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Application for waste soils recovery facility and Ecopark in Co. Wicklow refused by an Bord Pleanala
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By the refusal of the application for the proposed development of a waste soils recovery facility and Ecopark at Priestsnewtown, Co. Wicklow, An Bord Pleanala have agreed with An Taisce’s position on the issue, in terms of its negative potential impacts. The decision was made based on the assertion by the Bord that;
“Proposed development would give rise to significant levels of disturbance to the site’s vegetation and ecology and introduce concerns in relation to the potential introduction of invasive species.”
“It hasn’t been adequately demonstrated that there are no other suitable alternatives for disposal of dredge spoil from the River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme or that the loss of biodiversity on the site has been adequately justified”.
“It is considered contrary to the Wicklow County Development Plan 2016-2022” and “proper planning and sustainable development of the area”.
This substantiates many of the points made by An Taisce in our submission to the application, mainly in relation to likely negative impacts on a number of species of wildlife.
The development had the potential to greatly affect badgers, a protected species, whose presence on site was acknowledged by the EIS of the application. While a badger derogation licence had been issued by the National Parks and Wildlife Services, the development would have resulted in the destruction of five setts and potential interference with others, with a significant chance of causing the collapse of the resident badger population. An Taisce took great issue with the potential loss of this clan of badgers. Badgers are territorial animals and are not capable of simply moving into another territory. Additionally, the survey for the proposal was conducted initially during September with further studies in November 2015, a time-frame which may not have accurately reflected badger activity [1] An Taisce continue to pursue the National Parks and Wildlife Services on their issuing of the derogation licence which runs counter to their remit to protect wildlife.
Terrestrial animals
The development could also have impacted on other species ‘likely to occur on site’, such as the hedgehog, Irish Stoat, Pine Marten, Pygmy Shrew Red Fox and European Rabbit.
The application also acknowledged the presence of numerous bat species using the site for foraging (but not roosting), such as Common Pipistrelle, Soprano Pipistrelle, Leisler’s , Natterer’s and Daubenton’s bat. Bats are listed under Annex I of the Habitats Directive and are protected under the Wildlife Act (Amendment) 2000. However, the proposed removal of vegetation (80%) on the site would potentially destroy this foraging habitat.
Another protected species, the otter, could also have been adversely impacted, by effects on water quality, an extremely important consideration in the protection of the species. While the EIS asserted that the two streams on site were not suitable habitat for otter, it also acknowledged that these drained into the nearby Kilcoole Stream and that otters were ‘likely to be utilizing’ it. There is also a historic record of otters using it. Damage to water quality status (and subsequently otter habitat) would have been contrary to the Water Framework Directive and the conservation objectives for otter under Natura 2000.
This development had the potential to create habitat fragmentation, disturbance and run off impacts within the area. The refusal of this application is a successful outcome for biodiversity, particularly in relation to the species mentioned, and is a positive acknowledgement of the ecological value of the area.
Doireann Ni Cheallaigh, Planning Officer of An Taisce stated; “It is important that An Bord Pleanala have recognised the ecological significance of the area and the wildlife present on this site. This is a great result for the local community who have actively campaigned to protect a treasured part of their natural heritage.”
Notes: [1] National Roads Authority Guidelines state that ‘badger surveys are significantly constrained by vegetation cover and season, and are best conducted from November to April. National Roads Authority (2006),* Guidelines for the treatment of badgers prior to the construction of National Road Schemes*, National Roads Authority, Dublin. http://www.tii.ie/tii-library/environment/construction-guidelines/Guidelines-for-the-Treatment-of-Badgers-prior-to-the-Construction-of-a-National-Road-Scheme.pdf
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Algerian, Pakistani and Burkina Faso pilgrims attend Makkah festival
Algerian, Pakistani and Burkina Faso pilgrims attend Makkah festival /node/1162521/saudi-arabia
Muslims from Burkina Faso, Algeria and Pakistan attend the festival which included a short movie about Makkah and its historical role in hosting pilgrims.
TARIQ AL-THAGAFI
MAKKAH: Al-Nuzhah neighborhood center held a festival earlier this week to welcome pilgrims from different countries.
Muslims from Burkina Faso, Algeria and Pakistan attended the festival which included a short movie about Makkah and its historical role in hosting pilgrims.
Adel Hafez, the festival organizer, told Arab News that the pilgrims were able to learn about local culture through the event and recognize the historical value of Makkah’s cultural heritage.
Makkah is rich in historical scenes and full of events which have rich cultural significance, of which all pilgrims should be aware, Hafez said.
He pointed out that the relationship between pilgrims and Makkah as a city should not be only by performing the rituals but they should have access to Makkah’s cultural history.
“Whenever you look at Makkah, you will see historical resources and archaeological publications, museums, and archaeological culture,” Hafez added.
He said that they have dedicated this festival to present a brief overview of Makkah culture and heritage where they can focus on folklore.
“We showed them Makkah from the past and present to let them know how our ancestors lived and how they served pilgrims,” he pointed out.
“We showed them a movie that talks about different historical periods and how Makkah’s people had to help pilgrims, plus, the show explained all the efforts of the Saudi government accorded to pilgrims.”
The festival included a competition to recognize the voices of Al-Haram muezzins — people who call prayers — who had interacted among the arrivals from Pakistan, Burkina Faso and Algeria.
Khalid Mushtag, a Pakistani pilgrim, said: “We appreciate the fantastic show and learned a lot about Makkah’s culture. It also gave us an opportunity to have a cultural exchange which enriched everyone who came.”
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Dr. Khalid bin Abdulqader Al-Ghamdi is the general supervisor of foreign media at the Saudi Ministry of Media. He is also the chairman of Arab Media Standing Committee at the Arab League.
Al-Ghamdi is also an assistant professor at the department of industrial engineering at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.
He also serves as the vice dean of the Research and Consulting Institute at King Abdul Aziz University and the deputy CEO of Jeddah Valley Technical Co.
Before that he worked as a graduate assistant at King Abdul Aziz University between 2002 and 2004. Later, he went to the UK to pursue his postgraduate studies.
Before pursuing a career as an academic, Al-Ghamdi served as an industrial engineer at Saudi Arabian Airlines in Jeddah between 2000 and 2002.
Al-Ghamdi holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the College of Engineering, King Abdul Aziz University.
He received his master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the department of manufacturing engineering at the School of Engineering, the University of Birmingham in the UK.
Al-Ghamdi is also an honorary research fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
During a meeting of the Arab Media Standing Committee at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Sunday, Al-Ghamdi called for coordinated Arab efforts to overcome regional challenges particularly the Palestinian issue and terrorism.
He stressed that the Palestinian cause, Al-Quds and countering terrorism were the most important issues discussed at the 93rd session of the committee.
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Hoddesdon b&b, guesthouse and hotel accommodation
Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire
Visit Hoddesdon and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, is situated in the Lea Valley. It grew up as a coaching stop on the route between Cambridge and London - more than 35 coaches a day would pass through the town in the 18th century.
Historical bullet points:
Hoddesdon was said to be a day's march from London and so was a handy resting place for armies and other travellers on their way north to Cambridge or the northern towns and cities.
What is now the High Street was littered with inns.
Brewing was an important industry for the area, especially in neighbouring towns Hertford and Ware.
Trade in Hoddesdon was centered on the hops market each Thursday.
Until 1866, Hoddesdon was divided between the two civil parishes of Broxbourne and Great Amwell.
Contemporary bullet points:
The town saw a boom in the mid Twentieth century as gravel was mined from the area to be exhausted by the 1970s
The lakes and water pits left behind have been used for local leisure amenities
Today Hoddesdon has a little light industry but is mainly a dormitory town for commuters to London.
Secondary schools: The John Warner School; and Sheredes School
Nearby towns: Broxbourne, Enfield, Harlow, Hertford, Potters Bar, Waltham Cross, Ware, Welwyn Garden City.
Nearby villages: Bayford, Brickendon, Broadley Common, Lower Nazeing, Much Hadham, Roydon, St Margarets
Have you decided to visit Hoddesdon or the surrounding villages? Please look above for somewhere to stay in:
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USTA announces full slate of public events for Davis Cup week in Austin
The USTA announced that it will host a variety of public events in Austin, Texas to give fans greater access to the players participating in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Quarterfinal between the United States and Spain, July 8-10 at the University of Texas’ Frank Erwin Center. Events include a free Tennis Festival hosted by USTA Texas; an appearance of the Mobile SmashZone; open practices sessions for both the U.S. and Spanish Davis Cup teams; and the official Davis Cup draw ceremony at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater that will feature a special musical performance by Asleep at The Wheel.
"The interest in this Davis Cup quarterfinal is as great as any event we have hosted in years," said Jeff Ryan, USTA Senior Director of Team Events. "We have planned more activities around this event to give fans even greater access to the players as they prepare for three days of intense competition."
U.S. Davis Cup Team Tennis Festival Hosted by USTA Texas
Tuesday, July 5, 6-8:30 p.m.
The USTA Texas Section will host a free Tennis Festival on Tuesday, July 5, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the University of Texas’ Penick-Allison Tennis Center in downtown Austin. The festival will include an appearance by members of the U.S. Davis Cup team and will feature games, music and activities for people of all ages and abilities. Select participants will be able to play tennis with the U.S. Davis Cup team. Parking is available at Trinity Garage near Trinity and E. MLK Jr. Blvd.
Mobile SmashZone
Wednesday, July 6, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
SmashZone, the premiere fan interactive attraction at the US Open, will make a stop in Austin courtesy of tour sponsor Esurance on Wednesday, July 6, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the North Plaza (near the flagpoles) of the Frank Erwin Center.
The free attraction, Mobile SmashZone, is a 53-foot trailer, which will feature a kid-sized Champions of the Court experience presented by Esurance for youth play and complements the USTA’s ongoing 10 and Under Tennis initiative. The trailer features interactive activities, including a Tennis Magazine Green Screen Cover Shoot, Wii Tennis and Touch Screen Kiosks. Free parking is available on a first-come, first-serve basis in Lot 108 on the corner of Red River Street and E. 15th Street.
Open practice sessions
Wednesday, July 6, 4-5 p.m. (U.S. team), 5-6 p.m. (Spanish team)
Following the Mobile SmashZone appearance, the U.S. and Spanish Davis Cup teams will each hold open practice sessions from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., at the Frank Erwin Center. The U.S. Davis Cup team practice will be open to the public at 4:00 p.m. and fans can also watch the first hour of the Spanish Davis Cup practice starting at 5:00 p.m.
The event is free and limited to the first 600 fans, who will receive tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis at the North Box Office of the Frank Erwin Center, starting at 3:00 p.m. Doors will open at 3:45 p.m. Free parking is available on a first-come, first-serve basis in Lot 108 on the corner of Red River Street and E. 15th Street.
Davis Cup Draw Ceremony and Concert
Thursday, July 7, 12 noon
The Official Davis Cup Draw Ceremony will be open to the public on Thursday, July 7, at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater. The draw ceremony will feature a special musical performance by nine-time Grammy Award-winning Asleep at The Wheel, followed by the introduction of the U.S. and Spanish Davis Cup teams and the making of the official draw. The event will begin at 12:00 noon (doors will open at 11:00 a.m.) and will be a ticketed event. Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
Tickets for the event are $5 plus fees, and the USTA will donate its proceeds to the Joplin Schools Tornado Relief Fund. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 24, at 10:00 a.m. CT., and will be available online through www.acl-live.com or www.ticketfly.com, charge by phone at (877) 435-9849 or purchase in store at Waterloo Records.
ABOUT THE DAVIS CUP BY BNP PARIBAS QUARTERFINALS
The U.S. vs. Spain Davis Cup quarterfinal is expected to include Davis Cup stalwart Andy Roddick, who currently resides in Austin and is second all-time in U.S. Davis Cup singles victories with 33. World No. 1 and nine-time Grand Slam singles champion Rafael Nadal is expected to compete for Spain. This will be the first home tie for U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier, who is in his first year at the helm. This is the first home tie for the U.S. Davis Cup team since the 2009 first round in Birmingham, Ala.
The best-of-five match series begins Friday, July 8, with two singles matches, featuring each country’s No. 1 player against the other country’s No. 2 player. Saturday’s schedule features the pivotal doubles match. The final day of play on Sunday will feature two "reverse singles" matches, when the No. 1 players square off followed by the No. 2 players meeting each other in the final match. All matches are best-of-five sets until one nation clinches the tie. A revised schedule for Sunday may take place if a team clinches in the third or fourth match.
Founded in 1900, Davis Cup is the world’s largest annual international men’s team competition with 125 nations competing this year. The U.S. leads all nations with 32 Davis Cup titles. The United States holds a 210-64 all-time Davis Cup record and owns the longest uninterrupted run in the World Group, dating back to 1989. For more information, including access to player and historical Davis Cup records, please go to www.usta.com/daviscup or www.daviscup.com.
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Damokos Dénes Mansion House, Cernat
national heritage number:
CV-II-m-A-13173
village CERNAT, 449 A; commune CERNAT
dated to:
17-20th centrury
public property
The mansion is situated in the center of the village, it is in good condition, and it hosts the local council and the mayor’s office.
At the main entrance of the mansion, there used to be a memorial plaque ordered in August 1919 by the last owners of the house, Damokos Dénes and his wife, Hatolykai Pótsa Klára. The plaque commemorated the end of the five-year long war. The plaque was removed from its original place after 1949; it was lying around in the courtyard until 1974, when someone rescued it, and placed it in the museum. The plaque was inscribed, and it revealed that the mansion was owned first by the Bernáld family until 1570, then by the Damokos family until 1639, then by the Kálnoky family until 1732, then by the Zámbler family until 1880, and then the last owner was the Damokos family. The descendants in the female-line inherited it one after the other. The old mansion was probably built at the turn of the 17-18th centuries. In 1821 two additional rooms were built next to the original building, one at the south-eastern side, and another one at the western side. This latter information is certified by a document, which was found among the roof grids during a renovation process in the late 1980s. The document states that Zámbler László and his partner, Bernáld Mária built these side buildings in 1821.
One of the backrooms of the mansion, the north-eastern one, was used as a roman-catholic chapel until a church was built in the village. This is the only Damokos mansion with a cross (symbol of the roman catholic religion) on its top. The building had a bathroom with a 4000 liters water-container – a horse-driven pump assured its water supply, and the container could be filled on a daily basis if it was needed.
Two late-baroque styled gate pillars indicate the original southern border of the estate; these pillars are in good condition even today. On the contrary, the two middle pillars have been damaged and rebuilt several times, but not in their original form. There used to be agricultural buildings adjacent to the mansion – long gone by now - as in the 1980s block flats have been built in their places.
Property rights: public property, owner: Cernat Commune Council
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The Marathon of Respect and Equality (MORE) was held on Thursday, May 3, 2018- and visited each community in Pictou County, including Pictou Landing First Nation.
The Educational Theme for MORE 2018 was Still on the Journey! The 29th annual event of its kind celebrates the uniqueness of each of us and encourages everyone to be confident of their own inherent worth and value. MORE 2018 is one more step in our community’s journey toward justice, one more positive and optimistic action to help bend the arc of history toward a world of equality and respect for everyone.
The event comprised of a 18-mile run throughout Pictou County, a run which features hundreds of runners (some who go all day, some who just run a leg of the route), and rallies held in each community in our county.
Background on MORE
From 1990-2009, we in Pictou County were fortunate to be the location of Henderson Paris’ remarkable Run Against Racism.
In response to a very personal encounter with racism, Henderson decided to educate and raise awareness about the blight of racism by completing a 38-mile ultra marathon which took him to every community in Pictou County.
For the next 20 years, as Henderson and his team continued their Run Against Racism,
•A generation of school children had Hennie as an outstanding role model to teach them how they should treat one another
•A generation of adults had an inspiring leader in the fight against racism and discrimination
•A generation of people marginalized by racist attitudes or any other form of discrimination had a champion to give them support and hope
Henderson’s efforts and those of his wife, Carol, and their whole RAR committee, had a tremendous impact: Pictou County is a beautiful, warm and tolerant community-and Hennie’s role in helping to nurture that is well documented and clear.
After 20 great years, Henderson announced his Run Against Racism was ending in 2009.
Though everyone understood Henderson and Carol’s decision to end the RAR, there still seemed to be a profound sense of loss- no one wanted Hennie to leave the stage, so to speak.
While Hennie’s Run had no doubt made a huge difference, everyone recognized that racial intolerance and the marginalization of people for a variety of discriminatory reasons were still present. The fight Hennie had fought so well was not fully won and his Run’s ending would leave a real void.
This set the stage for the Marathon of Respect and Equality.
To try to continue Henderson and Carol’s excellent work, MORE was created with three goals in mind:
•to combat and eliminate racial discrimination
•to provide and promote education around racial sensitivity and tolerance for young and old alike
•to provide support and reason for hope for all people marginalized in our society.
MORE incorporated the old Run Against Racism logo, which everyone recognized and which Henderson so graciously allowed the committee to co-opt, with the new acronym M-O-R-E, which encourages us all to jump in and do more for this worthy cause.
MORE has been designed to reflect certain key principles, taken from the example set by Hennie over all those 20 years:
It is a continuation of Hennie’s work in his original Run Against Racism and its purposes are to end racial discrimination and to promote respect and equality for whoever is in any way marginalized or disrespected in our society.
MORE is inclusive and non-competitive- in keeping with Henderson’s slogan, “Together we can make a difference”, the organizing committee encourages all events and activities associated with MORE to be welcoming, collegial and cooperative in nature.
MORE focuses on education and raising awareness- education which is positive, non-judgmental and encouraging. Over 20 years ago, in response to a deeply hurtful event, Hennie and his wife, Carol, made the decision to use his athletic gifts to educate and promote understanding rather than to become bitter or angry or recriminating; it is this example MORE wishes to follow.
MORE’s organizers want the words and actions of our municipal leaders, our students, our business leaders, all the citizens of Pictou County to be reflective of the same commitment Hennie, Carol and their committee demonstrated for the Run Against Racism’s twenty years.
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Home Paula Poundstone
Apr 28, 2017 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Track 29 1400 Market Street, City of Chattanooga, Tennessee 37408
"Pardon me boys, but I'll be at Track 29 in Chattanooga," says award-winning comedian Paula Poundstone about her upcoming performance on Friday, April 28th in Chattanooga, TN.
Paula Poundstone is considered one of the most original comedians working today. Legendary for her razor-sharp wit and wry, intelligent humor, she is a master at spontaneous interaction with a crowd.
One of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Comics of All Time, Poundstone is a popular panelist on NPR’s weekly comedy news quiz Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Her second book, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness (Algonquin Books) debuts on May 9, 2017 and is available for preorder. Poundstone’s new CD, North By Northwest: Paula Poundstone Live! (HighBridge), her first double-live, landed atop both Amazon’s “Hot New Releases Non Fiction” and “Comedy CD” lists, along with Billboard’s “Top Ten Comedy Albums” chart.
Poundstone was the first woman ever, in its then 73rd year, to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, she has had numerous HBO specials, starred in her own series on HBO and ABC, and has won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up.
The talented comedian is known for never doing the same show twice. Audiences often span three generations. And much of the material depends on that night’s crowd. Poundstone can hold court on stage for over 2 hours. “That’s because I can’t shut up,” she says. “I love my job, but even if the audience wasn’t there I’d still be doing it.” Paula will put this unique talent to more good use May 15, 2017 when her Podcast, Live from the Paula Poundstone Institute! begins airing weekly.
Her website is www.paulapoundstone.com.
Fri. 8:00PM / Tickets: Adv. $29 Day of Show: $32
Call: 423-521-2929 / Track 29 is located at 1400 Market St. Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Review: One Froggy Evening (1955)
Trust me, I watched a lot of Looney Tunes when I was a kid. My mom had generously recorded a ton onto VHS for my sisters and I and she did a relatively good job at not recording the commercials. Not perfect, but I couldn't really complain now could I? I honestly can't think of much that better demonstrates love for one's children more than taping Looney Tunes for them in what is quite a labour intensive method. Can you?
Anyhow, One Froggy Evening is probably the most important Looney Tunes cartoon ever put out. Famously called "the Citizen Kane of animated film" by Steven Spielberg, it's got everything you could probably ever ask for in an animated short. Even though it doesn't have Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, or any other famous Looney Tunes characters, it's the most memorable of all for me personally and probably a lot of other people.
Genre: animation, short, comedy
Directed by: Chuck Jones
Produced by: Edward Selzer
Written by: Michael Maltese
Music by: Milt Franklyn
Running time: 7 minutes
Production company: Warner Bros.
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video
Budget: N/A
Box office: N/A
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Starring: Bill Roberts
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A man working on a demolition in a construction zone finds a box inside a cornerstone. Inside, he finds a document that was sealed inside in 1892 as well as a live frog (Michigan J. Frog). Amazed to have found a live frog having survived 60-odd years sealed inside a cornerstone, the man is even more amazed when the frog starts singing and dancing, complete with top hat and cane. Instantly, the man hatches a plan to showcase the frog to the public and become rich.
There's no talking in One Froggy Evening besides Michigan J. Frog's singing (voice: Bill Roberts) and I wouldn't have it any other way. The motivations of the man who finds Michigan are more than clear and present a pretty nice morality lesson. Although you can't fully blame a poor construction worker who sees Michigan as his ticket to wealth, he is after all trying to take advantage of an innocent frog.
Michigan J. Frog enjoys the simple pleasures of singing and dancing. Why should he be the moneymaking tool of a greedy individual? So what does Michigan do? Whether by coincidence or purpose is unclear, anytime the construction guy tries to demonstrate the performing talents of his miracle frog, Michigan just goes back to being a regular frog who can't do anything more than croak.
The effect is hilarious every time it happens. You still can't help but feel somewhat bad for the construction guy though. I mean, his situation goes from bad to worse surprisingly quickly. Still, even as a kid I knew that the guy was in the wrong. One Froggy Evening contains a message everyone can understand, no matter how old they may be and it's still completely relevant even today.
The songs that Michigan sings are really memorable and are definitely one of the biggest highlights of this short. I can't tell you the amount of times in my life I've just suddenly broke into song and dance when "Hello! Ma Baby" or "The Michigan Rag" popped into my head. Although some of the songs that Michigan sings were actually written after 1892 when he was safely locked away inside the cornerstone, who cares? This is a fantastical frog who can sing and dance so I'm sure he can get his music one way or another.
Looney Tunes in general is a trove of wonderful animated shorts. However, none compare to the sheer entertainment factor that One Froggy Evening provides. It's an ageless short, the kind that remains burned inside your subconscious long after you've seen it. In the end, there can only ever be one singing and dancing frog in cinema and his name is Michigan J. Frog.
Another Froggy Evening (1995)
Labels: 1955, animation, Bill Roberts, Chuck Jones, comedy, review, short
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2017 Play Off Final Preview
Huddersfield v Reading
(Sky Sports 1, starts 2pm GMT, kick off 3pm GMT)
I mentioned at the beginning of last year’s preview that there was about an even chance of the winners of that final being relegated, which is exactly what happened to Hull at the end of this season.
Whichever team wins this is going to struggle mightily in the Premier League. Reading had the 15th best defence in the Championship in 2016/17 – Wigan conceded fewer goals and Blackburn just one more. Thirteen teams scored more goals than Huddersfield, who finished in the top six with a negative goal difference overall – the first time that’s ever happened since the second tier became the Championship thirteen years ago. A lot has been made of the fact that three of the four playoff teams this season finished in the bottom half of the table a year ago and those statistics indicate to me that both sides have overachieved without adequately papering over the cracks this season, let alone next.
Huddersfield are the favourites, but the bookies are expecting extra time.
Last ten aways: 4-3-3 (I’m counting the semi final playoff win at Sheffield Wednesday as a draw over 90 minutes), goal difference -4
Playoff record at this level: winning semi-finalists 2017
Looking back at the season, it was a hot streak between December and March in which the Terriers only lost twice in eighteen games that saw them record their highest league position since the early 1970s. Since then they’ve not been as impressive (five wins in their last fifteen) but they maintained they spent all season in the top five without ever genuinely threatening either Brighton or Newcastle.
Strength: home form, which is irrelevant today.
Weakness: Goalscoring away from home. Huddersfield only scored more than two goals in one away match this season: the 3-2 win at Rotherham on Valentine’s Day was also the last time they scored more than once in an away game. Town failed to score in seven road trips, losing all of those games.
Ones to watch: Nakhi Wells and Elias Kachunga. Both strikers reached double figures this season but neither of them has been particularly prolific away from home – they haven’t scored on the road since February. If Town stand any chance of either winning promotion or staying in the Premier League, Kachunga and Wells have to contribute this afternoon.
Last ten aways: 3-2-5, goal difference -8
Playoff record at this level: Runners up 1995, 2011. Beaten semi finalists 2003, 2009
I still find it remarkable that a team that lost a game 7-1 at the start of last month is in the playoff final. After an inconsistent start, the Royals hovered between third and fifth from the end of October onwards and – like Huddersfield – never really threatened the automatic promotion playoffs. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but their form away from the Mad House isn’t very good: if this was a home game I’d not have any problems backing them but three of their five away wins in 2017 were against teams they ought to have beaten and two of those were settled in the last minute.
Strength: home form. Only Brighton earned more points at home than Reading and no club lost fewer home games. Once again, irrelevant today.
Weakness: away defence. In 2016/17 the average Championship defence conceded 34 goals in away games: Reading conceded 14 more goals than that. They conceded in 18 of their 23 matches away from home and let in more than two goals on eight occasions.
One to watch: Yann Kermogant. The veteran French striker is having his best season since he helped Bournemouth win promotion to the Premier League a couple of seasons ago: just over half of his goals this season have been scored in away games and if the Huddersfield defence don’t keep an eye on him then they could be in for a torrid time.
Final Stats Over The Last Decade:
The Higher side that finished higher at the end of the season has won six of the last ten finals. The third placed side has also won three of the last four finals between clubs that finished in third and fourth positions. Advantage: Reading.
Both teams haven’t scored in seven of the last ten, also less than 2.5. Settled by one goal in eight of last ten, only one AET in the last decade. Six of last ten have been 1-0. The last ten league games between today’s finalists have been pretty equal: two draws with the remainder split evenly.
Verdict: the stats above indicate that Reading might win by the margin of one goal, but I’ll be amazed if the final score is 1-0 to either team. It’s been five seasons since both teams have scored or we’ve had more than two goals in the final and considering how bad both of these defences were in away games during the regular season, this particular final could turn into a shoot out.
An update will follow immediately after the game is over.
Not the best advert for Championship football. Huddersfield won on penalties after extra time. There’ll be an end of season round up posted as soon as possible.
Author: Mike Roberts
A football fan since the 1970s, I take my inspiration from the standard of writing that made Shoot! magazine streets ahead of anything else back in the day. I'm also a complete and utter stathead, which I blame on being exposed to American sports at the end of my teens. View all posts by Mike Roberts
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Category: Capital One Cup
Monday Night Football: Blackpool v Huddersfield Town
On paper, this evening’s match looks like a good one – the Tangerines have started well and already look like genuine promotion candidates and while none of the clubs promoted from League 1 look as if they’re going to emulate Norwich and Southampton this season, Huddersfield look as if they’re the best prepared for the long haul. Simon Grayson knows his way around the Championship and with a reported figure of £8 million in the war chest following the sale of Jordan Rhodes to Blackburn, funds could be available for the Christmas transfer window.
There should be a few goals at Bloomfield Road later – in the last 20 meetings in the league going back to the mid 1950s there’s been an average of exactly three goals per game – but the advantage clearly belongs to the hosts. Ian Holloway’s side have only lost only lost twice at home in the Championship in almost a year and although the Terriers were beaten at Cardiff in the first game of the season, it’s probably fair to say they’ve not been tested yet. Their three wins so far have come against teams currently in the bottom half of the table.
Talking of Cardiff, regular readers over the last couple of years probably won’t need any reminding of how many times the Bluebirds Redbirds have been given an opportunity to establish themselves at the top of the table – and how many times they’ve screwed it up completely. Well, it’s not even the end of September and they’re at it again: last Saturday they blew a two goal lead at Crystal Palace as Glen Murray scored a hat-trick at Selhurst Park. Hull lost at Leicester yesterday which means that Brighton may be two points clear for a little while longer after beating Millwall on Saturday: they were already two goals up before Chris Taylor was sent off for a foul on Tomasz Kuszczak.
At the bottom, Peterborough are so far off the pace at the moment that I’ll only mention them in future if they drag themselves out of the bottom three, but Charlton’s win at Ipswich prompted a lot of speculation about whether Harry Redknapp might be on the point of taking over from Paul Jewell at Portman Road.
There was no doubt about the surprise result of the weekend: Birmingham City hadn’t conceded more than four goals in a competitive game at St Andrew’s since Liverpool won 7-0 in an FA Cup tie in March 2006 and you have to go back even further to find the last time that happened in a league game…although Barnsley scored five there in October 1988! Craig Davies alone managed to almost double the amount of goals Barnsley had scored this season in a game that rapidly turned into the Tykes against Jack Butland and ten statues and any thoughts Blues fans might have about promotion should be put on the back burner.
This week also sees the third round of the Capital One Cup, but there are only five Championship clubs left in the competition and three of them play opposition from the Premier League. Burnley and Middlesbrough arguably stand the best chance of qualifying for the next round, but they have tricky away games at Swindon and Preston respectively and it wouldn’t come as a massive shock if none of the second tier clubs got through. However, Leeds will get the chance to show what they’re made of when they entertain Everton tomorrow night (Sky Sports 2, 7:45pm).
With a couple of exceptions, it’s back to 3pm kick offs on Saturday: at time of writing I’ve not been able to establish why Brighton’s game against Birmingham is a 5:30pm kick off but on Sunday lunchtime it’s the next episode of Derby v Nottingham Forest. I’ll be back on Friday evening with a weekend preview, but until then have a good week and don’t forget your raincoat.
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Author Mike RobertsPosted on September 24, 2012 Categories Barnsley, Birmingham, Blackpool, Brighton, Burnley, Capital One Cup, Cardiff, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Hull City, Ipswich, Leeds United, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Peterborough UnitedTags Capital One Cup, nPower Championship
Will Blackpool Be Going Fox Hunting Later?
It’s worth starting with Blackpool once again, primarily because they’re the only side with a 100% record in the league – although there are currently also four other undefeated teams – and they feature in the only televised game this weekend, when they travel to Leicester (5:20pm SS2) so you can make up your own minds about Ian Holloway’s team. I’ve already commented on Blackpool several times this season (and I have a feeling they’ll be featuring a lot this season), so how about the joint pre-season favourites? After their opening day win over Peterborough, Leicester have lost three in a row including a 4-2 home defeat to Burton Albion in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday – and a three game losing streak hasn’t happened to the Foxes since March 2010.
Other than that It’s the last weekend before the first international break of the season and oddly all of the top six are away from home and five of the bottom six are at home, so I’d expect there’ll be a few teams determined to do well going into what is effectively a fortnight off. Birmingham v Peterborough was almost game of the week – the Blues seem to be suffering from a classic playoff hangover while Posh are already up against it having lost all three of their league games so far.
Game of the week is Leeds v Blackburn – they’ve not met in the second tier for over 20 years and with both sides looking to return to Premier League in May this game could be crucial to the ambitions of both teams. Rovers need to overcome their recent history at Leeds: they have only only won once in their last 20 trips to Elland Road. There might be a few goals in this game: Argentine striker Luciano Becchio has already scored three times this term (he’s already on target to beat last season’s 11 goal haul), while Colin Kazim-Richards’ five year trip round Europe obviously hasn’t diminished his goalscoring ability – he’s already scored twice for Blackburn.
As for the Capital One Cup, the second round was a total disaster. Only five teams are left in the draw for the third round and with three of them being drawn against opposition from the Premier League it wouldn’t come as much of a surprise if none of them are left in the competition before Christmas, but I’ll take a closer look at their chances towards the end of the month.
Author Mike RobertsPosted on September 1, 2012 September 4, 2012 Categories Birmingham, Blackpool, Capital One Cup, Leeds United, Leicester, Peterborough UnitedTags Capital One Cup, nPower Championship
Capital One Cup 2nd Round
After the usual mixed bag of first round results, the second round of the newly christened Capital One Cup takes place this week with sixteen of the 24 Championship clubs involved.
Although the draw ensured there’d be no guaranteed third round places, there might be a few surprises. A couple of seasons ago Bolton were in the Premier League whilst Crawley Town were playing in the Conference, but Crawley have a lot of experience of beating Championship teams in cup competitions – Hull, Bristol City and Derby can all vouch for that.
Preston and Crystal Palace were both in the Championship in 2010/11 and Deepdale hasn’t been the happiest of hunting grounds for the Eagles in recent years, with only two wins in their last ten visits. Nottingham Forest entertain Wigan at the City Ground and Fulham visit Hillsborough for the first time since they beat Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup almost four years ago.
At the other end of the scale, both Barnsley (at Swansea) and Peterborough (at Reading) look as if they may have to concentrate on the league until the 3rd Round of the FA Cup comes round, but you never know.
The only televised game from the Capital One Cup is Thursday evening’s game between Northampton Town and Wolves at Sixfields (SS1, 7:45pm), which is a repeat of last season’s second round tie in the same competition. Wolves won that game 4-0.
I’ll be back on Friday with a look at the weekend’s fixtures but don’t be too surprised if I mention Blackpool in the first paragraph.
Author Mike RobertsPosted on August 28, 2012 Categories Barnsley, Bristol City, Capital One Cup, Crystal Palace, Derby, Hull City, Nottm Forest, Peterborough United, Sheffield Wednesday, WolvesTags Capital One Cup
Early Season Winners And Losers
Tonight is the first of six midweek rounds before Christmas and game of the night is Leeds‘ trip to Blackpool, which is the only match between clubs that both won on Saturday. Leeds haven’t won at Bloomfield Road since March 1967, but that’s deceptive as they’ve only played three games there since and last season’s single goal defeat was the first time they’d played the Tangerines in the league since 1971!
A brace from Tom Ince earned Ian Holloway’s side all three points at Millwall on Saturday while Luciano Becchio scored the only goal at Elland Road in the narrow win over Wolves. Although both sides have got off to a good start in the league, Leeds have won both of their competitive games so far this season, which already puts them into an elite group: only six other Championship clubs have done that – that group includes Barnsley, who many people (including myself) wrote off before the season started.
From a wider perspective, the poor showing in the Capital One cup wasn’t a massive surprise – it’s possibly a bigger surprise that there are more teams left in the competition after the first round than there have been in the last two seasons. Cardiff City – runners up in 2011/12 – were knocked out by Northampton Town last week while six other clubs who played in the Championship last season were also eliminated.
At the other end of the scale, five clubs have failed to win either of their opening games in either the league or the Carling Cup: that group includes one team that had a top ten finish last season (Brighton, who have yet to score) as well as Millwall and Bristol City, who were amongst the strugglers last season. Brighton have a tough looking game at home to Cardiff tonight, while Millwall and Bristol City both face teams that also lost on Saturday: the Lions visit Peterborough and the Robins entertain Crystal Palace – who conceded two late goals at home to Watford, giving Gianfranco Zola his first win as a manager at Championship level.
Tomorrow night Blackburn face Hull for the first time since both clubs were in the Premier League (a single goal from Martin Olsson settled that game) and on Friday night Nottingham Forest visit Bolton (Sky Sports 2, 7:45pm), but I’ll take a closer look at that game on Friday afternoon.
Author Mike RobertsPosted on August 21, 2012 August 24, 2012 Categories Blackpool, Brighton, Bristol City, Capital One Cup, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Hull City, Leeds United, Millwall, Peterborough United, Watford, WolvesTags Capital One Cup, nPower Championship
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Resources to Learn More: Research, Guides and Other Toolkits
General August 3, 2015
This is a comprehensive list of materials to help officials understand and learn more about options in creating and sustaining community schools partnerships.
Please let CCS Partnership staff know if your agency’s toolkit should be included in this section rstephens@ca-ilg.org.
Many outstanding organizations offer excellent information and research about community school partnerships. Here are a few:
Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: An interactive toolkit hosted by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). A scaled-up system of community schools refers to a vertical network of schools from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in a single attendance area with all schools linked horizontally across one or more school districts. This guide provides information on the scaled-up system for a wide audience and for communities at different points in planning for, implementing, and sustaining a community schools strategy.
Community Schools Evaluation Toolkit: A starter guide for community school staff who want to use data to tell their story and improve their community schools. Produced by the Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University.
Building Healthy Communities: A School Leader’s Guide to Collaboration and Community Engagement – California School Board Association’s best practices and strategies for collaboration and engagement between schools and communities.
Building Community Schools: A Guide for Action (PDF): Produced by the National Center for Community Schools at the Childrens Aid Society.
The Center for Strategic Community Innovation works with school districts, community based organizations, city and county agencies, communities and collaboratives to plan, implement, and sustain full service community schools through the organization’s Community Schools Initiative. CSCI offers a toolkit with resources on community schools.
Building, Assessing, Sustaining & Improving Community Schools (BASICS) is a toolkit for community and school staff and technical assistance providers (produced in 2009). Materials were produced by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, The Center for Community School Partnerships at University of California, Davis and the Children’s Aid Society.
A Resource Guide for Understanding Community Schools: Community School Planning and Design: A report by the Urban Strategies Council that provides interested individuals and stakeholders resources for a better understanding of the structure and core components of community schools. Based on a review of more than 175 evaluations, case studies, briefs and reports from across the United States over the last 20 years.
Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools (PDF): This report, produced by the Coalition for Community Schools, makes the case that community schools by outlining the advantages of community schools and the conditions for learning that these advantages create. It reviews the research on which these conditions are based and illustrates the extent to which community schools make a difference to students, schools, families and communities. The report includes the results of evaluations of 20 community school initiatives across the United States.
Community School Partnerships Toolkit: This toolkit, by the Center for Community Schoool Partnerships at UC Davis, presents tools to guide any school that wants to improve student achievement, youth wellbeing and ties to families and communities. It gives step-bystep instructions to create strong community school partnerships. This toolkit pulls from the best of the training materials and resources they have used for sixteen years in supporting community school collaboratives.
Toolkit for Expanded Learning: This toolkit, by the Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project, is intended to provide resources for city agencies, school districts, intermediaries and other organizations interested in implementing or strengthening city-wide expanded learning opportunities, as well as state agencies and Statewide Afterschool Networks designing multi-city initiatives. These tools can guide such agencies as they develop plans for afterschool, summer learning and expanded learning time initiatives in their communities.
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change: This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and families. It describes the need to focus on building the capabilities of caregivers and strengthening the communities that together form the environment of relationships essential to children’s lifelong learning, health, and behavior.
Growing and Sustaining Parent Engagement, A Toolkit for Parents and Community Partners, Dec 2010 This toolkit includes information, examples, and helpful questions that parents and community partners can draw from as they jointly develop engagement strategies that reflect their unique priorities and communities.
A Toolkit for Increasing Physical Activity Through Joint Use Agreements This toolkit offers a guide to opening school grounds to the community after hours. Increasing access to recreational facilities that already exist at schools has emerged as one of the most promising strategies for building more opportunities for activity into neighborhoods. This promise is rooted in the realization that even the most poorly designed and under-served neighborhoods include schools. In an era of never-ending budget shortfalls, maximizing access to existing facilities – rather than trying to construct new ones – is the most efficient and economical use of public resources.
California Network of Family Strengthening Networks The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support, issued by the California Network of Family Strengthening Networks and adopted by the National Network of Family Support and Strengthening Networks, is a valuable tool for ensuring that families are supported and strengthened through quality practice. These Standards integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support Practice with the Strengthening Families Approach and its research-based, evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors. To download a free copy of the Standards, please go to www.cnfsn.org/standards-of-quality.html. Inquiries for the National Network of Family Strengthening Networks may be directed to Andrew@sffsn.org, co-chair.
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Departments > Parks & Recreation > Parks > Green Island Park > Green Island Park and Ice Arena
Green Island Park
2312 7th Street South
La Crosse, WI 54601
Park Description
Green Island has something for everyone, but what it is known for is the ice arena and the worker's memorial grove. Other than that, there is a softball field, basketball court, open area, play tower, shelters, and fishing.
Open Area
Sledding Hill
Softball Diamond
Green Island Park started with talks about a proposed park being built on Green Island in 1979. In the Spring of 1980, a debate came up over what type of ice rink would be included in the new park. The Common Council agreed that a large shelter area was needed and could be used as an open-air rink in the winter. A few years later, and much debate, a $322,800 ice arena was built and the park officially opened (January 1983). After many years of fun-filled time, a marble monument was dedicated in the park called "Labor's Grove", which memorializes those who lost their lives in the performance of their jobs (1991). Along with the monument, several trees were planted next to the marker.
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INC Research propels Catalyst into psychiatric arena
by Rachel Flehinger | Email the author
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RALEIGH, N.C.—INC Research recently announced the launch of its Psychiatry Catalyst Site Network, the latest component of its Catalyst program. The Psychiatry Catalyst Site Network joins the existing Oncology and Vaccine networks in the Catalyst suite, which was introduced in 2016 to strengthen collaborations with clinical research sites worldwide.
The Psychiatry Catalyst Site Network was developed in response to the rapid growth of psychiatric studies, and aims to enhance patient focus and optimize study delivery to drive improved predictability and increased efficiency for customers. INC began with 32 high-performing clinical research sites to participate in the initial launch of the network, with the goal of enhancing high-quality delivery for biopharmaceutical customers.
“Demonstrating our continued focus on strong site collaboration to improve study delivery, INC Research has expanded its Catalyst program into the central nervous system (CNS) and, specifically, psychiatry clinical research,” says Dr. Clare Grace, vice president of site and patient access for INC Research. “Our Catalyst initiative aligns with INC’s deep therapeutic focus and supports the delivery of high-quality, actionable data to advance new therapies. Our expansion of the program in response to the growing number of psychiatric studies—recognized as among the more complex therapeutic areas in clinical research—will leverage expert insights to further enhance clinical development and accelerate new therapies to market in this critical area.”
The Catalyst program offers benefits to sponsors, practicing sites and patients by providing a framework for the development of enhanced clinical trial methodologies and technologies, ultimately speeding the development of therapies to patients. The Catalyst sites benefit from increased volume of clinical trials and a dedicated relationship manager, supporting each site and facilitating improved alignment of protocols to site interests and expertise. The participating sites also have the chance to benefit from knowledge and perspectives of other sites in the network.
“Specifically, sponsors benefit from the Catalyst program because we’re able to deliver studies and high-quality actionable data more quickly and more predictably through high-performing clinical trial sites,” according to Tracey Gashi, executive director of site and patient access at INC Research.
INC’s Psychiatry Catalyst Network will reportedly play a significant role in the psychiatry studies the company conducts on behalf of its customers, particularly in the more challenging psychiatric indications.
“Many of the newer schizophrenia and depression studies require a greater commitment from investigators than in previous years, and INC’s Catalyst program provides a strong foundation by establishing clear and mutually agreeable expectations regarding the administrative aspects of running a clinical trial from the onset,” says Dr. Tom Zoda, executive vice president and general manager for CNS clinical development at INC Research. “By easing the administrative burden for sites, we are better positioning them to spend more time focusing on enrollment of suitable patients and engagement of their caregivers. Our goal through the Psychiatry Catalyst Site Network is to raise the caliber and quality of work in psychiatry clinical trials for the ultimate benefit of patients in need of these medications.”
The initial 32 sites were selected based on previous experience, which included the number of studies run in the psychiatry area, their previous delivery across multiple studies and the quality of data previously provided. Sites will work with each other and with INC Research to deliver studies more quickly and more predictably, with the aim of enabling the company to better deliver on the needs of its customers. Participation is by invitation only, with membership initially focused on the United States. Membership will be reviewed regularly to ensure the network is meeting customer needs.
“I am excited to be part of INC’s Psychiatry Catalyst Site Network, which builds on its Protocol Review Site Advocacy Group implemented in 2015 to engage sites earlier on in the scientific and operational aspects of CNS clinical trials to improve patient engagement and ultimately study delivery,” says Dr. David Walling, a principal investigator with Collaborative Neuroscience Network LLC.
Dr. Andrew Kim, principal investigator with Alexian Brothers Center for Psychiatric Research, added, “Improving communication and reducing redundancies among sponsors, CROs and sites enables us to overcome obstacles and barriers more efficiently and deliver potential breakthroughs to patients in a more timely manner. The Catalyst Psychiatry Site Network helps to create this collaboration, which I am proud to support.”
Over the past five years, INC Research has conducted more than 115 psychiatry studies across all phases of development, including complex studies that address conditions like schizophrenia, suicidality, depression and dementia. The company’s significant experience in overcoming enrollment challenges, meeting site needs, implementing protocol amendments and surpassing customer expectations are all key differentiators to its clinical research success, according to INC.
INC Research currently runs global Catalyst networks across a number of therapeutic areas and indications. Since launching in 2016, they have created networks for vaccines (United States), oncology (United States and the Asia-Pacific region), early phase (Australia) and now psychiatry (United States). The company expects to continue the expansion of the Catalyst program to include additional therapeutic areas, indications and regions. In addition to the Psychiatric group, the company also provides an online forum community, which is open to all sites, to support ongoing communication on the conduct of clinical trials, wider adoption of new methodologies and the sharing of best practices.
INC and inVentiv complete merger
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON—On Aug. 1, INC Research Holdings Inc., a global Phase 1-4 contract research organization (CRO), and inVentiv Health Inc., a privately held global CRO and contract commercial organization (CCO), announced the successful completion of their previously announced merger.
The combination creates what they say is “the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization,” including an end-to-end CRO and CCO. INC Research/inVentiv Health will continue to trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol INCR. The combined company will be known as INC Research/inVentiv Health on an interim basis until a relaunch under a new brand in 2018.
“The closing of this deal marks the beginning of an industry-changing new company, purpose-built to achieve the singular goal of accelerating biopharmaceutical performance,” said Alistair Macdonald, CEO of the combined company, which he maintains “will address new market realities through shared clinical and commercial expertise, data and insights to meet the needs of biopharmaceutical companies of all sizes. This strategic combination enhances our ability to facilitate approvals and product launches in multiple markets worldwide, and the value we offer to employees, customers and our shareholders.”
Michael Bell, executive chairman of the board of directors and president of the company’s Commercial Division, added: “With the industry’s most comprehensive clinical and commercial solutions continuum [we] are confident in the company’s ability to meet the needs of biopharmaceutical companies who are navigating an increasingly complex marketplace ... We are pleased with transition progress to date, look forward to supporting our talented management team and are committed to enabling our customers to speed the delivery of therapies to the patients who need them most.”
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It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
by Patrick Cockburn
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean fishermen go far out to sea in the middle of winter in a desperate search for fish.
Often all that survives is the shattered wooden hull of the boat cast up on the shore, but in some cases the Japanese find the bodies of fishermen who died of hunger and thirst as they drifted across the Sea of Japan. Occasionally, a few famished survivors are alive and explain that their engine failed or they ran out of fuel or they were victims of some other fatal mishap.
The number of “ghost ships” is rising with no fewer than 104 found in 2017, which is more than in any previous year, though the real figure must be higher because many boats will have sunk without trace in the 600 miles of rough sea between North Korea and Japan.
The reason so many fishermen risk and lose their lives is hunger in North Korea where fish is the cheapest form of protein. The government imposes quotas for fishermen that force them to go far out to sea. Part of their catch is then sold on to China for cash, making fish one of the biggest of North Korea’s few export items.
The fact that North Korean fishermen took greater risks and died in greater numbers last year is evidence that international sanctions imposed on North Korea are, in a certain sense, a success: the country is clearly under severe economic pressure. But, as with sanctions elsewhere in the world past and present, the pressure is not on the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who looks particularly plump and well-fed, but on the poor and the powerless.
The Only Thing That Can Save Trump’s Presidency Now Is War With North Korea
The record of economic sanctions in forcing political change is dismal, but as a way of reducing a country to poverty and misery it is difficult to beat. UN sanctions were imposed against Iraq from 1990 until 2003. Supposedly, it was directed against Saddam Hussein and his regime, though it did nothing to dislodge or weaken them: on the contrary, the Baathist political elite took advantage of the scarcity of various items to enrich themselves by becoming the sole suppliers. Saddam’s odious elder son Uday made vast profits by controlling the import of cigarettes into Iraq.
The bureaucrats in charge of UN sanctions in Iraq always pretended that they prevented Saddam rebuilding his military strength. This was always a hypocritical lie: the Iraqi army did not fight for him in 1991 at the beginning of sanctions any more than it did when they ended. It was absurd to imagine that dictators like Kim Jong-un or Saddam Hussein would be influenced by the sufferings of their people.
These are very real: I used to visit Iraqi hospitals in the 1990s where the oxygen had run out and there were no tyres for the ambulances. Once, I was pursued across a field in Diyala province north of Baghdad by local farmers holding up dusty X-rays of their children because they thought I might be a visiting foreign doctor.
Saddam Hussein and his senior lieutenants were rightly executed for their crimes, but the foreign politicians and officials who were responsible for the sanctions regime that killed so many deserved to stand beside them in the dock. It is time that the imposition of economic sanctions should be seen as a war crime, since it involves the collective punishment of millions of innocent civilians who die, sicken or are reduced to living off scraps from the garbage dumps.
There is nothing very new in this. Economic sanctions are like a medieval siege but with a modern PR apparatus attached to justify what is being done. A difference is that such sieges used to be directed at starving out a single town or city while now they are aimed at squeezing whole countries into submission.
One Million Dead: This is what war with North Korea would look like
An attraction for politicians is that sanctions can be sold to the public, though of course not to people at the receiving end, as more humane than military action. There is usually a pretence that foodstuffs and medical equipment are being allowed through freely and no mention is made of the financial and other regulatory obstacles making it impossible to deliver them.
An example of this is the draconian sanctions imposed on Syria by the US and EU which were meant to target President Bashar al-Assad and help remove him from power. They have wholly failed to do this, but a UN internal report leaked in 2016 shows all too convincingly the effect of the embargo in stopping the delivery of aid by international aid agencies. They cannot import the aid despite waivers because banks and commercial companies dare not risk being penalised for having anything to do with Syria. The report quotes a European doctor working in Syria as saying that “the indirect effect of sanctions … makes the import of the medical instruments and other medical supplies immensely difficult, near impossible.”
People should be just as outraged by the impact of this sort of thing as they are by the destruction of hospitals by bombing and artillery fire. But the picture of X-ray or kidney dialysis machines lacking essential spare parts is never going to compete for impact with film of dead and wounded on the front line. And those who die because medical equipment has been disabled by sanctions are likely to do so undramatically and out of sight.
Embargoes are dull and war is exciting. A few failed rocket strikes against Riyadh by the Houthi forces in Yemen was heavily publicised, though no Saudis were killed. Compare this to the scant coverage of the Saudi embargo on Houthi-held Yemen which has helped cause the largest man-made famine in recent history. In addition, there are over one million cholera cases suspected and 2,000 Yemenis have died from the illness according to the World Health Organisation.
Bolton's ‘Troika of Tyranny' Points to Imminent Regime Change for Nicaragua
PR gambits justifying sanctions are often the same regardless of circumstances. One is to claim that the economic damage caused prevents those who are targeted spending money on guns and terror. President Trump denounces the nuclear deal with Iran on the grounds that it frees up money to finance Iranian foreign ventures, though the cost of these is small and, in Iraq, Iranian activities probably make a profit.
Sanctions are just as much a collective punishment as area bombing in East Aleppo, Raqqa and Mosul. They may even kill more people than the bombs and shells because they go on for years and their effect is cumulative. The death of so many North Korean fishermen in their unseaworthy wooden craft is one side effect of sanctions but not atypical of their toxic impact. As usual, they are hitting the wrong target and they are not succeeding against Kim Jong-un any more than they did against Saddam Hussein.
* Patrick Cockburn is the author of The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution.
Published at https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/22/its-time-to-call-economic-sanctions-what-they-are-war-crimes/
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Communion Wafer Turns 'Blood Red': When Miracles Aren't
The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500 BCE – 428 BCE) was onto something when he stated that the sun was not a god, but rather a red hot stone. (It's also worth noting that he was imprisoned for saying as much.) Granted, Anaxagoras was a little off on the physical properties of the sun, but he knew that there was a natural explanation for even the greatest mysteries of the cosmos.
Fast forward a few thousand years to St. Paul, MN where a communion wafer has turned "blood red" after being placed in a cup filled with water.
The Pioneer Press reports:
[Rev. John Echert of St. Augustine Church] said the host fell to the floor as a member of the laity who is appointed to assist priests was distributing Communion at the 7 a.m. Mass on June 19, the Feast of the Holy Trinity. It was put in a ciborium, a container for the Eucharist - which is typical practice - with the expectation that it would be poured in a sacraium, a kind of special sink where items are washed into the ground not into a sewer system.
When the Rev. Robert Grabner, the church's parochial vicar, next looked at the cup the following Sunday, Echert said, "he noted a red color in the ciborium." Normally, he added, the host would dissolve in water within a day or two.
Grabner asked Echert to examine it.
"The host was a very bright red," Echert said. "On one side, it was completely red, and on the other side, it was red around the perimeter and it looked almost like the white of the host tended to have an appearance of a cross."
Echert said he transferred it to a glass bowl the next day. A day later, he saw the blood-red color.
"It appeared to be like the blood red of tissue," he said. "If I had not known what it was, I would have thought that there was maybe a small bloody piece of tissue. It was striking enough that there was no way I could have disposed of the remains of the host at that time with good conscience."
Clearly, this was the stuff of miracles:
"It was notable enough that, clearly, it was some phenomenon and not the ordinary way in which a host would dissolve...that we're familiar with," Echert said.
The archdiocese, which now has the host, is taking a "very cautious stance on the matter," spokesman Dennis McGrath said.
"I make no claims, and the archdiocese makes no claims, as to the likelihood of this being supernatural," Echert said. "But it is enough of a phenomenon, or unusual, that we will continue to examine this host."
He added: "I've never in my 24 years as a priest seen or been aware of a phenomenon where a consecrated host placed in water turns to this bright-colored red and continues in what I would call the blood-red color."
Word of the wondrous wafer eventually landed on several Catholic websites and blogs, sparking discussion and conjecture by some that it resembles the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.
Anyone with a knowledge of religion is sure to have noted that the supernatural claims and miracles associated with biblical writings were far more fantastical, and more frequent, than those of modern day. It also might be worth noting that we didn't have the scientific understanding in primitive times that we have today, nor the luxury of crowdsourcing.
In simpler times, news of this bloody wafer might have spread via telegraph or word of mouth, and soon enough, people would be making pilgrimages to lovely St. Paul to view the flesh of the Lord. But thanks to the Internet, and to science, many pilgrims have been saved the trouble.
One blogger has raised the red bacterium, Serratia marcescens, as a possible explanation for the communion wafer turning red.
According to Microbe Zoo, a website developed by the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, the bacterium grows on bread and communion wafers that have been stored in a damp place.
The site goes so far as to cite Serratia marcescens as the probable cause of the bloodlike substance that a priest discovered on communion bread in 1263, referred to as "The Miracle of Bolsena."
More-recent incidents have pointed to bacterium contamination, including a highly publicized instance in 2006 when people flocked to a Dallas-area church after a host turned red in a glass.
According to a report on Texas Catholic Online, the Dallas Diocese had the host analyzed by two University of Dallas biology professors who concluded it was anything but a miracle.
In a letter to the parish priest, Dallas Bishop Charles Grahmann wrote "... the object is a combination of fungal mycelia and bacterial colonies that have been incubated within the aquatic environment of the glass during the four-week period in which it was stored in the open air."
Archdiocese spokesman Daniel McGrath stated, "The Church does not presume supernatural causes for things that can have a natural explanation," an odd statement coming from the church, especially considering that whole Bible thing.
Posted by Unknown on 7/15/2011 1 comments
Tags: communion, miracles
Belief in Evolution vs. National Wealth: Why Does The US Not Fit The Trend?
via Calamities of Nature:
The United States is an odd bird, clearly. This graph reminded me of a post on PZ Myers' Pharyngula blog in which he discussed an international poll showing the US as being near dead last in acceptance of evolution (just above Turkey, another country with a distinct fundamentalism/modernism issues).
What, pray tell, could cause the US to remain such an outlier?
Well, first there is religiosity:
The total effect of fundamentalist religious beliefs on attitude toward evolution (using a standardized metric) was nearly twice as much in the United States as in the nine European countries (path coefficients of -0.42 and -0.24, respectively), which indicates that individuals who hold a strong belief in a personal God and who pray frequently were significantly less likely to view evolution as probably or definitely true than adults with less conservative religious views.
And then there's this:
Second, the evolution issue has been politicized and incorporated into the current partisan division in the United States in a manner never seen in Europe or Japan. In the second half of the 20th century, the conservative wing of the Republican Party has adopted creationism as a part of a platform designed to consolidate their support in southern and Midwestern states—the "red" states. In the 1990s, the state Republican platforms in seven states included explicit demands for the teaching of "creation science". There is no major political party in Europe or Japan that uses opposition to evolution as a part of its political platform.
As Myers noted, the paper ends on a sad note:
The politicization of science in the name of religion and political partisanship is not new to the United States, but transformation of traditional geographically and economically based political parties into religiously oriented ideological coalitions marks the beginning of a new era for science policy. The broad public acceptance of the benefits of science and technology in the second half of the 20th century allowed science to develop a nonpartisan identification that largely protected it from overt partisanship. That era appears to have closed.
Nigel Barber, in Psychology Today, asks if Atheism will eventually replace religion, as research shows that atheism "blossoms amid affluence where most people feel economically secure."
It seems that people turn to religion as a salve for the difficulties and uncertainties of their lives. In social democracies, there is less fear and uncertainty about the future because social welfare programs provide a safety net and better health care means that fewer people can expect to die young. People who are less vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature feel more in control of their lives and less in need of religion. Hence my finding of belief in God being higher in countries with a heavy load of infectious diseases.
These findings are not surprising, but his piece does not acknowledge the fact that the US, a developed country where most have access to shelter, healthcare, and education, remains extremely religious (and relatively anti-evolution). Unfortunately, in the US, there appears to be no level of affluence and comfort capable of decoupling religion and politics, despite constitutional assurances explicitly requiring it.
Posted by Unknown on 7/15/2011 11 comments
Tags: calamities of nature, comics, creationism, evolution, pharyngula, studies, young earth creationism
The Batshit Files: News Roundup | 7.14.11
Is it the heat, or the stupidity?
Michele Bachmann's church says the Pope is the anti-christ. (Raw Story)
Mike Bickle, official endorser of Rick Perry's The Response prayer rally, sees marriage equality as a sign of the End Times and is rooted "in the depths of Hell." (Right Wing Watch)
Fox News forgets that 9/11 took place on George Bush's watch, and Dana Perino, sitting right there, fails to correct them. (Raw Story)
Sarah Palin on debt ceiling: 'Reload,' don't 'retreat' (LA Times)
Michele Bachmann flubs her Jewish cred by mispronouncing “chutzpah” (News Hounds)
Tea Party Nation: President Obama is just like Casey Anthony (Right Wing Watch)
Rick Perry wants to leave government ‘in God’s hands,’ says ‘God, you’re gonna have to fix this.’ (Think Progress)
Wis. GOP state senate candidate: ‘Why not teach creationism’ and put a cross in school? (TPM)
Poor Rupert Murdoch is 'annoyed' with all these negative headlines about his company (allegedly) hacking 9/11 victims' private voicemails. (WSJ)
Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake: Obama supporters 'are the dumbest motherfuckers in the world.' (Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog)
Michele Bachmann wants to make sure you know she's not pro-slavery. (Mediaite)
Tags: 9/11, batshit, casey anthony, creationism, george bush, jane hamsher, michele bachmann, mike bickle, news roundup, rick perry, sarah palin, the response
Tim Pawlenty Wants To Tell You (For Six Minutes) That He's A Christian
Sometimes I think that the 2011 GOP presidential nomination is going to be one big Jesus-a-thon, with each potential candidate trying to outdo the other with their over-the-top Christian-ness. Some have gone so far that they may just have screwed the pooch (sorry, bad pun in the case of Santorum). Bachmann is praying the gay away. Perry, although not committed yet to running for the nomination, is presiding over a hate-filled Jesus-palooza. Gingrich and Cain can't stop publicly maligning Muslims. And Romney has made it clear that, although Mormons have some wacky beliefs, Jesus is just alright with him.
In the following video, Tim Pawlenty and his wife look lovingly into each other's eyes and declare their love for Jesus, and for each other, rejecting the separation of church and state and gay marriage along the way. All to the soundtrack of a Valtrex ad.
Jesus, protect me from your followers.
Tags: 2012 election, christianity, tim pawlenty
Illusion Turns Pretty Women Into Freaky Monsters
It's called the flashed face distortion effect, and it's one of the freakiest illusions you've likely seen.
The illusion was discovered accidentally by Sean C Murphy, along with colleagues Jason M Tangen and Matthew B Thompson.
According to the abstract:
We describe a novel face distortion effect resulting from the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. When cycling through the faces on a computer screen, each face seems to become a caricature of itself and some faces appear highly deformed, even grotesque. The degree of distortion is greatest for faces that deviate from the others in the set on a particular dimension (eg if a person has a large forehead, it looks particularly large). This new method of image presentation, based on alignment and speed, could provide a useful tool for investigating contrastive distortion effects and face adaptation.
Follow the instructions accompanying the video and see for yourself.
Tags: beauty, optical illusions, science
Bachmann's 'Pray The Gay Away' Business: Undercover Video
Responding to accusations that his counseling service is in the business of 'praying the gay away,' Marcus Bachmann has stated, "If someone is interested in talking to us about their homosexuality, we are open to talking about that. But if someone comes in a homosexual and they want to stay homosexual, I don't have a problem with that."
The hidden video obtained by ABC News begs to differ.
The following health organizations have made statements critical of conversion therapy, claiming that the 'therapy' can be harmful, or even fatal, to patients: the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Tags: 2012 election, conversion therapy, lgbt, michele bachmann, pray the gay away
Spanish Priest Accused of Homosexuality: 'Measure My Anus'
Andrés García Torres, a priest in the Madrid dormitory town of Fuenlabrada, has been asked to step down after a photo surfaced of the priest in a shirtless embrace with a 28 year old Cuban seminarian.
According to a report, Torres has been ordered by the bishop to undergo psychiatric therapy to ‘cure’ his homosexuality, and to have an HIV test administered.
Torres claims that he and the seminarian are only friends, and has plans to go to Rome to challenge the claims.
"Let them measure my anus and see if it is dilated," said Torres.
Torres says that his mother has cried nonstop since the accusations. The locals of Fuenlabrada reportedly praise Torres as a dedicated and caring priest. He has gained over 1,000 signatures of support.
I'm not sure what is more maddening about this story: the fact that Torres has been labeled as gay based on a benign photo, the fact that being gay is considered to be an abomination by the church, or the fact that Torres thinks that measuring one's anus could confirm one's sexual orientation.
NOTE: There seems to be more to the story than can be gleaned by the English versions of this story (Spanish stories here), but I barely passed Spanish in college. Spanish-fluent readers, feel free to comment/elaborate.
Tags: bigotry, catholicism, lgbt
Herman Cain is Dropping Some Gospel Tracks on Your Asses
Herman Cain's gospel album leaked today, and, well, it's something.
According to a Cain spokesperson, the album is unfortunately not new, but is enjoying a bit of a resurgence on the Interwebs due to Cain being a presidential hopeful and all.
You can check out the tracks below. I mean, it ain't no John Ashcroft, but then again, what is?
Tags: gospel, herman cain, john ashcroft, music
The Supporters of Rick Perry's Prayer Rally, In Their Own Words
No commentary necessary.
Tags: batshit, rick perry, the response, video
Does The GOP Really Want A President Who Believes We Are In The Last Days?
Bachmann and homophobic BFF Bradlee Dean
For a party that seems to think Obama is out to destroy America, GOP voters seem to really like Michele Bachmann, who seems to believe the end days are upon us.
In 2008, Michele Bachmann served up an insane prayer for her homophobic heavy metal BFF's You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministry. Remember him? Bradlee Dean? He's the one who said (during the opening prayer at the Minnesota House of Representatives) that Obama is a Muslim.
Anyway, in her prayer for his ministry, Bachmann says all kinds of wackiness, including, "We are in the last days" and "the Harvest is at hand," and how there's a "fire of the gospel" sweeping Minnesota and turning it into a "sweet-smelling incense of praise and sacrifice."
Click play, close your eyes (there is no accompanying video) and imagine this woman as the president of the United States.
What a freak show.
Tags: 2012 election, batshit, bradlee dean, gop, michele bachmann, you can run but you cannot hide
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Last Day of June (PC) Review
By Olivia Falk 03.09.2017 1
Life is a series of choices. What to do, where to go, how to act, and so on. Some choose to live in the moment, focusing on their pursuits with reckless abandon. Others live for those around them, eager to help in whatever way they can. Regardless, everyone is their own person. It's easy to look back on a series of events and think, "What if?" For instance, what if you had turned down that job offer? Then again, suppose you were dead broke and days away from ending up on the street. Suddenly, that job offer doesn't seem like a choice. You may know of some potential repercussions; you may not. The decision remains the same, because, regardless of what hindsight may later tell you, it seems like the only option at the time. Such is the case with Last Day of June, a story-driven title that feels like a puzzle game version of Groundhog Day meets The Butterfly Effect.
After losing his wife, June, to a horrific accident, Carl is stuck in a state of grief. Unable to accept the reality of his situation, he gravitates towards a line of thinking that so many know all too well: "This didn't have to happen". This leads to him diving into the memories of various members of his neighbourhood, each of whom played an unwitting role in the catastrophe. By diving into their memories and making changes to their actions, Carl begins to chip away at the calamitous factors that all seemed to conspire against him and his wife.
Of course, just one change isn't enough. Getting a young boy to fly his kite instead of playing fetch with a dog may keep him uninvolved with June's accident, but may in turn limit the actions of someone else, bringing about the same conclusion in a different way. Thus, it becomes a matter of diving between the memories of various townsfolk and seeing how their personal outcomes affect the bigger picture. It's an interesting concept, and one that provides a surprisingly intimate look at a small community. Despite the game only being a few hours long, it's easy to become well-acquainted with the cast's history and their plans for the future.
Perhaps the game gets a little too familiar with its setting and characters, though. Every time Carl dives into someone's memory, an unskippable cutscene plays to re-establish how that person's day started. Similarly, the only way to exit a memory is to end the day and witness the outcome: even if it's one you've seen ten times. The game does attempt to abbreviate some of these, but it rapidly becomes tiresome when you have to jump back and forth between multiple stories to experiment with the outcomes. It turns June's emotional gut-punch of a death into a minor inconvenience: something to twiddle your thumbs through so you can keep tweaking the sequence of events. It's an odd choice too, considering the game's short length. It's a game that could easily be completed in a single sitting, so forcing the player to sit through the same cutscenes over and over feels like redundant padding more than anything.
At least the game's nice to look at during these scenes. Last Day of June uses a heavily stylized aesthetic, looking a bit like a Tim Burton film by way of Pixar. Characters have large heads, skinny frames, and indistinct facial features, yet feel unique and personable all the same. Environments look like watercolour paintings, utilizing post-processing to give everything a dream-like quality. Even the voice acting, which consists solely of mumbles, grunts, and the like, manages to convey the subtleties of each character's emotions as they evolve throughout the experience. All of this is backed by a soundtrack that mixes an assortment of styles into a cohesive whole, complementing each scene in which it's implemented.
Cubed3 Rating
Very Good - Bronze Award
Last Day of June is a frequently beautiful experience, with a likeable cast, gorgeous visuals, lovely music, and an ending that feels like both a logical conclusion and a tear-jerking finale - yet it stumbles when it comes to actually being a game. Its core concepts are sound, but the constant repetition quickly erodes much of the gravitas, especially for players who get stuck and need to spend some time jumping back and forth between characters. It says something that the game was at its best in its final fifteen minutes or so, where much of the "real gameplay" was thrown out in favour of an "interactive movie" approach. Of course, throwing out that gameplay altogether wouldn't do the title any favours, as its narrative and mechanics are intrinsically tied together and designed to play off one another. It's just a shame that one of those halves is decidedly weaker than the other.
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It looks so lovely, but sounds so sad! It certainly sounds extremely intriguing.
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Two Boston Chinatown Historical Sites
Posted by HeunXiao Hongston on March 20, 2016
I wanted to write this post about two historical sites in Boston's Chinatown so let's get started!
There's a building in Chinatown that is called the Chinese Merchant's Building not too far from the Chinatown Gate at the end of Beach St. This building is also known as the Million Dollar Building because that was the cost of it when it was first built. This building was cut to build part of the Central Artery so it can be said that it cut the artery of Chinatown itself. So what's left of the building is actually just two thirds of it. It has a pagoda on the top of the building too. I have heard that first graders use to dance in the building and my friend who happens to be one of them says that it is a bit odd inside. I wonder if it's because of the fact that it's known to be bad luck it something is cut. For example, people who get a divorce are supposed to cut a pear because the pronunciation of 梨(pear) is similar to the word for divorce. The building was only a few years old when it was cut. But I am glad I know something about this. :)
The other site I wanted to talk about is the Original Josiah Quincy School on 90 Tyler St. It is present day Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England but it houses many community organizations like Woo Ching White Crane School, Boston Chinese Dance Troupe, a chapter of the International Qi Pao Dance Group, Chung Wah Academy of New England, and much much more. But in the good old days, it used to be a public elementary school. It was the first school in America to have separate classrooms for each grade and separate desks for each student. It had four floors but the top floor, which was the auditorium, was blown off by a hurricane. There was also a fire in the building which resulted in a new replacement of stairs.
I hope you guys enjoyed reading about these two sites!
Adam Cheung said…
I did a post about how the On leong building is haunted. Some deep history in that building. The CCBA building also used to be an eyesore and was sold to the community for a dollar or something like that just so it could be fixed up. People told me when they walked past it they would actually RUN because they didn't want to look at it. It was the creepy house on the street. I'll try and find the post.
http://www.bostonchinatownblog.org/2015/10/haunted-buildings-in-chinatown.html
Uncle Frank's Tai Chi Tips
When I was doing Crime watch somehow one of the older American guys who would later learn from me was talking about whether Uncle Frank did Martial Arts. Now this is actually more than just American Stereotyping. Some Asians may groan and say, "Just because a person is Asian and is old doesn't mean they know Kung Fu."
But look, if you were to make a movie about the Drama in Chinatown, and it was made in Hong Kong.. frankly all the powers that be would have superhuman Kung Fu as well as their mental strategies and political pull. This is because, Jin Yong wrote a lot of novels where the people in these political positions had secret and powerful Kung Fu. Part of it is just for entertainment.
Plus, Chinese people like to explain greatness through practice. Training done after birth. Whereas Americans like to explain it through Divine right or genes. I.e. you are great because it is something you are born with and this power cannot be taught.
So the explanation for Uncle Fr…
Haunted Buildings in Chinatown.
Halloween is approaching, and Chinatown has some legitimate ghost stories. Fred (not his real name) shared some of his stories with me in an earlier post. Today let's focus on the spooky ones.
"You know that building was all boarded up when I was a kid. It was so Ugly that we didn't even want to look at it. If we were going from Tai Tung back to the restaurant we would actually run, full speed just so we wouldn't have to look at it. It was that much of an eyesore."
Later that building would house Kwong Kow Chinese School and now it is actually a community Center. The school where I learned Kung Fu is there along with several other martial arts, dance and music schools, an after school, a #library, a gallery, and most recently it is where the displaced people from the fire were staying.
"I think the City actually sold it to the Chinatown Community for like a dollar or a penny or something. But you know Kwong Kow wasn't in that building in the beginning, i…
Vancouver Empty Home Tax: Benefiting local housing, tax on foreign nationals, or just an overall tax on the lazy?
The Vancouver Empty Home Tax is the hottest topic right now for many different reasons. It relates to the influx of foreign investment in properties, the locals that have multiple properties and of course anything that's a tax will always be a touchy subject regardless of where you stand. While only implemented in the city of Vancouver, many around the United States have been discussing what kind of effect it could have on their cities. If you're wondering what this tax is all about, read on and maybe you won't be so confused.
The tax states properties that are vacant, empty, or do not contain a principle resident will get taxed at the rate of 1% per year. At the end of every year, property owners will have several months to file an "Empty Home Tax Declaration" where they will be asked to prove that they are principle residents meaning it's their primary residence or that the property is being rented out for at least 6 months out of each year. If they d…
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Stage Struck
The East Bay theater scene hits the high notes
Donna Kauklin
Theater in the East Bay may have started with community groups that just want to put on a show. But these days, we’ve got innovative productions that can easily go toe-to-toe with their counterparts across the Bay and in other big cities across the country. The East Bay’s 100 or so companies (out of the Bay Area’s more than 400) stage everything from slaphappy comedies to musical extravaganzas to edgy dramas created by some of our nation’s finest actors, directors, and designers. Another fall theater season is just getting under way. Here are the shows you absolutely don’t want to miss.
Courtesy of Playhouse West
NEW AMERICAN CLASSICS
The music, personal trials, and tragic early deaths of popular entertainers such as John Lennon and Janis Joplin have inspired a whole genre of stage musicals. Center Repertory Company takes on the life of a country music legend with Hank Williams: Lost Highway (September 6–October 6). Williams penned 36 country-western Top 10 hits, with many—like “Hey Good Lookin’,” “Jambalaya,” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart”—crossing over to pop charts. The songs themselves are your entrée to his story, as presented by the Lesher’s resident theater company. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek, (925) 943-7469, www.lesherartscenter.org.
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For sheer ambition, we credit the Willows Theatre for bringing to the burbs the Pulitzer Prize–winning epic The Kentucky Cycle (Parts 1 & 2) (August 27–October 28). Of course, the Willows is beloved for its unique ability to mount blockbuster-size works in an intimate, 210-seat house. Robert Schenkkan’s Kentucky Cycle portrays six generations of two pioneer families from 1775 to 1975. In the process, the drama “tells the story of America,” says Willows managing director Andrew Holtz. Presented in two consecutive performances, the six-hour saga examines the myths that created the country we are today. Willows Theatre, 1975 Diamond Blvd., Concord, (925) 798-1300, www.willows theatre.org.
On a smaller scale, but also ambitious, is Playhouse West’s Defiance (October 25–November 25), a new work by John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Doubt. Lois Grandi’s excellent small house returns to its newly renovated space in downtown Walnut Creek, after a stint at the Lesher Center. Artistic director Grandi has also brought on New York theater artist Adam Fitzgerald as managing artistic director. He directs Defiance, which is set on a Marine base in North Carolina in 1971 and depicts a collision course over race, women, and the high cost of doing the right thing.
Playhouse West, 1345 Locust St., Walnut Creek, (925) 942-0300, www.playhousewest.org.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, one of the nation’s finest regional theaters, is celebrating its 40th season with innovative productions by two Chicago-based Tony Award–winning writers and directors. After the Quake (October 12–November 25) is Frank Galati’s love-tinged adaptation of short stories by one of Japan’s greatest living authors, Haruki Murakami. Mary Zimmerman, a favorite among Berkeley Rep audiences, returns with the West Coast premiere of Argonautika (November 2–December 16), her imaginative take on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Lesser known, but equally inventive, is Berkeley Rep neighbor Aurora Theatre Company. Always provocative, Aurora doesn’t disappoint with Hysteria (August 24–September 30), which imagines the last days of Sigmund Freud as he encounters, among others, a young woman who can’t keep her clothes on and surrealist Salvador Dalí. The New York Times called Hysteria “an exuberant surprise.” Sex (November 2–December 9), by Mae West (yes, that Mae West), premiered on Broadway in 1926 and was closed down by the police; West was convicted of obscenity, then went on to become one of the funniest, and most notorious, film icons of the 20th century.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley, (510) 647-2949, ww.berkeleyrep.org.
Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison St. Berkeley, (510) 843-4822, www.auroratheatre.org.
We love the Bard and never miss a chance to see California Shakespeare Theater’s unique renderings of the master. Grab your parka—in case it’s one of those fog-shrouded nights in the Orinda hills—to catch Cal Shakes’s last play of the season, the wrenching King Lear (September 19–October 14). Prepare to be heartbroken when the aging monarch descends into madness, as his family and country are destroyed by ambition and jealousy.
The eighth annual Eugene O’Neill Festival (September 21–23) features America’s most honored playwright in Danville, where he wrote his final and most memorable plays: The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. The festival includes a screening of the 1973 film version of The Iceman Cometh, a discussion with O’Neill scholars, and a reading of “Tomorrow,” O’Neill’s only published short story. A dinner served alfresco at the O’Neill estate, Tao House (Saturday, September 22), is limited to 100 and features a musical performance.
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Bruns Amphitheater, 100 Gateway Blvd., Orinda, (510) 548-9666, www.calshakes.org.
Tao House and Danville Town Hall, (925) 820-1818, www.eugeneoneill.org.
If you grew up on the great American songbook, check out these musicals, performed by Contra Costa Musical Theatre and Diablo Light Opera Company at the Lesher Center for the Arts. CCMT and DLOC are two East Bay powerhouses that perennially pack ’em in. DLOC is mounting its half-million–dollar production of Peter Pan (August 31–September 29), replete with spectacular flying sequences, comedy, and adventure for the whole family. The enchantment continues with CCMT’s version of the great American masterpiece Fiddler on the Roof (October 5–November 4), which features some of the richest music ever produced for the stage (“Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were a Rich Man”).
Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek, (925) 943-7469, www.lesherartscenter.org.
Shakespeare’s Associates, best known for summer productions at Livermore’s Retzlaff vineyard, will celebrate the opening of the new Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center with a performance of All the World’s a Stage: The Bard, Baritones, and Bassoons (October 13), a collaboration with Livermore Valley Opera and the Amador Valley Symphony. The 500-seat theater launches October 1; two weeks of opening festivities include a performance by Broadway star Bernadette Peters (Saturday, October 6).
Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, between First Street and Railroad and North Livermore avenues, downtown Livermore, (925) 373-6100, www.livermoreshakes.org and www.livermoreperformingarts.org.
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A couple of years ago I wrote this PDF showing how, after 1895, Tesla started using analogies to convey his theories and plans.
Up until 1895, the year when his laboratory burned down, Tesla was very clear and precise in his articles and lectures. After that date he became silent and when his articles started reappearing they were much more vague.
During these years Tesla was working on his "opus magnum"; the Magnifying Transmitter that he would build at Wardenclyffe. For the final tests, he went to Colorado Springs in 1899 for almost 8 months. When he returned he was confident he would change the world forever. He and his Magnifying Transmitter.
Of course, he would still need a significant amount of money and some other minor details had to be filled in....
