience, and they understand how overwhelming it is to be involved in an accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence. In addition, the lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers® Rising Stars ?Edition of 2012 and 2013, and the entire firm has been included in the U.S. News...
Barry John Nace
(304) 741-8079 3501 MacCorkle Avenue SE
Consumer, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Barry J. Nace has worked to protect the rights of victims of medical malpractice and other personal injuries, for nearly 40 years.
William Schwartz Esq
Free ConsultationNursing Home, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Bill Schwartz has been representing workers and families for many years. The National Trial Lawyers Association lists him as one of the top 100 lawyers in West Virginia and the publication Benchmark Litigation selected him as a litigation star. He represents injured workers and mesothelioma victims.
Elliot G. Hicks
I have been a trial lawyer since 1981, with a very broad practice mix. I have tried cases to verdict in many of the counties in West Virginia, and I have handled cases in nearly all of the counties in the state. My practice is now comprised of mediation and designing creative early dispute resolution programs tailored for my clients, all under the name Hicks Resolutions, PLLC. My mediation practice serves all of our region and beyond.
Charles "Rusty" Webb
(888) 344-9322 The Webb Law Centre
716 Lee Street, East
Collections, Consumer, Divorce and Personal Injury
I received my Bachelors Degree in Political Science at Marshall University in 1983. I attended graduate school at Marshall University for the academic year 1983-1984. Beginning academic year 1984 I attended the Ohio Northern University School of Law. In the summer of 1985 I attended the University of Notre Dame’s London summer law program in London, England where I studied international law. While in London, I learned that I had been accepted for transfer to the West Virginia University College of Law, where I received my law degree in May of 1987. I have practiced...
William Tiano Esq
Robert Berthold Jr
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Robert Berthold Jr is a Charleston personal injury attorney and founder of Berthold Law Firm. Robert completed his undergraduate education at West Virginia University in 1973, where he graduated cum laude.
David Schles Esq
Appeals, Criminal, DUI and Juvenile
The Law Office of David Schles will provide personal representation. If you are facing criminal charges, you need an experienced and aggressive criminal defense lawyer, not a secretary or a paralegal responding for a lawyer who does not communicate directly with you. At the Law Office of David Schles, David Schles will be personally available to keep you fully informed about all aspects of your case and involve you in all important decisions concerning your case. David Schles attended West Virginia University (B.A. Political Science and History, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), George Washington University, and the West Virginia University...
Kathy Alice Brown Esq
(304) 720-2351 405 Capitol Street, Suite 1001
Asbestos, Employment, Insurance Claims and Medical Malpractice
A Former TV anchor and investigative reporter now has her own law firm. Kathy Brown struck out on her own this year. Brown represents individuals who have been injured through no fault of their own. Brownâs office, Kathy Brown Law, PLLC, is located in Charleston, WV where she currently resides, but she has a statewide practice. She currently handles cases for clients in Cabell, Kanawha, Ohio, Nicholas and Marshall Counties. Brown was a television newscaster at WSAZ-TV in Huntington-Charleston for nearly 20 years before heading off to law school. She is a 2001 graduate of the West Virginia University...
Madeline G. George
Charleston, WV Lawyer
(304) 553-0830 1125 Virginia Street East
Business, Construction, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Madeline “Maddie” George joined Johnstone & Gabhart, LLP in August of 2013. In 2008, Maddie graduated from Rhodes College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. While at Rhodes, Maddie was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority and also a senior representative of the Panhellenic counsel. Following graduation from Rhodes College, Maddie moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked for a lobbying firm for two years. Maddie received her Juris Doctorate degree from the West Virginia University College of Law 2013. As an Associate at Johnstone & Gabhart, Maddie focuses...
Dean Hartley Esq
Asbestos, Maritime, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Attorney Dean Hartley is one of the founding attorneys at Hartley and O’Brien, PLLC. Mr. Hartley received his Bachelor of Sciences degree from East Carolina University in 1978. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 1981 from West Virginia University College of Law. Attorney Hartley has a strong passion for personal injury victims and puts his knowledge of the law to use in order to help clients achieve their rightful compensation. Mr. Hartley makes it his personal mission to step in and fight for the rights of those who have been injured on the job due to exposure of toxic...
Allyson E. Hilliard
C. Page Hamrick III
Charleston, WV Attorney
(304) 345-8283 1550 Kanawha Blvd. East
Jeffrey Jones Esq
Gara Ann Hoke Esq
(304) 741-5565 103 Pennsylvania Avenue
Free ConsultationAsbestos, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Stockbroker Fraud
George E. Chamberlain
Jackson Kelly PLLC
Free ConsultationBusiness, Education, Employment and Insurance Defense
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Mr. Chamberlain has extensive civil litigation experience and focuses his practice on commercial litigation, insurance litigation, and labor and employment litigation at state and federal levels. Mr. Chamberlain received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 2012. While in law school, he served as a Senior Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International law. He also worked as a member of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic where he counseled and advised corporate clients on a variety of legal issues. He also holds a Certificate in Trial Skills from the National Institute for Trial...
J. Michael Prascik
700 Virginia Street East
Asbestos, Maritime and Personal Injury
Attorney J. Michael Prascik received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Sociology magna cum laude in 1999 from West Virginia University. In 2002, he earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in the Legal Research and Writing Program. Mr. Prascik is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, the Ohio Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice. In 2002, Attorney Prascik joined Hartley Law Group, PLLC, where he has represented clients against corporate defendants in complex litigation in fourteen states and a...
Charles Johnstone II
(304) 343-7100 1125 Virginia St E
Business, Personal Injury and Real Estate
University of Kentucky College of Law
Charles M. Johnstone, II (“Sonny”) has been practicing law in the states of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky since graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1988. Sonny has helped thousands of individuals and businesses with their legal needs. His personal injury practice has covered a wide range of case types including, but not limited to, automobile accidents, trucking accidents, logging accidents, mining accident, medical malpractice, industrial accidents and slip and fall accidents. He has successfully tried and settled cases valued in the tens of millions of dollars.
Keith Hoover
Charleston, WV Attorney with 9 years experience
(304) 340-2918 1900 Kanawha Blvd East
Building 1, Room E-100
Administrative, Business and Employment
Ross Miltner
(877) 526-3457 500 Virginia St. E., Ste. 710
Presenting a strong and well-planned argument for each clientâs case at their hearing. This is the goal that attorney Ross Miltner has in mind when he begins working on every case. When asked what he enjoys most about working with his clients, Ross cited the sense of satisfaction he gets from helping make a difference in the lives of others. As a member of the Jan Dils team since December, 2012, Ross also enjoys the teamwork in the office, and the upbeat attitude of each team member. Prior to joining Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law, Ross earned his B.A. degree...
John G. Byrd CPA, Esq.
Business and Estate Planning
Washington & Lee University
Yvonne Costelloe
Military and Social Security Disability
Yvonne graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in Ohio with a Personal and Transactional Law degree. Before she went to Dayton School of Law, Yvonne attended Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania studying criminal justice and pre-law. She graduated in 2011. While in law school, Yvonne worked as a clerk for a criminal defense firm. She completed an externship at the Erie County Court of Common Pleas and also volunteered as a CASA Guardian ad Litem. Now she focuses on social security law with the Jan Dils team since June of 2011. Prior to law school, Yvonne worked...
Kelly Christine Pritt Esq
(304) 720-4412 700 Washington Street, East, Suite 204
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Paul Perfater Esq
Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
West Virginia University College of Law and Gonzaga University School of Law
Chris Heavens
Free ConsultationAnimal, Construction, Consumer and Employment
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BP's costs of Gulf oil spill likely to top $40 billion | The Wichita Eagle
BP's costs of Gulf oil spill likely to top $40 billion
BY CHRIS KAHN
As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP's financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more.
Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40 billion that BP has publicly estimated, according to an Associated Press analysis. But they'll be far below the highest estimates made over the summer by legal experts and prominent Wall Street banks, such as Goldman Sachs, which said costs could near $200 billion.
BP will survive the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history for several key reasons: it has little debt; its global businesses are forecast to generate $26 billion next year in cash flow from operations; the environmental impact of the spill isn't as bad as feared; and the government seems unlikely to ban BP from Gulf drilling. To bolster its finances, BP has cut its dividend, issued debt and sold more than $21 billion in assets.
"It could have been a lot worse," says Tyler Priest, a University of Houston petroleum historian who serves on President Obama's oil spill investigation committee. "BP is going to come back from this."
