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11. RCC, Persia, Turkey, and the 50 Russian bears
This article was originally written within the context of how all the gods of Babylon are numbered — literally!
(The Babylonians assigned to each god a number. For example, Enki was the number “40” and Enlil was “50”.)
Russia the Bear
On Feb 9th, 2019 (“State of Emergency” declared)
50 polar bears invade Russian town, emergency declared
TASS, February 9th. “The state of emergency was introduced from February 9 on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which is part of the Arkhangelsk region, because of the massive invasion of polar bears into the territory of settlements. This is stated in a statement released on Saturday of the press service of the governor and the regional government.
…from December 2018 to February 2019 there was a large gathering of animals near settlements.Near the village Belushya Guba are 52 polar bears. Wild animals have aggressive behavior – they attack the inhabitants and enter the premises.”
(Google translation from Russian)
A polar bear invasion is terrorizing Russians on a remote Arctic island with more than 50 beasts besieging one town.
A state of emergency has been declared on Soviet nuclear testing archipelago Novaya Zemlya as the beasts enter the front doors of apartment blocks. (Fox News)
The number of days to the other ten signs, including “the sealing and unsealing”
Emphasis on the number “50” (50 bears in a town of 50*50 people)
65 days from Dec 6th, about when the bears began to invade. (“65” signifies “shattering”, Isaiah 7:8)
It’s a Russian military community
It’s near the town of Belushya Guba, which area is associated with nuclear testing
It’s in “the far north” (Ezek 38:15)
“Belushya Guba is the main permanent settlement of the island territory of Novaya Zemlya. A large proportion of its population is made up of military personnel associated with the nuclear test sites located on the island.” Wiki
The Russian bear, Turkey, and Persia (Iran) and allies (i.e., the other bears) are conspiring against Israel and the US is in the way. Their goal is to be “Lord of the Earth”, which is the Babylonian god Enki’s number, name, and meaning. (Enki is “40”.)
About the above image: The Measuring rod superimposed over the Mene-Tekel Code of the Zigurrat, set to the Jan. 20th, 2019 lunar eclipse. 20 days later is the Polar Bears. 25 days later (5*5) is the Persian, Turkish and Russian meeting. Rod points to the Arctic and to Russia. The code repeats the word "Persia" (Iran) 20 times horizontally and 20 times vertically, once for every year of the Iranian revolution.
Feb 9th and 14th are 20 days to Jan 20 and Jan 25 (the 5th and 6th sign) and then another 20 days to Jan 5th, (the 4th sign when the partial solar eclipse occurred over Russia as locust invaded Mecca). In Babylon, Utu, the Sun god is represented by the number "20". Feb. 11th, the day of the 40th year of the Revolution is 40 days (and 70 days) to the 3rd sign, and then another 40 days to Nov 23, 2018, when the first insight was given into the Mene Tekel Code and how their gods are judged. (Enki is represented by the number "40" and Utu by "20".)
Rod with Flag points to Russia
Overlay with the above image. Note wind in flag and direction of blood. The original image revealed at and on, 2300 days before Trump declared the embassy move to Jerusalem.
Note the flag flying. Click to enlarge
A white horse: Religious ‘Peace and Safety’
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. Depicted from left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. The first horsemen on the white horse with the crescent red moon below its tail represent false peace. He carries a bow and arrow the same as the constellation of Sagittarius (Nergal) where the eclipses occurred. The Pope and the Arab false peace.
Babylonian Constellation of Sagittarius with scorpion tale towards cresent moon
I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. Rev 6:2
March 30-31, 2019. The Vatican announced logo of “cross within crescent moon” Jan. 7, 2019. Note date stamp of my post about locust invasion
Click to enlarge. Recall this image from Dec. 2018 of the serpent rising (i.e., “Enlil”) from the Abyss of the Ziggurat/Minaret with his head as the moon about to swallow the sun with the cross in it. Below is Vatican’s now with the moon with the cross in it — Enlil has finished swallowing!
Pope dressed in white with a large image of a false Christ above him as he speaks Feb 4, 2019, to an audience of mixed religions
Below, the crescent logo of the moon swallowing up the cross within the sun was released by the Vatican Jan 7, 2019, during the locust invasion of Mecca (4th sign).
Dec 26, 2019, Annular Solar eclipse begins in Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates where the Pope signed the agreement with 700 religious leaders of all faiths watching. It was signed 30 days (# of Sin-moon-god) after the locust invasion of Mecca that hit the headlines the same day as the Vatican released this logo about the upcoming Muslim-Catholic pacts.
Both the Jan 5 and Dec 26, 2019 eclipses occur in Sagittarius
I noted in the article about the locust invasion that the locust descended during a partial (75%) solar eclipse over northern Russia and that exactly one lunar year later another will occur that begins its trek in Saudia Arabia. The above is that eclipse, except notice that this small nation of the United Arab Emirates happens to be at the start of its path. Thus, both the logo and the eclipse signify “the moon-god swallowing up the sun”.
Moreover, Feb 4, 2019, to Dec 26th is 325 days (13*5*5), thereby connecting the date to the “fives“.
Both the logo and the eclipse signify “the moon-god swallowing up the sun”. To be exact, the meeting was held in the city of Abu Dhabi as marked in the map before this. Notice what the eclipse of the sun will look like from this city. The Moon will swallow a similar proportion of the sun as in the logo! (Click to enlarge.) Interestingly, this eclipse takes place in the constellation of Sagittarius, which is associated with the Babylonian god “Nergal“, “The God of war, plague, death, and disease”. (The first and fourth horsemen of the book of Revelation?)
Without wanting to make this article too long, I feel it necessary to quote from “the 4th sign” to see the connection more clearly to the timing of this logo on Jan 7, 2019.
Islam, Osiris (i.e., Apollo), and Ra. (See Part Two of Mene Tekel Code for the explanation of this image.)
A fourth sign has occurred. It began the evening of Jan. 5th in Mecca and lasted at least four days. “Black locust” and flying cockroaches descended upon Mecca. Social media has many images and videos of it.
Locust descend upon Mecca when Part Two of Mene Tekel posted, “Islam is judged”. Part Two was posted the 7th of January 2019. (Note post stamp on the address of Part Two.) And the below video was also posted the same day that I posted my article about Mecca and the MINAret. The video went viral.
Locust plague Mecca (Meqqa). (This is a clip of a video.) Notice the Menoret in the background, which is patterned after the Tower of Babel as said in the Mene Tekel Code as posted the same day as this video. Moreover, this image was posted on social media 4*4 days after Anak Krakatoa exploded. Both the sign of eruption of Anak during the full moon and the locust upon Mecca during the New Moon point to the 4th Seal and 4th/5th Trumpet of Revelation. (The New Moon when the locust descended upon Mecca was also accompanied by a partial solar eclipse in the constellation of Sagittarius, which represented Nimrod of Babel (Nirgal and Ninurta) who has a tail like a scorpion and a breastplate/body like a lion as per the Babylonian Sagittarius.)
Biblical PLAGUE? Experts BAFFLED as mysterious swarm of LOCUSTS invade Mecca’s holy sites
AN UNPRECEDENTED swarm of deadly locusts invaded one of the world’s holiest sites this week as Mecca faced an infestation of “biblical proportions”.
Islam-RCC logo Jan 7, 2019
Therefore, the above locust video, “The first “signs” post, and this Vatican logo were all released the same day.
(Vatican News. Words in red added.)
“Prior to the Morocco visit (March 30-31), the Pope is scheduled to make a trip to the United Arab Emirates on February 3-5. (Hence, the two trips are 55 days apart.)
Addressing the Diplomatic Corps on Monday (Jan 7, 2019) in the Vatican, Pope Francis said that his visit to the 2 predominantly Muslim countries, “represent two important opportunities to advance interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding between the followers of both religions, in this year that marks the eight-hundredth anniversary of the historic meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil.”
On Monday, Feb 4, 2019
(Feb 4, 2019, is the same day as the 9th Sign.)
“Pope and the Grand Imam: Historic declaration of peace, freedom, women’s rights.”
“…document signed by Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb on Monday in the United Arab Emirates” (Vatican News)
Pope and grand imam sign historic pledge of fraternity in UAE
In first papal visit to Arabian peninsula, Francis calls for end to wars in Middle East. (The Guardian)
A woman rides the beast
There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
Interestingly, seven days after the Pope and the Imam signed the peace declaration, Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of their revolution. And ten days after the Pope and Imam signed the peace declaration, Iran, Russian and Turkey met, as did contrarily the US, Israel, and allies. And Kushner gave a rare speech about peace.
Iran (Persia) “Uparsin”
On Feb 1st and the 11th, 2019
40th anniversary of Iran Revolution
“Speaking at a rally earlier Monday celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said that Iran would demolish entire cities in Israel if the United States attacked the Islamic Republic.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Monday evening… it “would be the last anniversary of the revolution that they celebrate.” (Haaretz)
On Feb 11th, 2019, the same day that the 10th sign occurred, Iran (Persia) celebrated the 40th year of its revolution. Their celebration is ten days long, from Feb. 1st to the 11th.
It happens that Iran was formerly known as Persia until the Nazis influenced a name change to mean “Aryan”. The word “Persia” is the singular form of the word “Parasin“, as in ‘Mene, Tekel, Parsin!” Hence, in the above Mene Tekel Peres Picture Code, the word Parsin (Persia פרס) is repeated 20 + 20 times.
Feb 1st was the 40th anniversary of the false prophet Ayatollah Khomeini who took over Persia (Iran) in 1979, which in turn ended “2,500 years of Persian monarchy”.
Numeric note that you might wish to skip over.
"2500 years of Persian monarchy (Upharsin)" Thus we see 50*50 again. Interestingly, now that it is 2540 years, that's a seven-year period on the lunar calendar, 1270 + 1270 days and years.
Ironically, the "2500 years" Iran refers to is a round number. 550 BC to 2019 is 2568 years, which is more accurately a seven-year lunar period of days as years. In other words, 2568 and 2569 days is literally exactly seven years from now on the Islamic and Jewish calendars. A 'seven-year period of rule' is a common timeframe in the Bible, especially the Book of Revelation.
“Beware of Valentines Day”
Both the Russian and the US-led conferences are to be held on Valentines Day. This reminds me of something personal.
“Beware of Valentines Day!” Those are the words that the Lord kept speaking to me 31 years ago when the devil attempted to destroy my family, including my mother and friends. It was our personal “Purim”. (See the Book of Esther. Purim and Valentine’s day both commemorate love and someone’s execution, and both occur around the same time of the year.)
But like Purim, God turned the tables. When that day came, what was meant to be the final blow to kill us instead became the turning point. It marked the day when the darkness began to lift.
After many months of descent, that very day, Valentines Day, marked the slow ascent from the pit.
A Norad base was in the small town where I now live. We moved in on Hanukah, 2003.
“When we began our move, the moving company building where we rented the moving truck blew up like an atomic bomb… 1290 days after the Hand code.” (bible-codes.org/Atomic-bomb-nuclear-explosion-code-b.htm)
The two sides meet separately, but both on Valentine’s Day
On Monday, Feb 14, 2019– Valentines Day
The US-led meeting
It is interesting that this meeting for peace occurs just ten days after the Pope’s religious equivalent. After all, a woman rides the beast, (Rev. 17:7).
The two-day conference includes representatives from some “60 countries”. The stated theme was “Promoting a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East.” The Bible says:
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1Thess. 5:3)
Recall that Jared Kushner is in charge of the Peace Process. And the Bible refers to a peace treaty that follows a seven-year period of hell on earth, (Dan. 9:24-27). (See 666 video.)
Kushner: Israel, Palestinians Will Have to Compromise in Upcoming Trump Peace Plan. (Headlines Haaretz)
“Warsaw, Poland – A United States-led two-day summit on “peace and security” in the Middle East started on Wednesday – a gathering denounced by uninvited Iran as “dead on arrival”.
“Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, is expected to make a rare speaking appearance on Thursday.” (Aljazeera) (Recall 666 video.)
“Thursday”, is Valentines Day, the day for love.
Valentine’s Day among enemies, however, suggests deception — the kiss of an enemy. Feined love.
The Russian-led meeting
Iran, Russia, and Turkey shake hands at their first summit in 2017. Back then, my wife and I made a video about this
This fourth meeting will necessarily include talks about Israel as well as Syria.
Russia, Iran, Turkey to hold fourth round of Syria talks in Sochi. Trilateral summit between ‘guarantor countries’ to focus on long-term settlement of the Syrian crisis, the Kremlin says.
The Syria talks run in parallel to the Geneva talks organised by the United Nations.
But the three leaders will also discuss projects and coordination on the international arena. (Aljazeera)
Russia, Iran, and Turkey: emblems of the earth, sun, moon, and stars — Eagle/Lion (Babylon)
Emblem of Russia. A two-headed eagle with the earth in its claws. Rider on white horse slays dragon
Iran’s emblem. Sun and lion
Emblem of Turkey. Moon and star, the land of the seven churches/stars of the Book of Revelation
First Iraq (Babylon) and now Iran (Persia)
Image by Olympus Digital Camera of a mosque and images of Kumani. Notice the two ziggurat pillars
The first time that the message came to me as to how God was applying the writing on the wall in our times was on Feb 4, 2000. At that time it was primarily about Iraq. (I.e., Babylon and Saddam Hussein was the main theme from the first time that God revealed to me the depth of meaning within the writing on the wall in 2000. Saddam Hussein rebuilt the palace of where the original writing on the wall was). And now we have Iran in the crosshairs. (I.e., Persia and her allies).
Back in the Gulf war, I said that the coalition of England and America attacking Iraq (ancient Babylon) represented new Babylon attacking ancient Babylon, in that the emblem of England and America was a lion and an eagle, just as it was of Babylon of old. I said that the Mene Tekel Code referred to it (and “Hand Code” 125-days later).
“Jehovah?
Is it the hand of Jehovah?
He Himself goes to war. He put him to death!