His close friend Robert Underwood Johnson editor at the Century Illustrated Magazine pressed him to write an article to secure his knowledge, just in case.
Tesla agreed and wrote "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" in which he poured all his knowledge, but not in a clear and straightforward way. He used many analogies, switching quickly from one to another. Making it very hard to decode and retrieve the knowledge that he hid in there.
I feel very confident that I have found at least 98% of Tesla's hidden message. The document linked above contains an early interpretation, which I think is already 90-95% correct.
2018 has been a bit rough for me financially, and so I have been looking for ways to generate some income while continuing my Tesla work. I have since published some books on Amazon and those are helping me out a lot.
Not enough yet, so I still need to write a bit more, which I am currently working on.
The document linked above was "low hanging fruit" for me. I have updated the entire text and images to reflect my current understanding, added some results from my own experiments and formatted the whole for printing as a paperback.
I had to make it a full-colour print which increased the printing costs a lot, making the shelve price higher than I would like it to be. But, having said that, I think the book looks amazing.
So, If you want to support my work , please have a look here on Amazon. For a preview or if you don't want to support my work see this document.
In case you missed my other publications, they can be found here.
Ernst.
PS/Teaser: The book I am currently working on, is much more technical. It's about all of Tesla's theories (that have led to the TMT) that I have been able to recover, in the greatest detail.
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PRAGUE (FIBA 3x3 U23 Nations League) - France dominated both categories at the 3rd and 4th stops of the FIBA 3x3 U23 Nations League European Conference, hosted in Prague on July 20 and 22, 2018.
The word to describe France's women at the 3x3 U23 Nations League so far? Unbeatable! Caroline Hériaud & Co. finished first in all 4 stops and obviously headline the general standings in Europe after the 3rd and 4th stops in Prague, Czech Republic, last weekend. Led by the #1 woman in the world, Caroline Heriaud, France have not lost a single game in the tournament. In the 3rd stop, they dominated Russia in the final (20-12). It was Ukraine's turn to take a beating in the final at the 4th stop (18-4!). Far behind France in the European Standings , only 15 points separate the team ranked 2nd (Ukraine) to the squad ranked 5th (Hungary).
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France weren't totally as dominant with the men as they did lose to Ukraine (21-15) in the final of the 3rd stop. But they returned to their winning ways on Sunday, after edging out Russia (17-13) in the final. Both teams are first and second respectively in the Tour Standings. France, Russia and Ukraine have now built a big lead, which will be difficult to bridge for the last 3 with just 2 stops remaining.
There will be a total of 6 stops in the European Conference this season (last 2 stops in Debrecen, Hungary on September 1-2). The top 3 teams from each conference qualify for the U23 Nations League Final, which will be played in Hyderabad (India) on September 22-23.
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The Rise and Fall of Ecological Economics
by Mark Sagoff
The following essay first appeared in Breakthrough Journal Issue 2 (Winter 2012) and is reprinted with permission.
In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform -- even to revolutionize -- the study of economics. The new ecological economists saw the economy as embedded in, and supported by, natural systems; nature was not simply a factor in, but the foundation of, economic activity. By integrating models from ecology and economics, ecological economists sought to provide scientific arguments for preserving the natural world.
The Stockholm meeting came at a critical time. During the 1970s, prominent environmentalists, encouraged by what they saw as a public awakening to environmental concerns, issued best-selling books and reports that predicted that if population, consumption, and with them the global economy continued to grow, the world would soon run out of food and other resources. By the early 1980s, however, these predictions had been discredited. The public worried more about unemployment and recession. They feared that the regulations environmentalists proposed would derail the economy or slow it down. Environmentalists faced a populist backlash.
President Ronald Reagan swept into office in 1980 promising to get the economy moving again. Reagan had campaigned against "environmental extremists" who he said favored "rabbits' holes" and "birds' nests" over jobs and economic growth. He arrived in Washington determined to roll back environmental and other social regulations. He named anti-environmentalists to fill top spots at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service. The president promptly issued an executive order that subjected every major regulation to an economic cost-benefit test.
The Reagan administration and other advocates of growth invoked mainstream economic science to justify pulling back regulations. Ecological economists responded by attacking mainstream economic science and contended that mainstream economists failed to properly acknowledge the value of the natural world and the services it provides.
The environmental movement quickly embraced ecological economics because it promised to reconcile ecology with economics in a new science that would be reliably on the side of environmental protection. The MacArthur Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and other large foundations invested heavily in ecological economics. Leading environmental figures such as Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, and Al Gore, and popular writers like Thomas Friedman picked up its language and its concepts, as did the United Nations, European governments, and nongovernmental organizations.
Ecological economics set out 30 years ago to be a redemptive science -- to "right size" the human economy for its natural infrastructure. But today, ecological economics finds itself at a political and academic dead end. Trapped in the amber of its mathematical models and conceptual constructs, ecological economics presents an object lesson for those who would appeal to scientific theories, rather than to popular concerns, to provide an intellectual and political basis for an effective green politics.
Ecologists and economists made unlikely partners -- indeed, these disciplines have often appeared at odds with, and determined to ignore, each other. As Robert Costanza, the founding president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, acknowledged in the inaugural issue of Ecological Economics, "Ecology, as it is currently practiced, sometimes deals with human impacts on ecosystems, but the more common tendency is to stick to 'natural' systems." The modeling of ecological communities or systems seemed purposely to leave out the human economy. At the same time, economists either took for granted or ignored the principles, powers, or forces that ecologists believed governed the world's natural communities. The market mechanism, or competitive equilibrium, that mainstream economists studied assigned no role to the natural ecosystem. Ecological economics sought to embed the study of economics within a larger understanding of how ecosystems work.
Ecological economists also wanted to distinguish their scientific professionalism from the neo-Malthusian alarmism of the previous decade. The Club of Rome's 1972 best seller, The Limits to Growth, was associated in many reviews with dire projections: for example, that the world would run out of minerals, such as silver, tungsten, and mercury, within 40 years. In 1970, Paul Ehrlich, the neo-Malthusian author of The Population Bomb, predicted that global food shortages would cause four billion people to starve to death between 1980 and 1989 -- 65 million of them in the United States. Further warnings poured forth in the Global 2000 Report (1980) and in annual State of the World reports by Lester Brown and the Worldwatch Institute.
Neo-Malthusians argued that the world would not be able to grow enough food to keep up with population, but this assertion was simply wrong. In fact, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 2000, and per capita food production during that period also increased. In 1981, economist Amartya Sen, who later won the Nobel Prize for his research, published a book that flatly and effectively contradicted the idea that famines occur because not enough food is produced. Sen showed that oppression, injustice, and destitution -- breakdowns in distribution, not shortages in production -- cause famines. With such "misleading variables as food output per unit of population, the Malthusian approach profoundly mis-specifies the problems facing the poor in the world," Sen wrote, noting that as per capita food production increased, the world was lulled into a false optimism that famines would decrease. "It is often overlooked that what may be called 'Malthusian optimism' has actually killed millions of people."
Ecological economists distinguished themselves from neo-Malthusian catastrophists by switching the emphasis from resources to systems. The concern was no longer centered on running out of food, minerals, or energy. Instead, ecological economists drew attention to what they identified as ecological thresholds. The problem lay in overloading systems and causing them to collapse. Costanza and colleagues wrote, "There may be close substitutes for conventional natural resources, such as timber and coal, but not for natural ecological systems."
Ecological economists described ecosystems as evolutionary systems: "complex, adaptive systems... characterized by historical dependency, complex dynamics, and multiple basins of attraction." These communities or systems were assumed to evolve and, as a result, achieve an "adaptive" or a "dynamic equilibrium" that could be modeled mathematically. E.P. Odum, whose Fundamentals of Ecology was for decades the leading textbook in the field, pictured the natural world as a great chain or a "levels-of-organization-hierarchy" ascending from smaller to larger, more inclusive systems (e.g., from genes, cells, organs, organisms, populations, communities, to ecosystems). In an influential paper published in Science in 1969, Odum described the natural world as "an orderly process of community development" that is "directed toward achieving as large and diverse an organic structure as is possible within the limits set by the available energy input and the prevailing physical conditions of existence."
In their 1967 Theory of Island Biogeography, Robert MacArthur of Princeton University and E. O. Wilson of Harvard presented a similar view of evolution as an orderly progression of natural communities toward a saturation of species. According to this theory, ecosystems exist in a state of equilibrium in which the colonization by a new species is balanced by the extinction of a resident one. Paul Ehrlich later updated the great chain metaphor to that of an airplane. "A dozen rivets, or a dozen species, might never be missed," he wrote with his wife Anne Ehrlich. "On the other hand, a thirteenth rivet popped from a wing flap, or the extinction of a key species involved in the cycling of nitrogen, could lead to a serious accident."
Ecological economists drew from thermodynamic theory to supplement the ecological view that nature represents a constrained and constraining adaptive evolutionary system. In 1971, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, a Romanian economist, published The Entropy Law and the Economic Process which argued, "The Law of Entropy is the taproot of economic scarcity." Herman Daly, an early proponent of ecological economics and the leading theoretician of what he called steady-state economics, built on the idea that a growing economy must eventually wear out the energy potential (i.e., the organization and integration) of the natural systems in which it is embedded. Optimism based on the "philosopher's stone of technology," he wrote, requires "suspensions of the laws of thermodynamics." In 1992, two prominent ecological economists argued that standard models of economic growth are problematic because "they ignore the fact that the human economy is an integral part of a materially closed evolutionary system."
Ecological economics also drew on theoretical methods and ideas that emerged at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee after World War II. Starting in the 1950s, the Atomic Energy Commission employed scores of ecologists -- about 80 by 1970 -- in dozens of projects that eventually grew into a Big Science approach to computer-based modeling of what were then known as biomes. From 1968 to 1974, various agencies funded the International Biological Program (IBP); the federal government provided nearly $60 million. The IBP produced little of intellectual interest but created a large class of project managers, many of whom remain active today at governmental agencies funding big think ecosystem research.
Surrounded by physicists at Oak Ridge, ecologists adopted computer modeling and other conceptual methods that distinguish mathematical from less theoretical, and thus "softer," sciences. The most influential ecologist of the period, G. E. Hutchinson, insisted that theory was essential to science, declaring, "If we had no theory, there would be nothing to modify, and we should get nowhere."
Hutchinson, along with his colleagues, posited what he called "formal analogies" to explain ecosystem structure and function in terms of equations drawn from many sciences, including statistical mechanics, logistic population growth curves, spectral analysis, circuitry, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, cybernetics, and chaos theory. This was make-work for mathematicians. Anyone with some mathematics and a metaphor -- typically borrowed from some other science -- could model the ecosystem.
Ecologists of the period assumed "that ecosystems function in accordance to some overarching rules that control structure and/or function," without checking that assumption against evidence. Princeton ecologist Simon Levin wrote, "One must recognize the powerful adaptive and self-organizing forces that shape ecosystems." These forces were modeled in silico (on computers) rather than observed al fresco (in the great outdoors). As ecology became a formal science, it mistook models for empirical evidence. "In studying the logical consequences of assumptions, the theoretician is discovering, not inventing," Levin wrote. "To the theoretician, models are a part of the real world."
Theory-based mathematical speculation about ecosystem structure and function appealed to the academic and scientific community of the time. The more abstract and mathematical the theory, the more respect it commanded and the higher, albeit narrower, the threshold it set for professional success. Mathematicians enjoyed prominent academic careers without having to engage in empirical research or gain tenure in a department of mathematics. In 1974, the late Leigh Van Valen, a formidable University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, concluded that mathematical ecologists had formed a "clique" and a "new orthodoxy" that considered gathering facts a "waste of time."
Liberated from the need to test their theories empirically, ecosystem ecologists built their mathematical models upon ideas that can be traced back to Charles Darwin's contemporary, the British philosopher and biologist Herbert Spencer. The explicit purpose of the International Biological Program -- to determine "the biological basis of productivity and human welfare" -- was one that Spencer himself might have recognized. Spencer envisioned a theory of systems that would explain the evolution, not just of species, but of ecological communities and of human societies.
While Darwin's theory of descent with modification, for which the fossil record offered empirical evidence, explained the properties of species, Spencer's theory postulated a "universal law of evolution" which asserted that any collection of living things over time tends to self-organize in a "dynamic equilibrium" while dissipating energy. This principle became a program for interpreting everything. Spencer's theory of systems provided the critical bridge from 19th-century community ecology not only forward to 20th century systems ecology but also backward to 18th-century natural theology. As geographer Clarence Glacken has written, "I am convinced that modern ecological theory, so important in our attitudes towards nature and man's interference with it, owes its origin to the design argument. The wisdom of the creator is self-evident... no living thing is useless, and all are related one to the other."
In 19th century America, naturalists who came of age at the time of the Civil War were educated in the tradition we associate with "intelligent design," the idea that God's fullness and magnificence is demonstrated in the perfect organization and replete diversity of the natural world. The 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope celebrated this idea, "Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed / From Nature's chain whatever link you strike." The scala natura or Great Chain of Being served as the organizing metaphor for what would become community ecology. This approach, according to historian of ideas A.O. Lovejoy, exalted the "sufficient reason" that put every species in its place and attributed self-sufficiency, self-organization, or "quietude" to natural communities -- an ability to arrange and sustain themselves as God made them if left undisturbed. The commonplaces of modern ecology, such as "everything connects" and "save all the parts," recall the neoplatonic view of nature as an integrated mechanism into which every species fits.
How were botanists, zoologists, entomologists, and other biologists able to reconcile their education in natural theology with their acceptance of evolutionary biology? Stephen Forbes, who headed the Department of Zoology at the University of Illinois, showed how this could be done. According to historian Sharon Kingsland, Forbes took from Herbert Spencer the belief that evolutionary forces will achieve and maintain adaptive dynamic equilibriums despite ever-changing relationships in ecological communities or systems.
In a seminal article written in 1887, Forbes described a glacial lake in Illinois as a "system of organic interactions by which [species] influence and control each other [that] has remained substantially unchanged from a remote geological period." What could cause this system to organize and to maintain itself for thousands or millions of years? Forbes wrote:
Out of these hard conditions, an order has been evolved which is the best conceivable... that actually accomplishes for all the parties involved the greatest good which the circumstances will at all permit.... Is there not, in this reflection, solid ground for a belief in the final beneficence of the laws of organic nature?
In this paper, indeed, in this paragraph, Forbes performed intellectual feats that remain impressive to this day. First, he assumed that there was an order, a dynamic equilibrium, in the lake he visited. He had no empirical evidence to show that the organisms he observed were ancient and enduring, nor did he consider any necessary. Forbes, like Spencer, relied on deductive argument based in a universal theory of natural history. The best-adapted or (as Forbes wrote) "adjusted" species will organize themselves into sustainable and resilient communities.
Second, Forbes, like Spencer, called the dynamic force or universal law that organizes nature in ascending levels or scales of complexity not God, but Evolution. This substitution of nomenclature turned 18th century Great Chain of Being theodicy -- with its emphasis on pattern, scale, process, mechanism, hierarchy, resilience, and plenitude -- into ecology as it was studied throughout the 20th century.
Frederic Clements, the most influential plant ecologist of the early 20th century, who was also influenced by Spencer, agreed with Forbes that nature is progressive and beneficent. According to ecologist S. P. Hubbell, "Clements believed that the community was literally a 'superorganism,' and that species were its organs and succession its ontogeny. He argued that each species had an essential role to play in preparing the way for the next serial stage in the succession toward the equilibrium or 'climax' plant community."
Because Spencer's theory of adaptation applied not just to species, but also to ecological communities, it allowed community ecology to hold on to its theological roots while it embraced a concept of evolution. By assuming that anything God could do, evolution did better, biologists leapt from 18th century natural theology to 20th century community ecology without missing a beat. But for the mantle of mathematics that ecologists had draped over it, mid-20th century community and ecosystems ecology could not be distinguished from the more openly theological framework that Forbes had adapted from Spencer and presented 80 years earlier.
Ecological economists drew on the study of ecological systems -- systems ecology -- that developed after World War II in the context of Big Science and postulated that ecological systems or communities are unified or governed by a set of organizing principles. Nature itself, however, seems scandalously indifferent to this philosophy. Ecologists who engaged in empirical research found that the mathematical models devised by community and systems theorists were not supported by observation other than by examples cherry picked for the purpose. Had theoretical ecologists been interested in empirical evidence, according to ecologist John Lawton, they would have easily falsified any principle they tested; there are "painfully few fuzzy generalisations, let alone rules or laws."
As early as 1917, however, American botanist Henry Gleason (1882-1975) had challenged the assumption that the living world is organized under enduring principles or by powerful forces. He argued instead that each association of plants and animals is unique, ephemeral, spontaneous, idiosyncratic, extemporaneous, and a law unto itself. The sites that ecologists study, he believed, should be seen as path-dependent histories rather than as rule-governed communities. From this point of view ecosystems do not evolve; they just change.
Gleason argued that no general law, principle, model, or theory gets any predictive traction on the comings and goings of species. In a recent article, Daniel Simberloff, a leading contemporary ecologist, refers to the "longstanding controversy stemming back to Clements, Gleason, and their contemporaries, over whether a plant community is anything other than the assemblage of populations co-occurring in a specific place at a specific time: that is, to what extent are communities integrated, discrete entities, and, if they are, what is the nature of the integration?" Underlying this controversy is "the question of whether community ecology itself actually has generalizations beyond trivial ones like the laws of thermodynamics, and whether seeking such generalizations advances the study of ecology at the community level." Simberloff concedes that there are no nontrivial laws, principles, or generalizations that predict events at the "system" or the "community" level or that explain the integration these concepts suggest. "Laws and models in community ecology are highly contingent, and their domain is usually very local."
William Drury found no emergent properties, governing rules, or integration in the forests he studied.
I feel that ecosystems are largely extemporaneous and that most species (in what we often call a community) are superfluous to the operation of those sets of species between which we can clearly identify important interactions.... Once seen, most of the interactions are simple and direct. Complexity seems to be a figment of our imaginations driven by taking the 'holistic' view."
Simply put, the evidence does not support the idea that evolution applies on a system-wide scale. New ecosystems appear all the time; the species found at a place rarely coevolved there. Nearly anywhere one looks one finds species coming and going -- many or most are recent arrivals. A group of 19 ecologists wrote in Nature, "Most human and natural communities now consist both of long-term residents and of new arrivals, and ecosystems are emerging that never existed before."
If creatures just show up at sites for their own reasons, which is usually the case, the concept of evolution does not apply even as a useful metaphor at the scale of the community or the ecosystem. As Drury argued, self-organizing adaptive ecological communities or systems that achieve and sustain a dynamic equilibrium are figments of the theoretical imagination driven by taking the holistic view. Just because places change -- nature is continually in flux -- does not mean they evolve. There is no dynamic order, force, or principle of self-organization that makes every hodgepodge a system.
If the ecological foundations of ecological economics rested upon shaky ground, the economic foundations were no less problematic. Ecological economists have argued that because they cannot guarantee that growth is sustainable -- that new technologies will save the day -- we should (to quote the literature) "degrow" the economy. "Given our high level of uncertainty about this issue, it is irrational to bank on technology's ability to remove resource constraints," insisted Costanza. "This is why ecological economics assumes a prudently skeptical stance on technical progress." Ecological economists argued that what they did not know about the ecological foundations of the economy could hurt us, and that we ignored their uncertainty at our peril. In other words, they appealed to their own ignorance about ecosystem structure and function to empower their "precautionary" position.
Mainstream macroeconomists -- those who deal with indicators of economic performance such as employment, inflation, trade, productivity, and national competitiveness -- generally reject this precautionary stance. Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate, spoke for many economists when he opined that if the future is like the past, "there will be prolonged and substantial reductions in natural-resource requirements per unit of real output." He asked, "Why shouldn't the productivity of most natural resources rise more or less steadily through time, like the productivity of labor?"
By shifting the content of their warnings from resource exhaustion to system overload, ecological economists convinced few but themselves. Microeconomists swatted away the precautionary principles of ecological economists as easily as they had earlier dismissed the jeremiads of neo-Malthusians like Ehrlich. The answer mainstream economics gave to system overload was the same as its response to resource exhaustion: greater resource productivity and technological innovation.
By the 1980s, in response to some of the same challenges and opportunities that had inspired the creation of ecological economics, a group of mainstream welfare economists had founded the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. These neoclassical economists developed the field of mainstream environmental economics to provide their own analysis of and prescription for the environmental crisis. They rejected the thermodynamic theory of value ecological economists proposed -- the idea that the constraint on growth is "negative entropy," meaning "the degree of organization or order of a thing relative to its environment." Instead, environmental economists offered what they called "utility," "welfare," or "willingness to pay" as the central value for environmental analysis and policy.
Environmental economists defined and measured welfare or utility in terms of preferences or, practically speaking, the amounts people are 1) willing to pay (WTP) for a good or 2) willing to accept (WTA) to relinquish it. They did not describe pollution and other assaults on the environment in terms of entropic forces wearing down the resilience of holistic and integrated evolutionary systems. They diagnosed environmental problems as market externalities, that is, as uncompensated effects of economic decisions on third parties whose interests -- or whose WTP -- those decisions did not take into account. Economist Robert N. Stavins wrote, "The fundamental theoretical argument for government activity in the environmental realm is that pollution is an externality."
Environmental economists had an advantage because they applied a framework that was already familiar in economic thought and therefore in policy analysis and political discourse. During the 1990s, environmental outfits and agencies staffed up with economists to attribute prices to externalities and discover market failures. Dueling cost-benefit analyses and opposing stories about WTP or WTA began to co-opt, infiltrate, and even replace moral argument and political persuasion.
In response, many ecological economists, including some who had criticized the framework of neoclassical welfare economics, adopted it. It was easy to argue that people are willing to pay a lot for nature and for the services it provides. Accordingly, ecological economists, rather than continuing to construe economic systems as embedded in ecological systems, reduced their ambitions to tweaking neoclassical cost-benefit models to assign higher existence values to nature and lower discount rates to its use.
For example, in the most cited and well-known paper written in ecological economics, Costanza and a dozen colleagues in 1997 applied what they considered to be the concepts of neoclassical utility theory to assign an economic worth of about $33 trillion -- much more than the value of the product of the global economy -- to what they called "The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital."
Ecological economists ended up fully embracing the slogan of mainstream welfare economics that protecting the environment is a matter of getting the prices right. A discipline that just a decade or two earlier had insisted the market was embedded in nature had learned how to embed nature into the market.
Having caved in to the normative framework of WTP or cost-benefit utility theory, ecological economists have been unable to confront the reasons that led Herman Daly, among others, to reject the market mechanism as an approach to understanding environmental problems. There are exceptions. A few ecological economists chided their colleagues for "commodity fetishism" and called for "conservation based on aesthetic and ethical arguments." They cited the article, "Selling Out on Nature" by Douglas McCauley in Nature magazine, which argued that "conservation must be framed as a moral issue," because nature has "an intrinsic value that makes it priceless, and this is reason enough to protect it." Costanza wrote in response, "I do not agree that more progress will be made by appealing to people's hearts rather than their wallets." Gretchen Daily, a prominent ecological economist, insisted that only by attributing instrumental or economic value to nature can conservationists influence public policy. "We have to completely rethink how we deal with the environment, and we should put a price on it," she said.
Ecological economics, when it embraced cost-benefit and market-based valuation, abandoned the ethos of much of the landmark environmental legislation of the 1970s, which had rejected a market failure theory of pollution. These statutes, such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, were intended to protect public safety and health against toxic wastes and hazardous emissions. This legislation rests on the same principle as common law: the belief that one person should not injure or invade the person or property of others without their consent. Understood in this way, pollution represents an invasion of person and property and therefore is to be enjoined, minimized, or tolerated unwillingly until technology can do better. Environmental law is libertarian, not utilitarian, because it seeks to protect people and property against peril and trespass rather than to maximize utility. One person does not have the right to pollute and thus to trespass on another even when it is socially efficient to do so. Economists Maureen Cropper and Wallace Oates wrote in 1992 that "the cornerstones of federal environmental policy in the United States explicitly prohibited the weighing of benefits against costs in the setting of environmental standards."
In response to the Reagan revolution, ecological economists had followed the cost-benefit bandwagon. But in doing so, they unwittingly played into their opponents' hands. By changing the political conversation from the question, "What is a cause of what?" to "What is a cost of what?" ecological economists substituted the technocratic framework of microeconomics for the ethical framework of responsibility.
John V. Krutilla, an influential environmental economist and strong environmentalist, demonstrated how pliable the idea of an ecological or environmental externality could become. He observed that people who contribute to environmental causes must (by definition) benefit from them. Therefore, ideological, political, and moral commitments could be factored into the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) that measures social welfare and thus justifies environmental policy. Once political views, ideological principles, and spiritual beliefs were treated as consumer preferences, environmentalism could be reduced to one more interest group battling for its piece of the economic pie -- for example, the aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual benefits of ecosystems.
The problem for environmentalists wasn't that they were losing the epic cost-benefit battles that raged through the 1980s and 1990s. They more than held their own in the dark art of creating social welfare functions to justify whatever it is that one wants. But, ironically, there is ample reason to believe that CBA has never significantly affected rulemaking or regulation at all.
Robert Hahn, an advocate of CBA, conceded, "The relationship between analysis and policy decisions is tenuous." He added, "There is little evidence that economic analysis of regulatory decisions has had a substantial positive impact" and argued that "the poor quality of analysis can help explain some of this ineffectiveness." But the poor quality of much cost-benefit analysis is arguably a function of the fact that cost-benefit arguments are mostly invoked as a kind of "open sesame" to defend or decry any governmental intervention. Advocates and policy makers, to borrow an old saw, use CBA like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. After congressional committees, administrative agencies, and the courts tear through them, the political battles that CBA is supposed to inform are settled in terms of liability, responsibility, authority, and legality -- not welfare maximization.
If CBA lacks an intellectual and legal basis and has only a tenuous regulatory effect, why is it done? One reason is that so many people can do it. As law professor Duncan Kennedy has explained, CBA or the compensation test it implies is "just as open to alternating liberal and conservative ideological manipulation" as is the political deliberation it is supposed to displace. However bad or mistaken cost-benefit accounting may be, it has a centrist effect, "supportive of liberalism and conservatism together, seen as a bloc in opposition to more left and right wing positions." In other words, by engaging in CBA, experts form a scientistic "centrist bloc" that agrees on "moderation, statism, and rationalism."
When partisans and opponents of environmental causes adopt the discourse of market failure and social externality, they co-opt their political fringes and tamp down the moral fervor of environmentalism, making the political conversation safe for expertise. Ecological economics has evolved into the more pro-environment wing of standard environmental economics. This has depleted the discipline of its initial energy. As long as the vocabulary of microeconomics, including cost-benefit analysis, remains the lingua franca of environmentalism, properly credentialed and preferably academic participants will have the policy debate to themselves. Evidently, this temptation proved to be too much for ecological economists.
Ecological economics aimed to be revolutionary, but it is now ignored by the sciences it had hoped to transform. Both ecology and economics have changed, but not because of the rise of ecological economics. The science of ecology could not draw indefinitely on its roots in 18th century theodicy. As contemporary ecologists have abandoned theory for empiricism, ecology has returned to the long-suppressed view of Gleason, as Hubbell put it, that species are "largely thrown together by chance, history, and random dispersal." Species come and go. Ecological sites do not have a structure or a function. They have a history.
The science of economics has moved on as well. Just when ecological economics caved in to the normative framework of neoclassical welfarism, empirical work in behavioral and experimental economics profoundly undermined that approach. Empirically-minded economists turned to studying the behavior of institutions and individuals, rather than continuing to model abstract utility functions.
Ecological economists today try to put prices on ecosystem benefits and services. This effort by environmentalists is self-defeating. If environmental decisions are fundamentally framed as questions of economic welfare, public officials and the public itself will opt nearly every time for whatever policy promises more economic growth, more production, and more jobs. Moreover, in a world where human influence is as ancient as it is pervasive, it may be helpful to recognize that the natural environment where we live is less of an input than an output of economic activity.
Ecological economics today, its ambitions greatly diminished, has reached senescence; it provides an academic assisted-living facility for "Great Chain of Being" ecology and cost-benefit economics. A hybrid discipline, ecological economics crosses closet creationism with market fetishism. When ecological economists dispute the relative importance of intrinsic vs. instrumental value, the hybrid reverts to type.
The scientistic and self-referential controversies in which ecological economists engage drain away the moral power that once sustained environmentalism. This moral power may return if environmentalists employ science not to prescribe goals to society but to help society to achieve goals it already has. Environmentalists may then shape the natural environment of the future rather than model and monetize the environment of the past.
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William S. Vickrey
William Vickrey and james mirrlees shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in economics “for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.”
One of the most important economic principles is that incentives affect people’s behavior. It is also true that government officials virtually never know as much about the people their policies affect as the people affected know about themselves. In economics, the fancy term for this fact is “asymmetric information.” How, then, does a government that is conscious of its ignorance set up incentives so that people will act in ways that are useful, not only to themselves but also to others? William Vickrey spent his career studying this issue, in areas ranging from income taxation to auction design to subway fares and highway tolls. In the process, he made some striking discoveries.
Consider income taxation. Vickrey, himself a strong believer in using the tax system to take from the rich and give to the poor, saw that such forced transfers would reduce people’s incentive to work. His 1964 textbook, Microstatics, was one of the first economics textbooks to take this issue seriously. He wrote:
There still remains the fact that money income from gainful work is subject to an income tax while imputed income from leisure is not taxed…. Accordingly, an income tax tends to make individuals choose leisure in preference to gainful work to an uneconomical extent. (p. 261)
For that reason, Vickrey favored fairly low marginal tax rates on high-income people. And what should the marginal tax rate on the highest-skilled person be? In 1987, Vickrey, drawing on work by Mirrlees, wrote:
A somewhat disturbing result is that if the distribution of skills has a known upper limit, the marginal tax rate should fall to zero at the top of the scale where there is only one taxpayer left, the argument being that there is no point to deterring him from earning the last dollar of income, since if he does not earn it there will be no revenue from it. (p. 1024)
Supply-side
economist Arthur Laffer could not have said it better.
Vickrey also did early work in the theory of sealed-bid auctions. He showed that a second-price auction, whereby the highest bidder gets the item but pays only the price bid by the second-highest bidder, causes the good to be allocated to the person who values it most. The reasoning is as follows. The highest bidder knows that he can bid the true value of the item to him because he will not have to pay that value if he wins. This gives him an incentive to bid what the item is truly worth. Every bidder has this same incentive. So every person ends up bidding the true value of the item to him, and the item thus goes to the person who values it most. Under the standard first-price auction, by contrast, the person who values the good most might underbid and actually bid less than someone who values it less. Second-price auctions are now called Vickrey auctions.
Tolls on roads and bridges were common in nineteenth-century America and were discussed in economics textbooks of the time. But that insight was lost to the modern era until Vickrey brought it back, showing that tolls that were higher during times of peak use would lessen congestion. Always an empirical as well as a theoretical economist, Vickrey gave the following reasoning about the tolls (in 1963 dollars) he advocated for Washington, D.C.:
It turned out that for each additional car making a daily trip that contributes to the dominant flow, during the peak hour, an additional investment of $23,000 was projected. In other words, a man who bought a $3,000 car for the purpose of driving downtown to work every day would be asking the community, in effect, to match his $3,000 investment with $23,000 from general highway funds. (Vickrey 1963, p. 456)
Vickrey’s solution—higher tolls at peak times—would have obviated the need for many new highway-widening projects because many drivers, faced with tolls that reflected the true cost of such projects, would instead use carpools or buses. Those left would enjoy relatively uncongested roads but would pay for them. Vickrey even suggested a futuristic technology that has become standard: “equipping all cars with an electronic identifier.” As early as 1948, Vickrey suggested pricing solutions for hotels and airlines that look a lot like the “yield management” that modern airlines practice.
Vickrey was born in Victoria, British Columbia, but moved to the United States at an early age. He earned his B.S. in mathematics from Yale in 1935, his M.A. in economics from Columbia University in 1937, and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia in 1947. He spent his career as a professor at Columbia and died three days after winning the Nobel Prize.
1939. “Averaging of Income for Income Tax Purposes.” Journal of Political Economy 47: 379–397.
1947. Agenda for Progressive Taxation. New York: Ronald Press.
1948. “Some Objections to Marginal Cost Pricing.” Journal of Political Economy 56: 218–238.
1955. “A Proposal for Revising New York’s Subway Fare Structure.” Journal of the Operations Research Society of America 3: 38–68.
1960. “Utility, Strategy and Social Decision Rules.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 74: 507–535.
1961. “Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders.” Journal of Finance 16: 8–37.
1962. “Auctions and Bidding Games.” In Recent Advances in Game Theory. Princeton University Conference, pp. 15–27.
1963. “Pricing in Urban and Suburban Transport.” American Economic Review 52, no. 2: 452–465.
1964. Microstatics. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World.
1987. “Progressive and Regressive Taxation.” In John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. London: Macmillan. Vol. 3, pp. 1021–1025.
1992. “Today’s Task for Economists.” American Economic Review 82: 1–10.
1993. “My Innovative Failures in Economics.” Atlantic Economic Journal 21: pp. 1–9.
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I listened to the Radio 4 obituaries programme ‘Last Word’ yesterday and they paid tribute to Julia Grant, the trans-activist who was the subject of a series of BBC TV documentaries which charted her gender reassignment during the 1980s and 90s. I only watched one of the documentaries, screened in the 1990s. It was one which contained footage of Julia – who began life as George Roberts – during her consultation some years previously with a Top Doc at Charing Cross, a psychiatrist who was a gender identity specialist. Julia was obliged to see this man before the gender reassignment surgery that she wanted could go ahead. The Top Doc concerned refused to allow his face to be shown on camera or to be identified.
The Top Doc treated Julia dreadfully, absolutely dreadfully. So much so that the crap faced by transgender people gained a great deal of publicity. At one point he snapped at Julia ‘you have stepped out of line and I don’t like people who step out of line’. He subsequently turned down her request for gender realignment surgery. During the consultation Julia was reduced to jelly. She was not highly educated and had no education at all in medicine so was not able to identify the many ways in which the Top Doc breached all good practice and thus she did not say ‘what the fuck do you think that you are doing?’
This was the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, supposedly the global leader in that field. We take referrals from across the world! Yes and as far as NHS UK patients went, it was that shitbag whom they had to encounter if they wanted gender reassignment surgery. No other option. You have this bastard or you don’t even get considered for treatment.
The nation however missed something. This Doc was not alone in being a psychiatrist who conducted himself in that manner. Many of them did, including Dr Tony Roberts at the Hergest Unit, until Roberts finally retired not so long ago. Exactly the same bedside manner: rude, insulting, with bizarre notions of what constitutes ‘gender appropriate’ behaviour, deliberately intimidating. The geographical area covered by Tony Roberts had the second highest suicide rate among women in England and Wales, except for Camden. When I complained to the GMC about Roberts in 2002, the GMC did not investigate my complaint. They maintained that Tony Roberts had not done anything inappropriate. Although he had ordered my key worker off of my case – my key worker whom I liked – appointed himself my doctor against my wishes, refused to treat me and then ordered every other Top Doc not to treat me on the grounds that I was ‘his patient’. One night a I rang the GP on-call, who recorded on my file ‘suicidal ++++’ and contacted Roberts. Roberts faxed two words back – ‘DO NOTHING’.
I was not alone in having these experiences with Roberts. As another patient observed, he was ‘another dangerous madman’. Tony Roberts graduated from Manchester University in 1984. He trained with the abusive nutters there who included Dafydd’s old boss Dr Bob Hobson, who ran a sex abuse ring at the Maudsley and then in 1974 relocated to Manchester where he expanded on the ring there (see post ‘The Mentor’). Ian Brockington, Tony Francis’s former boss, also worked at Manchester University, until he joined Dafydd and Francis’s mate Professor Robert Bluglass at the University of Birmingham (see post ‘Ian Brockington’s Mischief’). After learning at their knees, Roberts headed for a job at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh where he joined Dafydd and then Roberts was appointed Clinical Director of the Hergest Unit…
Years later, my lawyers discovered a document in the possession of the GMC purporting to be my letter of complaint about Tony Roberts. It was a forgery. See post ‘The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document’.
Although the Top Doc who treated Julia Grant so appallingly refused to allow himself to be identified at the time of the TV programme, he was later revealed to be John Randell. John Randell was one fun guy, but no-one dared mention anything at the time other than his sadism towards Julia Grant. By the time that Randell’s earlier interview with Julia was broadcast on the programme that I watched, Randell had been dead since 1982. Although the old bastard had been 6 ft under for years, no-one dared say anything ruder about him in public other than that he was old fashioned, showed bigotry towards transgender people and had some rather odd views about women.
John Randell was born in Penarth, Cardiff in 1918. He qualified as a Top Doctor at the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1941. From 1942-46 he was a Surgeon Lieutenant in the RNVR. Randall knew Gwynne the lobotomist , Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain who facilitated the paedophile/trafficking ring at St George’s Hospital Medical School which was linked to Dafydd’s gang and Randell also knew about the Naughtiness In High Places re Lord Louis Mountbatten and the gay spies in the Admiralty, as discussed in my post ‘The Defence Of The Realm’.
After serving in the RNVR, Randell worked at Guy’s, St George’s and Tommy’s Hospitals. All of which were already facilitating the organised abuse upon which Dafydd et al expanded into a pan-European ring in the 1970s. In 1950 Randell was appointed Physician for Psychological Medicine at Charing Cross. There he worked with Lennox Broster who had been treating intersex people since the 1930s, but not transsexuals as such.
Lennox Ross Broster (1889 – 12 April 1965) was a South African-born surgeon who spent most of his career at Charing Cross. Broster was educated in Grahamstown, first at St Andrew’s College, then at Rhodes University College. Broster received a Rhodes Scholarship and began studying medicine at Trinity College, Oxford. He continued his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, qualifying as a Top Doc from there. Broster served with the RAMC during WW I. After WW I, Broster specialised in the treatment of endocrine disease. In the 1930s and 1940s Broster was among the first surgeons to operate routinely on intersex patients, in work that received frequent coverage in the British press and helped to establish Charing Cross Hospital as a centre for intersex and transgender medicine. His patients during this period included the Olympic athlete Mark Weston.
Broster held junior surgical positions at a number of hospitals, including at the Radcliffe Infirmary and at Guy’s Hospital. He also worked at the Queen’s Hospital for Children. During this period Broster became associated with Charing Cross, where he would remain for the rest of his career. A history of Charing Cross published in 1967 stated that Broster had been “one of the outstanding surgeons” there. Although employed as a general surgeon, Broster took a special interest in endocrinology. Simultaneously with his work at Charing Cross, Broster also served as a consultant to several other hospitals – the Bute Hospital in Luton, Chesham Cottage Hospital, Dunstable Hospital, Beckenham Hospital – and to the Church Army.
In the 1930s and 1940s Broster provided surgical and hormonal treatment to intersex patients, in collaboration with the psychiatrist Clifford Allen. This attracted considerable press attention to Broster and Charing Cross during the 1930s. A 1938 story in the News of the Screws described Broster as “the famous surgeon, who has brought new hope and happiness into the baffled lives of many men and women who were desirous of changing their sex”. Although journalists often described the treatment as sex changing, the patients they wrote about would more accurately be described as intersex and there is no evidence that Broster operated on transsexuals.
Broster gave lecture tours of the United States and Canada in 1936 and 1937. Broster gave lectures to the American Surgical Association in 1941 and he became an honorary fellow of the Association in 1942. In 1948 the South African Medical Association invited Broster to lecture in South Africa and in 1950 he was a visiting Professor at Cairo University. Broster was Chairman of the Court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also acted as an examiner for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Leeds.
Broster represented the South African branches of the BMA on the BMA’s Council, 1938-45/46, when the independent Medical Association of South Africa was established. Broster was also involved with the BMA’s Section of Surgery, serving as an honorary Secretary in 1929 and a Vice-President in 1950.
In 1950 Broster became Chairman of the Commonwealth Medical Advisory Bureau’s Committee of Management. In 1952 he became Chair of a Committee, set up jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Endocrinology and the Society for Endocrinology, which had the task of considering how British research in endocrinology could be encouraged. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958.
Broster was a strong supporter of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Broster was an enthusiastic Rugby player as a student and a Top Doctor and served as President of the United Hospitals Rugby Football Club. Like all the best Top Doctors, Broster played golf and retained an interest in sports contests between Oxford and other universities.
Broster suffered a stroke after retiring, when about to sit down at Lord’s Cricket Ground to watch a match. He made a partial recovery but later died on 12 April 1965.
Working as a high profile general surgeon in Oxford at the time that he did will have meant that Broster knew and almost certainly taught Sir Charles Evans, the surgeon who served as Principal of UNCW, 1958 -84. Sir Charles trained at Oxford and spent his very early career in surgery there. See previous posts.
Lennox Broster and his wife Edith had three daughters. Their eldest daughter Cynthia also became a physician and finished her career as Principal Medical Officer for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority. So Cynthia knew about the organised abuse of kids in care in Oxfordshire with which social work manager Barbara Kahan and her child psych husband Dr Vladimir Kahan colluded. Babs was appointed a children’s social work adviser to Keith Joseph when he was Heath’s Secretary of State at the DHSS and Babs remained advising Gov’ts for years. See post eg. ‘Always On The Side Of The Children’. Oxford University’s Dept of Psychiatry has also been complicit with the abuse of kids and vulnerable adults, as well as being party to cancer research fraud funded by the Cancer Research Campaign. See previous posts…
Cynthia married the neurologist Charles Phillips in 1942. When Charles was called up for military service in the same year, Lennox provided a recommendation that led to Charles’s appointment to the RAMC.
Charles Phillips died in September 1994 and as ever the Royal College of Physicians ‘Lives of the Fellows’ online provided an obituary:
Charles Garrett Phillips b.13 October 1916 d.9 September 1994
BA Oxon(1938) BSc(1939) BM BCh(1942) MRCP(1944) DM(1951) FRCP(1962) FRS(1963) Hon DSc Monash (1971)
As a neurologist who studied at Oxford and then soon after returned to work there, Phillips too will have known Sir Charles Evans. Phillips was only two years older than Evans…
Charles Garrett Phillips had a major impact on experimental and clinical neurology, recording from pyramidal neurons in the cortex and contributing to our understanding of central motor control. In his monographs and in many of his papers Phillips successfully demonstrated the relevance of animal data, intelligently adduced, for the management of motor disorders in man.
This sounds rather as though Charles worked in the area of primates in cages with things stuck into their heads.
Phillips’ formidable analytical intelligence was evident at an early stage, and perhaps best demonstrated in his Ferrier lecture and in two monographs. In his 1968 Royal Society Ferrier lecture Phillips explained how the brain was involved in the servo control of the muscles of the hand in primates.
I thought as much.
Secondly, with his main collaborator in the 1960s, Bob Porter, Phillips wrote a book entitled ‘Cortico spinal neurones: their role in movement ‘(London, Academic Press). Published in 1977, the monograph is a seamless synthesis of electrophysiological and micro anatomical studies in which Phillips and Porter refer frequently to the work of their contemporaries as well as historical pioneers. Phillips’ second monograph on ‘Movements of the hand’ (Liverpool University Press, 1985), based on his 1982 Sherrington lecture, was the acme of his scientific thought and writings. He described in detail the inputs and outputs of the cortical modules which resemble the “integrated circuits in electronics terminology”. He particularly emphasized the importance of inputs from the muscle afferents which he had already highlighted in his Ferrier lecture, and moved easily from the micro to the macro by explaining the circuitry for programmed motor patterns in the central nervous system.
Charles Garret Phillips was the son of George Ramsey Phillips, anaesthetist to St Mary’s Hospital, and Flora Phillips. He was educated at Bradfield College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The Bart’s which by the 1970s was facilitating organised abuse which could be traced back at least to the presence of Dafydd’s pal Lady Juliet Bingley working as a medical almoner at Bart’s after she qualified at the LSE in the early 1950s. Lady Juliet’s dad Reginald Vick spent most of his career as a surgeon at Bart’s. See previous posts.
At Oxford he took a first in animal physiology. After medical qualification he spent three years in the RAMC as a neurologist during which time he took the MRCP. After the war Phillips returned to Oxford, where he became a fellow of Trinity College in 1946, a university lecturer, reader and subsequently appointed to a personal chair in neurophysiology in 1966. He was a secretary of the Physiological Society between 1960 and 1966. In 1975 he was elected to Dr Lee’s chair of anatomy at Oxford and retired in 1983.
In spite of the high status he had achieved Charles remained remarkably modest. It was this modesty and a degree of uncertainty, together with the wish not to be constrained by commitments to outside funding bodies, which prevented him from applying for a research grant.
That is the best excuse that I have ever heard for not bothering to apply for research funding.
However, it must also be admitted that the generous ‘class grant’ which the University bestowed on the physiology laboratory made an application for outside funds unnecessary.
That explains Charles suddenly being overcome by modesty.
The realization that the University’s generosity was not uniformly distributed in South Parks Road proved to be one of three culture shocks which stunned Phillips when he took up the chair of anatomy. In contrast to the situation in the physiology laboratory, Phillips found that virtually all research depended upon outside grant funding.
Charles was astounded that the manna from heaven did not continue.
The two other shocks in store for Charles were, first, the conflict between staff which was generated by the five years of uncertainty which followed Geoffrey Harris’ untimely death in 1971,
This sounds interesting, I will dig a bit deeper when I have time.
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris was educated first at Dulwich College (1927-1931) and then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1932-1939). He began clinical training at St. Mary’s Hospital, London (1936-1940), worked briefly at Hillingdon County Hospital (1939) and then worked at Cambridge as the Demonstrator in Anatomy (1940-1947), Lecturer in Anatomy (1947-1948) and also Lecturer in Physiology (1947-1952). From 1952-1962 Harris was Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of London and worked in the Laboratory of Experimental Neuroendocrinology at the Maudsley. Dafydd ‘trained’ at the Maudsley in the early 1960s at the knee of Bob Hobson the trafficker and the wider collection of dishonest incompetents whom were abusing their patients in numerous ways. See posts ‘A Galaxy Of Talent’ and ‘The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…’ In 1953 Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1962 he moved to Hertford College, Oxford, becoming Dr. Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, a post he held until his death in 1971.
and, secondly, the fact that the teaching of topographical anatomy had not changed since Phillips was a student. Charles Phillips’ appointment allayed the uncertainty of the interregnum that followed the death of Harris and this, together with his gentle but firm democratic leadership, soon restored civilized relations between the staff.
Translate as ‘Phillips imposed a regime and ruled over dissenters with a rod of iron’.
But he was not so successful in revising the teaching of topographical anatomy. Charles placed greater emphasis on ‘functional’ anatomy, including the introduction of transcutaneous stimulation of muscles. But, it was clear to all that Phillips’ appointment was an interim measure. He will not be remembered as an anatomist, nor would this have been his wish.
This rather sounds as though Phillips wasn’t much good at anatomy and that someone would remind the world of this if ever anyone did remember him as an anatomist.
During his years in human anatomy Phillips also served as editor of ‘Brain’ and on the Medical Research Council, tasks which he took very seriously.
Even though his anatomy wasn’t up to much.
As editor he was proud of the fact that he did not reject papers: rather he urged respect for the work of others even though this sometimes involved major revision of the text or additional experiments to bring the manuscript up to scratch.
Everything accepted, even crap. The journal must have been very short of contributions because journal editors love rejecting papers and stressing that not any old shite gets in this journal.
Charles Phillips was a quick witted and articulate speaker and a gifted conversationalist. To dine with him at a dinner of the Physiological Society was always an immensely rich and pleasurable experience. Indeed Charles endeavoured to make each encounter with colleagues and friends an intellectual occasion using his gentle but penetrating wit and judiciously crafted turn of phrase to set the ambience.
Charles would have put Libby Purves in the shade. Please someone, take Arthur Mullard along to a Physiological Society dinner, secrete a camera about one’s person and film the occasion.
Research for Phillips came to an abrupt end when he transferred to human anatomy and retirement, when it came in 1983, was complete.
His services were dispensed with at the earliest opportunity.
This contrasted quite markedly with the lifestyle of some of his close colleagues who were equally or more active in research after retirement. But it was characteristic of Charles to follow life in a precise and orderly sequence. He also confided that experimentation through the night, which recording from cortical neurons demanded, had become too great a strain. However, it seemed to the observer that Charles was in fact quite content in that he had by the age of 58 completed the task he had set out to accomplish.
58 yrs old is very early for a scientist to pack up work. They usually cling on for decades after retirement at 60 or 65, pursuing the research that they enjoy without being bothered by the onerous admin duties imposed on them before retirement.
It is a tragic irony that the end for a man of his powerful and acute intellect was accompanied by severe mental deterioration.
I wonder what happened…
He married Cynthia, herself a physician, in 1942 and they had two daughters.
The psychiatrist who worked with Broster at Charing Cross and established that institution as the world leader in gender identity work, Clifford Allen, made a sharp distinction between intersexuality and transvestism (the term then in use for what is now described as being transgender) which Allen saw as a psychological pathology not requiring surgical intervention. In 1954 Allen wrote: ‘the abnormal minds should be treated in order to conform them with the normal body and not vice versa’.
I can’t find much about Clifford Allen online, although David Andrew Griffith’s article in ‘Sexualities’, Jan 2018, ‘Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and ‘sex change’ in Britain 1930–1955’ does discuss Clifford Allen:
Clifford Allen… the consultant psychiatrist at Charing Cross, the Physician in Charge of the Psychiatric Department of the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich, and the Assistant Physician to the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Tavistock Clinic in Bloomsbury.
Previous posts have discussed the Tavi during those years and some of the Top Docs there who were facilitating abuse, including those with links to north Wales.
Broster and Allen shared the view that atypical biology could lead to atypical psychology; if adrenal glands were thought to masculinize the biological, then they would be expected to influence sex roles, aims and object choice as well. For both Broster and Allen, biological normality was structured into a binary of male and female bodies, and linked to a strict psychological normality, as measured by heterosexuality….
Broster largely saw adults, particularly at the start of his research, although he saw an increasing number of younger and pre-pubescent cases just prior to the interruption of his work caused by the Second World War…
In 1940, Clifford Allen argued that treatments should be strictly divided between psychotherapeutic treatment for individuals who do not have an identifiable atypical anatomy and surgical intervention for individuals who do (Allen, 1940). Broster had the authority to decide or deny physical treatments, or to refer to Allen, who had the authority to decide or deny psychological treatments. In Allen’s chapter of The Adrenal Cortex and Intersexuality, he described a case study of a woman who ‘wants to be a man’ so that she could marry her girlfriend. No physical abnormality was found, so Allen offered psychotherapy to address her (in his view) homosexuality, which she refused (Broster et al., 1938: 106–107). Despite the agency that Broster narrated in his case studies, medicine seems to have remained the authority and conveyer of legitimacy for individuals who did not conform to biological or psychological norms of sex.
Broster’s 1944 book, Endocrine Man, sharpens the distinction between individuals with what the medical profession defined as physical or psychological abnormalities. He was very clear that in both cases, treatment of some kind should be pursued, to obtain as close a state to ‘normal’ as possible:
When their troubles are due to natural causes their plight is pitiable. Society in general is not a respecter of persons, is suspicious, and indeed often hostile to these abnormals. This attitude should be rightly reserved for the decadent imitators and propagandists of these perverted states, who form a festering sore in our midst. (Broster, 1944: 95)
Broster and Allen were Top Docs who were knowingly working with colleagues who were facilitating abuse. As was John Randell.
Clifford Allen certainly came up with an interesting invention outside of the field of gender identity. During the 1960s, the presence of Caribbean Angels in British hospitals was so visible that it inspired Allen to diagnose a medical condition, Heterochromophilia: ‘the compulsion in human beings to choose a mate of a different colour’. Allen published a letter in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1968 which claimed that Heterochromophilia stemmed from a newborn’s identification with the first face it laid eyes on when it emerged from the birth canal. ‘It seems to be that the condition is rare and not of great importance,’ Allen wrote. ‘But since we are getting more coloured women nursing white babies these days there is a likelihood of this becoming much more common’.
Those white babies will clap eyes on a big black face and a lifelong taste for mating with negroes will be established.
It would however be preferable to seeing this as soon as one is born, or indeed at any point during one’s life:
I was exposed to dangerous levels of Enid Blyton as a child and I had a copy of the later notorious Three Golliwogs book which contained the line about a big black face at the window. When I was a student, I had a friend who hadn’t been exposed to Enid Blyton and I told him that the three gollies were called Golly, Nigger and Wog. He suggested that Blyton should have written in a fourth golly, Bleck Bestard. Thatch and Denis had investments in South African businesses at the time of this conversation, but their only reason for refusing to impose sanctions on South Africa was the suffering that sanctions would inflict on the people living in the townships. In South Africa as well as in Gwynedd.
Dafydd’s mate Lord David Ennals, a Minister in the DHSS, 1968-70 and Secretary of State for the DHSS, April 1976-May 1979, was Chairman of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1960-64. His brother John Ennals was Chairman of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1968-76. Lord Ennals’ other brother Martin was the DG of Amnesty International. Jeremy Thorpe was an Anti-Apartheid Campaigner. They all colluded with Dafydd’s gang, as did many more more at the forefront of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. If any of them had gone public on the crimes of Thatcher’s friends Peter Morrison and Jimmy Savile, Thatcher’s Gov’t – one of the few props which the South African Gov’t had during the 1980s – would have been brought down. But none of them did. They and their network instead worked very hard at contributing to the effort to ensure that I and others were never heard re Dafydd. See previous posts for further info about those who were so distressed at what was happening in South Africa that they assisted the gang who supplied kids to Thatch’s friends for sex.
At the end of the 1950s John Randell wrote a paper on 50 transvestites and transsexuals that he had worked with. In his 1960 MD thesis ‘Cross Dressing and the Desire To Change Sex’ (University of Wales), Randell discussed 61 male to female and 16 female to male cases. This was one of the first higher degree theses on transsexuality. The Expert was born.
Part of Nye’s Great Achievement.
During the 1960s Randell was seeing 50 cases a year, which rose to nearly 200 in the 1970s. And every one of them will have been treated like dirt.
They did For The Poor! It’s what they dreamed of!
By Randell’s own figures, he saw 2438 patients (1768 male to female, 670 female to male). He also spent half his time with general psychiatric patients. Told you so. This man was let loose on people whom he was able to detain for years in psychiatric hospitals or recommend for transfer to a high security institution, forcibly inject with drugs which could result in lifelong debilitating ‘side effects’ or of course kill the patient, forcibly impose ECT on the patient or lobotomise them against their wishes. Or he could simply refuse to treat desperately ill patients who were unable to look after themselves. In the event of ordering such ‘treatment’, or indeed witholding lifesaving treatment, Randell’s manners, attitude or rapport with his patients will not have been any better than they were with Julia Grant.
In 1969, Randell’s name was mentioned several times in press reports about the First International Symposium on Gender Identity and he testified at the Corbett vs Corbett trial that he ‘considered that the respondent (ie April Ashley) is properly classified as a male homosexual transsexualist’, which contributed to the legal problems of transsexuals and intersex persons in the UK for the next 35 years.
April Ashley is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by ‘The Sunday People’ in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had gender reassignment surgery. April Ashley was constantly told how vile she was by people who then asked her to have sex with them.
Corbett vs Corbett was the case concerned with April Ashley’s divorce. Randell appeared for Arthur Corbett who was petitioning for his marriage to April Ashley to be annulled on the grounds that she was a man. Eeh, he’s a raving male homosexual transsexualist. It’s been diagnosed.
Here’s one of Randell’s volumes.
Readers might recognise the name of the person who wrote the foreword to the book, Prof Desmond Curran. Dessie has featured in previous posts (eg.’Meet The Gwerin!’). Dessie was the daddy of the paedophiles/people traffickers of St George’s, Dessie having founded their esteemed Dept of Psychiatry, to which abusers flocked once Dessie set up shop. It was Dessie who ‘treated’ Norman Scott many years before Norman became headline news after Norman had a breakdown as a result of the harassment and intimidation from Mr Thrope and his friends. Norman ended up in the hands of Dessie because Dessie was an Expert on Sexual Perversion, rather than an Expert on criminals in public life who have shagged both Ma’am Darling and Lord Snowdon, who subsequently marry Miriam, the ex-wife of Lilibet’s cousin and try to have their former non-Royal partners murdered. The diagnosis was that Norman was a worm, a liar, a vagabond, a loathsome spotted reptile and a man, or woman, who chews pillows for kicks and that Mr Thrope was one of the most intelligent, prettiest politicians who could have, had he wanted, become Prime Minister Of This Country Or President Of The World…
Mr Justice Cocklecarrot: ‘And now you must retire, as must I’. Which indeed he did.
Harold Wilson’s good friend the crooked solicitor Lord Arnold Goodman was the first to come to Mr Thrope’s aid:
Lord Goodman was a big mate of Nye’s widow Jennie Lee and Harold Wilson gave them the flagship project of the Open University to play with. By the time that Mr Thrope appeared at Minehead Magistrates Court for the committal hearing in Nov 1978, Sir David Napley was representing him. Napley turned up at Minehead in his Roller, just to show the magistrates who was boss.
George Carman QC the bent barrister, who had known about Dafydd and the gang and the Westminster Paedophile Ring for years, made his reputation by defending Mr Thrope at his subsequent Old Bailey trial in 1979.
Killer Carman hosted two junior barristers in his Chambers who became famous:
Norman, the only man at Mr Thrope’s Old Bailey trial who told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:
Now that Norman has been declared to be a Gay Icon at a film stars ceremony, I’m thinking of campaigning for him to become Head Of State. I don’t know if Norman would want to do this, he might prefer to remain in Devon with his horses, but Norman would undoubtedly do a far better job of Leading The Country than the gang of lying criminals who tried to kill him.
I note that on the cover of Randell’s book Dessie is described as the Chancellor’s Medical Visitor. The Chancellor in this context is the Lord Chancellor, rather than the Chancellor of, for example, UCNW, which for the many years that Dafydd’g gang operated in UCNW was Carlo. The Medical Visitor is an expert accepted by the judiciary as being eminent in his field. So the Lord Chancellor accepted Dessie, the foundation stone of a sex abuse ring, as a Medical Visitor. That doesn’t surprise me after the research that I’ve done over the past two years. That edition of Randell’s book was published in 1976 – the book was originally published in 1973 – by which time business for Dafydd’s gang was booming and as previous posts have made clear, the crimes of the gang and related gangs such as the one that Dessie founded in south London, were being concealed at the highest levels of Gov’t. I’m not sure when Dessie attained the status of the Lord Chancellor’s Medical Visitor, it could have been an honour conferred upon him years previously, but the Lord Chancellor 1974-79 was Lord Elwyn-Jones.
The Lord Elwyn-Jones
My post ‘Lest We Forget’ discussed how for many years, Elwyn Jones, a crooked Welsh layer, was one of the principal links between London and Wales in Dafydd’s ring.
1976 was the momentous year in which panic gripped the paedophiles and their friends. In Jan 1976, Norman was prosecuted for a minor social security fraud which was linked to Mr Thrope’s harassment and intimidation of him and the story was finally reported in the press. In March 1976, Andrew Newton, who alleged that he had been hired to kill Norman, appeared at Exeter Crown Court, was convicted of firearms offences and subsequently imprisoned. Norman appeared as a prosecution witness and explained what had been going on. It was becoming clear that Mr Thrope could well find himself charged with a serious criminal offence, which indeed he subsequently was.
The gwerin at UCNW began tearing each other’s throats out in 1976 (see previous posts) and a new Chancellor of the University of Wales – who’s constituent colleges included UCNW – was appointed, Carlo. Dai Francis, a Communist ex-miner who had led the south Wales branch of the NUM during the miner’s strike which brought down Heath’s Gov’t also stood for election as Chancellor, but no-one was going to risk appointing Dai at a time like that. Dai was the father of Dr Hywel Francis, the Labour MP for Aberavon, 2001-15. Hywel Francis was succeeded in the seat by Windbag Jr. See previous posts…
Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as PM on 5 April 1976 and there has been speculation ever since that he knew that he had Alzheimers or ooh he was a KGB spy and was about to be outed… No, the reason was that Harold knew that things re the Westminster Paedophile Ring could unravel quite rapidly and he either jumped or was pushed by the security services. He was only pushed so far, Wilson remained in Parliament for many more years…
He’s popped in for a curry on the way home and is ringing the wife with his lame excuses as to his delay.
Pussy Galore’s fed up that he hasn’t Told His Wife About Them yet.
So in true Paedophiles In Distress style, in 1976, an Expert who was Of The Gang published a book which advertised the credentials of the Expert who knew all about the loathsome spotted reptile who also happened to be a prosecution witness and could well be again in the near future but in a rather bigger case…
Norman, I am touched that the tactics employed to deal with you were very similar to those employed to deal with me! Hilarious, I begin a career in cancer research and suddenly Tony Francis’s mate begins a career in cancer research, funded by the Cancer Research Campaign, just like I was and he even worked with people linked to the team of which I was a member. Only Peter Mcguire et al participated in a massive research fraud which ended in the suicide of one of their colleagues… Brown and I show an interest in publishing about the North Wales Hospital Denbigh and suddenly ooh look everyone, Dafydd’s friends have published on the history of Denbigh, ooh you can’t believe Brown and Baker, YUK, READ US, READ US, DON’T LISTEN TO THEM ANYONE, SHE’S MAD… Brown starts up a journal about Arts In Health and suddenly the Top Doctors are all Experts in Arts and Health.
Oh they are a fucking joke aren’t they Norman. Brown shares his salary out with his friends who have been shafted by those bastards and makes do with three pairs of trousers and a few T shirty things and the troughing bastards continue to demand more and more and more, while stealing Brown’s ideas because they just cannot do it themselves.
After the Corbett vs Corbett trial in 1969, which did transgender people no good at all, Randell was the Expert sought out by the media and appeared on the occasional radio programs. In 1980 the ‘News of the Screws’ claimed that Randell and his surgeon, Peter Phillip, had made London the ‘sex-change capital of the world’. It will have been for people who were prepared to stuff Randell and Phillip’s mouths with gold, there’s always room for more gold in a Top Doc’s mouth even after many years of Nye’s largesse. Randell had not actually been in favour of surgery until his patients who had had surgery abroad returned with positive evaluations. Randell spotted the gold mine and knew that if he didn’t start offering surgery as well, Top Docs overseas would be mining the rich seam that was waiting to be exploited… Even in the 1960s less than 10% of Randell’s patients managed to achieve surgery and only a third of the male to females had vaginoplasty. In the 1970s when numbers increased, still only 15% of patients achieved surgery.
The irony is that during the recorded consultation with Julia, in her desperation to get help, Julia asked Randell if the process could be accelerated if she became a private patient. The old bastard snapped ‘no, my opinion cannot be bought’. Oh yes it can and it was, but not by Julia.
When I was unlawfully refused all NHS care by the CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust, I wrote to the then Welsh Gov’t Health Minister Edwina Hart and asked to be therefore provided with access to alternative care. Edwina wrote back and said that she would not access any type of private care for me and she had done as much as she could. Well, she had confronted the CEO and Chairman of the Trust, but they ignored her, refused to investigate my complaint or provide the NHS care to which I was legally entitled, so Edwina backed off. I had given her enough evidence to have both of them arrested. The Welsh Gov’t is now commissioning the private sector to treat thousands of patients because the NHS just has not done it. The Top Docs in Wales are also now deliberately keeping their waiting lists so long that desperate patients in severe pain are being forced to pay for private treatment. This is what happens when Gov’ts pander to criminals…
Drop a bomb on them someone.
With regard to transgender patients, I’m not at all sure that the sort of surgery that people were begging Randell for is a good idea, but there isn’t the scope in this post to expand on precisely why. Can I just note that one of my main reservations is that I have known for years that distressed vulnerable patients end up in the hands of Randell and people like him, who cannot be trusted further than one can spit a rat and who simply are not the people to advise on complex gender identity problems? I do understand that people feeling uncomfortable with their gender can feel absolutely desperate, but this lot are really not going to help, even these days. Hamfisted liars and conmen who really are best avoided…
In 1990 Dafydd tried to persuade a 19 yr old patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd to undergo gender reassignment surgery because he was gay. Dr Sadie Francis was later appointed as a gender identity specialist for Gwynedd, although she had no experience in this area. In the late 1980s, Sadie was appointed as a consultant psychiatrist although she was not, by GMC regulations, permitted to hold a consultant’s post, having not followed the appropriate career path. The GMC knew that a fiddle had been carried out and colluded with it. For many years the gender identity specialist in north Wales was Dr Kenny Midence, a clin psy who is a long standing member of Dafydd’s gang and has co-authored with gang members. Comments online regarding Midence’s service – he has a big private practice – suggest that if one hands the dosh over to Kenny, he’ll write the referral for gender reassignment surgery. It probably makes the patients leaving Midence’s office feel a lot better than those who left Randell’s did, but the ‘all comers welcome in return for dosh’ approach could prove disastrous a few years down the line if someone regrets their decision.
When Randell realised that the customers and their money were going elsewhere, he began arguing that surgery could be appropriate and that psychotherapy did not work. Even then Randell restricted surgery to ‘sane, intelligent, single and passable individuals’. ‘Passable’ meaning conforming to Randell’s rather 1950s ideas of being ‘ladylike’…. Dafydd once yelled at me that I was not a ‘normal woman’. Of course I wasn’t, I had a brain and I took the piss out of him.
Randell must have been a bit like one of the men in the Monty Python ‘Nudge Nudge’ sketch, in which Having Sex With A Lady is discussed. ‘Photographs ay he asked him knowingly’. Yeh, the child porn that was being produced in north Wales by Dafydd’s gang, or Dafydd’s mate Prof Linford Rees’s photos of Bathing Beauties (see post ‘A Galaxy Of Talent’).
Lest anyone wade in with analyses of Randell’s idiocy being a consequence of him being in possession of testicles, let me tell you that I know Lady Doctors and Angels who’s ideas are every bit as laughable. One Lady Doctor told a friend of mine that many Lady Doctors think that ‘periods are horrible old fashioned things which we could well do without’; an Angel I know told female psych patients that they should always shave their armpits – similar advice was dispensed by ‘Jackie’ magazine in 1976; a Top Doc stated in front of female Angels that he could tell when his Lady Patients were well because they wore dresses; one of the much nicer Lady Doctors at Springfield Hospital always wore dresses to work ‘because a lot of my young female patients have problems with their femininity, so I always wear a dress to show them that I’m proud to be a woman’. I can see the idea behind that and this Lady Doctor wasn’t a vicious bitch like her colleagues, but she did know that some of her colleagues were sexually abusing their patients which might be why so many of the patients were in such distress. The nicer Lady Doctor wearing a dress wasn’t going to be sufficient to address that…
I could supply readers with many more laffs, the point that I am making is that the Top Docs and co are frequently as thick as yak shit and narrow minded with it and of course in north Wales and other areas they were preparing their patients for the sex trade. There are also many Top Docs and their colleagues with serious problems themselves in terms of body image, eating disorders etc and in in abusive relationships. Then there are the swathes on anti-depressants or who have alcohol problems… Dysfunction is everywhere among them and often their children.
Until the end of his life, Randall continued to refer to patients, including post-operatives, by the pronouns of their birth gender and would tell a male to female accepted for surgery that ‘you’ll always be a man’. This won’t have reflected any clinical position of Randell’s, it’ll just have been Randell trying to be as offensive as possible. The general psychiatry patients will have been asked to discuss their anxieties and then the info will have been used to cause them as much distress as possible. Marjorie Dawes is far more realistic than people who are not Empowered Service Users ever realise.
Most patients described Randell as brusque, rude and cold. However the model Tula aka Bond girl Caroline Cossey found him to be ‘absolutely charming’. Tula equated to Randell’s idea of what a woman was. Esther claimed that Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was absolutely charming and he was a child molesting, wife-beating drunk. See previous posts. If one wants to achieve stardom, one is obliged to say that foul people are absolutely charming.
Randell is the doctor who told Christopher Wilson, the author of Dancing With The Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue, that Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. This rumour was doing the rounds, but one needs to ask how would Randell have known and if he did know for certain, what was he doing breaching confidentiality? The Royals are not immune from being kicked in the chops by the Top Docs, when I worked at St George’s, 1989-91, the gynae records of a member of the Royal Family were being passed around and were the source of much ribaldry and moralising. I suspect that this person had been smeared by the Top Docs for the same reason that Wallis Simpson was, but I am saying no more lest the target is identified.
Other patients of Randell’s included Rachel Padman, the physicist and Alice Purnell, the activist.
Purnell as a boy was sexually and physically abused at prep school by the Headmaster who was later convicted. Purnell worked as a research chemist and volunteer with the Samaritans. In 1965 Purnell, with Sylvia Carter, founded the Beaumont Society for transvestites. Initially there were almost as many overseas members as in the UK, with some in Malaysia, Kenya and other parts of the Commonwealth. Alice became the overseas contact person because of her French. Regional contacts were appointed but were often the only member in their region. Purnell was offered surgery by John Randell in 1966, but turned it down and married a woman instead, going on to have a family with her.
Alice was on Radio 4 with agony aunt Claire Raynor. Raynor knew about Top Doctors facilitating abuse, including Dafydd et al, many years ago. She kept quiet because she wanted a media career as Claire Rayner. See previous posts. Alice attended the TV/TS conferences at Leeds University in 1974, and Leicester University in 1975 – the latter was organized by the Beaumont Society. Leeds and Leicester were both host to paedophile/trafficking gangs directly linked to Dafydd’s gang. Also in 1975, Alice was a co-founder of the Beaumont Trust, a registered charity, which separately from the Beaumont Society, set up a helpline and published educational booklets on transgender topics. In 1976 Alice became Vice-President of the Beaumont Society, and President a year later.
In 1977, Alice trained as a nurse, specializing in geriatric services. She then worked as such for 26 years, at one time becoming a matron, including nursing support for transgender surgery.
She finally had surgery in 1982 after the dissolution of her marriage and remained President of the Beaumont Society until 1984. Alice joined HBIGDA (now WPATH) and attended its European meetings. She found that they were dominated by US concerns and that the Standards of Care were mainly to protect the surgeons and that the emphasis was on psychiatry rather than on psychology/counselling. Alice organized the first of the GENDYS conferences which was held at Manchester University in 1990, a conference which brought together each type of professional who deals with trans persons and each type of trans person. There were a further seven GENDYS conferences.
After obtaining a Masters degree in counselling and psychology, Alice co-founded the Gender Trust. It was a registered charity intended to help transgender rather than transvestite persons. Alice has lived most of her life in Sussex, the location of Dafydd’s partner gang as well as the brothels to which John Allen trafficked kids in care from north Wales.
Alice Purnell was awarded an OBE in the 2012 New Years Honours List, ‘for services to Transgender People’. Alice Purnell contributed “Why does transexuality exist?” and “TV, TG, TS – What’s in a label?” in Michael Trevor Haslam’s volume Transvestism: A Guide. Beaumont Trust, 1993. Michael Haslam was one of the psychiatrists who starred in the Kerr-Haslam scandal. Haslam and his colleague William Kerr were Top Docs based in Yorkshire who raped and assaulted their female patients over decades under the guise of ‘sex therapy’. Numerous complaints were made about them by patients and a la Dafydd, their activities were openly discussed. An Angel who raised concerns was demoted and a Professor at Leeds who complained about them was told to shut it or he’d lose his job. There was no investigation until the 1990s when Kerr and Haslam were approaching retirement. Only one of them was imprisoned and not for very long. See post ‘All The Ingredients Of A Scandal’. One woman patient who had been assaulted by them was told that she would not be allowed to amend the records that they compiled about her. When the scandal finally hit the media, representatives of MIND who had ignored my complaints about those we know and love in north Wales appeared on prime time TV declaring that they were shocked and disgusted.
John Randell died of a heart attack in 1982. Just as Mary Wynch’s litigation against Dafydd and the gang began to move in the direction of the Master of the Rolls…
Here’s a few of the Expert’s contributions to the World Of Knowledge. I haven’t got the time to review them here, but I can guarantee that there’ll be plenty of laffs for anyone who reads them.
John B. Randell. “The Early Recognition of Psychiatric Disorders in Adults”. Medicine Illustrated, vol IV, 215-220, 1950.
John B. Randell. “Euphoriant Effects Of “Preludin”. The British Medical Journal. 2, 5043, 1957: 508-509.
John B. Randell. “Transvestitism And Trans-Sexualism: A Study Of 50 Cases”. The British Medical Journal. 2, 5164, 1959: 1448-1452.
John B. Randell. Cross Dressing and the Desire to change Sex, MD Thesis, University of Wales, 1960.
John B. Randell. “Preoperative and Postoperative Status of Male and Female Transsexuals” in Richard Green & John Money (eds), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969.
John B. Randell. “Indications for Sex Reassignment Surgery”. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1:2, 153-161, 1971.
John B. Randell. Sexual Variations. London: Priory Press. 1973.
John B. Randell. Transsexualism and its management, Nursing Mirror, 45-47, 1977.
David Pearson (dir). A Change of Sex. With Julia Grant. BBC TV. 1980.
Alice Purnell. “Dr John Randell”, Beaumont Bulletin, 14:2, 1982.
“Dr J.B. Randell”, S.H.A.F.T. Newsletter, 15, 1982.
Dave King. “Pioneers of Transgendering: John Randell, 1918-1982”. University of Ulster: Gendys Conference, 2002. www.gender.org.uk/conf/2002/king22.htm.
I don’t know whether the offensive John Randell of Charing Cross had offspring who became Top Docs as so many Top Docs do, but there is a Dr John Randall who was/is the Clinical Lead for the Blackburn with Darwen NHS Clinical Commissioning Group. His surname is Randall rather than Randell, but one look at Dr Randall’s biography tells us that he will know about the ring in the north west of England which was facilitated by Dafydd’s mates:
Dr Randall, MB ChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DipOccMED, qualified from Manchester University in 1988. He completed his hospital vocational training in Blackburn before becoming a GP in his current practice, in 1992; he is GP Principal at Oakenhurst Medical Practice in Barbara Castle Health Centre. Prior to the CCG forming in 2013, Dr Randall was a lead GP in Cardio Vascular Health for Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust from 2002 until 2008. As well as working in Occupational Medicine in various Lancashire industries, he was elected by his colleagues to the Local Medical Committee in 2011 and subsequently Vice Chair in 2012. He is a passionate advocate in emphasising the true value of family medicine. Dr Randall is married with three teenage children. His interests outside of medicine include Manchester City FC, exploring the Highlands of Scotland and long distance running.
John Randell the offensive git from Charing Cross is all over the internet on trans websites; I note that he was linked with many of those we know and love who have starred on this blog before, particularly the lunatic Cardiff University contingent such as Dr Roy Mottram, who was a leading light in the Beaumont Society, along with Alice Purnell. See previous posts. The medical students at Cardiff in the 1980s knew that Mottram et al were bonkers and to be avoided and by the time that they were junior doctors they knew about Dafydd’s gang, about George Thomas, the lot. Those who didn’t want to be forced out of medicine and have their lives destroyed kept quiet about all of it. Those docs are now in their late 50s/early 60s and occupy roles as Professors and leaders of the profession. The gang rape of children and murders of witnesses. They knew about it.
After the offensive git from Charing Cross blocked Julia Grant’s surgery, Julia found another surgeon who Helped, Dr Michael Royle. After her gender reassignment surgery, Julia subsequently haemorrhaged, collapsed and nearly died. She was taken to hospital and was accused of having performed an abortion on herself. The Top Docs didn’t even realise that Julia didn’t have a uterus in which to gestate a foetus to abort, but had in fact undergone reassignment surgery which had gone horribly wrong. Julia believed that the Top Docs didn’t understand what had happened because in those days gender reassignment was so rare. No, they were either grossly incompetent or they knew that Julia had crossed the path of the Fuhrer in Charing Cross so like Brown and I, Julia was on the blacklist and competent healthcare would never be forthcoming. I have not read anything that suggests that Dr Michael Royle, the surgeon who nearly killed Julia and left her with lifelong disabilities, was ever the focus of an investigation.
When the documentary about Julia Grant that I watched was screened, I was in the throes of Empowered Service Userdom and was regularly being arrested by Dafydd’s gang on the grounds of their perjury. I watched the documentary with Patient F and we discussed how Julia’s life had been wrecked by the Top Docs. A few days later we discussed the programme with Ella Fisk, the Angel who ran the day centre at the Hergest Unit. Ella told us that she was incensed by Randell’s treatment of his patient and that when she was young, she had known a lot of Top Docs like that, but now things were very different. Ella knew about Dafydd and the gang. She knew that at the very time that she had that discussion with me, that I had no idea that Tony Francis had for years being forging documents and evidence about my alleged ‘dangerousness’, that he was still doing this and that Francis and Dafydd had collected ‘evidence’ from numerous third parties, even from people with links to the gang who knew me in Somerset when I was a teenager, which was being accumulated to justify my incarceration in a secure hospital.
Ella didn’t conduct herself like they did, I liked Ella, but she knew what they were doing and did not raise any concerns. I suspect that Ella was terrified of them. But the security services knew what they were doing as well and they didn’t stop them either.
There is a lot of info about the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic and it’s history online; it is fascinating stuff and I could be blogging about that alone for several posts, so I’ll just make a few brief observations here. People involved with the Charing Cross GIC were also involved with the Albany Trust, which has at times conducted out research in support of paedophilia. The Albany Trust received Home Office funding when Leon Brittan was Home Secretary.
Rachael Webb underwent gender reassignment surgery as a result of a referral from Charing Cross. I encountered Rachael Webb when I worked at Bangor University. After Brown and I had appeared in the media discussing the parlous state of the mental health services, Rachael began e mailing me. That was fine by me, we received communication from a few people who had been treated appallingly but who’s complaints had got nowhere and one couple were in hiding after having received threats. However it became clear that Rachael’s reason for contacting me wasn’t to support an improved deal for the targets of those we know and love. Rachael asked Brown and I to act as expert witnesses to help her to get her HGV licence back after she had lost it as the result of a drink driving conviction. I explained that we were sociologists, we were in no position to act as expert medical witnesses. She suggested that we should just lie. I said no. So Rachael offered to pay us to lie. I said no and Rachael told me that it was OK to lie as an expert witness, a Top Doctor had done it before for her… He was probably called Dafydd.
