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Mission Survival 4: Tracks of the Tiger
Written by Bear Grylls
Part of the Mission Survival Series
Mission Survival 4: Tracks of the Tiger Synopsis
MISSION: Survival LOCATION: The Indonesian jungle DANGERS: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded and must flee from red-hot lava and molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to stay alive, he must make his way acrossthe jungle to safety - travelling right through the heart of tiger territory . . . The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS.
Publication date: 4th February 2010
Author: Bear Grylls
Publisher: Red Fox an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Pagination: 320 pages
About Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls' prime-time TV adventure series are some of the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries. Bear has authored twelve books, including the international bestseller Mud, Sweat and Tears, which has been translated into thirteen languages and was voted the most influential book in China in 2012. He originally served as a Trooper with 21 SAS, as part of the UK Reserve Special Forces, and subsequently led many record-breaking expeditions to the world's extremes, raising millions of pounds for children's charities. In recognition of this Bear was made an honorary Lieutenant Commander in the ...
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View Points
Devolution may be our alpha-bet
Viewpoint - 07/09/2015
If you had to name just one company as the poster child of innovation, you’d be hard-pressed to think beyond Google.
“We’ve long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.”
So wrote CEO Larry Page in response to the announcement recently that Google plans to radically shake up its business structure. The ubiquitous search engine has, effectively, been demoted to being a subsidiary of a holding company, Alphabet, implying that it will no longer be the company’s principal focus.
The announcement made front page news across the technology and financial press, but did it resonate with you? If not, the story is well worth a second look. You don’t have to read too far between the lines to see the subtext: Google is diversifying, and it has set its sights on the property industry too.
As part of Google’s restructuring, the company has separated its core search and advertising company from the growth businesses which it sees as its future. Many of these businesses are involved in Smart Building and Smart City technologies and have huge potential to shape our industry.
For example, Google’s Nest team has been producing self-learning, energy-efficient thermostats and appliances for smart buildings since 2011. Up until now the market has primarily been focused on domestic applications, and I know that it’s something that my colleagues at Countrywide are looking at seriously. Yet as the technology matures and is adopted in commercial property, the impact of smart energy use could be enormous as it drives a significant reduction in building running costs.
Consider one of Google’s ‘moonshot’ projects: driverless cars. In the not-so-distant future autonomous vehicles may have cut the number of cars on our roads by 50%. How will this affect investments in transport infrastructure, commuting patterns and the viability of development sites?
Smart technology and the ‘Internet of Things’ has the potential to change everything. But new technology isn’t the only challenge that will require innovative responses from our sector.
Perhaps not quite as exciting as driverless cars, but a lot closer to home, are the government’s plans for greater local autonomy, laid out in the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill. Devolution provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to shape the future of the UK.
The potential for radical change at the local government level has the power to affect the planning process, create new revenue streams and revitalise our high streets and town centres. The property industry needs to respond to this opportunity and position itself at the forefront of this debate to drive prosperity in the UK.
That’s why we've launched the Lambert Smith Hampton Enterprise Award. In its inaugural year, the £15,000 award asks entrants to consider how innovative thinking from the property industry make devolved government a success, whether by creating new income for local authorities, realigning incentives to kick-start regeneration projects, tackling local housing shortages or any of the myriad other challenges facing the sector.
Award entries will be judged by Sir Eddie Lister, Tom Bloxham MBE, Melanie Leech, Waheed Nazir, Liz Hamson and myself, and we hope to encourage the most enterprising, creative and best thinking our industry can offer.
Google’s announcement shows that as an industry we need to constantly look to the future. We hope you will consider entering and that, as a result, the Award plays its own small part in fostering enterprise and innovation throughout the sector.
To find out more about the Enterprise Award, or to submit an entry ahead of the 30 September deadline, visit www.lsh.co.uk/EnterpriseAward
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Texas Tech regents discuss $500M Michigan St. settlement
By Karen Michael A-J Media
Michigan State University was not on the agenda for the Texas Tech Board of Regents this month, but regents had questions for Chancellor Robert Duncan in the wake of Michigan State's $500 million settlement with survivors of victims of a sports doctor at the school.
"The $500 million impact to Michigan State is a big impact. How can we, as regents, be comfortable looking at everything ... to make sure that none of these abuses have occurred or are occurring?" Regent John B. Walker asked the chancellor May 17 as he wrapped up a report to the board on strategic plans for the Tech System.
Duncan replied that the thing that keeps him up at night is imagining seeing a newspaper article about an occurrence that he knew nothing about. But he said part of the university system's risk management efforts is talking about things like this.
According to the Associated Press, Michigan State University agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex-abuse case in sports history. The deal was announced Wednesday, and surpasses a $100 million-plus settlement paid by Penn State University to settle claims by at least 35 people who accused assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse. Michigan State was accused of ignoring or dismissing complaints about Nassar, some as far back as the 1990s.
"We stay on top of that. But it's learning about it, and the most important thing you do is, when you learn about it, act on it. I think that's kind of the policy we have here," Duncan said. "But I agree, as regents, I think you should require us to give you updates on what we're doing to prevent those sort of things, and what are our strategic plans to address those kinds of risks."
Duncan said Tech System institutions have overhauled their Title IX policies in the last few years.
"This is something I know each of the presidents take very seriously," Duncan said. "Athletics is a very high risk area in these kinds of things. This is a risk we do have, but one that I think we're on top of."
John Huffaker, vice chancellor and general counsel of the Tech System, said when the university hears of any issue it is quickly investigated.
"It's been my experience that there is no shirking away from investigations," Huffaker said.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center President Tedd Mitchell said the university has an active hotline for misconduct issues. But he said at Penn State, Michigan State and Baylor, officials knew about a problem and did not act on it.
"We've learned a lot from those institutions," Duncan said. He said the culture of the country is changing, and officials need to pay attention to conduct that's not acceptable.
"It would seem that we need to have a culture of, "See something, say something," Regent Ronnie Hammonds said, urging the university officials to act on any information they receive. "Do not let it fester."
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My Brother's Name is Jessica
Author(s): John Boyne
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at football, and girls are falling over themselves to date him.
But then one evening Jason calls his family together to tell them that he's been struggling with a secret for a long time. A secret which quickly threatens to tear them all apart. His parents don't want to know and Sam simply doesn't understand.
Because what do you do when your brother says he's not your brother at all? That he thinks he's actually . . . your sister?
A stunning and timely new novel from the multi-million bestselling and award-winning author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
John Boyne is the author of eleven novels for adults, five for young readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his bestselling book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John's other novels, notably The Heart's Invisible Furies, and A Ladder to the Sky, have been widely praised and are international bestsellers. He lives in Dublin.
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
Author : John Boyne
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PHIL SPENCER ANNOUNCES TOP AGENTS IN THE UK
Mark Ewin Estate Agents wins award at The ESTAS, the most prestigious estate & letting< agent awards in the UK sponsored by Zoopla
The Bury St Edmunds based agency received the Gold in the East of England, Norfolk and Suffolk at the prestigious ESTAS 2017. The award was announced by Phil Spencer, the TV property expert at a lavish luncheon & ceremony at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane London attended by 1,000 of the UK’s top property professionals.
The awards, celebrating their 14th year determine the best estate and letting agents in the UK based purely on feedback from customers who are asked a series of questions about the service they have received from their agent, over 34,000 surveys were completed by customers during the competition.
Phil Spencer, who has hosted the ESTAS every year since their inception in 2003 said “This industry doesn’t get enough credit for the work it does in helping millions of customers around the UK and making their dreams come true and at The ESTAS we want to highlight that fact.” Addressing the audience he added “if you make it up on stage today you can leave in the knowledge that you’ve achieved the highest accolade our industry can offer.”
Estate and letting agents were recognised in 23 regions around the UK. National Grand Prix Awards were also announced for the Best Single Agent Office in sales and lettings.
Simon Brown Founder of The ESTAS said “Like it not we live in a world where the consumer decision making process is influenced more and more by customer reviews so The ESTAS provides a kite mark of excellent service for any property professional involved in the home moving process.”
Mark Goddard, Managing Director of ZPG’s Property division commented, “We have had a long-term relationship with the ESTAS and we are delighted to have committed to the ESTAS again going forward. ZPG's objectives are precisely aligned with those of the ESTAS, which are to help agents across the UK market themselves efficiently and help them win business. Many congratulations to all of this year's winners and runners up who have been recognised for the excellent standard of customer service they delivered throughout the year."
Mark Ewin said “We are delighted to be recognised at this year’s ESTAS. To win this award means so much to us as we know it’s our customers who have reviewed our performance and taken the time and effort to vote for us. We always take customer service very seriously because we know clients have a choice. We always try and deliver a personal service and this proves we are delivering what we promise”
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Speech at Second All-Russia Conference of
Organisers Responsible for Rural Work[1]
Delivered: 12 June, 1920
First Published: 1920; in the pamphlet Speech by V. I. Lenin at the Second All-Russia Conference of Organisers Responsible for Rural Work; Published according to the pamphlet text
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 31, pages 168-180
Translated: Julius Katzer
Transcription\HTML Markup: David Walters & R. Cymbala
Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Comrades, I am very glad to be able to greet you who have come to this conference to discuss work in the rural areas. Permit me first to dwell briefly on the international position of the Soviet Republic and our tasks in connection with it, and then to say a few words about the tasks in the rural districts, which, in my opinion, should now assume prime importance to Party workers.
As regards the Republic’s international standing, you are of course well aware of the main facts about the Polish offensive. An incredible number of lies are being spread on this subject abroad, due to the so-called freedom of the press, which consists in all the most important organs of the press abroad being bought up by the capitalists, and being filled 99 per cent with articles by mercenary hacks. That is what they call freedom of the press, due to which there is no limit to the lies that are being spread. With regard to the Polish offensive in particular, they are trying to make out that the Bolsheviks presented impossible demands to Poland and launched an offensive, whereas you all know very well that we fully consented even to the immense frontiers held by the Poles before the offensive began. We set more store by the lives of our Red Army men than by a war for Byelorussia and Lithuania, which the Poles had seized. We declared in the most solemn terms—not only in the name of the Council of People’s Commissars, but also in a special manifesto of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee,[2] the supreme body in the Soviet Republic—we declared to the Polish Government, to the bourgeois and landowner government, besides appealing to the Polish workers and peasants, that we proposed negotiations for peace on the basis of the front that existed at the time, i.e., the front that left Lithuania and Byelorussia— non-Polish territory—in the hands of the Poles. We were and still are convinced that the Polish landowners and capitalists will be unable to retain foreign territory, and that we shall gain more even from the most unfavourable peace, since we shall save the lives of our Red Army men, and every month of peace makes us ten times as strong, whereas to every other government, including the bourgeois government of Poland, every month of peace means greater and greater disintegration. Although our peace proposals were very far-reaching, and although certain very hasty and, as far as talking goes, highly revolutionary revolutionaries, even called our proposals Tolstoyan—when, as a matter of fact, the Bolsheviks’ actions have, I think, shown sufficiently that there is not a jot of Tolstoyanism in us—we considered it our duty, in the face of such a thing as war, to show that we were prepared to make the maximum possible concessions, and especially to show that we would not wage war for boundaries for which so much blood had been spilt, since to us that was a matter of little significance.
We were prepared to make concessions no other government can make; we offered Poland territory which it would be useful to compare with that described in a document published yesterday, I think, and coming from the supreme organ of the Allies, the British, French and other imperialists, in which Poland’s eastern frontiers are indicated.[3]
These capitalists in Britain and France imagine that it is they who lay down boundaries. But, thank goodness, there are others besides them who do that—the workers and peasants have learnt to establish their boundaries themselves.
These capitalists have fixed the Polish boundaries much farther to the west than those we proposed. This document, coming from the Allies in Paris, is clear proof that they have arrived at a deal with Wrangel. They assure us that they want peace with Soviet Russia, that they support neither Poland nor Wrangel. We, however, say that it is an unscrupulous lie with which they are trying to shield themselves; for they say that they are not supplying any more arms, when as a matter of fact they are supplying them just as they did several months ago. Today’s reports state that rich trophies have been captured—a carload of new British machine guns; Comrade Trotsky reports that brand new French cartridges were captured the other day. What other confirmation do we need that Poland is acting with the aid of British and French equipment, with the aid of British and French cartridges, that she is acting with the aid of British and French money? If they now declare that Poland will herself establish her eastern borders, then that is in consequence of a direct deal with Wrangel. That is obvious to anybody. The entire situation makes it perfectly clear that the Polish landowners and bourgeoisie are fighting exclusively with the aid of the British and the French. The latter, however, are lying brazenly, just as they did when they assured us that they had not sent Bullitt, until he finally returned to America and came out and published the documents he had gathered here.
These gentlemen, these capitalist tradesmen, cannot act contrary to their nature. That is obvious. They can only reason like tradesmen. When our diplomats do not act like tradesmen, and when we say that the lives of our Red Army men are more precious to us than any vast boundary changes they, of course, with their purely tradesmen’s reasoning, cannot understand it. When, a year ago, we proposed to Bullitt a treaty which was extremely favourable to them and extremely unfavourable to us, a treaty that would have left huge territories in the hands of Denikin and Kolchak, we did so in the certainty that, if peace were concluded, the whiteguard government would never be able to retain power.
With their tradesmen’s reasoning, they could only interpret this as a confession of our weakness. “If the Bolsheviks agree to such a peace,” they argued, “it must mean that they are at their last gasp.” And the bourgeois press exulted, the diplomats rubbed their hands with glee, and millions of pounds sterling were advanced to Kolchak and Denikin. True, they did not give them hard cash, but supplied them with arms at usurious prices, fully convinced that the Bolsheviks could not cope with them at all. The upshot was that Kolchak and Denikin were routed and their hundreds of millions of pounds went up in smoke. We are now getting trainload after trainload of excellent British equipment; you can often meet entire divisions of Russian Red Army men clad in excellent British uniforms; the other day a comrade who arrived from the Caucasus told me that an entire division of Red Army men are wearing Italian bersagliere uniforms. I am very sorry that I am unable to show you photographs of these Russian Red Army men clad in bersagliere uniforms. All I can say is that, after all, the British equipment has been of some use and that Russian Red Army men are grateful to the British tradesmen who have fitted them out because they reasoned like tradesmen, and who have been thrashed, are being thrashed, and will be thrashed time and time again. (Applause.)
We find the same thing with the Polish offensive. This is another instance of God (if he exists, of course) first depriving of reason those whom he would punish. The Entente is undoubtedly headed by very shrewd men, excellent politicians, yet these people commit folly after folly. They raise up against us one country after another, enabling us to smash them one by one. Why, if only they succeeded in uniting—and they do have the League of Nations and there is no corner of the earth to which their military power does not extend. Nobody, it would seem, could unite all the enemy forces better and launch them against the Soviets. Yet they cannot unite them. They go into battle part by part. They merely threaten, boast and bluff. Six months ago they declared that they had mustered fourteen states against the Soviets, and that in a matter of months they would be in Moscow and Petrograd. But today I received a pamphlet from Finland, containing the reminiscences of a certain whiteguard officer about the offensive against Petrograd; prior to that I received a statement of protest from several Russians of the Cadet brand, members of the North-Western Government, which tells of how certain British generals invited them to a conference and suggested to them through an interpreter, and sometimes in excellent Russian, that they should form a government right away, on the spot—a Russian government, of course, a democratic government, it goes without saying, in the spirit of the Constituent Assembly—and how they were told to sign on the dotted line. And, though they were bitter enemies of the Bolsheviks, these Russian officers, these Cadets, were outraged by the brazen insolence of the British officers, who dictated to them, and ordered them, in a tone of a drill sergeant (and only like a Russian one can), to sign what they were told to—and they go on to relate how the whole affair fell through. I regret that we are unable to give extensive distribution to these documents, to these confessions of whiteguard officers who took part in the advance on Petrograd.
Why is that so? It is because their League of Nations is a league only in name; in fact it is a pack of wolves that are all the time at each other’s throats and do not trust one another in the least.
As a matter of fact, they are even now boasting that Latvia, Rumania and Finland will join Poland in the at tack; it is clear from the diplomatic negotiations that when Poland began her offensive the powers that were conducting peace negotiations with us changed their tone, and came out with statements whose insolence was sometimes amazing. They reason like tradesmen—and you can not expect anything else from a tradesman. It seemed to them that this was the time to square accounts with Soviet Russia, so they turned high and mighty. Let them do so. We have seen the same thing in the case of other states, far bigger ones, but we have paid no heed to that because, as experience has shown, all the threats from Finland, Rumania, Latvia and the other bourgeois states that are wholly dependent on the Entente, have come to nought. Poland signed a treaty only with Petlyura, a general without an army, which has evoked even greater bitterness among the Ukrainian population and has induced more and more semi-bourgeois elements to side with Soviet Russia. So, once again, instead of a general offensive, you have isolated action by Poland alone. And now we see that although our forces had to spend a lot of time on the move because they were farther away from the frontiers than the Poles were and we needed more time to bring up our troops, the latter have begun to advance. Some days ago our cavalry captured Zhitomir. Our forces have cut the last road linking Kiev with the Polish front both in the south and the north, which means that the Poles have lost Kiev irrevocably. At the same time we learn that Skólski has resigned, that the Polish Government are in a state of uncertainty and agitation and are already declaring that they will offer us new peace terms. Just as you please, you landowner and capitalist gentlemen! We will give the Polish peace terms due consideration. What we see is that their government are waging war against the wishes of their own bourgeoisie; that the Polish National Democrats,[4] who correspond to our Cadets and Octobrists—the most bitter counter-revolutionary landowners and bourgeois—are opposed to the war, for they realise that they cannot win such a war, and that it is being run by Polish adventurers, by the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Polish Socialist Party,[5] people marked most by features characterising the Socialist-Revolutionaries, namely, revolutionary talk, boastfulness, patriotism, chauvinism, buffoonery and sheer claptrap. We are familiar with such people. When, after they have bitten off more than they can chew in this war, they begin to reshuffle their Cabinet and to say that they propose peace talks to us, we say: “Just as you please, gentlemen, have a try. We, however, are counting only on the Polish workers and peasants. We shall also talk peace, only not with you, the Polish landowners and bourgeois, but with the Polish workers and peasants, and we shall see what will come of such negotiations.”
Comrades, despite the successes we are gaining on the Polish front, the position at present demands every effort of us. The most dangerous thing in a war that breaks out in conditions like those in the present war with Poland is to underrate the enemy and to reassure ourselves with the thought that we are the stronger. That is a most dangerous thing, which may lead to defeat in the war; it is the worst feature in the Russian character, which expresses itself in enervation and flabbiness. It is important, not only to begin but to carry on and hold out; that is what we Russians are not good at. Only by long training, through a proletarian disciplined struggle against all wavering and vacillation, only through such endurance can the Russian working masses be brought to rid themselves of this bad habit.
We have given Kolchak, Denikin and Yudenich a sound thrashing, but we have not yet finished the job. Wrangel is still in the Crimea. We said to ourselves: “Well, now we are the stronger” —and that has led to instance after instance of slackness and slovenliness. Meanwhile, Wrangel is receiving aid from Great Britain. This is done through traders, but it cannot be proved. Only the other day he landed troops and captured Melitopol. True, according to the latest reports we have re-captured it; but in this case, too, we had let it slip from our hands most shamefully just because we were strong. Just because Yudenich, Kolchak and Denikin have been smashed, the Russian begins to reveal his nature and take things easy, with the result that we let things slide. His slovenliness leads to tens of thousands of his comrades losing their lives. Here is a fundamental Russian trait: when not a single job has been carried through to the end he is apt to let things slide unless he is prodded. This trait must be ruthlessly combated, for it leads to tens of thousands of the finest Red Army men and peasants losing their lives, and the continued sufferings of famine. And so, though we are stronger than the Poles, our slogan in the war that has been imposed on us must be—an end to all slackness! Since war has proved inevitable, everything must be devoted to the war effort; the least slackness or lack of drive must be punished by wartime laws. War means war, and let nobody in the rear or in any peaceful occupation dare shirk this duty!
The slogan must be—everything for the war effort! Otherwise we shall be unable to cope with the Polish nobles and bourgeoisie. To finish with this war, we must teach a conclusive lesson to the last of the neighbouring powers that still dares to play at this game. We must give them so severe a lesson that they will warn their children, their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren to refrain from such things. (Applause.) And so, comrades, at every meeting, assembly and business conference, in all groups at all party institutions and on all executive bodies, it is the prime duty of those who are working in the countryside, of propagandists and agitators, and all the comrades engaged in any field of peaceful labour to give top priority and full effect to the slogan: “Everything for the war effort!”
Until complete victory is won in this war, we must guarantee ourselves against the errors and follies we have been committing for years. I do not know how many mistakes a Russian has to make before he learns his lesson. We have already had an instance of our thinking that the war was over before we had crushed the enemy, and we left Wrangel in the Crimea. I repeat, the slogan, “Everything for the war effort!” must be the chief item on the agenda at every conference, at every meeting, on every executive body.
We must ask ourselves: have we bent every effort, have we made every sacrifice to bring the war to an end? This is a question of saving the lives of tens of thousands of our finest comrades, who are perishing at the front, in the foremost ranks. It is a matter of saving ourselves from the famine which is imminent just because we are not fighting the war to a finish, when we can and must do that and quickly, too. For this, discipline and subordination must be enforced at all costs and with the utmost severity. The least condonement, the least slackness displayed here, in the rear, in any peaceful pursuit, will mean the loss of thousands of lives, and starvation in the rear.
That is why faults like these must be treated with ruthless severity. That is the first and principal lesson to be drawn from the civil war in Soviet Russia. It is the first and principal lesson which every Party worker must bear in mind under all circumstances, especially if his job is one of agitation and propaganda; he must know that he will be a worthless Communist and a traitor to the Soviet state if he does not, in respect to every shortcoming, however slight, implement this slogan with inflexible firmness and with ruthless determination. If this condition is observed, an early victory will be assured, and we shall be fully guaranteed against famine.
We receive reports about the situation in the outlying regions, from comrades arriving from remote parts of the country. I have seen comrades from Siberia, and also Comrades Lunacharsky and Rykov, who have returned from the Ukraine and the North Caucasus. They speak with boundless amazement of the wealth of these regions. In the Ukraine pigs are being fed on wheat; in the Northern Caucasus the peasant women, when selling milk, rinse their cans with milk. Trainloads of wool, leather and other wealth are on their way from Siberia; tens of thousands of poods of salt are lying in Siberia. In our parts, on the other hand, the peasants have been worn down, and refuse to give grain in exchange for paper money, which, as they see it, cannot restore their farms. Here, in Moscow, we may find starving workers carrying on at their machines. The continuation of the war is the chief obstacle to our keeping the workers better fed and restoring their shattered health. Just because we have slipped up on the Crimea, tens of thousands will go short of food for another six months. This is all due to poor organisation and discipline on our part. People here are dying, while in the Ukraine, in the North Caucasus and in Siberia we have wealth untold, with which we could feed the hungry workers and restore industry. To restore our economic life, we need discipline. The proletarian dictatorship should display itself primarily in the advanced, the most class-conscious and most disciplined of the urban and industrial workers—the greatest sufferers from hunger who have made great sacrifices during these two years—educating, training and disciplining all the other proletarians, who are often not class-conscious, and all working people and the peasantry. All sentimentality, all claptrap about democracy must be scrapped. Let us leave the claptrap to the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks; they have spoken enough about democracy to Kolchak, Denikin and Yudenich. Let them clear out and go over to Wrangel. He will complete their schooling. But that schooling must be given to those who have not yet learnt the lesson.
We maintain that the workers who have assumed the burdens and have ensured the tranquility and strength of the Soviets through their untold sacrifices, should regard themselves as a vanguard that will raise up the rest of the working masses by education and discipline. We know that the working man, as we have inherited him from capitalism, is in a state of utter benightedness and ignorance, and does not realise that work can be done, not only under the lash of capital, but also under the guidance of the organised worker. He is, however, capable of believing all that if we demonstrate it in practice. The working man cannot learn that from books but he can learn it if we demonstrate it to him in practice: he will have either to work under the guidance of the class-conscious industrial worker, or submit to the yoke of Kolchak, Wrangel and the rest. And so, we must, at any cost, have the strictest discipline, and conscious performance of what the vanguard of the proletariat prescribes, of what it has learnt from its hard experience. If all steps are taken for the achievement of our aim, that will fully guarantee our emergence from the economic chaos and disruption caused by the imperialist war. Grain collections yielded 30,000,000 poods in the season following August 1, 1917, and 110,000,000 poods in the season following August 1918. That shows that we have begun to emerge from our difficulties. Since August 1,1919, over 150,000,000 poods have been brought in to date. That shows that we are making it. But we have not yet properly seen to the Ukraine, the North Caucasus and Siberia. If that is done we shall really be able to provide the worker with a good two pounds of bread a day.
I should also like to dwell, comrades, on a question of importance to you, rural Party workers, with whom I am in some measure acquainted from Party documents. I want to tell you that instruction, Party activities, agitation and propaganda will be your principal work. One of the main shortcomings in this work is that we do not know how to run state affairs, and that with our comrades, even with those who are in charge of work here, the habits of the old underground conditions are still too strong, i.e., habits of the time when we used to gather in small circles here or abroad, and did not have the slightest idea or inkling of how the work of the state has to be carried on. That, however, is something we have got to know, for we must remember that we have to govern millions. Any person in authority who goes to the rural districts, as delegate or representative of the Central Committee, must remember that we have a tremendous machinery of state which is still functioning poorly because we do not know how to run it properly. In the rural districts there are hundreds of thousands of teachers who are browbeaten and intimidated by the kulaks, or who have been frightened out of their wits by the old tsarist officials, and cannot understand, are not in a position to understand, the principles of Soviet government. We have a huge military apparatus. Without the military commissars we would not have had a Red Army.
We also have the apparatus of the Vsevobuch,[6] which, together with its military functions, should be carrying on cultural work, should be educating the peasants. This state machinery functions very poorly; it contains no really devoted and convinced people, no real Communists. And you, who are going to the rural districts as Communists, must work not in isolation from this apparatus, but, on the contrary, in close conjunction with it. Every Party agitator who goes to a rural district must at the same time be an inspector of schools: not an inspector in the old sense of the word, not in the sense of meddling in educational affairs—that must not be permitted—but in the sense of co-ordinating his work with that of the People’s Commissariat of Education, with the work of the Vsevobuch, with the work of the military commissars; he must regard himself as representative of the state, as representative of a party that is governing Russia. When he comes to a rural district he must not only act as propagandist and teacher; he must at the same time see to it that the school-teachers, who have never heard a living word, and those scores and hundreds of military commissars, all play a part in the Party agitator’s work. Every school-teacher should have agitational pamphlets, and should not only have them, but read them to the peasants. He should know that he will lose his job unless he does that. The same applies to the military commissars; they should have these pamphlets and read them out to the peasants.
The Soviet government employs hundreds of thousands of office workers, who are either bourgeois or semi-bourgeois, or else have been so downtrodden that they have absolutely no confidence in our Soviet government, or feel so far removed from that government that they think it is somewhere far-off, over there in Moscow, while next to them are the kulaks, who have grain, but hold on to it and will not let them have any, so that they are starving. Here the Party worker has a double job. He must remember that he is not only a propagandist, that he must not only come to the assistance of the most downtrodden strata of the population—that is his principal job, not to do which means that he is no Party worker and has no right to call himself a Communist—but that, in addition, he must act as a representative of the Soviet government, he must establish contacts with the teachers, and co-ordinate his work with that of the People’s Commissariat of Education. He must not be an inspector in the sense of exercising control and supervision; he must act as a representative of the governing Party, which is now administering all Russia through part of the proletariat; in this capacity he must remember that his job is one of instruction, and that he must enlist and educate all the teachers and military commissars to do the same work as his. They are not familiar with this work; you must teach it to them. They are at present defenceless against the well-fed peasant. You must help them to shake off this dependence. You must firmly remember that you are not only propagandists and agitators, but also representatives of the state; you must not destroy the existing apparatus, or interfere with it and muddle its organisation, but must organise your work so that, as efficient instructors, propagandists and agitators, even after a brief period of work in the rural districts, you will leave your mark, not only in the papers of the peasant Communists you have educated, but also in the minds of the people whose work you inspect and guide, and to whom you give assignments, demanding that every teacher and military commissar should work in the Soviet spirit under all circumstances, that he should know that this is his duty, that he must remember that if he does not perform that duty, he will lose his job; they should all sense and see in every agitator a fully empowered representative of the Soviet government.
If this is done, and if you employ your forces properly, you will multiply them, with the result that every body of agitators will leave a mark behind them in the shape of an apparatus of organisation, which already exists, but as yet functions imperfectly and unsatisfactorily.
In this sphere too, as in all others, I wish you success. (Prolonged applause.)
[1] Called by the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), the Second All-Russia Conference of Organisers Responsible for Rural Work was held in Moscow from June 10 to 15, 1920. It was attended by gubernia, uyezd and volost organisers for rural work, a total of over 300 delegates from 61 gubernias. The third meeting of the Conference, held on June 12, was addressed by Lenin. M. I. Kalinin greeted the delegates on behalf of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee.
A report on the activities of the Department for Rural Work under the Party’s Central Committee was made by V. I. Nevsky. The Conference adopted a resolution on this report; it dressed the importance of Party work in the countryside, and expressed the firm confidence that “the Department for Rural Work will unswervingly carry out the directive of the Party’s Ninth Congress, on improving agitation and propaganda work among the peasantry” (see Rezolutsii Vtorogo Vserossiiskogo Soveshchaniya rabotnikov v derevne. [Resolutions of the Second All-Russia Conference of Party Rural Workers ], Moscow, 1920, pp. 4-5). Reports from the various localities were also heard, and organisational and other matters discussed. The Conference adopted an appeal “To All Workers of the World” , greeting the British, Hungarian, Italian and other workers who had decided to prevent the dispatch of troops and military supplies to help bourgeois-landowner Poland in her war against Soviet Russia.
[2] Lenin is referring to the Declaration by the R.S.F.S.R. Council of People’s Commissars addressed to the Government of Poland and the Polish people, made on January 28, 1920, and the Appeal of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee to the Polish people on February 2, 1920.
[3] The reference is to the declaration of the Entente’s Supreme Council “On the Temporary Eastern Borders of Poland” , made on December 8, 1919, and published on June 11, 1920, in the newspaper Izvestia No. 125.
[4] National Democrats (“Narodowa Democracya ”)—the main reactionary and nationalist party of the Polish landowners and bourgeoisie, founded in 1897 and closely connected with the Catholic church. The National Democrats advanced the slogans of “class harmony” and “the national interests” , trying to influence the masses and draw them into the wake of their reactionary policy. They propagated extreme militant nationalism and chauvinism as a means of struggle against the socialist and democratic movement of the Polish people, which they strove to isolate from the Russian revolutionary movement. During the First World War (1914-18) the National Democrats unreservedly supported the Entente, counting on the victory of tsarist Russia, the unification of the Polish territories then under the yoke of Austria and Germany, and autonomy for Poland within the framework of the Russian Empire. The downfall of tsarism drove the National Democrats towards a pro-French orientation. Though bitterly opposed to the October Socialist Revolution and the Soviet state, the National Democrats, following their traditional anti-German policy, did not always support the adventurist anti-Soviet foreign policy of the Pilsudski clique, which ruled the country after 1926. At present, separate National-Democrat groups are carrying on their activities among reactionary émigré elements.
[5] The Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, the P.S.P.)—a reformist nationalist party founded in 1892. Throughout its history, Left-wing groups arose in it under the influence of the worker rank and file in the party. Some of these groups subsequently joined the revolutionary wing of the Polish working-class movement.
[6] Vsevobuch—the universal military training of the population of the Soviet Republic. The question of organising the Vsevobuch was raised in the resolution “On War and Peace” adopted by the Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), which was held in March 1918. The resolution said that one of the most important and urgent tasks of the Party was the all-round, systematic and universal military training of the adult population, irrespective of sex. The Decree of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee of April 22, 1918, authorised the calling up of all citizens between the ages of 18 and 40, who did not exploit the labour of others. The Vsevobuch bodies were entrusted with the registration of all working people of military age, their unified military training, and the formation army units. On June 5-25 1918, the first conference on universal military training was held; it drew up a programme for the training and testing of Vsevobuch instructor and discussed the organisation of Vsevobuch departments, the calling of conferences on the military training and the registration of the population. The conference also adopted a resolution on permanent bureaus of Vsevobuch conferences and the statute of inspections.
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Saints Lock Up Two Seed With Four-Set Victory Over Knights
Marymount (Va.) (23-4, 4-1) 25 25 22 25 3
Neumann (14-13, 4-2) 23 16 25 18 1
K: Caroline Hanson - 17
SA: Theresa Buscemi - 4
K: Bre Hickey - 15
B: 4 Players (#1, #8, #15, #19) - 1
D: Hayley Glah - 19
SA: 3 Players (#11, #18, #19) - 2
ASTON, Pa. - The Marymount University women's volleyball team locked up the No. 2 seed in the Atlantic East Conference tournament on Sunday afternoon, defeating Neumann University, 3-1 (25-23, 25-16, 22-25, 25-18).
With the victory, the Saints move to 4-1 in league play with just one match remaining in the regular season. The tally is good enough to seal up a first-round bye in the tournament, and host a semfinal match on Thursday, Novemer 1. The loss for the Knights shifts them to the third seed in the tournament.
Leading the way with her ninth double-double of the season was senior Caroline Hanson, who registered a match-high 17 kills on a .310 kill percentage to go along with 12 digs. Her first dig of the match had her ecliplse another milestone, as she now has 1,011 digs for her career.
Classmate Emily Abramaitys also swung for double-digit kills, adding 13 on a .324. Sophomore Jasmine Roy came through with a match-high 15 digs, and sophomore Maggie Viniard sent out a match-high 39 assists.
As a team, the Saints had 12 service aces and a season-best 20 blocks.
Marymount will take the week to prepare for the final match of the regular season on Saturday, October 27, as it hosts Immaculata University for Senior Day in the Converse Family Fieldhouse. Start time is set for 1 p.m.
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Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School to increase enrollment
Scott Calzolaio Milford Daily News @scottcaz
Nov 7, 2018 at 9:08 PM Nov 7, 2018 at 9:08 PM
A lottery will select 92 kindergartners, and 42 students in each grade from first to fifth. “We’re really excited to have the opportunity to be able to open our school and academic program to more families,” said Executive Director Heather Zolnowski.
FRANKLIN – Next year's enrollment at Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School will be bigger than ever.
With the anticipated opening of a new 72,000-square-foot school building for the 2019-20 school year, the enrollment lottery will be open to 302 new students ranging from K-5.
A lottery will select 92 kindergartners and 42 students in each grade from first to fifth. In the current building, said Executive Director Heather Zolnowski, the school has only been able to accept 50 kindergarten students.
“We’re really excited to have the opportunity to be able to open our school and academic program to more families,” she said.
Typically, she said, about 500 people apply for those 50 spots and many are placed on waiting lists. That gives those families a much higher chance of getting their child into the school of their choice.
“Opening up our school to 200 or 300 new families is really exciting,” she said. “It’s something we’ve been preparing for for the last couple of years.”
Enrollment opened on Nov. 2 and the school will be accepting applications through Feb. 27. The lottery takes place on March 6.
Applicants for grades 6-8 will receive a wait-list position during this year’s enrollment lottery. Those students will be offered a spot in class if any openings become available.
The lottery gives precedence to siblings of current students and children who live in the region, but otherwise, she said, “Our lottery is open to any student in the state of Massachusetts.”
To apply for enrollment, visit bfccps.org for more information. Printed copies of applications are available at local public libraries throughout the region served by the school (Bellingham, Blackstone, Franklin, Holliston, Hopedale, Medway, Mendon, Milford, Millis, Milville, Norfolk, Plainville, Upton, Walpole and Wrentham), at the Franklin YMCA and in the school's front office.
Scott Calzolaio can be reached at 508-734-0389 or scalzolaio@wickedlocal.com.
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Echinacea Is An Inexpensive Herb That Helps With Anxiety & Candida. So Why Aren't More People Taking It?
By Brigid Titgemeier, M.S., RDN, L.D.
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The popularity of using echinacea for a variety of medicinal purposes continues to increase as quickly as the popularity of taking turmeric shots. Because no one likes to be sick, and if there are things that we can do to boost the immune system, why not do it? That’s how many Americans think, which explains why so many are seeking out echinacea forits reported immune-modulating benefits. This is especially the case when it comes to the prevention and treatment of upper respiratory tract infections. These reported immune benefits have catalyzed widespread use of this North American perennial for cold and flu protection, placing echinacea among the 10 top-sellers in the botanical space of the United States and other developed countries. The real question is whether this popularity is backed by strong scientific research or a smart marketing campaign.
Before we dive into the science behind the claims, it’s important to note that all echinacea is not created equal, as there are three different species, which each have their own unique properties. The species vary in chemical structure, and the properties depend on which part of the plant it comes from. The first species, Echinacea purpurea (E. purpurea) comes from the aerial parts—also classified as the upper part of the plant—whereas the other two species, Echinacea angustifolia (E. angustifolia) and Echinacea pallida (E. pallida), can be found in the roots.
There are certain properties that are found in all three species, such as that they all contain caffeic acid esters, polysaccharides, and polyacetylenes. But aside from that, research demonstrates that the phytochemical profile for each of the species varies dramatically. For example, the roots of echinacea have a higher concentration of various volatile oils compared to the aerial part of the plant. The top half of the plant, specifically E. purpurea, is particularly rich in flavonoids such as quercetin, isorhamnetin, and anthocyanins compared to the other two species. E. purpurea also appears to have a high concentration of polysaccharides, especially arabinogalactan, in addition to other amino acids such as serine, alanine, and hydroxyproline.
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What are the nutritional benefits of echinacea?
Echinacea for immune-boosting.
Echinacea is one of the most commonly purchased herbs, most often used to improve immunity and prevent or treat the common cold and other upper respiratory conditions. This flower has been used for hundreds of years with a large number of individuals who have found benefit from the use of echinacea for immune-system boosting.
There are some studies that back the idea of using echinacea to treat the common cold, including a 2007 meta-analysis that reported that echinacea is an effective treatment. The study reviewed the findings from 14 previous clinical trials that involved almost 3,000 patients and found that using echinacea reduced the risk of catching a cold by 58 percent and reduced the duration of the cold by 1.4 days. They also found that the use of echinacea was effective whether the individuals in the study were naturally exposed to viruses or whether they were inoculated with a virus during the study. In addition to demonstrating its effectiveness, the authors also highlighted the importance of identifying the species and preparation methods for echinacea.
The encouraging findings from the 2007 study were not replicated in a study on echinacea. A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health conducted a randomized controlled trial in 2010 to test the efficacy of this common cold treatment. The authors noted that much of the research published in the mid-1990s was manufacturer-sponsored and of moderate to poor quality. Their study included more than 700 people who had very early symptoms of a cold. These individuals were divided into four groups with the first two groups either getting no pills or knowingly taking echinacea. The other two groups were blind; one group unknowingly took echinacea while the other took a placebo. The results demonstrated that those who took echinacea experienced a half-day reduction in a weeklong cold. This translated to a 10 percent reduction in overall severity. While there appears to be progress in the right direction for echinacea users, the findings were not statistically significant compared with the placebo group.
Echinacea has continued to be a topic of interest among researchers. Another publication was released in 2014, and this time it was a large meta-analysis. The meta-analysis reviewed 24 randomized controlled trials that included almost 5,000 participants and 33 different echinacea preparations. The researchers included research studies aimed at both preventing a cold before its onset and treating after the cold initiated. The findings from the prevention studies found no benefit to incorporating echinacea before the development of an illness. However, when looking at research on treating colds with this herbal, the researchers concluded that echinacea might reduce the relative risk of catching a cold by 10 to 20 percent. The researchers noted that the effectiveness will vary greatly based on the species and the concentration in each echinacea preparation.
Echinacea as an antifungal.
We know that a healthy microbiome is composed of both bacteria and fungus, and echinacea may also play a role in regulating this. While there is a need for more research, echinacea has demonstrated in preliminary research to serve as a natural therapy for a type of fungus called Candida albicans. Everyone has candida in their intestines, but there are instances in which various strains of fungus overgrow in the intestines to unhealthy levels. The overgrowth of yeast can lead to other side effects that occur not just vaginally but systemically. Echinacea purpurea has been shown to lower levels of candida and prevent recurrent vaginal yeast infections.
Echinacea for anxiety relief.
The use of echinacea for treating anxiety is a new area of interest that has been evolving in recent years. Early animal trials demonstrated that rats given an echinacea preparation experienced a decrease in levels of anxiety. This has since been tested in healthy human volunteers who were given E. angustifolia extract for one week. The paper found that those who took two capsules of echinacea per day for one week experienced a decrease in anxiety scores within three days. The lower dose of one capsule per day did not affect anxiety significantly. While clearly more research is needed, the initial study is a good sign that using echinacea for anxiety might help (and certainly wouldn't hurt!).
How to choose what type of echinacea is best for you.
Recommendations for the use of echinacea are far from straightforward for two reasons. The first is because researchers have not been able to consistently demonstrate the benefits of echinacea. The second reason is due to the wide-ranging variables that affect the dose of echinacea. Echinacea products on the market differ greatly. The following variables can influence the effectiveness of this herbal flower and need to be monitored more closely in research and when purchasing:
The species used: Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea pallida, and Echinacea angustifolia
Plant parts used, whether that means using the root, herb, flower, or whole plant
The concentration of echinacea, which is affected by the following processes: growing, drying, and storing the plant
Various methods of extraction
The form in which it is consumed: tinctures, tablets, teas, capsules, etc.
While research has not been able to confidently confirm whether one strain of echinacea is significantly better than another, Echinacea purpurea has performed well in studies focusing on cold symptoms. Echinacea purpurea may be more effective when in alcoholic extracts or pressed juices. Good results have also been seen with simply drinking the tea too; you can get a full guide to that here.
How to use echinacea.
There are many popular ways to take echinacea, especially during cold and flu season or at the very onset of any cold or flu symptoms. It’s not uncommon for a person to drink 6 to 8 fluid ounces of echinacea tea up to four times per day. This may work best from a prevention standpoint. An additional way that people incorporate echinacea into their lives is in 6 to 9 mL of pressed juice daily. Herbal extracts or a solution of alcohol is another option, which typically involves 0.75 to 1.5 mL per day.
Is echinacea safe?
Overall echinacea appears to have a good safety profile. The most common concern that has been identified with the use of echinacea includes allergic reactions to the botanical. While allergic reactions have occurred for some individuals, there are no known adverse effects that occur from general use. Researchers that examined the efficacy of echinacea in a randomized controlled trial also asked participants about any potential adverse effects that took place in the placebo groups compared to the intervention. The most frequently reported symptoms included gastrointestinal upsets and rashes, but there was no statistically significant association. The authors noted that they did not identify any consistent patterns in the two groups when it came to reported symptoms such as bad taste, diarrhea, headache, nausea, rash, and stomach upset.
The only additional safety concerns were reported in a retrospective observational review published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. The authors reported that various herbal medicines and nutritional supplements can cause ocular side effects, including echinacea. The researcher evaluated 263 spontaneous reports from the National Registry of Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects and 60 case reports in the literature. Herbals such as Ginkgo biloba, chamomile, licorice, echinacea, and others were associated with ocular side effects such as runny, irritated eye; vision loss; ocular migraines, etc. Topical use of E. purpurea has been associated with eye irritation and conjunctivitis. While this is not a common finding, there are reports of some individuals who have experienced these conditions from the use of echinacea.
When it comes to the safety of any herbal treatment, it’s also important to consider the risk of potential drug-nutrient interactions or the ability for the herbal to alter the metabolism of a number of medications. The general consensus on this drug-nutrient topic is that echinacea appears to pose minimal risks for interacting with conventional medications.
Generally, echinacea has very few side effects, although some people have experienced things like dizziness, rashes, and gastrointestinal issues. It's always good to start small and see how your body reacts before taking more!
So, is echinacea a good supplement?
While the research does not consistently support the use of echinacea, there are many people who have reported benefits derived from this botanical for centuries. If this is something that seems to work well, especially for cold prevention and treatment, there is little harm in incorporating it into your routine. If this is something that you are interested in trying, there is, again, very little harm that would result, based on the good safety profile of echinacea. Just keep in mind that the foundation of your immune health should be driven by a nutrient-dense, whole foods diet because you can’t supplement your way out of a bad diet. The reality is that with a solid nutrition foundation, you are still at risk of getting sick, and something like echinacea might help give that extra immunity boost. When purchasing and using this botanical, just be sure to find out which part of the plant it’s coming from (plant or roots) and which species it includes: E. purpurea, e. angustofolia, or E. pallida.
Want to know even more about echinacea? Here's our guide to drinking it as a tea.
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Brigid Titgemeier, M.S., RDN, L.D., is a functional medicine registered dietitian nutritionist at the Center for Functional Medicine, entrepreneur, and adjunct instructor. Brigid is the...
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By Sam Pizzigati
Back in the 1980s, the decade that saw researchers start detailing America’s increasing concentration of income and wealth, flacks for the emerging Reagan economic order disdainfully dismissed the significance of the alarming new data.
The United States isn’t getting more unequal, the Reaganites pronounced, and the middle class isn’t shrinking. Those economists claiming otherwise, the conservative pushback went, weren’t taking government welfare programs into account. Add in safety-net benefits, conservatives continued, and the increased inequality would disappear.
Over on Capitol Hill, researchers at the Congressional Budget Office would eventually put that conservative case to the test. They started producing periodic reports that took all sources of income into account, everything from wages and salaries to food stamps and unemployment benefits — and then totaled up all these numbers, by income level, before and after taxes.
What did the CBO’s statistical sleuths end up finding? Plenty of growing inequality.
The Congressional Budget Office has just released the latest iteration of its U.S. household income distribution series, and this new research rates as the nonpartisan agency’s most comprehensive yet. The freshly crunched numbers explore the income distribution story in 2014, the most recent year with complete statistics available, and then trace that story back 35 years to 1979, the year before Ronald Reagan won the White House.
In 2014, Barack Obama sat in the White House. By that year, the Affordable Care Act — legislation that both increased health benefits for lower-income Americans and increased federal taxes on higher-income Americans — had gone almost fully into effect. But those changes, the new CBO report shows, didn’t turn out to be enough to reverse rising inequality.
U.S. household income, the report documents, remained “unevenly distributed” in 2014, with households at the top of the income distribution receiving “significantly more income than households at the bottom of the distribution.”
How much more significantly? After totaling all varieties of income and government benefits — and subtracting out federal taxes — the CBO researchers found that poorest 20 percent of U.S. households averaged $31,100 in 2014. Households in the top 1 percent of the nation’s 2014 income distribution averaged $1,178,600.
This gap would have been considerably wider without the government benefits the CBO labels “means-tested transfers,” the cash and in-kind services lower-income households receive from programs like Medicaid. In 2014, these programs increased the incomes of the poorest fifth of American households by an average 64 percent.
Overall, the combined impact of transfers and taxes increased the bottom 20 percent 2014 share of U.S. income by over 3 percentage points and decreased the top 20 percent share by almost 7 percentage points.
A sign of egalitarian progress worth applauding? Most certainly. But that progress, after only a year-plus of the Trump administration, has faded. Tax rates on our richest have sunk, as has budget support for basic social benefits.
But in 2014, even with that progress, the divide between America’s rich and everyone else was still widening, continuing the income tilt to the top that the new CBO report tracks back to 1979.
Between 1979 and 2014, after figuring in all taxes and social program transfers, the after-tax incomes of America’s top 1 percent rose over three times faster than average incomes in the bottom 20 percent — and over six times faster than incomes in America’s statistical middle class, those households in the exact middle 20 percent of the nation’s income distribution.
Between 1979 and 2014, these middle class households saw their incomes increase by $9 per week. Top 1 percent households, over the same years, gained on average an extra $450 every week, 50 times more than middle class households — and 64 times more than the $7 dollars per week that average households in the nation’s poorest 20 percent gained.
Middle- and low-income Americans have paid a heavy price for those few extra dollars per week. Their schools have become more overcrowded, their streets more potholed, and their college costs much more expensive as tax giveaways to the rich and powerful shrink the budgets for basic public services.
Average Americans have a right to be upset. Wealthy Americans like Donald Trump have no right to exploit their anger.
Top Photo | A homeless man sits outside a high-rise building converted into apartments, Dec. 4, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. (AP/Jae C. Hong)
Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org. Among his books on maldistributed income and wealth: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970. His latest book, The Case for a Maximum Wage, will appear this spring. Follow him at @Too_Much_Online.
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https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Former-Enron-CEO-Skilling-sentenced-to-24-years-8715126.php
Former Enron CEO Skilling sentenced to 24 years, four months
JUAN A. LOZANO
Published 7:00 pm CDT, Sunday, October 22, 2006
Associated Press Writer
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, the most vilified figure from the most notorious financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years, four months in prison, the harshest sentence yet in the case that came to symbolize corporate fraud in America.
He was the last top former official to be punished for the accounting tricks and shady business deals that led to the loss of thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in Enron stock and more than $2 billion in employee pension plans when Enron collapsed.
Skilling stood alone at his sentencing before U.S. District Judge Sim Lake; his co-defendant, Enron founder Kenneth Lay, died July 5 and his convictions were vacated last week.
Lake handed down the sentence after outraged former Enron employees, spoke at the hearing.
Skilling's term is the longest received by any Enron defendant; former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was given a six-year term after cooperating with prosecutors and helping them secure Skilling's conviction.
The former CEO's arrogance, belligerance and lack of contriteness under questioning made him a lightning rod for the rage generated by the collapse of Enron in 2001.
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The Frontier Wars
Professional Development Workshop | The Frontier Wars: Exploring resistance figures and events with historian Dr Libby Connors
$30, bookings required
The Studio, Museum of Brisbane
The conflicts between Aboriginal Australians and white settlers during the British colonisation of Australia, referred to by some historians as the Australian frontier wars, were a prominent feature of Australia’s history from the 1790s to the 1930s. This workshop facilitates discussion on a number of frontier war events such as the Black Line in Tasmania, the Myall Creek Massacre, the battle of the Kalkadoons and the Forrest River massacre, and their advantages and disadvantages for classroom exploration. Its main focus however will be on the complexities of the early Brisbane frontier in particular the role of Aboriginal leaders and warriors such as Dundalli in leading Aboriginal resistance. Participants will receive access to primary and secondary source material based on Dr Connors’ research.
Your presenter:
Libby Connors is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr Connors has received numerous awards for her book Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier, including the Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance, the Magarey Medal for biography and the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society prize for legal history. Warrior follows Dalla lawman Dundalli from his life in South East Queensland to his execution outside Brisbane jail on 5 January 1855.
Image credit: (1) The Frontier Wars: Daniel Marquis, Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man from the back holding boomerang, ca 1865. (2) Author and Associate Professor, Libby Connors.
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Robert Plant: Led Zep reunion would "disappoint"
By Michael Leonard 2009-02-04T16:37:00.34Z Guitars
Plant and Krauss - up for 5 Grammys
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has explained further why he declined to take part in a reunion of Zeppelin with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham.
Speaking to Absolute Radio's Ben Jones, Plant said:
"The reason that it stopped was because we were incomplete, and we've been incomplete now for 28 years. And no matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you've done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons in the right place to be able to do something with absolute, total conviction."
"We've been incomplete now for 28 years" Robert Plant
He continued: "To visit old ground, it's a very incredibly delicate thing to do, and the disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now… it's very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."