Jehovah goes to war against her (i.e., ‘Babylon‘),
and the arrogant one!
Jehovah goes to war against her,
and the rebellious one!
and the one being removed!” (Bible-codes.org)
1/2 Shekel coin
And now Trump is likened unto the Persian king “Cyrus”. Thus, now we have new Persia attacking the ancient land of Persia! It was Cyrus who sacked Babylon in 539 BC in fulfillment of the writing on the wall.
Recall the encoded image of Trump as Cyrus on the coin being weighed in the Ziggurat-mountain balance. Note that the word “Persia” פרס in Aramaic runs through the coin.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin matrix (written vertically and horizontally 20 times each). Image created Dec. 19, 2018. Click to enlarge coin. Note the word “Persia” (Iran), פרס.
It is fitting that after Babylon, next is Persia in God's crosshair because Iran (Persia) is the nation that took over Babylon when she fell in 539 BC at the time of the writing on the wall.
Moreover, 539 BC is seven years of years on the lunar calendar to the first wave of understanding in 2000, and seven years of years to this second wave of understanding 19 years later on the solar calendar.
Notice that Feb 1st to 11th, 2019, is 70 and 80 days from Nov. 23, 2018, (“the sealing”) and Feb 14th, 2019, is 70 days from Dec. 6, 2018 (“the unsealing”). (See article about “The Number of the Beast” for the meaning of these numbers.)
Feb 11th was “Purim” on the 360 calendar
Purim is the celebration of the Jews over the attempt of her enemies to destroy them in the days of their exile in Persia, as recorded in the book of Esther.
It happens that Feb. 11th (the 40th anniversary of their revolution) on the 360 calendar is Purim. “Purim” is another word directly related to the Aramaic word “Uparsin“. And “Persia פרס” and “Purim פרינ” are two of the seven encoded words at the very beginning of the very first post:
“מנא מנ-אמנ. אשקלו פרס פרינ-סינ” (Aramaic) The re-scrambling of “Mene Mene Tekel Uparsin.”
Iran and Israel trade threats of destruction
On Islamic revolution’s 40th anniversary, regional rivals engage in a war of words threatening to attack each other.
Israel and Iran traded threats of mutual destruction on Monday as the Islamic Republic celebrated the 40th anniversary of its revolution.
“The US should know that we would raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground in the event of a military attack on us,” General Yadollah Javani, head of the guard’s political bureau, was quoted as saying.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to respond, saying later on Monday it would mark Iran’s last revolution anniversary if it attacked any cities in Israel.
(Aljazeera)
“He will weigh them (in the balance)! I will melt a lamp. He will number them!” He despises (and will melt) the rising of Babylon and their rebellion”. (This is part of the secret message stamped out as events occured on the below date-chart!)
Calendar of events is overlayed with the Mene-Tekel matrix, and this matrix is repeated four times.
Click to enlarge. The above has the dates from when God began to reveal the Mene Tekel prophetic images as well as the dates for the 13 signs that followed. These dates are here presented overlapping the Mene Tekel prophetic image. This is the template that God has been following as He passes sentence among the gods. The calendar runs from November 2o, 2018, unto Feb 22, 2019, exactly 100 days, and is laid out in rows of five (at center column) in keeping with the Mene Tekel matrix.
About the above chart: This is the 5*5 “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uparsin matrix” repeated four times. It here includes the calendar dates of all ‘sealings’, ‘unsealing’ and the 11 signs, as explained before. Miraculously, God used the below image from Dec. 11, 2018, as the template upon which He did all future events and signs.
This is the same image that is overlayed in the main image of God judging North and South America, and the North Pole. Notice the general outline of a winding serpent like the one below, except here it starts from the top using the first dates for the head and then weaving back and forth like a serpent to Feb 14, 2019. (In line with this, Saddam Hussein as predicted was hung by the neck 1260 + 1260 days after Feb 4, 2000, and thus is also a multiple of five. Moreover, 125 days later was the “hand code” on Pentecost, 2000, (125 = 5*5*5).
Footnote: (This information was written before signs 5B and 13). As each event lands on a letter in the code as time progresses, these letters will form words and phrases that concern the very event that is happening at the time! For example, Dec. 16, 18, and 22nd (that ends with "Sign 2: Mt Anak") reads, "From Anak מאנק". Altogether, the 20 squares wherein at least one event transpired roughly reads:
"Truly He broke open (the seals). Anak with sackcloth. Yes its true, their banner is Ameleck the second!"
God knows "the end from the beginning", therefore in reverse, it reads: סר יתקלמ! אמס נר ימנאמ! מָאַס קמ מרתמ
"In anger he will weigh them (in the balance)! I will melt a lamp. He will number them!" He despises (and will melt) the rising of Babylon and their rebellion".
The word for "despise" מָאַס also means "to melt", and it is also the word "Mass", and this word occurs at the logo of RCC! See date chart.) (מְרָתַיִם is a symbolic name for "Babylon" in Jer. 50:21, meaning "double rebellion/bitterness". Except here it is מרתמ, "their rebellion/bitterness". This is also a play on words for "Their Minaret", too, as מנרתמ, which means "Their lamp-house-tower". Moreover, this same word backward מתירמ means, "Loosing/solving them", i.e., to "loose/break" a seal open or to "solve" a riddle." Thus, the mystery word for "Babylon" backward means, "to be broken asunder"!) סר-angry also means 'a Babylonian Sar, a unit of 3600'. Recall the Sar-moth code.
(Note: when two letters occur within one square, one or both can be used, as was the case in the previous articles. Amalek is here spelled אמלק instead of עֲמָלֵק, in keeping with the previous word, אנק. Amalek, the arch-enemy of the Jew is associated with Purim. Saul failed to destroy all the Amalekites.)
If you’re interested, click “Read More” for examples of how events align with exact spots on the image about which the sign referred.
Or the first sign of ‘the Church with the enemy under its feet’ (i.e., ‘comet and the Pleiades), and that date is located here at the top of the mountain overlapping the neck of their enemy, the serpent. ‘Come here and put your foot on the neck of your enemies!’ (Josh 10:24; Heb 1:13.)
Click to enlarge. As said, the hand at top begins at the letter corresponding to when the writing on the wall began to be revealed, “sealed”
Author Dean CoombsPosted on February 12, 2019 May 31, 2019 Tags Iran, peace treaty, Persia, Turkey and Russia2 Comments on 11. RCC, Persia, Turkey, and the 50 Russian bears
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Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.
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In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.
The Forever War
by: Joe Haldeman
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
by: Neal Stephenson
One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you'll recognize it immediately.
The Stars My Destination
by: Alfred Bester
#5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. "Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them"-Joe Haldeman "Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable" -James Lovegrove Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for fifty years. (Bester fans should also note that iPicturebooks has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.
The Windup Girl
by: Paolo Bacigalupi
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author.
Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories.
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
In this brand new edition celebrating the book's reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning The Calorie Man” and Yellow Card Man.” Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.
The Hugo Award-winning and controversial science fiction masterpiece from Robert A. Heinlein, the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers.
Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.
by: Philip K. Dick
“From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.
“More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño
The Player of Games
by: Iain M. Banks
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.
Praise for Iain M. Banks:
"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME
"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out
by: Arthur C. Clarke
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....
Rendezvous with Rama
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits -- just behind a Raman airlock door.
A Fire upon the Deep
by: Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.
Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.
A Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by: Richard K. Morgan
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions.
Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the reviews for have been dazzling: “Brilliant” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel), “Daring” (Boston Globe), “Immensely entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “A tour de force” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), while Time magazine proclaims, “The great novel of ideas…has morphed into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.”
by: Mary Shelley
Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's.
"We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.
The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
Zoe's Tale
by: John Scalzi
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did ― how I did what I had to do ― not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try to make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the winner of the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Slaughterhouse-Five
by: Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
The Left Hand of Darkness
by: Ursula K. Le Guin
When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin.
When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.
by: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
Grade 6 classic readings
Ageless and timeless classics
Kumon Recommended Reading List - Level I (Grade 9)
by: Andy Weir
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
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Dobson, Henry (1841–1918)
by E. M. Dollery
Henry Dobson (1841-1918), by J. W. Beattie
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, AUTAS001125881284
Henry Dobson (1841-1918), lawyer and politician, was born on 24 December 1841 in Hobart, son of John Dobson, solicitor, and his second wife Kate, née Willis. Like his brother Alfred and his half-brothers William Lambert and Frank he was educated at The Hutchins School. After some time in a merchant's office he commenced legal training with Allport, Roberts and Allport, and was called to the Tasmanian Bar on 30 December 1864. As the partner of William Giblin in 1865-70 and from 1887 as senior partner in the firm of Dobson, Mitchell and Allport he became one of the most trusted family lawyers in the colony.
Elected for Brighton to the House of Assembly in 1891 he was soon chosen as leader of the Opposition, probably because of his family connexions and his wealth at a time when many other prominent politicians were embarrassed by the economic depression. After the Fysh ministry was defeated Dobson became premier on 17 August 1892. His period in office, following the over-spending of previous administrations, was a disastrous one. His policy of drastic retrenchment was rejected, and he obtained a dissolution. With the situation unchanged after the election he resigned on 14 April 1894; he held his seat until 1899. An ardent Federalist, he was a member of the Federal Council of Australasia from 1893 and represented Tasmania at the 1897-98 convention. Elected to the Senate in 1901 he was temporary chairman of committees in 1904-08 and chairman in 1908-09. After his defeat in 1910 he retired from politics.
With Giblin, James Backhouse Walker and others Dobson was a founder in 1864 of the Working Men's Club. In an attempt to relieve the unemployment of the 1890s he gave much personal support to the establishment in 1894 of a partially self-supporting, though finally unsuccessful, village settlement at Southport; his enthusiasm was surpassed only by that of his wife Emily Lempriere whom he had married on 4 February 1868 in the Bothwell Church of England. Keenly interested in education, he earned the hostility of many employers in 1898 by implementing the amendment to the Education Act (1885) which made attendance at school compulsory for five days a week. He also sponsored the introduction of kindergartens. Paramount among his public works was his advocacy of Tasmania as a tourist resort. Founder and president in 1895-1914 of the Tasmanian Tourist Association he worked for the establishment of the official Tourist and Information Bureau and of the Scenery Preservation Board in 1915. He was chairman of the National Park Board in 1917-18. He also supported the developing fruit-growing industry.
A highly cultivated man with a love of good music, literature and sport, Dobson belonged to the Royal Society of Tasmania from 1861, and the Tasmanian Club from 1866, and was president of the Athenaeum Club in 1895-1906. He held tenaciously to views many of which, while not immediately popular, subsequently proved sound. He died on 10 October 1918 at Hobart survived by his wife, four daughters and the elder of two sons, and was buried in Queenborough cemetery.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania (Hob, 1900)
W. R. Barrett, History of the Church of England in Tasmania (Hob, 1942)
F. C. Green (ed), A Century of Responsible Government 1856-1956 (Hob, 1956)
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P. F. Bolger, ‘The Southport settlement’, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 12 (1965), pt 4
Table Talk (Melbourne), 25 Apr 1901
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Dobson, Emily (wife)
Lempriere, Thomas James (father-in-law)
Lempriere, William George (brother-in-law)
Cooke, Annie Josephine (niece by marriage)
Lempriere, Audley Raoul (niece by marriage)
Lempriere, Adelaide Maude (niece by marriage)
Lempriere, Thomas Edward (nephew by marriage)
Lempriere, John Thomson (nephew by marriage)
Lempriere, Dora Elizabeth (nephew by marriage)
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An Chi-hwan: A Voice to RememberAn interview with An Chi-hwan, whose music embodies the spirit of Korean democratization
Lee So-jung, Yang Ji-weon | sojunglee23@yonsei.ac.kr, jiwoney30@yonsei.ac.kr
“UNTIL THE spirit of the People rules the world with freedom, I shall wade on even through darkened waters,” sings An Chi-hwan in his song “Pine, pine, the ever green pine*.” During the 1980s democratization movements, a voice could be heard singing the song of the people, above the chaos of daily student protests and police brutality. In remembrance of the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising**, which embodies the Korean struggle for justice, The Yonsei Annals interviewed An Chi-hwan, a singer and Yonsei graduate of the Department of Social Welfare, to know more about his music career from the times of political turbulence.
Annals: Can you please introduce yourself?
An: I call myself the “singing An Chi-hwan.” There are two types of singers in Korea: the entertainer and the artist. I believe that we should clearly differentiate the two. I define myself as the latter.
Annals: What made you begin your career as a musician?
An: Back then, becoming a singer happened naturally. It wasn’t like nowadays where people have to enter an agency and go through training before they debut. Instead, singers were recognized for their talents alone. Those who were talented and committed enough received opportunities to record an album and release it to the public. It was the same for me.
I entered Yonsei as a student back in 1984, four years after the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising and three years before the 6.10 Democracy Movement**. By the time I was a senior in 1987, Yonsei University was the hub of democratization movements with students as the leading force.
After the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising in 1980, there was a cultural movement among university students to utilize songs we now call “resistance songs***” to inspire meaningful change in society. When I was a freshman in 1984, universities had a liberal atmosphere: students actively organized bands to perform resistance songs during student demonstrations. In Yonsei University, a band called Ul-lim-teo was formed during my first year. I applied, and I remember being the second in line for the auditions.
While performing in the band, I began to understand the social issues of dictatorship and oppression more in depth, and I got a clear sense of what kinds of songs I wanted to play. I wasn’t interested in singing songs for entertainment; I wanted to perform resistance songs that gave me the power to fight against injustice. Of course, I felt overwhelmed and even scared to take action at first. However, with my bandmates by my side, I could naturally begin my music career.
Annals: What was the first resistance song you wrote?
