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If The Disclosures Don't Fit, You Can't Evict: - February 2017
Changes to Utah's Eviction Procedures
Have you ever evicted a tenant? If so, did you feel like the process was quick and inexpensive? On the flip side, have you ever been evicted? Did you perceive the process as fair? In response to complaints that the eviction process sometimes allows unscrupulous landlords to frivolously evict tenants, the Utah Supreme Court recently changed the rules for residential evictions. Landlords must now document and provide a clear factual basis for the eviction. This means that landlords must beef up their complaints and give advance disclosures to tenants. The disclosures are broken into three parts, each of which is discussed below.
One for the Rent Money
The first set of disclosures must be included with the complaint. Specifically, the landlord must provide: (i) a copy of the written lease agreement; (ii) a copy of the eviction notice that was served on the tenants; (iii) an itemized calculation of past due rent, damages, costs, and attorney's fees at the time of filing; (iv) an explanation of the factual basis for eviction; and (v) notice to the tenants of their obligation to serve disclosures for any occupancy hearing. The disclosures can either be attached to the complaint as exhibits, e.g., a copy of the lease, or they can be folded into the allegations of the complaint.
Two for the Occupancy Show
The second set of disclosures are for the occupancy hearing. If a tenant files an answer to an eviction complaint, then either party can request a hearing on who is entitled to possession of the premises. In the past, the landlord and tenant showed up and presented their cases ambush-style. With the rule change, the parties must disclose information beforehand. Now, the parties must provide the name, address, telephone number, and a summary of the expected testimony of all fact witnesses. The parties must also disclose any documents not previously provided which they intend to use at the hearing. The disclosures must be served on the other party in the manner most likely to be promptly received.
The timing for the disclosures depends on who requests the hearing. For example, if a landlord requests the hearing, she must serve her disclosures with the request. The party who receives the request for hearing (the tenant, in our example) must also provide disclosures to the other side at least two days prior to the hearing. The penalty for failing to disclose is that witnesses may be barred and documents may be excluded.
Three to Get Judgment
The third set of disclosures are for the trial. While possession of the premises is determined at the occupancy hearing, damages are usually reserved for trial, which is supposed to happen 60 days after the filing of the complaint. Two weeks before trial, the parties must state the names and addresses of witnesses, unless those have already been provided. If deposition testimony will be used, the party must name the witness and give a copy of the transcript to the other side. The parties must also disclose copies of each exhibit that they intend to use at trial. A party who fails to make these disclosures is not entitled to judgment.
Four to Know
Navigating these disclosures is a fairly complex process. If done improperly it can hurt your case. If you have questions concerning this process call us. We can help.
© Terry Jessop & Bitner February 2017
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Shifting Values In Subordination: Where Are Your Priorities?
For lenders who want to ensure that their loans have first-position priority, and for title companies who wish to avoid claims on lender's policies, it is crucial to understand who claims what interest in the property at issue. This is especially true when a loan is refinanced and a subordination agreement is required.
Here's the situation: John Doe purchases a home with a loan for $250,000 from Big Bank. At the same time, John Doe obtains a second loan from Big Bank for $50,000. Both loans are secured By John's property, and the larger loan has first priority, as it should. Ten years go by. John makes regular payments on both loans, and he accumulates some equity. He needs more money, but he doesn't have the means or desire to pay off either of the first two loans. So he gets a third loan for $25,000 from Hard Money Lender.
Five years later, John is ready to refinance Big Bank's $250,000 trust deed. He contacts Credit Union Lender, who agrees to issue a $200,000 loan to Mr. Doe (which is the amount owed to Big Bank on its first-position loan), on the condition that Big Bank subordinate its remaining $50,000 trust deed, which would otherwise be in first position. Big Bank agrees to subordinate its smaller loan to Credit Union Lender's larger loan. The refinance closes, Big Bank's $250,000 first-position trust deed is reconveyed, and Credit Union's trust deed is recorded together with an appropriate subordination agreement, signed by Big Bank. Credit Union Lender doesn't worry about getting a subordination agreement from Hard Money Lender, because Credit Union Lender is swapping positions with Big Bank, who has priority over Hard Money Lender.
While Credit Union Lender's assumption about priority over Hard Money Lender is logical, the Credit Union Lender's position is in jeopardy. Indeed, if Hard Money Lender forecloses, he will cut off all but $50,000 of Credit Union Lender's interest in the property, according to a recent decision from the Utah Supreme Court.
In VCS Inc. v Countrywide Home Loans, et.al., 2015 UT 46, 349 P.3d 704, the court adopted the doctrine of "partial subordination" in cases with circular lien priorities, like the one described above. In short, the court enforces the parties' intentions, insofar as possible. In our example, Big Bank intended to be in first position with its two trust deeds. Credit Union Lender also intended to be in first position with respect to its $200,000 refinance, which is why it required Big Bank to subordinate its remaining $50,000 trust deed. But Credit Union Lender is junior in time to Hard Money Lender, who intends to have priority over all encumbrances which are junior to him. According to the VCS case, Credit Union Lender steps into first position, ahead of Hard Money Lender, but only in the amount of Big Bank's $50,000 trust deed. Consequently, if Credit Union Lender forecloses, it gets the first $50,000 from the proceeds of the sale, but Credit Union Lender must give the next $25,000 (plus interest and attorneys fees) to Hard Money Lender, and then the balance to itself and Big Bank, if there is enough to go around.
To avoid this quagmire, a lender providing new money must obtain subordination agreements from every other lender that is otherwise ahead of it. Unsure about the priority of your lien? Give us a call. We can help.
© Terry Jessop & Bitner March 2016
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Tom DeLay's Amoral Code
June 25, 2004 / 1:39 PM / The Nation
This story from The Nation was written by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
Is it any surprise that the publication of Clinton's memoir My Life has revived the vitriolic bleating from those on the right who just can't seem to stop salivating over blue dresses and beret-wearing interns?
But if these self-appointed morality police were truly committed to upholding ethics and promoting values in government, they would begin challenging the House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is hands down one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States.
"The Hammer" -- DeLay got that nickname because he runs the U.S. House of Representatives with an iron fist -- has allegedly bribed his GOP colleagues to win their votes for legislation that he desperately wanted to pass in the House. He's engaged in quid pro quos with corporations seeking legislative favors, and violated campaign finance laws in Texas during the 2002 state house election contests. Now, after a seven-year truce in the U.S. House that discouraged members from filing ethics charges against one another, Rep. Chris Bell has gone to the ethics committee and filed a 187-page bombshell charging that DeLay engaged in extortion, money-laundering and other abuses of power.
Just this week, the ethics committee said that Bell had met the criteria for filing a complaint, and it will now spend at least the next forty-five days reviewing the charges that DeLay violated the house's ethics rules. Bell called the committee's decision "an important first step in the long journey to restore integrity and ethics to the people's House and to hold the House majority leader accountable for his actions." He received a riproaring (standing) ovation from the Democratic Caucus this week, winning a tacit endorsement from colleagues in his ongoing battle to hold DeLay accountable.
Bell, who lost his seat in Texas after DeLay rammed through his undemocratic statewide redistricting plan designed to help Republicans hold on to power there, has taken a bold stand. But kudos must also be given to the courageous folks at the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington who have been filing complaints against DeLay and shining a spotlight on his transgressions for many months now. CREW bills itself as a non-partisan watchdog group established to use litigation to help ordinary people against unscrupulous government officials. "Of course, we should have high standards for government leaders," CREW's mission statement notes, "but the greatest danger to democracy is posed not by the personal peccadilloes of government leaders, but rather, public policy unduly influenced by special interests." Although it has adopted the model of legal advocacy developed by right-wing organizations like Judicial Watch and the Rutherford Institute, CREW has no political ideology, and in recent years it has stood alongside a bevy of brave souls, from columnist Paul Krugman to Democratic officials in the Texas legislature, who have opposed DeLay's brass-knuckles tactics and criticized the Majority Leader's illegal and undemocratic activities.
Thanks to Bell's complaint and CREW's persistence, Americans now have in their hands a vivid picture of corruption and ethical rule-breaking that belies the notion that this Administration and its Republican Congressional allies do anything more than simply pay lip service to upholding ethics and morality in the seats of federal power. For starters, the Democratic District Attorney in Travis County, Texas has convened a grand jury to investigate charges that "the Hammer" used his political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, to raise millions in corporate campaign contributions and then spent some of this money on polling, fundraising and get-out-the-vote activities in violation of Texas law, which says that corporate contributions can be used only for general administrative purposes.
DeLay is also charged in Bell's complaint with extracting campaign contributions from an electric utility in Kansas called Westar Energy. DeLay, it's alleged, agreed to insert provisions into an energy bill that would save Westar billions of dollars. One e-mail that has subsequently come to light reveals that Westar's executives thought that they were buying a "seat at the table" when they donated money to groups with links to the Majority Leader.
Then there's DeLay's role in corralling votes on behalf of the GOP's sham Medicare prescription drug legislation, a legislative low point that occurred in the long night of Republican arm-twisting last November. According to the Associated Press, Rep. Nick Smith, a Republican from Michigan, said that unnamed House Republican leaders threatened to work against Smith's son (who was running for Nick's seat) unless Smith voted for the legislation. Robert Novak reported in his column that Smith was also told that "business interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote." While Smith later recanted these allegations, his charges have the ring of truth, and they are in keeping with DeLay's thuggish tactics of forcing even his own Republican colleagues to submit to the Republican leadership's will on closely fought legislative matters.
DeLay's brazen attacks on democratic governance -- a tangled web of truly scandalous behavior -- are so outrageous that even conservative Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel has assailed the Republican leadership for fomenting an "anything goes" atmosphere: "I think we're on the edge of something dangerous if we don't turn it around ... It's like the Middle East. You just keep ratcheting up the intensity of the conflict." Real conservatives like Hagel believe that they should take responsibility for their actions. These conservatives actually value the rule of law, and they understand that the ends don't always justify the means in the pursuit of a radical right-wing ideology that serves corporate special interests above all.
Tom DeLay has never understood these things. He is committed to his take-no-prisoners agenda, and he sees ethics, morality and rules as nuisances that must be flouted, disdained and ignored. DeLay has racked up a record that demands investigation and action in the ethics committee and the courts of law. His scurrilous misdeeds demonstrate the yawning gap between a former President's private indiscretions and DeLay's dangerous violations of the public trust.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Reprinted with permission from the The Nation
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Wall Street should love the economic theory Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backs — and that should worry the rest of us
Linette Lopez
Spencer Platt/GettyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Democratic Party’s rising star, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a champion of modern monetary theory (MMT), which holds that federal deficits aren’t as bad as we’ve always believed.
Naturally, conservatives are freaking out about what this would do to public-sector balance sheets.
But the real issue is what Wall Street and corporate America would do under MMT – and that’s borrow money to buy back shares and boost CEO paydays.
It seems the entire conservative universe is freaking out about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). They have come up with a lot of reasons for it, but chief among them are her ideas about the economy.
In an interview with Business Insider, Ocasio-Cortez said modern monetary theory (MMT) should “absolutely” be a part of our conversation about the economy. It’s a theory that holds that deficit spending isn’t nearly as toxic as we’ve come to believe over the last 40 years – and that it’s, in fact, a useful tool. To manage it, you keep interest rates low, and when the economy runs too hot, you raise taxes.
That sound you’re hearing is 1,000 deficit hawks weeping.
You’ll find a lot of those people on Wall Street. At the beginning of the financial crisis, they warned a combination of deficit spending on bailouts and the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet would surely lead to rampant inflation (it didn’t). These are also often the people you’ll hear at country clubs and steakhouses talking about fiscal responsibility and the virtue of balancing the federal budget.
The reality is, though, that they should love MMT. It’s easy money. And they have actually been living in a shade of it for the last decade – a time when the S&P 500 rose year after year as surely as the sun would shine.
This is Wall Street, this is Wall Street on easy money
MMT is not really that insane.
It’s first precept is one widely held as an economy truth – the countries that create their own currency will never go bust. That means deficits aren’t nearly as bad as we’ve thought they are since the ’80s, and it means we don’t have to raise taxes to increase spending.
To get away with this, you’ll need to keep interest rates low. As Josh Barro over at New York Magazine said, one of MMT’s founders thinks rates should be kept permanently at zero.
What MMT adherents do accept is that the running deficits can lead to inflation. When that happens, the government will raise taxes to cool the economy. That, MMT adherents say, is the purpose of taxes – controlling inflation, not raising revenue. In our system, it’s the opposite. The Fed controls inflation with interest rates, and the government raises revenue.
It isn’t the public sector we need to worry about the most in this framework, it’s the private sector. For the Wall Street I’ve covered for the past 8 years, MMT looks like a heady brew of easy money, major paydays for CEOs, and a chance to let K Street show its worth.
For the last 10 years, we’ve had rates at zero and deficit spending, and, last year, the GOP granted Wall Street the tax cut it’s been wanting for a long time. These were some golden years if you played them right.
But, besides the fact that we’re now watching the stock-market bubble pop (which won’t happen in an MMT world because rates won’t go up), we saw some pretty unproductive behaviour from corporate America and the bankers who love it.
For one thing, since money was easy, corporate America went to town borrowing money – so much so that now people are saying the corporate bond market is in a bubble.
And what did corporate America do with that money? Analysts estimated that from 2008 to 2017 corporations spent $US4 trillion buying back stock, and, since interest rates were low, they borrowed money to do it. Trump’s tax cuts majorly juiced that, and Goldman Sachs estimated that companies would spend as much as $US1 trillion on buybacks in 2018, up 46% from the year before.
After the tax cuts passed, Wells Fargo authorised $US40.6 billion in buybacks, with $US8.2 billion of it spent in the first nine months of last year. The left-leaning think tank The Roosevelt Institute calculated that if that $US8.2 billion had been passed on to workers in the form of a wage increase, every employee could’ve taken home an extra $US31,214. Instead, Wells Fargo announced layoffs of as many as 26,000 people over the next 3 years.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, you can chalk up some of this borrow and buyback behaviour to the way CEOs get paid – largely in stock. It’s one of the reasons CEO compensation has been steadily rising for years.
We’ve been taught to believe the government wastes money and the private sector uses it judiciously, but it’s hard to believe that when you look at what Wall Street and corporate America have done with easy money for the last decade.
And if you think that was unproductive, imagine how much money Wall Street and corporate America would spend on lobbying in an MMT world. K Street would explode. The lobbyists would all be stalking the halls of Congress for their corporate masters, trying to get loopholes written into the tax legislation when the economy gets too hot and taxes have to go up.
Get money out of politics (even if there’s no MMT)
So employ MMT in any credible fashion, we would have to get money out of politics (which Ocasio-Cortez is for, as are most Americans, according to Pew Research). We would have to change the way CEOs are paid and completely overhaul the tax code – or even the way we think of taxes (some MMT backers think corporate taxes actually encourage bad behaviour – Wall Street should love that).
Now to be fair, this is pure MMT, and it doesn’t sound like Ocasio-Cortez is proposing that at all. If she were, she wouldn’t have proposed raising the tax rate on incomes over $US10 million to 70%.
What she has openly said she’s doing is injecting it into economic debate – a debate that hasn’t really changed in about 40 years. We need this badly, and we need it because, over the past 10 years, we’ve learned that a bunch of the things we took for granted as economic gospel were wrong. The inflation they feared never showed up.
As investor and former US Treasury economist Mark Dow put it most succinctly:
Twitter/@mark_dow
If anything, the precepts of MMT would encourage drunken-sailor behaviour from the private sector, not necessarily the public sector. And we know it, because we’re seeing it right before our eyes.
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Truck drivers may be able to carry concealed handguns across state lines, thanks to bills in the House and Senate
Rachel Premack
Truckers with a concealed carry licence may soon be able to bring their handgun across state lines.
Two bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate are pushing for “national concealed carry reciprocity.”
Currently, those with a concealed carry licence in their home state aren’t always able to carry a concealed weapon outside of their home state.
Two bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate are pushing for “national concealed carry reciprocity.” Right now, those with a conceal carry licence face a patchwork of different state laws when they travel from state to state.
That would be especially helpful for truck drivers who drive interstate and have a concealed carry licence. Truckers with a concealed carry licence may soon be able to bring their handgun across state lines.
In 2017, 23 truck transportation workers died in the US as a result of “violence and other injuries by persons or animals.” Twenty-one died in 2016 from the same causes, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
The Supreme Court just handed truck drivers a big win on an issue that has been plaguing the most vulnerable workers
Cargo theft, which sometimes results in drivers missing or injured, is more common. According to CargoNet, there were 328 reports of crimes on freight and the truckers who carry them in Q3 2018 alone.
Truck drivers aren’t sure how to defend themselves
These crimes typically occur at warehouses and truck stops.Some truckers say that carrying an unloaded gun helps defend them against thieves, while others always carry an aluminium bat or pepper spray.
“They send us to places where we are treated poorly, not allowed parking, not allowed to use the rest room, not allowed to go inside to seek shelter in bad weather, but their attitude is ‘well, it’s part of the job,'” one anonymous truck driver told Land Line Magazine. “The military wouldn’t send their soldiers into a hostile environment without protection, but that’s what happens to us drivers every day.”
Others say that the larger issue is a lack of truck driver parking. In 2009, for instance, 35-year-old truck driver Jason Rivenburg was shot in the head and robbed of $US7 after he parked his truck in the lot of an abandoned gas station. There were no safer parking spots available.
That sparked Congress to enact “Jason’s Law” in 2012, designed to investigate the lack of truck parking in the country. The first Jason’s Law study, published in 2015, found that nearly three-quarters of State Department of Transportation heads said there’s a lack of commercial truck parking in their state.
Timothy Adams, who has been a truck driver since 1996, told Business Insider that parking is “an enormous problem.”
Are you a truck driver with an opinion on concealed carry or parking availability? Contact the reporter at [email protected].
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When Does 'Homeland' Season 5 Premiere? It'll Be a Long Wait, But Totally Worth It
By Rosie Narasaki
Well, thank goodness. After the kick-in-the-pants reboot/bonafide emotional rollercoaster/superlative spy thriller that was Season 4, Showtime has officially renewed Homeland for Season 5. The show is set to air 12 new episodes in 2015, huzzah! But when will Homeland Season 5 begin? There's no word on an exact premiere date yet, but given the show's history, I think we can safely guess that we're going to be reuniting with Carrie and whoever's left in the gang by late September/early October of next year.
It's going to be a long wait (that's the single biggest drawback of falling in love with a 12-episode per year cable drama, isn't it?), but I'm sure the season to come will be more than worth it. I've been a pretty die-hard fan of Homeland from out of the gate, and I've stood by it through thick (Season 1!) and thin (ahem, Season 3). That said, I think Season 4 might just have been the best yet — and if Season 5 can beat that, well, we're in for quite the ride. Keep on keepin' on with all the reviving, reinventing, and regenerating (I don't know about you, but I got a very Doctor Who-esque changing of the guards vibe from this season's fairly all-encompassing reboot), eh Homeland?
Yep, I'm officially forecasting a 99 percent chance that Season 5 is going to be as fabulous as all heck... but what else do we know? Not much, unfortunately — showrunner Alex Gansa went out of his way to point out that not much (or anything at all, really) is set in stone in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When asked about the upcoming season, he demured and said, "We have some options, and we're discussing them, but we probably won't make any decisions until March." Gah, why must you torture us so? Would it have killed him to give us a ballpark guess about what country the show will set in? Also, we need casting gossip! Will Carrie be taking on a new protege, post-Fara? Will we get to see more of the recently demoted Senator Lockhart? Will Carrie's mom (the newly-cast, ultra-fab Victoria Clarke) be coming back?
Gansa et al may be playing their cards (very) close to the chest, but I think the Homeland creative team has very handily earned our blind trust by this point. Here's to a fifth season even more epic than its fourth!
Image: David Bloomer/Showtime
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Young Parkland Voters Were More Likely To Have Their Mail-In Midterm Ballots Rejected
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A political science professor from the University of Florida has written a report that shows that the mail-in ballots of some young Parkland residents, including first-time voters who survived last year's school shooting, weren't counted — at a rate far higher than the state average. Some 15 percent of Parkland youth's ballots were not counted, The Washington Post reported based on UF political science chair Daniel Smith's report.
Smith looked at ballots submitted by Parkland residents between the ages of 18 and 21 using the public voter file that tracks all registered voters in the state and whether or not they voted. That's where he found that such a large number weren't counted. Some arrived after the required date. Others though were rejected for not being signed, having a mismatched signature, being signed by someone else, or the ballot was returned to the election office "undeliverable" by the post office.
He found 15 percent of all mail-in ballots cast for Parkland youth weren't counted. That's far more than the state average of 5.4 percent of 18- to 21-year-olds who saw their ballots rejected or not counted in the 2018 midterms, The Washington Post reported. And for voters of all ages in Florida, the number goes down to just 1.2 percent.
A spokesperson for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections told Bustle that most ballots that aren't counted arrive after Election Day (they must arrive by 7 p.m. on the day under Florida law) or don't have any signature at all. He also pointed out that the ballot of one of the young people featured the story was not received until Nov. 14; Election Day was Nov. 6 in 2018.
Speaking with The Washington Post, Smith compared voting with using a broken ATM. "If you are voting in Florida, and you are young in Florida, you have a good chance of your ballot not being accepted," Smith told The Post. "Imagine going to the ATM, and every 10 times you go, instead of spitting out your money, they take it or they lose it."
Lauren Hoggs, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a March for Our Lives activist, tweeted in response, "SO YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT I DID VOTER REG IN THE GROSS HUMIDITY ALL SUMMER TO DEAL WITH THIS BS."
The discrepancy specifically with the ballots of Parkland youth is significant. But this is generally not a new problem. Youth and minority mail-in ballots have gone uncounted at higher rates in Florida than the general population in prior elections too, the ACLU found in a report released last September, which was also prepared by Smith.
"We found that younger and racial and ethnic minority voters casting VBM ballots were at least twice as likely as older and white voters to have their VBM ballot rejected," Smith said in a press release shared by the ACLU at the time.
Some of the youth who were affected blame voting officials for the problem and say they did their best to try and vote. Luciany Capra told The Washington Post about her attempts to have her vote count, which ultimately didn't work. After many delays receiving her ballot, the signature was rejected.
"I submitted the request for it to be counted and signed a whole bunch of papers, and then I never heard back from anyone," Capra told the paper. "If there was any mistake, it was a mistake on their end."
The March for Our Lives and following actions to register youth voters and drive turnout was credited for changing the electorate in November. But it seems some — including those who started the movement — still face structural hurdles in voting.
Update: This story was updated with comment from a spokesperson for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.
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U.S. Policy in Syria
2018-11-29T21:53:20-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/104/20181129140611003_hd.jpgA House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard testimony from the State Department’s special representative for Syria on U.S. response to Syria’s civil war, efforts by USAID, and how Russia and Iran are involved. Government officials detailed the large scale loss of life in the conflict and the humanitarian needs and refugee crisis in the country. Other topics discussed included ways to protect women and children in conflict-affected zones.
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A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard testimony from the State Department’s special representative for Syria on U.S. response to Syria’s civil war, efforts by USAID, and how Russia and Iran are involved. Government officials detailed the large scale loss of life in the conflict and the humanitarian needs and refugee crisis in the country. Other topics discussed included ways to protect women and children in conflict-affected zones. close
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Gerry Connolly U.S. Representative [D] Virginia
Ted Deutch U.S. Representative [D] Florida
James F. Jeffrey Ambassador (Former) United States->Turkey
Robert Jenkins Deputy Assistant Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development->Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance
Adam Kinzinger U.S. Representative [R] Illinois
Darin LaHood U.S. Representative [R] Illinois
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen U.S. Representative [R] Florida
Brad Schneider U.S. Representative [D] Illinois
Ann Wagner U.S. Representative [R] Missouri
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Nov 29, 2018 | 2:05pm EST | C-SPAN 3
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State Department Briefing on Syria
Special Representative for Syria Engagement Ambassador James Jeffrey briefed reporters on results of the Syria Small…
U.S. Policy Toward Syria, James Jeffrey Remarks
This portion of an Atlantic Council series of discussions on U.S. policy toward Syria included keynote remarks by James…
Syrian Refugee Crisis, Panel 2
State Department officials talked about the humanitarian and security implications of the Syrian refugee crisis following the November 13,…
German Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Wittig and senior policy fellows from the Brookings Institution and the Migration Policy Institute talked…
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The European Union: In or Out?
Morning session
Dr Helen Szamuely was born in the Soviet Union and attended school in Hungary, Ghana and Britain. She has a First Class degree from the University of Leeds and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. She has written extensively on Russia, Eastern Europe and the European Union, and is co-author with Bill Jamieson of A Coming Home or Poisoned Chalice?, a critical study of European Union enlargement. Dr Szamuely also co-authored Alien Thoughts: Reflections on Identity published by the Bruges Group.
Bernard Connolly is the author of the acclaimed book on the ERM and EMU, The Rotten Heart of Europe: the Dirty War for Europe’s Money. Widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the interaction of economics, politics and markets, he is an internationally respected financial market economist working in the City.
Patrick Louis MEP is a French MEP, in the Independence and Democracy Group. He is on the Transport and Industry Committees. M. Louis is a free market economist from the University of Lyon.
The Main Event:
The Bruges Group vs The Federal Union
The Bruges Group team
Nigel Farage is a founder member of the UK Independence Party. He was a Conservative activist until John Major's signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Nigel Farage is a Member of the European Parliament.
Luke Johnson is Chairman of Channel 4. He also owns Signature Restaurants. He is also a director and owner of other companies. He writes a regular column in the city pages of The Sunday Telegraph.
The Federal Union team
Richard Laming is the Director of the Federal Union, the British federalist campaigning organisation, and works in public affairs for commercial interests in London and Brussels. He was also the Head of Campaigns for the European Movement.
Professor Stephen Haseler is professor of government at London Metropolitan University and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Union. He is the author of Super-State: Europe’s Challenge to American Power and The End of the House of Windsor.
Evening session
Ian Milne has been the Director of Global Britain since 1999. He was the founder-editor of The European Journal, and the co-founder and first editor of eurofacts. He is the author of numerous pamphlets and articles including A Cost Too Far?, an analysis of the economic costs of EU membership, which Ian Milne discussed.
Steen Thomsen was Secretary General for The Danish People's Party from 1999 to 31st December 2003. He is now an executive committee member of The Danish People's Party. He participated in planning the referendum campaign against the euro in Denmark. He discussed the Danish People's Party's view on developments within the EU and the Danish referendum on the EU Constitution.
Christophe Beaudouin practises as a Barrister at the Court of Appeal in Paris. He was President of the Movement Young Gaullists (UJP) and a candidate in the European Parliament elections. Christophe is also a city council member.
Dr Richard North along with Christopher Booker is the co-author of The Great Deception, the seminal history of the European Union. Dr North has also written two books on bureaucracy and the EU, with Christopher Booker, and one on the death of British agriculture. Richard North spoke on how EU defence integration will end the special relationship.
Speech by Bernard Connolly
“Europe” is an enormously broad topic. I wasn’t sure quite what I was going to say until Thursday. Then I noticed a comment made by the Norwegian PM, Kjell Bondevik. He said that the re-election of George Bush was making him rethink his previous opposition to membership of the EU. And it became quite clear that people in Britain – perhaps even the Conservative party – would start saying similar things, using the issue of America and of Bush to support our continued membership of the EU.
There would seem to be two strands to the sort of argument that might be made.
First, that the stance of the US, in particular after George Bush’s re-election, makes it imperative to construct a European counterweight.
Second, that the federalist dragon in Europe has been slain.
So if we throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the “European construction, we can ensure our “independence” of US hegemony while avoiding a loss of our identity in a federal superstate.
Both limbs of this argument rest on false premises.
Bush first.
What is it that critics of America dislike about its stance —and not just its foreign policy stance but its domestic policy stance? They dislike it because it is American and because it is – as the election showed - faith-based.
The American Constitution and American political traditions are influenced by two different philosophical strands. The first is the idea of Covenant – and the idea of Covenant effectively sees absolute State power as blasphemy.
Benjamin Franklin, recall, proposed that the Great Seal of the United States should bear the motto, “Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God”. And, of course, the notion among today’s born-again American Christians of America as the New Jerusalem comes down directly from the English Puritans – and, through the Puritans, from the original Jerusalem1.
David Elazar, for instance, argues that the Covenant between God and Israel made after the Exodus was a political revolution through its incorporation of the idea that the right to rule does not simply belong to the stronger but that power is established through the consent of both sides.
Elazar goes to say that, “The justification for the republican revolution [in the American colonies] was drawn directly and explicitly from the covenant idea,” 2 and that, “Politically, the covenant idea has within it the seeds of modern constitutionalism in that covenants define and limit the powers of the parties to them, a limitation not inherent in nature but involving willed concessions.” 3
Elazar further expands,
“Thus, the covenant idea has been important for the growth of democratic government. It presupposes the independence and worth of each individual and the truth that each person possesses certain inalienable rights, because only free people with rights can enter into agreements with one another. It also presupposes the necessity for government and the need to organize civil society on principles that assure the maintenance of those rights and the exercise of power in a cooperative or partner-like way.
On the other hand, covenantal liberty is not simply the right to do as one pleases, within broad boundaries. Contractual liberty could be just that, but covenantal liberty emphasizes the liberty to pursue the moral purposes for which the covenant was made. This latter kind of liberty requires that moral distinctions be drawn and that human actions be judged according to the terms of the covenant. This does not preclude changes in social norms but the principles of judgment remain constant.”
Yoram Hazony argues that,
“Unqualified obedience to the State is the fundamentally pagan idea, the essential political teaching of the great idolatries of antiquity; [while] freedom of conscience and disobedience to unjust law are the core of biblical political teaching, which arose as a rejection of pagan statism…. The fundamental Jewish political innovation, and that which ultimately separated ancient Israel from the nations, was the understanding that no earthly power, no matter how well guided, can be the final measure of right and wrong. The prophets drew a line which had never been drawn before, declaring the king, whether he was God’s anointed or not, to be only human, his actions prone to error and evil like those of any human being, and that there was nothing the state or its official priesthood could do to make an injustice right.” 4
One can argue, as do the editors of Azure, that these biblical principles gave rise to “an American, common-denominator faith that affirms a set of values that have long been shared by the great majority of Americans. It is the kind of religion that has characterized the United States for at least a century, contributing to its emergence as both the most liberal and the most faith-driven democracy on earth. Its emphasis on individual responsibility and freedom makes this religion the progenitor of American liberalism, while its affirmation of family, nation, and tradition sets the foundation for conservatism as well. American culture, it may be said, is founded on just this dual portrait of human potential: …deeply attached to family, country, and traditions, which in the end prove to be the things most worth fighting for.”5
Essentially, the Covenant approach insists that there is a “higher law”. One does not necessarily have to be a religious believer to commend this approach. An attachment to the Rule of Law as opposed to the Rule of Men is enough. That is a theme I’ll come back to.
The second strand in the American political tradition is rather different: it derives from the ideas of the so-called European Enlightenment, and particularly Lockean contract theory, which as corrupted by Rousseau, had the French Revolution as its unhappy offspring.
To an extent one can see these two strands as reflecting the New England-based emphasis on Covenant, and the Virginian emphasis on the Enlightenment. But although Jefferson was a great admirer of the initial stages of the French Revolution, the Rousseauvian principle of the General Will — probably the most tyrannical and murderous in history, the true progenitor not only of the French Terror under Robesepierre but also of the Stalinist Terror – never got a hold in the minds of Americans. The US has never been Jacobin in its domestic political philosophy.
What is Jacobinism? It is the philosophy of the EU Constitution. That constitution enshrines a secular religion; it is thus comparable in the scope of its ambition to the French and Soviet revolutions. It involves the notion of the perfectibility of Man – a return to a pre-Lapsarian state of the world – by the power of social and political action.
In that, it is anti-Christian. And it is irresistibly attractive to the most narcissistic of politicians, among whom one has to number Tony Blair.
It marks a form of elite insurrectionist politics in which an elite, believing itself possessed of true social and political knowledge, feels entitled to seize and hold political power in the name of the people. It constitutes an exercise in “nation-building”, attempting to forge a national homogeneity out of diverse peoples without much regard to their consent.
But is that not exactly what the present US Administration is doing? Many people argue that it is. Thus, for instance, one “Austrian” reviewer of Claes Ryn’s 2003 book, America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire, paraphrases Ryn’s argument is as follows:
“Just like the earlier Jacobins, the new American Jacobins believe that an intellectual and political elite is needed to educate and guide society to its egalitarian, democratic utopia. In addition, this means that many of the traditional constitutional restraints on the federal government must be set aside so the central government has the power and discretion to bring America to its domestic destiny. The new Jacobins also insist that this model of a perfected America is the ideal that the rest of the world should follow. The United States is called on to bring this ideal to the ignorant, backward, and corrupt nations around the globe. And with the same revolutionary zeal of the older Jacobins, this goal is to be accomplished through the force of arms if necessary.” 6
Ryn, a Catholic academic, links his perception of American Jacobinism to the idea of the so-called Christian Right’s view of America as God’s new chosen people:
“Breaking sharply with the mainstream of traditional Christianity, which has made a distinction between the things of God and the things of Caesar, this form of religion identifies a particular political power, America, with God’s will…. In its practical effects on United States foreign policy, this religious triumphalism puts a religious gloss on neo-Jacobinism.” 7
In other words, is not the European Enlightenment strand of the American political tradition coming to the fore in the Bush Administration, at the expense of the Covenant strand?
My answer to that question is “no”.
Candidate Bush of 2000 went to great lengths to stress a need for “humility” in American foreign policy and was very wary about, even hostile to, the idea of “nation-building”.
The “humility” that Bush preached in the 2000 election campaign represented two things.
First, there was a belief in an untroubled and effectively uncontested US hegemony – a hegemony that meant the US could largely forget about the rest of the world and concentrate on its domestic affairs.
Second, there was a reaction to the undoubted foreign policy Jacobinism of the Clinton Administration and its European friends.
September 11 destroyed the first of those two elements and led to the Pentagon doctrine of pre-emption. But although the practice of American foreign policy changed very markedly after September 11, its underlying philosophy did not: policy still aims at using American military hegemony to protect the USA, not to impose an imperium in the world. It represents what might call a “forward strategy”. One can argue about whether this is the best way of protecting the US or not - about whether or not the Administration is competent - but the US now is definitely not acting in an imperialist way.
The Bush Administration does not seek world government. But nor does it seek American government of the world. It seeks to restore a pre-9/11 world order, an order in which America can pursue, domestically, the aims of its founding Covenant. That may or not be a selfish aim – I think it is admirable – but it is certainly not imperialist.
Contrast that with the EU – or for that matter with the Clinton Administration or the Bush Sr. Administration.
Bush Sr.’s Secretary of State, James Baker, following up his disastrous record in economic affairs (he was, as Treasury Secretary, a major proponent of the horrible Louvre Accords on exchange rates in 1987), said in 1991 that US foreign policy should not serve specifically US interests but “Enlightenment ideals of universal applicability”. That was an unmistakably neo-Jacobin aspiration. And he went on to advocate “a Euro-Atlantic community that extends east from Vancouver to Vladivostok.” That had the nightmarish ring of world government about it.
Things got worse under Clinton. Richard Holbrooke, Clinton’s Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, urged NATO to “drop bombs for peace” on Serbia.
One step up in the hierarchy from Holbrooke was Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser, Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State. In 1992 he wrote an article entitled, The Birth of the Global Nation, an article that says a great deal about the Clinton Administration’s foreign policy.
“[U]unity will prevail over disunity,” he wrote. “Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century – ‘citizen of the world’ - will have assumed real meaning by the end of the century.”
Talbott's view, and the Clinton Administration's as well, was that all countries are really nothing more than social arrangements: “No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time,” he wrote, “in fact they are all artificial and temporary. Through the ages there has been an overall trend toward larger units claiming sovereignty…. It has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government.” 8
Unsurprisingly, Talbott was a fervent supporter of the ambitions of the European Union: “The Cold War also saw the European Community pioneer the kind of regional cohesion that may pave the way for globalism.”
If Al Gore – that disciple of the doctrines of Arnand Hammer – had beaten Bush in 2000, the world would have faced an ultimate threat of a Jacobin world government, conducted with the EU. If Kerry had won this week, that threat might have been revived. No wonder the EU has been so viscerally hostile to Bush.
That is something Iain Duncan Smith realized very well; it is scandalous that his successor has chosen opportunistically to ignore that knowledge.
While the EU imperialists loved Talbott, Holbrooke and Clinton and Kerry, they at the same time undermined those figures’ arguments.
Socialist MEPs hailed NATO’s attack on Serbia as “the first post-nationalist war”. That pregnant phrase carried two messages: first, nation states could no longer have the blame for wars pinned on them: the idea of world government, pursued by the European inheritors of the mantle of Robespierre and Lenin, would be the cause of wars; second, there would be lots of them.
After all, the EU’s military ambitions cannot realistically be seen as necessary for the defence of the countries of the EU -- rather, by creating the possibility of competition with, even hostility towards, the US, they massively weaken the defence of those countries.
Instead, these EU military ambitions – pursued more eagerly by Blair than by anyone else – are nakedly imperialist.
It is Blair who, in his Warsaw speech, said that, “The European Union is no longer [sic] just [sic] about peace[sic]: it is about the projection of power”. It was Blair’s foreign policy adviser, Robert Cooper, who wrote articles extolling European imperialism. And it is Blair, not Bush, who, to use Ryn’s phrase, “puts a religious gloss on neo-Jacobinism.”
Recall the strictures we quoted earlier and change the word “America” to “Britain”: “The new British Jacobins believe that an intellectual and political elite is needed to educate and guide society to its egalitarian, democratic utopia. In addition, this means that many of the traditional constitutional restraints on the central government must be set aside so that government has the power and discretion to bring Britain to its domestic destiny. The new Jacobins also insist that this model of a perfected Britain is the ideal that the rest of the world should follow.”
That, everyone must surely agree, captures Mr. Blair and his Court to a “T”. The only wrinkle is that Blair, in his more rational moments, knows that Britain is not big enough or powerful enough to make the rest of the world follow his ideal. Britain is not the right vehicle for Blair’s ambitions: it has to be “Europe”.
And that leads on to a consideration of the second limb of the pro-EU argument in Britain: that the federalist dragon has been slain.
I don’t want to see a federal Europe, because a genuine federation, to be a Covenant-based polity in which the State is subject to some higher law, must possess a demos. There must be a European people, yet even fanatical supporters of a European superstate, such as Chris Patten, admit there is no European people.
But, some say, Europe can compensate for that absence of demos by the excellence and virtue of its ethos and telos. Yet the EU’s ethos and telos are precisely those of the Jacobins.
Its telos – its vocation, as the Commission would put it – is imperialist. That is what I have just been talking about.
And its ethos is totalitarian: it is based directly and explicitly on the Rousseauvian General Will.
Domestically, Blair the great proponent of “Europe”, has already shown himself to be, in effect, totalitarian: everyone will remember his notorious conference speech from a few years ago when he spoke of “nation and party united as never before”. Implicitly he is saying, “Britain is New Labour; New Labour is me; Britain is me.”