Until recently, Page and Jones - plus Jason Bonham, son of original drummer John Bonham - were planning to find a new vocalist. But in January, Page's manager Peter Mensch told MusicRadar that Led Zeppelin is now "over".
More work with Alison Krauss
Plant declined to say much about his second forthcoming album with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, but joked: "Last night's title for the next project was called A Gated Community, because it's like being in a looney bin."
Plant and Krauss's first duet project, Raising Sand, is nominated for five Grammys at the awards ceremony on 8 February.
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Unanimous Defense Verdict for Listing Agency - February 2012
On February 23, 2012, shareholder Clark Hudson received a unanimous defense verdict on behalf of a listing agency providing certificates of listing for cast iron waste pipe produced in China. The plaintiffs claimed defective cast iron waste pipe was allowed to be sold and installed in a 24-story condominium project - resulting in early failure of the condominium's waste and drainage system. The plaintiffs' alleged the listing process was flawed in that insufficient testing was performed when the pipe was evaluated for the certificate of listing. Further, the plaintiffs alleged more intensive inspections were necessary to determine if the chinese manufactures quality assurance protocols were sufficient to meeting the U.S. standards.
The plaintiffs originally claimed the defects in the cast iron pipe resulted in $17 million in damages. However, as a result of pre-trial settlements the plaintiffs' damage estimates at the time of trial were reduced to $10 million. Ultimately the plaintiffs only requested the jury to award $1.1 million - which plaintiffs calculated was owed following their assessment of the economic loss rule. The jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning the unanimous defense verdict.
Clark R. Hudson is a shareholder at Neil Dymott and concentrates his practice on the defense of healthcare professionals and general litigation. Mr. Hudson may be reached at (619) 238-1712 or chudson@neildymott.com.
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Home > All Services > Business > Licensing > Licensing Act 2003
Businesses, organisations and individuals who want to sell or supply alcohol, provide regulated entertainment or offer late night refreshment must have a licence or other authorisation from the local licensing authority. The law and policy governing this area is overseen by the Home Office.
The types of businesses and organisations that require licences include:
cafes/takeaways open between 11 pm and 5 am
village and community halls
The types of licences required are as follows:
any business or other organisation that sells or supplies alcohol, provides regulated entertainment or late night refreshment between the hours of 11 pm and 5 am on a permanent basis needs to apply for a premises licence.
anyone who plans to sell or supply alcohol or authorise the sale or supply of alcohol must apply for a personal licence
qualifying members’ clubs (such as the Royal British Legion, working men’s clubs and rugby clubs) need to apply for a club premises certificate if they plan to sell or supply alcohol, and/or provide regulated entertainment or late night refreshment
anyone who wants to do any of the above on a temporary basis or outside of the hours of any existing licence must apply for a temporary events notice. A temporary event notice can last up to 7 days, but the number that can be applied for is limited.
To apply for a licence, you will need to complete an application form and send it to the licensing authority, along with the fee. You may also need to send copies of your form (depending on the type of application you are making) to the police and other ‘responsible authorities’. Applications can be submitted online or by post. Please see the link to the right for online applications.
Fees under the Licensing Act 2003
Licence fees are prescribed in regulations (the Licensing Act 2003 (Fees) Regulations 2005). The fees paid in respect of applications for new premises licences and club premises certificates; applications for full variations to premises licences and club premises certificates; and annual fees in respect of premises licences and club premises certificates vary dependent on the national non-domestic rateable value (NNDR) “band” of the premises. Premises that are exempt from non-domestic rating are allocated to Band A. Premises that do not have a NNDR because they under construction are allocated to Band C.
An “additional fee” may be payable in respect of large scale events, where 5,000 or more people are due to attend at a venue that is not purpose-built.
Personal Licences
Premises licensed to sell alcohol must have a designated premises supervisor (DPS), who holds a personal licence named on the licence. The one exception is a community premises that has successfully applied to waive the DPS requirement under section 41D of the Act. Anyone who does not hold a personal licence must be authorised to sell alcohol by a personal licence holder. There is no such requirement for the supply of alcohol in a members’ club.
Personal licences allow you to sell alcohol on behalf of any business that has a premises licence. To apply, the applicant must be over 18 years of age and hold a relevant licence qualification and submit a basic disclosure that is less than one month old at the time of application. Disclosures can be obtained direct from Disclosure and Barring Service Once a licence has been issued, you must notify the Council of any change of address, for which a fee is payable. The licence is granted for an indefinite period.
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Even if he's impeached, Gov. Greitens likely to fight to stay on the job
An impeachment expert retained by the governor's office sees differences between Greitens' case and the precedent of a previous impeachment.
Even if he's impeached, Gov. Greitens likely to fight to stay on the job An impeachment expert retained by the governor's office sees differences between Greitens' case and the precedent of a previous impeachment. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://sgfnow.co/2FovAAd
Will Schmitt, WSCHMITT@NEWS-LEADER.COM Published 10:25 p.m. CT April 27, 2018 | Updated 7:33 a.m. CT April 30, 2018
Gov. Eric Greitens makes a public statement on April 11, 2018, in the Missouri Governor's Office ahead of a report described his alleged sexual misconduct during an affair he had in 2015 Wochit
Eric Greitens(Photo: J.B. Forbes, AP)
JEFFERSON CITY — The last time a Missouri statewide official was impeached, she was suspended from her official duties by the Missouri Supreme Court, and an interim officer temporarily replaced her.
Gov. Eric Greitens appears unwilling to let the same thing happen to him, if House lawmakers vote to impeach him.
"With respect to the governor, the Missouri Constitution does not contemplate any suspension upon impeachment, and so even if a governor were impeached, he or she would continue to function as the governor through any trial," said Ross Garber, an attorney working for the governor's office who is renowned as a national expert on impeachment law proceedings.
Ross Garber (Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
A House committee investigating Greitens continued meeting this week behind closed doors after issuing an explosive report earlier this month detailing allegations of misconduct against the Republican governor, who has been charged with two felonies.
The committee began by investigating the facts of Greitens' felony indictment on suspicion of photographing a woman without her consent while she was partially naked. His trial on the felony charge will take place in mid-May in St. Louis.
A booking photo provided by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shows Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. A St. Louis grand jury has indicted Greitens on a felony invasion of privacy charge for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he had an affair in 2015, the city circuit attorney's office said Thursday. Greitens' attorney issued a scathing statement challenging the indictment. (St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) (Photo: SLMDP, AP)
Lawmakers have expanded the investigation to include the governor's interactions with the charity he founded, The Mission Continues. Greitens also has been indicted on a felony charge of stealing a list of charity donors to aid fundraising for his political campaign.
House Speaker Todd Richardson has avoided speculating about possible impeachment, though he appears to have changed his mind about how the process would work.
The resolution creating the investigatory committee made no mention of impeachment and does not specifically authorize the seven-member panel to draft articles to remove Greitens.
The top House Democrat, Rep. Gail McCann Beatty, has proposed a resolution authorizing the committee to draft articles of impeachment, but that legislation has been dormant since it was filed April 17. A spokesman for Beatty on Thursday said Democrats were initially under the impression that a resolution was necessary for the committee to draft articles of impeachment.
Missouri House Speaker Todd Richardson addresses the media on the committee’s report on the House Special Committee investigating Gov. Eric Greitens on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (Photo: Tim Bommel/Missouri House of Representatives)
However, Richardson said last week that "the House doesn't need to take it up."
Richardson's office now cites a House rule stating that "articles of impeachment shall only be introduced by the committee designated to investigate the matter," an indication that the current investigative committee is the correct party to introduce articles of impeachment, according to a House staffer.
As the spokesman for Beatty said, "since (Richardson) is the ultimate arbiter of House rules, if he says it is, then it is," meaning that her resolution may be unnecessary after all.
Asked Thursday whether the committee's decision to hire additional counsel was a sign of impending impeachment, Richardson offered no such confirmation. "It signals to me that the House committee needed some additional help, both with the investigation and with the legal matters that are involved in that investigation."
The panel's chairman, Rep. Jay Barnes, has repeatedly declined to comment publicly about the committee's work, almost all of which has taken place behind closed doors. He declined to comment Thursday.
More: What would the process be to impeach Gov. Eric Greitens?
Suspension in doubt
If Greitens is impeached, state lawmakers would be treading into largely unfamiliar territory.
The most recent parallel is the 1994 impeachment of Secretary of State Judith Moriarty, a Democrat who was convicted that year of back-dating forms to aid her son's political efforts.
However, using Moriarty's case as precedent is questionable, according to Garber, the impeachment attorney representing Greitens' office.
"The secretary of state's situation was different for a variety of reasons," Garber told the News-Leader on Thursday. "What I can tell you is that the Constitution is clear with respect to the governor."
One difference is obvious: Moriarty was convicted prior to her impeachment. Greitens may have significant legal battles ahead, but he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks during an interview in his office at the Missouri Capitol Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, in Jefferson City, Mo. Greitens discussed having an extramarital affair in 2015 before taking office. (Photo: Jeff Roberson, AP)
Once Moriarty was impeached, she was targeted for removal by Jay Nixon, the Democratic attorney general who later became governor and who now works at the same St. Louis-area law firm representing Greitens in his various legal travails.
Part of Nixon's argument involved a state law that says: "If any officer shall be impeached, he is hereby suspended from exercising his office, after he shall be notified thereof, until his acquittal."
Moriarty fought back by citing a 1930 impeachment case in which the Missouri Supreme Court found that the type of action Nixon attempted was unconstitutional.
The Missouri Supreme Court in 1994 found that the exclusive constitutional method of removing statewide elected executive officials is impeachment, according to court documents.
"Thus, while the legislature may enact statutes providing for the removal from office of most state officers, the legislature is without authority to enact statutes that automatically provide for the removal from office of any elective executive official of the state, including the Secretary of State," the court found in Moriarty's case. And judges noted that the state law Nixon cited should not be interpreted to "automatically provide for an indefinite suspension," as "such a construction of the statute would be an unconstitutional alternative to impeachment."
However, the high court reserved the ability to impose temporary suspension — as it did in Moriarty's case.
"Here, the offense alleged went to a claim of misconduct regarding the core responsibilities of the office of the Secretary of State, certification of a candidate for public office," the court's decision said. "Here, also, a general election was scheduled to occur prior to the trial of impeachment. The charges cast doubt as to the ability of Ms. Moriarty to properly carry out her supervisory responsibilities."
The court's Moriarty decision left plenty of ambiguities for contemporary consideration. For one thing, the Missouri Supreme Court explicitly said there could be different ways to challenge a suspension.
"While other constitutional challenges to this statute might be raised, it would be improper to anticipate or rule upon those potential challenges in this matter," the court's decision reads, in part.
The court made it clear that the law was not meant to be a mechanism for automatic suspension, as "it cannot be construed to operate automatically without an independent analysis by this Court as to whether the particular facts of the case require temporary suspension."
And the court's 1994 decision also ensured that impeached and temporarily suspended officials could retain their "emoluments of office, including salary," by determining that "it is not the purpose of" the suspension law to "punish a statewide officeholder who has been charged with, but not yet found guilty of, an impeachable offense."
In a Missouri impeachment case involving a governor, a panel of seven state judges would be chosen by the Senate to decide whether to convict if the House votes for impeachment.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens
Then-candidate for Missouri Governor Eric Greitens speaks to a crowd attending a rally in favor of statewide Republican candidates held at National Safety Compliance in Springfield, Mo. on Nov. 2, 2016 Guillermo Hernandez Martinez/News-Leader
(from left) Missouri Republican candidates Mike Parson, Jay Ashcroft, Josh Hawley, U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz, Roy Blunt, Eric Greitens and Eric Schmitt wave to a crowd attending a rally in favor of statewide Republican candidates held at National Safety Compliance in Springfield, Mo. on Nov. 2, 2016 Guillermo Hernandez Martinez/News-Leader
Gov. Eric Greitens visited the Lebanon school district recently to discuss education priorities. Submitted photo Gov. Eric Greitens visited the Lebanon school district recently to discuss education priorities. Submitted
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens delivers the annual State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Jefferson City, Mo. Jeff Roberson, AP
In this Aug. 2, 2016, photo, Eric Greitens poses with his wife, Sheena and his two sons Jacob and Joshua at a watch party at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield, Mo., after he was declared the winner in the Republican Governor primaries. Greitens has acknowledged being "unfaithful" in his marriage but denies allegations that he blackmailed a woman to stay quiet, following a bombshell news report that overshadowed his annual address to the Legislature on Jan. 10, 2018. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) J.B. Forbes, AP
FILE - In this May 23, 2017, file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks outside the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. In a press release Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, Greitens rolled out the pillars of his tax plan without much specificity, saying he wants to lower income taxes for most Missourians and eliminate those taxes for some of the lowest earners in the state. He promised more details in the coming weeks. Jeff Roberson, AP
President Trump and Gov. Eric Greitens walk across the tarmac at the Springfield-Branson Airport to meet supporters on Wednesday, August 30, 2017. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens greets lawmakers as he enters the House chamber to deliver the annual State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Jefferson City, Mo. Jeff Roberson, AP
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks during an interview in his office at the Missouri Capitol Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, in Jefferson City, Mo. Greitens discussed having an extramarital affair in 2015 before taking office. Jeff Roberson, AP
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens held a rare press conference at his office in the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2018, in Jefferson City, Mo. Greitens discussed having an extramarital affair in 2015 before taking office. Jeff Roberson, AP
Gov. Eric Greitens has faced and dodged questions on many fronts and has clearly broken his campaign promises of transparency, the Joplin Globe Editorial Board writes. Jeff Roberson, AP
Eric Greitens News-Leader file photo
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was at Arrowhead Building Supplies in Springfield on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 to talk about his proposed tax plan. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Eric Greitens Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Gov. Eric Greitens, shown during a Jan. 30 visit to Springfield, still has a Confide account, although The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that Greitens' office had banned the use of Confide and similar applications in its revised records retention policy, dated Jan. 17. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Gov. Eric Greitens takes questions from the media after signing legislation to make Missouri the 28th right-to-work state at the abandoned Amelex warehouse in Springfield on Feb. 6. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
Eric Greitens File photo
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, centergreets guests on the tarmac with President Donald Trump as Trump arrives at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, in St. Louis. Trump will speak about tax reform. Andrew Harnik, AP
Then-candidate Eric Greitens speaks to a crowd of supporters Aug. 2, 2016, in Chesterfield. Some Missouri residents have been blocked from posting opinions on Gov. Greitens' social media accounts. Michael Thomas, AP
Gov. Eric Greitens and some of his staff have Confide accounts connected to their personal cellphones, The Kansas City Star reported. News-Leader file photo
Gov. Eric Greitens on the day he was inaugurated as Missouri's governor. News-Leader file photo Gov. Eric Greitens on the day he was inaugurated as Missouri's governor. News-Leader file photo
A spokesman for Gov. Eric Greitens responded to the auditor's report by calling her "a Democrat who is desperate for headlines." Julie Smith/The Jefferson City News-Tribune via AP
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks at the Missouri Opioid Crisis Summit at the White River Conference Center on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks at a rally in support of next week's anti-abortion special session on Friday, June 9, 2017. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens cheers on a crowd after several protestors were removed from the building before a ceremonial signing making Missouri a "right-to-work" state at the abandoned Amelex warehouse in Springfield, Mo. on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. The law, which goes into effect on Aug. 28, prohibits unions from charging membership dues as a condition of employment. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens takes questions from the media after signing legislation to make Missouri the 28th "right-to-work" state at the abandoned Amelex warehouse in Springfield, Mo. on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
In an interview about the possibility of Greitens fighting a hypothetical suspension, Garber chose his words carefully.
"The governor was elected by the voters and will continue to work as the governor," Garber said.
Garber was recently profiled by the New York Times as having a unique set of legal skills and experiences employed by "governors so embattled they risked being expelled from office." The attorney's biography notes that he has represented governors of Alabama, South Carolina and Connecticut when they faced impeachment proceedings.
In speaking about Greitens' likelihood to function as governor if impeached, Garber drew a parallel with President Bill Clinton, who was impeached in 1998 for lying to a grand jury and obstruction of justice in connection with a sexual harassment lawsuit he faced.
"It's the same as the federal system in that regard," Garber said. "President Clinton was impeached and continued to serve as the president through his impeachment trial. He was not suspended."
Greitens is the first sitting Missouri governor to be indicted. Criminal proceedings are similar but separate and not directly analogous to matters of impeachment, and the Missouri Constitution includes other impeachable offenses beyond criminality.
An actual impeachment of a governor is rare across America and has never happened in Missouri, though some Republicans tried to oust Nixon this way. Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, would be next in line for Missouri's top executive elected position.
A spokesman for Greitens noted that the governor has "kept a typical busy schedule" in recent days, including "meeting with cabinet leaders, staff, and other officials to discuss state business."
"He signed an executive order expanding the homeland security council yesterday," said Parker Briden, Greitens' press secretary. "He’s spoken to visiting groups, made appointments to boards and commissions, and launched new state initiatives. The Governor is continuing to serve, work hard, and fulfill his promises to the people of Missouri."
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Muvhango’s Kukie opens up
SO HERE we are, expecting her to do a Kukie and pull a trademark faces or typical "don't touch me" gesture. You know, the way she'd hold off lovesick KK and have him literally begging her to grace him with some of her time.
But we're in for a surprise: Simphiwe Mkhize, the 30-year-old actress who plays the deaf attorney in SABC2's Muvhango, is nothing like the no-nonsense lawyer who's being pursued by businessman KK (who's neglected to tell her he's actually married – estranged, yes, but married).She's warm, friendly and clearly very together. "That's the thing with people – when they meet me they expect to see Kukie," she says, via sign language through an interpreter she's brought along to the interview.
"Most people get confused between my on-screen persona and who I really am. Others don't believe I'm really deaf – they think I'm just acting the part."
But the gorgeous star is profoundly deaf and communicates through sign language or writing. "People sometimes expect me to lip-read but it doesn't work for me." She's also not comfortable using her voice, unless she's with people who know her well, such as her family and close friends.
So if she doesn't have her interpreter with her, she'll whip out her notebook and ask her fans to write down their questions. People often ask her about her goings-on with the fearsome KK (played by McDonald Ndou) and give her a hard time for hanging out with someone so ruthless. They also ask her whether she's really a trained attorney. "I'm not, of course," she says, "but it's flattering they should think so."
Simphiwe has no shortage of fans. On the day of our shoot there's a mini scramble in the parking lot as soon as she steps out of her French runabout – a bunch of guys trying to corner her for hugs and handshakes.
"It happens all the time," she says when she's finally free. "Men come up to me and say, 'Come, I'll show you this and that'. Then they say I'm beautiful and they want to marry me. That gets irritating after a while."
Still, you can't really blame them – Simphiwe is gorgeous. She's loads of fun too and is game for anything during our shoot. As she works it for the camera even her interpreter, Delphin Hlungwane, admires some of her poses.
"This is my sort of look," the actress says, eyeing a garment the stylist has picked for her. "I think I'm fat, so I have to be careful how I dress." Fat? Is she mad? Curvy, maybe, but that's about it.
"I'm also big on jewellery," she adds. "I've got lots at home – it makes me feel bright because I'm a bright person naturally." Now that's a statement we can agree with.
SIMPHIWE has come a long way since she first appeared on the DTV (Deaf TV) magazine programme on SABC3 almost 13 years ago. "That's how I got my break," she says. "I was an actor in a few productions there and I presented too. I was also an interpreter for the SABC2's magazine show Zwahashu.
Read the full article in DRUM of 6 January 2011
Ek kan braai brootjies maak....
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LifestyleRetirement
Memories of Mom: Love, strength and inspiration
Phyllis Reilly in July 1953 on her honeymoon at a Poconos resort in Pennsylvania. She was 23 years old. Photo Credit: Bob Reilly
Updated May 7, 2015 11:57 AM
We learn so many things from our mothers. If they were scholars, we often followed their paths. If they were avid readers, we devoured books, too. If they were screamers, we learned to yell loudly. Crossword puzzle fanatics produced other generations of puzzle solvers. Great cooks often begot great cooks -- even if the skill didn't present itself when moms could've used a break.
Our mothers inspire us, drive us crazy and give us more memories than we can retain. We know that no matter how they dispensed their love -- with mushy kisses in front of our friends, a fresh-baked batch of cookies or a gentle hand on a shoulder when we needed it -- they were there if they could be and wanted only the best for us.
Here are some letters from readers who remember their moms with adoration and admiration, shared with a Happy Mother's Day wish for all moms who are remembered as that very special woman in our lives. - Gwen Young, Act 2 editor
Harold and Fannie Kirshner, at their wedding in 1947. She had no sense of direction and got lost - and also gave her husband bad directions when he was driving. Photo Credit: Kirshner family photo
Getting to Teddy was a bear
Driving with my mother always brought unexpected adventures. Her intentions were thoughtful, fun-filled and insightful, but her sense of direction was laughable or, in Dad's case, wrought with frustration.
My sister and I were no more than 5 and 9 years old when Mom delighted us with the prospect of going to Theodore Roosevelt's house at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. She regaled us with pictures of the rolling meadows and the house filled with stuffed animals, though I don't think I fully understood what those "stuffed animals" really were until I came face to face with them. My sister and I were filled with anticipation when the day of our sojourn finally arrived. We climbed into the backseat of our 1953 Oldsmobile along with a cooler filled with milk, fruit, chicken cutlet sandwiches and cookies.
Mom packed enough for a cross-country road trip. Off we went from our Plainedge home, music blaring, my sister and I singing as we went merrily along. It was fun at first, but about an hour into our drive I had a strange feeling something wasn't right because I started seeing the same scenery over and over again. At one point I looked at Mom, who, with furrowed brow, was very intent on the road.
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We drove down innumerable roads. My sister started complaining about 90 minutes into our journey that she was getting hungry. Mom pulled over and distributed our lunches as she confessed, "It's supposed to be around here. I don't think we're too far now."
But I feared the truth -- Mom didn't know where she was going. I wished for divine intervention, anything to let us know we were close to our destination. And finally it appeared like an oasis looming up in the desert! Around the next bend, a great big sign announcing the Teddy Roosevelt Preserve. We finally made it! As we drove up a long, winding driveway, the rolling grassy meadows were impressive, but I must say that, as an animal lover even then, upon entering the house I was somewhat put off by all the deer and moose heads and skins. I would much prefer petting these animals, not gawking at their carcasses.
I was particularly surprised that our long three-hour ride to the house only took less than an hour on the return. But that was par for the course when it came to Mom's driving directions and constant attempts at finding short cuts.
What's the best Mother's Day gift you've received? Before 2015 Mother's Day, Newsday met with Long Island moms at the Long Beach boardwalk to ask a few questions regarding motherhood. April 29, 2015. (Credit: Newsday / Jessica Rotkiewicz)
Another memorable driving adventure with Mom happened a few years later. By now our Olds was pretty old and had developed one particular quirky problem -- it could no longer go in reverse. That meant Mom had to be sure of her driving directions before she attempted the trip. One night on our way home from the Huntington Drive-In, Mom made a wrong turn that landed us down a dead end street. It was about 10 p.m. and I gulped at the still summer night air several times as Mom got out of the car, knocked on someone's door and asked for help in turning the car around. This Good Samaritan pushed the car backward so Mom could force a U-turn. She waved out the window and shouted out a "Thank you" as we drove off.
Driving with Dad at the wheel was another thing altogether. One memorable visit to Mom's cousins, who lived in East Northport, was fraught with frustration for poor Dad. Mom encouraged him to make a right turn off Route 110. Dad's last words before following Mom's directions were, "Are you sure you know where you're going?" Mom assured him, "Just make a turn here. I know the way." Dad was hesitant, but he complied.
We passed farms and open fields. Dad was driving a good half-hour and getting more and more frustrated with every mile when he asked, "Do you know where you're going or are you guessing?" Mom insisted, "It's close now." Finally we made it to a main road: It was Route 110, about one block from where Mom had insisted Dad turn off the road. He just looked at Mom and let out a great big sigh that received a shrug in response from Mom. Dad said, "Do you mind if I get us there now?" Mom sat back in her seat, once again surprised that her impeccable sense of direction had somehow gone astray. - Barbara Anne Kirshner, Miller Place
A world built around me
Bertha Nadel, mother of Lillian Lippman of Merrick, photographed in Brooklyn in 1940. Photo Credit: From the family collection of Lillian Lippman
My mother came to this country in the last huge wave of immigrants who emigrated from European countries in the late 1920s. Born in Lithuania, then part of Russia, she came to escape the pogroms and religious persecution of the Cossacks, who frequently harassed the Jews.
My grandmother told her, "There is nothing here but potato fields. Go to America."
At Ellis Island, the inspector asked her to read. Her retort was, "In which language -- Russian, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Hebrew or Yiddish?"
And so, all alone she went. When I think of my mother, I see her bravely giving up whatever she knew for a world she couldn't see; giving up everything for me. We were the children of immigrant parents. We knew we had to make something of ourselves. I became a teacher.
Miriam Goren, of West Hempstead, in one of her first races in 1984 when she was 61. She won the gold medal in her age group for the 10k race. Photo Credit: Family Photo / Murray Goren
My mom divorced my dad and her world revolved around me. When she was older, she took four buses from Rockaway and traveled 21/2 hours to see us all -- through my marriage and widowhood. She visited every Friday through Sunday and cooked, shopped and baby-sat for me. I was an only child, so she wrapped herself around me and my children. She was my confidante, financial adviser, therapist and best friend.
When my mother became ill, the entire family surrounded her bed. She smiled and said to no one in particular, "Look at my daughter. Isn't she beautiful?" My heart said, "Only a mother would say that." It was at that moment I realized that there is no love stronger than a mother's love. It is an endless love. I cherish this feeling every day and it will stay with me forever. - Lillian Lippman, Merrick
A mom who goes the distance
I don't know how often a 67-year-old man can view his 91-year-old mother as a role model, but I can emphatically say that my mother fits that title.
Irene Stansfield, about 21-years-old, in Sheffield, England. Her daughter, Elaine Beatson of Hauppauge wrote about her for Act 2, May, 2015. Photo Credit: Family Photograph
Shortly after my mom's 60th birthday, she went for a medical checkup. The doctor advised her that she should walk each day to lower her blood pressure and keep muscle tone and balance. Mom took the advice and began a new phase of her busy life as a mom, and wife. Having been married for more than 35 years and raising three children and devoting all of her time to her family, it was time to make a slight change in course, and so she began a daily morning walk routine. The doctor had advised her that were it not for her age, he would suggest jogging, but at 60 he thought it best that a good morning walk would suffice. My mom took that as a challenge and so the walking soon morphed into a walk and jog, gradually increasing distance from a mile and then, two-, three- and four-mile morning routines.
One spring, Mom told us she signed up for a local 5k race. We thought she was pushing it a bit too far. Then came a 10k race, and she was one of the top three finishers in her age category. That trophy still sits proudly in the den of her home, which my parents bought in 1955. The house is where my siblings and I were raised.
When my mother said she was going to run in the Long Island Marathon, we really thought she had lost it. But I thought, if my 70-year-old mother can do the half marathon, at least her much younger son could keep her company. My mother finished before me and I barely crossed that finish line, feeling more like crawling rather than running. Marathons came and went and my mom looked forward to each one as a new challenge. With grandchildren in attendance, she wanted to set an example and provide a memory that would remain with all of us.
For her 80th birthday, Mom decided she wanted to celebrate by doing another half marathon. I wasn't so sure about myself, but despite my father's misgivings, Mom and I forged ahead. That year, Mom was awarded first place in the 80-and-over age class and was invited to have pictures taken with elected officials.
Although she has not run a marathon since then, my mother's desire is still there, so I won't be surprised to find out that a 5k race is in her future. The only problem is that she is running out of room in the den for all of the trophies. - Raymond Goren, West Hempstead
Saying no to family violence
My mother put a stop to a long history of domestic violence in our family. She grew up in an atmosphere where it was considered acceptable, even necessary for a man to beat his wife on occasion. She would watch for her father coming home from work and judge by the look on his face what kind of an evening her mother was in for.
When things looked bad, she would hide herself behind the curtains, drawing them to block anyone from looking inside their house to block the shame. The curtains were her armor against what was about to happen. She would hear the yelling and wait for the sound of the smack, then her father crying for what he had done and promising never to do it again. Then the snoring, at which point she would come out from behind the curtains and her mother would hug her and comfort her and say, "There, there, Irene. It's over. No need to worry!"
This was not an everyday occurrence; twice, maybe three times a year, but the effect on my mother was devastating. She lived in constant fear her whole life, but witnessing the violence as a child made her shy, kind and nonjudgmental, fighting for the underdog whenever possible.
Her childhood had been a nightmare. She told us stories of Christmas with her cousins when everyone would perform some kind of entertainment, but she never did because she was too shy. There was feasting and laughing. When they got home and she was in bed, she would hear the jealous accusations again; then the smack, the crying and the snoring. She told herself, "I'm going to put a stop to that one day.".
My mother told me when that "one day" came. When she was 18, she was getting ready to go out with her friends, but she heard her father come home and saw the look on his face. She knew he was in one of his rages, so she sat at the top of the stairs, waiting. Then came the yelling, the smack. This time she burst into her parents' bedroom. She pointed her finger in her father's face. "If you ever hit my mother again, I swear I will kill you. I've spent my life listening to you accuse her of things she would never do, and I'm sick of it. That's the last time."
Eventually, she met my father, who was raised with three sisters and had been taught as a child not to hit girls. My parents had two boys and two girls and the boys were never allowed to hit my sister or me. My mother also told my sister and me to look for gentle men to marry.
My grandma, many years later, told my mother that after she confronted him, my granddad never hit her again. Because she was quiet and shy, I never realized that my mother was a hero.
Elaine D. Beatson, Hauppauge
Patterns of persistence
As one of seven children, all girls except the youngest, we were destined to be enrolled in sewing classes. Transplanted from Sunnyside, Queens, we moved to Baldwin Harbor in the summer of 1965. During those first long, lazy days, we rode our bikes, exploring the neighborhoods and making friends. We hopped on the free bus to Jones Beach and Point Lookout.
My mother had been an only child and was a Depression-era baby, born in 1930. She was intent on arming her girls with the survival skills she felt we would need as young women. Besides baking, she signed us up for sewing classes. We loaded into the station wagon she had recently learned to drive and went to a local shop in Freeport. It was one of those mom-and-pop places that sold everything. Walking on the creaking wooden floors, we headed for the sewing aisle. There we flipped through huge portfolio-type books filled with patterns by McCall's, Butterick and Simplicity.
I was excited, believing that my lessons would lead me to becoming a well-dressed schoolgirl. We would select fabrics, threads and other notions, then go downstairs where we could spread the fabric on long tables, pin our patterns for cutting. We each had a sewing machine.
Having picked the most basic pattern, an A-line skirt, my hopes never faded that I could create something not only wearable, but FASHIONABLE and one-of-a-kind. I had visions of being asked, "Where did you buy that beautiful skirt?" This never came to pass: Mine turned out quite simply, PATHETIC.
My mother would arrive at the end of each lesson to see what we had accomplished. She beamed with pride as we showed off what we had learned and made us feel good that we had put together something with our own hands. The beauty of the experience is my memory of my mother, who always encouraged me to keep trying. She had sparked something in me and went on to spend many more hours helping me to try to learn what she viewed as some essential life lesson. Her philosophy came from a world where women married and took care of such "household" things. She was passing along her knowledge, taught by my grandmother, about how to be frugal during difficult times.
As long as I was willing to try, she was there to guide me. I also relish the time spent with my sisters, each of us so very different, excited together, and having fun trying to make something useful!
I never was very good at sewing, but I grew into adulthood with the loving support of my mother. - Irene Reilly, Northport
My street of memories
My mom passed away May 14, 1999. Five days after Mother's Day. It took many years for me to find consolation in the phrase "Happy Mother's Day," even though I am a mom myself. My kids would bring comforting gifts, but my heart wasn't in it. My own mom was gone.
My parents, along with so many of their generation who left Brooklyn to retire, bought a condo in South Florida to relax and enjoy their remaining years. My mom became quite the athlete in her 70s and 80s. She would walk three miles at dawn, then rush to put on her bathing suit and rubber cap and swim 30 laps in the condo's grand pool. Her daily routine kept her strong and physically healthy.
Dementia was her downfall. She had a silly kind of disease. She would sing and recite poetry. It came to a point where she would croon a tune from a Broadway show in response to anything you asked her. Our family would accept it and just go on loving her.
My way of paying respects to my mom is to visit Avenue M and East 18th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn, the street where I grew up. I can picture my mom walking with her groceries from Waldbaum's after a hard day's work in the city. She left the house at 7 a.m. and returned at 5 p.m. like clockwork.
I am a young girl again on this street of memories as I picture Mom holding my hand, whisking me to school with my Dale Evans lunchbox; she hugs me goodbye when we get there. I remember her strength and confidence in everything she said and did. She had an air of self-assurance that even a young child could admire. I had the best mom of anyone. I was proud to be her daughter.
A drive to the old neighborhood that shaped you as an individual may be more befitting than a mere cemetery visit. Everyone you knew and loved becomes alive again in your mind for a moment's time. After 16 years, I can now spend Mother's Day with my wonderful family in good spirits. My son and daughter have fond memories of Grandma, too. My granddaughter is named after my mom. She is our wonderful Annie. -Phyllis Weinberger, North Woodmere
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Belfast firm fined £20,000 after employee lost foot in workplace accident
A Belfast-based company has been fined £20,000 for health and safety breaches following an incident involving pallets which led to an employee losing his foot.
McCaig Collim – which supplies and distributes heating and ventilation systems – was also ordered to pay £7,000 court costs after the firm admitted six charges arising from the incident.
Belfast Crown Court heard the company has “clearly learned its lesson” following the on-site incident which resulted in a “catastrophic injury” to an employee in his 50s.
The incident occurred on September 26, 2016 when a stack of pallets was being moved via a manually operated pallet truck.
These wooden pallets were larger than normal and were stacked about eight feet high when the employee, who was one of two men operating the pallet truck, noticed the stack was unsteady, and climbed up the stack to straighten it up.
The two employees then continued to manoeuvre the truck in a push-pull motion, when suddenly four pallets fell from the stack and hit one of the men.
A Crown prosecutor said that while it cannot be said exactly what caused this to occur, it was possible the top of the stack could have struck something else.
The injured employee was treated for a back injury and a much more serious wound to his lower leg. Due to pain that would not abate, it was seemed necessary to amputate the man’s leg below the knee in December 2018.
He remains an employee and is now seeking compensation via a civil case.
Officers from the Health and Safety Unit of Belfast City Council found a number of breaches at the company’s Dargan Industrial Estate premises, including no evidence of appropriate training being given to staff moving pallets, and insufficient risk assessments in that area.
It also emerged that the pallets being transported on this particular occasion were larger than was normally the case. This meant the forks on the pallet truck did not pass through the full length of the pallet, making the load less stable.
A lack of other precautionary measures – such as wrapping the stack of pallets in shrink wrap prior to movement – was also noted.
Judge David McFarland fined the company £20,000 and said that while there was a certain “foreseeability” for the potential for injury, there was also a “prompt acceptance” of responsibility.
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https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Consultants-examine-South-Street-firehouse-92149.php
Consultants examine South Street firehouse
News-Times, The (Danbury, CT), Marietta Homayonpour THE NEWS-TIMES
Published 1:00 am EST, Wednesday, December 15, 2004
BETHEL - Renovation of the South Street firehouse is a little closer to a reality.
Representatives from an engineering consulting firm hired by the town toured the firehouse last week with town officials and fire department personnel. A report from SEA Consultants is expected in two to five weeks, said
Chris Trodahl , chairman of the town's Public Site and Building Commission . "Once it's in, we'll evaluate the report and make a recommendation to the Board of Selectmen ," said Trodahl, adding the firehouse "needs some updates, no question about it." Volunteers from the Bethel Fire Department man the South Street firehouse. Assistant Chief Phil Valenti is well aware of the problems in the 37-year-old building. "The building is sound but the infrastructure is falling apart," he said. Aging electric, heating, ventilation and plumbing systems need upgrading. There are no showers for the women volunteers. Office and storage space is cramped, and the building isn't compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. That non-compliance is especially important because the 9,500-square-foot firehouse is a public shelter in times of emergency. There's no elevator for the three-level building - two main floors and a basement - and the bathrooms aren't handicapped accessible. The hall, where people are housed during a crisis, is on the second floor. The hall also is used for community events and rented out for parties. People in wheelchairs must be carried up the stairs. Many doorways also are too narrow for wheelchairs. "The biggest thing is the ADA compatibility issue," said town engineer
Andrew Morosky . "The building is not readily accessible." Morosky added the generator and oil tank inside the building "need to be outside." The building must be renovated, Valenti said. Some of the problems, such as the lack of an elevator, have been under discussion for years, he said. In April, selectmen and finance board members approved $7,920 for the consultants' engineering study. The Bethel Fire Department has 65 volunteer firefighters and emergency medical service personnel. There also are 30 volunteers who are not actively involved in firefighting, said Valenti, but help out in other capacities such as office work. The department is one of two volunteer fire departments in town and covers everything south and east of the intersection of Rockwell and Plumtrees roads. That area includes the educational park and two elderly housing developments. An average of 450 to 500 fire calls are answered by the Bethel Fire Department each year and more than 1,000 emergency medical service calls. Volunteers operate nine pieces of equipment, including two ambulances. The other firehouse is in the northern part of Bethel on Route 6 and is manned by the
Stony Hill Volunteer Fire Department . A new Stony Hill firehouse was recently dedicated to replace the 50-year-old building.
Contact Marietta Homayonpour
at mhomayonpour@newstimes.com
or at (203) 731-3336.
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Nancy Rosenbaum
Radiomaker + Reporter
Writing + Multimedia
I’m a Minneapolis-based radiomaker and reporter whose work has been featured locally and nationally via the BBC, PRI’s The World, NPR, and Latino USA among other outlets. I produce arts and culture stories for KFAI’s “Minneculture” series and have been recognized by the Minnesota chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists with two awards for my radio features reporting. I am a regular contributor to Minnesota Monthly magazine and have also reported for MinnPost, The New York Daily News, and MovieMaker Magazine.
I got my start in radio as a producer for the award-winning programs On Being (2009-13) and American RadioWorks (now APM Reports, 2008-9). Earlier in my career, I ran educational programs for youth and adults in NYC.
I’m a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and hold a Master’s degree in Education from Harvard University and a BA in English from Haverford College.
I am also a founding board member and board chair of Contempo Physical Dance, Minnesota’s only Afro-Brazilian contemporary dance company. When I’m not making radio, I dance and perform with Rueda de la Calle, a Minneapolis-based Cuban social dance group.
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Claude-Victor Perrin, called Victor (1764-1841)
Duke of Belluno
Claude-Victor Perrin was born on December 7, 1764 in Lamarche in the Vosges region of France where his father was a royal baillif in the bailiwick of Bassigny.
Between 1781 and 1791, Perrin was a drummer in the artillery regiment in Grenoble. Next, he joined the National Guard and was a Captain in the volunteers in Bouches-du-Rhône when it was declared that the country was in danger on July 11, 1792.
He proved his mettle at the siege of Toulon when he captured the redoubts at Mont-Faron (November 1793) and at Petit-Gibraltar. During the latter battle, he was seriously wounded in the abdomen on December 17. Three days later he was promoted to Brigadier General (two days before Napoleon Bonaparte) by the government's representatives Salicetti and Gasparin. However, he had to wait until June 1795 for the Committee for Public Safety to confirm his promotion.
After serving in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, he transferred to the Italian Army in August 1795. He stayed in Italy until 1800, participating in every battle, and earning the sincere appreciation of his commanding officer. Napoleon Bonaparte promoted him to général de division (Major General) on January 18, 1797 and granted him a Saber of Honour after Marengo (June 14, 1800) for having held off the Austrians long enough for a French victory.
He took a commission in Holland until 1804 when he became French plenipotentiary in Denmark.
In 1806, he served as Chief of Staff to Jean Lannes. He fought at Jena (October 14, 1806), Pultusk (December 26), and was captured by a group of Prussian supporters commanded by Ferdinand von Schill when attempting to reach Stettin (Szczecin) on January 20, 1807. After a year and a half as a prisoner of war, he was finally exchanged for Blücher on March 8.
A few weeks later during the Battle of Friedland (June 14), he replaced an injured Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte at the head of his army corps and took part in a definitive victory. He was rewarded with a Marshal's baton on July 13, 1807.
After Tilsitt, he became responsible for the government in Berlin and in Prussia and distinguished himself for his impartiality. He was made Duke of Belluno in September 1808 and soon after was sent to Spain. He won victories at Espinosa (November 10-11, 1808), Uclés (January 13, 1809), and Medellin (March 28), but he was pushed back by Wellington at Talavera (July 27-28, 1809).
He began the siege of Cádiz in February 1810, but did not see the end. In fact, in 1812, Napoleon I called on him to support Oudinot at Vitebsk and then to contain the Russians with the rear-guard of the army at Berezina where his men were outnumbered five to one.
During the campaign of 1813, Perrin was given command of an army corps and contributed to the victory at Dresden (August 27) when he sent the left flank of the Allies' army into full retreat. He also fought at Leipzig (October 18) and at Hanau (October 30) before being tasked with protecting the Eastern French border from invasion. Without the necessary resources, he was forced to retreat to the Marne.
Of all the battles in 1814, it was his late arrival at Montereau on February 18 (he had allowed his troops to rest) that angered the Emperor the most and lost him his command.
Furious with Napoleon I, he enthusiastically rallied to Louis XVIII and the Bourbons during the first Restoration.
After Napoleon's return from Elba, his troops abandoned him after he gave a particularly violent order against Napoleon I. He had no other options but to accompany the King to Ghent.
During the second Restoration, he was made a Peer of France, Major General of the Royal Guard in 1815, Minister of War from 1821 to 1823, and then Minister of State and member of the Supreme War Council. He also voted in favour of Marshal Ney's death.
The Duke of Belluno died on March 1, 1841 in his Paris residence on the Rue du Regard . He is buried in the 17th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris .
The Marshal later said he regretted voting in favour of Marshal Ney's execution and marked his memory every year on anniversary of the death of the Prince of the Moskova.
We thank Mr Liam Mulroy for having translated this page.
"Marshal Victor, Duke of Belluno", by Antoine-Jean Gros (Paris 1771 - Meudon 1835).
"Claude-Victor Perrin, in 1792" by Georges Rouget (Paris 1781 - Paris 1869).
"Marshal Victor, Duke of Belluno". Engraving by Adolphe Forestier (Paris 1801 - Paris 1885).
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PM's Welcome speech on election of Shri Om Birla as Speaker of Lok Sabha
PM Modi congratulates Shri Om Birla on being unanimously elected as the Speaker of Lok Sabha
Om Birla Ji represents Kota, a place that is mini-India, a land associated with education and learning: PM
Jan Seva has been the focal point of the politics of Om Birla Ji: PM Modi
Hon'ble Speaker sir,
It is a moment of immense joy and pride for all the members of this House to see you occupying this position. The old members are already very well familiar with you. Even as a legislator, you have played a proactive role in Rajasthan and people related to politics are familiar with the same.
It is a matter of pride for all of us that we are approving of such a personality for the Speaker's post unanimously today, who has been engaged in public life without any break in some way or the other since student life by joining the student organizations and leading the university's student activities. Also as a worker of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he came out of the student movement and worked in the Yuva Morcha organization for nearly 15 years at the district, the state and the national levels. I had got the opportunity to work for the organization for several years. Therefore, both of us got the opportunity to work together as colleagues.
The land of Kota has in a way become the Kashi of education. Those prioritizing career have Kota in their minds - living in Kota, studying in Kota and earning a livelihood in Kota. This small city of Rajasthan has in a way become a mini India. And this transformation of Kota has been brought about by the leadership, contribution and initiative of Shri Om Birla ji.
Usually an image has been created in public life for politicians, as if we keep on playing politics and engage in arguments and fights all the time to defeat each other! However, there is a truth which sometimes doesn't emerge. Recently, the nation has realized that the more the percentage of social service is in the political life, the more is the acceptance in the society. The era of hardcore politics is fading away. Om Birla ji is such a personality for whom association with politics was quite natural as a public representative, but instead his entire work life has revolved around social service. Whenever there is any problem in social life, he is the one to reach out first. I clearly remember that during the Gujarat earthquake, he had been in Gujarat for a long time. He had brought the young colleagues from his area. Without using any local facility, he served the people by using his own available resources for a long period of time. During the calamity in Kedarnath, once again he was there with his group to serve the people. Even in Kota, during winters, if someone didn't have a blanket, all night he would roam about in Kota and arrange blankets through public participation and distribute to the needy. He had a mission in his public life that would inspire all the MPs like us. His mission was to ensure that no one in Kota should go to bed hungry and hence he had started a scheme called 'Prasadam'. It is still in place. Under the Prasadam scheme, he used to feed the hungry people through public participation. Similarly, he had started a Paridhan scheme to provide clothes to the poor and the destitute. Through the Paridhan movement he also used to collect shoes for the poor. If someone is ill, if blood donation is to be arranged or any other service is required in hospitals he will do that through public participation. In a way, more than anything else his political focus has been public service rather than public movement.
Now that such a sensitive personality is occupying the position of the Speaker, I believe that because of leading a life of social compassion for years together and being in a responsible position, as a catalytic agent he will discipline us, inspire us and this House will provide its best to the country. He will be able to deliver in a better way.
We have seen that even within the House, he has an extremely polite way of smiling and speaking. Sometimes I feel scared that someone might take advantage of his humility and conscience. Earlier the Speaker of the Lok Sabha had to face a lot of challenges while the challenges before the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha used to be comparatively lesser. However, now the scenario has become the opposite. If we recall the previous session, everyone would agree that our Speaker Madam was always jolly and smiling. Even if she had to pull up someone, she would laugh after rebuking. But she had developed a new tradition. I assure you, Speaker sir, on behalf of this House and Treasury bench that we will put 100% of our efforts to make your work simpler. In case rules are being flouted or obstacles are being created in running of this House by this bench, you will have every right to tell them, to point out to the people of our stature and we will welcome this. This is because it is the responsibility of all of us to maintain the dignity of the House. Earlier the first three-four years used to be peaceful; only the election year used to be a little problematic. But now that there is an election in every 3-4 months, people want to give out messages from here. Such situations might give you stress. Yet the House will try to ensure that there is a good quality debate and discussions over important topics and the decisions are taken collectively. With this hope, my best wishes to you on behalf of the House and the Treasury bench. Thank you!
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Magazine | May 29, 2017, Issue
By NR Editors
About NR Editors
(Roman Genn)
‐ We were for firing Comey before the Democrats were against it.
‐ President Trump fired FBI director James Comey, who had made himself eminently fireable. Last July, Comey took it upon himself to become not only the nation’s top policeman, but its top prosecutor, explaining in a long press conference that while Hillary Clinton had clearly broken the law by hosting classified information on her private e-mail server, she did not deserve to be prosecuted — a decision that was not his to make. Then, shortly before November’s election, Comey announced that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton’s e-mails, based on evidence found on the computer of Anthony Weiner. A few days later, he reclosed the reopened investigation. This sequence of events — which has had Republicans and Democrats repeatedly reversing themselves in their opinions of Comey — was outlined in a memo by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who rightly observed that Comey’s actions broke with longstanding Justice Department precedent, to the frustration of critics on both sides. Indeed, the Bureau’s reputation is at a low ebb because of Comey’s decisions, and one way or the other, he needed to go. Of course, press reports suggest that when Trump fired Comey, he was angry about the Russia probe, Comey’s ubiquity in the media, and the FBI director’s refusal to make a statement exonerating him of wrongdoing. If true, none of this speaks well of Trump. The public deserves a forthright answer about the hows and whys of the decision, and if the White House does not provide it, Congress must seek it. Ideally, the administration will find a replacement well respected on both sides of the aisle who will be appropriately independent of the position’s inevitable political pressures.
‐ The Trump administration announced ten judicial nominees — all of them professionally accomplished and known as conservatives. These nominations matter more than ever: The federal courts’ power has continued to grow, but the Supreme Court’s docket has shrunk. Trump has deferred to the right people on this issue, both inside and outside his administration. Judicial nominees are the brightest spot in the Trump presidency.
‐ Call it the Almost Victory Lap. Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, said, “If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president.” She blamed her loss on FBI director James Comey, on WikiLeaks, on misogyny . . . Before chewing once more on these gnawed old bones, one must say that the main reasons Mrs. Clinton lost were her opponent and herself. For all his flaws and blunders, Donald Trump had a simple message: I will fight for you. Hillary Clinton was entitled, evasive, and unprincipled: unclear about her own goals and a bad manager of her team. Her husband was cut out for this line of work; she manifestly is not. If her party does not learn this and move on, maybe it isn’t, either.
‐ President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty was tepid at best and dangerously misleading at worst. The declaration that the administration intends to vigorously protect religious freedom is preferable to anything Hillary Clinton would have said, but the order itself has no legal force. Its allegedly operative provisions — taking on the Johnson Amendment (which restricts the political activities of nonprofits) and the HHS contraception mandate — changed no laws or regulations, and if pastors or leaders of other nonprofits rely on the executive order to enlist their organizations in partisan political activities, they still risk their organizations’ tax exemptions. The language regarding the contraception mandate was particularly weak, merely urging the relevant agencies to “consider” changing regulations to protect religious liberty. Moreover, the order was completely silent on the hot-button culture-war issues that constitute the gravest threat to religious freedom. If Trump truly wants to protect religious freedom, his order wasn’t even a start. There’s hard legislative and regulatory work to be done, and if this order is any indication, Trump has little appetite for the task.
‐ Congressional leaders have hammered out a 1,700-page, $1 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the government through the end of fiscal year 2017 (which falls on September 30). It is noteworthy for what it does not include: most of Donald Trump’s and Republicans’ recent campaign promises. The bill does not defund Planned Parenthood. It does not include any of the deep cuts to domestic agencies that the president has proposed. Public broadcasting is funded at current levels. The National Endowment for the Arts’ budget is increased. There’s even funding for California’s high-speed rail. What did Republicans get? The bill provides $1.5 billion for border-security improvements (which cannot be used for new border-wall construction). The president also received $15 billion in supplemental funding for the Pentagon, as well as an extra $10 billion for emergency defense spending through the overseas-contingency fund. There is at least one significant victory here: These defense outlays were not tethered to an equal increase in non-defense discretionary spending — an Obama-era precedent that has long needed to go. Nonetheless, it’s hard to chalk the bill up as anything but a loss. Yes, there were limits to what Republicans could do: They needed Democratic votes to push a spending bill over the finish line, and they undoubtedly would have shouldered the blame for a shutdown, justifiably or not. But Republicans control the White House and both branches of Congress. From this bill, one might well think the opposite.
‐ In May, the entertainer Jimmy Kimmel delivered a heartfelt monologue in defense of Obamacare. Kimmel related the experience of his newborn son, who needed immediate postnatal surgery to fix a heart defect. The incident, Kimmel proposed, made him appreciate Obamacare’s protections. “If your baby is going to die and it doesn’t have to,” he argued, “it shouldn’t matter how much money you make.” That Kimmel went through a horrific experience is not in doubt; neither is his right to advocate whatever system he prefers. But his view on this matter is dangerously simplistic. In Kimmel’s view, Americans face a choice: They can have a health system in which nobody is excluded, or they can give “a huge tax cut to millionaires.” This is false. Health care is a scarce resource, which means that whatever regime is installed, there will always be trade-offs. Under the current system, which Kimmel prefers, many Americans still do not have insurance, and even more have coverage that does not make economic sense for their families. In addition, Medicaid, which accounts for most of the recent increase in coverage, is now accepted by fewer and fewer doctors and increasingly provides substandard care. As for single-payer — the usual “solution” to these problems — it would not meet the standard that Kimmel has laid out. Should the plan put forward by Bernie Sanders be passed by the U.S. Congress, it would add $32 trillion in spending, necessitating significant tax hikes on more than just the “millionaires” who Kimmel believes should pay. We are glad that Kimmel’s family is doing well but would invite him to look beyond it when laying out his policy preferences in the future.