An: In the beginning, I used to only perform resistance songs from the music scores we—the members of Ul-lim-teo—shared. We practiced until the papers were ragged. However, I had this ambition of writing my own songs, even though the guitar was the only instrument I could play. I didn’t know anything else about music and how it worked. Then, during my junior year, one of my sun-baes**** in Ul-lim-teo was arrested and sent to jail for instigating a demonstration. Reading over the things I wrote down while thinking of him, I composed my very first song, “Pine, pine, the ever green pine.”
I performed the song with Ul-lim-teo at Dae-dong-jae***** in May. The festival was held in the Amphitheater back then with Yonsei students filling up all the seats. I sang “Pine, pine, the ever green pine” on stage, and, to my disbelief, it made a big sensation. It first became famous in Yonsei University, then bands from other schools started performing the song in their campuses. My song was known to almost every university student despite it not having been released in an official album.
Annals: How was your life as a Yonsei student? Are there any memorable events from your school days?
An: Looking back on my old school days, I am happy to have been a part of the democratization. Many people, including myself, suffered and some even died fighting, but my friends and I share unforgettable memories from those turbulent times. During the day, we were out at protests, getting attacked by the police with tear gas bombs. At night, we gathered in our friends’ boarding houses to sing songs and drink. I would not go home for days, so my parents would even come to school searching for me. My friends and I were not preoccupied with worries about our future, jobs after graduation, and such. We spent time reflecting on the things we could do to fight against the government, especially through art. I took comfort in music when nothing else was certain.
As for a specific event, I remember the very first time I performed on stage. It was in April, and there was a beautiful field of azaleas right below the Amphitheater. I was only a freshman, and I was preparing for a school concert in commemoration of the 4.19 Revolution** in 1960. In the school theater with around 4,500 seats, I sang a song called “Jin-da-lae******,” which was written in remembrance of the revolution. After the song ended, the audience, mostly students, clapped for a whole minute. I had never experienced that before in my life—I was overwhelmed. I wondered what brought about such passionate, enthusiastic response from the students. I had discovered the true power of music in bringing people together.
Annals: You are known for having been part of a music group called Those Finding Music*******. Can you share your experience of what it was like?
An: I would first like to explain how the group Those Finding Music came about. By 1987, during my senior year, we—the students—had made considerable progress in democratization. Even though we had lost our dear friends, including Lee Han-yeol, in the struggle, we had brought about tangible results, such as the direct presidential election system. The changes that we had only dreamed of for the past years were finally realized; and, at the same time, the general public began to demand for the songs that powered these demonstrations to be officially released in albums. Those Finding Music was formed to meet this public demand for resistance songs. Luckily enough, I was “nominated” as one of the key members of this group thanks to the fame that my very first song had brought me.
This was when I graduated from Yonsei in 1988. I didn’t think of continuing my studies in graduate school or getting a job. I was already earning a living, so I continued my career as a singer of this group. After spending a year and a half in this band, I left to pursue my own music career as a solo musician. Here I am now, still making music and performing for more than 30 years.
Annals: You are known as “The singer of the people.” What are your thoughts on this title?
An: I don’t agree with the title. I understand that it stems from the public belief that I am the musician who wrote songs for a great cause. That is how I started my career, so, to some extent, I can’t get away from that image. However, I need to ask: To whom is the word “people” referring? I don’t think all people enjoy my songs. Authorities certainly don’t sing my songs; the laborers and the intellectuals low on the social hierarchy are the ones who do. I simply don’t agree with the title.
People call me by other titles, such as “The singer who transcends genres” and “The singer who abandoned resistance songs,” but I am just me. It’s been 30 years since I became a singer. All the songs during those long years cannot be encapsulated into one of these definitive titles.
Annals: You have recently released a song “One Hundred Years of Struggle********” to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 3.1 Independence Movement**. What was your motive behind writing this song?
An: One hundred years have gone by since the 3.1 Independence Movement, yet I realized that there were no songs to commemorate those 100 years. This got me thinking. If I am to be called an artist, I felt the need to act like one. Artists must utilize their talents in their respective fields. They shouldn’t free ride [and claim to be a musician when they are not using their talents for a good cause].
Annals: In 2016, you were invited to be a guest singer at the candlelight protest in Gwanghwamun. How did you come to perform at this historical event?
An: In the case of the candlelight protest, there were only a handful of singers who could go up on stage. People call me to national events, because it has to be me; An Chi-hwan has to be there. Famous young artists like BTS would probably have been hesitant to perform on that occasion. These kinds of events require people who have the age and wisdom to handle grave matters. Performers should sing songs that are suitable for the situation, so that everyone else can sing along. Imagine Girls’ Generation singing at the candlelight protest—there is no connection between them and the purpose of the protest.
Being able to perform on stage was a great honor for me. The candlelight protest became a very crucial point in Korean history. In contrast to the 6.10 Democracy Movement where people bled and fought for their lives, the 2016 candlelight protest demonstrated a complete paradigm shift. People showed their power through nonviolent ways of protest. Now, we are living in a different era where we do not fight by throwing rocks at the enemy. I think it is beautiful that the ways we protest have become a form of art. Can you imagine how I felt on stage, seeing a million citizens holding up their candles, all in one hope? How moved I was by the burning passion in the people... This isn’t something many singers get to experience, so I am always grateful for these opportunities.
Annals: You are known not only for revolutionary songs, but also for popular music, such as “If I were*********.” What message did you try to convey through this type of genre?
An: I am more popular as an activist singer, so all the songs in my first and second albums were dedicated to the theme of “revolution.” However, after the 1990s when the Soviet Union fell apart and there was a period of ideological division, I thought I wanted to become more personal in the songs I wrote. My career went through a phase of personal transformation where I started to incorporate my personal stories into the music I created.
“If I Were,” isn’t a song that I wrote myself. I got this song from a hoo-bae**** and was invited to sing it for broadcasts. Surprisingly, it was a big hit. Since the public had always known me as an activist singer, I did receive some criticisms for “turning coat” from my original colors. However, I wasn’t very affected by those comments because I realized that the public demanded more than one genre from me. I just tried to focus on making songs for my fans and sing what I wanted to.
Annals: Do you have a favorite verse from any of your songs that you want to share with us?
An: As people say, “Every child is dear to their parents,” the same applies to me and my songs. I like the ones that I wrote from my heart, rather than what the public likes. I can say I am an indiscreet narcissist; I cherish all my songs. I am an artist with boundless self-pride.
Annals: When have you felt the proudest as a musician? When do you feel most content?
An: Music has been my life—I was only ever into music. I established my fame through music, and I’m still happily producing my own songs.
I have met and seen countless people while on stage, and when I see that my songs make them happy, I am happy. Although my songs can’t absolutely cure everything, the fact that I can brighten up people’s lives even a little counts as a blessing to me.
I also feel proud as a musician knowing that I still mean something to our nation. The well-being of our country has been my motivation for pursuing music, and still holds true now.
Annals: Many people may call you “the singer of the people,” but how would you define yourself? How do you want your songs to be remembered by the future generation?
An: When I was invited to programs such as “7080 Concert,” at first, I felt like I would look “shabby.” I don’t like it when old singers try to act young, wearing trendy clothes on stage, when everyone knows they are too old for that. I decided to appear in front of the public again in my own style. Not only did I sing my old hit songs, but I continued to introduce new songs to show the public that I am still a working musician. I will age as time goes by, but I will not stop singing for the people. I own a concert hall, so I am going to keep on hosting concerts and meeting my fans.
Everyone has songs and memories pertaining to their own generation, but I am not going to let myself get out of touch. I am going to age as an honorable musician who stays in tune with his audience.
I want to be remembered as a “living musician,” or a “present-continuous” musician. I feel like this is the most important thing I can do for my fans.
Annals: What message would you like to convey to the Annals readers and Yonseians?
An: Do things with passion and have fun. This, I believe, is the way to happiness in life.
*Original song title in Korean: “솔아 솔아 푸르른 솔아”; original song lyrics in Korean: “민중의 넋이 주인되는 참 세상 자유 위하여; 시퍼렇게 쑥물 들어도 강물 저어 가리라”
**5.18, 6.10, 4.19, and 3.1 refer to particular dates: May 18, June 10, April 19, and March 1; the dates are written as such to follow the original titles in Korean.
***The word “resistance song” is a direct translation of the original word “저항가요” in Korean
****Sun-bae, hoo-bae are Korean terms referring to upperclassman and lowerclassman respectively
*****Dae-dong-jae: A schoolwide festival held in May to pay respect to the students who lost their lives during the process of democratization; the tradition of dae-dong-jae still continues nowadays.
******Jin-dal-lae: A Korean term that refers to azalea
*******Original band name in Korean: “노래를 찾는 사람들”
********Original song title in Korean: “100년의 함성”
*********Original song title in Korean: “내가 만일”
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Found 5 collections related to Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916)
Maverick family
Maverick family papers, 1780-1985
2.75 linear feet (7 boxes)
The Maverick Family Papers are comprised of correspondence of the Maverick Family of Texas, descendants of Samuel Augustus Maverick, and several related families. Letters received by Mary Vance Maverick constitute the majority of the... more
The Maverick Family Papers are comprised of correspondence of the Maverick Family of Texas, descendants of Samuel Augustus Maverick, and several related families. Letters received by Mary Vance Maverick constitute the majority of the correspondence. Mrs. Maverick, a writer, was the wife of George Madison Maverick and mother of the peace activist and world government proponent Lola Maverick Lloyd. Also included are genealogical materials, and a small number of photographs. less
Leckie, Katherine, -1930
Katherine Leckie papers, 1914-1925
Katherine Leckie was a suffragist and journalist who founded a feminist editorial consulting and lecture bureau in New York City. She was press and booking agent to Rosika Schwimmer for her 1914-1915 United States lecture tour, and worked as press... more
Katherine Leckie was a suffragist and journalist who founded a feminist editorial consulting and lecture bureau in New York City. She was press and booking agent to Rosika Schwimmer for her 1914-1915 United States lecture tour, and worked as press manager for the Henry Ford Peace Expedition of 1915. Her papers consist of her business correspondence and subject files related to the Ford Peace Expedition, the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, and the International Congress of Women at The Hague. Materials in the subject files consist of printed matter, resolutions, and a small amount of financial material. less
Wynner, Edith
Edith Wynner papers, circa 1890-1999 [bulk 1947-1990]
76.92 linear feet (176 boxes)
Edith Wynner (1915-2003) was a writer, speaker, and activist for world government, peace, and feminism throughout the 20th century. The Edith Wynner papers document her work as secretary to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, lecturer and author on world... more
Edith Wynner (1915-2003) was a writer, speaker, and activist for world government, peace, and feminism throughout the 20th century. The Edith Wynner papers document her work as secretary to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, lecturer and author on world government, and biographer of Rosika Schwimmer. less
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948
Rosika Schwimmer papers, 1890-1983 [bulk 1904-1948]
160 linear feet (592 boxes)
Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born writer and political activist who spent her life working for the causes of feminism, pacifism, and world government. She was the mastermind of the 1915 Ford Peace Expedition, and in 1937 co-founded... more
Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born writer and political activist who spent her life working for the causes of feminism, pacifism, and world government. She was the mastermind of the 1915 Ford Peace Expedition, and in 1937 co-founded the political lobbying organization Campaign for World Government. Her papers include correspondence, professional writings and speeches, organizational and financial records, miscellaneous personal items, printed matter, artifacts, and photographs. less
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944
Lola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949
35 linear feet; 88 boxes
Lola Maverick Lloyd was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains personal and professional materials documenting her life... more
Lola Maverick Lloyd was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains personal and professional materials documenting her life and participation in the Ford Peace Expedition of 1915-1916, and her 1937 co-founding of the Campaign for World Government. less
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Home Subject Areas Latest TOGAF® 9 Articles TOGAF – A Lingua Franca For Enterprise Architecture?
TOGAF – A Lingua Franca For Enterprise Architecture?
By Roger Evernden -
One of the major selling points for TOGAF is that it provides a standardized, common foundation for the discipline of Enterprise Architecture.
In other words, everything in TOGAF – the ideas and concepts, methods and process, techniques and guidelines, metamodel and reference models – defines the lingua franca for EA.
Speaking the Right Language
A lingua franca is the language, adopted as common, between speakers whose native languages are different. (Historically lingua franca was a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish that was used in the eastern Mediterranean.) So my question in this blog is: how useful is TOGAF as an Esperanto go-between language for enterprise architects from different backgrounds?
This subject came up recently when I advised a client about recruiting experienced architects. How varied are the backgrounds of EA professionals? And to what extent do architects speak different languages?
Well even the phrase “enterprise architecture” is open to interpretation. As a personal anecdote, this year is my 30th year as an enterprise architect, and throughout these three decades the phrase “enterprise architecture” continues to have different meanings! When I started as an architect the discipline was known as Information Architecture – but not with the same meaning as today!
You’re an Enterprise What?
The phrase was coined by Richard Saul Wurman in 1976 as a response to the growing volumes contemporary information. He argued that we needed a systemic way of managing the fourth resource of information, and saw an analogy with the use of architecture in buildings. It was much later that information architecture gained its more narrow focus, associated with the Internet.
Then EA became known as Information Systems Architecture – a phrase popularized by the publication of John Zachman’s Systems Journal article on the subject, which later became known as the Zachman Framework. Gradually EA evolved to cover more than just its IT origins – expanding to include business and organization. And EA’s scope has expanded now beyond the enterprise boundary to include its environmental and social context.
So it is really not too surprising that EA professionals have very varied backgrounds. This is where TOGAF steps in, by attempting to provide a common foundation for the discipline.
Early versions of TOGAF were focused on information technology, but gradually came to include a stronger business orientation. This is evident in the four TOGAF domains – starting with Business, followed by Data and Application, and ending with Technology – and in the sequence of the ADM which starts from business requirements, architecture vision and business architecture.
Overcoming the Linguistic Barrier
Even within TOGAF, the nature of each of the domains means a difference in subject matter and techniques, which can create linguistic barriers. I had to address this issue recently with a client where the word “application” had several meanings; for business people an “application” was often the complete suite of software that supported their needs; in operations application and system were interchangeable terms; and even within development an application could mean standalone software or a module.
