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The World View – A US newspaper shooting
Newspaper offices have been targeted in a shooting in Maryland, United States. An immigration cloud hangs over Brussels ahead of the European Union (EU) Summit.
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A radiation cloud, and a mystery, from Russia is again raising alarms Last month, French and German radiation safety officials identified the southern Ural Mountain region, home of Mayak, as the likely source of a cloud of a radioactive isotope, ruthenium 106, that they detected wafting over Europe. The plant at Mayak reprocesses spent fuel and produces isotopes.
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While Brazil’s economy as a whole is barely growing, but its e-commerce sector is thriving. Thousands of Brazilian workers and members of trade unions took to the streets of Sao Paulo in protest , decrying government austerity measures and new labour laws due to come into effect. Seaborn Networks has announced plans to build a cable system to connect South Africa with Brazil and onward to the US, while interconnecting with another new system, the IOX Cable, which will run from South Africa to India, connecting various Indian Ocean islands along its route.
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BRICS Report: China
China is churning out a new billionaire every 5 days The US might be the wealthiest country in the world, but it's not churning out the most billionaires. That title goes to China, which added 67 new billionaires in 2016, or one about every five days, according to a report on billionaires by UBS and PwC released Thursday. For the first time ever, Asia had more billionaires (637) than the US (538), the report found. Still, the US maintained a higher concentration of billionaire wealth, but Asia top that measure in the next three to four years.
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American President Donald Trump’s adviser, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about meeting a Professor with close ties to the Russian government, highlight the coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian government’s meddling in the 2016 elections; and Kseniya Sobchak, a young glamorous woman, announced her decision to run for President.
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There’s a lot to be said for playing professional football for an island football team. With the islands we’re looking at at least, the weather is pretty good, the lifestyle is relaxed and you are out of the public eye and free to live your life in a way that you’re not really when you play on the mainland of a major footballing nation.
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MSP: Man, 61, dies in I-275 traffic crash
Troopers said a three-vehicle crash happened near the Cherry Hill Road interchange.
MSP: Man, 61, dies in I-275 traffic crash Troopers said a three-vehicle crash happened near the Cherry Hill Road interchange. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/canton/2019/05/16/canton-township-man-dies-three-vehicle-crash/3693642002/
Susan Vela, Hometownlife.com Published 12:39 p.m. ET May 16, 2019 | Updated 4:27 p.m. ET May 16, 2019
A 61-year-old man died because of injuries sustained this morning in a three-vehicle crash along northbound Interstate 275, near Cherry Hill Road, in Canton Township.
The Canton Township resident was pronounced dead at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan State Police troopers said in a series of tweets.
They said they received calls of the crash around 9 a.m. Investigators determined one vehicle rear ended another in the middle lane of Interstate 275 and that vehicle was pushed into another. The deceased man was in the vehicle first rear ended.
Traffic Crash: On 5/16 at approximately 9 00 AM MSP 911 received calls of a 2 car crash on N I 275 at Ford Rd in the township of Canton. EMS transported 1 driver to St. Mary’s Hospital in Livonia with life threatening injuries. Traffic is being routed off NB at Ford Road. pic.twitter.com/Zq4lr2ISMa
— MSP Metro Detroit (@mspmetrodet) May 16, 2019
Investigators remained on the scene hours later.
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Councillor Victor Smith says he’s hoping to see a large crowd at the first of this summer’s Farmer’s Market series, which runs every Friday from now until August. Sarah Gawdin/Hope Standard
New Farmer’s Market coming to downtown Hope
Markets will be hosted every Friday on 3rd Avenue
This Friday, the District of Hope and the local Chamber of Commerce are kicking off the sunny season with the launch of their new Farmer’s Market summer series.
“It’s a partnership (between the two organizations) to get more people out of their cars and into downtown Hope,” said Coun. Victor Smith.
Beginning June 14, and running every Friday until the end of August, 3rd Avenue will be closed from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. for a weekly Farmer’s Market, between Wallace and Fort Streets.
“We’ve never done anything like this—shutting down a downtown street—so we’re excited to see how it turns out.
“And we’ve at least nine vendors coming this week,” Smith continued. “There will be everything from food, arts and crafts, to flowers, and canned goods.”
To participate as a vendor, a $10 business licence must be purchased from the District, which is good for the rest of the year, and table rentals are $2 per linear foot, however, that fee was waived this week.
The Tuesday market will still happen every week next to the curling rink.
For more information, visit the District of Hope’s webpage at Hope.ca.
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Michigan City, IN and LaPorte, IN (June 16, 2016) – Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ GS: HBNC, “Horizon”) and LaPorte Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSB, “LaPorte Bancorp”), jointly announced that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board have approved or not objected to the proposed merger of LaPorte Bancorp and its wholly-owned subsidiary, The LaPorte Savings Bank, with and into Horizon’s wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Horizon Bank, N.A.
“We are very pleased to have received these regulatory approvals to complete the merger and that the approval process went smoothly and efficiently,” said Craig Dwight, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon. “This helps keep us on target to complete the merger by our original target date of July 2016,” continued Dwight.
Michele Thompson, President and Chief Financial Officer of LaPorte Bancorp, stated, “I am extremely happy with the progress being made by both The LaPorte Savings Bank and Horizon Bank integration teams, and we are pleased that these regulatory approvals have been obtained in such a timely fashion. I am confident that our teams will continue to work well together, meeting the anticipated closing date of the merger.”
The merger is expected to be completed in July 2016 and remains subject to approval by LaPorte Bancorp’s stockholders as well as the satisfaction of various other closing conditions. LaPorte Bancorp will hold its special meeting of stockholders to approve the merger on Monday, July 11, 2016, at 5:00 PM, local time, at the main office of The LaPorte Savings Bank located at 710 Indiana Avenue, LaPorte, Indiana 46350.
Additionally, Horizon and LaPorte Bancorp announced that the election deadline for LaPorte Bancorp stockholders to elect the type of merger consideration they will receive, subject to allocation and proration procedures, is 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 8, 2016. The merger agreement provides that 65% of the outstanding shares of LaPorte Bancorp common stock will be exchanged for Horizon common stock and 35% of the outstanding shares of LaPorte Bancorp common stock will be exchanged for cash. When the elections of all LaPorte Bancorp stockholders have been received, Horizon will determine the exact amount of cash and/or shares of Horizon common stock to be distributed to LaPorte Bancorp stockholders based on their election choices and the proration procedures described in the merger agreement and the proxy statement/prospectus.
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California Chrome ‘Just Galloping’ In Solid Five-Furlong Move At Los Alamitos
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-Even though it was “California Chrome Day” at Los Alamitos and in the City of Cypress, there was no day off for North America’s richest thoroughbred.
Continuing his preparation for the Grade I, $ 300,000 Awesome Again Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita, California Chrome worked five furlongs in 1:00.80 over his home track Saturday morning at Los Alamitos.
Under regular exercise rider Dihigi Gladney, the 5-year-old son of Lucky Pulpit went the opening quarter of a mile in 24.20 seconds, the half-mile in 48.80 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.20, according to Los Alamitos clocker Russell Hudak.
“He was just galloping,” said trainer Art Sherman, obviously satisfied with the work.
Sherman, who also had the drill in 1:00.80, indicated California Chrome will have two more works before he seeks his 11th graded stakes victory in the Awesome Again. The race at 1 1/8 miles will be the California bred’s final start before the Grade I, $ 6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 5.
In conjunction with a recent proclamation by Cypress city officials, Los Alamitos will pay tribute to its most famous resident later this afternoon.
Highlights of California Chrome’s career – including wins in the Grade I, $ 1 million TVG Pacific Classic Aug. 20 and the $ 6 million Dubai World Cup March 26 – will be shown on video monitors at Los Alamitos and there will be a special presentation by Cypress mayor Mariellen Yarc and Los Alamitos Racing Association general manager Brad McKinzie to members of California Chrome’s team – including Sherman – between today’s fourth and fifth races.
There will also be a plush toy giveaway – one per paid admission while supplies last – and posters of the horse will be available throughout the track for fans to write messages to Team California Chrome.
Based at Los Alamitos since January, 2014, California Chrome has won 14 of 23 and banked $ 13,252,650. He won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness en route to Horse of the Year honors in 2014.
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Jim Carrey: I Never Had A Feud With Robin Williams
By Andrew Shuster | 4:59 pm, May 16, 2018
A misleading report suggests that Jim Carrey had a “bitter feud” with Robin Williams, but the comedic actor exclusively tells Gossip Cop the claim is “completely off base.” In reality, a blog is twisting and sensationalizing a story featured in a new biography about the late comedy legend.
Earlier this week, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff released a biography about Williams which includes a passage about his jealousy of Carrey. It’s said in the book that the late comedian was threatened by the younger comic’s rise to stardom. Williams was also said to have gotten upset when Carrey took the role of The Riddler in 1995’s Batman Forever after he had turned it down.
In the new book, titled Robin, Williams’ former makeup artist Cheri Minns also confirms the late actor’s insecurities about Carrey. She even notes that his ex-wife Marsha once told him to calm down and accept that there’s “room for other people.”
In an attempt to stir up controversy, RadarOnline borrowed this chapter from the book and published an article with the headline, “Robin ‘Completely Freaked Out’ Over Jim’s Success: Their Bitter Feud Exposed.” However, there was no actual tension between the comedians on a personal level, nor does Itzkoff’s book indicate that there was. This so-called “bitter feud” is the website’s inaccurate interpretation of what the biography actually says.
Carrey exclusively tells Gossip Cop, “RadarOnline is completely off base and creating a feud that didn’t exist. Robin may have expressed insecurity about me and my rise to success but I have never had anything but the greatest respect for him and his genius. He was also always respectful to me in person. He called me ‘Maestro’ and I called him ‘Billy the Kid.’ Let’s get it straight. There’s no feud if one side isn’t aware of it.”
Additionally, there’s plenty of evidence on Google Images showing that the two comedians got along well. There are several photos of Williams and Carrey laughing and chatting at a 1999 Golden Globes after party. Another image posted on Twitter shows Williams resting his head on Carrey’s shoulder at the 2012 Comedy Awards. The duo also performed a bit together at the Celebrity Fight Night charity gala in 2006.
Here’s what seemingly happened. RadarOnline combed through Williams’ biography to find some dirt. The blog then came across the section about Carrey and decided to blow it way out of proportion. Williams may have been jealous of the younger comic at certain points in his life, but Carrey never knew about the envy and it didn’t affect their personal relationship. Regardless, Carrey himself exclusively tells Gossip Cop there was never a feud between them.
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Jim Carrey Online on Twitter: “Jim Carrey and Robin Williams in 2012!” 21 Jul. 2015.
Jim Carrey to Gossip Cop: "RadarOnline is completely off base and creating a feud that didn't exist..." 16 May 2018.
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Katie Holmes Pregnant With Jamie Foxx Baby And Getting Married?
By Gossip Cop Staff | 4:25 pm, July 17, 2019
Is Katie Holmes pregnant with Jamie Foxx’s baby, thanks to in vitro fertilization, and ready to get married? That’s the premise of an article from one of this week’s celebrity magazines. Gossip Cop, however, can exclusively debunk this untrue story.
According to the new issue of Star, Foxx and Holmes “just found out Katie is expecting,” and now the Oscar-winner plans to propose to her. A so-called “insider” is quoted as saying, “He’s had the ring for a while,” and with a baby on the way, the timing is finally right to become husband and wife. The anonymous source relates that Holmes “knew IVF would be the fastest way to conceive,” and how she’s calling her pregnancy “a miracle.”
From there, the untraceable tipster contends, “She’s got that maternal glow.” “[Holmes] caresses her tummy a lot, like she’s already bonding with the baby,” asserts the supposed “insider.” For Foxx’s part, maintains the unnamed source, “He’s being more affectionate than ever,” and “wants to be with Katie every step of the way during this pregnancy.”
And the purported parents-to-be aren’t the only ones excited, notes the tabloid. Suri, Holmes’ 13-year-old daughter with Tom Cruise, is “happy” about the baby news as well, says the “insider,” and has even offered “to go with her mom to all of her doctors’ appointments.” “Katie can’t wait to have this baby and rediscover all those ‘firsts’ again,” such as “that first smile, the first laugh, the first step and so on,” adds the tipster.
However, the first thing wrong with the tabloid’s tale is that Holmes is not pregnant via IFV or otherwise. Nor are she and Foxx planning to wed. While the magazine’s entire article is based on unverifiable claims from an unidentifiable “insider,” Holmes’ rep has gone on the record with Gossip Cop to say the story is 100 percent false and confirm the actress is not expecting a baby or getting married.
Several months ago, Gossip Cop busted the very same outlet when it inaccurately reported Holmes and Foxx were working out to get in shape for their wedding. At the time, the actor’s rep assured us the two weren’t tying the knot. It also bears mentioning how the same publication incorrectly insisted nearly a year ago that Holmes was done with Foxx because of his “partying.”
Actually, it’s a little odd that Star slapped on its front page this week the story about the actress being pregnant when just a few days ago its sister publication, the National Enquirer, alleged Holmes was demanding Foxx get her pregnant or should would dump him. In that report, the tabloid’s seemingly manufactured source said Holmes wanted to be “pregnant by early 2020 at the latest,” and this week it’s claimed she’s “already bonding with the baby.” And while there was no talk of relationship problems in the latest tale, just a few weeks ago another related outlet, OK!, floated how Holmes and Foxx were getting married and having a baby after they nearly split up.
The truth, which these magazines often dance around, is that Foxx and Holmes are not planning a wedding nor having a baby. They’re perfectly content with their relationship as it stands, which is seeing each other whenever they can. Perhaps it’s time for these publications to stop birthing phony reports about Foxx and Holmes.
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PhD Health Administration Degree Programs in Kansas
Why Should I Get My PhD in Healthcare Administration in Kansas?
Healthcare is a unique industry that is managed on a number of different levels, including the federal level, the state level, and the local level. If you have experience in the healthcare industry of Kansas or you are interested in using your career to impact change, consider earning a healthcare administration degree in Kansas.
If you are committed to the healthcare industry, why not make the most of your education? Get more information on earning a PhD healthcare administration in Kansas below.
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Without question, healthcare demands in Kansas are increasing. In 2016, over 100,000 Kansas residents enrolled in the Affordable Care Act program (High Plains Journal, 2016). This is expected to increase the patient load at institutions throughout the state, a transition that can be made much easier with the help of researchers and legislators.
In addition, Kansas is looking into changing its healthcare plan for state employees. This new bill would change the system to a single-payer health insurance system, which could save the state $2 billion and require significant restructuring (KCUR, 2016).
Are There Online PhD Programs in Healthcare Administration in Kansas?
You may earn your doctoral degree at a variety of institutions, including those that offer online courses. Keep in mind that most doctoral programs require practical experience in the form of a practicum, internship, or clinical rotation. However, outside of your practical experience, you may have the opportunity to complete most of your coursework online. If you are coming to this program with a Bachelor’s degree, anticipate completing at least 70 credits prior to graduation. If you possess a Master’s degree in health administration or similar field, you may complete your curriculum with 40 to 50 credits.
To prepare for the variety of career paths that you may follow after graduation, you may take courses in several different specialty areas. Commonly required classes include:
Health Systems Issues and Trends
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Health Quality and Safety
The specific courses you take and the order in which you take them are determined by the school you attend and what learning goals they have for PhD candidates. Most schools require proficiency in statistics, research methods, healthcare leadership, and policy discussion. To help you succeed, most programs divide their coursework into a set of basic courses and a set of advanced specialized courses. Your coursework should delve into financing systems, societal factors, legislation and policies, and cultural influences in healthcare. While you work through coursework in these areas, you may start to develop a plan for your dissertation, the final step in your PhD.
What Kind of PhD in Health Administration Jobs Can I Find in Kansas?
Upon graduating, you may pursue a career in teaching and research, medical research analysis, leadership, or legislation. The average salary for a Kansas medical services manager is $90,160 per year, and through 2022, demand is expected to increase 21% (BLS, 2016). Clinical research coordinators earn an average of $92,080 per year; job growth in this time period is expected to hit 8% (BLS, 2016).
You may learn quite a bit about local employers during your internships and practicum courses. Some of the largest medical research facilities in Kansas include Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Research Medical Center of Kansas City Hospital, and University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Congenital Talipes Equinovaus (Club Foot)
Talipes or club foot is a congenital deformity (present at birth) where the baby’s foot (or feet) is turned inwards. In most cases, club foot is diagnosed by the typical appearance of a baby's foot after they are born. As ultrasound scanning during pregnancy improves, talipes is also being detected during routine scanning before a baby is born. Around half of all babies with club foot have bilateral club foot (both feet are affected). Sometimes only the soft tissue is involved, while in others the bones may also be affected.
Talipes is one of the most common birth deformities, affecting approximately 1 in every 1000 babies born. In Maori or Polynesian babies this figure may be as high as 6 in every 1000 babies born. Talipes is diagnosed in twice as many boys than girls.
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Taxman could soon spy on bank accounts without warning
HMRC want to give the taxman new powers in their latest crackdown.
A new policy document published by HMRC this week reveals new powers that could be soon introduced to by the government to secretly investigate bank accounts.
At the moment, financial institutions must notify their customers if tax officials have been allowed access to their accounts and financial information but new powers could overturn this.
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This new system would allow HMRC to operate more secretively when looking for tax fraud as the department wants to crack down totally.
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Many have slammed this as a gross breach of privacy for the public and James Daley, the managing director of Fairer Finance, told the Daily Mail:
"The system we have got contains essential protections for taxpayers’ privacy and rights. The idea that HMRC can request information from people’s bank, from state agents and other third parties without notifying the individual is shocking."
These severe new powers haven't been fully decided yet but HMRC are working on getting them put in place.
They told the Daily Mail:
"’We are considering a range of options to improve the flow of information to help establish the right tax has been declared.
"Nothing has been decided. If these powers became law, we expect they would only apply to a few hundred cases each year."
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Climate activists will take to town centre today
Extinction Rebellion activists in Abingdon today
By Sophie Grubb @OxMailSophieG Reporter covering Abingdon
ACTIVISTS will gather in a town centre today to show solidarity with climate rebels in London.
The Extinction Rebellion Abingdon group will hold banners and flags in Market Place, from 10am until 11am, in support of the thousands of activists from the same movement who have been causing disruption in the capital.
Although some members have made the trip to take part in the two-week protest, those unable to attend are staging their own public demonstration.
The first public action in Abingdon was held in September, when protesters dressed in animals masks played 'musical chairs' then pretended to die.
Today's action will see them raise awareness of the Abingdon XR group as well as show solidarity with protesters from Extinction Rebellion in London.
This week the capital has been overrun by thousands of activists, who are occupying key sites to call for action.
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The Oxford Mail is aware of at least a dozen Oxfordshire arrests at the London protests so far this week, of more than 1,100 detained by Metropolitan Police.
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At least two from the West Oxfordshire group have also been arrested, according to a separate post.
The county's climate rebels moved from St James' Park to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens yesterday, after police started clearing the former.
A mass cycle protest organised by Extinction Rebellion had been due to disrupt rush hour traffic in Oxford yesterday evening, but was postponed because there were not enough marshals to ensure participants' safety.
Crowds of climate activists blocked the entrance to the BBC's central London headquarters yesterday, with some scaling the front of the building.
Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick said the force has been 'stretched' by Extinction Rebellion protests this week, impeding its ability to respond to other crimes.
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Who We Are : Staff
Anna, Claudia, Conrad (with Curly), Otter and Dylan
The 2015 Farmscape Ecology Program Team outside at the Creekhouse.
The Farmscape Ecology Program Staff is comprised of three researchers who co-coordinate the program, a technician, seasonal interns, and a field assistant son.
As part of Hawthorne Valley, we are also stewarded by the Hawthorne Valley Association Board of Trustees.
(all of whom are reachable at 518 672 7994)
Anna Duhon, MA Natural Resources and Peace, University for Peace, Costa Rica; BA Social Anthropology, Harvard University. The focus of Anna’s work has been exploring those aspects of local culture connected to the land, be that farming or other, less formalized, types of interaction. Anna loves exploring the shared stories that connect people to the land and each other.
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Claudia Knab-Vispo and Otter Vispo, who accompanies us as a field assistant to many outings
Claudia Knab-Vispo, PhD Land Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Diploma (MS) in Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich Germany. Claudia is our field botanist. After working on plant-animal interactions in Borneo and on ethnobotany in Venezuela, she has spent more than a decade documenting and teaching about plants in and around Columbia County. Her research and educational work are guided by questions such as: How has the flora of Columbia County changed since it was first documented in the 1930s? Which are the rare and vulnerable native plants that currently share the landscape with us, where are they found, and how can we protect them? What importance did/do the wild plants have for people? Which resources do they provide to animals? How can we make our farms and backyards more friendly for pollinators and other beneficial insects?
Conrad Vispo.
Conrad Vispo (pictured above in typical field garb), PhD Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin; MS Wildlife Ecology, Indiana State University; BS Wildlife Ecology, Cornell. Before returning to Columbia County, where he grew up, Conrad conducted ecological research on a variety of organisms, including mammals, birds and fish in a variety of places, including the woods of northern Wisconsin and tropical Venezuela. Conrad’s recent focus is on agroecology - what habitats can farmland provide for native species and, in turn, what can those native species provide to farming? Conrad’s passion is understanding historical and modern patterns of animal (including human) ecology on the land.
Email Conrad.
Dylan Cipkowski, BS Environmental Science, UNC Asheville. Dylan has been interested in Columbia County's wildlife his entire life. After graduating from Chatham High School he moved to North Carolina where he graduated from UNC Asheville. In 2015, Dylan moved back to Columbia County to intern with FEP. After his internship had finished he joined FEP as a field technician, assisting Claudia, Conrad and Anna with data collection, analysis, and office work. Dylan is most interested in studying the moths of Columbia County and enjoys staying up late to see who's flying around.
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Astros Blown Out in Game 3, Verlander to Start Game 4
Justin Verlander gets the nod in game four Tuesday in Tampa Bay.
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Jeff Balke | October 8, 2019 | 5:00am
Much of the buzz surrounding game three of the ALDS in Tampa Bay was with former Astros pitcher Charlie Morton. The staff ace for the Rays had been outstanding all season, but was unable to play in the first two games of the series because he started the Wild Card game against the A's. Right when the Rays needed him, Morton showed up big time helping Tampa trounce the Astros 10-3. The win is the first for the Rays this series and leaves them still down 2-1 in this best-of-five matchup.
On the other side was Zack Greinke, who the Astros acquired at the trade deadline. Grienke had been stellar in Arizona, but wasn't quite as good in Houston with the exception of a dominant final outing of the season. On Monday, he was roughed up to the tune of six runs, all earned, on five hits including three home runs in only three-and-two-thirds innings.
Hector Rondon followed him giving up a run without an out. Wade Miley then entered allowing three runs (two earned) in two-and-two-thirds. Joe Smith and Josh James finished off the day with two scoreless, but the damage was done.
Offensively, the Astros remain hogtied by the Rays pitching. George Springer is 0 for everything in this series and Michael Brantley is hitting just .167. Jose Altuve got a home run in the first (his 10th career postseason homer, tying Chase Utley for the all-time record among second basemen) as he, Alex Bregman, Yordan Alvarez and Yuli Gurriel continue to hit well. But there just isn't enough firepower at the moment.
In fairness, Morton remained dominant in postseason elimination games — he's 4-0 with a 0.95 ERA in his four starts. Greinke was anything but, which may be a microcosm of the bigger picture or just tough luck at Tropicana Field, where he is now 0-4 with a 4.45 ERA. The Astros, generally, have not been good in Tampa and they certainly didn't change that on Tuesday.
With two games remaining to move on to the ALCS, A.J. Hinch announced after Monday's game that game one starter, Justin Verlander, will go for the Astros. He has never started on three days rest, only pitching out of the bullpen, but he said he feels good and he said he is ready to go. That would still leave them with Gerrit Cole at home in game five if necessary.
The Astros are still likely to beat the Rays and move on, but Monday's loss felt like a gut punch. They would do well to get some run support for their staff ace tomorrow and put this one in the books so they can focus on the ALCS.
Jeff Balke is a writer, editor, photographer, tech expert and native Houstonian. He has written for a wide range of publications and co-authored the official 50th anniversary book for the Houston Rockets.
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Demand, capacity, and the law of averages
By Rob Findlay2018-06-14T07:56:00+01:00
If you plan capacity without allowing for variation, disaster will follow. Or will it? By Rob Findlay
When you start trying to improve your demand and capacity planning, it won’t be long before somebody stresses the importance of allowing for variation. If you rely on averages (you are told) the consequences of such ignorance will be horrendous waiting lists and expensive remedial action.
You may nod your head at this, perhaps with an uneasy feeling that (despite the very clear and authoritative explanations given to you) you still aren’t exactly sure how to apply it in your particular situation. You may even suspect that those experts might (shudder) be wrong and it doesn’t apply in your situation at all… but, in the face of two decades of clear and consistent messaging, you push such doubts away.
I am going to suggest that you should pay more attention to those doubts. To explain why, I’ll start with an example where variation is indeed very important (emergency care), then one where I will argue that it isn’t (routine elective care), and finally consider the borderline cases (involving cancer and other urgent electives).
So let’s start with a simplified emergency department. It is staffed by a solitary doctor, who can treat up to 10 patients per day; this is the capacity. The number of patients coming through the door varies from day to day, but over time they average 10 per day; this is the demand.
The solution is to lay on a higher level of capacity – enough to deal with demand on a high proportion of days
Somebody who considers only averages might think that everything will be fine because capacity is equal to the average demand, but unfortunately variation sinks that notion very quickly.
Imagine that, on day one, only five patients arrive; the doctor treats them and then has nothing to do for the rest of the day. The following day, 15 patients arrive. The doctor only has the capacity to treat 10 of them, so the other five are kept waiting overnight. They are still waiting the following morning… when we are expecting another 10 patients (on average) to arrive.
So we are already in deep trouble, because the idle time on day one could not be carried forward and used on day two. The solution is to lay on a higher level of capacity – enough to deal with demand on a high proportion of days.
Routine electives
Now consider a very different doctor – a surgeon whose workload is entirely non-urgent (routine) electives. This surgeon can also treat up to 10 patients per day, and receives an average of 10 referrals per day who require treatment.
Capacity only needs to exceed average demand by a small amount for the waiting list and waiting times to shrink
What is different is that this surgeon has a waiting list of 100 patients.
So it doesn’t matter if only five referrals arrive on day one, because they can still treat 10 from the waiting list. When 15 referrals come in, they just go on the waiting list and can be treated when they reach the front of the queue. It all comes out in the wash.
The waiting list – which never goes away – smooths demand and capacity over time, so it is perfectly reasonable to rely on average demand when working out the necessary capacity. And – wonderfully – capacity only needs to exceed average demand by a small amount for the waiting list and waiting times to shrink.
Now let’s go looking for the borderline cases that lie between the emergency doctor and the routine surgeon.
What about a surgeon who works in a large teaching hospital and only treats urgent cancer patients?
These patients don’t have to be treated within hours, but they do need treating within (at most) a few weeks. It is likely that demand will vary enough over these relatively short timescales to cause occasional idle time which cannot be carried forward. The variation matters, and capacity needs to be high enough to cope with demand in a majority of weeks.
A mix of urgent and routine electives
Which brings us to the more common situation in elective care, where a surgeon treats a mix of urgent and routine patients. We have already seen that routine capacity can equal average routine demand. But do we need to provide a higher level of urgent capacity, to absorb urgent demand in a majority of weeks?
The answer depends on the tactics used to book patients in for treatment.
If urgent patients are essentially treated in ring fenced capacity then the answer will be “yes”.
But if there is more flexibility, and any empty urgent capacity can be filled with routine patients at the last minute, then that will avoid any idle time and capacity can be set to match average demand.
So does variation matter? Of course it does. But not every type of variation matters in every situation. Sometimes, the averages work out just fine.
If you are a seasoned demand and capacity practitioner then you will have noticed that I skated past a few issues…
In the case of the routine surgeon, there will be variation on timescales other than the short term random fluctuations that I considered above, such as seasonal, cyclical, and trend variation in demand. It is indeed important that capacity should adapt to those longer term variations, because otherwise the imbalance will accumulate on the waiting list and may result in unacceptably long waiting times. Nevertheless average capacity can still equal average demand, even though that capacity is adjusted over time to track those longer term variations. It would make no sense, for instance, to try to adapt to a multiyear trend of growing demand by setting capacity to match demand in a majority of weeks over that period, because capacity would be far too high at the start, and far too small at the end.
I simplified the discussion above by assuming that capacity was constant. In real life, however, capacity is usually highly variable (because of staff leave, trauma weeks, maintenance shutdowns, etc). This means firstly that peak capacity needs to be higher than average capacity in order to compensate for the low points, and secondly that those variations in capacity need to be timed to stop waiting lists from building up excessively at certain times of year.
You may be wondering about the influential models of Richard Steyn. If you look at the outputs from the single queue Steyn model, you will see that waste only arises when the waiting list disappears. If the waiting list is already large and still growing, then that growth is the result of a persistent imbalance between capacity and demand, which can arise in that model because the limits of variation are well controlled but average demand is not. The multiqueue Steyn model represents a mixed urgent and routine waiting list where urgent capacity is essentially ring fenced, and that scenario was discussed above.
Flexible booking tactics can avoid the waste associated with ring fencing urgent capacity, and Gooroo’s patient scheduling simulator is capable of modelling this. It is also able to model variable demand around a well controlled average, so it can reproduce the scenario where capacity matches average demand (net of cancellations). This video (silent with subtitles) simulates at patient level a mixed urgent and routine waiting list where capacity equals average demand. It shows that the waiting list initially grows from zero because some capacity is wasted, but the waiting list stops growing when it is big enough to buffer the variations in demand.
The effects of DNAs and other removals do need to be taken into account when calculating capacity according to average demand, which is why session utilisation figures are often used to compensate for them.
Finally, I am not saying that waiting lists are generally a good thing. They aren’t, and the NHS would be a better place if patients did not have to wait any longer than they wanted to. However, the fact is that we already have waiting lists, and there is surely little point in acting as if we don’t when planning capacity.
Rob FindlayDr Rob Findlay is director of the software company Gooroo Ltd, specialists in demand and capacity planning.
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On 16 March, we shared news of the new advisory on good HR practices for banks in Singapore, released by the tripartite partners. Among the major points, the advisory calls on banks to work towards redeploying and reskilling their workforce, and better managing retrenchments. [full story]
Human Resources has since reached out to key players in Singapore’s banking industry to assess the impact of these changes, in this exclusive story.
Leading the charge is Patrick Tay, NTUC assistant secretary-general, and council member for IBFSG – The Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore, who was present at the advisory launch.
Speaking to Human Resources, he affirmed that all the areas covered by the advisory are critical and equally important, which is why these few areas were focused on to build progressive workplace practices in Singapore’s banks.
“As many of our banks are global, there will be global practices which are well entrenched and some are already progressive,” he added.” However, some of the areas outlined in the advisory may not have be addressed or need to be augmented to comply with this advisory.”
As such, Tay advises that the banks operating in Singapore therefore need to interface, align and implement this advisory in line with their global practices.
Further, we hear from some of the banking majors operating in Singapore on their first take:
Shmeer Bharoocha, regional talent acquisition and employee relations, ANZ
“I’m pleased to learn that the banking sector is the first sector to take the lead in implementing this advisory,” says Bharoocha. “I wouldn’t go as far as to suggest that the proposed advisory would equate to a paradigm shift, rather, something that was long overdue and a matter of ‘keeping up with times’,” affirming that implementing the advisory should not be a huge challenge.
In his view, the area requiring the most urgent attention would be in assessing the likely impact of technological changes in the workforce. “At this stage, the question for HR practitioners would be to what extent do organisations want to automate rather than to identify which roles to be automated. In the banking industry, the ‘human touch’ will always be required in order for us to operate,” he shares.
Bharoocha stresses on ANZ constantly looking at ways to improve hiring practices and to strengthen the local core, and one area where a lot of work has been done is in removing unconscious bias as part of recruitment. “We constantly remind our leaders and hiring managers of the need to look at an individual’s skills set and soft skills instead of the years of experience,” he says.
Further aligning with the advisory, he shares: “We have gone as far as to remove any reference to years of experience in our job advertisements to ensure no one misses out on any opportunity. This is also done to remove any elements of discrimination in our job advertisements.”
Jorge Osorio, head of human resources, Citi Singapore
As a HCPartner, Citi is committed to adopting the tripartite advisory, as one of the largest banking employers in Singapore. “We believe that it is important for our talent to be prepared and acquire skill sets that are future-ready and we work closely with our business heads to discuss evolving business needs and collectively identify areas of development to bridge the skills gap,” says Osorio.
He points out that all employees are encouraged to take an active role in managing their career, citing various initiatives. “These include the launch of My Career and more recently, ‘Fast and Curious’, for our consumer banking employees to inculcate an inquisitive learning culture by encouraging them to step out of their daily routine to embrace curiosity and developing the skills to adapt, learn and innovate.”
Citi was also the first bank in Singapore to announce the launch of core consumer banking skills training accredited by the IBF, whereby 1,600 employees, from frontline to operational and managerial, can look forward to future compatible skills-based training.
Wong Keng Fye, head of human capital, Maybank Singapore
Maybank Singapore has also taken a proactive approach to train up a future-ready workforce and keep employees’ skill sets relevant in the digital age. Wong explains: “More than 160 employees from front, middle and back office have attended the SkillsFuture for Digital Workplace programme, and our employees have embarked on the Future Enabled Skills training programmes accredited by the IBF.”
He adds the focus is strong on striving to nurture an age-diverse workforce. “We hire employees based on the right job fit in terms of their functional and technical competencies, and their organisational fit in terms of their alignment with the bank’s core values.”
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Home / National / Supreme Court asks Centre and states to prevent incidents of cow vigilantism
Supreme Court asks Centre and states to prevent incidents of cow vigilantism
Impactnews Desk September 6, 2017 National
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all state governments to appoint a senior police officer as a nodal officer in each district to ensure that incidents of cow vigilantism are prevented and dealt with effectively.
The apex court was hearing a PIL filed by Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, seeking various reliefs, including a direction to all the governments to take preventive measures against cow vigilantism.
Senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for Gandhi, referred to various incidents of lynching and assault on the pretext that the victims were either carrying or in possession of beef or had eaten it.
She also referred to an earlier statement of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar that the Central government did not approve of such incidents of people taking law into their hands.
According to a PTI news report, A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also directed the chief secretaries of every state government to file a status report giving details of the actions taken to prevent incidents of cow vigilantism.
The bench, also comprising Justices Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar, asked the Centre to respond to the submission that it (Central government) could issue directions under Article 256 of the Constitution to all state governments on issues related to law and order.
Besides Gandhi, Tehseen Poonawalla of the Congress too had earlier filed a similar petition on the issue.
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Born in London.
Ms. Israel-Kolatt Is the director of the successful IMVAJ international summer course for singers which takes place in Jerusalem. She is a sought after vocal arts teacher, lecturer and opera director in Israel and abroad.
Since her debut as Morgana in Handel's Alcina , Rona Israel-Kolatt has performed on operatic stages throughout Germany including Giessen, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Dessau and Mainz.
She has directed the IMVAJ version of Mozart's Magic Flute, Pamina on the grass winning critical acclaim and a performance tour of Israel's prominent festivals, including the Abu-Gosh and Ralli festivals. This year she will direct Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and at Music Fest Perugia
Rona Israel-Kolatt teaches voice in the Levinsky college of education and continues work towards a Doctoral thesis in music at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Priyanka Chopra’s mushy picture with Nick Jonas gives birth to pregnancy rumours!
Is Priyanka Chopra expecting her first child? At least fans think so!
Divya Ramnani June 28 2019, 9.18 am
For any actress, the moment she gets married, she is flooded with questions on embracing motherhood. And global star Priyanka Chopra, who tied the knot with beau Nick Jonas last year, is no exception. The couple is currently residing in Paris to grace Joe Jonas and Sophie Tuner’s second wedding but that, in no way, has affected their social media PDA game. Both Nick and Priyanka are making the best out of their stay in the ‘city of love’ and their oh-so-adorable Instagram posts are proof. However, it was PeeCee’s latest post, along with Nick Jonas that added fuel to her never-ending pregnancy rumours.
In the image, Priyanka Chopra could be seen wrapping her arms around hubby Nick, who was spotted touching her belly. Dressed up in a cream-coloured metallic gown with a slit, the Bajirao Mastani actor looked stylish as usual. Nick, on the other hand, was neatly dressed in a light green suit. While this romantic picture is a sight for sore eyes, the comments under her post were on a different tangent. Priyanka Chopra, for probably the nth time, was spammed with comments from fans wondering if she is pregnant.
Check out Priyanka Chopra’s post with hubby Nick Jonas here:
It’s in the air.. ❤
A post shared by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (@priyankachopra) on Jun 27, 2019 at 1:52pm PDT
One of the users asked, "Am I the only one thinking she's pregnant?", "She's definitely expecting, added another. One more comment read, "I bet she's pregnant.”
Have a look at some comments under Priyanka Chopra’s post here:
Earlier, in an interview to PEOPLE, Chopra opened on starting a family with Nick Jonas. She was quoted saying, "I am a very live in the today, maximum live in the next two months kind of person. But in 10 years, I definitely want to have kids. That is, it’s going to happen in the next 10 years. Well, hopefully, earlier than that. I’m very fond of children and I want to be able to do that. We're both very driven, we love our work, we're married to our work, and we're both very supportive of each other's work. So I'm sure it will happen in an organic way."
We wait for the day!
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‘The Neon Demon’ Poster Shows The Vicious Side of Beauty
'The Neon Demon' Poster Shows The Vicious Side of Beauty
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon,” is among the most talked-about films to hit the Cannes Film Festival. With the premiere just around the corner it seems like every other day new images, trailers or posters are being released.
But, if you needed more of the thrilling drama, a new promotional poster has been released which features the mountain cat that was spotted in the recent trailer.
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The story follows Elle Fanning as an aspiring model who moves to Los Angeles and quickly becomes an in-demand model who gets sucked into the predatory industry. She soon finds out that “beauty is vicious” and some people will do whatever it takes to make their dreams come true.
Additional cast members include Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Christina Hendricks, Desmond Harrington and Keanu Reeves.
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Open Services Innovation
The father of “open innovation” is back with his most significant book yet. Henry Chesbrough’s acclaimed book Open Innovation described a new paradigm for management in the 21st century. Open Services Innovation offers a new approach that demonstrates how open innovation combined with a services approach to business is an effective and powerful way to grow and compete in our increasingly services-driven economy. Chesbrough shows how companies in any industry can make the critical shift from product- to service-centric thinking, from closed to open innovation where co-creating with customers enables sustainable business models that drive continuous value creation for customers. He maps out a strategic approach and proven framework that any individual, business unit, company, or industry can put to work for renewed growth and profits. The book includes guidance and compelling examples for small and large companies, services businesses, and emerging economies, as well as a path forward for the innovation industry.
“Whether you are managing a product or a service, your business needs to become more open and more inclusive in order to be more innovative. Open Services Innovation will be an invaluable guide to intrepid managers who commit to making that journey.”
—GARY HAMEL, visiting professor, London Business School; director, Management Lab; and author, The Future of Management
“I tore out page after page to share with my leaders. Chesbrough has pioneered an entire rethink of business innovation that’s rich in concept, deeply explained, with tools ready to use in every industry.”
—SCOTT COOK, founder and chairman of the executive committee, Intuit
“Focusing on core competence often tempts managers to keep continuing what succeeded in the past. A far more important question is what capabilities are critical in the future, and Chesbrough shows how to ask and answer these issues.”
—CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author, The Innovator’s Dilemma
“To thrive, businesses will need to master the lessons of open service innovation. Here is their one-stop guidebook with important lessons clearly and compellingly presented.”
—JAMES C. SPOHRER, director, IBM University Programs World-Wide
“Open Innovation pioneer Henry Chesbrough breaks new ground with Open Services Innovation, a persuasive argument for the power of co-creation in the world of services.”
—TOM KELLEY, general manager, IDEO, and author, The Ten Faces of Innovation, The Art of Innovation
“With his trademark style of beautifully explained examples, Henry Chesbrough shows how open service innovation and new business models can help you escape this product commodity trap and bring you to the next level of competition.”
—ALEX OSTERWALDER, author, Business Model Generation
“Open Services Innovation shows how a business can redefine itself as a service organisation and tap into faster growth through shared innovation.”
—SIR TERRY LEAHY, chief executive, Tesco
“Chesbrough shows how innovating openly with a services mindset can make you a market leader.”
—CHARLENE LI, author, Open Leadership, and founder, Altimeter Group
Case Study: Car2Go from Daimler-Benz
Open Services Innovation provides an alternative way to think about products like cars. It is important to realize that people are usually buying the utility provided by a product and the product itself is only a means to this end. So, with automobiles, one is really obtaining transportation services.
Most of us only drive or utilize our vehicles a small portion of each day (typically less than 10%) and the rest of the time it just sits idle. Yet, we bear 100% (!) of the costs associated with this expensive asset (acquisition, service, parking, insurance, etc.). An Open Services approach seeks to exploit utilization differentials like this to get more value or ROI from underutilized assets. Raising the utilization of a car to even 50% can spread the many costs of owning and operating it over many more hours and people.
Daimler makes the world-renowned Mercedes Benz vehicles and most of them are sold in traditional ways, through dealers. And customers purchase or lease them, using them mostly for themselves.
But Daimler is innovating an alternative way for people to obtain transportation services. Called Car2Go, this service allows customers to pick up a car at a nearby location, use it for as long as they wish, drop it off wherever they like, and they are only charged for the miles they accrue. An intelligent sensor and GPS system allows Daimler to locate their vehicles and show the location of all available vehicles to interested customers online. There is no membership fee to sign up or drop-off fee. This is a very flexible, convenient service.
First tested in Ulm, Germany in 2008, this service was launched in Austin, Texas in 2010. While it is too early to measure success, offering highly flexible transportation services where customers can customize the offering and co-create value is a perfect example of Open Services Innovation (more examples of utilization differential in the book).
Case Study: Mint.com’s Answers Community
The Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 traumatized many investors. Even now, after the carnage has subsided, investors remain wary about what to do with their money. And the advice of many “established” brokers and advisors has shown to be unhelpful for many people, creating a hunger for good information about options for saving and investing money.
Mint.com (which is owned by Intuit) is a rapidly growing website that serves this hunger for information and unlike traditional brokerage and financial advisory services, Mint.com takes an open services approach to supplying it. The website has an entire section called Mint Answers that allows users to post questions that are puzzling them, and enables anyone in the Mint.com community to post answers to those questions.
For example, one recent user asked “I have a mortgage that has an interest rate of 5.25 percent. I have the cash to pay it off. Should I?” To this question, Mint Answers shows three different answers to the question from different people in the community. Each person raised a question that the user needed to consider in making their decision and together these answers were more helpful than any single one. To highlight the best, the user can assign a point for any answer they found to be helpful.
Mint Answers also tracks who the most active contributors of answers to the site are and shows which contributors have accumulated the most points. Notice that all Mint.com is doing is supplying a medium or platform for its viewers to search for and provide information. It costs Mint very little to provide this service (just the cost of the website and tracking the points). The site becomes more valuable the more people use it, as more questions are asked, and as more answers are given.
This example illustrates the idea of using Open Services Innovation to create a platform others build on (more examples in the book).
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Ex-Tokyo Mayor Ishihara Shintaro’s Most Outrageous Remarks
by Madoka on Monday, November 12, 2012 30 comments comments
Ishihara Shintaro, who resigned as governor of Tokyo in October 2012 after thirteen years in the post, has never been a stranger to controversy. Known for his straight-talking style, Ishihara’s remarks have frequently made waves among the Japanese public; despite this, he is the second longest running governor of Tokyo in history. As his period as governor of Japan’s capital ends, netizens have been reflecting on Ishihara’s governorship, with many of his memorable quotes being collated online. The article below discusses Ishihara’s career as governor. Some of his more well-known statements are also translated below, along with netizen opinions on the politician.
From Sankei Shimbun Online:
Fair Argument? Offensive Statement? The Sayings of Straight-Talking Ishihara
Ishihara Shintaro was known for his undiplomatic antics. On one hand his words created followers, but on the other hand they were often a source of controversy. As he claimed to ‘change Japan starting with Tokyo’, it went beyond just the city and affected politics, including diplomatic relations.
One of Ishihara’s agendas during his first term was the regulation of diesel car exhaust fumes. During his governor’s election campaign in April 2003, he harshly criticized the nation as ‘lazy’ for being late in taking on the regulation, and Tokyo city enacted the regulation of diesel exhaust fumes before it was done so nationwide.
Accepting rubble resulting from the 3/11 earthquake into Tokyo, Ishihara roared in response to voices of opposition: ‘Just tell them to shut up’. And the city took a leading role in processing the rubble on a large scale.
In April this year, he stated ‘What’s wrong with the Japanese protecting Japanese land?’, and declared his intentions to buy the Senkaku Islands. Afterwards, the islands were declared national territory by Japan, but donations given to the city reached a total of more than 1.5 billion yen.
On the other hand, when Shinginko Tokyo, a bank that Ishihara had played a central role in founding, got into financial trouble in June 2007, he excused himself by saying: ‘I have the responsibility of coming up with the idea but the main responsibility is with those that run it’, leading to criticism that he was evading his responsibilities. Immediately after the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami, he was heavily criticized for saying that the tsunami was a ‘divine punishment’, for which he apologised the next day.
In April 2012, when he pointed out the increase in atrocious crimes by illegal immigrants, there was a strong backlash to his use of the word ‘sankokujin’ [a derogatory term referring to people from former Japanese colonies]. Ishihara then retracted his use of the term, saying that ‘I’m sorry if I hurt people’. There was also a case in which he stated that ‘You can’t count in French’ for which French people resident in Japan protested.
Below are some more of Ishihara’s controversial remarks.
From Politicomix.net
‘No one’s stupid enough to warn people that they’re going to commit suicide. If you’re going to do it, get it over with.’ — In 2006, when a letter warning suicide by a bullied student arrived to the Ministry of Education.
‘It is a waste and a sin that women who have lost their reproductive capabilities are alive.’
‘Do those people have personalities?’ — At a press conference after visiting a hospital where people with severe handicaps were treated.
‘It’s not just kids; there are even homosexuals on TV like it’s no big deal. Japan has become unruly.’
‘Westerners playing Judo is like beasts fighting.’
‘Japan needs nuclear weapons. Unless we have them, we won’t be treated as equals. Look at world politics…The only way Japan will survive is to set up a military regime. Unless we do so, Japan will become a vassal state. We should also have military service.’
‘The very identity of the Japanese is selfishness. We need to utilize this tsunami to wash away selfishness. Indeed, it seems to me that it was a divine punishment.’
‘The thing is, a black person has become the president of the world’s number one country, so those black people’s nations in Africa and what have you, they’re going to relate to that. And if they all surge forward to vote en masse for the US, that’s going to be a problem.’
‘There was a scale 6 earthquake. Good job it happened out in a place like that.’ –Statement about March 2007 earthquake.
‘The most evil and damaging thing that civilization has brought is women who are old hags.’
‘Those who wrote this must have a low IQ’— In 1977, after recieving letters from Minamata patients.
Comments from Naver Matome:
中日金論さん:
We all know that the conflict over the Senkaku islands started with Ishihara. I feel bad.
JAPANESさん:
Isn’t anyone going to back him up saying ‘I support you Ishihara! Don’t give in to such an article!’(笑)
n0wさん:
The governor of the capital is just scum, Japan going down is inevitable.
kaerukazanさん:
Kuroiwa [governor of Kanagawa] and Ishihara, I’d vote for Ishihara for sure. If he was saying things like Kuroiwa says, he’d probably be claiming that Okinawa was his.
山下その者さん:
So haughty……why such a person is liked……it’s hard to understand.
AAAAAAAAAAさん:
The writer of this article is a Zainichi anti-Japanese. Everyone hates Korea wwwww Let’s support Ishihara!
xppyzrさん:
This governor Ishihara doesn’t understand people in low social positions……He should have become a mayor at some countryside or prefecture where there are lower class people, to understand the position they are in and what values they have. That way he would’ve been a better governor.
betrayal0610さん:
It’s hard to understand why he is still able to be the governor.The comment where he says we should have nuclear weapons, what next? Then he’d say we should deploy them…..He has said once that there should be a nuclear bomb dropped on Japan, he says we should have military service….he really wants to have war. Does he understand that this is provoking other countries? Will he take responsibility if we get into a war?
shin1nakamuraさん:
I S Y O U R H E A D O K ?www
坂峰桐彦さん:
……..huh, is he an idiot?
holdencaulfieldさん:
I think his words are harsh but I agree with a lot of what he is saying.
zsphereさん:
Loves the country but does not love the people.
tyappiさん:
Shintaro, isn’t it you who needs a divine punishment?