‐ In his opening monologue on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert called Donald Trump . . . no, we won’t say what he called him. It was from the left (natch), savage (also natch), and grossly sexual (the new natch, apparently). The Twitterverse exploded with suggestions that Colbert’s remark was homophobic (he imputed to Trump a practice that, if the imputation were true, would suggest that the president is gay, or at least gay-curious). It wasn’t — it was class-ophobic. If we want to experience this kind of stuff, we can go to a bar, a locker room, or any unedited comments section. Colbert gets paid millions of dollars to do better. Shame on him.
‐ Jim DeMint left the Senate to become president of the Heritage Foundation. Now Heritage has ousted him. His critics say he was a bad manager who got the think tank too involved in political machinations rather than the generation of ideas. His fans say this is just a power play by rivals. We hope that the turmoil ends soon, so that Heritage can resume exerting a constructive conservative influence on Republicans in Washington, D.C. — an influence that is more needed than ever. For that matter, we hope Senator DeMint can do the same thing in whatever new role he finds.
‐ President Trump’s latest tax-reform proposal — he offered two during the campaign — is his least detailed yet. It contains some good ideas. Ending the deduction for state and local taxes would keep low-tax states from having to subsidize high-tax ones. Cutting the corporate tax rate would make investment in the United States more attractive. But the plan will have to be filled in carefully. Trump says nothing about letting businesses write off the cost of investments immediately, which is at least as important as lower rates in encouraging investment. His desire to help families with child-care costs should lead to tax cuts for all parents, not bigger tax subsidies for commercial day care. And with the debt scheduled to grow ever larger, budget plans should not be made in the expectation that higher economic growth or spending restraint will materialize in the future. Trump appears to be letting Congress take the lead from here. It should seize the opportunity to combine pro-growth reform, middle-class tax relief, and fiscal prudence.
‐ President Trump does enjoy trade theater. He spent a few days making noises about simply pulling the United States out of NAFTA (it is not clear that he has the power to do so unilaterally) and then announced with some fanfare that he would merely be renegotiating the trade accord. Trump has been complaining about NAFTA since before it was signed — opposition to it is one of the few consistent features of his political outlook. But in all these years, he has never discussed at any length any specific provision of the accord to which he objects, and many of his public statements on the subject suggest that he understands what NAFTA says and what it does only in a very general way. There probably is no single feature of our contemporary public life that is as grossly undervalued as the close economic relationship between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. One of life’s little ironies is that the same populists who detest NAFTA covet “energy independence,” seldom acknowledging that what they really are talking about is North American energy independence: Nearly half of our crude imports come from Canada, and Canada imports tens of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S.-made energy products. NAFTA, like all the works of men, is imperfect, but President Trump owes it to the country to explain what exactly it is he would like to see changed before he charges willy-nilly into a very important economic relationship. The United States has enemies enough in the world, and the Canadians are not among them.
‐ Trump has already decided to teach those dastardly Canadians a lesson, which he intends to do by raising prices for American construction companies and their customers. At issue are longstanding complaints by U.S. lumber producers who believe that their Canadian competitors receive an unfair subsidy from Ottawa. Most U.S. timber is harvested on private land, while most Canadian timber is harvested on Crown lands, where prices are set through long-term contracts called “tenures.” Those fees, some U.S. firms insist, are too low. The issue has been repeatedly litigated under both NAFTA and World Trade Organization procedures — this is one of the reasons we have those trade accords — and Canada has prevailed, with trade authorities finding that whatever indirect subsidy Canadian lumber producers may be receiving is trivial, amounting to less than 1 percent of the prices they pay for logs. Canada has vast forests and a population smaller than California’s; that looks like a cheap place to produce lumber, irrespective of forestry policy. Jacking up prices on Canadian lumber, which is commonly used in house-framing, will hurt U.S. builders, real-estate developers, and home-buyers in the service of a narrow domestic business interest that repeatedly has failed to make its case. NAFTA and the WTO provide valuable procedures for resolving trade disputes. But sometimes U.S. business interests lose, simply because they do not have the better case.
‐ Former president Barack Obama announced that he would give a speech in September on health care sponsored by the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. His fee: $400,000. In America’s dream-mind, we might wish our ex-presidents would return, like Cincinnatus, to their plows. But that possibility vanished long ago. Once they reenter private life, ex-presidents monetize their eminence. It comes with less grace from an ex- who trashed Mitt Romney as a heartless gotrocks, and some liberals — notably, Senator Elizabeth Warren — criticized Obama for it. To which we say, like the old lady, described by Abraham Lincoln, watching her husband fight a bear: “Go it, husband! Go it, bear!”
‐ Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has a number of “firsts” to her credit. She was the first Cuban American elected to Congress (in 1989). She was the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress. She was the first Republican woman elected from Florida. But her real distinction has been her unflagging dedication to freedom the world over. She is a famously cheerful woman, but she is also fearless and staunch. As much as she is a friend to political prisoners, she is a scourge of dictators. Fidel Castro labeled her “la Loba Feroz,” meaning “the Ferocious She-Wolf.” “Ily,” as the congresswoman is known, has announced her retirement from Congress at the end of this term. No one is irreplaceable, but it’s hard to imagine another Ily.
‐ Ajit Pai, head of the Federal Communications Commission, is starting to undo one of the mistakes of the Obama years. The FCC imposed sweeping new regulations on the Internet in the name of “net neutrality,” which became a cause of the Left. The concern was that service providers would favor preferred websites and hinder access to others. Never mind that there was no evidence that this was happening or about to happen, and never mind as well that the governing law passed by Congress was a deregulatory one. After the FCC acted, investment in broadband declined — something that, as Pai points out, has not previously happened except in a recession. Net freedom is a policy that worked phenomenally well until the FCC started moving away from it in the last few years, and luckily we are returning to it.
‐ When the American Civil Liberties Union came out against a rioter’s veto over speeches on campus, it was a refreshing reminder of the middle two words in its name. In other recent controversies, the ACLU has argued against religious-liberty statutes that it used to support; sued a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform sex changes; and urged that Obamacare be kept on the books. If the ACLU is going to be just another interchangeable liberal organization, perhaps it should follow the example of the National Abortion Rights Action League, which renamed itself NARAL so that the letters would literally no longer stand for anything. Or the two groups could just merge?
‐ The EB-5 visa program, which offers visas to foreigners who invest $500,000 or more in certain American development projects, is riddled with problems. A 2015 Government Accountability Office report found that the program presents a high risk of fraud, because EB-5 recipients are not subject to the same requirements as other visa holders, and noted cases of counterfeit documentation. In 2013, Virginia state authorities suggested that gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe had used the EB-5 program as a de facto “visa for sale” scheme. The program is again in the news after Nicole Meyer, sister of presidential adviser Jared Kushner and a higher-up at Kushner Companies, advertised visas to Chinese investors for half-million-dollar investments in a Jersey City, N.J., housing development. During a visit to Beijing, Meyer spoke about how the project “means a lot to me and my entire family” and discussed her brother’s tenure as the company’s CEO. This episode, together with so many other problems, makes a compelling case for reforming this misbegotten program.
‐ Beyond all the photo-ops, Michelle Obama’s school-meal crusade also yielded minute and detailed federal requirements for lunchroom ladies across America. Scholastic cafeterias are not commanded merely to cut down on salt and use whole grains and skim milk almost exclusively, but must even “offer all the vegetable subgroups identified by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans over the course of the week in minimum required quantities.” Anyone who has had children will recognize multiple flaws in this scheme, not least that a cafeteria staff that can mess up sloppy joes will now be expected to prepare arugula primavera. While the bulk of Michelle’s busybody regulations remain in effect, Trump’s Agriculture Department has clawed back at least a few by allowing low-fat chocolate milk and loosening scheduled changes that would have further squeezed sodium content and required 100 percent whole grains. If the public-school kids of America could vote, it would be Trump in a landslide.
‐ Minimum-wage increases lead to a deterioration of health in less-skilled American workers, particularly unemployed men, according to Michael R. Strain et al. in an article in Economic Inquiry. That should surprise no one: Those for whom employment is already out of reach are like pole vaulters who are unable to clear the bar and then see it raised. In itself, increased stress is a risk factor for disease, and then despair of reentering the labor force can lead to depression, which can lead individuals to neglect their health. The researchers’ findings are not monolithic — women, for example, show a slight improvement in mental health as the minimum wage rises, even as their overall health declines — but the bigger picture of the effect that minimum-wage hikes have on the segment of the population most directly affected by them is not bright. Skeptics of raising the minimum wage often point out that it reduces opportunity for young adults and others looking to climb the ladder. Add health impacts to the list of unintended costs that advocates of raising the minimum wage should address if they want their proposals to add up.
‐ Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law banning “sanctuary cities” in the Lone Star State. The law makes local officials, including the administrators of public colleges, subject to Class A–misdemeanor charges if they refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities’ requests to hold noncitizen inmates for deportation, and imposes civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day, along with possible jail time and removal from office for recalcitrant officials. The bill, Abbott has said, is intended to ensure that Texas cities are not “harboring people who have committed dangerous crimes,” as has been the case in other so-called sanctuary cities. Local officials need to have some discretion (in order, for example, to investigate violent crime in illegal-immigrant communities), but municipal declarations that their jurisdictions will never cooperate with federal immigration enforcement go too far, and Texas is entirely within its rights to call them to account. Governor Abbott seems to recognize that his job is to make the whole state a sanctuary for the law-abiding.
‐ Georgia has decided to become a “campus carry” state. In so doing, it will join 30 other states in which colleges are either required or permitted to allow licensed students to bring their guns onto campus. The reaction to the news has been predictable. In The Atlantic, the Times, and the Washington Post, terrible prognostications abound. Before long, we are told, the state’s colleges will resemble the O.K. Corral. Imminently, we will see rampant grade inflation, as professors become terrified of their students. Ineluctably, debates over politics will turn fatal. Are these fears founded? It is hard to see how they can be. Georgia, recall, is coming late to this party, and it is a party that has been peaceful hitherto. In the other 30 states in which the idea has been tried, precisely nothing of consequence has happened. There has been no decline into Wild West violence, no pernicious alteration of the student–teacher rapport, no ugly undermining of the spirit of debate. As usual, liberalization has proven uneventful. So it will be in Georgia. And the next state after that.
‐ Emmanuel Macron won a thumping 66 percent in the runoff round of the French presidential elections — not bad for a 39-year-old first-time candidate leading a brand-new political party (called “En Marche!”). For all his newness, Macron is a child of the established center-left: a graduate of one of the schools that populate the French governing class, a former minister in the Socialist government that he replaces. His bet is that he can recharge the French economy by undoing its rigid labor laws, while simultaneously persuading the Germans to inject a little inflation into the euro. (What is the French for crossing a chasm in two jumps? Fais gaffe!) Marine Le Pen’s 34 percent of the vote fell humiliatingly short of pre-election polls — but nearly doubled the 17.8 percent her fascist father won in the runoff in 2002. The National Front, dirigiste, protectionist, pro-Putin, and anti-immigrant, remains to snarl at every misstep — and potentially to profit.
‐ The chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, visited the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at his home in Sochi. They discussed ongoing war in Ukraine and ongoing war in Syria. Putin is a bad actor in both. Also, Merkel pressed him on civil and human rights in Russia: the brutalization of gays, particularly in Chechnya; the banning of the Jehovah’s Witnesses; the arrest of political dissenters. This is Western leadership, and will be appreciated by not a few Russians.
‐ President Trump is right to fast-track American missile-defense systems to South Korea. He is wrong to risk the presence of that system by demanding that South Korea foot the bill for it. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery bolsters American and South Korean defenses against missile attack, but this increased security has come at a cost. China is angry, many South Koreans are nervous, and throwing a wrench into the deployment through a demand for payment (quickly modified by Trump’s national-security team) unnecessarily heightens tensions. That’s not to deny that South Korea should ultimately pay more than the roughly $880 million per year it currently pays the U.S. to offset the cost of American defense deployments. But that negotiation should occur when existing agreements expire next year, not through public threats in a time of heightened tensions and a change of government in Seoul. We can’t forget: The THAAD battery protects American lives as well. For now, its presence is more important than payment.
‐ In a move that stunned the State Department and the National Security Council, President Trump invited the Philippines’ president, Rodrigo Duterte, to the White House. He did this in a friendly phone call to Duterte. Duterte is a brute and a murderer, with a great deal of blood on his hands. He revels in this record, too. It’s true the United States has an interest in the Philippines. It is a historic ally. Also, it was our only colony. Duterte has been in a fiercely anti-American mood, denouncing President Obama as a “son of a whore” and saying that he would realign the Philippines with China. Trump is right to reinforce ties to the Philippines — but past administrations have tended that alliance while also standing for human rights, and Trump should follow their example.
‐ The main opposition leader in Russia, Boris Nemtsov, was murdered in 2015. Since then, the main opposition leader in Russia has been Alexei Navalny. He has not yet been murdered. The Putin government has bedeviled him with arrests and charges, making it impossible for him to run for office. He has been subject to physical attacks as well. In the latest, an assailant threw a toxic liquid in his face, mainly blinding him in one eye. The government has denied Navalny the right to go abroad to seek treatment. The government also seems in no hurry to catch the assailant. Navalny has displayed sangfroid, saying that he hoped he would be cured, but, if not, Russia would someday have “a president with a stylish white eye.”
‐ Venezuela must be another one of those places where “true socialism has never been tried.” The country has descended into anarchy; soldiers are brutalizing protesters in the streets; people are starving, with the average Venezuelan having lost nearly 20 pounds over the past year because food is so scarce; people are dying horrible deaths in hospitals that lack the ability to provide routine services. How did this happen to what was, not all that long ago, the wealthiest country in Latin America? The answer in Venezuela, as in Cuba and North Korea and any number of backward basket cases, is: socialism. Hugo Chávez came to power on a wave of populist support and, cheered by American Democrats ranging from Representative Chaka Fattah and Jesse Jackson to celebrity liberals such as Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, began enacting a program out of the Bernie Sanders playbook: large-scale redistribution, plundering the private sector, “democratizing” key economic sectors, large and ultimately unsustainable increases in welfare spending, etc. What happened next was predictable enough: rising debt and inflation; the imposition of currency controls and other political efforts to substitute brute force for economic reality; the shutting down of opposition media as fronts for moneyed elites, and then naked political repression; shortages of everything from toilet paper to cooking oil; ever more unlikely conspiracy theorizing insisting that all of this unhappiness was somehow cooked up by the CIA and Wall Street. We have seen this show before, and we know how it ends. Socialism is socialism.
‐ Christians hoping to return to their ancient homes in the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq have to rebuild them. ISIS invaded in 2014 and promptly set about burning their houses. Kurdish peshmerga drove ISIS out last winter, but not before its fighters littered the towns with booby traps. Former residents fear to go back, even if only to assess the damage. To reestablish lasting Christian communities over the ruins, they need security, jobs, and infrastructure — a package too difficult for anyone to assemble in one fell swoop. Instead of doing nothing because it can’t do everything, Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic relief organization, is doing something. It has led the formation of the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee, a consortium of Catholic and Orthodox Christians, which earlier this month broke ground on the construction of 100 homes, the first installment of a plan that includes 11,900 more. The final cost is estimated to exceed $200 million. Persecuted Christians in the Middle East have learned to put not their trust in princes. They depend on the generosity of coreligionists living in comparatively comfortable circumstances in America and elsewhere. Take the hint.
‐ Quit the soul-baring: This is the message a source close to the British royals relayed from Queen Elizabeth II to her grandsons, who spent last year talking about mental-health issues, particularly their own, in a major PR campaign. “It might be that soul-baring isn’t what Buckingham Palace is looking for,” according to the source. With Prince Philip retiring from public life, the queen believes her family must focus on “representing the nation,” not “individual royal activity.” It’s a refreshing throwback. Did anyone need Prince Harry telling Robin Givens, “Everyone needs a hug every now and then,” before adding, “And it so happens that I’ve been told over and over again that I’m very good at giving hugs”? Or the boys talking about their trauma in soft-focus videos? The Queen should relay blunt advice from her one-time confidant Winston Churchill: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” She knows the truth of it. And even with a faltering husband and grandchildren given to cringeworthy disclosures, the queen keeps going. She intends to maintain her full public schedule this year.
‐ The lure of the open road, stretching forth into the sunset, has inspired Americans from Whitman to Kerouac to Cormac McCarthy, and, in this respect, Australia is basically America with Vegemite. Its spacious outback highways have long attracted novelists, filmmakers, and assorted dreamers — most recently a precocious twelve-year-old who drove 800 miles west from his family home outside Sydney, stopping occasionally to pump some gasoline without paying. One gas-station manager said the boy was tall enough to pass for 20, and he certainly drove like a college kid, hitting a curb along the way and dislodging the rear bumper (which was why the police finally pulled him over). The adolescent antipodean said he intended to visit relatives in Perth, 2,500 miles away; more likely, it would seem, he just wanted to get out of his hometown. But either way, before he attempts his next epic road trip, we suggest he wait until he’s old enough to acquire a license, and perhaps a bit of world-weariness.
‐ Jumana Nagarwala, a Michigan doctor, has been charged with mutilating the genitals of two seven-year-old girls, a federal crime. In a report on the case, the New York Times referred to the barbaric procedure of female genital mutilation as “genital cutting.” The Times section editor explained in response to a reader’s question that she “chose to use the less culturally loaded term” because “there’s a gulf between the Western (and some African) advocates who campaign against the practice and the people who follow the rite.” She didn’t want to use language that “widened that chasm.” Indeed, the gulf between those who brutalize young girls by disfiguring their genitalia and those who regard that practice with horror could hardly be wider. Dr. Nagarwala, who faces ten years in prison if convicted, will find that the U.S. criminal code is clearer on this point than the Times.
‐ Two things are true at once about Ann Coulter’s recent attempt to speak at the University of California, Berkeley. The school was wrong not to protect her fundamental First Amendment freedoms, and she was wrong to respond to the controversy by turning on her friends and allies at the Young America’s Foundation. Shortly after she canceled her appearance on campus (amid fears of mob violence), she tweeted out a direct attack at YAF, her original co-sponsor for the planned event, accusing it of acquiescing to the university’s censorship. YAF did not acquiesce; it sued the university. In fact, YAF made the same choice that Coulter made — not to risk seeing young men and women bleed in the quad when the university had already demonstrated its unwillingness to protect speakers and students from mob violence. Instead of pointing fingers at one another, conservatives, and others interested in free speech, should be focused on the university’s dereliction.
‐ ESPN is in trouble. It has committed huge sums for rights fees to broadcast live sports, its subscriber base is declining, and it just laid off dozens of employees, including some of its most famous “front-facing” talents. While “cord-cutting,” the process of debundling cable services in part through greater use of streaming video, is costing ESPN revenue, its decision to politicize its programming content seems to be changing its audience. A media-research firm recently found that ESPN’s viewing demographic has moved left along with its content — at least in one key city — and it makes sense that, as the channel keeps moving left, it will decrease its potential audience. Not every sports fan likes to celebrate Caitlyn Jenner’s transition or to listen to hours of commentary praising Colin Kaepernick’s alleged moral courage. ESPN’s demise is hardly imminent, but the audience for endless coverage of the Victimhood Olympics is limited.
‐ We’re into the Soviet-revisionism portion of Bill Nye’s career. As part of his new Netflix show Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye recently aired a segment titled “My Sex Junk,” which features Nye, who holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, gyrating in the background as actress Rachel Bloom sings about how “sexuality’s a spectrum.” But in a 1996 episode of Nye’s previous show Bill Nye the Science Guy, a young woman explains that “inside each of our cells are these things called chromosomes, and they control whether we become a boy or a girl. See, there are only two possibilities: XX, a girl, or XY, a boy.” There is some dispute about who did the deleting — Netflix or Buena Vista TV, which holds the program’s distribution rights — but the episode in its Netflix version no longer includes that scene. Hypothesis: What’s changed in the two-decade interim between shows has nothing to do with science.
‐ Adolph Kiefer was born in 1918 in Chicago. His parents had been born in Germany. Adolph became one of the greatest swimmers in the land, making the Olympic team at age 17. He won the gold medal — in the Berlin Olympics. Another Adolph, or Adolf, wanted to meet this boy. That was the chancellor of Germany. Hitler considered Kiefer a son, or near son, of Germany. So he came with his entourage, including Goering. After shaking the swimmer’s hand, Hitler pronounced him “a perfect example of the true Aryan.” Before long, this true American was in the U.S. Navy, designing a program to save our seamen from drowning. He later went into business and has now died at 98. His life was an example of the nature of America and Americans — a concept that Hitler and other racialists have always had trouble understanding. R.I.P.
HEALTH-CARE REFORM
Doctoring the Bill
House Republicans passed a health-care bill that is flawed, unpopular, and being received by Democrats and the press as an act of wanton cruelty. They were nonetheless right to pass the bill, because it offers a chance to set health-care policy on a better course than Obamacare — if the Senate improves it.
In the run-up to the House vote on the bill, the Democrats seized on an amendment that they claimed threatened people with preexisting conditions, who sometimes had difficulty finding insurance before Obamacare. While some Democrats claimed that the amendment would put nearly half of the U.S. population at risk of financial or medical calamity, the truth is that it is carefully limited. Under the amendment, a state could allow insurers to charge higher premiums, for one year, for people who were entering the insurance rolls with a preexisting condition. People who had maintained their insurance coverage (which they would be getting financial assistance from the federal government to do) could not be charged extra for any medical condition. The hope is that by keeping people from gaming the system — going without insurance while healthy, then buying it at favorable rates when sick — the change would enable a reduction in premiums.
Some liberals have engaged in a particularly despicable distortion of this provision, saying that the bill “defines rape as a preexisting condition.” No part of the bill does this, of course. And nearly every state has laws that prevent women from having to pay higher premiums because of medical conditions resulting from rape.
The second attack on the bill is that it takes health insurance away from millions of people. Most of those millions are buying coverage now only to avoid Obamacare’s fines on people who forgo insurance. The Republican bill eliminates those fines and so the Congressional Budget Office predicts that they will leave the insurance rolls. Several million other people, however, would lose insurance that they want because the bill also rolls back Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid.
That program provides substandard insurance at a high cost, and the bill’s reforms to it are generally valuable. But the bill could usefully be changed to get more people into private coverage. The subsidies the bill provides to help with insurance purchases should be augmented for people who make a little too much money to qualify for Medicaid; they should also be augmented for people in their fifties or early sixties, whose policies are more expensive. Insurance companies that benefit from the subsidies should be required to offer at least one policy with a premium equal to the size of the subsidies. That way people could get, at no out-of-pocket expense, some protection from the cost of a medical emergency. States could also assign such coverage by default to people who do not use their subsidy.
Such changes to the bill would mean that it yielded a smaller change to the number of people with insurance. More people would have catastrophic coverage, and changes in government policy would cause less disruption in insurance markets. The bill would be more popular, too. The result would be a health-care market that still had a significantly larger role for the federal government than we would prefer, but one in which it was significantly easier for people to choose the insurance they want.
Criticism of the bill has featured a high ratio of hysteria to sense. Senate Republicans should set calmly to improving it.
NR Editors includes members of the editorial staff of the National Review magazine and website.
Populism’s False Start
By Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry
The Trump administration should become more responsive to voters’ concerns.
A History Lesson for the President
By Richard Brookhiser
Trump understands Andrew Jackson better than the Civil War.
Tax Federalism
By Stephen Eide
Ending the state-and-local deduction would help make blue states pay their way.
Owning Their Future
The joy of DECA.
Everyone an Enemy
By Ian Tuttle
The vague and dangerous ideology of leftist violence.
By Kevin D. Williamson
American retail’s fast, furious decline.
Zinke Rides In
By Shawn Regan
But will the new interior secretary take on the federal-lands bureaucracy?
Leading Man
Hollywood’s Last Icon
Enlightened Lincoln
By Jason Lee Steorts
George Saunders takes the death of Lincoln's son as the premise of his first novel, which is among the less likely and more moving works of fiction I have read.
‘Manifesto for Moderation’
By Alvin S. Felzenberg
The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations
Sahara of the Beaux Arts
By Lauren Weiner
Ahmari attended screenings, exhibits, workshops, etc. and offers here the depressing results of his tour of “the hard left avant-garde and the identity-politics hucksters.”
By Randy Boyagoda
In Aslam’s rendering, present-day Pakistan just might be the world-historical capital of fatalism.
Closed Circle
By Ross Douthat
There are two ways to make technology terrifying. "The Circle" does them both.
Happy Warrior
Sociopolitical Media
By Andrew Stiles
Whatever your opinion of Donald Trump, you have to admit: He was right about perverts.
Girl with Bull I read Jay Nordlinger’s piece about Fearless Girl (“Girl, Misplaced,” May 1) and her placement opposite Charging Bull and agree that it’s an injustice that the new sculpture ...
‐ We were for firing Comey before the Democrats were against it. ‐ President Trump fired FBI director James Comey, who had made himself eminently fireable. Last July, Comey took it ...
NSA Surveillance Transcript
By Rob Long
A satire.
Athwart
By James Lileks
By Stephen Scaer
MOONLIGHT IN NASHUA The moonlight rouses me at half past three, piercing through thick curtains I had drawn, but for this gap. My heavy-lidded eyes return the glare. What’s this bald rock to me but ...
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Reinsurance Focus
Insurance Reinsurance & Surety
Litigation / Trial Practice
U.K. Court of Appeal Prohibits “Spiking” in Mesothelioma Cases in Win for Reinsurers
In a closely watched case, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has given reinsurers a win with respect to reinsurance claims related to mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. The decision bars insurers from engaging in “spiking.” Under that practice, insurers were making a single reinsurance claim for the entire loss to an injured employee under a single reinsurance policy of their choosing rather than allocating the loss on a pro rata basis between the various policy years in which the employee was exposed to asbestos. Prohibiting “spiking” is a significant win for reinsurers.
The decision stemmed from a dispute between insurer Municipal Mutual Insurance Limited (MMI) and reinsurer Equitas Insurance Limited.
For decades, MMI has issued employers’ liability (EL) policies to insured entities on an annual basis. Many of the entities insured by MMI faced claims from their employees for mesothelioma and other diseases related to exposure to asbestos in the workplace. Because of unique developments in the law of the United Kingdom regarding asbestos litigation, employees who made such claims did not need to prove which employer caused the critical exposure or the year in which the critical exposure occurred. (Under the Fairchild jurisprudence, all employers who made a material contribution to the risk of mesothelioma are jointly and severally liable for the employee’s injury. Pursuant to an act of Parliament that reversed a Barker decision, an employee can recover their entire damages from any employer during the years in question.) As a result, MMI did not need to, nor did it, identify which policy provided coverage for a particular claim when it paid claims. Nor did MMI apportion the claims among policy years.
MMI reinsured its liability under its EL policies with Lloyd’s syndicates whose liabilities are currently held by Equitas. Unsurprisingly, MMI presented its claims for asbestos-related losses to Equitas initially on a pro rata basis whereby the loss was divided over the years the claimant was exposed to asbestos. However, after several years, MMI began presenting each claim under a single year of reinsurance. MMI claimed that, because each underlying insurance policy was liable in full for the loss, each claim could be presented to a single annual reinsurance policy of its choice, i.e., “spiking.” Spiking benefited MMI because it maximized its recovery. By spiking, MMI avoided multiple retentions, submitting claims to reinsurers who were insolvent and reducing paperwork and potential disputes. Spiking was detrimental to Equitas because, by MMI’s spiking, MMI had fewer retentions and was able to submit more to reinsurance, and Equitas could find itself paying for years it had not provided reinsurance.
Equitas and MMI arbitrated whether MMI could engage in “spiking.” A judge-arbitrator ruled in favor of MMI, agreeing that, because developments in the law made each annual EL policy liable for all of an insured’s loss, MMI had a contractual right to present its claim for reinsurance under any reinsurance policy year that corresponded to an EL policy year that was liable for the individual claimant’s loss. The judge-arbitrator further concluded, among other things, that even if MMI had a duty of good faith with respect to how it presented its reinsurance claims, MMI did not breach that duty because it had “expressly acknowledged that there was a need for equitable recoupment and contribution to redress any anomalies.”
Equitas obtained leave to appeal the judge-arbitrator’s decision.
The Court of Appeal reversed. The court rested its decision on the duty of good faith. (Notably, the court (and the judge-arbitrator) explained that the duty of good faith in New York differs significantly from the duty of good faith under the law of the United Kingdom.) Lord Justice Males, whose decision was joined by Lord Justice Leggatt (who also wrote a concurrence) and Lord Justice Patten, summarized his reasoning regarding the duty as follows:
In my judgment there are powerful reasons to support the implication of a term in the very specific reinsurance context existing within the Fairchild enclave that the insurer’s right to present its reinsurance claims must be exercised in a manner which is not arbitrary, irrational or capricious, and that in that context rationality requires that they be presented by reference to each year’s contribution to the risk, which will normally be measured by reference to time on risk unless in the particular circumstances there is a good reason (such as differing intensity of exposure) for some other basis of presentation.
The reasons supporting applying the duty of good faith in that manner included the fact that “spiking is inconsistent with the presumed intentions and reasonable expectations of the parties at the time when the contracts were concluded,” which was long before the unique Fairchild jurisprudence that allowed MMI to choose between numerous policies existed.
The Court of Appeal therefore adopted the method proposed by Equitas: Reinsurance claims based on exposure in multiple policy years for which the insurer has not allocated its loss among the various policy years at issue must nevertheless be presented to the reinsurer on a pro rata basis for purposes of calculating the applicable reinsurance payment.
MMI will likely appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Assuming it stands, the Court of Appeal’s decision constitutes a significant win for reinsurers exposed to asbestos-related claims in the United Kingdom. Spreading reinsurance claims regarding asbestos injuries across multiple policy years will require compliance with multiple retentions and potentially mean that more than one reinsurer is involved in each claim.
Equitas Ins. Ltd. v. Municipal Mut. Ins. Ltd., [2019] EWCA Civ 718 (Apr. 17, 2019).
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Brendan Gooley is a litigator who focuses on employment discrimination, education, and insurance matters. He joined the firm after clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Brendan defends employers, including municipalities and educational institutions, accused of various types of employment discrimination in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit, before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), and after actions are filed. He handles complaints alleging violations of Title VII and the...
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San Diego Military News
Covering those who serve and live in our city
USMC Puts Armored Vehicles on Navy Ships to Defend Against Enemy Boats
The drills have been conducted in the South China Sea
By Danielle Radin
Published Dec 4, 2018 at 3:10 PM | Updated at 6:36 AM PST on Dec 5, 2018
U.S. Marines simulating traveling through dangerous waters strapped vehicles to the flight deck of a Navy ship to combat enemy boats and other threats as a joint team.
In September, Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary, or MEU, parked light armored vehicles atop the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp during a defense drill.
The drill in the South China Sea, known as the Indo-Pacific region, was to rehearse ship security using a variety of small-arms and heavy weapons.
“Increasing the lethality of the Navy-Marine Corps Team is the priority for us. Sailors and Marines are doing amazing work and we are becoming more lethal every single day,” said Rear Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of Amphibious Force 7th Fleet.
As part of the drill, crews also fired mounted machine guns. It allowed Marine snipers to fire M107 semi-automatic sniper rifles, and machine gunners to employ lethal fires.
Sailors and Marines fired on an inflatable gunnery target commonly called a “killer tomato” while in open seas.
“We demonstrated collective combat effectiveness,” said Capt. Jim McGovern, commander of Amphibious Squadron 11. “The ability of these Sailors and Marines to fully integrate, get weapons systems on deck, helicopters in the air, and rounds down range in such a timely manner shows that we are ready for anything."
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Iffley Island, Oxford Street Map Google Map Photos
Iffley Island SSSI, Oxford
Oxford Preservation Trust
OS grid reference:
SP 523 044
Nearest postcode:
OX4 4BJ
Usual work:
Grass cutting, habitat maintenance
Iffley Island, also sometimes referred to as Swan Island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) owned by the Oxford Preservation Trust and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) to preserve its population of snake's head fritillaries. It is a small triangular flood meadow located on the River Thames near Donnington Bridge in Oxford. Our work here mainly involves cutting back grasses in the summer and the autumn to create favourable conditions for the fritillaries to flower in the spring. We also sometimes carry out other maintenance work such as pollarding trees and removing driftwood from the floodplain.
Iffley Island and the Houseboats
Iffley Island is a small triangular peninsula jutting out into the River Thames near Donnington Bridge in Oxford. It is one of a series of alluvial flood meadows that form the Iffley Meadows Nature Reserve. Most of the site lies on clay soils enriched by flood deposits every year.
Iffley Meadows is a fine example of a site that has escaped the damage caused by agricultural improvements. It has retained a rich grassland flora typical of ancient meadows. The meadows are particularly notable for their snake�s head fritillaries (Fritillaria meleagris), the largest remaining population in the Middle Thames. Many species indicative of damp meadows also grow here, such as tufted hair-grass, meadow foxtail and Yorkshire fog to name a few. Typical of the damp conditions, fungi are often seen on fallen trees at the site. Species of butterflies, dragonflies, frogs and even deer have been seen at the site by keen OCV members whilst on a task.
Snake's Head Fritillary
Traditional management of Iffley Island is essential to preserve its conservation value. Each year, the vegetation needs to be cut back to maintain the species diversity of the meadow. If this is not done, the flora becomes dominated by tall grasses which suppress the smaller, less vigorous plant species, particularly the snake�s head fritillaries.
Iffley Island was not managed actively in recent years, with a resulting drop in the number of fritillaries recorded. Natural England even classified this part of the SSSI as �unfavourable declining� in its 2003 assessment of the site. In 2008, OCV worked two Sundays at Iffley Island and we hope that our contribution will help to bring back more diversity to the site in the long term.
If coming from the West across Donnington Bridge, take the first left after you have crossed the river. There is a small car park on the left shortly after the Sea Scouts' hut and car park. Alternatively the Redbridge Park and Ride is only a short walk from the site.
Iffley Island is easily accessible from Meadow Lane: turn towards the Sea Scouts� hut, walk through the field and left towards the meadow.
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Breagh gas field onstream offshore northeast England
RWE Dea UK has started gas production from the Breagh field in the UK southern North Sea.
Breagh Alpha platform
HAMBURG, Germany – RWE Dea UK has started gas production from the Breagh field in the UK southern North Sea.
The first three wells brought into production had an initial combined total flow rate of 2.75 MMcm/d (97 MMcf/d). RWE Dea expects peak output of 4 MMcm/d (141 MMcf/d) early next year, with average annualproduction of 1.1 bcm (39 bcf) between 2014 and 2018.
Breagh is in blocks 42/13a and 42/12a, 65 km (40 mi) off the coast of northeast in a water depth of 60 m (197 ft). The field is on the southern margin of the Dogger shelf and is the first UK offshore development of the Carboniferous Yoredale formation.
It is formed by a 10 x 10-km (6.2 x 6.2-mi) four-way dip closure under the Permian Zechstein formation. The crest of the structure is at 2,200 m (7,218 ft) below sea level.
Phase 1 focuses on the western area and will be developed initially through seven wells, which will target gas production from the Yoredale sandstone layers.
“The difficult interpretation of the seismic due to the extensive salt layers located above the reservoir, made the optimum placement of the development wells a challenge,” said RWE Dea UK’s Rene Pawel.
TheBreagh Alpha platform was installed two years ago; the substructure and deck weigh roughly 3,400 metric tons (3,748 tons), and are secured by eight piles with a total weight of 2,000 metric tons (2,204 tons).
Five of the Phase 1 wells have been drilled, with two currently in the connection phase, a sixth being completed, and a seventh to follow.
Breagh’s gas flows through a 20-in. pipeline to the coast at Coatham Sands near Teesside. It continues via an 11-km (6.8-mi) onshore pipeline to the gas treatment facility in Teesside and from there into the UK gas grid.
The pipeline and gas treatment facility have a total capacity of around 11.3 MMcm/d (339 MMcf/d) of gas.
Currently the company and partner Sterling Resources are working on plans for a Phase 2 development in the field’s eastern section.
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What Happens To American Children Who Are Uprooted With Their Undocumented Parents NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to writer Brooke Jarvis about her piece, "The Deported Americans," in The California Sunday Magazine.
What Happens To American Children Who Are Uprooted With Their Undocumented Parents
What Happens To American Children Who Are Uprooted With Their Undocumented Parents 5:27
February 6, 20195:31 PM ET
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to writer Brooke Jarvis about her piece, "The Deported Americans," in The California Sunday Magazine.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
There are some 600,000 American children living and going to school in Mexico. That number comes from reporter Brooke Jarvis writing for The California Sunday Magazine. These are young U.S. citizens born to undocumented parents. For many of these kids, the transition to a new homeland and a new school is full of pitfalls. Brooke Jarvis, welcome to the program.
BROOKE JARVIS: Hi. Thanks for having me.
SHAPIRO: You describe these kids as deported Americans, but technically, none of them were actually deported. They're U.S. citizens. So explain what happened to these American kids.
JARVIS: Right. Well, one of the inviolable rights of citizenship is that you can't be deported. You know, even if you commit treason, that's not something that should happen to you. But what happened is that these children have undocumented parents. And in some cases, they were directly deported, and the family decided to follow in order to stay together. In other cases, as with the two sisters that I follow closely in the piece, they did what politicians 10 years ago were calling self-deportation. If you remember laws like SB 1070 in Arizona and similar laws in South Carolina where these sisters were living, the goal was to make it harder for families to live in America. And it pushed them to return to wherever they came from.
SHAPIRO: So the parents who were undocumented just felt too much pressure and decided they had to leave even if they weren't forcibly removed from the country.
JARVIS: Right. But in the case of the children, you know, you can't return to a place that you've never been.
SHAPIRO: What kinds of challenges do the kids face when they first arrive?
JARVIS: It's very common that, you know, kids - they may speak Spanish with their parents at home. They may hear Spanish, but it's not their primary language. One of the girls that I write about, Ashley, her mother always encouraged her to learn Spanish. And Ashley would say, well, I'm not going to need that. I'm American. And then when they ended up in Mexico, and this is true for many children, suddenly they're trying to learn and take classes in a language that they, you know, may not know at all or only know to speak it, not to read it or write it.
SHAPIRO: And you write that no public schools in Mexico offer Spanish as a second language classes, and less than 5 percent of the teachers speak any English at all.
JARVIS: Right. And so the - what happens commonly is that these children become invisible, even in their own classrooms. And so that means that sometimes students are sitting in the classroom with their needs not being met, but the teachers just think that they're slow or they're not keeping up for some reason. But they don't realize that they have specific needs.
SHAPIRO: So there are obviously huge challenges when kids first arrive in Mexico. And you met and followed some kids who had been there for years. After they've been in Mexico for a while, how do they think of their identity?
JARVIS: Right. That's something that's still very complicated for them to navigate. Even as they start to fit in better in their communities and their Spanish gets better, they still wonder what their futures are going to look like and who they are. Kids give me, you know, sometimes different answers on different days about whether they identified as Mexican or American or what percentage of each. One of the sisters in the story told me that she sometimes gets her passport out just to look at it and to read the preamble of the Constitution, which she had to memorize for a class project back in South Carolina. And she said, I just like to remind myself that I'm from there, too. And I heard all kinds of interesting stories like that.
There were two brothers who had a long-standing argument about which country is better. And one would always say, oh, Mexico is better, and one would say the United States is better. But, of course, in a way, both of them are their countries.
SHAPIRO: Yeah.
JARVIS: You know, I met a lot of children with U.S. passports, U.S. citizens, who weren't sure if they were actually allowed to re-enter the country. And they weren't sure if they would be allowed to apply for college or for other school. Some were worried that they could do something wrong, you know, something that they didn't expect or understand and they would lose their citizenship.
SHAPIRO: And all of those things are not real threats to them. I mean, of course, they can come back to the United States. They can apply for college. Their rights as a citizen are inviolable.
JARVIS: They're unfounded, but they become real because they exist. You know, if a child thinks that these opportunities aren't available to them, then effectively the opportunities aren't available to them.
SHAPIRO: Most Americans don't see or think about this population of kids. Even in Mexico, they can be very under the radar. What made you decide this group of students was worth looking at?
JARVIS: One reason is that they are so invisible, not just in Mexico but certainly here. One narrative that you often hear about immigration is, oh, immigrants are coming here and they're stressing our services. And this is a case where, you know, actually there's more than half a million American students that schools in Mexico are struggling to provide services for. I think that the way that we think and talk about immigration tends to be very cut and dry, very black and white. And we ignore all of the complicated realities that people experience on the ground and in particular families like these that have a variety of legal statuses within the same family and that that creates all kinds of painful and difficult decisions when the whole family can't live legally and comfortably on either side of the border.
SHAPIRO: That's reporter Brooke Jarvis. Her piece, "The Deported Americans," appeared in The California Sunday Magazine. Thanks for speaking with us.
JARVIS: Thanks so much.
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Archives|PASTIMES; Providing Fixer-Uppers With Tips, Tools and T.L.C.
PASTIMES; Providing Fixer-Uppers With Tips, Tools and T.L.C.
By HILARY APPELMAN JUNE 13, 2001
DAYS before moving into a dilapidated 1904 Victorian house in Portland, Ore., last summer, Cindy Banks posted a frantic note on the Internet.
''I hate the house. I didn't even go over there yesterday and I only have three days before I move. I'm paralyzed. I've been laying on the couch watching 'The Simpsons' reruns and eating cheese nacho dip. . . . If you read this please send me a message that says GET OFF THE COUCH!''
Ms. Banks, 37, owned two houses before her latest purchase, which was in far worse shape than either predecessor. Plaster was falling, windows were broken, the furnace was ancient, and an ominous pool of water stood in the basement. Ms. Banks, who works as a product manager at a software company in Portland, found few people interested in or supportive of her restoration project. On the Old House Web site (www.oldhouseweb.net), however, she found kindred spirits -- fellow fixer-uppers who greeted her with a fervor and affirmation reminiscent of a 12-step program.
''C'mon, Cindy, YOU CAN DO IT!'' responded someone named Mike. ''Like it or not, you've joined the exclusive club'' of people ''who are dedicated to making our communities into inherently better places, one step at a time. . . . You go, girl!''
Almost a year later, Ms. Banks is immersed in plaster dust, ripping out walls and floors and debating whether to pull down the house's asbestos siding this summer or next. She logs on to the Old House Web three or four times a week to obtain advice and correspond regularly with several people she has met online.
''We're always giving each other advice, trying to cheer each other up,'' Ms. Banks said.
For Ms. Banks and thousands of other do-it-yourselfers across the country, the Web plays a role traditionally filled by the corner hardware store: a source of advice, support and even supplies. Patrons of these virtual hardware counters get tips from experts, chat with other fixer-uppers, download detailed project instructions, order products and find contractors.
Dozens of sites offer how-to advice on everything from caulking a bathtub to building a deck. There are all-purpose sites like DoItYourself.com, sites linked to magazines and television programs, including the public television show ''This Old House'' (www.pbs.org /wgbh/thisoldhouse) and topical sites -- for example, Toiletology 101 (www.toiletology.com/index.shtml).
In addition, the big hardware chains have their own sites, including Homedepot.com, Lowes.com and True Value.com. These sites offer home improvement tips, do-your-own project instructions and product information, but generally no chat rooms or message boards. Two large online-only sites -- Hardware.com and HomeWareHouse.com -- have gone out of business, while others have scaled back.
Most of the successful sites are tied to magazines, retailers or shows like those on the Home and Garden Television network (HGTV.com). Profitable exceptions, like DoItYourself.com and the Old House Web, have kept their staffs small and costs down.
The sites are supported largely by advertising from hardware companies and suppliers. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, Americans spend about $150 billion on home improvements each year, including at least $20 billion by do-it-yourselfers. At DoItYourself.com, tips on wallpapering are accompanied by a selection of related products for sale on the side of the screen: a decorating book, bench plane, stepladder and two kinds of sanders.
The bulletin boards are where the home-improvement sites really come alive, with people swapping both horror stories and wisdom. The discussions can get passionate. David Goldsholle, the founder and president of DoItYourself.com, said he once had to alert the Canadian police after one user threatened to burn down another person's house in a dispute on the bulletin board over electrical wiring techniques.
Some of the most zealous posters at bulletin boards are old-house aficionados -- people who see treasures where others see just sagging roofs. Gordon Bock, the editor in chief of the magazine Old-House Journal and its companion Web site (www.oldhousejournal.com), says his readers invest an average of five years and $10,000 to $50,000 a year in their projects. ''This is not building a deck or a birdbath over a weekend,'' he said. ''They are not armchair restorers.''
The Web is a valuable resource for such people, Mr. Bock said, as a place to find specialty manufacturers and hard-to-find vintage products and as a source of community in a field dominated offline by men.
A user survey conducted by the Old House Web found slightly more women than men use the site, a fact also shared by DoItYourself.com at its site. A number of women interviewed for this article said they felt more welcome online than in lumberyards and hardware stores. Nicki Hendrix, a public relations manager who is rehabilitating a 1905 house in Athens, Ga., goes on the Old House Web site two or three times a week. She said she had gone into hardware stores and been asked, ''Where's your husband?''
Kendall Holmes, who introduced the Old House Web site in 1999, said he had never recruited anyone to answer questions in the discussion boards. Experts just gravitate to the site, he said, eager to share their specialized knowledge. ''They find you,'' Mr. Holmes said.
Mr. Holmes said that he and his wife, Deborah, the site's editor in chief, tried to catch errors when they saw them posted, but he said they did not vet all the advice on the message boards. (Some sites use moderators to review the information posted on bulletin boards and ensure that questions are answered.) ''It's caveat emptor,'' Mr. Holmes said. ''You have to run it through your own common-sense check. If you find some stuff about crumbling plaster, you certainly want to take a few minutes and follow the whole conversation through and get the benefit of a variety of knowledge.''
In addition to practical advice, he said: ''It's also clearly an emotional support thing for a lot of people. They've got this old house, they're working on it, they want to know they're not alone out there, that there are other people who have lived through the plaster dust and the torn-up rooms.''
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Archives|THE 2004 CAMPAIGN; Candidates' Comments On Bush
THE 2004 CAMPAIGN; Candidates' Comments On Bush
Following are excerpts from statements by two Democratic candidates for president, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, about President Bush's appearance yesterday on NBC's ''Meet the Press,'' as recorded by The New York Times and CNN.
MR. KERRY
President Bush said that his decision to go to war with Iraq when he did was because Saddam Hussein had ''the ability to make weapons.''
This is a far cry from what the president and his administration told the American people throughout 2002. Back then, President Bush repeatedly told the American people that Saddam Hussein ''has got chemical weapons.'' They told us they could deploy those weapons within 45 minutes to do injury to our troops. They told us they had aerial vehicles and the capacity to be able to deliver those weapons through the air. And it was on that basis that he sent American sons and daughters off to war. Now the president is giving us a new reason for sending people to war, and the problem is not just that he is changing his story now.
It is that he, it appears, that he was telling the American people stories in 2002. He told America that Iraq had chemical weapons two months after his own defense intelligence agency told him there was, quote, no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons. I once again call on the president to have a legitimate and immediate investigation into the extraordinary failure of intelligence, or to help explain to the American people whether there was politics involved in the development of that intelligence.
I respect the fact that the president has asked for a commission that will look at all of the intelligence agency. But that's not what Americans asked for. What Americans asked for and what we need is an explanation of what happened to our intelligence.
On President Bush's
Military Record
I have always honored, and I will always honor, anybody who serves anywhere. I've said since the day I came back from Vietnam, that it was not an issue to me if somebody chose to go to Canada, or to go to jail, or to be a conscientious objector, or to serve in the National Guard or elsewhere. I honor that service. But that's not the issue here. The issue here as I have heard it raised is, Was he present and active, on duty in Alabama, at the times he was supposed to be? I don't have the answer to that question. And just because you get an honorable discharge does not in fact answer that question.
DR. DEAN
This president has some peculiar thing going on about Saddam Hussein. There's no question that he's a terrible person. There's now no question at this point that he was never a threat to the United States nor an imminent threat to the United States. The president for whatever reason has not been truthful with the American people about why we went to war.
Whether he was deceived by his own intelligence or the vice president's office, or whether he knew that he wasn't being truthful to the American people, we don't know. If there were a Democratic Congress right now there would be a series of very serious inquiries along the matter.
On the Intelligence Inquiry
I think this commission needs to be a great deal more independent than it is. If you were investigating the fact that we went to war apparently on false information, it seems to me that you need an inquiry that is not appointed by the president of the United States no matter how good the people on it may be. They owe something to the president of the United States. They owe their appointment to the president of the United States. The president of the United States sent our troops to war.
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Theater|What Profits an Off Broadway Show?
What Profits an Off Broadway Show?
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON FEB. 6, 2008
For three years “Altar Boyz,” the little musical about a Christian boy band, playing at New World Stages, has been a classic example of commercial Off Broadway’s struggles.
If a show with a cultlike following, stellar reviews, a not insurmountable $1 million capitalization cost — and after some adjustments, a $50,000 weekly running cost — couldn’t turn a profit, then what could?
Well, right around New Year’s Day, about three years into its run and somewhat propelled by the business driven Off Broadway by the Broadway stagehands’ strike, “Altar Boyz” finally recouped its initial investment, said its producers, Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman.
The cast of Altar Boyz; three years into its run, this musical is operating in the black. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Off Broadway shows do not report grosses publicly, and the League of Off Broadway Theaters and Producers does not compile information on recoupments. But if there are musicals that made their money back in commercial runs Off Broadway in the last decade or so, there aren’t many. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” did, and so did “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Each, however, opened more than 10 years ago.
Increasingly, the producing model of the Off Broadway musical has shifted toward a hybrid of commercial producers and nonprofit theaters. Under this system critical hits that were nurtured on nonprofit stages, like “Grey Gardens” and “Avenue Q,” move to Broadway for their commercial runs.
But where that leaves commercial Off Broadway is less clear. Mr. Davenport has two other shows there — “The Awesome ’80s Prom” and “My First Time” — which he says have recouped their investments. “Prom,” an interactive show like “Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding,” recouped a year after it opened in 2005. “My First Time,” a series of monologues that opened in August, made its money back within several months, partly because it has been playing on a truncated schedule of two or three performances a week and cost a mere $175,000 to put up.
But for a book musical like “Altar Boyz,” Mr. Davenport and Ms. Goodman had to be creative. Advertising was curtailed, and certain duties, like casting and some marketing, were performed out of Mr. Davenport’s production office instead of farmed out to specialists. The producers worked out a favorable rent arrangement with New World Stages that allowed the show to stay up and running despite its rather intense peaks and valleys.
“I think if people work as hard as we did on keeping this show going in terms of conservative spending and innovative marketing, people can keep their shows running,” Ms. Goodman said. “The problem is holding strong while you find your audience.”