But this was the tip of the iceberg… On one project we found that the same architectural components were referred to variously as a transaction, process, procedure, activity, service or function. Executives, business analysts, product managers, business managers, policy makers, application architects, and process modellers had their own label or different meanings. A further complication is that there are frequently overlaps between the labels and meaning!
Fortunately TOGAF has several resources that can help to solve this jumble, although there are limitations. The language throughout the TOGAF documentation is pretty consistent – one of the reasons for interim releases such as 9.1 is actually to correct any minor deviations in language. The four domains go a step further by providing consistent ways to segment the architecture; this segmentation is based partly on the different subject matter, concepts, and architecture components (and therefore language) in each domain.
The metamodel attempts a standard taxonomy, but this is where providing a lingua franca becomes tricky – providing a single metamodel construct to cover every stakeholder perspective only works for very simple concepts.
So here’s the rub. TOGAF is about as good as it gets as a common Esperanto for EA. Everything described in TOGAF uses a consistent language – and that helps enormously. But as architects we need to be aware that we can’t force a common language on stakeholders.
There will always be differences in meaning. And this point is sometimes overlooked when practicing EA: ultimately we need to talk to stakeholders in their own language, while simultaneously translating into TOGAF-ese. Beware of only speaking TOGAF!
Roger Evernden
http://www.evernden.net/
Roger has been working as an Enterprise Architect since 1984, and over the years has been in involved in some of the most advanced, innovative and challenging Enterprise Architecture projects. He has extensive experience in applying all of the key EA approaches, including Zachman, TOGAF and Information FrameWork (IFW) and has been involved in establishing and embedding Enterprise Architecture Programmes that delivered strategic business results in organisations all around the world. Roger now works as a trainer, mentor and coach, specialising in developing individual and organisational capability in using Enterprise Architecture techniques and tools.
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1 Book review: Chris Anderson, Makers – what I learned and what I already knew
Italians are looking forward to the release of the translated version of Makers by Chris Anderson on January 9, 2013. We here at MakeTank of course already had a copy of the book in English, and this is a good opportunity to provide a short book review.
The book starts with an autobiographical introduction in which we meet Chris Anderson in his grandpa's garage, turning pieces of metal into high precision components; then we move on to a panorama of the Maker and DIY movement in North Amerca. The rest of the book is based on the author's firsthand experiences in the use of these new technologies for design and manufacturing, as well as case studies like Tesla (the super electric car) or Local Motors where you can build your own personalized car (with a head mechanic to support you). Then there's the story of 3D Robotics, the remote-controlled drone company founded by Anderson and the then-19-year-old Mexican Jordi Munoz. The book is completed by a useful appendix of the main personal fabrication techniques. All in all a pleasant book both from a technical and from a narrative point of view.
Here are some points that I found most interesting as I read along, as well as the confirmation of a few things I already knew.
Manchester: from the first to the third industrial revolution
19th-century Manchester was the locus of the first industrial revolution, while now it is becoming the epicenter of what many are calling the third industrial revolution. Much of this appears to be happening around Fablab Manchester, where students and simply curious Maker-types hang out, although Anderson does note that so far it hasn't produced any startups. This does appear, though, to be a first step in a massive change in British manufacturing approaches.
Building business with Lego Mindstorm
3D Robotics is mainly based on Arduino, but I didn't know that their first remote-controlled flying machine was a mashup using a Lego Mindstorm controller and a few sensors and a model that showed up at Wired's editorial office (I guess it helps to be director of this magazine). If the company now has nearly 3 million dollars in sales each year, some credit goes to an item that many think is just a game.
Good, open pirates
When someone says "China," the first things that come to mine are low quality, the risk of being copied, and thus, how to protect one's intellectual property. Anderson proves us wrong with a story told in Chapter 9: Hazy, a PhD student at the University of Peking, becomes the point person for the ArduPilog Mega open source project and provides a big improvement to its software. Actually, he first cloned the project and put it up for sale on eBay, but Anderson's open approach transformed the potential pirate into contributor in a community of developers.
Kuka Arms
I had never heard of Kuka's robotic arms before, but if they can do even only half the things that the author says and permit one to build a Tesla, I want one (but only if it will also make me a coffee with my Bialetti).
Tijuana: high tech, low cost
To find this point you're going to have to geek out and read note number 35 (in the English version, we assume the notes will be transposed into Italian with the same numbers). Tijuana, in Mexico, has become an important entry point into the Californian tech business ("the California tech corridor"), providing highly educated young people who are ready to jump into the game - just like Jordi, now CEO of 3D Robotics.
DIYBio
We all know that MIT is ahead of the game (after all, if we use the term Fablab today, it's thanks to Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Department of Atoms and Bits) but apparently they're playing with blocks of DNA to make "programmable material"... not sure what to think of that. All this fits into a subsection of the Makers movement, called DIYBio(logy), in which people are making low cost, open lab machines that can have an important impact on the improvement of the diagnostic sector in the developing world. Like the DremelFuge,a 10 dollar lab centrifuge which spins test tubes with a 3D printed head mounted on a (Dremel brand) electric drill.
And now for what I already knew
It's nice to read success stories in this book that share our idea of a business based on a community, on technology, and on alternative financing like Crowdfunding.
Stories like this provide models on which we can base ourselves - in fact, we at MakeTank think we're pretty much already in the right place. In these first months of our life, we've met many Italian makers, we've helped define a Fablab in Florence, and we're about to launch the final element of the project - a marketplace that will allow Makers to open up to the international market. Along the way, we're learning a lot, and we're ready to learn even more.
Oh yeah: and Chris Anderson is a really big geek. This book is confirmation.
Want to buy the book at Amazon.com?
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PAR Author Adele Gottfried Recipient of WPA Social Responsibility Award
PAR author Adele Eskeles Gottfried, professor of educational psychology and counseling at the California State University at Northridge, is being honored by the Western Psychological Association (WPA) at their convention next month in Los Angeles. Dr. Gottfried, creator of the Children’s Academic Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI), has been named recipient of the WPA’s 2011 Social Responsibility Award based on her research in the field of intrinsic motivation that has contributed to enhancing knowledge about children’s motivational development and educational attainment. In recognition of her award, she has received a special invitation to present at the convention; her talk will be entitled, “Searching for Motivation from Childhood through Adulthood: Findings and Implications.” Dr. Gottfried will also present her research on intrinsic motivation at the 2011 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting next week in Montreal. This presentation will be entitled, “Developmental Motivation Roots and the Need for Cognition: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study.”
Dr. Gottfried developed the Children’s Academic Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI) as a tool to help differentiate motivation from achievement and ability factors in students with academic difficulties. The CAIMI is also useful for counseling students in the general population with regard to academic interests and course selection, in instructional planning to stimulate motivation in weak areas and facilitate intrinsic motivation in strong areas, in providing individualized program planning, and in program and educational evaluation by schools and school districts. In addition, the CAIMI is the basis for the construct of gifted motivation, which addresses the concept that individuals with exceptionally high intrinsic motivation have a history of higher academic competence and functioning. Through the years, the evidence for the validity and stability of the CAIMI has continued to mount. Dr. Gottfried currently has both a book chapter and a journal article in press that extend the CAIMI to leadership literature.
To learn more about Dr. Gottfried’s research, click here for her intrinsic motivation bibliography.
Congratulations to Dr. Gottfried on this honor!
Adele, authors, CAIMI, counseling, Gottfried, Psychology, Society for Research in Child Development, SRCD, Western Psychological Association, WPA
CAIMI Author Adele Eskeles Gottfried to Present at APA
Adele Eskeles Gottfried, PhD, author of the Children’s Academic Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI), will be presenting a paper at the 2014 APA Annual Conference in Washington, DC this week. Entitled, “From Parental Stimulation of Children’s Curiosity to Science Motivation and Achievement,” Gottfried’s longitudinal research shows that when parents encourage their young children’s curiosity, those children have higher academic intrinsic motivation in science subjects and higher science achievement across childhood through adolescence. Overall, the importance of academic intrinsic motivation for children’s subsequent academic competence is demonstrated. This study is part of Gottfried’s ongoing research on longitudinal aspects of parental stimulation’s role in children’s academic intrinsic motivation, and it highlights the importance of the CAIMI in being able to delineate these findings. Gottfried’s presentation will be part of the “Role of Others in Promoting Students’ Motivation, Learning, and Well-Being” session on Sunday, August 10, at 1:00 p.m. in Convention Center Room 115. Please confirm dates and times in your convention program when you get to APA—and be sure to stop by the PAR booth (#438) as well!
PAR Author Richard Rogers Honored with UNT Eminent Faculty Award
The University of North Texas (UNT) has awarded Richard Rogers, PhD, ABPP, with the UNT Foundation Eminent Faculty Award for his work concerning Miranda rights and their use. The award is given annually to a member of the UNT faculty who has made an outstanding scholarly contribution and whose work has greatly inspired the university and community. It is one of the highest honors given by UNT. Dr. Rogers’ research into Miranda warnings and defendants’ understanding of their rights has prompted the American Bar Association to call for more simple and straightforward Miranda language for juveniles. Dr. Rogers is the author of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms, 2nd Ed. (SIRS-2), the Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial™–Revised (ECST™-R), the Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS), and the Standardized Assessment of Miranda Abilities™ (SAMA™). PAR would like to extend our congratulations on this honor to Dr. Rogers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peMM1SStHqE
APA division names award for PAR founder Bob Smith
PAR is proud to announce that our Executive Chairman and Founder, R. Bob Smith III, PhD, has been honored by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP), a division of the American Psychological Association (APA). SCCAP has named a new award after Dr. Smith to recognize his efforts in supporting and producing evidence-based psychological assessment measures and procedures. In a further honor, the award will be presented annually at the APA national convention, beginning at this year’s convention, Aug. 8–11 in Chicago. The Bob Smith III, PhD Psychological Assessment Award will be given each year to an individual, a group, or an organization that has advanced the field of scientific assessment in individual psychological functioning, mental health, learning, or social and intellectual development. Another unique feature of this award is that recipients will have the opportunity to present a workshop at the APA national convention designed to instruct practitioners in the use of a cutting-edge psychological assessment product or procedure, or on a topic clinically relevant to psychological assessment. To ensure the award will continue in perpetuity, SCCAP, ...
Social/Emotional Evaluations: Unraveling the ED/SM Dilemma Part 2
Last week, we presented the first part of a two-part series on unraveling the ED/SM dilemma. This week, we talk to the experts on how to use various assessments to evaluate emotional disturbance and social maladjustment. Catch up on last week's blog here. School staff members often have difficulties when it comes to assessing a student who may have emotional disturbance (ED), and getting hard data to back up the decision can be just as difficult. PAR spoke with experts in the field about the use of various instruments that have proven to be useful in gathering the hard data needed in order to make an informed decision about ED eligibility. Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, Second Edition (BRIEF2) Peter K. Isquith, PhD, is a practicing developmental school neuropsychologist and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He’s the coauthor of the BRIEF2, the new BRIEF2 Interpretive Guide, and the Tasks of Executive Control (TEC). PAR: Why would it be helpful to include a measure of executive functioning in the assessment of a student being evaluated for an ED eligibility? PI: In general, ...
Learn from PAR Authors at NCDA!
PAR staff and authors are on the way to Chicago for this year’s conference. If you are in Chicago for NCDA, make sure to stop by the booth and say hi! Several PAR authors will be presenting on career-related topics. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from them! Integrating CIP and RIASEC Theories in Career Interventions and Services Wednesday, June 29, 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Janet Lenz, PhD & Bob Reardon, PhD, authors of Handbook for Using the Self-Directed Search®: Integrating RIASEC and CIP Theories in Practice Exploring the Gender Gap in STEM: The Impact of Women's Ratings of Mathematical and Scientific Self-Concept on Aspirations Friday, July 1, 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Melissa Messer, MHS, co-author of the Self-Directed Search® (SDS®) Form R, 5th Edition Examining the Differences in Interest, Skills, and Abilities Across the Workforce Friday, July 1, 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Melissa Messer, MHS, co-author of the Self-Directed Search® (SDS®) Form R, 5th Edition Using an Interactive Career Counseling Tool to Engage Clients Friday, July 1, 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Jennifer Greene, MSPH, co-author of The Veterans and Military Occupations Finder™ The Relationship Between ...
PAR Receives United Way’s “Spirit of Tampa Bay” Award
This month, PAR was honored to be named as a recipient of the “Spirit of Tampa Bay” award from United Way’s Suncoast Chapter. United Way explains that the award is their way of recognizing companies that go “above and beyond” in organizing and energizing fundraising, volunteerism, and community engagement at their workplaces. Cathy Smith, PAR’s Vice President of Community Relations, was thrilled to accept the award at a special half-time ceremony during a recent Tampa Bay Lightning game. For this honor, however, she credits PAR employees for their commitment and enthusiasm for helping others. “From our beginning more than 35 years ago, PAR’s mission has included giving back to the community,” Cathy explains. Helping children and families in Tampa Bay is a special priority, and PAR employees have participated in a wide range of United Way Suncoast programs that support literacy, mental health, nutrition, and much more. “Staff participation was always strong,” says Cathy, “but about 15 years ago, we reached the milestone of 100% employee participation—and we’ve maintained that every year since.” Each year, a large contingent from PAR participates in ...
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Slumdog Snags Directors Guild Award
Chris Pizzello / AP Photo
Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle won the Best Director award from the Directors Guild of America, improving his chance of claiming the same prize at the Academy Awards on February 22, The Telegraph reports. It's an amazing feat for a film that almost didn't make it into theaters. Originally, Warner Independent was supposed to release the movie, but then Warner Brothers shut down the unit, leaving the film's fate in limbo. For a time, Slumdog was poised to go straight to DVD, but eventually Fox Searchlight picked it up. Backstage, Boyle gushed over the Coen brothers, winners last year for No Country for Old Men, who presented his prize. "To step into the shoes of people like the Coen brothers, I mean, it's phenomenal because I have, as I admitted in the earlier speach, I've stolen from them all my career."
