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How the Bolsheviks sold Russia's treasures
By Marcus Warren in Moscow
12:00AM GMT 08 Dec 2000
THE sorry story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin's efforts to fill the coffers of the first communist state by selling off Russia's art treasures is told in shocking detail by a book released last week in Moscow.
Poussin's Birth of Venus Click to enlarge
The Bolsheviks first looted the churches. Then they sold the imperial family's crowns, tiaras, necklaces and Faberge eggs. Finally they helped themselves to Old Masters hanging in the Hermitage museum.
The world's oldest edition of the New Testament, the contents of whole palaces, icons and Impressionist masterpieces were also part of the booty the Bolsheviks put on the international art market in the 1920s and 1930s. However, a slump in demand for antiques and art ensured that, despite the rarity of the items on offer, the Soviet Union received a derisory sum from the sales.
Nicolas Iljine, one of the editors of the book, Selling Russia's Treasures, said: "It was ludicrous. They sold all these treasures to buy tractors but it made almost no difference to the state's budget." Among the curios snapped up by Western collectors were the Russian Empress's wedding crown, paintings by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Cranach the Elder, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Poussin and Degas and icons from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Last Tsar to be made a saint
Jewels of Catherine the Great for auction
Treasures of state - from Russia with armed guard
The British Museum gained the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century parchment manuscript of the Gospels discovered on Mount Sinai, and Faberge eggs bought from the Soviet Union found their way into the Royal Family's collections. One, a mosaic Easter egg made of platinum, gold, diamonds, rubies and emeralds, contains an enamel medallion with the profiles of the last Tsar's wife and children, executed in 1918.
Russia's culture minister, Mikhail Shvydkoi, used the book's launch last week to attack today's generation of communists, still a major force in national politics, accusing them of hypocrisy. He said: "Those politicians who see themselves as descendants of the party which sold these treasures abroad are especially jealous of the title of defenders of the national inheritance. This book destroys that myth."
The sales have been documented in academic monographs but the book is the first to attempt an overview of the subject. Many of the paintings removed from the Hermitage and sold in the 1930s were originally bought for Catherine the Great, Tsar Alexander I and other Russian collectors. Some spent only decades in Russia before returning to the West.
Mr Shvydkoi said: "Sometimes I think that the Bolsheviks were consciously taking revenge on the imperial family. These sales in the 1930s were economically senseless." At first, communist leaders justified their looting of churches by arguing that priests should help to pay for relieving the famine that hit Russia after the revolution.
In private, however, Lenin demanded that the famine be exploited "to smash the enemy's head in", weakening the power of religion over the masses for decades to come. Trotsky was impatient for the sale of art treasures abroad to begin, concerned that the imminent outbreak of revolution in Western Europe would depress the antiques market.
In their haste for profit from the Church property, officials had gold icon cases melted down and picked clean of their jewels when the items would have fetched much more money had they been sold undamaged. Codex Sinaiticus ended up in Britain only thanks to the quick thinking of a visiting bookbuyer who spotted it in a Moscow library. He told his Soviet minder: "If you don't need it here, I can get a good price for it in London," .
The most spectacular episode in the sell-off was the rape of the Hermitage museum in Leningrad. Some of its most valuable canvasses were sold in secret to Western art collectors. The oil tycoon, Calouste Gulbenkian, a naturalised British citizen, thought he could negotiate a monopoly on the purchase of Old Masters from the Soviet Union.
However, he was soon sidelined by Andrew Mellon, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, who saw no inconsistency in publicly opposing trade with the Soviet Union but privately buying up 25 masterpieces from the Hermitage. His buying spree only came to light when he was accused of tax evasion in 1934. Most of the paintings sold to him by the Soviets were eventually left to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Armand Hammer, the Soviet Union's favourite capitalist, was also used as a middleman, selling antiques on behalf of Moscow in American department stores. He remained popular with the Soviet regime, and was given a Malevich painting in the 1970s. He sold it for one million German marks soon afterwards.
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A Star-Making Performance
Mesmer, the story of an eighteenth-century healer, still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. But Alan Rickman's acting in the title role is inspired.
Lloyd Rose
February 1998 Issue
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The late Dennis Potter (Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective) was something of an artistic specialist in nasty ironies, so it makes a bitter kind of sense that Mesmer, the movie of the last of his screenplays to be produced before he died, should be the victim of one. The lead, Alan Rickman, gives the star-making performance to blanch out once and for all his reputation as primarily a great screen villain (the elegant terrorist in Die Hard, the lethally tantrummy Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves). The director, Roger Spottiswoode, has achieved Hollywood commercial coronation with the latest James Bond movie, but Mesmer is arguably his greatest film. The screenplay is a far finer memorial to Potter than the two teleplays Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (shown here on cable last June), which, knowing he was dying as he wrote them, he intended to stand as his epitaph. But you can't see the film in this country.
Or in Potter, Rickman, and Spottiswoode's home country of England, or, indeed, anywhere except in Canada, where it won Rickman the Best Actor prize when it was screened at the 1994 Montreal Film Festival. Legal squabbles over the finished film have held up its distribution elsewhere and ensured that this hermetic, difficult, willfully underdramatized and peculiarly brilliant movie—a masterpiece in its way—remains almost unknown. Surely some innovative U. S. distributor can be persuaded to free Mesmer from its Canadian captivity. If the intrinsic merit of the film is not argument enough for it, then the performance turned in by Alan Rickman, an actor with a big small public, should allay qualms about ticket sales, at least in U. S. art houses.
Potter died, in 1994, of pancreatic cancer (in his last television interview he swigged liquid morphine from a flask), but the disease that tormented, humiliated, and defined him was psoriatic arthropathy. Potter fans will be familiar with this unsavory combination of flaking skin and aching joints from The Singing Detective, to whose novelist hero Potter gave the same symptoms. When he wasn't having hallucinations in which his doctors and acquaintances lipsynced to popular songs from the past, Marlow (Michael Gambon) lay in his hospital-ward bed, spiteful and ashamed, and spit bile at the world.
The Singing Detective had a Freudian happy ending, and Mesmer has a Freudian unhappy ending, but that's about all that links them. Even among Potter's odd later works Mesmer is an oddity. It's set in the eighteenth century rather than the grungy present; its hero is an aristocrat (if only by marriage) and a doctor rather than a patient; there's almost no humor, black or otherwise; nobody bursts into song. Still, we hear the voice of Marlow, and of Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney plays, in what must be a deliberate mordant pun, Potter's Feeld) from Karaoke, and of Potter himself, when Mesmer muses on "our inner rage at sickness."
The historical Franz Anton Mesmer appears to have been one of those intriguing premodern types that were half crank and half genius. (Newton, when he wasn't working out the laws of physical reality, practiced alchemy.) He thought he had found in the body a mysterious magnetic force that could be rebalanced from illness to health, and in fact he may have been on to something: recent medical research indicates that in some cases magnets can relieve pain in post-polio patients. But he is credited with discovering the use of hypnotism as a therapeutic tool. Where his contemporaries purged and leeched, he played the glass harmonica (actually a keyboard instrument with water jars instead of strings) to soothe his patients, murmured suggestions to them, stroked their auras. Apparently he had both the commanding personality and the hypnotic talent to effect at least some temporary psychological change. Mesmer was histrionic, vain, and given to braggadocio, but he seems never to have been a complete fraud. (An examining panel that included Benjamin Franklin concluded that "some great force acts upon and masters the patients [and] appears to reside in the magnetiser.") To his peers in the medical establishment, however, Mesmer was an opportunist and a fake, and they got him thrown out of Vienna. Fetching up at the court of Louis XVI, he not only kept his head through the French Revolution but finished out his days on a pension from Napoleon.
This wily survivor is not the man Potter was interested in. He wanted to tell the story of an innovative genius misunderstood and persecuted. This is an old story, much beloved of Hollywood, and Mesmer would be trivial, familiar stuff if Potter, Spottiswoode, and Rickman didn't keep turning the cliches inside out. On the surface Mesmer is about its scorned hero's cure of a beautiful young woman (Amanda Ooms) who has been blind for fifteen years. Her father, it turns out, has been sexually assaulting her, but Mesmer works what can only, in spite of its discretion, be called an erotic cure—talking caressingly to her and even stroking her—and her sight returns. She just hadn't wanted to see!
At this point moviegoers may find themselves thinking of John Huston's Freud, in which Montgomery Clift, eyes popping with the strain of looking for the truth, struggles against the prejudices of a later Vienna. Freud is a formulaic triumph tale: the pioneering psychoanalyst wins in the end because truth is on his side-and not only truth but science. Oddly, in view of his reputation, Freud is held up in the movie as a champion of the scientific method. He is superior to his fellows because he has the courage to follow the evidence wherever it leads, whereas they fall by the wayside, struck down by their own prejudices and fears. Mesmer stands the formula on its head. The audience is still meant to be on the hero's side (we're cued by the fact that Mesmer is the only doctor in the film who shows any compassion for suffering). But now science and rationality are the enemies.
The past few years have seen the release of two other films that deal with medicine in the eighteenth century, Kenneth Branagh's remake of Frankenstein and the Alan Bennett-scripted The Madness of King George. With Mesmer they form a sort of AIDS-era trilogy about purging and bloodshed and awful experiments that torture where they're meant to cure. (Eighteenth-century medical practices were so horrific that one book on the subject is titled The Age of Agony.) The 1931 (still the best) Frankenstein movie came out of a reaction against the First World War—the frightful battlefield mutilations that, with improved surgical techniques, men now survived; the sense that technology had betrayed society; outrage at the carnage to which the smug social and political ideas of the nineteenth century had led. Like the rulers of Europe, Dr. Frankenstein wanted to play God—and the moviemakers punished him for it (in the film's original ending the monster killed him). But in the 1994 film Branagh's doctor is a Promethean figure, willing to go to any lengths to ease suffering, though in spite of his idealism, he destroys what he means to help. The Madness of King George takes the patient's point of view rather than the doctor's, as the poor, gentle King is tormented by a bunch of quacks who not only have no idea what his illness is (it is now thought to have been porphyria rather than psychosis) but have a fine old time subjecting his body to various painful humiliations. Bennett's script is strange, with a creepy sadomasochistic undercurrent. But it speaks to anyone who has ever thought his doctor was a fool.
Potter must have been at the top of that list. There is something particularly humiliating about a persistent disease that not only lacks the decency to kill the patient but has embarrassing symptoms as well. Any illness strips away dignity, but a nonfatal, messy one finally denies the sufferer any sympathy. He becomes a bore. His doctor is the only person he can possibly hope to talk frankly to, and all the doctor does is come up with one remedy after another that doesn't work.
To the patient, his sickness is a narrative—it has a beginning, a middle, and (he hopes) an end; recurring characters; moral tests; mood and suspense; mystery and drama. Unfortunately, this rich story is incommunicable. Doctors and friends who ask to hear it aren't quite able to; they make up their own stories in its place. In the end illness is a secret that will not be told. Not for nothing did Virginia Woolf call her (psychological) disease “the dumb horror.”
Spottiswoode and his production designer, Jan Schlubach, create a subtly unsettling eighteenth century. It takes a while to figure out, among all the sumptuous clothes and huge, beautiful houses, exactly what is striking the wrong note. Finally you realize it's that nearly all the interiors seem stained—walls are dirty white, wan gold, body-fluid yellow. Everything's the color of old, soiled bandages, and the light in the high-ceilinged rooms is muted, as if by some miasma. The whole civilization is diseased. There are very few bright colors in Mesmer, and these are almost always the natural green of leaves or lawns. In one of our first views of Mesmer, he is scurrying along in a little garden maze of dark-green boxwood, struggling to explain his theories to an indifferent fellow physician.
“Superstition and religious enthusiasm have been purged from the Queen of Sciences,” his associate tells Mesmer. Mesmer pouts; he sighs; he rallies round and insists grandly, "I have made a discovery that will lift pain, misery, and disharmony from our burdened frames." Rickman is always a strong screen presence, but he's hard to classify. You can relegate most actors either to the string section or to the brass, but Rickman somehow combines a dark, sonorous tone with something haunting and faraway, as if he'd mixed a cello with a French horn. His specialty is fusing opposing traits: he's mannered yet honest, too much yet reserved, bored and curious, high-strung and animal-still. This sort of complexity isn't always useful to an actor, but it's invaluable in roles that call for genius or mysticism. And certainly Rickman has all the equipment required to play Mesmer: charisma, intelligence, sensuality, pride, and what one critic called “the face of a Magus”—anachronistic features that make him look at home in an earlier century. (He made his reputation in a play with an eighteenth-century setting, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.)
Rickman has spent the bulk of his movie career being brilliant in supporting parts that don't need brilliance; he must have realized the opportunity he had in the role of Mesmer, because he tears into it. He's not just brilliant here; he's great, bold to the point of folly: the performance constantly—breathtakingly—flirts with the overwrought and the ludicrous. Rickman keeps making outrageous choices and forcing the audience to believe them through sheer force of personality. And yet, beneath the arrogance and theatricality there's something artistically modest, almost shy. The purpose of acting isn't display but to “give it away,” Rickman once told an interviewer. “Throw it to the audience. Catch!” This generosity edges his extremes with grace and makes them work.
In some ways the genius-charlatan-shaman Mesmer is similar to the role of Rasputin, for which Rickman won an Emmy in 1996. But Rasputin was a primitive, and Rickman wasn't able to use one of his most valuable assets, his feral wit. He doesn't use it enough in Mesmer either, actually (he really should get the chance to do more comedy), but at least he gets to demonstrate the confusion that can assail a man of sophisticated intelligence. He keeps flipping the character over, from sardonic superiority to clumsy bewilderment, from pompous dramatizing to defeated weariness, from the showy to the withdrawn. Mesmer is never able to settle into one attitude, because wherever he finds himself, the key to ending suffering is somewhere else. He often appears to be listening, as if trying to discern beneath the racket of the commonplace some melody that sings of health.
This Mesmer—the creature of Potter and Spottiswoode as well as of Rickman—is an intuitive groping through a world of barren rationality. It's easy to get soft-minded about this approach to medicine and end up in some New Age intellectual spa where feeling is everything and only the quacks survive. But the movie undercuts its own sentimentality. As written, Mesmer fails at everything, even being a scam artist, and Rickman and Spottiswoode have given the character a painful, thwarted quality. He has some sense of the truth, but he's living in a culture that provides no way to tell it except the suspect language of the mountebank or the mystic. Rickman is an almost fiendishly articulate actor, but he convinces you that fundamentally, where it most matters to him, Mesmer is without words.
In one scene an unsympathetic Mesmer is engaged to cure a young aristocrat: when the man opens his mouth, he reveals that his problem is that he has a voice like a Munchkin. Mesmer is simultaneously Oz the Great and Terrible and the little man behind the curtain, half doubting his own tricks, half believing they're not tricks. Rickman handles this aspect of the character so subtly that it's almost impossible to tell what Mesmer actually thinks of himself. As originally released, the movie contained a scene that answered the question: we saw the boy Mesmer alone on top of a crag, his ear pressed to the earth, listening as if it were possible to eavesdrop on the secrets of the universe. Those familiar with Potter's work will recognize the image as a twin of the scene in The Singing Detective in which the young Marlow sits high up in a tree in an Edenic forest, just about to spy in the distance his adulterous mother and her lover, and tumble into the world of sin. In their wisdom, the editors of the video version of Mesmer have removed this scene (you get a passing glimpse of the boy), and along with it a good chunk of the film's comprehensibility.
This stupidity probably wouldn't have surprised Potter. As a screenwriter, he must have learned that even if he succeeded in getting his story on paper in a way that bore some connection to how he imagined it, he still had to watch out that no one "improved" it into being even further away from what he wanted to say. But the director of this movie is on Potter's side. Spottiswoode has understood that Mesmer is both Potter the artist and Potter the patient, the man struggling to tell a story, whose art is finally his illness, and whose illness is art.
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Dallas Schools Spent Over $2 Million in Three Years to Settle School Bus Accident Claims
Records obtained by NBC 5 in Dallas show that Dallas County Schools has spent over $2.3 million settling hundreds of claims involving Dallas school bus accidents over the past three years. The settlements ranged from small amounts for fender benders all the way to larger settlements for accidents resulting in injuries.
In 2014, the settlement payments were almost $500,000, which increased to $1.3 million in the first 10 months of 2016. These settlements are only one expense related to the school bus accidents. Dallas County Schools has spent another $1.3 million for collision repairs to its buses at local body shops since 2014.
Dallas County Schools responded by stating that although there have been 680 claims over three years, it does not mean there were 680 accidents involving school buses. In some accidents, multiple parties filed a claim. The school system claims that about half of the accidents involving its buses are the fault of another driver. In addition, officials allege that they choose to self-insure the fleet of buses, which saves taxpayers $1 million in insurance premiums every year.
The school system has a responsibility to children, other drivers on the roads, and taxpayers to take careful action in hiring and training bus drivers. When a school bus is involved in an accident and another individual is hurt, that person can sue the school system for damages, including medical expenses, lost wages, pain, and suffering, and more.
If you have been injured in a school bus accident involving a Dallas school bus, you need to speak with an attorney who can help you recover compensation for your damages. Call the Dallas school bus accident attorneys at the Barber Law Firm at 972-231-5800. Our team can help. Call us today to learn more or to schedule a free consultation.
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People walk past Google's UK headquarters in London on Nov. 1, 2018. (Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)
Google is surreptitiously pushing its political agenda onto its users through its products in an effort that one employee described as “preventing the next Trump situation.”
The company has cloaked its political agenda in the veneer of “fairness,” but in reality, it means promoting the company’s political worldview at the expense of others’. It also is raising voices of those aligned with its worldview at the expense of those that oppose it, or that just aren’t aligned with it enough, according to internal documents obtained and employees speaking out or being caught on hidden camera by Project Veritas.
“They are a highly biased political machine that is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again,” said one Google employee, who wished to remain anonymous and spoke on camera with his likeness not shown and his voice disguised.
Google, the world’s largest internet company with some 100,000 employees and more than $130 billion in annual revenue, has long been accused of channeling the politics of its mostly left-leaning workforce into its products, which the company has repeatedly denied.
The latest revelations, however, depict a company that has expended substantial effort in putting its thumb on the political scales after the 2016 election.
“Right after Donald Trump won the election in 2016, the company did a complete 180 in what they thought was important,” the insider said.
Blaming Trump’s success on “hate and misogyny and racism,” the company decided to “fix” it and went on to diverge from its previous values of “self-expression and giving everyone a voice,” he said.
“They’re like … ‘We need to start policing our users, because we don’t want to have an outcome like that, we don’t want to have an outcome like that to happen again.’”
A similar sentiment was expressed by Jen Gennai, head of Google’s Responsible Innovation, who was caught on hidden camera by a Project Veritas reporter several weeks ago.
“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’ve rapidly been like, ‘What happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again?’” she said.
Gennai said that she used to work for Google’s Trust and Safety team and that the 2020 presidential election has been “top of mind” for the team. “They’ve been working on it since 2016, to make sure we’re ready for 2020,” she said.
None of this has been disclosed by Google to its users, many of whom still consider it an objective source of information, the insider said.
Google believes that by filtering, ranking, aggregating, or generating media through its products, its users are “programmed” to certain worldviews, an internal document suggests.
As it turned out, however, these worldviews are not always those preferred by the company. For example, when one searches on Google for “CEOs” the results would likely show a lot of pictures of men, because most CEOs are men. But that would be “algorithmic unfairness” according to an internal document, because “it would reinforce a stereotype about the role of women in leadership positions.”
In some such cases, “it may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state, via either product intervention or broader corporate responsibility efforts,” the document states.
On paper, “algorithmic unfairness” was defined by the company as “unjust or prejudicial treatment that is related to sensitive characteristics such as race, income, sexual orientation, or gender, though algorithmic systems or algorithmically aided decision-making.”
Since every person shares in such characteristics, the definition could make one believe that Google is simply trying to make sure it treats everybody fairly. But Gennai made clear her job was to bring “fairness” only to certain people, based on whether they belong to a group Google deems sufficiently “marginalized.”
“My definition of fairness and bias specifically talks about historically marginalized communities. And that’s who I care about. Communities who are in power and have traditionally been in power are not who I’m solving fairness for,” she was recorded as saying.
‘Re-bias’
The insider described a Google initiative called “ML Fairness,” the “ML” stands for machine learning. The existence and purpose of ML Fairness were confirmed by Google software engineer Gaurav Gite, who was recorded describing the initiative by a Project Veritas reporter.
It was set up to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that would put in place Google’s idea of “fairness” at scale.
Gennai appeared to confirm that Google is going even further, looking to its algorithms for a specific political outcome.
“We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” she said.
Algorithms are “trained” by being fed with sufficient quantities of properly classified data. If, for example, the AI is provided enough cat images classified as “a cat,” the machine will eventually learn to recognize almost any cat image, even one it hasn’t encountered before, as “a cat.”
But the insider said Google has been training its “fairness” algorithm to produce results that reflect the company’s political views instead.
“What they’re really saying about fairness is that they have to manipulate their search results so it gives them the political agenda that they want,” he said. “And so they have to re-bias their algorithms.”
In 2008, for instance, Google introduced the “search suggestions” function. Whenever one started to type into the Google search bar, an algorithm would draw upon signals such as the user’s previous searches, searches by users worldwide, sites in Google’s index, and ads in Google’s network to suggest search phrases that start with the text already typed in.
Now, however, the “fairness” algorithm causes the function to, at least sometimes, display results infused with Google’s preferred worldview, the insider said.
When one types in “men can” and makes a space, the suggestions would show phrases like: “men can have babies,” “men can get pregnant,” and “men can have periods.”
When one types in “women can” and makes a space, the suggestions would show phrases like: “women can vote,” “Women can do anything,” and “women can be drafted.”
This is not because these phrases are so popular among users, but because the “fairness” algorithm pulled them from so-called “sources of truth”—as it was intentionally “trained” to do, the insider said.
“They are feeding the information and training the AI so that it will return results like this,” he said.
Political bias in Google search results has likely already shifted massive numbers of undecided voters, according to voluminous research on the topic by Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, a California nonprofit.
“Maybe it is the most important issue that we’ve ever faced in this country for as long as it’s existed,” said Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe. “All the political advertising money spent in the entire world will not have the effect of this company modifying its algorithms.”
‘Fairness’ on YouTube
The “fairness” algorithm is used to promote Google’s agenda in multiple products, according to the insider, including Google News and video sharing platform YouTube, which Google owns.
He said that Google assigns categories to YouTube videos based on words uttered in the videos. The “fairness” algorithm then elevates or buries the content based on its alignment with Google’s political agenda.
Prager U videos and Dave Rubin’s videos were labeled “right-wing” and “news talk” and have received “heightened analysis” by an AI called Viacon, which, according to the insider, polices YouTube content. Prager U produces educational videos on conservative ideas. Rubin, who describes himself as a classical liberal, hosts a talk show where he says he tries to bridge ideological divides.
People who Google labels as “right-wing news commentators,” regardless of whether they self-identify as such, have their videos disadvantaged, the insider said, specifically mentioning Rubin, pro-Trump satirical channel Carpe Diem, center-left commentator and journalist Tim Pool, and conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder.
“They don’t want these opinions to have wide appeal and so they’re coming in and they’re putting their thumb down, and they’re deciding which content the users are allowed to see,” the insider said.
‘Fairness’ in Google News
Google’s preference for left-leaning sources in its Google News function has been repeatedly pointed out by various media and even by the president.
The Epoch Times on multiple dates tested the function by browsing Google News search results for the word “trump.” Every time, only about 3 to 5 percent of the articles featured on the first 10 pages of the results came from traditionally conservative-leaning media.
Google has maintained that it simply gives preference to more “credible” sources.
“We’re choosing what we define as credible news sources and those news sources don’t necessarily overlap with conservative sources,” Gennai said.
The insider said, however, that Google actually has an editorial agenda. It puts the news sources through the “fairness” algorithm and if one aligns with Google’s agenda, “it pops the top,” he said. “If it doesn’t, then it gets buried.”
One internal document, dated Nov. 27, 2017, put out a goal to “establish ‘single point of truth’ for definition of ‘news’ across Google products.”
“What they mean is alignment with the narrative,” the insider said, specifying that “the narrative is manufactured by establishment players.”
Refusing to Change
Google has been accused by Republican lawmakers of political bias in its products, but Gennai said the company is unresponsive to Congress’s criticism.
“They can pressure us, but we’re not changing,” she said.
And it’s not that the company is unaware that its “fairness” doctrine is far from universal.
“The same people who voted for the current president do not agree with our definition of fairness,” Gennai said.
In addition, Gennai appeared to consider Google’s political agenda as a justification to oppose the call from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to regulate Google along antitrust lines.
“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided,” Gennai said. “Like, that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”
Google didn’t respond to a request for comment, but its spokesperson previously said that “Google has never manipulated or modified the search results or content in any of its products to promote a particular political ideology.”
‘Watershed Moment’
Project Veritas has published accounts of multiple tech insiders who spoke of bias in platforms like Facebook and Pinterest. Some media have received insider information and internal documents on other forms of alleged malpractice at some of these companies, too.
O’Keefe called it a “watershed moment” saying a “number of insiders” already approached him in the prior 24 hours, showing the tech companies are “in serious trouble.”
“They’re really about to get a deluge of insiders,” he said.
He didn’t want to diminish the significance of the latest revelations by foreshadowing the next ones, but confirmed there’s a lot more to come.
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Police Shooting and Killing Black Men? It’s Not the White House’s Problem, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says
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Mourners embrace as they leave a wake for Stephon Clark at the Boss Church on March 28, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif.
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On March 18, two police officers in Sacramento, Calif., shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of his grandparents’ home. It is not the first extrajudicial execution of a black man by police, and if there is no change soon, it likely won’t be the last. The nation is watching the aftermath of this shooting play out, and understandably, many of us have questions for both local and national government leaders as to what—if anything—will be done to prevent something like this from happening again.
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Police in Sacramento, Calif., shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own backyard Sunday night …
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka Suckabee, was asked if the White House had any response to the public outcry for justice in the shootings of black men and women at the hands of police. Sanders said, “This is something that is a local matter, and that’s something that we feel should be left up to the local authorities at this point in time,” adding that the president is in full support of law enforcement officers.
It is incredibly troubling—but not at all surprising—that the president doesn’t find this issue important enough to address. Black bodies have never been anything more than utility for labor and abuse in this country.
We have always been seen as “less than.”
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Donald Trump’s appointed attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has gone out of his way to make it evident that he cares more about the protection of law enforcement officers than he does about the people they are tasked to “police.”
The fact is, every single American, regardless of race, color or creed, should be concerned about the current state of affairs where all an officer has to say is “I was afraid for my life” in order to be exonerated in a killing.
There needs to be a federal investigation into every police shooting like this, but that won’t happen because our government simply doesn’t care. Black people are not important enough for it to make a big deal about these deaths.
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As Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said in a press release Wednesday:
For the White House to respond to the sadness and anger of millions of Americans as a “local matter” is the very height of immoral analysis. The White House’s statement is at best ignorant and at worst neglectfully dismissive. Families mourning the loss of loved ones in Sacramento, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, St. Paul, North Charleston, Staten Island, Baltimore, Tulsa and other communities would disagree with the White House’s assessment that this is a local matter. Studies have shown that black people are killed by police at rates disproportionate to our composition in the U.S. population. This is shameful and an international embarrassment.
Enough is enough. We are tired. We want justice.
I am not at all hopeful that we will get it, because neither the White House, the president, the attorney general nor our elected officials give a damn about back people.
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Home / Club Rugby / Sharks Sharks bring Jean-Luc du Preez back for second loan stint along with twin brother Dan
Sharks Sharks bring Jean-Luc du Preez back for second loan stint along with twin brother Dan
Posted on 14th May 2019 by Adam Ellis in Club Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Latest News, Super Rugby
Sale Sharks have agreed a deal which will see Jean-Luc du Preez return to the club on loan during the 2019-20 season.
The Springboks international enjoyed an impressive spell at the AJ Bell Stadium earlier this season when he was signed as cover for England’s incumbent openside flanker Tom Curry.
And with Curry set to head to the World Cup this autumn, boss Steve Diamond has returned to the Cell-C Sharks to acquire the services of du Preez and his twin brother Dan on loan deals.
Back-rowers Jean-Luc and Dan will head back to Durban from Manchester early next year for the start of the 2020 Super Rugby season.
The agreement will bring the number of Du Preez at Sale to three after the club wrapped up a permanent move for fly-half Rob du Preez in February, who will join on a three-year contract.
Glad to have his plans for the Premiership club in place, following the announcement tighthead prop Coenie Oosthuizen had also said, Steve Diamond praised the abilities of the sizeable back-rowers.
“I am delighted to secure the services of both Jean-Luc and Daniel ahead of the 19/20 Gallagher Premiership, Both lads are huge men with a commanding physical presence and to be able to add two world class internationals to our forward pack for next year is a huge boost for the club. I look forward to welcoming both twins to Carrington later in the year.”
Jean-Luc and Daniel admitted they couldn’t wait to return to the UK along with brother Rob, he said:
“I’m really excited and honoured to announce that I will be joining Sale Sharks again. I really enjoyed my short stint with the club late last year, so much so that I have decided to sign another short-term contract in the UK. The club has set really high standards and the squad that has been built is really exciting and signals the clubs intent within the Gallagher Premiership.
“In the meantime, I am fully committed to the Cell-C Sharks and want to finish the season on a high before I head over to the UK for the winter.”
Twin Brother Dan added: “I’ve heard some really good things about the club from Rob and Jean-Luc and can’t wait to link up with Sale in the winter and play some rugby in the Gallagher Premiership with my brothers. I’m excited about the new challenge ahead in Manchester and can’t wait to test myself in one of the toughest leagues in the world.”
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By Malak El-Gonemy March 3, 2016
Trespass: ‘to enter someone’s land or property without permission.’ ‘to commit an offence against (a person or a set of rules)’
There is no doubt that Mark Thomas achieves both of these feats in his most recent show Trespass, which was came to The West Yorkshire Playhouse on the 23rd February. Those who are familiar with Thomas’s previous shows might describe his work as a mixture between comedy, journalism and politics; an amalgamation of a stand-up show and a political campaign. This balance is difficult to achieve, and Trespass often hangs precariously somewhere in the middle.
Thomas begins the show by discussing the notion of belonging and ownership, questioning the role of ‘the other’ in every day society and touching upon pertinent ideas about identity and the (literal and metaphorical) boundaries that are enforced upon us by the socio-political context we exist in. It’s an important issue, and I’m excited to see how he’ll expand on it. He spends the first half of the show asking members of the audience to shout out numbers between one and a hundred, subsequently identifying examples from his book, 100 Acts of Minor Dissent, which outline his own commitment to breaking these boundaries.
It’s a semi-interactive process, often interjected with slightly jarring comments at individual members of the audience; one woman was singled out and told to switch her phone off. Whilst there’s nothing wrong with him doing this (and of course it is entirely dependent on each individual show) the result is that you as an audience member are made to feel self-conscious and slightly on edge. I can understand why he adopts this unapologetic stance, perhaps rooted in his overarching desire to break down societal boundaries that are manifested between audience and performer – which I admire – but I found it slightly counter-productive in that it actually served to facilitate an atmosphere of self-consciousness as opposed to inclusiveness.
Having said this, as the show went on the atmosphere definitely changed. The second act is dedicated to Thomas discussing his experiences of actively fighting against the privatisation of public spaces for and with the community. His energy and vigour is catching, something which he demonstrates when showing us photos of the vast number of people who have been inspired to join in with his acts of trespass. He extends this invitation to the audience, and judging by the whoops and hollers he receives – many people will be taking him up on the offer! One of the reasons I think this half resonates more than the first is the fact that Thomas somewhat abandons his desire to be humorous; whilst audience interaction does often elicit laughter, often of the nervous kind, it is when he begins relaying experiences that are more empowering than funny that I think his performance is at its best and most honest.
Sometimes his demeanour and abrasive language is reflective of someone trying desperately to convince others of his viewpoint, which is understandable given the nature of what he is talking about, but it doesn’t seem like any convincing is necessary for the kind of audience that are gathered. Similarly, there are times where he seems to get a little ahead of himself, caught up in the passion and the clear belief he has in what he is saying, that the audience are lost along the way as he struggles to stay on one trail of thought. It is clear he has a lot to say, which is always better than not having enough, but perhaps the material could do with a little refinement.
What cannot be denied is that Thomas never once loses his drive and his conviction, leaving the theatre rife with talk of change and hope for the future, regardless of the individual beliefs within the audience. It is refreshing to see one man on stage, doing little more than talking, yet managing to capture the attention of hundreds via his constant endeavours to push and break the boundaries that urgently need pushing and breaking.
Mark Thomas is taking this vigorous, unapologetic show across the country and you can check out the tour dates and get further information here.
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Tagged with: comedy, dissent, Mark Thomas, one man show, politics, stand-up, theatre, Trespass, West Yorkshire Playhouse
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Biography of Thomas Edison
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Mary Bellis, known by some as CalmX, was an experimental artist, film director and producer, video game content creator, and freelance writer for some 18 years. She specialized in writing about inventors and inventions, in particular. Bellis died in March 2015.
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Edison was seven his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison lived here until he struck out on his own at the age of sixteen. Edison had very little formal education as a child, attending school only for a few months. He was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother, but was always a very curious child and taught himself much by reading on his own. This belief in self-improvement remained throughout his life.
Work as a Telegrapher
Edison began working at an early age, as most boys did at the time. At thirteen he took a job as a newsboy, selling newspapers and candy on the local railroad that ran through Port Huron to Detroit. He seems to have spent much of his free time reading scientific, and technical books, and also had the opportunity at this time to learn how to operate a telegraph. By the time he was sixteen, Edison was proficient enough to work as a telegrapher full time.
First Patent
The development of the telegraph was the first step in the communication revolution, and the telegraph industry expanded rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. This rapid growth gave Edison and others like him a chance to travel, see the country, and gain experience. Edison worked in a number of cities throughout the United States before arriving in Boston in 1868. Here Edison began to change his profession from telegrapher to inventor. He received his first patent on an electric vote recorder, a device intended for use by elected bodies such as Congress to speed the voting process. This invention was a commercial failure. Edison resolved that in the future he would only invent things that he was certain the public would want.
Marriage to Mary Stilwell
Edison moved to New York City in 1869. He continued to work on inventions related to the telegraph, and developed his first successful invention, an improved stock ticker called the "Universal Stock Printer". For this and some related inventions, Edison was paid $40,000. This gave Edison the money he needed to set up his first small laboratory and manufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey in 1871. During the next five years, Edison worked in Newark inventing and manufacturing devices that greatly improved the speed and efficiency of the telegraph. He also found time to get married to Mary Stilwell and start a family.
Move to Menlo Park
In 1876 Edison sold all his Newark manufacturing concerns and moved his family and staff of assistants to the small village of Menlo Park, twenty-five miles southwest of New York City. Edison established a new facility containing all the equipment necessary to work on any invention. This research and development laboratory was the first of its kind anywhere; the model for later, modern facilities such as Bell Laboratories, this is sometimes considered to be Edison's greatest invention. Here Edison began to change the world.
The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. The first machine that could record and reproduce sound created a sensation and brought Edison international fame. Edison toured the country with the tin foil phonograph and was invited to the White House to demonstrate it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in April 1878.
Edison next undertook his greatest challenge, the development of a practical incandescent, electric light. The idea of electric lighting was not new, and a number of people had worked on, and even developed forms of electric lighting. But up to that time, nothing had been developed that was remotely practical for home use. Edison's eventual achievement was inventing not just an incandescent electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light practical, safe, and economical.
Thomas Edison Founds an Industry Based on Electricity
After one and a half years of work, success was achieved when an incandescent lamp with a filament of carbonized sewing thread burned for thirteen and a half hours. The first public demonstration of the Edison's incandescent lighting system was in December 1879, when the Menlo Park laboratory complex was electrically lighted. Edison spent the next several years creating the electric industry. In September 1882, the first commercial power station, located on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan, went into operation providing light and power to customers in a one square mile area; the electric age had begun.
Fame & Wealth
The success of his electric light brought Edison to new heights of fame and wealth, as electricity spread around the world. Edison's various electric companies continued to grow until in 1889 they were brought together to form Edison General Electric. Despite the use of Edison in the company title however, Edison never controlled this company. The tremendous amount of capital needed to develop the incandescent lighting industry had necessitated the involvement of investment bankers such as J.P. Morgan. When Edison General Electric merged with its leading competitor Thompson-Houston in 1892, Edison was dropped from the name, and the company became simply General Electric.
Marriage to Mina Miller
This period of success was marred by the death of Edison's wife Mary in 1884. Edison's involvement in the business end of the electric industry had caused Edison to spend less time in Menlo Park. After Mary's death, Edison was there even less, living instead in New York City with his three children. A year later, while vacationing at a friends house in New England, Edison met Mina Miller and fell in love. The couple was married in February 1886 and moved to West Orange, New Jersey where Edison had purchased an estate, Glenmont, for his bride. Thomas Edison lived here with Mina until his death.
New Laboratory & Factories
When Edison moved to West Orange, he was doing experimental work in makeshift facilities in his electric lamp factory in nearby Harrison, New Jersey. A few months after his marriage, however, Edison decided to build a new laboratory in West Orange itself, less than a mile from his home. Edison possessed the both the resources and experience by this time to build, "the best equipped and largest laboratory extant and the facilities superior to any other for rapid and cheap development of an invention". The new laboratory complex consisting of five buildings opened in November 1887.
A three story main laboratory building contained a power plant, machine shops, stock rooms, experimental rooms and a large library. Four smaller one story buildings built perpendicular to the main building contained a physics lab, chemistry lab, metallurgy lab, pattern shop, and chemical storage. The large size of the laboratory not only allowed Edison to work on any sort of project, but also allowed him to work on as many as ten or twenty projects at once. Facilities were added to the laboratory or modified to meet Edison's changing needs as he continued to work in this complex until his death in 1931. Over the years, factories to manufacture Edison inventions were built around the laboratory. The entire laboratory and factory complex eventually covered more than twenty acres and employed 10,000 people at its peak during World War One (1914-1918).
After opening the new laboratory, Edison began to work on the phonograph again, having set the project aside to develop the electric light in the late 1870s. By the 1890s, Edison began to manufacture phonographs for both home, and business use. Like the electric light, Edison developed everything needed to have a phonograph work, including records to play, equipment to record the records, and equipment to manufacture the records and the machines. In the process of making the phonograph practical, Edison created the recording industry. The development and improvement of the phonograph was an ongoing project, continuing almost until Edison's death.
While working on the phonograph, Edison began working on a device that, "does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear", this was to become motion pictures. Edison first demonstrated motion pictures in 1891, and began commercial production of "movies" two years later in a peculiar looking structure, built on the laboratory grounds, known as the Black Maria.
Like the electric light and phonograph before it, Edison developed a complete system, developing everything needed to both film and show motion pictures. Edison's initial work in motion pictures was pioneering and original. However, many people became interested in this third new industry Edison created, and worked to further improve on Edison's early motion picture work. There were therefore many contributors to the swift development of motion pictures beyond the early work of Edison. By the late 1890s, a thriving new industry was firmly established, and by 1918 the industry had become so competitive that Edison got out of the movie business all together.
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By 1911, Thomas Edison had built a vast industrial operation in West Orange. Numerous factories had been built through the years around the original laboratory, and the staff of the entire complex had grown into the thousands. To better manage operations, Edison brought all the companies he had started to make his inventions together into one corporation, Thomas A. Edison Incorporated, with Edison as president and chairman.
In the 1915, Edison was asked to head the Naval Consulting Board. With the United States inching closer towards the involvement in World War One, the Naval Consulting Board was an attempt to organize the talents of the leading scientists and inventors in the United States for the benefit of the American armed forces. Edison favored preparedness, and accepted the appointment. The Board did not make a notable contribution to the final allied victory, but did serve as a precedent for future successful cooperation between scientists, inventors and the United States military. During the war, at age seventy, Edison spent several months on Long Island Sound in a borrowed navy vessel experimenting on techniques for detecting submarines.
Honoring a Lifetime of Achievement
Edison's role in life began to change from inventor and industrialist to cultural icon, a symbol of American ingenuity, and a real life Horatio Alger story. In 1928, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement, the United States Congress voted Edison a special Medal of Honor. In 1929 the nation celebrated the golden jubilee of the incandescent light. The celebration culminated at a banquet honoring Edison given by Henry Ford at Greenfield Village, Ford's new American history museum, which included a complete restoration of the Menlo Park Laboratory. Attendees included President Herbert Hoover and many of the leading American scientists and inventors.
The last experimental work of Edison's life was done at the request of Edison's good friends Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone in the late 1920s. They asked Edison to find an alternative source of rubber for use in automobile tires. The natural rubber used for tires up to that time came from the rubber tree, which does not grow in the United States. Crude rubber had to be imported and was becoming increasingly expensive. With his customary energy and thoroughness, Edison tested thousands of different plants to find a suitable substitute, eventually finding a type of Goldenrod weed that could produce enough rubber to be feasible. Edison was still working on this at the time of his death.
A Great Man Dies
During the last two years of his life Edison was in increasingly poor health. Edison spent more time away from the laboratory, working instead at Glenmont. Trips to the family vacation home in Fort Myers, Florida became longer. Edison was past eighty and suffering from a number of ailments. In August 1931 Edison collapsed at Glenmont. Essentially house bound from that point, Edison steadily declined until at 3:21 am on October 18, 1931 the great man died.
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Table 26 to offer locally sourced, American cuisine
Frank Lemos, his daughter Allison Lemos and grandson Hunter Lemos stand in one area of Table 26 where there is also a bar, banquet room and outdoor patio.
Updated: March 20, 2015, 6:41 p.m.
Table 26 will be opening its doors on Sunday and to say the new restaurant has transformed the former Sweet River Bar and Grill location would be an understatement.
The days of the franchised restaurant at 2660 Geer Road has given way to a modern space characterized by dark wood, brick walls and metal accents. The theme of Table 26 is “regionally sourced cuisine” but co-owner Frank Lemos said this concept extends beyond the food they will serve.
“We’re really tapping into our web of relationships to buy products to put on the table, but also in the way we went about redoing the space,” said Lemos.
Lemos’ partners are his wife Annette Lemos and the restaurant’s chef John Gardner. The trio partnered with friends in the construction industry, Manual Magallon and Paul Forgnone, who helped revamp the space to make the idea of Table 26 into a reality.
Annette worked with friend and interior specialist Rita Holt on the décor and a blend of rustic and polished accents can be seen in the repurposed wine barrels that accent the walls and the glassy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There is also a contemporary twist on cuisine with metal spoon décor pieces throughout the restaurant, including a fixture hanging from the ceiling.
While there is an emphasis on food and community at Table 26, Lemos said ultimately the restaurant’s success will depend on their ability to meet the needs of the community.
“The customers are going to decide who we are going to be,” said Lemos.
The capacity of Table 26 is upwards of 200 and in an effort to accommodate all types of patrons the owners portioned the space to include family-friendly dining, a bar, fine dining space, a banquet room and an outdoor patio complete with a fireplace.
“We want everyone to feel comfortable to come here for good food and superior service whether that is for a private party or a causal drink with a friend,” said Lemos.
By aiming to impart to customers a spirit of the Central Valley through their community driven and locally sourced American cuisine, Table 26 will be selling beer and wine from local breweries and wineries as well as using produce from local ranches.
“We’re promoting a locally driven concept and using our relationships with local farmers and growers to enhance their product through our unmatched food preparation and service,” said Lemos in August when the restaurant was announced.
The Lemos’ will also be growing some of the produce used at the restaurant and have plans to incorporate certified Angus beef from their dairy.
While soups, salads, and appetizers are available, heftier meals will focus on a range of proteins including different cuts of steak to fish, chicken and pork.
“At the end of the day our goal is to create a great dining experience,” said Lemos.
Table 26 will be open from 11 a.m. to midnight six days a week and closed on Tuesdays. This first week the restaurant will be open all seven days.
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John Wellington
Temple Tomb Fortress Ruin
January 25, 2017 – March 5, 2017
Opening Reception, Wednesday, January 25, 7pm – 9pm
John Wellington “Bathing Diana (with Guards),” 30 x 48 inches, oil on aluminum
The Lodge Gallery proudly presents Temple Tomb Fortress Ruin, a solo exhibition by acclaimed artist John Wellington. For decades, Wellington has harnessed a deep curiosity about the precarious state of our so called progress, addressing legends of lost worlds, passing empires, false prophets, unlikely heroes, and the allure of idolatry in the subject-matter of his work. Wellington’s compositions are rendered in a mythic and poetic vernacular and his worlds and images are loaded with layers of painted metaphor. These allegories are carefully refined through a visual alchemy that transforms objectified female figures into warriors and goddesses or spiritually enlightened beings into simple fallible men. Technically executed in the traditions of old master painters and inspired by religious icons, pop icons, cinema and global politics, there is a timeless relevance to his work that seems to be at once full of lessons from bygone generations and pre-cautious predictions of possible future worlds.
In this exhibition Wellington explores preconceptions of traditional masculine/feminine stereotypes and reimagines military style ruins as prized trophies and symbols of impenetrable psychological retreat. As the world enters into an period of enormous transformation and a new generation of dangerous demagogues have emerged to deliver promises of further political chaos around the globe, Wellington’s art seems all the more relevant and meaningful. In this context his work challenges the viewer to question preconceived notions of permanence and the complicated intersection of Eastern and Western cultural philosophy.
John Wellington’s paintings have been in numerous exhibitions and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Paris. In addition to exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Arnot Museum in New York, his work is in the permanent collection of many prominent institutions and private collections throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. Wellington has taught traditional painting techniques at The New York Academy of Art and privately in his atelier for two decades. He also lectures and teaches painting workshops across the county.
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US Wars and Military Action
Will Israel Sabotage US-Iran Diplomacy?
Obama needs to make it utterly clear that Netanyahu should avoid war.
By Bob Dreyfuss
The war of words between the United States and Iran is escalating, with much of it, as always, for domestic consumption—President Barack Obama against his hawkish Republican rivals, and various Iranians in competition within Iran’s fractured politics. Still, the bluster and toughened sanctions are worrisome. There’s little to no chance, practically zero, that the United States will attack Iran in 2012. But what’s worrisome is that Iran, feeling backed into a corner and under assault—the United States is threatening its lifeline by moving to cut off its oil exports and sanction its Central Bank’s transaction with financial institutions worldwide, while yet another of its nuclear scientists was assassinated this month—might lash out militarily or via terrorism of its own. Or Israel might decide to take matters into its own hands. In either case, it’s likely to lead to a full-fledged US-Iran war.
Strangely enough, it’s all happening just as it appears that talks between Iran and the P5+1 world powers might be restarting and it appears that a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Iran later this month.
Like the Bush administration before it, the Obama administration is more than well aware of Israel’s ability to bomb some of Iran’s nuclear research sites. (Bush administration officials repeatedly warned Israel not to do so, and Obama’s team has done the same since 2009.) According to the January 14 Wall Street Journal,
U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict. President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have delivered a string of private messages to Israeli leaders warning about the dire consequences of a strike.
The Journal article notes that in response to US pleadings, the Israelis have been “noncommittal.”
Outrageous as it might be that Israel, a supposed ally, would refuse to cooperate openly with the United States on a matter of such grave importance, it also appears that Israel is openly seeking to sabotage the possibility of US-Iran negotiations. The latest assassination of an Iranian scientist in north Tehran, via a bomb attached to his automobile by a motorcycle-riding terrorist, came one day after the arrival of a top State Department official, Bill Burns, in Turkey, part of an attempt by the Obama administration to restart the long-stalled negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 world powers. The timing of that act, which provoked great anger in Iran, was probably calculated to inflame opinion so that diplomacy, once again, fails.
The United States did deny responsibility for the assassination outright, but it failed to condemn it in strong terms. If that’s because the United States is trying to handle its seemingly uncontrollable ally with kid gloves, that’s an enormous mistake. Terrorism is terrorism, and killing Iranian scientists, inserting computer worms in its control systems, and the explosion that killed one of its leading rocket experts in 2011 are clearly acts of war. If Obama thinks that he can tolerate such behavior by Israel, or worse, abet it, and then talk Israel out of bombing Iran, then he’s wrong.
As Laura Rozen reported for Yahoo, a large-scale set of military maneuvers between the United States and Israel, set for later this year, has been postponed or canceled. Though both sides downplay the cancellation, hopefully it’s intended as a message to the Israelis that they need to behave themselves.
Bob DreyfussBob Dreyfuss, a Nation contributing editor, is an independent investigative journalist who specializes in politics and national security.
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HSBC Mena profit falls on higher operating expenses
HSBC says Middle East North Africa profit fell 29.6 per cent in the fourth quarter as expenses rose.
HSBC follows many other banks in the region that have reported lacklustre earnings for the fourth quarter. Ravindranath K / The National
HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank by assets, said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit in the Middle East and North Africa dropped by 29.6 per cent as unspecified operating expenses outweighed gains in net interest income.
The bank also reported a steep global loss that sent its share price tumbling.
In the Mena region, profit before tax slipped to US$195 million in the three months to December 31, reversing a profit of $277m in the same quarter a year earlier.
Net interest income rose by 10.6 per cent to $426m in the latest fourth quarter compared with $385m in the corresponding period of 2015. The profit from lending to individuals rose 10.1 per cent to $163m in the quarter from $148m in the same time frame in 2015.
Operating expenses rose 24.4 per cent to $377m in the fourth quarter compared with $303m a year earlier.
This comes even as the bank’s chief executive, Stuart Gulliver, is battling to reduce expenses.
HSBC representatives were not immediately available to explain the reason for the sharp rise in Mena operating expenses.
HSBC follows many other banks in the region that have reported lacklustre earnings for the fourth quarter. The dramatic drop in the price of oil, which is down by half from its peak in the summer of 2014, has reduced the demand for loans and increased the level of debt defaults.
For all its business worldwide, HSBC reported a $3.4 billion pretax loss for the quarter. The bank blamed slowing growth in its core markets of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, while its adjusted profit fell $1.2bn short of analyst estimates. The lender said it would buy back $1bn of stock in the first half and signalled it may repurchase more later this year.
Besides trying to cut costs, Mr Gulliver is paring HSBC’s sprawling global footprint after five years of declining revenue.
The bank has increased its cost-cutting target by $1bn to $6bn of savings, while cautioning it faces more than $3bn of revenue headwinds in 2017, including currency movements and record-low interest rates in the UK. Executives also warned that the US president Donald Trump’s protectionist stance and Brexit could damage their business.
“We anticipate new challenges in 2017 from geopolitical developments, heightened trade barriers and regulatory uncertainty,” Mr Gulliver said.
The bank’s shares were down 6.9 per cent on Tuesday, their worst day since August 2015, and were trading at 662.50 pence at 12.50pm in London. Still, the shares have risen by about 46 per cent since the UK voted to leave the European Union on June 23, the most of any major European bank.
HSBC has now lost about $20bn of revenue since Mr Gulliver took over in 2011. Pretax profit on an adjusted basis, which excludes one-time items, jumped 39 per cent to $2.62bn in the fourth quarter, the bank said. That missed the $3.78bn average estimate of six analysts compiled by Bloomberg.
One bright spot for HSBC was that it joined its global peers in benefiting from the surge in fixed-income and currency trading last quarter. Adjusted pretax profit from the global banking and markets division, which houses the investment bank, almost doubled to $1.3bn.
mkassem@thenational.ae
* Additional reporting by Bloomberg
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Updated: February 21, 2017 04:00 AM
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WWF sets ambitious 100 per cent renewable energy goal
WWF says renewable energy presents the best opportunity for closing the gap between what science demands and what countries have committed to in terms of reducing CO2 emissions.
ABU DHABI // The World Wildlife Fund is urging the UAE to look beyond its Energy Plan 2050 and believes those ambitious goals can be surpassed by striving for 100 per cent renewable energy.
As part of its 100 per cent Renewable Energy Vision, the WWF – in association with Emirates Wildlife Society – is completing an assessment of the feasibility of 75 to 100 per cent levels of renewable power generation in the UAE by 2050.
“You look at the cost of solar and it keeps going down. The UAE is doing a very good job, but the world as a whole needs to commit more,” said Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, head of WWF International’s Climate and Energy Practice. “Right now, we are on track for 2.7°C global warming, so more needs to be done if we are to meet the Paris Agreement.”
The terms of the agreement were decided during the Conference of Parties 21, where 196 countries signed a legally binding contract to take action and reduce global warming to less than 2°C by 2050.
Mr Pulgar-Vidal said that renewable energy presents the best opportunity for closing the gap between what science demands and what countries have committed to in terms of reducing CO2 emissions.
He said the world’s energy system is in transition, driven by the demand for clean, sustainable energy, and the WWF believes that a world powered by 100 per cent renewables is possible by 2050.
“If we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we must limit global temperature rise to well below the 1.5°C threshold agreed to in Paris. To achieve that, we must significantly scale up the roll-out of renewable energy,” he said.
Tanzeed Alam, director of climate and energy at Emirates Wildlife Society-WWF, said: “The UAE is now uniquely positioned to push forward renewable energy innovation and has the opportunity to drive even greater ambition for renewables here and across the region,” he said.
Reaffirming the importance of cross-sector collaboration in support of the UAE’s goals, EWS-WWF is urging businesses and government entities to take action by partnering with it and fund its drive for 100 per cent use of renewables.
“Now is the opportune time to explore scaling up renewable energy and innovation and we’re inviting all entities looking to partner with us on this project to approach us throughout Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, at the World Future Energy Summit,” said Mr Alam.
EWS-WWF’s 100 per cent Renewable Energy Vision will highlight the environmental, economic, political and socially positive outcomes of the UAE’s commitment to a shift to renewable energy sources.
