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300 more patients a week at Worcestershire's hospital compared to 5 years ago
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More than 300 extra patients were admitted to hospital every week at the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust last year compared to five years ago, figures reveal.
Health experts say there is an "urgent need" for more staff to address a surge in demand in the NHS, driven in part by the increasing number of people living with complex long-term conditions.
NHS Digital data shows 155,555 patients were admitted to hospital at the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in 2018-19. That was 16,533 more than during 2014-15 – the equivalent of 318 extra patients every week.
Across England, hospitals had to deal with almost 24,000 additional admissions every week last year compared to 2014-15.
Over the course of the year, staff saw 17.1 million patients, an increase of 8%.
Richard Murray, chief executive of health think tank the King's Fund, said the evidence suggested a decades-old policy of reducing the number of hospital beds had "gone too far", with more beds and increased investment in the community now needed.
He said: "Critically, if the NHS is to open more hospital beds it will need more people to staff them, but the NHS is already in the grips of a major workforce crisis.
The biggest increase at the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was among elective admissions – those arranged in advance – which rose by 17% over the five-year period.
Average waiting times faced by patients across the country for an elective admission were a week longer in 2018-19, rising to 61 days.
At the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, average waits increased from 49 to 82 days.
Dr Rob Harwood, consultants committee chair at the British Medical Association, said underfunding, a lack of beds and chronic staff shortages meant doctors and other NHS staff were being placed under undue pressure.
He said: "All of this means more patients face lengthy waits for treatment with too many now forced to wait for hours in uncomfortable conditions in A&E wards or hospital corridors.
“The Government must get a grip of this crisis, and though MPs have promised more funding, the BMA has been clear that the money pledged will not be enough to make up for years of underinvestment."
The organisation called for 10,000 more beds to ease pressure on frontline services, as well as a 4.1% annual funding increase.
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Some Builders’ Remorse: The Rise and Fall of the Oncology Medical Home
Better outcomes and lower costs—in the long run. But payers were not impressed with the oncology medical home.
Lola Butcher
The rapidly rising cost of cancer care was on every payer’s mind when the buzz started building about a nine-physician oncology practice on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
Since 2004, Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology had been implementing tenets of the patient-centered medical home—patient education, quick access to physicians, triage nurses to help patients manage symptoms—to improve care for its cancer patients.
In 2010, practice leader John Sprandio, MD, began touting the results of all these changes: dramatic reductions in emergency department and hospital utilization—and an estimated overall cost savings of $1 million per physician per year.
Ebullient about what his practice had accomplished and rattling off statistics that backed up the enthusiasm, Sprandio quickly became the hottest ticket in oncology. Conferences wanted him to present his findings; oncologists wanted to know his secrets; and payers wanted to know how they could get those savings from the oncologists in their own networks.
John Sprandio assumed insurers would be happy to pay for the extra services in exchange for the big savings down the road. He found out otherwise.
Sprandio calls his new way of delivering care the “oncology patient-centered medical home,” the oncology version of the primary care patient-centered medical home, a model that uses standards set by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Others use the term “oncology medical home,” eschewing the NCQA terminology and standards, but embracing the medical home concept.
“I credit him with pioneering the model,” says Lindsay Conway, the top oncology expert at the Advisory Board. More than that, she admired the way Sprandio tirelessly proselytized about the oncology medical home’s potential for lowering costs and improving outcomes.
But there’s a catch. At every opportunity, Sprandio pointed out that running an oncology medical home practice is much more expensive in the short term than traditional cancer care and, at least initially, providers would be footing the bill. Patients needed to be educated to recognize symptoms early and to call a triage nurse for advice. The nurses need to be trained to provide evidence-based guidance that adheres to specific protocols. Practices need to provide many services—support in making and keeping appointments for tests and treatments, same-day access to a physician for evaluation of symptoms, extensive patient education, and telephone support. And there’s a need, of course, for more sophisticated information technology to support data collection.
But Sprandio was able to show that there was a real return on the investment. After his practice standardized its approach to educating patients about how to stay hydrated, fewer patients sought emergency department and inpatient care for dehydration. The practice’s standardized management of outpatient diarrhea cut the number of admissions for treatment of Clostridium difficile enteritis by more than half in five years.
The benefit of fewer emergency department and hospital inpatient visits to payers is obvious. So obvious, thought Sprandio, he assumed insurers would be happy to pay for the extra services in exchange for the big savings down the road.
“I thought within a couple years, we would have a different payment model,” he says. “Honestly, I thought by the end of 2011, we would have achieved that.”
So did a lot of other people. Many oncology practices scrambled to adopt the innovative model of care, and the federal government launched an oncology medical home demonstration project with seven practices across the country.
It was not to be. Sprandio eventually did get an oncology medical home contract with Aetna, but he terminated it after a year, declaring it a dud.
By that point, it was becoming clear that an oncology medical home payment model was not the solution to America’s cancer cost crisis. A working oncology medical home contract requires some delayed gratification: Insurers pay for extra services that oncologists deliver in the hope that the investment will save them money in the long run. But that, says Conway, has been a nonstarter with commercial payers.
Today, Sprandio—and a lot of other people—are back at the drawing board, in search of a good way to pay for cancer care.
An important test
While Sprandio was developing the oncology medical home concept in the Philadelphia area, Barbara McAneny, MD, the CEO of New Mexico Cancer Center, a large multidisciplinary oncology practice, was on a similar mission in Albuquerque. The biggest private payer in her market did not bite, but a much more important payer—CMS—was intrigued.
Like everyone else, CMS leaders believe payment reform that incentivizes oncologists to improve the value of their care is essential to reigning in unsustainable cancer care costs. The National Cancer Institute projects that cancer-related costs will grow to at least $158 billion in 2020, a 27% increase from 2010 based on population changes alone. If treatment costs increase at the rate of the recent past, the tally may reach $173 billion.
In 2012, CMS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the federal government’s incubator of health care delivery experiments, awarded a $19.8 million grant to Innovative Oncology Business Solutions, a company McAneny created to manage the grant and implement the practice model in seven practices across the country.
The PMPM needed to sustain an oncology medical home practice varies by geography; in Albuquerque, where Barbara McAneny of the New Mexico Cancer Center practices, it is at least $220.
The Community Oncology Medical Home (COME HOME) grant funded a three-year demonstration. The goal was to prove that, by using patient-centered medical home concepts, oncology practices could improve outcomes, enhance patient care experiences, and significantly reduce costs of care.
The seven COME HOME practices implemented extensive patient education and medication management counseling, team-based care, around-the-clock access via telephone triage and extended clinic hours, and on-site or near-site imaging and laboratory testing. They used clinical pathways to guide decisions for imaging, pathology, molecular diagnostics, and all aspects of treatment, and they were supported with access to real-time data that allowed them to monitor quality, pathway adherence, and utilization at the provider level.
At the end of three years, the seven practices had reduced the rate of hospital admissions by 12.5%, emergency department visits by 6.6%, and the overall cost of care by 7.2%.
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Then the demonstration ended. The COME HOME practices continued to have the expense of the medical home infrastructure. But there was no payer support in sight, even though commercial insurers benefited from the lower costs.
“We were losing $50,000 a month on salaries so we scaled back some of our evening hours and some of the weekend hours,” McAneny says. “I kept talking to our local health plans, saying ‘You know I’m dying out here. I can’t keep this up for you unless you help me out.’”
Payers balk
It will never be known what results the COME HOME practices might have generated if the CMMI demonstration had continued on. Adopting the patient-centered medical home model and continuously fine-tuning a practice for better performance is a long, incremental process.
Sprandio’s practice was just getting started at the end of three years; by the end of the sixth year, it reported a 78% reduction in the use of emergency departments and a 50% reduction in hospitalizations.
That performance turned heads, but payers needed proof that the oncology medical home concept could be replicated and sustained. That made results from the COME HOME demonstration all the more important because they would come from seven markets across the country. And while a 7.2% reduction in the overall cost of care would seem to add up to real money, payers were unimpressed. “The results they were able to achieve in terms of quantified improvement in care quality and patient experience and overall value were kind of underwhelming—at least not sufficient to get commercial payers excited about spending more money to fund this different model of care,” says Conway at the Advisory Board.
Getting payers excited would have been difficult regardless. A patient-centered medical home contract typically includes a per-member, per-month (PMPM) management fee to help a medical practice pay for the additional staff, data analysis, and care coordination. In addition, practices are typically eligible for shared savings at the end of a performance period. When it comes to cancer care, the idea of a PMPM fee makes health care purchasers blanch. Cancer only affects about 1% of covered lives, but commercial insurers shell out about 11% of their total annual expenditures on cancer care. While insurance executives might recognize the payoff of supporting a practice’s adoption of medical home amenities, the employers who sponsor self-funded plans do not want to hear it.
When plan sponsors “look at their oncology spend, the idea that they’re going to spend more on a promise of return is a tough sell,” says Michael Kolodziej, MD, of Flatiron.
“My experience has been that when you go into those plan-sponsor meetings, and they look at their oncology spend, the idea that they’re going to spend more on a promise of return is a tough sell,” says Michael Kolodziej, MD, national medical director for managed care strategy at Flatiron Health, a technology and data analytics company that focuses on oncology.
He was national medical director for oncology strategy at Aetna when it launched an oncology medical home contracting program in 2013. Nearly 70% of Aetna’s commercial business is self-insured. Because sponsors of self-insured plans would not go along, the only patients eligible for the oncology medical home model—and the only patients that Aetna could pay a management fee for—were those who were in a fully insured product. “Eventually, we decided to abandon the management fee because it just wasn’t working,” he says.
Although there are a few oncology medical home contracts still in play, payers and providers in general see the concept as another example of how vexing payment reform for cancer care is turning out to be.
A decade ago, it seemed clear that the huge costs of emerging chemotherapy agents were the primary culprit in the rapid rise of cancer treatment costs. But a three-year episode-of-care pilot sponsored by UnitedHealthcare punched a hole in that theory. The five practices in the pilot reduced total medical costs for patients with breast, colon, and lung cancer by 34%—even though the cost of chemotherapy for the episode group was more than double that of a control group.
That study was not designed to parse out exactly where the savings were generated, but the authors’ analysis did show a statistically significant decrease in hospital use by patients treated in the pilot practices. That finding piqued the thinking of the cancer care community.
Since then, attention has turned to emergency department visits and hospitalization as a driver of high cancer care costs that can be controlled. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) estimates 27% of total medical costs for cancer care in 2014 were for inpatient hospital stays. The oncology care delivery model has been proven to reduce hospital use—but who’s going to pay for it to be implemented?
Still, McAneny and others hope that oncology practices will adopt the oncology medical home delivery model, even though payer support is iffy at best. The American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last year licensed the COME HOME name, its assessment protocol and implementation tools from McAneny’s effort and is marketing them to its members.
Unlike patient-centered medical home contracts for primary care, which may pay practices as little as $10 PMPM, the oncology medical home model is much more expensive. Based on her experience with the COME HOME demonstration, McAneny says the PMPM needed to sustain an oncology medical home practice varies by geography; in Albuquerque, where she practices, it is at least $220.
When the demonstration ended, CMS announced its Oncology Care Model, a five-year payment initiative that grew out of the COME HOME demonstration (see “Remodeling: Can the Oncology Care Model Work When Medical Homes Haven’t?”).
The new program borrows heavily from the oncology medical home payment system, but adds performance targets that McAneny thinks are unrealistic: “The amount of payment that they are giving is not going to be enough to both pay for the data requirements they are putting on the practices and leave any money left over for practice transformation,” she says.
Her New Mexico Cancer Center practice is participating in the OCM, but, unless changes are made, McAneny worries that the program may mean the end of the oncology medical home concept. And that may mean more cancer patients spending time in the hospital, suffering from poorly controlled symptoms, and treated in the most expensive way possible.
Lola Butcher is a health care business and policy writer based in Missouri.
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REVIEW: Battlecats Vol. 1
Battlecats is the first comic released from Mad Cave Studios, a new indie comics publisher driven by madness to create uniquely compelling and diverse comics. Battlecats is written by Mad Cave CEO Mark London with art by Andy King and Michael Camelo and colors by Alejandro Giraldo Julian Gonzalez. Check out my full review of Battlecats Vol. 1: The Hunt for the Dire Beast after the jump.
Disclaimer: I received advance copies of the individual issues collected in Battlecats Vol. 1 courtesy of Mad Cave Studios.
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Battlecats is an original, medieval fantasy comic created by Mark London. The story is set in Valderia, a majestic world shaped by its rich history and diverse feline cultures. Led by Kelthan of Stormholt, the Battlecats are an elite team of warriors sworn to protect the throne against the forces of evil bent on destroying Valderia’s traditions and ideal. Now a new enemy is rising, an evil army is being forged like nothing the world has seen before. With them this new evil brings doubt upon the crown, but worst of all, it brings the power of a menacing god. Will Valderia be able to survive a war that no one was prepared for? This is only the beginning…
Like all good fantasy adventures before it, Battlecats opens with a quest. An honest to god RPG quest with completion requirements and everything. That’s when I knew I was gonna love it: the first page. Battlecats isn’t hiding what it’s supposed to be right from the title.
The first volume follows the titular fantasy party of anthropomorphic cats sent on a quest by their king to slay a great beast. At first, that’s all we needed to know. Each of the main cats is immediately recognizable as a standard RPG class - the fighter, the mage, the scout, etc. With all of the characters easily developed in a matter of seconds, this premiere issue doesn’t waste time with exposition and gets right to the action. Blood begins to fly right away and it becomes clear that this is not your little brother’s cat comic.
After getting their tails handed to them in a vicious battle, the Battlecats endure a cave in and take on an army of yeti monsters. With every action scene, we see that the creative team really knows how to have fun with their characters.
The first two issues were more or less “the Battlecats fighting people” but started in the third we got a lot of different stuff thrown at us. First, we check in with our villains sitting in a cave decorated with skulls - that’s how you know they’re evil. Then we get a nice moment between Kelthen, the leader of the Battlecats, and Vaela, the team’s mage. Then we finally meet the quest giver - the King - and it appears this simple “slay the monster” mission is not what it seems. The publishers had compared this series to Game of Thrones and I didn’t see it until this point.
The fourth issue is where the creativity in the series really shines. Before then, Battlecats was Thundercats meats Dungeons & Dragons with a bit of Game of Thrones and this issue added some Magic: The Gathering vibes as we took a break from the main story to unload some highly imaginative backstory on the world of Valderia and the Battlecats. After being thrown into an unfamiliar world with a cast of strangers, it was nice to see a bit more of where they come from. We learn some of their ancient mythology, the history of their lands, and find out how the Battlecats came to be.
The Battlecats’ first quest comes to a close in the fifth and final issue of this Volume, but the story is far from over. We didn’t tie a nice bow on it or walk off into the sunset ready for a new adventure. It’s a real turning point that left me ready for the next one.
Battlecats is more than just bloody, fantasy action. It’s is a story with complex characters, beautiful environments, deep mythologies, and an unfolding mystery. There is so much creativity in every panel and the artwork helps craft a colorful world. This is a world I want to see many more stories from. Seriously guys - pick this one up!
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LONDON, Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- UK-based Stenn, a leading provider of cross-border trade finance, has closed a significant upsizing to its asset-backed financing programme. Stenn has now invested well in excess of $1bn in support of its clients' global trade activities.
The latest funding round doubles Stenn's credit capacity and enables it to provide a greater number of businesses with faster access to trade financing than the traditional banking sector. Stenn currently serves over 70 countries and aims to expand to 120 in total, enabling it to support territories contributing 90% of global GDP. The firm already has 17 offices positioned around the world, headquartered from its base in London.
Founded in 2015, Stenn provides agile and flexible financing to global buyers and suppliers, from a range of industries under-served by the traditional banking industry, helping to unlock capital in the supply chain. In this way, Stenn aims to address the $1.5 trillion 'trade finance gap' identified by the International Chamber of Commerce as the unmet need for global trade financing.
Greg Karpovsky, Founder of Stenn, commented: "Bank support for international commerce is limited. The trade war is also having a disconcerting impact both on global business confidence and general market conditions. In this environment Stenn allows companies to adjust their strategies without being constrained by funding. Doubling our credit capacity will enable us to help greater numbers of businesses with access to fast and flexible cross-border trade finance. We have experienced rapid growth since we launched in 2015 and are excited to continue on this trajectory."
Chris Rigby, Global Head of Finance & Capital Markets at Stenn, commented: "Building on the completion of Stenn's inaugural receivables securitisation in July 2019, we are delighted to have secured a doubling of the programme's capacity within just four months. At the same time, we have succeeded in broadening our investor base with top-tier financial institutions and have created an efficient and innovative financing architecture to support the rapid future growth of the company.
"The support of our financing partners Crayhill Capital Management, Natixis, NN Investment Partners and, most recently, M&G Investments has been instrumental in helping us achieve this outcome and furthers our aim to be a leading global alternative finance company."
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Portland, OR - June 30, 2018 - MotoSport.com continues their summer tradition of giving away an upgraded dirt bike or motorcycle to one lucky winner along with all the gear needed to ride.
MotoSport.com has upped the ante in their annual bike contest this year partnering with Yamaha and giving away a 2018 Yamaha YZ450F or a 2018 Yamaha YZF-R6. Both models have been stripped and upgraded from front to back with aftermarket performance parts available through MotoSport. Additionally, the one lucky winner also receives a full set of riding gear and perhaps the biggest twist yet - a day with #TheGuysThatRide on the new bike.
"We have pulled out all the stops for the Ultimate MotoSport.com Sweepstakes," said Darren Green, Director of Marketing for MotoSport. "This year we wanted to do something different and really special for the winner with an all-expenses paid trip to Portland for a day and some ride time on their new bike with employees of MotoSport."
The ultimate sweepstakes winner chooses either the YZ450F or the YZF-R6 to keep and then travels to Portland, OR for a tour of MotoSport's home office before spending the day riding with employees wearing their new riding gear. MotoSport will also ship the bike to the winner's residence after the riding day.
The Ultimate MotoSport.com Sweepstakes brings hundreds of thousands of entries from all over the country and this year will be no exception. In fact, organizers expect to receive the biggest number of entries in the history of the annual sweepstakes and while potential winners are encouraged to follow the rules and enter as often as possible, even just one entry can be the winner as has happened in year's past.
The Ultimate MotoSport.com Sweepstakes starts June 30 and runs for 14 weeks. Each week, a video-release details the latest and greatest upgrade completed at MotoSport headquarters by MotoSport staff culminating with a final reveal of the two overhauled bikes. Follow along as MotoSport builds these two amazing bikes featuring a new key performance upgrade from the best manufacturers in the business.
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March 16, 2017 – U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) Makes Groundbreaking News in Selection of New Commandant
In an email to USAFA staff on March 16, 2017, current USAFA Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson announced the Secretary of the Air Force has nominated Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin as the next USAFA Commandant. Of particular import to this selection is the fact that Brig. Gen. Goodwin is gay and married to her wife Kelly with which she has two children. While this monumental decision is an obvious national move forward in the civil rights of many service members, MRFF questions the limited publicity this decision has generated from U.S. Air Force leadership. MRFF’s simple question for USAFA and U.S. Air Force leadership is why are they not publicly acknowledging this groundbreaking selection of a gay, female new Commandant?
In any event, MRFF praises a decision that comes after 13 years of MRFF President/Founder Mikey Weinstein’s “warfare” with USAFA over civil rights and church-state separation issues at USAFA. This praise comes in light of MRFF’s past actions on behalf of clients to stand up against USAFA’s glaring examples of religiously based homophobia such as the hiring of Dr. Mike Rosebush as “Chief, Coaching Development” at USAFA’s Center for Character and Leadership Development who has spent his life promoting and applying the universally-debunked and pseudoscientific treatment known as “reparative” or “conversion” therapy. MRFF also exposed USAFA’s use in a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) of a homophobic website as a source for Jewish holiday information. These particular actions led MRFF to hold the very first gay rights public protest, near the Academy’s South Gate entrance in March/2013 then later post a billboard near the entrance of USAFA in November/2013 exposing and denouncing USAFA’s religiously based homophobic actions in hiring Rosebush.
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Olympian Aaron Tran’s Secret Weapon Is Probably in Your Fridge Right Now
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by Men's Journal
From early wake-up calls and four-hour practice sessions to a rigorous weight training regimen, speed skater Aaron Tran does a lot to stay in Olympic-level shape. But there’s one thing he does every day that even normal humans can add to their routines: he drinks O Organics® milk, exclusively available at Safeway and Albertsons stores.
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics by the Numbers
“Milk has always been an integral part of my diet since I was a child,” said the 21-year-old short track star, who’s with Team USA in PyeongChang right now. (His next event, the first heat of the men’s 500m race, will take place at 3:45 pm EST on Tuesday, February 20.) As a Team Milk athlete, Tran makes sure to get plenty of calcium every day, usually with cereal or oatmeal at breakfast. “But I’ll add a glass of O Organics® milk to my morning meal if it isn’t cereal or oatmeal,” he said. “It provides the necessary nutrients my body needs, and it tastes great.”
The Federal Way, WA native shares a hometown with fellow Olympians JR Celski and Apolo Ohno, but the athletic challenges of speed skating are what drew him to the ice. “The combination of speed, power, agility, timing, precision, and strategy is what intrigued me… and what has kept me loving the sport,” he said.
But the ice isn’t the only place where he’s hyper-competitive and hyper-successful: Tran is also an accomplished gamer. “I still like to play video games a lot with my friends or by myself, and I am in the top .6% of the world in League of Legends,” he said, referring to the online multiplayer game. And luckily, that’s an arena where Tran can still win big—without having to don a helmet or a cut-proof skin suit.
From left to right: John-Henry Krueger, Jessica Kooreman, J.R. Celski, Maame Biney, Thomas Insuk Hong, Lana Gehring, Ryan Pivirotto and Aaron Tran posing for a photo during the 2018 U.S. Speedskating Short Track Olympic Team Trials at the Utah Olympic Oval on December 17, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Harry How/Getty Images
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No threat detected when Hazmat team responds to…
No threat detected when Hazmat team responds to Disneyland after employees smell chlorine
By Emily Rasmussen | erasmussen@scng.com | Long Beach Press-Telegram
A Hazmat team found no threat after they responded to Disneyland early Sunday morning when some employees detected a chemical odor, according to Anaheim and park officials.
A handful of castmembers noticed the smell of chlorine at Rivers of America at about 4 a.m. and called the Anaheim Fire Department out of an abundance of caution, a Disney official said.
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Anaheim Fire and rescue responded to Disneyland regarding a chemical odor related to the water treatment, Anaheim Police Department spokesman Shane Carringer said.
Officials examined 15 people at the scene and one person was transported out of caution, according to Carringer.
“The transported patient complained of dizziness,” he said, but no shortness of breath.
Anaheim Fire officials tested the area and found no chemical presence, including zero chlorine in the air, Carringer said.
There was no impact to the parks and operations were planned as normal, the Disney official said.
Emily Rasmussen
Emily covers education and development for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. A native of Long Beach, Emily is an alumna of the Cal State Long Beach Journalism Department. Prior to joining the Press-Telegram, Emily was city editor of The Capistrano Dispatch in San Juan Capistrano, a contributing writer for the Orange County Register and the news editor for The Edge in Long Beach.
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Comedy Central Strategic Opportunities - November 2008
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STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES
Comedy ranks among the top 10 cablers for the 18-34 demographic, and mainly with a mix of their original series, stand-up and sketch, not off-net acquisitions like most of the other cable networks.
Sketch, stand-up, reality.
Comedy over the past year or so has actively been buying movie packages from many of the big studio distributors and it doesn't look like they are slowing down anytime soon.
PROGRAM SUBMISSION PROCESS:
The network does not accept any unsolicited material. You must be represented by an agent, attorney or production company. There are two programming divisions that accept submissions both on the east coast and the west coast offices. There is no e-mail submission process.
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Comedy Central has established a new business division aimed at buttressing its position in the world of performance. Comedy Central Live Entertainment, is a new business unit concentrating on the live comedy industry encompassing stand-up tours, comedy events and performance DVD's/CD's. In addition through strategic partnerships, its will increase Comedy's visibility on the festival circuit. The network is looking to increase its efforts and maximize live performance exposure and revenue across already established business lines.
Comedy which like TBS keeps its entire focus on comedy, has two series in production for 2009: "Krod Mandoon & the Flaming Sword of Fire," a satire of fantasy adventures like "Lord of the Rings," and a sketch-comedy half-hour called "Important Things With Demetri Martin." Like so many other cable networks in record numbers are launching their own comedies out of sheer necessity because there are so few comedies being scheduled by the broadcast networks. Since the late 1990s, reality shows have steadily displaced comedies on the broadcast side, and many broadcast comedy writers have shifted to cable.
Comedy Central and The New York Comedy Festival announced a multi-year partnership deal, giving the five-day comedy showcase a national television partner for its fifth iteration. The festival will feature a variety of top-tier comedians including Frank Caliendo, Louis C.K., Craig Ferguson, Carlos Mencia, Joel McHale, B.J. Novak, Tracy Morgan, Brian Regan, Sarah Silverman and Katt Williams. The multi-year national partnership will include producing an on-air special shot at the Festival which will premiere in early 2009, as well as digital media support and other content opportunities.
Comedy's strategy of having young male demographics as their primary audience has helped them for potential growth. Comedy is on a roll and focusing on the future by securing top talent and development deals. Projects in development run the gamut from short-form and sketch/variety to scripted narrative and animation starring a cross-section of top comedic talent. Sketch comedies and animation are on tap for Comedy as part of its new slate of original pilots.
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Zakk Wylde: these are the 10 guitarists that blew my mind
By Amit Sharma 2018-02-15T10:18:11.45Z
“Now at 51, I still get as inspired from him as I did when I was 15”
(Image credit: Mark Horton/WireImage/Getty)
“I’m having some Odinforce Blend coffee right now, getting ready to fondle my man-root and then go have my anal bleaching before the big rock show tonight.”
Clearly it’s business as usual for Zakk Wylde. MusicRadar greets the Black Label Society/Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and provides the right credentials to ensure we are indeed who we say we are.
“How could I forget you?” comes the reply. “You’re my steroid dealer. I learned that from both Ozzy and Jimmy Page, you’re the guy to go to. I’ve never looked back since.”
Here’s the new advertisement for the Royal Albert Hall: ‘Avenue rich in history, rich in legendary artists… that all ended the day BLS came to town and ruined everything
As he gears up to name the 10 guitarists that shaped his grizzled sound honed over years of hard graft, the pentatonic-slaying viking berserker is in high spirits - he’ll be setting sail for British shores this April, headlining London’s Royal Albert Hall for the very first time in his career.
The historic house of legends will soon lose its long-established reputation of prestige and decorum, promises Wylde…
“Here’s the new advertisement for the Royal Albert Hall: ‘Avenue rich in history, rich in legendary artists… that all ended the day BLS came to town and ruined everything. A winning institution, a winning tradition… well, not any more!’ The people that own it must be wondering whose idea was it to book these clowns in their venue, and whoever it was, they’ve definitely been fired!”
(Image credit: Justin Reich)
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He roars with laughter, as do his bandmates in the background.
“Honestly, though, it’s a huge honour,” comes the serious answer once the chuckles subside.
“Zeppelin played there, Clapton, all our favourites - so it’s a big deal. I guess it’s kinda similar for British bands when they come and play Madison Square Garden. This tour marks our 20th anniversary as a band and actually 30 years since first playing with the boss. What we’ll do is have a big birthday cake with our name on it saying, ‘You’ve got 30 more years to catch the Stones - get to work!’”
Along with new music from Black Label Society, returning to the Ozzy Osbourne band, touring with Zakk Sabbath - his own tribute to “The Boss” - he’s also been keeping busy running Wylde Audio, a move which brought an end to many fruitful years with Gibson and Marshall…
“We have the Blood Eagles - those are the newest models and next line of fiddles we’ll be putting out,” he reveals.
“I’ve been truly blessed with being with Marshall and Gibson, the two companies that all my heroes were with. I couldn’t have been treated any better - they were all great people I worked with.
“But it was like playing for Manchester United, then going on to coaching for another team, then general manager elsewhere, the only next logical step would be team owner. We’d buy a team, whichever one is for sale. It’s simply a case of taking the same ethics, quality and craftsmanship and moving it somewhere new.”
On the subject of legacy and lineage, the legendary gunslinger talks us through the 10 guitarists that blew his mind…
Black Label Society tour the UK and Ireland in April:
5 Apr UK, London - Royal Albert Hall
7 Apr Ireland, Dublin - Tivoli
8 Apr UK, Belfast - Limelight
(Image credit: Waring Abbott/Getty Images)
1. Frank Marino
“Hearing the Mahogany Rush live record and then his solo stuff like The Power Of Rock And Roll and that Juggernaut record, I realised everything is there with his playing.
His technique and attack is always staggering and mesmerising
“We’re all inspired by different players - the big influence for Frank was Jimi Hendrix - who was like the Model T of that playing, before Frank turned it into a Formula One race car.
“His technique and attack is always staggering and mesmerising. As fast as he plays, it’s always really musical and he can take it real far outside of the box in regards to real jazz, like that Joe Pass kind of playing. Not just fusion, but actual bebop… he can swim around in that world as well, not just mess around in it.
“To this day, he’s still a huge one for me. I still listen to him pretty much every day. Now at 51, I still get as inspired from it as I did when I was 15.”
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2. John McLaughlin
“Talking about the pentatonic scale, Frank and John were two guys my guitar teacher Leroy [Wright] turned me onto. Before them, everything was kinda black and white - those two players turned it into colour using more possibilities and combinations delivered with mind-blowing technique.
“Everyone assumes pentatonic scales are simple and just caveman stuff… and it is a basic scale, which I think is what makes it great.
“All of those great rock riffs you love, they were all pentatonic. If someone said I had to write a record with just those notes, without any chromatics or flat fives, I’d be like, ‘Sure, let’s go for it.’ It’s a basic formula. I could build pretty much anything on it.”
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3. Al Di Meola
“With Al, it was more diatonic than pentatonic, with a lot of strong muting and clever phrasing. And I enjoyed his music - that’s what everyone forgets when they only talk about the solos - Al’s an amazing writer as well. So I like listening to the whole records rather than focusing on the leads…
“He had such a great tone through a rhythmic sense; it was like he was a drummer at the same time. Those rhythmic counts are a big part of his style.
“Every single one of these guys we’ve talked about so far - regardless of who might play fastest or whatever - the minute you hear them, you automatically know who it is. And Al has definitely always had his own sound.”
(Image credit: Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty)
4. Randy Rhoads
“Randy was incredibly huge on me. When Ozzy first went solo, I’d just started playing guitar. We figured anyone playing for Ozzy must be cool, and Randy made it feel so magical at the time. He was so inspiring and fresh, the whole nine yards. Listening to those two records transports me right back to being 15 years old.
Randy made it cool to know scales and have an idea about what you’re doing
“There’s a certain way Randy constructed solos and wrote his own legacy. Besides the amazing chops and how clean he was, it came down to what he wrote - that’s what will always be your legacy.
“He made learning fun for me - I realised it’s cool to know scales and have an idea about what you’re doing. That’s what I took away from Randy: he made learning cool and you should want to learn more. He had his own tone, vibrato and made everything so exciting.
“Even when you hear our latest record, he’s still in there with me. I’ll sit there and write a solo after listening to the backing track and start creating. I’ll find a beginning, take it somewhere else I’m happy with and keep on doing that until it’s ready to be recorded.”
(Image credit: Ross Halfin)
5. Tony Iommi
“Listen to any Black Label Society album, it’s got a Sabbathy sound - so naturally Tony is one of the main bases of our soup!
I think the Mount Rushmore of riffs would be Lord Iommi, Pope Page and the dark force that is Ritchie Blackmore
“I think the Mount Rushmore of riffs would be Lord Iommi, Pope Page and the dark force that is Ritchie Blackmore. They are like the Bach, Beethoven and Mozart of riffs - the guys that laid the foundation of the music we play.
“I love his lead guitar playing, too. In the Ozzy years, he would beautifully construct solos like in Snowblind, then there’s the unaccompanied stuff like Wicked World which was just shreddin’ plus the stuff with Dio on Heaven And Hell or Mob Rules. He had this knack for creating solos that were memorable and fast.
“So it’s important to remember he’s great for that as well as all the insane, monumental riffs he wrote. It’s amazing to create a style, but to create a genre of music? That’s pretty mind-blowing. They created that sound: a bit bluesy, with a bit of punk aggression, but super-heavy.”
(Image credit: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty)
6. Jimmy Page
“Every side of Jimmy Page has been massive for me, from his writing and production to the playing. Count all the memorable solos and riffs he’s been responsible for, it’s quite incredible. Listen to the phrasing on Since I’ve Been Loving You - the album version is amazing but the live recording from How The West Was Won is just unbelievable.
“On that, the solos from No Quarter, The Song Remains The Same or Stairway To Heaven are really special, where he’s just improv-ing. He also did Bron-Yr-Aur and all that acoustic stuff - so, seriously, when you look at the amount he brought to Zeppelin, it was all slammin’. He’d use everything from heavy blues and folk to the Indian-type sounds of Kashmir…
“He’s just such an impressive mix of everything and it worked. His vision was a big part of that guitar playing; he could see things to create, and that’s another reason why he’s been a massive influence on me.”
(Image credit: Joby Sessions/Future)
7. Robin Trower
“Robin Trower has to be in this list, for sure. Like Frank Marino, he’s another guitarist hugely inspired by Hendrix but he always did it in his own version, with his own take on it.
“Once again, it comes down to the songs - I love the guy’s voice and writing style. And he’s still doing it; the last two records he put out were phenomenal… I never get tired of hearing him play.
“Even talking about your favourite guitar players never gets old! I have all these guys literally up on my walls in The Black Vatican [home studio] - just like my bedroom when I was 15 years old. The only difference is now the pictures are in frames rather than just taped to the wall.”
(Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
8. Jimi Hendrix
“As far as his live solos, listen to the version of Machine Gun at the Fillmore East with the Band Of Gypsys… that’s beyond mind-blowing. I’ve always loved the sound of those voicings… on our new album there’s a track called The Day That Heaven Had Gone Away which was really inspired by those chords.
“Like him, I barre a chord and use hammer-ons and pull-offs to make it more interesting than your normal barre chord. That’s a huge influence on me; listen to Wind Cries Mary or Little Wing - the way he’d voice chords was always its own thing.
“So whenever you hear someone else doing it, you always think, ‘Ah, that’s Hendrixy!’ Once again, his lasting legacy is more than just the screaming solos; it’s the great songs he wrote, plus his voice. It came down to what he wrote - that’s why we’re still sat here talking about him…”
(Image credit: GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty)
9. Dickey Betts
“There’s one solo on our new record, it’s on the song The Only Words, and it has this whole Dickey Betts universe of guitar playing about it. Like some of the other guys in this list, he was very musical with pentatonics.
“To be honest, I’d say all that classic Allman Brothers stuff like Ramblin’ Man or Melissa carries his signature trademark - he just has this certain sound like no-one else.”
(Image credit: Rob Verhorst/Redferns)
10. Albert Lee
“This list could go on and on and on - we haven’t even got to Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth or Uli Jon Roth. But as my final choice, I’d have to go with Albert Lee. He’s one of the greatest country guitarists of all time… from England, haha!
“All that fingerpicking I learned from studying his videos. He was always so musical despite it being an endless stream of ideas, yet it’s easy to hear how clean all those banjo rolls were.
“All that chicken pickin’ is a whole other world of guitar playing, and the difference is like land and ocean - this whole new realm of ideas!”
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'Why everyone should stop talking about the BAFTAs and talk about the Visionary Honours awards instead'
By Emily Prescott
The Visionary Honours awards (Image: Emily Prescott)
Why are we still talking about the weekend’s BAFTAs when the Visionary Honours awards should really be the favourite?
Sir Lenny Henry hosted the Visionary Honours evening on Friday (February 8), Professor Green and Rag’n’Bone Man gave a special performance,and Nelson Mandela’s grandson made a speech as all the profits were donated to Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund.
The awards celebrated entertainment, culture and media which inspires positive change, whereas the BAFTAs has a long history of not celebrating diversity. In 2018, a report found 94 per cent of all BAFTA film award nominees have been white.
Sir Lenny Henry, when introducing the evening in the same building as the BAFTAs, nodded to the questionable iconography: “Here we are at the fantastic BAFTA building.
"Where better to help people from less affluent backgrounds than an organisation with a mascot that’s a giant face made of gold.”
To be fair, the winners at this year's BAFTA film awards were not all pale, male and stale. The Mexican film Roma won best film, while Olivia Coleman won best actress and Rami Malek won best actor for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
But we need to turn the spotlight on this new award ceremony.
Here I am pictured with Professor Green (Image: Emily Prescott)
Ten awards were won at the Visionary Honours. To name a few, Black Panther was chosen as film of the year, Doctor Who, which currently stars the first ever female lead Jodie Whittaker, won TV show of the year and Kevin Hines accepted an award for his film The Ripple Effect, which discusses suicide and the power of stories and hope.
Chidera Eggerue, who is known for her online campaign #SaggyBoobsMatter, won an award for her book What A Time To Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide To Why You Are Already Enough.
Former American first lady Michelle Obama received the award for Most Inspiring Person of the Year while the musical Hamilton also scooped awards in its categories.
Producer Sarah Gough and journalist Krishnan Guru Murthy accepted an award for their powerful new podcast, Ways To Change The World.
Meanwhile, a special Legacy Honour Award was given posthumously to Nelson Mandela.
When Professor Green accepted his award for the song Photographs he said: “I’m not good accepting awards, I never know what to say. I’ve never had media training, neither has Liam Neeson apparently!”
Sadly, the cancellation of Neeson’s movie premiere following controversial racial remarks received more media attention than Friday night’s star-studded and uplifting event.
The BAFTA film awards evening is obviously exciting: Coleman is fantastic and Malek is extraordinarily talented. But the most exciting win for BAFTA this week is that they hosted the Visionary Honours. It's just a shame no one noticed.
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If You Thought Pineapple on Pizza Was Bad, Wait Until You Try Kiwi
Denmark proves that it cannot be trusted to make pizza.
People tend to have strong opinions about pizza, and no pizza debate inspires fiery takes and near-fistfights like the question of whether or not pineapple is a legitimate topping. It’s such a hot topic that Iceland’s president had to publicly apologize after floating the idea of banning pineapple on pizza in 2018.
But if you steadfastly believe that no fruit of any kind belongs on a pizza, then a recent bit of unfortunate news will have you pining for the days when pineapple was the only topping you had to worry about. That’s because a viral Reddit post of a kiwi pizza from a Danish pizzeria has been making the rounds, and this thing looks horrifying.
I have can now say I have witnessed hell@DaddyWarpig pic.twitter.com/WjC48p9Y3U
— Ranba_Ral (@Ranba_Ral) January 12, 2020
Maybe it’s because they couldn’t live farther away from where they’re cultivated and don’t know any better, but it’s so strange that the people of Denmark believe tropical fruit has a place on pizza. Is it that kiwis and pineapples exclusively shipped to pizzerias in Scandinavia and this is the only way for locals to try exotic fruits? I’m truly baffled as to how this could’ve come about.
Fittingly given the intensity of the pineapple debate, reactions on Reddit were mixed. “On behalf of Denmark, I sincerely apologize for this abomination,” says one commenter. But the most upvoted reaction admits that “this particular pizza looks bad, but I kinda want to try the combo.” Other commenters believe it wouldn’t be so bad with a salty element like ham to balance things out, so there’s at least a certain amount of morbid curiosity about kiwi.
If you’ll allow me to indulge in some conspiracy theorizing, I think this is all a ploy by Big Pineapple. They know that if they can shift the topping discourse into more extreme, kiwified territory, suddenly putting some charred pineapple on top of cheese and tomato sauce doesn’t seem quite as weird.
So don’t fall for it if you see kiwi start to show up as a topping option in a part of the world that actually does pizza right (New York, Italy, etc.). Stay woke and skip the tropical fruits. We cannot allow Denmark to reshape our pizza discourse.
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Improving ACH Network Quality - Unauthorized Entry Fee
Rule Status
ACH-Return-Rates-and-the-Case-for-Transparency.pdf
DFI-Checklists-for-Implementation-2015.pdf
Risk-and-Quality-Rules-Fact-Sheet.pdf
This rule is intended to improve ACH Network quality by reducing the incidence of ACH debits that are returned as unauthorized. Under this Rule, an ODFI will pay a fee to the RDFI for each ACH debit that is returned as unauthorized (return reason codes R05, R07, R10, R29 and R51). ODFIs will have an economic incentive to improve the quality of the ACH transactions they originate. RDFIs will be compensated for a portion of the costs they bear for handling unauthorized transactions, and will experience reduced costs due to a reduction in unauthorized transactions over time.
The Rule will not apply initially to international ACH transactions (those bearing the IAT SEC Code). While conceptually the rationale for the Unauthorized Entry Fee applies to IATs, the operational, technical and business process changes that would be necessary to include IAT within the scope of the fee would not be feasible within the implementation time period of the rule. Therefore IATs will not be included initially, but could be added within the scope of the fee at a later date.
The Rule defines a methodology by which Nacha staff will set and review every three years the amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee.
Nacha and the two ACH Operators will arrange for a system to collect and distribute the fees; the charges and credits for these fees will be reflected on a Participation DFI’s statement from its ACH Operator.
The Rule adds a new Section in Article One (General Rules) to establish “Unauthorized Entry Fees.” One subsection establishes the obligation of the ODFI to pay the fees to the respective RDFIs. A second subsection establishes the authority of the Nacha staff, and the methodology used, to determine the specific amounts of the Quality Fees. The Quality Fees will further be defined in Article Eight (Definitions).
This Rule became effective beginning with applicable return entries that have a Settlement Date of October 3, 2016 (a Monday, and the first banking day of the quarter). ODFIs should work with their Originators, if desired, on implementing systems, tools and processes to reduce returns and thereby minimizing fees they incur. ODFIs in particular should note that fees applied to return entries as of October 3, 2016 would relate to forward entries initiated as early as August 1, 2016.
Benefits of the Proposal
All ACH Network participants will experience at least some indirect benefit through higher quality, fewer exceptions, greater customer satisfaction, and lower reputational risk for the ACH Network. Any beneficial impact of the Rule on ACH Network quality should be visible through the monitoring of the return activity covered by the Rule.
While ODFIs will directly bear the costs of the Unauthorized Entry Fees, the existence of the fees should encourage many ODFIs to perform enhanced risk management and monitoring of Originators with high volumes or rates of Entries that result in unauthorized returns. Conceivably, service providers will bring new tools and services to market to enable ODFIs to avoid some fees, and ODFIs might be able to provide new tools and services to Originators (e.g., tools to reduce data entry errors).
RDFIs will directly benefit from the Unauthorized Entry Fees that are passed to them, which will provide a partial cost recovery for externally-imposed costs. Of perhaps greater benefit, any reduction in the number of unauthorized Entries will also directly benefit RDFIs through the direct avoidance of costs that would have been caused by those transactions, including due to unnecessary customer service contacts. In turn, fewer customer service contacts should also positively impact RDFI customer satisfaction.
Receivers will directly benefit from fewer unauthorized entries being posted to their accounts, including the time and effort required to dispute such transactions.
Although Originators will not directly benefit from the Rules, in general all ACH Network participants benefit from a higher quality transaction environment.
Costs to Comply with the Proposal
ODFIs will directly bear the costs of the Unauthorized Entry Fees. Under this Rule, an ODFI will pay a fee of $4.50 to the RDFI for each ACH debit that is returned as unauthorized (return reason codes R05, R07, R10, R29 and R51). Further, ODFIs will have costs to the extent that they work with their Originators to implement systems, processes and tools to lower return rates. ODFIs can avoid the fees, however, by reducing the number of transactions they originate that result in unauthorized returns.
The Rule does not require RDFIs to make any changes to the way in which they handle unauthorized transactions, from the initial customer contact through returning the transaction. Therefore RDFIs will not incur direct costs due to the Rule. RDFIs would be credited for Fees in their settlement accounts. Some RDFIs might have minimal costs to account for fees credited to their accounts, which serve to offset operational costs.
The ACH Operators will likely incur costs to implement a system to assess, collect and disburse the Unauthorized Entry Fees.
Receivers likely will not incur any costs as a result of this Rule.
Originators will likely bear at least some of the costs initially borne by their ODFIs, such as through transaction, returns, and other service fees. Originators can avoid some of these costs, however, by reducing the number of transactions they originate that result in unauthorized returns.
FAQs Section
What is an Unauthorized Entry Fee?
An Unauthorized Entry Fee is a fee paid by an ODFI to the RDFI for certain returns of ACH debit transactions due to a problem with the Receiver’s authorization.
The Rule requires an ODFI to pay a fee to an RDFI for any ACH debit returned due to a reason of unauthorized (return reason codes R05, R07, R10, R29 and R51). International ACH Transactions (IAT) initially will not be covered by the fee, but could be included in the future.
Which Return Reason Codes are covered by the Unauthorized Entry Fee?
The Unauthorized Entry Fee covers Return Reason Codes R05, R07, R10, R29 and R51
Are any SEC Codes not subject to the Unauthorized Entry Fee?
Yes. International ACH Transactions (IAT) initially will not be covered by the fee, but could be included in the future.
Who will set the amount of the fee?
The amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee will be determined by Nacha staff according to an explicit methodology defined in the Rule.
What is the methodology for setting the amount of the fee?
The Rule defines a methodology by which Nacha staff would set and review every three years the amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee. In setting the amount of the fee, Nacha staff will apply the following principles:
Nacha will conduct a representative survey of RDFIs of various types and sizes to determine the expense incurred in handling and returning unauthorized Entries.
The amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee would be set at a level that is less than the weighted average cost determined by such a survey.
The Unauthorized Entry Fee would be set at a level that Nacha staff reasonably believes will provide an incentive for Participating DFIs to improve the quality of ACH processing without unduly discouraging participation in the ACH Network; and
In re-evaluating the amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee, Nacha staff would consider the extent to which the existing fee amount has had an effect on return rates.
What is the amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee?
The amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee will be $4.50 per return.
How will the fees be collected and disbursed?
Nacha and the two ACH Operators will arrange for a system to collect and distribute the fees. The charges and credits for these fees will be reflected on a Participation DFI’s billing statement from its ACH Operator.
When will the fees become effective?
This Rule became effective beginning with applicable return entries that have a Settlement Date of October 3, 2016 (a Monday, and the first banking day of the quarter). ODFIs in particular should note that fees applied to return entries as of October 3, 2016 would relate to forward entries initiated as early as August 3, 2016.
This effective date varies from the standard practice of using the third Friday of September; however, because the ACH Operators will count the covered return entries on a monthly basis and reflect them on a monthly billing statement, in this instance it makes sense to have the Rule become effective on the first business day of the month.
As an ODFI, can I dispute the assessment of a fee?
No. The assessment of a fee is based solely on the return of a debit using one of the applicable Return Reason Codes. There is no provision for challenges to fee assessments, since the payment is based on a simple mathematical application of the per return fee times the number of returns using the applicable Return Reason Codes.
Why should an ODFI be charged a fee if a consumer really authorized the transaction?
This type of consumer fraud does happen among other things, which is a major reason why the Unauthorized Entry Fee will be set at an amount that is lower than RDFIs’ full cost recovery. A partial cost recovery already accounts for the fact that there is some portion of unauthorized returns that is due to consumer fraud.
In addition, an unauthorized return always represents an underlying dispute between an Originator and its customer with which it chooses to do businesses. The RDFI is rarely in the position of being able to prevent such a dispute.
Who will receive the Unauthorized Entry Fee?
The RDFI of the original debit will receive the Unauthorized Entry Fee. Nacha will not receive any portion of the fee.
Will the amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee change over time?
The amount of the Unauthorized Entry Fee will stay the same for the first three years, and then could change. The amount of the fee will be reviewed every three years. The amount of the fee will be published in the Schedule of Fees section of the annual Rulebook.
Will the Unauthorized Entry Fee affect my charges from my ACH Operator?
No. Unauthorized Entry Fees are separate and distinct from charges by an ACH Operator for any product or service that they may provide.
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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
Author:Le Corbusier
Publisher:DOVER
For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 18871965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond ''style,'' to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established ''emotional relationships by means of raw materials.''
The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine,L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the ''mass-production spirit,'' and much else. A principal prophet of the ''modern'' movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the ''International School,'' he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp; Swiss dormitory at the Cité Universitaire, Paris; Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles; and many more.
Le Corbusier brought great passion and intelligence to these essays, which present his ideas in a concise, pithy style, studded with epigrammatic, often provocative, observations: ''American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture.'' ''Architecture is stifled by custom. It is the only profession in which progress is not considered necessary.'' ''A cathedral is not very beautiful . . .'' and ''Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life.''
Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of his own works and other structures he considered important,Towards a New Architecture is indispensable reading for architects, city planners, and cultural historians?but will intrigue anyone fascinated by the wide-ranging ideas, unvarnished opinions, and innovative theories of one of this century's master builders.
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Results of the AGM
Results, 30 August 2013
In Naspers press releases
Cape Town, 30 August 2013 – Naspers Limited (“Naspers”) (JSE: NPN, LSE: NPSN), the 99th annual general meeting (AGM) of Naspers Limited was held this morning, under the chairmanship of Mr Ton Vosloo, in the Naspers Centre at 40 Heerengracht, Cape Town, South Africa.
Shareholders approved all the ordinary and special resolutions with the required majority. A gross dividend of 385c per Naspers N- ordinary and 77c per Naspers A- ordinary share were approved. PricewaterhouseCoopers was appointed as external auditors, with Mr A Wentzel as the individual who will undertake the audit.
Messrs Lourens Jonker, Fred Phaswana, Ben van der Ross, Ton Vosloo and Adv Fran du Plessis, who retired by rotation, were re-elected to the board.
Messrs Boetie van Zyl, Ben van der Ross and Adv Fran du Plessis were elected to the audit committee.
Mr Vosloo reported in his AGM address that Naspers posted a solid performance for the year 31 March 2013. It reached a strategic milestone when revenues from its internet businesses exceeded those from pay television for the first time. The group’s strategy remained organic growth of existing businesses and limited acquisitions that add value to the group.
The chairman’s address follows: The group posted a solid performance for the year 31 March 2013. We also reached a strategic milestone this year when revenues from our internet businesses exceeded those from pay television for the first time. During a somewhat bumpy period, Naspers grew revenues, including our share of associates' results, at a compound annual rate of some 25% over the past five years.
Globally, economic growth remained variable over the past year, but we played the field as we found it. The growth of mobile devices is an important technology trend for our group. With over 1bn smartphones now accounting for 20% of all mobile devices worldwide, internet use is shifting steadily from PC to mobile and tablets. In some of our businesses, as much as a third of total traffic now stems from mobile applications. While this trend disrupts existing business models, it also creates opportunities for our talented engineers and committed people in some 130 countries around the globe.
Throughout the year, we continued to develop our strategy of maximising the potential of existing businesses while investing to grow new ventures for the longer term. While we understand that this strategy will reduce earnings and cash flows in the short term, our shareholders have nonetheless enjoyed steady growth in dividends over the past five years.
Against this background, I can report that we generated consolidated revenue growth of 27% to over R50 billion. The main contribution came from our internet segment, which recorded robust revenue growth across most platforms. Not all internet units are profitable yet, specifically those in development stages.
In line with strategy, we increased our development spend to R4,3bn (up from R2,8bn in 2012). We are aiming at growing our ecommerce businesses and rolling out digital terrestrial pay-TV services across sub-Saharan Africa. As this development spend is 3 expensed through the income statement, our consolidated trading profits for the year were flat at R5,7bn.
Despite this increased spend, core headline earnings per N ordinary share grew 20% to R22,16. Growth came mainly from organic expansion of existing businesses and acquisitions during the year, supplemented by the depreciation of the rand, which has a positive effect when we translate foreign revenues into rand, but is tempered somewhat by the payments to studios for movies, series and other.
These results are underpinned by a diverse portfolio, a fairly global presence and well-spread risk.
In line with our sustainable development policy, we continue to reduce our impact on the environment. For example, we no longer print our full integrated annual report. The full report to shareholders is published on our website.
Our integrated report presents a balanced view of our economic, social, environmental and governance activities for the year to 31 March 2013. The report is supplemented by naspers.org, our integrated sustainability platform that captures our combined social awareness as a group and focuses on projects that address social and environmental issues. Our intention is to extend Naspers’s core value of being useful to the communities we serve, while reflecting the key concerns of stakeholders. Now in its second year, naspers.org is demonstrating the nature and quality of our group’s impact on society and on the planet. In time, it will also harness the group’s strengths to help address global challenges such as education.
Looking at our results by segment, managed internet revenues expanded 80% to almost R35bn, while trading profits were 44% up at over R6bn. Given the growth of the internet in China, Tencent continues to record strong results. Equally, in the Russian market, Mail.ru had another good year.
Ecommerce revenues doubled to R11bn. During the year we expanded these operations through organic growth and selective acquisitions. We extended the breadth of our products, particularly online retailing (known as etailing) and online classifieds. We believe online shopping is a global consumer trend and anticipate that the proliferation of tablets and smartphones will accelerate the uptake of services. As we are in the building phase, this segment is loss-making and we do not expect aggregate profits for several more years.
Pay-TV reported 20% growth in revenues to over R30bn, while trading profits grew 18% to well over R7bn. Growth came largely from an increased net subscriber base, which now reaches around 7m households across 49 countries in Africa.
In South Africa, we closed the year with some 4,5 million subscriber homes, reflecting the benefits of a broad range of options to meet consumer needs. In the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, we reached 2,3 million households.
During the financial year we produced 6 000 hours of local programming in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya – contributing to the local film industries’ sustainability. Seven local general entertainment channels launched, the Africa Magic portfolio of channels was reformatted, and two local community channels were added.
It was a tough year for print media operations globally. Revenues were flat as advertisers proved stingy. Circulation revenues are also under pressure. Media24 was no exception. However, trading profits rose marginally as costs were cut. In Brazil, Abril suffered a decline in profitability, and cost-cutting initiatives are implemented there.
Governance and sustainability are essential measures for our stakeholders. Given the multinational nature of our group, we are exposed to different risks in various jurisdictions. The board conducts the group's business with integrity, applying appropriate corporate governance policies and principles.
A disciplined reporting structure ensures the holding company board is informed of subsidiary activities. Detailed strategies and business plans, covering the financial and non-financial elements of operations, are regularly reviewed and management remuneration is linked to performance and strategic objectives.
We continue to evaluate areas where governance at corporate and subsidiary level can be improved. In line with the requirements of the new Companies Act, the social and ethics committee for Naspers and its South African subsidiaries reports to shareholders by means of a report included in the integrated report.
The broader regulatory environment is evolving. In Africa, countries are increasing broadcasting regulation and new competition legislation is toughening. Internet regulation is also increasing. Equally, our newspaper and magazine businesses are subject to some regulatory risks. Naspers's two main South African units, MultiChoice and Media24, are complying with black economic empowerment requirements unique to South Africa.
In essence, the sustainability of our group is determined by our ability to inform, entertain and connect people, distribute media products, support ecommerce, sell advertising, develop related technologies and sell these to other media operators.
In line with our sustainable development policy, the group contributes to local communities in which it operates. We also strive to minimise our impact on the environment. Some of our more significant initiatives focus on education, skills development, entrepreneurial spirit, community outreach and environmental sustainability. Most of these are implemented in partnership with government, communities or other local organisations.