Read it at The Sunday Telegraph
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Bullying Harms Not Only Victims But Bullies Too
By Breanna Draxler | February 22, 2013 10:47 am
Image courtesy of TOMO/Shutterstock
Researchers at Duke have spent the last two decades studying bullying and they say that it seriously affects mental health in childhood and adulthood, for the bully as well as the victim.
The researchers interviewed some 1,420 kids in North Carolina during their adolescent years, starting at age 9, 11, or 13. About a quarter of the kids said they had been bullied, and a tenth admitted to bullying others. Half as many, a total of 86 kids, reported having played the roles of both victim and aggressor.
Researchers did follow-up interviews with the adolescents over the subsequent twenty years. They found that the bullies and the victims suffered from more depression, anxiety and panic disorders later in life when compared to the control group (those who said they were never bullied or bullies themselves).
Among those who were both childhood bullies and victims of bullying, for example, 25 percent reported thoughts of or attempts at suicide, compared to six percent of participants in the control group. Likewise, panic disorders were reported by 38 percent of bullies and victims as opposed to less than five percent of those without bullying.
For the participants who were uniquely bullies as youths, this behavior of manipulating, exploiting or violating others sometimes continued into adulthood. More than nine percent of bullies reported antisocial personality disorders such as sociopathy in their later years. Such disorders, which often result in criminality, were reported in only two percent of the control group. This is consistent with the findings of a 2011 study that found that the act of bullying, as opposed to a delinquent personality alone, upped one’s risk of committing crimes later in life.
These lasting psychiatric effects of childhood bullying were true even after accounting for factors such as poverty or a dysfunctional home life, according to the results published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. The study was not the first study of its kind, but it was the first to show a direct link between bullying and an increased risk of longterm psychiatric disorders, especially in such a large sample size.
For a sense of the emotional damage of bullying in images rather than numbers, watch this incredible, animated video based on a spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan.
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Wire Stories > Corporate Knights > National Magazine Awards Found... > You Are Here
National Magazine Awards Foundation names Corporate Knights “Magazine of the Year” at gala ceremony in Toronto
Monday, June 10th 2013 11:11:22am
(Toronto, June 10, 2013) Corporate Knights Inc., the company for clean capitalism, proudly announces that its quarterly business and society magazine Corporate Knights was named Canada’s “Magazine of the Year” at the 2013 National Magazine Awards, held June 7 at The Carlu in Toronto.
The mandate of Corporate Knights, which in Canada is distributed through the Globe and Mail, is to shine a light on sustainable businesses and government practices with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, top-notch feature writing and original research. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Toronto, the magazine has a decade-long track record of delivering informed and objective content to business professionals, consumers, investors and decision makers looking to humanize the marketplace.
Its vision statement makes this clear: “Information empowering markets to foster a better world.”
The coveted “Magazine of the Year” award recognizes Corporate Knights’ many achievements in 2012, including a major redesign and an injection of talented new freelancers, among them award-winning journalists George Monbiot and Canada’s own Chris Turner. Likewise, senior art director Jack Dylan has turned the magazine into a venue for top industry illustrators.
“Corporate Knights was arguably reborn in 2012,” said editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton, hired in late 2011 to engineer the new direction. “We improved the look and feel and raised the bar on writing talent. We also expanded into the U.S. market through a unique distribution agreement with the Washington Post and launched a digital version of the magazine that gives us global reach, with more to come in 2013.”
Corporate Knights also walked the talk in 2012, becoming the first print business magazine to earn a B Corp. certification, adhering it to the same environmental and social standards it advocates. “On behalf of all our staff, I’d like to thank the National Magazine Awards Foundation for honouring our accomplishments,” Hamilton added. “It’s a milestone, in our view, that a small magazine focused on making capitalism more environmentally and socially responsible is placed in the same group as past winners like The Walrus, Toronto Life, and Canadian Geographic.”
A component of Corporate Knights’ success has been its much-anticipated annual rankings, which measure the sustainability performance of corporations, cities, provinces, countries, investment funds and universities. These include the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World and Canada’s own Best 50 Corporate Citizens list.
Co-founder and Publisher Toby Heaps said “we have been challenging Canadians to think about corporations in new ways for over a decade, coining the term “clean capitalism”, and over the next decade we will build from our best-in-class magazine to take this message global and digital in a big way.”
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Four cups of coffee is the perfect amount
A new study, which appeared recently in PLOS Biology, shows that a physiologically-relevant dose of caffeine protects cardiovascular cells from damage. That dosage amount? Approximately four cups.
Caffeine has long been associated with a reduced risk of Type 2 Diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. However, the link to these diseases was yet to be discovered. According to researchers Judith Haendeler and Joachim Altschmied, a mitochondrial protein, p27, may be the culprit. The protein is known to protect heart muscles from cell death, helping to repair the muscles after a heart attack. This research overturns the assumption that the elderly should avoid caffeine. This and over 100 studies have shown the beneficial aspects of coffee consumption in decreasing the risk of breast, colorectal, colon, endometrial, and prostate cancers.
Another recent study, this time conducted by NIH, showed that coffee consumption is related to a lower risk of all-cause mortality. The sample group included over 400,000 Americans aged 50 to 71. Another multinational study of over 500,000 Europeans confirmed the finding.
Coffee, however, should not be seen as a cure-all. Drinking four cups of coffee every day—the magical number—is not enough to give an individual’s sedentary lifestyle a pass. Regular exercise and a good diet still matter and may indeed be intervening variables in some of these studies. However, the shown statistical significance proves coffee’s ability to improve overall health. If you find yourself needing that fourth cup of coffee to make it to the end of your work day, go ahead and reach for it.
Read the original article at BigThink.
According to former Starbucks CEO, climate change threatens your cup of coffee
In an interview with Time magazine, form Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz warned that climate change ranks among the company’s biggest challenges. Rising temperatures and lengthy droughts have made it tougher and more expensive to grow the coffee beans the chain needs to remain active. He said that climate change is going to play a bigger role in affecting the quality and integrity of coffee worldwide—not just at Starbucks locations.
At the time of the interview, Schultz was visiting a Starbucks farm in Costa Rica. This particular farm grows and roasts Arabica coffee, but it also serves as an essential research center for the company. It allows Starbucks to study the impact of climate change on growing coffee. Though the research center was built specifically for Starbucks, Schultz wants to share the implications of their data with the world. He says that if the information is not widely spread, there will be “tremendous adverse pressure on the coffee industry.”
The risks climate change poses to coffee are not new. In 2016, a report from Australia-based Climate Institute said the total growing area for coffee worldwide would be cut in half by 2050. A 2017 study published by “Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences” said the decline in areas could drop even further. It found that certain regions in Latin America could decline by as much as 88 percent by 2050.
Schultz himself, though no longer the CEO of Starbucks, holds the honorary title of chairman emeritus. This designation adds more weight to his statements; no longer the chairman or CEO, he has no responsibility to the company. His words should not be taken lightly by coffee companies and consumers.
Read the original article at USA Today.
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Big Waves
August 5, 2018 Big Waves, SurfingBy Confessions of a Surfer Girl
On January 18, 2018, renowned Brazilian big wave surfer Maya Gabeira charged the mountainous peaks of Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal. According to videographers, oceanographers and academics, her wave clocked in at 80 feet.
8-0, people.
Let’s take a moment to marinade on that number.
That’s eight stories tall…when the rest of us are shaking in our boots over 10 feet, multiply that by eight and that’s what Gabeira rode. The hard-charging waterwoman matched Garrett McNamara’s November 2017 record of 80-feet at the same break.
“Since 2013, I have been trying to bring the idea that we should have a women’s world record,” said Gabeira. “I started talking about it through emails with The Big Wave Awards, which, a couple years back, was bought out by the World Surf League. Since 2013, I have had very vague responses on it…nothing was clear at all.”
Aside from being one of the most decorated and pioneering females in the big wave arena, her 2018 wave was not Gabeira’s first record-breaker. In 2009, she broke the record for biggest wave ridden by a female at Dungeons in South Africa clocking a 46-foot ride, nearly half the size of her Nazare wave.
With her mind focused on riding the world’s biggest waves, Gabeira set her sights on Nazare’s massive size-holding capabilities, a wave that nearly ended the young charger’s life.
In 2013, Gabeira nearly drowned after wiping out and losing consciousness on a massive wave at Nazare.
“It almost ended my career with the complications I had with injuries and to come back and be able to surf, it was already my dream,” said Gabeira.
After five years of dedication, recovery and training coupled with her passion for big waves, Gabeira put pedal to the metal and caught a massive mountain of water–a wave large enough to put her in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Photo Courtesy of: Alex Laurel
Maya would go.
When Gabeira approached the Guiness Book of World Records, they referred her back to the WSL for certification.
But despite reaching out, the WSL gave very vague and inconsistent responses to Gabeira’s amazing accomplishment. Every few weeks, Gabeira followed up with the WSL and still no confirmation of any progress. Frustrated with the organization’s lack of support or responsiveness, Gabeira let them know her intentions and in August 2018, started her petition.
Although, the organization did at the last minute ask her to present at the annual Big Wave Awards this past April for the Men’s Big Wave Award of the Year. To add more salt to the wound, during the women’s division, none of her clips were displayed.
“I had to hold my tears, breathe and go back stage to then present the men’s division,” said Gabeira. “I was kind of really baffled because I flew all the way to LA to not see any of my waves [displayed], to be celebrating the winter and pretend I wasn’t participating in the winter. While all my [male] peers had all their waves they rode on the same day exposed and won awards and records.”
After multiple backstage apologies from the WSL’s director post-awards, Gabeira sat down with him where he reiterated the WSL’s interest and dedication to her accomplishment. But radio silence from the WSL soon followed…again.
“I just want this [record] to be established because I think it’s important for women–it’s always been to me, at least” said Gabeira. “When Garrett [McNamara] discovered Nazare, it’s always left such a big impression on me to be able to see somebody credited with “The biggest wave ever” and have a number on it. Being in a sport that’s very subjective, it was something that I got attached to. I just want to finish it off so the next person doesn’t have to make it all happen from the beginning. They can just have the category established, surf a bigger wave and break the record and BOOM–it’s registered.”
With the WSL’s recent leadership falling under CEO Sophie Goldschmidt, Gabeira was hoping this would propel the industry and open a new chapter for women in the sport. The WSL gave this response via email:
“We have a huge amount of respect for all our big wave surfers. We have been in active discussions with Guinness for some time on the topic of reviewing Maya’s incredible ride from Nazare earlier this year for submission, and look forward to continuing to celebrate men’s and women’s big wave surfing with an announcement soon.”
The WSL got back to me within hours with this response, however, when I asked them specifically why the process took as long as it did and why the WSL couldn’t give Maya a solid answer, I was told…(am I surprised?)–> all they could say was just that.
“I don’t know if it’s just a lack of professionalism or if it’s just a lack of care for an athlete,” said Gabeira. “It’s my job, it’s what I’ve done for many many years of my life and to not take that seriously, it’s extremely disrespectful and it really hurts.”
To no surprise, after Gabeira’s petition launched and the world became aware of what was going on behind the bro-curtains of the surf industry, the WSL now crowds her inbox. 🙂
Best of luck, Maya. We are rooting for you! <3
Check out Maya’s video:
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First African Baptist Welcomes Saving Lives Program
in Saving Lives
By Kirsten J. Barnes
In January the University of Alabama started Saving Lives, a faith-based partnership to increase health literacy and to support residents in rural and urban Alabama in attaining higher levels of health and wellness through the use of prudent health practices and scripture.
In addition to using theologically sound doctrine to support health care information and recommendations, the program helps area churches facilitate workshops on topics such as talking to your doctor, weight management, being familiar with and understanding medications, preventing and managing diabetes, and cooking healthy nutritional meals.
The Rev. Richard L. Morgan, pastor of First African Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, said he is pleased to offer the program to his congregation.
"It's great because it co-mingles what we try to do in our ministry," which Morgan calls "a holistic approach. We already had a wellness ministry going, but Saving Lives helps us to reinforce that part of the program. Because it's a scripture-based, it helps my parishioners take the word of God and apply it to their health issues."
First African Baptist pastor, the Rev. Richard L. Morgan, stands in the sanctuary of his church, which is one of three Tuscaloosa churches participating in a pilot faith-based health program.
The university purposely selected a scripture-based approach because of its compatibility with the existing religious and cultural norms of the state and nation. The initial pilot audience includes leaders and members in Tuscaloosa African American churches.
For Morgan's congregation of 500 people, he decided to use participation as a guide to measure the successfulness of the program. So far, his expectations have been met.
"Our goal was to get at least 50 participants each time. We've reached that goal," Morgan said. "We've gotten diversity in age and we've gotten some men and women. So, I'm pleased with what we've done. That shows how many people are really willing to get involved. Sometime with new ventures it's slow starting off, but this already seems to be building."
So far, First African has focused on reaching its members. However, Morgan said once they incorporate the information into its outreach ministry, his church will take the Saving Lives message to community centers and housing developments throughout the community.
"We're going to start to incorporate the program into our outreach ministry," said Morgan, adding that his congregation conducts monthly community outreach as an attempt to reach non-members.
This is exactly the kind of snowball effect that UA Vice President for Community Affairs Dr. Samory T. Pruitt hoped would occur when he envisioned the Saving Lives program.
"UA researchers and local pastors believe a combination of faith-based practices in collaboration with outreach and engagement scholarship strategies can contribute to an improvement in the overall health of Alabamians, reducing the risk of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, hearth disease, cancer and stroke," said Pruitt.
The program will attempt to shed light on health care challenges facing 62 million rural citizens in the United States and the 2 million Alabamians who are dealing with a variety of health care and health insurance problems.