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page E3 of the New York edition with the headline: What Profits an Off Broadway Show?. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Africa|Gender Inequality in Morocco Continues, Despite Amendments to Family Law
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Gender Inequality in Morocco Continues, Despite Amendments to Family Law
Women rallied in support of Amina Filali, who committed suicide after being forced to marry a man who allegedly raped her.CreditCreditAbdeljalil Bounhar/Associated Press
By Aida Alami
When Zineb lost her father at the age of 15, her grief was compounded when she learned that she had to share his inheritance with an older half-brother unknown to her or her mother and sister.
“It felt unfair to split it with him,” said Zineb, 29, a teacher in Rabat who asked that her full name not be used because as a political activist she is concerned about her safety. “Somebody was parachuted into your life and we didn’t know him and after all, my mom worked for half of all of that money.”
A decade ago, Morocco adopted a family code hailed by women’s rights groups as a big step forward. Three years ago, the country passed a new constitution guaranteeing gender equality. Even so, Moroccan women say that equality is still a long way off, and much of the old order remains untouched, including the inheritance law section of the family code. That law, laid down in the Quran, states that male relatives receive double the inheritance of women.
But the pressure for change is building. “Islam allows for reinterpretation, and it is time for radical decisions to protect women,” said Saida Kouzzi, a founding partner at Mobilizing for Rights Associates, a nongovernmental organization based in Morocco. “This law of inheritance was based on the fact that men were the head of the households, which is not the case anymore as many women are the ones who provide for the family or at least contribute in a significant manner.”
In 2004, Morocco rewrote its code of family law, establishing the right to divorce by mutual consent, placing limits on polygamy and raising the minimum marriage age for women to 18 from 15. But no changes were made with respect to inheritance.
At the time, the Moroccan ruler, King Mohammed VI, had to arbitrate between the demands of feminist organizations, who were calling for an expansion of women’s rights, and the Islamic political parties, who were strongly resistant to change. But terrorist bombings in 2003 that killed 45 people in Casablanca weakened the Islamist parties and paved the way for the adoption of the new family code. The king seized that opportunity to make it clear that he was the country’s top religious authority.
“I can’t in my capacity as commander of the faithful, permit what God has forbidden, nor forbid what the Almighty has allowed,” the king said in an October 2003 address to Parliament about the changes to the family code. He also hinted that he would push to loosen religious rules without completely rejecting them.
Analysts said it was a clever strategy.
“It was definitely a strong marketing move,” said Abdellah Tourabi, a political science researcher and the editor of the Moroccan monthly magazine Zamane. “It was the fourth year of his reign, and the move gave him the image of a modernist and a reformer. He became a sort of bulwark against conservatism and Islamism and a strategic ally for the secular elites.”
Still, human rights organizations say that, in practice, the changes have not been fully carried out, mainly because some judges have been finding ways around the law or are still unfamiliar with the amendments.
Although the law now states that 18 is the minimum marriage age, judges have granted permission for the marriage of minors in about 90 percent of the cases that have appeared before them, according to 2010 data reported by the Justice Ministry.
“It takes much more time for changes in the law to be translated into practice,” said Ziba Mir-Hosseini, a research associate specializing in women and Islamic law at the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the University of London. “Studies show that it takes about one generation or 30 years for legislation to push society in a different direction.”
“Many families in rural areas are really eager to have their daughters marry much earlier,” she added. “Judges have to go by the reality on the ground.”
In conservative Morocco, the reality is that even women may be reluctant to challenge Islamic traditions that discriminate against them. “Women are very attached to the book and it is very clear on inheritance,” said Sonia Terrab, a Moroccan novelist, referring to the Quran. “If given the choice, they will reject reform. There needs to be a strong state that imposes it until it becomes a solid gain in two or three generations.”
In December, Driss Lachgar, secretary general of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, an opposition party, demanded the repeal of laws that discriminate against women and called for a national debate on the inheritance law. Although his message stirred some controversy, no national or legislative debate ensued.
Ms. Kouzzi, the human rights worker, said the enforcement of the inheritance law had serious consequences: Many families disintegrate after the death of the father, and sometimes the survivors lose their homes.
Many Moroccans, she said, have discovered ways to work around the law, registering their properties in the name of their daughters, if they do not have a son, to guarantee that the inheritance stays within the nuclear family.
To radically change a traditional law, scholars say, it is necessary to accept that Muslim societies like Morocco are deeply conservative. Feminists and other groups seeking change must work with conservatives and avoid using alienating language.
“This issue cannot be addressed without taking into consideration what Moroccans consider to be their identity: Islam,” said Souad Eddouada, a professor at the University of Kenitra in Morocco who specializes in gender studies. “This is a very tough battle to win for feminists because it touches money and property. Islam is based on the concept of justice, so a new reading of the texts can open the way to reforms even with inheritance.”
Many believe that this kind of change will not be possible in Morocco unless the king provides the impetus.
But Zineb, the teacher who lost her father, said change was bound to happen despite the serious challenge it would pose to the privileges of men. Until then, she is making special provisions for her 8-year-old daughter.
“My advice to all women is to make sure they put the stuff in the kids’ names,” she said. “And they have to do it while they’re alive so the law doesn’t take away the girls’ rights.”
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Although the restaurants are no longer functioning, rooms of the Tavistock hotel are still rented out. Photo / Warren Buckland.
It was a court house, a church, hotel and meeting place and was home to Waipukurau's first All Black, but what is the Tavistock Hotel's next purpose?
Built by Henry Russell in 1856, the 163-year-old building is for sale.
It's seen travellers from all walks of life cross the polished wooden floors, enjoying a pint beneath the ornate ceilings.
As is the case with most country and small town hotels, the building has been tossed to the side in the modern age, suffering the hardship of changing licensing laws.
Travellers who once stopped by on horse and cart are now replaced with the hushed sound of cars brushing by.
The once-thriving hub featured in celebrations connected to the opening of the railway bridge on September 6, 1876 and catered for up to 900 guests, many of whom had travelled from Napier and Hastings for occasions.
A survivor of the 1931 earthquake, the building has now become a shadow of its former self, with rumoured ghosts lingering in the halls and upstairs, with a patron who was stabbed in the hotel apparently making his presence felt to staff and guests.
Others have reported hearing a distressed young boy crying in the bar area.
The building is currently owned by Jacky Cheung who lives in Australia and has rubbished any paranormal rumours.
"I've heard of these things, but I've never experienced anything strange in my time owning it," he says.
"Some people who live in the building say they've seen the ghost, I've not seen anything."
Resident Neil Sloane said this room would fill up with travellers from passing steam trains topping up on pints while the train made a brief stop in Waipukurau. Photo / Warren Buckland
The hotel has been on the market for about six months with Cheung saying there has been local interest in the building.
In the last decade it's been home to Breaker's Restaurant, The Oak Room, and Rosie O'Grady's Irish Bar, all of which are currently closed.
CHB resident Neil Sloane used to play in a band at the Tavistock about 25 years ago.
"It used to take off," he said, "I also used to sell papers out there when I was a kid."
"The bar that recently used to be the Oak Room, had a big horseshoe bar and when steam trains used to stop there to top up, the entire train would empty out and into the bar so they could have a top up themselves - the Tavi was famous for that."
Sloane said it also used to take off after the races and was a popular after-work stop for farmers and locals.
"People would pile in at 5pm and then leave at 6pm half chopped."
In 1916 the Tavistock Hotel was moved to its present location on Ruataniwha St.
It was again extended to become a double-storey wooden building with two dining rooms capable of seating up to 100 diners, a commercial room, a billiards room and a stable.
It was originally situated on Mt Herbert Rd opposite the Bowling Club.
In 1922 the hotel was under the management the Keyver family, and was followed by the Irvine family.
They produced Waipukurau's first All Black, Bill Irvine, a hooker whose nickname was Bull.
The Irvines stayed for some years up until the 1930s when they were succeeded by the Limbrick family.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, proprietor Rene Bartrum earned herself a warm reputation as a publican and a caring soul.
Bartrum was said to have died in the hotel, but in reality she had retired and was living in St Mary's Rd, Waipukurau, and died in the Waipukurau Hospital of blood poisoning, in the 1980s.
She came to Waipukurau in 1963, after owning the Maitland Private Hotel in Palmerston North.
Her hotel had been a popular stop for the Howard Morrison Quartet when they travelled the country, and they sought her out at the Tavistock Hotel when she moved, as they enjoyed her hospitality.
Rene was renowned for looking after her guests, paying bills and managing finances for long-stay tenants, and even acting as a banker for truck drivers, who would leave their pay packet with her and request that she manage their money.
It's rumoured "Ma" still resides in the Tavistock, looking after those who currently live there.
Colliers International director Danny Blair said existing the infrastructure in place for the bar and restaurant could be an easy set up for a hospitality provider looking to make the most of Central Hawke's Bay growing community.
"The rooms upstairs could suit seasonal works or be refurbished for boutique accommodation.
"The profile is huge we really just need someone to bring this building back to its former glory."
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Roe found guilty of Broome “gay bash” murder
8 Sep 2016 | Filed under Local,News | Posted by Leigh Andrew Hill
A man from Broome has been found guilty of murdering a male Halls Creek resident who allegedly made sexual advances on him while the pair were drinking together.
The man, who has been discussed under the pseudonym Mr Johnson for cultural reasons, was killed by Joseph Thomas Roe in September of 2014.
Autopsy reports revealed 41-year-old Johnson was exhibiting fractures to his skull and severe blunt-force trauma to his anus. Prosecutors told the court Roe had been in a “fit of rage” when he attacked Johnson.
It was revealed at an earlier court appearance that Roe had told police he had murdered Johnson because he had made sexual advances toward him. A reading of the police interview recorded that Roe had said he “didn’t like poofs.”
Johnson’s family told media they were thankful a judgement had been made, after waiting two years to hear the court’s decision.
“It’s a bit of happiness and a bit of sadness,” Johnson’s uncle said.
“It’s been a long journey to this point but we can finally begin to put it behind us.”
Joseph Thomas Roe is scheduled to be sentenced in November this year.
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Nurses exposed to harassment as law remains unenforced
Posted by: admin in Work Place Harassment August 5, 2012 0 738 Views
KARACHI: Despite the general perception that young women medical professionals or nurses are among the groups of professionals vulnerable to ‘workplace violence’, public and private healthcare settings have largely no arrangements to prevent them from becoming targets.
Through a legal enactment in March 2010, the federal government made provisions for the protection of women against harassment, including sexual advances, sexually demeaning attitudes, causing interference with work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment at the workplace, but there has been no follow-up to the move.
None of the public sector hospitals in the province have constituted a committee to inquire into such complaints as required under the Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2010.
A source in the Civil Hospital Karachi said that a committee was established about two years back for the implementation of policies to prevent sexual discrimination and harassment in the hospital. It comprised five female doctors and officers of the hospital and had nothing to do with relevant harassment legislation, said the source, adding that the head of the committee known as gender discrimination and harassment officer had already left the hospital.
Sharing the details of her pilot-research survey on nurses’ safety and security in hospital settings involving nurses of three tertiary care hospitals in the city, Shanila Jalaluddin, a senior lecturer at Liaquat College of Nursing, said that 31.4 per cent of respondents reported experiencing violence physically, verbally and sexually harassed in a period of 12 months.
Only 2.8 per cent respondents reported and filled the incidence forms, while 28.5 per cent of respondents did nothing at all.
Barriers to reporting
Respondents who experienced frequent physical violence or verbal abuse indicated fear of retaliation and lack of support from hospital administration and management as barriers to reporting workplace violence.
Rozina Somani, a senior instructor at the Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, who had recently completed her research covering the prevalence of workplace violence towards nurses at two government and two private healthcare settings in Karachi, said that physical violence as well as bullying was significant in public sector hospitals, while verbal abuses (mostly peer to peer) dominated in private hospitals.
She said that altogether 458 nurses volunteered for her study aimed at identifying the prevalence of physical and psychological violence experienced by nurses in the four hospitals.
“The prevalence of all kinds of violence is quite high in both private and government health care settings. Patients, their relatives, and staff members were found the main perpetrators of workplace violence. Nurses who work in shift duties were more prone to workplace violence,” said Ms Somani. She added that sexual violence incidences were experienced equally in public and private hospitals, but these were under reported due to fear, shame and guilt.
“My study, which was undertaken under the supervision of Dr Rozina Karmaliani and awaiting a publication, provides some evidence-based recommendations to overcome the issue of workplace violence,” she said and urged the government to identify measures to provide a violence-free environment to nurses in all the healthcare settings of Pakistan, which was not only the requirement of the Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2010 but also was among the WHO goal of a violence-free healthcare environment.
The two researchers visited two public sector and three private sector major healthcare units for their research.
They said that it was the illiteracy on the part of the visitors, low education among the staffers, the existing long hierarchical line-up in government sector hospitals, attitudes of patients and their attendants and horizontal style of saying abuses in the private sector that contributed to the problem of workplace nastiness, which needed to be overcome through a great institutional supportive role.
Deputy secretary (technical) of the Sindh Women Development Department Musarrat Jabeen said that women did not like to speak about any sort of harassment as they feared they would not get proper support and finally would have to sit singled out. However, she said, the 2010 Act against harassment of women, which was applicable in the case of working women of Sindh as well, gave protection to women in all conditions and encouraged them to make complaint to the inquiry committee of her establishment or the ombudsman appointed under Section 7 of the Act.
She said that under the law the institutions were required first to display a code of conduct at the workplace, providing guidelines for behaviour of all employees, including management and owners of an organization, to ensure a work environment free of harassment and intimidation.
Each organisation was required to constitute an inquiry committee to inquire into complaints from a woman or man on being aggrieved by an act of harassment, she said. The committee should consist of three members of whom at least one member should be a woman, said Ms Jabeen, adding that one member of the committee should be from senior management and one should be a senior representative of the employees or a senior employee where there was no CBA.
Replying to a question, she said that the code of conduct had been printed on large cards for display at various public and private institutions, including government departments, hospitals and educational institutions, financial institutions. For some technical or coordination problem, the display of the code of conduct or formation of inquiry committee could not be ensured on a large scale or a fast track basis so far, she said, adding that a meeting of various sub-committees, including the health sector committee, formed under a watch committee of the women development department would be convened again within a month or so to expedite the matters and implement the law at hospitals as well.
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Gaming on the Apple iPhone
Will Steve Jobs's leave of absence affect Apple's product plans? Probably not. In fact, a handheld Apple gaming device may already be under way.
By Tim Bajarin
February 9, 2009 12:01AM EST
When Steve Jobs recently announced that he was going to take a leave of absence due to health issues, I was surprised by Wall Street's reaction. After the news hit, Apple's stock took a sharp dive. Investors assumed that without Jobs at the helm, the company would tank. Sure, his absence invites legitimate questions about Apple's long-term prospects, but the products Apple will bring out this year were designed one to two years ago. The real issue is how successfully COO Tim Cook and his team can bring these products to market. When it comes to Apple's vision, I think the window for new products is not two years but tena cycle that's actually very well thought outwith key milestones and goals that are fine-tuned on an 18-month basis.
Back in 1997, the company was over $1 billion in the red and deeply in debt. On the second day that Steve Jobs was back at Apple, I asked him about his vision for turning the company around. Jobs gave two distinct answers. First, he said he would make sure Apple was taking care of its core customers. He felt that the prior management had forgotten about users in the graphics, engineering, desktop publishing, and education marketsthe folks that had helped Apple grow over the years. Jobs planned to create more-powerful Macs and new products that would meet their evolving needs. But Jobs also said he thought that existing PCs were boring, and that he planned to make industrial design a key issue for Apple products going forward.
At the time, the idea of using industrial design to save Apple seemed far-fetched. But as you know, within 18 months he had introduced the candy-colored line of all-in-one Macs and has consistently made desktops and laptops great to look atconversation pieces simply because of their design. He also set out to create a much richer OS, and started down a path to switch the core processors over to Intel's chips for their greater processing capabilities.
Then in January of 2001, Steve Jobs used Macworld to give a more public view of his long-term vision. In his keynote address, he laid out a vision for the digital home. The heart of his vision: the idea that the Mac would become the center of a person's digital lifestyle. We live in an age of digital cameras, camcorders, and MP3 players, he pointed out, and in the future the Mac would play a key role in helping people manage and control their digital stuff. At that Macworld he also launched the first version of iTunes. Little did we know that by October 2001, Apple would launch the iPod. And, at Macworld 2003, that the company would launch iLife.
Serious Apple watchers soon began to see an ecosystem of hardware, software, and services come together. The iPhone didn't come out until 2006, but sources tell me that research began back in 2002. The iPhone was just another Apple "device" that fit into the ecosystem, letting the company launch new products and services. As you can see, Apple's vision for new products is not one that focuses on just the short term. Indeed, the minds at One Infinite Way appear to have a grander plan that may help the Mac become even more established at the center of a person's digital lifestyle. And in that sense, it will be exciting to see what is up Apple's sleeves in the next few years, whether Jobs comes back or not.
Even though Apple has this broad vision, every once in a while the company stumbles across new services and apps not in the initial plan. A great example is desktop publishing. When Jobs and team originally built the Mac in the early 1980s, the goal was to create the greatest new computing platform. At its launch in 1984, the main app consisted of a simple drawing programplus promises from top executives at Microsoft, Lotus, and Software Publishing Corp. But it was an app from Aldus Corp. called PageMaker that made the Mac the center of the desktop publishing world and pushed it into the mainstream business limelight. One could argue that Jobs's decision to endorse PostScript and the desktop laser printer made this possible, but it's doubtful that he envisioned desktop publishing when creating it.
The iPod touch Has Got Game
A more recent example of this is the evolution of the iPhone and the iPod touch into powerful, handheld gaming systems. Early on, Apple hoped developers would create games for these devices, but I'm not so sure they envisioned either one becoming the gaming powerhouses that they've become over the last year. Downloads of mobile games grew 17 percent last year, thanks to the increased graphics capabilities on smartphones, according to a new report from research firm comScore. The report says that 8.5 million people (2.8 percent of mobile subscribers) have downloaded games to their cell phone. The report goes on to say that Apple iPhone owners accounted for 14 percent of all mobile game downloads, and overall 32 percent of iPhone users have downloaded a gamecompared with a market average of 3.7 percent.
Dedicated mobile platforms such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP still dominate the market, but the iPhone and iPod touch could soon encroach on their territory. For one thing, it's a lot easier to become a game developer for the iPhone than the DS or PSP, and more important, games on the iPhone are significantly cheaper. Apple already has 4,000 of them in the iTunes app store; all are under $10, with the majority under $5. Compare that to cartridges for the DS and PSP in the $20-to-$35 range, and you can see why the iPhone and touch are getting such gaming attention.
I have no special information about Apple's future products, but it wouldn't surprise me to see innovation in this area, since these devices are becoming great platforms for games. But no matter what new devices appear, I'm sure they will be part of Apple's total hardware, software, and services plan, and that they'll be connected in ways that make the Mac the center of the digital home.
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Tim Bajarin is one of the leading analysts working in the technology industry today. He is president of Creative Strategies (www.creativestrategies.com), a research company that produces strategy research reports for 50 to 60 companies annuallya roster that includes semiconductor and PC companies, as well as those in telecommunications, consumer electronics, and media. Customers have included AMD, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, and Microsoft, among many others. You can e-mail him directly at tim@creativestrategies.com.
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A 73-year-old man from Cortes Island was sentenced for sexual interference in Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Thursday. (News Bulletin file)
B.C. senior sentenced for sexually abusing special-needs granddaughter
73-year-old Cortes Island man will go to jail for three years
Karl Yu
A 73-year-old Cortes Island man will spend three years in jail after pleading guilty to sexually abusing his granddaughter, who has special needs.
The man, who pleaded guilty to sexual interference, was sentenced by Judge Palbinder Shergill in Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Thursday afternoon. The man can’t be named in order to protect the privacy of the victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.
During the sentencing, Shergill said the girl, now 12, who has developmental delays and special needs, was nine years old when her grandfather began sexually assaulting her in the summer of 2016 and began with him touching her thighs and having her touching his genitals. The man found the sexual contact stimulating, said Shergill, and over the course of the next one and a half years, abused her. Courtenay and Cortes Island were among the areas the abuse took place, said John Boccabella, Crown counsel, after sentencing.
Abuses happened every other week, with the two touching each others’ genitals and the man rubbing his genitals on hers, Shergill said in her ruling. On numerous occasions, the girl asked the man to stop and while he promised to, even “pinkie” promising at one point, the abuse continued. It only ended when the man’s wife caught him.
The victim, Shergill said, has been profoundly impacted and it has affected her at school and socially. She has angry outbursts and is highly anxious about her personal space and does not want to be touched, the Supreme Court justice said. While she is undergoing therapy, she still has a difficult time talking to her parents about the situation. She also requires an individual caregiver.
Shergill said the man didn’t have a prior criminal record and was raped by an older roommate when he was in his 20s, but never reported the crime. He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2012, but survived, and relatives said he changed after that, forgetting things and putting himself in dangerous situations. However, he has no mental health concerns, Shergill said.
Boccabella sought a three-and-a-half-year sentence, while Al McGarvey, defence, sought a provincial term between 18 months to two years, less a day.
In sentencing the man to jail, Shergill said the offence was egregious and that the man psychologically manipulated the victim. She added that the man admitted to the offence early and entered the plea, stating that he did deserve to go to jail. Universal in all the documentation provided to the court was that the man showed “perplexing lack of remorse,” said Shergill.
The man will be required to register under the Sex Offender Information Registration Act.
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U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education.
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On questions about Christianity – including a battery of questions about the Bible – Mormons (7.9 out of 12 right on average) and white evangelical Protestants (7.3 correct on average) show the highest levels of knowledge. Jews and atheists/agnostics stand out for their knowledge of other world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism; out of 11 such questions on the survey, Jews answer 7.9 correctly (nearly three better than the national average) and atheists/agnostics answer 7.5 correctly (2.5 better than the national average). Atheists/agnostics and Jews also do particularly well on questions about the role of religion in public life, including a question about what the U.S. Constitution says about religion.
These are among the key findings of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, a nationwide poll conducted from May 19 through June 6, 2010,* among 3,412 Americans age 18 and older, on landlines and cell phones, in English and Spanish. Jews, Mormons and atheists/agnostics were oversampled to allow analysis of these relatively small groups.1
Previous surveys by the Pew Research Center have shown that America is among the most religious of the world’s developed nations. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults say that religion is “very important” in their lives, and roughly four-in-ten say they attend worship services at least once a week. But the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey shows that large numbers of Americans are uninformed about the tenets, practices, history and leading figures of major faith traditions – including their own. Many people also think the constitutional restrictions on religion in public schools are stricter than they really are.
More than four-in-ten Catholics in the United States (45%) do not know that their church teaches that the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize but actually become the body and blood of Christ. About half of Protestants (53%) cannot correctly identify Martin Luther as the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation, which made their religion a separate branch of Christianity. Roughly four-in-ten Jews (43%) do not recognize that Maimonides, one of the most venerated rabbis in history, was Jewish.
In addition, fewer than half of Americans (47%) know that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist. Fewer than four-in-ten (38%) correctly associate Vishnu and Shiva with Hinduism. And only about a quarter of all Americans (27%) correctly answer that most people in Indonesia – the country with the world’s largest Muslim population – are Muslims.
The survey also finds widespread confusion over the line between teaching and preaching in public schools. Out of a total of 41 knowledge questions (32 about religion and nine testing general knowledge) the single question that respondents most frequently get right is whether U.S. Supreme Court rulings allow teachers to lead public school classes in prayer. Nine-in-ten (89%) correctly say this is not allowed. But among the questions most often answered incorrectly is whether public school teachers are permitted to read from the Bible as an example of literature. Fully two-thirds of people surveyed (67%) also say “no” to this question, even though the Supreme Court has clearly stated that the Bible may be taught for its “literary and historic” qualities, as long as it is part of a secular curriculum.2 On a third question along these lines, just 36% of the public knows that comparative religion classes may be taught in public schools. Together, this block of questions suggests that many Americans think the constitutional restrictions on religion in public schools are tighter than they really are.
On the other hand, most Americans are able to correctly answer at least half of the survey’s questions about the Bible. For example, roughly seven-in-ten (71%) know that, according to the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. More than six-in-ten (63%) correctly name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. And more than half know that the Golden Rule – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” – is not one of the Ten Commandments. On the full battery of seven questions about the Bible (five Old Testament and two New Testament items) Mormons do best, followed by white evangelical Protestants. Atheists/agnostics, black Protestants and Jews come next, all exhibiting greater knowledge of the Bible than white mainline Protestants and white Catholics, who in turn outscore those who describe their religion as nothing in particular.
Factors in Religious Knowledge
What factors seem to contribute to religious knowledge? Data from the survey indicate that educational attainment – how much schooling an individual has completed – is the single best predictor of religious knowledge. College graduates get nearly eight more questions right on average than do people with a high school education or less. Having taken a religion course in college is also strongly associated with higher religious knowledge.
Other factors linked with religious knowledge include reading Scripture at least once a week and talking about religion with friends and family. People who say they frequently talk about religion with friends and family get an average of roughly two more questions right than those who say they rarely or never discuss religion. People with the highest levels of religious commitment – those who say that they attend worship services at least once a week and that religion is very important in their lives – generally demonstrate higher levels of religious knowledge than those with medium or low religious commitment.3 Having regularly attended religious education classes or participated in a youth group as a child adds more than two questions to the average number answered correctly, compared with those who seldom or never participated in such activities. And those who attended private school score more than two questions better on average than those who attended public school when they were growing up. Interestingly, however, those who attended a private religious school score no better than those who attended a private nonreligious school.
This survey and previous Pew Forum studies have shown that Jews and atheists/agnostics have high levels of educational attainment on average, which partially explains their performance on the religious knowledge survey. However, even after controlling for levels of education and other key demographic traits (race, age, gender and region), significant differences in religious knowledge persist among adherents of various faith traditions. Atheists/agnostics, Jews and Mormons still have the highest levels of religious knowledge, followed by evangelical Protestants, then those whose religion is nothing in particular, mainline Protestants and Catholics. Atheists/agnostics and Jews stand out for high levels of knowledge about world religions other than Christianity, though they also score at or above the national average on questions about the Bible and Christianity. Holding demographic factors constant, evangelical Protestants outperform most groups (with the exceptions of Mormons and atheists/agnostics) on questions about the Bible and Christianity, but evangelicals fare less well compared with other groups on questions about world religions such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. Mormons are the highest-scoring group on questions about the Bible.
When education and other demographic traits are held equal, whites score better than minorities on the survey’s religious knowledge questions, men score somewhat better than women, and people outside the South score better than Southerners. The oldest group in the population (age 65 and older) gets fewer questions right than other age groups. However, people 65 and older do about as well as people under age 50 on questions about the Bible and Christianity; they do less well on questions about other world religions.
Other findings of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey include:
On world religions other than Christianity, about six-in-ten Americans (62%) know that most people in India are Hindus. About half know that Ramadan is the Islamic holy month (52%) and can name the Koran as the Muslim holy book (54%). Roughly one-third (36%) correctly associate striving for nirvana with Buddhism.
Around four-in-ten Americans know that the Mormon religion was founded sometime after 1800 (44%) and that the Book of Mormon tells the story of Jesus appearing to people in the Americas (40%). About half (51%) correctly identify Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as a Mormon.
In addition to questions about religious knowledge, the survey included nine general knowledge questions (on history, politics, science and literature) for comparison purposes. These show, for example, that about six-in-ten Americans can name the vice president of the United States (59%) and understand that lasers do not work by focusing sound waves (60%). More than seven-in-ten (72%) correctly associate Susan B. Anthony with the movement to give women the right to vote, while just 42% know that Herman Melville was the author of the novel Moby Dick.
Overall, people who score well on the general knowledge questions also tend to do well on the religion questions. Atheists/agnostics and Jews correctly answer an average of roughly seven of the nine general knowledge questions. Among the public overall, the average respondent correctly answers 5.2 of these general knowledge questions.
While people with a high level of religious commitment do better than average on the religion questions, people with low levels of religious commitment do better than average on the general knowledge questions.
Many Americans are devoted readers of Scripture: More than a third (37%) say they read the Bible or other Holy Scriptures at least once a week, not counting worship services. But Americans as a whole are much less inclined to read other books about religion. Nearly half of Americans who are affiliated with a religion (48%) say they “seldom” or “never” read books (other than Scripture) or visit websites about their own religion, and 70% say they seldom or never read books or visit websites about other religions.
Mormons, black Protestants and white evangelicals are the most frequent readers of materials about religion. Fully half of all Mormons (51%) and roughly three-in-ten white evangelicals (30%) and black Protestants (29%) report that they read books or go online to learn about their own religion at least once a week. Only a small fraction of all religiously affiliated Americans – 6% of the general public and no more than 8% of any religious group – say they read books (other than Scripture) or visit websites to learn about religions other than their own at least once a week.
The remainder of this report is divided into two parts. Section II, “Who Knows What About Religion,” focuses on differences between religious groups in eight domains of knowledge: the Bible, Elements of Christianity, Elements of Judaism, Elements of Mormonism, World Religions, Atheism and Agnosticism, the Role of Religion in Public Life, and Nonreligious Topics. Section III, “Factors Linked With Religious Knowledge,” describes factors associated with religious knowledge. Details about the survey’s methodology are available in Appendix A, and the full wording of all questions and topline survey results are provided in Appendix B.
This survey is being released at the God in America National Symposium on Religious Literacy on Sept. 28, 2010, in Washington, D.C. WGBH Television in Boston collaborated with the Pew Forum and the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum on the symposium, which will also feature a screening of the three-part PBS documentary “God in America.” The series interweaves documentary footage, historical dramatization and interviews to explore the historical role of religion in the U.S., including its impact on society, politics and culture.
1 The Pew Forum’s 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey estimated that Jews and Mormons each make up about 1.7% of the U.S. public, while atheists and agnostics combined account for about 4% of the U.S. population. Atheists and agnostics are treated as a single group throughout this report. The survey sample included too few interviews with atheists to analyze them separately. For more details on the sample sizes of religious groups, see Appendix A. (return to text)
2 Writing for the Supreme Court majority in its 1963 ruling in Abington School District v. Schempp, Justice Tom Clark made a case for the importance of the study of religion as the court clarified how public school teachers may go about it: “. . . [I]t might well be said that one’s education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.” (return to text)
3 This may seem paradoxical, since atheists and agnostics have very low levels of religious commitment and yet score very well on the survey questions. However, atheists and agnostics account for a relatively small share of the total number of people with low levels of religious commitment; 4% of Americans describe themselves as atheists or agnostics, while fully 35% have low religious commitment. Atheists and agnostics answer an average of 20.9 questions correctly, compared with an average of 15.4 correct answers among people with low religious commitment who do not describe themselves as atheists or agnostics. (return to text)
* Correction added April 2011: Interviewing for the survey actually was completed on Friday, June 4, 2010. (return to text)
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Appendix 5: External Advisers
Wendy Cadge is an associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on religion in the U.S., especially its relationship to immigration, health care and sexuality. She is the author of the books “Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America” and “Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine.”
Hien Duc Do is a professor of social science and Asian American studies at San Jose State University. His research focuses on Vietnamese Americans, race relations, immigration and the development of Asian-American communities. He is the author of the book “The Vietnamese Americans” and is an associate producer of the documentary film “Viet Nam: At the Crossroads.”
Diana Eck is a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University, where she also heads the Pluralism Project. Her research focuses on popular religion in India—especially temples and tirthas (pilgrimage sites)—and on religious pluralism in American society. She is the author of “India: A Sacred Geography” and “A New Religious America: How a ‘Christian Country’ Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation.”
Yen Le Espiritu is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on gender, race, immigration, refugees and Asian-American studies, specifically Southeast Asian Americans. She is the author of several books, including “Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries.”
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. His research focuses on Philippine and Filipino-American migration, political economy, public policy, government and development. He is the author of “Filipino American Faith in Action: Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement.”
Jane Naomi Iwamura is a visiting scholar in Asian-American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published and lectured widely on the topic of Asian Americans and religion. She is the author of the book “Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture” and is co-editor of the volume “Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America.”
Khyati Joshi is an associate professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her research focuses on cultural and religious pluralism, religion in schools, multicultural education, immigrant communities and racialization of religion. She is the author of the book “New Roots in America’s Sacred Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America.”
Rebecca Y. Kim is the Frank R. Seaver Professor of Social Science and director of the ethnic studies program at Pepperdine University. She is the author of the book “God’s New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus” and has published articles and book chapters on migration, religion, Asian Americans and global Christianity.
Pyong Gap Min is a distinguished professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also directs the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College. His research focuses on immigration, ethnic identity, religion and gender roles among Asian Americans. He has written six books on Korean immigrants, including “Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles” and “Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America: Korean Protestants and Indian Hindus across Generations.”
Jerry Z. Park is an associate professor of sociology and an affiliate fellow of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. His research interests include religion, race relations and civic engagement among Asian Americans. He has published articles on Asian-American civic participation, second-generation Asian-American pan-ethnic identity, Asian-American religiosity and attitudes toward racial inequality. He also has been a regular contributor to the multiphase Baylor Religion Survey.
Sharon A. Suh is an associate professor and department chair of theology and religious studies at Seattle University. Her research examines the intersection of Buddhism, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and immigration in the U.S. She is the author of “Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple.”
Janelle Wong is the director of the Asian American Studies Program and a faculty member in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on political participation by Asian-American and Latino immigrants. She is the author of the book “Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions” and co-author of “Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities,” which is based on a 2008 survey of Asian Americans.
Fenggang Yang is a professor of sociology and the director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. His research focuses on religious change in China and immigrant religions in the United States. He is the author of the book “Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities” and numerous journal articles on religion in China.
Min Zhou is the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations & Communications and a professor of sociology and Asian-American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include international migration, ethnic and race relations, and urban sociology. She has written several books, including “Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave” and “The Transformation of Chinese America,” and published more than 130 journal articles and book chapters.
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Slideshow: Religious Affiliation of Asian Americans
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Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation
Chapter 2: Religious Switching and Intermarriage
Chapter 3: Importance of Religion
Chapter 4: Religious Beliefs
Chapter 5: Religious Practices
Chapter 6: Social and Political Attitudes
Appendix 1: Selected Findings from the Pew Research Center’s 2011 Muslim American Survey
Appendix 2: Selected Comparisons with Pew Global Attitudes Project Data
Appendix 3: Survey Methodology
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Arizonans Bought 19 Tons of Medical Pot in 2015
Ray Stern
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Ray Stern | January 12, 2016 | 6:00am
Qualified Arizonans legally bought and consumed more than 19 tons of medical-marijuana products in 2015, spending about $215 million.
The Arizona Department of Health Services keeps a running total of dispensary sales and released its December report this week, allowing New Times to calculate last year's totals. The DHS released similar information in a single report a year ago, showing that in 2014, about 60,000 patients bought 10 tons of cannabis products. In 2013, the voter-approved program's first year of dispensaries, consumers bought about 2.5 tons.
December ended with about 88,500 registered patients and another 2,250 dispensary agents, records show, for a grand total of nearly 91,000 state residents who can legally possess and use cannabis under the 2010 Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. That's about 50 percent more patients than in 2014, and those patients bought nearly 100 percent more cannabis than in the previous year, likely owing to the ever-widening selection of cannabis products on dispensary shelves.
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This year, for the first time, the DHS added an "other" category of products to account for the burgeoning market of concentrates like shatter, wax, vaporizing hash oil, and tinctures.
Last year, the official reports show, Arizona medical-marijuana patients bought 555,939 ounces of flowers (buds), 47,284 ounces of edibles, and 11,352 ounces of "other," for a total of 614,575 ounces. Additional statistics about patients and the program can be found on the Arizona DHS website.
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Assuming an average of $350 an ounce, that means patients spent about $215,101,250.
Averaging in state and city sales tax of about 9 percent shows that legal Arizona weed enriched government treasuries by $19.4 million. The money didn't come at the expense of Arizona teens, either: Teen use of cannabis from 2012 to 2014 decreased slightly, federal surveys show.
Anywhere from $40 million to $72 million in tax revenue could be captured from existing marijuana users if voters approve an adult-use legalization measure expected to be on the ballot in November, according to some estimates. Judging by the taxes already brought in by the nonprofit dispensaries, the higher figure is a better guess. Roughly half a million Arizonans use marijuana currently, according to various surveys.
Ray Stern has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won many awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.
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Tune Squad – Kitchener
Captain: David Kaufman
In the captain’s words:
For the most part, all players on Tune Squad were a part of either PPF or Maverick back in the day, although there have been a few exceptions to this as we’ve had to fill spots on the roster. We are a group of friends and over time, our ultimate paths have caused us to drift in different directions and to different teams, but we wanted to find a way to play together in a competitive setting. The 4v4 series gave us that opportunity. We initially started a team to try to medal at 4v4 nationals, back when the series first launched. We would use Bonne Annee in Gatineau as a warm up for that and to build chemistry. Luckily, with a large effort from organizations like UE, we are given many more opportunities to play together during the winter to continue building chemistry and challenging ourselves.
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In our words:
When it comes to 4s, everyone knows the name Tune Squad. Partially that it’s such an awesome name, but largely thanks to the name the players have set for themselves. Tune Squad has been a dominant team for years in the Ontario 4v4 Circuit (O4C) and the Canadian 4v4 Ultimate Championships. They dominated at last year’s Western Sectionals, Hammer 4v4, and had a strong rating of 1531 to put them solidly at the top at the conclusion of the Ontario 4v4 Circuit. They squeezed out a strong performance at Flashy February to put them at the top of the 2019 rankings. Even when competing at the highest level, they stay true to their roots, and at the end of the day, they’re a group of friends that just want to play ultimate together. And they’re really good at it.
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Washington And The World
No, Obama Didn’t Lose Iraq
What the president’s critics get wrong.
By COLIN H. KAHL
Colin H. Kahl is an associate professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a senior fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. From February 2009 to December 2011, he was the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.
The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least one unsurprising result: accusations that President Obama’s “abandonment” of Iraq is responsible for the catastrophe. Critics have launched a two-pronged attack on the administration’s Iraq policy: They blame Obama for being unwilling or unable to reach a deal with Baghdad to leave U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline for withdrawal established by the Bush administration; and they assert that such a residual presence would have proved decisive in heading off the current calamity. Neither criticism withstands much scrutiny.
Here are the facts.
As the senior Pentagon official responsible for Iraq policy during the first three years of the Obama administration, I had a front-row seat for the internal deliberations over how to end the war. Through the first half of 2011, there was a vigorous debate within the administration about whether U.S. forces should remain in Iraq beyond December, and if so, in what numbers and with what missions. Ultimately, at great political risk, President Obama approved negotiations with the Iraqi government to allow a force of around 5,000 American troops to stay in Iraq to provide counterterrorism support and air cover and to train the Iraqi army. But, as commander in chief, he was unwilling to strand U.S. forces in a hostile, anti-American environment without the legal protections and immunities required to ensure soldiers didn’t end up in Iraqi jails. These protections, which are common in nearly every country where U.S. forces operate, were guaranteed under the 2008 status of forces agreement negotiated by the Bush administration; Obama simply demanded that they continue under any follow-on accord.
Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, told U.S. negotiators that he was willing to sign an executive memorandum of understanding that included these legal protections. But for any agreement to be binding under the Iraqi constitution, it had to be approved by the Iraqi parliament. This was the judgment of every senior administration lawyer and Maliki’s own legal adviser, and no senior U.S. military commander made the case that we should leave forces behind without these protections. Even Sen. John McCain, perhaps the administration’s harshest Iraq critic, admitted in a December 2011 speech discussing the withdrawal that the president’s demand for binding legal immunities “was a matter of vital importance.” Moreover, because the 2008 security agreement had been approved by the Iraqi parliament, it seemed both unrealistic and politically unsustainable to apply a lower standard this time around.
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Unfortunately, Iraqi domestic politics made it impossible to reach a deal. Iraqi public opinion surveys consistently showed that the U.S. military presence was deeply unpopular (only in Iraqi Kurdistan did a majority of people want American G.I.s to stay). Maliki was willing to consider going to parliament to approve a follow-on agreement, but he was not willing to stick his neck out. Other political factions would have to support the move, and the support wasn’t there. The Sadrists, a populist Shia movement that was now a major bloc in the parliament, were dead set against U.S. troops remaining. Ayad Allawi and Sunni politicians aligned with the Iraqiyya coalition supported a continued U.S. presence, but they knew that most of their Sunni constituents did not. They also wanted to condition their support on Maliki agreeing to additional political concessions. The Kurds were more active in their advocacy for a follow-on agreement, but they could not convince others to go along. So when Iraq’s major political bloc leaders met in early October 2011 in an all-night session, they agreed on the need for continued U.S. “trainers” but said they were unwilling to seek immunities for these troops through the parliament. The die was thus cast. Obama and Maliki spoke on Oct. 21 and agreed that U.S. forces would depart as scheduled by the end of the year.
Some critics assert that the administration was unwilling to offer enough forces to make it worth the Iraqis’ while. But it is not clear Maliki wanted that many troops. Indeed, he was conscious of the extreme unpopularity of a continued U.S. presence among his Shia base, and he had no interest in a sizable U.S. contingent along the Arab-Kurd divide, which is what all of our military’s troop options above the 10,000-man threshold assumed. These disputed boundary areas include Kirkuk as well as parts of Nineveh province north of Mosul and portions of Diyala province—precisely where jihadists are making inroads today.
Others claim the administration spent more time negotiating with itself than it did trying to get a deal from the Iraqis. Perhaps. But, in the end, the immunities issue would likely not have been resolved even if the administration had started negotiations earlier and offered more. There was little the administration could have offered or threatened to change their calculations. It was simply too toxic, politically, for Iraqi politicians to accept.
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Can Donald Trump get rid of national monument protections?
By Jon Greenberg on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 at 9:47 a.m.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of tens of millions of acres of land as "national monuments." (AP)
President Donald Trump marked the week leading up to his 100th day in office by signing an executive order to reconsider the protected status of millions of acres of land and ocean seabed.
Trump’s April 26 order covered more than 20 large parcels known formally as national monuments.
The move prompted Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., to tweet, "The President doesn't have the legal authority to rescind a national monument designation."
.@POTUS doesn't have the legal authority to rescind a national monument designation. If he tries to, I'll fight him every step of the way. pic.twitter.com/1SPMfknkN1
Some legal scholars dispute that claim, while others think it’s dead on. About the only point everyone agrees on is that the courts have never decided this exact issue. We’ll walk you through some of the leading arguments on both sides.
The Antiquities Act
Passed in 1906, the Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect any tract of property owned or controlled by the federal government in order to preserve "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest." At the time, the main goal was to keep Native American archeological sites safe for future study. Within a few decades though, the scope grew to include broader land conservation purposes.
The law is very short, and the only limit it places on a president is the amount of land "shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected."
In his final weeks in office, President Barack Obama created by proclamation the Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah -- 1.35 million acres -- and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada -- 300,000 acres. Trump called the moves a "land grab."
The power to undo?
Udall’s office cited an analysis by the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan policy arm of Congress. That report said under the 1906 law, a president might be "constrained" in his or her ability to reverse what an earlier president has done.
"No President has ever abolished or revoked a national monument proclamation, so the existence or scope of any such authority has not been tested in courts," the report said. "However, some legal analyses since at least the 1930s have concluded that the Antiquities Act, by its terms, does not authorize the President to repeal proclamations, and that the President also lacks implied authority to do so."
We reached several legal experts. Three of them -- Mark Squillace at the University of Colorado, John Ruple at the University of Utah and Michael Blumm at Lewis and Clark Law School -- said that summary was correct.
Two other experts, John Yoo at the University of California Berkeley and Todd Gaziano at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a self-described "conservative/libertarian public interest law firm," disagreed.
Why Trump might be thwarted
Squillace told us that the Antiquities Act is silent on a president’s power to withdraw a designation. If Congress had wanted to allow that, based on other bills passed at the time, Squillace said it would have done so.
He said two laws, the Pickett Act of 1910 and a 1897 Forest Service law, specifically said a president "may vacate altogether" any order that set aside land under those acts.
Ruple echoed that point and said Congress "clearly knew that was an option and how to do it, if they had wanted to."
Experts who think the law stands in Trump’s way also cite a 1938 opinion from Attorney General Homer Cummings. Squillace said Cummings told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that "the Antiquities Act ‘does not authorize (the President) to abolish (national monuments) after they have been established.’"
Trump would need to deal with a more recent law, these law professors said. The 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act says the Interior Secretary "shall not .. modify or revoke any withdrawal (to protect land) creating national monuments under the Act of June 8, 1906."
Basically, the argument goes that through both the 1906 and the 1976 laws, Congress was making sure that it retained final say over protected lands. If a president protected a block of land, only Congress had the authority to reverse it.
Why Trump might prevail
Yoo and Gaziano argued in a paper for the American Enterprise Institute that the Constitution gives Trump the right to rescind a national monument designation.
"Under Article I of the Constitution, only Congress can enact domestic statutes with any degree of permanence," they wrote. "A basic principle of the Constitution is that a branch of government can reverse its earlier actions using the same process originally used."
In response to the argument that the Antiquities Act says nothing about revoking a designation, they noted that the Constitution is similarly silent about passing laws in general. It grants Congress the power to make laws, but there’s no explicit power for it to undo them. (Except by passing a new law.)
They also said that no president can bind a future president.
"Presidents commonly issue executive orders reversing, modifying, or even extending the executive orders of past presidents, and no court has ever questioned that authority, even when it is used to implement statutorily delegated powers," they wrote.
As for that 1976 land management law, Gaziano said it only applies to the interior secretary, not the president.
The option to change the boundaries
Udall spoke only about the power to rescind a national monument designation, not reduce the size of the territory protected. There are many cases when presidents have changed the boundaries.
Yoo and Gaziano gave several examples. President Dwight Eisenhower reduced the reservation for the Great Sand Dunes National Monument by 25 percent. President Harry Truman took away about half of the 9,500 acres protected under the Santa Rosa Island National Monument.
There’s no dispute that this is possible. The legal question is, what are the limits?
Bloom at Lewis and Clark Law School said this is a gray area.
"When you create the monument you give reasons and purposes for creating it," Bloom said. "In any subsequent change, those purposes have to be explained as still being fulfilled. But we don’t have any legal history on what that means.
Bloom said, if Trump does anything to alter a national monument, a court challenge is guaranteed, "and we won’t get an answer for a couple of years."
One last point: Congress can do whatever it wants by passing a law. The debate here is simply over the power of the president. Trump and others have an expansive view and eventually, we’ll find out whether they carry the day.
Researchers: Jon Greenberg
Tom Udall, tweet, April 26, 2017
White House, Presidential Executive Order on the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act, April 26, 2017
National Park Service, Antiquities Act of 1906, accessed April 26, 2017
Congressional Research Service, Antiquities Act: Scope of Authority for Modification of National Monuments, Nov. 14, 2016
Congressional Research Service, Authority of a President to Modify or Eliminate a National Monument, accessed April 27, 2017
American Enterprise Institute, Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations, March 29, 2017
Wall Street Journal, Trump Can Reverse Obama’s Last-Minute Land Grab, Dec. 30, 2016
Arnold and Porter Kaye Scholer, The President Has No Power Unilaterally to Abolish a National Monument Under the Antiquities Act of 1906, accessed April 27, 2017
Los Angeles Times, Obama’s national monument designations were lawful, not land grabs, Jan. 23, 2017
White House, Presidential Proclamation -- Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument, Dec. 28, 2016
McClatchyDC, Push to undo Obama’s national-monument designations hits an obstacle: The law, March 2, 2017
Los Angeles Times, Here are the national monuments being reviewed under Trump's order, April 27, 2017
Interview, Michael Blumm, professor of law, Lewis and Clark Law School, April 26, 2017
Email interview, Todd Gaziano, executive director, Pacific Legal Foundation, April 27, 2017
Email interview, Mark Squillace, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, April 27, 2017
Email interview, John Ruple, research associate professor, College Of Law, University of Utah, April 27, 2017
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Voluntary Participation in Fitness Program
In Darin v. IWCC, 140536WC-U (3rd Dist. 2015), a fire chief suffered knee injuries while participating in a physical fitness program offered by the employer. In a Rule 23 decision the Worker’s Compensation Commission Division of the Illinois Appellate Court determined the petitioner’s injuries were not compensable as the petitioner’s participation in the fitness program was voluntary.
In Darin, the petitioner was the fire chief for the City of East Peoria. The employer offered a physical fitness program to its employees free of charge. The petitioner testified that his supervisor told him to set an example for the firemen under his command by participating in the fitness program. The job description for fire chief listed physical demands of exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally or 50 pounds frequently to move objects. The petitioner might also be required to descend ladders and scaffolding. The petitioner was not required to pass an annual physical. He was not required to participate in any physical fitness program or maintain and specific physical fitness requirements. Regular firefighters have a physical fitness requirement, but the petitioner does not.
There is an exercise room in the fire houses that the petitioner and other firefighters can use when they are not on call. The petitioner and other firefighters were given a free pass to exercise at a local gym in East Peoria. The petitioner testified there was no requirement that he work out at the gym.
The petitioner enrolled in the employer’s physical fitness program. The petitioner testified that he enrolled in the program because he thought it would be a way to show his supervisor that he was following his supervisor’s direction to stay fit. On the registration form, the petitioner indicated his participation in the fitness program was voluntary. In two separate incidents, the petitioner injured his left knee and then his right knee while exercising.
The petitioner eventually came under the care of an orthopedic surgeon and underwent arthroscopic surgery to both knees. The petitioner suffered a tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus in the left knee and a torn lateral meniscus in the right knee. Eventually the petitioner was discharged from treatment. He had no restrictions other than to refrain from kneeling for the next few months.
The Commissioner of Health and Safety for the City of East Peoria testified on behalf of the petitioner. The Commissioner testified that he was the claimant’s supervisor. He confirmed that there were no physical fitness requirements for the petitioner’s employment. The Commissioner testified that he spoke to the petitioner and recommended that the petitioner and other command officers participate in the physical fitness activity. The supervisor testified that he did not order the petitioner to participate in the fitness program. The supervisor testified the petitioner could have worked out on his own at the gym.
The arbitrator found the petitioner failed to prove he sustained accidental injuries which arose out of and in the course of his employment. The arbitrator found the petitioner was injured while taking part in a recreational activity that did not arise out of and in the course of his employment. The arbitrator determined the petitioner was not ordered or assigned by the employer to participate in the fitness program. The arbitrator noted that the supervisor testified that he did not order the petitioner to participate and that the supervisor testified that if the petitioner chose not to participate it would not negatively affect his performance evaluation. The petitioner had other options available to stay physically fit. The arbitrator found the petitioner failed to prove that his participation in the exercise program was ordered by the employer. Participation was voluntary and there were no consequences if the petitioner chose not to participate.
The arbitrator’s denial of benefits was affirmed by the IWCC. The circuit court confirmed the IWCC’s denial of benefits. The petitioner appealed.
The appellate court confirmed the circuit court’s affirmation of the IWCC’s decision which found the petitioner’s participation in the recreational activity voluntary and the injuries not compensable.
Whether a particular activity is a recreational program under Section 11 of the Act is a question of law. Whether the petitioner’s participation in the recreational activity was voluntary is a question of fact. The appellate court agreed that the fitness program was a recreational program which bars compensation under Section 11.
Because the petitioner was injured while participating in a recreational program, the next question is whether his participation in the program was voluntary or whether he was ordered or assigned by his employer to participate. The appellate court found that the IWCC’s determination that the petitioner’s participation was voluntary was supported by the record. The Commission’s decision was not against the manifest weight of the evidence.