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Dr. Oz to visit KCRA 3 Health & Wellness Festival in Roseville
Updated: 9:25 PM PDT May 2, 2019
The KCRA 3 Health & Wellness Festival featuring Dr. Oz will be held at the Westfield Galleria at Roseville on May 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event is free to the public and we have a lot of exciting things planned for the day. Limited seating will be available on a first come, first served basis. Dr. Oz will be on stage at 11:30 a.m., then later he will return to talk about how you can live the good life and answer some of your personal health questions!Main Stage Schedule 10:30 a.m. : KCRA 3 Health & Wellness Festival 2019 Opening RemarksYour KCRA 3 News team gets the excitement started with a warm welcome and breakdown of the day’s presentations and events. Get the information you need to submit questions to Dr. Oz and enjoy all the incredible features the Health & Wellness Festival has to offer. 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. : 100s Unit Dance Team The Hundreds Unit is a diverse network of hundreds of women. What makes our over 100 base of women unique is they consist of ALL shapes, sizes, ages, and levels of ability, dancing as one UNIT in their own unique way!11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. : U-JamU Jam is an athletic hip-hop dance fitness workout that combines dance and high energy music for a workout that is bound to get your heart rate up, your body moving and make you work up a sweat-All while having FUN!11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. : Dr. Oz Roundtable with special guests from Dignity Health and Roseville Toyota Noon - 12:30 p.m : Fitness Discussion - MobilityWhere would we be without apps like Waze or Google MAPs? We can all agree that directions are essential to get us where we’re going, however when it comes to being active many people attempt to reach their fitness goals without a road map to success. Based upon the National Academy of Sports Medicine’s optimum performance training model, Josh Taylor, Director of Fitness at California Family Fitness is going to provide an overview of a 5 step program design that will take you from your couch to living a more active lifestyle.12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. : Strong by Zumba®STRONG by Zumba® combines body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep, and maybe even five more. In class you will burn calories while toning arms, legs, abs and glutes. Plyometric or explosive moves like high knees, burpees, and jumping jacks are interchanged with isometric moves like lunges, squats, and kickboxing. STRONG by Zumba® instructors change up the music and moves frequently to make sure you’re always challenged to the max.1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Professional CPRTaught by local first responders including firefighters and paramedics, learn the skills that could help save someone’s life! 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Train like a Titan with Nichole RootNichole Root is an Elite OCR Athlete and UltraRunner out of Auburn, CA, but she is most proud of being a mom and owning a private preschool for the past 19 years. She competed in "The Titan Games" on NBC, an extremely challenging competition that tested contestants’ mind and body. Nichole will discuss how she trained for the games, what it was like and give you her workout secrets to being a "Titan."2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. : Dr. Oz’s tour of “The Good Life” Presentation Come join Dr. Oz’s tour of “The Good Life.” He’ll help you find what you really want in your quest for happiness, health, and personal growth. How do you cope with the imperfections of life? What holds you back from the change that you want to see in yourself? Through a visual journey of video clips and animations, Dr. Oz brings alive a message of hope that will entertain as well as inform so you can sleep better, cope better, and achieve the body you’ve always wanted.Q & A with Dr. Oz: Dr. Oz answers your personal health questions! No topic is off the table and everyone benefits from his wisdom on everything from anti-aging treatments, weight-loss, diseases, to his own personal life. Submit your questions on the day of the event in the question box located at our “Meet the KCRA 3 News Anchors” area.3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. : Fitness PiYo with Cal FitIf yoga makes you yawn, Piyo will make you strong! Be a yoga rebel with PiYo Strength®. It's a unique core-strengthening workout inspired by yoga and Pilates. With upbeat music and a constant flow of moves, it's a rhythmic, dynamic, and intense workout designed to build strength and flexibility.3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. : 100s Unit Dance Team The Hundreds Unit is a diverse network of hundreds of women. What makes our over 100 base of women unique is they consist of ALL shapes, sizes, ages, and levels of ability, dancing as one UNIT in their own unique way!ALL DAY EVENTS - Throughout The Westfield Galleria at RosevilleMeet the KCRA 3 News Anchors Meet your favorite KCRA 3 News personalities such as: Tamara Berg, Gulstan Dart, Kellie DeMarco, Mark Finan, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gonzales, Brian Heap, Edie Lambert, Del Rodgers, Ty Steele, Teo Torres and Toni Valliere. See the people who deliver news, weather and sports coverage of Sacramento and the surrounding areas every day. Get to know them even better and take your photo too! KCRA 3 Weather - Mini Meteorologist ExperienceCalling all future Meteorologists! Kids of all ages can forecast the weather like the KCRA 3 Weather Team. See how we use a green screen to bring you Sacramento’s most accurate weather forecasts each day on TV. Sponsored by Planet Fitness.
The KCRA 3 Health & Wellness Festival featuring Dr. Oz will be held at the Westfield Galleria at Roseville on May 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The event is free to the public and we have a lot of exciting things planned for the day.
Limited seating will be available on a first come, first served basis.
Dr. Oz will be on stage at 11:30 a.m., then later he will return to talk about how you can live the good life and answer some of your personal health questions!
Main Stage Schedule
10:30 a.m. : KCRA 3 Health & Wellness Festival 2019 Opening Remarks
Your KCRA 3 News team gets the excitement started with a warm welcome and breakdown of the day’s presentations and events. Get the information you need to submit questions to Dr. Oz and enjoy all the incredible features the Health & Wellness Festival has to offer.
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. : 100s Unit Dance Team
The Hundreds Unit is a diverse network of hundreds of women. What makes our over 100 base of women unique is they consist of ALL shapes, sizes, ages, and levels of ability, dancing as one UNIT in their own unique way!
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. : U-Jam
U Jam is an athletic hip-hop dance fitness workout that combines dance and high energy music for a workout that is bound to get your heart rate up, your body moving and make you work up a sweat-All while having FUN!
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. : Dr. Oz Roundtable with special guests from Dignity Health and Roseville Toyota
Noon - 12:30 p.m : Fitness Discussion - Mobility
Where would we be without apps like Waze or Google MAPs? We can all agree that directions are essential to get us where we’re going, however when it comes to being active many people attempt to reach their fitness goals without a road map to success. Based upon the National Academy of Sports Medicine’s optimum performance training model, Josh Taylor, Director of Fitness at California Family Fitness is going to provide an overview of a 5 step program design that will take you from your couch to living a more active lifestyle.
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. : Strong by Zumba®
STRONG by Zumba® combines body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep, and maybe even five more. In class you will burn calories while toning arms, legs, abs and glutes. Plyometric or explosive moves like high knees, burpees, and jumping jacks are interchanged with isometric moves like lunges, squats, and kickboxing. STRONG by Zumba® instructors change up the music and moves frequently to make sure you’re always challenged to the max.
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Professional CPR
Taught by local first responders including firefighters and paramedics, learn the skills that could help save someone’s life!
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Train like a Titan with Nichole Root
Nichole Root is an Elite OCR Athlete and UltraRunner out of Auburn, CA, but she is most proud of being a mom and owning a private preschool for the past 19 years. She competed in "The Titan Games" on NBC, an extremely challenging competition that tested contestants’ mind and body. Nichole will discuss how she trained for the games, what it was like and give you her workout secrets to being a "Titan."
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. : Dr. Oz’s tour of “The Good Life” Presentation
Come join Dr. Oz’s tour of “The Good Life.” He’ll help you find what you really want in your quest for happiness, health, and personal growth. How do you cope with the imperfections of life? What holds you back from the change that you want to see in yourself? Through a visual journey of video clips and animations, Dr. Oz brings alive a message of hope that will entertain as well as inform so you can sleep better, cope better, and achieve the body you’ve always wanted.
Q & A with Dr. Oz: Dr. Oz answers your personal health questions! No topic is off the table and everyone benefits from his wisdom on everything from anti-aging treatments, weight-loss, diseases, to his own personal life. Submit your questions on the day of the event in the question box located at our “Meet the KCRA 3 News Anchors” area.
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. : Fitness PiYo with Cal Fit
If yoga makes you yawn, Piyo will make you strong! Be a yoga rebel with PiYo Strength®. It's a unique core-strengthening workout inspired by yoga and Pilates. With upbeat music and a constant flow of moves, it's a rhythmic, dynamic, and intense workout designed to build strength and flexibility.
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. : 100s Unit Dance Team
ALL DAY EVENTS - Throughout The Westfield Galleria at Roseville
Meet the KCRA 3 News Anchors
Meet your favorite KCRA 3 News personalities such as: Tamara Berg, Gulstan Dart, Kellie DeMarco, Mark Finan, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gonzales, Brian Heap, Edie Lambert, Del Rodgers, Ty Steele, Teo Torres and Toni Valliere. See the people who deliver news, weather and sports coverage of Sacramento and the surrounding areas every day. Get to know them even better and take your photo too!
KCRA 3 Weather - Mini Meteorologist Experience
Calling all future Meteorologists! Kids of all ages can forecast the weather like the KCRA 3 Weather Team. See how we use a green screen to bring you Sacramento’s most accurate weather forecasts each day on TV. Sponsored by Planet Fitness.
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Analysis: A smooth transition for B.C. NDP in Nanaimo byelection
Blow to B.C. Greens, John Horgan’s hold on power remains slim
Nanaimo’s newest MLA now speaking. #bcpoli https://t.co/lJzTriCCT9
— Nicholas M Pescod (@npescod) January 31, 2019
The B.C. NDP’s win in the Nanaimo by-election stabilizes their hold on a minority government at the B.C. legislature, maintaining the status quo two-vote edge that emerged after the 2017 election.
The result in Nanaimo is a considerable setback for the B.C. Greens, who ran an aggressive campaign and still lost more than half of their 2017 share of the vote. Their current three Vancouver Island seats are a high-water mark for the party, which captured 17 per cent of the vote province-wide and saw that fall to about seven per cent in Wednesday’s by-election.
The B.C. Liberals increased their vote share compared to the 2017 election, where Nanaimo was won handily by NDP incumbent Leonard Krog, whose decision to run for mayor triggered the by-election.
Aside from the B.C. Liberal near-wipeout win in 2001, the NDP has held Nanaimo since 1971. But the slam-dunk scenario for the NDP in Nanaimo is overstated, especially in a by-election.
RESULTS: NDP’s Malcolmson takes nearly 50 per cent of Nanaimo vote
Former premier Christy Clark’s 2013 win after an arranged vacancy in Kelowna West is a rare example of a governing B.C. party holding a by-election, the first since 1981. And that was with a sitting premier running in a traditionally solid B.C. Liberal seat.
The NDP took by-elections in Chilliwack as well as Port Moody-Coquitlam before giving them back to the majority B.C. Liberals the 2013 general election. Their Nanaimo win Wednesday reverses a long trend against sitting governments in the protest votes that often define by-elections.
In the most recent indication of support before Wednesday, Nanaimo residents voted 54 per cent against proportional representation. Even Premier John Horgan’s Juan de Fuca constituency only narrowly supported the referendum last fall, despite Horgan’s NDP pushing hard for a yes vote.
In the 2015 federal election, Malcomson took about a third of votes to win the Nanaimo-Ladysmith seat relatively narrowly. With turnout of more than 70 per cent, the Liberal and Conservative candidates were nearly tied with about 22 per cent each.
Horgan’s hold on power isn’t immediately threatened, even with the loss of a seat. The next critical “confidence” vote is likely to be on Finance Minister Carole James’ spring budget, and it may be a year before there is another vote that puts the NDP minority on the line.
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UPDATE: NDP candidate wins Nanaimo byelection
B.C.’s central interior to brace for 15 to 35 centimetres of snow
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“The meeting didn’t go as well as we had hoped it would and we’re not completely through with this issue.” Newman qualified second for Saturday night’s Southern 500 while Montoya will start 16th. Kasey Kahne will start from the pole. After qualifying Newman and Montoya were asked about how their meeting went with NASCAR officials. Asked directly about the incident, Montoya said, “I’m not going to tell you (expletive).
"Let’s leave it at that. What happened in the trailer was between me, Ryan Newman and NASCAR. That’s it.” Told that NASCAR officials had said the meeting did not go well, Newman said, “With conflict, everybody has varying opinions and I’m just trying to put the whole situation behind us and move on to this weekend’s race.”
Asked if he punched Montoya, Newman replied, “That’s speculation.”