We contribute at country level too. For the review period, our group paid R7,6 billion to governments for tax on company profits, tax on our employees’ salaries, secondary tax 6 on companies, skills development levies, and more. This all helps to build economies in emerging countries in which we operate.
Moving to dividends
The board has recommended that the annual gross dividend be increased by 15% to 385c (last year’s was 335c) per listed N ordinary share, and 77c (previously 67c) per unlisted A ordinary share. If you approve this today, dividends will be payable to shareholders recorded in the books on Friday 20 September 2013, and paid on Wednesday 25 September 2013.
Let’s now compare taxes and dividends. If we pay governments R7,6bn in taxes and our shareholders R1,56bn in dividends, that means that states get 5 times more in taxes than shareholders. It’s very clear who our biggest shareholders and beneficiaries are!
On to directors
In terms of the company’s memorandum of incorporation, Messrs Lourens Jonker, Fred Phaswana, Ben van der Ross, myself and Adv Fran du Plessis retire by rotation today but we are eligible to offer ourselves for re-election.
Members of the audit committee are Adv Fran du Plessis, Messrs Ben van der Ross and Boetie van Zyl. The board recommends that shareholders reappoint these individuals as audit committee members in compliance with the Companies Act.
Now a few achievements and career moves, retirements, top achievers etc
Career moves and new appointments:
Bob van Dijk, recently appointed CEO of Allegro Group. We thank Hein Pretorius for his major role in building Allegro and we look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.
Peet Kruger is stepping down as editor of Beeld (but is remaining with the company). He has been with Media24 since 1981. Adriaan Basson, currently assistant editor at City Press, succeeds Peet.
Oliver Rippel, who is now head of our business-to-consumer (B2C) etail businesses Tim Jacobs, newly appointed MultiChoice group CFO Martin Scheepbouwer, was appointed head of all our online classifieds businesses
Retirements:
Cobus Stofberg, chief executive and founding member of the MIH group, retired after serving the group for 28 years. We hope to continue our association with Cobus going forward. An announcement will be made in due course.
In May 2013, Bokkie Gerber retired as editor of Rapport, having been with Media24 for 34 years. One of the greats in the field of journalism and a real gentleman. Nic de Bruine, viewed by many as the rock of Landbouweekblad, retires on 1 April 2014 as head of sales, after a 50-year career with Media24.
Some of our people that served the group many years are seriously ill:
Past director Cronk Conradie and senior sports journalist Herman le Roux; and Ronnie van Wijk, one of the founding members of the M-Net team. They are all in our prayers.
Several of our colleagues passed away:
Prof Jakes Gerwel, who was chairman of Media24 and Welkom Yizani - he also served on the Naspers board for many years and he is sorely missed;
Roberto Civita, who was chairman of our associate Abril in Brazil.
Jaya Naidoo, who started with M-Net in the finance department in 1986 – he always referred to the “caravan days” – M-Net’s decoders were sold out of a caravan in the early days!
Mandy Rossouw, respected political journalist at City Press, who passed away at the young age of 33. Her death was mourned by colleagues, the industry and political parties across the spectrum.
Albert de Jager, senior typographer during his career with Magazines, passed away last month.
Top Achievers:
Several of our newspapers, magazines and book publishers brought home many prizes and some of our editors have won top prizes: Adriaan Basson from City Press won a prestige CNN award as news journalist of the year and Kate Wilson, editor of Women’s Health, was crowned editor of the year.
Our CEO, Koos Bekker, has been honoured with the Frans du Toit medal for leadership in industry, awarded by the South African Academy for Science and Art.
Allegro’s green initiative, Allforplanet, was recognised for its interesting climate projects in Poland.
Nolo Letele, executive chair of MultiChoice received a lifetime achievement award for media development in Africa from the Millennium Excellence Foundation – well deserved!
As to the future
Over the past year, revenue growth reflected the expansion of our group. While our strategy is continually refined, three legs are unchanged: organic growth of existing businesses, a few acquisitions that add value and developing new technologies.
In the year ahead, we will focus especially on growing our businesses organically. This will mute earnings in the short term as the cost of developing these businesses is expensed through the income statement. However, we believe this strategy is sound.
Our aim is to deliver value to our shareholders over the medium to longer term and to contribute to the communities in which we operate.
I thank you.
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Kisumu All Stars players get new contracts
Saturday November 9 2019
Martin Oduor of Kisumu All Stars (left) shields the ball from Thomas Wainaina of Nzoia Sugar during their Kenyan Premier League match at Moi Stadium in Kisumu on September 21, 2019. PHOTO | TONNY OMONDI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Kisumu County Sports Chief Officer Thomas Ouko said the renewal of the six months’ contracts for the players and technical bench are based on merit.
By DONNA ATOLA
Anxiety that had clouded Kisumu All Stars and which has been blamed for the club’s poor run has finally been brought to an end after the players received their contracts on Friday.
“We now have no reason whatsoever not to win matches. We need to move up the Kenyan Premier League table. This contract will be renewed to those whose effort and performance will be seen on the pitch,” said Ouko.
His sentiments were backed by All Stars’ CEO Nicholas Ochieng who insisted that the team needs to win their next matches saying there is no room for failure because the league is almost halfway and the team has not registered a win.
“This is not a chance to sit back and relax, this contract should pose as a big challenge. All we want is good results. We have an open window in December and we will be forced to do away with team member’s whose performance will be dire,” said Ochieng.
“This is a challenge to the technical bench, your work is cut out. We have had bad performances. Going forward, we have no reason whatsoever to continue with the bad performances. Pull up your socks.”
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/future-of-food/california-agriculture-food-drought-resistance.html
What a Gold Rush-era orchard could mean for the future of food
Scientists are beginning to study whether rare heirloom plants, revived for their flavor, might also be suited to enduring a warmer world.
Photograph by Luisa Dorr, National Geographic
By Maryn McKenna
Photographs by Luisa Dörr
Five thousand feet up in the Sierra Nevada and a half-hour’s drive from the last paved road, a clearing opens at the edge of a forest. The clearing is ringed with pine, fir, and aspen, a dense palisade that shields its contents from a rutted track that runs past its hidden gate. Inside, a meadow harbors more than 100 gnarled trees. It is early September, but the trees’ leaves are still green, and other colors peek out among them: apples crimson and scarlet, pears golden and rusty, almonds and walnuts in globes of dull olive.
Amigo Bob Cantisano tips back his straw hat, surveying the hidden orchard. “It’s no different than the last time I was here,” he says. “And it’s not much different than the first time.”
That was 1970. Cantisano was whooping through the hills in a 1951 Dodge pickup with the cab cut off, taking a break from his first stab at farming; he stumbled on the orchard while looking for a swimming hole. In the 50 years since, as he grew from neophyte to an elder statesman of the organic revolution, he’s remained devoted to the grove he discovered that day. Piece by piece, talking to old-timers and reading newspaper archives, he reassembled its history. The trees were older than he imagined, the last vestige of a trading post that served the mining camps of the Gold Rush—which meant the orchard had survived, apparently untended, for more than 150 years.
Nuber (with wife Abby Shinn and daughter Amara) harvests flowers at the Felix Gillet Nursery, which he cofounded with Cantisano and Bliss in 2011. The three have collected specimens from at least 75 sites across the Sierra Nevada, and now over a hundred varieties of heirloom plants are cultivated each year at their Nevada City nursery.
Just 100 miles to the west lies the tip of California’s Central Valley, the richest agricultural land in the United States, which grows the same crops that persist at the forgotten trading post. But down on the valley floor, trees are pruned, sprayed, irrigated, fertilized. Without those measures, their productivity could not be sustained.
The trees of the hidden orchard have remained productive for more than a century without any such assistance. Far from being a lost piece of history marooned on a mountain, the orchard is a treasure chest.
Cantisano’s trees—he doesn’t own the plot but has become its custodian—are heirlooms: historic, open-pollinated varieties that were not swept up in the green revolution, the hybridization that transformed commercial agriculture after World War II.
Back then heirlooms were rejected for what seemed like solid reasoning at the time: They ripened at intervals, making supply unpredictable, grew to odd sizes that did not fit processing equipment, and were too tender to transport across the greater distances that food began to travel as production consolidated. The hybrids that supplanted the heirlooms were more suited to large-scale production and shipping, but often at the expense of flavor and nutrition.
Nuber (left) along with Bliss and Cantisano (right), both partners in life and work, keep the legacy of Felix Gillet alive.
Photograph by Joy Porter
Now heirlooms are beginning to be in demand again—not just at farmers markets, which is where most of us encounter heirloom crops, but in the industries that once disdained them. Plant breeders—and livestock breeders, since livestock underwent a similar hybridization from diverse breeds—are reconsidering their value.
Our Dwindling Food Variety
As we’ve come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It’s hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clue to the scope of the problem. It compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct. More up-to date studies are needed.
A Century Ago
In 1903 commercial seed houses offered hundreds of varieties, as shown in this sampling of ten crops.
Width equals the number of varieties
By 1983 few of those varieties were found in the National Seed Storage Laboratory.*
*changed its name in 2001 to the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation.
JOHN TOMANIO, ngM Staff. food icons: quickhoney Source: rural advancement foundation international
Rare plants and animals are being studied by academic scientists, grown for display in living museums such as Colonial Williamsburg, and brought back from oblivion by small-scale farmers and corps of dedicated amateurs. In heirlooms, their fans see treasuries of biodiversity and resilience, protection against heat, drought, diseases, and pests that will be needed as a changing climate makes current crops and animals—which have been reduced to a narrow genetic range—harder to grow.
“We know these trees are growing in an environment that may be more like the environment we’ll have in the future: hotter, drier,” says Charles Brummer, director of the Plant Breeding Center at University of California, Davis, where scientists are beginning to study Cantisano’s orchard. “These trees have withstood a lot.”
An Esopus Spitzenburg apple tree grows on Cantisano's property; its "mother tree," as he calls it, was found in Malakoff State Historic Park. Originating in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1800s—Thomas Jefferson planted them at Monticello—the apple is making a comeback.
‘Bigger than a baby’s head’
Cantisano—who wears shorts and sandals in every season and has been known as “Amigo Bob” since high school—now farms north of Nevada City, a Gold Rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Through patient sleuthing, he traced the trees in the orchard to Felix Gillet, a French horticulturalist.
Gillet arrived in Nevada City in 1859, when gold-panning was giving way to an organized industry of company-owned mines and settlements of camps surrounding them. He put aside cash by working as a barber, and then opened a nursery, shipping in European fruit and nut varieties by boat and train. Merchants and homesteaders bought the trees, and so did farmers, who began growing the produce now synonymous with California. Gillet seeded the state with some of its earliest hazelnut, almond, and walnut varieties, stone fruits such as cherries, and grapes.
To protect the orchard and ensure it continues into another generation—and to preserve other trees discovered at old homesteads and camps—Cantisano formed the Felix Gillet Institute, a nonprofit whose staff consists of him, his wife Jenifer Bliss, and Adam Nuber, who propagates the trees and manages their small commercial nursery. Their near-constant task is hunting down trees across Northern California, taking measurements, recording their growth pattern and condition, mapping their location, and then returning to harvest some of the fruit for research.
Fruit is the best indicator of a tree’s identity, and Bliss serves as the institute’s fruit detective. Each time Cantisano and Nuber visit the orchard and other trees they’ve found, they document when fruit is ripening. At Cantisano’s home, they test harvested fruit for sugar content, and then Bliss pores over a collection of 19th- and early 20th-century fruit catalogs, matching size, color, and sweetness to written descriptions or early photographs. She has matched some of their finds to rare varieties of apples, pears, almonds, and walnuts. Lacking records, they’ve given provisional names to cherries they’ve found in nearby areas, dubbing one Foxy Lady after the family on whose property it was found, and another Camptonville Candy, after the town where it is located.
Jasmine Dee Smeltzly, 11, eats an apple on her grandfather Cy Rollins's farm.
In September, Cantisano and Nuber agreed to take me to the lost orchard, on the condition that its exact location wouldn’t be revealed. The trees were heavy with fruit, and we had to stay alert and step carefully, because there were piles of bear scat among them, loaded with plum stones and berry seeds. Nuber carried a harvesting basket, a cage on a pole used to pluck fruit off high branches.
“That’s a Spitzenberg,” he says, tossing a candy-red apple into a box. “That’s a Yellow Bellflower. That’s a Reinette—it might be one of the forerunners of the Golden Delicious.” He offered me a bright red apple with green shoulders. I bit into it and was shocked by the fresh, sharp taste. He scooped off another apple, so large it teetered unsteadily on the basket’s edge.
“We called this Bigger Than A Baby’s Head at first,” Cantisano says. “But Jenifer thinks it might be a 20-Ounce Pippin. Felix had it in his catalogs in the 1880s, but it probably came originally from New York.” He looked into the box, his waist-length dreadlocks falling over his shoulders. He pointed out a deep red specimen. “That’s a Calville Rouge. It’s the best storing apple we have. Keeps four, five months without refrigeration, just in a back bedroom.”
Nuber pointed out two trees in the row we were standing in. One was riddled with tiny holes, so evenly spaced it looked like the tree had passed under an industrial drill. The holes were woodpecker damage, a sign the underlayers of the bark had been infested with tasty grubs that the birds had pried out. The tree next to it had no holes at all. “That’s a sign of natural insect resistance,” he says. “We can’t answer why one variety possesses it and the other doesn’t, but we can ask the question, and maybe someone will be able to answer it.”
I realized I was still holding the apple Nuber had handed me to sample, and though I had bitten into it an hour earlier, the flesh was still not brown.
Cantisano noticed my reaction. “That’s one of the things we evaluate,” he says. “We cut them and lay them out, and count how long it takes. We’ve got one that is still white three days later; it’s very high in vitamin C, a natural antioxidant.”
“People are making GMO non-browning apples now,” he says. “And we want to say, There’s no need to go to GMOs. We’ve got the genetics right here.”
Resurrecting heirlooms
Cantisano’s institute, which is funded by donations and by sales of young trees propagated from the originals, isn’t the only organization seeking to bring heirloom varieties back into history. At the other side of the country, the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation has retrieved an array of nearly lost crops linked to Native Americans and early settlers. “Sea Island White Flint corn, Jimmy Red corn, Cocke’s Prolific corn, Guinea Flint corn, purple straw wheat, white may wheat,” says David Shields, the foundation’s chairman and a professor at the University of South Carolina. “We’ve rediscovered the entire grain system of the Carolinas.”
Scientists are exploring traits and scenarios that could help plants endure a hotter, drier climate that's predicted for the future. Tom Gradziel surveys peach trees at the 20-acre Pomology Orchard, part of the University of California, Davis. A plant geneticist, Gradziel has spent the last two decades testing conditions for breeding almonds and peaches for the state's thriving industry.
The foundation’s work began with its first resurrection, Carolina Gold rice, a strain that may have arrived in Charleston in the 1600s and vanished from wide-scale production in the 1940s. A few seeds for it had been stored in a USDA seed bank, and in 1998, some were replanted through the efforts of Merle Shepard, a plant geneticist at Clemson University, and Glenn Roberts, the founder of the boutique grain business Anson Mills. Once enough grain had been banked to bring the rice into commercial production, Anson Mills began selling it—and that, Shields says, is one justification for heirloom varieties: There’s a market for them.
“The heirloom corns that we have grown are in intense demand by distillers for artisanal bourbon,” he says. “High Wire Distilling in Charleston uses Jimmy Red, one of the corns we revived; it’s won all kinds of awards. Jeptha Creed Distillery in Kentucky uses Bloody Butcher corn. The flavor of these corns has added a new richness to bourbon; it’s no longer dependent just on the barrel and the char.”
Leaves of peach trees at the Pomology Orchard have turned yellow, indicating winter dormancy.
The foundation subsequently committed to preserving any “landrace” crop—heirloom, historic, and open-pollinated—that had survived from before the 1880s. Its chief driver, Shields says, has been flavor, because in traditional plant breeding, flavor was a marker for nutrition, and as industrialization advanced, flavor fell in importance behind a plant’s productivity. But as they bring more old crops back into production, the foundation is identifying other traits that justify growing the plants again.
“These landrace grains actually have more nutrition to them, because they have enormously elaborate root systems, which maximize the uptake of minerals and interaction with the microbiomes of the soil,” Shields told me. “They are less productive than modern cultivars, but they can operate in marginal soils, and they are extraordinarily resilient in the face of drought.”
D. Phillip Sponenberg is a livestock geneticist who raises heritage breeds of goats and chickens as well as rare Bulgarian livestock dogs on his property in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Stalking fainting goats
“Watch this,” says D. Phillip Sponenberg.
It was a wet, windy day in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. The advance gusts of Hurricane Florence were pulling wisps of clouds across the hillside where we were looking over a herd of goats. The goats noticed our approach, then went back to grazing, maneuvering to keep an eye on us as they munched. They were blocky animals, seemingly more muscular than a goat ought to be.
As I turned to ask Sponenberg a question, I saw he’d left my side. He was a few yards away, creeping up on the herd’s blind side. Suddenly, he stood upright. The spooked herd ran, but as they sped up, their back legs seemed to straighten strangely. One of the goats went stiff in all four legs; with its head still up, looking startled, it fell 90 degrees on its side. After a few seconds, it stumbled to its feet, shook itself, and took off again.
“And that,” Sponenberg said, “is why they’re called fainting goats.”
Tennessee fainting goats stand in an enclosure designed for mating at Sponenberg's farm. There are an estimated 3,000 fainting goats in the U.S. today.
As we walked back to the mountaintop house where he has lived for more than three decades, Sponenberg, a veterinarian and professor of pathology and genetics at Virginia Tech, explained the trait. The goats are a heritage breed, the animal equivalent of an heirloom, first identified in Tennessee in the 1880s. The sturdiness I saw was real; the breed had an unusually high meat to bone ratio. With their reaction to shock, they also had no desire to climb or jump, which made them easy to confine. All of that was conferred by a change in a single gene, which also happened to make them naturally resistant to parasites.
Those qualities—disease resistance, docility, productivity, adaptation to a landscape—attracted Sponenberg to the breed. They’re qualities he looks for in other breeds, as a researcher and an advisor to the Livestock Conservancy, a nonprofit that seeks to preserve heritage breeds of livestock.
Sponenberg holds a gold-laced Brahma. Large in size, Brahma are a heritage breed once favored on American tables, from the 1850s until 1930 and the advent of industrial chicken.
The Conservancy, headquartered in North Carolina, monitors more than a hundred breeds of livestock and nearly as many breeds of poultry. It works with organizations of growers that raise breeds that have become rare, and recruits new farmers when ranks are growing thin.
“These breeds were bred over centuries to endure drought and extreme weather, to produce through thick and thin, to protect their offspring from predators,” said Jeannette Beranger, the Conservancy’s senior program manager. They harbor traits that commercial breeds discarded: Large Black hogs can have litters of 10 piglets at seven years of age, when a commercial pig would be done at two years old. Gulf Coast sheep will eat grasses grown in brackish water. The original line of Texas longhorn cattle, maintained by a small number of breeders, will bear calves not to four or five years old, but into their teens.
“These breeds are highly suited to certain regions of the world,” she said. “And as different environmental conditions surface, they can meet the needs of the new climate. They’re a bridge between our current animals and what we may need in the future.”
First bred in the 1880s in Tennessee, fainting goats are reemerging on farms, both as pets and as meat animals.
There hasn’t yet been much genetic research into heritage animals: Livestock genetics are mostly conducted in agricultural colleges, which are likely to be funded by the agribusinesses that produce commercial livestock and seeds.
Sponenberg, who also researches heritage lines in South America, thinks failing to study them is a missed opportunity. “Think of them as a genetic insurance policy, preserving diversity so it doesn’t disappear,” he said. “For some species, like cattle and horses, the wild ancestor is extinct; we should save every descendant we can.”
Rare for a reason
The counter-argument against resurrecting heirloom crops and heritage livestock is that they became rare for a reason. Heirloom vegetables and fruits were hardier than commercial varieties, but they did not produce as abundantly. Irregular ripening ensured deliciousness but undermined transportability. Landrace livestock exercised and fed themselves, but at the cost of growing muscle more slowly. And they were so tuned to specific conditions—the Pineywoods cattle of Florida could never endure winters the Ancient White Park cattle of Montana take in stride—that no single breed could be grown at the scale of modern industrial chicken, pork, and beef.
While heirloom crops and heritage livestock might face challenges getting to market, researchers ponder whether the qualities that make them special could be extracted—through traditional cross-breeding or new genetic technologies, leaving the plants and animals that harbor them behind.
Using older varieties to prop up existing industrial ones isn’t unheard of: A wild relative of rice bred into commercial strains protected them against disease; European wine grapes were saved from insect destruction when wild American vines that were resistant to the pest were used as rootstocks, for remnants of European vines to be grafted to.
At UC Davis—where Cantisano has already loaned some lost varieties to its walnut breeding program—Brummer says the first step is to understand what the hidden orchard contains.
“The ideal thing would be to bring them into a nursery where we could compare them to commercial varieties, under commercial conditions, and see how they perform,” he told me. “See what their yield is or their quality or disease resistance.”
It’s possible, he points out, that varieties that do beautifully in the forests of the Sierra Nevada might not flourish away from that complex ecosystem—and also possible that those trees may already be thriving somewhere in California agriculture but simply attributed to a different provenance or under different names.
More heavily muscled, fainting goats are easier to herd. They are less agile, and can't climb as well or escape fencing as other goats might.
The value of diversity
For livestock, there are a few options, none of them perfect. They can be grown as they are now, in small populations by a few breeders; that keeps them adapted to changing conditions, but risks narrowing their biodiversity. They can be crossbred, which creates a new animal but does nothing to maintain an existing breed. Or they can have their genetic material frozen, which preserves genetic diversity but sacrifices adaptation. The USDA maintains a bank of livestock germplasm—sperm, eggs, and other cells—and scientists have used it on rare occasions to resurrect old varieties to mix into new crossbreeds.
Tim Safranski, an advisor to the germplasm program for swine preservation and a professor of animal sciences at the University of Missouri, says that—as with heirloom crops—we may not have enough information to make those decisions. “We don’t have the heritage breeds well characterized,” he told me. “We know diversity is valuable, but we don’t know which parts of it are most valuable.”
Chico, 2, and Zalson, 4 (right), are working dogs called Karakachans, Bulgarian mountain livestock herders. Sponenberg imported the first Karakachans into the U.S. in 2004.
At least until more knowledge is gained through genetic study, Safranski is in favor of making sure no heritage breeds are lost. To explain why, he told me about one company’s experiment that examined whether hogs will stay productive in a warming climate. In locations around the world, an agribusiness (which Safranski didn’t name) measured the number of piglets produced by two breeds of pigs—a hybrid designed to have large litters and one closer to a landrace sow—as the temperature changed around the year.
The commercial pigs produced more piglets, until the ambient temperature rose above 72 degrees, and then litter sizes dropped. The landrace pigs initially seemed less productive than their modern cousins, birthing fewer piglets in each litter. But as the temperature rose and the hybrids dropped fewer piglets, the landrace ones kept popping out the same number—and their productivity surged ahead of their modern cousins. Their slow sturdiness won out in the end.
“The less perfect the world gets,” Safranski says, “the more competitive they become.”
Maryn McKenna first encountered heritage livestock while doing research for Big Chicken. Earlier this year she wrote about the Chicken of Tomorrow contest that created modern poultry hybrids. Photographer Luisa Dörr contributed recent essays on Bolivia's female wrestlers and Spain's Fallas de Valencia.
This article originated as part of a sponsored Future of Food series.
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Sydney Trains has awarded a five-year extension to the contractor currently delivering maintenance and logistics services for part of its metropolitan passenger rail fleet. UGL, a CIMIC Group company, secured the five-year extension, effective from 1st July 2019, which replaces the two-year extension announced on 30 January 2019.
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It was hot. It was passionate.
And, like all things earthly, it was but a brief respite from the mundane rote of everyday routine – a routine that put everything within a well-defined timetable. A routine that was killing, to say the least. A routine where everything, every damn thing, even things that were supposed to be spontaneous, things that were alive only in their spontaneity, things whose very souls was their being unexpected, was planned. Meetings, lunches, dinners, vacations, sex, love, drives – even crises – everything happened according to a schedule. It was this routine that drove them to it. Not love. Not even lust. Not even the thrill of cheating.
And when it was ended, it was not the end of the world. It ended because it too had become part of the schedule. Thursday evenings’ “Production Meetings” that went on all night became much too routine. Sudden “crises” on Sundays became all too boring. Once more, like the calm on the surface of a lake after a meteor has crashed into it, things came back to “normal.”
It was over.
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Blog | Bulletins from the Human Side
Separated at birth: clerical and athletic cultures
by Eugene Cullen Kennedy
The Oxford English Dictionary offers several definitions of culture, at least two of which help us understand the sex abuse scandals that have burst into flame on the campuses of Penn State and Syracuse universities and the very same scandal that is still eating its windswept way across the vast prairie of the Catholic church.
These are different faces of a scandal where origins and accelerants are exactly the same. They are functions of the cultures in which the blazes exploded from the same kindling, waxed stronger as the officials perched atop their common hierarchical structures, certain that they could keep them under control, decided not to pull the fire alarm -- what the heck, the fire chief and the newspaper editor were old friends of ours, we can count on them to keep this quiet and, besides, reporting it might increase our insurance rates, and we've had little fires before and if you don't make a big deal out of them, they burn themselves out.
The OED definition of such a culture informs us of its constitution by "the distinctive ideas, customs, social behavior, products, a way of life of a particular society, people, or period. Hence, a society or group characterized by such customs."
This describes the clerical and the athletic cultures, not to mention the entertainment, political, and military cultures. Card-carrying members of these cultures may not seem the same, but so similar are their instincts and presumptions that they could exchange skin grafts with each other.
We may also apply another OED definition of culture as that of the "artificial propagation and growing of microorganisms." In short, strange but invisible, and perhaps dangerous, entities come alive on other host cultures. Sex abuse has found the conditions in the clerical and athletic cultures congenial for its development, much as unappealing forms of life squiggle restlessly on the damp underside of rocks but, turned over, cannot survive in sunlight and fresh air.
Sex abuse scandals have grown on the underside, or, better, in the shadowed places in the clerical and athletic cultures. These phenomena are the same in the respect, if not idealization, accorded to its members by the hero-hungry general public. Its members are automatically accorded respect. They don't have to do anything but don their uniforms -- the Roman collar for one, the athletic togs for the other -- because a previous generation did the hard work, before million-dollar contracts and million-dollar scandals, to merit the esteem and affection granted without charge to them. No wonder they think they must be special and not, in the Gospel phrase, "like the rest of men."
Such privilege is also granted to singers and actors or to the heady whiff of movie-making when a herd of trailers and trucks with cameras, lights and props takes over a busy big city thoroughfare for a day or a week of shooting. Frustrated drivers or pedestrians are immediately calmed, as if bitten by the showbiz serpent, when someone speaks the magic words, "It's OK. They're making a movie."
Professional athletics in this country has outrun the clergy in the latitude automatically granted to stars who have been able to get away with almost anything, from drunken driving to assault and near rape, and to be welcomed back after a prison stay as if they had only been away on a weekend cruise. Even being mean and ready to accept bribe-like inducements is not enough to shake off the stardust with which Americans so prodigally sprinkle them.
This is obviously similar to the privileges granted to Catholic clergy and religious. Those good priests, nuns and brothers who actually deserve it because of their selfless service to their people do not seek or want it. The fraction of those who take advantage of it do not deserve it and often are the ones who use the culture's generous appraisal as a cloak behind which to hide their sexual abuse of those in their care.
At Penn State and Syracuse, coaches who, like priests, were considered trustworthy because of the automatic admiration of the culture abused that faith in them to abuse young people whose personal integrity they were committed to protect. But the athletic culture, like the clerical culture, was so bewitched by the noisy parade of acclaim in which its leaders marched every day that they granted these coaches leeway, the benefit of the doubt, and muted everything that might harm the football or basketball culture that so dominated the imagination and judgment of faculty, fans, alumni and, yes, the doctors, police and media who looked the other way, covered up the situation or conveniently lost the records on any members of the culture who got into trouble by sexually abusing those they were supposed to care for.
At the bottom of these tragedies we find the individuals who understand the culture and knowingly use it to provide victims for themselves and protection from their superiors and others. These are the grand manipulators, for manipulation is the premier art practiced by clergymen or coaches who understand not only how to talk malleable youngsters into spending weekends or taking showers with them, but also know how to manipulate their bishops, superiors and the system itself to get a head-start on the police or the equivalent of medieval sanctuary for themselves within the church. They victimize and manipulate everyone to gratify their needs and then feel sorry, and want you to feel sorry for them instead of the victims whose wounds never heal.
Clerical culture is dying, but the athletic culture, with its spoiled stars, its greedy agents and pharaoh-like owners, walk unquestioned, as though they were our benefactors, through our culture. As long as that is so, the manipulators will thrive and we will be surprised, though we should know better by now, when similar scandals are found, as they will be, on the underside of other campus athletic programs and professional sports.
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Authentic Italian Tiramisu Recipe: The Dessert That Will Be Gone In 3-2-1
1 WHAT IS TIRAMISU?
2 WHAT DOES TIRAMISU MEAN AND WHAT’S THE HISTORY BEHIND IT?
3 WHERE DID TIRAMISU ORIGINATE?
4 HOW IS TIRAMISU SERVED?
5 Authentic Italian Tiramisu Recipe
5.1.1 For the Coffee Dip
5.1.2 For the Zabaione Filling
5.1.3 For the Layers
5.2.3 Layering the cake
When I start talking about food, my mother somehow always ends up in the conversation, because her cooking made me love food in the first place. She wishes it would have made me love making food as well, but I guess you can’t have everything in life.
The reason why I am once again talking about my mom is that her desserts were (and still are!) out of this world. For a long time, as a child, I didn’t even like chocolate or cakes and all that. Shocking, right? But Mom eventually won me over with her recipes, and one of my personal favorites will always be her tiramisu. It’s just ridiculous.
I’ve tried tiramisu at many restaurants, but not even the best one can compare to my mom’s. I think that is in part because she always follows a traditional tiramisu recipe, and most of the time, “traditional” stands for “the way it’s supposed to be.” But before I reluctantly share my mother’s way of making tiramisu, let’s go a little bit through its history and what exactly tiramisu is.
WHAT IS TIRAMISU?
One of Italy’s most popular desserts, tiramisu is an elegant, rich layering of bold espresso and cocoa, creamy mascarpone cheese, sweet Marsala wine, and delicate ladyfinger cookies.
The ladyfingers, which are themselves classic Italian treats, are briefly soaked in an espresso and sugar mixture to soften them.
These are layered with a mixture of mascarpone cheese and zabaione, also called zabaglione, a traditional custard made with Marsala wine, egg yolks, and sugar.
Finally, cocoa powder dusts the top of these layers for additional flavor and to top off tiramisu’s classic appearance.
WHAT DOES TIRAMISU MEAN AND WHAT’S THE HISTORY BEHIND IT?
You might be surprised, but tiramisu’s history has a lot to do with … love. Okay, maybe that’s not that surprising when you take into account the many smooth and creamy layers and the bitter but pleasant taste of coffee mixed with chocolate. I mean, what’s not to love about it?
Tiramisu, in Italian, stands for “pick me up,” but its meaning takes various shapes, as it can also be interpreted as “cheer me up.”
Rumor has it that this cake was made with all the love in the world by a girl who wanted to express her love for a boy, because sometimes a cake tells more than words.
Another story just as lovely has another woman at its center—a wife, this time, who thought of a way for her husband who was preparing to go to war to think about her.
So she used everything she could find in her kitchen (eggs, biscuits, cocoa, cheese) to bake something unforgettable and to also keep him awake and strong in battle, thanks to the addition of coffee.
It was a dessert made with love, so that he could take it with him and think of better times. In a way, the sweet and bitter taste of tiramisu can be seen as a metaphor for wars.
Wars are bitter, but the thought of having people who love you waiting at home makes the pain more bearable.
WHERE DID TIRAMISU ORIGINATE?
Tiramisu is another one of those confusing recipes that we don’t know whom to attribute to. A consensus seems to be that it was born in Treviso in 1970, first starting out as a “sbatudin,” which is like tiramisu in its first undeveloped and unlayered form.
Eventually, sbatudin turned into the authentic Italian tiramisu recipe we all love, through influences from other Italian regions.
In the late ’60s, a gastronome and actor named Giuseppe Maffioli published a book about Treviso cuisine. In the book, he talks about eating zabaione cream and biscuits with the whole family and mentions it being a Venetian tradition. Okay, now that starts to sound more like tiramisu, right?
“Tiramesù,” as it was called in the beginning, was served for the very first time at a restaurant called Alle Beccherie by a pastry chef named Loly Linguanotto, who was just returning to Italy after perfecting his baking skills in Germany. The tiramesù was an instant hit, and not only was it served in the province of Treviso, but also throughout Veneto and even all of Italy.
And as many good things do, it became famous worldwide and developed into several variations, like this pistachio tiramisu recipe.
HOW IS TIRAMISU SERVED?
Tiramisu is a dessert served semifreddo—which means it’s not ice cream, but it’s not lava cake either. It’s perfect to eat just as you take it out of the fridge, and it actually tastes better if you leave it to sit overnight and even after a few days.
Although, honestly, when it comes to such a dessert, it’s quite a challenge to let it sit for too long. I guess that’s the Italian charm of food, where anything as basic as a salad dressing or pasta will be eaten on the spot, with no leftovers.
Authentic Italian Tiramisu Recipe
Tiramisu is one of the most famous Italian desserts around the world. Learn the secrets of making tiramisu at home.
Keyword: dolce, tiramisu
For the Coffee Dip
12 ounces coffee
For the Zabaione Filling
3.5 ounces sugar
4 ounces sweet wine (such as Madeira)
16 ounces Mascarpone cheese
13 ounces whipped cream
For the Layers
10 ounces ladyfingers (about 40)
Prepare 12 ounces of strong espresso coffee and pour sugar into it while still hot.
Let it cool at room temperature.
Beat the egg yolks in a heat-proof bowl or in the bowl of a double boiler until they become fluffy.
Add the wine and sugar and beat well.
Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water on the stove and heat. Remove from heat before it boils, as the mixture will develop a heavy consistency before reaching the boiling point.
In a different bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese. Add the whipped cream.
In a different bowl, pour the mascarpone cheese and mix it well. Add the whipped cream.
Add the mascarpone mixture to the rest of the filling and mix until it has a smooth consistency.
Layering the cake
Dip half of the ladyfingers in the coffee and place them in a single layer in a 9-inch square baking dish (or similarly sized container).
Distribute half of the zabaione cream on top of them.
Repeat the ladyfingers dipping and layering process, then add the remaining zabaione cream.
Sprinkle cocoa on top and place the dish in the fridge. Depending on when you started, you can leave it there for 4-5 hours or overnight.
Calories: 404kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 178mg | Sodium: 62mg | Potassium: 112mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 957IU | Calcium: 105mg | Iron: 1mg
Other Italian Traditional Desserts:
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On June 19th Nordic Energy Research, together with Aalborg University and House of Energy (Denmark), presented examples of how the Nordic countries are aiming to develop the smartest energy system in the world and finding the most cost-effective solutions for the green transition. This in accordance with accordance with Jorma Ollila’s vision for Nordic energy co-operation, “Strong today, stronger tomorrow”.
The stand at Energy Fair got attention for demonstrating the Icelandic project CarbFix, and many visitors studied the drilling sample demonstrating mineralized carbon in basalt. The immediate discussion was on how and where this solution can be applied in other parts of the world.
There was also interest in the shared Nordic electricity market and electricity grid, and visitors from the North European countries were especially interested in the plans for extending the grid to better balance the increasing capacity of intermittent wind and solar power. The ongoing capacity building in offshore wind energy in Scotland implies an interesting potential for extending the Nordic electricity grid westwards. Italy is developing the smart grid technology, and there was a discussion on how to exchange knowledge and do business on smart and clean technology solutions with the Nordics.
Finally, there was discussions for how to decarbonize the transport sector, especially aviation and maritime transport, as well as heavy cargo on land. As a result, there sketches were drawn for a new “Nordic decarbonized mobility map” combining solutions from electro-fuels, biofuels, upgraded biofuels, carbon capture and utilization of carbon and oxygen from the processes. As demonstrated at EUSEW 2019, technologies are already available and proven trustworthy. Now is the time for combining processes and industries across sectors to aim for the combined win-win effects for climate, business and human wellbeing.
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Maxis Transforms Service Layer with Netcracker's Comprehensive Resource and Service Management Suite
Malaysia’s leading mobile operator expands Netcracker relationship to deliver advanced services and comprehensive mobile access.
Netcracker Technology announced today that it has successfully delivered its Resource & Inventory Management solution to Maxis Berhad (Maxis), Malaysia’s leading communications service provider. The upgraded modules include the Netcracker Framework, Resource Management & Service Management modules. These capabilities will help Maxis to achieve better network utilization, faster deployment of services and ROI on its network investment.
Additionally, Netcracker has signed a multi-year extension of Professional Services engagements with Maxis in order to support the platform, features and functionalities and introduce new capabilities on the upgraded platform.
Maxis’ high-speed network footprint is the largest in Malaysia – enabling every Malaysian to enjoy its extensive range of data services such as mobile Internet browsing, social networking sites, downloading apps as well as a portfolio of integrated mobile, fixed and enterprise solutions.
“We look forward to taking this next step with Maxis by delivering all of the powerful capabilities that Netcracker has to offer,” said Loh John Wu, Vice President Asia Pacific at Netcracker. “The expansion of this relationship is another example of how Netcracker’s solutions and delivery capabilities are central to our customers’ growth, execution and profitability strategies worldwide.”
For more information on Netcracker’s OSS solutions, please contact Juliet Shavit of SmartMark Communications at jshavit@smartmarkusa.com.
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Netcracker Technology announced today that Advanced Info Services (AIS), Thailand’s largest mobile phone operator, has agreed to a multi-year renewal for Netcracker’s Systems Integration and Professional Services.
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Home Health News Fake Health News Went Viral On Social Media in 2019
Fake Health News Went Viral On Social Media in 2019
Steven Shelby
Consuming instant noodles would kill you, vaccines are harmful, and a group of scientists is trying to hire the cure for cancer: These are just a few of the most viral fake news on public health last year.
Fake news was an important matter in 2019. In response to increasing pressure health experts, doctors, and lawmakers, many social media companies introduced considerable changes to limit or ban the spread of health misinformation that had been existing for many years.
The most viral fake health news suggested several conspiracies between medical communities and governments and introduced a few common medical treatments for fatal diseases. The top 50 articles attracted approximately 12 million interactions, including reactions, comments, and shares, primarily on Facebook.
Though researchers think that poor journalism would misinform the public, the statistics do not include those articles from valid news outlets that could have access to false conclusions, inflate the results of studies, or cover flawed reports.
According to a recent analysis by the NBC news, up to 80 percent of online users are searching for health information on the Internet.
The most viral fake news about health last year was on the themes of vaccines, unproven cures, and cancer. These misinformed articles even dominated the overall news.
The consequences of health fake news would be far-reaching.
The most common concerns for health experts are prevention efforts and compliance with health treatments.
It would result in the low levels of vaccination that can be below herd immunity and harmful effects on kids whose parents care for their well-being and health. Instead, parents choose other homeopathic or alternative treatments and only turn to necessary treatments when the effectiveness is reduced.
More importantly, health fake news would affect trust between patients and doctors, governments and citizens, as well as among many other institutions. Mistrust in pharmaceutical firms and health institutions, of course, would be legitimate, particularly for those areas that are in the target of unethical research.
In most cases, consumers in many online medical conspiracies are often reoriented to homeopathic treatments. These pieces of health fake news tend to provide a welcoming and expensive alternative.
Though the issue is becoming quite obvious, there is still no solution. Fact checks for fake news are quite rare. Public health communities need to do better in reaching more audiences and creating better storytelling, visualizations, as well as contents.
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President once again calls for unity, integrity
NH Bureau Friday, 23 October 2015 06:22:16 AM 49 seconds
New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday greeted nation with Dussehra wishes and once again appealed for people to stick with tolerance.
He urged people to maintain India's unity and integrity and focus on nation building, leaving aside their differences.
"Dussehra is a symbol of our ancient culture and we should forget our differences and work towards nation building. That will be our victory. I appeal everyone to maintain unity and integrity of the nation and contribute to the country's development," he said.
He said this at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi, where towering effigies of Ravana along with his son Meghnad and brother Kumbhakaran were set afire marking triumph of good over evil.
During the day, Pranab used twitter to deliver the same message with added love and brotherhood.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to the celebrations but he could not attend as he has travelled to Andhra Pradesh.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi along with former PM Manmohan Singh were present at the occasion.
Published : Friday, October 23, 2015 06:20 [IST]
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Oddbins embrace "gingers", Germans and bankers.
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By New Statesman
Oddbins have decided to be kind to a number of groups in the upcoming weeks, among them "gingers", mothers, bankers, journalists and Germans, and offer them various discounts.
It's a nice thought, but why these people in particular? Oddbins explains:
Germans: "Why is everyone so mean to them? Studiously keeping their flat-pack-homed, forest-clad, industrious country immaculately clean, with their finances neatly in order".
Bankers: "A “banker” is an individual who is engaged in the business of banking. Last year the word has become a derogatory term used to refer to only a select group of rogue investment bankers. However, every time we chastise “bankers” for the financial crisis, how must this make tellers, analysts, loan officers et al feel?"
Journalists: "Why do we care what Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant are up to? And do we really want our politicians to control the only people who are able to hold them to account?"
Making a stand for equality, "Gingers": "Gender. Race. Religion. Sexuality. Weight. OK, we’re not perfect in this county when it comes to persecution, but things are improving slowly. All except the final taboo: ginger hair."
And mothers, because:"Here at Oddbins, we would like to stand up for mums across this great nation and give something back. We’d like to say thank you, mums: without you none of us would be here." Never was a truer word spoken.
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Thousands of kilometres of coastline, lakes and rivers herald New Zealand as a water sports mecca.
Sailing, surfing, diving, fishing – Kiwis love the water and we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to water activities. Indulging your passion for the water is easy to do here in New Zealand and limited only by your imagination.
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REMINDER: Signing Session At Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Oldham Athletic supporters have the chance to meet the team tomorrow (Thursday, August 30).
The club are delighted to have teamed up once again with Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre for a player signing session.
Manager Frankie Bunn and the first team squad will be present at Spindles tomorrow, August 30 between 2-3pm in the Upper Mall where you supporters have the opportunity to get autographs and selfies with their favourite players.
As well as this, Spindles will be continue their sponsorship or the Player of the Month award for this season.
Commenting on the partnership, Centre Manager, Mike Flanagan, said, “We are again very pleased to be supporting the Latics’ Player of the Month award.
“Hopefully this will be a successful season and we look forward to welcoming the squad for the annual signing session on August 30.”
Speaking on behalf of the Club, David Broadbent added: “Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre have supported the club for many years now and we thank Mike, Katie and all the team for this continued support, they are one of our longest standing partners.
“The signing event is always good fun and the chance to meet the players so we’d urge you to come along and support the afternoon.”
Don’t miss the chance to see the first team players and manager at Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre tomorrow, August 30, from 2pm.
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Hampstead Theatre, London, 2013
By Howard Brenton
A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task.
Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged – untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy's wife… As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.
Howard Brenton's play Drawing the Line was premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2013.
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Game Day: Order of the Stick Game, Confeat, Gamer Law, Herald of Bob
April 7, 2007 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games
Yesterday was too frantic to write a proper Game Day column, but The Order of the Stick Adventure Game was too much fun not to write about.
Published by APE Games, The Order of the Stick Adventure Game allows 2-6 players to take on the roles of the heroes (ok, adventurers) from The Order of the Stick web comic as they explore the Dungeon of Dorukan. Their goal is to collect as much loot as possible, slay the dungeon’s namesake lich at its lowest level, and then escape before the entire complex collapses.
The game features a build-as-you-go dungeon, a relatively simple dice mechanic for combat, and Munchkin-like monsters capable of summoning a small (or not-so-small horde) of comrades to attack adventures. It manages to capture all the humor of the comic strip, and the game itself is a lot of fun … but probably not that great for six players. We played the “quick” game with six people, which took us five hours and we still weren’t able to finish it.
I’m interested to see how it plays with 4-5 people — I expect that four is probably the sweet spot for this game. You can learn more by checking out the game’s web site, which includes the complete rules and FAQ as downloadable PDfs. There’s also a discussion forum to talk about the game.
Confeat, Gamer Law
Two notable jokes arose from last night’s session. The first is the concept of “confeat”, in which adventures confront and then defeat their opponents. Or so says Evil Genius, who must have temporarily absorbed my mutant ability to artfully mangle words.
Since last night was the first time we played The Order of the Stick Adventure Game, we simply ad hocked any rules we weren’t sure on or thought were ambiguous. Some how this spontaneously evolved into a parody of the “Man Law” beer commercials as we started declaring “Gamer Law” after a quick vote. This method would probably drive our more rules-observant friends nuts (you know who you are), but it worked well last night and bought us time to actually, umm, read the rules.
Ken, Herald of the Bob
We have a saying in our gaming group: “Bob is the real enemy”. Whenever we play board games, this statement is made because it’s true — Bob (aka Evil Genius) is the real enemy, because more often than not, he’ll win.
The process is remarkably similar with each game. I declare that Bob is the real enemy. I remind everyone why Bob is the real enemy. I pose a direct challenge to Bob, or encourage others to do that. People may gang up on Bob, in which case, everyone immediately feels sorry for him, and back off, or they’ll ignore him, and he’ll continue to accrue power. Either way, he’ll likely win.
Comparisons to Galactus are obvious, and last night — after Bob won yet again — I declared that I am, in fact, the Herald of Bob, come to tell the world of his approach, and to warn about their coming doom. I travel from game to game, telling people that Bob is the real enemy, that they must ally against him if they wish to win…
But no one ever listens to the Herald.
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Supply Source: Stauber Performance Ingredients: Offering A Broad Spectrum Of Services
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Stauber Performance Ingredients: Offering A Broad Spectrum Of Services
For over 30 years Stauber Performance Ingredients, Fullerton, CA, has been supplying ingredients to the nutritional, food and cosmetic industry. Previously known as Stauber Chemical, Inc., the company started out as a distributor for a wide variety of manufacturers of fine chemicals and intermediates in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, as the company eyed the rapid growth in the nutritional and health food market, it saw the need to play distribution, processing and innovation roles for a growing number of clients and expanded accordingly. “In the early 1990s, we changed the name of our company to more adequately reflect the direction we were headed,” commented Dan Stauber, president and CEO. “Presently, we continue to play a processing role, making products more user friendly. In addition, Stauber represents high quality primary ingredient manufacturers and we are always trying to find ways to introduce novel products to the marketplace.”
Stauber supplies a wide variety of custom formulated products. To meet demand, it has expanded its capabilities to include granulation, chelsination, blending and milling, plus other services. “We welcome proprietary formulas and supply such products to customer specifications,” said Mr. Stauber. “Our technical department works quickly and directly with our customers to develop products specific to their individual formulas and needs. We offer many of our products in powder and granular forms, as well as specific densities for capsule fill issues and/or mesh combinations for flow ability, fill and compaction.”
By maintaining a diverse product portfolio, Stauber has the ability to offer a broad range of solutions to meet its customers’ needs. Some of its products include low lead mineral products conforming to Proposition 65 levels, including carbonate, chloride, citrate, gluconate, hydroxide, oxide and sulfate; vitamins; bioflavonoids, including citrus, lemon, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, quercitin, rutin and hesperidin; excipients, including fillers, binders, lubricants and disintegrants; fibers, including grains and cellulose; green foods, including alfalfa juice, barley juice, chlorella, chlorophyllin, spirulina and wheat grass; vegetable and fruit powders; specialty products, including chondroitin sulfate, glucosamine, MSM and chitosan; amino acids; botanical powders and extracts, including bilberry, ginkgo biloba, green tea, St. John's Wort, echinacea, peppermint, kola nut, guarana, milk thistle, valerian and yucca; marine products, including sea kelp, alginic acid, shark cartilage and fish protein; probiotics and other ingredients, including choline, betaine, inositol, maltodextrin, dextrose and creatine.
On the new product front, Stauber is promoting a new line of fruit products positioned for the antioxidant and general health category, in addition to amino acid compounds and a growing line of flavors. The company is also working on co-marketing programs with some of its manufacturing partners to help create quality awareness for several of its primary ingredients.
In 2003, Stauber established its East Coast distribution facility in Allentown, PA, as well as its sales office in Dallas, TX. The company also has warehouse facilities in Fullerton, CA, and Ogden, UT, and continues to hire and groom its employees and its business to serve the evolving demands of the marketplace.
Looking ahead, Mr. Stauber offered his opinion of the nutraceuticals industry. “Governmental regulations are going to increasingly put more pressure on this industry, which, in turn, will force the need to raise quality standards higher. As Stauber meets these demands, we will continue to grow our business by partnering with quality conscious manufacturers,” he said. “Consolidation must also continue in order for this industry to move forward. We see ourselves as a company with substance, playing a leading role as an ingredient supplier as the natural products industry moves forward.”—T.W.
Stauber Performance Ingredients
4120 North Palm Street
Fullerton, CA 92835-1026
E-mail: sales@stauberusa.com
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Power MOSFETs Part 2
By Gerard Fonte View In Digital Edition
Part 2: Projects
Last time, we examined how to use power MOSFETs. This time, we'll build two projects. The first is a transformerless voltage doubler that takes a DC voltage from 12 to 30 volts and doubles it. Unlike most other voltage doubler circuits, this design can supply amps of current. It incorporates a high-efficiency, full-bridge design that has additional applications such as a motor driver, power inverter, or even a Class D power audio amplifier.
The second project uses a power MOSFET in a linear (rather than switching) application. A simple constant current power supply is presented. With proper heatsinking, it can supply up to 20 amps. Each project can be built at a basic parts cost of about $15.
The H-bridge
The voltage doubler is based on a standard H-bridge design, shown in Figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Conceptually, an H-bridge is just a double-pole, double-throw switch that reverses the polarity of the power to the load.
Basically, an H-bridge functions as a DPDT switch which reverses the polarity to a load. There are many applications for this circuit such as switching power supplies and motor control. Without getting into the details, switching at high speed gives good motor control and very efficient power supplies. The high frequency allows the use of smaller inductors and capacitors which can significantly reduce size, cost, and weight.
Our H-bridge is shown in Figure 2. It consists of several simple building blocks.
FIGURE 2. The basic H-bridge circuit. The power MOSFETS act as the DPDT switch. The control chips provide the proper gate voltages; the timer and inverter create the clock signals; and the voltage regulator sets a fixed voltage for the low voltage components.
The first is a regulated power supply (U1 and associated components). This is needed because other circuits may not be able to function over the full input range of the circuit. A three-terminal regulator is chosen to provide a stable 10.5 volts. Any voltage from 10 to 12 volts is fine for the low-power circuits. Generally, you want to keep it over eight volts for proper boot-strap operation (see Part 1). The other low voltage parts like to see something at 15 volts or less. A fixed 12 volt regulator (LM7812) can also be used here.
The second part is the master clock (U2 and associated parts) and is a simple 555 oscillator with a twist. As shown, it provides a very precise 50% duty cycle with a frequency of about 35 kHz. The twist is that the output pin is NOT used for the charging and discharging of the timing capacitor, as is the case for most other 50% duty cycle designs. This makes the circuit completely insensitive to output loading. Additionally, those other "50%" designs are more typically 45%-55%, or worse. Note that I verified proper operation with bipolar, CMOS, and low power 555 timer versions. A 50% duty cycle is not an absolute requirement for this design, but it distributes the power evenly through both halves of the bridge.
A DPDT switch makes and breaks contacts simultaneously (in theory). Since we are using N-channel parts for both the high side and low side, we will have to use a two phase clock. That is, both a "clock" signal and an "inverted clock" signal must be available. A CMOS 4069 inverter (U3) is used to invert the 555 signal. I chose to use separate inverters because they were available. You could run the Q signals directly from the 555 and the /Q inverted signals from a single inverter if desired.
As noted in Part 1, getting the power MOSFETs to switch quickly is not a trivial task. For that reason, I used special driver chips for this part of the circuit (U4 and U5). The LM5109 are inexpensive and easy to use. They provide a peak current of one amp to the gate of the MOSFET and typical switching times of 15 ns into 1,000 pF. They can support MOSFETs operating at up to 90 volts and can supply a bootstrap voltage of up to 108 volts. The Schmitt trigger inputs accept TTL and CMOS level signals.
Unfortunately, these drivers do not come in standard DIP packaging. I had to get SMT parts and fabricate an adapter as shown in Photo 1.
PHOTO 1. I made a DIP adapter for the surface mount drivers from a "component carrier." The large solder blobs on the carrier pins act as a heatsink when soldering to the driver chip. Once one pin is soldered, the rest go fairly easily.
It requires a steady hand with the soldering iron but is not too difficult. The trick is to put the component carrier in a protoboard (as shown) to support it and act as a heatsink for the pins. Put a blob of solder on a carrier pin and use #30 solid wire. Solder the carrier first because it acts as a heatsink. If you solder a wire to the SMT driver pin first, it may become unsoldered when you solder the wire to the carrier pin. Be careful with the heat because the carrier is made of thermoplastic and melts.
Last part of the circuit is the power MOSFETs themselves. I chose IRF540 devices. They cost about $0.75 each, operate up to 100 volts, and can handle 28 amps continuously with an on resistance of 0.77 ohms. In theory, this design can handle 2,500 watts of power. We won't be anywhere near that value.
The input voltage is limited to 30 volts because the voltage regulator that supplies power to the timer and other circuits is only rated at 35 volts. If you use a separate low-voltage power supply, the input can be theoretically increased to 90 volts where the driver chips fail. More realistically, the maximum safe input to the H-bridge is about 75 volts as shown.
The maximum continuous DC current — derated for heating — is about 14 amps for the MOSFETs. Since each MOSFET is on only 50% of the time and the switching speed is high, a full 28 amps through the bridge is a reasonable figure. Note that each MOSFET will have to dissipate 50 to 60 watts in this scenario, so good heatsinking will be a requirement.
Output Circuits and Variations
We will be using a simple capacitor voltage doubler, shown in Figure 3.
FIGURE 3. The voltage doubler circuit connects to the basic H-bridge (Figure 2) at four points. The output is close to a DC signal but switching glitches will be present. The optional filter (L2 and C3-C5) reduces the noise to about 200 mV.
It connects directly to the output of Figure 2. (In addition to the H-bridge outputs, connections to H-bridge power and ground are required.) Note that the doubled output voltage is theoretically a perfect DC signal right out of the bridge rectifier. In practice, switching glitches are present and can usually be removed with a simple filter as shown. The capacitor ratings in this voltage doubling circuit are critical. The use of improper capacitors can cause them to explode. (See the sidebar on Switching Capacitors for details.) Because of this failure possibility, it is strongly recommended that the project be housed in a sturdy box. Since the box only has input and output jacks, there seems little reason to show it.
If you want to do something other than voltage doubling, you can use Figure 4's circuit.
FIGURE 4. You can use a transformer to generate almost any voltage you want. The square wave input will require considerable output filtering, depending on the application. The transformer type and switching speed also have significant effects.
It's more conventional and easier to understand. Just remember that the switching frequency is 32 kHz, so ordinary 60 Hz transformers are marginal performers. (Of course, you can always change the circuit's frequency.) A toroidal transformer is usually incorporated here. Generally, they provide better efficiency and high frequency performance. I tried an ordinary 60 Hz power transformer and got reasonable results (considering the input was a square wave). Obviously, be sure your transformer is rated properly for current and voltage. Output filtering is required and is dependent on the frequency, transformer, and load.