The fire chief was not required to pass an annual physical. His essential job functions were supervisory and administrative responsibilities. He was not required to engage in any physical fitness program or maintain any specific level of fitness. The record failed to show that the petitioner was ordered or assigned by the employer to participate in the exercise program. The manner and method in which the petitioner maintained his physical fitness was at his discretion. There were many options available to the petitioner to stay fit. The record failed to show that the petitioner would have suffered any repercussions by not participating in the exercise program. The decision of the circuit court was affirmed.
The dissent of Justice Holdridge and Justice Stewart argued that the fitness program was not a recreational activity and the petitioner’s participation was not voluntary. Justice Holdridge asserted that the petitioner’s exercises were not games or activities for diversion. The petitioner’s exercises were performed in order to improve his physical fitness. According to Justice Holdridge, the legislature intended the phrase “athletic event” to mean sporting contests or games not physical exercises performed for weight loss purposes.
According to Justice Holdridge, the petitioner’s participation in the exercise program was not voluntary. The supervisor told the petitioner to set a proper example for the fire department by participating in the physical fitness program. The supervisor testified he encouraged the petitioner to participate. The supervisor testified he considered it part of the petitioner’s job duties to participate in the fitness program. If the petitioner had refused to participate, it would have negatively affected his view of the petitioner’s job performance.
Editor’s Note: This case follows existing law regarding whether or not participation in a recreational program is voluntary. These cases are typically fact driven. It is interesting to note that whether or not the exercise program is a recreational activity is decided as a matter of law. Whether or not the employee’s participation is voluntary is a fact issue. The majority opinion noted that the petitioner was not ordered to attend. He was not required to maintain any specific level of physical fitness for his job. The petitioner produced his supervisor who stated that he encouraged petitioner to participate. The IWCC found that this did not rise to the level of being ordered to participate. This is a Rule 23 decision and should not be cited as precedent. This decision does indicate how the appellate court will treat similar cases in the future.
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Like the roses in her work
A never-ending practice
Teresa Knight, who paints several subjects year after year, is currently showing her work at the Gallery @ Qualicum Art Supply
Jessica Skelton
Teresa Knight paints in cycles.
Instead of focusing on a sole subject throughout the year, the acrylic and oil artist puts her brush to several of them — often returning to the same few threads for decades.
“It’s all over the map,” she said.
Her current exhibit at the Galley @ Qualicum Art Supply, however, only showcases two of those series. The first, and most obvious, is florals.
Knight said that she only paints these colourful images once a year in the spring when roses and peonies start to bloom.
“They’re a symbol of spring,” she said of the latter. “When I was a kid I just thought they were the most beautiful thing in the world.”
For the past 20 years, the painter said she has attempted to capture the essence of these flowers: the beauty, the smell and the feeling of summer.
“I don’t feel I’ve gotten there yet,” she said, adding that she doesn’t plan on stopping until she does.
Alongside the peonies and roses, Knight’s exhibition includes a few of her landscapes.
“I try to paint the feeling that I get at that time and place,” she said.
The images are mostly of places the artist is familiar with, which these days is often around her home in Union Bay. The landscapes are also usually set at twilight or at night. Knight said that she finds the light at high noon too harsh, and instead prefers the “magic” and “mystery” of the evening.
“Everything turns around,” she said.
Not in the show are Knight’s two other regular series. The first is an abstract concept that explores the souls of animals.
The second is a collection of scenes featuring people, a subject she first started to tackle with portraiture while living in Toronto.
If you’d like to see more of Knight’s work, you can visit her studio workshop on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. For the address, call her at 250-335-3234 ahead of time.
Knight also regularly hosts art workshops out of her studio. With 30 years experience teaching in schools and to adults at spaces like The Old School House Arts Centre in Qualicum Beach, the painter has plenty of experience to pass on.
“I really enjoy teaching,” she said, adding that she really strives to make art accessible to everyone. “It’s like giving people joy.”
To learn more about the artist or her classes, visit teresaknight.com.
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Media falsely portrays Iran’s suspension of nuclear deal commitments as dash to bomb
From left to right, this photo shows US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, President Donald Trump and National Security Advisor John Bolton at the NATO Foreign Ministerial in Brussels on July 12, 2018.
By Ben Armbruster
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the UN nuclear watchdog tasked with vigorously monitoring Iran’s nuclear program under the 2015 accord—confirmed this week that Iran exceeded the limit on its supply of low-enriched uranium (LEU). Unfortunately, with a few notable exceptions, reporting from many in the media on this development wasn’t great. Reporters and commentators portrayed Iran, not Donald Trump, as the primary provocateur, with many going so far as to claim, without any evidence whatsoever, that Iran is now racing to build a nuclear weapon.
One goal of the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) was to stretch the timeline to one year in terms of how long it would take Iran to enrich enough uranium for one bomb. To achieve that outcome, the United States, the UK, France, Germany, China, Russia, and Iran agreed that Tehran could continue enriching uranium for civilian energy purposes but also to cap the amount of LEU it could have on hand at any one time to about 660 pounds. Before the agreement, and ostensibly under the untenable George W. Bush-era policy of “zero enrichment,” Iran had amassed around 10,000 pounds of LEU, which if further refined, could be transformed into fuel for nuclear weapons. After the JCPOA’s implementation, Iran shipped out 98 percent of its LEU stockpile and verifiably maintained, until this week, the 660-pound cap, even after Trump last year unilaterally reimposed sanctions that were lifted as part of the deal.
And the reason Iran surpassed the cap? Back in May, as part of its unprovoked “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, the Trump administration revoked sanctions waivers allowing Iran to ship out any excess LEU it produces beyond the 660-pound cap. That left Iran with a choice: bow to Trump’s gratuitous demands even though Iran was adhering to the deal or carry on enriching uranium as allowed under the JCPOA.
Iran chose the latter course, in a move that experts say is actually “a calculated effort to get European leaders to reinforce the nuclear deal and halt the drift toward war.” Experts also say that breaching the cap, for now, “does not pose a near-term proliferation risk.” But that’s very far from how some in the U.S. mainstream media portrayed it.
Hours after the news broke, CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto tweeted that Iran surpassing the 660-pound LEU stockpile limit “appears to be the first violation of the terms of the JCPOA following the US withdrawal from the deal last year.” This is completely false. Donald Trump first violated the terms of the JCPOA in November 2018 when he reimposed all economic sanctions on Iran without cause. Trump set this JCPOA-violation crisis in motion, not Iran.
In another example, editors at The New York Times headlined an opinion piece responding to the news: “Iran Is Rushing to Build a Nuclear Weapon—and Trump Can’t Stop It.”
There is no evidence that Iran is rushing to build a nuclear weapon. In fact, U.S. intelligence has concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program some time between 2002 and 2004.
The text of the Times piece argued, somewhat controversially, that given everything that Iran has endured from the United States, Iran probably should build a nuclear weapon to deter further American right-wing aggression. But the piece never presented any evidence that Iran, based on the latest news of breaching the LEU cap, is dashing toward a bomb. And its author, an American professor of political science at the University of Chicago, isn’t involved in the Iranian leadership’s decision-making processes. He is stating what he believes Iran should do, not what Iran is actually doing or plans to do.
Similarly, but perhaps less surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal editorial board referred to the news as a “nuclear breakout,” a term that is used to describe an actual move toward building nuclear weapons, which of course Iran is not doing.
Perhaps the most egregious reporting on Iran surpassing the LEU cap came in a piecefrom the seemingly left-leaning news outlet Vox. The original version of the story falsely claimed that Iran “vows to increase enrichment to weapons-grade level by July 7.” Although Iran has gotten close, it has actually never enriched uranium to weapons-grade levels, and its leaders have made no such vow. Vox corrected that assertion, but the entire piece, entitled “Why Iran just violated part of the 2015 nuclear deal,” never once mentioned the actual reason Iran violated the deal, namely that Trump reimposed sanctions and thereby prevented Iran from shipping out its stockpiled LEU.
These are just a few examples of how the media has undeserved the American public on the recent Trump-induced crisis with Iran. And it’s reminiscent of how the mainstream U.S. media handled the Bush administration’s march to war in Iraq. At that time, the media often relayed false or misleading administration claims at face value with little to no scrutiny and did the White House’s bidding by framing the issue on its own aggressive terms, which in turn helped produce public opinion supportive of military action. This same dynamic appears to be at play today.
The truth is that Donald Trump, National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are responsible for the current crisis with Iran. They established a policy of confrontation, trashed the nuclear agreement (which is so far working to block Iran from building a bomb), and created the conditions that make another catastrophic war in the Middle East more likely. The U.S. media has to do better at holding them to account. The stakes are too high.
*Courtesy: Lobe Log foreign affairs analysis website
Zarif: Iran's move to prevent JCPOA from 'total collapse'
Iran says it is scaling down its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal in order to save it from “total collapse”.
Iran has not violated JCPOA
Iran has announced that it has increased the stockpile of its low-enriched uranium production to over 300 kilograms.
‘Iran to comply with JCPOA as long as Europe does’
Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran will comply with its commitments under the nuclear deal in exactly the same manner as Europeans will.
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How long will JCPOA last with only Iran sticking to it?
The European Union seems to be unable to fulfill its commitments under the nuclear deal after Trump's withdrawal.
'Whole mess' started with Trump's JCPOA withdrawal
Iran says the US president must first return to the nuclear deal he withdrew the US from if he seeks dialogue with Tehran.
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Pioneer of Next Generation Email Security, IRONSCALES, Closes $15 Million Series B Led by K1; Approaches 1,000 Customers Worldwide
K1 Investment Management returns to support anti-phishing innovator’s mission to help organizations where email security hurts most, with post-message delivery detection and response.
IRONSCALES will use the funding to scale its North American sales and marketing teams, while continuing to invest in ongoing research and development of its AI-driven anti-phishing platform.
TEL AVIV, Israel and ATLANTA (PRWEB) June 17, 2019
IRONSCALES, the world’s first automated phishing prevention, detection and response platform, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series B, led by returning investor K1 Investment Management, the leading investment firm focused on enterprise software. A globally recognized leader in anti-phishing innovation, IRONSCALES will use the funding to scale its North American sales and marketing teams, while continuing to invest in ongoing research and development of its AI-driven anti-phishing platform. In total, IRONSCALES has now raised more than $25 million from K1 and Israel’s RDSeed since 2015.
“While email phishing is the oldest and most recognizable cyberattack technique, it remains an extremely complex problem that today requires the power of both artificial and human intelligence in an ongoing cycle of innovation for it to have any positive effect on an organization’s security posture,” said Eyal Benishti, IRONSCALES founder and CEO. “K1 has always believed in our vision for modernizing email security, and we’re thankful once again for their continued deep operational assistance as IRONSCALES continues to build out our US operations.”
Propelled by a global channel partner program, IRONSCALES has experienced triple-digit revenue growth over the past 12 months. Its award-winning advanced phishing threat protection platform has attracted nearly 1,000 customers across financial services, healthcare, retail, education and other industries. Additionally, its channel program currently boasts more than 50 partners spanning leading resellers, distributors, MSPs and MSSPs around the world. The company employs people in Tel Aviv, across Europe and at its North American headquarters in Atlanta and plans to more than double its headcount in the coming months.
Email security at the mailbox-level
The global email security market is expected to surpass $18 billion by 2023, as businesses of all sizes seek to reduce the inherent cyber risks posed by malicious messages. In recent years, those risks have been amplified due to vulnerabilities spurred by the acceleration of enterprise cloud migration and the proliferation of advanced phishing techniques, such as business email compromise, polymorphism and ransomware, which are built to easily defeat traditional human and technical controls, such as secure email gateways.
“Since we initially partnered with, Eyal and the rest of the team, the company has performed exceptionally, tripled its revenue with US revenue growing more than 10 times in the previous 12 months alone,” said Hasan Askari, Managing Partner at K1. “IRONSCALES’ differentiated method of phishing prevention, detection and remediation has clearly resonated with enterprises. We’re thrilled to continue to support IRONSCALES as the company builds on the impressive momentum that they’ve exhibited over the past few years.”
IRONSCALES hybrid human intelligence (HI) and machine learning solution gives end users and security professionals the right training, tools, and intelligence – all with one-click resolution from a single platform – to hunt, log, alert, analyze, and remediate phishing attacks. To do so, IRONSCALES learns how both users and attackers behave over time to provide constant innovation, giving everyone real-time visibility and real-time control to detect and stop phishing attacks of all types. This decentralized approach makes anti-phishing effortless and seamless, providing security professionals and end users with full protection against all types of phishing threats.
Earlier this year, IRONSCALES released the email security industry’s first anti-phishing mobile app for iOS and Android, empowering security teams to quickly make time-critical decisions from their mobile devices. In 2018, IRONSCALES was awarded the AI-Powered Email Security Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan and named the Best Enterprise Email Security Solution by the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards.
For more information on IRONSCALES, visit http://www.ironscales.com and follow @ironscales on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About IRONSCALES:
IRONSCALES is the leader in anti-email phishing technologies. Using a multi-layered and automated approach to prevent, detect and respond to today’s sophisticated email phishing attacks, IRONSCALES expedites the time from phishing attack discovery to enterprise-wide remediation from months to seconds, by significantly reducing the workload on incident responders. With headquarters in Tel Aviv and Atlanta, IRONSCALES was founded by a team of security researchers, IT and penetration testing experts, as well as specialists in the field of effective interactive training, in response to the phishing epidemic that today costs companies millions of dollars annually. It was incubated at the 8200 EISP, the top program for cyber security ventures, founded by alumni of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Intelligence Technology unit.
About K1 Investment Management
K1 builds category leading enterprise software companies. As a global investment firm, K1 assists high-growth businesses achieve successful outcomes. K1 invests alongside strong management teams that continue to guide their organizations on a day-to-day basis. With over 75 professionals, K1 changes industry landscapes by assisting with operationally-focused growth strategies. Since inception of the firm, K1 has partnered with over 100 enterprise software companies including industry leaders such as Apttus, Buildium, Certify, Checkmarx, ChiroTouch, Chrome River, Clarizen, ControlUp, Granicus, IronScales, Jobvite, Onit, Rave, RFPIO, Smarsh and WorkForce Software. For more information about K1, please visit http://www.k1capital.com or http://www.linkedin.com/company/k1im
Kristen DuPre
ARPR on behalf of IRONSCALES
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Kids in Charge: Choose-Your-Fate Fiction Kicks into High Gear
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Though interactive novels giving kids control of their fictional destinies have been on bookstore shelves for decades, 2018 has brought a resurgence of the format, with at least a half-dozen publishers offering new entries across a variety of genres. We spoke to editors about their recent and forthcoming releases that put kids behind the storytelling wheel, and here pull together their thoughts on the appeal and value of letting kids propel the plot—and what’s fueling this apparent trend.
Not surprisingly, many credit the Choose Your Own Adventure series for originally igniting this middle-grade fiction phenomenon. After signing a six-book contract with the brainchild of the concept, the late R.A. Montgomery, Bantam went on to publish 184 titles in the series between 1979 and 1999, plus nearly 100 books in various spin-off series. The notion of steering the story clearly revved-up readers: there were more than 250 million books in print in 38 languages when the series went out of print in 2004, and Montgomery founded a company called Chooseco to revive the series. Since the series’ 2006 relaunch, Chooseco has added 15 million copies to its in-print total.
That number will grow with recent releases, which include three reissues of top-selling Choose Your Own Adventure titles from the 1980s, penned by Deborah Lerme Goodman: The Magic of the Unicorn, The Throne of Zeus, and The Trumpet of Terror. And due in May 2019 are a pair of original titles in the spinoff Choose Your Own Adventure Spies series starring real-life historical figures: James Armistead Lafayette: Spy for the Revolution by Kyandreia Jones, and Katherine Factor’s Mata Hari: Dancer and Spy.
“Goodman’s novels did very well when they were first published more than 30 years ago, but they are doing even better now, which is fascinating—and gratifying,” said Shannon Gilligan, CEO and publisher at Chooseco, pointing to two “key editorial precepts” that she always follows. “You can’t correlate the right or good choice to a happy ending or correlate a bad or evil choice to an unhappy ending—that is not how life works,” she explained. “And the other guiding principle is to go light on the cognitive part of the story. If a book has an historical focus, it should be informative, but that can’t be the driving force—the entertaining storytelling must be.”
This past February, Penguin Workshop joined the game with the first book in Gabe Soria’s Midnight Arcade series, illustrated by Kendall Hale, Crypt Quest/Space Battles, a two-in-one adventure that plays out in video games—with the reader trapped inside, making high-stakes decisions. Set in various 1980s-era haunted video arcades and featuring the tag line, “Play Your Way,” the series added Excellent Ernesto Cousins 3/Wrestlevania in September; Fantastic Fist/MowTown is due in April 2019, and a fourth, still untitled book will pub in fall 2019.
Associate editor Karl Jones, who edits Midnight Arcade, noted that the series’ allure derives from its retro videogame vibe, given the current spiked interest in vintage gaming, while catering to the expectations of young gamers. “The new generation of internet games has more plot and character development,” he observed, “and a book is a great place to deliver that level of activity kids enjoy in videogames—and give them more bang for the buck. With two games per book, the series gives readers lots of choices, and since the art style varies according to the game’s setting and theme, each book has a different aesthetic and feel.”
Another role-playing series with a connection to games of yore debuted in September from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Inspired by the classic 1995 computer game The Oregon Trail (responsible for the dubbing of millennials as “The Oregon Trail Generation”), the Choose Your Own Trail series rolled out with four titles—The Race to Chimney Rock, Danger at the Haunted Gate, The Search for Snake River, and The Road to Oregon City—in which readers navigate their way on sequential legs of the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City. The books, which are being released in the 175th anniversary year of the historical Oregon Trail pioneering journey, are also available in a boxed set, and will be followed next April by The Wagon Train Trek and Alone in the Wild, two standalone adventures.
Chris Krones, who steers the series editorially, believes that the choose-your-own format is an effective way to hook kids on history and “a great way to infuse information about the time period and how people survived the wild frontier.” Additionally, Krones praised the ability of interactive series to help kids hone their decision-making acumen, noting, “These books, like video games and other multiple-choice formats on platforms like Netflix, give the user the interactivity, agency, and power to survive. The survival genre paired with the choose-your-own format is a winning combination that just might last—we’ll have to see what readers choose for the format’s destiny!”
Nostalgia also sparked a Candlewick Entertainment series rooted in both the gaming and book worlds. Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest books are set in the Forgotten Realm of D&D, a role-playing game created in 1974 by TRS, which also released two series of Endless Quest tie-in gamebooks in the 1980s and ’90s. Written by Matt Forbeck, the new series was created in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast, now the official D&D brand owners. Published in September, the launch titles are Into the Jungle, Escape the Underdark, To Catch a Thief, and Big Trouble.
Memories of her own childhood reading choices drew senior executive editor Sarah Ketchersid to the series. “It was so easy for me to step into these books, since I was such a fan of Choose Your Own Adventure as a kid,” she said. “I remember intentionally making reckless choices, because it was fun to discover where I’d end up. It’s empowering to realize that one small decision you make can have a huge effect.” Now, the editor acknowledges a down side to providing readers with multiple divergent paths. “These books are not easy to edit—in fact it’s very complicated,” she said. “You have to create flow charts to make sure that this or that made it into the right story thread. It can test your patience—and I can’t even imagine the challenges the copyeditors face!”
Readers play detective in two new series from HarperCollins. Mystery in the Mansion, an August title that kicked off Lauren Magaziner’s Case Closed series from Katherine Tegen Books, lets kids decide which suspects to interview and which clues to follow to crack a case involving an eccentric millionaire and buried treasure. The series’ second installment, Stolen from the Studio, will be released next August. “The books have lots of layers and riddles and puzzles challenge readers on different levels and in different ways, and if kids get stuck, they can ask for hints,” said executive editor Benjamin Rosenthal. “And they work well for a broad range of readers—they’re a good fit for the 8–12 audience, but also for younger kids who are advanced readers and older, more reluctant readers.”
Another book in the mystery genre is on the horizon from HarperCollins Children’s Books: Super Mysterious Puzzlers, a collection of mystery stories for kids to solve, edited by Chris Grabenstein. Recently acquired by executive editor David Linker and planned for 2020 release, the book includes tales by Grabenstein, Peter Lerangis, Ridley Pearson, Grace Lin, and others. Linker noted that the appeal of the choose-your-own format is, for him, “strangely personal. I was a fairly reluctant reader until my mother introduced me to the Choose Your Own Adventure and Encyclopedia Brown series. Both engaged me in the story in a way I’d never been before. I’m hoping Super Mysterious Puzzlers will help do the same for the new generation of smart puzzle-solvers out there.”
Quirk’s Comic Quests series tweaks the format with its graphic-novel, “pick-your-panel” concept. Visuals drive kids’ choices, as doors, paths, and signs feature numbers that direct readers to other numbered panels as they solve a sequence of puzzles. Originally published in France, the series kicked off in September with Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm’s Woods by Manuro, illustrated by Gorobei, set in a world inspired by fairytales; and Knights Club: The Bands of Bravery, a medieval-themed quest by Shuky, illustrated by Waltch and Novy. Kids can further explore these realms in January’s Hocus & Pocus: The Search for the Missing Dwarves and Knights Club: The Message of Destiny.
Publisher Brett Cohen, who acquired six titles in the series, remarked that Comic Quest appears at a time of rising popularity of graphic novels for kids, video games and apps. He described the series’ offerings as “books that play like apps. It’s a way of having a videogame concept without the screen, which to me, as a reader and lover of videogames, and as the father of a middle-grade child, is very appealing.”
As is being the driver of the action rather than the passenger, Cohen added. “Choosing your path has a natural appeal,” he said. “At times it’s nice to have a bit of control and ownership of the story—particularly in these times when so many things seem to be spiraling out of our control.”
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2 dead, 20 trapped after building collapse in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan
Two people died while 20 others were injured after a three-storey building caved in post heavy rains near Kumarhatti in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district on Sunday afternoon.
More than 20 people are still trapped under the debris. There were about 30-35 Indian Army Jawans among the victims.
The incident occurred at around 4pm on the Kumarkatti-Nahan road, some 55 km from state capital Shimla.
Solan additional superintendent of police Shiv Kumar said that the rescue teams, including the police personnel and home guards, were rushed to the spot. A team of Army jawans from Dagshai cantonment has also joined the rescue operation. “The operation is on to save the people trapped in the rubble,” he said.
Injured have been admitted to hospitals at Dharampur, and MM Medical College and Hospital, Solan.
Heavy rains were hampering the rescue operation. Kumar said that the building housed a restaurant on its top floor where tourists and Army jawans dining when the building collapsed.
The first and ground floor of the building had residential quarters.
The incident occurred on the Kumarkatti-Nahan road, some 55 km from state capital Shimla.
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Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbaev of Astana, Kazakhstan, was arrested on May 17, 2013 after allegations were made that he had harmed the health of one of his church members. Until his retirement in October 2012 at age 66, Pastor Kashkumbaev led the Grace Church in Astana, a legally registered protestant church.
After his arrest in May, he was freed on Oct. 8, 2013 to complete his pre-trial detention under house arrest. However, secret police waiting at the entrance to the prison rearrested the pastor as he left the prison. His family and wife had not seen him in five months. The pastor’s trial was due to take place in November 2013.
In July 2011, the mother of a church member asserted that prolonged influenced from the church undermined her daughter’s mental state and resulted in schizophrenia. The church member herself, however, says she was erroneously diagnosed after having a forced mental examination. She has spoken up publically for Pastor Kashkumbaev and stated that the charges of harming her health are unfounded.
In a long-running campaign against the church, state officials have accused the church of being involved in espionage, fraud, money laundering, distributing extremist texts and using hallucinogens in communion drink.
On Oct. 3, 2012, the church was raided and officials seized valuables such as gold items, computers, DVDs and books that were declared to be “extremist literature.” At the request of officials, church members voluntarily underwent blood tests to demonstrate that they were not under the influence of any hallucinogens. The results of the tests were not made known to the church members.
After his arrest in May 2013, a court mandated that Pastor Kashkumbaev undergo a psychiatric assessment on Aug. 9. He was then ordered to stay at the psychiatric hospital until Sept. 17. During his time in the hospital, there were grave concerns that the pastor would be subjected to psychotropic drugs and ruled mentally incompetent.
While being held in the psychiatric facility, the pastor, who converted from Islam to Christianity in 1995, was repeatedly questioned about why he followed Jesus rather than Allah. Nearly a month went by before his transfer back to the Investigative Prison.
Kashkumbaev released
Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbaev, 67, the retired Presbyterian pastor of Grace Church in Atsana, Kazakhstan, was released on Feb. 17 after spending nine months in jail awaiting trial on a charge of “intentionally inflicting serious harm to health.” He was convicted of the charge and received a four-year suspended sentence. Although four other charges were dropped, some fear that new charges could be filed. Pastor Kashkumbaev was freed after court proceedings and returned to the home he shares with his wife, Alfiya. He plans to appeal the conviction.
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Restrictions lead to grumbling, but no boycotts, from White House press
By Paul Farhi / The Washington Post
The Trump White House has imposed some of the most draconian restrictions on the news media in recent memory, from banning TV cameras during its daily briefings to cutting back the length and frequency of its sessions with reporters. The State Department and Pentagon have made similar cutbacks.
At the same time, the president himself has given just one full-length news conference since taking office.
And the protests from the press have been ... well, there haven't been any protests.
Despite the administration's unusual and increasing opacity, the reaction from reporters has been relatively muted. A few have noted it on Twitter, but none has taken up two suggestions offered by President Donald Trump's critics: Defy the camera ban and broadcast the briefings anyway, or boycott them.
There are signs, however, that reporters may be gradually finding their backbones.
For the third time in a row on Monday, the White House held its briefing "off camera," meaning that live audio and video of the session were forbidden. Press secretary Sean Spicer permitted the news media to air audio but only after the briefing had concluded. Spicer has said the policy is designed to thwart reporters who are trying "to become YouTube stars" by asking "some snarky question."
That didn't stop CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta from asking Spicer to justify the camera ban Monday. "Why are the cameras off, Sean?" he asked repeatedly and out of turn.
Spicer ignored him, but Acosta kept at it.
"It's a legitimate question," chimed in April Ryan, a veteran reporter for the American Urban Radio Networks and a CNN contributor. A third reporter, Trey Yingst of One America News Network, asked Spicer for a response.
Spicer replied that he wanted to let the "president's voice carry the day," without competition from the briefings, and that "some days we'll have [televised briefings], some days we won't."
Acosta said in an interview later that reporters have to start pushing back against the erosion of access. "My sense is that we are going to have to engage in a sustained, vocal protest of these restrictions so this does not become the new normal," he said. "[I'm] not going to stop. It's too important. This is not about me. This is not partisan. This is about coverage."
He added, "What would the Republicans have said if Obama turned off the cameras during the Obamacare debate?"
Acosta asserted that CNN has been "blackballed" from asking questions at press briefings and news conferences - an alleged ban that calls to mind the Obama White House's attempts to freeze out Fox News in 2009.
But Spicer called that claim "truly fake news" in an interview Monday afternoon. He said CNN reporter Joe Johns "was in my office this morning" and that another reporter, Athena Jones, asked a question in a briefing last week.
The board of the White House Correspondents' Association met with Spicer and his top deputies on Monday - following a meeting Friday - to express concern about the camera ban and the curtailment of the briefings. The board made it clear that the status quo "was not acceptable," said Jeff Mason, who heads the organization that represents White House reporters on access issues.
Mason distilled the association's position in a letter to members following Friday's meeting: "We believe strongly that Americans should be able to watch and listen to senior government officials face questions from an independent news media, in keeping with the principles of the First Amendment and the need for transparency at the highest levels of government," his letter said.
But other than advocating for more access, there isn't much the White House Correspondents' Association can do, Mason acknowledged. "It's certainly not in my control," he said. "I wish it were."
It is debatable whether the press briefings are worth covering, given the limited answers and non-answers that Spicer and his principal deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have offered recently. In addition, some outlets - particularly the New York Times and Washington Post - have been able to circumvent official White House channels with leaks from administration officials.
Nevertheless, reporters say the alternative - no briefings - would be worse, considering that the sessions typically are the only chance to ask administration officials questions in an open setting, live and on the record. They are especially useful to broadcast journalists, who need audio and video footage to tell their stories.
And, they generally say, a broad boycott is unlikely and perhaps even unwise.
For starters, White House journalists represent publications across the ideological spectrum and come from various disciplines (there are text, audio, still picture and broadcast journalists). That makes it unlikely that the entire press corps would act as one in any protest, said a veteran White House reporter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to give a frank opinion.
What's more, boycotting briefings would likely backfire. It would enable the White House to paint reporters as hypocrites for demanding greater openness in the briefings but then refusing to show up for the ones that are held, he said.
In any case, the walls closed in a little more for journalists on Monday. Presidents have traditionally answered a few questions from the press at public ceremonies with foreign dignitaries. But when Trump held a Rose Garden ceremony with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even that route to the president was cut off. The White House said Trump wasn't answering questions.
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Rain, snow ending on Christmas Day before 'flash freeze' begins
By Stephen IdeJournal Staff Writer
Dec 25, 2017 at 8:42 AM Dec 25, 2017 at 9:37 AM
A bitterly cold week is ahead, but for most of us in Rhode Island this Christmas Day, we will have mostly rain before the skies clear.
The National Weather Service is saying that there could be some snow Monday morning before it tapers off and just becomes quite breezy. The weather service says any snow should be less than half an inch, maybe just enough to qualify as having a white Christmas. Interior portions of New England are expected to get considerably more snow, as a storm system develops over the Gulf of Maine.
But for us, a wind advisory is in effect from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday and will affect mostly interior areas of New England, with winds of 15 to 25 mph and gusts as high as 55. The weather service warns that there is the potential for downed trees and power outages. National Grid is reporting only a few outages in Pawtucket on Monday.
High temperatures today are expected to reach 37 degrees.
Skies will clear by Monday night, with temperatures dropping into the low 20s, the start of a arctic cold week ahead, with "the potential of a flash freeze, and strong to damaging winds" from Tuesday through Friday, the weather service says.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be sunny or mostly clear, but highs in the low to mid 20s, and light winds that could be gusty, making it feel much colder, the weather service says. Nighttime temps will drop to 13 degrees on Tuesday, but by Wednesday and Thursday nights temps will drop into the single digits.
The weather service says we shouldn't expect any more stormy weather until next weekend, when a coastal storm will develop and drop some snow in Southern New England Friday through Sunday.
For more weather information, please visit: http://providencejournal.com/weather.
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People: Harvard's Hasty Pudding says it will allow women to join
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University's Hasty Pudding theater troupe says it has committed to start casting women in its annual production next year.
The group made the announcement Thursday at an event celebrating actress Mila Kunis as the organization's Woman of the Year. Some had called on Kunis to reject the award over the group's exclusion of women.
Kunis gave her support to the change, saying she "wouldn't be here otherwise" and that it was "something very important to me."
Hasty Pudding is known for comedic revues that feature men in drag playing female characters, a longstanding tradition in the 223-year-old group.
Some students and alumni have been pushing for the group to include women in the cast.
Kunis was paraded through Harvard Square by college students dressed in drag before the announcement was made.
Casey Affleck will not
attend Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES — In another apparent consequence of the Me Too movement, last year's best actor Oscar winner Casey Affleck will not be presenting at or attending the 90th Academy Awards.
Affleck's publicist said Thursday that the actor would not be at the ceremony on March 4 where, traditionally, he would have been expected to present the award for best actress as the reigning best actor winner. A film academy spokesperson said they "appreciate the decision to keep the focus on the show and on the great work of this year."
The "Manchester by the Sea" actor faced sexual harassment allegations in 2010 in two public civil suits during the production of the mockumentary "I'm Still Here." The suits were settled for undisclosed sums and Affleck has said that the terms of the settlement prevent him from discussing the matter.
While the lawsuits were covered in the press at the time, the allegations gained additional attention in 2015 following the ruination of "Birth of a Nation" director and star Nate Parker's awards chances after past rape allegations surfaced against him. Many wondered if there was a racially related double standard that would allow Affleck, despite past allegations, to go on to win the best actor award at the Oscars.
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Hindi Radio from Russia
Hindi is a standarised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Hindustani is the language of most people living in Delhi, Bihar, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand. The modern standard Hindi language is one of the official languages of the country India. In 1991, 180 million people in the world were speakers of Hindustani Hindi. However, this number included millions of people who were native speakers of related languages but who thought of their speech as a dialect of Hindi. Bollywood songs are also known as ‘Hindi film songs’. These songs are featured in Bollywood films. Derided in Western film circles for the song-and-dance routine, Bollywood songs, along with dance, are a characteristic motif of Hindi cinema which gives it enduring popular appeal, cultural value and context. Hindi films are very popular in North-India and routinely played in shops, during train journeys and in marketplaces. Hindi film songs presented in 1931 for the first time by Irani. The second person was Madan, he had 42 songs strung together in the manner of an opera, and later by Indra Sabha which had as many as 69 song sequences. However, the practice subsided and subsequent films usually featured between six to ten songs in each production. The name Bollywood is a combination of Bombay (Mumbai’s old name) and Hollywood and it is often used to summarize all movies produced in India. While Bollywood is the center of the Hindi movie industry, movies are made in other regions and local languages as well. Music has been a part of Indian cinema since the first audio movie. “Alam Ara” included seven songs. The movie “Indra Sabha” from the 1932 included 69 songs. This genre is very popular in Indian countries around the whole world not only in the country India. Don’t forget, Bollywood isn’t Hollywood!
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Muhammad: The Prophet Who Wasn’t
By Dean Olson
This is the first in a series of commentaries on Islam based on the historical texts of the faith. They include: the Qur’an, the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of god as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic; the ahadith, plural of hadith, a collection of traditions containing sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad; and the sira, or the biographies of Muhammad.
It is important for believers to know the truth about Islam because there is a growing heretical impulse among Christianity that asserts Islam is one of the three Abrahamic faiths, the other two being Judaism and Christianity. In this view, Islam is simply an extension of Judaism and Christianity and all three faiths worship the same God.
Some Christian churches have unwisely flung open their doors to Islamic holy leaders and held interfaith services. In the rush to embrace Islam, many Christian religious leaders fail to realize or accept that the Arabic sermons they allow to be uttered in their churches denigrate their faith, and especially the death and resurrection of Jesus, marking them as infidels or unbelievers who must ultimately either be killed or enslaved. Often referred to as “soft jihad,” the overarching goal of these machinations is the surreptitious dismantling of western culture and the elimination of the US Constitution, and all of its freedoms including freedom of religion, until Shari’ah, Islam’s barbaric 7th Century code of justice, is imposed on the entire world.
As we near the rapture, Satan and his minions are ramping up efforts to wrest human souls from God’s warmth and light to the dark emptiness of unbelief or false belief. As prophesied in the Bible, the end of the age will not come until the great falling away, or apostasy, occurs (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3). Islam is a major tool in that apostasy and Satan’s war on Christianity. Christians need to know Islam to avoid abetting these evils.
Some background first. Islam is the second largest faith in the world. It is second only to Christianity in the number of adherents. Nearly one billion people claim the Muslim faith created by its prophet Muhammad in 7th century Arabia. Muhammad’s claim to prophet hood is one of two central tenets of Islam and forms a significant part of its shahada, Arabic for “testimony.” The shahada is the first of five pillars of the Islamic faith and forms the statement of faith for Muslims. It consists of two testimonials that declare belief in the oneness of god and the acceptance of Muhammad as god’s prophet, “There is no god but god. Muhammad is the messenger of god.”
Muhammad’s claim to being a prophet is critical to the validity of the Islamic faith. There are three good tests of legitimacy, among many Biblical measures, for those claiming to be a prophet. First, the initial encounter experiences with God should mirror that of prior prophets. The first test is easy to do. Evidence of Muhammad’s experiences is available from entirely Islamic sources including the biography of Muhammad, called the Sira of which Tabari’s version is well-regarded by Muslims, the Qur’an, Islam’s holy book that is roughly equivalent to the Bible in Christianity, and the sayings and deeds of Muhammad that comprise the ahadith (plural of hadith). None of them contain information that establishes the bona fides of Muhammad.
Muhammad’s claim to prophet hood stem from the repeated appearances of a spirit being that Muhammad claimed was Jibreel, Arabic for the archangel Gabriel. It all began when Muhammad was 40 years old when he meditated in a cave on Mt. Hira near Mecca. Quoting from the Hadith of Bukhari, 9.111: Narrated ‘Ayesha: “…suddenly the Truth descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel came to him in it and asked him to read. The Prophet replied, “I do not know how to read.” (The Prophet added), “The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it anymore. He then released me and again asked me to read, and I replied, “I do not know how to read,” whereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it anymore. He then released me and asked me again to read, but again I replied, “I do not know how to read (or, what shall I read?).” Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me and then released me and said, “Read: In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists). Has created man from a clot. Read and Your Lord is Most Generous…up to….. ..that which he knew not.” (Qur’an 96.15)”
That initial encounter was so terrifying that Muhammad ran back to his wife Khadija “…his neck muscles twitching with terror…” Like a child, he begged his wife to cover him to hide him from the terror yelling, “Cover me! Cover me!” They covered him till his fear was over and then he said, “O Khadija, what is wrong with me?” and ‘I fear that something may happen to me” (Bukhari: Book 9: Volume 87, Hadith 111).
The incident was so terrifying and ever present in his mind that Muhammad tried to commit suicide several times by throwing himself from the top of a high mountain. Every time he did the spirit would appear before him and say, “O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah’s Apostle in truth” causing him to calm down and return home.
The visitations from the spirit continued to terrify Muhammad until they suddenly stopped for a time believed to have been 6 months to 3 years. When this happened, Tabari, volume 6 page 76, records: “The inspiration ceased to come to the messenger of God for a while, and he was deeply grieved. He began to go to the tops of mountain crags, in order to fling himself from them; but every time he reached the summit of a mountain, Gabriel appeared to him and said to him, “You are the Prophet of God.” Thereupon his anxiety would subside and he would come back to himself.
Contrast Muhammad’s experiences with those of the prophets of the Bible. In Genesis 6 Noah was warned by God that He intended to destroy the earth because of pervasive sin and contamination of the human gene pool with demon seed from the Nephilim. Unlike Muhammad, Noah did not panic. Nor did he become depressed or driven by fear to kill himself. Noah knew that this was God speaking to him so there was no need for rash action.
Similarly, the story of Abraham in Genesis 12 – 18 affirms that genuine prophets have no doubt that they are receiving messages from God. Abraham, like Noah, was not terrified. He did not panic nor was he confused or bewildered about whom or what he is speaking to. Abraham did not doubt or become depressed, he simply believed and obeyed. The truth of God’s presence was self-evident to both prophets.
In Luke 1 the Bible describes Mary’s visitation by the real Gabriel. She too was initially perplexed and afraid. But during her experience she gained confidence and strength and she knew that God loved her. Unlike Muhammad, she did not become irrational or depressed and she did not run around terrified out of her mind seeking to kill herself to stop the terror. Because she experienced the living God she knew that Gabriel was real and that she had nothing to fear. In God’s presence, Mary knew that she was loved and accepted. Unlike Muhammad’s terrifying experience that drove him to try to commit suicide over and over, God always edified and strengthened His prophets. God’s peace and love comfort legitimate prophets and eliminate all their fears.
A second test is the character of the person chosen. Because they speak for God, legitimate prophets are inspiring. They are notable because of their exceptional reverence, faith, kindness and character. In short, they act in godly ways. The pages of the Qur’an, the Sira and the ahadith drip with the blood of those tortured, killed and raped by Muhammad and his band of Muslims. Muhammad killed poor, innocent and helpless people and sexually abused all of the women his band of Muslims conquered.
In several incidents, Muhammad attacked peaceful villages to take booty. After overcoming all resistance, Muhammad and his brigands raped the wives and daughters in front of the males. Then they lined up the males in front of the women and beheaded them, afterwards enslaving the women. Muhammad often took the most beautiful women from among the conquered and divvied up many of the other females as rewards to his followers like so much cattle.
His uncontrollable urge to rape knew no bounds and included “marrying” a six year old child that he masturbated to by “thighing” her. I will leave it to your imagination what thighing involved, and a Google search will suffice. According to an official Fatwa (an official religious edict) issued in Saudi Arabia, the prophet Muhammad began to practice thighing on his child-bride, Ayesha when she was six years old until she reached nine years of age (Fatwa No. 31409). According to the fatwa, the prophet Muhammad could not have intercourse with Ayesha when she was six due to her small size and age. However, the fatwa said that at age six he would “thigh” the child “…because he did not want to harm her.” Imagine a fifty one year old man removing the clothes of a six-year-old girl and sexually abusing her. If that fact alone does not indict Islam as the satanic pseudo-religion it is, nothing will.
Islam also teaches that Muhammad is the best example of proper ethical and moral behavior for mankind, or “al Insan al-Kamil,” Arabic for “the person who has reached perfection.” Numerous ahadith and Qur’an verses affirm this including, “Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah” (Qur’an 33:21). Muhammad is the model against whom a Muslim’s conduct is to be measured. In other words, if Muhammad did it so should they. In the sick world that is Islam, to this day thighing a child is considered a benevolent act on the part of an adult male “not wanting to harm the child.”
Ayesha was not Muhammad’s only intended child sex victim. There are ahadith that reveal he also laid claim to at least two other infants among the children of his followers. His death was the only thing that prevented him from perpetrating another series of perverse sexual crimes upon other children. “Muhammad saw Um Habiba the daughter of Abbas while she was still nursing and he said, ‘If she grows up while I am still alive, I will marry her.'” (Musnad Ahmad, Number 25636). Similarly, according to Ibn Ishaq’s sira or biography of Muhammad, “The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah,” translated by A. Guillaume, Oxford University Press, Karachi, p. 311, Muhammad staked a claim to another infant while she was still a baby. “…the apostle saw…Ummu’l Fadl…when she was a baby crawling before him and said, ‘If she grows up and I am still alive I will marry her.'” Luckily for both infants Muhammad died before he could act on his unnatural impulses after being poisoned by one of the female slaves he had raped.
Instead of helping the suffering people in the harsh, unforgiving environment of 7th century Arabia, Muhammad and his brigands attacked and destroyed well-settled, peaceful communities, destroying water wells – a particularly despicable act due to the scarcity of water, burning orchards and crops, capturing their lands and making the captured children and women slaves. He committed mass murder and slaughtered innocents, especially Jewish tribes, in genocidal rage.
One of Muhammad’s most brutal acts involved a prisoner named Kinana. Kinana was one of the leaders of the Jewish clan of Banu Nadir of the village of Khaibar. The Jews there were primarily farmers and posed no threat to Muhammad. Khaibar was known to have some of the best date palm orchards in the region. The Jews there were prosperous and wealthy because they had worked hard and earned it, unlike Muhammad and his brigands who raided caravans and attacked peaceful villages to murder, rape and pillage the wealth of others.
Muhammad wanted Kinana to reveal where some buried treasure was hidden. When Kinana refused Muhammad had him tortured to the point of death then had him beheaded. Also from “Sirat Rasulallah” – “Life of the Prophet of Allah” page 515: “Kinana al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure of Banu Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was…When the apostle said to Kinana, “Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?” He said “Yes”. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to…”Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud (who had been killed attacking the village).”
In ten years Muhammad ordered a score of assassinations of those whose only crime was to compose poetry critical of him. And he conducted seventy-five terrorist raids using the sword to force Arabs into submission. Proof that their submission was entirely coerced surfaced immediately following Muhammad’s death. The Ridda wars, also known as the Wars of Apostasy, were a series of military campaigns launched by Muhammad’s successor Abu Bakr against Arabian tribes that rebelled following Muhammad’s death. There is nothing godly about Muhammad and his leadership after he gained strength by migrating to Yathrib, later renamed Medina, “city of the prophet” in his honor.
A third test of legitimacy is miracles. The bible contains numerous examples of miracles performed by God for legitimate prophets. Perhaps the most famous are those of Daniel. They include the three boys in midst of the fire in Daniel 3; the handwriting on the wall in Chapter 5; and Daniel in the lions’ den in chapter 6. The prophet Elisha performed 32 miracles while Elijah performed 16.
Contrast that with Muhammad. He repeatedly denied being able to perform any miracle, admitting that although other prophets before him were given the power of performing miracles, his only miracle is the Qur’an: (Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 92, Number 379) Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “There was no prophet among the prophets but was given miracles because of which people had security or had belief, but what I was given was the Divine Inspiration which Allah revealed to me. So I hope that my followers will be more than those of any other prophet on the Day of Resurrection.”
Those who knew Muhammad best, his contemporaries, were not impressed and openly ridiculed his claims to prophet hood. People doubted Muhammad because they saw nothing extraordinary or miraculous in him. Qur’an, 17:94, “And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger?” Qur’an 25: 7, “And they say: “What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets? Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him? Qur’an, 15: 06, “They say: “O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)!”
Muhammad’s feeble attempt to counter these attacks was to acknowledge that other prophets before him came with miracles or clear signs but still people rejected them, highlighting the futility of miracles as the proof of his revelation. Qur’an, 03: 138, “They (also) said: “Allah took our promise not to believe in an messenger unless He showed us a sacrifice consumed by Fire (From heaven).” Say: “There came to you messengers before me, with clear Signs and even with what ye ask for: why then did ye slay them, if ye speak the truth?”
When his fellow tribal members persisted, Muhammad changed his position claiming that he was sent only as a warner. Qur’an, 13: 07 “And the Unbelievers say: “Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?” But thou art truly a warner, and to every people a guide.” A clear proof that Muhammad never performed any miracles is in this verse where says that people rejected even other messengers who came with miracles and clear signs, meaning miracles are not helpful. Qur’an 3: 184 “Then if they reject thee, so were rejected messengers before thee, who came with Clear Signs, Books of dark prophecies, and the Book of Enlightenment.”
The lack of esteem his contemporaries held for Muhammad was evident in the fact that they ridiculed him calling him a “sorcerer, spitting and blowing,” an “insane poet – preaching in rhyme,” and “demon possessed – whispering delirium.” Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad, p. 121. The Meccans who knew Muhammad all of his life were also bothered by his timing. If Muhammad was a prophet sent by Allah, then why didn’t he reveal the truth about Islam when he was a child or young adult? Why did he waste the best part of his life waiting until he was 40 years old to reveal Islam. They were bothered that this so-called prophet lived the vast part of his life as a non-Muslim idolater worshipping the same pagan gods they did.
In subsequent commentaries I will continue to examine the reality of Islam including its deplorable treatment of women, how Islam’s god Allah cannot be the same as Yahweh of the Bible, and others.
Dean T. Olson, Omaha
watchmanshiningalight@gmail.com
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December 27, 2013 by Sian Smale
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a syndrome/condition that encompasses cluster of upper extremity symptoms which are due to compression of the neurovascular bundle by various structures in the area just above the first rib and behind the clavicle. The three most common regions where compressions is thought to occur is the intrascalene triangle, the costoclavicular triangle and the subcoracoid space.
The term thoracic outlet syndrome describes a cluster of symptoms sitting on a continuum ranging from intermitted postural symptoms to severe/permanent neurological/vascular deficits. (Hooper, Denton, McGalliard, et al., 2010a; Sanders, Hammond, & Rao, 2007; Watson, Pizzari, & Balster, 2009, Kaczynski, & Fligelstone, 2013)
Thoracic outlet syndrome was first described in 1927 by Adson and colleagues and known at this time as scalenus anticus syndrome. The formal term that most authors refers to as Thoracic outlet syndrome was derived by Peet and colleagues in 1956. When reviewing literature in the topic of TOS keep an open mind that the condition itself and subject population are often poorly defined and vary enormously between studies. This leads to poor study results due to the heterogeneity of the study population.
If you are reading about TOS you might noticed that there is always an element of controversy about it's definition, diagnosis and treatment. Let's take a look at these points of controversy in closer detail. The first point of controversy is that the definition does not specify where or what or how compression occurs. The second point of controversy revolves around the diagnosis of symptomatic TOS, where no radiological or electrophysical abnormalities can be detected and the pathological cause for symptoms is unknown. Diagnosis will rely heavily on physical examination and collection of objective asterisk signs for reproduction of symptoms. And, the third point of controversy is about the lack of a clear definition of the clinical presentation of TOS. Many patients may present with a cluster of arterial, venous, neurogenic and pain symptoms and diagnosis relies on clinical reasoning of the assessing therapist. Below are some of the key features of TOS that I found consistently throughout the literature to be present in this condition.
Classification of Thoracic outlet syndrome
In the current research trials, thoracic outlet syndrome is being classified into the following categories:
The first category is Vascular TOS, which includes arterial and venous and accounts for ~ 5% of all presentations.
The second category is Neurological TOS, which is broken down further into true and symptomatic TOS.
Symptomatic TOS comprises over 80% of all people presenting with this diagnosis. That is to say there is a huge proportion of patients will present with no radiological or electrophysical abnormality (Hooper et al., 2010a; Sanders et al., 2007; Kaczynski et al., 2013).
There are a number of reasons that TOS can occur. Most of the time, regardless of the mechanism, symptoms are caused due to an alteration in the shape of the thoracic outlet. This is referred to in more recent studies as container dysfunction (Hooper, et al., 2010a).
In the study by Kaczynski and colleagues (2013), which assessed the cause of compression in patients with vascular and true neurological TOS, over 80% were found to have fibrous muscular bands and hypertrophic scalene muscle. Cervical ribs and a broadened first rib only found in 3% of patients. However, in patients with symptomatic TOS these structural anomalies are often not found. It is speculated therefore, that the mechanism of symptoms relates to altered breathing mechanics, postural dysfunction, scapular dyskinesia, muscular imbalances and neural tension.
The prevalence is thought to be 8% in the general population and present between the ages of 18-60+ years old. Women are 3-4 times more likely to suffer from TOS symptoms and this conditions is rarely seen in children. It is reported in up to 50% of cases of Carpal Tunnel syndrome, as double crush syndrome (Hooper, et al., 2010a; Watson, et al., 2009).
Diagnosis & Clinical presentation
The diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome remains disputed as there is no standard objective test to confirm clinical impressions. It remains a diagnosis of exclusion (Hooper, et al., 2010, p. 76).
“Diagnosis of symptomatic thoracic outlet syndrome is dependent on a systematic, comprehensive upper-body examination” (Watson et al, 2009, p.588).
Watson and colleagues provide a two-part masterclass which comprehensively outlines the musculoskeletal examination required to arrive at the diagnosis of TOS, and provide treatment strategies to manage scapular dyskinesia, muscular imbalances and improve container dysfunction. It was one of the best sources I came across in this body of research and applicable to every day clinical practice. For further reading on clinical presentation, diagnosis and management I would refer you to these two articles.
Watson, L. A., Pizzari, T., & Balster, S. (2009). Thoracic outlet syndrome part 1: Clinical manifestations, differentiation and treatment pathways. Manual therapy, 14(6), 586-595.
Watson, L. A., Pizzari, T., & Balster, S. (2010). Thoracic outlet syndrome Part 2: Conservative management of thoracic outlet. Manual therapy, 15(4), 305-314.
Distribution of symptoms
Symptoms can involve the head, neck, thorax and upper limb. Be sure to map the distribution of symptoms carefully on a body chart as this may help with differential diagnosis (Hooper et al, 2010a). To further understand the difference between arterial, venous, neurogenic and pain symptoms I would recommend Hopper et al (2010a), who provide a clear table outlining the individual symptoms and cross over between categories.
Arterial symptoms: pain (mostly in the hand), numbness which is non-radicular, coolness to touch, cold intolerance and pale discolouration. Mostly seen in a younger population involved in repetative overhead activity.