The meeting was held in response to the drivers’ confrontations on the track last weekend at Richmond, Va. Newman met with NASCAR officials for 30 minutes after the Richmond race to discuss his run-ins with Montoya, who left the track immediately after the race. “We’ll move on. It was sad because of the way it affects our team. I’m not worried about anybody else’s team,” Newman said earlier Friday. “It affects our team, because of somebody losing their temper. “The way that is taken out on a team is different than the way it should be taken out on a driver. That’s something we’ll get addressed.” Montoya said he has had problems with Newman in the past. “It just adds up. It gets to a point where too much is too much and I felt it had to stop, you know what I mean?” Montoya said. “I could have done it a lot more aggressively and completely knocked him out of the race, but that wasn’t really the plan. “I just felt he could have given me about an inch and nothing would have happened, but over and over and over has been the case. I’ve been wrecked by him a couple of times.” Asked if he thought Montoya would cross paths with him again, Newman said he wasn’t sure. “We race, we race hard. You never know,” he said. “I crossed paths with Tony Stewart before and I joined sides with him.”
More racing news, blogs, photos and more at www.ThatsRacin.com.
Q&A transcript: Ryan Newman
Q&A transcript: Juan Pablo Montoya
Consider Montoya crossed off Newman's Christmas card list
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MAFS' Mel Is Reportedly Broke And Nearly Homeless
Married At First Sight’s Mel claims that she is broke and ‘nearly homeless’ after appearing on the reality program.
The 38-year-old left her job as a talent agent to participate in the social experiment.
She confessed to Herald Sun: “I have to look for work because I’m actually nearly homeless. I’m so broke, I’m almost on the streets, which sucks.”
The show began filming in September, which means Mel has been out of work for six months.
She also revealed to the publication that she is considering taking legal action against Dino after he sent the show producers a taped conversation of her privately speaking to her sister.
“It’s illegal to record a conversation when you’re not in the conversation,” she told the newspaper.
A lawyer reportedly contacted her after the episode aired.
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GTPs Solar Power System On-line
Eastern North Carolina has diversified its electricity sources with the help of green energy technology installed at the North Carolina Global TransPark (GTP). Greenfield Power, a Charlotte-based solar firm, completed a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at GTP and Progress Energy Carolinas now uses that power output to serve its customers.  This is the first major solar PV installation in the Kinston area.
The 250-kilowatt (kW) PV array is designed to produce approximately 325,000 kilowatt-hours per year. This annual output will offset more than 100 percent of the electricity used in the Spirit AeroSystems Composite Center of Excellence, the GTP’s onsite education and training facility.
“The production and use of clean energy in business operations is becoming an industry standard. By partnering with Greenfield Power and Progress Energy on this solar photovoltaic system, we are demonstrating to the business community that we are aware of and able to respond to its needs,” says Darlene Waddell, executive director of the Global TransPark.
The GTP is a 2,500 acre, multi-modal industrial park offering access to air, rail, highways, and North Carolina’s two international ports. The GTP is in Lenoir County, located near several major military installations, and designed to attract aerospace and logistics-related companies and bring increased economic opportunities to the state.
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Demographics: Think About Teens
A Wall Street economist says watch where the kids spend their dollars to find investment ideas.
A new generation, between ages 10 and 19, has garnered little attention from investment professionals -- but it should and it will. Everyone focuses on the impact aging baby boomers are having on society -- and the financial markets. But one of the best ways to make money in the stock market is to pay attention to things the crowd is overlooking. And the rapid growth of the youth population in the U.S. is being largely ignored. Fact: the 10-to-19 age cohort in the U.S. is actually bigger today (42 million people) than the 65-plus age group (37 million).
Of course, young people have less money to spend than their parents and grandparents. But they have more than you might think. Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg says this group of people -- part of Generation Y -- spends around $120 billion annually. For better or worse, young people are adopting "adult-like behavior at increasingly early ages," he says. Median income is $1,500 among 12 year olds and $4,500 among 17 year olds. "So the key for investors is to focus on where these 42 million Americans spend their time" -- and their money, Rosenberg says.
That's not too difficult. Surveys back up what parents already know. They hang out at malls, eat fast food and shop at discount stores. "Their top-purchased items are clothes, CDs, electronics, video games, jewelry, entertainment, fast food, soft drinks, cosmetics and magazines," Rosenberg observes, adding that "teens are actually very sophisticated in terms of their shopping selection." One surprise: Their spending is influenced more by advertising in magazines than in other media sources, such as television, radio and the Internet.
Stores and restaurants aren't the only beneficiaries of these hordes of young people. For-profit education companies should thrive, too. Almost 90% of 17-year-olds plan to go to college. By comparison, only 30% of people over 65 ever attended college and less than 60% of people between age 25 and 54.
The ethnic group to watch is Hispanics. Six million 10-to-19-year-olds are Hispanic today. And Hispanics in this age group are increasing at six times the rate of the overall age group.
Where do the 10-to-19-year-olds live? The South is the main beneficiary, while the Northeast is the big population loser, Rosenberg reports. The U.S. has far more young people than other developed nations. In fact, there are more 10-to-19-year-olds in the U.S. than in Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and France combined, so don't think only global brands are worth following. Also, these young people will be working for decades to come, paying money into Social Security and Medicare -- and making the retirement and health-care time bomb easier for the U.S. to defuse than for other developed economies with aging baby boomers. All this should counter some of those fears that as the boomers retire and turn their investments into cash income, the stock market will tank.
--Steven Goldberg
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email - kira@kirakreativ.com
The most beautiful thing to me is the soul. Beauty is more than skin deep, it’s spiritual.
As a child, Kira began painting and expressing herself visually at her dad's drafting table. Professional artistry literally runs in her blood, and she couldn't ignore it.
At 14, Kira began modelling and fell in love with the world of fashion and beauty. With a scholarship in fine arts, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria. It was natural for Kira to start painting faces and she quickly fell in love with the artistic expression of makeup.
I love bringing out women's beautiful features and making them feel like their best selves. It's an absolute pleasure of mine to help women come into their own looks and style, or maybe discover a part of themselves they didn't know existed, all through the magic of makeup."
As a model and influencer, Kira has carved out a niche for herself with her unique facial features of bold, dark brows - which led her to a specialization in micro-blading.
I was always shaping my friends eyebrows at sleepovers. Eyebrows were such a prominent part of my own face that I ended up noticing them on everyone else. Your eyebrows define your style!
Kira has been the face for several beauty companies aiming to cater to a more universal woman. With her multi-skills of being a makeup artist, model and microblading artist, it is very fitting!
I think we should not only be inspired by others but also be a source of inspiration ourselves.
— VIOLETTE
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The Santa Maria delle Grazie church has become more popular than ever in recent years. Since the bestselling book ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown and the successful film adaptation of the book, this church has been attracting even larger crowds than before. They all come to see Leonardo Da Vinci’s mural ‘The Last Supper’. The mural, which depicts Jesus with his disciples on the evening before Judas betrays him, is inextricably linked to the history of this church.
The church in which Da Vinci painted ‘The Last Supper’ was built in the late 15th century under the direction of architect Guiniforte Solari. After it was completed, an alcove of the church was immediately demolished and the church was redesigned by the famous Renaissance architect Donato Bramante, resulting in one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in Milan. Inside the church, you can see the difference between Solari’s nave with pointed arches covered completely in detailed frescos, and the light and austere design of the alcoves by Bramante. The building was severely damaged by allied bombing in 1943. Fortunately, Da Vinci’s famous mural remained intact because the wall had been sandbagged as a precaution.
The intimate Santa Maria delle Grazie church
The greatest painter of all times
Milan has always been the city of Leonardo da Vinci, although he was not born here. This world-famous Renaissance painter was, as his name suggests, from Vinci, a village near Florence. He was born as an unwanted illegitimate child – not the best start in life for a child in the 15th century. At the age of 14, Da Vinci moved to Florence and ultimately to Milan. He is considered one of the greatest painters of all times, although he was also a sculptor, architect, philosopher, physicist and engineer - a genuine ‘Renaissance Man’ before the term was coined.
“Da Vinci bought a bible especially for conducting research for ‘The Last Supper’”
Da Vinci’s masterpiece ‘The Last Supper’
Smudges on the wall
Da Vinci’s masterpiece depicts the moment right after Jesus has told his 12 disciples that one of them would betray him before sunrise. The artist realistically portrays the surprise on their faces and body language. This mural is not a fresco but a tempura painting, a technique that enabled artists to make subtle nuances. But since this technique was less durable, smudges quickly appeared in the painting making it difficult to restore.
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Ravens draft speedy RB Hill, guard Powers in 4th round
Updated: 1:20 PM CDT Apr 27, 2019
Oklahoma State running back Justice Hill (5) runs past Boise State defensive end Durrant Miles, center, and teammate Marcus Keyes (75) and into the endzone with a touchdown in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
SOURCE: Sue Ogrocki
The Baltimore Ravens focused on their run-first offense on the final day of the NFL draft, selecting speedy running back Justice Hill and guard Ben Powers in the fourth round.Taken 113th overall, Hill ran for 3,539 yards and scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons at Oklahoma State. The 6-foot-4, 310-pound Powers was a three-year starter at Oklahoma.Baltimore also selected Southern Cal cornerback Iman Lewis-Marshall with a fourth-round pick secured from Philadelphia earlier in the draft.The 5-10, 200-pound Hill ran a 4.40 in the 40-yard dash, fastest among running backs at the NFL combine. He scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons and averaged 5.6 yards per carry.Ravens scouting director Joe Hortiz said, "It's a chance to add more speed to this offense. ... He makes guys look bad in space."Hill joins a backfield led by quarterback Lamar Jackson and featuring free agent pickup Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards, who led the Ravens in rushing last year.
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) —
The Baltimore Ravens focused on their run-first offense on the final day of the NFL draft, selecting speedy running back Justice Hill and guard Ben Powers in the fourth round.
Taken 113th overall, Hill ran for 3,539 yards and scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons at Oklahoma State. The 6-foot-4, 310-pound Powers was a three-year starter at Oklahoma.
Baltimore also selected Southern Cal cornerback Iman Lewis-Marshall with a fourth-round pick secured from Philadelphia earlier in the draft.
The 5-10, 200-pound Hill ran a 4.40 in the 40-yard dash, fastest among running backs at the NFL combine. He scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons and averaged 5.6 yards per carry.