Ms. Tera Glenn, of Alabama Cooperative Extensions, demonstrates a healthy recipe option for members of First African Baptist Church.
Already, Morgan sees how the information is assisting his congregation, especially those battling high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer, obesity and illnesses common to African Americans.
"Ministry should impact the life of the person. You've got to be able to reach the people where they are," Morgan said. "They want Christ, but they are dealing with other issues as well. Everyone does their six month or annual check-ups, but having this reinforcement every month helps."
The goal of the program is to reach as many churches and congregations as possible by providing them with a curriculum and the tools necessary to spread the word about health living.
"We want to empower faith-based leaders and congregational members to engage in activities that will enhance their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being," Pruitt said. "A second objective is for the University of Alabama to conduct research that will answer questions on the type of engagement strategies that can help eliminate health disparities among minorities, as well as rural and inner-city residents. A third objective is to implement strategies in rural communities to increase the overall health literacy of the program participants."
Christopher Spencer, director of Community Development for the Center for Community-Based Partnerships, hopes that by starting with First African Baptist, College Hill Baptist, and Plum Grove Baptist, UA will gain insight into how best to expand the program into additional congregations.
"Researchers will utilize the best practices from the first three churches to develop a strategic plan to include other ethnic, religious and geographic groups to include congregational members from synagogues, mosques and diverse faith-based organizations located in Alabama and across the nation," Spencer said.
Morgan believe the program has great potential for expansion, but thinks the program will work best for congregations led by forward-thinking ministers with outreach and teaching philosophies.
"Every ministry is different," Morgan said. "Some pastors may not see it as a need. For certain congregations it may not be a good fit, based on the pastor's guidance. But for those congregations that are more health conscious it will be an added tool, especially for those servant leaders who try to be role models. For them, this would be ideal."
"This program will give church leaders and university researchers an opportunity to complete the assessment on the pilot churches and to make any necessary adjustments prior to implementing the initiatives in rural communities," Pruitt said.
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Title: The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted
Author: Bonnie Fuller
ASIN: B008SLOJFU
From Publishers Weekly If you still don't know how she does it, Fuller can tell you: don't sweat the small stuff (forget about organizing the sock drawer!), don't expect to be perfect and don't feel guilty. Fuller is a high-powered magazine editor, wife and mother of four, and in the upbeat, peppy style of Helen Gurley Brown, one of her mentors, she explains how you can have it all and enjoy getting it. Fuller is a believer in the power of positive thinking: push yourself forward, she says, and behave in a self-confident manner in order to get the job you want. You can balance marriage, family and career, she says, if your marriage is based on mutual unconditional love. Fuller has had a few hard knocks along the way and describes how she coped with the serious illnesses of two of her daughters, and a career crisis when she was fired from Glamour and had to struggle for months before getting another job. Failure is not a permanent condition, this optimist advises, and her pragmatic approach to a "jam-packed, maxed-out" life should inspire other women trying to have it all. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review "Bonnie has the right attitude for an abundant life; she thinks big. Even better, she lives big. The Joys of Much Too Much is big on good advice, and my advice is to read it, study it, and learn." -- Donald J. Trump
"This book is a must-read for any woman trying to balance family, love, life. . . . Bonnie Fuller proves it can be done." -- Tommy Hilfiger
"I've always admired Bonnie's no-holds-barred approach to life. Her book is a great read for anyone who wants it all (it's true, you really can have it all). When one door closes, Bonnie will show you how to find that elusive back or side door." -- Bobbi Brown, CEO and founder, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
"For the woman who wants it all, Bonnie's book is a must-have!" -- Carmen Electra
"Bonnie's book is great. She understands the importance of excess." -- Isaac Mizrahi
"After reading The Joys of Much Too Much, you will understand why she's Bonnie Fuller, not Bonnie Lesser. She leads such a full, vibrant, generous, and inspiring life, and she knows how to be a 'star.' Lucky for us she has written a book so now we can all learn to shine!" -- Karen Duffy, author of Model Patient
"CliffsNotes from a mommy mogul. Fun, informative, and fast-paced." -- Cynthia Rowley
"Here's a great book that will help any reader want more and get more out of life." -- Barbara Corcoran, author of If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails
"Fuller is an editor who gave her competitors conniptions while pulling celebrities off their pedestals and redressing the out-of-whack balance between PR and the press. She's also a wife, mother, a loyal friend, and now an author. If I didn't like her, I'd have to kill her." -- Michael Gross, author of 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
"Bonnie Fuller masterfully exposes the dirty little secret of all the overworked, overburdened, over-achievers out there -- they actually enjoy it!" -- Gigi Levangie Grazer, author of Maneater and The Starter Wife
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Sun, 18 March 2018
DigiGods Episode 113: Enter the Badlands
DigiGods Podcast, 03/20/18 (MP3) — 35.67 MB
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Doctor Who: The Complete Peter Capaldi Years (Blu-ray)
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The Good Fight: Season One (DVD)
The Gospel Collection (DVD)
Hammer Double Feature - Maniac & Die Die My Darling (Blu-ray)
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Woodpeckers (DVD)
Direct download: 2018_-_03_20_DigiGods.m4a
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Suzanne Weiss Jan 1, 2011
Also in Theater
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Next to Normal, National Tour
Alice Ripley and Curt Hansen in “Next to Normal”
Photo by Craig Schwartz
Next to Normal, San Francisco (National Tour)
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Michael Greif
Curran Theatre, San Francisco
Jan. 26- Feb. 20, 2011
“Normal” and “ordinary” are relative concepts. But be assured there is nothing ordinary about “Next to Normal,” the 2010 Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical currently touring the country. Dealing with bipolar disorder is not such stuff as Broadway dreams are made on, but Tom Kitt’s powerhouse score and Brian Yorkey’s insightful book and lyrics, wedded to an ensemble cast that is next to perfection have made this one a winner. If rock music and mental illness scare you, by all means stay away. Otherwise, take the leap and have a theatrical experience that is way beyond the entertainment norm.
Diana (the incomparable Alice Ripley, who won the 2010 Best Actress Tony for this role) has suffered from bipolar disorder ever since the death of her infant son, some 18 years ago. Except he is still around in her delusions—her staunch supporter, her White Knight, the love of her life, keeping her emotionally distant from both her daughter (Emma Hunton) and loyal-but-enabling husband (Asa Somers). Natalie, the daughter, operates from a deep core of anger, going from the “good girl” who plays the piano and does all her homework to a club-hopping, pill-popping teen rebel in the course of the show. She longs for her mother to notice her, to come to her recitals and sports events, but she can’t compete with the absent brother who is always there. A budding romance with a fellow musician (Preston Sadleir) threatens to derail from the force of her unhappiness. Her song “Superboy and the Invisible Girl” powerfully outlines the dilemma.
The husband, Dan, is in denial. He never mentions Gabe, the son (wonderfully and seductively played by Curt Hansen). He pretends everything is all right and, for a while, Diana seems to go along with the game. Until, in a manic phase, she starts slapping pieces of bread on the floor to make sandwiches on a kind of assembly line. Then it’s off to the doctor once again. The pill-dispensing Dr. Fine is played by Jeremy Kushnier, as is the more sympathetic Dr. Madden, who works more intensively with Diana, first trying “talking” therapy, then hypnosis and then, in desperation, shock treatments.
Hard to see the humor in all this but, thanks to the book and the actors, it’s there. Recitation of lists of mood-altering drugs can be funny if delivered in a certain way. Diana, herself, keeps a caustic sense of humor about what is happening in her life. The show is not as bleak as its subject matter and, believe it or not, there are quite a few laughs. And some terrific songs. Kitt’s music runs the gamut from hard rock to a gentle waltz. It is totally wedded to the subject matter and moves the show along. The one flaw is that you can’t always understand all the words. And that’s too bad because the words are important. Nevertheless, you get the idea. And the ideas expressed in this show are moving and powerful. Love, grief, loyalty, anger, fear and regret—really all as normal as blueberry pie.
Suzanne Weiss San Francisco ,
Suzanne Weiss has been writing about the arts for the past 35 years. Formerly Arts Editor for the papers of Pioneer Press in the northern Chicago suburban area, her work also has appeared in Stagebill and Crain’s Chicago Business, among other publications. Since moving to the Bay Area she has reviewed theater, opera, dance and the occasional film for the San Mateo Times, “J” and is a regular contributor to culturevulture. She is the author of “Glencoe, Queen of Suburbs.”
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Featured Speakers Biographies
The information on this page is for Empower19 in Chicago, Illinois. Check back in September for information about the 2020 ASCD Empower Conference, which will be held March 13–16, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.
General Sessions Speakers | Featured Sessions Speakers | Keynote Luncheons Speakers
The following speakers are scheduled to appear at ASCD Empower19. The full list of speakers scheduled to appear at Empower19 is available in the conference mobile app.
General Sessions Speakers
Ron Clark
Ron Clark is known as "America's Educator." In 2000, he was named Disney's American Teacher of the Year. He is a New York Times best-selling author whose book The Essential 55 has sold more than 1 million copies and has been published in 25 different countries. He has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, and Oprah, and Ms. Winfrey even named him as her first "Phenomenal Man." His classes have been honored at the White House on three separate occasions. Clark's teaching experiences in New York City are the subject of the uplifting film The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry.
Saturday General Session: Teaching Through Adversity: Facing Challenges and Making a Difference
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker, and Pulitzer Prize–winning and best-selling author. Well known for her appearances and commentary on television, Goodwin is seen frequently on major television and cable networks and shows, including Meet the Press, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and many others. She was featured as herself on the FX horror anthology American Horror Story and on The Simpsons in the role of Lisa Simpson's teacher.
Sunday General Session: Presidential Leadership Lessons: A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ashton Kutcher is an actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He has been named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," as well as being honored by Vanity Fair magazine's New Establishment List, which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine's "World's Most Powerful Celebrities," as well as one of Fast Company magazine's "Most Creative People." Kutcher is also the cofounder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.wearethorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.
Monday General Session: Remarks by Ashton Kutcher
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Featured Sessions Speakers
Speakers will be listed as they become available.
Whitney Allgood
National School Climate Center, New York, NY
Whitney Allgood is the CEO of the National School Climate Center, the nation's leading school climate reform organization specializing in creating safer, more supportive and successful school communities. She has worked as a teacher, researcher, policy analyst and leadership executive in her twenty year career and has worked with K-16 schools, public education systems, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Human Development.
Special Feature: Trauma and Equity Panel
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2019
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Brook Bello
Brook Parker-Bello is the CEO and founder of More Too Life Inc. and Youthiasm and is an Open Doors Outreach Network provider. Bello is an international champion against human trafficking and sexual violence and is the author of several books, the LATN™ mentoring education, and the RJEDE® prevention curriculum. She holds a PhD and masters in pastoral clinical counseling and two honorary doctorates. Bello received the Lifetime Achievement Award from President Obama in 2016 and the Advocate of the Year Award from Attorney General Pam Bondi and Governor Rick Scott in 2017. In 2018, she was chosen as a Google Next Gen Policy Leader. For more information on Bello's curriculum, please visit http://sosuniversity.com.
Special Feature: Human Trafficking 101 for Educators
Brian Bolden
Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, Decatur, GA
Brian Bolden is an award-winning educator, author, and motivational speaker. He is the former principal of R.E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, where in 2013 he received international recognition as the result of how the school responded when an active shooter entered the school in and no one was injured.
Sherry Earle
Newtown Public Schools, Newtown, CT
For more than 30 years, Sherry Earle has taught in urban and suburban school systems in mainstream education, gifted education, and special education classes. Sherry has spent the last thirteen years as a teacher and administrator with the Newtown Public Schools. The district is home to Sandy Hook Elementary, which experienced a mass shooting in 2012. She has a Ph.D. in Gifted Education from Kent State University.
Sharif El-Mekki
Sharif El-Mekki is the proud principal of Mastery Charter Schools–Shoemaker Campus and has been working in schools for 25 years. He is the founder of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice, an organization that supports current and aspiring black male educators. He blogs at www.phillys7thward.org.
Special Feature: Passing the Torch: Supporting Youth as Partners in the Fight for Social Justice
Huda Essa
Huda Essa, the founder of Culture Links LLC, has had a positive influence on countless communities through her engaging and thought-provoking learning opportunities. Essa uses her extensive experience as a cultural competency consultant, former teacher, and English language development specialist to help organizations successfully meet their diversity and inclusion initiatives. She is a TEDx speaker and the author of the motivational children's book Teach Us Your Name, which focuses on empowering children to take pride in their many identities while showing respect for themselves and others. Essa continues to write culturally relevant children's books and produces a series of short films about matters of social justice.
Special Feature: Students' Names Are Students' Identities: Building Culturally Responsive Practices
N. Chaunté Garrett
N. Chaunté Garrett is chief academic officer at Rocky Mount Preparatory School in Rocky Mount, N. C., and an ASCD emerging leader. As a classroom teacher, building-level administrator, and chief academic officer, her priorities of her service remain educating the whole child, closing achievement gaps, and helping all students succeed.
Basil Marin
Basil Marin earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Eastern Mennonite University and a master of arts in teaching in special education from Liberty University. He earned the education specialist degree in educational leadership from Old Dominion University (ODU) in 2017 and recently matriculated into the PhD in educational leadership program at ODU. He is currently in his first year serving as an assistant principal at Churchland High School in the Portsmouth Public Schools division.
Special Feature: Reaching the Unreachable Student
Keynote Luncheons Speakers
Carlton Ashby
Carlton S. Ashby inspires "edu-carers" worldwide to capitalize on the "power in you" to make a difference in students' lives by focusing on the three keys to student success: relationships, relationships, relationships. Because of his passion for teaching, Ashby chose to remain in the classroom as an elementary school teacher for more than 40 years, and his outstanding approach to classroom teaching has earned him wide recognition, including Who's Who among America's Teachers and the National Honor Roll's Outstanding American Teachers. His philosophy is that all children can learn and that learning occurs when teachers believe in themselves, believe in children, and believe that they can make a difference in the lives they touch every day.