Venous symptoms: excruciating chest pain, cyanotic discolouration, distended collateral veins and oedema in the extremity.
Neurogenic Symptoms: pain, paraesthesia, numbness and weakness involving the neck, shoulder and upper limb. Symptoms are often preceded by neck trauma, MVA or repetative stress through work/sport. True neurological weakness will be present in true TOS, while many have symptoms of clumsiness and loss of dexterity.
Paraesthesia is most commonly reported in the 4th and 5th fingers if the lower trunk of the brachial plexus is involved. Depending when the compression of the brachial plexus occurs will cause variation in symptoms.
Establish severity, irritability, nature, and 24 hour behaviour.
Aggravating positions
Sustained shoulder elevation or sustained activities.
Repetitive use of the upper limb.
Lying on the arm.
Carrying a bag or backpack.
Prolonged postures.
Physical examination is long and requires a comprehensive assessment of the cervical and thoracic spine and upper quadrant, including:
Active and passive range of movement looking for reproduction of symptoms.
Breathing technique
Resting posture and observation of skin discolouration or swelling.
Assessment of scapular motor control.
Upper limb neurodynamic assessment
Upper limb neurological examination.
Palpation, in particular the cervical spine and supraclavicular fossa.
Shoulder special testing for rotator cuff pathology and glenohumeral joint instability.
Peripheral nerve testing (for carpal tunnel syndrome and other peripheral entrapment neuropathies).
Muscle length and strength of the cervicobrachial muscles.
Pain Provocation tests
As mentioned above there is no standard clinical test that confirms the diagnosis of TOS. There are however five available pain provocation tests which can be used as a group of tests to provide symptoms. None of these tests are valid as a single entity but studies have been conducted that show 3-4 positive tests have a sensitivity of 85-90% and specificity of ~30%. To increase the specificity to 84% you need all five positive tests (Gillard, Perez-Cousin, Hachulla, et al., 2001, p.419). For further detail on these tests refer to Abdul-Jadar, 2009 and Watson, et al., 2009.
Wright's test
Known also as the hyper-abduction manoeuvre.
The arm is held in 90 degrees abduction and external rotation, 45 degrees elbow flexion and sustained for 1 minute.
Adson's test
The patient holds their arm to the side and turns the head to full rotation and extension to the ipsilateral side. The patient is asked to breathe in deeply.
Costoclavicular test
The patient is positioned in scapula retraction, depression, elevation and protraction and held in each position for up to 30 seconds.
Roos Test
Performed by holding both arms in an elevated and abducted position with elbows bent to 90 degrees.
The patient is then instructed to open and close their hands repeatedly for 3 minutes.
One thing to keep in mind is that the above tests is that when the clinical validity was examined it was done so on healthy individuals. Meaning that, many people will have a positive test without symptoms and there is no normative data available for these tests. A second point to keep in mind is that the tests are considered positive if there is an obliteration of the radial pulse. To sustain the test until the pulse is lost may be unnecessary and too aggressive. Many authors now suggest performing them until reproduction of symptoms.
Clinical Prediction Rule
Lindren et al (1997) produced a clinical prediction rule stating that the clinical diagnosis can be made with at least ¾ of the following symptoms;
Aggravation with arm in elevated position.
Paraesthesia originating from C8/T1.
Supraclavicular tenderness over brachial plexus.
Positive Roos test.
With current research we know that a more thorough examination is required and Gillard et al (2001) suggest 3-4 positive pain provocation tests in this rule. This clinical prediction rule can still be implemented as a rough guideline by clinicians to aid in the clinical reasoning process.
Following the extensive physical examination there should be enough objective measures taken to allow for differential diagnosis of the following conditions. Often patients will be referred for further diagnostic measures such as MRI, nerve conduction studies, doppler ultrasound, angiography, venous ultrasound, Helical CT angiography and even plain XRAY to further investigate the degree of neurovascular compromise and identify any contributing patho-anatomy. It is important to remember than no single test can be used as a standard reference.
Differential diagnosis (Watson et al., 2009, p.589):
Carpal tunnel syndrome or other peripheral neuropathies.
De Quervain's tenosynovitis.
Lateral epicondylalgia & Medial epicondylalgia.
Complex region pain syndrome.
Horner's syndrome.
Raynaurd's disease.
Cervical spine disc pathology, spondylolisthesis or spondylosis causing cervical radiculopathy
Brachial plexus trauma.
Systemic inflammatory disease or cardiac disease.
Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis.
Pagets-Schroetter syndrome.
Rotator cuff pathology.
Glenohumeral joint instability.
The second part of this blog will cover information regarding the current trends in physiotherapy management for Thoracic outlet syndrome including scapular retraining and clinical neurodynamics.
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Hooper, T. L., Denton, J., McGalliard, M. K., Brismee, J. M., & Sizer, P. S., Jr. (2010). Thoracic outlet syndrome: a controversial clinical condition. Part 2: non-surgical and surgical management. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 18(3), 132-138.
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Resiliency Workshops Help With PTSD
Resiliency Workshops Help Military Members Dealing with PTSD
Today is PTSD Awareness Day, a perfect opportunity to talk about the scope of this very common psychiatric disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health disorder that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threating event like combat. According to the PTSD Foundation of America, an estimated of 7.8 percent of Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives, while about 30 percent of the men and women who have spent time in war zones experience PTSD.
The most concerning aspect is that typically only 50 percent of PTSD sufferers seek treatment, and nearly 1,400 active duty service members committed suicide every year up until 2015.
Given that service members are one of the most vulnerable populations when it comes to stress-related illnesses, the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) is dedicated to helping military members deal with emotional and mental issues like PTSD, among other things.
Helping military members to cope with every day stressors or to take control of their mental health before, during and after deployment (when a soldier travels overseas or across the country to serve) is especially important because there are a lot of factors involved in military life that can trigger a mental illness and sometimes asking for help is not easy.
“Asking for help is very hard because some people don’t want others to know that they are getting treatment or going to a program to solve their mental and emotional issues, says Jaime Cruz, SAF specialist for the Red Cross South Florida Region. There is a lot of stigma and taboos around this because it can be perceived as a sign of weakness and prevent further military career development if not addressed properly.”
SAF helps active military members and veterans, as well as their families, in every aspect related to the deployment cycle and offers resources aimed at guiding them on how to cope with their own feelings, reactions, concerns and thoughts in civilian life.
For families, this service is very much appreciated, since military members often come back home with a lot of issues that are hard for their spouses and kids to understand. When those difficulties are not handled correctly or guided by a specialist, it can take a toll on the family dynamics.
Given the complex nature of PTSD, SAF approaches every client’s case individually by partnering with different organizations and professionals that are specialized in providing psychological evaluations, marriage counseling, mindfulness workshops or one-on-one therapy, depending on what the person and his or her family needs.
For Cruz, a former military member himself, “It was very frustrating to have anxiety, sleeping problems and depression and not know what to do about it. I used to scream in the middle of the night without remembering anything the next morning. I also used to yell at my wife for everything,” says Cruz, who finally sought help and was diagnosed with PTSD.
Having a safe space to express his own feelings was crucial in his recovery because “there is no instruction on how to deal with our emotions.”
Resiliency and Mind-Body Workshops: Bouncing back to life
Among the many resources that SAF offers, resiliency and mind-body workshops are two of the most important.
Resiliency workshops provide a safe space of expression for service members and their families to acknowledge the things that they have been going through and allows them to speak freely about their experiences.
Mind-body workshops teach each participant how to connect mind and body using different techniques and exercises intended to train the brain in managing emotions and thoughts.
This workshop has been offered successfully in many facilities around Miami such as the U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Fla., where the last workshop took place. On this occasion, it was delivered for advocates in Family Services, who are in charge of providing services to military members inside a base.
Since advocates are responsible for reaching military members to join this workshop and other mental health programs, they took a session to learn firsthand how the mind-body workshop works in order to encourage service members to attend.
“The workshop that we do is educational and practical,” explains Carla Guillaume, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and SAF facilitator for the workshop. “We want people to gain an understanding of different mindfulness techniques that they can incorporate in their daily lives to be present in the moment, because in reality, most people do not take a break to see how they are feeling or reacting. Rather than that, people usually work in autopilot.”
Besides learning how to properly breathe and focus, participants learn how to do visualizations (which consists of picturing oneself as being successful in a task), guided imagery, journaling and other tools intended to calm the mind.
According to Guillaume, when it comes to finding the best way to cope with our emotional world, it is important that each person finds what works best according to individual needs, expectations and skills. The main goal is to connect with the soul, learn to enjoy every moment in life, and have a grateful attitude towards everything.
“Recovery is an ongoing process. It’s a lifelong commitment you make every day.”
If you or someone you know suffers from PTSD, or may suffer from PTSD, contact the Red Cross Hero Care Center at 1-877-272-7337 or visit redcross.org to get more information on how to join one of our workshops.
Written by Diana Bello Aristizábal
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Everything We Learned From Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill Meant Everything To My Teenage Self
Casey Cipriani
Photo by: Mel Longhurst/Netflix
In the summer of 1995, I had just finished the sixth grade. I would soon turn 13 years old and was already aching for something of my own.
The previous year, Pearl Jam released Vitalogy, Kurt Cobain died, Nirvana released Unplugged in New York, and bands like Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice in Chains were paving the way into the post-grunge era.
I was an enthusiastic listener of grunge, but mostly because it’s what my older brother was into, and those were the CDs that I swiped out of his room. But grunge never felt like my own musical identity. It was more like I was co-opting a scene that I was technically too young to be a part of.
Then, on June 13, 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill. And for me — and many young women like me — everything changed.
Alanis Morissette was unlike anyone I had ever heard. While Layne Staley and Eddie Vedder were free to wail and rage, female singers I was familiar with at that time sounded too serene to me in their pop beats; their voices didn't reflect how I felt. I had emotions, I had rage, I was confused, and I was not alone. Suddenly my peers and I had this outlet, an album, and a woman saying, "Hey, I'm angry and hurt, too," and, "No one's really got it figured out just yet."
Every song spoke to me so deeply, it was as if each one was actually about me. The album somewhat absurdly begins with Morissette blasting a harmonica chord before the opening riffs of "All I Really Want," which perfectly captured the anxiety I felt in my adolescent indecisiveness. "You Oughta Know," the breakup anthem that put the f-bomb in our vocabulary, came next, setting my friends and me on a quest to figure out what it meant to go down on someone. After two power arias bristling with anger, "Perfect" struck a melancholy note, which stirred any kid whose parents had high expectations, and "Hand in My Pocket" sounded off what seemed like an my ode to my own contradictions.
"Right Through You" is a song that, to this day, I sing at karaoke — keeping a running tab of people in my life who’ve earned a place in the credits and who haven’t. "Forgiven" articulated my frustration with being raised Catholic. Morissette’s apathetic wail of, “We all had to believe in something, so we did,” made me realize that maybe I didn’t have to believe in anything after all. Anything other than Alanis, that is.
The meaning of the album kept evolving for me as I got older, teaching me lessons that not only applied to my preteen self but that I still hold dear 20 years later. "You Learn" is still required listening every time I experience a setback. I listened to "Head Over Feet" on repeat when I was trying to decide between two (two!) boys who liked me in the 7th grade. "Mary Jane" was every friend I tried to help. "Ironic" was the sing-along that bonded me to girlfriends from whom I would eventually drift. I dedicated "Not the Doctor" and "Wake Up" to those who earned my frustration. Finally, the secret song, the haunting, a capella "Your House" was every boy I obsessed over, followed around at school, or watched from afar.
Morissette’s music has changed throughout the years, and some have said that her later albums lack the edge of Jagged Little Pill. In 2005, when the 10th-anniversary acoustic version was released, I was 22 and graduating from college. Morissette was probably easing into the sense of self-assuredness that many women in their 30s experience. Now that I’ve hit that age, I find myself listening to that version more and more. The album's tone is much different; its calm accentuates the lessons in Morissette’s lyrics and comes from a place of understanding that only 10 more years of living can provide. She seemed comfortable there. And now so am I.
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Anniversary
written by Casey Cipriani
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The Formidable And Innovative Lee Krasner
June 28, 2019 By Christopher P Jones Leave a Comment
Lee Krasner: Living Colour, at the Barbican Centre, London (through 1 September)
Reviewed by Christopher P Jones
Sometimes a retrospective can abbreviate an artistic life into a series of airless high-peaks without taking notice of the lower-lying ground. Lee Krasner’s exceptional exhibition, Living Colour, at the Barbican Centre in London, achieves the exact opposite. The 100 or so works on display flesh out a life with all the territory – high and low – accounted for, so that every piece lends itself towards a greater whole. In doing so, the exhibition reveals why Krasner is rightly regarded as an artist of pioneering significance, whose development from cubist collage to expressionistic vigour accounts for an important story in 20th century American art.
Lee Krasner c.1938
Born in Brooklyn in 1908, by age 14 Krasner had already decided to become an artist. She applied to the only art course for girls available in New York, at Washington Irving High, where she enjoyed an exemplary artistic education. Three self-portraits, made in her late-teens, proclaim Krasner’s identity as a burgeoning painter. These are competent if unremarkable oil paintings, most notable for the way she represents herself gazing avidly out into the world with serious and quizzical eyes. A series of monochrome life drawings made a few years later reveal her fine abilities in draughtsmanship, where the handling of light, shade and the modelling of the human muscle structure is deft.
These early attempts at naturalism quickly gave way to theinfluence of her then teacher, Hans Hoffman, through a series of nude studies that capture all the geometric chatter associated with analytical cubism. Hoffman was a German painter-teacher who relocated his art school from Munich to New York, providing a vital link between the developments of European art and the American continent. Hoffman’s school built on the work of Cezanne, Kandinsky and the Cubists, placing emphasis on the overall unity of the picture plane as much as on the subject matter.
The impact of the economic depression of the 1930s drew Krasner into the orbit of the New Deal programme. Krasner’s commission, to produce department-store window displays for the War Service Project, allowed her to experiment with cut-and-paste collage techniques using clippings from magazines and newspapers. The Barbican exhibition draws a link between these early experiments and a series of abstract canvas-based works made in the early 1950s. In these, Krasner used torn up strips of painted canvas, old paper and burlap to further explore the Cubist principle of scattered forms and even spread of visual interest across the canvas.
Art at the time had been lingering at the juncture between abstraction and symbolism for several decades, unsure where the depths of expression were to be revealed: either through signs and symbols or within the material constituents of the picture itself. What had emerged were the potent and apparently endless possibilities of spatial ambiguity, the seesaw fulcrum between things rendered in paint and the paint as a thing with its own expressive value.
Blue Level, 1955
Desert Moon, 1955
As she developed, Krasner’s own immediate artistic aims revolved around the formal disruptions of Cubism. Her early experiments provided a bedrock to the high point of the mid-1950s, when she made some of the most sophisticated and impressive works on display here. A work such as Blue Level (1955) demonstrates how skilful she was at stress-and-strain compositions. The space is pure invention, where great ragged silhouettes of black spiral about columns of blue, overlaid with torn strips of bare burlap and highlights of orange. The layering here is impeccably tight, never wasteful or excessive. Other works of the same period, such as Milkweed (1955) and Desert Moon (1955), testify to her willingness to probe different colour palettes to draw out alternative effects.
Prophecy, 1956
A year later, Krasner resumed her affiliation with the paintbrush, producing torrid semi-figurative portraits in more free-flowing, gestural forms. A work like, Prophecy (1956) shows spooling globes of pinks outlined in black, and prefigures the direction her work would take over the next few years.
As for Abstract Expressionism, the key year in its formation was 1948, the year when Jackson Pollock exhibited his first set of drip paintings and, according to Willem de Kooning, “broke the ice.” Krasner’s fate has always been to exist in the shadow of Pollock, her more famous husband. For many artists’ wives/lovers, tradition has them switching roles between mistress, model and muse, elevating and deferring their importance in a chauvinistic sleight of hand. Yet Krasner’s influence over Pollock is perhaps more significant that in the opposite direction: Krasner’s academic grounding and her knowledge of modern art helped to expose Pollock to the dominant trends of modernist painting. Most of all, as this exhibition makes patently obvious, Krasner had her own set of preoccupations that seem to bear little relation to Pollock’s particular trajectory.
Prophecy (1956) was made during a time when Krasner’s relationship with Pollock was beginning to deteriorate, owing to his continuing alcoholism and infidelity.
Later that the same year Pollock was killed in a car crash near their home on Long Island. Following the crash, Krasner made three further paintings that picked up the biomorphic thread of Prophecy: Birth, Embrace and Three to Two. “Painting is not separate from life,” Krasner said about the period. “It is one. It is like asking – do I want to life? My answer is yes – and I paint.”
After Pollock’s death in 1956, Krasner moved into his studio in the barn at Springs. Her work now adopted a more expansive scale. Colour palettes simplified towards spare tawny-browns, apparently as a result of chronic insomnia: Krasner began working at night and disliked using colour under artificial light. Brush marks clatter about the picture space, leaping and sloshing with a degree of spontaneity absent from her earlier works. These are tightly coiled springs of energy, like the wing-beating energy of a flock of birds.
Colour returned in the early 1960s with a move towards vivid reds and greens, often using just one or two colours across a whole canvas. Due to the increased size of her canvases, it is tempting to say that the influence of Pollock was now in greater evidence – as if Krasner had stepped into a space vacated by him – but it would be a mistake. The paint from Krasner’s pot is hardly ever dripped; hers is a mark made with the deliberate thrust of a brush, allowed to scrape and bleed across the canvas. Chance and accident all play their role, but there is also a meaningful sparseness to the later works too, where bare canvas shows through in large arcs. Krasner was not trying to laden the canvas with colour – not trying to dissolve the picture space with paint as Pollock had done – but to discover spaces within it.
Palingenesis, 1971
The exhibition concludes with a selection of late paintings made in the 1970s (Krasner died in 1984). Of these, Palingenesis (1971) demonstrates most effectively the new set of possibilities in Krasner’s output. An expanse of fuscia pink spliced with geometric exclamations of green, the shapes now return to a more hard-edged mode, allowing a new tempo to accrue, one that is no less bold for being slower and perhaps a bit more stately. What is retained is Krasner’s formidable spirit of working towards new forms of expression, built on fifty years of discipline and experimentation, and crowning a career that deserves to be assessed on its own terms.
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What They’re Saying as Rubio Reintroduces Legislation to Increase Wages, Expand Opportunity in Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today reintroduced the Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity (EMPLEO) Act, which would help grow Puerto Rico’s economy by making it easier for employers to hire workers and giving every American on the island an immediate pay raise. The bill extends to Puerto Rico Rubio’s nationwide proposal to enact a federal wage enhancement.
After Rubio first introduced this legislation in December, it was cited in the final report of the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico as a solution to consider, and many commentators and experts are praising the bill’s potential to help Puerto Rico emerge from its economic and debt crisis:
“Potential options for examination include … providing federal wage subsidies to employees and employers in Puerto Rico.” - Report by the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico (12/20/2016)
Rubio’s bill is “aimed at raising after-tax pay for low-wage workers in Puerto Rico, while reducing employer costs. He’d perform this seemingly impossible task by … increasing—and redesigning in important ways—a refundable tax credit. The plan could bring more Puerto Ricans into the above-ground economy. … [It’d be] a new way to disburse tax credits that could really help low-income workers.” - Elaine Maag, Tax Policy Center (12/16/2016)
Rubio’s bill is “a free-market oriented proposal …. [that] should lead to much needed entry-level job openings and make it more attractive for business, especially small business, to hire more employees. If successful, EMPLEO may lead to the emergence of business from the underground economy, a higher labor participation rate, and much needed revenue for the commonwealth coffers. … [T]his legislation will not reduce the amount received by minimum wage employees, it will only reduce the wage burden for employers. This will have a drastic positive impact on struggling small businesses and underskilled employees alike.” - Ojel Rodriguez, Fundación Libertad (12/30/2016)
“A proposal from Senator Marco Rubio could revive the island’s beleaguered labor market. … The proposal is a creative, compassionate, and market-based tool for addressing Puerto Rico’s challenges. … Rubio and his staff have done the important work of bringing forward a concrete proposal. It provides not just a powerful idea but also the right opportunity for deployment and the legislative details. Here’s hoping that it receives the attention and support it deserves.” - Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute (12/5/2016)
Rubio introduced an “idea to help Puerto Ricans earn their own success while experimenting with a new program that, if successful, could eventually help encourage work on the mainland as well. … [T]his proposal would address two major problems facing the Puerto Rican economy — a minimum wage that prevents employers from hiring low-skill workers, and strong disincentives to work — and would be an important first step in helping Puerto Ricans leave welfare for work.” – Robert Doar, American Enterprise Institute (12/28/2016)
“Senator Rubio’s bill is a creative way of improving the incentives for employers to hire in Puerto Rico, while simultaneously ensuring that employees do not forego the opportunity of earnings. … [T]he National Puerto Rican Chamber supports this bill as a step in the right direction towards much needed labor market reform and is encouraged by the potential benefit to our members and the island’s economy.” - Justin Vélez-Hagan, National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce
“Wage subsidies are an excellent policy for the working class. They don't just reach the extremely laudable goal of making honest work pay a fair, living wage, they also reduce the cost of hiring to employers, making low-skill work more competitive in a globalized world. And by making work pay more, they also discourage the use of welfare, a big conservative goal.” – Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Ethics and Public Policy Center (12/9/2016)
“Rubio is proposing a plan that would expand opportunities to an island where too many are struggling to make ends meet. Proposals like this could help turn the island’s economy around by boosting the innovation and job creation to strengthen workers and families.” – Carrie Sheffield, Opportunity Lives (12/19/2016)
“Great step in the right direction!” – Henry Olsen, Ethics and Public Policy Center (12/8/2016)
“The proposal moves away from the traditional approach of continuing to perpetuate the welfare state and focuses on increasing employment in the private sector, which is what will allow Puerto Rico to overcome the current level of economic, and social stagnation. We welcome this proposal and fully support it.” - Gustavo Velez, Inteligencia Economica
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Milton Keynes Marathon External Results
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1 2:43:25 2:43:20 Rick Lloyd PB V40 M Stockport/Police 2:43:20 2:37:58 23.6
2 2:46:29 2:46:24 Alex Daniels PB V40 M Newquay RR 2:46:24 2:38:42 1.0
3 2:47:19 2:47:13 Jamie Farmer PB SEN M Leighton Buzzard TC/Redway Runners 2:47:13 2:32:58 0.3
4 2:49:05 2:49:01 Steven Cairns V45 M Tyne Bridge/Border/Hunters Bog Trotters/Police 2:49:01 2:29:29 1.4
5 2:50:07 2:50:02 Stephen Richardson SEN M Redway Runners 2:45:49 2:44:06 2.3
6 2:50:33 2:50:22 Simon Sikora PB V35 M Marlow Striders 2:44:52 2:39:45 8.8
7 2:51:13 2:51:09 Nic Gould SEN M Thames Hare & Hounds/Croydon 2:41:54 2:33:37 2.5
8 2:51:20 2:51:14 Jonathan Abel PB SEN M West 4 2:51:14 2:44:28 0.9
9 2:51:50 2:51:46 Simon Newton SB V35 M Ackworth/Police 2:51:46 2:36:33 0.6
10 2:51:52 2:51:48 Chris Darling U20 M Cambridge TC/Sheffield Hallam Uni 2:51:48 2:35:35 -3.0
11 2:53:44 2:53:38 James Johnson PB V35 M South Devon 2:53:38 2:53:38 29.9
12 2:54:00 2:53:56 Pascal Evans V40 M Stragglers 2:50:43 2:44:40 4.3
13 2:54:17 2:54:12 James Mogridge SEN M Yaxley 2:54:12 2:36:22 6.8
14 2:55:28 2:54:55 Tom Harrison SEN M
15 2:55:35 2:55:25 Chris Brookman SEN M MK Lakeside 2:53:02 2:46:36 15.8
16 2:55:43 2:55:37 Ian Hunter V40 M Alchester 2:51:36 2:51:36 4.6
17 2:56:17 2:56:13 Daniel Bianchi U23 M Luton/Oxford Brookes Uni 2:56:13 2:51:55 18.1
18 2:56:50 2:56:46 Marcus Green SEN M Highgate 2:49:29 2:35:11 1.2
19 2:57:07 2:57:03 Stuart Reed V35 M Eden Runners 2:39:31 2:31:18 7.2
20 2:57:10 2:57:01 Andy Auld V40 M St. Albans Striders 2:57:01 2:57:01 4.0
21 2:57:10 2:57:01 Paul Adams SEN M St. Albans Striders 2:57:01 2:27:46 -1.3
22 2:57:38 2:57:32 Jesse Elzinga PB V35 M Unattached 2:57:32 2:57:32 25.6
23 2:57:47 2:57:43 Peter Foody V45 M Ely 2:57:43 2:39:32 33.0
24 2:57:52 2:57:38 Matthew Cheyney PB SEN M Denmead 2:57:32 2:51:00 3.1
25 2:57:57 2:57:52 Richard Cockbain V35 M Edinburgh AC/Police 2:57:52 2:44:59 4.5
26 2:57:58 2:57:47 Mark Armstrong V35 M Silson 2:57:47 2:54:26 21.6
27 2:58:20 2:58:14 Grant Ramsay V40 M
28 2:59:09 2:58:53 Simon West V40 M
29 2:59:13 2:59:06 Chris Rennick SEN M Oxford Uni/Unattached 2:59:06 2:47:28 2.9
30 2:59:30 2:59:25 David Powell PB V40 M Brighton Phoenix 2:59:25 2:46:03 0.8
31 2:59:49 2:59:35 Daniel Newman V35 M Unattached 2:59:35 2:59:35 18.2
32 3:00:21 3:00:16 Sarah Hill V40 W Farnham Runners/Police 2:56:42 2:52:57 4.1
33 3:00:59 3:00:50 Neil Rutherford V40 M Police Scotland
34 3:01:11 3:00:58 David Mitchell SB V45 M Evesham 3:00:58 3:00:45 8.2
35 3:01:14 3:01:07 Rob Pullen PB V35 M Wigston 2:59:28 2:56:22 4.0
36 3:01:26 3:01:22 Colin Wood SEN M Thames Valley Police
37 3:01:28 3:01:21 Robin Pullen SEN M
38 3:01:29 3:01:11 Ben Collier PB SEN M Unattached 3:01:11 3:01:11 23.7
39 3:02:03 3:01:56 Daniel Cook SEN M Unattached 3:01:56 2:51:31 2.5
40 3:02:12 3:00:39 Stephen Jones SEN M
41 3:02:44 3:02:37 Darrren Long V40 M Bourton 2:59:57 2:53:39 2.6
42 3:03:00 2:59:51 James Martin Felstead PB V45 M London Heathside 2:59:51 2:59:51 11.3
43 3:03:07 3:03:03 Gabriele Michelotti V40 M Unattached 2:57:45 2:52:50 6.2
44 3:03:13 3:03:07 Sally Baker V45 W Rugby & Northampton/Rugby Triathlon Club 3:03:07 2:57:28 8.9
45 3:03:42 3:02:22 Tim Nabosi V35 M Portishead 3:00:04 2:57:20 18.0
46 3:03:52 3:03:32 Martin Barradell PB SEN M Derwent Runners (Derby) 3:03:32 2:56:20 3.1
47 3:03:56 3:03:15 Peter Marquis-Jones SB V40 M South Cheshire 3:03:15 2:56:49 31.0
48 3:03:56 3:03:16 Stuart Jones V45 M South Cheshire 3:03:16 2:50:07 34.9
49 3:04:06 3:03:40 Warrick Raath V35 M Harpenden/Netherlands 3:03:40 2:37:35 0.7
50 3:04:10 3:03:58 John Decesare PB V45 M Ampthill & Flitwick 2:59:18 2:53:51 2.2
51 3:04:15 3:04:05 Marc Gadsden SEN M Telford H 3:04:05 2:49:49 3.2
52 3:04:24 3:04:16 Ben Butler SEN M
53 3:04:50 3:04:18 Nick Winter SEN M
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202 3:27:04 3:26:45 Robin Barrett SEN M Vale of Aylesbury 3:15:47 2:57:33 8.3
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Mixed Emotions as Egyptian Constitutional Referendum Begins
CAIRO - A light to moderate turnout was reported on day one of a three-day constitutional referendum in which voters expected to approve lengthening the president's term in office, and strengthen his powers over the judiciary and the government bureaucracy. Official results are expected in about a week.
A smiling President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi cast his ballot as polling began Saturday morning in a three-day referendum to make changes to Egypt's post-revolution constitution. Those changes will strengthen his hand over parts of the government and lengthen his term in office from four to six years.
Prime Minister Mustapha Madbouli told journalists at a central Cairo polling station that voters should turn out to voice their opinion.
He says that he is casting his own ballot as an Egyptian citizen and urges everyone else to do so, as well, to show a positive spirit in what he calls an important matter.
Sixty-two million Egyptians are registered to vote of an estimated population of around 100 million. A large number of people could be seen at several polling stations in the center of Cairo, while others in outlying parts of the capital and Giza appeared to have a light turnout.
Gamal Noureddin Zaki, governor of Assiut province, told journalists that things were going smoothly on the first day of the referendum and he expected a fairly good turnout after all the ballots were tabulated at the end of day three.
He says that he expects around half of all eligible voters in Assiut to cast their ballots and he stresses that there have been no complaints about problems with voting, so far.
Abdel Aziz al-Husseini, the deputy head of the opposition Tayyar al-Karama Party, told al-Hurra TV that he was not happy with the referendum, since it was extremely difficult to oppose the proposed constitutional changes.
He says that opponents of the changes are only able to express their opinion on social media and at press conferences, but that there is no possibility of putting up posters or engaging citizens at coffee shops and universities.
Ahmed al-Khamis, a member of the Institute of Administrative Studies, told al-Hurra that the most important issue in the referendum is to maintain stability in the country.
He says that it is important to show the outside world that Egyptians are determined to (protect their country), since we are living in an extremely unstable part of the world, with many neighboring countries in turmoil.
Egyptian opposition TV stations based in Turkey and Qatar which support the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group denounced the referendum, calling it 'null and void.' A government opponent, Ahmed Tantawi, said in a video on social media that the referendum 'casts a pall on the spirit of the constitution and the (2011) revolution which gave birth to it.
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Ryan McMahon of Ladysmith
Help see the Island music scene survive
Producer hopes to keep and grow Island Music Awards
Christine van Reeuwyk
Aug. 16, 2012 11:00 a.m.
The Vancouver Island Music Awards, hosted eight of the last 11 years, is on the brink of broke. Prior VIMAs operated on a $5,000 budget each year, with no profit.
“We need to be able to justify doing it again. That means having the funds and have the awareness,” said producer James Kasper. “I see it as an important event, but it needs to be important to the community on the rest of the Island. A lot of people do realize there is a music scene here on the Island but not everybody is in that loop.”
Last month he started a campaign to get 50 businesses to support the awards with $100 each.
“It’s been going for about three weeks and we’re up to a little over $700. It’s not much, we need a bare minimum of $2,000 just to move forward,” Kasper said.
The first stage, advertising a call for submissions, is set to start in September if the funding comes through. The event usually happens in April.
Ladysmith artist Ryan McMahon hopes to submit again this year after scoring three awards at last year’s Fairfield event.
“I’ve been doing it for 10 years professionally, although largely unrecognized, so to be recognized especially at home, that’s big,” he said. “The coolest part was getting to learn about other musicians right in my own back yard and that’s just as a music fan.”
He’s among those who crossed the water to spend time pursuing his craft in Vancouver.
“When I came home (to the Island) there was a huge part of me that thought ‘my music career’s going to really slow down’. The cool thing was was that I got the itch to play immediately,” McMahon said. “I realized (the awards) was going to be something that could generate awareness.”
The jury liked his acoustic solo set of songs All Good Stories, naming it album of the year.
McMahon was also male vocalist of the year and artist of the year for 2012. Afterward, McMahon toured Western Canada again. When he hit Winnipeg, the media asked about the Island awards. “It really had a far, far reach and totally helped my career,” McMahon said.
McMahon is among VIMA’s previous hosts, speakers and presenters that include Neil Osbourne of 54/40, The Irish Rovers, Vince Ditrich of Spirit of the West, Terry David Mulligan, and David Gogo. VIMA award-winners over the years include Armchair Cynics, Hayley Sales, Alex Cuba, Christine Evans, Todd Butler and Jets Overhead (then called Special Guests) – named artist of the year at the inaugural event in 2002.
“It’s been a launching pad for musicians like Hayley Sales, who was named female vocalist of the year several years ago,” Kasper said.
“That’s an important aspect of it, empowering local musicians to move their career forward. The whole idea is for this to be one night of the year when all facets of the music scene on the Island can come together, celebrate the scene, network and hopefully bring awareness of local musicians to the general public.”
For details on sponsoring the 2013 event email info@jameskasper.com or get details at islandmusicawards.com.
cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
A jewel in the crown for Peninsula Players
Arts briefs
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The Darkness release 'Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)' Live At Hammersmith
Britain’s favourite festive rock stars The Darkness are jingling their bells again, with a live version of their hit single ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)’, recorded at their headline show at Hammersmith Apollo last year.
Introducing the release with his Christmas message to all Justin Hawkins says, “As Santa prepares to empty his sack into our collective Christmas chimney, and young faces smeared with festive brandy butter gaze up expectantly, every day is a fun-filled festive frolic of presents and pies. Much as you will enjoy your turkey leftovers on Boxing Day, we are serving up Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) again, this time in a tasty live sauce. Hooray, eh? A rocking good Christmas to one and all!”
The announcement comes as the band have been confirmed to perform their Yuletide hit in the most famous tent on television for The Great British Bake Off Christmas Special on Christmas Day.
This gift to the nation wraps up the huge success The Darkness have celebrated with the release of their 2017 Top 10 studio album Pinewood Smile, which received widespread critical acclaim across the board, and 2018’s Live At Hammersmith extravaganza, which features ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)’.
Looking to the year ahead, 2019 is already providing tantalising Darkness delights. Not only have they been announced to headline the opening day of Ramblin’ Man Fair, Maidstone on July 19th, but they are entering the studio with songs aplenty to start work on their forthcoming sixth studio album. Stay tuned for further announcements to come.
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Jeff Premer
Chief Executive Officer, Director & Founder, Vaultex
Jeffrey Premer, CEO, Director and founder of Vaultex Pte. Ltd., a regulated security token and asset exchange and Manager and co-founder of ICO Capital Management Pte Ltd (“ICM”), a Singapore based private advisory firm and business development company.
Mr. Premer has extensive experience in finance and capital planning, software and hardware development, supply chain management, telecom services, satellite and fixed line trunking infrastructure, active and passive mobile network rollouts and power plant infrastructure development. Mr. Premer also has deep knowledge of all aspects of running a startup, including financing, team building, enabling strategic alliances, marketing, enterprise scaling and investor relations. Mr. Premer is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese, which he studied at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
In addition to his roles at ICM, Mr. Premer is also President and co-founder of Baryon, Inc., a technology company startup with a focus on commercialization of disruptive energy efficiency technologies. Such technologies include applications that leverage thermodynamic energy savings realized through the Maisotsenko Cycle.
From 2017-2018, he served as Chief Strategy Officer and advisor to the CEO for Isotropic Systems, a technology company developing the world's first commercial application of transformation optics for millimeter wave RF antennas.
Prior to holding these roles, Mr. Premer was a founding director of Baryon Energy. Mr. Premer led the signing of a 500MW build operate and transfer wind project in Myanmar, and other smaller renewable projects throughout Southeast Asia. Mr. Premer also founded Meson Partners Ltd., a telecom tower services provider in Myanmar, of which he is still a director. Meson Partners installed thousands of telecom tower power systems across Myanmar. Meson also provides various O&M and managed services to telecom tower owners and operators across the country.
Mr. Premer was also a founding director of Sky Fiber Incorporated, the first large scale satellite capacity customer of O3B Networks, Ltd. (now a division of SES Networks). Sky Fiber was the first major customer to sign a framework agreement as a reseller of the revolutionary O3B network.
Mr. Premer has headed Diversitech Manufacturing in China which grew to over 50 million USD in revenues per annum in 5 years and is now known as Apollo Tools and Apollo Precision Tools. He also headed both Diversitech Labs in China and Aeon Digital Labs, which developed the first commercial set top box supporting real time encoding/decoding in Windows Media Video D1 or better format. Prior to those ventures, Mr. Premer founded and led Asia Specific Enterprises Ltd. in Taiwan, which under his leadership, experienced 8 years of solid growth in the 90's.
While holding the above roles, Mr. Premer has advised many companies, venture funds and family offices in Asia since 1992.
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Housing Developer Renovates Westlake Apartments
By: Aliyah Dorsey, Mercer University Intern
Housing developer, Vitus, has set out to renovate and preserve the 100-unit Westlake Apartments. They are 40 percent finished with the project and hoping to complete the renovation by the end of 2019 according to Michael Volz, Vitus’ Director of Development Management.
“Our team specializes in protecting and extending the life of properties in competitive markets like Savannah where there is a real need for affordable housing,” Samantha Cullen, Development Manager for Vitus said.
Vitus has already taken on similar projects. They currently own 11,000 properties across the US. In Georgia, they own five properties, including one in Gainesville.
“In Georgia there’s been a lot of growth and we want to provide quality affordable housing for a long time,” Volz said.
The company has invested $6.9 million in the apartments in order to completely remodel them after the devastating effects of Hurricane Matthew.
These funds will cover numerous interior and exterior improvements such as full kitchen and bathroom remodels, new flooring, upgrades to the laundry facility, sidewalk, a new community building and more, according to a press release from the company.
Vitus is also committed to environmentally friendly construction and housing, upgrades will include high-efficiency lighting packages, low-E coated windows, and ENERGY STAR® qualified appliances.
They also worked with the Savannah Tree Foundation to plant 70 trees throughout the property. This green initiative is meant to enhance the natural environment of the property and reduce the threat of flood damage.
In the event that a catastrophe such as Hurricane Matthew is to happen again, Vitus “is committed to making repairs and making sure [the apartments] stay functional,” Volz said. The Westlake Apartments contain ten 1-bedroom units, fifty-six 2-bedroom units, 30 3-bedroom units, and four 4-bedroom units.
Through US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Section 8, which provide affordable housing through a contract with them, tenants will pay 30 percent of their income and the rest will be covered by their contract. There is also a current waitlist for available units in Westlake.
“We’re excited to go in and revitalize [Westlake] and make sure it’s high quality and the tenants see the benefit of it for 20 to 30 years,” Volz said.
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Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Harrison Ford as Joe Gavilan
Josh Hartnett as K.C. Calden
Keith David as Lieutenant Fuqua
Lena Olin as Ruby
Bruce Greenwood as Benne MacKo
Jamison Jones as Sgt. Bobby Riley
Martin Landau as Jerry Duran
Lolita Davidovich as Ferre Salesclerk
Ron Shelton
Robert Souza
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Rated PG-13 For Violence, Sexual Situations and Language
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The most popular occupations in movies about Hollywood are cops, crooks, hookers, psychics and actors, and to this list we must add the people they are all terrified of, real estate brokers. "Hollywood Homicide" covers these bases with a murderer, a cop who is a real-estate agent, a cop who wants to be an actor, and a psychic who can visualize that the murderer will be in an SUV on Rodeo Drive in half an hour. There are also two hookers. One is named Ferre Salesclerk, which can hardly be improved upon. The other is Wanda, an undercover cop in drag. There is room for improvement there.
The movie stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as the two cops, named Joe Gavilan and K.C. Calden, who are detectives assigned to Hollywood. Galivan is so preoccupied with his real estate business that he tries to sell a house to the owner of a club where four rappers have just been killed, and later negotiates the purchase price during a police chase. Calden has decided he wants to be an actor, and makes Galivan run lines for him from "A Streetcar Named Desire." Galivan is not impressed: "Who wrote this stuff?" The movie was directed by Ron Shelton, who co-wrote with Robert Souza. Shelton also made "Bull Durham" and "White Men Can't Jump" and specializes in funny dialogue for guy characters who would rather talk than do just about anything else. One of the pleasures of "Hollywood Homicide" is that it's more interested in its two goofy cops than in the murder plot; their dialogue redeems otherwise standard scenes. It's kind of a double act, between a man who has seen everything and a man who seen too much. Consider a scene where K.C. commandeers a vehicle containing a mother and her two small children. He needs it to chase a bad guy. "We're gonna die!" whines one of the kids. "Yes," agrees K.C., who moonlights as a yoga instructor, "we are all going to die someday, but..." His philosophical observations are cut short by a crash.
The movie opens with a hit on a rap group in a music club. Four people are dead when Joe and K.C. turn up to investigate. Joe immediately sends out for food. K.C. tells the club owner he is an actor. Their investigation is hampered by an inconvenient development: They are under investigation by Benne Macko (Bruce Greenwood), the Internal Affairs guy who hates Joe, and who reminds us once again that movie villains usually have a hard C or K in their names.
Joe is suspected of "mingling funds," which is to say, he confuses his personal debts and the debts of his real estate business. He has been seen with Ferre Salesclerk (Lolita Davidovich), who is a known hooker. No wonder; you do not get to be an unknown hooker by being chauffeured around town in your own stretch limousine. Internal Affairs thinks he is fooling around with Salesclerk, but he isn't; he's fooling around with Ruby the psychic (Lena Olin). She is yet another in the baffling legion of Los Angeles women who believe it is fun to make love on a blanket on the hardwood floor of an empty house while surrounded by a lot of candles.
At Harrison Ford's age, this qualifies as a dangerous stunt. But Ford just gets better, more distilled, more laconic and more gruffly likeable, year after year. It is hard to catch him doing anything at all while he's acting, and yet whatever it is he isn't doing, it works. You don't feel he's going for laughs when he tries to sell the club owner a house, while the two of them are standing in fresh pools of blood, metaphorically speaking; you feel he desperately needs to unload the house.
Hartnett makes an able partner for Ford, trading deadpan dialogue and telling everyone he's really an actor. He's given one of Shelton's nicest little scenes, when he goes to the morgue and looks at the dead bodies of the murder victims (he hates looking at dead bodies), and then notices some other dead bodies that have just arrived at the morgue, checks their shoe sizes, and says, "Hey ... those guys shot these guys." There is a chase and a half at the end of the end of the movie, a lot of it near the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland. That gives the movie a chance to interrupt Robert Wagner as he's leaving his handprints in front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre, and indeed the movie is filled with cameos and walk-bys, including Frank Sinatra Jr. as a show-biz lawyer, Martin Landau very funny as a fading producer who needs to unload his mansion, Lou Diamond Phillips as Wanda the cop in drag, Gladys Knight, Dwight Yoakam, Isaiah Washington, Master P, Kurupt, Eric Idle, Dr. Dre and just plain Dre.
Much of the closing excitement depends on the Fallacy of the Climbing Killer, that dependable chase cliche in which the killer climbs to a high place, from which he cannot escape unless he can fly. "Hollywood Homicide" uses this as an excuse to show police helicopters and TV news helicopters crowding each other out of the skies. It's a skillful chase, well done, but the dialogue is the reason to see the movie. This may be the most exciting film ever made about real estate.
Note. I am aware that "realtor" is a trademark and is always supposed to be used with a capital "R." But I refuse to go along. Realtors can complain all they want, but why should they get an upper-case R just because they say so? Would we capitalize Philosopher, Exterminator, Proctologist or Critic?
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
Movie Answer Man (07/13/2003)
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My Favorite Movies, DVDs, TV Shows and Books of the Year 2014 (and some I hated)!
In the midst of the Holiday frenzy, I thought I would pause and reflect on some of my favorite movies, DVDs, TV shows and books of the year so that when YOU have a minute, you can relax and enjoy something new and good. Likewise, I will steer you away from some that would ruin your Holiday.
You can also bone up for the Golden Globes. It's gratifying to see that many of the films and actors I lauded in my earlier reviews have received Golden Globe nominations. Stick with me. I won't steer you wrong!
Here's my Holiday Gift to YOU!
***Because I know you are busy, busy, busy, I am just going to say a few sentences about each one. However, if you are interested in my full review, I have linked each title back to my original review. Enjoy!***
Rosy the Reviewer's Favorite Movies of 2014
(These are films I actually ventured out of the house and plunked down the cash to see but many are now out on DVD):
A Wes Anderson comedy in the style of French Farce and Ralph Fiennes as you have never seen him. He actually smiles! This film has already garnered a Golden Globe nomination for the film and for Fiennes and is a likely candidate for a Best Film Academy Award nomination.
Just a lotta, lotta fun and very, very charming. It's that simple.
If I had my way, this would also get an Academy Award nomination for Best Film, but these kinds of films are usually undervalued.
The film version of the Broadway stage hit of the same name that chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the musical group, The Four Seasons. Yes, it's a musical but a very cool one. Directed by Clint Eastwood, could be an Oscar contender.
Bill Murray plays a "get off my lawn" type of curmudgeon who seems to only care about himself until he is redeemed by the little boy who moves in next door. Yes, that's a plot line done scores of times before, but here, it's done better. For one, the kid is not obnoxiously precocious and two, this is one of Bill Murray's best performances. He has already gotten a Golden Globe nomination and this should get him an Oscar nod for Best Actor as well. Also Melissa McCarthy sheds her over-the-top goofy character for once to play it straight. If you saw "Tammy," this one should help you get that bad taste out of your mouth.
Nobody does creepy like Jake Gyllenhaal and this movie is all him as he plays a man looking for a job and finds his purpose as a crime scene photographer. And let's just say he will do anything to get a good picture. I would give him an Academy Award just for his buggy eyes. He already has a Golden Globe nod. Expect an Academy Award nod as well for him and the film.
I predict Eddie Redmayne will win an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking. You heard it here first, folks! He already has been rewarded with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor as has this film. Expect to see this film as one of the ten Best Picture nominees for an Academy Award too.
A good old fashioned suspense story based on the best-selling book. This film was snubbed for a Golden Globe, but I will think it will be one of the ten Oscar Nominations for Best Film. Rosamund Pike deservedly has a Golden Globe nomination. She is also in the new film "Hector and the Search for Happiness" and seems to have a lock on the strange girlfriend/wife role.
Michael Keaton was a revelation in this story of an actor unraveling as he rehearses a Broadway show while trying to shake his past superhero persona, "Birdman." Outstanding cast (Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone), original story. If my beloved Eddie Redmayne doesn't win the Oscar for Best Actor, it will be Keaton. Keaton, Norton and Stone all are nominated for Golden Globes as is this film.
So happy to see that this little film has received a Golden Globe nod. It's a charming feel good picture with a lot of heart about the unlikely alliance of UK gay activists and striking coal miners in 1984 with a great British cast of recognizable actors - Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy and Paddy Considine along with some newcomers.
Rosy the Reviewer's Favorite DVDS
(2014 releases and some classics)
Tom Hardy, as successful, happily married Ivan Locke, takes you on a lonely road trip from Wales to London in this 90-minute-real time ride that slowly unfolds the reason for the trip. Hardy, probably best known for his performance in "Inception" and as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" pulls off a tour de force performance here. It's just he, his cell phone and his BMW and it's a memorable 90 minutes.
What it might be like to be a modern day vampire living in Detroit and just trying to do the right thing. It's a vampire movie like you have never seen.
Hateship Loveship
Kristen Wiig has finally made the dramatic leap. I didn't think she had the acting chops needed for dramatic roles but she got me here.
A woman of a certain age tries to find love in Santiago, Chile. You will fall in love with Gloria, even with those dreaded subtitles.
A masterpiece of anime that will mesmerize you, even if you are not an anime fan.
2014 TV that Rosy the Reviewer Says is Worth Seeing
(and probably available on DVD)
Playing now on Showtime, this is just what the title says, the story of an affair. But it's an affair with many tosses and turns, a mystery, wonderful acting (Dominic West and Ruth Wilson - both are up for Golden Globes) and a haunting Fiona Apple song over the opening credits. An adult, intelligent piece of television.
Ken Burns has done it again. He has produced an absolutely riveting piece of history as he tells the story of Teddy, FDR and Eleanor. Also up for a Golden Globe. This would make a great holiday present for anyone who loves history.
This is a British mini-series about the search for a boy's murderer. It played this year on BBC America. As American television frequently does, it steals really good British stuff and passes it off as its own. Thus we had this year's "Gracepoint." However, if you watched the American version instead of this one, you missed out. David Tennant is good, which is why he also starred in the American version, but I can't imagine this mini-series without Olivia Coleman. There will be a second "Broadchurch" series. Not so for "Gracepoint."
The Brits have the production of excellent dramatic mini-series down. No one does it like they do. Here is another not-to-be missed drama now playing on STARZ and it has been nominated for a Golden Globe. Eerily like the famous unsolved Madeleine McCann case (and perhaps not by accident) where a little British girl was abducted from her bed in Portugal while on vacation there with her family, here James Nesbitt is in a similar situation when his son is abducted in France while on vacation there. The series moves back and forth from 2006, when the boy was abducted, to the present, and shows the toll such a tragedy takes on everyone involved. Frances O'Connor plays his wife and is a Golden Globe nominee for her excellent work.
This is the true story of the Gloucester, England, serial killers, Fred and Rose West who over a 20 year period tortured and murdered at least 11 young women, some of whom were family members. This two-part series once again stars Dominic West as Fred (a far cry from his role in "The Affair" and almost unrecognizable with false teeth to make him look like West), who seems to be everywhere these days ("The Affair," "Pride" - see above) and Monica Dolan as Rose. Emily Watson is the appropriate adult of the title, a UK position provided by the courts for adults who might be "at risk" or who might not understand the ramifications of the charges. Fred West was barely literate so qualified. All three actors won BAFTAs for their work.
Books Rosy the Reviewer discovered in 2014
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Decker is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his mother when a terrorist bomb goes off. He rescues a small painting - "The Goldfinch" - which takes him on an odyssey to adulthood across country and to Europe and introduces him to many unlikely people. A 700+ page-turner with gorgeous prose and suspenseful story. This is Donna Tartt's third novel and one for which she won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of Ten Best books cited by the New York Times for 2013.
A Story Lately Told
An elegantly told memoir of actress Huston's early years and a profile of the acting dynasty she came from -- father/director John Huston and actor Grandfather Walter. The second installment "Watch Me" is calling me. Can't wait to read about Jack Nicholson and her and the crazy 70's.
Inspiration in 288 pages. Oprah DOES know.
Of All The Gin Joints
A boozy tour of Hollywood watering holes, restaurants and hotels that are famous for the drinks they produced and the drunks who visited. Mini-biographies of Hollywood drinkers and the recipes they inspired make up this delightful compendium. Want to know who invented "The Moscow Mule" or why Bing Crosby was called "Binge Crosby?" It's all here and more. A great book for reading on the toilet if you are into that sort of thing.
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
You know I now have that "project," inspired by this book. I have a bit less than 300 films to go to hit 1001. Want to join me? Follow me every Friday to see how I am doing and hear about some movies YOU need to see before you die.
Kitchn Cookbook
From the blog Kitchn which began in 2005 comes this wonderful kitchen resource that foodies and novices alike will enjoy. Food writers Sara Kate Gillingham and Faith Durand share their expertise about cooking with advice on setting up the kitchen, tools to have on hand, stocking the pantry, planning meals, cooking technique and recipes. This is the kind of book you will want to own -- and I do!
Rosy the Reviewer says...
Avoid!
And to think that Melissa McCarthy and her husband wrote this execrable thing as a starring vehicle for Melissa. She needs to retire this character and move on.
Sandler is just phoning it in these days. I never thought he was funny then and he isn't funny now.