The analysis will also provide cross-sectoral short and long-term recommendations – on a federal and emirate level – that the UAE can realistically implement to reach these ambitious levels of renewable energy generation.
nalwasmi@thenational.ae
Updated: January 18, 2017 04:00 AM
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Natalie Sharp
Natalie Sharp has been working as a skin decorator since the age of 13. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally for the likes of The British Library, Philharmonie de Paris, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC and Channel 4 to name but a few. Her clients cover a very broad range including Vogue, Google and Sony.
Natalie’s work is always surreal and her training in fashion and music has led her to work with a roster of artists from the ground upwards. She has been described as “An iconic misfit of the first order” by Phyllis Cohen and continues to collaborate with esteemed photographers like Perou, receiving her initial training by Rankin.
Natalie’s work has achieved viral Internet success in the form of her self-painted images of album artwork, for International Record Store Day. This has put her on the global map and helped open up the art of face painting to an international audience.
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Frivolous Lawsuits Get too Much Publicity
Home / Injury Law / Frivolous Lawsuits Get too Much Publicity
The idea behind a lawsuit is to give a person who was wronged because of another person’s negligence away to get compensated. This can include suing manufacturers for putting dangerous products out on the market when they should’ve known better, suing motorists who are prone to driving dangerously and end up hurting or killing someone and suing employers who don’t take the safety of their employees seriously, among other things.
If you’re wondering whether you have a valid reason to sue, remember that frivolous lawsuits tend to get an awful lot of publicity that sometimes makes it seem like all lawsuits are frivolous. This is not at all the case.
Listverse gives an example of a classic frivolous lawsuit. In the 1990s, Anheuser-Busch was running commercials that involved a pair of women who appeared to people drinking Budweiser beer. According to the article, a Michigan man went out and got some Budweiser, drank it, and after two women didn’t show up, he filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch, claiming that they were engaging in false advertising. He asked for more than $10,000 in the lawsuit, which the court dismissed.
Another lawsuit listed on this article mirrors many other articles in describing a particular lawsuit that occurred in Albuquerque. A 79-year-old Albuquerque woman bought a cup of coffee from McDonald’s and, when she tried to add sugar to the drink, it’s spilled on her lap causing severe burns. She ended up getting $2.7 million in punitive damages, which was subsequently reduced to $600,000 in a settlement.
The second lawsuit, while it is often times cast as a prime example of a frivolous lawsuit, actually involved serious injury. The woman who was burned was burned because the coffee was unreasonably hot and she suffered severe damage to her legs and thighs due to the burns.
Finding frivolous lawsuits and holding them up as examples of what’s wrong with the legal system is a popular occupation among the chattering class. The fact is, if you have been injured by someone whose negligence directly contributed to that injury and who should be responsible for paying the bill, you have the civil courts to rely upon as a way to try to get compensated. The only person who can tell you whether or not a lawsuit you are curious about filing is frivolous is an attorney. Talk to an attorney and get their opinion on the matter before you believe the stereotypes.
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Questions and Answers About Criminal Charges
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May a magistrate order the person charged to return my property or pay for damages?
No. However, you may ask the court to order restitution if the defendant is found guilty.
When does a magistrate have authority to issue an arrest warrant or summons?
A magistrate is required to issue an arrest warrant or summons if he or she determines there is probable cause that the person charged committed a crime. “Probable cause” must be based on specific facts or evidence to establish a probability or substantial chance of criminal activity. However, probable cause does not require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. If a complainant is not a law enforcement officer, a magistrate may issue an arrest warrant for a felony only with prior authorization from the Commonwealth Attorney. The Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney normally authorizes issuance of a felony warrant only if there has been a police investigation into the charges. You may contact the Virginia Beach Police Detective Bureau at 385-4101 to request a police investigation.
How do I request that a magistrate issue an arrest warrant or summons?
A magistrate may not issue a criminal charge based on a phone call. You must appear in person before a magistrate and provide testimony or other evidence under oath. You must also submit a sworn written complaint. Although formal rules of evidence do not apply, you must provide sufficient evidence for the magistrate to determine that the evidence is reliable and establishes all elements of the alleged offense. You may be charged with perjury if you willfully provide false information under oath.
What happens after a magistrate issues an arrest warrant or summons?
The warrant or summons is sent to the primary law enforcement agency where the offense was committed. All warrants or summonses for offenses committed in Virginia Beach are forwarded to the Virginia Beach Police Department. The Magistrate’s Office does not retain copies or keep evidence. After service, the warrant or summons is forwarded to the appropriate court. The court then schedules the case for trial. The court has no record that a warrant or summons has been issued until after it is served and filed with the court. The Virginia Beach Police Department lists outstanding arrests warrants and summonses online at ePro Active Warrant Search. You may also contact the Virginia Beach Police Department if you believe a warrant or summons has been issued for you.
If you discover there is a warrant for your arrest, you may turn yourself in to the Virginia Beach Police Department. The Virginia Beach Sheriff Office also holds some warrants issued by the Virginia Beach General District Court. YOU MAY NOT TURN YOURSELF IN AT THE MAGISTRATE OFFICE.
What happens if I change my mind after a warrant or summons is issued?
A magistrate does not have authority to terminate a valid warrant or summons after it is issued. Only a court may formally dismiss a charge.
What is the difference between an arrest warrant and a summons?
An arrest warrant orders a law enforcement officer to physically arrest the person charged and take that person into custody. A summons requires the person to appear in court to answer the charges, but does not require that he or she be physically arrested. A magistrate may also issue an arrest warrant that permits the arresting officer to execute the warrant as a summons at his or her discretion.
Will I be required to appear at trial?
Yes. You will be asked to complete a subpoena request form when you appear in the magistrate office and the court will use the information on the subpoena request form to notify you when a trial date is set. You may also find case information on cases pending in a General District or Circuit Court on the Virginia Judicial System website. The Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney’s Office is not involved in prosecuting most misdemeanor offenses. You may contact the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office at 385-4401 to ask for prosecution assistance. When the case is called, you will be given an opportunity to present evidence to the court to prove that the offense was committed. If you do not appear for trial, the court may dismiss the charges or find the defendant not guilty. If the court finds the defendant not guilty or dismisses a charge with prejudice, he or she may not be tried again for the same offense. Additionally, the person charged may file a lawsuit against you if he or she is found not guilty or the charges are dismissed and you may be personally liable for damages.
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USADA looks forward to questions concerning its procedures
Tygart welcomes probe from California state senators over the agency's finances and processes
BOULDER, Colorado (VN) — The United States Anti-doping Agency is eager to answer questions regarding its practices, according to CEO Travis Tygart.
The agency finds itself amidst withering criticisms in light of its fight with Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour de France seven times between 1999 and 2005. Armstrong recently laid down arms in the quest to clear his name of doping allegations that span all his Tour wins, which USADA aims to strip from the Texan.
Twenty-three California state senators, led by elite amateur marathoner Michael J. Rubio — an athlete subject to USADA oversight — asked that that state’s U.S. senators request a review of the agency. The request comes on the heels of USADA’s actions against Armstrong, though the state senators’ request doesn’t name Armstrong specifically. Armstrong, along with his manager Johan Bruyneel, is accused of conducting a wide-ranging conspiracy to use, distribute and cover-up doping products and procedures between 1998 and 2010.
In a letter to United States Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, the state senators “respectfully request that (Feinstein and Boxer) call upon (that office) and the appropriate oversight committees of the United States Congress to develop appropriate constitutional protections and conduct a comprehensive review of USADA’s operations and finances, with special attention to USADA’s unilateral changes in rules for dealing with athletes who have never failed a drug test.”
To that, USADA says no problem.
“We look forward to answering any question these state representatives have about the congressionally mandated process that was approved by athletes, the United States Olympic Committee and all U.S. sport federations,” Tygart said.
The statement from USADA also points out that the system has been used in more than 400 cases, 20 percent of which have not seen positive tests. It also notes that a federal judge rejected Armstrong’s complaints and confirmed that the USADA process “provides full Constitutional due process to all athletes accused of doping violations.”
Armstrong had never been sanctioned previously for a failed doping test. VeloNews understands that evidence in USADA’s case file includes that of an alleged failed test at the 2001 Tour de Suisse and a collection of samples from the 1999 Tour de France that retroactively tested positive for EPO. Armstrong is the second high-profile athlete, along with track sprinter Marion Jones, to face USADA sanction without having registered an official positive test. Armstrong did fail a test for cortisone during the 1999 Tour de France, but produced a Therapeutic Use Exemption after the test.
Brian Holcombe contributed to this report.
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You are cordially invited to attend the Super Smash Bros. Invitational at E3 2014
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 14:03 GMT
The first-ever public tournament for Super Smash Bros. will take place during E3 and Nintendo has invited the public.
The Wii U tournament will take place on Tuesday, June 10, and 16 previously selected Super Smash Bros. players will take the stage
Nintendo expects thousands of spectators, but it will also be live-streamed on both Twitch’s E3 channel and Nintendo’s Twitch channel for those who are unable to attend E3.
Attendees who dress up as their favorite Super Smash Bros. character may be selected for priority seating at the front of the stage on which the tournament will occur. The best costumes might appear on Twitch or Nintendo’s YouTube channel.
Here are the details for Tuesday, June 10:
9:30 a.m.: Wristband distribution begins at NOKIA Plaza at L.A. LIVE, 777 Chick Hearn Court in Los Angeles. A wristband is required for entry, and 3,000 wristbands are available to Nintendo fans on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last. Fans are requested to not line up prior to Tuesday morning. Once a wristband is obtained, fans can leave the plaza area and then return later that day, closer to the start of the event. The order that wristbands are obtained in the morning does not impact the order of entry into the venue in the afternoon.
2:30 p.m.:Doors open
4 p.m.: Super Smash Bros. Invitational begins
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is scheduled to launch during the winter of 2014, while the Nintendo 3DS version is targeted for this summer.
For more information about the Super Smash Bros. Invitational, click here.
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by Jason Koebler
Dec 22 2017, 2:00pm
How Accurate Were Tom DeLonge's Alien Claims? An Investigation
I compared DeLonge's claims from two years ago with the New York Times's bombshell UFO report.
Image: Harmony Gerber/Getty
Last weekend the New York Times published a thrilling expose about a secret Department of Defense program dedicated to the investigation of unidentified flying objects. The report, coauthored by three Times journalists including two Pulitzer Prize winners, has on-the-record statements by the man who ran the program, videos of UFOs filmed by the Pentagon, and confirmation of its existence and purpose from former Senator Harry Reid, who earmarked $22 million for the program.
It also has tantalizing details about possible alien alloys in the possession of the Department of Defense that, as Deadspin notes, went curiously un-freaked-out about as America collectively ho-hummed at this truly wild revelation. I, too, was busy and realize this post is a bit late, but I don't want to live in a society in which the statute of limitations on possible extraterrestrials is less than a week.
As I read the Times story and listened to The Daily podcast interview with reporter Helene Cooper and Luis Elizondo, the man who headed the Pentagon program until he resigned earlier this year, I was struck by how similar the story is to one former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge told Motherboard on our podcast more than two years ago. DeLonge, you’ll remember, quit the band to focus on studying UFOs full-time. He was called a kook at the time, but much of his story checks out. DeLonge is credible enough that Elizondo and two other former DOD officials who worked on the program recently joined his To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is producing fiction and nonfiction books about UFOs.
I revisited our interview with DeLonge and compared it to the details that were included in the Times story to move a step closer to figuring out: How right is Tom DeLonge?
Tom DeLonge claim: The Department of Defense has a UFO program of some kind
Confirmed by the New York Times
DeLonge has always claimed that extraterrestrials and advanced flying technologies are under the purview of the Department of Defense; when we talked to him he mentioned “getting connected with one person who is of the highest level and rank in a very, very specific division of the Department of Defense. The program described by the Times is a DoD program.
Tom DeLonge claim: The Department of Defense has alien technology
Hinted at by the New York Times
Much of his first book, Chasing Shadows (which DeLonge calls “historical fiction”), is about secret government programs to recover, test, and ultimately build alien technology for use in warfare. When we asked him about that on our podcast, he said that part was true: “When they build a tech for the first time, they build it all in different locations, they assemble it at one location, and test it at another location,” DeLonge said. “When they operate it, they operate it at a different location.”
The Times notes that defense contractor Bigelow Aerospace “modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” Someone who worked on the program said that some of the technology was beyond our understanding: “We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” Harold Puthoff, who worked on the program, said. The Times report does not contain details about any attempts by the DOD to build or use alien technology.
Tom DeLonge claim: Abductions are real and have some sort of medical component
Not confirmed
DeLonge told us he has evidence people have been abducted: “When someone goes through what they don’t understand—what we call an abduction scenario and they see the medical tests—that is very very true. Dr. Roger Leir, there’s a surgeon—he removed over 11 implants from people.”
Motherboard recently reviewed a documentary about Leir, who died several years ago. His claims are disputed. The Times does not say people have been abducted by aliens but said the Pentagon program “also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with objects and examined them for physiological changes."
Tom DeLonge claim: The Pentagon doesn’t tell us about UFOs because they are dangerous
Suggested by Pentagon officials to the New York Times
DeLonge’s book Chasing Shadows is interesting because the government are the good guys, protecting us from the use of alien technology by foreign adversaries. DeLonge told us the government kept this secret from us for our safety and that “they need to be supported and they need to be given credit for some revolutionary things that they have done … stuff that the entire world should be thankful for, not just the United States.”
Elizondo told The Daily that the program was called the “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,” and that it was primarily a national defense program.
One could argue that perhaps excepting SETI, the most serious civilian research into UFOs and extraterrestrials is currently being done by Tom DeLonge’s company
Tom DeLonge claim: High-ranking DoD officials like to talk about UFOs at bars
When we interviewed DeLonge two years ago, one of the things that I and then-Motherboard managing editor Adrianne Jeffries found hard to believe was that a high-ranking Pentagon official would sit down with him at a bar and lay out specifics of a secret program: “When I sat with that person in the back of a bar/restaurant … and he looked away and he looks back at me and said ‘We found a lifeform.”
“I sat there for two hours after that and had the meeting of my lifetime,” DeLonge said.
Cooper, one of the Times reporters, described a similar meeting with Elizondo, which lasted four hours: “I found myself in a nondescript hotel lobby near Union Station Washington DC with a high-level intelligence source from the Pentagon. Luis Elizondo, who had just resigned his job at the Defense Department,” she said. “What came out of his mouth was absolutely extraordinary. He sat across the table from me and said he had been running a program at the Pentagon looking into UFOs.”
To be clear, nothing in the Times report suggests that the Pentagon has found a “lifeform.” I reached back out to DeLonge after the Times story was published and asked him if Elizondo was the person he met with. DeLonge, through his representative, told me he met with a different person but could not tell me their identity.
Is Tom DeLonge right?
With Elizondo and two other members of the Pentagon joining To the Stars, one could argue that perhaps excepting SETI, the most serious civilian research into UFOs and extraterrestrials is currently being done by Tom DeLonge’s company. That said, there is not mainstream journalistic confirmation of much of what he has said, at least not yet.
DeLonge has hinted at a long alien-technology arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, nothing Elizondo said or the Times reported suggests we have enough evidence to confirm this. DeLonge also told us the “UFO phenomenon has to do with genetics” and “the DNA of mankind,” but would not elaborate on what that meant. It has been suggested by many people, however, that many UFOs may be military test planes or experimental technologies. And there is, of course, a lot more that we don’t know, that remains classified, or that has only been hinted at by credible officials. The Daily host Michael Barbaro asked Elizondo: “Is this just a small percentage of what this program has documented and collected and seen?” He responded: “Yes.”
So is Tom DeLonge right? It’s too early to say, but:
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They were looking for a place to smoke marijuana. Police said they found a tiger instead
Police said anonymous tipsters went to a vacant house in Houston to smoke marijuana when they found a tiger inside.
They were looking for a place to smoke marijuana. Police said they found a tiger instead Police said anonymous tipsters went to a vacant house in Houston to smoke marijuana when they found a tiger inside. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/11/houston-police-find-tiger-vacant-house-anonymous-tip/2843799002/
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Published 10:01 p.m. ET Feb. 11, 2019 | Updated 6:00 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2019
An 1,100-pound tiger was found in a cage in an abandoned house surrounded by packages of meat, Houston outlets reported. USA TODAY
An anonymous tip from a "concerned citizen" led to the discovery of a tiger at a vacant home in Houston on Monday.
Animal control officers went to investigate after receiving an anonymous 311 call from someone who said they'd seen a tiger, said Lara Cottingham, chief of staff of Houston's Administration and Regulatory Affairs Department. After hearing something inside the house, Cottingham said they called police to get a warrant and later discovered the big cat.
Officers tranquilized the female tiger and transported it to the city’s animal shelter, where she’s staying overnight in a cage inside a horse trailer under round-the-clock surveillance, according to Cottingham. The shelter, which takes in more than 26,000 animals each year, is still trying to find a long-term facility to take the tiger.
Houston police found a tiger in a vacant home on Monday. (Photo: Lara Cottingham)
“We deal with, for the most part, puppies and kittens,” said Cottingham. “Very, very rarely do we take in a tiger.”
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Sgt. Jason Alderete told KTRK-TV the tipsters went to the house to smoke marijuana when they found the 1,100-pound animal.
“We questioned them as to whether they were under the effects of the drugs or (if) they actually saw a tiger," Alderete said.
Police say the animal was being kept in a cage that was not large or sturdy enough for its size with several packages of meat nearby, according to KTRK-TV. Cottingham said the tiger, which she’s calling Danielle, seemed fairly healthy, albeit a bit thirsty.
Congratulations to our @BARC_Houston
Animal Enforcement Officers on a job well done. Earlier Monday, they followed up on an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen regarding a tiger.https://t.co/AAv71RCtUrpic.twitter.com/ComVF8JZS0
— City of Houston (@HoustonTX) February 12, 2019
“This is not the first tiger that has been picked up by BARC,” Cottingham said. "People think that it is fun or that it is cool to have an exotic pet. More often than not it gets big, it gets expensive, it gets dangerous, and they end up turning the animal in or abandoning it.”
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Home | Feature
7 Star Wars Games That Deserve Full Reboots
The history of Star Wars is littered with games and concepts that need a reboot for a new audience.
By Mike Williams Reviews Editor
Game developers have been making Star Wars video games since 1982. That's two years after the release of the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, where George Lucas and company proved the film franchise wasn't just a flash in the pan. Parker Brothers would follow The Empire Strikes Back with a game of the same name for the established Atari 2600 platform. It was the first licensed Star Wars video game ever released.
It wasn't the last. Since that first title, the Star Wars franchise has seen more than 100 titles. It's a large enough library that I didn't want to spend the time counting each one and figuring out which games "counted." Some have been good, but some have been really, really bad.
Regardless of quality, we're currently trapped in a system where there is only one official publisher of Star Wars games: Electronic Arts. I've argued before that Disney and Lucasfilm should spread the love around a bit and let more developers make more diverse titles with the license. This list is following up on that idea.
To keep things interesting, I'm going to pair one developer with an existing Star Wars game. So we're bringing the name forward and imagining what things would be like if a developer could do that concept today.
By PlatinumGames
Originally for the PlayStation, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles was a straight-up action game. Up to two players could choose between Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, or Plo Koon, and mindlessly slash their way through hordes of droids. Mindless combat, a bad camera, and some mystifying platforming sections make this a dire game in the Star Wars library.
So, let's take the name and setting, give it to a new developer, and let them have a bit of fun with it. PlatinumGames could make a righteous two-player action game. If we could get something with the tight gameplay and style of Metal Gear Rising, as opposed to Platinum's weaker licensed efforts like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan or The Legend of Korra, I think we'd have a winner. Plus, the name "Jedi Power Battles" just screams "awesome action combat from a Japanese developer" to me. I would also allow Omega Force to make a Musou game in this spot.
Star Wars: Racer Revenge
By Codemasters
In the midst of a slew of Episode I-related games, there was one that focused on the film's podracing sequences. The title was 1999's Star Wars Episode I: Racer, which did well enough that the LucasArts tapped current MX vs. ATV developer Rainbow Studios to make a sequel: Star Wars: Racer Revenge.
Now I could give the title back to Rainbow Studios, as they still make games, but that's just not interesting to me. Instead, I'm picking Codemasters for this reboot. The developer and publisher has an upcoming game called Onrush that looks like an absolute blast. Onrush is an action-racing game developed by former members of MotorStorm house Evolution Studios, which was shut down by Sony in 2016. Combine the high-speed, hard-hitting action of Onrush with Star Wars' podracers and rake in the profits, Disney.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
By From Software
The Star Wars Jedi Knight line of games began with 1995's Star Wars: Dark Forces, starring fan-favorite protagonist Kyle Katarn. Kyle was a former Imperial officer who became a mercenary and later, a Jedi. Katarn stands out in a history of licensed Star Wars games because the character became a strong part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe before Disney wiped the slate clean. Mysteries of the Sith is an expansion to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, with players controlling Katarn and Expanded Universe character Mara Jade. Part of the game takes place on the Sith planet of Dromund Kaas.
I'd scrap everything but Dromund Kaas itself. What we're looking at here is something like Bloodborne's more aggressive combat, backed by lightsabers and the power of the Force. More importantly, give From Software free reign to establish a winding path through Dromund Kaas. Let the developer really tackle the lore and architecture of a planet controlled by the Dark Side of the Force. From the grimy alleys of Kaas City, to the jungles and swamps surrounding the planet, and the ancient temples of the Dark Side, I think From Software could have a great time handling everything Sith.
Star Wars: Starfighter
By Project Aces
There have been a number of Star Wars games focused on dogfighting and the flight side of the franchise. The most notable is the classic Star Wars: X-Wing/TIE Fighter series of games developed by Totally Games and LucasArts. There's also the console-centric Rogue Squadron series by Factor 5, which ultimately ended in Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike for the GameCube in 2003.
The short series of Starfighter games were pretty good, but it fell short of the previously-mentioned titles. So why go with it? Because the name allows the series to decouple itself from any single era in the Star Wars canon. "Starfighter" is exceedingly generic, meaning this can take place during the Clone Wars, the Original Trilogy era, or the current era. Freedom is the reason behind the choice.
In the driver's seat for this concept would be Project Aces, the team behind Bandai Namco's Ace Combat series. There are some other excellent developers that could handle Starfighter, but I think Project Aces is one of the best in the business around today. The team has a lovely attention to detail and works hard to make each Ace Combat game feel like you're getting behind the yoke of a real fighter, while still retaining arcade-level action. Let them bring their sense of craft to the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
By Ubisoft Toronto
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is one of the Star Wars games from the Prequel Trilogy era. It put players under the distinctive helmet of Jango Fett, tasking them with capturing or killing his targets. It was a decent game; Bounty Hunter knew what it was and though it didn't execute to the highest level, it was good for the time.
We're going to drop the Jango Fett focus here and let our chosen developer make up a new bounty hunter. I'm going to give this title to Ubisoft Toronto, the folks behind the Splinter Cell series. Splinter Cell: Blacklist was an amazing stealth game that came at the wrong time, and this proposed title would be much the same, taking our chosen bounty hunter to exotic locales across the Star Wars galaxy. This would be a more straightforward stealth game, with our bounty hunter sneaking through levels to get to their target and either extinguish or kill them, just with some Star Wars flavor.
IO Interactive was my other choice, but the style of stealth present in Hitman is completely different.
Star Wars: Jedi Arena
By Arc System Works
You knew this was coming. Star Wars: Jedi Arena was an old 2D overhead combat game for Atari 2600 that pit two players against one another. Each player had to defend themselves against the Seeker ball from A New Hope, which tried to shock them with electricity. A match was won when one side took three direct hits from the Seeker.
We're dropping that completely. Instead, let's frame this as a far-future look into the Jedi Holocron, pitting the best Jedi across any Star Wars era against one another. Arc System Works is already making every fighting game under the sun, so why not let them take their shot here? Imagine Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Mace Windu, Yoda, Rey, Kylo Ren, Asajj Ventress, General Grievous, Ahsoka Tano, The Emperor, and Revan all in the same game. The best of the best, each with their own fighting style in pitched lightsaber and Force-enabled combat.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is amazing. Arc System Works could do the same for Star Wars.
Star Wars: Uprising
By Larian Studios
Not many folks remember this game and it's probably better that way. Star Wars: Uprising was an Android and iOS title set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Uprising was an isometric action game pitting a ragtag crew of smugglers against the fallen Empire. It was a bit Diablo in presentation, but it never really took off.
I like the setting, putting the game somewhere between the Original and Modern trilogies. Let's keep the nameless smuggler idea and the basic viewpoint, but let's switch from real-time action-RPG to fully-realized RPG experience. Larian Studios is doing the Lord's work with Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel. Given this era of the Star Wars universe to play with and an out-of-the-way planet, I think Larian could craft an RPG experience that could stand up to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Honorable Mention: Star Wars: Dancing Across The Galaxy
This isn't a title reboot, it's a concept reboot. Let's be honest, the best part about 2012's Kinect Star Wars was the Galactic Dance-Off, which put Star Wars characters into dancing situations with Star Wars-themed covers of popular music. It was so bad and weird that it looped back around to good again.
So let's go with that. Back in 2015, Atlus created the spin-off Persona 4: Dancing All Night, which was a rhythm game starring the Persona 4 characters that somewhat fit into the canon timeline of the game. Atlus went further with the title than it really had to and fans loved it. It was successful enough that Atlus is following it up with Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night this month in Japan, both based on their respective Persona titles.
I want the same for Star Wars. Give me a full in-depth rhythm game with a story. I want some original songs in addition to covers of popular modern songs. I want a number of Star Wars characters and the ability to put them in various costumes, just like Dancing All Night. I want it all. And re-record "I'm Solo" for this game, because that song is horrible and amazing.
Tagged with Electronic Arts, Feature, Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars.
Meet the Creators Behind Awesome Overwatch Workshop Creations Like “Last Man Bouncing”
For some, the Workshop is "one of the best things to happen to Overwatch."
From Student Project to Backpacking in Space: The Story Behind the Mystery Sci-Fi Outer Wilds
The seven-year road to the year's biggest surprise hit.
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While standing off Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the Harriet Lane (right) fires the first naval shot of the Civil War, across the bow of the future Confederate privateer Nashville.
Historic Ships - Two Navies, Five Lives
By J. M. Caiella
On 12 April 1861, the Revenue Cutter Service—a forebear of the U.S. Coast Guard—made its mark in U.S. naval service when its finest cutter, captained by the service’s most distinguished mariner, fired the first naval shot of the Civil War. But this significant event was just a waypoint in this remarkable ship’s life.
The cutter Harriet Lane, named for President James Buchanan’s popular niece and official White House hostess, was built for the Treasury Department by William H. Webb in New York City and launched on 19 November 1857. At that time, Webb was the United States’ foremost shipbuilder and arguably its first true naval architect. His shipyard built 133 vessels between 1840 and 1865, among them some the fastest and most successful clippers and packets. The new cutter was on the cusp of steam technology and thus, despite her inclined, direct-acting steam engine—a first for the service—which turned side-wheel paddles, she also carried a brigantine rig.
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Networking to improve global health
Oct 8, 2018, 20:15 PM by Jessica Wyble
Fast-spreading. Debilitating. Ever-evolving. Infectious diseases know no limits and continue to be a rising threat to global health.
Aiming to get ahead of this dangerous trend and further UTMB’s mission to improve the health of the people of Texas and beyond, UTMB’s Dr. Peter Melby, director of both the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for Tropical Diseases, has been working diligently with his colleagues in the Department of Internal Medicine to organize and guide the efforts of the Global Infectious Disease Research Network, an initiative funded by the Office of the Provost.
Originally formed in 2017 during a two-day meeting on UTMB’s Galveston Campus, the group aims to promote collaborative international infectious disease research, while building mutually beneficial, sustainable and synergistic relationships among investigators. Melby and his colleagues were intentional when setting the groundwork for the group, which has representatives from Colombia, Peru, Mexico, the U.S. and the Dominican Republic.
“When planning last year’s inaugural meeting, we invited people who were from international sites that had some history of partnering with UTMB in the past. We didn’t want to start from scratch, but instead build on what we were already doing,” said Melby. “From those conversations, the group felt like a common strength and interest was in the study of vector-borne diseases like Zika, chikungunya and dengue fever, so from there we built the network and its focus.”
To continue and build upon its momentum, the network recently convened in Medellin, Colombia, at the Universidad de Antioquia for its second annual meeting. The group used this time to discuss the guidelines for collaborating and sharing information. Representatives also worked to elect a steering committee to help guide the group’s work, which will include a multi-site research study that will be starting in the coming months to investigate the causes of febrile illness in the tropics.
Up until this time, the network was led by a temporary organizing committee that included Melby along with UTMB’s Drs. Patricia Aguilar, Miguel Cabada and David Walker, as well as international partners Drs. Juan Rodas of Colombia, Hugo Lopez- Gatell and Ygnacio Martínez-Laguna of Mexico, Karen Mozo of Peru and Daniel Martiche of the U.S., but the 2018 meeting served as the official leadership transition.
The meeting served as a chance for attendees to discuss and understand that the network is a mutually beneficial initiative that will help all institutions and individuals involved, as well as global health as a whole—not just UTMB.
To further enhance the partnership, the organizing committee paired the recent meeting with a four-day grant writing workshop aimed at building communications skills.
One of the goals of the network is to build the infrastructure and capacity of the partnering sites, which vary in size from large, established universities to smaller clinical partners who might lack some of the resources and access that others have.
“The idea behind the workshop is to help our partners strengthen their ability to attract research funding that will ultimately strengthen the network and our collaborative efforts,” said Melby.
Looking ahead, the network’s focus is preparing for the multi-site study. A third annual meeting is already penciled in for summer 2019, although the location is still to be determined.
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Four decades, 400 wins, and countless lives impacted by local swim coach
Sean CW Korsgaard
Coach Harold Baker speaks with swimmers on the Williamsburg Aquatics Club's Level A squad before practice at Eastern State Hospital on Thursday, Feb. 7 2019.
Coach Harold Baker speaks with swimmers on the Williamsburg Aquatics Club's Level A squad before practice at Eastern State Hospital on Thursday, Feb. 7 2019. (Sean CW Korsgaard)
Sean CW KorsgaardStaff writer
Coach Harold Baker is having a very successful 2019.
In his role as the swim coach at Lafayette High School, he saw the Rams finish the season undefeated, and scored his 400th high school win.
At the Williamsburg Aquatic Club, where he’s worked as a coach since it began in 1979, he’s overseeing the club’s 40th anniversary.
If you ask him though, the best part is the same as it’s always been: watching what the kids he coaches achieve both in and out of the water.
“I see a lot of these kids swim in high school, a lot of those go on to swim in college, others just do this for fun,” said Baker. “The goal has always been to help these kids, whether they become great swimmers or not, you do what you can for every one of them.”
According to Baker, the biggest change over the past four decades at WAC has been the scale and keeping up with it.
“Originally, it was just designed to give kids a chance to swim year round, that first year, there (were) just six kids, and we met at a pool at William and Mary that was built in 1906,” said Baker. “By the next year, there were 90, then the community center got built, and now we average around 150 kids each year.”
That growth has been a pattern that has been part of the challenge of also coaching at Lafayette High School.
“We don’t usually have as many swimmers as Jamestown and Warhill usually do, but this year, we made up for it with having some very strong swimmers,” said Baker. “Good leadership too, our team captains both got college scholarships, at William and Mary, one at Cornell.”
One of those team captains, Lafayette senior Christopher Kostelni, is quick to return any credit back to Baker.
“Coach gives us the practices and exercises we need to do, he has a good eye for our strengths and our weaknesses, and making sure we work on both,” said Kostelni. “We’ve had a real milestone year at Lafayette, I’m proud to have been a part of it.”
Contributed Photo: Julie O'Neil
The Williamsburg Aquatics Club, pictured here after a swim meet last month, turns 40 years old in September.
The Williamsburg Aquatics Club, pictured here after a swim meet last month, turns 40 years old in September. (Contributed Photo: Julie O'Neil)
Kostelni also has been a swimmer at WAC for 10 years, following in his older sister’s footsteps.
“My sister and I always tried to do the same sports, she loved to swim, so we both joined WAC,” said Kostelni. “I did really well, and I stuck with it, and I’ve been swimming ever since.”
Kostelni has been offered a swimming scholarship to Cornell University, where he plans to study engineering. It’s a future that began with swim lessons from Coach Baker at the community center pool.
“I’m so proud to be a part of this organization,” said Kostelni. “The coach, the swim team, they’ve played such a big role in my life, and I’m so grateful.”
It’s a sentiment shared by Julian Montes Martinez, a senior at Jamestown High School, who has been a swimmer at WAC for 13 years.
“It’s been a lot of fun, because of the club, I’ve been swimming for most of my life, it gave me a real love of the sport,” said Martinez. “The guys and the coach, I’ve known a lot of them for years, they’ve become like family.”
The bonds forged in WAC have had staying power, Martinez said. When his mother died last year, coming from what he describes as a single mother home, he says the club offered him the support he needed.
“It’s been hard, working out college plans and scholarships, getting rides to school and to meets, but the club has been there for me, and Harold, the coach, he’s been there for me,” said Martinez. “He’s been very helpful and understanding, he talks with me a lot about how I’ve been doing.”
Martinez plans to study mechanical engineering in college once he has decided upon a school, but whatever comes next, he will continue to love swimming.
“It’s part of who I am,” said Martinez.
Passing on that love of swimming, and having a lasting impact on so many lives is one of the best parts of the job, according to Baker.
“I’ve been doing this 40 years, and ever since those first few groups of kids, the goal has always been to do what you can for each kid that comes through the door,” said Baker. “Now some of those first few kids, I’ve coached some of their kids now, and its still the best part of the job.”
Sean CW Korsgaard can be reached at 757-968-1529, by email sean.korsgaard@vagazette.com, and on Twitter @SCWKorsgaard.
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Stefan Stuckmann | Filmmaker
Stefan Stuckmann, Photo: Timon Schäppi
Born in Kleve, Germany
Studied „Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism“, University of Hildesheim
Writer for Comedy Shows „Switch Reloaded“, „Ladykracher“, „heute show“ etc.
“Deutscher Fernsehpreis” Award as a member of the writing staff of „Switch Reloaded“
University of Media Arts (KHM), Köln, Diploma
“Grimmepreis” Award as a member of the writing staff of „heute Show“
Columnist for daily newspaper „Der Tagesspiegel“
Nominated for “Grimmepreis” for “Eichwald, MdB”
Stefan Stuckmann is an author and producer of comedy shows. Since 2004, he has been working for „Freitag Nacht News“, „Switch reloaded“ and „heute Show“. From 2012 to 2014, he wrote a weekly column for the daily Der Tagesspiegel. Stuckmann was the author and show runner of „Eichwald, MdB“, a political satire that aired in 2015 on German public television channels ZDF and zdf_neo .
During his fellowship at Villa Aurora, Stefan Stuckmann will develop his new series „Jugend“, a mix of comedy and drama set in contemporary Berlin. Creating a counter concept for Berlin’s image during the last twenty years, „Jugend“ portrays the German capital not as a solution to all problems, but as a problem itself. Berlin appears as a cold city that uses people and attracts the young with empty promises – just to spit them out years later, when their dreams have died.
To achieve a realistic depiction of the setting, „Jugend“ is shot in German and English. The resulting language barriers – not all characters are equally proficient in both languages – are part of the plot and character development. As a result, „Jugend“ cannot be dubbed. The format intends to undermine the prevailing rules of German television.
www.stefanstuckmann.de
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Culture > Opinion
2017 Wasn’t All Bad: 13 Actually Good Things That Happened This Year
by Michelle Ruiz
So many bad things happened in 2017, suffice to say the year often felt as bleak as Melania Trump’s Christmas decor. But, alas, every now and then, there was a rare glimmer of hope (in the form of pink Pussyhats sweeping the globe) or an unabashed burst of love (cheerio, Harry and Meghan) that reminded people that there is, indeed, still humanity and humor and joy and romance in the world. Or, in the immortal words of Hugh Grant (er, as written by Richard Curtis), that love, actually, is all around. Read on for a brief reprieve from the hell of 2017, and our list of a few actual good things that happened this year.
The Women’s March
It feels good to say it even now, almost a year later: The day after a multiple-times-accused sexual predator was inaugurated as president, millions of women (and men) across the globe took to the streets in protest. Making it all the sweeter, the day after Trump’s sparsely attended inauguration, the sea of pink Pussyhats that peacefully descended on Washington, D.C., showed the president what a real, teeming, passionate crowd looked like: An estimated 1 million marchers stood up for women’s rights in Washington, with another estimated 2 to 3 million more around the U.S. By some tallies, the Women’s March was the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history—but it didn’t end that day, really. The Women’s March ignited the spirit of protest that in no small way helped inspire an unprecedented outpouring of women to run for office and may have even influenced 2017’s other great women-led uprising: the #MeToo movement. As one memorable Women’s March sign read: “Vulva la Resistance.”
The Impromptu Protests Against Trump’s “Travel Ban”
One week into his term, President Trump planted the first of many white nationalist–supported flags when he enacted what came to be known as the “Muslim ban”—an executive order barring immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries, threatening to tear families apart and turn a blind eye to refugee crises around the world. What happened next shouldn’t be that surprising, considering the U.S. is a country fundamentally built by immigrants (many founding fathers included): Thousands who connected via social media flocked to airports around the country to protest the ban; lawyers reported for pro bono duty to provide legal aid to travelers whom the order left in purgatory, unable to pass into the U.S. The ban was later tweaked and shot down in court, only to for the latest version to be allowed by the Supreme Court earlier this month. But those early protesters answered Trump and Steve Bannon’s “America First” mantra with a resounding reminder: We are all immigrants.
https://twitter.com/ynnapadilla/status/825810372208816128?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://mashable.com/2017/01/30/muslim-ban-signs/
People Risking Their Lives to Save Perfect Strangers During Hurricane Harvey
Nevermind Melania’s misguided stilettos. In the darkest of times—the natural disaster that struck Houston in August, leaving more than 75 people dead—there was amazing grace: Boat owners far and wide mobilized to rescue families stranded in flooded homes; local reporter Brandi Smith stopped in the middle of a live broadcast to flag down sheriff’s deputies and alert them to a man trapped in an semi truck that was filling with water, effectively saving his life. All of the cynical grinches who had been hardened by 2017 . . . their hearts grew three sizes that day.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth Warren Persisted
Little did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell know that when he silenced Sen. Warren during the hotly contested vote to confirm Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Warren attempted to read a decades-old letter from Coretta Scott King accusing Sessions of voter suppression), McConnell was only blasting her voice to a far bigger audience. “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted,” McConnell scolded. Those three little words swiftly became a hashtag, a T-shirt logo, and many a sassy cross-stitch, but above all, they were a rallying cry for women standing up in the Trump era.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Engagement
Many apologies to Kate Middleton and Prince William’s soon-to-be third baby, whose impending arrival was announced this year, but Prince Harry and actress/activist Meghan Markle took the royal cake in 2017 with their glowing November engagement, a beacon of love, light, and romance in a harsh and depressing news cycle. Hate the monarchy? Convinced Markle has sold her soul to the devil? Keep that noise to yourself: This news was nothing short of a beautiful flower pushing up through the concrete. Honorable mention: Prince George’s first day of preschool, the memes of which may never, ever get old.
The Long-Overdue, Diverse Crop of Winners at the Oscars and Emmys
On the heels of #OscarsSoWhite, Hollywood’s awards shows finally started to wake up this year, honoring Moonlight as Best Picture (over the odds-on favorite La La Land) at the Oscars, despite a staggering snafu by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. At the Emmys, actors and writers of color, including Donald Glover, Sterling K. Brown, Aziz Ansari, and The Night Of star Riz Ahmed, won big in major categories. But Master of None writer and star Lena Waithe—the first black woman to win the Emmy for Best Comedy Writing—stole the show with her inspirational acceptance speech, an ode to the LGBTQIA community: “The things that make us different, those are our superpowers—every day when you walk out the door and put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if we weren’t in it.”
Peggy Whitson Set the Record for Most Days in Space by a U.S. Astronaut
For those who say we’re starved for real-life heroes, look no further than Whitson, who made history in April with what was then 534 days, two hours, 49 minutes and counting at the International Space Station. Whitson was used to smashing records: In 2008, she became the first woman to command the space station. She returned to Earth in September, but for a lot of little (and grown-up) girls out there, she’s still out of this world.
Malala Yousafzai Started College at Oxford
Five years after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for attempting to go to school in her native Pakistan, Yousafzai began classes at the University of Oxford—at Lady Margaret Hall, the same college once attended by Benazir Bhutto, who became the first female prime minister of Pakistan.
https://twitter.com/Malala/status/917414203186667520?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/europe/malala-yousafzai-oxford.html
Danica Roem’s Triumphant Virginia State Legislature Seat Win
. . . over the Republican Bob Marshall, the state’s self-described “chief homophobe,” who had introduced an anti-trans “bathroom bill” that would have required transgender people—like Roem—to use the restroom that matches their birth certificate. Roem threw shade at Marshall by declining to throw shade at him at all, reportedly saying, “I don’t attack my constituents. Bob is my constituent now.” In a similarly uplifting victory, Chris Hurst, the former news anchor whose girlfriend and colleague, Alison Parker, was fatally shot by a disgruntled ex-coworker on live TV in 2015, defeated a pro-NRA candidate in a Virginia House of Delegates race. Now that’s making America great again.
The Summer of Wonder Woman
As the Trump administration assaulted women’s rights left and right—from equal pay to health care—in came the ass-kicking, box office–dominating one-woman army that is Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman. Kind of like the beauty of Coco becoming the number one movie in America under a president who called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and vows to build a border wall against them. If beautiful “f*ck yous” are a thing, this was one of them.
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Getting Back Together
Don’t @ me.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Baby Son Billy Is Okay
Born in April with a congenital heart condition, Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy, inspired his dad to use his monologue to stand up for the Affordable Care Act in the face of congressional Republicans’ never-say-die mission to overturn it and effectively strip health care from millions of people, including children with serious medical conditions. “If your baby is going to die and it doesn’t have to, it shouldn’t matter how much money you make,” a choked-up Kimmel said in May. When Kimmel cried, the country cried with him. Some even credit Kimmel for saving the ACA—or at least amplifying the grassroots efforts to protect it. Earlier this month, after Billy’s second heart surgery, an emotional Kimmel introduced the baby on-air and reported he’s doing well. “He’s fine, everybody,” Kimmel said. “He may have pooped, but he’s fine.”
April the Giraffe Had a Baby Calf
April the Giraffe saw the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam of yesteryear and raised it a viral birth. In April, an estimated 1.2 million people watched rapt via live-video feed as the famous giraffe had a male calf—after a 16-month pregnancy!—at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York. He was named Tajiri—the Swahili word for “hope.” When in doubt: baby animals.
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Democrats brand earmarks as good
By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Monday, March 9, 2009
Capitol Hill’s top Democrats are making a full-throated effort to rebrand earmarks as good government, not a dirty word synonymous with pork-barrel hijinks.
With President Obama’s vow to clamp down on earmarks putting pressure on lawmakers to change their ways, congressional leaders have set out to educate voters about why they think Congress should direct dollars to districts or states for specific pet projects.
“That there is something inherently evil, wicked or criminal or wrong with [earmarks], it’s just not the case,” said Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, noting that he earmarked millions of dollars in the pending omnibus spending bill for what he said were worthy projects in his home state.
Mr. Durbin said lawmakers’ pet projects are listed in the bill and exposed to public scrutiny, and that members of Congress know how to best spend taxpayer dollars in their districts and states.
“Otherwise, what happens? We give the money to the agency downtown and they decide where to spend it,” Mr. Durbin said on the Senate floor. “It isn’t as if the money won’t be spent. Oh, it will be spent. But it may not be spent as effectively or for projects that are as valuable.”
The refrain has been the same from other top Democrats, whether from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada or House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland. Besides touting the merits of earmarks, these Democrats balked at Mr. Obama’s announcement last week of a plan to reel in pork-barrel spending.
Both Mr. Reid and Mr. Hoyer made clear that they thought it was out of Mr. Obama’s constitutional jurisdiction.
But the “power of the purse” argument does not belong only to congressional Democrats.
When Republicans ran both chambers, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and his colleagues argued just as staunchly that they had both a constitutional right to direct spending and the knowledge of which projects in their districts and states are most worthy.
But earmarks “don’t go to the most critical and most important projects across the country” because they bypass the committee process and don’t compete for funds with other priorities, said Steve Ellis, vice president of the nonpartisan watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
If the projects were in any way awarded on merit, then the lion’s share of pork wouldn’t be going to the most powerful and senior members of Congress, Mr. Ellis said.
“Earmarks are the grease of the pay-to-play system where the powerful and the politically connected win out,” he said.
Congressional Republicans, determined to revive their image as the party of fiscal restraint, helped push the earmark issue to the fore as they hammered a $410 billion catchall spending bill for 2009 that has about $12.8 billion worth of earmarks. However, about 40 percent of the earmarks in the omnibus bill were requested by Republicans.
The roughly 9,000 pet projects in the spending package, known as an omnibus bill, include $951,500 for a “sustainable Las Vegas” study, $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Honolulu, $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., and $24,000 for a program in Pennsylvania to promote sexual abstinence.
Debate over earmarks reinforces Republicans’ criticism that the bill is more of Democrats’ “borrow-and-spend” governing. They say the federal spending spree - a $700 billion Wall Street bailout, a $787 billion economic stimulus and a $410 billion omnibus, all on top of Mr. Obama’s proposed $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal 2010 - is bankrupting the country.
The fight will continue Monday as Senate Democratic leaders fend off cuts to earmarks or other moves to reduce the bill’s price tag, which would boost spending 8 percent over 2008 levels - more than twice the rate of inflation.
Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican who has sworn off sponsoring earmarks, said they are “evil” because they have perverted the appropriations process.
He said earmarks were rare 25 years ago, but now lawmakers dole out billions of dollars each year at whim.
“The evil grew and grew, like any other evil,” Mr. McCain said. “While the American people are suffering under the worst recession since the Great Depression, we here in Congress not only are doing business as usual, we are wasting the taxpayers’ money at an incredible rate.”
Still, it is Mr. Obama’s stated commitment to earmark reform that put Capitol Hill Democrats on guard.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, last week defended earmarks as an “appropriate function” of Congress, even as she pledged to work with the White House to cut the number and increase transparency - but only after passage of the omnibus bill.
“The idea is lower number, more transparency, total accountability,” Mrs. Pelosi said.
Democrats have made strides in reducing the number of earmarks and opening the process, including enacting rules mandating that each spending bill include a list of all earmarks and who sponsored them.
The number and value of earmarks in spending bills has dropped from the high point of about 10,000 earmarks worth $29 billion in the 2006 appropriation bills, according to data complied by the anti-pork crusaders Citizens Against Government Waste.
Democratic leaders argue that earmarks account for about 1 percent of spending in the omnibus. They say Republicans, who presided over a massive expansion in pork spending while they were in the majority party, are feigning outrage now to obstruct Mr. Obama’s agenda and score points with conservative voters.
“When I hear people come to the floor saying this is an outrage that all of these earmarks are in the bill, I think to myself, there’s nothing outrageous about this,” Mr. Durbin said. “We’ve bragged about it. We’ve had press conferences about it. The people of our city think it is money well spent.”
Mr. Durbin said Democrats are working to make the process more transparent and to reduce the number of earmarks. He goes a step further by posting on his office Web site a list of all projects he requests. The list currently has 177 items, including $3 million for a railroad overpass in Morrison, Ill., $300,000 for a reconnaissance study of Raccoon Lake in Centralia, Ill., and $500,000 to buy a digital mammography machine for Sinai Health System in Chicago.
“There is money in [the omnibus] as well going to hospitals to buy critical equipment. It’s all listed, every single hospital, every single dollar,” he said. “I try to help them out if I can. I think that is part of my job.”
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Hunger Crisis In South Sudan: View From The Ground
On 15 December 2013 fighting broke out in South Sudan, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Since then WFP has been providing food and nutrition assistance for half a million people. This atmospheric video records some of the sights and sounds of the crisis. It provides glimpses into the daily lives of displaced families in the camps and also captures parts of WFP's response.
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WFP Feeding More than Half Million Refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh
Aerial Assessment Mission in Dominica Island
Hundreds of Thousands Fleeing Myanmar
WFP E.D. David Beasley on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State
Uganda's Open Door Policy
Continued Risk of Famine in Nigeria
Somalia, Averting Famine
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Famous People Born on February 12
Adams, Louisa (1775)
The wife of U.S. president John Quincy Adams
Aronofsky, Darren (1969)
The Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan
Barak, Ehud (1942)
Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001
Blume, Judy (1938)
The author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Bradley, Omar (1893)
American general during World War II
Brolin, Josh (1968)
Llewelyn Moss in the movie No Country for Old Men
Darwin, Charles (1809)
The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution
Kavanaugh, Brett (1965)
The U.S. Supreme Court justice confirmed by a 50-48 Senate vote in 2018
Lincoln, Abraham (1809)
The Civil War president who wrote the Gettysburg Address
Ricci, Christina (1980)
Wednesday in the Addams Family movies
Specter, Arlen (1930)
The Democrat-Republican-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania
Swammerdam, Jan (1637)
The 17th-century Dutch microscopist who studied insects
Van Doren, Charles (1926)
Ill-fated star of the 1950s game show Twenty-One
See also: Died on February 12
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Eunice Mueni Williams
Former Southern Voices Network Scholar
africa@wilsoncenter.org @E_mueni
Global Health Population Africa Southern Africa
Knowledge Translation Officer, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
Wilson Center Projects
Opening Up the Demographic Dividend Window in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Did the Low Fertility Countries Do it?
Apr 04, 2016 — Jun 25, 2016
Eunice M. Williams is a Knowledge Translation Officer at the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to this, Eunice worked for the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust (KEMRI-WT) Research Initiative where she was part of the team that synthesized evidence which informed the revision of the Ministry of Health’s guidelines for neonatal and child care. Her research interests include understanding the fertility dynamics in African countries and how it relates to economic development, youth and their contribution to development, and reproductive health in general. Eunice has extensive experience in appraising quality of evidence of primary research studies, which she has applied in several systematic reviews she has conducted. She also has a wealth of experience in fieldwork and policy analysis on maternal and child health, family planning and population dynamics. She is part of the team at AFIDEP that is working with multiple countries in sub Saharan Africa to conduct studies to estimate the potential of harnessing the demographic dividend in these countries, and to develop policy options that can help countries reach their targets. So far, this studies have been conducted in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and Senegal. Eunice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Master in Public Health, and a Master of Arts in Population Studies. She also has training in Monitoring and Evaluation of Population and Health programmes.
She is a Southern Voices Network Scholar at the Wilson Center.
Currently, there is a growing interest in the demographic dividend and its potential to boost economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries. The first step towards harnessing the demographic dividend is fertility decline, and the magnitude of the dividend is impacted by the pace of fertility change. Although there is evidence of fertility decline in most countries that have had persistently high fertility rates, these rates have declined at a very slow pace. A few countries in Southern Africa have, however, achieved fertility rates close to or below the replacement fertility level (2.1 children per woman).
How did they do it? Answering this question will provide lessons to other countries in the region on what strategies they can implement to rapidly reduce fertility and open the window of opportunity for harnessing the demographic dividend. The objective of this research project is to answer that question through literature review and secondary data analysis.
Major Publications
Musila, Ruth N., Mueni Eunice. (2014) “An Assessment of the Policy and Programmatic Evolution of the Community- Based Distribution of Family Planning Program in Kenya and Prospects for Its Sustainability”. MEASURE Evaluation PRH Working Paper Series, WP-14-144.
Pasipanodya Ian Machingura, Olawumi Adekola, Eunice Mueni, Omo Oaiya, Lars L Gustafsson, Richard F Heller. (2014), “Perceived value of applying Information Communication Technology to implement guidelines in developing countries; an online questionnaire study among public health workers. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. 2014: 6(2); e180.
High Res Photo (8.02 MB)
Opening Up the Demographic Dividend Window in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Did Low-Fertility Countries Do It?
By: Eunice Mueni Williams
Fertility Rates and the Demographic Dividend
Achieving the Demographic Dividend in Africa: Lessons Learned
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Construction starts on two 200 MW wind farms
Construction is to start this year on two 200 MW wind farms in Serbia at a cost of over EUR 600 million, says mining and energy minister Petar Skundric. Both will be built in the north-east of the country, one at Kovin and the second at Vrsac. Serbia has the potential to annually produce 2.3 TWh of electricity from wind energy, about 7% of current demand. So far, the ministry has issued 20 wind farm construction licences. Although Serbia produces negligible amounts of electricity from renewables, excluding large hydro, Skundric is confident that over the next five to six years this will increase to 12%. The government is to introduce a premium purchase price for electricity from "privileged power producers" who will also be guaranteed access to the grid. A law clarifying who these producers will be is expected later this year and by July parliament is to vote on a mandated purchase price for wind proposed at EUR 0.115/kWh.
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The Hemperer and the Governor
Winona LaDuke · May 5, 2019
Alex White Plume and Winona LaDuke discuss hemp production in Indian Country.
By Winona LaDuke
It’s twenty years since Alex White Plume planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, here on the Pine Ridge reservation. Spring has come, after a winter buried in epic snow storms, and the grass is greener than ever. It’s time to plant.
It’s 2019, and the Oglala Lakota are revisiting a plan to grow hemp on the reservation. Hemp has been a long standing interest of the Nation. That’s because it’s an incredibly versatile plant. It was also acknowledged in their 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. While the 1998 Tribal Council industrial hemp ordinance remains intact, there’s been a lot of litigation over the past twenty years.
In 2019, the passage of the Farm Bill legalized hemp nationally, and the Oglalas are today reviewing an updated Hemp Regulatory Ordinance. And nationally, the industry may be ready – as CBD varieties, seed and fiber hemp flourish. What’s clear is that the Oglalas have paid ahead for their place in the hemp industry, and most of the world wants to see them succeed.