Ravens scouting director Joe Hortiz said, "It's a chance to add more speed to this offense. ... He makes guys look bad in space."
Hill joins a backfield led by quarterback Lamar Jackson and featuring free agent pickup Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards, who led the Ravens in rushing last year.
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A glimpse into Lakewood's past
When the city of Lakewood was incorporated almost 50 years ago in 1969, it was a remarkable task of weaving a community together from neighborhoods with a strong sense of identity founded on decades of residents working together to build schools, lay pipelines or install other improvements for themselves.
The name Lakewood originated long before the city existed, and it came from a subdivision that William Loveland, owner of the Colorado Central Railroad, established in 1889 near West Colfax Avenue and Harlan Street. In the early years, residents in the area ranched, raised turkeys and operated dairies. In the 1940s, the federal government acquired the land now known as the Federal Center, and in the decades that followed, agriculture gave way to neighborhoods, each establishing a sense of pride.
Several efforts to incorporate into a city occurred in the 1940s and 1950s, but they failed. In 1969, fears of annexation to Denver and a lack of law enforcement resources began to concern residents, now numbering over 90,000. Boundaries for a new city were drawn on a basement pingpong table in the home of James Jeff "Jim" Richey, chairman of the Citizens for Incorporation. In June 1969, those living in neighborhoods such as Alameda, Green Mountain, Bear Creek, Applewood and Lakewood voted by more than a two-to-one margin to create a city, one of the largest incorporations of its time. Richey became mayor, but the City Council had to find offices and supplies on a shoestring budget. The city's name was soon changed from Jefferson City to Lakewood after residents favored that name in an advisory vote to the City Council, which changed the name by resolution.
From the beginning, Lakewood's growth was positive, progressive and visionary. The Police Department became one of the first ever to require its agents to have a college degree. In 1983, Lakewood residents approved a city charter, which is essentially the city's constitution.
What started as ranchland, turkey farms and early subdivisions of homes has become one of the largest cities in Colorado with more than 44-square miles and a population of just over 150,000. Lakewood is the third largest city in the Denver metro area and the fifth largest city in the state of Colorado. One-quarter of Lakewood’s land is dedicated to parks and open space, and the city has several major employment centers such as the Federal Center, Academy Park, Union Boulevard and the St. Anthony Medical Campus. Residents are also served by several special districts for water, sewer, fire and schools, all remnants from the early days when residents banded together to create services for themselves before the city existed.
To help preserve Lakewood's history, the Lakewood Heritage Center is home to more than 30,000 historical objects and more than 8,000 historical photographs. These artifacts and photographs tell the story of the Lakewood, Jefferson County, the state and national and world events as they relate to Lakewood residents. These artifacts cover, but are not limited to, the history of 20th century business and technology, textiles and personal artifacts, toys, military life, domestic life and material culture. You can learn more about this important community amenity by visiting Lakewood.org/HeritageCenter.
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Paula 2 months ago
I am interested in putting together a history of the Gorrell-Fieselman-Millsapps family that has been in residence continuously from 1890s to present. The original dairy farm encompassed 2 quarter sections from what is now Wadsworth to Garrison and Mississippi to Florida. My brother and niece still reside on the last remaining acres (about 2) at Mississippi and Allison and my niece measures the 5th generation of the family. Let me know if this story interests the 50th Anniversary Celebration organizers and I will be glad to put something together.....written story, Powerpoint presentation, other. Let me know....Paula Joan Millsapps (millsappspaula@yahoo.com)
jim 6 months ago
lakewood, lots of crime and traffic
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Remember When for the week of 5/1/18
May 17, 2018 Staff
A bill asking for a state appropriation of $60,000 to extend the Susanville-Red Bluff Highway — Highway 395 — to the Nevada state line passed both branches of the California legislature.
The bill was reportedly passed on the merits of providing a road of military importance.
The West Coast Lumber Commission and the War Labor Board agreed to give California lumber workers a wage increase of 7.5 cents an hour. The increase was predicted to give more than $1 million annually to lumber workers of Northern California.
Previously, workers in the woods and mills earned 87.5 cents an hour, while those in the box and molding factories made 85 cents an hour.
The Lassen County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office reported local field crop production, the county’s leading industry, reached an all-time high in 1967 with a production value of more than $10.4 million.
The Susanville Municipal Energy Commission was back at full strength after the city council filled four positions left vacant by resignations. Named to the board were Ron Smith, Jack Stanley, Byron Barholf and Curt Spalding. Cecil Webb, Stephen Bradbury, Al Robbins and Charlie Richardson resigned from the board, stating the SMEC board should represent more than just local business interests.
A Lassen County Sheriff’s Department investigation ended with the arrest of 12 people for drug possession and other charges.
Twenty officers stormed residences on First, Adella and Quarry streets and charged most of the occupants with possession of methamphetamine.
By a unanimous vote, the Susanville City Council last week agreed to put former Mayor James Jeskey back on the council.
Although the council agreed many excellent candidates had applied for the seat vacated by former councilmember Bing Bengtson, it was Jeskey’s experience that ultimately won him the job.
“It’s been the most satisfying project of my career,” Lassen Banner Hospital Chief Administrative Officer Dave Anderson said.
For residents in Northeastern California, Lassen County and the city of Susanville, the new Lassen Banner Medical Center will mean a better quality of service provided in a state-of-the-art facility.
On April 23, the State Department of Health Services approved the license for the facility on Highway 139 just north of Lassen College and Anderson said departments began moving in on April 24.
The patients will be transferred to the new facility May 1.
Dog lovers who live in Lassen County are rejoicing because seven canines placed into the animal shelter have new homes, with four more waiting the final adoption approval.
The Lassen Animal Rescue, based in Westwood, gathered its volunteers on April 19 and took 11 cars to the Lassen County Animal Shelter and loaded up all the adoptable dogs and took them on the best ride of their lives — to the Susanville Supermarket parking lot.
“There’s so much blood,” screams Lassen High School senior Holly Fortin as she makes a 911 call.
On April 24, a two-car collision sprawled on Arnold Field told the story of a party gone wrong, and a driver who should’ve passed the keys to a sober friend.
Lassen High School students sat in the bleachers watching their peers get peeled out of mangled vehicles as a part of the Every 15 Minutes program, which educates youth about the dangers and consequences of driving under the influence.
“I think it basically shows them the repercussions from driving impaired, whether it be alcohol or drugs,” said California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Kristen Wilburn.
Every four years at Lassen High School, students have the ability to participate in or watch the Every 15 Minutes Program from CHP.
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Can Congress get its swagger back?
By Jonah Goldberg
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
According to the Constitution, the legislature is the first and most powerful branch of government. And yet, many believe — on the left and the right — that the institution has atrophied.
By all accounts, Speaker Paul Ryan is eager to change that. He has his work cut out for him.
At the Republican congressional retreat in Baltimore last week, I participated in a panel discussion about how to revive Congress' traditional role. It was off the record, but I can certainly repeat a story I told. When my father was in the army, he was stationed in Japan. His commanding officer, a master at maneuvering the military bureaucracy, gave him one piece of advice. "Goldberg, it's always better to be on the committee that says, 'this must never happen again.'"
The executive branch was never supposed to be this powerful.
In other words, it's easier to wag a finger at mistakes than to be accountable for them. Congress has largely become a finger-wagging bystander. It's great at expressing outrage . But when it comes to the messy work of legislating, it's fallen down on the job.
This is true even when it writes "landmark" laws. The Affordable Care Act, for example, isn't so much a piece of legislation as a Letter of Marque for the Health and Human Services Secretary to chart whatever course she pleases. The law contains more than 2,500 references to "the Secretary," as Phillip Klein reported in 2010. In 700 of them, the law says she "shall" do X and in another 200-plus instances it says she "may" do Y. In 139 instances, it simply says the "Secretary determines." This is just one example of how Congress routinely vests legislative power in the executive branch.
Obama's unfinished business
By The Times Editorial Board
Other aspects of Congress' authority have been hacked away and sold off in pieces. The Constitution says only Congress can levy taxes. The founders had this crazy idea called "no taxation without representation." And yet, numerous agencies are self-funding, raising money without having to worry about Congress' power of the purse. For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets its revenue from a skim of the profits from the Federal Reserve.
Not only are such arrangements a hate-crime against the Constitution, they also make agencies less accountable to Congress, and by extension, the people. These agencies are, furthermore, often unaccountable to the judicial branch. Bureaucrats have their own administrative courts, which routinely deny traditional due process to plaintiffs.
The executive branch was never supposed to be this powerful. Richard Neustadt famously wrote in "Presidential Power" that the presidency is an inherently weak office and therefore the president's chief power is "persuasion." For decades, presidents took Neustadt's argument to heart, using the bully pulpit to rally public opinion to their side.
President Obama has certainly tried to do that. But it's turned out that his powers of persuasion have been greatly exaggerated, particularly in this age of polarization.
Unable to coax the country in his direction, Obama has relied on his beloved "pen and phone" strategy — that is, signing executive orders — often to the cheers of congressional Democrats apparently eager to celebrate their institutional gelding. The Hudson Institute's Christopher DeMuth argues that Obama is the first president to recognize that Neustadt is obsolete and so is the notion of a lame duck presidency. Obama can keep making policy right until the day he leaves office.
The challenge for Ryan is multifaceted. He wants to restore Congress' primacy, but to do so he must also transform the GOP into what he calls a "proposition party" not an opposition party (which may be difficult if Obama does everything he can to invite opposition from conservatives). Both require time he may not have. Clawing back the legislative function can't be done overnight and requires a cultural transformation of Congress itself.
Meanwhile, both parties' front-runners don't seem interested in deferring to Congress. Hillary Clinton has already said that Obama's unilateralism hasn't gone far enough, and vowed to go farther. Donald Trump promises to just make stuff happen via his superhuman management skills.
We already know liberals will applaud an imperial Democratic president. I can only hope conservatives will stick with Ryan under a Republican one.
jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com
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‘Crisis’ in Rio de Janeiro After Torrential Floods Kill 10
By Latin America News Dispatch Apr 10, 2019
Rescue workers carry a corpse after a mudslide caused by heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 09, 2019. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)
BRAZIL: In Rio de Janeiro, heavy rains killed 10 civilians and devastated parts of the city yesterday. The rains began on Monday evening and resulted in widespread flooding that disproportionately affected hillside favelas. Parts of Rio have been identified as “high geological risks,” and the city has faced other catastrophic weather events in recent months. The city’s mayor, Marcelo Crivella, acknowledged the city’s lack of preparedness and complained about insufficient federal funding. Crivella has left Rio at a “crisis” emergency level.