An anti-abortion film masquerading as a comedy. And it's not even funny. Anything with Patricia Heaton in it, beware.
Scarlett Johansson is some kind of vampire trolling around Scotland seducing men and then reducing them to some kind of goop. Or I think that is what is happening here. If you can figure out what is going on in this film, let me know. But remember, I warned you.
Nymphomanic I and II
The most unsexy film about sex I have ever seen. And it's boring too.
Love Punch
Don't be fooled by the presence of Pierce and Emma. This thing is awful.
***Note that this list only includes films released before Christmas Day. As the Oscar race heats up, I am sure I will have some additional favorites. I will give you my early Oscar picks in a January post.
Now you know what I have been doing all year. But, hey, it's my new job!
Chris Rock's new movie
"Top Five,"
"The Week in Reviews"
and the latest on my
"1001 Movies I Must See Before I Die Project."
Check your local library for books and DVDS.
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My Life Story by Mildred Pierce (the dog, not the movie) and The Week in Reviews
[I review the DVDs "The Double" and "A Promise," the new book about famous Hollywood watering holes, "Of All the Gin Joints," and the revival of "A Chorus Line" plus I weigh in on the pizza at Serious Pie]
It's Millie's birthday!
And here is her story.
My name is Mildred Pierce and today is my birthday. Today I am six years old. That's 42 to you humans.
I was rescued six years ago today from a life of drudgery on a ranch where I would have had to herd stuff.
When I was born in Camano Island, Washington, I was one of several and my name was Chanel.
My biological parents, Monet and Joey, wanted a French theme, probably because my mother had a French name.
Me - Chanel
Though I looked like a rat at birth, my parents were handsome so I had hope.
And sure enough, things started to look up.
When my adoptive parents came to get me, I was ready to go!
I packed my bags and got out of Podunk. I was ready to hit the big time!
My parents named me Mildred Pierce, after a classic movie. My Mom thought a dog named Mildred was funny. I chose to go by Millie.
My new parents introduced me to my brother, Frederic.
He was kind of an odd duck, but hey, it takes all kinds.
As I settled into my new life, I learned a few things, such as going to the toilet on the floor inside is a no-no, and though Freddy gets to sleep on the bed, I don't.
We were soon joined by my brother, Tarquin, a piano virtuoso (and as it turns out, heavy drinker).
As I grew, my parents gave me many opportunities.
I graduated from school with high marks in barking at intruders and walking on a leash,
but I decided that acting was in my blood.
I was going to be an actress.
However, I needed some income so I thought I could model while also taking acting lessons.
I practiced my modeling skills and some opportunities came my way.
I eventually landed some acting roles.
I played Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet,"
Miss Havisham in "Great Expectations."
Hester Prynn in "The Scarlet Letter"
and the cuckoo in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
I replaced Johnny Depp as Jackie Sparrow in a remake of "The Pirates of the Caribbean," with an all female cast,
and I won awards for my work as Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest."
Who can forget my famous line "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!"
Despite my successes, like many celebrities, I have had to deal with some psychological issues over the years.
Thunder and firecrackers were a problem for me.
But after going into rehab and getting some counseling, my parents purchased a "thunder shirt," and my outlook improved.
But now at 42, I have retired from acting. Not many good roles for actresses in their forties these days.
I plan to live out my days looking after my aging parents, exercising my vocal chords, herding and looking after my brothers, Freddy and Tarquin. They all need looking after.
Tarquin has a drinking problem.
And Freddy...well...Freddy has issues.
They all need me and it is my nature to be a caretaker. I spend most of my time these days being on guard and watching over my flock.
However, don't completely count me out. You might see me from time to time in a cameo performance.
Now let's PARTY!
And now on to
***At The Theatre***
This is where I usually have "In Theatres Now," where I review a movie that is currently playing in a theatre. However, to be completely honest, there just isn't a movie playing right now that I haven't already seen and reviewed or that I want to see. It's that dark time before the fall season when all of the Oscar hopefuls are released. So I am going to review a classic musical I just saw that might be in a theatre near you or coming soon.
Now playing at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Seattle September 3-28
This 1975 musical pays homage to the Broadway dancers in the dance chorus of musicals. Originally conceived, choreographed and directed by the brilliant Michael Bennett, it was only the fifth musical to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The show opens on an empty stage as dancers are put their paces to audition for a Broadway show. The song "I Hope I Get It" echoes their ambition and need for this job. As the group is whittled down to 17, the chosen ones line up and tell their stories. Each has a personal story to tell about how and why they became a dancer. "At the Ballet" and "Tits and Ass" are stand-out as well as "What I Did For Love" when the dancers are asked what they will do when they can no longer dance. And they aren't talking about lovers. The curtain call contains the famous dance number "One."
Bennett was himself a dancer who started out playing Baby John in "West Side Story" when he was only a teenager. After two seasons as a dancer on "Hullabaloo" his opportunity to choreograph two Broadway shows came along. Though they were not successful, he met Marvin Hamlisch, who eventually wrote the music for "A Chorus Line." As his career grew, Bennett had longed to do a musical about dancers and the difficult and often humiliating road they have to travel to get professional work. He invited a number of dancers to some late-night talk sessions where they opened up about their lives and careers. Bennett recorded hours and hours of these talks and from those "A Chorus Line" was born. It was a smash hit on Broadway and by the time it closed, was the longest-running musical in New York theater history. Bennett went on to have another hit with "Dreamgirls," but died in 1987 from AIDS-related lymphoma at the age of 44.
It's clear why it took so long for the movie version of this musical to get made and why the movie failed. This show requires the intimacy that a live audience brings. It's just each character answering the questions from a voice coming out of a dark theatre, each telling his or her story. No glitz, no glamour, just those characters talking to you out there in the audience. It's brilliant theatre.
My only criticism of the show would be that there are so many references that meant something in 1975, but perhaps not to show-goers these days. It pains me to say it, but I don't think modern audiences remember Gwen Verdon and Cyd Charisse anymore (icons in the history of dance and cinema). I don't see that updating some of the references to dates and movie stars and dancers of the past would hurt the show and bring it up into the 21st century. (But if you do remember them and lament that the greats of the Golden Age of Hollywood have been forgotten, catch my blog post next Friday).
That said, this is a classic show that still holds up today, because no matter what century we are in, the difficult life of a dancer remains the same. Dancers must do things the body is not meant to do.
Look at this - the winner of Australia's "So You Think You Can Dance." Mind-blowing.
"A Chorus Line" captures what many of the dancers on "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Dance Moms" want. A Broadway show. Do they really know what they are getting into? Do they have what it takes? I guess it doesn't matter because they are doing it for the "love" of dance.
Rosy the Reviewer says...Even if you have seen the film, if this show comes to a theatre near you, it's a must see.
***DVDS***
(And Some You Will Be Glad You Did)
A Promise (2013)
A story of repressed love in 1917 Germany.
Herr Hoffmeister (Alan Rickman), a German steel tycoon, hires young Friedrich (Richard Madden, who you may recognize from "Game of Thrones") as his assistant and Friedrich soon becomes invaluable to him. So much so, that when Herr Hoffmeister takes ill, he asks Friedrich to move into his mansion. Lotte (Rebecca Hall) is Herr Hoffmeister's much younger wife and you know what that means. When Friedrich is sent to Mexico to start operations there, they promise to meet again, neither knowing how long that might be.
This film is a journey of restrained sexuality, and it's a journey not everyone might want to take with these characters. But the cinematography is gorgeous and the mood is sensuous.
This is the first English-language film for French director, Patrice Leconte ("Monsieur Hire," "Ridicule," "Man on a Train").
As you probably have noticed from past reviews, I am a huge Rebecca Hall fan, and now I am also a huge fan of the nape of her neck which plays a huge role here as Friedrich moons over Lotte. He also acts out in other creepy ways, such as sniffing the piano keys after Lotte has played the piano. Rickman is always fun to watch, but Madden is a bit stiff, though a handsome suitor for Lotte's affections.
There is a slow mo sensuality about this film that will get to you (for good or ill), and there is a "promise" of a big finish. If you can hang on, you will get it.
Rosy the Reviewer says...I can't promise you will like this film (most of the critics did not). I did, but maybe that's because now that I am retired, I like things that are in slow mo.
A timid, insecure, nebishy clerk in a unenviable job in a Kafka-esque world gets a shock when a new co-worker arrives who is not only his exact physical double but also everything he isn't- loud, confident and charismatic.
Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) lives in a drab, nightmarish world that could be the past (his ill-fitting suit looks like what David Byrne wore when he was with the Talking Heads and the technology in the office is retro) or the future (post-apocalyptic?). He is so unmemorable his boss (Wallace Shawn) doesn't remember his name and the security guard at the company where he works never recognizes him. But those are small things until his "double" appears, James Simon, and everyone loves James. No one seems to notice that they both look exactly alike. When James starts taking over Simon's life, Simon fights to reclaim his identity.
Mia Wasikowska plays Hannah, the object of both Simon's affections.
This film explores the duality of the human spirit: who we are to the world and who we are inside and want to be. When you are a cog in a wheel, you can be replaced by anyone - "doubled." Or something like that. This film is not an easy one.
The plot of this film parallels another earlier but recent film, "The Enemy," starring Jake Gyllanhaal, but "The Double" has more humor. However, since this is based on a Dostoevsky story, I would venture "The Enemy" borrowed more from this than the other way around.
Rosy the Reviewer says...Not really my cup of tea, but if you liked movies like "The Trial," Terry Gilliam films or you just like weird movies that make you think, then you might like this.
***Book of the Week***
"Of All the Gin Joints" - Stumbling Through Hollywood History by Mark Bailey (2014)
Anecdotes, history and quotes galore about the hotels and drinking establishments of Hollywood.
This is a unique travel memoir - a tour of the famous restaurants and watering holes of Hollywood with recipes for the cocktails they inspired sprinkled with anecdotes about the famous drunks who drank them from the silent era to the 1960's. We tour Musso & Frank (famous for its bone dry martini - stirred, not shaken), The Brown Derby (where the Cobb Salad was invented), Trader Vic's (said to be the birthplace of the Mai Tai and if you haven't had their Scorpion Bowl, you haven't lived) and John Wayne was supposedly one of the first drinkers to try a Margarita. The stories accompanying the recipes range from the well known such as Elizabeth Taylor loved the chili at Chasen's so much that she had it flown over to Italy while she was filming "Cleopatra. "
But there are many lesser known stories: The Zombie was invented at Don the Beachcomber and was so potent the restaurant imposed a two-Zombie limit.
"The Missionary's Downfall" was also invented there.
1 oz. light rum 1/4 c diced pineapple
1/2 oz. Peach brandy 1/4 c mint leaves
1 oz. Honey Mix* 1/4 c crushed ice
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice 1 mint sprig
Put all of the ingredients in a blender and blend at highest speed for 15-30 seconds. Pour into a goblet or a Collins glass.
*Honey mix: same as simple syrup with 1 part honey to 1 part water
John Travolta, at the height of his "Saturday Night Fever" fame went to Dan Tana's restaurant without a reservation. When told it would be two hours before he could be accommodated, he said, "Don't you know who I am?" to which the maître d' allegedly replied, "Well, for you, Mr. Travolta, it will be three."
Another story involves the currently immensely popular Moscow Mule. The bartender at the Cock 'n Bull Pub found himself saddled with too much vodka and ginger beer that would go bad if he didn't use it so he put the two together and the Moscow Mule was born.
Ava Gardner didn't like the taste of alcohol, but that didn't stop her because she DID enjoy being drunk. She wanted to get there as fast as possible so she came up with "Mommy's Little Mixture." "Dump every type of liquor you can find into a jug or pitcher or punch bowl and suck it down."
Rosy the Reviewer says...If you enjoy food, drink, humorous celebrity anecdotes and Hollywood history , you will love this book.
(this is an early review. Publication date: September 30th)
***Restaurant of the Week***
Serious Pie
If you love interesting, thin crust craft pizzas, this is for you.
I have now tried all of Tom Douglas' Seattle restaurants and like the others, this one did not disappoint.
Though I didn't enjoy my Yukon Gold potato with rosemary pizza as much as I had hoped, the fennel sausage pizza was to die for. Also enjoyed the marinated lacinato kale salad with calabrian chilis and pine nuts. Other pizza choices include Buffalo Mozzarella with red sauce and basil and the famous Penn Cove Clam with pancetta pizza, which I will try next time.
Word to the wise, the Virginia location (316 Virginia, next to the Dahlia Lounge) is small and always crowded. No reservations so be prepared to wait unless you get there at an unfashionable time for lunch such as after 2:30 (but beware of weekday Happy Hour from 3-5pm) or late at night (Serious Pie is open 11am-11pm). There is also a South Lake Union location that is bigger but you would have to fight off the Amazon folks, so it's probably a toss up).
Rosy the Reviewer says...Pizza worth waiting for.
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Written by Jerry Seward
Published in Europe
The remains of the Morandi bridge, a major road bridge in Genoa, which collapsed during heavy rainfall on 14 August 2018 killing 43 people, were demolished Friday in a series of controlled explosions.
Explosives were attached to the legs and body of the bridge. Thousands of residents were evacuated before two large towers consisting of about 4,500 tonnes of concrete and steel were brought down. Roads within a 300m (984ft) radius of the demolition site were also closed. In about eight seconds the towers were gone.
Controlled demolition explosions
Italy's deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio joined onlookers in Genoa for the event. It was also broadcast live on Italian TV. Built in the 1960s, the Morandi Bridge was a vital link of the A10 highway that connects northwestern Italy to France, across the Polcevera river in central Genoa. It was one of the busiest bridges in the country. The demolition of towers 10 and 11 on Morandi bridge took place 37 minutes late because officials were concerned that one elderly resident had refused to leave. Such a bridge is normally designed to last for at least 100 years. But following the 2018 tragedy, it emerged that the steel rods suspending the 1.2km bridge had been slowly decaying over decades and were badly damaged by the sea air. Italian architect Renzo Piano agreed to oversee the construction of a replacement bridge, expected to be Europe's most expensive.
France’s President is proposing a „true European Army”
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Marking 25 years since Chernobyl catastrophe
Published time: 26 Apr, 2011 06:49 Edited time: 26 Apr, 2011 20:32
25 years since Chernobyl catastrophe
A quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it has ever seen. Commemoration services are being held on Tuesday throughout the region.
The explosion at Chernobyl sent a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of Europe, leaving the land in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years.
Some six weeks have passed since the world witnessed another nuclear disaster unfold around Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. Today, the tension shifts to Ukraine, as the country marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Commemorations in Kiev began exactly at the time when the disaster happened 25 years ago – at 1:23am, when an explosion blew the roof off reactor 4.
The service was led by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill near a monument to firefighters and cleanup workers who died soon after the accident from radiation sickness. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has joined his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich for a memorial ceremony in Chernobyl.
“The labor of a huge amount of citizens from Ukraine and Russia was put in to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy,” said President Dmitry Medvedev at a commemoration ceremony in Chernobyl, praising those who risked their lives cleaning up after a nuclear explosion shook the Soviet nuclear plant. “In the face of such disasters, we should be honest – it is the government’s obligation to tell people the truth. We need to admit that back then, the government was not always doing the right thing.”
In April 1986, a fire that raged for a week and a half spewed vast amounts of radiation into the air – 200 times the amount of radiation from the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to Greenpeace.
Approximately 8.5 million people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were exposed to high levels of radiation. Thirty-two lives were lost immediately and 30 more in the weeks following the accident. Some 600,000 liquidators worked at different times on the site to put out the fire and clean the area.
Estimates as to the total number of deaths that potentially resulted from the accident vary enormously. The World Health Organization puts it at 4,000, Greenpeace at 200,000, while independent Russian publications go up to 985,000 deaths.
The ghost town of Pripyat
Twenty-five years ago the town of Pripyat was a place any Soviet person could dream of: high salaries, great standards of living and impressive infrastructure – a restricted town for the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Pripyat was regarded as the pride of the Soviet Union. It was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city, but the people who lived there were also the best of the best. The best musicians, sportsmen, professionals in nuclear energy – many of them lived there.
All of that changed on April 26 when the Chernobyl reactor exploded – the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands.
“The reactor was almost completely out of control on April 25. But it could still have been saved,” a nuclear physician and Chernobyl liquidator Boris Gorbachev told RT. “The management pushed for completion of an experiment. Personnel hesitated and were reluctant, but eventually couldn’t go against the authorities. We all know the result.”
Meanwhile, the town’s population had no idea about the disaster. People were enjoying an unusually sunny Saturday outdoors. Aleksandr Sirota, a former resident of Pripyat, recalls that day:
“Me and my friend, we ran away from school to play at a beach. We returned home all covered in mud. My mother asked me where I had been. I lied that we were cleaning the school yard. She was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some accident at the nuclear station.”
That shock was easy to understand. Ambulances with sirens had alarmed the population of the small town. In the middle of the night, they delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital.
“People had different wounds – fractures, burns and irradiation,” says Vitaly Leonenko, the head physician at Pripyat hospital from 1980-1986. “Most of them had third and fourth degree radiation burns. One of them died instantly, the others had to wait 24 hours to be evacuated to a hospital in Moscow.”
Ironically, those were the lucky ones. Others stayed in the city exposing themselves to deadly doses of radiation. Many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwards.
Nowadays, Pripyat is described as a dead town. Nobody lives there and never will again: the half-life period of many nuclear pollutants there reaches tens of thousands of years.
That does not scare Matrena Korneenko, who returned to the area right after the USSR collapsed.
“They gave me a flat and a pension. But I found it impossible to survive like that in Kiev. Here, I have a cattle and I grow everything,” she explained. “Radiation? Yes, there is a little here. But you won’t find a place without it anywhere. We are not scared.”
In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the word Chernobyl echoed again worldwide. Just when everyone thought all mistakes had been learnt, another crisis put the nuclear energy issue through serious debate.
But the former Chernobyl liquidators say they are ready to fly half way across the planet to help Japan, just like they did in their own backyard 25 years ago. All they want is to make sure nightmares like Chernobyl and Fukushima never happen again.
See RT gallery “Undiscovered Chernobyl”
Fukushima repeating 25-year-old mistakes
RT spoke to journalist James Corbett in Osaka, Japan, who says that the way Japan handles its own nuclear crisis is repeating the 25-year-old mistakes of the Soviet government.
“I think the real analogy to be drawn here is the flow of information that’s coming from the government, and it’s not an analogy that favors the Japanese government. In the immediate wake of the Chernobyl disaster we saw that the official Soviet reaction was to attempt to cover up and deny what was going on,” he said. “But once it became apparent – the scale and scope of what was happening – we saw that kick-start the new era of Glasnost and openness, whereas we see the exact opposite thing happening here with the Japanese government’s reaction to what’s happening.”
The same approach, Corbett continued, is being seen with the Fukushima disaster.
“Even if the Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano is giving twice daily briefings on what’s happening at Fukushima, those briefings are only open to the selected group of Japanese media organizations. Foreign media and independent journalists are being excluded from those meetings, and they are only getting access to second-hand information from administrative sources,” the journalist explained.
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California court rules: Gay marriage ban unconstitutional
Published time: 7 Feb, 2012 18:22 Edited time: 7 Feb, 2012 22:29
Los Angeles : LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 19: Actress Amber Heard (R) holds a protest sign with Dan Choi (L) during a same-sex marriage advocates demonstration against the stay barring gay marriages on August 19, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/AFP) © AFP
A Federal Appeals Court in California ruled this morning that the state’s controversial ban on same-sex marriages, Proposition 8, is unconstitutional.
During the November 2008 elections, voters in California narrowly decided that same-sex couples did not have the right to wed in the Golden State. Now more than three years later, a federal appeals court says that the ban violates rights guaranteed to Americans.
Same-sex marriages were legally recognized in California during a brief window of only six months that began on May 15, 2008. Roughly 18,000 same-sex couples were wed in California before Proposition 8, a measure that dismissed the validity of those marriages, passed that November. The following May, the California Supreme Court upheld the proposition.
Now nearly four years after same-sex marriages were originally allowed in California, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided in a 2-to-1 vote on Tuesday that Proposition 8 violated the rights of Americans as guaranteed in the US Constitution.
"Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they believe to be desirable, it requires that there be at least a legitimate reason for the passage of a law that treats different classes of people differently. There was no such reason that Proposition 8 could have been enacted," the court decided
“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the court ruled.
Gay rights advocates are hailing Tuesday’s decision as a milestone for the movement.
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about Skinnyfish Music
SKINNYFISH MUSIC STRIVES TO MAXIMISE THE POSITIVE IMPACT THAT MUSIC CAN HAVE ON PEOPLE’S LIVES WHILE PROVIDING A WINDOW TO THE RICHNESS OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN CULTURE.
Established in 1999 by Mark Grose (Managing Director) and Michael Hohnen (Creative Director), Skinnyfish Music works in partnership with artists and their communities to produce music by, about and for them, and to take their music to the wider world.
The company’s aim is to provide opportunities for and to nurture the talents of artists who hail from communities across Australia and the region from Timor to Tasmania – through recording, distribution, publishing and performance.
Skinnyfish Music recognises the value of music for its beauty and ability to bring people together to affect positive change in people and entire communities; its role in recording and preserving language; and its expression of traditional and modern culture. Through the highest level of artistic endeavour and quality production, Skinnyfish is committed to presenting the music from indigenous Australia to national and international audiences.
Skinnyfish is committed to building long term relationships with musicians, their families and communities; and connecting with Australian and international artists, private organisations, government departments and many other associations which have significant influence on indigenous communities.
Skinnyfish Music, 11 Voyager Street, Stuart Park, NT, 0820, Australia+61 (8) 8941 8066info@skinnyfishmusic.com.au
Skinnyfish Music is a Darwin-based record label that works in partnership with artists and their communities to produce music by, about and for them, and to take their music to the wider world.
info@skinnyfishmusic.com.au
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... that the NSL News is now reporting from Germany?
Used to hide in the Merseburg hangar: MIG 21
posted Jul 29th, 2011 - The NSL News mentioned with the story on 3 July 2011 that the trip to Germany and the coverage of the World Cup 2011 begins with a promotional visit at a skydiving center near Halle where FSC Remscheid and the NSL have joined forces to introduce 4-way Formation Skydiving competition to the FSV Merseburg members and other German skydivers.
Other events are taking place in Germany at the same time, and the weather has not been favorable recently. The annual Nuggets Cup in Leutkirch was completely weathered out last weekend while another regional championship in Kassel-Calden was limited to four rounds. The weather was not much better in Berlin today where Go Jump is hosting a 5-year anniversary boogie. It was raining all day long.
However, the situation was different and much better further away from Germany's capital city. In fact, good weather is coming to the west and southwest of Germany, which is the area where Saarlouis is located, host of the World Cup next week. The weather was not perfect in Merseburg, however, the AN 28 made a few loads to full altitude at the end of the day, which was the plan.
Great jump plane: Antonov 28
The dropzone in Merseburg is located at an airport that used to be a base for the Russian forces in East Germany. The DZ facilities are nicely embedded in one of the bunkers that was hiding the MIG 21's that the Russian Air Force had stationed in areas all over Germany.
The jump plane, an Antonov 28 (AN 28), is also related to the presence of the Russian forces in Germany after the second world war. They powerful transport planes are almost perfectly suited for skydiving with the tail gate and two engines.
There are several of those AN 28 in Germany and in the neighbouring eastern European countries. This weekend features the annual Antonov Boogie in Merseburg, and any 4-way jumps will be launched from the comfortable tail gate. The video clip does not only show the facilities and an AN 28 on the way to the takeoff. The hosting country of the World Cup 2011 is also famous for the quality of a certain adult beverage, and a local brew is being served in Merseburg...
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https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Republican-businessman-John-Cox-enters-2018-10984307.php
Republican businessman John Cox enters 2018 governor’s race
By Joe Garofoli
Updated 5:25 pm PST, Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Southern California venture capitalist John Cox announced he is joining the 2018 governor's race.
Southern California venture capitalist John Cox became the first major Republican to jump into the 2018 governor’s race Tuesday, saying he would reform state government by making it more representative and removing the influence of big money.
“There are two Californias — the one we have, and the one we could have. The California we have is in trouble, and we need to do something about it,” Cox, 61, said in announcing his campaign via Facebook video.
Cox, who ran for office three times in his native Illinois but never won, joins four Democrats as declared candidates: former Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Treasurer John Chiang, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former state schools chief Delaine Eastin. Cox, who has lived in California for eight years, is a resident of Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego County.
In 2016 he spent $1 million on a proposed ballot measure that would have required legislators to wear the corporate logos of their top 10 donors when advocating for a measure in the Legislature. It did not qualify.
As he tried to do in 2014, Cox wants to put a measure on the 2018 ballot to create a “neighborhood legislature.” By dividing current Assembly and Senate districts into smaller pieces so each assembly member represents about 5,000 people and each senator about 10,000 constituents, Cox said it would remove the incentive for legislators to spend an inordinate amount of time fundraising and currying favor with monied interests.
He bristled at the notion that it would betray conservative principles by creating a larger bureaucracy, with hundreds more representatives.
“I know that’s what my opponents are going to try to say,” Cox said in an interview Tuesday, “but it actually will save more than $100 million,” pointing to a nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office report on a previous neighborhood legislature measure that failed to qualify for the ballot.
Cox faces an uphill battle in a state where only 26 percent of voters are registered Republicans. No Republicans hold statewide office, and Democrats have a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature.
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Cox declined to say whether he voted for President Trump, who remains highly unpopular in California, according to recent polls.
“I know my opponents will try to tie me to Mr. Trump. I am not Mr. Trump,” Cox said. “I’m analytical, I’m policy-oriented. I read five newspapers a day. I’m not a reality TV star that’s going to insult people. I’m going to try to rally people.”
He also declined to state his positions on social issues like abortion rights or same-sex marriage. “That’s not what I’m running on at all,” he said.
Still, Cox could give Republicans an opportunity as the Democratic “favorites are either consummate insiders or products of the political system. So this gives Republicans a chance to say this is no longer business as usual,” said David McCuan, professor of political science at Sonoma State University. “But on the downside, their (Republican) politics of usual is called irrelevance at the state level.”
Cox’s main challenge is that unlike is his Democratic opponents, who have held elective office, “Californians have no idea who he is,” said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego. And while Cox is wealthy — he has already put $1 million into his campaign — Kousser said, “He’s a millionaire, not a billionaire.”
Cox said he is not fully self-funding his candidacy. He argued that he is a self-made man who was raised by a single mother and worked two jobs to help put himself through college and law school.
“I’m not going to apologize for being successful,” Cox said.
Joe Garofoli is The San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer. Email: jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @joegarofoli
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Toshio Matsumoto: 3 Films (1969-1975)
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 27, 5 - 8 pm
New York - 138 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
STL is pleased to announce an exhibition of three films by the innovative Japanese filmmaker and video artist Matsumoto Toshio. One of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde, Matsumoto is a pioneer of experimental film and avant-garde documentary, as well as an influential film critic. His work is representative of the urgency of its era and of the radical changes the medium was undergoing at the time. In many of his films, Matsumoto expands the scope of documentary to include the private reality of his subjects and the very act of perception itself. In his essay “A Theory of Avant-Garde Documentary,” he writes: “We should grasp the totality of the conflict and the unity between the exterior world and the interior world, aiming for a synthesis of both in the possibilities of a new form of film.”1
This exhibition presents a selection of rarely screened experimental films by Matsumoto that show the range of his investigations into new methods of filmmaking.
Projected in the space is Matsumoto’s film “For the Damaged Right Eye” (つぶれかかった右眼のために) (1968). Presented at the symposium “Expose 1968” at the Sogetsu Art Center,2 it juxtaposes images of student protests, popular television, 60s psychedelia, scenes from the Shinjuku gay scene, and graphic art by his contemporaries in a captivating montage that reflects the chaotic ethos of its moment.
Also on display are two other short films:
“Andy Warhol Re-Reproduction” (アンディ・ウォーホル：複々製) (1974) is an abstracted portrait of Andy Warhol at one of his openings, accompanied by a musique concrète score by Joji Yuasi.
Matsumoto’s hypnotic “Atman” (アートマン) (1975) is a formal exercise in experimental film consisting of hundreds of zooming and panning stills of a figure clad in a Noh mask, with an electronic score by Toshi Ichiyanigi.
All films are presented as Blu-Ray transfers of 16mm and are courtesy the artist and the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive. This exhibition was organized by Alexander Shulan. Special thanks to Hirofumi Sakamoto.
1. Matsumoto, Toshio, “A Theory of Avant-Garde Documentary,” translated by Michael Raine, Cinema Journal 51.4 (2012): 148-54.
2. Furuhata, Yuriko, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013): 48.
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Coyotes hand Oilers 10th straight loss, 5-2
Arizona Coyotes' Oliver Ekman-Larsson (23), Tobias Rieder (8) and Zbynek Michalek (4) celebrate a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta., on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,
The Canadian Press, Jason Franson
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Tobias Rieder had a minute to remember Monday night.
Rieder scored two short-handed goals in 58 seconds on the same penalty kill, and the Arizona Coyotes beat Edmonton 5-2 to hand the Oilers their 10th consecutive loss.
''I obviously wasn't expecting anything like that,'' Rieder said. ''It is just amazing that we scored two short-handed goals. That was really exciting. I'm not sure if I really realize what happened yet. It's pretty hard to even score goals on the power play in this league, let alone to get two short-handed that quickly.''
Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Mikkel Boedker and Martin Erat also scored for the Coyotes, who snapped a three-game skid and won for the second time in seven games. They extended their point streak against Edmonton to a franchise-record 16 games.
''Now is an important time for us,'' said Coyotes goalie Mike Smith, who snapped his seven-game losing streak. ''It is a lighter month for us and we need to get back in the hunt before Christmas. We are done talking and having meetings. We know what we have to do now. It's just about going out there and doing it.''
Jordan Eberle and Jeff Petry each had a goal for the Oilers (6-15-4), who have not won at home since October. They dropped to 0-12-3 against Western Conference opponents.
Edmonton captain Andrew Ference said there's simply no excuse for starting the second period on the power play with a 1-0 lead and allowing two short-handed goals.
''Guys are letting their guard down, and we're in no position to be doing that - to be taking a rest and relaxing. We start the period with a power play and we're looking for some jump. You're looking for some momentum and it's a matter of falling into old habits, floating around and expecting the other team to lie down because you're so great,'' Ference said. ''It doesn't happen, we made the same mistakes, it cost us games and it definitely puts you in a hole again. We allow two on the same power play, it's a joke.''
Ference said something clearly has to change for the Oilers.
''The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again when it doesn't work,'' he said. ''Do you try it again or look for a different path? I think that you've seen that with some of the mistakes, that's what it is, insanity.''
Leading by a goal, Edmonton came unraveled early in the second.
Just 36 seconds in, Taylor Hall coughed up the puck in the neutral zone and Rieder went in on a breakaway, tucking his third of the season through Viktor Fasth's legs.
Rieder scored again on the same Edmonton man advantage at 1:34 after Martin Hanzal blocked a shot and sent the former Oilers draft pick up the ice with speed. Rieder outraced defender Nikita Nikitin before cutting in on net and scoring.
''I wish I could have made at least one of those two saves and kept us in the game. But they scored four in the second period and we didn't manage to battle back,'' Fasth said.
The Coyotes made it 3-1 with their third goal in a span of 4:17 when Ekman-Larsson scored a power-play goal on a shot through traffic from the slot.
Edmonton started to push back a little just past the midway point of the second period, but Smith came up with huge saves on Mark Arcobello and Tyler Pitlick to maintain the two-goal advantage.
Arizona went up 4-1 with 17 seconds left as Boedker picked up a loose puck in front and showed deft hands to corral it and tuck in his eighth of the season.
''I'm glad that the leadership in this room came out and grabbed this game,'' Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said. ''We played a lot of the game the right way. Our special teams were excellent, obviously with Toby getting those two short-handed goals, but also getting a couple on our power play. It was a much-needed win.
''Now the challenge is to continue this night in and night out.''
The Coyotes took a four-goal lead at 2:03 of the third on the power play. Michael Stone's shot went wide but came off the boards right to Erat at the other side of the net.
A couple of minutes later, Petry's point shot deflected off a Coyotes defender in front and past Smith to make it 5-2.
NOTES: The Coyotes are right back at it Tuesday when they visit Calgary. The Oilers make a one-game trip to Winnipeg on Wednesday. ... Arizona has won the first three meetings between the teams this season. They play five times. ... The Coyotes last lost in regulation to Edmonton on Jan. 25, 2011. ... Tippett is 18-2-3 against Edmonton during his Coyotes tenure. ... The longest winless streak in Oilers history is 14 games, from Oct. 11 to Nov. 7, 1993. ... Pitlick made his season debut after being recalled from the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL on Sunday. ... Out with injuries for the Oilers were Benoit Pouliot (foot) and Matt Hendricks (leg). The Coyotes were without David Moss (hand) and Brandon Gormley (lower body).
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft accused of soliciting prostitute
Kraft’s representatives deny he engaged in any illegal activity.
In this Feb. 3, 2019, file photo, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft holds the Vince Lombardi trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against the Los Angeles Rams, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, faces charges of soliciting a prostitute after he was twice videotaped in a sex act at a shopping-centre massage parlour in Florida, police said Friday.
The 77-year-old Kraft denied any wrongdoing. The case comes amid a crackdown on sex trafficking from Palm Beach to Orlando in which police planted cameras in massage parlours.
READ MORE: Patriots outlast Rams 13-3 to win Super Bowl
Kraft was not immediately arrested. Jupiter police said a warrant will be issued and his attorneys will be notified. They said details about the misdemeanour charges against the owner of the Super Bowl champion team will not be released until next week.
Hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued in recent days as a result of the six-month investigation, and more are expected. Ten spas have been closed, and several people have been taken into custody on sex trafficking charges.
Jupiter Police Chief Daniel Kerr said he was shocked to learn that Kraft, who is worth $6 billion, was paying for sex inside a shopping-centre massage parlour, the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. “We are as equally stunned as everyone else,” Kerr said.
Most people charged for the first time with soliciting a prostitute in Florida are allowed to enter a diversion program, said attorney David Weinstein, a former prosecutor. Kraft would probably have to perform 100 hours of community service and attend a course on the harmful effects of prostitution and sex trafficking, he said.
The arrest could also get Kraft in trouble with the NFL, which in a statement said only that it is “aware of the ongoing law enforcement matter and will continue to monitor developments.”
Under league policy, players, owners, coaches and other employees can be punished for “conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in” the NFL.
“Ownership and club or league management have traditionally been held to a higher standard and will be subject to more significant discipline,” the policy says.
The Patriots won the Super Bowl this month over the Los Angeles Rams for their sixth NFL championship in the past 18 seasons, making them the most successful team in pro sports during that span. Before the Super Bowl, several retired NFL players appeared in a public service announcement decrying sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Atlanta, the host city.
Kraft lives in Massachusetts and has a home in the Palm Beach area. Though he is a Democrat, he is friendly with President Donald Trump and a frequent guest at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Kraft’s wife, Myra Hiatt Kraft, died in 2011. He has been dating 39-year-old actress Ricki Noel Lander since 2012.
“Well it’s very sad. I was very surprised to see it. He’s proclaimed his innocence, totally,” Trump said at the White House on Friday.
In a statement, Kraft’s representatives said they “categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity.”
The spa Kraft allegedly visited is in a busy, upper-middle-class shopping centre with neighbours that include a dentist, a real estate office, surf and bike shops and a Publix supermarket.
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Potential Risks of Energy Work
Yesterday, I discussed some of the potential uses of energy work. Went over its flexibility and a few applications. I also alluded to the fact that there are some risks. I intend to discuss those here.
When mulling over the particulars of any sort of magic, it's always wise to consider the pros and cons. By factoring in both sides of the coin and weighing the benefits and the drawbacks, you can come to a decision worth acting on (or, potentially, discarding a plan of action should the risks prove to be too great).
Bearing this in mind, as any form of magic has its benefits, energy work, too, has its potential drawbacks.
There's a phrase I've heard time & time again when learning from spirits: "what can harm can also heal". Logically, what can heal can also harm, so the equivocation goes both ways. This night not seem terribly important, but not considering this fact is a good way to get yourself in hot water.
When dealing with any magic, you're channeling forces that potentially may be outside of your control or aptitude. As with anything you eat, anything you draw through yourself changes you all the same. That's why those exercises I wrote about previously are so damned crucial.
Knowing this, consider what you're doing when you cultivate ill-intentioned energy. If you are what you eat or channel, the reality is tha tyou're basically putting liquid decay in your spiritual, emotional, and physical bodies. That malice will wear on you, and most folks aren't able to sort themselves out very easily after working with such things. That's why demonic magic, vampirism, blood magic, or other sorts of baneful work tends to cause problems on both ends of the equation.
To make matters worse, its addictive. If you're emotionally invested in doing the deed, you're going to obsess, focus on, and bathe in that muck. As Buddha once said, holding on to anger to hurt another is like carrying a hot coal for the same reason. Bear this in mind, as it will mess with you.
How much will depend on how good you are at letting go and cleansing. Some things will never wash out of your soul - that may sound melodramatic, but its true nonetheless. Keep it up long enough and you'll require the services of a sin eater like myself to begin to feel better. Sometimes its worth it, sometimes its not - up to you to make the decision. Remember, this isn't an ethical decision, so much as one that has everything to do with your well-being and long-term survival.
I've seen plenty go from magically predating upon others to harming themselves. Many develop psych issues that seriously hamper their ability to be happy or "normal".
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Why is it addictive?
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"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Folks have a habit of forming dependencies, particularly where the illusion of power is concerned. Most of us go through life without any real brush with abiility or significance, so the idea that one can create harmful changes in the lives of those who've upset us is an addictive, albeit infantile source of obsessive tendencies. Most lack the internal balance necessary to pursue such a path without destroying themselves in the process.
I've been doing curse work, of one sort or another, for as long as I can remember. Most of it was done during my adolescent years, and it wasn't without developmental cost. I had few friends, didn't much care for others in general, and was something of a sociopath for a time. I got off on hurting others because it was fun, and there really wasn't any other reason for it.
By the time I came around, I was in my early 20s. I'd taken a full look at myself and what I'd been doing, and decided it wasn't worth doing anymore. At least not to that extent.
When you wake up and see what you've done, it also tends to be a bit shame-inspiring. I've since gotten over it, but that was something I wrangled with for a while. Now, I do still curse folks as necessary. Its a service I offer to those with sufficient need. I don't take much pleasure in it, but there are times where one cannot get the satisfaction or release they need through pleasant deeds alone.
That, and there are folks in the world who are genuinely terrible people who deserve it. Getting off topic, though.
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‘Aerocene’ Air Sculptures at COP21
By Staff Writers on December 22, 2015 in News
Space Safety » Archive » News » ‘Aerocene’ Air Sculptures at COP21
Presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21, Grand Palais, Paris 2015
Aerocene {www.aerocene.com} is a series of air-fueled sculptures that are inflated with air, lifted by the sun and carried by the wind. It sets off for the longest synergetic journey around and with the planet. Aerocene is a new journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth. Aerocene floats in the air without burning of fossil fuels and hydrocarbons, using solar panels, batteries or helium, hydrogen and other rare gases from the ground.
During the day, necessary heat will be supplied by the sun. At night infrared radiation from the earth provides the heat. Throughout the day, the air loses energy to the surrounding air. The heated air inside the envelope expands, creating a buoyancy force that lifts the sculpture. Navigation is possible by changing the altitude to move with the local jet streams.
Led by Tomás Saraceno, Aerocene is an open movement where leading artists, scientists, engineers, social scientists , and numerous universities, research centers, cultural and art institutions and museums around the world are involved.
Aerocene launches at White Sands Dunes 2015. The launches in White Sands and the symposium “Space without Rockets”, initiated by Tomás Saraceno, were organized together with the curators Rob La Frenais and Kerry Doyle for the exhibition “Territory of the Imagination” at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. credits: the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer contemporary art, Genoa; Esther Schipper, Berlin.
Photography Studio Tomás Saraceno.
The project has evolved from Tomás Saraceno’s {www.tomassaraceno.com} artist in residency programme at L’Observatoire de l’Espace, CNES (French National Space Agency) and their InfraRed Mongolfière MIR. Trajectories are computed in details, between 15km (tropopause) and 38 km of altitude, based on our knowledge of thermal effects and stability of the main jet streams. The project aims to travel numerous times around the globe.
Scientific sensors can be loaded on board to follow the path of the sculpture and record interesting meteorological parameters. It’s important to note that the project has a strong focus on participative actions, co-creation and do-it-together practices, in order to give up all the hierarchies, predefined entities and organizational models.
Michael Kezirian, Tomás Saraceno. and Isabelle Rongier. credits: Rongier
Michael Kezirian, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Safety Engineer and Adjunct Associate Professor of Astronautical Engineering at the University of Southern California is working with the team to obtain the appropriate certifications for the Aerocene’s flight from the respective national agencies. For objects launched from the United States, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) provides licenses based on the assessment and proper mitigation to the risk to the public. The concern is both for the public on the ground and in the air. To obtain this certification, Michael Kezirian and his students at USC will work through the full lifecycle of the project, from early design through operations to assure that the Aerocene project during its launch, multiple year planned operation and disposal will not adversely affect the airspace around the world.
While international treaties were ratified, governing civilian airspace, and led to the establishment of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), no such rules of the road exist for suborbital airspace. The International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) has sought international cooperation to extend the domain of the ICAO to the stratosphere, considering the rise of numerous private companies seeking to commercialize this airspace.
An additional concern of the Aerocene project is to establish the right of way for future manned flight through such zero carbon emissions vehicles, it is important to first establish the framework for such hypothesis. The project is leading an online petition, which calls for the agreement to mirror the ocean transport that provides the right of way to unpowered ships.
Project participants:
Michael Kezirian, Department of Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California
http://astronautics.usc.edu/faculty-staff/kezirian/
Lodovica Illari and Bill McKenna from MIT EAPS
https://eapsweb.mit.edu/
Leila W. Kinney, MIT CAST
http://arts.mit.edu/welcome/cast/about/
Bronislaw Szerszynski, Director of Sociology Department at Lancaster University
Bruno Latour, SciencesPo, Museo Aero Solar community
www.museoaerosolar.wordpress.com
University of Technology of Braunschweig, Institute of Architecture-related Art (IAK)
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/iak
Nicholas Shapiro, Public Lab
Pablo Suarez, Red Cross Red Crescent
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New technology pacemaker implanted at Spencer Private Hospitals
A new technology pacemaker has been implanted at Spencer Private Hospitals in Margate which is the first of its kind in Kent. The minor operation was performed by heart consultant Dr James Rosengarten. Explaining the procedure, he said,
"A pacemaker is a small implantable device that helps to regulate the rhythm of the heart and improve its pumping function. These devices can be affected by magnets, and up until recently having this type of pacemaker would prevent future use of MRI, a common type of scan that uses magnets.
This new St Jude Medical pacemaker has been developed to be overcome these limitations and has only been available since November. I use a lot of devices when assessing and treating patients with heart rhythm disorders. I'm delighted to have used the first one in the whole of Kent. Working with Spencer Private Hospitals gives me the freedom to use the newest technology."
For further information about the Cardiology treatments that Spencer Private Hospitals offers, please click here
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Prince Andrew Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
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Prince Andrew, Duke of York was born Andrew Albert Christian Edward on February 19, 1960. He is a member of the British Royal Family. He is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Andrew is a Commander and Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy. He is currently fifty-eight years old.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York was born Andrew Albert Christian Edward on February 19, 1960, in Buckingham Palace in London, England. He was born to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. On April 8, 1960, he was baptized in the Palace by Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Prince Andrew attended Heatherdown School in Berkshire. In 1973, he joined Gordonstoun in Northern Scotland while participating in an exchange program to Lakefield College School, Canada. He graduated from Gordonstoun with A-levels in history, economics, English and Political Science. He later joined the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
In 1979, Prince Andrew joined the Royal Navy and enrolled at the Royal Naval College Flight. At the college, he trained as a pilot. In 1980, he took the Royal Marines All Arms Commando Course. He passed out from Dartmouth and went ahead to train with the Royal Air Force at RAF Leeming. The prince also received basic flying training with the Navy as HMS Seahawk. Prince Andrew participated in the Falklands War as a pilot.
In 1984, Prince Andrew got a promotion to the rank of Lieutenant. Later he was appointed by the Queen as her aide de camp. In 1999, the Prince was promoted to Commander and then completed his active naval career at the British Ministry of Defence two years later. In 2004, he was appointed as an Honorary Captain. He became an Honorary Rear Admiral in 2010. He received a promotion to Honorary Vice Admiral in 2015.
On July 23, 1986, Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. On the same day, the Queen named him the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh. Together they have two daughters. On May 30, 1996, they divorced.
Prince Andrew is the Chairman of the Outward Bound Trust since 1999. He is also a patron of several associations. He is currently fifty-eight years old.
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Concert videos of the composer from Germany
Name: Ludwig van Beethoven
Birth date: 17.12.1770
Day of death: 26.03.1827
Compositions:
Violin Concerto D major, Op. 61
Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
Symphony No. 9 D minor op.125
Symphony No. 7 A major op. 92
Piano Sonata No. 32 C minor op. 111
Piano Concerto No. 4 G major op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 5 E-flat major op. 73 "The Emperor"
Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, "Kreutzer"
Symphony No. 6 F major op. 68 "Pastoral Symphony"
Piano Sonata No. 30 E major op. 109
Symphony No. 4 B-flat major op. 60
Symphony No. 3 E-flat major op. 55
Piano Sonata No. 31 A-flat major op. 110
Piano Trio D major op. 70 No. 1, "Ghost"
Egmont Overture F minor from op. 84
Symphony No. 8 F major op. 93
Cello Sonata No. 3 A major op. 69
Piano Sonata No. 23 F minor op. 57, "Appassionata"
Piano Concerto No. 1 C major op. 15
Piano Concerto No. 2 B-flat major op. 19
Triple Concerto C major Op 56
Piano Sonata No. 29 B-flat major op. 106, "Hammerklavier"
Piano Concerto No. 3 C minor op. 37
Violin Sonata No. 5 F major op. 24, "Spring"
Piano Sonata No. 17 D minor op. 31,2, "Tempest"
Trio B-flat major op. 11
Mass D major op. 123 "Missa solemnis"
Symphony No. 2 D major op. 36
Symphony No. 1 C major op. 21
Violin Sonata No. 10 G major op. 96
String Quartet No. 14 C♯ minor op. 131
Piano Sonata No. 8 op. 13
Piano Sonata No. 14 C-sharp minor op. 27,2, "Moonlight"
Piano Sonata No. 28 A major op. 101
Grand Fugue B-flat major op. 133
Leonora Overture No. 3 op. 72a
Egmont op. 84
Ah! perfido Op. 65
String Quartet No. 10 E-flat Major op. 74, "Harp"
Piano Sonata No. 26 E-flat major op. 81a, "Les Adieux"
Piano Sonata No. 25 G major op. 75, "cuckoo"
Piano Sonata No. 24 F-sharp major op. 74
Piano Sonata No. 15 D major op. 28
Violin Sonata No. 7 C minor op. 30 No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 6 A major op. 30 No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 3 E-flat major op. 12 No. 3
Violin Sonata No. 1 D major op. 12 No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 8 G major op. 30 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 4 E-flat major op. 7, "Grand Sonata"
Piano Sonata No. 2 A major op. 2,2
Piano Sonata No. 1 F minor op. 2,1
String Quartet No. 1 F major op. 18/1
String Quartet No. 13 B flat major op. 130
Piano Trio op. 97, "Archduke Trio"
Fidelio op. 72
String Quartet No. 15 A minor op. 132
Violin Sonata No. 4 A minor op. 23
Piano Sonata No. 7 D major op. 10,3
Piano Sonata No. 27 E minor op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 21 C major op. 53, "Waldstein"
Piano Sonata No. 9 E major op. 14,1
Septet E-flat major op. 20
Coriolan Overture op. 62
Piano Sonata No. 3 C major op. 2,3
String Quartet No. 8 E minor op. 59,2, "Rasumovsky"
String Quartet No. 7 F major op. 59,1, "Rasumovsky"
Twelve Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" F major op. 66
Bagatelles op. 126
Fantasia for Piano G minor op. 77
String Quartet No. 11 f Minor op. 95, "Serioso"
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 112
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II WoO 87
Elegiac Song op. 118 E major
The Creatures of Prometheus Op. 43
Variations and Fugue for Piano E-flat major op. 35, "Eroica Variations"
To the Distant Beloved, op. 98
The Consecration of the House - Ouverture op. 124
Christ on the Mount of Olives op. 85
Piano Sonata No. 22 F major op. 54
Piano Sonata No. 20 G major op. 49,2
Piano Sonata No. 19 G minor op. 49,1
Piano Sonata No. 18 E-flat major op. 31,3, "The Hunt"
Piano Sonata No. 13 E-flat major op. 27,1
Piano Sonata No. 12 A-flat major op. 26
Piano Sonata No. 11 B-flat major op. 22
Piano Sonata No. 6 F major op. 10,2
Piano Sonata No. 5 C minor op. 10,1
7 Bagatelles op. 33
String Quartet No. 2 G major op. 18/2
String Quartet No. 16 in F major op. 135
Fidelio / Leonore (1806) op. 72
Piano Trio E-flat major op. 38, "Grand Trio"
Choral Fantasy C minor op. 80
String Quartet No. 12 E-flat major op. 127
String Quartet No. 9 C major op. 59,3, "Rasumovsky"
Diabelli Variations op. 120
Bundeslied op.122
Sacrifice song op. 121b
The Glorious Moment op. 136
Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II WoO 88
Mass in C major op. 86
King Stephen Op. 117
The Ruins of Athens op. 113
Tremate, empi, tremate op. 116
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Gambling Guides / Slot Machines / Slot Machine History
Aside from poker, the slot machine is the gambling pursuit that has become most firmly engrained in American culture. Back in 1939 famed author John Steinbeck included a café slot machine in meaningful chapters of his classic The Grapes of Wrath. And today, millions of senior citizens make their pilgrimage to the slot machine meccas of Las Vegas or Atlantic City, hoping to beat the odds and hit a jackpot.
As is the case with most games, the historical origins of the slot machine are still slightly disputed, with two parties located on either coast of the U.S. laying claim to the title of inventor.
Most historians believe that the first slot machine was developed in 1891 by the Brooklyn-based company Sittman and Pitt. This machine was based on poker hands and contained five rotating drums capable of displaying a total of 50 card faces. Players would insert a nickel and pull a lever on the side of the machine to spin the drums, with the objective being to form any high hand (from one pair on through a Royal Flush). This lever gave rise to the nickname “one-armed bandit”, because the machines managed to part players from their bankrolls more often than not.
One of the unique aspects of the early Sittman and Pitt slot machines was that they didn’t offer direct payouts on winning hands. Instead, the house (usually bars and nightclubs) would provide the player with prizes. Legend holds that a pair of aces was usually good for a complimentary beer, while better hands might earn a cigar or a shot of bourbon.
The fact that there were only 50 card faces available on the Sittman and Pitt machines meant that the house also enjoyed a healthy edge on players. By removing two cards from the standard 52-card deck – traditionally the 10 of spades and the Jack of hearts – the house made it significantly more difficult for players to complete a Royal Flush.
While Sittman and Pitt popularized their slot machine along the Eastern Seaboard, a German immigrant by the name of Charles Augustus Fey was doing the same in San Francisco. Some accounts hold that Fey’s mechanical slot machine was first produced in 1887, which would make it the first by a few years over the Sittman and Pitt design, while other historians place the invention right around 1895.