John Randell’s partner in crime, Peter Phillip, who performed the surgery on those whom Randell deemed suitable on the basis that they had the characteristics of Real Women and wore nylons, girdles, ran a duster over the shelves daily and couldn’t do science, was a urologist. Virtually all trace of Peter Phillip has been eliminated from the internet. North Wales however has its very own Peter Phillip, in terms of a urologist who was enthusiastic about gender reassignment surgery. I am talking about Dr Chris aka Christine Evans, a local celeb in Denbighshire. Dr Chris is a retired surgeon who worked at the lethal Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, but like Dafydd, Dr Chris continued working after retirement and used this to protect Dafydd’s gang. Dr Chris also served as a Councillor for Prestatyn and was a mover and shaker behind ‘The Raven’, a community pub. Dr Chris helpfully wrote a blog in her capacity as a Councillor, in which she explained that she would ensure that the jobs of her surgeon colleagues at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd would be protected now that they were under threat. Were these surgeons local heroes, dedicated to their patients? No. They were grossly incompetent, had killed a few too many people and openly boasted that they were running the ‘service’ for their convenience, not for that of the patients. They were so bad that even the Royal College of Surgeons wrote a report condemning them and saying that the situation could not be allowed to continue. Call Dr Chris!
The surgeons of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd had disgraced themselves to such a degree that no-one would listen to the word of a surgeon from Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, so Dr Chris couldn’t wield influence in that way. Dr Chris hit on a better ruse. Dr Chris doubled up as a Patients’ Champ and got her mates to appoint her to the post of Leader of the North Wales Community Health Council, the Patients’ Voice and Watchdog. It wasn’t difficult for Dr Chris to do this, because the CHC appointments are not in the gift of a democratic vote on the part of any group of patients, they are instead the responsibility of the Welsh Gov’t and County Councils. Dr Chris wasn’t the only Top Doc on the CHC; there was a GP from Anglesey as well as Dr Sadie Francis. Other CHC members included Councillors and their relatives or other NHS staff and their friends and relatives. More recently, Eleanor Burnham, a former Lib Dem AM who was a social work manager and member of the Mental Health Tribunal for the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, arrived on the CHC after poor old Dr Chris resigned in the wake of revelations re her agenda. See previous posts…
When Dr Chris was the Patients’ Voice, the CHC simply refused to investigate complaints about the mental health services, as well as many other matters. Dr Chris had to attend the Betsi Board meetings in her capacity as the Patients’ Champ, so Dr Chris would turn up for the meeting, stay for the first 15 minutes during which time she would Give Her Orders and then would walk out, leaving everyone else to remain for the rest of the 2 hour (or longer) meeting.
I studied Dr Chris and I noticed that she was of the variety of Lady Surgeon who was so butch that she certainly wouldn’t pass John Randall’s Femininity Test. Dr Chris, being a urologist, was well-known for operating on men’s bits and she would use her status in this regard to intimidate men. All men, not just men upon whom she had operated. This is a known technique of Lady Doctors like Dr Chris; Dr Chris had a reputation among women patients of being a crude old bag who was not to be taken seriously, but men are less likely to take the piss out of the Dr Chris’s of the earth. It’s OK men, we did it for you! Dr fucking Chris had no idea of the hilarity that she elicited, which was how I was able to gather so much info on her and publicise why she had led a Military Coup at the CHC.
Dr Chris was a friend of Tony Francis.
Dr Chris enjoyed photo opportunities and during her Brave Battle to defend the jobs of the mates of a gang of paedophiles who were maiming and killing their patients. Dr Chris had her photo taken with Wales’s most famous transgender person and indeed one of the most well-known trans people in the world, the travel writer Jan Morris. When Jan was James, she was part of the 1953 Everest expedition team, along with Sir Charles Evans, the Principal of UNCW for so many years… Jan and her son Twm Morys, another well-known Welsh writer, were generous in their praise of Dr Chris. Jan used to be a posh English man from Oxford but he reinvented himself as a Welsh woman of the proletariat. Jan’s son Twm spent his early years in Oxford, then went to Shrewsbury School, but he too is now a patriotic Welshman. I have no objection to this, of course it’s great when people who migrate to Wales love the country and Jan and Twm are both talented writers, but they have certainly provided much good PR for some very unpleasant people. See previous posts…
Jan Morris was one of John Randell’s patients in the early 1960s. Randell did offer Jan surgery but she could only have surgery in the UK if she divorced her wife, which, to Jan’s credit, she refused to do. So Jan went to Casablanca and had surgery there. Jan’s book ‘Conundrum’ provided an account of it. Jan has not suffered at the hands of John Randell, Dr Chris et al in the way that so many others have, because Jan is posh, she has money and is a famous writer. So the Top Docs who butcher and abuse the proles use Jan for a bit of free publicity when anyone dares challenge them.
The security services knew that John Randell was a dangerous doctor who was part of a network facilitating serious organised crime. No-one stopped him. Hundreds of vulnerable, desperate patients continued to be sent into his jaws, as well as into the jaws of his mates.
So why did you let it happen then MI5? It wasn’t just me, I was just one who happened to survive. Where were the public warnings? Why were patients not told?
Julia Grant was part of the LGBT scene in Manchester in the 1980s and 90s. She knew about Bob Hobson et al and she knew about the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal as well. I bet that Julia also knew about Sir Peter Morrison in Chester and the Westminster Paedophile Ring. If a kid who had grown up in care in north Wales could tell me some 10 yrs ago about the ‘vice ring’ in Buck House involving Backstairs Billy aka William Tallon, the Queen Mum’s loyal retainer who died from an HIV related illness in 2007, why was that vice ring only reported in the media recently? It was in existence by the 1980s and probably years before then.
Now don’t you worry my dear, we’ll look after you…
An major issue of national security and indeed international security, this network of traffickers jetted off abroad and had a global network. MI5 infiltrated the network successfully years ago, yet they did not stop the abuse of patients, some of whom died. They did not protect people like my friends and I who had begun to realise the enormity of the wrongdoing, instead they did all that they could to put us out of action. Meanwhile a constant source of prey for those we know and love were Referred For Help. Whatever MI5 did do about those we know and love, it was far too little too late. You needed a plant in medicine who would have brought down the Top Docs 30 yrs ago C or M or whatever your name is. That was where the source of the biggest problem was.
Recent posts have explained how Dafydd was a personal mate of Harold Wilson’s Health Minister, 1964-68, Sir Kenneth Robinson. Like David Ennals, Robinson was a big wig in MIND, so helped Dafydd from that angle as well as during the course of his job in Gov’t. I explained in one of my comments following my post ‘The Big Questions’ that I have just acquired a copy of Richard Crossman’s ‘Diaries’. I have already spotted some treasures in Vol III, 1968-70, regarding Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Shore.
Professor Brian Abel-Smith was the LSE economist who designed the flawed economic model which underpinned Nye’s NHS and who oversaw the escalating problems for the next few decades until in 1978, even Abel-Smith gave up with the civil wars and the intransigent and greedy Top Docs and left his role as a DHSS adviser to take a job as adviser to Peter Shore, the Labour MP for Stepney, 1964-74 and for Tower Hamlets, Stepney and Poplar, then Bethnal Green and Stepney, 1974-97.
Abel-Smith went to work for Peter Shore when Shore was Secretary of State for the Environment and advised Shore on housing and urban planning issues.
Shore was the MP for a constituency in which Dafydd’s partner gang was busy. Kids in care from Shore’s patch were sent to children’s homes in north Wales. Shore sprang into action to keep the gang out of serious slurry again in the mid-late 1980s, when the HIV infected kids in care who had been trafficked back to the East End as rent boys began dying of AIDS. Shore extracted funding out of Ken Clarke at the DoH to convert the disused Mildmay Mission Hospital in Shoreditch into an AIDS hospice. The victims of John Allen and Dafydd’s gang died in invisibility as their Confidentiality Was Protected, because they were People Who Were Stigmatised. See post ‘Apocalypse Now’.
Shore was Head of the Labour Party’s Research Dept, 1959-64. He was PPS to the PM Harold Wilson, 1965-66; Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology, 1966-67 and the Dept of Economic Affairs, 1967-69; Minister Without Portfolio, 1969-70; and in 1969, Deputy Leader of the Commons. In 1974 Shore became Secretary of State for Trade and in 1976, Secretary of State for the Environment. See previous posts for more info on Peter Shore who along with a few others was once A Future Leader Of The Labour Party.
Shore’s constituency was the turf of Lord Elwyn-Jones and his artist wife, Pearl Binder and their social worker son. See previous posts…
Abel-Smith was gay – it was why he turned down the offer of a safe Labour seat, he feared that his ‘private life’ would be made public and cause huge damage – and he and his partner ran a gents outfitters/fashion chain which flogged clothes to the best, including the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and the Who. Dafydd’s gang procured sex workers for those on the rock and pop scene at that time. See previous posts for info…
Abel-Smith was appointed Prof of Social Administration at the LSE in 1965, the year that he launched his fashion chain. He was a member of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 1956-63; Chairman of the Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee, 1962-62; a Governor of Tommy’s, 1957-68 and of the Maudsley and Institute of Psychiatry, 1963-67. Abel-Smith was a Governor of every institution in which Dafydd and his mates were facilitating a sex abuse ring. Abel-Smith served as a Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1968-70 and was reappointed in 1974.
A gang of paedophiles ran the NHS and things were arranged to ensure that they were placed in positions which enabled them to do this. Brown has told me for years that a great many people’s careers and liberty depended upon and still depend upon Dafydd remaining unchallenged, no matter what he did/does.
I have also learnt from Crossman’s Diaries that Peter Shore’s wife was a Formidable Lady Doctor, Dr Elizabeth Shore. Prior to marrying Shore, she was Dr Elizabeth Wrong no less. Dr Wrong married Peter Shore in 1948. She was a Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London; a Member, Royal College of Surgeons; a Fellow, Faculty of Community Medicine; a Member, Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Elizabeth Shore was Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the DHSS, 1977- 1984, while the Secretaries of State for the DHSS were David Ennals, then Patrick Jenkin, then Norman Fowler. While Dr Liz was at the top of the DHSS, Mary Wynch was unlawfully arrested and imprisoned, kids in care in north Wales were being gang raped, trafficked, fitted up for criminal offences and found dead, as were psych patients. Gwynne the lobotomist was sitting in the UCNW Student Heath Centre running the trafficking ring and Brown and I were openly threatened. St George’s were running their ring in south London, assisted by the Maudsley and others… At the DHSS, Health Minister Lord Simon Glenarthur – who for years was a Director of the MDU, which supplied the legal advisers to Dafydd and the Drs Francis, legal advisers who knew that all three of them had perjured themselves when they demanded my imprisonment – ordered the NHS to use blood products purchased from the US known to be infected with Hep B and HIV. Thousands of patients became infected and many have died, more will do. See previous posts.
It was when Dr Liz was Deputy CMO that Patient F found out about the boys in the Ty Newydd children’s home in Bangor being violently assaulted by their social workers. Patient F challenged the social workers about it and dared tell other people. He was soon visited by the Drug Squad, fitted up for class A drugs, then for arson, then imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre where he heard what was probably a murder of an inmate by the screws, was then transferred to the ‘care’ of Dafydd, who sectioned him for a year in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh… In 1993, the gang prevented F having any access to his new baby after accusing him of being a risk to the baby and placed the baby with a family containing two known child abusers. F never saw his son again.
Patrick Jenkin was a member of Middle Temple, alongside Ronnie Waterhouse and was of the same vintage as Ronnie. When questioned on matters of equal pay, Patrick Jenkin stated that if God had wanted us to have equal pay, He would not have created Man and Woman. And when they say no they mean yes. Jenkin’s son Lord Bernard and Bernard’s Lady wife are both busy Tory peers. See previous posts.
Norman Fowler was the man who, along with Dr Liz’s boss Sir Donald Acheson – another mate of Dafydd’s – persuaded Thatch to agree to the AIDS public education programme, although Thatch had traumas over the references to the words ‘back passage’, by explaining to her than those friends and Ministers of hers who were forcing their members into the back passages of the boys in care in north Wales and elsewhere were at serious risk of contracting a virus which would kill them and even BUPA wouldn’t be able to save their lives. Someone explained to Thatch that when Peter Morrison had anal sex with kids in care, his penis ruptured the capillaries in their back passages and HIV, being carried in body fluids, was a lot more likely to be transmitted than when Denis did the business with Thatch via her front bottom. Although had Denis been infected, Thatch would not have been 100% safe. Which is why the people forced into sex work by Dafydd charged extra for Doing It Without A Condom. See previous posts for more Acheson and Fowler-related fun.
Thatch allowed the public education campaigned but she was shocked and disgusted at What They Did and we really Didn’t Need To Hear About It All The Time.
Dr Liz was Dean of Postgrad Medicine for the North-West Thames Region, 1985-93 and Dean of Postgrad Medical Education for the North Thames Region, 1993-95.
Dr Liz was a Director of the Medical Women’s Federation, 1991-92 and the Policy Studies Institute, 1992-98.
Dr Liz was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1980. As Mary Wynch finally emerged from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh and Mr Thrope had just a few months previously been found Not Guilty.
Dr Liz became Lady Shore of Stepney on 5 June 1997, when her people trafficking husband became Lord Shore, as the world called the former kids in care who were by then giving evidence to the Waterhouse Inquiry liars because they had criminal convictions – witnesses to Dafydd’s criminality ended up with criminal convictions, even those who were medical researchers with postgrad degrees – and drug problems. One of the Shores’ children died as a result of illicit drug use.
The Shores were a couple of swells who lived in the best hotels.
We’ve got a Lady Doctor if you’d prefer to see her!
Can you just find me one who’s not a bloody sociopath working for a gang of sex offenders, male, female or intersex, I don’t mind really?
They All Did it To Help The Poor!
Bethnal Green, where in 1986, I and my friends were threatened by sex offenders and nasties linked to Dafydd’s gang (see previous posts eg. ‘The Turn Of The Screw’), was on Lord and Lady S’s manor. The area has now been gentrified, so the Poor who were Helped can’t afford to live there any longer.
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Welcome to Dunlop Kirk
Dunlop is a small, friendly village in rural Ayrshire.
We in Dunlop Parish Church of Scotland feel that our church is at the heart of the community.
We have a long and proud history of loving and serving the people of our parish, which also includes the communities of Burnhouse, Lugton, Newmill and the Halket.
We have an active Sunday School and Guild and would be delighted to see you at worship in Dunlop.
Services are at 11.30am every Sunday.
First Wednesday evening of the month, 6.30pm in the rear Church Hall.
We are linked with Caldwell Church of Scotland, Uplawmoor.
Caldwell Service times are 10.00am every Sunday.
Dunlop Kirk is open every Sunday afternoon 2pm - 4pm from the start of May until the end of October.
If you would like to spend some time in a peaceful building or to have a closer look at the beautiful stained glass windows, please come and visit the church.
The Clandeboye's Hall, alongside the church is an 'A' listed building, which was built in 1641 and was one of the first free schools in Scotland.
You will be very welcome and, as always in Dunlop, tea, coffee and biscuits are available.
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But By The Eternals
James Watson
"These great masters of production, after having enriched themselves and their corporations in this country, are using the wealth they thus obtained to set up competitive industry in foreign countries and to produce their products by men who receive from a quarter to half the wages paid in those factories in the United States. General Motors wants free trade in those articles so that the corporation can compete in our market with the product of their own mills in this country where they pay 50 per cent more wages than in competing production in foreign countries. General Motors wants to destroy the very conditions which made possible the accumulation of that wealth by transferring that production to foreign countries."
Senator "Sunny Jim" Watson 1929
Having been hampered by the union, a few wars, and domestic expansion, it's 77 years later and they're still trying.
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Antonino Cattaneo | Physicist, Accademia dei Lincei and EBRI
Antonino Cattaneo obtained a Degree in Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza (1976), after that he undertook research in Neurobiology at Scuola Normale Superiore with Lamberto Maffei, working on the encoding of visual information by cells of the the visual cortex (1977-1980). He then worked at the CNR Institute of Cell Biology with Rita Levi Montalcini and Pietro Calissano on the molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation by Nerve Growth Factor (1981-1984) and at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge UK) (1985-1989) with Cesar Milstein and Michael Neuberger, where he demonstrated the experimental strategy of ectopical antibody expression targeted to different subcellular compartments, for protein interference in the nervous system and other biological systems. From 1991 he was Full Professor of Biophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, where as Head of the Biophysics Sector and Deputy Director he was involved in setting up from scratch SISSA Neuroscience Program. From 2004 he assisted Rita Levi-Montalcini in launching the European Brain Research Institute, for which he served as the Scientific Director, before joyning Scuola Normale Superiore in 2009. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and of the Accademia delle Scienze dei XL, has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College (University of Cambridge, UK) and has received many international awards for his research. He is the author of over 180 peer reviewed pubblications in international scientific journals and an inventor on several biotechnology patents, based on his research, all of which have been industrially exploited.
His research led to i) the development of the intrabody protein silencing technology, ii) the discovery of proNGF/NGF imbalance as an unpstream driver mechanism for Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration, iii) the development of innovative neurotrophic factor based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Two humanized recombinant antibodies developed in his laboratory are currently under clinical testing in man.
His current research aims at deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms that lead to neurodegeneration, at studying protein misfolding in living cells and at identifying new targets for the development of new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases (most notably Alzheimer’s disease), based on these mechanisms. A strong interest in his research is dedicated to the development of new technologies and experimental strategies for intefering with protein function in living neurons in a spatially and temporally precise fashion (intrabodies).
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Glyphosate Litigation Facts
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Farmers and growers have been using glyphosate-based herbicides safely and effectively to control weeds for more than 40 years. These products continue to play a critical role in helping farmers manage weeds and sustainably deliver crops to markets around the world.
In 2015, after the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen,” trial attorneys in the U.S. began running advertisements to recruit plaintiffs for lawsuits against Monsanto, the manufacturer of many glyphosate-based herbicides (i.e., Roundup®-branded herbicides). These lawsuits rely heavily on IARC’s classification, which runs counter to an extensive body of science supporting glyphosate’s safe use and has many significant limitations and flaws.
A number of trials are currently scheduled for 2019 in several venues, including the federal MDL in the District Court for the Northern District of California, state court in California, and state courts in both St. Louis City and St. Louis County, Missouri. The next trial is currently scheduled to take place in state court in St. Louis County on August 19, 2019. Please note that trial schedules are subject to change based on the schedules of the courts and parties.
Adams (St. Louis County, Missouri): August 19, 2019
Lamb (St. Louis County, Missouri): September 9, 2019
Winston (St. Louis City, Missouri): October 15, 2019
Bayer will vigorously defend its products based on the strong body of science that confirms glyphosate and glyphosate-based products are safe when used as directed and that glyphosate does not cause cancer.
Pilliod Verdict and Appeal
On May 13, 2019, a jury in the Pilliod v. Monsanto trial overseen by Judge Winifred Smith in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda reached a verdict in favor of plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod, awarding them $2.055 billion in damages. This was the first case in the glyphosate JCCP coordinated proceeding to go to trial and has no bearing on future cases and trials, as each one has its own factual and legal circumstances.
On June 17, 2019, Monsanto filed post-trial motions in the Pilliod v. Monsanto case, urging Judge Smith to reverse the jury verdict and enter judgment for Monsanto or order a new trial. The company argued in its briefs that the “verdicts do not reflect the evidence presented in the case; they reflect deep passion and prejudice borne from plaintiffs’ counsel’s improper argument rested on inflammatory, fabricated and irrelevant evidence that should have been excluded… The resulting trial focused not on ascertaining the truth regarding the state of the science, causation, and compliance with legal duties, but instead on vilifying Monsanto in the abstract.” Read Monsanto’s Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict here, Motion for New Trial here, and Bayer’s statement here.
Hardeman Verdict and Appeal
On March 19, 2019, a jury in Hardeman v. Monsanto, a bifurcated trial conducted in the federal multi-district litigation before Judge Vince Chhabria in the Northern District of California, found in favor of plaintiff Edwin Hardeman on the issue of causation after deliberating for more than four days. On March 27, 2019, the jury found Monsanto liable for Mr. Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and awarded him a total of $80 million, including approximately $5 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages. The verdict in this trial has no impact on future cases and trials – as each one has its own factual and legal circumstances.
On May 31, 2019, Monsanto filed post-trial motions in the Hardeman case, urging Judge Chhabria to reverse the jury verdict and enter judgment for Monsanto, or in the alternative, order a new trial. The company made a series of arguments in its brief including that plaintiff’s expert evidence was unreliable and should not have been admitted under the Daubert standard; that the evidence fell far short of proving that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides caused Mr. Hardeman’s NHL; that the verdict cannot stand in light of the favorable international consensus among health regulators, based on the prevailing science, that glyphosate is not carcinogenic; that the claims in the case are preempted by federal law; and that the damage awards were excessive and should be reduced or eliminated. Read Monsanto’s brief here and Bayer’s statement here.
Johnson Verdict and Appeal
On August 10, 2018, a jury in Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto, a case in California state court, found Monsanto liable for Mr. Dewayne Johnson’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and awarded Mr. Johnson a total of $289 million, including $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages. Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos, who oversaw the trial, later reduced the punitive damage award by $211 million. Monsanto filed a notice of appeal with the California Court of Appeal on November 20, 2018, and believes that the liability verdict and damage awards are not supported by the evidence at trial or the law.
On April 24, 2019, Monsanto filed to appeal the Johnson verdict in the Court of Appeal of the State of California. Monsanto’s brief argued that the evidence at trial fell far short of the substantial evidence required to support any theory of liability in the case and to prove causation in light of the favorable international consensus among health regulators that glyphosate is not carcinogenic and the extensive body of science on which their assessments rest. The Company argued the liability claims are preempted by federal law as well. Moreover, the brief argued that the Court’s exclusion of EPA and international regulatory evidence, particularly in light of its admission of IARC’s opinion, was reversible error that requires a new trial. Read Monsanto’s appellate brief here, motion for Judicial Notice here, and Bayer’s statement here.
Recent Filings and Rulings
MDL Ruling on Hardeman Post-Trial Motions
Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a rul...
Filing of Post-Trial Reply Motions in Pilliod Glyphosate Case
On July 8, 2019, Monsanto filed post-trial reply briefs urging California Superior Court Judge Winif...
Filing of Motion to Supplement the Record in Connection with Hardeman Post-Trial Motions
On July 8, 2019, Monsanto filed a motion to supplement the record in connection with its motions for...
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HEIDI REIMER
“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you." — Anne Lamott
My short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Chatelaine, The New Quarterly, Little Fiction, Literary Mama, Stealing Time, and Hip Mama, and in the anthologies Outcrops: Northeastern Ontario Short Stories, The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood, and Body & Soul: Creative Nonfiction for Skeptics and Seekers. I'm the co-creator with Richard Sheridan Willis of the critically-acclaimed one-man show Strolling Player. I’m a member of the Toronto Women Writers Salon and I teach the creative writing half of a yoga-creative writing workshop called Creativity Rising.
The Longer Story
I’ve tried to write or longed to write or resisted writing or feared writing or, finally, actually written for the greater part of 30 years. I’ve published numerous short stories and essays in literary journals and anthologies, written two learner novels, and now have a completed novel called Truth Landing. Along the way I've learned a great deal about the creative process, how to surrender to it, how to put myself in its path and allow myself to integrate with it in a way that's sustainable, nourishing, and supportive--of both myself and my creativity.
Words and stories, truth and fiction: there's never been any other work I wanted to do.
My work explores, to put it broadly, what it is to be female. The complexity and depth of friendship and sisterhood, the emotional heritage passed on from mothers to daughters, the models inadvertently set of what is possible and expected, ambivalence around marriage and motherhood, religious tradition and the limits it sets, the conflicting pulls of art and domesticity, the struggle to break free of what we've been given to create what we yearn for. Alongside the rugged landscape of the Northern Ontario bush where I grew up and the New York City streets and Toronto neighbourhoods and West Virginia mountains where I've emerged into myself, these are currently my terrain.
As an editor I'm passionate about helping others' stories find their way into the world, too, whether in the developmental stages, the it's-here-on-the-page-but-I'm-not-sure-exactly-what-it-wants-to-be stages, or down to the level of word choice and sentence strength.
My husband, Richard, is an actor and the Artistic Director of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. Our daughters, Maia and Aphra, are 10 and 8. We live (most of the time) in Toronto.
Sign up for a free copy of Where the Sanctity Lives, an essay originally published in Stealing Time Magazine, about my journey out of my head and into my body. (There's a purity ring, a home birth, sex, and wolves.) You'll also receive my spontaneous and rare newsletter.
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Each year Jack Creek Preserve awards scholarships to Montana State University students working towards a career in natural resources. The Preserve also provides science fair support to the Ennis Schools.
MSU JACK CREEK WILDLIFE SCHOLARSHIP
Each year, the Jack Creek Preserve Foundation awards one or more scholarships to a Montana State University student enrolled in natural resource conservation and management.
Qualifications: The recipient must: 1) be a sophomore or junior enrolled in an MSU undergraduate program aimed at educating and training students for a career in natural resource conservation and management; 2) have completed at least two semesters at MSU and have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0; 3) have a strong interest in wildlife/fisheries habitat and conservation; 4) an appreciation of the role of hunters and hunting in wildlife conversation in North America; and 5) have a commitment to a career in natural resource management.
Applications for the Jack Creek Wildlife Scholarship are available the first week of September. Decisions are made by October 1. In 2018 Jack Creek Preserve provided 2 scholarships totaling $5,000.
2018 JACK CREEK PRESERVE WILDLIFE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
jack creek preserve foundation wildlife scholarship recipient cora steinbach with Jack Creek Preserve Founder Dottie Fossel
jack creek preserve foundation wildlife scholarship recipient nathaniel bowersock with Jack Creek Preserve Founder Dottie Fossel
Cora Steinbach was awarded a $2500 scholarship to assist with her undergraduate degree in Conservation Biology at Montana State University She is a second semester junior and hopes to graduate in winter 2019. After graduating she will begin studying to take her graduate school entrance exam, so she can have the option of attending graduate school in the future. Conservation biology is a field she is very passionate about. Her primary focus is watershed ecology because of her connection to watersheds for recreation and because of the endangerment of this resource. She hopes to take a watershed research internship this upcoming summer. Cora notes that some of the leading threats to freshwater sources are: altered hydrology associated with dams, increased nutrient loading from agricultural runoff, and invasive aquatic species. Studying the effects of agriculture on watersheds is particularly important in Montana, with agriculture being pivotal to the state’s economy. Cora hopes to eventually graduate with a Master’s degree and use her expertise to help influence the decisions made in regard to Montana’s watersheds.
Nate Bowersock was awarded a $2500 scholarship to assist with his Master’s degree in Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management at Montana State University. He is studying the population abundance of American black bears found on Yellowstone National Park’s Northern Range, by collecting hair from scent lured hair traps and naturally occurring rub trees. In addition, he is trying to identify the resources that black bears are selecting for by using a mix of GPS collars and GPS camera collars, which are collars that have cameras attached to them and record small videos across the day. He hopes to use his research to better understand the roles black bears play on the Northern Range, which could help inform National Park Service personnel about the population dynamics of this iconic animal. Nate hopes to use his graduate degree to continue to conduct research and assist with conservation management of controversial wildlife species found in North America.
"The MSU Fish and Wildlife Management Program has an outstanding record of attracting and educating fish and wildlife biologists that are recruited into natural resource management positions throughout North America and beyond. The Jack Creek Preserve Foundation's student scholarship recognizes and supports some of our brightest and committed students and I cannot think of a more worthwhile long-term investment in conservation as each successful student will contribute to our shared mission of effective natural resource conservation and management over their 30+ year career."
ROBERT GARROTT, PH.D. | DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
SCIENCE FAIR SUPPORT
2017 Ennis Science fair winners: FINLEY KNAPTON, EMMETT LINGLE, and TANNER INNMAN with Jack Creek Preserve founder Dottie Fossel
The Preserve provides an incentive to encourage students in middle and high school to pursue topics like wildlife, conservation, habitat, and ecology. Each year, the Foundation awards qualifying students at Ennis and Big Sky schools with $50 to $100 prizes for exceptional projects.
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3 Reasons the Left Wants Evermore Immigrants
By Dennis Prager
Published Jan. 23, 2018
On one thing we can all agree: The left wants more and more immigrants — including immigrants who enter or are in the country illegally — to come to America and become American citizens.
The question is, why?
The first and most obvious reason is political. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, chain migration, sanctuary cities and citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally will give the left political power. An estimated 70 to 80 percent of Latin American immigrants will vote Democrat. So, with enough new voters from Latin America alone, the Democrats would essentially be assured the presidency and Congress for decades.
Conservatives and Republicans fool themselves when they argue that Latin Americans are "social conservatives" because they oppose abortion and support a strong nuclear family. Even to the extent that those statements are true — and regarding the second claim, it is worth noting that Latinos have the third-highest percentage of births to unwed women in America — those arguments are irrelevant. Latin Americans are overwhelmingly on the political left, and they vote accordingly. Think about the Latin American Pope Francis' beliefs about big government, small militaries and the social welfare state, and his contempt for capitalism ("terrorism against all humanity") — and you know how the vast majority of Latin Americans think.
What is likely to change Latino immigrants' leftism? America's public schools and universities? The Spanish-language media? The compelling outreach to them by the Republican Party?
Moreover, the Democrats don't believe they have to compromise with a Republican president or a Republican Congress on immigration policy. They are confident they will gain control of the Senate and, quite possibly, the House this year; and they believe they will win the presidency in 2020. So, why compromise?
The second reason for the left's support for virtually unlimited immigration is that one of the most enduring tenets of the left — from Karl Marx to the present-day Democratic Party and left-wing parties in Western Europe — is that the nation-state is an anachronism.
The American left doesn't believe in America, just as the English left doesn't believe in England. That's why the American left supported the football players who refused to stand for the national anthem. For the left, reverence for the national anthem and the flag is a pathetic "patriotism" celebrated by the simple-minded and the deplorable.
Marx's "Communist Manifesto" ends with an appeal to class solidarity, not national solidarity: "Proletariat of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." The left has never divided the world by nation-states but by economic classes. In its view, the German, Korean and American working classes have everything in common, but these workers have nothing in common with fellow Germans, Koreans and Americans who are not working-class.
Thus, virtually all communist genocides — and virtually every major genocide of the 20th century was a communist genocide — did not entail the mass murder of another nationality. Communist Chairman Mao Zedong killed between 60 and 80 million people — millions of his fellow Chinese. Cambodian leader Pol Pot murdered nearly a quarter of his fellow Cambodians. Soviet leader Josef Stalin murdered about 20 million of his fellow Russians and deliberately starved 4 million Ukrainians — because of their class (the "kulaks": peasants who owned land or even just some cows).
That's why the left opposes a wall at America's southern border. The wall signifies the affirmation of America as a distinct nation.
The third reason is the power of feeling good about oneself. It would be difficult to overstate the significance of feeling good about oneself as a primary factor in why people adopt left-wing policies.
Those who support bestowing American citizenship on the children of illegal immigrants — the so-called "Dreamers," based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act — feel very good about themselves. They are the compassionate, the progressive, the enlightened.
This is why German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought a million refugees into Germany, a majority of them Middle East Muslims: She wanted to feel good about herself and Germany — especially in light of Germany's evil history — "Look, world. We Germans really are good people."
Why do Democrats support sanctuary cities, and even sanctuary states? Because, in addition to first two reasons, it enables them to feel good about themselves. In their eyes, they are moral heroes protecting the stranger, the oppressed, the marginalized, the destitute.
If any one of these reasons accurately describes the left's attitude toward America and immigration, America is headed for trouble. If all three are accurate, America is headed for an existential crisis.
JWR contributor Dennis Prager hosts a national daily radio show based in Los Angeles.
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May - June 2019 Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous hydroxyapatite powder by microemulsion...
Preparation of mesoporous hap powder
X-ray diffractometry (xrd)
Field emission scanning electron microscopy (fe-sem)
Transmission electron microscope (tem)
Fourier-transform infrared (ft-ir) spectroscopy
Nitrogen adsorption
Dynamic light scattering
In vitro study of drug release
Influences of phs and calcination temperatures on the phase composition of the hap powder
Influences of concentrations of ctab, cyclohexane and n-octyl alcohol in the microemulsion system on the surface morphology of mesoporous hap powder
Tem images of the mesoporous hap powder
Ft-ir analysis of hap powder
N adsorption/desorption and bjh pore size distribution of mesoporous hap powder
The formation of mesoporous hap
Effects of the mesoporous hap powder on the proliferation of bmscs and mc3t3
In vitro study of drug release properties of the mesoporous hap powder
Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous hydroxyapatite powder by microemulsion technique
An Huang, Honglian Dai
daihonglian@whut.edu.cn
, Xiaopei Wu, Zheng Zhao, Yanzeng Wu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
The mesoporous hydroxyapatite (HAP) powder was synthesized by using the microemulsion (hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)/cyclohexane/n-octyl alcohol) system. The optimal ratios of concentrations of CTAB, cyclohexane and n-octyl alcohol in the microemulsion on morphology of the HAP were studied. The effects of pHs and calcination temperatures on the phase composition of the HAP powder were discussed. The phase composition, morphology, mesoporous structure and the optical density (OD) were characterized and confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms and Multiskan Spectrum, respectively. We further investigated the effect of the HAP powder with meso-structure on the proliferation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) and MC3T3 in vitro, and in vitro study of drug release of mesoporous HAP powder. Through the optimized microemulsion system (CTAB 25g/L/cyclohexane 125mL/L/n-octyl alcohol 250mL/L) at pH of 11.0, the mesoporous HAP was formed. The specific surface area of the HAP powder product is 13.62m2/g with an average pore size of 19.56nm after calcinating at 850°C.
Hydroxyapatite
Mesoporous
Microemulsion
Calcinating
HAP (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) has been utilized for biomedical materials reconstruction of damaged bones and tooth zones for decades for its unique properties such as biocompatibility, osteo-reconstruction conductivity and bone integration [1–5]. The biological performance of HAP has been known for the flexibility of its structure to the surrounding environment [6,7]. HAP ceramic coating with a designated microstructure can be extensively used for many applications. In the field of biomedical ceramics, pore-size modification technique has thus been important for HAP productions. The smaller pore-sized and uniformed HAP ceramics are more desirable, that has broader applications for its flexibility, effective crack dispersion and biocompatability compared to the non-uniformed aperture HAP and the macroporous HAP [8,9].
Mesoporous material has gained great attentions in the field of biomaterials in recent years [9,10], mesoporous HAP have exhibited a higher drug-loading capacity and boosted drug release property [11]. Compared to other traditional biomaterials, the mesoporous coating materials also have displayed a higher bone forming ability and an easier induction of apatite in vitro [12,13]. A doped HAP nanocrystals through the surfactant-free method have potential applications in blue phototherapy and photodynamic therapy [14]. One new promising approach for a multimodal contrast agent is the use of doped HAp as a ceramic nanoparticle-sized contrast agent or marker for biomedical luminescence imaging [15]. On the other hand, the HAp nanorods with excellent luminescent properties could be applied to live cell imaging [16]. Fluoridated HAP nanoparticles for cell-imaging [17]. Since mesoporous HAP have proven to be a desirable coating material with good biocompatibility [18–21], it would be worthwhile to explore new ways to optimize the methodology for uniformed and better properties of HAPs.
Mesoporous HAP can be synthesized by various techniques including sol–gel technology [18], hard-templating method [22], gas–liquid chemical precipitation method [23] and soft-templating technique [24–26]. Among them, soft-templating technique is the most commonly used. The soft-templating technique is based on the self-assembly of surfactant molecules into micelles where soluble HAP precursors are condensed. However, the undesired grain growth and disorderly aperture formation are the problems after the thermal treatment in HAP process [22]. Therefore, a new method of improvement in this study for the preparation of a uniformed and mesoporous HAP.
Microemulsion system/technique has been recently applied in many fields such as oil production, coating, solvent extraction, cleansing agents, enzyme-catalyzed reaction, preparation of nano-particles, and porous or mesoporous materials. Therefore, it is a key to have an optimized microemulsion system to be made for uniformed and mesoporous HAP. Microemulsion system contains a surfactant phase, an oil phase and a water phase. Microemulsion system is an isotropic oil–water mixture characterized with low viscosity. It is therefore, transparent or semitransparent depending on the environmental temperature. It is thermo dynamically stabile. The size range of the droplets in the system is between 5 and 20nm in diameter [27]. Advantages of the system include its anti-aggregation property, excellent stability and self-controlled formation of apertures. The microemulsion technique has been employed to prepare silicon materials with mesoporous structure [28], mesoporous aluminum oxyhydroxide nano flakes [29], and other mesoporous materials such as, TiO2, ZnO, CdS, carbon foams, polyvinyl benzenes and so on. We reported here the preparation of a microemulsion system used for the synthesis of a uniformed and mesoporous HAP powder.
In this study, the mesoporous HAP was synthesized by a microemulsion system using CTAB as a surfactant, n-octyl alcohol as a cosurfactant, cyclohexane as oil phase. The optimization of the microemulsion composition was reported. The influential factors for the microemulsion system to produce mesoporous HAP such as pHs and calcination temperatures on the phase composition of the HAP powder were studied. The combinations of CTAB, cyclohexane and n-octyl alcohol in the microemulsion system on the morphology of higher purity meso-structural HAP with improved uniform surface and the effect of mesoporous HAP powder on the proliferation of BMSCs and MC3T3 and in vitro study of drug release properties of the mesoporous HAP powder were researched and discussed.
2Materials and methods2.1Materials
Calcium nitrate tetrahydrate (Ca(NO3)2·4H2O), diammonium hydrogen phosphate ((NH4)2HPO4), ammonia solution (NH3·H2O), Anhydrous ethanol, CTAB, cyclohexane and n-octyl alcohol were of analytical reagent grade and phosphate buffered saline (PBS), 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and α-Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (α-DMEM) were acquired from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs, derived from SD-type rates). MC3T3 (Mouse embryo osteoblast cells). Deionized water was used throughout the study.
2.2Preparation of mesoporous HAP powder
The mesoporous HAP was synthesized as the follows. CTAB (with concentrations of 5.0g/L, 25g/L and 125g/L, respectively), cyclohexane (25mL/L, 125mL/L and 625mL/L, respectively) and n-octyl alcohol (125.5mL/L, 250mL/L and 500mL/L, respectively) were dissolved in 40mL deionized water and stirred for 30min at 37°C to make a preparation system respectively. Ca(NO3)2·4H2O solution (20mL, 0.3mol/L) was added to make a pre-microemulsion system. Then, the (NH4)2HPO4 solution (0.3mol/L) was added dropwise to the mixed solution under vigorously stirring force (1800rpm) simultaneously, Ca/P solution with the ratio of 1.67 and NH3·H2O solution (1.0mol/L) was added to adjust the pH to (5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 and 11.0, respectively) to make the final microemulsion system. After being continuingly stirred for 6h, and then aged for 24h at room temperature, the mixture of the microemulsion system was washed with deionized water 3–5 times and ethanol 3–5 times in sequence, precipitated HAP particle preparations were filtered from the mixture and then dried at 80°C for 24h. Finally, the dried preparations were calcined to form HAP powders at different temperatures (200, 400, 600, 700, 750, 800 and 850°C for 4h, respectively).
2.3Cell culture
The cell suspension (2.0×104cells/mL) was obtained by mixing the BMSCs or MC3T3 with α-DMEM solution and then plated into each well of 96-well culture plates (100μL/well). The plates were incubated for 24h at 37°C in a humidified incubator of 5% CO2.
2.4Cell proliferation assay
The effect of mesoporous HAP powder on the viability of BMSCs was measured using MTT assay. The raw material (100mg mesoporous HAP powder) were cleaned carefully with deionized water 3 times and ethanol 3 times in sequence and sterilization treatment by steam sterilizer. The materials were diluted by PBS for five different concentrations respectively and then ultrasonic dispersion about 20min. The materials suspension were obtained and added to the each well of 96-well culture plates (20μL/well) containing the cell suspension. The final five concentrations of materials were 0.002, 0.01, 0.02, 0.06 and 0.1μg/mL. The wells without materials samples were used as a control group. All cells were cultivated at 37°C in 5% CO2 incubator for 1, 3, 5 and 7 days. The culture medium was replaced on the third day. MTT (20μL) was added to each well and incubated for 4h at 37°C. The MTT was removed and 200μL DMSO was added to each well to dissolve the formazan crystals. The optical density (OD) was measured at a wavelength of 490nm.
2.5X-ray diffractometry (XRD)
The structural analysis of mesoporous HAP powder was performed by X-ray diffraction (Rigaku D/MAX-RB, Japan). Data were collected for 2θ ranging between 5° and 70° using Cu Kα radiation (λ=0.15406nm).
2.6Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM)
The surface morphology of the mesoporous HAP powder was visualized by a field emission scanning electron microscope (Zeiss Ultra Plus, Germany). HAP samples were placed on a platinum coating plate. Then the HAP powder was made conductively by sputtering a thin layer of gold onto the powder surface for the emission scanning under FE-SEM.
2.7Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) images were taken digitally using a JEOL 2010 microscope operated at 200kV and fitted with a low-background Gatan double tilt holder and a Si (Li) X-ray detector. Before this study, the mesoporous HAP powder was ultrasonically dispersed in ethanol for 5min with a drop of suspension deposited on holey carbon-coated copper grids.
2.8Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy
Fourier transform infrared spectroscope (Nicolet 6700, USA) was also used to determine the composites and chemical bonding of HAP. Samples were oven-dried at 80°C for 6h before being compacted into transparent disks. All FT-IR spectra were recorded in the frequency range of 400–4000cm−1.
2.9Nitrogen adsorption
Nitrogen adsorption analysis was performed at 77.3K by the Surface Area and Pore Size analyzer (ASAP 2020M, Micromeritics, USA). Samples were degassed over night at 80°C. Adsorption and desorption isotherms were recorded in the relative pressure range of 5.0×10−2<P/Po<1.0. The specific surface area and pore size distribution were calculated by the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) equation and the Barrette–Joynere–Halenda (BJH) method.
2.10Dynamic light scattering
The hydrodynamic size distribution of the mesoporous HAP powder was performed by the dynamic light scattering. Before this study, the mesoporous HAP powder (0.1g) was dispersed in deionized water (100mL) and Ultrasonic processing for 30min.
2.11Statistical analysis
Each experiment was performed at least in triplicate. All data were expressed as the means±standard deviation and statistical differences were determined by analysis of variance followed by Student's t-test. A value of P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
2.12In vitro study of drug release
To investigate the influence of the mesoporous structure on drug release properties, firstly 0.20g alendronate sodium-loaded mesoporous HAP were soaked in 15mL PBS (pH 7.4) at 37°C. At different interval, then 5mL PBS solution was taken-off and replaced with 5mL of fresh PBS respectively. The amount of alendronate sodium released in the PBS was then assayed by UV-Vis at the wavelength of 266nm.
3Results and discussions3.1Influences of pHs and calcination temperatures on the phase composition of the HAP powder
The XRD patterns of the product synthesized at pHs from 5.0 to 11.0 were shown in Fig. 1. (f) and (g) show that the product prepared under pH 10.0 and 11.0 had the main (hkl) indices: (002), (211), (112), (300), (202), (310), (222), (213), (321) and (004) assigned to the formed HAP powder (JCPDS no. 09-0432).
XRD patterns of HAP powder synthesized at different pHs: (a) pH=5.0, (b) pH=6.0, (c) pH=7.0, (d) pH=8.0, (e) pH=9.0, (f) pH=10.0 and (g) pH=11.0.
As shown in (c)–(e), β-tricalcium phosphate (β-Ca3(PO4)2, β-TCP) was detected in the product when pH in the microemulsion system was changed from 7.0 to 9.0. As reported in the literature [30], Ca/P ratio of 1.67 at the beginning would be dropped down to 1.50 at the end. Under our experimental conditions, when pH was changed from 7.0 to 9.0. β-TCP is one of the main residues formed after the HAP was calcined.
(a) and (b) indicates that calcium pyrophosphate (Ca2P2O7, CPP) was formed in the product when pH was adjusted between 5.0 and 6.0, pH in the microemulsion system therefore played an important role in the phase composition of the final product. To obtain a high purity of HAP powder, pH of 11.0 was therefore selected under our experimental conditions.
Fig. 2 presents the XRD patterns of the as-calcined HAP powder and HAP powder obtained at the calcination temperatures ranging from 200 to 850°C. All HAP powder produced under such conditions exhibited a typical phase of the high purity without residues such as β-TCP and CPP. The characteristic peaks of the purer HAP power were narrower and sharper when the calcination temperatures increased from 200 to 850°C, indicating that higher temperature facilitates the crystallization in the system. Therefore, the calcination temperature of 850°C would be optimized for next work.
XRD patterns of the as-calcined HAP powder and the HAP powder obtained at different calcination temperatures for 4h: (a) as-calcined, (b) 200°C, (c) 400°C, (d) 600°C, (e) 700°C, (f) 750°C, (g) 800°C and (h) 850°C.
3.2Influences of concentrations of CTAB, cyclohexane and n-octyl alcohol in the microemulsion system on the surface morphology of mesoporous HAP powder
The concentrations of CTAB, cyclohexane and octyl alcohol are known to be important for the formation of microemulsion.
Fig. 3 shows the surface morphology of HAP powder prepared at different CTAB concentrations (5.0g/L, 25.0g/L and 125g/L, respectively). As shown in Fig. 3b, the HAP powder had worm-like particles at the CTAB concentration of 25.0g/L and exhibited relatively smooth, continuous and well-ordered mesoporous morphology. In contrast, the HAP powder with a great numbers of disordered and aggregated macroporous particles was observed at the concentrations of 5.0g/L and 125g/L (Fig. 3a and c). It was seemingly that the uniformity of a mesoporous HAP powder was affected remarkably by the concentration of CTAB in the microemulsion system at extremities. Organic substances such as surfactants may have interacted with inorganic substances in the microemulsion system by intensified electrostatic forces to form an orderly arrangement structure through a cooperative formation mechanism [31,32]. As an amphiphillic molecule, CTAB would be existent in the interface of the dispersed aqueous phase and the continuous organic phase [33]. The mesoporous structure of HAP is considered to be formed with the removal of the intermediate assembly parts of charged surfactant molecules through high temperature treatment [34]. In our experimental conditions, the CTAB concentration of 25.0g/L was optimal for the formation of uniformed surface morphology for a mesoporous HAP.
FE-SEM images of the surface morphology of the HAP powder synthesized at different CTAB concentrations: (a) 5.0g/L, (b) 25.0g/L and (c) 125g/L.
As shown in Fig. 4b, the HAP powder formed in the experimental condition exhibited uniform worm-like morphology and mesoporous structure. The egg-shaped particles of HAP were with width of about 40nm and length of about 100nm when the concentration of cyclohexane was at 125mL/L. Compared with the mesoporous HAP powder obtained in cyclohexane at 125mL/L, the HAP synthesized under the cyclohexane concentrations of 25mL/L and 625mL/L displayed larger grains and pores respectively due to the agglomerations of small grains and under different cyclohexane concentrations, as shown in Fig. 4a and c. It was shown that cyclohexane, as oil phase, played an important role in the microemulsion system. Since water and oil phase separation is in nature, a transparent and homogeneous microemulsion formation will not be the case when the cyclohexane concentration was at low or high extremes, consequentially leading to the formation of more disorderly and macroporous structure of HAP particles. The mesoporous structure should therefore be prepared under the cyclohexane concentration of 125mL/L.
FE-SEM images of the surface morphology of the HAP powder synthesized at different cyclohexane concentrations: (a) 25mL/L, (b) 125mL/L and (c) 625mL/L.
Fig. 5 presents the surface morphology of the HAP synthesized under three n-octyl alcohol concentrations respectively (125.5mL/L, 250mL/L and 500mL/L). The existence of pores was observed in the FE-SEM images of the HAP powder prepared under the n-octyl alcohol concentrations of 125.5mL/L and 500mL/L (Fig. 5a and c). In contrast, an orderly uniformed mesoporous HAP powder were synthesized under the n-octyl alcohol concentration of 250mL/L as shown in Fig. 5b. n-Octyl alcohol as a cosurfactant in the microemulsion system may have reduced interfacial tensions and adjusted the hydrophilic and lipophilic forces in the emulsion, making a finer microemulsion in the system possible. In contrast, low or high concentrations of n-octyl alcohol interfered the stability of the microemulsion system. The optimized concentration of n-octyl alcohol in the system of the study was 250mL/L.
FE-SEM images of the surface morphology of HAP powder synthesized under different octyl alcohol concentrations: (a) 125.5mL/L, (b) 250mL/L and (c) 500mL/L.
3.3TEM images of the mesoporous HAP powder
As shown in Fig. 6, the mn-HAP (mesoporous nano-hydroxyapatite) powder obtained at without calcination and after calcination. Certain agglomeration of HA particles were observed. Long nanorods with mesoporous structure were seen in Fig. 6a and b, the increase in particle size with temperature takes place by aggregation of these agglomerated particles to form secondary particle, this has been schematically represented in Fig. 6b. The mesoporous structure in Fig. 6a was clearer than that in Fig. 6b. The pores were formed by the removal of the intermediate assemblies of the charged surfactant molecules. By adjusting the heating rate at 5–10°C/min, the porous structure did not collapse, but form a mesoporous structure.
TEM images of the mesoporous HAP powder obtained at (a) without calcination and (b) after calcination.
3.4FT-IR analysis of HAP powder
Fig. 7 shows typical FT-IR spectra of the uniformed mesoporous HAP powder. The characteristic peaks were between 3572 and 632cm−1. It is in a range of vibrational mode of structural OH groups of mesoporous HAP powder. The peaks at 1090, 1044 and 962cm−1 were respectively contributed to phosphate stretching vibrational modes of ν3, ν3, and ν1 in PO43−. The peaks at 602, 571 and 474cm−1 were respectively contributed to the phosphate bending vibrational modes of ν4, ν4, and ν2 in PO43−. The broader peak at 3431cm−1 and the narrower peak at 1629cm–1 were due to H2O bending mode and adsorbed water, respectively. The peaks for the carbonate anions were also observed at 1458, 1412 and 1381cm−1, respectively. It might be due to released CO2 from mixing, stirring and reaction processes [35].
FTIR spectra of the HAP powder prepared by the microemulsion technique.
3.5N2 adsorption/desorption and BJH pore size distribution of mesoporous HAP powder
Fig. 8 shows the N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of the HAP synthesized by the microemulsion technique. A typical type IV isotherm with H1-type hysteresis loop is due to capillary condensation, indicating the presence of a mesoporous structure. The area of hysteresis loop was narrow. The adsorption branch was nearly parallel with the desorption one. These two phenomenons suggested the existence of microporous structure in the formed HAP. Additionally, the isotherms displayed a sharp inflection in the range of 0.96–0.99 P/Po, suggesting the HAP powder contains a broader pore size distribution of the mesoporous structure. The pore size distribution of the sample mesoporous HAP presented in Fig. 9 reveals a broader range of pore size distributions in the formed HAP mainly below 25nm with combined microporous and mesoporous structures. The broader range of pore size distributions might be produced by collapses of partial mesoporous structure after intensified heating treatment, higher temperature could contribute to particle grow than deagglomeration because of the lack of any obstacle for particle growth, subsequently, the tighter packing and agglomeration of HAP powder lead to the disappearance of mesopores [18]. The average pore size was 19.56nm measured by the BJH method and the specific surface area calculated was 13.62m2/g in the HAP powder.
N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of the mesoporous HAP powder.
The BJH pore size distribution of the mesoporous HAP powder.
3.6The formation of mesoporous HAP
Fig. 10 shows the forming process of the mesoporous HAP by the microemulsion technique. A microemulsion was formulated by adding CTAB (surfactant), cyclohexane (oil) and n-octyl alcohol (cosurfactant) into an aqueous solution. Initially, CTAB was formed a hexagonal micelle [36]. Ca2+ ions were interacted with CTAB molecules in the micelles to form hexagonal CTAB-Ca2+ Clusters in the microemulsion. PO43− could have electrostatically interacted with Ca2+ in the CTAB-Ca2+ microemulsion to be precipitated on the external surface of the hexagonal CTAB-Ca2+ Clusters to form rod-like CTAB-HAP Clusters. The mesoporous structures were then retained after the removal of CTAB by calcining at a high temperature [37].
The flow chart of the formation of the mesoporous HAP powder by the microemulsion technique.
3.7Effects of the mesoporous HAP powder on the proliferation of BMSCs and MC3T3
The hydrodynamic size distribution of mesoporous HAP powder via the microemulsion processing route, as shown in Fig. 11, was in the range of sub-micrometers, with an average particle size of about 1.5μm. Drying and calcination resulted in the formation of agglomerates of HAP powder and a skewed distribution which centered to larger particle size [38].
The hydrodynamic size distribution of mesoporous HAP after calcination.
The MTT assays were performed to evaluate the effects of the mesoporous HAP powder on the proliferation of BMSCs and MC3T3, as shown in Figs. 12 and 13. It was found that the OD values measured at 490nm increased when the culture period of BMSCs and MC3T3 under different concentrations (0.002, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.06μg/mL) of materials were prolonged from 1 to 7 days. The presence of 0.1μg/mL mesoporous HAP powder induced a significant decrease in cell proliferation in relation to the control group after 3, 5 and 7 days in culture (P<0.05), as shown in Fig. 12. The presence of 0.01μg/mL, 0.02μg/mL and 0.06μg/mL mesoporous HAP powder induced a significant decrease in cell proliferation in relation to the control group at 7 day in culture (P<0.05), as shown in Fig. 13. These results suggested that the material under lower concentrations could allow cell attachment and proliferation, but cytotoxic at a higher concentration. This property makes the mn-HAP powder useful in many fields, such as biomedical applications [39], induced emission dye-based fluorescent organic nanoparticles via emulsion polymerization and their cell imaging applications [40].
Effects of different concentrations of mesoporous HAP powder on the BMSCs proliferation under different culture time. Each bar represents the mean±standard deviation (n=3). *P<0.05, when compared with control.
Effects of different concentrations of mesoporous HAP powder on the MC3T3 proliferation under different culture time. Each bar represents the mean±standard deviation (n=3). *P<0.05, when compared with control.
3.8In vitro study of drug release properties of the mesoporous HAP powder
Fig. 14 indicates the cumulative alendronate sodium release rate from synthetic sample in PBS (pH 7.4). Obviously, the release kinetics of mesoporous HAP powder include the initial fast release, which was induced by the breakage of hydrogen bonding on the surface of crystal, and the following sustained release mainly attributed to the various surface property and mesoporous structure [41]. However, due to the time limits, it is not possible to study the sustained release law of drugs in detail, but our study on drug release in a short time shows that the mesoporous structure of apatite has potential applications in the field of drug release. Also, the mesoporous HAP powder has a potential application of surface modification and biomedical applications [42].
The cumulative alendronate sodium release rate of mesoporous HAP powder.
The mesoporous HAP powder was prepared by the microemulsion technique. After calcination at 850°C for 4h, a high-purity mesoporous HAP powder with uniformed and well-ordered morphology was obtained in the microemulsion system of CTAB 25g/L, cyclohexane 125mL/L and n-octyl alcohol 250mL/L at pH 11.0. The N2 adsorption/desorption and BET studies had proved the uniformed and mesoporous structure in the HAP. The specific surface area was 13.62m2/g. The mesoporous structure had a broader pore size distribution with an average pore size of 19.56nm. The MTT assays demonstrated that the material's biocompatibility under lower concentrations (0.002, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.06μg/mL), but cytotoxic at a higher concentration (0.1μg/mL). The HAP product produced under optimized conditions from the study meets the standard of homology and micromeso-structure of HAP. It has potentials for applications of bone tissue crafts and drug delivery, as well as coating material for the future studies.
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFB1105500, 2016YFC1101605 and 2016YFB1101302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51772233), and the Science and Technology Project of Wuhan (No. 2018010401011273).
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IONIC LIQUID FOR DESULFURIZATION OF LIGHT FUELS
The ionic liquid for desulfurization of light fuels is 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate, having the structural formula:
The compound is prepared by mixing 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate with sodium periodate in dichloromethane and water, stirring the mixture for 24 hours, and extracting the compound from the product with dichloromethane. The ionic liquid may be used for the desulfurization of light fuels by bringing the ionic liquid into contact with the crude light petroleum oil at a temperature of about 50° C. with stirring for a period of time sufficient to oxidize the sulfur containing impurities to water soluble sulfones, washing the mixture with water to remove the ionic liquids and water soluble sulfones, and drying the desulfurized light fuel product.
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PATEL, SAGAR S
Richard C. Litman (112 S. West Street Alexandria VA 22314)
1. An ionic liquid for desulfurization of light fuels, comprising 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate, having the structural formula:
2. A method of desulfurizing light fuels, comprising the steps of: bringing the ionic liquid into contact with crude light petroleum oil at a temperature of about 50° C. with stirring for a period of time sufficient to oxidize any sulfur-containing impurities in the crude light petroleum oil to water soluble sulfones; washing the mixture with water to remove the ionic liquids and water soluble sulfones; and drying the desulfurized light petroleum oil product.
3. The method of desulfurizing light fuels according to claim 2, wherein said period of time sufficient to oxidize any sulfur-containing impurities comprises about six hours.
4. A method of making 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate, comprising the steps of: mixing 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate with sodium periodate in dichloromethane and water; stirring the mixture for 24 hours; and extracting the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate from the mixture with dichloromethane.
The present invention relates to the desulfurization of light fuels and petroleum products, and particularly to ionic liquids for the desulfurization of light fuels.
The desulfurization of fuel constitutes a major target of oil refineries due to growing public concern of environment pollution from emissions from the combustion of fuels. The sulfur compounds present in light fuel are converted to sulfur dioxides, which are considered to be a major source of acid rain and air pollution. To control the SOX emissions, severe regulations are being imposed on oil refineries to reduce the sulfur content to an acceptably low limit.
The catalytic hydrodesulfurization method, which is typically employed in the refineries, requires both high temperature and high pressures of hydrogen gas. Thus, this method entails high risk for personnel operating the refinery. Thus, alternative methods are being sought to avoid the use of high pressure and high temperature hydrogen gas. Oxidative desulfurization is particularly attractive, due to its relatively low risk and environmental impact.
Recently, ionic liquids have received considerable interest due to their environmentally friendly properties, such as low volatility and thermal stability. Several methods have been developed that use hydrogen peroxide in combination with ionic liquids, and combine solvent extraction with oxidation of dibenzothiophene (DBT), which is the major sulfur compound in light oil. However, these techniques require the use of an external oxidant and presently lack efficiency for complete removal of DBT.
Thus, an ionic liquid for desulfurization of light fuels solving the aforementioned problems is desired.
The compound is prepared by mixing 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate with sodium periodate in dichloromethane and water, stirring the mixture for 24 hours, and extracting the compound from the product with dichloromethane. The ionic liquid may he used for the desulfurization of light fuels by bringing the ionic liquid into contact with the crude light petroleum oil at a temperature of about 50° C. with stirring for a period of time sufficient to oxidize the sulfur containing impurities to water soluble sulfones, washing the mixture with water to remove the ionic liquids and water soluble sulfones, and drying the desulfurized light fuel product.
These and other features of the present invention will become readily apparent upon further review of the following specification and drawings.
FIG. 1 is a chemical equation showing a reaction scheme for the synthesis of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide.
FIG. 2 is the H1 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide synthesized according to the scheme of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is the C13 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide synthesized according to the scheme of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is the FT-IR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide synthesized according to the scheme of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a chemical equation showing the reaction scheme for the synthesis of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate.
FIG. 6 is the H1 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is the C13 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 5 . . . .
FIG. 8 is the FT-IR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 5 . . . .
FIG. 9 is a chemical equation showing the reaction scheme for the synthesis of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate, which is the ionic liquid for the desulfurization of light fuels according to the present invention.
FIG. 10 is the H1 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 9.
FIG. 11 is the C13 NMR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 9.
FIG. 12 is the FT-IR spectrum of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 9.
FIG. 13 is a chemical equation showing the oxidation reaction of 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate prepared according to the scheme of FIG. 9 with dibenzothiopene.
FIG. 14 is the H1 NMR spectrum of the sulfone product of the reaction of FIG. 13.
FIG. 15 is the C13 NMR spectrum of the sulfone product of the reaction of FIG. 13.
FIG. 16 is the FT-IR spectrum of the sulfone product of the reaction of FIG. 13.
Similar reference characters denote corresponding features consistently throughout the attached drawings.
The circle inside the 5-member ring indicates that the ring is aromatic, i.e., it has two double bonds, and the ‘+’ sign inside the circle indicates that the ring is cationic, the charge being distributed in the ring by conjugation of the double bonds. The same convention is used in the structural formulas for 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide, 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate, and in the drawings. The compound is prepared by mixing 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate with sodium periodate in dichloromethane and water, stirring the mixture for 24 hours, and extracting the compound from the product with dichloromethane. The ionic liquid may be used for the desulfurization of light fuels by bringing the ionic liquid into contact with the crude light petroleum oil at a temperature of about 50° C. with stirring for a period of time sufficient to oxidize the sulfur containing impurities to water soluble sulfones, washing the mixture with water to remove the ionic liquids and water soluble sulfones, and drying the desulfurized light fuel product.
In order to investigate the usefulness of 1-methyl-3-pentyl imidazolium-based ionic liquids for the desulfurization of light petroleum fuels, the inventors synthesized a bromide, a tetrafluoroborate, and a periodate ionic liquid, tested the ability of the periodate compound to oxidize dibenzothiophene (which is the major sulfur contaminant in the refining of light fuels), and performed a comparative experiment of the ability of the ionic liquids to remove sulfur-containing impurities from crude petroleum light fuel samples. The experiments are reported in the following Examples.
As shown in FIG. 1, a first 1-methyl-3-pentyl imidazolium ionic liquid is made by mixing 2.2 mmol of 1-bromopentane and 2 mmol of N-methyl imidazole to form a mixture. Mixing preferably occurs for about 10 seconds. This mixture is then irradiated with microwave radiation in a conventional microwave oven. The microwave radiation has a power of about 240 W, and the mixture is irradiated for about 30 seconds. Following irradiation, the mixture is removed from the oven, shaken well, and then re-irradiated for another 30 seconds to form a clear, viscous, single-phase solution. The single-phase solution is then cooled, washed twice with 2 mL of ether to remove unreacted starting components, and then dried under vacuum at a temperature of about 70° C., yielding about 86% pure 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid having the structure:
FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 illustrate, respectively, the H1 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid, the C13 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid, and the FT-IR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl ′1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid. Spectral peaks for the H1 NMR spectrum of FIG. 2 are summarized as: (DMSO-d6, 300 MHz) δ 0.81 (t, J=6.7 Hz, 3H), 1.17-1.28 (m, 4H), 1.76-1.81 (m, 2H), 3.91 (s, 3H), 4.18 (t, J=7.3 Hz, 2H), 7.57 (s, 1H), 7.60 (s, 1H), 9.53 (s, 1H). Spectral peaks for the C13 NMR spectrum of FIG. 3 are summarized as: (DMSO-d6, 75 MHz) δ 12.1, 20.1, 26.2, 27.9, 34.4, 47.6, 120.8, 122.0, 134.9. The spectral peaks for the FT-IR spectrum of FIG. 4 are summarized as: 3435, 3154, 3140, 3007, 2956, 2931, 2800, 1676, 1572, 1518, 1462, 1427, 1381, 1338, 1286, 1232, 1165, 1080, 852, 762, 651, 621 cm−1.
From the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid, a second 1-methyl-3-pentyl imidazolium ionic liquid is further developed, as illustrated in FIG. 5. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid, prepared as described above, is stirred with 3 mmol of NaBF4 in a mixture of dichloromethane (DCM) and water having a molar ratio of 7:3 for 24 hours at room temperature. The resulting second ionic liquid is extracted with DCM and dried under vacuum to provide 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid having the structure:
FIGS. 6, 7 and 8 illustrate, respectively, the H1 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid, the C13 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid, and the FT-IR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid. Spectral peaks for the H1 NMR spectrum of FIG. 6 are summarized as: (CDCl3, 300 MHz) δ 0.89 (t, J=6 Hz, 3H), 1.33 (br s, 4H), 1.85-1.92 (m, 2H), 3.93 (s, 3H), 4.17 (t, J=7.2 Hz, 2H), 7.27-7.41 (m, 2H), 8.79 (s, 1H). Spectral peaks for the C13 NMR spectrum of FIG. 7 are summarized as: (DMSO-d6, 75 MHz) δ 13.5, 21.7, 27.9, 29.4, 35.9, 49.7, 122.2, 123.6, 135.8. The spectral peaks for the FT-IR spectrum of FIG. 8 are summarized as: 36221, 3421, 3160, 3119, 2960, 2933, 2872, 1632, 1573, 1462, 1437, 1171, 1057, 849, 764, 623 cm−1.
The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid prepared as described above may be used to make a third 1-methyl-3-pentyl imidazolium ionic liquid, as shown in FIG. 9. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid is put in a round bottom flask and stirred with 3 mmol of NaIO4 (sodium periodate) in a mixture of dichloromethane (DCM) and water having a molar ratio of 7:3 for 24 hours at room temperature. The resulting third ionic liquid is extracted with DCM and dried under vacuum to provide a 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium iodate ionic liquid having the structure:
FIGS. 10, 11 and 12 illustrate, respectively, the H1 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium iodate ionic liquid, the C13 NMR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium iodate ionic liquid, and the FT-IR spectrum of the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium iodate ionic liquid. Spectral peaks for the H1 NMR spectrum of FIG. 10 are summarized as: (CDCl3, 500 MHz) δ 0.78 (t, J=6.7 Hz, 3H), 1.22 (br s, 4H), 1.77-1.80 (m, 2H), 3.87 (s, 3H), 4.09 (t, J=7.2 Hz, 2H), 7.34-7.36 (m, 2H), 8.71 (s, 1H). Spectral peaks for the C13 NMR spectrum of FIG. 11 are summarized as: (CDCl3, 125 MHz): δ 135.6, 123.69, 122.3, 49.9, 36.3, 29.5, 27.9, 21.7, 13.5. The spectral peaks for the FT-IR spectrum of FIG. 12 are summarized as: 3572, 3533, 3514, 3498, 3477, 3151, 3113, 3007, 2958, 2933, 2864, 1629, 1573, 1462, 1381, 1232, 1168, 1062 cm−1.
In order to test the efficacy of the ionic liquids at desulfurization of light fuels, a solution of dibenzothiophene in petroleum ether (0.25 mg in a 2 mL solution) was placed in a round bottom flask. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid, prepared as described above, was added to the mixture and stirred vigorously for about 6 hours at a temperature of about 50° C. in open atmosphere. The reaction was monitored by thin layer chromatography (TLC). After the reaction was over, the reaction mixture was washed four times in 5 mL of water. The unreacted ionic liquid and sulfone of dibenzothiophene were washed out with the water. The resultant petroleum ether was dried and collected in a round bottom flask. The reaction is illustrated in FIG. 13, where the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid is represented as [pmlm]IO4.
FIGS. 14, 15 and 16 illustrate, respectively, the H1 NMR spectrum of the isolated sulfone, the C13 NMR spectrum of the isolated sulfone, and the FT-IR spectrum of the isolated sulfone. Spectral peaks for the H1 NMR spectrum of FIG. 14 are summarized as: (CDCl3, 500 MHz) δ 7.54 (t, J=7.5 Hz, 2H); 7.65 (t, J=7.5 Hz, 2H); 7.80-7.84 (m, 4H). Spectral peaks for the C13 NMR spectrum of FIG. 15 are summarized as: (CDCl3, 125 MHz): δ 138.0, 134.0, 131.8, 130.5, 122.3, 121.7, 77.4, 77.2, 76.9. The spectral peaks for the FT-IR spectrum of FIG. 16 are summarized as: 3421, 3082, 2958, 1817, 1591, 1575, 1479, 1452, 1435, 1288, 1165, 1157, 1118, 1074, 1047, 943, 869, 756, 734, 711, 613, 580, 567, 538 cm−1.
Crude petroleum includes dibenzothiophene, benzothiophene and thiophene as major sulfur-containing materials. Thus, removal of these thiophenes is an important step towards desulfurization of fuel oils. To standardize the reaction conditions for oxidation, the three ionic liquids described above were each tested as oxidizing agents. The results are summarized in the Table 1 below. In Table 1, the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium bromide ionic liquid is represented as [pmIm]Br, the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1-H-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid is represented as [pmlm]BF4, and the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid is represented as [pmIm]IO4. The first two ionic liquids, prepared as described above, are found to be not effective enough for oxidation of dibenzothiophene. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate was found to furnish the best results in terms of conversion and yield when the reaction was carried out at 50° C. for 6 hours. In Table 1 below, room temperature is abbreviated as RT.
Comparative Results for Oxidation of Thiophenes by Ionic Liquids
Ionic Liquid Time (hours) Temperature (° C.) Yield (%)
[pmIm]Br 5 RT —
[pmIm]BF4 6 RT —
[pmIm]IO4 5 RT 21
[pmIm]IO4 3 50 46
The fuel sample was found almost completely DBT free and the corresponding sulfone of DBT was isolated from the aqueous part by solvent extraction and characterized by NMR spectroscopy. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid was effective in removing all three organosulfur compounds. The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid contains the active oxidizing species periodate, whereas the other two ionic liquids do not bear such a moiety, which explains why the 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid is an oxidizing agent and the other two are not. The thiophene and benzothiophenes are removed nearly quantitatively (>95%), as indicated by thin layer chromatography (TLC). However, 81% and 93% are isolated yields of the corresponding sulfones. Typically, the isolated yields are lower than actual conversion yields due to some loss of product during the process.
The percent yield of isolated sulfone is calculated using the mass of sulfone. The mass of sulfones were divided by the molar mass of sulfone to yield the number of moles of sulfone. The moles of sulfone are the actual yield. The moles of benzothiophenes are known, which is the theoretical yield. The percent yield of any reaction is calculated using moles of reactants and moles of products is:
PercentYield=molesofactualyieldmolesoftheoreticalyield×100.
By substituting the number of moles of sulfones isolated and the moles of benzothiophenes, the percent of sulfur isolated from the model gasoline may be calculated in the form of sulfones as:
PercentSulfurIsolated=molesofsulfonesisolatedmolesofbenzothiophenesused×100.
The 1-methyl-3-pentyl 1H-imidazolium periodate ionic liquid is found to be effective at removing about 90% of the sulfur from the model gasoline.
It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, but encompasses any and all embodiments within the scope of the following claims.
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Convicted sex offender Donnie Snook allowed escorted absence from prison - CBC News
Snook ran a hot lunch program for underprivileged children, "deliberately" placing himself "in the positions to abuse young boys and seriously harm the community which supported him," Judge Alfred Brien wrote in Snook's sentencing decision.Snook was paraded through Saint John City Hall by RCMP following his 2013 arrest. His arrest shocked the community. "He became emboldened in pursuing his desires, reckless and uncaring towards the very children who trusted him to help, not harm, them."Snook admitted to abusing 17 young male victims over a 12-year period in Saint John.He is also serving an additional three months after he pleaded guilty to three child exploitation charges involving a boy under the age of 14 in Newfoundland and Labrador.They date back to Snook's work as a pastor at a Salvation Army church in Mount Moriah, N.L., in the mid-1990s.Grace Murphy volunteered with Snook, serving hot lunches every day.Both Murphy and her late mother were fond of Snook and the work he was doing with children. Murphy even asked Snook to conduct the service when her mother died.When she learned the truth, she was shocked."I was angry," Murphy said. "I just felt so bad for the kids."Grace Murphy volunteered with Donnie Snook, serving hot lunches to children. She doesn't agree with the decision to allow him an escorted temporary absence from prison. (Graham Thompson/CBC)Murphy said she is sorry to hear Snook's father died, but she disagrees with the decision to allow him to leave prison, even if he'll be escorted by correctional officers."That was a horrendous, horrendous crime that he committed against those children," she said."Those children are suffering a life sentence."Six years after her picture of Snook was shattered, Murphy still finds it difficult to trust people who are working with children or to believe they won't do the same harm."He hurt a whole community, not just 18 children."Snook was eligible for parole in JuneCorrectional Service Canada would not confirm Snook's temporary absence from prison, citing privacy concerns."The Privacy Act prevents me from discussing the specifics of an offender's case," Correctional Service Canada spokesperson Lucinda Fraser wrote in an emailed statement.The institutional head of a prison has the power to grant an e...
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'Joy sprang out of our grief:' Parents of misidentified Bronco describe mix-up - paNOW
Canadian Press by Canadian Press View Comments .blogNewsWidget img.thumb-layout--105 { width: 800px; height: 450px; } By Local Sports Fencing comes to the Alfred Jenkins Field House 5h ago The Alfred Jenkins Field House is playing host to fencers from all across Saskatchewan this weekend.The Prince Albert Northern Knights are holding their annual northwestern open tournament. The competition is expected to go until Sunday afternoon.Pamela Wojciechowski who serves as the president of the Prince Albert Nor... Read More Let's block ads! (Why?)...
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Vancouver teen killed by stray bullet remembered as 'irreplaceable pillar' at funeral - The Globe and Mail
Samson Wong wept Saturday as he apologized to his teenage son, saying he wishes he could have protected the young man from the stray bullet that took his life.Alfred Wong was heading home to Coquitlam with his parents on Jan. 13 when a bullet pierced their vehicle on a Vancouver street, striking the 15-year-old. He died in hospital two days later.Vancouver police have said they believe the shooting was gang related.Story continues below advertisement"Alfred, forgive Mom and Dad. We tried to protect you," Samson Wong said at his son's memorial service on Saturday. "Mom and Dad have been talking. We wish the bullet went for our heart, not yours."Sobs could be heard throughout the Coquitlam Alliance Church as Wong spoke to the crowd of about 700 mourners, saying he still can't accept or believe what has happened."Every morning when we wake up, we tell ourselves it was a dream, a bad dream," he said.His son's body lay a short distance away, dressed in a red plaid shirt and grey toque, in an open casket.Wilfred Wong told the crowd that his younger brother was his "closest companion and an irreplaceable pillar" in his life."Fifteen years was far t...
Former Credit Valley golf pro Jerry Anderson dies at 62 - mississauga.com
Canadian development tour.The 1987 PGA of Canada Championship and 1988 Canadian Tour Players Championship are among his notable victories. Anderson also represented Canada at the Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1985 and at three World Cups (1983, 1987 and 1983). He went on to compete on the PGA Tour in 1990 and 1992 and won the Nationwide Tour’s Ben Hogan Texarkana Open in 1991. All of his accomplishments earned him a spot in the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame in 2002, as well as the PGA of Canada Hall of Fame in 2016."Jerry’s accomplishments on the golf course along with his determination to chase his dream all around the globe define the drive of a champion," Golf Canada COO Laurence Applebaum said in a statement. "As we join family and friends in mourning his sudden passing, his outstanding legacy deserves to be celebrated."A gathering of remembrance will be held on Tuesday, March 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the T. Little Funeral Home & Cremation Centre, located at 223 Main Street in Cambridge.The PGA of Canada is deeply saddened by the passing of revered PGA of Canada member Jerry Anderson. Anderson won the 1987 PGA Championship of Canada and was inducted into the PGA of Canada Hall of Fame in 2016. READ MORE: https://t.co/aDmPSivOQrpic.twitter.com/pWu0kO3RXl — PGA of Canada (@pgaofcanada) March 11, 2018Let's block ads! (Why?)...
Obituary — Raymond “Ray” Grant - Nation Valley News (blog)
Joan Clark, (Gordon) St Stephens NB. Lois Coleman (Gary Courtenay B.C. Deni Rushton (David) Oxford Nova Scotia. as well as many nieces and nephew’s. Predeceased by his parents Alfred and Lois Grant. Brother Ronald and sister Susan(Palmer). Ray was born in Prince Rupert moved many times during his early years as his father was in the arm forces. At age 17 he became a professional athlete. Ray went to Olympics trials in 1964 for gymnastics in the province of BC. He became a professional firefighter 1967 to 1976 Dartmouth NS. Ray continued to help when he moved to Iroquois became a volunteer firefighter for the Iroquois Fire Dept. for twenty-five years. He was a self-employed sign painter for over 25 years, did many outstanding signs from Kingston to Cornwall for many local businesses. Retiring from sign business 1998 he moved forward and started his own janitorial business from 1998-2017 for Royal Bank and Ross Video. Ray loved camping, fishing, curling, traveling , gardening, bird watching, and of course his favourite sports teams were the Toronto Maple Leafs, Blue Jays. He also loved NASCAR. Ray’s love for his family and friends and his home was extremely important to him. Ray chose not to have a funeral but left the following message. “I want to express my thanks to all my friends, family and extended family who have enriched my life by their loving friendship, wisdom, humour and especially our grandson Buddy (Tyler) who brought such joy into our family. Don’t cry for me we will be back together.”Cremation has taken place. A private family interment service will be held at Ox...