A motor can be directly connected to the H-bridge. For optimal performance, you will want to be able to independently control the legs of the bridge. This cannot be done with a fixed oscillator. Instead, the Q and /Q signals should be adjustable. By changing the phase and pulse width, the motor's direction and speed can be controlled with precision. As noted above, if you want to use this H-bridge as a motor controller you should pay close attention to possible voltage and current spikes.
You can always use the H-bridge as an audio amplifier by attaching a loudspeaker to the output. This would be a "Class D" design where pulses are applied to the speaker. Again, the pulses would have to be precisely controlled, typically by a microcontroller. The high frequency pulses have to be filtered out to provide a low distortion audio signal. For good audio, the switching frequency should probably be increased to about 100 kHz. A Class D amplifier using this H-bridge has the potential of providing kilowatts of audio power (see the sidebar on Bridge Power).
Lastly, the circuit shown here operates at a nominal 35 kHz. By changing the timing capacitor in the 555 circuit, other frequencies can be obtained. There is a trade-off, however. The higher the frequency, the greater the switching losses. The capacitors and inductors (if used) can be smaller, though, which saves money and space. Additionally, the higher the operating frequency, the greater the likelihood of EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference). Clearly, when you are switching kilowatts of power, you have to be concerned with unintentional RF (Radio Frequency) emissions. The square waves — so essential for efficiency — contain loads of higher frequency harmonics.
The Voltage Doubler Details
The design concept was to provide a simple voltage doubler for basic DC power supplies. In particular, I had a 0-30 volt, three amp supply. There are occasions when I needed a higher output voltage. Making the H-bridge voltage doubler is simplicity itself. Just connect two capacitors and a bridge rectifier as shown in Figure 3. The output will be a pretty good DC signal as shown in Photo 2.
PHOTO 2. The output directly from the voltage doubler (without filtering) shows a DC signal with switching glitches. The simple filter shown in Figure 3 reduces these glitches to about 200 mV.
Only 165 nS switching glitches are present (photograph 3). These glitches can be reduced to about 200 mV with the optional output filter.
PHOTO 3. The switching glitch is about 165 ns. This can be reduced or eliminated with proper fine tuning of the switching signals.
Note that these glitches can be significantly reduced or even eliminated by fine-tuning the switch timing. Some driver chips allow this. Alternatively, you could use a microcontroller or dedicated digital hardware for better switching control.
Photo 2 shows that there are 22 volts out of the circuit with a 12 volt input. The circuit load was a 68 ohm resistor which pulled about 1/3 of an amp and dissipated over seven watts of heat. The MOSFETs weren't even warm. However, the bridge rectifier got quite hot because it was deliberately under-rated (will discuss shortly).
Photo 4 shows the breadboard of the voltage doubler. It's important to keep things as close together as practical.
PHOTO 4. The breadboard of the voltage doubler (without filter). This is placed in a sturdy enclosure for safety (not shown, see text). Use short wires because the switching speeds are high.
Long leads with high frequencies can result in poor performance. Note that heatsinks for the MOSFETs are not needed for this typical operation of a few amps. I did not include the fuse because I will always be using it with a current-limited power supply. If you do not use such a supply, you should use a slow-blow fuse about 300% above the highest current output you expect. For example, if you power a device that draws one amp, use a three amp input fuse. This is because you will need more than twice the input current. The input diode (D3) is optional and is used to prevent damage if the input power is accidentally reversed. It will reduce the efficiency of the circuit. Make it about 10 times the expected output current with a PIV (Peak Inverse Voltage) of at least twice the maximum input voltage.
The major loss of power in the circuit is in the bridge rectifier. There is about 1.4 volts dropped across it. With an input voltage of 14 volts, at least 10% is lost here. With only one amp of current, it will have to dissipate 1.4 watts of power. For better heat control and efficiency, I recommend well oversized and separate diodes of 10-15 amps each with a heatsink (see Parts List). Using lower current diodes causes considerable heating which further increases the forward voltage drop. This causes even more heating and greater forward voltage drop, and so forth and so on. Losses can more than double if too small diodes are used. (Note that I only used a two amp bridge because I have a specific application that uses little power.)
Constant Current Supply
Power MOSFETs can be used in linear applications, as well. In such cases, they are typically treated as variable resistors which imply considerable heat losses. Proper heatsinking is necessary. Nevertheless, these devices allow you to control high power quite easily.
Figure 5 shows a simple constant current power supply. The theory of operation is very basic.
FIGURE 5. The analog constant current circuit is quite simple. A heatsink for the power MOSFET is required. For continuous use, R9 and Q2 can be omitted and R6 replaced with a wire.
A small voltage is developed across the 0.01 ohm sense resistor (R8) and is fed into the inverting input of the op-amp. This positive voltage is inverted by the op-amp, reducing the output voltage which reduces the voltage across the sense resistor via the MOSFET. This stabilizes the output voltage to the value found at the non-inverting input. Any change in current through the sense resistor causes a voltage change at the inverting input which is exactly offset by the negative feedback. The result is a constant current through the sense resistor and load.
Determining the reference voltage to be applied to the non-inverting input is just an application of Ohm's Law. If there is one amp of current flowing through the 0.01 ohm sense resistor, there will be 0.01 volts across it. So, the voltage-to-current ratio is 1:100 or 0.01 volts per amp.
The reference circuit is pretty straightforward. We want a stable and adjustable voltage from 0.0 volts to about 0.500 volts. I used an LM336-5 five volt reference because that is what I had on hand. Then, I reduced voltage with a resistor network and used a 10 turn trimmer for fine adjustment. Other methods of generating the reference voltage can be used, as well. (You can substitute an analog signal for the reference voltage and get a constant current power amplifier.)
There are a few considerations for this circuit. The first is that separate power supplies should be used for the load and circuit power. This is because it's very easy to cause significant power supply variations with 20 amps of current being drawn. If you choose to use a different op-amp, be sure it can operate with inputs very close to ground. The breadboard circuit is shown in Photo 5. The heatsink shown (a requirement) is rated at 13 watts.
PHOTO 5.The breadboard of the constant current supply. Since the MOSFET is acting as a variable resistor, considerable heat is generated. A heatsink is required.
You may need a larger one for continuous use at 20 amps, depending on the load resistance. Remember that the MOSFET is acting like a resistor in this circuit. Depending on the load, its resistance can be relatively high or low and its power dissipation can be correspondingly high or low. Do the math to be sure. Note that at 20 amps, the five watt sense resistor (R8) dissipates four watts. If you plan on running this continuously at high current, you may want to increase R8 to seven or 10 watts.
Because of the very low sense resistance, ordinary circuit resistance can increase this significantly. (My circuit resistance was 30 milliohms.) The primary concern is that the voltage at the non-inverting input will be higher than expected (one amp per 13 mV rather than 10 mV). In most cases, this is not a problem for the proper operation of the circuit.
Since I didn't want to continuously run 20 amps while testing and for photography, I used a quick and dirty method of turning off the circuit. I simply used a transistor to pull the MOSFET gate to ground. This worked, but opened the feedback loop. As a result, when the transistor was turned off and normal linear operation was restored, there was considerable ringing as the loop re-stabilized. (If you don't want the disable control, you can eliminate R9 and Q2, and replace R6 with a wire.)
Photo 6 shows the circuit in operation. It is providing just about two volts into a 0.1 ohm load using a 14.4 volt portable tool battery. Thus, the current is about 20 amps. Not bad for a handful of components. In this 5% duty-cycle application, the heatsink was barely warm.
PHOTO 6. With a load of 0.1 ohms, this two volt signal means that 20 amps are flowing. The ringing is because the feedback loop was opened (see text).
Power MOSFETS can control a lot of power easily. An H-bridge voltage doubler circuit was seen to be suitable for this design, as well as other applications. An analog constant current project was able to easily provide 20 amps into a 0.1 ohm load. A nice feature of power MOSFETS is that if even higher currents are needed, they can be paralleled very easily. In short, power MOSFETs are an inexpensive and easy way of controlling significant power. NV
Switching Capacitor Ratings
It is extremely important to pay close attention to capacitor ratings in power switching circuits. These designs place a severe strain on the capacitor and it must be rated for this type of operation. Using the wrong type of capacitor can result in the capacitor exploding. Often, switching capacitors are chosen because of these other ratings rather than its capacitance. The two most important ratings to consider are: ESR and ripple current (typically at a switching frequency of 100 kHz). The ESR (Effective Series Resistance) says how much resistance the capacitor has. Ideally, a charge on one capacitor plate should freely interact with the other plate. But, capacitors 1 to 0.01 ohms. Everything else being equal, usually the larger the capacitor value is, the lower the ESR will be. So, if you are driving a heavy load (say a two ohm loudspeaker), a one ohm ESR will waste a lot of power and heat up the capacitor.
The second rating is the ripple current. This says how much RMS current can safely pass through the capacitor continuously. Again, typically, the larger the capacitor value, the higher current it can handle.
These capacitors usually fail because heat degrades the capacitor and increases the ESR. This causes a larger voltage drop across the capacitor and additional heating. Eventually, the capacitor gets too hot and bursts. This bursting can be mild or explosive. Most capacitors have relief points that reduce the chances of a violent explosion, but care should always be taken. Always house these types of circuits in a sturdy cabinet.
Bridge Power Ratings
In theory, a bridge circuit can provide up to four times more power to the load than a standard power control circuit. This seemingly impossible task is accomplished fairly directly and logically. However, it is a bit subtle. Suppose you have an ordinary audio amplifier running at eight volts and driving an eight ohm speaker. The voltage swing at the speaker will be a maximum of ±4 volts. Four volts into eight ohms is 0.5 amps. The peak output power is then two watts (Power = Current^2 x Resistance).
However, a bridge circuit changes the polarity to the load. This results in eight volts going in one direction and 8 volts going in the other direction for a ±8 volt swing. Doubling the voltage causes twice the current to flow, or one amp. Doubling the current results in four times as much power (P=I^2 x R). So, a bridge amplifier can provide up to four times as much power (eight watts) to the load as a non-bridge type.
The next question is why bridged power amplifiers are only rated at twice the non-bridged power, or less. This is because of the power handling of the amplifier rather than the theoretical power delivered to the load. If one amplifier can only dissipate enough heat to support X watts of power output, then two amplifiers can still only dissipate 2X watts, regardless of the voltage swing.
Constant Current Supply Parts List
Resistors 1/4, 5% unless specified.
R1, R9 5.6K
R2 100K
R3 10K 10-turn trimmer
R4, R5, R6 10K
R7 1K
R8 0.01Ω 5W (Mouser #588-15FR010E)
C1 0.1 μF 25 volts
Q1 IRF540 Power MOSFET (Jameco)
Q2 2N3940 NPN transistor
U1 LMC6482 Op-amp
Q2Q LM336-5 Five-volt reference
Misc: Heatsink for Q1
BASIC H-BRIDGE Parts LIST
Resistors (1/4W, 5% unless specified)
R1 1.5K
R4 20K
Capacitors (25V unless specified)
C1 100 μF
C2, C3 0.1 μF
C4 10 μF
C5 0.01 μF
C6 0.001 μF
C7, C8 0.1 μF 150V
D1, D2 1N4004
D3 Optional, see text
Q1-Q4 IRF540 Power MOSFET (Jameco 210518)
U1 LM317 adjustable voltage regulator
U2 555 timer
U3 CD4069 CMOS hex inverter
U4, U5 LM5109B half-bridge driver (Digi-Key)
F1 Slow-blow fuse (see text)
Case Metal preferred for safety and EMI reduction (see text)
Additional parts for H-bridge Voltage Doubler (see text)
C1*, C2* 1,500 μF 63 volt switching capacitor (Mouser #647-UPW1J152MHD)
D1-D4 15 amp rectifier (Jameco #879318)
C3 100 μF 150 volts (optional, see text)
C4, C5 0.1 μF 150 volts (optional, see text)
* Critical part, safety related, see text.
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NYFA Alumna Niki Landella: In Her Own Words
Posted on May 12, 2017 May 11, 2018 by New York Film Academy
By Niki Landella
My experience at the NYFA was without a doubt one of the best things I have ever done for myself, for my spirit, for my artistic process and for my personal and professional development.
I only spent four weeks there and I am an entirely different woman as a result.
Photo provided by Niki Landella.
Picture perfect facilities, the Statue of Liberty in the distance and an amazing view; state-of-the-art equipment, people from all over the world in one building studying with you, every single teacher with credentials which, when mentioned, could easily be mistaken for name dropping — but none of that is what really makes NYFA special.
For me, the best part about NYFA was the souls I encountered and the depth of the humans with whom I had the privilege of interacting. My experience was one of absolute respect and dignity.
Each and every teacher encouraged me to trust myself more, and I think this has something to do with the success that they have already experienced in their lives. There is something about people who have already experienced legitimate success in their careers — they don’t need to put you down in order to get a sense of significance. I think because they had already experienced professional fulfillment, their teaching process was free of the subconscious agendas I find many teachers in the arts have. I speak as an individual who has grown up in the arts and has been in the arts for 15 years.
No NYFA teacher ever motivated me through shame. I found myself doing things I had struggled with for years, just because my NYFA teachers had the necessary patience with me. I absolutely blossomed under their nurturing.
In improv class I was taught to listen to my own inner compass.
In Meisner I was taught to listen to others.
In dance I was taught to give myself the dignity of my process in getting to know my body. In singing I learned to trust my own voice.
In lab classes I also learned to respond to my own inner stimuli.
Music teachers all gave me the comfort of knowing that, with enough patience, I am capable of understanding what I once thought of as a complex art; to trust that there is music inside of me, and that they would be willing to help me unlock it.
There’s something indescribably beautiful and empowering about the culture of respect under which I found the New York Film Academy to operate.
Then there are the classmates. I know it may sound like a luxury to have global classmates, but picture this: You’re sitting in music theory, and an Italian word like “Acapella” comes up. Your actual Italian friend from actual Italy who is sitting next to you says, “In my language that word means ‘in the chapel,’ because acapella music was first sung at church,” and then the music teacher responds and gives you all the historical data on that.
Now imagine how many of these little serendipitous moments you have every day, which add so much to your store of knowledge and such depth of calibre to your education in a way that few schools are able to provide on this globe. And I say that as someone who has lived on three continents.
Then there is just something about New York. In the arts at least, New York is where the best of the best go to refine themselves. When you are in New York you are swimming with the big fish and you have an unparalleled wealth of resources at your fingertips.
My short time at the New York Film Academy was worth every penny, every drop of sweat that went into getting there — and then some. I would recommend a course at the New York Film Academy, at any of their campuses, to any individual who considers themselves serious about being a storyteller in any field. They source the best of the best, they give you their absolute best every day, and all they ask for in return is that you give your best. There is a culture of excellence coupled with a culture of respect. There is absolutely no way one can walk away from such an experience without being deeply enriched.
New York Film Academy would like to thank Niki Landella for taking the time to share her story about her wonderful experience in our musical theatre program. We are so glad to have you in our community, and can’t wait to hear about your next adventures!
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A Q&A With NYFA Producing Alumna Yuxiao Wang
Posted on April 7, 2017 May 3, 2018 by Joelle Smith
New York Film Academy Alumna Yuxiao Wang had a long road to get to NYFA. After three countries, two degrees, and a ton of work, she’s well on her way to becoming an outstanding producer. Wang spent some time speaking to NYFA Correspondent Joelle Smith about her amazing journey.
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Joelle Smith: Can you tell me a little about the project you’re working on and your role within the project?
Yuxiao Wang: I just finished producing a 75-minute web feature five days ago. I have two more features coming up in November, where I am both the line producer and associate producer. Two of these three films will be distributed online and the other is seeking theater distribution.
JS: Can you give me a little more detail about your journey from China, to Japan, to the U.S.?
YW: I learned Japanese literature in China and exchanged to Japan for a year in 2013. While there I majored in animation. I always wanted to learn film or work in the film industry, but during that time I didn’t have any knowledge about film. Then my parents agreed to support me while I worked on my master’s degree in America. I chose NYFA because it focuses on hands-on practice, and the producing program will cover a lot of secrets of how to make a film. Soon I was working as a producer in LA.
JS: What were some of the challenges you faced?
YW: The biggest challenge for me is language. As a foreigner, I am not able to read the scripts as quickly as native speakers do, and because of this reason, I think I missed a lot of job opportunities. I am very confident with my skills but when I submit my resume I know they’re often looking to hire fluent speakers.
The other challenge is my visa. I am currently at my OPT and not a lot of companies want to sponsor a foreign student for a work visa. That’s why it is hard for us to find a job here. So, I am working freelance now.
JS: What were some of the greatest joys you experienced throughout your journey?
YW: I am really happy I finally choose to work in the film industry even though it is very hard. In my country if you choose to learn acting, directing, or producing as your major in your college, not a lot of parents will support you because they think this industry is very dangerous. I finally got a chance to learn my major and started my career as a producer. I met a lot of cool people here, and they are very creative, passionate and trying to make something to change the world. I don’t like a boring life of sitting in the office. That’s why even though this job is very hard, I still keep doing it, because every second I am working on the things I am interested in, I feel like I am alive.
JS: What do you like best about attending the New York Film Academy?
YW: They are very friendly to all the students from all over the world and won’t force you to have a film related major in your undergraduate — which is very important to me, as my major was Japanese education. I think that was the initial attraction.
JS: What did you learn here that’s helped you the most in your latest filmmaking project?
YW: I think entertainment law is very important. We learned to go over all the paperwork, including documents and contracts, to make sure everything goes well. We were trained in our class to pay attention to details and developed great knowledge of the possible disputes and infringements during a production. The last feature I worked on had a 50-person crew and around 100 actors. We shot for 24 days and on 30 locations, but using the knowledge I learned, we didn’t have any problems.
JS: What projects are you working on now and where can people interested in your work find you?
YW: I am in the distribution stage of a feature I produced called “Talentik.” It will be released in Chinese major streaming media platform “Sohu Video” on February 24.
And I am also shooting a major Chinese TV show in Hawaii now, starring A-list stars, and it will be on the major network and TV. This is the second series of this show, and the first series was the highest-rated drama of 2016 with an average national viewership rating of 2.63 percent. It had a 5.47 billion hit amount online and 379,000 related comments, and also aired on a major TV network, Hunan TV, in China.
I have two additional features I’m currently working on. One is romantic, and the other is a drama we’re developing and will be shot on the West Coast this year.
The New York Film Academy would like to thank Ms. Wang for taking the time to share her story. You can find more of Yuxiao Wang’s work by clicking here. Interested in learning more about film production? Check out New York Film Academy’s Producing School!
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A Q&A With NYFA Acting for Film Alumna and Teacher’s Assistant Alice Dessuant
Posted on March 17, 2017 March 16, 2017 by Jeanne Joe Perrone
An actor plays many roles in the course of a career, but Alice Dessuant is also interested in roles behind the scenes. After completing her New York Film Academy training in acting for film, Alice decided to stay on and work as a TA, and most recently she booked a role in “La Recompense” in Paris.
NYFA had an opportunity to sit down with Miss Dessuant to hear some of her insights on what it’s like to shape shift and work in so many different types of roles within the entertainment industry. Here’s what she had to share with our community.
NYFA: Congratulations on your upcoming performances in France! Can you tell us a bit about your role and the production?
AD: Thanks! So I will be performing in a play called “La Recompense” (The Reward) at the Edouard VII theater, one of the biggest private theaters in Paris. We will be on stage every day (twice on Saturday) from March 14 to July 16 after six weeks of rehearsing.
“La Recompense” is the story of Martin, a brilliant historian who is rewarded with the International History Prize. His girlfriend and his brother seem to think it is THE prize of a lifetime, the accomplishment of his entire career. Martin however would do anything to give it back: indeed, all the laureates from the past years died a year after they got rewarded.
My character is introduced by Martin’s brother, who speaks about me during the play. I then quite literally appear to Martin at the end of the play to seal his fate.
NYFA: You’ve worked both in front of the camera as an actor and behind the scenes as a cinematographer and wardrobe assistant, and you’ve also worked in several countries. What would you say is your number one takeaway from shifting position, working internationally, and seeing the industry from so many sides?
AD: I feel like shifting position on set made me a better actress. And I would recommend it 100 percent. Knowing exactly who’s doing what and how they do it on set makes you more comfortable in your own position, and makes work more fluid. As for working in different countries, I definitely learned new acting tools for me to use back home. It’s a great way to approach new methods and expand your working skills.
NYFA: Why NYFA? Tell us a little bit more about your journey in choosing the acting for film program at New York Film Academy.
AD: To be perfectly honest, it was completely random! I was spending some time in New York in the summer and I saw an add for the school at a bus stop. I’d always wanted to leave Paris and study acting for film in New York, I thought it was a good place to start. Probably the best decision I ever made!
NYFA: What was it like studying acting for film in a country other than your own?
AD: Whether you are studying, working or just spending time abroad, you always get through phases where you feel homesick, where you miss your family and friends. That was probably the most challenging for me (that and the three months of snow every winter, God I hate the cold!). But more seriously, it really is nothing compared to how rewarding it is to accomplish something outside of your country, out of your comfort zone. It was an amazing feeling to have people who barely knew me, willing to give me a chance. It definitely boosted my confidence! And the fact is, as soon as I got back to France I booked three big jobs in a couple of weeks. I don’t think it would have happened if I had never left Paris for a while.
NYFA: What has surprised you the most about your classes at NYFA? Were there any subjects that became a new passion for you?
AD: I was really surprised to have audition technique classes. In France, being an actor is still considered an art, not a business. So you learn to do the job but not to get the job. That was the most useful class for me. And I definitely fell in love with TV classes! Especially when working on sitcoms. It really feels like recorded live theater!
NYFA: How did staying on with NYFA and working as a TA change the way you understood your craft as an actor? Did your perspective on your courses change?
AD: Working as a TA made me realise how easy [in some ways] it is to be an actor! Knowing how much equipment is involved, and how much work it takes to produce anything really put my own work into perspective. Sometimes as an actor you show up on set, having worked on your character, emotionally charged, sort of in your own bubble really, and you forget the humongous amount of work it took to build the set, prep the lights, get the camera ready. Working on the other side reminded me of that.
NYFA: What was it like to be a part of the NYFA community both as a student and as a TA?
AD: I had a great experience as a student at NYFA. I felt really privileged. I absolutely adored my classmates and it felt like working with a solid acting troupe all year long. I also had a blast working as a TA. The experience was especially interesting and different for me because I went from a student perspective to working side to side with the teachers I had the year before. I found that same feeling of a troupe with the other TAs, which made the job very enjoyable.
NYFA: Favorite NYFA moment?
AD: Favorite NYFA moment as a student was probably being part of the NYFA ensemble, and getting to perform “Gruesome Playground Injuries” with my classmates.
NYFA: What’s inspiring you right now
AD: The people I am working with at the moment. Actors I have admired all my life and whom I get to be on stage with now.
NYFA: Do you have a favorite film, or favorite actor?
AD: Hardest question ever. I absolutely can’t name one movie. It’s just impossible. As for actors, Johnny Depp in “Edward Scissorhands” is the reason i decided to be an actor (after I realised Jedi and Indiana Jones were not actual jobs). At the moment I am particularly obsessed with both Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Watching them act is purely the best acting class you can get. And watching them act together … I literally pause to take notes.
NYFA: What advice would you give to aspiring acting for film students?
AD: My advice is, get as many different acting classes possible. Work on different methods, with different teachers. And if you are ever offered to do another job on set besides acting, say yes.
And stay away from the craft service, it’s a trap!
Alice, thank you for taking the time to share a part of your story with the NYFA community. Break legs in your upcoming shows!
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Q&A with NYFA alumna Jessica Myhill
Posted on February 4, 2017 February 6, 2017 by Jeanne Joe Perrone
New York Film Academy 1-Year Filmmaking Program alumna Jessica Myhill recently completed a short film that beautifully expresses her perspective on studying at NYFA. We had the chance to sit down with the South African filmmaker to discuss her video, her inspirations, and her experiences with student life at our New York City campus. Whether you are a current NYFA student or are considering joining our community, read on and be sure to check out her NYFA video!
Hi Jessica, thanks so much for sitting down to answer our questions! We’re excited that you’re here to share your story with fellow NYFA students.
Before we talk about the short film you’ve created and shared with us, can you tell us a little bit about your journey to New York Film Academy?
I struggled with finding a school which suited me. Many universities or filmmaking schools I was looking at in my own country were too theoretical. I have always learnt best in an extremely hands-on environment. In high school I co-founded a film club with some friends and could already see that if you put a camera in my hands, I will start learning.
It’s amazing how much the New York Film Academy has packed into one year of school! I have had the opportunity to learn how to use all sorts of cameras starting from a 16mm Camera to the Red camera. I have written, produced, directed and edited about 10 short films and I have been a crew member for other directors and even acted in one or two films along the way. I have met and worked with so many people from all around the world which has been by far the most fulfilling thing for me as an artist. The collaborative nature of the New York Film Academy is one of my favorite aspects of the school!
What has surprised you the most about your classes at NYFA?
I have always been extremely passionate about nearly every creative medium. This made the diversity of what we got to learn very exciting for me. In high school I was very involved in art and theatre, thus the acting and production design classes were some of my favorites of course.
Do you have a favorite NYFA moment?
It was the shoot of my classmates thesis film (the last film we filmed in my class). I was the cinematographer, one of my favourite roles. After many challenges and setbacks we had trying to shoot this film, this final reshoot was such an awe-inspiring experience. The director was prepared and everyone was just working together so well. I could see all my classmates growth and also my personal growth in trusting and managing the crew as well as my general understanding about the craft of cinematography. Most importantly, it was such a joy to see how much we bonded as a group of individuals
What has been your greatest challenge at NYFA, and how did you overcome it? What advice would you give your fellow filmmaking students?
Constantly coming up with ideas was extremely hard. I had a major period of writer’s block while trying to come up with an idea for my final film. I overcame it by bouncing ideas around with friends and family. I think it’s important in any creative field to know how to access your creativity. If you are visual, start drawing. If you get inspired by other films, watch lots of film. Learn what inspires you and do that until you come with ideas.
Most importantly, you must trust yourself. Everyone has powerful stories to tell. One just has to learn how to access them.
How do you feel your approach to storytelling has changed over the course of your studies?
Writing for film is challenging, as I sometimes forget to include information that only I know but that the audience may not be aware of. I realized that the craft of writing is learning how to take the audience on a journey. You have the pieces of the puzzle and you have to build it in the most interesting way to really make the final picture even more beautiful and impactful.
What inspired you to want to create your short film about your NYFA experience?
My family were organizing a Catch Up Fundraiser while I was in New York to celebrate as well as update my supportive community of my latest endeavors.
We decided that it would be good idea for me to record a message to summarize my NYFA experience, especially as I could not be at the event [in South Africa]. I set up and recorded an interview with the help of my classmates.
While I started planning and assembling the video, I was compelled to keep adding and expanding the visual elements to paint the picture of my journey more vividly.
https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/My-Video-to-the-NYFA-Updated.mp-4.mp4
In your video you mention what a significant role your community has played in your pursuit of filmmaking. Why is community important in film?
Filmmaking, in my opinion, is the most collaborative art form there is. Not only is it many different types of crafts and artists joining together but it also is a way of connecting with many ideas from the world and making it into a form of art.
You share in your video that you really discovered a lot of value in studying along with NYFA’s very diverse, international students. What is your biggest takeaway from meeting students from around the world?
Learning about the different cultures of my classmates was extremely interesting. I learnt we are different culturally in what we eat and wear and our traditions. The universal truths of what we all relate to become very clear – especially in film where these themes are explored often. It did make me see home differently and I have returned to visit South Africa with a huge appreciation of the weather, the food and the general spirit of the people.
Did you discover any new artistic inspirations from other cultures?
I fell in love with “Chunking Express” directed by Kar-Wai Wong. I admire how he captured the feeling of loneliness in such a visually stylized way.
What was it like studying film in a country other than your own?
It was character building to say the least. Living away from my family and living alone for the first time really forced me to grow. I had found a good support system in New York which eased the burden of being an international student living on a very weak currency.
What’s inspiring you right now?
I am inspired by the active responses to the current injustices of our society. It reminds me of the truth of this quote by Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
What’s your favorite film?
“American Beauty”!
Any last thoughts you’d like to share that we missed?
I think it is important that more females go into filmmaking. I am so glad to see many strong females around me in this industry, but we need more.
It is also important that females allow themselves to be treated in the same way males are treated. If you are a gaffer and are able to carry lights, carry them instead of allowing a man to do it for you even if their intentions are good.
Equality in this field starts with people treating female filmmakers the same way as they treat male filmmakers.
Jessica, thanks so much for sharing your insights and your NYFA story. Congratulations on completing a lovely film. We can’t wait to hear about what you’re up to next!
Jessica Myhill
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WHY MOW?; THE CASE AGAINST LAWNS
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WHY MOW?
By Michael Pollan
May 28, 1989, Section 6, Page 22Buy Reprints
Anyone new to the experience of owning a lawn, as I am, soon figures out that there is more at stake here than a patch of grass. A lawn immediately establishes a certain relationship with one's neighbors and, by extension, the larger American landscape. Mowing the lawn, I realized the first time I gazed into my neighbor's yard and imagined him gazing back into mine, is a civic responsibility.
For no lawn is an island, at least in America. Starting at my front stoop, this scruffy green carpet tumbles down a hill and leaps across a one-lane road into my neighbor's yard. From there it skips over some wooded patches and stone walls before finding its way across a dozen other unfenced properties that lead down into the Housatonic Valley, there to begin its march south to the metropolitan area. Once below Danbury, the lawn - now purged of weeds and meticulously coiffed - races up and down the suburban lanes, heedless of property lines. It then heads west, crossing the New York border; moving now at a more stately pace, it strolls beneath the maples of Scarsdale, unfurls across a dozen golf courses, and wraps itself around the pale blue pools of Bronxville before pressing on toward the Hudson. New Jersey next is covered, an emerald postage stamp laid down front and back of 10,000 split levels, before the broadening green river divides in two. One tributary pushes south, and does not pause until it has colonized the thin, sandy soils of Florida. The other dilates and spreads west, easily overtaking the Midwest's vast grid before running up against the inhospitable western states. But neither flinty soil nor obdurate climate will impede the lawn's march to the Pacific: it vaults the Rockies and, abetted by a monumental irrigation network, proceeds to green great stretches of western desert.
NOWHERE IN THE WORLD ARE LAWNS AS PRIZED AS IN America. In little more than a century, we've rolled a green mantle of grass across the continent, with scarcely a thought to the local conditions or expense. America has more than 50,000 square miles of lawn under cultivation, on which we spend an estimated $30 billion a year - this according to the Lawn Institute, a Pleasant Hill, Tenn., outfit devoted to publicizing the benefits of turf to Americans (surely a case of preaching to the converted).
Like the interstate highway system, like fast-food chains, like television, the lawn has served to unify the American landscape; it is what makes the suburbs of Cleveland and Tucson, the streets of Eugene and Tampa, look more alike than not. According to Ann Leighton, the late historian of gardens, America has made essentially one important contribution to world garden design: the custom of ''uniting the front lawns of however many houses there may be on both sides of a street to present an untroubled aspect of expansive green to the passer-by.'' France has its formal, geometric gardens, England its picturesque parks, and America this unbounded democratic river of manicured lawn along which we array our houses.
It is not easy to stand in the way of such a powerful current. Since we have traditionally eschewed fences and hedges in America (looking on these as Old World vestiges), the suburban vista can be marred by the negligence -or dissent - of a single property owner. This is why lawn care is regarded as such an important civic responsibility in the suburbs, and why the majority will not tolerate the laggard. I learned this at an early age, growing up in a cookie-cutter subdivision in Farmingdale, L.I.
My father, you see, was a lawn dissident. Whether owing to laziness or contempt for his neighbors I was never sure, but he could not see much point in cranking up the Toro more than once a month or so. The grass on our quarter-acre plot towered over the crew-cut lawns on either side of us and soon disturbed the peace of the entire neighborhood.
That subtle yet unmistakable frontier, where the closely shaved lawn rubs up against a shaggy one, is a scar on the face of suburbia, an intolerable hint of trouble in paradise. The scar shows up in ''The Great Gatsby,'' when Nick Carraway rents the house next to Gatsby's and fails to maintain his lawn according to West Egg standards. The rift between the two lawns so troubles Gatsby that he dispatches his gardener to mow Nick's grass and thereby erase it.
Our neighbors in Farmingdale displayed somewhat less class. ''Lawn mower on the fritz?'' they'd ask. ''Want to borrow mine ?'' But the more heavily they leaned on my father, the more recalcitrant he became, until one summer - probably 1959, or '60 - he let the lawn go altogether. The grass plants grew tall enough to flower and set seed; the lawn rippled in the breeze like a flag. There was beauty here, I'm sure, but it was not visible in this context. Stuck in the middle of a row of tract houses on Long Island, our lawn said turpitude rather than meadow, even though strictly speaking that is what it had become.
That summer I felt the hot breath of the majority's tyranny for the first time. No one said anything now, but you could hear it all the same: Mow your lawn or get out. Certain neighbors let it be known to my parents that I was not to play with their children. Cars would slow down as they drove by. Probably some of the drivers were merely curious: they saw the unmowed lawn and wondered if someone had left in a hurry, or perhaps died. But others drove by in a manner that was unmistakably expressive, slowing down as they drew near and then hitting the gas angrily as they passed - pithy driving, the sort of move that is second nature to a Klansman.
We got the message by other media, too. Our next-door negihbor, a mild engineer who was my father's last remaining friend in the development, was charged witht he unpleasant task of conveying the sense of community to my father. It was early on a summer evening that he came to deliver his message. I don't remember it all (I was only 4 or 5 at the time), but I can imagine him taking a highball flass from my mother, squeaking out what he had been told to say about the threat to property values and then waiting for my father - who next to him was a bear - to respond.
My father's reply could not have been more eloquent. Without a word he strode out to the garage and cranked up the rusty old Toro for the first time since fall; it's a miracle the thing started. He pushed it out to the curb and then started back across the lawn to the house, but not in a straight line: he swerved right, then left, then right again. He had cut an ''S'' in the high grass. Then he made an ''M,'' and finally a ''P.'' These are his initials, and as soon as he finished writing them he wheeled the lawn mower back to the garage, never to start it up again.
I WASN'T PREPARED TO TAKE SUCH A HARD LINE ON MY NEW lawn, at least not right off. So I bought a lawn mower, a Toro, and started mowing. Four hours every Saturday. At first I tried for a kind of Zen approach, clearing my mind of everything but the task at hand, immersing myself in the lawn-mowing here-and-now. I liked the idea that my weekly sessions with the grass would acquaint me with the minutest details of my yard. I soon knew by heart the exact location of every stump and stone, the tunnel route of each resident mole, the address of every anthill.
I noticed that where rain collected white clover flourished, that it was on the drier rises that crabgrass thrived. After a few weekends I had a map of the lawn in my head as precise and comprehensive as the mental map one has to the back of his hand.
The finished product pleased me too, the fine scent and the sense of order restored that a new-cut lawn exhales. My house abuts woods on two sides, and mowing the lawn is, in both a real and metaphorical sense, how I keep the forest at bay and preserve my place in this landscape. Much as we've come to distrust it, the urge to dominate nature is a deeply human one, and lawn mowing answers to it. I thought of the lawn mower as civilization's knife and my lawn as the hospitable plane it carved out of the wilderness. My lawn was a part of nature made fit for human habitation.
So perhaps the allure of lawns is in the genes. The sociobiologists think so: they've gone so far as to propose a ''Savanna Syndrome'' to explain our fondness for grass. Encoded in our DNA is a preference for an open grassy landscape resembling the short-grass savannas of Africa on which we evolved and spent our first few million years. This is said to explain why we have remade the wooded landscapes of Europe and North America in the image of East Africa.
Such theories go some way toward explaining the widespread appeal of grass, but they don't really account for the American Lawn. They don't, for instance, account for the keen interest Jay Gatsby takes in Nick Carraway's lawn, or the scandal my father's lawn sparked in Farmingdale. Or the fact that, in America, we have taken down our fences and hedges in order to combine our lawns. And they don't even begin to account for the unmistakable odor of virtue that hovers in this country over a scrupulously maintained lawn.
IF ANY INDIVIDUAL CAN BE said to have invented the American lawn, it is Frederick Law Olmsted. In 1868, he received a commission to design Riverside, outside of Chicago, one of the first planned suburban communities in America. Olmsted's design stipulated that each house be set back 30 feet from the road and it proscribed walls. He was reacting against the ''high dead-walls'' of England which he felt made a row of homes there seem ''as of a series of private madhouses.'' In Riverside, each owner would maintain one or two trees and a lawn that would flow seamlessly into his neighbors', creating the impression that all lived together in a single park.
Olmsted was part of a generation of American landscape designer-reformers who set out at midcentury to beautify the American landscape. That it needed beautification may seem surprising to us today, assuming as we do that the history of the landscape is a story of decline, but few at the time thought otherwise. William Cobbett, visiting from England, was struck at the ''out-of-door slovenliness'' of American homesteads. Each farmer, he wrote, was content with his ''shell of boards, while all around him is as barren as the sea beach . . . though there is no English shrub, or flower, which will not grow and flourish here.''
The land looked as if it had been shaped and cleared in a great hurry -as indeed it had: the landscape largely denuded of trees, makeshift fences outlining badly plowed fields, tree stumps everywhere one looked. As Cobbett and many other 19th-century visitors noted, hardly anyone practiced ornamental gardening; the typical yard was ''landscaped'' in the style Southerners would come to call ''white trash'' - a few chickens, some busted farm equipment, mud and weeds, an unkempt patch of vegetables.
This might do for farmers, but for the growing number of middle-class city people moving to the ''borderland'' in the years following the Civil War, something more respectable was called for. In 1870, Frank J. Scott, seeking to make Olmsted's ideas accessible to the middle class, published the first volume ever devoted to ''suburban home embellishment'': ''The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds,'' a book that probably did more than any other to determine the look of the suburban landscape in America. Like so many reformers of his time, Scott was nothing if not sure of himself: ''A smooth, closely shaven surface of grass is by far the most essential element of beauty on the grounds of a suburban house.''
Americans like Olmsted and Scott did not invent the lawn; lawns had been popular in England since Tudor times. But in England, lawns were usually found only on estates; the Americans democratized them, cutting the vast manorial greenswards into quarter-acre slices everyone could afford. Also, the English never considered the lawn an end in itself: it served as a setting for lawn games and as a backdrop for flowerbeds and trees. Scott subordinated all other elements of the landscape to the lawn; flowers were permissible, but only on the periphery of the grass: ''Let your lawn be your home's velvet robe, and your flowers its not too promiscuous decoration.''
But Scott's most radical departure from Old World practice was to dwell on the individual's responsibility to his neighbors. ''It is unchristian,'' he declared, ''to hedge from the sight of others the beauties of nature which it has been our good fortune to create or secure.'' One's lawn, Scott held, should contribute to the collective landscape. ''The beauty obtained by throwing front grounds open together, is of that excellent quality which enriches all who take part in the exchange, and makes no man poorer.'' Like Olmsted before him, Scott sought to elevate an unassuming patch of turfgrass into an institution of democracy.
With our open-faced front lawns we declare our like-mindedness to our neighbors - and our distance from the English, who surround their yards with ''inhospitable brick wall, topped with broken bottles,'' to thwart the envious gaze of the lower orders. The American lawn is an egalitarian conceit, implying that there is no reason to hide behind fence or hedge since we all occupy the same middle class. We are all property owners here, the lawn announces, and that suggests its other purpose: to provide a suitably grand stage for the proud display of one's own house. Noting that our yards were organized ''to capture the admiration of the street,'' one garden writer in 1921 attributed the popularity of open lawns to our ''infantile instinct to cry 'hello!' to the passer-by, to lift up our possessions to his gaze.''
Of course the democratic front yard has its darker, more coercive side, as my family learned in Farmingdale. In specifying the ''plain style'' of an unembellished lawn for American front yards, the midcentury designer-reformers were, like Puritan ministers, laying down rigid conventions governing our relationship to the land, our observance of which would henceforth be taken as an index of our character. And just as the Puritans would not tolerate any individual who sought to establish his or her own back-channel relationship with the divinity, the members of the suburban utopia do not tolerate the homeowner who establishes a relationship with the land that is not mediated by the group's conventions.
The parallel is not as farfetched as it might sound, when you recall that nature in America has often been regarded as divine. Think of nature as Spirit, the collective suburban lawn as the Church, and lawn mowing as a kind of sacrament. You begin to see why ornamental gardening would take so long to catch on in America, and why my father might seem an antinomian in the eyes of his neighbors. Like Hester Prynne, he claimed not to need their consecration for his actions; perhaps his initials in the front lawn were a kind of Emerald Letter.
Possibly because it is this common land, rather than race or tribe, that makes us all Americans, we have developed a deep distrust of individualistic approaches to the landscape. The land is too important to our identity as Americans to simply allow everyone to have his own way with it. And once we decide that the land should serve as a vehicle of consensus, rather than an arena of self-expression, the American lawn - collective, national, ritualized, and plain - begins to look inevitable.
AFTER MY FIRST SEASON of lawn mowing, the Zen approach began to wear thin. I had taken up flower and vegetable gardening, and soon came to resent the four hours that my lawn demanded of me each week. I tired of the endless circuit, pushing the howling mower back and forth across the vast page of my yard, recopying the same green sentences over and over: ''I am a conscientious homeowner. I share your middle-class values.'' Lawn care was gardening aimed at capturing ''the admiration of the street,'' a ritual of consensus I did not have my heart in. I began to entertain idle fantasies of rebellion: Why couldn't I plant a hedge along the road, remove my property from the national stream of greensward and do something else with it?
The third spring I planted fruit trees in the front lawn, apple, peach, cherry and plum, hoping these would relieve the monotony and begin to make the lawn productive. Behind the house, I put in a perennial border. I built three raised beds out of old chestnut barnboards and planted two dozen different vegetable varieties. Hard work though it was, removing the grass from the site of my new beds proved a keen pleasure. First I outlined the beds with string. Then I made an incision in the lawn with the sharp edge of a spade. Starting at one end, I pried the sod from the soil and slowly rolled it up like a carpet. The grass made a tearing sound as I broke its grip on the earth. I felt a little like a pioneer subduing the forest with his ax; I daydreamed of scalping the entire yard. But I didn't do it - I continued to observe front-yard conventions, mowing assiduously and locating all my new garden beds in the backyard.
The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawn's relationship to nature. For however democratic a lawn may be with respect to one's neighbors, with respect to nature it is authoritarian. Under the mower's brutal indiscriminate rotor, the landscape is subdued, homogenized, dominated utterly. I became convinced that lawn care had about as much to do with gardening as floor waxing, or road paving. Gardening was a subtle process of give and take with the landscape, a search for some middle ground between culture and nature. A lawn was nature under culture's boot.
Mowing the lawn, I felt like I was battling the earth rather than working it; each week it sent forth a green army and each week I beat it back with my infernal machine. Unlike every other plant in my garden, the grasses were anonymous, massified, deprived of any change or development whatsoever, not to mention any semblance of self-determination. I ruled a totalitarian landscape.
Hot monotonous hours behind the mower gave rise to existential speculations. I spent part of one afternoon trying to decide who, in the absurdist drama of lawn mowing, was Sisyphus. Me? A case could certainly be made. Or was it the grass, pushing up through the soil every week, one layer of cells at a time, only to be cut down and then, perversely, encouraged (with fertilizer, lime, etc.) to start the whole doomed process over again? Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in the lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex and death. No wonder Americans like them so much.
And just where was my lawn, anyway? The answer's not as obvious as it seems. Gardening, I had come to appreciate, is a painstaking exploration of place; everything that happens in my garden - the thriving and dying of particular plants, the maraudings of various insects and other pests - teaches me to know this patch of land intimately, its geology and microclimate, the particular ecology of its local weeds and animals and insects. My garden prospers to the extent I grasp these particularities and adapt to them.
Lawns work on the opposite principle. They depend for their success on the overcoming of local conditions. Like Jefferson superimposing one great grid over the infinitely various topography of the Northwest Territory, we superimpose our lawns on the land. And since the geography and climate of much of this country is poorly suited to turfgrasses (none of which are native), this can't be accomplished without the tools of 20th-century industrial civilization - its chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and machinery. For we won't settle for the lawn that will grow here; we want the one that grows there, that dense springy supergreen and weed-free carpet, that Platonic ideal of a lawn we glimpse in the ChemLawn commercials, the magazine spreads, the kitschy sitcom yards, the sublime links and pristine diamonds. Our lawns exist less here than there; they drink from the national stream of images, lift our gaze from the real places we live and fix it on unreal places elsewhere. Lawns are a form of television.
Need I point out that such an approach to ''nature'' is not likely to be environmentally sound? Lately we have begun to recognize that we are poisoning ourselves with our lawns, which receive, on average, more pesticide and herbicide per acre than just about any crop grown in this country. Suits fly against the national lawn-care companies, and interest is kindled in ''organic'' methods of lawn care. But the problem is larger than this. Lawns, I am convinced, are a symptom of, and a metaphor for, our skewed relationship to the land. They (Continued on Page 44) teach us that, with the help of petrochemicals and technology, we can bend nature to our will. Lawns stoke our hubris with regard to the land. What is the alternative? To turn them into gardens. I'm not suggesting that there is no place for lawns in these gardens or that gardens by themselves will right our relationship to the land, but the habits of thought they foster can take us some way in that direction.
Gardening, as compared to lawn care, tutors us in nature's ways, fostering an ethic of give and take with respect to the land. Gardens instruct us in the particularities of place. They lessen our dependence on distant sources of energy, technology, food and, for that matter, interest.
For if lawn mowing feels like copying the same sentence over and over, gardening is like writing out new ones, an infinitely variable process of invention and discovery. Gardens also teach the necessary if rather un-American lesson that nature and culture can be compromised, that there might be some middle ground between the lawn and the forest - between those who would complete the conquest of the planet in the name of progress, and those who believe it's time we abdicated our rule and left the Earth in the care of its more innocent species. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature half way.
PROBABLY YOU WILL WANT to know if I have begun to practice what I'm preaching. Well, I have not ripped out my lawn entirely. But each spring larger and larger tracts of it give way to garden. Last year I took a half acre and planted a meadow of black-eyed Susans and oxeye daisies. In return for a single annual scything, I am rewarded with a field of flowers from May until frost.
The lawn is shrinking, and I've hired a neighborhood kid to mow what's left of it. Any Saturday that Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister or Van Halen isn't playing the Hartford Civic Center, this large blond teen-aged being is apt to show up with a 48-inch John Deere mower that shears the lawn in less than an hour. It's $30 a week, but he's freed me from my dark musings about the lawn and so given me more time in the garden.
Out in front, along the road where my lawn overlooks my neighbors', and in turn the rest of the country's, I have made my most radical move. I built a split rail fence and have begun to plant a hedge along it - a rough one made up of forsythia, lilac, bittersweet and bridal wreath. As soon as this hedge grows tall and thick, my secession from the national lawn will be complete.
Anything then is possible. I could let it all revert to meadow, or even forest, except that I don't go in for that sort of self-effacement. I could put in a pumpkin patch, a lily pond, or maybe an apple orchard. And I could even leave an area of grass. But even if I did, this would be a very different lawn from the one I have now. For one thing, it would have a frame, which means it could accommodate plants more subtle and various than the screaming marigolds, fierce red salvias and musclebound rhododendrons that people usually throw into the ring against a big unfenced lawn. Walled off from the neighbors, no longer a tributary of the national stream, my lawn would now form a distinct and private space - become part of a garden, rather than a substitute for one.
Yes, there might well be a place for a small lawn in my new garden. But I think I'll wait until the hedge fills in before I make a decision. It's a private matter, and I'm trying to keep politics out of it.
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South Sudan, Southern Sudan, New Sudan, Kush Republic, Nile Republic
8.26 million, as of 2008
52 percent of the population is male; 48 percent is female.
248,777 square miles
17 percent of the population lives in cities; 83 percent in rural areas
There are roughly 3,400 miles of road — virtually all of which are unpaved and only passable during the dry season
About 51 percent of the population is under 18; 72 percent is under 30
Life expectancy at birth is 42
Each person lives on an average of 100 Sudanese pounds per month (about $30)
The national poverty line is 72.9 Sudanese pounds per month (about $22)
51 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line
53 percent of the working population is unpaid family-member workers
15 percent of households own a telephone
1 percent of households have a bank account
Adult literacy rate is 15 percent, among the lowest in the world
There are roughly 129 students per classroom
Net enrollment for primary school in 2009 was 48 percent
Primary school completion rate is 1.9 percent
Infant mortality rate is 102 per 1,000 births
Maternal mortality rate is 2,054 per 100,000 births
H.I.V. rate is about 3 percent
47 percent of the population is considered “food deprived”
6.4 percent of the population has access to improved sanitation
38 percent of the population lives more than a 30 minute walk from drinking water
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Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk
MAJOR LANGUAGES
English, Arabic, Dinka, Nuer, Bari
Gold, uranium, teak, oil
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Uganda, Kenya
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Coffee and a smile are sometimes the best medicine. When Dan Dewey's father was being treated for cancer, Dan found himself following a routine in a situation which needed a little perking up.
Thus began what has become known as "Dan's Coffee Run". Every Thursday morning, Dan does a special coffee run for the staff and patients at the Michigan Cancer Institute in Bloomfield Hills, bringing Starbucks Coffee and a lot of smiles to the patients and providers at the cancer treatment center.
This Organization Feeds Their Entire Community
If you are a kid and your bed is a lumpy, old couch or a cold, hard floor and you leave home for school without a regular breakfast, you will not excel in your classes. This daily struggle is shockingly common in many areas of the country and it sets many children on a downward spiral at an early age that is difficult to recover from. This is where Meals By Grace is making a difference.
Anonymous Authors of Love Letters Uplift The Lonely
While it is exciting to see the bold type of a newly arrived email from an old friend or the pulsing dots of a long awaited text, there is still something special about the arrival of a hand written, stamped envelope in your home mailbox.
For those who are facing personal difficulties, adjusting to new circumstances, or just feeling isolated, the physical experience of handling a letter, opening the sealed side of the envelope, and sliding out a beautiful card brings the thrill and anticipation of contact with another person, something they may been missing for long time. Fulfilling this need is at the heart of an inspiring organization called "The World Needs More Love letters".
A Father, A Son, And A Hockey Fan’s Dream Come True!
Coca-Cola, Shaw's Supermarkets, and the Boston Bruins have teamed up to make one lucky Bruins fan's dream come true. After purchasing a Coke from Shaw's in the New England area, contestants were encouraged to enter for a chance to win a "Player for a Day Experience" with the Boston Bruins.
The lucky winner's name is Mark Karolkiewicz. Mark has been a Bruins fan his whole life and even though he had the opportunity to be a Bruins Player for a Day, he selflessly gave the prize to his son Eric Karolkiewicz, also a die-hard Bruins fan!
Dancing Away From Illness And Onto The Stage
The hall lights dim…..a hush comes over the audience … the command "places everyone" is given… there is a palpable stillness in the air as the first notes of the opening piece float out of the speakers and hover above the stage…. the curtain rises with a whir … the lights come up… its time …
These are the moments a performer lives for. The hours of solitary sweat and toil practicing their craft in sparse, small rooms, are the dues required for the joy of putting their skill and craft out there for an audience hungering for something special and moving.
Singer, Poet, Activist, Lupus Survivor - Shanelle Gabriel
"Rock out...live your life....live your art!" This was Brooklyn, New York native Shanelle Gabriel's response to her diagnosis of Lupus, an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system, that usually fights infections, attacks healthy tissue instead.
Shanelle first noticed something was off when her fingers turned blue and hurt in the cold and she could not seem to shake the feeling of fatigue no matter how well she slept. After being diagnosed in 2004, Shanelle decided that her health would not be something that would limit her success.
NFL Player Mentors Kid Dealing with Mom's Cancer
For families with a member who is battling cancer, life can seem lonely. The trials and tribulations of such a scary disease can be very intense—how could anyone who hasn't gone through them understand?
Walk With Sally is an organization founded to provide loving support to children whose parents or siblings are fighting cancer, and they helped make a very special match between two people who could understand one another's experience personally. Will Svitek, a former NFL professional, lost his father to cancer when he was just 31. He joined Walk With Sally for the express purpose of mentoring youngsters who were struggling in similar situations. That's how he met Rocco.
These Fearless Freefalling Females Will Amaze You
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Boss Is Ready To Leave Club This Summer! – Top Sources Confirm
Inter Milan’s Roberto Mancini has one eye on Arsenal’s job, according to reports.
Arsene Wenger’s future had been the subject of speculation in recent weeks. It was even claimed the Gunners are eyeing a host of top managers in Europe to replace the French tactician this summer but Wenger has since insisted he will remain at the Emirates next season and yet that hasn’t stopped speculations concerning his future.
It was reported by the Italian media last week that Arsenal have contacted Mancini as they search for a replacement for Wenger.
And now, according to Italian newspaper Gazetta Dello Sport via the Daily Express, Mancini is ready to quit Inter Milan for the Emirates should Wenger be shown the exit door this summer.
The report claims Mancini is interested in managing a Champions League squad and he currently has doubts if the Inter side can get there.
The three-time Serie A winner have come under fire at the San Siro after seeing his side drop out of the Champions League zone and has been linked with a move to Russia with CSKA Moscow reportedly interested.
Mancini led Manchester City to the Premier League title in 2012 before he was replaced by Manuel Pellegrini in 2013, the Italian then moved back to Italy but his second tenure at the San Siro side hasn’t been spectacular as he is struggling to guide the 2010 Champions league winners to a UCL spot.
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Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature
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'This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' Sunday Times
'Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' - Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes, Financial Times
How to Survive a Plague by David France is the riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts.
Not since the publication of Randy Shilts's now classic And the Band Played On in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms.
Weaving together the stories of dozens of individuals, this is an insider's account of a pivotal moment in our history and one that changed the way that medical science is practised worldwide.
This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field, the best book on the pretreatment years of the epidemic since Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On (1987), which it corrects in places. Most of the people to whom it bears witness are not around to read it, but millions are alive today thanks to their efforts, and this moving record will ensure that their legacy does not die with them.
Important and powerfully written . . . Instead of diluting the emotional force of his narrative, France’s personal perspective on the story amplifies it, particularly because his meticulously chronicled version of events is never clouded by sentimentality or petty score-settling . . . How to Survive a Plague stands on its own as a more richly nuanced telling of a chain of events that forever changed medicine . . . Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading.
Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes - Financial Times
Subtle and searing . . . [France] uses his privileged access to put us in the heart of the action, or more usually, inaction.