His government has certainly alarmed the Lord Chief Justice. I mentioned earlier that the Rule of Law, in a Covenant-based polity, stands above the Rule of Man. Lord Woolf, whatever one thinks of his sentencing policy, put it very well last month, when he said that the absence of the Rule of Law leads to dictatorship and that even if a dictatorship is initially benevolent, it can also --and usually does -- become malevolent.
The EU is already malevolent: the fearful Charter of Fundamental Rights makes that very clear indeed. It comes directly from the idea of the General Will, and it deifies the State. The State gives certain rights – those, and only those enumerated in the Charter – and the State can take those rights away whenever it sees fit.
The idea of the General Will can be traced back to the organic, hierarchical polities of Greece and Rome and to Roman law. As Justinian himself put it, in the Institutes, “The whim of the Prince is law.” Why? Because the Prince – the emperor — was God? Justinian himself was Christian: he could not himself claim to be God; instead, the State itself was deified, a model followed in the French, Soviet and Nazi revolutions and now in the EU.
“The whim of the Prince is law”: that was the meaning of the Nazi Enabling Act of February 28, 1933. In Britain it may well turn out – Lord Woolf clearly suspects as much -- to be the meaning of the Civil Contingencies Bill. In the EU, it is very definitely the meaning of the Charter and of the existing decisions of the so-called European Court of Justice (I decline to refer to these decisions either as “case-law” or as “jurisprudence”).
Article 52 of the Charter – which simply reprises, let me repeat, existing decisions of the ECJ - states explicitly that any and all aspects of freedom – freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom from arbitrary arrest, freedom from attainder, freedom from unfair trial and freedom from torture – shall be limited by the State if “necessary in pursuit of objectives of common interest.”
That is pure raison d’état, the antithesis of the Rule of Law in a covenant-based system - one such as that of Anglo-Saxon England, which resisted the Norman Conquest and became the basis of the common law, which is now also the law of the English-speaking world.
All governments are to a greater or lesser extent prone to using raison d’état. But not all polities let them do it unhindered. The US Constitution and the US Supreme Court, and behind them the Covenant on which the USA is built, will, I am confident – and more confident after Tuesday – ultimately insist that freedoms are respected, however inconvenient that might be to a particular Administration.
But in the EU, it is the “supreme court” that proclaims the doctrine of raison d’état loudest of all, and the underlying basis of the polity is not a Covenant that recognizes a higher law but the tyranny of a supposed General Will.
Will that still matter if the EU constitution is, as looks probable, defeated in a referendum in one or more countries? Yes, it will.
The existing EU structure, though perhaps not quite as offensive as that which would be erected by the constitution, is already capable of delivering us all into the hands of the ECJ through intergovernmentalism if not through federalism.
We have already seen Blunkett and Blair give up our national veto in immigration and asylum policy. We shall probably see the government, whatever its current protestations, agree to the establishment of a European Public prosecutor. We shall probably see the government agree to the establishment of an EU-wide system of criminal justice in which the House of Lords is replaced as final court of criminal appeal by the ECJ. We shall probably see the government agree to more sweeping EU-wide measures supposedly aimed at combating terrorism – a term whose interpretation will become ever wider. We shall certainly see the superstate – made up of the member governments - legislating to restrict the freedoms I have enumerated.
The government will do these things because it wants to do them. And it wants to do them through the EU because the actions of the EU are almost impossible to reverse.
So even if one naively thought that Blair might actually be a powerful player in an intergovernmental superstate, one could draw no comfort from that. My idea of British freedom and independence is not that of an unaccountable and authoritarian superstate in which one of the big bosses happens to be British. But that is – at the very best -- what Blair can claim to offer us when he says that the federalist dragon has been slain.
I want for Britain what George Bush wants for America – the right for us to decide our own affairs according to our lights. And I want those lights to continue to be – or revert to being – those of a Covenant-based polity, in which there is a higher law to which the State must submit. I certainly do not want a theocracy – a State that claims to be the voice and arm of God – but I equally do not want a State that ignores the moral prohibition on absolute power – the kind of State incarnated by the EU and so attractive to Blair.
Leaving the EU might not be a sufficient condition for that. The US, except to the extent to which it has supported the ambitions of pro-“Europeans” –unfortunately a significant extent until now - has guaranteed Britain’s freedom in a sense since 1917 and very definitely since 1941 – just as the Royal Navy guaranteed America’s freedom and economic development through most of the nineteenth century. The continued effectiveness of that guarantee will be in inverse proportion to the degree of US Administration infatuation with the idea of “Europe”. In other words, it will be more effective under Bush than it was under Clinton or would have been under Gore or Kerry.
One can agree for once with Hoon – when he says that we have a duty of loyalty to our American ally. We certainly have no duty of loyalty – whatever the treaties or the proposed constitution may say - to a European continent whose major powers have striven for centuries, and continue to strive today, not to guarantee our freedom but to destroy it – along with the freedom of their own peoples.
Leaving the EU may not be a sufficient condition for freedom, but it is certainly a necessary one.
The views expressed in this talk are those of the author alone
It was John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who first spoke of New England as “the city on a hill.”
The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 2: Covenant and Commonwealth: from Christian Separation through the Protestant Reformation, Transaction, 1996, p.50.
Covenant Tradition in Politicsme 1: nant and Polity in Biblical Israelnsaction, 1994, p.68
“The Jewish Origins of the Western Disobedience Tradition”, Azure4, Summer 5758/1998
Azure, Autumn 5765/2004, Editorial
Richard M. Ebeling, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, April 2004.
Claes G. Ryn, “The Ideology of American Empire”, Orbis, The Foreign Policy Research Institute, Summer 2003. pp. 383-397.
Of course Talbott, like so many others, massively mis-analyses and misrepresents the experience of the twentieth century and its implications: see Bernard Connolly, Circle of Barbed Wire, October 2003 pp 15-18.
Speech by Patrick Louis, MEP
Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you, first of all, for asking me here. I am proud and honoured that you chose me to bring a French perspective to your debates.
Of course, this is not the first time that Frenchmen have been welcomed on this side of the Channel to defend their country’s sovereignty!
And if the threat to our independence is thankfully no longer a military one, it is no less serious for that. For the European constitution, as it stands, would spell the end of France and Britain as nation-states – at least in the sense that we know them.
Until now, the European project has been pursued by stealth. Each new treaty took us closer to the federalist objective, but no one ever spelt it out. We went from a customs union to a common market to a single currency. Now we come to the constitution.
And now the federalists have broken cover and we can see their goal for what it always was: a European state. A state with its own flag, currency, national anthem, passport and parliament; with its own legal personality and emerging military capacity.
Now we must decide, in the coming referendums, whether to abandon the nation-state as the focus of our democracy.
French voters will decide this issue on the basis of two questions.
First, what are Europe’s geographical limits? Does the federal project, as embodied in this constitution, apply to all or part of our continent? Does Europe stretch to the Urals, or into Asia? This question is causing divisions throughout France, even within the governing party.
Second, are we prepared to accept the primacy of European law over our national statutes and even our national constitutions? Do we accept that a Commission ruling may strike down constitutional arrangements that have been properly adopted within our countries? Do we accept, in other words, that the least democratic form of law – an EU directive – shall override the most democratic – that passed by an elected national parliament?
Simply to pose this question is to see why all good democrats must note “no”.
What, then, are our chances of success in France?
I am reasonably optimistic. Many Frenchmen are concerned, of course, about the loss of self-government. But we have been joined in recent weeks by some unexpected allies from the socialist party.
Some on the French Left argue that the EU is a safeguard against what they call liberalism. What they really mean by this is that they want Brussels to impose socialist policies on the member states that have been rejected in national elections.
Whatever their motivation is, they are welcome. Our “no” campaign has room for everyone! I don’t care how people vote in national elections. I care about saving our democratic system, so that those elections continue to mean something.
This is a fight for all of us – whether we are British or French, Polish or Czech. We will vote “no”, not only for our own rights, but also for the freedom of all Europe’s nations.
That, my friends, is why we must work together. What is at stake is bigger than any one nation. It is even more important than the debate we are having today about being in or out of the Union. We are in, whether we like it or not. Our next fight is the referendum.
We must vote no, not because we are narrow-minded, not because we are nationalists, but, on the contrary, because we are Europeans.
Vive la France,
Vive la Grande-Bretagne!
Speech by Steen Thomsen
Dear Conference Delegates
Firstly, I would like to bring my very warm wishes from The Danish People’s Party and all Eurosceptics in Denmark and very many thanks for the invitation to participate in this conference.
I have been Secretary General for the Danish People’s Party for four years and am now a member of the Executive Committee.
Denmark is well known for having a healthy scepticism to the European Union, just as you do in Great Britain. The people of Denmark have given the vote of ”No” to even more Union quite a few times over the years. This is why we today, and thank goodness for that!, are doing quite well without the Euro. We are not European Union citizens, but Danish citizens. We are not a part of the European Union army, and we continue to have our legal “opt out clauses”.
This has meant that we have been able to tighten our immigration policies, which has also meant an outstanding drop in the amount of immigrants coming to Denmark. This is an area where we have been able to carry out our own politics in Denmark. We are not dictated to by the EU on this subject, thanks to our "opt out clauses."
My introduction starts by describing one area where we have been able to keep ”our right to decide”. We feel too much power is being taken away from the national parliaments and placed in the hands of the European Union.
The imminent arrival of the EU Constitution will undoubtedly ensure that even more power will moved over to the Union. Moreover, where the Union currently decides matters with unanimous voting could be replaced with majority voting. Meaning that many decisions will be made by a majority vote in the European Union despite the fact that a whole countries politicians and populations might be opposed to the subject in question!
In Denmark we have been in the privileged position of having a number of referendums regarding the European Union. Each time, politicians have told us ”Only this far – and no further”. Before the Union we were told that the Common Market would not develop into a Union, We were told the European Community would not develop into a Union. The Danish Conservative Prime Minister Poul Schlütter told us – (quote) ”The Union is stone dead!”, (unquote). A few years later the Union was a reality.
Before the Euro was introduced, they told us, there would never be a common currency in Europe. Time and time again leading politicians have told us ”Only this far, and no further.” But still it continues – the European Union run away train at full speed to a final destination that no-body knows the name of, and where the people don’t want to go.
When the euro was introduced, a poll in Germany showed that over 80% of all Germans did not want to have their D-mark replaced with the Euro. However, they were not asked to make a choice.
Allow me to come with yet another quote:
”To introduce a common currency, will in my opinion be to strongly assimilate countries where the ground values oppose it. There is a great difference between Greece, Denmark, Germany and France. There is no idea for a common currency.”
These wise words were spoken by Denmark’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Mr. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in 1993. A couple of years later however, he declared a referendum on the Euro and recommended the common currency. Luckily, he lost the vote as Danes voted no!
When each country’s currency is melted together in a common currency (the Euro) the possibility no longer exists for exchange rate changes. Those countries that carry through an irresponsible economic policy, no longer just damage their national currency, but now they damage the common currency. The introduction of the euro rewards countries that carry through an irresponsible economic policy and punishes those that carry through a responsible economic policy. In this way countries are forced to carry through the same economic policy. If a country despite this carries through an irresponsible policy, it is punished with fines from the Union… Or it turns out, that if it’s a small country, they get fines – but if countries like France and Germany disobey these rigid rules, even over many years, there are no sanctions..... But still, their actions affect the common currency and are therefore damaging for all the countries in Euroland.
The Danish people have turned their backs on the Euro 3 times! – the politicians however, are now again talking about a new referendum for the Euro in connection with the referendum for the new Constitution. They keep on and on, until they get their yes to the Euro. But of course, once they get their yes, there will be no more referendums on that subject anymore... Ireland is another example that when the population was finally asked - they answered with a no! But instead of listening to the population and respecting the no – they are just asked one more time, with even more pressure_!
There is no respect for the opposition to the assimilation of populations. There is even less respect for a populations right to elect their own politicians to national parliaments. When the Austrian people voted for Jørg Haiders Freedom Party, Austria was placed outside the door. It is grotesque that the Union interferes with the people’s right to choose their own politicians, those that maybe have another opinion to those carried by the harmonised politicians in Brussels. There is no respect for the people’s desire that decisions are made best in the parliaments of their own countries. It is about time that someone pulls the emergency cord on this Union run away train, - make a stop and preserve each nations right to decide for themselves.
Last year, I had the honour of participating in the British Conservative Conference, ”Congress for Democracy”. The main theme was, to ensure that the imminent European Constitution should be given to the people as a referendum. It is grotesque that there need to be a fight to ensure such an important referendum is given to the people. It ought to be a human right!
I truly hope that those countries that have the possibility to vote on the European Constitution, will be the ones pulling the emergency cord in the European Run Away train and say no, to more union. The politicians must be forced to stop and find their way back to a co-operation between independent nations and to respect our wonderful differences.
I would like to point out, that we are not opposed to a co-operation with the countries in Europe. On the contrary, we are supporters of a co-operation with countries both in and outside Europe. There is a great deal we can work together to achieve: the environment and trade are two good examples. However, a great deal has come in the way from these co-operations and the present Union.
The European countries are different – luckily. Therefore, decisions are best make by the national parliaments – not by the European Union.
I would like to end by wishing you all the very best luck in your work up to the referendum on the European Constitution, and let me most of all wish for a huge NO to the European Constitution in many EU countries.
Speech by Christophe Beaudouin
Mr Chairman,
Dear Bruges Group friends.
It is a great pleasure to find ourselves here, in King’s College London, amongst fellow ’Europeans from nation states’, defenders of sovereignty and by extension resolute opponents of the European Constitutional Treaty project.
For the French we are – MEP Patrick Louis (who spoke this morning) and I- defenders of national sovereignty, it’s an honour to speak in this prestigious place and in your splendid capital.
Indeed, for several centuries, England offers to the world a parliamentary model, a wonderful expression of the British people’s sovereignty.
And again, it’s from London that we can still hear the echo of General de Gaulle’s call for the peoples to resist.
So, not surprisingly, it is –again- from the United Kingdom along with Poland that came one of the best news for defenders of nations, at the last European election of last 13th of June…!
In France, in a few months, the parliament will meet to modify our constitution before the referendum announced by President Chirac.
Gaullists and Sovereignists leaders, be they left-wing or right-wing, have asked for it often enough!
It was even the raison d’être (if you’ll excuse the expression) for a coordinated European campaign for such a referendum. “SOS Democracy” – its very name echoed like a clarion call – was set up in the European Parliament by its chairman, Jens-Peter Bonde.
We were demanding a referendum because we couldn’t comprehend how such a page of the history of our nations could be turned, yet again, under the noses of the people of Europe.
Except that, already no longer being sovereign on this continent, it’s no longer up to them to write the last chapter.
However, when you think for a moment about the question that is going to be asked, it is quite scary how much the stakes seem to pass the citizen himself by.
Who has the legitimate authority to take sovereignty away from Europe’s peoples?
Does a majority of electors in a given country, at a given moment in time, have the legal authority on some fine Spring summer’s day, to ditch the right of a people and future generations this fundamental freedom – the freedom to govern themselves?
National and popular sovereignty is not Parliament’s possession.
Nor is it the property of a body of the electorate expressing itself in a referendum.
Such are no more than the privileged guardians and watchkeepers of a treasure that was conquered in a great struggle by our ancestors; something we, young generations, won’t accept to give up, and that we must pass on, intact, to our descendents.
If we are delighted at being able to tackle this referendum campaign, and if we are impatient to fight the Constitutional Treaty, it’s with the conviction that basically, no one has the legitimate right to answer the question that will be put, not even the people.
So for us, this referendum can not be lost. A ‘No’ to any European constitution is more than a necessity: it’s a duty we owe History.
In France, many political figures, sometimes for different reasons, have joined the No to a Federal Europe camp.
Indeed, in a few days time if I succeed, a Joint Campaign for a European Confederation is due to be set up, reuniting several personalities with their roots in ‘historical Gaullism’, MPs from the UMP, from the Centre Right and I hope, MEPs from the party of Philippe de Villiers.
It is a key event in the campaign: these are very different people who have decided to bring together their skills and forces, to block the madness of supranationalism, this dangerous ideology of old empires, this utopia born during the cold war.
In the age of atom, micro-ship technology, internet, the relationship between weight and power is no longer what it used to be.
We don’t need a new Soviet Union in Europe.
We need a flexible Europe.
That is why:
We refuse to allow a higher law to override a national law, including constitutional law
We refuse to allow the limitless extension of Qualified Majority Vote without any right of appeal or of opposition from any people
We refuse to allow the Union to become a superstate, equipped with legal personality, the ability to sign international agreements, raise taxes, and sit down at the nation’s place in U.N.O. We refuse to give up our British and French veto in U.N.O to an invisible power.
And then, we refuse to have a ‘Charter of Fundamental Rights’ incorporated into the constitutional project, that overturns the definition of our laws and freedoms, such as they have been built up over the centuries by our parliaments and by our national courts of law.
The Europe which we want is not based on ideology, the logic of an idea.
Our Europe is pragmatic – the logic of reality.
Well, the reality is that Europe is made up of nations, and that it’s from these nations that we have to organise a Europe to confront hegemonies from wherever they may come.
Against the Europe of ‘shared sovereignty’ (as if indeed sovereignty could ever be shared!) – against a Europe then without sovereignty – we support a Europe of ‘partners in sovereignty’.
It is what it was all about back in the foundations and starting points, back in the Treaty of Rome. It’s the Europe that lasted for a quarter of a century that we should pursue the building.
It’s the Europe that peace allowed to be born. Contrary to received wisdom, it’s not Europe that has brought peace, it’s because of peace that Europe was made.
Well, since the 1980’s and especially since the Treaty of Maastricht, Europe has stopped being the daughter of Europe’s nations.
It has become their enemy.
We will say in this campaign that we have to go back to the foundations.
We will fight for a refounding treaty for Europe, for a confederation, in other words an association of states that remain sovereign and that delegate the running of certain powers to a common body.
If, as we believe, in the UK, in France, the ‘No’ wins, we will have scored a decisive goal against the powerful federalist camp, but the match won’t be over …
A win over the ‘Giscard Constitution’ will not bring home the wide rafts of competences already lost to the civil servants, judges and bankers of Brussels, Luxembourg and Francfort.
It will not prevent subsequent federal law from overriding national, even constitutional, law, because the courts are already leaning that way.
In France, following the Supreme Court and the Council of State, the Constitutional Council itself, three days before the 13 June MEP elections and in the greatest secrecy, gave supremacy to a directive over the French Constitution. (It only publicised this decision the day after the election stating that it wanted to avoid giving arguments to the opponents of the federalism…!)
That’s why if, after having run a campaign side by side across the whole of Europe, we win at least one of the referendums, and make the project fail, we must be ready to transform the exercise.
We must immediately appear as those who have saved Europe from federalism, and as the pioneers for a vibrant enlarged Europe.
In our ‘No’ campaign, we should be capable of offering a credible alternative, a new European project.
We could propose a fundamental treaty which would be a ‘Charter of the Rights of Nations’ built up around certain simple principles:
the superiority of national constitutions
reinforcing the direct role of national parliaments in the processes of European decision-making
recognition of a right of veto for states protecting their vital interests
rehabilitating the principle of Community preference
In the coming months, why not work and reflect together, on our alternative projects, within a sort of “counter-Convention” or “shadow Convention” for the refounding of Europe, which would give our movement all the depth that it deserves?
We are not a flotsam of opponents in the wake of European federalism.
We are those people who, in Europe, oppose the dilution of political willpower, that is handing us over to world forces and breaking, one by one, our vital links.
We are those people who, in Europe, are defending the sovereignty of their nation and of their people, without which democracy has never and can never be.
We are those people who want to put nations back at Europe’s tiller, because we refuse to see our country become, no more than a simple expression of geography, but on the contrary, that it should remain a player in history.
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'''Justise Hairston''' is a [[National Football League]] [[Free Agent|free agent]] running back. He was born on Jun 27, 1983.
==High School Football==
In 2000 and 2001, Hirston, while attending New Britain High School, rushed for over a thousand yards. In his senior season he led his team to a state championship as he ran for 1,147 yards and 19 touchdowns. For his great season he was named to the [[Connecticut]] All-State team and also honored as the state playoff Most Valuable Player<ref>http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/11/06/Sports/Justise.Returns.To.Connecticut-550108.shtml</ref>.
In 2000 and 2001, Hirston, while attending New Britain High School, rushed for over a thousand yards. In his senior season he led his team to a state championship as he ran for 1,147 yards and 19 touchdowns. For his great season he was named to the [[Connecticut]] All-State team and also honored as the state playoff Most Valuable Player.<ref>http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/11/06/Sports/Justise.Returns.To.Connecticut-550108.shtml</ref>
==College Football==
Hairston attended and played college football for [[Rutgers University]] (2003 - 2005) and [[Central Connecticut State University]] (2006). In his three years with Rutgers he played in 16 games as a running back (25 total) and rushed for 696 yards on 210 attempts and scored nine touchdowns. He also had receptions for 112 yards<ref>http://www.nfldraftcountdown.com/scoutingreports/rb/justisehairston.html</ref>. He only played on special teams units in 2005. Realizing that his chances of starting at running back while at Rutgers were slim, Hairston transfered to [[Central Connecticut State University]] where he would be the teams top running back<ref>http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/11/06/Sports/Justise.Returns.To.Connecticut-550108.shtml</ref>. In his 2006, senior season with the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils he rushed for a school record 1,847 yards and 20 touchdowns with 5 receptions for 58 yards<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26313&pcid=47</ref>. Eight out of the eleven games that he played in 2006 he rushed for over a hundred yards. His best game came in the Blue Devils sixth game of the season victory over [[St. Francis University]] when he ran for 332 yards on 23 rushing attempts with five touchdowns<ref>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/players/19941/index.html</ref>. His rushing yardage (1,847) and rushing average ( 6.7) were the best in the nation<ref>http://www.northeastconference.org/news/fball/2006/11/20/fb-hairstonpaytonfinalist.asp?path=fball</ref>. He was named as a finalist for the annual I-AA Walter Payton Award<ref>www.northeastconference.org/news/fball/2006/11/20/fb-hairstonpaytonfinalist.asp?path=fball</ref>
Hairston attended and played college football for [[Rutgers University]] (2003 - 2005) and [[Central Connecticut State University]] (2006). In his three years with Rutgers he played in 16 games as a running back (25 total) and rushed for 696 yards on 210 attempts and scored nine touchdowns. He also had receptions for 112 yards.<ref>http://www.nfldraftcountdown.com/scoutingreports/rb/justisehairston.html</ref> He only played on special teams units in 2005. Realizing that his chances of starting at running back while at Rutgers were slim, Hairston transferred to [[Central Connecticut State University]] where he would be the teams top running back.<ref>http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/11/06/Sports/Justise.Returns.To.Connecticut-550108.shtml</ref> In his 2006, senior season with the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils he rushed for a school record 1,847 yards and 20 touchdowns with 5 receptions for 58 yards.<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26313&pcid=47</ref> Eight out of the eleven games that he played in 2006 he rushed for over a hundred yards. His best game came in the Blue Devils sixth game of the season victory over [[St. Francis University]] when he ran for 332 yards on 23 rushing attempts with five touchdowns.<ref>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/players/19941/index.html</ref> His rushing yardage (1,847) and rushing average ( 6.7) were the best in the nation.<ref>http://www.northeastconference.org/news/fball/2006/11/20/fb-hairstonpaytonfinalist.asp?path=fball</ref> He was named as a finalist for the annual I-AA Walter Payton Award<ref>http://www.northeastconference.org/news/fball/2006/11/20/fb-hairstonpaytonfinalist.asp?path=fball</ref>
==NFL Career==
On April 29, 2007 the [[New England Patriots]] drafted Hairston in the sixth round (208th overall pick) of the [[2007 NFL Draft]]. The Patriots signed him to a contract on July 17, 2007<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26313&pcid=47</ref>. He was released (July 27) from the team however after he was injured prior to training camp<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26479&pcid=47</ref>. After clearing waivers, the Patriots placed Hairston on their injury reserve list<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26600&pcid=47</ref>; ended any chances of him playing in 2007.
On April 29, 2007 the [[New England Patriots]] drafted Hairston in the sixth round (208th overall pick) of the [[2007 NFL Draft]]. The Patriots signed him to a contract on July 17, 2007.<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26313&pcid=47</ref> He was released (July 27) from the team however after he was injured prior to training camp.<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26479&pcid=47</ref> After clearing waivers, the Patriots placed Hairston on their injury reserve list;<ref>http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26600&pcid=47</ref> ended any chances of him playing in 2007.
==Trivial==
*Hairston can do a 39-inch vertical leap; that was the best of any college running back in the nation in 2007<ref>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18274989&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=17758&rfi=6</ref>.
*Hairston can do a 39-inch vertical leap; that was the best of any college running back in the nation in 2007.<ref>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18274989&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=17758&rfi=6</ref>
*[http://www.patriots.com/team/index.cfm?ac=playerbio&bio=32513 Patriots Bio]
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Justise Hairston is a National Football League free agent running back. He was born on Jun 27, 1983.
1 High School Football
2 College Football
3 NFL career
4 Trivial
In 2000 and 2001, Hirston, while attending New Britain High School, rushed for over a thousand yards. In his senior season he led his team to a state championship as he ran for 1,147 yards and 19 touchdowns. For his great season he was named to the Connecticut All-State team and also honored as the state playoff Most Valuable Player.[1]
Hairston attended and played college football for Rutgers University (2003 - 2005) and Central Connecticut State University (2006). In his three years with Rutgers he played in 16 games as a running back (25 total) and rushed for 696 yards on 210 attempts and scored nine touchdowns. He also had receptions for 112 yards.[2] He only played on special teams units in 2005. Realizing that his chances of starting at running back while at Rutgers were slim, Hairston transferred to Central Connecticut State University where he would be the teams top running back.[3] In his 2006, senior season with the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils he rushed for a school record 1,847 yards and 20 touchdowns with 5 receptions for 58 yards.[4] Eight out of the eleven games that he played in 2006 he rushed for over a hundred yards. His best game came in the Blue Devils sixth game of the season victory over St. Francis University when he ran for 332 yards on 23 rushing attempts with five touchdowns.[5] His rushing yardage (1,847) and rushing average ( 6.7) were the best in the nation.[6] He was named as a finalist for the annual I-AA Walter Payton Award[7]
NFL career
On April 29, 2007 the New England Patriots drafted Hairston in the sixth round (208th overall pick) of the 2007 NFL Draft. The Patriots signed him to a contract on July 17, 2007.[8] He was released (July 27) from the team however after he was injured prior to training camp.[9] After clearing waivers, the Patriots placed Hairston on their injury reserve list;[10] ended any chances of him playing in 2007.
Hairston can do a 39-inch vertical leap; that was the best of any college running back in the nation in 2007.[11]
↑ http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/11/06/Sports/Justise.Returns.To.Connecticut-550108.shtml
↑ http://www.nfldraftcountdown.com/scoutingreports/rb/justisehairston.html
↑ http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=26313&pcid=47
↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/players/19941/index.html
↑ http://www.northeastconference.org/news/fball/2006/11/20/fb-hairstonpaytonfinalist.asp?path=fball
↑ http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18274989&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=17758&rfi=6
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Boss praise for Ness and Stoke staff as he fights to be fit for the weekend.
On-loan midfielder Jamie Ness is doing everything in his power to be fit for this weekend’s fixture at Coventry City. Ness has missed the last two games after being forced off at the half-time interval against his former club Leyton Orient with a calf strain.
Ness has returned to his parent club Stoke City for treatment on the injury and it has been positive news coming from the medical department of our near neighbours.
Ness began jogging again earlier in the week and it is hoped that he will fit enough to resume full training on Thursday.
Ahead of this weekend’s crucial trip to Coventry, Steve Davis told us: “We have had some bad luck recently when it has come to injuries, losing Tatey and then Chris (Atkinson) on Saturday.
“Nessy has a chance. He has had some injections at Stoke and he has started jogging again. We are hoping that he will be able to train with us fully on Thursday and then declare himself available for selection.
“If we could have Jamie available then that would give us a huge boost. We have missed him and he was here on Saturday supporting the lads. That goes to show the mentality of him.
He added: “He could have returned to Stoke with a few games left and thought that will do me, but both he and the staff at Stoke have been brilliant. He has worked exceptionally hard to give himself a chance and that is what you want from a player. He isn’t technically one of ours but he is determined to get back and help us. That shows the character he has.“
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George L. Kelling
The leaders of the New York State Legislature have promised to undo a behind-the-scenes budgetary deal that has put New York City's quality of life in peril. Last year legislators, at the request of the state's judiciary, relieved the city's criminal courts of the responsibility for processing minor offenders—those who violate ordinances against public-order crimes like urinating or drinking in public. (See "How to Run a Police Department," City Journal, Autumn 1995.) The judges claimed the change in jurisdiction would save $1 million, though they never made it clear how. In truth, the overburdened judges were trying to reduce their workload. But they failed to understand how important these minor crimes are in the Police Department's successful strategy to prevent serious crime.
That strategy is based on a simple but powerful idea: tolerating uncivil behavior in public spaces creates a sense of disorder and an environment that breeds more serious crime. By removing jurisdiction for minor offenses from the criminal courts, the Legislature in effect decriminalized them. Police can no longer arrest repeat offenders; nor do they have the authority to question and demand identification from those who commit minor offenses.
The Police Department is now reviewing the city's disorder statutes to determine which are most crucial to return to criminal court jurisdiction. Among their recommendations are certain to be the laws banning public drinking, public urination, and possession and sale of certain types of knives. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno have promised to follow the NYPD's recommendations: New Yorkers should hold them to that commitment.
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Seth Barron One of the jewels of New York City’s park system is becoming an open-air drug market.
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How to Run a Police Department
Get cops to care about what they’re doing, and they’ll do it right. George L. Kelling Public safety
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Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love
Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage
Current project status: COMPLETED
Marwa Arsanios / Feature Documentary / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / 2013 / 26 min / Colour / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Documentary, Middle Eastern, Art/Literature, Avant Garde, Arthouse, Creative Documentary
Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through different languages and different groups of people talking about domestic work. Through casting, TV series sets, acting and extras, the domestic workers’ syndicate in Mexico city, a group of friends in Beirut, Joy a migrant worker from Beirut, ASE or the labor of love is set in the backstage of scenes blurring the division between stage and backstage and looking at the dark side and the pillar of economy: underpaid/unpaid labor of domestic work, mainly performed by women. The question would then be, how to resist this mode of reproductive work? ASE or the Labor of Love is a layered film where the set of filmmaking becomes an open space for thinking and generating politics, leisure and resistance. What is work? How can we resist it? In a continuous dialectic between work as representation and the representation of work and its exploitations the film has an optimistic take on collectivities and collective political projects.
Marwa Arsanios
Abla Khoury, Lara Chekerdjian, Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios lives and works in Beirut and received her MFA from the University of the Arts, London, in 2007. She was a researcher in the Fine Art department at Jan Van Eyck Academie from 2011 to 2012. Arsanios has had solo exhibitions at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016), the Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015), and Art in General, New York City (2015). Her work was also shown at the Venice Biennale (2013), the Istanbul Biennial (2011), the Home Works Forum in Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015), the New Museum, New York City (2014), M HKA, Antwerp (2013) and nGbK, Berlin (2012). Screenings of her videos have taken place at the Berlin International Film Festival (2010, 2015), e-flux storefront, New York City (2009), and the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011). In 2012, Arsanios was awarded the special prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize.
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Wreckage of Ann Kathleen removed by helicopter
Crews have finished cleanup of major debris left by the wreck of the Ann Kathleen, a 64-foot fishing vessel. The boat came ashore Thursday, May 2 on a beach south of Bandon after catching fire. No one was injured.
The vast majority of the wreckage was removed by helicopter over the last week. A portion of the heavy keel was left to sink into the sand.
The cleanup was organized by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and funded by the boat’s insurer. It involved excavators, helicopters, a salvage crew from Global Dive and Salvage, Inc. out of Seattle, with monitoring and support from the Coquille Indian Tribe, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The wreck site is several miles from a developed beach access and home to sensitive resources like the western snowy plover, a threatened shorebird in the middle of its nesting season.
The initial cleanup response, led by a unified command that included the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Coast Guard, began May 3 and recovered more than 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Some residual fuel was recovered during final demolition.
No hazardous fluids from the shipwreck were detected on the beach or in the ocean.
Bait fish were removed from the wreck and temporarily buried in containers at the site for later removal from the beach; burying and removing the bait is necessary to avoid attracting predators to the nesting area.
After excavating sand from around the boat, a helicopter carried a dozen loads of heavy debris to the Cape Blanco Airport eight miles south. Smaller, lighter debris was removed using ATVs.
The keel was deemed too heavy to fly out. The crews excavated around it and allowed it to sink naturally into the sand, where it now rests several feet beneath the surface.
The keel does not contain hazardous material. Staff monitoring the cleanup reported plovers were not disturbed by the work.
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European Governance & EU institutions Foreign & security policies Migration & refugees
Imagined Threat—How Europe’s Migration Foreign Policy is Fuelling Greater Instability
by Julia Himmrich —14 December 2017
Photo by Will Bakker
As the European Council meets this week, migration policy is one of the top-billed topics of debate. Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow Julia Himmrich argues here that Europe’s response to migration should be resilience not deterrence.
At this week’s Council meeting, European leaders will debate the response to the internal and external dimensions of migration. But earlier this week, divisions between the EU institutions and member states became clear. Council President Donald Tusk, reflecting the position of the heads of states, rejected the relocation quotas suggested by the Commission, which would be a key factor in improving the burden sharing between EU member states.
The Commission has brought forward many initiatives on migration in the past year, with the most recent paper published last week. However, with member states in the driving seat, defending borders and treating migrant flows as a potential threat remains the dominant narrative. Externalising migration is now seen as the be-all and end-all solution.
Migration naturally has an international dimension, and with global mobility on the rise it will be central in future European foreign policy. Taking this external dimension of migration seriously is important. However, the current understanding of this dimension is built on false interpretations of threats, which makes the proposed solutions unsuitable.
With growing interest in on so-called ‘hybrid threats’, migration has been thrown in with other new challenges facing Europe such as cyber attacks and terrorism. How exactly migration fits in this group is not clear, however, references to destabilising factors and to organised crime are frequently made. The Implementation Plan on Security and Defence of the EU’s Global Strategy says the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions should deal better with the “challenges related to migration”. These challenges are not explained in the document, but have been discussed elsewhere in the European Agenda on Security and the Agenda on Migration. Trafficking and organised crime networks and managing high flows of irregular migrations seem to be the perceived threat. The EU isn’t the only international body adopting this approach to migration: EU-NATO collaboration identified maritime cooperation for the purpose of migration management as a key area of cooperation.
A variety of deterrence strategies have been used to reduce the number of migrants coming into the EU. This includes reducing search and rescue operations, negotiating return agreements with third states, and building the capacity of migrants’ states of origin to prevent citizens from departing on their journeys to Europe. Europe’s misguided fear of being overrun by large numbers of migrants is defining its approach to migration. Neighbouring countries such as Turkey and Libya have been able to exploit this by threatening to ‘unleash’ migrants onto Europe to achieve favourable agreements with the EU, a tactic that Kelly Greenhill defined as the ‘weaponisation’ of migrants. The EU is putting itself in uncomfortable situations through agreements with governments that are considered responsible for the weak political and economic conditions from which individuals are trying to escape.
The trafficking and smuggling of migrants is also considered a key source of instability in Europe. Although the institutions make a clear distinction between smuggling, assisting migrants to cross borders illegally, and trafficking, forced migration for the exploitation of migrants, member states are less interested in these nuances.
The other priority defined by the EU Commission in its Agenda on Migration, to save migrants’ lives and respond to the humanitarian crisis, falls into the background in the face of perceived threats. In one of the most striking instances of this de-prioritisation, the EU denied support Italy’s Mare Nostrum operation, which sought to save migrants at sea. The justification was that this would be a so-called ‘pull factor’ for migrants. Instead the EU supported the Triton operation, which covers a much smaller area. The CSDP mission Operation Sophia supports these activities when needed but it does not represent a sustainable search and rescue effort.
However, the evidence shows that the number of migrants does not decrease when access to Europe is made more difficult. Instead, securitising and militarising borders and migration routes pushes smuggling practices closer to organised crime syndicates and creates new security challenges in the neighbourhood. In Libya, for example, armed militias are becoming involved because higher risk makes the business more lucrative. The most recent reports of slavery in Libya are only an indication of how the policy of deterrence and externalisation leads to further destabilisation.
The response to hybrid threats is typically to build resilience rather than to employ traditional strategies such as military action or deterrence. Interestingly, if one accepts the hybrid-threat narrative of migration, the solutions are not very different from what civil society and those operating on the ground have been arguing. Resilience in regard to migration would require states to be better prepared so that they are not threatened by blackmail from partner countries or encourage smuggling and trafficking networks. The focus should be on diminishing risk factors such as high death rates along the borders, bolstering legal pathways to migration to better control migration flows, and breaking up trafficking networks in Europe.
This is unlikely to be a popular response with those who simply want to reduce the number of migrants. This solution is boring. It is about the capacity and resources of local governments in Europe, about coordination, about permits to live and work. Not about sending out ships to ‘fight migrants’.
Resilience also means future-proofing. New migration flows are likely to develop for unexpected reasons. Europeans need to be able to coordinate and respond to absorb migration flows; focusing only on reducing numbers will always put the continent in a defensive and vulnerable position. There are undeniably security concerns related to migration but these are connected to the instability of countries of origin and transit—it is not the migrants themselves that present a threat.
Against better judgment, European states have been pushing to control and restrict movement not just in its immediate neighbourhood but all the way to sub-Saharan Africa. In the external dimension, European migration policy should build on a strong internal policy which takes redistribution of migrants seriously, releases the pressure on communities carrying the burden, and prioritises the protection of asylum seekers. This way a sustainable external dimension can project stability, foster regional cooperation, and promote economic growth and mobility.
Julia Himmrich is a Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow.
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New Mexico archbishop again denounces 'Santa Muerte'
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, statues of La Santa Muerte, an underworld saint most recently associated with the violent drug trade in Mexico, are shown at the Masks y Mas art store in Albuquerque, N.M. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester recently told The Associated Press he believes some Catholics may be fooled into venerating Santa Muerte even though the focus on death runs counter to the church's teachings and she's not an official Catholic saint. Associated Press
FILE - In this March 1, 2017 file photo, a statue of La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," holds a statue of Jesus on an altar inside a temple dedicated to Santa Muerte, on the outskirts Mexico City in the State of Mexico. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester in Albuquerque, New Mexico, recently told The Associated Press he believes some Catholics may be fooled into venerating Santa Muerte even though the focus on death runs counter to the church's teachings and she's not an official Catholic saint. Associated Press
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2017 file photo, a child arranges statues of La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," on the edge of Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshipping the skeleton folk saint, saying he fears some mistakenly believe the Grim Reaper-like figure is a Roman Catholic Church-sanctioned saint. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester recently told The Associated Press he believes some Catholics may be fooled into venerating Santa Muerte even though the focus on death runs counter to the church's teachings. Associated Press
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshipping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," saying he fears some mistakenly believe the Grim Reaper-like figure is a Roman Catholic Church-sanctioned saint.
Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester recently told The Associated Press he believes some Catholics may be fooled into venerating Santa Muerte even though the focus on death runs counter to the church's teachings.
"It's really wrong," Wester said. "I think in part, it's (because) people are looking and searching. It's a symptom of a search looking for answers."