Continuing South Dakota’s decades behind politics, new Governor Kristi Noem vetoed industrial hemp production in the state in mid-March. That was after the bill had passed through the South Dakota legislature. As the Oglalas discuss hemp regulations, it’s clear the state and the Oglala Nation will be in conflict. That’s no surprise.
In the meantime, Wyoming’s governor signed the first state-level hemp law under the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill. Wyoming Rep. Bunky Loucks sponsored the legislation. The Republican representative had a message for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem: “Tell her I hope she vetoes it, because that would be good for Wyoming,” he said. The bill passed the Wyoming House 60-0, the Senate 26-3-1, and then the House again 56-3-1 after being amended in the Senate.
In late April I was able to visit with the Oglala Tribal Council in a meeting sponsored by Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation in Kyle, South Dakota. The Tribal Council is reviewing newly drafted hemp regulations, and spring fever is fragrant in the air. Individual farmers want to grow hemp – including a rancher with 50,000 acres on the reservation. There is good land for hemp on the reservation and it’s clear there are many national and international businesses keen on working with the Lakota to create more CBD and other enterprises on the reservation.
To be Free
Pine Ridge has its own time zone, economy and world. That’s my observation. Oglala Chief Mathew King once said, “the only thing sadder than an Indian who is not free, is an Indian who doesn’t remember what it was like to be free.” On Pine Ridge, the vast landscape, the endless sky, the horse nation and the people remind us of freedom. You can breathe it in.
That’s why hemp has such potential. In many ways it represents freedom. The plant grows well in Oglala territory. Just ask White Plume, whose field was seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Between 2000 and 2002, federal drug agents raided his farm and destroyed his crop of fiber hemp. That was before he could harvest it for seed. The DEA then secured a court order prohibiting him from growing hemp. White Plume couldn’t touch the plant.
The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld the DEA action. The eight federal charges resulted in a long and expensive court battle for the White Plume family. White Plume had to sell prized horses to sustain the family. This past year, the ban on White Plume’s hemp farming ended. “For seventeen years, I’ve been on the sidelines, while people are becoming millionaires,” he told me. In other words, the Oglalas, who were planting two decades ago, are watching a non-Native cannabis market grow exponentially. Despite the regulatory challenges and domestic legal issues, the hemp industry grew by 16% in 2017 (Hemp Business Journal 2018).
Ironically, with the seizure of the crop, the DEA essentially reseeded much of White Plume’s land with hemp seed. They don’t call it weed for nothing. The plant loves to grow. In other words, Oglala territory is hemp territory.
The potential of building a set of value added businesses with hemp on the reservation is great, from local growers, a cooperative to local processing of CBDs, hurd and fiber products. That’s all a part of the original dream of White Plume. We call him the Hemperer. “The plant takes in bad air and breathes out fresh air. It’s mold free,” he tells me.
The White Plume family’s battle with the DEA to defend their treaty-guaranteed-right to grow hemp was a huge court battle, a story told in Silent Standing Nation, a documentary.
The dreams of White Plume Hemp LLC (which incidentally is a state of South Dakota registered corporation), include a hemp industrial park full of diversified local hemp businesses and processing centers for tribal growers. That vision, White Plume explains, includes dehulling hemp seeds (that’s for hemp hearts), extraction of CBDs, decordicating and value added fiber and hurd production. That model is likely replicable and affirms a local, regenerative economy.
Lessons to be Shared
Learning from the Oglalas is an opportunity for all of us. As Phillip White Man, from Northern Cheyenne, explained to me, “the next economy is about cooperation, not competition.” The fact is that hemp needs to be grown widely, to change the economy – whether the medical economy, the textile economy, or the plastics economy – it will take a lot of growers. Let’s be absolutely honest, we have to move past fossil fuels, including all those plastics. Otherwise, we are going to be fighting oil pipelines for the next twenty years. Anything you can make out of plastic, you can make out of hemp.
There’s much to learn. For instance, CBD plants (all females) require a different life than fiber and seed hemp. And, since those plants are all female, they need to live by themselves, sort of like a village of women. I think of them as Divas. They love to be special. And growers need to watch for cross contamination, or male plants. One boy can mess up the whole group. That’s not surprising. It’s a careful farming balance.
Some tribes are looking at producing CBD plants for commercial CBD producers, offers coming in at $500 an acre, which seems especially lucrative. In the present bubble market of CBDs, high quality organic CBD plants are worth much more an acre – at least l00 times that, with the right partner and the right processing. That’s part of what we can learn by working together.
We can also learn about creating the next economy. Cannabis as a plant has a magical ability to not only heal, but to replace most petroleum bi products and a good deal of clearcutting for papers and lumber industries. Hemp’s tensile strength is twice that of cotton, approximately 80,000 pounds per square inch, but unlike cotton, it requires little or no pesticides. Hemp is still grown for paper production and hemp paper lasts three times longer than paper made from wood and does not yellow as it ages (Evaluating the Public Interest: Regulation of Industrial Hemp under the Controlled Substances Act by Christine Kolosov, 2009). It’s also about how we relate to the plant. “The plant is not a slave”, that’s what our elders would say.
Intertribal Hemp Collaborations
This year, the sixth annual Colorado NOCO Hemp Expo included more Indigenous hemp growers than ever. NOCO followed an Indigenous Hemp Conference, held for the second year in a row, on the White Earth reservation. At both conferences, delegations from the Navajo, Pine Ridge, White Earth, Menominee, and Colville Tribes continued to share information about the evolution of tribal hemp policy and the plans for each nation’s hemp development. Everyone recognizes the potential for the plant. “We will be at the table, not on the menu,” one grower told us.
Olowan Martinez, from Pine Ridge, talked about the Wasichu (“fat takers”, a term used by the Sioux people to describe the white man) at NOCO. “We don’t want this to be the same in the next economy, the hemp economy,” she explained. “We are hoping to build right relationships.” Indeed, with large land based tribes at the table, the renaissance of the hemp economy, particularly the textile, insulation and construction industry, has great potential for Native farmers.
Part of what is going to be key in the upcoming year is tribal regulation of hemp. The new Oglala regulations under review are conservative. There are a lot of regulatory check offs. The 40-page policy paper is daunting and thorough. The last Oglala policy was four pages. Other Nations are pushing the boundaries with the help of sophisticated legal counsel. There’s plenty of Cannabis lawyers out there these days because the industry is worth about $10 billion and has 250,000 employees. Not bad for a few years out of the cradleboard.
Spring is here. While South Dakota sits once again on the sidelines, the rest of the country is moving towards hemp and the next economy. “Hemperer” Alex White Plume is going to watch South Dakota squirm from his hill top overlooking Wounded Knee Creek. He’s planning for seven generations from now. He’s planning the hemp renaissance. It’s clear the Oglalas are ready.
Source: http://thecirclenews.org/cover-story/the-hemperer-and-the-governor/
How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy by Winona LaDuke
Winona's Hemp & Heritage Farm has a new plan! An economy is going to be kind and restore our Mother Earth.
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Boeing procurement officer pleads guilty to fraud
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press - Friday, July 18, 2014
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former procurement officer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis pleaded guilty Friday to federal fraud charges for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving military aircraft parts sold to Boeing.
Deon Anderson, 47, of St. Louis, admitted to three felony counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of currency structuring. Anderson faces sentencing on Oct. 15.
Anderson was convicted of taking bribes from companies seeking to sell parts for military aircraft to Boeing, in exchange for providing them with confidential information such as competitor bids.
Federal prosecutors say Globe Dynamics International Inc. owner William Boozer, 59, of Hacienda Heights, California, conspired with Anderson from November 2009 through February 2013. Anderson gave Boozer confidential financial information through coded language in phone calls and emails. Boozer used the information to win government purchasing contracts from Boeing worth more than $1.5 million.
Boozer pleaded guilty in May. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 15. His company, based in Santa Ana, California, produces machine parts and assembles complex components for the defense industry.
Anderson also admitted to a similar scheme involving two other businessmen, Robert Diaz Jr., owner of the consulting firm Inland Empire and Associates of Las Vegas, and Jeffrey Lavelle, owner of J.L. Manufacturing of Everett, Washington.
J.L. Manufacturing was awarded parts contracts valued at more than $2 million in bidding from 2011 to 2013. Inland Empire consulted for J.L. Manufacturing on Boeing subcontracts, according to court papers
Diaz, 54, of Alta Loma, California, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is facing sentencing on Sept. 2.
Lavelle’s case has not yet gone to trial. A message seeking comment from his attorney was not immediately returned.
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Corbett seeks to change view of education record
By MARC LEVY - Associated Press - Saturday, July 19, 2014
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Since 2011, Pennsylvania Democrats have pointed to the budget-balancing cuts in education aid that GOP Gov. Tom Corbett signed six months into office. And there’s evidence voters are listening: A recent independent voter poll found that the single biggest factor behind voter disapproval of Corbett’s job performance is his record on education.
Corbett may finally have found an effective strategy to counter that attack.
He is pounding the Republican-controlled Legislature for not acting on legislation to rein in a $50 billion pension debt that, he argues, is driving up property taxes, hurting families and squeezing out money for classrooms. He is also doing something he arguably has not done before on any issue: making the case in near-daily public events across the state, with plans to continue doing so for the rest of the summer.
It is not foolproof. He lacks a surefire way to deliver relief to school district budgets in a form that lawmakers will embrace. And he is doing it with less than four months until the Nov. 4 election, a limited time frame in which to turn around awful polling numbers in his race against Democrat Tom Wolf.
But at this point, he has no other choice, said G. Terry Madonna, a pollster and a professor of public affairs at Franklin & Marshall College. Education is the single-most important issue to Pennsylvania voters for the first time in modern history, and Corbett spent much of his time in office arguing ineffectively that he didn’t cut education funding, Madonna said.
“It’s a big moment for him in a world of diminishing options,” Madonna said.
For now, the argument has the advantage of seizing on the general unpopularity of nearly $12 billion in school property taxes, the biggest single source of funding for public schools. For Pennsylvania’s policymakers, property tax relief remains an elusive goal, much discussed in the Capitol for more than a decade but so far only delivered in doses that are quickly swallowed by the schools’ growing costs.
The Wolf campaign, Democratic Party allies and labor unions vigorously sought last week to counter the Corbett argument and wrest back control of the narrative.
“There would be no pension ‘crisis’ if Mr. Corbett had not cut education funding by $1 billion in 2011,” House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, wrote in an opinion piece distributed to newspapers. “Those sustained cuts, over his tenure, have grown into a $3 billion loss for schools.”
That, wrote Dermody, is driving property taxes up.
The truth behind the state’s property tax increases is a little more complicated.
Statistics for the 2013-14 school year are not yet available from the Department of Education. But for the five years before that, property tax increases were relatively modest, averaging 2 percent a year. That compares with the 6 percent average annual increase in the five years prior, according to an Associated Press analysis of Department of Education data, as school boards tried to sock away reserve cash for a pension wave that was evident even then.
Over that same 10 years, school spending rose by $9.6 billion, or 53 percent, to $27.6 billion - driven by former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell’s effort to take state aid to 50 percent of school spending.
Pensions were about one-fifth of that increase. Taxpayer contributions to the Public School Employees’ Retirement System were on course to top $2 billion in the just-ended fiscal year, up from just $539,000 in 2002, according to the retirement system’s records. Contributions are set to double to above $4 billion within three years, under a schedule dictated by a 2010 state law.
In the meantime, the proportion of school spending shouldered by the state is at the same level - about one-third - as when Rendell took office in 2003. That is below the national average, which was 44 percent in 2010-11, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Property taxes continue to account for about the same proportion, 42 percent, after the passage of two laws in the past decade designed to make it harder for school boards to raise property taxes. That is well above the national average of 35 percent.
Looking ahead, bigger property tax increases are quite likely in the offing, as schools districts run out of options, such as layoffs and tapping reserves built up over the past decade, said Jim Buckheit of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators.
For Corbett, changing the public perception of his education record is probably his last chance to close the polling gap, Madonna said.
“He’s got to figure out a way to go into the campaign being aggressive, being the activist, but more importantly, being the leader,” Madonna said. “He can’t go and say, ‘Oh, by the way, I spent four years trying to get liquor (privatization) and (more) charter schools, so give me another four years to do what I couldn’t do with my party in control of the Legislature.’ That’s not a narrative.”
Marc Levy covers politics and government for The Associated Press in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/timelywriter.
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2 year Common Core delay bill passes Assembly
By - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 5, 2014
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - After nearly four hours of debate, New York’s Assembly passed a bill that would delay portions of the Common Core education standards.
The bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan would prevent schools from using Common Core-based test scores on staff evaluations for two years and prevents schools from using scores to decide whether a student will advance to the next grade.
The bill passed 117 to 10 Wednesday evening and was sent to the Senate, where it has no sponsor and its prospects are uncertain.
Early in the evening, Assembly Republicans tried to amend the legislation to establish a panel to decide whether to use the testing standards at all. They were defeated when lawmakers said it could jeopardize the state’s federal Race to the Top grants.
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Wanting both - to teach and to be a botanist
My decision to become a botanist
Jan Klein Scientist
11. Never knowing what happened to my father 125 01:07
12. An early interest in botany and love for nature 80 03:34
13. 'I'm among the people who cannot live without nature' 63 04:22
14. Inspiration from my biology teacher 67 03:07
15. Searching for new plants and making a rare discovery 74 03:53
16. My decision to become a botanist 80 02:00
17. Wanting both - to teach and to be a botanist 50 02:36
18. Deciding to apply to Prague and the entrance exam 58 03:52
19. Falling in love with Prague 50 02:30
20. Election of the Communist party and the end of freedom 49 00:42
Because of this interest it was decided, in my mind, very early in my life that I would become a botanist. I liked nature in general, everything else, as I said, I liked about nature... all the other creatures. But flowers were still in the centre of my interest and so I wanted to be a botanist. That meant I had to go to a gymnasium. Gymnasium is not what it is in English countries, it has nothing to do with physical exercise it's just a higher level... a secondary level of schooling that you have to go through if you want to go to the university. So I went to the gymnasium in Opava which was the nearest town to Štemplovec, about 10 kilometres distance from my village. I had to go by bus or by train there every day and it was the same school that 100 years ago was the school where Gregor Mendel was educated. Now it's called Mendel's Gymnasium actually. At that time, my time, Mendel was a persona non grata, that means you could not mention his name but the fact was that that's where he went to school, just 100 years ago...
[Q] Years before.
Born in 1936, Jan Klein is a Czech-American immunologist who co-founded the modern science of immunogenetics – key to understanding illness and disease. He is the author or co-author of over 560 scientific publications and of seven books including 'Where Do We Come From?' which examines the molecular evolution of humans. He graduated from the Charles University at Prague in 1955, and received his MS in Botany from the same school in 1958. From 1977 to his retirement in 2004, he was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology at Tübingen, Germany.
Title: My decision to become a botanist
Listeners: Colm O'hUigin
Colm O'hUigin is a senior staff scientist at the US National Cancer Institute. He received his BA, MSc and PhD at the Genetics Department of Trinity College, Dublin where he later returned as a lecturer. He has held appointments at the Center for Population and Demographic Genetics, UT Houston, and at the University of Cambridge. As an EMBO fellow, he moved in 1990 to the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany to work with Jan Klein and lead a research group studying the evolutionary origins of immune molecules, of teeth, trypanosomes and of species.
Tags: Opava, Štemplovec, Mendel's Gymnasium, Gregor Johann Mendel
Duration: 2 minutes
Date story recorded: August 2005
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
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Sam Greenwood / Getty ImagesMatthew Wolff celebrates after an eagle putt on the 18th green to win the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota, on July 7, 2019. (Sam Greenwood / Getty Images)
Watch: PGA Tour Rookie Wins in Just His 3rd Pro Tournament with Incredible Final Shot
By Dave Kovaleski
Published July 8, 2019 at 10:25am
Matthew Wolff. Remember that name, because you will be hearing it a lot more on the PGA Tour.
The 20-year-old won his first PGA Tour event Sunday in just his third professional tournament. And he did it in dramatic fashion, draining a 26-foot eagle from the fringe on the 18th hole to win the 3M Open at the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.
Wolff had been tied with his playing partner, Collin Morikawa, at 19-under heading into the last hole. They were one shot behind Bryson DeChambeau, who had just eagled 18 to go to 20-under.
After a drive in the fairway on the 573-yard par-5 18th, Wolff managed to sneak his second shot onto the far left fringe of the green, just missing the bunker.
That set the stage for the dramatic eagle putt that gave him the lead for good at 21-under.
AMAZING! 🏆@Matthew_Wolff5 makes EAGLE to win! 🦅
It’s the 20-year-old’s first PGA TOUR victory.#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/LYMXFIduPI
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 7, 2019
“I was shaking, to be honest,” Wolff said of the putt on 18, Sports Illustrated reported. “A lot of my putts weren’t going in today, and I was just kind of telling myself one’s bound to drop in. It happened at the right time. Just gave it a chance and it went over the right spot that I pointed out.
“And as soon as it dropped, the tears started coming. It’s a really special feeling.”
Morikawa had a chance to send it to a playoff with an eagle putt from 22 feet, but he missed, giving Wolff his first of what will likely be many PGA tour wins. For his efforts, Wolff took home the $1.2 million prize and won his tour card.
Just six weeks earlier, on May 29, Wolff, who went to Oklahoma State, won the NCAA Men’s Individual Golf Championship by five strokes.
.@Matthew_Wolff5 reflects on his incredible PGA TOUR win @3MOpen: 🎙 https://t.co/eAi6xd7u05
“I’m really not an emotional guy, but tears came to my eyes,” Wolff said of his win, PGATour.com reported.
Morikawa, 22, is also a tour rookie, leaving the University of California, Berkeley this summer to turn pro. He finished sixth in the 2019 NCAA Men’s Individual Golf Championship.
“The way we were playing today, it was going to go in. One of us was going to drop one in,” Morikawa said, according to PGATour.com. “I hit a really good putt. I thought it was good from the start and once it got about halfway I knew it was a little low. What can you do?”
DeChambeau was stunned, thinking he’d at least be in a playoff.
“I had no idea he would make that putt,” DeChambeau said, according to PGATour.com. “It’s so competitive now. Anyone can win on any week. It’s absolutely impressive.”
This was only the third professional tournament in which Wolff has competed.
He got a sponsor’s exemption to play in the Waste Management Open at TPC Scottsdale, where he finished in a tie for 50th.
Wolff then got another sponsor’s exemption to play in the Traveler’s Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he finished in a tie for 80th.
Now he is a winner on the PGA Tour.
“It’s something that changed my life forever,” Wolff said, according to Sports Illustrated. “It’s something I’ll always remember. To do that with all the nerves and trying to get my Tour card, it’s pretty special to me.
“It still hasn’t settled in. It’s a dream come true.”
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A History of Tort Law 1900-1950
Publication Date 1 Jan 2015
Author(s) Mitchell, Paul
Many of the defining features of the modern law of tort can be traced to the first half of the twentieth century, but, until now, developments in that period have never received a dedicated historical examination. This book examines both common law and statutory innovations, paying special attention to underlying assumptions about the operation of society, the function of tort law, and the roles of those involved in legal changes. It recovers the legal and social contexts in which some landmark decisions were given (and which puts those decisions in a very different light) and draws attention to significant and suggestive cases that have fallen into neglect. It also explores the theoretical debates of the period about the nature of tort law, and reveals the fascinating patterns of influence and power at work behind statutory initiatives to reform the law.
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Reassessments of Incapability: Ministry Review considers whether a right to reassessment before a certificate of incapability is issued should be required by legislation. (June 30, 2014)
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Justice Framework to Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
The Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) Justice Framework to Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls will assist FPT ministers of justice and public safety in taking a coordinated approach to work with Indigenous Peoples to stop the violence. The framework is a strategic document, which identifies principles and priorities that will help to guide ministers’ focus as they take action with Indigenous Peoples and other key partners to improve how the justice system prevents and responds to the violence. (January 21, 2016)
Indemnity Coverage for Legal Expenses Ombudsperson Investigation
The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services approved the referral to the Ombudsperson to investigate the Ministry of Health terminations and the Ombudsperson’s investigation is underway. For those invited to participate in the investigation, indemnity coverage is being provided as outlined in the indemnity document. (February 23, 2016)
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Missing Women Working Group Report
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Public Legal Education and Information for Immigrants
Public Legal Education and Information for Immigrant Youth is a scoping review that describes promising practices in facilitating immigrant youth access to legal information. The paper includes a literature review of methods of designing and delivering preventive youth programs, a cross-jurisdictional scan to identify existing preventive youth programs and information on delivery methods for youth in general. The paper also includes a summary of the results of a series of focus groups conducted with newcomer youth and adults that work with newcomer youth. (May 13, 2011)
Evaluation of the Court Information Program for Immigrants assesses the processes and strategies employed by the Court Information Program for Immigrants to achieve its intended outcomes and to investigate the project’s reach and ability to serve its intended audience, as well as ways the program can be improved. (March 15, 2011)
Evaluation of the Law Related English Language Services for Adults assesses the degree to which Law Related English Language Services for Adults (LR-ELSA) is achieving key intended outcomes and to investigate if the project’s reach and ability to service its intended audience, the features that contribute to its success and any ways in which the LR-ELSA could be improved. LR-ELSA is a unique project designed to deliver information about Canadian law to immigrants who are learning English. In this project, English as a second language teachers who are knowledgeable about a variety of legal topics attend ESL classes as guest lecturers to deliver content about Canadian law and the justice system to students. (February 28, 2011)
An Evaluation of the Immigrant PLEI Consortium Project looks at a Consortium of 12 agencies and its goal to increase the level of integration between public legal education and information and settlement workers serving new immigrants and refugees. Providing effective public legal education and information to immigrants is critical to assist them in better understanding their rights and responsibilities and better understand appropriate options for resolving disputes and how to access the complex justice system. (February 21, 2011)
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The Internet as Effective Medium for Distribution of Integral Information to New Immigrants considers barriers to online information gathering that are systemic to any immigrant population. It presents and compares common and accepted models for the distribution of multi-language information online. It also considers the most common technical barriers to the provision of multi-language information, as well as solutions to these obstacles. (June 2, 2010)
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Surrey Criminal Justice Recommendations Report
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Combat Climate Change - António Guterres' Remarks at the R20 Austrian World Summit
Because of climate change all around the world the sea level is rising, floods, drought, wildfires and extreme storms appear, and people are now losing their homes and being forced to migrate. Read what António Guterres had to say in Vienna after a trip to the South Pacific.
"Climate Kirtag" with Greta Thunberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger
The climate protection conference "R20 Austrian World Summit" at the Heldenplatz in Vienna ended with appeals by climate protection activist Greta Thunberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger at the "Climate Kirtag".
Former Finance Minister Schelling to Be Appointed to OMV Supervisory Board
Former ÖVP finance minister Hans Jörg Schelling is to move into the supervisory board of the partly state-owned OMV. Various media report that this is being done at the request of senior government officials.
Wolfgang Schüssel Joins the Lukoil Supervisory Board - Who are His Colleagues?
As a press release of Lukoil revealed, the former Austrian Chancellor Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel takes over one of 12 supervisory board positions in the second largest Russian company PJSC Lukoil Oil Company as Independent Director. Who are his 11 supervisory board colleagues?
What is Lukoil and What Does It Do in Austria?
Lukoil Oil Company is the second largest Russian oil multinational with a turnover of USD 102 billion, of which approximately USD 250 million comes from Austria. Lukoil has been represented in Austria since 1995 and currently operates from Vienna four subsidiaries with activities in 40 countries.
Austria's Dependence on Russian Gas Increased by 33 Percent
The effects of the amendment to the contract on gas supplies from Russia to Austria signed last year become visible. A meeting in Moscow between Rainer Seele, Chairman of the Executive Board of OMV, and Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, revealed that gas deliveries between January 1 and March 5, 2019 increased by 32.9 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Official Visit of President of Hungary - Criticism of Expansion of Paks Nuclear Power Plant
President János Áder of Hungary paid an official visit to Austria. The main topic of discussion between Áder and Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen was climate protection.
OMV Doubles Net Profit and Achieves 2018 Most Profitable Result in Company History
Austria's largest and listed industrial company, the oil and gas group OMV, achieved its most profitable result in the company's history in 2018 with a net profit of almost two billion euros.
OMV Acquires 2.2 Billion Euro Share in United Arab Emirates Refinery
Austrian OMV and the state-owned oil company of the United Arab Emirates, Adnoc, announced that OMV has acquired a 15 percent stake in Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company. Thereby OMV establishes a major downstream Oil position. In addition, OMV will acquire a 15 percent stake in a trade joint venture with export volumes equivalent to around 70% of production.
High-Level Forum Africa-Europe - EIB Signs 3 Africa Projects Totalling Half a Billion Euros
At the Africa‑Europe High‑Level Forum in Vienna the European Investment Bank formally agreed a total of EUR 495 million of new financing for three projects in ten countries to support sustainable transport, clean energy and internet access projects in North, West and East Africa.
The New Location Development Act - Significance for Austria's Attractiveness as a Business Location
The Austrian government has passed the highly controversial Location Development Act in the Council of Ministers, which will speed up environmental impact assessments, be passed by the National Council this year and come into force on 1 January 2019. The new legislation will introduce automatic permits for certain energy infrastructure projects (eg, electricity grids and power plants). Positive reactions are coming from industry and politics. Various environmental associations criticise the new law.
Kurz Met Bill Gates: "He is a Source of Inspiration"
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates at the EU summit in Brussels. Gates was in Brussels this week to create a pilot fund that will invest €100 million in European companies working to stop climate change.
IAEA Laboratories in Seibersdorf - A Hub of Scientific Excellence
The laboratories of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are located in the town of Seibersdorf, where scientists carry out unique work in support of global peace and development. Located 35 kilometres south of Vienna, the 10 laboratories play an important role in the IAEA’s activities in the areas of nuclear verification, food and agriculture, human health, industrial applications and the environment. Recently Austrian President Van der Bellen paid a visit to Seibersdorf.
Austro-Arab Energy Community Meets in Vienna to Discuss International Cooperation
The 10th Arab-Austrian Economic Forum & Exhibition took place in Vienna yesterday, organized by the AACC Austro-Arab Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the City of Vienna and the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RECREEE). Under the general theme "Energy Transition - Urban Technology and Sustainable Cities", New Opportunities for International Cooperation and Partnerships, representatives from EU institutions, international organizations, funds, European and international financial institutions as well as ministers and high-ranking personalities from the Arab economy met representatives of the local economy, politics and business community. Participants included Nabil R. Kuzbari, Richard Schenz, Michael Ludwig, Omar Al-Rawi, Mahdi Allak, Johannes Peterlik, Samir Koubaa, Michael Esterl and Li Yong.
Vienna Energy Forum and the R20 Austrian World Summit 2018: Feedback of a Participant
At the Vienna Energy Forum and the R20 Austrian World Summit recently held in Vienna, Beatriz Mayor of IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis also participated, who shares her interesting insights as follows.
OMV Celebrates 50 Years of Lucrative Natural Gas Business
On 1 June 1968, a historic gas supply contract was signed in Vienna, establishing Austria’s role as a key country in Europe’s natural gas network. The 50-year collaboration with Russia is a win-win situation. Then, as now, natural gas plays a key role in OMV's portfolio, as European demand will continue to increase over the next decades. OMV is Gazprom’s main partner in Austria. The companies cooperate in gas production, transportation and supplies.
Putin's Austria Visit: Extension of Gazprom Gas Supply Contract until 2040
OMV has formally confirmed the extension of the gas supply contract with Russia's Gazprom on the occasion of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Austria by the two CEOs Alexey Miller and Rainer Seele.
Vladimir Putin on PR Campaign in Austria
Vladimir Putin is on his sixth official state visit to Austria. Officially, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the gas supply contract between Austria and Russia, this is a working visit to President Van der Bellen and Chancellor Kurz. In fact, a new gas supply contract between Gazprom and OMV is the main reason for the visit. Other gas deals are still in the negotiation phase, namely the Gazprom Urengoy gas field asset swap and the Nordstream 2 pipeline project. The Central European Gas Hub in Baumgarten/Lower Austria, an important gas distribution hub from the Russian perspective, could also be on the agenda.
Meet OPEC's Secretary General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo
HE Mr. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo is the current Secretary General of OPEC. He recently received a prestigious Energy Award for Lifetime Achievement for helping to stabilize the oil price again. He also gave an insight into how OPEC has regained its former strength under his guidance.
OMV Group Report Q1 2018: Profit Down 43%, Production Up 30%
Adjusted operating profit amounted to EUR 818 million, up 2% year-on-year. Net income was also in line with forecasts, although net income for the period fell by 43% year-on-year. One of two key events was the signing of a concession agreement for the acquisition of a 20% stake in two fields offshore Abu Dhabi from ADNOC, as well as two satellite fields. The agreed participation fee amounts to USD 1.5 bn and the duration of the contract is 40 years.
OMV Receives Political Support for €1.3 Billion Purchase of Two UAE Oil Fields
An economic delegation led by Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, with the participation of Margarete Schramböck, Minister of Economic Affairs, OMV CEO Rainer Seele and a small delegation had the main objective of supporting OMV in the concession agreement for the acquisition of a 20% stake in two fields offshore Abu Dhabi from ADNOC.
Top Energy Events Put Vienna in the Focus of the Global Clean Energy Economy
The Vienna Energy Forum 2018 in May in Vienna brings together a multitude of people and institutions to discuss and solve the key questions of the present on the topic of energy. Among them are heads of state, ministers, energy experts, representatives of international and non-governmental organizations, academia, civil society and the private sector. The PFAN Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum and the R20 Austria World Summit are also part of this huge event. This event, sponsored by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a high-level summit about leadership on implementing the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
OMV: Yearly Financial Report 2017
OMV Aktiengesellschaft is declaring the following financial reports below.
OMV Buys Oilfield Shares in Abu Dhabi for USD 1.5 Bln
Listed oil corporation OMV is acquiring 20 percent of two offshore oil fields in Abu Dhabi from the Abu Dhabi oil group ADNOC. The purchase price for the concession and the associated infrastructure amounts to USD 1.5 billion. OMV has already a long relationship with Abu Dhabi. OMV opened a representation office in Abu Dhabi in 2007. Today Abu Dhabi is the location of the Business Hub for OMV´s Upstream Middle East & Africa activities.
Former Finance Minister Schelling Appointed Gazprom Advisor
Hans Jörg Schelling, former Austrian Minister of Finance until December 2017, has signed an advisory contract with Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline three months after his handover. OMV is also involved in the project, of which he was the owner's representative as Austrian Minister of Finance.
Austrian Delegation Seeks to Improve Economic and Political Relations with Jordan
An official visit of President Van der Bellen to Jordan will take place from 17 April to 19 April 2018. The delegation to Amman will be accompanied by an economic mission headed by WKO Vice President Richard Schenz. The economic mission of the WKO is the response of an invitation issued some time ago by the President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Kingdom.
Chancellor Kurz Visits President Putin: "The situation in Syria is dramatic"
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz traveled to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin. The focus of the trip was a working meeting with the Russian President, with whom Kurz discussed, among other things, the bilateral relations of both countries, the relationship between Russia and the EU, the Ukraine conflict and the current situation in Syria.
OMV Group Reports Operating Result of EUR 688 Mln in 2017
OMV AG is reporting group results for 2017. The operating result increased by 67% to EUR 688 mn. Net income attributable to stockholders amounted to EUR 367 mn. Data includes latest two acquisitions of a 24.99% share in the Yuzhno Russkoye natural gas field located in Western Siberia (see picture) and the purchase of 40% in SMATRICS, Austria’s complete provider for all services related to electro - mobility. See OMV Group Report January – December and Q4 2017 including condensed consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2017 and Investor Relations Video below.
Schoeller Bleckmann Oilfield Preliminary Result for 2017
The 2017 financial year of Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG (SBO), listed on the ATX market of the Vienna Stock Exchange, was characterised by the upswing seen in North America. The strategic expansion of the Well Completion business the year before therefore turned out to be the perfect choice to make. Against the continued weak market environment internationally, SBO closed financial year 2017 on a clearly positive operating result.
Andritz Receives 90 Million Euros Order for Power Plant Renewal in Canada
The listed technology group Andritz has landed a major order for the renovation of a hydroelectric power station in Canada. "The order value is over 90 million euros," said Andritz by press release. The Styrian company will therefore renew six of the eight turbine units of a power plant in the province of Saskatchewan for the Canadian electricity supplier SaskPower.
Oil Price Hardly Matters for Russian Country Risk
The oil price decline has created headwinds for the Russian economy. However, the risk of doing business in Russia as determined not only by economic but also by political and structural factors has not changed substantially and there is therefore no evidence that the oil price decline had a significant impact on Russian country risk.
OSCE: "Reliable, Affordable and Sustainable Energy Supplies are Prerequisite for Stability and Security"
Energy experts from the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation, representing both government institutions and private sector companies, will begin a week-long field study of sustainable energy in Austria and Germany.
Activ Solar Files for Reorganisation in Austria, Debts Reach EUR 500 Million
Vienna-based Activ Solar GmbH announced that it is bankrupt and that it has filed for reorganization in Austria due to its investment exposure in Ukraine. The company has amassed debts to the tune of EUR 500 million.
Klaus Toepfer to Give Keynote Speech at Economic and Environmental Forum in Vienna
Good governance in the OSCE area, reinforcing security and stability through co-operation, will be theme of the 24th Economic and Environmental Forum and the 1st Preparatory Meeting taking place on 25 and 26 January in Vienna. The meeting will focus on good environmental governance to enable sustainable economic development.
US Company Contour Moves European Headquarters from Paris to Vienna
The Vienna-based European headquarters will be the strategic centre for all thermal and renewable energy facilities in Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Spain, Northern Ireland and Ukraine.
Historic Iran Nuclear Deal Likely to be Announced Early Tuesday
Officials negotiating in Vienna's Palais Coburg say nothing is confirmed, but a deal will possibly come in the early hours of the morning. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said an Iran nuclear deal would not be ready to be announced July 13, as China’s Foreign Minister urged the P5+1 and Iran to finalize the accord.
OPEC in Vienna Decides to Keep Production Unchanged
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) today hosted its 167th Meeting of the OPEC Conference at the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna. Participants included OPEC Heads of Delegation and the Secretary General. There were some expectations that the production goal of 30 million barrels a day could move higher. However, the key issue the market was looking for will remain at 30 million barrels a day.
Strabag Builds EUR 37 Million Power Plant in Switzerland
Strabag AG is building the Rhone Oberwald run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant in the Swiss canton of Valais. The contract value of € 37 million comprises the construction of the necessary tunnels, galleries and underground chambers.
OPEC Member Countries Discuss Global Petroleum Development Strategies in Vienna
The 6th OPEC International Seminar, with the theme "Petroleum - An Engine for Global Development", aims to build on the previous events from the past decade. It is currently taking place at the Imperial Hofburg Palace in Vienna. The Seminar intends to underpin OPEC’s commitment to stabilize the international oil market by promoting cooperation and dialogue with stakeholders around the world.
Update: OMV Appoints Outsider Rainer Seele as New CEO
The head of German oil and gas producer Wintershall is going to transfer to Austria’s listed oil and gas concern OMV as of 1 July 2015, taking the place of Gerhard Roiss as CEO. The incumbent CEO is going to leave the company on 30 June. Seele’s appointment as new helmsman of the Austrian firm was hailed as a "corner stone for the company”, by supervisory board head Rudolf Kemler during the press conference. Seele has been appointed for three years and his tenure may get extended by another two years. During his time in Wintershall he managed to raise production by over a half to 385,000 boe/d. Seele is a German citizen. He did not want to disclose his plans for OMV.
OMV Appoints Outsider Rainer Seele as New CEO
The Supervisory Board of OMV appointed Rainer Seele (54) as the new Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of OMV. Rainer Seele has accepted the appointment. He will assume the position effective July 1, 2015 for a three-year period, with an extension option for OMV for further two years. The current Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO Gerhard Roiss will resign from his position on June 30, 2015 as previously announced.
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG / Sound result 2014 - High profitability in a volatile environment - Proposed dividend EUR 1.50 per share
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG (SBO), generated sound results with high profitability in the 2014 financial year. Consolidated sales rose by 6.6%, to MEUR 488.6 (2013: MEUR 458.6). EBITDA grew by 9.3%, to MEUR 149.3 (2013: MEUR 136.5) and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) before one-off effects went up by 9.2%, to MEUR 106.7 (2013: MEUR 97.7). The EBITDA margin was 30.6% (2013: 29.8%), the EBIT margin before one-off effects was 21.8% (2013: 21.3%).
OMV Aktiengesellschaft / Announcement pursuant to section 82 para 9 Austrian Stock Exchange Act
OMV Aktiengesellschaft ("OMV" or "Company") intends to transfer treasury shares to members of the Executive Board and senior executives as well as potentials of OMV under the (i) Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) 2012 and the (ii) Matching Share Plan (MSP) 2014, based on the resolution of OMV's Supervisory Board of March 18, 2015 and the report pursuant to section 65 para 1b in conjunction with sections 171 para 1 and 153 para 4 Stock Corporation Act which was published on February 26, 2015.
Verbund Raises Earnings Forecast and Dividend for 2014
Verbund AG announced today that the earnings forecast for financial year 2014 is being raised. Verbund expects EBITDA of around €800m (previous forecast: €770m) and a Group result of around €125m (previous forecast: €85m) in financial year 2014. The planned dividend continues to be based on a payout ratio of approximately 50% of the adjusted group result which in 2014 will be around €210m (previous forecast: €190m).
State Holding ÖIAG to be Renamed ÖBIB
Austrian state holding ÖIAG is going to be turned into a limited liability company (GesmbH) called "ÖBIB" Österreichische Bundes- und Industriebeteiligungsholding, which will be permitted to make new acquisitions and which will report directly to the Finance Ministry.
Verbund Withdraws from Bulgaria
Verbund withdraws from Bulgaria by selling its 16 MW wind farm on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast to Inwind Sp Ltd, a project company of Bulgarian Inovent Holding AD. The transaction is scheduled to close by the end of 2014. Both companies agreed on not disclosing any financial details of the transaction.
BioEnergy International Expands Business in the USA
Listed technology company BDI BioEnergy International AG has been awarded with a contract for a plant optimisation project in California by Crimson Renewable Energy LP. The contract volume is in the lower single-digit million Euro range.
OMV's Gerhard Roiss Resigns from his Position as Chairman and CEO
Tonight, the Supervisory Board of OMV AG and Gerhard Roiss have agreed that Mr. Roiss resigns from his position as Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO as of June 30, 2015. The chief executive is to step down two years earlier than expected. Also the energy group’s management team will be overhauled.
Dispute at OMV Supervisory Board
Listed oil and gas group OMV and the state holding ÖIAG are involved in a dispute concerning a new executive board member of OMV. A decision is expected during the supervisory board meeting slated for Tuesday.
OMV Executive Board Members Roiss and Floren have to Leave
Bang at Austria's largest industrial conglomerate. The contracts of OMV CEO Gerhard Roiss and fellow board member Hans-Peter Floren are apparently terminated prematurely.
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West Jefferson Medical Center to Join LCMC Health System Investment to support healthcare in Jefferson Parish
LCMC Health (LCMC) announced today that the Jefferson Parish Council approved a Cooperative Endeavor and a Master Lease Agreement (CEA) between LCMC Health and West Jefferson Medical Center (WJMC). Subject to closing conditions expected to be met over the next 60 to 90 days, LCMC Health will pay Jefferson Parish up to $245 million to lease WJMC and operate its hospital and clinics for 45 years with a portion of the consideration dependent on the hospital’s financial performance in the first three years.
The CEA also provides for an investment of $340 million for healthcare capital improvements in WJMC and in the Westbank community embodied by Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 1 (District) which is to be invested over a 15-year period. LCMC will also provide community benefit payments of $3.15 million over the first four years for the benefit of the District and the residents of the parish. The parties have also agreed to continue their relationship through collaboration in the form of a partnership agreement to assess and monitor Westbank community health needs on an ongoing basis. The collaborative will be funded by a contribution of $150,000 from both LCMC Health and the District.
“We are appreciative of the Jefferson Parish Council’s leadership throughout the negotiation process and are grateful for the long-standing and unwavering support of WJMC’s employees, physicians and board,” stated Gregory C. Feirn, CEO of LCMC Health. “Welcoming WJMC to our community-centered healthcare system strengthens and complements the healthcare services provided by LCMC Health and will provide a much needed sense of stability to all members of the WJMC team.”
As a member of LCMC Health, WJMC will continue to provide exceptional healthcare to the residents of Jefferson Parish. Patients will not experience any disruption in care during the transition into the LCMC Health system, and current physicians and employees will remain in place. Parish residents and physicians will have greater access to specialized care centers in the LCMC System, including the soon to be opened University Medical Center and the state’s only regional children’s hospital. Additionally, capital will be invested to enhance healthcare services within Jefferson Parish.
“The hospital board of directors appreciates the action taken today by the Jefferson Parish Council. The board expresses its deep gratitude to the employees of WJMC for their steadfast focus on the hospital’s mission throughout the partnership journey,” said WJMC Board Chairman Harry L. “Chip” Cahill. “The board also appreciates the tremendous support of the community in this endeavor.”
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What I've been reading, featuring corrective narratives of the migrant caravan and the American frontier; and “Sabrina” by Nick Drnaso
March 9, 2019 William Matthew Davis
Late post because I lost an early draft from two weeks ago. I also initially had a bullet-point on David Wallace-Wells’ climate change book here but it morphed into its own post.
Why wasn’t the migrant caravan covered this way from the beginning?
San Pedro Sula may not be well known, but from 2011 to 2014 it was the most violent city in the world. The only thing to do there is escape. The crime syndicates, which have complete control over the region and the power of life and death over its people, have in recent years plunged Honduras into an unofficial state of war…. President Trump talks about the migrant caravan as if it were an attempted invasion. In reality, Honduras and Central America have paid an enormous price precisely because of US policies.
…This is what people are fleeing from, this landscape that seems to offer no future but killing or being killed. Despite their varied histories, the migrants all have in common the desire—or rather the need—to escape the violence of the drug gangs and the lack of work and opportunity in their country.
…Jakelin Caal Maquin, age seven, was healthy when she left Raxruhá, Guatemala, with her father. On the evening of December 6, both were arrested, along with 161 other migrants, by the US border patrol in New Mexico, after illegally crossing the border. A few hours later, while in the custody of American border agents, Jakelin began suffering from a high fever and seizures; she was taken by helicopter to a hospital, where she died the next day from septic shock, dehydration, and liver failure. She had traveled two thousand miles, crossing the Mexican desert, enduring weeks of exhaustion and hardship to reach the US, because she knew that beyond its border she could hope for something better than the future her own country offered. She died in the very place she could have begun a new life.
…Despite Trump’s many assertions, there is no evidence that criminals or drug traffickers formed any part of the caravan. The journalists who followed it have consistently reported that it is made up of ordinary, desperate people who are not criminals but are fleeing from criminals. Making these people seem dangerous, for example by claiming that the caravan has been infiltrated by “unknown Middle Easterners,” does, however, serve Trump’s interests, because it allows him to resort to emergency measures to keep the migrants from entering or remaining in the United States.
CBS also reported last week that 4,556 complaints over the past four years alleged unaccompanied migrant children were sexually abused in US custody
The New York Review article makes note of the diminishing numbers at refugee camps at the border and cite data from Mexican authorities: from a caravan originally estimated to be about 10,000 strong, 1,300 migrants returned home, 2,900 received humanitarian visas from Mexico and are living there legally, and 2,600 were arrested by US Border Patrol for attempting to cross illegally. The New York Times explored these migrants’ decisions to return to their home countries, attempt an illegal crossing, or settle in Mexico in the face of increasingly stringent policy under President Trump. It suggests that most of the asylum seekers who have given up on entering the United States were typically economic migrants who saw opportunity in joining the Honduran exodus:
Mexican officials said the data on people who have deferred or given up their quest for asylum in the United States reinforced an idea that is often raised by Mr. Trump: that many caravan members are not truly desperate for protection.
Immigrant advocates said that hype and false promises had attracted a group that was somewhat unrepresentative of typical asylum seekers. But they pointed to the roughly 4,000 members who had successfully entered the United States and had at least requested protected status to argue that most had legitimate claims.
Michelle Brané, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, warned that while Mr. Trump’s tough policies may discourage the undeserving, they might also endanger people who need protection. She said they would likely drive vulnerable migrants into the arms of human traffickers, who promise to provide passage into the United States.
“It may look like it’s working in the short term,” Ms. Brané said, “But I don’t think it’s a long-term solution. It’s driving people further into the shadows and that’s exactly the opposite of what we want.”
It recalls this New Yorker article from last year summarizing an outstanding effort by 2016 MacArthur Fellow Prof. Sarah Stillman and her graduate journalism students at Columbia to make a record of migrants who were deported to their violent deaths “with the help of border agents, immigration judges, politicans, and US voters”:
Fear of retribution keeps most grieving families from speaking publicly. We contacted more than two hundred local legal-aid organizations, domestic-violence shelters, and immigrants’-rights groups nationwide, as well as migrant shelters, humanitarian operations, law offices, and mortuaries across Central America. We spoke to families of the deceased. And we gathered the stories of immigrants who had endured other harms—including kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault—as a result of deportations under Obama and Trump.
…As the database grew to include more than sixty cases, patterns emerged. Often, immigrants or their families had warned U.S. officials that they were in danger if sent back. Ana Lopez, the mother of a twenty-year-old gay asylum seeker named Nelson Avila-Lopez, wrote a letter to the U.S. government during Christmas week in 2011, two months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally deported him to Honduras. Nelson had fled the country at seventeen, after receiving gang threats. He’d entered the U.S. unauthorized and been ordered removed, but an immigration judge then granted him an emergency stay of his deportation so that he could reopen his case for asylum. An ICE agent told his family’s legal team that Nelson was deported because “someone screwed up,” and ICE alleges that the proper office had not been notified of the judge’s stay.
Francisco Cantú, the former Border Patrol guard whose article on border violence was previously linked to here, reviews a new book taking a historical look at the race-based violence and militarism of the American frontier and its modern incarnation in the southern Border Patrol. This is a history of atrocity—including “the lynching of thousands of men, women and children of Mexican descent from the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century”—that the Times this week reported is struggling to be preserved. The book is “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” by the historian Greg Gandin:
Grandin’s chapters on the Border Patrol make evident the origins of many of today’s most egregious border-enforcement practices. When I read of the Mexicans who were routinely jeered at by federal agents in the 1920s as they crossed the bridge from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, I thought of the agents who mocked a roomful of crying migrant children last summer after they had been separated from their parents. “Aqui tenemos una orquesta,” one agent joked—“We’ve got an orchestra here.” When I read of the workplace police raids that were conducted in the early nineteen-thirties, with the sanction of the Hoover Administration, as a “psychological gesture” to scare deportable migrants, I thought of the “show me your papers” law, passed in Arizona in 2010 and then adopted by other states, with the explicit hope of driving migrants toward self-deportation. When I read of the Border Patrol agents who admitted to reporters in the nineteen-seventies that, when pursuing migrant families, they would often try to apprehend the youngest member first, so that the rest would surrender in order to avoid being separated, I thought, inevitably, of the enactment last year of “zero tolerance,” which turned family separation into a national policy.
Because I served as a Border Patrol agent, from 2008 to 2012, Grandin’s account brought up more personal memories for me as well. Despite its white-supremacist roots, the Border Patrol has evolved into an agency where more than half of its members are of Latinx descent. Just as the military has long promised social mobility to immigrants and minority populations, the Border Patrol provides rare access to financial security and the privileges of full citizenship, especially for those living in rural border communities. In America, even at the individual level, citizenship politics often wins out over identity politics.
“Sabrina”, a graphic novel by Nick Drnaso was our latest book club venture. Strong recommendation from The New Yorker and I think the LA Review had the best take on it: “At its best, Drnaso’s work encourages readers—more thoroughly than might art with more explicit rendering of its characters—to recognize the interiority of other people. We pause, reflect, and introduce more of ourselves.”
As someone unexperienced with graphic novels—I think I’ve only read Archie comics, “Watchmen”, and a few manga that were popular during high school—I was surprised by how well Drnaso accomplishes that expression of interiority through images drawn in the same style as airline emergency instructions (someone else’s comparison that I can’t seem to source at the moment). I had a prejudice to think of all graphic novels as having the subtlety of the “POW!” of comic-book superhero punches, but I found in many cases, they can leave a lot more implied that can text-based novels. Some choice examples (hover over the images for notes):
In these two frames, Drnaso can communicate a conversation hitting a lull without ever saying anything like “An awkward silence ensued.” Previous frames cut back-and-forth between the two characters as they took turns presenting their ideas so the zoomout brings both into frame emphasizing the physical presence of the silence. Sabrina’s (in blue) arm position has changed to denote the passage of time.
In context, we know exactly what Calvin is telling Teddy here; the exact grammar of how he phrases it is secondary to what the information means to Teddy. Teddy in shock collapses into an awkward, painful heap that would be difficult to describe in words.
Exactly what it’s like to Facetime a child who’s too close to the camera. The conversation is over as soon as the child goes out of frame (both of the panel and of Calvin’s screen, which are the same perspective here).
Teddy and Calvin are seated together. This page only uses angles emphasizing Teddy’s isolation, obscuring Teddy who’s seated right next to him…
…and the next shot is a comically contrasting cut to Calvin’s meager attempt to console him while wearing a Snuggie. The last three frames here communicate that Teddy has vomited without saying so or using an over-the-top onomatopoeic “BLEEECCCCHHHHH!!!” Just Calvin dipping his head slightly in second-hand embarrassment.
Sally Rooney on the elitism of the literary vanguard:
“I guess the reason I feel skeptical of all that is it makes me feel that books have no potential to speak truth to power, they have no potential as political texts because of the role they play in the cultural economy… because of its position as a commodity.”
From International Women’s Day in light of Harvard’s handling of a sexual harassment investigation of a prominent member of faculty
Yesterday two senior faculty shouted at me bc I said they hadn’t done enough to fix the sexual harassment crisis in our department.
Semi-serious question for #PoliSciTwitter: does anyone want to adopt a grad student? (3rd-yr working on W Europe/political behavior/class politics)
— Sophie Hill (@sophie_e_hill) March 8, 2019
The latest (at the time of my initially drafting this) in the Jason Hickel vs. Bill Gates/Steven Pinker/Max Roser debate. The finer points about data quality I don’t really care about (though on that, Branko Milanovic is by far the most qualified). I don’t find this graph being celebrated on Twitter particularly compelling. Poverty rates decreasing across all poverty lines over 25 years—especially these last 25 years—is a very low bar to clear, in my opinion, and will be mostly driven by China’s market reforms. Lost in that level of aggregation is how many countries for which this invariance to poverty line does not hold (which I have no clue about but would like to see). And even in those cases, I’m not sure that’s a worthy counterfactual upon which to celebrate the successes and inherent virtues of market fundamentalism and the Washington Consensus, which this is really about.
Final note after attending my last economics lecture at Oxford yesterday:
“One of the strangest things an African scholar can do is move to Europe to study Africa.” @Nanjala1 in the preface to her book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya https://t.co/Jj8Qc0o28S pic.twitter.com/sP5Q4GU85d
— David Evans (@DaveEvansPhD) February 15, 2019
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What I've been reading, featuring climate change only: “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells, the moral imperative of alarmism, and climate intersectionality →
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Canton Island Airport (CIS)
Abariringa, Kiribati (KI) Medium airport
Facts and Gallery
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Gallery and Facts
Submitted by Anthony Price
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Canton Island Airport Reviews (24)
VH-BPH
Anthony Price October 24, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Fascinating! How did the nose of VH-BPH get to Finland? Must be an interesting story. My trip from Sydney via Fiji to Canton and onward via Honolulu to Oakland CA in 1947 was aboard DC-4 VH-ANA of Australian National Airways (see my earlier post (#3)).
Bcpa Dc-6 At Canton Island
Pekka Kauppi October 17, 2012 at 6:53 pm
BCPA DC-6 VH-BPH at Canton Island. Its nose section is now preserved in Finland and made to a flight simulator. I fly it regularly from Sydney via Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu, San Francisco to Vancouver.
Lived On Canton
Micheal Coffin August 21, 2012 at 6:03 am
I had the honor of living on Canton Island from June 1966 to September 1967. This was my first civilian position after the Air Force. I worked for the U.S. Weather Bureau and actually recorded the last weather observation on Sep 18, 1967. NASA had a contract with Bendix Field Engineering Corp. to man the satellite tracking station and they were closing up shop. The Weather Bureau could not afford to keep us there since the support personnel would be closing all services such as power generation, water distillation, mess hall, and other services. Leaving was a sad ocassion. With a total population of about 45 people, it was a very peaceful and relaxing place to work and live. Hey – did I mention the greatest fishing on earth? I’ve lost my pictures from Canton and find it difficult to locate any posted from that period. Found pics from the 50s and from some activity during the 70s. Anyway, Canton will always have a warm spot in my heart and memories.
British Commonwealth Pacific Airline Airplane Tail Number
Steve Lewandowski May 24, 2012 at 2:48 am
The tail number on the British Commonwealth Pacific Airline DC-6 that I have uploaded is VH-BPH which would identify her as the DISCOVERY!
Steve Lewandowski's Photos
Anthony Price May 23, 2012 at 4:55 am
The ship is of course the ill-fated President Taylor, charted by the US military, that ran aground after offloading troops in 1942 in expectation of a Japanese invasion.
Canton Island Photographs Early 1950's
Steve Lewandowski May 22, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Some huts on Canton Island.
Excellent image of the Ham Radio Shack at Canton KIBS.
Civilization on Canton.