水道水の放射能は天罰さん:
Ishihara has problems, but isn’t it a bigger problem that Tokyo citizens voted for him? Aren’t Tokyoites ashamed that such a person is at the top? wwwww
gogo51さん:
He says ‘divine punishment’ to those who suffered from the disaster,
He says ‘bad and harmful’ to the elderly ladies,
He says ‘someone who’s lacking’ to homosexuals,
He says ‘it’s ok in the countryside’ to the Noto penninsula earthquake.
Where is this person’s viewpoint? Are you sure that it’s OK to have a person with such a personality? As Tokyo governor?
makeveさん:
Students today probably don’t know about this, but this guy is just there because of his younger brother. If it wasn’t for his brother Ishihara would’ve been kicked out already. People would say ‘Ishihara? That insane old man?’
Seems like he’s the one whose frontal lobes are going to mush [in reference to Ishihara’s comment about an older politician]. Everyone in Tokyo, please make sure he doesn’t win the next governorship. By Yamagata.
りゅう３さん:
I’m surprised he’s been safe so far saying these things…..unbelievable namu amida butsu….
jistalkさん:
Wow, this person…who does he think he is? He’s using derogatory terms like candy; if it was America people wouldn’t leave him be, he’d have to resign immediately.
You’re the one who should get divine punishment, Ishihara!
khonruaiさん:
I have no idea what’s wrong with the things he said.
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JRS forced to suspend work in Sudan
A Jesuit Refugee Service centre in Maban, South Sudan, headed up by Tony O’Riordain SJ, was one of a number of agencies caught up in a vicious spate of violence and destruction of property that took place in the country on Monday 23 July. A series of targeted attacks on humanitarian assets and compounds left more that 8 agencies heavily affected. The JRS centre staff have been forced to halt their work in the area for the time being.
John Guiney SJ, Director of Irish Jesuit Missions which funds JRS programmes in Maban, has been speaking about what happened. He says that thanks to the intervention of the local church leadership, the main JRS compound was spared. The Arrupe Learning Centre however was stormed by the mob of attackers and badly damaged, and this will halt or delay the computer courses, teacher training and English language classes which are run there.
The staff had already left the Centre to seek refuge from the violence at the home of a local village leader so they were spared physical injury or worse. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) took them and many other NGO workers to their base for security later that day.
More than 300 staff from NGOs in the region, including 25 JRS team members have now been evacuated by the UN for their safety. “The team is now safe and the project leader Tony O’Riordan SJ is currently monitoring the situation. The attack has forced JRS to suspend all but critical activities in the local communities and with the refugee population in the Maban area,” according to Fr John, who was a former JRS Director in Africa himself, before his return to Ireland.
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Adnan Khan, has strongly condemned the attacks saying he urges all involved “to immediately cease such actions. Aid workers, regardless of where they are from, sacrifice their time and all too often their safety to save people affected by the South Sudan crisis. They are free to work in any part of the country in line with the law of the land” he said.
As the safety of the JRS team and facilities is under threat at the moment and resources including classrooms and equipment have been destroyed in the attack, Fr John Guiney says there is no option to temporarily suspend work in the region. This will leave more than 80,000 people without access to the English-language classes, computer courses and teacher training education and training which provide much-needed opportunities for a more stable future for them and their community.
“Despite the attack on our facilities, the Irish Jesuit Mission office and partners will continue to support the JRS team on the ground in their commitment to provide psycho-social support and education programmes in the region” said Fr John Guiney SJ, adding, “Morale among the JRS team has been badly shaken by the incident which was frightening for everyone to witness. They are supporting each other, and are grateful for the leadership and guidance that Tony O’Riordan has provided, which has proved invaluable at this difficult time.”
This incident in Maban and other such incidents of violence in South Sudan over the past number of years calls for an urgent intervention by the international community to help to restore law, order and security for all of the people of this young nation, according to Fr Guiney.
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The archipelago of England
The title of this blog entry is the working title for my next research project: an examination of how medieval England was haunted by the multicultural, polyglot archipelago from which it emerged -- a British Isles that England supposedly superceded and assimilated. I'm interested in how "England" began to pass itself off as a synonym for "Britain," and what this substitution-which-is-not-an-equivalence ineptly obscured.
I'm teaching a graduate seminar on the topic next autumn. The list of primary works looks something like this:
Bede, Life of St Cuthbert
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Life of Saint Columba
Marie de France, Lais
Orkneyinga Saga
Asser's Life of King Alfred
Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
Gerald of Wales, Journey Through Wales
Middle English Breton Lays
Nennius
Morte Arthure
Wace and Layamon
The Mabinogion
Chaucer, "Wife of Bath's Tale" "Franklin's Tale"
That's quite a bit, and probably needs to be pared, considering I hope we'll do a fair amount of reading in secondary sources (especially postcolonial-inflected medieval studies, but also in history and theory more generally). I place it here, though, because I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts on what such a course might include -- primary texts and criticism both.
Posted by Jeffrey Cohen at 3:24 PM
Well, RR Davies, obviously, but I'm sure you know that. I'm also thinkig of some stuff on Cornish--I think I sent you an article about Cornish lit a few months back. The Libel of English Policy also springs to mind.
Jeffrey Cohen said...
I think the course could be described as the literary analogue to the amazing historiographical work published by R. R. Davies, John Gillingham and Robert Bartlett in the past few decades.
Karl Steel said...
I might cut the Marie in favor of something that's more obviously about the geographic/national imaginary. I don't remember it as well as I should, but perhaps you'd want Richard Maidstone's Concordia instead.
I also might want some more stuff on the 100 years' war as a time of cementing this Britain = England thing? But not sure what to suggest. Philip de Mezieres? John Clanvowe? Who knows?
And in terms of narratives of origins, there are versions of Des Grantz Geanz (the Albina story) in English you could provide (I think Arthuriana did an English trans of a prose Latin version that's only a few pages long). Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Thelma Fenster did a translation for in-class purposes of the version G. Brereton edited which perhaps you could ask to borrow for a coursepack?
Is this the R. R. Davies you alluded to JJC?:
Davies, Rees. “The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400, I: Identities.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th ser., 4 (1994): 1-20; 5 (1995): 1-20; 6 (1996): 1-23; 7 (1997): 1-24.
EYYÜP HAN said...
Myn tale of the manne of lawe wolde seme to be appropriate for thyn investigacioun. Ich am verye fonde of the vnvusal moment in whiche a non-christiane culture doth usen a bible for to sweren in a judiciale proces, the bible hauyng ben ylefte by earliere christian folke.
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Thanks, Karl and GC, for your helpful suggestions. I was thinking that I really ought to do a version of this seminar on "British Chaucer" that looks only at Chaucerian works. When I was in Kilkenny last month I was thinking how the Statutes of Kilkenny (with their English-only, anti-hybridity obsessions) were promulgated in connection with the parliament that Chaucer's master, Prince Lionel, presided over during his visit there.
Karl, that is definitely the Davies I have in mind. That particular article (lecture, really) has many parts. Here is the bibliography I've compiled of useful works by Davies in thinking about a nonanglocentric Britain. Some will jump off the page as more immediately relevant than others:
Davies, Rees R. "The Law of the March." Welsh History Review 5 (1970-71) 1-30.
----------. "Race Relations in Post-Conquest Wales: Confrontation and Compromise." Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1974-75) 32-56.
----------. "Kings, Lords and Liberties in the March of Wales, 1066-1272." TRHS 5th series 29 (1979) 41-61.
----------. Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales 1063-1415 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
----------. Lordship and Society in the March of Wales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
----------. "In Praise of British History." The British Isles 1100-1500: Comparisons, Contrasts and Connections, ed. R. R. Davies (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988) 9-26.
----------. "Frontier Arrangements in Fragmented Societies: Ireland and Wales." Medieval Frontier Societies, ed. Robert Bartlett and Angus MacKay (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) 77-100.
----------. Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1100-1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
----------. The Age of Conquest: Wales, 1065-1415 (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 1991).
----------. "The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: I. Identities," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series IV (1994) 1-20.
----------. "The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: II. Names, Boundaries and Regnal Solidarities," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series V (1995) 1-20.
----------. The Matter of Britain and the Matter of England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
----------. "The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: III. Laws and Customs," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series VI (1996) 1-23.
----------. "The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: IV. Language and Historical Mythology," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series VII (1997) 1-24.
----------. The First English Empire: Power and Identity in the British Isles, 1093-1343 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
----------. "Kinsmen, Neighbours and Communities in Wales and the Western British Isles, c.1100-1400. Law, Laity and Solidarities: Essays in Honour of Susan Reynolds, ed. Pauline Stafford, Janet L. Nelson and Jane Martindale (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) 172-87.
I would think that the geography in Higden's Polychronicon would offer some interesting sidelights in geographic thought on the British Isles--not least the overquoted center-and-margin passage on Ireland--as well as a view into the contemporary assimilation of some of your other sources.
Great page, btw--and good luck with that lasso game!
Great idea, SL, especially because I'll be putting Kathy Lavezzo's new book on the reading list, and it has a v. good chapter on the Polychronicon.
(Thanks too for the kind words about the blog -- and as for the alsso game, so far parents at my son's school have come out pfthe woodwork with offers of inflatable horses, apes, Scooby Doos, and dolphins. The kids won't lack for non-erotic rope-worthy imitation animals!)
If you're still taking suggestions, here's a short reading for this course from The Green Knight:
List! wen Arthur he was King,
He had all att his leadinge
The broad Ile of Brittaine.
England and Scottland one was,
And Wales stood in the same case,
The truth itt is not to layne.
He drive allyance out of this Ile. (ll. 1-7)
It's a little late for your purposes (this is from a mid-17th c. manuscript), but what I like about this passage is:
* The dream of Insular unity
* Which is achieved in part by driving aliens out
* But whose impossibility is suggested by the fact that it can list the internal alien sections that need to be brought into line to make the Island the whole it already should be. However, so long as Scotland and Wales remain separate places, as they are even in this memory of unity, the Island remains intractably multiple in its identity.
At any rate, this stanza might make a good epigraph for your syllabus.
Great -- and perfect for a syllabic epigraph. Thanks!
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Academy with an eventful history is about to reach a 4,000th-match milestone against Everton
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Paul Scholes celebrates a goal for Manchester United against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League, at Old Trafford on October 18th, 2000. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Scott McTominay is the latest poster boy of a remarkable Manchester United academy that has produced the Busby Babes, George Best, and the Class of ’92 and which on Sunday will provide a player to a 4,000th successive match-day squad when Everton visit.
McTominay was blooded when 20 by José Mourinho in a 2-0 loss at Arsenal in May 2017 and by the end of the following campaign had received the manager’s player of the season award.
McTominay, spotted when five and attending a development centre in Preston, is the epitome of a system that has sourced United’s top five appearance makers: Ryan Giggs, Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville.
Of the 4,000 mark he says: “It’s amazing. Whenever we were in the youth team we had different members of staff saying to us about the consecutive matches we’ve had a youth player from the academy in. To get to 4,000 is incredible and a real credit to the staff who have invested so much in every player who has contributed.”
Scott McTominay of Manchester United celebrates his side’s victory against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on December 7th. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
This fine tradition began on October 30th, 1937, in a Second Division game at Fulham when Tom Manley and Jackie Wassall were in a United XI that lost 1-0. During the next eight decades the nascent careers of Dennis Viollet (1940s), Duncan Edwards (1950s), Best (1960s), Norman Whiteside (1970s), Giggs (1980s), Scholes (1990s), Paul Pogba (2000s), and Andreas Pereira (2010s) would presage them becoming first-team regulars and taking a place in the roll-call of the academy’s headline successes.
In this billing the Busby Babes and Class of ’92 are prominent. The former were developed under Matt Busby, with the manager’s assistant, Jimmy Murphy, and chief scout, Joe Armstrong, executing his vision.
This stellar group formed the core of the consecutive title-winners of 1955-56 and 1956-57, before eight – Roger Byrne, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Edwards, Billy Whelan, Tommy Taylor, David Pegg and Geoff Bent – were killed in the Munich air disaster of 1958, with Jackie Blanchflower’s career finished by the injuries he suffered.
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This glittering and tragic history has informed the subsequent culture of the academy, says Nick Cox, who succeeded Nicky Butt as its head in the summer.
“If you think back to what Sir Matt Busby tried to create, he made the point that people who pay to watch have been grafting in the factories all week,” Cox says. “They’re local folk, this is their one release and we have a duty to entertain and show them we’re the same, but just privileged to be on the pitch. When it’s local boys that connection becomes even greater and more powerful.”
Butt, Giggs, David Beckham, Gary and Phil Neville and Scholes became known as the Class of ’92 because of the role the first four of them had in the FA Youth Cup triumph of that year and their status as mainstays of Alex Ferguson’s stellar side in the mid-1990s to early 2000s, whose 1999 Treble triumph remains the English game’s greatest feat.
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They were in a second wave of “Fergie Fledglings” developed under the Scot, whose commitment to youth development began with the late-1980s vintage that included Russell Beardsmore and Lee Martin.
Cox follows a long tradition of United talent scouts and developers. Such luminaries include Bob Bishop, who discovered Best and Whiteside; Murphy, who was prominent in healing a near-broken club until Busby recovered, and Eric Harrison, the youth team coach from 1981 until 2008.
Cox says: “What we’re doing here is producing the equivalent of gold-medallists and spacemen who are landing on the moon. To produce young players who are ready to play at Old Trafford is the pinnacle. We’re trying to create a rich ecosystem.”
Many of those who ultimately do not make it at the club have fine careers elsewhere. Cox says: “It’s kids in our first team, kids playing professional football across the country, but, more importantly, kids who have been enriched by the contact they’ve had with us.”
Homegrown talent
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was made Mourinho’s successor partly because of his belief in homegrown talent, and the Norwegian has firmly proved his commitment to it.
Thursday’s 4-0 Europa League win over Astana was graced by two goals from Mason Greenwood, an 18-year-old academy graduate. In 2019 Solskjaer has given debuts to nine other club-reared products: Tahith Chong, James Garner, Brandon Williams, Ethan Laird, Di’Shon Bernard, Dylan Levitt, Ethan Galbraith, Largie Ramazani and D’mani Mellor.
There are 12 academy players in Solskjaer’s squad. They have played 38 per cent of all first-team minutes in 2019-20 and assisted or scored 31 of United’s 34 goals this season. November’s 3-1 defeat of Brighton & Hove Albion saw United field the Premier League’s youngest line-up this term, with an average age of 23 years and 350 days.
Solskjaer says: “Giving young players a chance is a tradition we are very proud of. It’s part of our DNA and you learn that quickly when you join the club. Young players can only surprise and impress you when you give them a chance to show their talent. The 4,000 is a milestone we are proud of and long may it continue.”
Nobby Stiles, George Best and Bobby Charlton of Manchester United pose for the cameras at Old Trafford in July 1968. Photograph: Allsport Hulton/Archive
A subplot of the academy narrative concerns those who did not realise their potential. Ravel Morrison is one example, a forward rated very highly by Ferguson but who failed to make a league appearance before leaving the club in January 2012.
Cox says: “Maybe his character has held him back, but he is still a Premier League footballer [at Sheffield United] and doing okay.”
Cox tutored Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho when both were at Watford. “I’ve known him since he was seven, but Jadon Sancho produced Jadon Sancho,” says Cox. Sancho moved from Watford to Manchester City in 2015 and United face ongoing competition from their crosstown rival in the race to attract talent.
Age of registration
Reminded of how Phil Neville and another former United player, Robin van Persie, chose to have their sons schooled at City, Cox says: “We’ve opted to do things a very Manchester United way. Where we set ourselves aside is that we have got some amazing developers of young people – they are not coaches – who have been here for a long while: Tony Whelan, Dave Bushell, Eamon Mulvey.
“We can register players at nine [and] clubs are active before that trying to assemble players. There is a massive debate amongst Premier League clubs about what should that look like in terms of the commitment you can make to a player.
“We are absolutely – and I think a lone voice – resolute that if you start too soon the love of football is going to vanish. We would be happy to move the age of registration up to sign kids at 10, 11. We want this to look like a childlike rather than a cut-throat . . . environment.
“We’ve always had our eye on the bigger picture. Where are these kids going to be in 10 years? Do we still have kids who are going to play in the first team? If you win at the expense of development, you don’t produce footballers.”
Cox may have a point, as beyond Phil Foden City’s youth system has struggled to produce a first-team squad regular since Micah Richards in 2005.
McTominay describes the values United imbue. “It’s about general standards: being punctual, always wearing black boots until you get to the reserve team,” he says. “There are no big egos, no kids coming in wearing jewellery. If a young player is doing that in the canteen I would certainly be one to say something and the same with other boys in the first-team, and the manager as well.
“You don’t realise how much things like that are going to help. You think: ‘This is rubbish.’ Now I look back and those standards have been passed through, so everybody has the idea of what a Manchester United player should look and be like – the DNA that comes with wearing that badge.”
Cox’s ambition is to produce a fresh wave of talent as impressive as the Class of ’92. “We have to aspire to do that, absolutely,” he says. “We have to believe it’s possible.”
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JMRL's Same Page is a community reading program to promote and discuss one book throughout March 2018 by an author featured at the [Virginia Festival of the Book http://www.vabook.org/]. JMRL invites all book lovers in Central Virginia to join this reading initiative. Read and discuss What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander and participate in programs about the book, its themes, and its author. The author will be at JMRL's Northside Library on March 22nd at 6pm, and this event will be free and open to the public.
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1 About the Author
2 Works by Nathan Englander
3 Related Reading - Fiction
4 Related Reading - Nonfiction
5 Movies and Music
5.1 Music
5.2 Movies
6 Books for Teens
6.2 Nonfiction
7 Books for Youth
Nathan Englander is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. His most recent book is the novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth. In addition to this year's Same Page selection, he is the author of the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases. He was the 2012 recipient of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for What We Talk About. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post, as well as The O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories, including 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Translated into 20 languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He’s been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and at The American Academy of Berlin. In 2012, along with the publication of his new collection, Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at The Public Theater, and his translation New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) was published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock on the Door, published by FSG.
Read Englander's biography on his webpage.
Read an article by the author "What Jewish Children Learned from Charlottesville" from the NY Times
Listen to CBC Radio Interview with Nathan Englander
Read NPR's interview with Nathan Englander about his new novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth.
Works by Nathan Englander
Related Reading - Fiction
This list of adult fiction related reading includes short story masters, and themes of Jewish-American, Israel and trusting neighbors.
F Carver, Raymond
What We Talk about when We Talk about Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
Short stories that feature a pantheon of losers, peripheral people, and men and women without education, insight, or prospects who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up.
Auslander,Shalom
Hope: A Tragedy, a novel by Shalom Auslander*
To the End of the Land, by David Grossman
McBride, James
Five Carat Soul, by James McBride
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Fresh Complaint, new short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
Yoon, Paul
The Mountain, new short stories by Paul Yoon
Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Modan, Rutu
The Property (graphic novel), by Rutu Modan
Horn, Dara
Eternal Life, by Dara Horn
A Mother in Roman Jerusalem makes a spiritual bargain to save her dying infant's life- She then lives for 2,000 years. Includes "historical detail (of Jewish history) and down to earth humor" and "thoughtful meditation on the meaning of life."
Nevo, Eshkol
Three Floors Up, by Eshkol Nevo
Reviewed in NYT, indicates many similar themes (parenthood neighbors, humor & cutting commentary together), in a modern Israeli context.
Namdar, Ruby
Ruined House by Ruby Namdar
Andrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs. Interspersed throughout the novel are pages from an ancient (pseudo) Talmudic text, harking back to the golden age of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Hidden in this frenzied, semi-opaque other narrative lies the mysterious key to understanding the drama of Andrew's life.
Related Reading - Nonfiction
92 Angelou, Maya
MOM & ME & MOM
This focus on the larger-than-life mother of Maya Angelou, and the relationship they shared, highlights the complicated relationship between mother and daughter.
92 Frank, Anne
Winner, Lauren F.
Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren F. Winner
GN92 Kurzweil, Amy
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
GN956.94 Glidden, Sarah
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
92 Feldman, Deborah
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
Exodus: A Memoir by Deborah Feldman
GN956.94 Sacco, Joe
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Waldman, Ayelet and Chabon, Michael
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Manhattan, JCC
The Community Table: Recipes and Stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and Beyond by JCC Manhattan
Ottolenghi, Yotam
Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
Nathan, Joan
King Solomon's Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World by Joan Nathan
Finkel, Evgeny
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival During the Holocaust by Evgeny Finkel
92 Mirvis, Tova
The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis
Dauber, Jeremy
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
Corporon, Yvette Manessis
Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil by Yvette Manessis Corporon
Gruen, Judy
The Skeptic and the Rabbi: Falling in Love with Faith by Judy Gruen (counterposes with memoirs like Deborah Feldman's "Unorthodox")
Petrowskaja, Katja
Maybe Esther: A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja
(1/2018) A woman traces family members in eastern Europe, meditations on how history affects a family, how to tell stories when you don't know what happened; family members went underground or were killed by Nazis.
Ripp, Victor
Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-five Holocaust Memorials by Victor Ripp
In addition to Holocaust remembrance, this one is interesting because it talks about how public memorials/monuments can be made political- relation to local statue talks? (12/2017)
Murad, Nadia
The Last Girl, by Nadia Murad
The NYTBR headlines their review of this "replaying the Holocaust in the Middle East" -it tells the story of a woman escaping capture by IS agents in Iraq with the help of a Sunni man, whose life and family then become targets- plays directly into the question of how far someone will go to help hide/rescue someone else- seems like it would make for very good, timely discussion
Rees, Laurence
The Holocaust: A New History, by Laurence Rees (shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize)
Memoirs by Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox and Exodus
Footnotes in Gaza - Sacco
Kingdom of olives and ash : writers confront the occupation
The community table : recipes and stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and beyond / JCC Manhattan
Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi
King Solomon's table : a culinary exploration of Jewish cooking from around the world / Joan Nathan
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival During the Holocaust - Evgeny Finkel
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil, by Yvette Manessis Corporon
The Skeptic and the Rabbi: Falling in Love With Faith, by Judy Gruen (counterposes with memoirs like Deborah Feldman’s “Unorthodox”)
Maybe Esther / Katja Petrowskaja - (o/o 1/2018) - woman traces family members in eastern Europe, meditations on how history affects a family, how to tell stories when you don’t know what happened; family members went underground or were killed by Nazis.
Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-five Holocaust Memorials, by Victor Ripp - in addition to Holocaust remembrance, this one is interesting b/c it talks about how public memorials/monuments can be made political - relation to local statue talks? (o/o 12/2017)
The Last Girl, by Nadia Murad - the NYTBR headlines their review of this “replaying the Holocaust in the Middle East” - it tells the story of a woman escaping capture by IS agents in Iraq with the help of a Sunni man, whose life and family then become targets - plays directly into the question of how far someone will go to help hide/rescue someone else - seems like it would make for very good, timely discussion
Movies and music with themes of Contemporary Israel, Jewish Americans, anti-semitism, trusting neighbors, Holocaust, bullies, family stories, self-defense/bullies.
CD Jewish
'Putumayo: A Jewish Celebration'
'Jewish Music of the Dance'
DVD Big
Big Fish- family stories; main character is trying to get to the truth
DVD Everything
DVD Zookeeper's
The Zookeeper's Wife
DVD Schindler's
DVD Munich
DVD Karate
Karate Kid- kid learns self-defense to fight a bully
DVD Wedding
The Wedding Plan
DVD Sarah's
Sarah's Key
DVD Birdman
'Birdman (the main character is starting in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love")'
Band's
The Band's Visit- Film Movement'
DVD Campfire
'Campfire- Film Movement- ("A beautiful little story about growing up, finding love, and letting go of past losses. Effortlessly and almost invisibly entwined within the context of Israeli settlements and youth group movements")'
Big Fish - family stories; main character is trying to get to the truth
Zookeeper’s Wife
Everything Must Go - based on a different Raymond Carver story than the title story pays homage to, but potentially similar in feel and theme?
Schindler’s List
Miracle at Midnight* - Danes (Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow) help Jewish neighbors escape Nazis.
Anne Frank* - 2001 biopic with Ben Kingsley, 240 min utes
Karate Kid - kid learns self-defense to fight a bully
The Other Son
Sarah’s Key
Birdman (the main character is starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.")
The Band’s Visit - Film Movement
Campfire - Film Movement - “A beautiful little story about growing up, finding love and letting go of past losses, effortlessly and almost invisibly entwined within the context of Israeli settlements and youth group movements.”
TEEN READ SELECTION: [insert various teen titles here]
RELATED READS:
YA Arnold, David
MOSQUITOLAND
When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Enemy Territory by Sharon McKay
Tasting the Sky and Balcony on the Moon, two memoirs by Ibtisam Barakat
War in the Middle East : a reporter's story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War, by Wilborn Hampton
Books for Youth
CHILDREN'S SELECTION: [Insert children's titles here]
JP 306.85 Hoffman, Mary
THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF KINDNESS
This treasury of stories features diverse families and how they live together.
Armstrong and Charlie by Steven B. Frank
Oscar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon (Picture Book)
The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito
The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren (Picture Book)
Brundibar by Tony Kushner
Hidden by Loic Dauvillier (Graphic Novel)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (Graphic Novel)
Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
The Goat by Anne Fleming
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass by Meg Wiviott
Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam by Fawzia Gilani-Williams
The Grand Mosque of Paris: a Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle
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Tag: Mobile
Windows Mobile Phone Looks Neat, Intimidating, and Odd at the Same Time!
November 19, 2008 /Windows Phone Thoughts
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/…fe-looks-scary/
“Edinburgh’s own The Medical Phone is just about set to unleash the mobile for the true argonaut in the iCEphone. The Windows Mobile-powered “Swiss Army knife of mobiles” is dubbed a micro-notebook by its manufacturer, and while we’re hesitant to go along with that, we can’t deny the utility here. Sporting a Jacob’s Ladder-style hinge and a full QWERTY keyboard, the unit features three independent panels, a 3-inch 400 x 240 resolution touchscreen, a mouse / tracker pad, dual SIM card slots, HSDPA support, quad-band GSM connectivity, GPS, a 3.1-megapixel camera, WiFi and a 532MHz Freescale iMX31 CPU. We’re told that the phone is just weeks / months away from a release in Thailand, and it should be hitting the UK sometime in the March – April time frame for around $1,000.”
You can’t say this isn’t an original form factor, I rarely see something this big and somewhat intimidating with Windows Mobile on it (Well, perhaps the Rugged devices are intimidating somewhat). Anyone think they want to sport one of these next year?
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Verizon Announces Samsung Saga
http://www.samsungmobilenews.com/20…rizon-wireless/
“Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1 announced the addition of two new phones to Verizon Wireless’ robust portfolio of global phones – the Samsung RenownTM and the Samsung SagaTM The Saga is a smartphone that features a 2.55″ advanced touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard that provides business professionals with an easy way to send e-mail, text and instant messages. This productivity powerhouse is equipped with Quad Band GSM/GPRS capability, an optical mouse, Wi-Fi access (802.11 b/g), Opera mobile browser and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional to keep customers connected to their offices when they are at home and abroad.”
Hopefully the Saga won’t simply “be a a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc” but will be an honest to goodness Windows Mobile device that brings some options to those on VZW. Opera is getting bundled more and more these days, and for good reason. Now if VZW can simply find a way to charge by the keypress, they’d be all set.
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Pharos Unveils New Traveler 117 and 127 Phones
http://www.pharosgps.com/buzz/buzz_…eler117_127.pdf
“Pharos introduced two new GPS smartphones that offer full-featured navigation and lightning-fast 3.5G connectivity on an unlocked, Windows Mobile handset. The Pharos Traveler 117 and 127 are Pharos’ first phones to include Pharos Smart Navigator, a unique hybrid navigation product that is the first to combine navigation software + location services on a Windows Mobile device”
I’ve long been a fan of Pharos Ostia GPS package, and their new hybrid phones that include the Smart Navigator component look pretty nice. Pharos has been at this phone thing now for a year or two – anyone out there have one or have an opinion on one?
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Touch Pro Reviewed at Mobile Tech Review, 4WinMobile
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/pho…C-Touch-Pro.htm
“The HTC Touch Pro is undeniably one of the hottest PDA phones of 2008. And in the US, just as with the HTC Touch Diamond, Sprint customers get to sample it first. Previously available only as a GSM import with no US 3G, the Sprint version is the first carrier-branded Touch Pro. Rumor has it that AT&T will launch their version soon as the Fuze, and Verizon will have a version with a slower CPU and less memory (again, these are just rumors as of this writing). What is the Touch Pro? It’s the keyboard-ed version of the Diamond, and it’s light years ahead of the Mogul on Sprint or the Tilt on AT&T. It’s smaller, more modern looking, has a flush VGA touch screen display and all the bells and whistles you’d expect on a flagship smartphone. Specs include Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, a 528MHz CPU, 288 megs of RAM and 512 megs of flash storage, an SDHC microSD card slot, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 3.2 megapixel camera. For messaging and content creation types, the most salient feature is the Touch Pro’s slide–out QWERTY keyboard.”
The Touch Pro is getting quite a lot of attention as of late. With the review quoted above and another at 4WinMobile, it is interesting to see it getting some very high marks from reviewers around the world. I’m certainly interested in it as well as the Omnia – what about you?
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Microsoft and LG Sign Mobile Collaboration Pact
November 4, 2008 /Windows Phone Thoughts
http://www.reuters.com/article/tech…E4A211720081103
“Microsoft Corp. and South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc on Monday said they had signed a preliminary agreement on strategic collaboration in mobile technology. “The agreement ensures continued strategic collaboration in R&D, marketing, applications, and services in the field of converged mobile devices,” LG said in a statement.”
flickr: Orin Optiglot
So Koo was like “Hey Steve, Lets Collaborate” and Steve was like “OK”. Seriously, it’s never bad to see agreements like this, as they hopefully mean more market saturation for Windows Mobile and, in turn, cooler devices for us. But really, when was the last time you saw something directly come of these agreements? Too bad the announcement is public but the results rarely traced back to it.
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Elecont Releases Phone Dialer for Windows Mobile
http://www.elecont.com/news-dialer-oct-08.htm
“Elecont Dialer allows users to organize phone contacts directly on Home/Today screen. Contacts can be easily accessed by touching it with finger or stylus or selecting it by joystick. Elecont Dialer shows contacts in multiple layouts, optimized for different screen sizes. Most interesting feature is display mode with touch-controlled sliding effect, which takes only 1 line of Today screen. It saves screen space for other plugins.”
Looking to spruce up your phone dialing? Well Elecont has an offering that just may do so, if you’re interested.
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HP Announces iPAQ Data Messenger and Voice Messenger – Not For You US Users!
October 21, 2008 /Windows Phone Thoughts
So yea – there are now some pretty slick looking iPAQs in the pipeline, but not everyone in the world will get to enjoy their features. Specifically, those in the Europe / Middle East / Asia Pacific markets may come across them (With high speed data through of a deal with Vodafone), but North Americans need not apply. Its a shame too, for once the stats on these HP devices look current and they certainly appear sleek from a design standpoint. Pictured above is the Data Messenger, the voice messenger and stats appearing after the break!
Both devices sport all the bells and whistles radio wise you’d expect. 3G service, Quad-band GSM, Integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, and 802.11g. They have the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS loaded with a bunch of extras (e.g. google maps, Westek Jetcet PDF and Jetcet Print, and a few others), a 3.1 MP camera with auto focus and LED flash, and a Micro-USB charging slot. It will support Micro-SD cards, and has 256 MB of ROM and 128 MB SDRAM. No VGA – QVGA on both. Finally both devices have the Qualcomm 7201A 528 Mhz processor. The voice messenger is obviously aimed at those who want a lighter product with no keyboard, while the data messenger is targeted toward the keyboard crowd. Pretty impressive, and if it is available ultra soon (e.g. not 6 months from now, as HP is notorious for) then I think they’d both be pretty nice hits for HP. Just wish they were available in the US – I’ve been lusting for a new device lately!
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Scott Jordan Signature System: How Geek Can Meet Chic
http://scottevest.com/v3_store/Q5_Systems.shtml
Manufacturer: SCOTTEVEST
Where to Buy: SeV Store
Price: $340 USD ($250 for Quantum Jacket; $140 for Fleece 5.0)
System Requirements: Body ranging from XS to XXXL Sizes
Specifications: 52 pockets, cable management through channels / pocket passthroughs, removable hood (Quantum Jacket), removable sleeves (Fleece 5.0), various specially designed features such as key holders, bottle holders, and pockets accessible from the interior or exterior.
Be an unabashed geek without having to look like a nerd;
Attention to detail and usability;
Eliminates the need for a separate bag (some days).
Price (for some), Sizes (for others);
Does not connect (as in previous SCOTTEVEST systems);
Lack of color options.
The first SCOTTEVEST product I ever purchased was the 4.0 Tactical system, the closest thing to a predecessor to the Scott Jordan Signature Series. I was blown away and since then have reviewed many other SeV products. The direction foreshadowed by last year’s “Evolution” jacket has now come to pass with the release of the Fleece 5.0 and Quantum Jackets (together they make up the series). But with any new thing, old favorite features can be lost or changed – and new features added can somewhat make you forget about the old. How does this system stack up to its past, and pave the way to the future? Read on!
The Signature Series has many new features as well as SCOTTEVEST classic options. The most apparent new feature is the change in fabrics in the jacket. The Tactical 4.0 jacket was, well, tactical – it felt like something I’d wear if I was a secret service agent or SWAT officer. The material was a bit coarse, with a nylon base.
Figure 1: SCOTTEVEST branding in the velcro section used to tighten the sleeves around the wrist. Notice the material has a grain, yet feels smooth.
The new material used in the Quantum jacket is very similar to shell of the Evolution jacket. While the material has a grain to it, it feels very soft to the touch, likely due to the Teflon fabric protector used. In the rain, the jacket does not soak up water but rather promotes beading and flowing of the water off – keeping the occupant drier than the alternative.
The Fleece 5.0 also gets a subtle change in fabric. On the inside the fabric mesh is more accented, allowing you to easily see where pockets lie and where your gear is going. On the outside, the material feels a bit more plush and soft compared to the 4.0 fleece. At least it did to me, my wife insists that it’s closer to the 4.0. In any event, we both agree it’s nice and cozy.
Figure 2: Exterior of the 5.0 fleece.
Another new feature to the 5.0 fleece and Quantum jacket is the introduction of Clear Touch fabric. Clear Touch is designed to replace those awful hard clear pieces that clothing manufacturers sometimes place on their products to let you “see” what’s inside a pocket. The plastic is always rigid, and feels like, well, hard plastic! Clear Touch pockets on both the Quantum and Fleece are clear, but feel like fabric. Or at least best approximation of fabric that plastic can get to.
Figure 3: A Clear Touch pocket in the Fleece 5.0. Both jackets feature two Clear Touch pockets. Notice the red piping also present on the interior.
Clear Touch is a winner when it comes to controlling a touch sensitive device while it is safely stowed. Lastly, a very pronounced difference in both jackets is the red piping around the interior pockets, similar to what was done on the Evolution jacket. It sounds really strange, but I was always able to ‘lose’ pockets in my Tactical jacket. Trying to remember where they opened or where they hung so I could see if I had something in them. With the red piping, it’s easier to find the pockets, and the overall pocket design has been streamlined substantially.
What’s Gone
SCOTTEVEST has been careful not to call this the direct update to the 4.0 line because some of the 4.0 series nuances are missing in the 5.0 Signature series. For example, on the jacket, a front right breast pocket with ID card window has been removed. The new version in the 5.0 line is a internal lower-left pouch specifically to hold your ID and provide quick access. Yet you can’t be wearing your ID here and have others see it, a potential problem for those of us who must wear visible ID.
Here are some other quick differences I’ve observed:
The hood on the jacket, while still removable, does not roll up and tuck away like previous versions.
The sleeves on the jacket are not removable. Scott Jordan told me this in a phone call earlier this year when I told him about the zippers breaking on my Tactical 4.0. Apparently this was a feature only of use to a few, and since it had issues, it was removed.
The jacket used to have two small pockets below the right and left “hand” pockets that weren’t very deep and sometimes hard to open. I used to keep my gloves in those pockets but alas they are now gone. They do allow the other pockets that you normally throw your hands into to be deeper.
There is only one key-chain holder on the jacket, in the front right pocket (unlike the tactical 4.0 that had a key chain holder in both the front right and front left – two different styles). This holder is the better of the two styles, with a retractable rubber chain.
At least one of the deep pockets on the jacket has been removed (on my Tactical I have a deep pocket on the inside of both sides, the pocket on the right side has been removed on the Quantum). Given the fact that I once used both deep pockets to carry (on one side) a large bag of potato chips, package of cookies, and on the other side two 2 liters of soda, I guess I’ll have to cut back during grocery trips!
The fleece shows only minor changes over the 4.0 version, such as the red piping and clearview pockets.
Overall while things have changed, the core features remain the same. I’m not sure which jacket I’ll end up using this winter more – the 5.0 or the 4.0 – so check in with me in the spring to see if the above changes proved to be dealbreakers.
Finally a note about sizing. Anyone who has met me in person knows I’m on the large side (some would even say Scary Large). The 4.0 series XXXLT fit me just fine, however with the removal of the tall sizes in the 5.0 line, the XXXL jacket is a bit snug (like the Evolution jacket that I reviewed last October). The 5.0 fleece fits just like the 4.0 did. While I could wear the 4.0 Fleece and Tactical Jacket at the same time, I doubt I’d be able to do that with the 5.0 series. Then again they were not meant to go together like their predecessor, so I doubt many will try to do this (e.g. the 5.0 fleece does not zip into the 5.0 jacket). If you’re a “big” man wondering how you may compare to me and if the XXXL will be big enough, feel free to drop me an e-mail with any questions if you’d like to be discrete and not post them here.
What’s Missing
Scott and his team have done a wonderful job with the Signature series, something I know Scott takes great pride in. I do have a few suggestions though, some easier to implement than others:
A padded compartment (possibly removable) for a sub-notebook or netbook. I travel with a 14 inch Lenovo Tablet (the x60s), and it fits nicely into both the deep pockets on the 4.0 and the 5.0. However a bit more protection would be nice.
Similar to the above suggestion, a removable accessory pouch that would connect up within the jacket. This way I can keep my AC adapter, mouse, and other computer accessories with the computer and completly get rid of the bag.
Pre-wired “Options”. While wiring up a SCOTTEVEST isn’t terribly difficult to do, it may interest some to have pre-wired options available straight from the factory. iPod owners could order the “iPod version” which would come wired with headphones, and an iPod charger connected to an external battery safely stowed (such as a Proporta or Pocket PC Techs extended battery). GPS enthusiasts could order a “GPS version”, etc… Of course these would cost extra, but may appeal to some who would love something tailored to their needs.
SCOTTEVEST is able to embroider logos onto corporate orders, but why not offer custom embroidery to individuals? I’d be very tempted to embroider my name discretely on my SeV fleece, if for no other reason than to wear it to parties where everyone’s already forgetting each other’s names!
I’m a lover of basic black (I own many, many black shirts, much to my wife’s dismay). However when it comes to jackets and fleeces, colors can be very nice – and the Signature series has only black as of this writing. Perhaps one or two other colors might be a nice addition.
Some of you may be wondering if the first two bullets above would really be prudent to implement. Surely you can’t carry all your gear (including a laptop) in a SCOTTEVEST, can you? Well let me share a story:
Last April I was in a hotel room in Seattle the first night of the MVP Summit when my roommate asked me a question. He’d seen my SCOTTEVEST in the closet and asked “Is that one of those technology vests?”. Being from Australia, he was aware of SCOTTEVEST but hadn’t seen one in person. I told him it was and gave him a brief tour of its pockets. In the process I realized that it was pointless for me to take my messenger bag with me to the Microsoft campus the next two days when I had a SCOTTEVEST with me. I quickly took stock of what I had to transport (Lenovo laptop, adapter, a few cords, a small camera, 2 or 3 Windows Mobile devices, proporta battery, and a few other things) and realized that I could put them all in the vest. I loaded up and over the next two days fellow MVPs were amazed as I walked into a conference room and within 2 minutes had “unloaded” my mobile workstation for the day! So yes, you can in some cases ditch a computer bag for a SCOTTEVEST.
As I write this, I sit in my office (a converted attached garage) wearing my 5.0 fleece. It’s keeping me nicely warm as I wait for a FedEx truck to bring me a few gadgets for my latest geek project. Tomorrow I’ll probably wear it as I walk to my office in Toledo – switching proverbial hats as I go from Geek to Doctoral Candidate in Psychology. While my work today is tinkering with VoIP codecs and tomorrow will be proofreading decision making problems, my SCOTTEVEST keeps me warm, connected, and fairly stylish. No matter how geeky you are, part or full time, you don’t have to look like Goofy with bulging pockets and bulky bags. After all, no self respecting geek could ever stand being called a Nerd!
Jon Westfall is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Mobile devices, contributor to the Thoughts Media network of sites, and full time academic, currently finishing is PhD in Experimental Psychology. He studies decision making and interhemispheric interaction while teaching undergraduates a variety of things they didn’t know! Want to know more about him? Visit JonWestfall.Com
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O2 Zest Officially Launched, But Not In Your Hands Until November
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/…arely-detailed/
“Sure enough, the ASUS-built O2 Xda Zest is more than just a figment of someone’s imagination, though speaking of imaginations, we simply can’t hear this phone’s name without thinking about the soap. Sorry, just can’t do it. All that aside, the handset has finally made its way onto the carrier’s “Coming Soon” page, where we’re told that it will include Windows Mobile for opening up Office documents, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G, WiFi, 356MB of internal memory and a microSD expansion slot. Looking for more?”
So the Zest is “coming soon”, so we’re still not actually hearing from people holding the actual device. But soon we shall know more from this ASUS built device.
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Sony Ericcson Xperia Finally For Sale
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“Wow, that was one hell of a wait, wasn’t it? Some eight months after its February announcement, X1s are finally available for sale in some parts of the world — and naturally, any retail availability comes with the distinct possibility of a properly-documented unboxing. The packing materials don’t look like they’re anything terribly special, but to the Windows Mobile faithful of the world, the contents certainly are. Ain’t that black, brushed metal casing awfully purdy?”
Holy Xperia News Batman! The Xperia is starting to make the rounds as an actual, real device that you could order (You know, as opposed to one of those announced yet not in your hands yet devices). Engadget has a couple of pieces on it, and Phonescoop specifically is interested in the possibility of different versions of the X1. I suppose it’s only a matter of time before we see real reviews start to come through the wires!
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Rashida Tlaib argues with conservative radio host Vicki McKenna during hearing: 'Are you a conspiracy theorist?'
"Are you a conspiracy theorist?" Rashida Tlaib asked conservative Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna.
Rashida Tlaib argues with conservative radio host Vicki McKenna during hearing: 'Are you a conspiracy theorist?' "Are you a conspiracy theorist?" Rashida Tlaib asked conservative Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/26/rashida-tlaib-spars-vicki-mckenna-vaping-hearing/2442187001/
Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 7:00 a.m. CT Sept. 26, 2019 | Updated 10:26 a.m. CT Sept. 26, 2019
Wisconsin conserative radio host Vicki McKenna, left, and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, right. (Photo: Journal Sentinel files,AP)
Conservative Wisconsin radio talker Vicki McKenna went to Washington to testify about vaping and ended up squaring off against liberal Michigan U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
The tense exchange included allegations about conspiracy theories — and questions over why McKenna had winked at U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, another longtime Wisconsin conservative.
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The dispute erupted Tuesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing when McKenna, who testified under her legal name Vicki Porter, was serving as a pro-vaping witness at the "Don't Vape" hearing.
McKenna, 51, was invited by the Republican committee members and testified about her experience as a former cigarette smoker who was only able to quit nicotine after discovering electronic cigarettes. McKenna hosts a radio talk show on WISN (1130-AM) in Milwaukee.
"It literally changed and probably saved my life," she testified. "My lungs are healthy. ... Vaping is a health miracle to me."
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Tlaib spoke about the history of the tobacco industry and the evolution of the public's knowledge about the dangers of smoking.
"It's so important that you all continue to speak truth about this, because the long-term effects (are) very dangerous, especially because they have been targeted towards youth," Tlaib said.
The hearing on Tuesday was called in response to the recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning about more than 530 cases of lung injury and a series of recent deaths linked to vaping.
But things took a turn when Tlaib questioned McKenna's motivation for appearing before the committee.
"You know, Ms. Porter, I was reading because I want to know more about you and your beliefs," Tlaib said. "You call yourself a converted conservative and a reformed Marxist. Are you a conspiracy theorist?"
"I think my politics are entirely irrelevant to this hearing," McKenna answered.
"Oh, OK, why were you winking at one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle? You winked." Tlaib asked.
McKenna responded, saying that she knows Grothman, who was present at the hearing.
"He's a friend of mine," she said.
"I didn't know what the winking was," Tlaib said. "I thought maybe there was something, like a conspiracy thing going on there. I didn't know."
"You think there's a conspiracy in this hearing, ma'am?" McKenna said.
The two went back and forth as Tlaib said McKenna's idea of "truth" was different from many others at the hearing.
"The truth for me is I quit smoking with e-cigarettes and so did 8 million other people," she said as the two talked over each other."
"You're still smoking, ma'am, you're still smoking," Tlaib fired back, referring to the fact that McKenna now uses e-cigarettes.
"I'm not smoking," McKenna said as the chairman called for order. "And I'm not lying under oath."
In an interview Wednesday with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, McKenna said she was stunned by Tlaib's response to her testimony.
"I thought it was tremendously inappropriate. It was weird. It was just plain bonkers," McKenna said. "And I thought the whole conspiracy thing — that was just bonkers to me."
She added that she winked at Grothman to acknowledge that she saw him responding to what she said.
"Apparently it was the conspiratorial wink heard 'round America," McKenna said. "It was just bizarre."
Just testified at the rigged game—I mean House hearing—on vaping. I was the ONLY one standing for harm reduction and innovation. I did my best but was way outnumbered. @gregthr@jeffastier. pic.twitter.com/XKrhrADQO4
— Vicki McKenna (@VickiMcKenna) September 24, 2019
McKenna later stressed that she wasn't there representing her radio show or her company during her testimony but focused on her personal experience.
"I gave serious testimony, and I expected it to be taken seriously. I didn't expect it to be dismissed," McKenna said. "I was pretty down on my government by the end of the afternoon."
Asked about McKenna, Grothman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "he didn't even notice her winking."
U.S. Rep Glenn Grothman, R-Wisconsin. (Photo: handout from the candidate)
Grothman added that he wasn't surprised by the response McKenna got in Washington.
"I don't think it was a bad reception," Grothman said. "I mean, we know a lot of people want to get rid of e-cigarettes, and they're not going to agree with her."
Tlaib couldn't be reached immediately for comment on Wednesday.
RELATED: Trump's proposed ban on vape flavors may not stop teens from vaping, experts warn
While I like the Vaping alternative to Cigarettes, we need to make sure this alternative is SAFE for ALL! Let’s get counterfeits off the market, and keep young children from Vaping!
The committee's hearing comes as President Donald Trump is considering legislation that would ban the use of flavored e-cigarettes over concern that they are targeting children.
The State of Massachusetts has also recently banned sale of all vape products in the state for four months, and the City of San Francisco implemented a ban in June.
Jeanine Santucci of USA TODAY contributed to this report.
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Firing of John Bolton ‘Nightmare’ for Netanyahu as Trump Says He’ll Talk to Iran With ‘No Preconditions’
If Trump could actually go through with much of the pro-peace, anti-war agenda he ran on it would be a major victory
Chris Menahan | Information Liberation - September 11, 2019 Comments
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It looks as though President Trump may be trying to free himself from the grasp of the neocon cabal that surrounds him.
On Tuesday, Trump announced on Twitter he was firing John Bolton:
Bolton claimed he planned to resign.
I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) September 10, 2019
Neocons and neolibs both threw fits over it.
John Bolton's sudden departure is a symbol of the disarray that has unnerved our allies since day one of the Trump Administration. Steady leadership & strategic foreign policy is key to ensuring America’s national security. https://t.co/MQIYet8pnA
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 10, 2019
I’m legitimately shaken by the grave instability of American foreign policy today.
I’m no Bolton fan, but the world is coming apart, and the revolving door of U.S. leadership is disappearing America from the world just at the moment where a stable American hand is most needed.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 10, 2019
Mitt Romney outspoken on Bolton’s firing: “I’m very, very unhappy to hear that he is leaving. It’s a huge loss for the andministration and for the nation.”