At the same time, Brazil’s science and academic research sectors are reeling after a major freeze of government financing. Facing economic recession, the Bolsonaro administration has locked down science expenditures as “contingency funds” that can only be spent if other sources of funding are found. This year’s budget for Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC) is expected to be a third of what it was five years ago.
HEADLINES FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
MEXICO: In response to criticism of Mexico’s recently formed National Guard, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced yesterday that her office would assist in the force’s training. U.N human rights experts have questioned Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to disband the Federal Police and change the constitution, in order to provide a more formal policing role for the military.
MEXICO: According to the annual report from the Institute for Economics and Peace, the economic impact of violence in Mexico increased 10% in 2018 and the level of peace fell 4.9%. This translated to a loss of 5.16 billion Mexican pesos, or about $273 million. The indicator that contributed the most to the economic impact was homicide, which increased 14% in 2018. For the first time, the most violent state in the country was Baja California.
UNITED STATES: As rumors of a leadership purge at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intensify, President Donald Trump denied overhauling DHS yesterday, telling reporters, “Nobody ever said I was cleaning house.” However, an official told Reuters that the department’s acting No. 2 official, Claire Grady, was rumored to be leaving Tuesday, along with previously named General Counsel John Mitnick and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna.
HAITI: On Tuesday, Haiti’s President Jovenel Möise confirmed that the current acting prime minister, Jean Michel Lapin, will remain in his post as Haiti’s new prime minister. This comes only a month after his predecessor, Jean-Henry Céant, was fired by the Lower Chamber of Deputies after only six months in office. Lapin’s administration continues to face the widespread unrest of Haitians demanding better living conditions and a resignation of the head of state, caused by high living costs and insecurity.
HONDURAS: Honduran marine biologists fear that legally sanctioned “incidental” fishing of sharks is still harming marine biodiversity in the region. Gabriela Ochoa, a specialist in conservation and biodiversity, has been investigating the impact of shark fishing in the La Mosquita region, home to Indigenous people from the Garifuna community. In 2011, the Honduran government declared the country’s waters as shark sanctuaries but amended the law in 2016 to allow the consumption of “incidentally” caught sharks. Indigenous customs and conservation laws have clashed, however, and illegal fishing continues under the guise of “incidental” captures. In the weeks that lead up to the Easter holiday, for example, up to 100 sharks are fished daily to supply local cuisines.
COLOMBIA: Indigenous protesters have ended their blockade of the Pan-American Highway after President Iván Duque committed $260,000 to Indigenous communities. After a standstill in negotiations arising from Attorney General Néstor Martínez’s accusation that Indigenous leaders were threatening Duque’s life, the two parties convened in a private 40-minute meeting. Early yesterday, Duque refused to leave a community building in the town of Caldano to meet publically with the Indigenous delegation out of fear for his safety. Initially, the Indigenous delegation also refused to send a smaller group to negotiate with Duque, but eventually agreed. The negotiations ended with the removal of the country-wide blockade, but Indigenous leaders say they will look towards future protests.
VENEZUELA: Opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s representative was accepted into the Organization of American States (OAS) yesterday. With 18 votes in favor, nine against and seven abstentions, Gustavo Tarre Briceño was declared Venezuela’s representative to the international organization during a permanent council session to discuss the situation in Venezuela. The multilateral organization, which includes the United States, has been pushing for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
In a sign of deeping problems, Maduro removed another eight tons of gold from the country’s gold reserves. The move highlights the regime’s need for hard currency in the face of harsh U.S. sanctions. According to a government official, Venezuela has lost 30 tons of its gold reserves since the beginning of the year with only 100 tons left.
ARGENTINA: Argentina and Colombia were selected yesterday by CONMEBOL, the South American soccer body, to co-host the regional Copa America in 2020. The 2020 soccer tournament will be the first with a new format that will see two hosts, 10 South American teams and two guest teams. Colombia will host countries from the north while Argentina will host countries from the south. The new format boasts 38 matches,12 more than have been played in the Copa’s past.
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SEVENTH TOP 10 IN MOTOGP AND ANOTHER 1-2 IN MOTO2 FOR RED BULL KTM TEAM AT MALAYSIA
The Red Bull KTM MotoGP Factory Racing team today took their seventh top ten finish in their debut season of MotoGP racing as Pol Espargaro clinched tenth in the Malaysian Grand Prix with team mate Bradley Smith not far behind him in twelfth.
The heavens opened just as the MotoGP bikes were going to the grid but that didn’t bother the KTM MotoGP riders on their KTM RC16 as the lights went green; Smith made up nine places on the opening lap to be a fantastic seventh. A lap later he was sixth before he saw the flag in a very creditable 12th but as close as he’s been to the winner of a wet race.
Espargaro was not quite as fast off the line, but brilliantly fought non-stop to raise himself up to 7th place by the mid way point. The number 44 rider ultimately finished 10th at the flag bagging yet more points for himself and the team.
Espargaro: “It was not easy as these wet races here are quite long, at times feeling like they’re never going to finish, but I felt good at the start battling with Rossi early on even if I maybe lost a bit of time fighting with him. Then I got my rhythm and got into the top ten with my target a ninth but Vinales overtook me...but hey, just saying ‘Vinales overtook me on the last lap’ means we were fighting against someone of that level and that is something of which I’m proud. Obviously we want to improve but it’s been a long way since we did our first race in MotoGP with KTM and I think the progression we are doing is unbelievable, so this is another result for the team and the factory in Austria before we go to the last race in Valencia.”
Smith: “The start today was good fun as I took chances trying to overtake as many as possible using the best of the softer rear tyre that I had while it was wet. Then I wasn’t quite able to make the final steps to defend that great start as the track didn’t quite dry out but just got ‘less wet’. I was as close to the winner in terms of time today as I have been in the wet so we’re going in the right direction for that kind of set up for the coming races. It’s been a great three weeks of racing and I’ve really enjoyed getting back into a normal place that I believe I should be.”
Mike Leitner (Team Manager MotoGP): “We didn’t know what we would find at these three overseas races but in particular Sepang is where I thought it might be difficult for us. The reality is that is has been difficult as we are up against the other manufacturers who’ve done so much testing here since the start of the four stroke era, but the KTM team did a great job. The riders and the two crews did a perfect job making us all fit quite well together with the support from Mattighofen; they’re always giving us something new enabling us to make small steps forward. Now we are happy after these three weeks to have a weekend at home and then go fresh to Valencia with our three riders as Mika (Kallio) is there so let’s just go for it and make a good end to the season.”
In Moto2, KTM had their second 1-2 finish in just one week as Miguel Oliveira took another lights to flag victory aboard his Red Bull Ajo KTM Moto2 with his team mate Brad Binder on his tail in second place. For a motorcycle that had never turned a wheel at the 5.5km race track before Friday morning, the result is even more impressive, just as it was seven days ago in Australia when the two riders took KTM’s debut win in the class.
Oliveira steamed through the heat to have a one second lead within two laps before extending that to four seconds not long after following him resetting the outright lap record on the way.
The win was KTM’s 75th in Grand Prix racing.
Oliveira: "Today I had to give everything, I can hardly speak. This was not the strategy I had in mind before we started, as Franco (Morbidelli) and Brad (Binder) had a very good pace, so my plan was to ride behind them. But I saw that I could give a little more on the first few laps and I went for it. I gave everything I had and I am very proud to have succeeded. At the beginning of the season I did not imagine that we would be able to achieve these results. I thought we would be competitive but not that we would do so well. We deserve this end to the season."
Binder: "At first, during the opening three or four laps, I didn’t feel too comfortable. But little by little I felt stronger as the race progressed; my bike was amazing and I have to thank my team for that. When I saw that it was beginning to rain, I told myself that I had to give everything and get away from Franco (Morbidelli). To finish second is incredible: I want to thank my team again for all the effort they’ve put in, and I’m looking forward to Valencia."
Aki Ajo (Team Manager Moto2): "The Moto2 race was incredible. I don’t know what to say. I don’t think I can even believe it; it is much more than we could have imagined. We are already very motivated to do well in the future, but this result is an extra bonus. This is a long-term project to fight for the World Championship one day, and this is without a doubt the way forward. Again, I want to thank personally and on behalf of the team, the great partners who support us like Red Bull, KTM, and all the partners for letting us be part of this great project. I also want to thank the riders, Miguel (Oliveira) and Brad (Binder). They are just incredible."
Under scorching sunny skies the leading KTM RC250 GP rider over the line was Italian Grand Prix winner Andrea Migno on what was not an easy race for those who didn’t catch the faster guys at the front. A great start for Red Bull Ajo’s Bo Bendsneyder saw him second in the early laps but it was a difficult day for the tall rider who suffered on the long straights where slipstreaming is so essential. Come the flag he was tenth just twelve seconds back of a scintillating battle for the lead. Team mate Niccolo Antonelli had an unlucky tumble when in seventh place leaving the pair to move on to the last race in Spain.
Ajo (Team Manager Moto3): "We expected to be able to fight for the top positions in today's Moto3 race. The start was very good but unfortunately Niccolo (Antonelli) crashed and Bo (Bendsneyder) lost some positions on the last corner, although he fought hard. Finishing the race in the Top 10 is nevertheless a positive result. During the weekend the pace has been quite promising in any case, so now we're going to focus on the last race in Valencia."