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Phillips Memorial Home in Massena. There will be no funeral services and burial will be at a later date in Calvary Cemetery, Massena.Cecile was born on November 14, 1933 in Cornwall, Ontario, the daughter of Claude and Bertha (Belanger) Villeneuve. She married Joseph Maugeri Jr. on February 21, 1958. He predeceased her on April 19, 1972. She later married Ivan Briggs on June 20, 1975. He predeceased her in June 2001.She enjoyed playing bingo, traveling and spending time on social media.She is survived by her son Joseph Maugeri III and his wife Becky of Clayville, NY; three grandchildren, Joseph, Benjamin and Matthew Maugeri; a brother, Cyril and wife Sylvia Villeneuve and two sisters, Claudette Lefebvre and Bernadette Good as well as several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two sisters Bernice Sequin and Marie Claire Payette.Arrangements are under the direction of Phillips Memorial Home in Massena. Memories and online condolences may be share with the family at www.PhillipsMemorial.com. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
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BRIAN DAVID MUEHLMAN - Burlington County Times
Brian enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was an avid whitetail deer hunter, traveling throughout United States and Canada hunting with his grandson, Kurt. Brian was a USCG Charter Captain on Lake Ontario for 15 years. His most cherished time was spent with his grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Gail Krauss Muehlman; his mother and step father, Margaret (Rex) Smith of Wexford; daughter, Candi (Joe) Landles of Evans City; step daughter, Becky Flagler of Pittsburgh; siblings, Connie Federbusch, Laurie (Ron) Mahen, and Mark (Pam) Muehlman, all of Mercer; nine grandchildren, Kurt, Mariah, Rayna, Seth, Brandon, Riley, Connor, Liam, and Nico; and several nieces and nephews. Brian was preceded in death by his father, Paul Muehlman and his brother in law, Oscar Federbusch. Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the MARSHALL FUNERAL HOME, 200 Fountain Ave., Ellwood City. Friends will also be received at the funeral home on Thursday from 10:30 a.m. until the time of the blessing service at 11:30 a.m. Rev. Father Mark Thomas will officiate. Interment will follow in Holy Redeemer Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Brian's memory may be made to the Steven King Foundation, 621 Street, Jetmore, KS 67854 or Victory Junction, 4500 Adams Way, Randalman, NC 27317. Online condolences may be sent to marshallsfh. com. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
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Clark Davey, 1928-2019: 'The true journalist of journalists' - Ottawa Citizen
He was heartbroken after failing his medical, but an English teacher told him that people would pay him to write. So he enrolled in the first journalism degree course taught at University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1948 and joining the newsroom of the Chatham Daily News.There, he worked under Richard "Dic" Doyle, but moved to Kirkland Lake when the Thomson newspaper chain made him editor-in-chief of the Northern Daily News. His time there was brief, however, as his girlfriend, Joyce Gordon, issued him an ultimatum: Northern Ontario or me. He chose her: they married in September 1952.In the meantime, he joined the newsroom of the Globe and Mail, where his mentor Doyle had been working for a year.As a reporter with the Globe, Davey covered national and international affairs, including the Suez Canal crisis, the St. Lawrence Seaway project and the cancellation of the Avro Arrow program. During the 1957 federal election campaign, he recognized that Tory leader John Diefenbaker was gaining momentum and might actually win, and convinced his editors to allow him to stay with the Chief's campaign for 40 days. Clark Davey, former publisher of the Montreal Gazette, displaying a mock-up of the paper's new Sunday edition in 1988. Bill Grimshaw / The Canadian Press When Doyle became editor of the Globe in 1963, he chose Davey as his managing editor, and, according to Mills, the two raised the broadsheet's reputation from that of a local paper to a national one. Davey was managing editor for 15 years before joining the Vancouver Sun in 1978. He was publisher there until 1983, when he took over at the Gazette. He was publisher of the Citizen from 1989 to 1993. He was also president and chair of The Canadian Press, and co-founder and president of the Michener Awards Foundation that oversees the country's most prestigious journalism prize."He was the true journalist of journalists," says Kim Kierans, journalism professor at University of King's College in Halifax and Michener Foundation board member. "He told me when I last saw him in November, ‘If we're not providing the encouragement for journalism organizations and journalists within them to do the journalism that matters, then we're in trouble as a democracy.'"He was also a lovely man, smart and sparkling … with incredible enthusiasm for the business and its future."According to Mills, Davey, who in 2002 led a protest on the steps of the Ottawa Citizen after Mills was fired for running an editorial critical of then-prime minister Jean Chrétien, was known as tough and gruff, "but deep down he was a really kind and thoughtful person, and a very good friend who was always fair to people. But if you didn't know him, he could be intimidating."And although he called the shots on the job, it was Joyce who ruled the home roost. According to son Ric, his father only stopped the presses twice - once while at the Globe, when Joyce called him to report that she and Ric thought they had just seen a UFO."That was the kind of pull she had over him," says Ric.Clark Davey is survived by his wife, Joyce; brother Kenneth George; children Ric (Rita Celli), Kevin (Margaret) and Clark Jr. (...
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RICHARD WOOLCOTT. The South China Sea, China, Philippines, Australia and the US.
I was surprised the Opposition did not differentiate itself from the Australian
Coalition Government’s strong support for the US and the Philippine position on the South China Sea issue.
It can be argued that it was misleading to state in public that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) judgment in favour of the Philippines was “binding”. This was a matter between the Philippines and China only. China had declared at the outset that the Court had no jurisdiction over the dispute, a position also taken by one of the other claimants, Taiwan, which argued that any such dispute should be settled peacefully through multilateral negotiations.
The US Secretary of State and the Philippine Foreign Secretary moved on 28 July to a more moderate position than the Coalition’s still unchanged position critical of China.
In his strong criticism of Julie Bishop’s statement the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister said that China was reacting to US pressure, and uncertainties about what effect the US ‘Pivot to Asia’, now called rebalancing, could have on China’s interests in its own region. On no occasion in the last 100 years had China interfered with any one the thousands of ships trading through the South China Sea.
Our Foreign Minister’s reference to the need to support the ‘International legal order’ refers to the post World War 2 order established mainly by the US. Rising regional powers such as China,India,Indonesia,Vietnam and South Korea ,as well as Russia under Putin ,which sees itself as a Pacific power with interests in the Asian regions, all want to participate in any updated international and regional order.
While Australia would regard a decision by the Court of Arbitration in the Hague as binding on it, if Australia was before the Court, the United States has already made it clear that it will not comply with decisions of the International Court of Justice (and it would take the same view of other related international courts such as the PCA) if it regarded a decision to be contrary to its interests.
When I was at the UN in New York in 1984, Nicaragua brought a case to the ICJ against the United States. The United States declined to participate and two years later stated that it would not be bound by international court decisions in which it had not participated. Also,the US is yet to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which China has ratified. The US,nevertheless, is now maintaining that China should be bound by both.
At the recent ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Vientiane there was disagreement amongst the ASEAN countries and no direct reference to China’s claims in respect to the South China Sea was made in the joint communique. There was therefore no need for the Australian Coalition government to support the Philippine position, as we had no direct involvement in a case between the Philippines and China.
The regional Director of Boeing said on 27 July that China’s reaction was “fitting for a rising power”,especially in its own region. It is.
In general, I think it is important for the U S (and Australia and Japan ) to avoid comments ,and especially activities,which China will see as provocative. Political assumptions that China cannot rise peacefully as a major power could become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Richard Woolcott was formerly Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and President of the UN Security Council.
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In 1926, at the age of 36, newly ordained Miguel Pro traveled from Belgium to his native Mexico where churches were closed, priests were in hiding, and persecution of the Church was governement policy. Using disguises to hid his identity as a priest, Miguel Pro would brought comfort, charity, and the sacraments to Mexico's hidden faithful.
Falsely accused in 1927 of a bombing attempt, Miguel Pro became a wanted man. He was betrayed to the police and, without trial, was sentenced to death by firing squad. As he was about to be shot, he forgave his executioners and refused a blindfold. Unfolding his arms in the form of a cross, he died shouting “Long live Christ the King!”
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As any parent knows, kiddos are very disruptive to your life and schedule, especially when they've first popped out. This thread is for those who were able to maintain an exercise regimen as new parents. What did you have to change? How did you prepare? How did you balance taking care of your tiny fleshy potato with your pursuit of fitness goals? Share what worked for you so that others can learn from your success.
As the number of service sector jobs has risen in developed countries, more and more jobs have become sedentary, presenting a different array of health problems than those associated with manufacturing and the primary sector. Contemporary problems, such as the growing rate of obesity and issues relating to stress and overwork in many countries, have further complicated the interaction between work and health.
Many other important bodybuilders in the early history of bodybuilding prior to 1930 include: Earle Liederman (writer of some of bodybuilding's earliest books), Zishe Breitbart, Georg Hackenschmidt, Emy Nkemena, George F. Jowett, Finn Hateral (a pioneer in the art of posing), Frank Saldo, Monte Saldo, William Bankier, Launceston Elliot, Sig Klein, Sgt. Alfred Moss, Joe Nordquist, Lionel Strongfort ("Strongfortism"),[6] Gustav Frištenský, Ralph Parcaut (a champion wrestler who also authored an early book on "physical culture"), and Alan P. Mead (who became an impressive muscle champion despite the fact that he lost a leg in World War I). Actor Francis X. Bushman, who was a disciple of Sandow, started his career as a bodybuilder and sculptor's model before beginning his famous silent movie career.
If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart problems, ask your doctor what you can do. You may need to avoid certain postures, like those in which you're upside down or that demand more balance than you have right now. A very gentle program of yoga, coupled with a light aerobic activity like walking or swimming, may be the best way to start.
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Site enhancement oil, often called "santol" or "synthol" (no relation to the Synthol mouthwash brand), refers to oils injected into muscles to increase the size or change the shape. Some bodybuilders, particularly at the professional level, inject their muscles with such mixtures to mimic the appearance of developed muscle where it may otherwise be disproportionate or lacking.[55] This is known as "fluffing".[56][57] Synthol is 85% oil, 7.5% lidocaine, and 7.5% alcohol.[56] It is not restricted, and many brands are available on the Internet.[58] The use of injected oil to enhance muscle appearance is common among bodybuilders,[59][60] despite the fact that synthol can cause pulmonary embolisms, nerve damage, infections, sclerosing lipogranuloma,[61] stroke,[56] and the formation of oil-filled granulomas, cysts or ulcers in the muscle.[60][62][63] Rare cases might require surgical intervention to avoid further damage to the muscle and/or to prevent loss of life.[64]
Description of an early form of yoga called nirodhayoga (yoga of cessation) is contained in the Mokshadharma section of the 12th chapter (Shanti Parva) of the Mahabharata (third century BCE).[109] Nirodhayoga emphasizes progressive withdrawal from the contents of empirical consciousness such as thoughts, sensations etc. until purusha (Self) is realized. Terms like vichara (subtle reflection), viveka (discrimination) and others which are similar to Patanjali's terminology are mentioned, but not described.[110] There is no uniform goal of yoga mentioned in the Mahabharata. Separation of self from matter, perceiving Brahman everywhere, entering into Brahman etc. are all described as goals of yoga. Samkhya and yoga are conflated together and some verses describe them as being identical.[111] Mokshadharma also describes an early practice of elemental meditation.[112] Mahabharata defines the purpose of yoga as the experience of uniting the individual ātman with the universal Brahman that pervades all things.[111]
On January 16, 1904, the first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The competition was promoted by Bernarr Macfadden, the father of physical culture and publisher of original bodybuilding magazines such as Health & Strength. The winner was Al Treloar, who was declared "The Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World".[5] Treloar won a $1,000 cash prize, a substantial sum at that time. Two weeks later, Thomas Edison made a film of Treloar's posing routine. Edison had also made two films of Sandow a few years before. Those were the first three motion pictures featuring a bodybuilder. In the early 20th century, Macfadden and Charles Atlas continued to promote bodybuilding across the world. Alois P. Swoboda was an early pioneer in America.
An increasing number of studies and reports from different organizations and contexts examine the linkages between health and different factors, including lifestyles, environments, health care organization and health policy, one specific health policy brought into many countries in recent years was the introduction of the sugar tax. Beverage taxes came into light with increasing concerns about obesity, particularly among youth. Sugar-sweetened beverages have become a target of anti-obesity initiatives with increasing evidence of their link to obesity.[21]– such as the 1974 Lalonde report from Canada;[20] the Alameda County Study in California;[22] and the series of World Health Reports of the World Health Organization, which focuses on global health issues including access to health care and improving public health outcomes, especially in developing countries.[23]
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Lily Allen Announces 2019 Australian Tour
Posted on September 03, 2018 by Jenna Benson
It's been 'Hard Out Here' for a Lily Allen-less Australia, but the day has finally arrived, where we can officially announce that the British songstress will be returning down under for a fully-fledged Australian Tour!
Fresh from the June release of her fourth record 'No Shame', the pop star will perform huge sets for fans in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, marking her first Australian tour in four years!
'No Shame' marks a kind of rebirth for Lily, who went back to the drawing board after several tumultuous years, eventually producing a beautifully raw and truthful set of classic pop songs that take her right back to the DIY spirit of her first two albums Alright, Still (2006) and It’s Not Me, It’s You (2011).
JUST ANNOUNCED 💕 Legendary British singer @lilyallen will touch down in Australia and New Zealand in February 2019 for a series of electric shows!
🎫 https://t.co/45XIb8vHxo pic.twitter.com/z1wvScvtz3
— Frontier Touring (@frontiertouring) September 2, 2018
"I can write half a great song then finish it off with some bullshit," she laughs, "and I've done that, a lot of times. But I've been able to sit here and get the bullshit away and make it as truthful as possible. That was my goal."
Tickets will be available to the general public from 11am local time, Tuesday 11 September.
Lily Allen Tour Dates
5 February – Enmore Theatre (Sydney)
6 February – The Forum (Melbourne)
8 February – The Tivoli (Brisbane)
12 February – Metro City (Perth)
Lily Allen's Latest Song A Tribute To Stillborn Son
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Peekskill Film Festival Filmmaking Workshop
Thanks so much for the workshop and being so candid about your process. You guys are very inspirational to budding filmmakers.
— James Brooks
Impolite Company was an official sponsor of the first annual Peekskill Film Festival in the quaint, nice town of Peekskill, NY. Ryan Carmichael and Jason Stefaniak led an intimate, insightful filmmaking workshop with the aspiring filmmakers and cinephiles of Peekskill. Impolite Company hopes to continue their support of the Peekskill Film Festival in the future.
Thank you to James Brooks for these wonderful photos.
"Making Your First Feature" Workshop @ NYU Production Lab
It's important to share your knowledge and experiences with those coming up behind you. On March 30th, the But Not For Me team held a roundtable discussion at the NYU Production Lab with aspiring feature filmmakers, sharing our lessons from making the award-winning debut feature film. What's always great about these events - besides hoping the participants get something out of the info you share - is how much you get out of doing the sharing.
REACT to Film
At Impolite Company, we're big believers in doing what we can to make the world a better place. One of the ways we'd like to do that is helping children in the United States become more media literate. Media literacy is a must in our modern world. It makes for better citizens, and it makes for better humans.
Until we build our capacity to do more, we wanted to point out the great work of REACT to Film, currently doing a TON to not only advance media literacy, but to use documentary films to teach social issues to young people and then galvanize them into action to do something about those issues.
Check out this wonderful organization: http://reacttofilm.com/
Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/REACTtoFILM
We aspire to do the good they're doing and we're inspired by their efforts!
-Impolite Company, September 2015
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
It's simple: we have to help each other. It's our human obligation. It's a moral imperative. It's the right thing to do - and we accept that responsibility.
We don't know exactly how we're going to do it yet - creating content for nonprofits or progressive political causes? mentoring young people struggling to find their voices? teaching visual storytelling to people of all ages? sharing our economic good fortunes? creating an artistic network that inspires and uplifts? - but we're going to do it. And we're going to share our efforts here.
Because everyone can and should share whatever they can to help others. It doesn't matter what you have to share, just Don't Do Nothing.
-Impolite Company
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The Call of Transcendence
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel’s incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence—or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness—Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion.
Shai Held is Dean and Chair of Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, an institute for Jewish prayer, personal growth, and Jewish study which he co-founded. He is winner of a 2011 Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, and Newsweek has twice named him one of America's most influential rabbis.
“Focusing on the idea of transcendence—or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness—Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion.”
“Presents a highly compelling theory about the core principles of Heschel's corpus that demands that his thought be studied anew.”
— Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University
“Heschel's work and thought have rarely been subjected to careful, critical exploration. Shai Held's book is a watershed in this regard. It is philosophically and theologically sophisticated, leaves no stone unturned in its effort to clarify the main themes and foundational commitments that shaped Heschel's thinking, and employs a rich array of contextual factors, including attention to developments in Christian theology and philosophical thinking.”
— Michael L. Morgan, Indiana University Bloomington
“In this lucid and learned account, Abraham Joshua Heschel emerges as a dialectical thinker who holds together such "opposites" as theology and spirituality, the transcendence and self-transcendence of God, the presence and absence of God, the humanity and divinity of the Bible, and prayer as praise and lament. A powerful challenge to Jewish and Christian readers as well as those who stand outside biblical traditions, including secular readers.”
— Merold Westphal, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
“A masterful work of scholarship and careful thought. In Shai Held, Heschel has found the serious and critical reader he so richly deserves. Through Heschel, Held's work reaches out more broadly to treat us to a profound discussion of the great issues in contemporary Jewish theology.”
— Arthur Green, Hebrew College Rabbinical School
“In this lucid and elegant study, one of the keenest minds in Jewish theology in our time probes the vision of one of the most profound spiritual writers of the twentieth century, uncovering a unity that others have missed and shedding light not only on Heschel but also on the characteristically modern habits of mind that impede the knowledge of God. The book is especially valuable for the connections it draws with other philosophers, theologians, and spiritual writers, Jewish and Christian. Enthusiastically recommended!”
— Jon D. Levenson, Harvard University
“Shai Held’s book is a master class in one of the most significant Jewish voices of our time.”
— Tablet
“This is an important book for everyone who wants to understand one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. It brings the man whom Reinhold Neibuhr described as 'one of Eastern Europe’s greatest spiritual gifts to America' to the attention of a new generation, which needs his warning and his vision.”
— JNS.org
“In Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, Held, a Conservative rabbi, seeks to make the case for Heschel’s contributions to Jewish religious thinking. He succeeds in distilling Heschel’s wide-ranging, idiosyncratic, and sometimes contradictory thought for the lay reader in clear and accessible prose. Most refreshing, he is unafraid to criticize aspects of Heschel’s theology that deserve censure.”
— Commentary
“From his perch at the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, the Warsaw-born rabbi [Abraham Joshua Heschel] cast a long shadow over American Jewry, especially its Conservative variant, during the quarter-century after World War II. He also became a byword for American Jewish social-justice activism—most of all for the alliance between Jews and blacks.Feb. 14, 2014”
— New York Times Sunday Book Review
“Shaid Held . . . offers a sympathetic, yet critical, examination of the thought of this influential mid-twentieth century theologian, scholar, and activist.”
— New Books Network
“Held's study is a book to be savored: it is too richly detailed to be absorbed in anything but short sittings. For the reader with the patience and the necessary philosophical and theological backgrounds, reading Held's work is a decadent and enormously rewarding process to be treasured.”
— Jewish Book Council
“Held has written a brilliant collection of essays that should help both theologians . . . and philosophers connect to Heschel’s work for many years to come. It should be in most academic libraries and all seminary libraries.”
— AJL Reviews
“Held’s study of Heschel’s thought is a well-researched and long-needed volume that presents a systematic account of Heschel’s ideas, clarifying many things that are obscure or difficult to understand, pointing to both the strengths and the weaknesses of his work.”
“Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion.11/12/13”
— Menachem Mendel
“. . . [a] thoughtful, illuminating new study of Heschel’s thought. . . . It is one of the many virtues of Shai Held’s book that it helps us to place Heschel alongside not only Kaplan but Halevi, Horovitz, and Rav Nahman—as well as the Psalmist.”
— Jewish Review of Books
“I recommend this book with enthusiasm for anyone interested in life’s fundamental questions, as well as in specific issues of faith, justice, and worship. The presentation is clear, careful, and pedagogically friendly. Readers can benefit from an extensive bibliography and especially the endnotes, richly argued and carefully documented, as the author concisely continues his debates with other interpreters and with Heschel himself. . . . Under the guidance of Shai Held, readers can return with increased confidence to Heschel’s . . . own writings and thus trace, and perhaps emulate, his devotion to God, amazement at existence itself, and reverence for all humankind. ”
— Shofar
“Heschel’s work had a profound impact on American Jewish readers, and he was a social critic as well as a visionary theologian, fighting for civil rights and fiercely condemning the Vietnam War. The influence of Heschel’s writings and activism thus extended beyond the Jewish community. . . Shai Held’s book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, is a sophisticated interpretation of Heschel’s theology.35.2 May 2015”
— Modern Judaism
“Held has reworked his dissertation into an accessible yet carefully argued interpretation of Heschel’s most fundamental anthropological and theological intuitions.”
— AJS REVIEW
“[Held] has written a clear, persuasive, argumentative book . . . .April 2015”
— Journal of Religion
“Rabbi Held’s . . . writing style fits his subject. He’s clear and eloquent, attuned to capture and explicate Rabbi Heschel’s complexity.”
— New York Jewish Week
“Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence is one of the most important works of scholarship on Heschel, resulting from serious, comprehensive, and sensitive reading. Unlike many Heschel scholars, Held has clearly immersed himself in every word of his works. At the same time, his own book is written in language that makes it quite readable. . . . One of the great contributions of Held’s work is his summary and critique of the study of Heschel. From now on, no one will be able to write any creditable academic work about Heschel without referring to Held’s words and notes.”
— Tikkun
1. Wonder, Intuition, and the Path to God
2. Theological Method and Religious Anthropology: Heschel among the Christians
3. Revelation and Co-Revelation
4. The Pathos of the Self-Transcendent God
5. "Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?" Divine Silence and Human Protest in Heschel’s Writings
6. The Self that Transcends Itself: Heschel on Prayer
7. Enabling Immanence: Prayer in a Time of Divine Hiddenness
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American Jazz Museum
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Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, the Changing Gallery exhibit space, Horace M. Peterson III Visitors Center, Blue Room jazz club and Gem Theater.
Since its inception in 1997, the Museum has hosted thousands of students, scholars, musicians fans for over 200 performances, education programs, special exhibitions, community events and more each year, providing an opportunity to learn about the legends, honor their legacy, or simply enjoy the sounds of Kansas City jazz. Our mission is to celebrate and exhibit the experience of jazz as an original American art form through research, exhibition, education and performance at one of the country's greatest jazz crossroads - 18th & Vine.
As the only museum in the world solely focused on the preservation, exhibition and advancement of jazz, the American Jazz Museum is dedicated to public service and collaborative efforts to expand the influence, awareness and appreciation of jazz within Kansas City and to audiences worldwide.
1616 East 18th Street Kansas City, MO 64108
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In force since 25.05.2018
In carrying out its activity, Inter Expo Center Ltd., UIC 121122275, with headquarters and address of management in Sofia , processes information, which is personal data.
Privacy is of utmost importance to us.
This Policy aims to lay down rules relating to:
• Mechanisms of data protection processed by Inter Expo Center Ltd. (data controller)
• Designation of processors and persons who have access to personal data and work under the guidance of personal data processors, as well as their responsibility for non-fulfillment of these obligations relating to the processing and protection of personal data, their rights and obligations.
• The necessary technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized processing (accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized access, alteration or dissemination) and any other illegal processing of personal data.
• Actions to protect against accidents, industrial and natural disasters.
• The rules on the provision of personal data to the data subject and to third parties.
• Time limits for periodic reviews regarding the necessity for data processing and erasure.
• The rules for data destruction or providing data to another controller
• The Procedure for notifying the personal data protection Commission for personal data breach.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person
(full name, age, personal ID number, date of birth, electronic address, telephone, gender, religion, etc.).
Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation shall be considered sensitive personal data.
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• Name: Inter Expo Center Ltd., referred to as " Data Controller "
• UIC: 121122275
• Headquarters and address of management: Sofia, 147, Tsarigradsko shose Blvd
• Phone: 02/9655 220
• E-mail: pmetodiev@iec.bg
• Manager: Ivaylo Ivanov
• The Personal Data Controller (PDC) processes the personal data alone and/or assigns the task to a processor.
A controller may provide for one or more persons with personal data access rights to be responsible for coordinating and implementing the protection measures.
PERSONAL DATA PROCESSORS
Access to personal data is only available to persons whose duties or specific tasks require such access.
All personal data processors are responsible for complying with personal data access restrictions and are personally responsible for violating the privacy, integrity and availability of personal data, except in cases of force majeure.
The controller and / or the persons authorized by him / her shall have the following powers:
To provide the organization of keeping the records according to the provided measures to ensure adequate protection.
To monitor the observance of the specific measures for access protection and control according to the specificity and the level of protection of the kept records.
To perform control over compliance with the requirements for the records protection.
To keep in touch with the Personal Data Protection Commission on the measures taken and the means of protection of the records and the submitted applications for personal data access. This power is granted exclusively to the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd..
To specify the technical resources applied to the processing of personal data.
To observe the organizational procedures for the processing of personal data and the observance of controlled access to the personal data carriers.
To conduct periodic monitoring of compliance with data protection requirements and, in case of detected irregularities, shall take measures to eliminate them.
Access to the personal data stored in the Records shall be restricted to those employees whom such access is necessary for the performance of their duties.
Personal data is protected by disclosure to third parties. Third parties may only have access to such information if they have such a statutory right or otherwise entitle them to do so.
These Internal Rules shall be compulsory for all Controller employees as long as they are involved in the processing of personal data in records and for other persons who have permanent or temporary access to personal data from all records.
Authorized employees entrusted with the processing of personal data from the Records shall:
• process the personal data in a lawful and fair manner;
• use personal data accessed by them in accordance with the purposes for which they are collected and shall not to further process them in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
• update the personal data records (if necessary);
• erase or rectify personal data when it is found to be inaccurate or disproportionate to the purposes for which it is being processed;
• keep personal data in a form that permits identification of the natural persons concerned for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which such data are being processed;
• observe the present Policy.
Any subject whose personal data will be processed by the controller should be notified of:
• the data identified by the controller;
• the purposes of processing of the personal data and legal bases for the processing of personal data;
• the categories of personal data relating to the relevant natural person that is a data subject;
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data may be disclosed;
• information on the rights under Art. 15-22 of Regulation 2016/679, including the right of access and the right to rectify the collected data
Inter Expo Center Ltd.. shall maintained the following records with personal data:
1. Staff Record;
2. Counterparts Record;
3. Visitors Record;
4. Video Surveillance Record;
5. Job Applicants Record
Inter Expo Center Ltd. can store the categories of personal data contained in the records in paper and / or electronic media in compliance with the applicable legislation and the necessary protection measures.
The personal data in the Records shall be kept for the period necessary for the performance of the duties of Inter Expo Center Ltd., depending on the respective record, the personal data category and the purposes for processing them. Personal data shall not be kept longer than is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Administrator or for accounting purposes or in accordance with the requirements of the applicable law. The processed data shall be destroyed after expiration of the storage period in accordance with the requirements set out in this Policy.
The storage periods for each record are defined as follows:
1. Staff Record - 50 years;
2. Counterparts Record - for the period required to manage the relationship with the provider, as long as necessary for the accounting purposes of the Personal Data Controller and / or for the performance of legal obligations of the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. but for no longer than 10 years;
3. Visitors Record - for the period required to manage the relationship with the Visitor, as long as necessary for the purposes of the Personal Data Controller and / or for the performance of legal obligations of the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. but for no longer than 10 years;
4. Video Surveillance Registry - 30 days, except when video surveillance records need to be kept beyond the specified period for the purposes of investigating crimes or violations for which Inter Expo Center Ltd. shall notify the investigative body - the police, the prosecutor's office, the Personal Data Protection Commission and others.
5. Job Applicants Record - 45 days.
The manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. issues an order to determine the persons handling personal data, their powers in relation to the protection of the processed personal data, their rights and duties.
The manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. and / or the persons authorized by him shall have the following powers:
Provide the record keeping organization, according to the envisaged measures to ensure adequate protection;
Monitor the observance of specific measures for protection and access control according to the specificity and level of protection of the maintained records;
Perform control over compliance with the requirements for protection of records;
Keep in contact with the Personal Data Protection Commission on the measures taken and the means of protection of the records and the submitted personal data applications. This power is granted exclusively to the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd.;
Specify the technical resources applied to the processing of personal data;
Ensure compliance with the organizational procedures for the processing of personal data and for the observation of controlled access to the data carriers;
They perform periodic monitoring of compliance with data protection requirements and, in case of detected irregularities, they take corrective actions.
Access to the personal data stored in the Records shall be restricted only to the employees of Inter Expo Center Ltd., where such access is necessary for the fulfillment of their official duties, as well as for the fulfillment of business purposes, strictly observing the need-to-know principle, i.e. in accordance with his rights and duties under a job description and / or a contract for the relevant legal relationship with Inter Expo Center Ltd.). In particular, these officers shall be authorized on the need-to-know principle by an order.
Access to the processing of personal data to other employees is limited to cases where they are explicitly granted such access rights and in accordance with the need-to-know principle. In that case, the right of access shall be granted on a case-by-case basis by the department where the authorized employee is involved, with explicit authorization specifying the personal data and purposes for which the access is granted, as well as the period for which it is provided.
Personal data processed by Inter Expo Center Ltd. is protected against disclosure to third parties. Third parties may have access to such information only if they have such statutory powers or such a right is given to them on other grounds.
Disclosure of such information must be expressly authorized by the Inter Expo Center Ltd Manager, by taking appropriate measures to ensure compliance with the personal data legislation as well as compliance with the obligation of confidentiality and security of transmission of any data exchange.
This Policy is mandatory for all employees of Inter Expo Center Ltd. insofar as they are involved in the processing of personal data in the above records, and for other persons who have permanent or temporary access to personal data from all records.
Authorized employees entrusted with the processing of personal data by the Records shall:
• keep personal data in a form that permits identification of the natural persons concerned for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which such data are being processed; observe the present Policy.
Physical protection of personal data contained in the Records.
Organizational measures:
Defining Controlled Access Areas; All physical areas with paper and electronic records are kept and restricted only to employees who need access through the "need to know" principle in order to perform their duties. All records and documents in paper form containing personal data are locked in lockers that are locked in a restricted room accessible only by authorized personnel.
Data is protected by the use of physical access control tools such as access control through smart cards. All premises where paper data is stored are located in restricted areas and are protected by access control, smart cards, lockers, or the like. Electronic media, including servers, are similarly protected in controlled areas.
Personal data shall be processed in a non-public part of the premises which is physically restricted and accessible only by staff for whom access is necessary for the performance of their duties.
Communication and information systems used for the processing of personal data are separated from the areas accessible to outside persons and are physically protected, as access is limited to those employees who require such data access for the performance of their duties.
Physical access to restricted areas, including those with information systems (computers, servers), is only possible through access control doors via smart cards. Access shall be granted only to staff that is directly entrusted with the task, in order to perform their duties.
Technical measures
Access control system, with smart cards, restricted cabinets, individual password on each computer, individual password for access to Office 365, individual password for access to mail, fire alarm and fire extinguishing systems, live security and security alarm systems.
Knowledge of the legal framework in the field of personal data protection shall be provided in the training program, which has to be passed by the employees and shall be organized by Inter Expo Center Ltd. They are required to read and understand these internal rules upon engagement and to update their knowledge of data protection at least once a year. Familiarization with these internal rules shall be done upon signed acknowledgement.
Sharing critical information between staff (e.g., identifiers, access passwords, etc.) is prohibited except in cases of force majeure.
Training. Employees must undergo personal data protection training immediately after recruitment and at least once a year.
Personnel training for events threatening the data security shall be provided in a training program that the employees must get through immediately after recruitment and at least once a year.
The employees are instructed to immediately notify their supervisor if they have any doubts or are aware of a threat to the security of their personal data.
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Defining the conditions for personal data processing
Personal data shall be collected only for a specific purpose in order to support the legitimate interests of the data controller or, to the extent necessary, to comply with the legal obligations of the data controller. Each type of data is classified according to its purpose and nature and is protected in accordance with the requirements set forth above.
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After serving the community for more than eight decades, Yallourn North's St Brigid's Catholic Church held its final thanksgiving mass on Saturday night. "It's a sad occasion but in this day and age with dwindling attendances and the overheads of insurance and all those kind of things, it just becomes not viable," Father Harry Dyer said. The church on the corner of Reserve Street and North Road, Yallourn North was placed on the market last year. Construction of the prominent building commenced in 1933 on land donated by the State Electricity Commission. Three years later on March 1, 1936, it was officially opened. "It was created as a parish due to the closure of the Yallourn parish - so it was built to cater for the people who were being relocated to Yallourn North," Father Harry, of the Catholic Parishes in Partnership of Moe and Newborough, said. "It's always had a very lovely feel about it - a great community spirit and it's always been a place during that time where people have shared their marriages, baptisms and funerals - the whole lot." Catholic Diocese of Sale Bishop Patrick O'Regan was one of dozens who attended the mass on Saturday night to pay tribute to the church in a closing ceremony. "These days people also have modern transport; people can go shopping and to church in Moe or Morwell whereas in 1936 when the church opened people probably would have walked to church," Father Dyer said. In more recent times, about 50 people have attended the church for its Saturday night mass. Most of those people travelled from Moe and Newborough. "It wasn't an easy decision. Nothing's easy like that but most people would be realistic about it," Father Dyer said. "In Yallourn North there's an Anglican Church, a Uniting Church, and an Orthodox Church. There's mosque up there as well - so I suppose it's just unfortunate." Despite the closure of St Brigid's, services at the St Mary's in Newborough and St Kieran's in Moe won't be affected, Father Dyer said. "The 5pm Saturday mass will continue at St Mary's Church in Newborough," he said. It is unclear at this stage what the church will be used for once its sold.
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April 8 2019 - 11:35AM
Doors close on 80 years of St Brigid's
Bryce Eishold
Father Harry Dyer (front) and churchgoers in St Brigid's Catholic Church at Yallourn North on Friday. photograph hayley mills
After serving the community for more than eight decades, Yallourn North's St Brigid's Catholic Church held its final thanksgiving mass on Saturday night.
"It's a sad occasion but in this day and age with dwindling attendances and the overheads of insurance and all those kind of things, it just becomes not viable," Father Harry Dyer said.
The church on the corner of Reserve Street and North Road, Yallourn North was placed on the market last year.
Construction of the prominent building commenced in 1933 on land donated by the State Electricity Commission.
Three years later on March 1, 1936, it was officially opened.
Father Harry Dyer closes the door on St Brigid's after more than 80 years.
"It was created as a parish due to the closure of the Yallourn parish - so it was built to cater for the people who were being relocated to Yallourn North," Father Harry, of the Catholic Parishes in Partnership of Moe and Newborough, said.
"It's always had a very lovely feel about it - a great community spirit and it's always been a place during that time where people have shared their marriages, baptisms and funerals - the whole lot."
Catholic Diocese of Sale Bishop Patrick O'Regan was one of dozens who attended the mass on Saturday night to pay tribute to the church in a closing ceremony.
"These days people also have modern transport; people can go shopping and to church in Moe or Morwell whereas in 1936 when the church opened people probably would have walked to church," Father Dyer said.
In more recent times, about 50 people have attended the church for its Saturday night mass. Most of those people travelled from Moe and Newborough.
"It wasn't an easy decision. Nothing's easy like that but most people would be realistic about it," Father Dyer said.
"In Yallourn North there's an Anglican Church, a Uniting Church, and an Orthodox Church. There's mosque up there as well - so I suppose it's just unfortunate."
Despite the closure of St Brigid's, services at the St Mary's in Newborough and St Kieran's in Moe won't be affected, Father Dyer said.
"The 5pm Saturday mass will continue at St Mary's Church in Newborough," he said.
It is unclear at this stage what the church will be used for once its sold.
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Maia Shibutani Biography, Olympics, age, height, dating, boyfriend, wiki
learnmorefacts Published:20th January 2018 Biography
Who is Maia Shibutani?
Maia Harumi Shibutani is an American Figure Skater, whereas she is going to represent in Olympics 2018 for her country United States. She contends with her sibling Alex Shibutani. They are the 2011 World bronze medalists, 2011 Four Continents silver medalists, 2009 World Junior silver medalists, two-time U.S. national silver medalists (2011– 2012), 2011 NHK Trophy champions and 2010 U.S. Junior national champions.
Short Biography: Maia Shibhutani
Name: Maia Shibhutani
Full Name: Maia Harumi Shibutani
Date of Birth: July 20, 1994
Age: 23 years old (in 2018)
Birthplace: New York City, NY
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Height: 5 feet 3 inches (1.6m)
Body Measurements: N/A
Profession: Figure Skater
Net Worth: $7, 00,000
Personal life:
Maia Shibutani started skating when she was just at the age of four. She initially prepared as a solitary skater and was instructed by Slavka Kohout Button, a mentor best known for managing US women's champion, Janet Lynn. A key source of motivation for the kin to seek after ice dancing came in March 2003 when their family went to the World Championships in Washington D.C. Alex Shibutani reviewed in one of the interviews, "We were situated near the ice in the second line, and when the ice artists turned out for their warm-up, we could really feel a whirlwind as the skaters flew by. We were so awed with the masterfulness, skating quality, and speed of the best groups that we chose to try it out."
Career and Education:
It was Maia who began skating in the first place, considering it to be the ideal method to express what she heard, each day at home, in music. Her mother and father, Naomi and Chris Shibutani, both previously focused performers, she's a piano player and he's a flute player, dependably had some sort of music playing when the family was preparing for supper at their home, first in Boston, at that point in Connecticut – traditional, jazz, contemporary, it didn't make a difference.
After Maia figured out how to skate at birthday parties, she took to freestyling on the ice too long CDs that Naomi set up together for her. Maia and her sibling Alex Shibutani collaborated as ice move accomplices in the spring of 2004. Amid the 2004 and 2005 season, their first period of rivalry, they contended on the adolescent level, which is the most reduced focused level in the U.S. Figure Skating testing structure. They contended at the 2005 North Atlantic Regional Championships, the qualifying rivalry for the U.S. Junior Championships, and won the competition. The win qualified them for the 2005 U.S. Junior Championships.
The Shibutanis won the Southwestern Regional Championships, fitting the bill for the 2006 U.S Junior Championships. At the 2006 U.S. Junior Championships, they set second in the main obligatory dance and after that won the second necessary and free dances to win the title overall. They acted as guest bloggers and assistants for the media staff for U.S. Figure Skating at the 2006 U.S. Titles, and again at the 2006 Four Continents, which were held in Colorado Springs.
At the 2007 Midwestern Sectional Championships, their qualifying rivalry for the national titles, the Shibutanis contended under They put second in the primary necessary move and after that won the second mandatory and the free dances to win the opposition general and fit the bill for the 2007 U.S. Titles.
At the 2008 Midwestern Sectionals, the Shibutanis set forth in the obligatory move and afterward third in the first and free dances to win the bronze decoration by and large. This award qualified them for the 2008 U.S. Titles.
Maia Shibutani progressed toward becoming age-qualified to content on the worldwide junior circuit. The Shibutanis made their lesser worldwide introduction on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP). At their first occasion, the 2008– 09 ISU Junior Grand Prix occasion in Courchevel, France, they set second in the obligatory move and afterward won the first and free moves to win the gold decoration in general by an edge of the triumph of 11.00 focuses over silver medalists Kharis Ralph and Asher Hill. They were then relegated to their second occasion, the occasion in Madrid, Spain. At this occasion, they set second in every one of the three portions of the opposition and won the silver medal. These two decorations qualified them for the 2008– 2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, for which they were the third-positioned qualifiers. Qualifying for the occasion had additionally qualified them for the 2009 U.S. Titles.
The Shibutanis went ahead to the 2009 U.S. Titles, where they contended on the lesser level for the second successive year. At the occasion, the Shibutanis set second in the necessary dance, the first dance, and the free dance. They won the silver award overall denoting their fifth back to back platform complete at a national-level rivalry. Following the opposition, the Shibutanis were named to the group to the 2009 World Junior Championships.
The Shibutanis won both their JGP occasions - in Lake Placid, New York and in Zagreb, Croatia. At the JGP Final in Tokyo, Japan, they won the bronze award. At 2010 Junior Worlds, their last junior occasion subsequent to having sought two seasons on the worldwide circuit, they completed simply off the platform in fourth place.
In 2011 Finlandia, they both began their season with a silver award. Starting their Grand Prix season, they won silver at the 2011 Cup of China. After seven days they put first at the 2011 NHK Trophy, edging Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje for gold by 0.09 focuses. It was the Shibutanis' first senior Grand Prix title, earned amid simply their second season contending at the senior level. Their joined outcomes qualified them for the Grand Prix Final where they completed in fifth place.
At the 2012 US National titles, the Shibutanis rehashed as the silver medalists behind Davis and White. The Shibutanis completed fourth at the 2012 Four Continents, an occasion amid which Alex contended in the free move while to a great degree sick, and eighth at the 2012 World Championships.
The Shibutanis additionally took bronze at the 2013 U.S. Championships. They at that point contended at the 2013 Four Continents and completed fourth. At the 2013 World Championships, the Shibutanis completed eighth.
The Shibutanis started their season with yet another damage which constrained them to pull back from the US Classic in September. They started their focused season on the fabulous Prix by catching bronze decorations at both of their occasions - 2013 Skate America and 2013 NHK TrophyT-qualifying as exchanges to the Grand Prix Final. At the 2014 U.S. Titles, they earned the bronze award and were named in the U.S. group to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. They put ninth at the Olympics. The Shibutanis completed their season with solid exhibitions and a sixth-place complete at 2014 World Championships.
At the 2015 U.S. Titles, the couple won the silver decoration. They at that point went ahead to contend at the 2015 Four Continents Championships where they completed second in the short move and third place generally speaking. They finished their season with a fifth-put complete at the 2015 World Championships.
At the 2016 U.S. Titles, the Shibutanis set second behind Madison Chock and Evan Bates amid the short move, however, climbed following the free move to win their first senior US title. They earned overwhelming applause from the group of onlookers at the two fragments of the opposition.
At the 2017 U.S. Titles, the Shibutanis won their second national title; they defeated Chock/Bates by 1.01 subsequent to setting first in the short move and second in the free. The kin took silver at the 2017 Four Continents in Gangneung (South Korea), having positioned second in the two sections to Canada's Virtue/Moir.
The Shibutanis influenced their season to make a big appearance at the 2017 Rostelecom Cup. They scored 77.30 in the short move and 111.94 in the free move to put first on the two occasions and won the gold award, with 189.24 focuses. At their second GP occasion, 2017 Skate America, they again won both the short and free movement for an aggregate of 194.25 and in front of the packed general, meeting all requirements for the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya.
Family life:
Maia Harumi Shibutani was conceived on July 20, 1994, in New York City. Discussing her family background she was born to parents named Chris Shibutani and Naomi Uyemura, both of Japanese plummet, who met as Harvard musicians. She has a more established sibling, Alex Shibutani who contends with her as her accomplice for ice dancing. She began figure skating in 1998 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and she was an understudy at Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Maia Shibutani is so much focused towards her career that currently, she is not interested to be in any kind of love affairs, make a boyfriend or else go on romantic dating with them. Rather she is a determined young lady having a great dream and is right now working hard to achieve her dream.
Wiki, Net worth and Salary:
Maia Shibutani is very determined towards her work. Because of all of her hard work and determination today she is known worldwide. Her immense popularity and success in her career have led her to jaw-dropping net worth. Her net worth is estimated to be somewhere around $7, 00,000. And, in coming days she will definitely gain more.
When Figure Skater star Maia Shibhutani was a child, her aim was to cook delicious food and choose the profession of the chef. She's as yet inspired by cooking, and the two siblings, that is she along with her brother portray themselves as foodies.
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List of governors of Badakhshan
The Governor of Badakhshan (Persian: حاکم بدخشان, hākim-i badakhshān) is the head of the government of Badakhshan. In the late 19th century Badakhshan was joined with Qataghan into a single province and there were governors of Qataghan-Badakhshan Province and Badakhshan District. In 1963 the province was dissolved and Badakhshan became one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Badakhshan province is located in the north-east of the country, between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya. The capital of Badakhshan and the seat of the provincial governor is the town of Fayzabad.
Traditionally, Badakhshan was ruled by a mir. In 1849 Badakhshan came under control of the Amir of Afghanistan. The mirs continued to wield power, but the Amir of Afghanistan appointed a hakim (حاکم), or governor, to rule the province. The title of Hakim was applied to numerous administrative positions in Afghanistan and several positions with different administrative responsibilities could all be called hakim. An example of this is in 1873, when administrative of Badakhshan was placed under the rule of the Hakim of Afghan Turkestan, who in turn appointed a Hakim of Badakhshan. Thus at times the Hakim of Badakhshan has been subservient to the hakim of another region. In 1873 the Mir of Afghanistan also became a pensioner of the Kabul and ceased to hold power in Badakhshan.[1]
In the late 19th century Badakhshan was joined with Qataghan Province into a single province named Qataghan-Badakhshan Province that had a single governor. The capital of Qataghan-Badakhshan Province and seat of the provincial governor was the town of Khan Abad, currently located in Kunduz province.[2] Qataghan and Badakhshan were again divided in 1963 and the capital of Badakhshan reverted to Fayzabad. Some sources indicate that there may have been more than one governor appointed at a time.[3]
List[edit]
Sardar Abdur Rahman Khan 1863-64 Abdur Rahman Khan, the future ruler of Afghanistan, is mentioned as the "Governor of Qataghan and Badakhshan" in Siraj al-Tawarikh, which was commissioned during his reign as Amir of Afghanistan. Holding the position of a sardar, or general, Abdur Rahman Khan ruled over Qataghan and Badakhshan while he waged a military campaign in the region.[4][5]
Faiz Muhammad Khan[6] 1865-?
Hafizullah Khan 1873–1874 From 1873 to 1874 Badakhshan was directly administered by the governor of Afghan Turkestan, Naib Muhammad Alam Khan. Alam Khan appointed Hafizullah Khan as governor of Badakhshan[1]
Faiz Muhammad 1874 In May 1874 Faiz Muhammad was appointed to relieve Hafizullah Khan as Governor of Badakhshan, but he was relieved of his appointment in September 1874.[7]
Sayyid Muhammad Khan 1874-? In September 1874 Colonel Sayyid Muhammad Khan was appointed to relieve Faiz Muhammad as Governor of Badakhshan.[7]
Mir Mahomed Omar 1880-? Abdur Rahman Khan mentions in his memoirs that Mir Mahomed Omar "Governor of Faizabad," which was then the capital of Badakhshan.[8]
Sardar Abdulla Khan 1881/82-1888 The Siraj al-tawarıkh notes that in 1882 Sardar Abd Allah Khan Tukhi was the governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan.[9] British archival documents from 1884-85 mention a Sardar Abdulla Khan as governor of Badakhshan[10] Lee mentions Sardar Abdulla Khan as governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1888 during the rebellion of Ishaq Khan.[11] Sardar Abdullah Khan was decisively defeated by Ishaq Khan in September 1888 and fled the battlefield.[12]
Walidad Muhammad 1880s? Wali Muhammad served as Governor of the District of Badakhshan in the 1880s. He is a native of Qalat-i-Ghilzai[13]
Mir Ahmad Shah 1887 At the beginning of 1887 Mir Ahmad Shah was appointed Governor of Badakhshan, but before he left Kabul to take up his appointment in Badakhshan he was demoted and Abdullah Jan took his place[14]
Abdullah Jan 1887-? In 1887 Abdullah Jan was appointed governor of Badakhshan.[14]
Abdul Ahad Wardak 1910s Wardak was the governor of Qataghan-Badakhshan Province.
Azimullah Khan 1928 Served as Governor of Qataghan-Badakhshan Province in 1928.[15]
Muhammad Sarwar 1928 In 1928 Muhammad Sarwar was appointed Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan, but he never took up the appointment.[16]
Safarhan (also known as Nasir Safar)[17] November 1929-? Safarhan was appointed governor of Qataghan-Badakhshan Province following the fall of the government of Habibullāh Kalakāni. He remained in office at least through mid-1930.[17]
Shir Muhammad Nasher 1932-? Shir Muhammad Nasher served as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan from 1932 onwards [13]
Shar Mohammed Khan ?-1937-? American Ernest F. Fox reported meeting Shar Mohammed Khan, the Governor of Qataghan and Badakhshan, during his travels through Afghanistan in 1937.[18]
Said Abbas Khan ?-1937-? American Ernest F. Fox reported meeting Said Abbas Khan, the Governor of Badakhshan district, during his travels through Afghanistan in 1937.[18]
Muhammad Ismail Mayar 1938-? Muhammad Ismail Mayar replaced Shir Muhammad Nasher as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1938[13]
Ghulam Faruq 1939-? Ghulam Faruq replaced Muhammad Ismail Mayar as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1939[13]
Muhammad Gul 1940-? General Muhammad Gul replaced Ghulam Faruq as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1940[13]
Ghulam Faruq 1942-? Ghulam Faruq, who served as governor from 1939 until his replacement by Muhammad Gul, was again appointed Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in place of Muhammad Gul in 1942[13]
Muhammad Juma Siddiq 1945-? Muhammad Juma Siddiq was appointed governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1945[13]
Muhammad Hakim Shah Alami 1946-? Muhammad Hakim Shah Alami replaced Ghulam Faruq as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1946[13]
Muhammad Karim 1946-? Muhammad Karim replaced Muhammad Juma Siddiq as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1946[13]
Muhammad Sawar Khan 1948-? Muhammad Sawar Khan replaced Muhammad Karim as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1948[13] Jean Bowie-Shor and Franc Shor reported meeting Khan in Faizabad in the summer of 1949 during their travels through Afghanistan.[19]
Muhammad Ismail Mayar 1950-? Muhammad Ismail Mayar, who served as governor until his replacement by Ghulam Faruq, replaced Muhammad Hakim Shah Alami as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1950[13]
Muhammad Juma Siddiq 1954–1956 Muhammad Juma Siddiq, who had previously served as Governor of the District of Badakhshan, replaced Muhammad Karim as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1954[13]
Muhammad Juma Siddiq 1956-? Muhammad Juma Siddiq was promoted from Governor of the District of Badakhshan to replace Muhammad Ismail Mayar as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1956[13]
Abdur Rahman Popal 1956-? Abdur Rahman Popal replaced Muhammad Juma Siddiq as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1956[13]
Khuda Dad Etemadi 1959-? Khuda Dad Etemadi replaced Abdur Rahman Popal as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1959[13]
Din Muhammad Delawar 1960-? Din Muhammad Delawar replaced Khuda Dad Etemadi as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1960[13]
Abdul Qayyum Atai 1962-? Abdul Qayyum Atai replaced Din Muhammad Delawar as governor of the District of Badakhshan in 1962[13]
Abdul Karim Seraj 1963 General Abdul Karim Seraj (alternatively spelled Siraj) replaced Muhammad Ismail Mayar as Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan in 1963. He was the last Governor of Badakhshan and Qataghan, which was dissolved and divided into four provinces in 1963.[13] He then served as governor Kunduz from 1963-1965 following the division of Qattaghan and Badakhshan Province.[20] Seraj was the son of Habibullah Khan, Amir of Afghanistan from 1901-1919. He was born in 1912.
Nisar Ahmad Sherzai 1963-? Nisar Ahmad Sherzai was appointed governor of the newly created Badakhshan Province in 1963[13]
Roshandil Roshan 1967-? Roshandil Roshan replaced Nisar Ahmad Sherzai as Governor of Badakhshan Province in 1967[13]
Sultan Aziz Zikria 1970[21]
Roshandel Wardak (also spelled Roshandil Wardak) [22][23] 1960s-1970s
Sayyid Kasim 1971-? Sayyid Kasim was appointed Governor of Badakhshan Province in 1971[13]
Taj Mohammad Wardak 1970s -
- In addition, in the mid-1960s Wardak held the position of Deputy Governor of Badakhshan Province.[24]
Abdul Basir Salangi 1970s[3]
Habibullah Korur 1970s-May 1979[3]
Muhammad Usman Rasikh 1970s[3]
Abdul Aziz Azim[25] 1960s-July 1978[3]
Ghulam Mohammed Arianpur -
- Ghulam Mohammed Arianpur died in a chopper crash in 1993.[26]
Mawlawi Qiamoddin Khairatmand -
- He was killed by the fighters of Ahmad Shah Masood's Shura-e Nezar in 1999.[27][28]
Sayed Amin Tariq 2002
Mohammad Amaan Hamimi -
Sayed Ikramuddin Masoomi March 2004
? Former Governor of Takhar. Became minister of Work and Social Affairs after his time as Governor of Badakshan
Sayyed Mohammad Akram 21 February 2005
Abdul Munshi Majid 2006
07 April 2009 Was replaced after demonstrations which accused Majid of involvement in misusing power .[29]
Baz Mohammad Ahmadi 2 May 2009
2010 Was former Governor of Ghor
Shah Waliullah Adeeb 2 November 2010
25 October 2015 Member of Jamiat Islami Party, formerly a professor at Kabul University and spokesman for Ministry of Education. Survived attack on 20 June 2011 in Ordoj District.[30]
Ahmad Faisal Begzad[31] 26 October 2015
List of current governors of Afghanistan
List of mirs of Badakhshan
^ a b Christine Noelle. State and tribe in nineteenth-century Afghanistan: the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863). Richmond: Routledge, 1997. pp. 101, 320
^ Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan Vol. 1. Badakhshan Province and northeastern Afghanistan. Graz : Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972.p. 98.
^ a b c d e Ludwig W. Adamec. First Supplement to the Who's Who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Graz: Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt, 1979. p. 48.
^ Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara and R.D. McChesney (translator). Siraj al-Tawarikh, Vol. 2. Publisher. Afghanistan Digital Library. page 105. (no longer available online).
^ Mohammad, Faiz. Siraj al-Tawarikh, Vol. 2. p. 262. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
^ Imperial gazetteer of India: provincial series, Volume 1. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1908
^ a b Adamec, Ludwig W. (1975). Historical and Political Who's Who of Afghanistan. Graz: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst. p. 135.
^ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān (1900). The life of Abdur Rahman, amir of Afghanistan, Volume 1. London: John Murray. p. 189.
^ Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara and R.D. McChesney (translator). Siraj al-Tawarikh, Vol. 3. Publisher. Afghanistan Digital Library. pages 31, 34, 215, 228. (no longer available online).
^ Kandahar Newsletters For The Year 1884-85. Volume-Ii. Quetta: Directorate Of Archives Department. Government of Balochistan, Quetta (Pakistan), 1990. p. 190
^ Jonathan L. Lee. The "ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan, and the Battle for Balkh, 1731-1901. New York: E.J. Brill, 1996. p. 507.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Adamec, Ludwig W. (1975). Historical and Political Who's Who of Afghanistan. Graz: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst. p. 345.
^ Adamec, Ludwig W. (1975). Historical and Political Who's Who of Afghanistan. Graz: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst. p. 129.
^ a b Abdullaev, Kamoludin Nazhmudinovich (2009). Ot Sin’tsziania do Khorasana : iz istorii sredneaziatskoi emigratsii XX veka. Dushanbe: Irfon. ISBN 978-99947-55-55-4.
^ a b Ernest F. Fox. Travels in Afghanistan 1937-1938. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. p. 43
^ Jean and Franc Shor. "We took the highroad in Afghanistan." National Geographic. November, 1950. Vol. 98, no. 5. pp. 673-706.
^ Christopher Buyers. The Barakzai Dynasty.
^ Home Brief. Kabul Times. vol. vi. no. 159. October 9, 1967.
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^ "Saur seven victory celebrated." Kabul Times. May 16, 1978
^ "Overloading Caused Chopper to Crash, Afghanistan Says". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. 1993-02-21. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
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^ https://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=governor+of+badakhshan&cf=all&sugg=d&sa=N&lnav=d4&as_ldate=1990&as_hdate=1999&hdrange=2000%2C2009
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The Seasons in Dubai
Dubai is always known for its hot climate and burning weather, that is what everyone knows, however what the season or climate may be, never fails to grab tourist’s attention and bustles almost in each season you visit. May be that it why there is only 15% of the population of the locals whereas rest is of the tourists making it a hot top destination despite of the weather conditions. The seasons in Dubai are not very hard to define as many of us are already aware of how the flow goes on.
Unlike others, there is no proper spring or autumn season in Dubai, as the city is highly identified for being the hottest or a cool one, that depends on the months and time period you choose to visit. However, whichever season it may be, Dubai never fails to fascinate the tourism and you will always see people finding an excuse to visit the outrageous city.
Even talking about summers in Dubai will feel like too hot to discuss, but this season, ranging mostly from April to October, makes it merely impossible for a visitor to explore the city, however, the city itself is almost centrally air conditioners but you will definitely have the urge to get out of the car and enjoy the streets of the city you visit? Right, but in Dubai as far as summers are considered, it’s impossible to hop on the streets and alleys in Dubai.
If you are visiting Dubai in summers for any reason, avoid roaming on the roads especially in the mid-day when the sun is sky high as you might get a heat stroke, try visiting the malls and air conditioned places more if summers are your only choice.
In March, you can also witness the grand Dubai shopping festival and Dubai international film festival.
The Rainy Season
Rains are not as friendly for Dubai as for any other city may be, as the city receives infrequent rainfalls that too majorly in winters and they don’t last for so long, this means in November and December you can witness the overall rain the city could fall in, though the temperatures is not affected by the rains, it remains constant in its 20s, however, the overall atmosphere become vibrantly charming to roam around the city.
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Winters are for a short period of time in Dubai and the is most desirable seasons of all, probably the most wanted amongst the seasons in Dubai, as people prefer visiting the city in winters mostly, even the locals are seen in full enthusiasm during this time period, as it’s the best time to witness the actual charm of the city. from December to March, you can see the most of the winter season in Dubai. Though the highest temperature could still go up to 30°C and lowest is as low as 15°C.
Sandstorms
The seasons in Dubai include sandstorm as a part of it, as during the summers, due to high rate of humidity and the strong winds that blow from Saudi Arabia, Dubai faces a low pressure, these winds, also known as Shamal becomes unpredictable by the time it reaches Dubai, the Shamal boosts up the deserted area and reduces the visibility due to the sandstorm which occurs because of the heavy wind. The last sandstorm occurred in 2015 which destroyed massive parts of the country.
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The Miracle Of Anfield
admin 8th May 2019 The Liver Bird
Liverpool are in the Champions League final. I’ve had to start this blog post with that sentence because I still can’t quite believe it. Liverpool, a side who last week were written off by the footballing world, have overcome a 3-0 deficit to beat Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield in what is arguably the greatest comeback in the sport.
Image via The Express
Those who read my blogs or follow me on Twitter will know I’m quite a rose-tinted fan, I’m the one always searching for a positive or something to cling on to, even when the chips are down. On Tuesday though, not even I seriously thought we could do something about this semi-final. I held on to a glimmer of hope and kept saying “you never know” but I never truly thought we’d be able to prevent Barcelona from scoring and find the net on enough occasions to make Madrid.
The only way we could do it, if we were going to complete this miracle, was to find an early goal I knew that much. So we did, Divock Origi the absolute hero latched onto a ball splayed out from the Barca keeper after he attempted to save a Henderson shot. Divock netted after just seven minutes and Liverpool had immediately laid down their intentions on this match.
Anfield was absolutely buzzing, what I would have given to be there, the atmosphere on a European night at that ground is unrivalled on a night like Tuesday. Say what you want but no team wants to come to Anfield for a European game, not even Barca who are 3-0 up in a semi-final.
The early goal seemed to stun Barca, their players looked deflated instantly, despite the fact they still had a two-goal advantage and an away goal on their part could change everything. They’d rested all XI players in their last league match and had the likes of Messi and Suarez to call upon but we made the Spanish side look bang average.
Liverpool continued to play calmly in the first half, creating chances and raising the heartbeats of Kopites all over the globe, but it wouldn’t be until nine minutes into the second half when the Reds found themselves a second.
Gini Wijnaldum with a powerful shot in the centre of the box fizzed one home for the Reds having only just entered play. The Dutchman replaced Andy Robertson who picked up an injury during the first half.
Gini is one of those players that everybody loves but he’s not really known for scoring goals. He changed that on Tuesday evening against one of the best teams in the world because just minutes later, he scored again.
A lovely cross from Shaqiri on the left was placed perfectly for Gini who rose with a powerful header to take the game to 3-0. Absolutely phenomenal. At this point I’m not afraid to admit, I was basically crying with joy. I could not believe what I was seeing. Over the years I’ve watched Liverpool pull off some astonishing results but surely to god we couldn’t find our way to this year’s Champions League final? Surely heartbreak was awaiting.
I tried to calm down, I was shaking like a leaf and was screaming, literally screaming like a child at every goal. This game was insane but even with the Reds now 3-0 up and shooting towards a raucous Kop End, it would only take a goal from Barcelona to spoil the party. Barcelona, one of the best teams in world football.
The thing was though, Barcelona were far from the Barcelona we know, as mentioned previously, even after the first goal they looked utterly deflated. At 3-0 it started to look like they’d ran out of ideas, the pressure of the Anfield atmosphere along with the high intensity of all of our lads was just too much for them to deal with, they didn’t have a second to breathe or even think straight.
Then, a twenty-year-old Trent Alexander-Arnold walked over to the corner, a scouser through and through, at Liverpool Football Club from the age of six. He drops the ball down in the corner, casually starts walking away as if Shaqiri’s going to take it but he’s spotted Divock, he knows he’s free. A quick return to the corner flag sees him whip the ball into the Belgian who finishes perfectly in front of the Kop. Barcelona caught with their pants well and truly down.
At this stage I’d gone wild, I mean I was already pretty wild for the three previous goals but this was the point when I actually, truly thought we could be in that final in Madrid. The sheer audacity of Trent to even try that?!
I watch most of our matches with me fella but as you all know he’s a massive Wolves fan (bit awkward next week!!!) so while he enjoys watching Liverpool with me, he doesn’t really care about results. For some reason I just resort to attacking him in these massive games. Jumping all around him, ruffing up his hair, punching him in the arm, slapping him on the legs hahaha it’s the adrenaline, I have to release it somehow and he’s just there or sometimes it’s me brother haha!
I genuinely at points on Tuesday night felt like I was about to faint, what I was witnessing was so special and the reactions to each goal just got bigger and bigger and bigger. Just a phenomenal evening of football.
The final whistle about 15 minutes after Liverpool’s fourth confirmed the fact that nobody could quite believe: Liverpool would be 2019 Champions League finalists.
I spent the majority of the following day at work in a daze with a Barry White tone to my voice from all the screaming. Even typing this now at 8:30pm on Wednesday evening, I still can’t quite believe it but I am massively excited.
Whatever happens on Sunday now, we have a final in Europe to look forward to and I can’t say that’s something I was expecting.
The Miracle of Anfield.
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Jack White Debuts New Band, The Dead Weather
White Stripes offshoot features members of the Kills, the Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age.
Gil Kaufman 03/12/2009
Apparently no one informed White Stripes/ Raconteurs frontman Jack White that the country is facing dire jobless rates, because White just added a third band to his résumé. Not content to front just two bands at once, White has just unveiled his latest creation, the Dead Weather, a death-rattle blues quartet featuring White on drums and vocals, the Kills' Alison Mosshart on vocals, the Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence on bass and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita on guitar.
White debuted the band Wednesday night at a private party in Nashville, Tennessee, in front of 150 invited guests, according to a recap of the event on the Web site of White's Third Man Records, using the show to unveil the label's new offices/ record store/ photo studio/ performance stage in Music City.
The first public performance by the band included songs from its upcoming debut, Horehound, which was produced by White and is due out in June. The album was recorded over the course of three weeks earlier this year at the new Third Man Studio, which was, of course, designed "from the ground up" by White as well.
Attendees at Wednesday's shindig — which, according to The Associated Press, included Sheryl Crow, Martina McBride and the White Stripes' Meg White — exchanged their letter-pressed invitations for a limited-edition seven-inch vinyl pressing of the Dead Weather's debut single, "Hang You From the Heavens," which also features a cover of the new-wave classic "Are 'Friends' Electric?" originally by Gary Numan's 1970s band Tubeway Army.
In keeping with White's love of home-crafted musical curios, the bandmates hand-painted each of the 150 singles, which also included photo-booth pictures of the bandmembers. Both songs are currently available exclusively through iTunes.
"The idea was to do a seven-inch single and be done with it, but we started writing songs and something happened," White said, according to the AP, which also reported that the band plans to tour this year.
"Hang You From the Heavens" mixes the Stripes' signature fuzzed-out garage sound with some dinosaur-rock drumming from White and Mosshart's punchy blues singing. Over skuzzy, blown-speaker rock, Mosshart yelps, "I wanna grab you from the hair/ And hang you up from the heavens." The noisy Numan cover adds a 1960s psychedelic sheen to the robotic original, with watery vocals and woozy keyboards that have a vintage vibe but render the song almost unrecognizable.
The White Stripes have not toured since late 2007, when they canceled a string of dates following Meg White's bout of acute anxiety. It's unclear how the formation of this new band will impact the Grammy-winning duo's future. The normally prolific group, which has reportedly been working on new material, has not released a new album since 2007's Icky Thump, though they did give a wobbly performance on the February finale of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." A spokesperson for White could not be reached for comment at press time.
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Sine Mora review
By Damien McFerran - 31 Mar, 2012
Serious shooting action
If you told us that a new standard in 2D shooters would be set by a game produced as a collaboration between developers in Hungary and Japan, we’d probably scoff at your prediction and get back to playing Hellfire on the trusty Mega Drive. However, that unlikely scenario has come to pass, and the game in question is Sine Mora.
A joint effort from Digital Reality (Imperium Galactica) and Grasshopper Manufacture (No More Heroes), Sine Mora is a download-only title for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. Set in a steampunk universe populated by talking animals, it boasts an insanely detailed - and mature - storyline, tackling topics such as mass genocide, murder, rape and revenge. To make the plot even more complex, it is structured randomly - Tarantino-style - with levels shown out of sequence from the perspective of different characters.
As far as shooter storylines go, it’s easily one of the most impressive. However, it’s not the most striking element of the title; that accolade goes to Sine Mora’s compelling gameplay. While traditional shooters either award you lives or grant your ship a health bar, Sine Mora features a timer which represents your life force. Taking a hit shaves seconds off your time limit, while shooting enemies has the reverse effect. When the clock reaches zero it’s game over.
This mechanic is unique in itself, but Sine Mora also allows you to manipulate time to make it easier to dodge the hail of bullets cascading down on your ship. By slowing down time you’re given more opportunity to react and navigate your way through the maze of projectiles, but this comes at a cost. Using the slow-down power depletes a gauge, and this has to be replenished. As a result, it makes you very wary of using the ability unnecessarily.
You’ll need to conserve this power if you want to see the game through to completion. In the best tradition of bullet-hell blasters, this game is as tough as old boots. It’s almost depressingly difficult in fact, and will have casual players running to the hills. However, after a while you learn to adapt to the punishing nature of the gameplay, honing your skills to a point that you’re able to weave through the carnage and maximise your attacks to ensure the timer is always running as full as possible.
Once you’ve bested the gripping story mode you can move on to the arcade portion of the game. It’s here that things become truly serious, as all the plot is stripped away and you’re left with a pure score-based experience. Your best efforts can be posted online, where your prowess is compared directly with other players. This arrangement is sure to bring out the true gamer within you, and bettering your performance becomes an almost obsessive pastime.
It would be remiss to talk about this game without mentioning the exquisite visuals. Sine Mora is easily one of the most visually stunning 2D shooters ever made; although your ship is locked on a 2D route, the camera is constantly zooming in, spinning around and generally making the best use of the complicated 3D environments the developers have crafted. Some of the huge boss characters are a joy to behold, and it’s almost too easy to sit there appreciating their appearance when in reality you should be filling them full of lead.
Sine Mora is an absolute must-have download for anyone who has ever enjoyed a 2D shooter in their gaming career. It’s a difficult proposition, and is sure to test your reactions and accuracy, but it’s one you’ll savour for quite some time. If you can drag yourself away from your SNES or Mega Drive for long enough, this is essential stuff.
Chris Camp - 23 Apr 2012, 15:18 GMT
Brilliant game, am a big fan of 2D shooters and this is one of the best I've played on the current gen consoles. The visuals are stunning, reminds me of the time I first saw Xenon 2 on my friends Atari ST in 1990, back when I still had a Spectrum, and thinking if graphics can get any better than this then I can't imagine them! Well that was exactly my thought as I played through the first few levels of Sine Mora. Definitely worth a look.
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Northeast Iowa Montessori School - The Joy of Discovery
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Rachael Buresh
Rachael joined NEIM in the Fall of 2017 as Acting Head of School. Rachael brings more than 25 years of experience in business administration, child center management, special education teaching, and non-profit work. Rachael has a bachelor’s degree from North Dakota State University with a major in voice performance and a minor in sports medicine.
Rachael is actively involved in the community as a Nordic Fest board member, Rotary International member, and owner of K.D. Rae Jewelry on Water Street. She lives in Decorah with her husband and three daughters.
Jane Busch
E1 (Elementary) Lead Guide
Jane Busch was instrumental in the initial creation of NEIM and continues to be passionately involved in its growth and changes. Jane is the lead teacher for NEIM’s elementary program, affectionately known as “E1” for “elementary level one.”
Jane lives north of Decorah with her husband and two children. In her free time she enjoys gardening, reading and just being outside.
Jane has a master’s degree from Loyola University in Baltimore, MD, in Montessori Education at the Elementary level, American Montessori International (AMI) ages 6 -12. She also has a BA from the University of Northern Iowa in Elementary education with an endorsement in middle school (4th – 9th grade) and an emphasis in earth science. You will always find an experiment (or several) in the works somewhere in Jane’s classroom.
Christine Gowdy-Jaehnig
Lead Guide
Christine Gowdy-Jaehnig has been with NEIM School since 2005 in a number of roles: substitute, Guide, and Lead Guide. 2017 marks her 7th year as Lead Guide in the Children’s House. Her undergraduate degree is in the Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. She has an American Montessori Society (AMS) certificate from St. Catherine University.
Christine was first introduced to Montessori through The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious formation curriculum begun by Montessori and completed by collaborators. She uses The Catechesis in the Sunday School at Grace Episcopal Church, where she also serves as one of the priests.
Christine particularly loves the little ones of the Children’s house: creative and lively, loving and forgiving, surprising and funny, growing and changing, puzzling and frustrating (yes, they are human!), eager to learn, and breath-taking. Her endearing nature and open heart is regularly refilled as the children inspire her to laugh, love, ponder, create, and learn. She has lived in Decorah since 2004 with her husband Mark, a large-animal veterinarian. They have three adult children. Christine also enjoys cycling, cross-country skiing, reading and quilting.
Jenny Lenehan
Assistant Guide
Jenny Lenehan has been the assistant guide for eight years in the Children’s House at Northeast Iowa Montessori School. She graduated in 2005 from Upper Iowa University with a bachelor’s degree in both Elementary Education and Graphic Design. After graduating, Jenny worked for Camp Adventure as a camp counselor and then for a preschool in Germany on a U.S. military base. In 2011, she completed the AMI Assistant Guide Training at The Montessori Training Center of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN.
Since then, Jenny continues to bring a warmth and compassion to our NEIM community. She loves how the environment encourages hands-on, self paced, collaborative, challenging, and joyful learning! The age mix allows her to witness and be a part of a community where older children being leaders, mentors and help teach lessons while the younger children have the experience of working with older classmates. Even something as small as observing a child voluntarily and spontaneously helping another child zip up his or her jacket gives Jenny a sense of joy and happiness.
Her passion for witnessing joyful life spills over into her photography work with J & A Designs Photography, which she runs with her sister in law, Amy Hayek. In her free time Jenny enjoys the outdoors, helping out on her parents farm, and spending time with her husband, Shane and dog, Ava.
Claire Tebbenhoff
Claire moved to Decorah with her family in 1995, graduated from Decorah High School in 2004, and received her BA in History from Luther College in 2008. Having always loved working with children, Claire decided to return to school to complete coursework in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education and Special Education. She began working at NEIM in the fall of 2010 as a latchkey aid where she discovered a Montessori environment where children are encouraged to become independent and to take charge of their learning experiences. To Claire, giving children the chance to become independent in taking care of themselves, the world around them, and in their learning is very integral to their overall development. She witnessed children taking great pride in learning to accomplish work that relates to themselves and their environment, and believes that pride fuels interest in all academic and social aspects of their lives.
From there, Claire attended the AMI Assistant Guide Training at the Montessori Training Center of Minnesota in the summer of 2014. She is now qualified to be an assistant in the Children’s House environment and currently enjoys subbing, supervising lunch and rest time and being open to helping the children be successful.
Claire loves to see how the children grow and change. Every day, each child learns something new about themselves and the world around them. It may be a small skill, such as whistling or zipping their own coats; but it shows her that they are working on becoming
independent, thoughtful, learners. She loves that no day is the same as the previous one, there is always some surprising and an unexpected element that sparks thoughtfulness and reflection in herself.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, crochet, and water aerobics.
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Motto & Crest
57th Year Speech and Prize Giving Day
We have reached another milestone at 57, and we extend a warm welcome to all parents, old girls and friends of Mfantsiman to join us in this celebration on Saturday, 25 March 2017.
Spotlight on MOGA
Professor Aba Bentil Andam
There are less than 10 black women nuclear physicists in the whole world – Mfantsiman graduate Professor Elizabeth Aba Bentil Andam (nee Bentil) is one of them...>>read more
Mfantsiman Girls' Secondary School was formerly known as Saltpond Girls' Secondary School. The name was changed to Mfantsiman when the District of Saltpond became the District of Mfantsiman. The school was founded by the late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of the First Republic of Ghana as a special gesture of appreciation to the people of Saltpond for the part the town played in the political history of the country. His aim was to empower girls in the area and in addition establish a Polytechnic for girls.
A group of prominent persons were selected to choose the site for the School, and this team were made up as follows: Mr. Kojo Botsio, Minister of Education, Mr. Kofi Baako, Member of Parliament of Saltpond, Mr. George Padmore, West Indian Pan-Africanist, Dr. Hastins Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi, and Mr. S.E. Arthur, Member of the School Board of Governors. The area where the school is established used to be called Kuntupow. Constructional work of the school thus began in 1958 on a land size measuring 430.10 acres. Part of the first phase consisted of the Administration Block, Classroom Block, Science Block, Dining Hall, one teacher's bungalow and the headmistress's bungalow were completed in September 1960.
On 23 September 1960, students were selected through the late Entrance Examination and interviews, and on 30 September 1960, the school was made one of the Ghana Education Trust (GET) schools, and opened its gates to its first students comprising of a batch of seventy (70) and four (4) teachers including the Headmistress. The first two dormitory blocks Chinery and Butler Houses (named respectively after the Headmistress and the Assistant Headmistress at the time - a tradition that was continued by their predecessors) were completed in 1961, and the students moved from their temporary top Classroom Block dormitories to take up occupancy. There were 140 students at the time. The school uniform was green in colour but was later changed to the mauve used up until now. The anthem of the school was a latin song which is still used by KNUST as its anthem, and it goes like: Gaudeamus Igitor, Juvenesdum Sumus, Post Jucundem, Juvestutem, Pre Molestem Senectutem, Nos Habis Humus. Meaning: Let us rejoice now that we are young. For after youth comes old age. Before death is senility. Let us rejoice now that we have life.
In June 1965 the first batch of fifth (5th) formers took the General Certificate of Education (GCE). There are Fifty-one (51) candidates in all and thirty-four (34) had GCE passes (66.7 per cent). Between 1964 and 1967, the second phase of the school construction was completed during this time, namely a third dormitory block - Engmann House and the first block of staff flats was also completed. The school's overhead water tank connected to Baifikrom Water Works, because of the erratic nature of the Brimso water supply. The school also got the school linked with the Akosombo electricity grid. In 1968, the sixth (6th) form Arts and Science faculties were started. Initially there was a problem getting girls to take Science subjects, so between September 1969 and June 1976 boys were admitted to the sixth (6th) form to take Science (She-boys).
A third stream was opened in 1974, and a number of staff bungalows were built between the School Block and the Headmistress's bungalow. A fourth dormitory block - Scotton House was also added. During the late 1970's a primary school and a well-equipped staff club was planned to help in stemming the frequent turnover in the teaching staff. In the interim a play school for teachers' children was started by Mrs. Park, spouse of one of the expartriate teachers to meet this void. There was a markedly improvement in the academic field, good discipline and a firm Parent/Teacher Association was established. In the early 80's the primary school finally became a reality, when the Canadian High Commission in Accra responded to the school's appeal and made available the sum of 1,955,488.44 Cedis for the construction of a permanent building for the primary school. A fifth dormitory, Croffie House was constructed by the PTA in 1998 to alleviate the acute accommodation shortage the school experienced as a result of a rapid increase in the student populace. This house was named after Mrs. Elizabeth Croffie the incumbent Headmistress at the time. A recent addition to the block of dormitories in 2009 is Yeboah House named after the late Mrs. Vida Yeboah (former Headmistress).
Since its inception half a century ago, the School has turned out over 10,000 students (including 18 boys) with School Certificates/General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level, Advanced Level Certificates and Senior Secondary School Certificates. Most of these products have become prominent members of society and serve as bankers, business women, doctors, district directors and secretaries, headmasters and headmistresses. Others are members of parliament, ministers of state, pharmacists, undergraduates in tertiary institutions and university lecturers.
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HSTW Ohio Network Recipient of the Battelle Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) Strategic Outreach Grant
HSTW Ohio Network, a not for profit organization supporting High Schools That Work (HSTW) and Making Middle Grades Work (MMGW), is the recipient of the Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) Renewal Strategic Outreach Grant managed by Battelle. This grant will support the Rural STEM Collaborative (RSC) of Black River, Mapleton, New London, Northwestern, and Wellington School Districts.
The AEOP Renewal Grant award for $149,100 was announced on August 24, 2018 and will support a five district effort to increase participation of underrepresented and underserved students in the AEOP programs Junior Solar Sprint for students in grades 5 through 8 and eCybermission for students in grades 6 through 9. The grant funding is from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2019 with the districts committing to sustain the program after the grant funding period.
HSTW Ohio Network was the only renewal grant awarded during the most recent national competition which included 25 respondents, 8 first year grant recipients, and 1 renewal grant recipient – HSTW Ohio Network.
HSTW Ohio Network joins the first year’s AEOP Strategic Outreach Partners:
Girl Scouts of Alaska, Virginia Commonwealth University, Savannah State University, Science Buddies, SECMS, Tiger Woods Foundation, University of Maryland, Wayne State University
Previous partners include: DC STEM Network, Carnegie Academy for Science Education (Washington, D.C.), EduCare Foundation (Van Nuys, Calif.), Harmony Public Schools (Houston, Texas), The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and the Center for Educational Outreach at Johns Hopkins University, The Northwest Ohio Center for Excellence in STEM Education at BGSU, The State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.), The Sanford PROMISE, Sanford Research (Sioux Falls, SD), Society of Women Engineers (SWE) (Chicago, Ill.), TechBridge (Oakland, Calif.), Tiger Woods Foundation (TWF) (Irvine, Calif.), and Washington STEM.
“The hands-on, real world learning students experience in quality STEM education prepares them to succeed,” said Aimee Kennedy, Vice-President of Education, STEM Learning and Philanthropy at Battelle. “Thousands of students in rural schools deserve access to these programs. These schools are creating a model that other communities can follow to create more opportunity for the next generation.”
Jeffrey Layton, superintendent Northwestern Local Schools, stated "More success! We continue to partner with Black River and Mapleton Local Schools, and now New London and Wellington to increase STEM education opportunities for rural students. Through the AEOP grant, we will be able to increase our K-12 STEM pipeline and STEM careers in our central Ohio region and develop a model approach for implementing AEOP programs in rural schools. The goal is to share this approach nationally."
Brad Romano, Superintendent, New London Local Schools, “I am proud of our students, teachers and parents that supported our JSS Teams and go the extra mile to offer these types of opportunities for our students. We are now positioning ourselves as not only an outstanding K-12 STEM school in Ohio, but nationally through program like eCybermission and Junior Solar Sprint. Our relationship with HSTW Ohio Network has provided additional support and services that have enhanced the learning environment for our teachers, and students. At New London, we pride ourselves on the partnerships that have added value to our students’ education and opening doors to future STEM careers.”