Asked about a possible replacement, Romney suggests “John Bolton”
— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) September 10, 2019
More Romney: “John Bolton is a brilliant man with decades of experience in foreign policy. His point of view was not always the same everybody else in the room. That’s why you wanted him there. The fact that he was a contrarian from time to time was an asset, not a liability.”
This is terrible for the White House. Bolton was correct about the Taliban; State wasn’t. Bolton has been a hawkish voice for a tough national security policy, and his ouster likely signals that Trump’s approach will be significantly softer from this point forward. https://t.co/g13Shw46eW
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 10, 2019
President Trump has taken action by firing John Bolton and has vowed to take on big tech censorship.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech today, which he unexpectedly delayed by an hour, where he announced that he plans to annex a third of the West Bank after the Israeli election.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says he intends to annex Jordan Valley in West Bank after Israeli electionhttps://t.co/2TcJSoqJPo
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) September 10, 2019
He was hoping Trump would sign off on the annexation but that never came.
A Trump administration official instead said Tuesday after Netanyahu’s speech that, “There is no change in the United States policy at this time.”
The @WhiteHouse responded Tuesday to Prime Minister @netanyahu's announcement that he will apply #Israeli sovereignty in the #JordanValley, saying, ""There is no change in the #UnitedStates policy at this time"https://t.co/wIMLr3GRtM
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) September 10, 2019
And there you have it. Bibi couldn't get Trump on board to back his annexation bid. One pre-election gift that will remain on his wish list, at least for now. https://t.co/IIPLGpRN5r
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) September 10, 2019
Instead, Pompeo announced that Trump wants to meet Iranian president Rouhani with “no preconditions.”
Hours after Netanyahu urges pressure on Iran, Trump says he has 'no problem' meeting Rohani https://t.co/GTHNifrLpC
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) September 9, 2019
Tablet Magazine’s Yair Rosenberg described the news as a “nightmare” for Netanyahu “just 7 days before Israel’s elections.”
Trump's secretary of state announces Trump wants to meet Iranian president Rouhani without preconditions as a prelude to negotiating a new Iran deal.
This comes just 7 days before Israel's elections and is a nightmare for Netanyahu, who has touted his ties to Trump all campaign. https://t.co/0oT2tP8XOx
Incidentally, Netanyahu was also whisked offstage Tuesday night as air sirens were blaring after two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu, 'Mr. Security,' taken off stage at campaign rally following Gaza rocket attackhttps://t.co/gcTHPFCxV1 pic.twitter.com/qSGkYvEwOQ
The final straw for Trump to fire Bolton was reportedly Bolton sabotaging peace talks with the Taliban (Trump was reportedly also angry Bolton sabotaged peace talks with North Korea).
Their differences came to a climax in recent days as Mr. Bolton waged a last-minute campaign to stop the president from signing a peace agreement at Camp David with leaders of the radical Taliban group. He won the policy battle as Mr. Trump scrapped the deal but lost the larger war when the president grew angry about the way the matter played out.
Mr. Trump and his aides privately blamed the national security adviser for news reports describing Mr. Bolton’s opposition to the deal. Vice President Mike Pence and his camp likewise grew angry at reports suggesting he had agreed with Mr. Bolton, seeing them as an effort to bolster the adviser’s position.
I’m not going to get my hopes up that Trump is turning a page until we actually see some concrete results as the parasites around him always seem to find a way to thwart his better instincts but these are certainly encouraging developments.
If Trump could actually go through with much of the pro-peace, anti-war agenda he ran on it would be a major victory.
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Infection Rates Plague Hospitals Nationwide
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More than one in six U.S. hospitals currently have trouble stamping out infections that could become deadly, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis.
About one in every 25 hospitalized patients gets an infection nationwide, leading to 75,000 deaths each year – more deaths that from car crashes and gun shots combined.
In Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, a fifth of hospitals had worse than average ratings for at least one category of infection, according to the study.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports six categories of infections: those from flexible tubes inserted into veins to deliver medicines or nutrients; infections from catheters that drain bladders; those from antibiotic-resistant germs Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aeureus (MRSA); and two surgical site infections after hysterectomies and colon operations.
C. diff infections, which require hospitals to be careful in using the antibiotics necessary to combat the infections, were the most common problem at Cincinnati-area hospitals, including Jewish Hospital, Mercy Hospital Anderson, Mercy Hospital West and St. Elizabeth Hospital Fort Thomas.
Seven hospitals in the Cincinnati area have lower infection rates than expected nationally: Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, Bethesda North, Christ Hospital, Good Samaritan, Mercy Hospital Fairfield, St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Lakeside Park and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
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Infections in hospitals continue to be a serious problem. Once a patient is well enough to go home, that is the safest place to recover.
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Chanel West Coast Shakes Her Booty In Sexy, Sequined Dress & Shares Her Funny New Year’s Resolution
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Chanel West Coast looks smoking hot in her most recent social media share. As those who follow the brunette bombshell on Instagram know, West Coast loves to share sexy photos and videos with her legion of fans, and everything that she posts on her account earns rave reviews. In the most recent video clip posted for her loyal followers, West Coast smoldered.
Like almost everyone else in the country, the singer partied hard last night to ring in the new year. In the short post shared on her page, West Coast did not reveal exactly where she was, but it appeared to be at some sort of club. The rapper appeared to be having a great time dancing to music with a bottle of champagne in her hand. For the occasion, she stunned in a tight black, sequined dress that had mesh panels all over it and showed off her toned and tanned figure. The NSFW dress hit well above her knee and showed her trim legs.
West Coast dressed up the look even more with some big hoop earrings, a necklace, and a number of sparkly bracelets. She wore her long locks down and curled in addition to a gorgeous application of makeup that included eyeliner, mascara, blush, highlighter, and lipstick. In the caption of the post, she joked with her fans that her resolution was to make her knees and ankles stronger so she could shake her booty.
In #2020 I’m going to work on having stronger knees and ankles to make these lil booty shaking clips better for y’all ????????????????????
A post shared by Chanel West Coast (@chanelwestcoast) on Dec 31, 2019 at 11:27pm PST
The post has only been live on her page for a short time, but it’s earned her a ton of attention from fans already with over 77,000 likes in addition to 1,000-plus comments. Some of her followers took to the shot to let her know that she looks stunning while countless others raved over her killer figure. A few more commented on her funny New Year’s resolution while others just used emoji, rather than words.
“Girllllll, let’s get it in 2020,” one fan gushed, adding a purple heart emoji.
“Looks like it was LIT on your end! Happy New Year to you beautiful lady,” a second social media user added.
“Best booty clips ever come from you,” one more raved.
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This bride lost 113 pounds before her wedding and has kept the weight off for 2 years — here's how
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Kerri Seales lost 113 pounds before her wedding.
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In 2015, Kerri Seales weighed 320 pounds.
She made a decision to lose weight for her health and for her upcoming wedding.
She joined Weight Watchers and established a support system.
She started walking more and found ways to make her favorite recipes low-calorie.
She has kept the weight off for two years.
When Kerri Seales became engaged in September 2015, she should have been excited to start planning her wedding. But at 320 pounds, she couldn't help feeling anxious, and she dreaded the thought of finding a dress.
Seales decided it was time for a change and with some simple adjustments to her diet and fitness routine, she lost 113 pounds — and found her dream dress.
Seales said the first step was joining Weight Watchers to focus on her unhealthy relationship with food.
About a month after her engagement, she joined Weight Watchers with a group of women from her job at Long Island Plastic Surgical, where she bills insurance companies.
Prior to starting the program, Seales said physical activity was nonexistent and healthy eating wasn't even a thought. She would eat until she felt sick. After finishing meals, she would often tell her then-fiancé that she needed to go to the bathroom and instead continue to eat in secrecy. She was plagued with insecurities and felt like she was serving a purposeless life.
"I had no drive, no passion for anything. I was basically just existing," she said to INSIDER.
Nothing is as good as happy feels! Thanks to @weightwatchers I am no longer the girl on the left. The girl afraid to be photographed, afraid to meet new people, afraid of basically the whole world... I am now the woman on the right - strong, proud, capable and loving life. My happiness now exudes through me and I don't take a single moment for granted. I lost 113 pounds with my wedding as my anchor, find your reason why and start your happy life now, don't wait...the only thing holding you back is YOU ❤ Believe in yourself and your half way there! *those following the weight watchers plan can expect to lose between 1&2 pounds per week* #wwambassador #weightwatchers #ww #wwbride #weightlossjourney #naturalweightloss #flabtofab #weightlossinspo #becauseitworks
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She desperately wanted to lose weight because she was concerned about her health. She experienced severe back pain and episodes in bed where she couldn't feel her legs because she wasn't getting enough circulation.
"I didn't tell anybody because of embarrassment. I would just have numbness throughout my legs, it felt like I was paralyzed," she told INSIDER, adding that it wasn't unusual for her to cry herself to sleep.
She decided to start walking and modifying recipes to be healthier.
With her wedding in sight and the support of others, she became more active by walking her dog after work and parking further away from her office building. About five months into her journey, she joined a small, women's-only gym where she rotated between the elliptical and the treadmill. At first, she was only able to exercise for one minute on the elliptical, but each day, she would add a few more minutes until she was able to exercise for an hour.
She also modified recipes she found on Pinterest by swapping traditional ingredients for low-fat, sugar-free or reduced-calorie substitutes. Among her favorite alternatives is spaghetti squash because "it's just like having spaghetti."
Her work began to pay off. She lost seven pounds her first week and became addicted to the feeling of finally feeling proud of herself.
"For once, I felt like I was finally doing something right," she told INSIDER. "Every week I just wanted to beat myself and do better and better and better."
After losing over 100 lbs, Seales was able to overcome her anxiety and find the perfect wedding dress.
Seales waited until the last minute to find her dress because she wanted to make sure she was at a point where she felt comfortable with herself and she didn't want to have a bad experience.
As the wedding neared, she reached her 100-pound mark and she finally felt ready. She found a dress online and went with her mom to try it on. It was low-cut with an open back, and the definition of something she would have never worn before. But when she tried it on, she knew right away that it was the one. When her husband, Matthew Daniele, saw her on their wedding day, he began crying.
Before losing weight, Seales was mortified to go out in public. She would sometimes drive to the grocery store, only to turn around because she was worried what people would think of her. But on her wedding day, she felt confident and she didn't mind having all eyes on her.
"That was the biggest thing; to be there in the moment and actually acknowledge every single person that was there and be able to look them in the eyes and walk down the aisle not looking at the ground," she told INSIDER.
Well hot dayummm! That jack fruit totally coulda fooled me for pulled pork! (1 cup is 1sp) 🐽 I used Campbell's pulled pork sauce (see my story) and drained all the excess after it finished cooking in the crock pot (1/4 cup is 3sp) and topped it with home made slaw (0sp) pickle chips and onion over a Arnold's sandwich thin!(3sp)😍 Tracking dinner as 8 smarties! #WWambassador #ww #wwcommunity #trackonfleek #smartpoints #wwmafia #wwfoods #jackfruit #wwfoods #wwlongisland #wwnewyork #becauseitworks #healthyeating #weightlossjourney #wwsisterhood #wwdivas #trackinnotslackin #trackonfleek #wwfreestyle #wwfooddiary
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Seales relied on Weight Watchers to help keep the weight off.
It's been two years since Seales began her journey and while her weight fluctuates, she's managed to keep the weight off. "I'm super proud of myself because that means it's long-term," she told INSIDER. "I didn't just do it for the wedding."
Seales continues to be an active part of the Weight Watchers community as an ambassador. On an Instagram dedicated to her weight loss, she posts photos of low-calorie meals and shares tips with fellow members of the community. She says that having this kind of support system has been a key to her maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
"I've found deeper, more meaningful, strong relationships with people that I've met through this journey, complete strangers, because we support each other and we build one another up," Seales said to INSIDER.
Seales used to hate seeing photos of herself, but she couldn't be happier with her wedding photos.
She says it's important not to think too far ahead or focus on exactly how much she weighs.
"Don't think of how long it's going to take you because the time passes regardless of whether you're going to do it or not going to do it," she said. "Take one meal at a time. Take it one day at a time. You can't compare yourself to anybody. Everybody's journey is different, everybody's body is different. There's no race, there's no finish line."
She also tries not to focus on the number on the scale and sometimes when she goes to meetings, she asks the receptionist not to tell her what she weighs.
Although Seales is proud to have maintained her weight, it's more than the number to her. It's the seemingly small things — like her husband finally being able to put his arms around her — that are her biggest victories.
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With its cutting-edge design, facilities and equipment, and the access to professional, technical and technological resources it offers, the Institut national du sport du Québec complex at the Olympic Park truly provides an environment for optimal performance to enable high-performance athletes and coaches to compete on a level playing field with the world’s best.
As a permanent headquarters for nine resident sports (boccia, fencing, gymnastics, judo, swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, water polo and short-track speedskating) and a meeting place for numerous training groups, the INS Québec complex built within the Olympic Park Sports Centre has over 150,000 square feet of floor area, 92% of which is used to practise sport or for purposes directly related to serving the needs of high-performance athletes and coaches.
The Olympic Park is the perfect setting for INS Québec to take root and grow—already a powerful draw for many disciplines, such as short-track speedskating at Maurice-Richard Arena and aquatic sports at the Olympic Park Sports Centre, this site is also a powerful symbol: in 1976, the world was watching as great athletic feats were achieved here, which still resonate today. This is where the Canadian Olympic movement really took off.
THE COMPLEX IN NUMBERS
Developer: Institut national du sport du Québec – Principal contractor: Régie des installations olympiques (RIO) – Architects: Lapointe Magne et associés – Structural engineering: SDK – Mechanical and electrical engineering: Pageau Morel et associés – General contractor: Magil Construction
Timeline – Start of project: 2008 – Start of construction: February 1 2013 – End of construction: May 16, 2014 – Inauguration: September 19, 2014
Total floor area: ≈150,000 sq.ft. on 5 levels – Sports training areas: 48,124 sq.ft. – Gymnasium: 8,100 sq.ft – Weight room: 8,094 sq.ft. – Sports medicine services: 6,779 sq.ft. – Laboratories: 2,727 sq.ft – Dressing rooms: 6,817 sq.ft. – Offices and related services: 13,484 sq.ft. – Plus pools for swimming, synchronized swimming and diving and some facilities at the Olympic Park Sports Centre
Construction budget: $24.5 million
Initial discussions in Québec and Canada regarding a national sports institute take place.
2007: Centre d’excellence des sports aquatiques du Québec (CESAQ) program set up at Montréal’s Olympic Park.
Mixed committee formed bringing together the Centre national multisport-Montréal (CNMM) and the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) to spearhead the processes of research and exploration leading to the creation of a sports institute in Québec
Architectural firm hired to design the environment, based on the concept envisaged.
Embauche d’une firme d’architectes pour tracer l’environnement recherché en fonction du concept recherché.
Visit to the Olympic Park Sports Centre to see the space available.
Functional and technical program developed.
Application submitted to the Fonds de développement du sport et de l’activité physique for a subsidy to build the future INS Québec facilities.
The government of Québec announces its intention to create INS Québec.
May xx
Press conference with Premier Jean Charest confirming the creation of INS Québec and the construction of its complex at the Olympic Park.
Call for proposals issued for professionals (architects, engineers, etc.).
Architecture and engineering contracts awarded by RIO, the project’s principal contractor.
Work on plans and specifications begins.
The CNMM officially becomes the Institut national du sport du Québec.
Call for tenders process for construction begins.
Subsidy contract signed between the Fonds pour le développement du sport et de l’activité physique and RIO.
General contractor contract awarded by RIO.
End of construction.
“]INS Québec staff move to the Olympic Park complex.
“]First resident sport moves in: [SPORT].
The INS Québec complex at the Olympic Park officially inaugurated.
Gymnastics Canada chooses INS Québec
INS QUÉBEC SELECTED AS NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE & OLYMPIC PREPARATION SITE FOR ARTISTIC &...
THE PARA-SWIMMING NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE MOVES TO INS QUÉBEC
THE PARA-SWIMMING NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE MOVES TO INS QUÉBEC Montréal, December 2, 20...
$125,000 DONATED TO INS QUÉBEC’S EXCELLENCE FUND
$125,000 DONATED TO INS QUÉBEC’S EXCELLENCE FUND TO SUPPORT PREPARATION FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYM...
Launching of «INS Québec Committee of Ambassadors»
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“The Church is there for life, not for profit” a Columban priest and CAFOD partner told the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales annual conference this weekend. Based for five decades in Latin America, Irishman Fr Peter Hughes was contrasting Church support for marginalised communities with the destructive practices of large-scale mining and agribusiness companies in the Amazon rainforest.
He lamented destructive practices of extractive industries, and described the Amazon’s three million indigenous people as “today’s lepers, reduced to nothingness”. He said he was not totally against mining, “but it must be done in a more respectful way, respecting international law”. He warned that the planet’s fresh air, water and biodiversity are all being undermined with consequences for the whole Earth community.
He spoke about the REPAM initiative, which led him and Church leaders to accompany indigenous leaders from the Amazon to Washington in March to meet the American Commission for Human Rights, members of the U.S Congress, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. This was an important step towards promoting a Church with an Amazonic Face – supporting indigenous peoples in their struggles to defend land, rivers and rainforest. “They made quite an impact in their frathered headresses” he said “but lives have been reduced by extractive industries and could be reduced to oblivion in a very short time”. He felt we have much to learn from peoples who have lived sustainably in the Amazon for thousands of years, “never ceasing to have harmony with their habitat”. The U.S. Bishops expressed support for REPAM’s work, and he hoped the visit of Pope Francis to the Peruvian Amazon in January next year will highlight the plight of its indigenous peoples.
Fr Hughes was speaking to the weekend conference on the theme, ‘A Sabbath for the Earth and the Poor: The Challenge of Pope Francis’, and around 260 Justice and Peace activists attended from most dioceses of England and Wales and some in Scotland. He is an advisor to the Instituto Bartolome de las Casas and CELAM, the collegial council of Latin American bishops. He thanked Pope Francis for his inspirational leadership in producing Laudato Si’ six months before the discussions in Paris that led to an international Agreement on Climate Change. He pointed to Paragraph 139 of Laudato Si’ which says: “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature.”
His suggestion that we need to review our notions about progress and good living were picked up by Ruth Valerio of Tearfund, whose talk focused on the need for “inner ecological conversion”. She urged the conference to “get out and reconnect with the natural world”. Her books, ‘Just Living – Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism’ and ‘L is for Lifestyle’, are about living more simply and avoiding rampant consumerism. She felt “Pope Francis has presented us with the challenge of living with love and joy in this our common home”.
Kathy Galloway, a former leader of both the Iona Community and Christian Aid Scotland, lamented that the poorest suffer most from environmental destruction when they have “drained resources the least, waste nothing, and don’t fly around the world”. She urged that we live more sustainably and avoid a “privatised religion” which does not engage with the struggles of the most marginalised. There was a plea to support campaigns that challenge unjust and violent structures, and “to look outside the holy places for places where God’s reign is breaking through”. Examples in Scotland ranged from anti-nuclear protests on the streets, churches opening their doors to asylum seekers and “guerrilla” gardening. She reported being very moved by a panel organised by Church Action on Poverty from the Leeds Poverty Truth Commission which highlighted the suffering caused by poverty in Britain and the role of Church groups in building up support and hope.
The challenge to work at a macro level tackling structural injustice and the micro level of living more simply was reflected in workshops and “sabbath” time. The first included workshops on Care for Creation; Sustainable Agriculture; Mining; Indigenous People; Stigmatisation of the poor; Divestment from fossil fuels. And there was time for relaxing and contemplative activities such as a nature walk, visiting prayer spaces, an art session on the theme of the beauty of creation, and Tai Chi on the lawn. Discussing the harvesting of elderflowers and the production of elderflower cordial is not usually discussed at an NJPN Conference! And having time to visit the NJPN oak tree, now 30 feet tall, which was planted at the Swanwick Conference centre on NJPN’s 25th anniversary.
Saturday evening saw a performance of “Romero – the Heartbeat of El Salvador” and during the conference Mass Archbishop Oscar Romero was adopted as NJPN’s patron.
At the final action planning session feedback included Arundel and Brighton Diocese setting up a diocesan environment group, East Anglia producing a draft environmental policy and Westminster pushing to become a fairtrade diocese. The Jesuit parish in Preston, Lancaster Diocese, is working towards becoming a livesimply parish. Steve Atherton of Liverpool Archdiocese, who said he felt like as “endangered species” as the only full time J&P worker left in England and Wales, spoke about producing resources for Autumn’s Creation Time which have been picked up by many Liverpool parishes.
Children at the conference produced a video “Can children and young people make a difference”. The answer was positive, with one quote being, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. The youth group told participants: “We all say we want to tackle poverty – you need to get out there and do it!”.
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Vegan The New Ethics of Eating
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Vegan Nutrition
Because of the importance and urgency we feel the message of Vegan The New Ethics of Eating holds for the larger world beyond our regular distribution channels, Erik Marcus, the author and copyright holder, and McBooks Press, the publisher, have created this free, downloadable edition. To order copies of Vegan The New Ethics of Eating, or other books on veganism and vegetarianism call toll free at 1-888-266-5711 or visit the McBooks website http www.mcbooks.com. Vegan is also available through your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. Erik Marcus and Vegan.com Erik Marcus is a writer and public speaker who is dedicated to the advocacy of vegan and vegetarian diets and is the publisher of the http www.Vegan.com website. The site features news updated daily, as well as comprehensive information for both vegans and aspiring vegetarians. You can contact Erik Marcus through Vegan.com by sending an e-mail to correspondence vegan.com. For more information about Farm Sanctuary the havens...
Topics Requiring More Research A Coronary Heart Disease in Vegans
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Vegetarian Nutrition
There are few data on the long-term health of vegans. The pooled analysis of five prospective studies described above included 27,808 vegetarians, but only 753 of these subjects were vegans.52 Compared with regular meat-eaters in these cohorts, the death rate ratio for CHD in vegans was 0.74 (95 CI 0.46-1.21). The confidence interval for this estimate is wide, so that it is currently impossible to say whether mortality from CHD in vegans differs from that in regular meat-eaters, although the death rate ratio is In terms of coronary risk factors, all studies have shown that vegans have a substantially lower serum total cholesterol concentration than meat-eaters (around 1 mmol l lower) and are also thinner than meat-eaters (by 1 to 2 kg m2). These differences would be expected to cause a substantial reduction in mortality from CHD. No consistent differences in blood pressure or in hemostatic factors have been established. Vegan diets are often low in vitamin B12, which could potentially...
Lipid Differences Between Omnivores And Vegetarian Or Vegans
Last Updated on Thu, 22 Aug 2019 | Vegetarian Nutrition
The elderly vegetarian, particularly the elderly vegan, is in a protective life-style that minimizes ischemic damage, plaque formations, and lipid depositions involved in atherosclerotic disease, hypertension, stroke, or rheumatic heart disease. Plant dietary protein minimizes endogenous cholesterol and triacylglycerol production as previously discussed. Exogenous plant dietary fat supplies a dominance of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids to minimize not only the atherosclerotic diseases, but also several of the rheumatoid states, the mineral problems of osteoporosis, and possibly several types of cancer by the inclusion of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).3,40,41 This protective diet combined with adequate exercise inhibits the initiation of these diseases before they reach the lipid deposition stages by decreasing the initial free radical attack with antiox-idants. For example, in coronary artery disease (CAD), the vegetarian or vegan diet supplies the antioxidant vitamins and...
Revolutionary Guided Juicing Program
The Natural Thyroid Diet
Turmeric Health Benefits and Culinary Uses
Carbohydrate Differences Between Omnivores And Vegetarians Or Vegans
Polysaccharides (hemicelluloses, pectin, gums, and mucilages). These become the indigestible bulk of the stool. The free sugars of fruits are accompanied by protein, a small amount of lipid, minerals, a variety of accessory food factors including vitamins, and the soluble and insoluble fiber fraction.76,77 Elderly vegetarians or vegans have a high amount of fiber as a natural part of their dietary intake. This contrasts to the omnivore diet, which is either deficient in fiber or requires fiber supplements to obtain adequate stool bulk. Glucose is the major energy source for brain function. In the non-fed or fasting state, glucose levels are normally maintained from liver glycogen. In longer fasting periods or fasts combined with high-level energy expenditure, glucose levels are depleted and skeletal muscle breakdown occurs to supply glucose (gluconeogensis). Alanine, along with lactate and pyru-vate, are released in high amounts to maintain blood glucose levels, and to supply pyruvate...
Protein Differences Between Omnivores And Vegetarians Or Vegans
The percentage of calories contributed by protein in human diets, from vegan to omnivore, can vary from 8 to 18 , with approximately 2 to 10 greater intake of protein by the omnivore subjects vs. the vegetarians. The lowest level of protein intake is in vegans.12 Animal protein is considerably higher in essential amino acids and sulfur amino acid content and promotes a higher rate of growth in a growing animal than will any single dietary plant protein. When two or more dietary plant proteins are combined in a single meal or meals for the day, however, this potential for growth difference is offset in growing children.13,14 The adult vegans in the Haddad et al. dietary study15 had higher serum albumin levels than the omnivore controls, which demonstrated vegan dietary protein adequacy. The vegans demonstrated this while maintaining lower blood urea nitrogen values. Long term, this pattern aids in the reduction of the incidence of chronic renal failure. Additional advantages from the...
Minerals And The Elderly Vegetarian Or Vegan
Last Updated on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 | Vegetarian Nutrition
Mineral metabolism in human nutrition still remains a subject that requires extensive study. Even routine mineral evaluation methods are lacking, particularly as an inexpensive sampling technique that will answer adequacy or deficiency questions of whole body content. For the elderly vegetarian or vegan, this chapter will confine the discussion on minerals to a short presentation on calcium metabolism, while placing the emphasis on magnesium and selenium because of their major importance and frequently low intake in the elderly. lead to increased bone resorption, postulated as a risk factor for increased bone loss.3 The high animal protein intake of the omnivore diet causes a high acid load that contributes to both bone and muscle wasting in aging.16,18 The elderly vegan subject avoids this acid load. The LOV use of milk and eggs increases the sulfur load. If vitamin D intake is maintained by supplementation, the elderly vegan should more than maintain bone density, compared with LOVs...
After dietary assessment recommend nutrient supplements for vegan diets which are found to be nutrit
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Healthy Infants
With careful planning, vegetarian diets for infants and children can be nutritionally adequate (Sanders, 1995 Sanders and Reddy, 1994). For vegan infants who are not breastfed, commercially prepared soy-based infant formula is recommended during the first 2 years of life to provide adequate nutrients and energy for growth and development. For older infants, a carefully selected vegetarian diet can meet all the requirements of a growing child however, deficiencies of iron, vitamin B12, vitamin D and energy have been reported in vegetarian children (Sanders, 1995 Jacobs and Dwyer, 1988). The guidelines presented for introducing solid foods (see Transition to Solid Foods) apply to all healthy infants, including vegans. Parents who feed their infant vegan diets in the first 2 years of life may benefit from consultation with a dietitian or nutritionist to ensure the adequacy of their infant's food (nutrient) intake, and to assess the need for nutrient supplements.
Vegancom
Last Updated on Tue, 26 Aug 2014 | Vegan Nutrition
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NotSoHealthy Veggie
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Burn Energy
While a plant-based eating pattern can seem to be the utmost picture of health, if the diet is not well balanced and adequate in all macro- and micronutrients, vegetarians and vegans alike are at risk for nutrient deficiencies. It is well known that these specialized diets do not automatically mean that they are healthy. We know one lacto-ovo vegetarian who has now found that a breakfast of doughnuts and coffee, a lunch of grilled cheese, French fries, and pop, and a dinner of deep-fried falafel or pasta with cream sauce completely complies with his vegetarian choice. We've also come across young athletes who have chosen to follow a vegan diet for ethical reasons but who despise vegetables. As you can imagine, without the guidance of a dietitian, these young athletes are headed for severe Vegan In short, vegetarian and vegan diets can constitute a nutritional disaster if not properly planned.
Have You Had Enough B Today
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Nutrition Guide
Getting enough vitamin B-12 can also be an obstacle for strict vegans, simply because B-12 is derived primarily from animal foods. Once again, you lactos and ovolactos are off the hook because dairy and eggs provide enough to satisfy your daily requirements. The vegan gang has to dig a little deeper. Buy food products that are B-12 fortified cereals, breads, some soy-analogs, and possibly tempeh. You might also want to pop a B-12 supplement providing 100 percent of the RDA, just to be safe. Vegans who don't eat dairy and aren't regularly out in the sun should buy foods fortified with vitamin D or speak with their doctors about vitamin D supplementation.
Have You Ever Wondered 104
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Food and Nutrition
Lacto-ovo-vegetarian kids generally can get enough nutrients from well-chosen foods alone. In fact, vegetarian eating may encourage more fiber, folate, vitamins A and C, fruits and vegetables, and perhaps fewer sweets, fast foods, and salty snacks, than nonvegetarian eating. For vegan infants, children, and teens, some nutrients may need special attention calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, and vitamin D. If your child is a vegan, offer a variety of foods with adequate amounts of these nutrients. Poor choices can put vegetarian kids at greater risk for nutrient inadequacies and their health consequences. Infants exclusively breast-fed for longer than six months are at risk for iron and vitamin D deficiencies. That's true whether the mom is a vegetarian or not. As a guideline for all infants at this time Healthcare providers may advise an iron-fortified cereal or an iron supplement, and perhaps a vitamin D supplement if the baby's exposure to sunlight is limited. Vegetarian or not, the...
Are Vitamin and Mineral Needs Greater During Infancy
Last Updated on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 | Optimal Health
Complementing breast-feeding with a vitamin D-fortified infant formula can assist in meeting an infant's needs. Because the iron content of breast milk is relatively low, the introduction to solid foods between ages 4 to 6 months becomes very important in supplying this nutrient. Iron-fortified cereals are very good choices. Many pediatricians will recommend an iron supplement for infants during their first few months of life. Again, complementing breast-feeding with an iron-fortified infant formula can assist in meeting an infant's needs. Furthermore, infants fed a vegan or other meat-restrictive diets would need a vitamin B12 supplement.
Ayurveda the Science of Life
Foods That Reduce Inflammation
Have You Ever Wondered
Last Updated on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 | Food and Nutrition
What about nutrient supplements The same advice applies to all pregnant women, vegetarian or not. In addition, a vitamin B12 supplement-and perhaps a vitamin D supplement if sunlight exposure is limited-are advised for vegan women. Some vegetarian women also may need zinc or calcium supplements if their food choices come up short. Vegetarian women usually consume more folate than nonvege-tarian women still, a folic acid supplement or folic-acid-fortified foods are advised. For more guidance, see The Vegetarian 'Mom' in chapter 20.
Feeding Healthy Children
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Sunfood Diet
The most beautiful children I have met or seen have been children raised on raw plant foods. They are alert, content, happy, and eager to explore life. The world's most famous childcare specialist Dr. Benjamin Spock recommended, in the seventh edition of his famous book Baby And Child Care, breast-feeding until solid foods were introduced. He specifically recommended a vegetarian diet at that point and, beyond age two, a vegan diet with an emphasis on raw plant foods. Dr. Spock's own vegetarian diet had given him a new lease on life. He wanted the seventh edition of his book to be in the forefront of linking animal foods and disease.
Weight Loss And Vegetarian Diets
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Vegetarian Nutrition
Data showing that vegetarians tend to have lower body weights and BMI scores than those who do not abstain from meat are quite consistent. There are, however, virtually no appropriate studies evaluating the use of vegetarian diets for weight loss. Nicholson et al.23 reported that, in a very small 12-week pilot intervention study of type 2 diabetic patients, those on a low-fat vegan diet lost a mean of 7.2 kg, compared with those on a conventional low-fat diet where the weight loss averaged 3.8 kg. This study is flawed regarding its weight loss component in that the diets were not isocaloric.
Mary Frances Picciano and Michelle Kay McGuire
Last Updated on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 | Nutrition and Pregnancy
Summary National surveys indicate that as many as 97 of women living in the United States are advised by their health care providers to take multivitamin, multimineral (MVMM) supplements during pregnancy, and 7-36 of pregnant women use botanical supplements during this time. Although there is evidence of benefit from some of these preparations, efficacy has not been established for most of them. This chapter reviews some of the most commonly used prenatal supplements in terms of the evidence for their need, efficacy, and safety. Specifically, MVMM, folate, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin D, iron, zinc, magnesium, and iodine are discussed, as are several botanicals. Data indicate that, in general, evidence for benefit gained from taking prenatal MVMM supplements is not well established except for women who smoke, abuse alcohol or drugs, are anemic, or have poor quality diets. Because of folate's well-established effect on decreasing risk for neural tube defects, it is recommended that...
Deficient in the Big Guns
Besides being at risk for micronutrient deficiencies, vegetarians and vegans also can be at risk for a certain macronutrient deficiency, the macronutri-ent being protein. When eating a properly balanced diet, the active vegetarian or vegan has no reason to experience protein malnutrition. One should be aware, however, that as stated before, not all proteins are equal and close attention should be paid to protein sources. By combining various plant sources throughout the day, essential amino acid needs can be met. For further thoughts on protein sources for vegetarians, refer to the following table.
Figure Vegetarian Dishes From Around The World
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Nutrition for Food
Vegetarians may be lacto vegetarians, lacto-ovo vegetarians, or vegans. 3. Vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate when varied and adequate in kcalories (except for vegan diets, which need supplementation with vitamin B12). Most vegetarians get enough protein, and their diets are typically lower in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol.
Accessory Growth Factors
While the diet of an older vegetarian may not contain all nutrients in sufficient quantities, it does contain a greater dietary variety compared with those elderly subjects on the omnivore diet who appear to be lacking in many B vitamins and the antioxidant fat soluble vitamins.81 However, there are two obvious exceptions to this generality for the vegetarian or vegan that deserve special emphasis.
The vegetarian label encompasses a wide variety of dietary and life-style values and practices. For the purposes of this chapter, the term vegetarian refers to a diet that avoids flesh foods such as meat, poultry, and fish but may include dairy products or eggs. The term vegan applies to a diet composed entirely of plant foods. Vegetarian and vegan diets emphasize plant foods such as grains, legumes, nuts, vegetables, and fruits. Plant-rich diets are those that include a generous proportion of plant foods and relatively small amounts of animal foods, whether meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, or dairy products. Plant-rich diets such as those consumed by traditional populations in Mediterranean countries or the Far East are sometimes referred to as vegetarian-like diets. Table 15.2 Vegan, Vegetarian and Mediterranean Dietary Patterns compared to the Dietary Guideline Recommendations14-18 Vegan
Counseling The Vegetarian Mother
Current evidence supports the position of the American Dietetic Association that a well-planned vegetarian or vegan diet can provide the nutrients needed for a successful pregnancy.21 Pregnant vegetarians should receive that assurance along with advice regarding sources for the nutrients usually obtained from any food groups they do not consume. This implies that the health professional will be knowledgeable or will refer the woman to a dietitian who is knowledgeable about alternative nutrient sources that are acceptable to various vegetarian philosophies.
Adding Calcium to Your Diet
Last Updated on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 | Gluten-Free Nutrition
You can get enough calcium in your diet even if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, are lactose intolerant, follow a low-fat diet, or just don't eat dairy products. A combination of the foods listed in this section will enable you to get enough calcium in your diet while suiting your particular needs.
Vitamin Mineral supplementation of breastfed infants
Last Updated on Sat, 22 Jun 2019 | Healthy Infants
The quality of the breastfeeding mother's diet is important for her health and energy, but has a variable effect on milk production and on milk composition (Riordan and Auerbach, 1993). Minerals and fat-soluble vitamin (A,D,E,K) levels in breast milk are minimally influenced by recent maternal diet as these can be drawn from storage in the body. Water-soluble vitamins (eg. ascorbic acid, nicotinic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, pyridoxine, B12) are readily influenced by the maternal diet (Riordan and Auerbach, 1993 Atkinson, 1992). However, if the mother is well nourished, there is no need for supplementation. Only if a mother eats a very restricted diet (e.g. vegan) should supplemental nutrients be recommended to ensure adequate nutrient intake for her and adequate delivery of vitamins to the breastfed infant. With the exception of vitamin D, vitamin and mineral supplementation of breastfed term infants in the first 6 months is not recommended.
Habitual Intakes Of Protein For Athletes
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Sports Nutrition
Coaches, trainers, and athletes are apt to question whether a vegetarian diet can provide adequate protein to meet the increased dietary needs of highly trained athletes 56 . Concerns may stem from the ability of a vegetarian diet to provide all essential amino acids (EAA) in the diet. Because a vegetarian diet is a plant-based diet, the quality of the ingested protein may be questioned. All EAA and nonessential amino acids can be supplied by plant food sources alone, provided that a variety of foods are consumed, and energy intake remains adequate to meet these needs 56 . Of particular concern, however, are individuals who avoid all animal protein sources (ie, vegans) because plant proteins may be limited in amino acids containing lysine, threonine, tryptophan, or sulfur 57 . If the diet is too restricted, suboptimal mineral and protein intake is possible. Although most vegetarian diets meet or exceed dietary recommendations for protein, they often provide less protein than do...
Diseasespecific Guidelines
The relationship between diet and coronary heart disease is more complex than one that simply considers the influence of dietary saturated fat and cholesterol on blood lipid levels. Processes such as plaque formation, thrombosis, endothelial function, and antioxidant status may be influenced by a number of dietary components and interactions. Vegetarian diets that include small amounts of non-fat or low-fat dairy products, or vegetarian diets based entirely on plant foods (vegan) may provide greater overall benefits that go beyond those obtained by simply reducing fat or saturated fat. The impact of fatty acids on thrombosis is unclear. A higher proportion of omega-3 relative to omega-6 inhibits platelet aggregation and thrombus formation. Although fish consumption is somewhat protective, fish oil supplements may not provide a beneficial effect.67 Omega-3 fatty acids are lower in erythrocyte, platelet, and serum phospholipids of vegetarians, especially vegans, who also show increased...
Definition and Types of Vegetarians
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Nutrition and Pregnancy
A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat, fish, poultry, or products containing these foods 1 . Within the broad category, there are numerous subcategories. The most common are lacto-ovo vegetarians, lacto vegetarians, and vegans. Lacto-ovo vegetarians are vegetarians who eat eggs and dairy products. Lacto vegetarians use dairy products but not eggs, and vegans (pronounced VEE-guns) avoid all animal products including dairy products, eggs, honey, and gelatin.
How to Ensure an Adequate Protein Intake
All vegetarians can easily meet their protein needs. Protein doesn't discriminate it's found in both animal and plant foods. Low-fat dairy and eggs can provide generous amounts of protein for vegetarians who dare to eat them, and the vegans in the crowd should become close pals with tofu, nuts, seeds, lentils, and tempeh. Flip back to Chapter 3 to refresh your memory on complementary proteins that is, making a complete protein (a protein containing all of the essential amino acids) by combining two or more incomplete plant proteins.
Weight gain and birth weight in vegetarian pregnancy
Vegetarians as a group tend to be leaner than do nonvegetarians, with vegans tending to have a lower BMI than other vegetarians 16, 17 . This suggests that vegetarian women tend to begin pregnancy with a lower BMI than do nonvegetarians. Standard weight gain recommendations should be used for vegetarians 18 . Weight gain of pregnant lacto-ovo vegetarians and vegans is generally adequate 14, 19, 20 . Birth weights of infants of vegetarian women have been frequently shown to be similar to those of infants born to nonvegetarian women and to birth weight norms 19-22 .
. . . if you need nutrient supplements if you're vegetarian That depends on whether you choose your foods carefully. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians (except perhaps premenopausal women) probably don't if they consume enough iron from plant sources of food. Vegans, however, may need extra calcium, iron, zinc, and vitamins B 2 and D, depending on their overall food choices. Consult a registered dietitian and doctor to see if you need a nutrient supplement. See Vitamin Mineral Supplements For Whom in chapter 23.
How Much Protein Does a Mother Need During Pregnancy
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Optimal Health
Protein requirements are increased during pregnancy to allow for adequate protein production in the mother and developing baby. An increase of 25 grams of protein per day above the RDA is recommended for pregnant teens and women, going from 46 to 71 grams daily. The use of a protein supplement is probably not necessary for most women as their typical protein intake is typically greater than requirements during pregnancy or is accounted for through increased energy intake during pregnancy. Vegetarian females should be particularly careful of their protein intake, especially vegans or fruitarians.
MyPyramid for Vegetarians
Especially for vegans For vegans, use soy margarine in place of butter or other margarines. Most margarine contains some ingredients derived from milk, such as whey or casein. Cookies, pastries, and other baked goods made with margarine may have a different texture than those made with butter. Remember that lard is another fat of animal origin and that stick margarine contains trans fatty acids use mostly soft or liquid margarine. Enjoy thick, creamy fruit shakes If you're a lacto-vegetarian, make them with milk, ice cream, or frozen yogurt. If you're a vegan, blend fruit instead with soft
Sources of Vitamin B in the Diet
Vitamin B12 is synthesized by bacteria and found primarily in meat, eggs, fish (including shellfish), and to a lesser extent dairy products. Fortified breakfast cereals provide a significant source of vitamin B12 (6.0 mcg 3 4 cup), particularly for vegetarians. Plant sources, such as spirulina (algae) and nori (seaweed), contain vitamin B12 analogues, which can compete with vitamin B12 and inhibit metabolism. Lactating vegetarians may need to also be advised that milk and milk products are a good source of vitamin B12 (0.9 mcg 250 ml), while vegans are recommended to consume a supplement ( 2.8 mcg day) and or ensure their diet includes foods fortified with vitamin B12 such as textured vegetable protein and soy milk.
Vitamin D Not Just from Sunshine
However, vegans or anyone who doesn't drink milk or eat fatty fish need to be careful to get enough vitamin D, especially during the winter in northern climates and if housebound. That's true, too, for older adults, who don't synthesize vitamin D as efficiently. If you're a vegan, check the Nutrition Facts on food labels some breakfast cereals, some soy and rice beverages, some cereal bars, and some calcium-fortified juices are fortified with vitamin D.
Im looking for an iron supplement Whats this ferrous stuff
Vegans vegetarians who avoid all foods from animals, including dairy products have a similar problem getting the calcium they need. Calcium is in vegetables, but it, like iron, is bound into hard-to-absorb compounds. So vegans need calcium-rich substitutes. Good food choices are soybean milk fortified with calcium, orange juice with added calcium, and tofu processed with calcium sulfate.
Possible Risk Factors Homocysteine
Typically, vegetarians have relatively high intakes of folate and similar intakes of vitamin B6, as compared with the general population.58 However, vegetarians (and particularly vegans) typically have relatively low intakes of vitamin B12.59 Vitamin B12 is essentially absent from plant foods and is present in small amounts in dairy products (but in somewhat higher amounts in eggs). Therefore, dietary intake of vitamin B12 in vegetarians is low unless they consume large amounts of dairy products and eggs, or regularly consume fortified foods or vitamin supplements. For example, Hokin and Butler60 reported that 73 of vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventist ministers in Australia had low serum vitamin B12 (
Summary and conclusion
In summary, although most pregnant women take one or more dietary supplement, there is strong evidence to support the efficacy of only three of these products during this period of the lifespan, especially for otherwise healthy women. These include folic acid, iodine, and iron, and published recommendations concerning these nutrients are provided in Table 14.2. Additional supplements may be useful in specific circumstances. For example supplemental zinc may be necessary for vegans and women who smoke, have poor quality diets, or are carrying more than one fetus should consider taking a MVMM supplement. Other nutrient supplements such as vitamin A may be warranted for poorly nourished women, especially those with comorbidities. There is very little high quality research on the efficacy and safety of botanical supplements during pregnancy, and extreme care should be taken when recommending their use during this time. The American Dietetic Association and the Institute of Medicine...
Dietary Intake Assessment and Nutritional Status in Special Populations of Female Athletes
Aside from disordered eating, many female athletes are vegetarians for various reasons, which also could affect nutritional intake and status. Janelle and Barr 35 compared the nutrient intakes of vegetarian (n 23) and nonvegetar-ian (n 22) athletes, 20 to 40 years old, using 3-day dietary records. The vegetarian athletes had lower intakes of riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B12, zinc, and sodium intakes, while consuming higher intakes of folate, vitamin C, and copper compared with the nonvegetarians. Within the subgroup of the vegetarians, vegans consumed lower calcium and vitamin B12 compared with lactovegetarians. Despite the health-conscious nature of many vegetarians, dietary intake still may be inadequate and is definitely not the same among subgroups of vegetarians. Vegetarian athletes may need more information on proper nutritional intake to ensure adequate energy and micronutrient intake for optimal performance and health.
Mineral Bioavailability
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Well Being
In general, minerals from animal sources are absorbed better than those from plant sources as minerals are present in forms that are readily absorbed and binders that inhibit absorption, such as phytates, are absent. Vegans (those who restrict their diets to plant foods) need to be aware of the factors affecting mineral bioavailability. Careful meal planning is necessary to include foods rich in minerals and absorption-enhancing factors.
The functionality of meat
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Food Processors
Traditionally, the vegetarian was likely to consume a wider range of foods than the meat eater. Consequently, vegetarians in Europe and North America historically had similar energy intakes to meat eaters and greater intakes of vitamins Bj, C, E, folic acid, b-carotene, potassium and fibre (Sanders, 1999). Today, vegetarianism cannot be assumed to provide a favourable fatty acid intake. Comparative studies of vegetarian and omnivorous children surveyed from 9 to 17 years old found that saturated fat intakes were no lower in the vegetarian children (Nathan et al, 1994 Nathan et al, 1997 Burgess et al, 2001). There was no significant difference between energy intakes and the percentage energy from fat, or saturated fat intakes between vegetarian and omnivore adolescents in northwest England (Burgess et al, 2001). Vegetarian women have lower zinc intakes and status than their omnivore counterparts (Ball and Ackland, 2000). A recent study in Australia showed vegetarians had a lower intake...
Nutritional Requirements
Last Updated on Sat, 22 Jun 2019 | Well Being
Vegan person who consumes no animal products, including milk and honey Protein is a vital dietary component for preschoolers and toddlers, as it is needed for optimal growth. Enough protein should be consumed every day to allow for proper development. Protein deficiencies are rare in the United States, since most U.S. children consume plenty of protein each day. When protein malnutrition does occur, it is usually seen in those from low-income homes, those who follow a strict vegan diet excluding all animal sources, and those with multiple food allergies.
What I Learned From the Yaqui Medicine
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Sunfood Diet
He has followed a vegan diet since birth, as taught to him by his mother (overturning the false idea that indigenous peoples are not vegetarians or vegans). Only 3 times in his life has he eaten animal foods (raw rattlesnake twice as a ceremonial experience and turtle soup once). He can identify thousands of herbs.
Biochemistry And Bioavailability Of Carvocrol
Dutch, on alternative diets, 188 growth studies on vegetarian, 178-179 lacto-ovo-vegetarian, 180 macrobiotic, 186 obesity and vegetarian, 92, 99 quantities of soy products received by vegan, 302 Seventh-Day Adventist, 180 vegan, 183 definitions, 175-176 Competition, 289 Complementary proteins, 199 Connecticut Tumor Registry, 69 Conservation tillage, 446 Constipation, 256 Copper-rich manure, 453 Coronary artery disease (CAD), 256, 257 Coronary heart disease (CHD), 34, 92, 350, 382 decreased death rates from, 291 mortality rates, in Western vegetarians, 44 Coronary heart disease, vegetarianism, coronary risk factors, and, 33-54 topics requiring more research, 46-48 CHD in vegans, 46-47 CHD in vegetarian South Asians, 47 n-3 fatty acids, 47-48 vitamin B12 and homocysteine, 47 vegetarianism and coronary heart disease, 43-46
The Effect Of A Vegetarian Diet On Performance
Modern-day research comparing physical fitness performance in vegetarians and non-vegetarians began in the 1970s. Cotes et al.22 compared thigh muscle width, pulmonary function measures, and the cardiorespira-tory response to submaximal cycle ergometry exercise in 14 vegan and 86 non-vegetarian women. Ventilation responses during rest or exercise did not differ between the groups, and thigh muscle width was similar. The authors concluded that the lack of animal protein did not impair the physiological response to submaximal exercise.
Vitamin and Minerals at a Glance
Last Updated on Thu, 22 Aug 2019 | Burn Energy
This B vitamin is necessary for DNA synthesis and for the formation and function of red blood cells deficiencies can lead to anemia. Because of its role in oxygen-bearing red blood cells, it has been suggested that additional B12 might improve performance in athletic events in which oxidative metabolism is important. However, there is no evidence that B12 supplements or injections improve performance. And B deficiency among athletes is rare. Since B12 is found only in animal-based products, vegan athletes need to take B12 supplements or include B12-fortified foods in their diets. Supplementing with large doses of other vitamins, such as vitamin C, may actually decrease vitamin B12 availability and lead to a B12 deficiency.