Books by David France
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 20 > Issue 3 > Page 3302
Transient behaviors of current-injection quantum-dot microdisk lasers
Ming-Hua Mao and Hao-Che Chien
Ming-Hua Mao1,2,3,* and Hao-Che Chien2
1Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics National Taiwan University, Taiwan
3Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
*Corresponding author: mhmao@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
M Mao
H Chien
Ming-Hua Mao and Hao-Che Chien, "Transient behaviors of current-injection quantum-dot microdisk lasers," Opt. Express 20, 3302-3310 (2012)
Lasers and Laser Optics
Laser scattering
Microcavity lasers
Microdisk lasers
Single photon avalanche diodes
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Diode lasers (140.2020)
Microcavity devices (140.3948)
Original Manuscript: November 22, 2011
Revised Manuscript: January 24, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: January 25, 2012
We studied the transient behaviors of current-injection quantum-dot microdisk lasers at room temperature. Unique optical responses were observed, including the suppression of relaxation oscillations and fast turn-on. With the help of rate-equation modeling, the suppressed relaxation oscillations are attributed to the enhanced spontaneous emission factor in microdisk lasers. Short turn-on time, around 1 ns without pre-bias, results from the reduced carrier lifetime caused by the Purcell effect and increased nonradiative recombination rate due to higher surface/volume ratio. With short turn-on time, a large-signal direct modulation experiment at 1 Gbps is demonstrated. Modal transient behavior was also investigated under various temperatures from 100 to 300 K. Both of the transient lasing and steady-state lasing from side modes are suppressed at temperatures higher than 250K. Therefore, the quantum-dot microdisk lasers show the potential of single-mode operation under high-speed modulation at room temperature.
Room-temperature low-threshold current-injection InGaAs quantum-dot microdisk lasers with single-mode emission
Ming-Hua Mao, Hao-Che Chien, Jay-Zway Hong, and Chih-Yi Cheng
Lasing characteristics of InAs quantum dot microcavity lasers as a function of temperature and wavelength
Tian Yang, Adam Mock, John D. O’Brien, Samuel Lipson, and Dennis G. Deppe
Parametric study of high-performance 1.55 μm InAs quantum dot microdisk lasers on Si
Si Zhu, Bei Shi, Qiang Li, Yating Wan, and Kei May Lau
Direct modulation characteristics of microdisk lasers with InGaAs/GaAs quantum well-dots
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Photon. Res. 7(6) 664-668 (2019)
Dynamic characteristics of photonic crystal quantum dot lasers
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Fig. 1 Schematic drawing of a 6.5-μm-diameter current-injection QD microdisk laser with BCB planarization layer.
Fig. 2 The L-I curve of the 6.5-μm-diameter microdisk laser with a threshold current of 0.47 mA. Inset: the spectrum showing single lasing WGM near 1059 nm.
Fig. 3 The temporal optical responses measured from (a) a QD microdisk laser and (b) a conventional QD edge-emitting laser fabricated from the same wafer. The origins of time axis are defined by the rising edge of the electric pulses. The normalized injection currents are indicated in the graphs.
Fig. 4 The time-resolved PL for an unprocessed QD sample and for microdisks with different sizes.
Fig. 5 The temporal optical responses calculated from the rate-equation model for (a) a QD microdisk laser and (b) a conventional QD edge-emitting laser. The injection starts at t = 0 ns. The normalized injection currents are indicated in the graphs.
Fig. 6 The ideal data stream at 1 Gbps, the real electric pulse shape, and the optical responses of the QD microdisk laser with bias current of 0.19 mA. The peak current is 0.97 mA.
Fig. 7 (a) The observed WGM wavelengths of a 6.5-μm-diamenter microdisk laser at different temperatures. (b)-(d): The temporal optical responses measured at (b) 100 K, (c) 150 K, and (d) 200 K. For 250 K and 300 K, there is only one WGM lasing with the temporal response similar to those in Fig. 3(a).
(1) dN dt = J qd −u N τ ′ sp −( 1−u ) N τ sp − v g G( N )S− N τ nr
(2) dS dt =β N τ ′ sp +Γ v g G( N )S− S τ p .
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High Over Paradise
Hiking to Pine Creek Lake.
Pine Creek Lake is a pristine alpine lake in a huge, 9,032-foot basin high above Paradise Valley. The 31-acre lake sits in the glacial cirque on the north slope of Black Mountain, which towers 900 feet above the lake in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. The strenuous but well-defined trail climbs past a series of spectacular waterfalls (including Pine Creek Falls) and a couple of smaller lakes to Pine Creek Lake. En route are vistas across Paradise Valley to the Gallatin Range.
Hiking distance: 10 miles round trip
Hiking time: 6 hours
Elevation gain: 3,400 feet
Maps: U.S.G.S. Dexter Point and Mount Cowen
Driving directions: From Livingston at the I-90 and Hwy. 89 junction, drive 9.6 miles south on Hwy. 89 to Pine Creek Road on the left, between mile markers 43 and 44. Turn left and continue 2.4 miles (crossing over the Yellowstone River) to East River Road. Turn right and drive 0.7 miles to Luccock Park Road on the left. A sign is posted for the Pine Creek Campground. Turn left (east) on Luccock Park Road, and wind 3.1 miles up the foothills to the trailhead parking area at road’s end (0.6 miles past the George Lake turnoff).
Hiking directions: Take the posted trail from the far end of the parking area. Immediately enter a deep, lush forest to a junction. Stay to the right on the Pine Creek trail. At a quarter mile, pass a junction to the George Lake Trail on the right. Cross a bridge over Pine Creek at 0.5 miles, and enter the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Continue along the north side of the cascading creek to a second bridge over Pine Creek at just over 1.1 mile. From the bridge is a dramatic view of towering Pine Creek Falls. Thirty yards beyond the bridge is a side shoot of the waterfall. Several unmaintained trails access the upper chute of the falls.
Continue on the main trail past the bridge, and cross downfall logs over the south channel of the creek. Zigzag up the hillside to a view down canyon of Paradise Valley. A side path on the left leads 30 yards to the brink of the falls at the narrow rock chute. The main trail follows the cascading creek, steadily climbing past huge granite boulders. The rock-embedded path leads to the creek at just under 2 miles, with a view of a 200-foot waterfall upstream.
Carefully cross the creek on downfall logs and rocks to the north side of Pine Creek. Curve left, away from the creek. Loop around the mountainside, crossing a northern tributary of the creek. Climb more switchbacks beneath the jagged spires on the north canyon wall. Return to Pine Creek and a waterfall. Follow the cascading whitewater past a series of falls. Curve away from the slope, and zigzag up the rocky slope through a scree field. Skirt the edge of a vertical rock wall beneath the crowns of Mount McKnight and Black Mountain. Top the slope and enter a forested cirque with another 200-foot waterfall. Descend to the creek and follow it upstream. A side path on the right leads to a campsite by a small lake and a full view of the waterfall.
Veer left and climb five switchbacks to another view of the falls and the lake below the rock-walled bowl. At the top of the rock face, the trail overlooks Jewel Lake and the cascade feeding the tarn. Descend to the end of Jewel Lake. Follow the west shore and cross the outlet creek 20 yards upstream from the falls. Bear left and continue past the lake, climbing out of the bowl. Pass two waterfalls filling a pool just above Jewel Lake. Above the falls, the trail reaches broad slabs of granite rock that line the north shore of gorgeous Pine Creek Lake. Another waterfall feeds the south end of the lake. After enjoying the views and a well-earned rest, return along the same route.
This article is excerpted from Robert Stone’s Day Hikes in the Beartooth Mountains.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/nigerias-president-wins-second-term-calls-for-unity
Nigeria’s president wins second term, calls for unity
World Feb 27, 2019 1:50 PM EST
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president on Wednesday defended his sweeping win of a second term as free and fair and appealed to a “common love of country” as his top challenger vowed to go to court with allegations of fraud.
President Muhammadu Buhari was declared the clear winner by nearly 4 million votes as citizens of Africa’s largest democracy gave him another chance to tackle gaping corruption, widespread insecurity and an economy limping back from a rare recession.
While many frustrated Nigerians had said they wanted to give someone new a try, Buhari, a former military dictator, profited from his upright reputation in an oil-rich nation weary of politicians enriching themselves instead of the people.
Top opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, a billionaire former vice president who made campaign promises to “make Nigeria work again,” quickly rejected the result of what he called a “sham election” and said next steps would be revealed shortly.
“Election is not war and should never be seen as a do-or-die affair.”
– President Muhammadu Buhari
As many Nigerians awakened to the win along with the morning prayer, Buhari told colleagues he was “deeply humbled.” He regretted the loss of dozens of lives in “mindless” election-related violence.
“I will like to make a special appeal to my supporters not to gloat or humiliate the opposition,” he said. At a later event certifying his victory, he added to applause: “Election is not war and should never be seen as a do-or-die affair.”
Challenger Abubakar said he would have conceded “within seconds” if the vote had been free and fair. Instead he alleged “manifest and premeditated malpractices” in many of Nigeria’s 36 states.
He asserted that voting was suppressed in his strongholds in the oil-rich south and that states threatened by an extremist insurgency generated unusually high turnouts.
One domestic election observer, the Civic Media Lab, noted that “contrary to normal reasoning” the state most affected by extremist attacks, Borno, saw a 13 percent increase in turnout. Some residents said, however, they were determined to vote despite the threat.
YIAGA Africa, which deployed more than 3,900 observers, said its parallel vote-counting project found official results largely tracked with its own but called on the electoral commission to look into “inconsistent” turnout figures.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after collecting his certificate from the electoral commission following the poll win in Abuja, Nigeria ON February 27, 2019. Photo by REUTERS
Court challenges are nothing new in Nigeria, where Buhari himself doggedly fought his past election losses for months, in vain. The Supreme Court of Nigeria has never overturned a presidential election, Chris Kwaja, a senior adviser to the United States Institute of Peace, told The Associated Press.
The president’s colleagues had expected a challenge. “There’s no opposition that will roll over and play dead,” Hameed Ali, the ruling party agent attending the vote declaration, told reporters.
Nigeria was peaceful after the winner was announced. Both Buhari and Abubakar are Muslims from the north, avoiding regional tensions in the vast country with a largely Christian south.
Buhari’s supporters danced in the streets and clung to speeding vehicles in a perilous display of exuberance.
“He is a man of integrity,” a Buhari supporter in the northern city of Kano, Mohammed Aliyu, said as jubilant people held up four fingers to mark the new term. “He is the only leader in Nigeria today that does not accumulate wealth.”
Buhari received 15.1 million votes, or 55 percent, the electoral commission said. Abubakar received 11.2 million, or 41 percent. The average national turnout was 35.6 percent, continuing a downward trend.
“The rigging was so obvious,” said one Abubakar supporter in Kano, John Orerere. “You cannot expect someone to be smiling after robbing him of his hard-earned result,” said Anthony Chigbo, a political activist in southeastern Anambra state.
But a civil rights activist, Musa Babn Iya, asserted that Nigerians were not interested in going to court but instead were thinking about “how to get out of this hardship” of simply getting by.
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Buhari’s party rejected Abubakar’s allegations of manipulation of results and called on Abubakar to accept his loss gracefully. British Prime Minister Theresa May and the leaders of Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and Niger sent their congratulations to Buhari.
The election, once described as too close to call, suffered from a surprise weeklong postponement and significant delays in the opening of polling stations. While observers called the process generally peaceful, at least 53 people were killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State West Africa Province extremist group and other violence, analysis unit SBM Intelligence said.
A former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has said the troubled election gives the candidates grounds to go to the courts.
Many Nigerians have prayed for peace during the unexpectedly drawn-out election process. Some spoke approvingly of the 2015 vote, when President Goodluck Jonathan took the unprecedented step of conceding to Buhari before official results were announced. It was the first defeat of an incumbent president by the opposition in the country’s history.
Now Nigerians, who have been praised for their patience and resilience in this bumpy vote, are settling in for a legal fight.
Anna reported from Kano, Nigeria. Associated Press writers Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim in Maiduguri, Nigeria; Hilary Uguru in Ughelli, Nigeria; and Sam Olukoya in Lagos, Nigeria and video journalist Desmond Tiro in Kano contributed.
Left: Supporters of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari celebrate in Kano, Nigeria on February 27, 2019. Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
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X-VPN review: Good speeds, nice app, but radio silence on details that matter
Why the mystery around company leadership and the VPN protocol?
By Ian Paul
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X-VPN
on Free Connected Limited
X-VPN in brief:
P2P allowed: Yes
Business location: Hong Kong
Number of servers: 5,000+
Number of country locations: 28*
VPN protocol: TBU
Data encryption: AES-256
Data authentication: AES-256
Handshake encryption: AES-256
* Uses virtual server locations
Many VPNs promise to “unblock the world” by opening up foreign streaming sites, or domestic ones when you’re overseas. Hong Kong-based X-VPN does a good job of living up to its unblocking promises. It offers a fair number of locations and servers, as well as dedicated streaming servers for the U.S., UK, and Australia. Each of which is specified by country and the service it aims to unblock such as Netflix, Sky Go, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, and Australia’s 9Now.
When you first open X-VPN on Windows it shows some key information such as your current IP address and general location at the top, a message about whether your connection is encrypted or not, a big Connect button towards the bottom, and options for changing your VPN protocol and getting help.
An active connection in X-VPN.
By default, X-VPN will connect to the fastest server based on your location. Otherwise, you can click the Select Location link to choose from its 28 country locations.
Note: This review is part of our best VPNs roundup. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them.
Features and services
The screen where you select the server location has three tabs, one for recommended servers, for all servers, and for your favorites. There’s also a speedometer icon at the top right to run a built-in ping test to see what kind of response time you can expect from all listed servers.
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Oddly, the All and Recommend tabs list the same servers. The only difference is that All lists by category and location whereas the Recommend tab lists servers mostly by alphabetical order. At the top of All is the Videos & Music category that lists all the services X-VPN unblocks including Netflix U.S. and Netflix UK, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Pandora, 9Now, BBC iPlayer, and Sky Go. After this section, the remaining server locations are listed by global region such as the Americas, Asia Pacific, and so on.
In my tests, X-VPN worked well for Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora. The international services also appeared to work, though I didn’t test them in depth.
Anyone who wants to drill down beyond the country category can do so by clicking the black arrow to the left of each location. There are five servers for U.K. Netflix, for example, and three in Canada.
Going back to the primary screen of the app, clicking the icon in the top left shows the app’s settings, which are minimal. There are options to start X-VPN on boot and Application Control, a feature that automatically disconnects selected apps when you are not connected to X-VPN.
X-VPN’s protocols screen.
One odd feature of X-VPN is its Protocol option at the bottom of the main screen. X-VPN has eight different “protocols” to choose from but the VPN doesn’t provide any technical details about them such as what VPN protocol and encryption standards they use. Instead each protocol has a letter designation such as “Protocol A,” “Protocol B,” “Protocol C,” and so on. Each protocol uses a five-star system to rate its speed to connect, speed after connected, security, and ability to unblock.
X-VPN says it doesn’t provide details about the protocols and encryption standards it’s using for each option in order to somehow protect your privacy. If my editor allowed me to use the eye roll emoji I would put it right here.
Privacy, anonymity, and trust
X-VPN is owned by Free Connected Limited, which is based in Hong Kong. Its business address is Suite A40, 9/F Silvercorp International Tower, 707-713 Nathan Road Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. As for public leadership, I didn’t find any using the usual searches, and when I asked the company for information, it declined to provide any.
My position on anonymity from company leadership should be well known to anyone regularly reading our VPN reviews. Although VPN services are all about privacy and pseduo-anonymity for the user, it’s also about trust and that means being able to point at a company and know who’s behind it. That isn’t happening here.
X-VPN’s server selection after running the ping test.
As for the privacy policy, it makes some pretty good promises, but it also collects a fair amount of data. X-VPN does not monitor the apps, services, or websites you use while connected the VPN, according to the privacy policy. It also doesn’t store your originating IP address or the server IP address you connect to, nor does it store any DNS queries your computer makes.
It does collect your email address, which it requires to create an account, as well as your registration data, subscription status, and payment method. All standard stuff so far. X-VPN will also record your iOS and Android ad identifier numbers on mobile.
X-VPN says it also collects data in aggregate, including your operating system, the app version of X-VPN you use, total data used for the month, and location information. On top of that it also records the server location you used, connection time stamp, any error reports, protocol used, and the network type you used to connect to the service.
That’s not terrible, but not the best we’ve seen either. If all you’re concerned about is that it doesn’t follow you around the web then it should be enough. Privacy and anonymity maximalists should look elsewhere.
In our tests, X-VPN was pretty good but not standout. On average it maintained 31 percent of the base speed overall using five country locations. That puts it in the middle of the pack among the VPNs we tested. It will do the job for streaming and other needs, but there are faster VPNs out there.
X-VPN gets the job done, but a lack of transparency about who’s behind the company, and the use of a little-known VPN protocol make it something of a risk for users. For that reason, I recommend looking elsewhere for a VPN with a well-known track record of reliable service and one that offers more information about company leadership.
Editor’s note: Because online services are often iterative, gaining new features and performance improvements over time, this review is subject to change in order to accurately reflect the current state of the service. Any changes to text or our final review verdict will be noted at the top of this article.
X-VPN has a usable interface, a reliable service for getting around regional restrictions, but average speeds. The company isn't forthcoming about its leadership, though its business address is easy enough to find. It's also using a little-known VPN protocol, which can be problematic. It works, but we're not comfortable recommending the service at this time.
Easy-to-use app
Good at getting around regional restrictions
No public leadership
Doesn't use a standard VPN protocol
Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.
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ASSEMBLY: Eloise Reyes to challenge Cheryl Brown
Democratic Assembly candidate Eloise Reyes.
Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino.
By Jeff Horseman | jhorseman@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
Former congressional candidate Eloise Reyes is running for office again, this time for an Assembly seat occupied by a fellow Democrat.
Reyes, a Colton attorney, announced her candidacy this week for the 47th Assembly District, which is represented by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown of San Bernardino. The district includes a portion of San Bernardino as well as Colton, Rialto and Grand Terrace.
“I have one simple commitment to the working families of the Inland Empire and that’s to fight for them and not some Sacramento special interest group,” Reyes said in a news release. “I grew up here and I will represent the best values of my community.”
Reyes ran for the 31st Congressional District in 2014. She mounted a well-funded campaign – she took in more than $1 million – and won the endorsements of Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles and former U.S. labor secretary Hilda Solis, among others, but finished fourth among seven candidates in the June primary.
Democrat Pete Aguilar eventually defeated Republican Paul Chabot to win the seat.
During her congressional bid, Reyes campaigned as the outsider and more liberal alternative to Aguilar, who was backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It remains to be seen whether Reyes will take a similar tack in running against Brown, who split from Democrats this past session with her vote against tighter childhood vaccination rules and her reluctance to support a bill that would have slashed gasoline use by vehicles in California.
Reyes already is lining up supporters, including state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino. “Eloise is not only a skilled attorney who will understand how to get things done in the state Capitol but she’s also a principled human being,” Leyva said in the release announcing Reyes’ candidacy.
Brown, who was elected in 2012, has been promoting her own endorsements, including from the California Association of Highway Patrolmen, San Bernardino County Supervisor Josie Gonzales, Aguilar and Rep. Norma Torres, D-Pomona.
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Jeff Horseman got into journalism because he liked to write and stunk at math. He grew up in Vermont and he honed his interviewing skills as a supermarket cashier by asking Bernie Sanders “Paper or plastic?” After graduating from Syracuse University in 1999, Jeff began his journalistic odyssey at The Watertown Daily Times in upstate New York, where he impressed then-U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton so much she called him “John” at the end of an interview. From there, he went to Annapolis, Maryland, where he covered city, county and state government at The Capital newspaper before love and the quest for snowless winters took him in 2007 to Southern California, where he started out covering Temecula for The Press-Enterprise. Today, Jeff writes about Riverside County government and regional politics. Along the way, Jeff has covered wildfires, a tropical storm, 9/11 and the Dec. 2 terror attack in San Bernardino. If you have a question or story idea about politics or the inner workings of government, please let Jeff know. He’ll do his best to answer, even if it involves a little math.
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Home » Holidays/Remembrances » DOCCS honors PEF parole officer at annual memorial ceremony
DOCCS honors PEF parole officer at annual memorial ceremony
7 June 2018 By pefpr | Posted in Holidays/Remembrances, News
The sun was glistening on a perfect June morning when PEF-represented parole officers from around the state and the leaders from the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision gathered at Albany’s Memorial Garden for an annual tribute to parole officers who lost their lives on the job. This year, DOCCS Acting Commissioner Anthony J. Annucci celebrated the bravery and stamina of Parole Office Samuel Salters, who survived being shot by a parolee, Robert Morales, on April 15, 2010. Annucci described how Salters grew up in an impoverished neighborhood and whose life mission was to show others that choices could lead to success, rather than prison.
“The bullet pierced PO Salters in the shoulder and then damaged several organs. Fortunately, the gun jammed after the first shot. Morales later told the press, he was sorry that Salters did not die,” Annucci said. “The trial took three years, and ultimately it resulted in a guilty verdict. His earliest release date is April 2050.”
For his outstanding service, Annucci presented Salters with a Commissioner’s Leadership and Performance Coin
At the end of the presentation, PO Victor “Tony” Perez, PEF Division 236 council leader, laid a wreath at the parole officers memorial wall, which bears the names of all the fallen officers. Parole officers from around the state also gathered for a group shot with Salters.
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Paradise of Cities
Venice in the Nineteenth Century
By John Julius Norwich
Category: European World History
Nov 09, 2004 | ISBN 9781400032372
Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307427229
About Paradise of Cities
John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious capture by Napoleon in 1797 to the dawn of the 20th century.
An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice limped into the 19th century–first under the yoke of France, then as an outpost of the Austrian Hapsburgs, stripped of riches yet indelibly the most ravishing city in Italy. Even when subsumed into a unified Italy in 1866, it remained a magnet for aesthetes of all stripes–subject or setting of books by Ruskin and James, a muse to poets and musicians, in its way the most gracious courtesan of all European cities. By refracting images of Venice through the visits of such extravagant (and sometimes debauched) artists as Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, and the inimitable Baron Corvo, Norwich conjures visions of paradise on a lagoon, as enduring as brick and as elusive as the tides.
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Nov 09, 2004 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400032372
Dec 18, 2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9780307427229
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“Engaging. . . . Lively. . . . Norwich is an enchanting and satisfying raconteur.” –The Washington Post
“A richly textured, colorfully told saga. . . . Beautifully illustrated, Paradise of Cities contains much that will instruct, divert and delight.” –Los Angeles Times
“Personable. . . . Hovers delightfully between history and gossip. . . . Even non-Venetians will feel a tug of nostalgia for the world he describes.” –Newsday
“Lively. . . . Norwich . . . is certainly the English language’s most passionate and dedicated chronicler of [Venice’s] extraordinary history. . . . Paradise of Cities offers delicious new insights [and] open[s] a door to one of the world’s most memorable cities.” –The Seattle Times
“Suavely presented. . . . Appealing. . . . Full of relishable moments. . . . Paradise of Cities shows a sharp eye for the curious and entertaining. . . . It lights up many facets of expatriate life in the world’s most inexhaustibly alluring city.” –The Sunday Times (London)
“Illuminating. . . . Norwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic. His style is as graceful and easy as it is knowledgeable.” –Los Angeles Times
“Stylish, resonant, indelible . . . an ode to a very splendid and unique city.” –Booklist (starred and boxed review)
“Supremely readable and often witty.” –The Guardian
“First-rate. . . . Lovely. . . . Engaging. . . . Informed by first rate scholarship and leavened with deep affection. . . . The subject is wonderfully rich, the chronicler gifted and knowledgeable.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Engaging. . . . Makes intelligent sense out of how Venice evolved from the pleasure capital of 17th- and 18th-century Europe . . . into a 21st-century aesthetic temple.” –Financial Times
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One of Plymouth's worst performing schools is praised by Ofsted
Tor Bridge Primary has been praised by the education watchdog
Katie TimmsReporter
Updated 10:25, 2 OCT 2019
Tor Bridge Primary School (Image: https://www.torbridge.net)
One of Plymouth's worst performing schools has been praised by Ofsted after being placed in special measures.
Tor Bridge Primary School in Estover is said to be "taking effective action towards the removal of special measures" after receiving the damning report in October last year.
The October inspection highlighted that teaching was 'inadequate' and assessments of what pupils know, understand and can do were deemed 'inaccurate'.
It also found that pupils' poor behaviour in lessons and around the school is accepted 'as the norm' by those in power, forcing the council to put in a "rigorous and comprehensive" improvement plan to ensure standards improve.
However, the latest report released last month was full of praise following the interim inspection, which took place between July 9 and 10 this year.
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It stated that "several teachers have left the school, and this turbulence in staffing persists" but a spokesperson has confirmed that since the issue of the report, "the council and The Inspire Multi Academy Trust (TIMAT) have brought in a range of talented education practitioners".
This was said to be to ensure that children returning in September "could benefit from outstanding teaching".
Tor Bridge Primary School has been praised (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
The report states: "The work of the acting headteacher, supported by the local authority and the headteacher of another school, has been successful in halting a further decline in standards. The acting headteacher has worked with determination and resilience, providing important stability and continuity, despite a continuing context of staff upheaval.
"The commissioning of support from another headteacher by the local authority has been a positive decision. He has started to support leaders and teachers to develop their skills as he has the necessary experience to provide the guidance required.
"This work has centred on ensuring that self-evaluation is accurate and honest, as well as assisting leaders to evaluate the impact of their actions. This has resulted in improvements to pupils’ attitudes to learning and some improvement in the planning of teaching."
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The Ofsted inspector found that whilst improvements had been made, there was "modest evidence to suggest they have led to the deeprooted change needed to secure sustained and rapid improvement in the longer term".
It added that pupils are finding their school day more effective.
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The report continued: "Initial work with the headteacher of another school has been instrumental in ensuring that the daily running of the school and the use of time is more effective.
"The changes made to the timetable have maximised learning time. Pupils say that they ‘do more things in a day’ than was previously the case.
"Leaders now have an increasingly accurate understanding of the quality of education the school provides. This has been supported by the development of teachers’ tracking of the progress that pupils make.
"Although this is at an early stage of development, it has already enabled leaders to identify where there are signs of improvements. Most importantly, there is confidence that this information can be used for strategic decisions in the future.
"The reliability of this information is further endorsed by external validation and moderation with the partner school."
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A Tor Bridge Primary School spokesman said: "Since the OFSTED inspection in October, we have worked tirelessly with Plymouth City Council to secure sponsorship for the school to become part of The Inspire Multi Academy Trust (TIMAT).
"The Council and TIMAT are now working to finalise legal arrangements which will allow the school to convert to the Trust but as a team, we have already started to improve the curriculum, standards of teaching and learning and pupil behaviour.
"Since the interim inspection in July, the council and TIMAT have brought in a range of talented education practitioners so that in September, children returning to school could benefit from outstanding teaching.
"We have been in regular contact with parents to keep them informed of the changes we are making and we are confident that together, we are moving the school forward to ensure better learning opportunities for children."
There are four main Ofsted categories, the highest being 'outstanding', which is grade one.
Grade two is 'good', grade three is 'requires improvement' and grade four, which means the school has serious faults and special measures, is 'inadequate'.
A 'requires improvement' rating means they will be inspected again within 30 months.
You can check the rating of a school on the Ofsted website, here.
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POISON's Original Members Readying Reunion Album
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Poison's original line-up is now writing songs for a reunion album that it plans to release next year, the band's first studio effort with guitarist C.C. DeVille since 1990's "Flesh & Blood."
One year ago we first reported the band's plans to bring DeVille back into the fold and record a new studio album, and now the band has apparently begun work in earnest on the effort.
It could be a busy summer for Poison frontman Bret Michaels, who, we previously reported, recently won a legal battle with a company that had planned to market a sexually explicit video of the singer with former girlfriend Pamela Anderson. In addition to the Poison reunion tour, Michaels also hopes to stage a solo tour this summer to promote the soundtrack to his movie, A Letter To Death Row.
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Assessments » Physics Goal Orientation Survey
Physics Goal Orientation Survey (PGOS)
Developed by Christine Lindstrøm and Manjula D. Sharma
To assess students’ motivation and goal orientations in university-level physics courses.
Pre/post, Agree/disagree
Beliefs / Attitudes (goal orientation, motivation)
Intermediate, Intro college
Sample statements from the PGOS:
I can answer more physics questions than other students.
1 Strongly disagree 2 Disagree 3 Neutral 4 Agree 5 Strongly agree
I understand a new physics concept by trying hard.
I work in a group on physics problems.
I can complete an assignment without really having understood the answers.
PGOS Implementation Guide
Everything you need to know about implementing the PGOS in your class.
C. Lindstrøm and M. Sharma, Development of a Physics Goal Orientation Survey, Int. J. Innov. Sci. Math. Educ. 18 (2), 10 (2010).
The 5-point Likert agree/disagree questions on the PGOS were taken from a previous survey of goal orientation by Duda and Nicholls (1992) and revised so that they would be appropriate for a university level physics course. Several new questions were created to ensure each goal orientation category had a sufficient number of questions to probe it. The PGOS questions underwent expert review. The PGOS was given to over 1500 students, including physics majors and non-majors, at the University of Sydney over a three-year time period. A factor analysis was performed on three different versions of the PGOS, to ensure that students’ views of which questions were similar was the same as the intended categories of goal orientations. Version 3 of the PGOS had appropriate factor loadings for the goal orientation categories. Focus groups which were conducted with a subset of students to help the developers better understand students’ goal orientations. The PGOS has been given to over 1500 students at one university, and the results published in two peer-reviewed articles.
C. Lindstrom and M. Sharma, Initial development of a Physics Goal Orientation survey using factor analysis, presented at the UniServe Science Proceedings Visualisation, Sydney, Australia, 2008.
C. Lindstrøm and M. Sharma, Self-Efficacy of First Year University Physics Students: Do Gender and Prior Formal Instruction in Physics Matter?, Int. J. Innov. Sci. Math. Educ. 19 (2), 1 (2011).
Typical scores for the four goal orientations from Lindstrom and Sharma 2010:
The most recent version of the PGOS, published in 2010, is version 4.
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Parker Poe Partners With Nonprofits, Clients for Community Service Day
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Dozens of Parker Poe attorneys and staff fanned out across the Carolinas and Georgia on March 15 to serve the communities they call home. They partnered with nonprofits and clients to prepare meals, sort books, organize classroom materials, tend gardens, and support the homeless, children in need, and victims of domestic violence.
It was a day to give back, as Parker Poe hosted its Community Service Day across all seven of the cities where the firm has offices. About 170 Parker Poe attorneys, staff, and clients took part, volunteering a total of more than 400 hours in a single day. They served 12 nonprofit and service organizations to help raise awareness about each organization's mission and to provide support for the programs of each partnering organization.
In Atlanta, the firm partnered with Page Turners Make Great Learners and Super Bowl champion Malcolm Mitchell, a University of Georgia grad, on a “Rally for Reading” with Atlanta public schools in which volunteers read to more than 600 students. Together with Page Turners Make Great Learners, Parker Poe helped raise more than $8,000 to put 2,000 books in the hands of deserving students at three Atlanta Title I elementary schools.
“There is no better use of our time than to spend it with children,” said Andrew Cooper of UPS, who joined Parker Poe in Atlanta.
In Charleston, Parker Poe attorneys and staff categorized, weighed, and boxed food items to be distributed by Lowcountry Food Bank. They also served breakfast at One80 Place, which works to prevent and end homelessness.
“The Lowcountry Food Bank counts on corporate volunteers to help ensure that we can deliver food to our neighbors who struggle with food insecurity,” said Kathryn Douglas, Lowcountry Food Bank’s chief development officer. “Parker Poe demonstrates this commitment of helping our community fight hunger. We express our heartfelt thanks and celebrate their investment in giving back.”
“I joined Parker Poe for its Community Service Day because I think it is incredibly important to give back to the communities we live in,” said Angie Quirk-Garvan of Blackbaud, who volunteered at One80 Place. “I applaud Parker Poe employees for giving their time and energy to making our world a better place and to the company for encouraging and supporting it.”
In Columbia, the firm volunteered with Transitions Homeless Shelter. Attorneys and staff served lunch and helped the organization paint its lobby.
“We are heartened and encouraged by Parker Poe’s service to Transitions, and in particular, its generous offer to freshen up our lobby with new paint,” said Cathy Cobbs, Transitions’ community outreach and events coordinator. “You never get another chance to make a first impression – and our lobby needs to project a warm and welcoming atmosphere to first-time and long-time clients alike. Having community partners like Parker Poe is a boost to the staff and the clients.”
The firm partnered in Greenville with Safe Harbor, a local shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. Volunteers assisted with indoor painting and outdoor yard work at the shelter.
“Volunteers make a real difference in the lives of the women and children at Safe Harbor,” said Lisa Nalley, the organization’s volunteer coordinator. “We are thankful for Parker Poe and its willingness to give back to our community by volunteering at Safe Harbor.”
Helping with a fresh coat of paint was a theme in South Carolina, as the firm also painted at Hope Center for Children in Spartanburg. In addition, attorneys and staff patched and sanded walls at the center, which provides services for abused and neglected children.
In North Carolina, Parker Poe partnered with three organizations in Charlotte and three organizations in Raleigh. One of the nonprofits in Charlotte was Friendship Trays, where volunteers prepared and packaged meals.
“We deliver more than 700 meals daily to residents of Charlotte who are unable to prepare or obtain a healthy meal for themselves and have no one to do it for them,” said Lani Lawrence, assistant director of Friendship Trays. “The volunteers from Parker Poe were a mission-critical component of the work we do.”
In addition, attorneys and staff in Charlotte packed boxes of school supplies at Classroom Central, which serves nearly 130,000 students and their teachers in high-poverty schools.
“Classroom Central is grateful to corporate groups such as Parker Poe for their support of our community’s teachers and students in need,” said Karen Calder, executive director of Classroom Central. “Not only does this partnership engage Parker Poe employees in assisting with the hands-on work that enables our organization to facilitate our programs, it also exposes them to the need in our community: giving them a broader perspective as well as an opportunity to make an immediate and lasting impact.”
Parker Poe volunteers in Charlotte also went to Promising Pages. They sorted books to be donated to low-income students and wrote fun cards encouraging kids to read.
"Most of the students we serve have never experienced book ownership or had books of their own at home,” said Caitlyn Bergmann, operations coordinator for Promising Pages. “Without the help of volunteers, achieving our mission of shrinking the Charlotte ‘book desert’ and instilling a lifelong love of reading for these students would not be possible. Thank you, Parker Poe, for your believing in the power of a book!"
Mark Casner of Providence Anesthesiology Associates joined Parker Poe at Promising Pages. “We volunteer all the time at Promising Pages – anytime you can give two hours of your time to make a kid smile, it’s worth it,” Mark said.
In Raleigh, attorneys and staff fanned out to three more organizations. They weeded and mulched in the garden of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.
They sorted, tagged, and organized clothing donations for Dress for Success, which empowers women with professional development tools and attire. And they cleaned, organized, and moved furniture at The Green Chair Project, an organization that helps people in the Triangle recovering from homelessness, crisis, or disaster.
“We are so excited to partner with Parker Poe on volunteer projects,” said Karen Johnson, The Green Chair Project’s marketing and corporate engagement manager. “We had a great day with them, and their group was fun, productive, and made a big difference in our donation center.”
It all added up to a full day of community service across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Parker Poe is proud to support nonprofits throughout its geographic footprint: It’s part of the firm’s commitment to seeking a better future for our communities, our clients, and each other.
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Home › Student Services » Bullying Prevention
Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) strives to create safe, healthy and nurturing learning environments for every student. PAUSD understands that schools and communities that are physically and emotionally safe for all students promote and support academic achievement, citizenship, school attendance and engagement. Building this environment necessitates a comprehensive approach encompassing education and training for students and staff, partnering with parents and community organizations for site and district programming, collecting and learning from data on student wellness, counseling and crisis prevention services, and Board policies and protocols. Through the dedicated work of parents, staff and students, progress is being made in each of these areas in PAUSD.
PAUSD staff promote student learning in the areas of social-emotional development by providing students with safe and age appropriate opportunities to resolve conflicts, develop strong decision making skills and enhance empathy. The district recognizes that some conflicts are part of the normal developmental process that children experience and that staff must ensure the safety of children while offering genuine opportunities to build resilience and strong social skills for children. The district also maintains a commitment to safety and therefore, it is a violation of district policy for a student to bully, harass, or intimidate another student and exhibit behaviors that infringe upon the safety or emotional well-being of any student; including acts of bullying, intimidation or harassment through words and actions.
School personnel who witness any act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying shall take immediate action to intervene (Education Code section 234.1(b)(1)). Every member of the school community is responsible for promoting a positive school culture and ensuring the physical and emotional health of students. Further, there is an expectation that all students, staff, parents, and volunteers demonstrate behavior that is respectful and civil in order to model and support safe school communities.
If you have any questions, contact the Student Services Office at (650) 833-4208 or lmoore-guerra@pausd.org
Bullying Prevention Activities
PAUSD promotes safe school environments for all students by engaging in a wide range of comprehensive and yearlong programs and activities to encourage a positive school culture and resilience in children. These activities focus on pro-active practices to promote safe and welcoming schools, intervention strategies to address student misbehaviors and education for students, parents and staff. Highlighted below is a select list of district initiatives that promote safe and more welcoming schools.
Active engagement in the Developmental Assets framework to develop resiliency and connectedness for all students;
Promotion of safe and welcoming school cultures;
Training teachers and staff in recognizing, intervening, reporting and investigating bullying incidents;
Enforcing Bullying Prevention and related Board policies (Bullying Prevention policies pending);
Collecting data to inform, guide and monitor programs and services;
Offering mental health counseling and support services at all school sites
Bullying Defined
To prevent the misidentification of bullying behaviors, it is important to understand that Education Code 48900(r) defines bullying as -- Any severe or pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including made in writing or by means of an reasonable pupil electronic act including one or more of the following:
Sex Harassment (48900.2)
Hate Violence (48900.3)
Threats, harassment, intimidation (48900.4)
Further, bullying includes one or more acts committed by a pupil or group of pupils, directed toward one or more pupils that has or can be reasonably predicted to have the effect of one or more of the following: (Education Code 48900 (r)
Placing a reasonable pupil or pupils in fear of harm to that pupil's or those pupils' person or property.
Causing a reasonable pupil or pupils to experience a substantially detrimental effect on his or her physical or mental health.
Causing a reasonable pupil or pupils to experience substantial interference with his or her academic performance.
Causing a reasonable pupil or pupils to experience substantial interference with his or her ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by a school.
These acts can be reasonably perceived as being dehumanizing, intimidating, hostile, humiliating, threatening, or otherwise likely to evoke fear of physical harm or emotional distress and may be motivated either by bias or prejudice based upon any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression; or a mental, physical or sensory disability or impairment; or by any other distinguishing characteristic.
Indicators of Discriminating, Intimidating, Harassing, and Bullying Behaviors
The District recognizes that often conflicts can be learning opportunities for students to develop resilience and problem solving skills that will help them to successfully navigate through life. Therefore, school staffs assess conflicts between children through a lens of safety, child development, age, school level, legal parameters and other factors to determine when problematic behaviors become bullying. Behaviors which constitute bullying may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Verbal: Hurtful name-calling, teasing, gossiping, making threats, making slurs or epithets, making rude noises, or spreading hurtful rumors.
Nonverbal: Posturing, making gang signs, leering, staring, stalking, destroying property, insulting or threatening notes, using graffiti or graphic images, or exhibiting inappropriate and/or threatening gestures or actions.
Physical: Hitting, punching, pushing, shoving, poking, kicking, tripping, blocking egress, strangling, hair pulling, fighting, beating, pinching, slapping, "pantsing", biting, spitting, or destroying property.
Emotional (Psychological): Rejecting, terrorizing, extorting, defaming, intimidating, humiliating, blackmailing, manipulating friendships, isolating, shunning, ostracizing, using peer pressure, or rating or ranking personal characteristics.
Cyber-bullying: Sending insulting or threatening messages by phone, e-mail, Web sites, or any other electronic or written communication. This policy pertains to cyber-bullying that is related to school activity or attendance and is directed toward a pupil or school personnel.
Reporting of Bullying
Any student who believes that they are being bullied, has witnessed an act of bullying, or has knowledge of any incidents involving acts of bullying are strongly encouraged to report the incidents to a school official. Upon receiving a written or oral notification of bullying, the site administrator will investigate the matter to determine how to best resolve the issue promptly and appropriately. Issues such as the age of the children, developmental stage, and safety concerns shall be taken into consideration in addressing and resolving complaints of bullying. While not all reports may meet the legal definition of bullying, any incident of inappropriate behavior is dealt with promptly and deliberately. Incidents of bullying may be documented and reported by completing the Palo Alto Unified School District Incident Reporting Form. Upon completion, the form is submitted to the Principal (or designee) of your school for an immediate response. For anonymous reports of bullying, see form to the right. A student who believes that they are being harassed or discriminated against at school or at school activities should immediately bring the matter to the attention of the site administrator or school staff. Cases that involve bullying or harassment based on protected status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, ethnic group identification, race, ancestry, national origin, religion, color, or mental or physical disability or any other reason, may be resolved utilizing the district’s Uniform Complain Procedure.
Guiding Values: Bullying Prevention Policy and Administrative Regulation
PAUSD’s Bullying Prevention Policy is an attempt to ensure the safety of students by creating simple, clear directions and processes to understand, prevent, intervene in, and address bullying. The proposed Bullying Prevention Board Policy (BP) and Administrative Regulation (AR) were crafted with the input of school administrators and staff, key parent and community partners, including student representatives to capture the values, principles and spirit of the PAUSD community.
Bullying Prevention Board Policy (BP 5131.2)
Bullying Prevention Administrative Regulation (AR 5131.2)
Bullying Prevention Forms and Tools
The District is engaged in efforts to create documents and tools that will provide guidance and strategies that support safer and more welcoming schools. Thus, information in this section will be updated on an ongoing basis.
Bullying Prevention Policy Review Process and Timeline [PDF]
Report Bullying Form A
Report Bullying Form A (Korean)
Report Bullying Form A (Mandarin)
Report Bullying Form A (Spanish)
Bullying Flowchart [PDF]
The District strives to ensure that every student experiences a safe and welcoming school environment, free from bullying. When students do experience or witness bullying, schools may offer a variety of supports, such as counseling, check-ins, social skills groups, and other programs or services. This is to ensure that students feel safe at school and understand what to do whenever confronted with bullying. Interventions may be offered to the target, aggressor, or bystander. Please contact your site for specific school supports and programs available.
Bullying Prevention Resources
Across the nation, bullying has become one of the primary issues of concern within K-12 education. It is important that incidents of bullying and harassment, especially as they may relate to disability, race/ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, gender expression, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation, be addressed and investigated seriously. Best practices, effective strategies, interventions, and resources to prevent and address bullying can be found below.
Bullying & Hate-Motivated Behavior Prevention
Bullying Publications & Resources
National Bullying Prevention Center
Anti-Defamation Language
Project Cornerstone
Digital Tat2
Report Incident (Anonymously)
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Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
Home › Student Services » Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Resources
Palo Alto Unified School District's (PAUSD) Comprehensive Sexual Health Education program is designed to encourage students to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender roles, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family (EC 51930). Per California law, PAUSD and all California public school districts, shall ensure that all students in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education. Each student shall receive this instruction at least once in junior high or middle school and at least once in high school (EC 51934 (a)).
If you have any questions, please contact Health Services at (650)833-4240 or health@pausd.org.
2019-20 Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Parent Nights
Parent Night # 1: October 15th, 2019 @ 6:30 pm, Palo Verde MPR
Parent Night # 2: January 13th, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, Walter Hays MPR
Parent Night # 3: February 27th, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, Nixon MPR
Ohlone 4th/5th Grade Parent Night: April 22nd, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, Ohlone MPR
Fletcher Middle School: April 1st, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, Fletcher Middle School MPR
JLS Middle School: April 20th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm, JLS Middle School MPR
Greene Middle School: February 6th, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, Greene Middle School MPR
Family Talk Workshops (Attendance By Reservation through Eventbrite)
What's Happening To Me? Workshop - for 5th and 6th graders and their families
October 2nd, 2019 @ 6:30 pm, PAUSD District Office Board Room
What Am I Feeling? Workshop - for 7th and 8th graders and their families
March 25th, 2020 @ 6:30 pm, PAUSD District Office Board Room
2019-20 Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Lesson Schedule
10/28/19 - 11/1/19
Palo Verde Elementary School
Escondido Elementary School
Barron Park Elementary School
El Carmelo Elementary School
Fairmeadow Elementary School
Juana Briones Elementary School
Walter Hays Elementary School
Duveneck Elementary School
Addison Elementary School
Ohlone Elementary School (4th/5th Grade)
3/2/20 - 3/20/20
Greene Middle School
JLS Middle School
California Healthy Youth Act Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the California Healthy Youth Act?
A: The California Healthy Youth Act (California Education Code Sections 51930-51939), which was approved in October of 2015 and took effect in January of 2016, requires all California school districts to provide comprehensive sexuality education at least once in middle school and at least once in high school.
Q: What is the difference about the new law?
A: The California Healthy Youth Act reinforces a focus on having healthy attitudes, behaviors, and relationships. In addition to HIV/AIDS prevention education, this law expands the requirement to include the teaching of all modes of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and addressing all gender identities and orientations.
Specifically, the law (California Ed. Code 51930) addresses the teaching of the following:
To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their sexual and reproductive health from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and from unintended pregnancy.
To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family.
To promote understanding of sexuality as a normal part of human development.
To ensure pupils receive integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention instruction and provide educators with clear tools and guidance to accomplish that end.
To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to have healthy, positive, and safe relationships and behaviors.
Q: Who determines what is "age appropriate" and medically accurate" sexual education?
A: The Adolescent Sexual Health Work Group (ASHWG), which is comprised of program managers from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Department of Education (CDE), and key non-governmental organizations, reviews sexual health education programs for age appropriateness and medically accuracy.
California Education Code 51931, defines “age appropriateness” and “medically accuracy” as:
“Age appropriate” refers to topics, messages, and teaching methods suitable to particular ages or age groups of children and adolescents, based on developing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity typical for the age or age group.
“Medically accurate” means verified or supported by research conducted in compliance with scientific methods and published in peer-reviewed journals, where appropriate, and recognized as accurate and objective by professional organizations and agencies with expertise in the relevant field, such as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Q: Who will be delivering the comprehensive sexual health lessons in PAUSD?
A: PAUSD uses the Health Connected supplemental materials in grade 5 (Puberty Talk), grade 7 (Teen Talk Middle School), and high school (Teen Talk High School). 5th grade instruction is led by Health Connected educators. In 7th grade, 1st year teachers to the Health Connected lessons will have Health Connected educators delivering materials. 2nd year and above teachers will deliver the Health Connected materials to their own classrooms. In High School, Health Connected materials are incorporated into the Living Skills class and is taught by the PAUSD teachers.
Q: How was the Health Connected content selected for use?
A: PAUSD has contracted with Health Connected, a Bay Area based non-profit organization that has a long history with many school districts in our state. This agency has provided long term support to PAUSD living skills classes at the high school level and has also trained district nurses. Selecting Health Connected to provide elementary (grade 5) and middle school (grade 7) sexual health information allows for K-12 alignment in the district and continuity for students and families. While PAUSD has taught health standards using a variety of supplemental resources for more than 15 years, the Health Connected resources are a response to the mandated topics required by the California Healthy Youth Act (California Education Code Sections 51930-51939) and ensure consistency of information to all students. PAUSD uses the Health Connected materials in grade 5 (Puberty Talk), grade 7 (Teen Talk), and high school (Teen Talk High School).
Q: How was the Health Connected content verified?
A: Health Connected’s curricula has gone through a rigorous review process. The Teen Talk Middle School and Teen Talk High School curricula were both reviewed by the Adolescent Sexual Health Work Group (ASHWG). Health Connected also partnered with physicians at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) to complete a medical review of each curricula before they are published. Lastly, Health Connected’s curricula were evaluated by the California Healthy Kids Resource Center’s Material Review Board process and determined to be of high quality.
You can find the curriculum review for Health Connected here: http://www.health-connected.org/curriculum-review
PAUSD school principals and chief academic officers reviewed requirements of the new law and the materials Health Connected had developed to meet the school district’s legal obligations to student sexual health information. The content was fully vetted by PAUSD school principals and chief academic officers.
Q: What components are included in the 7th Grade Teen Talk program?
A: The following public health topics are components of the Health Connected Teen Talk for seventh graders:
Decision-making and values clarification
Communicating with parents
Healthy relationships and peer and partner communication
Access and rights to health care
Definitions of sex/abstinence
Consent, sexual safety, and the law
Sexual identity and gender identity
Sex and sexuality in the media
Reproductive anatomy
Q: How can I view the lessons before instruction begins?
A: Each school year, the curriculum is available for viewing by parents at school sites during office hours prior to the beginning of instruction. Materials are also available from 8:00 am - 4:45 pm at the District Office in Educational Services. Further details about viewing materials will be included in correspondence from each school to parents.
Q: How does PAUSD evaluate the effectiveness of the program?
A: In addition to Health Connected's own program internal evaluation, PAUSD will be extending the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) to include the optional module of sexual health in order to monitor student behavior and attitude.
Q: Can I opt out my student from Comprehensive Sexual Health Education?
A: California state law allows you to remove your student from all or part of any sexual health education provided. You may also excuse your student from any assessments given by the district. If you DO NOT want you student to participate in the comprehensive sexual health education lessons or assessments, please send a written note to your schools’ front office or student’s teacher.
Q: Can I selectively opt out my student from LGBTQ-related content?
A: No, you cannot selectively opt out your student from the LGBTQ-related content while remaining in the classroom for other sexual health instruction. Permitting parental opt-out that targets LGBTQ-related lessons would make it impossible for a school to fulfill its mandate of correcting hostile environments and would instead promote, allow, and facilitate discrimination in violation of both state and federal law. Parents/guardians may, of course, choose to remove their students from comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention instruction in its entirety, including the LGBTQ-focused content.
For more information on LGBTQ-inclusivity requirements, please see the CALIFORNIA HEALTHY YOUTH ACT IMPLEMENTATION TOOLKIT LGBTQ-Inclusivity Requirements and How They Interact with Parental Opt-Out from the ACLU.
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Dr. Dre 2001 [Explicit Content]
Artist: Dr Dre
Genre: Rap/Hip Hop
After a seven-year hiatus Dr. Dre returned with '2001' the follow-up to his debut album, 'The Chronic.' In the interim between the two monumental projects, Dr. Dre assembled an all-star cast of rap superstars including, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, and Xzibit who would assist in executing his vision on one of the most flawless albums in hip-hop history. Dr. Dre's production reached a mythical tier on songs like, "Still D.R.E", "The Next Episode", and "Forgot About Dre".
Title: Dr. Dre 2001 [Explicit Content]
Artist(s): Dr Dre
1 Lolo (Intro)
2 The Watcher
3 F*** You
4 Still D.R.E
5 Big Ego's
6 Xxplosive
7 What's the Difference
8 Bar One
9 Light Speed
10 Forgot About Dre
1 The Next Episode
2 Let's Get High
3 Birch
4 Murder Ink
5 Some L.A. Niggaz
6 Jake's Pause for Porno
7 Housewife
8 Ackrite
9 Bang Bang
10 The Message
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Beer EventsBeer TopicsFeatures
Music Puts the Soul in Soulcraft
Sue Bjorkman
In Colorado’s crazy-competitive craft beer climate, what makes the difference between soaring success and sorry, we’re closed? Sometimes, in addition to making amazing beers, it helps to find a niche. Soulcraft Brewery in Salida, Colorado, found theirs, a little unexpectedly—in music.
A passionate group of local investors opened Soulcraft Brewery in November 2016 with every intention of simply being a local tasting room serving incredible beer. It wasn’t surprising that the locals responded immediately. It also wasn’t too shocking that tourists traveling to nearby Monarch Mountain Ski Resort responded big time. Soulcraft is right on Highway 50 with a bright neon sign shouting, “Brewery.” This is more than enough to entice adventure-seekers rolling through.
But then an intriguing thing happened. This music-loving town of just 5,500 residents had always had more soul than space. But Soulcraft’s location was in a large, former furniture warehouse so its rare spaciousness got people thinking. Dreaming. Could their tasting room become an entertainment destination? Oh yea.
“We’ve had a great response regarding live entertainment, whether it’s live music, comedy, jam sessions, or trivia nights. Our oversized tasting room is perfect for live entertainment,” said Eric Ramsey, Soulcraft marketing manager.
“The crowd is able to get close to the band which encourages interaction and dancing. We also leave some tables in place for those who just want to sit and chill,” Ramsey said. Then if you need some air, there’s an outdoor beer garden for that. Having 16 different beers on tap keeps everyone happy, too.
Photo credit: Soulcraft Brewing
Soulcraft has already hosted many acts, including a Reggae series, headlining Sol Seed, a massively popular reggae band from Eugene, Oregon. On July 22, the funky electronic music duo Float Goat lights up the place and on Aug. 8, they’re hosting the Band of Heathens, an internationally touring band based in Austin, Texas.
The Band of Heathens (BOH)
But really, why would bands agree to play such a small, intimate show? The Band of Heathens (BOH), a group that plays major music fests, shared the hour with Elvis Costello on Austin City Limits, and won the 2007 Best New Band of the Year at the Austin Music Awards is a case in point. This year alone they’ll perform in 26 different states, three European countries (Denmark, Germany, Spain), and a music cruise that sails through a couple more.
So why, Salida?
“We feel that bands are loyal to small communities that make them feel welcome and special. Our staff goes out of their way to treat them like family,”
…said Ramsey. “The relationships between local promoters like Steve Finch and Brian Waldrip have with some of the bands are key.”
Finch, a talent promoter, agreed. Finch and BOH go way back. “I have a really long history with BOH. I started working with them seven years ago. They’re like brothers to me. I wanted to bring them to Salida. I knew the town would like them and they do.”
Finch, who stays busy booking bands for Cervantes in Denver, also booked music for Salida’s premier fest, FIBArk Whitewater Festival for 12 years. In 2011 he booked BOH as part of the FIBArk entertainment lineup. Then they played the SteamPlant Theater twice and an acoustic gig at Currents Restaurant.
“They really like it here. They feel like Salida is one of the last true small mountain towns,” explained Finch. While in town, band members go on whitewater rafting trips, fly fishing on the Arkansas River, and soak at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs. What’s not to like?
Friends Helping Friends
Bringing in BOH is also an act of friendship.
“I’m investing my own money in this to help the owners of Soulcraft. These guys are good friends of mine. I’ve been lucky in this business and like to give back. I want to help this brewery start a legacy, get a good thing going that will continue to establish their reputation as a real known music venue,” said Finch.
Great weekend in Colorado, thanks for all of the love Rocky Mountain Friends. Los Angeles is home base for a couple of days. @bootlegtheater is the place tomorrow night with @heartyhar and @jessewilsongs #duende 🌵⚡
A post shared by The Band Of Heathens (@bandofheathens) on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:21am PDT
Music is constantly changing, he added. “A few years ago indoor venues were dead. Now they’re big again. This one can do well. They’re really motivated. They’re doing this right.” Although they don’t have a formal stage and lights yet, they have added acoustic panels that help disperse the sound.
They’re doing it free to the public, too.
“Free shows are important for connecting us to the community. Everyone is welcome here and free shows encourage more people to come out and enjoy the arts,” said Ramsey.
Music fan Rusty Roberts of Denver describes BOH’s sound as “a smoldering caldron of smoky, soulful rock, blues, funk, and good ole American music with groove and grind covered in prolific writing.”
Their Americana, rockabilly sound is varied and diverse with the perfect blend of contemplative singer/songwriter songs and get-up-and-dance rock ‘n’ roll. Insightful and often autobiographical lyrics talk about life and love and even what it’s like to eat a marijuana cookie. Their new album “Duende,” is their fifth studio album and eighth overall. Band members include Ed Jurdi (guitars, keys, vocals), Gordy Quist (guitars, vocals), Trevor Nealon (keys, vocals), Richard Millsap (drums, vocals), Scott Davis (bass, vocals).