Keynote Luncheon: Taking Our Elementary Children from a Student Mindset to a Scholar Mindset
Bertice Berry
Sociologist Bertice Berry is a best-selling author and award-winning lecturer who has been named Comedian of the Year, Lecturer of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. She has published 11 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books and has won numerous awards and accolades for her writing and presentations. Berry has had her own nationally syndicated television show and has hosted; interviewed; and made numerous other television, documentary and radio appearances on a variety of diverse venues including The Tonight Show, Oprah, Between the Lions, Crossfire, 20-20, NPR, PBS, Comedy Central, and CBN.
Keynote Luncheon: Renew, Re-Energize, and Re-Engage
James Carville and Mary Matalin
James Carville is an unbowed liberal and Mary Matalin is a celebrated conservative voice, former assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Matalin and Carville are key players on the national political stage—they each have more than 30 years of experience in politics and have individually worked for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Matalin served as President George H. W. Bush's campaign manager in 1992, while her soon-to-be husband Carville was President Bill Clinton's campaign manager.
Now they share their political opinions and affiliations—which haven't merged, despite matrimony—with audiences everywhere and provide a stimulating, candid, and provocative analysis of today's hot-button political issues from both sides of the political aisle.
Keynote Luncheon: All's Fair: Love, War, and Politics
Mark Anthony Garrett
Mark Anthony Garrett is one of the most compelling motivational and self-development speakers of our time. He has inspired audiences throughout the world with his electrifying, high-energy speeches, seminars, trainings, and life-coaching sessions. A successful businessman and leader, Garrett is an international radio talk show host, education consultant, and author of Teachers are Heroes and S.E.R.V.I.C.E. Is Everything!!! Garrett has appeared on various radio shows and within numerous publications. He has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox affiliates, along with Forbes magazine. He was a featured guest on the Brian Tracy Show and is a leading columnist for Fostering Families Today magazine. Garrett's book and keynote address have placed him at the top of the list as a leading expert within the K–12 education industry. He has spoken for numerous school systems on topics such as teacher leadership, school climate, student achievement, service excellence, and maximizing human potential.
Keynote Luncheon: Teachers Are Heroes: Seven Success Principles for Transformational Teaching
Monique Morris
Monique W. Morris is an award-winning author and social justice scholar with nearly three decades of experience in the areas of education, civil rights, and juvenile and social justice. Morris is the author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016), Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2014), and Too Beautiful for Words (MWM Books, 2012). She has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and other publications on social justice issues and lectured widely on research, policies, and practices associated with improving juvenile justice, education, and socioeconomic conditions for Black girls and women and their families. Morris is the founder and president of the National Black Women's Justice Institute (NBWJI), an organization that works to interrupt school-to-confinement pathways for girls, reduce the barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated women, and increase the capacity of organizations working to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence in African American communities.
Keynote Luncheon: Education Is Freedom Work, and Other Important Reminders about the Demands of Justice
The most watched and discussed speaker in the history of the prestigious TED Conference, Sir Ken Robinson pushes people to rethink outdated assumptions about intelligence and creativity and unleash the real potential of people and organizations. A former professor of education, Robinson knows how the academic and organizational culture of education can stifle creativity and fundamentally disregard people's natural talents and passions. The resulting disengagement represents an enormous opportunity lost. Robinson urges leaders, managers, and educators to upend the status quo and launch a creative revolution to reap the rewards. He has authored numerous New York Times best-sellers. His latest book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education (Viking, 2015), written with Robinson's trademark wit and engaging style, tackles the vital issue of how to transform the world's troubled education systems.
Keynote Luncheon: Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up
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Ukraine this year its serial production launched the “Vilkha” missile system
The state tests of the “Vilkha” missile system were carried out today in the south of the Kherson region, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov informed.
According to Mr. Turchynov, all stages of the state tests were successful. “At each stage, various parameters of the tactical and technical characteristics of the missiles were checked for compliance, in particular, the precision of hitting the specified targets at the maximum and minimum ranges, the power and efficiency of destroying the target with the missile’s combat element, multiple destruction of long-distance targets, etc.”, – Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine said.
Mr. Turchynov noted that according to the decision of the State Commission, the missile system would be put on armament, and this year its serial production would be launched.
“This is a great joint success of Ukrainian scientists, designers, manufacturers, and military who managed to complete the most ambitious task within the shortest time possible”, – he said.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, military leaders, experts, and military attaches from 7 countries who expressed their interest in negotiating the acquisition of new, powerful Ukrainian weapons, were present at the tests. “Despite the great interest of our foreign partners, – Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine underscored, – the priority for us is to provide the missile systems to our Armed Forces”.
Also, Oleksandr Turchynov reported about the ongoing active work on the implementation of the national missile program, “among the priorities of which, in particular, is the creation of new powerful cruise and antiaircraft missiles for our army”.
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Federal Judge Rules: MERS Mortgage Transfers are Illegal
United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman has ruled that MERS’s business practices are unlawful. He explicitly acknowledged that this ruling sets a precedent that has far-reaching implications for half of the mortgages in this country. MERS is dead. The banks are in big trouble. And all foreclosures should be stopped immediately while the legislative branch comes up with a solution.
For some weeks I have been arguing that MERS is perpetrating foreclosure fraud all across the nation. Its business model makes it impossible to legally foreclose on any mortgaged property registered within its system — which includes half of the outstanding mortgages in the US. MERS was a fraud from day one, whose purpose was to evade property recording fees and to subvert five centuries of property law. Its chickens have come home to roost.
Wall Street wanted to transform America’s housing sector into the world’s biggest casino and needed to undermine property rights to make it easier to run the scam. The payoffs were bigger for lenders who could induce homeowners to take mortgages they could not possibly afford. The mortgages were packaged into securities sold-on to patsy investors who were defrauded by the “reps and warranties” falsely certifying the securities as backed by top grade loans. In fact the securities were not backed by mortgages, and in any case the mortgages were sure to go bad. Given that homeowners would default, the Wall Street banks that serviced the mortgages needed a foreclosure steamroller to quickly and cheaply throw families out of the homes so that they could be resold to serve as purported collateral for yet more gambling bets. MERS — the industry’s creation — stepped up to the plate to facilitate the fraud. The judge has ruled that its practices are illegal. MERS and the banks lose; investors and homeowners win.
Here’s MERS’s business model in brief. Real estate property sales and mortgages are supposed to be recorded in local recording offices, with fees paid. With the rise of securitization, each mortgage might be sold a dozen times before it came to rest as the collateral behind a mortgage backed security (MBS), and each of those sales would need to be recorded. MERS was created to bypass public recording; it would be listed in the county records as the “mortgagee of record” and the “nominee” of the holder of mortgage. Members of MERS could then transfer the mortgage from one to another without all the trouble of changing the local records, simply by (voluntarily) recording transactions on MERS’s registry.
A mortgage has two parts, the “note” and the “security” (not to be confused with the MBS) or “deed of trust” that is usually just called the “mortgage”. The idea behind MERS was that the “note” would be transferred from seller to purchaser, but the “mortgage” would be held by MERS. In fact, MERS recommended that the “note” be held by the mortgage servicer to facilitate foreclosures, but in practice it seems that the notes were often lost or destroyed (which is why all those Burger King Kids were hired to Robo-sign “lost note affidavits”).
At each transfer, the note and mortgage are supposed to be “assigned” to the new owner; MERS claimed that because it was the “mortgagee of record” and the “nominee” of both parties to every transaction, there was no need to assign the “mortgage” until foreclosure. And it argued that since the old adage is that the “mortgage follows the note” and that both parties intended to assign the notes (even if they did not get around to doing it), then the Bankruptcy Court should rule that the assignments did take place in some sort of “virtual reality” so that there is a clear chain of title that allows the servicers to foreclose.
The Judge rejected every aspect of MERS’s argument. The Court rejected the claim that MERS could be both holder of the mortgage as well as nominee of the “true” owner. It also found that “mortgagee of record” is a vague term that does not give one legal standing as mortgagee. Hence, at best, MERS is only a nominee. It rejected MERS’s claim that as nominee it can assign notes or mortgages — a nominee has limited rights and those most certainly do not include the right to transfer ownership unless there is specific written instruction to do so. In scarcely veiled anger, the Judge wrote:
“According to MERS, the principal/agent relationship among itself and its members is created by the MERS rules of membership and terms and conditions, as well as the Mortgage itself. However, none of the documents expressly creates an agency relationship or even mentions the word “agency.” MERS would have this Court cobble together the documents and draw inferences from the words contained in those documents.”
Judge Grossman rejected MERS’s arguments, saying that mere membership in MERS does not provide “agency” rights to MERS, and agreeing with the Supreme Court of Kansas that ruled “The parties appear to have defined the word [nominee] in much the same way that the blind men of Indian legend described an elephant — their description depended on which part they were touching at any given time.”
He went on to disparage MERS’s claim that since in legal theory the “mortgage follows the note”, the Court should overlook the fact that MERS separated them. He stopped just short of saying that by separating them, MERS has irretrievably destroyed the clear chain of title, although he hinted that a future ruling could come to that conclusion:
“MERS argues that notes and mortgages processed through the MERS System are never “separated” because beneficial ownership of the notes and mortgages are always held by the same entity. The Court will not address that issue in this Decision, but leaves open the issue as to whether mortgages processed through the MERS system are properly perfected and valid liens. See Carpenter v. Longan, 83 U.S. at 274 (finding that an assignment of the mortgage without the note is a nullity); Landmark Nat’l Bank v. Kesler, 216 P.3d 158, 166-67 (Kan. 2009) (“[I]n the event that a mortgage loan somehow separates interests of the note and the deed of trust, with the deed of trust lying with some independent entity, the mortgage may become unenforceable”).”
That would mean not only the end of MERS, but also the end of the banks holding unenforceable mortgages because they were not, and cannot be, “perfected”. MERS and the banks screwed up big time, and there is no “do over” — there is no valid lien on the property, so owners have got their homes free and clear.
There have been numerous court rulings against MERS — including decisions made by state supreme courts. What is significant about the US Bankruptcy Court of New York’s ruling is that the judge specifically set out to examine the legality of MERS’s business model. As the judge argued in the decision, “The Court believes this analysis is necessary for the precedential effect it will have on other cases pending before this Court”. In the scathing opinion, Judge Grossman variously labeled MERS’s positions as “stunningly inconsistent” with the facts, “absurd, at best”, and “not supported by the law”. The ruling is a complete repudiation of every argument MERS has made about the legality of its procedures.
What is particularly ironic is that MERS actually forced the judge to undertake the examination of its business model. The case before the judge involved a foreclosed homeowner who had already lost in state court. The homeowner then approached the US Bankruptcy Court to argue that the foreclosing bank did not have legal standing because of MERS’s business practices. However, by the “Rooker-Feldman” doctrine (or res judicata), the US Bankruptcy Court is prohibited from “looking behind” the state court’s decision to determine the issue of legal standing. Hence, Judge Grossman ruled in the bank’s favor on that particular issue.
Yet, MERS’s high priced lawyers wanted to push the issue and asked for the Judge to rule in favor of MERS’s practices, too. So while MERS won the little battle over one foreclosed home, it lost the war against the nation’s homeowners. The Judge ruled against MERS on every single issue of importance. And it was MERS’s stupid arrogance that brought it down.
As I predicted two weeks ago, MERS would be dead within weeks. Judge Grossman has driven the final stake through its black heart. The half of America’s homeowners whose mortgages are registered at MERS have been handed a “get out of jail free” card. Wall Street has no right to foreclose on their property. The tide has turned. It won’t be easy, but homeowners in those states with judicial foreclosures now have Judge Grossman on their side. Those in the other states (just over half) will have a tougher time because they can lose their home before they ever get to court. But the law is still on their side — foreclosure by members of MERS is theft — so class action lawsuits may be the way to go.
MERS is dead, but can the banks survive? There are two separate issues. First, there are the “reps and warranties” given by the mortgage securitizers (Wall Street investment banks) to the investors (pension funds, GSEs, PIMCO, and so on). We now know that a quarter to a third of the mortgages bundled to serve as backing for the securities did not meet stated quality. Worse, we also know that the banks knew this — they hired third parties to undertake “due diligence” to check quality. This was not done to protect the investors, rather, the purpose was to strengthen the bargaining position of the securitizers, who were able to reduce the prices paid for the mortgages. Now, the investors are suing the banks for restitution–forcing them to cover the losses and buy-back the bad mortgages at original price. To add insult to injury, even the NYFed is suing them. That is a lot like having your parents sue you for their inadequate parental oversight of your behavior.
The second issue is that the mortgages backing the securities were supposed to be placed in Trusts (affiliates of the securitizing banks), with the Trustee certifying not only that the mortgages met the reps and warranties but also that the documents were up to snuff and safely locked away. We know they were not. As mentioned above, MERS told the servicers to hold the notes, and many or most of them were destroyed or lost. Further, the notes were separated from the mortgages — making them null and void. In any case, they are not at the Trusts. This means the MBSs are not backed by mortgages, meaning the MBSs are unsecured debt. MERS’s business model ensures that. So, again, the banks must take back the fraudulent securities — paying off the investors.
What can Wall Street do? Well, I suppose the “help wanted” signs are already up at MERS and Wall Street banks: “Needed: Burger King Kids to Robo-sign forged quasi-professional-looking docs”. The problem is that even with tens of thousands of Robo-Kids, Wall Street will not be able to pull off a vast criminal conspiracy on the necessary scale. Think about it: 60 million mortgages, each sold ten times, means 600 million transactions and assignments that have to be forged. MERS’s documentation was notoriously sloppy, relying on voluntary recording by members. The Robo-Kids would have to go back through a decade of records to manufacture a paper trail that would convince now-skeptical judges that there is a clear chain of title from the first recording in the public record through to the foreclosure. It ain’t going to happen.