Last Updated on Sun, 19 Jan 2020 | Vegetarian Nutrition | 1 comment
To ensure a practical approach based on type of diet, the multiple investigations on vegetarian children have been assembled in three groups of studies, i.e., Seventh-Day Adventist children, studies on vegan children, and studies on macrobiotic children. Of course, as Dwyer et al.49 also pointed out, the patterns of animal food avoidance in vegetarians may vary considerably from group to group. This is true within a particular category of vegetarians, such as lacto-ovo-vegetarians, as well as between the different types. A pure vegetarian or vegan diet does not seem to preclude optimal growth and development, provided a well-planned and balanced plant-based diet is followed with appropriate supplements of fortified foods. Even with careful balance, both the parents and the physician should be aware that growth might be slower than expected. This, however, does not mean that this slow growth can be equated per se with poor health. A macrobiotic diet is far more restrictive than a...
Macronutrients Energy
Last Updated on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 | Nutrition and Pregnancy
The relative increased need above nonpregnancy is greater for protein (54 increase) than for any other nutrient. However, because protein intakes tend to be high relative to needs in the nonpregnancy state, averaging approximately 60 g day for nonpregnant women 4 , inadequate protein intake is not common in the United States, even among pregnant women. However, vegans and women carrying multiple fetuses may need to pay close attention to their protein intakes.
Nutritional Adequacy of Vegetarian Diets
Vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate when varied and adequate in kcalo-ries (except for vegan diets, which need supplementation with vitamin B ). Most vegetarians get enough protein, and their diets are typically lower in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. 1. Vitamin B12. Vitamin B- 2 is found only in animal foods. Lacto-ovo vegetarians usually get enough of this vitamin unless they limit their intake of dairy products and eggs. Vegans definitely need either a supplement or vitamin B12-fortified foods such as most ready-to-eat cereals, most meat analogs, some soy beverages, and some brands of nutritional yeasts. 2. Vitamin D. Milk is fortified with vitamin D, and vitamin D can be made in the skin with sunlight. Generally, only vegans without enough exposure to sunlight need a supplementary source of vitamin D. Some ready-to-eat breakfast cereals and some soy beverages are fortified with vitamin D. 3. Calcium. Lacto vegetarians and lacto-ovo vegetarians generally don't have...
Meat and micronutrients Iron in meat
Groups at risk of vitamin Bj2 deficiency include vegans and strict vegetarians, because vitamin Bj2 is exclusively of animal origin, and the elderly, because their ability to absorb this vitamin from the diet diminishes with age (Allen and Casterline, 1994 Swain, 1995 Baik and Russell, 1999 Drake et al, 1999a). In the past some vitamin B12 was provided from the soil of poorly cleaned foods. This may in part explain the apparent absence of deficiency in some vegan groups. Today, with the emphasis on good food hygiene practices, this source can no longer protect against deficiency in vulnerable individuals. Vegans are recommended to take vitamin B12 supplements since the quantity consumed from foods fortified with the vitamin is too low (Jones, 1995 Draper, 1991 Sanders and Reddy, 1994). The RNI for vitamin Bj2 among the elderly is 1.5 mg day (Department of Health, 1991). A 100g portion of lean trimmed beef contains 2 mg vitamin B12, thus supplying all their daily needs for this...
Special Concerns For Athletes On Vegetarian Diets
Have intakes that fall below the added demands created by heavy exertion.39-65 Most athletes are able to meet these extra demands without protein supplementation by keeping dietary protein intake near 15 of total energy intake.65 The vegan athlete can achieve optimal protein intake by careful planning, with an emphasis on protein-rich plant foods such as legumes, nuts and seeds, and whole grain products.
Vegetarian Nutrition References
Rauma, A.L., Nenonen, M., Helve, T., and Hanninen, O. Effect of a strict vegan diet on energy and nutrient intakes by Finnish rheumatoid patients. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr., 47, 747, 1993. 37. Sanders, T.A., Ellis, F.R., and Dickerson, J.W. Haematological studies on vegans. Br. J. Nutr., 40, 9, 1978. 75. Lau, E.M., Kwok, T., Woo, J., and Ho, S.C. Bone mineral density in Chinese elderly female vegetarians, vegans, lacto-vegetarians, and omnivores. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr., 52, 60, 1998. 111. Outila, T.A., Karkkainen, M.U., Seppanen, R.H., and Lamberg-Allardt, C.J. Dietary intake of vitamin D in premenopausal, healthy vegans was insufficient to maintain concentrations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and intact parathyroid hormone within normal ranges during the winter in Finland. J. Am. Diet. Assoc., 100, 434, 2000. 120. Bar-Sella, P., Rakover, Y., and Ratner, D. Vitamin B-12 and folate levels in long-term vegans. Isr. J. Med Sci., 26, 309, 1990. 122. Campbell, M., Lofters, W.S., and Gibbs, W.N....
Lesson My Personal Diet
Perhaps I was predestined to be a raw-foodist. My ethnic heritage comes from Persia where there is a long history of raw-foodism and veganism. In fact, in the Persian language (Farsi) there is a specific term for a raw-foodist Khom Gia Khori (raw plant eater). This term is about as popular in Persia as the word vegan in the United States.
Meta Analysis of Nutritional Studies on Vegetarians
In 1954, Hardinge and Stare13 compared the nutritional status of strict vegetarians (vegans) and lacto-ovo vegetarians with non-vegetarians of southern California. No differences in height were reported, but vegetarians and especially vegans weighed about 10 kg less than the non-vegetarian counterparts. Since the publication of this landmark research, scores of similar small studies have been conducted comparing vegetarians from many countries with their non-vegetarian counterparts.14 Evidence from these small-sample-size studies of vegetarians indicates that BMI values are either similar to or lower than non-vegetarians. On these types of studies, however, differences between vegetarian and non-vegetarians were most likely minimized due to the selection criteria for study participants (i.e., matching on anthropometrics, ineligibility of obese people).
Dietary Pattern And Pregnancy Outcome
The first comprehensive study of pregnant vegetarians, including dietary intake, nutritional status and health history, was reported by Hardinge et al. in 1954.2 Although vegans were included in the larger study of which this was a part, none was pregnant consequently, comparisons were made between lacto-ovo-vegetarians (LOVs) and omnivores. There was no difference in height, weight, or weight gained during pregnancy and there were no serious delivery complications in either group. Birth weights and lengths were not significantly different. Nearly 20 years passed before Thomas and Ellis compared pregnancy outcome in 14 vegans (28 pregnancies) with 18 controls (41 pregnancies) in England.3 There were no significant differences in live births, still births, toxemia of pregnancy, or infant birth weight. More recently, a tendency toward lower birth weight in term infants was reported in British vegans.4 * Vegetarian as used in this chapter includes all types of vegetarian diets that may...
Vegetarian diets normally contain substantial amounts of potassium, folic acid, magnesium, manganese, copper, fiber, vitamins C, E, and K, and vitamin A (carotenoids). Since the different types of vegetarian diets are quite varied in their composition, nutrient concerns will vary from one to another. Appropriately planned vegan or LOV diets can be nutritionally adequate. However, there are significant nutritional concerns regarding vegetarian diets such as a strict macrobiotic diet. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians and vegans tend to consume sufficient protein in their diets. Even though vegetarians consume iron in a less bioavailable form (non-heme iron), the consumption of a well-balanced vegetarian diet is not associated with any greater risk of iron deficiency. Vegetarian females, especially vegans, tend to have a lower zinc intake and possibly a lower zinc status than omnivores. However, the zinc intake of vegetarian males, both LOV and vegan, appears to be adequate. Female vegans should be...
Vegetarian Diets
Last Updated on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 | Prevention And Therapy
Vegetarianism is a general term encompassing diets that contain no food of animal origin ( vegan ) and plant-based diets that contain dairy products ( lactovegetarian ) or dairy products and eggs ( lacto-ovovegeta-rian ). Although meat is a concentrated source of energy, protein, iron, and zinc, it is not an absolute dietary requirement for humans. Lacto-ovovegetarian diets provide optimum nutrition if foods are carefully chosen. However, strict vegans need to be particularly careful when choosing foods or they may not obtain enough of several important micronu-trients. The potential deficiencies in vegetarian diets are as follows. Vitamins B12 and D are found only in animal products. Although certain vegetarian foods (such as miso, tempeh, seaweeds, and spi-rulina) have been recommended as potential sources of vitamin B12, they contain only compounds that resemble vitamin B12 but that are not active.35 Therefore, strict vegan diets need to include a vitamin B12 supplement and or...
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Fats and Proteins
Vegetarian athletes have a limited choice of protein sources, especially if they are vegan. These athletes would almost require the inclusion of soy protein in their diet to be able to consume an adequate protein intake. While it appears that soy protein may not be the ideal choice for maximal muscle PS, it has been shown to be viable as a sole source of dietary protein. Studies have been conducted where soy protein was used to replace other protein sources without negative effects on the subjects.66-73 However, these tests were conducted in nonexercising individuals. As shown by Phillips, soy protein may not be the optimal choice for athletes and those seeking increased muscle mass. Additionally, because both resistance and cardiovascular exercise alone can decrease cardiovascular risks,74 the benefits of including soy in the diet of an athlete may not be worth the potential decrease in attained muscle mass. However, sedentary persons may notice less of the diminished effect of soy...
Energy Intake
Vegetarians may be similar in weight to the general populace or weigh somewhat less.16 This is particularly true of vegans, who may weigh as much as 10-20 less than omnivores or LOVs.2,17 This may, in part, be due to dietary factors such as the higher intake of plant foods, which contain much more fiber and are usually less energy dense than animal food products, as well as the somewhat lower fat intake. Thus, some vegetarians may enter pregnancy at a lower weight for height and may need more careful monitoring of weight status. Birth weight among macrobiotic infants was positively associated with maternal weight gain in pregnancy, as it was in the recent study of LOVs.5,18 Although studies have reported birth weight of infants born to vegetarians, little is known about maternal energy intake and gestational weight gain in such populations. Energy intake was reported to be low in Hindu vegetarian women however, there was no evidence that it was lower than in Muslim women.14 Weight...
Vegetarians in Western countries typically fall into three main categories lacto-ovo-vegetarians (LOVs), vegans, or other vegetarians. LOVs use dairy products and eggs, but do not use meat, fish, or poultry. Many individuals, such as Seventh-Day Adventists, have been following LOV diets since the mid-1800s. They are less likely to have low intakes of vitamin B12 and calcium than other vegetarians. Those who follow traditional Western vegan diets use a wide variety of fruits, grains, nuts, legumes, and vegetables, but do not use meat, fish, poultry, eggs, or dairy products. This usually corresponds to a lower intake of saturated fat and cholesterol than for omnivores or LOVs. Consequently, vegans have a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease.2 Vegan diets are generally adequate except for the need for vitamin B12 supplementation. Some evidence suggests that female vegans may need to carefully plan their calcium intake to ensure optimal bone mass. This may necessitate the use of...
Two main categories of vegetarian diets can be distinguished. Neither meat, fish, nor poultry are consumed in these categories. The most lenient of the two is the lacto-ovo-vegetarian (LOV) diet, which allows for milk, dairy, and egg consumption. Lactovegetarians (LV), on the other hand, consume milk and dairy products, but do not eat eggs. The pure or strict vegetarian diet, usually referred to as the vegan diet, contains no food derived from animals. Often, the macrobiotic diet is ascribed to the vegan category of diets. However, followers of this largely spiritually based regimen may occasionally use some lean fish and meat. Typical macrobiotic dietary items such as unpolished rice and other whole grain cereals, seaweeds, soya products, and miso soup are eaten regularly, whereas fresh fruit and salads are avoided or used sparsely. This explanation is important because, in the last three decades, the numerous published studies examining the growth and development of vegetarian...
Unsupplemented vegetarian diets contain little and vegan diets contain virtually no DHA or EPA these omega-3 fatty acids are mainly found in oily fish. Vegetarians' limited intakes of EPA and DHA are reflected in blood and breast milk concentrations. Lacto-ovo vegetarians and vegans, including pregnant women 22 have lower blood concentrations of EPA and DHA than have nonvegetarians 68-70 . Breast milk concentrations of EPA and DHA reflect the amounts present in the mother's diet and are lower in breast milk of vegetarian and vegan women 71, 72 . microalgae-derived DHA either in liquid or vegan gelatin capsules. Eggs from hens fed DHA-rich microalgae are another potential source of DHA and have been effectively used to increase the DHA intake of pregnant women 79, 80 . Other foods that have been fortified with microalgae-derived DHA include soymilk, energy bars, yogurt, and veggie burgers 81 . One expert panel has recommended a DHA intake of 300 mg day in pregnancy and lactation 82 .
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Since vitamin B12 is well conserved in the body, it is difficult to become deficient from dietary factors alone, unless a person is a strict vegan and consumes a diet devoid of eggs and dairy for several years. Deficiency is usually observed when B12 absorption is hampered by disease or surgery to the stomach or ileum, damage to gastric mucosa by alcoholism, or prolonged use of anti-ulcer medications that affect secretion of intrinsic factor. Age-related decrease in stomach-acid production also reduces absorption of B12 in elderly persons. These groups are advised to consume fortified foods or take a supplemental form of vitamin B12. vegan person who consumes no animal products, including milk and honey
Legumes are an important source of protein for vegetarians, especially vegans. The protein in legumes is considered incomplete, however, and needs to be eaten in combination with whole grains to make a complete (high-quality) protein (e.g., green beans, lentils, and rice navy beans and barley soybeans and sesame seeds red beans and rice). Such combinations vegan person who consumes no animal products, including milk and honey
While lacto-ovo vegetarians include dairy products and eggs in a plant-based diet, vegans consume a plant-based diet exclusively. Some studies have shown that an exclusively plant-based diet may actually be detrimental to bone health. Bone density at the lumbar spine and femoral neck was measured using dual-photon absorptiometry in 258 postmenopausal Taiwanese vegetarian women.26 The vegans were found to be at a higher risk of exceeding lumbar spine fracture threshold and of being classified as having osteopenia of the femoral neck. They had lower protein intake than the lacto-ovo vegetarians, suggesting that total protein intake may be an important predictor of bone density. Similar findings were reported among premenopausal vegans.27 Vegans in this study not only had lower protein intake than LOV and non-vegetarians, but also had the lowest calcium to protein ratio among the three groups. Not all studies comparing vegetarians distinguish between vegans and LOV. Cross-sectional...
Diet And Evolution
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Obviously different blood groups, races, and ethnic groups share different affinities for natural foods (e.g. northern Europeans tend to like green apples, southern Europeans tend to like red apples). Each group has different enzymatic capabilities to digest their traditional cooked staples. So there is a partial truth in the blood-type theory however, the blood-type theory makes no distinction between raw or cooked foods, nor dos it address blood type O's who thrive on a vegetarian, vegan, or raw-food diet - indicating a flaw in its reasoning.
Vegetarians have been shown to have a lower mean intake of vitamin D and a lower mean serum vitamin D level. In a study of Finnish women, the dietary intake of vitamin D in vegans was found to be insufficient to maintain blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone within normal ranges during the winter.111 Both LOV and vegan premeno-pausal women had vitamin D intakes significantly lower than the omnivores. The vegans had significantly lower (12 ) bone mineral density (BMD) in the lumbar region of the spine than the omnivores, and the vegans' spinal BMD tended to be lower than the LOVs. In addition, BMD in the neck of the femur tended to be lower in the vegans. The higher levels of parathyroid hormone found in the vegans would indicate that low vitamin D levels had a negative effect on their BMD. The serum vitamin D levels of the vegans were lower, and their parathyroid hormones higher, throughout the year. The researchers concluded that vitamin D supplementation or...
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One of the ways anthropologists date human fossils is by looking at skull teeth. The more modern the fossil, the more tooth decay. Analyses of striations on fossilized teeth show no decay or premature wear when homonids ate a raw-vegan diet. Most paleontologists agree that tooth decay coincided with the discovery of fire and accelerated with the advent of agriculture.
Vitamin B cobalamin
See Vitamin B 2 A Challenge for Vegans in chapter 20. Strict vegetarians, who eat no animal products, and the infants of vegan mothers are at risk for developing a vitamin B12 deficiency. This could cause severe anemia and irreversible nerve damage. The elderly also are at risk. Including foods fortified with vitamin B12 or dietary supplements can prevent vitamin B12 deficiency. The Dietary Guidelines advise for people over age fifty, consume vitamin B12 in its crystalline form (e.g., fortified foods or supplements).
Be Aware of B
Consuming adequate amounts of vitamin B12, or cobalamin, is one of the greatest nutritional challenges for vegans. Because vitamin B is most readily available from animal sources, vegetarians and vegans alike are at high risk for this nutrient deficiency, often referred to as pernicious anemia. Vitamin B12 assists in the formation of blood and, because it helps to maintain the sheath that coats nerve fibers, is essential for the healthy functioning of the nervous system. The consequences of a vitamin B12 deficiency are dire and include an increased risk of heart disease, diminished exercise tolerance, excessive fatigue, and other signs and symptoms. While vitamin B12 is found in fortified products such as soy milk and cereals, many vegans tend to avoid these products. Vegans and individuals who avoid fortified foods must be diligent about taking a supplement. Some supplements and food items geared toward vegans claim to be potent sources of vitamin B12. Here are some food items that...
The American Dietetic Association and the IOM recommend that all pregnant women who smoke or abuse alcohol or drugs take MVMM supplements as should those with iron deficiency anemia or poor quality diets 2, 16 . This recommendation also applies to vegans and women carrying two or more fetuses. The recommended amounts of micronutrients in prenatal MVMM preparations are provided in Table 14.1. Care should always be taken that intake from these supplements not result in consumption of nutrient levels above the ULs set for pregnancy.
Appropriately planned vegetarians diets can be healthful and nutritionally adequate and are appropriate for use in pregnancy. Key nutrients for pregnant vegetarians include protein, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, omega-3 fatty acids, and calcium and vitamin D (for vegans). Practitioners should be aware of good sources of these nutrients and be able to assess the need for supplements. Practitioners should also be able to provide current, accurate information about vegetarian nutrition and foods (see Tables 15.1-15.4).
Types of Vegetarians
There are several vegetarian eating styles. Most vegetarians consider themselves lacto-ovo vegetarians, meaning they generally eat dairy and egg products, but do not include meat, poultry, or fish in their diet. Lacto vegetarians eliminate all animal foods except dairy products. Total vegetarians, or vegans (pronounced VEE-guns), eliminate all animal products. Individuals who occasionally eat meat, poultry, or fish consider themselves semi-vegetarian.
Cobalamin vitamin B
Only microorganisms synthesise vitamin Bj2 and the vitamin gets into the food chain from the bacteria present in the digestive system of herbivores. Herbivores are then eaten by animals higher in the food chain. For humans, food sources of vitamin B12 include almost all animal products, certain algae and bacteria. Vitamin B12 is not present in vegetables or fruits. The dietary intake of vitamin B12 is about 5 mg day (Weir and Scott, 1998). The current RDA for Bj2 in most countries is between 1 and 20 mg day the British RNI are given in Table 3.1. Since food sources of vitamin B12 are limited to those of animal origin, vegetarians and especially vegans are at risk of becoming deficient and should take an oral supplement. Studies on these groups have shown evidence of biochemical deficiency such as raised concentrations of homocysteine and methylmalonic acid but no clinical evidence of anaemia or neuropathy. The exception is breastfed infants of vegans, who have developed neuropathy.
These include dairy products, whole grains, leafy green vegetables, legumes, and sea vegetables. While vegetarian adults in Western nations generally have somewhat lower riboflavin intakes than do omni-vores,77 they still have intakes of riboflavin above the U.S. RDAs (1.3 mg for males 1.1 mg for females). Vegans often report a lower riboflavin intake than omnivores or LOVs, but their intakes are still generally adequate.78 In a study of elderly women in California, the lacto-vegetarians reported slightly higher riboflavin intakes (1.46 mg d) than the omnivores (1.36 mg d).33 Many teenagers have a marginal riboflavin intake, possibly due to poor dietary choices. Among Canadian teenagers, slightly more lacto-vegetarians and semi-vegetarians had inadequate riboflavin intakes than did omnivores.48
A vegetarian diet can be a very healthy option. However, adolescents who follow a vegetarian diet, whether for religious or personal reasons, need to carefully plan their intake to get the protein and minerals they need. Strict vegetarians (those who do not eat eggs or dairy products), also known as vegans, may need nutritional supplements to meet their needs for calcium, vitamin B12, and iron.
Meat protein has a higher biological value than has plant protein because some of the amino acids are limiting in plant protein. For example, lysine is the limiting amino acid in wheat, tryptophan is the limiting amino acid in maize and sulphur-containing amino acids are limiting in soyabean. It is necessary for vegans and vegetarians to eat a wide variety of vegetable protein foods to provide the necessary amounts of each amino acid. Meat is a rich source of taurine. Taurine is considered to be an essential amino acid for newborns, as they seem to have a limited ability to synthesise it. Taurine concentrations in the breast milk of vegans were shown to be considerably lower than in omnivores (Rana and Sanders, 1986). The significance of this finding is unknown.
Although vegetarian diets are generally relatively rich in carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E, they are not necessarily rich in selenium, another antioxidant nutrient. Selenium levels are high in fish and moderately high in meat, but the selenium content of plant foods is strongly determined by the selenium content of the soil. Some small studies have reported low selenium levels in vegetarians and vegans, for example, in Britain,64 Finland,65 and Slovakia,66 probably reflecting the low soil selenium levels in these countries.
Dietary iron intakes of vegetarian women of childbearing age vary with mean iron intakes of 11-15 mg day reported for lacto-ovo vegetarians and 14-23 mg day for vegans 2 . Mean dietary iron intakes of 13.8 mg day and 17 mg day have been reported in pregnant lacto-ovo vegetarians supplemental iron increased total mean iron intake to 57 mg day and 37 mg day, respectively 5, 21 .
Vegetarians and vegans typically attempt to fill the space for fat with cooked vegetables. Cooking densifies vegetation and gives the body the illusion of fullness and satiation that fat provides. Many non-raw-food vegans and vegetarians I have met, to me, look deficient in raw fat and overloaded on cooked vegetable starch. I have observed that a fat-deficient state coupled with sugar imbalances due to cooked starch can lead non-raw vegans and vegetarians back to animal foods to get fat for its own sake, and to get fat to slow the entry of sugar into the blood. For vegans and vegetarians, I recommend replacing cooked starch with cooked non-starchy vegetables (purple cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, artichoke), transitioning into The Raw-Food Diet, and including significantly more raw plant fat into the diet.
N Fatty Acids
Vegetarian diets are generally very low in long chain n-3 fatty acids. Eggs can provide significant amounts if the chickens are fed a diet high in a-linolenic acid, but most egg production in Western countries relies on feeds such as corn, which have a very high ratio of n-6 to n-3 fatty acids and the resulting eggs are low in long chain n-3 fatty acids.74 Dairy products contain only trace amounts of long chain fatty acids, and plant foods none (with the exception of some algae). Vegetarian diets generally provide reasonable amounts of a-linolenic acid (about 1.5 mg day), but can also be very high in n-6 linoleic acid, which competes for the same enzymes. Tissue levels of long chain n-3 fatty acids are relatively low in vegetarians and vegans.59,75
Because vitamin B12 is only found in animal foods, infants of vegetarians (vegans) who are exclusively breast-fed may develop anemia and neurological problems due to vitamin B12 deficiency.11 Lactating women who are vegetarians should consider taking a vitamin-B12 supplement - the vitamin will then be passed to their infant in their milk.
Major Minerals
Dietary deficiency is unlikely for most major minerals, except in starving people or those with protein-energy malnutrition in developing countries, or people on poor diets for an extended period, such as those suffering from alcoholism, anorexia nervosa, or bulimia. Most people in the world consume a lot of salt, and it is recommended that they moderate their intake to prevent chronic diseases (high salt intake has been associated with an increased risk of death from stroke and cardiovascular disease). However, certain conditions, such as severe or prolonged vomiting or diarrhea, the use of diuretics, and some forms of kidney disease, lead to an increased loss of minerals, particularly sodium, chloride, potassium, and magnesium. Calcium intakes tend to be lower in women and vegans who do not consume dairy products. Elderly people with suboptimal diets are also at risk of mineral deficiencies because of decreased absorption and increased excretion of minerals in the urine.
And this is where my scientific interest in vegetarian diets began. On graduating from medicine (1942) I began teaching at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Although raised as a life-long vegetarian (lacto-ovo), I began to wonder if sound scientific investigation would vindicate such a diet's adequacy. In the fall of 1948, I enrolled as a graduate student in the Harvard School of Public Health. Doctor Fred Stare, then chairman of the department of nutrition, became my senior professor. My doctoral research was approved, and a comparative study of the nutritional status of vegetarians versus non-vegetarians began. Three groups were evaluated, namely, adults (men and women), adolescents (boys and girls), and pregnant women. Complete vegetarians (vegans), and lacto-ovo vegetarians (use milk and eggs but no fish or fowl) were compared with non-vegetarians.
Ann Reed Mangels
Summary A vegetarian diet, defined as an eating style that avoids meat, fish, and poultry, can be healthful and nutritionally adequate for a pregnant woman. Some vegetarians, called vegans, avoid dairy products and eggs as well as meat, fish, and poultry. Vegan diets can also be healthful and nutritionally adequate for pregnancy. Vegetarian diets can provide numerous long-term health benefits including a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, some forms of cancer, and hypertension. Key nutrients for vegetarian pregnancy include protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12, iodine, and omega-3 fatty acids. Vegetarian women should also be counseled to follow standard weight gain recommendations. A vegetarian or vegan diet can meet requirements for all of these nutrients although in some instances, fortified foods or supplements can be especially useful in meeting recommendations. The nutrient content of supplements targeted to pregnant vegetarians should be evaluated to make sure...
Antioxidant intake of the vegetarian or vegan diet, as part of every meal, appears to promote a longer life-span for elderly subjects.9 The necessity of supplemental vitamin B12 and vitamin D for the elderly vegetarian or vegan might be construed as a problem, but less so than for the elderly omnivore, who has a longer list of required supplemental vitamins and minerals. The mineral advantage, in terms of a lower calcium requirement for elderly vegans, is possibly the biggest advantage of all, if they also have supplemental vitamin D. of the vegetarian or vegan lifestyles,115 and the vegan elderly have been noted to have elevated immune capability vs. omnivores.15,34 Dietary guidelines for the elderly emphasize consumption of high-quality, nutrient-rich foods.116 Table 11.2 illustrates the recognition that age-related changes in body composition and physiology change the elderly subjects' nutrient requirements.116 The elderly vegan can, for the most part, meet these demands with...
Key & Davey12 used data from approximately 4000 men and women collected in England for the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC study) to examine the relationship between obesity and meat intake. Subjects were classified as meat eaters if they ate any meat, as fish eaters if they did not eat meat but did eat fish, as vegetarians if they did not eat meat or fish but did eat dairy products or eggs, and as vegans if they did not eat any of these four categories of food. Among both men and women, mean BMI was highest among meat eaters, lowest among the vegans, and intermediate among the fish eaters and vegetarians. These differences in body mass index are equivalent to mean differences in weight between meat eaters and vegans of 5.9 kg in men and 4.7 kg in women. In the groups that did not eat meat, mean BMI was lower among those who had adhered to their diet for 5 or more years than among those who had adhered to their diet for a shorter period. According to...
Vegetarian categories nine out of 23 studies deal with lacto-ovo-vegetarian (LOV) subjects,19'21-23'25'27'28'37-38 five with vegan subjects,20-2639-41 three with macrobiotic (Mbiot) subjects1-2-24-47 and six with macrobiotic and LOV subjects.6-11 Vegan Vegan Vegan Vegan Vegan lifelong 15 children did not mind eating non-vegan foods 2. vegan 2. Vegan Children In the '80s, two studies of vegan children who lived on The Farm, a strict vegetarian commune near Summertown, Tennessee, were reported in the scientific literature.26,39 With the exception of margarine, white sugar, infant A much larger study of 404 vegan children aged 4 months to 10 years in this community of plant-food eaters was conducted by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and The Farm.26 Eighty-three percent of these children had been vegans after weaning, eating no animal products at all. The results of this study show that most of the height, weight, and weight-for-height data were within the 25th and...
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Sarah Wellgreen
Chilling four minute video shows unrepentant Ben Lacomba just days after Sarah Wellgreen’s disappearance
Lacoma sits slouched and silent as a detective questions him over Sarah Wellgreen's murder
Lauren MacDougall
Police have released chilling footage of a stony-faced Ben Lacomba just days after the disappearance of his ex-partner Sarah Wellgreen.
The 39-year-old taxi driver from Dartford was today (November 8) sentenced for murdering the beautician and mother of his children.
Lacomba stood before Woolwich Crown Court where Judge Christopher Kinch told the killer he will serve at least 27 years behind bars before being considered for release.
Lacomba was first arrested on suspicion of Sarah’s murder on October 16.
Ben Lacomba jailed for 27 years for the murder of ex-partner Sarah Wellgreen
A video taken after his arrest shows a detective questioning the killer, who sits slouched and seemingly uninterested next to his solicitor.
In the footage, which lasts for just over four minutes, the officer can be heard explaining to Lacomba the reason for his arrest.
He first asks: "So do you have to answer our questions today?"
Chilling video shows unrepentant Ben Lacomba days after Sarah’s disappearance
In response Lacomba slowly shakes his head and quietly says "no".
The detective continues: "If you don't explain something today but do explain it later in court and your defence rests upon it, what might the court think?"
Several seconds elapse before Lacomba glances at his solicitor.
He then simply says: "Bad."
The detective further probes, asking: "Bad in what way?"
Chillingly, Lacomba replies: "That I'm lying."
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Later in the video, which was filmed at around 11pm, the detective continues: "You are here on suspicion of murdering her, we believe she may be dead, that may be at your hand.
"So did you kill her?"
Some 40 seconds of silence then elapse before the detective finally interjects: "I'm not clear at the moment Ben whether you are just trying to think of an answer or whether you have decided not to answer the question."
Lacomba continues to sit, slouched forward with his eyes staring at the table before him.
After the interview Lacomba was later released on bail before being charged on December 20, 2018.
On October 28, just over a year after the mother-of-five’s disappearance, Lacomba was unanimously convicted of Sarah’s murder following a four-week trial.
The jury took just three and a half hours to return their verdict.
During the trial the court heard how a missing person investigation was launched on October 11, 2018 when Lacomba reported Sarah's disappearance two days after she was last seen.
Searches in and around the home they shared in Bazes Shaw, New Ash Green, took place in the days that followed.
As the enquiry continued detectives became suspicious that something sinister had happened to 46-year-old Sarah and the search was widened with almost 22,000 hours of CCTV footage being seized.
Ben Lacomba has been found guilty of murdering Sarah Wellgreen
In the months that followed, extensive investigations by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate unravelled discrepancies in the accounts given by Lacomba about Sarah’s disappearance and his own behaviour.
It is these discrepancies that ultimately saw Lacomba sent down for Sarah's murder.
Officers found Lacomba’s red Vauxhall Zafira, a taxi with distinctive writing on the side, was not parked in its usual place outside the family home the night Sarah went missing.
Instead it had been parked away from CCTV cameras belonging to neighbours and was found to leave Bazes Shaw in the middle of the night. Various CCTV cameras in New Ash Green and the wider area showed it headed south towards Stansted before disappearing for two hours.
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Comparisons of the vehicle in the days before and after Sarah disappeared showed the car had been clean when he returned from work on October 9, became dirty during the overnight journey south and it was then cleaned again after Lacomba went out in it the following morning.
Phone records also revealed that despite his initial claim to officers that he woke up to find Sarah missing on the morning of October 10, he only decided to report her missing the following day when her family and friends sent texts and spoke to him about their concerns.
However, on October 14 when family liaison officers asked Lacomba for his phone to help them with the missing person investigation, he refused after being told what information could be retrieved.
He told the officers to leave because he felt tired but after officers left, he drove his red Vauxhall north to Evelyn Walk, Greenhithe and threw his phone into the River Thames.
Ben Lacomba and Sarah Wellgreen (Image: Facebook)
When he returned home, he asked a relative for a loan saying he had got rid of his mobile phone. The following day on October 15 he visited a shop in Dartford High Street and bought an identical Samsung model to the phone he refused to give officers – the same one he told a relative he had got rid of.
On October 16, Lacomba requested an urgent hearing at Dartford Family Court where he sought custody of the three children he and Sarah shared. He was arrested by detectives shortly afterwards.
On interview, he refused to answer any questions put to him to either explain Sarah’s disappearance or help find her.
He was bailed but later re-arrested and charged with murder on December 20, 2018.
Today, following a four week trial he was sentenced to 27 years in jail for her murder.
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Coroner: Dayton gunman had drugs in system during firefight
A makeshift memorial sits outside Ned Peppers nightclub in the Oregon District entertainment neighborhood where on Aug. 4 a gunman killed nine people, on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, in Dayton Ohio. (Source: WRGT)
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Updated: Thu 9:25 PM, Aug 15, 2019
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The gunman in Dayton who killed nine people had cocaine, an antidepressant and alcohol in his system during the mass shooting, and was cut down by a barrage of at least two dozen police bullets that penetrated gaps in his body armor, a coroner said Thursday.
Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said authorities found a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine on 24-year-old Connor Betts. Harshbarger also reported in his preliminary autopsy findings that Betts had more than 50 entry and exit wounds.
"This incident involved an intense firefight that is rarely seen other than combat and an active-shooter incident," Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said. "The officers were confronted with a moving shooter wearing body armor, actively executing victims with an AR-15-type weapon and high-capacity magazines."
The coroner said police gunfire hit two people. One of them died, but Harshbarger said the gunman, not police, fired the lethal round.
Police investigators will review the medical records of the 17 who were wounded to determine if any of them were struck by the officers' bullets, Biehl said.
Police haven't yet determined a motive for the shooting.
Meanwhile, Betts' parents have apologized for the wording in his death notice that didn't mention the mass shooting whose victims included his younger sister.
Stephen and Moira Betts issued a statement that said the notice for Connor Betts was "insensitive in not acknowledging the terrible tragedy that he created."
They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren't trying to "minimize horror of his last act."
The notice described Betts as a "funny, articulate and intelligent man with striking blue eyes and a kind smile" before it was taken down Wednesday by a funeral home in their hometown of Bellbrook, Ohio.
Betts opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton. Police shot him as he neared a crowded bar.
It's not known whether Betts targeted his 22-year-old sister, Megan. They had spent an hour together at a bar in the same area before the shooting.
The family will be holding private memorial services for both of their children.
Ethan Kollie, a longtime friend of Betts who told investigators he bought the body armor, a 100-round magazine and a key part of the gun Betts used in the attack will remain in jail after a judge ordered Thursday that he be held without bond until his trial.
Authorities have said there's no indication Kollie knew Betts was planning the mass shooting, but they charged him with lying on a federal firearms form while buying a pistol not used in the shooting.
His attorneys wanted him released on house arrest with electronic monitoring and other conditions, telling the judge Kollie had no history of violence and no role in the shooting. Prosecutors opposed his request to stay with a family friend.
Seewer reported from Toledo.
This story has been corrected to show the statement that the funeral home took down was a death notice for Betts, not an obituary.
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"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal
"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR
"Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York Times
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.
While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, and For Rouenna, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Nunez lives in New York City.
“The contemplation of writing and the loss of integrity in our literary life form the heart of the novel...Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence. She addresses important ideas unpretentiously and offers wisdom for any aspiring writer who, as the narrator fears, may never know this dear, intelligent friend—or this world that is dying. But is it dying? Perhaps. But with The Friend, Nunez provides evidence that, for now, it survives.” —The New York Times Book Review
"Charming... the comedy here writes itself... the novel's tone in general, however, is mournful and resonant... The snap of her sentences sometimes puts me in mind of Rachel Cusk." —The New York Times
“In crystalline prose, Nunez creates an impressively controlled portrait of the ‘exhaustion of mourning.’” —The New Yorker
“Everywhere in this novel it is impossible to separate love and companionship from loss...The Friend is one of those rare novels that, in the end, makes your heart beat slower.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“A beautiful book … crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal
"A meditation on reading and writing, love and loss, The Friend is a work rich in literary allusions and anecdotes….With The Friend . . . [Nunez’s] found the perfect pitch….Nunez’s prose is illuminated by a wit, warmth and wisdom all of her own. The Friend is a true delight: I genuinely fear I won’t read a better novel this year.” — The Financial Times
"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory, what it means to be a writer today, and various forms of love and friendship... Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR
“The book is an intimate, beautiful thing, deceptively slight at around 200 pages, but humming with insight… [an] artfully discursive meditation on friendship, love, death, solitude, canine companionship and the life of an aging writer in New York. Far from being heavy going, this novel, written as a letter to the late friend, is peppered with wry observations, particularly those of a writer stuck teaching undergraduates.” –The Economist
“In this slim but pitch-perfect novel, a writer loses her best friend and mentor suddenly without explanation…Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, a mania story, and a recovery story.” —Vanity Fair
“A poignant reflection on loss and companionship.” —Marie Claire
“[A] sneaky gut punch of a novel…a consummate example of the human-animal tale…The Friend’s tone is dry, clear, direct—which is the surest way to carry off this sort of close-up study of anguish and attachment.” —Harper's Magazine
“A wry riff on Rilke’s idea of love as two solitudes that ‘protect and border and greet each other.’”—Vogue
"With enormous heart and eloquence, Nunez explores cerebral responses to loss… The Friend exposes an extraordinary reserve of strength waiting to be found in storytelling and unexpected companionship.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Often as funny as it is thoughtful, The Friend is an elegant meditation on grief, friendship, healing, and the bonds between humans and dogs." —Buzzfeed
“A serious book about a big sloppy dog, Nunez’s seventh novel… displays the intellectual heft of her late friend’s work, but also a distinctive sense of humor and narrative momentum.” —Vulture
“A brilliant examination of the writer’s life, literary friendship, mortality, bereavement, and our relationship to animals. The novel is not easily summarized; the true rewards of this reading experience are the crystalline prose… Readers will also savor the surprising shifts in narrative focus.” —The Rumpus
"An elegant and darkly humorous meditation on grief and companionship, it's a great read — whether or not you're obsessed with canines.” —Shondaland.com
“Sigrid Nunez’s novel delivers an enthralling, emotional tale.” —Paste Magazine
"The Friend is proof that what we lack is itself a vital part of life — and that loss can lead to meaningful connections found in unlikely places. Sometimes it can take an animal to make a person understand their own humanity. And sometimes a book as unexpected as The Friend can provide as much comfort as any canine companion.” —B&N Review
“Quietly brilliant and darkly funny… [The Friend is] rigorous and stark, so elegant—so dismissive of conventional notions of plot—it hardly feels like fiction. Breathtaking both in pain and in beauty; a singular book.” —Kirkus, starred review
“Riveting… This elegant novel explores both rich memories and day-to-day mundanity, reflecting the way that, especially in grief, the past is often more vibrant than the present.” —Publishers Weekly
“Light, musing, curious, and somehow wonderfully sturdy.” –Vivian Gornick for Bookforum
“Brilliant but informal, sad yet laugh-out-loud funny… This beautiful, spare, work will not disappoint.” –Bookpage
“Nunez offers an often-hilarious, always-penetrating look at writing, grief, and the companionship of dogs.” —Booklist
"The joys of this novel lie in Nunez’s striking capacity to describe the world and its inhabitants, both human and animal. Nunez is a keen observer of behavior, and throughout the text she plants wonderful nuggets that immediately ring true yet still manage to be surprising.” —Michigan Daily
“A slow, poignant meditation on grief, rife with pithy literary myths and quotations… Literature nerds, creative writing students, and dog lovers will find this work delightful. Recommended for literary fiction collections.” —Library Journal
“Nunez’s story of a dog and his inadvertent caregiver is a darkly humorous and unsentimental tale of friendship, mourning, and solace.”—Electric Lit
“The intensity and elegance of The Friend mean two things—you cannot put it down and you will cry. In a novel about loss and the loneliness of writing and imagination, Sigrid Nunez creates an irresistible tale of love and an unforgettable Great Dane. A beautiful, beautiful book—the most original canine love story since My Dog Tulip.” —Cathleen Schine, bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do
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Disney Announces 'Home Alone' Reboot!
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Reboots may be the ‘IT’ thing to do but certain classics should be just left alone – like Home Alone!
Disney recently announced a reboot for the hit 90’s Christmas movie is currently in the works. According to Entertainment Tonight, “The beloved Christmas movie is getting a modern version, set to premiere on Disney’s forthcoming streaming service, Disney+. The news was confirmed by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger during Walt Disney Company’s earnings call that was made public on Tuesday.”
Disney have confirmed that they're going to remake 80's childhood classic, Home Alone. ? ? Do you think this could work in a 21st century setting?? ? #disney #homealone?
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The original, released in 1990 and directed by Chris Columbus, starred Macaulay Culkin as the troubling Kevin McAllister whose family leaves him behind during their family Christmas vacation. As the family heads to Paris, Kevin is all alone, watching horror movies, eating ice cream and cheese pizza and coming head-to-head with two neighbourhood burglars. The film did so well, it became the ‘highest-grossing live action comedy film’ and held a ‘worldwide record’ until 2011 when The Hangover Part II bumped them into second place. Two years later, a sequel was made, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Disney has not forgotten Kevin, popular movies from the mouth like #HomeAlone, #NightattheMuseum and the diary of a rousing friction in the streaming service version. Click on the bio link for more on the relaunch.
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Although Bob didn’t release any addition information in terms of casting, plot, or release date, as ET explains, “The film will be a reimagined version for a new generation.” The film’s original star, Macauly had the best response. He tweeted a photo of himself in the present with the caption, “This is what an updated Home Alone would actually look like.” In a follow up tweet, Macaulay asks if Disney could phone him.
This is what an updated Home Alone would actually look like. pic.twitter.com/sGj86933LA
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) August 7, 2019
Hey @Disney, call me!
In December, Macaulay hilariously recreated one of his super-iconic scenes from Home Alone for a Google Assistant commercial.
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Suspending Parliament for no-deal Brexit will provoke crisis – Hammond
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond (Simon Dawson/PA)
Chancellor Philip Hammond has predicted a “constitutional crisis” if the next prime minister suspends Parliament to try and push through a no-deal Brexit.
In a thinly veiled warning to frontrunner for the Tory crown, Boris Johnson, the Chancellor said he would back legal moves suggested by ex-prime minister Sir John Major to challenge any prorogation of Parliament in the courts.
Mr Hammond told Bloomberg: “If anybody were to attempt to shut down Parliament in order to carry out a course of action which Parliament is known to oppose, that would be very serious indeed.
“That would provoke a constitutional crisis.
“And, if we aren’t able to prevent that course of action through Parliament, then, certainly, there will be resort to the courts, and I strongly support the position that Sir John Major has taken.”
Sir John Major warned of legal action to challenge any prorogation of Parliament (Yui Mok/PA)
Sir John has threatened to drag Mr Johnson through the courts if he attempts to suspend Parliament in order to prevent MPs blocking a no-deal exit from the European Union in October.
Mr Hammond’s comments came as Business Secretary Greg Clark said a no-deal Brexit would lead to the loss of “many thousands” of jobs.
Mr Clark implored colleagues to “strain every sinew to avoid that”, with leadership rivals Mr Johnson and Jeremy Hunt both pledging to leave the EU without a deal if need be.
But the men vying to succeed Theresa May face a battle to force through their commitment, as some MPs vow to block any attempt.
Mr Johnson has pledged that he will enact the EU exit by the Halloween deadline “come what may, do or die”, while Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt said he would be willing to delay if a deal was in sight.
Mr Clark warned in an interview broadcast on Friday that the disruption of a no-deal departure would lead to the shedding of jobs.
“It’s evident that if you have the disruption that comes from a no-deal Brexit there will be people that will lose their jobs,” he told Sky News.
“It’s many thousands of jobs. Everyone knows that.”
Mr Clark cited evidence from businesses when challenged that some are claiming the UK could weather an exit on World Trade Organisation terms.
“I think every person that considers the evidence that companies have given – whether it’s in the automotive sector, whether it’s in the food sector, whether it’s in aerospace, in industries up and down the country – you know if you become less efficient and your ability to trade is impeded, then of course losing your competitiveness means there will be jobs lost,” he said.
A spokeswoman for Mrs May told a Westminster briefing: “The Prime Minister has always been clear that leaving without a deal would be disruptive.”
The ability to leave the EU by October 31 has been a major issue in the Tory leadership contest.
Boris Johnson at the Tory leadership hustings in Maidstone (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Mr Johnson has taken the tougher line, even refusing to rule out suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal against the wishes of MPs.
But he insisted at a Tory leadership hustings in Maidstone on Thursday that “common sense” would prevail among his colleagues, causing them to support his bid to sever the UK from the EU.
Mr Hunt, however, warned that “the big risk” facing the Conservative Party was ending up with an election and no departure “if we approach Brexit in a headstrong way”.
Great to meet Members in Maidstone and Sevenoaks this evening. I set out why my detailed plan for Brexit and my lead in the polls as the best person to beat Corbyn mean it #HastobeHunt pic.twitter.com/LEbsnDaeST
— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) July 11, 2019
Labour is poised to prevent any attempt at a no-deal Brexit, as are senior Tories including Justice Secretary David Gauke.
But Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has offered some optimism for no-deal proponents, saying the move had to remain in the “armoury” of the next PM.
On Friday, the contenders head to Cheltenham for their latest hustings with the Tory members who are choosing their destiny.
Interviews with the BBC’s Andrew Neil will also be aired.
The new leader will be announced on July 23 and sworn in as PM the following day.
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Kate Lollar
Jun 24, 2012, 10:30am
This E3, I gathered with friends and former colleagues around a high top at Hooters, swapping small talk and tales of cosplay catastrophe at Video Games Live. You could smell the nerd (and hot sauce) for miles.
Much like my experience in the games industry, it didn't matter if you were woman, man or monkey — our table was an equal opportunity gathering.
For six years, I've been a woman in the magical land of video game PR. For six years, I've felt as welcome as any man to fulfil my career aspirations, contribute new ideas, set high scores and geek out on pixels.
I'm not looking to defend the craft, but Katie Williams' article about sexist PR at E3 caught me off guard.
My career exemplifies chance, change and "girl power" in video games. So if there is confusion about what women can and can't do, let me be the first to clear it up.
After snagging some enviable client PR cred, I abruptly quit my job last month. Now officially rogue, I attribute my non-concern over self-employment to being a woman in this industry for so long. It's empowering and it didn't come free.
If press releases count, I've been published everywhere from the New York Times to shark enthusiast websites. I've ghost written for Target, built Lego models with gaggles of children, won awards.
I'm not saying ignorant and rude assumptions aren't made. I know what it feels like. When I worked at Gamestop in college, nearly every shift, I had to explain to some doofus that "yes, I play video games". It was ridiculous. But retail clerkship and the video game industry itself are two very different beasts. Professionals know better.
Achievement Unlocked: Girl Power
A woman who isn't confident and determined won't last long in the video game industry, nor will she who does not "know her shit." We, as women, have to prove ourselves, yes — just like everyone else, in every other industry.
But among the male majority, women in the game industry bring something different and increasingly valuable to the table. It's kind of like turtle power, but less amphibious, and better, because girl power goes both ways. Women have added opportunity to shock, awe and succeed in video games.
When people expect you to lose, winning is more fulfilling. Being the underdog is fun. That's how you change perception and overcome adversity — just go out and do it, and be good at what you do.
Attractive young females are a staple in marketing and PR in any field, not just video games. Girl power isn't about flirting or short skirts, it's about applying the female perspective to situations where men fail miserably.
In a business like the game industry, there are a LOT of shoes to fill — no one skillset or mindset or character trait or strong suit will cut it. That isn't gender; it's human nature. But if you want to break it down and put traits into columns, gender is one way to do it.
Women and men are different in specific, measurable ways. Our brains are wired differently for important professional functions like problem solving and communication. That's a big deal! What other industry would even consider it normal to have such lop-sided groupthink?
Lady Brain
Women know what women want. Even Mel Gibson knows that.
When an industry fuelled by men wants to go mainstream, it needs a new perspective; it has to impact non-traditional audiences to keep growing. If you bring something different to the table, anyone can help move the gaming industry out of the niche and into the future.