Already massively popular in Europe, Finch noted that BOH is right on the cusp of busting into the big-time. This is the kind of band you want to see in a brewery that holds about 150-max before they’re booking arenas and losing their accessibility.
As a huge added bonus, comedian Chris Porter of Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central Presents fame will open for BOH at the Salida show. That’s a friendship thing, too. Porter and the BOH guys met while performing on the Kid Rock’s “Chillin the Most” music cruise.
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO BEER
BOH are huge craft beer fans, too. “They wanted to do this in a brewery. They’re stoked. They’re big IPA and pale ale guys,” said Finch.
Band members and music lovers alike will enjoy Soulcraft’s X-Ray IPA (7 % ABV) or their Soulcraft Pale Ale (6 % ABV). Others tasty ones to try are the Work Release Pale Bock, Colorado Hoppy Blonde, refreshing Lemon Wheat, and the Sticky Pils.
Featured image credit: Soulcraft Brewing
#bandofheathens #craft beer #music #salida #solseed #soulcraftbrewing
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Making sense of the Senate's emissions trading debate
It's possible
Tim Colebatch in The Age:
"The Government supports its emissions trading scheme, but would like to see it defeated when it comes before the Senate this week. The Opposition opposes the scheme, but will be doing its utmost to ensure that it is not defeated.
The Greens support emissions trading, but want to vote to defeat this version of it. As for the Senate independents, no newspaper article could adequately summarise their positions.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong will introduce the scheme to the Senate, but accepts it has no chance of being passed. Rather, the issue is whether it is defeated, thus becoming the first half of the trigger for an early election.
The Government would like to have the option of calling an early election, particularly on emissions trading, which the polls suggest most voters support. The Opposition does not want to give it that option, and so plans to tie up the legislation in endless debate...
The Coalition's deputy leader in the Senate, Eric Abetz, will start by moving today for the legislation to be delayed for six months. That is expected to be defeated, with independent Nick Xenophon siding with Labor and the Greens to block it.
Senator Xenophon plans to move for a shorter delay to allow more Treasury modelling; but with the Opposition and Family First's Steve Fielding opposed, that also will fail.
The Coalition then plans to move a long list of amendments, and will mobilise its 37 senators to ensure long debates, so that no final vote can be taken by Thursday when Senate rises for its winter break.
Under the constitution, a Government can ask for both houses of Parliament to be dissolved for an early election if its legislation is defeated twice by the Senate. The Coalition has 37 of the 76 senators, but a double dissolution would dramatically change the balance of the Senate. The threshold for winning a seat would be lowered from 14.3 per cent of the statewide vote at a normal half-Senate election to 7.7 per cent at an election for the full Senate, helping smaller parties win seats.
If Australians were to vote just as they did in 2007, I calculate that the Coalition would lose four seats and Labor one. Senator Fielding would lose his seat in Victoria but Family First would gain one in South Australia.
The Greens would gain a net three seats, Senator Xenophon would gain a running mate, and the final seat in NSW would go to Patricia Newell of the Climate Change Coalition, partner of broadcaster and columnist Phillip Adams.
In Victoria, the Greens would jump from zero seats to two on 2007 voting, taking one seat from the Coalition and narrowly defeating Senator Fielding for the final seat on Labor preferences.
These estimates are only a rough guide, because each election is different. But double dissolutions are great for smaller parties, on both sides of politics. In Victoria, Family First ended up with 5.5 per cent of the vote in 2007 — far short of the 14.3 per cent it would need at a normal half-Senate election, but close to the 7.7 per cent that would re-elect Senator Fielding in a double dissolution."
Published in the Age June 22, 2009
Labels: carbon trading, climate change, senate
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What Should You Do If Your Child Got Seriously Hurt At A Neighbor’s House?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 3.4 million children receive injuries in houses.
Often those injuries can occur at a neighbor’s residence and be serious. Among the common causes are falls, dog attacks and playing with dangerous objects.
In addition, often children are victims of what is known as an attractive nuisance. Children become easily fascinated. The classic example is the brightly colored swimming pool. It can “lure” children to the neighbor’s property.
Of course, the parents’ instinct is to obtain immediate help for the injured child.
However, parents must also be concerned if their child’s injury could have been prevented. The issue is: Is the neighbor negligent? That is, were conditions in the house unsafe or, as the old saying goes, “an accident waiting to happen.” The condition could have been as simple as a sharp knife within the child’s reach. Or, as complex as uneven stairs.
Parents owe it to their child and the safety of all others who visit that house to determine negligence. That requires four documentation steps. Parents must take them simultaneously when getting aid for the child or soon afterward. They are:
Photograph the child’s injuries, including from different angles. Since digital ones tend to be the clearest, use a smartphone.
Take multiple photographs of what might be called “the scene of the crime.” This should be done immediately. The neighbor might not allow parents inside the property later. Moreover, there could be attempts to cover up negligence. For example, the neighbor later puts a gate around the pool.
Monitor and record the child’s emotional states. The injuries could include emotional trauma.
Do not discuss any aspect of this injury with the neighbor. As one hears continually on television shows, “anything you say can and will be used against you.” For instance, in shock, parents may blurt out, “Well, Johnny is clumsy.” That single statement can undermine or reduce the compensation in a legal action.
Negligence is a complex legal matter. In addition, the amount of reimbursement for medical bills, financial provisions for long-term care and damages for pain and suffering are also complex. Parents should seek the guidance of a lawyer.
If you believe your child has been injured by negligence in a neighbor’s house, let the skilled attorneys at Petro Law Firm help. Contact them now at 205-327-8311 or Mark@PetroLawFirm.com.
Why auto Accidents are Especially Dangerous to Those With Existing Medical Conditions
In Alabama, reports Drive Safe Alabama, an auto accident injures a person every 11 minutes.
Those involved in the crash may not even realize they have been injured. Frequently shock triggers the release of endorphins. Those morphine-like hormones can block the sensation of pain and emotional distress. Therefore, the victims do not feel the need to be “checked out” by medical personnel.
That is not only dangerous. It could be fatal, soon after the accident or in the long-term.
Among the reasons why is that whatever blows the body-and-mind-absorbed could worsen existing medical conditions. Essentially, existing conditions are diseases and disorders which were present prior to the accident. Examples include spinal fusion, arthritis, heart arrhythmia and post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD).
So, yes, after an accident, victims should seek an immediate medical evaluation at the scene. Following that should be a comprehensive medical assessment at the actual medical facility.
During both of those, they must brief the medical personnel about the existing conditions. That is for two reasons.
One is to receive any appropriate treatment. For example, a history of back trouble might require the body to be immobilized before transport to the hospital. Without that, the injured might wind up paralyzed. That might especially be the case if the crash inflicted added damage to the spine.
Secondly, existing conditions can make the claims for payment of medical expenses by insurance and for reimbursement for pain and suffering more complex. Those at fault could attempt to prove no correlation between the accident and the worsened medical condition.
Therefore, there will be an extensive inspection of medical records. Victims need to have the emergency medical staff provide treatment details. Those records are absolutely necessary. On a continuing basis other healthcare personnel rendering treatment will also have to furnish those.
It is the responsibility of the injured to review those for accuracy. That reaches way back to what had been recorded in diagnosing and treating the initial diseases and disorders. Errors have to be corrected.
Injured accident victims owe it to themselves to have a lawyer guide them through the maze of documentation. It could be financial suicide to deal with insurance companies and defense attorneys on their own.
If you or a loved one have an existing condition you believe was worsened in a car accident, let the skilled attorneys at Petro help. Contact us now for a free consultation 205-327-8311 or Mark@PetroLawFirm.com.
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"I have been formed by an experience of the political world as both intensely intimate and profoundly public. These experiences mark my work more deeply than any other I've had in my life."
Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) employs various mediums—including video, performance, installation, and photography—to probe the complex intersections of history, politics, and speech within private and public spaces. Hayes' work is concerned with interrogating the present political moment, often through works staged "in the street," a practice that she says arose from her "interest in public speech and the conditions of public address." Her current large-scale project, Ricerche, began in 2013 and uses a series of single-channel video, photo, projection, and performance installations for an inquiry into sexuality in contemporary America. Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, the 55th International Venice Biennale, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, among others. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Alpert Award in the Arts, and a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, Hayes received an MFA from the University of California and currently serves as associate professor of fine arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
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12 West Brewing Drops a Grand Theft Auto-Themed Beer
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12 West's Weisse City, a Berliner Weisse with Meyer lemons from Agritopia.
Chris Malloy | April 6, 2018 | 10:00am
Anyone who played video games last decade will remember Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Racking up stars. Shredding digital streets lined with palm trees. Fast motorcycles and awesome '80s music. Today, 12 West Brewing in Gilbert is releasing a beer that nods to the game.
The brew is called Weisse City.
Cans of Weisse City ($15 for four) come decorated with frames of cartoon art that pulse with heavily saturated colors. It looks just like the art from Vice City. The beer can's fonts even mirrors the game's. Weisse City will also be on draft, for $6 a pint. But it's all about those cans.
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We're in the middle of a beer-can art arms race in metro Phoenix. Breweries have been papering their cans with some eye-catching graphics. You feel less bad about buying four cans for $12-plus when they look this good. Can art gives breweries another way to brand themselves and express what they do. If you follow the subculture of brewery can releases — which happen with regularity and inspire fanfare, long lines, and Instagram posts — you will notice just how epic local can art has gotten.
Weisse City's creative can art scores an A+.
But the beer is interesting for additional reasons. 12 West's taproom is in Barnone, the progressive network of farms, eateries, and non-food craftsmen in Gilbert. More than 200 pounds of lemons were used to brew Weisse City, and they came from within Agritopia, a few hundred feet from the tap room. Weisse City is a Berliner Weisse, a German beer style, and German beers are having a national and local moment. Berliner Weisse falls under the lush umbrella of sour beer — the best drinking in the galaxy for the arid months ahead.
Noel Garcia, co-founder and head brewer of 12 West, has been into weisse beers lately. "Typically, they're a tart and refreshing kind of beer," he says. "Heading into summer, we've been making more."
He says he has been trying to expand on what weisse is. Recently, he spiked weisse with Kool-Aid. Weisse City will be a tamer take, the only real step outside tradition being the addition of Meyer lemons.
"Meyer is what's in season," Garcia says. "The flavor's really intense and we just fell in love with it. We just thought it was the perfect thing to do with a Berliner Weisse."
Like most German beers, Weisse City is on the milder side. The tartness created by kettle souring is on the soft end, dovetailing with the more perfumey than acidic character of Meyer lemons. With a mellow citrusy backbone and an ABV of a mere 4.3 percent, this beer is crushable.
The first batch of Weisse City is 10 barrels, which is the capacity of 12 West's brewing system. Cans go on sale today, April 5, at 3 p.m.
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Monday to Wednesday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Thursday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Chris Malloy, former food editor and current food critic at Phoenix New Times, has written for various local and national outlets. He has scrubbed pots in a restaurant kitchen, earned graduate credit for a class about cheese, harvested garlic in Le Marche, and rolled pastas like cappellacci stuffed with chicken liver. He writes reviews but also narrative stories on the food world's margins.
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“In this persuasive work, historian Proenza-Coles challenges what she calls “the simplest version of [American] popular history,” which “gives the impression that… black people stepped onto the stage of American history as plantation slaves in the 19th century and entered the political arena in the 1950s.” She shows that men and women of color “were central to the founding of the Americas, the establishment of New World nations, the dismantling of slavery, and the rise of freedom in the Americas.” Lucid prose and straightforward structure make this easy to read, and the unearthing of so many lesser-known figures offers new perspectives of American history.” –Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries.
While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, priests, poets, and presidents. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds.
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UPDATE 11/19/2013: There have been big dreams for the area where the Strawbridge buildings occupy. In 2012 and 2013 they underwent some "major" cleanup. Going forward we plan to use them "as is." There will come a time when the structures are really no longer serviceable, but our seasonal staff will get to enjoy them as they are for the coming years.
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Willard Lodge - HVAC Project and Meeting Room Improvements
UPDATE 11/19/13: The Willard Lodge project was a marathon endeavor started and finished in February 2013 when the furnace (installed in 1962) put out its last breath of warm air. We did not get to complete our original wishlist below, but new heating and air-conditioning were installed along with a new ceiling to conceal the new efficient ductwork.
Willard Lodge was built in the 1960’s as the central meeting space for a three-building complex. It faces northwest toward Southold, NY, overlooking a giant campfire ring, then out to the water. It houses groups almost every weekend. The heating system is the original unit in un-insulated ductwork. The electric service would also need to be updated to handle the full load of air conditioning. The main room has a low ceiling that we would like to remove. In its place we would install pine planking like we have in the main dining room and then add better, more efficient lighting.
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Bobilin House - Accessibility and Efficiency Renovations
UPDATE 11/19/13: Although we didn't get to complete the dream plan of everything listed below, such as the roofing and some efficiency items. The bathrooms have been fully renovated to a greater accessibility standard. The building has also been fully painted and other minor upgrades have been completed. Bobilin and Willard Lodge remain the only two buildings on the property with working wood fireplaces. More to come . . .
Bobilin House sits at the far west end of the property. Originally built in the late 1960’s as the camp infirmary, it was only used in that capacity for about five years. It was then converted to a retreat house for smaller groups. The exterior doors have been replaced, the HVAC system has been updated, along with the kitchen. But time has come to make this the first fully accessible building on the Quinipet property. It will allow us to welcome people we have not been able to serve fully.
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3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw
3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw is a single family residence located in Marietta, GA 30008. Built in 1971, this property features 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 8,736 sq ft lot, and 925 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw is $149,000.
For the surrounding community of Marietta, GA 30008, the average sale price for similar homes to 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw is $127,071. The nearby schools are average and include Hollydale Elementary School, Smitha Middle School and Osborne High School. The overall crime risk for this area is slightly high. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw
Subdivision: HOLLYDALE
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3081 Fern Valley Dr Sw, Marietta, GA 30008
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The average sales price of homes similar to 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw is $127,071 ($121/sq.ft.)
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Situated at 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw, Marietta, GA 30008, this is a Single Family Residence with 3 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms and approximately 925 square feet of living space and a 8,736 square foot lot. The property was built in 1971 and is in the neighborhood of Cobb County, Georgia.
During the month of 12/2019, a total of 5 properties had foreclosure filings in the 30008 zip code surrounding 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw, with one in every 2,334 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing. In Cobb County, where 3089 Fern Valley Dr Sw, Marietta, GA 30008 is located, there were 109 properties with foreclosure filings documented during the month of 12/2019, a foreclosure rate of one in every 2,709 housing units. In Georgia, one in every 2,417 housing units had a foreclosure filing in 12/2019, while one in every 2,541 housing units had a foreclosure filing nationwide.
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49ers’ Jordan Matthews heads to France to…
49ers’ Jordan Matthews heads to France to see wife in World Cup
Cheyna Matthews is a starting forward for Jamaica
Newly signed San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jordan Matthews talks to the media at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, March 14, 2019. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
By Cam Inman |
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2019 at 4:05 am | UPDATED: June 13, 2019 at 12:09 pm
SANTA CLARA – Wide receiver Jordan Matthews is heading for a storybook destination now that 49ers minicamp is complete. He’s off to France, where his wife, Cheyna, is playing for Jamaica in its first-ever Women’s World Cup.
“We’re in this crazy phase right now,” Matthews said after Wednesday’s practice. “She’s watched me play on this (NFL) stage, and now she’s playing on the biggest soccer stage in the world.”
It’s a fabulous phase that Matthews’ former Philadelphia Eagles teammate, Zach Ertz, knows quite well. Ertz’s wife, Julie, is a star defender on the favored U.S. Women’s National Team.
“Julie and Zach have been really close to us ever since we got to Philly,” Jordan said. “Once Jamaica (qualified), Zach knew Cheyna was Jamaican, and so he was one of the first to text me, ‘Is she going to go?’ Julie was, ‘Tell Cheyna I’m so happy for her. It’s going to be awesome they’re coming out too.’ “
Less than 24 hours to go Mood: pic.twitter.com/wX8IEKxy3T
— Cheyna Matthews (@Cheynalee_) June 8, 2019
Cheyna started at forward as Jamaica’s so-called Raggae Girlz made Sunday’s Women’s World Cup debut, a 3-0 loss to Brazil.
“She had a great game against Brazil,” her husband said. “They have a young team. They were jittery early on but then got settled in.”
We had fun in training today with the #ReggaeGirlz conext19 mini-ball challenge. 1⃣ striker, 2⃣ goalkeepers. Not many scored but Trudi Carter and @Cheynalee_ were the top strikers, while Jody Brown was top keeper. #ReggaeGirlz
A we bring di vibes @FIFAWWC#FIFAWWC #DareToShine pic.twitter.com/S1HRkjldIb
— Kayon Davis, FIFA (@FIFAWWC_JAM) June 12, 2019
After completing his first offseason program on the 49ers receiving corps, Jordan Matthews won’t make it in time for Jamaica’s next game, on Friday against Italy. But once he lands in Paris on Saturday, he’ll head for Grenoble near the French Alps for Tuesday’s game against Australia.
“Once the World Cup ends, my wife is still playing pro soccer in D.C. (for the Washington Spirit), so I literally fly to France with the luggage I’m going to fly to D.C. with and train with the whole offseason,” Matthews said.
“This is my life now for the offseason. I used to go to Nashville and train at Vanderbilt. The father and husband life is a lot different. It’s so fun, though.”
(Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
How Cheyna Matthews made it to France is quite a tale, especially so in that it’s been less than a year since she spent 27 hours in labor delivering the couple’s first child.
“Having the opportunity to compete in a World Cup nine months after giving birth to a strong, healthy boy is a unique and precious blessing that I can’t take for granted,” she wrote in a story last week for JustWomensSports.com. “I know that when I step onto that field in Paris as a new mother, representing both my country and my family — I’ll have already won.”
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Born in Massachusetts, she is of Jamaican descent through her mother’s side.
“Her grandad, who’s passed away, always wanted to see Cheyna play for Jamaica,” Jordan said. “But growing up in the U.S., there’s always that pressure, ‘Play for U.S. Women’s National Team.’ “
Happy 2 Year Anniversary. Still madly crazy for you ❤️ #bestfriendforever pic.twitter.com/fqZqa4C71a
— Cheyna Matthews (@Cheynalee_) June 10, 2019
After meeting Jordan in college at Vanderbilt, Cheyna transferred after two years to Florida State, where she helped win a national championship and earn an invitation to a U.S. National Team camp. A broken ankle derailed her U.S. chances, but Jamaican coach Hue Menzies courted her, and then saved her a roster spot after her pregnancy.
No angle. No problem.
What a run. What persistence. What a goal from @Cheynalee_!
0-1 | #NJvWAS
Watch Live: https://t.co/d9Oj0BxIL6 pic.twitter.com/YK6PfJShya
— NWSL (@NWSL) May 11, 2019
While her husband somewhat resurrected his career in a return to the Eagles (after stints with the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots), she balanced her newfound motherhood with her newfound World Cup ambitions.
“She’d wake up and train down at King of Prussia every single day, getting her body back, getting her stamina back,” Jordan said. “She’s gone full speed ahead and got a starting spot.”
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JANUARY 13: Jordan Matthews #80 of the Philadelphia Eagles celebrates his first quarter touchdown reception against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at Mercedes Benz Superdome on January 13, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
At 5 a.m. Wednesday before the 49ers final offseason practice, Jordan received an overseas video call from his wife and son saying hello from France. Yeah, that’s a pretty good excuse why they won’t all be together for the 49ers’ third annual family picnic Thursday.
“My son, he’s been to Jamaica, California and France, and he can’t even walk yet. We’re really blessed,” Jordan said.
Jordan, a cousin of 49ers icon Jerry Rice, has brought five years of NFL experience, 270 career receptions and 23 touchdowns to a youth-laden receiving corps. He’s also healthy after injuries stalled his career, which began promisingly as a 2014 second-round pick of the Eagles.
“The day Jordan got here, he had about twice as many catches as all our receivers combined,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. “… We wanted to bring in a veteran guy with some size who had been there before and done it. Jordan has. He’s played for a few different organizations. He’s played in different systems. He’s a tough player, he’s got some size, he’s got speed. He’s extremely smart and he’s a pro.”
And he’s a proud husband and father with a passport to punch.
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Escritórios virtuais em/no/na Madrid, Recoletos
Paseo de Recoletos 5, 28004 Madrid
Combine the best of old and new by basing your business in Recoletos, a beautifully renovated building which retains its classic, original features and is also equipped with the latest technology. Over six designer floors, we have the flexible, dedicated space to suit you, whether you’re looking for private or shared offices, a virtual address or to hire a meeting room in Madrid. Receive a friendly, professional welcome in the reception off the leafy avenue, then plug in to the energy of our buzzing business community. And when the day’s work is done, head to the roof terrace for drinks with stunning views of the Palacio de Cibeles.
Recoletos is in an upmarket area of the city centre, surrounded by high-profile offices for the government, army, courts and banks, alongside restaurants, theatres and parks. But it’s not too far from the more bohemian area of Chueca, with its cool bars and Bogui Jazz club. The rest of Madrid is easily reached by bus and metro, with the Cibeles bus stop and Banco de Espana subway station on your doorstep.
Why choose Recoletos.
Beautifully renovated Madrid building with classic original features.
Six designer floors to choose from and rooftop terrace views to enjoy.
Excellent transport links by bus and subway.
In an upmarket area surrounded by parks, theatres, monuments and palaces.
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Those sorely missed antique bookshops | Juan Emilio Ríos
Juan Emilio Ríos
by ReachExtra August 15, 2019, 10:31 109 Views
They would open very early in the morning, and stay open until one o’clock – during this time, if you wanted to buy one of their books you’d have to literally grab it from their hands, or rescue it from a big cardboard box that was due to be sent back home, only to be returned to the same place in an improvised shop window the next day. Luis Coca’s bookstand was like pure poetry.
Ancient books which, after years of comfortably dwelling on someone’s shelf, were on the market once again. Fourth and fifth-hand books that would even tell you about their previous owners through doodles strewn throughout the worn, yellowing pages and sometimes, if you were lucky, you’d find handwritten letters nestled between the pages; with stamps that have been around the world three times, only to end up in the hands of bargain hunters such as myself.
Endless volumes of titles and authors made up the varied offering of Coca’s great warehouse of dreams, curiosity, the exotic and the unexpected in his little buy-and-sell book stand.
Luis’ bookstand was a paper oasis at the market, nestled amidst the tangled labyrinth of fruit, vegetables, fish, clocks and knick-knacks. Luis’ bookstand was the house of culture seen through mirrors straight out of Valle Inclan’s famous work ‘Callejón del Gato’.
There, you could look, touch, read and dream, but you also had to fight to the death to ensure no one would take a rare book, or a book that had been discontinued on every side of the planet, right out of your hands.
Luis’ book stand was the only museum in the world selling these treasures.
I also frequented Antonio Moreno’s stand, he was an antique bookseller on Las Huertas Street. He would trade in your old comics for new ones, sold you books from untraceable editions and even took books you no longer wanted off your hands.
I would spend hours there, looking for treasures. Antonio himself was a poet and he would always talk about literature with great passion; he would even recite classic poetry as well as his own. ‘Golden hours’ – that is how I would describe the intense time I spent between the mountains of books piled up in his sunny establishment.
Today, the charitable ‘Betel’ and ‘Reto’ markets run by those who have overcome the tyranny of drug abuse, and modern stores buying and selling all kinds of articles, together with the antique markets, have taken the baton from those rancid establishments, and sell you books, records, films, paintings and all kinds of objects for ridiculous prices. I, as you know, frequent them daily.
Today, Sunday, as I write this, my mouth is already watering thinking about tomorrow, when all sorts of wonderful stories will be within my reach for next to nothing.
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Two myths about Charles Freeman and the Israel lobby
March 11, 2009 March 11, 2009 Dan FleshlerComments(100)
I’ve patiently tried to dissect who was responsible for the Charles Freeman fiasco and to discern what it portends for the Obama administration. Some commentary on the commentary:
Myth #1: The “Israel lobby” and AIPAC per se were not behind the opposition to Freeman; it was just a bunch of loud neocons.
AIPAC has publicly denied that it lobbied against the appointment. Joe Klein writes that Freeman: “ pins his departure on ‘the Israel Lobby,’ which is imprecise. He was the victim of a mob, not a lobby. The mob was composed primarily of Jewish neoconservatives–abetted by less than courageous public servants like Senator Chuck Schumer, who has publicly taken credit for the hit.â€
Similarly, Jim Besser (a great reporter whom I admire) writes that he “saw no evidence the “lobby†— meaning AIPAC itself – was involved in the anti-Freeman effort, although that effort was sparked to a considerable degree by Steve Rosen, a former top AIPAC employee, and there’s plenty of evidence the more right-wing elements of the pro-Israel movement were heavily involved.”
Sorry, fellas. Very reliable sources inform me that Josh Block, an AIPAC spokesperson, contacted bloggers and journalists expressing concern about Freeman. That is probably what Freeman referred to when he mentioned “easily traceable e-mails” in the announcement that he was giving up the fight. Trust me on this one. I had to think twice about writing it because I want Block, who is generally very nice to critical journalists at the AIPAC Policy Conferences, to be nice to me. There is no way I would have written it unless it were manifestly true, and important.
Even it were not true, it is simply inconceivable that Mark Kirk, Charles Schumer and other Congressfolk who publicly objected to Freeman would have done so without the encouragement –or winks and nods– of AIPAC. The Hill is where it lives and breathes, and nothing this important could have been orchestrated without its blessing.
Myth #2: The Freeman fracas proves that the conventional Israel lobby has the power to dictate Middle East policy by ensuring that no one willing to criticize Israel will get a hearing in the Administration. Here is Andrew Sullivan on the meaning of power in Washington: “You get to dictate to a president who he can and cannot appoint to his own intelligence staff. This was not a Senate-confirmation issue. And it was not because of some financial or tax issue. It was because of what he believed. And a president is simply not allowed to have that kind of diversity of view in his administration. And he knows this is a battle he shouldn’t fight.â€
Almost, but not quite…The Freeman affair shows that the lobby knows how to convey the IMPRESSION that it has the power to dictate Middle East policy, and that it will make life miserable for any President who wants to take an independent course on Israel. Ron Kampeas of the JTA has an interesting take on this:
I’d like to argue that if, theoretically, a critic of Israel’s occupation had been appointed to a sensitive, senior security position without Freeman’s baggage, jampacked with apologias for the Saudi and the Chinese dictatorships, such a person would have been a serious test of the pro-Israel lobby’s power. I’d like to argue the point, but I don’t have to: Samantha Power, after all, handles multilateral organizations on the National Security Council.
Samantha Power, who accused Israel of war crimes, who called for moneys for Israel to be diverted to the Palestinians, who called for an interventionary force to protect the Palestinians from Israel. And yes, I know the White House placated pro-Israel figures by saying that her work would be confined to Darfur and other non-Israel issues. And then her first assignment was: Durban. With nary a pro-Israel complaint. With the blessing (not that it would have mattered, I think) of one of Freeman’s fiercest critics, Marty Peretz.
Freeman’s appointment was not a serious test of the lobby’s power. Not even close. He had enough extra baggage to make him an easy mark. It is an example of a pattern that is familiar to those who follow the lobby closely: it only picks fights that it knows it can win, at least when it comes to assaulting individual reputations. One important goal of these very occasional battles is to demonstrate the ability to affect political outcomes in order to make the political elite more docile. As one Congressional staffer told me: “They only kill the deer when it is wounded and in the middle of the road.”
This whole Freeman affair is an example of what my wife, who is in the ad biz, calls “power puffery.” AIPAC and its allies manipulate perceptions and create exaggerated notions of their resources and influence, and foster the widespread belief that both elected and appointed officials cross swords with the lobby at their peril.
But the Hill is filled with an increasing number of Representatives and Senators who don’t hesitate to criticize Israel and even the Israel lobby, and nothing ever happens to them. There can and should be many more. For example, if anyone is a logical target for AIPAC’s wrath, it is Rep. Jim Moran, the Virginia Dem who blamed Israel’s supporters for the Iraq War and was roundly condemned by his own party in 2002. He’s been re-elected twice. The AIPACers know they can’t beat him, so they haven’t tried (at least they haven’t tried very hard). I get into all of this is in much more detail in my book. Sorry, can’t give away more now.
Yes, Hobbes was mostly correct: ‘The perception of power is power.†But that is true only if people allow it to be true, if they don’t bother to scrutinize carefully the extent to which someone can actually do what he wants you to believe he can do. Samantha Power got the Durban portfolio, for God’s sake! Of course, Obama will take political risks if he relies on people who want to help him chart a truly independent course in the Middle East. But the risks are not as great as the lobby, and the critics who help it puff up its power, want us to believe. And that is good news.
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100 thoughts on “Two myths about Charles Freeman and the Israel lobby”
I don’t doubt that individuals within AIPAC participated in the suggestion and even direct character assassination. How can you be sure to what extent that occurred?
E-mail is very easy to bulk mail, and to falsify addresses. Ask any professional spammer.
I guess you’re saying that they wanted Freeman and others to know that it was AIPAC and “supporters”.
What specifically was Freeman accused of?
Give it up, Witty. You just make a fool of yourself.
Zoya,
I’m a skeptic. I take seriously my responsibility to not defame others without some knowledge, and limited to what I actually know.
If I don’t know but suspect, I state that my impression is a suspicion, not knowledge.
I don’t know the facts about Freeman, and am unwilling to weigh in in condemnation or even criticism, until I have some basis of knowledge.
Peter H says:
I agree with the gist of the post, and it’s probably true that Freeman’s comments about Israel, in and of themselves, would not have been sufficient to sink his nomination. That being said, the comparison to Samantha Power is problematic. Freeman was not an academic celebrity the way that Samantha Power is, and didn’t have the kind of network of support that Power has. More importantly, how much has Power really written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Yeah, she’s touched on it in a few essays, but it’s far from being a major focus of her writing; certainly nowhere near as extensively as Freeman has.
And Power isn’t exactly squeaky clean on past matters either re: Bosnia. I am not too distinguished on her views on Israel but Peter did make a good point: she is somewhat of a celebrity, like Albright.
Freeman’s baggage is really not that much baggage when held up in the spotlight. Alot of it was mangled and contorted to fit into a good smear campaign (and that whole Saudi thing is rather embarrassing since so many who serve have or have had ties to Saudi money.).
As we would have it, Freeman would not be where he is (or was) today if it were not for this “baggage”. What a paradox.
“Freeman was not an academic celebrity the way that Samantha Power is, and didn’t have the kind of network of support that Power has”
True. That reinforces my second argument. They knew they were less likely to win with Power. It doesn’t matter that her focus hasn’t been on the Is-Pals; she let loose with enough opinions to qualify her as a candidate to be a target. But she didn’t pass the test.
Richard Silverstein says:
Dan: Block is quoted in the NYT as saying Aipac “took no position on Freeman.” You’ll note that at no time does he deny he spread material against Freeman. Smearing him in private is diff. than “taking a position” on him. This is plausible but mendacious deniability.
One blogger I read (can’t remember the name) asked Block point blank whether Aipac was “informing” people about Freeman’s history. His reply: “No comment.” That is all ye need to know.
You’re giving Block far too much power to be afraid of crossing him. He’s not God & he’s not even your Jewish mama. He’s just a paid PR flack earning too much money for doing really nasty things to people like Chas. Freeman. I doubt he considers you or I more than a fly in his ointment.
Phil Weiss is in a foul mood because of Freeman’s exit and kicked me and other defenders of Israel off his site this evening.
Unless I was going to talk about exporting Jews, the Jewish conspiracy, or how Freeman was brave (not!) for stamping his feet, Phil didn’t want to hear it.
It’s probably a good thing I’m banned because his blog is a very negative atmosphere. He’s attracted haters, and there is no meaningful dialogue there.
Anyway, I agree that it wasn’t the Jewish Lobby that ousted Freeman. I don’t agree that it was strictly neocons though.
I think the guy rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
Apparently Nancy Pelosi took issue with his remarks about China. I heard she’s been heavily involved in human rights issues in China and she was disgusted by what he said re: Tiannamen.
I didn’t have a definite opinion on him one way or the other until he pulled out and acted like a volatile, graceless sore loser. Now I’m just grateful that we found out about him before it was too late.
He’s a very divisive individual–and the concern about him was spot on.
BTW–hopefully I’m not repeating old news everyone already knows…but Freeman apparently contacted Laura Rozen of Foreign Policy and insisted that Charles Schumer wasn’t involved in this.
His name has been thrown a lot, so I figured I’d mention it. 🙂
You will probably feel more welcome here. The whackos leave Dan alone, by and large. I don’t generally care much about these strictly inside-the-Beltway tiffs. They are tiresome and don’t usually teach me anything useful. But Schumer is my Senator, so I checked him out. He may not have had anything to do with it, but his office sent a statement claiming credit for it, according to Greg Sargent:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/middle-east/schumer-takes-credit-for-getting-chas-freeman-ousted/
Read the actual wording of the comments and compare it to the headline.
Again, so what was Freeman accused of?
I can’t find anything substantive written except for the fracas.
Go to Steven Rosen’s blog :http://www.meforum.org/blog/obama-mideast-monitor/2009/02/alarming-appointment-at-the-cia.html
Rosen is the guy who started it, on Feb. 19th:
“This is a profoundly disturbing appointment, if the report is correct. Freeman is a strident critic of Israel, and a textbook case of the old-line Arabism that afflicted American diplomacy at the time the state of Israel was born. His views of the region are what you would expect in the Saudi foreign ministry, with which he maintains an extremely close relationship, not the top CIA position for analytic products going to the President of the United States.
“Here is a sample of his views on Israel, from his Remarks to the National Council on US-Arab Relations on September 12, 2005: “As long as the United States continues unconditionally to provide the subsidies and political protection that make the Israeli occupation and the high-handed and self-defeating policies it engenders possible, there is little, if any, reason to hope that anything resembling the former peace process can be resurrected. Israeli occupation and settlement of Arab lands is inherently violent. …And as long as such Israeli violence against Palestinians continues, it is utterly unrealistic to expect that Palestinians will stand down from violent resistance and retaliation against Israelis. Mr. Sharon is far from a stupid man; he understands this. So, when he sets the complete absence of Palestinian violence as a precondition for implementing the road map or any other negotiating process, he is deliberately setting a precondition he knows can never be met.”
There are other accusations, including the funding he received from Saudi clients and his defense of the Saudis’s attempts to modernize. But they are relatively easy to find.
Oh yeah, Richard Witty is a real skeptic, except when it comes to “Hamas” and their “shelling civilians,” a ridiculously trumped-up charge necessary to keep Gaza 2008/09 from looking like the criminal Israeli war of aggression it was. Neither does his skepticism extend to anything written by Alan Dershowitz or other notorious fact-free Zionist partisans.
Skepticism is useful and I am all for delineating what “the Lobby” is and isn’t; at the same time, it’s clear at this point that hair-splitting is a conscious obfuscatory strategy among Israel apologists and Lobby-deniers.
Unless I was going to talk about exporting Jews, the Jewish conspiracy, or how Freeman was brave (not!) for stamping his feet, Phil didn’t want to hear it.
Obviously Phil just hates the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS, right Suzanne? That’s the only logical explanation for anyone raising questions about Zionist corruption and power politics in the U.S.
Your comments on his site are beyond useless; you’re a closed-minded Jewish bigot and war-monger whose indoctrination into eternal victimhood makes you paranoid, hysterical, disruptive, and passive-aggressive. I’m pretty sure Phil didn’t really even ban you–but don’t let the facts stop you from screaming “pogroms!”
Is that the sum total of the accusation, or was there more?
Please review what was and is still said of Rahm Emanuel’s prospective appointment (some true no doubt, but intended to INFLUENCE Obama’s internal staff decision).
Its fear based. “We fear that Rahm will do this in a biased manner.” “We fear that Freeman will do this in a biased manner.”
Neither holier and more transparent than the other.
What is the content? is the important question.
If there are substantive doubts stated as doubts (Shumer’s public comments at least), then it is not irrational to voice them. And, it is the responsibility of the candidate to address them.
Although I am skeptical of Commentary, there was a posting on Stephen Walt’s blog inquiring why Freeman’s supporters did not publicly and clearly describe the basis of their SUPPORT for his candidacy.
Instead it was treated as nearly solely a partison question relative to the fetished distorter. (You know the mote in the eye question. Lots of distortion going around from multiple sides, and a lot of adrenaline, and NOT a lot of reasoning.)
Do we need to demonstrate the cliche of the left, of how divisive and willing we are to similarly assassinate character?
MM, I don’t have the time or energy to regularly monitor comments but did catch this last one. The last paragraph is a collection of insults and not much more. Let’s try for substantive conversation, OK? Thanks in advance
Teddy–I’ll take your word for it that the exchange here is mostly civil. 🙂
MM is in denial about the climate at Mondoweiss, but anybody can go there and read it for themselves.
And yes, I was banned. My posts don’t show up.
It was lazy of me to continue posting there. I don’t frequent a ton of blogs and started posting there by default. Bad decision, really. There’s little intellect there, zero logic or rational thought. And immaturity up the wazoo.
I’m not going to get into any baiting here with MM & ilk….if the tone here is balanced and civil, I will certainly be the same.
One of the reasons I wasn’t too hung up on Freeman’s appointment was because I heard that his views had no effect one way or the other on the work he’d be doing.
of course, I took that at face value and didn’t really try to educate myself about what exactly he’d be doing. I don’t even know if that information is widely available.
Has anybody explored that at all?
His job as I understand it would be to select intelligence data collected for communication upstream to National Security staff and eventually the president. I don’t know what relation the position has to the CIA, which would ultimately be under Podesta.
The failings during the Iraq War and prospectively prior to 911 in conveying interpreted data upstream was a conspicuous lapse of the Bush administration.
From the Forward:
‘The responsibilities of the chairman of the NIC vary according to the decision of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Freeman, if chosen for the post and confirmed by the Senate, is expected to play an important role in shaping the National Intelligence Estimate, which is one of the main tools in forming the national security policy on a broad range of issues, including Iran. Freeman could also take part in the daily intelligence briefings provided to Obama.’
Peter D says:
Suzanne, I bet you your comments don’t show up because of some technical issue (cookies?) Phil doesn’t have time to filter comments and even if he did he would have filtered chril berel before you. From checking the last thread there, this guy is alive and kicking.
re: chairman of NIC responsibilities: I can JUST IMAGINE the conspiracy theories flying around as to why he was pushed out of that job. haha!
Peter—maybe it was a glitch. I’d rather be on a less divisive blog though. I was getting way too snarky and emotionally invested in my opinion–and it started eating away at my time.
Did you read the Washington Post editorial on his resignation?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103384.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
“It wasn’t until Mr. Freeman withdrew from consideration for the job, however, that it became clear just how bad a selection Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair had made. Mr. Freeman issued a two-page screed on Tuesday in which he described himself as the victim of a shadowy and sinister “Lobby” whose “tactics plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency” and which is “intent on enforcing adherence to the policies of a foreign government.” Yes, Mr. Freeman was referring to Americans who support Israel — and his statement was a grotesque libel. ”
If there was a campaign, its leaders didn’t bother to contact the Post editorial board. ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/washington/12lobby.html?hp
“Just how controversial the choice would be became clear on Tuesday, when Mr. Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush, angrily withdrew his name from consideration and charged that he had been the victim of a concerted campaign by what he called “the Israel lobby.—
With opposition to Mr. Freeman mounting, many in the White House were debating the wisdom of the selection, despite Mr. Blair’s public support for him. “In conversations with people associated with this administration, I NEVER DETECTED ANY ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS PICK,†said Ira N. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council.”
Freeman’s anger.
This morning, I expect multiple blog posts describing the conspiratorial mass media, which may be true relative to a small pond. Freeman’s public anger though contrasted with Obama’s reflectiveness.
If it makes you feel any better, I was finally banned by MJ Rosenberg at TPM-Cafe, a supposedly “progressive” site. It seems Israel bashers have a problem with freedom of speech. Fortunately, this site is more civilized.
What were you banned for?
looks like they lifted the ban at MOndo. I tried once more last night and it didn’t appear. But then both posts were up this morning. I find it hard to believe it was a tech problem that involved only me. Maybe Phil saw my post here. lol!
In any case, engaging with negative people breeds one’s own negativity. So I’m going to try to make a switch and have constructive dialogue.
Richard, the op-ed and NY times article express my sentiments exactly. It was like he was caught red-handed and lashed out. That’s the perception.
It doesn’t hurt him because he is retired. But now there is red alert regarding any cabal seeking to undo AIPAC.
I was frankly fed up with his endless rants about his claims that there is this gigantic conspiracy led by AIPAC and “The Jewish Lobby” to drag the US into wars and carry out other policies that supposedly are against the interests of the US (i.e. support for Israel and opposition to unreasonable Arab demands), and in addition to his claims that American Jews who support “Right-wing” positions in Israel are “disloyal” Americans. I finally said that one could do the same thing about what he is doing and exptrapolate that he is “really” a paid-for spokesman of the Arab lobby. I later said it is probably not really the case, so he should stop claiming that there is this AIPAC conspiracy he is endlessly harping on (he is now making several postings a day on this issue, whereas before the Gaza war he was making 2 or 3 posting per week). He then warned me I would be banned if I continued this line, which I didn’t. The discussion then turned to his claim that American Jews who support “right-wing Israeli positions” are really “disloyal Americans” because they are supposedly supporting a position that damages America’s interests. Other commentators there, in addition to myself pointed out that Americans have freedom of speech and freedom of association and can try to influence American foreign policy in any way they see fit, and in fact, others, besides the Jews do this, such as the anti-Castro Cuban lobby, the Greek lobby which can be said to interfere with US relations with an important NATO ally, Turkey, the Irish lobby, etc, etc, yet MJ Rosenberg doesn’t claim they are disloyal American as he does Jews. It was at this point I was banned. He even removed my existing comments on the “disloyalty” thread while leaving some replies to them hanging there in space. The fact is he has repeatedly said I had no business posting there because I live in Israel and because I am, as he defines it, “an extremist”, but he hadn’t threated to outright ban me up until now. I think it is important ot note that the Freeman case was going on at the time (I did not post any comments regarding it), but it is interesting to note what Suzanne stated about her being banned by Phil Weiss…..it seems that these people somehow believed that Obama’s election was going to bring about at major change in policy regarding Israel (and , thus AIPAC’s role in this) in the direction that Weiss and Rosenberg were hoping, and seeing this defeat was a shattering blow to their hopes, so perhaps they are taking out their frustrations on their critics.
Y. Ben-David
It occurs to me reading your post that a lot of this boils down to a left-wing vs right-wing power struggle–and the Jewish aspect is almost (but not quite) incidental.
I haven’t thought this through so the logic may be flawed.
Certainly there is an emotional component around the issue of Israel for Jews.
But if you take that all away, would a similar fight be going on between non-Jews on both sides?
In other words, would the same conditions be in place because of ME logistics, American interests, etc…
I wrote this hastily, and I have to run, so hopefully what I’m trying to say makes sense.
message to Suzanne says:
looks like they lifted the ban at MOndo. I tried once more last night and it didn’t appear. But then both posts were up this morning. I find it hard to believe it was a tech problem that involved only me. Maybe Phil saw my post here. lol!
Many people had problems with posting. It started when Typepad changed the community software sometimes last year. Me included. It took me quite a while to realize the reason. I still have occasionally problems including disappearing mails, which I haven’t studied close enough. My default assumption is always, I must have made a mistake or there is a software problem. If you can’t post and end up on the Typepad interface. Go back reload the site and post again. It helps of couse to copy the message before, just in case. I doubt Phil censored you. What exactly happened?
The problem with your presence on Phil’s list is that it is much harder to see what is purely reactive and what may in fact be attraction to antisemitic lines of thought. You are harming your cause more than you help it. Constant generalizations, stereotypes and invectives aren’t especially helpful to open up people to your point of view.
At the moment you among the most divisive forces on the list.
Why can you see the negative aspect of Freeman’s anger so clearly, including your reactions, but not consider the result of your own that drives you to really outrageous statements sometimes?
message to Richard says:
This is something really easy to check, Richard. You only need to look at the header.
Strictly, this is an interesting scenario, but why would someone falsify an address and still we see a familiar crowd picking up its contents?
Who posted to me anonymously here?
In any case, the problem with my presence on that blog, similar to the ever civil, ever patient Witty, is that I bother to show up at all.
The statement about constant generalizations, stereotypes and invectives describes EVERYONE there, including Phil.
That is not a blog for balanced discussion. Period.
If stormfront, david duke, vanguard etc–as well as onsite anti-semite groupthinkers are endorsing his blog…something stinks in Denmark. 🙂
The other thing I didn’t like about this divisive Freeman incident is that it potentially harmed Obama’s careful positioning as a centrist.
I don’t know Blair all that well or where he’s coming from…but now all the nutters on the right have new fuel to add regarding his affiliations with Ayers, his patriotism, his religion etc.
Maybe it was politics as usual, but it sure didn’t help Obama.
I tend to think he’d been too overwhelmed to study this carefully, and it was an appointment that slipped by him. I skeptical that he knew much about Freeman before now. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how it appears until proven otherwise.
This is somewhat true, but it is funny coming from your mouth, Suzanne. When I first started following comments there I was taken aback by a lot of commentators with hardly concealed antisemitism, but I was equally surprised by a lack of a well-articulated opposition. The situation only got worse since then (I drop by from time to time to check comments on some posts) and the addition of the likes of chris berel and you, sorry to say, did not help, since you never contribute anything to the discussion except for sparring with the other side. Eurosabra is a bit better in this respect but even s/he ignores the discussion as soon as s/he has no good rejoinder (faced with facts contradicting his assertions.)
I know that this will anger you but I am telling it to you straight and hope you will see it as a fair and constructive criticism. In your case, from what I saw, I feel that you don’t have a good command of facts on the I/P conflict and most of your comments there (admittedly, some of them hilarious) came as knee-jerk reactions to the comments by critics of Israel as well as the antisemites I mentioned.
Thanks so much for your daddy-esque constructive criticism. Considering that I have already acknowledged my own role in the love fest over there…your statement is a bit after-the-fact– don’t you think?
The more objective reality is that I made BOTH substantive and reactive comments (admittedly more of the latter) over there–but YOU are too biased to see that.
The truth is, like I said, it is NOT a place for balanced exchange.
Do we want to keep harping on it ad nauseum or should we move on?
🙂 No prob, accept your point as well.
Any chance we can avoid the personal attacks?
The appeal of this site is substantive discussion, rather than sniping.
I think there are number of issues that this brouhaha raises.
There still seems to be underlying conflict between the more traditional intelligence and defense “realists” that historically have ignored or hated Jews frankly. It seems in some ways a replay of 1948, with Marshall submitting a tentative resignation to Truman if he “gave in” to the Zionists.
There definitely is the prospect that the US will reject its commitments to Israel in favor of commitments further east (all in the name of “the Iraq war was not for oil”).
There are obviously very large fights among old oil money over foreign policy. Cheney/Bush vs Baker/realists.
Oil companies are among the very few that thrived so far during the recession, with ENORMOUS amounts of cash. Coming out of a recession/depression those with cash are at great advantage coming into the next growth cycle. You know social change in power dynamics.
The fight will obviously go on, with likely many caught in the middle. Both conclusions are guessing and picking their single issue to consider.
For example, I genuinely think that Freeman confirmed that he was the wrong man for the job, on merit, by the excessive tone of his “resignation” letter. Even if true, it was undiplomatic, graceless, an illustration of the degree of anger in him, and his willingness to allow it influence his public presentation. For example, like those that he accuses, his letter was mass-mailed (from what I read).
To have let the fear that the Israel Lobby would be exposed motivate not objecting to an unqualified candidate, would have been a worse motivation, an enabling of poor judgement.
If he was a confidently appropriate candidate (including demeanor under pressure), the implications about the Israel Lobby as corrupting influence might have been right. If he was the wrong candidate and only the Israel Lobby stepped up to point that out, then the country owes the Lobby an acknowledgement rather than condemnation.
How is the norm of character assassination reduced as an acceptable means of determining qualifications or other decisions?
Not by indulging in it (as I just did in forming a judgement about Freeman without really knowing his work at all, except my reaction to the tone of his letter.)
but YOU are too biased to see that.
cozy attitude. Bias is always something others have. This surely helps a lot in life.
Has balance any meaning without looking at the argumentative load in the opposing sides of the scales? I don’t think you tried to be balanced, but you are partisan. Strictly no problem. The problem, here I agree with Peter D. is that you substitute argument with invectives. Not always, but more frequently than not.
Balance for you is the mainstream perception, the power perception. You drew my anger when you attacked two persons with no argument at all and perceivable no understanding for them. You simply perceived them as enemies. Immediately attacked them and used invectives.
Do you know now, who I am?
A riddler.
Go find a room.
Richard W, did you consider that maybe the guy saw this letter as an opportunity to expose what he considers an ill, rather than just behaving ungracefully under pressure? In that case it was a brilliant move, since all of a sudden the words “Israel Lobby” appeared on the pages of MSM worldwide, especially in the US. Thus, he was able to transform his defeat into an opportunity to expose the almost untouchable issue.
He could have been a guerilla, in his last public voice.
His letter did not say “see, I was the right man for the job”.
oh jaysus…Witty’s anonymous critic shows up expressing abandonment issues over my departure from THAT BLOG. haha!
Peter wrote: “did you consider that maybe the guy saw this letter as an opportunity to expose what he considers an ill, rather than just behaving ungracefully under pressure?”
Maybe, but it’s all in the perception. I believe in general, people don’t take kindly to someone who looks like they are whining. Even if they are correct in what they say. It’s one of those unfair things in life.
As for Richard speculating about whether or not he’s right for the job–I’ve never worked for Intelligence so I know diddly squat about whether his views potentially compromised the position.
His statements about China etc were pretty offensive in any kind of context. In the end, too little is known about the man or the job for any of us to truly form an educated opinion, imo. ( Unless somebody here works in Intelligence??? )
The other question is…what is the truth (not speculation) about why various sectors wanted him out of that job?
And appended to that question: was he a political pick or a purely qualified pick? Or a little of both?
I am getting the feeling that the ongoing crisis in the Zionist Left is reaching unprecendented levels of despair. Here are a couple of examples:
(1) Richard Silverstein has a thread today entitled “AIPAC-THE LYING LIARS OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY” (“lying liars”? as opposed to “truthful liars”?) His passionate views are garbling his expressing of his views.
(2) MJ Rosenberg has a thread today at TMP CAFE which he calls a “FIRESTORM” of opposition to the Israel Lobby’s supposed success in getting Freeman to withdraw his nomination for the post he was seeking. He has a hypertext link under the word “FIRESTORM”. I would have assumed that there would have been a whole series of articles from around the US referenced, instead there was ONE article by himself in the Los Angeles Times, which then refers to another op-ed piece by the Times. Nothing else, no “firestorm”.
I feel a lot of rage and frustration from Silverstein who seems to be bursting out with epithets (while keeping his language clean) and Rosenberg, grossly inflating the response to his pet subject. I didn’t see any other TPM commentator even refer to it.
What is happening here? As I pointed out above, Rosenberg used to post 2 to 3 pieces a week, but since the Gaza War, it has gone up to 2 to 3 pieces every day.
I am using them as examples of part of the the American pro-Zionist Left. They along with the more mainline parts of this movement are truly in an existential crisis, but their part of it is truly immersed in immense rage and frustration-there are no other words for it. Why is this?
First of all, Labor Zionism has inherent contradictions in its ideology….Jewish nationalism combined with socialism and universalism. The socialism has long-ago died so this leaves the tension between the essentially incompatible Jewish nationalism and universalism. For Rosenberg, this manifests his insistence that American Jews who don’t agree with his far-Left fringe views on Israel are “disloyal Americans”.
Secondly, the death of the “peace process”. This has lead to despair that any peace agreement can be reached. But instead of blaming the Arabs, who are the cause of this impasse, they blame Israel (and the Israel Lobby) by claiming that it is the Arabs who want peace, and if only Israel were pressured enough there would be peace. The election of Obama and the choice of harsh critics of Israel like Freeman were supposed to herald a new era in which, finally, the magic forumla would be found to make peace and an American Administration would finally use force against a recalcitrant Israeli gov’t to make it happen. Freeman’s withdrawal, and Obama’s incoherent policies are indicating that nothing is going to change. (of course, as I indicated, those who think Obama can really make a difference and removing “pro-Israel” advisors like Dennis Ross and replacing them with critics of Israel would cause peace to break out are only deluding themselves, because the impasse is on the Arab side).
Third, the fact that the outgoing government, a government of the Left, without the “usual suspects” Likud/settler/Haredi-Ultra-Orthodox
parties in the coalition, not only led Israel into an impasse in the so-called “peace process”, but bequethed Israel TWO wars within THREE years, both of which are now viewed as failures, not to mention the ongoing hostage crisis involving Gilad Shalit that can only be resolved by a complete capitulation to HAMAS demands which would mean a total, complete, unmitigated defeat by Israel (Churchill’s words).
Thus, there is no “political savior” on the horizon for this Left in despar which would allow them to say “if only so-and-so were in power, there would be peace”
Fourth, the fact that the classical Zionist Left parties, i.e. Labor and MERETZ suffered a devastating defeat in the Israeli elections, in addition to the fact that the Israeli public INCLUDING THE LEFT, overwhelmingly supported the Gaza war. Even classical pro-Zionist Left figures like Eric Yoffe blasted J-Street for its “neutral” position during the Gaza war, and I do note they have been pretty quiet since then.
This, it seems to me explains the anger we see emenating from these figures. The question I have is: “how representative of the Zionist Left are people like Rosenberg and Silverstein?”-is the fact they are well-known in cyber-circles mean they are representative of anyone other than themselves? We see polls show that the Gaza war did not affect support for Israel in the general American public very much if at all. Is this true of the Jewish community as well? If Silverstein and Roseberg really speak for a significant number of Jews, are we going to see this group finally turn their back on Israel and the Jewish people entirely and go in the direction of Phil Weiss? ….or are they essentially a fringe phenomenon? There are people like this in Israel…a good example is Avraham Burg, who has pretty much turned his back on Zionism and is someone who curses Israel at every opportuntiy. Richard Silverstein viewed his book as a major break in Israeli society, indicating that that a significant part of Israel society is adopting his (Silverstein’s) views, but it was explained to him that Burg is not taken seriously by more than a handful of people in Israel, which upset Silverstein to hear. The proof, of course, that this is the case is the major turn to the Right in the elections and the mass support for the Gaza War.
Thus, it is unclear if we are on the verge of a major crisis within the Zionist camp or not. Is the Zionist Left on the verge of giving up on Israel (as Silverstein and Rosenberg are doing) or not?
Y B-D,
You just wrote:
If Silverstein and Roseberg really speak for a significant number of Jews, are we going to see this group finally turn their back on Israel and the Jewish people entirely and go in the direction of Phil Weiss?… Is the Zionist Left on the verge of giving up on Israel (as Silverstein and Rosenberg are doing) or not?”
I don’t know Richard Silverstein except through his writing but MJ Rosenberg is a friend. He loves Israel, cares about its future and believes that you –and those who share your ideology –are helping the democratic Jewish state to commit suicide. The fact that he is out there, plugging away, means he is not turning his back on Israel. Just the opposite. He is facing Israel squarely, with all of its contradictions, and trying to help it survive in spite of you.
Is the Zionist Left on the verge of giving up on Israel (as Silverstein and Rosenberg are doing) or not?