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) engages student teams of 3 to 4 students, grade 5-8, in local, regional and national competition where students design, build and race solar powered cars using hands-on engineering skills and principles of science and math. JSS is designed to support STEM instruction in areas such as alternative fuels, engineering design, and aerodynamics. The teams with join the national Technology Student Association (TSA) and network with STEM school throughout the country.
eCybermission is a web-based STEM competition where teams of 3 to 4 students working with a teacher advisor proposes a solution to a real world problem in their community. The teams will compete at the local, state, region and national levels. Student teams choose a Mission Challenge that must be researched, tested and solved with parent and teacher advisor support. Ambassadors and Cyberguides (civilians and military) assist teams through school visits or virtually. Nationally qualifying teams will be invited to complete annually in Washington DC.
The districts will seamlessly embed AEOP JSS and eCybermission into existing STEM curriculum. Other district initiatives include Rural LDC, Project-Based Learning, Robotics and Advanced Careers, all strengthening STEM education.
HSTW Ohio Network collaborating with HSTW NE Ohio Region and the state HSTW and MMGW networks will promote and assist in sustaining the AEOP grant efforts of the Rural STEM Collaborative to over 1,200 schools, 48,000 teachers and millions of students nationally through region, state and national conferences where teachers and student teams will share best practices.
For more information on AEOP: http://www.usaeop.com/
For more information on Ohio HSTW: www.ohiohstw.org
For more information on the national HSTW: http://www.sreb.org/high-schools-work
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Johnson Earns D2CCA All-Region Honors
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Senior Isaiah Johnson (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association Men's Basketball All-Midwest Region Team.
The senior guard was named Second Team All-Midwest Region after leading the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in scoring, averaging 20.6 points this season. He finished the year shooting 45.6% from the field and shot 39.4% from behind the three-point line.
Johnson also lead the league in free throws, averaging 5.3 makes per game. He also averaged 5.9 rebounds per game while adding 1.4 assists a game as well.
Against Lewis University, the senior posted a career-high with 33 points. He scored 31 points against Saginaw Valley State University and 30 at Ashland University. In the team's GLIAC Quarterfinal win, he notched 29 points.
Johnson became the 32nd player in school history to achieve 1,000 points in his career and finished with 1,569 points for seventh in school history.
For the second season in a row, he was also named to the First Team All-GLIAC squad.
The Wildcats finished the season 17-12 and reached the GLIAC Semifinals.
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Home > Business > Singapore company to build $400-mn IT park in Gurgaon
Singapore company to build $400-mn IT park in Gurgaon
Singapore-based business space solutions provider Ascendas-Singbridge on Saturday said that it will develop an IT Park, comprising 8 million sq ft area, in Gurgaon at a project cost of $400 million. In the first phase, the company would develop two buildings with about 1 million sq ft of Grade A office space. It would complete the first building in Phase 1 in Q4 of 2017. “Ascendas-Singbridge on Saturday announced the unveiling of International Tech Park Gurgaon (ITPG), an integrated IT park within the upcoming business district in India’s National Capital Region (NCR),” the company said in a statement.
The unveiling ceremony was graced by Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam and other dignitaries from Singapore and India. Through this project, Ascendas-Singbridge introduces its iconic International Tech Park suite of business space solutions to Gurgaon.
The 60-acre project ‘ITPG’ will provide 8 million sq ft of international standard business space when fully developed, complete with social amenities that can cater to an estimated 60,000 professionals.
“ITPG will mark a major development for Ascendas-Singbridge in North India with a project size of USD 400 million, under the Ascendas India Growth Programme,” the company said. The programme, which invests in business space developments in India, was established in 2013, with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC as a principal investor.
“Ascendas-Singbridge is committed to India and we are delighted to unveil our latest premium IT park product in the National Capital Region...ITPG will be our eighth IT Park in India and
we are convinced that this development will enhance the attractiveness of the National Capital Region and help create quality jobs,” Ascendas-Singbridge’s Deputy Group CEO Manohar Khiatani said.
Ascendas-Singbridge India CEO Sanjay Dutt said Gurgaon is the focal point of economic growth in NCR and second largest office market in India with significant investments made by large multinational corporations. Ascendas-Singbridge has projects in 29 cities across 10 countries in Asia, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and South Korea.
In India, the company has close to 10 million sq ft of assets under management. It has IT Parks in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad.
India scouting for China capital in tourism industry
India on Saturday highlighted investment opportunities in its fast developing tourism and hospitality sector and announced plans to revamp its tourism office here for drawing more tourists from China. An official will soon be appointed to head the Incredible India tourism office as the post has been vacant for almost a year, Tourism Secretary Vinod Zutshi said in Shanghai.
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Pakistan Atomic Energy Commision (PAEC) Meet-Up
Monday, January 19, 2015 Hiba Moeen 1 Comments
Ansar Pervaiz, Chairman PAEC Azfar Minhaj, General Manager PAEC
January 17, 2015, Saturday turned out to be a very informative session with the officials of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission's (PAEC). The Chairman and the General Manager delivered an immaculate presentation regarding their plant operations and further expansion which would not only turn out to be an alternate energy source but would help overcome the energy crisis to a great extent.
Being all ears to the journalists' and bloggers' queries, the representatives did not hesitate in giving honest responses especially when it came to sharing information in black and white. It's a wonder why anti-nuclear activists have been on the verge of shutting an entity's plants down that do not pose any health and environment hazard while having the capacity to make the country self sufficient. A nuclear power plant does not necessarily mean nuclear weapons, end of the world, a zombie apocalypse or giving a ticking time bomb to novices. It means lower green house gas emissions, economic stability, and technological advance.
The first Nuclear Power Plant, 137 MW KANUPP was built in Pakistan in 1972 and has since been self financed, without any subsidy requested from the Government of Pakistan. With a proven track record of being efficient and reliant, PAEC is headed towards stabilising the country, provided we as a nation have faith and stand by it. To bring discussions into promises, Pakistan 2025 Plan has assigned 6,835 MW to nuclear by 2025 while a 2011 NTDC study has revealed that 2,000 MW of Nuclear Power is among the cost effective options to be pursued by 2021.
With K-2 and K-3 plants operating along the coastal ranges, the environmental hazards are close to none, thanks to the proactive precautionary measures taken by PAEC. As discussed, the sea water temperature in Karachi in Summer is 24 degree C to 28 degree C while that in winter is 18 degree C to 24 degree C, therefore, as the water discharges from the thermal plants, the maximum temperature rise beyond a 100 meter range is 3 degree centigrade still not reaching or adding up to the limit of 38 degree C, a level that could affect the fish. Comparing this to winter, there is no potential harm to the fish even this 100 meter area.
Furthermore, the general ecology of the Arabian Sea around K-2 and K-3 outfall is not conducive for the mangroves, coral reefs or the turtle habitat (which are near Sandspit and Hawksbay), eventually shunning any preconceived notions of an adverse impact arising as a result of these plants.
Considering any threat of a natural disaster, for instance, the likes of Tsunami are not likely to destroy the thermal plants that could lead to any hazardous leaks imposing any direct threats to the population of the natural habitat at large. A recent study carried out based on geological, geotectonic and geophysical surveys gauged that Tsunamic waves can only be generated by the Makran Coast with a maximum limit of waves reaching 2.84 meters while the KANUPP Plants are 12 meters high. Looking back at the historical evidence, the mentioned coast did witness an earthquake of a magnitude of 8.3 resulting in 4.5 meters of Tsunami waves.
PAEC, unlike high protocol orthodox organisation is open to queries from the media as they are eager to eradicate any preconceived notions and ready to educate the masses about nuclear technology.
Simply because it's something operated and owned by Pakistanis doesn't mean it's futile or that perhaps it's in the wrong hands. It's something to think about ... by the Pakistanis before somebody else raises a finger on us.
It's nice to see a government entity actively engage with the young audience of the country. I for one am very excited about the prospect of nuclear energy in Pakistan, considering the crisis we have been in for the last countless number of years. More power to the PAEC!
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February 19 - 25, 2012: Issue 46
These are images of the two sides of the plaque marking the 90th Anniversary of the Moscow Art Theatre - the face with the two heads in bas relief and the obverse with the facade of the theatre. Photographs by George Repin. All Rights Reserved
Anton Chekhov: A.P. Chekhov (Yalta, 1904, one of the last photos)
Vladimir Putin beside Yefremov’s bier.
Grafoman; from Polish.
1. N. a prolific bad writer. 2 pejorative. A talentless hack. 3. Amer.Perj. a literary wannabe. Polish/Russian word.; a writer., a scribbler.
The Seagull at the Melbourne Festival in 1991
By George Repin
In the years immediately after World War II when J C Williamsons, the large theatrical entrepreneurs, were presenting local productions of popular American musicals, such as Annie Get Your Gun. Lovers of plays in Sydney looked to small amateur theatrical companies such as Bryant’s Playhouse, the Metropolitan Theatre, Doris Fitton’s Independent Theatre and the New Theatre League to satisfy their interest in live drama.
When outstanding overseas organisations brought their companies to Australia theatre-lovers, having the opportunity to see the excellent performances given by casts of well recognised professional actors, flocked to their shows. In 1948 the Old Vic Theatre Company, sponsored by The British Council, toured Australia and New Zealand with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. They staged three plays including Shakespeare’s Richard III in which Olivier’s acting was intense, powerful and memorable. The other two plays were The School for Scandal and The Skin of our Teeth.
Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Meriel Forbes and Sir Lewis Casson in July 1955 opened the new Elizabethan Theatre in Newtown with two plays by Terence Rattigan – The Sleeping Prince and Separate Tables.
Over time, as local professional theatres developed, such visits became less frequent, usually with only one or two ‘stars’ as draw cards, supplemented by local actors. Occasionally, however, there was an outstanding event sometimes associated with an artistic festival. One such event was the appearance of the Moscow Art Theatre at the Melbourne International Festival in 1991 when Chekhov’s play The Seagull was presented in Russian with simultaneous translation, to rave reviews.
The Moscow Art Theatre (sometimes called the Chekhov Theatre) was established in 1898 by Stanislavsky (renowned for his new approach to acting technique based on the principle of “psychological realism”) and Nemirovich Danchenko. The Seagull, as the theatre’s first successful production in 1898 has a close sentimental association with the theatre whose emblem includes a representation of a seagull. To celebrate its 90th Anniversary in 1988 a commemorative plaque was struck showing on the face Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in bas relief with the theatre’s seagull logo, and on the obverse the façade of the theatre.
The Melbourne production of The Seagull was by Oleg Yefremov, the Chief Director of the theatre since 1970, in his second version that premiered in June 1980. Yefremov was born in 1927 and at the time of the Melbourne production was President of the International Stanislavsky Centre, a People’s Deputy of the Soviet Union (representing actors`), artistic director of the theatre and himself a renowned actor having appeared in more than 100 roles on stage and screen. He won the Melbourne International Festival’s Golden Pegasus Award for his production. The following extracts from the SMH (18/09/91) give some indication of how the play was received:
“… a profound testament to Stanislvasky and his theatrical principles, and to Chekhov’s delicate integration of art and life on stage”;
“… Through scrims of transparent, dreamlike curtains, which lift and fall like ripples across a lake – Nina’s lake, the seagull’s lake – Chekhov’s vital, sad, lost people go about their lives, their faces dappled by the light and shade of the natural world around them”;
“… The acting from this ensemble is hardly noticeable, so superbly performed, so seamlessly integrated is it into the life of the play. Here is a production which reveals that the dichotomy between art and life is unnecessary, that each informs the other and is vital to it, whose ultimate revelation is the human spirit”.
Oleg Yefremov in Grafoman movie, still photo from film, 1983
Yefremov died in 2000. Vladimir Putin, at that time President of the Russian Federation, paid his respects at Yefremov’s bier. He is buried in a cemetery attached to the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow the last resting place of many distinguished Russians. Within a few metres of his grave are those of Chekhov, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich–Danchenko. Among the many other graves in the cemetery are those of Nikita Kruschev (buried here and not in the Kremlin walls because he was not in office when he died), the aircraft designer Ilyushin and the composers, Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
Copyright George Repin 2012. All Rights Reserved
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Education and Skills Committee 22 May 2019
*Clare Adamson (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)
*Johann Lamont (Glasgow) (Lab)
*Dr Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
*Jenny Gilruth (Mid Fife and Glenrothes) (SNP)
*Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab)
*Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green)
*Gordon MacDonald (Edinburgh Pentlands) (SNP)
*Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP)
Oliver Mundell (Dumfriesshire) (Con)
Tavish Scott (Shetland Islands) (LD)
*Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Dr Janet Brown (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
Alison Harris (Central Scotland) (Con) (Committee Substitute)
James Morgan (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
Dr Gill Stewart (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
Maree Todd (Minister for Children and Young People)
Roz Thomson
The Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2)
Decision on Taking Business in Private
The Convener (Clare Adamson):
Welcome to the 17th meeting of the Education and Skills Committee in 2019. I remind everyone to please turn their mobile phones and other devices to silent during the meeting. Apologies have been received from Tavish Scott and Oliver Mundell, and we welcome to the meeting Alison Harris, who is substituting for Oliver Mundell.
Agenda item 1 is a decision on whether to take in private item 8, which is consideration of our work programme. Are members content to take item 8 in private?
St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/144)
Item 2 is consideration of SSI 2019/144. It is a negative Scottish statutory instrument and details are provided in paper 1. Do members have any comments on the instrument?
Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green):
My question is not on this instrument, because it makes relatively minor changes, but it would be useful if the committee could write to the Government to ask when the next full SSI on St Mary’s will come. They come relatively infrequently before the Parliament and, from the bits that I have seen, they have historically not been particularly scrutinised. It would be useful to get an indication of when the next full SSI will come.
I think that we would be content to do that.
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Modification) (No 1) Order 2019 [Draft]
Item 3 is evidence on two affirmative instruments that amend the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 with regard to funded childcare. These pieces of draft subordinate legislation are subject to the affirmative process. Information about the instruments is provided in papers 2 and 3.
The affirmative instruments will be covered under three agenda items, the first of which provides an opportunity for the minister to talk to the two instruments and for members to ask her and her officials questions for clarification. We will then turn to agenda items 4 and 5 under which we will debate the two motions on the instruments.
I welcome Maree Todd, the Minister for Children and Young People. Accompanying her are Alison Cumming, the deputy director for early learning and childcare, and Nico McKenzie-Juetten, who is a lawyer in the legal directorate. They are both with the Scottish Government. I invite the minister to make an opening statement to explain the two instruments.
Maree Todd (Minister for Children and Young People):
Good morning. In partnership with local government, we have made an ambitious commitment to almost double the funded early learning and childcare entitlement for all three and four-year-olds and eligible two-year-olds from August 2020. The package of orders will provide the necessary legislative basis to underpin the work that local authorities are already doing to deliver, from August 2020, an expanded ELC offer that is of a high quality, flexible and responsive to parental demand.
The first order provides for changes to the maximum and minimum session lengths for the delivery of funded ELC, which are currently set at a minimum session length of 2.5 hours and a maximum session length of eight hours. The changes in the order will extend the maximum session length to 10 hours and will remove the minimum session length.
The changes will support our efforts to ensure that Scotland’s ELC offer is sufficiently flexible for families. Extending the maximum session length means that families can have the option of a full 10-hour session of funded ELC that is more closely tied to the working day. We understand that 10-hour sessions are commonplace for many families and that those who can do so purchase the additional two hours of ELC as wraparound care. We would like to ensure that parents can access the entirety of 10-hour sessions through their funded entitlement.
The order removes the minimum session length, because we consider that to be unnecessary in the context of the expanded entitlement. Care Inspectorate registration requirements will continue to ensure that a high-quality service is delivered, regardless of the session length.
It is intended that the changes to session length will come into force on 1 August 2019. Introducing the changes ahead of the full roll-out of 1,140 hours will support local authorities to provide more flexibility in session lengths and to test new models of delivery during the phase-in period. The order will not place an obligation on settings to provide 10-hour sessions where they are not already offered. Local authorities should continue to ensure that funded ELC is delivered through an appropriate mix of providers and patterns of delivery within their authority areas.
The second order proposes that the mandatory amount of funded ELC to which eligible children are entitled be changed in legislation from 600 hours to 1,140 hours. Subject to parliamentary approval, that will come into force from 1 August 2020.
We are 15 months away from the national roll-out of 1,140 hours. I am proud that more than 11,000 children are already benefiting from early phasing of the expanded hours. Laying the orders now signals our continued commitment to deliver the expanded offer from August 2020 and our confidence in the readiness of local authorities to fulfil their duty. We have robust joint governance arrangements to ensure that local authorities have the required capacity and capability in place and are well supported as they prepare for August 2020. We want every one of Scotland’s children to grow up in a country where they feel loved, safe, respected and able to reach their full potential. I have been heartened by the shared commitment across Parliament to our transformative policy ambition to expand ELC entitlement to 1,140 hours by 2020. I am determined and confident that, together, we will deliver for Scotland’s children and their families.
Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab):
I welcome the orders, including the increase from 600 funded hours to 1,140 funded hours. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not arguing against that, but I want to explore something around it.
We are providing a universal entitlement to funded hours of early years education for every child in Scotland in the two years running up to their entry into formal education. However, children whose parents have chosen to defer their entry into primary 1 but whose birthdays fall before the end of the year are excluded from that. In those cases, local authorities have the discretion to refuse that entitlement. I want to understand why the Scottish Government is not taking this opportunity to correct that anomaly.
Maree Todd:
Children with September to December birthdays will continue to have an automatic right to school deferral. Whether they are entitled to additional childcare funding will remain at the local authority’s discretion. I expect local authorities to make that decision based on assessment of the child’s wellbeing and parental input. Parents must be provided with accurate information and should be fully involved in the decision-making process. I do not intend to change that.
Iain Gray:
The anomaly is that the right of parents to defer their child’s entry to primary 1 is not based on any judgment about the child’s readiness for going into primary 1 apart from the parental judgment. However, their access to that other entitlement to early years education in a nursery is based on a judgment that is at the discretion of the local authority. In many local authority areas, by asserting one entitlement to defer, the parent loses the other entitlement, which we do not think should be at the local authority’s discretion. That is why you are introducing this statutory instrument. There is an inconsistency and an anomaly that could be readily corrected. I do not understand why the Government is not prepared to correct it.
I am comfortable with the flexibility that the legislation offers. We have been very clear that parents, should they choose to, have the right to defer. In conjunction with the parents, local authorities will make the decision based on the child’s wellbeing and interests. I am comfortable with that.
That means, however, that, having chosen to defer, a family’s ability to continue with the early years education of their child depends first, on where they live and secondly, on how much money they have. Some families will not be able to afford to self-fund. Are you really saying that you are comfortable with that?
Are you really saying that local authorities do not make the decision, in conjunction with the parents, with the child’s wellbeing at heart?
My question is not for local authorities; it is for you, minister. Are you comfortable that, for this group of children and their families, their ability to get the entitlement that we are legislating for—
Their ability to get the entitlement—
Excuse me. Let me finish. Their ability to get their entitlement depends on how much money the family has and whether they can afford to pay for nursery education.
No, it does not. That entitlement depends on the discretion of the local authority, which will make the decision, in conjunction with the parents, on the basis of the wellbeing of the child.
Should children whose parents have decided to defer continue to have access to funded early years education?
That decision is for local authorities, which will make it on the basis of the wellbeing of the child and in conjunction with the parents.
Why are we considering a statutory instrument that provides a universal entitlement at the hand of the Government and Parliament for all children except these? Why are they different? Why should their entitlement be at the local authorities’ discretion when other children’s is not?
I can only reiterate what I have said. We have built in sufficient flexibility. The majority of children will start school at the age that they are due to start school. Those children who have a January birthday will be entitled to automatic further funding. Funding for those who have a birthday between August and December will be at the discretion of the local authority, which will base its decision on the welfare of the child and make it in conjunction with the parent.
Why are you picking on and excluding that group of children?
I am confident that local authorities all over Scotland can discharge that duty appropriately. I am confident that my local authority colleagues can do that.
You are comfortable with a situation in which some families will be able to make that decision because they can afford to begin to self-fund nursery education while other families will have to either send their child to school before they think they are ready or withdraw their child from early years education for a year. You are comfortable with that.
Let me reiterate—
No, I am not asking you to reiterate. I am asking whether you are comfortable with that position.
I am comfortable with the local authorities discharging their duties towards the children in their area. I am comfortable that we can clarify the basis for exercising discretion in a refresh of statutory guidance. The system will work appropriately.
Why are we imposing the 1,140 hours on local authorities? Why not give them the discretion to decide whether that is appropriate for the children? It is anomalous.
You call it anomalous; I call it flexible.
I think we will move on from there. Ms Smith?
Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con):
I associate myself with Iain Gray’s questions. There is an anomaly and I hope that the Government will consider its response to Mr Gray.
Minister, you will recall that, two years ago, Audit Scotland was pretty critical of the Scottish Government’s arithmetic around the funding that is required. I draw your attention to the second instrument that we have today. You say that you have
“identified an additional recurring revenue cost of £567 million per annum from 2021-22 and an additional £476 million capital cost for the four financial years from 2017-18 to 2020-21 inclusive.”
What makes you comfortable about those particular statistics, given that the previous ones were so heavily criticised by Audit Scotland?
You will remember that we made a shared decision with local authorities on the appropriate costs that will be required to deliver the funded entitlement. Audit Scotland conducted its audit before those negotiations were completed. By the time the negotiations were completed, we had interrogated the data on both sides and we were comfortable with the decision that we made. That is what gives me the confidence that the figures that we have agreed on with local authorities are appropriate.
Liz Smith:
One of Audit Scotland’s criticisms was that the stakeholders that are due to provide the service had not been consulted fully, and that some of their arithmetic was very different from that of the Scottish Government. Have you got assurance—not just from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities but from private sector providers, who will need to deliver additional care—that the statistics that are in our papers are accurate?
The funding agreement was between the Government and COSLA. I think that you are referring to partner provider funding rates.
You will be aware that we are working all over Scotland to improve partnership and that partner provider rates are increasing, in some cases by more than 50 per cent, which will ensure that partner providers are paid a sustainable rate. That has been adequately funded.
You can produce evidence from those involved in the public-private partnership deals that the statistics that you have produced are correct.
Would it be possible for the committee to have that evidence?
Thank you. That would be helpful.
Johann Lamont (Glasgow) (Lab):
I will return briefly to the points that Iain Gray raised. Has the Government done an equality impact assessment on a decision that might mean that some young people who ought to defer—everyone might agree that they should defer—will decide not to defer because their parents will not be able to afford early years provision?
I reiterate that the local authority will make the decision—
Johann Lamont:
I understand that. I am asking why the local authority should make the decision.
You are presuming that a local authority would decide not to apply discretion in a case in which everyone agrees that a child should defer.
Why will you not give families certainty? Have you done an equality impact assessment? How many young people might be affected? Why are you choosing to give discretion in one element and not in others? Do you accept the argument that some families with a child who defers will not be able to access their entitlement to early years education, even if there is agreement that the child should defer? As a consequence, even though everybody agrees that it is the right thing to do, families might decide that the child should not defer. It might not be that it is just that the family feels that the child is not ready; there might be issues with disability and development. Everyone might agree that the child should defer, but the family is not guaranteed the same entitlement that is provided to the child’s peers.
Again, I put the point to you: in what situation would a local authority make a decision that was against the best interests of a child? If everybody is agreed—
Why not provide certainty? We might as well ask why a local authority would provide only 600 hours of funded care when it could provide 1,140 hours. Everybody welcomes the certainty that you have provided on that point, so why not provide certainty on this point? We are not talking about a huge group of young people, but, if you did an equality impact assessment, you might discover that the issue is quite significant.
I agree that we are not talking about a huge group of young people. Let me reiterate: I am fully confident that my local authority colleagues will make the decisions appropriately.
Is it reasonable for families to expect more than your confidence? Should they not expect the same entitlement as other young people receive?
The system provides sufficient flexibility and discretion. Local authorities make decisions on the basis of the best interests of the child and in conjunction with the parents.
What do you mean by “flexibility”? What is there the flexibility to do?
Let me reiterate: as with many decisions, local authorities make such decisions on the basis of on the best interests of the child, using the getting it right for every child principles. Local authorities make decisions on the provision of entitlement to children in their areas with parental input. In the way that you are framing this, you are saying that, routinely—
I did not use the word, “routinely”.
—local authorities make poor decisions that are not based on the best interests of children. I have confidence that my local authority colleagues are making good decisions that are based on the best interests of the child and that they are working with the parents. I cannot say any more than that.
Would you be willing to do an analysis of how many young people are involved, how many defer and, of them, how many then get support for early years? Would you be willing to do some sort of survey or equality impact assessment of those who may be—
Would you be willing to do an equality impact assessment in those cases in which everyone is in agreement that the child should defer but a decision is made to send them to school anyway?
Absolutely. I am more than happy to work with colleagues in the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to explore that.
Will you report back to the committee on that?
Dr Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP):
As others have done, I welcome the extension of the rights that are covered in the instruments. How does that fit in with the wider question of workforce planning? Obviously, the rights, in themselves, are meaningful only if local authorities have planned to have in place the workforce to put them into practice. Is anything being done to encourage such workforce planning in local authorities?
A great deal of work has been done to ensure that we will have an adequate workforce in August 2020, when the policy is due to be implemented. There has been an increase in the availability of apprenticeships and an increase in college and university courses. We are confident that we will have an adequate workforce.
We have a joint delivery board that is co-chaired by me and Councillor Stephen McCabe from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. Around that table there are representatives of various groups: the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers, finance personnel from local authorities and so on. We monitor data and intelligence from every local authority on issues including workforce in order to ensure that we are on target and are achieving the workforce level that we expected to achieve by this phase of delivery.
Alison Harris (Central Scotland) (Con) (Committee Substitute):
I have listened with interest to what has been said, and I appreciate that you are absolutely confident that things will work out. However, I have a genuine question. Do you feel that the children who do not receive the extra year are getting the best outcome?
I am confident that local authority colleagues will make decisions on deferral based on the best interests of the child, working with the parents. The entitlement that we are discussing entitles children from the age of three to two years of 1,140 hours of childcare a year.
We know that quality is vital to delivery of the outcomes that we want for children, so we have built in a number of quality characteristics. Early entrance to that level of childcare from the age of two is possible for children from families who are entitled to certain benefits. I am confident that the package will meet children’s needs and improve outcomes for them.
Alison Harris:
I appreciate your confidence, but can you envisage a situation in which parents’ outlook is different to the local authority’s, and in which, ultimately, they will not get their entitlement, because the parental choice differs from the view of the local authority?
Again, you are saying to me that you do not believe that local authorities can, along with parents, act in the interests of children. I do not share that view.
I am saying that I have confidence in the parents, to be perfectly honest. I cannot understand how you cannot hear what the committee is saying to you and take it on board. There are not a lot of children in the category—
I have said that I am willing to look at the numbers with COSLA; we will certainly explore the issue with it. I am willing to strengthen statutory guidance so that the factors that ought to be taken into account when a decision is being made are clearer. I am happy to consider the matter further, but I am confident that local authorities act in the best interests of children.
I still think that there is an anomaly and that you should consider that, but thank you.
That concludes the committee’s questions. Thank you, minister.
The next agenda item is consideration of motion S5M-17294, which is in the name of the minister. Neither the minister nor committee members have any comments.
Motion moved,
That the Education and Skills Committee recommends that the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Modification) (No 1) Order 2019 (SSI 2019/draft) be approved.—[Maree Todd]
Motion agreed to.
The next agenda item is consideration of motion S5M-17295, in the name of the minister. Neither the minister nor committee members have any comments.
The committee will report to Parliament on the instruments. Are members content for me, as the convener, to sign off a report to Parliament on the instruments?
That concludes the committee’s consideration of subordinate legislation. I thank the minister and her officials for their attendance this morning.
Subject Choices Inquiry
The next agenda item is the committee’s inquiry into subject choices. This is the sixth evidence session in the inquiry.
I welcome from the Scottish Qualifications Authority Dr Janet Brown, who is its chief executive; Dr Gill Stewart, who is the director of qualifications; and James Morgan, who is the head of research, policy, standards and statistics.
Members of the panel should indicate to me when they wish to answer questions that are posed by committee members. I understand that Dr Brown will make a brief introductory statement.
Dr Janet Brown (Scottish Qualifications Authority):
Thank you, and good morning to members of the committee.
I will give a bit of background on where we are. The SQA has been a member of the curriculum for excellence management board throughout the development and delivery of the programme, and it is also now part of the Scottish education council, which is chaired by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, and which discusses education matters.
The SQA’s role in CFE was to develop for the senior phase new qualifications that would reflect the principles of CFE and build on the experiences and outcomes of the broad general education that was introduced for the early years through to secondary school until the end of secondary 3. The courses have been designed to develop knowledge, and they have a clear focus on understanding and skills development and their application in different contexts.
In addition to the nationals, highers, and advanced highers, the SQA has a wide range of other qualifications and awards at all Scottish credit and qualifications framework levels, many of which can support the diverse interests and needs of young people in the senior phase. The courses range from skills for work courses to vocational and personal development, higher nationals and foundation apprenticeships. Teachers and learners have a wide range of pathway options that can be tailored to the needs of individual learners.
As you know, I am joined today by Dr Gill Stewart, who is the director of qualifications development and has been present throughout the curriculum for excellence period, and James Morgan, who is responsible for research, policy, statistics and standards. We look forward to answering questions and contributing to the committee’s study of subject choice.
Thank you. We will move to questions.
Previous witnesses have expressed concern that, although curriculum for excellence covers ages three to 18, the structure of the broad general education was designed by different people from those who designed the senior phase. That was possibly done with good intentions. With hindsight, and given that your role was to design the qualifications, was that wise? Is there a disconnect between the broad general education and the senior phase?
Dr Brown:
One of the original decisions in the process was to ensure that the broad general education was in place before qualifications were started on, so that assessment did not lead learning. That was the fundamental premise.
Over the past few years, the SQA has done a couple of research programmes in which we have interviewed headteachers, senior management teams, teachers, pupils and parents, asking how they feel about the broad general education and the senior phase. The first study that we undertook indicated that there was not a smooth pathway from BGE into the senior phase, but the research in the second year found that a lot of progress had obviously been made. With any programme, we can learn lessons from going back and looking at how we could do it better. There is obviously much better understanding now of pupils’ progress through the broad general education, in order to ensure that they are ready to enter courses in the senior phase.
The courses were, at the request of the curriculum for excellence management team, developed to build on the experiences and outcomes of the BGE. For instance, national 4 was built on the assumption that, in order for them to be successful, candidates for national 4 would have reached curriculum level 3 at the end of the BGE. Similarly, candidates for national 5 would have achieved curriculum level 4 if they were to be successful. Everyone is much more familiar with what is happening in the broad general education and with the requirements for the entry point for the national qualifications. I think that it is getting better.
Are you comfortable with the three-plus-three model? We have heard criticism from some witnesses, who feel that that model has not been as satisfactory as was envisaged.
We should be talking about what is best for the individual child, although I recognise that that is dependent on how a school can deliver. The philosophy behind the broad general education going through to the end of S3 was articulated in “Building the Curriculum 3: A framework for learning and teaching”, which was produced by the curriculum for excellence management board. It is important to think about what is best for the individual child. Curriculum for excellence aims not only to ensure that more students reach a specific level but to give them a broader education for longer. That is where the three-plus-three model came from. Different schools do different things for different children: that is how curriculum for excellence should be.
You have put your finger right on the issue. If we accept that flexibility is one of the key principles underpinning curriculum for excellence, we can argue that schools should have the option to do things differently and to use a three-plus-three model, a three-plus-two-plus-one model, or a two-plus-two-plus-two model. The problem is that, in the evidence that has been presented to the committee over the six meetings that we have had in the inquiry, the subject choice issue has been a major concern, particularly given the statistics on the considerable drop-off in the numbers of pupils who are taking modern languages, especially German and French, and in the numbers taking science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The real issue for a lot of parents is that, although the broad general education might give greater breadth than was possible before and—as you said in your opening statement—there are new subjects, when it comes to the core curriculum, there is a problem with subject choice. Do you accept the concern that there is a problem with subject choice?
It would be good if we could broaden the discussion of subject choice beyond national qualifications. Some children benefited a lot from the old system, in which they went through standard grades and then straight on to highers and advanced highers. However, not all children benefited. It is important to understand that there is now a wider range of options. These days, schools have the opportunity to provide a range of options through partnerships with other schools. It is a question of thinking about the outcome of all education, not just about S4. It is about the outcome at the end of the senior phase and whether that is better for children than it was under the old system.
Given what you have said about flexibility, would you be comfortable with a local authority that had a one-size-fits-all policy on subject choice and the number of subjects to be taken in S4? There is such a blanket policy in some—not all—local authorities.
That is not the responsibility of the SQA.
Are you comfortable with it?
I like to see flexibility, which is the fundamental philosophy of CFE. The education should be tailored to the child and be child centred.
Jenny Gilruth (Mid Fife and Glenrothes) (SNP):
We know that roughly 50 per cent of schools offer six subjects in S4, 40 per cent offer seven subjects and 10 per cent offer eight subjects. There is national variation. There was some variation under the standard grades model, too. William Hardie from the Royal Society of Edinburgh told the committee that such variation is because of the 160 hours allocation, which is driven by the SQA. Is he right?
I will say a little bit on that and then ask James Morgan to give more detail.
We make an assumption about the entry point of learners, and then we consider where we are trying to take them in any given course. We then consider how long it would take the average child to undertake that. That is no different from how things used to be. We have broadened the broad general education to enable young people to take more subjects for longer, which is why it now continues into S3.
James Morgan (Scottish Qualifications Authority):
The 160 hours allocation for national 4, national 5 and higher is not new. It was part of the previous qualifications—intermediate 1, intermediate 2 and higher. Those qualifications are the DNA of the current national 4, national 5 and higher. The allocation of 160 hours was specified, although the real measure that the SQA uses as part of the Scottish credit and qualifications framework is SCQF credit points and levels. The qualifications are the same size—they require 240 hours of learning. The allocation of 160 hours is for directed learning in the classroom and similar environments, and there is 80 hours of self-directed learning. At standard grade, the subjects also attracted 24 SCQF credit points.
Jenny Gilruth:
How many hours were given for standard grades?
James Morgan:
They required 240 hours in total and attracted 24 SCQF credit points. The difference is that there was no specification for standard grade of the 160 hours, which came out of higher still, which was unit based and so was very clearly structured.
Standard grades were not unit based in the way that higher still was, so what was the hours allocation of teaching in school for standard grades, excluding self-directed study?
That is a good question. I do not have the answer, because it was a decision that was made a long time ago. Those were the previous qualifications that predated the SCQF.
Dr Gill Stewart (Scottish Qualifications Authority):
I think that the allocation for standard grade was 160 hours but, in reality, some schools gave a bit longer for maths and English; that was at the discretion of individual schools and local authorities. Standard grade dates from the 1980s—SCQF is a more recent development—and there was not so much specification of the number of hours of learning for standard grade as there is for the current qualifications. The SCQF has brought about greater standardisation.
I will add to the comments about the 160 hours and one-year courses by saying that part of the ethos and philosophy of CFE is a three-year senior phase that builds on the broad general education. Some of the criticism of the previous qualifications was about the so-called two-term dash—trying to fit a higher into a very short time. One of the things that curriculum for excellence tries to do is give young people the opportunity for more depth in learning.
The senior phase was originally envisaged as a three-year phase with young people doing a mixture of courses that would each take one or two years. It was never envisaged that everybody would do one set of qualifications in one year and another set in the next. A much more mixed economy was envisaged. I know of some schools that do subjects such as English and maths over two years because they feel that the depth of learning helps young people to consolidate, which is much better, because maths and English are fundamental to all the other learning that young people do.
The ethos and philosophy are all about addressing weaknesses in the previous system, such as a lack of depth of learning. It was about giving schools the flexibility and empowerment to offer different approaches that they feel meet the needs of their young people, which might be different for different subjects or year groups.
I understand the ethos but, given that pupils at 50 per cent of schools are still studying seven or eight subjects, perhaps the ethos has not moved on. It is impossible, I think, to timetable more than five subjects in one school year, so pupils have to start studying the qualifications earlier, which goes against what the BGE was meant to be about. Do you accept that there is a tension when schools are trying to fit 160 hours of course content into the school year?
I am interested in the relationship between the SQA and Education Scotland. I should probably say that I was formerly seconded to Education Scotland. Are you still based in the Optima building in Glasgow?
Education Scotland is just up the stairs from you, in the same building—you do not sit very far apart. Do you meet regularly and talk about these things? Do you have input, for example, into what timetabling should look like, perhaps not in a directive way but just through conversations about how people can timetable 160-hour qualifications into the school year?
We engage a lot with Education Scotland, particularly around individual subjects, and we have spent a lot of time looking at the interface between the BGE and the senior phase. However, timetabling is not something that the SQA gets involved in; it is very much a matter for schools. The challenge, which you probably heard about from Larry Flanagan, is the whole issue of when a national qualification starts. When does a national 5 start, and should it be done over two years? If people want to fit in eight subjects, they should do that over two years. Does every child need to do eight subjects? The flexibility of timetabling is the issue, and that is best decided at school level. We do not have any engagement at all in the timetabling discussions.
However, you do tell schools the number of hours for which they should teach subjects.
We give them an indication of how long the average child is likely to need to get from one level of learning to another, based on the courses that they undertake.
Okay. Dr Stewart, I read an article in The Times Educational Supplement that reported an interview with you in 2011, in which you said:
“The idea for the Curriculum for Excellence development programme was that curriculum development came first and qualifications followed ... The qualifications will build on the outcomes, so there shouldn’t be any shocks.”
Removing the outcome and assessment standards was meant to reduce teacher workload. As a former teacher, I have a concern about how people can be assured that pupils are being presented at the right levels if that continuous assessment is no longer in place.
Dr Stewart:
Teachers are very good at understanding where their young people are in their learning. The most tangible way in which the SQA sees that is through asking teachers to submit estimates of the grades that they think each young person will achieve. That tells us that there is a reasonable degree of congruence between teacher and SQA judgments, so they do have a good understanding. The courses that we have now are the same courses with the same learning outcomes as we had previously. The content has not changed with the revisions that have happened—the removal of units.
As I understand it, teachers no longer have to record whether a pupil has achieved the outcomes, whereas previously they had to do that.
We expect teachers to do that as a matter of course.
But they do not have to do it any more.
They do not have to provide that information to the SQA any more.
They will have to do it within their schools.
Most teachers will do that during the teaching process.
I know that, but my concern is that, because we have removed the outcome assessment standards, a pupil could drift along all year at higher level, for example, and present for that qualification but not actually be ready to sit an examination at that level.
Most teachers will monitor the progress of all students during their teaching year.
Okay. Thank you.
I have a couple of points for clarification, following on from Jenny Gilruth’s questions. I am interested in the notion of deeper learning, which has come up in evidence when we have asked other stakeholders or witnesses about the reduced number of subjects that are being studied. I think that Dr Stewart has talked about that, too. If the credit points and the notional 160 hours are the same for the new national course as they were for the previous course, the study is not any deeper, is it?
As you say, the number of hours is the same.
So, is the depth the same?
Can I continue?
Learning is a continuum. When we developed curriculum for excellence, it was meant to be a three-to-18 continuum of learning. If a pupil does fewer subjects in S4, they will have the opportunity for deeper learning, which is fundamental in helping them to move on to the next stage.
I am a scientist, but James is not a scientist. He might study a national 5 biology course, get a C and have a very sketchy or not very deep understanding of some of the biological concepts in that course. However, if I studied that course, having a deep understanding, I might get an A, although the grade is not important. What is important is that, because of the depth of my understanding of the biological concepts and my ability to apply those, I would be very well placed to do better when I moved on to higher. That is where the depth of learning comes in. It is about learners having a stronger foundation from which to move on.
We see that in data that the Scottish Government publishes about the outcomes for young people by the time that they get to the end of the senior phase. The levels of qualification that young people are achieving have gone up over the period of curriculum for excellence. That tells us that something is working and that young people are getting a greater depth of learning, leading to more of them achieving a higher level of qualification.
I do not really understand how the point that you are making relates to subject choice in the curriculum. You and James might attain different levels of understanding—of biology in that case—but that would not be because you studied for more hours. You would both have studied for the same number of hours.
If James had studied eight subjects and I had studied six subjects, he would not have had 160 hours for each subject, whereas I would have had 160 hours of learning in each subject.
But he would have had 160 hours in each subject if the school understands curriculum for excellence and has taught that biology course across two years.
He would, but we know, from speaking to teachers, that that does not happen in every case.
Okay. Jenny Gilruth asked about the SQA’s relationship with Education Scotland and your proximity to each other. When Education Scotland gave evidence, she asked the witnesses about the 160 hours and they said—I do not have the quote in front of me—that the 160 hours was not all contact teaching time. However, your submission explicitly says that the 160 hours is contact teaching time. Is Education Scotland wrong?
There is always a debate about when learning for a particular course starts. Our understanding and expectation is that, to cover the course content, the average child has to have around 160 hours of teaching time. How much of that learning can be undertaken during the course of the broad general education by a child who is very advanced is down to the discretion of the teacher. For instance, some people will start the learning—not necessarily the assessment—of a national 5 course earlier than S4.
We believe that teachers impart a lot of the knowledge, but we also believe that some students work very well on their own, so learning is tailored to the individual. However, our expectation is that it takes approximately 160 hours for the average student to be taught the content that we have in national 5 courses.
So, Education Scotland is wrong, or there is a misinterpretation of your approach.
I think that there can be misinterpretations of what we are trying to do.
This is a simple point. Dr Stewart, you argued that, if you were in a school that was offering six subjects in S4 and you took English, maths and three sciences—biology, physics and chemistry—you would have deeper learning. Are you at all concerned that that would not be a very broad curriculum and that such a curriculum would not give you the same opportunity to study a social science and a language as you would have had previously? In other words, you would be jumping from a much broader BGE into quite a narrow senior phase. Are you worried about that?
Such decisions have to be made for individual young people. For a young person who was very clear that they wanted to study medicine, become a vet or become a physicist—heaven forbid—such a course of study would be okay. We must remember that that young person would have had the broad general education prior to S4.
Dr Stewart, in a school that has just six subject options in S4, the young person is constrained more than they would be if they were in a school that used a seven or eight-column structure, which would enable them to take the three sciences as well as picking up a social science and a language. Do you accept that?
Yes, I accept that. The other point to make is that, if a young person was not sure about what they wanted to do—as parents, we know that many young people who are at school are not clear about their future career path—the school would not advise them to narrow their options. The school might advise the student to make a broader choice in S4.
Another thing that we think about—many of the committee’s witnesses have mentioned it—is the whole point of having the two-year qualification as opposed to an approach in which we try to do everything in S4: the ladder issue. The conversation about that needs to be disseminated a lot more widely across Scotland.
For students who are potentially very interested in doing sciences and are judged by their teachers to be competent learners who will be successful in the subjects that they are thinking about taking, not doing a national 5 but going straight on to a higher allows them to keep their curriculum broader for longer.
That whole movement, which was envisaged with CFE, has not happened as quickly or as much as people felt that it should happen. That is what we should be talking about. How do we ensure that there is not a treadmill from national 5 to higher to advanced higher and that, if a child is going to be successful at higher, we allow them to have a broader curriculum during the two-year period and present them for some national 5s and some highers? That would keep the breadth of subjects, and we would then have a three-year senior phase as opposed to an individual national 4 phase. That is not happening throughout the country, which is one of the reasons why we are having this debate about the number of subjects.
Dr Stewart, I want to clarify a point that you made when you gave the analogy of your being much better at biology than your colleague—
And very poor at physics.
You said that it is because you took only six subjects whereas he took eight. Is it your view that young people should take only six subjects in fourth year?
I am not sure that it is appropriate for me to express a view about whether taking six subjects in S4 is a good option. It is the role of schools to work with young people, their parents and carers and their local community to agree on an appropriate curriculum model. My son followed six courses in S4. I must admit that I had some personal concerns about that, but I was confident that the school knew what it was doing. I placed my confidence in the school—as parents, many of us do that. We rely on the school to make good choices or to advise us, as parents, to make good choices.
I accept that, and I have experienced it myself. Schools talk about flexibility, but, as I have mentioned in the past, flexibility can be largely theoretical if a young person is presented with six columns of choices and one of the columns does not have anything that they want to do in it.
You made the point that the issue is the depth of learning, and you said that you were able to achieve a greater depth of learning because you were taking six subjects rather than eight. The logic of that argument is that schools should be offering six subjects.
If the whole premise of the argument is that we prefer depth to breadth in fourth year, you should be saying that, in your view, as a qualifications agency, young people should be studying six subjects. Is that, in fact, policy? If it is, what conversations have you had with Education Scotland, the Scottish Government, COSLA and local authorities about whether what is happening is different from what you are advocating?
The critical factor is the amount of time that should be given to learning a subject to the right depth. If schools are trying to get that number of subjects into one year, they are limiting the amount of time that is available for good learning and teaching, to allow that depth. The question is, how do we ensure that any student gets the right amount of support, learning and assessment to allow them to be confident in the subject?
If we are trying to get—
With respect, it is not sustainable for young people to do eight subjects in fourth year.
If the assumption is that they are starting from scratch in S4, it is a real challenge for them to do eight subjects.
So, you think that it is acceptable for them to start in third year. Given that some of the calculation covers what they do when they are not in the classroom, would it be acceptable to count the hours from third year?
That is a matter for schools. If schools decide to do that, it can be an important component. However, the philosophy of CFE is that the breadth is maintained in S3. That is part of the tension.
Should the schools not be doing that, then?
That is part of the tension. Some schools are choosing to do some specialisation—though not complete specialisation—in S3 and other schools are not. There is a tension between maintaining the breadth and aspects of depth across the sixteen curriculum areas and moving into more specialisation in S3, though not the complete specialisation that we see in S4.
How is that tension going to be resolved? Whose responsibility is it? It is one thing to say that there is a tension—you could almost argue that it is a conflict—but how is that going to be resolved, and who has the authority to resolve it?
That goes back to the whole issue of whether we believe that young people should be taking qualifications in S4, S5 and S6. That debate is going on, as you have heard from witnesses in previous evidence sessions. We should be talking about the whole senior phase and two-year courses, and we should be measuring the outcomes, achievements and attainment of learners at the end of S6, whether they are in school, in college or in work. At the SQA, we present our data annually. The data that is used is our data; therefore we talk about annual statistics. What we should be looking at is the outcome at the end of the senior phase.
Dr Allan:
I was interested in the remark that was made about the number of subjects being what is appropriate. Can you clarify whether you are talking about what is appropriate for a school or what is appropriate for an individual? In the evidence that the committee has received, some have come down on one side and some on the other.
It should be what is appropriate for individuals, but, in practical terms, that will always be constrained by what a school is able to deliver either itself or through its partnerships. That is the key thing.
We also need to recognise that some of these courses will not be nationals. Instead, they will be national certificates, development awards, early-stage foundation apprenticeships and so on that might well be delivered in other areas. However, you have to balance the focus on the individual with the deliverability of anything at a particular centre.
Each school will have an average number of subjects that it delivers to its S4 pupils, but, within that, there will still be some variation to meet individual needs. Indeed, that is what we see in the data. In any case, young people in schools have always done different numbers of standard grades as well as other programmes that sit alongside them.
Another interesting comment was about the continuum of learning, which is something that I absolutely buy, see and accept. However, we have had a lot of evidence about the situation with languages, and it has been put to us that there is no continuum in that respect, given the huge drop-off in the number of languages being taken and the fact that there is not much evidence of their being taken up later in schools. Does the continuum that you have talked about work for languages, too?
As I think you have heard from previous witnesses, the major drop-off in languages probably occurred when they were no longer compulsory. You are right to say that there has been a fall in languages, but we have some really good language qualifications that we are proud of and that we really want students to be taking. Moreover, we are also seeing continued strength in language highers. National 4 and 5 subject levels might have declined, but people who really want to do languages continue to do the higher.
We have introduced the languages for life and work qualification, which allows students to explore languages in a different space. After all, it is possible to pick up a language later, which is partly why the numbers at higher level rather than the numbers at national 5 are being maintained.
Are you talking about what people call crash highers? In other words, are people going into those highers having had little contact with the language in question since they were in third year?
Yes, but we would refer to that as “no previous attainment”. It could be that someone had taken the language for two years but did not do the national 5, or they just did it in one year at a later point—say, in S6.
I am not a languages person, but my understanding is that, if you have one language, it is easier to pick up a second. As a result, it is feasible to add a higher at a later stage even if you have taken the subject only to the end of BGE.
I did Latin at school, and I enjoyed it, but I would have hesitated to do a crash higher in German on that basis. Never mind.
I am really interested in hearing the rationale behind the three-plus-three structure. As you have quite rightly said, there is a mixed economy out there, with schools taking a mixture of approaches. Interestingly, when we met teachers, we found that there was a very mixed economy indeed in respect of teachers’ responses or reactions to the three-plus-three approach. Some embraced it very enthusiastically, while others seemed to be dying in a ditch in their opposition to it. Did you expect that there would be quite such a variety of approaches to and views on that structure?
We would participate in those kinds of conversations through the CFE management board; it is not a responsibility for SQA, but we are absolutely involved in the discussions and have been for a long time.
There was an obvious tension between people wanting to broaden out the curriculum and bring in different subjects and others being wedded to the idea of ensuring that we got eight subjects in S4 and S5 and then however many in S6. As with anything in education, there is never a consensus. There is always a wide variety of views. We saw that, and it continues today.
Ross Greer:
I would like to go back to something that Janet Brown said in her opening remarks. At one end of the spectrum, we have some quite positive outcomes in the numbers of young people who are leaving school with five highers. At the other end of the spectrum, however, we have seen an increase in the number of young people who are leaving with no qualifications at all. Why is that?
We have seen a drop-off in the numbers who are undertaking national 1 through national 3, and we are still trying to understand the detail of that. Some of it is structural, given the way that they are operated, but we really need to ensure that candidates are entered for the levels of qualification that their teachers believe they can achieve.
Qualifications should not just be bars to jump over; they should recognise people’s learning. If a teacher believes that an individual might make a national 5 and puts them in for that, but they do not get good learning and they get a national 4, that is a real challenge in the current system. Similarly, it is a challenge if somebody should be doing a national 3 but they are doing a national 4 and they do not achieve it.
Scotland is one of the few places with such a wide variety of levels of qualification that students may get, as well as such broad qualifications in terms of the nature of the learning. We need to ensure that people recognise the value of the lower SCQF level qualifications. National 3 is a valuable qualification for those individuals who get it.
As you say, we have a qualification structure that means that any young person should be able to leave school with qualifications. You seem to be indicating that part of the issue is that young people—not all of them, but some—are being put forward for qualifications that they are unlikely to achieve. Where is that problem coming from? Does it come down to misunderstanding at school level? Is the pressure coming from local authorities?
The issue is arising systematically enough for us to have seen an increase in the number of young people leaving with no qualifications. In Dumfries and Galloway, the figure is 4.5 per cent, which is a significant increase from the previous figure of, I think, 1 per cent. Why is that occurring? Where is the problem beginning? Is it in local authorities or in schools? Is it something structural that we can address nationally?
We do not fully understand why that is happening. We are working with partners to try to understand the causes behind it.
It is important that we, as a society, overtly recognise the value of the lower-level qualifications. There is concern that, if all that we talk about is national 5s and highers, nothing else will be valued. Collectively, we have a responsibility to recognise the value of a national 1, and I would challenge anyone who meets a parent whose very challenged child has achieved an SQA certification in national 1 not to say that they should feel incredibly proud of the fact that their child has achieved that recognition. We need to recognise that as a society.
You said that you are “working with partners” to find out what is happening. Will you go into a bit more detail on that process? What research are you undertaking to figure out exactly why the increase has occurred?
I think that one of the challenges for the SQA is data and the limitations of it. We must be clear that we see learners only when they are entered for SQA qualifications, so we do not really have an overview of the whole cohort in Scotland at any one time. It is when a learner is entered for an SQA qualification that we gain visibility of the individual. That is one of the absolute limitations of what we can comment on and try to understand.
Once certification has taken place, we see different things in terms of data, but it is challenging for us to find out real causality as to what is happening, because we see learners only once they are entered. We do not know the richness of the system, the richness of those individuals’ lives and their learning or how they have come to the SQA.
I accept that, but you said that there is a process and you are working with others. Will you lay out some more detail of that?
We have met statistics people in the Scottish Government, who have the cohort information, and people from Education Scotland to discuss the results. That is important.
The Scottish Government can look nationally at what the data tells it, but what is more important is that schools can use the Scottish Government’s insight tool to look at how their young people are performing locally. Schools can split the data in lots of ways—for example, they can look at it by Scottish index of multiple deprivation quintiles—and they can try different approaches.
Ross Greer mentioned that 4 per cent of young people in Dumfries and Galloway achieve no qualifications; I presume that schools there are trying different approaches to find a type of learning that will get back such young people’s engagement in their education and help them to achieve a positive destination.
A lot of work must happen locally. The insight tool provides a broader set of measures for schools to look at, such as the positive destination measure for school leavers; measures on literacy and numeracy, which have improved; and measures on the highest SCQF level achieved, which relate not just to SQA qualifications but to other qualifications, such as those from ASDAN, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Prince’s Trust.
The Scottish Government has all that data at the national level, and schools have it locally. Schools can try different approaches for different groups of young people to see what their impact is. Schools must look at what works for young people.
One thing that underpinned “Building the Curriculum 3: A framework for learning and teaching” was an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report about equity and quality in Scottish education. The OECD talked eloquently about the Scottish system’s strengths, but it also talked about inequity in schools. A primary focus through the CFE work that we are all engaged in is to bring up young people who are at the lower end.
I do not have an answer, but schools can use local measurement tools to address the situation and try different approaches. The OECD said that many young people—particularly high achievers—are motivated by where they want to get to. If they want to get to university, they are motivated to work hard and achieve.
Way back in 2009, the OECD said that Scotland had not got quite right the support for young people who do not have an external motivation—who are not clear about what they want to do or who have not yet found anything at school that they are really good at. The OECD said that the curriculum must motivate those young people; we must find something that engages them again in education—whether that is a vocational course, a Duke of Edinburgh award or an ASDAN qualification. If they succeed in something, that will motivate them to move on to the next level.
The OECD challenged Scotland to address that situation. Collectively, across all our schools and local authorities, people are trying to do that in lots of ways.
I accept that. We see from the data that the trend is not uniform, so issues need to be identified locally. However, the national trend is that the number who leave with no qualifications has increased.
I accept that you do not have an answer this morning. You have said that you are working with the Government and with partners such as Education Scotland and local authorities. When will you be able to tell us why you, as the SQA, believe that more young people are leaving with no qualifications?
The question is how the SQA’s data can help to give an answer. I agree that the responsibility for understanding what is happening in the system is collective, and we should be part of that, but the SQA’s responsibility is to add our data to the data that others have, to help people to understand the answer to the question. Collectively, as a group of stakeholders, we should be working together to get that answer for you.
When will you make your contribution to that? I accept that there is collective responsibility. On a number of occasions, this committee has tried to figure out where the responsibility lies for curriculum for excellence, in its many forms. The reality is that you are the Scottish Qualifications Authority. More young people in Scotland are leaving school with no qualifications and you have a significant amount of responsibility in this area. I am not necessarily saying that the fault lies with decisions that the SQA has taken, but you have clear responsibility in the realm of qualifications. When will you make your contribution to figuring out what is causing this problem?
We need to do that over the next year or so. Another set of data will come in about what happens this summer and we need to understand that first. As I said earlier, over the past few years, there has been a change in the approach to the broad general education, and we should see the impact of that change come through in the summer. We need to monitor that and make sure that we understand what is happening at a cohort level and not just at an entries level. That is a key piece.
You might have noticed, a couple of days ago, reports in the press that, down south, there is a pattern of children not being entered for qualifications in order to maintain attainment levels. We do not believe that that is happening in Scotland—and we do not want it to happen in Scotland—but we need to understand the cohort measure as well as the entries measure.
That might not be happening as commonly in Scotland as it is down south, but it is happening in Scotland. I speak from my cousin’s experience this year: his entire class was not put forward for a qualification. That decision was taken in February and it was reversed only towards the end of March, after the intervention of parents and local elected members. There are schools in Scotland that are still trying to do that. I accept that it is not happening at the same level as it is in England, but it is happening.
Given that data, it is especially important that we look at the cohort and not just the entries.
Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP):
I will follow up Ross Greer’s questions about data. Our briefing tells us that the SQA holds a rich set of data. Dr Alan Britton told the committee:
“we have very little research evidence about the impact of the different models. Schools have been left to try things out”.—[Official Report, Education and Skills Committee, 24 April 2019; c 10.]
Via your data—I understand that it is collective—have you been proactive enough in following up attainment levels and feeding back on how the models are performing? Have you been liaising with local authorities on a regular basis? You have a rich set of data. How does it work for you?
Our data does not contain any information on the curriculum models that are undertaken in schools. As I mentioned earlier, in relation to Dr Allan’s question, we do not have information about whether a pupil has taken a higher over one or two years.
Rona Mackay:
I understand that. What data do you have?
We have data on the attainment based on an entry at a particular time. We know the age and stage of the individual but we do not know the curriculum model that they have undertaken. Our data can be used by local authorities and individual schools that know what their curriculum model is. They can see whether a change in their curriculum model has had a positive or negative impact on their students’ attainment. We do not have that curriculum model information, so we cannot do that analysis.
Should you not be requesting that data? Should it not be fed back to you so that you can see the bigger picture?
This will sound like it is not our problem. It is our problem, because we are part of the system. Within the education system, the SQA’s responsibility is to provide qualifications and, on an annual basis, to provide the data on attainment for those qualifications, which can be used by the system to understand how the system is working and how to improve it.
Our information should be used by people who understand what the curriculum models are in schools in order to understand whether there has been a positive or negative change in the level of attainment. We need to be part of that conversation, but the SQA does not have an overt remit to measure the difference in the attainment of a three-plus-three versus a two-plus-two-plus-two. That will also depend on individual children. One child might benefit from a three-plus-three, while another might benefit from a two-plus-two-plus-two.
Dr Brown, I was delighted to hear you talking about the importance and value of lower-level qualifications. In my view, far too often in this debate we are told that young people who get five highers are still getting five highers and all is well with the world. That is not good enough.
Our inquiry was generated in part by data that was produced by people such as Professor Scott, which showed a reduction in the number of subjects being studied at S4 and a significant reduction in enrolment and attainment at levels 4 and 5 in the new exams compared with the previous standard grade exams. The data in your table rather tells the same story. The numbers might be marginally different, but there is a huge drop-off in enrolment and attainment at levels 4 and 5.
Given what you have just said, do you not think that your data shows a cohort of young people who are being failed by the system of which you are part?
CFE did not just try to achieve people getting pieces of paper and qualifications; it tried to achieve people having the ability to apply learning in different contexts, and to have a comfort level with that learning that would enable them to be successful in the future and to be more successful in their future destinations. In order to do that, the philosophy was to measure their attainment at the end of S6, or when they are 18, whether they are in school, college or work.
On the total number of qualifications that someone achieves, when a student goes to university in Scotland, the university does not ask them how many national 5s they have; it asks about highers. Once someone has taken one level, they get to the next level, and that is what is important. It is rare for a company to go back and ask about the highers that somebody did; a company will be interested in the person’s degree.
My question for the committee is: what level of attainment are we actually measuring in Scotland? Is it what learners have achieved at the age of 18 and does it matter whether they get a national 5 and a higher in French? Does it matter that they have attained a deep understanding of higher French?
We are back to talking about those young people who achieve highers. There is a group of young people for whom national 4 and 5, or indeed a lower level—you gave an example earlier—is what they achieve in school. Are we not failing that cohort of young people? They are leaving with fewer qualifications and a lower level of achievement than they would have had in 2011, 2012 or 2013.
The issue there is that differentiation in the cohort. I made the mistake of mentioning highers, but if you look at the progression of learners who are coming out of S4 and moving into more vocational courses that are much more suitable for them, they might have attained a national 5 but the question is whether they actually learned at standard grade. Are we at the point at which, in that case, they are pursuing a more positive life path?
Do we have the data that allows us to interrogate that? I do not think that we do.
I do not think that we do either.
The Scottish Government’s insight data would give a more complete picture because it includes SQA qualifications, national courses, vocational qualifications—
Would it be able to demonstrate—
I think that the Government will have more information.
Yes, it will have more information.
Okay. I have one final and to-the-point question. We are talking about the value of lower-level qualifications. A number of submissions to the committee have said categorically that the national 4 qualification is considered to be “worthless”. I am not paraphrasing. I would like you to respond to that.
We have just done a credibility survey. It was totally random and it was run by an external organisation that met people on the street and made random telephone calls. We have data for national 4 that shows that the percentage of young people, potential candidates and mature candidates who felt that it had a low credibility was about 18 per cent. Among those who felt that it had low credibility, the highest percentage—at 37 per cent—was for teachers; the percentage for employers was 15 per cent.
We need to address the credibility of national 4 because it is a very valuable qualification. There is no external examination, but there are no external examinations for higher national certificates or diplomas. The issues are about perception and ensuring that the learners who achieve certification at national 4 have achieved the learning, knowledge and skills that are demonstrated at national 4.
National 4 was designed specifically for the students who would go on to courses that do not have examinations and for whom examinations are not best suited to capture their abilities. There is a huge challenge with regard to the credibility of national 4, but we need to make sure that we address it.
I appreciate that multilevel teaching has always existed, but it is now commonplace—Larry Flanagan of the Educational Institute of Scotland described it as an “explosion”. Was that considered and planned for in the implementation of the curriculum for excellence senior phase? Evidence to the committee has suggested that it is an unintended consequence.
There are two issues: multi-age teaching was understood for children in S4, S5 and S6 who are learning at the same level; multilevel teaching for national 4, 5 and higher in the same class was probably an unintended consequence, which has come about as a result of the environment in which curriculum for excellence was introduced.
That is super, thank you. That is what I wanted to know.
I will go back to the question of equity and fairness. Dr Brown made the point that young people down south are not allowed to take exams or are taken off the roll. I suppose that that is in order to prevent them from affecting the status of the school.
What is your view on the equity of downgrading the qualification that some young people get in fourth year? In the past, kids at general—not just foundation—would have an external exam that established a level of attainment; now, national 4 is not assessed externally and is a pass or fail. Do you accept that that is a form of de-rolling? We are reducing the amount of time and attention that the system gives to those young people.
The original design of national 3 and 4 was done through an open consultation with the public and overseen by the curriculum for excellence management board. As I understand it, it was decided that they should be internally assessed and externally quality assured by the SQA because young people at that level often do not do particularly well in external exams; that could be seen quite clearly from an insider view in the SQA, looking at how young people performed at foundation and general and in external exams. The original rationale for internal assessment of national 3 and 4 was from an equity point of view and from the perspective that it was more appropriate for those young people to have their qualifications assessed internally.
Two or three years ago, we did a piece of fieldwork with focus groups that specifically targeted young people who were doing national 4 or a mix of national 4 and 5. Young people did not have issues with national 4 being assessed internally; they saw it as a positive not a negative, and did not see it as having low credibility. We saw a much more mixed view from teachers and senior managers in schools.
The original rationale for the introduction of national 4 qualifications was to address issues of equity and to come up with a form of assessment—
It would be helpful if you could point us to that decision, because, thus far, the committee has been unable to get anybody to say that they were responsible for making it. It would be excellent if you could do that because, frankly, nobody has said that there was any rationale for the decision. Everyone has said that somebody else made the decision. I profoundly disagree with the decision, and it would be useful to find out who made it.
In relation to equity, the reality is that resource follows qualifications. From what you have said, I presume that you would not want there to be external examination of the uptake of national 4 courses, but we might want to look at that issue further.
I am conscious of the time, so I will make this my final point. The qualifications are taken over three years, but we know that 75 per cent of looked-after young people leave school in fourth year. We have built a curricular system that amplifies inequality for some young people. Do you accept that that is a problem?
We need to ensure that young people who leave school at the end of S4 have what they need to be successful wherever they go, and that they continue their learning in those places. I recognise that a really high percentage of looked-after children leave school at the end of S4, but other young people leave school at that stage, too. We need to ensure that everyone who leaves school at the end of S4 has the right knowledge, skills and learning that will be recognised in the most appropriate way. That might be national qualifications or other qualifications and awards.
With respect, you have said that the system works over three years, but a disproportionate number of young people from a particular disadvantaged group leave school at the end of fourth year, so the curricular system is not meeting their needs.
I presume that, locally, schools will know who the looked-after young people are, and that they will put in place appropriate learning arrangements for those young people. However, your data presents a different picture.
If schools are doing that, I presume that they could encourage such children to stay on in school. The issue is not about ability; it is about circumstance.
Do you accept that there is an issue in that a disproportionate number of looked-after young people leave school at the end of fourth year—because of their circumstances, not their ability—in a system that is designed for pupils to stay on until sixth year? How do we address that problem?
We should stop thinking about the senior phase as merely being in school. We need to think about where young people are going—whether it is college or a work environment—and about how we ensure that their learning continues in those places. As a society, we should take responsibility for such learning and plan for it. We think about the senior phase as taking place only in school, but that is not—and should not be—the case for everyone.
That concludes the committee’s questioning. I thank the panel members for their attendance. I pay particular tribute to Dr Brown, as this is likely to be her final appearance before the committee—certainly in her current role. We thank her for her service and wish her all the best for her retirement from July.
At next week’s meeting, on 29 May, which will be the final session in our inquiry, we will take evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.
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Movies in 3 Minutes or Less
June 02, 2016 in Movie Review, Personal Essay
Just like filmmaking, there's an art and a craft that goes into cutting a trailer and putting together a marketing campaign for any particular movie. Some ad campaigns can be huge successes, even eclipsing the actual film itself, while others can fall flat, misrepresent the film, or even hurt the movie’s life at the box office.
"The Nice Guys" may not have broken any box office records, but it certainly wasn't a flop either. Financially it has been a modest success, and the critical reception to the film has also been warm as well. In fact, "The Nice Guys" is certainly one of the most entertaining and fun movies you can catch at the cinema so far this summer, but something felt off to me as I watched the film. I had the strangest sense of deja vu that I just couldn't shake. Later it hit me, I'd already seen most of the movie through trailers alone.
"The Nice Guys" may not have suffered a financial wound from the marketing campaign, but it has suffered an arguably worse offense, an artistic one.
It all started innocently enough with the original trailer debut. The red band trailer is a different story, but if we focus on solely the first green band trailer, you've got what could honestly be a trailer that stands strong enough on its own. While it does tend to give away a few great visual gags (Gosling tossing the gun to Crowe only to have it fly out the window, Gosling in the bathroom stall) it keeps a lot of information hidden with quick montage editing and a brief but interesting summary of the plot. I was sold simply from the extended opening of the trailer. I knew I wouldn't miss this in theaters.
Unfortunately, they couldn't leave well enough alone.
Where does one even start with this second trailer that came along? It opens in the same way that the original trailer did, but this time with another scene, so now we've essentially seen two full scenes from the movie without having even paid for a ticket yet. This trailer includes a lot of scenes featured in the original (the bowling alley where Holly meets Jackson, Holland and Jackson interrogating the hotel bartender) but this time includes more jokes from those said scenes. As an audience, we've already begun to piece the movie together in our heads at this point as we slowly learn more and more about the film solely through advertising. Important pieces of the plot, like Amelia jumping on the hood of their car after they're arguing that she's most likely dead, should not have been included.
The greatest offense to the audience's intelligence that this trailer commits though is absolutely ruining key exciting moments of the story that should be experienced cold.
For starters, the film opens with a young boy nearly being run down by a car that is plowing its way through his own living room. Exciting? Hilarious? Absolutely. But this visual cue has already been shown to us, so now when we see the boy walking down the hallway when watching the feature, we are counting down the seconds until the car comes crashing through the wall, rather than being surprised by something so absurd.
This also applies to the scene in which Holland and Jackson try to dispose of a dead body, only to have it land on the table of an unsuspecting dinner party. The comedic effect that should have been gut busting, is dulled by revealing this scene beforehand.
The character of Blueface is fantastic. He's deliciously weird, wicked, and goofy. Beau Knapp does a grand job of playing him as both a comically dense cartoon and someone dangerously on the edge who could go off at any minute. The problem? As soon as I saw him walk onscreen, I mentally resisted becoming too entertained by his character because I knew his fate. It was only a matter of time before I'd see him pummeled to death by a van, thanks to the second official trailer.
The same goes for Yaya DaCosta's Tally. When she is introduced to us in the film, she's the secretary of Judith Kuttner (Kim Basinger). She's great with kids and happens to catch the eye of Holland March. Shane Black delights in subverting our expectations by flipping the situation around so that Tally is a cold-blooded killer who's a part of the whole porn film conspiracy that is the center of The Nice Guys. I'm sure I would have delighted in the surprise as well, had it not been for the fact that this was another reveal from the trailer, even going as far as to include the joke about Holland March not realizing that she's killed three people as he insists she isn't a murderer.
The third, final, and highly unnecessary trailer is more of the same, coming in at a whopping 3 minutes, and revealing more jokes, sight gags, and plot points than you can shake a stick at.
So in the end, what does this all boil down to? Overstuffed trailers have started to become a dime a dozen in the movie industry. How does the trailer campaign for The Nice Guys stand out from any of the other ridiculous trailers of today? In a way, it doesn't. It doesn't change anything, or bring to light any new information. But it does highlight a disturbing mindset of Hollywood that is far from new, but should continuously be brought to the attention of everyone.
Hollywood doesn't trust its audience.
Studio Executives are even more cautious and nervous about advertising for their films in the atmosphere of today, because there are so many alternatives to going to the movies in this day and age. They feel the only way to get to audiences' wallets is through highlighting every single great moment of a film to prove to skeptical minds that their movie is worth paying 15 dollars and a babysitter for. They think if we only see the bare minimum of a great film, we'll move on, but if we see enough that makes us laugh in a trailer, we'll shill out money when it comes out.
To a degree, I understand and even empathize with this. Many people only see two or three movies in a theater once a year and are much harder to sell on paying money to experience cinema compared to someone like me who constantly frequents movie theaters. Therefore, sometimes showing off all the greatest assets of a film seems like the best solution. But there is truly a middle ground for successful advertising and I think "The Nice Guys" had achieved that middle ground with its first trailer. Unfortunately, the studio got too nervous too quickly, and went for the big guns, showing them off in what could essentially work as a 3 minute, compressed version of the film.
The damage done here isn't to the studios or the finances. Instead, it's the film and its audience that take the blow. Trailers like these rob us of truly experiencing a film the way that it's meant to be seen, and that can also damage the way a viewer feels about a movie, even influencing a viewer to dislike the film, feeling cheated.
The solution to this problem is a simple one. If studios take the risk and trust their audiences, they can return to the days of crafting fascinating, artful advertising like the campaigns for movies like "Alien" or "Super 8." Both of these films grabbed America's attention with their opaque and mysterious trailers, inviting unsuspecting viewers into a world they've never been to before.
Advertising for film should be like fishing. The trailer is the bait that gets the fish to bite, except in this scenario the fish ends up benefiting from getting caught (hopefully). The trailer shouldn't be the boat the fisherman is trying to get the fish into. Sometimes the fish don't bite, but that's just a risk the fishermen have to take.
Unfortunately, there's no end in sight for bloated trailers, as the films that dominate the box office are the ones whose trailers give us perfectly precise summaries of their stories in 3 minutes or less. It'll take another "Alien" campaign to get the advertisers back on track, and who knows? Maybe that's closer to us than we think. Until then, one can always plug their ears and shut their eyes during the Opening Attractions.
Tags: nice, guys, russell, crowe, ryan, gosling, shane, black, trailer, ad, alien, super 8, kiss kiss bang bang
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Back You are here: Home Travel Out and About A Summer Break In Bansko
A Summer Break In Bansko
Bansko has a diverse arrangement of traditional folklore festivals and cultural events. This is a town, which enjoys a celebration and commemorates events such as the start of the winter and summer tourist seasons, announced with the solemn ringing of the bells and singing of traditional songs. Coinciding with the opening of the summer season in May is the Festival Among Three Mountains, this magnificent display of dance and song and authentic folklore also encompasses an exhibition of local arts and crafts.
August Jazz Festival 2011
In August the nationally renowned concert known as Pirin Sings takes place followed by the Summer Jazz Festival.This years'annual International Jazz Festival will take place between the 8th - 13th August 2011.
For a town of its size, Bansko is rich in historic buildings and culture. It has over 100 registered archaeological sites alone and Bansko Municipality contains seven monuments of national interest. Its complex of museums provide an insight into the everyday life of a variety of eras with interesting displays of archaeological finds, ethnographic materials, religious icons and woodcarvings as well as a rich source of old photos.
Well worth visiting is the House of Velyanov, which was declared a monument of culture of national significance. The house is a classic example of a fortified house from the National Revival era and contains some unique murals and ornate wooden ceilings carved by renowned master craftsman, Velyan Ognev.
Bansko's religious legacy also leaves a positive impression. The Old Hilendarian Cloister contains a permanent exhibition of iconography by masters of the Iconography School of Bansko. The 19th century Saint Trinity church is a beautiful example of local craftsmanship with its three-nave basilica and stunning belfry; up until the construction of Sofia's Alexander Nevski Cathedral, it was Bulgaria's largest church. The reconstructed chapel of Saints Peter and Paul is also well worth seeing as is the Thracian fortress with its sacrificial altar and 5th century church.
A must see when visiting this region is the Pirin National Park, a UNESCO heritage site and protected reserve. The park is rich in emerald lakes, waterfalls, caves, century old trees and historic places. It provides perfect conditions for a variety of interests from mountaineering, hiking and mountain biking to photography, paragliding and rafting. Much of the area is forest and a habitat for animals including Deer,Wolves and Brown Bears.There is a wide variety of plant life, a number of bird and fish species within the territory making it one of the most interesting areas in the Balkan Peninsula.
One route through the park, which is particularly noteworthy, is the Route of the Five Lakes. This four hour walk passes through gentle terrain suitable for young and old and takes in some of the most stunning scenery in the park.
The oddly named Dancing Bears Rehabilitation Park in Belitsa in the Rila Mountains, 33 kms from Bansko is also worth visiting and is open year round. The park is located in a pine forest with natural water resources. It houses the wild brown bear and is an international project run by the charity known as the Four Paws Foundation. Within the park each bear has its own territory with access to water and plenty of space for climbing. Food for the bears is purposely hidden at different places in the park, encouraging the bears to hunt to feed themselves, just as they would if they were in a natural wild environment.
The area is also famous for its well-preserved Thracian cultural monuments as well as the remains of castles like the medieval Kalyata Castle and monasteries like the remains of the Saint Ilia monastery, which is characteristic of the early-Byzantine era. Another interesting site is the 17th century Saint Theodor Thyron and Saint Theodor Stratilat Church in the village of Dobarsko. The church is beautifully preserved and contains some inimitable wall paintings, which have led to it being under UNESCO's protection.
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Emrick Announces March Satellite Office Hours
NAZARETH – State Rep. Joe Emrick (R-Nazareth) invites residents of the 137th Legislative District to take advantage of satellite office hours he will be hosting in Forks Township during the month of March.
“Not everyone can easily reach my district offices in Bangor or Nazareth, especially when winter weather causes travel problems,” Emrick said. “We offer this service on the first and third Thursday of each month as a way of bringing state government closer to you.”
A member of Emrick’s district office staff will be at the Forks Township Community Center on Thursday, March 1, and Thursday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. The community center is located at 500 Zucksville Road.
“This is a great opportunity to get answers to your state government questions and further information about programs such as the state’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate program,” added Emrick.
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Seeing through a Robot’s Eyes Helps Those with Profound Motor Impairments
An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks such as scratching an itch and applying skin lotion. The web-based interface displays a “robot’s eye view” of surroundings to help users interact with the world through the machine.
Posted March 15, 2019 • Atlanta, GA
The system, described March 15 in the journal PLOS ONE, could help make sophisticated robots more useful to people who do not have experience operating complex robotic systems. Study participants interacted with the robot interface using standard assistive computer access technologies — such as eye trackers and head trackers — that they were already using to control their personal computers.
The paper reported on two studies showing how such “robotic body surrogates” – which can perform tasks similar to those of humans – could improve the quality of life for users. The work could provide a foundation for developing faster and more capable assistive robots.
“Our results suggest that people with profound motor deficits can improve their quality of life using robotic body surrogates,” said Phillip Grice, a recent Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. graduate who is first author of the paper. “We have taken the first step toward making it possible for someone to purchase an appropriate type of robot, have it in their home and derive real benefit from it.”
Grice and Professor Charlie Kemp from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University used a PR2 mobile manipulator manufactured by Willow Garage for the two studies. The wheeled robot has 20 degrees of freedom, with two arms and a “head,” giving it the ability to manipulate objects such as water bottles, washcloths, hairbrushes and even an electric shaver.
“Our goal is to give people with limited use of their own bodies access to robotic bodies so they can interact with the world in new ways,” said Kemp.
In their first study, Grice and Kemp made the PR2 available across the internet to a group of 15 participants with severe motor impairments. The participants learned to control the robot remotely, using their own assistive equipment to operate a mouse cursor to perform a personal care task. Eighty percent of the participants were able to manipulate the robot to pick up a water bottle and bring it to the mouth of a mannequin.
“Compared to able-bodied persons, the capabilities of the robot are limited,” Grice said. “But the participants were able to perform tasks effectively and showed improvement on a clinical evaluation that measured their ability to manipulate objects compared to what they would have been able to do without the robot.”
In the second study, the researchers provided the PR2 and interface system to Henry Evans, a California man who has been helping Georgia Tech researchers study and improve assistive robotic systems since 2011. Evans, who has very limited control of his body, tested the robot in his home for seven days and not only completed tasks, but also devised novel uses combining the operation of both robot arms at the same time – using one arm to control a washcloth and the other to use a brush.
“The system was very liberating to me, in that it enabled me to independently manipulate my environment for the first time since my stroke,” said Evans. “With respect to other people, I was thrilled to see Phil get overwhelmingly positive results when he objectively tested the system with 15 other people.”
The researchers were pleased that Evans developed new uses for the robot, combining motion of the two arms in ways they had not expected.
“When we gave Henry free access to the robot for a week, he found new opportunities for using it that we had not anticipated,” said Grice. “This is important because a lot of the assistive technology available today is designed for very specific purposes. What Henry has shown is that this system is powerful in providing assistance and empowering users. The opportunities for this are potentially very broad.”
The interface allowed Evans to care for himself in bed over an extended period of time. “The most helpful aspect of the interface system was that I could operate the robot completely independently, with only small head movements using an extremely intuitive graphical user interface,” Evans said.