Bright eyed, bushy tailed, fresh out of college (and Gamestop management), with my psych degree in hand, I began a video game PR career that could have gone on forever. My first client was Disney. I sent out God knows how many physical press mailers for boxed console game reviews of titles like "That's So Raven" and "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody".
As time went on, boxed copies gave way to PC and online games, then mobile, then the App Store. Then came Facebook, the cloud… Some of my clients were literally cancelling plans for DS games in lieu of social platforms.
Before I knew it, boxed console games were a distant memory. And girl power was in higher demand than ever. Why?
We were dealing with new platforms and new audiences that had never played video games before. We were answering tough questions about online safety to parents who barely understood the Internet. Anyone who might have once questioned my womanly capabilities stopped when it came time to pitch to parents, educators or socialites. They needed girl power. I had it.
What does a mum think when she walks down an aisle to purchase video games? Why is learning about how to behave in an online forum important for childhood development? What makes a woman want to share something on her Facebook wall?
Yes, men can answer these questions too, but they'd probably start by asking a woman.
Make It Game
When you look at how video game concepts are being applied to new fields, you can see how some women are already profoundly affecting the industry's future.
Today, the game industry encompasses mainstream entertainment, education, fitness, finance and all sorts of things it wasn't before. Everyone wants a piece of gamification, and it often has little to do with video games. To keep up and to keep growing, women are invaluable.
Not to be coy, but the game industry really isn't all fun and games. It's hard work at a viciously fast pace. In PR especially, the responsibilities keep growing and social media is making things stone cold crazy. But, for me, the rules have always been fair. Being a woman has not hindered me; it makes me better at what I do.
The only thing I haven't been able to do as a woman in games? Grow a beard.
Kate Lollar ditched PR for interactive fiction so she could use more adjectives at work. Seriously. @katelollar
Bazz Guest
Not entirely sure this is a rebuttal to Katie's piece. Katie's piece seemed (to me) to be about assumptions PR people make because of the gender of the person they were approaching. The industry, despite its gargantuan growth still views videogames as the domain of males.
I applaud your hard work, gutsy decisions and all round tenacity, and you rightly state that your success isn't based upon your gender but because of your hard work. I think I understand. You, as an individual, have built a reputation through your hard work, and people know the name.
Katie was a member of press, at a press event, yet the PR person in her scenario just assumed that she needed explanation of a game, possibly because the genre wasn't typical of what women were interested in.
adiobomb @adio
Regarding the original article you're responding to, the appropriate response rather than being hurt, would be to say "Actually I do know what I'm doing. I'll ask questions if I have any thanks" and keep the bloody keyboard from the ignorant person.
Being a victim doesn't help anyone. Taking the power from those who are clueless does.
Micah Guest
I think this is a bit of a double standard here. Discrimination is a form of bullying; and when is it acceptable to tell a victim of a bullying that they should be over assertive and aggressive? The problem doesn't lie with the victim! How Katie handled the PR person is completely irrelevant (I wonder how many of those who criticise her would of acted any differently). Rather than lying down and taking it, I believe she did the more honourable thing, and vented more passively; rather than targeting the individual (who most likely did this completely subconsciously). This piece just reinforces that there is sexism deeply rooted in the industry. Being able to handle it or not is an entirely different issue. Why should any female have to prove herself to her sceptics? I think even questioning the integrity of Katie's character and actions is absolutely disgusting and a step backwards. Point the finger at where its due (Not Katie, not the PR guy, at the industry).
ScaryMagus @Thom
I would have said 99% of the advice given to the victims of bullying is to work on being assertive, in addition to dealing with the bullies directly.
I'm not questioning the integrity of her character, but her actions. Being discriminated against, or bullied, needs addressed. Not passively accepted then gone away and penned a "hurt" missive.
The people who treated her that way should have been taken on, not necessarily physically or otherwise in a negative fashion but by directly and calmly addressing their discriminatory actions. No hiding behind it being subconscious or other nonsense. We're all responsible for our (and only our) own actions, the bully and the bullied.
beejep @Brendan
Here's Katie's response: http://alivetinyworld.com/2012/06/20/standing-up-for-myself/
Adio, Katie addressed that in a follow up piece, her website just escapes me at the moment.
riavan @Riavan
Jun 24, 2012, 12:36pm
I disagree a lot, the kind of PR area of the gaming industry is the most sexually discriminatory. I'm not talking about the "booth babes" but the token woman they hire and give weird job titles to, so that they can stand and talk about their products, at stalls at expos, or on videos/interviews for the game. To me, this isn't really any better than that lower level of "booth babes", it's just overtly using the sexuality of woman to help sell their product, just like a lot of other industries try to do.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about the the people who meet in offices and work out promotional and marketing plans, that's real PR. This is some kind of lower level, it feels insulting to people who work in real PR to call it such, it's essentially booth babes with slightly more insider knowledge and less skimpy clothes.
Gabbleduck Guest
I'm glad that for once reading an article regarding industry women DIDN'T make me feel that I've committed an atrocity just by having a Y chromosome. Good read!
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the cake Guest
Oh so there are women out there who don't have the world going aginst them. Good on Kate, it takes courage, confidence and hard work to succeed and she's proof of it. It really makes no difference what gender/race/age you are, if you are good at your job, you will be acknowledged.
Rief Guest
Erm, I know this is a "response" to that post from the other day about E3 PR, but this makes no sense. Is this Kate Loller basically saying that her experience in PR was fine? Well guess what. GAMES PR IS FULL OF WOMEN. Of course she didn't have any trouble. I'd like to see some "positive takes" from women who actually work IN the real games industry, game designers and programmers and the like. I trust they'd be far less whimsically written than Loller has done here. Probably because of the much more serious gender imbalance in the games industry itself, as opposed to PR.
Also, I can't take anyone who uses the "men and women are hardwired to act differently" argument. That just gives both genders an excuse to act like jerks. Loller implies sexism isn't a problem because she had it easy. Get the feeling ths article is a real step back for feminism.
ic-1101 @IC-1101
Jun 25, 2012, 9:15am
Yay! Another article about women's issues on Kotaku. *sigh*
"Also, I can’t take anyone who uses the “men and women are hardwired to act differently” argument. That just gives both genders an excuse to act like jerks. Loller implies sexism isn’t a problem because she had it easy. Get the feeling ths article is a real step back for feminism."
They are though? Men and women are two EXTENSIVELY different species. See: sociobiology.
How is this a step back for feminism? Should Kotau give Elizabeth Danger another chance to generalize about males, that they're all scum, so as to put it "forward"? I'm not sure of your argument.
There are plenty of women in this world in senior positions. The problem is that, instead of feminists saying, "We should look to them", they say, "Why are so few women in senior positions? IT MUST BE MEN!"
To quote Sherrly Sandberg (senior head at Facebook):
"Women need to sit at the table with men".
In other words, if you're a women and there's a sexist pig in your face, just attack him back. Men, the sad reality is, are aggressive, dominating animals. Expecting social unity and equality is to expect enforced unity, which is a major compromise to individual freedom.
Women have more power in this world than they imagine. If they're good at their job, they'll go places. Sandberg admits than men respond to female emotions differently than they do to other male emotions, but this is a bump in the road: once the female dominates the male, it's really no different to the male dominating the women.
But I get it: feminists, and the pro-feminist crowd, are typically of the "left", and any sense of elitist competitiveness goes against everything they stand for.
Reality is, feminists set back the feminist movement more than ANYONE. Sandberg is the greatest feminist of our time. She's actually achieved something.
sunskorpion @SunSkorpion
The problem with statements about how men and women are hardwired is that it's too general. Not all men or women will behave or think in strictly the same patters - it's like saying all men are pigs and all women are dumb, just because they're hardwired that way. Or, in a less inflammatory analogy, all men are great at spacial awareness tasks and all women are better at multitasking. Such terms are too absolute to allow for any deft arguments on the issues to take place. they allow for no grey areas, and specifically drive out any space for individual validity in between them. For example, if you're a guy who is terrible at reading maps, this statement then means that you're not a proper man - you're somehow not hardwired properly, and so like a machine, are faulty. This argument also applies to women or course - any woman who speaks up, complains, and doesn't play nice is somehow not being a proper woman, and is faulty.
You're willingness to simply dismiss mysoginist male behaviour is quite shocking - you just accept that all men are animals, without recourse. not all men behave this way, and just dismissing it like that is indicative of a broader underlying social fabric that just assumes men should be allowed to behave this way - and that women just have to get over it and deal with it. Yes men and be jerks to each other, and certainly women can be unfair on men. but passing off bad behaviour on men as just 'reality' is one-sided.
In my experience, women have it a lot harder in most professions - from outright sexism to not being taken seriously, to subtle hints that they're less valuable because they're likely to take maternity leave (regardless of the individuals actual plans for family). What is clearer though is that the majority of higher positions in big businesses are held by men. A young woman going into an organisation that appears to favour women (regardless of whether they do or not) may feel intimidated to rock the boat as she may be the minority. Yes a woman (or man) in such a position should feel able to speak up, but saying to women, 'Shut up about gender issues, you're just being a Feminazi!' presents an additional barrier to having such discussions in the first place.
fortalyst Guest
This article represents my sentiments exactly. I for one, am sick of reading numerous articles on Kotaku covering scantily-clad cosplayers, the latest dating sim which will let you see a cartoon girl in all her digital glory, & various games boasting various jiggle effects - only to be followed that same day by articles which start flame wars against over-sexualised women in games.
Fueling the sexist fire does not make good gaming news.
Rize @Rize
Jul 5, 2012, 12:33pm
"The only thing I haven’t been able to do as a woman in games? Grow a beard."
Clearly you should give Saints Row a go... :D
Sten Guest
Jul 5, 2012, 4:55pm
Something nobody seems to be realizing is that one of the prime reasons geekdom is so male-centric is because of decades of marginalization BY WOMEN. It was primarily women who created the stigma of "geekiness" being socially unacceptable, someone being interested in comics or video games immediately made them less of a person in the eyes of most women.
Now geekdom is more mainstream women want to be included as well, but it's an uphill battle and for good reason. You can't suddenly decide that you want to be included in a subculture that you've all but vilified for the last 40-50 years, just because it's suddenly cool and mainstream - women as a gender have done this to themselves. Without the decades of social ostracisation, sexism in geek culture would not be such a problem and women wouldn't have to fight so hard to be accepted.
I'm not saying that women shouldn't be wholeheartedly accepted into geek culture, but they should stop whining about it being so unfair and start looking at the reasons why this has happened.
Dan Guest
Jul 6, 2012, 11:43am
@ Sten thank god someone on here with half a brain who can call it for what it is... fact is being a geek, nerd, video game player or comic book reader is still shunned by the majority of women. Ipsofacto i find it so unbelievably ironic to borderline complete insanity that any woman would have the nerve to even raise this as an issue. Be respectful, try to understand why it is the way it is and join in on the fun... otherwise if you don't like it go back to obsessing over the latest Hollywood heart throb, boy bands and the hottest guy in school.
Taina Guest
Jul 8, 2012, 3:24am
Has it ever occured to you, Dan, that a geek, nerd, video game player or comic book reader can be a woman? You're desperately trying to make women look bad when in fact you are frustrated and cannot get a woman. Look in the mirror, Dan. Look at the things you wrote and ponder for a while if your attitude could possibly be the reason why women don't like you?
Overall your comment is so unbelievably ironic to borderline complete insanity that someone writes things you just did. Here's an advice: Be respectful, try to understand why it is the way it is and join in on the fun. Because you clearly have not genuinely understood it yet and do the same as men in gaming industry in general: belittle women.
By the way, are you one of those geeks, nerds, video game player comic book readers? Take a look around and set your standards a bit lower. That booth babe won't ever be interested in you, but the geeky young woman in a game store just might - might, because based on your comment I'd say your personality needs a bit more development in the women's issues.
Aravis Lasaraleen Guest
Jul 14, 2012, 11:07pm
When they say Nerds and Male Privilege they means all men are oppressive towards women and all males are guilty of women's oppression.
I don't see why no one is responding because I really fell alone on my opinion on feminism.
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Landlord who staged home invasion to scare Mountain View tenants appears in court
By Ann Rubin, KTVU
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KTVU) - Shielding her face from the camera, 50-year old Reenu Saini made her first appearance in a Palo Alto court today.
The landlord, and co-defendant Steven Carling, are accused of trying to scare non-paying tenants from their rental home by staging a home invasion.
Mountain View Police arrested a total of five people in the scheme. Authorities say the landlord and these four San Jose residents shut off the power to the apartment, then used a knife to break in the front door.
The tenants, who didn't want to speak on camera, say there had actually been two prior incidents. In one, the power had also been shut off. In the other, they say a stranger came in through the back gate and began to harass them.
They say they called the police and were directed to a housing dispute mediator. They were working with that person, when the staged break in occurred.
Mountain View Police spokesperson Katie Nelson says, "There were all these methods that were being done essentially to force those individuals by out purely by fear... and then with the knife incident through physical force."
From jail, Saini phoned into the KTVU newsroom calling the tenants squatters and saying they had failed to pay rent.
The tenants freely admit they didn't pay, but say it was because Saini changed the terms of their agreement: going off of AirBnb to a private arrangement, then raising the rent from $3,900 to $10,000 a month.
Today the judge set bail at $75,500 for Saini and $110,000 for Carling. He also issued protective orders, saying both must stay away from the tenants.
The defendants next court date is set for September 27th.
Meanwhile, the tenants say they are trying desperately to find new housing.
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Wins & Settlements (part 2)
Lax & Neville LLP Wins a FINRA Arbitration Award Granting Expungement Relief to a Former UBS Registered Representative who Sought Expungement of Nine Customer Complaints Related to Lehman Principal Protected Structured Products in FINRA Arbitration (FINRA Arbitration No. 13-01579)
On December 4, 2014, Lax & Neville LLP won expungement relief for James R. Young ("Mr. Young"), a registered representative formerly employed by UBS Financial Services, Inc. ("UBS") who sought expungement of nine (9) customer complaints on his Central Registration Depository ("CRD") record pursuant to the FINRA Code of Arbitration Procedure, Rules 2080 and 12805. CRD is the central licensing and registration system for the U.S. securities industry and its regulators, which contains information made available to the public via FINRA's BrokerCheck. Pursuant to FINRA Code Rules 2080 and 12805, an arbitration panel may grant an expungement of customer dispute information from a registered representative's CRD record. In the FINRA arbitration, Mr. Young asserted that he and his clients were all victims of UBS's "product problem" relating to its offering, developing, marketing and selling structured product investments issued by the, now bankrupt, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (herein "Lehman Principal Protected Structured Products"). Mr. Young requested the expungement of Lehman Principal Protected Structured Products arbitrations and customer complaints from his record on the basis that he was not involved in the alleged wrongdoing.
On October 7, 2014, the Panel in the FINRA arbitration conducted a recorded telephonic hearing in which Mr. Young was given the opportunity to present evidence regarding his uncontested expungement application. One of the customer Respondents appeared during that hearing and supported Mr. Young's application for expungement.
In its Arbitration Award, the Panel recommended expungement of all references to nine (9) Lehman Principal Protected Structured Products customer complaints and arbitrations from Mr. Young's registration records maintained by the CRD. Pursuant to Rule 12805 of the FINRA Code of Arbitration Procedure, the Panel based its ruling on the following Rule 2080 affirmative findings of fact:
the registered person was not involved in the alleged investment-related sales practice violation, forgery, theft, misappropriation or conversion of funds; and
the claim, allegation or information is false.
In its Award, the Panel stated that it made the Rule 2080 findings of fact based on the following reasons:
The statements made by UBS, [Mr. Young's] former employer, in [Mr. Young's] U4 and U5 records are false and misleading because any sales practice violations were caused by UBS, not [Mr. Young]. Specifically, the Panel finds that the UBS Structured Products Department continued to tout Lehman Brothers structured products despite (1) mounting evidence that Lehman Brothers' creditworthiness was crumbling, and (2) increasingly pointed concern among UBS executives that the sale of Lehman Brothers products should be suspended. UBS' Structured Products Group deliberately prevented the distribution of material information about Lehman Brothers' deteriorating financial condition and continued to recommend the sale of Lehman Brothers structured products despite clear evidence of the company's rapid decline, to the detriment of both its financial advisors and customers.
UBS never should have reported any of these claims on Mr. Young's CRD. Not only was Mr. Young not named in any of the aforementioned arbitrations, but there were no allegations that he was involved in any of the alleged sales practice violations in the arbitrations or customer complaints. The Panel agreed that these disclosures should never have been reported on Mr. Young's CRD and awarded expungement, which is significant to Mr. Young's career because his CRD record contained disclosures which were false and misleading to investors.
To view this Award, click here.
Lax & Neville Wins $900,000 FINRA Arbitration, Including Punitive Damages, Against John Thomas Financial, Anastasios Belesis, George Belesis and Joseph Castellano For Churning And Failure To Supervise
On August 5, 2014, Lax & Neville LLP, a leading national securities arbitration law firm, won an approximate $900,000 FINRA Arbitration Award, which includes $300,000 in punitive damages, on behalf of a customer against former broker-dealer John Thomas Financial, its Chief Executive Officer, Anastasios P. Belesis, its President, George Belesis, and its former Compliance Officer, Joseph Castellano, for churning and failure to supervise. The case was tried during seven (7) hearing sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana. In rendering its award, the FINRA Arbitration Panel held that John Thomas Financial, Anastasios P. Belesis and George Belesis were jointly and severally liable for churning and failure to supervise and shall pay Claimant compensatory damages in the amount of $600,000, and that Joseph Castellano was liable for churning and failure to supervise and shall pay Claimant compensatory damages in the amount of $5,000, plus interest accruing at the Louisiana statutory rate from April 1, 2012 until the date of payment of the award. Furthermore, the Arbitration Award held John Thomas Financial, Anastasios P. Belesis and George Belesis jointly and severally liable to pay Claimant $300,000 in punitive damages pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 § 6-11-20. This is significant as punitive damages are rarely awarded. Moreover, John Thomas Financial, Anastasios P. Belesis and George Belesis are liable to pay Claimant $14,732.96 in costs, $375 as reimbursement of the non-refundable portion of the claim filing fee, and are responsible for three-quarters of all hearing session fees. The Arbitration Panel also denied John Thomas Financial, Anastasios P. Belesis, George Belesis and Joseph Castellano's requests for expungement with prejudice.
Clair R. Couturier, Jr. vs. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Phil Scott Group, et al FINRA Dispute Resolution No. 11-00867
Lax & Neville LLP recently won a $1.7 million FINRA arbitration award against Merrill Lynch and Phil Scott for sales practice abuses concerning the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team and the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team Income and Blue Chip Portfolios. The case was tried during twenty-eight (28) hearing sessions. During the arbitration process, Claimant focused on the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team’s blatant disregard of industry and regulatory obligations, and Claimant’s risk tolerances and investment objectives. Claimant also focused on Merrill Lynch’s lack of supervision of Phil Scott and his team members. In finding for the Claimant, the Arbitration Panel stated in the Award that it was “particularly concerned by the following actions of Respondents: (i) Misrepresentations and omissions were contained in the unrestricted marketing materials supplied by Respondents to Greg Porter, who in turn, having been cloaked with apparent authority by Respondents, presented the misleading materials to Claimant. This wrongdoing was caused by Respondent Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated’s inadequate supervision before the fact and aggravated by its failure to take corrective action after it received notice of the communications; (ii) Respondents’ manner of using the Personal Investment Advisory Questionnaire as a disclosure device was misleading and had the capacity to deceive. Respondent Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated’s continuing approval of this use constitutes inadequate supervision; and (iii) Respondent Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated’s failure to comply with its own ARMOR report procedures constitutes a breach of its duties toward Claimant and another example of inadequate supervision.” (See FINRA Arbitration Award). In the Award, the Arbitration Panel further stated, “This list is not all-inclusive but is intended to give Respondents the benefit of some of the Panel’s conclusions so Respondents can modify their conduct accordingly.” (See FINRA Arbitration Award). The FINRA arbitration award against Merrill Lynch and Phil Scott consisted of $1,100,000 in compensatory damages, $540,144 in attorneys’ fees, along with costs in the amount of $74,341.
Lax & Neville Win $263,219 FINRA Arbitration Award Brought By Current Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Employees For Payment Of Their Back-End Bonuses
On August 23, 2012, Lax & Neville LLP, a leading national securities arbitration law firm, won a FINRA arbitration award against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for failing to pay two of its current employees their earned back-end bonuses. In the case won by our firm, FINRA Case No. 11-02261, the Panel awarded the Claimants, Richard M. Schwartz and Alan Jacobson, the entire amount of compensatory damages they were seeking, $263,219, plus 9% interest from October 5, 2010 until the Award is paid in full. This equitable result is a win for these two financial advisors who were not paid their earned compensation.
If you are a financial advisor who has not been paid your back-end bonus, or any other due compensation, please contact Lax & Neville LLP at (212) 696-1999 to discuss your potential matter.
To view this Award, click [ here].
Kevin Kaiser vs. Raoul's Restaurant Corp., Cindy Smith et al. - Index No. 112674/2007
Lax & Neville LLP successfully wins a summary judgment motion in a case defending Cindy Smith, an employee of Raoul's Restaurant Corp., a well-known restaurant in New York City. On May 30, 2012, the Honorable Louis B. York granted Ms. Smith's motion for summary judgment and directed entry of judgment in favor of Ms. Smith. Specifically, Judge York dismissed the Plaintiff's age discrimination and defamation claims against Ms. Smith.
Dr. Karabi Sinha vs. UBS Financial Services, Inc. - FINRA No. 10-02584
On April 25, 2012, Lax & Neville LLP and Deutsch & Lipner, both leading securities arbitration law firms, won a FINRA arbitration award against UBS Financial Services, Inc. for improper sales practices and fraud in connection with UBS's marketing and sale of a Structured Product - the Lehman Return Optimization Security tied to the S&P 500. UBS is reported to have sold as much as $1 billion of Lehman's Structured Notes to its customers. It also sold other Structured Products which were mis-marketed and sold to UBS customers in inappropriate ways.
In the case won by our team, FINRA Case No. 10-02584, the Panel awarded the Claimant damages of $154,479, plus interest from October 1, 2008 until the Award is paid in full. The award places our client in the exact same position she would have been in had Lehman not filed for bankruptcy. The Award grants her damages equal to the value the security would have had on the maturity date if Lehman had not filed bankruptcy, less the current value of the security.
This equitable result is another win for our many clients who were deceived when the product was sold to them. The Statement of Claim in the case alleged that UBS did not inform the Claimant that these supposedly principal-protected securities were in fact the unsecured debt of the then-troubled Lehman Holdings, and that UBS did not inform its clients about what it (UBS) knew about Lehman's troubles. UBS tried to defend the case by alleging it had made full disclosure, and that the sales had been made in December 2007 -- which UBS alleged was before Lehman's troubles were known. As it had in every other prior case in which our legal team was involved, the arbitrators rejected UBS's defenses.
John J. Baker, Natalie N. Baker and John Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Harriet B. Baker vs. Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated - Index No. 11-108492
Justice J. Lobis of the Supreme Court of the State of New York has denied Merrill Lynch's Motion to Vacate an $880,000 FINRA Arbitration Award against Merrill Lynch for purported sales practice abuses concerning the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team and the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team Income Portfolio. In its Decision, the Court stated, "there is no basis for the court to vacate the Award...Respondent has not made a showing that it was subject to a fundamental unfairness such that it was deprived of a fair hearing." Accordingly, the Court confirmed the FINRA Arbitration Award against Merrill Lynch. During the arbitration process, Lax & Neville LLP focused on the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team's disregard of industry and regulatory obligations. The Claimants asserted that the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team ignored the Claimants' individual risk tolerances and investment objectives when it recommended that 100% of Claimants' assets be invested in the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team Income Portfolio, which consisted of 100% equities. The FINRA Arbitration Award, which was rendered against Merrill Lynch on June 23, 2011, awarded the Claimants $880,000 in compensatory damages, and granted Claimants' Motion for Sanctions "assess[ing] fees for hearings on discovery to Respondent as sanctions against Respondent for untimely compliance with the Panel's orders to compel the production of documents."
Westminster Securities Corp. v. Petrocom Energy Limited, Petrocom Limited and Howard Au - 11-607
Lax & Neville successfully defends appeal of a significant American Arbitration Association ("AAA") award against Petrocom Limited and Petrocom Energy Limited ("Petrocom") (中港印能源集团有限公司("中港印"). Lax & Neville represented Westminster Securities Corporation ("Westminster") before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which has affirmed the ruling of Judge Cote in the Southern District Court of New York confirming the AAA arbitration award against Petrocom, a Chinese coal blending company. In the underlying arbitration, the Tribunal determined that Petrocom wrongfully failed to pay fees and issue warrants when Westminster successfully raised over $55 million for Petrocom and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Howard Au (区可). Specifically, the Tribunal awarded Westminster approximately $10,400,000 in damages, which included placement agent compensation, attorneys' fees and costs and a $50,000 sanction against Petrocom for its "flouting" of the Tribunal's Order to have John P. O'Shea appointed to the Board of Directors of Petrocom, plus a total of 4,080,000 in Warrants. Based upon shareholder reports from Petrocom a reasonable valuation for these warrants is believed to be $2.00 per warrant (at a minimum), the total damages awarded to Westminster exceeded $10 million. The Second Circuit Panel held that the Tribunal's Award should be affirmed since the Tribunal provided a colorable justification when denying Petrocom's argument that the tail provision only applied when the placement agreement was terminated, and not when it expired. The Second Circuit Panel reasoned that the placement agreement's survival clause extended the tail provision in the event of termination or expiration, and therefore, Westminster was owed fees by Petrocom. The Second Circuit Panel also held that contrary to Petrocom's argument, Westminster's unjust enrichment clause was encompassed in the parties' agreement to arbitrate since the parties' arbitration agreement was worded broadly. Since Petrocom was enriched by Westminster's efforts to introduce several potential investors, the Second Circuit held that Westminster's unjust enrichment claim clearly related to the parties' placement agreements, and therefore the claim was governed by the arbitration clause.
Douglas and Kristin Mirabelli v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. - FINRA No. 10-03400
Lax & Neville LLP recently won a $1.2 million FINRA arbitration award against Merrill Lynch for sales practice abuses concerning the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team and the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team Income Portfolios. The case was tried during twenty-three (23) hearing sessions. The FINRA arbitration award against Merrill Lynch consisted of $800,219 in compensatory damages which represented Claimants' entire net out-of-pocket losses and interest at the rate of 6% per annum from July 26, 2010 through the date the Award is paid in full. In addition to the $800,219 award in compensatory damages, the Panel awarded Claimants all attorneys' fees requested in the amount of $391,474, along with their costs in the amount of $47,339.91. All hearing session fees were also assessed against Merrill Lynch.
OBEX Securities, LLC vs. Healthzone Limited – Index No. 10-6876 (SAS)
Lax & Neville LLP successfully wins a summary judgment motion in a case defending Healthzone Limited (“Healthzone”), an Australian based health store against claims raised by OBEX Securities, LLC (“OBEX”), a small broker-dealer. On November 3, 2011, the Honorable Shira Scheindlin granted Healthzone’s motion for summary judgment and directed entry of judgment in favor of Healthzone. Specifically, Judge Scheindlin dismissed, with prejudice, OBEX’s breach of contract claim against Healthzone as there was no evidence that Healthzone breached the placement agent agreement because OBEX never introduced any individual or entity to Healthzone that ultimately invested in Healthzone.
Scottrade, Inc. v. Broco Investments, Inc., Valery Maltsev, and Genesis Investments, LLC, 10 Civ. 3537 (RJH)
Lax & Neville LLP successfully defended Genesis Investments, LLC, in a case in which Plaintiff Scottrade, Inc. ("Scottrade"), a securities broker-dealer, attempted to hold Genesis responsible for the actions of other individuals and entities, which "hacked" into Scottrade's computer systems and executed a series of purchases and/or sales in the accounts of Scottrade customers to "pump" up and/or "dump" thinly traded securities for a profit. On March 31, 2011, the Honorable Judge Holwell of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Genesis's motion to dismiss in its entirety and stated that this case presented a question of first impression, i.e., " does a securities broker, whose customers have been defrauded, and who reimburses his customers-but to whom the customers have not assigned their claims, and who other than the reimbursements alleges no damages whatsoever-have standing to sue the alleged fraudsters for violations of [various securities laws]?" The Court held that since Scottrade was not an "actual purchaser or seller of securities," it lacked standing to pursue most of its claims against Genesis, and also dismissed Scottrade's remaining claims.
Westminster Securities Corp. v. Petrocom Energy Limited, Petrocom Limited and Howard Au - 10 Civ. 7893 (DLC)
Judge Cote has confirmed an American Arbitration Association Award against Petrocom Limited and Petrocom Energy Limited ("Petrocom"), a Chinese coal blending company that was recently highlighted in a New York Times article. The esteemed Tribunal of top international arbitrators determined that Petrocom failed to pay placement agent fees and issue warrants when Westminster Securities Corporation ("Westminster") raised over $35 million for Petrocom and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Howard Au. Specifically, the Tribunal awarded Westminster approximately $10,400,000 in damages, which included placement agent compensation, attorneys' fees and costs and a $50,000 sanction against Petrocom for its "flouting" of the Tribunal's Order, plus a total of 4,080,000 in Warrants. Considering that these warrants are believed to be valued at $2.00 per warrant (at a minimum), the total damages awarded to Westminster exceeded $10 million.
John J. Baker, Natalie N. Baker and Harriet B. Baker v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. - FINRA No. 09-06762
Lax & Neville LLP, on behalf of clients of the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team, recently won an $880,000 FINRA arbitration award against Merrill Lynch for purported sales practice abuses concerning the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team and the Merrill Lynch Phil Scott Team Income Portfolio. Brian Neville and Barry Lax of our office tried the matter which included twenty-six (26) hearing sessions. In addition to the $880,000 award in compensatory damages, the Panel also granted Claimants' Motion for Sanctions and "assessed fees for hearings on discovery to Respondent as sanctions against Respondent for untimely compliance with the Panel's orders to compel the production of documents."
David B. Newman v. Family Management Corporation et al.
Lax & Neville LLP, successfully defended FM Low Volatility Fund, a general partnership, in a securities class action law suit. A group of investors sought to hold FM Low Volatility Fund liable for investments made to feeder funds that in turn invested with Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC. The Honorable Judge Sands of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the decision on October 20, 2010, dismissing the second amended class action complaint in its entirety. Judge Sands ruled that FM Low Volatility Fund, Family Management Corporation, and its top executives did not willfully ignore “red flags” in order to obtain investment fees. Newman et al., v Family Management Corp. et al, 1:08-cv-11215.
Lax & Neville LLP successfully defends appeal of a summary judgment in an age discrimination and defamation action. Lax & Neville represented Raoul's Restaurant Corp. (“Raoul’s”), a well-known restaurant in New York City, Guy and Serge Raoul, owners of Raoul’s, and Cindy Smith, an employee of Raoul's (collectively, the “Defendants”), before the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, which unanimously affirmed Judge York’s decision granting the Defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Specifically, the Appellate Division held that the Defendants established their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law of Plaintiff’s age-based discrimination claim under the New York City Human Rights law (Administrative Code of the City of New York § 8-107). In reaching its decision, the Appellate Division reasoned that the Defendants articulated legitimate, non-pretextual reasons for firing the Plaintiff, and Plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact that the reasons proffered by the Defendants were a pretext for discrimination. The Appellate Division also held that the trial court properly dismissed the Plaintiff’s age discrimination claim under the “mixed-motive framework” for discrimination cases. Finally, the Appellate Division held that the trial court properly dismissed Plaintiff’s defamation claim against Ms. Smith under the common interest privilege.
Ilona Meszaros v. Axial International Limited and Saul Marks, 111897/09
Plaintiff, represented by Lax & Neville, was granted summary judgment against Defendant Axial International Limited on the issue of liability in a case for breach of a consignment agreement regarding Plaintiff's engagement ring. After a framed issue hearing on damages, the Honorable Judge Solomon in the Supreme Court of the State of New York entered Judgment against Defendant Axial International Limited on May 20, 2011.
Mintz & Gold, LLP v. Zimmerman, 102758/07: Decided March 30, 2010
Plaintiff, represented by Lax & Neville, successfully won an appeal determining that Plaintiff’s claims of malicious prosecution were not time barred.
Santanu Bhattacharya and Gargi Dasgupta vs. Chicago Investment Group LLC and Mitesh Shere
Claimants’ allegations of unauthorized trading, failure to execute, and negligence against Respondents were dismissed in their entirety. Respondent Shere was represented by Lax & Neville.
Madoff Class Action Adv. Pro. No. 09-1265(BRL)
On June 5, 2009, Lax & Neville filed a class action adversarial proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to obtain a declaratory judgment, pursuant to the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. 2201, et seq., (i) that the Trustee's definition of "net equity" is incorrect as a matter of law, and (ii) that a customer's "net equity" under SIPA is the value of the securities reflected in the customer's Madoff account as of the SIPA filing date (even where the securities were never actually purchased) less any amounts the customer owes to Madoff. On June 16, 2010, the Second Circuit accepted the direct appeal of the net equity issue.
JLM Chemicals, Inc. v. Summit Resources Group, Inc. 08 Civ. 10296 Decided: April 24, 2009
Defendants' motion to dismiss grafted and Plaintiff's motion to compel arbitration denied based on lack of personal jurisdiction over Defendant since Defendant did not receive invoices containing an arbitration provision until after litigation commenced. Defendant was represented by Lax & Neville.
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. v. Joseph C. Delaura
Delaura, represented by Lax & Neville, successfully arbitrated Delaura’s claims for wrongful termination and abuse of the Form U-5 and the FINRA Arbitration Panel ordered Citigroup to amend the language contained on Delaura’s Form U-5.
Frank H. Suits, Jr. et al. vs. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. and Michael Keefe Gorman NYSE No. 2006-016588
Claimant awarded $128,000 and costs against Merrill Lynch and the registered representative after Lax & Neville successfully arbitrated causes of action including unsuitable investment recommendations, violations of Self-Regulatory Organization Rules, breach of fiduciary duty, violation of the Securities Exchange act and failure to supervise regarding the sale of proprietary products by Respondent in Claimant's fee based account.
United States ex rel. John Glover v. Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, No. 05-CV-6522 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 5, 2008) (oral opinion)
In a qui tam and retaliatory discharge action under the federal False Claims Act by a terminated executive of a federally funded social service agency, Lax & Neville, successfully opposed the defendant agency's summary judgment motion.
Westminster Securities Corp. and John O'Shea vs. HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.
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Respondent, a Chinese export company, was ordered to pay $528,234.00 to Westminster Securities Corp., an investment bank represented by Lax & Neville, pursuant to an operative placement agent agreement, as well as reprice HQ Sustainable Maritime Industry warrants owed to John O'Shea.
Defendant's motion to dismiss was denied pursuant to Civil Rights Law § 70 since Plaintiff, represented by Barry R. Lax, established that Defendant maliciously and vexatiously commenced a subsequent action after the New York Appellate Division stayed the initial proceeding to compel arbitration.
Claimant v. DEPFA Bank, plc Decided: March 22, 2007
In a JAMS arbitration, Claimant, represented by Barry R. Lax, was awarded $1.2 million in unpaid bonuses inclusive of interest and attorneys' fees from DEPFA Bank, plc.
McMahan Securities, Co. L.P. vs. Michael Shillan
NASD 04-05460
Shillan, who was represented by Brian J. Neville, wins $250,000 from his employer, McMahan Securities, Co. L.P., for violations of employment contract law and Florida's Labor Law.
Paul Fitzgerald v. Fahnestock & Co., Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.
NYSE No. 2004-015875
Claimant, a former employee of Respondent, through the representation of Barry R. Lax, was awarded $436,000.00 based upon violations of New York Labor Law for Respondent's failure to pay Claimant wages and severance upon his termination.
Mitchell Slater v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Inc. and Thomas Fickinger
NASD # 05-04072
Arbitration Panel ordered all references to the customer complaint at issue expunged from Claimant's Form U-5. Claimant was represented by Brian J. Neville.
Albert T. Jenks and Irena L. Jenks v. Securities of America, Inc. et. al.
NASD No. 03-05007
Claimants received $150,294 from Securities of America, Inc., and others, based upon its violation of various federal securities laws including 15 U.S.C. §78(j)(b) and Rule 10b-5 and violations of NASD Rules of Fair Practice and NYSE Rules. Claimants were represented by Brian J. Neville.
Gary Farber v. SunTrust Banks, Inc., et.al.
Claimant, represented by Barry R. Lax, was awarded $130,000 for Sun Trust's breach of employment agreement, deprivation of severance pay and violation of New York Labor Law.
Lucille Banahan v. Wachovia Securities, Inc.
NASD No: 04-01979
Claimant, represented by Brian J. Neville in Florida, was awarded $135,000.00 for Wachovia Securities's unsuitable recommendations, breach of duty of care, fraud and negligent misrepresentation, violation of federal securities laws and industry rules, failure to supervise and respondeat superior regarding Claimant's investments in annuities, mutual funds and individual stocks.
Kenneth Irving v. Salomon Smith Barney, Michael Lent and William Lent
Claimant, represented by Brian J. Neville, was awarded $325,000.00 based upon Respondents' unsuitable recommendations, fraud, misrepresentations, and various violations of federal securities laws.
Simerman v. Salomon Smith Barney, Prudential Securities and Patricia E. Selin
Claimants, represented by Brian J. Neville, won $116,665.00 from the registered representative for unsuitable recommendations, violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, violation of industry rules, and violation of Florida Securities Statutes.
George C. Grivas v. Kerry J. Dukes, et.al.
Claimant, represented by Barry R. Lax, awarded $125,000.00 for Respondents violation of Virginia Securities Act, breach of contract, failure to supervise, control person liability and respondeat superior.
Stanley & Laja Shtupak v. JWGenesis Securities, Inc., et al.
Genesis Securities was liable to Claimants, who were represented by Barry R. Lax, for $45,656.00 for unauthorized and unsuitable trading, and churning, in Claimants margin account.
Our attorneys obtained a $6,100,000 settlement from a large broker/dealer in connection with sales practice abuses. This was a significant settlement as it was more than 75% of the customer's out-of-pocket losses.
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Sven Grasshoff vs. Aaron Etra - Index No. 650832/2012
Lax & Neville LLP successfully defends the appeal of a motion to dismiss a New York Supreme Court decision in a case involving Plaintiff Sven Grasshoff’s (“Grasshoff’s” or “Plaintiff’s”) investment in a business venture in which Defendant Aaron Etra (“Etra” or Defendant”) allegedly provided “Paymaster services” for the investment. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant violated his contractual and fiduciary obligations by disbursing funds from an escrow account contrary to the terms of the contract, and without authority. The Complaint alleged breach of contract, promissory estoppel, breach of fiduciary relationship, negligent misrepresentation, and conversion, none of which were dismissed by the Supreme Court. Defendant appealed the Supreme Court’s decision, and Lax & Neville represented the Plaintiff before the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, which unanimously affirmed Judge Eileen Bransten’s decision denying the Defendant’s motion to dismiss the Complaint.
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Kshama Fernandes, MD and CEO of IFMR Capital, reflects on the challenges of financial inclusion, her childhood memories of a Goan village, and her love for adventure.
‘Growing up in a coastal village in Goa can indelibly imprint the choices one makes. This is evident immediately; Kshama Fernandes, managing director and chief executive officer of non-banking financial company IFMR Capital, picks the Varqui Crab—layers of crab meat and tandoori shrimp in filo pastry—as an hors d’oeuvre for our lunch. We are at Varq, the Indian restaurant with its eclectic and often surprising preparations of familiar food, at the Taj Mahal Hotel on Delhi’s Mansingh Road. The seafood, she declares, is a “much fancier version” of the fare that was dished out to her during a childhood spent in Cansaulim in South Goa.
“I would wake up in the morning, go for a run on the beach, and sometimes chat with the fisherfolk as they pulled in their morning catch—it seemed like a very beautiful world to me back then,” says Fernandes, 48. Her life is now far removed from the pastoral setting of a Goan village. But her work, which involves connecting non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs), also known as originators, to last-mile borrowers, who are excluded from the purview of mainstream finance, takes her back to the realm of those who live on the fringes of formal systems—the disenfranchised.’
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CFTC Proposes New Rules Governing Automated Derivatives Trading
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
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80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com CFTC Proposes New Rules Governing Automated Derivatives Trading On November 24, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) approved a number of proposed rules intended to regulate automated derivatives trading on U.S. designated contract markets (“DCMs”). If enacted, the rules, known collectively as Regulation AT, will impose “a series of risk controls, transparency measures, and other safeguards to enhance the regulatory regime for automated trading,” including rules governing algorithmic order origination and routing by market participants.1 The new rules are a response to the continuing shift from pit trading to electronic trading in U.S. derivatives markets, and build on existing CFTC rules and a CFTC Concept Release addressing current industry practices and “evolving concerns” associated with automated derivatives trading.2 I. Overview The “[p]rincipal elements of Regulation AT for market participants and clearing FCMs [futures commission merchants] include: (i) codification of defined terms used throughout Regulation AT; (ii) registration of certain entities not otherwise registered with the [CFTC]; (iii) new algorithmic trading procedures for trading firms and clearing firms, including pre-trade and other risk controls; (iv) testing, monitoring, and supervision requirements for ATSs [automatic trading systems]; and (v) requirements that certain persons submit compliance reports to DCMs regarding their ATSs. Principal elements for DCMs include: (i) new risk controls for Direct Electronic Access (‘DEA’) provided by DCMs; (ii) transparency in DCM electronic trade matching platforms; and (iii) new risk control procedures, including pre-trade risk controls, compliance report review standards, selftrade prevention tool requirements, and market-maker and trading incentive program disclosure and related requirements.”3 According to CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad, Regulation AT was designed to “minimiz[e] the potential for disruptions and other operational problems that may arise from the automation of order origination, transmission or execution,” including those caused by “malfunctioning algorithms, inadequate testing of algorithms, errors and similar problems.” The proposed rules and rule amendments are largely “principlesbased,” in that they “set forth requirements for certain controls” but “avoid[] prescribing the parameters or levels at which they should be set.”4 II. Definition and Regulation of “AT Persons” and “Floor Traders” The substantive changes proposed in Regulation AT are built around a number of new definitions specific to automated derivatives trading, which would be codified in new CFTC rules. Among other defined terms, proposed Regulation AT introduces the category of “AT Person,” which “identif[ies] which entities are subject to 1 See Regulation Automated Trading, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Reg. AT Release”) at 1, available at http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/file/federalregister112415.pdf. Because Regulation AT is intended to address algorithmic trading generally, high frequency trading “is not specifically identified under the proposed regulations, and is not regulated in a different fashion from other types of algorithmic trading.” Id. at 16. 2 Id. at 1-2 (citing the CFTC’s Concept Release on Risk Controls and System Safeguards for Automated Trading Environments, 78 FR 56542 (Sept. 12, 2013)). 3 Id. at 16-17. Proposed Regulation AT “generally does not address trading activity on swap execution facilities (‘SEFs’)” because the CFTC “believes that neither execution nor order entry on SEF markets are sufficiently automated at this time to require the degree of automated safeguards proposed” in Regulation AT. Id. at 15. 4 Id. at 495-96. December 10, 2015 80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com the proposed regulations addressing trading firms’ management of the risks of algorithmic trading.”5 As proposed, AT Persons would include firms registered or required to be registered as FCMs, floor brokers, swap dealers (“SDs”), major swap participants (“MSPs”), commodity pool operators (“CPOs”), commodity trading advisors (“CTAs”) or introducing brokers (“IBs”), if they “engage in Algorithmic Trading on or subject to the rules of a DCM.” AT Persons would also include firms “registered or required to be registered as floor traders as defined in [proposed] § 1.3(x)(3)” (discussed below).6 In turn, the term “Algorithmic Trading” as used in proposed Regulation AT means trading in any commodity interest as defined in [CFTC] Regulation 1.3(yy) on or subject to the rules of a DCM, where: (1) one or more computer algorithms or systems determines whether to initiate, modify, or cancel an order, or otherwise makes determinations with respect to an order, including but not limited to: the product to be traded; the venue where the order will be placed; the type of order to be placed; the timing of the order; whether to place the order; the sequencing of the order in relation to other orders; the price of the order; the quantity of the order; the partition of the order into smaller components for submission; the number of orders to be placed; or how to manage the order after submission; and (2) such order, modification or order cancellation is electronically submitted for processing on or subject to the rules of a DCM; provided, however, that Algorithmic Trading does not include an order, modification, or order cancellation whose every parameter or attribute is manually entered into a front-end system by a natural person, with no further discretion by any computer system or algorithm, prior to its electronic submission for processing on or subject to the rules of a DCM.7 As discussed below, proposed Regulation AT subjects firms defined as AT Persons to various new regulatory requirements, including pre-trade and other risk controls related to orders initiated by trading firms, and development, testing and supervision standards. Proposed Regulation AT also amends the current definition of “floor trader” under CFTC regulation 1.3(x) “to facilitate the registration of proprietary traders using DEA for Algorithmic Trading on a DCM.”8 The “amended definition would expressly include any person who purchases or sells futures or swaps solely for such person’s own account in a place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, where such place is accessed by such person in whole or in part through a DEA . . . for Algorithmic Trading, and such person is not otherwise registered” with the CFTC.9 Firms meeting the amended definition, including those not currently required to be registered with the CFTC, “would be required to register as Floor traders pursuant to proposed § 1.3(x)(3), assuming that they were not already registered or required to register with the [CFTC] in another capacity.” And designation as a floor trader under this section would automatically bring a firm within 5 Id. at 81. 6 Id. 7 Id. at 66-67. The commodity interests defined in CFTC Regulation 1.3(yy), referenced at the beginning of the Algorithmic Trading definition, include “(1) Any contract for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery; (2) Any contract, agreement or transaction subject to a [CFTC] regulation under section 4c or 19 of the [Commodity Exchange] Act; (3) Any contract, agreement or transaction subject to [CFTC] jurisdiction under section 2(c)(2) of the Act; and (4) Any swap as defined in the Act, by the [CFTC], or jointly by the [CFTC] and the Securities and Exchange Commission.” 17 CFR § 1.3(yy). 8 Reg. AT Release at 90. 9 Id. at 93. 2 80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com the definition of AT Person, thereby requiring it to “implement the pre-trade controls and risk management tools that Regulation AT requires of AT Persons.”10 III. Registered Futures Association Rules and Membership Requirements Proposed Regulation AT also imposes new requirements on Registered Futures Associations (“RFAs”) (such as the National Futures Association) and imposes RFA membership requirements on a new category of market participant. Under sections 170.18 and 170.19 of the proposed regulation, RFAs will be required to adopt membership rules governing algorithmic trading for certain RFA members. In addition, all firms meeting the new definition of AT Person will be required to become members of an RFA.11 According to the CFTC, these requirements “would allow RFAs to supplement elements of Regulation AT as markets and trading technologies evolve over time, and allow frontline regulators to drive future incremental enhancements to the [CFTC’s] basic regulatory structure for algorithmic trading by AT Persons.”12 Proposed section 170.18 provides that each registrant that is an AT Person and is not otherwise required to be a member of an RFA pursuant to existing CFTC rules “must become and remain a member of at least one RFA that provides for the membership of such registrant, unless no such futures association is so registered.”13 “The membership requirements proposed by § 170.18 will ensure that all AT Persons would be subject to membership rules promulgated by an RFA, including those membership rules promulgated pursuant to proposed § 170.19 to address algorithmic trading.”14 Proposed section 170.19 requires RFAs to “establish and maintain a program . . . for the prevention of fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, the protection of the public interest, and perfecting the mechanisms of trading on DCMs . . . by adopting rules for each category of member, as deemed appropriate by the RFA.” Unless deemed unnecessary by the RFA, such rules would require “(i) pre-trade risk controls and other measures for ATSs; (ii) standards for the development, testing, monitoring, and compliance of ATSs; (iii) designation and training of algorithmic trading staff; and (iv) operational risk management standards for clearing member FCMs with respect to customer orders originating with ATSs.”15 The CFTC’s proposing release notes, however, that the CFTC intends to give RFAs “a wide measure of latitude” in adopting such rules, and that “the determination as to both the necessity of rules and their application to specific categories of members remains with the RFA.”16 IV. Mandatory Risk Controls, Testing, Monitoring and Supervision A “fundamental element” of proposed Regulation AT is the requirement that AT Persons implement measures designed to prevent an “Algorithmic Trading Event,” including “pre-trade risk controls [and] order cancellation systems.”17 The required measures, set forth in proposed section 1.80, are designed to “reduce the 10 Id. at 90, 93. 11 Id. at 99. 12 Id. 13 Id. at 107. Existing CFTC rules require all registered FCMs, IBs, CPOs, SDs and MSPs, and most registered CTAs, to be RFA members. See 17 CFR §§ 170.15-17. 14 Reg. AT Release at 107. 15 Id. at 102. 16 Id. at 103-04. 17 Id. at 108. An Algorithmic Trading Event is defined in section 1.3(vvvv) of the proposed regulation as “an event at an AT 3 80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com potential for market disruptions arising from system malfunctions, other errors, or intentional disruptive conduct”—the likelihood of which the CFTC believes is “heightened by the increased use of high-speed algorithmic trading.”18 Proposed section 1.80 includes the following requirements:19 • Maximum AT Order Message and Execution Frequencies: Proposed section 1.80(a)(i)(A) requires AT Persons to implement pre-trade risk controls that establish maximum AT Order Message and execution frequencies per unit time—commonly known as “execution throttles.” The rule is “aimed at preventing market disruptions caused by either inadvertent or intentional submission of AT Order Messages.” • Order Price Parameters and Maximum Order Size Limits: Proposed section 1.80(a)(i)(B) requires AT Persons to implement pre-trade risk controls that limit the prices and quantities associated with individual order messages. The rule is “intended to prevent orders at prices far from prevailing market from entering the market,” which in turn is intended to “protect the natural price discovery process from disruptive behavior such as unintentionally large orders.” • Order Management Controls: Proposed section 1.80(b)(i) requires AT Persons to implement certain management controls (i.e., a “kill switch”) that can (1) immediately disengage Algorithmic Trading, (2) cancel some or all resting orders when required, and (3) prevent submission of any new orders. The rule is “intended to protect against erroneous trading activity caused by an algorithmic trading system malfunction.” • Periodic Review for Sufficiency and Effectiveness: Proposed section 1.80(f) requires each AT Person to periodically review its compliance with section 1.80 to “determine whether it has effectively implemented sufficient measures reasonably designed to prevent an Algorithmic Trading Event,” and remedy any identified deficiencies. In addition to requiring implementation of these controls, proposed section 1.83(a) requires AT Persons to “prepare, certify, and submit annual reports regarding” the controls to the DCMs on which they operate. 20 Person that constitutes: (1) An Algorithmic Trading Compliance Issue; or (2) An Algorithmic Trading Disruption.” An Algorithmic Trading Compliance Issue is defined in proposed section 1.3(tttt) as “an event at an AT Person that has caused any Algorithmic Trading of such entity to operate in a manner that does not comply with the Commodity Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder,” or with various other rules promulgated by a DCM or RFA, or the AT Person’s own internal requirements or the requirements of the AT Person’s clearing member. An Algorithmic Trading Disruption is defined in proposed section 1.3(uuuu) as “an event originating with an AT Person that disrupts, or materially degrades, (i) the Algorithmic Trading of such AT Person, (ii) the operation of the designated contract market on which such AT Person is trading or (iii) the ability of other market participants to trade on the designated contract market on which such AT Person is trading.” Id. at 476-77. 18 Id. at 118. 19 For a complete analysis of proposed section 1.80, see Reg. AT Release at 119-31. The proposed regulation imposes similar risk management requirements on DCMs and clearing member FCMs. Id. at 157-60, 212-14. 20 Id. at 169. Proposed section 1.83(b) imposes similar requirements on each FCM that is a clearing member for an AT Person. Id. Proposed section 40.22 requires DCMs to “require each AT Person that trades on the DCM, and each FCM that is a clearing member for such AT Person, to submit the reports described in § 1.83(a) and (b) annually,” and further 4 80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com Finally, proposed Regulation AT includes a number of provisions requiring AT Persons to establish written procedures aimed at reducing the risks associated with algorithmic trading systems. Under proposed section 1.81, AT Persons would be required to implement written policies and procedures: (1) “for the development and testing of ATSs”; (2) “reasonably designed to ensure that each of its ATSs is subject to continuous real-time monitoring and supervision by knowledgeable and qualified staff while such ATS is engaged in trading”; and (3) “reasonably designed to ensure that ATSs operate in a manner that complies with the [Commodity Exchange Act] and the rules and regulations thereunder.” In addition, AT Persons would be required to implement written policies and procedures “to designate and train staff responsible for Algorithmic Trading.”21 V. Transparency in Trade Matching Systems Perhaps the most controversial provisions of proposed Regulation AT are those mandating disclosure of elements of “the design and operation of a DCM’s electronic matching platform,” including the disclosure of “any attributes of an electronic matching platform or trade execution facility that materially impact market participant orders, but which are not readily apparent to a market participant.”22 Specifically: • Under proposed amendments to section 38.401(a)(1)(iii), DCMs would be required to disclosed to the CFTC, “market participants and the public” information about “rules or specifications pertaining to the operation of the electronic matching platform or trade execution facility, including but not limited to those pertaining to the operation of [their] electronic matching platform[s] that materially affect the time, priority, price, or quantity of execution, or the ability to cancel, modify, or limit display of market participant orders.”23 • Under a proposed addition to section 38.401(a), DCMs would be required to disclose to “all market participants any known attributes of the electronic matching platform, other than those already disclosed in rules or specifications under section (a)(1)(iii), that materially affect the time, priority, price, or quantity of execution of market participant orders, the ability to cancel, modify, or limit display of market participant orders, or the dissemination of real-time market data to market participants, including . . . latencies or other variability in the electronic matching platform . . . .”24 The CFTC believes that these rule changes will “foster competition among exchanges by incentivizing them to provide the most efficient and fairest venue for trading,” and provide market participants with important information “that explains the existence and operation of any attribute within an electronic matching platform or trade execution facility that will impact how a market participant experiences the market.”25 The proposed rules “require[s] each DCM to establish a program for effective review of such reports and remediation of any deficiencies found,” among other requirements. Id. at 221. 21 Id. at 140-41. 22 Id. at 185-86. 23 Id. at 190. 24 Id. The CFTC notes in its Regulation AT proposing release that neither of these proposed rule changes is “intended to require the disclosure of trade secrets by any DCM.” Id. 25 Id. at 186, 197. 5 80 Pine Street | New York, NY 10005 | t: +1.212.701.3000 | f: +1.212.269.5420 | Cahill.com would apply not only to trade matching engines, but to all systems under a DCM’s control that interact with market participant order messages and are involved in market data dissemination. The new rules would, however, include a “ ‘materiality threshold’ . . . so that the disclosure requirements would not capture aspects of the exchange systems that do not have a discernable effect on how orders are entered or executed.”26 VI. Conclusion If adopted as proposed, Regulation AT will be far reaching and costly. According to the CFTC’s estimates, the regulation could subject “a total of 420 potential AT Persons,” “an estimate of 57 clearing member FCMs,” and “an estimate of 15 DCMs” to the new regulatory regime. In addition, Regulation AT would require “approximately 100 potential firms” to register as floor traders.27 In the aggregate, the CFTC estimates that the regulation’s requirements will impose one-time costs of $53,265,930, and annual costs of $10,867,080, on the entities it affects (excluding RFAs).28 Despite these costs, the CFTC believes that the new rules are necessary to meet “the need for a regulatory baseline that provides a robust and sufficiently clear standard for pre-trade risk controls, supervision standards, and other safeguards for automated trading environments.”29 * * * If you have any questions about the issues addressed in this memorandum or if you would like a copy of any of the materials mentioned, please do not hesitate to call or email Bradley J. Bondi at 202.862.8910 or bbondi@cahill.com; Charles A. Gilman at 212.701.3403 or cgilman@cahill.com, Jon Mark at 212.701.3100 or jmark@cahill.com, John Schuster at 212.701.3323 or jschuster@cahill.com, or David S. Slovick at 212.701.3978 or dslovick@cahill.com. 26 Id. at 191-92. 27 Id. at 257-59. 28 Id. at 426-28. 29 Id. at 18. 6 This memorandum is for general information purposes only and is not intended to advertise our services, solicit clients or represent our legal advice.