The ship President Taylor washed up near the shore.
This must be the main and only terminal at Canton. The sign on the end of the building to the right says "Pan American World Airways", and the small sign on top of the tall directional sign says, " Along the route of the flying clippers". How would you love to find a sign like that?!
British Commonwealth Pacific Airline Airplane on Canton Island.
More Canton Island Photos
Steve Lewandowski May 22, 2012 at 11:42 am
Awesome shot of Canton Island from the air; circa 1951-1953.
Canton Island stranded ship
Canton Island from the air; circa 1951-1953
Canton Island Photographs 1951
I collect vintage photography and found some really great Kodachrome Slides circa 1951-1953, roughly of Canton Island. Here are a few for your viewing pleasure. My favorite is the one of the Canton Island Pan American Clipper sign and the pole with the number of miles to other destinations. Enjoy! These also came with a collection of slides from Umiat Alaska which was also a military airport and Air Force base in the same time period so I am speculating that the individual who took these amazing images had something to do with aviation. But, just a guess.
Born On Canton 1956
Sara Johnson May 1, 2012 at 4:17 am
I was born on Canton in a Quanset Hut, too. Probably the same one Mr. Rhoades was born in! I was born in 1956. My dad, Howard Johnson, handled communications for the FAA — worked in the ‘radio shack’. My mom, Bessie Johnson, was the island school teacher on the US side, and my brother, Michael, about 6 or 7, was just a kid growing up on a desert island. I’m gathering materials for a book, and would welcome any slides, photos, stories that anyone wants to share. Mr. James Allen, you mentioned you had some but I can’t see how to contact you. I can be reached at sarajohnson249[at]gmail.com
Lived There
Earl Rhoades April 8, 2012 at 8:26 pm
I was born on Kanton in 1957 in a Quonset hut. My Australian mother was a stewardess for ANA and my father being formerly US military was working for the CAA then. I remember lots of planes landing there. My first 5 years of life a happy time on Kanton. I wish I could go back there.
Landed On Canton Island
Jim Kizer March 26, 2012 at 10:59 pm
I landed a C-54(DC-4) on Canton Island on 27 April, 1966, 46 years ago tomorrow. As I recall, it was at about 0200. It was a very dark night and the lights on the airstrip were a welcomed sight. Protocol was that the lights came on automatically 30 min. prior to ETA and went off 30 min. after ETA. We were out of Kanehoe Bay, HI enroute to Sidney. We refueled, ate and rested and departed. A very nice experience.
Australian National Airways
Anthony Price August 12, 2010 at 3:39 am
There were apparently two airlines called Australian National Airways. Here is the Google link to the second one, that lasted into the 1950s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_National_Airways. The DC-4 that I flew on via Canton Island in 1947 was VH-ANA, which I only just realized was to experience a fatal crash in 1950. When in my previous post I said that ANA was the predecessor of Qantas, I didn’t necessarily mean chronologically but rather as the national flag carrier.
Australian Airlines
Michael Rose July 13, 2010 at 6:44 am
I was always under the impression that Qantas was the longest surviving airline operating under the same name. According to Wikipedia Australian National Airways was a short-lived Australian airline, founded in 1929 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. The airline began operations in January 1930 with five Avro 618 Tens, similar aircraft to Kingsford Smith’s famous Southern Cross. However, the airline folded in 1931 after the crash of VH-UMF Southern Cloud in the Australian Alps between Sydney and Melbourne, and VH-UNA Southern Sun in Malaya. It was therefore not the predecessor of Qantas.
Visited Canton Island 1947
Anthony Price June 7, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I landed at Topham Field, Canton Island, on a flight with Australian National Airlines (predecessor to Qantas) from Sydney and Suva to Honolulu and Oakland, in April 1947. At Canton Island watched is a photo of our C-54 "AMANA" taken at the final destination. We were driven around the island to have breakfast at the PanAm hotel (spam and eggs), then we returned across the lagoon by boat. The wreck of the President Taylor was still on the reef, of course. That short visit was a lasting memory.
2 Years On Canton Island
James Allen January 19, 2010 at 3:07 am
I lived and worked on Canton Island for 2 years in the early 70’s, assisting supervision of maintenance on 3 Ch3E helicopters that were bailed to us as civilian contractors. We operated three islands in the Phoenix group….Canton, Enderbury, and Hull Islands. When I first arrived there had been no one on the island for about 9 years and we had to live aboard a converted World War II Liberty ship until we had the housing brought back up to standards fit to occupy. There were about 350 of us on the island, all men, except for one visit by Sheilia Scott, aviatrix extraordinaire, when she paid us a visit whilst circumnavigating the globe. With two years behind me on the island, there are many stories that can be told, but perhaps I shall wait for an invitation to tell some of them….like the National Geographic benchmark that I unearthed whilst making repairs to the septic tank outside my house. I also hove numerous slides and photos from the island which I would love to share.
Darlene Kingi November 24, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I was a child on board a DC3 flying from Vancouver, B.C. to Sydney, Australia, Feb. 22-26. Between Honolulu and Fiji Islands, we landed on Canton Island on account of a cyclone in Fiji. Crew and passengers were ‘ferried’ to the other side of the island and slept in army barracks overnight. We returned and flew out before dawn. I remember it being totally flat with no trees and suffocatingly hot.
My Time On Canton Island
Jack Fenimore April 29, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I was a pilot flying P-39s off of the strip on the northwest side of the Canton island in 1943. We used to take a jeep and drive around to the Pan-Am facility on the south side to get a good meal. Pan-Am had a few personnel manning their facility including a kitchen crew, even though Pan-Am had not had one of their Clippers come in since the war had started. We were over 600 miles from the nearest japs, but one lone Jp bomber would come over once a month on the night of the full moon to try to bomb us. Their bombs either hit out in the sea or in the lagoon! The only shade on our base was under the wings of our planes. It averaged over 100 degrees every day!
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How Politics Affect Yucaipa
Bill Clinton Looks To Limit Ties To Avoid Conflicts
John R. Emshwiller
Updated Dec. 14, 2007 12:01 am ET
When billionaire Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa investment operation agreed to put more than $25 million into a Chinese media company this fall, the investor group didn't include one of Yucaipa's high-profile partners: former President Bill Clinton.
The absence of Mr. Clinton from Yucaipa's investment in Xinhua Finance Media Ltd. appears to be the first tangible sign of a parting in the much-followed, five-year-old business relationship between Messrs. Clinton and Burkle. Mr. Clinton has been a senior adviser at Yucaipa and also had...
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The ALFRED EHRHARDT STIFTUNG is committed to promoting the study of the work of Alfred Ehrhardt, a photographer, documentary filmmaker and outstanding representative of the New Objectivity movement. The foundation was established in November 2002 by the artist’s son, the Munich investment manager Dr. Jens Ehrhardt, in order to preserve his father’s artistic legacy and estate—which includes drawings, graphic works, photographs, negatives, films and papers—and make it available to a wide public. In January 2010 the foundation moved from Cologne to Berlin, a step made to enhance the foundation’s public presence.
In addition to operating as an archive, the foundation is also committed to presenting contemporary photography and media art. Exhibitions have a special dialogical approach, which provides an encounter between contemporary positions addressing themes intrinsic to Ehrhardt’s work—nature and the construct of the natural—and original photographs and films by Alfred Ehrhardt. This dialogue is then continued in the form of events and discussions and is recapitulated in accompanying publications.
The foundation also oversees the ALFRED EHRHARDT HOUSE, which opened in Triptis, Thuringia in the spring of 2008. Built around 1800, the birth house of the artist was very dilapidated after a long period of vacancy. The house was extensively renovated, and an exhibition space designed by an architect from the Dessau Bauhaus was installed to provide an overview of Alfred Ehrhards artistic oeuvre.
Showroom Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Berlin, 2010 Photo: hiepler, brunier, berlin
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The Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU), formerly the ACBAR Resource and Information Centre (ARIC), as envisioned by Professor Louis Dupree, was established in Peshawar (Pakistan) in 1989. Professor Louis Dupree often stated that his ambition was to understand Afghanistan “from one cell up” and during the 1970s, the Dupree home in Kabul was filled with Afghan and inter national scholars and students exchanging knowledge and ideas.
During the war years, Louis gained new insights while traveling across the border from Peshawar; meanwhile, Nancy Hatch Dupree kept track of happenings among the world’s largest refugee
population. Here was history in the making, a crucial component of Afghan heritage that desperately needed to be recorded. Louis then launched the idea of a resource centre that would preserve information from a wide variety of sources on every aspect of this traumatic period.
Following Professor Louis’s death in 1989,Nancy picked up the reins. In 2005, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, then Chancellor of the Kabul University, provided temporary space in the University’s Main Library. In 2007, President Karzai authorized development funds to be made available from the Government’s budget for the construction of a new facility at the University Campus. In 2007, the Dupree Foundation was established in New York to support the program in Afghanistan.
On 27 March 2013 ACKU inaugurated the new building, located at the center of the Kabul University Campus. The new facility is funded largely by the Afghan government with some contributions from foreign donations. A new memorandum of understanding was signed with the Ministry of Higher Education in January 2013 providing for ACKU to operate independently inside
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The Experience WA app By Tourism Western Australia is the perfect tool for delegates who wish to explore Perth. With so many options on offer for visitors such as swimming with wild dolphins, visiting a winery or taking in a sporting or cultural event! Let the app help you choose what to do.
Experience Perth
With plenty of inspirational spaces, exceptional natural beauty and incredible diversity, Western Australia provides the spaces to connect and a fresh perspective on business events. Basking in the warmth of a Mediterranean climate Perth is a city buzzing with a new energy reinvigorating visitors with its sophisticated style, cleanliness, clear blue skies and pristine coastline, yet the relaxed lifestyle and friendly vibe remain.
Safe and secure, Perth offers all the benefits of a large metropolitan city with an excellent range of affordable and inspirational Congress and event venue options, quality accommodation, and shopping, dining and leisure activities.
Experience Western Australia
Explore WA’s Coral Coast
Looking for the most popular things to see and do around Ningaloo Reef and the Coral Coast? The towns of Exmouth and Coral Bay, sit on the World Heritage Listed Ningaloo Reef, and are the only places in Australia where you can swim with whale sharks, as well as humpback whales and manta rays. If you’d rather stay dry, no problem, eco cruises run daily to the reef, and heading south towards Perth brings you to the beach loving dolphins of Monkey Mia, and the lunar landscape of the Pinnacles.
The World Heritage listed Ningaloo Reef is internationally recognised as one of the planet’s last great ocean paradises. Located in Western Australia's Gascoyne region and fronting the gateway townships of Exmouth and Coral Bay, the 300 kilometre long Ningaloo Reef is the largest fringing coral reef in the world.
Pinnacles & Cervantes
Take a day trip from Perth to the other-worldly landscape of the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park. Following the Indian Ocean Drive, you can stop to meet friendly kangaroos, try sandboarding and taste Cervantes’ famous seafood delicacy.
If you’re travelling between July and October, you’ll see Western Australia in full colour, as the coastal landscapes are filled with the blooms of spring wildflowers.
Unearth another side of the landscape and embark on the road trip of a lifetime by hiring a four-wheel drive and hitting the red dirt highways. Drive yourself along the Golden Quest Discovery Trail for a unique off-road adventure through our Goldfields. As you travel from Coolgardie through to Laverton you’ll get a taste of outback life. For a surreal evening, set up camp out under the stars—you’ll witness impressive formations you’ve never seen before.
There are plenty of easy ways to experience this expansive landscape and include Kalgoorlie and the Golden Outback in your extraordinary WA holiday.
The Pilbara region in Western Australia has some of the world’s most ancient natural landscapes, dating back two billion years and stretching over 500,000 square kilometres.
Deep rocky canyons lead to peaceful plunge pools in the beautiful Karijini National Park. Hundreds of islands with dazzling white beaches and untouched coral gardens are yours to explore on the Dampier Archipelago and Mackerel Islands. And yet the Pilbara is also known as the engine room of Australia - home to a massive mining industry in crude oil, salt, natural gas and iron ore.
Karijini National Park and Beyond
Walk the mighty gorges of Karijini National Park and Millstream Chichester National Park to discover hidden waterfalls and swim in clear cool rock pools. Or venture deep into the Eastern Pilbara to one of the most remote places on the planet, Rudall River National Park.
The cool southern region of our state offers the visitor a spectacular range of holiday experiences. You’ll see magnificent beaches, lush farmland and mighty forests. Quiet, well maintained roads are coupled with a blend of busy rural towns, ports and quiet hamlets. And Australia’s South West hosts some of the world’s finest wineries who welcome visitors with premium wines and fine dining.
Margaret River is a small town south of Perth in Western Australia, known for its craft breweries, boutiques and surrounding wineries. Beaches and surf breaks line the nearby coast, whose waters host migratory whales (Jun–Nov). Stretching between 2 lighthouses north and south of the town, the long-distance walk, the Cape to Cape Track, fringes the limestone caves and sea cliffs of Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.
Albany is a city at the southern tip of Western Australia. It's known for its beaches, such as popular Middleton Beach. East of the city, Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve is home to secluded Little Beach. Albany’s Historic Whaling Station, a former whale processing plant, now houses a museum. Migrating whales pass off the coast at Torndirrup National Park, where steep cliffs give way to dramatic rock formations.
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ISLAMIST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN FRANCE WHO WEAR SHORTS
Now, adding to the horrors that have come after the terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice, there's also violence in places like Toulon against women who wear shorts:
Two families on a cycle ride in Toulon, southern France, came under violent attack after assailants hurled insults at two female partners for wearing shorts, according to prosecutors.
The attack, carried out by a group of youths from a housing estate in the Mediterranean port town, has sparked claims that parts of France are prey to an Islamist “morality police”.
Without a doubt, they are indeed.
Two couples with their three children and a friend were on a Sunday afternoon outing on bikes and roller blades when the “incredibly violent” attack took place, according to Var Matin, the local newspaper.
They were passing near the Cité des Oeillets, an estate in eastern Toulon, when a group of adolescents starting insulting the women of the group because of their shorts, including jibes such as: “Dirty whore, get naked.”
When their male partners sought to intervene, a larger group of youths arrived and a fight ensued, according to the Toulon prosecutor; Bernard Marchal.
“The male partners had simply asked them to respect their women and that sparked the fight. The three men were violently beaten on the face in front of their children. This was provocation of a sexual nature with the intention of forcing a reaction out of the men present,” said Mr Marchal.
One of the men was severely beaten and has had to take a month off work, while another had his nose broken. The women were lightly injured and the children suffered from shock.
Thanks to CCTV, police were able to identify and arrest two suspects, aged 17 and 19, and a preliminary investigation has been launched to identify other suspects.
This is downright repulsive. If the authorities want to prove they're going to crack down on such violence, they're going to have to start seeing to it that the judges stop giving weak sentences. They're also going to have to start imposing serious monetary fines upon the offenders.
The attack comes a month after an 18-year old girl was spat at and insulted by a group of girls who found her shorts indecent.
Maud Vallet posted a Facebook picture of herself in shock afterwards with the caption: “Hello, I’m a slag”. The post received over 81,000 “likes”, or signs of readers’ anger and sadness over the incident.
She recounted asking her taunters: "Why are you calling me a whore because I'm wearing shorts while a man can walk around the centre of town bare-chested without anyone saying anything?"
She said they replied: "Because you're a woman and should respect yourself, you idiot."
A solidarity “march in shorts” was held in the town.
There should be more solidarity movements like those held here too. The creeps who insulted the girl were invoking an offensive cliche of sexualizing a woman's body, and come to think of it, men's too. Maybe male Muslim offenders should even be made to wear a veil over their heads, if anything, as a punishment for their own felonies.
CAR WITH GAS CANISTERS FOUND NEAR NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL
The French police found a car without license plates left by jihadists near Notre Dame in Paris, and arrested the culprits:
Several people are being held in Paris after police found an unmarked car containing gas cylinders next to Notre Dame cathedral, according to French reports, sparking fears of a fresh terrorist plot.
An anti-terror investigation has been launched following the discovery of the suspicious vehicle containing seven cylinders on Sunday, yards from the cathedral, one of Paris's most visited landmarks where thousands of tourists congregate every day.
The car, a Peugeot 607 with no number plates, contained no explosives or detonators, according to French reports. "They were not linked to any kind of fuse," one source close to the investigation told l'Express.
According to BFM TV, one empty canister was found in the back of the car and six full ones in the boot. The type of gas they contained was not specified.
The car had been abandoned on Quai de Montebello, just yards from Notre Dame, located on the Île de la Cité, by the river Seine.
Initial reports said that a couple - a man, aged 34, and a woman, aged 29 - were arrested and are being questioned by French domestic intelligence agents.
But Le Parisien, the capital's daily reported that six people are now being held.
More proof that Christians and their landmarks are being threatened in France. On the surface, it might sound like this was a dry run, but there's every chance something is being covered up, not unlike the savagery that took place at Bataclan last year, and those could've been poisoned gas. Which only proves there's serious danger here.
NAOMI RAGEN SAYS NO TO HILARY CLINTON
Naomi Ragen explains why she's voting for Donald Trump, and reminds us of Clinton's own accountabilities when she was secretary of state. She's one writer who's recognizing reality for what it is.
REUTERS WHITEWASHES/SUGARCOATS SITUATIONS WITH BURKINIS IN ISRAEL
Since we were on the subject of Reuters the other day, they wrote a report from Israel that leaves a bad taste in my mouth with its whitewash and sugarcoating:
In Israel, there may be profound ideological and political differences between the Jewish population and the near 20-percent Muslim minority, but it has never come down to banning someone’s dress on the basis of religion.
“It is very funny that people think they are so liberal and open and yet they cannot stand other religions and the feelings of other people,” said Ruti Solomon, an Israeli Jewish woman enjoying the sunshine on the beach in Tel Aviv.
Behind her, Muslim women with their bodies and heads fully covered in burkini-like clothing played in the water or relaxed on the sand, with the church spires and mosque minarets of the town of Jaffa in the near distance.
“I’ve heard what’s happening in Europe,” said Shams al-Duha Alayyan, a fully-covered young Muslim woman visiting the coast from Jerusalem. “This is personal freedom. If I want to cover my body, why can’t I cover my body?”
Well here's 2 disgraces, one who either doesn't have the courage to admit it's as oppressive as the niqab, or is so indoctrinated she has no self-esteem. And Reuters must've been quite happy to find anybody who'd lend themselves to their attack on France. As I've noted before, the burkini could be used to conceal weapons and even drugs, and on top of that, it's bad for hygiene. Now in Israel, they usually maintain good enough security even at beaches, but that still doesn't mean a burkini's appropriate even here.
Oh, and I must seriously disagree with the following accomodation:
Of course, Israel has its quirks, too. The ultra-Orthodox Jewish population enjoys the seaside as much as anyone else. But they keep separate, not only having segregated beaches but alternating the bathing days for men and women.
North of Tel Aviv, it was women’s day at an ultra-Orthodox beach on Tuesday. Busloads of visitors arrived in full-body swimwear and went down to the beachfront via a security gate, with high fencing all around to keep out prying eyes.
It's one thing if they want to be so ridiculously prudish, but to provide them with a public beach section is regrettable, and it's bad if they're not considering personal hygiene and doing this at the potential expense of their health. They should be getting their own pool if it's that big a deal to them, and not exploiting public shores.
Since we're on the subject, some courts in France have let down the public yet again by overturning the burkini ban, although some of this news may be exaggerated, as the municipalities were going to let it go around the end of August anyway. Nevertheless, this is troubling news, since it shows that the legal system in France is an enemy of the people as much as the press are.
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CL - The Baddest Female (MV Review)
Unnie Earns Her Stripes
I'm terribly impressed with Miss ChaeRin here, CL has really proved that she can pull off just about anything and look fantastic doing it. She really can do incredible things, conceptually. And since the whole crazy concept / MV setting / and the song itself are CL's creation with only a bit of Teddy's supervision, I have to say I'm proud of her for the whole thing.
However, it feels unpolished. She's a well-trained rookie in regards to producing so that's not unexpected, but it still true. The MV is very western, lots of Nikki Minaj influences here, clearly, and a lot of her Sunbae-GD's influence too. The quirky but clean styling, the posh vibe, the more or less nonsensical scene selection. I'm totally cool with the MV, it really suits the whole hip-hop concept.
The song on the other hand . . . I have reservations for it. The slow verses are not my style but they could work, the pre-chorus build up is actually great, and the drop to the chorus is pretty nice, but the 'Unnie' section at the end of the chorus . . . it falls flat. The bridge is nicely transitioned into but it doesn't seem very necessary and it doesn't have the impact it could have. The second half of the bridge proves that much, that section is really nice. Lyrically it's pretty empty, and they don't make good use of all the various sections.
What I think happened is that CL got so excited about her solo production that she tried to make a dozen songs in one. There's just too many sections, too much to keep track of, too many pieces that don't quite fit together. I've seen it happen to plenty of great musicians, and all of them have managed to improve tremendously the moment they finished their first track and moved on to their second. I think she's got incredible potential. But this is not my favorite track this summer.
7/10: Me Gusta!
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C.S.Lewis Experience
C.S.Lewis Tour and Festival
Presbyterian Tour
An Independent People
3-DVD box set of the acclaimed BBC Northern Ireland series, charting the story of Ulster’s Presbyterians. Presented by William Crawley.
At its closest point a 12-mile stretch of water separates Ulster from Scotland, across which people have been moving to and fro for millennia. The Presbyterians who arrived here in the seventeenth century have changed the face of Ireland and the world. They were at heart of the American struggle for liberty. Their missionary endeavour carried the Gospel to the four corners of the earth. They planted the seed of republicanism in Ireland, something which continues to have ramifications to this day. These Presbyterians planted a reformed faith which spread to four continents. They were the marginalised who became the powerful, the dissenters who became the conservatives, the outsiders who became the establishment. For more than 400 years, they have been an independent people.
An Independent People was originally commissioned and broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland television with support from the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund. The series was produced by Below the Radar TV.
Episode I: Taking Root
The first episode of this series traces the story of the Scottish ministers who first established the Presbyterian Church on Irish soil and their struggle for religious liberty throughout the turbulent seventeenth century.
Episode II: Seeds of Liberty
Episode two considers the extraordinary contribution made by Ulster Presbyterians to America’s struggle for liberty and how revolution in America and France inspired radical Presbyterians in Ulster to rise up against the Crown in 1798.
Episode III: Union and Division
The final episode explores the ways in which Ulster’s Presbyterians began to move away from their radical past to become part of the establishment in a new Northern Ireland state and looks at the role of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland today.
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Tour price: 1100 USD Duration of the tour: 8 days Tour type: Israel
Tel Aviv - Jerusalem - Bethlehem - Dead Sea - Nazareth - Galilee - Tel Aviv
Arrival in Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Transfer to Jerusalem. On the way to you visit Jaffa. Here you visit Saint Nicholas Monastery, an Armenian monastery known from the first millennium AD. Arrival in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the Holy Capital of three main religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. You visit historical and modern parts of the city. The Old City has been traditionally divided into four quarters — known since the early 19th century as the Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Quarters.
Overnight at the hotel Shani 4*.
Breakfast at the hotel. Jerusalem - visit the Armenian Apostolic Church of Jerusalem Patriarchate. You visit the Armenian Apostolic Church of Jerusalem Patriarchate.
You visit Zion, the holy mountain, where according to the legend, God's temple and the palace of King David were located. The Ark of the Covenant was kept in the palace of King David. Here is also the tomb of King David and the old mosque. You also visit St. Jakob church, as well as the library, the School of the Holy Translators. You also see other religious and historical buildings.
Breakfast at the hotel. You visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It is the second largest city in Israel. Here you visit the church of the Nativity and the "Milk Grotto". The church is built over a cave which is traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
You visit Jordan River. The river has a major significance in Judaism and Christianity. It is famous as the place where Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist.
Departure for Dead Sea, where the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah have been discovered. It is Earth's lowest elevation on land and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.
Here is situated the largest natural spa center where you can relax in the warm waters, enjoy cosmetic mud (mask) mineral tubs and get treatment. Return to Jerusalem.
Overnight at the Shani Hotel 4*.
After breakfast you visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The church has been an important Christian pilgrimage destination since at least the fourth century as the traditional site of the resurrection of Christ. You continue your way to Golgotha where, according to the Bible, Jesus was crucified. Within the church are the last four Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa, representing the final episodes of Jesus' Passion.
Departure to Tiberias. Arrival in Galilee. In the evening you can walk on the shore of the sea.
Overnight at the hotel Prima Galil 4*.
After breakfast sailing on "Jesus Boats" around the Sea of Galilee. You visit Tabgha, on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, which is traditionally considered to be the site where Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes was built here in the fifth century. You also visit the Church of St. Peter’s Primacy, where Jesus is said to have appeared to his disciples after the resurrection.
Tour to Haifa and Caesarea. Akko is a city in the northern coastal plain region of northern Israel. The city occupies an important location, as it sits on the coast of the Mediterranean. Acre is one of the oldest sites in the world. Caesarea which was built by Herod the Great about 25–13 BC as the port city Caesarea Maritima. It played an important role in the history of Christianity. It served as an administrative center of Judaea Province of the Roman Empire, and later the capital of the Byzantine Palaestina. Departure to Tel Aviv.
Overnight at the hotel Arcadia Tower 4*.
Breakfast at the hotel. Visit of “The Bursa” Diamond Stock Exchange. Departure for the Ben Gurion airport. On the way you stop at Lod, St. George Monastery.
Arrival at the airport. Flight.
Transfer to and from airport
Transportation –mini buses or buses (Mercedes)
Hotel accommodation on twin-share basis in 4* hotel
Half Board Service
7 excursions
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WACKER Expands its Korea Technical Center and Opens New Silicones and Polymers Training Facility
Munich / Seoul, Mar 02, 2012
WACKER, the Munich-based chemicals group, has successfully completed the expansion and relocation of its technical laboratories and offices in South Korea, and today inaugurates the upgraded technical center, with integrated training facility, near the capital Seoul. The regional competence center now houses under a single roof both research & development (R&D), applications technology, and a facility for basic and advanced training in silicones and polymers applications. A new silicone laboratory has been built to research, in particular, high-tech products for the electronics industry, while the technical center for polymeric binders will concentrate primarily on applications for construction chemicals. The integrated WACKER ACADEMY training facility will additionally offer an ideal platform for market -specific networking among customers, distribution partners and WACKER specialists. The Korea technical center will thus help to ensure an optimum supply of high-quality silicone and polymer products for the fast-growing markets in the region.
The expanded technical center is located in Pangyo Techno Valley in a suburb of the South Korean capital, Seoul. Occupying an area of more than 3,600 m², the site houses the new offices of Wacker Chemicals Korea Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary, and the R&D laboratories for silicone and polymer applications. Bundling sales forces, R&D labs and applications technology under one roof will foster closer teamwork between the sales and development teams and thus optimize customer support in the region.
One focus of the local R&D in the newly established “Center of Excellence Electronics” will be on silicone products for electronics applications. This will help WACKER to serve the fast-growing demand for high-quality silicones for the electronics industry in Korea and other Asian countries. WACKER sees the new silicones R&D center as a unique opportunity to provide its local and regional customers with technical expertise for developing new products and tailor-made high-tech solutions for the electronics sector. Plus, the new center will make it easier to respond quickly to specific requirements and to directly incorporate customers’ feedback.
The technical center for polymers has been expanded, too: it will concentrate on formulations for dispersible polymer powders and dispersions for modern building applications, e.g. as binders in mortars for energy-saving external thermal insulation composite systems, or for low-odor and low-emissions paints.
The reason for expanding the technical center and setting up an in-house silicones R&D laboratory is the strong growth of the Korean economy, especially in construction and electronics. “The Korea technical center, with its research and testing laboratories that are unique in the region, is another important milestone in our growth strategy for Asia and particularly South Korea,” explains Dr. Wilhelm Sittenthaler, Executive Board member responsible for Asia at WACKER. The goal is to address the needs of Korean customers directly and locally, to work close to customers, to test out new developments, and to support innovative applications, he adds. In this way, the Munich chemicals company wants to collaborate with its customers to further strengthen and expand its position as technology leader for high-quality chemical products.
A further highlight is the integrated training facility for polymer and silicone chemicals: the WACKER ACADEMY. The facility’s mission is to promote the transfer of knowledge to local customers and business partners. Its seminar program is accordingly designed to address the particular needs of the markets in South Korea, and provides customers and business partners with an opportunity to learn about all relevant aspects of modern polymer and silicone chemistry and their applications. The WACKER ACADEMY thus makes an ideal platform for customers, distribution partners and WACKER specialists to engage in networking.
“WACKER Korea is ideally positioned, thanks to its high product quality, excellent service, and committed team of employees,” says Han-Hyung Cho, head of Wacker Chemicals Korea. “With our new silicones R&D laboratory, the expanded technical center for polymers, and the WACKER ACADEMY, we are setting new standards in service, consulting and knowledge transfer. This way we can offer our customers and business partners considerable added value.”
WACKER has been supplying chemicals to Korea since the mid-1980s, and Wacker Chemicals Korea was set up in 1996 as a local subsidiary. The WACKER facility in Ulsan, south-east Korea, has been operating since early 2008, producing vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions and providing local support for its customers and partners through its technical center for research and applications technology. In 2010, WACKER acquired the Korean brand Lucky Silicone, under which silicone sealants for the construction sector are produced and sold.
(Source: Wacker Press)
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Weekend roadwork: Sign structure and bridge repairs
Friday, January 23rd, 2015, 4:30pm
(WXIA) -- Drivers in the Atlanta area are asked to avoid the southwest side of Interstate 285 this weekend, as construction crews will complete road projects in the area.
Weekend roadwork will take place on several other stretches of highway and interstate throughout metro Atlanta as well. The rainy weather may delay some projects.
Planned work includes:
* 1 northbound lane of I-85 will be closed between two miles north of Highway 34 and McCollum-Sharpsburg Road from 8 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for sweeping.
Fulton County can help unemployed citizens with job searches
Submitted by FeleciaChurch on Monday, January 19th, 11:32 am
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- The Fulton County Office of Workforce Development served over 41,163 job seekers in 2014, with 4,564 participating in onsite recruitment orientations and job readiness workshops.
The workshops teach participants how to set career and education goals, conduct job searches, develop strategies for making the best impression during the first interview and succeeding in any subsequent interviews. Job seekers also learn how to dress for success.
Specific services available for dislocated workers range from financial support to help in finding a job or retraining for a new career. Citizens considered dislocated workers include those who may have lost jobs because of terminations. Some unemployed workers may have faced layoffs or received “notices of termination or layoff." Additionally, they are unlikely to return to their previous jobs or industry because of:
The weekend roadwork is spreading
Friday, January 16th, 2015, 4:15pm
(WXIA) -- As 2015 rolls on, Georgia Department of Transportation crews will roll too -- to sites across metro Atlanta, where they will work on weekend road projects. (At least it will be sunny!)
This weekend, drivers are encouraged to avoid travel on the west side of Interstate 20 and the east side of I-285, if possible. Delays and lane closures are expected in both areas. All work is weather permitting.
Some of the scheduled projects include:
* 2 eastbound lanes of I-285 will be closed at I-75 Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. for bridge joint repairs.
DeKalb/Fulton counties
* 3 northbound lanes of I-285 will be closed between I-20 and Ga. 400 from 7 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for sign structure work.
Early voting for runoff election begins Jan. 20
Submitted by AprilMajors on Wednesday, January 14th, 8:56 am
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- North Fulton County voters are encouraged to cast their ballots early for the Feb. 3 runoff special election for State House District 50.
Residents can cast their ballots beginning Tuesday, Jan. 20 through Friday, Jan. 30 and on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Johns Creek Environmental Campus located at 8100 Holcomb Bridge Road.
Election Day Poll Locations
The following polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on election day for registered voters to cast their ballots:
JC01-Shakerag Elementary School
10885 Rogers Circle
JC02-Johns Creek United Methodist Church
Weekend roadwork resumes on I-20, I-285
Friday, January 9th, 2015, 4:15pm
(WXIA) -- Weekends in metro Atlanta guarantee one thing: construction projects on highways and major roads.
Georgia Department of Transportation crews will be hard at work on several streets, mostly in Fulton County.
Drivers are asked to be courteous and cautious when traveling through impacted areas. As always, all work is weather permitting.
* Two westbound lanes will be closed between McDaniel and Langhorn streets from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for bridge joint repairs.
* One eastbound lane will be closed between Fulton Industrial Boulevard and I-285 from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for bridge joint repairs.
* Two northbound lanes will be closed between I-85 and Washington Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for sign structure work.
Fulton County senior facilities serve as warming centers
Submitted by FeleciaChurch on Thursday, January 8th, 12:12 pm
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- The Fulton County Department of Aging and Youth Services’ senior facilities will serve as warming sites during operating hours to provide seniors and other citizens another alternative for keeping warm during extreme winter weather.
Fulton County has four senior multipurpose facilities that will be open from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Jan. 8 and 9.
Georgia State, Georgia Perimeter may merge
Submitted by Atlanta Busines... on Tuesday, January 6th, 11:33 am
ATLANTA -- Georgia State University is poised to become the state of Georgia's largest university.
At the Jan. 6 meeting of the state Board of Regents, Chancellor Hank Huckaby recommended that the board merge Georgia State and Georgia Perimeter College, a move that would create the largest university in the state and one of the largest in the nation.
Georgia State had a fall enrollment of 32,556 and Georgia Perimeter 21,371, for a combined 53,927. That would make the combined school far larger than The University of Georgia, which had a fall enrollment of 35,197.
"The consolidation would greatly improve opportunities for students and expand Georgia State's reach and impact across the metro-Atlanta area and the state," said Georgia State President Mark Becker in a message broadcast to the campus.
The consolidation would leave the University System with 29 institutions.
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MK Group to build biomass power plant in Vrbas
MK Group, with its company-member MK Biogas, is entering the field of power production from biomass. At the moment, the project is being prepared, and the construction of the facility in Vrbas will begin in September. The biomass power plant should start operating in February 2020, MK Group announced.
At the moment, in Serbia, which has remarkable potential when it comes to RES, there are only 12 biogas-powered facilities.
– Companies like Sunoko, a member of MK Group, which produce a lot of waste in farms and the meatpacking industry, as well as byproducts from sugar beet, can use that waste to produce electricity – says Predrag Bozic, the director of MK Biogas.
He adds that, with these innovative investments, MK Group is contributing to environmental protection, but also a more efficient and sustainable operations of such a system.
The total estimated value of the investment is EUR 8.1 million, and MK Group adopted the solution of the German company Wabio Technologie GmbH for this project. The German company has been creating advanced, sustainable solutions for biogas for a quarter of the century now.
It is estimated that the annual production will amount to around 20,000 MWh, which meets the annual needs of around 5,000 households.
Serbia is one of the states with a great potential when it comes to biomass, but that potential is underused in the country. Therefore, through its operations, MK Group supports Serbia’s goal of having 27% of the total energy consumption coming from RES by 2020.
MK group confirms its strategic orientation toward RES primarily through its partnership with the Italian company Fintel Energia SpA. The cooperation, which began in 2007, was one of the pioneering steps in Serbia in the field of production of green energy through wind farms and solar panels.
Slightly under half a decade ago, MK Group opened the first wind farm in Serbia with its Italian partner, the Kula wind farm, which supplies 5,000 to 8,000 households with power even now, contributing to the total energy security, the press release says.
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Bolshoi theater wind quintet
Bolshoi woodwind quintet
Nikolai Popov (flute)
Sergei Lysenko (oboe)
Sergei Petrov (clarinet)
Andrei Rudometkin (bassoon)
Alexei Raev (french horn)
“Classics, romanticism, avant-garde” CD
Bolshoi theater woodwind quintet
Bolshoi theater wind quintet. Photo – Andrei Moustafaev
In 2013, the administration of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia made a decision to recreate the woodwind Quintet of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. The ensemble included the best woodwind soloists not only of the Bolshoi orchestra, but of the entire country: Nikolai Popov (flute), Sergei Lysenko (oboe), Sergei Petrov (clarinet), Andrei Rudometkin (bassoon), Alexei Raev (French Horn). In the spring of 2013, in the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theater, a cycle of three concerts was held, where the performers were introduced as soloists, and then the quintet performed as the culmination of the performance. These concerts became the presentation of the Quintet.
Already the collective’s repertoire includeds a large number of classical works—quintets by Dyadov, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky (the «Nutcracker» suite), Musorgsky («Pictures at an Exhibition) and Prokofiev (the suite from the ballet «Romeo and Julliet»), Svetlanov («The Village Day»), Reicha, Danzi, Resler, Brahms, Nielsen, Barber, Villa-Lobos, Hindemith, etcetera. Additionally, the members of the collective already created several works specifically for themselves, and these were performed during concerts, and met with a rapturous reception by the public—especially Fantasy based on the themes of Tchaikovsky’s opera «Queen of Spades» by S. Lysenko and «Carnival of Animals and Insects» by N. Popov.
The history of the woodwind Quintet of the Bolshoi Theater starts in the middle of the twentieth century, when the collective included such outstanding orchestra soloists as E. Ignatenko (flute), M. Orudzhev (oboe), I. Butyrski (clarinet), P. Savelyev (bassoon) and A. Ryabinin (French Horn). Subsequently, the make-up of the collective changed, but it consistently featured only the best woodwind performers—soloists of the Bolshoi Theater orchestra like flutist A. Golyshev, oboist S. Budukov, clarinetist E. Myasnikov, bassoonists Y. Rudometkin and B. Bogorad, French horn players I. Lifanovsky and V. Tarasov. From the moment of its founding, the woodwind Quintet of the Bolshoi Theater was actively putting on concerts in Moscow and other cities of the USSR, as well as beyond Soviet borders. The end of the 1990s marked a moment of rupture for the history of the collective.
This season the Quintet will perform several concerts in the Beethoven hall of the Bolshoi Theater, the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Concert Hall of Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. The first CD of the Quintet is in production, and it will debut in the fall of 2014 in the Beethoven hall of the Bolshoi Theater.
Сергей Лысенко (гобой). Фото – Андрей Мустафаев
Born in the city of Voronezh. Studied the oboe in the Voronezh Music School (under U. A. Gritsey). Graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (under professor I. F. Pushechnikov).
In 1989 he was admitted to the National Academic Bolshoi Theater, and from 1991 on he has been a soloist for the orchestra. He holds the first prize for the 1991 All-Soyuz competition of wind-wood performers. He has taken part in many plays put on by the theater.
He has recoded several discs, including: «Tradition» (1995) with the NABT chamber orchestra, «Unique Baroque Musique» (2000) with the orchestra «Musica Viva», «Theme with Variations» (2004) with the orchestra «Orfarion». Many of these recordings have been played on Radio Orpheus.
Distinguished Artist of Russia (2006).
Sergey Lysenko has authored several musical compositions, which were performed to acclaim in the concert halls of Moscow and were played on Radio Russia.
Николай Попов (флейта). Фото – Андрей Мустафаев
Nikolai was born in Leningrad in 1975. After graduating from music school (as a part of a class taught by I.P. Pimenova) and the M.P. Musorgsky vocational school of music (as a part of the class taught by E. S. Matveev), he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, to study under Docent O. S. Chernyadyeva.
During his first year there, he won the International Competition in Minsk and received the second prize at the All-Russian competition of wood-wind instrument performers in St. Petersburg. During his third year, after winning the competition among wind players of the Conservatory, he was invited by the Jury chair, the legendary Swiss flutist Orel Nikole, to do an internship at the W. A. Mozart European Chamber Music Academy in Poland.
After graduating from the Conservatory, he continued his studies in the graduate school of the Higher school of music and theater in Munich, under a famous flutist, Professor Andrash Adoryan. He received simultaneous support from several German foundations: Gartow Stiftung, Chamber Music Academy and the charity fund of the world-famous violinist I. Menukhin, Live Music now. In 2000, Nikolai Popov became the first performer on wind instruments—a representative of Russia in the G. Malher Youth Orchestra (chief conductor—Claudio Abbado) and participated in the «Millenium-Turn» Orchestra with the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
While still a fourth-year student at the music academy, Nikolai Popov became a soloist of the concert philharmonic organization «Petersburg Concert.» This job marked the beginning of his active participation in concert performances. From 2002-2011, he was the soloist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the USSR National Artist Vladimir Fedoseev.
From 2012 on, he has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater. As a soloist, Nikolai Popov performed with the Tchaikovksy Symphony Orchestra, orchestras of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the chamber orchestra «Virtuosos of Moscow» and many other collectives under the direction of conductors such as V. Fedoseev, V. Spivakov, R. Martynov, F. Mastanzhelo, A. Sladkovsky, etcetera. In addition to classical music ventures, he participates in jazz projects, creates and creates arrangements for various music collectives. He has collaborated with a highly diverse range of musical groups: Vermishelli Orchestra, «Terem-Quartet,» «RockoCo», «Easy Winners Ragtime Band» and many others. He is an active pedagogue, and gives master classes in cities throughout Russia and abroad.
Сергей Петров (кларнет). Фото – Андрей Мустафаев
Sergei Petrov was born in 1981 in Norislk, in the Krasnoyar Region. In 2005 he graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, from the class of the Russian national artist, professor Ivan Pateleevich Mozgovenko.
In 2001, he became the soloist of the «Russian Philharmonic» orchestra, and from 2002 on—a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia orchestra.
In 2005, Sergei Petrov became the first prize Laureate of the Rimsky-Korsakov international competition in St. Petersburg.
He is an active concert performer and collaborates with many leading musicians.
Andrei Rudometkin (bassoon). Фото – Андрей Мустафаев
Andrei Rudometkin is a Bolshoi Theater orchestra soloist and the artistic director of the «Bassoon +» project.
From 1992 until 1997 he studied at the Academic musical college at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2001, he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow National Conservatory, and in 2003 from the bassoon graduate program at the Moscow National Conservatory.
In 1995 he became the Laureate of the International Youth Competition, and was admitted to the Bolshoi Theater orchestra in the same year.
From 1997 through present day, he is a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. During the course of his orchestra work, he performed leading parts with conductors such as E. F. Svetlanov, M. F. Ermler, A. N. Lazarev, G. N. Rozhdestvenskiy, U. H. Temirkanov, V. A. Gergiev, and other outstanding conductors.
Alexei Raev (french horn). Фото – Андрей Мустафаев
From 1998 Alexei Raev studied in the Merzlyakov Institute at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under R. P. Matiyakin. Between 2001 and 2006, he studied at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music under the Distinguished Artist of Russia, Professor V. S. Shish. In 2008 he completed his Assistatship-Internship. In 2013, he completed the graduate program in Production at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with distinction.
In 1998 he was admitted to the scene orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. From 2002 on he has been the concertmeister of the French horn group of the main orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. Simultaneously, he was a soloist at the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of M.V. Pletnev between 2000 and 2004, and at the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of V. T. Spivakov between 2004 and 2007.
In 1997 he became the Laureate of the international competition of young wind instrument performers.
In 2000 he became the first prize Laureate of the All-Russia Rimsky-Korsakov open competition of wind and percussion instrument performers (St. Petersburg).
In 2003 he became the Laureate of the Yamaha scholarship prize.
In 2012 he became the Laureate of the Board of Trustees of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.
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Religious StudiesCollege of Arts and Sciences
World's Religions
Rich Department and Campus Life
We believe in educating the whole person: In addition to rigorous academic studies, you will find a bounty of cultural and extra-curricular experiences in which to participate. We encourage you to immerse yourself in department and campus life at Loyola by taking advantage of the many opportunities:
The Leo A. Ford, Sr. Endowed Scholarship in Catholic Studies
The Leo A. Ford, Sr. Endowed Scholarhip in Catholic Studies was established by Dr. and Mrs. Chuck Tomich in February 2013:
Leo A. Ford, Sr. was born in New Orleans in 1904, and, as a youngster, raised and sold pigeons. He later became a dairy farmer, like his father. Though he had but a few years of grade school, through hard work he was able to buy some land and his own dairy cows. His dairy farm was situated in Gentilly near Elysian Fields Avenue. His wife, Verna (née Edgecombe), and their five children lived on the farm and learned to clean stalls and milk cows. Leo was a generous man, often providing milk to families even when they could not pay. Ultimately, New Orleans' city limits expanded toward Lake Pontchartrain, and Leo had to sell his cows and farm; he continued to deliver milk for Azalea Dairy until the day he died at the age of 56.
It is in Mr. Ford's memory that one of his daughters, Jacquelyn Ford Tomich, and her husband, Charles E. Tomich, M. D., established this endowed scholarship. Both are graduates of Loyola University New Orleans.
The purpose of the scholarship is to promote excellence in undergraduate studies by offering assistance to talented and deserving students studying Catholic theology. The scholarship will be awarded to a New Orleans native in good academic standing with financial need. The student must be majoring in Christianity with a focus on Catholic theology, and working toward a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies (a four-year program).
Department Awards
Senior year awards are given which can include recognition for the highest department GPA, the best undergraduate essay in Religious Studies, and other achievements.
Meet-And-Greets
The department holds an annual meet-and-greet lunch with faculty, majors, and minors.
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The Yamauchi Lectures in Religion series was begun in 1985 in memory of Professor H. James Yamauchi, S.J., a celebrated former Chair of the Department of Religious Studies who taught at Loyola University New Orleans from 1956 to 1966. Father Yamauchi was known and loved for his enthusiastic knowledge of religion and his passionate communication of same to the New Orleans community. This lecture series seeks to perpetuate his work by bringing the results of religious scholarship to a wider audience. Learn more about the Yamauchi Lectures in Religion »
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The Loyola University New Orleans Jewish Studies Lecture Series brings noted authors, historians, and religious and cultural experts to share their experience with the university and the large Jewish community in the Greater New Orleans area. Learn more about the Jewish Studies Lecture Series »
The department produces events each year to encourage discussion with peers, faculty in other departments, and with the participants themselves -- it's a great way to broaden an already comprehensive experience. For example, we have frequent visits from Buddhist monks: In Fall 2013, a group of monks constructed a sand mandala over three days and students were able to closely observe their work, as well as participate in a procession when it was finished. Other recent events have included academic film premieres, a symposium on religion and the environment, and a visit from the founder of INFORM (an educational charity which provides objective information about new religious movements.) Our invited lecturers frequently find their way into the classroom as special guests.
Loyola University New Orleans celebrates diversity and life in a global context. The Department of Religious Studies especially champions the trips developed by our faculty members: While getting credit for 2 courses, students can visit Italy (with a focus on Rome, plus visits to Tivoli, Sorrento, Capri, Florence, Assissi, and Pompeii) or India (with a focus on Dharamsala plus visits to Haridwar & Rishikesh on the Ganges River, Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries, Amritsar, the Taj Mahal, and Delhi.) Follow this link to go to the Center for International Education’s Study Abroad pages.
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Theta Alpha Kappa is a national honors society for undergraduate majors and first year graduate students in Religious Studies. Contact Dr. Adil Khan for more information or to become a member: Email ahkhan@loyno.edu, or call (504) 865-3679.
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For those interested in Christian literature, Commonweal Magazine (an independent, lay, Catholic journal of opinion) offers free school-year subscriptions to our majors andd minors.
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FutureHAUS Dubai Team Prepares for Solar Decathlon Middle East
Last week at the College's Research + Demonstration Facility, the Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon Middle East team assembled FutureHAUS Dubai from 18 prefabricated "cartridges" on which they have been working for the last few months. Led by Prof. Joseph Wheeler, a team of A+D students, along with students from other Virginia Tech colleges, developed the design of the net-positive energy home over the past several years, incorporating their research into sustainability, responsive technologies, and new methods of prefabrication. The team is now preparing for the Solar Decathlon Middle East, Nov. 14-28, 2018, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In October, the FutureHAUS cartridges will be shipped to the Middle East and reassembled in Dubai to compete with 21 universities from 16 countries in a series of 10 contests in which the team must demonstrate that FutureHAUS is the world's most well-designed, efficient solar home. The Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon Middle East team is composed of 65 students and 18 faculty from five colleges, 14 disciplines, and seven countries and is the only U.S.-based group selected to participate in the intercollegiate global competition.
See another video about the FutureHAUS in Builder magazine online...
Visit this page on the web at http://archdesign.vt.edu/news/2017-18/FutureHAUS-Dubai-RDF
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Brittany Maynard, Death With Dignity Advocate, Dies At 29
Mon, Nov 03, 2014 @ 10:52 AM
By Alana Horowitz
Brittany Maynard, the Oregon woman who had become an outspoken advocate for patients' rights following her terminal cancer diagnosis, died on Saturday, the Oregonian reported. She was 29.
"Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love," she wrote in a Facebook post, according to People. "Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness... the world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers... goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!"
Earlier this year, Maynard learned that she was suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma and had only six months to live. After hearing what the disease would to her body in its final stages, she decided that she wanted to die on her own terms.
Maynard and her family, including her husband Dan Diaz and her mother Debbie Ziegler, moved to Oregon,whose Death With Dignity Act has allowed hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives by taking a medication prescribed by doctors. She picked November 1st as the day she wanted to die because it was after her husband's late October birthday.
Since then, Maynard had become a champion for the law and for patients in her situation, working with the group Compassion and Choices.
"I am not suicidal," she wrote in a blog post for CNN.com. "I do not want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms."
On Wednesday, Maynard released a new video that suggested that she might consider postponing her death.
"If November 2nd comes along and I've passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I've made. If November 2nd comes along and I'm still alive, I know that we'll still be moving forward as a family out of love for each other, and that decision will come later."
Maynard recently crossed the last item off her bucket list: a trip to the Grand Canyon. Before she became ill, Maynard was an active traveler and adventurer who lived in Southwest Asia for a year and once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Topics: nurses, medical, cancer, patients, hospital, advocate, terminally ill, brain cancer, Death With Dignity, Brittany Maynard, terminal cancer, Death With Dignity Act
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August 5, 2018 – To Pergamos
Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
MEMORY VERSE: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. —Hebrews 4:12-13
CENTRAL THOUGHT: Pergamos, the third church Jesus addressed, was commended for not denying Jesus’ name and faith, but commanded to repent for allowing false doctrines and loose practices to remain among them.
Revelation 2:12 “Pergamos”: (the proper Greek or Latin name is Pergamum or Pergamon) a town of Mysia, situated on the river Caicus, north of Smyrna and Ephesus. It was the royal residence and seat of the Eumenes and Attalian (Hellenistic Greek) dynasties. It was anciently famous for its library, which allegedly contained two hundred thousand volumes; and was home to a huge temple of Aesculapius, the healing god, who was worshipped in the form of a living serpent fed in the temple and was called the God of Pergamon. He appeared on their coins with a rod encircled by a serpent. Pergamon was described as a sort of union of a pagan cathedral city, a university town, and a royal residence. It was said that here the membranae Pergameniae (Pergamenian skins) were invented; from which we derive our word parchment. Pergamon was the birthplace of Galen, a Greek surgeon, physician and philosopher. It is now called Pergamo and Bergamo, in what is now Turkey.
Revelation 2:13 “Satan’s seat” and “where Satan dwelleth”: Some manuscripts have, “I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is.” Some scholars maintain this description is because of the many temples to various gods which were in Pergamos, especially the temple of Aesculapius, where people from all over the world resorted for cures from their diseases; where lying wonders were performed and curious arts were practiced; where the god’s symbol, the serpent, was displayed and his name meant “Savior” or “Preserver.” It was a city sacred to the gods, and the very headquarters of idolatry. The title could also mean that the persecution here had already extended unto death, as it cited Antipas, called the ”faithful martyr.” Nothing historically substantial is known about Antipas.
Revelation 2:14-15 “doctrine of Balaam; Nicolaitans”: See definition in the July 22 lesson.
It seems that even under the duress of severe persecution, the Christians in Pergamos were still bold to take the name Christian and maintain their belief in Jesus. However, the poison working to corrupt the whole congregation was the dangerous looseness that was taught by the Gnostic sect, the Nicolaitans. We have said before: it is the mixture of truth and error that is so deceptive. The Gnostics, addressed by Peter in his epistles, warned against by Paul in his letters to Timothy, and by Jude in his epistle, and judged severely by Jesus’ message on Patmos, could only be dealt with by the Word of God, that Sword of the Spirit which convicts and chastens those who are tender and pliable; and condemns and cuts off those who resist admonition.
The Nicolaitans seemed to sway people with their schmoozy “have the world and Jesus too” talk. They were described as being lovers of pleasure, advocating a false freedom and a licentious lifestyle. Adultery, polygamy and fornication, so rampant among them, “furnished to the unbelieving heathen abundant opportunities for slandering the divine word, inasmuch as the reputation of these men brought infamy upon the whole race of Christians,” Eusebius said.
Jesus compares them to the Old Testament prophet Balaam, who, when not allowed by God to actually put a curse upon the children of Israel, showed King Balak how to seduce them into idolatrous worship. By placing beautiful young heathen women in view of the Israelite men, the resulting relationships led them, as prey to the slaughter, into total heathen practices. Balaam knew that when they fell into this, God would no longer bless them and they would fall to Balak in battle.
In this same way, “Christian” teachings that take “salvation by grace” way too far seduce people into thinking worldliness and loose living is “okay” with God, bringing them into satan’s snare and spiritual ruin and deception. We see this as professing Christians both approve, watch and partake in movies and other media which promote fornication and adultery, sports events where immodesty, pride and strife are on display, and immodest clothing which both leads to and encourages lust and pride.
Jesus put it simply and succinctly: God hates both the doctrines and the deeds.
1. Satan’s Seat: Describe some things about Pergamos which might be the reason Jesus ascribed this name to the city.
2. Balaam’s Doctrine: Describe how his teaching is similar to the way the Gnostics/ Nicolaitans taught about Christianity. How are today’s false teachings similar as well?
3. The Spirit’s Sword: How is this the only way to truly combat these false doctrines? Discuss the importance of “rightly dividing” God’s truth.