It is hard to predict. Certainly a lot of people not only from the Zionist Left but even mainstream American Jews are going to try to dis-associate themselves from Israel. I cannot imagine a flow in the opposite direction (such as happened after the Six Day War.) Those with strong “Israel right or wrong” attitude won’t be affected, but for those somewhat ambivalent every operation like Gaza, every day the misery of the Palestinians continues and finds its way into the news, makes them question their support of Israel. But the real extent of this sift is hard to gauge or predict at the moment.
P.S. “Lying liar” is a figure of speech.
The common thread that I see about Phil Weiss and Richard Silverstein (I don’t know Rosenberg), is that their approach is based on what they oppose, rather than what they support.
You did say that Yitzchak, I think.
That leaves very little momentum and nothing created.
Socialism has two elements to it. One is the concept of sharing (whether charity or neighborly cooperation). The second is that the agency of that sharing is the state, rather than informal or entirely voluntary organizations.
I would hope that nature and spirituality would never let us forget that sharing and helping one another is a self-evident good. It is the real rising tide that lifts all boats. And, that that charitable urge should be so strong that whether the state or individuals or a combination does it, it results in every single individual having a path and realization of success in their lives.
To hope for anything less on any grounds is to curse the world.
That is the spirit that I seek to realize with Israel and with Palestine. Seeing some succeed by less than ethical means, and seeing others fail by artificial obstacles, makes a tension, a discomfort.
There are tangible problems that must be solved, and opportunities for improvements in well-being that must be pursued, that we are entirely distracted from currently.
An example. There was a poster on Silverstein’s blog who referenced a joint Israeli/Palestinian solar energy project that was similar to one that I had attempted to organize twelve years ago. The tone of his comments though was so critical that if he was one of the organizers it must have created a tension among the group, even to have difficult issues unnecessarily reinforced.
I don’t hear about groups collaborating on “loving the land” that they both claim to love. (There definitely are some and deserve GREAT support in all respects.) I don’t hear much about assisting the others’ public health, that when neglected enables the spread of disease and excessive social burden all unnecessarily.
I’m disappointed with the negativity. I’m disappointed with it among Israelis, usually stated as dismissal of the others’ lives and needs. I disappointed with the it among dissenters, that demonstrate such little self-restraint in their judgemental comments and such little commitment to those they claim to want to help.
We talk so much, and do so little.
I agree with a lot of what Richard says…and I, too, am tired of all the finger pointing.
Everybody wants to dwell on the past, it seems–and that does nothing for Israel or Palestinians in 2009.
It seems to me that the number 1 problem is that the Pals are economically and politically unstable. I’m sure we can sit around all day and speculate as to why (which some people prefer to do)–but the fact of the matter is that they can’t get it together. No matter how much money or aid comes their way.
They are just too vulnerable. It makes them untrustworthy, and also–human nature–the Israelis have no respect for them and run all over them. Part of it is due to mutual hatred, it seems to me, but much of it has to do with the lack of balance in power.
There is no way to change the dynamic, imo, until you change the balance of power.
So I lean towards Gaza & West Bank being absorbed, respectively by Egypt and Jordan. It will give the Pals more stability, better bargaining power for water rights and zoning etc–and it assures Israel that they are living next to a neighbor who prefers life over death.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out this Israeli General feels similarly. And perhaps it is something being discussed behind the scenes.
It’s either this or the 5-state solution (second best, but again, the Pals can’t seem to run a state without self-imploding, so I’m doubtful):
Reassessment of Palestine
Richard, over at Peace In The Middle East, Charles Lechner is trying mightily hard to find websites that cater to ALL points of view, from Likud to Hadash, from PFLP to Fatah to Hamas and from everyone involved.
It should be newsworthy that there are many organisations that attempts to bridge the gap between the two warring enemies. I heard on CBC Radio that there were many Israelis and Palestinians working together to figure out the water problems in the West Bank. BUT that is overshadowed by the overpowering structure of division that sees the biggest discreptancy of distribution between Israeli and Palestinian.
Unlike yourself Richard, I’m not disappointed with the negativity. I expect it. I’m actually surprised there isn’t more pessimism, especially on the part of the Palestinian side. I certainly can not pinpoint how you came to such an attitude, but Israelis deal with occupation-life and all the baggage that comes with being under attack and attempting to go on with life as if it were normal.
I understand that sentiment. It seems that we go on and on and on, in a roundabout of debates and philosophy about what should happen, how it should happen and where things go wrong and where it can go right, and yet the situation appears unchanged, and sometimes even worse.
“Everybody wants to dwell on the past…”
There is a difference between “dwelling” and recognising it. Moving forward is one thing, but how could such a strategy be effective when nothing is addressed which involves SO MANY.
“It’s either this or the 5-state solution (second best, but again, the Pals can’t seem to run a state without self-imploding, so I’m doubtful)…”
Or Israel could commit itself to a two-state solution and give Palestinians sovereignty. Would “dwelling” on the past forget about how and why the Palestinians are so “unstable” economically?
I just don’t understand why everyone else seems to know what is best for the Palestinians. No one cared about them before and now this is their way of benevolence? There has to be major steps to build here but this whole idea of “absorption” failed thirty years ago. Ironic that this attempt to assess the situation for 2009 has led it back to 1970 when the Palestinians were routed by civil wars in Jordan and Lebanon. Funnily enough, the Palestinians were more stable back then economically than they were now, and this is the best solution they can muster to IMPOSE on Palestinians.
Joshua–you’re just finger pointing again, boxed into the same old dynamic with no incentive for Israel to change…and I’m telling you right now–it’s a recipe for 40 more years of the same crap.
Screw the moralizing and the misguided idealism. If Jordan and Egypt are up for absorption (certainly there are Palestinians who have expressed interest) then go for it.
It boils down to whether Jordan & Egypt feel differently than they did 30 years ago. If General Giora Eiland is talking about it, then presumably Egypt and Jordan are at least thinking about it.
In any case, Israel is not my sovereign nation, and they are going to do what they’re going to do. I’m glad they are looking into this.
Final thought…they can arguably be absorbed into an autonomous confederacy and maybe evolve towards statehood. I have no idea how that works. But ANYTHING is better than the status quo.
They can’t make it on their own. Deal with it and move on.
I have no problems with “evolving” into anything here to improve the situation. Your insistence on “finger-pointing” really absolves the power that is still expropriating land that led to the situation we are faced with in the first place.
Personally, my own reading of Jordan and Egypt sees them are very reluctant to take in Palestinians. Mubarak and Abdullah aren’t exactly the Palestinians best friends either.
“In any case, Israel is not my sovereign nation, and they are going to do what they’re going to do. I’m glad they are looking into this.”
You speak as if it is though. So then if they are “looking” into a one-state solution, would you be glad too if it improves the situation.
I am also skeptical whether your solution would improve ANYTHING at all. Simply giving Palestinians another form of citizenship without any rights of sovereignty will NOT make the situation better at all. By all accounts, it seems Israel will have every leverage in the West Bank and there will be two laws for two sets of peoples, the same situation it is NOW.
This whole “ANYTHING is better” than what it is now may sound profound, but most are refusing to advocate the one-state solution when that is partly different from what it is now. So clearly there are things that are worse.
“Incentive for change…”
I really don’t understand this at all. “Incentive” to “change” a situation where you allude is so despicable that “ANYTHING is better” really deconstructs how silly your idea is, how misconstrued your viewpoint is and how truly illusory this attempt to move on really is. If Israel needs an “incentive” to change the status quo, clearly it is the one who is imposing the conditions of the hopelessness for the Palestinians (as they are the ones in clear control of their lives here). But yet you want them to have “incentives” to “change” a situation that they benefit so mightily from (ie the occupation is a haven for profit and Israeli settlers gain what they want by waiting out the occupation). The situation is untenable for the Palestinians; the case cannot be made that it is for the Israelis (unless you’re one of those Zionists who care about the character of Israel). Bibi is in NO hurry to do anything about the Palestinians. There is no emergency in the Knesset about what to do. They just shell out “proposals”; how is that different from the previous forty years?
“Final thought…they can arguably be absorbed into an autonomous confederacy and maybe evolve towards statehood.”
Or they could be absorbed into Israel and evolve that way? I find all of this just as kooky.
“Screw the moralizing and the misguided idealism.”
Easy for you to say; you aren’t screwed by checkpoints, outposts and a status quo that has “ANYTHING” being better.
Dayem, Joshua…you come across like the Palestinians are your special wards of state and everybody else can just shut up. Downright territorial.
A lot of good that’s done them.
You’re boxed into this delusion that you can make the Israelis bend to your will–but anybody can see that is NOT going to happen. It hasn’t and it won’t. Accept it.
You also seem to think the Palestinians have leverage and a host of options and they don’t. That’s reality. They are the weak player in this game and it’s time to start facing that fact and considering REALISTIC options.
That, my friend, means you need to start considering Israel’s concerns as well.
As for Palestinians being more economically stable 30-40 years ago…it was because they were able to work in Israel.
That’s over with. Kiss it goodbye.
If General Eiland is talking about possible absorption, then it is arguably up for consideration. Whether you approve or not.
One General does not mean a thing. You make alot of assumptions, ie Palestinians have no leverage. If General Eiland is “talking about possible absorption” and you’re speaking for a situation that “ANYTHING is better than the status quo”, it seems they have a lot of leverage. In fact, Israel insists on solutions to make the situation better for Palestinians since they occupied them. You missed the point about the scenario of 30 years ago: WE ALL KNOW why they were economically better and yet they are still using the same solutions as they did back then when things were better for the Palestinians. Now they are worse off and it’s still the same old thing over and over.
Incorrect that I am a bastion for the Palestinians: I just want justice here. Simply ignoring what has happened in the past won’t relieve a thing and it won’t make things better. Palestinian Israelis are better off and their situation is regarded as untenable; what to speak of the refugees who still want rights? What do you say to those who are still continually dispossessed and those who have lost so much in this conflict?
Alot of things have changed. Alot of things are “over with”. This “peace process” should be kissed goodbye honestly.
Israelis can do what they want whether I like it or not; they do it every day. So will the Palestinians whether I agree with it or not and there is alot that I don’t agree but I definitely don’t wish to impose more solutions on them when they have a clear focus on independence. That to me is reality. You want to try to make Palestinians accept something they clearly don’t want, we’ll see how that happens.
I think you make a mistake in thinking that the Palestinians have done this all on their own. There has been so many hands on this conflict that it’s difficult to know where the occupation ends and where the Palestinian self-governance begins (that’s not to say that the Palestinians aren’t making their own mistakes, they do it an awful lot). How about stopping the occupation? That hasn’t happened.
Weak versus strong really is a narrow point of view. Colonialism is a lesson that should never be forgotten. Just because one is weak does not mean that one has no cards to play with. This conflict may be so one-sided but that’s the way it looks now. The suffering must stop and both sides really need a retooling here but rest assured, the Palestinians can continue to resist and the Israelis can keep occupying and that really is untenable for Israel in the long run, no matter how many times they want to keep the land.
Giora Eiland is a puffed balloon that hardly ten people in Israel take seriously. There are several problems with the Jordanian option or the Egyptian option. One is that neither Jordanians nor Egyptians have the slightest inclination of having anything to do with them. You could say: “but the Israelis also don’t have inclination for a solution”. Fair enough, with a couple of major differences: Palestinians are mostly Israel’s problem. Israel is trying to get rid of them, so, it is not in the same position as Egypt or Jordan on whom Israel could hypothetically try to foist them. Second, is that there is no moral imperative in the eyes of the world for Egyptians or Jordanians to accept anything of the kind, while there is one for Israel to solve the Palestinian problem. You say “Palestinians lack leverage etc”, but this also is bound to change. The world is getting tired of Israeli behavior and more and more people even in the US are beginning to realize that Israel is more a liability than asset. Every Chas Freeman-type victory is a small defeat that sooner or later will eat away at the public support of Israel in the States. Then Israel will be cornered from all directions. Both Israelis and Palestinians think that time is on their side. I am not sure about the Palestinians but it is definitely not on the side of Israel.
Uri Avnery has a nice piece on the Jordanian option:
The Jordanian Option is a euphemism. Its real name is “Anti-Palestinian Option”. That’s what it’s all about. Everything else is unimportant.
THAT MAY explain the curious fact that since the 1967 war, no effort has been made to realize this “option”. The High Priests of the Jordanian Option, who preached it from every hilltop, did not lift a finger to bring it about. On the contrary, they did everything possible to prevent its realization.
For example: during Yitzhak Rabin’s first term as prime minister, after the 1973 war, Henry Kissinger had a brilliant idea: to return the town of Jericho to King Hussein. Thus a fait accompli would have been established: the Hashemite flag would wave over West Bank territory.
When Foreign Minister Yigal Allon brought the proposal to Rabin, he was met with an adamant refusal. Golda Meir had promised in her time that new elections would be held before any occupied territory was returned to the Arabs. “I am not prepared to go to elections because of Jericho!” Rabin exclaimed.
The same happened when Shimon Peres reached a secret agreement with King Hussein and brought the finished product to the then prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir threw the agreement into the waste bin.
I don’t know if Israel was lying when it said that it was willing for a fair peace following Oslo. The recognition of Palestinian assertions hasn’t really improved since 1995 or so, and the degree of settlement construction truly does divide prospective Palestine.
If Israel is not willing for a sovereign Palestine, then the two-state solution is dead in fact. Netanyahu is adamently opposed to a fully sovereign and viable Palestine.
If Netanyahu isn’t able to form a government, what happens? Does it go to another election? Its been three weeks and he doesn’t have a coalition yet.
The precipice posturing is so unsettling. Precipice posturing relative to Iran. Precipice posturing relative to Gaza borders.
So many poor judgements. So many horrible consequences that prospectively could have been avoided with communication links.
I still end up at the quandry relative to Hamas. If they had affirmed that they regarded Israel as valid, accepted (in whatever language they wanted to use for that), then a reconciliation process could have occurred. I don’t accept the sources that embellish their floating a couple times a medium term hudna. A hudna is a waiting game, an agreement to avoid each other, not a commitment to reconcile.
I don’t know if reconciliation is possible with the horror that Hamas inflicted on Israel in the 90’s, and the experience of last month’s military actions in Gaza.
I sincerely wish that Hamas would say, “Enough already, we’re done with this method of “resistance”. We’ll make the best of what we’ve got”.
That’s what a state does.
Its also very upsetting to me to see the tenor of dissent shift towards functional advocacy for Hamas, and the anti-semitism that they share with opportunistic demonizing propagandists.
It very much upsets me to see Phil repeat ad nauseum the “Israel Lobby” rancor, rather than INVEST in supporting J Street, or even a sober pro-active single-state orientation, or better yet, collaborative cross cultural tangible projects.
Thats what I mean by talk rather than act.
They don’t realize the shifting to anger, imprinted into actual hatred.
If there was even a viable path, a viable goal stated, then that adding pressure might result in some good, but when adding pressure is adding pressure to a pressure cooker (no prospective path or goal), then the outcome is violence.
Only someone without children would consider encouraging revolution. We need parents and particularly mothers to lead dissent, rather than the gamut of young and childless for whom revolutionary actions have such limited consequences.
What is also not discussed is that this gives perfect legitimacy for further expropriation as all of this land grab would have been legalised. No punishment there for the dispossession.
What more of an incentive could they have to continue to fault another “peace process”?
Joshua,
You are wrong when you say that Hamas does not have options.
It has options similar to the PLO had options, to reconsider its permanent nature of objection to the existence of Israel, and from that sincere reconsideration to actually develop civil relations around common goals.
In resuming the shelling of civilians following the formal end of the cease-fire, it confirmed that it was NOT undertaking that reconsideration.
Noone in a state of war has good options. Israel cannot consider killing 1300 individuals (however many were aggressors) a good outcome. The best that they can say is that it was a necessity. (Which they can’t say honestly.)
The point is that thinking that Hamas is not mature enough to pick a path that actually fixes things, is an insult to them, a statement that they are adolescents, rather than adults.
Their actions have and do affect a great deal.
Again, I conclude that Hamas shelling Sderot after the cease-fire ended, added at least 10 seats to Likud and Israel Beitanyu.
A change would affect a different electoral result in Israel, a prospect of idealism and hope, rather than a long-term endurance.
…the horror that Hamas inflicted on Israel in the 90’s, and the experience of last month’s military actions in Gaza.
A perfect Wittycism.
Whatever… You are incorrigible. A couple of weeks it looked like you were finally shifting in the right direction, speaking of stopping supporting Israel if Netanyahu is elected. Apparently, since then you figured a perfect escape: “Hamas elected Netanyahu! Israel has nothing to do with it!”
Regarding your criticism of Phil and other radicals, you clearly have no idea that in politics there is something called “moving the center” (Naomi Klein’s words). Without “radicals” like Phil J-Street would be radical and AIPAC the center.
And, Richard, I’ve been meaning to tell you many times, it’s “no one”. There no word “noone” in English language.
“Long-term endurance” is the ONLY option. Giora Eiland is somewhat more perceptive than other members of the power structure in Israel who deluded themselves during the Oslo euphoria…he has finally realized that the Palestinians neither want a state nor are capapble of running one if they had it. But then he falls into the old wishful thinking mode that motivated the Oslo believers in the first place…that somehow the Arab world is going to bail Israel out by taking the Palestinian hot potato out of Israel’s hands. The delusion is that the Egypt and Jordan are concerned about the Palestinians and want to improve their lives, so they would presumably take over and administer the Palestinian territories so that there can be peace with Israel.
The only problem is that no one in the Arab world wants peace with Israel. The Arab countries, particularly those bordering Israel face a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, the Arab world agrees that the existence of a Jewish state within ANY borders is an intolerable humiliation for the Arab/Muslim world and it must be eradicated. On the other hand, it has been shown that eradicating Israel is not easy (prior to 1948 it was based on Palestinian terrorism, from 1948-1973 it was assumed that direct military force applied by Israel’s neighbors would do the trick, when this failed, it reverted to Palestinian terrorism in the 1970’s up through the recent suicide bomber war, now it is shifting to long-range rocket attacks based in neighboring territories that have no central government to restrain them-i.e. Lebanon and Gaza. Future plans include a possible Iranian nuclear weapon-but through all of this Israel has only grown stronger). On the other hand, the neighboring Arab countries need to stabilize their regimes and provide for some minimal standard of living for their populations and constant mobilization against Israel, while useful for maintaining internal discipline and for getting the people’s minds off their problems, is a serious drain on their countries economic system. Jordan has maintained a policy since 1970 of maintaining quiet on their border with Israel because they fear an exodus of Palestinians from Judea/Samaria into their country which is a matter of self-interest.
In reality, the Arab world views the Palestinian as nothing more than cannon fodder, and they have no interest in “improving their lives”. If you find this shocking, especially considering how we have always been told that “all Arabs are brothers” and “all Muslims love one another”, then all you have to do is look at the indifference the Arab world showed to the years-long bloodshed in civil wars in Lebanon and Algeria, the popular support for the “resistance” in Iraq which consists, to a large degree, of attacks on the civilian population (much more than direct attacks on the American military presence), the popularity in the Arab street for tyrants like Saddam Hussein, etc. In fact, where was the famous “rage of the Arab street” in the recent Gaza War? While it is true that the Arab regimes try to prevent demonstrations, even those in favor of the Palestinians (in fact, the only place in the Middle East where Arabs can conduct spontaneous anti-Israel demostrations is in Israel) didn’t put up much of a show. For heaven’s sake…there were almost no demonstrations in support of the Gazans by the Palestinians in Judea/Samaria!
Thus, we see that there is no real political pressure in the Arab world to “help improve the lives of the Palestinians”, so Giora Eiland’s proposals are a non-starter. A Palestinian state is no understood by most Israeli’s to also be a non-starter. So we are back to Richard Witty’s “tsumud”, an Arabic word meaning long-term endurance. I believe that the Arab world will eventually see that radical political Islam is leading them to a dead-end (although it is currently viewed as being in the ascendancy, with the Iranian bomb being the next milestone) just as Communism collapsed, when that happens the Arab-Israeli conflict can be addressed with a new openness and good will, but we are not at that stage, and it will be many years before we are. Most Israelis now understand what I am saying, and this is no doubt adding to the rage of Richard Silverstein, MJ Rosenberg and those who agree with them. If they can not accept this situation, then they will have no choice but to finally turn their backs on Israel because what they want is simply not achievable.
I said substantive comments. You don’t want to look at Hamas, that’s your selective ignorance. I’m seeking a path to actually improve things, rather than end up with “I told you so” as the only good outcome, but the objective conditions end up horrible.
Yitzchak,
I differ with you on fundamental conclusions. The primary one is your assertion that “Palestinians neither want a state nor are capapble of running one if they had it.”
In 1947, with the severe conflicts between Irgun and Haganah (that periodically expressed in internal warring), it appeared the Israel was not able or willing to self-govern. It was desirable for Jews and for the world that an Israel emerge that could govern, and Irgun reluctantly yeilded to a more civilized approach.
The hope is that Hamas will do so similarly, either in relation to Fatah (unlikely) or relative to other prospective leaders that offer the acknowledgement of Israel’s existence, without the historical baggage of either Hamas or Fatah.
The current reality is that land is being stolen slowly but strategically, that does in fact harm. Whether you see it in this light is irrelevant. It is occurring, and amounts to a violation of Torah, a violation of civil law, a violation of international law. (Thats a lot of law to violate).
By “violate” I mean that strategems are applied to take parcels of land by decree without regared to civil or in many cases, existing Israeli law, nor with any opportunity of due process that affirms the color-blind application of property laws. (That constructs an irony for Netanyahu’s advocacy of free-market principles.)
The standard of title within civil oriented law is the standard of consent of the reasonable person.
On questions of sovereignty, the term “violate” applies to the very rational objective to optimize the status of relative “consent of the governed”.
The point of this for Israel, is that to employ a long-term strategy of “endurance” RATHER than reconciliation, is that that status has costs.
There are reasons to undertake those costs in some conditions, and there are conditions in which those costs amount to a POOR CHOICE.
The current wisdom of all the right-wing parties is that it is plausible that the Palestinian residents, and the Arab world will eventually accept that they are subordinate in former Palestine, and happy with the status that individuals’ and collectives’ land may be expropriated without due process.
I think that is a ludicrous assumption. Its the result of a thinking that has renounced the two virtues of a mensch (compassion and intelligence/design imagination).
I get how you got there, but I note that as a failing rather than as a source of pride. Its good to be tough, if your toughness is for a reasonable goal. This is toughness for a corrupted one.
The common word that applies to both standards of sovereignty (what is the jurisdiction and standard of law and process applied within the jurisdiction), and of title (the application of law to specific individual relations, claims, remedy) is the word “CONSENT”.
It is the root concept of peace.
Unless you formally and clearly renounce peace as any objective of yours (thereby renouncing a significant portion of historical Jewish aspiration), then I would consider seeking and building alternatives.
Are you one of the people, like Islamic Jihad, that would advocate harming those that seek and achieve reconciliation whether respect between individuals, respect between communities, respect between nations?
Your assessment of the intent of the Arab World, conflicts with the twice affirmed offer by all of the Arab states (with the exception only of Hamas’ abstention – somehow invited even to abstain) to recognize and establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Maybe it was a ploy, only propaganda. But, the reality on the ground, is that there have been many exchanges around Netanyahu’s pet integrated Middle Eastern economic free market zone.
The conflict in pre-state Israel between the underground groups (ETZEL and LEHI) and the organs of the yishuv (i.e. the Establishment) was not over who would run the yishuv, everyone agreed that it would be run democratically, there dispute was on hard they yishuv should push the British to get out. The Yishuv set up the infrastructure of state institutions long before the British left. The situation of the Palestinians is not all analogous. There is no agreement on who should run their regime. While it is true that there were apparently democratic elections once, the losers were not prepared to accept their loss and the winners thought they had the right to more power than the other side was prepared to give them. More importantly, the Palestinians have failed to set up the infrastructure of a modern state apparatus (tax collection, judiciary, law enforcement, etc). Of course, this problem is endemic throughout the Arab world. This is the reason not one is a western-style democracy (there is an attempt to set up one in Iraq, but it is being propped up by American bayonets, we’ll see how it works after the American presence is drawn down substantially), and I include Lebanon in this because although there are free elections there, political power is not divided up along the lines of the results but are determined by confessional groups and the feudal warlords who are the real power in the country. All Arab states are run by strongmen and their all-pervasive mukhabarat (secret police) apparatus. Some are more tolerant of dissent than others, but none are really democracies, including those that do have elections such as Kuwait and some of the Gulf States.
It was assumed that when Arafat arrived, he would set up a dictatorship along these lines that would suppress violence against Israel. Recall that Rabin said “Arafat will rule with BAGATZ and B’TZELEM”, i.e. without need for judicial restraint and concern for human rights. Odd how Israelis who brag about being a democracy would say something like that. But I guess Rabin realized that if the Palestinians were a true democracy, there could never be peace because if the true will of the Palestinian “street” were expressed, there would only be terror, not peace, as in fact we saw when the elected HAMAS to power.
In any event, Arafat didn’t do what Rabin wanted and Rabin admitted to Boogey Ya’alon shortly before he was murdered that Oslo wasn’t working out.
Your reasoning is not really reasoning. There are institutions of governance in Gaza as well as in the West Bank. They will end up calling your bluff.
That is the WRONG argument for you to make. Like my analogy that Hamas elected Netanyahu, your prescription results in Netanyahu electing Hamas.
You know well that I am no apologist for Hamas, and an advocate for their permanent civil participation in a government that recognizes Israel.
Your statement was that it was permanently impossible for an Arab state to function as a state. Thats a ludicrous statement. The development of state institutions is a learned relative process. By the same token that Palestine is in a state of learning (or not), Israel is in a state of unlearning.
Think about the term LAW, please, Yitzchak.
Also, you embellish the history of Israel’s factions. They were intent on an internal power struggle, and remain so. Please consider some of the statements from the right-wing settlement rabbis that have periodically advocated for violently confronting the IDF in conditions, even advocating for civil war periodically.
You can’t advocate for it both ways. “I support the rule of law in Israel”, except when it is applied to me.
ummmm….I was the one who brought up Giora Eiland.
Yitchak–I’m not over there in Israel, so I don’t know the reality on the ground firsthand…and I definitely do not discount the Islamist mindset that pervades the Arab states.
But sometimes I wonder if certain Israeli elements aren’t a tad too paranoid. And by that, I mean paranoid similar to the way the US was about the Soviet Union. It turned out in retrospect that we overestimated their intentions and capabilities. Not that they didn’t have any, mind you…but we assumed evil intent to conquer the globe in everything they did.
I have my own paranoia about radical Islam, but I’m trying to temper it…because I think it takes on a life of its own after awhile.
In any case, I don’t really see the Palestinians being capable of running their own state. I’m not sure what their foundational economy would be–and it seems like they’ve always relied on surrounding countries, most notably Israel for wages etc. That just seems to flimsy, and perhaps one of the main reasons they can’t stabilize.
If I’m wrong about their economy, someone please correct me. I’m just doubtful there is potential for solid economic infrastructure.
ooops! Sorry for misspelling your name wrong. I meant Yitzchak.
Looks like the House and Senate are firmly denying that AIPAC contacted them about Freeman or influenced their position.
Apparently his own past remarks came back to bite him in the butt. He hung himself.
“I’m close to AIPAC. If they did come out against Freeman, I was not in the loop because no one called me to say a word about Charles Freeman,†said [Rep. Alcee] Hastings.
Congress members say no contact from AIPAC on Freeman
Thomas Mitchell says:
Yitzhak,
There were elements within Lehi who definitely did not want Israel to be democratic. Eldad led a faction that talked about setting up a kingdom. His whole Sulam circle after 1948 was based on this.
Considering your grasp of Israeli politics where you set up Sharon as a leftist–apparently anyone to the left of the Yesha Council is a leftist in your mind, do we really want to have you explaining to us what the Arabs really think?
Part of the problem is looking at “the Arabs” as a monolith in the same way that American conservatives used to look at the Communist World long after the Sino-Soviet split had broken out into the open.
there could never be peace because if the true will of the Palestinian “street†were expressed, there would only be terror, not peace, as in fact we saw when the elected HAMAS to power.
I wonder whom they could elect to please you, YBD – Ha-Ikhud Ha-Leumi? Did it ever occur to you that they might want to elect Hamas not because of their views on terror but because they were the better alternative internally?
I didn’t read most of the comments that has followed since I last commented. (No time to do it justice and I am happy that this blog is getting ALOT more attention now from both sides of the conflict.) This did stick out for me though, naturally because it was directed at me in particular:
I don’t recall ever stating that Hamas “does not have options”, but I am willing to consider how limited these options are, as we are all aware, they are the weaker power here. How does a weaker power ever consult what to do when faced with such a stronger opponent who has even bigger backing behind them?
This will be short as there really is no time but juxtaposing “options” with “options similar to the PLO had options” is NOT a very good path for Hamas to take because said “options” is what led to this impasse. It’s total backward logic to revisit an episode for Hamas to consider when it failed and in some cases accelerated the death of the two-state solution and it was the impetus for a Hamas rise in the first place.
Also, I have not read through every comment, but it seems this circle of commenting by Witty ultimate goes to back to the faults of Hamas. Why? Wasn’t this about Chas Freeman?
If the topic drifts, it drifts.
You did state that “Hamas had no other option”.
The PLO committing to non-violence made a possible path to reconciliation. It can be very confidently argued that Hamas terror at the time of Oslo, was intended specifically to make reconciliation between Israel and Palestine IMPOSSIBLE, that in that CHOICE, THEY controlled the outcome of history.
Sorry to yell. Sometimes dissent doesn’t bother to read back a bit, instead favoring opportunistically selective “evidence”. And, then describing any conclusion that is not condemnatory of Israel as “Orwellian”.
The LEHI, unlike the ETZEL, was not part of a political movement. It had pro-Communists such as Yitzhak Shamir (!) and Yellin-Mor, in addition to Haredim and pro-Revisionist types. One reason Avraham Stern broke from them was because he supported parts of the Labor movement’s platform, which the Revisionists strongly objected to. You are correct that Eldad had strong anti-democratic tendencies, but on the Right he was a tiny minority. The vast majority of the Right supported Begin’s Herut (which evolved from the ETZEL and Revisionimst movement) which fully accepted Israel’s democratic system.
“The vast majority of the Right supported Begin’s Herut (which evolved from the ETZEL and Revisionimst movement) which fully accepted Israel’s democratic system.”
After military confrontation with the Haganah, when Etzel attempted to ship in weapons to preserve its militia status (similarly to Hamas in Palestine, or Hezbollah in Lebanon).
The Haganah, by then the IDF, refused asserting that the state had the monopoly on military, and not a faction.
They yeilded so that they could participate at all.
Its a good lesson for Hamas, but your history is a little revisionist.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/417420?rel=hp_picks#pid417625
Interview With Charles Freeman
The only thing I regret is that in my statement I embraced the term ‘Israel lobby.’ This isn’t really a lobby by, for or about Israel. It’s really, well, I’ve decided I’m going to call it from now on the [Avigdor] Lieberman lobby. It’s the very right-wing Likud in Israel and its fanatic supporters here. And Avigdor Lieberman is really the guy that they really agree with. And I think they’re doing Israel in. “
I’ve decided I’m going to call it from now on the [Avigdor] Lieberman lobby.
He just looks more childish by the minute. It shows that he bleats stuff out impulsively and then retracts it 10 minutes later.
As for the lobby being pro Avi Lieberman–I think Freeman has just shot himself in the other foot.
I don’t think his claim is true, and he’ll be hard-pressed to prove it. Let’s see if he retracts that statement next.
Americans should thank everyone who opposed this nutberger’s appointment.
This is a bad stain on Obama’s presidency. He’s got his work cut out for him regarding the financial downturn, and the last thing he needs is that joker associated with his name.
I consider that more specific definition of who and what politics he is opposing to be progress.
My main objection to the term “Israel Lobby” was/is its vagueness and implications of monolith and conspiracy.
I dislike the term extremely. I dislike it when Phil uses it and periodically flirts with the David Dukish application of the term. I even dislike it when Dan uses the term.
I prefer a term that is more specific so as to actually communicate a clear distinction.
The phrase itself resembles and evokes fascistic suggestions, and elements of the Walt/Mearsheimer thesis resembles fascistic invocations “indirectly”, but at other points in their work, they disavow that supporters of Israel are monolithic, in fact very diverse; or “control the media” as there is an active and unreliable blogosphere and access to worldwide press over the web.
The natural consequence of “there is a united Israel Lobby that conspires to distort American foreign policy interests” is to then structure the exclusion of Jews (or anyone with suspected sympathies at all towards Israel) from any official position.
A black kid can become president (thankfully), but a Jewish could then never.
You are incorrect about the ETZEL wanting to maintain a separate armed force in Israel. The arms were to go to Jerusalem, and you must recall that Jerusalem was NOT to be part of the state of Israel according to the UN Partition Plan. Thus, even after the state was proclaimed on May 14, 1948, its jurisdiction did not extend to Jerusalem, and ALL the armed groups…i.e. Haganah, Palmach, ETZEL and LEHI continued to maintain their separate identities there. The agreement that was supposed to defuse the Altalena crisis said 80% of the weapons were to go to the IDF, and 20% (as the ETZEL understood it) to the ETZEL in Jerusalem (the Haganah negotiators later claimed that the 20% was to be divided among all the groups in Jerusalem.) Thus, Begin accepted the democratic rules from the beginning regarding the state of Israel.
In fact it was the Palmach (then identified mostly with “progressive” MAPAM) that wanted to maintain a separate armed force WITHIN the state of Israel and Ben-Gurion finally had to have a show-down with them. Even after they backed down, they maintained clandestine, illegal arms dumps on their kibbutzim for several years. One just turned up recently and it was reported in the news.
Palmach was a branch of the Haganah and was renamed the IDF when Israel achieved independance.
You are revising history, Yitzhak. Perhaps in the person to person “tradition” of the revisionist parties, you’re interpretation is accurate, but the conflicts between Irgun and the IDF predated the Altalena and the Altalena affair got to a military confrontation over the “right” of the Irgun to remain as a militia within a state.
Rather than as a political party.
It took a realitively small amount of force to accomplish that re: the Irgun.
Obviously, you still bear some resentment that Irgun yeilded.
Good thing that Irgun did yeild. Otherwise Israel would be in a similar state of civil war as Palestine is.
Its self-talk to consider the West Bank as Israeli. It conflicts with all consistent applications of law.
Better to be consistent.
Richard, I am sorry but you are wrong. The ETZEL had ALREADY merged with the IDF prior to the ALTALENA incident. The argument was whether the arms would go to Jerusalem or not, which as I stated was not part of the state of Israel at the time. The ETZEL never said it wanted an independent armed militia within the state of Israel. I am NOT giving you “revisionist” history…all the histories of the period talk about the the confrontation between the PALMACH and Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion never appointed a PALMACH veteran to be Chief of Staff because he frankly didn’t trust them. He also had the SHABAK spy on the their affiliated MAPAM party. The first PALMACH veteran to be named Chief-of-Staff was Rabin who was appointed by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
Richard, that’s certainly one way of looking at it. I saw it as an attempt to make a more precise and harmful connection to someone who has been deemed the “apartheid” kind of Israel.
Why doesn’t he just name names? I, for one, would like to know which lobby/organization supports Avi Lieberman wholesale.
On an unrelated note: Lieberman appears to want reform for civil marriages. I don’t know exactly what kind of reform or in what context (is it exclusively marriages between non-Jews?)
There are so many different reference orientations in Israeli politics, to make one numb.
Israel Beitanyu is a civil party, adamently opposed to compromise to the religious parties. It has been a BIG obstacle in Netanyahu’s effort to form a coalition, as Kadima is wary, Labor is wary, Shas and other other religious parties are wary of being in a government with Israel Beitanyu over the religious legislation.
Yitchak,
You haven’t convinced me that Irgun had determined to renounce its desire to remain a militia. From my read, they did so reluctantly, and the Altalena incident was a turning point, not before.
Even so, the parallel point about Hamas remains. The PA and Hamas have been fighting harshly since Oslo, and even when Hamas announced that it was pursuing electoral political strategy “rather” than militancy, they abandoned that promise very very quickly and aggressively.
They never yeilded to be part of a democratic Palestine without asserting their “right” to revolution.
Richard, the Israeli parliamentary system is beyond confusing to me. That’s why I’m wondering if Freeman is talking out of his butt.
Besides being vague about whom he is talking about stateside, I didn’t quite understand what it meant in the context of Israeli elections.
What exactly is he trying to say?
I’m not sure what you’re asking Suzanne.
The Israeli parliament is similar to Great Britain and other parliamentary systems.
When people vote, they vote for a party, not necessarily for a person (although each party’s candidates are presented in priority order). It takes a majority (more than 50%) to form a government.
If a majority does not vote for a single party, then the leading party is usually asked to form a coalition of it and other parties. This election in Israel, Kadima received the most votes, but had been unable to form a coalition before the election (when the head of Kadima resigned, Olmert, and his second on the list, Livni took over the party head). The president of Israel instead asked Likud to form a new government, in his estimation as more likely to form a majority government (the prime minister is the most important for governing. The power to determine who will have priority to form a new government is the president’s only real power).
Israel’s politics are as divided as the US, though in this election, they shifted to the right (as the US shifted to the left).
As Bradley Burston stated in an article in Haaretz today, the reason was missiles.
He stated that in the first Gulf War when Israel was shelled from Iraq, citizens realized that an on-the-ground buffer zone was not going to help them with security, that forming a peace was the most effective, which stimulated the efforts that led to Oslo.
But, as that peace did not bear out, and instead resulted in frequent traumatic unilateral rocket fire from Gaza, in this case rockets were what stimulated a distrust of prospects for peace.
I agree with him. My feeling is that Hamas elected Netanyahu, and even willingly. He stated that Hamas has consistently stated that they can wait, that they can irritate and propaganda forever until Israel disappears.
Maybe things will change. They haven’t yet.
I may be missing some majorly obvious point here…I know ZOA, AIPAC, whoever– makes no bones about support of Netanyahu, that’s pretty transparent and he’s hardly considered radical except by those on the left. My perception is that he’s hawkish & hardline more than extreme right.
–but I had no idea that the same organizations were collectively supporting Avigdor Lieberman or Yisrael Beitenu, as Freeman implies.
Your statement that “Israel Beitenu is adamantly to compromise with the religious parties” is incorrect. While it is true that this could be said about MERETZ and the late SHINUI party, it is not correct about Israel Beitenu. They do have difficulties with certain things that are of importance to their Russian olim constituency, such as proposals for civil marriage, but the party goes out of its way to point out it is not anti-religious, it is not opposed to the Rabbinate and is not for separation of state and religious as are the two other parties I mentioned. In fact, in 2003 the Israel Beitenu ran on a joint list with the Right-wing, largely religious National Union.
Shas stated that they would NEVER participate in a government that Israel Beitanyu was in.
Other parties have stated similarly.
Maybe it was just rhetoric, who knows.
Maybe they share the willingness to revise Torah for nationalistic opportunism.
SHAS was in a coalition with Israel Beitenu in the outgoing government (Israel Beitenu left because of Olmert’s policies regarding the Palestinians) and SHAS will sit in a coalition with them in the next government.
Maybe so. But its not what they say.
The point is of severe tensions between the anti-religious parties and the religious ones.
There are multiple issues that divide the state.
Do you get my comment on revising Torah for nationalist opportunism.
“I am the Lord thy God
“Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s possession
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”.
I don’t call settlers that base their “right” to settle on Torah. I call them revisionists. Don’t you?
“I don’t call settlers that base their “right†to settle on Torah. I call them revisionists. Don’t you?”
Have to agree, Richard. The settler issue is just about my only criticism of Israel. (they could afford to loosen up on civil marriage law too, imo)
Disproportionate use of force etc is arguable as are some of the disputed border details.
But the settler issue is one long, unending big headache.
Among other things, it’s fed into the paranoia that Israel wants to take over the entire ME (as if the OT isn’t gratifying enough lol! )
One thing I’ve wondered about: Did settlement develop as a political tactic partly because leaders presumed peace with Palestinians was a pipe dream?
Settlement was early.
Pent up demand for settlement in the West Bank and near Jerusalem and Hebron was opened up when Israel took over the West Bank in the 67 war.
The majority of sites referred to as the Davidic and subsequent kingdoms were in the West Bank, NOT on the coast, which is the current Israel.
When Jordan renounced its claims and appeared to transfer title over state lands to Israel in what 1994?, Israel interpreted that as an actual transfer of the legal rights that Jordan had by international law.
The Palestinians and solidarity didn’t interpret that in the same way, obviously.
Its still unsolved.
Too many damn ambiguities.
As has been said a hundred times, title questions are confused re: Palestine as a large number of residents claimed their right to live their by their residency, permission from the actual land-owners.
So, it has always been an ambiguous situation, as to the different social codes of the degree of rights that ownership title affords. Israelis assume the western model, where title affords them the right to do anything not prohibited explicitly by law, including the right to evict a non paying resident.
Most that criticize Israel’s history, behavior, are really only aware of political arguments, and are largely ignorant of the confused status of title regardless of who was governing or occupying.
You are overstating the “religious/non-religious tension” situation. Yes, there is some tension. But the one party that based its entire platform on anti-religious policies SHINUI, and that managed to get 15 seats in 2003 completely collapsed in the 2006 elections when they got ZERO. Yes, there is some tension between SHAS and the secularist Russians, but that won’t prevent them from sitting in the same coalition, just as it didn’t in the past.
Jordan didn’t have any international rights to Judea/Samaria. No one except Britain and Pakistan ever recognized their occupation of Judea/Samaria in 1948.
The first settlement official approved by the government in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967 was Kfar Etzion, which was actually simply the re-establishment of a settlement that existed before 1948, was approved as a response to the infamous pan-Arab resolution of August 1967 known as the “3 Nos of Khartoum” (1) No peace with Israel, (2) No recognition of Israel and (3) No negotiations with Israel (Yes, I know post-Zionist history Avi Shlaim has completely reinterpreted them as meaning “yes” to all threes, but such a stupid interpretation is an insult to all of our intelligences and our understanding of the English language, so I reject it). Maybe the intention was that the Arabs should make peace before Israel settled the whole area.
Sorry Richard (and this is VERY LATE) but I rechecked every comment I posted and not one had “Hamas had no other option”, perhaps you may have mixed myself with another one you are battling with.
I don’t how the I/P conflict compares to others in terms of people arguing over the minutiae (and interpretation) of past events. So I don’t know if it’s historically par for the course.
But it seems like a profound waste of time. I know that might sound naive. And I’m certainly concerned about the one-sided and often outright lying that goes on at blogs like Mondoweiss.
I wonder what the alternative is to getting trapped into a non-ending debate. Maybe it’s as Dan suggested, some lurkers need to hear argument and counter argument.
I guess I’m more interested in solutions than dwelling on this stuff.
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Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 14 June 1975
THREE MONTHS ago Tammy Wynette was little more than cowboy fodder in Britain, appealing only to a small body of country freaks. But, one smasheroo ...
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette: The Playroom, Atlanta; Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty: City Auditorium, Atlanta
Live Review by Gene Guerrero, Great Speckled Bird, The, 10 March 1969
THE LAST two weeks have been good ones for country music in Atlanta. George Jones and Tammy Wynette were at the Playroom; Merle Haggard's latest ...
Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Gene Guerrero, Great Speckled Bird, The, 31 February 1972
GOOD COUNTRY ...
Shower of Stars: George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Profile by Gene Guerrero, Great Speckled Bird, The, 5 March 1973
ONCE AGAIN it's Shower of Stars time. A good chance to see some of country music's finest in person at pretty reasonable prices. ...
Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, New York Times, The, 27 March 1973
Wynette and Jones Present, in Songs, Flavor of Nashville ...
Tammy Wynette/Toni & Terry albums
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973
Toni and Terry: Cross CountryTammy Wynette: My Man ...
Tammy Wynette: Truckers' Choice
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 19 April 1975
No-one captures the ideals of Middle America quite like Tammy Wynette. And she's got the hits to prove it — an astounding 24 Number Ones. ...
Tammy Wynette: Going UP Country
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 14 June 1975
How come a seven-year-old single, re-issued for the fifth time, made it to number one? Robert Partridge gets the full story behind Tammy Wynette's 'Stand ...
Cher: Stars/Cher's Greatest Hits; Tammy Wynette: The Best Of Tammy Wynette
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 21 June 1975
IN MANY WAYS Cher and Tammy Wynette make up the two facets of the Cosmopolitan philosophy, that candy coated version of feminism that seems to ...
Boots, Brandy, Boots, Bouffants + Buffy
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
THERE WERE more Stetson hats than you could shake a stick at in Wembley last weekend. ...
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
SO ENTRENCHED is the tradition of slick showmanship and synthetic sincerity among buxom country goddesses that we should no longer be surprised or nauseated by ...
Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Record Producer
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
Tammy Wynette, over here for a short tour, lectures COLIN IRWIN on how to be an Average Superstar... ...
Wembley Country Festival: The Metropolitan Soap Opera
Report by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
Friendly and polite or mean and bigoted? Even transferred to North London, the country music audience reflects the ambiguous small-town mentality. MARY HARRON heard Tammy ...
Tammy Wynette: Wembley Conference Centre, London
Live Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 16 April 1983
DANG MA POONS!* * Lit: Make mine a whiskey sour and a marriage on the rocks. ...
Stand By Your Van: Tammy Meets the KLF
Interview by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 23 November 1992
Welcome to Mu Mu Land, where hooded figures drive ice-cream vans and nothing is quite like it is in Tennessee. Which is a welcome change ...
Stand By Your Ex: George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, October 1995
Wait till I get you home...to Splitsville, Tennessee, where George Jones and Tommy Wynette have resided since the classic song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. came true following perhaps ...
George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 1995
LONG AGO, in the days before hats and hi-tech rednecks, country music was a soap opera and George Jones and Tammy Wynette were its Dirty ...
Tammy Wynette: First Lady Of Country
Obituary by Fred Dellar, MOJO, June 1998
TAMMY always stood by her fans. Often at the end of a gig, she'd just sit around signing autographs. Once, when her life was threatened, ...
The Mad Life And Crazy Death of Tammy Wynette
Overview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, August 1999
Burt Reynolds nearly died in her bath, George Jones escaped on her lawn-mower, and her second husband traded pictures of her in the nuddy. She ...
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Lamb Of God's As The Palaces Burn
Lamb Of God's As The Palaces Burn Ratings & Reviews Explanation
A feature-length documentary that originally sought to follow the band and their fans throughout the world, to demonstrate how music ties us together when we can't find any other common bond. However, during the filming process in 2012, the story abruptly took a dramatic turn, bringing the band into a Kafkaesque nightmare, when lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested on charges of manslaughter, blamed for the death of one of their young fans in the Czech Republic. What followed was a heart-wrenching courtroom drama that left fans, friends, and curious onlookers around the world on the edge of their seats.
Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest
Don Argott
Feb 27, 2014 limited
SpectiCast
Randy Blythe
Chris Adler
Willie Adler
Critic Reviews for Lamb Of God's As The Palaces Burn
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (3)
As the Palaces Burn is a documentary on the heavy metal band Lamb of God, and obviously a must for their fans.
Jan 2, 2018 | Full Review…
Kate Muir
Times (UK)
Don Argott's documentary about the heavy-metal band Lamb of God would have been a conventional rock doc if it had not been for a tragic incident at one of the band's concerts in Prague in 2010.
Feb 28, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
[Blythe is] a performer desperate to prove his emotions are for real.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
You don't need to like Lamb of God's music - although, for the record, you should because it's awesome - to walk away from As the Palaces Burn feeling genuinely fond of the band.
It's only mildly interesting unless you're one of the band's many rabidly loyal fans, especially since Argott, clearly thoroughly embedded, chooses not to dig very deep into the personalities and issues around the incident.
Leslie Felperin
It's a weird little hybrid movie. It becomes unforgettable at just the point where you were beginning to forget it.
Nigel Andrews
Metal music may remain a stigmatised subculture, but As the Palaces Burn proves that there's more tender humanity coursing through its artists and supporters than what the stereotypes imply.
Mar 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
CineVue
Even if you hate the music, there's much here to impress.
Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
[A] watchable fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Jeremy Aspinall
For fans of Lamb of God, or metal in general, this is essential viewing.
Henry Northmore
An entertaining and insightful rockumentary that quickly turns into a nail-biting legal thriller after the lead vocalist is arrested and accused of manslaughter during filming.
Jennifer Tate
ViewLondon
A fly-on-the-wall look at the band that will thrill fans but may not convert too many non-believers.
Empire Magazine
Audience Reviews for Lamb Of God's As The Palaces Burn
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GUATEMALA Sololá to Santa Lucía Utatlán
GUATEMALA Ruta 12 and the Road to Tak’alik Ab’aj
GUATEMALA African Plains (?) to Lagoon
In the Shade of the Tall Rocks
Greg Stone
Days 45-47 – Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico to Bahia de los Angeles – 9,278 km
‘Bean, I’ve really made a mess of your birthday!’ I said.
She was sitting on a rock in the small shade made from the taller rocks and the low afternoon sun. She had gone down twice today already – both times in sandy patches – and there was still at least 20 more hard kilometers of rock-strew dirt road before we would reconnect with Carretera 1. The first time she had gone down was about 15 km in from where the tarmac ended at Puertecitos and where we had camped at Gonzaga the night before.
I was riding up ahead and she was riding slowly and carefully behind me until I next glanced in my rearview mirror and saw her pinned under her bike. I pulled off to the side carefully so that we wouldn’t have two downed riders and then I hurried back to where she was. When I got there she had freed herself from under the bike and was walking to meet me.
‘Are you ok?’ I said when I reached her.
‘I think a rock bruised my thigh but it’s ok,’ she said. ‘What about my bike?’
Moxie Thumper was splayed completely on her side and with the weight of the side cases and the top-heavy weight of the large duffle across the seat, we struggled to right her during our first two attempts. As we worked, a rider on a light, unloaded KTM pulled alongside and helped us to get the bike right side up. The rider was gone, blazing down the dirt road, just as soon as we thanked him. Reviewing the bike, I found that one of the brackets on the right pannier was broken and this made the case unsteady on the rack but we didn’t worry about it because we had dealt with this after Jess’s first fall back in Utah at Capital Reef National Park.
‘Don’t bother with it now,’ she said a little disheartened from the fall but still mostly in good spirits. ‘I’ll probably just fall and break it again.’
After that fall she had continued on cautiously for another 8 km or so until she hit another sandy patch that got the better of her and she went down again, this time on the left side. This time there was no rider who magically appeared to help us but we used our legs more than our arms and we got Moxie back on her two wheels and kickstand. This time the left pannier had been damaged. The force of the fall had knocked the internal slider off its track so that the expanded cased hand crushed down to a retracted position. As I opened the case and began to replace the slider onto its track, a four-wheel ATV racer sped by at high speed and kicked up an enormous cloud of dust.
‘The Baja 1000 race begins next week so you might see some of them with their support vehicles practicing the course,’ the English-speaking man who owned the petrol station near Gonzaga had explained earlier that morning. ‘They are tearing up the middle of the road but you should be fine if you stay to the sides.’
I easily popped the slider of the plastic side case back onto its track and, despite the new scratches, the pannier was as good as ever before. But now with this second fall and still some 40 km or more to cover at what was proving a snail’s pace, Jess’s was beginning to look defeated.
‘The next time you see a truck I want to put my bike in the back until we get to the tarmac,’ she said.
I rode her bike out of the sandy patch and up a sandy rise past where I had parked my bike and until where the ground was firmer. There she remounted and we continued to press forward. Both of us were running road tires, which made the many sandy patches extremely difficult so that we were both quite stumped by it. I had several very close calls but managed to keep Penelope upright through each of them and kept both of us from dumping into the sand.
I rode ahead at between 20 and 30 km/h and Jess trudged slowly behind in first gear at about half that speed or less. For her, the slow speed made the distance interminable, while for me it was the short burst of forward progress followed by the waiting for her to catch up and worrying that she not go down again. We had left the coast after the first few kilometers and now we were riding inland through the heat and rocky, sandy wastes of the Parque Natural Del Desierto Central De Baja California.
About 20 km in the road undulated into alternating dips and rises. Now and then a truck or an ATV racer would scream past us and we would shut our helmet visors and hold our breaths until our lungs would burst and the dust began to settle. We took breaks at intervals of 10-15 kilometers and it was at one of these breaks about 40 km in that Jessica sat on the rock in the shade of the tall rocks and the low afternoon sun.
‘Greg, this water is terrible,’ she said. ‘From now on I’m buying bottled water!’
I had been insistent that the least we could do to lessen our carbon footprint on this trip was to avoid buying bottled water. Instead we had brought a SteriPen, which emits UV light from a bulb that is dipped into the water to kill any pathogens. I had used it previously while backpacking and when living in Africa. It works quite well for its intended purpose but it does nothing to improve the taste and we were only now discovering just how horrendously potable drinking water can taste.
‘That’s fine, Bean. We tried but you’re right – this water tastes truly awful,’ I said after reluctantly swigging a dry mouthful.
She was silent for a time and I sat quietly beside her.
‘This is not what I wanted for my birthday,’ she said suddenly.
‘I know, Bean. I really made a mess of it,’ I said.
‘When we get to Cabo I want to stay in a nice place,’ she said defiantly.
‘Sure, Bean,’ I said. ‘We’ll stay in a nice resorty place and we’ll get you a nice massage.’
Since we had sorted our vehicle permit issue three days before in Tijuana, we had traveled south down to Ensenada where we left Carretera 1 and began to traverse the peninsula on the 3. We covered about half of this distance that day and then halted for the night in Valle de la Trinidad where we stayed at a cute little hotel and ate excellent tacos at the neighboring restaurant. In the morning I went running through the dirt roads of the town and then out amongst the lanes along the farms. This began a ritual of morning runs lasting between 30 and 45 minutes that have given me a wonderful way to see a bit of where we are and keep myself in form.
That day we covered the rest of the distance across the peninsula until we reached Carretera 5, which we took it south to San Felipe. San Felipe is a pleasant seaside town that looks all set to host several cruise ships of tourists but is only missing the tourists. Here we sat on a bench on the boardwalk and ate a snack while we talked to a couple who had traveled down two up on a Harley.
From San Felipe we followed the highway south, stopping only for fish tacos at a restaurant beside the highway, shortly before the tarmac ended at Puertecitos. It was late in the afternoon when we stopped for lunch and the owner of the restaurant suggested a nice place for camping at Gonzaga, just a few off tarmac kilometers past Puertecitos. The short stretch of off road was an exhilarating way to end a fine day of riding and our second since resolving the issue with our vehicle permits. At Gonzaga we paid 150 pesos – about USD 15 – for a palapa, which is little more than a hut roof held up by a large central pole. We pulled our bikes under one side of the palapa and pitched our tent opposite them under the roof. It was high tide and the sound of the waves was very soothing and we were the only people to be seen for at least a couple kilometers.
‘Happy birthday eve, Bean,’ I said. ‘I feel very bad that I don’t have a big surprise gift for you but it has been nearly impossible to get away from you long enough to search out something!’
‘It’s fine and this is a wonderful place to spend my birthday eve,’ she said.
That night we walked the couple kilometers inland beside the airstrip to the general store and taco stand beside the dirt road that continued from where the highway had ended. We bought a bottle of red Chilean wine and when that was finished we drank Mexican beers until we were rather well lit. Then we ate tacos to fill our stomachs and drank more beer to wash it down. Jess practiced her Spanish and local men came from the road and stopped for dinner and then went and some stayed a while to watch television in the courtyard. It was a very late eight o’clock when we staggered back along the airstrip a couple kilometers and then another kilometer up the beach to our camp.