But the devotion to death is not in line with the church's teachings, Wester said, and Santa Muerte is misleading to people.
"Our devotion is to the God of life," Wester said.
Popular in Mexico and sometimes linked to drug cartels, La Santa Muerte in recent years has found a diverse following north of the border: immigrant small-business owners, artists, gay activists and the poor, among others - many of them non-Latinos and not all involved with organized religion. Shrines and statues of the skeleton figure - typically depicted wearing a black nun's robe and holding a scythe - can be found in New Mexico, California, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere.
People pray to Santa Muerte for all manner of otherworldly help, from fending off wrongdoing and exacting revenge to landing better jobs and stopping lovers from cheating. Others seek her protection for their drug shipments and to ward off law enforcement.
Wester is one of only a handful of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops who have denounced Santa Muerte. In 2017, he joined El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz and San Angelo Bishop Michael Sis in Texas in urging Catholics to avoid honoring to the folk saint.
Sis said La Santa Muerte is "spiritually dangerous" and has no link to Catholicism. "It should be completely avoided. It is a perversion of devotion to the saints," Sis said.
But so far no other high-ranking Catholic church officials have publicly criticized the worshipping of Santa Muerte, according to Andrew Chesnut, author of "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint" and Bishop Walter F. Sullivan chair in Catholic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"In Latin America, church officials rebuke Santa Muerte almost weekly," Chesnut said.
Chesnut said he believes U.S. Catholic officials have been reluctant to aggressively attack Santa Muerte because of their focus on defending migrants' rights and concerns about portraying Mexican immigrants as "dangerous and all connected to drug trafficking."
Contreras is a member of The Associated Press' race and ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/russcontreras
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Putin Looks to Remove American Influences From Russia
Helle Dale / @Helledale / September 21, 2015 / Leave a comment
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Victory Day Parade in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia (Photo: ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / POOL/EPA/Newscom)
Helle Dale / @Helledale
Helle C. Dale is the Heritage Foundation's senior fellow in public diplomacy. Her work focuses on the U.S. government’s institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public of foreign countries, as well as more traditional diplomacy. Read her research.
Last week the Russian government added one more issue to its growing heap of disputes with the United States.
By pulling the plug on the U.S. sponsored America Center hosted at M. Rudomino All-Russia State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has subtly moved against the U.S.
According to a press release by the U.S. Embassy, the state-controlled library recently terminated the formal agreement for embassy support of the center and announced its intention to replace its American director, taking control of all of the center’s activities.
America Centers (and the smaller version America spaces) are an important worldwide public diplomacy tool for the State Department, most of them housed at institutions of higher learning.
In Moscow, the America Center gave Russian students access to American culture, history and literature and hosted high-level American visitors like “astronauts, actors, athletes, academics, political figures, and authors,” according to the embassy.
As Putin has tightened his grip on the country’s domestic media and intensified the Kremlin’s information warfare, anti-Americanism is a fundamental element of his strategy.
The America Center is but one casualty.
Other U.S. institutions with a presence in Russia have come under threat, targeted by a law dating back to 2012, which classifies democracy building NGO’s as “foreign agents” and imposes severe restriction on their work.
The Russian Senate recently released a list of 12 NGO’s, claimed to be a threat to Russian society, eight American and four Ukrainian, including the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute and the Democratic National Institute, among others.
Of the American institutions on the list, only the McArthur Foundation still has a Moscow office. The rest have closed down due to harsh restrictions imposed by the Russian government.
The end of the America Center after 22 years may seem like a minor detail in comparison with problems like the Russian land-grab of Crimea, aggression in Eastern Ukraine, and now Russian military support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Yet, this move by the Russian government is far from minor. According to the U.S. Embassy’s press release,
“these latest unilateral steps further call into question the Russian government’s commitment to maintaining people-to-people ties between the Russian and American people, which continued even during the Cold War and other complicated moments in our countries’ long history.”
The symbolism of the Russian step is undeniable.
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Dairy committed to playing its part in lowering emissions
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DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle has reconfirmed the dairy sector’s commitment to play its part to reduce its biological emissions, and supports the intent of the direction of the Zero Carbon Bill.
“Our farmers are committed to sustainable farming practices, and need long-term certainty to make business decisions based on reduction targets. We are pleased the Government has listened to the science regarding the short-lived nature of methane, recognising it has a different impact on the environment,” says Dr Mackle.
“DairyNZ supports a science-based approach, where each gas is reduced based on its warming impact. We have not yet seen the Government’s analysis behind the 2050 target range. The 2050 target, of reducing methane by 24 to 47 per cent, is based on global scenarios that are not grounded in the New Zealand context. This range for methane, combined with reducing nitrous oxide to net zero, goes beyond expert scientific advice for what is necessary for New Zealand agriculture to limit global warming to no more than at 1.5° C.
“It is very important to get the range right. If we get this wrong it will have significant impacts on not just the dairy sector, but the economic, social and cultural wellbeing of New Zealand.
“While we can support much of what is in the Zero Carbon legislation, we will be pushing for the range to be reviewed and aligned with the recommendations made by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, of 10-22 per cent reduction in methane. When combined with our commitment on nitrous oxide to net zero, this is an equitable, yet ambitious and challenging target, that is grounded in robust science.
“We know our farmers will be concerned by the 47 per cent and what that might mean for their livelihoods. It is not set in stone, and the Bill includes a number of criteria for review including availability of mitigation options, what other countries are doing, and reduction efforts by other sectors.
“New Zealand is already one of the lowest emissions producers of dairy nutrition in the world per kilogram of milksolids and we want to build on that advantage. Climate change is a global issue and it is good for the world if dairy production stays in New Zealand where we have low emissions for the amount we produce. We believe our premium, grass-based, high nutrition dairy will continue to be in demand well into the future, alongside a range of other options consumers may have.
“The 2030 reduction target is the first step, which we know will be very challenging. But there is action that farmers can take, and are already taking, to reduce on-farm emissions. The first step is to understand their emissions and where they come from. As part of our pan-sector Dairy Tomorrow strategy, over the next 5 years each farm will have a farm-specific plan to manage and reduce these emissions.
“DairyNZ remains focused on researching and developing tools to help farmers make choices for how to reduce emissions - through farm systems changes and new technologies. It will take time for some of these tools to develop. We will continue working closely with government to ensure all efforts on farm are recognised, and expert advice and training is made available. This support is a vital part of a fair transition.
What is the difference between short and long-lived gases?
Not all greenhouse gases have the same warming effect or stay in the atmosphere for the same amount of time.
Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are long-lived gases (that build up in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years) while methane only remains in the atmosphere for a relatively short period of time (about 12 years) but is 25 times more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide.
Because methane doesn’t build up, scientists have advised that it does not need to be reduced to zero in order to avoid warming the atmosphere further. By stabilising methane at a reduced level (between 10-22% below current levels), we can make the equivalent contribution as net-zero for long-lived gases.
What proportion of greenhouse gas emissions are coming from agriculture and how are they produced?
Agricultural emissions (methane and nitrous oxide) comprise 48% of New Zealand’s total emissions. Dairy emissions make up nearly half of agricultural emissions, and therefore almost a quarter of all emissions.
Methane is the main biological gas (80%), and is released when ruminant animals burp. Nitrous oxide (20%) comes from the urine and dung of these animals, as well as from fertiliser use.
How have biological emissions from agriculture tracked over time?
Between 1990 and 2017, agricultural emissions increased by 13.5% and have been relatively stable since 2005. Methane alone has increased by only 4.4% since 2019. For comparison, carbon dioxide emissions from Energy (including transport, manufacturing, and electricity) have increased by about 38% since 1990.
Are there technological solutions for agricultural emissions on the horizon?
Both the Government and the agricultural sector, including dairy farmers via the milk solids levy, is investing in technological solutions to address our biological emissions through the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium.
It was set up in 2003 and receives industry investment of $5 million per year. With continued support and investment, we are confident tools will be developed to help us significantly reduce emissions from New Zealand’s pasture-grazed livestock.
We’re already seeing promising results already into the development of inhibitors, vaccines, and other technological solutions. The development of these solutions will make us well placed to become a world leader in climate change action.
New Zealand’s emissions are so small compared to other countries, will any of our efforts help prevent climate change?
While New Zealand’s share of greenhouse gas emissions globally is less than 0.2%, small emitters like us make up 24% of the worlds emissions. Together we can make a big difference.
In addition, all countries have signed up to the Paris Agreement committing them to reducing their emissions. The agreement relies on everyone playing their part. It would be a huge reputational and trade risk for New Zealand if we didn’t make an effort to reduce our emissions profile.
Why is New Zealand considering agricultural emissions when the rest of the world is focused on carbon emitting sectors?
Over 100 countries have included agriculture within their emissions targets under the Paris Agreement.
They will have to address their agricultural emissions at some point. Right now many countries are preoccupied with reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
But as their carbon dioxide emissions decrease the proportion of their emissions coming from agriculture will increase.
Over time they will look to New Zealand for leadership on how best to reduce their agricultural emissions.
Does ‘net carbon emissions’ include the carbon that is captured in the soil?
Soils store significantly more carbon than trees and plants together. While at a national scale New Zealand soils have higher soil carbon levels than the world average, there appears to be little change in overall levels over time.
It is also difficult to monitor and measure carbon in soil at a national level. It takes a long time to build up but is lost very quickly through poor land management practices, wind erosion and droughts.
The loss of carbon in soil effects our greenhouse gas emissions. This suggests there is limited potential for significant carbon sequestration from New Zealand’s soils.
Does ‘net carbon emissions’ include the carbon that is captured in growing grass?
No, carbon dioxide (C02) is absorbed from the atmosphere by grass in the process of photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide leaves the system again through respiration and decaying grass.
Is methane “carbon neutral”?
All carbon dioxide absorbed into grass and eaten by grazing animals eventually returns as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and is therefore part of a closed Carbon Cycle. However, it is the conversion of some of the ingested carbon into methane that causes the challenge.
Although methane only remains in the atmosphere for a relatively short period of time, it is 25 times more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide. This is above and beyond the warming which would have otherwise been caused by carbon dioxide alone, and thus methane emissions cannot be considered carbon neutral.
Can on-farm planting be recognised by the Government as on offset?
Many dairy farmers are small forestry block owners, but many more are already plant for shelter, fodder, and to improve water quality and biodiversity or to retire land.
Farmers should be recognized for all planting, and be able to offset their emissions at the farm-gate. We would like to work with the Government as the policy mechanism is developed for agricultural emissions.
Will efforts to address water quality help reduce emissions?
Many farmers across the country are already thinking about environmental sustainability in a broader sense and putting this into action on their farms.
Much of the work farmers have underway to improve water quality also has the co-benefits of improving their greenhouse gas emissions profile and biodiversity.
We know that increased on-farm planting has positive effects for soil, air, and water quality – therefore these environmental issues all need to be treated together.
What is dairy industry’s economic contribution to New Zealand?
Dairy farming is the fifth largest industry in New Zealand, and accounts for $8.2 billion (or 3.1%) of our total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The dairy industry employs about 46,000 people, and is the largest export sector. Of the product produced, approximately 95% is exported around the world, earning $17.2 billion in export revenue. It is estimated that for every dollar spent by dairy farmers, an additional $0.98 of value add is created across the country.
Ali Tocker
Senior communications and media advisor
ali.tocker@dairynz.co.nz
The problem of climate change is a global one – every country in the world is contributing to it and every country needs to be part of efforts to limit further climate change.
The Zero Carbon Bill is progressing through Parliament this year, requiring all sectors to think about how they’ll reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over time.
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THE DOG IS SMILING.
Melissa Hennings
Get Drunk for a Good Cause — Adorable Puppies
Nicholas Bostick | March 9, 2018 | 4:00am
Providing for pups and pounding pints, one of Dallas’ premier dog parks is pouring up cold ones for a cause.
Mutts Canine Cantina has teamed with Austin-based nonprofit Pints for Pups to raise both money and awareness for local animal shelter Paws in the City. The event will be from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Mutts.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Pints for Pups for such a great cause,” says Kyle Noonan, co-owner of FreeRange Concepts and creator of Mutts Canine Cantina. “We believe in giving back to the communities in which we serve, and since opening Mutts, we’ve had so many fantastic opportunities to help out the pups of DFW. We’re huge fans of the organization and their efforts to help out man’s best friend.”
Mutts will give out commemorative glasses for a $10 donation. Your new glass comes filled with the local brew of your choice, provided by Deep Ellum Brewing Co. and may be refilled for a paltry $5. All of the proceeds made from Deep Ellum beer sales during the event will go to Paws in the City.
The shelter was founded in 2005 to assist the thousands dogs and cats that end up shelters across DFW every year. Co-founders Becky Haisma and Tara Harper had hardly gotten Paws in the City up and running before rushing to help evacuate animals left homeless by Hurricane Katrina. Now the shelter is one of the largest animal rescue groups in DFW with more than 150 volunteers.
In 2017, more than 8,000 animals were euthanized at the Dallas Animal Shelter, more than three times fewer than the nearly 30,000 animals euthanized by the city’s shelter in 2007. No-kill shelters such as Paws in the City, and events like the one Saturday, have made great strides in reducing the number of euthanized animals in DFW. Still, Paws in the City’s website says 200,000 animals are estimated to meet similar fates every year in shelters across DFW.
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Report: Design History Society Affiliated Panel – CAA 2018 by Hui-Ying Kerr and Rebecca Bell
26 March 2018 -
The College Arts Association's (CAA) 106th Annual Conference was held last month in Los Angeles, and with over 800 paper and session proposals, 200 meetings and events, 300 sessions delivered over four days by 1400 members, and over 4000 attendees, it is said to be the largest art and design history and visual culture conference in North America. Moreover, 2018 is the second year in which the Design History Society was to partake in the conference as a CAA-affiliated society panel, and it was this that we had the privilege to chair together.
Stemming from a conversation about our own research areas of 1980s Bubble Economy Japan and Socialist Czechoslovakia, our panel aimed to investigate the concept of being on the periphery, the necessity of having to negotiate internationalism itself, and the assertion of agencies formed in its shadow. Furthermore, although design history, as the interrogation of visual and material objects and systems, has recently focused on the importance of transnational flows of ideas, systems and cultures (Adamson, Riello, Teasley, 2011), this is not a neutral endeavour. What has not been addressed is, at these points of juncture, what happens to the narratives felt to be at the periphery, and how do they articulate their own relationships of agency and narrative alongside the influence of an often more dominant international? Through exploring these questions, we aimed to contribute towards a greater understanding of what it means to negotiate one's own narrative in relation to dominance, and in doing so, work towards liberating what it means to own identity when constructed in the shadow of globalisation.
Ming chairs and Hans Wegner's China Chairs at the exhibition 'Wegner – Just One Good Chair'. Source: Pernille Klemp.
After receiving a fascinating range of proposals from researchers from all over the world, we selected four candidates. They offered a varied set of responses to the theme of the panel through addressing questions of agency within dominating structures of craft and design, across multiple media and geographies. Carrie Cushman, a former Fulbright and Mellon Humanities award holder, presented her current Columbia University doctoral research on portrayals of modern Japanese architecture. Her paper focused on alternative design surveys in 1970s urban Japan, questioning the language of photographic representation. Magali An-Berthon, a former Fulbright scholar and research fellow at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, now at the Royal College of Art, discussed her investigation of the Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles, founded by Japanese pioneer Kikuo Morimoto in Cambodia in 1996. Ruth Clifford, a recipient of Nottingham Trent University's Vice Chancellor's scholarship, looked at design and business education for artisans in Kutch, Western India, focussing specifically on weavers. Finally, Di Liu, a graduate of the V&A/Royal College of Art's History of Design Programme and currently working in the research department at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, addressed whether Ming chairs can be read as subversions or testimonies to western design.
A wide range of resonances between the papers became apparent when delivered at the conference. Together they addressed areas such as the use of traditional techniques, motifs and technologies to support transitioning cultural identity in relation to ideas of 'invented tradition' (Hobsbawm: 1983) and the re-contextualisation of the local in order to compete in global markets. There were overlapping interests in colonial heritage and shifts in political power, particularly in relation to international relationships to hegemonic (often capitalist and western) standards of 'good design' or 'authentic craft'. The latter ideals were explored as a complex process of both alignment and departure. Each paper ultimately called for the need to revisit the terms that surround how we describe, represent and document craft and design processes in locations still considered to some degree 'peripheral' from centred narratives. Particular to this was the question of how these are inherited or disseminated via pedagogical structures. At play in each panellist's research were tensions between local agency and imposed definitions, bringing new perspectives to the position of everyday practice, and how makers and designers respond to the parameters of temporal and political ownership.
At the IKTT, weavers produce intricate handwoven silk ikat, Siem Reap, 2017. Photographer: Magali An Berthon.
The panel itself was well attended, with an international audience of around 25 members who engaged the panellists with lively questions and debate, and with many conversations continuing long after the successful conclusion of the panel. There was also interest outside the conference itself, which included the panel trending on social media, and the Royal College of Art in London published a news item about us that week. Nottingham Trent University also tweeted about the event and more recently published a news article online about the panel.
Continuing the momentum of this theme, Nottingham Trent University has awarded Hui-Ying with a grant to host a networking event with the panellists and other invited participants from NTU, the Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Design History Society on its campus. Titled 'Renegotiating the Narrative in Global Design Histories', this event has been supported by the strategic NTU Global Heritage Research Fund and will take place from 6-7 June 2018. Projected outcomes include journal publications and the exploration of other potential avenues for research.
In concluding this review, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Design History Society for supporting our panel for this year's CAA conference, that not only includes awarding us the privilege of determining the panel theme and chairing, but also in its support of our panellists, some of whom were recipients of its generosity in attending. Through its support, the DHS has enabled us to contribute towards the growing area of global design history, and we very much look forward to our next steps in furthering this exciting area of research and contributing to the ongoing narratives found therein.
Hui-Ying Kerr, Nottingham Trent University and Rebecca Bell, Royal College of Art
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Tackling Pollution – Mexican Ambassador Way
June 3, 2019 DayAfter
Power means responsibility. The Mexican Ambassador to India Melba Pria exemplifies being responsible to the hilt. Can Indian lawmakers follow suit?
BY DANFES
We have heard about “With great power comes great responsibility.” In the world that we live in, we need people in positions of power to contribute significantly to the growing challenges to a peaceful, healthy & progressive humanity. The challenges come in the form of terrorism, climate change, ecological imbalances, loss of jobs & opportunities & also the tendency of a few powerful nations to bully the less privileged or less powerful ones. The nauseating culture of “Might is Right” must give way to a more inclusive, cleaner & efficient world that is bound together by a common cause of ensuring a fair & clean environment to its citizens, devoid of pollution, mal-intent, corruption & conspiracy. We are delighted to introduce one such champion of humanity who doubles up as the Mexican Ambassador to India. She is Ms. Meblapria, the effusively elegant, cheerful looking woman ambassador who has set a tough example for others to emulate.
Astonishingly, she travels by the meek & mild Auto Rickshaw or a three wheeler for all her official & personal engagements, ever since she took office as the Ambassador of Mexico to India. She is the only diplomat or an official holding such high office to have adopted this novel way of registering her concern for the environment &expressing her willingness to contribute in her own way towards educating people on the potential threat posed by the increasing pollution levels in Delhi in particular & India in general. It was shocking to know though that she wasn’t allowed to take her favored Ride inside the India habitat centerrecently where she was to speak, paradoxically at an event on public transport.
That sort of typifies the nonchalance of the authorities to the rising pollution in city & their hiding behind the rule book, without application of mind to the dreaded issue.
You can imagine the negative impact such apathy & lack of responsible behavior towards our citizenry would have in the longer run. Far from adopting or replicating such an idea, Indian officials could barely be seen demonstrating collective will & invoking their conscience to stem the rot caused by rising pollution. It appears that we would not be seeing any charity beginning here or for that matter lawmakers & people in positions of power in the governmentusing public transport or less polluting vehicles to their offices. In India power means Luxury sedans & SUVs with a posse of black cat commandos & an ostentatious exhibition of wealth, clout & supremacy. Austerity & cutting down on extravagant expenditure does not belong to the Indian style & political culture. That would be the end of politicking in India &also dis-incentivizing the scope for people to join politics or bureaucracy. Being seen & wielding power without necessarily being responsible is more Indian that being its opposite in any which way.
We are told that The Pope uses re-modeled sedans when he travels outdoors. His diplomats in India may soon move around town in a vehicle that uses one wheel less than the pontiff’s cars, an auto-rickshaw.A decision by Mexico’s ambassador to India to use a three-wheeler for official transport has stirred an unusual wave in the foreign diplomatic corps based here.The Vatican’s mission here, known as the Apostolic Nunciature, has decided to buy the ubiquitous Indian urban public transport vehicle. At least three other foreign missions in New Delhi, including those of the US and two European countries, are discussing the possibility of nailing their diplomatic number plates to three-wheelers.
Well, we can imagine the challenges the shift will also bring along; from security concerns to protocol problems and from the heat and dust of New Delhi to the monsoon.But at a time of rare global consensus on aggressively tackling carbon emissions, the use of the CNG-powered vehicle, which consumes on average a tenth of the fuel a limousine does, has fuelled an unlikely debate in the international diplomatic community here.Nor was pollution control her only priority when she first asked her soft-spoken chauffeur to diversify his skills and learn to drive an auto-rickshaw in addition to the limousine.Pria wanted to market her country effectively.”I was looking for the best way to market my country, in a way that fits with India,” Pria said. “And the auto-rickshaw is so… so Indian.”Today, passers-by want to pose with her auto-rickshaw, retrofitted with seat belts by the envoy.But it’s not only on the streets that her vehicle is noticed.
India’s notoriously strict protocol norms aren’t easy to bypass, either.For instance, auto-rickshaws aren’t allowed into the Parliament complex, which foreign diplomats at times need to visit to meet senior government officials and ministers. The Prime Minister’s residence also lacks a protocol for security clearances for auto-rickshaws – they simply aren’t allowed inside the complex.No one in the Indian government had objected to her choice of official vehicle, she said, even when it stood out starkly.
“Public transport is really the only answer for big cities like the ones we have in our two countries,” Pria said. “That’s what has helped us bring down pollution.”Western diplomats here have long complained about New Delhi’s air pollution, especially during the winter. When the Delhi government announced its “odd-even” vehicle rationing project, the US embassy voluntarily decided to enforce the policy though foreign missions here were exempt.For at least two of the missions discussing the auto-rickshaw shift, using a three-wheeler would also be aimed at highlighting the need for public transport in big cities, diplomats aware of the planning said.
“Before becoming an Ambassador, I had travelled in India and I had always travelled in an auto rickshaw. So I thought, why not? Millions of Indians use an auto rickshaw, why wouldn’t an ambassador use an auto rickshaw?” says Ambassador Pria.
“And for a city like this, why not use it?” she says, referring to Delhi’s alarming pollution levels.The auto will not only help reduce emissions but, in using it, Ambassador Pria is also doing her bit for the environment. “This is the way that I want to contribute to the city that today is also mine. I am also a Delhite.”But it wasn’t all smooth-sailing.
As the Ambassador told DANFES, “It wasn’t easy to buy an auto. We had to get permission from the Ministry of External Affairs.”It also took a bit of work to get the drivers on-board: “When you are the driver of the ambassador, there is a certain status in it. So how do you go from being the driver of an ambassador to being an auto rickshaw driver? What I tried to tell them is, you are still the driver to an ambassador, but the ambassador chooses to have a different vehicle.”
Perhaps the defining statement was made by Jagadish Duggal, driver at the Mexican who said:“If the Mexican Ambassador can travel in an auto rickshaw, why can’t India’s elite?”
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Congressional Witnesses Agree: Multistakeholder Processes Are Right for Internet Regulation
Commentary by Parker Higgins
Yesterday morning, the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on "International Proposals to Regulate the Internet," focusing on the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), an important treaty-writing event set to take place in Dubai this December. The WCIT is organized by an UN agency called the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a slow-moving and bureaucratic regulatory organization established in 1865 to oversee telegraph regulations. The ITU Member States adopted a legally binding set of telecommunication regulations in 1988, and now some countries are seeking to expand those regulations to cover the Internet.
Online anonymity, privacy and free expression are likely to be under attack under an ITU model. ITU officials have publically stated that anonymity shouldn't exist in the future. Moreover, countries like Russia and China, in particular, have been prominent advocates of codes of conduct that seek to protect national governmental powers over the Internet, including provisions that seek to censor the net.
It's worth noting though, that the threat posed by the ITU is not limited to an outright "takeover" by Russia or China. ITU's vision of Internet policy-making is more like "taking control" than the transparent and bottom-up multi-stakeholder process typically associated with Internet governance. The current negotiations, for example, consist of proposals being discussed under terms of secrecy, circumventing any transparent discussion. And much like the parties behind the unpopular IP regulations in trade agreements like ACTA and TPP, the ITU member states are also refusing to release documents that make up the amendments and preparatory materials that they will propose. We have also seen censorships and surveillance measures in the name of copyright enforcement or by authoritarian regimes, and both are a real problem.
To their credit, the witnesses at yesterday's hearing — including former Ambassador David Gross, Senior Manager of Public Policy for the Internet Society Sally Shipman Wentworth, and "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf — were all clear that the stakes were high, and that any process that decides the direction of the Internet must be based on a foundation of multistakeholderism.
Cerf, for example, was unequivocal in his testimony [pdf]:
I believe that the multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance and technical management has been, and will continue to be, the best way to address the technical and policy issues facing the Internet globally.
Shipman Wentworth expressed similar doubts about the possibility that the treaty making process could produce a positive outcome [pdf]:
it is not clear to the Internet Society that the international treaty making process represents the most effective way to manage cross-border Internet communications, or that some of the proposals currently being floated are consistent – or even compatible – with the multistakeholder model of Internet governance that has emerged over the past 15 years.
With so much on the line, in terms of the power for the open Internet to spur permissionless innovation and significant advances in international freedom of expression, there can be no question that handing the keys to an organization incapable of engaging in multistakeholder discussions is a profoundly bad idea. Multistakeholder processes are the way to ensure the users' input is included, and not left by the wayside. And multistakeholder processes cannot be multistakeholder in name only: we remind all governments that a truly multistakeholder participation model requires equal footing for every relevant stakeholder including civil society, the private sector, the technical community, and participating governments. Any process that claims to be multistakeholder must respect human rights as a baseline for any policy dialogue. The users must be represented in the development of Internet policy because the future of the Internet is too important to be left to companies and governments alone.
That's why EFF has joined European Digital Rights, CIPPIC and CDT and a coalition of civil society organizations from around the world in demanding that the organization behind WCIT release all of its preparatory materials and treaty proposals for public review. We urge the ITU to ensure enough transparency that the outcomes of the WCIT and its preparatory process are in the interest of all stakeholders.
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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, Jason Kelley | June 11, 2019
EFF to U.N.: Ola Bini's Case Highlights The Dangers of Vague Cybercrime Law
For decades, journalists, activists and lawyers who work on human rights issues around the world have been harassed, and even detained, by repressive and authoritarian regimes seeking to halt any assistance they provide to human rights defenders. Digital communication technology and privacy-protective tools like end-to-end encryption have made this work...
Deeplinks Blog by Threat Lab | June 4, 2019
30 Years Since Tiananmen Square: The State of Chinese Censorship and Digital Surveillance
Thirty years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party used military force to suppress a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration by thousands of university students. Hundreds (some estimates go as high as thousands) of innocent protesters were killed. Every year, people around the world come together to mourn and...
Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | May 7, 2019
Human Rights Watch Reverse-Engineers Mass Surveillance App Used by Police in Xinjiang
For years, Xinjiang has been a testbed for the Chinese government’s novel digital and physical surveillance tactics, as well as human rights abuses. But there is still a lot that the international human rights community doesn’t know, especially when it comes to post-2016 Xinjiang. Last Wednesday, Human Rights Watch...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | April 16, 2019
The Ecuadorean Authorities Have No Reason to Detain Free Software Developer Ola Bini
Hours after the ejection of Julian Assange from the London Ecuadorean embassy last week, police officers in Ecuador detained the Swedish citizen and open source developer Ola Bini. They seized him as he prepared to travel from his home in Quito to Japan, claiming that he was attempting...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 26, 2019
EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety...
Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | March 21, 2019
Who Defends Your Data? Report Reveals Peruvian ISPs Progress on User Privacy, Still Room for Improvement
Hiperderecho, the leading digital rights organization in Peru, in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, today launched its second ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?), an evaluation of the privacy practices of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that millions of Peruvians use every day. This year's...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 1, 2019
Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State
Earlier this month, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of Xinjiang, China, offering a window into what a digital surveillance state looks like in the 21st century. Xinjiang is China’s largest province, and home to China’s Uighurs...
Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | February 21, 2019
What’s the Emergency? Keeping International Requests for Law Enforcement Access Secure and Safe for Internet Users
Law enforcement access to data is in the middle of a profound shake-up across the globe. States are pushing to get quicker, deeper, and more invasive access to personal data stored on the global Internet, and are looking to water down the international safeguards around privacy and due...
Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti, Annie Harrison | January 31, 2019
Brazil in 2019: Free Speech and Privacy in the Crosshairs. What Are the Threats?
Last year’s Brazilian elections were a victory for Jair Bolsonaro—a politician with highly controversial positions on the country's past military dictatorship and civil rights. Bolsonaro’s ascent to power and the beginning of his administration in January has attracted international attention for their potential impact on human rights...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | January 18, 2019
Article 13 and 11 Update: Even The Compromises are Compromised In This Copyright Trainwreck
Update, January 18: EU ministers have failed to approve the compromise text—with Germany, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland and Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, and Portugal all voting against the current Article 13/11 proposal. Keep up the pressure! If you’re in the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Sweden...
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Built By Data: a closed-loop digital design workflow for building construction
Built By Data: Creating a seamless digital process spanning from the end of the design phase to building site operations.
The building construction process is time-consuming; each function, from design to production and construction, follows a linear workflow with a large portion of tasks being carried out manually.
The initial design phase is usually digital and agile, however even the design process in the architecture and construction sector is significantly slower than in other industries. Just think of the automotive or manufacturing sectors, where automation and digitisation play key roles throughout the entire production process and life-cycle of a product.
Built By Data, an Innovation Activity undertaken by a consortium of partners and promoted by EIT Digital as part of its Digital Industry Action Line, aims to bridge this gap, creating a seamless digital process spanning from the end of the design phase to building site operations.
The team is aiming to create a ‘closed-loop digital design workflow' incorporating a feedback loop for architects to help them optimise the next generation of buildings. This will be achieved both by integrating different enterprise resource planning and product life-cycle systems through software plug-ins able to merge different types of data, and by using Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that will collect this data to optimise the building's performance.
In 2018, the initiative focuses specifically on using this methodology to improve the visual comfort of occupants, eg avoiding glare from the sun. State-of-the art parametric tools will be combined with data from geographical information system (GIS) and open building information modelling (BIM), eg, climate data, as well as digital fabrication methods to create a secondary facade of a building.
A testing ground for this experimentation has been already identified: the 'Haus der Statistik' in Berlin, a complex of East German buildings originating from the late ‘60s and built of prefabricated concrete and composite elements.
The Built By Data team, led by TU Berlin, with Aalto University, Parametric Support, Arup and Digital FabLab Berlin as partners and Design2Production as business champion, will optimise the geometry of the north-west façade of the building, to improve its visual comfort, economic and ecologic sustainability.
"An awkward and unpleasant glare arises when a person looks out of a window in the direction of the sun, or when direct sunlight reflects on surfaces that are in the field of vision," Liss Christine Werner, TU's activity leader says. "In these situations, discomfort in the form of increased heat radiation can also occur. Thus, sun screening in some form is necessary for most of the buildings."
Modular, parametrically designed façade panels will be built to redirect the sunlight to increase visual comfort. The integration of IoT sensors allows the intensity of visible light and glare, temperature, humidity, noise and other parameters to be measured.
A minimum viable prototype of the solution will be ready by the end of 2018. Next year, the initiative will continue, focusing specifically on noise reduction and acoustic optimisation.
Author - Federico Guerrini
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Companies And Markets
Fertiliser demand 'will never drop'
Nissar Hoath
Published Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Fertiliser demand will never drop and the current global slowdown has little impact on the industry compared to other sectors, said a senior official from the Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (Fertil), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc).
Fertil General Manager Mohammed Rashid Al Rashid told the second annual Middle East Fertiliser Symposium organised by World Refining Association in Abu Dhabi until a situation arises when the whole world is flooded with food surpluses, fertiliser demand will never drop and will always have a rising curve.
"Market forces always play a balancing act. Demand increases sharply when the prices drop. This, in turn, works to increase the prices again. So we are not worried," he said while referring to a recent drop in fertilizer prices.
Referring to the global economic crisis and its impact on the industry, Al Rashid said: "The prevailing economic issues should be dealt within a global perspective. Adopting a regional or country specific approach will not work. Human welfare and development need to be considered from the point of view of the best utilisation of available resources.
"We need to interact more vocally with our counterparts elsewhere. We need to utilise global forums such as the World Economic Forum more effectively – to lead to positive solutions. Many brains working together work better than one alone."
He said it was a temporary phase and will not last long, and "we have to brainstorm collectively to reach the right solutions. Our immediate strategy is the trimming of expenditures. We have to be cost effective and utilise available resources in the best possible manner".
Elaborating on bio-fuels, Al Rashid said it was good to see more and more alternative fuels are explored. However, he was against diverting agriculture produce for bio-fuels. He said: "Diverting agricultural produce for bio-fuels production is not the right strategy. The basic needs of the hungry masses should be met first. You cannot create the situation where people revolt due to food scarcity."
On the future plans for Fertil, Al Rashid said from a cost point of view, it was the right time to construct new fertilizer plants because after three years or less, product prices will "undoubtedly increase".
The Fertil ammonia plant in Ruwais produces 1,500 metric tonnes of urea per day, and during the past 24 years, with some modifications, the capacity of urea production has been increased by 20 per cent.
The plant is currently undergoing a major plan of expansion to further increase the urea production capacity by 50 per cent. The conversion 90,000 metric tonne per year of ammonia into urea will allow Fertil to supply feedstock urea to the new melamine plant and process the gas off and carbonate return from the melamine plant as well.
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UN registers second phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
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DUBAI, 8th November, 2016 (WAM) -- DEWA’s 200MW Photovoltaic Plant Project Activity has successfully achieved the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) registration under UNFCCC with an initial crediting period of seven years.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is the largest single-site project of its kind in the world. It will generate 1,000MW by 2020, and 5,000MW by 2030, with total investments worth up to AED50 billion. The second phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park (200MW) is expected to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions of 208,177tCO2 annually. This makes the solar power project the largest in the region with regard to the potential of its annual emission reductions.
"The successful registration of the 200MW project under CDM is another milestone in placing Dubai and the UAE as forerunners in clean energy generation. It supports the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to build a sustainable future. The strategic project will effectively drive down the cost of solar electricity in the region, and restates that our leaders have a clear strategy to develop and support a sustainable energy environment for tomorrow. We are on the right track to achieve UAE’s renewable energy target," Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA said.
"The project activity was registered on 12th October, 2016, with consultancy support from Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence (Dubai Carbon). It aims to replace fossil fuel based electricity in the grid with solar power to support the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 that aims to provide 7 percent of Dubai’s energy from clean energy sources by 2020. This target will increase to 25 percent by 2030, and to 75 percent by 2050," Al Tayer added.
"The project activity plans to generate electricity from solar energy and supply to DEWA’s grid, reducing dependence on fossil fuel, which has been the major source of electricity in the country, till now. The project will not only provide electricity generated from clean sources, but also enable DEWA to earn carbon credits to finance clean energy generation projects. The CDM registration of DEWA’s 200MW Solar PV project is another valuable experience in delivering low carbon growth strategies and CDM project development efficiency for Dubai led by DEWA and supported by Dubai Carbon," said Waleed Salman, Chairman of Dubai Carbon.
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The Auction At Graceland During Elvis Week 2015 To Feature Authentic ‘Viva Las Vegas’ Items
“The Auction at Graceland” During Elvis Week 2015 to Feature Authentic Elvis Jumpsuit & Wardrobe from “Viva Las Vegas” Film among 174 Lots
Third Graceland-Authenticated Auction to be Largest Yet
Collectible Auction Catalog Now Available to Order
MEMPHIS, Tenn.–Graceland Auctions has announced that its third auction of rare and authentic Elvis Presley™ artifacts and memorabilia will be held during Elvis Week 2015, featuring an impressive 174 lots, making it the largest and most comprehensive auction yet held on the grounds of Graceland®. The Auction at Graceland will take place in the Graceland Archives Studio on Thursday, August 13, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT.
Fans, music collectors and pop culture enthusiasts from around the world are expected to participate on site and online in this unprecedented auction, with all 174 lots expertly authenticated by the staff of Graceland Authenticated. All of the items in the auction will be offered from third-party collectors and none of the items included in the auction will come from the treasured Graceland Archives. The mansion and all artifacts in the Graceland Archives continue to be owned by Lisa Marie Presley and are not for sale. Graceland Authenticated sets a new standard for pop culture authentication and appraisal to ensure artifact accuracy and provide evaluations of privately-owned collections.
Previous Graceland Auctions have generated far greater bids than projected. In early 2015, the acetate featuring the first-known recording of Elvis Presley singing “My Happiness” recorded at Memphis Recording Service (home of Sun Records) sold for $300,000. Elvis’ 1977 Cadillac Seville sold for $81,250 along with a bullet-riddled shooting target from the Graceland smokehouse, which sold for $27,500 in August of last year.
Among the 174 items to be included in the August 13 auction, notable items include:
Elvis Presley Light Blue “Starburst” Jumpsuit worn in 1973 at the Las Vegas Hilton and other concerts
(Estimated $100,000-150,000)
Elvis Presley Jacket from the “Viva Las Vegas” dance scene with Ann-Margret
(Estimated $30,000-50,000)
“TCB” Diamond and Gold Necklace gifted to Sammy Davis Jr. by Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley-Owned Gold Owl-Shaped Ring gifted to a fan from the stage
“Million Dollar Quartet” Signed Guitar featuring the signatures of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins & Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Presley’s Personal Walther Model PPK/S 9mm Kurz Handgun – Ornately Engraved “Elvis” and “TCB”
(Estimated $100,000–125,000)
Presley’s blue jumpsuit worn at the Las Vegas Hilton is now on display at Graceland’s new Las Vegas exhibition — “Elvis: The Exhibition” at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. The Westgate is the same venue that was originally known as the International Hotel and then the Las Vegas Hilton when Elvis performed in its historic showroom. Other auction items on display at the Westgate Las Vegas exhibition through July 20 include the “TCB” gold and diamond necklace gifted to Sammy Davis Jr., a 1956 Las Vegas “New Frontier” menu signed by Elvis Presley, and a 1968 Elvis Presley film-worn jacket from “Live a Little, Love a Little.” Most of the auction lots can be viewed at the Elvis Presley Automobile Museum at Graceland in Memphis starting July 21 through August 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CDT.
The Auction at Graceland collectible catalog is now available to order at ShopGraceland.com and features more than 150 pages, including photos and details of all the auction items. This exclusive catalog offers an up-close look at these special pieces of Elvis history and is a wonderful collector’s item. More details on purchasing the catalog and auction registration are available at www.gracelandauctions.com.