4. The Overcomer’s Prize: Discuss what may be meant by each of these terms: hidden manna, white stone, new name.
The manna, as we can read in Exodus 16:32-34 and Hebrews 9:4, was laid up in a pot and kept in the most sacred place in the camp, deep inside the covered Ark of God, within the two vails, in the Holiest Place. This sample of the “angels’ food” which fell every morning, six days a week for forty years to feed the Israelites as they wandered through the desert, was to be a reminder to them of God’s provision and a token which pointed forward to the true bread from heaven, who was Christ. The concept of being able to eat of that portion which was so sacred that it could not be looked upon nor touched—how special, how privileged one must be to do so! What did it take to access that holy of holies? Was it not the death of the Lord Jesus which violently tore down that thick curtain which separated the sanctuary from unworthy man? To be able to touch; commune with God, upon that sacred ark, beneath the cherubim—isn’t that only afforded to those who have been blood-washed, redeemed, and have yielded themselves an offering and a sacrifice to God in holy sanctification? Here it is promised to those who overcome the temptation to loose and worldly living, the lure of fellowship with false gods and demons, and the pressure to succumb to the persecutors!
The white stone, I read, has several suggested meanings. White stones were used by ancient judges to signify acquittal, while when the judge handed out a black stone, it meant condemnation. In Roman times, white stones were given as badges, with their names inscribed, to conquerors in the games. Called tessarae, there were several different kinds.
One was a kind of contract between two parties, whose names were written on the stone, which was broken in half and exchanged, so that either party could come to the home of the other, and by producing the stone with the host’s name, the guest was admitted to partake freely of home, food and lodging. “But what does this mean in the language of Christ? (1). That the person is taken into an intimate state of friendship with him. (2). That this contract is witnessed to the party by some especial token, sign, or seal, to which he may have recourse to support his claim, and identify his person. This is probably what is elsewhere called “the earnest of the Spirit” (Ephesians 1:14). He then who has received and retains the witness of the Spirit that he is adopted into the heavenly family, may humbly claim, in virtue of it, his support of the bread and water of life; the hidden manna—every grace of the Spirit of God; and the tree of life—immortality, or the final glorification of his body and soul throughout eternity. (3). By this state of grace into which he is brought he acquires a new name, the name of child of God; the earnest of the Spirit, the tessera, which he has received, shows him this new name. (4). And this name of child of God no man can know or understand, but he who has received the tessera or Divine witness. (5). His Friend and Redeemer may be found everywhere, because He fills the heavens and the earth; everywhere he may, on retaining this tessera, claim direction, succor, support, grace, and glory; and therefore the privileges of him who overcometh are the greatest and most glorious that can be imagined” (Clarke’s Commentary).
My personal thought about the new name is that we are identified to the Lord by a name. It is who we are. When we come to Him for salvation and holiness, He works a great change in our very spirit and character, so that our spiritual name is changed, and we are no longer known to him by our old name, but by the new name. There are new gifts, abilities, and new ways of thinking and dealing with others that are entirely because of this new ID given by God. All of this is part of the overcomer’s prize!
Living in Los Angeles, one of our nation’s larger metropolitan areas, I can certainly identify with the church in Pergamos and the evils that surrounded them, as well as the persecutions that befell them for holding to the name of Christ. In the so called “entertainment capital of the world,” the modern gods of pleasure, adult entertainment, licentious and profligate living are being worshipped daily in direct contradiction to the Word of God, and anyone holding to his or her convictions of morality, modesty, simple living, and humility are ridiculed for being hopelessly old-fashioned, and sometimes even considered “bigoted” for their beliefs.
Yet, I have noticed that being surrounded by such an environment can bring about a certain desensitization to the great evils pervading our society today, and if we are not careful, we can begin to make excuses for those around us, particularly our family and friends caught up in such filth, and possibly become less vigilant against the many doctrinal heresies pervading Christianity today that make room for such direct contradictions of scripture.
Jesus was sure to point out to the church in Pergamos that His two-edged sword was ready to make a distinction between truth and error, so if we want to be on His side, we must repent of any sympathies we have harbored, perhaps internally if not outwardly, and hold to the standard that what God calls wrong is still wrong. We can stay true to God, yet still exhibit love and gentleness for those who have gone astray, praying that He in His mercy will grant them the opportunity to come back to Him.
Let us remember that, as one of our songs says, if we would be pillars in the Church of God, we “must overcome the world,” and everyone that is victorious “shall be clothed in white” and “eat the hidden manna from the realms of light” and “reign on earth as king with Jesus.”
Lord, help us to stay true to You and to Your Truth!
—Bro. Fari Matthews
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When a Man Loves a Woman (film)
When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Andy García, Meg Ryan, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Tom and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was written by Al Franken and Ronald Bass.
Luis Mandoki
Jon Avnet
Lajos Koltai
Buena Vista Pictures
April 29, 1994 (1994-04-29)
For her performance as an alcoholic mother, Ryan received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film's title is taken from the song of the same name by Percy Sledge.
The film chronicles one woman's (Meg Ryan) alcoholism and her husband's (Andy García) efforts to help her.
Meg Ryan plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem and is married to Michael (Andy García), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted and loving, Alice is often reckless and, when drunk, even neglects her children: nine-year-old daughter Jess (Tina Majorino) from a previous marriage, and four-year-old daughter Casey (Mae Whitman), whose father is Michael.
One afternoon, Alice enters their home in a drunken incoherent state. She dismisses the reluctant caretaker, who leaves her alone with her children. Still drinking, Alice is confronted by her elder daughter concerned for her mother's welfare. In return, she violently slaps Jess, who runs to her room crying. Alice enters the shower. Unable to control her balance and calling for Jess, she falls to the side and smashes through the shower door onto the bathroom floor. Fearing her mother has died, Jess contacts Michael who immediately flies home to be by his wife's side.
After the incident and while in the hospital, Michael and Alice confront the truth about Alice's drinking. They jointly decide she must seek professional help for her alcoholism. Upon release from the hospital, a timid Alice enters a rehabilitation clinic.
Michael finds himself now the main caretaker of their home and two children, a role he struggles to maintain along with his career as an airline pilot. Meanwhile, at the clinic, Alice is flourishing; her recovery is painful but stabilizing and she is well liked and respected by both staff and fellow clinic tenants alike. During a family visit day at the clinic, Alice immediately begins to rebuild her shattered bond with the children leaving Michael alone to wander the grounds uncomfortable and out of place in his wife's new lifestyle.
Alice returns home sober yet guarded. She is vocal, strong and changed. Michael is having trouble adjusting to Alice's balance. He has become used to being the stable and controlled one in their relationship and is jealous of Alice's lack of dependence and outside friendships. Coming to terms with their estrangement, a reluctant Michael (believing therapy is for the weak) and a willing Alice see a marriage counselor who quickly establishes Michael's "co-dependency" on Alice's role as an alcoholic.
Unable to find a medium and with tempers flared, Michael moves out and Alice becomes the main caretaker of their home and children. Alice is once again seen flourishing in her new role while Michael is unable to find control and seeks out a support group for spouses of alcoholics. Initially shy, Michael becomes a more vocal member of the group and shares his sorrow over his lack of understanding for the gravity his wife's sobriety would have on him, his children and his marriage.
Alice and Michael singularly return to the hospital to celebrate the birth of their caretaker's baby. They spend time together and as they depart Alice asks Michael if he would attend her 180-day sober speech where she will acknowledge her failings and accomplishments. She also tells him that she has been thinking about asking him to come home with her. Michael tells Alice he has been offered a job in Denver. For the first time since they both agreed Alice should enter rehab, they both agree Michael should take the position.
The penultimate scene is Alice as she stands on a stage and tells her sobriety story; the toll it took on her, her children and her marriage. She is funny, confident, sad but optimistic. Her audience is moved to tears. Her speech ends and she is surrounded by well wishers. Out of the crowd appears Michael. At ease with himself and Alice, he explains what he missed along the way..."to listen, to really listen." They share an intense, longing, passionate kiss.
Meg Ryan as Alice Green
Andy García as Michael Green
Lauren Tom as Amy
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Gary
Tina Majorino as Jess Green
Mae Whitman as Casey Green
Ellen Burstyn as Emily
Tom Hanks was considered for Garcia's role and Michelle Pfeiffer and Debra Winger were considered for Ryan's role.[1]
The movie debuted at No.2 behind The Crow.[2] When a Man Loves a Woman currently holds a 71% fresh rating among critics at Rotten Tomatoes, although the film has a mixed reception and is seen unfavorably by many because of its length and the way it deals with alcoholism and stress in the family.[3][4] James Berardinelli stated that the "ending is too facile", and that the film took "longer than necessary to arrive at its resolution", adding that there are moments in the film where the script would strike a raw nerve with certain people because of how it judges alcoholics and deals with issues related to alcoholism.[4] However, he said that the "film's poignancy is its strength, even if occasional didactic tendencies are its weakness". David Denby of New York Magazine called it an "earnest and highly prolonged counseling disappointment", a "pushy therapeutic exercise" which, although intelligent, features "endless talk, a stunted mise en scène, and a moral atmosphere of dogged and literal-minded persistence" which "overvalues its own sobriety".[3] Roger Ebert, himself a recovering alcoholic, gave the film four out of four stars, praising its artistic qualities just in passing (“I couldn't find a false note in Ryan's performance - and only one in Garcia's …”) but spending more time on its description of the role of the family enablers in development of alcoholism.[5]
Garbage Compulsion
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Running From Mercy by Rickie Lee Jones
I'm a Good Man by Robert Cray
Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.
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^ Mell, Eila (2013). Casting Might-Have-Beens: A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others. McFarland. ISBN 9781476609768. page 254
^ Fox, David J. (May 16, 1994). "The Crow' Takes Off at Box Office Movies: The opening is the biggest ever for Miramax. In second place is `When a Man Loves a Woman,' with `Crooklyn' third". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
^ a b New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. May 9, 1994. p. 66. ISSN 0028-7369.
^ a b Berardinelli, James (January 1, 2005). Reel Views 2: The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 383. ISBN 978-1-932112-40-5.
^ Ebert, Roger. "When a Man Loves a Woman". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
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Published On: Thu, Apr 14th, 2016
Aviation | By Edition
LIAT confirms resignation of CEO
ST JOHN’S - The board of directors of regional air carrier LIAT confirmed on Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of chief executive officer, David Evans, effective April 13, 2016.
Julie Reifer-Jones, director finance and ICT, has been appointed to act as chief executive officer.
The board of directors thanked Evans for his service and wished him every success in his future endeavours.
As reported on Wednesday, Evans was said to have resigned after “a heated meeting with the board of directors last Thursday”.
The airline is headquartered in St John’s, Antigua, and is majority-owned by 11 Caribbean governments, the largest shareholders being the governments of Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
LIAT has been under enormous financial pressure due to unsustainable losses and expenses and Evans, a former British Airways executive, was appointed some two years ago in the apparent hope that he could turn the financially troubled airline around.
However, neither LIAT’s poor reputation with both locals and visitors to and from the Caribbean nor its finances have improved.
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D-Day for InselAir
TUI flight to the Netherlands stranded after bomb alert
St. Maarten Minister supports Winair expansion and growth efforts. On track after a remarkable comeback
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Why is NASA shutting down the Hubble Space Telescope? (Beginner)
Answered by Brian Kent
Why is NASA shutting down the Hubble Telescope? Or in other words, why aren't they going to send people up to the Hubble Telescope anymore?
NASA is not shutting down the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). However, there are no current plans to service Hubble in the future. Instead NASA is shifting its focus to Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is set to launch in 2021. HST has been one of the most productive astronomical instruments even built. It is used to study a wide range of phenomena ranging including the planets of our own solar system, gaseous nebulae and stars in the Galaxy, and distant quasars. JWST is set to expand on Hubble's legacy and improve our knowlegde base even further.
This page was last updated by Christopher Rooney on April 18, 2019.
Brian Kent
Brian Kent is a scientist with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He studies the dynamics of galaxies and works with 3D visualization and software for radio telescopes. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2008.
Read about what he works on:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/index.html
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A long time ago right now there lived a boy. He had blue eyes with blond hair as yellowish as gold. The young boy was small and fragile, but his mind was swift just like the wind. He could calculate the outcome of any situation in the blink of an eye. But that had not been his biggest talent. No. His biggest skill was perception. The young boy could understand and perceive anything quicker than anyone he previously ever met. Then, he fell in love with a beautiful princess. She acquired magnetic green eye and light brown locks. He loved her quite definitely and she loved him back more even. There was only 1 problem – the young boy was the son of a blacksmith. The princess’s father could not allow her to marry a straightforward child of a blacksmith. But their love was too strong. In one fell swoop, the young boy raised an army of undead and began a rebellion to overthrow the evil king who did not believe in true love. After months of fighting against the armies of his beloved’s father, the youthful boy was assassinated and the battle was over. No songs were sang.
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Posted on May 21, 2005 by davidswanson
The Last Word on Sodomy
When I read Newsweek, I generally skim it, and even then seem to grasp it all without having to really pay attention. But sometimes I hit the George Will column, “The Last Word,” like a brick wall. I have to go back over it carefully three times, and even then can only at best guess what he’s saying. His thinking is so far removed from mine, and he is so convinced that everybody already shares his views, that I often have a hard time grasping his message.
This was the case with his December 7, 1998, piece on “What Courts Are Teaching: When a court does the right thing for the wrong reason, it does the wrong thing.” The phrase “the right thing” is generally understood to mean something other than what an author approves of. Rather, it refers to something magical, something approved of by someone or something other than people. Perhaps this explains why I find it nearly impossible to tell what Will considers “the right thing”: he is obliged to pretend that I already know (by some magical means) what “the right thing” is.
And perhaps this in turn explains the jumbledness of his article: he is arguing for something that he doesn’t believe needs to be argued for. He is expressing his opinion on what people should do, while pretending to be merely reiterating what “it is right” to do. As we will see, he further confuses things at a crucial point with the phrase “Some thoughtful critics will say . . . ,” a trick that allows him to avoid either expressing an ordinary opinion or appealing to “the right thing.” It is striking that he resorts to this trick on the question of whether to approve of homosexuality. It is also striking that the “thoughtful critics” disagree with the conclusion drawn by the thinker Will spends most of his piece praising (Michael Sandel). And it is further remarkable that this would have been the ideal opportunity for Will to explain what “the right thing” was. A few sentences later, he concludes the column with this:
“The moral of the story is: when a court does the right thing for the wrong reason, it does the wrong thing,”
and yet the reader has not been told, so far as I could at first make out, what the right thing or the wrong reason is.
On my first skim through, I concluded that Will thought that sodomy ought to be banned for the good of families on the basis of some kind of distorted understanding of Sandel’s communitarianism.
Will, interestingly, never says what he means by sodomy, though he refers to it as something that can be both heterosexual and homosexual. Random House defines it as “1. anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex. 2. copulation with a member of the same sex. 3. bestiality (def. 4).” Sodom is defined in part as “2. any very sinful, corrupt, vice-ridden place.” And copulation is “1. sexual intercourse. 2. a joining together or coupling.”
On a second glance, I was not at all sure I’d grasped Will’s point. I tried to follow his whole argument this time. He seemed to approve of the freedom to use contraceptives but to prefer that this be justified by the good done to relationships and not by a mere lack of harm done or what Will called, contemptuously, “freedom to choose.” He seemed not to approve of the sale of contraceptives – only of their use. (How you can use them if you can’t buy them, I’m not sure.)
But I could see that I was putting his opinions into my own terms. He thought that “intrusion” in relationships, not a lack of contraceptives, was bad. And he thought that the sale or non-sale of contraceptives couldn’t be “intrusion.” (So maybe he would approve of letting people use guns to help their relationships, but would not object to banning gun sales?)
Whenever someone professes indifference, I try to attribute one view or another to him. I don’t believe talk of indifference. This would explain why I at first thought that he opposed the sale of contraceptives, whereas he would probably claim indifference. But would it be OK with Will to ban the sale of tomatoes or sports utility vehicles? Would such bans interfere with relationships? If not, and if he did not approve of them, what would distinguish them from a ban on the sale of contraceptives?
Next Will turned to the Roe vs. Wade decision, and objected to it because it didn’t tie a right to privacy to benefits to marriage. But how could it have? Should it have legalized abortion only for married women?
The horrible result of these decisions (on contraceptive use, contraceptive sales, and abortion) was, as Will saw it, the courts’ inability to defend anti-sodomy laws on grounds of value to “family, marriage, or procreation.” What good it does for these things he didn’t explain. Nor did he indicate whether he would like married people to be able to legally engage in sodomy.
It remained unclear to me, as well, on this second reading, how promoting procreation fit together with allowing the use of contraceptives (albeit unobtainable contraceptives), or how promoting procreation would promote a type of privacy that was good for relationships. Surely some relationships benefit from the privacy of not engaging in procreation.
Will then explained that Sandel favored allowing sodomy as something good for homosexual relationships, even as Will argued that Sandel’s concern for relationships would allow the criminalization of sodomy. At this point Will turned to some unnamed bigots (he used the term cited above: “thoughtful critics”) who disagreed with Sandel. Will seemed unwilling to name himself as agreeing or disagreeing with these people.
He said that the critics and Sandel could agree that great harm is done in reducing individuals to empty choice-makers. But if resisting that reduction could either legalize or criminalize sodomy, then where was its harmful effect? And what did Will’s moral of the story mean?
I decided to try a third time, and to quote everything so that you could follow along and perhaps help me. Let’s take it from the top:
“Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s logic to a conclusion that the court flinched from reaching 12 years ago, Georgia’s Supreme Court last week struck down the state’s anti-sodomy law. The court said the law violates the state constitution’s privacy right.”
I can’t tell from this whether the court that has done the right thing for the wrong reason is the U.S. Supreme Court of 12 years ago, or the Georgian court of last week, or both. Can you?
“Often, what a court does is less consequential than the reasons it gives for doing it. Indeed, often the reason a court gives for doing something IS what it does. In privacy-right cases running back to 1972, courts are teaching Americans to misunderstand themselves – literally, their selves.”
The present tense of the last sentence would seem to suggest that all the cases Will will discuss, including the recent Georgian one, involve “the right thing for the wrong reason.”
“In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly (5-4) affirmed the constitutionality of Georgia’s law that criminalized sodomy. The 1986 case, involving a homosexual, established that consenting adults had no constitutional right to engage in homosexual conduct. (Last week’s case involved heterosexual sodomy.) One justice in the 1986 majority, Lewis Powell, later said he regretted his vote. That was understandable, given the evolution of the court’s rationale for the privacy right from 1961 to 1972.”
Here we would seem to have a “right thing” (criminalizing sodomy or homosexual sodomy, probably the latter). Will mentions that one justice regretted his vote, and explains this on the basis of an evolution of viewpoints that (as we will see) Will strongly disapproves of. So, I am guessing, had Powell voted the other way, that would have been “the wrong thing for the wrong reason.” He voted “the right thing” but had regrets “for the wrong reason.”
“In 1961 the court dismissed on technical grounds a challenge to a Connecticut law banning the use of contraceptives. However, two justices dissented, arguing that enforcement of a ban on USE of contraceptives would require government intrusion into the zone of privacy necessary for healthy marital intimacy. So the privacy right was defined and justified in terms of society’s stake in a valued RELATIONSHIP, not merely in terms of an individual’s right to choose. The right was not – not yet – linked to a government stance of neutrality among various choices people might take.”
Here we seem to have “the right reason.” But it is in a dissent, so the court would seem to have done either “the wrong thing for the wrong reason,” or “the right thing for a wrong reason,” albeit a different wrong reason from the one Will is interested in discussing. The court ought to have abolished the law banning the use of contraceptives, and it ought to have done so out of concern for marital intimacy. (What about nonmarital intimacy?) The curious thing about this passage is that Will complains of a yet-to-arrive government stance of neutrality. How much worse it seems for an individual to take up a stance of neutrality. And, yet, isn’t that what Will does?
“Four years later the court overturned Connecticut’s law, but still not because privacy protects individual autonomy in sexual lives. Rather, because privacy serves ‘a relationship,’ the institution of marriage, which is ‘an association that promotes a way of life’ about which society is not neutral. The court could have reasoned directly from this decision to its1986 decision about Georgia’s anti-sodomy law – if there had not been two intervening decisions.”
Now we seem to be getting very close. It is the 1986 decision that interests Will. It is that decision that was “the right thing for the wrong reason.” If that decision had been modeled on this one, it would have been “for the right reason.” Will is now going to recount how the wrong reason came into being.
“In 1972 it overturned a law that banned not the use but the distribution of contraceptives. Because use was not the issue, neither was intrusive enforcement that would injure the institution of marriage by bringing government into bedrooms. Nevertheless, the court overturned the law, arguing that it violated privacy simply because it unjustifiably interfered with individual choices. The stage was set for the 1973 judicial earthquake – ROE v. WADE.”
Here “the wrong reason” seems to have been born together with a “wrong thing.” At least that’s my guess. Will doesn’t explicitly say whether he approves of the 1972 decision apart from its reasoning.
“The radicalism of that decision, which established a broad constitutional privacy right to abortion, stemmed from this fact: the court severed the justification for the privacy right from any contribution that right makes to the socially valued relationship of marriage. Instead, the court said the privacy right ‘is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision’ to terminate a pregnancy. Mere deciding, not marriage, was what mattered. One justice, using the language from the 1972 decision, stressed ‘the right of the INDIVIDUAL [the court’s italic], married or single’ to enjoy ‘freedom of personal choice,’ without inhibition by husbands or parents.”
Here Will is very clear about Roe v. Wade’s involving “the wrong reason.” It may be that he also sees it as “the wrong thing.” I’m inclined to think so, because “the right reason” he mentions seems so goofy. How does a right to abort promote marriage, much less family or procreation? And, besides, must there not be some tendency for “wrong reasons” to lead as a general rule to “wrong things” if we are going to worry about “wrong reasons” at all? If we can repair every law by attributing “the right reason” to it, then what is the point?
“The court had arrived at what Harvard’s Michael Sandel, in his book ‘Democracy’s Discontent,’ says is a privacy right defined in terms of a ‘voluntarist conception of the person.’ Henceforth, government would strive to protect individuals’ autonomy in making certain important choices, while remaining neutral about the content of those choices. Which is why in 1986 the court seemed inconsistent in upholding Georgia’s ban on consensual adult sodomy.”
Now we have what has clearly been labeled “the wrong reason” serving as an explanation for why the 1986 decision seemed unacceptable. This would seem to depend on a certain connection between “reasons” and “things.” The “wrong reason” here, all by itself, without being officially assigned to a decision, is seen as coming into conflict with a decision, presumably a “right” one.
“It was too late for the court to say that homosexual activity is outside the zone of protected privacy because it has ‘no connection’ with ‘family, marriage or procreation.’ Since 1972, the privacy right in sexual contexts has had no necessary connection with those social relationships.
“Upholding Georgia’s proscription of sodomy, the court in 1986 insisted, correctly but awkwardly, that moral neutrality is not a constitutional necessity of law because ‘law . . . is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated . . . the courts will be very busy indeed.’ This is true, but the court was locking the barn door after selling the horse.
“The court had put its prestige behind the idea that individuals should be thought of as freely choosing selves ‘unencumbered’ (Sandel’s word) by social roles or relationships that society values. Is it merely coincidental that, as the court has been embedding this ‘voluntarist’ image of the individual in constitutional law and the country’s consciousness, marriage has been increasingly treated as just another choice, to be casually made – and unmade? Society’s neutrality has resulted in no-fault divorces.”
Here Will seems to actually have a point, though it took me three readings to find it. But I’m not sure it’s as much of one as he believes. One way to promote marriage would be to allow homosexuals to marry. How banning sodomy promotes marriage I’m really not sure. And I’m not sure that a ban on sodomy that claimed to be intended to promote marriage would make much difference. Nor do I suspect that I place as much value on the relative importance of marriage to human happiness as Will places on it in his scheme of “right things.”
Since Will saw the 1986 ban on sodomy as “the right thing for the wrong reason,” (or, rather, for a correct but awkward reason) he presumably sees last week’s striking down of that law as “the wrong thing for the wrong reason.” His hero, Sandel, however, according to Will, sees last week’s ruling as “the right thing for the wrong reason.” They agree that the reason is bad, but disagree on whether the decision is a good one.
“Sandel is a liberal, but is uneasy with the reasoning that courts use to give liberals some victories. He would overturn Georgia’s law and broadly affirm gay rights by recurring to pre-1972 reasoning about privacy. He would have the law regard homosexuals, like everyone else, not simply as sovereign choosers ‘unencumbered’ by social roles and relationships society wants to encourage. Sandel would ground the elemental gay right (to intimacy protected from intrusive government) in society’s stake in encouraging homosexual unions that are (to borrow language from the 1965 decision) ‘intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . a harmony in living . . . a bilateral loyalty’ in an association for a ‘noble purpose.’
“Some thoughtful critics will say courts should not employ such language to give society’s imprimatur to homosexual intimacies. And these critics will insist that such assigning of social values should generally be done not by courts but by political, representative institutions. However, Sandel and his critics can agree that much damage is done when we define human beings not as social beings – not in terms of morally serious roles (citizen, marriage partner, parent, etc.) – but only with reference to the watery idea of a single, morally empty capacity of ‘choice.’ Politics becomes empty; citizenship, too.”
But don’t many of our most backward and vocal citizens (I refer, of course, to the Republican Congress) want politics to be empty, if not unintrusive? Wouldn’t they be happy to have their governments define them as “empty choice makers,” just as their doctors define them as conglomerations of organs, their local McDonald’s defines them as consumers of hamburgers, and so on? What does the fact that people have relationships have to do with the general shape of laws or with, specifically, a ban on sodomy? Why does Will want his government to be unintrusive AND to actively work to encourage a particular lifestyle? Or does he just want it to be unintrusive for married people?
“The moral of the story is: when a court does the right thing for the wrong reason, it does the wrong thing.”
But when did a court do this? As far as I can tell, Will ranks the following decisions thus:
1961 wrong thing for technical reason (right dissent for wrong reason)
1965 right thing for right reason
1972 wrong thing for wrong reason
1986 right thing for right but awkward reason
So the court’s blunder in reasoning was in the wording of the ’61 dissent. Everywhere else the reasons fit the things. The ’61 court made the mistake of not defending contraceptive use on the basis of its benefit to marriage, family, and procreation. Surely Will demands a little much.
A stance of neutrality is nonsense. The “privacy right” covers things approved of and not things disapproved of. The trouble is just that Will doesn’t approve of the same things that some other people approve of.
The sad thing is that Will was not able to be any more honest about his opinions here than are those who are trying to punish by round-about means the sexual activities engaged in by Bill and Monica.
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South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of sexual assault
According to a 2009 government survey, one in four men admit to having sex with a woman who did not consent to intercourse, and nearly half of these men admitted to raping more than once. An earlier government study found that a majority of rapes were committed by friends and acquaintances of the victim. Just as disturbing is a practice called “corrective rape” — the rape of gay men and lesbians to cure them of their sexual orientation. In one of the few cases to attract press attention, in 2008, Eudy Simelane, a lesbian, was gang-raped and stabbed to death. Her naked body was dumped in a stream in the Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. A soccer player training to be a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, she was targeted because of her sexual orientation. In 2011, Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, was raped, and stabbed multiple times with glass shards. Her skull was shattered. Her eyes were gouged from their sockets. Nogwaza had been seen earlier that evening in a bar with a female friend. One woman, Simphiwe Thandeka, was “correctively” raped three times. A tomboy, she was raped at age 13 by an uncle who didn’t approve of her “boyish” ways. “I didn’t know at the time it was rape, because I was only 13,” she said. The next morning, she awoke bleeding and in severe pain. She spoke to her mother and grandmother, who insisted it was a family matter and was not to be spoken of again. Some years later, Simphiwe’s uncle decided that marriage would cure his niece of her sexuality. So he arranged a marriage for her. “He took me to his friend’s house and told me I must have sex with this man, because I was going to marry him next month,” she recounted. “I had no idea what was going on.” The friend raped Simphiwe multiple times, and beat her with a clothes hanger. “He told me I was going to be his wife and not a lesbian,” she said. The following morning, the friend returned her to her uncle’s house. “He told my uncle he couldn’t marry me because I was still a lesbian, and returned the money my uncle had given him,” she said. During a hospital visit, Simphiwe learned that she had contracted HIV from her uncle and had become pregnant by his friend. “My mum had known my uncle was positive, but she never told me,” she said.
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A man living in the United States illegally has been arrested for raping a teenager
Detectives were working to track down what they said could be more victims as the entire community was outraged. Anselmo Soria, 50, was arraigned in Portsmouth after he raped a 16 year-old girl. The sheriff’s department received a tip that the girl had been assaulted for several years and they believe she might not be the only victim. People living in the area said that they were frustrated with the immigration system, but more so with the fact that they believe children in their region were in danger. "I don't know what to say about the illegal alien part. Whatever,” DeHart said. “I’m more concerned he was molesting our girls." As Soria waits to have his day in court, one father had a message to anyone who would commit such a disturbing crime. "It’s not smart to come here and mess with our children,” Dehart said. “There’s some good ol' boys who will take care of business." Deputies said that more charges could be pending. Soria is currently in the Scioto County Jail.
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Obama's America: Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream
Survey data points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend. The findings come as Barack Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders of opportunity" and reverse income inequality. Hardship is particularly on the rise among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63% of whites called the economy "poor." While racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to live in poverty, race disparities in the poverty rate have narrowed substantially since the 1970s, census data show. Economic insecurity among whites also is more pervasive than is shown in government data, engulfing more than 76% of white adults by the time they turn 60, according to a new economic gauge being published by the Oxford University Press. The gauge defines "economic insecurity" as experiencing unemployment at some point in their working lives, or a year or more of reliance on government aid such as food stamps or income below 150%t of the poverty line. Measured across all races, the risk of economic insecurity rises to 79%. "It's time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to economic class position," said William Julius Wilson, a Harvard professor who specializes in race and poverty. He noted that despite continuing economic difficulties, minorities have more optimism about the future after Obama's election, while struggling whites do not. "There is the real possibility that white alienation will increase if steps are not taken to highlight and address inequality on a broad front," Wilson said. Sometimes termed "the invisible poor" by demographers, lower-income whites are generally dispersed in suburbs as well as small rural towns, where more than 60% of the poor are white. Concentrated in Appalachia in the East, they are also numerous in the industrial Midwest and spread across America's heartland, from Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma up through the Great Plains. More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41% of the nation's destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks. Still, while census figures provide an official measure of poverty, they're only a temporary snapshot. The numbers don't capture the makeup of those who cycle in and out of poverty at different points in their lives. They may be suburbanites, for example, or the working poor or the laid off. In 2011 that snapshot showed 12.6% of adults in their prime working-age years of 25 to 60 lived in poverty. But measured in terms of a person's lifetime risk, a much higher number — 4 in 10 adults — falls into poverty for at least a year of their lives. The risks of poverty also have been increasing in recent decades, particularly among people ages 35 to 55, coinciding with widening income inequality. For instance, people ages 35 to 45 had a 17% risk of encountering poverty during the 1969-1989 time period; that risk increased to 23% during the 1989-2009 period. For those ages 45 to 55, the risk of poverty jumped from 11.8% to 17.7%. By race, non-whites still have a higher risk of being economically insecure, at 90%. But compared with the official poverty rate, some of the biggest jumps under the newer measure are among whites, with more than 76% enduring periods of joblessness, life on welfare or near-poverty. By 2030, based on the current trend of widening income inequality, close to 85% of all working-age adults in the U.S. will experience bouts of economic insecurity. For the first time since 1975, the number of white single-mother households who were living in poverty with children surpassed or equaled black ones in the past decade, spurred by job losses and faster rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites. White single-mother families in poverty stood at nearly 1.5 million in 2011, comparable to the number for blacks. Hispanic single-mother families in poverty trailed at 1.2 million. The share of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods — those with poverty rates of 30% or more — has increased to 1 in 10, putting them at higher risk of teen pregnancy or dropping out of school. Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 17% of the child population in such neighborhoods, up from 13% in 2000, even though the overall proportion of white children in the United States has been declining. The share of black children in high-poverty neighborhoods dropped sharply, from 43% to 37%, while the share of Latino children ticked higher, from 38% to 39%. Going back to the 1980s, never have whites been so pessimistic about their futures, according to the General Social Survey, which is conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. Just 45% say that their family will have a good chance of improving their economic position based on the way things are in America. The divide is especially evident among those whites who self-identify as working class: 49% say that they think their children will do better than them, compared with 67% of non-whites who consider themselves working class. In November 2012, Obama won the votes of just 36% of those non-college whites, the worst performance of any Democratic nominee among that group since 1984. Some Democratic analysts have urged renewed efforts to bring working-class whites into the political fold, calling them a potential "decisive swing voter group" if minority and youth turnout level off in future elections. "They don't trust big government, but it doesn't mean they want no government," says Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who agrees that working-class whites will remain an important electoral group. "They feel that politicians are giving attention to other people and not them."
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The black gunman wanted for shooting a family of five outside a Brooklyn park has been arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts
Curtis Peterson, 23 — who fired on a crowd near the Bushwick park because one of the victims reported him to police — was picked up by U.S. Marshals and NYPD officers with the Regional Fugitive Task Force. Peterson — whose rap sheet includes arrests for burglary, drugs, weapons possession and robbery — was aiming for Ronaldo Pizarro, 45, the father of his baby’s mother, police sources said. Pizarro had filled out a police report a day after Peterson harassed the 18-year-old mother during her shift at a local McDonald’s — because he found out she had been dating another man. The jilted Peterson splashed a milkshake in the teen’s face before he left. But when Peterson found out that the incident had been reported to police, he decided to settle matters with a gun. The armed man was with three others when he opened fire on Pizarro, striking him in the stomach. Pizarro’s wife, Melody Amill, 37, was shot in the knee and his son, Ronaldo Jr, took a bullet in the leg. Pizarro’s 45-year-old aunt, Wanda Espinoza, was hit in the stomach and another relative, Manuel Rivera, 62, was wounded in his ankle. All five victims were taken to local hospitals, where they were treated for their wounds.
Hispanic violence: Police have identified the now-dead gunman who was behind the death of six people in a South Florida shooting spree as 42 year old Pedro Vargas
Authorities have named five of the six victims: Italo Pisciotti, 79, Camira Pisciotti, 69, Carlos Javier Gavilanes, 33, Patricio Simono, 64, and Merly S. Niebles, 51. The sixth victim was identified only as a 17-year-old female, though relatives have said that she was Niebles' daughter, Priscilla Perez. Vargas was a tenant of the Hialeah apartment complex where the shooting took place. It was previously reported that the killings began when the Pisciottis, the building's managers, came to question the gunman over a tenant dispute. But the police say it was more than that: Vargas had lit his fourth-floor apartment on fire, and they went to investigate the smoke coming out of it. When the couple came to the door Vargas shot them. As firefighters arrived on scene, Vargas fired at them from his balcony, but instead hit Gavilanes, who was walking across the street with his son. Vargas then went into a third-floor apartment, where the bodies of Simono, Niebles, and the 17-year-old were later found. A neighbor says that their lock was shot off and the teen girl had been hiding in the bathroom. "Seven people have lost their lives in this incident, six innocent victims and the one shooter," says a police spokesman. "Now starts the investigation, how and why this happened."
The voters who are most important to the GOP's success in 2016 are non-college educated whites
It is a waste of time and resources for the Republicans to try appealing to Hispanics. But does Sheldon Adelson or any of the GOP's other Jewish donors care?
Is Jewish pervert Anthony Weiner just a symbol of a mentally and morally sick society?
Pat Buchanan points out that thanks to liberalism it has become increasing difficult to argue that anything is morally wrong.
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Some surprising common sense from super liberal Maureen Dowd regarding Jewish pervert Anthony Weiner
Dowd points out that he is a creepy loser who, during his 12 years in Congress, only managed to get one minor bill passed and that was on behalf of a donor.
Women vary in skin color over the course of their menstrual cycle
From mid-cycle on, their skin steadily reddens because of an increase in blood flow that peaks in the day or two preceding menstruation. This cyclical “blushing” mainly affects the torso. Facial skin, especially around the eyes, shows a similar cyclical change. Unlike the torso, the face doesn’t redden towards the end of the cycle. Instead, it becomes browner through increased melanocyte activity.
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Only 52% of whites and 38% of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, according to a poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994 and was conducted in mid-July 2013
That’s a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama’s first term, when 79% of whites and 63% of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations. Negative views on race relations have also increased substantially. According to the poll, 45% of whites and 58% of African-Americans now believe that race relations are very or fairly bad, compared with 2009, when only 20% of whites and 30% of blacks held an unfavorable view.
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Puerto Rican says that Jewish politician should apologize to Latinos for using the pseudonym "Carlos Danger"
Was Anthony Weiner being racist when he chose his weird Internet name?
A new study of nearly 145,000 post-menopausal women found a strong correlation between height and cancer risk — stronger even than the correlation for well-known risk factors such as obesity
The link was seen across a host of cancers, from thyroid to melanoma.
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Some pupils are naturally brighter than others, a study of twins suggests
The research shows that inherited intelligence accounts for almost two thirds of marks in GCSEs, while the amount of work done in class accounts for the rest. This suggests that raising the standard of teaching in schools may have a limited impact on children’s academic achievement when compared with the genes they are born with. Or, put more simply, nature trumps nurture. Analysis of the GCSE results of more than 11,100 of them suggested genetic background had a substantial impact on their results. In science it accounted for 58% of scores, in math for 55% and English 52%. IQ scores have been linked with genes before and the advantage appears to increase with age. Little genetic differences become bigger and bigger as you go through life.
A 19-year-old Hispanic accused of beating and raping an elderly woman who later died will now face a murder charge
Prosecutors said that Sergio Martinez-Perez beat and sexually assaulted 93-year-old Louise Sollowin in her home. Sollowin later died. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said that Martinez-Perez will be charged with first-degree murder. Autopsy results showed that Sollowin's cause of death was blunt force trauma. Martinez-Perez, who already faces charges of first-degree sexual assault, first-degree assault and burglary, is set to appear before a judge to be arraigned on the new charge. Prosecutors said that Martinez-Perez admitted to the assault and rape, saying that he was mad at women after a night of drinking. Investigators said that Martinez-Perez is not a legal resident of the United States, and that his country of origin is not yet clear. The victim’s family said that a detective told them that Perez has been in the country for about four months.
CDC report: African-American males continue to die younger, with heart disease and homicide shortening their lives
White females have the longest life expectancy at 81.3 years, black females at 78 years, white males at 76.5 years and black males have the shortest at 71.8 years. The report highlights the causes of death that affect the differences in life expectancy between blacks and whites - namely, heart disease, cancer, homicide and diabetes. “We expected heart disease and cancer, those are still the main focus, but what’s interesting is when you look at the graph for males, you see how important homicide is for directly affecting life expectancy for African-Americans,” says Kenneth D. Kochanek, lead author of the report and statistician with the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. For black males, homicide decreased life expectancy by almost a year. Heart disease was the most significant cause of death affecting the disparity in life expectancy, but for black males, homicide was number two - ahead of cancer and stroke. “We have to look at [violence and homicide] like a disease,” says Dr. Robert Gore, emergency medical physician at Kings County-SUNY Downstate Hospitals and executive director of KAVI - the Kings Against Violence Initiative in Brooklyn. “There are over 700,000 reported violent acts per year involving U.S. youth presenting to our hospitals. We have to stop looking at violence as a purely social problem.” The majority of homicides involve youth and young adults between the ages of 10 and 24. In fact, it’s the number one cause of death among black males in this age group. And despite making up just 13% of the population, the FBI reports that half of the homicide victims in 2011 were black. But now, this new CDC data illustrates just how striking those numbers are - dramatic enough to affect the overall life expectancy for all black men, across all ages. The report also showed that suicide, unintentional accidents, Alzheimer’s disease, liver disease and chronic lung diseases had the opposite effect, and were associated with a longer life expectancy as compared to whites.
Africans with HIV are more susceptible to TB
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death by infectious disease, causing 1.5 million deaths around the world each year. Its prevalence is rising because of drug resistance and an increasing number of patients who are co-infected with HIV. They represent nearly 30% of all TB-related deaths. The convergence of these epidemics is particularly prominent on the African continent, which has the highest rates of TB cases and deaths — 80% of which occur in people living with HIV. Globally, a higher incidence of tuberculosis is known to occur in Africans and African-Americans than in American or European whites, and genetic susceptibility has long been suspected. Researchers found that a low-expressing version of the immune response gene known as macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) — a cell-signaling molecule secreted by the body's innate immune system — conferred a two-and-a-half two and a half-fold increased risk for severe tuberculosis in a group of patients from Uganda. Low-expressers of MIF are almost twice as common among people of African ancestry as whites. "This helps to explain the increased incidence of TB in Africa," said senior author Richard Bucala, M.D., professor of rheumatology, pathology, and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health.
African-Americans and whites are sharply divided on the Zimmerman verdict, reveal new polls
In a Washington Post-ABC poll, more than 1,000 Americans were asked whether they approved of the Zimmerman verdict. A whopping 81% of blacks said no, while just 9% said yes. The numbers were sharply reversed among whites, with 51% favoring the jury's decision and 27% disapproving. And shortly after Attorney General Eric Holder was assuring the NAACP at its convention that his Justice Department was still investigating the Zimmerman case, an 81% majority of blacks told pollsters that they believe Zimmerman should face new civil rights charges in federal court. Just 13% disagreed. White respondents were opposed, but less strongly, by a 59-27 margin. Overall, ABC found that 39% of Americans thought Zimmerman should be charged again. Forty-six percent disagreed. ABC conducted its poll July 18-21, 2013. A separate poll of 1,000 Americans conducted July 15-16, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports found that in the days immediately following Zimmerman's acquittal, just 21% - barely half the number in ABC's poll a few days later - thought federal civil-rights charges were warranted. Asked if they agreed with the jury verdict in Sanford, Florida, less than half overall - 48% - told the Rasmussen researchers that they did. Thirty-four per cent disagreed. In a separate Rasmussen poll conducted July 17-18, 2013 48% of Americans said that they view Zimmerman unfavorably, compared to 32% who had a favorable view of him. Just 17% of self-identified Republicans, The Washington Post reported, think the Justice Department should file civil-rights charges over the death of Martin, a 17-year-old young man when his life ended. Among Democrats, 57% say that Zimmerman should face new federal charges. Approval of the jury's verdict was also split along party lines, with 65% of Republicans and 22% of Democrats in favor.
Britain: White children are less likely to continue their eduction at university than any other ethnic group, official figures reveal
Fewer than 29% leave school with the aim of starting an undergraduate course – compared with 57% among Chinese children and 41% of South Asian pupils. Black children – once the worst-performing ethnic group in schools – are now the third most ambitious, with an application rate of 34%. White children have long trailed behind Chinese and Asian pupils in terms of chasing university places. But the figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show they have been bypassed by other groups. They also come behind two wider categories used by Ucas – mixed race children (31%), and all other ethnic groups (33%). Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook said: "Our new analysis of demand by ethnic group shows that white pupils at English schools now have the lowest application rate of any ethnic group. There has been significant growth in demand from black pupils." Chief schools inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has published a major report which found under-achievement is now most pronounced among white working-class children in suburbs, market towns and seaside resorts. Previously, black children from inner-city schools had presented the biggest problem. White children still make up the majority of undergraduates because they are by far the largest ethnic group. But the Ucas figures, which relate to 18-year-olds at state schools, show that applications by white boys and girls have dropped for the last three years. The largest increase has been among black pupils, whose application rate has soared by 70% since 2006. Of course, thanks to policies such as affirmative action, white students have been sent the message that they are not wanted at British universities.
AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, has praised the Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus initiative on immigration reform
More evidence that Jews are working with Hispanics to undermine white gentiles.
Illegal immigrant crime in Texas: Police in Austin have arrested two Mexican nationals who participated in the gang-rape of a 13-year-old girl
The girl, a runaway, who lives at the Settlement Home for Children, was picked up by three Latino men and driven to the Avalon Arms apartments, where she was raped by a large group of men for several hours, according to police. As many as 13 men took turns sexually assaulting the girl. Many cheered and filmed the sickening crime on their cell phones, according to court documents. Juan Lozano Ortega, 25, and Edgar Gerardo Guzman Perez, 26, have been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Both are currently being held in the Travis County Jail on immigration detainers. The girl was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors determined her injuries were consistent with her allegations. Austin police are currently searching for the other assailants.
Nearly one black teenager a day is shot dead on the South Side of Chicago — to name only one city — by another black teenager
Why are black leaders only interested in some black-victim homicides?
Hispanic crime: A livery cab driver has been arrested after he killed his traffic agent girlfriend and stuffed her body in the trash can of a Bronx apartment, possibly in a fit of jealous rage, according to police sources
Police have arrested 52-year-old Moises Martinez in the killing of 29-year-old Yajaira Reyes, whose body was found wrapped in a blanket and stuffed head-first in a trash can in the couple's Walton Avenue apartment in Mount Eden. Martinez told investigators after he was arrested that his girlfriend was having an affair, according to police sources. The couple has several children together, though they are believed to be out of town. Authorities towed Martinez's car from near the Bronx apartment after he was spotted carrying items to it, according to police sources. He worked in the Bronx as a livery cab driver for Diplo First Class Car Service for about three years, according to Fernando Mateo, president of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. The car company had no comment on Martinez's arrest. Reyes was a traffic enforcement officer with the NYPD, police sources said. Martinez's building superintendent, Jesus Ulloa, said in Spanish that he never noticed issues or indications of domestic problems with the couple. Neighbors said that Martinez and Reyes lived in the neighborhood for only a few months. Martinez faces charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter, police said.
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas. The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city. The federal authorities say that the movable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans. A spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said that welfare benefits are reserved for households that buy and prepare food together. She said that states should intervene if people are caught shipping non-perishables abroad. Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, called it just another example of welfare abuse. “I don’t want food-stamp police to see what people do with their rice and beans, but it’s wrong,” Tanner said. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.” The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean in the last fiscal year, government data show. Still, New Yorkers say that they ship the food because staples available in the United States are superior and less costly than what their families can get abroad. “Everybody does it,” said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT.” Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages. Workers at the Pioneer Supermarket on Parkside Avenue and the Key Food on Flatbush Avenue have confirmed the practice. They said that food-stamp recipients typically take home their barrels and fill them gradually over time with food bought with EBT cards. When the tubs are full, the welfare users call a shipping company to pick them up and send them to the Caribbean for about $70. The shipments take about three weeks.
Between 1985 and 2011, Washington’s homicide rate dropped by 26%, robbery fell 27%, and violent crime in general was cut by 30%; but the city’s black population also dropped by 27% during this same period
Official FBI statistics indicate that blacks are over 600% as likely to commit homicide as non-blacks and their robbery rate is over 700% larger. Generally, the most effective way to reduce crime in a city is to reduce the size of its black population.
Black crime: Police say that Michael Madison, the registered sex offender suspected in the murders of three women in Cleveland, has confessed to one of the killings
He has been charged with three counts of aggravated murder and his bail has been set at $6 million. Meanwhile, one of the victims has been identified as Angela Deskins, 38. Authorities are asking for anyone with information on possible IDs of the other two women to call 1-800-CALL-FBI. Autopsies on the badly decomposed bodies are complete, but cause of death has not yet been determined. Volunteer searchers have been told to expect more remains to be found. All three victims are believed to have been murdered recently. The mayor says that detectives, who are still questioning Madison, have lots of reasons to believe there are more victims. A neighbor who saw Madison frequently says that the man threatened recently to attack women in a similar fashion as fellow black serial killer, Anthony Sowell, who was convicted of murdering 11 women whose bodies were found in his Cleveland home in 2009. Madison also indicated to police that Sowell may have influenced him.
Black Minnesotans who have reached the age of 65 can expect to be healthy for far less of their remaining years than whites, according to new federal government data
A report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concludes that black Minnesotans can expect a little over half of their remaining years - or 57% - to be healthy. On average Minnesotans 65 and older can expect 77.5% of their remaining years to be healthy. But while that is true for whites, black senior citizens will not see as many healthy years. "That is a significant difference," said Paula Yoon, acting director of the Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office at the CDC. "So in Minnesota whites can expect about 15.6 years of healthy life, and blacks have a healthy life expectancy of about 11.5 years," said Yoon. The study marks the first time that the CDC has looked at healthy life expectancy by state. Healthy life expectancy is the proportion of a person's remaining years that they can expect to live in good health. Minnesota is among the top tier of states for life expectancy and good health among people who reach age 65, according to the government data. It also confirms that Minnesota's reputation as a state where people tend to live long, healthy lives remains true for most residents as they reach retirement age. But it reveals that stark health disparities persist among Minnesota seniors, depending on their race and sex. Across the nation, the CDC found that healthy life expectancy for whites was greater than for blacks in all of the states and the District of Columbia. The study also showed that healthy life expectancy for females was greater than for males in all states. It also found that healthy life expectancy for people living in the southern states tended to be lower than for other parts of the country.
Norwegian interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv has spoken out after being handed a 16-month prison sentence in Dubai - after she went to police to report that she had been raped by a colleague
The 24-year-old was convicted and sentenced on charges of having unlawful sex, making a false statement and illegal consumption of alcohol. Her story is dominating the headlines in Norway, and has raised serious questions over the way women who allege sexual assault are treated in the United Arab Emirates. Dalelv, who had been working at an interior design firm in Qatar since September 2011, said how a work trip to Dubai in March 2013 with three colleagues turned into a nightmare. She had been out at a bar with her colleagues and friends, and asked a male colleague to walk her to her room when they returned at 3 a.m. to the hotel. She'd asked him to escort her because the hotel was large and confusing, and she didn't want to be wandering on her own, knowing she'd been drinking, she said. When they reached a room, she realized it wasn't hers - but the man then pulled her inside despite her vocal objections, according to Dalelv. "He dragged me by my purse in, so I thought, 'OK, I just need to calm the situation down. I will finish my bottle of water, I will sit here and then I will excuse myself and say I feel fine,'" she said. That was pretty much the last thing she remembers before the sexual assault. "I woke up with my clothes off, sleeping on my belly, and he was raping me. I tried to get off, I tried to get him off, but he pushed me back down." After someone knocked - the hotel wake-up call - she managed to get dressed and make it downstairs to the hotel reception, Dalelv said. "I called the police. That is what you do. We are trained on that from when we are very young," she said. Some 10 or 12 male police officers arrived, but no female police officers were present, she said. Statements were taken from both Dalelv and the rapist. She was then taken to Bur Dubai police station, she said. After again giving her version of events to officers, Dalelv said, "They asked me, 'Are you sure you called the police because you just didn't like it?' I said, 'Well of course I didn't like it.' That is when I knew, I don't think they are going to believe me at all." Dalelv was taken for an intimate medical exam and tested for alcohol consumption. Her belongings were taken and she was kept in jail for four days, she said, with no explanation as to why. Dalelv managed to call her parents on the third day to tell them that she had been raped and ask them to contact the Norwegian Embassy. A day later, a representative from the Norwegian consulate came to the police station and she was released - but her passport was not returned. A piece of paper with Arabic text was handed to her, she said. An Arabic speaker told her it listed two charges against her: one for sex outside of marriage and the other for public consumption of alcohol. Both are violations of the law in the United Arab Emirates. It was the first time that she was made aware that she faced charges, Dalelv said. She was allowed out on bail and has been staying since at the Norwegian Seaman's Center in Dubai. Subsequently, her manager advised her to tell the police it was voluntary sexual intercourse and likely the whole issue would just go away. She followed the advice and in one of the many hearings at the public prosecutor's office, she made a statement saying it was voluntary. Dalelv was then charged with making a false statement. "That was my biggest regret because it wasn't voluntary. I just thought it would all go away," she said. But a representative of Al Mana Interiors, who Dalelv worked for, said that she was not advised by her manager to say the sex was consensual but rather by a police officer, who told her that in Arabic and it was translated into English by her manager. Dalelv said that a month after the rape, while forced to stay in Dubai as the case wound through the legal system, she was fired. The representative said that Dalelv and the Sudanese man she accused - who is married with three children - have both been terminated by Al Mana Interiors for "drinking alcohol at a staff conference that resulted in trouble with the police." The company is owned by Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, who made headlines earlier in 2013 after it was revealed that he secretly married singer Janet Jackson in 2012. Dalelv has been convicted on all three charges and was sentenced to one year in jail for having unlawful sex, three months in jail for making a false statement and one month for illegal consumption of alcohol. Dalelv is scheduled to appear at the court on September 5, 2013 to begin the appeal proceedings. Dalelv, who is not allowed to leave the UAE pending the appeal, said that her lawyers have instructed her to be prepared to go back into jail while they submit a request for bail while the appeal is ongoing. A Facebook page has been set up calling for Dalelv's release, as well as a petition urging the Norwegian government to take action on her behalf. Her conviction may risk wider diplomatic repercussions. Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Espen Barth Eide called his UAE counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed al-Nahyan, to protest Dalelv's sentencing, a statement from the Norwegian ministry said. "I emphasized that we believe that the conviction is contrary to fundamental human rights, including conventions that the UAE have officially ratified," Eide is quoted as saying. "Norway will continue to do what we can to support her in what is a very difficult situation. Our cooperation with the UAE is strong and good, but I conveyed to my colleague that we are worried that this difficult case may disturb our good relations if we do not reach a good solution in the near future." Dalelv said that she received a call from Eide reiterating Norway's support. While Dubai has a reputation as a cosmopolitan city that boasts Western influences, where visitors can drink at bars and restaurants and unmarried couples can share hotel rooms, the country adheres to Islamic laws and traditions. The United Arab Emirates has been heavily criticized by rights groups, which say it condones sexual violence against women. Human Rights Watch has called its record shameful, saying that it must change the way it handles such cases. In December 2012, a British woman reported being raped by three men in Dubai. She was found guilty of drinking alcohol without a license and fined. In January 2010, a British woman told authorities that she was raped by an employee at a Dubai hotel. She was charged with public intoxication and having sex outside of marriage. An Australian woman reported in 2008 that she was drugged and gang-raped. She was convicted of having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, and she was sentenced to 11 months in prison.