‘I’m so cold that I have tunnel vision and I’m not even paying attention for coyotes,’ I said as we walked because we had seen what we thought was a pack of three coyotes earlier on our walk to the general store.
‘Greg, I don’t want to be eaten on my birthday,’ she said.
We fell asleep to the sound of the waves and the breeze against the reed roofs of the palapas. In the morning I laid the solar camp shower in the sun and then I went for a run along the airstrip. When I came back, I hung the solar shower from a nail on the palapa and Jess took the first shower. Although there were no other people to be seen, we were showering in the open so Jess modestly wore her bikini. But I was not so modest and I thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of standing naked under the trickle of water that remained in the shower bag when it was my turn.
‘I didn’t even condition my hair,’ she said when she realized that she had left me so little of the four liters that had been in the polyurethane bag before her shower.
We scrounged another half liter or so from our water bottles and Jess held the spigot so that we could conserve every last drop as I soaped and mostly rinsed off before the water ran out.
After showering and packing up our bikes, we stopped at the roadside general store to fill our bottles from the tap and then sterilize the water with the UV pen. By then it was around 10 o’clock and we took to the dirt road that our map showed would reach Carretera 1 after about 60 kilometers.
‘Are you sure you want to do the off road?’ I asked before we set off and then again several more times before we were too far in to turn back.
‘We’re not going all the way back to San Felipe and then to Ensenada just to come back down again!’ Jess said.
Then after a pause she said, ‘We’ll see if I’m still saying this a few kilometers in.’
A few kilometers further on after we had drunk the foul tasting water and rested in the shade of the tall rocks and the low afternoon sun, we reached Coco’s Corner. Coco is an old Mexican with no legs and a few words of English mixed into his sentences. He seems to spend most of his time strapped onto an ATV, which he uses to get around. His – Coco’s – Corner is a flat expanse that is like a junkyard of old vehicles and other sundry odds and ends. Here they sell cold beer, sodas, and water to those who pass through and want a rest and cold drink.
‘Ask him how the road is up ahead,’ Jess said as she rested slumped on a plastic chair and drank from a glass Coca Cola bottle.
‘Quedan 20 kilometros but la terrecería no es like antes. It’s más duro,’ Coco said in his mix of Spanish and English. ‘There remains 20 kilometers but it’s not dirt like before. It’s more difficult.’
I began to explain what he said to Jess but she had understood him.
‘Is the road sandy?’ she asked.
‘No, son big piedras and boulders,’ he said. ‘El camino rises y baja por las mountains.’
‘The rocks are better than the sand,’ Jess said.
‘Bastante peligroso, señorita,’ Coco said in a very serious tone. ‘Quite dangerous, young lady.’
After we finished our drinks, I bought two more cold waters to go and we struck back out onto the road. It was as Coco had said. The road was not sandy but it quickly began to rise and dip and wind through the dry desert hill country. Rocks and broken boulders were strewn across the road so that, not only did you have to avoid the loose stuff, but you also had to navigate the biggest and sharpest of those boulders or you might puncture a tire or take a nasty fall. Also, through most of it’s meandering through the hills, the road seemed to cling precariously to the slopes so that missing a turn or going down on the wrong side could mean a steep tumble.
Jess continued to plod along slowly but steadily and without any further mishaps. Seeing fewer sandy patches, I worried less about her safety, except on those particularly precipitous turns where even her good, cautious riding might not be enough. Also, now I worried less about her resilience because she had the experience and success of covering more than 40 km. I knew that if she was going to give up it would have been in the very beginning. Now, despite the treacherous final kilometers, I knew that the road would have to defeat her to stop her because she would keep going so long as the bike and the daylight held out.
We covered the final 20 km more quickly and adeptly than we had the first 20 and at least I was beginning to very much enjoy the experience of riding off tarmac and using my motorcycle for what it was made for. After the mountains, the land flattened and the road straightened and a few kilometers later almost without realizing it we were suddenly off the dirt and back onto the tarmac. At the junction we pulled off where there was a llantera, tire repair shop, and we used the portable electric pump to re-inflate our tires after we had spent the day on low pressure tires for better stability off the tarmac.
Now the off road adventure was over but it was late in the afternoon and the sun was already near setting. With our tires re-inflated for the tarmac and our chains greased to clean off the dust and gravel, we considered our options. The owner of the petrol station in Gonzaga had told us there were few towns and possibly no hotels for a good distance Guerrero Negro and at Coco’s Corner a local traveler had suggested that Bahia de los Angeles was a good place to spend the night back on the gulf side of the peninsula.
We decided to strike out for Bahia and, despite the dust in our eyes and the deep exhaustion in our bones, we hit the highway with speed and purpose. The sun set before we reached the junction where the highway branched towards Bahia. From here it was 66 km of good tarmac as the twilight was overtaken by darkness. When we arrived in Bahia it was the fullness of night but the village streets were quiet and it was a short time before we had traversed the town and settled on an overpriced hotel to spend the night.
‘Happy birthday, Bean,’ I said as we lay in bed collapsed from fatigue.
There was no answer. She was fast asleep.
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Spike in numbers for iconic Scottish bird
Kirsty Nutt
Special events being held to help public see them
In highland Perthshire last year, the number of one of Scotland's most iconic birds, the black grouse, were the second highest since 1993 and people are being encouraged to go to special events to see them.
The Perthshire Black Grouse Study Group has been monitoring the black grouse population in highland Perthshire since 1990. This group of dedicated volunteers check all suitable habitat and count all black grouse within seven 10 km squares. That's an area of 70,000 hectares, roughly spanning across from Kinloch Rannoch to Kirkmichael and from Aberfeldy up to Blair Atholl. Between mid-March and mid-May, they make at least two visits at dawn to count 'lekking' males [note 1], providing crucial information about how well the birds are doing.
Lekking is a mating system, in which males gather at a traditional display ground (lek) and put on extravagant and competitive courtship displays to attract a mate. In spring, black grouse will come together at dawn and dusk inflating their necks and raising their white tail feathers as they compete for the best spot at the heart of the lek. The females (known as greyhens) watch from the edges and choose the fittest and most dominant to mate with.
This spring, RSPB Scotland in partnership with the John Muir Trust and Dun Coillich Project will be running lek viewing events near Schiehallion to offer people the chance to see these magnificent birds.
Lauren Shannon is RSPB Scotland's Community Engagement Officer based in Perth. She said: "Watching black grouse as they lek is a magical wildlife experience, with rivals sparring amid bubbling songs and harsh scolding sounds. People may have seen black grouse on TV, but very few have been fortunate enough to see a lek in real life and so I would encourage them to take advantage of these popular partnership walks".
Despite national declines in numbers of black grouse, in highland Perthshire they have bounced back and the area is now a stronghold for this species. Across the county, numbers declined during the 1990s, but have been increasing since 2002. There was a slump in numbers in 2012 and 2013, probably due to wet Junes in the previous years reducing how many chicks survived to become adults [note 2]. However, in 2015, 676 males were recorded at 82 leks. This is the second highest count since 1993 with numbers up 21.5% and more females being seen than in 2014. The largest lek recorded within the study area held 53 males up on 2014's record of 29 [note 3].
A drier June in 2014 is likely to be partly responsible for the higher number of birds at leks in 2015, but Perthshire's mosaic of habitats also benefits the birds with recent studies showing that they are responding to native tree planting in the region [note 4].
Claire Smith is a member of the Study Group and a Conservation Officer for RSPB Scotland. She said: "It's great that black grouse are doing so well in Perthshire and we hope it continues. Estates and land managers have put a range of measures in place to benefit black grouse and we are fortunate to have such amazing long-term information thanks to the hard work by volunteers within the study group."
In 2015, 29 volunteers made up of local birdwatchers, Estate staff, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust staff and students, along with Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and RSPB Scotland staff, helped with the count. Five of these volunteers have been involved in counting since 1990 [note 5].
The black grouse walks will take place on Sunday 20 March from 5.30 - 7 pm, Wednesday 30 March from 6 - 7.30 am and Wednesday 20 April from 7.30 - 9 pm. The walk costs £4 per adult (children go free) and there will be a hot drink provided at the end. Places are limited and booking is essential. To book or for more information, please phone 01738 630783 or email perth.admin@rspb.org.uk.
The walks will start from the Braes of Foss car park which is approximately a mile west, off the B846 between Tummel Bridge and Aberfeldy at Tomphubil. The nearest postcode is PH16 5NN. There is a £2 car parking charge.
For further information, and to arrange an interview, please contact:
Lauren Shannon, Community Engagement Officer, on 01738 630783
Kirsty Nutt, Communications Officer on 01224 624824 (01224 627869 direct) or 07711 385595.
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Editor's notes:
1. Black grouse are one of only three British bird species that exhibit lekking behaviour. In spring birds congregate at traditional lek sites (display grounds). The males compete with each other for best position to display themselves within the lek; dominant males tend to occupy central sites. The bubbling calls and the posturing of the males (cocks) attract females (hens), who will watch the displays before choosing their mate. The dominant males will mate with the most females.
2. The numbers of black grouse recorded are counts of adult birds and so are indicative of the success of the previous years breeding.
3. Although recovering in Perthshire, black grouse are still absent or declining from much of their UK range and so are a red listed species, meaning they are of highest conservation concern.
4. Habitat management needs to involve whole, integrated landscapes rather than single habitats. Changes in farming policies to promote low-intensity mixed farming, a reduction in grazing intensity, removal of deer fencing, management of the deer population and sympathetic forest management, or even restructuring of plantation forests could all benefit black grouse.
5. The study group's work has been essential in helping conservationists to understand the importance of the Perthshire population and contributes to conservation measures for black grouse including advising land managers.
6. The RSPB is the UK's largest nature conservation charity, inspiring everyone to give nature a home. Together with our partners, we protect threatened birds and wildlife so our towns, coast and countryside will teem with life once again. We play a leading role in BirdLife International, a worldwide partnership of nature conservation organisations.
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NHL player ‘receives death threats’ after becoming first to join anthem protest
9 Oct, 2017 18:02
Video still © CBC News © YouTube
Tampa Bay Lightning forward J.T. Brown says he received death threats following his raised-fist national anthem protest before the regular season game against the Florida Panthers on Sunday, becoming the first NHL player to join the protest started last year in the NFL.
The movement, which was launched by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling protests during the national anthem before NFL games, later spread throughout the NFL and other sports leagues in the US.
Brown, one of about 30 African American players in the NHL, became the first American ice hockey player to join the wave of protests.
"In my life, I have been through more than my fair share of racism both on and off the ice. There comes a time when you cannot remain silent, hoping and wishing for a change. It takes much more," the player wrote on his Twitter account following the game with the Panthers.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”-Martin Luther King Jr. pic.twitter.com/Ql2vEFwl5E
— Jt brownov (@JTBrown23) October 8, 2017
Brown also said that he wanted to draw attention to the issue, while realizing there would be a negative backlash over his protest.
#tblightning@JTBrown23 on silent protest: "I know there's going to be negative backlash. But, in my heart, I know I did what was right." pic.twitter.com/iupx0imoP2
— Joe Smith (@TBTimes_JSmith) October 8, 2017
During the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos rocked the sports world when they raised their fists wearing black gloves, during the medal ceremony where they were awarded 200m gold and bronze respectively.
They also wore black socks and no shoes to demonstrate African American poverty, while the black gloves were supposed to symbolized black unity. They raised their fists and stood motionless while listening to the Star Spangled Banner.
Later, both runners were suspended from the US national team as THE sign was related to the Black Power Salute demonstration.
Brown’s team, the Tampa Bay Lightning, stated they have no issues with the protest displayed by the player before Saturday’s the game, as they “respect our players and individual choices they may make on social and political issues.”
Re: Brown: #tblightning with statement that they "respect our players and individual choices they may make on social and political issues." pic.twitter.com/r4PnDYaN7R
The forward, 27, revealed on Sunday he received death threats on social media after his protest.
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RVUSD
The Board of Trustees recognizes the link between student health and learning and desires to provide a comprehensive program promoting healthy eating and physical activity for district students. The Superintendent or designee shall coordinate and align district efforts to support student wellness through health education, physical education and activity, health services, nutrition services, psychological and counseling services, and a safe and healthy school environment. In addition, the Superintendent or designee shall develop strategies for promoting staff wellness and for involving parents/guardians and the community in reinforcing students' understanding and appreciation of the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
(cf. 1020 - Youth Services)
(cf. 3513.3 - Tobacco-Free Schools)
(cf. 3514 - Environmental Safety)
(cf. 5131.6 - Alcohol and Other Drugs)
(cf. 5131.61 - Drug Testing)
(cf. 5131.62 - Tobacco)
(cf. 5131.63 - Steroids)
(cf. 5141 - Health Care and Emergencies)
(cf. 5141.3 - Health Examinations)
(cf. 5141.31 - Immunizations)
(cf. 5141.32 - Health Screening for School Entry)
(cf. 5141.6 - School Health Services)
(cf. 6142.1 - Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education)
(cf. 6164.2 - Guidance/Counseling Services)
School Health Council/Committee
The Superintendent or designee shall encourage parents/guardians, students, food service employees, physical education teachers, school health professionals, Board members, school administrators, and members of the public to participate in the development, implementation, and periodic review and update of the district's student wellness policy. (42 USC 1758b)
To fulfill this requirement, the Superintendent or designee may appoint a school health council or other district committee whose membership shall include representatives of these groups. He/she also may invite participation of other groups or individuals, such as health educators, curriculum directors, counselors, before- and after-school program staff, health practitioners, and/or others interested in school health issues.
(cf. 1220 - Citizen Advisory Committees)
(cf. 9140 - Board Representatives)
The school health council/committee shall advise the district on health-related issues, activities, policies, and programs. At the discretion of the Superintendent or designee, the duties of the council/committee may also include the planning, implementation, and evaluation of activities to promote health within the school or community.
Goals for Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Other Wellness Activities
The Board shall adopt goals for nutrition promotion and education, physical activity, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness. (42 USC 1758b)
The district's nutrition education and physical education programs shall be based on research, shall be consistent with the expectations established in the state's curriculum frameworks and content standards, and shall be designed to build the skills and knowledge that all students need to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
(cf. 6011 - Academic Standards)
(cf. 6142.7 - Physical Education and Activity)
The nutrition education program shall include, but is not limited to, information about the benefits of healthy eating for learning, disease prevention, weight management, and oral health. Nutrition education shall be provided as part of the health education program and, as appropriate, shall be integrated into other academic subjects in the regular educational program, before- and after-school programs.
(cf. 5148.2 - Before/After School Programs)
(cf. 6177 - Summer Learning Programs)
To reinforce the district's nutrition education program, the Board prohibits the marketing and advertising of non-nutritious foods and beverages through signage, vending machine fronts, logos, scoreboards, school supplies, advertisements in school publications, coupon or incentive programs, free give-aways, or other means.
(cf. 1325 - Advertising and Promotion)
All students shall be provided opportunities to be physically active on a regular basis. Opportunities for moderate to vigorous physical activity shall be provided through physical education and recess and may also be provided through school athletic programs, extracurricular programs, before- and after-school programs, programs encouraging students to walk or bicycle to and from school, in-class physical activity breaks, and other structured and unstructured activities.
(cf. 5142.2 - Safe Routes to School Program)
(cf. 6145 - Extracurricular and Cocurricular Activities)
(cf. 6145.2 - Athletic Competition)
The Board may enter into a joint use agreement or memorandum of understanding to make district facilities or grounds available for recreational or sports activities outside the school day and/or to use community facilities to expand students' access to opportunity for physical activity.
(cf. 1330.1 - Joint Use Agreements)
Professional development shall be regularly offered to health education and physical education teachers, coaches, activity supervisors, food services staff, and other staff as appropriate to enhance their health knowledge and skills.
(cf. 4131 - Staff Development)
The Superintendent or designee may disseminate health information and/or the district's student wellness policy to parents/guardians through district or school newsletters, handouts, parent/guardian meetings, district and school web sites, and other communications. Outreach to parents/guardians shall emphasize the relationship between student health and academic performance.
(cf. 1113 - District and School Web Sites)
(cf. 1114 - District-Sponsored Social Media)
(cf. 6020 - Parent Involvement)
In order to ensure that students have access to comprehensive health services or may provide referrals to community resources.
The Board recognizes that a safe, positive school environment is also conducive to students' physical and mental health and thus prohibits bullying and harassment of all students, including bullying on the basis of weight or health condition.
(cf. 5131.2 - Bullying)
The Superintendent or designee shall encourage staff to serve as positive role models for healthy eating and physical fitness. He/she shall promote work-site wellness programs and may provide opportunities for regular physical activity among employees.
Nutritional Guidelines for Foods Available at School
For all foods available on each campus during the school day, the district shall adopt nutritional guidelines which are consistent with 42 USC 1773 and 1779 and federal regulations and which support the objectives of promoting student health and reducing childhood obesity. (42 USC 1758b)
In order to maximize the district's ability to provide nutritious meals and snacks, all district schools shall participate in available federal school nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs and after-school snack programs, to the extent possible. When approved by the California Department of Education, the district may sponsor a summer meal program.
(cf. 3550 - Food Service/Child Nutrition Program)
(cf. 3552 - Summer Meal Program)
(cf. 3553 - Free and Reduced Price Meals)
(cf. 5141.27 - Food Allergies/Special Dietary Needs)
(cf. 5148 - Child Care and Development)
(cf. 5148.3 - Preschool/Early Childhood Education)
The Superintendent or designee shall provide access to free, potable water during meal times in the food service area in accordance with Education Code 38086 and 42 USC 1758, and shall encourage students' consumption of water by educating them about the health benefits of water and serving water in an appealing manner.
The Board believes that all foods and beverages sold to students at district schools, including those available outside the district's food services program, should support the health curriculum and promote optimal health. Nutritional standards adopted by the district for foods and beverages provided through student stores, vending machines, or other venues shall meet or exceed state and federal nutritional standards.
(cf. 3554 - Other Food Sales)
The Superintendent or designee shall encourage school organizations to use healthy food items or non-food items for fundraising purposes. He/she also shall encourage school staff to avoid the use of non-nutritious foods as a reward for students' academic performance, accomplishments, or classroom behavior.
(cf. 1230 - School-Connected Organizations)
School staff shall encourage parents/guardians or other volunteers to support the district's nutrition education program by considering nutritional quality when selecting any snacks which they may donate for occasional class parties. Class parties or celebrations shall be held after the lunch period when possible.
Program Implementation and Evaluation
The Superintendent shall designate one or more district or school employees, as appropriate, to ensure that each school site complies with this policy. (42 USC 1758b)
(cf. 0500 - Accountability)
(cf. 3555 - Nutrition Program Compliance)
The Superintendent or designee shall periodically assess the implementation and effectiveness this policy.
The assessment shall include the extent to which district schools are in compliance with this policy, the extent to which this policy compares to model wellness policies available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and a description of the progress made in attaining the goals of the wellness policy. (42 USC 1758b)
The Board and the Superintendent or designee shall establish indicators that will be used to measure the implementation and effectiveness of the district activities related to student wellness. Such indicators may include, but are not limited to:
1. Descriptions of the district's nutrition education, physical education, and health education curricula and the extent to which they align with state academic content standards and legal requirements
2. An analysis of the nutritional content of school meals and snacks served in all district programs, based on a sample of menus and production records
3. Student participation rates in all school meal and/or snack programs, including the number of students enrolled in the free and reduced-price meals program compared to the number of students eligible for that program
4. Extent to which foods sold on campus outside the food services program, such as through vending machines, student stores, or fundrasiers, comply with nutritional standards
5. Results of the state's physical fitness test at applicable grade levels
6. Number of minutes of physical education offered at each grade span, and the estimated percentage of class time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity
7. A description of district efforts to provide additional opportunities for physical activity outside of the physical education program
8. A description of other districtwide or school-based wellness activities offered, including the number of sites and/or students participating, as appropriate
The Superintendent or designee shall invite feedback on district and school wellness activities from food service personnel, school administrators, the school health council, parents/guardians, students, teachers, before- and after-school program staff, and/or other appropriate persons.
As feasible, the assessment report may include a comparison of results across multiple years, a comparison of district data with county, statewide, or national data, and/or a comparison of wellness data with other student outcomes such as academic indicators or student discipline rates.
The Superintendent or designee shall inform and update the public, including parents/guardians, students, and others in the community, about the content and implementation of this policy and assessment results. (42 USC 1758b)
In addition, the assessment results shall be submitted to the Board for the purposes of evaluating policy and practice, recognizing accomplishments, and making policy adjustments as needed to focus district resources and efforts on actions that are most likely to make a positive impact on student health and achievement.
Posting Requirements
Each school shall post the district's policies and regulations on nutrition and physical activity in public view within all school cafeterias or in other central eating areas. (Education Code 49432)
33350-33354 CDE responsibilities re: physical education
49430-49436 Pupil Nutrition, Health, and Achievement Act of 2001
49490-49494 School breakfast and lunch programs
49500-49505 School meals
49510-49520 Nutrition
49530-49536 Child Nutrition Act
49540-49546 Child care food program
49547-49548.3 Comprehensive nutrition services
49550-49561 Meals for needy students
49565-49565.8 California Fresh Start pilot program
49570 National School Lunch Act
51210 Course of study, grades 1-6
51220 Course of study, grades 7-12
51222 Physical education
51223 Physical education, elementary schools
51795-51796.5 School instructional gardens
51880-51921 Comprehensive health education
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5
15500-15501 Food sales by student organizations
15510 Mandatory meals for needy students
15530-15535 Nutrition education
15550-15565 School lunch and breakfast programs
1751-1769 National School Lunch Program, especially:
1758b Local wellness policy
1771-1791 Child Nutrition Act, especially:
1773 School Breakfast Program
1779 Rules and regulations, Child Nutrition Act
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 7
210.1-210.31 National School Lunch Program
220.1-220.23 National School Breakfast Program
Frazer v. Dixon Unified School District, (1993) 18 Cal.App.4th 781
Increasing Access to Drinking Water in Schools, Policy Brief, March 2013
Monitoring for Success: A Guide for Assessing and Strengthening Student Wellness Policies, rev. 2012
Nutrition Standards for Schools: Implications for Student Wellness, Policy Brief, rev. April 2012
Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide, rev. 2012
Building Healthy Communities: A School Leader's Guide to Collaboration and Community Engagement, 2009
Safe Routes to School: Program and Policy Strategies for School Districts, Policy Brief, 2009
Physical Education and California Schools, Policy Brief, rev. October 2007
School-Based Marketing of Foods and Beverages: Policy Implications for School Boards, Policy Brief, March 2006
Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, 2009
Health Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, 2003
CALIFORNIA PROJECT LEAN PUBLICATIONS
Policy in Action: A Guide to Implementing Your Local School Wellness Policy, October 2006
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS
Changing Lives, Saving Lives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Food Security in Afterschool Programs, March 2010
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION PUBLICATIONS
School Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide, 2005
Rules and Regulations, January 26, 2012, Vol. 77, Number 17, pages 4088-4167
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
Fit, Healthy and Ready to Learn, 2000
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PUBLICATIONS
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005
Changing the Scene, Improving the School Nutrition Environment: A Guide to Local Action, 2000
CSBA: http://www.csba.org
Action for Healthy Kids: http://www.actionforhealthykids.org
California Department of Education, Nutrition Services Division: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu
California Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity and Nutrition): http://www.californiaprojectlean.org
California School Nutrition Association: http://www.calsna.org
Center for Collaborative Solutions: http://www.ccscenter.org
Dairy Council of California: http://www.dairycouncilofca.org
National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity: http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/nana.html
National Association of State Boards of Education: http://www.nasbe.org
School Nutrition Association: http://www.schoolnutrition.org
Society for Nutrition Education: http://www.sne.org
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Nutrition Service, wellness policy: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html
Policy RINCON VALLEY UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
adopted: November 12, 2013 Santa Rosa, California
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Sacred Chickens
Band Review: Dead Karen
Dead Karen
Review by Julie Carpenter
I don’t know a lot about this Jacksonville, Florida band. In fact before they contacted me and asked me to give them a listen, I didn't know them at all. If you go on their website, there’s not a lot of fluff about who they are or why you should think they’re cool. You immediately understand one thing. They’re about the music. They don’t spend a lot of time spinning some mythology to sucker you in.
They let the music speak for itself. I respect that. Here’s the only thing they have to say about their music:
Deadkaren: A combination of the most humid of sounds, including alternative B-sides, naked in a tub of slushies, with a slight feminist undertone, written as happy music for sad kids.
Intriguing.
So what’s in store for you if you listen? First the sweet/tough lead singer’s voice, intense over driving jumpy music, a voice that’s almost sweet enough to dupe you into thinking you’re safe . But listen to a few tracks you realize that the honeyed voice is knife sharp, with a feminist edge.
For instance, BradChad, one of my favorite tracks, opens with two frat boys ruminating on the evening’s plans and pulses forward to the feminist response. It’s thinking you’re attacking a kitten, and finding out it’s pretty much that rabbit from The Holy Grail.
Songs like Blah, Blah, Blah start with bendy guitars, drums push you forward and the song shoves you right through – in a good way. I liked the forceful, headlong trajectory. All of the have the same relentless energy.
Go check this band out. If you end up naked in a tub of slushies, you can’t say you weren’t warned.
Julie Carpenter is the creator of the Sacred Chickens website. She is dedicated to telling stories and making sure that indie writers and publishers have a way to be heard. She uses narrative, her own and others’, to help interpret the world. She has a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Memphis, with an emphasis in Composition Theory. She wants to bend reality one story at a time. Julie’s work has appeared in Fiction on the Web and will be included The New Guard. She is currently working on a novel.
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HOME > Geopolitics
Kashmir families allege brutality by Indian forces
SAMAA | AFP - Posted: Sep 10, 2019 | Last Updated: 4 months ago
SAMAA | AFP
Posted: Sep 10, 2019 | Last Updated: 4 months ago
Burhan Nazir Parrey, 16, had a gaping wound in his shoulder the size of a cricket ball, the latest victim of what Kashmiris say is indiscriminate brutality by Indian forces.
He is one of the lucky ones. Locals accuse Indian security forces of being responsible for four deaths since New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its autonomy and imposed a crippling lockdown on August 5.
Parrey told AFP that he went out for a walk with a friend on the evening of August 6 and turning a corner ran into members of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force.
One put the barrel of a pellet-firing shotgun gun to his upper body and “fired a shell right into my right shoulder”, the teenager said.
Then one of the soldiers “put his boot on my shoulder and pushed the shell further inside”, he said. “Another tried to crush my neck. I thought they wanted to see me dead right there.”
Only when some women started shouting did the soldiers leave and neighbours took Parrey to hospital.
According to his father Nazir Ahmad, doctors located “more than 400 pellets” in his torso. Medical records seen by AFP showed that “multiple pellets and one plastic canister” were removed.
CRPF Inspector General Zulfiqar Hassan said there was “no report or record of this incident” but would launch an inquiry — if the boy filed a report.
– ‘Vocal minority’ –
Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947. In the Indian-administered part, tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in an insurgency — that New Delhi blames on Islamabad — since 1989.
India’s national security advisor said on Saturday that apart from a “vocal minority” egged on by Pakistan, a “majority” of Kashmiris support its August 5 move.
However, and despite restrictions on movement that were reinforced this week, there have been hundreds of protests and stone-throwing incidents.
According to multiple sources, several thousand people have been detained. They include almost all the region’s top politicians — without charge.
The internet and mobile phones also remain cut off in the Kashmir Valley, the main trouble area. UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Monday she is “deeply concerned”.
– ‘Lies’ –
Last month AFP spoke to relatives of three people they alleged have died as a result of the actions of security forces, including a mother-of-two after a tear gas canister smashed through her window.
On August 25 the governor of Jammu and Kashmir state, Satya Pal Malik, said there had not been a “single case of killing” in the previous 10 days.
The same day police said that a truck driver was killed on August 25 after being hit by a stone hurled by protestors.
Last week Asrar Khan, 17, became the latest fatality when he died in hospital on September 3, a month after being seriously injured.
Khan was playing cricket near his home in Kashmir’s main city Srinagar on August 6 when soldiers fired at him, his mother told AFP.
“A CRPF vehicle stopped near the edge of the park and fired a tear gas shell straight at his head,” Shaheena said as she cried in her home, supported by other women.
“I saw him fall and then they (soldiers) fired pellets on him.”
Senior army officer Lieutenant General Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon told reporters on September 4 that Khan was hit by protestors throwing stones.
Khan’s hospital records, seen by AFP, showed he suffered “severe traumatic brain injury” and cited “pellet injury with shell blast injury” as the cause of death.
On Saturday the Indian government appeared to row back on Dhillon’s statement, saying the cause of death was a “hard and blunt object” — but without saying what.
Khan’s angry father Firdous Ahmad, showing a photo and X-ray of his son’s face, said Dillon was “lying” and there were no protests the day he was hurt.
“My son will not come back, but I want the world to know the truth and see what is being done to our children in Kashmir,” Ahmad told AFP.
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Monday, January 14, 2019, 3:20 p.m.
By Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho
The escrow provision in the proposed Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers violates the constitutional guarantee on equal protection.
The Joint Manning Group is pushing for the inclusion of an escrow provision which is a mere dilatory tactic in the execution of the seafarers’ monetary awards.
The provision, in essence, aimed to amend the labor code that will have a significant impact on labor claims governing the immediately “final and executory” nature of decisions issued by National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB).
The manning agencies echoed ANGKLA’s rationale for an earlier Bill to ensure the restitution of monetary awards in case the appropriate appellate court annuls or partially or totally reverses the monetary judgment award.
There is an invalid classification that runs counter to the Constitutional provision which provides that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.” ( Article II, Section 1)
The guarantee of this constitutional right of equal protection shall mean that all persons or things similarly situated should be treated alike, both as to rights conferred and responsibilities imposed
Class legislation is such legislation which denies rights to one which are accorded to others or inflicts upon one individual a more severe penalty than is imposed upon another in like case offending. (Executive Secretary v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 131719, May 25, 2004)
The Supreme Court elucidated upon the concept of equal protection of the laws in the case of Nuñez v. Sandiganbayan, (197 Phil. 407 [1982]):
“xxx that the laws operate equally and uniformly on all persons under similar circumstances or that all persons must be treated in the same manner, the conditions not being different, both in the privileges conferred and the liabilities imposed. Favoritism and undue preference cannot be allowed. For the principle is that equal protection and security shall be given to every person under circumstances which, if not identical, are analogous. If law be looked upon in terms of burden or charges, those that fall within a class should be treated in the same fashion, whatever restrictions cast on some in the group equally binding on the rest.”
Legislative bodies are allowed to classify the subjects of legislation. If the classification is reasonable, the law may operate only on some and not all of the people without violating the equal protection clause. The classification must, as an indispensable requisite, not be arbitrary.
To be valid, it must conform to the following requirements: (1) It must be based on substantial distinctions; (2) It must be germane to the purposes of the law; (3) It must not be limited to existing conditions only and (4) It must apply equally to all members of the class. (People v. Cayat, G.R. No. L-45987, May 5, 1939),
If passed into law with said provision, the Magna Carta will partake of the nature of class legislation because it singles out seafarer claims from other labor claims, both local and overseas.
The requirement that classification must be based on substantial distinctions has not been complied with. There lies no substantial distinction between the claims a seafarer and any other laborers.
The provision makes a rash generalization that cases filed by lawyers in the seafaring practice are merely after financial gain, and not to protect the seafarer’s rights, all based on an unsubstantiated and likewise unfair generalization to the effect that all lawyers in the seafaring practice are ambulance chasers.
In the same vein, the provision should highlight the fact that the act of ambulance chasing transcends other fields of practice, and is not solely found in the seafaring practice.
The provision is unduly oppressive, unreasonable, and is repugnant to the Constitution. It undermines the mandate of the Constitution to protect the rights of overseas workers and to promote their welfare when it deprive such seafarers an avenue to receive the fruits of his legal battle.
The proposed legislation is the reverse of the constitutional mandate and the declared policies of RA No. 8042, as amended by R.A. 100022 as it unreasonably downplays the seafarers’ rights guaranteed by the constitution instead of protecting the rights and promoting their welfare.
In what appears to be a virtuous objective of protecting Filipino seafarers, the inclusion of said escrow provision will go beyond such benevolent objective at the expense of curtailing their rights.
(Atty. Gorecho heads the seafarers’ division of the Sapalo Velez Bundang Bulilan law offices. For comments, email info@sapalovelez.com, or call 09175025808 or 09088665786)
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Girmay Zahilay, left, shakes hands with King County Superior Court Judge Regina Cahan after being sworn in as a member of the Metropolitan King County Council on Wednesday. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
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Girmay Zahilay was sworn in as the newest and youngest member of the Metropolitan King County Council on Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a quarter-century that residents of the Central District, University District, Capitol Hill and Southeast Seattle will have new representation on the council.
Zahilay handily defeated longtime County Councilmember Larry Gossett, who’d served since 1993, in the November election. Zahilay will chair the council’s Law and Justice Committee.
At 32, 16 years younger than the next youngest of his colleagues, Zahilay’s election signals something of a generational change on the County Council.
“I’m hanging in there, first day up there,” Zahilay said to friends, gesturing at the council dais, before being sworn in by King County Superior Court Judge Regina Cahan. “It’s different.”
He was elected after a campaign in which he emphasized housing affordability, gentrification, criminal-justice reform and rejection of “the status quo.” He declined to criticize Gossett in his campaign and even, in his kickoff announcement, listed the local civil-rights icon as an inspiration saying, “We stand on the shoulders of giants.”
He echoed that theme in brief remarks Wednesday.
“I have very big shoes to fill on this council,” Zahilay said. “Councilmember Gossett is somebody who demanded and earned every single person’s respect through decades of service to King County District 2. He is somebody who I look up to and I have a lot to learn from and his work is not done.”
Council members also voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a reorganization plan making Councilmember Claudia Balducci the new chair of the County Council. She will succeed Councilmember Rod Dembowski, who has served as chair for the last year. Councilmembers Joe McDermott and Reagan Dunn will serve as vice chairs.
Balducci is the first woman to serve as council chair since 2008.
David Gutman: 206-464-2926 or dgutman@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @davidlgutman.
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Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Honors Altavera Mortgage Services with Residential Leadership Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Source: Altavera Mortgage Services LLC | Mon, 06 Nov 2017, 17:17:59 EST
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 6, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Altavera Mortgage Services (Altavera), a Computershare company and leading provider of outsourced residential mortgage origination services, today announced that the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has honored Altavera with its Residential Leadership Award for Organizational Diversity and Inclusion.
Altavera was recognized for the design and implementation of its Diversity + Inclusion + Advancement + Leadership (DIAL) program, which proactively cultivates leadership opportunities for women, LGBTQ individuals and ethnic/racial minorities and works to remove traditional barriers to their advancement.
“Diversity has been a bedrock Altavera value since our founding,” said Altavera President and Founder Brian Simons, who accepted the award on the company’s behalf during the opening ceremony of the MBA’s Annual Convention and Expo in Denver. “As someone who firmly believes diverse organizations are fundamentally better organizations, this recognition is gratifying both personally and professionally — and accepting it in our hometown of Denver is especially rewarding.”
“These award winners reflect the tangible progress our industry is making on diversity and inclusion,” said Dave Motley, CMB, MBA Chairman and outgoing Chairman of MBA’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. “But we have a long way to go. The goal of these awards is to celebrate the best initiatives so that they are models for continued progress.”
“In only our second year of existence, we were once again inundated with quality submissions and pleased with the numerous initiatives and programs our members have created,” Motley added.
The MBA’s Residential Leadership Award for Organizational Diversity and Inclusion celebrates and recognizes MBA member companies for their work and dedication in supporting diversity and inclusion as it pertains to hiring, lending and outreach. The program’s intent is that these efforts will contribute to the formation of a mortgage banking industry that better reflects and understands its customers.
To learn more about the MBA’s Diversity and Inclusion efforts, please visit mba.org/diversity. The MBA’s Summit on Diversity and Inclusion will be held in Washington, D.C., this December 4–5, 2017.
About Altavera:
Altavera is a leading provider of outsourced residential mortgage origination and due diligence review services. Its SAFE Act-compliant staff of seasoned, U.S.-based fulfillment specialists helps clients streamline operations, minimize costs and achieve faster cycle times for greater customer satisfaction and profitability. Altavera’s fully customizable closed-loan file review services enable investors and aggregators to reduce risk and make better-informed decisions. Based in Denver, Colorado, Altavera is a Computershare company.
For more information, visit https://www.altavera.com.
About Computershare Loan Services:
Computershare Loan Services (CLS) is a leading international third party mortgage services provider. We currently service over $100 billion of loans globally and support hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the lifecycle of their loans. We provide a variety of services including credit risk solutions, secondary market services, property solutions and third-party servicing. We also operate a mortgage cooperative that gives middle market lenders increased buying power, and we help mortgage lenders and investors optimize the performance of their portfolios. Our expertise, experience and understanding of the regulatory environment, credit and complex financial data help us provide insight and cost-effective services to mortgage originators, investors and real estate professionals. CLS is part of the Computershare group of companies.
For more information, visit https://www.computershare.com
About the Mortgage Bankers Association:
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 280,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the association works to ensure the continued strength of the nation’s residential and commercial real estate markets; to expand homeownership and extend access to affordable housing to all Americans. MBA promotes fair and ethical lending practices and fosters professional excellence among real estate finance employees through a wide range of educational programs and a variety of publications. Its membership of over 2,200 companies includes all elements of real estate finance: mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, thrifts, REITs, Wall Street conduits, life insurance companies and others in the mortgage lending field.
For additional information, visit MBA’s website at https://www.mba.org.
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There are 39 golf courses in or around the city, including Blackberry Patch Golf Club, Coldwater Country Club, and Iyopawa Island Golf Course.
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How to Make Money on YouTube (Without a Million Subscribers)
by Braveen Kumar
YouTube stars are today’s self-made celebrities—people who have earned an audience by creating content geared toward teaching, entertaining, reviewing, and being awesome on the internet.
Most of these small-screen celebs do what they do just to do it, to scratch an itch for creating things and being in front of an audience.
Making money might not be your reason for starting a YouTube channel, but the opportunities to earn are a pleasant surprise once you realize how many of them there are.
Who makes the most money on YouTube?
Who’s going to watch your YouTube Channel?
How to make money on YouTube
How to “sell” without annoying your audience
Are you ready to monetize your YouTube channel?
According to Forbes, these 10 channels were the top earners on YouTube from June 2017 to June 2018:
Ryan's World, $22 million (22.4 million subscribers)
Jake Paul, $21.5 million (19.7 million subscribers)
Dude Perfect, $20 million (47.1 million subscribers)
DanTDM, $18.5 million (22.3 million subscribers)
Jeffree Star, $18 million (16.5 million subscribers)
Markiplier, $17.5 million (24.5 million subscribers)
VanossGaming, $17 million (24.9 million subscribers)
Jacksepticeye, $16 million (23 million subscribers
PewDiePie, $15.5 million (102 million subscribers)
Logan Paul, $14.5 million (19.9 million subscribers)
This list might leave you with a lot of questions about how these YouTube stars earned their fortunes. Let’s explore some of those questions.
Do you get paid for uploading videos on YouTube?
Content creators aren’t paid by YouTube for the videos they upload. Neither are videos monetized by default. For you to start making money on YouTube, you have to enable monetization in your YouTube account settings. From there, you have options to join the YouTube Partners Program or have your videos listed on YouTube Premium.
How do you make money from YouTube?
There are a few takeaways from Forbes’ list, putting aside the millions of dollars made and subscribers gained.
First, YouTube channels can be monetized even if they don’t have millions of subscribers. Your earning potential isn’t determined solely by the number of subscribers and views you have, but also by the level of engagement you generate, the niche you cater to, and the revenue channels you explore. That’s not to say subscriber count doesn’t matter—check out our tips to get more subscribers on YouTube.
Second, this list of top 10 earners might give you the impression that the millions of dollars made comes directly from YouTube. In fact, each of these channels has its own line of merchandise. These channels found and built their audiences first, before launching their own merchandise. If making money on YouTube is in your marketing plan, the first step is the same for everybody: have a clear understanding of your target audience.
Building your own audience puts you in a great position to monetize content in a variety of ways. But you’ll only be able to take full advantage of the opportunities you have if you understand the makeup of your audience.
For many YouTubers looking to monetize, the more niche your channel, the better position you’ll be in to work with brands looking to target specific audiences (more on that later).
You'll want to pay close attention to:
The gender of your audience, to see if its skews toward one particular group.
The age range most of your audience falls into.
The geographic location—countries or cities—where your videos are being watched.
Your audience’s overall engagement, or “watch time.”
With this demographic information at hand, you’ll have a better understanding of your own audience and be able to work better with brands. All demographic insight can be pulled from your YouTube analytics, but to compare your own channel against others try a tool like Social Blade.
With that out of the way, we can start talking about the different ways your YouTube channel can make money.
Like learning how to make money on Instagram or via blogging, your audience might unlock your YouTube channel’s earning potential. But when you create multiple revenue streams, through side side hustles or businesses, it's easier to monetize.
Luckily, there are several ways to accomplish this:
Become a YouTube Partner and earn money from ads.
Sell products or merchandise.
Crowdfund your next creative project.
Let your audience support your work through “fan funding.”
License your content to the media.
Work with brands as an influencer or affiliate.
Let’s take a deeper look at each of these streams.
1. Join the YouTube Partner Program and earn money from ads
The first revenue stream you’ll likely explore is ads. Whether you want to earn money on YouTube without creating videos or as a content creator, joining the YouTube Partners Program and setting up monetization is a vital step. You can apply for monetization once you’ve hit 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours over the past year.
How to enable monetization on YouTube
Sign in to the YouTube account you want to monetize.
Click the icon for your account in the top right corner.
Click YouTube Studio.
In the left menu, select Other Features > Monetization.
Read and agree to the YouTuber Partner Program terms.
Create a new AdSense account or connect an existing one to your channel. (You need an AdSense account to get paid.)
Set your monetization preferences.
Once that’s done, head back to the dashboard and click the Analytics tab on the left side. From there, you’ll need to choose Revenue from the tabs at the top, then scroll down to the chart Monthly Estimated Revenue to get an idea of your predicted revenue.
How many views do you need to make money?
The number of views you get doesn’t correlate to revenue earned. If your video gets thousands of views but no one watches or clicks the ad, you won’t make any money. This is because of YouTube’s criteria for billing advertisers: a viewer must click an ad or watch the ad in full (10, 15, or 30 seconds) for you to get paid.
However, with the release of YouTube Premium, you no longer need to rely on advertisers to create engaging or enticing ads to earn revenue.
Check out YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium is a paid membership program that allows fans to watch and support their favorite content creators without ads. For creators, not much changes, as they will get paid for content consumed by non-members on YouTube along with content on YouTube Premium.
Creators are paid for YouTube Premium based on how much members watch their content. Consider revenue earned from YouTube Premium as a secondary revenue stream in addition to what you’re already earning through ads.
While it’s easy to set up, earning money through advertising as a YouTube Partner is far from the most lucrative revenue stream you can create for yourself.
Why you should look beyond ads for revenue
YouTube recently received a lot of backlash due to its decision to be more transparent about advertising on the platform and what qualifies as “advertiser friendly” content. Essentially, many creators feared that, due to the nature of their content, they would lose out on the ad revenue that helps support their channel.
According to YouTube, your content could get excluded from ad revenue if it includes:
Sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor
Violence, including displays of serious injury and events related to violent extremism
Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity, and vulgar language
Promotion of drugs and regulated substances, including selling, use, and abuse of such items
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters, and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown
But the reality is that YouTube has been demonetizing content that it doesn’t deem advertiser-friendly since 2012 via an automated process, without warning and without the content creator’s knowledge.
Now, the situation is actually better, as creators are notified when their content is flagged and can contest any time they feel a video was mistakenly excluded from YouTube’s advertising network.
Advertising might be a common means of generating passive income for creators, but the trade-off is that YouTube gets to keep around a 45% share of ad revenue.
In short, YouTubers should explore other revenue streams to sustain their creative hobby.
Below, we’ll share how to earn money from YouTube without AdSense.
2. Sell products or merchandise
There are plenty of products to sell that can help you make money through your YouTube channel. Selling merchandise—t-shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags, snapbacks, you name it—has a benefit beyond revenue.
Merchandise increases your exposure by putting your online brand and personality out into the offline world and deepens the relationship between you and your fans as they literally “buy” into what you're doing.
Roman Atwood sells a variety of merchandise in his store under his Smile More brand.
Selling branded swag is easier than it might seem at first.
You can order affordable designs tailored for specific products, like t-shirts, using freelance sites such as Fiverr.
And when it comes to handling orders, you can integrate your store with services such as Oberlo or one of the many print-on-demand providers that take care of shipping, fulfillment, and customer support, letting you reap all of the benefits of a dropshipping business that demands less effort on your part.
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Alternatively, you can partner with an existing merchandising network for creators, such as DFTBA (Don’t Forget to Be Awesome). However, you’ll be competing with other YouTubers and have less control over adding products, offering discounts, integrating your content, and all the advantages that come with owning your own ecommerce site.
You can even go a step further by manufacturing and selling your own unique products and powering your business through your YouTube channel, like Luxy Hair did to sell its hair extensions with hair-related how-to video tutorials.
As a YouTuber who’s already earned an audience, you’ll have two advantages from the start that other store owners would be jealous of:
A content engine that consistently drives traffic to your store.
Your audience's trust, which you've earned by regularly serving them your own brand of content for free.
3. Crowdfund your next creative project
When money is all that stands between an idea and its execution, crowdfunding is a good way to make it happen.
Whether you need help buying better equipment, hiring actors, or covering other production costs, you can call upon your own audience and the crowdfunding community to pitch in if your idea is compelling enough.
Many successful crowdfunded creative projects tend to offer a sneak peak or “trailer” that gets people excited, so consider shooting a video explaining your project or offering a taste of what it'll be like, such as this popular Kickstarter for Kung Fury, a short film paying homage to ’80s action movies.
Popular crowdfunding sites with a proven track record of campaigns from YouTubers include:
Kickstarter: One of the most well-known crowdfunding sites, great for funding cool products and creative projects. Be sure to set an attainable funding goal because you’ll only secure it if you actually meet the goal you set.
Indiegogo: A Kickstarter alternative that offers more flexible funding options.
4. Let your audience support your work through “fan funding”
Similar to crowdfunding a project, you can also set up “fan funding” streams to source donations from your audience.
As a creator, you’re contributing your voice to the internet without forcing your audience to pay for admission. So, if you’re offering good content, your audience might be inclined to support you on an ongoing basis.
Many fan funding platforms offer creators another place for people to discover their content and a way to engage their most loyal audience and reward them for their support.
Wait But Why creates more long-form written content than YouTube videos, but is a great example of receiving support from the Patreon community.
If you choose the crowdfunding route, be sure to follow a couple of best practices. First, create transparency around how the money will be spent. This will get your fanbase invested in your story or mission, and they will literally buy into the value of your content. Second, offer enticing rewards for better pledges. The more you can make donors feel like they’re getting something exclusive for being a loyal fan, the more likely you are to get donations and higher pledges.
Some popular fan funding options include:
YouTube’s Super Chat: Super Chat is a feature used when going live on YouTube. It lets you create a tipping jar for your viewers to donate whenever and however much they feel like contributing. You’ll need to set up your YouTube account for advertising as outlined above.
Patreon: The membership platform that makes it easy for creators to get paid. Fans can subscribe to their favorite creators for as little as a dollar a month and receive exclusive rewards.
Tipeee: Lets you get a combination of both one-off and recurring donations
5. License your content to the media
If you happen to create a viral video with mass appeal—say, a funny clip featuring your dog—you can license your content in exchange for money.
TV news outlets, morning shows, online news sites, and other creators might reach out about rights to use your videos if they happen to go viral.
You can also list your videos in a marketplace, such as Juken Media, where your content will be easier for the right people to find and purchase.
When this video of a woman wearing a Chewbacca mask went viral, tons of media outlets wanted in.
6. Work with brands as an influencer or affiliate
Influencer marketing is going to be one of the advertising bedrocks of the next decade.
Brands are investing more and more in influencer marketing, spending their typically large advertising budgets on influencers who’ve already won the loyalty of their audiences.
This creates a massive opportunity for you as a creator if you can negotiate the right deals.
Brendan Gahan, a YouTube marketing expert and influencer, recommends establishing your baseline flat fee by looking at the number of views your videos typically get and multiplying it by 5 to fifteen cents per view (which is around what many brands are willing to pay for views via YouTube ads).
Depending on your leverage—your audience demographics, content quality, and how unique and profitable your niche is—you might be able to negotiate a better deal if the brand is a good fit.
Becoming an influencer on YouTube is reported as the highest-paid platform for brand partnerships, according to Aqer. But to give you an idea of what you can potentially charge, a mid-level influencer charges a brand around $20 per 1,000 subscribers, or $2,000 per $100,000 followers, according to one study.
The key when partnering on brand-sponsored content is to be transparent about it, not endorsing anything you don’t actually like or believe in, and being upfront with your audience about why you’re doing it.
Here are just a handful of the many influencer marketplaces you can add your channel to and get discovered by brands both big and small:
Grapevine Logic: One of the more popular influencer marketplaces, you only need 1,000 followers to join.
Famebit: With a wide range of brands to work with, you might find a sponsorship opportunity you’ll be proud to be a part of. You need 5,000 followers to join.
Channel Pages: Partner with other YouTubers as well as brands.
Crowdtap: Complete small content creation “tasks” in exchange for money and other rewards. There’s no restriction on how many followers you need to join.
Some influencer marketplaces offer you free products, while others are known for having big brands who are willing to pay more. Capitalize on the opportunities that best suit your needs, but list yourself in as many places as you can to ensure maximum visibility for your channel.
Alternatively, you can also become an affiliate marketer for brands and make residual passive income through commissions from every sale you generate through your channel. This works especially well if you review products as part of your YouTube channel. Since there's no risk involved on the brand’s end (they only pay when they make sales), there's usually a low bar to getting started.
Popular affiliate programs include Click Bank (1% to 75% commission, depending on what the vendor sets) and Amazon's Affiliate network (earn up to 10% per sale). You can also reach out to brands in your niche that are running their own affiliate programs, which isn’t uncommon in the ecommerce space.
Many of the above strategies for monetizing involve promoting products or campaigns (e.g., crowdfunding a video series). But you’ll want to make sure your promotions don’t sabotage the integrity of your content.
“Selling out” is a real concern for a lot of creators. But if you never ask, you’ll never get.
There are a number of “placements” you can choose from for promoting products or campaigns.
Record a call to action in your videos
“If you liked this video, then hit the Like button and subscribe.”
Many YouTubers include a call to action along those lines at the end of their videos to grow their viewership. By suggesting the intended action you want them to take, your audience is more likely to take it.
You can adapt this approach to direct your audience’s attention to a revenue-generating opportunity.
Add well-timed YouTube cards to your videos
Whether it’s part of your deal with a brand or you’re promoting your own products, YouTube Cards offer an eye-catching way to get the attention of engaged viewers.
You can set them to pop up at just the right moment, when they’re most relevant and least distracting to increase their impact.
Add links in your video descriptions
You can funnel viewers to your store, Patreon page, Kickstarter campaign, or other revenue-focused part of your online presence by adding links to your video descriptions.
If you’re a video creator who wants to focus on generating revenue as an affiliate marketer, look at Unbox Therapy. Unbox Therapy specializes in product reviews, and it uses affiliate links in their video descriptions to make money via YouTube audiences. The channel is signed up as an Amazon affiliate. It places these unique links—pointing to the reviewed product on Amazon—in video descriptions. If the viewer purchases the item via clicking that link, the affiliate will earn a small percentage of revenue share paid to them by Amazon.
If you’re creating videos about your own products and you own or manage a Shopify store, you can incentivize new customers to buy your products with buy X get Y promotions or discounts.
Promote your offer on other platforms
Just because your content is hosted on YouTube doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be taking advantage of all the other distribution channels out there.
Spread the word about new campaigns or discounts on Twitter, Facebook, and any other profiles you own.
The more places your message lives, the greater the chance it’ll be seen. So it’s always a good idea to grow your following beyond YouTube with social media marketing.
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What compels most creators to create is rarely money. It’s the thought of making something for the world to enjoy.
But ironically, that puts them in a great position to actually make money in a content-obsessed world.
While the hard part for many businesses is getting and keeping their audience’s attention, YouTubers have already figured that bit out.
All that’s left is to get creative—to channel the entrepreneurial drive to explore ideas—with how you choose to monetize your passion.
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Social Media Influencer Gets 14 Years For Trying To Rob Man Of His Domain Name At Gunpoint
This story is incredible.
Imagine someone rolled up to Sick Chirpse HQ, pulled out a gun on us, and demanded we hand over the domain name sickchirpse.com – it would be pretty tough to say no and the worst part is we wouldn’t even be able to blog it because obviously they’d have stolen the site from us.
Well this exact situation almost played out over in Des Moines, Iowa, after a social media ‘influencer’ enlisted his cousin to hold up a man at gunpoint in exchange for the domain name ‘DoItForState.com’.
Rossi Lorathio Adams II was this week sentenced to 14 years in prison, and OneZero has a massive essay breaking down the entire story over on their site if you have time to spare.
The short version goes as follows: Rossi Lothario Adams II, AKA ‘Polo’, ran the hugely popular ‘State Snaps’ which was a sort of Worldstar for uni students – same sort of content involving street violence and nudity but instead of annoying idiots yelling ‘Worldstar!’ in the background, they would yell ‘Do it for State!’ instead.
Since 2015 ‘State Snaps’ racked up over 1M followers across Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter – not bad at all.
How did State Snaps get so popular, so quick, you ask? Well according to OneZero:
Guys would write #DoItForState on a girl’s ass and send it in, and that really ignited the trend,” Thomas said, adding that Adams told him he was getting hundreds of thousands of views on the Snapchat account.
So things were well and truly looking up for Rossi and his company State Snaps.
Just one problem though – somebody else already owned DOITFORSTATE.com.
How did Rossi deal with that then? Did he send an e-mail? Did he make the domain name owner a cash offer he couldn’t refuse? Did he offer him equity in the State Snaps company?
Nope – he asked his cousin to show up to the guy’s house with a gun and and take the domain name by force:
Adams, 27, wanted the domain doitforstate.com, but it was already registered to a Cedar Rapids man. Authorities said Adams tried to buy the domain, but the owner repeatedly declined to sell it.
In June of 2017, Adams enlisted his cousin, Sherman Hopkins Jr., to break into the website owner’s home and force him at gunpoint to sell the domain to Adams, the news release said.
His cousin showed up to the guy’s home, but things went seriously awry:
Hopkins, wearing pantyhose and sunglasses over his face and a hat on his head, chased the man upstairs before catching him. During a struggle, the victim managed to gain control of the gun but was shot in the leg, police said. He then shot Hopkins several times in the chest.
Oh dear. Rossi’s cousin was meant to break into the man’s home and force him to hand over the domain name at gunpoint, but instead he ended up getting shot multiple times himself. What a disaster!
The best part is the guys who own the domain name – The Deyo brothers (Ethan Deyo is the one who was in the house) – actually only bought it because they saw the phrase ‘do it for state’ going viral. They purchased the domain name and then started releasing their own merch with the phrase on it – lol.
Deyo and his brother, Chris, had no official ties to State Snaps, but they knew a business opportunity when they saw one. The brothers, both in their twenties, had purchased DoItForState.com in January 2015, when they first noticed State Snaps going viral. They wanted to capitalize on the State Snaps hype by selling merchandise and working with a friend to brand and promote parties under the tagline.