Admittance to the live auction event is by ticket only. Tickets will be available for purchase at Graceland on August 13 at the Graceland ticket pavilion between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. CDT. Please secure your tickets early as a limited number are available. Registered bidders can reserve a paddle for in-person bidding by emailing [email protected]
For more information about how to submit items for authentication by Graceland Authenticated, please visit www.gracelandauthenticated.com. To have an artifact considered for inclusion in future Graceland Auctions, please email [email protected]
About Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
Elvis Presley’s Graceland, in Memphis, is music’s most important and beloved landmark, with hundreds of thousands of fans from around the world visiting the historic home each year. Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) manages the operations of Graceland, its related properties, including the recently-announced Guest House at Graceland 450-room hotel to be built in Memphis, as well as the Graceland Archives, featuring thousands of artifacts from Elvis’ home and career. EPE also produces and licenses Elvis-themed live events, tours and attractions worldwide, including “Direct from Graceland: Elvis at The O2” in London, and the new “Graceland Presents ELVIS: The Exhibition” at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. Graceland Holdings LLC, led by managing partner Joel Weinshanker, is the majority owner of EPE. Auction A Circle dba Graceland Auctions TNGL#5967 is the entity that manages Auctions at Graceland. In 2015, Graceland was named the world’s “Best Musical Attraction” and “Best Historic Southern Attraction” in the USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice Awards and in 2013, voted the #1 “Iconic American Attraction” in the same poll. For more information on EPE and Graceland, visit www.graceland.com.
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Ian K. Edwards Associate
Michigan, 2017
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
Wayne State University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2017
Kalamazoo College, B.A., 2013
Ian K. Edwards is a litigator in Dykema's Bloomfield Hills office. His practice focuses on products liability, class action defense, financial services litigation, and complex commercial disputes. He also maintains a strong commitment to pro bono practice, representing clients in immigration and landlord-tenant matters.
Mr. Edwards attended Wayne State University Law School on a merit-based, full-tuition Dean's Scholarship. While in law school, he served as an Assistant Editor on the Wayne Law Review, and earned numerous academic honors, including multiple Silver Key Awards. Mr. Edwards additionally served as the Chancellor of the Wayne State Law School moot court program, competed in the American College of Trial Lawyers National Moot Court Competition, and worked as a student attorney for the Wayne Law Criminal Appellate Practice Clinic.
While at Kalamazoo College, Mr. Edwards was selected to present his undergraduate thesis on EU/Member State relations at the University of Pittsburgh’s European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium. Mr. Edwards also studied abroad at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya, where he focused his studies on international economic development.
Memberships & Involvement
State Bar of Michigan
Oakland County Bar Association
Kalamazoo College Alumni Association
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San Jose man nabbed in string of indecent…
San Jose: Suspect nabbed in string of indecent exposures
Jordan Cambray-Madrigal, 22, of San Jose, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to teenage girls near Yerba Buena High School in San Jose between July 19 and Sept. 7, according to San Jose police. (Courtesy of the San Jose Police Department)
San Jose police say 22-year-old Jordan Cambray-Madriga, of San Jose, exposed himself to teenage girls while seated in this Toyota Corolla. (Courtesy of the San Jose Police Department)
By Jason Green | jason.green@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 13, 2018 at 9:07 pm | UPDATED: September 14, 2018 at 11:04 am
SAN JOSE — A 22-year-old San Jose man has been arrested for allegedly exposing himself to teenage girls near Yerba Buena High School over the summer, authorities said.
Three incidents were reported between July 18 and Sept. 7, according to San Jose police Officer Gina Tepoorten.
Tepoorten said the four victims ranged in age from 14 to 17 years old.
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Detectives identified Jordan Cambray-Madrigal as a suspect in the case and arrested him at a home in Milpitas on Sept. 7. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18.
Cambray-Madrigal was seated in a Toyota Corolla in two of the incidents, according to Tepoorten.
Anyone with information about the incidents can contact detectives Mario Shen and Ken Muto at 408-277-4102.
Those wishing to remain anonymous can leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP (7867) or svcrimestoppers.org. Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward.
South Bay Crime
Jason Green is a breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He works week nights and spends most of his time covering crime and public safety. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California, he cut his teeth at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and the Palo Alto Daily News, and has been with the Bay Area News Group since its inception.
Follow Jason Green @JGreenMercNews
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A six-night stay at the ‘Brady Bunch’ house? Win this contest, and it could be yours
There's a video contest to win six nights in Studio City's renovated Brady house for you and six of your friends, relatives and/or step-siblings.
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Lafayette to pay $650,000 to resolve Deer Hill…
Lafayette to pay $650,000 to resolve Deer Hill housing lawsuit
Lafayette voters rejected a proposed housing development site along Deer Hill Road, which is photographed on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 in Lafayette, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
By Jon Kawamoto | jkawamoto@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
LAFAYETTE — The city has agreed to pay $650,000 in attorney’s fees to a preservationist group that sued to block the contentious 22-acre Deer Hill housing development.
In its settlement agreement, the developer, O’Brien Land Company, will be responsible for the payment to Save Lafayette’s attorney, Gary Garfinkle. Although it’s not listed as a party to the lawsuit, O’Brien Land Company is required to compensate the city of Lafayette for certain expenses, fees and costs in the lawsuit, according to a Lafayette city staff report.
The settlement caps a legal fight over the Deer Hill property that began in 2014. The city, acting on a proposal by O’Brien Land Company, changed the zoning designation of the Deer Hill property to allow houses instead of administrative or office buildings.
In Oct. 14, 2015, Save Lafayette filed a referendum petition, seeking to reverse the city’s zoning changes. The Lafayette City Council declined to put the referendum to a vote, believing that if it passed it would be invalid because it would contradict the city’s general plan.
On March 17, 2016, Save Lafayette and its founder, Michael Griffiths, filed a petition in Contra Costa County Superior Court, challenging the city’s decision on the referendum.
The Contra Costa County Superior Court upheld the city’s decision, but the state Court of Appeal’s First Appellate District reversed it in February, leading to the vote on the Deer Hill development proposal.
In June, voters rejected Measure L, the 44-house Deer Hill development plan. Out of 10,012 votes, 54.5 percent of voters cast “no” votes while 45.5 percent of voters cast “yes” votes.
Jon Kawamoto
is a reporter covering the Lamorinda area, Danville and San Ramon. He was the Hills weeklies editor, in charge of the Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, The Montclarion and The Piedmonter. He previously worked as an editor with the Los Angeles Times, the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune. Kawamoto is a central California native and a graduate of Fresno State University.
Follow Jon Kawamoto @jonkawamoto
A GoFundMe campaign has been started for the "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Rhoda" star, who has been battling cancer for 10 years and whose current treatment and care is "not covered by insurance."
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Statement from Governor Rick Scott on Passing of Commissioner Doyle Conner
Today, Governor Rick Scott issued the following statement about the passing of former Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner.
“Commissioner Conner’s service to Florida is a major reason why Florida’s agricultural industry is one of the strongest in the country today,” said Gov. Scott. “Throughout his impressive career, Commissioner Conner served Florida’s families and brought Florida agricultural issues to the forefront. He will be remembered as one of Florida’s most hard-working, knowledgeable, and dedicated elected officials. Ann and I pray for his family during their time of mourning, and join all Floridians in mourning the passing of such an influential man.”
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Defining The Six Tiger Countries Of Southeast Asia: Workforce Characteristics And Talent Management Implications
Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith Contributor
If you have ever had the opportunity to travel to Southeast Asia, most likely you have come to appreciate that the 10 countries grouped under the “Southeast Asia” banner are more notable for their diversity than their similarities. Home to 630 million people, hundreds of languages and dialects, and almost every known religion, there are significant differences across the region.
The “ASEAN 6” that are highlighted here – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – have emerged in the past 20 years as attractive investment opportunities for multinational corporations (MNCs). For companies considering expansion into Southeast Asia, gaining a better understanding of the countries’ cultures, workforce challenges and related talent management opportunities is critical to successful business development in the area.
According to my research, with the exception of Singapore, education standards are largely below what is required for skilled roles within MNCs. In addition, aside from Singapore, the average length of schooling in the region is low by Western standards, with the average ranging from just 5.5 years to 9.5 years. While Singapore’s population and workforce is aging, the rest of the ASEAN 6 have a youthful population with the average age ranging between 23.3 years to 35.1 years. Technology infrastructure is strong and rapidly improving across the region, and mobile device penetration is high at an average of greater than one device per head in most countries. As a whole, the supply of skilled labor across the region is in shortfall.
So, what does this mean for talent management in the region? The reinvention of talent management in the region is being driven by fundamental changes in workforce demographics, attitudes and expectations of work, technology advancements, and the pace of change. This emerging world brings with it the opportunity to rethink, reframe and reinvigorate talent management. Here, I’ve provided a brief overview of the talent management implications for each of the six tiger economies.
With an aging workforce, Singapore’s appetite for skilled young labor will continue to increase over the next decade, making it an active competitor for Southeast Asia’s talent. Job-hopping proliferates in lower-skilled roles and talent retention is a top priority for most organizations. One of the most effective methods to stem the outward flow of talent has been the introduction of key performance indicators (KPIs) linked to staff retention for managers. In addition, the acute shortage of leadership talent necessitates that MNCs continue to import offshore talent as well as invest heavily in developing a local leadership pipeline. MNCs also are investing heavily in development programs and on-the-job learning initiatives to combat what is seen as a relative lack of innovation and conceptual-thinking abilities.
Bottom Line: Singapore is well poised as a business and talent hub and remains an attractive environment for MNCs.
MNCs report significant challenges in finding local talent at the standards required to be effective. Tertiary and technical skills are in high demand and English language proficiency is improving but still has some way to go. New initiatives and government support for the education system are designed to proactively address these gaps in skills. MNCs need to supplement local talent with expatriated skills from other markets, as well as support the learning needs of employees through corporate training and development programs. With a highly connected and youthful workforce, tech-heavy talent management applications will be needed to attract new hires and engage them in development activities.
Bottom Line: Malaysia has yet to reach its potential in Southeast Asia.
Despite economic challenges and political instability, the Thai workforce needs more talent than it can readily access, with 95% of Thai organizations struggling to source the labor they need. The situation becomes dire when coupled with a majority of organizations struggling with talent retention as well. MNCs will continue to play a crucial role in furthering the education and skill development of the workforce.
The Bottom Line: Although there is a severe shortage of technical skills, Thailand still is an attractive business environment with relatively competitive labor rates.
Although still regionally and globally competitive, the cost of labor in Vietnam is being driven up by the scarcity of skilled resources. Many MNCs bring in expatriates on fixed-term contracts to fill leadership roles and this can be expected to continue for some time. In addition, the lack of HR management skills means that many MNCs use centralized HR services from Singapore or Hong Kong supplemented with HR administrators in-country. MNCs need to retain high levels of business ethics and standards due to significant corruption in Vietnam. Government involvement and bureaucratic reporting is also higher than in other countries in the region.
The Bottom Line: Vietnam has one of the highest economic growth rates in the region and, with ongoing reforms increasing its appeal, the country will play an ever-increasing role in the expansion plans of MNCs.
Cultural differences abound in Indonesia – from the deference to seniority and age over youth to the relationship with time. For example, in Indonesia, a meeting is deemed to begin when everyone has arrived, rather than by the time set for the meeting. In addition, disciplinary actions or performance critiques should be done in private to “save face” and preserve the dignity of the employee. MNCs must factor in these cultural differences in their talent management approach.
The Bottom Line: The legacy of under-investment in infrastructure, health and education systems remains the key impediment to Indonesia’s growth prospects.
As with the other countries in the region, skilled people are hard to find and challenging to keep. Many Filipinos find better-paid work outside their homeland and a culture of supporting families back home from foreign workplaces has become highly normalized. While a young workforce keen for careers exists, it lacks training, especially leadership skills.
The Bottom Line: The Philippines remains a challenging business environment for foreign companies, although government reforms and anti-corruption initiatives are improving.
Talent management is a global work-in-progress, and new ideas and approaches are already emerging and will continue to emerge.
Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith
I am the Senior Vice President of Global Research at PageUp and co-author of the book 'CLIFFHANGER: HR on the Precipice in the Future of Work'. I am responsible for driv...
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Magic Johnson's Infrastructure Fund to Invest 'Millions' in New Projects: Report
By Thomas Barrabi Published April 25, 2017 SportsFOXBusiness
NBA legend Magic Johnson is launching an infrastructure investment fund with “millions of dollars” set aside to bankroll future projects, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.
Dubbed the JLC Infrastructure Fund, the firm is the result of a collaboration between Johnson and Jim Reynolds, CEO of the global investment firm Loop Capital Markets. The fund, which is already backing the construction of a new terminal at Denver International Airport, is actively looking for new projects.
“I’m excited about infrastructure because this will happen for the next 25 years, because we will be rebuilding America,” Johnson said at forum hosted by Bloomberg.
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Magic Johnson Enterprises did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for further comment on the new firm’s infrastructure plan. JLC will focus on investments in small businesses, as well as projects backed by minorities and women, according to the Post.
A three-time NBA Most Valuable Player, Johnson turned his attention to the business world once his playing days were over. He currently serves as chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises, which has investments valued at $1 billion, according to the firm’s website, and is a part-owner of the MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers. In addition, Johnson serves as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Renewed investment in American infrastructure is a crucial part of President Donald Trump’s plan for the country. Trump has vowed to invest $1 trillion in key infrastructure systems through a combination of public and private funding.
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Songbird: The Firefox of Media Players
By Michael Muchmore on November 6, 2006 at 12:28 am
Firefox is not only a fine web browser, but the code it’s based on is a standardized open-source framework that other applications can use take as a basis, using XUL—eXtensible user-interface language (pronounced ZOOL). XUL apps work across platforms and can either be internet-connected or standalone.
Today we’ll take a look at one of the most appealing XUL apps—Songbird, from Pioneers of the Inevitable, Inc, which claims folks who’ve previously worked on Winamp and Yahoo! Music Engine. Songbird is currently just at version 0.2, so consider this a preview rather than a review of the fully baked product. Songbird is a “mashup” of a web browser and a desktop media player. Think of it as the open-source analog of Windows Media Player or iTunes. Like Winamp, Songbird supports skins, which are called “feathers” in this case. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
Songbird plays MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MP4 Audio (mp4a), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, FLAC; and less importantly, LPCM, ADPCM, and AMR.
The program’s makers don’t make any claim that the software is feature-complete, bug free, or better than other media players—yet. Join us for a tour of what you can expect from this unique piece of software. Continued…
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Australia & Polynesia/
1840 Black Map of Australia and New Zealand
Australia-black-1840
Australasia.
1840 (undated) 11.5 x 16 in (29.21 x 40.64 cm)
A fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1840 map of Australia and New Zealand. The map covers from the east Indies to the Lord Auckland Islands and the Chatam Islands of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. It includes New Holland or Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Island), Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. An interesting map issued just as most of the earth's non-polar shore has been explored. Gone are many of the errors of the previous century with the coastlines accurately rendered. Inland though, much remained confused. Vast stretches of unmapped territory and speculative cartography fill central Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. In 1840, after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the British annexed New Zealand as part of the Australian colony of New South Wales. However, it separated from New South Wales to become a colony in its own right in 1841. This map was engraved by G. Aikman for issue in the 1840 edition of Black's General Atlas.
Charles and Adam Black (fl. 1807 - present) were map and book publishers based in Edinburgh. Charles and his uncle, Adam, both of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded their publishing firm in 1807. They published a series of maps and atlases throughout the 19th century. In addition to an array of atlases, the Black firm is known for their editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1817 - 1826) and the first publishing of Sir Walter Scott's novels in 1854. In 1889 the A. & C. Black publishing house moved to London where it remains in operation to this day.
Hall, Sydney, Black's General Atlas: A series of Fifty-Four Maps from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources, Engraved on Steel, In the First Style of the Art, (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black) 1840.
Very good. Blank on verso. Original platemark visible.
Philips (atlases) 4334.
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Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
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Hultberg, John (American painter, 1922-2005)
Note: Hultberg is noted for his moody, partially abstract landscapes and ambiguous scenes containing figurative elements. He studied at the San Francisco School of Art with Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. While attending the Art Students League in New York, he was included in a 1952 exhibition of new talent at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1955 he won first prize at the Corcoran Biennial.
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Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
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................ (American painter, 1922-1993) [500025721]
student of .... Rothko, Mark
.................. (American painter, born in Russia, 1903-1970) [500014869]
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.................. (American painter, 1904-1980) [500020155]
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הלטברג, ג'ון ........ [IMJ]
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.............................. Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.............................. Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
.............................. Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.............................. Witt Library, Authority files
Hultberg, John Philip ........ [VP]
........................................... Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 29 May 2003
John Hultberg ........ [MoMA, VP]
............................ Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................ CAA News 30/4 (2005) 18
............................ John Hultberg, Art in America (2005)
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.................... Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 29 May 2003
.................... CAA News 30/4 (2005) 18
.................... Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
.................... Israel Museum Jerusalem database
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2019 I NICOLAS BAIER >
NERVURE’S PATH
5 mars - 18 avril
ŒUVRES | COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE | VIDÉOS I CV
Procession, 2018, ED 1/3, Vidéo HD couleur avec son, en boucle
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Nicolas Baier - Nervure's Path
Curated by Muriel Quancard
Opening reception: Tuesday 5 March, 6 - 8 p.m.
Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to announce Nervure’s Path, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Canadian artist Nicolas Baier.
Nervure’s Path features existing and newly commissioned works centered on Baier’s critical inquiry into the evolution of technology and its influence on the human condition. In meticulous paintings, photographs, bas-reliefs, and sculptures—exhibited here alongside his second video to date—the artist explores the transmission of knowledge, from the earliest forms of language to the latest advances in digital data. Baier muses on technology as a force responsible for shaping human civilization since its inception, considering the origins of language as a vital tool in the emergence of phenomenal consciousness and prompting questions around its foundational effect on human culture.
A striking sculptural installation titled Vanitas (Artist Desk) (2012), visible through the gallery’s front window, consists of a glass chamber containing a desk and an office chair, a computer with two monitors, a pair of speakers, and a scanner, all cast in mirrored nickel. Vanitas makes perceptible the conditions and routines of human work in a world that has now fully embraced machines. To make his painting Percée (2016), meanwhile, Baier photographed the interior of a prehistoric cave, focusing on the light that enters the space rather than on the ancient paintings covering its walls. Back in the studio, he painstakingly reproduced his shot on canvas using multiple layers of neutral color. The deliberate omission of the cave’s paintings restores the cavern, symbolically, to its original blank-canvas state, inviting us to meditate on the platonic idea of knowledge prior to experience.
Questions surrounding human knowledge tend to become more complex as technology’s ubiquity deepens. Nervures (2019) reveals the intricacies of a standard microprocessor manufactured by Intel, inventors of the integrated circuit that made personal computing an accessible reality. Baier laboriously assembled 1,500 images photographed through a microscope to produce a magnified image of one such microprocessor. Gazing at the result, our attention oscillates between formal contemplation of the image and awestruck awareness of its technological genesis.
When mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon showed how to quantify and encode any type of data, he established the decisive unity of all information media; where language and culture were once the repository of human knowledge, digitization allowed for all knowledge to be stored and operated on (increasingly powerful) computers. In Baier’s bas-reliefs of servers ranged in endless grids, the artist presents metaphorical illustrations of the post-Shannon universe reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel. Acknowledging that the composition of such devices remains impenetrably arcane to most users, Baier challenges our uninformed dependency in a sculpture titled Black Box (2019). The work consists of the replicated internal hardware of a PC, its matrix of circuitry concealed entirely within a container, but documented in an accompanying video.
Finally, futurist thinker Raymond Kurzweil has suggested that exponentially advancing technologies will soon become inextricably and unpredictably entangled with human life. In his video projection Procession (2019), Baier invites us to embark on a meditative journey through unvarying data centers and a luxuriant forest, in which it becomes impossible to determine which sights and sounds are natural and which artificial.
Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1967, Nicolas Baier received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Baier has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His work has been included in group exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachussetts; MAC VAL, Paris; and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Black Box, 2019
Vanitas (artist office), 2012
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NICOLAS BAIER COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE
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Mull of Galloway project funding boost
The Mull of Galloway trust received �1000 from Tesco.
Published: 10:36 Thursday 26 January 2017
Mull of Galloway Trust is delighted to announce it has bagged £1,000 from a Tesco funding scheme.
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help funding initiative, which sees grants of up to £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to local outdoor community projects every month. The Trust has been awarded £1,000 amd work will now continue on bringing the Lightkeeper’s Garden at the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse project to life.
Maureen Chand, Chairperson of the Mull of Galloway Trust said: “We are especially pleased that it had been a community vote for a special unique community project at the most southerly point of Scotland.”
Tony McElroy, Tesco’s Head of Communications in Scotland, said: “Bags of Help has been a fantastic success. We been overwhelmed by the response of our customers and it’s been great to give people a say on how the money will be spent in their community. We can’t wait to see the projects come to life.”
Voting ran in stores from 1st December to 31st December with customers choosing which local project they would like to get the top award using a token given to them at the check-out in store.
Since launching in 2015, Bags of Help has awarded more than £25 million across more than 3,000 local projects.
Tesco customers will get the chance to vote for three different groups each month. At the end of each month, when votes are collected, three groups in each of Tesco’s regions will be awarded funding.
Emma Halliday, Community Enabler Coordinator at greenspace Scotland, said:
“It’s just the beginning for Bags of Help and we’re really excited about the future. The scheme will be permanently open for applications, and as grants can now be used for not just the development of, but also for the use of local outdoor spaces, we expect even more groups will now have the chance to benefit.
“It’s projects like these that really help to capture the public’s imagination by illustrating what can be achieved when communities are given the support and the encouragement they need to create better places where they live.”
Funding is available to groups who are seeking to use and develop outdoor spaces in ways that will benefit their local community. Anyone can nominate a local project and local organisations can apply. To find out more visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp
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Earnhardt v. Kerry Earnhardt, Inc.
Registrability of Surname-Based Marks Requires Two-Part Test
Earnhardt v. Kerry Earnhardt, Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 27, 2017) (Wallach, CHEN, Hughes) (TTAB) (3 of 5 stars)
Fed Cir vacates dismissal of Ms. Earnhardt’s opposition to KEI’s registration of EARNHARDT COLLECTION for furniture and custom construction of homes. At issue was whether the Board’s determination that EARNHARDT COLLECTION is not primarily a surname (which would make it non-registrable). Per Hutchinson, 852 F.2d 552 (Fed. Cir. 1988), the Board had to make two inquiries: (1) determine whether “collection” was “‘merely descriptive’ of the applicant’s goods and services;” and (2) determine whether adding the additional term to the surname altered the primary significance of the mark. The Board’s decision was unclear as to whether it had properly applied this test, and is vacated.
KEYWORDS: TRADEMARK; SURNAMES; OPPOSITION
Date: Jul. 27, 2017
Court Opinion
Court: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Origin: PTO
Judge: Raymond T. Chen
Party Names: Earnhardt, Kerry Earnhardt, Inc.
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Their dad was run over by a police officer. Settling a lawsuit will cost Fresno $675,000
The city of Fresno has agreed to pay $675,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit over a case in which a Fresno police officer ran over and killed a bicyclist who was fleeing from a traffic stop in August 2013.
The settlement in U.S. District Court in Fresno means the city admits no wrongdoing or liability in the death of Angel Toscano, 39, of Fresno. In court papers, the city contends Toscano’s death was an accident; that Toscano fell in front of a patrol car and Officer James Lyon was unable to avoid hitting him.
But a lawyer for Toscano’s family said Friday that if the case had gone to trial, the evidence would have shown that Lyon intentionally bumped the rear wheel of Toscano’s bicycle, causing him to fall. Lyon then ran over Toscano, killing him.
“The family wanted vindication for an egregious act,” Fresno attorney Andrew B. Jones, who represents four of Toscano’s six children, said Friday. Toscano’s two other children are represented by Visalia attorney John Rozier.
The settlement will be divided by the six children and their attorneys upon approval from the court, which is scheduled to happen later this month, Jones said.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer said an investigation by the department’s accident reconstruction unit, which had assistance from the California Highway Patrol, determined that Lyon “did not intentionally strike Mr. Toscano’s bicycle and that this was an unfortunate vehicle accident resulting in the tragic loss of life.”
Lyon was pursuing Toscano through an alleyway when Toscano suddenly fell off of his bicycle in front of the patrol car, the chief said. Lyon attempted to stop his vehicle “but due to the loose gravel he was not able to and unintentionally struck Toscano,” he said.
If the settlement is approved in court, Dyer said, the funds would come from the Police Department’s budget, or from a risk management fund that can be utilized to pay for settlements.
Lyon is still employed with the department, he said.
The payout is the latest in a long string of civil rights lawsuits facing the Fresno Police Department over allegations of excessive force and wrongful death.
In November, the city agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the parents of a Fresno man who was fatally shot by police in June 2012.
Jaime Reyes Jr., 28, was shot while climbing a fence at Aynesworth Elementary School in southeast Fresno.
If the lawsuit had gone to trial, the evidence would have shown that Officer Juan Avila shot Reyes near the top of the fence. Once Reyes toppled to the ground, Avila shot him three more times in the back as he lay wounded, face down on the ground, court documents say.
On the horizon, the city will have to deal with wrongful death, civil rights lawsuits against the Fresno Police Department filed by the families of Dylan Noble, Joseph Ma, Freddy Centeno, and Casimero “Shane” Casilla, to name several.
The Toscano lawsuit was filed in December 2013. Jones said the case proved to have merit when U.S. Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone ruled in July 2015 that a jury should decide whether Toscano’s civil rights were violated.
In his ruling, Boone wrote the undisputed facts:
Around 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23, 2013, Lyon and Officer Kenneth Webb attempted a traffic stop of Toscano and another bicyclist near Princeton and Glenn avenues, a neighborhood south of Shields Avenue and west of Blackstone Avenue. The two bicyclists were suspected of riding on the wrong side of the road and running a stop sign.
While Webb got out of the patrol car to detain one bicyclist, Toscano took off, prompting Lyon to give chase in his patrol car.
Lyon chased Toscano on Glenn Avenue and then down an alley, reaching speeds of about 45 mph.
“The patrol car fishtailed into the alley, still going a little fast; there was a really loud revving sound as the patrol car went down the alley,” Boone’s ruling says.
During the chase, Lyon forgot to activate his lights and siren. In his deposition, Lyon testified “that he nearly always chases cyclists without use of lights or siren,” the ruling says.
In the alley, Lyon saw Toscano getting tired because his right foot kept slipping off the pedal and he was holding one hand against his chest.
“As the pursuit ensued, officer Lyon realized his vehicle posed a danger to (Toscano),” the ruling says.
Lyon was going less than 20 mph when he struck Toscano’s bicycle. Once Toscano fell, attorney Jones said, he suspects Lyon accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal, and ran over Toscano. Toscano died at the scene from multiple injuries including to his head.
The investigating officer, Detective Brian Hance of the Fresno Police Department, “found no evidence any braking before impact,” the ruling says.
Lyon told investigators that striking a bicycle with a patrol car would violate department policy. He also admitted that striking someone with a patrol car would constitute deadly force.
In the final analysis, Hance concluded that Lyon “was the primary collision factor for this accident,” Boone’s ruling says. Hance turned over his investigation to the District Attorney’s Office “for possible prosecution for vehicular manslaughter,” the ruling says. Court records show Lyon was never charged in Toscano’s death.
Dyer said policy requires that police officers use emergency lights and siren when necessary when they are in pursuit of a motor vehicle, but not when they are following someone and are able to comply with traffic laws.
“This was a unique situation involving an officer’s attempt to detain a bicyclist who was failing to stop when requested by the officer,” Dyer said, noting that he could not disclose corrective measures that were taken against Lyon because of employee confidentiality laws.
At the time of his death, Toscano was a felon on probation and doing odd jobs to support his family, Jones said. If the case had gone to trial, jurors likely would not have been told of Toscano’s criminal past because it would have been prejudicial, Jones said. In addition, Toscano’s past wasn’t relevant, Jones said, because Lyon didn’t know the identity of bicyclist until after he was run over.
In his ruling, Boone said lawyers for Toscano’s children met their burden for the case to go to trial. The judge noted that an expert hired by the plaintiffs said Toscano’s bicycle was upright at approximately 90 degrees when it was bumped by the patrol car. Boone also said the court “may not simply accept what may be a self-serving account by the officer,” the lone witness to the collision.
“The disputed issue of whether the decedent was struck by the patrol vehicle when it accidentally fell over or if defendant Lyon intentionally bumped the bicycle is for the trier of fact to decide,” the judge said. “A triable issue of fact exists as to whether this was an accident or whether defendant Lyon had an intent to harm the decedent by intentionally striking his bicycle with the patrol vehicle.”
More than a year after the ruling, the case had been at a standstill because the city appealed Boone’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco. While the appeal was pending, Jones said, it took about six months to negotiate the settlement.
“It was a fair resolution because my client’s primary goal was to get vindication,” he said.
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Interview with the evening standard - ULEZ: How delivery service Gnewt use electric vehicles to cut car emissions and reduce air pollution
As the ULEZ comes into effect in April, Sadiq Khan has promised a £46 million fund for businesses to make the switch to cleaner cars.
While many London-based businesses explore their options to use vehicles that will be exempt from the charge, Future London spoke to a company that has been operating a fully electric fleet for a decade.
Gnewt, a delivery service using only electric vans, was founded by Sam Clarke in 2008, who had previously developed electric bikes and scooters.
“I had spent a lot of time in China, where the use of electric vehicles was prevalent in major cities a long time before the rest of us were doing it.
“I thought: ‘If Chinese residents were able to use a solution then why aren’t we doing it?’” he said.
Despite starting Gnewt at a time when the economy was in a downturn, Mr Clarke said support from TfL helped it get off the ground.
Clarke’s company, which was sold to distribution company Menzies in 2017, is now looking into how to increase sustainability of its business practices even further.
Adam Smith, group commercial director at Menzies Distribution, said: “It’s not just about reduction in car emissions, but reduction in congestion too.”
He added the company was looking into new ways of delivering parcels that would involve delivery drivers travelling part of the journey on bike or on foot.
Clarke, who still works with Gnewt, noted that in addition to engine emissions, there are also concerns over tyre wear producing particulate matter, which is linked to breathing problems.
As more businesses make the switch to cleaner cars to comply with ULEZ standards, Clarke’s advice to business owners is to plan ahead.
“The reality is, we’ve known about [the ULEZ] for about four years and we’ve had all that time to plan for it.
“It is about sufficient planning and understanding what vehicles are available and when.”
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Harare International School • 66 Pendennis Road, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe • Phone (263) 4 870514 • Fax (263) 4 883371 • CEEB: 633080
Course Offerings & Graduation Requirements
University / College Acceptances
Arden Tyoschin
atyoschin@his.ac.zw
High School and Middle School Principal
Michael E.Schuetze
mschuetze@his.ac.zw
Niel Petersen
npetersen@his.ac.zw
Founded in 1992, Harare International School (HIS) is an independent, non-profit institution, serving students in Early Childhood 1 (EC 1) to grade 12. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and the educational program is modeled along North American and International Baccalaureate (IB) guidelines. HIS is fully accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. HIS is an IB World School and is authorized to offer the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. HIS is currently a Middle Years Programme candidate school.
Harare International School has an enrollment of 424 students in Grades EC1 – 12, with 213 in Elementary and 211 in Secondary. The student body represents 46 nationalities with 35% from Africa (of which 25% Zimbabwean), 24% from Europe, 24% from the United States and Canada, 14% from Asia and the remaining 3% from other areas of the world.
Faculty members represent 16 nationalities and most hold advanced degrees.
Students are required to complete Community/Action/Service (CAS) programme throughout their years at HIS. Activities and extracurricular programmes on offer include: Student Council, National Honor Society, Model UN, Interact, Band, Marimbas, Choir, Drama, Chess Club, Robotics Club, Global Issues Club, Green Team, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer (all SV/JV). Over 30 activities are offered at HIS.
All classes meet for 240 minutes each week for two semesters (August to June).
Post-Secondary Plans and University Admissions: Class of 2017
90% of Graduates from the Class of 2017 are attending universities in the following countries, with 41% matriculating to the United States, 26% to the United Kingdom and 21% to Canada. Bolded universities indicate planned matriculation and asterisks (*) indicate merit scholarships awarded. 7% of HIS 2017 Graduates are taking gap semesters before enrolling in university and the remaining 3% are attending post-grad PG high school year abroad.
Bard College, Calvin College*, The Citadel, Clarkson University*, The College of William & Mary, CSU: Long Beach, Drexel University*, Eckerd College *, Flagler College*, Florida Institute of Technology*, George Mason University, Indiana University-Purdue, University Indianapolis (IUPUI)*, Jacksonville University*, Lebanon Valley College*, Los Angeles Film School, Loyola Marymount University, Lynn University, Milsapps College*, San Jose State University, Savannah College of Art & Design, Seton Hall University*, Skidmore College, St. Mary’s University*, Texas Southern University, University of Bridgeport*, University of California, Davis, University of California, San Diego. University of the Pacific*, University of Southern Florida, University of Tampa*, Vassar College*, Virgina Tech.
Carleton University* Concordia University McGill University, Simon Fraser University*, Trent University, Augustana College: University of Alberta*, University of Alberta*, University of British Columbia*, University of Waterloo
Brunel University,Southampton Solent University, University of Manchester, Kingston University Richmond, The American International University in London St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, University of Roehampton*, University of Southampton, University of Sussex.
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Fontys Business School The Hague University of Applied Sciences Maastricht University, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
Beijing International Bilingual
Academy (China)* SCAD: Hong Kong (China) VIA University College (Denmark)
St. Stephen’s College,
University of Delhi (India) National Institute of Technology, Delhi (India)
Florence Design Academy
Limkokwing University (Malaysia)
American University in Dubai (UAE)
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Betty Davis assembled a tour group that would later be known as Funkhouse and include Greensboro's Carlos Morales (far right).
Courtesy of Fred Mills
Juke box hero: To those who knew him, Greensboro guitarist was one of the greats
By Nancy McLaughlin nancy.mclaughlin@greensboro.com
Nancy McLaughlin
GREENSBORO — "Funk Queen" Betty Davis, with her daring personality and sense of style, was a pioneer for artists who couldn't be easily categorized.
Her former husband, the late and legendary jazz musician Miles Davis, once called her "Madonna before Madonna."
Backing Davis in the 1970s was a group of twentysomethings looking to make their mark. They didn't know it at the time, but they would become pioneers, too: Carlos Morales (guitar), Fred "Funki" Mills (keyboards and vocals), Nickey Neal (drums) and Larry Johnson (guitar) — all hailing from her native North Carolina.
Morales, who died in May, was the only one from Greensboro. The other three were from Reidsville. Morales would use his time with Davis as a launching pad to play with Julian Lennon, Natalie Cole and other well-known entertainers while living between California and London.
Suffering from chronic lung disease, he came back to Greensboro in recent years where he quietly lived out the rest of his life.
In a post on Facebook, Lennon said Morales gave him "some of the best memories anyone could ever have."
This weekend, Mills and others are coming together in Greensboro to celebrate Morales with a musical tribute. That event coincides with the North Carolina premiere of "Betty: They Say I'm Different," a documentary about Davis that includes footage of Morales and the rest of the band.
Ticket sales will benefit the guitarist's parents, who are both in their 90s and live near N.C. A&T.
"A lot of people in Greensboro," Mills said, "didn't know how far he went."
'He had a drive'
Morales, who played tuba with the Page High School marching band and briefly attended A&T, was a natural on the guitar.
"Most every musician realizes or knows that we didn't choose music, music chose us," Mills explained.
The easy-going Morales had musical tastes ranging from Jimi Hendrix to The Beatles, who he had seen on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Born Carlton Jr., to audiences he was known as Carlos.
"He had a drive," Morales' younger brother Michael said, "about being something more than a guy who played guitar here and there."
Davis, who was from Durham but as a youngster spent summers in Reidsville with her grandmother, had already put together a touring band in 1975 when she went looking for another guitarist and found Morales. At the time, he was honing his skills in nightclubs across the state with a Greensboro group called the Mighty Majors.
"He had rhinestone eyeglasses," recalled Mills, who lives in Durham. "He always seemed ready for the big stage."
Once they started playing for Davis, things moved very quickly for Morales, Mills and the rest of the band.
"She was kind of like our big sister and she knew everybody," Mills said.
While on the road, it wasn't uncommon for the band to find themselves rubbing shoulders with celebrities such as comedian Richard Pryor, boxer Muhammad Ali and actor Roger Moore.
When Davis wasn't touring, the group found a lot of work playing colleges and nightclubs on the East Coast under the name Funkhouse, and would become trailblazers in the funk era.
"It was their first success on their own," said Phil Cox, the director and producer of "Betty: They Say I'm Different."
Having already been established as "Betty's band," they got calls to open up for different acts, including funk groups Mother's Finest and Graham Central Station.
After Davis was dropped by her record label, she decided to take a break from the music industry — which is chronicled in the documentary.
Meanwhile, the guys still found themselves in demand. That was until disco became popular.
It was the end of one era and the start of another.
"You never think it's going to stop," Mills said, "and then it does."
'Carlos, this is Julian Lennon'
The band went their separate ways, finding new projects and ways to collaborate with other artists.
Morales left for California and later London, and concentrated on performing as well as writing music.
Eventually, he would get the chance to write and record with John Lennon's son, Julian, among other established artists.
"It was kind of like fate — or whatever you want to call it — put them together," Michael Morales said.
According to Michael, a mutual acquaintance introduced his brother to Lennon. "He said, 'Carlos, this is Julian Lennon. Julian, this is the best guitarist I've heard in my life.'"
A 1980s article in Rolling Stone magazine references Morales as a constant personal and professional presence in Lennon's life, with notable contributions on his first album, which solidified the British singer's status as more than the son of an icon.
"Carlos co-wrote three songs on that album and Julian recognized him, but he didn't take care of his money, which happens a lot in this business," Mills said.
Mills, a Vietnam veteran who served two tours before being hired by Davis at 28, retired from performing in 2014 not long after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
The band came back to Greensboro in 2016 — after not having been in the same room for decades — as Cox was putting the documentary together.
"There was just this loving energy between them," Cox said of the footage.
Between 2018 and 2019, the band performed together after screenings of the documentary to help promote the film.
It was this past spring in Canada when Mills last saw Morales, who was noticeably frail.
"I kind of kick myself because I didn't pay attention like I should have," Mills said.
Mills recalled later sending Morales a text about an article he saw that mentioned Funkhouse. Morales never responded.
By then, his parents were taking care of him.
And then Morales was gone at age 65.
Michael Morales recently saw footage of the band's performance at a music festival in France that had been posted to YouTube.
Performances of "Betty's band" backing Davis is racking up millions of views on the channel.
"It’s good that they are getting the recognition that I think they deserve," Michael Morales said. "That style of music ... that was the basis of funk. Carlos and Fred and those guys, they were right in the middle of it."
Sunday's benefit will be a reunion of the band without Morales. But they'll reminisce as if he were there.
"I think he would say," Mills believes, "it was a great journey."
Contact Nancy McLaughlin at 336-373-7049 and follow @nmclaughlinNR on Twitter.