Next Race: November 12, 2017 – Circuit Ricardo Tormo (ESP)
Results Race MotoGP Sepang International Circuit 2017
1. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA), Ducati, 44:51.497 min (20 laps)
2. Jorge Lorenzo (ITA), Ducati, +0.743 sec
3. Johann Zarco (FRA), Yamaha, +9.738
4. Marc Marquez (ESP), Honda, +17.763
5. Dani Pedrosa (ESP), Honda, +29.144
10. Pol Espargaro (ESP), KTM, +39.847
12. Bradley Smith (GBR), KTM, +44.602
Standings MotoGP 2017 after 17 of 18 races
1. Marquez, 282 points
2. Dovizioso, 261
3. Maverick Viñales (ESP), Yamaha, 226
4. Valentino Rossi (ITA), Yamaha, 197
5. Pedrosa, 185
16. Espargaro, 55
22. Smith, 24
24. Mika Kallio (FIN), KTM, 11
Results Race Moto2 Sepang International Circuit 2017
1. Miguel Oliveira (POR), KTM, 40:28.955 min (19 laps)
2. Brad Binder (RSA), KTM, +2.387 sec
3. Franco Morbidelli (ITA), Kalex, +6.878
4. Mattia Pasini (ITA), Kalex, +21.774
5. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA), Kalex, +22.086
Standings Moto2 2017 after 17 of 18 races
1. Morbidelli, 288 points (2017 Moto2 World Champion)
2. Tom Luethi (SUI), Kalex, 243
3. Oliveira, 216
4. Alex Marquez (ESP), Kalex, 190
5. Bagnaia, 161
9. Binder, 109
1. Joan Mir (ESP), Honda, 40:15.545 min (18 laps)
2. Jorge Martin (ESP), Honda, +0.724 sec
3. Enea Bastianini (ITA), Honda, +0.763
4. Livio Loi (BEL), Honda, +6.868
5. John McPhee (GBR), Honda, +11.051
6. Andrea Migno (ITA), KTM +11.090
10. Bo Bendsneyder (NED), KTM, +12.062
DNF Niccolo Antonelli (ITA), KTM, +10 laps
Standings Moto3 2017 after 17 of 18 rounds
1. Mir, 321 points
2. Romano Fenati (ITA), Honda, 235
3. Aron Canet (ESP), Honda, 192
4. Martin, 171
5. Fabio Di Giannantonio (ITA), Honda, 153
8. Migno, 118
9. Marcos Ramirez (ESP), KTM, 107
10. Philipp Oettl (GER), KTM, 104
15. Bendsneyder, 61
18. Antonelli, 36
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The staff at the Camden Public Library is “thrilled and proud” of the designation of the Amphitheatre and Library as a National Historic Landmark, according to library director Nikki Maounis. The announcement came on Monday from the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis. A gala celebration of the Amphitheatre and its new National Historic Landmark designation took place on July 13, 2013.
“We are thrilled to be recognized in this way,” said Camden Library Director Nikki Maounis. “I would like to thank Dave Jackson, our Parks Director, who spent several years researching, writing, and presenting this proposal to the National Parks Service. This national designation recognizes Camden’s historical contribution to American arts and culture. The national landmark designation will be invaluable to the library in our ongoing efforts to maintain and preserve this beautiful space for future generations. The designation puts the library on the map, quite literally. And that’s a good thing for public libraries everywhere as well as for the Town of Camden.”
“It’s a dream come true,” responded Dave Jackson.
Maine’s Senators Susan Collins and Angus King praised the announcement that the Camden Amphitheatre and Public Library has been selected as a new national historic landmark. The grounds of the Amphitheatre and library are among the few public projects of Fletcher Steele, one of America’s premier practitioners of 20th-century landscape design. According to the National Historic Landmarks Program, it is an outstanding representation of the contributions made by the landscape architecture profession, private benefactors, and national associations to develop public landscapes in the United States that celebrated natural regional beauty, scenic character, and rich cultural history.
“The Camden Library is a treasure of the Maine coast and is a testament to the pride and determination of the residents of Camden,” said Senators Collins and King in a joint statement. “The Camden Amphitheatre retains its historic integrity, setting, original materials, and the quality of original workmanship and design. It continues to serve its historic purposes, as a public entertainment space, park, and garden for visitors and residents of the Town of Camden.”
The Camden Amphitheatre and Public Library are among 13 new national historic landmarks designated by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. National historic landmarks are nationally significant historic places that possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States.
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The Warren House
PR3D Professional: Dan Smigrod
Built in 1840 by Guy L. Warren, the Warren House has been newly restored to original specifications, retaining many of its historical characteristics. During the Civil War era, the Warren House was a field hospital and headquarters of the Confederate troops. Signatures of convalescing Union soldiers still appear on the walls of the downstairs parlor. The lawn in front of The Warren House was the scene of the historic Battle of Jonesboro which led to the fall of Atlanta and, eventually, the end of the Civil War. The Warren House is now available for filming.
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Capital One Orange Bowl Football Game
$125-$1,000+
Cheer, shout and be wowed at the Capital One Orange Bowl Football Game featuring a team from the Atlantic Coastal Conference (ACC) and the highest ranked available team from the Big 10 or Southeastern Conference (SEC), or Notre Dame.
By: Joel Delgado
The Capital One Orange Bowl is one of Miami's most cherished sports traditions, bringing together thousands of fans from South Florida and around the country to witness one of the most exciting matchups in college football each year.
Most years, the Orange Bowl game features a team from the Atlantic Coastal Conference (ACC) and the highest ranked available team from the Big 10 or Southeastern Conference (SEC), or Notre Dame.
As part of the College Football Playoff rotation, the Orange Bowl also serves as a host site for a playoff semifinal game every three years. The Orange Bowl will host a playoff game in 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Played at the end of December or the beginning of January, the Orange Bowl gives fans an opportunity to escape frigid cold temperatures and enjoy Miami's tropical weather, beaches, nightlife and much more.
Star-Studded History
Since the first Orange Bowl game was played in 1935, the game has featured some of the most important college football games and brought some of the best college football players in the country to South Florida. It is the second oldest bowl game in the nation only the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, has been around longer.
The Orange Bowl has crowned the national champion in thrilling fashion in years past including the memorable 1984 Orange Bowl, when Miami upset Nebraska to win its first national championship. That game is still regarded as one of the greatest college football games ever played.
The game has also featured more than a dozen Heisman Trophy winners and future NFL icons over the course of its illustrious history, giving fans a chance to get a glimpse of the stars of the future.
Before moving into its current home at Hard Rock Stadium in the mid-1990s, the Orange Bowl was played for more than 50 years at the historic Orange Bowl just west of Little Havana.
Fan Fest and More
Leading up to the big game, fans and non-fans alike will be able to take part in a host of festivities around the city to get ready for the main event.
The day before the game, the annual Coaches Luncheon held at the Hilton Miami Downtown will feature the head coaches and key players from both teams competing in the Orange Bowl.
Kicking off the game day festivities on the stadium grounds is the Orange Bowl Fan Fest. All Orange Bowl ticket holders get in for free and can enjoy a lively atmosphere filled with interactive games, sports memorabilia, contests, food and drinks, marching bands and cheerleaders, and performances from some of the hottest entertainers today. Past performers include Phillip Phillips, Jake Owen and Lil Wayne.
Fans sticking around in the days following the game can also enjoy all the New Year's Eve festivities Miami has to offer including the iconic Big Orange Ball Drop at Bayfront Park.
Tickets and Parking
Hard Rock Stadium, which is also home to the Miami Dolphins, recently went through a sweeping modernization that elevates the game day experience for fans.
The 65,000-seat stadium features an open-air canopy roof that protects most fans from rain, four state-of-the-art video boards and great views of the game no matter where you sit.
To see the seating chart and purchase tickets, click here.
Fans who plan on parking at Hard Rock Stadium for the Orange Bowl are encouraged to purchase a parking permit prior to game day and arrive several hours before kickoff to avoid traffic entering into the stadium.
Before game day, Orange parking permits are being sold for $35 ($40 on game day) and Premium Blue parking permits for $50 (not available on game day). To see the parking pricing chart and purchase a parking permit, click here.
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Things To Do In South Dade
By: Shayne Benowitz Apr 12, 2019
Often referred to as Miami’s heartland, South Dade is home to farms and parks that grow exotic fruit and vegetables—and one that even produces its own wine from this tropical bounty. Cushioned by the Everglades to the west, Biscayne Bay to the east and the bustling city to the north, South Dade is where Miami unfurls for a more relaxed pace with the big blue open sky above you. There’s a wide world of discovery where you’ll find everything from NASCAR Championship racetracks to cultural arts centers and animal attractions. Get a taste for a different side of Miami in South Dade with our insider’s guide.
Schnebly Redlands Winery & Brewery
In the heart of South Dade’s farmland Schnebly Redlands Winery & Brewery stands as a massive estate with a novel, subtropical approach to winemaking. Instead of producing wines with grapes, Peter Schnebly, a farmer and packager, who founded the winery in 2004, creates wines out of native tropical fruit, like mangos, lychee, passion fruit, guava, star fruit, coconut and even avocado. A few years later in 2012, he added brewmaster to his to his list of accomplishments when he founded Miami Brewing Company. Today, you can enjoy the lush tropical grounds, the taproom, tasting room and tours of the winery and brewery. They also host parties on the weekend with live music.
The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center opened its doors in October 2011 and ushered in a new era for South Dade. The state-of-the-art venue designed by award-winning architectural firm Arquitectonica is home to a 961-seat main stage theater, as well as a black box theater, lab theater and backyard concert lawn. Dedicated to multi-disciplinary cultural arts, the center stages everything from opera to film, musicals, live music, dance and stand-up comedy, while also acting as a community gathering place with education and outreach at the core of its mission. Check the calendar on your next visit to South Dade and join in the fun.
Farms & Fruit Stands
South Dade is known for is sprawling farms and countryside and many are open to the public seasonally. Robert is Here is a family-owned fruit stand passed down through generations. With a small farm, petting zoo and splash park, this roadside attraction is a staple in the area. You’ll find the freshest and most unusual tropical fruit here, like dragon fruit, lychees, mangos, passion fruit and more. They also whip up frothy frozen shakes and smoothies using their fresh fruit, a perfect antidote to a hot Miami afternoon.
Both Knaus Berry and Burrs Berry Farms are home to acres of strawberry fields, which you can explore to pick your own strawberries. They also specialize in sweet treats like strawberry milkshakes and strawberry shortcake. The cinnamon buns at Knaus Berry Farm have a cult following that city dwellers make a pilgrimage for annually—they’re not to be missed!
ZooMiami
Spanning 340-acres in South Dade with more than 3,000 animals on view, Zoo Miami is a wildly fun attraction. Open-air exhibitions are dedicated to animal habitats from around the world, including Florida’s Everglades, the Amazon, Africa, Australia and Asia. You’ll watch amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles roam freely in a habitat that mimics their native lands and have the opportunity to feed the animals, watch a wildlife show and ride through the zoo on a monorail or tram. It’s a wonderful way for a family to spend an afternoon in South Dade.
Set on 444 sprawling acres on Biscayne Bay, the Deering Estate is a nature preserve and historic estate once owned by wealthy industrialist Charles Deering in 1913. But the property’s historical and archeological significance dates back 50,000 years with fossils and bones revealing remains of Paleo-Indians, Tequestas, Seminoles and Afro-Bahamians. In 1986, Deering Estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places and today, it’s lovingly maintained and operated by the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department on behalf of the State of Florida. Take a tour through the art collection in the main house or embark on a nature walk through hardwood hammocks on your visit.