The web-based interface shows users what the world looks like from cameras located in the robot’s head. Clickable controls overlaid on the view allow the users to move the robot around in a home or other environment and control the robot’s hands and arms. When users move the robot’s head, for instance, the screen displays the mouse cursor as a pair of eyeballs to show where the robot will look when the user clicks. Clicking on a disc surrounding the robotic hands allows users to select a motion. While driving the robot around a room, lines following the cursor on the interface indicate the direction it will travel.
Building the interface around the actions of a simple single-button mouse allows people with a range of disabilities to use the interface without lengthy training sessions.
“Having an interface that individuals with a wide range of physical impairments can operate means we can provide access to a broad range of people, a form of universal design,” Grice noted. “Because of its capability, this is a very complex system, so the challenge we had to overcome was to make it accessible to individuals who have very limited control of their own bodies.”
While the results of the study demonstrated what the researchers had set out to do, Kemp agrees that improvements can be made. The existing system is slow, and mistakes made by users can create significant setbacks. Still, he said, “People could use this technology today and really benefit from it.”
The cost and size of the PR2 would need to be significantly reduced for the system to be commercially viable, Evans suggested. Kemp says these studies point the way to a new type of assistive technology.
“It seems plausible to me based on this study that robotic body surrogates could provide significant benefits to users,” Kemp added.
This work was supported by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), grant 90RE5016-01-00 via RERC TechSAge, National Science Foundation Award IIS-1150157, by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award, and the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly of Fulton County Scholar Award.
Kemp is a cofounder, a board member, an equity holder, and the CTO of Hello Robot Inc., which is developing products related to this research. This research could affect his personal financial status. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by Georgia Tech in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.
CITATION: Phillip M. Grice and Charles C. Kemp, “In-home and remote use of robotic body surrogates by people with profound motor deficits” (PLOS ONE 2019). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212904
Atlanta,Georgia 30332-0171 USA
Media Relations Contact: John Toon (404-894-6986) (jtoon@gatech.edu).
Writer: John Toon
Image shows the view through the PR2’s cameras showing the environment around the robot. Clicking the yellow disc allows users the control the arm. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
Showing its capabilities as a body surrogate, a PR2 controlled remotely by an individual with profound motor deficits picks up a cup in a research laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
Robotic body surrogates can help people with profound motor deficits interact with the world. Here, Henry Evans, a California man who helped Georgia Tech researchers with improvements to a web-based interface, uses the robot to shave himself. (Credit: Henry Clever/Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
The PR2 robot used in this study has sophisticated arms and hands capable of precisely manipulating objects – and can even hold an electric shaver. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
The PR2 is a research and development robot that has two arms and a head on a wheeled base that allows it to move around the environment. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
Email: jtoon@gatech.edu
$21.9 Million Gene Modulation Research Effort Targets Influenza Pandemics
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Study Ties Poor Sleep to Reduced Memory Performance in Older Adults
Variability in night-to-night sleep time and reduced sleep quality adversely affect the ability of older adults to recall information.
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Simon Rolland appointed new Secretary General of ARE
3 March 2011 - Simon was elected unanimously at the organisation's recent Annual General Assembly and takes over from Guido Glania, who had held the position since 2008. He had been ARE's Policy and Development Manager for the past four years. Prior to joining the Alliance, he worked at the European Parliament and in a number of different NGOs.
Commenting on the appointment, Ernesto Macias, President of ARE said, “I am delighted that Simon agreed to become Secretary General. His familiarity with the organization and the sector means he is well placed to deliver the results that matter to members. I would also like to thank Guido for his extraordinary work and dedication. We wish him all the best in his future projects.”
Commenting on his appointment, Simon said, “ARE is at the crossroad between two increasingly important trends: on one hand companies in the renewable energy sector worldwide are more and more conscious of the opportunities in emerging markets, in particular within the framework of energy access and economical growth, and on the other hand, there is a rising awareness around the challenges of climate change and international development. Our sector and markets can only expand - exciting times are ahead.”
A key role of the new Secretary General will be to promote strategic alliances with organisations and Governments, so as to better facilitate the right conditions needed to trigger the full potential of renewable energy in developing countries. These conditions include, for instance, a stable political environment, sustainable financing schemes, provisions to safeguard maintenance, recycling and private entrepreneurship. Securing a sound funding base and raising awareness of ARE’s work are key to this strategy.
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Catch Florence Masebe In Elelwani – In Cinemas 31 January
Posted byAndrew Germishuys 2014/01/21 Leave a comment on Catch Florence Masebe In Elelwani – In Cinemas 31 January
South African soapie fans will be able to see one of their favourite stars, veteran actress Florence Masebe, on the big screen when Venda film ‘Elelwani’ opens on 31 January. Masebe attained household celebrity status by appearing on shows like ‘Egoli’, ‘Suburban Bliss’, ‘Soul City’, ‘Muvhango’, ‘Generations’, ‘7de Laan’, ‘Justice for All 3’, ‘Morwalala’, ‘Inkaba’ and e.tv’s flagship soap, ‘Scandal’, in which she plays the role of Precious Thito.
‘Elelwani’ is the latest of her big-screen roles, which have included ‘Born Free 2’, ‘Chikin Biz Niz’, ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’ and ‘Black Butterfly’. Her portrayal of the title role in ‘Elelwani’ won her the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), held in Nigeria last year. “The film received 11 nominations in total, and I was surprised and delighted that I brought back the biggest one,” says Masebe.
Born in Limpopo, Masebe studied drama at the University of Cape Town and started acting professionally in 1993, appearing in children’s programmes and taking on cameo roles. Her launch to local stardom began with the youth programme ‘Electric Workshop’. From then on, her career took off. As one of the members of the original cast of ‘Generations’, she followed up her success on the show by landing one role after another, including co-hosting ‘Fokus’ with Freek Robinson, and continuity presenting for SABC2.
‘Elelwani’ is the first Venda-language feature film to be made in South Africa. Director Ntshavheni wa Luruli first approached Masebe about the film when they were both working on the popular SABC2 soapie ‘Muvhango’. “We are both from Venda, and the story is close to our hearts,” she says. “It has been incredibly rewarding to see our dream turned into the reality that is the film. It’s a respectful interpretation of Venda traditions and I urge all South Africans to watch it.”
The film is based on the novel by Titus Ntsiene Maumela, which was one of the first Venda novels to be published in South Africa. “Many Venda people already know the story because the book was widely read, so we are excited that South Africans will now have a chance to see the story come to life in the cinemas,” adds Masebe.
It tells the story of Elelwani, a young woman who leaves her rural village for the big city, where she completes her studies. She’s offered a dream job in Chicago and becomes engaged to Vele, the love of her life. The two set out on a drive to her village, intending to tell her parents of their plans to marry and spend their future together. After their arrival, Elelwani is blindsided when her parents reveal that she has been promised to the tribal king. Torn between a glowing future and familial duty, she initially rebels, but finally consents.
What follows is a cinematic initiation into the culture of the Venda in a film that is a thriller influenced by the tradition of oral storytelling. Shot against the magnificent green backdrop of the Thohoyandou area of Limpopo, incredibly beautiful images and a disturbing plot combine to create a film shot through with magical realism. Ntshavheni Wa Luruli, himself a Venda, deals maturely with a sensitive topic and the tale comes to a complex and grounded resolution.
“‘Elelwani’ is a unique film and an important milestone in South African cinema history,” says Helen Kuun, CEO of Indigenous Film Distribution, which is distributing the film locally. “Not only does it provide a window into Venda culture, but it’s also a well told tale that is beautifully shot, with solid performances from the lead characters.”
“Elelwani” was made possible by a generous grant by the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund and additional funding by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC), The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC).
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Founder of SAMDB, Andrew has worked full time in the film industry since the early 2000's. He has trained as an actor, completing his LAMDA Gold Medal, and attending many courses in Cape Town acting studios, with masterclasses with some of the international industries top directors, producers and filmmakers. Working as an actor and armourer in the film and television industry have given Andrew a great balance of skills across the board when it comes to the entertainment industry. Catch him on Twitter: twitter.com/andrewgerm_za And IMDb: www.imdb.com/name/nm5390453/ View more posts
Nominations Announced For The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
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Streep makes her first visit to Nantucket memorable
Article courtesy The Boston Globe: Meryl Streep had a very busy week, even for her. She gave a shout-out to Hillary Clinton at the DNC; inked a contract to appear in “Mary Poppins Returns” – a movie musical from “Hairspray” creators Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman that will also star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda – and geared up for the Aug. 12 rollout of the biopic “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
Still, there she was Saturday, alongside her former Yale Drama School classmate John Shea at a benefit for the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. (Surprisingly, it was Streep’s first time on the island.) The handsome Shea, who’s perhaps best known for playing Lex Luthor in the ’90s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” got his start as a TWN apprentice in 1968 and has remained ever grateful. TWN, which had no rivals when it was founded in 1956, had fallen on hard times before Shea took the reins as artistic director seven years ago — for the munificent fee of $300 per season, according to his wife, sculptor Melissa McLeod. Saturday’s benefit drew some 240 high-rollers to the Nantucket Hotel’s ballroom at a cost of $2,500 per person — and $50,000 for the privilege of booking Streep’s table, a fee gladly forked over by prominent DC lawyer (and TWN board member) Max N. Berry. Other high-profile attendees included film producer Armyan Bernstein, who directed Shea in 1984’s “Windy City” (and followed his friend’s lead in acquiring a summer home on the island), and benefactress-about-town Wendy Schmidt (wife of Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt), looking Titania-like in a sleek silver-beaded silk chiffon shift.
Streep’s contribution to the cabaret show, performed with Shea and their fellow Yale classmate Joe Grifasi, was a silly spoof of “Medea” penned way back when by then-fledgling playwrights Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein.
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Foo-Shiung Ho, Ph.D.
President of Taiwan Futures Exchange
Interview Date: March, 2006
Striker presents an interview with Dr. Foo-Shiung Ho, who after 26 years with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in Chicago, Illinois, moved back home to Taipei in 2000 as President of the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). The exchange, established in 1998, is one of the world's fastest growing derivative exchanges and is currently ranked in the top 20. Although many of our readers may already have a passing familiarity with the nation of Taiwan, some may be surprised to learn that it is an island, 100 miles off the cost of China, and while it is physically less than half the size of the state of Illinois, its population is nearly twice that of the Land of Lincoln, at 23 million persons.
Taipei is the capital, with 2.6 million people and the home of TAIFEX as well as the Taipei Financial Tower, a 101 story skyscraper that is 220 feet higher than Chicago's 110 story Sears Tower. Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves are the third largest in the world and its very active financial markets are now in the process of opening their doors to international traders.
John Gallwas: It might be helpful for our readers to have a brief understanding of how Taiwan became one of Asia's economic "Tigers".
Dr. Ho: Some major factors which attributed to Taiwan's economic success and being one of Asia's economic Tigers include the prevalence of education, diligent habit, correct and resilient economic and trade policy. Since 1949, Taiwan has experienced different phases of economic development and gradually transited from agricultural society to industrial and commercial society. People on the island also have benefited from the transition. From the land reforms in 1949, the development of light-industry and the expansion of export, Taiwan built a solid foundation for development on international trade. In the 1970s, Taiwan started the "Ten Development Projects" that further strengthened the infrastructure for industrialization. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Taiwanese government started upgrading domestic industry and strived to develop high-tech industry. The fruitful results that were known as "Taiwan Experiences" successfully pushed Taiwan onto the international stage. The correct and resilient economic and trading policy was the key success factor for Taiwan's economic growth. In addition, during the phases of economic development, the prevalence of education contributed significantly to the smooth transformation from an agriculture-based to an industry-based, and further to a service-based society. On the other hand, the diligent culture of Taiwanese also helped accumulate the kind of capital that was critically needed for economic development
John Gallwas: What has caused the recent movement to "internationalize" the Taiwanese financial services sector including TAIFEX?
Dr. Ho: With the significant growth in our hi-tech industries and economic developments, as well as strong financial service sectors, more and more foreign companies are entering into Taiwan market, looking for investment opportunities. As those foreign companies and employees join domestic economy, many potential market demands, especially consumption and financial service needs emerge. That is why we are eager to expand our financial service more internationally so that those foreigners who come to work in Taiwan could enjoy convenient facilities in our country. In addition, because of the successful growth of our national income in the past decades, many Taiwanese are also going abroad, seeking good opportunities overseas, instead of just investing domestically. They would like to understand other markets in the world, finding potential investment targets, and of course, they need more internationalized service as well. Due to these two strong market needs; Taiwan is pushing and has to push the movement toward internationalization swiftly. Regarding TAIFEX, in the view of Taiwan futures markets, there are more and more foreign investors, including individuals and institutions, investing in Taiwan. They are either having the cash securities and thus having the hedging needs or waiting the potential investment and arbitrage opportunities. To satisfy the market needs of foreign investors, the TAIFEX is following the internationalization trend, plans a series of measures for internationalizing the market, more on this later
John Gallwas: Why should our readers, many of whom are Commodity Trading Advisors, System Developers, and traders, be interested in the internationalization of TAIFEX?
Dr. Ho: The internationalization movement I mentioned above at TAIFEX actually stands from the perspective of foreign investors. For the purpose of "internationalizing", on the other hand, to attract more foreign investors, we are planning to launch many new products denominated in US dollar and trying to introduce more convenient market access systems for foreign investors to enter into our market easily. These new US dollar-denominated products and new market systems for foreign investors will be launched and operated at the end of the first quarter in 2006. Following these internationalized movements at TAIFEX, the global investors who are seeking investment opportunities and trading globally will understand the Taiwan market more comprehensively and are much easier to find the attractive opportunities in and easy access to the Taiwan futures market. That's why we believe your readers, most are foreign traders and system developers as well as trading advisors will be interested in the internationalization of TAIFEX.
John Gallwas: What are TAIFEX's most active markets and why are they so popular?
Dr. Ho: The TAIFEX has launched five index-based futures contracts, three index-based options, two interest rate futures contracts as well as thirty stock options on the list of product offering so far. The most actively traded product amongst these listed products is the TAIEX options (TXO). TXO, one of our three index-based options products, reached 324 thousands lots of average daily trading volume in 2005, representing a growth of 85% in the last year over 2004. In addition, on January 18th of this year, the record trading volume of 930,373 lots pushed TXO into a new era of growth. TXO was ranked among the top three index-based options products around the world, according to the statistics from FIA, and was the major driving force for the TAIFEX to be awarded the "Derivatives Exchange of the Year" award in 2004 by Asia Risk magazine and to be ranked the 18th largest exchange globally in 2005.
John Gallwas: Where can our readers, who would like to research your markets, find technical trading information and historical files on the TAIFEX markets?
Dr. Ho: For those who are interested in our TAIFEX markets, they could browse our exchange website (http://www.taifex.com.tw) to access the trading information and historical data. The detailed data could be viewed under the "market data" and the "statistics" items. In addition, readers may also contact with our staff via 886-2-2369-5678 by phone or our service mailbox: (service@taifex.com.tw).
John Gallwas: Is there anything in the "what's new" department you would like to share with our readers now?
Dr. Ho: The latest developments at TAIFEX include two important projects. The first one is that we are going to launch three US dollar-denominated futures and options contracts in the first quarter of 2006. These three new US dollar-denominated contracts include the gold futures, the MSCI Taiwan Index futures and the MSCI Taiwan Index options contracts. So far, we have five index-based futures contracts, three index-based options, two interest rate futures contracts as well as thirty stock options on the list. All these products are denominated in New Taiwan Dollar. For the purpose of matching the internationalization movement in our country, we would like to introduce these three new products to your readers. These products will all be traded and settled in US dollar and certainly save the cost of FX for some potential investors, especially for foreign investors. We believe it will be more convenient and helpful to attract foreign investors to pay more attentions to Taiwan futures market in the near future. The other important development in our market is the opening of the omnibus account systems and the permission of foreign investors engaging in Taiwan's futures market for non-hedging purposes. The introduction of the omnibus account for foreign investors would be helpful to attract more off-shore investors who prefer to trade anonymously into our market. The permission of trading for non-hedging purposes for foreign investors brings more flexibility for foreign investors to construct their portfolio positions. They will not be limited in the short positions in the futures market for having long cash positions any longer under the previous hedging purpose restrains. The opening of omnibus accounts and the permission of trading for non-hedging purposes, we believe, would catch more foreign investors' eyes and definitely match the internationalization movement as well.
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Telegram has raised a total of $1.7 billion from its two pre-ICO sales
In February, secure messaging service Telegram launched a presale for the its cryptocurency prior to an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), raising $850 million from 81 investors, and later that month, The Verge learned that it was launching a second private presale, in which it aimed to double that amount. Bloomberg Technology reports that the company did just that, and has raised a total of $1.7 billion in March between the two sales.
In a filing to the Securities and Exchanges Commission, Telegram says that it raised an additional $850 million from 94 investors in the second sale, bringing the total amount to $1.7 billion. It also says that it might “pursue one or more subsequent offerings” beyond these first two sales.
The company is...
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Interview: Marianas Trench
Photo by Karolina Turek
Marianas Trench are not haunted by the echoes of the past - they are inspired by them. We caught up with the band prior to their show in Calgary to talk about their latest album, Phantoms, as well as the Suspending Gravity tour and their evolving career.
First of all, thank you for taking the time out of your day to answer these questions. How is the Suspending Gravity tour going so far?
The tour is going great! It feels so good to be playing new songs and seeing such a positive reaction from all of the people coming out to the tour.
Congratulations on Phantoms! This is your fifth record, so you are no strangers to the writing and recording process. What was the biggest challenge you faced in the process of making this album?
Honestly, during the recording of Phantoms, the process went quite smoothly. It was very inspired and we had a lot of fun putting the songs together. We really took our time to get the songs exactly as desired and invested a lot of time exploring our options to do so. However, by the end of the album, we were really under the gun for time. It wasn't our initial intent to have the album out 5 days before the first show of the tour. Fortunately for us, our fans are so passionate that most of them seemed to take that as a challenge to see if they could memorize all the songs so quickly. I loved seeing that!
Phantoms is a concept album that was inspired by darker, almost paranormal like concepts, as well as Edgar Allan Poe. Were there any other concepts or artists that you drew inspiration from, or did you only want to focus on those sources of inspiration?
The initial inspiration came during a day off in New Orleans. That city just oozes a cool, creepy, inspiring vibe. There is such a spiritual culture there. It's interesting and different how they take something like death and turn it more into a celebration. Although at first glance it's creepy, it actually seems to feel more hopeful. After that, the idea of creating the setting for the album as a haunted house seemed like a great metaphor with lots of creative potential.
These outside inspirations that you drew from, alongside personal experiences, seem to enable you to reference a personal experience in a metaphorical way. Has that always been the approach to songwriting in Marianas Trench, or would you say that it has evolved and grown over time?
The songwriting is always evolving. You hope that if you put this much time into something you will gain some skills or wisdom over the years. Although all of the songs come from Josh's personal experiences, many of the lyrics can be interpreted in whatever way the listener relates to them. Using metaphors is one way to get that accomplished.
You've mentioned in some recent interviews about wanting to make the songs the best they can be. Is there ever a moment that you know a song has reached its full potential, whether it's in the writing process, the recording process, during the tour - or is it more of a feeling opposed to a moment?
We don't stop tinkering with a song until we think it has reached its full potential, and moving forward you can just continue to apply the new studio and writing skills. We don't look back at previous albums and think "we would have done this different". At that time they were all written and recorded to the absolute best or our abilities and with the best tools, we had at our disposal.
You've re-imagined some of your songs from past albums for the Suspending Gravity tour, like the "Cross My Heart/Celebrity Status" medley - what is that process like for the band, and does it add to the excitement of playing new material?
The idea for doing that medley actually came from the problem of having too many songs and not enough time in the set. This album is really the first time there was a crunch while trying to put together the set list. Putting that medley together allowed us to add another new track! It's also fun to play the older songs in a new way and definitely keeps them exciting for us and keeps the audience on their toes.
Masterpiece Theatre just turned 10, which is insane! A lot of artists entertain the idea of anniversary shows and tours because of the importance of an album to their fans, while some artists feel like "that ship has sailed," so to speak. Would there be any chance of an anniversary show or tour for Masterpiece Theatre, or has that thought not really been entertained due to the busyness of the current album cycle?
I feel like that type of tour is something you would do when you were out of material. I'm inspired by our new music and I have fun playing the new songs, so at this time I don't think that is something we would do. I have thought about maybe one day doing a tour where there are multiple dates in one city and having more emphasis on songs from one of the albums for most of the show but still playing most of the songs we want to over the course of a couple of nights. Again, I don't see that happening for a long time…. but you never know.
Ultimately, what do you hope that your fans take away from Phantoms - whether it's a message, an experience, a feeling, etc.?
I just hope people are willing to give the whole album a listen. We really pride ourselves in presenting complete bodies of work rather than disjointed singles and hope that our fans and new listeners will dive into that world with us.
Check out our photos below of Marianas Trench from when they performed in Calgary on March 25, 2019!
Phantoms is available now through 604 Records. Click here to listen to the album and be sure to catch Marianas Trench when they come to a city near you!
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Review: Weaves
While Weaves may be the first time full LP that we’ve received from Weaves, hopefully it is the first of many albums to come. The self-titled album blurs the constricting restraints of designated genres, and sails across a mixture of styles such as punk, pop, and hints of grunge rock. Perfectly weird, and as approachable as old friends, Weaves encapsulates all of the qualities required for making a solid debut album. It grips the audience with its range of entrancing capabilities, while still leaving them thirsty for more. Packed with techniques that get in your face, as well as mellow rhythms that are more hypnotic than comforting, Weaves checks off every indie lover’s criteria for a good album.
Although Weaves is a complete album, each song offers a different example of what the bands potential could lead to. The album will deal out emotions of anger alongside unapologetic natures at one moment, and then will suddenly become a love-struck narrative the next. If the entire album reassembled one of its songs, Weaves would still remain a solid album. It is the consistent changes in styles and affects that push it to the best album it could be. With many debut albums, it seems as though once you’ve heard three of its songs you’ve heard them all.
This is definitely not the case for Weaves. You could listen to every song on the record except for the last, and you would still be surprised by what the group produces in the end. The exciting part about listening to Weaves is not only the variety of sounds, but while they all may be different from each other, each song is stellar on its own.
Every track in Weaves is packed with passionate vocals and unrelenting melodies. Simpler pieces such as “Eagle”, “Stress”, and “Sentence” are much easier to digest than other tracks included in the album. Other songs like “Candy”, and “One More” offer experiences that can best be described as musical rollercoasters. Guitar and other instrumental solos are very common amongst the tracks within Weaves. What was nice to hear in the album was that while guitar solos were a staple for Weaves, a variety of models and styles of guitars and melodies were used in order to make each song a unique experience.
Weaves leaves the impression that it is an album that will be talked about, whether in the near future, or shortly after the group gains attention. The harsh and entrancing vocals, alongside the experimental use of synthesizers and effects leave the audience in a state of anticipation for new material. Keep an eye out for the Toronto act in the future, because the music they produce is insanely wild, and will hopefully gain wide spread attention for them. Weaves is a perfect example of what happens when you mix musical creativity with raw energy. An album is made that is insanely addicting, insanely entertaining, and at times, simply insane.
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UN Women’s work on youth and gender equality is guided by key global norms and standards that recognize the human rights of young women and girls. Among the most prominent are:
The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), an international bill of rights for women and an agenda for action by countries to guarantee those rights. For young women and adolescent girls, removing disparities in access to education remains a core principle of CEDAW.
The 1995 the Beijing Platform for Action, the most comprehensive and progressive blueprint for advancing women and girls’ rights, which was also the first United Nations World Conference on Women to include a specific focus on the girl-child and young women’s rights and needs.
The 1995 World Program of Action for Youth (WPAY), which provides a policy framework and practical guidelines for national action and international support to improve the situation of young people around the world, with special emphasis on girls and young women.
UN Women also contributes to agenda-setting and policy-making for young women and girls at key normative opportunities within the work of the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and the Commission on the Status of Women.
From where I stand: “Equality between men and women…is a moral imperative”
Call for applications: Beijing+25 Youth Task Force
Ask an activist: Why do we need more women and girls in technology fields, and how can we inspire girls to pursue tech opportunities?
Ask a girl who codes: What’s your message to girls who want to join ICT?
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for Youth
This resource explains why CEDAW is important to youth, describes CEDAW’s impact in advancing gender equality and human rights for women and girls around the world and summarizes the articles of CEDAW, including the specific forms of discrimination that must be ended and how CEDAW is implemented and monitored. More
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Affirmative Action: Contentious Ideas and Controversial Practices
John Michael Eden and John Paul Ryan
From university admissions offices to the board rooms of corporate America, few questions are as subject to dissent and heated discussion as affirmative action. The contentious nature of the debate reflects the deep ideological and political divisions among its participants. Critics have long held that affirmative actions social utility is dubious on the one hand because it equates racial diversity with viewpoint diversity, and patently unfair on the other because it violates the core convictions of individualism. While such critics tend to view affirmative action as an unfair form of historical compensation based on group membership, supporters counter that affirmative action is needed to provide actual equality of opportunity, or to level the playing field, as President Lyndon Johnson argued in his Executive Order of 1965.
The term affirmative action refers to a number of different policies and practices meant to counter the effects of past racism and level the playing field in todays society. These include seeking a more diverse applicant pool in educational admissions and job hiring; giving preferences (large and small) based on race, ethnicity, and/or gender; and even reserving or setting aside, for example, seats in a university classroom, slots in a job-training program, or promotions in a police department. All of these practices have been litigated over the past twenty years (see Key Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action on page 112).
Many interpret recent statewide voter initiatives banning affirmative action in California and Washington, as well as recent adverse decisions in three federal circuit courts (see Federal Circuit Cases on Affirmative Action on page 113), as signs of the end of thirty years of government-sponsored affirmative action policies and practices. To explore these controversies, the American Bar Associations Division for Public Education assembled a group of scholars for a discussion in cyberspace of the historical, ethical, legal, and political aspects of affirmative action.
This group of nine scholarswho together have written numerous books, articles, and public essays on the subject of affirmative actionprovides a wide range of perspectives on the subject. Their dialogue indicates that this is not a pro-con debate, but a nuanced conversation about a complex set of practices. The scholars began by considering the historical backdrop in which affirmative action developed as a window into its current viability as a legal and social policy. They also considered the role of affirmative action in college and university admissions at length, with particular attention being given to the problematic status of the diversity rationale.
Why Does Race Matter?
To answer this question, it becomes imperative to venture into history to discover the reasons for the continuing importance of race in America. Broadly speaking, many of the scholars who participated in our discussion seem to agree that present social conditions can be clearly traced to oppressive historical practices and institutions.
Glenn C. Loury, Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University, believes that race is significant today because its pernicious consequences are still so evident in our political and social life. According to Loury, it is incumbent upon our society to figure out how to deal with the social, economic, and political legacy left to us by our ignoble past. But just what do we mean when we talk about our ignoble past? This certainly refers to slavery, but the connection between our current situation and those abominable historical practices is often left unexplored.
Some contend that the continued salience of race is the result not only of our historical past but of our present social conditions. Camille DeJorna, Director of Admissions at the University of Iowa Law School, points out that African Americans and other people of color still encounter significant obstacles to social and economic advancement. According to DeJorna, gaps in such quality-of-life measures as college enrollment and graduation rates, opportunities for employment and advancement, and lifelong earning potential, speak to the continued need for affirmative action. In her words, hopes for equity demand that we continue to take race into account. That is, it is precisely because ones race significantly contributes to her overall quality of life, the quality of medical treatment that she receives, and the quality of her education that continued attention to issues of racial parity remains important for a society that values social justice.
But even if this is the case, does it make sense to keep asking questions about how or why racial disparities persist? According to Jennifer Hochschild, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, pursuing such questions often leads to a dead end. Hochschild argues that although economic dominance, psychological dynamics, and cultural conditioning all play a significant role, focusing on these causes of racism is unproductive. She suggests that, instead, we should be more concerned with finding solutions to these problems.
Nevertheless, in trying to understand why race matters, one cannot deny the connection between historical and modern conditions. Even if identifying the reasons for the persistence of racism and social inequality is extremely difficult, making general references to historical trends seems inescapable. For Donna Maeda, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College, it is insufficient for government, or society more generally, to promote racial equality as one of many goals; rather, it is essential to dismantle racial hierarchies that continue to exist.
But other scholars argue that the connections are more tenuous than previously thought. For example, Richard Kahlenberg, Research Fellow at the Center for National Policy, argues that it isnt so clear that the history of racism compels society to continue to take affirmative steps to quell the present effects and residues of previously imposed racial inequality. For Kahlenberg, the significance of race in one circumstance does not necessarily justify its continued application in another. He believes that the focus on race resulting from affirmative action should be a short-term measure designed to achieve the long-term goal of a color-blind societya term frequently used by contemporary critics of affirmative action.
This has some appeal: it seems that races present social import can be attributed to the social disadvantages with which it is often associated. We take someones race into account not because there is something inherently noble in this; indeed, our present-day courts remind us in their decisions and opinions how dangerous the use of race as a social category may be and has been throughout much of our nations history. Rather, we take race into account to level the playing field. Nevertheless, the distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of results is a slippery one, especially when one seeks to assess the significance of quality-of-life measures.
Still another viewpoint is offered by Douglas Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who also served in the Justice Department under President Reagan. He contends that race remains important because of cultural factors that, while largely responsible for the disparities in quality-of-life measures, should not be redressed by law. It would be improper and irrational, he argues, to rectify the acknowledged social and economic effects of racism through legal means, because these effects are not maintained by the law today. The ugly residues of racism are maintained only culturally and, as such, they should not be ameliorated through public policy or law. In Kmiecs view, using racial classifications to further policy initiatives is suspect precisely because ones race reveals nothing about ones intelligence, integrity, or ability. In other words, a focus on race could reduce the significance of an individua#146;s talents, abilities, and capacities, an argument that some prominent African American scholars also make today.
Is Affirmative Action a Justifiable Social and Legal Policy?
Glenn Loury observes that our uneasiness with employing racial categories in public policy can be traced to the practices of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. African Americans were subordinated and oppressed as a result of their membership in a particular racial group; they were not singled out according to their particular talents or aspirations. But given the severe social, political, and economic impact that slavery and Jim Crow laws have had on African Americans, does it make sense to imagine that we currently have an equal playing field?
Loury points out that merit flourishes more readily in certain social conditions and less well in others. In Lourys words, merit is not just something people are born with; it is the product of social processes which, because of our history ... have a racial dimension. Thus, it becomes less justifiable to evaluate the merit of different individuals without reference to these social conditions. One might recognize that a particular individua#146;s race is morally or ethically irrelevant, while still believing that affirmative action is a necessary tool to establish social justice.
This way of looking at affirmative action distresses some scholars. According to Kmiec, there are two main reasons why affirmative action is an undesirable public policy. First, we can agree that merit is the product of social forces without concluding that disparities should be remedied by the government. Kmiec argues that the solution to these problems should occur at the individual, not the governmental, level. In his view, government-sanctioned affirmative action programs result in invidious discrimination between minorities and nonminorities that can only damage race relations in the end. However, given the social and economic challenges that face minorities, he acknowledges that there is a powerful case for private colleges, universities, and employers to implement affirmative action programs. Kmiecs second point is that government cannot undertake affirmative action programs because public law must be uniform and specified in advance, which implies that preferences are prima facie unacceptable.
But is considering all individuals to be absolutely equal the same as treating everyone equally? According to Robert Fullinwider, Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Americas tainted history is precisely what makes it imperative to treat people equally by treating them differently. Treating individuals from vastly different social and economic backgrounds equally, as if these backgrounds did not deeply affect their life chances, is tantamount to ignoring the spirit of individualism. Individualism, at its core, seeks to treat people fairly by being sensitive to their individual backgrounds. Our lives are touched in myriad ways by our particular circumstances, and to ignore this is to adhere to what Loury calls color-blind formalism.
Another possibility, suggested by Richard Kahlenberg, is to fine tune affirmative action programs so as to recognize that membership in a minority group does not automatically imply a social or economic disadvantage. While recognizing that there is a historical connection between disadvantage and race, we should not view these to be equivalent. By acknowledging that whites are also the victims of economic and social hardship, Kahlenbergs remedy seeks to broaden the political and moral basis for affirmative action programs.
Who Should Be Given Preference in College Admissions?
Few arenas have been as hotly contested in recent years as admission to public colleges and universities. Supporters and critics have wrangledon campus and in the courtsabout racial preferences, diversity, inclusiveness, and their impact on the learning environment. It is ironic that the University of California system, which recently implemented a ban on affirmative action compelled by a statewide voter referendum, is the same system whose set-aside affirmative action practices in medical school admissions in the 1970s led to the Bakke decision. That 1979 Supreme Court decision sent universities nationwide scrambling to find alternative methods (other than quotas) for admitting racially diverse student classes.
Paul Finkelman, Professor of Law at the University of Akron, calls attention to the much more pernicious affirmative action program that has gone virtually unnoticed and unchallenged in private universities throughout most of the past. This program he calls the legacy preference. In private college admissions, the sons, daughters, cousins, and sometimes even distant relatives of alumni receive special consideration. Indeed, according to Jennifer Hochschild, one cannot underestimate the importance of being a child or relative of an alumnus in gaining admission to Ivy League schools. At Princeton, Hochschild contends, approximately 50 percent of legacy applicants gain admission, whereas only 15 percent of the general applicant pool is offered admission. In light of these figures, Kmiecs suggestion that private institutions might adopt affirmative action policies seems like wishful thinking.
The most frequent defense of affirmative action in public college and university admissions focuses on the issues of diversity and inclusiveness. In a pluralistic, racially diverse society, it seems essential that diverse perspectives be represented at undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. If students actively learn from one another, and if the learning environment is significantly affected by the breadth and character of the voices within it, then ensuring that the perspectives of people of color are well represented is imperative. Finkelman argues that we have strong reasons to believe that racial diversity benefits the learning environment, even in the absence of definitive social science data to support this claim. If education is to benefit American society generally, then we cannot merely have the views of one particular constituency presented.
Yet even if diversity of experience and perspective is a valuable educational goal, some contend that this doesnt necessarily mean that affirmative action is the most viable alternative. As Robert Fullinwider points out, diversity of viewpoint and opinion is not necessarily correlated with racial background. There does seem to be some validity to this. For instance, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an African American, has publicly acknowledged his opposition to affirmative action, much to the dismay of civil rights groups. Moreover, when the issue of diversity is raised in the admissions debate, racial diversity seems to take precedence over other factors, be they religious, linguistic, or geographical in nature. To what do we attribute the importance (some would say urgency) of racial diversity in our undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools?
Terry Swenson, Dean of Admissions at The Colorado College (a small, selective liberal arts college), believes that the emphasis on racial diversity is desirable because students of color are more likely to have endured educational, social, and economic disadvantage. According to Swenson, one can realize that racial diversity does not necessarily imply viewpoint diversity, yet still remain committed to affirmative action on the basis of race. Rather than considering only what particular racial category has been chosen on an admission form, he believes that admissions officers have a responsibility to consider a candidates academic and social virtues as well as background, including location and type of schools attended, parental occupations and educational histories, and the familys socioeconomic status.
Camille deJorna also stresses the importance of these kinds of characteristics for the admission practices of the University of Iowa Law School, observing that her law school looks for exposure to and experience with other communities and perspectives that add to the classroom. Through admission practices such as these, where race is one but not the single overriding factor, universities echo both the spirit of Bakke and the current tenuous legal status of affirmative action.
There is a changing public climate surrounding affirmative action. A relatively broad consensus that supported public policies, including affirmative action, to foster racial equality has broken down. Voters in two historically progressive statesin multicultural California in 1996 and in Washington state in 1998adopted initiatives that essentially ban state-sponsored affirmative action programs. Perhaps this is because such policies have made too little progress, frustrating some liberals who came of age in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. Or, perhaps the policies have made too much progress, frustrating some conservatives seeking to preserve the privileges of the past.
The United States Supreme Court and federal circuit courts have also weighed in recently, issuing decisions that send strong caution to the continued use of race-based preferences of any kind or in any amount. President Clintons national dialogue on race, chaired by eminent historian John Hope Franklin, and his motto for affirmative actionAmend It, Dont End Itmay not be sufficient to preserve this policy brought into being by a Presidential Executive Order more than a generation ago.
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www.abanet.org/publiced/focus/home.html
The ABA Division for Public Education moderated an on-line discussion among nine legal, social science, and humanities scholars and other educational leaders who offered a wide range of viewpoints on affirmative action in theory and practice. This is a text of that discussion.
www.acri.org
This is the web site of the American Civil Rights Institute, an organization that opposes affirmative action and advocates anti-affirmative action legislation.
www.civilrights.org/aa/art.html
This web site provides various articles on affirmative action, including information on applicable Senate Hearings. Maintained by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/
subjects/affirmative/affirmative.html
This web site contains a wealth of information about affirmative action, and includes a number of related Internet links. Maintained by the University of Louisville.
John Paul Ryan is Director of School Programs for the ABA Division for Public Education. John Michael Eden is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University and previously was a Program Assistant for the ABA Division for Public Education.
Direct Votes on Affirmative Action
Hannah Leiterman
On November 4, 1998, Washington state voters passed Initiative 200, which prohibits state government entities from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. The initiative was passed by a solid majority of 58%, with 62% voter turnout statewide.
This means two states have now banned affirmative action programs in state agencies by the direct vote of citizens. Californias Proposition 209, which amended the state constitution and overrode conflicting statutes, was upheld by the California Supreme Court in August 1998. Washingtons Initiative 200 was passed by initiative without language that repealed previous statutes, and thus must be interpreted in conjunction with other state statutes, including state and federal laws mandating affirmative action.
Washingtons Governor Gary Locke, a highly visible opponent of Initiative 200, issued a directive on December 3, 1998, calling for three preference programsone used in public employment hiring and two others involving race and sex preferences in the awarding of public contractsto be discontinued. However, he also directs that outreach and recruitment programs for minority hiring should be intensified. Meanwhile, the University of Washington has already begun the process of suspending its race-conscious admissions policy, although some university officials say that they will work to maintain a diverse student body through other measures, according to a New York Times article on November 7, 1998.
Some city and county offices in Washington indicate that the initiative will not affect their practices, due to an exemption that says that public agencies do not have to end policies when this will result in the loss of federal funds. Seattle Mayor Paul Schell believes that the initiative will have little effect because the city has already met its affirmative action goals.
According to a Seattle Times article on November 4, 1998, exit polls indicated that Washington voters were more interested in amending current affirmative action programs and ensuring fairness and equality in the way government and public universities operate than in ending affirmative action altogether. José Gaitán, a Seattle lawyer and Chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession, attributes the overwhelming voter approval for the initiative to its vague and confusing wording. Gaitán believes that the initiative will have a terrible impact on access of minorities in Washington state to higher education, which he considers fundamental to an inclusive and productive community for everyone. He adds that there is a continued need for affirmative action programs: Were rapidly approaching the point where there is no majority, yet the disparity between the races is so great
you cant remediate 400 years of exclusion in 30 years.
Hannah Leiterman is Program Assistant for School Programs for the ABA Division for Public Education.
1. Engage students in a conversation as citizens about affirmative action and the broader issues of race relations and racial equality in American society. Help students to consider the many different points of view on this topic. You may want to use the accompanying article as background or supplement to the discussion. [This model worked quite successfully in the National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity, a special project of the National Endowment for the Humanities designed to bring together people of all ages and from all walks of life to talk about what it means to be an American in a highly diverse society.]
2. Assign students in pairs to research the background of the major Supreme Court affirmative action cases identified in the box on page 112 (these can be found on the World Wide Web at oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi). Then ask students in each pair to choose sides and present their viewpoints on the case to the class.
3. Provide the most recent statistics on average income of households by race for the nation (www.census.gov) or for your city. Discuss why there might be such disparity between races. Have students vote on whether government has a duty to create equality, and then write a position paper explaining why or why not.
4. Have students write an equality plan that would prevent discrimination from occurring in your school.
5. Have students write about their own racial or ethnic background. What kinds of discrimination, if any, did they or their ancestors face in the United States or in their original homeland?
6. Have students research the implementation of President Johnsons executive order establishing affirmative action in 1965. Ask students to give oral reports that focus on the rationale for, or the contemporary debate over, the executive order.
7. Ask students to research affirmative action on the web (see exemplary websites under Resources). Have students focus on what kinds of organizations support or oppose affirmative action.
Federal Circuit Cases on Affirmative Action
Three recent decisions in various federal circuits have further weakened the already tenuous legal status of affirmative action programs in the wake of Adarand. In Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F. 3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), the 5th Circuit rejected a University of Texas Law School program that systematically admitted African Americans and Mexican Americans, as a group, with lower scores (test scores and grades) than white students. In Podberesky v. Kirwan, 38 F. 3d 147 (4th Cir. 1994), the 4th Circuit rejected a University of Maryland minority scholarship program that set aside scholarships specifically for members of minority groups. Most recently, in Wessman v. Gittens, 160 F. 3d 790 (1st Cir. 1998), the 1st Circuit rejected a Boston public [magnet] secondary schoo#146;s admission program that weighted test scores with race for half of the available student seats.
Key Supreme Court Decisions on Affirmative Action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
The UC Davis medical school set aside 16 (of 100) seats specifically for minorities, a practice the Court found to be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court held that race can be used as a positive factor in admissions or hiring practices, but cannot be the only factor.
United Steel Workers of America v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979)
The Court held that a private companys affirmative action program, in which 50% of the positions in a training and promotion program were reserved for black employees, was not unconstitutional because it was private and voluntary, and sought to eliminate manifest racial imbalances in traditionally segregated job categories.
United States v. Paradise, 480 U.S. 149 (1987)
The Court upheld a temporary quota system for promoting black state troopers to corporal and other ranks by the Alabama Department of Public Safety, finding that the program addressed a compelling governmental interest in eliminating the entrenched discrimination in the Department.
Johnson v. Santa Clara County, 480 U.S. 616 (1987)
The Court held that it is permissible to use sex-conscious preferences in hiring in order to eliminate gender imbalances in the labor force. The Court found that the plan did not unnecessarily trammel male employees rights or create an absolute bar to their advancement and included no hiring quotas to be met.
Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469 (1989)
The Court found that a quota system that aimed at increasing minority representation in public contract hiring failed under strict scrutiny, the heightened standard under which racial discrimination cases are examined. Because the program failed to demonstrate that minorities were suffering under the effects of past discrimination, the Court held the program to be in violation of Equal Protection.
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, 497 U.S. 547 (1990)
The Supreme Court asserted that the federal government did indeed have greater authority to require affirmative action programs than did individual states, and upheld the plan even though it was not designed to compensate victims of past discrimination.
Adarand Constructors v. Peña, 512 U.S. 200 (1995)
Striking down an affirmative action program that sought to increase minority participation in federal contracting, and overruling Metro Broadcasting, the Court ruled that federal government racial classifications are subject to the same strict scrutiny that is applied to state racial classifications. The classification must be based on a compelling government interest, and must be narrowly tailored to further that interest.
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Swiss Family Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
William Alwyn
Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Disneyland 1004-22
Les Robinson Des Mers Du Sud
Disneyland ST 1907
Chandos Movies CHAN 10349
Arranged by Philip Lane.
The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba.
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Cure For Love, The
Penn Of Pennsylvania
True Glory, The
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From The Magic Box
2. Willie and Helena (03:47)
3. Willie's First Customers (00:55)
4. Willie Goes to London (03:20)
5. Willie and Edith (02:44)
6. Death of Willie and Closing Credits (02:03)
7. Waltz (03:00)
From The Million Pound Note
8. March (02:07)
From The Way Ahead
From Swiss Family Robinson
10. At Home (02:29)
11. Ostriches and Waterslides (03:27)
12. Paul's Last Ride (03:51)
From The Rocking Horse Winner
From Geordie
14. Watching the Eagles (02:27)
15. The Samson Way (03:11)
16. Father and Son (03:13)
17. The Hammer Reel (01:42)
18. Geordie and Jean (04:40)
19. Waltz (03:22)
From The Cure for Love
20. Title Music (01:27)
From Penn of Pennsylvania
21. Banquet Scene (01:31)
22. Love Music (03:04)
23. The King's Portrait (02:58)
24. Finale (02:01)
25. March (02:44)
From The True Glory
From The Running Man
27. Glider Flight (03:18)
28. Stella and Stephen (03:15)
29. Spanish Gipsy Wedding (02:03)
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Crimson Pirate, The
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Way Ahead, The
State Secret
In Search Of The Castaways
Desert Victory
William Alwyn - Film Music
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(arr. M. Ellerby for wind band)
2. The Wedding & Funeral (02:25)
3. Fire (02:12)
4. Christabel (02:45)
5. Punting Scene (01:31)
6. Utopian Sunset (02:25)
7. The Way Ahead March (01:44)
8. Main Titles & Grand Ball (01:55)
9. Theatre Music (02:15)
10. On the Barge (02:09)
12. The Million Pound Note Waltz (03:05)
15. Ostriches & Waterslides (03:41)
16. The True Glory March (02:41)
19. Father & Son (02:39)
20. Geordie & Jean (01:59)
22. Ship's Waltz (03:01)
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NNFCC Publishes Update to Report, ‘AD Deployment in the UK'
UK - NNFCC have announced the publication of an update to their April 2014 report ‘Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Deployment in the United Kingdom,’ as there has been substantial activity in the AD sector in the last six months.
The original report was very well received by the AD industry as it gives, for the first time, an accurate and detailed picture of the pipeline of AD projects throughout all regions of the UK.
Containing a comprehensive breakdown of feedstock requirements, installed capacity and output type for each project, it also provides estimated cropping area for all anaerobic digestion plants contained within the NNFCC anaerobic digestion deployment database, which tracks projects from the first public announcement through to operation.
Almost a hundred new projects, either operational or under development, have been added during this period, demonstrating that the industry remains buoyant, despite a reduction in incentives.
Over the last six months there has been a noticeable shift towards the development of plants intending to use agricultural feedstock; the number of farm-fed plants under development has increased by a total of 70 while the number of waste-based projects has increased by just four.
Lucy Hopwood, lead consultant for Bioenergy and Anaerobic Digestion at NNFCC said, “We expect that this update to the report, in conjunction with the original April publication, will be of great value to developers, investors and policymakers alike in understanding the current state-of-play of the UK AD industry.
"We ourselves are overwhelmed by the level of activity which has occurred since April. If we had left the update until April 2015 as originally intended, the changes would have been difficult to track; we felt an interim update was essential to ensure up-to-date information is available to the readers which accurately represents this constantly evolving industry.”
The report is available to buy on the NNFCC website.
Anyone who bought the April report will receive this update at no additional cost; anyone buying the report now will receive both versions to enable tracking of recent developments.
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Hobbit magic in Matamata
Pamela Wade (For The Vancouver Sun)
Updated: January 07, 2014 9:54 AM
The Province > travel > all
Visitors can delight in walking around Hobbiton, a movie set village in New Zealand that is complete in every detail. Across the lake, set into luminously green hillocks, are the brightly painted round doors of the hobbit holes surrounded by foxgloves and hollyhocks.Ian Brodie
The tour ends at the Green Dragon Inn with a special brew of cider or beer.
A quiet valley in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island isn’t the first place you’d think to find the perfect union of art and nature; but then, life is full of unexpected events. Just ask Bilbo Baggins.
A 40-minute drive from the small town of Matamata, in the Waikato district, is a world-first: a genuine, permanent movie set open to the public. This is the location of Hobbiton, the village first featured in the Lord of the Rings movies and now The Hobbit trilogy. It’s on the Alexander family farm and tours depart every quarter-hour for a 90-minute wander around the set. On a coach ride from the Shire’s Rest car park to the five-hectare site of the village, guide Henry Horne gives us the background.
Back in 1998, in an unwelcome interruption to a televised rugby match, a New Line location scout tapped on the door of the Alexander homestead and was asked to call again later. It was an inauspicious beginning to what has become a mutually beneficial partnership between the family and director Peter Jackson. He had spotted the farm from the air while searching for a setting for Hobbiton, the bucolic country village where the Lord of the Rings saga begins. The huge old pine tree beside a lake was the clinching factor — Henry explains how it had almost been felled earlier, as it was in the way on a stock track used by the farm’s sheep — and 30 contractors moved in to spend nine months building a cluster of hobbit houses with their small round doors and windows set into grassy banks.
At the conclusion of the filming, Hobbiton, like all the other sets around the country, was to be destroyed, but weather delayed the work. Before deconstruction could begin again, so many rabid Tolkien fans had come knocking on the Alexanders’ door wanting to look at the site, that son Russell persuaded Jackson to allow him to conduct tours of what was little more than a series of holes in the ground. Even so, 200,000 international visitors came in the following eight years; and when making The Hobbit movies was proposed, the Alexanders knew exactly what to do.
This time, more than 70 workers spent 2½ years constructing 44 hobbit holes that are built to last, and once filming finished Hobbiton Movie Set Tours began operations. Now visitors can delight in walking around a village that is complete in the tiniest detail, with hobbit trousers hanging on clotheslines, firewood piled up outside individually designed doorways, moss and lichen clinging to the picket fences, flowers and vegetables growing in the gardens. The artichokes are real, but the lichen is the result of art and artifice, a small-scale example of the obsessive care that has been, and still is, taken to ensure a totally convincing experience.
“We want to enable a real emotional opportunity,” explains Henry. “People should feel that they’re stepping inside Middle Earth.”
That’s part of the reason why visitors are guided: “For us, it’s all about the story and the personal journey, and we want to be able to share that with the world.”
He adds, “It’s not just the movie that’s the draw card. A third of our visitors haven’t seen the movies, but 98 per cent have read the books.”
Nevertheless, it’s the examples of Jackson’s finicky care with background detail that fascinate everyone. Standing on the hill above Bag End, the house belonging to Bilbo and Frodo that is one of just two with a proper interior — the others are only a couple of metres deep behind their doors — is an oak tree painstakingly reconstructed in fibreglass moulded on an original, its thousands of leaves made in Taiwan and individually wired in place.
“It was in shot for 11 seconds,” Henry says.
The path leads through the shaggy grass, past Samwise’s house in Bagshot Row and the party tree opposite, around the lake, over the humpbacked stone bridge by the water mill, and the tour finishes at the cosy Green Dragon Inn with a special brew of cider or beer.
Across the lake, set into luminously green hillocks, are the brightly painted round doors of the hobbit holes surrounded by foxgloves and hollyhocks. It’s as pretty as a picture: but it’s also marvellously real.
The second instalment of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, was released in cinemas on Dec. 13.
Air New Zealand flies direct from Vancouver to Auckland daily: www.airnewzealand.co.nz
Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tours is close to Matamata, 175 km south of Auckland. Entry fees are $75 NZ adult/$38 youth/$10 child and 90-minute guided tours run every quarter hour from 9:50 a.m. to 4:05 p.m., seven days a week. For more information visit www.hobbitontours.com and www.matamatanz.co.nz
Pamela Wade was a guest at Hobbiton. Hobbiton did not review or approve this article.
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A customer takes a carton of milk off the shelves at a market in Palo Alto, Calif. in this photo taken May 27, 2009. (AP / Paul Sakuma)
Many consumers are needlessly throwing out thousands of kilograms of food every year because they falsely believe that "best before" dates on food packages are an indication of food safety, a new study has found.
Research published Wednesday by Harvard Law School and the Natural Resources Defense Council contends that the dates printed on packaged foods only serve to confuse consumers and compel many to throw out food that hasn't gone bad at all.
Here in Canada, a report last year from the Value Chain Management Centre in Guelph, Ont., estimated that about $27 billion worth of food is wasted every year on its way to Canadian dinner tables. And about half of that waste occurs in the home.
The authors of this latest study note that not only does wasted food cost consumers and the food industry money, it also wastes all the natural resources that are used to grow, process, distribute and store food.
The problem of food waste has many causes, but the study authors say that one part problem is that there are no binding standards on best before date labelling. That leaves it to food manufacturers to decide on their own how to set best before dates and what kind of phrasing to use.
Dana Gunders, a staff scientist with the NRDC's food and agriculture program, says the current food dating system "is not a system at all. It's a mess."
And she says that mess is leading to perfectly good food going to waste.
"Phrases like 'sell by', 'use by', and 'best before' are poorly regulated, misinterpreted and lead to a false confidence in food safety," she said in a statement. "It is time for a well-intended but wildly ineffective food date labelling system to get a makeover."
As Gunders and her co-authors explain, there are two main categories of food date labelling: those intended to communicate to food retailers, and those for consumers.
"Sell by" dates are for retailers to help with stock control, and are a suggestion about when the retailer should no longer sell products in order to ensure they still have good shelf life after consumers purchase them. They are not meant to indicate the food is bad on that date. "Best before" and "use by" dates, on the other hand, are intended for consumers.
In Canada, the federal government requires best before dates on foods that will keep fresh for less than 90 days; they are not required on food with a longer shelf life. Manufacturers are free to add best before dates to these products, though.
As the study authors point out, the dates on shelf-stable foods, like canned peaches, are often just a manufacturer's estimate of when the food will no longer be at "peak quality" - meaning it has the same texture and colour as when it left the processing facility, and not an indication of when the food will become unsafe.
With few regulations on how these dates are determined, the study found that for the vast majority of food products, manufacturers are free to determine date shelf life according to their own methods. The result, say the authors, is confusion among consumers who assume the dates are actually expiry dates.
Registered dietician Rosie Schwartz agrees with the study authors that what's needed in both the U.S. and Canada is a standardized labelling system that offers clear information.
"I think this is a really important issue People are really confused by Best Before dates," she told CTVNews.ca.
"We need to know: is that the date you've chosen because of safety, or because of quality and it's just not going to taste as great?... It has to be separated in terms of safety and quality because those are two different things."
Confusion over best before dates are causing two problems, Schwartz believes: not only are shoppers needlessly throwing out food that's still safe to eat, they are also keeping foods they should throw out, because they are relying too strictly on the dates.
Such dates apply only to unopened foods, Schwartz says. Once a product is opened, it usually needs to be eaten within a few days. But some consumers mistakenly believe products are good until their best before dates, even if they open them weeks before.
The authors of this study recommend a solution for this problem: they'd like to see labels that offer an indication of shelf life after opening, using phrasing such as "Best within XX days of opening".
They also recommend a number of other changes, including:
Make "sell by" dates that are meant for retailers be invisible to the consumer. Only the dates that are useful to the consumer should be visible.
Remove quality-based dates on non-perishable, shelf-stable products altogether and replace them with dates that indicate shelf life after opening.
Use a more easily understandable date label system that uses consistent, unambiguous language and clearly differentiates between safety- and quality-based dates.
Ensure date labels are clearly and predictably located on packages, similar to the "nutrition facts" panel.
Employ more transparent methods for selecting dates: Create a set of best practices that manufacturers and retailers can use to determine date labels for products.
Including "freeze by" dates, where applicable. Such labels would help raise consumer awareness of the benefits of freezing foods and the abundance of food products that can be successfully frozen in order to extend shelf life.
Schwartz notes though that while improvements to Best Before dates are badly needed, consumers shouldn't fully rely on them. That's because the dates assume that food distributors and retailers have ensured they kept the foods at the right temperatures. Even milk with a best before date of three weeks from now can still go off if it's allowed to sit outside a refrigerator for too long.
The vast majority of food poisonings are due to harmful bacteria, such as salmonella and E. coli, entering foods, not from eating expired or spoiled foods. But Schwartz she doesn't agree with those who say that a little bit of mould isn't harmful.
Schwartz notes that food mould can release a toxin called mycotoxins, and there's been "quite a bit of research" showing that these toxins can raised the risk for certain types of cancer, including liver cancer.
Such moulds can travel through soft or liquid foods, bringing the toxins with them, which is why it's important to throw mouldy food out. With hard cheeses or hard produce such as an onion, it's safe to cut away the mould, she says, but that's not the case with softer foods.
"A tomato with a little mould on it should be thrown out. A container of yogourt with mould should be tossed," she says. "If I see mould on any part of a bread, I throw the whole thing out."
"A one-time exposure in a small amount is not going to make you sick, but the repeated exposure has been linked to cancer."
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The Invisible Dead and "The Last Word":
Lawrence O'Donnell 'Rewrites' the Occupation of Afghanistan
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans. The mainstream news media was awash with somber reports about this being the "deadliest day" for U.S. forces in the ten years since the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan began.
Notably, many news outlets such as ABC, NBC, CBS, and The Washington Post claimed the helicopter crash and its 30 American casualties marked the "deadliest day of the war", without adding the vital qualification, "for United States military personnel." Even the progressive website Truthout provided its daily email blast that day with the headline: "Deadliest Day in Decade-Long Afghanistan War: 31 Troops Killed in Shootdown."
The obvious implication of these reports was that on no single day since October 7, 2001, when the U.S.-led invasion and bombing campaign began, had as many people been killed in Afghanistan as on August 6, 2011.
Perhaps most brazen and sanctimonious regarding this claim was MSNBC's primetime anchor Lawrence O'Donnell. Introducing the "Rewrite" segment of his Monday August 8 broadcast of "The Last Word", O'Donnell looked directly into the camera and, in his measured and most heartfelt serious voice, told his viewers:
"This weekend saw the worst single loss of life in the ten years of the Afghan War."
He was lying. Unless, of course, like so many Americans, O'Donnell doesn't count Afghan civilians as human beings worthy of being allowed to stay alive. In fact, the invisibility of the native population of Afghanistan is so ubiquitous in the American media, O'Donnell and his writers probably didn't even think they needed to acknowledge civilian death tolls at the hands of foreign armies. As General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, told reporters at Bagram Air Base in March 2002 when asked about how many people the U.S. military has killed, "You know we don't do body counts."
After showing a video clip of CIA Directer-cum-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's statement that the helicopter crash served as "a reminder to the American people that we remain a nation still at war," O'Donnell took seven minutes of airtime to lecture his viewers about a country that has forgotten the hardships of warfare, due to the absence of a draft or rationing or war taxation. Clearly passionate and frustrated, he rhetorically wondered, "What kind of nation would need to be reminded that it is still at war?" He continued,
"There will be other nights for us to discuss the way forward or the way out of Afghanistan. Tonight is not that night. Tonight is for reminding this nation that it is indeed at war. And tonight is for reminding the nation of the price of war. The ultimate sacrifice."
At this point, O'Donnell displayed photographs of some of the soldiers killed in the crash while delivering brief biographies, a sort of "Last Word" eulogy for the dead.
In his effort to tug at his viewers heartstrings, O'Donnell told us of one young soldier who had only "been in Afghanistan for less than two weeks." Another was described by his mother as "a gentle giant." A SEAL Team 6 member also killed in the crash, we were told, had a wife, a two-year-old son and a two-month old baby girl while another solider was survived by his pregnant wife and three children. O'Donnell eulogized one of the deceased servicemen by telling us of his personal history as a high school wrestler and his lifelong dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.
O'Donnell concluded the segment with the assurance that none of the family members of those soldiers who had died - as opposed to the million of Americans whose lives are totally unaffected by the ongoing occupation - needed any "reminding" that "we are a nation at war."
Never once during this paean to the military did O'Donnell make even a passing reference to the thousands upon thousands of Afghan men, women, and children killed by U.S. and NATO forces in their own homeland, their own country, their own towns, their own communities, their own homes, hospitals, mosques, and schools, and at their own weddings.
The Afghan village of Karam was completely destroyed on October 12, 2001 when American forces dropped a one-ton bomb on it and killed over 100 people. On October 21, 2001, "At least twenty-three civilians, the majority of them young children, were killed when U.S. bombs hit a remote Afghan village," according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
Not a solitary syllable was uttered to honor the seven children blown apart "as they ate breakfast with their father" when "a US bomb flattened a flimsy mud-brick home in Kabul" on Sunday October 29, 2001. The Times of India, citing a Reuters report, revealed that "the blast shattered a neighbour's house killing another two children."
A few weeks later, on November 17, 2001, U.S. bombs fired at the village of Chorikori murdered "two entire families, one of 16 members and the other of 14, who lived, and perished, together in the same house," reported The Los Angeles Times. Shortly thereafter, heavy American bombing in Khanabad near Kunduz was said to have killed 100 people. The same day, a religious school in Khost was bombed, killing 62 people.
Around the same time, James S. Robbins, a professor of International Relations at the National Defense University, published an article in The National Review entitled, "Humanity of the Air War: Look how far we've come." The piece began this way: "Think airpower can't bring victory in Afghanistan? Think again."
Robbins continued his claim that "the air campaign over Afghanistan has been effective by most reports" and that "critics of the air campaign at home and abroad make as much of civilian casualties as suits their purposes, but arguments over whether a few, a dozen, or hundreds of people have died only show how civilized warfare has become." He averred that "[a]ny civilian deaths caused by allied bombs are unintended deaths" (emphasis in original), declared that the U.S. was using the "tools and means of the humane" to bomb Afghan civilians to death on a regular basis, and concluded, "The allied air campaign is demonstrating how moral a war can be."
On December 31, 2001, U.S. ground forces confirmed an enemy target in the village of Qalaye Niazi and "three bombers, a B-52 and two B-1Bs, did the rest, zapping Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in their sleep as well as an ammunition dump." A military spokesman, Matthew Klee, proudly told reporters that the strike was an unmitigated success, saying, "Follow-on reporting indicates that there was no collateral damage." However, The Guardian reported:
Some of the things his follow-on reporters missed: bloodied children's shoes and skirts, bloodied school books, the scalp of a woman with braided grey hair, butter toffees in red wrappers, wedding decorations.
The charred meat sticking to rubble in black lumps could have been Osama bin Laden's henchmen but survivors said it was the remains of farmers, their wives and children, and wedding guests.
They said more than 100 civilians died at this village in eastern Afghanistan.
In the first three months of the Afghanistan assault, Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives found that upwards of 4,200-4,500 Afghan civilians had been killed as a result of the U.S.-led bombing campaign and the "starvation, exposure, associated illnesses, or injury sustained while in flight from war zones" that followed the invasion and airstrikes. In May 2002, Jonathan Steele of The Guardian reported that, up to that point, "As many as 20,000 Afghans may have lost their lives as an indirect consequence of the US intervention."
For O'Donnell, it appears the "price of war" doesn't include the 48 civilians killed and 117 wounded, many of them women and children, when U.S. jets bombed a wedding party in Oruzgan in July 2002, the 17 civilians, mostly women and children, killed by coalition bombs in Helmand in February 2003, the eight civilians killed by a U.S. gunship and bomber in Bagram Valley the same month, the eleven civilians killed, including seven women, by a U.S. laser-guided bomb that hit a house outside the village of Shkin in April 2003, the six family members killed by U.S. bombs that hit the village of Aranj in October 2003, or the nine children (seven boys and two girls aged 9 to 12) murdered by two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II planes which attacked the village of Hutala while the children were playing ball.
The human cost of the Afghan occupation, so far as O'Donnell is concerned, doesn't include the eleven people, four of them children, killed by an American helicopter which fired on the village of Saghatho in January 2004, the scores of civilians bombed to death by NATO airstrikes in October 2006, eight civilians shot by American soldiers in Kandahar in 2007, the more than 100 civilians killed in numerous U.S. and NATO bombings in May 2007, the seven children killed by a U.S.-led airstrike in June 2007, the group of bus passengers gunned down by US troops on December 12, 2008, the seven civilians killed by American troops in a rural village near Nad-E'ali in 2009, the 26 civilians, including 16 children, killed by British forces, the scores of dead civilians in Kunduz and Helmand who were killed by 500-pound bombs dropped by U.S. jets in September 2009, the 27 civilians killed by a NATO strike in the Afghan province of Uruzgan and the five civilians, including two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in Khataba in February 2010, the 45 civilians (most of whom were women and children) murdered by a NATO rocket in Afghanistan in July 2010, the 30 or more civilians killed in two NATO air strikes on two villages in the Nangarhar province in August 2010, or the numerous civilian men, women, children, dogs, donkeys, and chickens slaughtered by Task Force 373, a clandestine black ops unit which NATO uses as an assassination squad.
On March 23, 2011, U.S. Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the willful murder and mutilation of three Afghan civilians - a fifteen-year-old boy, a mentally-retarded man, and a religious leader. Other members of Morlock's platoon, the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, have been "charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones," The Washington Post previously reported. At the beginning of the court-martial proceedings, Morlock admitted to the military judge presiding over the case that the murders he and four fellow soldiers were charged with committing had been deliberate and intentional. "The plan was to kill people, sir," he said.
Broadcasting live across the country that evening, Lawrence O'Donnell didn't cover the story. Instead, he spent a considerable amount of airtime justifying Barack Obama's decision to begin bombing Libya, interviewing Anthony Weiner about healthcare, and poking fun at potential GOP presidential candidates. He ended the program that night, however, with a touching and earnest memorial for someone who had recently died: Elizabeth Taylor.
For O'Donnell, the "ultimate sacrifice" he spoke of this week naturally didn't include the Afghan man, four women, and baby murdered at a wedding party by a Polish mortar strike on the village of Wazi Khwa on August 16, 2007, which also injured three other women, one of whom was nine months pregnant. Nor does it include the "nineteen unarmed civilians killed and 50 wounded" when, during "a frenzied escape" on March 4, 2007, U.S. Marines "open[ed] fire with automatic weapons as they tore down a six-mile stretch of highway, hitting almost anyone in their way – teenage girls in fields, motorists in their cars, old men as they walked along the road." The April 2009 U.S. raid on Khost, which killed four civilians, including a woman and two children, didn't receive a sad obituary on primetime cable television either. The American soldiers on that raid "also shot a pregnant woman and killed her unborn baby, which had almost come to term."
To O'Donnell, the "worst single loss of life" in Afghanistan during the last decade wasn't the more than 140 civilians reportedly killed when "U.S. aircraft bombed villages in the Bala Boluk district of Afghanistan's western Farah province" on May 3, 2009 in what is now known as the the Granai airstrike. Reuters revealed that "93 of those killed were children -- the youngest eight days old," and that "[a]ccording to villagers, families were cowering in houses when the U.S. aircraft bombed them." The death toll of this one airstrike is nearly five times larger than the U.S. helicopter crash, which took the life of not a single civilian, let alone child.
255 civilians were killed in military operations in June 2008. In early July 2008, near the village of Kacu, "a U.S. air strike killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, as they were travelling to a wedding in Afghanistan...The bride was among the dead."
The following month, 90 civilians, including 60 children and 15 women, were killed during military operations in Herat province alone.
Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on Kunar in February 2011. A few weeks later, NATO helicopter gunners shot nine boys - aged 9 to 15 - to death as they gathered firewood. In mid-March 2011, two children who were digging an irrigation ditch on their land in Afghanistan's Kunar province were killed in "a coalition air strike."
Nelofar, a 12-year-old girl, along with her 25-year-old uncle Shukrullah, a policeman, were killed on May 12, 2011 when NATO troops threw a grenade into their family's courtyard as they slept outside. Their house was raided because, according to The New York Times, Shukrullah "was incorrectly believed to be a local Taliban leader. NATO apologized for its error." In a report issued after the killings, NATO acknowledged that only after Nelofar was "mistakenly identified" as carrying a weapon and murdered, "the force discovered the individual was an unarmed Afghan female adolescent."
During a late-night mounted patrol on May 14, 2011, American soldiers "mistakenly" killed a 15-year-old boy who was sleeping either in his family's field or in his own bed, but who press reports initially claimed was "attempting to pull a gun on Afghan and U.S. troops." When villagers carrying the dead boy's body were confronted by Afghan security forces, another boy was shot dead. He was fourteen. On May 16, 2011, a ten-year-old girl gathering firewood with her friends was killed when the U.S. shelled a "suspected insurgent position" with heavy artillery.
Two days later, on May 18, 2011, two men and two women were killed during another night raid in Takhar province, eliciting as massive protest outside a nearby NATO military base. When German soldiers and Afghan National Army opened fire on the crowd, another dozen civilians were shot to death and at least 85 were wounded. On May 28, 2011, NATO bombs killed two women and 12 children in Helmand. In the month leading up to the Chinook crash last week, dozens of Afghan civilians were killed in NATO airstrikes and raids.
O'Donnell didn't feel the need to show pictures of any of these victims or quote what their loved ones had to say about them.
The "deadliest day", in O'Donnell's estimation, could not possibly have been when, in July 2007, "U.S. special forces dropped six 2,000lb bombs on a compound where they believed a 'high-value individual' was hiding, after 'ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area'. A senior US commander reported that 150 Taliban had been killed. Locals, however, reported that up to 300 civilians had died."
Lawrence O'Donnell didn't tell his viewers of the hopes and dreams of the hundreds of Afghan children liberated forever from this world by noble American troops and their stalwart allies. He didn't mention how some of the young boys murdered by U.S. missiles loved to play soccer and couldn't wait to learn how to drive. He didn't solemnly note that many of the young girls shot to death by soldiers who love what they do wanted to become doctors and lawyers and human rights activists and teachers and wives and mothers. He didn't devote a segment of his show to the murder of Mohammed Yonus, "a 36-year-old imam and a respected religious authority", killed in Kabul in early 2010 while commuting to a madrasa where he taught 150 students." The New York Times reported, "A passing military convoy raked his car with bullets, ripping open his chest as his two sons sat in the car."
O'Donnell didn't tearfully point out that the bullets and bombs that have killed so many men and women have left countless orphans and widows and taken countless children away from countless parents all sacrificed on the altar of the so-called "War on Terror" and American security and exceptionalism.
None of these innocents - people obliterated in their own houses, in their own fields, and in their own cars on their own roads - was accorded a second of screen time or a moment of acknowledgment during O'Donnell's "Rewrite."
It is unsurprising that, in March 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal told U.S. troops during a video-conference about civilian deaths at checkpoints in Afghanistan, "We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat." Nevertheless, upon McChrystal's dishonorable retirement only a few months later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivered the following tribute: "Over the past decade, arguably no single American has inflicted more fear, more loss of freedom and more loss of life on our country's most vicious and violent enemies than Stan McChrystal."
Lawrence O'Donnell, while chastising the American public for not paying enough attention to our myriad military invasions, occupations and war crimes, said that only "a nation whose news media is more troubled by the loss of credit-ratings than the loss of life" could act in such a way. He didn't mean, of course, the loss of Afghan lives, only of American soldiers. The U.S. government operates the same way; it still doesn't compile death tolls for its murderous operations. Earlier this year, the ACLU revealed [PDF]:
The Department of Defense has confirmed that it does not compile statistics about the total number of civilians that have been killed by its unmanned drone aircraft.
According to the DOD, the military’s estimates of civilian casualties do not distinguish between deaths caused by remote-controlled drones and those caused by other aircraft. While each drone strike appears to be subject to an individual assessment after the fact, there is no total number of casualties compiled. Moreover, information contained in the individual assessments is classified – making it impossible for the public to learn how many civilians have been killed overall.
In a New York Times op-ed published on May 16, 2009, David Kilcullen, a former counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus, and Andrew Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who is now an analyst at the D.C.-based think tank, lent credence to claims that American drone strikes result in the murder of "50 civilians for every militant killed, a hit rate of 2 percent."
On July 5, 2005, journalist Peter Symonds wrote:
In what can only be regarded as a bloody act of revenge, the US military last Sunday killed as many as 17 civilians in an air raid on the remote village of Chechal in the northeast Afghan province of Kunar.
The attack took place just five kilometres from where a US Chinook helicopter was shot down, four days before, resulting in the deaths of 16 US special forces personnel — the largest single loss of American troops since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
While it remains to be seen what kind of lethal punishment Afghan civilians will bear in retaliation for the most recent Chinook crash with its record-breaking American death toll, one thing is certain: Lawrence O'Donnell will offer no words of sorrow or condolence, no melancholy homage to the dead, no decorous harangue of the American public for not caring enough, for not knowing the names, faces, and stories of those killed by our own soldiers whose salaries we pay and bombs we build.
To mourn only fallen soldiers of one's own country and not even notice the civilians they are trained to kill in their own country is to rewrite the history of war and violence and further entrenches the vile ideology of "us vs. them", inverts aggressor and victim, and praises invasion and empire. Lawrence O'Donnell, by deliberately ignoring the thousands of Afghan dead during his encomium for the dead American soldiers, has proven that, as far as the mainstream media is concerned, justice will never have the last word.
August 17, 2011 - It should pointed out that Lawrence O'Donnell's willful omission of the hundreds of thousands of people killed by U.S. military operations when discussing those very operations and their tragic, lethal consequences, is nothing new.
After Osama bin Laden was reported killed by Navy SEALs this past May, O'Donnell took to the airwaves in his “Rewrite” segment to condemn the Bush/Cheney approach to fighting terrorism across the globe. He spoke of how John Kerry got it right when he suggested terrorism must be dealt with as a law enforcement issue, rather than a military one. As usual, O'Donnell was confident in his commentary and he made a number of very strong, trenchant points regarding the incompetent rush to war and its subsequent handling.
But check out how he described the blood and treasure spent in Afghanistan and Iraq and its connection to the killing of bin Laden:
"Sunday night, after a decade of non-stop war that has left us over 49,000 dead and wounded U.S. soldiers, costing – in real economic terms – something in the order of four trillion dollars and the deployment of our most sophisticated 21st Century weaponry, Osama bin Laden was caught using the basic tools of police work: interrogation, detective work, following up clues, piecing evidence and hunches together, eavesdropping, surveillance…" (emphasis added)
O'Donnell continued, "The last decade did not have to be a decade of war," and stated that, with a more experienced and intelligent man in the White House, the United States "could have been spared thousands of casualties and years of wasted time" in the Middle East (emphasis added).
Nowhere in his comments did O'Donnell mention that one of the tragedies of what he called America's "overreaction" to 9/11 were the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians killed as a consequence of our actions. One may want to believe that O'Donnell was implying as much or that these deaths were included in O'Donnell's mentioned totals, but it is more than clear this is not the case and was not his intention. Only American lives have been wasted and careless risked and destroyed, not anyone else's, according to what O'Donnell chose to say that night.
He could have even dumbed it down in order not to offend to sensibilities of tender-eared viewers and said that a decade of endless and unnecessary war has cost thousands of American, Afghan, and Iraqi lives. But he didn't.
In O'Donnell's analysis, the unhappy consequences of U.S. military actions are wasted time, money, machinery, and American soldiers. Nothing else.
Incidentally, Lawrence O'Donnell's 93-year-old mother Frances died on Sunday August 14, 2011. My sincere condolences to Lawrence and his family.
August 29, 2011 - Tonight, Lawrence O'Donnell returned to The Last Word and during his "Rewrite" segment again addressed casualties of the United States' military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His focus, this time around, was the recent death of al Qaeda's newest second-in-command. Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, who ascended to his post after the death of Osama bin Laden, was reportedly killed by a CIA drone strike in Waziristan a week ago. After detailing the fates of past al Qaeda #2's (a job which ranks particularly low in life security), O'Donnell said this:
"Now, there's a lot of issues around these Predator drone strikes: how many innocents they kill, how many times they target one of these people and then get a completely innocent target. There's a lot of stuff to wonder about. The legality of these killings is very, very dubious, to say the least. Are they assassinations prohibited by American law, or is this an acceptable method of war against a terrorist group that has attacked the United States? Plenty to wonder about there."
No, O'Donnell did not elaborate on the hundreds (if not thousands) of civilians killed by U.S. drones nor did he go into any detail about the legal issues regarding these drone attacks. Nevertheless, his brief comments deserve recognition.
In fact, it almost appeared as if O'Donnell went off-script to mention "innocents", "assassinations", and "the legality of these killings", as his voice became less assured and his usual confidence waned just a bit as he said these words. And while he noted that there is "a lot of stuff to wonder about", he showed no indication that would pursue these topics in later broadcasts or even that he had any personal feelings about what the answers might be. Still, the mere mention of the "dubious" legality of drone strikes and its civilian death toll in the mainstream media is a clear departure from the norm. That such a departure came from O'Donnell, who has avoided or ignored these issues in the past, is particularly commendable.
While I have no illusions that O'Donnell has read anything I myself have written or been made aware of any articles on Wide Asleep in America, I do hope that he continues to include vital context - however cursory or speculative - regarding the true consequences of our military actions across the globe whenever he chooses to report on such topics. If he does, he would surely begin to set himself apart from the rest of the, shall I say, drones.
O'Donnell's remarks (quoted above) can be seen here:
(and my apologies for the ExxonMobile advertisement that automatically plays in advance of the clip)
September 1, 2011 - Tonight on The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell again mentioned the civilian victims of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Kudos. This is no small thing for someone in the public eye, broadcasting nightly on a cable television news channel. Introducing a segment on the upcoming MSNBC special about the decade since 9/11/2001, O'Donnell began this way:
"9/11, ten years later. We are now fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at a cost of 1.2 trillion dollars and at least 6,222 American lives, in addition to a truly uncountable number of Iraqi and Afghani casualties."
Leaving aside the fact that the term for the people of Afghanistan is Afghans and not Afghanis, O'Donnell deserves credit once again for referencing the innocent lives destroyed by the past decade of U.S. military actions and associated violence in the Middle East.
November 3, 2011 - In an absolutely harrowing report for IPS, investigative journalist Gareth Porter reveals that "U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011," according to "analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command."
This staggering death toll "would make U.S. night raids by far the largest cause of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan." Porter notes that, considering 6,282 night raids reportedly took place in the past two years and U.S and NATO officials have repeatedly insisted "that shots were fired by SOF units in only 20 percent of night raids," that would mean "2,844 [people] were killed in 1,256 raids."
November 24, 2011 - The murder of Afghan civilians, including so many children, continues unabated.
Today in the village of Siacha, in the Zhare district of Kandahar, The New York Times reports, "Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday."
According to "Abdul Samad, an uncle of four of the children who were killed," the children - ages 4 to 12 - "were working in fields near their village when they were attacked without warning by an aircraft."
UPDATE VI: January 18, 2012 - The Associated Press reports today:
Sayed Fazelullah Wahidi, governor of Kunar province, which includes the district, said the raid occurred Monday night. He said coalition helicopters fired into a compound, killing two militants and five civilians, including a woman and two children. Coalition troops and Afghan special forces have been carrying out regular nighttime kill-and-capture raids against suspected insurgents across Afghanistan. But the operations and allegations of civilian deaths have provoked anger over foreign meddling in Afghanistan...
Imagine that! Anger. What savages.
UPDATE VII: February 5, 2012 - From Moon of Alabama:
UN: "More Afghans Got Killed" - ISAF: "Good News!" UN: Afghan Civilian Deaths Up for 5th Straight Year (VOA, Feb 4)
A United Nations report says more than 3,000 civilians died in Afghanistan's conflict last year, the worst annual toll in the decade-long war. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said Saturday that 3,021 civilians were killed in 2011, an 8 percent increase over the previous year, and the fifth year in a row that the death toll has risen.