What: Tribute for guitarist Carlos Morales
When: 7 p.m., Sunday
Where: Boston's House of Jazz, 1011 Arnold St., Greensboro
Cost: $15. Proceeds will benefit the family of Carlos Morales.
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110-year-old steam tunnels under U of G to deliver new $25-million green energy initiative
With up to 30,000 people on campus at any given time, U of G's director of Maintenance and Energy Services compares the university’s heating needs to a small city
Mar 10, 2018 8:00 AM by: Kenneth Armstrong
1 / 1 Steve Nyman, director of Maintenance and Energy Services at U of G, stands in front of one of the entrances to the university's district energy tunnel system, which provides heat and electricity to almost all of the buildings on campus. The network of tunnels will be used to deliver a new green energy initiative announced Friday at the university. Kenneth Armstrong/GuelphToday
A network of century-old underground steam tunnels that connects the buildings of the University of Guelph will be used to deliver a new green energy initiative and help the university meet its greenhouse gas emission goals.
The district energy tunnels were originally built to carry steam that was heated by centrally-located coal-burning boilers to heat the few buildings on campus at the time, said Steve Nyman, director of Maintenance and Energy Services at U of G.
As the university expanded, so did the series of tunnels and the coal-burning boilers were eventually converted to natural gas and the exhaust from those boilers is released by the large smokestack that stands at Central Utilities Plant directly behind Johnston Hall.
The tunnels are large enough to walk through and connect just about every building on campus.
It can be a task to keep students and other people out of the tunnel system, said Nyman.
“They are actually very dangerous, because you have 125-pounds of steam — which is 354 degrees Fahrenheit — on one side of the tunnel, with 13,700 volts on the other side,” he said. “Anyone could create a troubleshooting nightmare for us by closing some valves that we wouldn’t expect to have closed.”
Entering a restricted area on campus, like the steam tunnels, is considered a Level 3 offence — an action by an individual that can endanger their safety and security or of others and can result in eviction from residence or a suspension.
At least part of the original reason for the tunnel network, said Nyman, was to offer one centrally-located boiler, cutting down on the manpower needed to deliver and distribute the vast amounts of coal that would have been required to heat those first campus buildings at the turn of the 20th Century.
“By using district heating, they could concentrate all of that equipment in one spot and not have to equip each building with a furnace room and a coal chute and having people to stoke a fire at each building,” said Nyman.
As new buildings were built on campus, the tunnel network has expanded to its current size. In total, the underground network consists of about five kilometres of tunnels.
On Friday, the provincial government announced almost $26 million in funding for the university to improve energy efficiency on its campus.
The funding will be used, in part, to upgrade and expand its heat-recovery system — using the heat released by the stack at Central utilities to heat water that will be delivered in pipes to the buildings on campus through the district energy tunnels.
“We already do some stack heat recovery, but this is going to dramatically expand it,” said Nyman.
Capturing exhaust heat directly displaces the need to burn more natural gas, said Nyman, which can result in a reduction of greenhouse gas production.
The heated water will be used in academic, research and residence spaces, said Nyman, who said the initiative will account for a 3,200 tonne reduction in greenhouse gases.
The system is a closed loop, so any water that is not used returns to Central Utilities to be reheated and sent through the system again.
The original builders of the 1906 tunnel system couldn’t have known how much the university would expand, said Nyman.
With up to 30,000 people on campus at any given time, Nyman compares the university’s heating needs to a small city like Stratford.
“If we didn’t have a district energy system with underground tunnels, it would be next to impossible to extract that heat and then use it on campus, but because we have that network of underground tunnels, we can,” said Nyman.
The almost $26 million in funding will come from the provincial government’s Cap and Trade program, distributed through the Greenhouse Gas Campus Retrofit Program and will also include high-efficiency boiler replacements and the installation of energy-efficient windows.
The announcement was made Friday morning by Liz Sandals, MPP for Guelph.
One of the buildings that will benefit from the retrofit is the university’s MacNaughton Building, which was built in 1969 and named after Sandals’ father Earl MacNaughton.
She said the building was not built with energy efficiency in mind, which was typical of buildings of that era.
“Electricity and fuel was really cheap in the 60s, so it wasn’t a big criteria when you were building a building,” said Sandals.
Earlier this month, Sandals announced funding for new bike lanes and downtown bicycle parking as part of the Ontario Municipal Commuter Cycling Program, which is also funded by the province’s Cap and Trade program.
She said it's frustrating to hear that all four candidates vying for the Ontario PC Party leadership say they will scrap a tax on carbon emissions.
“There was so much scepticism about whether cap and trade would work. In fact, it’s worked really well,” said Sandals.
The university is already approaching its greenhouse gas emissions targets for 2030, said Nyman.
“Namely a 37 per cent reduction relative to our 1990 emissions — despite the campus growing in size by 40 per cent in that time,” he said.
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December 17th, 2013 by Jonathan Fortin
First footage from LEGO The Hobbit
WB Games and TT Games have released a first trailer for LEGO The Hobbit. The game will be based on the first two films of The Hobbit film trilogy (rather than specifically on the J.R.R. Tolkien book the films are based on). The trailer's release was likely intended to coincide with last Friday's release of the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The trailer is embedded below:
I think it's a pretty swell trailer. Not only does it demonstrate the voice cast, it also has a lot of great little gags (Bilbo losing his hair). The final bit takes the already-comedic ending to the trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and makes it even more absurd, but y favorite shot is probably the dwarves bringing the giraffe into the dining table.
LEGO The Hobbit will be released in 2014 for PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and PlayStation Vita.
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Exposition Wineke Gartz
20-10-18 – 01-11-19
About Cell Memory, Thank You Plant
The video installation Cell Memory, Thank You Plant of Wineke Gartz in the Chinese Flower Pavilion of the Ming Garden, Hortus Haren is about paying attention: to plants, to growth, to light, to the Hortus, and about perception.
In response to an invitation from the Hortus Haren and TAAK, Gartz visited the gardens of the Hortus on multiple occasions. She filmed in the gardens in different seasons, and saw an analogy between the resilience of nature and the manner in which The Hortus has fought for existence since losing its primary, scientific function. She saw how the organization—just as the gardens—has grown, changed, and moved forward.
In her video, Gartz captures the continuous transitions of nature and the earth. She draws parallels between developments and processes at the micro level of the plants, the “meso” level of the Hortus, and the macro level of the world and universe. This vision is reflected in her many changes of focus—from close-ups of plants and flowers to long-distance views of paths, fields and lines of sight.
In the Chinese Flower Pavilion, Gartz creates an environment with colored windows in which the visitor is immersed in the video installation. In the video she meshes her observations of the gardens of the Hortus with archival material and text fragments. The soundscape of sound artist and sculptor Arnout Killian combines music and sounds of the garden.
Gartz took inspiration from Peter Westbroek’s book The Discovery of the Earth (De Ontdekking van de Aarde). In this book, noted geologist Peter Westbroek gives a view of how the earth evolved and was civilized. To understand these processes, according to Westbroek, we need a synthesis of different sciences and specialisms that give mankind a place in a symbiotic worldview. With her collage-like video Gartz tries to show that everything is connected—nothing exists separately from the rest. To complement the video, Westbroek will come to Haren for a lecture showcasing 4.5 billion years of earth science in a nutshell.
About Wineke Gartz
Wineke Gartz (Eindhoven, 1968) lives and works in Amsterdam. She received her education at schools of visual art in Tilburg, St. Joost in Breda, and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. She is best known for her site-specific installations in which she uses multiple video and slide projections, objects, drawings, music and light. Her work has been shown in the 3A Gallery in New York, Witte de With in Rotterdam and DordtYart in Dordrecht. www.winekegartz.com
About Peter Westbroek
Peter Westbroek (1937) is emeritus professor of geology. He played a role in the development the Earth System Science approach to geology. He belonged to the Dutch Royal Academy of Science and was the first Dutch scientist after Erasmus to be named professor at the Collège de France in Paris. His book The Discovery of the Earth (De Ontdekking van de Aarde) takes the perspective of the earth as an integrated system in the context of an astounding history and expounds on the necessity of planetary self-knowledge.
Art Program Lost and Found
For the program “Lost and Found” (Verloren en Hervonden), five artists created three unique works of art for the Hortus Haren. In an innovative way, the artists explore the function of the Hortus in the modern world. The projects focus on the relations between humans, nature and landscape. “The Wrinkling”, by Gabriel Lester, was the first of the projects, with an opening in the Hondsrug garden on 9 July, 2017. On September 2, 2017, the Hortus Hermitage (Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer, in collaboration with Refunc) was opened in the Groninger garden. Cell Memory, Thank you Plant by Wineke Gartz, in the Chinese Flower Pavilion, will complete the Lost and Found program.
“Cell Memory, Thank you Plant” is part of the program “Lost and Found” (Verloren en Hervonden) that was commissioned by the Stichting Behoud Groene Hortus and developed with TAAK. Lost and Found was made possible with the support of Kunstraad Groningen, Mondriaan Fonds, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Vereniging Vrienden van de Hortus Haren, Gemeente Haren, Stichting Behoud Groene Hortus.
:Kunstwerk voorvertoning
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Flash flood kills 3 in southern Philippines
Philippine disaster officials say at least three people have been killed in a flash flood as a late season tropical storm blew through the southern Mindanao region.
world Updated: Dec 19, 2011 08:05 IST
Zamboanga del Norte provincial disaster officer Dennis Tenorio said on Friday that an 80-year-old woman drowned in the flooded first floor of her home on the banks of the swollen Dipolog river in Polanco township early Thursday. He says a 30-year-old man and an 8-year-old boy also drowned.
Weather bureau spokeswoman Venus Valdemoro says Tropical Storm Washi made landfall at 2:30 p.m. (06:30 GMT) on Friday in Davao Oriental province's Banganga township, about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southeast of Manila.
Back-to-back typhoons in September left more than 100 people dead.
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Five Business Leaders Who Make a Difference
Inspired by his experiences with community service as chairman of the Advisory Committee of Mission United, Real Estate Partner Stephen Moss has also encouraged his colleagues to get involved within the Broward County community and across the firm's other offices. Every lawyer is expected to get involved in the community in some way with pro bono legal work.
"If they want to be involved in child welfare, then we send them in the direction of child welfare agencies," Moss says. "But it is the expectation that everyone will get involved because it's really part of the core values and the culture of our firm."
READ: Five Business Leaders Who Make a Difference
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Home > Publications > Chapters > Climate Finance for Limiting Emissions and Promoting Green Development: Mechanisms, Regulation, and Governance
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Climate Finance for Limiting Emissions and Promoting Green Development: Mechanisms, Regulation, and Governance
Benedict Kingsbury, Richard B. Stewart & Bryce Rudyk
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Climate finance is a critical element of global climate policy that has received far less attention than emissions limitations and climate regulatory architectures. This book redresses this deficit. It focuses on what is required to meet the need for vastly increased funding for climate mitigation and green development in developing countries. It presents new proposals to generate climate financing from both private and public sources and to deliver funds through means that will engage developing countries, build mutual trust, and secure effective long-term emissions reductions. The book also examines the vital but often neglected regulatory, trade, tax, and governance elements of global climate finance. Its proposals and analysis are designed to enrich the political and policy debate, not only for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process but more broadly. The complex issues of global climate finance cannot be resolved in a single agreement or a single forum; they will continue to demand fresh insights and creative approaches like those presented in this volume.
Richard B. Stewart
John Edward Sexton Professor of Law and Director of the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law
Bryce Rudyk
Climate Program Director at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law and Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law
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The Most Innovative Business Models of the 2014 Inc. 5000
See how these fast-growing, innovative companies are redefining money lending, e-commerce, and more.
By Jill KrasnyFreelance writer@jillkrasny
Often, the only way to get ahead is to have a great plan. Which is exactly what makes the companies below so special. It's not just that they're making the big bucks (and they are doing that). This small group of companies from the Inc. 5000 class of 2014 are notable for their innovative business models. Read on to find out how they work and why they're so successful.
No. 1,006: Brad's Deals
As a broke college student, Brad Wilson was tired of being ripped off. After printing 10,000 fliers to protest the prices at his college bookstore during orientation, he founded Brad's Deals in Chicago in 2001. He started the curated deals website as "an act of civil disobedience," he says in hindsight. "It was not starting a business."
The model: Every day, a savvy editorial team curates coupons, promotions, and other deals from around the Web--from $17 sunglasses to cheap airfare and student discounts at Urban Outfitters. Brad's Deals redirects customers to the original retailer's website when they're ready to make a purchase. "It's distinctly not a store or a deal provider," says Wilson. "It's a curated guide of the best decisions to make on a daily basis." As the middleman, the site gets a small cut of retailers' sales and also makes money from online ads.
Revenue in 2013: $17.5 million
Smartest move: Wilson credits his success to staying lean and not taking outside funding. "Even if you come to our office, you'll see it's just stuff that we've gotten good deals on."
No. 55: Compass Automation
In 2009, three recent college grads--Bill Angsten, Patrick O'Rahilly Jr., and Brian Greviskes--launched Compass Automation, a high-tech robotics company, with a little financial help from O'Rahilly Jr.'s father. The three engineers had recognized that the field of robotics was growing and there was plenty of young, technical talent, like themselves, looking for jobs. Today, the Elgin, Illinois-based company builds custom assembly machines that can make things such as circuit boards, jet engines, and plastic bottles for top manufacturers in the U.S. and abroad.
The model: Historically, the tech companies that have served the manufacturing industry have been something of an old-boys' club, the companies' having been around for years, says Angsten. So one of the ways Compass differentiates itself is through its talent and expertise: The 35-person company recruits young men--and women--from MIT and pairs them with industry vets. Angsten says the strategy helps keep the company, which counts Caterpillar and Raytheon as customers, on the cutting edge of robotics technology.
Revenue in 2013: $5.7 million
Secret sauce: A deep bench of bright people. "Because of the talent, we can take on a much broader range of manufacturing processes," says Angsten. "Everything is from scratch, so it's like you're reinventing the wheel every time, which is a challenge"--and also the reason why the young MIT grads love working there.
No. 4,682: Drivers History
Around 2001, an attorney named Steve Esposito noticed that a lawyer friend would go to public courts to look up recently filed offenses and then reach out to the defendants, offering representation. Not a bad idea, Esposito thought. He decided to automate the process, creating a direct-mail marketing service to help lawyers find more clients. A few years later, the company pivoted to focus specifically on auto insurance.
The model: The Philadelphia-based company created DocIT, a real-time database of traffic and criminal traffic court records. Drivers History sells access to the database to auto insurance carriers so they can "price the driver," explains Brian Wolfson, senior vice president of sales and business development. The company says its data covers around half of the nation's driving population. It plans to diversify the types of data it collects and partner with more insurers.
Honorable mention: This isn't the first time Drivers History has been named to the Inc. 500|5000. It ranked No. 636 last year.
No. 248: Lending Club
It was 2006, and Renaud Laplanche was fed up with his credit card's high APR--and the fact that his savings account only earned 1 percent interest. "The initial idea was, could there be a more cost-efficient mechanism to give people some money on one side and credit on the other side?" he says. He decided to build an online marketplace to do just that.
The model: San Francisco-based Lending Club cuts out the middleman with a peer-to-peer solution: Customers in need of a loan--both individuals and small businesses--apply online. On the other end, individuals and institutions can search approved applications and decide to offer a loan for monthly returns. Lending Club takes a cut of up to 1.5 percent, depending on the grade, of borrowers' loan amounts, and charges a 1 percent service fee on each monthly payment from borrowers.
Key differentiator: Transparency. "We publish the performance of every single loan and have made about $5 billion in loans," says Laplanche. "You can download an entire loan portfolio and see how it's performed since 2007. No bank has ever done that."
Revenue in 2013: $98 million
No. 318: Lolly Wolly Doodle
Brandi Temple always dreamed of becoming a trophy wife. But when her second husband's earnings dropped by half in 2009, she embraced the thriftiness her parents had inculcated in her. She began sewing clothes for her two daughters from her home in Thomasville-Lexington, North Carolina. She posted the garments on eBay and figured she could make more on demand to use up her leftover fabric. The business took off.
The model: "We consider ourselves the Dell of apparel," says chief operating officer Emily Hickey of Lolly's "customer-specific" system. Shoppers customize every detail online, and Lolly's made-to-order factory produces items with the same features in supersmall batches. Lolly recently launched its first iPad app and interactive Web feature, Design Me, which will let customers design apparel from start to finish.
Fan power: Lolly says it does more sales on Facebook than any other brand in the world, thanks to its base of roughly 900,000 fans. "Our customers are just so fanatical about the brand, they've really helped us spread it," Hickey says of Lolly's traction on Facebook. "I think a lot of people will just share [their designs] all day."
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'Love rival' trial: Widow claims murder accused 'took her underwear from the clothes line'
Jury hears details of a letter published in 2011 to an agony aunt
Mary Lowry pictured outside court. Photo: Colin O'Riordan
Patrick Quirke, who is on trial for the murder of Mr Ryan. Picture: Collins
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January 30 2019 1:45 PM
A WOMAN has told a murder trial that she confronted the man who was leasing her farm and accused him of taking her underwear from the clothes line.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/love-rival-trial-widow-claims-murder-accused-took-her-underwear-from-the-clothes-line-37765717.html
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Mary Lowry told the Central Criminal Court that she had four CCTV cameras installed on her farm in November 2012 after the Eircom Phonewatch alarm system she'd had put in two years previous had been activated some 17 times over that period.
Nobody knew the cameras were there apart from her three sons, she explained.
Footage was shown to the jury in the trial of Patrick Quirke (50) of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 52-year-old Bobby Ryan, a DJ known as 'Mr Moonlight', on a date between June 3 2011 and April 2013.
Taken through the footage by counsel for the Prosecution, Ms Lowry identified Mr Quirke as coming onto her property on December 3, 2012.
The cameras captured Mr Quirke going into a shed at the back of her house, where she said the clothes line was located.
Asked what was on the line, she said: "Items of clothing, everything. I had underwear on that line."
The same footage showed Mr Quirke walking around the property and looking in the windows of her house, before returning to the shed.
Ms Lowry said that on returning to her home, she got her sons to retrieve the CCTV footage and she watched it.
Asked if she had confronted Mr Quirke after this incident, Ms Lowry said she had contacted the garda station. However at that stage, she said she did not want to go down the formal route, explaining that Mr Quirke had lost his son earlier that year. She thought that sending a solicitor's letter would be more appropriate, informing him that she wanted him to cease the lease and leave the farm.
Asked if she had any other engagement with Mr Quirke, she said that after informing her solicitor to draft a letter "as kind-hearted as possible" asking him to leave. That day, she came home and Mr Quirke handed her back a key to her front door, claiming he had found it in the yard on the day that she had seen him on the CCTV, December 3.
He said he had found the key that day and had just put it in the lock to see if it was her key.
Asked how he had presented, Ms Lowry said he was "very shaky and extremely nervous, very, very strange indeed".
"Physically, he was shaking," she added.
She believed the key was the one that had gone missing a long time previous, while her brother, Eddie, was building an extension to her house.
After he had received the solicitor's letter, Mr Quirke had written back saying the only way he would leave the lease is if she compensated him, giving him money to leave the farm.
"I wasn't going to do that. I did not do that," she told the court.
Letters went 'back and forth', Ms Lowry said, with her solicitor asking Mr Quirke not to come near the farm or the house.
Ultimately, in March, he was asked to leave the farm in early July 2013 and he agreed to do that. One final payment was due on the land but asked if she had been paid, Ms Lowry replied 'no.'
She said she was aware he had made alternative arrangements to lease land from a neighbour, Mary Dillon.
On the evening of April 29, an unfamiliar tractor with an agitator for stirring slurry drove into the farmyard and when she went down to check, saw that it was Pat Quirke. He asked if she was 'alright, there.'
Apologising to the court for her language, Ms Lowry said that she had told him: "You are some c*** and I can't wait to see the back of you and I hope that you won't be stealing Mary Dillon's knickers off the line."
That was in relation to the land he was going to lease, she explained, and also 'in relation to what he took off my clothes line,' she added.
His response was "ha," she claimed.
The following day, April 30 2013, Ms Lowry said gardaí arrived at her farm and informed her a body had been found in the septic tank "out the back."
She said she knew it was not the septic tank because she knew where that was located.
Ms Lowry said she had not been aware of the existence of the tank where the body was found. She met Mr Quirke and his wife, Imelda at the scene. She made no eye contact but told the court she felt Imelda was "shook by it."
"Pat was not perturbed at all," she claimed.
Ms Lowry told the court she has not returned to her house at Fawnagowan, Co Tipperary since that time, adding: "I left my home."
Meanwhile the jury heard details of a letter published in February 2011 in the Sunday Independent, to agony aunt, Patricia Redlich.
The letter read: “I've made a right mess of my life and I need help on how to go forward. It all started four years ago, when my best friend died. This man was also my wife's cousin and a close family friend. He left a wife and a young family after him.
"I coped by throwing myself into doing all I could for my friend's wife and children. There was much sorting out to do in relation to his business. Unfortunately, this led to an affair with his wife, and I fell deeply in love with her.
"It lasted three years and came to an abrupt end recently when I found out that she was seeing someone else. When I confronted her, she claimed that she had fallen out of love with me and was waiting for an opportunity to end "us".
"This was a defining moment for both of us. She no longer depended on me, and quickly forgot about me by putting all her energy into developing this new relationship. This man promised everything that I couldn't. She introduced him to everyone in the family, including my wife, and they were all delighted that she had found love again.
"My problem is that I am broken-hearted and angry at how well things have worked out for her, despite her lying and cheating on me. We meet on a constant basis as we have a business connection as well as the family connection. She refuses to discuss our affair and says it is in the past.
"She has confessed it to her new lover, while I have no closure and am forced to carry this dark secret alone. I now feel a tremendous amount of grief, and shame, for a lost love -- and am possibly suffering postponed grief for a dead friend - all in silence.
"I know I have done wrong and let my wife down badly. I contemplated telling her, but feel it would do nothing to relieve my burden while it would devastate her.
"I have been diagnosed with depression, but none of the medication is working. My wife has been a tremendous support and loves me deeply. Ironically, this almost makes things worse.
"Unfortunately, while I love her, I am not in love with her. I'm still in love with my ex-lover even though I accept that the affair is over. I wish I wasn't, and wish I could transfer the feelings I have for her back to my wife. How do I begin to rebuild my life?"
Ms Lowry told the court that she recognised this letter as having been written by Mr Quirke and has previously told the court that she was “fuming” over it.
The trial continues.
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Neighboring Countries of India You Must Know Their Names
Indian subcontinent that is covered by the high Himalayan mountain range covering from its top, from the north side and the Indian Ocean spread in the south surrounding all the diversity of India. As these are just a few names, on the Indian Subcontinent map, you can easily spot many other countries. In the 19th and 20th century India was ruled by the British government, and it is the world’s second most populated country.
Though they got their Independence in 1947 and after that India is on the path of development at a reasonable speed. While many other parts of the world are still facing the major economic crisis, India is doing good so far. By achieving success and glory, India has established itself as a developing country. There is no second thought in saying that by providing better education, better employment, better political and social status the country has made its place among the big and more advanced Nations. Not just the tourism sector of India, but also the industries are advancing towards the growth that will help the country to develop more.
Geographically India houses more than 700,000 cities and villages surrounded by many neighboring countries.
In this article we are going to talk about the Neighbouring Countries of India You Must Know Their Names.
1. Pakistan
Starting with the closest ones, Pakistan got separated from India when they become independent countries after the British rule. Both these countries became geographical territories that consists of former British India. In the following years, many sovereign states and a few French colonies along with some Portuguese colonies become the part of India. Pakistan was separated into two territories when it got its freedom. Both the territories were divided kilometers apart from each other.
In the North-West of India you can find the first territory and in the east thousands of kilometers far apart the second territory is established. Both these territories are not geographically apart from each other, but they both have different culture as well. Later, during the civil war that occurred in 1971 between India and Pakistan, a new country called Bangladesh came out into existence. After that, the first territory became Pakistan the eastern territory of Pakistan started to call itself Bangladesh.
India shares many borders with Pakistan. In Indian soil, these borders are established in Gujarat, Punjab, Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir. Pakistan falls in the South Asia, and it has its coastline across the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. 7,95,094 sq km is the total land area of this country.
2. China
In its North across the Himalaya, India has made its border with its second neighbor China. Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are the northern states of India that are holding the borders with China. Covering the total area of 95,96,961 sq km, China becomes the world’s most populated country.
With the advancement that they have reached in terms of technology, China is known as the world’s fastest growing economy in the world. Beijing is the capital city of this most populous country. The President is known as the main personal of the government, and the Premier of China is the considered as the head of the state.
3. Nepal
Situated in the Himalayas, Nepal is another India Neighbouring country. With only 1,47,181 sq km of are Nepal indeed the smaller Indian Neighbouring country. But it houses eight out of worlds ten tallest peaks. Everyone knows about the world’s tallest mountain peak, Mount Everest, it lies in Nepal. To support the economy of the country agriculture plays the main role.
The major industries in Nepal are all agriculture based. The federal parliamentary republic government runs Nepal. By making Katmandu as its capital, Nepal is a favorite place among tourists. Many tourists came here every year, and the world’s eight tallest peaks are one of the main reasons for its popularity.
4. Bangladesh
India shares its longest border with Bangladesh. On Indian soil, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal are the states that support border. While, Sylhet, Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rangpur, and Rajshahi are the Bangladeshi states on the opposite side of the Indian border. At first, Bangladesh was the western part of first Indian neighbor, Pakistan, but during the Civil War in 1971 between India and Pakistan.
Bangladesh separated itself from Pakistan and establishes its ground. Bangladesh had to fight a freedom war to declare itself as a new country. Covering the 1,43,998 sq km extended geographical area, Bangladesh has got its 580 km long coastline. Dhaka is the capital city of this country. The Parliamentary democratic system supports the government in this country.
5. Bhutan
Covering the are of 38,394 sq km, Bhutan has its borders with Indian states such as Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Thimphu is the capital city of this country. The most of the population follows the Buddhism which is followed after the Hinduism. To generate the economy to call itself a country, Bhutan is supported by its Hydropower, agriculture, forestry, and tourism industries. Other than Monarch Bhutan has its Prime Minister as well. Their Prime Minister is the one who holds, the more executive powers over the kingdom of Bhutan.
6. Burma
Having a coastline along with the Bay of Bengal, the Burma, which is also known as Myanmar is established in East Asia. This country neighbors with India and shares its multiple borders near Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram. Though they have only one border called the border of Burma. The capital city of Burma is Naypyidaw, and it covers 6,76,576 sq km of land. Just like Bhutan the most of the county follows Buddhism as their religion. The presidential republic governs the country along with a two-chamber party parliament. Though, President is considered as the head of the state of this country.
7. Afghanistan
Located in central Asia, Afghanistan neighbors with India and shares its borders. Other than India,Afghanistan has many other neighboring countries as well. China, Pakistan, Iran, Iran, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan are the name of other countries that share its border with Afghanistan. Population covering the area of 6,52,220 sq km mainly practices Islam as their religion. To support its economy, agriculture industries of Afghanistan supports it a lot. Afghanistan has many significant Industries supporting its economy by manufacturing cotton textile, woven carpets, woolens, and handicrafts.
8. Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is located at the southern part of India. Palk Strait divides Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has two capital states one is commercial, Colombo the other is its parliamentary capital of Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte. It is spread across 65,610 sq Km. The president is the head of state who also controls the government of this country. Sri Lanka is home to many different religions, parties and has multiple languages. Offering many beautiful places to visit, this country is popular among touring all over the world.
9. The Maldives
It is an island which becomes a country and called the Maldives. In the south-west of India this island which is called a country neighbor with India. The Maldives is an island situated in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea area, Maldives holds a chain of 26 small islands that make a perfect tourist destination. The Maldives is the smallest country that neighbors with India.
It is spread across an area of 298 sq km only. Still, it includes than a thousand coral islands that make it a dream destination for many tourists. Islam is the most practiced religion in this country, and the president is appointed as the head of the state and of the government as well. The official language of this country is Dhivehi and Male is the capital of this island country.
India has covered 15,200 km land area, and 7,516.6 km is the total length of the coastline of the continent, Lakshadweep Islands and Andaman and the Nicobar Islands. It shares its border with nine countries. From north to west India has Afghanistan and Pakistan as his neighbors, China, Bhutan, and Nepal are in the north sharing their borders with India, Myanmar is neighboring India by far East, and Bangladesh is located in the east.
In the South-east, there is Sri Lanka, and the Maldives is located at the south-west. Sri Lanka and the Maldives are the only two countries with water borders. Just like all the different cultures and religions, India has got a number of neighboring countries. Knowing about the countries neighboring India is important for those who are interested in getting to know the country well, and it is important for the citizens of India as well. Above mentioned are the countries neighboring India from north to the south.
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Antoine Fuqua Will Apparently Direct Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis Biopic; Hip-Hop Remix Album To Be Unveiled With Film’s Release
Antoine Fuqua Will Apparently Direct Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Biopic; Hip-Hop Remix Album To Be Unveiled With Film's Release
Simon Dang
It seems like we’ve been talking about this film for years now, but it looks like there may have been some significant progression of the Don Cheadle-shepherded film about jazz icon Miles Davis. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (via ShadowAndAct), Davis Estate heirs Erin Davis and Vince Wilburn Jr. have revealed that project will no longer see Cheadle at the helm — as has been the plan for as long as we remember — and that Antoine Fuqua is now slated to direct the picture that has previously been described as a ’70’s cubist gangster pic.
“It’s a script written by Steven Baigelman, it’s not a cradle to the grave biopic,” Willburn Jr. explained. “We don’t want to give it away, we want to come and really put the blast on ya with Don and Antoine Fuqua who’s directing.” It’s not the first time Fuqua’s name has been dropped though. In another interview with Spanish publication ABC (via MilesDavis), Davis Estate manager Erin Davis also mentions Fuqua as the helmer, which seemingly confirms his involvement, but adds that the film’s release will also coincide with a remix album of the trumpeter tunes with current hip-hop artists.
It certainly sounds like things are definitely coming together with star Cheadle noting earlier this year that they finally had “a studio offer” and was trying to get a budget in place. We’re sure Fuqua’s involvement and the connected remix albums have only sped things up with former Miles Davis Quartet member Herbie Hancock also excitingly on board to score the film.
But it also should be noted, Antoine Fuqua tends to be attached to a zillion projects at the same time, so who knows if he’ll wind up being the guy to take this over the line. But in any event, it seems momentum on this continues to roll forward.
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Castleford star expects physical test in Wakefield derby
Grant Millington celebrates the last win over Wakefield with team-mate Oliver Holmes.
Tony Harber
Published: 12:30 Thursday 01 September 2016
Pack star Grant Millington is expecting a physical encounter when Wakefield Wildcats come to the Mend-A-Hose Jungle tomorrow night looking for revenge for the two defeats they have suffered at Castleford Tigers’ hands in 2016.
Millington enjoys the cut and thrust of a typical local derby and reckons this week’s game will be as passionate as ever even though the Wildcats have little but pride to play for this season.
He told the Express: “People speak of Wakefield not having the best of starts to the Super 8s, but this is a local derby and we are fully aware that this is a match they are going to come and target.
“If they don’t win any more this season they’d be pretty happy if they come here and roll us.
“We beat them at their place not long ago and I’m pretty sure that their players and fans are keen to come here and try to get one over on us.
“We are expecting them to come here and start here really big. It’s going to be quite a physical match I think.
“These are the types of games you love. It’s back to the tribal instincts of rugby league. You really rip into the other side and shake their hand at the end of the game. It’s all left out on the pitch.
“It’s always a good atmosphere down here, but especially for the derbies. Even when played them at Wakey both sets of fans become vocal and it’s that little bit of hatred that makes the game more interesting and makes them shout that little bit louder, which is great.”
Millington reckons the players are over the big disappointment of losing to the very last play in their last game at Warrington.
He said: “We had worked so hard and had knocked off the top two in the table then we came up against Warrington who are thereabouts as well and got beaten on the bell so it was disappointing.
“But we were given four days off so we come into the last four games nice and fresh and ready to be motivated to crack on, keep plugging away and get a few more wins.
“You are playing the top sides every week and if you’re not good you get punished. I think we’ve been good so far at being on top of our standards, which is something we speak a lot about here at Cas.
“The standards have risen for us in defence in the Super 8s. We’ve still got some work to do, but we’ve really been pushing hard and working hard during the week on our defence.”
Millington and his team-mates are determined to keep going for the rest of the season as it can stand them in good stead for 2017 wherever they finish this time round.
He added: “We’re running out of time a bit to catch that top four, but we are working hard to improve as a team for next year.
“We’re spoken of at times about being a team that if other sides stick with us we’ll have a lapse in concentration that will give them opportunities to put some points on us. But we’ve shown in the Super 8s that we are building as a team and trying to shake off that tag of the way people look at us.
“We are building for next year and really building to be a top four side once we get a full compliment of players back in the future.
“We are out there to do everything we can to make that top four, as we have been all year. But we’ve been unfortunate in different ways over the season.
“We are a rugby league team that wants to win and we are working our hardest every week not only to build for next year to become a better side, but also to see if miraculously we can still pull something off for the end of this season.
“Even if we weren’t mathematically possible to make the top four our standards are only going to go one way here and that’s up.
“We’ve got a culture here where everybody has to work hard. We don’t have the sort of players who can pull a game out of nowhere. We’re starting to get that now with some players in our side, but we’ve been known as a team that are going to work hard and we can play some great football on the back of that.”
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Manufacturing Sector in India
Manufacturing has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India. Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi, had launched the ‘Make in India’ program to place India on the world map as a manufacturing hub and give global recognition to the Indian economy. India is expected to become the fifth largest manufacturing country in the world by the end of year 2020*.
The Government of India has set an ambitious target of increasing the contribution of manufacturing output to 25 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2025, from 16 per cent currently.
India’s manufacturing sector has the potential to touch US$ 1 trillion by 2025. There is potential for the sector to account for 25-30 per cent of the country’s GDP and create up to 90 million domestic jobs by 2025. Business conditions in the Indian manufacturing sector continue to remain positive.
With the help of Make in India drive, India is on the path of becoming the hub for hi-tech manufacturing as global giants such as GE, Siemens, HTC, Toshiba, and Boeing have either set up or are in process of setting up manufacturing plants in India, attracted by India's market of more than a billion consumers and increasing purchasing power.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in India’s manufacturing sector grew by 82 per cent year-on-year to US$ 16.13 billion during April-November 2016.
India has become one of the most attractive destinations for investments in the manufacturing sector. Some of the major investments and developments in this sector in the recent past are:
Apple plans to produce iPhone SE at an upcoming facility in Bengaluru, owned by its partner Wistron, which has upgraded the plant to assemble Apple iPhones.
Coca-Cola, the US-based beverage giant, plans to invest around Rs 750 crore (US$ 112.5 million) to set up a food processing unit and a bottling plant at the newly developed Mohasa-Babai industrial estate in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh.
Panasonic Corporation, the Japan-based electronics company, plans to set up a new plant at Jhajjar, Haryana, to manufacture refrigerators for the Indian market, and a Research and Development (R&D) center for appliances consisting of two technical divisions to strengthen its product development in the country.
BSH Home Appliances Group, the leading home appliances manufacturer in Europe, inaugurated its first technology centre in India at Adugodi, Bengaluru, which will enable the company to further develop localised technologies for the Indian market.
China based LCD and touchscreen panel manufacturer, Holitech Technology, has announced plans to investing up to US$ 1 billion in India by the end of 2017.
Ashok Leyland Ltd has launched its circuit series electric bus, the first ever electric bus designed and engineered entirely in India specifically for Indian road conditions, with a capacity to travel over 150 km on a single charge.
Huawei, the China-based smartphone manufacturer, has entered into an agreement with solutions provider Flextronics Technologies (India) Private Limited, to manufacture its smartphones in India. Flextronics would start by making 3 million smart phones at its facility in Chennai and is expected to generate additional 1,500 jobs.
Tristone Flowtech Group, the Germany-based flow technology systems specialist, has set up a new facility in Pune, which will manufacture surge tank as well as engine cooling and aircharge hose for the Indian market. The company plans to start the production at the plant in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Tata Power has partnered with US-based Javelin Joint Venture, which is a partnership between Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, for its Strategic Engineering Division (SED), in order to create a strategy to co-develop and produce the Javelin missile system and integrate platform mounts to meet Indian requirements.
LeEco, a Chinese technology company, has entered into a partnership with Compal Technologies and invested US$ 7 million to set up manufacturing facility at Greater Noida in order to start manufacturing Le2 smartphones in India.
Zopo Mobile, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, plans to invest Rs 100 crore (US$ 15 million) to set up a manufacturing plant in Noida by the end of 2016, which will have a monthly production capacity of 100,000 units.
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India plans to invest around Rs 600 crore (US$ 90 million) to add a new line at its Narsapura facility at Karnataka, and launch at least 10-15 products during FY 2016-17 in the country.
Force Motors, a utility and commercial vehicles manufacturer, inaugurated its Rs 100 crore (US$ 15 million) manufacturing facility in Pune, which will supply engines and axles to the Germany-based automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.
Boeing Company, an American plane maker, and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL), a fully owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, have entered into a joint venture to set up a new facility in Hyderabad to manufacture Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter fuselages.
Panasonic Corporation plans to set up a new manufacturing plant for refrigerators in India with an investment of Rs 250 crore (US$ 37.5 million), and also invest around Rs 20 crore (US$ 3 million) on an assembly unit for lithium ion batteries at its existing facility in Jhajjar in the next 8-10 months.
Vital Paper Products, one of the major supply chain players in the paper and paper products industry, plans to set up a packaging product unit in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, at an investment of Rs 60 crore (US$ 9 million), which will be operational from April 2017.
Isuzu Motors, the Japan-based utility vehicle manufacturer, has inaugurated its greenfield manufacturing unit in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, which was set up for Rs 3,000 crore (US$ 450 million), with an annual production capacity of 50,000 units and is estimated to generate around 2,000-3,000 jobs.
Airbus has procured more than US$ 500 million worth of supplies from India in 2015, registering a growth of 15 per cent annually and has targeted a cumulative procurement of more than US$ 2 billion over a period of five years up to 2020.
Havells India Limited, one of the top Indian consumer electrical equipment producer, plans to set up a new manufacturing unit near Bengaluru by making an investment of Rs 1,059 crore (US$ 158.85 million), which would be its twelfth plant in India and its first outside north India.
Global beverage company Pepsi plans to invest Rs 500 crore (US$ 75 million) to set up another unit in Maharashtra to make mango, pomegranate and orange-based citrus juices, while biotechnology giant Monsanto plans to set up a seed plant in Buldhana district of Maharashtra.
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages plans to set up a bottling plant with an investment of Rs 750 crore (US$ 112.5 million) in phases at the first industrial area being developed by Government of Madhya Pradesh under the public private partnership in Babai village of Hoshangabad, Bhopal.
Canada’s Magna International Incorporated has started production at two facilities in Gujarat’s Sanand, which will supply auto parts to Ford Motor Co in India and will employ around 600 people at both units.
In a bid to push the 'Make in India' initiative to the global level, Mr Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, pitched India as a manufacturing destination at the World International Fair in Germany's Hannover in 2015. Mr Modi showcased India as a business friendly destination to attract foreign businesses to invest and manufacture in the country.