The only other hope is that Wall Street can call in its campaign contribution chips and get Congress to retroactively legalize fraud. That is what they do in those dictatorships that protestors are now bringing down in the Middle East. Is Washington willing to take that risk, just to please its Wall Street benefactors?
The court document is available here. It is terrific reading.
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WND Revives Never-Proven Conspiracy About Bill Clinton's Purported Illegitimate Son
During the 2016 election, WorldNetDaily got a bit of mileage by partnering with discredited charalatan filmmaker Joel Gilbert to resurrect the tale of Danney Williams, the purported illegitimate son of Bill Clinton. Williams was so obviously being exploited by Gilbert as part of his politically motivated vendetta against the Clintons that nobody took the claim seriously, just as they did when the claim first surfaced in the 1990s among anti-Clinton activists.
Well, you can't keep a ridiculous, never-proven conspiracy down, so WND is continuing to prove it learned nothing from its recent near-death experience and giving the Williams story another go. An anonymous WND writer claimed in a June 19 article:
On the occasion of Father’s Day, Danney Williams, 32, is still hoping Bill Clinton will take a paternity test that will prove he is the Dad who never acknowledged him.
On Sunday he retweeted several Father’s Day suggestions to Clinton to resolve the paternity issue that has been Williams’ lifelong quest.
Williams made an emotional plea to Clinton intern Monica Lewinsky to turn over her famous blue dress that reportedly contained a sample of the former president’s genetic material. He also pleaded with then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to intercede on his behalf.
Needless to say, WND couldn't be bothered to find out if Williams is still mouthing the words Gilbert put in front of him. The article also ignored one inconvenient fact: A DNA test has already been conducted, by a tabloid in 1999 and promoted by the Drudge Report, which found no genetic link.
Instead of feeding its 20-year obsession with destroying the Clintons, WND would be better served -- and prove it's a news operation that deserves to live -- by exposing the expoitation of Williams by right-wing charlatans.
MRC Complains Media Credits Krauthammer For Something Conservatives Used To Be Proud Of
The death of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer set off all the feels at his ideological buddies at the Media Research Center. So, needless to say, they took things in a weird direction by bashing the media for highlighting something that conservatives used to be proud of.
Nicholas Fondacaro complained in a June 21 post about Washington Post's obituary on Krauthammer:
[T]he paper’s obituary editor, Adam Bernstein found that Krauthammer’s life could be boiled down to his position on the Iraq War. “Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,b died June 21 at 68,” he BEGAN the paper’s remembrance, setting the tone.
"He was festooned with honors by right-leaning groups and sought after by Republican policymakers,” Bernstein continued. “ To the left, Dr. Krauthammer was a bogeyman, most notably on the matter of President George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and the ultimately catastrophic efforts to democratize the Middle East.”
Bernstein tried to place the war dead at Krauthammer’s feet, saying:
The U.S.-led invasion, which Dr. Krauthammer billed at the outset as a “Three Week War,” has dragged on ever since, caused more than 4,000 U.S. deaths and more than 100,000 Iraqi casualties amid a grinding insurgency, and left the United States mired in a failed state with hostile neighbors.
Fondacaro never explained why linking Krauthammer to the Iraq War was a bad thing, let alone inaccurate. Instead, he huffed: "Dr. Charles Krauthammer was a prolific intellectual and he will be missed by many."
The next day, Richard Howell similarly complained that an MSNBC's Brian Williams "was unable to resist laying blame for the Iraq War at the feet of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer." He further complained:
More accurately, Krauthammer postulated that history might remember the invasion as the “Three Week War” and wrote those words the day after troops had occupied Baghdad after three weeks of invasion. Strangely, Williams felt necessary to point this out, and seemed to lay blame for the conflict on Krauthammer. It's particularly ironic since Williams was removed as NBC Nightly News anchor for falsely reporting on his own experiences in Iraq.
In an otherwise praising obituary, it was jarring to hear Williams shade Krauthammer's views on Iraq. Perhaps the MSNBC host was simply following The Washington Post's lead, which made sure to include Krauthammer's support for the war in the opening sentence of its obituary of him on Thursday.
Like Fondadcaro, Howell didn't explain why it's such a horrible thing to mention Krauthammer's intellectual foundation for the Iraq War. When did the MRC cease being proud of it?
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Most older people do not experience abuse. But, unfortunately, there are ways in which an older person can be harmed or abused by others. An older person may also experience more than one form of abuse at any given time.
Elder abuse is defined as -
''A single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person or violates their human and civil rights.'' (Protecting our Future, Report of the Working Group on Elder Abuse, September 2002)
65 years of age is taken as the point beyond which abuse may be considered to be elder abuse.
What forms can Elder Abuse take?
There are several forms of abuse, any or all of which may be carried out as the result of deliberate intent, negligence or ignorance.
Physical abuse, including hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, misuse of medication, restraint or inappropriate sanctions.
Sexual abuse, including rape and sexual assault, or sexual acts to which the older adult has not consented, or could not consent, or into which he or she was compelled to consent.
Psychological abuse, including emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation or withdrawal from services or supportive networks.
Financial or material abuse, including theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property, inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse or misappropriation of property, possessions or benefits.
Neglect and acts of omission, including ignoring medical or physical care needs, failure to provide access to appropriate health, social care or educational services, the withholding of the necessities of life such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating.
Discriminatory abuse, including ageism, racism, sexism, that based on a person's disability, and other forms of harassment, slurs or similar treatment.
Please see the HSE Elder Abuse Service website for examples of Forms of Elder Abuse and how to Recognise the signs.
How Common is Elder Abuse?
Establishing an accurate baseline of the prevalence of elder abuse is difficult. It is not always appropriate to draw generalisations from results of prevalence surveys due to problems with definitions and with research data and methodology. Most global researchers agree that somewhere in the region of 4-5% of the population of older people are potentially effected by abuse or neglect and that the majority of those affected by abuse are women. International prevalence studies suggest that between 3 and 5% of older people are victims of elder abuse when all types of abuse are considered. The more severe forms of abuse, such as physical and sexual are relatively rare (World Health Organisation 2002).
The first prevalence study of elder abuse for the UK undertaken by researchers from King’s College Institute of Gerontology and Social Care Workforce Research Unit and with the National Centre foe Social Research (NatCen) was published in June 2007. 2,100 older people in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in the survey, between March and September 2006. It included older people aged 66 years and over. It did not include people living in institutions like the NHS or Care Homes, or people with dementia. Overall 2.6% of older people living in the community were found to have experienced mistreatment from a relative, friend or professional carer. This figure indicates that one out of every forty older people visiting their GPs may be a victim. When figures were broadened to include neighbours and acquaintances, the overall prevalence increased from 2.6% to 4.0% of older people over the age of 66 being abused while living in their own home. This equates to about 342,000 people.
Applying the WHO figure of approx. 3 to 5% to Ireland could mean that 12,000 to 21,500 could be victims of elder abuse.
Who might abuse?
A wide range of people may abuse older people, including relatives and family members, professional staff, paid care workers, volunteers, other service users, neighbours, friends and associates.
Where might abuse occur?
Abuse can take place in any context. It may occur when an older person lives alone or with a relative; it may occur within residential or day-care settings, in hospitals, home support services and other places assumed to be safe, or in public places.
Patterns of abuse and abusing vary and reflect different circumstances:
Long-term abuse, in the context of an ongoing family relationship, such as domestic violence or sexual abuse between spouses or generations.
Opportunistic abuse, such as theft occurring because money has been left around.
Situational abuse, which arises because pressures have built up and/or because of the difficult or challenging behaviour of the older person.
Neglect of a person's needs because those around him or her are not able to be responsible for their care; for example if the carer has difficulties because of debt, alcohol or mental health problems.
Unacceptable 'treatments' or 'programmes', which include sanctions or punishment, such as the withholding of food and drink, seclusion, the unnecessary and unauthorised use of control and restraint, or the over, or under, use of medication.
Racist, ageist and other discriminatory practices by staff, including ageism, racism and other discriminatory practices, which may be attributable to the lack of appropriate guidance.
Misappropriation of benefits and/or use of the person's money by other members of the household or by care staff.
Fraud or intimidation in connection with wills, property or other assets
Reasons why Incidents of Elder Abuse go Unreported?
Non-recognition – Victims might not be aware that the abuse is abnormal or wrong
Confusion – Victims attributing feelings about the abuse to dementia etc.
Control – Victims may perceive the event as under their control; perceive abilities to cope with the abuse; or fear that if the abuse is disclosed, someone else will take control of their life.
Rationalisation – Self-blame; "It could have been worse"; Feeling they are getting what they deserve, for example, if they feel they were a bad parent. Elders often feel they have lost control of their lives and are to blame for the abuse.
Shame – Fear of being judged by others
Fear of abandonment/dependency – "If the abuser leaves who will take care of me?"
Fear of being placed in an institution
A belief that the Gardaí or the social services cannot help them
A belief that they cannot prove that the abuse is happening
If you, or somebody you know is experiencing elder abuse visit our Help for older people who are experiencing abuse in the home page
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The Double Life: A Survivor’s Guide To Transcend Success and Tragedy
February 2, 2017 Covington Weekly Local Events Comments Off on The Double Life: A Survivor’s Guide To Transcend Success and Tragedy
From humble beginnings in Arkansas during the Depression era and exotic Morocco of his teen years to Oxford University as a young scholar and his eventual settling in New Orleans, David Campbell continuously found himself attracted to the mysterious and the bizarre. The Double Life: A Survivor’s Guide to Transcend Success and Tragedy chronicles Campbell’s eighty-year journey as he lived a double life and how he reconciled himself with his sexual identity, his battle with addiction, and his coming to terms with the nature of God and his place within the universe.
Campbell examines not only the personal details of his life, his family, and relationships, but also the intricacies of life as a gay man and prominent attorney in New Orleans during the 1960s, his entry into the city’s historic preservation movement of the 1980s in which he became the first person to convert a warehouse into a private residence in New Orleans’ Central Business district, and his eventual retreat to the sanctity of a nature preserve in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Along the way, he reveals the stories behind the stories in the practice of law, the art world, preservation, and conservation, all in the context of living a double life.
The Double Life: A Survivor’s Guide to Transcend Success and Tragedy records the accounts of a man who witnessed the beauty and devastation of life while he captures the spirit of New Orleans during the latter half of the twentieth century. doublelifeneworleans.com
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Other laws and policies with an impact on responses to HIV
Yes - 1999
Article 140 of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic. (introduced 1999)
This is an HIV-specific law.
Both exposure (140.1) and transmission (140.2) are subject to prosecution.
Sentences range from 'Corrective Work up to 2 years' through to 8 years imprisonment.
Infection with HIV of a person.
140.1. Wittingly subjecting of a person in danger of HIV infection – is punished by corrective works of up to two years, or deprivation of freedom for term up to two years, or imprisonment of till one year.
140.2. Infection of another person with HIV committed by a person who knew [himself or herself] to be infected – is punished by imprisonment of two to five years.
140.3. The action provided by article 140.2 of the present Code, resulting in infection with HIV of two or more persons or minors, is punished by imprisonment of five to eight years.
140.4. Infection of another person with HIV resulting from improper performance of the professional duties is punished by imprisonment for up to three years with deprivation of the right to hold certain offices or to engage in certain activities for up to three years.
Our survey respondent (the Ministry of Justice) advises us that the transmission of HIV has been prosecuted under the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic since 1999. Separate legislation is in place in order to prosecute the transmission of other sexually transmitted diseases.
In 2004 our scan revealed that either three or four people have been prosecuted for transmitting HIV in Azerbaijan. According to the Ministry of Justice, the first attempt at prosecution was brought under an old law from 1987 but they were not able to provide us with any further information about that prosecution. However, since the enactment of the new law in 1999, three people have been prosecuted and convicted. The first of these prosections was brought in 2001. One person has been prosecuted and convicted in 2004. The dates of the third prosecution are not known.
No information was available on the gender, mode of transmission or occupation at the time of prosecution of those prosecuted.
In February 2008 what we believe to be the fifth prosecution received press coverage. Two reports from Azerbaijan news agencies highlighted the case of 18-year-old Elnara Ahmadova, who faced sentencing for 'deliberate' HIV transmission. Reports suggest that Elnara was diagnosed five years ago, and is/was a sex worker from an early age. She is accused of deliberately infecting 100 to 200 men.
To read more about Azerbaijan, checkhttp://criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com/search/label/Azerbaijan
This report is from the Azeri-Press Agency : Court to deliver sentence on case of Elnara Ahmadova accused of deliberately infecting 200 people with HIV in Azerbaijan 05 Feb 2008 17:30
This shorter report is from Trend News Agency : UNICEF Alarmed by Conviction of Azerbaijani AIDS Carrier Girl 05.02.08 18:14
Survey respondents/Organisations working on HIV and the Law:
Ministry of Justice, Baku, Azerbaijan.
This Press Reports above are also viewable at : http://criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com/search/label/Azerbaijan.
Laws and regulations relating to entry, stay or residence in the country:
There are no restrictions for people living with HIV and AIDS. There are no specific legal regulations concerning people with AIDS.
Neither a medical certificate nor an HIV test result is required when entering the country. However, medical tests are required for those applying for temporary or permanent residence permits. The applications by people with health issues, including HIV and AIDS, are reviewed by the State Migration Service and approved on a case-by-case basis. There are no regulations regarding the control, deportation or expulsion of those concerned.
Antiretroviral medication can be imported for personal use. It is recommended to carry a prescription (translated into English or Russian).
For updated information, please go to: www.hivrestrictions.org
Laws relating to same sex, sexual relations:
Male to Male relationships: Legal
Punishments for male to male relationships: No law
Female to Female Relationships: Legal
Age of consent: Equal for heterosexuals and homosexuals
Marriage and Substitutes for Marriage: No law
For updated information, please go to: http://ilga.org
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