Is homosexuality biological?
Mark Joseph Stern looks at the evidence:
Some of the strongest current evidence that some people are born gay is based on a phenomenon called the fraternal birth order effect. Several peer-reviewed studies have shown that men with older biological brothers are likelier to be gay than men with older sisters or no older siblings. The likelihood of being gay increases by about 33 percent with each additional older brother. From these statistics, researchers calculate that about 15 to 30 percent of gay men have the fraternal birth order effect to thank for their homosexuality.
Why does this happen?:
One of the leading explanations is called the maternal immunization hypothesis. According to Ray Blanchard of the University of Toronto, when a woman is pregnant with a male fetus, her body is exposed to a male-specific antigen, some molecule that normally turns the fetus heterosexual. The woman’s immune system produces antibodies to fight this foreign antigen. With enough antibodies, the antigen will be neutralized and no longer capable of making the fetus straight. These antibodies linger in the mother’s body long after pregnancy, and so when a woman has a second son, or a third or fourth, an army of antibodies is lying in wait to zap the chemicals that would normally make him heterosexual.
Or so Blanchard speculates. Although the hypothesis sounds reasonable enough, it’s premised on a number of assumptions that haven’t been proven. For instance, no one has shown that there is a particular antigen that controls sexual orientation, let alone one designed to make men straight. And if that antigen does exist, does it control orientation only? Blanchard refers to its antibody attackers as “anti-male,” implying that the antigen controls for various aspects of masculinity. But when I asked him about this, he was noncommittal. Moreover, the hypothesis proposes a loose, two-way flow of antigens and antibodies between the fetus (whose antigens spread to the mother) and the mother (whose antibodies spread to the fetus). But this exchange has never been observed—and the antibodies and antigens in question are hypothetical, anyway. If they do exist, there’s no assurance that they perform this placental pirouette.
Does this mean that homosexuality is pathogenic?:
If Blanchard is right, then (at least some) gay people are indeed born gay, but there’s still something wrong with them. The hypothesis turns homosexuality into a birth defect, an aberration: Gay people are deviants from the normative mode of heterosexuality. We may have been born this way, the hypothesis implies, but that’s not how it was supposed to happen.
What about a cure?:
If homosexuality is truly biological, discrimination against gay people is bigotry, plain and simple. But if it’s a birth defect, as Blanchard’s work tacitly suggests, then being gay is something that can — and presumably should — be fixed.
Let us hope that if homosexuality does turn out to be biological then scientists will be able to come up with a way to solve it.
Are black riots really about Obama and his policies?
An interesting post from Brenda Walker:
My two cents on the Trayvon frenzy: there’s a big element of emotional displacement of black anger with the President transferred to this case. Many blacks are deeply disappointed with the Obama Presidency, in particular the terrible unemployment because of his destructive handling of the economy. Life for millions of black citizens has gotten worse, not better, under the African-American President, but it is taboo to criticize him, so their outrage has been funneled into the highly publicized shooting and trial.
If there were jobs and a sense of hope about the future, the trial’s outcome might have been more easily accepted. But Obama has given far more attention to the imagined concerns of hispanics than to his own paternal race, who have to riot to get noticed by the President.
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Trayvon Martin and the Jews
Another great post from Tanstaafl.
Black crime in Britain: As many as a fifth of 18-34 year old black men in Hackney could be part of a gang according to researchers
The figures emerged in a study which concluded that gang members suffer unprecedented levels of psychiatric illness, placing a heavy burden on mental health services. Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, surveyed 4,664 men aged 18 to 34 in Britain, with the sample weighted to combine significant numbers from areas with high gang membership - including 700 from Hackney. Of the total sample 2.1% of men said that they belonged to a gang - but in Hackney the figures were much higher at 8.6%. If membership of a gang is narrowed down to black men in Hackney the figure shoots up to 20%. Professor Jeremy Coid, director of forensic psychiatry research unit at Queen Mary, and lead author of the paper said: “One of the most interesting things is that you actually have a real changing social demography in Hackney. So if we look at white men in Hackney the figures are fractionally higher than the rest of the country for gang membership, but it’s extremely raised among black men."
Even in Scotland it is considered racist to notice that blacks commit a lot of crimes
A Crimestoppers poster that depicts a black drug dealer being tackled by a giant mobile phone has drawn complaints from equality campaigners in Scotland. The African and Caribbean Network (ACN) represents more than 2,000 people in Glasgow and the surrounding region, and said that the new billboard “sends out completely the wrong message”. Graham Campbell, vice-chairman of ACN Glasgow, said: “This is not an image I would want to see associated with black people in Glasgow. These types of billboards were a problem when I was growing up in London back in the 1980s and we've moved on since then. But we rarely see black people represented at all, so it's hugely disappointing that when we do they are portrayed negatively.” He added that one of the posters had been placed in an area of Glasgow with a predominantly black community, and said: “The implication is being given to people that they should mistrust their neighbor.” Crimestoppers released a statement saying that they apologised if any offence had been caused, but that the poster came as part of a wider awareness campaign depicting “a broad cross section of society”. They said: “Crimestoppers exists to provide a voice to those who otherwise may find themselves without a means of reporting crime and criminal behavior. The charity aims to unite communities in doing so and provides a platform for people to do something positive in making their town or city a safer place to live irrespective of gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or beliefs. We are a non-judgmental charity here to help and support communities.” Responding to the poster on Twitter, user @_mozz_ said: “Think this objection is completely valid & posters should be taken down.” And the Glasgow-based Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights posted a link about the campaign, adding: “Crimestoppers advert criticised by Glasgow activists over racial stereotyping.” So remember the next time you see a black committing a crime it is just your eyes being racist.
Charges have been filed against a black man accused of holding four men against their will at a northwest Houston home, police said
Walter Renard Jones, 31, is charged with two counts of injury to the elderly - serious bodily injury in the 263rd state District Court. Investigators with the Houston Police Department said that the four men were held captive in a garage and were living in deplorable conditions while being forced to hand over their monthly incomes. The victims told officers that they were held against their will in the converted garage and given only scraps to eat. Three of the men, who appeared to be suffering from malnutrition, were taken to LBJ Hospital. They are in stable condition, police said. The victims were discovered after a resident called police after seeing a man at the window rubbing his stomach as if he was hungry. When officers arrived at the duplex on White Castle, they were shocked. They described the living conditions as like a dungeon. The owner of the house is 83-year-old Essie Scranton. There was no bathroom and a chair was the only piece of furniture. The garage had burglar bars and locked doors. Police were told that the men were lured to the home with the promise of food, alcohol and cigarettes. Investigators are looking into whether they were homeless before. They were also forced to turn over their Social Security and Veteran’s benefits checks to their captor. Investigators said that Jones apparently did not live in the house. Four women live in the other side of the duplex, three of whom appeared to have mental disabilities, police said. The fourth was a caretaker. Harris County Adult Protective Services is also looking into this case. The agency will be checking into the mental capacities of the men held captive and the official residents, including the homeowner. Court records showed that Jones had previous charges beginning in 2002 for theft, marijuana possession and failing to register as a sex offender.
A brave anti-Zionist has died: Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas is dead at age 92
Her career was destroyed when she stood up to Jewish power. It is a pity that more gentiles are not as brave as she was.
Does the criminal justice system really discriminate against blacks?
Not according to Heather Mac Donald:
A 1994 Justice Department survey of felony cases from the country’s 75 largest urban areas discovered that blacks actually had a lower chance of prosecution following a felony than whites did and that they were less likely to be found guilty at trial. Alfred Blumstein has found that blacks are underrepresented in prison for homicide compared with their arrest rates. A meta-analysis of charging and sentencing studies showed that “large racial differences in criminal offending,” not racism, explained why more blacks were in prison proportionately than whites and for longer terms, according to criminologists Robert Sampson and Janet Lauritsen.
She points out that blacks are generally safer around whites than they are around other blacks:
In fact, if a black parent wants to radically reduce his son’s chance of getting shot, he should live in a white neighborhood. New York’s crime profile is typical of urban-crime disparities across the country. The per capita shooting rate in predominantly black Brownsville, Brooklyn, is 81 times higher than that of predominantly white and Asian Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department. Blacks in 2012 committed about 75 percent of all shootings in New York, and whites a little over 2 percent, though blacks are 23 percent of the city’s population and whites 35 percent. Blacks are 60 percent of the city’s homicide victims. Their killers? They aren’t white. The picture is the same nationally. Black males between the ages of 14 and 24 committed homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males combined in the same age category in 2008, resulting in a homicide victimization rate nearly as disproportionate. As for interracial crime, black homicide offenders in 2010 had nearly three times the absolute number of white and Hispanic victims as there were black victims of white and Hispanic homicide offenders, despite blacks’ much lower population numbers.
Justice Department: Blacks are at least seven times more likely than people of other races to commit violent crimes and young black men are the most dangerous people in America
Is it now a hate crime for a "racist" to use violence in self-defense against a black assailant?
Barack Obama: African-American boys are more violent
According to our first - and hopefully only - black president, African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system and are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence.
In New York from January to June 2008, 83% of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24% of the population
Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98% of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says that blacks and Hispanics commit 96% of all crimes in the city, but only 85% of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics. An analysis of single offender victimization figures from the FBI for 2007 finds that blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study. Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse. And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent an average year then over one-third of a million white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987.
Lack of public safety in black run Detroit
If you're a Detroiter who needs a police officer, it will take 58 minutes to get help - more than five times what it takes elsewhere in the United States. And if you're walking around the city, it might make sense to bring a flashlight - about 40% of the 88,000 street lights don't work. Response times for Emergency Medical Services and the Detroit Fire Department average 15 minutes, which is more than double the 7-minute averages seen in other cities. The police department closes only 8.7% of its criminal cases. The city's violent crime rate is five times the national average, and the highest of any city with a population exceeding 200,000.
Predominantly black Detroit files for bankruptcy
Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, becoming the nation's largest public sector bankruptcy. The move could slash pension benefits to city workers and retirees, and leave bond holders with only pennies on the dollar. The bankruptcy was filed by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and approved by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Snyder said that the financial condition of the city left him no choice, and that Detroit could not meet its obligation to either its citizens or its creditors. "The only feasible path to ensuring the city will be able to meet obligations in the future is to have a successful restructuring via the bankruptcy process," Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said in the letter authorizing the filing. Orr has already halted payments on about $2 billion in debt recently, saying that the city needed to preserve its dwindling supply of cash. The city faces total liabilities of about $18 billion. Orr's reorganization plan calls for cutting $11.5 billion in debt down to $2 billion. That would mean that investors and retirees would receive an average of just 17% of what they are owed. Specific plans for the cuts are unknown at this time. But cutting retiree's pensions in a municipal bankruptcy has never been done before, said Michael Sweet, a California bankruptcy attorney. "It's relatively easy to blow off a creditor. It's much harder when it's people who are the fabric of your community," he said. "You need a police force, you need a fire department. You're saying [to them] you're not worth what you were previously promised." Sweet said that case law on whether pensions can be cut this way is very limited, and it could take years for a court fight over pension cuts to work its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Given the poor state of funding for many public sector pension funds nationwide, "it's a big enough question, that (the Supreme Court) is where it likely will have to go," he said. When employees of a bankrupt business lose their promised pensions, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. steps in and provides a minimal level of benefits. But that federal agency doesn't back pensions in the public sector. Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said that the decision to file for bankruptcy came after careful deliberation. "This has been a huge problem for decades and it's come to a crisis point," she said. "The emergency manager tried to work with all the creditors, including pensioners." Retirees and city employees say that they can't accept cuts in their pension benefits. "How am I supposed to live without my pension?" said David Sole, 65, after a protest in Detroit. Sole retired from the city's water department in January 2013 after 22 years. Investors say that the bankruptcy will make it more difficult for cities and towns everywhere to raise the money they need to build bridges, schools and other infrastructure. It will also hurt municipal bonds held by individual investors. There are more than $1 trillion worth of bonds at risk, said Peter Hayes, head of municipal bonds at BlackRock. He said that there will be a ripple effect nationwide. Orr said that the city needs to cut debt to restore services and lower costs, such as taxes and insurance, that he says have chased businesses and residents out of the city. Detroit's population has fallen 28% since 2000. The unemployment rate, while down from a peak of 27.8% in the summer of 2009 - when General Motors and Chrysler Group were going through their own bankruptcies - is still at 16.3%, nearly twice Michigan's statewide average. While the auto industry has enjoyed a resurgence with strong car sales and profits, most of the industry's Michigan plants lay outside of city limits.
Ann Coulter: To avoid looking like a criminal, don't commit a crime
She has some useful advice for blacks, but will they be smart enough to follow it?
The UN's new population forecast for the world has some eye-popping figures, especially about Africa in general and Nigeria in particular
Its charts show that Nigeria, about the size of Texas, will surpass the entire United States in population by 2050. By 2100, it is expected to have an astonishing 1 billion people and be poised to overtake China. (The latter country will be shrinking and likely headed for a demographic nightmare.) As for the African continent, it will see a population explosion nearly unprecedented in human history. The biggest nation in 2100, however, is expected to be India, with a population somewhere around 1.5 billion. But its growth will level off around 2065 — meaning Nigeria looks on track to be No. 1 in the subsequent decades. As for the United States, its growth will rise slowly but steadily over the century and should be around 500 million by 2100. The world's overall population, now at 7.2 billion, is expected to be at 11 billion by then.
A black man has admitted that he killed his uncle's 6-year-old stepdaughter, whose body was found in a Louisiana trash can, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has said
Matthew Flugence admitted to detectives that he stabbed Ahlittia North, a girl he previously babysat, Col. John Fortunato said. Flugence, 20, was arrested in the case on the day that authorities found Ahlittia's body in a trash can down the street from her mother and stepfather's apartment in the New Orleans suburb of Harvey. Flugence, who had an outstanding warrant charging him with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in 2012, has been charged with murder in Ahlittia's death, Fortunato said. "I don't know what I else I can say about the character of an individual that just admitted to killing a 6-year-old," Sheriff Newell Normand said when asked about Flugence's background. "I think that speaks for itself." Flugence's brother Russell, 21, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice in Ahlittia's death, Normand said. Russell Flugence had information about the crime that he didn't come forward with, and he also had information implicating his brother, the sheriff asserted. Matthew Flugence told investigators that he killed Ahlittia after finding her outside the Harvey apartment where her mother and her stepfather - Flugence's uncle - lived, Normand said. "(Flugence's) story is (that) in the early morning hours ... he happened to see her out and about, and he was out and about, walking through the neighborhood," Normand said. The investigation began after Ahlittia's mother awoke to find her gone from the apartment, authorities said. The girl was living with her mother for the summer, but normally lived with someone else in Donaldsonville, about 60 miles to the west, Normand said. After she was reported missing, investigators spent the day combing the neighborhood, looking in alleys, dumpsters and boarded-up four-plexes. They found a pool of blood in one of the buildings, Normand said, and when DNA results came back showing the blood belonged to Ahlittia, investigators searched the area again. That's when they found the girl's body in a garbage can, wrapped in a blanket from her house and covered in a garbage bag, Normand said. Investigators looked at the garbage can during their first search of the neighborhood, so they know the body was put inside sometime after that, he said. Flugence told detectives that he killed Ahlittia with a knife that investigators found on him when he was arrested, Normand said. Flugence was arrested after people told authorities that he was walking along a road in nearby Westwego, asking for money and telling them that he was on the run from police, officials said. Ahlittia suffered four stab wounds - two to her neck, likely the fatal wounds, and two to the abdomen, Jefferson Parish Coroner Gerald Cvitanovich said. She also had bruises to the front and back of her head, shoulder, lower back, and lower extremities.
Nearly 15% of all blacks have diabetes, a rate that is about four times the national average
In addition, the rate of HIV/AIDS among blacks is nine times higher than for whites. Blacks account for about 13% of the U.S. population, yet 49% of the cases of HIV/AIDS. Also, black men are 30% more likely to die of heart disease than non-Hispanic white males and about 40% of blacks have high blood pressure. Finally, more than half of black women (53%) and more than a third of black men (36%) are obese. Overall in the United States, the rate among adults is 26%.
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Blacks with chronic kidney disease have faster progression to end-stage renal disease than their white counterparts, a Dutch study shows
Starting 15 months after the initiation of pre-dialysis care, black patients were more than two-and-a-half times more likely to need renal replacement therapy (HR 2.87, 95% CI 1.29-6.41), according to Moniek de Goeij, MSc, a PhD student at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and colleagues. And black patients had a faster decline (by 0.18 mL/min/1.73 m2 per month) in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) during the study period, the researchers reported. The results suggest that health care system factors have a less influential role in explaining black-white differences in the progression of chronic kidney disease. "Our results may implicate that black patients with chronic kidney disease should be referred to pre-dialysis care earlier than white patients to assure timely preparation for renal replacement therapy," they wrote. "Fortunately, in the Netherlands this is already the case because our data showed that black patients had a higher eGFR at the start of pre-dialysis care than white patients." U.S. studies have shown that among patients with chronic kidney disease, blacks more rapidly deteriorate to end-stage renal disease than whites.
Chicago: A black grandmother accused of killing her 8-year-old granddaughter inflicted abuse for so long that the dead little girl had maggots living in a head wound that had gone untreated, police said in a shocking case
Helen M. Ford, 51, eventually strangled and beat Gizzell Kiara Ford to death, police say, ending weeks, maybe months, of systematic abuse. The black grandmother is being held on no bail and faces a murder charge. The details of the grisly and horrifying crime were unveiled by prosecutors who presented a disturbing case against the girl's caretaker and, police say, executioner. Police found the girl "cold" and dead when they responded to a call of a person not breathing. The girl lived with her grandmother and bedridden father, both of whom were home when the girl died. Ford initially told police that the girl inflicted the injuries herself, but police found several bruises, burns and cuts on her body, lying face up in a bedroom in the home. Some of the blunt force trauma happened so long ago that maggots had hatched in a head wound and moved to the front of the girl's scalp while she was still living, prosecutors said while detailing the case in court. The horrific list of abuse also included deep cuts on her buttocks, ligature marks on her ankles and wrists and possible cigarette burns on her body, prosecutors said. Ford kept the little girl away from her family and friends, Gizzell's uncle, Osvaldo Mercado, said. "Helen blocked everybody," Mercado, 30, said. "She would say, 'Gizzell can't talk - she's in the shower, or on punishment.' It was an excuse every time we called." Blood-splattered twine, cables and a pole were found in the girl's home during the investigation. Blood was found on the bedroom wall near where her body was found, prosecutors said.
A new study suggests that Chinese people may be at higher risk for stroke than whites
"While stroke is the second most-common cause of death worldwide, in China it is the leading cause of death and adult disability," said study author Chung-Fen Tsai, MD, with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. "The global impact of stroke in the decades ahead is predicted to be greatest in middle income countries, including China. It is important to gain a better understanding of how stroke affects different populations as we try to reduce the burden of the disease worldwide." For the analysis, researchers reviewed studies from 1990 onward that included first strokes in Chinese people in China and Taiwan. A total of 404,254 Chinese were included. The study included more than two million person-years and 3,935 strokes. The researchers also identified 10 community-based studies among whites including 1,885,067 people, more than 3.2 million person-years and 4,568 strokes. Comparing the two groups, the research found a slightly higher overall risk of stroke in Chinese people than in whites, with a range of 205 to 584 strokes per 100,000 Chinese people age 45 to 74, compared to 170 to 335 strokes per 100,000 white people the same age. Chinese also had a higher risk of intra-cerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke due to bleeding into the brain from a ruptured blood vessel, compared to white people, or 33% of all strokes compared to 12% of all strokes in community-based studies. Chinese people had a lower average age of stroke onset of 66 to 70 years-old, compared to 72 to 76 years-old for whites.
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If blacks have been stigmatized it is due to their own misbehavior
When is the media going to stop treating black thugs like Trayvon Martin as victims?
A group of black males shouted “This is for Trayvon!” as they beat up a Hispanic man
This is what happens when the Hispanic guy doesn't have a gun. Plus, a photo of Zimmerman's great-grandfather raises questions about so-called racial profiling. And in order to deal with black crime and violence, many cities are enacting curfews.
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Hispanics of all ages in the United States are more than twice as likely to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party
Which is why the GOP should be against allowing more Latino immigrants into the country.
Authorities have arrested a Latino doctor on suspicion of carrying out two attacks in Omaha in May 2013 and in 2008 in which four people were killed who had ties to Creighton University's medical school, which fired him twelve years ago
Dr. Anthony Garcia, who now lives in Terre Haute, Indiana, was arrested by Illinois State Police while driving near the Indiana border, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers said that he appeared to be intoxicated when they arrested him, and he had a .45-caliber handgun with him. Garcia, 40, is being held on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of using a weapon to commit a felony, Schmaderer said. Public records show that since 2003, Garcia has held medical licenses in California, Illinois and Indiana, but his temporary Indiana license expired in January 2013. Investigators believe that Garcia was responsible for an attack in May 2013 in which pathology professor Roger Brumback was shot to death and his wife, Mary, was fatally stabbed, Schmaderer said. They also believe that Garcia was behind a 2008 home invasion in which the 11-year-old son and family housekeeper of another Creighton pathology department professor, William Hunter, were stabbed to death. Roger Brumback and William Hunter fired Garcia from his pathology resident position in the department in 2001 for displaying erratic behavior, Schmaderer said. He said that the task force of local, state and FBI investigators believe that Garcia fits all the criteria of a serial killer. "We didn't feel this individual would stop unless an arrest was made," Schmaderer said. Schmaderer said that the task force investigating this case is in the process of searching several places where Garcia lived since 2001, but officers believe that he acted alone. The attacks happened in Omaha neighborhoods where homicides are rare. The city averages about 40 per year.
The Justice Department has said that it was restarting its investigation into the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin to consider possible separate hate crime charges against George Zimmerman
Obama and the media won't be happy until Zimmerman commits suicide.
Race and tuberculosis: By analysing the levels of various inflammatory markers in blood samples taken before treatment, scientists have showed that immune responses of Asians and Europeans are similar to each other, but different from those of Africans
This difference was caused by ethnic variation in the patients’ genetic make-up and was not related to the strain of TB bacterium that the patients were infected with. Dr Adrian Martineau, Reader in Respiratory Infection and Immunity at the Blizard Institute, part of Queen Mary, said: “The TB bacterium has co-evolved with humans following migration to Europe and Asia some 70,000 years ago, and different strains of the TB bacterium disproportionately infect particular ethnic groups. Experiments with white blood cells cultured in the lab have shown that different strains of the TB bacterium elicit different amounts of inflammation. One might therefore expect that TB patients’ immune responses would differ according to the strain of TB bacterium that they are infected with. However our study has shown, for the first time, that it is actually ethnic differences in the patient’s genetic make-up that cause most of this variation in immune responses – with little effect of the TB strain they are infected with.” By analyzing blood samples taken from 85 of the original cohort after an eight-week period of intensive treatment, the researchers found that ethnic variation in immune responses became even more marked. A number of immunological bio-markers, which correlated with either fast or slow clearance of the TB bacteria, were identified and found to differ between Africans and Europeans/Asians. Dr Anna Coussens, who measured immune responses in patient samples at the NIMR, said: “These findings have important implications, both for the development of new diagnostic tests, which increasingly rely on analyzing the immune response, and also for work to identify candidate bio-markers to measure response to anti-TB treatment. In the future, diagnostic tests and bio-markers will need to be validated in different ethnic populations.” A key factor in determining the ethnic variation identified in the study appears to be the patients’ genetic type of vitamin D binding protein – a molecule which binds vitamin D in the circulation. Dr Martineau said: “There are different genetic types of this protein which vary in frequency between ethnic groups, adding to the growing evidence that vitamin D and the way it is carried in the blood is crucial in determining how a patient’s immune system will respond to TB.”
Crime and the black family: The adult son of Giants legend Lawrence Taylor has been arrested in Georgia on three felony charges of statutory rape, sodomy and child molestation
Lawrence Taylor Jr., 32, has been jailed on no bond after his arrest in Powder Springs. L.T., the once great Giant linebacker, himself faced rape charges after a 2010 rendezvous with an underage prostitute. The elder Taylor served no jail time but is a registered sex offender and remains on probation in that case. He pleaded guilty to charges of patronizing a prostitute and sexual misconduct, lesser offenses than the original felony statutory rape charge.
ZIMMERMAN: NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
Will Angela Corey resign? Blacks are already threatening to kill Zimmerman on Twitter.
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KTVU accidentally names Asiana pilots Sum Ting Wong and Ho Lee Fuk in crash report
Oakland's KTVU accidentally used prank names in reporting the Asiana Flight 214's crash-landing in San Francisco. KTVU's Channel Two broadcast the “confirmed” pilot names as Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.
Zimmerman case: The Special Prosecutor’s Office of Angela Corey has fired the IT specialist who blew the whistle on the prosecution’s concealment of evidence
State Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director after he testified about being concerned that prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. On the same day that attorneys finished their closing arguments in the nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home to hand-deliver a letter stating that Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”
Between 1980-2008, African-Americans were six times more likely than whites to be victims of gun violence and seven times more likely to kill with guns than whites, according to the Justice Department
African-Americans represent a mere 13% of the US population yet more than 50% of federal prisoners are black. In Chicago, blacks make up about 33% of the city's population, but they accounted for nearly 78% of the homicide victims through the first six months of 2012. Americans, especially black Americans, have come to accept blacks killing other blacks as normal.
In 2011, 91% of all blacks murdered that year were killed by their own people
Of course, many blacks refuse to accept the reality of crime in their community.
Low vitamin D blood levels are linked to greater risk of heart disease in whites and Chinese, but not in blacks and Hispanics
Growing evidence has suggested that low blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin are associated with higher risk of developing coronary heart disease among whites. Few of these studies included substantial numbers of people from other races. Vitamin D levels tend to be lower among people from other racial and ethnic minority groups, and some of these populations have higher rates of heart disease. However, after correcting for other risk factors for heart disease in their large, multi-ethnic study group, researchers did not find an association between low vitamin D and cardiovascular events in their black and Hispanic study participants. "Our study suggests that the results of ongoing vitamin D clinical trials conducted in white populations should be applied cautiously to people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds," said Cassianne Robinson-Cohen. "Our future studies will examine the genetics affecting the levels and use of Vitamin D in the body to try to figure out why the link between low vitamin D blood levels and heart disease varies by race and ethnicity," she said. "We don't know for sure, but perhaps genes affecting the need for and use of vitamin D could have evolved to adapt to different levels of sun exposure in places where various ethnic subgroups of people originated." Her team plans to look for variations in genes known to mediate Vitamin D activation and metabolism. She said that these genes have been identified, but at present scientists haven't determined how gene variation influences susceptibility to the adverse effects of low vitamin D.
A Mexican drug cartel known for kidnapping random civilians and beheading its rivals has expanded its operations into the United States
Isn't immigration and diversity wonderful?
Black/African American women and Latinas are disproportionately affected by HIV infection compared with women of other races/ethnicities
In 2010, the fourth largest number of all new HIV infections among all people in the United States occurred among black/African American women with heterosexual contact (5,300 infections). Of the total number of new HIV infections among women in the United States in 2010, 64% occurred in blacks/African Americans, 18% were in whites, and 15% were in Hispanics/Latinas. At some point in their lifetimes, an estimated 1 in 32 black/African American women will be diagnosed with HIV infection, compared with 1 in 106 Hispanic/Latino women and 1 in 526 white women. In 2010, the rate of new HIV infections (per 100,000 population) among black/African American women was 20 times that of white women, and the rate among Hispanic/Latino women was 4 times the rate of white women. In 2010, HIV was among the top 10 leading causes of death for black/African American women aged 15 to 64 and Hispanic/Latino women aged 25 to 44.
Belgian doctors have developed a low-cost version of test-tube baby technology for use in developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples
Do Third World countries really need more babies?
Brazilian funk artist Daniel Pellegrine, known as MC Daleste, is dead after being shot in the abdomen while performing in the city of Campinas
Pellegrine was mid-song when a bullet struck him, causing the 20-year-old performer to fall back in a sitting position before others on stage came to his aid. He died after being brought to a nearby hospital.
A lawyer for 19 former students at Yeshiva University High School for Boys has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that two former rabbis there carried out hundreds of acts of sexual abuse during the 1970s and 80s, and that the university’s leaders covered it up
According to a 148-page complaint lodged in Federal District Court in White Plains, the abuse included one case, in 1980, of a rabbi who sodomized a 16-year-old student with a toothbrush in his dormitory room in Upper Manhattan. Another boy claims a different rabbi abused him at least 30 times, in his office and the school’s halls, between 1978 and 1982, the lawsuit says. The lawyer, Kevin T. Mulhearn, said that the depth of the abuse, which the plaintiffs claim occurred between 1969 and 1989, did not come to light until recently. The lawsuit said that administrators of Yeshiva University, which runs the high school, brushed off complaints about the two rabbis for years, and after they left the school, the university did not notify their future employers about the complaints. One of the men, Rabbi George Finkelstein, went on to work at a Jewish day school near Miami for several years. “Their abuse should have been avoided with a bare minimum of responsibility and compassion for the children in their charge,” Mulhearn said. The lawsuit contains complaints from 16 former students who say that they were abused by Rabbi Finkelstein, an administrator who became principal in the late 1980s before the school, responding to complaints, asked him to leave in 1995. The lawsuit says that Rabbi Finkelstein rubbed his genitals against students, either in an office at the school, at a dormitory or in his apartment, sometimes under the guise of wrestling. He also groped boys’ genitals while checking to see if they were wearing tzitzis, traditional fringes under the outer clothing, the suit says. The three other complaints, including the one claiming sodomy, are against Rabbi Macy Gordon, who taught Judaic Studies and left in 1984. The lawsuit also said that Yeshiva allowed a former student with a reputation for improper behavior to enter the high school dorm rooms, where he fondled students. Each of them is seeking $20 million in damages, for a total of $380 million.
A new analysis has found that among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, African Americans more commonly present with advanced disease, and they tend to have shorter survival times than whites despite receiving the same care
The results suggest that biological factors may account for some racial disparities in cancer survival. Among cancer patients, minorities tend to have a worse prognosis than whites for reasons that are unclear. In African American patients, lower socioeconomic status and limited access to high-quality care often can play a role, but some researchers propose that certain cancers can behave more aggressively in minority individuals, which also can lead to worse outcomes. Because chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of blood cancer, is rare in African Americans, investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Duke University Medical Center in Durham led a study that combined the two centers' experiences with African American and white patients. Their analysis included 84 African American patients and 1,571 non-black patients referred to the two centers. All patients, regardless of race, had access to healthcare services and received the same treatments. "We sought to isolate race as a prognostic factor from other known demographic and clinical prognostic parameters in CLL," explained Dr. Falchi. The investigators found that while the time from diagnosis (made either incidentally or because of clinical symptoms) to referral was shorter for African Americans than white patients, African Americans were more likely to have CLL that was more advanced at the time of referral. Also, although African Americans responded as well to first-line therapy as white patients, their cancer progressed more rapidly and their survival was shorter. The inferior survival of African American patients persisted when patients were grouped according to factors related to the severity of their disease. "These findings suggest that while inducing similarly high response rates, standard treatments do not overcome racial differences in outcome among patients with CLL," said Dr. Ferrajoli. She added that a number of questions remain unanswered. For example, do distinct biologic characteristics of African American patients with CLL account for the disparities seen in this study?
Obama's America: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs
Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary. While part-time and temp jobs reached highs in June 2013, full-time jobs decreased by another 240,000. The recovery, or lack thereof, is being fueled by a shift from full-time to part-time work.
Blacks, who constitute 23% of New York City’s population, committed 66% of all violent crimes in 2011, according to victims and witnesses, and 73% of all shootings — but they were only 53% of all stop subjects
By contrast, whites, who constitute 35% of the city’s population, committed 6% of all violent crimes and 3% of all shootings. They made up 9% of all stops. In other words, the NYPD’s stop rate for blacks is actually lower than their representation among known violent offenders. In addition, young black men in New York are 36 times more likely to be murdered than young white men — and their assailants are virtually always other black (or Hispanic) males.
Running for public office in Mexico has long been perilous, with threats, assaults and sometimes outright killings by criminal gangs, political rivals and other opponents, but this season is one of the worst in recent years with at least six candidates killed since February 2013 and another wounded in an attack that left her husband and an assistant dead
Party and campaign officials have also been assaulted, their family members targeted and sometimes killed as well. As nearly half of Mexico’s states prepare to hold local elections, the outbreak of violence has proved an embarrassment for the new government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has promised to control violence and has sought to portray the country as on the mend from wanton killings. While the Peña Nieto administration promised to take steps to protect voters, opposition leaders have called on the president to put the army in the streets in some states to ensure peaceful voting proceedings, a common practice in Mexico. “We are in the midst of the most violent elections in our history,” said José María Martínez, a member of a conservative-leaning opposition party and president of the special electoral commission of the Senate. “This is not the country that any Mexican deserves.” Martínez’s National Action Party, which lost the presidency in 2012, is one of the two main opposition parties that have threatened to break a collaborative pact with Peña Nieto if the elections are neither fair nor safe. The motives for many of these attacks, from which no major party has been spared, remain unclear. Local investigations of crimes, even killings, are notoriously haphazard and thin. The number of cases, meanwhile, continues to grow. Recently, Nicolás Estrada Merino, leader of a state branch of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, was found shot to death in a sugarcane field in the southern state of Oaxaca. Isaac López Rojas, a candidate for deputy mayor from the small, leftist Cardenista Party in the coastal state of Veracruz, was kidnapped and killed, also in June 2013. A few days earlier, in the border state of Chihuahua, a mayoral candidate from the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, Jaime Orozco Madrigal, was found dead after being forcefully taken from his house. Newspapers have reported a number of candidates dropping their campaigns out of fear, and news channels have featured interviews with bloodied and bruised party members speaking after unexplained attacks. The violence presents a problem for Peña Nieto, who has sought to highlight the country’s economy and court foreign investors while playing down the persistent trouble with crime and offering vague plans on how to address it. Analysts say that the recent electoral violence has highlighted the extent to which Mexico has failed to make progress in confronting the impunity that allows attacks during each voting cycle. “It would seem like we are in the postrevolutionary years,” said Jorge Chabat, a drug and security expert at CIDE, a Mexico City research group, referring to the period after the revolution of 1910, when the number of political assassinations was particularly high. “I can’t remember so many candidates getting killed before an election.” These acts “disturb the peace,” said Leonardo Valdés Zurita, president of the Federal Electoral Institute, during a council meeting in which he asked for a minute of silence to honor the victims. Most of the killings have taken place in small towns, which are especially unprotected and vulnerable to drug and organized-crime groups seeking to expand their turf. “That’s where the organizations fight for control of plazas, of routes,” said Eric L. Olson, director of the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. “They often depend on control of local mayors and local officials to ensure that they are protected.” Still, the motives are murky. After the killing of a campaign coordinator’s teenage son in Sinaloa State, the authorities denied any political motivation, citing the boy’s possible involvement in crime as a theory. The kidnapping and killing of a candidate in Veracruz, state officials also insisted, was unrelated to his political aspirations. Some analysts and members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party warned about over-blowing the violence, which is common in elections but usually does not interfere with balloting. “The conditions to carry out the elections do exist,” said Patricio Martínez, a senator from the party. “They’re not perfect; perfect is only left to God.” But some observers remain unconvinced. “A state that cannot protect its candidates,” said Ernesto López Portillo, director of the Institute for Security and Democracy, a research group in Mexico City, “is a state that cannot protect democracy.”
Don't mess with NPR!
Steve Sailer looks at what happens to black neighborhoods situated near liberal institutions.
Why is economic development so bad in sub-Saharan Africa?
Richard Lynn thinks it has to do with racial differences in IQ:
The Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQ at an average of 110. This is one of the reasons that they are so successful and prominent in the professions, business and academia and as recipients of awards and prizes for outstanding intellectual work such as the Nobel Prize. For instance, in the United States Jews have been about three percent of the population during the last century and have won about a third of the Nobel prizes.
The Chinese, Japanese and other Northeast Asians have the next highest IQ at 105. This explains why Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, have done so well economically during the last half century, and why China has achieved such high rates of economic growth in recent years since it has introduced a market economy.
The European nations have an average IQ of 100, which makes it difficult for them to compete economically against the Northeast Asians.
The lowest IQs are those of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert and the Pygmies of the West African rain forests at an average 53, and the Australian Aborigines at an average 62. IQs in sub-Saharan Arica are approximately 70 and this retards their economic development.
The calculation of IQs for all nations in the world has shown that IQ differences contribute significantly to differences in economic development and to our understanding of why some nations are rich while others remain poor.
Muslim violence: A series of small bombs went off in and around a world-famous Buddhist temple in eastern India, injuring two people, authorities said
Four of the eight explosions occurred at the Mahabodhi temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Bihar state that houses a tree where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. The other four blasts hit other sacred locations around Mahabodhi, said Bihar police official S.K. Bhardwaj. A 50-year-old Tibetan and a 30-year-old Myanmar national were injured in the attack, Bhardwaj said. While no one took responsibility for the attack, suspicion fell on the home-grown Islamist group Indian Mujahideen, Bhardwaj said. The group, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is blamed for dozens of deadly bomb explosions throughout India since 2005.
Men with Y-chromosome haplogroup I have a 50% greater risk of developing heart disease
A study found that men in haplogroup I have lower numbers of copies of two important Y chromosome genes in macrophages - the type of white blood cells involved in both defence against infections and atherosclerosis. Specifically, men with haplogroup I were shown to have decreased expression of 2 genes: the ubiquitously transcribed tetratricopeptide repeat, Y-linked gene (UTY) and protein kinase, Y-linked, pseudogene (PRKY) in macrophages.
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The jobless rate for poor black teen dropouts is 95%
So why do we need more immigrants if the people who are already here can't get jobs?
White skin privilege?
Is white skin considered to be more attractive because of European power?
A referee at an amateur soccer match in Brazil stabbed and killed a player after an on-field disagreement
That isn't the most gruesome thing that happened during the game that day. In retaliation, fans lynched the ref — 20-year-old Otavio Jordao da Silva — beating, stoning, quartering, and decapitating him. They then mounted his head on a spike in the middle of the pitch. So far, one man has been arrested over the incident. He admits to attacking the ref, but denies killing him.
The U.S. economy lost 240,000 full-time workers in June 2013, while gaining 360,000 part-time workers
The underemployment rate increased to 14.3% from 13.8%. There are 28 million part-time workers in the United States now versus 25 million before the Great Recession. There are 116 million full-time workers in the United States now versus 122 million before the Great Recession. In other words, 19% of the (smaller) U.S. workforce is part time versus 17% before the Great Recession. Only 47% of Americans have a full-time job. If the labor force participation rate were back to pre-recession levels, the unemployment rate would be 11.1%. Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5% or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started calculating the national unemployment rate.
The Labor Department has reported that unemployment remained stuck at 7.6% in June 2013
This persistently high unemployment is not surprising: nearly half of the June 2013 job gains are needed just to absorb the 90,000 legal immigrants that arrive in the United States every month. The June 2013 data indicates that the job market is fairly strong — but for immigrant workers only. Native-born Americans continue to lose jobs, exit the labor force, and retire earlier than planned. The immigrant displacement of American workers has reached an all-time Obama Era high. In June 2013, native-born employment fell by 84,000 while foreign-born employment rose by 244,000. Since January 2009, foreign-born employment rose by 1.895 million. During that same time period, native-born American employment declined by 58,000. Since June 2012, the labor force participation rate — a measure of worker confidence — increased for immigrants but declined for native-born Americans. At 67.2%, the immigrant participation rate in June 2013 was 3.8% points above the native-born American rate.
Why are we so afraid of Nazis when it is the Jews who have the power to hurt us?
Fear of Jewish power makes many people fearful of talking about Jewish power.
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Immigrants — both legal and illegal — have accounted for all of the job gains in the U.S. labor market since 2000, according to a report that highlights the stiff competition for jobs in a tight economy as Congress debates adding more workers to the mix
The Center for Immigration Studies report says that 22.4 million immigrants of working age held jobs at the beginning of 2013, up 5.3 million over the total in 2000. But native-born workers with jobs dropped 1.3 million over that same period, from 114.8 million to 113.5 million. Meanwhile, the number of Americans who aren’t in the labor force at all has jumped by almost 13 million to reach 48.6 million — a finding that the report’s authors say signals profound changes in the American job market and challenges conventional wisdom that immigration is good for the economy. “The last 13 years, or even the last five years, make clear that large-scale immigration can go hand-in-hand with weak job growth and declining rates of work among the native-born,” the authors, Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, say in their report. “Given the employment situation in the country, the dramatic increases in legal immigration contemplated by the Gang of Eight immigration bill seem out of touch with the realities of the U.S. labor market.” Whether immigrants compete for jobs is a heated topic — though the Senate all but ignored it during the chamber’s debate on its bill to legalize most illegal immigrants and create opportunities for new immigrants and temporary workers to enter the United States. The outlines of those programs are coming into view. The Congressional Budget Office calculated that boosts in immigration and guest-worker programs would add about 12 million new people to the United States in 2023, in addition to millions of illegal immigrants who would gain legal status and work permits.
The chancellor of a Jewish university has admitted that he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse at the university's high school decades ago
In a letter announcing his retirement from Yeshiva University, Rabbi Norman Lamm said that his response to the allegations was "ill-conceived." Lamm is stepping down amid an investigation into abuse accusations made by alumni of the all-male high school that's part of the university. Lamm's decision to retire was based on an agreement reached three years ago and was not connected with the abuse investigation, the university said. Lamm was the university president from 1976 to 2003 before he became chancellor. Nearly two dozen men claim that they were sexually and physically assaulted by administrators and teachers at Yeshiva University High School from 1971 to 1989. In December 2012, Lamm said that he never notified the police of the complaints about sexual abuse. Lamm said that when the school received a complaint about a staff member, he allowed the staff member to go quietly. "At the time that inappropriate actions by individuals at Yeshiva were brought to my attention, I acted in a way that I thought was correct, but which now seems ill-conceived," Lamm wrote in his retirement letter. He added, "True character requires of me the courage to admit that, despite my best intentions then, I now recognize that I was wrong." A private law firm hired by the university, Sullivan & Cromwell, is investigating the allegations by the men. "It is anticipated that the investigation will be finalized and a comprehensive report will be released by Sullivan & Cromwell in the coming weeks," the university said in a statement. "We will address the findings publicly once the report is issued." Attorney Kevin Mulhearn, who represents 22 plaintiffs alleging abuse, said that his clients came forward to report the abuse years ago but the Jewish school turned a blind eye and did nothing. Mulhearn said that he is conducting his own investigation and has advised his clients not to speak to the media until a lawsuit is filed. He said that the rabbi's statement was a good first step in the right direction. "But Yeshiva University, as a whole, has to make amends as an institution," Mulhearn said. "Not just one man. Because there are many high-level administrators who had knowledge of misconduct and did nothing." More than 6,000 students study at the university's campuses in New York City and Israel.
A Johns Hopkins study of more than 1,800 men ages 52 to 62 suggests that African-Americans diagnosed with very-low-risk prostate cancers are much more likely than white men to actually have aggressive disease that goes unrecognized with current diagnostic approaches
Although prior studies have found it safe to delay treatment and monitor some presumably slow-growing or low-risk prostate cancers, such "active surveillance" (AS) does not appear to be a good idea for black men, the study concludes. "This study offers the most conclusive evidence to date that broad application of active surveillance recommendations may not be suitable for African-Americans," says urologist Edward M. Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D., a co-author of the study. "This is critical information because if African-American men do have more aggressive cancers, as statistics would suggest, then simply monitoring even small cancers that are very low risk would not be a good idea because aggressive cancers are less likely to be cured," he says. "We think we are following a small, nonaggressive cancer, but in reality, this study highlights that in black men, these tumors are sometimes more aggressive than previously thought. It turns out that black men have a much higher chance of having a more aggressive tumor developing in a location that is not easily sampled by a standard prostate biopsy." Previous published research has revealed significant racial disparities in prostate cancer, with African-Americans having a much higher incidence of death from the disease than white men. According to the National Cancer Institute, black men have considerably higher incidence rates (236 cases per 100,000 from 2005 to 2009) than white men (146.9 cases per 100,000 per 2005 to 2009).
A Wayne State University researcher has found that sleep apnea severity is higher among African-American men in certain age ranges, even after controlling for body mass index (BMI)
A study by James A. Rowley, M.D., professor of internal medicine in WSU's School of Medicine, showed that being an African-American man younger than 40 years old increased the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) by 3.21 breathing pauses per hour of sleep compared to a white man in the same age range with the same BMI. Obstructive sleep apnea affects at least 4% of men and 2% of women. It involves repetitive episodes of complete or partial upper airway obstruction occurring during sleep despite an ongoing effort to breathe. Among participants in Rowley's study ages 50 to 59, being an African-American man increased AHI by 2.79 breathing events per hour of sleep. No differences in AHI were found between African-American women and white women. "The results show that in certain age groups, after correcting for other demographic factors, the severity of sleep apnea as measured by the apnea-hypopnea index is higher in African-American males than Caucasian males," he said. Rowley said that the mechanism for a racial difference in sleep apnea severity is unclear, but that possibilities include anatomical differences that affect the upper airway mechanics and collapsibility, as well as differences in the neurochemical control of breathing.
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This was something of an unexpected entry into the series, coming about because of my inability to stream Another Metroid 2 Remake earlier in the week. Game Boy games go!
While Tetris was its pack-in game–a savvy move by Nintendo, as Tetris was one of the first games to appeal to “Casual” gamers and broaden Nintendo’s audiences, taking a role similar to games like Candy Crush Saga or Bejeweled would today–Super Mario Land was probably the closest thing the original Nintendo Game Boy had to a “killer app”. This was 1989, effectively the height of Nintendo’s dominance, meaning the game was guaranteed to sell like hotcakes regardless of its quality.
It’s an interesting entry in the series. While it stars everyone’s favorite plumber, Mario hadn’t totally settled into its formula yet, meaning Princess Toadstool/Peach and Bowser are nowhere to be found. Instead of the Mushroom Kingdom, the game takes place in Sarasaland, where a new Princess, Daisy, has been kidnapped by the mysterious space being Tatanga. Tatanga wants to marry Princess Daisy and take over Sarasaland. Mario, hearing of this, begins a journey to Sarasaland’s Chai Kingdom to rescue Daisy and restore peace. Essentially, the plot is what you’ve come to know and love from Mario, but with different characters and a new setting.
The gameplay is also, for the most part, what you know and love. Mario travels through a total of twelve levels, running, stomping enemies, and throwing balls. Not fireballs, though–your powerup this time around is a “superball” which hits the ground and bounces off at a 45-degree angle. It bounces off of floors, walls, and ceilings, and can even be used to collect coins. It’s fun, though the limited horizontal range means its tricky to aim.
One of the things Super Mario Land introduces to Mario is the concept of autoscrollers. In two levels, you climb into a vehicle (Either a submarine or an airplane) and the game turns into a shoot-em-up along the lines of Gradius. It’s not something you’d expect from a Mario game, but it is a fun diversion.
Something interesting with the game is its aesthetic, believe it or not. Each of the four kingdoms you travel to is based somewhat on an actual location–the first world is very Egyptian-themed, while the third is centered around Moai-heads, recalling Easter Island. It’s cool that a Mario game has these vaguely real-life ties in its worlds, even if the gameplay is decidedly not realistic.
The controls in the game can best be described as “squirrelly”. You have a run button, of course, but momentum works strangely, particularly when you’re in the air. The end result is a lot of missed jumps and falling into pits, or running into enemies. I started level 3-2 with 12 lives, and ended world 3 with 1, mostly due to the controls. This may be for the best, though, because Super Mario Land isn’t a long game in terms of the number of levels or its real-time length. Having not played the game in years, I managed to get through it in the neighborhood of half an hour.
In all, Super Mario Land is a cool game that’s probably known more for the side series it would spawn later (Super Mario Land 2 introduced Wario, another of Mario’s nemeses; from there, the Wario Land series would go on to be its own series) than on its own merits. This is probably as it should be, as Super Mario Land itself is a short game along the lines of Kirby’s Dream Land. Whether this is due to Game Boy limitations or not is hard to say, but that probably played a factor. It can be found on the 3DS Virtual Console for $4 US, which sounds like a fair price for what you get.
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Return to Games I Beat In 2014 #51-60: August-October
In late 1991, Nintendo brought its 16-bit system, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to the US. And they were keen on showing off the things the new hardware could do. One of its hardware modes, Mode 7, became a major marketing point. In short, Mode 7 was a way to more easily do scaling and rotation effects by using the hardware instead of having to program these effects in software. One of the launch titles for the system, Pilotwings, was an advertisement for Mode 7 disguised as a game.
Developed by Nintendo and released in 1991, Pilotwings revolves around your attempt to become a member of the Flight Club. No, that’s not a euphemism–the game involves you taking lessons in learning to operate various aviation-related devices. More specifically, you’ll learn how to pilot three vehicles and a parachute throughout the course of the game. Your first lesson consists of two simple exercises. The first is landing a Light Plane, which looks like a World War I-era biplane. The second involves Skydiving, as you jump out of a plane at 3800 feet, fall through rings, open your chute at 1000 feet or below, and try to land on a target. Each exercise is graded on a 100-point scale, and scoring a high enough total (In this case, 120 points) across all the exercises moves you onto the next lesson. Future lessons introduce new disciplines, including Hang Gliding and a Rocketbelt (Basically a jet pack, and my favorite of the apparatuses).
For most of the game, there isn’t a plot as such–you just go through the lessons, trying to acquire enough points to move on to the next one. That changes in the mission in which you fly a helicopter. The mission is fun, but don’t think about it too much from a story perspective, as it will only break your brain. Once you’ve done that, you’ll unlock a second set of lessons. These are harder than the first, as you’ll have to contend with weather, night, and a higher qualifying threshold in order to earn your certifications.
One of my pet peeves is people roughly my age saying how games today are all about graphics and making money and games back in their day were about fun and innovation and so on. Pilotwings is an excellent argument to the contrary. As I mentioned at the top, this is less a game than a demo of the Super Nintendo’s amazing-at-the-time Mode 7. The skydiving exercises, in particular, are meant to show how the ground can rotate in real-time, and how it scales smoothly as you plummet toward it. In that respect, it reminds me of Wii Sports. Both games are fun, but both were expressly created for the purpose of showing off Nintendo’s shiny new technology of their day, and there are parts where the new toy doesn’t work quite right (Watch the scaling of certain areas as you go up in the second Skydiving exercise).
Pilotwings is simultaneously challenging and generous. I managed to get through it all in one sitting, which took about two and a half hours. However, prior to that session (Many years back), I had beaten most, if not all, of the individual lessons, thanks to the password system which lets you restart at the last lesson you made it to. Failing to earn certification on a lesson also lets you retry that lesson, and if you do badly in an exercise and see certification is beyond reach, you can restart the lesson without having to do the other exercises. Still, in later lessons, the best strategy tends to be “Try to land in a bonus area for massive points, then pray you scrape together the rest of the points from the other disciplines”
The game also has a certain charm in the instructors. Truth be told, they’re more examiners than instructors, and they get less encouraging and more blunt as the game goes on–land the Rocketbelt in the water, and Big Al tells you to “Be more careful. The equipment is expensive” in addition to giving you a poor grade.
Pilotwings is equal parts Mode 7 showcase and fun game. While I don’t think it’s a realistic depiction of flight even if you remove the Rocketbelt from the equation, it is a good time, and worth playing. In the gaming world, flight school “simulators” are pretty rare, so the vehicle for Nintendo’s showing off the SNES technology is original if nothing else. If you want to try and join the Flight Club, the game is available on both the Wii and WiiU Virtual Consoles, in addition to the SNES original.
Games I Beat In 2014 #51-60: August-October #51: Mega Man 3 #52 (#23 NEW!): Blaster Master #53 (#24 NEW!): 3-D Worldrunner #54 (#25 NEW!): Pilotwings #55 (#26 NEW!): Snake Rattle ‘N Roll #56 (#27 NEW!): Sequence #57 (#28 NEW!): Kid Icarus #58 (#29 NEW!): Ecco the Dolphin #59: Final Fight (Arcade) #60: Dynasty Warriors 3
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By MESFIN FEKADU | Sat, July 13, 2019 02:55 EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Carli Lloyd of the U.S. women's national soccer team celebrated her recent World Cup victory with a lap dance from J. Lo.
Jennifer Lopez pulled Lloyd from the audience to the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday night, working her sensual moves on the soccer star.
After Lopez told the crowd that Lloyd was in attendance, her fiance Alex Rodriguez escorted Lloyd to security guards who walked her to the stage, where she sat on a chair shaped like a stiletto shoe.
Lopez congratulated Lloyd for her team's win and then told the athlete: "Got a little present for you."
"Actually Carli, I got two presents for you," the pop star said. "Girls, will you take care of Carli and give her a little birthday present?"
Lopez left the stage and two of her female backup dancers gyrated on Lloyd as the 2009 hit "Birthday Sex" by R&B singer Jeremih played in the background. Lloyd's 37th birthday is Tuesday.
Lopez returned to the stage, and she and her female dancers moved sensually in front of Lloyd, who was cheered on by the audience.
"Carli, you doing OK?" Lopez asked, then sitting on Lloyd's lap as she sang a slowed-down version of "If You Had My Love," her debut single released in 1999.
The U.S. women's national soccer team has been on a celebratory run since beating the Netherlands to capture a record fourth Women's World Cup title earlier this week. On Wednesday, the team won trophies at The ESPYS and was honored with a ticker tape parade in New York City.