The Government of India has taken several initiatives to promote a healthy environment for the growth of manufacturing sector in the country. Some of the notable initiatives and developments are:
The Government of India has introduced several policy measures in the Union Budget 2017-18 to provide impetus to the manufacturing sector. Some of which include reduction of income tax rate to 25 per cent for MSME companies having turnover up to Rs 50 crore (US$ 7.5 million), MAT credit carry forward extended to 15 years from 10 years and abolishment of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) by 2017-18.
The Union Cabinet has approved the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) in which, proposals will be accepted till December 2018 or up to an incentive commitment limit of Rs 10,000 crore (US$ 1.5 billion).
The Government of India has removed the 12.5 per cent excise duty and 4 per cent special additional duty (SAD) on the manufacturing of point-of-sale (PoS) machines till March 31, 2017, which is expected to give a boost to the cashless economy as more PoS machines will be deployed in the future.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), after its recent push for Rs 6,000 crore (US$ 900 million) textile sector package, aims to persuade the Government for similar support in the manufacturing sectors with large-scale employment generation opportunities, such as electrical and electronics engineering, footwear and light manufacturing segments, which also have export potential.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment plans to relax compliance measures for MSMEs by exempting them from inspections related to key labour laws in order to encourage entrepreneurs to help promote manufacturing in India.
The Government of India plans to give a big boost to local manufacturing by introducing the new 'Make in India green channel', which will reduce the time taken for cargo clearance at ports from about a week to a few hours without any upfront payment of duties.
Gujarat government is planning to set up an electronics products manufacturing hub in the state, through its newly announced Electronics Policy 2016, which will generate about 500,000 jobs in the electronics sector in the next five years.
The Ministry of Heavy industries and Public Enterprises, in partnership with industry associations, has announced creation of a start-up centre and a technology fund for the capital goods sector to provide technical, business and financial resources and services to start-ups in the field of manufacturing and services.
NITI Aayog plans to release a blueprint for various technological interventions which need to be incorporated by the Indian manufacturing economy, with a view to have a sustainable edge over competing neighbours like Bangladesh and Vietnam over the long term.
Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industry, has launched the Technology Acquisition and Development Fund (TADF) under the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) to facilitate acquisition of Clean, Green and Energy Efficient Technologies, by Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
The Government of India has asked New Delhi's envoys in over 160 countries to focus on economic diplomacy to help government attract investment and transform the 'Make in India' campaign a success to boost growth during the annual heads of mission’s conference. Prime Minister, Mr Modi has also utilised the opportunity to brief New Delhi's envoys about the Government's Foreign Policy priority and immediate focus on restoring confidence of foreign investors and augmenting foreign capital inflow to increase growth in manufacturing sector.
The Government of Uttar Pradesh has secured investment deals valued at Rs 5,000 crore (US$ 741.2 million) for setting up mobile manufacturing units in the state.
Government of India has planned to invest US$ 10 billion in two semiconductor plants in order to facilitate electronics manufacturing in the country.
Entrepreneurs of small-scale businesses in India will soon be able to avail loans under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY). The three products available under the PMMY include: Shishu - covering loans up to Rs 50,000 (US$ 735), Kishor - covering loans between Rs 50,000 (US$ 750) to Rs 0.5 million (US$ 7,500), and Tarun - covering loans between Rs 0.5 million (US$ 7,500) and Rs 1 million (US$ 15,000).
The Government of India has an ambitious plan to locally manufacture as many as 181 products. The move could help infrastructure sectors such as power, oil and gas, and automobile manufacturing that require large capital expenditure and revive the Rs 1,85,000 crore (US$ 27.75 billion) Indian capital goods business.
India is an attractive hub for foreign investments in the manufacturing sector. Several mobile phone, luxury and automobile brands, among others, have set up or are looking to establish their manufacturing bases in the country.
With impetus on developing industrial corridors and smart cities, the government aims to ensure holistic development of the nation. The corridors would further assist in integrating, monitoring and developing a conducive environment for the industrial development and will promote advance practices in manufacturing.
Exchange Rate Used: INR 1 = US$ 0.015 as on February 9, 2017
*According to the Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index published by Deloitte
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$5.3 Million Funding in Support of Services for Australians with Disability
The government today announced the $5.3 million funding in providing services and work for people living with disability. The organisations which will receive the funding are as follow:
Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) – representing children and young people (0-25 yrs) with disability;
First Peoples Disability Network Australia (FPDN) – representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability;
National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) – representing people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD), as well as non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB);
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) – a national organisation focused on disability rights and advocacy;
Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) – representing women and girls with disability;
A consortium led by the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO);
National Disability Services (NDS) – representing more than 1,100 non-government service providers which provide support to people with disability; and
Mental Health Australia (MHA) – representing the Australian mental health sector.
We’re pleased to see that the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) will be receiving this major support from the government, which enables its support for people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
NEDA is the national peak organisation representing the rights and interests of people living with disability, their families and carers, from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) and non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). It is a community based, non-government organisation funded by the Department of Social Services (DSS).
For more information, please go to: https://christianporter.dss.gov.au/media-releases/53-million-invested-in-advocacy-services-for-australians-with-disability
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Morgan Kelly: the professor who tells the truth
John Spain
Central Bank boss Patrick Honohan
Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan.
Talk about having your weekend ruined! Like thousands of people all over Ireland last Saturday morning I opened my Irish Times to find another Weapon of Mass Destruction from the economist Morgan Kelly.
Ireland, according to Kelly in his latest full page missile/missive, is in mortal danger of becoming an economic dead duck.
Now if anyone else was saying this -- especially one of the economists here who write in our papers every week -- we might pass over it. But Kelly, who is professor of economics at UCD, Ireland's largest university, is different.
He writes an article about once a year, and only for The Irish Times. He is the guy who predicted the crash in Ireland years ago before it happened and, when the boom began to falter, accurately forecast just how severe the collapse would be.
He was laughed at by his colleagues at the time and ridiculed by politicians. But he was right. In fact he was so accurate in his predictions of doom that he has now become something of a seer in Ireland.
As I said, he only writes a piece about once a year and he rarely gives TV or radio interviews. So when a new article by him appears, it is seized on like the words of a prophet.
His latest article, which appeared without any advance publicity, dominated the news here over the weekend.
There must have been people all over Ireland last Saturday morning, like me, who wished they had had their breakfast before starting it.
Because believe me, when you finish reading it you feel sick instead of hungry. (You can find the full text on the Irish Times website, where it is Number 1 on their most popular story menu. Have your breakfast first!)
Part of the reason that Kelly is so widely read is that he is absolutely fearless. He says exactly what he thinks, he doesn't care if he upsets powerful people here in the process and this latest article is further proof of that.
Plus he happens to be a more entertaining writer than any economist has a right to be!
The headline on this latest article was “Ireland's future depends on breaking free from bailout.” Other people (including yours truly) have been saying the same thing for some time.
But Kelly's analysis of why we need to do it is more perceptive, more detailed and more convincing than anything else that has been written here on the issue. And it is far more direct.
"Ireland is facing economic ruin," Kelly writes, unless we break free from the bailout deal and take drastic action to save ourselves. You can't be clearer than that.
He likens the new government's policy to one of "lying on the ground with a begging bowl and hoping that someone takes pity on us.” He says the last government was "spineless," and that former Finance Minister
Brian Lenihan's original decision to give a blanket guarantee to the Irish banks in September 2008 was a serious mistake.
But Kelly reserves his real fire for what came after that. "The real error was in sticking with the guarantee long after it had become clear that the bank losses were insupportable," he says.
We all know now that the banks either covered up or did not grasp the full extent of their losses back then, and that Lenihan was misled about the scale of the problem. But as time went on, the depth of the black hole became increasingly clear. And instead of confronting it, we tried to hide it under the carpet.
By then it had become clear that Lenihan had made a big mistake, and that the hole in the banks which we had guaranteed to fill was big enough to drag the state down as well.
"The ideal time to have reversed the bank guarantee was a few months later when Patrick Honohan was appointed governor of the Central Bank and assumed de facto control of the Irish economy," Kelly says.
Instead of forcing bond holders in the Irish banks to swap bonds for shares, Honohan carried on as before, insisting that the losses were "manageable."
"Honohan's miscalculation of the bank losses has turned out to be the costliest mistake ever made by an Irish person," Kelly writes.
The Irish government continued to borrow vast amounts of money to give to the banks so they could pay back the foreign bondholders and banks that had gambled on the Irish property boom. But the markets were wise to this foolishness, and towards the end of last year they simply stopped lending to us because they didn't think Ireland would ever be able to pay back the debt.
After that, we were completely dependent on the European Central Bank (ECB). The game was up.
Kelly also accuses Honohan of siding with the ECB against his own minister for finance who he "deftly sliced off at the ankles" when he (Honohan) went on radio last November and insisted that Ireland would need a bailout of "tens of billions."
This intervention came at a critical time when Lenihan was hanging tough and was resisting the bailout that the EU was attempting to force on Ireland to protect the rest of the Euro zone.
At the time, Lenihan was in a position to exploit a "strong negotiating position" to get a haircut for bank debt, according to Kelly. But the other EU finance ministers wanted us to accept a national bailout to stop panic spreading to Spain and Portugal.
Honohan "also played for the opposing team" as a member of the council of the ECB, Kelly writes. And
Honohan's intervention was a key influence in forcing us to accept the ECB line that we needed a national bailout, that there would be no haircuts of bank debt and that the Irish bank losses should be repaid by Irish taxpayers following the bailout of the state.
Kelly also has an interesting insight into the role played by the U.S. in the critical decisions that were taken when Lenihan and the Irish government were in negotiation with the EU-IMF.
"The IMF, which believes that lenders should pay for their stupidity before it has to reach into its pocket, presented the Irish with a plan to haircut €30 billion of unguaranteed bonds by two-thirds on average," Kelly writes.
"The deal was torpedoed from an unexpected direction. At a conference call with the G7 finance ministers, the haircut was vetoed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who, as his payment of $13 billion from government-owned AIG to Goldman Sachs showed, believes that bankers take priority over taxpayers.
"The only one to speak up for the Irish was U.K. Chancellor George Osborne but Geithner, as always, got his way. An instructive, if painful, lesson in the extent of U.S. soft power, and in who our friends really are," Kelly writes.
"The negotiations went downhill from there. On one side was the European Central Bank, unabashedly representing Ireland's creditors and insisting on full repayment of bank bonds. On the other was the IMF, arguing that Irish taxpayers would be doing well to balance their government's books, let alone repay the losses of private banks."
As we all know, the Irish caved in and took the bailout ... and the government used most of the money to repay the bank debt in full, thereby reducing us to the state we are in where we can't borrow on the markets.
All this detail, fascinating though it is, is just billions down the toilet. We are where we are ... and what we need to do now, according to Kelly, is take drastic action unless we want to default, go bankrupt and collapse.
What Kelly proposes is a two-part solution beginning with walking away from the bailout. Part one involves us telling the EU and anyone else we owe that this debt has been swapped for equity and that they are now the proud owners of the Irish banks.
This means, of course, that our pipeline of funding from the EU would be shut off, which is where part two comes in. We would immediately reduce government spending by about one-third to balance our budget. We would have no choice because we would be unable to borrow.
Kelly writes, "The ECB can then learn the basic economic truth that if you lend €160 billion to insolvent banks backed by an insolvent state, you are no longer a creditor: you are the owner. At some stage the ECB can take out an eraser and, where ‘emergency loan’ is written in the accounts of Irish banks, write ‘capital’ instead. When it chooses to do so is its problem, not ours.
"At a stroke, the Irish government can halve its debt to a survivable €110 billion. The ECB can do nothing to the Irish banks in retaliation without triggering a catastrophic panic in Spain and across the rest of Europe. The only way Europe can respond is by cutting off funding to the government.
"So the second strand of national survival is to bring the government budget immediately into balance … Cutting government borrowing to zero immediately is not painless, but it is the only way of disentangling ourselves from the loan sharks who are intent on making an example of us.
“By bringing our budget immediately into balance, we focus attention on the fact that Ireland's problems stem almost entirely from the activities of six privately owned banks, while freeing ourselves to walk away from these poisonous institutions.
"Just as importantly, it sends a signal to the rest of the world that Ireland ... is back and means business."
So that's Kelly's solution. Several papers have taken to calling him the maverick professor or the radical professor.
But there's nothing radical or maverick about what he's saying. In fact he's more a conservative and a realist than anything else.
The truth is there is no alternative other than a long and painful slide into bankruptcy, which will come at some point in the near future when the debt burden overwhelms us and the EU pulls the plug.
On the present trend, we're going we're going to be around €250 billion in debt within a few years. Cutting back a few billion a year to balance our budget in four years' time is not going to help much, despite all the pain it will cause.
Which is why it makes sense to go for the nuclear option immediately, and why many people here agree with Kelly's “radical” solution.
So alarmed were the government and the Department of Finance at the huge coverage given to Kelly's article over the weekend that Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, the department and senior politicians all made statements rubbishing it. You know he has to be making sense when all those boys are out together to shoot him down.
The Department of Finance pulled no punches. State pensions, child benefit and the wages of 300,000 public sector workers would be slashed by one-third if we abandoned the EU-IMF bailout deal, it said.
Which of course is alarmist rubbish. It's true that government spending would have to be cut by as much as one-third if we don't raise taxes. But there is so much waste and overpayment in government spending that the correction should be possible without going near sensitive areas like old age pensions if we raise taxes a little.
As for child benefit, it should have been means tested years ago. And as for the wages of state workers, the Central Statistics Office here in March of this year released figures showing that Irish state workers earn an average of €912 a week compared with state workers in the U.K. who earn an average of €634 a week, and compared with Irish private sector workers (the real economy) where people earned an average €625 a week.
And don't start me about all those directors and managers and consultants and PR minders, and all the rest of the vast overpaid top layer on the state payroll both directly in the state service and in semi-state organizations. And all the doctors and lawyers and all the rest of the professionals who make a fortune supplying overpriced services to the state and raising the cost of living for the rest of us.
We can make the cuts and still afford pensions and welfare for those who really need it. We can shed all the rest of the Celtic Tiger fat.
Kelly is right. We should just get on with it and tell the ECB guys to take a hike.
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#48 Hendrick Motorsports All News Cup News Jimmie Johnson
Johnson’s Darlington ride unveiled
Scott Page July 31, 2018 at 1:38 PM
CONCORD, N.C. — When the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, the No. 48 Lowe’s for Pros Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will feature a paint scheme familiar to Jimmie Johnson fans.
Monday, the scheme was unveiled — a black Kobalt Tools ride with white racing stripes. It’s the car Johnson piloted to Hendrick Motorsports’ 200th NASCAR Cup Series win in 2012 at Darlington.
Jimmie Johnson’s Darlington scheme is a throwback to the car he drive at Darlington in 2012, securing Hendrick Motorsports’ 200th win. Team Lowe’s Racing
“I love flat or matte-colored cars,” Johnson said, recalling the 2012 scheme. “I think (No. 48 team crew chief) Chad (Knaus) changed the direction of the paint scheme. I think it was supposed to be a glossy finish. He felt the matte would look a little better, a little rougher, a little racier. He was able to sell that back through and Lowe’s and Kobalt agreed to it. I think it’s one of the very few matte cars that I’ve actually had on the racetrack. It looked really good in Victory Lane. We hope to take it back.”
Johnson recalled just how meaningful it was when he earned that milestone win in the black-and-white scheme. Now, Hendrick Motorsports is on the verge of its next milestone, currently holding 249 NASCAR Cup Series victories.
“To see (Hendrick Motorsports owner) Rick (Hendrick)’s face and the excitement, to have all of my teammates there, the other team members there, that picture hangs proudly inside of the race shop now,” Johnson said. “I can’t help but look at it every time I walk through the shop and smile. Big moment.
“To contribute and be the guy that won the 200th win for them was really special.”
— Hendrick Motorsports —
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Foreign policy of Polish President Andrzej Duda echoes lessons from Kosciuszko Chair conference
Wed, August 12, 2015
By Timothy Krol
On August 6th, 2015, the government of Poland swore in its new President Andrzej Duda, who firmly beat the former President Bronislaw Komorowski in this year’s election. Mr. Duda, who faces a considerable challenge in regards to foreign policy as he takes office, is working to implement policy ideas that were shared at IWP’s Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium this past April.
In his inaugural address to the Congress of Poland, President Duda spoke mainly about a major foreign relations problem for Poland: the current conflict in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian intervention is worrying for Poland due to its history of often being a victim of Russian aggression. To counter this threat, Mr. Duda outlined his “four pillars” of defense for Poland, which include the expansion of defense capabilities, further modernization of the armed forces, cooperation with NATO, and deeper defense integration within the European Union.
These plans echo the suggestions made by experts on the region at the recent Kosciuszko Chair conference, which was entitled “Between Russia and NATO: Security Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” and took place on April 25.
During this event, Dr. Sebastian Gorka called for greater NATO involvement on the eastern flank of NATO countries, and noted that the flexing of NATO muscle in the east is a way to show Russia that the organization is serious about its “attack on one is an attack on all” policy. Moreover, President Duda’s new policy includes a key element that, as Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz noted at the conference, has been neglected by the countries of Central Europe throughout the history of the region: greater defense cooperation against a common enemy. Dr. Chodakiewicz pointed out that in the Interbellum period of the early 20th century, the countries of Central Europe focused their defense policies on small regional squabbles rather than the looming threat of Soviet Russia. Uniting these nations, which are now part of the European Union, is an integral part of Europe’s defense against any possible Russian aggression.
Mr. Duda seems not to be repeating the mistakes of his predecessors by making deeper partnerships with EU and NATO countries a core component of his new foreign policy. It seems that Mr. Duda has taken these suggestion to heart and is focused on making both Poland as well as NATO a more secure, and unified front against foreign aggression.
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Oconto Falls' Nate Trepanier finishes strong
145-pound junior is the Green Bay Press-Gazette's wrestler of the year
Andrew Pekarek, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Published 7:16 p.m. CT April 7, 2016 | Updated 2:46 p.m. CT April 8, 2016
Nate Trepanier was determined to finish what he started.
It’s the reason the Oconto Falls wrestler took no solace in his No. 1 ranking or undefeated record heading into the WIAA postseason this year.
The 145-pound junior knew he still had plenty of work to do to win a state championship, and those title hopes could quickly be crushed if he didn’t stay razor sharp in the practice room.
That’s why it was so important to Trepanier to finish a practice the week leading up to sectionals with a busted lip, which required five stitches.
“I knew it was coming down to the most important time of the year,” Trepanier said. “I didn’t want to have to take off any practice.”
Trepanier certainly proved that practice makes perfect.
The North Eastern Conference wrestler of the year went 47-0 and won the 145-pound WIAA Division 2 state title this season.
Trepanier wasn’t scored on in three matches at state and was one of 11 wrestlers to go undefeated in the state this year.
For his efforts, Trepanier is the Green Bay Press-Gazette’s wrestler of the year.
“I honestly had some doubts,” Trepanier said about winning a state title. “But it’s what I wanted and worked for in every practice.”
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Oconto Falls junior Nate Trepanier discusses winning the 145-pound WIAA Division 2 state championship at the Kohl Center in Madison on Feb. 27, 2016. Andrew Pekarek
Having battled common variable immune deficiency throughout his wrestling career, Trepanier never has been one to make excuses.
It’s why he didn’t think twice about leaving practice after he took a knee to the face from teammate Connor Scray.
“We didn’t even know,” Oconto Falls tri-head coach Marc Kinziger said. “Then he comes up and opens his mouth and goes, ‘Is this pretty deep?’”
The Panthers have enjoyed a deep talent pool in their practice room in recent years. Trepanier won the program’s 10th state title since 2011 and completed the fifth undefeated season during that span.
Trepanier set a school record for single-season wins in doing so.
“I’m not surprised, but at the same time it’s quite an achievement,” Kinziger said. “I knew he could do it because he definitely put the work in.”
After placing third in his first state appearance last year, Trepanier won a 3-0 decision over Wrightstown junior Ben Klister to win the 145-pound state title.
It was Trepanier’s fourth win over Klister during the season, which also saw him win a 7-5 overtime decision on Dec. 12 over Sparta sophomore Hayden Krein, who won 152-pound D1 state title this year.
Following the WIAA state tournament, Trepanier also picked up a 4-2 overtime victory over Johnson Creek senior Wilder Wichman at Dominate in the Dells on March 12. Wichman went 44-0 during the high school season to win the 145-pound D3 state title this year.
“I just have to keep working hard throughout the year to get ready for it to come up and give it everything I got,” Trepanier said about trying to win another state title next year. “I cannot begin coasting now that I have a title. I have to continue to build up gradually and get ready for the season.”
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Katie Price reveals her engagement photo was fake and she is not really engaged to her boyfriend Kris Boyson
Price is still married to her ex
by Asfa Shakeel
Katie Price reveals her recent engagement photo was fake and she is not really engaged to her boyfriend Kris Boyson and is still married to her ex.
(Image source: Instagram/ Katie Price)
The 40-year-old social media star recently shared a photo with Boyson on her Instagram. The mother of five was wearing a huge diamond ring as she hugged her 30-year-old boyfriend. Fans immediately zeroed in on the ring, with one commenting, “Is that an engagement ring I spy.”
Speaking later at the launch of Ballie Ballerson on Monday, Price said, “I do it on purpose. You know what I’m like. Course I’ve gotta stir the pot, haven’t I? I love it. It’s a game. It’s fun. Why not. Kris knows what I’m like.”
A source told The Sun, “Kris told all of Katie’s friends that he’s really serious about marrying her. Katie loves to get things filmed so she can watch them back – and of course, it’ll make great telly”. However, Katie is still legally married to Kieran Hayler, her third husband.
Price was also recently under scrutiny when she posted about forgiveness, with fans asking if she had forgiven ex-friend Jane Poultney for having an affair with Kieran Hayler. She had written, ” I did something so amazing that needed strength courage and something I never thought I’d ever do last night so proud of myself.”
She addressed the issue saying, “It’s like the other day with some of my posts the other day, everyone assumed it was Jane. I never even said it was Jane, but there you go. I know who it was, it doesn’t matter. I was just reflecting on how I felt about a certain person.”
Kris and Katie have expressed intentions to get married after she gets divorced.
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Press Release: Cosecha Responds To Introduction of the DREAM Act
Cosecha Responds To Introduction of the DREAM Act Bill with a Renewed Commitment to Fight for Permanent Protection, Dignity and Respect for all 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants
Nationwide - Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced a new Dream Act bill on Thursday, which if passed would grant a path to citizenship to immigrant youth who came to this country as children.
Below is the statement from Maria Fernanda Cabello, a DACA recipient and spokesperson for Movimiento Cosecha:
“For the last 20 years, politicians in Washington DC have made promise after promise to pass legislation that would grant permanent protection to our community. For the last 20 years we have watched with baited breath as negotiations fail and bills die. For the last 20 years we have seen both Republicans and Democrats failing to make good on their promises to our people, while administration after administration increases deportations and family separation.
In this current political climate, we find it hard to believe that a Dream Act bill would have any hope of passing, unless tied to dangerous enforcement measures that would hurt our parents, our families, and our communities.
With DACA under threat, we know that hundreds of thousands of young people and parents will put their hope in this bill. But we also know that we won DACA not because of any politician, but because our community took action. We marched, we walked-out, we stopped deportations and shut down detention centers. We took risks and put our bodies on the line to tell the people of this country that we were “Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic.” Today, as the Dream Act bill is reintroduced in DC, we choose to once again put faith in our community.
This moment is bigger than any piece of legislation. DACA is under attack while our parents, who were never even given the temporary protection DACA provides, are denied dignity and respect in a country that has never recognized them. We are done letting politicians decide who deserves permanent protection and who does not. We are done negotiating away our families, and promoting a narrative that excludes our parents. We are called once again to take bold action that will change the conversation on immigration in the United States. It is time for the immigrant community to show this country that it depends on us. We will not stop fighting until we have won permanent protection, dignity and respect for our parents, our communities, and all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.”
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Perceptions of Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland Published Today
Statistics and research
This is the first in a series of bulletins that will provide a snapshot of the views of a representative sample of people in Northern Ireland on their perceptions of and attitudes towards paramilitary influence and activity in Northern Ireland.’ Information is presented in relation to the full sample and disaggregated by demographics including age, gender, religion, education and political identity. The main findings of this report are presented below.
This bulletin provides a snapshot of the views of a representative sample of people in Northern Ireland on their perceptions of and attitudes towards paramilitary influence and activity in Northern Ireland. Information is presented in relation to the full sample and disaggregated by demographics including age, gender, religion, education and political identity.
Area: Overall 41.5% of respondents were found to live in ‘mixed’ religion areas across Northern Ireland and 52.1% of respondents described their area as being neither Loyalist nor Republican. An overwhelming majority of respondents (96.4%) felt very or fairly safe living within their area.
Sense of Community: Almost two thirds of respondents (65.7%) strongly agreed or agreed that there is a strong sense of community within their area and 90.7% felt that they had some sense of belonging to their neighbourhood. However, almost three in four respondents did not feel that they had any influence upon the local decisions made about their area (73.5%).
Crime and Safety: Almost three fifths of respondents (56.7%) felt that people within their area were confident in reporting crime and anti-social behaviour to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). A similar proportion (56.9%) strongly agreed or agreed that PSNI keeps their area safe. Respondents aged 65 and over had the highest levels of confidence in PSNI, alongside those who identified as Protestants and those who were educated to tertiary level. Those residing in Belfast felt least confident in reporting crime and anti-social behaviour to PSNI and were least likely to agree that PSNI keeps their area safe.
Levels of Crime: Of those who responded, 48.7% stated that they agreed and 15.5% strongly agreed that there were low levels of crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour within their area, 13.4% stated that they neither agreed nor disagreed, 15.5% stated that they disagreed and 6.8% strongly disagreed.
The Law and Justice System: Overall 82.9% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that people within their area generally abide by the law. However, a smaller proportion of respondents felt that they were protected by the law and justice system (62.9%). More respondents who were Protestant, aged 65 and over, married or in a civil partnership or educated to tertiary level agreed with both of the above statements.
Paramilitary Influence: A small proportion of respondents strongly agreed or agreed that paramilitary groups ‘create fear and intimidation’ within their area (15.4%), have a controlling influence (14.2%), or help keep their area safe (5.4%). Just over one-fifth strongly agreed or agreed that paramilitary groups contribute to crime, drug-dealing and anti-social behaviour within their area (22.0%). Across all questions, a greater proportion of respondents living in Belfast strongly agreed or agreed that paramilitary groups have some form of influence within their area.
Young People and Crime: Almost two thirds of respondents disagreed or strongly disagreed that there is a lot of crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour among young people within their area (65.1%) and that young people are influenced too much by paramilitary groups within their area (65.5%). More respondents living in Belfast agreed or strongly agreed that there were high levels of crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour among young people and that young people are influenced too much by paramilitary groups within their area.
The NILTS was launched in October 1998 as a resource for everyone interested in the social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland. Set up by Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University and run every year, the survey aims to put on record the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland on a wide range of social policy issues.
The 2017 Northern Ireland life and Times Survey sample consisted of a systematic random sample of addresses selected from the Postcode Address File (PAF) database of addresses. This is the most up-to-date and complete listing of addresses. Private business addresses were removed from the database prior to sample selection. A total of 2,350 addresses were selected for interview, with 1,203 successful interviews being completed. The person to be interviewed was randomly selected using the ‘next birthday’ rule. Selecting only one individual for interview at each address means individuals living in large households have a lower chance of being included in the sample than individuals living in smaller households. The data presented in this bulletin have been weighted, to prevent a bias towards smaller households. Further information on this is included within the Technical Annex of the bulletin.
For futher information on this bulletin visit Justice-NI/Statistics & Research website or alternatively contact
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Email: statistics.research@justice-ni.x.gsi.gov.uk
Press queries about this publication should be directed to the DoJ Press Office on telephone number 028 9052 6444.
Perceptions of the Youth Justice Agency: Findings from the 2016/17 and 2017/18 Northern Ireland Crime Surveys, 2019 ’ published today 05 July 2019
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First Time Entrants to the Justice System in Northern Ireland 2017/18’ published today 26 June 2019
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[Independent, KCRW] ISOLATED / October 5, 2015 by richard ross
Simultaneously with the opening of Juvenile in Justice's exhibition titled ISOLATED, KCRW in Santa Barbara interviewed Richard on site in the gallery, and The Independent wrote a nice piece on the exhibition. Additionally, Santa Barbara City College's student-run newspaper also ran a short article.
We're thrilled to have the opportunity show in our hometown and invoke change in the solitary confinement practices of the California justice system.
The photos Ross takes are ordinarily designed to protect the privacy of his subjects, but his new installation was designed with an eye to invading the privacy of someone else — the viewer. “I like it that it’s distracting,” Ross says to me as the sound of taped testimony interrupts our conversation. “It should be distracting because that’s what life is like for these kids.” — Charles Donelan, writing for The Independent
In The News California, Charles Donelan, exhibition, ISOLATED, KCRW, kids, life, Santa Barbara City College October 05, 2015
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Local Authorities Already have Enough Power to Tackle Substandard Property, Housing Minister Insists
Rose - August 7, 2017
Local authorities already have enough power to tackle substandard property conditions in the private rental sector, the Housing Minister has ... https://www.landlordnews.co.uk/local-authorities-substandard-property/
Local authorities already have enough power to tackle substandard property conditions in the private rental sector, the Housing Minister has insisted.
Alok Sharma, the Minister of State for Communities and Local Government, made the claim in response to a question from Labour MP Grahame Morris on whether local authorities will be granted the power to enforce acceptable standards on private property.
Morris asked Sharma whether councils would be given the authority to insist that landlords or homeowners maintain their properties to a satisfactory standard if its current condition is having a negative impact upon the local community.
The Housing Minister responded: “Local authorities already have strong powers to tackle poor property conditions.
“We encourage local authorities to take action where properties are neglected and their condition affects the amenity of an area. There are already extensive powers available to authorities, which range from notices under Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which can deal with derelict land and buildings, to Section 29 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 for works on unoccupied buildings.”
He continued: “Council and housing association landlords are responsible for most repairs to their housing stock. Social landlords are obliged, by law, to maintain the structure and exterior of their properties.
“All properties in the social and private sectors must comply with the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. Where a property has serious hazards that present a risk to health and safety, local authorities can carry out an assessment under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. If they are aware of a serious hazard, they are under a duty to take appropriate action to address it.”
Recently, a proposed bill to improve housing standards in the private rental sector was reintroduced into Parliament. The Residential Landlords Association spoke out in support of the plans.
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U.S. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann gets flooded with criticism for comments
Jurgen Klinsmann has taken it on the chin for not speaking in glowing terms about the U.S. team’s chances of success in Brazil.
(Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)
By Mike Tierney
So, with the locale for Monday’s water-skiing competition between the U.S. and Ghana drenched by more than 13 inches of rain since Friday, which has triggered a flood warning, evacuations and a sinkhole, this begs one obvious question:
Is the extreme weather some sort of divine punishment for Coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s assertion that the Americans’ chances of winning the World Cup are next to nil?
On the subject of precipitation, criticism has rained down on Klinsmann from some Americans accustomed to hearing coaches in their mainstream sports to hedge or flat-out fib about the prospects of contending for a title. The U.S. is no bottom-feeder in soccer, but it’s a team devoid of dynamic stars in a tournament overflowing with them. Klinsmann, like it or not, shoots as straight from the lip as Messi does from the leg extending from his hip, and an objective evaluation would reach a similar conclusion.
There was a Miracle on Ice, so anything is possible on grass. But devotees of any team that carries steep odds just to escape its group ought to swallow a dose of realism.
That said, the U.S. could steal a win in Brazil, and the slippery conditions today make soaked Natal the most probable scene of a crime. Wet footing figures to more negatively impact Ghana, which relies disproportionately on speed, plus longer passing that could be compromised by a skipping ball. (The forecast calls for about 40% chance of in-game precipitation.)
A postscript on Klinsmann: The remark over the weekend about scheduling his date of departure for home after the championship match was widely perceived as backtracking from his previous statements.
The comment more likely suggests that this transplant from Germany is learning about American sports culture, in which rose-colored glasses are the preferred eyewear for coaches. Of course, it also simply might mean that, if the U.S. is eliminated, he plans to hang around for the remaining matches.
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Adama Diomande scores twice as LAFC hands Dynamo first home loss
Adama Diomande scored twice off assists from Lee Nguyen and Los Angeles FC handed the Houston Dynamo their first home loss of the season, 3-1 on Friday night.
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Judge Expedites Discovery Schedule for DACA Case as National Deadline Looms
By: Nidia Melissa Bautista
(Via Make the Road New York)
Last week, a federal judge in New York ordered the expedition of a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration for its rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. U.S. magistrate judge James Orenstein ordered a rapid-fire discovery schedule last Tuesday September 27 in an attempt to improve the plaintiffs’ chances of getting relief from deportation as the government’s March 5 deadline looms.
On September 5, the federal government rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that granted worker permits and deportation protection for people who entered the country before the age of sixteen. The government released a deadline that instructs recipients whose status expires before March 5, 2018 to apply for a new permit by October 5. More than 800,000 people are currently protected by DACA in the country.
Martin Vidal Batalla and Make the Road New York filed a lawsuit against President Trump for the termination of DACA in the Eastern District of New York earlier in September. They are suing the government because they claim the decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
According to the complaint filed by the plaintiffs, APA prohibits agency actions that don’t demonstrate good reasons for changes in policy. The lawyers cite previous government memos filed in 2012 and 2016 that say that immigrant youth lacked the intent to violate the law. They also argue the decision was “unconstitutionally motivated by bias against Mexicans and Latinos and violates the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment,” according to court documents.
Make the Road is suing on behalf of its 11 staff members with DACA and clients who will no longer be able to file new applications or renewals when the program is withdrawn, according to a press release. The plaintiffs are represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School.
The expedited discovery schedule, in which each party is required to produce certain documents or make certain officials available for questioning, is an attempt to resolve the lawsuit before the deadline next year. Emily Villano, from the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School which represents the plaintiffs, said that an expedited schedule constitutes a win for the legal counsel.
“The magistrate judge James Orenstein green lighted a frisk discovery schedule because the court clearly believes that it is necessary for us to get a full and complete record in order to determine whether the Trump administration terminated DACA based on inadequate reasons and anti-Latino animus, which is what we believe,” said Villano.
The Department of Homeland Security’s memo that announced the elimination of the program cited the program’s “legal and constitutional defects” including the use of executive action by former President Barack Obama. Under the current DACA decision, there will be no more renewals of permits that expire after March 5. Villano says that without their worker documentation, thousands will be vulnerable to deportation.
Villano said that during the court hearing, the defense made it clear that they didn’t think any discovery, expedited or otherwise, was appropriate in the case. A few weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a letter to the court arguing that discovery was inappropriate in the litigation. The defense argued that “a court reviewing an agency decision is confined to the administrative record compiled by that agency when it made the decision” and that the fact-finding capacity of the district court is thus “typically unnecessary to judicial review.”
However, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs that argued in a separate letter to the court that a stay of discovery would leave insufficient time to conduct discovery, briefing, and arguments prior to the planned termination of DACA which would jeopardize “the livelihoods and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people.”
Plaintiff Martin Batalla, 26, is a DACA recipient that grew up in Brooklyn. He’s lived in the borough since he was 7 years old and is a member of Make the Road New York. He says the elimination of the DACA program has dealt a heavy blow to his plans for the future.
“Losing DACA would have a dramatic impact on my life. It would prevent me from being able to take on major professional or academic goals, make me unable to work legally, and put me at risk of being deported and separated from my family,” said Batalla in a Make the Road New York press release.
“This decision by Donald Trump is a direct attack on immigrant youth like me and on our families, and it’s based on one thing: the racist beliefs of a president who has been attacking Latinos and Mexicans since the first day of his campaign,” he added.
The legal counsel hopes to prove that anti-Latino animus informed the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the program. They hope the expedited discovery schedule will allow them to submit their case in the coming weeks.
“Our position is to prove that the decision to terminate DACA was based on bad reasons and legal analysis and on the racist attitudes of the president. We’re going to need proof of that, and that’s what we’re after during discovery,” said Villano.
Both parties will submit documents for discovery by December 15 and are due back in court on January 18, 2018.
Nidia Melissa Bautista is a journalist and graduate student at New York University. She’s originally from Los Angeles and reports on gender, human rights and migration.
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Written by Ancos on June 5, 2017 in Art Cities, Lombardy
Mantua (Mantova) and Sabbioneta are two towns located in the valley of the Po River in the north region of Italy. Both of these towns represent Renaissance town planning. Mantua is important since it depicts the extension and the renewal of an existing town. Sabbioneta which is located 30 km from Mantua represents the implementation of the theories of ideal town planning from that era.
The layout of Mantua is quite irregular and has many quarters which show the different stages of the growth of the town since the Roman periods. The town has many medieval monuments among which are the famous Baroque theater and the Rotunda.
Sabbioneta on the other hand was created in the 16th century by Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna and is a single period town. Both of these cities have exceptional town planning and a wealth of architectural, artistic and urban renaissance style. The common thread unifying both these towns is the Gonzaga family. They played an important part in the growth and the implementation of the renaissance ideals in these towns.
The Mantua city was founded around 2000 BC on the banks of River Mincio. It was an Etruscan village in the 6th century BC and was re founded by King Ocnus according to their tradition. The most important citizen of the city was Publius Vergilius Margo who was a poet and was born in the city in 70 BC.
History of Mantua
The direct line of the family of Gonzaga came to an end in 1627 by Vincenzo II. Under the new rulers the town declined slowly. Gonzaga Nevers, which were the French branch of the Gonzaga family, ruled the city in those times.
Castle of Mantua
The War of Mantua took place and in 1630 an army of more than 35,000 besieged the city and brought plague with them. Mantua never managed to fully recover from the disaster. Ferdinand Carlo IV allied with France in the War of Spanish Succession since his only aim was to hold the parties. After the defeat of the French, Ferdinand took refuge in Venice and lost Mantua to the Habsburgs of Austria.
Under the rule of the Austrians, Mantua enjoyed a revival. Numerous palaces, theaters and art galleries were built in the city at the time.
The Revival of Mantua
The Gonzaga family were very fond of culture and art and were hosts to very important artists in the time like Luca Fancelli, Nicolo Sebregondi, Domenico Fetti, Pisanello, Peter Paul Rubens and Leone Battista Alberti. Several masterpieces that were created in the city have been dispersed to different parts of Italy over the years but the value of Mantua as a cultural and art center is still considered to be outstanding.
Many monuments in the city serve as an example of the patrician buildings and the unique renaissance Italian architecture. Some of the most noteworthy buildings of Mantua are as given below:
The Palazzo Te
The Palazzo Te was built in 1525 based on the designs of Giulio Romano who lived in the city during his last years. The palace was designed in a mature and sophisticated renaissance style with various hints of Raphaelian manner.
The palace was built to be the summer house for Frederick II of the family of Gonzaga. Today the palace is home to the civic museum in which the donations have been made by one of the most famous publishers in Italy, Arnoldo Mondadori. Ugo Sissa had also donated a lot of art works to the museum. Ugo was an architect who worked in Iraq and had a large personal collection of typical artworks from Mesopotamia.
One of the most famous residences of the Gonzaga family was the Palazzo Ducale. The palace is a large complex which has a number of gardens, courtyards and buildings which have all been gathered around the main buildings of the complex. Castle of Saint George, Palazzo del Capitano and the Magna Domus were the most important buildings in the complex.