So you can see why this whole thing turned personal and why Rossi probably felt justified in sending his cousin over with a gun – he was too slow to snap up the domain name and some opportunists were taking advantage of his idea. But still, probably wasn’t the best way to deal with the situation.
So now Rossi has got himself 14 years in prison rather than the domain name he wanted, while his cousin is in hospital recovering from multiple gun shot wounds.
Who said the ‘social media influencer’ life was easy? Certainly not this girl who had her face eaten alive by an octopus. Gnarly.
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While the U.S. government seems to be preoccupied with tariffs on conventional Chinese goods, someone needs to be keeping an eye on that country’s future products. Why? Well, for one thing … it’s China, the country which put the first rover on the far side of the moon. When that country unveils a flying saucer it calls the Super Great White Shark … is it too late?
“According to published technical data, the “Super Great White Shark” armed helicopter can carry 2 crew members, with a length of 7.6 meters, a height of 2.85 meters, a rotor diameter of 4.9 meters, a maximum takeoff weight of 6 tons, and a maximum flying speed of 650 thousand per hour. Meter, the practical ceiling is 6000 meters.”
Classic non-cake-pan flying saucer
The Chinese news source thepaper.cn reported on the 5th China Tianjin International Helicopter Expo held last week at the China Aviation Helicopter Industry Base of Tianjin Binhai New Area Airport Economic Zone under the headline: “”UFO” debut, “Super Great White Shark” armed helicopter.” Calling it a helicopter doesn’t change the obvious – it looks like a two-person flying saucer that would definitely be a UFO. OK, it’s more like a two-person flying cake pan (see it here and here), but perhaps that’s a diversionary tactic to make the rest of the world believe that China thinks a flying cake pan is a “Super Great White Shark.” In fact, thepaper.cn quotes an unnamed source who hints that there’s much more going on.
“At the moment, there are many different explorations for future helicopter designs, some of which are sci-fi, but this is not a slap in the air. This kind of exploration is beneficial.”
The Drive reports that helicopters are losing their usefulness over the battlefield – especially at high altitudes — and all of the superpowers are trying new designs to replace them. It also points out that the flying saucer design is not new (like the real Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar and the alleged Nazi flying saucers) but the technology of drones may finally be ready to upscale successfully … and be large enough and safe enough to accommodate human pilots.
But, but … it still looks like a flying cake pan! Or a flying robotic vacuum cleaner!
That may be why the Chinese are emphasizing the Super Great White Shark’s teeth (planned armaments include a 20mm automatic cannon, air-to-ground precision-guided munitions and air-to-air missiles) because it didn’t demonstrate its fins and tail (maximum altitude of 19,700 feet and top speed of 400 miles per hour). The prototype at the helicopter show did not get off the ground, even enough to make one think it’s just a sophisticated hovercraft – which it also looks like (see for yourself here).
As David Letterman might ask after reviewing the coverage of the “UFO” “Super Great White Shark,” is this anything?
It’s from China. You’d better believe it is. Will we find out if it’s a real flying saucer before it’s too late? That depends on whether the other superpowers develop one before China does. Could it already be operational somewhere? Perhaps that’s a question for the pilots from the USS Nimitz.
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Negotiations with the Trump administration around fuel-efficiency requirements broke down this week
By Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News on February 22, 2019
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California signaled yesterday it would sue the Trump administration to defend its ability to limit tailpipe pollution. It came a day after the White House abandoned talks with state officials over its plan to scrap the clean car rules.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) called the White House’s move part of an ongoing “retreat from our nation’s existing Clean Car Standards.”
“Abandoning ship on the U.S.’s serious push to tackle pollution is another sign of impotence and fallibility, something Americans aren’t accustomed to,” Becerra said in a statement. “California and states throughout America are prepared to defend our national Clean Car Standards even if the Trump Administration intends to go AWOL.”
The disagreement comes as clashes escalate between the White House and California officials. Earlier this week, President Trump said his administration would withhold nearly $1 billion in federal funding for a high-speed rail project, part of which was canceled by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Then the White House broke off talks about the clean car rules, signaling its intention to strip California of its ability to impose the toughest pollution limits in the nation.
Thirteen other states adhere to California’s tougher rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The state has a waiver allowed under the Clean Air Act that lets it set stronger standards than the federal government.
Trump said yesterday that the Department of Transportation and EPA will cease discussions with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) over the state’s clean car standards and will push ahead with a plan to weaken the Obama-era regulation.
“Despite the Administration’s best efforts to reach a common-sense solution, it is time to acknowledge that CARB has failed to put forward a productive alternative,” the White House said in a statement. “Accordingly, the Administration is moving forward to finalize a rule later this year with the goal of promoting safer, cleaner and more affordable vehicles.”
The Obama administration, along with California and automakers, agreed that cars must reach 54.5 mpg by 2025 (or about 36 mpg in real-world settings). The Trump EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration want to freeze the standard at 2020 levels through 2026. The Trump administration also proposed yanking California’s Clean Air Act waiver.
Congress allocated $3.5 billion for the planned bullet train in 2009, spending authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Trump’s Department of Transportation said it would attempt to revoke $929 million not yet provided, after Newsom said he’ll limit bullet train construction to a segment in the state’s Central Valley due to a lack of money.
That train approved by Golden State voters in 2008 was supposed to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. Newsom’s office said more federal funds or private dollars would be needed to build the longer route.
Newsom in a tweet called ending negotiations on clean car standards “another targeted attack on CA by the Trump administration.”
“President Trump is now targeting clean, breathable air for kids across America in his quest to punish California,” Newsom said in a separate statement. “The science is clear—increased fuel standards save children’s lives, and even automakers have lobbied to preserve our stronger air standards. If the Trump Administration follows through, the only winners will be fossil fuel companies, and those profits will come at the expense of our children’s health.”
The Trump administration’s move could hurt California’s efforts to limit climate change.
“We have not seen the final federal proposal,” CARB spokesman Dave Clegern said in an email. “But if they follow through and freeze the standards completely for model year 2021-2025 vehicles at 2020 emission levels, global warming emissions could increase by almost 14 million metric tons (MMT) per year by 2025.”
That’s roughly equivalent to putting an additional 2.8 million cars on state roads for a year, Clegern said.
“Air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOX) in the state could increase beyond 2020 levels by more than 3,600 tons annually,” Clegern said. “Californians are already living with severe impacts of climate change in the form of increasingly frequent and severe wildfires, extended drought, and rising sea levels.”
CARB Chairwoman Mary Nichols said in a statement that the Trump administration’s decision “is a signal to us to stand our ground and resolutely defend standards that clean the air we breathe, fight climate change and provide certainty to carmakers in a global market moving inexorably toward cleaner, more efficient cars.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)—one of many Democrats seeking to challenge Trump for re-election in 2020—called the administration’s move an attack on the state.
“The administration’s decision follows a troubling pattern of targeting the state of California for political purposes,” she said.
“Every American deserves the ability to breathe clean air and drink clean water,” Harris added. “California has long led the nation in setting emissions standards that will improve air quality, combat climate change and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.”
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News. E&E provides daily coverage of essential energy and environmental news at www.eenews.net.
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"Then Landry Said to Staubach. . ." - Walt Garrison
1. And Then There Were Cowboys…
You could make more money investing in government bonds, but football is more fun.
—Clint Murchison Jr., Dallas Cowboys owner, 1960–89
Most people think of the Dallas Cowboys of the 1960s and 1970s and think of the great offenses that we had. Exciting, point-a-minute teams. We were called Speed Inc., with Meredith throwing long bombs to Bob Hayes and Lance Rentzel. Don Perkins, Calvin Hill, and Duane Thomas chewed up the yards out of the backfield.
But the Dallas defense was even better than the offense. The Cowboys could always score big with Landry drawing up those plays for Meredith and Staubach. But until Tom put together that great defense we didn’t win any championships.
The Doomsday Defense, they called it. Chuck Howley, Lee Roy Jordan, Cornell Green, Mel Renfro, Charlie Waters, Cliff Harris, Jethro Pugh, and the big boy in the middle—Bob Lilly.
Of any single player from that first era of great Dallas teams, Bob Lilly had the most to do with the success of the Cowboys. Lilly was the key to the success of the Flex defense because the Flex counts on the play of one dominant tackle on the line to make it work. His job is to try to use his speed and quickness to beat the choke block—when the offensive guard pulls and the center tries to block back for the guard, tries to choke the hole.
Lilly could beat that block with ease. He was simply the quickest defensive lineman ever to play the game. Before the center could take one step, Lilly was by him. His ability to get off the line of scrimmage at the snap of the ball was awesome. The center would snap the ball and try to block Lilly and he couldn’t touch him. Bob would be past him standing in the other team’s backfield. A lot of times Lilly would get to the quarterback before he had time to hand off to the running back.
So they couldn’t pull the guard on Lilly because it was like an invitation for Bob to cream the quarterback. That eliminates about 40 percent of a team’s offense right there.
Lilly made the Flex possible, which made our defense great. Most 4-3 linemen sat back and tried to read the offense. But in the Flex, Lilly’s job was to create havoc. He had to control his gap, but as soon as something happened, he could take off. And Lilly was awesome at screwing up an offense before it could get out of its tracks. —W.G.
The Birth of the Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys were born in 1960 when the NFL, with the blessing of George Halas of the Chicago Bears, sold Clint Murchison a franchise for the then-whopping sum of $600,000.
The Cowboys got most of their players in a special expansion draft in which Dallas got to choose three players from each of the other NFL teams. But first those teams were allowed to freeze the top 25 players on their rosters. The Cowboys picked over what was left—a bunch of marginal players with little talent, serviceable players on the downside of their careers, or the attitude guys.
And the NFL gave Landry and his staff all of 24 hours to make selections.
What were the early days of the Cowboys like? Not good. The team offices were in a room shared by an auto club. Practices were held at Burnett Field, an old baseball diamond. The players weren’t the only ones using the lockers at this cockroach den. They’d come back from practice and find rats had eaten the tongues out of their shoes. When they’d shower, scorpions would scoot across the shower floor.
The early Cowboys teams weren’t just bad, they were awful. They didn’t win a game the first year. In the 11th game of the season, they managed a tie with the New York Giants, 31–31, and they tore the locker room apart celebrating.
In a 1962 game against the Steelers, Cowboys quarterback Eddie LeBaron threw a 99-yard touchdown bomb to Frank Clarke. But Dallas guard Andy Cvercko was caught holding in the end zone. According to the rules, the other team is awarded a safety when a hold is committed in your own end zone. So the longest TD in Cowboys history was wiped out, and Pittsburgh got two points.
In 1961, Dallas beat the Giants in New York and it made their year. They were 4–9–1. In 1962 they won five games, but in 1963, after being tabbed by Sports Illustrated as the team to beat in their division, they had only four victories. In 1964, they were back up to five wins, with eight losses and a tie.
But Landry was slowly building his team. He had a stud at quarterback in Don Meredith, and Bob Lilly was a force at defensive tackle, but there just weren’t enough other good players to help those guys out.
In 1965, things started to turn around. That year’s rookie crop was one of the best in Cowboys history. First they landed Craig Morton, a quarterback from California with a .45-caliber arm, who would eventually lead the club to two Super Bowls. Dallas also got Ralph Neely, an offensive tackle from Oklahoma, who was All-Pro for the next decade; Bob Hayes, the fastest man in the solar system; plus Jethro Pugh, Dan Reeves, and Jerry Rhome.
Dallas promptly started to win some games. They ended up 7–7 in 1965, finished second in their division, and got a trip to the Runner-up Bowl in Miami.
From 1966 through 1969, Dallas continued to draft quality players, and the winning snowballed. In 1966, the Cowboys were 10–3–1 and played Green Bay for the NFL championship. And the winning never stopped. The Cowboys went 21 straight years without a losing season.
Two Teams, Too Many
The prospect of Dallas having a successful professional football team was not always a foregone conclusion. After failing miserably to support a pro team in 1952, the city found itself in the peculiar position of having two professional football teams in 1960.
There were the NFL-expansion Rangers, who just a few weeks into existence changed their name to the Cowboys, and the Dallas Texans of the newly formed American Football League. The duel for the heart of the city pitted local millionaires against each other: 37-year-old Clint Murchison Jr. of the Cowboys, and AFL founder Lamar Hunt, who was just 28.
The Cowboys-Texans rivalry mirrored the larger struggle between the NFL and the AFL, which filed and lost an antitrust suit against the longer-established league. The rivals competed to sign college prospects, insulted each other, wooed fans in different ways, sold a few tickets, gave away a lot of tickets, and tried not to lose too much money.
When it appeared that neither team would win a solid fan base any time soon, Murchison proposed a mock settlement to Hunt.
We’ll flip a coin, he said. The winner gets to leave town.
The duel in Dallas finally ended when Hunt saw the future with realistic eyes: his team would die first in a long war with the NFL Cowboys. So, following the 1962 championship season—the Cowboys won five games that year—Hunt moved his franchise to Kansas City for the 1963 season.
Dallas belonged to the Cowboys.
Building a Winner
It took time, but after the first few seasons, the Cowboys slowly started finding the pieces to field a winning team.
We were putting together a lot of free agents and people who weren’t supposed to be big enough, like Lee Roy Jordan, and people who weren’t supposed to be able to hold the ball, like Mel Renfro, and basketball players, like Cornell Green, and track guys, like Bob Hayes and Mike Gaechter, Bob Lilly said of the Cowboys’ growth into a winning team. Getting Ralph Neely, through a series of breaks, was very important. See, he had signed with Houston, which was then in the other league [the rival American Football League], but he really wanted to play for us and so he signed with Dallas, too. That went to court, and he was awarded to the Cowboys, but after the two leagues merged [1966], I think we gave the Oilers something in the draft the next year to make the deal official. Ralph became a very integral part of our team.
As Landry assembled his team, the wins came more frequently.
In the beginning, we had a lot of trouble stopping the good teams, Lilly said. We had a hard time with Cleveland and Jimmy Brown, Green Bay and Paul Hornung. The New York Giants always gave us trouble, and because Coach Landry had played and coached there, he always tried a little harder, walked around all week just a little more intense…and we paid a little more of a price if we lost to them. It was a slow, slow process, but eventually we learned what he wanted, and he got together the kind of players he needed. Suddenly, we had our defense and the people to play it.
The Loser Bowl
Nineteen sixty-five was a big year for us, Lee Roy Jordan said of the Cowboys’ first non-losing season. We ended up 7–7 and beat some good opponents, such as the Giants and the Steelers. And we ended up going to what they called ‘the Loser Bowl’ back then, played by the two division runner-ups. The game was actually called the Playoff Bowl, and proceeds went to the players’ retirement fund.
We played the Colts in a little playoff game down in Miami, Jordan said. We didn’t play too good, but we sure had a good time in going. That was the turning point for the Cowboys in making us realize that we had a lot of talent and that with experience we could be a good football team. It took us a long time, but we finally did prove that, after struggling through some great seasons in which we were unable to win it all, like when we lost to the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs in two consecutive years.
I named the team, Cowboys president and general manager Tex Schramm said of the franchise’s name selection. I did the logo and picked the colors. Before we got the franchise, we planned to name the team the Dallas Steers. But after thinking about it, nobody liked the idea of a castrated bull. Of course, that’s what the team played like its first few years.
So we decided to name them the Dallas Rangers, Schramm continued. Rangers was a good name; it embodied the state. But then there was a professional [minor league] baseball team calling itself the Dallas Rangers. Clint was leaving for vacation in the Bahamas—he said, ‘Well, you make this decision.’ So he took off, and I named them the Cowboys.
While the Country Cried, They Had to Play
As the country mourned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the NFL’s top man, Pete Rozelle, made arguably the toughest decision of his career—the NFL would play all games that weekend.
The Cowboys were in Cleveland for a game that suddenly had no meaning. None of the other 13 NFL teams that played on Sunday, November 24, 1963, carried the stigma that was now attached to Dallas, the city where Kennedy had been assassinated two days before.
We felt like we were some real hated bastards, Cowboys fullback Don Perkins said. The sentiment was that Dallas had killed the president. It wasn’t a good time to be a Dallas Cowboy...We felt the whole country indicting us.
The Cowboys knew they were being viewed differently by the people of Cleveland the night before the game.
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Just as Fall quarter is a time for beginnings, in which we celebrate the arrival of new students and new faculty, Spring quarter marks the end of the academic year, when we look back and reflect on the achievements of our students and faculty, and look forward to new stages of life. These include the summer break when students and faculty alike can enjoy the change of pace of summer, a welcome period of rest, recovery and deepened scholarly engagement before the academic cycle begins again in September. For our graduating majors and minors, it marks a much more significant transition, the end of their undergraduate careers and the beginning of a new stage of life. As always, we honored our graduates’ achievements this year at our annual Religious Studies Reception, which will be discussed below. We would also like to draw attention to the collaborative scholarship undertaken by one of our faculty members and students, which will be highlighted in this issue. I would also like to acknowledge that this issue of Perspectives was co-edited and designed by our faculty member Jan Giddings and our graduating major, Nick Nagy, with considerable support from our senior administrative assistant, Vicky Gonzalez. I am grateful to all of them for their excellent work on this issue.
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Interfaith Research in Action
Olivia Hill '21 presented on the connection between the Ways of Understanding Religion course and the Unity Residential Life Community's Imagine Interfaith Floor.
A New View of Suffering: Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Transformation
Moderated by Prof. Paul Schutz, Profs. David Gray and Sarita Tamayo-Moraga explored the theoretical foundations of Buddhist thought and led participants through several mini-meditation practices.
Tent Cities in Silicon Valley
Boo Riley organized an event on homeless encampments.
National award-winning speaker Hao Nguyen spoke about labor and sex trafficking.
Our Lady of Lavang: The Ethnicization of the Virgin Mary in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Guest speaker Thien-Huong Ninh discussed her book and research; Prof. Thao Nguyen, S.J. offered a response.
Beyond Bridges, Beyond Walls: Religion and Im/migration.
Profs. Roberto Mata and Teresia Hinga led a conversation on topics ranging from the immigration crisis and border control to the global migration of women of color seeking a new life outside their countries of origin.
San Francisco Giants Game
Vicky Gonzalez organized a group of faculty & staff from the Religious Studies Dept., College of Arts & Sciences and Campus Ministry for the 20th annual trip to Oracle Park to watch the San Francisco Giants play the Cincinnati Reds on Friday, May 10. It was a typically chilly evening but everyone kept warm with their winter gear. RS Department participants included Fred Parrella, Gene Schlesinger and family, and David DeCosse. Although the Giants lost (7-0), everyone had a good time.
2019 Religious Studies Reception
Highlights were a talk by Paul Crowley, S.J., a new game, and student speakers. David Gray served as master of ceremonies.
Alumni Panel Held on “Where Can Religious Studies Take Me?”
On May 13, the department welcomed five alumni—Eddie Nugent '14, Betsy Portillo '10, Maggi Van Dorn '08, Caroline Read '12, and Jack Mahoney '10—back to campus for a panel on life after SCU. Panelists discussed how their time as majors and minors in Religious Studies shaped their educational and career paths after SCU, in law, education and ministry, politics and community development, marketing, and podcasting and media entrepreneurship. In particular, panelists highlighted the ways Religious Studies shaped their outlook on life, giving them a unique lens for viewing the world and sharpening their commitment to justice in their respective fields. Panelists concluded by sharing bits of advice and by recalling the favorite courses they took while at SCU. Networking and Q&A followed. This event was organized by Paul Schutz.
Paul Schutz was interviewed by KRON news on the tragic fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He also created two new courses for the Spring quarter: Religion, Science, and Ecology and The Bible and Ecology.
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Research update from Michelle Mueller: When the Saints Go Marching In: LDS Mormons, ex-FLDS, Rival Polygamist Sects, and Gentiles Descend on Short Creek...Polygamy Tourism or Community Healing?
Bringing the Valley into the Classroom: Janet Giddings hosted three speakers in her Religious Ethics in Business class
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2019 Student Award Winners
Nick Nagy
Theodore Mackin Senior Thesis Award
Claire Dixon and Nick Nagy
Co-recipients, Religious Studies Major Prize
Ryan Sharek
Joseph A. Grassi Social Justice Award
Bjorn Thyrring and Cameron Heon
Catherine Bell Award
Kaitlin Wheeler
Tennant Wright, S.J. Minor Prize
Student and Alum Updates
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Exciting New Work by the Living Religions Collaborative
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Maggi Van Dorn '08 Update
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tv Nightline ABC March 3, 2018 12:37am-1:07am PST
♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, mansion mystery. a young beauty dating a pharmaceutical tycoon found naked, tied up and hanging at his palatial home. her death ruled a suicide but others want a look. >> you would have to throw yourself head first bound and gagged. >> who does that? i will tell you who does that. nobody. >> inside the investigation, the new civil case and what her family thinks really happened. plus, liquid knowledge? behind the scenes of the cast and creators of drunk history. the thing that turns sober topics into anybody but. >> today we're going to talk about the mona lisa heist.
>> how they pour their slurred words into the mouths of super stars like jack black. >> he painted this painting -- >> but first, the "nightline" five. number one in just 60 number one in just 60 seconds. at ikea, we believe that everything you need should be within reach. that anything that matches your taste can match your budget. that green living doesn't have to cost much green. we believe that you should always have room for the little things.
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good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin with the mysterious death of a woman with ties to royalty found hanging from a balcony bound and gagged. when authorities ruled it a suicide, her family launched their own investigation. here is the story. >>ed body was found hanging. >> reporter: the way rebecca zaau died was straung enough. >> having it happened is so shocking. >> reporter: the beautiful 32-year-old found dead hanging from the balcony, naked, gag authorities determine it was a suicide. >> it was obvious she was murdered. >> who does that? no. >> reporter: the family pointing fingers on the wrongful death suit. rebecca's farmly was royalty in the country once known as burma.
>> she was excited about life. >> reporter: a new boyfriend, he had a little boy named max. >> max loved ree becca. she was extremely attentive warm. >> dana wasn't crazy about the new girlfriend. >> someone else is going to be around your child. >> i thought we had a good working relationship together. >> did you approve of the time she spent with max. >> i think there was times when dina made it difficult for rebecca. >> reporter: but no one could have imagined just how difficult it was about to become. >> it was july 11th, in the morning. >> dina had gone to work out in the gym. >> rebecca was in the house with her sister. >> max was on the floor. >> and something awful happened. >> rebecca's sister calls 911.
>> he fell down the stairs. test not breathing. >> some how, 6-year-old max had haken a horrific fall. >> i sprinted in the house and i saw max laying on the floor. >> i first saw him, he had tubes coming out of every body. and i thought, wow. >> did she tell you how she had the happen in. >> she said, what happened, i really don't know. >> reporter: during the family emergency, the paints held vigil and the next day his brother flew in. >> he was at home. they were the only two in the house. >> they were
cordial. >> wednesday july 13th, 2011, adam walks into a scene of horror. >> adam was the one who came out of the guest house some time after 6:30 and he saw rebecca's body hanging from the balcony. he called 9 11. >> i have a girl, she hung herself. >> is she still alive? a >> i don't notknow. are you alive. >> adam is able to cut her body died and e he is trying to e resuscitate here. >> can you imagine the impact of something like that when i was already facing certainly the biggest crisis of my life. >> reporter: if rebecca had taken her own life, it was a puzzling way to commit >> no woman would bind their hands behind their back and jump
over a balcony. >> 6-year-old max died -- consider the sheriff has launched investigation. >> was max's death a homicide? the answer is no. was rebecca's death a homicide? the answer is >> reporter: max's death is a freak accident. >> something caused him to trip. >> reporter: investigators say it was n a homicide. dna shows no sign that she had been attacked. >> fingerprints from the balcony door and the bed were all from rebecca. >> reporter: if it was suicide,
how could she tie her hands behind her back in a seemingly complicated way. >> just a matter of slipping her hand out. the bindings were not tight. >> he treated my sister like garbage and i believe they felt like they came to a quick conclusion that becky had something to be with max's and she deserved what she dot. >> reporter: did you ever believe that your sister was suicidal? >> no, rebecca does not the have a suicidal personality at all. >> reporter: rebecca's family turned the outrage into action. >> the cause of death in this millionaire's girlfriend -- >> reporter: rebecca's story is on the dr. phil show. they exumes the body and
wecht examines the body. >> i lean strongly towards it being a homicide. >> the san diego county examined it. >> it was on the dr. phil show. it's terrible. >> he can say it's foolish. we say it's justice. >> reporter: rebecca's family petitions to reopen rebecca's case but in a crushing blow, the request is denied. >> the interest in the case remains years and years and years later. i hope somebody looks again. >> reporter: it turns out someone is re-examining the case. his name is herman wiseberg. he is a seasoned private investigators in new york city. "20/20" obtained him to
investigate the case. he has things to say about what happened on the balcony. they concluded that because her footprints were on the balcony, she could have thrown herself off. but could an attacker throw her off without stepping on it and without leaving footprints. wi weisberg brought me to this balcony, roughly the same tice. is this the same size? >> similar, a little heavier. it's a good way to determine if i can do it. >> reporter: leall right, let's see if you can do it. >> it's not easy. >> reporter: it's not easy but it's possible for to you not step out there. >> it shows that someone could have taken e rebecca's body, put
it down, leaned it against that rail and shoved it over. >> i'm not completely satisfied it's not a suicide but there is not evidence to show it was a homicide. >> reporter: rebecca's family wanted justice and filed keith greer. he filed a case. but dina was at the hospital when rebecca died and greer dropped it from the suit. >> i think it's a disgraceful abuse of the legal system. >> reporter: now his case is targeted at adam shacknai. >> you think that adam shacknai killed your sister? >> yeah, i did. >> adam was there over night and nobody else was. >> first, there was a confrontation. shortly after that, she was hit on the back of the head four times. she was strangled before she went over the deck.
>> reporter: adam's attorney says none of it makes sense. adam says he never left the guest house that night and none of his dna or fingerprints were found. his attorney says there is no evidence tying his client to rebecca's death. >> the matter of -- >> a jury is finally hearing the evidence. >> what is the deft -- >> it's a civil case, not criminal, but soon there will soon be a verdict. is adam responsible? >> not one single the witness, we have in testimony that adam shacknai did any of those things. >> reporter: the testimony began wednesday. >> this is only about finding the truth that my sister did not commit suicide. >> the verdict is a month away but no decision will bring little max back to his mother.
>> i will never be as happy as i was when i was with max. just miss having a life with him. >> reporter: for "nightline," in coronado, california. up next, they caught lightning in a bottle with the hit serious "drunk history." i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. and improves function. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects: dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica.
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you know, you can imagine drinking and singing or maybe drinking and falling but drinking and learning? that's the crazy concept behind the hit series "drink history. abc's rebecca jarvis takes us behind the skins. >> reporter: drinking on the job
is typically frowned upon but not at this workplace. here at this air bb in downtown manhattan, the lights are being adjusted, the host and comedian are having a drink, and another drink, and you get the point. equipped with plenty of alcohol, a breathalyzer, an oxygen tank and a medic, we are on the scene of "drink history." it's the hit the comedy cent ral show where a story teller telling a story, and actors and comedians retelling the story. >> lip sinking to the drunken counter pars. >> he painted this painting -- he painted this painting -- lisa in florence.
>> the drunk element of the show is just the unpredictability. sometimes it's -- hi, the unpredictable happens. >> reporter: the ever changinging cast of characters hangs from will ferrell to ryan gosling and eva mendes and octavia spencer. >> whoever is down to help the union, just let me know. >> and i allow anyone to come see how he shoot account drunk history". >> derek waters is the host of the show that started as a web series. you have been doing it now for a couple seasons. how did you come up with it? >> it started in 2009 as a one time idea. it was based on a friend of mine, jake johnson, he is on "the new girl" and he is drunk and telling me a story.
>> derek and jeremy konner enlisted their friend mark gagliardi. >> he said, i want to talk about a think and you reenact it and he said, i want to you be really, really drunk. >> and i said, what is a moment in history you feel more people need to know about it. >> today we're going to talk about alexander >> reporter: how far did you stop knowing what is going on. >> i remember moving from a chair to a couch and after that, it's hazy. >> reporter: the guys thought it was a one-time video until jeremy's former boss, jack black, saw it. >> i was jack's assistant at the time and he said, i want to do one and we did the ben franklin one and now we are doing a series. >> reporter: five seasons later, the show comes full circle tonight with mark as narrater
once again. how did you choose the stories? >> we have a great team of researchers that dig for the stories that are hidden in history books and e we feel that is a job, the stories that we were taught in school. >> reporter: after a few more drinks, mark is ready to tell his story. >> i'm mark gagliardi and we'red going to be talking -- >> hi, i'm -- >> hello. >> reporter: well, almost. >> hi, i'm mark are going to talk about the mona lisa. >> he is getting oxygen right now. i'm not sure -- we've accelerated a little bit. >> when energy is low from someone. and ten minutes of the oxygen, and it's like, he is coming out
of the dark. >> reporter: he wasn't lying. ♪ >> i feel like i should apologize because i'm drunk but this is how the show vince vincento has just stolen the mona lisa. >> reporter: the words will make it into the mouths of jack black. >> of lisa, in florence. >> you do have to kind of memorize the lines because your lips have to go -- lip syncing is not as easy as it looks. there's an art to it. there is a silent artistry involved. >> ready, and action. >> reporter: it's a different kind of acting skill. >> you are playing the scene based on a drunken narrater's perspective. i never play it drunk. i play it as straight as possible. as to if this is really how the
history went down. >> we shoot so many hours to create five minutes of content. and it's really because half of the time it's just -- 90% of the time it's just wrangling someone to tell the story. >> reporter: in new york, distractions were at an all time high. ♪ people in history, you don't necessarily see as humans. >> exactly. we see them as almost biblical, fables. but they are real. that is the goal of the show, hum humanizing everybody, including people who have drunk. >> i love you. >> i love you too. >> reporter: i'm rebecca jarvis getting my drunk history lesson in new york. up next, out of the shadows of moon light. hollywood's bonnie and clyde take another shot at the oscars.
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story. the duo who got stuck with last year's best picture oscar blunder -- >> "lala land". >> might be getting a do over. warren beatty and faye duneway will be back to give out the award. here is hoping bonnie and clyde finally get their happy ending. be sure to catch the oscars sunday night at 8:00 eas
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CEDA - Energy Options and Security
Speech by Andrew Smith, Country Chair of Shell in Australia at the CEDA State of the Nation conference, Parliament House, Canberra on June 25, 2013.
By 2050, Shell expects demand will more than double from its level in 2000, even with significant new efficiency. This change will be propelled by a rising global population and strong economic growth in developing countries. And this is a good thing.
Australia will be part of this long-term demand growth, both as a producer of energy to meet burgeoning demand in North East Asian markets and as a consumer with broad linkages to the deep international markets for liquid fuels.
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we meet today, the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respects to their Elders both past and present.
I’d like to thank CEDA for putting together a great couple of days of robust discussions.
This is no mean feat at the best of times, let alone during the last sitting week before an election!
We have heard a lot over these two days on the challenges facing Australian industry. Indeed ‘challenge’ is one of the constant themes I have experienced over my business career.
For my predecessor Ann Pickard – the next challenge lies in the Arctic. I am sure we all wish her well on the next chapter of her career.
For me the next challenge lies in leading Shell’s broad and diverse business in our country.
We’ve just heard from Minister Gray and Shadow Minister Macfarlane on Australia’s energy options and security – and their respective policies for addressing the challenges in securing Australia’s energy future.
I am going to outline the Shell view of the future of energy – both in terms of energy trends here and globally, and the opportunities and challenges facing Australia’s energy development.
Shell’s story in Australia started 113 years ago, in the same year that our nation was born.
It is a story born of innovation – which is one of the key ways to overcome hurdles and barriers.
Shell’s journey to becoming one of Australia’s largest investors began 30 days and nine kilometres from the first meeting of the Australian Parliament – when a vessel called the ‘Turbo’ moored in Hobson’s Bay.
The ‘Turbo’ was the first ship to import bulk kerosene into the Australian market.
Up until that point kerosene, which was the dominant hydrocarbon energy source of its day, was imported in ‘kero tins’.
This was the first example of how Shell used innovation to help Australians meet the energy challenge – by improving efficiency and reducing costs.
As the nation has grown, Shell has continued to help Australians overcome challenges. It has helped:
people and supplies travel across the land;
crops to be grown and moved to market;
resources to be uncovered and value added; and
people to be connected and educated.
Shell has prospered in Australia because it has helped people meet challenges, and along the way, enriched trade and powered economic development.
Today Shell’s business in Australia is an important part of the company’s global portfolio.
It is a business that includes oil and gas exploration and production, with a focus on liquefied natural gas – along with the sale, marketing, refining and distribution of 25 per cent of Australia’s oil products.
We count some of Australia’s largest companies as our partners and customers, but we also understand that our nation’s prosperity is not simply a result of big enterprise. Shell’s presence in many regional communities is through a retail network of 250, often family owned, dealers.
Shell expects Australia to underpin the next phase of growth in our LNG portfolio, contributing to our leadership position among international oil companies as the world’s largest producer of LNG.
This investment will generate considerable employment, national income and tax revenues – through interests including the world-leading Prelude FLNG project.
Global Energy Trends
As a business, we spend a lot of time analysing global trends in the hope of making better decisions, both for our business and for the future of energy.
Globally, Shell expects energy demand will surge in coming decades. Despite the current context of persistent international economic volatility, there remain two major challenges in reshaping the energy landscape:
surging long-term demand; and
global efforts to build a sustainable energy system.
With the maintenance of appropriate energy policy settings over the long-term, Australia will be well placed to maximise the benefit from its endowment of natural resources by substantially increasing exports in energy - while maintaining affordable supplies of energy for domestic markets.
Australia’s Natural Gas Potential
In casting its eye to the future Shell expects strong demand growth for LNG, particularly in the period 2015 to 2025 – with most of this growth coming from markets east of Suez.
Shell expects that Australian natural gas will be a significant source of supply to meet this demand – with both traditional LNG and coal seam gas to LNG projects being part of this growth picture.
But while Australia has the potential of 100 million tonnes per annum of proposed projects in development, a range of challenges, including high infrastructure and labour costs and environmental constraints, pose direct risks to this pipeline of investment.
I know Ann spoke to some of those challenges at the start of the conference, and it is important to remember that Australia’s unique characteristics mean some challenges are fixed … but some are dependent on the policy choices we make.
One set of challenges that cannot be addressed is remoteness of many of Australia’s petroleum resources and their distance to existing infrastructure and population centres.
But if we can address that challenge with the right policy settings and investment climate, then Australia has the potential to be a natural gas superpower with reserves in place for hundreds of years.
A recent Government report found we have enough gas for domestic consumption for 184 years – not including future discoveries.
In terms of technically recoverable Shale gas resources, Australia is estimated to have 396 trillion cubic feet, putting us at sixth in the world.
If we include these potential resources there could be as much as 400 years worth of gas. So the opportunities are there, but we have to deal with the challenges in the short and long term.
Challenges for Australia’s Gas Development
Responsibility for overcoming these challenges rests at the feet of:
all political parties;
of companies like mine; and
of course the Australians people, that can turn opportunity into prosperity.
In the more competitive and volatile world, Australian governments will need to work harder to continue to develop Australia’s resource potential, getting policy settings right to assist in bringing energy project costs back to a competitive level.
If we fail to act the cost of monetising Australia’s gas resources will also continue to rise as we go up the cost curve accessing harder to develop resources – but in the long term, innovation and technology will see the market adjust as we have seen in North America.
In Shell’s view fiscal stability is paramount to ensure that Australia continues to benefit from the prosperity driven by investment in the energy sector.
Naturally Shell accepts that governments need appropriate returns from Australian resources – but governments also need to recognise that large, sudden changes to long standing fiscal regimes, especially when retrospective, significantly damage investor confidence.
Of course all governments realise that any policy outcomes that see Australian projects face costs their competitors do not, will not improve the situation for these projects.
If Australia is to realise the full potential of its large resource base, policies that add unjustified additional costs, delay or complexity to major energy projects must be avoided.
Productivity and IR
We are proud of what we have been able to do in Shell – but the more successful we have been in realising Australia’s opportunities, the harder it has become to realise the next one.
With seven LNG projects currently in construction, we have become the highest cost nation to build the next LNG plant.
In fact we are now 20 to 30% more expensive than the United States and Canada.
Competing demands for our workforce means that we are paying people as young as 20 around $200,000 a year. Their bosses can be as young as 25 and get paid even more.
We worry how sustainable that is. How much longer can we afford to do this and can we afford to miss the window of opportunity that Australia has for constructing new projects?
How much time do we have before our competitors in North America and East Africa catch up and start stealing our customers?
The industry may have been its own worst enemy. Where delays and time cost money, we paid whatever it took to get the people to build projects.
Australia is now building seven LNG plants at the same time as we are wanting to:
run our tourism sector;
grow our food; and
build our homes.
I’m not sure how many nation building projects that seven LNG plants equates to, but I do know this – the Snowy Hydro Scheme was not built by people that were Australian when we decided to build the project.
We encouraged people to come here, and in turn they helped build our nation. To help build these big projects and we need to be open minded that as a nation of 23 million people we need some help in building the projects of today.
We are a multicultural society, and from time to time we need to be more open minded about skilled migration.
The industry needs to urgently work with governments. We need to look at issues like immigration, productivity and industrial relations.
If we don’t come back to a more sustainable workplace relations footing, we need to accept that international capital may not flow into Australia.
The key here is not be alarmist, but instead realistic.
Reform doesn’t mean draconian laws, slave wages, or foreign labour rates … it does mean that we urgently need to address productivity if we want the next LNG plants to be built and operated here.
Domestic Gas
So what other policy challenges does the energy sector face?
One that clearly is playing out right now is the debate around domestic gas prices and supply.
We understand why the domestic gas debate is getting so much attention as the market adjusts to a change in pricing levels off the back of historic lows.
We are mindful of the debate around Australia’s energy security, but in general terms we do not foresee an issue with the long term supply of domestic gas – the issue here is price.
It remains our view that in the long run government intervention in domestic gas markets will be counter-productive for both supply and prices, as it will discourage innovation and investment.
East Coast Market
Let me explain by taking a long view of the east coast gas market.
We can expect tightness in the short to medium term and we are seeing long term gas prices pulled up from a low base.
There is more than one factor at work here. Drivers include:
a price on carbon;
the impact of the renewable energy target scheme; and
the upswing in energy prices that has occurred globally over the last decade
All combine with demand from an emerging CSG to LNG sector, to have an impact on pricing.
Such changes in energy markets often bring calls for government intervention.
The real question is whether a price signal, like a rise in domestic gas price, is usefully avoided by government intervention? Is it in the public interest to intervene? What would be the long term consequences of government intervention?
Shell believes market intervention is counter-productive in the long term, as a domestic gas reservation policy on LNG projects is likely to push prices up and decrease supply. So why is this the case?
The medium term impact of a forced gas reservation policy applied on LNG export projects is that you distort the market with large lumpy increments of domestic gas, putting off any investor in less capital intensive domestic gas only projects.
In the long run the story gets worse - with the ultimate result of intervention in domestic gas markets likely to be that the consumer and taxpayer has to pay the price for uncompetitive industries that were based on subsidised energy.
The impact of the development of tight/shale gas resources in the United States is illustrative and suggests that over time, coal seam gas and other tight gas plays will have a significant impact in both the expansion of known gas reserves and on domestic gas supply.
But to see this development of new gas plays occur, we must by necessity move up the cost curve, and you actually want and need a clear price signal to see that innovation and investment occur.
Any price movements reflecting dynamic supply and demand fluctuations characterise a healthy, functioning market, as is evident in the movement in prices of commodities such as crude oil, iron ore and gold.
We do not see a debate around the need to reserve iron ore, or coal, as a means of bolstering Australia’s steel industry, and I think it is important to keep that in mind when the national debate turns to domestic gas policy settings.
Liquid Fuels Security and Challenges
In the liquid fuels space, Australia has been the beneficiary of reliable supply at competitive prices for many decades.
This sector is an example of how competition and minimal regulation, in most jurisdictions, has brought value to consumers.
Shell does not see the liquid petroleum sector as a priority area for major market intervention or action by government.
Having said that – it is not a sector without challenges.
Indeed it is a sector in transition, as Australian refineries produce a lower proportion of fuel, from diminishing sources of indigenous crude oil stocks.
There are some key areas of reform that could strengthen the operations of the fuels market, and better facilitate the significant investment required to meet Australia’s growing liquid fuel needs. These include:
planning, approval and regulatory processes that are efficient, timely and nationally consistent to support investment in supply chain infrastructure;
avoiding the regulation of third party access to bulk fuel terminals and distribution infrastructure, which reduces incentives for supply chain investment; and
equality in the fiscal treatment of imported and domestically produced ethanol – ensuring that if fuels are taxed, then they are done so on a comprehensive and neutral basis according to energy content.
Shell supports a long-term framework for the development of alternative fuels and co-ordination of industry and government efforts where there is an identified market failure.
The company is concerned that many of the factors identified are more commercial barriers where we believe government should not intervene, thus avoiding the potential for significant and ongoing market distortions – such as in the ethanol industry.
If any incentives are introduced into the market, it should be in the context of creating a level playing field and should be temporary, in the early introduction phase of new fuel technologies such as LNG for transport.
Shell is pioneering LNG for transport in Australia, with a project being considered to supply indigenous gas as a fuel along Australia’s busiest trucking route between Sydney and Melbourne.
As I said earlier, Shell believes LNG will play an important role in Australia’s energy future, and this investment in a refuelling network bridges the gap between discovering, manufacturing and making Australian gas available to the transport industry.
More broadly Shell believes that Australia continues to enjoy a high level of liquid fuel security.
As I said earlier, Shell sees Australia as key contributor to our future growth strategy.
As a nation we are clearly in an enviable position with our abundant energy resources.
But we also face challenges in developing our resources in a cost competitive global environment.
The policy decisions made today will not only affect Australia’s energy innovation and investment future, but in turn our economic prosperity.
I look forward to our discussion now, and in the future.
Read Andrew Smith's bio.
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Let’s not forget that we share this planet
GMBJuly 17, 2018Noise and wildlifequiet, The Humane Society of America, wildlife
Nancy Lawson, writing for The Humane Society of America, says “let’s go make some quiet” and help out wildlife. Lawson introduces us to Christine Hass, an ecologist at a wildlife sanctuary, who was recovering from painful eye surgery. Closing her eyes suddenly made her aware of the birdsong she had mostly ignored and she became drawn to soundscape ecology, “a growing area of scientific inquiry that examines interactions of wild voices and other sounds throughout ecosystems.”
These ecosystems are under attack, sadly, as Lawson, citing Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix, notes that “[a]bout every 30 years, our collective cacophony doubles, outpacing population growth.” Lawson says “[m]itigating noise is critical to conservation efforts, yet it often takes a back seat to other issues, largely because we’ve forgotten how to listen.”
And, perhaps, because it’s harder for us to measure the effect of human noise on wildlife because we can not visualize it. Says Les Blomberg, founder of the nonprofit Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, “[i]f we could see noise, it would be McDonald’s wrappers thrown out of the car all the way down the highway.”
Lawson ends her piece with suggestions that we can follow to be kinder to the living things that share our space, like replacing gas-powered lawn equipment with electric models, contacting groups like quietcommunities.org for advice on how to talk about noise in your community, and, importantly, by tuning in to your personal soundscape.
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New Hampshire Ski Resorts
The White Mountains give New Hampshire some of the best ski terrain in the east. Cannon has the most vertical of any ski area in the state. Loon is just a 2 hour drive from Boston. The mountain has two peaks to ski from and the terrain parks are a big feature. Wildcat is located in Jackson where you can pause to take in fabulous views of Mt. Washington. For backcountry bowl skiing hike your gear into Tuckerman Ravine on the shoulder of Mt. Washington. Attitash is located in North Conway where lodging and outlet shopping are found right at the base. Southern New Hampshire is home to Sunapee where some runs give you pristine views of the lake.
2180 ft vertical, 72 trails, 10 lifts, 282 skiable acres
Cannon Mountain is a 4,100 foot (1250 m) peak within Franconia Notch State Park and has the most vertical of any ski area in New Hampshire. At 2,180 feet it boasts the longest vertical drop in New Hampshire. Cannon Mountain is also the site of the first passenger tramway in North America. Cannon looks like a challenging mountain driving up and seeing the front five diving into Echo Lake but there is plenty of terrain for all skiers and riders. Tuckerbrook is a completely separate family area built just for families and learning. Enjoy great views of New Hampshire and even views into Vermont! Saturday nights Huckerbrook Mini-Park is open under the lights. Full cafeteria style fare is located in the Peabody Base Lodge which also houses the Cannonball Pub, Notchview Cafe offers a wine/beer bar plus sandwiches and snacks. Light fare and drinks can be had in the Tram Base Lodge. Lodging ranges from the opulent Mount Washington Hotel, brand name hotels and inns, cabins and b&b's and wintercamping & RV park.
Loon Mountain
OPEN - 52 trails, 10 lifts
Loon Mountain ski resort is located in the White Mountain National Forest just two hours away from the Boston Area. There are two summits - the North Peak at 3,065 feet and the South Peak at 2,807 feet. No ski trails connect the two areas so you have to ride the lift or take a shuttle bus to access the other mountain.Loon has 8 tree skiing trails. Terrain Parks are a big feature at Loon. 6 parks are built up for all abilities including two just for kids. Loon Peak is home to the only Superpipe in New Hampshire. It's a massive 425 feet long with 18 foot high walls. Find off-slope activities at the Loon Mountain Adventure Center across from the main parking lot. Go ice skating, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing or tubing. Cross-country ski or snowshoe over 20km of groomed trails. Telemark and backcountry equipment is also available for rental. Something totally different? The Zipline is open on select days during the winter. Dining options are numerous. Just steps from the top of the gondola ride is the Summit Cafe where you can dine with an epic view of the White Mountains or enjoy the view looking up from one of the base lodges. There are plenty of excellent lodging choices close to Loon Mountain.
Wildcat Mountain
2112 ft vertical, 50 trails, 5 lifts, 225 skiable acres
Wildcat Mountain Ski Area is located near Jackson, New Hampshire. It has the most continuous vertical of any ski area in the White Mountains and is the closest ski area to backcountry ski mecca Tuckerman Ravine. There are spectacular views of Mount Washington. Wildcat includes 225 skiable acres with wide groomed trails, glades, bumps, steeps, tree skiing and a terrain park. Polecat Trail is the longest novice ski run in New Hampshire and is a whopping 2.75 miles from summit to base. There is a lodge at the base with a huge deck to sit out and enjoy the mountain views. Cross-country skiing is accessed from The Wildcat Valley Trail which leads from the summit down to the town of Jackson. It is part of the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation trailnetwork. Wildcat and Attitash (located in the town of Bartlett) are sister resorts so tickets are good at both mountains.
Bretton Woods is located in the scenic White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is New Hampshire's largest ski area with 62 trails, 35 glades and 3 terrain parks. On specific evenings 5 trails and 2 lifts are open for night skiing and boarding. The resort also has three terrain parks ranging in size for different levels of abilities. Bretton Woods Nordic Center, one of the largest cross-country areas in the East is located on the grounds of the historic Mount Washington Hotel. 100km of cross-country and snowshoe trails take you over open fields with panoramic views, wooded areas, and streams. Bretton Woods offers more than skiing. For a nostalgic experience reserve a sleigh ride or be pulled through the winter wonderland by a Husky dog sled team. The skating rink offers spectacular views of the Presidential Mountain Range. Take a 3 hour guided tour high on the slopes and across a series of tree-top zip lines. Dining options are numerous. Slopeside Pub & Restaurant is exactly that 'slopeside' and the place to take in the views.
Attitash
Attitash Mountain Resort is located in North Conway in the White Mountains and offers 67 trails across two big, connected mountains Attitash and Bear Peak that combine traditional New England runs and challenging terrain with modern, wide-open cruising trails suited for all abilities. There are also 60+ acres of glades and tree skiing. The Abenaki Terrain Park located on Bear Peak features big hits, unique rails and jibs. North Conway is home to Outlet Malls so there is plenty of lodging to be found including right on the mountain. Attitash has several eateries with grab and go options, full-service dining, and pubs with live music. The Attitash Base Lodge includes a full-service tune shop, souvenirs, gifts and more. For that perfect ski souvenir pre-order on line to choose your favourite trail at Attitash and personalize it.
Located in North Conway, Cranmore is one of New Hampshire's most successful ski resorts. Cranmore has over 200 acres of skiable terrain with 57 trails and glades. There are five Terrain Parks! Beginners start at Matinee with mini features and the range of expertise goes up to The Reel with advanced features. Less radical skiers and riders can head over to the Skier/Boarder Cross to race down a winding course of bumps and berms. Off hill activities are numerous. Instead of skiing, ride down the hill twisting and turning on the Canmore Mountain Coaster. At the base go for a thrilling Giant Swing or head to the tubing slope. The base lodge houses a full retail shop plus Zip's Pub and Grill. You can also get Wi-Fi access at the main base lodge. Trail side condo rentals are on the hill. Mount Washington Valley is one of New England's prime vacation destinations so you're sure to find the right lodging option for you.
Mount Sunapee
Southern New Hampshire
Mount Sunapee is New Hampshire's most southern ski resort and is located in Newbury about 100 miles north west of Boston. The 1,510 foot vertical drop is reportedly the highest in southern New Hampshire. The resort offers 3 dedicated mogul runs, 9 glade runs, 4 terrain parks and 97% of the non-gladed trails are serviced by snowmaking. Some trails have pristine views of Lake Sunapee. The South Peak Learning Area is a self contained mountain with 14 trails and slopes designed specifically for teaching both adults and children how to ski and snowboard. Mount Sunapee has three lodges - the Spruce Lodge, the Base Lodge and the Summit Lodge. The resort is home to the Mount Sunapee Slush Cup, an annual spring event where participants attempt to ski or snowboard across a 90 foot man made pond. There is a selection of lodging properties in the immediate Mount Sunapee region.
Black Mountain is a family owned, family affordable ski area nestled in the White Mountains in Jackson, New Hampshire. Celebrating over 75 years of skiing makes it New Hampshires oldest ski area. Step back in time crossing the red covered bridge into Jackson where you'll find quaint shops, charming country inns and restaurants. Sunny southern exposure and protection from wind makes Black Mountain a favourite for families. Ski over 40 trails from beginner to expert plus glades and woods that areleft in their natural state. Summit views of Mount Washington await skiers riding up on the authentic chairlifts. Black Mountain also has a fully equipped rental shop and The Lostbo Pub where you can watch the slopes, listen to music and enjoy a meal in the cozy base lodge.
Waterville Valley
Waterville Valley is a family oriented ski resort about 2 hours from Boston settled on Mount Tecumseh in the heart of the White Mountain National Forest. The resort's motto is Escape the Outside World. It offers glade skiing on 5 trails some which are categorized intermediate. 6 trails are dedicated to mogul fields and the entire 220 acres of skiable terrain is serviced by snowmaking. Waterville Valley has 6 snow parks ranging from the mini pipe for beginners to the large Exhibition Park. Enjoy meals either at the mountain top restaurant, at the base lodge Alpine Grill & Pizza Cafe or any of the total of 5 dining locations. In addition to downhill skiing and snowboarding the Nordic Center has 46 miles (74km) of both skate and classic nordic skiing plus snowshoeing. Waterville Valley village features shopping, dining, and apres ski activities, all just footsteps away from lodging options.
Tuckerman Ravine
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Tuckerman Ravine is one of those places you just have to experience at least once. No lifts, just extreme slopes that you must hike up along with your gear. Located on the shoulder of Mt Washington, the highest summit in the Eastern US. Neighbour to Wildcat.
Family skiing near Laconia. Third largest by skier visits in the state of New Hampshire.
King Pine Ski Area
Skiing at East Madison, New Hampshire.
Dartmouth Skiway
Ski area located in Lyme Center, New Hampshire. Most skiing is in the cruise range.
Crotched Mountain
Crotched Mountain is making a comeback. Opening for the 2003/04 season. Bennington, New Hampshire.
Pats Peak
770 ft vertical, 28 trails, 11 lifts
Family ski and snowboard resort in Southern New Hampshire. Includes ski report and trail map.
Ragged MT
Ski area located in Danbury, New Hampshire.
Storrs Hill Ski Area
Storrs Hill Ski Area is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and dates back to the 1920's as a ski jumping facility and continues to offer training for ski jumping. Late in the 1930's a tow rope was installed to service the 200 vertical drop and improvements have been ongoing ever since. The hill now services a 300ft vertical. In 2011-12 the City of Lebanon helped purchase lights for night skiing on the main slope.
McIntyre Ski Area, located in Manchester, New Hampshire has been operating since 1971. The area changed hands in 2009 when many improvements were made and continue to grow today.
Granite Gorge Ski Area
CLOSED - open soon
Ski area located in Keene, New Hampshire. Downhill and cross country trails.
Whaleback Ski Area
Day and night skiing in Enfield/Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Arrowhead Ski Area
CLOSED - Plans to reopen on Jan 24
Renovation of an old ski area located in Claremont, New Hampshire.
Closed*
Related Pages: Resorts, New Hampshire Lift Ticket Discounts and Deals, Featured Ski Deals, New Hampshire Ski and Snow Reports, Map of New Hampshire Ski Resorts
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Jemma Gomularz — March 5, 2015
What does Drake do following a heated, money-based fallout with his record label? Release an appropriately named 17-track album of course.
It seems Drake did a Beyoncé in dropping a whole album without any warning, but unlike Queen B, this surreptitiousness comes from a far more bitter place.
Perhaps not being the most cryptic of lyrics, album
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late doesn’t leave us guessing whether it brewed over the hot feud between Drake and Cash Money or not.
Opener ‘Legend’ comes in strong with the Toronto rapper’s smooth, crooning vocals gliding over a slow tempo beat, typically evading any self-deprecating lyrics, he sings “All I know, If I die / I’m a motherfucking legend”.
Next up, song ‘Energy’ gives us that super catchy hook we’ll have in our heads for the next week, telling us “I’ve got enemies / Got a lot of enemies / Got a lot of people tryna drain me of this energy / Tryna take away from a nigga”. If the lyrics aren’t enough, the dark, hypnotic, but also rather basic beat will help drive listeners towards a notion of retribution and frustration akin to the artist himself. Hopefully anyway.
In the song ‘Star67’ Drake puts his anger into more specific context with lyrics “Brand new Beretta / Can’t wait to let it go / Walk up in my label like Where the check though? / Yeah I said it,” perhaps something we were all anticipating at some point in the album.
However, to break things up, Drake’s protégé PARTYNEXTDOOR features midway through the album for some heavily auto-tuned vocals in the songs ‘Preach’ and ‘Wednesday Night Interlude’ – both of which give listeners a dose of dreamy, undulating synth soundscapes that seem far removed from the rest of the album’s energy.
With its upbeat tempo and old school beat, ‘6pm In New York’ retaliates to rapper Tyga’s public insult: “I heard a lil lil homie talking reckless in vibe / Quite a platform you chose, you shoulda kept it inside/ Oh you tried, it’s so childish calling my name on the world stag / You need to act your age and not your girl’s age.”
For the most part of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late the beats are kept low key, basic, and not so much the danceable and more commercialized R’n’B tracks we heard in his 2013 album Nothing Was The Same.
Drake proves indignation and animosity are still the most salient ingredients in rap – and in turn, it’s an album best listened to on repeat.
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late was released on February 13th through Cash Money Records.
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