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LEXUS DESIGN AWARD INDIA 2020 OPEN FOR ENTRIES
How passionate are you about designing for a better tomorrow?
● Lexus India continues its commitment to nurturing up-and-coming designers by hosting the third edition of Lexus Design Award India.
● The program offers recognition & promotion to winners from 10 different categories of design.
● Conceptual Category entries will be considered for global Lexus Design Awards finalists, who will be handpicked and mentored by some of the most respected names in the design industry, to showcase their prototypes to a global audience at the world-renowned Milan Design Week
● 2 Winners of the conceptual category will be invited to Lexus Design Awards at the Milan Design Week in April 2020.
Bangalore/Mumbai/New Delhi, India, 8th August 2019 – Lexus India today announced the third edition of the distinguished Lexus Design Award India (LDAI). The Design competition serves as a platform for both, emerging and established designers and creators, whose works can lead to a better future for all. The annual event attracts creative talent from around India, who aspire to win the coveted award for innovative design excellence.
Making the world a better place through design has been the program’s purpose and the 2020 award continues the directive of “Design for a Better Tomorrow”. As was the case last year, entrants will need to demonstrate how their creative ideas express three key principles of the Lexus brand. Anticipate, Innovate and Captivate, with an emphasis on how their design anticipates the needs of individuals and society.
“We are extremely proud to announce the third edition of the Lexus Design Award India. Over the last two years, we have established ourselves as a premier design award that attracts hundreds of entries from the immensely talented Indian design community. We are confident that this edition will showcase some great designs and establish India as an innovation hub that provides solutions to various problems faced by society,” said P B Venugopal, President, Lexus India.
A unique aspect of LDAI’s third edition will see a new initiative where finalists from conceptual category receive exclusive mentorship. In the process of mentorship candidates receive recommendations and ideas, which can greatly influence to refine their projects.
Entries at the Lexus Design Award India 2020 will be judged across the following 10 categories:
A. Established Work (Client/ Self-Commissioned)
1. Product Design
2. Furniture Design
3. Textile Design
4. Craft Design
5. Design Thinking
6. Public Utility Design
7. Lifestyle Accessory Design
8. Design for Social Impact
B. Conceptual Work
9. Student Category
10. Open Category
Winners from the 10 categories will receive Lexus Design Award India trophies designed specially by Michael Foley, and the winning works will be promoted by Lexus India on digital media and Lexus Guest Experience Centers. Entries from the 2 conceptual work categories (9 & 10) will also be considered for the Lexus Design Award 2020, the international Design Award held worldwide by Lexus International. The winners from the 2 conceptual work categories (9 & 10) will be invited to the Lexus Design Event, at the Milan Design Week 2020.
The winners of LDAI 2020 will be announced in early 2020. The judges & mentors for the award will comprise some of the most noted and revered designers from India and will be announced by September 2019. Additionally, the panel will also have a member from the Lexus, who will support the team in the judging process.
Applications and entries for the Lexus Design Award India are now open with the deadline for submitting entries being - 10th October 2020. Details of the Lexus Design Award India 2020 can be found at www.lexusindia.co.in/en/discover-lexus/lexus-design-award-india.
Official hashtag: #LexusDesignAwardIndia
CALL FOR ENTRIES TO THE LEXUS DESIGN AWARD INDIA 2019
08 August – 10 October, 2019
Design for a Better Tomorrow. Anticipate. Innovate. Captivate.
Anticipate: Does the concept and design anticipate not only the needs of the user experience, but the needs of society?
Innovate: Does the design demonstrate new thinking and originality in its proposal and execution?
Captivate: Is the design intriguing and compelling when realized in concept and execution?
To be announced by September 2019
There is no application fee to participate in the Lexus Design Award India.
Participants are allowed to submit up to 5 entries per category
10 Category Winners
Prizes / Benefits
10 Winners receive the LDAI Award
Winning works are promoted by Lexus India on digital media and Lexus Guest Experience Centers
Entries from 2 Conceptual work categories to be considered for Lexus Design Awards 2020
Winners of the 2 Conceptual work categories invited to Lexus Design Event at Milan Design Week 2020*
Finalists from Conceptual Work category will be invited for mentorship – a session with mentors from diverse fields who provide guidance to help refine their projects
*Note: Only one person per entry is invited, regardless of individual or group submission.
ABOUT LEXUS DESIGN AWARD INDIA
The Lexus Design Award India (LDAI) seeks to recognize and reward the best industrial design executed by Indian designers, institutions, design consultancy firms, and in-house design teams of companies. Good design is defined by LDAI as the synthesis of ergonomic, aesthetic, commercial, industrial, and scientific disciplines to create products that simplify, enrich and better human existence. Lexus, as a brand, has always stood for excellence in design, ergonomics, sustainability, technological superiority, and responsible consumption; and the LDAI will mirror these brand values.
ABOUT LEXUS DESIGN AWARD
First launched in 2013, the Lexus Design Award is an international design competition that targets up-and-coming creators from around the world. The award seeks to foster the growth of ideas that contribute to society by supporting designers and creators whose works can help to shape a better future. It provides a unique opportunity for six finalists to work with globally recognized designers as a mentor to create prototypes of their designs, and then exhibit them at one of the design calendar's most important events.
Lexus began its journey in 1989 and has, since then, expanded its line-up to meet the needs of luxury consumers around the world. It is now going beyond its reputation for high quality vehicles with the integration of innovative technology, emotional exterior and interior designs, and engaging driving dynamics and performance. Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader, having sold over a million hybrid vehicles globally. Lexus vehicles are sold through a network of dealers who are committed to delivering exemplary guest experiences.
Appaiah K B
Lexus India
appaiah.kb@lexusindia.co.in
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By Mark Pack | Wed 10th November 2010 - 8:55 am
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The cover of Bruce Riedel’s The Search for Al Qaeda shows a group of armed men working their way up a hillside overlooking a beautiful valley that stretches away to rolling hills. It captures the wonder and the tragedy of Afghanistan in one frame.
The book itself is similarly crisp, packing a wide-ranging history of Al Qaeda and its key figures into only 150 pages of moderate size print. It is penned by an ex-CIA man of thirty years service who was frequently closely involved with the figures and events painted in the book, but not so closely as to make the reader fear it is more a justification of his career than a fair account of events.
The book traces the birth, rise and then stuttering of Al Qaeda, which has lost its unmolested bases in Pakistan, antagonised former supporters in Iraq with its brutality and yet does not appear to be about to concede defeat any point soon.
Some of the book covers familiar terrain, such as in recounting the huge levels of mistaken knowledge amongst the American population where a belief in a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 has survived the discrediting of what little evidence was ever presented to try to make the claim. Riedel approvingly quotes ex-Senator Max Cleland saying, “Attacking Iraq after 9/11 was like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbour”.
Riedel’s view is firmly that the Israel/Palestine dispute fuels much of the region’s terrorism directly or indirectly and that a peaceful settlement there is a necessary part of any plan to defeat terrorism in the region. Unlike others who have similarly looked at terrorism and sought to separate the violent extremists from mainstream Muslims, such as Robert Pape, Riedel does not extend his list of underlying contributory factors to include the presence of US military bases in Saudi Arabia. Yet the US presence there is often cited in public as one of the reasons for terrorism by Al Qaeda supporters and Pape’s study Dying to Win, which looks in detail at what makes people suicide bombers, places great weight on this factor.
Instead, Riedel gives as another contributing factor the disputes over Kashmir. He argues that the disputes between Pakistan and India, often made fraught and violent by the Kashmir question, explain Pakistan’s own role in frequently supporting terrorism and extremists. Faced with a large, well-armed neighbour, Pakistan has sought its own national security by wooing armed extreme Muslims for the unconventional military strength they could bring in a conflict with India and by backing extremists in Afghanistan in order to have an ally at its back in any possible conflict with India.
“Pakistan” is perhaps too simple a word to use to describe the complicated mix of military, security and political power bases and tensions in the country, which have at times seen opposition to the Taleban win out – as in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and more recently when the Taleban appeared to present a direct military threat to Pakistan’s cities.
Riedel places some of the blame for the state of Pakistan on others, in particular the American government for abandoning its interest in the country so quickly after the fall of the communist government in Afghanistan and so giving Pakistan the message that it could only secure its own future by looking to extremists. He is also very critical of the switch of American resources from Afghanistan to preparing to invade Iraq at a point at which, he contents, Al Qaeda was on the brink of major military defeat up against the Pakistan border.
The question of how close to capture Osama Bin Laden personally was at that moment has, and doubtless will continue to be, much debate. To a British reader it is striking how absent the issue is from assessment of Tony Blair’s record: where was he exercising influence on George W Bush to ensure that the job was finished in Afghanistan rather than neglected in favour of Iraq? The invasion of Iraq was not merely a mistake in its own right; it was also a mistake for what it meant in Afghanistan.
The power of Pakistan’s military and the deep entanglement of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) can only be resolved, Riedel argues, if peace in Kashmir and strong relations with India remove the underlying rationale for a strong armed state pulling in unconventional allies.
By contrast, Bangladesh – another smaller country with an at times uneasy relationship with India – is praised in the book: “Though desperately poor, it had made tremendous strides since breaking away from Pakistan in 1971 to alleviate its poverty and reduce illiteracy. Now [in 2000] headed by Shaika Hasina, a female prime minister and thus a rare commodity in the Islamic world, it was also a poster child for the microcredit concept developed by Clinton’s long-time friend Mohammed Yunus in his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Furthermore, the country did not support terrorism, did not seek to acquire weapons of mass destructions, and was not a threat to regional peace.”
Many positive mentions too are made of the commitment of Saudi authorities to tackling violent extremism. Incidents such as the despatch of Saudi commandos to Afghanistan to try to arrest Osama Bin Laden before 9/11 help explain why Western governments have so often been very cautious and reluctant in taking up the Saudi government’s own failings.
The book provides detailed portraits of four key Al Qaeda personalities – Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and Abu Musaib al-Zarqawi, including the main doctrinal divisions within Islam, so highlighting how their own view of Islam is far from universal or accepted.
The book ends on an attempted positive note, a chapter titled “How to defeat Al Qaeda”, though with Riedel’s prescriptions so heavily dependent on the Palestine and Kashmir questions it is far from clear that they are likely to be met.
You can buy Bruce Riedel’s The Search for Al Qaeda from Amazon here.
Read more by Mark Pack or more about afghanistan, al-qaeda, bruce riedel, featured, osama bin laden, pakistan, robert pape, saudi arabia or tony blair.
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Geoffrey Payne 10th Nov '10 - 1:06pm
It is a commonly believed myth that Afghanistan went wrong because our troops were diverted by Iraq.
But the effect of the US surge in Afghanistan that Obama implemented actually made things worse. All of a sudden there were reports of a resurgent Pakistan Taliban, the very last thing we needed in a nuclear armed state. The experience of many Afghanis of the UK/US army is often a very negative one that often does more good than harm. This is the opinion of Rory Stewart MP who has lived there and has far more interesting things to say about the country. As a result he argues in favour of a “Light Footprint” policy which we will probably get as we cannot afford this level of commitment for much longer.
As for Osama Bin Laden, he doesn’t matter much apart from the symbolism. Al Qaeda is an idea rather than an organisation and it doesn’t need Osama bin Laden that much anymore.
RichardSM 10th Nov '10 - 1:46pm
From your appraisal, it doesn’t seem this book offers anything new. It might provide interest to those wanting a perspective from a former CIA man, but there’s plenty of choice in that field. Is Riedel revealing any CIA secrets? I doubt it. Why suffer a perceived interpretation of al Qaeda’s motives by a former CIA analyst, when there’s offerings from people like Robert Fisk (who conducted three face-to-face interviews with Osama bin Laden) or as you say, Robert Pape, who leads a substantial academic research team, and has analysed al Qaeda from every angle?
I heard about another book this morning on R4 Today which sounds more interesting, “Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism,” written by Scott Attran. He has apparently been interviewing and talking to terrorists around the world over the last few years. This one is more likely to make it onto my (ever-growing) reading list , though its doubtful I’ll ever get round to reading it cover to cover; a scan-through when it arrives at the library is more likely.
George Kendall 10th Nov '10 - 5:44pm
@Mark Pack
Thanks for the review. It sounds an interesting book.
“The invasion of Iraq was not merely a mistake in its own right; it was also a mistake for what it meant in Afghanistan”
I remember General Zinni putting this argument prior to the Iraq war, and very much agreeing with it.
He also talked about the importance of large numbers of troops in containing an insurgency.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but if you have too few troops, you get more violence. Potential militants sense weakness, they think they can attack without retribution, so they do. And moderates, sensing weakness, keep their heads down and refuse to cooperate.
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McCoy Mrubata & Paul Hanmer
Playlist: Essential South African Jazz
Curated by Seton Hawkins September 12, 2019
McCoy Mrubata & Paul Hanmer The Score / Music
Curated by Seton Hawkins
Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, traces the unique musical lineages that have informed South African jazz from the 1940s to the 21st century.
Listen to the full playlist on Spotify.
"De Makeba" by the Jazz Dazzlers
As South African jazz began to develop in the 1940s and '50s, the local artists began to move away from copying American big bands, and instead forged a local style. Sometimes called majuba and sometimes called mbaqanga, this style of big band jazz fused American swing with a style from Johannesburg's townships, a syncopated sound called marabi. The resulting sound was a truly South African approach to jazz, and this 1958 recording by the Jazz Dazzlers demonstrates it beautifully. The alto saxophone soloist is also a crucial figure: His name was Kippie Moeketsi, and he was a forward-thinking visionary who inspired younger artists like Hugh Masekela and Dollar Brand to take new risks in jazz.
"Baby Ntsoare" by the Manhattan Brothers, featuring Miriam Makeba
Close-harmony vocal singing became a massive craze in South African popular music, and many artists found unique ways to meld local vocal traditions with the jazz-pop vocal sounds of groups like the Mills Brothers or the Ink Spots. No group was more influential than the Manhattan Brothers, whose sound and style would dominate South African pop culture in the 1940s and '50s. In addition, the Manhattan Brothers had a keen eye for talent, picking up a guest singer to join them on several recordings and tours. That rising star vocalist was none other than Miriam Makeba! You can hear this amazing collaboration in this 1954 recording of "Baby Ntsoare."
"Ace Blues" by Spokes Mashiyane
In the 1950s, a unique approach to jazz emerges in the urban centers of South Africa. Combining the pipe traditions of certain Southern African people like the BaPedi with the tin pennywhistle that arrived in South Africa via Scottish immigrants, a swinging pennywhistle musical style called kwela became a pop phenomenon in South Africa during the 1950s. One of its most prominent practitioners, Spokes Mashiyane, can be heard on this 1958 track, and the remnants of pennywhistle styles can be heard to this day in South Africa and abroad (in fact, pop culture enthusiasts might remember a pennywhistle solo in the middle of Paul Simon's song "You Can Call Me Al"!)
"Scullery Department" by the Jazz Epistles
The 1960 LP Verse One by the Jazz Epistles is a landmark in South Africa for many reasons. As the first jazz LP to be released by South African artists, the album also features a veritable supergroup of South African jazz masters. Altoist Kippie Moeketsi stands out as the star soloist, but now-famous figures like Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa round out the frontline, while Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim) leads a rhythm section that includes bassist Johnny Gertze and drummer Early Mabuza. The music on it shows the degree to which forward-thinking artists had absorbed the innovations of American hard bop into the South African jazz aesthetic. This particular track, written by Kippie Moeketsi, is an album highlight. Verse One also represents two decades of relentless innovation in South African music that will be hamstrung in the very same year following the Sharpeville Massacre and its fallout.
"Pata Pata" by Miriam Makeba
One of the first famous artists to leave, Miriam Makeba will quickly become the most prominent South African artist in exile. Coming under the tutelage of Harry Belafonte, Makeba will slowly alter her sound and aesthetic throughout the 1960s (compare this track to "Baby Ntsoare"), and she will utilize her pop culture position to protest both the apartheid government in South Africa, and the Civil Rights restrictions in America. For this, she will find herself in exile yet again, this time from America, settling in Guinea for several decades. The title of this song, which becomes one of Makeba's greatest hits, means "touch touch," and refers to a social dance in South Africa's shebeens (informal bars).
"U, Dwi" by Hugh Masekela
While "Grazin' in the Grass" is certainly Hugh Masekela's biggest hit, this 1966 track finds him in extraordinary form, playing a mixture of mbaqanga and hard bop in a fabulous mixed group of American artists (Eric Gale, Larry Willis, and Howard St. John), and fellow South African exiles (Morris Goldberg and Jonas Gwangwa). Masekela's trumpet playing here is some of his finest, and the piece highlights some of the paths his diverse and fascinating career will take in the ensuing decades.
"Mra" by The Brotherhood of Breath
While a great deal of emphasis on the South African artists in exile is placed on the musicians who come to America, those who settle in Europe deserve a tremendous amount of attention. Indeed, their contributions to the European jazz scene, particularly in free jazz, cannot be overstated. One crucial group that arrives in Europe in 1964 is called The Blue Notes, and is an integrated band led by pianist Chris McGregor and featuring trumpeter Mongezi Feza, altoist Dudu Pukwana, tenor Nikele Moyake, bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. The group disbands not long after their arrival, but partially reconstitutes in an incredible big band called The Brotherhood of Breath. In it, McGregor, Feza, Pukwana, and Moholo join forces with British jazz artists to create one of the most singularly thrilling ensembles to ever exist. This recording of the South African jazz classic "Mra" gives a good sense of the energy and vitality this band imbued into every performance.
"Kippi" by the Dollar Brand Trio
Abdullah Ibrahim (then Dollar Brand) left South Africa and initially settled in Europe with his trio and with his wife, the vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Their fortunes rise in 1963 when Sathima convinces Duke Ellington, who was touring in Zurich at the time, to come and hear Abdullah Ibrahim's trio record. Duly impressed by what he heard, Duke Ellington engaged the trio to make a recording the next week, and also engaged Sathima to record at the same time. What resulted was Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio, which would launch Ibrahim's international career and enable him to relocate to New York (Sathima's record would sadly remain unissued until 1997). Ibrahim's playing on this represents an incredible fusion of the Church-infused sounds of South Africa's Western Cape mixed with the pianist touch of Ellington and Monk.
"Yakhal' Inkomo" by Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi
Arguably the most important jazz piece recorded in South Africa, though bafflingly almost unknown outside of South Africa, "Yakhal' Inkomo" by tenor saxophonist Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi represents the genius of South African artists who remained in the country even in the worst times of apartheid. A coded anti-apartheid message in an instrumental piece, "Yakhal' Inkomo" means "bellowing bull," a reference to the cry of cattle being slaughtered. Mankunku's playing is often held as the gold standard of a South African tenor saxophone sound, and with good reason: intensely vocal and melodic, Mankunku's sound is utterly arresting and unforgettable.
"Stay Cool" by Tete Mbambisa
Pianist Tete Mbambisa led an extraordinary large ensemble of artists in this 1976 session. Drawing on the earlier marabi and majuba sounds of South Africa's history, this piece (and its corresponding album) offered up a resistance message even as it grooved. Recorded in the wake of the 1976 youth uprisings, the music offered a message of unity ("Unity" and "Black Heroes") and patience ("Stay Cool") without having to say a word. South African Broadcasting Corporation censors were thus bypassed, but the music's message still rang loud and clear.
"Isililo" by Sakhile
Sakhile means "we have built," and this group explored ways of bridging Zulu musical traditions with jazz and fusion styles of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In their efforts, they sought to find a way to explore their musical culture and heritage in a rich and meaningful way, avoiding the neo-traditional restrictions that South Africa's Bantu Radio tried to impose on artists. The result was something extraordinary. The title of this 1982 piece, "Isililo," means "fires," and it explores the pain, struggle, and fear felt by the artists during the 1976 youth uprisings.
"Cabo" by Tananas
Where apartheid sought to divide and separate (in fact, "apartheid" means "separateness"), musicians sought to collaborate. This incredible trio from the 1980s merged guitarist Steve Newman, bassist/vocalist Gito Baloi, and drummer Ian Herman in a genre-defying, multiracial ensemble that to this day remains one of the world's most incredible bands. This piece reflects a wide range of South Africa's influences, melding them into a fascinating fusion, and closing with a fun nod to Cape Town's kaapse klopse musical tradition.
"Closer to the Source" by Bheki Mseleku
Bheki Mseleku was one of the most visionary artists South Africa ever produced. Cutting his teeth in fusion ensembles in South Africa in the 1970s, Mseleku ultimately relocated to London, which served as his base of operations for many years. In the 1990s, though, his career began to launch with a string of brilliant albums for World Circuit and Verve Records, pairing him with icons like Joe Henderson, Abbey Lincoln, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, and more. On this piece from 1992, Mseleku trades melodic lines with saxophonist Courtney Pine in a thrilling duet.
"Meeting of the Women" by Paul Hanmer
With the democratic elections in 1994 and the beginning of the New South Africa, jazz artists began to explore the new role of the music in this society. How would a style so tied to the anti-apartheid movement realign in the post-apartheid world? For many artists, the solution they found was a new exploration of South Africa's pre-colonial traditions, an absorption of them, and an integration of those sounds into the music of the global landscape. One such artist who emerged in the 1990s is pianist Paul Hanmer, who would write some of the most beloved Jazz standards of South Africa. His seminal 1997 album Trains to Taung offered an incredible new vision for South African jazz.
"Face the Music" by McCoy Mrubata
An extraordinary Who's Who of South Africa's jazz scene at the turn of the 21st century assembled for this 2002 album, led by saxophonist McCoy Mrubata. Drawing on the rich mbaqanga musical traditions of South Africa, Mrubata found a fascinating and exciting new path for the music. Indeed, Mrubata's is one of the strongest voices to emerge post-1994 in forging and giving contour to the shape of jazz in the New South Africa.
Seton Hawkins is Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Adastra superyacht launches in China
Described as ‘one of the world’s most amazing super yachts’, Adastra is 42.5 metres long, 16 metres wide and weighs 52 tons.
Apr 16, 2012 | By Luxuo
The Adastra, unveiled last week in China, is the new floating pleasure palace of billionaire Anto Marden who commissioned its construction five years ago.
Designed by Sussex-based yacht designer John Shuttleworth, the Adastra was built in Zhuhai, China at the cost of a cool $15 million.
The striking trimaran has an integrated ship monitoring system, and can even be controlled with an Apple iPad within a 50-metre range.
With a length of 42m, it has a maximum speed of 22.5 knots, weighs in at 52 tonnes and has the capacity to host nine guests – with room for up to six crew members.
Adastra has been described by Boat International as “one of the world’s most amazing super yachts, that could spell the future for efficient long range cruising”.
Adastra’s 16 metre beam creates a spacious saloon area on the main deck which offers superb views through a panoramic window and accommodates a lounge area, dining table, and navigation station.
A forward facing door through the saloon window gives easy access to a large sunbed on the foredeck.
The aft deck has a sofa and bar area to port and a dining area to starboard, further aft of this there is space for a 4.9 metre tender and directly below is a garage which can store a 3.1 metre tender.
The garage door has been designed to fold out and create a large dive platform. Extra space has been created below deck by slightly flaring the central hull just above the waterline.
This area has been split into two sections with a full-width master cabin located aft with access from the deck saloon, and two further guest cabins, accommodation for the crew, and the galley located forward of the engine compartment.
The main helm station, which has seating for two, is positioned in a raised pilot house situated between the aft deck and the saloon area and forms part of the cross beam structure.
The Superstructure is carbon fibre with Nomex honeycomb core, the hull is Glass/Kevlar foam sandwich and the interior is light weight oak cabinetry using honeycomb panels.
To help reduce weight, virtually every aspect of the boat is custom built. This includes carbon fibre hatches, portlights, ladders and even hinges, which are all built specifically for the vessel.
Adastra is powered by one Caterpillar C18 engine of 1150hp at 2300 rpm and has 2 Yanmar 110hp @ 3200 rpm outrigger engines.
Anto Marden, who is based in Hong Kong and made his fortune in the shipping industry, will be able to sail the state-of-the-art boat between the two islands he already owns off the coast of Indonesia.
Source: Charterworld
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Is shutting the Oshawa GM plant inevitable? Yes: Philip Cross in the Toronto Star
With demand for its product is falling rapidly, the closure of GM’s Oshawa assembly plant is no doubt tragic, but it is hardly surprising, writes Philip Cross.
By Philip Cross, December 4, 2018
While a severe blow for its workers and the whole community, GM’s closing of its Oshawa assembly plant is hardly surprising. The harsh consequences of this ending requires a clear understanding of why GM reached this decision.
However, because the losses from the closing are so painful, every interest group, including unions, various levels of government, and GM management is putting out its own spin. None of them is being entirely honest and transparent.
Eliminating the last jobs at Oshawa is the culmination of a long downward spiral. The number of jobs at GM’s assembly complex fell 90 per cent from its peak of 23,000 in the 1980s to just 2,500 when their termination was announced.
Union leaders and politicians were well aware Oshawa’s future was in doubt: the federal innovation minister says he started every conversation with GM by anxiously asking, even before saying hello, “How’s Oshawa?”
Who’s to blame? The fault certainly does not lie with the workers, among GM’s most productive. Managerial greed was not the main factor, since 25 per cent of executives also will lose their jobs.
Neither are carbon taxes, nor is the tariffs on steel and aluminum at fault, since GM also closed car plants in the U.S. Nor can we blame either U.S. protectionism or the North American trade deal, because GM is not shifting car production to the U.S. or Mexico (while Canada was hardly singled-out for cuts, it cannot expect to be spared when the U.S. Midwest was also hard hit in this round of closures).
A shift to electric and environment-friendly vehicles, cited by GM in its press release, is not the motivation since one of the plants closed produced the Volt; in fact, concentrating on trucks and SUVs makes GM less environmentally friendly.
All of GM’s closings last week reflected a decision to stop producing passenger cars, including two other car assembly plants in the U.S. as well as two related transmission plants. GM is following Ford and FiatChrysler in largely abandoning the market for passenger cars to Japanese and European producers (GM will continue niche production of the Camaro).
Recent sales trends made GM’s shift in strategic focus inevitable. Demand for most GM passenger cars has fallen by half since 2014, even as sedan sales held up for overseas producers.
While GM’s Oshawa plant remained highly productive, this matters little when demand for its product is falling rapidly. The shift in consumer tastes to Japanese and European passenger cars has been ongoing for decades. It is not something that governments can, or should, regulate.
The core of GM’s long-term strategy is that it will only produce trucks and SUVs, because they are protected from overseas competition by high tariffs and because the Big Three firms have a stronger brand in these markets than overseas producers.
Many people do not realize trucks and SUVs imported from overseas face an average 20 per cent tariff, while passenger cars face minimal tariffs. GM could continue to compete with Japan and Europe in the low-margin market for sedans, but decided to maximize its return on capital by focusing on trucks and SUVs.
The closure of the Oshawa assembly line reveals the failure of a number of tactics. One is the union’s posture of endless bluster and confrontation, which may play well with the rank and file but is increasingly outdated as North American auto production clearly moved south to non-union workplaces.
Management did not stay abreast of changing consumer preferences and the best management techniques. The long-term innovation strategy of federal and provincial governments has failed to keep up with the rapid shifts in auto technology, which is becoming software packaged on wheels.
Most importantly, governments failed to realize that regulations and taxes raising the costs of producing in North America ultimately would drive firms to concentrate on high-margin vehicles that could absorb these costs.
This long-term shift in the focus of North American-based producers was reinforced by keeping high tariffs on trucks and SUVs produced overseas. The unintended result today is that North American-based firms soon will no longer make passenger cars in Oshawa or anywhere else in North America.
Philip Cross is a Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada.
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St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors
Fourth Edition| ©2011 Christina Murphy; Steve Sherwood
A brief guide with an anthology of scholarly essays and FAQs on tutoring and coverage of online writing.
Fourth Edition| ©2011
Christina Murphy; Steve Sherwood
Fourth Edition| 2011
*new to this edition
Part I. The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices
Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction
The Tutor's Role: Developing an Informed Practice
Dimensions of the Tutorial
Tutoring Online
Multimodal Tutoring
On Becoming an Effective Tutor
Part II. Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation
THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS
Stephen North, “The Idea of a Writing Center”
*Stephen North, “Revisiting 'The Idea of a Writing Center”
Andrea Lunsford, “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center”
*Peter Vandenberg, “Lessons of Inscription: Tutor Training and the 'Professionl Conversation'”
*Steve Sherwood, “Portrait of the Tutor as an Artist: Lessons No One Can Teach”
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TUTORING
*Peter Carino, “Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring”
Jeff Brooks, “Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work”
Linda K. Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns, “A Critique of Pure Tutoring”
*Steven J. Corbett, “Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Debate”
*Carl Glover, “Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea”
*David Bringhurst, “Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach”
*Terese Thonus, “Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What Is 'Success'?”
*Neal Lerner, “Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the 'Proof' of Our Effectiveness”
*Carol Severino and Megan Knight, “Exporting Writing Center Pedagogy: Writing Fellows Programs As Ambassadors for the Writing Center”
*Jacob S. Blumner, “A Writing Center-Education Department Collaboration: Training Teachers to Work One-on-One”
AFFIRMING DIVERSITY
Anne DiPardo, “'Whispers of Coming and Going': Lessons from Fannie”
Julie Neff, “Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center”
*Harry Denny, “Queering the Writing Center”
Sharon A. Myers, “Reassessing the 'Proofreading Trap': ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction”
*Nancy Barron and Nancy Grimm, “Addressing Racial Diversity in a Writing Center: Stories and Lessons from Two Beginners”
EXPLORATIONS: THE MULTIMODAL WRITING CENTER
*Lisa Bell, “Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online”
*David Sheridan, “Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers”
*Jackie Grutsch McKinney, "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print”
*Christina Murphy and Lory Hawkes, “The Future of Multiliteracy Centers in the E-World: An Exploration of Cultural Narratives and Cultural Transformation”
Part III. Resources for Further Inquiry
International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)
The National Conference On Peer Tutoring In Writing (NCPTW)
Electronic Networks and Blogs
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Christina Murphy
Christina Murphy is the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She has served as the President of the National Writing Centers Association and has published widely on writing center issues. Her coedited books on writing centers include Landmark Essays on Writing Centers (1995); Writing Center Perspectives (1995); Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (1996); The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (2001); and The Writing Center Director's Resource Book (2006). She also has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in a range of journals and essay collections. Murphy has served as the editor of two national journals, Composition Studies and Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, and of the regional journal English in Texas. Her short stories and poems have appeared in over fifty journals and five anthologies, and she has received an Editor’s Choice award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.
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Steve Sherwood is the Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University. Currently an at-large representative to the International Writing Centers Association Executive Board, he is a past president of the South Central Writing Centers Association. His essays have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, Journal of Teaching Writing, Dialogue, Writing Lab Newsletter, Writing Center Perspectives, Wiring the Writing Center, The Writing Center Resource Manual, English in Texas, Weber Studies, Rendezvous, and other journals. With Christina Murphy and Joe Law, he compiled Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1996), for which Murphy, Law, and Sherwood received a 1997 National Writing Centers Association award. In 2003, Sherwood’s novel Hardwater won the George Garrett Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Texas Review Press, which published the novel in 2005.
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University of Saskatchewan, Edwards School of Business
The Edwards School of Business develops business professionals to build nations. The Edwards School of Business creates opportunities for dynamic learning and critical thinking. We are grounded in our values of authenticity and integrity. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and deliver our mission through faculty with strong academic and professional expertise. Our culture celebrates diversity and embraces pluralism. We engage our stakeholders to build value in their communities.
About the Edwards School of Business
While over the years the name of business programming has changed what has not changed is a total commitment to an excellent educational experience for students. Over the past nearly 100 years as we have grown from a small program linked to the professional accounting community to a comprehensive Business School we listened to you! You told us that a business education must have deep functional roots in core disciplines of accounting and finance, marketing and management, human resources and strategy. But you also told us that these deep functional roots must be enhanced with integrated decision-making skills. Finally, you told us to remember that effective decision making requires key professional competencies of communications and leadership within a framework of ethics and social responsibility. You will find these characteristics embedded in all of our programs.
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Lightweight steel/fiber components developed
The research partners have now completed a body component for the automotive industry made of steel and unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic tape.
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT and for Laser Technology ILT says that it is developing ways to combine metal and fiber reinforced plastic composites for automotive and aerospace applications.
The institutes and 14 other partners have formed the ComMUnion EU research project which aims to reduce the weight of parts and find a way to cost effectively mass produce them.
The new hybrid manufacturing process is reportedly based on a combination of laser texturing and laser-assisted tape placement whereby components are first pre-processed using the laser to provide a defined, rough surface structure. The textured surface allows the continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic lightweight materials, which will later be used for stiffening, to be bonded directly to the steel component. The bond is then mechanical, eliminating any need for additional pre-treatment measures or additional adhesion promoters, such as adhesives or bonding agents.
The stiffenings made of thermoplastic fiber-reinforced plastics are then joined to the component using a tape placement process, Fraunhofer says. The laser heats the thermoplastic tapes locally in the joining zone to the steel. The matrix material melts and flows into the laser textured cavities. After solidification of the melt material, the tape with the embedded unidirectional fibers adheres to the roughened surface of the steel part.
According to the partners, this process is particularly suitable for mass production, as no further post-processing steps, such as curing operations, are required to consolidate the material after tape placement. Additionally, precision localized heating reduces distortion and residual stresses while joining the two materials. The laser texturing process, which has been developed at the Fraunhofer ILT, can also be applied in a reproducible way to the metal surface, precisely at the locations where the textures are needed. Additionally, the laser is not subject to any tool wear.
The research partners have now completed a rocker panel, a body component for the automotive industry made of steel and unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic tape to test and prove the functionality of the process combination.
This story uses material from Fraunhofer, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
Epoxy systems at JEC
Sicomin says that it plans to showcase a range of its epoxy systems at JEC World 2019, taking place from 11–14 March 2019 in Paris, France.
UK-funded project focuses on carbon fiber for automotive
SGL Group has set up an 18 month research and development project to produce lightweight carbon fiber composite components for the automotive industry.
Longer fibers, increased strength
When producing high-strength lightweight parts in large volumes, the length of the structural reinforcing fibers is of key importance.
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Spiritual Men In Ghana
The seasoned men of the church in Ghana, Rev. Bob Andoh, Dr Frimpong-Manso. through an accurate understanding and skilled implementation of the principles of spiritual covering.” READ: ‘Fathers Mat.
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Hall soars to fourth in qualifying for second Red Bull Air Race of 2017
Australia’s Matt Hall has finished fourth in qualifying for the second event of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in San Diego, California and now eyes a showdown with Slovenian pilot Peter Podlunšek in tomorrow’s main event.
After enduring a testing opening race with a speed-deficient rental aircraft in Abu Dhabi, Hall arrived in Southern California with a new aircraft that he expects can be developed into a winner throughout the season.
Holding modest expectations ahead of today’s qualifying session, Hall was slightly taken aback with his top four placing and noted the good progress made in just a short space of time with a new aircraft. Despite the strong showing, the Aussie remains cautious while adapting to a brand new aircraft.
“I was surprised that we’re catching up so quickly. We started the first session backed right off [on the pace]. We’re now starting to push it a bit harder,” Hall said.
“I’m starting to feel more at home in this new plane. In our second run in the session today I tried to push it up against the line a little bit more, but as I did that my flying started to degrade slightly. So I’m still aware that it’s a new aircraft and it’s not as natural as my old MXS-R was to me, but we’ll fix that.
While there are no points for the winner of qualifying, the improved pace and higher standing in the field has instilled confidence in Hall ahead of tomorrow’s all-important race.
“We probably still have a little bit more left in us. If we can get to the final round of racing, and who knows if we do or not? But if we do, we have a bit left in the tank and I can take a few more chances,” he said.
Fastest qualifier was reigning world champion Matthias Dolderer of Germany, American Mike Goulian finished second and championship leader Martin Šonka of the Czech Republic third.
Racing in San Diego begins tomorrow with the head to head Round of 14 heats. The seven winning pilots, as well as the fastest loser, will progress to the ‘Round of 8’. Then the four winners will move onto the ‘Final 4’, which is full gas shootout for victory.
Hall will first face Podlunšek in the Round of 14, with the broadcast commencing at 5am AEST, racing just prior to 6am Monday morning. The event can be viewed LIVE at www.redbullairrace.com/live.
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Refreshing opportunities for the horse racing industry
William Hill have recently announced that they will be closing 700 of their stores, attributing this to the stake reduction on FOBTs (Fixed Odds Betting Terminals) from £100 to just £2.
The knock-on effect on the betting industry, and in particular on racing, could mean less money into the industry overall. This would have repercussions across the horse racing world, with prize money seriously impacted. With less prize money available, there is a danger that we will see less horses in training and therefore, competing. Inevitably, this would lead to less money being brought into the industry and so on and so forth.
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The best night that Scotch can offer
The great, the good and the well-connected gather for the launch of 2015’s Special Releases.
Port Ellen and White Penguins: The Special Releases launch 2015
Every Autumn,I find myself in a crowded room pouring around fifteen thousand pounds worth of whisky in a single evening (if, like me, guitars are your currency, then that’s about five Gretsch White Penguins), along with other colleagues, including Master Blenders Jim Beveridge and Keith Law, dispensing equally generous amounts of wonderful and very often exceptionally rare whiskies, both Single Malts, and Single Grains, to our guests. Nine whiskies in all, each one a thing of beauty in its own right.
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Who am I? Well I’m the bloke who had the bright idea to start the Special Releases programme about fifteen years ago, and ‘though I’m mostly put out to pasture these days, I occasionally get asked back, like an ageing thoroughbred, for one more time round the track to share with others what I know about the bottlings, the distilleries, the nuances of their flavours and how or why they might have developed that way over thirty or so long years in an oak cask.
Who, you might be wondering, are the great and good that benefit from this munificence from the world’s leading Scotch Whisky company? Well, search ‘Special Releases’ online and you’ll quickly see the wide range of social media commentators who come along to join us, and who mostly adore the whiskies we pour for them. But there are also old-school journalists (with pencils), broadcasting types, barmen, mixologists, chefs and food writers, and a number of our most important customers.
And lest you think this is one almighty booze-up it’s important for me to say that ‘though it’s certainly a noisy and vibrant evening, the best that Scotch can offer, it’s also an earnest and studious affair. People take glasses into dark corners and ponder the vagaries of each liquid, poetic and occasionally representative tasting notes are composed, words are exchanged between solemnly nodding heads, a consensus is reached. The next sample is interrogated.
The crowd sampling and discussing the whiskies
Which of this year’s whiskies were particularly well received? Well, it’s always interesting to try and judge the room’s enthusiasms, and I do so with no particular bias towards my White Penguin, the 32 year old Port Ellen, rich and smoky from European oak casks, produced in the last year of the distillery’s working life, described by Alice Lascelles as “a magnificent feast of a whisky”.
Or for that matter the “elegant and graceful” (Dave Broom’s words, not mine) Brora 37 year old, described by one of our guests as simply “f*****g amazing”. But people will tell you, and you can see where the discerning tasters return to for a second ‘appraisal’ of their favourites.
Undoubtedly some of the stars of the evening
So I reckoned that one of the room’s undoubted heroes was the sweet, creamy and surprisingly fruity 40 year old Caledonian Single Grain Whisky, or simply the Cally, as the distillery was affectionately known by those who worked there, and the residents of Dalry and Gorgie in Edinburgh where the distillery was located. And being poured by Keith Law, who started his whisky career, following in family footsteps, many years ago (sorry Keith) at the Cally. Another was the Clynelish Select Reserve, a blend or vatting of Clynelish casks created by Jim Beveridge and his team to exemplify the very unusual waxy character for which it is famous. Apparently, either it, or Jim (or both), was “ravishing”.
Some of our guests also loved the Pittyvaich 25 for its waxiness, and the sweet, and characteristically honeyed 25 year old Dalwhinnie, but the one that everyone was talking about was one of Speyside’s hidden secrets, Dailuaine 34 year old, made with a very distinct character to be the backbone of many a fine Blended Scotch Whisky, but rarely bottled as a malt of this age. A big rich, and as one guest described it, “old fashioned” whisky to be sipped and enjoyed thoughTfully.
And, last, but not least, there were the folks who favoured the annual bottling of Lagavulin 12 year old, “Bonfire ash, smoke and faint Bovril”, clearly not for the faint-hearted, and the unpeated 17 year old Caol Ila, “sticky honey sweetness, lifted by a fresher gust of clean cotton, pencil shavings and a whiff of juniper smoke” said writer Alice Lascelles.
But the final question, of course, is which one was my personal favourite? Well, I have to say that one of the things that makes Scotch the world’s favourite whisky is its diversity; no other whisky, or spirit, has such an incredible range of taste and texture. And it’s a diversity that was beautifully represented in this particular collection of whiskies. So that makes it very, very, hard to choose. But if pushed I would have taken a Clynelish and a Caol Ila out of the door, along with one of the White Penguins.
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Vanishing Twin Syndrome: Kelly delivered two placentas but only one baby.
Shona Hendley
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WARNING: This post deals with themes of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. For support, call Sands Australia on 1300 072 637.