Sabbioneta is another town which has been included in the list of world heritage site by UNESCO along with Mantua. The town is located on the banks of River Po and is only a few kilometers away from Mantua.
History of Sabbioneta
The town was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga in the 16th century close to the Via Vitelliana on the banks of the River. He was the first Duke of the town and used it as his own personal fort. It was during this time that Sabbioneta became a small but important musical center.
Sabbioneta was built following the principles of the Renaissance Humanism of the “Ideal City”, which means it had to respect some functional and ideological principles.
In 2008 was declared a Unesco Heritage Site because it was built in only about 30 years and it’s a great example of ideal city respecting renaissance principles.
Sights of Interest in Sabbioneta
Interesting sights in Sabbioneta are the Ducal Palace (1531-91), the Teatro all’Antica (1588-90), the Jewish Quarter, the Galleria degli Antichi and Palazzo Giardino or Casino, a leisure place.
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Unbreak My Heart: Singer Toni Braxton Faces Immense Guilt Over Abortion, Feared “God’s Payback”
Steven Ertelt May 19, 2014 | 4:31PM Washington, DC
The “pro-choice” side of the abortion debate bends over backwards to deny abortion could ever pose any problems for women. They deny the damage abortion does to women — the medical problems, the mental health issues, the damaging of relationships with friends and family, and the destruction of relationships with God.
Singer Toni Braxton understands the grief of an abortion. Not only does she regret the abortion she had, she’s worried about the spiritual ramifications of it. Not only has abortion been proven to cause a host of mental health problems for women, but spiritual problems as well — as women struggle with forgiving themselves and finding forgiveness from God.
Even 10 years later, the well-known R&B singer struggles to come to grips with her abortion and taking her own child’s life.
From The Blaze:
At the time, the unwed singer was apparently in the middle of a six-month prescription for Accutane, a strong anti-acne drug that is said to potentially impact fetuses when she found out that she was pregnant with then-boyfriend Keri Lewis’ baby, the New York Daily News reported.
While she reportedly admits in the book that the abortion was more centered on convenience than the fear of abnormalities, numerous outlets report that concern over the drug’s potential impact on the fetus played a role in her decision.
Braxton, who married Lewis in 2001 and divorced him in 2013, admits in her new memoir, “Unbreak My Heart,” that she felt immense guilt after the abortion, especially considering her strict, Christian upbringing.
Braxton went on to have children with Lewis, though the termination had a profound impact on her perspective. She later had two sons — Diezel, 11, who is autistic, and 12-year-old Denim.
The singer found herself wondering whether Diezel’s autism was God’s retribution for her decision to end the earlier pregnancy and whether her parents’ messy divorce and her lupus diagnosis in 2010 were additional punishments.
“Is God punishing me for that abortion?,” she writes in the book, noting that she found herself thinking that it was “God’s payback to give my son autism.”
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Trostre and Velindre Camera Club
Written by Len Beard
A short history of Trostre and Velindre Camera Club
At Velindre Tinplate Works, in 1957, Bert Phillips, the tinning line superintendent, started a camera club with a few members meeting in the Velindre Social club on Monday evenings. Later, when a few more people had joined they used to meet on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays to accommodate shift members. Bert had dabbled in photography during his service in the armed forces during the 1939 – 1945 war and was the main driving force in the attempt to establish a viable camera club. There was however a gradual falling off in interest and the club ceased to exist in 1958.
In 1959 Owen Jeremy started a new club together with four other members, Ernie Richards, Ken Grove, Tudor Morgan and Norman Payze. Meetings were held, as previously, in the Social Club. Owen discovered that some wooden huts on the Velindre site, used by contractors, were becoming available, and persuaded the works manager David Moses to allow one of them to be used by the photography group. This was the true beginning of the Velindre club and they started organizing lectures and demonstrations from well known photographers in South Wales, particularly from members of the Swansea and Mumbles and the Llanelli camera clubs and also from Flt. Lt. Pat Reynolds a regular visitor from St Athen CC. The first competition between members was judged by the renowned photographer Gilbert Hooper of Swansea and Mumbles CC. Visits by other photographers such as Fred Neale, Joan Chattfield and Ken Hill provided excellent grounding for the members development as quality photographers. In 1962 Eric Danielson, (now a life member of the club) joined, and this was a significant turning point in the club's structure. From its genesis Owen was the Chairman and Norman Payze was Secretary but Norman became ill and Eric took on the posts of Club Secretary and Treasurer and he and Owen remained in those posts for almost the entire existence of the club at Velindre Works. They ran, and essentially were, the Velindre CC, organizing everything in the early days whilst developing the club into its present format. Owen described himself as Chairman, tea boy and general factotum. David Moses was officially appointed as Life President of the Velindre Camera Club from its outset. Initially there were no fees as the club was part of the Sports and Social Club. Later they separated from the parent body to give themselves greater autonomy and began paying a fee of six old pence per week to cover their costs. The club had now joined, and was an active member of, the Welsh Photographic Federation (WPF). This enabled the club to enter inter-club competitions or 'battles' as they were called and the members began to submit photographs for consideration for the Welsh Salon Exhibition of Photography, the most prestigious event in the WPF calendar. The following year, Gareth Evans and Len Beard, relative newcomers to the club, had acceptances in the Salon as did Owen Jeremy and Eric Danielsen. One of the greatest triumphs of those early years was when the Velindre CC, shortly after joining the WPF won the Manneheim Plate, a competition open to all the clubs of Swansea but for which the very large Swansea and Mumbles CC had held a virtual monopoly of victories for many years. There was a magical moment when Owen Jeremy accepted the Trophy. He said, 'When we came into the room I heard people asking one another who are Velindre - now you know!'
In 1963 Eric negotiated with David Moses a new home for the camera club which was the old print room in the Velindre Works office basement. It had a large room, suitable for meetings and for use as a studio, with an adjoining well equipped darkroom. This remained the base for the club until the works closed in 1989. It was an excellent clubhouse and was used by the WPF on a number of occasions to host Federation events.
In 1970 Bert Phillips rejoined the club he was instrumental in founding, even though his own camera club had actually failed through lack of interest. Bert became a very enthusiastic and active club member until his untimely death in 2003.
In appreciation of the very significant part they played in the development of the club, two of its regular visitors and mentors, namely Joan Chattfield and Pat Reynolds, were made Life Members at around 1980.
Whilst initially the rules stated that only British Steel /Steel Company of Wales employees were eligible for membership this situation became untenable and the club then opened its doors to all who were interested in photography. As a result, the club increased its membership, and although numbers waxed and waned it remained in a healthy position for many years.
From 1986, until the works closed in 1989, there was a gradual loss of works personnel and these included Eric Danielsen who, after a short period of working as a freelance photographer, emigrated to New Zealand and now lives there in Nelson from whence he still participates in the club monthly competitions.
When the closure of Velindre was inevitable, the club started looking for a new home. The most obvious move was to retain the tinplate works identity and move to the sister plant at Trostre. Negotiations took place and strong support was obtained from a number of influential people at Trostre including Chris Smith, Gary Shinner (current Chairman), Des Daughton (current President), and also the then works manager. Derek Berry a stalwart member of the Velindre CC was a very powerful force in organizing the move and in the setting up of the new premises. Ultimately the new club, now renamed Velindre & Trostre Camera Club, became a reality within the works perimeter in the old statistics department. At this time Len Beard was the Chairman of the club and remained in the post for a number of years on an extended tenure due to the extraordinary circumstances and disruption arising from the moves.
Shortly before the Velindre works closure, Owen Jeremy suffered a period of significant ill health and this led him to decide not to join the move to Trostre. Owen, is at present in reasonably good health and lives in Swansea. He is now ninety years old and still takes an interest in photography although not as an active participant. Whilst he was never President of the club he was its founder and long time Chairman as discussed earlier, and his photograph and that of Bert Phillips, the first President of the Velindre & Trostre club occupy places of Honour in the present clubhouse.
However the new home was short lived and was reclaimed by the works for commercial use two years later. The manger offered new premises in the old bowling green clubhouse and this was readily accepted. Significant work was required to make it habitable and here again Derek Berry and some of the Trostre works members were major players in this task.
In 2003, due to problems with the clubhouse structure, it became uninhabitable and once again a new home was sought. Negotiations with the Trostre management were successful and the final "resting place to date' was provided by Trostre in the old gardening buildings
Bert Phillips who had been appointed as Life President of the Velindre & Trostre Camera Club in 1980 remained in this position until his death in 2003 at the age of seventy six. He was succeeded by Len Beard, who had joined the Velindre Camera Club in 1962 and who was appointed President of the club in 2003 with unanimous agreement that the position would, in future, be held for four years and not be a life membership.
As in its earlier years, membership has varied over the life of the club whilst at Trostre, but the very enthusiastic core of photographers has remained strong. This is exemplified by the fact that in 2009 the club achieved its greatest number of acceptances ever in the Welsh Salon with Des Daughton having five successful entries – a record for the club to date. The club has gained a number of new members over the last few years but, as appears the norm with clubs in the area, the number of lady members unfortunately remains very small.
The club is always ready to welcome new members whatever their level of photographic skills and remains an enthusiastic friendly organisation with a very bright future.
Len Beard June 2010. Len Beard worked in Research and Development for The Steel Company of Wales. When Velindre works closed he transferred to Trostre for a short while until his retirement in 1992. Len was Head of Chemistry.
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Lero is the Irish software research centre. It brings together leading software research teams from Universities and Institutes of Technology in a coordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus. Lero has raised the level and profile of Irish software research with such effect that it is now one of the best known and highly regarded software-related research centres in the world.
Our partners institutions include University of Limerick (host institution), NUI Galway, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, University College Cork, University College Dublin and the Institute of Technology Tralee.
The centre has the proven capacity to attract and retain global research leaders and to make a substantial contribution both to software-related research and to the Irish economy.
The Lero Centre is supported by a Research Centre grant from SFI, by other state grants, by industry contributions and by external funding (particularly the EU’s research programmes).
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Lero’s overall vision is to establish Ireland as a location synonymous with high quality software research and development, to the extent that ‘Irish software’ can enter the lexicon in the same way as ‘German automotive’ or ‘Scandinavian design’.
Thanks to consistent industrial policy over many years, Ireland has become a global centre for software development. Software engineers and developers represent between 5 and 10% of Ireland’s workforce. A significant proportion of Irish start-up companies are software-based and there is a thriving ecosystem emerging across the country.
Globally, software-based systems are increasingly important to economic activity and to the normal functioning of our everyday lives. The scope, scale and interconnected nature of such systems are increasing rapidly, with the potential consequences of failure, security breaches or malfunction becoming a growing cause of concern. Furthermore, the people, development processes, standards and professional practices by which software-based systems are produced and deployed are inconsistent and frequently inadequate. Failure to address this looming crisis increases the probability of more serious and impactful software-based failures.
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Off Season Changes in the AHL
Posted on August 3, 2009 Keith Wozniak
Just in case you’ve been enjoying the summer, here’s what has been going on around the American Hockey League in terms of changes in cities, affiliations, divisions, and rules.
New Cities / New Team
The Quad City Flames moved from Moline, Illinois to Abbotsford, British Columbia and and are now called the Abbotsford Heat. They are still the affiliate of the Calgary Flames.
The Philadelphia Phantoms moved from Philadelphia to Glens Falls, NY and are now known as the Adirondack Phantoms. They remain the affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers.
A new team joined the league called the Texas Stars located in Cedar Park, Texas. Cedar Park is about a half hour North of Austin. They are the affiliate of the Dallas Stars. The team was granted limited membership into the league. The limited membership is conditioned on the completed purchase of an existing AHL franchise within one year, by April 2010.
The Iowa Chops was involuntarily suspended by the league for the 2009/2010 season. “The Iowa franchise has unfortunately been unable to remedy certain violations of the provisions of the league’s Constitution and By-Laws,” said American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews.
Oklahoma City could be the home of the Edmonton Oilers dormant AHL franchise for the 2010/2011 season. Edmonton Oilers GM: “We have an interest in Oklahoma City”
There are two affiliation changes heading into the new season:
The Anaheim Ducks will be sharing a dual affiliation with the Phoenix Coyotes in San Antonio. The Ducks were forced to find a new affiliation with the suspension of the Iowa Stars.
The Dallas Stars will have their own affiliation with the Texas Stars in Cedar Park. During the 2008/2009 the Dallas Stars had prospects sent to the Hamilton Bulldogs, Manitoba Moose, Peoria Rivermen, and Grand Rapids Griffins.
Re-alignment
Along with the changes in cities above there was also some re-alignments of the divisions. The biggest change that Amerks fans will notice is that the Syracuse Crunch moved to the East Divsion of the Eastern Conference and the Amerks have stayed in the West. If you’d like to see the current alignment click here.
Playoff / Rule Changes
The format for the 2010 Calder Cup Playoffs has been approved. The playoffs will feature the top four teams in each of the AHL’s four divisions, with one possible exception: if the fifth-place team in the Atlantic Division finishes with more points than the fourth-place team in the East Division, it would cross over and compete in the East Division playoffs. The 2010 Calder Cup Playoffs will again feature a divisional playoff format, leading to conference finals and ultimately the Calder Cup Finals. All rounds will comprise best-of-seven series.
A change has been made to the shootout procedures so that no player may shoot twice until all eligible players have gone once. Previously, only five shooters per team were selected to participate in the entire shootout.
One-minute minor penalties during overtime, instituted at the request of NHL general managers in 2008-09, have been eliminated. Penalties in overtime will be served in full.
And in case your wondering about the schedule for the 2009/2010 season, it should be out within the next week or two.
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About Mark Sandman
Born September 24th, 1952 - died July 3rd, 1999.
Hailing originally from Newton, Massachusetts, Sandman moved to Boston in the 80's to put together his first band Treat Her Right. After three albums and a successful fanbase, he went on to create short-lived splinter groups. After disbanding THR, he broke into the 90's Boston music scene with Morphine. After much success both critically and financially, Morphine released five albums and compilations of b-sides and live performances.
During a performance July 3rd, 1999 in Palestrina, Italy, Mark Sandman collapsed during the band's second song. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance en route to the hospital. He death was caused by a massive heart attack. "La Escala de Sandman" (at the place of his death) is a staircase that was named in honor of him as well as the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Brookline in Cambridge, Massachusetts' Central Square.
His true age was never known to the public as he was a private person who did few interviews and refused to speak about his family and personal life.
A box-set of Sandman's rare and unreleased material was released on Hi-N-Dry Records which is run by Morphine's remaing members. Another collection was to be released, but due to several complications between Rykodisc and Warner Brothers it was never released.
The Mark Sandman Music Education Fund was created by his friends and family to support and encourage music in the children of the Boston and Cambridge area.
September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999.
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PBS Democratic Debate 2016: Start Time and Channel for Thursday's Debate
By Philip Lewis
After presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, the two candidates will head to Wisconsin for their next showdown. The 2016 Democratic presidential debate will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday at 9 p.m. EST. The debate will air on PBS stations and will be available for live-stream on the PBS NewsHour website.
Co-sponsored by PBS and the Wisconsin Democratic Party, the Thursday debate will feature the remaining Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton and Sanders. The fifth Democratic debate will be moderated by PBS NewsHour anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. CNN will also broadcast the event at the same time, an issue Rick Schneider, president of NewsHour Productions, said he has no problem with. Of course, CNN will be paying PBS NewsHour and the public television channel WETA, to share the airwaves.
"I think the PBS audience will watch on their PBS station, and CNN will expose our debate to [CNN's] audience," Schneider told the Washington Post. "It will raise awareness of PBS NewsHour and our anchors ... I'm not worried that it will cannibalize our audience."
The next Republican debate will be hosted by CBS, and will take place in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday. After Thursday's debate, the next Democratic debate hosted by CNN, will take place in Flint, Michigan, the city suffering from an ongoing water crisis.
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Camille Turner
Multiple Contributors
Monday, October 13, 2008 - Friday, October 17, 2008
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
M:ST 4 Performative Art Biennial
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The Final Frontier puts a Canadian spin on Afrofuturism, a movement that mixes digital culture and history to posit alternative futures reflecting the black experience. Using performance as social research, the black body is used as a “site” of colonial encounter and resistance. The Final Frontier was created in response to Camille Turner’s identity as a hyphenated Canadian who is searching for home and her frequent experience of feeling like a “stranger in a strange land.” Beginning with a performance that took place in 2007 in Lethbridge and the surrounding landscape, Turner’s project went on to include a second performance in the urban spaces of Toronto. Presented as an installation with video and sculptural components, The Final Frontier returns to the place that inspired its creation.
Camille Turner is a Toronto-based media/performance artist and curator whose inter-cultural engagements explore the social dimensions of technology. She uses digital media art to build bridges across cultures and differences, help communities and individuals tell their stories and create meaningful exchanges that contribute to social change. Turner has presented talks, performances and exhibitions of her work throughout Canada, USA, UK, Senegal, Australia, Germany and Mexico.
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Home Business How long can it go? Resilient economy enters 2019 with signs of...
How long can it go? Resilient economy enters 2019 with signs of weakness
OTTAWA — The Canadian economy entered 2018 on an unexpectedly impressive run. The country begins 2019 on a healthy note but signs of weakness have raised a key question: how long until the good times come to an end?
Through much of 2018, Canada’s unemployment rate hovered near a 40-year low and job-creation remained strong as the evidence pointed to an economy going at close to full tilt.
The handoff was a good one, too — the country had posted three-per-cent growth for all of 2017, largely thanks to strong household spending. We’ll have to wait a little for the final numbers but forecasters say 2018 has likely delivered still-sturdy growth of about two per cent.
But as 2019 approaches, there are worries the solid economic expansion is starting to show its age.
Last month, the federal government’s fall economic statement projected two-per-cent growth again for 2019, but many predict the number will likely come in lower following a recent drop in oil prices.
In addition to the pullback in crude prices, experts point to jitters in the financial markets, predictions the American economy — a key contributor to Canadian growth — will start to cool off and the United Kingdom’s difficult divorce from the European Union, which could ripple across the global economy.
There’s also potential for an even bigger threat: an escalation of the trade war between Washington and Beijing.
On trade, Canada made it through a year filled with significant uncertainty, including the difficult negotiation and signing of an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Many of the trade unknowns, however, will carry over into the new year. The road to NAFTA 2.0’s ratification could bring more drama, punishing American steel and aluminum tariffs remain in place and the clash of superpowers between Canada’s two biggest trading partners continues to play out.
“There are always reflections around the cyclical downturns that happen and, as I’ve said, the impacts of a trade war between China and the United States could have significant impacts on the global economy — negative impacts on the global economy,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
“We have to make sure that we are prepared for rough waters if we encounter them.“
In Canada, potential trouble spots include the combination of high household debt, rising interest rates and slowing wage growth that’s been “terrible” for about half a year following a good pickup early in 2018, says Matt Stewart, director of economics for The Conference Board of Canada.
Higher interest rates, Stewart added, have delivered a hit to household spending, which has been the primary driver of Canada’s good economic fortunes.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve had a recession,” Stewart said. “As of yet, I think most of the news is still positive, but there is a growing amount of risks.”
With overburdened consumers expected to take a breather, business investment is seen as the next critical source of growth. But Stewart said the transition has yet to materialize because investment has underperformed, likely due to competitiveness concerns. Businesses aren’t sure whether Canada’s the best place to put their money.
In an effort to boost investment, Ottawa announced billions of dollars worth of corporate tax incentives in its fall statement. Taxpayers will have to wait and see if the federal changes will be enough to encourage more companies to invest in Canada.
Craig Alexander, chief economist of Deloitte, said the economy will continue to have healthy growth in 2019, but notes it’s due for some moderation.
“We are in the late stages of a business cycle,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that a recession is around the corner, but we need to recognize that we’re 10 years into an economic recovery, expansion. Business cycles are typically eight to 10 years long.”
Alexander added markets are probably overreacting to the possibility that another downturn could be almost upon us. He thinks the more likely case is that growth will continue to slow.
The economy’s evolution will have different impacts depending where one lives, he added.
For example, the energy sector faces big challenges.
Part of it comes from the recent plunge in oil prices, but there’s also been an extra discount on the price of western Canadian crude caused by transportation bottlenecks out of the Alberta oilpatch.
“This is sad news for Alberta,” Alexander said. “They’ve only barely recovered from the last recession.”
Ottawa offered assistance this month in the form of a $1.6-billion aid package to support oil and gas companies.
Alberta, however, wants federal help to move its oil to new markets.
Ontario’s industrial sector will also face a big hurdle in 2019. General Motors has announced plans to shutter its plant in Oshawa later in the year, which will put 2,500 people out of work and inflict economic pain on the region.
Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said Canada already took a small step back in 2018 — and he expects growth to slow further.
“Just looking at financial markets there’s obviously a lot of concern that we are getting to a late stage of the (economic) cycle,” Porter said. “We don’t believe that recession risks are especially high at this point, but we do think the North American economy will cool in 2019.”
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(our line) Phillip Sr. & Louisa Windeknect | Franklin Windeknecht and Missouri May O'Guin | Pearl C. Kent and Manna Pauline Windeknecht
Henry and Caroline Windeknecht (Phillip's brother)
Windeknecht Genealogy | Windeknect Notes | Windeknecht Trail of Tears | Windeknecht Locations
The Windeknechts & Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears State Park (MO site)
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There is a mural entitled "Charity Along the Trail of Tears" by Brother Mark Elder, artist, at Trail of Tears State Park which includes in it a Windeknect story. On the far right of the mural is a photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Windeknecht: This couple finds and adopts a pair of Cherokee children (brother and sister), who had been hiding in the underbrush just off the trail. (It would seem the children are too old in the painting.)
The story has been passed on as an accounting among the Windeknecht decendants for as long as anyone can remember. The story includes that the children were left behind during the Trail of Tears march, but the puzzle pieces have not all been found as of yet. The Trail of Tears march came through this park location in the winter of 1838-1839. I believe the story is truth, but the facts are yet to be confirmed.
Expert from Ms. Exler's book "Tears of the Trail":
Norma Humes Stone's story
Her grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee and was left, along with her four year old brother, on the river bank by the Cherokees as they were moved out on the Trail of Tears. Many of the family had died, and the children were hiding under some bushes. They were crying when found because they were afraid and hungry.
Henry Windeknecht found them, and he and his wife raised them. Mrs. Stone said that her great-uncle went to Texas, and her mother lost track of him. She does not remember her grandmother's name, and her mother died when she was 14 years old. Mrs. Stone had this information with names written in a family Bible which was stolen from her father's home.
Addie Lee McCormick Humes
I found this information online, submitted by a "Marty":
Addie Lee and her brother Ed were found wandering along the Trail of Tears river bank by the Windeknecht family. Addie Lee is listed as the adopted McCormick daughter of Hy and Ettie Windeknecht on the 1900 census. She married Robert Loren Humes on April 16, 1907 and had five sons and two daughters.
[Note: I believe Addie Lee and her brother were adopted by Henry Windeknect, III and his wife Ettie, but because Addie was born in 1888, well after the Trail of Tears, I believe it was her mother and uncle who were found by the river which matches the above story in Ms. Exler's book above. See more below.]
These are some possible scenarios of this story.
There are three Henry's in the genealogy line, so I will refer to them as Henry (the father in germany), Henry Jr. (born 1817), and Henry III (born 1854).
Theory 1: Henry Windeknecht (born 1817) was not married at the time of the march, but it is possible that he was living in the area at that time. If his brother Phillip were here as well, the brothers would have been living together and taken in the Indian brother and sister. The 1840 census puts Henry on location just 1 year after the 38-48 winter march through Trail of Tears, so it would be logical that he had been here before 1840 clearing land and setting up his home. The children are not in the 1840 census, possibly because the census taker at that time did not include Indians in regular census and there was no official adoption court to make the children legally adopted. The Indian girl would have been born about 1833 and the Indian boy would have been born about 1834 because we know he was 4 years old.
Theory 2: Henry Jr. (born 1817) is with his wife Caroline Windeknecht and two children from his first marriage in the 1850 census , Henrietta (born 1845) and August (born 1846) Windeknecht. It is assumed these two children are children of the marriage of Henry and Eliza because it fits the timeline. However, consider a theory that the children could have been Indian born after the march which their parents made and their parents died, leaving the childen alone crying under a bush near the river where they are found by the Windeknects in 1850. The age of August at 4 years old fits the age of the brother in Ms. Exler's story. Also, this fits the story that both Henry and his wife found the children.
Phillip's obituary states, "When he came to this county the entire lands were covered with forests and Indians were roaming about." There were other tribes in the area than Cherokee. For instance, a part of the Shawnee Indians settled about Cape Girardeau in southeastern Missouri early in the nineteenth century and ceded their lands to the U. S. Government in 1825.
In the June 15, 1900 Census, Cape Girardeau County, Randol, District 0031, sheet 11, Henry Windeknecht III (born 1854, son of Henry Jr. ) and his wife, Ettie (Mary Etta Kemp) have an adopted daughter "McCormick" born June 1888 in Illinois. It appears the ages of Henry and Ettie have been marked out, 45 for 46 and 37 for 38. It appears the age of the adopted daughter is also altered, but she would have been age 2.
If this "McCormick" were the daughter of the adopted Indian (who actually made the march as in theory 1) by Henry III's father, Henry Jr., then the Indian mother would have been 67 years old (1900 - 1833) at the time of the birth. This is not plausible.
If this "McCormick" were the daughter of Henrietta (as in theory 2), Henrietta would have been 55 years old (1900-1845), which is more plausible. For most women, menopause happens around age 50. About 5 percent of women have late on-set menopause after age 55.
Therefore, this leads us to theory 3 that it was another brother and sister found by the river born even later than 1845 that are not listed in the census.
In any case, the Indian daughter (possibly Henrietta) would have married a man by the name of McCormick and, per the story above, had two children, Addie and Ed McCormick. Henry Jr. (born 1817), is last recorded in the 1880 census, so it is most likely that Henry Jr. has died and his son, Henry III, has taken in Addie and Ed McCormick. Where is Addie's brother "Ed" in the 1900 census? Mary Etta Kemp Windeknecht's obituary indicates that the couple had no children. Therefore, this "adopted" daughter could have been someone taken into the home but not legally adopted.
In the April 30, 1910 census, Cape Girardeau County, Randol Township, District 0028, Henry III (born 1854, son of Henry) and Ettie are living next to his Uncle Phillip and cousins. They have an adopted son, Ernest Windeknecht, age 15, born in Illinois. Ernest's birthday would have been 1895. Since he is not in the 1900 census above, he must have been adopted between 1900 and 1910. We know that Henry and Etta had no children. Is this the the same as the "Ed" in the above story or yet another young person that the couple cared for?
It seems common that the family took in children into their home referencing them as "adopted" because Phillip also has an adopted daughter "Hitchcock."
Here is the genealogy line synopsis:
Generation I
Henry Windeknecht, Jr. (born 1817) who marries Caroline. His brother is Phillip who marries Louisa. Their father is Henry as well.
Generation II
Adopted Indian daughter (born about 1835) and Adopted Indian Son (born about 1836) lost during Trail of Tears
...or more plausible Henrietta (1845) and August (1846) are the Indian children found at ages 4 and 5 in about 1850
---the Indian adopted daughter (possibly Henrietta) marries a McCormick
Henry and Caroline have other children, including Henry III (born 1854)
Generation III
Adopted Indian daughter and Mr. McCormick have two children, Adeline (Addie) Lee McCormick (1888) and Ernest McCormick( Ed)(1895). Addie's mother dies when she is 14 years old (1902). Addie and Ed live with their Uncle Henry III.
Generation IV
Addie marries Robert Loren Humes and has 7 children, one of whom is Norma Maxine Humes Stone (husband Willis Clayton Stone) who has told the above story to Ms. Exler before her (Norma's) death in 1994.
"My ancestors lived there when the Trail of Tears came through and a Cherokee sister and her four year old brother were separated from family along the river bank. My ancestors found them crying under a bush and took them in as their own." Now that's a story to tell, huh? I've heard this story in my husband's line since I've joined the family and I have never had the time to look into it until last night. You want to believe it because it is so good, but have no idea who in the family line it involves and whether it is an embellished half truth. Surly with such a simple story, it would be truth, right? My husband's ancestor is Phillip and it was his older brother who found the children, so the story goes. However, the brothers lived next to each other, one at the entrance of the park and the other where the Interpretive Center is now located, so both families were close and would have had the relationship with these Indians. I find it interesting how many "adopted" these two brothers' families took in. One thing is for sure, they certainly lived at a place and time where Indians roamed and seemed to have good and caring relationships with them.
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Economía / Teoría Económica / Macroeconomía / Crecimiento y desarrollo económicos /
Our time has come
how India is making its place in the world
Ayres, Alyssa
Editorial: Oxford University Press
Fecha de la edición: 2018
Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
Medidas: 24 cm
Nº Pág.: 360
Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
Materias:
Economía / Relaciones económicas internacionales / Desarrollo económico. Cooperación e integración /
Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. Long plagued by endemic poverty, until the 1990s the Indian economy was also hamstrung by a burdensome regulatory regime that limited its ability to compete on a global scale. Since then, however, the Indian government has gradually opened up the economy and the results have been stunning. India's middle class has grown by leaps and bounds, and the country's sheer scale-its huge population and $2 trillion economy-means its actions will have a major global impact. From world trade to climate change to democratization, India now matters. While it is clearly on the path to becoming a great power, India has not abandoned all of its past policies: its economy remains relatively protectionist, and it still struggles with the legacy of its longstanding foreign policy doctrine of non-alignment. India's vibrant democracy encompasses a vast array of parties who champion dizzyingly disparate policies. And India isn't easily swayed by foreign influence; the country carefully guards its autonomy, in part because of its colonial past. For all of these reasons, India tends to move cautiously and deliberately in the international sphere. In Our Time Has Come Alyssa Ayres looks at how the tension between India's inward-focused past and its ongoing integration into the global economy will shape its trajectory. Today, Indian leaders increasingly want to see their country feature in the ranks of the world's great powers-in fact, as a "leading power," to use the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ayres considers the role India is likely to play as its prominence grows, taking stock of the implications and opportunities for the US and other nations as the world's largest democracy defines its place in the world. As she shows, India breaks the mold of the typical "ally," and its vastness, history, and diversity render it incomparable to any other major democratic power. By focusing on how India's unique perspective shapes its approach to global affairs, Our Time Has Come will help the world make sense of India's rise.
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John Henry Crosby
John Henry Crosby is the President and Founder of the Hildebrand Project, an organization dedicated to the presentation and exploration of the thought and witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977). John Henry Crosby has helped to translate and edit several of von Hildebrand’s works so that they can reach a wider audience, including My Battle Against Hitler (Random House, 2014), Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (St. Augustine’s Press, 2012), and — along with his father, John F. Crosby — The Nature of Love (2009).
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Guests on Volume 143: Mark Regnerus, on the effects of social changes in modernity on sexual behavior; Jessica Hooten Wilson, on the influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on Walker Percy’s convictions and his approach to writing; John Henry Crosby, on the heroic witness borne by Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) in his philosophical writings and his battle against Nazism; John F. Crosby, on the influence of the schools of phenomenology and personalism in the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand; Wynand de Beer, on lessons from Hellenic cosmology about the metaphysical questions raised by organic diversity and change; and Sørina Higgins, on the perennial appeal of the stories inspired by the figure of King Arthur, especially in the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield.
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Games use a system of signs and symbols to communicate meaning to the player. Will teaches how to create and use your own “game language” to educate players about the rules of your game world.
Topics include: Teach the Player Your Game Language • Reference Real-World Play
As a designer, you're putting a player into this world of yours, and through their interactions and freedom and agency that you give them in your world, you're actually kind of developing a language with the player. The players are basically learning this language in playing the game, and it's the designer that's creating the world that is defined by that language. There's an interesting aspect to games, which is-- and this idea was way before computer games-- of the magic circle. And this is the idea, especially in social games, that you have kids come together and they decide they're going to play whatever, hopscotch, and the players of the game are basically now within this thing we call the magic circle. They are bound by the rules of that game. Other people might be outside observing, watching the game, and they're not in that circle. In some sense, you're kind of building a temporary community with the players within that game and they're all basically bound by the game rules and living in that world together. This is, in some sense, one of the fundamental parts of game language. Are you playing or not? Who's playing in that game right now? As a language within games, I think that we do have the same types of grammar that real language has. In the world, things are basically kind of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. I might go out the door to see this dog barking at me. The dog is basically the noun, it's the thing. The verb might be bite. I'm afraid he's going to bite me. Adjective is mad. He's a mad dog, he's barking at me. Based upon that, I will you decide me run fast away from the dog, whatever. That you can almost interpret everything in the world according to these parts of speech. In a game, players will encounter the same thing. What is that? What can it do? What does my agency allow me to do against it? And so that's the kind of language that the players need to learn in your game very rapidly and feel very comfortable and almost transparent in learning that. When you're designing what the language of your game is-- the nouns, verbs, adjectives-- of course, it depends entirely on the setting in which you're putting a single player into. You can describe a setting or show a player a screen and tell them, what would you imagine wanting to do here? I think that's a good starting point. As a player, what are the things I think I should be able to do? What things occur to me right off the bat? And you can actually just talk to people and show them the setting and see what they say, see what the most common answers are. As they move through your space, however that space is displayed, things will occur to them. I wish I could do that. Can I move this? Can I pick that up? Can I put something there? And so for a lot people, it's just going to be-- once they immerse themselves in this little world, they're going to be a set of things that they would like to try. And if you give then a goals state, say okay, try to do th...
wow super course I learned tooooo much - i'll just play the games...
Clifford S.
Simply fantastic. All my gaming projects are going to be just that much better if I focus on some of Mr. Wright's advice/comments. Thank you!
It was truly inspiring!, this class really helps you set your attitude in the designer mindset.
Really interesting, insightful and useful! Will is a very creative and open-minded person! I hope to collaborate with him in the future!
Antonio Roberto P.
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Will provides feedback and advice to a game designer who is in the late stages of the game design process.
Topics include: Game Demo: Flooded Market
Now let's check out another game from a different aspiring designer. - So my game is "Flooded Market." It's a multiplayer strategy game where you're going to enter the cutthroat real estate market of the sinking city of San Francisco. - OK. - Yeah. - Cool. - So you're going to be outbidding other players. You're going to be renting. You're going to be renovating these properties. And all the while, turn by turn, climate change is going to cause the sea level to rise, as it is in our starting screen. - So this is fast global warming. - Yeah. Accelerated global warming. And as it moves up, it's going to transform these properties from their regular selves into pristine, high quality, beachfront property. [LAUGHING] And then destroy them right afterwards. And so you're trying to catch that wave of inflated prices. And that along with paying off the right politicians will let you-- - So this is multiplayer. - It's multiplayer. Up to 50 players can play in a game. We haven't tested with 50 players. But the system is there to support it. And the notion is that you have all these players creating an economy that you're then going to try to optimize and act inside of. And, ideally, all the player actions are driving the simulation while the simulation drives. - Well, right off the bat, I love your intro screen. - Yeah. - I mean, it looks fun already, just looking at the intro screen. - Yeah. The intro screen is to make that striking first impression. - OK. So let's see the game. - Yeah. Let's get into it. So you're playing. We're going to create a game here. - I like the pitch, by the way. I mean, it's very succinct, concise. And it sounds fun. - Name this Will's Game. So we're going to launch in here. So right now we're going to kind of get the gist, the lay of the land. There's San Francisco, for those who recognize it. WILL WRIGHT: So you have a real map of the real city. GAME DESIGNER: Right. Yeah. We pulled from map data to help get elevations and locations, and also house prices to start off with. WILL WRIGHT: All right. GAME DESIGNER: So we have a house downtown that's worth $1.3 million. It's five stars. WILL WRIGHT: Are these all things for sale? GAME DESIGNER: These are all things for sale. Yeah. - So I have a budget. And I'm choosing how to spend, invest in real estate here. GAME DESIGNER: That's right. Yeah. You have $3.8 million up here. And let's say we could even select this house. We can bid on it. This one, we can take a look at, and say, OK. It's got some nice views. It's got a decent quality. We can upgrade that later if we want. It's kind of getting close to the water. 20% water level. WILL WRIGHT: Yeah. GAME DESIGNER: We can check. Its elevations at 50 meters. The water right now is at 0 meters. But that'll change as soon as the turn ends, which is fast approaching. - So this turn based? - Turn based...
Will, thank you. I'm not a game designer but as a project manager i liked that you covered many frameworks and novel ways to look at the world. You have opened my eyes. I've always wanted to take a course from the creator of simcity.
Can you make the workbook in one instead of having to download each chapter individually
Jorge T.
I appreciated the sections on psychology and systems the most. But, along the way, I also encountered some concepts I already use as I've started to design games, so that was encouraging. I appreciate having this access to someone as accomplished as Mr. Will Wright. Thank you.
Brandon R.
A true master class. I'll be rewatching theses lessons as I set out to build games.
Bode F.
Bryan I.
What a great game M.U.L.E. was. Back in the 80s when graphics and sound were so limited you really had to rely almost entirely on gameplay to make the game and M.U.L.E. was a great example of how a unique concept could be so effective and fun. Of course back in the 80s most game concepts were new so they had the advantage of all being fresh unlike now where so many genres have already been identified and the low hanging fruit of game design already well picked.
Agree. Good pitch! Game idea is nifty too, and the visual aspect will appeal to most folks even if they're not typically sim gamers. Best of luck to the designer(s)!
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Christianity/ Catholic >
Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?
Fr. Florian Racine
Fr. Florian Racine offers us a beautiful formation guide in Eucharistic adoration that will enable us to practice it in all its depth, and with a missionary perspective.
God has made himself particularly close to mankind in Jesus his Son. The redemptive Incarnation of his Son is how God reconciles mankind with himself; the death and resurrection of Christ is the only path to the Father; the memorial of the Passover of Christ is therefore at the heart of our relationship with God. In the Blessed Sacrament, the resurrected Jesus is really present and acting; he draws all mankind into his filial relationship with the Father, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Thus, following the plan of God, Christians put the Eucharist at the heart of their lives, and take time to adore Jesus in this Holy Sacrament. The adorer wants to abide within the dynamic life of the Eucharist, just as he desires that the Eucharist transform his whole life. Adoration and Eucharistic life transform believers into the image of Christ.
The author invites us on an itinerary, a journey of faith, in fifty-two stages, as many as the weeks in a year. Starting with the Word of God, he shows us how it is made present in the Eucharist, and invites us to mature in faith and be transformed by a greater communion with Christ. The Word of God sheds light on the Eucharistic mystery and receives a greater light from it.
The fifty-two stages are grouped into three phases corresponding to the three Persons in the Trinity: “I adore the Son”, “I adore the Father through the Son”, “I adore the Father through the Son, in the Spirit.” These phases lead to a growth in the spiritual life toward union with God, commissioned by him at the inspiration of the Spirit, in the school of Mary.
I hope that this book nourishes the adorers of the Father, and that it encourages them to put out into the deep, under the guidance of Christ and at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.
- Most Reverend Guy de Kerimel, Bishop of Grenoble-Vienne, From the Foreword
About Fr. Florian Racine
Fr. Florian Racine, a priest in the Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, France, founded the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist, a clerical association approved by Bishop Dominique Rey in 2007. He is now rector of the basilica of St. Mary Magdalene church in Saint-Maximin, France.