In any event, Fey’s innovation managed to improve on the poker-based game devised by Sittman and Pitt by fixing that game’s fatal flaw. Because there are so many possible poker hands to be made from a 52-card deck (or even a 50-card set of drums), setting the machine to pay winners out automatically proved to be practically impossible.
Fey solved this dilemma by simplifying the slot machine’s basic structure. He used three reels rather than five drums, while abandoning the poker-based gameplay for a more basic design. By using just five symbols (Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, Horseshoes, and the cracked Liberty Bell), Fey created a slot machine capable of determining payouts for all possible winning combinations. The high “hand” on Fey’s machine was three Liberty Bells in a row, which usually paid out a jackpot of 10 nickels.
Fey’s “Liberty Bell” design became ubiquitous and fueled a booming gambling industry during the early- and mid-20th century. Slot machines today still utilize Fey’s original layout, incorporating all variety of symbols and combinations to add variety to the game, but sticking to the same essential structure. Slot machines are by far the most popular option on the gaming floor, and modern casinos dedicate massive portions of their property to serve slot players.
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Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. revenue in the United Kingdom 2011-2023
Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. revenue in the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
by Philipp Huhn, last edited Jun 4, 2019
This statistic shows the revenue of manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. in the United Kingdom by segment from 2011 to 2017, with a forecast to 2023. It is projected that the revenue of manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. in the United Kingdom will amount to approximately 50.6 billion U.S. Dollars by 2023.
manufacture of general-purpose machinery
manufacture of other general-purpose machinery
manufacture of other special-purpose machinery
manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery
manufacture of metal forming machinery and machine tools
Currency conversion factor: (GBP -> USD) = 1.338
The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev.2 - system in the United Kingdom. The industry “manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.“ has the code “C28“.
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United Kingdom: Government revenue and spending from 2014 to 2024 (in billion pounds)Government revenue and spending in the United Kingdom 2024
United Kingdom: Ratio of government expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP) from 2014 to 2024Ratio of government expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP) in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Budget balance from 2014 to 2024 (in billion pounds)Budget balance in the United Kingdom 2024
United Kingdom: Budget balance from 2014 to 2024 in relation to gross domestic product (GDP)Budget balance in the United Kingdom in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) 2024
Countries with the highest median age in 2017 (in years)Median age of the population in the top 20 countries 2017
The 20 countries with the largest gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)Countries with the largest gross domestic product (GDP) 2017
The 20 countries with the largest proportion of the global gross domestic product (GDP) based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in 2017Countries with the largest proportion of global gross domestic product (GDP) 2017
Growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries from 2014 to 2024 (compared to the previous year)Gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast in selected countries until 2024
Proportions of economic sectors in the gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries in 2017Proportions of economic sectors in GDP in selected countries 2017
Top 20 export countries worldwide in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)Leading export countries worldwide 2017
Leading import countries worldwide in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)Leading import countries worldwide 2017
Unemployment rates in major industrial and emerging countries in 2017Unemployment rates in major industrial and emerging countries 2017
Results of United Kingdom (UK) EU 'Brexit' referendum on June 23, 2016EU 'Brexit' referendum results, by number of votes
Results of United Kingdom (UK) EU referendum on June 23, 2016UK 'Brexit' referendum results 2016
Distribution of EU Referendum votes in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, by age group and genderDistribution of EU Referendum votes 2016, by age group and gender
EU referendum results of the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, by nationUnited Kingdom (UK): EU referendum results in 2016, by nation
Number of ballot papers counted during the EU referendum of the United Kingdom (UK) on June 23rd, 2016, by regionUK: number of counted ballot papers from the EU referendum 2016, by region
Euro (EUR) to British pound (GBP) monthly exchange rate from January 2014 to June 2019Euro to British pound monthly exchange rate 2014-2019
Daily post-Brexit currency exchange rates of the Pound Sterling (GBP) against the Euro (EUR) June to July 2016Post-Brexit currency exchange rates of Pound Sterling to Euro
Impact of Brexit on selected stock indices as of June 24, 2016Reaction of stock exchanges to Brexit 2016
Industry revenue of »manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.« in Luxembourg 2011-202...
Machinery manufacturing revenue in the U.S. 2010-2022
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other special-purpose machinery« in Croatia 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.« in Bulgaria 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of general-purpose machinery« in Greece 2011-2023
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery revenue in Ireland 2010-2022
Industry revenue of “manufacture of general-purpose machinery“ in Germany 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of general-purpose machinery« in Croatia 2011-2023
Manufacture of general-purpose machinery revenue in Ireland 2010-2022
Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. revenue in Ireland 2010-2022
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery revenue in Luxembourg 2010-2022
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other special-purpose machinery« in Austria 2011-2023
Construction equipment industry in the U.S.
Industrial machinery and automation in the United Kingdom (UK)
Komatsu Limited
Material handling systems industry in the United Kingdom (UK)
European machine tool market
Tenneco
European tractor market
Making It In America: Revitalizing US Manufacturing
Total population of the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2024 (in millions)
United Kingdom: Population growth from 2007 to 2017 (compared to the previous year)
United Kingdom: Fertility rate from 2007 to 2017
United Kingdom: Life expectancy at birth from 2007 to 2017
United Kingdom: Age distribution from 2007 to 2017
United Kingdom: Median age of the population from 1950 to 2050 (in years)
United Kingdom: Death rate from 2007 to 2017 (in deaths per 1,000 inhabitants)
United Kingdom: Infant mortality rate from 2007 to 2017 (in deaths per 1,000 live births)
United Kingdom: Degree of urbanization from 2007 to 2017
Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices of the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Share of global gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) from 2014 to 2024
Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of the United Kingdom (UK) in current prices from 2014 to 2024 (in U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate from 2014 to 2024 (compared to the previous year)
United Kingdom: Distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) across economic sectors from 2007 to 2017
United Kingdom: Distribution of the workforce across economic sectors from 2008 to 2018
United Kingdom: Inflation rate from 2014 to 2024 (compared to the previous year)
United Kingdom: Employment from 2010 to 2020 (in millions)
Unemployment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2018
United Kingdom: Youth unemployment rate from 2008 to 2018
United Kingdom: Export of goods from 2007 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Export of commodities in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Main export partners in 2017
United Kingdom: Import of goods from 2007 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Import of commodities in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom: Main import partners in 2017
United Kingdom: Trade balance of goods from 2007 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Which attributes do you associate with products made in the United Kingdom?
Products made in the United Kingdom: Perception in the year 2017, by country
United Kingdom: Perception of products made in selected countries in 2017
United Kingdom: National debt from 2014 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars)
United Kingdom (UK): National debt in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) from 2014 to 2024
United Kingdom: Ratio of military spending to gross domestic product (GDP) from 2007 to 2017
United Kingdom: Government revenue and spending from 2014 to 2024 (in billion pounds)
United Kingdom: Ratio of government expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP) from 2014 to 2024
United Kingdom: Budget balance from 2014 to 2024 (in billion pounds)
United Kingdom: Budget balance from 2014 to 2024 in relation to gross domestic product (GDP)
Countries with the highest median age in 2017 (in years)
The 20 countries with the largest gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
The 20 countries with the largest proportion of the global gross domestic product (GDP) based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in 2017
Growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries from 2014 to 2024 (compared to the previous year)
Proportions of economic sectors in the gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries in 2017
Top 20 export countries worldwide in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Leading import countries worldwide in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Unemployment rates in major industrial and emerging countries in 2017
Leading countries worldwide in 2017, by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outflows (in billion U.S. dollars)
The 15 countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Top 20 countries in primary energy consumption in 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Largest producers of territorial fossil fuel CO2 emissions worldwide in 2017, based on their share of global CO2 emissions
Results of United Kingdom (UK) EU 'Brexit' referendum on June 23, 2016
Results of United Kingdom (UK) EU referendum on June 23, 2016
Distribution of EU Referendum votes in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, by age group and gender
EU referendum results of the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, by nation
Number of ballot papers counted during the EU referendum of the United Kingdom (UK) on June 23rd, 2016, by region
Euro (EUR) to British pound (GBP) monthly exchange rate from January 2014 to June 2019
Daily post-Brexit currency exchange rates of the Pound Sterling (GBP) against the Euro (EUR) June to July 2016
Impact of Brexit on selected stock indices as of June 24, 2016
Forecasted long-term effects of the Brexit on GBP per household in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2030, by scenario
Forecasted long-term effects of Brexit on real GDP in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2030, by scenario
Distribution of British voters who would vote differently in a second EU referendum 2016
Industry revenue of »manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.« in Luxembourg from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Machinery manufacturing revenue in the U.S. from 2010 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other special-purpose machinery« in Croatia from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.« in Bulgaria from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of general-purpose machinery« in Greece from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery revenue in Ireland from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of “manufacture of general-purpose machinery“ in Germany from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of general-purpose machinery« in Croatia from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Manufacture of general-purpose machinery revenue in Ireland from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. revenue in Ireland from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery revenue in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other special-purpose machinery« in Austria from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
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Spending per FTE student in the U.S. private master's sector in 2013
Spending per full-time equivalent student in the U.S. private master's sector in 2013, by expense category (in 2013 U.S. Dollars)
by Statista Research Department, last edited Jan 12, 2016
This statistic shows the spending rate (In 2013 U.S. Dollars), as distinguished by standard expense categories, for full-time equivalent students in the private master's sector in the United States as of 2013. For each full time student within the private master's sector, 3,352 U.S. dollars were spent on student services.
Spending per FTE student in 2013 U.S. dollars
Social media usage frequency by students researching college in the U.S. in 2016
Social media usage by students researching colleges in the U.S. 2013-2016
Communication frequency preference of students researching college, by contact method
Mobile college website visits by students to research college in the U.S. in 2016
Statistics on "College choice in the United States "
Admissions & attendance
Recruitment & marketing
Social media & mobile usage
The top ten most important factors considered in deciding upon a specific college in the United States in 2015Top 10 most important factors in deciding upon a specific college in the U.S. in 2015
Distribution of factors that had an influence on student choice of college in the United States in 2015, by Pell Grant statusFactors influencing student choice of college in the U.S. in 2015, by aid status
Sources of information most often used to learn about colleges by students in the United States in 2015Information sources used by students to learn about colleges in the U.S. in 2015
Helpfulness of information sources regarding studies in the United States in 2015Information source helpfulness used by U.S. students in 2015
Frequency of visiting college websites by students during their college search in the United States in 2015College website visit frequency by students during college search in U.S. in 2015
Distribution of number of colleges applied to in the United States in 2015, by enrollment statusNumber of colleges applied to by current and prospective students in the U.S. in 2015
Share of starting times for college search in the United States as of 2015, by enrollment statusWhen college search began in the U.S. in 2015, by enrollment status
Distribution of submitted college applications in the United States in 2016, by school selectivityU.S. college application submission share, by school selectivity in 2016
Average number of submitted college applications per institution in the United States in 2016, by school selectivityNumber of U.S. college application submissions, by school selectivity in 2016
Acceptance and attendance rates of freshmen at first-choice colleges in the United States in 2016, by student generationAcceptance and attendance at first-choice college, by student generation status 2016
College choice attendance rate of students in the United States in 2015. by high school typeChoice of college attendance, by high school type in the U.S. in 2015
Share of full-time first-time degree seeking undergraduates in the United States in 2016, by school selectivityShare of full-time first-time undergrads in the U.S. in 2016, by school selectivity
Distribution of full and part-time enrollment in colleges and universities in the United States in 2015Full and part-time enrollment in colleges and universities in the U.S. in 2015
Share of current and prospective students who chose online or physical colleges and programs in the United States in 2015U.S. online/physical colleges and programs chosen by students in 2015
Share of usage of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Communication method usage for marketing/recruitment at private U.S. colleges 2018
Share of effectiveness of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Marketing/recruitment communication method effectiveness at private U.S. college 2018
Share of event types used for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Event usage for marketing/recruitment at 4-year private U.S. colleges 2018
Share of effectiveness of events for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Marketing/recruitment event effectiveness at 4-year private U.S. colleges 2018
Share of advertising channels used for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Advertising channel usage for marketing/recruitment at private U.S. colleges 2018
Share of effectiveness of advertising channels for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018Marketing/recruitment advertising method effectiveness at private U.S. colleges 2018
Share of usage of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017Communication method usage for marketing/recruitment at public U.S. colleges 2017
Share of effectiveness of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017Marketing/recruitment communication method effectiveness at public U.S. colleges 2017
Share of primary computing device used for college research by high school students in the United States in 2016Primary computing device used by students to research college in the U.S. in 2016
Share of information students look for when visiting search/review sites for colleges in the United States in 2016Information desired from college search & review websites by U.S. students in 2016
Share of actions taken on mobile by high school students researching college in the United States in 2016Mobile actions taken by students to research college in the U.S. in 2016
Distribution of college website visits via mobile device by high school students researching college in the United States in 2016Mobile college website visits by students to research college in the U.S. in 2016
Distribution of communication frequency preferred by high school students researching colleges in the United States in 2016, by contact methodCommunication frequency preference of students researching college, by contact method
Distribution of possible reasons for downloading a college app by students researching colleges in the United States in 2016Share of college app download reasons by students researching college U.S. 2016
Distribution of social media usage frequency by high school students when researching colleges in the United States in 2016Social media usage frequency by students researching college in the U.S. in 2016
Distribution of social media usage by high school students when researching colleges in the United States from 2013 to 2016Social media usage by students researching colleges in the U.S. 2013-2016
Spending per FTE student in the U.S. private bachelor's sector in 2013
Spending per FTE student in the U.S. public master's sector in 2013
Expenditure per student in Peru in 2007 and 2015, by educational level
Spending per FTE student in the U.S. private research sector in 2013
Spending per FTE student in the U.S. public research sector in 2013, by category
Students share of tuition costs at U.S. public community colleges, by state 2009
Average spending per student at U.S. private research institutions 2003-2013
Average spending per student at public community colleges, by U.S. state 2009
Time spent on social media by U.S. students in 2016, by sexual orientation
U.S. student self-rated leadership ability as of 2016, by gender identity
U.S. student self-rated social confidence as of 2016, by gender identity
Average spending per student at U.S. public community colleges 2003-2013
Time spent on social media by U.S. students in 2016, by political identity
Average spending per student at U.S. public research institutions 2003-2013
Students who spent six or more hours weekly on social media in the U.S. 2017, by sex
Self-rated health of U.S. university students in 2016, by military status
Rate of educational attainment in the U.S., 1940 to 2009
Average spending per student at U.S. public master's institutions 2003-2013
Family resource use by U.S. students for college costs in 2016, by foster care status
College choice in the United States
Social media usage in the United States
Colleges and universities in the United States
Attending university in the United States
The cost of college in the United States
Business schools in the United States
Community colleges in the United States
Housing for students in the United States
How America Values College 2018
Higher education institutions and their finances in 2017
Education sector GCC
Higher education in South Korea
Online College Students 2018
All India Survey on Higher Education 2018
How America Pays for College 2018
The Economic Impact of London's International Students
What do students pay for college in the U.S. in 2012
Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey 2015 - College Students
PISA 2015 Results: Collaborative Problem Solving
College student health in the U.S.
Back-to-school market
The top ten most important factors considered in deciding upon a specific college in the United States in 2015
Distribution of factors that had an influence on student choice of college in the United States in 2015, by Pell Grant status
Sources of information most often used to learn about colleges by students in the United States in 2015
Helpfulness of information sources regarding studies in the United States in 2015
Frequency of visiting college websites by students during their college search in the United States in 2015
Distribution of number of colleges applied to in the United States in 2015, by enrollment status
Share of starting times for college search in the United States as of 2015, by enrollment status
Distribution of submitted college applications in the United States in 2016, by school selectivity
Average number of submitted college applications per institution in the United States in 2016, by school selectivity
Acceptance and attendance rates of freshmen at first-choice colleges in the United States in 2016, by student generation
College choice attendance rate of students in the United States in 2015. by high school type
Share of full-time first-time degree seeking undergraduates in the United States in 2016, by school selectivity
Distribution of full and part-time enrollment in colleges and universities in the United States in 2015
Share of current and prospective students who chose online or physical colleges and programs in the United States in 2015
Share of usage of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of effectiveness of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of event types used for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of effectiveness of events for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of advertising channels used for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of effectiveness of advertising channels for marketing and recruitment at four-year private higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2018
Share of usage of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of effectiveness of communication methods for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of event types used for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of effectiveness of events for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of advertising channels used for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of effectiveness of advertising channels for marketing and recruitment at four-year public higher education institutions in the U.S. in 2017
Share of colleges attributing "considerable importance" to recruitment strategies in the United States in fall 2017, by student type
Share of primary computing device used for college research by high school students in the United States in 2016
Share of information students look for when visiting search/review sites for colleges in the United States in 2016
Share of actions taken on mobile by high school students researching college in the United States in 2016
Distribution of college website visits via mobile device by high school students researching college in the United States in 2016
Distribution of communication frequency preferred by high school students researching colleges in the United States in 2016, by contact method
Distribution of possible reasons for downloading a college app by students researching colleges in the United States in 2016
Distribution of social media usage frequency by high school students when researching colleges in the United States in 2016
Distribution of social media usage by high school students when researching colleges in the United States from 2013 to 2016
Distribution of college social media postings' relevance according to high school students researching colleges in the United States in 2016
Spending per full-time equivalent student in the U.S. private bachelor's sector in 2013, by expense category (In 2013 U.S. Dollars)
Spending per full-time equivalent student in the U.S. public master's sector in 2013, by expense category (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Spending per student in public education in Peru in 2007 and 2015, by educational level (in Peruvian soles)
Spending per full-time equivalent student in the U.S. private research sector in 2013, by expense category (in 2013 U.S. Dollars)
Spending per full-time equivalent student in the U.S. public research sector in 2013, by expense category
Students share of tuition costs at public community colleges in the United States 2009, by state
Average education and related spending per FTE* student in a U.S. private research institution from 2003 to 2013, by net tuition and subsidies (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Average education and related spending per full-time equivalent student in U.S. public community colleges in 2009, by state (in U.S. dollars)
Percentage of students who spent six or more hours per week on social media in the United States in 2016, by sexual orientation
Student self-rated level of leadership ability in the United States in 2016, by gender identity
Student self-rated level of social self-confidence in the United States in 2016, by gender identity
Average education and related spending per FTE* student in a U.S. public community college from 2003 to 2013, by net tuition and subsidies (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Percentage of students who spent six or more hours per week on social media in the United States in 2016, by political identity
Average education and related spending per FTE* student in a U.S. public research institution from 2003 to 2013, by net tuition and subsidies (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Percentage of students who spent six or more hours per week on social media in the United States in 2017, by gender
Self-rated physical and emotional health of students in the United States in 2016, by military status
Highest level of educational attainment for 25 to 34 year olds in the United States, from 1940 to 2009
Average education and related spending per FTE* student in a U.S. public master's institution from 2003-2013, by net tuition and subsidies (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Use of family resources by students in the United States to cover first-year college expenses in 2016, by foster care status
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Distribution of investment in marketing in Spain in 2015, by industry
Distribution of the investment in marketing strategies in Spain in 2015, by industry
by Statista Research Department, last edited Oct 25, 2015
This statistic depicts the distribution of the investment in marketing strategies in Spain in 2015, by industry. That year, the consumer durable goods industry accounted for nearly 20 percent of the total Spanish investment in marketing.
Share of investment
* Horeca is a syllabic abbreviation of the words Hotel/Restaurant/Café used in Europe for the food service industry.
E-mail marketing click-through rate in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by sector
Most effective marketing channels for ROI in the UK 2016-2017
E-mail marketing budget in the UK from 2007 to 2018
E-mail marketing open rate trend in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2017
Statistics on "E-mail marketing in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Open, click and unsubscribe rates
Attitudes of UK marketers
Digital advertising expenditure in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by format (in million GBP)Digital advertising spending in the UK 2008-2017, by format
E-mail marketing spending at UK companies from 2007 to 2018E-mail marketing budget in the UK from 2007 to 2018
E-mail marketing key performance indicators (KPIs) in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017E-mail marketing KPIs in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017
How much is the approximate return you get back for every pound spent on e-mail marketing?E-mail marketing's return on investment (ROI) in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2017
Approximately what proportion of your total sales can you attribute to the e-mail marketing channel?Share of sales attributable to e-mail marketing in the UK 2016-2018
What percentage of your marketing budget is spent on e-mail?Share of marketing budget spent on e-mail marketing in the United Kingdom 2012-2018
Looking forward, how would you expect your company’s expenditure on e-mail to change?Expected change in e-mail marketing expenditure in the United Kingdom (UK) 2011-2017
E-mail marketing open rate historical trend in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017E-mail marketing open rate trend in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2017
E-mail marketing open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sectorE-mail marketing open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing click-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017E-mail marketing click-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2017
E-mail marketing click-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sectorE-mail click-to-open rate in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing click-through rate in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sectorE-mail marketing click-through rate in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing unsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017E-mail marketing unsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2017
Unsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by industry sectorUnsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by industry
E-mail opens on mobile devices in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017E-mail opens on mobile devices in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2017
How do you manage your e-mail marketing program?E-mail marketing outsourcing and management in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017
How do you measure the success of email campaigns?Measure of success for email campaigns in digital marketing in the UK 2017
Which of the following stop you from achieving your e-mail marketing goals?Factors preventing e-mail marketing success in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2018
Share of respondents who rated the following marketing channels as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ for ROI in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 and 2017Most effective marketing channels for ROI in the UK 2016-2017
Share of respondents who said that they used the following email marketing practices in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 to 2018Email marketing practices used in companies in the UK 2016-2018
What type of e-mail message helps you to achieve your email campaign goals?E-mail message types used for B2B and B2C marketing in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017
What type of email message helps you to achieve your email campaign goals?E-mail message types used to achieve email campaign goals in the UK 2018
How would you rate your company’s overall level of competence in e-mail marketing?E-mail marketing competence of businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) 2011-2018
Reasons for subscribing to e-mails from brands and companies among internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017Reasons for subscribing to e-mails from brands/companies in the UK 2015-2017
Actions taken by the consumers upon receiving an interesing promotional email in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017Actions taken by UK consumers when receiving an interesting marketing email 2011-2017
Share of interesting or relevant marketing emails according to consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) between 2011 and 2017Share of interesting marketing emails according to consumers in the UK 2011-2017
Share of investment in digital marketing in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the consumer goods industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the ICT industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the transport & tourism industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the sports and recreation industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the community service industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the construction industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the textile and fashion industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Marketing spending of the business services industry in Spain in 2015, by segment
Growth rate of digital marketing investment in Spain 2011-2015
Growth of digital marketing investment in Spain 2010-2015, by segment
Marketing spending in Spain 2010-2015
Distribution of the marketing spending in Spain in 2015, by segment
Share of investment in advertising and communication in Spain in 2015, by segment
Growth of digital marketing investment in Spain 2010-2015, by industry
Content marketing: monthly investment of advertising companies in Spain 2016
Survey on digital marketing investments in SMEs in Finland 2016, by employee number
Content marketing types used in the United Kingdom (UK) 2014
Survey on digital marketing investments in SMEs in Finland 2016, by growth rate
Survey on digital marketing investments in SMEs in Finland 2016, by growth target
SME marketing in the U.S.
Digital marketing in the United Kingdom (UK)
Digital marketing in Italy
Digital marketing in Denmark
Digital marketing in Sweden
AI use in marketing
Marketing technology implementation
Marketing personalization
E-mail marketing in the United Kingdom (UK)
The Belgian CMO Marketing Survey 2018
Content Marketing in the UK 2018
US Public Libraries Marketing and Communications Landscape
Digital advertising expenditure in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by format (in million GBP)
E-mail marketing spending at UK companies from 2007 to 2018
E-mail marketing key performance indicators (KPIs) in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017
How much is the approximate return you get back for every pound spent on e-mail marketing?
Approximately what proportion of your total sales can you attribute to the e-mail marketing channel?
What percentage of your marketing budget is spent on e-mail?
Looking forward, how would you expect your company’s expenditure on e-mail to change?
E-mail marketing open rate historical trend in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017
E-mail marketing open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing click-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017
E-mail marketing click-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing click-through rate in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sector
E-mail marketing unsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017
Unsubscribe rates in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by industry sector
E-mail opens on mobile devices in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017
E-mail marketing unsubscribe-to-open rates in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017
How do you manage your e-mail marketing program?
How do you measure the success of email campaigns?
Which of the following stop you from achieving your e-mail marketing goals?
Share of respondents who rated the following marketing channels as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ for ROI in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 and 2017
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Which three areas of email marketing do you really need to focus on in the next year?
In what ways do you think that artificial intelligence could improve email marketing performance?
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From the following options, could you please tell us which, if any, your organisation invest in today, or has plans to use in the future?
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Total hydropower capacity in the Czechia 2008-2018
Total hydropower capacity in the Czechia from 2008 to 2018 (in megawatts)
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This statistic shows the total hydropower capacity in Czechia from 2008 to 2018. It shows that the total hydropower capacity has increased, reaching 2,261 megawatts in 2018. From 2008 to 2017, the total hydropower capacity increased 85 megawatts.
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I always feel slightly surprised to see the children so happy to be back at school. I quite enjoyed school when I was a pupil but I don’t remember looking forward to returning to lessons after the long summer holiday. I now find it uplifting to see how cheerful the children are to be back at St Faith’s with their friends and ready for the exciting challenges which a new academic year presents. Wednesday morning felt like one big reunion as the children, parents and staff greeted each other enthusiastically. As people scurried through the school gates, there was a real sense that we had all enjoyed a refreshing break and were pleased to be back with colleagues and friends and in to normal daily routines.
I hope you enjoyed a relaxing holiday and your child has settled in well to their new class. I extend a particularly warm welcome to the new pupils and their parents who joined the school this week; I trust that you are beginning to feel part of the St Faith’s community. As always, if there is any way we can help, please just ask.
STEAM Hub
It has been a very busy summer at St Faith’s. From the moment the marquee was dismantled after Speech Day, St Faith’s has been a hive of activity with hundreds of children enjoying the many activity courses and our support staff and external contractors working hard to ensure the school is fully prepared for the new term. Much of the work has focussed on the new glass atrium between the Keynes and Ashburton buildings, which has converted an outdoor corridor in to an indoor STEAM Hub. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Maths and the new indoor facility links these departments and creates a large space for inter-disciplinary projects. This summer, the new glass roof has been fitted and the indoor space created. Next summer, the Science laboratories will be extended and refurbished and the STEAM Hub completed. A ‘walk through’ film of the completed facility can be viewed via this link. There is still a little more work to be done over the next few weeks, but once the contractors have finished the first phase and their machinery and scaffolding is off site, we will see the full splendour of this new facility.
It is difficult to put in to words just how enriching the South Africa trip was. Two weeks of school visits, sight-seeing, sports matches, safaris, songs and sun made for a life-time experience that provided a real insight in to the beauty and diversity of this African nation. For the first time, the trip was open to all pupils in Years 7 and 8, music was an integral part of the itinerary, and parents and siblings came along too. Every single day was packed full of action. Typically, we would go to a special place of interest such as Robben Island or Capetown waterfront in the morning and then visit a school in the afternoon for a joint concert or to play sport. We went to six schools in total, some in townships, others in wealthy areas and in all of them, we were struck by the warmth and hospitality. The South Africans were great hosts and loved their barbecues!
The highlight of the trip was the two-day visit to Makukhanye, the township school in Jeffrey’s Bay we have been supporting for the past 14 years. On our arrival, Makukhanye held a large ‘welcome assembly’ at which the town Mayor and a representative from the Department of Education attended. It was wonderful to see how well our pupils and those of Makukhanye mixed and played together; sports matches were held but the special moments were the informal ones, when pupils, parents and staff of both schools just chatted, played and enjoyed each other’s company. I have to admit, I had underestimated the extent to which St Faith’s is helping Makukhanye. It was clear from the tour of the classrooms with the Headmaster, Mr Mbatane, that the funds we have raised have been put to great use and are really helping the school to thrive, despite the extremely difficult circumstances in which the staff and pupils have to work. I could go on but I won’t, suffice to say that the trip was a huge success, thanks to the outstanding leadership of Mr Johnson and the staff who assisted him, Mr Gorick and Miss Kennerley. Jane, my wife, was a little apprehensive about going but speak to her now, and she will tell you it was a trip of a lifetime. We had been to South Africa before but nothing prepared us for the deep, insightful and, at times, emotionally moving experience that this trip provided.
Along with Prince George (and my grandson!), this week was a milestone in the lives of our youngest pupils (and their parents) as they started school. It has been wonderful to see how well the Foundation children have settled in this week.
Playground Apparatus
Speaking of the Pre Prep, new playground apparatus has been erected on the Southfield lawn which is proving extremely popular! This has been purchased and built thanks to a substantial donation from the SFPA (St Faith’s Parents’ Association), so very many thanks to everyone who has supported recent SFPA events and made this possible.
Old Fidelian Reunion
The annual Old Fidelian (alumni) BBQ will take place this year on Friday 15 September, 6.00pm to 8.00pm in my garden (or house depending on the weather). There will be food, drink and live music by Fred’s House (the lead singer is our very own Vikki from the school office!). This is a free event, but we do need to have an idea of numbers. Old Fidelians should contact Kirstie Osborne on marketingintern@stfaiths.co.uk. So far, over 90 OFs, ranging from those who left the school last year to those who haven’t been back for over 50 years, have confirmed they will be joining us so it promises to be a great evening.
You may be interested to know that one of our nurses, Mrs Bryan, was mentioned by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on 19 July, as a result of her actions during the London Bridge terrorist attack. Mrs Bryan was in the area on the night of the incident and one of the first people at the scene who was able to provide support to the victims. As a result of her actions, Mrs Bryan was invited to the House of Commons but was unaware that she would be mentioned by the Prime Minister. This is the relevant extract from Hansard:
The Prime Minister “As we approach recess, I am sure that Members from all parties wish to thank the staff of the House for their dedication to our work here in what has been a particularly challenging year. We saw terrorists attack our democracy and our way of life—not just in the Westminster attack, but in the attacks at Manchester, Finsbury Park and London Bridge. It is thanks to the professionalism and bravery of people such as Elizabeth Bryan, an off-duty A&E nurse from Cambridgeshire who ran to help at the scene of the Borough Market attack and who is with us in the Gallery today—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear]—that these attacks will never succeed. We are united in defending the values that define.”
I could provide further comment but I trust you agree, this speaks for itself.
We are delighted to announce that the school has two teams participating in this year's Chariots of Fire in Cambridge...
Posted by St Faith's School on Friday, 8 September 2017
Aerial shots of School House, Pre Prep and Latham are now available on our website - click here to watch the video: https://t.co/iKpDkagnXZ pic.twitter.com/TlkxE3MMUd
— St Faith's Cambridge (@St_Faiths) August 23, 2017
Computer Science Competition
Cambridge Strings Day
Lymington Rushmere Holidays
Off Games Procedure
Late Stay - Pre Prep
Late Stay - Years 3-4
Surgery Times for Year 3 & 4
SFPA Scavenger Hunt
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National IAPS Athletics Finals
Cycling On Site
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by Leia Gomzi June 12, 2017, 5:20 pm in From The Editors, Travel
“The Daughter of the Baltic” – Helsinki, Finland
City of architectural brilliance, art galleries, parks, museums, shopping malls – all in all, an exciting and fun destination
Surrounded by the Baltic Sea and a vast archipelago, Helsinki, dubbed the “”Daughter of the Baltic,” is the largest and capital city of Finland located atop the tip of a peninsula, and on 315 islands connected by bridges.
Not surprisingly, the city bears a striking resemblance St. Petersburg of Russia as it was rebuilt by the Russian Tsars in 1812 and has been the Finnish capital ever since.
The best time to visit this great Nordic city of churches and museums, and much more, are the summer months when the sun hardly sets and the city is in perfect harmony with nature. It is as good a destination in winter if you love the snow and are a winter sports fanatic.
Helsinki boasts 11000 berths for boats and has vast expanses of fishing waters, home to more than sixty species of fish as well as other marine life. No wonder, recreational fishing is one of the favorite pastimes of young and old alike.
Some of the important islands that make up Helsinki are:
Korkeasaari – This Island is home to Finland’s biggest zoo
Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) – Site of 18th-century fortress and a UNESCO’s World Heritage site
Santahamina – The military island
Pihlajasaari – Summer spot for naturists and gays.
Landmarks and Tourist Attractions in Helsinki
Ateneum – Finnish National Museum of Art
The National Museum of Art, also known as Anteneum, is located in central Helsinki near the Helsinki Central Railway Station.
Formerly the Ateneum was also home to the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Designed by the Finnish architect, Carl Theodor Höijer, the awe-inspiring Ateneum was completed in 1887. It houses Finland’s finest and largest collections, by far, of historic and contemporary works of art by Finnish and foreign masters alike.
Hours: Open Tues- Fri 10 am to 6 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am to 5 pm, closed Mondays.
Admission: Adults 12 €, students & seniors 10 €, children under 18 years free
Address: Kaivotaku 2, Helsinki
Rock Church (Temppeliaukio Church)
Designed by architect brothers Timo Suomalainen and Tuomo Suomalainen, the Rock Church, as the name suggests, was shaped by hewing directly into solid rock on the Helsinki peninsula.
The underground interior of the church is lit by natural light entering through the glazed dome. The 13-meter-high dome is made of glass and copper sheets supported by concrete rib-like beams.
Hours: Vary
Admission: Free, except during concerts
Address: Lutherinkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki
Official site: http://www.helsinginkirkot.fi/en/churches/rock-church-temppeliaukio
Market Square (Kauppatori)
Market Square, located in the heart of Helsinki, is one of the most popular outdoor markets in northern Europe. It is a seasonal market bustling with frenzied activity from spring to fall.
During these months the square is choc-a-bloc with thronging shoppers, vendors selling their wares, and crowded outdoor cafés famous for local delicacies like “lihapiirakka,” Finnish for meat pastries, and a variety of other delectable treats.
There is a round-the-year ferry service linking the square to the fortress island, Suomenlinna, courtesy the Helsinki City Transport.
However, during the season even private players offer ferry cruises to Suomenlinna and other neighboring islands.
On the first Friday of every month, there is a display of American cars of yesteryears at the square. It is long standing tradition and anyone with an interest in old American cars can participate.
However, Market Square is most popular in early October as it marks the beginning of the annual Helsinki herring market or “silakkamarkkinat,” as the Finns call it.
Gallen-Kallela Museum
The Gallen-Kallela Museum was formerly the Gallen-Kallela house built in 1911-13 and was the residence and studio of the famous Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
The house was converted into the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961 and opened to the public in honor of the celebrated painter whose works, including paintings, graphics, and tools, are on display at the site.
The museum is located in Laajalahti Bay area in the eastern part of Helsinki and is easily accessible by car or on foot.
Hours: Open May 15 through August 31, 11 am to 6 pm; Sept 1 through May 14, Tues-Sat, 11 am to 4 pm; Sundays 11 am to 5 pm.
Admission: Adults 8€, seniors 6€, students and unemployed people 4€, under 18 free
Address: Gallen-Kallelan tie 27, FIN-02600 Espoo
Finlandia Hall
Designed by architect Alvar Aalto and by completed in 1971, the Finlandia Hall is a congress and event venue on the Töölö (Töölönlahti) Bay in central Helsinki.
Although the designs were completed in 1962, construction of the Finlandia Hall started in 1967 and lasted till 1971.
The formal inauguration took place on December 2, 1971, with performances by Aulis Sallinen’s Symphony (Opus 24), Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Meren tytär (‘Daughter of the Sea’), Sibelius’s violin concerto with Isaac Stern as the violin soloist of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Congress Wing was built in 1973-1975 with the design having been finalized in 1970 with further additions to the structure in 2011 to accommodate new exhibition and meeting facilities.
The building is owned by the City of Helsinki and in addition to being a venue for several world congresses and as a forum for the world’s top economic and political leaders, it is a popular attraction for tourists with thousands visiting the Hall every year.
The flexibility and versatility of the Finlandia Hall facilities make it an ideal venue for all types of events including small meetings, large international economic and political conferences, and concerts and other entertainment and public events.
Hietaniemi Area
Notable attractions of the Hietaniemi Area are:
Hietaniemi beach – it is the most popular beach in central Helsinki.
Hietaniemi Cemetery – Houses a large military section (military cemetery) for soldiers killed in action in the wars with the then Soviet Union and Hitler’s Germany including the tomb of the “unknown soldier” and Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim in the center of the military space.
The Artist’s Hill, the Finnish Guard cemetery and the Statesman’s Grove are the other sections of the Hietaniemi cemetery worthy of a mention – not to forget two Lutheran funerary chapels and a crematorium.
Rowing Stadium – built for the 1952 Olympics
Kayak and canoe rentals
Restaurants, soccer parks, and a public sauna
Seurasaari
The island district of Seurasaari in Helsinki lies east of the city center and is connected to the mainland by a footbridge.
The island mostly known for its Open-Air Museum has a good variety of wildlife, as well, mainly birds, but red squirrels and hares also flourish in the area.
Other places and landmarks deserving a visit if you happen to be touring Helsinki:
Mannerheimintie (Mannerheim Street)
Finnish National Museum (Kansallismuseo)
Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Central Park (Keskuspuisto)
Linnanmäki Amusement Park
Senate Square
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Low-cost moon mission puts India among lunar pioneers
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists work on various modules of lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 at ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru, India, June 12, 2019.
Image: REUTERS/Chris Thomas
India will step up the international space race on Monday when it launches a low-cost mission to become only the fourth country to land a probe on the moon.
Just five days before the 50th anniversary of man's first lunar landing, Chandrayaan-2 -- or Moon Chariot 2 -- will blast off from a tropical island off Andhra Pradesh state after a decade-long build-up.
The mission will also highlight how far space travel has advanced since Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind during the Apollo 11 mission.
India has spent about $140 million to get Chandrayaan-2 ready for the 384,400 kilometres (around 240,000 miles) trip from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre to the scheduled landing on the lunar South Pole on September 6.
The United States spent about $25 billion -- the equivalent of more than $100 billion in current prices -- on 15 Apollo missions, including the six that put Armstrong and other astronauts on the moon.
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And Russia -- the first country to land an unmanned moon rocket in 1966 -- spent more than $20 billion at today's values on lunar missions in the 1960s and 70s.
Spiced-up space race
Almost the entire Chandrayaan-2's orbiter, lander and rover have been designed and made in India.
India will use its most powerful rocket launcher, GSLV Mk III, to carry the 2.4 tonne orbiter, which has a mission life of about a year.
The spacecraft will carry the 1.4 tonne lander Vikram -- which in turn will take the 27-kilogramme (60-pound) rover Pragyan -- to a high plain between two craters on the lunar South Pole.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said Vikram's 15-minute final descent "will be the most terrifying moments as we have never undertaken such a complex mission".
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The solar-powered rover can travel up to 500 metres (yards) and is expected to work for one lunar day, the equivalent of 14 Earth days.
Sivan said the probe will be looking for signs of water and "a fossil record of the early solar system".
Despite the relatively small budget, the mission does raise questions about how funds are allocated when the country is still battling hunger and poverty.
But national pride is at stake: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to send a manned mission into orbit by 2022.
Most experts say the geo-strategic stakes are small -- but that India's low-cost model could win commercial satellite and orbiting deals.
"The fundamental question that we should ask ourselves in this context is not whether India should undertake such ambitious space ventures, but whether India can afford to ignore it," said K. Kasturirangan, a former ISRO chief.
India has to aim to be a leader in space, he added.
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, head of space policy at the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi think tank, said Chandrayaan-2 will enhance the nation's reputation "at a time when the global and particularly, the Asian space programmes are becoming increasingly competitive".
Amitabha Ghosh, a scientist for NASA's Rover mission to Mars, said the benefits of Chandrayaan-2 are huge, compared to its cost.
"A spacecraft mission of the complexity of Chandrayaan-2 conveys a message that India is capable of delivering on difficult technology development endeavours," said Ghosh.
However, some experts say anyone looking for a cheap ticket to space should think of the comfort on low-cost plane rides closer to Earth.
Scott Hubbard, a former top NASA researcher now with Stanford University, examined the cost-effectiveness of the Indian Mars orbiter against the American Maven mission.
Although both launched in 2013, Maven is estimated to have cost 10 times more, but India's Mangalyaan was only designed to last about a year.
"The US mission was required to last two years. That's a big difference in cost," said Hubbard. And Mangalyaan's payload was 15 kg, while Maven could carry 65 kg with more sophisticated instruments.
"So you get what you pay for," concluded Hubbard.
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Indian Grand Prix could be delayed
f1 may delay indian grand prix to make way for bahrain's return to the calendar
In another turn of events to the never-ending Bahrain saga, the Indian Grand Prix could be delayed by several weeks to help accommodate Bahrain as a way of placing the Grand Prix back onto the
calendar. The idea is that the race in India will be moved from October 30th and rescheduled on 4th December, which also happens to be Formula One season's finale. We would then see Bahrain slot inbetween South Korea and Abu Dhabi, which would lessen the logistics involved in trying to fit in a race with such short notice. We are still waiting on a decision to be made in a couple of weeks as to when or even if the Bahrain GP will return to this season's F1 and with the deadline approaching fast, it suggests to me that F1 chiefs want to get it all sorted before 3rd June rather than waiting to see the official outcome. Still no solid decisions have yet been made and as discussions between Ecclestone and the FIA go ahead the speculation is beginning to look more and more likely that we could see the race taking place in 2011.
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We’ve all seen someone on the roads that loves to step on the gas. Whether it’s because they’re in a hurry, want to show off to their friends or just like to take advantage of an empty road, it’s fair to say that many Brits take speed limits with a pinch of salt. This had us wondering (and worrying), just how fast are we really driving?
Win A Racy Royal Sten Do with TeamSport 23 March 2018 - 13:45
If you're getting married this year and called Harry and Meghan, you could be in luck.
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Portal / Road and railway underpass jacking solutions
In accordance with traditional systems, the execution of underpasses and structures under railroad tracks entails a series of determining factors and additional works that can lead to major setbacks during the railway operations.
The jacking method can be used to build and assemble the full structure out of the tracks platform. An excavation phase and a transport phase will then be required to place the structure in its final position.
The concept of this system is very simple and the railway system is not affected by additional processing times for the set-up of the structure at the site.
It is applicable to road and railway underpass jacking solutions.
Description of the process
Construction of the structure
The operation starts with the construction of the structure near the embankment where the jacking operations are going to be executed. The structure is built on a fully horizontal surface or sliding bed, which is covered with a polyethylene surface to prevent the adherence of concrete. Likewise, a series of lateral guides are built on the sliding bed to control the direction and movements of the caisson on the bed and the reaction wall that will be pushed by the hydraulic jacks.
Bracing of the track
The track must be braced before carrying out the jacking operations, with the use of special braces that can be used to form rail bundles, with enough resistance for trains to travel at a speed of 30 Km/h.
Introduction of manoeuvre beams
The next step involves supporting the tracks with very large metallic profiles that can transfer the efforts of the track to the caisson. These profiles are supported between the caisson and the terrain first, until the advance length is enough to make sure that only the caisson can be supported.
At this point, the manoeuvre beams are strapped to a cross girder, which is then strapped to a fixed point to prevent the relative displacement of the track.
This is a cyclical task that takes place before the launching activities. The terrain typology is fundamental to achieve different performances.
Oleodynamic launching
The structure is launched with hydraulic jacks. The plunger of the hydraulic jack thrusts backwards and it pushes the reaction wall, pushing the caisson forward.
The hydraulic jacks retract at the end of their travel and a metallic separating element is installed to act as support for the new hydraulic jack.
The cycle is repeated until the daily launching time has expired. Next, all metallic separating elements are removed to extend the reaction wall in a length equal to that pushed with the use of concrete pouring operations.
Finally, the cycle is repeated every day until the caisson is in its final position.
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Britain's gloomy weather boosts the brain, claim Australian scientists
Cheer up – Britain's gloomy weather may not be good for the soul but it's great for the mind, claim scientists in sunny Australia.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
4:35PM BST 17 Apr 2009
Psychologists have discovered that people performed better in memory tests when the weather was bad and they were feeling grumpy.
The research discovered that the worse the weather and the more depressed the individual, the sharper their brain.
The findings were made by the University of New South Wales School of Psychology. The team carried out the study by questioning shoppers at a Sydney store over two months.
They tested their memory and found that they recalled three times as much information when the weather was bad and they were feeling down.
Professor Joe Forgas, who led the research, said: "It seems counter-intuitive but a little bit of sadness is a good thing.
UK will enjoy 'barbecue summer'
"People performed much better on our memory test when the weather was unpleasant and they were in a slightly negative mood.
"On bright sunny days, when they were more likely to be happy and carefree, they flunked it."
The research mirrors previous research that showed that gloomy students received better grades than those that were happy.
In the latest tests, the researchers randomly placed 10 small ornamental objects on the checkout counter.
They included plastic animal figures, a toy cannon, a pink piggy bank and four small matchbox-sized vehicles, including a red London bus and a tractor.
On rainy days, sad music was played in the store. When it was bright and sunny, customers heard happy music. This was done to "further influence them towards negative or positive moods", the researchers said.
After their shopping, customers were asked how many of the objects they could remember.
During bad weather, they could recall three times as many items as those on sunny days. The results were published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
"They point to a growing body of evidence that the way people think, the quality of their judgements and the accuracy of their memory are all significantly influenced by positive and negative moods," the researchers said.
They concluded that "memory is far more accurate" on gloomy days.
Professor Forgas added: "More and more evidence from experiments like this is showing that mild, fleeting moods can have a profound yet subconscious influence on how people think and deal with information.
"Being happy tends to promote a thinking style that is less focused on our surroundings. In a positive mood we are more likely to make more snap judgments about people we meet. We are more forgetful and yet we are paradoxically far more likely to be overconfident that our recall is correct.
"Mild negative mood, in turn, tends to increase attention to our surroundings and produce a more careful, thorough thinking style.
"Accurately remembering mundane, everyday scenes is a difficult and demanding task, yet such memories can be of crucial importance in everyday life, as well as in forensic and legal practice.
"Surprisingly, the influence of mood states on the accuracy of real-life memories is still poorly understood."
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Scottish Politics
Lord Tebbit: 'When I shoot I imagine the bird is Cherie Blair'
Lord Tebbit may now be a cookery author but Peter Stanford finds that the Tory is not above stirring the political pot
Lord Tebbit with his wife, Margaret, in their kitchen Photo: LES WILSON
By Peter Stanford
8:00AM BST 15 Aug 2009
Norman Tebbit started going on shoots in the early 1980s at the suggestion of his wife. “She felt I needed something to think about other than politics,” he recalls.
He was at the height of his political powers — Secretary of State for Employment, Trade and Industry Secretary and finally chairman of the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher. But shooting didn’t quite work as the distraction that Margaret Tebbit had intended.
“If I’m having a bad day with the gun,” her husband confides with a schoolboy grin, “I tend to imagine the bird is Neil Kinnock, or more recently Cherie Blair, and my aim is guaranteed to improve.”
His hobby has, however, outlasted his front-line political career. Lord Tebbit, the former MP for Chingford, has become an unlikely recruit to the ranks of Nigella, Delia and Jamie with The Game Cook: A Rich Selection of My Unique Home Recipes.
He still makes himself heard on the political stage — as his swipe this week at David Cameron for “alienating” hard-core Tories showed — but is cooking a new career at 78? “I’m not aiming to make enough money to buy a football team, like Delia,” he replies.
It is not just his writing a cookbook that will raise eyebrows but his choice of game as a subject. In the 1980s, Tebbit was the “voice of Essex Man”, a symbol of the aspiring working classes. Game cooking is surely the preserve of the Old Etonians currently running the Conservative Party? “One of the things people worry about with game is that it is expensive,” he replies, slipping effortlessly into the role of cookery agony aunt, “but it isn’t, unless you want grouse or the prime cuts of venison. Most of my book is casserole cooking, and you can buy a good rabbit for less than £3.”
The whole project, he says, was prompted by a conversation with his local butcher. “I said to him one day, ‘Why do people pay more for a rubber-boned chicken from a supermarket than a good, honest pheasant?’ His reply was, ‘Well, most of them think a pheasant is hard to cook, and they are scared of taking it on.’”
Lord Tebbit agreed to write out a few of his favourite game recipes and leave them on the butcher’s counter. Sales of pheasant shot up.
From those photocopied sheets has come The Game Cook. The grandson of a butcher, Lord Tebbit started cooking as a young father, when he was off-duty as an airline pilot. The image of him as a prototype “new man” doesn’t sit easily with his Spitting Image puppet of a thug in a leather jacket.
However, The Game Cook also contains a generous helping of what Tebbit calls “mischief – even at my age”. So there are pot shots at Brussels bureaucracy – for trying to regulate the temperature at which game birds must be kept in a cooler; at fashionable free-range birds “confined to a yard outside its barn”; and a refusal to call a woman who fishes a “fisherperson”.
The passage of time has not mellowed Norman Tebbit’s iconoclastic tendencies. At least not much. His voice is gentler these days, and, as he describes in writing about his wife, Margaret, in the introduction to his book, their life was never the same after the IRA bomb attack on Brighton’s Grand Hotel on Oct 12, 1984 during the Tory party conference: “For the past 24 years, since Sinn Fein/IRA terrorists almost murdered us both and left her crippled, I have been the family cook – assisted by advice from the wheelchair.”
He left the Cabinet after the 1987 general election to spend more time with Margaret. Subsequent efforts failed to persuade him to return – even as a leadership candidate following the forced resignation of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. “I had made a promise to my wife,” he says simply and without emotion when I ask if he regrets not running for prime minister.
Much has changed since that IRA attack. How does Tebbit regard the terrorists who are now ministers at Stormont? “The only occasion I have written to a US president,” he says, “was when I wrote to George W Bush to suggest that while he was conducting a war on terror, it was a little incongruous to allow himself to be photographed in the company of Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness.”
His voice is calm but cold as he continues. “These days we are in the midst of a disgust-fest about the BNP, which I share. It is a socialist party with a whiff of racism, and that is pretty disgusting.
“But I find it hard to understand why people who stand next to convicted terrorists because they are members of Sinn Fein can’t find it in them even to be in the same room as a member of the BNP, which doesn’t have a terrorist wing.”
Mention of the BNP raises the spectre of Tebbit’s infamous “cricket test” – whether British citizens from ethnic minorities support, in a cricket match, England or their country of origin. Many have suggested the comment betrayed an innate racism. “It wasn’t about racism,” he scolds me. “It was about cultures and attitudes. Are you really of here or are you still of there?”
Since we have entered the domain of politics, it seems fair game to ask him about his attitude to Mr Cameron. Lord Tebbit recently ruffled Tory feathers by advising voters to back Ukip in the European elections.
“I think it is highly probable,” he says, “that David Cameron will become prime minister, but not inevitable.” He pauses, then: “I am not clear in my mind where he wants to lead. My only hope is that his famous remark that he saw himself as the heir to Blair will not be borne out.”
He worries, too, that an incoming Cameron administration will be short on experience. “It will be a hell of a challenge,” he says, “and the Civil Service is no longer as good as when I was in government.”
He is not volunteering to come out of political retirement to do a bit of mentoring. As his new book makes clear, it is the heat of a real kitchen he prefers these days.
::The Game Cook: A Rich Selection of My Unique Home Recipes is available from Telegraph Books at £12.99 + £1.25 p&p. To order, call 0844 871 1515 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
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