When Kelly gave birth to her first child, Jayde, in 1996, she delivered not one, but two placentas.
“The doctors told me that the pregnancy probably started as twins. They said it would have absorbed or vanished at some point early on in the pregnancy so that all that remained was its placenta,” Kelly told Mamamia.
This occurrence is known as Vanishing Twin Syndrome.
“A pregnancy starts off as a twin pregnancy, but one twin miscarries and can no longer be seen on subsequent ultrasounds. The tissue from the ‘vanishing’ twin usually disintegrates and is absorbed into the surrounding tissue of the ongoing pregnancy,” obstetrician Dr Patrick Moloney told Mamamia.
The syndrome is actually relatively common, reported in 15-30 per cent of twin pregnancies, according to Dr Moloney.
“Ultrasounds can identify twin pregnancies quite early in pregnancy when miscarriage is still common. Early ultrasounds will show the twin sacs then subsequent scans, such as the Down syndrome screening, will show one has miscarried and ‘vanished’,” he explains.
“Sometimes the miscarried twin will completely disintegrate and be ‘absorbed’ into the surrounding tissues. The surrounding tissues include the membranes, the placenta and the other twin.”
This was what doctors believe occurred in Kelly’s case – Jayde’s foetus absorbed that of her vanishing twin.
Jayde’s (pictured) foetus absorbed that of her vanishing twin. Image: Supplied.
Not all cases of Vanishing Twin Syndrome will see the twin absorbed which means there can be physical remnants left behind.
“Sometimes the miscarried twin is not absorbed and can be seen on subsequent ultrasounds. It looks progressively smaller when compared to the growing size of the surviving twin. Sometimes the miscarried twin turns into fetus papyraceus where it is flattened and 'mummified'. This may be seen attached to the membranes when the surviving twin is born at full term," explains Dr Moloney.
The reason behind a twin ‘vanishing’ can vary and “many are unexplained, but a common cause is a genetic abnormality dating back to conception."
With the rate of twin pregnancies rising due to advancing maternal age and IVF, rates of Vanishing Twin Syndrome are also rising.
For Kelly though, the use of ultrasound technology wasn’t used as widely when she was pregnant with Jayde.
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"They didn’t conduct an ultrasound until 18 weeks back then – at this ultrasound and the ones leading up to my birth, they didn’t really say anything unusual. So, I didn’t know that I had been, at least early on, carrying twins," Kelly said.
"In hindsight, considering I was a single mum at 19, it was a big relief," Kelly said. "I do sometimes wonder though if it would have been identical – there was only one sac so it made me think she would have been identical. Two versions of Jayde would have been interesting!”
Although a relief for Kelly, for some women the experience of losing a twin can be quite traumatic.
"Some women will experience a grief reaction for the lost twin identical to singleton pregnancy miscarriage. This is complicated by the fact that the pregnancy of the surviving twin is still ongoing," Dr Moloney said.
“In hindsight, considering I was a single mum at 19, it was a big relief in a way,” Kelly said. Image: Supplied.
For Kelly’s daughter, Jayde, now 22, finding out she had absorbed her twin came as a bit of a shock.
“I didn’t even know absorbing a twin was a thing, so it was quite a weird concept to think about. When mum told me, I was kind of like 'Woah imagine what it would have been like to actually have a twin'. I also thought oh god... my poor parents. Imagine having two of me! I think one of me was enough for them, especially as a moody teenager. It was also kind of fun to imagine what it would be like to have a twin now and if we would be similar or not.”
But like her mother, Jayde feels completely at peace with it and as if everything happened as it should have.
"In hindsight, I did enjoy growing up as an only child and only grandchild for a period of time. By the time I found out in my mid-teens, I had a sister and two brothers, so I was never upset by it, maybe a bit relieved in a way that I didn’t have another sibling when I was younger. It was more just a really an interesting thing to learn considering I used to want a twin at one point. A bit ironic or full circle in a way."
Dr Patrick Moloney is a specialist obstetrician and founder of GrowMyBaby, an online pregnancy education program. For more, can follow him on Instagram.
Shona Hendley, Mother of cats, goats and humans is a freelance writer from Victoria. An ex secondary school teacher, Shona has a strong interest in education. She is an animal lover and advocate, with a morbid fascination for true crime and horror movies. You can follow her on Instagram.
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Marine Iraq War Vet and His Bride Pay Tribute to Trump with MAGA Wedding
Veteran Marine Lance Cpl. Jeff Johnson and his wife Audra got married on the Fourth of July. The bride wore a “Make America Great Again” gown designed by Andre Soriano for their patriot-themed wedding. (Courtesy Jeff Johnson)
A veteran lance corporal who deployed to Iraq twice took the president's July 4 "Salute to America" message to new heights with a super patriotic wedding.
Jeff and Audra Johnson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, went all out for their Independence Day wedding. The bride wore an Andre Soriano-designed "Make America Great Again" gown that said "Trump" on the train. The groom, who served as an electro-optical ordnance repairer with Headquarters Company, 7th Marines, until 2006, wore his dress blues.
"Patriotism is a huge part of our lives and we wanted to showcase that," Jeff Johnson told Military.com.
There were red, white and blue bouquets; tiny flags on Audra Johnson's manicure; and plenty of red ballcaps sporting President Donald Trump's "MAGA" slogan.
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"All were welcomed and treated with dignity and respect," he said. "We don't need to agree with everything to love each other as human beings despite our differences."
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Cancer patients at risk from inaccurate clinical reporting in a high-profile alternative treatment story: comments and corrections
Grace O Gawler
Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03953.x
Published online: 20 September 2010
To the Editor: I would like to correct some inaccuracies in an article by Jelinek and Gawler in the December 2008 issue of the Journal about a survivor of disseminated osteosarcoma.1
Supportive Care, Integrated Cancer Solutions, Gold Coast, QLD.
Correspondence: grace@gracegawler.com
I would like to thank Professor Ray Lowenthal for his assistance and feedback, and the staff of Australian Doctor for their assistance in retrieving archived material.
I am a co-founder of the Gawler Foundation and the former wife of the patient. I left the employ of the Gawler Foundation in 1996. My memoirs were published in October 2008 as an aid to correcting years of misinformation and misreporting about my former husband’s remission.
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Fields grave marker, Sutter Creek Catholic Cemetery, Amador County, California, photo by Mark Roddy
Newspaper researchers beware – never never never assume anything about newspapers on microfilm!
Several years ago I requested the obituary for my great-great grandmother, Mary Devlin Fields, from the Amador County (California) Public Library. They wrote back indicating that they couldn’t find an obituary in the paper, but there were some missing issues and it might be that the issue with her obituary was lost and never microfilmed. Rats! But not without precedent.
Monday I was researching in Jackson, the county seat, and I thought I’d take a look at the microfilm myself. Maybe I could find it. I plopped the microfilm reel labeled “Amador Ledger, Nov 25, 1882 – Mar 30, 1894 (gap 10/27/1883 – 12/1889) into the machine. Mary Fields died 1 April 1890[i], and that wasn’t within the stated microfilm gap, so I scrolled forward to the year 1890. The newspaper, generally four pages, was published once a week on Saturdays. Soon I found myself in the March issues. March 8, March 22 (no March 15!), March 29, May 10. The entire month of April missing!
OK, there was another obituary I wanted – Mary’s granddaughter, Mary A Hardy, died 7 June 1890 at age 10 months, 16 days[ii]. Scroll forward. May 17. May 31… July 26. Really??!! Did my people purposefully die on just those dates where the newspapers would disappear??!!! Grrrr…..
I pressed the rewind button on the microfilm reader. Nothing happened. Forward button worked. Backward button didn't. Great! And since it’s an electric winding mechanism, there wasn't even a crank to turn to rewind the microfilm. I got to hand turn the microfilm reel. Turn turn turn turn turn. Turn turn turn turn turn. Hoping against hope that the label on the box was wrong, I thought maybe, just maybe, I could at least find a birth announcement for little Mary A Hardy, sometime in July of 1889, After a few more turns I began to read the dates on the newspapers. May 17, 1890. May 10, 1890. May 3, 1890… Wait! What? I’ve been rewinding this microfilm and I’m still in 1890? More hand rewinding. April 26. April 19. April 12, 1890. And there I found it…
“Died. In Amador City, April 1, 1890. Mrs. Fields, a native of Ireland, aged 69 years. Deceased had been a resident of Amador City since 1858. About 20 years ago she met with a serious accident by fracturing her hip bone, which could never be set properly, consequently she has been suffering ever since. But she bore the affliction with fortitude. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery at Sutter Creek on Thursday of last week. Deceased was a loving wife, a kind and affectionate mother, and a generous, warm-hearted friend. Her death is sincerely mourned by her aged husband, her daughter, and a host of friends.”[iii]
Backward and forward again, I found neither birth nor death notice for Mary A. Hardy. Those issues seem really truly missing. But thank goodness for that broken button on the microfilm reader, for making me rewind slowly!
Research takeaways?
Never assume anything about the order of issues on a microfilm reel. There may be gaps, stated and unstated. Issues may be out of order. There may be duplicates. You’ve made the effort and spent the time to get to the repository – be willing to spend the time to look at the whole film.
Pray for a broken microfilm reader. I’ve been asking my ancestors for help to find them. I think Mary Fields just might have broken that microfilm reader to slow me down. No lie. The next roll of microfilm I put in, the rewind button worked just fine.
[i] Sutter Creek Catholic Cemetery (Sutter Creek, Amador, California), Mary Fields momumental inscription, ready my M. Roddy, 28 August 2016. Monument is standing marker with four sides, three of which are inscribed.Mary Fields is on the side facing the burial plot.
[ii] Sutter Creek Catholic Cemetery (Sutter Creek, Amador, California), Mary Devlin Fields momumental inscription, ready my M. Roddy, 28 August 2016. Mary A. Hardy’s inscription is on the left hand side of the same marker as Mary Fields.
[iii] “Died,” Amador Ledger, (Jackson, Amador, California), 12 April 1890, p. 2, col. 4
California), 12 April 1890, p. 2, col. 4
Mary Devlin Fields Obituary Amador Ledger 12 April 1890, page 2, col 4
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Standards and Practices Program
Over the years, the Maine Land Trust Network has managed grant-funded programs on behalf of its members. The following program is no longer active and is archived here for reference.
Maine Coast Heritage Trust designed the Standards and Practices Program to support and advance the operational quality and sustainability of land trusts in Maine through the implementation of a select set of Land Trust Standards and Practices. Maine land trusts were accepted into this program as funding permitted.
The Standards and Practices Program was not a grants program and no direct funding was provided. Rather, the Program awarded up to 70 hours of direct consultant support, provided over a two-year period by Caroline Pryor, Maureen Hoffman and Paul Hoffman, all experienced land trust practitioners and trainers. Each trust was assigned one consultant, but all were on call to help other trusts with specific needs.
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Robert Kelly was born in Brooklyn on September 24, 1935. He attended CUNY and Columbia University, and since 1961 has taught at Bard College. He has authored more than 60 published volumes of fiction, poetry, and prose-poems. His 1967 debut novel The Scorpions first brought him a cult readership, and in 1980 his book Kill The Messenger won the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and in 1985, A Transparent Tree received the prestigious Academy-Institute Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. When speaking about his influences, Kelly said “I want to say the names of the great teachers from whom I learned what I could, and still am learning. Coleridge. Baudelaire. Pound. Apollinaire. Virgil. Aeschylus. Dante. Chaucer. Shakespeare. Dryden. Lorca. Rilke. Hölderlin. Stevens. Stein. Duncan. Olson. Williams. Blackburn. I mention only the dead; the dead are always different, and always changing. I mention them more or less in the order of when they came along in my life to teach me.”
He has served as the poet-in-residence at many notable universities, including the California Institute of Technology (1971–72), Yale University (Calhoun College), University of Kansas, Dickinson College, and the University of Southern California. His fiction has been translated variously into Italian, German, and French.
Armed Descent. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1961.
Her Body Against Time. Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1963.
Round Dances. New York: Trobar Press, 1964.
Enstasy. Annandale: Matter, 1964.
Lunes Sightings (with Jerome Rothenberg) New York: Hawk Well's Press, 1964.
Words in Service. New Haven: Robert Lamberton, 1966.
Weeks. Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1966.
Song XXIX. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1966.
Devotions. Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
Twenty Poems. Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
Axon Dendron Tree. Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
Crooked Bridge Love Society. Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
A Joining: A Sequence for H.D. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1967.
Alpha. Gambier, Ohio: The Pot Hanger Press, 1967.
Finding the Measure. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968
Sonnets. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Songs-I-XXX. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1968.
The Common Shore. (Books 1-5) Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
A California Journal. London: Big Venus Books, 1969.
Kali Yuga. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. A Cape Goliard Book.
Flesh Dream Book. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Ralegh. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
The Pastorals. Los Angeles: black Sparrow Press, 1972.
Reading Her Notes. Uniondale: [privately printed at the Salisbury Press), 1972.
The Tears of Edmund Burke. Annandale, privately printed, 1973.
The Mill of Particulars. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
The Loom. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
Sixteen Odes. Los Angeles: black Sparrow Press, 1976.
The Lady of. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press,1977.
The Convections. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
The Book of Persophone. New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.
Kill the Messenger. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow press, 1979.
Sentence. Barrytown: Sation Hill Press, 1980.
Spiritual Exercises. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
The Alchemist to Mercury: an alternate opus [Uncollected Poems 1960-1980) edited byJed Rasula] Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1981.
Mulberry Women. [with drypoints by Matt Phillips] Berkeley: Hiersoux, Powers, Thomas, 1982.
Under Words. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983.
Thor's Thrush. Oakland: The Coincidence Press, 1984.
Not This Island Music. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987.
The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence. Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1988.
Oahu. Rhinebeck: St. Lazaire Press, 1988.
Ariadne. Rhineback: St. Lazaire Press, 1991.
Manifesto for the Next New York School. Buffalo: Leave Press, 1991.
A Strange Market (Poems 1985-1988). Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.
Mont Blanc (a long poem inscribed within Shelley's). Ann Arbor: Otherwind Press, 1994.
Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995.
The Garden of Distances. (with drawings by Brigitte Mahlknecht) Kingston: McPherson & Company, 2000.
The Scorpians. New York: Doubleday, 1967, London: Calder and Boyars, 1968. (2nd. Ed.with a new afterword, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1986.)
Cities. West Newbury, MA.: Frontier Press, 1972.
A Line of Sight. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Wheres. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
The Cruise of the Pnyx. Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1979.
"Russian Tales" in Unlikely Stories, ed. Bruce McPherson. New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1981.
A Transparent Tree. Kingston: McPherson & Co.1985.
Doctor of Silence. Kingston: McPherson & Co. 1988.
Cat Scratch Fever. Kingston: McPherson & Co. 1990.
Queen of Terrors. Kingston: McPherson & Co. 1994.
In Time.[Essays and Manifestoes] West Newbury, MA.: Frontier Press, 1972.
A Controversy of Poets.(with Paris Leary)New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1965.
Abziehbilder Heimgeholt.(with Jacques Roubaud and Schuldt) Graz and Vienna, Droschl, 1995.
Unquell the Dawn Now.(with Schuldt) Kingston: McPherson & Company (Documentext)
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Tom Brennan, new chief merchandising officer for Casey’s General Stores
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By Sam Danley
ANKENY, Iowa — Tom Brennan has been named chief merchandising officer at Casey’s General Stores, Inc. He will be tasked with developing and implementing the company’s overall merchandising and prepared foods strategy.
Brennan joins Casey’s from CKE Restaurant Holdings Inc., the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, where he was CEO. Before that, he held several leadership roles in merchandising, category management, store development and operations at 7-Eleven.
“Tom is a tremendous leader with deep experience across the convenience and quick service restaurant industries that will benefit Casey’s already popular, fresh food program, and enhance our merchandising strategy,” said Darren Rebelez, CEO at Casey’s General Stores.
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Ozurdex
Allergan Ltd contact details
Last updated on emc: 24 Oct 2019
1. Name of the medicinal product
2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
3. Pharmaceutical form
4. Clinical particulars
4.1 Therapeutic indications
4.2 Posology and method of administration
4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use
4.6 Fertility, pregnancy and lactation
4.7 Effects on ability to drive and use machines
4.8 Undesirable effects
4.9 Overdose
5. Pharmacological properties
5.2 Pharmacokinetic properties
5.3 Preclinical safety data
6. Pharmaceutical particulars
6.4 Special precautions for storage
6.5 Nature and contents of container
6.6 Special precautions for disposal and other handling
7. Marketing authorisation holder
8. Marketing authorisation number(s)
9. Date of first authorisation/renewal of the authorisation
10. Date of revision of the text
This information is intended for use by health professionals
OZURDEX 700 micrograms intravitreal implant in applicator
One implant contains 700 micrograms of dexamethasone.
Intravitreal implant in applicator.
Disposable injection device, containing a rod-shaped implant. which is not visible. The implant is approximately 0.46 mm in diameter and 6 mm in length.
OZURDEX is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with:
• visual impairment due to diabetic macular oedema (DME) who are pseudophakic or who are considered insufficiently responsive to, or unsuitable for non-corticosteroid therapy
• macular oedema following either Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) or Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO) (see section 5.1)
• inflammation of the posterior segment of the eye presenting as non-infectious uveitis
OZURDEX must be administered by a qualified ophthalmologist experienced in intravitreal injections.
The recommended dose is one OZURDEX implant to be administered intra-vitreally to the affected eye. Administration to both eyes concurrently is not recommended (see section 4.4).
Patients treated with OZURDEX who have experienced an initial response and in the physician's opinion may benefit from retreatment without being exposed to significant risk should be considered for retreatment.
Retreatment may be performed after approximately 6 months if the patient experiences decreased vision and/or an increase in retinal thickness, secondary to recurrent or worsening diabetic macular oedema.
There is currently no experience of the efficacy or safety of repeat administrations in DME beyond 7 implants.
RVO and uveitis
Repeat doses should be considered when a patient experiences a response to treatment followed subsequently by a loss in visual acuity and in the physician's opinion may benefit from retreatment without being exposed to significant risk (see section 5.1).
Patients who experience and retain improved vision should not be retreated. Patients who experience deterioration in vision, which is not slowed by OZURDEX, should not be retreated.
There is only very limited information on repeat dosing intervals less than 6 months (see section 5.1).
For information concerning the current safety experience of repeat administrations beyond 2 implants in posterior segment non-infectious uveitis and Retinal Vein Occlusion, see section 4.8.
Patients should be monitored following the injection to permit early treatment if an infection or increased intraocular pressure occurs (see section 4.4).
Elderly (≥65 years old)
No dose adjustment is required for elderly patients.
OZURDEX has not been studied in patients with renal impairment however no special considerations are needed in this population.
OZURDEX has not been studied in patients with hepatic impairment; however no special considerations are needed in this population.
Paediatric population
There is no relevant use of OZURDEX in the paediatric population in
• diabetic macular oedema
• macular oedema following either Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) or Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO)
The safety and efficacy of OZURDEX in uveitis in the paediatric population have not been established. No data are available.
Method of administration
OZURDEX is a single-use intravitreal implant in applicator for intravitreal use only.
Each applicator can only be used for the treatment of a single eye.
The intravitreal injection procedure should be carried out under controlled aseptic conditions which include the use of sterile gloves, a sterile drape, and a sterile eyelid speculum (or equivalent).
The patient should be instructed to self-administer broad spectrum antimicrobial drops daily for 3 days before and after each injection. Before the injection, the periocular skin, eyelid and ocular surface should be disinfected (using for example drops of povidone iodine 5% solution on the conjunctiva as it was done in the clinical trials for the approval of OZURDEX) and adequate local anaesthesia should be administered. Remove the foil pouch from the carton and examine for damage (see section 6.6). Then, in a sterile field, open the foil pouch and gently place the applicator on a sterile tray. Carefully remove the cap from the applicator. Once the foil pouch is opened the applicator should be used immediately.
Hold the applicator in one hand and pull the safety tab straight off the applicator. Do not twist or flex the tab. With the bevel of the needle up away from the sclera, advance the needle about 1 mm into the sclera then redirect toward the centre of the eye into the vitreous cavity until the silicone sleeve is against the conjunctiva. Slowly press the actuator button until an audible click is noted. Before withdrawing the applicator from the eye, make sure that the actuator button is fully pressed and has locked flush with the applicator surface. Remove the needle in the same direction as used to enter the vitreous.
For instructions on the administration of the intravitreal implant, see section 6.6
Immediately after injecting OZURDEX, use indirect ophthalmoscopy in the quadrant of injection to confirm successful implantation. Visualisation is possible in the large majority of cases. In cases in which the implant cannot be visualised, take a sterile cotton bud and lightly depress over the injection site to bring the implant into view.
Following the intravitreal injection patients should continue to be treated with a broad spectrum antimicrobial.
• Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients as listed in section 6.1.
• Active or suspected ocular or periocular infection including most viral diseases of the cornea and conjunctiva, including active epithelial herpes simplex keratitis (dendritic keratitis), vaccinia, varicella, mycobacterial infections, and fungal diseases.
• Advanced glaucoma which cannot be adequately controlled by medicinal products alone.
• Aphakic eyes with ruptured posterior lens capsule.
• Eyes with Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens (ACIOL), iris or transscleral fixated intraocular lens and ruptured posterior lens capsule.
Intravitreous injections, including those with OZURDEX, can be associated with endophthalmitis, intraocular inflammation, increased intraocular pressure and retinal detachment. Proper aseptic injection techniques must always be used. In addition, patients should be monitored following the injection to permit early treatment if an infection or increased intraocular pressure occurs. Monitoring may consist of a check for perfusion of the optic nerve head immediately after the injection, tonometry within 30 minutes following the injection, and biomicroscopy between two and seven days following the injection.
Patients must be instructed to report any symptoms suggestive of endophthalmitis or any of the above mentioned events without delay, e.g. eye pain, blurred vision etc. (see section 4.8).
All patients with posterior capsule tear, such as those with a posterior lens (e.g. due to cataract surgery), and/or those who have an iris opening to the vitreous cavity (e.g. due to iridectomy) with or without a history of vitrectomy, are at risk of implant migration into the anterior chamber. Implant migration to the anterior chamber may lead to corneal oedema. Persistent severe corneal oedema could progress to the need for corneal transplantation. Other than those patients contraindicated (see section 4.3) where OZURDEX should not be used, OZURDEX should be used with caution and only following a careful risk benefit assessment. These patients should be closely monitored to allow for early diagnosis and management of device migration.
Use of corticosteroids, including OZURDEX, may induce cataracts (including posterior subcapsular cataracts), increased IOP, steroid induced glaucoma and may result in secondary ocular infections.
In the 3 year DME clinical studies, 59% of patients with a phakic study eye treated with OZURDEX underwent cataract surgery in the study eye (see section 4.8).
After the first injection the incidence of cataract appears higher in patients with non-infectious uveitis of the posterior segment compared with BRVO/CRVO patients. In BRVO/CRVO clinical studies, cataract was reported more frequently in patients with phakic lens receiving a second injection (see section 4.8). Only 1 patient out of 368 required cataract surgery during the first treatment and 3 patients out of 302 during the second treatment. In the non-infectious uveitis study, 1 patient out of the 62 phakic patients underwent cataract surgery after a single injection.
The prevalence of conjunctival haemorrhage in patients with non-infectious uveitis of the posterior segment appears to be higher compared with BRVO/CRVO and DME. This could be attributable to the intravitreous injection procedure or to concomitant use of topical and/or systemic corticosteroid or Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. No treatment is required since spontaneous resolution occurs.
As expected with ocular steroid treatment and intravitreal injections, increases in intraocular pressure (IOP) may be seen. The rise in IOP is normally manageable with IOP lowering medication (see section 4.8). Of the patients experiencing an increase of IOP of ≥10 mmHg from baseline, the greatest proportion showed this IOP increase between 45 and 60 days following an injection. Therefore, regular monitoring of IOP, irrespective of baseline IOP, is required and any elevation should be managed appropriately post-injection as needed. Patients of less than 45 years of age with macular oedema following Retinal Vein Occlusion or inflammation of the posterior segment of the eye presenting as non-infectious uveitis are more likely to experience increases in IOP.
Corticosteroids should be used cautiously in patients with a history of ocular viral (e.g. herpes simplex) infection and not be used in active ocular herpes simplex.
The safety and efficacy of OZURDEX administered to both eyes concurrently have not been studied. Therefore administration to both eyes concurrently is not recommended.
OZURDEX has not been studied in patients with macular oedema secondary to RVO with significant retinal ischemia. Therefore OZURDEX is not recommended.
A limited number of subjects with Type 1 diabetes were investigated in the Phase 3 studies, and the response to OZURDEX in these subjects was not significantly different to those subjects with Type 2 diabetes.
In RVO, anti-coagulant therapy was used in 2% of patients receiving OZURDEX; there were no reports of haemorrhagic adverse events in these patients. In DME, anti-coagulant therapy was used in 8% of patients. Among patients who used anti-coagulant therapy, the frequency of haemorrhagic adverse events was similar in the OZURDEX and sham groups (29% vs 32%). Among patients who did not use anti-coagulant therapy, 27% of OZURDEX treated patients reported haemorrhagic adverse events compared to 20% in the sham group. Vitreous haemorrhage was reported in a higher proportion of patients treated with OZURDEX who received anti-coagulant therapy (11%) compared with those not receiving anticoagulant therapy (6%).
Anti-platelet medicinal products, such as clopidogrel, were used at some stage during the clinical studies in up to 56% of patients. For patients using concomitant and anti-platelet medication, haemorrhagic adverse events were reported in a slightly higher proportion of patients injected with OZURDEX (up to 29%) compared with the sham group (up to 23%), irrespective of indication or number of treatments. The most common haemorrhagic adverse event reported was conjunctival haemorrhage (up to 24%).
OZURDEX should be used with caution in patients taking anti-coagulant or anti-platelet medicinal products.
Visual disturbance may be reported with systemic and topical corticosteroid use. If a patient presents with symptoms such as blurred vision or other visual disturbances, consider evaluating for possible causes which may include cataract, glaucoma or rare diseases such as central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) which have been reported after use of systemic and topical corticosteroids.
No interaction studies have been performed.
Systemic absorption is minimal and no interactions are anticipated.
Studies in animals have shown teratogenic effects following topical ophthalmic administration (see section 5.3). There are no adequate data from the use of intravitreally administered dexamethasone in pregnant women. Long-term systemic treatment with glucocorticoids during pregnancy increases the risk for intra-uterine growth retardation and adrenal insufficiency of the newborn child. Therefore, although the systemic exposure of dexamethasone would be expected to be very low after local, intraocular treatment, OZURDEX is not recommended during pregnancy unless the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the foetus.
Dexamethasone is excreted in breast milk No effects on the child are anticipated due to the route of administration and the resulting systemic levels. However OZURDEX is not recommended during breast feeding unless clearly necessary.
There are no fertility data available.
OZURDEX may have a moderate influence on the ability to drive and use machines. Patients may experience temporarily reduced vision after receiving OZURDEX by intravitreal injection (see section 4.8). They should not drive or use machines until this has resolved.
Summary of the safety profile
The most commonly-reported adverse events reported following treatment with OZURDEX are those frequently observed with ophthalmic steroid treatment or intravitreal injections (elevated IOP, cataract formation and conjunctival or vitreal haemorrhage respectively).
Less frequently reported, but more serious, adverse reactions include endophthalmitis, necrotizing retinitis, retinal detachment and retinal tear.
With the exception of headache and migraine, no systemic adverse drug reactions were identified with the use of OZURDEX.
Tabulated list of adverse reactions
The adverse reactions considered related to OZURDEX treatment from the Phase III clinical trials (DME, BRVO/CRVO and uveitis) and spontaneous reporting are listed by MedDRA System organ class in the table below using the following convention:
Very common (≥ 1/10); common (≥1/100 to <1/10); uncommon (≥1/1,000 to <1/100); rare (≥1/10,000 to <1/1,000); very rare (<1/10,000). Within each frequency grouping, adverse reactions are presented in order of decreasing seriousness.
Table 1 Adverse reactions
System organ class
Very common
Intraocular pressure increased**, cataract**, conjunctival haemorrhage*
Ocular hypertension, cataract subcapsular, vitreous haemorrhage**, visual acuity reduced*, visual impairment/ disturbance, vitreous detachment*, vitreous floaters*, vitreous opacities*, blepharitis, eye pain*, photopsia*, conjunctival oedema* conjunctival hyperaemia*
Necrotizing retinitis, endophthalmitis*, glaucoma, retinal detachment*, retinal tear*, hypotony of the eye*, anterior chamber inflammation*, anterior chamber cells/ flares*, abnormal sensation in eye*, eyelids pruritus, scleral hyperaemia*
General disorders and administration site conditions
Device dislocation* (migration of implant) with or without corneal oedema (see also section 4.4), complication of device insertion resulting in ocular tissue injury* (implant misplacement)
* indicates adverse reactions considered to be related to the intravitreal injection procedure (the frequency of these adverse reactions is proportional to the number of treatments given).
** in a 24-month real world observational study in the treatment of macular oedema following RVO and non-infectious uveitis affecting the posterior segment of the eye these adverse events were reported more frequently among patients who received >2 injections vs patients who received ≤2 injections; cataract formation (24.7% vs 17.7%), cataract progression (32.0% vs 13.1%), vitreous haemorrhage (6.0% vs 2.0%), and increased IOP (24.0% vs 16.6%).
Description of selected adverse reactions
Diabetic Macular Oedema
The clinical safety of OZURDEX in patients with diabetic macular oedema was assessed in two phase 3 randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled studies. In both studies, a total of 347 patients were randomized and received OZURDEX and 350 patients received sham.
The most frequently reported adverse reactions across the entire study period in the study eye of patients who received OZURDEX were cataract and elevated IOP (see below).
In the 3 year DME clinical studies, at baseline, 87% of patients with a phakic study eye treated with OZURDEX had some degree of lens opacification/ early cataract. The incidence of all observed cataract types (i.e. cataract cortical, cataract diabetic, cataract nuclear, cataract subcapsular, cataract lenticular, cataract) was 68% in OZURDEX treated patients with a phakic study eye across the 3 year studies. 59% of patients with a phakic study eye required cataract surgery by the 3 year final visit, with the majority performed in the 2nd and 3rd years.
Mean IOP in the study eye at baseline was the same in both treatment groups (15.3 mmHg). The mean increase from baseline IOP did not exceed 3.2 mmHg across all visits in the OZURDEX group with the mean IOP peaking at the 1.5 month visit post injection, and returning to approximately baseline levels by month 6 following each injection. The rate and magnitude of IOP elevation following OZURDEX treatment did not increase upon repeated injection of OZURDEX.
28% of patients treated with OZURDEX had a ≥ 10 mm Hg IOP increase from baseline at one or more visits during the study. At baseline 3% of patients required IOP-lowering medication(s). Overall, 42% of patients required IOP-lowering medications in the study eye at some stage during the 3 year studies, with the majority of these patients requiring more than one medication. Peak usage (33%) occurred during the first 12 months and remained similar from year to year.
A total of 4 patients (1%) treated with OZURDEX had procedures in the study eye for the treatment of IOP elevation. One patient treated with OZURDEX required incisional surgery (trabeculectomy) to manage the steroid-induced IOP elevation, 1 patient had a trabeculectomy owing to anterior chamber fibrin blocking the aqueous outflow leading to increased IOP, 1 patient had an iridotomy for narrow angle glaucoma and 1 patient had iridectomy due to cataract surgery. No patient required removal of the implant by vitrectomy to control IOP.
BRVO/CRVO
The clinical safety of OZURDEX in patients with macular oedema following central or branch retinal vein occlusion has been assessed in two Phase III randomised, double-masked, sham-controlled studies. A total of 427 patients were randomised to receive OZURDEX and 426 to receive sham in the two Phase III studies. A total of 401 patients (94 %) randomised and treated with OZURDEX completed the initial treatment period (up to day 180).
A total of 47.3 % of patients experienced at least one adverse reaction. The most frequently reported adverse reactions in patients who received OZURDEX were increased intraocular pressure (24.0 %) and conjunctival haemorrhage (14.7 %).
The adverse reaction profile for BRVO patients was similar to that observed for CRVO patients although the overall incidence of adverse reactions was higher for the subgroup of patients with CRVO.
Increased intraocular pressure (IOP) with OZURDEX peaked at day 60 and returned to baseline levels by day 180. Elevations of IOP either did not require treatment or were managed with the temporary use of topical IOP-lowering medicinal products. During the initial treatment period, 0.7 % (3/421) of the patients who received OZURDEX required laser or surgical procedures for management of elevated IOP in the study eye compared with 0.2 % (1/423) with sham.
The adverse reaction profile of 341 patients analysed following a second injection of OZURDEX, was similar to that following the first injection. A total of 54 % of patients experienced at least one adverse reaction. The incidence of increased IOP (24.9 %) was similar to that seen following the first injection and likewise returned to baseline by open-label day 180. The overall incidence of cataracts was higher after 1 year compared to the initial 6 months.
The clinical safety of OZURDEX in patients with inflammation of the posterior segment of the eye presenting as non-infectious uveitis, has been assessed in a single, multicentre, masked, randomised study.
A total of 77 patients were randomised to receive OZURDEX and 76 to receive Sham. A total of 73 patients (95%) randomised and treated with OZURDEX completed the 26-week study.
The most frequently reported adverse reactions in the study eye of patients who received OZURDEX were conjunctival haemorrhage (30.3%), increased intraocular pressure (25.0%) and cataract (11.8%).
Reporting of suspected adverse reactions
Reporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via Yellow Card Scheme
Website: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard.
If an overdose occurs, intraocular pressure should be monitored and treated, if deemed necessary by the attending physician.
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Ophthalmologicals, antiinflammatory agents, ATC code: S01BA01
Dexamethasone, a potent corticosteroid, has been shown to suppress inflammation by inhibiting oedema, fibrin deposition, capillary leakage, and phagocytic migration of the inflammatory response. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) is a cytokine which is expressed at increased concentrations in the setting of macular oedema. It is a potent promoter of vascular permeability. Corticosteroids have been shown to inhibit the expression of VEGF. Additionally, corticosteroids prevent the release of prostaglandins, some of which have been identified as mediators of cystoid macular oedema.
Clinical efficacy and safety
The efficacy of OZURDEX was assessed in two 3 year, multicentre, double-masked, randomised, sham-controlled, parallel studies of identical design which together comprised 1,048 patients (studies 206207-010 and 206207-011). A total of 351 were randomised to OZURDEX, 347 to dexamethasone 350 µg and 350 patients to sham.
Patients were eligible for retreatment based upon central subfield retinal thickness >175 microns by optical coherence tomography (OCT) or upon investigators interpretation of the OCT for any evidence of residual retinal edema consisting of intraretinal cysts or any regions of increased retinal thickening within or outside of the central subfield. Patients received up to 7 treatments at intervals no more frequently than approximately every 6 months.
Escape therapy was permitted at the investigators discretion at any stage but led to subsequent withdrawal from the studies.
A total of 36% of OZURDEX treated patients discontinued study participation for any reason during the study compared with 57% of sham patients. Discontinuation rates due to adverse events were similar across treatment and sham groups (13% vs 11%). Discontinuation due to lack of efficacy was lower in the OZURDEX group compared to sham (7% vs 24%).
The primary and key secondary endpoints for studies 206207-010 and 011 are presented in Table 2. The vision improvement in the DEX700 group was confounded by cataract formation. Vision improvement was re-established upon removal of cataract.
Table 2. Efficacy in studies 206207-010 and 206207-011 (ITT population)
Study 206207-010
Pooled Studies 206207-010 and 206207-011
N = 163
Mean BCVA average change over 3 years, AUC approach (letters)
BCVA ≥ 15-letter improvement from baseline at Year 3/Final (%)
< 0.001
Mean BCVA change from baseline at year 3/final visit (letters)
OCT retinal thickness at center subfield mean average change over 3 years, AUC approach (µm)
<0.001
The primary and key secondary endpoints for the pooled analysis for pseudophakic patients are presented in Table 3.
Table 3. Efficacy in pseudophakic patients (pooled studies 206207-010 and 206207-011)
BCVA ≥ 15-letter improvement from baseline at Year 3/Final visit (%)
Mean BCVA change from baseline at year 3/Final visit
The primary and key secondary endpoints for the pooled analysis for patients with any prior treatment are presented in Table 4.
Table 4. Efficacy in patients with any prior treatment (pooled studies 206207-010 and 206207-011)
The efficacy of OZURDEX was assessed in two multicentre, double-masked, randomised, sham-controlled, parallel studies of identical design which together comprised 1,267 patients who were randomized to receive treatment with dexamethasone 350 µg or 700 µg implants or sham (studies 206207-008 and 206207-009). A total of 427 were randomised to OZURDEX, 414 to dexamethasone 350 µg and 426 patients to sham.
Based on the pooled analysis results, treatment with OZURDEX implants showed statistically significantly greater incidence of responders, defined as patients achieving a ≥ 15 letter improvement from baseline in Best Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA) at 90 days following injection of a single implant, when compared with sham (p < 0.001).
The proportion of patients achieving the primary efficacy measure of ≥ 15 letter improvement from baseline in BCVA following injection of a single implant is shown in Table 5. A treatment effect was seen at the first observation time point of day 30. The maximum treatment effect was observed at day 60 and the difference in the incidence of responders was statistically significant favouring OZURDEX compared with sham at all time points to day 90 following injection. There continued to be a numerically greater proportion of responders for a ≥ 15 letter improvement from baseline in BCVA in patients treated with OZURDEX compared with sham at day 180.
Table 5. Proportion of patients with ≥ 15 letters improvement from baseline best corrected visual acuity in the study eye (pooled, ITT population)
21.3 % a
29.3% a
a Proportion significantly higher with OZURDEX compared to sham (p < 0.001)
The mean change from baseline BCVA was significantly greater with OZURDEX compared to sham at all time points.
In each Phase III study and the pooled analysis, the time to achieve ≥ 15 letters (3-line) improvement in BCVA cumulative response curves were significantly different with OZURDEX compared to sham (p < 0.001) with OZURDEX treated patients achieving a 3-line improvement in BCVA earlier than sham treated patients.
OZURDEX was numerically superior to sham in preventing vision loss as shown by a lower of proportion of patients experiencing deterioration of vision of ≥ 15 letters in the OZURDEX group throughout the 6-month assessment period.
In each of the phase III studies and the pooled analysis, mean retinal thickness was significantly less, and the mean reduction from baseline was significantly greater, with OZURDEX (-207.9 microns) compared to sham (-95.0 microns) at day 90 (p < 0.001, pooled data). The treatment effect as assessed by BCVA at day 90 was thus supported by this anatomical finding. By Day 180 the mean retinal thickness reduction (-119.3 microns) compared with sham was not significant.
Patients who had a BCVA score of <84 OR retinal thickness > 250 microns by optical coherence tomography OCT and in the investigator's opinion treatment would not put the patient at risk; were eligible to receive an OZURDEX treatment in an open label extension. Of the patients who were treated in the open label phase, 98% received an OZURDEX injection between 5 and 7 months after the initial treatment.
As for the initial treatment, peak response was seen at Day 60 in the open label phase. The cumulative response rates were higher throughout the open label phase in those patients receiving two consecutive OZURDEX injections compared with those patients who had not received an OZURDEX injection in the initial phase.
The proportion of responders at each time point was always greater after the second treatment compared with the first treatment. Whereas, delaying treatment for 6 months results in a lower proportion of responders at all time points in the open label phase when compared with those receiving a second OZURDEX injection.
The clinical efficacy of OZURDEX has been assessed in a single, multicentre, masked, randomised study for the treatment of non-infectious ocular inflammation of the posterior segment in patients with uveitis.
A total of 229 patients were randomised to receive dexamethasone 350 µg or 700 µg implants or sham. Of these, a total of 77 were randomised to receive OZURDEX, 76 to dexamethasone 350 µg and 76 to sham. A total of 95% of patients completed the 26-week study.
The proportion of patients with vitreous haze score of 0 in the study eye at week 8 (primary endpoint) was 4-fold higher with OZURDEX (46.8%) compared to Sham (11.8%), p < 0.001. Statistical superiority was maintained up to and including week 26 (p ≤ 0.014) as shown in Table 6.
The cumulative response rate curves (time to vitreous haze score of 0) were significantly different for the OZURDEX group compared to the Sham group (p < 0.001), with patients receiving dexamethasone showing an earlier onset and greater treatment response.
The reduction in vitreous haze was accompanied by an improvement in visual acuity. The proportion of patients with at least 15 letters improvement from baseline BCVA in the study eye at week 8 was more than 6-fold higher with OZURDEX (42.9%) compared to Sham (6.6%), p < 0.001. Statistical superiority was achieved at week 3 and maintained up to and including week 26 (p < 0.001) as shown in Table 6.
The percent of patients requiring escape medications from baseline to week 8 was nearly 3-fold less with OZURDEX (7.8%) compared to Sham (22.4%), p = 0.012.
Table 6. Proportion of patients with vitreous haze score of zero and ≥ 15 letters improvement from baseline best corrected visual acuity in the study eye (ITT population)
Vitreous Haze Score of Zero
BCVA improvement from baseline of ≥15 letters
32.5%a
40.3%b
39.0%c
31.2%d
a p < 0.001; b p = 0.010; c p = 0.009; d p = 0.014
The European Medicines Agency has waived the obligation to submit the results of studies with OZURDEX in all subsets of the paediatric population for retinal vascular occlusion and also for diabetic macular oedema (see section 4.2 for information on paediatric use).
Plasma concentrations were obtained from a subset of 21 patients in the two RVO, 6-month efficacy studies prior to dosing and on days 7, 30, 60 and 90 following intravitreal injection of a single intravitreal implant containing 350 µg or 700 µg dexamethasone. Ninety-five percent of the plasma dexamethasone concentration values for the 350 µg dose group and 86% for the 700 µg dose group were below the lower limit of quantitation (0.05 ng/mL). The highest plasma concentration value of 0.094 ng/mL was observed in one subject from the 700 µg group. Plasma dexamethasone concentration did not appear to be related to age, body weight, or sex of patients.
Plasma concentrations were obtained from a subgroup of patients in the two DME pivotal studies prior to dosing and on days 1, 7, and 21, and months 1.5 and 3 following intravitreal injection of a single intravitreal implant containing 350 µg or 700 µg dexamethasone. One hundred percent of the plasma dexamethasone concentration values for the 350 µg dose group and 90% for the 700 µg dose group were below the lower limit of quantitation (0.05 ng/mL). The highest plasma concentration value of 0.102 ng/mL was observed in 1 subject from the 700 µg group. Plasma dexamethasone concentration did not appear to be related to age, body weight, or sex of patients.
In a 6-month monkey study following a single intravitreal injection of OZURDEX the dexamethasone vitreous humour Cmax was 100 ng/mL at day 42 post-injection and 5.57 ng/mL at day 91. Dexamethasone remained detectable in the vitreous at 6 months post-injection. The rank order of dexamethasone concentration was retina > iris > ciliary body > vitreous humour > aqueous humour > plasma.
In an in vitro metabolism study, following the incubation of [14C]-dexamethasone with human cornea, iris-ciliary body, choroid, retina, vitreous humour, and sclera tissues for 18 hours, no metabolites were observed. This is consistent with results from rabbit and monkey ocular metabolism studies.
Dexamethasone is ultimately metabolised to lipid and water soluble metabolites that can be excreted in bile and urine.
The OZURDEX matrix slowly degrades to lactic acid and glycolic acid through simple hydrolysis, then further degrades into carbon dioxide and water.
Effects in non-clinical studies were observed only at doses considered sufficiently in excess of the maximum dose for human indicating little relevance to clinical use.
No mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive or developmental toxicity data are available for OZURDEX. Dexamethasone has been shown to be teratogenic in mice and rabbits following topical ophthalmic application.
Dexamethasone exposure to the healthy/untreated eye via contralateral diffusion has been observed in rabbits following delivery of the implant to the posterior segment of the eye.
Ester terminated 50:50 poly D,L-lactide-co-glycolide.
Acid terminated 50:50 poly D,L-lactide-co-glycolide.
3 years.
This medicinal product does not require any special storage conditions.
Each pack contains:
One sustained release sterile implantable rod shaped implant containing 700 micrograms of dexamethasone, located in the needle (stainless steel) of a disposable applicator.
The applicator consists of a plunger (stainless steel) within a needle where the implant is held in place by a sleeve (silicone). The plunger is controlled by a lever on the side of the applicator body. The needle is protected by a cap and the lever by a safety tab.
The applicator containing the implant is packaged in a sealed foil pouch containing desiccant.
OZURDEX is for single use only.
If the seal of the foil pouch containing the applicator is damaged, the applicator must not be used. Once the foil pouch is opened the applicator should be used immediately.
Administering OZURDEX
1) Hold the long axis of the applicator parallel to the limbus.
2) Allow the applicator to meet the sclera at an oblique angle with the bevel of the needle facing up, away from the sclera. Push the tip about 1 mm into the sclera, keeping it parallel to the limbus.
3) Redirect towards the centre of the eye into the vitreous cavity. This will create a shelved scleral path.
Advance the needle until you enter the vitreous cavity.
Do not advance the needle past the point where the sleeve of the applicator touches the conjunctiva.
4) Depress the actuator button slowly until you hear a click. Before withdrawing the applicator from the eye, make sure that the actuator button is fully depressed and has locked flush with the applicator surface.
5) Withdraw the applicator in the same direction that you used to enter the vitreous.
6) Dispose of the applicator safely immediately after treatment.
The OZURDEX applicator is for single use only.
Any unused medicinal product or waste material should be disposed of in accordance with local requirements.
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Kathryn Kalinak: Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Item No. OUP9780195370874
Reference | Books about Music
Composer Kathryn Kalinak
Publisher Oxford University Press
The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers - from single piano players to small orchestras - brought images to life through musical accompaniment. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties.
This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of the music from a well-known sequence in the film Reservoir Dogs, the book focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. Expert author Kay Kalinak takes readers behind the scenes to understand both the practical aspects of film music - what it is and how it is composed - and also the theories that have been developed to explain why film music works. This compact book not entertains with the fascinating stories of the composers and performers who have shaped film music across the globe but also gives readers a broad sense for the key questions in film music studies today.
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Genre History of Music
Edition Number 9780195370874
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AGENT RED (Damian Lee & Jim Wynorski, 2000)
Re: AGENT RED
by dolphage on 09 Apr 2009, 02:32
The_Canadian wrote: Hey, Dolphage, don't forget about "Hidden Agenda"! Smart script, good action, great direction... for me, that was the one the started Dolph rise to greatness.
Oh, there have been some pretty good movies (like Hidden Agenda) but compared to UniSol, Rocky IV, Men of War etc they don´t compare. But now we´re cooking with gas again, the second coming of the Dolph is upon us!
Mosquito wrote:
I'm hesitant. I like your voice though! But... that photo kinda scares me. Plus, you want to give Dolph a Mohawk/beard combo, both of them not tolerable. Nah, gotta pass, sorry.
Fine, let´s dance around it for another two years! The game continues...
And every true Dolphamaniac has already watched "In Dolph We Trust" several times. It´s not news on this forum!
Jox wrote: OK THE LAST PATROL is not great but at least they shot a 90 mins movie in the Israeli desert (not freakin' submarines sets which is always boring unless it's really a good movie). AGENT RED is basically a montage (if one can call that), not only of all the stock shots we know, but about half of the equally lame COUNTER MEASURES (with Michael Dudikoff) like at some point it's like 20 mins lifted as such... of course the music is not an original score either etc etc etc.
Is it cheap, lazy and disrespectful to use that much footage from other films/use stock music to score it and still call it an original film? Sure!
But you´d have to KNOW that inside information to get upset about it. As far as an average movie watcher is concerned it´s just a normal bad movie. They don´t know where the submarine footage came from, it´s just normal cheap looking submarine footage.
Last Patrol is just... on a level of it´s own. I´ve never seen a movie that is THAT strange but still manages to be mindnumbingly boring. How did they do that? I´s actually impressive!
Spring, era jävlar!
dolphage
by Warchild on 09 Apr 2009, 05:06
Agent Red may be Dolph's worst movie, but i'll be honest, the DVD Cover that i have of Agent Red is my top 5 favourites. I like the way it looks, when i first saw the DVD cover i said to myself damm, a remake of
The Hunt For Red October, i was so happy i though Dolph was commanding a Nuclear Russian Submarine, that is what i though of the DVD Cover, i did not bother to read the back of the Cover.