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This is how much we’re spending on attending our friends’ weddings
The average Brit will be a member of the wedding party four times in their lifetime (Photo: Shutterstock)
Attending the wedding of a friend can be an important occasion, but with hen parties, stag dos, clothing, accommodation and travel all to consider – how much does it really cost?
The average Brit will be a member of the wedding party four times in their lifetime, according to a survey of 1,003 UK adults by One4all Gift Cards, spending an average of £2,809 and almost a full month planning and celebrating their loved ones’ nuptials.
How much money do wedding guests spend on attending their friends’ wedding?
Although UK couples typically spend around £17,674 on their nuptials, it’s not just the happy couple who have to fork out for their big day.
The study found that those closest to the couple spend an average of £776 for the big day, taking up over a week of their time (7.7 days).
This is almost double (98 per cent) the average spend for a normal wedding guest, which is usually around £391.
The research also revealed that 71 per cent of wedding party members were asked to spend on outfits costing £104, and 65 per cent had to pay for their travel and accommodation, which cost an average of £99.
Those attending the hen and stag do will spend an average of £89.
The study also revealed that more than one in 10 (11 per cent) declined being a member of a wedding party due to the cost involved, with seven per cent regretting being a member of a wedding party.
Although UK couples typically spend around £17,674 on their nuptials, it’s not just the happy couple who have to fork out for their big day (Photo: Shutterstock)
Time-consuming tasks
Research found that the most time-consuming tasks for bridesmaids, ushers and parents of the bride and groom included assisting with the planning of the big day itself.
This took an average time of 18 hours and 34 minutes, with engagement party celebrations taking up 10 hours and 11 minutes, and hen and stag parties taking up an average time of 18 hours.
However, the research found that, despite this, 93 per cent of Brits enjoyed being a member of the wedding party, and more than one in three (34 per cent) believed that being asked to be a member of the wedding party is a privilege.
People in Bristol were found to invest the most time and money in their best friend’s weddings, spending and average of 225 hours and £1,081.
Manchester residents were found to spend an average of 206 hours and £971.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Yorkshire Evening Post.
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Four Eagles Earn All-ECC Boys Basketball Honors
Fresh off an exciting OHSAA Tournament run to the district semifinals, four members of the Milford High School boys basketball team have earned recognition from the Eastern Cincinnati Conference coaches. Headlining the list is senior Steven Huxell, a first team All-ECC choice, as well as a first team All-District 16 (coaches vote) and third team All-Southwest District (media vote) selection.
Joining Huxell among the ECC’s top players is a pair of second team honorees in senior Jake Ayler and junior Jack Liles. Earning honorable mention accolades this season for the Eagles is senior Caleb Farrell.
Huxell was one of the top scorers in the league this year, ranking second among all players with 15.6 points per game. One of the top three-pointer shooters in the league as well, Huxell connected on 45 triples this season, while also making 73 percent of his free throws. He showed his all-around game by averaging 3.9 rebounds per game, dishing out 57 assists and nabbing 27 steals.
Ayler, one of the top multi-sport athletes in the league finished second on his team with 8.9 points per game, while draining 32 shots from beyond the arc. His 58 assists were a team-best. Ayler was also a solid defender, snagging 3.0 rebounds per contest and ranking second on the team with 29 steals.
Liles burst onto the scene in a big way, showing his prowess as a prolific scorer. His junior campaign ended with 8.6 points per game and 36 made three-pointers. Liles had one of the top performances in the area this season in a win against Lebanon, exploding for 27 points on 10-of-10 shooting, including six three-pointers. He tacked on 3.7 rebounds per game and dished out 27 assists.
Farrell was one of the top defensive players in the league this year. Often matched against the opponents’ top scorer, Farrell was part of a defense that held 16 of 25 leading scorers below their season average. Offensively, he added 2.7 points per game, along with 45 assists.
Milford finished the season 13-12 overall and tied for fourth in the ECC at 7-7, highlighted by wins over state-ranked Taft during the regular season and an upset of sixth-seeded LaSalle in the OHSAA Tournament.
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L-1 Indentity Solutions joins Northrop Grumman team on automated biometric indentification systems
STAMFORD, Conn., 9 Feb. 2007. L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., a supplier of identity solutions and services, is part of the Northrop Grumman team that will provide multiple, integrated multi-modal automated biometric indentification systems (ABIS) to the Department of Defense (DOD) for broad use in the accurate and fast identification of individuals.
STAMFORD, Conn., 9 Feb. 2007.L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., a supplier of identity solutions and services, is part of the Northrop Grumman team that will provide multiple, integrated multi-modal automated biometric indentification systems (ABIS) to the Department of Defense (DOD) for broad use in the accurate and fast identification of individuals.
Robert V. LaPenta, chairman, president, and CEO of L-1 Identity Solutions, says "This award is a milestone in establishing L-1 as a credible AFIS/ABIS supplier and positions us well for future opportunities, including the FBI Next Generation Identification (NGI) initiative expected to be competed sometime during 2007."
The DOD ABIS system is expected to be critical in providing accurate and fast identification of individuals in the field as part of the global war on terrorism. It will become the biometric repository for all identification types that links to the intelligence community and civilian agencies. The system is initially expected to support up to 2.4 million finger, face, palm, and iris records, and a lesser number of unsolved latent prints.
The Northrop Grumman team, including L-1, will deploy the Identix ABIS System that is based upon underlying FaceIt facial recognition, BioEngine fingerprint technology, and iris-recognition technology.
Other team members on the DOD ABIS contract include Ideal Innovations Inc. (Arlington, Va.) and NEW-BOLD Enterprises Inc. (Fairmont, W.Va.).
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Global Secure acquires Virtual Alert
WASHINGTON, 7 March 2005. Global Secure Corp., a homeland security company providing integrated products and services for critical incident responders around the world, today announces the acquisition of Virtual Alert, Inc., a provider of critical information systems that enable state, local and federal governments to prepare, track and respond to public health emergencies.
The acquisition was completed for $20 million in cash and stock.
The acquisition of Virtual Alert completes a key element in Global Secure's integration strategy, adding a robust tool for critical incident coordination and communication. Virtual Alert, with offices in California, Texas and Virginia, has 16 states, the District of Columbia, and San Diego as clients. The company's products and services provide protection and security for over 100 million people, nearly 40 percent of the nation's population.
Eric Shaffer, president of Virtual Alert, commented, "Global Secure's focus on the state and local government market, its nationwide distribution channels, its training capabilities, and its operational infrastructure will enable Virtual Alert to accelerate its already rapid expansion, improve service to its customers and enhance its penetration of state and local government markets."
Craig Bandes, president and CEO of Global Secure commented, "The product suite of Virtual Alert plays an essential role in protecting Americans in the event of a terrorist attack or epidemiological emergency by efficiently enabling the public health community to capture and share critical information. Virtual Alert is the leader in this field and is a tremendous enhancement to Global Secure's homeland security products and services. Improving the ability of state and local governments to communicate with critical incident responders is essential to effective crisis management and recovery."
Virtual Alert, headquartered in Sacramento, Calif., was founded in 2001 by Dan Desmond, Eric Shaffer and Chris Popov, and is a leading developer of software and solutions that integrate public health and safety systems. Virtual Alert's offerings include collaboration and multi media alert system; a volunteer management system; hospital capacity tracking system and public health and first responder exercises.
Virtual Alert also provides services for BioWatch, a program under the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. BioWatch enables public health agencies to warn first responders and citizens about the presence of biological agents.
Mr. Bandes underscored the role Virtual Alert would play in enhancing Global Secure's effort to improve state and local governments' ability to support The National Response Plan developed by the Department of Homeland Security. This plan establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to the management of domestic incidences and forms the basis of how the federal government coordinates with state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector during incidents.
Global Secure's mission is to secure the homeland by providing integrated products and services to critical incident responders worldwide, focusing on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. The strategy is in alignment with the Department of Homeland Security's National Response Plan. (The Department of Homeland Security has identified an $8.5 billion dollar budget for 2005E for emergency preparedness and response, science and technology and state and local government coordination).
Global Secure manufactures advanced SCBAs and respirators and provides WMD, HAZMAT, OSHA, DOT and EPA approved training. Global Secure's advisory board includes influential leaders from the fields of security, government and defense, including Mark Holman, Admiral Stansfield Turner, Howard Safir and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Global Secure is a Sky Capital Enterprises portfolio company. For more information, see www.globalsecurecorp.com.
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Turning Today's Immigrants into Tomorrow's Leaders
Getting beyond 'Pale, Male and Stale'
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Dec. 15, 2014, 12:13 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 15, 2014, 12:59 PM UTC
By Kavita Das
There is a simple explanation to Sayu Bhojwani's relentless devotion to improving the lives of America's immigrants.
“I’m restless," said the 47-year old. "For better or worse I get bored with what I’m doing and I start thinking about what problem I can solve."
But her commitment to the immigrant cause -- leading Bhojwani to start not one, but multiple organizations to move forward that mission -- come as no surprise to anyone with an understanding of her own, itinerant upbringing.
An 'Atypical' Immigrant's Tale
Born in India to Sindhi parents in 1967, Bhojwani became quickly acclimated to the idea of not fitting in when she -- then four -- and her family migrated to Belize.
With its miniscule Indian population -- mostly comprised of fellow Sindhis, many of whom were retailers -- the Central American country offered Bhojwani her first immigrant experience. She, along with her two brothers and sister, grew up going to Catholic school and Sunday school, but also celebrating Diwali and other Hindu celebrations.
“It was clear to me that we were different but in a way that was very integrated," she said. By 1981, Belize had gained full independence from Great Britain. Bhojwani, then 14, became more attuned to the country's class and cultural differences.
“There was this distinction between the business owners and the customer and that distinction happened to be ethnic and racial," she said. "I’m sure my parents felt it all along but for me, that was when I really felt it.”
Sayu Bhojwani as a child.Courtesy of Sayu Bhojwani
That experience stoked an awareness in Bhojwani she carried with her when she came to the U.S. in 1984. She'd visited America before, and now studying English at the University of Miami, felt at home in an academic setting. Her love of literature, she says, grounded her. Still, she recalls, there were times she felt "lost."
“Culturally there were some things. On an academic level, the biggest challenge for me was to learn how to speak up in class and how to be analytical," Bhojwani said. She forged ahead, and excelled, graduating in just two-and-a-half years. But she left college feeling out of place and uncertain about her future.
The chance to pursue a graduate teaching degree brought her to New York in 1987. She could, she thought, eventually return to Belize to teach. What she saw going on around her changed her mind. The landscape of the city surrounding her -- the undulating sea of diverse faces and voices and stories -- reassured her in many ways, as the product of a multi-cultural upbringing. The lack of diversity in her graduate program, however, she found unsettling. She graduated, took a job with The Asia Society, and set out to fix the problems she'd been seeing around her.
“There was a very slowly emerging race and class consciousness," Bhojwani recalls. "The point at which I really felt that something shifted for me was when I was working at the Asia Society and I started working with Asian-American communities.”
Bhojwani conducting a NALP training in New Jersey.Courtesy Sayu Bhojwani
She immersed herself in Asian-American issues, getting to know the leaders and members of the communities, and the problems that plagued them year after year. As Bhojwani listened and learned, she noticed another issue: there were very few faces on the policy-making side that looked like the people she was trying to serve.
She also took notice of a rise in disaffected South Asian youth in New York -- many of them first-generation Americans who seemed disconnected from their parents, their school, and their communities. That feeling of being the outsider resonated with Bhojwani. So in 1996, she created South Asian Youth Action! (SAYA!), a non-profit working to connect disenfranchised youth with resources like mentors, tutors, internships, and job opportunities. Over time, SAYA! grew into much more -- a safe space for kids who'd never had one.
“Really what we did, was serve as a pain in the ass, to getting these things through city bureaucracy.”
“There were many young people for whom SAYA! became a psychological home," said Bhojwani. "It became a place where they could voice alternate scenarios for their lives.”
After five years of growing her group in size and influence, Bhojwani became a name associated with immigrant issues in the city. In 2001, she was tapped to be New York City's first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs. At just 34, she was one of the youngest to hold that title.
By that point in her career, Bhojwani's professional track record spoke for itself. But she believes her atypical migration story was an additional asset. “I think it was in that moment that being an Indian who was raised in a Caribbean culture in a central American nation who minored in Spanish all kind of helped me be this ‘all things immigrant,'" she said.
Bhojwani with her husband, Anshu, and their daughter, Yadna in India, June 2010.Courtesy Sayu Bhojwani
From New York to National Stage
Bhojwani assumed oversight of New York City's immigrant policies when the city was still reeling from the September 11th attacks. Her South Asian heritage was again an integral part of her work.
“The most fundamental experience for me as Commissioner was being able to articulate the fear that communities like mine were experiencing post-September 11th," she recalled. "Because people were so caught up in the post-9/11 trauma of what had happened to our city that if they were not South Asian or Arab or Muslim, they really couldn’t’ see the other side of this.”
Despite an unsteady and challenging climate, she pushed ahead for two years with her policy work, including language access services, and confidentiality for immigrants seeking services.
“Really what we did," she said, "was serve as a pain in the ass, to getting these things through city bureaucracy.”
"I feel like if I see something, I have to do something about it.”
Bhojwani filled the gaps as best she could at the city level. Changing the way immigrants across the country were viewed or treated, she thought, would require a different approach. So again, she set out on her own, this time, creating the New American Leaders Projet (NALP) in 2010. The goal was simple -- the work, anything but.
“Let’s fix who’s in Congress," she said. "And one way to fix that is to work at the local and State level because that’s the pipeline to Congress.”
NALP recently released a report mapping the steep representation gaps faced by Asian Americans and Latinos. Even in states like California and New York, with significant populations of both groups (51% in CA, 25% in NY), those numbers don't translate to the numbers in elected office (31% in CA, 10% in NY).
Bhojwani admits that closing these gaps is slow and painstaking work, but remains optimistic because of what she calls "untapped potential" in the immigrant community to be more engaged in politics.
NALP focuses on identifying potential immigrant leaders at the local level and provides them with training to help them get elected. Guidance includes everything from how to fundraise and navigate the political arena, to how to leverage their identities to connect with broad voter bases.
Potential candidates often need those additional coaching, mentorship, and networking opportunities, Bhojwani says, because they “believe their immigrant status, their appearance, their previously undocumented status are all going to be barriers."
Bhojwani with her daughter, Yadna, 8, during the Power and Policy Awards in Washington, D.C.André Chung / for NBC News
Among NALP's success stories is Stephanie Chang, a Taiwanese American who benefited from some of the organization's early trainings and recently became the first Asian-American woman elected to Michigan's State Legislature, in a district that's 87% African American.
Even rainmakers need their cheerleaders. Front and center on Team Bhojwani is her eight-year-old daughter, Yadna. Bhojwani makes sure Yadna gets an insider look at how the process works, how helping one person overcome hurdlers to leadership can mean helping an entire community.
“We did a fundraiser for Stephanie [Chang] at our apartment," Bhojwani remembered. "[Yadna] introduced Stephanie at the fundraiser. She gave Stephanie a contribution. So, she’s seeing how this all works."
For her part, Bhojwani remains as committed as ever to advancing immigrant communities, even if it is by creating one leader at a time.
“I think what motivates me, at least a little bit, is that everything does come from my own personal experience," she said. "I feel like if I see something, I have to do something about it.” She pauses and smiles before continuing. “As I get older, I am working on this – if I see something, I should point it out to someone else.”
Sayu Bhojwani, the founder and director of the New American Leaders Project (NALP).André Chung / for NBC News
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Kavita Das worked in the social change sector for fifteen years on issues ranging from homelessness, to public health disparities, to racial justice. She now focuses on writing about cross-cultural issues and social change. Her work has been published in xoJane, The Margins, The Feminist Wire, Quartz, The Aerogram, The Rumpus, and Colorlines. Kavita lives in her hometown of New York City with her husband and their beloved hound and resides in the Twitterverse @kavitamix.
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FDA Advisory Committees Recommend Approval of Indivior’s RBP-6000 for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Posted by Carrie Brunner — October 31, 2017 in Press Releases comments off 3
“The Advisory Committees’ favorable recommendation of RBP-6000 moves us one step closer to potentially bringing this once-monthly injectable buprenorphine treatment option to patients struggling with opioid use disorder,” said Shaun Thaxter, Chief Executive Officer of Indivior. “We are committed to pioneering new options for patients living with this chronic, yet treatable disease to help address the nation’s growing opioid epidemic.”
The FDA will consider the Advisory Committees’ non-binding recommendation in its review of the New Drug Application for RBP-6000 that was submitted by Indivior on May 30, 2017. The FDA has set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date of November 30, 2017.
About RBP-6000
RBP-6000 IS AN INVESTIGATIONAL PRODUCT WHOSE SAFETY AND EFFICACY ARE BEING EVALUATED BY THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.
RBP-6000 is an investigational buprenorphine sustained-release formulation using the ATRIGEL® delivery system, which consists of a polymeric solution of a biodegradable poly-(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) co-polymer dissolved in N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP), a water-miscible biocompatible solvent. After subcutaneous injection, NMP diffuses out of the polymer matrix and the polymer precipitates, trapping buprenorphine inside and forming an amorphous solid depot in situ. The depot releases buprenorphine over a one-month period by diffusion as the polymer biodegrades.
The Phase 3 study met its primary efficacy endpoint, with both RBP-6000 dosage regimens demonstrating abstinence rates that were significantly higher versus placebo (300 mg/300 mg: 41.3%; 300 mg/100 mg: 42.7%; placebo: 5.0%, p<0.0001). RBP-6000 was generally well tolerated and had a safety profile consistent with that of transmucosal buprenorphine except for injection site reactions. Injection site reactions were not treatment-limiting and resulted in less than 1% of subjects discontinuing treatment. The most common (reported in ≥ 5% of subjects) adverse reactions reported in the active total group were constipation, headache, nausea, injection site pruritus, vomiting, increased hepatic enzyme, fatigue and injection site pain.
About Opioid Use Disorder
According to the DSM–51, opioid use disorder is characterized by signs and symptoms that reflect compulsive, prolonged self-administration of opioid substances that are used for no legitimate medical purpose or, if another medical condition is present that requires opioid treatment, they are used in doses greatly in excess of the amount needed for that medical condition.
Based on 2016 data from the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health report, 11.8 million Americans engaged in misuse of opioids in the last year. Approximately 2 million American adults (age 12+ years old) met criteria for opioid use disorder in the past year. The same report suggested that 935,000 adults have used heroin in the past year and 471,000 used in the past month. There were approximately 625,000 adults who had a heroin use disorder in the past year2.
About Indivior
Indivior is a global specialty pharmaceutical company with a 20-year legacy of leadership in patient advocacy and health policy while providing education on evidence-based treatment models that have revolutionized modern addiction treatment. The name is the fusion of the words individual and endeavour, and the tagline “Focus on you” makes the Company’s commitment clear. Indivior is dedicated to transforming addiction from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of opioid dependence treatments, Indivior has a strong pipeline of product candidates designed to both expand on its heritage in this category and address other chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of addiction, including alcohol use disorder and schizophrenia. Headquartered in the United States in Richmond, VA, Indivior employs more than 900 individuals globally and its portfolio of products is available in over 40 countries worldwide. Visit www.indivior.com to learn more.
This press release contains certain statements that are forward-looking and which should be considered, amongst other statutory provisions, in light of the safe harbour provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty as they relate to events or circumstances that will or may occur in the future. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements because they relate to future events. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding our financial guidance for 2017 and our medium- and long-term growth outlook, our operational goals, our product development pipeline and statements regarding ongoing litigation.
Various factors may cause differences between Indivior’s expectations and actual results, including: factors affecting sales of Indivior Group’s products; the outcome of research and development activities; decisions by regulatory authorities regarding the Indivior Group’s drug applications; the speed with which regulatory authorizations, pricing approvals and product launches may be achieved; the outcome of post-approval clinical trials; competitive developments; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; the impact of existing and future legislation and regulatory provisions on product exclusivity; trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment; legislation or regulatory action affecting pharmaceutical product pricing, reimbursement or access; claims and concerns that may arise regarding the safety or efficacy of the Indivior Group’s products and product candidates; risks related to legal proceedings; the Indivior Group’s ability to protect its patents and other intellectual property; the outcome of patent infringement litigation relating to Indivior Group’s products, including the ongoing ANDA lawsuits; changes in governmental laws and regulations; issues related to the outsourcing of certain operational and staff functions to third parties; uncertainties related to general economic, political, business, industry, regulatory and market conditions; and the impact of acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, internal reorganizations, product recalls and withdrawals and other unusual items.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or otherwise acquire or dispose of shares in the Company to any person in any jurisdiction to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.
American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2017). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. SMA 17-5044, NSDUH Series H-52). Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FFR1-2016/NSDUH-FFR1-2016.htm.
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Carrie Brunner grew up in a small town in northern New Brunswick. She studied chemistry in college, graduated, and married her husband one month later. They were then blessed with two baby boys within the first four years of marriage. Having babies gave their family a desire to return to the old paths – to nourish their family with traditional, homegrown foods; rid their home of toxic chemicals and petroleum products; and give their boys a chance to know a simple, sustainable way of life. They are currently building a homestead from scratch on two little acres in central Texas. There’s a lot to be done to become somewhat self-sufficient, but they are debt-free and get to spend their days living this simple, good life together with their five young children. Carrie writes mostly on provincial stories.
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NERDUNIT pays tribute to the lifestyle of the military, where simplicity is essential, but with boldness. Influenced by military elements such as military colours, badges and ranking lines, Nerdunit merges these elements into the modern streetwear world.
The brand was founded in the USA by designer Ronald and introduced to Japan and South East Asia, where it quickly gained a cult following amongst the young hypebeasts.
Besides having flagship stores in Tokyo, London and South East Asia, Nerdunit also has more than 17 retailers worldwide and has been featured on the runways of Tokyo as well as countless international media.
All Nerdunit apparels are instantly recognizable by its signature Flight Tag on the sleeves, inspired by military flight bomber jackets. Although apparel is the primal step, Ronald utilizes Nerdunit to soon enter the realm of lifestyle goods, as to induce the world into his personal vision of futuristic, military-rooted modernized streetwear.
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Blood sugar and brain health: how diabetes impacts the brain
Spikes and dips in blood sugar levels experienced in the daily management of diabetes can undermine mental abilities such as memory and attention span.
While the link between diabetes and dementia risk is not new, researchers at the University of Newcastle’s Clinical Nutrition Research Centre have shown that, even among type-2 diabetics who are in control of their blood sugar levels, performance of complex mental tasks falls short of that in people without diabetes.
“When we looked at the ability of blood vessels to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the working brain, we saw a blunting of responsiveness in type-2 diabetes,” said Dr Rachel Wong, NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow. “The consequence of reduced blood flow to the brain during a mental task is poor mental performance.”
The diabetes-dementia link is based largely on data collected in type-2 diabetes, hence the team is keen to investigate whether this association also applies to type-1 diabetes. “The exposure to rises and falls of blood sugar levels in type-1 diabetes is much greater compared to type-2 diabetes. We expect that the damage to small blood vessels in the brain is more severe, but there is a lack of data on consequences for the health of the brain in adults with type-1 diabetes, especially as they age.”
“It is unclear just when the impact of type-1 diabetes on mental capacity becomes apparent,” said Peter Howe, Emeritus Professor of Nutrition Research. “Yet loss of mental capacity well before old age can adversely affect self-management of diabetes,” Professor Howe added.
“If we could detect these deficits early in the disease progression, patients and their health providers could aim to counteract the damage before it becomes irreversible.”
The team at the Clinical Nutrition Research Centre is looking to boost awareness of the importance of maintaining optimal brain health among those living with type-1 diabetes. “Importantly, the first step is to identify how early we can detect the relationship between poor blood flow in the brain and suboptimal mental performance,” Dr Wong said.
This study, in collaboration with colleagues at Curtin University who will assess markers of brain inflammation, is supported by a Hunter Medical Research Institute Project Grant. “We are looking for 30-80 year olds with type-1 diabetes diagnosed before 18 years of age to attend our clinic in Newcastle on two occasions for assessments.”
The team is also recruiting adults of the same age who do not have diabetes to be in the control arm of the study.
Interested volunteers should contact the research team on 4921 6691 or email: cnrc@newcastle.edu.au for further information.
*HMRI partners with the University of Newcastle, Hunter New England Health and the community.
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Carol T. Malinconico, 81, of Madison, loved time with family, the outdoors
Carol T. (Tyler) Malinconico of Madison passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 29, 2019, after a long illness. She was 81.
Carol was born in Summit on Christmas Day, 1937, to the late Lowell and Marie Tyler. She was raised in Madison and was a graduate of Madison High School. After living in Madison for many years, Carol eventually moved to Delray Beach, Fla., where she lived for 30 years. She came back to Madison toward her final years to be closer to her family.
Carol’s family was everything to her. She especially loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and cherished any time she was able to spend with them. Her good nature and warmth enabled her to start a conversation with most people and become friends. She loved when her family was together and enjoyed cooking for everyone. She also enjoyed the outdoors and spending time on the beach in Florida.
Carol was a waitress at Gleneagles Country Club in Boca Raton for many years prior to retiring. She enjoyed working at the country club and always felt fortunate for the many friendships she had with both co-workers and members.
In addition to her parents, Carol was predeceased by her sister, Betty Flaherty. She is survived by her beloved husband, Joseph P. Malinconico of Madison; two loving sons, Chuck Ellis and his wife, Lisa, of Madison and Andy Ellis and his wife, Laura, of Long Valley; her brother, Thomas Tyler of Brooklyn, N.Y.; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; two nieces and a nephew; and many good friends.
Cremation was held privately for the family and a memorial service to honor Carol’s life will be announced at a later date. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Madison Memorial Home. To send condolences to the family, please visit www.madisonmemorialhome.com.
Carol’s family has requested that charitable contributions in her memory be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 8th Ave., 16th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001 (https://alzfdn.org/).
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New Orleans Saints hope patience pays off with Devaroe Lawrence
Devaroe Lawrence knows perfectly well that you won’t find many Devaroe Lawrence’s in the NFL.
The undrafted rookie in 2017 joined the New Orleans Saints coming off a torn ACL, then needed another surgery because he said the first procedure left him bone-on-bone.
Before he could launch an NFL career, he was grounded for a year. So Lawrence is nothing short of appreciative for the Saints’ patience.
“Nobody ever really said they’ll wait for me,” he said. “I was rehabbing, and I had to have another surgery, and it was like, ‘OK, I’ve got to get surgery,’ but it’s almost as if they embraced it. They didn’t have to necessarily say it. Sometimes, actions speak louder than words and the fact that they kept me around and allowed me to still rehab..."
“When you’re in the training room, you spend more time here than the players that are practicing because you’re trying to get healthy and you’re trying to get on the field. It felt good to know that they did keep me around and allow me to rehab, and I thank them for it.”
Against Jacksonville in the preseason opener, the defensive tackle showed a few of the reasons why New Orleans was patient.
He was a disruptive force against the Jaguars, with two sacks (for minus-6 yards), three quarterback hits, a tackle for loss and five tackles in the Saints’ 24-20 victory.
“He had a pretty good college resume,” Coach Sean Payton said, explaining New Orleans’ interest. “We felt he was athletic, explosive and we felt like he could recover. In other words, he was battling an injury and we saw traits that are hard to find sometimes for defensive tackles, and it’s hard to find that position, especially after the draft."
“He was a guy that had some production and we kind of liked some of the things we saw. He rehabbed well this offseason, he worked at it and now he’s having a chance to battle out here.”
That’s the welcomed part for Lawrence, who’s 6-foot-2, 294 pounds of fight.
“I come out here with an attitude,” he said. “I'm not gonna just let you bully me or push me around. I’m going to fight you – in between plays, after plays, it doesn’t matter. We’re gonna get it in. I feel like as long as you’ve got the right mindset, then you are ready for this league.”
The right mindset, and the right situation. The kind of place where they’re willing to give you a chance even after a major setback.
“If you’re honest with yourself – I’m sitting around injured and sometimes you’re in a meeting, it’s hard to always take coaching from other players when you’re not on the film,” he said. “You get a little lackadaisical or your mind starts to wander in meetings."
“I learned a lot about myself as far as me wanting to persevere. I’d be lying if I said after that second surgery – I didn’t question my career as a football player after my ACL – but after the second surgery, then I started to think a little bit. I’m like, ‘OK, am I really healthy? Is my knee really going to be OK?’"
“Once I kept rehabbing and I got cleared, it was like, you can’t think about that no more, you’re getting ready to take the field. So it was like, you’ve got to get rid of that quick because if you come out here thinking about it, then you’re going to get hurt again.”
What Lawrence is thinking about now, is joining a talented defensive tackle rotation for the Saints. Showings like the one he had against Jacksonville help, but there’s work to be done.
“Yeah, it’s about making plays but it’s more about being more detailed than anything,” he said. “That’s what our coach coaches us to do, is be detailed. People point out the two sacks, but I jumped offside on third-4, and you can’t do that in this league because it’s a small margin of error that you make in that game that can get you beat. And third-and-4, you can’t do that."
"That’s the difference between making the 53-man, and getting cut. So it’s not about the flash plays, it’s about coming out every day and critiquing my alignments or critiquing my hands or my steps. Just being more detailed in everything I do, the fundamentals of the game.”
Saints announce schedule for 2019 Training Camp presented by Verizon
The Saints 2019 Training Camp schedule features 12 open practices at Ochsner Sports Performance Center
Teddy Bridgewater excited to begin new chapter with New Orleans Saints
'I've been studying this offense in the offseasons since I was in college'
New Orleans Saints add 'good, young player' in Teddy Bridgewater
Loomis: 'One thing we know about him is his character and the intangibles that he has'
Final preseason game critical for several New Orleans Saints
Game may be very important for Maulet, Lewis, Muhammad
New Orleans Saints receiver Cameron Meredith ready to take the next step in his comeback
'He'll get quite a bit of work'
Quotes from Sean Payton's training camp media availability - Tuesday, August 28
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton spoke to the media following practice on Tuesday, August 28
Marcus Davenport makes a splash in his debut as a New Orleans Saint
Taysom Hill displays multiple skills in strong comeback performance
Drew Brees, Marcus Davenport set to make preseason debuts for New Orleans Saints
WR Austin Carr, DT Devaroe Lawrence among players to watch
Drew Brees reunites with Alex Ruiz as he continues his fight to play
High school quarterback suffered a severe injury last October
Rookie defensive end Marcus Davenport eager to play in first preseason game with New Orleans Saints
'He's got a lot of catching up to do but fortunately, he's healthy now'
Sean Kelley's Saints training camp observations for Thursday, Aug. 23
Marcus Williams picks off Philip Rivers
Quotes from Sean Payton's training camp media availability - Thursday, August 23
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton spoke to the media following practice on Thursday, August 23
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Never mind the Euro: Syriza's win could threaten mainsteam politics across Europe
New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may be the man who consigns centrist politics to history.
By Mark Leonard
Alexis Tsipras in Athens, January 2015. Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images
When Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras first surged in the opinion polls in 2012, many in the eurozone feared that his election would destroy Europe’s economic order by forcing Greece to give up its currency. Three years on, the talk is of a political rather than an economic domino effect. Now that Tsipras has been inaugurated as Greek prime minister, it seems he could be the man to save the euro by allowing it to adjust its economic policies, upending the continent’s established political order in the process.
A couple of years ago I watched Tsipras introduce himself to the American foreign policy elite. “We are psychologically prepared for a clash,” he told a startled audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, “because in politics there is no such thing as tea and crumpets: there are interests that are conflicting with each other.”
The clash is now real: battle lines are drawn between Syriza and the eurozone. The party has set out a trifecta of goals: a €2bn welfare programme, an attack on “antisocial oligarchs” and a write-down of at least half of Greece’s public debt. At the same time, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, leader of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, is already warning about the dangers of not sticking to prior agreements.
There is a danger of miscalculation because both sides think they have the upper hand. When I saw Tsipras speak, he said: “If Greece was not in the eurozone, I have no doubt that nobody would care about Greece’s situation. [But] Greece is one of the links that make up the eurozone. And if one breaks, it won’t only be bad for the link, it’ll be bad for the entire chain. We know this, and our friends in Germany know this as well.”
On the other hand, the consensus in Berlin is that the fallout from a Grexit could be contained. There is now a bailout fund for sovereign nations and a European banking union. Private banks have divested themselves of Greek debt and the markets seem becalmed.
Most analysts think there is a deal to be made by extending the length of the debt, lowering interest rates and offering more flexibility on social spending. When I spoke to a political friend in Greece who strongly opposed Syriza, even he had to concede that Tsipras had a better chance of getting a good deal than Samaras and the mainstream parties. “If he gets some resources to alleviate poverty and a symbolic way to escape the clutches of the Troika, he will be able to sell an agreement. Berlin, on the other hand, has to be very careful. Imagine if there was a Greek exit as a result of confrontation with Germany. There would be uproar across Europe.”
The markets appear to agree. Economic commentators, from the Wall Street Journal to the Guardian, seem to think that Syriza could save the euro by tempering Berlin’s self-defeating austerity.
Mainstream social democrats – including the prime ministers of France and Italy – hope to use Tsipras’s victory to persuade Angela Merkel to agree a settlement that caters to Europe’s social problems and helps avoid deflation. For much of Europe, the biggest danger of the Syriza win is less the collapse of the euro than the collapse of mainstream politics.
Tsipras’s election – and the annihilation of the once-dominant PASOK, which scraped barely 5 per cent in the election – is part of a larger trend of political fragmentation in which Europe’s established parties have been crowded out by insurgents from the left and the right. The most immediate challenge will be in Spain, with the emergence of Podemos, the Latin American-inspired party founded in 2014 with a mission “to stop Spain being a colony of Germany and the Troika”.
José Ignacio Torreblanca, who is writing a book about Podemos, thinks it significant that Syriza immediately went into alliance with the right rather than exploring alliances with centrist forces. “It shows that their goal is to change the axis of political competition from left v right to one that pits Europe against the nation,” he says. Torreblanca fears that Tsipras’s victory opens the door to a clash of populisms, with the anti-solidarity right rising in Germany, Finland, Austria and Sweden to counter southern populists of the left.
Last year’s European elections pitted insurgent parties (Ukip, Syriza, the Front National) against the technocratic elite who have driven the EU for the past few decades. But if the mainstream parties fail to find a way of reinventing themselves, politics in Europe may soon move beyond a battle between populism and technocracy.
Alexis Tsipras may be the bearer of a new settlement that confronts populism with populism, leaving the established centrist parties on the scrapheap of history.
› Labour's NHS plan: selective rhetoric or socialist principle?
This article appears in the 30 January 2015 issue of the New Statesman, The Class Ceiling
People vs police: a short history of Hong Kong's uneasy relationship with law and order
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Mitch McConnell Says Congress Can't Do Much About School Shootings
By Briana Koeneman
McConnell made the remark Tuesday while talking with a group of community leaders in Danville, Kentucky.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he he believes Congress is limited in what it can do to prevent school shootings.
According to the Lexington Herald Leader, McConnell told a group of community leaders in Danville, Kentucky, "I don't think at the federal level there's much that we can do other than appropriate funds."
School shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year have led to renewed calls for stricter gun control measures.
Congress did pass some gun control measures in a spending bill signed into law back in March. Those measures are meant to improve the national background check system and allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence.
But Republicans have been hesitant to tighten gun control regulations, instead recommending other potential solutions, like increased security at schools.
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Hugh Masekela: Life and career of the jazz trumpeter
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer. He is considered the “father of South African jazz.”
Published : January 24, 2018
Masekela's songs Up, Up and Away and instrumental Grazing in the Grass were hits in the US in the late 60s. / Net
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer. He is considered the “father of South African jazz.” Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as “Soweto Blues” and “Bring Him Back Home”. He also had a number 1 US pop hit in 1968 with his version of “Grazing in the Grass”.
Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter’s Secondary School.
From 1964 to 1968 he was married to singer and activist Miriam Makeba. He was the father of American television host Sal Masekela.
Masekela, a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid, died in Johannesburg on 23 January 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 78.
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3 Stars of the Week
Giordano leads 3 Stars of the Week
Flames defenseman, Blues goalie Binnington, Penguins forward Guentzel earn honors
by NHL Public Relations @PR_NHL
Giordano earns first star of week
Giordano, Binnington, Guentzel named 3 Stars of Week
Flames' Mark Giordano, Blues' Jordan Binnington and Penguins' Jake Guentzel are named the NHL's 3 Stars of the Week ending Jan.13th
NEW YORK - Calgary Flames defenseman Mark Giordano, St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington and Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Jake Guentzel have been named the NHL's "Three Stars" for the week ending Jan. 13.
FIRST STAR - MARK GIORDANO, D, CALGARY FLAMES
Giordano paced the NHL with 3-5-8 in four games to power the Western Conference-leading Flames (30-13-4, 64 points) to a perfect week and their fifth straight win overall. He collected one helper in a 4-3 triumph over the Chicago Blackhawks Jan. 7. Giordano then registered his fifth career three-assist outing (and third of the season) in a 5-3 victory against the Colorado Avalanche Jan. 9. He followed that up with one goal in a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers Jan. 11. Giordano capped the week by playing in his 800th NHL game, celebrating with 2-1-3 (his sixth career multi-goal performance) in a 7-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes Jan. 13. The 35-year-old Toronto native ranks second among NHL defensemen with 9-38-47 through 45 contests this season. Giordano, who was +7 for the week, also tops all players with a +36 rating in 2018-19.
SECOND STAR - JORDAN BINNINGTON, G, ST. LOUIS BLUES
Binnington stopped 74 of the 76 shots he faced, compiling a 3-0-0 record with a 0.67 goals-against average, .974 save percentage and one shutout to guide the Blues (19-20-4, 42 points) to wins in three of their four games. Binnington made his first NHL start Jan. 7, earning a shutout with 25 saves in a 3-0 triumph over the Philadelphia Flyers. He became the 35th goaltender in League history to post a shutout in his first NHL start and the second to achieve the feat with St. Louis (also Rich Parent: Jan. 26, 1999 at SJS). Binnington then yielded only one goal in each of his next two outings, recording 28 stops in a 4-1 victory against the Montreal Canadiens Jan. 10 and 21 saves in a 3-1 win over the Dallas Stars Jan. 12. The 25-year-old Richmond Hill, Ont., native - who made his League debut Jan. 14, 2016 - has appeared in six total NHL games, totaling a 3-0-0 record, 1.61 goals-against average and .933 save percentage.
THIRD STAR - JAKE GUENTZEL, LW, PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
Guentzel shared the League lead with five goals in three games (5-1-6) to lift the Penguins (25-14-6, 56 points) to a pair of wins as well as their 10th victory in their past 12 contests dating to Dec. 19 (10-2-0). He picked up one assist in a 5-1 triumph over the Florida Panthers Jan. 8. Guentzel then posted his second career hat trick (and second of the season) in a 7-4 victory against the Anaheim Ducks Jan. 11. He finished the week with both of Pittsburgh's goals in a 5-2 loss to the Los Angeles Kings Jan. 12. The 24-year-old Omaha, Neb., native tops the Penguins with 23 goals in 45 outings this season (23-21-44), aided by 7-3-10 during an active six-game point streak.
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