Taqueria Morelia
Taqueria Morelia is a hidden gem tucked away in a strip mall in South Dade serving some of the most delicious tacos this side of Mexico City. It’s all about the authentic Mexican flavors inside the no frills dining room. Burritos, quesadillas and other specialties are on the menu, but it’s all about the tacos here. Choose from shredded pork, beef, chorizo, chicken and more served inside warm, homemade corn tortillas. There’s also a bar for toppings ranging from diced onion, salsa, jalapeños and fresh lime to add to the flavor.
Homestead Miami Speedway
While the Homestead Miami Speedway hosts the NASCAR Championships in November, the racetrack in South Dade is an action-packed venue year round. Fast Lane Fridays are held once a month where drag racing is legal and open to anyone 18 years and older with a valid driver’s license and proof of registration and insurance. You’ll have the chance to race down the 1,760-foot straight away as many times as you like. Consult the track’s calendar where you’ll find a variety of other events and races, including high performance driver education and coaching, concerts and other fun events.
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While NPAs account for 24 percent of the state’s registered voters, Democrats claim 38 percent, Republicans hold 35 percent, and 3 percent belong to numerous minor parties.
One of every four voters registered in Florida don’t identify with any political party. It’s even more remarkable considering Florida is a closed primary state, which keeps NPAs out of primary elections. Under current law, only when a candidate has no opposition from outside their party can all voters cast a vote in that race in a primary election.
Here’s an example: In a state Senate race there are two Republican candidates and no Democrat or minor party candidate. Under current law, since the winner of the primary will be the elected representative, the primary would be open to all registered voters in that district.
Of course there is a loophole. And it gets capitalized on in nearly every instance.
If a write-in candidate files for that seat, it closes the primary, effectively shutting out the potential majority of the voters who would be represented by the primary winner.
There are very few qualifications for a write-in candidate, thereby making it simple to recruit someone to file the paperwork. There is no qualifying fee, no residency requirement, their name doesn’t appear on the ballot and they don’t have to campaign. Just a blank line on the ballot is enough to close the primary.
A proposed amendment would allow all registered voters to vote in primaries for Congress, the state Legislature, governor and Cabinet.
There have been numerous bipartisan attempts to remove the “write-in loophole” — including one by state Sen. Dave Aronberg and me — but they never get a floor vote for passage. The parties want to maintain the status quo.
Once again, citizens are offering up a fix.
A nonpartisan organization, tired of partisanship — All Voters Vote, Inc. — want to make candidates appeal to a broader electorate, including the state’s 2.9 million NPAs that are currently irrelevant in state primaries.
Their proposed amendment, if passed, would allow all registered voters to vote in primaries for Congress, the state Legislature, governor and Cabinet regardless of the party affiliation of the voters or candidates.
The candidate who receives the most votes and the runner-up would advance to the general election. If a candidate gets more than 50 percent of the votes in the primary — he or she wins the election without a runoff. If the measure makes it to the ballot, it needs 60 percent of the votes to pass. A poll taken over the summer shows 65-70 percent support for the initiative.
Until legislative or constitutional changes occur, NPAs do have an option available to them. Any registered voter in Florida can change their registration to vote in a primary but have to do it 29 days before the primary election.
The deadline to change party registration is February 16 to vote in the March 15 Florida Presidential Preference Primary. The deadline is August 1 for the August 30 primary election for congressional and legislative races.
After the primary election you can change your registration back. While not ideal, it’s worth the effort to participate. Just imagine — with 2.9 million NPA votes at stake — it could make a huge difference.
Paula Dockery is a syndicated columnist who served in the Florida Legislature for 16 years as a Republican from Lakeland.
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Terrorism Threat Level Rises in Brussels After Resistance Demonstrations to Belgium Burqa Law
By Nolan Kraszkiewicz
I am currently studying abroad in Brussels, Belgium for the summer. My purpose for this endeavor is to pursue the study of Islam in the context of European politics. So when I received a quite startling e-mail from the U.S. embassy in Belgium, I knew I was in the crux of this subject.
Here in the last few weeks, Brussels has come under increased safety concerns. Specifically, the U.S. embassy issued another notice that the terrorism threat level has been elevated in light of a recent stabbing attack on Brussels police. The attack was in a metro and is thought to be in response to a police scuffle involving a Muslim woman. The altercation was centered around her resistance to the Belgian burqa ban law, enacted alongside France's last year.
What is Sharia4Belgium? Sharia4Belgium is a radical Muslim organization based in Belgium. According to Sharia4Belgium's website, they were "established to present Islam in its purest form" [Translated from Dutch to English]. Their mission statement includes a renouncement of democracy with the goal of transforming Belgium into an Islamic state.
Where does "Sharia4Belgium" come into the picture? In response to the initial altercation with the Muslim woman and Belgian police, Fouad Belkacem, a controversial figure and spokesman for Sharia4Belgium, entered the mix. Belkacem posted a video on Sharia4Belgium's official YouTube channel commending this woman and calling for a response to the police's actions. However, in this video, Belkacem called for violent responses, for which he was subsequently arrested. It was this call to action that has been cited as the motivation behind the metro stabbings.
Who is Behind this Counter-Demonstration? The email from the U.S. embassy in Belgium cited "[the] FGTB Youth, a socialist student group." The FGTB Youth is a semi-official offshoot of the larger FGTB, a Belgian socialist trade union. FGTB is an acronym for "Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique" [French]. The FGTB Youth's website uses classic themes of Belgian nationalism in their rhetoric. Their goal is to unite Belgium by emphasizing equality and utilizing socialism.
The FGTB's aim with this counter-demonstration is to combat the hatred that Sharia4Belgium has spewed in recent weeks. Furthermore, their aim is to fight fascism. Their motto for this demonstration is, "No fascism in our neighborhoods!"
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Pieris Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 2019 RBC Capital Markets Global Healthcare Conference
BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 14, 2019 / Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIRS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing novel biotherapeutics through its proprietary Anticalin® technology platform for respiratory, cancer and other diseases, announced today that Allan Reine, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will present at the 2019 RBC Capital Markets Global Healthcare Conference in New York, New York on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 11:30 AM (EDT). A webcast of the company's presentation will be available at this link.
About Pieris Pharmaceuticals:
Pieris is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that discovers and develops Anticalin protein-based drugs to target validated disease pathways in a unique and transformative way. Our pipeline includes inhalable Anticalin proteins to treat respiratory diseases, immuno-oncology multi-specifics tailored for the tumor microenvironment, and a half-life-optimized Anticalin protein to treat anemia. Proprietary to Pieris, Anticalin proteins are a novel class of therapeutics validated in the clinic and by partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies. Anticalin® is a registered trademark of Pieris. For more information, visit www.pieris.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, the expected timing of the filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K including our audited financials, references to novel technologies and methods and our business and product development plans, including the advancement of our proprietary and co-development programs into and through the clinic and the expected timing for reporting data or making IND filings related to our programs, and partnering prospects for any such programs. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, our ability to raise the additional funding we will need to continue to pursue our business and product development plans; the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies and operating as a development stage company; our ability to develop, complete clinical trials for, obtain approvals for and commercialize any of our product candidates, including our ability to recruit and enroll patients in our studies; our ability to address the requests of the FDA; competition in the industry in which we operate and market conditions. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factor disclosure set forth in the reports and other documents we file with the SEC available at www.sec.gov, including without limitation the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 and the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dr. Allan Reine
Maria Kelman
SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Director of Investor Relations
reine@pieris.com
kelman@pieris.com
SOURCE: Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Columbus set out to prove the world was round. If he did, he was about 2,000 years too late. Ancient Greek mathematicians had already proven that the Earth was round, not flat. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C.E. was one of the originators of the idea. Aristotle in the fourth century B.C.E.
Geography Fun Facts for Kids on Christopher Columbus – the Route of Christopher. Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas.
Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, was sent on behalf of the Spanish King. such as Leif Erikson, had established routes to the Americas prior to 1492.
Christopher Columbus, a Genoese sailor, believed that sailing west across the. sailed extensively along the coast of South America as a member of both.
However, many of the facts you may have learned about Columbus in school—for instance, that he proved the Earth is round and that he explored North America—are myths. Here are five things you may not.
Apr 9, 2019. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer hired by Spain to. exploring and settling the Americas, and Columbus became both a. That route was now closed and by the 1480s Portugal took the lead in.
Jan 14, 2019 · On May 11, 1502, Christopher Columbus set out on his fourth and final voyage to the New World. He had four ships, and his mission was to explore uncharted areas to the west of the Caribbean, hopefully finding a passage west to the Orient.
May 16, 2019 · Christopher Columbus, Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Colón, (born between August 26 and October 31?, 1451, Genoa [Italy]—died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain), master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas.
Oct 13, 2014. You told us about the Christopher Columbus that didn't appear in your. he discovered America, and if you say otherwise, well, you're just.
Back in 1492, Christopher Columbus voyaged across the America. He entered America through the Atlantic Ocean from Spain. He made a number of four trips in the years 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502. His main objective was to discover a direct route that would connect Asia and Europe via the ocean. We should note that Columbus never discovered such a route.
On this day in 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near the. hoping to find a western trade route to Asia. Instead, his voyage, the first of four he would make, led him to the.
The log of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World. (Translated. Columbus wanted to make a new voyage; he wanted to find a western route from Europe to Asia. Spain paid for Columbus to go back to America for a third time.
Christopher Columbus, of course, was the Italian explorer who set off to find a sea route to India, landed in the Bahamas. but he had no clue that the vast landmass of the Americas lay in between.
May 20, 2019 · Christopher Columbus (c. October 31, 1451–May 20, 1506) was an Italian explorer who led voyages to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. His exploration of these areas paved the way for European colonization.
Monument to Christopher Columbus, Huelva. was to find a sea route to Asia, Columbus finally came to an agreement with King. Sleepy village on the River Tinto from where in 1492 Columbus Set sail westwards and discovered America.
Christopher Columbus: Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to trade for spices). He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504. The First Trip: Columbus sailed for King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain.
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among them Christopher Columbus’ expedition to the Americas and Vasco da Gama’s journey around the southern tip of Africa and on to India at the end of the 15th century, both of which opened up new.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer who discovered* the “New World” of the Americas on an expedition sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain in 1492. After making four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean his efforts initiated European colonization of the New World.