Lloyd wasn't the only special guest at the concert: Lopez's 11-year-old daughter, Emme Maribel Muñiz, joined her onstage to sing a duet, which earned a standing ovation from the audience.
Lopez's "It's My Party" Tour will return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
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Movie Review: Transformers 3 – The Dark of the Moon
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by Stefan Abrutat
Maybe it’s because I’m getting old.
Pointless, content-less explosionfests of the sort director Michael Bay seems to specialize are becoming less and less attractive to me. Of course, I don’t really think it’s because I’m getting old, I think it’s because formulaic action movies with all the charm of a bat to the codgers are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
As I sat back in my 3D goggles and took in the splendor of cleverly (and, it must be said, repetitively) refolding machinery, I couldn’t help but think of the technical wizardry and sheer time it must have taken to create the images violently flitting through my visual cortex. Such complexities involve hundreds of thousands of man-hours to deliver, yet I had a hard time staying awake for the movie’s 154 minute entirety.
Part of the difficulty was trying to keep up with the differences between Autobots and Decepticons (I understand one group are the good guys and one the bad, but how do you tell by looking?). Particularly which robot was aligned with which group. I felt I almost had a handle on the divisions and the various robots therein when one unhelpfully turned traitor, sending me spiraling back into ultimately blissful ignorance.
There’s something fundamentally wrong, here. The amount of effort that went into making this flick should at least elicit an appreciative nod from me. After all, I like explosions, car chases and the thunder and screech of massively destructive events filling the screen. But the only nods I experienced during Transformers 3 were from trying to avoid collapsing into a snoring, drooling heap.
It took an obscene $200 million budget to fund this crap, while thought-provoking, really entertaining movies have a hard time getting made. This dichotomy is reprehensible: these are showcases for effects guys, not filmmakers attempting to amuse or interest you.
Normally, critics tend to blame the studios for producing unimaginative films, but the real fault lies squarely at the feet of the audience. Studios want to make money, which they do by giving the audiences what they want. If the audiences want to watch movies like Transformers 3, well, I’m suddenly seriously disappointed in the average intelligence of my fellow humans.
The audience rating on Rottentomatoes.com is a hefty 90% versus the critics’ 37%. This is a rating of the movie by, at the time of writing, over 60,000 moviegoers. Ye gods. This means we’re probably heading inexorably towards Transformers 4: How Shit can the Script Get?
I understand the irony of me saying this after having just returned from a showing. I tend not to believe most critics either, as the majority seem to be pompous snobs more keen to demonstrate a capacity for elegant wordplay than review the actual movie. Unfortunately, in the case of Transformers 3, the critics seem to be spot on.
PG13. Running time: 2 hrs 34 minutes. Opened on June 29th.
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Martin L. Shoemaker
A story in print is made up of story. A story on screen is made up of story and spectacle. While I mostly yawn at spectacle, I’ve come to realize that I’m in a distinct minority there. Many people like the virtual experience of massive spectacle; and many film makers like the challenge of creating an experience, not just a story.
I haven’t seen this film, nor any other Transformers film; but I have no doubt that as spectacles, they’re wildly successful.
Stefan Abrutat
Spectacle, I feel, relies on empathy. If you don’t feel for the characters because they’re so ill-drawn, there’s no cognitive reason to gape and duck at the pyrotechics. You’re not “in” the movie, you’re just watching it.
Possibly the most spectacular movie of all time is Avatar. Sure, there were problems with plot originality, but they drew the characters for us in a well-thought-out, intelligent manner. Thus we could see the world through their eyes, and thus empathize when the shit hit the fan.
I honestly think story is king, and always will be. Without engagement on the part of the reader (if it’s a book) or a watcher (if it’s a movie), you’re just watching pretty colors. An explosion doesn’t mean anything unless someone you care about is trying to get out of the way in time.
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About The Sunday Standard Magazine - Delhi Express Network Private Limited forms part of the “The New Indian Express” Group and was incorporated on August 13, 1999 under Indian Companies Act, 1956. This Company was promoted by Express Publications (Madurai) Limited which is the flagship Company of the Group. Express Publications (Madurai) Limited publishes the prestigious English language Newspaper, The New Indian Express from 32 printing centers in Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Orissa. It also publishes The Sunday Standard from New Delhi. Express Publications (Madurai) Limited also publishes Tamil daily Dinamani and Samakalika Malayalam Varika, a weekly, in Malayalam.
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2015 Events for the Future of Howe Sound
Howe Sound continues to draw attention from news media around the world. Squamish was named by The New York Times in their “52 Places to Go in 2015“; the L.A. Times article “A spectacular British Columbia road trip along the Sea to Sky Highway” describe in detail the stops along the way including the Sea to Sky Gondola; the controversial sinking of The Annapolis off Gambier Island makes International Business Times News; and Howe Sound’s rare glass sponge reefs are being recorded by the National Geographic News. These articles are reminders that spectacular Howe Sound, so close to Vancouver is as appreciated internationally as it is locally. When supporters are speaking up to protect Howe Sound we are accused of NIMBYism. But if those who live here will not speak up for our back yard, who will? Together with our Coalition partners, we will continue to work to ensure we have an overall plan for Howe Sound, to ensure the common values and recovering environment are protected.
Mark your calendars to Up the Noise louder for Howe Sound over the weekend of July 11th and 12th.
This will be our third event where boaters have converged in Howe Sound to celebrate the recovery and the spectacular beauty of the area. Stay tuned for events on that weekend for land and water events.
We will continue to play host to forums during the year, bringing people together to focus on planning for Howe Sound. Last year we contributed to many gatherings of elected officials, First Nations, and other stakeholders to advance the discussions about Howe Sound. Many communities around Howe Sound are revisiting their official community plans and there is a higher level of awareness for considering Howe Sound as a whole and the impact plans have on those beyond the borders of their community. When bylaws and development guidelines are aligned with the overall vision for Howe Sound, more pieces of the overall planning puzzle come together.
Categories: Current Issues, Future of Howe Sound, Natural Howe Sound
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Images from Penland 2006, Session 3
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Special Guest Blogger Ron Cole
I received a CD in the mail with a bunch of great images that I thought I’d share. These were taken by Mark Sfirri and Chris Gardner. Mark was the Wood Instructor and Chris was the Studio Assistant in Photography at Penland Session 3 .
This is an image of the Iron Class, taught by Al Frega.
That’s me with the “Blond” hair in the front row.
To see all the images that Mark sent, use this link. I hope you enjoy them.
Until later, Ron
Patt Chatt
Pat Horner Chatt
August 9, 1925 - Janury 15, 2006.
Written by David Chatt
At 5:00pm on January 15, 2006 Patricia Jo Horner Chatt, or Pat Chatt, as we knew her, left her body and her burdens surrounded by the love that she had created in her life. Pat was a mother, wife, teacher, nurse, and tireless humanitarian. Pat and her husband Orville had six children and many great friends who count themselves as family. Each of us has memories of great conversations often shared over some incredible meal that she had prepared. Pat had a generous sole. Her love for people was only matched by the love that she received. Those of us who shared her life marvel at her accomplishments. As busy as she was she always had time to volunteer for a worthy cause, prepare a meal for friends, or just sit with someone who needed a listener. She loved good books and read two newspapers every day. Her love of reading and interest in the world helped her to form the deeply felt opinions that she would share readily with just a bit of encouragement. Even if you didn’t share her opinions it was hard to deny the heart and intellect that went into forming them.
Pat was born to Edna and Oliver Horner in Kansas City KA on August 9th 1925. She was the third of six children. Her siblings were Martha Horner Winters, John Horner, Dwight Horner, Eileen Horner Bell, and William Horner. She is survived by Dwight, Eileen and Bill who make there homes in Kansas. Pat studied Nursing at University of Kansas and after graduating worked as Supervisor of Nursing at Passavant Hospital in Chicago, Ill. It was here that she met Orville who she married on Jan 14th 1951. Pat was married 55 years and one day. Her children and their spouses are: Beth (Tim) Mcgurran. Julie Chatt Erickson, Mark (Susie) Chatt, Scott (Cheryl Terry) Chatt, David Chatt and his longtime companion Ron Cole all live in Washington State. Her youngest son, Jay, preceded her death in 1982. She was a grandmother to Kevin, Rob, Tyler, Stephanie and Kim Crye. Katie and Ryan Erickson and Jennifer, Michael, Marissa and Sara Chatt. She also had three Great grandchildren Devon and Kayle Crye and Jake Crye-Anilonis. Her treasured friends are too numerous to mention by name but know that she and her family were enriched by these relationships and you who count yourselves in this category are part of her legacy.
Pat began her family in Eugene Oregon before moving to Iowa in the mid 1950s. In 1964, Orville took a job in the art department at Skagit Valley College in Mt. Vernon Washington. The family drove an old school bus and a Greenbrier Van from Ames Iowa to their new home in Burlington. They ultimately settled in Sedro Woolley in 1968, where she remained the rest of her life. She loved her home and the mild moody weather of the northwest. Pat worked as a Nurse at Northern State Hospital, a Nursing Educator at Skagit Valley College and gave civil service tests at the college for many years. Pat was an enthusiastic volunteer in her community. She was a founding member of both the Sedro Woolley Community Kitchen, and the Skagit Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). She was also a member of Central United Methodist Church in Sedro Woolley and worked to help people with AIDS.
When she was a young mother a woman who lived next door would come over and offer to keep her kids so that she could have a moment to herself. She was incredulous at this generosity and asked what she could offer in return. Her neighbor told her not to worry, that some day she would be in a position to help someone else and that would be her repayment. Pat told this story over and over and made the woman’s pass-it-on philosophy her own. She has repaid that neighbor a 1000 times over. Now it is our turn to repay the love that she shared with us.
Memorials can be made to a charity of your choice or by doing a kind deed.
A celebration of Pats life will be held at 1:00 pm on Feb 11th at her church, Central United Methodist Church (1013 Polte Rd., Sedro Woolley). All who knew her are invited. The family encourages you to wear bright colors, and a big smile.
Pat, we miss you but were lucky to have known you.
Congratulations for a life well lived.
More images of Pat
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Another Database need- Tau Characters
12 Dec 2007, 20:55 #1 (permalink)
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Shas'El
Hey- so, continuing building on the database which will transcribe to a Project Article (can't wait for winter break, i can stop writing history papers!!!)
I need ALL known Tau characters, and Kroot, that have had anything to do with Tau history. Like Shas'O Mau'tel who was a leading Shas'O during the First Sphere.
So, WD articles- Forgeworld stuff- basically a list of leading Por, Fio, Shas, Aun, and heck- Kor.
In specific- the Por that signed the Dal'yth Treaty, Shas that served in Firewarrior ect.
Here's an example by all the things i know about Medusa
Aun T'pel was in charge of the Tau action to Medusa while Aun Mont'shi was in charge of the vanguard with Por'Vre Ori'priam as his advisor.
Shas'El Ty'res was Shadowsun's sister who died saving Commander Fireblade.
Shadowsun- overall command of the Fire caste
Commander Lightwing- conducted attack on Hive Stheno and Fireblade on Secundus.
See what I'm getting at? Please help!
~Good Hunting
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July 22, 2017 | By Patricia Gitre In Habeas Relief
Habeas Relief Based on Actual Innocence
For years, Court had closed their doors to those wrongfully convicted, due to certain procedural defeults that barred those wrongfully convicted from seeking relief. In 1995 the Supreme Court of the United States carved out an exception for those claiming actual innocence, to overcome procedural defects that would otherwise have possibly kept innocent parties in jail
In Schlup v. Delo (1995) 513 U.S. 298, our High Court carved out an exception that permitted successive and procedurally barred habeas petitions to be heard, if based upon evidence of actual innocence. Our high court reasoned that it was more important to give relief by hearing the merits of an innocent man, rather than to simply deny him relief on technical grounds.
In 2013, the Supreme Court revisted the actual innocence gateway, and held “Actual innocence, if proved, serves as a gateway through which a petitioner may pass whether the impediment is a procedural bar, as it was in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 115 S.Ct. 851, 130 L.Ed.2d 808, and House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518, 126 S.Ct. 2064, 165 L.Ed.2d 1, or expiration of the AEDPA statute of limitations, as in this case. Pp. 1931 – 1935.” McQuiggin v. Perkins (2013) 133 S.Ct. 1924, 1926 [185 L.Ed.2d 1019], however the Court did hold that the age of the new evidence my be considered as a factor for reliablity.
The our High Court went on to clarify: “A federal habeas court, faced with an actual-innocence gateway claim, should count unjustifiable delay on a habeas petitioner’s part, not as an absolute barrier to relief, but as a factor in determining whether actual innocence has been reliably shown. A petitioner invoking the miscarriage of justice exception “must show that it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have convicted him in the light of the new evidence.” Schlup, 513 U.S., at 327, 115 S.Ct. 851. Unexplained delay in presenting new evidence bears on the determination whether the petitioner has made the requisite showing. Taking account of the delay in the context of the merits of a petitioner’s actual-innocence claim, rather than treating timeliness as a threshold inquiry, is tuned to the exception’s underlying rationale of ensuring “that federal constitutional errors do not result in the incarceration of innocent persons.” Herrera, 506 U.S., at 404, 113 S.Ct. 853. Pp. 1935 – 1936.” McQuiggin v. Perkins (2013) 133 S.Ct. 1924, 1927 [185 L.Ed.2d 1019].
As of now, the abilty to bring a previously precedurally barred habeas petition is still a viable option, as long as actual innocence can establish that it is more likely than not the new evidence would not have resulted in the conviction.
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Hearts Aquiver
By Jon Caswell
Even if you have it, you may have never have felt the quivering atria at the heart of atrial fibrillation (AFib). When the heart’s upper chambers (atria) quiver irregularly instead of beating strongly and consistently, it can lead to trouble in the form of blood clots, stroke, heart failure or other heart-related complications.
Watch a normal heartbeat vs a heartbeat affected by AFib in our Watch, Learn and Live Interactive Video Library.
At first, episodes of AFib may be very short and symptoms may not be felt, or if they are, the symptoms may be so mild and transient that people often do not recognize them as requiring medical attention. Over time the AFib episodes may get longer and the symptoms (palpitations, lightheadedness, shortness of breath, chest discomfort) become more noticeable, longer in duration, and more frequent. “Then people seem to realize they need to be evaluated,” said Pamela McCabe, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor of nursing at the Mayo Clinic and a member of the Advisory Panel for Atrial Fibrillation Patient Education for the American Heart Association. “However, as we found in our research, this process often takes months.” In one study that examined rhythm data stored in the pacemakers and ICDs of patients 65 and older with a history of high blood pressure, researchers found that for every symptomatic episode of AFib, there were eight episodes where the patient did not experience symptoms.
So it is not unusual for AFib to be found on a routine clinic exam or when someone is evaluated prior to surgery or a procedure. “We do not understand why some people have symptoms and others don’t,” McCabe said.
Dr. Pamela McCabe
“Unfortunately, many patients believe that they’re going to have symptoms — like palpitations, dizziness or something like that — to trigger their seeking evaluation,” said McCabe. “That said, I have seen patients with a fast heartbeat for a prolonged period come to the ER with symptoms of acute heart failure such as extreme difficulty breathing and swelling.” A persistently high heart rate due to AFib can damage the main pumping function of the heart. “With that excess workload of the fast heart rate, over time some patients develop heart failure. We also know that AFib that is not treated can be more resistant to treatment, so it’s harder to return the person to normal rhythm. We also know the longer AFib is present, the more changes occur in the electrical functions and structure of the atrial heart muscle itself.”
Given that knowledge, for some patients with AFib, it may be important to be returned to normal rhythm as soon as possible before some of these things happen. But how do you motivate people who show no symptoms to get checked out for a condition that quite likely may only occur intermittently and not while they are being tested?
“High blood pressure contributes to more cases of AFib than any other risk factor.”
First, some facts
AFib is the most common heart arrhythmia, affecting more than 2.7 million Americans. “Paroxysmal AFib” is the intermittent kind, where the fibrillation comes and goes. This intermittent AFib can transition to “persistent AFib”, when the patient is in AFib for longer than seven days. If that goes on for longer than 12 months, it is considered “long-standing persistent AFib”; and “permanent AFib” is when “there has been a joint decision by the patient and clinician to cease further attempts to restore and/ or maintain sinus rhythm.”
In some people, the ventricular heart muscle (lower chamber heart muscle) gets damaged by a prolonged period of pumping at such rapid rates. That impairs the ventricles’ ability to do their job. “This does not happen to all people with rapid heart rates, but it is enough of a concern that a pillar of AFib treatment is to control fast heart rates even if people have no symptoms,” McCabe said.
Age is the prime risk factor — about 10 percent of people over 80 have AFib. It is more common in men and more common in Caucasian Americans.
Other medical conditions can contribute to AFib: “High blood pressure contributes to more cases of AFib than any other risk factor,” McCabe said. “But conditions such as coronary artery disease or heart failure are strong risks for developing AFib. We also know that some medical conditions that are on the rise such as diabetes and medically-serious obesity are also significant risk factors, and that’s why we believe that we are going to see more AFib in the future. Obstructive sleep apnea, associated with obesity, is a strong risk factor for AFib. So it’s not surprising that so many people have AFib because there are so many common medical conditions that affect many people that actually contribute to it.”
Other conditions like hyperthyroidism and asthma also increase risk. Stacey Powers is an AFib patient living in Texas. Her AFib started after a period when her thyroid “was off the charts,” she said. “I realized I was in trouble when I was at a local festival here in Austin and I couldn’t catch my breath walking back to the car.” The next day, she went to her acupuncturist, who looked up her symptoms and told her to get to a cardiologist ASAP. The morning after seeing the cardiologist, she ended up in the ER and “spent the next week being tested, lots of testing, tried different meds, got a stent and more,” she said. She was 60.
Definitive diagnosis of AFib can be tricky because in its early stages AFib may come and go. As an example, a patient comes into the ER because of a stroke. If no cause is identified, the ER doctors may run an electrocardiogram to check for AFib, since AFib is associated with a five-fold risk of stroke. If the heart is not fibrillating at that moment, the electrocardiogram will not reveal AFib, so it will go undiagnosed. Of course, if the AFib has become persistent, the electrocardiogram will show it.
Today there are monitors that can track rhythm for up to 30 days, and implantable cardiac monitors that can watch the heart for months. These newer devices have been helpful in detecting intermittent AFib.
But these are mostly used when AFib is already suspected, like after a stroke. In order to prevent people from having strokes or other consequences, it is necessary to detect AFib earlier. McCabe has been studying how to screen those most at risk — people over 65. “A simple way to do that is by locating the pulse and making an assessment about whether the pulse is regular or not,” she said. If it’s irregular, the patient undergoes an electrocardiogram (EKG). Sounds easy enough, but in the typical clinic today, blood pressure and heart rate are taken by digital devices, and no one may ever actually feel the patient’s pulse. “In Europe, there is a movement that whenever patients go to a clinic that someone locates their pulse, and if an irregular pulse is found, an EKG is performed to identify AFib.” Other studies have used smartphone apps, that give mini-EKGs, or handheld ECG devices.
McCabe has just completed a study where they taught patients how to take their own pulse and recognize an irregular heartbeat and what to do when they found one.
“I’m hoping that we really are starting to actively look for AFib, rather than waiting for patients to come to us after they have been in it for weeks to months,” McCabe said.
There are a number of treatments for AFib. Treatment options depend on its severity and the patient’s other medical conditions. “We would treat a 40-year-old with no other medical condition differently than we would treat an 80-year-old with multiple heart problems and pulmonary conditions,” McCabe said.
Generally speaking, the goal of treatment is to prevent complications and improve the patient’s quality of life by controlling symptoms and improving function. The two major approaches to treatment are: 1) to control the heart rate; or 2) rhythm control, intended to return the patient to normal rhythm, and then try to maintain it. Whichever treatment is used, if the patient meets certain risk criteria, he or she will also be treated to prevent blood clots that increase the risk for stroke. “If the patient is not symptomatic, the choice may be just to control the heart rate and prevent stroke,” McCabe said. “However, if the patient has symptoms and AFib is not well-tolerated, then the strategy of trying to control and then maintain normal rhythm may be preferred. Either treatment strategy could include medication or procedures or a combination of medications and procedures.”
In order to prevent people from having strokes or other consequences, it is necessary to detect AFib early.
Because of the risk of stroke, most AFib patients take an anticoagulant to prevent the formation of blood clots. For many years, warfarin was used for that. Warfarin requires constant monitoring and some dietary restrictions. It must be monitored with blood tests and carries an increased risk of bleeding.
A new generation of blood thinners has been developed because of the problems with warfarin. They include dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban and apixaban. They are not as temperamental as warfarin, and studies indicate that they are at least as effective at preventing blood clots.
Patients early in their course of AFib may undergo cardioversion. This involves a temporary electrical stimulus applied to the heart. “With this procedure we’re trying to get the electrical properties of the heart all on one page, so to speak,” McCabe said. “When we’re successful with that, the sinus or regular rhythm takes over, and they actually have a normal rhythm for a time.”
Watch what happens with AFib and how it can cause other conditions.
“We know that when people with AFib have a stroke, they have poorer outcomes than people who have strokes not related to AFib.”
This is how Stacey Powers’ AFib odyssey began. After she was admitted to the hospital, she received six cardioversion treatments, none of which succeeded in returning her to a normal sinus rhythm. “I hated getting my chest burned from cardioversion — it was like a 2nd degree burn,” she said. “Pretty much, the only other treatment was lots of meds.”
If AFib has been in place for months or years, it may be difficult to shock the heart into a normal rhythm. Then doctors will try medications like beta blockers, calcium channel blockers and digoxin to control the patient’s heart rate. Most people feel better if their heart rate is controlled. Doctors may also try medicines like sodium channel blockers and potassium channel blockers, which affect the heart’s electrical system, to impact its rhythm.
If cardioversion or medication don’t work, ablation is another option. First, an electrically sensitive catheter is used to map certain structures of the heart and locate the origins of the “extra” electrical activity. This map tells the physician (an electrophysiologist) which areas of the heart are creating problematic electric signals that interfere with proper rhythm. Using this map, the physician threads a different catheter to the problem areas and destroys malfunctioning tissue using the catheter to deliver energy (such as radiofrequency, laser or cryotherapy) to scar the problem areas. The scarred areas no longer send abnormal signals. If successful, the heart will return to normal rhythm.
Sometimes AFib doesn’t have noticeable signs, but these AFib patients share signs they did experience.
Patients are generally placed on a short course of antiarrhythmic drugs while the procedure takes full effect.
McCabe says that ablation may also be used very early on in people with intermittent AFib who have fewer medical conditions. It is also gaining acceptance for patients who have a more persistent AFib as well. “We’re still looking at studies that should tell us whether medication or ablation is the better treatment,” McCabe said. “Ablation has actually not been around long enough to know all of the long-term effects of it. In some cases, AFib may return, so the ablation procedure may need to be tried multiple times.”
Stacey Powers underwent an ablation in May 2015 and was free of AFib for seven months. Then she had to have hernia surgery and got a staph infection, which required two more surgeries, six weeks in the hospital and a stay in a skilled nursing facility. Her AFib returned.
While we were developing this article, Stacey underwent her seventh cardioversion. “My new electrophysiologist (EP) felt I had very high chances of success because of the prior ablation being successful and I’ve been on all the right medicines for a while now,” she said. “My heart rate has been 135-140 beats/minute for several months now, my blood pressure has been sky high, my feet are grossly swollen, and I can’t keep going like this, so I agreed to the cardioversion, but I made the new EP promise no burning my chest! If cardioversion doesn’t work, then I’m looking at another ablation.”
Stacey’s particularly challenging journey with AFib may not be typical. As we went to press, Stacey had had the procedure, and the cardioversion was effective. Using a smartphone app called Kardia, she can get a 30-second EKG that she can then share with her medical team. Meanwhile, she is taking Sotolol™, a heart-rhythm drug, and Xarelto™, one of the new generation of blood thinners that is replacing the tricky-to-use warfarin.
Living with AFib can be uncomfortable and unpredictable. As we’ve said, it can also lead to stroke or heart failure. According to McCabe, there’s some evidence that suggests that AFib puts people at risk for cognitive impairment and dementia. “Also we know that when people have pre-existing conditions such as heart failure, people with AFib do worse, and have poorer outcomes than patients who don’t have AFib but do have heart failure,” she said. “We know that when people with AFib have a stroke, they have poorer outcomes than people who have strokes not related to AFib.”
Psychological and behavioral responses
Living with a chronic condition is challenging, and no two people respond the same. McCabe has investigated psychological and behavioral responses. “We found that how a person perceives AFib, and the type of AFib that they have, can affect their psychological response,” she said.
Through one-on-one interviews with patients with recurrent AFib, she identified a variety of responses. Some patients were distressed by their symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath because it interfered with their ability to carry out their roles — parent, worker or a productive community member. Other patients stopped participating in social and recreational activities, afraid it might stress them and trigger an episode; or they feared being embarrassed if they had an episode in public. Some were reluctant to go on vacation away from their typical medical care. Others focused on finding out what triggered their AFib — was it certain activities or certain foods or drinks?
“There’s a lot of frustration that people can feel if they try multiple therapies, and they don’t work even though they’re doing everything they can,” McCabe said. “It’s very possible for a person to take their medications absolutely on time and still develop AFib anyway and go on to still another therapy.”
Stacey Powers’ story
Stacey Powers
Frustration is a familiar emotion for Stacey Powers, who can’t seem to get her body on an even keel trying to balance AFib, her thyroid and sleep apnea. Before her most recent cardioversion, her heart rate was running about 140 beats per minute and her activities were severely restricted.
The AFib has affected her social life, “and not in a good way. I can’t dance now,” she said. “I have to walk very slowly compared to my normal walking pace. Have to accommodate lots of symptoms and the repercussions of them. There are so many events, meetings, dates and social things that I haven’t gone to because I just don’t have any energy. I live in the country because I enjoy the outdoors, and I can’t even do much outdoors.
“Travel has become very difficult, as I now have to pack the ‘old lady pill box’ — you know, the one with 7 days and 4 times a day, full of pills, as well as my CPAP machine. Can’t go even one night without the CPAP, or I feel lousy the next day.” She only sees her family once or twice a year, less than half what it used to be.
“I can’t get out and be social like I’d like. It’s hard enough to date at my age, let alone with all these health issues. I had a great date with a widower — he just couldn’t handle my heart issues, so it was only one date.
“Safety is a big concern — things like falling, having a heart episode, cutting myself and bleeding out. Living by myself out in the country — all that can be an issue.”
The role of social support in AFib has not been investigated the way it has for other cardiovascular diseases like heart attack, heart failure and coronary artery disease. McCabe’s study of AFib patients indicates that they sometimes feel unsupported by their families, their spouses and their co-workers. In some way this may be because people with AFib look fine. “It’s hard for people who don’t know about AFib to understand how it can affect a person’s ability to function, and how it feels to have your heart beating 160 beats per minute,” she said. “When it’s like that, it is difficult to do your work and activities. There’s a lot more to do in terms of understanding how AFib affects not just patients, but the people who are important to them.”
A reliable place to find valuable support is My Afib Experience, developed by the American Heart Association and StopAfib.org to help people living with AFib find quality information so they can better manage their condition. My AFib Experience offers a wealth of free tools and resources as well as a community forum, where AFib patients and caregivers can connect with one another to give and receive support.
For Stacey, the MyAfibExperience community forum has been a venue to get practical advice and share what has worked for her. “With AFib, symptoms and triggers vary widely so having a variety of feedback is beneficial,” she said. “It’s a fabulous tool to connect with others.”
It’s easy to use, you just sign up and you can either post a question, respond to a post or simply read the responses of others. “The message board is valuable to me,” Powers said. Also of value to her have been the “Get in Rhythm and Stay in Rhythm” conferences put on by StopAFib.org.
McCabe emphasizes that there is work to do if we are to avoid the burden AFib will bring to our healthcare system as our populace ages. “There’s a real lack of knowledge about AFib even though it is a very common thing,” she said. “We just don’t talk about it like we talk about heart attack. We definitely have work to do in public education. And it’s coming because the scientific community has finally realized that AFib is becoming such a public health burden that we have to do more than just treat it with ablation and drugs. We need to look at how to prevent it and how to treat it early.”
AFib can happen to anyone. Visit the American Heart Association website to learn more.
This information is provided as a resource to our readers. The tips, products or resources listed or linked to have not been reviewed or endorsed by the American Heart Association.
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About Cal Ripken Baseball
Cal Ripken is baseball’s all-time Iron Man. He retired from baseball in October, 2001 after 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. His name appears in the record books repeatedly, most notably as one of only eight players in history to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. On July 29, 2007 he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Cal received the 3rd highest percentage of votes in history, collecting the highest vote total ever by the BBWAA.
Ripken’s name has become synonymous with strength, character, perseverance and integrity. In 1999, Babe Ruth League Inc. changed the name of its largest division (5-12 year-olds) from Bambino to Cal Ripken Baseball. Presently, over 700,000 youths play Cal Ripken Baseball worldwide.
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How Learners Can Be On Top of Their Game: An Interview with James Paul Gee (Part Four)
March 28, 2011 / Henry Jenkins
Despite your title, you spend less time here talking about "gender" than might be expected from other books which talk about women and gaming. What roles does gender play in your analysis? What claims are you making about the different kinds of experiences and identities female players construct around games?
For me, the book is not about gender. It is about women and girls who take gaming beyond gaming to become designers within well-designed passionate affinity spaces that change their lives and the lives of others. It about these women and girls because we believe that what they are doing, how they are doing it (e.g., combing technical modding with modding for emotional intelligence and social interactions), and what they are accomplishing is on the cutting edge of where all of us are going--male or female.
Women and girls are leading the way here as they are in many other areas of society. There has been lots about modding for games like Half-Life and its connections to technical skills--and indeed this is important. But much less has been written about modding the Sims to create challenges and game play that is simultaneously in the game world, in the real world, and in writing things like graphic novels.
Such modding is the force that sustains a passionate affinity space that builds artistic, technical, social, and emotional skills. We wrote the book because these woman and girls rock, not because they are women and girls.
Also I had a sin to expiate. I had left the Sims and women gamers pretty much out of my first book on games. Betty helped me see that The Sims is a real game and a very important one because it is a game that is meant to take people beyond gaming. She helped me see that how women play and design is not "mainstream" (see comments above) but cutting edge, the edge of the future. If it were leprechauns that were the cutting edge of the future I would have written about them.
In the case of The Sims, you have a designer -- Will Wright -- who has been outspoken in his desire to empower his users to construct community and build their own content around his games. How does this goal on the part of the designer impact the kinds of stories you can tell about these women's relations to this particular game?
See answer above. Will Wright is doing in an extreme way what lots of game designers want to do: empower people to think like designers, to organize themselves around the game to become learn new skills that extend beyond the game, and to express their own creativity. Many say the Sims is not a game--and I myself used to believe that. But as Derrida would remind us, what we find marginal is often actually central. Out book argues that games like the Sims--and gaming beyond gaming--will eventually be the new center of gaming or maybe something eventually all together different.
As you get into forms of cultural production such as fan fiction, I start to wonder why is it important for you that this a book about gaming rather than about the much wider array of forms of participatory culture that have emerged in a networked society.
It is important to me because I do not want to compete with you for the participatory culture space. Further, I want to stress production, though I know well you care about production as well. There are some--not you--who in education celebrate participation in a mindless way. They argue that just because people are participating they are learning. But people can participate in ways that allow themselves to be "colonized" by a group or to gain much less than others in the group or even to be used as an example that makes others look good. I think a demand that everyone learns to produce and design--to be a "priest"--can mitigate these dangers, though I am sure that dangers remain.
I know you have expressed in the past great skepticism that our current schooling system can adjust to the potentials of this more participatory culture. Without school involvement, how do we insure a more equitable access to the kinds of formative experiences you describe in the book? On the other hand, how does a school culture so focused on standardized processes and measurements maintain anywhere near the flexibility to respond to personal passions that you've identified in The Sims?
What I have called "situated embodied problem-focused well-designed and well-mentored learning" will either come to exist primarily for elites who will get it 24/7 on demand across many institutions and their homes or it will be given to everyone.
In the first case, the regular ("mainstream") public school system will continue to teach the basics accountably and will exist to produce service workers. In the second case, we will have to reinvent a public sphere and transform our view of society, civic participation, markets, and what constitutes justice, fairness, and a good life. We are headed the first way right now, but there is always hope for the future. Both you and I are trying to push the train to the second future and not the first, though, in the end, in the future the real actors and activists in this "game" will be younger (and often browner) than we are.
The current accountability regime MUST be removed. It is immoral, stupid, and counterproductive. We define accountability around teachers failing to teach children. This is like doing accountability for surgeons by waiting to see how many people they kill and then getting rid of them if they kill too many.
Far better to have accountability back when teachers and surgeons were trained, which means radical changes in Schools of Education and universities. Surely we should not wait to see how many patients they kill or kids they screw. Teachers are punished if a kid's test scores go down, but scores could go down for many reasons, not just what the teacher did in one year. This is like punishing a surgeon when a patient dies in back surgery because his wife poisoned him--and lots of things are poisoning our children, not, by any means, mostly teachers.
What we need accountability for is curriculum and pedagogies, not teachers per se (who should have been well trained and then held to high standards that most of them can and do meet, as in the case of surgeons). Today curricula and pedagogies are often politicized, seen as right wing or left wing. If we could agree on a common measure (say a NAEP test or some other test we can come to agree on), a measure that is given to a sample of students (not given to all), so that it cannot be taught to, then we can simply say which curricula and pedagogies correlate with strong or weak results on the common measure. This is what we do with drugs and surgical procedures.
In the end, though, we MUST change our assessment system or we will never have new learning, since assessment systems, in an accountability regime, drive what is taught and how it is taught. Today's games and other digital media allow for learning to be so well designed that finishing the "game" means you have learned and mastered what it being "taught". No one needs a Halo test after finishing Halo on hard and no one should need an algebra test after finishing an equally well-designed algebra curriculum.
Furthermore, games and digital media can collect, mine, and artfully represent copious moment-by-moment data on a great many variables. So we can, with such data, assess learning across time in terms of growth; we can discover different trajectories towards mastery and use this information to help learners try new styles; and we can compare and contrast learners with thousands of others on hundreds of variables tracked across time (as we already do with Halo for instance).
When the day comes where we can contrast such assessments (based on growth, trajectories, multiple variables represented in ways that inform and develop learners, and comparison among thousands of people sorted into a zillion different types for different purposes) with our now standard "test score"--one number taken on one day--the game will be over. The choice will then be stark. Either we will develop only some or we develop everyone. The bell curve will be gone. No one needs always to be "in the middle" ("mainstream"). Everyone can, in some places and at some times, be at the very top of their game.
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. His book Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990, Third Edition 2007) was one of the founding documents in the formation of the "New Literacy Studies", an interdisciplinary field devoted to studying language, learning, and literacy in an integrated way in the full range of their cognitive, social, and cultural contexts. His book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999, Second Edition 2005, Third Edition 2011) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings, an approach that has been widely influential over the last two decades. His most recent books both deal with video games, language, and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003, Second Edition 2007) argues that good video games are designed to enhance learning through effective learning principles supported by research in the Learning Sciences. Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help us in thinking about the reform of schools. His most recent books are Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays (2007); Woman as Gamers: The Sims and 21st Century Learning (2010) and Language and Learning in the Digital World (2011), both written with Elizabeth Hayes. Prof. Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education.
March 28, 2011 / Henry Jenkins/
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Interest in the PGE EP pathway
Interest in the PGE2/EP4 pathway is increasing given its diverse capability of regulating central nervous system activity [13]. EP4 has a protective function by reducing cerebral injury and improving functional outcome after stroke [14], and in suppressing SMER 3 molecular inflammation [15]. The EP4 receptor has been suggested to contribute to PGE2-induced changes in body temperature [16]. Furthermore, EP4 activation can decrease the level of amyloid-beta in the brain and improve behavioral performance in a murine model of Alzheimer\'s disease [17]. The EP4 receptor along with EP3C (EP3γ) mediates PGE2-induced sensitization of sensory neurons [18]. PGE2-prolonged sensitization of nociceptive dorsal root ganglion neurons may also contribute to the transition from acute to chronic pain by facilitating EP4 receptor synthesis and anterograde axonal trafficking [19]. We have previously found that the PGE2/EP4 pathway plays an inhibitory role in regulating the intracellular calcium homeostasis in mouse neuroblastoma (Neuro-2a) cells via PI3K mechanism [20]. Expression of the EP4 receptor is higher during early neurogenesis as compared to later embryonic stages in mouse embryos suggesting its importance in the developing nervous system [21]. Recent research shows that the subcellular trafficking of the EP4 receptor may have functional implications. It has been shown that PGE2-induced EP4 externalization to the plasma membrane in dorsal root ganglion neurons is important for the inflammatory pain response [22]. The goal of this study was to determine whether PGE2 can also induce EP4 receptor trafficking in neuroectodermal (NE-4C) stem cells used as an experimental model system for early neuronal development. We show that PGE2 causes translocation of the EP4 receptor from its normal location in the Golgi apparatus [23] to the plasma membrane in undifferentiated NE-4C stem cells. This was confirmed with a specific EP4 receptor agonist. We also show for the first time that PGE2 can enhance trafficking of the EP4 receptor to growth cones of differentiated neuronal NE-4C cells. This study shows that PGE2 can influence the subcellular localization of the EP4 receptor in neuronal stem cells and differentiated neuronal cells.
Discussion The results of this study show that 10µM PGE2 induces EP4 externalization from its previously characterized localization in the Golgi apparatus [23] to the plasma membrane in undifferentiated NE-4C stem cells. 1µM PGE2 did not have a significant effect on undifferentiated NE-4C stem cells, indicating that EP4-translocation may be PGE2 concentration-dependent. Interestingly, we also found that in differentiated NE-4C neuronal cells, 1 or 10µM PGE2 enhanced EP4 trafficking to the growth cones. The observed subcellular translocation of the EP4 receptor from its normal location in the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane and growth cones indicates that it may play an important role in early function of neuronal cells. The functional importance of PGE2-induced subcellular localization of the EP4 receptor in the developing nervous system is still largely unknown. Whether EP4 signaling in various subcellular compartments of NE-4C cells is regulated by Gs and/or Gi proteins still needs further investigation. PGE2-mediated EP4 activation of either Gs or Gi may result in increased or decreased cAMP-PKA signaling respectively [29]. EP4 activity may also stimulate cAMP-independent signaling through PI3K activation [29]. However, there is growing evidence for the functional importance of the PGE2/EP4 signaling in the developing nervous system. The PGE2/EP4 pathway has been suggested to play a role in the transition from acute to chronic pain in nociceptive dorsal root ganglion neurons [19]. St. Jacques and Ma found that PGE2-prolonged sensitization of neurons facilitated the synthesis and anterograde axonal trafficking of EP4 receptors [19]. Our previous study shows that EP4 is involved in PGE2-dependent regulation of intracellular calcium level through a novel PI3K inhibitory mechanism and it also reduces neurite lengths in differentiated Neuro-2a cells [20]. This is interesting because calcium ions are key mediators to multiple cellular processes in early neuronal development. For example, in neuronal growth cones calcium contributes to axonal growth and guidance, which must be strictly regulated during neuronal development [30], [31], [32]. Interestingly, we also showed that the level of the EP4 receptor is higher in the mouse embryo (embryonic stage 7, 11 and 15) as compared to the later stage E17 [21], indicating its important role in early development.
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George Walford: Letter from E. Hardy
In May 1984 there was issued A Challenge to the Socialist Party of Great Britain. (If you haven’t had a copy, let IC know). It is presented as the opening statement in a proposed written debate on the issue: WILL THE WORKING CLASS SUPPORT THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN? Copies were sent to all branches of the party, to the Socialist Standard and to Head Office; not one of them attempted to answer the charges made. In August 1984 further copies were sent with covering letters to all party branches and to a number of individual members.
The letter below from E.Hardy is the only reply so far received.. The Challenge was addressed to the Socialist Party; Mr. Hardy does not say whether he replies on behalf of the party or not.
Dear Mr. Walford,
I have received your letter of 2 September, with enclosures. Debate, if it is to be useful, has to be between stated alternatives; as a socialist I am interested in “solutions for social problems” and am willing to consider your alternative to the socialist case.
In a document The Unscientific Socialists (about 1979) which was signed by you and others, it was stated that socialism was an illusion because it is not “reasonably capable of attainment.” Will you please let me have a statement of your “solutions to social problems” so that I can consider whether it is “reasonably capable of attainment,” and whether in fact it offers solutions at all.
In the document referred to, a half-promise was made to produce your solutions. (“We shall also be able to consider what solutions for social problems may be possible taking this into account”). The “this” was the fact that a majority of the workers do not accept the socialist case.
I fail to see how your ability to put forward your solutions is prevented [correct word? doubtful legibility GW] by the fact that a majority of the workers do not accept socialist case. On the contrary, it ought to be a reason you should produce your solutions without delay.
Assuming of course that you are really interested in solving social problems.
Yours faithfully, E. Hardy
Dear Mr. Hardy,
Yes, useful debate has to be between alternatives. But this does not mean that after the opening statement has been, made one participant may dismiss original pair and substitute new ones. I have raised a question of crucial importance for the Socialist Party, stated one of the alternative answers and given my reasons for maintaining it. If you are prepared to state and maintain the other please do so, and give your reasons. (And please also, whether you speak on behalf of the Socialist Party).
At the end of the Challenge, saying I wanted to hear the Socialist Party’s answers, I added:
But I don’t expect we will hear them. If the Socialist Party are running true to form they will not seriously attempt to defend their case. Their reply, if they one, will be an attempt to distract our attention by talking about something else.
Your letter confirms this prediction. It tries to divert attention from the charges brought against the Socialist Party by talking about something else.
The Socialist Party have been publicly charged with believing themselves to be an elite, with putting forward a case that does not make sense, and with being ignorant socialism. Each of these charges has been supported with quotations from the Party’s literature, and they all provide good reason for the working class not to support that Party.
It is now for the Socialist Party to answer these charges; after they have done so, or admitted that they cannot do so, then will be the time to move on to other matters.
George Walford
[See also: IC vs SP, 1986]
SPACE FILLER
One thing on which practically all thoughtful people in the West agree is the need for democracy. And although they may dispute about some of the finer points there is general agreement that the core and centre of democracy is one person, one vote. That is the way to ensure that the voice of the people is heard. There is, however, at least one other view.
Western prejudice may demand a vote for every man: Javanese prejudice demands Musjawarh and Mufakat – prolonged palaver ending in a unanimous decision when the last dissenter is too hoarse or too exhausted to argue further. — Sukarno condemned the West’s ’50 per cent plus one’ vote as ‘the tyranny of the majority,’ a deplorably unfair way of making policy which ignored the wishes of up to 49 per cent of the people. (Denis Bloodworth, An Eye for the Dragon 1974)
from Ideological Commentary 13, September 1984.
Author: gwiepadmin on November 25, 2011
Categories: Ideological Commentary, Periodicals
Tags: Challenge to the Socialist Party of Great Britain, E. Hardy, George Walford, IC vs SP, IC13, Socialist Party of Great Britain, Unscientific Socialists
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We would like to welcome Jim Morris, Vice President, and Justin Koval, Director-at-Large, to the Harris Users Board!
Jim Morris
Originally from South Louisiana, Jim worked in the Baton Rouge area at an authorized GE Radio Service Center 18 years before he moved in 1996 to California to work for Ericsson PRS. When Ericsson downsized its presence in California, Jim ended up working for Riverside County as a technician.
Shortly after he started there he received an offer to move to Montgomery County, TX and manage the EDACS system there. In 2003, Jim received another opportunity and moved to Kansas to work for Tyco- M/A-Com as the lead technician building the Oklahoma City EDACS System. Once that system was complete, the economy and several other factors forced Tyco to make a business decision to shut down the Kansas City Service Center. Coincidentally, at the same time, the position of System Admin for the new OKC system opened to the public. Jim applied for and was offered that posting.
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What a Tax on "Cadillac" Health Insurance Plans Would Really Mean to Mainstream Americans
Milliman consulting actuary, Robert Dobson, is out with a must read paper for those that think the "Cadillac" health plan tax makes sense.
"The idea of taxing so-called Cadillac plans may not sound unreasonable upon first glance. But an actuarial view quickly reveals that the high cost of these plans has as much to do with the characteristics of the covered population as it does with benefit richness. It also reveals that the method of determining the taxable benefit threshold may create unintended consequences — especially when coupled with other benefit-level requirements under various reform proposals, leaving little room between benefit floors and the ceiling in certain slices of the insurance market."
A few more comments from Dobson's paper:
"The most common interpretation of this proposal is that the tax would apply to Wall Street bankers with the richest group benefit plans, and it may well be that taxing particular plans whose premiums are otherwise tax-deductible makes sense. But the actuarial reality of a tax indexed to a specific dollar-amount ceiling is that it would likely affect others with less rich benefits. Whether someone hits the ceiling is not so much driven by benefit richness as it is by age, gender, profession, health status, and the geography of the covered population.
"Consider this example from the Milliman Medical Index (MMI): in 2009, the cost of healthcare for a typical family of four in Miami covered by an employer-sponsored PPO is $20,282.2 The cost of care for a similar family in Phoenix is less than $15,000.
"While these numbers include employee cost-sharing (copays, deductibles, and other coinsurance are reflected in the MMI totals but are not subject to the excise tax), they still show how much more susceptible certain areas of the country are to hitting a fixed-dollar excise tax threshold such as $21,000. Given that medical costs have trended upward at a rate of between 7% and 10% over the last five years, one is left to wonder if the average Miami family will find its benefits exceeding the tax-triggering ceiling by the time the tax provision is imposed in 2013.
"The question of age and gender is also relevant. Assuming a similar employer-sponsored PPO plan, the national average per-member per-month (PMPM) cost this year for an age-30 male is $155 per month — less than $2,000 per year. For an age-60 female, however, the PMPM is $717 — or $8,604 annually, which exceeds the excise tax threshold or ceiling. So groups that include retirees and older workers (e.g., public employers such as school districts) can be expected to hit the threshold more readily than groups with only younger active employees, even if the groups have identical benefits.
"Those who do not exceed the threshold in 2013 might still see their benefits taxed in the future. Aging is the most obvious contributor to higher cost over time. But there is also the question of how the threshold is scheduled to escalate. As currently proposed, the threshold amounts are indexed to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) as determined by the Department of Labor beginning in 2014 [Amended to CPI+1%]. In the last year, CPI-U actually decreased, compared to a 7.4% increase in healthcare costs reported by the MMI between 2008 and 2009. Furthermore, that 7.4% is the lowest increase in at least five years. Assuming healthcare cost increases will continue to outpace the CPI, the tax threshold will catch more people each year.
"The comparison has been made elsewhere, and deserves mentioning here, that the Cadillac excise tax could behave similarly to the alternative minimum tax, dipping further into the middle class than intended. As currently drafted (and discussed above), the tax is indexed to a number that does not reflect the reality of healthcare cost increases. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the revenue from the tax will be $5 billion in 2013 but increase to $53 billion by 2019 (emphasis added). This dramatic increase in the CBO’s revenue estimates over a six-year period is consistent with the point made above: The fixed-dollar indexing of the tax threshold will cause the application of the excise tax to quickly dip substantially further into the mainstream of health plans."
This is just a very valuable contribution to the discussion and I suggest you take a look at it all here.
It is pretty clear to me that millions of middle class Americans would get caught in this AMT-like tax trap.
If we want to discourage excessive and inflationary health care benefits, a laudable goal, let's be direct about that. But let's not pretend to be going after some rich guy on Wall Street all the while knowing we have set a tax trap for a retired teacher in Miami.
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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-10-14
From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>
[01] Main opposition chief in talks with Cyprus
[02] Cyprus sees 'exemplary' ties with Greece
The leader of the main opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) on Saturday met Cyprus' foreign minister for talks on Turkey's bid to join the European Union, and on the Cyprus question.
"As often, we had the opportunity to exchange views on key developments in the Cyprus issue and Turkey's move towards the European Union. I detailed my recent visit to Turkey and my meetings with Premier Erdogan, of which I have already informed the Cypriot president," PASOK leader George Papandreou told reporters after his meeting in Athens with George Lillikas.
"In the talks (with Lillikas) we looked for likely moves and initiatives to which we could all contribute in handling Turkey's course towards Europe, a course that I think we all want, but which, on the other hand, entails specific commitments that Ankara must honour immediately - such as good neighbourliness within the framework of agreements, decisioins of the European Union. It's time for Turkey to take a step forward," he said.
Lillikas thanked Papandreou for his willingness to advance the Cypriot government's line, including through the Socialist International, which the PASOK leader currently heads.
"I think that this was a very productive and creative meeting, with detailed discussion of the various scenarios or ideas that are currently on the table, as well as an assessment of perspectives that could allow for avoidance of a conflict in ties between Europe and Turkey," Lillikas added.
"Our aim is for Turkey to maintain its move towards Europe. However, as we have often seen, this does not depend on us. In the final analysis, it depends on the stand that the Turkish government itself will hold," he added.
Ties between Athens and Nicosia are "exemplary", Cypriot foreign minister George Lillikas said in an interview published on Saturday.
The minister told the Vima newspaper that the island republic would no longer give Turkey the green light in its bid to join the European Union if Ankara failed to meet its commitments; and would employ its right of veto at the negotiating table chaired by the 25-nation bloc's Finnish presidency.
"The government will not concede a third time, even if it remains alone among its 24 EU partners," Lillikas warned.
"We are in full harmony with Athens. We have discussed many angles of our tactics and strategy...We have never attributed any problems to the Greek government, and we would never seek to burden any problem on the Greek government," he underlined.
Asked if Cyprus' credibility would be harmed should it maintain its threat of a veto and then back down, Lillikas replied: "If Turkey persists in its current policy, we have no other choice. But what we say, we mean. It is not our purpose to have a crisis," he said.
"A Turkish journalist and a Turkish diplomat asked me what we have to gain if the two 'trains' crash. My reply was...Nothing, unfortunately nothing," the minister added.
Also on Saturday, Lillikas held talks in Athens on Cyprus and Turkey with the leader of the main opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement, George Papandreou.
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History repeats itself, but Hyderabad just doesn’t seem to learn
September 26, 2016 - No Comments - Hyderabad
“Weather phenomena are cyclic by nature. There is a certain periodicity to weather patterns. That’s why Hyderabad has seen both spells of drought as well as heavy rains — like the one we are experiencing right now —return from time to time,” explains Dr K Nagaratna, scientist at the city’s Meteorological Department. While history has clearly been repeating itself, Hyderabad just doesn’t learn any lessons from it, opine experts, even as they point out what ails our city so much that we crumble with rain.
We don’t have statesmen anymore, we only have politicians
Hyderabad of the early 1900s was wiser than the Hyderabad of today. In 1908, devastation caused by a cloud burst and the flooding of Musi claimed 15,000 lives and rendered 80,000 homeless. But there were amends made after that. Sir Visvesvaraya was commissioned to conduct a study and suggest measures to manage the impact of floods on the city. That’s how two reservoirs — Osmansagar and Himayatsagar — came up to act as flood control centres. A modern system of drainage was also built.
In August 2000, the rains wreaked havoc again. The city recorded a total of 469 mm rain, leading to one of the worst floods we’ve seen since 1908. As many as 90 residential areas in the city were under water. Of course, committees were formed, reports were submitted and review meetings were held. But obviously nothing useful seems to have come of those meetings, because it’s September 2016, our city is still flooding. Why? I believe that we just don’t have far-sighted and efficient statesmen anymore; we only have politicians.
— Mohd Safiullah, Deccan Heritage Trust
We built a whole new city on top of an agrarian imprint and forgot all about it
We need to understand that Hyderabad is a system of catchments. The western edge is in the Godavari River basin (from Kukatpally, Ramchandrapuram, to Gachibowli). To the east, it’s in the Krishna River basin. Also, Hyderabad is in the Deccan region, which has a chaotic drainage pattern — water here does not flow in a single direction as the slope is in multiple directions. These tanks served agrarian purposes and the areas surrounding them were ‘protected local catchment areas’. In the last 40 years, we’ve gone and built a complete city on top of this agrarian imprint. We’ve built roads, which are rigid boundaries, around the ‘fluid’ water bodies, without any buffer areas. Our Necklace Road is a spectacular example of that. Both in the command area and in the foreshore of tanks, we have developed real estate. Having said that, there are a lot of things that can still be done to reverse the effects. We must begin to take stock of the entire drainage system, not just the nalas. We must see the whole city as a catchment area and begin to clear critical areas of encroachments. It sounds like a lot but it is actually only a matter of intelligent readjustment and it can be done at a low cost. For all this to be implemented, we need an executive and ‘ecological’ body like a “Lakes and Parks Authority”, which can draw upon and coordinate the relevant parts of the functions at HMDA, GHMC and departments like revenue, irrigation, roads and buildings.
— Anant Maringanti, Urban geographer and director of Hyderabad Urban Labs
A big lie that everyone has bought into is that it doesn’t rain so much in Hyderabad, but history tells us otherwise
While the overall slope of all the localities in Hyderabad remains more or less the same, almost all the nalas, storm drains, culverts are gone — either land-filled and built over or simply filled with garbage, detritus and forgotten. So, the water which is used to flowing in a particular way has no choice any more. Where will it go? Take Alwal for instance. It’s naturally a low-lying area and most of the ‘development’ has come up around small ponds or lakes and their bunds. There must have been 15-20 of these lakes and ponds at one time. Take places close to Alwal, like Lothakunta and Tadbund — their very names are indicative of their natural history. But is there any kunta (pond) near Lothakunta nowadays? Is there any ‘bund’ near Tadbund? May be just some remnants.