When i got home and saw Agent Red, man was i dissapointed, i though Agent Red was Dolph Lundgren, but instead it was this virus, that DVD cover must be the most misleading Dolph DVD cover ever.
by Jox on 09 Apr 2009, 11:54
dolphage wrote: But you´d have to KNOW that inside information to get upset about it. As far as an average movie watcher is concerned it´s just a normal bad movie. They don´t know where the submarine footage came from, it´s just normal cheap looking submarine footage.
First time I saw it I wasn't aware of things as I am now, and I didn't catch all the stock footage except for STORM CATCHER: I still found it really really BAD, even for a cheap Die-Hard rip off and on that level I find THE PEACEKEEPER and DETENTION to be masterpieces compared to AR (even though DETENTION is bad on many levels too IMO).
As the Dolph historian that I am, I wish I could dig the first cut of AGENT RED that's supposedly incredibly worse and was passed around on VHS at the production company because it was so laughably terrible!
Jox wrote: As the Dolph historian that I am, I wish I could dig the first cut of AGENT RED that's supposedly incredibly worse and was passed around on VHS at the production company because it was so laughably terrible!
I´ve heard about that! Is it on the commentary or did you post an interview with someone talking about that? I forget. It´s suposed to be some of the worst moviemaking ever.
It can´t be worse than Last Patrol though...
http://dolph-ultimate.com/dolph-in/agent.html
"After the film was completed, producer Andrew Stevens deemed the movie too inept to be released. Damian Lee screwed things up so bad that writer Steve Latshaw was brought in to at least make the movie half-competent, while Jim Wynorski was hired to direct some new scenes and insert stock footage where appropriate. "
Someone who worked in post-production at Phoenician during the Agent Red crisis let me in on this tidbit of knowledge.
“Back in the day we used to pass around a VHS of the first assembly of Agent Red as it was an example of probably the most unwatchable film ever to be pumped out of that company. We went through three editors and two directors trying to "fix" the film WITHOUT any reshoots, until finally the powers that be were convinced that reshoots HAD to be done. I love the commentary with Damien Lee where there's a cut from a stock shot of a jet to an interior of Dolph as a pilot and he actually has the balls to reference Eisenstein and the "art" of editing. Amazing.”
And direct from fixer-upper screenwriter Steve Latshaw...
“As I recall, 40 minutes of the original 100 minute assembly was dumped, then replaced with 40 new minutes. The original assembly opened with shaky video of Russian bio teams (shaky VIDEO... from sequences supposedly filmed in 1971) and ponderous narration... The film was missing entire halves of dialog sequences between Randolph Mantooth and the President (no footage of the President), the US sub commander and Russian military officers (no Russian military), connective scenes, transition scenes, action scenes only partially covered, etc. We created the new action opening with all the stock from Storm Catcher and Solo, new briefing scenes with Dolph and Stephen Macht, a terrorist attank on an oil tanker, new scenes with President Bill Monroe and new scenes with Steve Franken and Pete Spellos as Russian military leaders…”
“We also added a lot of connective sequences and action pieces to the rest of the film. It was quite a chore. The film itself had an interesting origin. In 1999, at a party at Fred's, Andrew Stevens asked me if I'd like to rewrite Counter Measures for Dolph Lundgren. I said sure, just name the price. Apparently a short time later, Damian Lee made a deal to write AND direct so they went with him… in fact, one entire sequence from Counter Measures - directed by Fred - was actually dropped whole cloth into Agent Red. In the film, the American sub taken over by terrorists is pursued by another American sub. A tense battle ensues, with the good guys eventually blown out of the water when the terrorists fire "counter measures." They lifted this entire sequence - actors and all - only shooting new footage of the Agent Red terrorists. So the best scene in the movie was directed by Fred Ray.”
excerpt from Your Video Store Shelf May 2005
Other new scenes included the boat detonation sequence, the new briefing scene with Stephen Macht, scenes with Russian military leaders, the US President and a great deal of new linking footage and dialog pickups during the last 40 minutes of the picture."
"I simply viewed the rough cut of the first version of the film, conferred with the new director hired to film the new stuff - and wrote a series of isolated seuqences tied into the appropriate reel number(s)."
"There were number of scenes deleted from the original cut. As I recall, the initial cut of the film was about 94 minutes. The new director [Jim Wynorski] cut about 40 minutes out of the film -which I saw- and believe me, you aren't missing anything. Working with a new cut that ran about 58 minutes, I wrote all the new material. I'm quite certain those scenes cut will never see the light of day." Steve Latshaw to the webmaster, 2001
my email interview with Latshaw, 2001
by Mosquito on 28 Apr 2009, 21:53
Gosh, what a total mess. No wonder the movie is not a masterpiece. I get the impression more and more that the movie industry is total chaos.
Re: AGENT RED (2000)
Nope, far from all of The Dolphmeister’s movies are good. One of the most infamous is “Agent Red” from 2000. The production company tore their hair when they saw the version director Damien Lee delivered -- they had spent two million dollars on a Dolph Lundgren movie they just couldn’t release. They had to save the movie -- and edited out about forty minutes, which mainly were replaced by stock footage from other action movies! Was Dolph aware of producer Andrew Stevens reputation and that the movie would end up being a cinematic version of chop suey?
“Oh, my God... What a disaster! But I was stupid enough to accept the part, and I didn’t really care back then. But I used to survive in the end. And I’m always looking forward. We’ve all made bad movies. Just look at Sly, who about some of his movies says ‘Nobody saw that one, hell, I didn’t see it either!’. And sometimes it’s good for you to experience a real fiasco, ha ha ha!”
by Warchild on 11 Aug 2010, 14:43
Agent Red is just plain bad even without the footage, i mean the acting is bad, script, the inside of the submarine which doesn't look at all like how inside a sub looks like, the action is kinda boring nothing exciting.
No wonder Dolph took a long break from 2001 to 2003 without making a movie.
The first signs of Dolph movies getting alot better was when he first directed his first movie.
Warchild wrote: No wonder Dolph took a long break from 2001 to 2003 without making a movie.
That was only due to the after effects of September 11th and projects taking time or not getting off the ground (LEGION that he co-wrote with same Damian Lee (!), ALIEN AGENT and a couple others etc) and sure meanwhile he spend a bit of time with his family. After AGENT RED, HIDDEN AGENDA felt like a masterpiece to me even though it's not perfect that was a big step up at the time.
by Nathan on 11 Aug 2010, 14:51
Jox wrote:
That was only due to the after effects of September 11th and projects taking time or not getting off the ground (LEGION, ALIEN AGENT and a couple others etc)
I'm glad he didn't make Alien Agent, it's not the sort of movie he should be making, it is a low-budget movie that had the same sci-fi cheesyness of Retrograde. I'm glad he found passion in directing because it's given him a whole new lease of life in terms of movies, I can imagine had he not made The Defender he would be in so-so low-budget action movies until The Expendables call came. I was just thinking how last night, Dolph hasn't really made a bad movie that he's directed, sure they aren't flawless and the vast majority of the time short shooting schedules and budgets have been the cause of that, but I love Command Performance and The Mechanik etc, Agent Red/Retrograde/The Last Patrol truly were his darkest hours.
"Are we having fun yet?" - Dolph Lundgren, Universal Soldier
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by Travis on 11 Aug 2010, 18:38
I don't think Agent Red is his worst. The Minion and The Last Patrol are pretty bad. He seemed pretty uninterested in making movies in the late 90's and early 2000's. I wonder what was on his mind in those days.
http://www.youtube.com/user/poolboyinla
Having wife and kids, not having better offers since his market value was going down? I don't don't think he was uninterested because he 's very serious about what he's doing whatever it may be, but there was a lot of factors that made those movies pretty bad, you could tell plenty of stories about the production of those projects from THE MINION, BRIDGE OF DRAGONS, THE LAST PATROL (Isaac Florentine and Sheldon Lettich will be the first to admit these were their worst films and they'll tell you why), AGENT RED, RETROGRADE, DIAMOND DOGS etc. So it's not like he signed on knowing it was heading for disaster.
I am sure you are right. He probably just wanted some money to support his family and didn't care too much about making quality films.
I would like to hear more what he has to say about those films and period in his life. I am sick of hearing him asked about Rocky IV. I would like to hear about some of his lesser known and lesser quality films and get his insight.
I think Bridge of Dragons was a great film and it kind of made me a Dolph fan again.
Travis wrote: I am sure you are right. He probably just wanted some money to support his family and didn't care too much about making quality films.
I agree, and if they must ask him about Rocky IV, can't they at least link it to other things like, "you also played a villain alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier and more recently in the sequel..." etc etc and even ask him about his directorial efforts like Command Performance etc.
You guys are right i too am sick and tired of People just remenbering him in Rocky 4, he was awesome in Universal Soldier, Showdown in little tokyo, Silent Trigger, Men of War etc...
Everyone here in this forum have their own taste on movies, but i stopped watching Dolph movies was when i saw Jill The Ripper, The Last Warrior and Agent Red which i think were pretty bad and are at the bottom of my list.
Even though Dolph is directing his own movies and have gotten alot better then the movies he made from 1997-2004 he still is far from making good movies like his early 90's movies.
I don't know why isaac would say that Bridge of Dragons is his worst movie he ever made because i love this movie, it's the last true non-stop action movie Dolph as made till now with TE.
The Sheperd Border Patrol is Isaac shameful worst movie.
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Rare BMW and Vincent Isle Of Man Winner added to Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction
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A rare 1972 Butler & Smith BMW F750 will accompany an astounding line-up of motorcycles at Bonhams’ January event on The Strip.
The 1950 Isle of Man Clubman TT-winning 1947 Vincent HRD Series B Rapide.
On Friday, Jan. 9, at Bally’s Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, two very special racing motorcycles will be presented with what is perhaps the most impressive collection of motorcycles offered at auction in years.
First, the ex-1973 Daytona 200 1972 Butler & Smith BMW F750, is one of only two factory-supplied, purpose-built machines modified by tuner Udo Geitl of Butler & Smith - the BMW importers for America. The surprisingly fast and powerful R75/5s that Geitl uprated for Team Butler & Smith, stunned the world, and were to help change the image of BMW in America from that of a stuffy tourer to a sporting machine.
These were the precursors to the history-making Butler & Smith BMW R90S – also prepped by Geitl – that Reg Pridmore would ride to victory and clinch the first-ever Superbike championship title.
This particular F750 was an official entrant in the 1973 Daytona 200 with BMW rider Kurt Leibmann, alongside its twin ridden by Reg Pridmore. It was also the focus of a feature article written by renowned motorcycle journalist Alan Cathcart and his test ride on this rare, beautiful beast at the Barber Motorsports Park in October 2013. It goes to auction with an estimate of $60,000-75,000.
Next is the 1950 Isle of Man Clubman TT-winning 1947 Vincent HRD Series B Rapide, which has an estimate of $120,000-150,000. It was ridden to victory by Alex Phillip and subsequently owned by larger-than-life British war hero “Mad Jack” Churchill. Soon after the Isle of Man win, the Rapide was uprated to full Black Lightning specifications and performed, in the words of Phillip, “like a rocketship,” before being sold to the daring and eccentric Lt. Colonel Churchill of WWII commando fame.
Nick Smith, Head of Motorcycles for Bonhams US Motoring Division, said: “We are very pleased to be to have been selected to represent these historic motorcycles at auction.
“Both machines are quite significant for different reasons and both represent the ultimate in motorcycling: racing at its highest level.”
These historically significant motorcycles will join the Silverman Museum Racing Collection of Ducatis and the Pierce Family Museum Collection of Harley-Davidsons – along with many other diverse and important motorcycles – on Jan. 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
To order a catalogue and register to bid in person or remotely, please visit bonhams.com/vegas.
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Home Movie News The Little Mermaid: Javier Bardem In Talks For King Triton Role
The Little Mermaid: Javier Bardem In Talks For King Triton Role
Javier Bardem is currently in talks to play King Triton in Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of The Little Mermaid.
According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning Bardem is now in negotiations to play Ariel’s father and the ruler under the sea, King Triton. The DisInsider actually reported this news earlier today but was unable to confirm it at the time.
In addition to possibly joining The Littler Mermaid, Bardem can be seen next in the star-studded cast of Dune, which is being helmed by Denis Villeneuve, the director of Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Bardem will be acting alongside big names such as Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Oscar Isaac, and Stellan Skarsgård.
King Triton is the father of Ariel in the original Disney version of The Little Mermaid. The character plays a critical role in the film, grooming Ariel (Halle Bailey) for life under the sea while she longs to walk on the surface among humans and, of course, one very handsome prince.
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Georgia Pogue Personal Achievement Award
Co-Sponsored by Council PTA and the Pogue Family
Without interruption, Mt. Lebanon Council PTA has awarded an annual scholarship to a deserving senior since our inception more than 75 years ago.
In 1993 Council PTA voted to annually recognize seven seniors, seven being symbolic of our neighborhood elementary schools. Each recipient receives $500 toward college expenses.
In 1997 Council changed the name of the scholarship in honor of a guidance counselor at Mt. Lebanon High School, Georgia Pogue. Georgia was a beloved and talented guidance counselor who championed all students at Mt. Lebanon. Upon her untimely death, her family bequeathed $25,000 to the PTA Scholarship fund. PTA renamed the fund the Georgia Pogue Personal Achievement Award in her memory.
Nominated by high school administrators, faculty, and/or staff, students must meet the following criteria:
Have significantly improved their academic performance during their high school career, and/or
Are all-around good citizens or solid students, and/or
Are "always there," dependable at doing tasks, but are not necessarily in the limelight.
The Scholarship Committee consists of six members, including the Council PTA president and one Council member-at-large, Council PTA past president, the High School PTSA president (none of whom may have a senior student), a high school guidance counselor and the high school principal or his/her designee (usually a high school teacher). If any of the PTA representatives on the committee has a senior, he/she must designate a substitute for the committee.
This effort is coordinated with our Supervisor of Guidance, who distributes the forms through intra-office mail, thus making the process available to all high school employees who wish to nominate a student.
The seven scholarship recipients are presented with their awards at the High School Awards Assembly and the May Council PTA meeting to recognize their achievements.
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Palo Alto, Bay Area mayors pledge to uphold Paris climate accord
Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff in 2013 unveils a display that explains the plantings in the city’s new demonstration garden at city hall, meant to show “how gardens can be both environmentally-smart and gorgeous, too,” according to a press release. (Courtesy of the city of Palo Alto)
By Jacqueline Lee | Bay Area News Group
Local leaders vow to double-down on climate action with design challenge
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Mayors across the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and San Jose, declared Thursday that they will “adopt, honor and uphold” the goals of the Paris climate accord despite President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement.
The network of 150 mayors, part of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, said that though the president is breaking promises with allies, the mayors will work to build relationships around the world to protect the planet from climate change.
“We will intensify efforts to meet each of our cities’ current climate goals, push for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, and work together to create a 21st century clean energy economy,” the mayors wrote in a statement. “The world cannot wait — and neither will we.”
Trump announced on Thursday his decision to withdraw from the landmark climate change agreement between 147 nations, signed in 2015 when President Barack Obama was in office.
In a statement Thursday, Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff said the Peninsula city has a strong history of leadership in climate change and sustainability and it’s a value the community has supported for decades.
Palo Alto has worked to have a carbon neutral electricity supply at a lower cost than competitors and adopted a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a rate 20 years ahead of the state, Scharff said.
“Those are the actions of a city that views climate change as a defining issue for the future, and critical to our quality of life and economic vitality,” Scharff said.
Mayors from Menlo Park, Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Oakland, San Francisco, Alameda and Berkeley also pledged to do the same.
Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith, in a statement released Friday, said the city will continue to pursue environmental goals initiated in a climate action plan launched in 2009.
“I want to assure our residents and businesses that Menlo Park is on track to meet our climate goals by 2020,” Keith said. “No action taken by the Trump administration will change our resolve as we advance progress toward global targets for a stable climate.”
The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, an activist organization based in Palo Alto, responded to Trump’s decision by rallying Thursday at the busy El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road intersection in Palo Alto during the evening rush hour.
Protesters held signs that read, “Protect the Planet” and “The Planet Needs Paris.”
Statewide, Gov. Jerry Brown said that California is “ready for battle” and will resist the president’s “misguided and insane” decision.
“I want to do everything we can to keep America on track, keep the world on track and lead in all the ways California has,” Brown said on Twitter.
Bay Area News Group reporter Kevin Kelly contributed to this story.
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by David Snopek on April 2, 2019 - 11:59am
When we originally announced that we'd be providing Drupal 6 Long-Term Support, we committed to supporting our customers until at least February 2017.
Each year in the spring, we've taken a look at the state of Drupal 6 and decided whether we'll extend support for another year, and if we need to make any changes to our offering. Here's the articles from 2016, 2017, and 2018 where we announced an additional year each time and any new concerns (for example, PHP 7 support).
Today, we're announcing that we'll be extending our Drupal 6 Long-Term Support two more years until at least February 2022!
I'm sure there will come a time, when it no longer makes business sense to pour resources into Drupal 6 for the few remaining sites, however, it's already clear to us that there's enough demand for a couple more years.
Also, now that we know when Drupal 7 will reach it's End-of-Life, we've started to plan for that, and decided that we'd like D6LTS to last at least until then (which is why we're announcing an additional 2 years this time, rather than just 1).
Regarding Drupal 7: we've officially applied to be a Drupal 7 Extended Support vendor and have been accepted. :-)
Read on to find out more!
Why February 24th, 2022?
Well, we've been using the February 24th date, because Drupal 6 orginally reached it's End-of-Life on February 24th, 2016, and we've been taking it one year at a time.
We recently learned that Drupal 7's End-of-Life will be in November 2021.
We want Drupal 6 LTS to continue at least through Drupal 7's community support so... the following February 24th it is!
Since we've been able to extend so many times it's entirely possible we'll extend it again past 2022, but no promises at this point. (See the last section in this article for our reasons why...)
There's still TONS to do Drupal 6
While it can be a little hard to predict the challenges that Drupal 6 site owners will face in the future, don't worry - I'm sure there will be plenty to do. :-)
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Also, hosting providers and Linux distributions have started bundling MySQL 8, which also requires updates to Drupal 6 core and contrib modules. A community contributor has been leading the effort on that.
And, of course, we'll continue doing security releases and the occasional bug fix. :-)
A couple months ago, I wrote that we'd made 99 D6LTS releases up until that point - we're already up to 113.
In fact, rather than dwindling away with time, there's more to do for Drupal 6 than ever!
What are your plans for Drupal 7?
Recently, things have been coming into focus for Drupal 7's End-of-Life and the Drupal 7 Extended Support (D7ES) program.
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You can see the full details of the D7ES program in this PSA from the Drupal Security Team.
We still don't know the full details of our offering, but we can say this:
It will be very similar to our D6LTS offer
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Will you support Drupal 6 forever?
While some of customers would love if we'd support Drupal 6 forever, the answer is "no."
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Home[New post] INEC: No winners will be declared in violent polls
[New post] INEC: No winners will be declared in violent polls
AfroNaija January 12, 2020
Aminat Aigbe posted: "INEC: No winners will be declared in violent pollsThe Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has declared that the commission will no longer declare winners in any violence marred election. This declaration "
INEC: No winners will be declared in violent polls
The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has declared that the commission will no longer declare winners in any violence marred election.
This declaration was made by the INEC boss while addressing people at a meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) in Abuja on Friday.
Yakubu said that any future election characterized by manipulation of the process or subjecting electoral officers to threats would not count.
Besides, elections will no longer proceed in any constituency where the safety of voters, personnel and materials is threatened.
"Going forward, INEC has decided that although the Commission has no power under the law to cancel an election, it will not proceed with the process in any constituency where the safety of voters, our personnel and materials is threatened," the INEC chairman said.
"Furthermore, collation of results will not proceed where the collation centres are invaded. No declaration of winners will be made where Returning Officers are threatened".
The Commission has also strengthened measures to check illegal deployment of money by politicians to influence outcome of elections.
"You will similarly recall that at our last meeting, we expressed concern about the dimension that illegal deployment of financial resources to influence the outcome of elections, including vote-buying at polling units on Election Day, INEC has assumed
"At the meeting, recognizing the existing collaboration with the anti-corruption agencies in tracking financial flows for illicit purposes as well as the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of such flows, especially for the purpose of corrupting the electoral process through vote-buying, resolved that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) should be included as members of ICCES."
The Commission decried the security lapses that marred the 2019 general elections, especially the Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections.
It vowed to adopt a different approach to election security.
"It is the responsibility of the security agencies to secure the environment for the successful conduct of elections," he said.
" The purpose of security deployment during elections is to protect the voters, election officials and materials, accredited observers, the media and to safeguard the integrity of the processes generally, including the polling units and collations centres.
"The Commission is concerned that security deployment in some of the most recent elections left much to be desired.
"There is more emphasis on numbers of security personnel to be deployed but less consideration on strategic deployment to protect the process, leaving the voters, election officials, party agents, observers, the media and even unarmed security personnel at polling units vulnerable to attacks by thugs and hoodlums.
"Furthermore, there is emphasis on numbers of security personnel but less on synergy, coordination and collaboration among the various security agencies in line with the purpose for which ICCES was established in the first instance.
"We must adopt a different approach to election security. We must translate the new approach to reality in the forthcoming re-run elections such that Nigerians will see a qualitatively different security arrangement.
"No thugs and hoodlums can be more powerful than the Nigeria Police and other security agencies. It is the failure to act decisively and collaboratively that encourages thuggery and serves as an incentive for bad behavior.
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Brooklyn wants every middle schooler to have a computer
By Setphen Beale For The Bulletin
Students at Brooklyn Middle School could be getting their own personal computer next year if the proposed school budget passes.
The district is planning to spend $40,000 so that each of its estimated 360 middle schoolers can use a Google Chromebook at school. Each one costs between $225 and $250. The school wants to acquire 160 more.
Computers do much more than just streamline the learning process by minimizing the need for paper, local educators say. Natalie Geeza, a seventh grade geography teacher, said using the Chromebooks ensures that her course material stays current in a world where maps are constantly changing.
"Everything is updated and we’re giving the students the best most recent information," Geeza said.
The Chromebooks also allow her students to engage with the information in new ways. For example, they can add or remove layers on maps to examine political and physical boundaries, climate data, and economic information.
"It also helps us to diversify how we deliver information," Geeza said. Students who learn better by hearing rather than reading can listen to audio versions of their textbooks, Geeza said.
The Chromebooks enrich learning in other ways, especially for local students who do not have the opportunity to travel. Students can go on virtual field trips, Skype with refugees and military service members, and take virtual tours of museums they would otherwise not be able to visit.
Brooklyn Middle School currently has one Chromebook for every two students. The computers are on carts and teachers have to sign out for them. Providing a computer for every student maximizes the ability of teachers to plan out their lessons and avoids last-minute changes and interruptions to lesson plans, according to Principal Heather Tamsin.
It also helps teachers keep up with changing curriculum standards and frameworks. "In small districts it can be really challenging to revise the curriculum as the standards change," Tamsin said.
Brooklyn appears to be keeping up with other districts when it comes to computers and middle school students. Killingly, like Brooklyn, has one computer for every two students and plans to go to a ratio of 1 to 1 in a couple of years. Canterbury is almost at a 1 to 1 ratio and Pomfret has one for every student, according to information compiled by Brooklyn Superintendent Patricia Buell.
In Brooklyn, the plan is for each student to use the same computer each day, but they will not be taking the computers home with them.
The middle school will still be using paper as well. Assistant Principal Josh Torchia said that the school is "in no way dumping" traditional textbooks and "going completely paperless."
Tamsin said the district will evaluate what paper-based textbooks it may or may not need next year. "I think that’s going to be another shift for us," Tamsin said.
The increasing use of computers also comes at a time when child development advocates are raising concerns that children are spending too much time on screens. But local educators say that having a Chromebook with them doesn’t mean middle school students will be staring at screens all day. The computers lie flat on the desk, so students remain engaged in the class. And teachers can connect them to a smartboard to for an interactive review of student work, according to Geeza.
Students will also be using the computers to make things like videos, Torchia noted. "They’re not just going to be a consumer," Torchia said. "It’s going to be a production tool."
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Roger Lynch, who helped launch online video service Sling TV, is joining the magazine company as it continues to pivot away from its declining print business.
Roger Lynch speaks at the Mobile World Congress Americas event in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2018.Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
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By Claire Atkinson
Publisher Condé Nast has turned to a pioneer in digital video to reimagine its future beyond the confines of print.
Roger Lynch, who helped launch Dish Network’s online video service Sling TV, is joining the magazine company to extend its famed brands such as Vogue and Bon Appétit into multimedia operations.
He was most recently the chief executive of streaming music company Pandora, which was acquired by SiriusXM. At Pandora, Lynch pushed into other forms of audio content including podcasts.
Lynch, who starts April 22, said his role will be to unite Condé Nast’s international brands with its domestic operations. The two units have until recently operated separately.
“As a newly combined global company, we have the opportunity to accelerate the evolution of the consumer experiences and value we deliver to our audiences and partners around the world,” Lynch said in a press release.
The print magazine business has been in a steady decline as advertisers look to connect with younger audiences who are consuming media on digital platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.
Condé Nast has in recent years trimmed its print operations, ending monthly print publication of Teen Vogue, though the brand remains active on the internet. Another title, Glamour, also ceased monthly print operations to focus on growing its digital presence, as did Self magazine.
Condé Nast resources that had been dedicated to print have been shifted into internet-friendly video, with its Condé Nast Entertainment unit publishing a variety of content from cooking videos to Vogue’s “73 Questions,” an interview series for social media platforms.
The company has also moved to embrace the emergence of digital subscriptions, with The New Yorker, Wired and Vanity Fair putting up paywalls. Condé Nast is planning to put all its titles behind paywalls by the end of the year, and its content is also appearing in Apple’s new magazine aggregator, News+.
Condé Nast is also looking beyond consumer media for new revenue. In January, the media giant launched a new digital title, Vogue Business, as a way to tap the pockets of the fashion industry.
Condé Nast is owned by Advance Publications, which has stakes in Discovery and cable operator Charter Communications. It also owns Reddit, the internet message board.
Chief executive Bob Sauerberg is stepping down but will remain on the board of Reddit.
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UPDATE: Fisher Funds customers face cheaper fees from Tower tie-up
"Economies of scale will allow more efficiency and a better experience for clients, both in terms of cost and service."
Fisher Funds expects its customers to share the benefits of a larger business in the form of cheaper fees, having stitched up a deal to buy insurer Tower's investment business for $79 million.
Managing director Carmel Fisher told a media briefing in Auckland that funds management is a scalable business in that it does not take much extra resource to manage bigger funds.
Fisher Funds will almost quadruple its funds under management to more than $5 billion, making it the fourth biggest fund manager, with 8 percent of the market.
"Economies of scale will allow more efficiency and a better experience for clients, both in terms of cost and service," Ms Fisher says. Any efficiencies the bigger entity can achieve will be passed "on to clients with lower fees".
Taranaki-based TSB is supporting the purchase for an unspecified amount and will take 26 percent of Fisher Funds and get two directors on the six-seat board. That will make it Fisher Funds' second biggest shareholder, leap-frogging Wellington-based investment bank Morrison & Co, which did not participate.
Ms Fisher says it is too early to tell whether there will be any job losses from aligning the back offices of the two firms and she will be meeting with staff on Thursday.
The acquisition comes as the government reviews the default KiwiSaver schemes, including Tower, with Crown officials keen on aligning fund managers' incentives with long-term returns for investors. TSB's involvement in the acquisition echoes KiwiBank's purchase of Gareth Morgan Investments last year.
TSB chief executive Kevin Murphy says the bank has been looking at ways to increase its KiwiSaver offering and this is the best opportunity.
Tower has been looking to sell its investment business since it completed a strategic review last year as a means to provide value for shareholders, and comes after November's sale of its medical insurance unit to ASX-listed Nib.
Tower is scaling back of its business comes as cornerstone shareholder Guinness Peat Group liquidates its portfolio.
"The focus for Tower going forward will be on growing our traditional core insurance business through offering superior products backed by market leading customer services," managing director Rob Flannagan says in a separate statement.
Fisher Funds has the right to use the Tower brand of 12 months from settlement, scheduled for April 2, and will manage Tower's internal funds for five years. Those funds will gradually be rebranded, Ms Fisher says.
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If These Walls Could Scream: A Review of The Walls of Harrow House at Rough House Theater
October 29, 2018 at 3:00 pm by Persephone Jones
by Persephone Jones
Photo: Christine Kozol
A fifty-five minute glory of immersive theater, Rough House Theater’s “The Walls of Harrow House” is a delightfully unnerving fusion of ambiance and story. I can’t spoil too much. This show, more than most, is experiential: a disembodied ear guides you to play a cassette tape. The walls whisper to you. The mold moves. It’s thoughtful, ambitiously designed and cohesive. It’s “Sesame Street” meets “Pan’s Labyrinth” meets “Bioshock.”
The Chopin basement is a marvelous starting place for a tour of Harrow House. There are two tracks: after a short introduction, half the audience is allowed on the official tour. The other half… well, you get stuck in the lobby with an overeager fanboy who eventually enthuses his way into the house by way of a maligned, philosophizing author.
The house itself is wonderful, containing enough nooks and crannies to fill you in on expositional details of the world as well as occupy you while you wait for the puppeteers to rumble through: two draftsmen, each tempering the other; the guts-filled coat that keeps putting on different faces; the dog! These walls hold myriad stories, each with a distinct flavor, but held wisely by the shared history of the house.
Again, I can’t speak too much: the experience is overwhelmingly positive and Rough House’s work is extensive and wonderfully imaginative. The musical set piece and ending are especially encapsulating. Perhaps the only problem with this show is how good it sounds and how much attention it’s drawing: the crowd made moving through the house very difficult, sight lines were shot by a curious audience member, and the request to remain silent at the beginning was not followed, marring the amazing work being done.
All in all, “Harrow House” is a wonderful experience, but the space management makes enjoying it a bit difficult. (Jay Van Ort)
Rough House Theater at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 West Division, roughhousetheater.com. $15-$25. Through November 10.
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Donald Trump bars transgender individuals from US armed forces
The president tweeted that after consulting with "Generals and military experts," the government will not allow transgender individuals to serve in the US military.
Published: 26th July 2017 07:34 PM | Last Updated: 27th July 2017 11:15 AM | A+A A-
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said today transgenders will not serve in the US military "in any capacity", asserting that their service would bring "tremendous medical costs and disruption".
Announcing the decision on Twitter, Trump said the military would not "allow or accept" transgender service members, reversing a major last year's decision of his predecessor Barack Obama.
"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the US Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US Military," he said in a series of tweets.
"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail," Trump wrote.
Last year, former president Barack Obama had decided to allow transgenders to serve in the US military.
Announcing the decision on June 30, then defence secretary Ashton Carter had argued that the Defence Department and the military needed to avail themselves of all talent possible in order to remain the finest fighting force the world has ever known.
Last July, the Pentagon lifted a long-standing ban against transgender men and women serving openly in the military, removing one of its last discriminatory hurdles and placing gender identity on par discrimination based on race, religion, colour, sex and sexual orientation.
The policy part of the Obama administration's "Force of the Future" initiative which aimed to make the straight-laced, male-dominated US military more inclusive.
In 2015, the administration opened all combat positions to women and in 2016 appointed the first openly gay Secretary of the Army, Eric K Fanning, local media reported. The Obama plan allowed transgender service members currently on duty to immediately serve openly.
Armed services had to come up with medical and training plans and until July 1, 2017, for full implementation. The Trump administration initially pushed that date back, and now has reversed the policy.
While there is no definitive data on the number of transgender service members, Carter had said that according to RAND, an US global policy think tank, there were about 2,500 people out of approximately 1.3 million active-duty service members, and about 1,500 out of 825,000 reserve service members who were transgenders.
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......
....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming.....
....victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you
The upper end of their range of estimates is around 7,000 in the active component and 4,000 in the reserves. Meanwhile reacting to the latest move, Democratic lawmakers denounced the decision.
"It is a cruel and arbitrary decision designed to humiliate transgender Americans who stepped forward to serve our country," said Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.
A study commissioned by the Department of Defence found that the cost of providing medically necessary transitionrelated care would be a paltry two to eight million per year – one one-hundredth of one per cent of the military's nearly USD 50 billion healthcare budget, she said.
"This morning's tweets reveal a president with no loyalty to the courageous men and women in uniform who risk their lives to defend our freedoms.
"This disgusting ban will weaken our military and the nation it defends. Once again, President Trump has shown his conduct is driven not by honour, decency, or national security, but by raw prejudice. This is a dark day for thousands of heroes in our military and for our entire country," Pelosi said.
Senator Dick Durbin said: "The president's announcement this morning banning transgender individuals from serving our military ironically falls on the 69th anniversary of president Harry Truman signing an executive order to desegregate the military. Instead of honoring the progress we have made on this historic day, the president chose to put our military, once again, in the middle of a discriminatory policy".
Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair, said this "arbitrary decision by Donald Trump" does nothing, does not make the US safer or improve readiness.
"Banning qualified and trained transgender individuals from serving in our military weakens our national defence. I am committed to ensuring that our military is the best trained, best equipped and most supported fighting force in the world," Sanchez said.
Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the president's tweet this morning regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.
He said the statement was unclear. The Defence Department has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving.
There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train and deploy to leave the military, regardless of their gender identity, McCain said.
"We should all be guided by the principle that any American who wants to serve our country and is able to meet the standards should have the opportunity to do so and should be treated as the patriots they are," McCain said.
Congressman Joe Crowley, Democratic Caucus chairman, said that this is an extremely offensive decision by the Trump administration.
"Capable, motivated and talented Americans who want to serve their country should be welcomed into our military as patriots – not shunned because of who they are. President Trump and his administration should be ashamed," Crowley added.
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BackStreets in Cape Coral is right on target with darts
Cape Coral sports bar's thriving darts community began in 1995 when Shelly Walton hung up a single dart board
BackStreets in Cape Coral is right on target with darts Cape Coral sports bar's thriving darts community began in 1995 when Shelly Walton hung up a single dart board Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/cape-coral/2019/12/29/backstreets-cape-coral-right-target-darts/2742168001/
Dave Kempton, Special to Fort Myers News-Press Published 9:00 a.m. ET Dec. 29, 2019
BackStreets raised $1,922 for Partners for Breast Cancer Care in October with a dart tournament weekend. (Photo: submitted)
Shelly Walton could easily name the significant events of her successful BackStreets Sports Bar in the last quarter century with three or four breakthrough moments.
And those moments all involve darts.
The first occurred at the outset in 1995 when Walton leased the former Monk's, made structure changes and shortly after opening was asked by Cape Coral resident Joanne Dolan if she could throw up a simple dart board somewhere.
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The second occurred when darts were accepted by her customers in a major way with leagues at night Monday through Friday plus a pickup tournament on Sunday afternoon. Not with just one or two dart boards, but with 10 steel tip and seven soft tip boards, mostly in a backroom where the competition becomes both fun and fierce.
Joanne Dolan started playing darts in 1995 when BackStreets opened and continues to play three times a week (Photo: submitted)
The development of professional dart players like Gary Mawson and accomplished amateurs Troy Kepley and Bob Holmes followed.
A final breakthrough occurred just last week when Fallon Sherrock won a first-round game to become the first female to win a game in the Pro Darts World Championships in London. She cracked the glass ceiling while becoming only the fifth women to compete in the worlds.
“I proved to myself and everyone else that women can compete with the men,” Sherrock, 25, said.
Little did Walton know, she had caught lightning in a bottle in 1995, precipitating the growth in the sport.
“Joanne just casually mentioned putting up a single dart board and now as they say the rest is history,” said Walton, an upstate New York native who has lived in Cape Coral for 40 years.
BackStreets in Cape Coral has been remodeled and offers a new look both inside and out. (Photo: Ricardo Rolon / The News-Press)
BackStreets hosts soft and steel tip leagues, including the Friday night Tournament of Champions league for winners only and a Thursday night cruise league that includes a cruise in the fall.
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“We're cranking every night of the week and even on Sunday with the random blind draw tournament,” she said. “I would say the soft tips are slightly more popular.”
Walton says men make up 60 percent of the league players but women are catching up.
“Men and women are competitive and the good ladies can hold their own with the guys,” she said.
Mawson thinks the competitive gap between the sexes is very narrow.
“It's almost equal, the women have really picked up their game in recent years,” he said. “The only possible difference is strength, just like golf where women hit from a shorter tee, and maybe that trickles down to darts.”
Dolan, like most dart players, enjoys the competition for the long term friendships.
Backstreets hosts soft and steel tip leagues, including the Friday night Tournament of Champions league for winners only and a Thursday night cruise league that includes a cruise in the fall. (Photo: submitted)
“Oh my, I've known Shelly since '95 when it was the Upper Deck, watching the growth and the beautiful expansion last year,” Dolan said. “Once the dart board went up, I got a bunch of girls together and we've been doing darts ever since. For me it's a night out with close friends, who are like family and you feel so close at home with them.”
What: BackStreets Sports Bar
Where: 915 SE 47th Terrace, Cape Coral
Info: backstreetssportsbar.com
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Mother Teresa's Famous Sari Is Now Trademarked
Her mission in India has the rights to the blue-bordered design
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Jul 10, 2017 1:48 PM CDT
Mother Teresa in a 1996 file photo. She's holding the resolutions of honorary American citizenship after they were presented to her by American Ambassador to India Frank G. Wisner. (AP Photo, File)
(Newser) – The nuns who belong to Mother Teresa's order were willing to forgive and forget groups taking advantage of their late matriarch's image. Their lawyer? Not so much. And that's why the Missionaries of Charity in India now owns the trademark to the saint's famous blue-bordered sari, reports the Guardian. It seems that organizations all over the world were making use of the design and suggesting, intentionally or not, that they were affiliated with the group. The nuns of the order shrugged it off for years, saying, "One day the people will understand they are doing the wrong thing," per attorney Biswajit Sarkar, who began going after the trademark for the order in 2013.
"Now if anybody is misrepresenting the Missionaries of Charity we can take severe legal action," he says. The former Sister Mary Teresa began wearing the distinctive, blue-striped sari in the late 1940s when she got permission to leave her convent and begin working among India's poor, recounts the Times of India. Today, about 4,000 of the saris are woven annually and distributed to the order's nuns around the world. Attorney Sarkar says this is the first time a trademark has been issued for a religious uniform. (Pope Francis made Teresa a saint last year.)
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Jul 10, 2017 9:00 PM CDT
Abaja - female oppression. Sari - sign of piety. Double standards, possibly?
Think about this... If there's no afterlife, then Ma Teresa and Adolf Hitler shared the same fate for their life's work :-)
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Issuance Of Energy Sector Bond Witness Tremendous Success
The Fidelity Bank, joint technical advisors to the issuance of the energy sector bond, says the issuance of the bond witnessed a tremendous success recording GHC4.7 billion out of the GHC6 billion target, representing 85 per cent subscription.
Addressing the media in Accra on Thursday to respond to some concerns raised by a section of the public, Mr Edwin Effah, a Technical Advisor, said the bond was issued by ESLA PLC, a special purpose vehicle, to raise funds to pay the GHȼ10 billion energy debts.
He said the seven-year bond was oversubscribed at GHȼ2.529 billion above the target of GHȼ2.4 billion at an interest of 19 per cent while the 10-year bond closed with a bid of GHȼ2.79 billion relative to the target of GHȼ3.6 billion.
Mr Effah said out of the amount, GHȼ2.29 billion was accepted by the ESLA PLC at a price of 19.5 per cent.
He said in total, the bond issuer received bids of GHȼ5.32 billion (GHȼ2.529 billion for the seven-year bond and GHȼ2.79 for the 10-year bond).
He noted that the formation of the ESLA PLC, was an innovative initiative in Africa with no recourse to government.
According to him, it was a standard structure that is used in most developed countries to ensure an independent and transparent administration of levies or sources of income for purposes of debts payment and other strategic projects.
Mr Leonard Gikunno, also a technical advisor, said the energy bond programme had a five-year expiry and with this flexibility, ESLA PLC could go to the financial market at any period to draw more funds from prospective investors to meet the GHC 6 billion ceiling.
He said the bond was part of a broader set of initiatives by the government to raise money outside of its fiscal space to engender sustainable economic growth.
Mr Gikunno averred that ultimately, the bond would help the country resolve the high non-performing loans within the banking sector and provide liquidity to the banks to allow them provide credit to businesses for expansion and create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth.
The energy sector debts, otherwise known as the legacy debts, came about as result of the country’s over-reliance on thermal power from 2010 to 2015, which compelled the Volta River Authority (VRA) to import crude oil at the world market price of 120 dollars per barrel.
During this period, about 20 commercial banks provided loans to VRA, Electricity Company of Ghana and other power producers to import crude oil and natural gas for power generation.
However, these State-Owned Companies (SOEs) could not repay the loans within the specified period to the banks due to the depreciation of the local currency, the Cedi, therefore piling up the debt stock.
In view of this, the power generation companies could not open new letters of credit to support the financing of their operations, which disrupted their operation and affected power supply thereby plunging the country into a long period of power crisis.
Therefore, in a bid to address these challenges in the energy sector, Parliament promulgated the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) in 2015, to charge specific levies to pay the debts.
The levies were independently administered outside the government’s consolidated fund, with the Ministry of Finance expected to report on it periodically to Parliament.
The Energy Sector Levy Act helped generate receivables for the energy debts management and repayment designated as Energy Debt Recovery Levy (EDR Levy), which in 2016 alone generated GHȼ1.28 billion.
On the back of the ESLA, Government through the Ministry of Finance, invited proposals from local financial institutions and their associates to structure and securitize the EDR levies for the permanent resolution of the energy debts on a long term basis.
This process necessitated the formation and incorporation of a special purpose vehicle known as ESLA PLC with no recourse to Government in order to source funding from the local financial market to offset the debts once and for all.
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Why do so many Irish Catholics love being mocked by Father Ted?
In our 90s sitcom week, celebrating the show that gave the world “Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse”.
By Julia Rampen
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“My mum hated it,” Margi Murphy, a Londoner with an Irish mother recalls. “What really pissed her off was when I said ‘go on...go on go on go on go on go on’ when offering her a biscuit.”
Any true fan will already know which sitcom Murphy's referred to, but for everyone else out there, it is fair to say Father Ted was designed to offend. A sitcom about an opportunist Irish Catholic priest exiled to the remote Craggy Island, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, it relied on digs at the Catholic Church and Irish provincialism (episodes include the legendary “Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse”). The offending quote above comes from Mrs Doyle, an eccentric housekeeper who is positively fascist about making sure you’ve had your tea.
My Mancunian Irish Catholic family, on the other hand, loved it. A straw poll of Irish Catholics (lapsed or otherwise) soon revealed we were not alone. “You could hear us shrieking from miles away,” one Irish-born Londoner tells me. She could not think of anyone who was offended: “People still love it.” Another Irish friend agrees. Another still, a practising Catholic, laments the fact it was not initially shown on a domestic TV channel: “Such a loss.” Even priests have come round to it.
Father Ted might have gifted the world the protest slogan “Down with this sort of thing”, but the sitcom's devotees can be found at the highest echelons of power. A recent meeting with a leading Brexiteer broke into laughter after I mentioned the sitcom. A City worker told me how her family regularly quote sections of the show to each other, the most popular referring to an episode where Father Ted and other priests get lost in the lingerie section of a department store. Despite running for a modest three series, I've heard of fans in Canada and South Africa. There have been other shows about religious figures, but it is Father Ted who has endured. Why?
The first is the characters. Father “the money was just resting in my account” Ted is a cunning man forced to share a dreary home with two other priests and Mrs Doyle on a windswept island. Father Dougal, his companion, is naïve. “Ted, do you believe in the afterlife?” he asks in the episode "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest". Ted: “Well generally priests have a very strong belief in the afterlife.” Dougal: “Ooh, I wish I had your faith, Ted!”
Father Jack, on the other hand, is a curmudgeonly old drunk, and an audience favourite. (A Scottish Irish friend who works in the whisky industry in Scotland got in touch to claim he was in the process of getting Father Jack tattooed on to his leg). There are also repeat appearances by the hyperactive, guitar-strumming Father Noel (Graham Norton), and Ted’s nemesis, Father Dick Byrne.
All the same, I suspect Father Ted wouldn’t be half as funny if wasn’t for the Catholic Church. It looms over everything, less as a theology, and more as a hierarchical institution that is just asking to be turned upside down. “I think it was the satirical element,” one Irish Father Ted fan says of why her family loved it. “Very cheeky to be so ‘mean’ about priests.” Just as kids read The Bash Street Kids for the tussles with authority, so Irish Catholics tuned into catch Father Ted trying to avoid impending disgrace. It's not a revolution, it's a giggle.
This makes even more sense when you consider that Catholicism is not simply a spiritual movement but a set of physical encounters that are - even for the lapsed among us - inevitable. As well as the mysterious church rituals, there are the family christenings, weddings and funerals, the schools, the confirmation names (shout out to my cousin Sexburga), the confirmation dresses, the charities, the deep-held prejudice that Catholics are just more friendly, and of course, the Pope, which everyone has an opinion on. You can't navigate all of this without a joke from time to time. Father Ted captures the familiar detail - the squabbling couple who fake marital harmony when a priest walks by, the collision between Catholicism and modernity - while offering up the fantastical, like the nun singing Ave Maria down the phone to Ted when his call is put on hold.
Based on my conversations, it seems those who were offended by Father Ted were mostly older Irish immigrants to Britain fed up with “Paddy jokes”, rather than blasphemy. For younger generations, on the other hand, Father Ted is something to hold on to. Dermot Morgan, who played Ted, died at the age of 45 in 1998. (Morgan was said to be keen to be known for something other than Father Ted, but as one fan joked: "God had other plans.") As for me, my upbringing among laughing Catholics has always made me suspicious of those who think religion is purely a serious matter. I stopped going to church long ago, my closest Irish relations have passed away, but you’ll still find me humming along to Father Ted's 1996 Eurovision entry, “My Lovely Horse”.
This is part of the New Statesman's look back at classic sitcoms from the 90s. You can find our takes on Alan Partridge here, Ab Fab here, Only Fools and Horses here, Sex and the City here and Brass Eye here.
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Julia Rampen is the digital night editor at the Liverpool Echo, and the former digital news editor of the New Statesman. She has also been deputy editor at Mirror Money Online and worked as a financial journalist for several trade magazines.
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Residents of greater Seattle know how bad traffic congestion can get during the morning and afternoon commute. In fact, according to the 2019 Urban Mobility Report, Seattle is among the top 10 American cities with the worst traffic congestion. On average, each commuter spends about 78 hours each year in traffic congestion.
When traffic is backed up, tempers can flare — leading to aggressive driving and dangerous maneuvers, like weaving in and out of traffic. Distracted or impaired driving can create the risk of rear-end collisions and can be especially dangerous when traffic suddenly slows down on a high-speed roadway.
How is traffic congestion a contributing factor in many crashes?
According to Geotab, there are four primary causes of traffic congestion:
Environmental: Weather has a major impact on highway traffic. For example, traffic can slow down significantly during conditions of heavy rain, snow, fog, and ice. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), environmental conditions cause about 15 percent of all traffic congestion. In addition, a study by Dr. Jean Andrey and Daniel Unrau found that crashes increase by about 50 percent during rainy and snowy conditions.
Mechanical: Sudden mechanical failures can include a car breaking down or a part of a large commercial truck becoming detached on the highway. When using a highway with multiple lanes, getting off the road immediately can be difficult. In addition, detached vehicle parts, like a wheel, significantly increase the risk of a crash.
Human: Human error often contributes to traffic congestion. Geotab refers to this as "phantom traffic jams." This occurs when a driver slows down or brakes on the highway, causing a ripple effect that can back up traffic for hours (depending on the conditions). This also creates the risk of rear-end collisions and pileups. Other human error causes include crashes related to distraction, drowsy driving, drunk driving, and reckless driving. A single crash can back up traffic for hours, especially when police and emergency crews are involved.
Infrastructure: Construction sites, potholes, and other roadway defects can temporarily slow down traffic but outdated infrastructure often causes prolonged traffic problems. For example, bottlenecks (where multi-lanes merge into one) account for roughly 40 percent of all traffic congestion.
What are the common dangers of traffic congestion?
Traffic congestion isn't a leading factor in Seattle crashes. Instead, it's the way drivers handle traffic congestion and the actions they take. For example, drivers who weave in and out of traffic and cut off other motorists often cause lane-departure crashes.
Road rage commonly happens during traffic congestion when drivers become impatient, because traffic isn't moving fast enough, or angry when being cut off. This often results in violent confrontations and drivers intentionally ramming other vehicles or running other motorists off the road.
Crashes during traffic congestion can be prevented only when drivers give themselves more time to reach their destination, stay attentive, and stay alert. If you or a loved one was hurt in a crash while commuting in heavy traffic congestion, you should consult an experienced Seattle car accident attorney as soon as possible.
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