News: ISAF commander encouraged by UNAMA report findings (DVIDS, Feb 6)
KABUL, Afghanistan - Gen. John R. Allen, commander, International Security Assistance Force, welcomes the latest report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that shows a reduction in coalition-related civilian casualties. “Every citizen of Afghanistan must know ISAF will continue to do all we can to reduce casualties that affect the Afghan civilian population. This data is promising but there is more work to be done,” said Allen.
March 11, 2012 - The massacre of Afghan civilians continues unabated. For my take on the most recent atrocity, go here.
UPDATE IX:
May 8, 2012 - On Monday May 7, 2012, two separate NATO airstrikes in the southern Helmand and northwestern Badghis provinces of Afghanistan murdered 20 civilians, including a mother and five of her children, three girls and two boys. American officials have confirmed reports of the killing of those six family members.
Lt. Col. Stewart Upton, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Helmand, told the press, "We expressed regret over the incident, and we’re investigating to determine how this happened."
Here's a tip to the investigators: It happened because you purposely dropped bombs on their home and bombs kill people.
Upton added, "We are deeply saddened by any civilian death and particularly regret an incident where civilians are killed."
Considering U.S. and NATO forces have spent over a decade killing thousands of Afghan civilians - men, women, and children who were living, breathing human beings in their own country before missiles were fired at them or bullets shot into them by American and NATO soldiers on orders from American and NATO commanders - one must assume the U.S. military and its leadership has spent the last ten years in a state of perpetual melancholia and unending regret.
That must have been really hard on them. They deserve a hug. As usual, Glenn Greenwald nails it:
At some point — and more than a decade would certainly qualify — the act of continuously killing innocent people, countless children, in the Muslim world most certainly does reflect upon, and even alters, the moral character of a country, especially its leaders. You can't just spend year after year piling up the corpses of children and credibly insist that it has no bearing on who you are. That’s particularly true when, as is the case in Afghanistan, the cause of the war is so vague as to be virtually unknowable. It's woefully inadequate to reflexively dismiss every one of these incidents as the regrettable but meaningless by-product of our national prerogative.
The mainstream news networks in this "deeply saddened" nation of ours have not reported on our latest execution of innocent, unarmed living human beings, our annihilation of five children and their mother. Exceptional, aren't we?
UPDATE X:
February 7, 2013 - "UN group says US attacks, air strikes kill hundreds of Afghan children in recent years," reads a headline from the Associated Press today in a grim reminder of the war crimes our military has and continues to relentlessly commit. The report begins:
Attacks by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, including air strikes, have reportedly killed hundreds of children over the last four years, according to the U.N. body monitoring the rights of children.
The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child said the casualties were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force.” It was reviewing a range of U.S. policies affecting children for the first time since 2008 — the last year of the Bush administration and the year Barack Obama was first elected president.
In August 2012, the Committee reported that, in just the first six months of that year, there were "83 civilian deaths and 46 injured as a result of aerial attacks by international military forces," including "the death of 18 civilians, most of whom were women and children" during a June 6 air operation in Logar.
These operations were the cause of "more civilian deaths and injuries than any other tactic used by Pro-Government Forces since UNAMA began documenting civilian casualties."
The Committee also documented 20 civilians killed (and 12 injured) during night raid operations between January and June 2012.
UPDATE XI:
February 19, 2013 - A week ago, on February 12, 2013, a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan murdered 10 civilians, including five women and four children.
Now that MSNBC has brought Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs and campaigner manager David Axelrod aboard, it's probably just a matter of time before Lawrence O'Donnell gets around to asking them about the murderous policies of their beloved Commander-in-Chief.
Well done, my sister.
But what can we expect from a media that is no more than a mouthpiece for a government that has been co-opted and sold to Zionists and related corporate interests?
I'm sure O'Donnell also failed to report about how in the middle of another economic meltdown, a large percentage of our elected officials turned a blind eye to all their Americans constituents suffering at home and chose instead to travel to Israel to be indoctrinated into pouring MORE of our tax dollars into the very country that is robbing the U.S. of its life-blood, wealth and technology.
Those bloodsucking parasites have infected our politician and economic systems and have our politicians trained to JUMP when they tell them.
Just look at the video of Netanyahu speaking to the U.S. Congress recently.
He can't even get that kind of trained Pavlovian response in his own Knesset!
The facts is that the U.S. will keep killing innocents all over the world until we rid ourselves of the Zionist monkey on our backs that has its fangs sunk deep into the heads of our politicians and it hands in all or our pockets.
The 30 soldiers who died, knew and accepted the risks when they signed up.
What kind of heroes would put the federal government or the military before their own families by enlisting in the Army or Navy?
What kind of hero would abandon their family--young children, pregnant wives---in order to go off to war and be willing to kill foreigners in their own land?
These people are no heroes.
Hey, let's face it: If Afgans were as important as Americans, they'd be in Palm Beach, not in that Godforsaken sand dune so far away.
Okay, I can't sustain the sarcasm. Every word you wrote is true. First we demonize (Muslims are evil), then we marginalize (no Afghan causualties listed), then we can forget they ever existed.
Paul Revere said...
Well.. hey: That's called American Exceptionalism.
That means all the human beings we annihilate with our Industrial Murder And Mayhem Machinery are no more significant than bugs that get stepped on.
U-S-A..U-S-A..U-S-A !!!
CurmudgeonVT said...
Thank you for pointing out the American tendency to be myopic. I wonder if Mr. O'Donnell might be open to the possibility of doing a complete 1 hour show on the subject of your blog. If he is as antiwar as he claims he could spend his entire hour enumerating the points you've made so clearly that the American view is wrong. Since the fawning corporate media does not air America's dirty laundry imagine what kind of awakening O'Donnell in his pulpit could provide to the American viewers. Perhaps if the Americans, especially O'Donnell's viewers (who tend to be progressive), are confronted with the truth about the totality of war - and that it isn't just about the Americans - perhaps it just might stir them to demand an end to what is being done, an end to the occupation and killing. Perhaps not - might interfere with Dancing With the Stars...
Are you unable to grasp ingroup/outgroup distinctions?
http://www.george-orwell.org/Marrakech/0.html
Joe Mowrey said...
Wonderful assessment. This is the culture we have become. It is nearly a genetic modification. We lack the ability to feel empathy for "the other."
By the way, referring to TruthOut as a Progressive site is a stretch. These guys have been shills for Obama and the Democrats for years now. Also, don't bother to look for many references to Palestine at TO. They have a strict "don't ask, don't tell" policy on that issue. Now that they are teamed up with Buzzflash (Thom Hartmann's mouthpiece) it's even more insidious.
Thanks for your great article. I'll send it around.
Joe Mowrey
AVANCE said...
O'Donnell was paying the price that is demanded of Cable News Dissidents: a few minutes of hand-wringing, flag-waving, brow-furrowing, lest-we-forgetting. It marks the limits of dissent beyond which Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, and Lawrence O'Donnell may not stray. Those who do stray - Cenk Uygur back to Don Hollenbeck - quickly learn whose hand holds the leash.
Don't be ridiculous, AVANCE. Cenk Uygur is a Moslem born in Turkey, and while he moved to America at age eight he was still raised by his Moslem Turkish parents. Therefore he has more of a link to the Moslems harmed by America's wars than a white American.
Do you really think anything has changed? Have you not studied history? People identify with their perceived social group(s), and tragedies that occur outside of their social boundaries are not registered at such.
You don't need to resort to conspiracy theories to understand this phenomenon. You only need to understand people as they are. Unsurprisingly, the author of this blog is an Iranian and expects us to be outraged over the acts that are perpetuated against Moslems. Those of us who are not of a "progressive" persuasion nor connected to the people in question simply do not care.
Chris Dowd said...
My eyebrow is no longer raised by the 1984-ish paeans to the "troops" when things like this happen or the total abscene of any concern or empathy for the civilian victims of the US military in their own countries.
The only thing that did raise my eyebrow- that was different this time- was the reference to these killed armed combat troops in Afghanistan as "victims" in large swath of our media. That crosses over from the garden variety criminal sociopath rhetoric of our media into psycho land. That was new. Armed combat troops in foreign countries on the other side of the globe- flying into battle- getting killed- are now "victims" in our media. That is just absolutely whacko.
It is going to get really really darkly comic in the coming years.
Hey Thor,
Empathy isn't an "ism". Minimal levels of it are somewhat expected of humans.
Hidden Author said...
YOU are the one who inverts the distinction between aggressor and victim! What if someone threatened to kill your loved ones unless you endorsed the War on Terror? Well then, the American government was equally coerced into fighting in Afghanistan by the barbaric attack on 9-11! Just as the families of murder victims are COMPELLED BY LOVE AND/OR DUTY to seek justice for their loved ones, the same is true of the American government after 9-11!
P.S. It is extremely rare for the U.S. to kill civilians unless the civilians in question were human shields for terrorists and other evil people. And to back off just because the terrorists use human shields would be similar to renouncing justice for one's loved ones!
Bill the Butcher said...
I have shared this article on Fakebook, and I'd like to record my personal appreciation for writing this. I would be honoured to read your other material.
murderers recruited by a misnamed "defense" department are no heroes.
Rose-Marie Larsson said...
Thank you for this moving critique of American war propaganda and for honouring the men, women and children killed by the US and allies in Afghanistan. We must never forget them. I have shared your well documented piece and will keep it for reference.
Nima Shirazi… you deserve a medal for this article. It is award-winning journalism, which – in reality – will NEVER be recognised by the Establishment Media.
How sad…
What a terrible world the tyrants are creating for us; a curse on them, and their lackeys.
Spanner48 said...
for Hidden Author: for those who still support the US invasion of Afghanistan, here are four questions:
1: Of the 17 hijackers on 9-11, how many were Afghans?
2: When, a year later, the FBI published its ''25 Most Wanted'' list of those reponsible for the 9-11 attacks, how many on that list were Afghans?
3: When the American government demanded that the Afghan Government [the Taliban] extradite Osama bin Laden to the US, was there an Extradtition Treaty in force between Afghanistan and the US?
4: Did the Afghan Government refuse to extradite ObL to another country, with which Afghanistan DID have an Extradition Treaty?
For those who care, you may like to do your own research. For those who don't, the answers are:
3: No
A great article and some very fine comments. However...
Thorfinnsson said:
"Those of us who are not of a "progressive" persuasion nor connected to the people in question simply do not care."
This is standard "progressive" nonsense: that only progressives care. They care for whoever is unsuccessful and despise whoever is successful. They hate the rich so they can justify "redistribution" (stealing). Their solution to every problem is coercion (violence) and class war.
The true humanitarians are the Libertarians and the Austrian Economists. Study the foreign policy arguments of Ron Paul, for instance. The libertarians are the ones who understand that the murdered civilians are victims and the "troops" are the murderers. They are the ones who have been arguing - for years - that America has no business occupying and ruling over other countries and that these actions are the real cause of "blowback" such as the 911 attack. That is why they are ridiculed and marginalized by the mainstream.
The progressives have been happy to ignore this whole war issue as long as their man is in the white house wrecking the economy in the name of redistributing other people's wealth. They hated war when it was Bush's war. They ignore it now because government goodies are their only real passion.
Meanwhile, even the military murderers understand what the sadistic pervert O'Donnell fails to understand: that they should not be doing what they are doing. When the presidential campaign contributions from the military are tallied up, they overwhelmingly go to Ron Paul - more than twice the amount contributed to all other Republican candidates combined and far more than to Obama. This is even more remarkable given the facts that African Americans are traditionally liberal/democrat in their voting patterns and are disproportionately represented in the military. (The following link has links to sources.)
http://caivn.org/article/2011/07/19/ron-paul-receives-most-military-donations-again
It is the individualist Libertarian / Austrian movement, not the collectivist progressives that are making humanitarian sense to a rapidly growing crowd in and out of the military.
Ron Paul is a libertarian and an Austrian Economist. Please read what he has written rather than merely what is written about him. He is the true anti-war candidate.
-John Howard
redroksaz said...
Maybe you could take the time in your next article to enumerate the atrocities visited upon the Afghan people by their own people(known as the Taliban).
for spanner:
There were 19 hijackers not 17. Obviously you only pay attention to whatever suites you.
The real question is: How can America allow its enemies to coordinate attacks and shelter operatives using other countries in light of 9-11?
If you help terrorists, you ARE a terrorist! Period.
I notice that whenever America, Britain or Israel are hurt, people like you and Nima insist that the victim be regulated by the strictest interpretation of the law. But when Arabs continue to attack Western nations, their "resistance" must be appeased even though they do not abide by even the loosest interpretation of the law!
America was violated by the 9-11 attack. Justice therefore required that no banana republic or even worse Sharia court be allowed jurisdiction over the matter.
In the final analysis, the problem is that too many people hand-wave away the need of Americans, Britons and Israelis for justice for their innocent dead while refusing to demand that the "resistance" abide by the same laws of war that are supposed to restrict Western nations.
A big clue as to who is right can be gleaned by the following example: If Israel surrendered to the Arabs tomorrow, all the Israeli Jews who did not flee quickly enough would be slaughtered--men, women and children--with perhaps an exception for token Neturei Karta or leftist Jewish comrades. But if the Palestinians surrendered tomorrow, no further harm would be inflicted on them especially if their fellow Arabs cooperated in the ensuing peace. This disparity in goals by each side is reflected albeit in to a less extreme degree in the conflicts between America, Britain and the rest of the West with Muslim extremists who demand the right to kill anyone who "offends" them!
BTW, I actually think America should leave Afghanistan. If America goes through the farce of treating Osama bin Laden's Pakistani protectors as partners because America is too afraid to confront Pakistan, then America's unwillingness to see the war through makes the war itself futile. But in determining policies for immigration, foreign aid, etc., leaders in American government should remember that it was not just American soldiers that contributed to the tragedy but on the contrary, the Taliban and the MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS WHO SHELTERED THEM were also joint contributors!
Nima Shirazi said...
@Hidden Author -
I've refrained from jumping in until now, but your comments are so seriously demented and devoid of fact that I feel the need to interject.
Every sentence you write demonstrates your severe lack of comprehension of what "justice" and "law" actually are. You seem to think them synonymous with "vengeance" and "come-uppence." They are not.
First off, your claim that "[i]t is extremely rare for the U.S. to kill civilians unless the civilians in question were human shields for terrorists and other evil people" is so ridiculous and bigoted that it hardly warrants a response. Children eating breakfast, going to school, and playing ball are not human shields. Living in the same country as someone the United States is trying to kill does not make someone a human shield. Being a bride on her wedding day who also happens to be a resident of Afghanistan does not make her a human shield.
Your concept of "they're evil - we're good" is so disgusting that I'm doing my best to swallow the bile in my throat just to be able to get through the rest of your grotesque characterizations.
Moving on:
After refusing to answer reasonable questions, you ask how the U.S. can "allow its enemies to coordinate attacks and shelter operatives using other countries in light of 9-11." Just so we're clear: According to the official story, the 9/11 attacks were carried out by 19 hijackers, none of whom were from Afghanistan. 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one was Egyptian, and another Lebanese. None of them lived in Afghanistan. They lived in Hamburg, Germany. They didn't train in Afghanistan either, but rather in Sarasota, Florida. They didn't go to flight school in Afghanistan, but in Minnesota. The attacks were reportedly planned in many places, including Falls Church, Virginia and Paris, France, but not including Afghanistan.
By your standard, when do you suggest the U.S. begin drone striking Germany, France, Florida, and Minnesota?
You then state (using caps lock for emphasis) that "[i]f you help terrorists, you ARE a terrorist. Period."
Beyond the juvenile silliness of this reductionist assertion, at what point will the U.S. pay the penalty for funding groups like Jundallah, which have murdered countless Iranians? When will Howard Dean and Rudy Giuliani be brought to trial for being paid spokesmen for the MEK, which is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department?
Your comment about "Arabs continu[ing to] attack Western nations" (thereby justifying U.S. war crimes) is so full of racist innuendo, that no reply is necessary. I will just point out as an aside, since you seem not to know this, that - for the most part - Afghans are not Arabs.
Your understanding of international law leaves much to be desired. Furthermore, I don't think you know what a "banana republic" is.
Your hypothetical fantasy about Israel "surrendering" to "the Arabs" and vice versa is utterly appalling. Your choice of words alone condemn your rhetoric to racist irrelevancy.
It is also more than clear that you have no idea what a "civilian" is. I suggest you read up on the Geneva Conventions as well as the Nuremberg Principles, before posting here again.
You mean the Nuremberg Principles that say that a war of aggression is the supreme war crime because it enables all others? Well al-Qaeda is the culprit there and the Taliban by agreeing to be co-belligerents are also guilty of "the supreme war crime". Why did you leave out that fact?
Or the Geneva Conventions that granted protections to uniformed combatants while allowing for the execution of fighters out of uniform? Funny it seems that the Conventions favor the Americans over the Taliban!
I know that Afghans aren't Arabs--they are more similar to Persians and Baluchis. But the Afghans in the Taliban became co-belligerents in the al-Qaeda war of aggression when they refused to hand over al-Qaeda.
And remember: Most Afghans have NOT been bombed by NATO. Usually when Afghans get bombed by NATO, it is either because: 1) NATO intelligence has reason to believe the family is hiding a son or a father enlisted in the Taliban. 2) The Afghan habit of shooting guns at weddings gives NATO fighters the impression that the wedding party is a squad of terrorists. All of this is of course brutal but it seems that the lion's share of the blame should go to al-Qaeda for starting the war in the first place and the Taliban for backing them up. And of course al-Qaeda and the Taliban obey the laws of war far less than NATO does--why don't you mention that?
Finally if you think America is so evil--and what else does "Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms - of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival." lifted out of its antebellum context mean?--then you are welcome to leave!
@Hidden Author/Franklin/Linkin Park Superfan -
Yet again you conflate "the Taliban" and "al Qaeda" with Afghan civilians and then blame those civilians for their own deaths when the U.S. and NATO airplanes, drones, and soldiers murder them. Shameful.
According to your warped sensibility, Western militaries can do no wrong and simply make innocent mistakes when firing their laser-guided missiles at villages and therefore bare no responsibility for killing unarmed civilians in their own homes. The racism and cultural supremacy oozing from your comments is staggering.
After justifying war crimes against a civilian population, you then move on to the ridiculous "well, uh, the Taliban is worse than we are, so, uh, what about that?" argument, which doesn't mean anything.
The entire premise of your claim seems to be that all Afghans are collectively responsible for both the Taliban and al Qaeda and are implicated in the murder of Americans on 9/11/01. You also seem to believe that history began on that date.
Concluding your disgusting remarks with the cry of the perennially immature and unsophisticated - Uhmurica, love it er leave it! - perfectly demonstrates why your comments don't merit any more of my attention after this.
You inquire about the Frederick Douglass quote featured on the sidebar of this site. Do you believe Douglass should have kept his damn mouth shut about the injustice and crimes against humanity his government was responsible for perpetrating? By your rationale, if he didn't like what his government was doing, shouldn't he have simply left the U.S. for a country that didn't institutionalize slavery rather than speak up? (Oh, and the "hey, but bombing men, women, and children to death with hightech killing machines isn't as bad as slavery" argument currently forming in your mind isn't a strong one, so please don't bother. If your standards of apologia are that low, there's really no point.) I suppose you also think that those who opposed the murder of Vietnamese and Iraqi civilians by U.S. bullets and bombs should also pack their things and move elsewhere.
By the way, I don't use words like "evil" to describe countries or people, policies or actions. You do.
Basically, if you don't like what I write or how I feel, you can post your future comments somewhere else. See what I did there?
Before you guys point fingers and bleed your hearts out, take a minute and think about all those innocent afghans that died at the hands of the taliban, insurgent forces.
Civilians are killed in every war. You live in a differant world if you dont think thousands of people wont be killed by the taliban if/when the US pulls out. Look at what happened in vietnam for goodness sakes. Loss of innocent life is a tragedy everytime, but keeping an accurate count is simply impossible, civilian casualty numbers are exadurated or minimized for propaganda purposes by both sides
I love how some commenters here employ the, "hey, what about the Taliban?!" line to excuse U.S. war crimes.
If the Taliban's human rights record is the benchmark against which you judge your own military's actions, so be it. Personally, I tend to have a somewhat higher standard when atrocities are committed halfway around the world in my name by heavily-armed, well-funded and highly-trained uniformed representatives of my own country.
Also, did you really just try and say that the Afghan people are better off being bombed to death by Americans because you assume that, were the U.S. to withdraw its troops, the Taliban would massacre thousands? In essence, are you really trying to argue that the U.S. military is dropping humanitarian bombs on Afghan civilians in order to prevent them from being killed by someone else?
If "both sides" exaggerate civilian casualty numbers for "propaganda purposes", then should we reevaluate the official death toll for the 9/11 attacks since, in your estimation, they shouldn't be trusted anymore than Afghan claims about civilians killed by U.S. and NATO forces?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2088979,00.html
So its ok for the taliban to kill civilian afghans because their not a technologically advanced nation?? Excuse me sir but a bomb planted in a marketplace is just as deadly as a bomb dropped from a plane. I make excuses for neither side, but i can tell the differance between dropping a bomb from 30,000ft and personally planting a bomb in a market place.
What would you have us do in afghanistan? I'd rather not be there but thats not reality. Would you surrender countless lives to die at the hands of the taliban for helping coalition forces? Prosecute every soldier for fighting a war against an unconventional enemy that hides amongst civilians like cowards? Walk away and watch the chaos ensue?
With the current troop level and rules of engagement the current administration has tied their hands. If you want less airstrikes we need more boots on the ground. Pick your poison.
A remote village in the afghan mountains with no records of peoples with which you can identify bodies is a little differant than wtc towers. You know like the ability to track down those who work in the said towers to find out if they died. Also you could make the argument that more people died on 9-11 than otherwise reported.
Both sides commit terrible atrocites, both are guilty. You simply focus your argument on coalition forces without even acknowledging that the insurgent forces are forcing the hand of coalition forces. You can argue that there are better ways to fight this war, but without aknowledging the guilt of both sides, your argument sounds bitter and angry.
This is getting very silly and pathetic.
Anonymous, no one ever said it's "ok" for the Taliban to kill people. To state as such is to both misread what I and others have written and erect a strawman which you can then knock down as proof of your own humanity and compassion.
This won't work, because what you've written doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
You say that you "make excuses for neither side," and then go one to do so, claiming to know "the differance [sic] between dropping a bomb from 30,000ft and personally planting a bomb in a market place." You're implying that raining death and destruction from above with robots and missiles is somehow better than planting a bomb in a marketplace. Seems like a strange debate to have: who kills innocent people better, us or the Taliban? As such, I'm sure you found the James Robbins piece quoted in the article quite compelling.
You then turn quickly to shameful equivocation and justification for invasion, occupation, and war crimes. You claim that the U.S. is somehow engaged in a humanitarian mission - we kill you for your own good type of stuff - and then declare that Afghans fighting against the occupation are cowardly. One wonders how you would describe Predator drone operators sitting in desk chairs in air conditioned offices in Nevada murdering civilians with a click of their mouse. Noble patriots, no doubt.
Naturally, you say, we can't trust civilian death tolls from such backwards savages who don't even have "records of peoples"...I mean, believing that people might know if their families have been obliterated or have witnessed the killings themselves is surely no match for Western lists and excel spreadsheets. After all, it's not like these are real people anyway. They're only Afghans.
Admirably, you save the best for last. You state that both sides are guilty (it seems you are now conflating "the Taliban" and possibly "al Qaeda" with Afghan civilians, so good for you) and charge me with only noting one of those sides.
It seems you have, unsurprisingly, missed the entire point of my article. If, as you say, "both side commit terrible atrocities", why doesn't Lawrence O'Donnell (for example, since he's the subject of my piece) ever mention them on the air? He said that last weekend "saw the worst single loss of life in the ten years of the Afghan War," and did not include "American life" or "of American soldiers" anywhere in his segment. He didn't even say "we saw." No, his statement was clear.
So, why does O'Donnell deliver eulogies for dead soldiers who died in combat and completely ignore the thousands and thousands of Afghans those and other soldiers have killed in the past decade? Why is "because we keep killing innocent people" not a good enough reason to withdraw our troops? The answer is simple: because they're not American, so who fucking cares? Let's call it "imperial myopia".
If you think I am bitter and angry, you're absolutely right. I am ashamed and appalled by the actions of my government and military and at the unconditional and blind support they receive from people like you. When bombs are dropped on and bullets shot at innocent people in my name, by soldiers from my country, I get angry. You should too.
When those deaths are consistently and deliberately ignored by the media in this country, I get bitter and frustrated. You should too.
Your apologia is nauseating.
[If you care to respond or continue posting comments here, feel free, but please don't post anonymously. It's confusing and annoying. Use a fake name or pick a moniker or something. Thanks.]
I could give a damn about what O'donnell thinks or says. Just so you know i was linked to your article by hallindsey.com just so you have a slight perspective of my view of life.
Did i call them backward savages?? They survive where most americans couldnt last a week. STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH! (Uh oh capitilized letters O.o i must be serious) my problem is there isnt a credible source, its not hard to walk up to a western journalist and lie to them about deaths hamas and hezbollah do all the time. What better way to recruit new soldiers than to lie to them about innocents being slaughtered by "big satan" america.
Maybe you dont think there is a differance :b between someone planting a bomb in an area frequented by civilians i.e. market place, voting booth, police/military recruiting with the intentions of harming just civilians. Compared to a private getting orders to drop ordinance on a specific target thats a thousand miles away. My point (so you dont misunderstand) is that intention is everything. Insurgents intend to kill civilians with their bombs and drivebys, just like those soldiers who murdered all those afghans and took body parts as trophies. That to me is murder, why because they had full intentions of taking an innocent life. Disagree all you want but you wont change my mind.
When i said both sides i was referring to coalition vs taliban/insurgent forces. A majority of the insurgency in iraq and afghanistan is due to outside interference from other muslim nations, im sure you know that much. From what i know most afghans understand that the faster the insurgency is defeated and a stable government/military/police force is formed the faster we're outta there. Hence the recruitment and intel we receive from afghan civilians, they want better for their children like any parent does. Just like here, people have differant views some think supporting us is the best thing, others think following the taliban rule of law is the best thing. The only question is who is right, one side forces you to follow their way the other allows a choice. Which is better?
I dont listen to O'Donnell or care what he says, everything they (tv/radio pundits) do is for ratings and rambling off random afghan names while probably butchering the translation is insulting to those that died, it also doesnt make ratings. Does he take time to read the deaths of us military daily?? Bet he doesnt, but since i dont listen to him i dont know for sure
I know several people in active duty, one is a colonel that was my teacher. Guess what he was deployed to do?? If your answer is helping to start a stable educational system you are correct. I get irritated when people call the men and women serving in our military murderers. In a military our size, of course there will be bad people with EVIL intentions, and like cops you only hear about the bad ones and the good ones go on faceless and un rewarded.
Ill read your response but this is my last post. In the words of Buzz Lightyear "your a sad, strange, little man and you have my pity"
I'm so proud of you nima. Your words are so true and so what I would write , if I could write as eloquently as you do. God bless and please continue to tell truth to power.
I guess that it just wsn't nice of O'Donnell to limit the discussion of war deaths to those of Americans.
So unmannerly.
Other than that, knock yourself out having a good old time misinterpreting by pretending he meant more than that if you need the spurious moral superiority fix.
Hey anonymous
You are really annoying me now. Your points are so childish and it seems like you like to hear yourself talk no matter how foolish it makes you look,
I have a simple solution for you. There are those of us that really enjoy reading Nima's comments, but if you are not one of us, simply go somewhere else. Don't try to muddy the water with your b.s.
Thanks for the kind words, Mike.
Honestly, I don't at all mind if commenters like "Anonymous" continue to share their views here - issues like these are bound to evoke strong, passionate responses.
My problem with Anonymous (beyond his seeming inability to not post anonymously) is that his arguments aren't cogent and his "us vs. them" worldview is clear. He projects his own myopia outwardly and ascribes to others what he suffers from himself.
This is perhaps unsurprising with regard to the topic at hand (and others written about here), as Anonymous himself noted that his "view of life" is similar, or in some aligned with or supportive of, that of Texas evangelist and ardent Christian Zionist Hal Lindsey. This would mean that Anonymous may be sympathetic to (if not more enthusiastic about) dispensationalism and End Times eschatology, whereby he would believe Jewish control of "the land of Israel" and Jerusalem is required for the Rapture to occur. The doctrine is also heavy of promised land and chosen people and also dabbles in Antichrist weirdness. (Lindsey wrote on WorldNetDaily back in 2008 that Barack Obama's campaign and rising popularity was setting the stage for the eventual arrival of the Biblical Antichrist.)
Furthermore, Anonymous is apparently stubborn enough to repeat and prop up strawmen such as this attempt at witty snark: "I guess that it just wsn't [sic] nice of O'Donnell to limit the discussion of war deaths to those of Americans."
But the fact is (and has always been) that O'Donnell specifically didn't make that point. Again, he said, "This weekend saw the worst single loss of life in the ten years of the Afghan War."
No mention of limiting his comments to refer to Americans only. The uninitiated viewer, taking his words at face value, would be forgiven for believing that O'Donnell was correct and that, over the course of the past decade, no single death toll has been as large or tragic as the recent helicopter crash.
If, again, the argument then follows: Yeah, but it's assumed that he's talking about Americans, since why would he include Afghans in his comments or consideration in the first place?, then the point about The Invisible Dead and the American media and public's own blindness when it comes to the victims of our bombs and bullets is already made.
[I apologize for referring invariably to Anonymous as "he" when the comments could easily have been posted by a woman. After all, there are plenty of women out there who write silly things.]
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Trailer Park Friday: Two Short Films, Inside Out, The Con Man & More
March 13, 2015 / Leslie Flynn
This week we don't have just trailers here at the Trailer Park. Thanks to so lurking around io9, there are a couple of short films along with a trailer for an upcoming web series and of course some movies.
First up is Sequence, a 20 minute short film that gets on the violent side of things. It's about that weird day when your girlfriend tells you she had a really messed up dream about you and then someone else you know says they dreamed about you too, and things just get a whole lot worse from there. It's by Carles Torrens and might have given me the hebbie jebbies.
The next one is this adorable claymation animated short about a man who search brought up a roommate a little different than expected. It's by Laerke Kromann and David Crisp, and it's called Roommate Wanted - Dead or Alive. It's only about 8 minutes long.
If you're a Firefly fan, you've probably already heard about Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion's Indiegogo campaign for The Con Man, a new web series they're creating that has a premise a little too close to comfort. After starring on a short-lived, but cult loved sci-fi series, Alan's character can't seem to get his career off the ground, making his living from attending sci-fi conventions while his former co-star is now a hot movie star. You can support their campaign here. Here's the trailer they just released earlier today.
Pixar has released a new trailer for their upcoming release Inside Out, which is all about the feelings living inside your head. Something tells me that it will be difficult to not get the feels with this one. It comes out June 19.
I don't really know much about Torrowland, other than that it's a place at Disney World with old school future tech and robots (or it was when I was a kid). There is also someone named Myles that has a cartoon about him that my niece and nephew love. As for the up coming George Clooney movie, I don't know much about it. It comes out May 22.
And finally the newest trailer for a videogame that will stress me out too much to play it probably. Batman: Arkham Knight is the newest in ht eBatman game series and it looks vicious. It comes out on June 2.
What videos have caught your eye on the internet lately? Share the links in the comments and have a great weekend.
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Activity Club of Thomas Worthington High School is the Creator.
Activity Club members gathered at the club's 1975 May luncheon and last business meeting of the 1974-1975 year. Plans were completed for the baccalaureate reception for Worthington High School graduates and their families, organized and sponsored by the club each year. Pictured here are hostess and assistants Simi Long, Diane Hitt, Angela Dillard, and Middy Roby.
The Activity Club was founded in 1937 as the Personality Club by Mrs. Miriam Mackay, who saw a great need to form an organization dedicated to assisting youth with their social and personal problems. The club was originally formed with sponsorship by the Worthington P.T.A. Among the first activities of the group was the remodeling of formals for girls who were in need of them. Guidance concerning proper dress, manners and hostess etiquette were in demand. Although the club's focus was initially on girls, boys soon became interested and were also included in the programs. Over the years interests broadened, and the group was reorganized as the Activity Club. Social dancing classes for students from grade 4 to 12 became a major activity of the club during the 1940s and 1950s. Interest in dancing declined during the 1960s. Following a brief renewal of interest in dancing in the late 1970s, the emphasis on dance programs was discontinued.
During the 1980s the purpose of the Activity Club broadened to fulfill changing needs. New projects were initiated, such as workshops on leadership skills, College Previews, College Fairs, and coordination of the Baccalaureate Service for graduating seniors. The Activity Club began sponsoring the Junior-Senior Prom "Afterhours" in 1986, and a "Cards Camp," a middle school drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention program in 1988. Following the opening of Worthington Kilbourne High School, the club split into two separate Activity Clubs, one for each school.
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In World of Warships appeared Soviet ships that exist only in drawings
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Starting today, players can take part in the daily competition “Victory”.
The company Wargaming announced today that World of Warships will update 0.8.3. It will provide early access to the branch of the Soviet battleships.
Starting today, players can take part in the daily competition “Victory”. Taking one of the parties (“Honor” or “Glory”), with the victory over the enemy, the users get tokens for allowances, which can be exchanged for the Soviet premium cruiser VII level “Lazo” camouflage “Victory”. Or Outbox, which can be one of four Soviet battleships. Every day tasks for the winning teams will be harder, but awards – is more valuable.
Among the eight Soviet battleships will be “Peter the Great” (level V), “Sinop” (VII) “Vladivostok” (VIII level), which was never built – there were only drawings. “Ishmael” (VI level), which also appeared in the game, was launched, but not completed. Unlike other ships within the class, these ships are heavily armored, armed with powerful guns and more effective on small and medium distances.
In World of Warships can be found as existing equipment, and that was only on paper. To accurately design the latest Wargaming appealed to the Central naval Museum of St. Petersburg and the state archives. The drawings of the battleship of the project 23 “Soviet Union” (IX level) was found, for example, in the State archive of the Russian Federation in the Fund of the Committee of defense of the USSR. Set was used only once – to show Stalin in the Kremlin with the approval of the project in 1939. Due to the age of the document Wargaming had to restore the drawing to redraw.
Documents of the battleship project 24 “the Kremlin” (X-level) are still classified. Its development was in the middle of the last century. To create the reconstruction project, Wargaming had to master a large amount of information and bit by bit you can select the project information 24.
In addition, in World of Warships appeared two new ships and fifteen unique commanders, inspired by the popular characters in the mobile game Azur Lane. Furs and designer Makoto Kobayashi (Makoto Kobayashi) painted a camouflage for Japanese battleship Yamato X level.
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tv Our World BBC News December 31, 2016 4:30am-5:01am GMT
in response to washington's expulsion of 35 russians. writing on social media mrtrump said: police in rio dejaneiro are questioning the greek ambassador‘s wife and two other people on suspicion of involvement in the envoy‘s killing. investigators say the ambassador‘s body was found in the boot of a burnt—out car. the nationwide ceasefire in syria is now over 2a hours old. while it appears to be holding in most areas — moscow says it calls on the un security council to back the deal and support new peace talks. and now on our world, a symphony for syria. first broadcast last summer, it's a touching story of four syrian musicians as they prepare for a ground—breaking series of reunion concerts. over ten years ago, a remarkable
orchestra played in damascus, performing arabic music at the highest level. but when war broke out in 2011, some of the musicians were forced to flee syria. this is the story of an attempt to bring the orchestra back together for a once—in—a—lifetime tour, in the hope of changing the world's perspective of this nation. since the beginning of the war
in syria, an estimated 9 million people have fled their homes in search of a new life. one of them is issam. he claimed asylum in america in 2013 after being invited to teach music in a university here. i watch bombs, i watch all kind of military issues, and nobody knows when the bomb will come. did you know people have been killed 7
a lot, you know, a lot of my friends, a lot of relatives as well. his father and sisters are still living in damascus. he hasn't seen them since he left. syria, what does syria mean for me, actually, family, you know? hopefully this will be, like, a bad dream, maybe, and to have a better life, so... accent. before the war, he, his sister and brother all played in the syrian national 0rchestra for arabic music. issam took over the orchestra in 2003 and conducted them for ten years, touring europe
and the middle east. when he left, he didn't know if he would ever lead them again. but that could be about to change. international organisers are trying to bring the orchestra to europe for a one—off tour that would reunite musicians from inside syria and those now living abroad, like issam. this is ourdream, actually, my dream. his friends are helping him prepare. issam wrote this piece for the orchestra while he was still living in damascus. but the tour hangs in the balance.
since the outbreak of war, it is almost impossible to get visas for syrians to leave the country. he is very stressed, because he was so busy lately writing all this stuff and worried about the music, the visa. so, yeah, you can see, look, he lost a lot of weight. he lost a lot of weight, i hate him. i gave it to him. issam might also be unable to travel. with his ongoing asylum claim, there is a risk he won't be given permission to leave the us, but that hasn't stopped him from working on the music. how will you feel if the visa doesn't come through? do you want me to cry now? i mean, for sure, it is out of my hands or anybody‘s hands, but it is better to try
and keep fingers crossed, so hopefully i will be there. hopefully. like issam, many members of the orchestra are now refugees. more than 100,000 syrians have applied for asylum in germany since the war began. and it is now home to violinist susan, originally from aleppo. # hello, guten tag.
she has settled into life in germany and teaches music to refugee children recently arrived from syria. since becoming a refugee, music has become even more important to susan. she joined the orchestra as a music student in damascus and hasn't played with them for four years. while music has helped susan, for some refugees it is simply
a painful reminder of everything they have lost. this man is from northern syria. he played in the orchestra before fleeing to sweden with his young family in 2013. he is one of the foremost kanun players in syria and for him the upcoming concerts are an important way of preserving the country's culture. but rehearsing for the tour is difficult as he has to look after his young sons while his wife is at work. and he struggles to explain to his children why the family left
syria. like his parents, the majority of the orchestra live in syria, where they still rehearse and perform in damascus. mais and her husband rashid both play with the orchestra. she is a singer and he is the lead violin. and for mais, these concerts have a special significance.
but it is almost impossible for mais and rashid to get visas to leave the country. but it is almost impossible for mais and rashid to get visas to leave the country. they haven't left syria since the start of the war. and with a week to go before the tour, they still don't know if they will get permission to travel. getting 30 people is a huge logistical challenge challenge for the concert organisers, which has taken six months of negotiation. it was very, very, very difficult, just communicating with people in syria, getting the visas. they had to go to beirut to get visas, then there were all sorts of hiccups along the way, suspicions of what we were doing. there were fears over whether people would stay over. at every level it was complicated.
the first stop of the tour is amsterdam, and it's a nervous wait to see who will arrive. some musicians did not get permission to travel, and others were only issued with visas at the last minute. at last, they are here, and the years of separation are over. finally, the orchestra can start playing together. the reunited orchestra contains members from across the political and religious spectrum. what was interesting about syria before the revolution was the way that everyone was so mixed and it was very harmonious between the christians and the sunnis and the shia. there were tensions but people were
together. the orchestra reflects that, there are people of different strands, different religions, different views on what has happened over the last five years. they have all come together in music. the tour is masterminded by a the creator of gorillaz, damon albarn. he played with them before the war. he wanted to bring the orchestra back together. i wanted to bring them over here so that physically people could see them, they could see syrians doing something other than having their few possessions in a muddy field in macedonia, you know what i mean? something positive, positive and beautiful about syria. it's tangible,
a tangible thing, music. music is always a good starting point to open a dialogue. one member of the orchestra is not here. the conductor did not get a visa. his sisters have come from damascus to sing in the choir, and they cannot believe he is notjoining them. they are keeping him updated about the tour.
but the show must go on without him. in his absence, rachid has had to step up as conductor. the most important thing is to get the orchestra, we've got people who haven't played for up to five years.
to get them playing with each other and communicating the dynamic of the orchestral work. it's going to be a very... it's a very organic thing. rehearsals carry on late into the night. after four days of intense practice, it is time for the orchestra to perform. it has been exhausting. thank you very much, everyone, it's been an absolute pleasure and privilege to work with you. we are from syria, the music makes me feel like i am in damascus. it makes me miss my
family in syria. the orchestra are joined by artists from across the world. there were three guys crying in front of us at the first part, already. we were like, this is so big! but now, their thoughts are starting to turn to home. good morning. some contrasting weather conditions to close out our final few days of 2016. take, for example, yesterday.
it was cold and foggy in the south—east pretty much all day for some of us. temperatures just a couple of degrees above freezing, and not much to be seen from the london eye. by contrast, into the south—west, it was a beautiful afternoon with plenty of sunshine, as seen by this weather watcher's photo in st ives. 12 degrees the high here, and it was mild in the north and west of scotland as well. but it is going to turn increasingly wet and windy. high pressure, though, into the south just hangs on, and so fog certainly going to be an issue. it is certainly worth bearing in mind if you are out and about on the roads early on, there could be further disruption to travel, as that fog may well be dense in places. so temperatures struggling just a couple of degrees above freezing, and it will be a pretty murky start. mild to the north—west, but that rain is on its way. but let's concentrate with the fog across east anglia, down into the south—east corner, and to the south of the m4 corridor. here, some of the fog could be dense in places. so it is going to be a cold, grey start, eventually that fog lifting to low cloud.
there will be a little bit of brightness, though, across much of wales and the north of england. you should get to see some sunshine, and that will stay with you for much of the day. across northern ireland, southern scotland, the winds picking up, the rain into the north—west, some of that turning quite heavy for a time, and that will gradually drift its way south through the day. we should get to see a little bit of sunshine into the north of england and north wales. hopefully the fog lifts away, and it may well feel just that little bit milder. a bit more of a breeze around, at eight or nine degrees here, ten or 11 further north. now, as we go into new year's eve celebrations, unfortunately that weather front a bit of a nuisance through northern ireland and northern england, perhaps into north wales as well. so it means a wet end to the year. behind it, colder, and there will be some snow showers. so i suspect, as the clock ticks towards midnight, that weather front will be sitting, really, through the north of england and into wales. to the north of it, showery, those showers turning increasingly wintry. to the south of it, it stays mild and quiet. now, eventually, as that front
sinks south once again, the colder air digs in from the north. so we start off new year's day with some wet weather moving your way through the midlands, eventually pushing into the south—east corner. so a pretty miserable new year's day here. further north, it stays cold and showery. it will be a colder day on monday, but at least there will be some decent spells of sunshine, and it stays largely dry as well. a warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm gavin grey. our top stories: brazilian police question the greek ambassador‘s wife on suspicion of involvement in her husband's killing. as russian diplomats prepare to leave the united states, donald trump praises president putin for not expelling us staff in retaliation. 2a hours on, syria's ceasefire is generally holding.
the un security council will be asked to endorse the agreement and back new peace talks. and recognition for excellence in sport, fashion and public life, we'll have a look at queen elizabeth's new year's honours list.
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Inside Story : ALJAZAM : October 21, 2015 2:00am-2:31am EDT
, canada's conservatives were routed at the voting poot. prime minister stephen harper is out. and the liberal leader, justin trudeau will form a new government with an outright majority. what will that mean for america's biggest trading partner. head north, turn left. it's the inside story. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. canada's prime ministering stephen harper was trying to do something that hadn't been done in canada for more than a lek shin. he didn't. his conservatives took a drubbing in monday's national elections. in four eastern provinces, the party couldn't hold on to a single seat. harper will be replaced by justin trudeau, leader of the liberal party, son of a former canadian prime minister. 43, tell generic, and able to form a majority government. he told his supporters last change. >> canadians have spoken. you want a government with a vision and an agenda for this country, that is positive, and ambitious, and hopeful. well, my friends, i promise you government. [ cheers and applause ] >> i will make that vision a reality. i will be that prime minister
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Politics and Public Policy Today : CSPAN3 : October 5, 2015 4:00pm-6:01pm EDT
area where canada is completely failing, and that is in dealing with the refugee crisis. my own family, the irish side of it at the least, came over during the potato famines of the 1840s. and you know what? in quebec city, people went down to the docks, even though a lot of them were getting sick, and took in the most miserable in the world. that's canada. that's who we are. katherine's family, the jews who were expelled from spain, they were taken in in the muslim countries that are today turkey, it was then the ottoman empire. that's the opening world that we can always aspire to. 2 million refugees living in our nato ally turkey. we're not doing enough to help. there are requests from the united nations to take in 10,000 by christmas. mr. harper is not even going to get near that number. they want 46,000 between now and 2019. the ndp government will get it done. >> if i could just maybe correct a couple facts here. first of all, none of our nato allies, not all of them are involved in the coalition, but none are opposed to it. they are all supportive of our mission against the isla
area where canada is completely failing, and that is in dealing with the refugee crisis. my own family, the irish side of it at the least, came over during the potato famines of the 1840s. and you know what? in quebec city, people went down to the docks, even though a lot of them were getting sick, and took in the most miserable in the world. that's canada. that's who we are. katherine's family, the jews who were expelled from spain, they were taken in in the muslim countries that are today...
Washington This Week : CSPAN : October 25, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
, theington journal" discussion of u.s.-canada relations after the election of a new prime minister. .:00, q and a later, david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. host: our focus is canadian politics. the director of the wilson center canada institute. good morning. i mentioned earlier that richard 1972 posted justin trudeau. 43 years later, he is now the prime minister. any idea that nixon had such powers of forecasting and prediction. host: who is justin trudeau and explain his rise to power. guest: he is an icon in the canadian landscape. his father was a trudeau, canada's longest-serving prime minister. he was a game changer for canada, ushering canada into a ,oderate internationalists cool, trendy world in the 1960's. he had a wife who was dancing at studio 54 with the rolling stones. she was 30 years his junior. he was really a remarkable character. justin trudeau grew up in front of our eyes. his first home was the prime minister's residence and canada. so we watched this young man grow up. we thought it was interesting. thing. carter type of he disappear
, theington journal" discussion of u.s.-canada relations after the election of a new prime minister. .:00, q and a later, david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. host: our focus is canadian politics. the director of the wilson center canada institute. good morning. i mentioned earlier that richard 1972 posted justin trudeau. 43 years later, he is now the prime minister. any idea that nixon had such powers of forecasting and prediction. host: who is justin...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN3 : October 2, 2015 9:00pm-11:01pm EDT
at c-span.org. >>> next, a debate on canada's foreign policy between party leaders stephen harper, thomas mulcair and justin trudeau. topics include canada/u.s. relations, the keystone xl pipeline and the current syrian refugee crisis. you'll hear all speakers speak in french and english, which is customary in canada. this is just under two hours. >>> you don't know which of your factories will be demolished. >> russia's political leaders are not just rulers of their nation, they're country's owners. >> you don't know which of your arguments will be totally destroyed. >> i'm not prepared to sacrifice the african continent for some free-market ideology. >> and then you've got to come back and you're now rattled, you're shaken up. >> let's save the bleeding heart for somebody else. it's time to change. >> and you don't know what the hell to say, but you've got to say something. >> i believe the 21st century will belong to china, because most centuries have belonged to china. >> blaming barack obama for the state that the world is in right now is like blaming a caribbean island for a
at c-span.org. >>> next, a debate on canada's foreign policy between party leaders stephen harper, thomas mulcair and justin trudeau. topics include canada/u.s. relations, the keystone xl pipeline and the current syrian refugee crisis. you'll hear all speakers speak in french and english, which is customary in canada. this is just under two hours. >>> you don't know which of your factories will be demolished. >> russia's political leaders are not just rulers of their...
Washington Journal : CSPAN : October 25, 2015 7:45am-10:01am EDT
familiar last name. learn more about justin trudeau with laura dawson of the wilson .enter for canada institute you are watching and listening to c-span's washington journal this sunday morning, october 25. ♪ all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states, draw near give their attention. >> we have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by congress on an economic issue like health care since lochner. a the case is whether majority rule, a state legislature can take away your life and liberty without due process. the court ruled no. at the gets a wonderful decision. >> this week, we look at lockerbie new york. in 1895, the new york legislature passed the bakeshop hours foricting employees to 10 hours a day or six the hours per week. joseph lochner violated that law and was fined $50, refusing to pay he took his case all the way to the supreme court. find out why lochner is known as one of the most controversial decisions the supreme court's history as we explore this with randy barnett. and paul cans, political science professor at texas
familiar last name. learn more about justin trudeau with laura dawson of the wilson .enter for canada institute you are watching and listening to c-span's washington journal this sunday morning, october 25. ♪ all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states, draw near give their attention. >> we have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by congress on an economic issue like health care since lochner. a the case is whether majority rule, a...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN3 : October 3, 2015 4:00am-6:01am EDT
, even though the supreme court of canada said no unanimously. but you won't talk about it with peter mansbridge in english. you wouldn't talk about it at the mcklain debate. the fact is you carry two different discussions at the same time. and that is not responsible. the other thing, however, that mr. mulcair has done on c-51 is exactly what so many of us deplore that mr. harper has done, which is to play the politics of fear. now, mr. harper, we all know, on c-51, wants us to be afraid there's a terrorist hiding behind every leaf and rock behind us and we all have to be afraid and that's why he's there to protect us. [ applause ] >> fortunately the podiums are transparent. mr. mulcair is playing a similar politics of fear, trying to say that because of c-51, we have been very clear that we have reservations, but there are elements in that bill that protect canadians and we're working to bring in protections to get that balance right, but mr. mulcair is playing the politics of fear and division, fear that we're suddenly in a police state, fear that we've suddenly ripped up the
, even though the supreme court of canada said no unanimously. but you won't talk about it with peter mansbridge in english. you wouldn't talk about it at the mcklain debate. the fact is you carry two different discussions at the same time. and that is not responsible. the other thing, however, that mr. mulcair has done on c-51 is exactly what so many of us deplore that mr. harper has done, which is to play the politics of fear. now, mr. harper, we all know, on c-51, wants us to be afraid...
News : ALJAZAM : October 20, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
political upset up north. justin trudeau will become canada's next prime minister and what it means for the united states. >>> minimizing risks for the syrian airspace. the united states and russia reach an agreement. and screening less often for mammograms, and an explosive night for a teen who was arrested after her volcano science projects malfunctioned. >>> and we begin at this hour with a historic change in power in canada. for the first time in a decade, canadians voted overwhelmingly for the liberal party, bringing questions to an end, and wondering what the relationship will be for u.s.-canada relations. >> a stunning landslide swept justin trudeau's liberal party back to power. >> on the behalf of 35 million canadians, we're back. >> reporter: ending 10 years of conservative control in canada. >> it's time for a change in this country, my friend, a real change. >> reporter: trudeau ran a campaign similar to president obama's in 2008, adapting his slogan, real change. and on thursday, the white house acknowledged trudeau's victory. >> the united states and president obama grasps
political upset up north. justin trudeau will become canada's next prime minister and what it means for the united states. >>> minimizing risks for the syrian airspace. the united states and russia reach an agreement. and screening less often for mammograms, and an explosive night for a teen who was arrested after her volcano science projects malfunctioned. >>> and we begin at this hour with a historic change in power in canada. for the first time in a decade, canadians voted...
Politics and Public Policy Today : CSPAN3 : October 2, 2015 12:00pm-2:01pm EDT
. in vancouver, a lot of those people were killed. they weren't allowed in canada. more recently, a boat arrived in bc. one of our ministers said they were terrorists. >> translato [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] >> we've already announced more, already are doing more. but this isn't just a game of trying to up the numbers. we're trying to do things responsibly. i've visited refugee camps in syria, in northern iraq. i've visited with families we have accepted from these regions. i have met with leaders from those communities, not just in canada, but in the region itself. and i can certainly tell you, from my visits to the refugee camps in jordan and debriefings there, we can't pretend there are no security risks. it's important that we do screening. those countries in the world that responded to these headlines as these others would have by just opening the doors and doing no checking have rapidly regretted that, and are now trying to put in place the very kind of system that canada has been pursuing all along. it's a generous response, it's a responsible
. in vancouver, a lot of those people were killed. they weren't allowed in canada. more recently, a boat arrived in bc. one of our ministers said they were terrorists. >> translato [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] >> we've already announced more, already are doing more. but this isn't just a game of trying to up the numbers. we're trying to do things responsibly. i've visited refugee camps in syria, in northern iraq. i've visited with families we have...
Munk Debate on Foreign Policy : CSPAN : October 3, 2015 11:41am-1:32pm EDT
speak in both french and english which is customary in canada. this is just under two hours. >> russians current leaders are not simply the rulers of the nation they literally the countries enemies. >> i appeared to sacrifice the african continent for some free-market ideology. >> then you will come back and you are rattled and shaken up. >> it seems to be hard for somebody else that it's time to change. >> the 21st century will belong to china but most centers have belonged to china. >> blaming barack obama for the state of the world is in right now is like blaming a caribbean island for hurricane. >> the lesson of her career has been a few arrests third world dysfunctional country that has managed to acquire a nuclear weapon view. >> if you want to engage in humanitarian intervention do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine. >> welcome to the munk debate on canada's foreign policy. [speaking french] is my privilege to have the opportunity to host tonight's historic proceedings. the first-ever federal election debate devoted exclusively to foreign-policy issues
speak in both french and english which is customary in canada. this is just under two hours. >> russians current leaders are not simply the rulers of the nation they literally the countries enemies. >> i appeared to sacrifice the african continent for some free-market ideology. >> then you will come back and you are rattled and shaken up. >> it seems to be hard for somebody else that it's time to change. >> the 21st century will belong to china but most centers...
leadership. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> turning now to the fight against isil. canada's incoming prime minister justin trudeau told president obama that canada will bring home it's planes. the national secures correspondent jamie mcintyre is in washington with more what this means for the anti-isil coalition. jamie? >> militarily it's not all that significant. canada contributed four bombers to the campaign, and the other 11 countries who are also conducting strikes in abandoning and syria will pick up the slack. but symbolically an it's a blow. the two countries have worked in the defense of north america in norad one of the few place where u.s. troops are under foreign command. but the newly elected canadian prime minister made it clear he was going to make good on that pledge to end canada's role in the combat mission. >> we talked about canada's continued engagement as a strong member of the coalition against isil, and i committed that we would continue to engage in a responsible way that understands how important canada has a role to play in the fight against isil. but he understa
leadership. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> turning now to the fight against isil. canada's incoming prime minister justin trudeau told president obama that canada will bring home it's planes. the national secures correspondent jamie mcintyre is in washington with more what this means for the anti-isil coalition. jamie? >> militarily it's not all that significant. canada contributed four bombers to the campaign, and the other 11 countries who are also conducting strikes in...
News : ALJAZAM : October 20, 2015 12:00am-12:31am EDT
stands tall today. we have built a canada that is stronger than ever. ure economy is growing and jobs created. the budget is balanced. federal taxes are at their lowest in 50 years. [ cheering and applause ] . >> we are poised to seize the opportunities that come with trade access to europe, the americas and now the asia pacific. men and women in uniforms have the tools to do their jobs and the support of fellow citizens. [ speaking in french ] >> and, friends, in a dangerous world we have stood consistently for freedom, democracy and justice. this is the canada conservatives have been building since the time of johnny mcdonald, and this is the canada for which countless dedications to come we will be dedicated. thank you for all your support, for all you have done for our country. please say a preyer for men and women in uniform. god bless canada >>> you've been listening there to canada's prime minister stephen harper there, who looks to be on his way out. the liberal opposition on their way in to - during a convincing election win. let's get more from daniel lack, live for us in to
stands tall today. we have built a canada that is stronger than ever. ure economy is growing and jobs created. the budget is balanced. federal taxes are at their lowest in 50 years. [ cheering and applause ] . >> we are poised to seize the opportunities that come with trade access to europe, the americas and now the asia pacific. men and women in uniforms have the tools to do their jobs and the support of fellow citizens. [ speaking in french ] >> and, friends, in a dangerous world...
Noticiero Telemundo: Fin de semana : KSTS : October 10, 2015 5:00pm-5:31pm PDT
penal para canadÁ. por mano de eric aguirre. >>> mmm >>> intencional?. >>> es la pregunta del millÓn. mete el servicio le rebota no. >>> no porque ademÁs Él se da vuelta. sÍ le pega. >>> pero no hay intenciÓn. >>> de pegada asÍ un rebote >>> rebote intenciÓn bombazo > >>> 34 minutos, petrasso tapÓ el contra remate lo vuelve a tapar el arquero. justicia divina. >>> el portero >>> le dieron a petrasso para que anotar su cuarto gol y terminara como elis como goleador. >>> ahora sÍ estÁ listo el 9. >>> a 10 minutos del final, 0 a 2 a bajo. >>> aquÍ grant comete una falta, lozano aprovechamos para contarle que esta noche estaremos en titulares telemundo, horario especial se y media de la noche, 10 y media en el centro. pelota para ponchito va el chuckie. el toque serÁ de chuckie y elis, estÁn de acuerdo. daniel alva z Álvarez. >>> se va el chu dicckie quienÁ sentido. aguirre, Álvarez lo encara a farmer. pateÓ al arco. >>> quÉ bueno >>> y crespo luego grant desvÍa la pelota al corner >>> lo saca a un costado y >>> yo pensÉ que iba el centro no i >>> entonces se va el chu
penal para canadÁ. por mano de eric aguirre. >>> mmm >>> intencional?. >>> es la pregunta del millÓn. mete el servicio le rebota no. >>> no porque ademÁs Él se da vuelta. sÍ le pega. >>> pero no hay intenciÓn. >>> de pegada asÍ un rebote >>> rebote intenciÓn bombazo > >>> 34 minutos, petrasso tapÓ el contra remate lo vuelve a tapar el arquero. justicia divina. >>> el portero >>> le dieron a...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Federal Election Coverage : CSPAN2 : October 19, 2015 6:30pm-2:01am EDT
officer and from that, they actually phone the results into election canada where the results go into the computers. we actually have them right here we have people sweating, trying to figure out what is going on. how they figure it out is looking at historical results and also looking at the most recent data, trying to get an idea of what is likely to happen. >> you have that right and we are always monitoring these decisions very carefully. david is with us with this time during this night in various locations. they will lose quite a few others, quite a few others will find themselves with new jobs. what exactly do they get when they come into ottawa? we have a peek at the page. >> there are a bunch of people getting brand-new jobs. have you ever wondered? let's start at the top. the prime minister will make $334,000 a year, the leader of the opposition, $249,500 and the other party leadership, $224,200. if they get at least that. but what about in new kids? the salary starts at $167,000 per year and that is exactly half of what the prime minister gets. the thing is that most of the
officer and from that, they actually phone the results into election canada where the results go into the computers. we actually have them right here we have people sweating, trying to figure out what is going on. how they figure it out is looking at historical results and also looking at the most recent data, trying to get an idea of what is likely to happen. >> you have that right and we are always monitoring these decisions very carefully. david is with us with this time during this...
News : ALJAZAM : October 20, 2015 9:00pm-10:01pm EDT
canada's next prime minister justin trudeau could deal a blow to the fight against i.s.i.l. >>> damaging disaster -- dodging disaster. >> the discussions do not constitute u.s. support for russia's action in syria >>> u.s. and russia sign a memorandum of understanding to avoid fighter jets. in citing hate red. right wing frenchman le pen goes on trial for what he said >>> and emotional reunions. >> back then we were married. we hadn't called each other darling, not even once. >> families torn apart from the korean war reunite with loved ones. some for the first time in 60 years. >>> good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. we begin in canada where nearly a decade of conservative rule comes to a sudden halt. the liberal party led by justin trudeau swept into office. they not only won the popular vote and the right to set up a new government, they captured a majority in parliament. tad he spoke saying he intended to keep a campaign pledge to withdraw fighter jets. john terrett has more on how canada's turn to the u.s. affects the rest of the world. >> reporter: less than
canada's next prime minister justin trudeau could deal a blow to the fight against i.s.i.l. >>> damaging disaster -- dodging disaster. >> the discussions do not constitute u.s. support for russia's action in syria >>> u.s. and russia sign a memorandum of understanding to avoid fighter jets. in citing hate red. right wing frenchman le pen goes on trial for what he said >>> and emotional reunions. >> back then we were married. we hadn't called each other...
The Kelly File : FOXNEWSW : October 21, 2015 1:00am-2:01am PDT
brett baier, house speaker john boehner joins me in just a moment. first the headlines today, canada will soon be under new management. but the name is familiar -- justin trudeau, the son of former prime minister pierre trudeau led liberals to a major victory in monday's parliamentary elections, he will replace conservative prime minister stephen harper. the 43-year-old trudeau is seen as a dashing young voice for change and has been compared to barack obama. >>> the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon is appealing for calm ease visits with israeli and palestinian leaders. a palestinian attacker rammed his car into a group of realize at a bus stop today. two were injured, drifrt was shot and killed. >>> and the latest polling indicates that hillary clinton is widening her lead over bernie sanders. "wall street journal"/nbc news survey has clinton at 49%, sanders at 29 and joe biden at 15. to house speaker john boehner, he stunned the political world in september by announcing his imminent retirement. in the months since then, it's been anything but smooth transition in the h
brett baier, house speaker john boehner joins me in just a moment. first the headlines today, canada will soon be under new management. but the name is familiar -- justin trudeau, the son of former prime minister pierre trudeau led liberals to a major victory in monday's parliamentary elections, he will replace conservative prime minister stephen harper. the 43-year-old trudeau is seen as a dashing young voice for change and has been compared to barack obama. >>> the united nations...
Politics and Public Policy Today : CSPAN3 : October 2, 2015 10:27am-12:01pm EDT
party leaders in canada. conservative party leader stephen harper, thomas mokhair, and justin true dough debated the future of canada/u.s. relations, the keystone pipeline, syrian refugee crisis, and relations with russia. the leaders speak both french and english is is which is customary in canada. it runs 1:45. a note that due to technical issues, some portions of the event do not include english translation. >> russia's current leaders are not simply the political rulers of the nation. they are literally the country's owners. >> you don't know if your arguments will be totally destroyed. >> i'm not prepared to sacrifice the african continent for some eye dealing. >> you have to come back. you are rattled. shaken up. >> save the bleeding heart for someone else. it's time to change. >> i believe the 21st century will belong to china. because most centuries have begun with china. >> blaming barack obama for the state that the world is in right now is like blaming a caribbean >> you remain a third world dysfunctional country with a couple of crude devices. >> do it with your own son
party leaders in canada. conservative party leader stephen harper, thomas mokhair, and justin true dough debated the future of canada/u.s. relations, the keystone pipeline, syrian refugee crisis, and relations with russia. the leaders speak both french and english is is which is customary in canada. it runs 1:45. a note that due to technical issues, some portions of the event do not include english translation. >> russia's current leaders are not simply the political rulers of the...
?". joe: the earnings keep on coming. we will break it down within the hour. >> canada feels the pain of the oil bust. is canada an emerging market? the oil markets are in a dead dog bounce. we begin with the markets. not as much excitement there. about valeant, accused of using a strategy to record fake sales and phony customers. 88 million shares changing hands. the three-month average was under 4 million. >> it was the soap opera of the day. you can see what happened. bonded -- bottomed around 130. we got an announcement from valeant pharmaceuticals as a response. .e also heard from bill ackman >> he hasn't sold of any of his holdings. there's a lot of pain and for him another had fun -- hedge fund managers. close, $462 million in losses. there's a fascinating debate on how valeant will look at sales. send it to the specialty pharmacy? >> a lot of questions. $900 million is a question. >> american express results crossing the wire. of $8.2arter revenue billion, $1.24 earnings per share, missing estimates. for $8.31ere looking billion. the story has to be how does it get itself back
?". joe: the earnings keep on coming. we will break it down within the hour. >> canada feels the pain of the oil bust. is canada an emerging market? the oil markets are in a dead dog bounce. we begin with the markets. not as much excitement there. about valeant, accused of using a strategy to record fake sales and phony customers. 88 million shares changing hands. the three-month average was under 4 million. >> it was the soap opera of the day. you can see what happened. bonded...
The McLaughlin Group : WCBS : October 25, 2015 6:30am-7:00am EDT
friends. a real change. >> moderator: justin trudeau will become the next prime minister of canada. a major electoral victory this week. trudeau won a parliamentary victory and unseeded stephen harper. the sun appear trudeau -- the sun -- the son of pierre trudeau. he campaigned on a policy of infrastructure spending and he will also and canada's military involvement against the islamic state known as isl an isis. he will also work on the keystone xl pipeline project. what does the victory mean for u.s./canadian relations.>> the outgoing prime minister, change denier. justin trudeau says he will be the delegation to france later this week -- this year. on the pipeline, trudeau supports it, but not in the way that harper did. deficit spending and infrastructure spending, we would love to have that in this country as well. meeting of the minds between the leaders. he is pulling canadian planes out of the airstrikes, but he said he will continue canadian involvement in training fighters on the ground. the planes are a miniscule part of the u.s. led mission.>> i don't think we turn to
friends. a real change. >> moderator: justin trudeau will become the next prime minister of canada. a major electoral victory this week. trudeau won a parliamentary victory and unseeded stephen harper. the sun appear trudeau -- the sun -- the son of pierre trudeau. he campaigned on a policy of infrastructure spending and he will also and canada's military involvement against the islamic state known as isl an isis. he will also work on the keystone xl pipeline project. what does the...
The McLaughlin Group : KQEH : October 24, 2015 12:30pm-1:01pm PDT
will become the next of canada in a major electoral victory this mr. trudeau's liberal party won a parliamentary steveny and unseated harper and his conservative party. trudeau,f pierre former canadian prime minister regarded as the father of modern canada, the younger trudeau campaigned on a policy of infrastructure spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. he will also end canada's involvement against the islamic state, known as isil and isis, terrorist group in iraq. president obama hopes mr. trudeau will end canadian pressure on the u.s. government keystone xl the pipeline project. what does mr. trudeau's victory mean for u.s.-canadian relation, eleanor clift? eleanor: warmer relation with president obama. the outgoing prime minister, was a climate denier. trudeau says he will lead the delegation to france later this year. the keystone pipeline, trudeau supports it but it's not at the core of his being as it for harper and what trudeau is advocating to pull the thedian economy out of doldrums is deficit spending and infrastructure spending and we to have that in this country, a
will become the next of canada in a major electoral victory this mr. trudeau's liberal party won a parliamentary steveny and unseated harper and his conservative party. trudeau,f pierre former canadian prime minister regarded as the father of modern canada, the younger trudeau campaigned on a policy of infrastructure spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. he will also end canada's involvement against the islamic state, known as isil and isis, terrorist group in iraq. president obama hopes...
Newsline : LINKTV : October 20, 2015 5:00am-5:31am PDT
fukushima plants. >>> and people in canada have voted for change ousting the conservatives with a liberal party sweeping to victory. >>> japanese officials have confirmed the first diagnosis of cancer related to work at the fukushima nuclear plant. the ministry of labor made the announcement on tuesday. the male worker was employed at several nuclear power plants including fukushima after the 2011 meltdown. he started in his late 30s and worked for a year and a half and later was diagnosed with leukem leukemia. experts confirmed the man was exposed to 19.8 radiation mainly at fooukushima and cannot deny e relationship between the exposure and illness. they approved workers's compensation. radiation exposure has been linked to the onsets of leukemia. officials with the power company say 45,000 people worked at the crippled plant since the nuclear disaster. they say more than 21,000 of them were exposed to 5 mill sooefrs reduati sooefrs radiation, and the number is still increasing. the ministry officials say ten others filed for work related compensation. they denied seven of them
fukushima plants. >>> and people in canada have voted for change ousting the conservatives with a liberal party sweeping to victory. >>> japanese officials have confirmed the first diagnosis of cancer related to work at the fukushima nuclear plant. the ministry of labor made the announcement on tuesday. the male worker was employed at several nuclear power plants including fukushima after the 2011 meltdown. he started in his late 30s and worked for a year and a half and later...
News : ALJAZAM : October 21, 2015 12:30pm-1:01pm EDT
following the latest developments concerning isil. canada's new leader saying he plans to call back jets involved in that fight. trudeau also revealed his plans for canada's military partnership going forward. jamie mcintyre has more. >> reporter: militarily canada's withdraw from the anti-isil bombing campaign is not all that significant. canada contributed only four fighter bombers to the effort, and for now the other 11 countries that have contributed bombers will take up the slack. but symbolically, politically, it's a big blow to the united states. canada has been one of the u.s.'s most reliable partners, and the two countries also operate together in the defense of north america under nor rad. it's one of the few places where american troops are under foreign command. but in a phone call with president obama, the newly elected canadian prime minister made it clear that he is going to make good on his promise to end canada's combat mission in iraq and syria. >> we talked about canada's continued engagement as a strong member of the coalition against isil, and i committed that we wou
following the latest developments concerning isil. canada's new leader saying he plans to call back jets involved in that fight. trudeau also revealed his plans for canada's military partnership going forward. jamie mcintyre has more. >> reporter: militarily canada's withdraw from the anti-isil bombing campaign is not all that significant. canada contributed only four fighter bombers to the effort, and for now the other 11 countries that have contributed bombers will take up the slack....
News : ALJAZAM : October 20, 2015 11:00pm-11:31pm EDT
our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you four joining us. >>> grounded - canada's incoming prime minister pulls his nation's fire jets out of the campaign against i.s.i.l. >>> willing to serve. >> what i told members is if you agree to these requests and if i can be a unifying figure, i will gladly serve. >> representative paul ryan agrees to run for speaker of the house, only if the g.o.p. can unify behind him. >> controversial shift. >> we know debates will continue about the age to start mammographies. >>> new guidelines, fewer mammograms advocated >>> fewer safety fears. >> we need any drop of water that is suitable and will not be a problem for human health >>> waste water from oil fields used to grow produce for hundreds of millions of people >>> good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera. an historic change in power in canada could have major repercussions in the united states. today canada's next prime minister justin trudeau took a victory act and then spoke with president obama. justin trudeau told the president that canada will withdraw fighters jets. as
our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you four joining us. >>> grounded - canada's incoming prime minister pulls his nation's fire jets out of the campaign against i.s.i.l. >>> willing to serve. >> what i told members is if you agree to these requests and if i can be a unifying figure, i will gladly serve. >> representative paul ryan agrees to run for speaker of the house, only if the g.o.p. can unify behind him. >> controversial shift. >> we know...
Democracy Now! : LINKTV : October 20, 2015 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
report. i'm amy goodman. we begin in canada, where voters have unseated right-wing prime minister stephen harper after nearly a decade in office. in a surprise result following the closest election campaign in recent history, the centrist liberals jumped from third place to a parliamentary majority. liberal leader justin trudeau will become canada's next prime minister. he is the son of the late pierre trudeau, who served in the same post for 16 years until 1984. justin trudeau celebrated his win monday night. >> my friends, we beat fear with hope. we beat cynicism with hard work. we beat negative divisive politics with a positive vision that brings canadians together. most of all, we defeated the idea that canadians should be satisfied with less, that good enough is good enough, and that better just isn't possible. well, my friends, this is canada. and in canada, better is always possible! thank you. thank you very much. merci. amico justin trudeau host of stephen harper's loss ends a tenure that saw him take three elections despite his conservative party never winning more than
report. i'm amy goodman. we begin in canada, where voters have unseated right-wing prime minister stephen harper after nearly a decade in office. in a surprise result following the closest election campaign in recent history, the centrist liberals jumped from third place to a parliamentary majority. liberal leader justin trudeau will become canada's next prime minister. he is the son of the late pierre trudeau, who served in the same post for 16 years until 1984. justin trudeau celebrated his...
Special Report With Bret Baier : FOXNEWSW : October 20, 2015 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
headlines today, canada will soon be under new management. but the name is familiar -- justin trudeau, the son of former prime minister pierre trudeau led liberals to a major victory in monday's parliamentary elections, he will replace conservative prime minister stephen harper. the 43-year-old trudeau is seen as a dashing young voice for change and has been compared to barack obama. >>> the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon is appealing for calm ease visits with israeli and palestinian leaders. a palestinian attacker rammed his car into a group of realize at a bus stop today. two were injured, drifrt was shot and killed. >>> and the latest polling indicates that hillary clinton is widening her lead over bernie sanders. "wall street journal"/nbc news survey has clinton at 49%, sanders at 29 and joe biden at 15. to house speaker john boehner, he stunned the political world in september by announcing his imminent retirement. in the months since then, it's been anything but smooth transition in the house. we welcome to "special report" speaker of the house john boehner. thanks for
headlines today, canada will soon be under new management. but the name is familiar -- justin trudeau, the son of former prime minister pierre trudeau led liberals to a major victory in monday's parliamentary elections, he will replace conservative prime minister stephen harper. the 43-year-old trudeau is seen as a dashing young voice for change and has been compared to barack obama. >>> the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon is appealing for calm ease visits with israeli...
Your World This Morning : ALJAZAM : October 20, 2015 7:00am-9:01am EDT
♪ canada turns to the left ending nine years of conservative rule, the effect of that vote north of the border on politics here in the u.s. >>> waiting for word from joe biden, the vice president leaves everyone guessing will he run for the white house, the signs pointing toward a decision within days. >>> a florida man broken down on the side of the road is shot and killed by a plain clothed police officer and why authorities are now investigating what happened. >>> high level hacking, two of the top security officials said to be the targetss of an alarming cyber breach. ♪ of an alarming cyber breach. ♪ well after nearly a decade of conservative rule canadians overwhelmingly choosing change led by a man that we are going to be hearing from shortly justin trudeau and good morning i'm delve walters. >> and i'm stephanie and 43 trudeau is the second youngest and son of legendary former prime minister peirre and could directly impact the united states and the world and we will have much more on that story just ahead. but first back in this country a new poll today shows donald trum
♪ canada turns to the left ending nine years of conservative rule, the effect of that vote north of the border on politics here in the u.s. >>> waiting for word from joe biden, the vice president leaves everyone guessing will he run for the white house, the signs pointing toward a decision within days. >>> a florida man broken down on the side of the road is shot and killed by a plain clothed police officer and why authorities are now investigating what happened....
Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : October 20, 2015 5:00am-7:01am EDT
reserve -- we give you an exclusive interview with john williams. and canada votes and justin audeau swept into office with majority, ousting stephen harper. good morning, this is "bloomberg surveillance," i am guy johnson with tom keene in new york. i think i am most focused on the montreal canadiens who are doing everything good in the thisnal hockey league, election is a true majority. back 27 years when his father stunned the world with liberal theology for canada. it stuck up on us in the states. fors an important moment all elected officials, including prime minister cameron. this will be watched very closely and analyzed very closely in the united states. november 2016 -- it is the top story on the first word desk. here is vonnie quinn. vonnie: the biggest political comeback. justin trudeau swept into office. the ousted prime minister stephen harper and his decades of conservative rule -- they won with 84 seats in the house of commons. >> this is what positive politics can do. this is what a positive, hopeful vision and a platform and a team together can make happen. fo
reserve -- we give you an exclusive interview with john williams. and canada votes and justin audeau swept into office with majority, ousting stephen harper. good morning, this is "bloomberg surveillance," i am guy johnson with tom keene in new york. i think i am most focused on the montreal canadiens who are doing everything good in the thisnal hockey league, election is a true majority. back 27 years when his father stunned the world with liberal theology for canada. it stuck up on...
France 24 : LINKTV : October 20, 2015 5:30am-6:01am PDT
new, candidate elect a new leader. -- canada elects a new leader. reunite on thes korean peninsula. hundreds of south koreans crossed to the north for an emotional reunion with lost loved ones. oscar pistorius is out on parole. now under house arrest after serving just one year of his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. hour, britain's steel industry in crisis as more jobs are cut, david cameron says he will raise the issue of unfair competition with china's president. before forces calling and the fans are answering. legions of star wars faithful crashed ticket sites as the new trailer for the force awakens is released and instantly goes viral. ♪ >> first, canada has a new prime minister, justin trudeau has been confirmed as winner of the general election. the bilingual victory speech he paid tribute to his outgoing rival, stephen harper, who served nine years. he spoke of his plans to focus on canada's middle-class. >> you gave me clear marching orders. you want a government that works as hard as you do, one that is focused every minute of every day on growing the ec
new, candidate elect a new leader. -- canada elects a new leader. reunite on thes korean peninsula. hundreds of south koreans crossed to the north for an emotional reunion with lost loved ones. oscar pistorius is out on parole. now under house arrest after serving just one year of his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. hour, britain's steel industry in crisis as more jobs are cut, david cameron says he will raise the issue of unfair competition with china's president. before forces...
DW News : LINKTV : October 20, 2015 2:00pm-2:31pm PDT
talking with us. now to the change in canada. it is said to move to the left after the liberal party leader justin trudeau swept to a victory. at the age of 43, he will become canada's second youngest prime minister. he has promised to raise taxes on the rich and increase government spending. his victory brings in into nine years of conservative rule and is expected to lead to improved relations with their neighbor down south, the united states. the prime minister kicked off his election victory celebration with a message of hope. he told supporters in otta to embrace the change that he is planning for the country. >> better together, what we accomplished here together. we are drawing people together. this feeling we have right now, this optimism for the future, this sense that everything is possible, we are going to have to work very, very hard to live up to this feeling we feel right now, but i tell you, if any country in the world can live up to our collective expectations, it is this one. brent: there you have it right there. a man who has just won an importance election and is d
talking with us. now to the change in canada. it is said to move to the left after the liberal party leader justin trudeau swept to a victory. at the age of 43, he will become canada's second youngest prime minister. he has promised to raise taxes on the rich and increase government spending. his victory brings in into nine years of conservative rule and is expected to lead to improved relations with their neighbor down south, the united states. the prime minister kicked off his election...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : October 20, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
last night is how the great nation of canada ousted this guy after nearly ten years in power as a prime minister and they replaced him instead with this guy. 43-year-old liberal party leader justin be trudeau whose party last night went from 36 seats in parliament to boing, 184 seats thus putting the liberal party solidly in the majority and thus drastically changing canada's political direction from fairly hard right which is was under stephen harper for almost a solid decade to the new government they're getting now under trudeau which is beak a center left government. there aren't just two major parties in canada like there are here. it's not a direct analogy, but basically canada was george w. bush and now any are -- now there's somebody in the american democrat party. we don't know the exactly who. we'll see how justin trudeau ends up governing before we i think make our american analogy there 37 but in the short term, for the united states, this big unexpected change in the canadian government last night is going to have specific near term consequences for our country. first
last night is how the great nation of canada ousted this guy after nearly ten years in power as a prime minister and they replaced him instead with this guy. 43-year-old liberal party leader justin be trudeau whose party last night went from 36 seats in parliament to boing, 184 seats thus putting the liberal party solidly in the majority and thus drastically changing canada's political direction from fairly hard right which is was under stephen harper for almost a solid decade to the new...