There has been massive urbanisation all over Alwal and its surrounding areas in the last three-four years. More and more of the land gets developed into colonies, gated communities, massive apartment blocks or ‘independent houses’ that are cheek by jowl. So 16 years after the 2000 floods, we are not anywhere close to reducing risks. Because everyone has bought into the big lie that it ‘never really rains in Hyderabad’. But just a perfunctory understanding of natural history tells us otherwise!
— Anand Vishwanadha, bioconservationist, professional wildlife and bird photographer
We have been feeding our lakes a diet of garbage, sewage and making them sick
One of our biggest failures is waste management. You see, every water body has a holding capacity. But over the years, with all the industrial waste and sewage being dumped into the lakes, the waste accumulated and has now affected the holding capacity of the lakes, vertically. So, the original ‘full tank limit’ of our waterbodies /lakes doesn’t hold good anymore. Off the record, officials will also admit that we should reduce the FTL by half, since the rest is filled with silt. That’s not all. Even the feeder channels, which used to bring storm water to the lakes, have been reduced to drainage pipes which dump garbage, chemical waste and sewage water into them. We caused this! Sadly, even if some people are doing their bit, the government is undoing all the good. Take for instance the High Court order passed in January 2016 on segregation of dry and wet waste. You might be doing it at your home, but they are still collecting all waste together and dumping them together. There are laws like Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, and The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, in place. But the question is, who is executing them? Hopefully, we’ll act before our water bodies die and we drown!
— Dr Lubna Sarwath, Co-Convener, Save Our Urban Lakes
The findings of Kirloskar committee after the floods of 2000
–> Over 2,700 illegal encroachments were found on city nalas, of which 1,400 need to be removed.
–> Nalas to be widened to 60 feet at some points and 40-48 feet at others to accommodate higher flows
–> The drainage system in the twin cities is inadequate; it is designed only for 12 mm rain per hour.
–> Abids, Panjagutta, Trimulgherry, Saifabad, Kacheguda, Begumpet, Charminar, Vanasthalipuram, Uppal, Kukatpally and Madhapur were marked as susceptible to severe water-logging.
Source: TOI-Hyd
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By Sara Havens | November 28, 2015 8:00 am
“Holidays Around the World” | Courtesy of Frazier History Museum
Sprinkled throughout the Frazier History Museum are 20 elaborately decorated Christmas trees that depict holiday traditions from different countries and cultures. Earlier this week, local volunteers from multiple international organizations decorated each tree with lights and other items that relate to each country.
Included in the exhibit, titled “Holidays Around the World,” are nods to Argentina, China, Equador, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, United States and Vietnam. There’s also an “International Tree,” “Kwanzaa Tree” and a “Refugee Tree.”
The exhibit was created by Visionworks LLC.
Hopefully the Christmas trees will be more elaborate that this.
“Holidays Around the World” is free with museum admission and will be on display through Jan. 3. So while you’re there checking out the recently opened “Spirits of the Bluegrass: Prohibition and Kentucky” exhibit or gawking at Civil War weapons, you can get a little taste of how the rest of the world celebrates the holidays.
Throughout the next few weeks, various school choirs will provide holiday music to accompany the exhibit. The schedule is as follows:
Saturday, Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. — Chance School
Saturday, Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. — St. Francis
Saturday, Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. — Olmsted Academy
Monday, Dec. 14 at 11:15 a.m. — Bates Elementary
Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 1:15 p.m. — Ascension High School
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The development of international scientific and technical cooperation, in particular the search fornew partners, is now an integral part of activities of research institutions in Ukraine. The State Organization “Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” also pays considerableattention to this issue. Thus, on September 19, 2018, the Institute hosted a delegation from the Jiangxi Academy of Sciences (People's Republic of China) headed by its President Xiong Shaoyuan. The Institute was represented by the Deputy Director of the Institute Andrii Hrytsenko, the Deputy Director Sergii Korablin, scientific secretary Vladimir Khaustov, the Head of the sector of forecasting of fuel and energy complex Roman Podolets, the Senior Researchers Olena Stepanova and Vitalii Gryga. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss areas and further S&T cooperation between Jiangxi Academy of Sciences and Institute for Economics and Forecasting NAS of Ukraine. The Deputy Director of the Institute Andrii Hrytsenko opened the meeting and introduced the Institute to Chinese colleagues. The President of the Jiangxi Academy of Sciences Xiong Shaoyuan and the Director of the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Zou Hui presented Jiangxi Academy of Sciences and praised the existing experience of cooperation with the Institutes and researchers of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and in particular - the work of the Senior Researher Vitalii Gryga at the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy as a high-end expert in March 2018. Also Zou Hui proposed a number of thematic directions for deepening of cooperation between the Institutes, namely research in the field of S&T strategies, industrial development analysis, etc. The Deputy Director Sergii Korablin paid attention on the relevance of the study of Chinese experience and outlined the relevant areas, including the experience of China's industrial policy and its provinces, the financing of technological modernization of enterprises and the study of development institutes, etc. Senior Researcher Vitalii Gryga shared his experience of working at the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy, where he prepared and presented analytical materials on technological foresight and on peculiarities of the establishment of successful industrial and technological parks. During the meeting, possible forms of cooperation such as programs of admission of foreign specialists in Jiangxi province, joint research projects, including international, as well as participation and organization of joint events, conferences and seminars, were discussed by participants. In conclusion, the deputy director of the Institute Andrii Hrytsenko thanked his Chinese colleagues and expressed his hope for deepening cooperation and realization of joint projects. The President of theJiangxi Academy of Sciences Xiong Shaoyuan, thanked the Institute for the hospitality and invited Ukrainian colleagues to visit Jiangxi Province. According to the results of the meeting, a bilateral cooperation agreement between the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine and the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy of the Academy of Sciences of Jiangxi Province was signed.
Chinese And Ukrainian Academics Discuss The Initiative “One Belt, One Road”
Economic and financial potential of successful cooperation between Ukraine and the PRC within the context of implementation of the Initiative “One Belt, One Road” was discussed at a round table held by the State Organization “The Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine” (IEF) on 23 January 2018. Leading academics of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences took part in the round table during their first working visit into Ukraine. Institute of World Economics and Politics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was represented by its Director Zhang Yuyan, Deputy Director of the Department of International Strategy Ren Lin, Senior Research Fellow of the Section of International Strategy Lu Guoxueand Research Fellows of the Department of International Political Economics Tien Xu and Liu Wei.
Director of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine, Academician Valeriy M.Heyets familiarized Chinese scientists with the main areas of scientific research conducted by the IEF and outlined the prospects of joint scientific research and other forms of cooperation between the IEF and IWEP aimed at intensification of economic cooperation between Ukraine and the PRC and promotion of their sustainable socio-economic development. Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Pr. Zhang Yuyan expressed interest in joint scientific research with the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine. He also described the main stages and the results of the implementation of the “Policy of Openness” of the PRC and presented PRC’s initiative “One Belt, One Road”. Deputy Director of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine, Corresponding Fellow of NASU Professor Anatoliy A.Hrytsenko described the main prospects and specific features of Ukraine’s current socio-economic development. He emphasized the need to jointly analyze the experience of reforms of Ukraine’s and China’s economies, to identify the mechanisms of economic development common to both Ukraine and China and those that differ. He underlined strong potential for Ukraine’s adoption of progressive instruments of economic reform in China suitable to current interests of Ukrainian state. Modern time economic issues and potential of the development of economic cooperation between the PRC and Ukraine under the pressure of today’s challenges and structural changes of global economy were expounded in the report of the Deputy Director of IWEP’s Department of International Strategy Ren Lin. Head of the Department of Modelling and Forecasting of Economic Development of the IEF, Fellow of the NAS of Ukraine, Dr. of Science in Economics M.Skrypnychenko proposed approaches to modelling and assessment of prospects of mutually advantageous bilateral economic cooperation between China and Ukraine within the framework of implementation of the initiative “One Belt, One Road”. Fiscal preconditions of cooperation between the PRC and Ukraine that are conducive to economic activity for the implementation of the concept “One Belt, One Road” in Ukraine were defined in the presentation of the Director of the Section of Public Finances I.Lunina. She specified main areas of reforming the corporate income tax and value added tax with the purpose of lowering the tax burden on business in Ukraine comparison with those of the EU countries. She also described the options of simplified system of taxation for agricultural sector. The main trends and sectoral structure of economic cooperation between Ukraine and the PRC during the last decade were explored in the report by Senior Research Fellow of the Section of Public Finances PhD in Economics O.Stepanova. She defined specific features of investment activity and practices within cooperation between Ukraine and China and outlined prospective mechanisms of intensification of economic cooperation in the context of the PRC’s initiative “One Belt, One Road” implementation in Ukraine. She listed among them: the possibility to establish a Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and the PRC under conditions of the fulfillment of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement; involvement of international financial organizations and transnational corporations into cooperation with Ukraine on the basis of public-private partnership. The speaker mentioned specifically the Asian Bank for Infrastructural Investment and the Investment Fund Silk Road Company. Dr. O.Stepanova also dwelt upon the transfer of technologies and on creation of “technological parks” in Ukraine (referring to the technopark project “Great Stone” in the Republic of Belorus as an example). She also underscored the option of setting up manufacture and logistics clusters in order that the advantages of Ukraine-EU Association Agreement can be used. Dr. of Science in Economics O.Nykyforuk, Head of the Department of Manufacturing Infrastructure Development, briefed the participants of the round table on the prospects of Ukraine’s participation in the initiative “One Belt, One Road” in terms of infrastructure development. She also informed them about the research done by her Department. The speaker stressed the fact that the new transportation corridors, built under the New Silk Road concept, can shorten the terms of cargo deliveries from China to Europe by waterways from today’s 45-60 days to 10-13 days, using land routes. She also emphasized the interest of the PRC for Chinese construction and railroad companies to enter the markets of other countries thus providing them with work for decades to come. For Ukraine this is an opportunity to draw Chinese investments into the development of its own infrastructure and built its system of transportation and logistics into the global transportation and logistics networks already functioning on Eurasian continent. The role of tourism as a factor in the advancement of cooperation between Ukraine and the PRC was highlighted by the Head of the Sector of International Financial Research, PhD in Economics O. Borzenko. She stated that modern trends in the development of tourism are positive. The growing interest of the tourists to our culture, large amount of advertisement, availability of information increase the opportunities for communication between the peoples of Ukraine and China. The speaker pointed out that job creation, new recreational facilities, networks of tourist infrastructure capable of rendering various paid and free services should be priorities in both domestic and international tourist business. Among the priority segments of tourist business development Dr. O.Borzenko also mentioned consolidation of political and economic ties among all members of international community on the new entirely new positions determined by the principles of the UN and universal human values. She also prioritized the development of the project “Oriental Express”. Prospective forms of cooperation between Ukraine and the PRC through new organizational forms of innovation, of clusters under the “One Belt, One Road” initiative were presented in the report of a leading Researcher of the Department of Innovation Policies, Economics and Organization of Advanced Technologies, PhD in Economics O. Boyko. To create them we first of all need to develop legislation regulating these clusters. The notions of “cluster”, “cluster development policy”, “clusterization” need to be defined. Development of cluster relationships and networking under “One Belt, One Road” initiative is needed too. The models of application of public-private partnership mechanism should be developed so that non-governmental investment resources can be drawn into development of the clusters. Transboundary clusters and mechanisms of their setting up should also be defined by law. Generally speaking, the clusters can become a mechanism of acceleration of economic transformations invoked by the initiative “One Belt, One Road”. The areas of mutually beneficial cooperation, its mechanisms and prospects determined during the round table were incorporated into the Memorandum of Understanding between the Institute of World Economics and Politics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine, signed by the IEF Director Academician Valeriy M.Heyets and by Director of IWEP of CASS Professor Zhang Yuyan.
Workshop “Evaluation of scientific organizations in Ukraine: Possible Applications of Experiences from Germany”
The Ukrainian-German workshop “Evaluation of scientific organizations in Ukraine: Possible Applications of Experiences from Germany” was held in the Institute for Economics and Forecasting (IEF), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on 6 December 2017. It was organized in the framework of the joint research project, which is supported and financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This workshop followed the workshop, which took place in September in Germany (more details on http://guenther.iino.uni-bremen.de/en/news_detail/items/eval-science-project-meeting-in-berlin-and-visit-at-the-leibniz-association-2679). The aim of the workshop in Kyiv was to discuss the results of the project implementation as well to define future steps. Prof. Igor Yegorov (IEF) presented the evaluation results of NASU research institutes in 2016. Prof. Jutta Günter (Bremen University) shared an experience of Leibniz Association on such issues, which should be addressed during evaluation, e.g. selection of the evaluation committee members and avoiding of conflict of interests, specific aspects of research departments evaluations and implementation of evaluation results as well. Also, she indentified the directions of improvement of the Leibniz Association methodology for research evaluation. These are distribution of criteria on primary and secondary groups based on type of the research entity and its thematic field, use of group evaluation in order to reduce costs on external expert travels. Dr. Oleksandra Antoniuk (Institute of Mathematics, NASU) overviewed current procedure of the evaluation taking into account the establishment of the NASU Evaluation Office and summarized the ways of the procedure improvement. During Q&A session PhD. Vitalii Gryga paid attention on certain problems in evaluation of research administrations and raised a question on consequences of negative evaluation. Yulia Ryzhkova interested in improvement of expert evaluation reports and needs in special trainings for domestic evaluators. Also the workshop participants discussed the problems in publication activity evaluations and the need to keep a balance between quantity and quality of publications. Bad balance in favor of quantity might lead not only to poor quality of scientific papers but flag the researchers’ motivation down. Summarizing the workshop results all participants agreed that proper evaluation was among the main tasks of S&T reform in Ukraine and the German experience was quite useful in designing own evaluation methodology. Prepared by V. Gryga.,Yu, Ryzhkova
Cluster managers workshop: an international dialogue on Research based industrial clusters in the Black Sea Region
The international seminar for cluster managers was held in the conference hall of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting on 15 February, 2017. The seminar was organized within the framework of two relevant projects funded under Horizon 2020, the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation: the Black Sea Horizon and the Strengthening Research and Innovation towards Ukraine projects. The aim of the seminar was to promote the dialogue between selected industrial and innovation clusters from the Black Sea Region, fostering cooperation opportunities and to provide recommendations on how to establish, manage, sustain and internationalize these clusters.
The seminar was targeted practitioners, although a lot of representatives of research institutes and universities took part in it. The total number of participants was about 80, including 23 participants from such foreign countries, as Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Portugal etc. Mr. Thierry Devars, the project officer of the DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission, Anatolii Bagan, the deputy head of the department of industry and entrepreneurship development of the Kiev City State Administration, Dr. S. Lukach, adviser to the Parliamentary Committee on Industrial Policy made introductory remarks.
During the introductory session Ms. Ines Marinkovic (Austria) presented the Black Sea Horizon project (http://blacksea-horizon.eu), in which the Institute for Economics and Forecasting takes part, while Gorazd Weiss (Austria) presented the RILINKS2UA project, which is aimed at supporting and enhancing the integration of Ukraine to the European Research Area (https://ri-links2ua.eu).
After that Douglas Thompson and Francisco Rocha (Portugal) presented guidelines on establishing, managing, sustaining and internationalizing industrial clusters and the European cluster cooperation platform. Dr. Piotre Swiatek (Germany) shared the information on German cluster support initiatives.
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The next session was devoted to exchange of cluster development experience in the Black Sea region. During the session three case studies were presented. Prof. Nadiya Boyko (Ukraine) talked about cross-border cluster Cassiovia Life Science, Dr. Felix Arion (Romania) presented experience of the AgroTransilvania cluster. The third presentation was made by Svetlin Ranguelov (Bulgaria). He provided an information about the activity of the Association of Business Clusters and Bulgarian cluster landscape.
All presentations are available at https://blacksea-horizon.eu/object/document/686
The seminar revealed the great interest to cluster development in the Black Sea region. It was expressed by many participants, who actively participated in the discussion session. Most of participants agreed that further support of cluster initiatives (networking, sharing knowledge and experience etc) was needed, as well as organization of events, similar to this cluster manager’s workshop. After finishing the seminar foreign and Ukrainian participants positively evaluated the efforts of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting on preparation of the event.
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The projects BLACK SEA HORIZON and RILINKS2UA have received funding from Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, under the Grant Agreements 645785 (H2020-INT-INCO-2014) and 692476 (H2020-INT-INCO-2015)
Institute for Economics and Forecasting Ukrainian National Academy of Science together with academic public union “Knowledge Platform – Agrarian Development and Rural Innovations”, Delegation of Polish Academy of Science in Ukraine, agriculture universities and NGOs facilitating Public Academic Hearings “Ukrainian village and rural population under holdingization: will European basics of rural development be implemented in Ukraine?” оn June, 10, 2015. During the hearings will be discussed main points of draft “Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2015-2020” related to interests of farming households and family farms, rural communities and rural settlements, which are in risk of being ignored in the process of Strategy implementation after its adoption.
See more in The announcement_Academic_Hearings
Recommendations for the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU on the basis of experience in Eastern Europe
A new research paper by the Institute has been published:
The implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU: recommendations based on the experience of Eastern Europe: research paper / ed. Acad. NAS of Ukraine V.Heyets, Corr. NAS of Ukraine A.Danylenko, Cor. NAAS of Ukraine, Dr. of Econ. T.Ostashko; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, State Institution "Institute for Economics and Forecasting of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine"- K., 2015. - 104 p.
The report provides recommendations on the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU elaborated by a research team of State Institutions "Institute for Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine" (IEF) based on analysis of the experience of European integration in Eastern Europe.
The scientists investigated various problems of the implementation of the Agreement for individual industries, markets, and economic and financial institutions, such as agriculture, food processing, steel, energy, rail transport, financial markets, monetary policy, technical regulations, public procurement and the environment, and produced a series of recommendations for the government and business with a focus on the role of industry associations and mechanisms of cooperation between business and government.
The recommendations are based on the analysis of the experience of implementation of the European Association Agreements in Eastern European countries and analysis of structural changes that have occurred in these countries after the completion of the implementation and following their EU membership. Special attention was given to those provisions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, whose implementation, as shown by analysis of the experience of Eastern Europe, may require extension of time, and whose implementation involved EU financial assistance.
The paper is the third issue in the series dealing with the problems of European integration of Ukraine completed by the research team of IEF scientists.
Innovations and Ukraine’s social and economic development
Department of Innovation Policy, Economics and High-Tech Research completed work on "The main problems and guidelines of Ukraine’s innovative development in 2015-2020."
The work is the result of comprehensive research by specialists from several Ukrainian research institutions (coordination and general methodology to implement the project were provided by the State Institution "Institute for Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine"). The researchers deepened the understanding of the importance of innovation in the reproductive processes in a modern economy, revealed various socio-economic generalities determining the dynamics of innovation development both at the state level and at the level of individual companies. In particular it is shown that, with the innovative type of development, the dynamics of change reaches a level at which features that characterize the variability of state, begin to greatly dominate over those that characterize its stability. The authors show the role of national institutions in the implementation of innovation policy under the crisis conditions, in which Ukraine is now.
The investigation provides calculations of the dynamics of the main indicators of innovation development in recent twenty years. There are proposals to strengthen the impact of innovation on the modernization of the national economy through the formation of national institutions whose activities should be focused on achieving the priorities of innovation of the economy, particularly in the financial sector, such as universal and specialized development banks, export-import banks, government and venture leasing companies, innovation funds and foundations, regional development agencies and others. Among innovation-oriented national institutions of other types, which should acquire particular importance are parks, industrial parks, business incubators, research centers, technology transfer centers, centers of design and others that will contribute to the development of innovation infrastructure and mainly act on the principles of entrepreneurship.
“Assessing the impact of AA/FTA between Ukraine and the EU on Ukraine’s economy”
A new detailed research on the very urgent topic recently published by the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine. The resulting report edited by Academician NAS Ukraine Heyets, Corr. NAAS of Ukraine T.O.Ostashko and Corr. NAS Ukraine L.V.Shynkaruk. The report gives a detailed account of the effects of implementation of the Agreement, and outlines the prospects and risks for specific industries and markets such as trade and financial markets, as well as public procurement market and the labor market. See details (Eng)
A quarter century of reforms
At the end of May 2014, the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine met with Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the famous Polish economist and director of the Center for Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, TIGER (www.tiger.edu.pl & www.volatileworld.net) at the Kozminski University in Warsaw, former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland. Professor Kolodko described the changes that were made in Poland during the past 25 years, answered questions from the audience and presented the book "Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future" (http://www.znanium.com/catalog.php?item=booksearch&code=kolodko). Learn the basic theses of Professor G. W. Kolodko’s speech here.
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New horizons of cooperation 24.09.2018
Chinese And Ukrainian Academics Discuss The Initiative “One Belt, One Road” 08.02.2018
Workshop “Evaluation of scientific organizations in Ukraine: Possible Applications of Experiences from Germany” 12.12.2017
ERASMUS+ 10.04.2017
Cluster managers workshop: an international dialogue on Research based industrial clusters in the Black Sea Region 22.02.2017
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Hariss Harun (born 19 November 1990) is a Singaporean footballer and plays for S-League team, Young Lions as a central midfielder. He is S.League's and also the national team's youngest ever player, playing at the age of 16.
Football career
On 24 June 2007, only 16 years 7 months and 5 days old (16 years and 217 days old), Harun became the youngest ever player to don the national jersey as he came on in the second half in a friendly against North Korea. He currently have 53 international caps to his name, starting in all Singapore international matches for the past 2 years. In his 53 caps, he scored an amazing 26 goals for Singapore and had 31 assist.
He is known as a hard-tackling player, and he has been booked and sent off quite a number of times, most notably during the friendly with the Singapore Under-23 side against Indonesia.
He was part of the Singapore Under-23 team that took part in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Korat, Thailand that won a bronze medal.
In August 2007, he was Singapore's winner of Nike's Who's The Next contest, and secured a training stint at Barcelona's famed academy, La Masia. He trained at the Catalans' youth academy for a week, with 13 other players from six Asia Pacific countries including Korea and Japan. The youngsters participated in three friendly games against players from Barca's youth academy, where he was selected captain for all the games. He returned a week later with the MVP award.[1]
After his outstanding performance in the match between Singapore and Liverpool, he has attracted interest from many English clubs. These clubs include Arsenal and Leeds United.[citation needed]
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Alamoudi and those bags of Libyan cash
by J. Michael Waller, Insight, October 13, 2003.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 23 years in jail on charges related to his activities in the United States and abroad with nations and organizations that have ties to terrorism, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security announced today. Abdurahman M. Alamoudi [pictured], a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Eritrea, was sentenced to 276 months in jail by District Judge Claude M. Hilton in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, this morning.
On July 30, 2004, Alamoudi pleaded guilty to three federal offenses: one count of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which imposes terrorism-related sanctions prohibiting unlicensed travel to and commerce with Libya; one count of false statements made in his application for naturalization; and a tax offense involving a long-term scheme to conceal from the IRS his financial transactions with Libya and his foreign bank accounts and to omit material information from the tax returns filed by his charities.
As part of a plea agreement, Alamoudi agreed to cooperate fully and truthfully in any and all investigations, including an ongoing investigation into a plot to assassinate an ally in the war against terrorism. Under the terms of that plea agreement, Alamoudi also agreed that he should be sentenced under the terrorism provision of the federal sentencing guidelines, and he agreed to forfeit all proceeds from his illegal dealings with Libya, which total at least $910,000, including $340,000 seized from him in the United Kingdom.
Alamoudi became a naturalized citizen in 1996. He is the founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council (AMC), the founder of the American Muslim Foundation (AMF), and was an influential member of other Islamic political and charitable organizations.
Court documents filed in conjunction with his plea agreement describe how, from November 1995 to September 2003, Alamoudi devised a scheme to obtain money from Libya and other sources overseas for transmission into the United States without attracting the attention of federal immigration, customs and law enforcement officials. Alamoudi admitted to participating in a comprehensive scheme to conceal prohibited financial transactions related to Libya, his travel to Libya, and financial transactions designed to evade currency reporting requirements, among other things.
Alamoudi made at least 10 trips to Libya, many lasting as long as five days. According to court documents, while in Libya, Alamoudi participated in meetings with Libyan government officials. Initially, during a meeting on March 13, 2003, Alamoudi and Libyan government officials discussed creating “headaches” and disruptions in Saudi Arabia. As the scheme continued, however, Alamoudi learned that the actual objective was the assassination of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Alamoudi participated in recruiting participants for this plot by introducing the Libyans to two Saudi dissidents in London and facilitating the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash from the Libyans to those dissidents to finance the plot.
Alamoudi has been in U.S. custody since his arrest shortly after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sept. 28, 2003. Alamoudi intentionally withheld information about his Libya travel in response to a question from a Customs officer about which countries he had traveled to his itinerary.
“The government’s investigations are designed to prevent acts of terrorism by obtaining cooperation and developing intelligence,” said Attorney General John Ashcroft. “The sentence handed down in the Alamoudi case today shows that the system works: a terrorist facilitator has been sentenced to jail and we have reason to expect that through his cooperation, we will obtain intelligence that will assist us in our ongoing efforts to advance these critical investigations.”
“This is a clear victory in the war against terrorism,” said U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty of the Eastern District of Virginia. “Terrorists need money to operate, and the defendant was caught in the act of financing their deadly schemes.”
Michael Garcia, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stated: “The sentence handed down today reflects the seriousness of Alamoudi’s crimes. His conviction is the result of an extensive joint investigation by ICE, the FBI and IRS, in which agents tracked suitcases stuffed with cash, unearthed Swiss bank accounts, and documented meetings with shadowy figures around the globe. This case demonstrates how ICE is applying its legal authorities under the Joint Terrorism Task Force umbrella to address threats to our homeland.”
“The ability to detect and analyze complex financial information from numerous sources is essential to the government’s fight against terror,” said Nancy Jardini, Chief, IRS Criminal Investigation. “The IRS has committed extensive civil and criminal resources to shut down terrorist financing from domestic sources, including charities.”
The case is being investigated by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Criminal Investigations at the Internal Revenue Service, and the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon D. Kromberg and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven P. Ward, on detail from the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, prosecuted the case.
Tags: Abdurahman Alamoudi, AMC, American Muslim Council, American Muslim Foundation, John Ashcroft, Libya, Saudi Arabia, subversion
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ANTARCTICA - WHY AND HOW TO VISIT THE SEVENTH CONTINENT!
Back in November I went on one of the most exciting voyages I have ever been on - an expedition cruise to Antarctica. My children were so jealous I was going. Not only would I be able to see penguins in their natural habitat, I would also be visiting a continent very few people ever get to see.
Stepping foot on land in Antarctica was a surreal moment and I've documented it in many videos I've recently posted to my YouTube channel Go with Jo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q28t30k-o99Ijzoiox11Q
Some of the videos are about the penguins I saw:
Other videos are about my mad attempt to try the polar plunge - yikes, that was COLD AND HURT!:
And some videos are general about the whole expedition cruise and Antarctic experience - I travelled with a Norwegian cruise liner called Hurtigruten which was awesome and the expedition team was awesome too:
When I came back I wrote a few articles for various worldwide publications about my trip. But I'd also written a diary whilst I was away and when I looked at the diary I realised that I had some great material which I didn't want to put to waste. And I saw a gap in the market. There are generic travel guides to Antarctica (like a Lonely Planet etc) but there isn't a guide which tells readers exactly what it's like, with top tips for what to do/what to pack/what to wear/how long to go for etc.
And so I set about writing a unique travel guide, chronicling my expedition from beginning to end, including the highs (penguins/icebergs/extreme hiking/extreme kayaking) and the lows (sea sickness!) And at the end of each chapter are top tips for people about to go to Antarctica themselves or interested in either going or in the polar regions.
I'm so proud of the book which is available from Amazon sites worldwide in kindle as well as in paperback - here's the cover:
So, if you're interested in adventure travel or polar regions or penguins, this book is a must-read - inspired by early explorer Ernest Shackleton's diary - Shackleton attempted to cross Antarctica from one side to the other in the early 1900s.
It's available worldwide from Amazon, but here are the US and UK links:
US: amzn.to/2TfTox3
UK: amzn.to/2Y4X1K1
Happy exploring the world - at least you won't get as cold as I did in Antarctica just by looking at this book! And if you don't think you'll ever be able to make it to Antarctica yourself, you'll feel as if you have been there after you've read this...
To return to Jo's website please click on the link below:
www.jokessel.com
WHAT I'D SAY TO THERESA MAY
I don't like politicising my blog, but I'm so deeply incensed and embarrassed by this whole Brexit debacle that I've been thinking what I'd like to say to Theresa May if I had her in my living room over a cup of tea...and this is it...
Theresa: I don't dislike you - even though I've never voted Tory in my life - in fact, when you were elected leader of the Conservative party I was pleased for you. You felt safe; like a nice kind woman who would look after her country.
However, you have no idea how to negotiate. Like you, I never wanted to leave the EU in the first place. I still don't. And I suspect you don't either. But a word of advice. If you're going to try to get a good deal for our country, your 'softly, softly' approach was never going to work. I don't like Boris Johnson particularly, but the one thing he got right in terms of Brexit was his bulldozing attitude. "They can whistle for it," he said, regarding the billions of pounds the EU expected us to give them for nothing in return.
But look at your deal. I know you're in an impossible situation, but this deal can't possibly be good for us. It involves us as a country giving billions and billions to the EU for very little in return. How is that a good deal? How is that good negotiating? The EU must be laughing in our faces.
It's complicated, I know. As I said before, you're in an impossible situation.
The world might be laughing at you at this very moment, thinking what a poor job you're doing. I'm not laughing. I feel sorry for you. You've worked very hard and done you're very best...but whatever you do, you hit a brick wall. And I fear that's not going to change.
The world might be laughing at you now, thinking that you're a weak leader and can't control your party or country. But you can change that. You could go down in history as doing something really wonderful - and something great for your country. And this is how:
Have a press conference. Be strong. Admit something that you know, deep down, is the truth. Brexit cannot be done and it can't be done because of Ireland. And as long as we want peace in Ireland this will not change. Say this to the country and you can go down in history as somebody special, rather than a weak, but tenacious woman.
Your speech can be short and sweet and say this:
"Brexit is a bad idea, so for the sake of our country and our people I think we should stay in the EU. And if you don't want me to be the person to do this then I'll step down and hand over to somebody else who can..."
Do this, Theresa, and history might remember you as a strong woman who did what was best for her country and did what she truly believed in.
YOUTUBE TRAVEL HORROR STORY - HELP NEEDED!
Hello everyone and hope you're having a nice weekend wherever you are in the world.
Over the last year or so I've had great fun building my YouTube channel: Go with Jo. I've been travelling round the world for work, making and editing short videos of places I've stayed in and things I've done, and it's been a great, fun journey. Judging from the thousands of views some of my videos have had, these films have given pleasure to lots of people around the globe. Perhaps my films have helped transport them to a different, more exotic place. Or perhaps my films have furnished them with useful advice. Or perhaps I gave somebody a tip to help make their own travels safer and more enjoyable.
Adverts are currently run on these films which make me a tiny bit of money and YouTube a much bigger amount of money.
However, YouTube is soon changing it's terms of agreement. Because my channel is not one of the 'big hitters', from the end of February I will no longer be entitled to make money from advertising on my videos; nor will YouTube be compelled to pay me the money I have earned them so far.
This is very bad news for the 'little person' with a platform on YouTube. Whilst we can continue to have our channels, we will not be able to make money from them until we have 4,000 hours worth of views in a year (which is a lot) and at least 1k subscribers.
I am nearly there with my views, but I am short of subscribers and wondered if you could help me with both.
Please, if you can and if you have time, could you take a look at my channel, watch some of my films and subscribe? If you do, not only will you be helping the 'little person', but you may well learn some useful travel ideas/tips on the way...and I will be eternally grateful.
Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q28t30k-o99Ijzoiox11Q
Many thanks, see you all soon and please feel free to share. There are others in a similar position to me and perhaps, if we all stick together, we can make a difference and convince YouTube to change their mind.
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IT'S A MIRACLE - ONLY 99CENTS/99P - PRICE REDUCTION FOR CHRISTMAS SALE, SALE, SALE!
Only five more sleeps to Christmas - are you ready for it?!
Great news this end. Christmas is a time for believing in miracles and if you'd like to read about one (with a dash of romance thrown in too) then the kindle version can be yours for only 99cents/99p over the festive season. It's cheaper than a glass of mulled wine and will bring you much more and longer-lasting pleasure too. Please help share and spread the word.
US PURCHASE LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Call-Heaven-Jo-Kessel/dp/1540490041/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1513767228&sr=8-3&keywords=a+call+to+heaven
UK PURCHASE LINK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Heaven-Jo-Kessel-ebook/dp/B01MQU65MT/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513787102&sr=8-1&keywords=jo+kessel+a+call+to+heaven
This book is the most special to me out of all my novels and will fill you with hope - hope for the future; hope for the impossible to become possible; hope for love and hope for happy endings.
Read it and you'll see what I mean.
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year full of hope, miracles and possibilities.
HELP REQUIRED TO ANSWER MY DAUGHTER'S QUESTION!
Sometimes a child asks a question which is an astonishingly good one and which I'd love to know the answer to, but haven't a clue!
Recently my twelve year old daughter asked one such question. It must have been driven by the fact that it was raining in London (where we live) yet again, and the question was this:
"Mummy, do you think that there's ever a time when it's not raining ANYWHERE in the world?"
I stopped, hesitating. Is it possible that at some point in time there isn't a droplet of water dripping from the sky anywhere across the entire globe? It seems unlikely, but perhaps this is even a frequent phenomenon - a dry world everywhere for sufficient chunks of time.
If you're a meteorologist or geologist or an expert in global weather, then please help me provide an answer. Or if you know anyone who you think might be able to answer my daughter's question then please share this question with others.
I hate not to be able to provide my daughter with an accurate answer, especially when I'm sure that somebody, somewhere out there must know it!
Happy thinking about it and here's hoping it's dry wherever you are.
IT'S NOT AN OSCAR OR A GRAMMY, BUT STILL - I WON AN AWARD!
It's not every day that you win an award, so I thought it was news worth sharing! It might not be an Oscar or a Grammy or a Brit, but for me it was just as exciting. A travel article I wrote for the Telegraph newspaper in the UK was nominated in the 'Best Cruise Lifestyle Feature' category at the CLIA UK & IRELAND CRUISE MEDIA AWARDS 2017. The competition around me was very stiff - I was up against some awesome journalists and really didn't expect to hear my name called out. And when it was I was SO excited.
Here's a pic:
Thank you so much for everyone who voted for me - it means such a lot. It's my first ever award and I will cherish it as if it was a BRIT, an Oscar or a Grammy!
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WHAT IF? NO REALLY...WHAT IF?
A few years ago a friend of mine who’s an author said: “What a novelist really needs to write is a ‘what if’ story.”
He went on to explain that a novel which makes a reader sit up and take note and think ‘what if’ would be the type of book which would appeal to the masses.
I’ve never tried appealing to the masses, preferring to write what I wanted to write, as opposed to worrying about what might sell to a reader.
A Call to Heaven was different though. Because I didn’t come up with the idea at all; my mother did. And seeing as my mother (who sadly died six years ago) wasn’t able to tell me the idea in person, she came to me in a dream. In that dream she gave me the title for the book as well as its premise and then she kept repeating over and over: “You must remember this when you wake up.”
I did remember it when I woke up because it was an amazing idea and remembering that dream still gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
Amy is A Call to Heaven’s heroine and she too has recently lost her mother. What Amy finds herself in possession of (unlike me) is a phone with supernatural powers – a phone which allows her to call her mother in Heaven. Of course it’s about a lot more than that too. It’s about her abusive husband; it’s about a hot (skeptical) doctor she comes to know; it’s about a challenge she’s set from Heaven; it’s about love – love for a man (the hot doctor) and love for lost loved ones.
As I was writing the book I wished that my mother could teleport me a phone like Amy’s so that I could call her too. As I was working on the book, I realised that I’d finally written a ‘what if’ novel. I mean really…WHAT IF such a phone existed? WHAT IF we really could communicate with the deceased on the phone? WHAT IF we could prove there was a Heaven and we could connect with those in it? How amazing would that be? Or, if you were skeptical hot doctor Daniel, you might not think that would be so amazing after all…
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I am applied Penn State University Park, not Dickinson, but that wasn't a choice.
2/20/17 - Unexpectedly fast response from Penn State with scholarship, via e-mail
2/28/17 - Accepted to Pace via e-mail. Waiting on scholarship news.
3/02/17 - Accepted to Vermont via e-mail. Waiting on scholarship news.
3/05/17 - Status Checker on UKentucky says Decision Rendered. However, they have stuff for seat deposit, so I am assuming thats good? No e-mail yet...
3/06/17 - Accepted to UKentucky via e-mail. Scholarship info included.
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3/07/17 - Accepted to Maryland via e-mail. Waiting on scholarship news.
3/07/17 - Vermonts acceptance packet came in the snail mail. Got a scholarship with it.
3/15/17 - Scholarship info from Maryland via e-mail.
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Got snail-mail from Pace with scholarship info.
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I was on my tractor one day, clearing some trees that had fallen on my farm when I learned an important lesson about business.
After cutting up the trees I had two large brush piles burning and noticed a large hawk was sitting on the ground between the piles. He then perched in a nearby tree, watching the piles intently. “What is that hawk doing?” I asked myself. It was then that I realized how smart he was. The hawk knew that the brush piles were full of mice and rats. He also knew the fire would drive them out, and he was going to take advantage of an incredible opportunity to pick them off one by one as they ran out of the pile. The hawk saw what other animals couldn’t see.
In business, I don’t like to take advantage of people, but I do like to take advantages of opportunities.
A friend of mine recently re-opened the historic West Cinema in downtown Cedartown. Opened in 1941, the movie theater originally only had one screen. New owners added a second screen in the1980s, and it may have seemed that the old building had reached its capacity. However, when Michael Tinney purchased the theater last year, he had a vision to grow the business by increasing the number of screens (and potential for revenue) in the same square footage.
“I see a really good opportunity there for the business to grow and prosper,” Mike told the Polk County Standard Journal. “I see a landmark in Cedartown, and I see how I can improve it and make it better.” He added that “it is more about love of the community than it is just a business.”
The original theater’s balcony had been closed off years ago, so Mike re-opened this space and turned it into VIP seating with leather recliners. This enabled him to increase the number of seats in each theater, but he didn’t stop there. Mike took a large storage room and turned it into two smaller theaters with 30 seats each. He is now able to show four movies at a time, and utilize these smaller theaters for movies that are less popular but still have an audience.
Mike re-opened the theater with Family Nights once a week, featuring clean films appropriate for all audiences at a discounted price. He took what was once an unnecessary storage room and used it to double the size of his business and create new entertainment opportunities for families in Polk County.
Like the hawk, entrepreneurs are able to see things that others cannot see. They are able to take advantage of opportunities that may otherwise go unnoticed. One entrepreneur was able to double the size of West Cinema in the 1980s, and another was able to do the same in 2018.
If you want to be successful as an entrepreneur (or a leader), one of the first steps is to develop your ability to see what others cannot see. When you encounter a challenge that would cause most people to give up, begin looking for the hidden opportunities. This is what Mike did, and as a result he has not only built a viable business, he has brought back a local treasure to our community.
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BUFFALO Phil Kessel Jersey , N.Y. (AP) The last-place Buffalo Sabres are suddenly playing havoc with the Eastern Conference’s top teams – and without their top offensive threat, Jack Eichel, no less.Ryan O’Reilly scored a goal and added two assists in a 5-3 win over the East-leading Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.”That’s a really good hockey team over there, but we showed good composure and good maturity,” O’Reilly said. ”We didn’t panic. Even when they scored the power-play goal at the end there, we stuck with it. It was nice to see and it’s a good lesson for us.”It was O’Reilly’s second consecutive three-point outing after he also had a goal and two assists in a 5-4 loss to Colorado on Sunday. The boost in production comes after Eichel sprained his right ankle in a 4-2 win over Boston on Saturday, an injury that will cost him between four and six weeks.Sam Reinhart scored twice, including an empty-netter, and Scott Wilson and Nicholas Baptiste also scored as the Sabres never trailed.Backup Chad Johnson stopped 26 shots to pick up just his fourth win and first in nine home appearances this season.The Lightning lost their second in consecutive nights following a 4-3 loss at Toronto, and had their conference lead cut to one point after the Bruins’ 5-2 win over Calgary.Special teams cost the Lightning.The NHL’s top-scoring team converted just one of five power-play chances, and managed one shot during a two-man advantage over a 1:53 span in the second period. The Lightning’s sputtering penalty-killing unit gave up two goals on three opportunities.O’Reilly’s power-play goal stood up as the winner in putting the Sabres up 4-2 with 16:19 left. O’Reilly began the play by feeding Kyle Okposo in the slot. Okposo’s one-timer missed Sidney Crosby Jersey , but the puck hit off the boards and landed at O’Reilly’s feet as he circled the net and wrapped a shot inside the left post.”We made their power play look like the best power play in the league,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. ”The guys are trying. It’s not like they wanted pucks to go in the net. But we’ve just got to do a better job structurally.”Tampa Bay has surrendered 10 power-play goals on 30 chances over the past 10 games.Callahan cut the Sabres’ lead to 4-3 with 8:24 remaining by converting a rebound in front after Johnson stopped Mikhail Sergachev’s blast from the blue line. The Lightning, however, managed just one more shot on net.”Our kill gives up one there in the third and it definitely hurt us,” Callahan said. ”But at the same time, we score in a one-goal game and we don’t have an emotional push after that, no real sustained pressure or opportunities, which is disappointing.”Lightning rookie Yanni Gourde scored his 22nd goal of the season and extended his point streak to seven games. Vladislav Namestnikov also scored.Louis Domingue stopped 28 shots while starting in place of Andrei Vasilevskiy, who was rested after allowing four goals on 23 shots against Toronto.The Lightning had won six straight at Buffalo since a 2-1 shootout loss on Dec. 2, 2014. And Tampa Bay had gone 15-2-1 in its past 18 games – home and away – against Buffalo.Buffalo won for just the second time in its past eight home games (2-5-1), and improved to 8-16-4 for the season.Johnson was finally able to celebrate a victory in Buffalo after going 0-5-1 in his previous eight home appearances during his second stint with the Sabres in three years. Johnson Dougie Hamilton Jersey Womens , who played for Calgary last season, had not won at Buffalo since a 25-save outing in a 4-1 victory over Toronto on March 31, 2016.”Yeah, I know it’s been a while,” Johnson said. ”It’s been tough for everybody this season. Just haven’t gotten the results I’ve wanted to. Tonight, it was nice to get the win, especially against one of the top teams in the league.”NOTES: Lightning C Tyler Johnson’s 12 assists in 19 games against Buffalo are his most against any team. … Tampa Bay’s Jon Cooper coached his 400th career game, and had his record drop to 226-136-38. … The Sabres have scored power-play goals in 12 of their past 16 games.UP NEXTLightning: Open two-game homestand against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday.Sabres: At the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.— CHICAGO (AP) — Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford will start Thursday night against Arizona in his first game since he missed most of last season because of a concussion.Coach Joel Quenneville confirmed Crawford’s return at the team’s morning skate. Rookie forward Luke Johnson was assigned to Rockford of the American Hockey League, leaving three goaltenders on Chicago’s roster.It’s the first game for Crawford since Dec. 23.“It’s exciting,” Quenneville said. “I’m sure he’s looking forward to it and we all are excited about him in there as well. It’ll be a fun situation for the guys seeing him back in net as well, so we’re looking for everybody to be excited about tonight’s game.”The 33-year-old Crawford helped Chicago win the Stanley Cup in 2013 and 2015. Without him last season http://www.officialsharks.com/authentic-adidas-brent-burns-jersey , the Blackhawks tumbled into last place in the Central Division and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The two-time All-Star has 230 wins, a 2.37 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage in 409 career games.“I think we’re all happy to see him back on the ice,” star forward Patrick Kane said. “He seems like he’s in a good mood lately. A lot of smiles out there. Good to have him back.”Crawford went 16-9-2 with a 2.27 GAA last season before he was placed on injured reserve. He faced some shots during a morning skate in Arizona on Feb. 12, but was never able to come back.Crawford’s return creates a crowded situation in Chicago’s net with Cam Ward and Anton Forsberg. Ward started Chicago’s first five games. Forsberg hasn’t played yet this season.Beginning with the matchup with the Coyotes, the Blackhawks have three games in the next four nights and seven in the next 11 days.“We’ll see how that goes. I know that we have three right now on our roster,” Quenneville said about the goaltending situation. “With three in four nights, we’ll see how that plays out.”
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Finau? You’re having a laugh
RG: In our Opinion
Published Jun 11, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Jun 12, 2019 at 6:32 pm)
Drive for show, putt for dough: there is little chance of a star the likes of Tony Finau being lured to play in an alternate event such as the Bermuda Championship unless there is a sizeable appearance fee (Photograph by Julio Cortez/AP)
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To listen to our legislators tying themselves in knots amid a sea of hypocrisy over whether the newly established Bermuda Championship will be a good thing for the island in ways that the 35th America’s Cup was not was to invite every urge to guzzle down another serving of MoviPrep.
The colon is a terrible thing to waste and so, too, is the people’s time.
Tourism minister Zane DeSilva is right to be patting himself on the back for the coup that he and Patrick Horgan III have pulled off in attracting the PGA Tour to our shores. The five-year deal to ensure the presence on our little island of top-quality professional golfers, and their families and other support staff, will be of infinite value to our tourism product. And it is to be hoped that the Bermuda Tourism Authority can maximise this turn of events so that the impact is very long-lasting.
The same was said of the America’s Cup before it was turned into a political football, battered from pillar to post to the extent that not only were Oracle USA the losers when the smoke cleared, but we all were.
Emirates Team New Zealand almost literally kicked the Americans into touch with their pedal power and, in doing so, they distanced world-class sailing from our shores in the process.
We helped more than a little, too, as saboteurs in residence.
It cannot have gone unnoticed how vehemently the Progressive Labour Party, the “here today, gone tomorrow” People’s Campaign and the many assorted acolytes campaigned against AC35, the hypocrisy shown on one hand by terming it a mere “boat race” while on the other appearing in VIP stands on Cross Island as the festivities were in full swing.
What gall. A bit of having your cake and eating it, too.
Who knew that the inhabitants of 21 square miles of paradise could be so resistant to boating?
Thank heavens for the Wright brothers; otherwise, it is unfathomable how 64,000 landlubbers could survive in such tight confines over the long term when sailing and the water are so definitely not for us.
The fallout from a rather embarrassing and protracted reaction to a longstanding international event is that Bermuda has been given barely a passing thought when there have been talks of new race circuits or other sailing initiatives, despite the obvious advantages that attracted the likes of Sir Russell Coutts and Larry Ellison in the first place, and which still exist.
Like karma, bad press goes a long way.
Now we have replaced sailing with golf — one rich white man’s sport for another rich white man’s sport, no matter the protestations of Kim Swan, professional golfer turned MP turned radio host. One delivered by one side of the political spectrum, the other by the other.
The unease in Sylvan Richards’s voice when trying to make a case for having a go at the PLP for being hypocritical was palpable.
Why? Because it is a good thing that 120 or more professional golfers will be playing in Bermuda in October and November. It is a good thing that half of them will be here for the entire week of October 28 to November 4. It is a good thing that all four days of the main event will be televised on The Golf Channel for five years — each of the 20 days showcasing Port Royal Golf Course in all its finery and the many spectacular sights of Bermuda that never, ever get boring.
If we are lucky, we may just go the way of the Sanderson Farms Championship and graduate after five years from being an alternate tournament to one that can attract the greatest names in golf.
For, make no mistake, unless we endeavour to underwrite hefty appearance fees — our economic status suggests we don’t want to be even entertaining such a notion — the best of the best will not pass up on a World Golf Championship event, even if it is in the Far East, to instead savour our turquoise waters and pink sand beaches right at the start of the shoulder season.
The candidate for funniest moment of the last House of Assembly session — and, as always, there were many — came when 36 tongue-tied MPs were fumbling either over the pronunciation of Tony Finau’s name or just his name, period — “He was in the final group at the Masters” is what DeSilva accurately settled on.
If the world No 14 does indeed find himself in a position where he does not have an automatic invite to the WGC-HSBC Champions, in Shanghai, China, where he finished runner-up last year after a play-off, he would be mightily disappointed. Because that would mean he has still to win a major, still to win a WGC event and has fallen out of the world’s top 50 while not finishing in the top 30 of the FedEx Cup.
That would be a massive backward step for a player who ended 2018 ranked a career-high No 9.
So, no, Minister DeSilva, Tony Finau or anyone of his ilk will not be exchanging a tournament with a $10 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner for one with a $3 million purse and 300 points — not unless the chequebooks are opened.
As stated earlier, we are in no position to be paying top dollar for a star attraction.
What is more likely is that we will host the Cameron Champs of the world, players who are looking still to make their name in the higher echelons of the sport, and a handful of those who truly are on the way down having once touched the heights.
Champ won the Sanderson Farms Championship in 2018, his first title on the PGA Tour. For that he took home a cheque for $792,000. His world ranking improved to 121 after that win and now he is two places lower at 123. The leaderboard was littered with those who are there or thereabouts in the rankings, and it is to be expected that it will be they who fill most of the places in Bermuda.
But, on the plus side, many in that field were players who would be recognisable by local golf fans as stars of the not-so-distant past, such as Hunter Mahan, the former US Ryder Cup player and world No 4 as recently as 2012.
He is ranked No 425 these days but would not look out of place in Bermuda in a few months’ time. Tony Finau, for all Zane DeSilva projects otherwise — and hysterically loudly at that — would, though.
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AbbVie to Acquire Allergan
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | Acquisitions and Mergers , Personnel/Company News , Fillers & Injectables , AbbVie , Allergan
AbbVie Inc. and Allergan plc have entered into a definitive transaction agreement under which AbbVie will acquire Allergan in a cash and stock transaction for a transaction equity value of approximately $63 billion, based on the closing price of AbbVie's common stock of $78.45 on June 24, 2019.
"This is a transformational transaction for both companies and achieves unique and complementary strategic objectives," says Richard A. Gonzalez, chairman and chief executive officer, AbbVie. "The combination of AbbVie and Allergan increases our ability to continue to deliver on our mission to patients and shareholders. With our enhanced growth platform to fuel industry-leading growth, this strategy allows us to diversify AbbVie's business while sustaining our focus on innovative science and the advancement of our industry-leading pipeline well into the future."
Under the terms of the Transaction Agreement, Allergan Shareholders will receive 0.8660 AbbVie Shares and $120.30 in cash for each Allergan Share that they hold, for a total consideration of $188.24 per Allergan Share. The transaction represents a 45 percent premium to the closing price of Allergan's Shares on June 24, 2019.
"This acquisition creates compelling value for Allergan's stakeholders, including our customers, patients and shareholders. With 2019 annual combined revenue of approximately $48 billion, scale in more than 175 countries, an industry-leading R&D pipeline and robust cash flows, our combined company will have the opportunity to make even bigger contributions to global health than either can alone," says Brent Saunders, chairman and chief executive officer, Allergan. "Our fast-growing therapeutic areas, including our world class medical aesthetics, eye care, CNS and gastrointestinal businesses, will enhance AbbVie's strong growth platform and create substantial value for shareholders of both companies."
Upon completion of the transaction, AbbVie will continue to be incorporated in Delaware as AbbVie Inc. and have its principal executive offices in North Chicago, IL, with Richard A. Gonzalez continuing as chairman and chief executive officer. Two members of Allergan's Board, including Brent Saunders, will join AbbVie's Board upon completion of the transaction.
According to AbbVie, the strategic rationale includes:
New growth platforms and leadership positions to diversify and expand revenue base: The combined company will consist of several attractive franchises with leadership positions across immunology, hematologic oncology, medical aesthetics, neuroscience, women's health, eye care and virology. Allergan's product portfolio will be enhanced by AbbVie's commercial strength, expertise and international infrastructure.
Immediate scale and enhanced profitability for AbbVie's growth platform: AbbVie's enhanced growth platform, comprised of growing and durable franchises across highly-attractive therapeutic areas, is expected to grow at a high-single digit annual growth rate well into the next decade, from more than $30 billion in 2020.
Financially attractive with immediate EPS accretion: This transaction is expected to be 10% accretive to adjusted earnings per share over the first full year following the close of the transaction, with peak accretion of greater than 20%.1 ROIC is expected to exceed AbbVie's cost of capital within the first full year.
Significant cash flow generation: The success and scale of the combined commercial business ensures funding capacity and flexibility for simultaneous robust pipeline investment, debt reduction and capital return to shareholders. The combined companies generated $19 billion in operating cash flow in 2018.
In a news release, AbbVie says it anticipates that the Acquisition will provide annual pre-tax synergies and other cost reductions of at least $2 billion in year three while leaving investments in key growth franchises untouched. The synergies and other cost reductions will be a result of optimizing the research and early stage portfolio, and reducing overlapping R&D resources (~50 percent), driving efficiencies in SG&A, including sales and marketing and central support function costs (~40 percent), and eliminating redundancies in manufacturing and supply chain, and leveraging procurement spend (~10 percent). The synergies estimate excludes any potential revenue synergies.
AbbVie is expected to generate significant annual operating cash flow, which will support a debt reduction target of $15 to $18 billion before the end of 2021, while also enabling a continued commitment to Baa2/BBB or better credit rating and continued dividend growth.
It is expected that, immediately after the closing of the Acquisition, AbbVie Shareholders will own approximately 83 percent of AbbVie on a fully diluted basis and the Allergan Shareholders will own approximately 17 percent of AbbVie on a fully diluted basis.
The transaction is subject to the Conditions set out in Appendix III of the Rule 2.5 Announcement, including certain regulatory approvals and approval by Allergan's Shareholders.
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