Columbus devised a route to sail west across the Atlantic to reach Asia, believing it would be quicker and safer. He estimated the earth to be a sphere and the distance between the Canary Islands.
Christopher Columbus was actually looking for India because India was the richest nation at that time. It was even called ‘Golden Sparrow’ by mistake he landed on the north coast of America.
When Christopher Columbus. the “newness” of South America. Columbus thought he was discovering some parts of Asia not described by Marco Polo or other Western authorities. He also believed he had.
Christopher Columbus, of course, thought he had arrived in the "Indies," the medieval name for Asia. If Columbus Didn't Discover America, then Who Did?
By the mid-sixteenth century, what empire had established control over eastern Mediterranean routes to trading centers in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa. 50 million.
Aug 11, 1991. We know little about his ships and the men who sailed them. The association between Columbus and America prospered in the 18th century, by sea," he wrote in "Christopher Columbus and the Bank of Saint George.
Benjamin Franklin When He Was Born Benjamin and Deborah's son, Francis, was born two years later. Tragically, ' Franky' died from smallpox when he was four years old. Franklin had been aware. On May 17, 1827,
. in 1492 sailing on behalf of the Spanish crown in a new attempt to find a western route to Asia. 1492-04-30 Christopher Columbus is given royal commission by Spanish. Christopher Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America.
Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Ligurian: Cristoffa Combo, Though he neither discovered the Americas (as they were already inhabited by. reached Asia, contemporary explorers found the Cape Route around Africa.
Even America’s founders are denounced as racists and misogynists. Nor do foreigners enjoy immunity from criticism. Another Columbus Day, another opportunity for angry leftists to denounce Western.
Centuries later in 1492, Christopher Columbus, while searching for a route to the Far East, inadvertently explored some islands in the Caribbean and the South American coastline. The implications were profound for both the Old World and the New World. Europeans benefited from the raw materials brought back from the Americas.
Happy Christopher. crown to find a western route to Asia so it could compete with other European nations in the spice trade. His first voyage was in 1492 when he intended to sail to Japan. Instead,
2 Misattributed; 3 Quotes about Columbus; 4 External links. as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain. What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
According to the Smithsonian, naming the holiday for Christopher Columbus ignores what happened after his arrival, millions of native deaths, forced slavery, and cultural colonization across the.
1492: Christopher. route around the Muslims, but on Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus did make landfall in what is today the Bahamas and the course of history was changed forever. Although it’s long been.
Find out why we celebrate Columbus. the Americas. (Shown above, a statue of Columbus in Lavagna, Genova, Italy.) Monday is Columbus Day, time to buy appliances on sale and contemplate other things.
The Discovery of America at the hands of Christopher Columbus meant that this city enjoyed spectacular economic, social and cultural growth. Seville became.
"Also, he did not discover America." At a school named for Columbus, it’s a day without classes, said Ed Poznek, CEO of Christopher Columbus Charter. So she, too, takes the primary source route,
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was born in the Italian port city of Genoa. Asia by sailing south along the African coast in search of a route to the east, and. ship also landed on the coast of Brazil, giving Portugal a claim in the Americas.
Highlights in history • In 1492, a contract was signed by Christopher Columbus and Spain. four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft while en route to the moon. • In 1993, a.
Are Christopher Columbus' achievements enough to justify having a national. Columbus certainly opened the doorway to the Americas, but in initiating the. Columbus' initial mission was to discover an express route to Asia via the Atlantic.
From the Spanish port of Palos, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail in command of three ships—the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina—on a journey to find a western sea route to China.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen; The. his father had accompanied Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) on his first voyage. If Columbus did not discover America, he did find the best routes for.
Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip. while trying to find a new route to India. But in a disputed article published.
Get an answer for ‘What motivations caused Christopher Columbus to go and explore the new world?’ and find homework help for other Columbus, Christopher questions at eNotes
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The History Of Southern Gospel Music Benjamin Franklin When He Was Born Benjamin and Deborah's son, Francis, was born two years later. Tragically, ' Franky' died from smallpox when he was four years old. Franklin had
When Christopher Columbus. the "newness" of South America. Columbus thought he was discovering some parts of Asia not described by Marco Polo or other Western authorities. He also believed he had.
Archaeologists believe they may have found the wreckage of the Santa Maria, one of the ships Christopher Columbus used to sail the ocean blue en route to the “New World. voyage from Spain to.
Jan 25, 2016. In fact, by discovering America, he indirectly found what he was looking for. Columbus was looking for a westward route to India in the first.
Jul 21, 2016. Christopher Columbus might have discovered America but Christopher. In the 15th century, when Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain,
Abraham Lincoln Signed Parlor Card Auction If I’m searching for a first-edition, rare book signed by Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy. I’ve had to work with auction houses and dealers from around the world to
Did you believe that Christopher Columbus discovered America and that was it. In the past, European explorers and traders had taken the overland route to the Far East, with its precious silks and.
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The publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense on January 10, 1776 in. the final years of his life as an outcast, and died in New York City on June 8, 1809.
DiAngilos Thomas died at St. Mary’s Hospital days later. The cause of death was trauma to the. is facing a mandatory prison term. Paine told Geisler to file the motion in writing and it would be.
Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, Harry; sons, Thomas Rowe (Shelley Wheeler. her four-legged child. She was preceded in death by her parents and her many beloved dogs.
She was preceded in death. date. The Westphal family would like to give a special thank you to Mark Willey and heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to Edgar Butler of New Bern, North Carolina. For.
On that date 48 years ago, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by. We no longer have the cheerful, optimistic President Reagan quoting Thomas Paine’s hubristic claim, "We have it in our power to begin.
Below is Thomas Paine’s outstanding book on God, Deism, Nature, Christianity, the Bible, Judaism, etc., The Age of Reason.It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Deism, Judaism and Christianity as well as for anyone interested in objective and honest Bible study.
Nov 09, 2009 · Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to.
More blatant official references to a deity date from long after the founding period. Founding Fathers were not Christians at all. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine were deists–that.
Thomas Paine Common Sense [1776] Introduction. Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides.
His death was announced by the museum. it has drawn more than eight million visitors to date and includes art by Frank Gehry, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Noguchi and George Segal. (Mr. Friedman.
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two.
Written by Stephen C. O’Neill, Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society "The law shall have its course. I will live and die by the law."–Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson
Death and the Word of God: “The Apple and Adam” I have entitled this message “The Apple and Adam,” but I can just hear someone say: “Don’t you know that it wasn’t an apple that Adam ate?”
(The Gardner family of Salem are descendants of Thomas. until his death in 1904. A little further down the street at No. 29, lived Eben C. Paine who peddled tinware, later becoming a watchman at.
Sep 19, 2018 · Can you name the facts about the United States Independence Day?
We would like to find their birth records, the date. and that Thomas and Alvani Mason were Henry’s parents. Since there are not vital records for Lexington County or the state early enough to give.
Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, who dominate our afternoon ambrosia klatches with their tirades against the evils of inherited wealth. (Smith would also like it pointed out that,
Her body was cremated and private services will be held at a later date. in death by her husband, Clyde, in 1973; two brothers, Kenneth and Floyd Ingebritson; and one brother-in-law, Raymond Buck.
He said he has been reading about the issue since his selection and was disheartened by the death of 16-year-old Devonshay Lofton. managing partner of Paine Hamblen. Cupich also caused a stir with.
LOOKING back over the nearly 40 years since I first found myself immersed in a Flashman story, perhaps the single most striking thing about the experience is the date. It somehow didn. most.
Enjoy the best Thomas Paine Quotes at BrainyQuote. whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers. Mss.B.P165. He died on June 8, 1809 in New York City and was buried on his farm after sacred ground was refused. Ten years later. About the sent "battau" and Paine's planned date of arrival to New York. Paine. About the death of Paine's wife. Paine.
Oct 29, 2009 · Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America’s early development. During the.
Saint Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s /; Italian: Tommaso d’Aquino, lit."Thomas of Aquino"; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.He is an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis.
Jan 29, 2009. This was a significant date and a significant year and for the same reason, This year is the bicentennial of the death of Thomas Paine.
Declaration Of Independence Movie National Treasure is a 2004 American adventure film produced and released by Walt Disney. A coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of
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Synopsis. Thomas Hobbes, born in Westport, England, on April 5, 1588, was known for his views on how humans could thrive in harmony while avoiding the perils and fear of societal conflict.
Indeed, Madison, Paine, Washington, and even preceding English philosophers each had a similar conception of the “commons.” The commons is merely those resources and public utilities that all members.
What, then, was Thomas Paine's connection with the Masonic Order?. of English government,[iii] argued against the death penalty,[iv] participated in France's. There is no specific date known on which he joined nor a specific lodge to which.
These Are The Times: A Life of Thomas Paine is an original screenplay by Trevor. Thomas Paine died in Greenwich Village 200 years ago this week, a long way. Date to be announced – Thomas Paine Collection from the Working Class.
A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas: His Coming to Virginia and the Estate of that Colony Then and After, under the Government of the Lord La Warr, July 15, 1610, written by William Strachey, Esquire
Nov 30, 2006. Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man': A Biography by Christopher Hitchens. Will Paine help us adjudicate between the rights of those who died in the. on the Bible, too preoccupied with supposedly out-of-date questions like the.
More than two centuries before the enlightened idealism of a Paine or a Jefferson emerged. the common depiction of Blake as an esoteric mystic who anticipates Thomas Altizer’s death-of-god theology.
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He has variously advocated crushing cars and leaving them on speeding drivers’ front lawns, chemical castration for sex offenders, and the re-introduction of the death penalty. 19th-century.
More blatant official references to a deity date from long after the founding period. key Founding Fathers were not Christians at all. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine were deists.
He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Alma (Clough) Paine Sr.; four sisters, Mina, Doris, Florence and Effie; four brothers, Bert, Clarence (Punk), Paul and Bill; and his beloved dog,
Thomas Paine. Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet. Original date: 1999/7/27 — Last updated 2019/5/ 24.
Dock worker Arthur Paine. occupation and date of death or recovery. It also provided insight into living conditions, recording the number of people living in the same residence or workplace of the.
In fact, framing 9/11 through an empathetic lens is largely due to two friends, David Paine and Jay Winuk. began lobbying Congress to make September 11 an official date of citizenship, volunteerism.
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