- where technology meets humanity. is. >> a political thriller. canada's prime minister steven harper fiet fights for his polil life, facing an important, pierre trudeau. and. shot and beaten by a mob am after being mistaken by an attacker. out in the cold. >> can't be resolved which one country opening and one country closing borders. >> thousands of refugees surge into croatia after being stranded in freezing temperatures and rain along the serbia croatia border. >>> and the price of gold. some of the world's largest gold mining companies hauled into court, by south african miners, suing over chronic health problems, sent shock waves across the mining industry. good evening, i'm richelle carey and this is your world tonight. antonio mora has the evening off.and we begin tonight with the final votes being cast in canada's election. the last polls there close in about an hour, voters are choosing a new parliament which will determine the new prime minister. cumenincumbent steven harper, in office for oarch te over ten ye. justin trudeau, son of pierre trudeau, his opponent. joh
- where technology meets humanity. is. >> a political thriller. canada's prime minister steven harper fiet fights for his polil life, facing an important, pierre trudeau. and. shot and beaten by a mob am after being mistaken by an attacker. out in the cold. >> can't be resolved which one country opening and one country closing borders. >> thousands of refugees surge into croatia after being stranded in freezing temperatures and rain along the serbia croatia border....
political contribute jobs, jason johnson of canada - on whether he may run for president >>> and dramatic developments on the diplomatic front. secretary of state john kerry will make his way to europe, the first leg of a trip taking hig to israel and high level talks to end the surging violence. and syria's president met with vladimir putin in moscow. it's bashar al-assad's first known trip abroad since the war broke out in syria. vladimir putin has been a strong ally, and russian air strikes are helping government forces retake key areas. rory challands has the story. >> this was a trademark vladimir putin piece of political theatre. he does these things so regularly. the traffic in central moscow was at a stand till. many of the main thorough fares blacked off by police. as i cycled over the helicopter a presidential helicopter flue lowdown the river, over my head. it seems likely that it was president bashar al-assad who was was in that helicopter. what did they talk about? we know they discuss the obvious things, the russian air campaign in syria, and how this is supporting bashar al
political contribute jobs, jason johnson of canada - on whether he may run for president >>> and dramatic developments on the diplomatic front. secretary of state john kerry will make his way to europe, the first leg of a trip taking hig to israel and high level talks to end the surging violence. and syria's president met with vladimir putin in moscow. it's bashar al-assad's first known trip abroad since the war broke out in syria. vladimir putin has been a strong ally, and russian...
Weekend News : ALJAZAM : October 19, 2015 11:00am-12:01pm EDT
bus station. >>> and canada elections could unseat its government. >> in lebanon an explosion has killed at least eight people and injured 11 others along syrian borders. the target of the attack i seems to be syrian opposition fight whose have gathering in the area. thousands of people are escaping war in syria. let's get more on this. join now in the studio by hatch hatch. not thhatch--hashem ahelbarra. not the first time this area has see seen violence. >> why is it curb for both parties? it is part of the kalamoon area. the government in syria are trying to push out the rebels in those areas. it's biggest concerns is that if the rebels, it will be extremely easy for them to move to the capital of damascus. >> this attack most likely targeting those rebel fighters. >> exactly. it is also a concern for the lebanese government, they have been asked to step in and join the fight against those groups in assad, and hezbollah is pretty much concerned about the presence of groups of al-qaeda and the islamic state also in this area. but this population in the area is staunchly pro oppo
bus station. >>> and canada elections could unseat its government. >> in lebanon an explosion has killed at least eight people and injured 11 others along syrian borders. the target of the attack i seems to be syrian opposition fight whose have gathering in the area. thousands of people are escaping war in syria. let's get more on this. join now in the studio by hatch hatch. not thhatch--hashem ahelbarra. not the first time this area has see seen violence. >> why is it...
Baltimore and the War of 1812 : CSPAN3 : October 31, 2015 1:31pm-2:07pm EDT
13 colonies . the ones that did not take part in the revolution became a thing called canada. it is still there today. trust me. they were quite content to stay with the british empire. the idea of maybe if our democracy does not work, we can go back. british, and other countries .reated us as a former colony england and france with a great superpowers. theseuge napoleonic war -- were on the scale of a world war at the time.ar i as a matter of fact, we wanted to trade with both countries. the french navy was largely does right -- destroyed. the british were dominant at sea, the french were dominant on the continent. the british did not want us trading with the french. they said, we have for bidding thefrom trading with french. and we were like, dad, i moved out of the house, you cannot tell us what to do any more the british were like, yeah, we can. that was the first thing. the second thing was the seizure of american sailors, forcing them into the british navy. it was commonplace when a british warship would will up next to an american merchant ship, and demand people. like, today
13 colonies . the ones that did not take part in the revolution became a thing called canada. it is still there today. trust me. they were quite content to stay with the british empire. the idea of maybe if our democracy does not work, we can go back. british, and other countries .reated us as a former colony england and france with a great superpowers. theseuge napoleonic war -- were on the scale of a world war at the time.ar i as a matter of fact, we wanted to trade with both countries. the...
i'm ali velshi. thanks for joining us. >> >>> ballot counting in canada. polls close in an historic election north of the border. heightened security. israel takes action to stop a wave of deadly violence in the middle east. >> safer skies. >> registration will reinforce the need for unmanned aircraft users. including consumers to operate drones safely. >> uncle sam prepares to regulate the booming drone industry. and a made for tv mob trial. >> authorities are not saying more than they believe is to be the largest robbery history. >> the good fellow going on trial in new york city >>> good evening, i'm richelle carey, antonio mora has the evening off. we begin in canada. it's looking more and more like the country will have a new prime minister. the incumbent stephen harper held the office for nearly 10 years. during that time the conservative party was to the right. the last polls closed an hour ago and results pointed to justin trudeau as his successor. he's the liberal party leader justin trudeau. let's check in with john terrett, live in toronto. >> hi. >> fill us in on the win
i'm ali velshi. thanks for joining us. >> >>> ballot counting in canada. polls close in an historic election north of the border. heightened security. israel takes action to stop a wave of deadly violence in the middle east. >> safer skies. >> registration will reinforce the need for unmanned aircraft users. including consumers to operate drones safely. >> uncle sam prepares to regulate the booming drone industry. and a made for tv mob trial. >>...
course north of the border, justin trudeau now leading canada's government. what the biggest political change in a decade will mean for the u.s. >>> a stabbing attack sparking new tensions in the occupied west bank. the u.n. secretary general making a surprise visit to that region. >>> a florida man breaks down on the side of a road, and is shot and killed by a plained-clothes police officer. why authorities are investigating just what happened. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i'm del walters. there is a changing of the guard in canada this morning. voters there ending nearly a decade of conservative leadership. instead liberal leader, justin trudeau winning in a landslide. his victory means big changes in canada that could directly effect the u.s. >> canadians from all across this great country sent a clear message tonight. it's time for a change in this country, my friends. a real change. [ cheers and applause ] >> at 43, trudeau is now the second youngest prime minister in canada's history. al jazeera's john terrett is in toronto with more on what this mean
course north of the border, justin trudeau now leading canada's government. what the biggest political change in a decade will mean for the u.s. >>> a stabbing attack sparking new tensions in the occupied west bank. the u.n. secretary general making a surprise visit to that region. >>> a florida man breaks down on the side of a road, and is shot and killed by a plained-clothes police officer. why authorities are investigating just what happened. ♪ >>> this is al...
Newsline : KCSM : October 21, 2015 12:00am-12:31am PDT
basis. many of the separated family members are over 80 years old. >>> in canada people have elected a new prime minister. >> canadians from all across this great country sent a clear message tonight. it's time for a change in this country, my friends. a real change. >> at 43, trudeau will become the second youngest prime minister in canadian history. the liberal started the campaign in third place with 37 seats in the house of common but rose to take 184 of the 338 seats up for grabs for an outright majority. the conservatives have only 99 seats. earlier nhk world's kimberly gayle, a canadian journalist gave her analysis on the outcome. >> you know, i was surprised to see this wave of liberal red just wash over canada. no one thought they would clinch a majority. liberal leader justin trudeau promised changes people seemed to respond to. one of the areas he's promising change is immigration, was a hot button issue during the election. trudeau promised to lead a more generous, tolerant and inclusive government compared to stephen harper's conservative one. canada is a country of immigr
basis. many of the separated family members are over 80 years old. >>> in canada people have elected a new prime minister. >> canadians from all across this great country sent a clear message tonight. it's time for a change in this country, my friends. a real change. >> at 43, trudeau will become the second youngest prime minister in canadian history. the liberal started the campaign in third place with 37 seats in the house of common but rose to take 184 of the 338 seats...
On the Move : BLOOMBERG : October 20, 2015 3:00am-4:01am EDT
you sell well to be the big shot? we get an outcome like canada's election where the big shift like we want to spend more money. we think the only way is not have very low interest rates but drive the economy through government. jennifer: dutiable goods -- a jonathan: do you think we will get that political shift? james bevan: i think we will get back into the 1930's. china and the 1930's had an incredible credit crunch for it require government spending to get it going up again. we had riots in the streets. we do not how right this time around for but a limit democracy has of people putting up with difficult conditions, very low growth. will talkjames bevan, politics later. monetary policy later today, i was free to the bank of england committee,mmenced -- that's closer interview at 12:00 p.m. u.k. time. do not miss it. james bevan will stay with us. fat fingers with a big price tab. what have made been multibillion-dollar blunder. he is embarrassing. we will talk about it. ♪ jonathan: good morning and welcome back to "on the move." i am jonathan ferro. let's talk about an error. de
you sell well to be the big shot? we get an outcome like canada's election where the big shift like we want to spend more money. we think the only way is not have very low interest rates but drive the economy through government. jennifer: dutiable goods -- a jonathan: do you think we will get that political shift? james bevan: i think we will get back into the 1930's. china and the 1930's had an incredible credit crunch for it require government spending to get it going up again. we had riots...
BBC World News America : KQED : October 20, 2015 2:30pm-3:01pm PDT
viewers on public television and america and around the globe. victoryn overwhelming in canada. it is change the political landscape there. after a decade in power, the conservatives were outed by justin trudeau. he is due to become the next prime minister, following in the footsteps of his father, pierre. fromceived a call president obama congratulating him on his victory. from toronto, nick bryant reports. nick: young, debonair, with the looks and magnitude of his father. he has the most famous name in canadian politics. sent a clearhave message. it is time for a change in this country, my friends. a real change. he watched with his young family as his liberal party pulled off a comeback, ending a decade of conservative rule, and ushering in something we normally associate with america, a dynasty. he hails from a stellar political bloodline. his father was a prime minister famed for glamour and charisma that once inspired trudeau-mania. his first national moment was to at hise mourning father's family. >> justin trudeau was born with a famous name, but does he have the judgment to b
viewers on public television and america and around the globe. victoryn overwhelming in canada. it is change the political landscape there. after a decade in power, the conservatives were outed by justin trudeau. he is due to become the next prime minister, following in the footsteps of his father, pierre. fromceived a call president obama congratulating him on his victory. from toronto, nick bryant reports. nick: young, debonair, with the looks and magnitude of his father. he has the most...
civil rights be look at some of the debates in canada's election campaign >>> to a story that is all too familiar in the occupied territory, young palestinians shot and killed. accused of random attacks. one that has been related three times on saturday, two happening in hebron. in this video you see a jewish settler brandishing a gun, shooting a palestinian teenager who apparently tried to stab him. israeli police say the man was killed before he could harm the settler. not long after, a womb yn was killed -- woman was killed for stabbing a police officer in a hand. >> reporter: during a morning shift a palestinian came to me to ask if i knew of a certain street. i said i didn't. she pulled out a knife and tried to stab me in the neck. i pushed her away. i fired at her. we are trained, briefed and prepared for the events and thankfully it ended the way it did without anyone harmed. >>> in occupied east jerusalem, is 16-year-old was shot dead. the city has been at the heart of the clashes that began on october 1st. we'll talk to mike hanna, hour correspondent. >> we have seen the inc
civil rights be look at some of the debates in canada's election campaign >>> to a story that is all too familiar in the occupied territory, young palestinians shot and killed. accused of random attacks. one that has been related three times on saturday, two happening in hebron. in this video you see a jewish settler brandishing a gun, shooting a palestinian teenager who apparently tried to stab him. israeli police say the man was killed before he could harm the settler. not long...
Listening Post : ALJAZAM : October 18, 2015 1:30pm-2:01pm EDT
musa have yet to comment >>> it's election season in canada, and the conservative government led by prime minister stephen harper is fighting for a third term in office. there has been a longer running carefully strategiesed push from one of canada's important industries, oil and gas? a. the tar sands in western alberta have the third largest forces in the world. there has been many stories in the media highlighting the impact. greenhouse gas and safety. in the last decade or so, oil companies poured money through, and have been supported in the campaign by the government. for every oil story, many are untold. now the oil industry on the impact from the country's media. >> when the energy we invest in life meets the energy we cool. economy. >> reporter: canada's energy sector, the oil companies, brought up a lot of air time. the message is clear. >> oil companies are saying we are stewards of the land and everything. >> we'll never stop working to protect our environment and people. if you look at adds you'll see a grotesque spewing of toxins coming from the plants. >> there's a rea
musa have yet to comment >>> it's election season in canada, and the conservative government led by prime minister stephen harper is fighting for a third term in office. there has been a longer running carefully strategiesed push from one of canada's important industries, oil and gas? a. the tar sands in western alberta have the third largest forces in the world. there has been many stories in the media highlighting the impact. greenhouse gas and safety. in the last decade or so, oil...
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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt : WRC : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-7:31pm EST
arrest accused of planning to attack people as they celebrated in rochester, new york. now the city has canceled its fireworks celebration tonight. we get details from jonathan dean. >> reporter: the fbi says this is a man planning to carry out a new year's eve slaughter. after communicating with an isis fighter in syria. the criminal complaint details his alleged talks around christmas day with an isis supporter overseas. he wrote, he was ready to give up everything to fight with isis in syria. his handler answers, for now, do what you can over there. take as many as possible out. just this week, according to the fbi, luchtman went to this walmart and bought two black ski masks, zip ties, two knives, a machete, ammonia, duct tape and gloves. he was ready to take out people in this bar and possibly a kidnapping. >> the timing of this arrest, illustrates the fact there are threats that are current and that counterterrorism agencies are dealing with at this very moment. >> reporter: the 25-year-old u.s. citizen has a criminal past, serving five years for robbery in state prison. >> th
arrest accused of planning to attack people as they celebrated in rochester, new york. now the city has canceled its fireworks celebration tonight. we get details from jonathan dean. >> reporter: the fbi says this is a man planning to carry out a new year's eve slaughter. after communicating with an isis fighter in syria. the criminal complaint details his alleged talks around christmas day with an isis supporter overseas. he wrote, he was ready to give up everything to fight with isis...
8 News Now at 4 PM : KLAS : December 31, 2015 4:00pm-5:00pm PST
by KLAS
will be in new york city... to watch the iconic ball drop. ((paula francis)) partiers started lining up very early this morning in times square. and as c-b-s reporter jamie yuccas shows us... more than a million people are expected to party in midtown manhattan tonight... and a billion more will watch on t-v. < nats of crowd can't wait to get to the front of the line crowds for the world's biggest party started showing up at 4 am, wanting a good seat to watch the ball drop at midnight. we're really excited. taylor coyner is celebrating both the new year and her 19th birthday. (taylor coyner/times square visitor) i've never been here before and i've always dreamed about it since i was a kid and it's my birthday surprise. thousands of people will be searched and then corralled into revelers can safely ring in the new year. (bill de blasio/nyc mayor) we know how to do big events, we have shown it time and time again. officials say there is no specific or credible threat, but close to 6- thousand officers will be in times square. just in case. some in uniform, some undercover. (bill bratton
will be in new york city... to watch the iconic ball drop. ((paula francis)) partiers started lining up very early this morning in times square. and as c-b-s reporter jamie yuccas shows us... more than a million people are expected to party in midtown manhattan tonight... and a billion more will watch on t-v. < nats of crowd can't wait to get to the front of the line crowds for the world's biggest party started showing up at 4 am, wanting a good seat to watch the ball drop at midnight....
ABC7 News 4:00PM : KGO : December 31, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
the u.s. the security concern for what officers in new york are doing that's so different. >>> and the new law starting tomorrow that could affect you. public works crews are heading to the scene to look into that problem right now. the police department is asking drivers to avoid the intersection. we will continue to monitor this situation and bring you live updates on abc 7 news. you can always get the latest on twitter, on abc 7 news bay area and on our abc 7 news app. >>> new year's eve celebrations around the world. it went on as normal in due bois. near one of the world's tallest buildings, the fire burning at the 63 story skyscraper is around 90% contained. in munich, as the new year's is getting underway, officials are warning of a terror attack. police tweeted to keep away from crowds and avoid railroad stations. final preparations are underway for what will hopefully only be a celebrate torl night. >> it's not too late to make your plans. we have a list of all of the events in the area on our web site, abc7news.com. >>> looking live at times square where you can see quite
the u.s. the security concern for what officers in new york are doing that's so different. >>> and the new law starting tomorrow that could affect you. public works crews are heading to the scene to look into that problem right now. the police department is asking drivers to avoid the intersection. we will continue to monitor this situation and bring you live updates on abc 7 news. you can always get the latest on twitter, on abc 7 news bay area and on our abc 7 news app. >>>...
Channel 13 News at 6 : WHO : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm CST
hawkeye fans are in one of those spots. federal authorities say the threats mention new york, washington d-c and los angeles... but the threats weren't specific -- but the fbi is reportedly boosting the number of agents that means hawk fans won't bring everything they want into the rose bowl in pasadena. purses, backpacks and fanny packs are banned from the stadium. visitors are required to carry belongings in clear bags. belongings in clear bags. police say a 14 year-old boy was shot in the chest. he is expected to if you're going out tonight to celebrate.. you'll have some extra company 74136 'last year there was there were 4 fatalities over the 4 day weekend for new years. this year we want to reverse that trend all the way to none.' that's the highest number of fatalities over the new year holiday since 20-09. bar owners are trying to help bring that number down as well. some downtown des moines bars have posted signs that show codes users can use to get a free ride tonight. they believe that making those discount rides available could make a big difference tonight. 75957 'i think a
hawkeye fans are in one of those spots. federal authorities say the threats mention new york, washington d-c and los angeles... but the threats weren't specific -- but the fbi is reportedly boosting the number of agents that means hawk fans won't bring everything they want into the rose bowl in pasadena. purses, backpacks and fanny packs are banned from the stadium. visitors are required to carry belongings in clear bags. belongings in clear bags. police say a 14 year-old boy was shot in the...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EST
your life. not the other way around. announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: these women and men led in poor lives. they enriched society through their passion, their art in their enterprise. over the last 24 years, they came to this program for conversation. here is a look back at those moments. they did not ask for much except the opportunity to make it. but my father, ironically, who had morech digger opportunity than a lot of people who were educated. he had a job. he was only a ditch digger, but there was a ditch. and he worked. so the most fundamental thing you can give people is an opportunity to earn their own bread with dignity and with a chance to move up. that my father had. it is kind of ironic. he did not have much else. but you gave him the chance to make it on his own. we are not doing that for people now. charlie: how do you best do that? >> yes. i think one of the worst things you can do and trying to provide the answer to that question is to use all the magic -- language of the politician. i think what you ought to do is addre
your life. not the other way around. announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: these women and men led in poor lives. they enriched society through their passion, their art in their enterprise. over the last 24 years, they came to this program for conversation. here is a look back at those moments. they did not ask for much except the opportunity to make it. but my father, ironically, who had morech digger opportunity than a lot of people who were...
KTIV (NBC)
News 4 at Six : KTIV : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm CST
by KTIV
greg mcdermott, opening big east play in new york city against st. john's. jays up six in the second half -- james milliken hits the corner three -- the lead is back up to nine -- he had 11. sometimes, all it takes is one guy to beat the defense -- maurice watson dribbles and drives for 2 -- watson threw in 17 points. more aggressive driving by the jays -- kyhri thomas goes up and under for 2 more -- the lead is double digits. geoffrey goselle made his first 8 shots from the field -- finished with 22 points and creighton gets the road win, 80 to 70. people gathering in times square to ring in the new year. more than a million people are expepeed to see the ball drop. revelers will also see increased security after a year marked by violence in the u-s. tonight: a few flurries. partly >> host: you have a beautiful
greg mcdermott, opening big east play in new york city against st. john's. jays up six in the second half -- james milliken hits the corner three -- the lead is back up to nine -- he had 11. sometimes, all it takes is one guy to beat the defense -- maurice watson dribbles and drives for 2 -- watson threw in 17 points. more aggressive driving by the jays -- kyhri thomas goes up and under for 2 more -- the lead is double digits. geoffrey goselle made his first 8 shots from the field -- finished...
play in new york city against st. john's. jays up six in the second half -- james milliken hits the corner three -- the lead is back up to nine -- he had 11. sometimes, all it takes is one guy to beat the defense -- maurice watson dribbles and drives for 2 -- watson threw in 17 points. more aggressive driving by the jays --
wusa 9 News at 7pm : WUSA : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-7:31pm EST
bpatrolling the area. >> how new york is working to keep a million people safe in times square. also -- carrie underwood, justin bieber, will harry be kissing kendall jenner at midnight and our flashback with j-lo, reliving her career captured by "e.t." camera
Lou Dobbs Tonight : FBC : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EST
and texas and new york. >> the room was noisy and people in the room said this sounded like a normal rally. >> and then we're going to watch it in dc and take back the white house.ea >> but because dean's microphone picked up only dean's voice, the tv broadcast made him sound crazy. that unfairly may have killed his campaign.re than even images can smash more than issues. clinton.ues. kerry. this is said to have helped bill clinton. in 1980 republican primary george bush had momentum against ronald reagan until against ronald reagan until there's a moment where reagan im looked strong. this microphone. this >> that moment helped change the campaign. >> some o some of them you can . >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull, lipstick. >> other ones, you got to depend on your candidate seizing a moment you didn't expect to happen. >> there you go again. >> most moments so far this election have been poorly phrased comments. >> if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> i like being able to fire people t
and texas and new york. >> the room was noisy and people in the room said this sounded like a normal rally. >> and then we're going to watch it in dc and take back the white house.ea >> but because dean's microphone picked up only dean's voice, the tv broadcast made him sound crazy. that unfairly may have killed his campaign.re than even images can smash more than issues. clinton.ues. kerry. this is said to have helped bill clinton. in 1980 republican primary george bush had...
WIS News 10 7:00 Report : WIS : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
- the kansas city royals defeat the new york mets to win their first world series title for 30 years. on november 13th - isis launches three coordinated attacks in paris killing 129 people and wounding hundreds. seven of the eight terrorists die during the attacks. on november 27th - a police officer and two others are killed after a shooter attacks a planned parenthood clinic in colorado springs. nine more are wounded. december 2nd - fourteen people are killed and more than 20 wounded when two people open fire at a holiday party in san bernardino, california. the suspects syed rizwan farook are killed in a shootout with police after the rampage. last, on december third - the pentagon announces that all combat jobs will be open to women. the announcement overrides the 1994 rule that restricted women from combat roles, such as infantry, artillery and armor. that concludes our look back on major world events for this year. the orange bowl continues at this hour. 37 to 17 clemson in the fourth quarter. since the game is in progress, we can't show you highlights. but the wis sports team
- the kansas city royals defeat the new york mets to win their first world series title for 30 years. on november 13th - isis launches three coordinated attacks in paris killing 129 people and wounding hundreds. seven of the eight terrorists die during the attacks. on november 27th - a police officer and two others are killed after a shooter attacks a planned parenthood clinic in colorado springs. nine more are wounded. december 2nd - fourteen people are killed and more than 20 wounded when...
KTVU (FOX)
KTVU Fox 2 News at 4pm : KTVU : December 31, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
by KTVU
light of the terror attacks in paris and san bernardino. as joe tells us officials in new york city are taking extra measures to keep its iconic ball drop safe. >> a million people are expected to ring in the new year in times square. along with confetti there's caution in the air. >> reporter: thousands of cops performing thorough searches of folks arriving early this morning to claim a front row seat. officials have assured the public there are no credible threats. >> we have a constant threat analysis stream that we're constantly reviewing but again we're not aware of any threat. >> reporter: the nypd not taking any chances though. at least 6,000 patrol officers are assigned to the times square festivities. that's about 800 more than last year. visitors are seeing heavily armed counterterrorism teams and bomb sniffing dogs. rooftop patrols and nypd helicopters also keeping an eye on the crowd. >> there will be obvious security measures you will see and a number of measures you won't see. >> reporter: partiers are being screened with handheld metal detectors twice. once when enter
light of the terror attacks in paris and san bernardino. as joe tells us officials in new york city are taking extra measures to keep its iconic ball drop safe. >> a million people are expected to ring in the new year in times square. along with confetti there's caution in the air. >> reporter: thousands of cops performing thorough searches of folks arriving early this morning to claim a front row seat. officials have assured the public there are no credible threats. >> we...
ET Entertainment Tonight : WFXT : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
6,000 police officers to be patrolling the area. >> how new york is working to keep a million people safe in also -- carrie underwood, justinbieber, will harry be kissing kendall jenner at midnight and our flashback with j-lo, reliving her career captured by "e.t." cameras. >> there is no thing as overnight in this business. i knew everything about this business in 1995. >> now in our 35th season this is "entert tonight." >> thank you for joining us on this last day of 2015 >> we hope you're having a great new year's eve. let's get right to the latest hollywood news. >> new details cosby after his arrest. the comedian hugged his attorney and flew to massachusetts on his private jet in exclusive daily mail.com photos. and the daily news today with this brutal front page editorial. emphasizing how many women have come forward against the comedian. >> it's coming from that journalistic integrity. cosby's attorney attacked the paper. >> i'm not really much case. getter. >> cel attorney gloria allred represent twoz dozen of cosby's 50 plus accuser the speck tick come rival o.j. simpson an
6,000 police officers to be patrolling the area. >> how new york is working to keep a million people safe in also -- carrie underwood, justinbieber, will harry be kissing kendall jenner at midnight and our flashback with j-lo, reliving her career captured by "e.t." cameras. >> there is no thing as overnight in this business. i knew everything about this business in 1995. >> now in our 35th season this is "entert tonight." >> thank you for joining us...
Hardball : MSNBCW : December 31, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
master salesman. that is what he did in new york. he was selling dreams and soaring towers. >> how is he picking up on people? >> he is a great street sales person and he seems to have a particular sense for fear, for when people are weak and when they feel afraid. he can use that to attack people which he does or use it to reassure people. what he is saying -- >> he finds the weakness but he can turn that around because he understands the fear among voters and the fact is voters especially republicans are afraid of the outsider and the other. he began with the birther theme in 2012. then the next circle. now the next circle is muslims. and, again, every time he does it within his orbit it works. >> i think most men when we are afraid whenever we get afraid we get mad that somebody made us afraid. we know all this. i think he knows that. right after your fear you go damn that guy for making me afraid. >> i think he -- anger is out there. before the latest terrorist attack there was just generalized anger among predominantly white, college educated republican voters. and he has capi
master salesman. that is what he did in new york. he was selling dreams and soaring towers. >> how is he picking up on people? >> he is a great street sales person and he seems to have a particular sense for fear, for when people are weak and when they feel afraid. he can use that to attack people which he does or use it to reassure people. what he is saying -- >> he finds the weakness but he can turn that around because he understands the fear among voters and the fact is...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN3 : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EST
, san francisco, new york, new jersey, connecticut, and charlotte, north carolina. what did you learn? >> that was in just one short week hillary clinton had gone from coast to coast raising funds from long-time supporters and some from the new generation. some were actually children of= families, family that supported the clintons in the past. one4á of the. events that was held in new york was john zaccoro, son of vice president candidate ferraro who his home. >> one of the photographs, i had to ask you why you included this and our apologies for our radio audience, but explain this 1979 pick chu chur of build and hillary clinton entering the white house meeting with then president jimmy carter. >> this was the very young governor of arkansas entering the white house. and you can see from the looks on their face that they're both kind of scanning the room, may be a bit nervous. there's apparently a white house usher standing to the side as they enter the room. but you can tell that this is a -- we thought the picture was iconic, the young couple entering the white house where they -
, san francisco, new york, new jersey, connecticut, and charlotte, north carolina. what did you learn? >> that was in just one short week hillary clinton had gone from coast to coast raising funds from long-time supporters and some from the new generation. some were actually children of= families, family that supported the clintons in the past. one4á of the. events that was held in new york was john zaccoro, son of vice president candidate ferraro who his home. >> one of the...
WSPA (CBS)
7 On Your Side at 7pm : WSPA : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
by WSPA
publicly-available *central* database could be so appealing to thieves. the "new york times" reports tas of was no longer accessible online. a luxury hotel caught on fire -- lighting up downtown dubai's skyline just ahead of its elaborate new year's eve celebration andr dp. massive flames engulfed the "address hotel"...a luxury highrise in downtown dubai in the united arab emirates. the 63-story hotel-and-condominium is located near the world's tallest skyscraper...where tens of thousands gathered for massive fireworks display to usher in the new year. the fire broke out two hours before midnight. officials rushed to evacuate the skyscraper as enormous flames ripped through the building consuming at least 20 floors - in a matter of minus sot: voice of ire pm/ss e- cbsrise agagwas it the fireworks? what is that? officials say the hotel's sprinklers and internal fire- fighting systems helped to prevent the spread of the flames. despite the fire -- dubai went ahead with its government officials say one person died from a heart attack during a stampede while the building was evacuated author
publicly-available *central* database could be so appealing to thieves. the "new york times" reports tas of was no longer accessible online. a luxury hotel caught on fire -- lighting up downtown dubai's skyline just ahead of its elaborate new year's eve celebration andr dp. massive flames engulfed the "address hotel"...a luxury highrise in downtown dubai in the united arab emirates. the 63-story hotel-and-condominium is located near the world's tallest skyscraper...where...
Shepard Smith Reporting : FOXNEWSW : December 31, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
kinds of weirdness up here in the new york, but not llamas. >> now, some of the most memorable moments of 2015. ♪ ♪ >> and i'm shepard smith on the fox news desk. this hour we will be looking back at the world's top stories and news, politics, entertainment and more. we begin with the top u.s. headlines of 2015. a year that saw the deadliest act of terror on american soil, since the attacks of 9/11. >> side farook and tashfeen malik were husband and wife murder team. they walked into a work party filled with farook's colleagues and opened fire. first responders arrived to a scene of chaos. >> some people were laying there. some people were crying. some people were screaming. >> the killers escaped but not for long. >> they're after somebody: >> police tracked their suv and killed the couples in the streets. >> one of the perpetrators, we believe, on the ground here in the pool of his own blood. >> ending the deadliest terror attack america has seen since 9/11. the massacre in san bernardino one of many horrifying shootings we covered in 2015. in colorado springs -- >> we need a sni
kinds of weirdness up here in the new york, but not llamas. >> now, some of the most memorable moments of 2015. ♪ ♪ >> and i'm shepard smith on the fox news desk. this hour we will be looking back at the world's top stories and news, politics, entertainment and more. we begin with the top u.s. headlines of 2015. a year that saw the deadliest act of terror on american soil, since the attacks of 9/11. >> side farook and tashfeen malik were husband and wife murder team. they...
News : ALJAZAM : December 31, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm EST
state of security in new york, and around the world, on this new years, will go live to time square. also the political surprises of 2015, and what to expect in 2016. gathered at the arctic in paris, to mark the new year as well, in the wake of terror attacks and it was a subdued affair. the city canceled it's annual show. >> the imperial temple provided the back drop for the new year celebration, thousands turned down for the light and dance show there. >> well, security is extra tight this year, in new york's time square, that's where al jazeera is tonight, john, security is -- yes, hello, john, security is always a concern, but especially this year, so what's the police presence like? you know what, jonathon, it is happy new year to you, from the cross worlds of the world, the issue is that new york city is target number one, it just is, there are a lot of targets here as you well know, but new york is top of the list and people are taking that extremely seriously. so they have lined up 6,000 officers on duty here, where i am, many of them we are told have long guns, radiation de
state of security in new york, and around the world, on this new years, will go live to time square. also the political surprises of 2015, and what to expect in 2016. gathered at the arctic in paris, to mark the new year as well, in the wake of terror attacks and it was a subdued affair. the city canceled it's annual show. >> the imperial temple provided the back drop for the new year celebration, thousands turned down for the light and dance show there. >> well, security is extra...
KPIX 5 News at 5PM : KPIX : December 31, 2015 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
main munich train station. >>> the mayor of new york city says times square will be the safest place to be this new year's eve. security there always tight. but tonight, hundreds more police on the streets compared to last year. cbs reporter jamie yuccas is one of a million folks expected to be at times square tonight. you and your friends, huh, jamie? >> reporter: just a few. allen, not only are there 6,000 police officers like you were talking about, but we have seen snipers and rooftops and anyone who showed up here today with a backpack had to throw it away. it's the countdown before the real countdown. 6 hours before midnight, the waterford crystal ball was raised to the top of its perch before its famous drop. >> whoo! >> reporter: partiers started arriving early in the morning to get the best spot. taylor coyneer is celebrating both the new year and her 19th birthday. >> i have never been here before. i have always dreamed about it since i was a kid. and now i'm finally here as my birthday surprise. >> reporter: a crowd of a million people is expected in times square. se
main munich train station. >>> the mayor of new york city says times square will be the safest place to be this new year's eve. security there always tight. but tonight, hundreds more police on the streets compared to last year. cbs reporter jamie yuccas is one of a million folks expected to be at times square tonight. you and your friends, huh, jamie? >> reporter: just a few. allen, not only are there 6,000 police officers like you were talking about, but we have seen snipers...
Mayor's Press Availability : SFGTV : December 31, 2015 5:00pm-6:01pm PST
, la, new york, honolulu, seattle and more and the state and federal governments offer us too little assistance. that's why next week i'll join at least 5 other mayors on the west coast and our federal government representatives to explore federal funding opportunities and policy changes in the area of homelessness. i know we look at the streets sometimes and the encampments and the depth and complexity the problem jz to some it all might feel hopeless, but as your may frr the next 4 years i'm optimistic because today in san francisco all of the ingreedgents of success are here to end homeless for thousands of our fellow citizens. thanks to a historically strong economy we do have resources. we certainly have creativity and know we got the passion. for our serviceers providers and city staff, we have the energy that is required. we have public support to try new more effective approaches. but you know what is missing? what is missing is the ingredient lacking for generations, it is what we call, real cooperation. we can't solve street homelessness, but it will if we want to , it will
, la, new york, honolulu, seattle and more and the state and federal governments offer us too little assistance. that's why next week i'll join at least 5 other mayors on the west coast and our federal government representatives to explore federal funding opportunities and policy changes in the area of homelessness. i know we look at the streets sometimes and the encampments and the depth and complexity the problem jz to some it all might feel hopeless, but as your may frr the next 4 years i'm...
2015 Congressional Year in Review : CSPAN : December 31, 2015 8:00pm-12:01am EST
new york ocean toapply it to the marilyn. you cannot have a 15 it's all for every district in the united of america. the second thing the seventh yes, you need accountability. you do need metric. what we'll come up with is over testing. it still does not result in high-performance. i locked in a bipartisan basis with the leadership to do what allould go one size it's all decisions made in watching in. should be racing to the. joining us for the year in review is christina marcos. it was really more than just the usual floor speeches. there was debate on issues like immigration and refugees. ' i. what came off of the health or nuclear. guest: less than a week after the terrorist attacks, house leaders singled out the bill and security screening. pass.ill with a technically vetoproof majority. on, was a bill that passed the house easily also that would restrict the visa waiver program. >> the chair when all presence to rise or moment of silence. nowchair asked that they observe a moment of silence. like on friday, the world watched in horror. my thoughts and prayers go to the citize
new york ocean toapply it to the marilyn. you cannot have a 15 it's all for every district in the united of america. the second thing the seventh yes, you need accountability. you do need metric. what we'll come up with is over testing. it still does not result in high-performance. i locked in a bipartisan basis with the leadership to do what allould go one size it's all decisions made in watching in. should be racing to the. joining us for the year in review is christina marcos. it was really...
evident here tonight. new york's times square a million revelers are gathering to ring in a new year under the tightest security measures this town has ever seen. the threat of on everyone's mind and with good reason. the town of rochester new york fireworks celebration following the arrest of this man. he was planning to plan attack on new york bar tonight to prove he was worthy of joining isis. a terrorist scare in munich didn't stop people there from celebrating the new year. police did warn everyone to stay away from the city's main train station and another in a neighboring community. that's because ocribing as a ses imminent threat by islamic extremists. i'm patricia stark and now back to the five special. for all your headlines, log on to foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hi,you posted questions for us on facebook about the new your. we are going to answer them now. i'm going to start with kim kim -- kimberly. >> this is from rod. what nonpolitical story has meant the most to you so far this year? nonpolitical? >> nonpolitical story? i don't know if i can come up with a good one fo
evident here tonight. new york's times square a million revelers are gathering to ring in a new year under the tightest security measures this town has ever seen. the threat of on everyone's mind and with good reason. the town of rochester new york fireworks celebration following the arrest of this man. he was planning to plan attack on new york bar tonight to prove he was worthy of joining isis. a terrorist scare in munich didn't stop people there from celebrating the new year. police did...
live picture in times square in new york. look at all of the people out there. about three and a half hours away from ringing in the new year. >> thank you for joining us. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. >>> breaking news tonight. the skyscraper inferno on new year's eve. the 63-story luxury hotel, engulfed in flames near the world's tallest building. and one of the most famous fireworks displays. >>> high alert on new year's eve. the homegrown terror plot broken up by the fbi. the alleged isis supporter, planning to kill people celebrating the new year. >>> desperate situation. the death toll climbing. hundreds of homes and highways under water. new warnings as rivers rise to even higher levels affecting more states. >>> family fugitives. the wealthy mother of the so-called affluenza teen, hauled back to the u.s., arriving from mexico in handcuffs. her son, in a mexican jail, fighting extradition. >>> and, u-turn. the family in tears. their plane, about to take off without them.
live picture in times square in new york. look at all of the people out there. about three and a half hours away from ringing in the new year. >> thank you for joining us. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. >>> breaking news tonight. the skyscraper inferno on new year's eve. the 63-story luxury hotel, engulfed in flames near the world's tallest building. and one of the most famous fireworks displays. >>> high alert on new year's eve. the homegrown terror...
NBC Bay Area News at 5 : KNTV : December 31, 2015 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
. thank view, jeff, so much. >>> let's take you back to new york city and the look at times square. this is the mother ship of new year's eve, of course. many people turn to new york to see what's going on. this is where a million people are expected to ring in the new year. a ton of confetti will be dropped. looking here at about less than four hours until that happens. this has been going on since 1904. >> wow. >> that's a long time. and absolutely looks fun out there, but it looks so crowded. got to be okay with being in a -- >> being in a big crowd. having the crazy warm weather but a little chilly there tonight. we'll continue to see how things go there in times square tonight. >>> really, why wait until midnight for the countdown? some people in santa clara welcomed the new year 12 hours early. the santa clara library hosted new year's eve. that's more my speed. the celebration happened at their branch. more than 250 people danced the afternoon away in fancy attire to popular dances like the ever popular ymca and of course the whip the nae, nae dance. it struck noon and every
. thank view, jeff, so much. >>> let's take you back to new york city and the look at times square. this is the mother ship of new year's eve, of course. many people turn to new york to see what's going on. this is where a million people are expected to ring in the new year. a ton of confetti will be dropped. looking here at about less than four hours until that happens. this has been going on since 1904. >> wow. >> that's a long time. and absolutely looks fun out there,...
Kennedy : FBC : December 31, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm EST
education bubble and people thought it was crazy but now you have from the la times a new york times, they will be saying the same thing. john: if it is, it will not sustain. join this argument, follow me on twitter. use the hashtag breakup. or like my facebook page. i like to know what you think. coming up, obama care and what it means. we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the lowest prices of the season. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. you like the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store, find the lowest prices of the season. save $600 on the #1 rated i8 bed, plus no interest until january 2018. know better sleep with sleep number. tand that's what we're doings to chat xfinity.rself, we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit you
education bubble and people thought it was crazy but now you have from the la times a new york times, they will be saying the same thing. john: if it is, it will not sustain. join this argument, follow me on twitter. use the hashtag breakup. or like my facebook page. i like to know what you think. coming up, obama care and what it means. we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the lowest prices of the season....
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News 3 Live at Five : KSNV : December 31, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm PST
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new year's eve. in and in upstate new york accused of hatching an isis-inspired plot, foiled by the fbi. and nbc news investigation about the replacement for a medical device associated with dozens of deaths. now it's the little things in life that make me smile. spending the day with my niece. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. so it's not about keeping my dentures in, it's about keeping the food particles out. marie: the race for president, and a big shakeup in ben carson's campaign. three of his top advisers, including his campaign manager struggle in the carson camp. communications director and his also quit. retired army general robert will comes as carson continues slipping in the polls. carson, once in second place behind donald trump, now is in fourth. p
new year's eve. in and in upstate new york accused of hatching an isis-inspired plot, foiled by the fbi. and nbc news investigation about the replacement for a medical device associated with dozens of deaths. now it's the little things in life that make me smile. spending the day with my niece. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food...
KRON 4 Evening News : KRON : December 31, 2015 5:00pm-7:01pm PST
people safe. >>> already counting down in new york city. you can see them with the hats, they have the dance moves down. police are keeping a watchful eye over the crowd. >> reporter: it is a new year's celebration unlike any other in terms of size. security this year. 6000 police officers. just weeks after terrorist attacks in paris in california. officers will be in helicopters, on the water to ways -- waterways, also there will be assistance from the fbi. >> is one of the greatest events, 1 million people are expected, it's going to be fantastic. >> reporter: there will be one or on up to 14 screening procedures. visitors do not seem to mind. >> everything will be say. there are a lot of police officers. >> we are nervous.>> reporter: all this and not losing sight of what the evening is about. it is an event watched around the world. >>> checking whether locally, we heard gabe complaining about it being 50 degrees. get up to, right? if you are scared, get a dog, if you are cold, get a coat. >> we do not like fog in the bay area when fireworks are going off. tonight looks clear.
people safe. >>> already counting down in new york city. you can see them with the hats, they have the dance moves down. police are keeping a watchful eye over the crowd. >> reporter: it is a new year's celebration unlike any other in terms of size. security this year. 6000 police officers. just weeks after terrorist attacks in paris in california. officers will be in helicopters, on the water to ways -- waterways, also there will be assistance from the fbi. >> is one of...
, a light show and performers. >> here's a live look now at times square in new york city. the camera is going to switch in just a moment. a million people set to enjoy one of the largest new year's eve parties in the world. a million people expected. 6,000 nypd officers are there. >> it looks cold there in new york. we begin with meteorologist mark. it looks like it is going to be cold here. >> that's right, ross. get ready for a very cold evening across the entire bay area but you can leave the umbrella at home. we can guarantee a dry weather pattern for tonight and new year's as well. a few high clouds offshore. this pattern remains in place. clear skies right now. clear skies all evening long. here is a look at current numbers if you are stepping outside the door. you can stilt's already in the 40s out toward livermore and walnut creek. the afternoon hours still pretty calm. still showing 50s out towards san francisco and santa rosa. here is our live camera looking out towards the transamerica pyramid. for tonight the bay area clear and cold. the forecast for 9:00 p.m. inla
, a light show and performers. >> here's a live look now at times square in new york city. the camera is going to switch in just a moment. a million people set to enjoy one of the largest new year's eve parties in the world. a million people expected. 6,000 nypd officers are there. >> it looks cold there in new york. we begin with meteorologist mark. it looks like it is going to be cold here. >> that's right, ross. get ready for a very cold evening across the entire bay area...
George W. Bush Campaign Event : CSPAN3 : December 31, 2015 8:26pm-8:36pm EST
the country. i'm campaigning in iowa and i campaigned in south z california, new york. there is a lot of country to cover. but i think our strategy is going to work in the state of new hampshire. i understand new hampshire politics. and i understand people want their hands shook and people look me in the eye and ask for the vote and that's exactly what they're doing. i think the bigger question is how many people are in the crowds and how many hands are getting shaken. >> do you think john mccain will come up in the poll? >> he's a fine man. he's a fine senator. we just have a fundamental disagreement. i think i ought to be the party's nominee. >> how about. [ inaudible ] ? >> i'm not paying much attention to the democrats. >> would you rather go against bradley or gore? >> i would rather win my party's nomination. >> what do you think about bill going down in the senate? >> a fundamental difference of opinion was some part of the bill and the senate. i believe we need to raise the individual limits and have instant disclosure. i'm one of the few candidates, i think the only candi
the country. i'm campaigning in iowa and i campaigned in south z california, new york. there is a lot of country to cover. but i think our strategy is going to work in the state of new hampshire. i understand new hampshire politics. and i understand people want their hands shook and people look me in the eye and ask for the vote and that's exactly what they're doing. i think the bigger question is how many people are in the crowds and how many hands are getting shaken. >> do you think...
CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley : KPIX : December 31, 2015 5:30pm-6:01pm PST
. security is tighter than ever in new york's times square, which is jammed with a million people. we have a team of correspondents covering this. first, holly williams, who has been following the fire in dubai. holly. >> reporter: elaine, the dubai government says that the fire broke out on the 20th floor of the address hotel, quickly engulfing the 63-story luxury hotel and apartment building. the fire apparently began at around 9:30 p.m. local time. you can see the entire skyscraper lit up against the night sky. now, the dubai authorities say that they now have the fire under control, and they also say that only one person was killed by a heart attack during the evacuation. another 15 people were injured. the cause of the fire is still not known. and eyewitnesses say the fire spread very rapidly through the tower, which is almost 1,000 feet tall. >> the heat was so intense outside it was unbelievable. and just people started to panic, crushing each other trying to get down the stairs and jumping over railings. i couldn't believe how fast it actually happened. >> there were people running
. security is tighter than ever in new york's times square, which is jammed with a million people. we have a team of correspondents covering this. first, holly williams, who has been following the fire in dubai. holly. >> reporter: elaine, the dubai government says that the fire broke out on the 20th floor of the address hotel, quickly engulfing the 63-story luxury hotel and apartment building. the fire apparently began at around 9:30 p.m. local time. you can see the entire skyscraper lit...
ABC World News With David Muir : KGO : December 31, 2015 5:30pm-6:01pm PST
coming in as a crowd of 1 million builds in times square. thousands of new york city police officers, the most ever, on high alert to keep everyone safe. and tonight, we're learning of a terror arrest in new york, an alleged isis supporter accused of plotting a new year's attack. but we begin with incredible images from overseas. take a look at that. a massive high rise inferno in dubai, erupting hours before the world famous fireworks display. abc's alex marquardt with the news coming in at this hour. >> reporter: a towering inferno. tonight, one of dubai's most famous luxury hotels consumed by flames. >> yes, i can see a lot of debris coming down from the building and it's getting bigger and bigger. >> reporter: the fire started on the 20th floor of this 63-story hotel, and was visible from all around. the roar of the fire heard in video shot by eyewitnesses. it was just under three hours before dubai was to hold its famous new year's fireworks show, starting nearby at the world's tallest building. >> it kind of caused chaos here, some people ran, some people were screaming, not kn
coming in as a crowd of 1 million builds in times square. thousands of new york city police officers, the most ever, on high alert to keep everyone safe. and tonight, we're learning of a terror arrest in new york, an alleged isis supporter accused of plotting a new year's attack. but we begin with incredible images from overseas. take a look at that. a massive high rise inferno in dubai, erupting hours before the world famous fireworks display. abc's alex marquardt with the news coming in at...
do you call home? >> new york. >> you're a long way from home. what city are you from? >> new haven. >> great. good to meet you. good luck to you. >> how you doing? >> doing well, thanks. surviving. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, sir. good luck to you. >> thanks a lot. i'm honored. 55th reunion. 55th reunion. >> see, i'm a southern guy. i'm out here with a civilized civilization. i need to get up there sometime. >> you got to get up to that skiing, it's unbelievable. d >> is it safe for me to be in the middle of the road? >> no. >> my running mate! >> i like your costume, too. >> thank you. dressed up as a governor. >> good luck to you, sir. >> get in front, please. >> this is good. >> thank you, sir. how are you? i'm going to say hello to you. >> thank you. >> don't lose your sense of humor, okay? >> it's my mother in me. i got to keep it, otherwise i'll go nuts. too late. sorry. >> real lit pumpkins, real carved pumpkins. tonight is a mini thing for the district and community. this is national attention. >> it's fabulous. over here. >> under the hoop. >> the scoreboard. sh
do you call home? >> new york. >> you're a long way from home. what city are you from? >> new haven. >> great. good to meet you. good luck to you. >> how you doing? >> doing well, thanks. surviving. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, sir. good luck to you. >> thanks a lot. i'm honored. 55th reunion. 55th reunion. >> see, i'm a southern guy. i'm out here with a civilized civilization. i need to get up there sometime. >> you got to...
. tonight's celebration in new york's times square is also expected to draw about a million people, watched over by some 6,000 police. security is heavy in other major cities as well, after the terror attacks this year in paris and bangkok. in brussels, belgium, new year's celebrations were canceled, and crews dismantled an outdoor stage over continuing fears of another attack. and in paris, authorities sought to reassure the public >> ( translated ): everything's being done for the celebrations to go well. but we have to stay extremely vigilant. the threats are still there. there are still risks. the presence of these forces across the country shows that we have to be extremely vigilant, but that vigilance doesn't stop us from celebrating the new year. >> ifill: meanwhile, prosecutors in brussels say police have arrested a tenth suspect in connection with the paris attacks. the year ended with another deadly confrontation in the west bank today. israeli troops shot and killed a palestinian man after he rammed a car into a group of soldiers. just since september, 131 palestinians h
. tonight's celebration in new york's times square is also expected to draw about a million people, watched over by some 6,000 police. security is heavy in other major cities as well, after the terror attacks this year in paris and bangkok. in brussels, belgium, new year's celebrations were canceled, and crews dismantled an outdoor stage over continuing fears of another attack. and in paris, authorities sought to reassure the public >> ( translated ): everything's being done for the...
DW News : KCSM : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-6:31pm PST
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Recreation and Park Commission 12/17/15 : SFGTV : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-7:21pm PST
graduate of new york university. came to us via rural new york. outreach manager for new york and skills we really hope to tap in the future at pacific marine club. of course, we look to partner with respondent to the proposed rfp. we are well not where we are in a current boathouse. we've only certain amount of space to hold a certain amount of equipment, which greatly restricts a potential for growth. that growth, we look forward to a vigorous community outreach with some of our local high schools developing, perhaps, enlarging the program by as much as 50%. adaptive rowing with communities in the area is very big on our list with the a and others. some of the relationships with the palmer lloyd center. there is no facilities on lake merced or anywhere in san francisco, for that matter, for adult rowing and larger boats which would be a great opportunity in this facility as well. so, honestly, were looking to grow. we are looking to partner with a potential respondent here. in truth, were very much looking forward to looking with rpn staff in the development of this plan. thank
graduate of new york university. came to us via rural new york. outreach manager for new york and skills we really hope to tap in the future at pacific marine club. of course, we look to partner with respondent to the proposed rfp. we are well not where we are in a current boathouse. we've only certain amount of space to hold a certain amount of equipment, which greatly restricts a potential for growth. that growth, we look forward to a vigorous community outreach with some of our local high...
couple hours from the big ball drop in new york city. this, of course, the most popular new year's eve destination in the u.s. coming up, we'll go live there to the big apple to show you how the crowd is growing and also what's being done to keep everyone safe. and we'll look at the other areas around the world that have already been ringing in 2016. >>> new details now on a disturbing case. a grandmother who admitted to drowning her own 4-year-old grand son. today, we learn more about this woman when she made her first court appearance. christy smith is live in fairfield. we understand she wore protective clothing in the courtroom today. >> reporter: that's right. she had a chain around her waist and a thick suit on. we're told that was to make sure she wouldn't harm herself. just the attorneys and the judge spoke while she looked straight ahead. >> i'm here because of the compassion of a loss of any child. >> reporter: outside the fairfield home, people left items in memory of 4-year-old richard. >> it's hard to determine what would motivate a person to hurt a child. >> reporter: pol
couple hours from the big ball drop in new york city. this, of course, the most popular new year's eve destination in the u.s. coming up, we'll go live there to the big apple to show you how the crowd is growing and also what's being done to keep everyone safe. and we'll look at the other areas around the world that have already been ringing in 2016. >>> new details now on a disturbing case. a grandmother who admitted to drowning her own 4-year-old grand son. today, we learn more...
Earth Focus : LINKTV : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-6:31pm PST
nuclear plant. which is only about 25 miles from the new york city border. and within the 50 miles of indian point, there are about 16 million people. and so it's certainly the highest population density around any nuclear plant in the country. as a result, it deserves special scrutiny. not just for safety vulnerability but also for vulnerability to sabotage. because we know that new york historically has been one of the most desirable targets for terrorists and indian point is a nuclear plant, fallout, melted down, would be aimed directly at new york city. it has to be taken seriously as a potential sabotage target. one very important aspect of fukushima is that it demonstrated that the hazards of a nuclear plant accident extend far beyond the 10 mile zone that is typically designated as the evacuation zone for a nuclear plant. here the -- in the united states the n.r.c. requires every plant to make plans available for evacuation within 10 miles. if it looks like there was going to be danger, to people living beyond 10 miles, this would be plenty of time to evacuate. for some plants
nuclear plant. which is only about 25 miles from the new york city border. and within the 50 miles of indian point, there are about 16 million people. and so it's certainly the highest population density around any nuclear plant in the country. as a result, it deserves special scrutiny. not just for safety vulnerability but also for vulnerability to sabotage. because we know that new york historically has been one of the most desirable targets for terrorists and indian point is a nuclear...
KPIX 5 News at 6:00PM : KPIX : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
floor terrace outside the tower but the cause hasn't been determined yet. >>> in 2.5 hours new york city will ring in the new year. hundreds of thousands of people in times square. that's where we find jamie yuccas. a lot of excitement, sure. but lots of security. tell us about the backpacks, the searches that are going on tonight. >>> reporter: there's a lot of security because of the san bernardino attacks and the part terrorist attack. 6,000 police officers both in uniform and in plainclothes were deployed to times square. when people started lining up they had to go through security checkpoints in order to get into the secured pens. so they had to go through security wands to make sure they weren't carrying anything in that they weren't supposed to have. but what i found really interesting is that people were told to leave large bags and backpacks at home. those who didn't had to throw their bags away and we watched a number of people do it because they wanted to get the most prime spot they could for the biggest party of the year here in new york. >> were people u in all cooperative
floor terrace outside the tower but the cause hasn't been determined yet. >>> in 2.5 hours new york city will ring in the new year. hundreds of thousands of people in times square. that's where we find jamie yuccas. a lot of excitement, sure. but lots of security. tell us about the backpacks, the searches that are going on tonight. >>> reporter: there's a lot of security because of the san bernardino attacks and the part terrorist attack. 6,000 police officers both in uniform...
. >> take a live look in new york city where the ball will drop in just three hours. >> happy humanity there. >> thank you for joining us. >> we are counting down the final six hours of 2015 here on the west coast. >> conditions are looking good for the festivities in the bay area. >> we will check in with our meteorologist in just a moment. >> first, let's go live along the embarcadero in san francisco. hey, katie. >> reporter: hi, kristen. several people have asked me where they can see the fireworks. i tell them, right here, the embarcadero is a front row seat. san francisco police will be along any time to put up the barricades to control the crowds. crowds of people who have today off who are going to celebrate. but for some businesses in san francisco, it's the busiest day of the year. >> it's a whole lot of love and there are a lot of secrets i can't tell you about. >> it's a southern tradition to eat black eyed peas and collard greens on new year's day for luck and prosperity. at this soul food restaurant, they'll go through about 50 pounds of peas. >> we make sure we have plenty of
. >> take a live look in new york city where the ball will drop in just three hours. >> happy humanity there. >> thank you for joining us. >> we are counting down the final six hours of 2015 here on the west coast. >> conditions are looking good for the festivities in the bay area. >> we will check in with our meteorologist in just a moment. >> first, let's go live along the embarcadero in san francisco. hey, katie. >> reporter: hi, kristen....
Countdown to 2016 : FOXNEWSW : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-8:01pm PST
times square. new york city, make some noise! my people. a lot of embarrassing moments happened this year. definitely to me. everybody in new york, this is mike. i got katie right here. katie's got an embarrassing moment. what you got for me? 2015? >> i was out dancing with friends. and there was a song one of those where you are supposed to drop it low and i did that and i ripped my pants. >> oh you ripped your pants while you were dropping it low? >> i think you nailed the move. >> so my pants just didn't survive. it was sad. fortunately he had a shirt i could wrap around my waist so it was okay. >> your husband was there for you? >> he saved the day. >> 2015 embarrassing moment. >> i'll be all night in times square. fox news. >> i'm hoping to have my most embarrassing moment tonight. >> if you're not ripping your pants, it's not happening. >> it's the rip in the pants dance. >> earlier tonight, police warped citizens of a mysterious image at the train tracks. nypd is work around the clock to make sure all of the people celebrating are kept safe. joining us now to explain one of th
times square. new york city, make some noise! my people. a lot of embarrassing moments happened this year. definitely to me. everybody in new york, this is mike. i got katie right here. katie's got an embarrassing moment. what you got for me? 2015? >> i was out dancing with friends. and there was a song one of those where you are supposed to drop it low and i did that and i ripped my pants. >> oh you ripped your pants while you were dropping it low? >> i think you nailed the...
Lockup: Boston - Extended Stay : MSNBCW : December 31, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
-old emmanuel lutchman in custody for allegedly plotting to attack a restaurant in rochester, new york tonight. he's charged with attempting to provide support to i.c.e. back isis. back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> operation available support in the tower 2052. >> did you find him? >> yeah. >> when valerie minacapelli entered boston's suffolk county jail, she not only hit it off with her cellmate, she got a little closer to her fiance. >> my fiance that i've been with for 2 1/2 years is here. i couldn't wait to get up here and try to find him. >> minacapelli's fiance is housed in the men's unit on the other side of the jail. luckily enough, she has a perfect view of his cell window. >> 13 windows over on the bottom, he has his heart in the window. >> yep. >> it's pink. >> as inmates, minacapelli and her fiance cannot write nor talk to each other on the phone. so now they use a different method to communicate. inmates call it skywriting. >> you write the letters backwards. because it's like looking in the mirror for him. you write
-old emmanuel lutchman in custody for allegedly plotting to attack a restaurant in rochester, new york tonight. he's charged with attempting to provide support to i.c.e. back isis. back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> operation available support in the tower 2052. >> did you find him? >> yeah. >> when valerie minacapelli entered boston's suffolk county jail, she not only hit it off with her cellmate,...
Noticiero Telemundo : KSTS : December 31, 2015 6:30pm-7:01pm PST
square esta noche habrá 6 mil policías, no es para menos porque un hombre en new york fue acusaso de apoyar estado islámico. un mini ejército de policías patruyan la gran manzana para cuidar a las personas que viven el año nuevo en el times square >> lo mejor es hacer lo mismo de siempre porque así le decimos a los malos que podemos seguir con nuestras vidas >> a un hombre de new york se le condenó por planear matar civiles en la noche de año nuevo en favor de estado islámico. este año las medidas de seguridad incluyen 6 mil policías >> (información en pantalla) >> decenas de francotiradores vigilaran desde el aire >> habrá cosas que el público vera. >> las autoridades dicen que no hay una amenazada para new york y que times square será el lugar más seguro del planeta >> creo que la vigilancia en new york está fuerte, la gente está cooperando >> eso quieren muchos de los presentes en times square que todo transcurra con normalidad y que sea una noche magnifica para darle la bienvenida al año nuevo >> en europa se implimentaron medidas de seguridad también por un po
square esta noche habrá 6 mil policías, no es para menos porque un hombre en new york fue acusaso de apoyar estado islámico. un mini ejército de policías patruyan la gran manzana para cuidar a las personas que viven el año nuevo en el times square >> lo mejor es hacer lo mismo de siempre porque así le decimos a los malos que podemos seguir con nuestras vidas >> a un hombre de new york se le condenó por planear matar civiles en la noche de año nuevo en favor de estado...
Nightly Business Report : KQEH : December 31, 2015 6:30pm-7:01pm PST
that was wrong. that's right. happy new year, ev. i'm bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. >>> well, now that 2015 is in the books, what can we expect from the first month of 2016? which is not typically a strong one for investors. dominic chu gives us some context. >> reporter: some investors are already looking beyond the santa claus rally season toward what's going to happen in early 2016. after what's been a volatile second half of the year some are preparing for some of that same volatility again in january. that is, if history ends up repeating itself. now, according to market data and analytics firm kensho, january has been the second worst-performing month in the s&p 500 at least over the last ten januarys. now, on average the month posts a loss a little over 1% and it's only a positive month half the time. you compare that to what's been the best-performing month over the last ten occurrences. that's april. where the s&p gains an average of 2 1/2% and it's been positive 9 of the last 10 times. as for the hot and cold spots in the market keep an eye on the health c
that was wrong. that's right. happy new year, ev. i'm bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. >>> well, now that 2015 is in the books, what can we expect from the first month of 2016? which is not typically a strong one for investors. dominic chu gives us some context. >> reporter: some investors are already looking beyond the santa claus rally season toward what's going to happen in early 2016. after what's been a volatile second half of the year some are preparing for some...
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ABC7 News on KOFY 7PM : KOFY : December 31, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm PST
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, just a few seconds in rio de janei janeiro. >> take a live look in new york city where the ball will drop in just three hours. >> happy humanity there. >> thank you for joining us. >> we are counting down the final six hours of 2015 here on the west coast. >> conditions are looking good for the festivities in the bay area. >> we will check in with our meteorologist in just a moment. >> first, let's go live along the embarcadero in san francisco. hey, katie. >> reporter: hi, kristen. several people have asked me where they can see the fireworks. i tell them, right here, the embarcadero is a front row seat. san francisco police will be along any time to put up the barricades to control the crowds. crowds of people who have today off who are going to celebrate. but for some businesses in san francisco, it's the busiest day of the year. >> it's a whole lot of love and there are a lot of secrets i can't tell you about. >> it's a southern tradition to eat black eyed peas and collard greens on new year's day for luck and prosperity. at this soul food restaurant, they'll go through about 50
, just a few seconds in rio de janei janeiro. >> take a live look in new york city where the ball will drop in just three hours. >> happy humanity there. >> thank you for joining us. >> we are counting down the final six hours of 2015 here on the west coast. >> conditions are looking good for the festivities in the bay area. >> we will check in with our meteorologist in just a moment. >> first, let's go live along the embarcadero in san francisco. hey,...
Fox 29 News at 10 : WTXF : December 31, 2015 10:00pm-10:31pm EST
to replace. that's coming up. >> hmm. ♪ ♪ >>> isis terror plot foiled by authorities in upstate new york. 25-year-old emmanuel lunch man in custody. investigators say he was direct to do attack a restaurant in the rochester area today on behalf of isis. he's being charged with attemp attempting to provider material support to a terror organization. if convicted he is facing a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. >>> disturbing assault and robbery there ultimately ends in gunfire. an elderly philadelphia woman on her way home from the store soon becomes the target of a man with gun. tonight, police are after the guy who pulled the trigger and then walked away with her purse. as fox 29's dave schratwieser shows us it's rattled an entire community ahead of its new year's celebrations. >> the shooter -- who to shoot her, that's awful. >> neighbors were on edge after a 75-year-old woman from mayfair was shot in the face after a suspect stole her purse in this driveway just after 10:00 a.m. >> that's just -- horrible. horrible. i can't believe that's happening here. >> i'm sorry to see
to replace. that's coming up. >> hmm. ♪ ♪ >>> isis terror plot foiled by authorities in upstate new york. 25-year-old emmanuel lunch man in custody. investigators say he was direct to do attack a restaurant in the rochester area today on behalf of isis. he's being charged with attemp attempting to provider material support to a terror organization. if convicted he is facing a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. >>> disturbing assault and robbery there ultimately...
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Bloomberg Markets: European Close : BLOOMBERG : February 19, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST
half an hour away from the close of trade in europe. mark, tell us about today's market action. mark: before i do, we have breaking news. you want to tell us? brendan: christine lagarde has as the managing director of the imf for another term. , firstturmoil field term. she has the confidence of global leaders. that is something that we have known for some time. i think we are going to get tom keene on in just a second to talk about the legacy and the future of christine lagarde. for the time being, let's go back to you to talk about what is happening in markets in europe today. expectedyou say, much news on christine lagarde. here is what is happening in european equity markets. the stock 600 is down by 1.5%. one industry group is rising. real estate. i want to show you banks, one of the worst performing groups. the news today from the banking sector was binary. the ecb said that five lenders under its supervision missed a key capital right and 2016 -- 2013. it also is that it would curtail its own demands on individual lenders winning some reprieve from regular tears -- regulators
half an hour away from the close of trade in europe. mark, tell us about today's market action. mark: before i do, we have breaking news. you want to tell us? brendan: christine lagarde has as the managing director of the imf for another term. , firstturmoil field term. she has the confidence of global leaders. that is something that we have known for some time. i think we are going to get tom keene on in just a second to talk about the legacy and the future of christine lagarde. for the time...
Street Signs : CNBC : February 15, 2016 4:00am-5:01am EST
, your headlines today, stocks in europe rallied after the nikkei closes more than 1,000 points higher. japanese investors brushing off the poor gdp dates, in a dramatic rebound from last week's loss. >>> here to stay, hsbc chooses london over hong kong, following a ten-month review. >>> nearly a deal. orange could launch a take overas soon as tomorrow with sells in paris sharply higher. >>> and a healthy beat. exceeding expectations thanks to stronger drug sales. >>> hi, everybody, good morning to you all. very glad that you're with us, fresh start to the week. a whole lot of volatility last week. we saw a whole lot of our asset classes being sold significantly back. the banking stocks were under a lot of pressure. this morning, it seems we're reversing. the stocks up. higher by 2.6%. it's curious when we're no longer led by the data. every now and then when we say we don't want to be but we are. from asia, by and large feeding through europe today as well. we'll talk about asia in a second. i just want to show you the equity markets. ftse posted higher 2%. dax up by 3%. italian marke
, your headlines today, stocks in europe rallied after the nikkei closes more than 1,000 points higher. japanese investors brushing off the poor gdp dates, in a dramatic rebound from last week's loss. >>> here to stay, hsbc chooses london over hong kong, following a ten-month review. >>> nearly a deal. orange could launch a take overas soon as tomorrow with sells in paris sharply higher. >>> and a healthy beat. exceeding expectations thanks to stronger drug sales....
America Tonight : ALJAZAM : February 5, 2016 2:30am-3:01am EST
tonight", i'm joie chen. there is new terrifying indication that europe's refugee crisis is spiralling out of control, has tone on another frightening dimension. "america tonight" investigates the plight of migrant children, somehow navigating their way across europe alone, weeks ago we warned numbers were on the verge of exploiting. now the evidence is that it already has. "america tonight"s sheila macvicar met these most vulnerable migrants on their perilous journey. >> one country left behind. another to cross. one more border. every day there are hundreds, some days thousands. exhausted men, women and children of all ages. persons in wheelchairs, babies. small children struggling for a new life in western europe. for many of these refugees, the border crossing and makeshift center near the mass zonian down -- macedonian town marks journey. >> a few months ago relief agencies say those travelling here were yemen. they say increasingly they see families with children, small children, families with babies, and children travelling alone. >> vladimir is a social worker with a
tonight", i'm joie chen. there is new terrifying indication that europe's refugee crisis is spiralling out of control, has tone on another frightening dimension. "america tonight" investigates the plight of migrant children, somehow navigating their way across europe alone, weeks ago we warned numbers were on the verge of exploiting. now the evidence is that it already has. "america tonight"s sheila macvicar met these most vulnerable migrants on their perilous journey....
Focus on Europe : KCSM : February 13, 2016 6:00pm-6:31pm PST
michelle: hello and welcome to "focus on europe," with some of the very best stories on how europeans really live. i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us. on today's show -- the eu sets its sights on macedonia to solve the migrant crisis. instead of holidays abroad, many russians opt for a staycation, and young people in italy are looking to the past for a brighter future. what does it really feel like to be on your own in a strange country, far from home, surviving on your wits? you could be one of those migrants welcomed here in germany with the chance of a new life in the west. or you could be one of the less fortunate, stuck in a makeshift camp, with little food or protection from the cold. even worse, you could be held hostage by traffickers and beaten until you pay them for passage. every day, stories like this emerge from migrants trying to cross north through macedonia, a key country on the main route into the eu. critics fear that plans to strengthen continental borders could make a humanitarian disaster even worse. >> the route seems even longer if your legs ar
michelle: hello and welcome to "focus on europe," with some of the very best stories on how europeans really live. i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us. on today's show -- the eu sets its sights on macedonia to solve the migrant crisis. instead of holidays abroad, many russians opt for a staycation, and young people in italy are looking to the past for a brighter future. what does it really feel like to be on your own in a strange country, far from home, surviving on your wits?...
Ali Velshi on Target : ALJAZAM : February 5, 2016 1:00am-1:31am EST
biggest issues was europe. low oil prices was a game. they were not producers. >> correct. europe is - i don't know if you want to pivot to europe. it's an interesting story. we think europe will do well this year. they still have got a lot of structural problems that they are dealing with. let's find out about what - europe has been going in a different direction than the united states. the united states now signalling upward in interest rates. europe is still moving the other direction, trying to be more stimulative. is that the answer, is it likely to work. >> it is the answer, it will work. it's important to bear in mind here that the e.c.b. only started doing quantitative easing less than a year ago, starting in march of last year. the federal reserve did quantitative easing last - at the end of swathe, beginning of 2009. the economies are in different positions. unemployment in the u.s. is 5%, more than 10% in the eurozone. the level of g.d.p. in the eurozone - this is shocking statistic. the level of g.d.p. is still about half a percent shy of its pre-crisis peak. has not got
biggest issues was europe. low oil prices was a game. they were not producers. >> correct. europe is - i don't know if you want to pivot to europe. it's an interesting story. we think europe will do well this year. they still have got a lot of structural problems that they are dealing with. let's find out about what - europe has been going in a different direction than the united states. the united states now signalling upward in interest rates. europe is still moving the other...
Quadriga - The International Talk Show : LINKTV : February 6, 2016 2:00pm-2:31pm PST
there a link between populism's in the united states and europe? here host, melinda crane. >> welcome. is the trump factor still in play and where is it taking the u.s. political system? we have three guests following the events. ulrike herrmann is the business .ditor for the german daily she says of trump or to become the nominee, that would be the best thing that could happen to the democrats. alan posener is anuthor an commtator fo theerlin dail he ss thankto the t-party system, popults neveret into the whe house. and erik kirschbaum has worked for reuters and is currently a correspondent for the los angeles times. he says it is alarming trend do soringe candidates well but it is still early days. do we still need to worry about the trump factor? dozen iowa signal the beginning of the end? but this is such a crazy election that it is tough to make elections -- predictions. he is popular with people who do not vote. there is a big block of voters who do not usually vote. there could be a lot of disappointing results. they have nothing to lose. it is entertainment. it kee
there a link between populism's in the united states and europe? here host, melinda crane. >> welcome. is the trump factor still in play and where is it taking the u.s. political system? we have three guests following the events. ulrike herrmann is the business .ditor for the german daily she says of trump or to become the nominee, that would be the best thing that could happen to the democrats. alan posener is anuthor an commtator fo theerlin dail he ss thankto the t-party system,...
Countdown : BLOOMBERG : February 10, 2016 1:00am-2:31am EST
before congress, as the rate hike is called into question by world wind of volatility. anna: europe's biggest investment bank is considering to buy back investor bonds. manus: and the u.s. election gets more complicated, as the establishment loses in new hampshire. ♪ welcome to countdown. anna: welcome to the program. it is 6:00 here in london this wednesday morning. carlsberg reporting numbers this morning, and if i give you the organic net revenue number in the fourth quarter, that came in well above estimates -- rising by 5%. the estimate was 1.8%. it is well on track, talking about further reduction in financial leverage in 2016. as the overall profitability of the business, excluding various items, also coming in above estimates at 1.4 billion kroner. fell, though, 4%. and that was a bigger fall than had been estimated, the estimate was for 2%. this is a business undergoing a big restructuring, cutting back jobs, closing various breweries after years of various declining profit. russia has been the key focus, turmoil in ukraine, that has really taken a chunk out of the business
before congress, as the rate hike is called into question by world wind of volatility. anna: europe's biggest investment bank is considering to buy back investor bonds. manus: and the u.s. election gets more complicated, as the establishment loses in new hampshire. ♪ welcome to countdown. anna: welcome to the program. it is 6:00 here in london this wednesday morning. carlsberg reporting numbers this morning, and if i give you the organic net revenue number in the fourth quarter, that came in...
Worldwide Exchange : CNBC : February 9, 2016 5:00am-6:01am EST
yesterday the nikkei was up slightly. then we got this rout across europe and the u.s., wiping market cap, you know, across the equity markets globally. asia wakes up. it has to play catch up. and there's only two big markets open in australia and japan. i think the rest of asia is closed for this lunar new year. clearly another thing to point out. the nikkei was up yesterday. it's playing catch up, i think. >> though part of it is this break down in trust and efficacy from central banks. how many weeks ago, less than two weeks ago, the bank of japan was out in a specific move to try to weaken the japanese yen. it went to negative interest rates. it has not gotten a weaker yen. >> i think just generally, one of the big fears of 2016 for investors has been that central banks no longer are all powerful. we've got to negative rates. this is marginal effects that central banks can have. >> even scarier looking ahead to janet yellen testifying on the hill tomorrow, which we'll talk about. >> absolutely. right now we said the nikkei was down, almost stocks selling off down under. the main i
yesterday the nikkei was up slightly. then we got this rout across europe and the u.s., wiping market cap, you know, across the equity markets globally. asia wakes up. it has to play catch up. and there's only two big markets open in australia and japan. i think the rest of asia is closed for this lunar new year. clearly another thing to point out. the nikkei was up yesterday. it's playing catch up, i think. >> though part of it is this break down in trust and efficacy from central...
What'd You Miss? : BLOOMBERG : February 12, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm EST
that. interest rates are falling, and in the u.s. they crept up a little bit. in europe they are certainly falling, and growth is faltering. this is what we seeing in europe right now, fears that overleveraged banks may struggle to meet their financial obligations. think of deutsche bank. alix: since they did not do that back in 2008 like u.s. days. scarlet: you can see all of these on twitter. alix: the founder of crossing wall street, a newsletter that is focused on the stock market, with a good read on investor sentiment and what is happening right now. scarlet: i know the temptation for a lot of people in the markets is to talk about the market as if it is one giant entity. but you say there are major under it's going on. see the rotation out of the financials and into the utilities. is it financials, and that is a ratio. it shows the underperformance, whereas utilities have outperformed the broader market. what is driving this? is all the changing outlook of the federal reserve. we all we were going to get for ur rate increases this year, and nobody believes that anymore. ev
that. interest rates are falling, and in the u.s. they crept up a little bit. in europe they are certainly falling, and growth is faltering. this is what we seeing in europe right now, fears that overleveraged banks may struggle to meet their financial obligations. think of deutsche bank. alix: since they did not do that back in 2008 like u.s. days. scarlet: you can see all of these on twitter. alix: the founder of crossing wall street, a newsletter that is focused on the stock market, with a...
damien: hello and a very warm welcome to this week's "focus on europe," where we go behind the big headlines to give you an insight into the lives of real europeans. i am damien mcguinness. thanks very much for joining us. on the programme today -- the refugees of sweden, who are living in a ski resort. the young people of france, enlisting to fight terror. and the danish town that has a beef with pork. one of the most explosive issues here in germany right now is how to find enough accommodation for all the asylum seekers who are arriving. 1.1 million migrants and refugees came last year, and so far it looks like numbers this year could be just as high. some are living in school sports halls. others in what look like shipping containers. but the country that is taking in the most people compared to the size of its population is sweden. where there is no lack of space, but there is a lack of suitable housing. which is why asylum laws are being tightened up. but also why some refugees from the middle east are being sent right up to the arctic. they're not only experiencing their fir
damien: hello and a very warm welcome to this week's "focus on europe," where we go behind the big headlines to give you an insight into the lives of real europeans. i am damien mcguinness. thanks very much for joining us. on the programme today -- the refugees of sweden, who are living in a ski resort. the young people of france, enlisting to fight terror. and the danish town that has a beef with pork. one of the most explosive issues here in germany right now is how to find enough...
France 24 : LINKTV : February 1, 2016 2:30pm-3:01pm PST
sex trade. european police believe that thousands of migrant children have gone missing in europe over the last two years. charities are calling for more to be done to safeguard under-18s entering. reporter: they're considered the most vulnerable among asylum seekers. last year alone some 26,000 risk theired minors life to reach europe, going to save the children. now the u.n. relief agency says 10,000 migrants will disappear the last 2 years, according to the observer. half went missing in italy alone and another thousand in sweden. these are conservative estimates come back on it for only those who have been registered at the point of entry in to europe. some are believed to have joined their families. many are feared to a fallen prey to criminal organizations and gotten sexually exploited or forced into slavery. many of those disappeared are teenagers. the entiresays that criminal of instructor has developed around exploiting the migrant flow over the past 18 months, and that there is evidence of links between smuggling rings bringing people into europe and criminal gangs on the con
sex trade. european police believe that thousands of migrant children have gone missing in europe over the last two years. charities are calling for more to be done to safeguard under-18s entering. reporter: they're considered the most vulnerable among asylum seekers. last year alone some 26,000 risk theired minors life to reach europe, going to save the children. now the u.n. relief agency says 10,000 migrants will disappear the last 2 years, according to the observer. half went missing in...
Iraqi Prime Minister at Munich Security Conference : CSPAN2 : February 12, 2016 10:44pm-11:15pm EST
i think was said we should work together on. i think there is a crisis in europe with the refuges. the number is huge. and europe, and i know a lot of politicians in europe, are struggling from this. the last thing we want is national uprise against refuges in europe and there will be crisis and some may win in the next election in europe and i think the last thing we want is this. -- this -- this will play into the hands of daesh. they want this dividing of europe and this world so the recruitment of young people can increase. we are doing this in europe. for refuges to go back to their home and cities so they don't to seek refuge somewhere else is the answer. the other one i mentioned with the chancellor here in berlin is i think the criminal gangs who are trading people are criminal games and thought being stopped collectively by europe and other countries. every country is on its own with that collaboration with others. i think we need to stand against these people. these critical gangs are destroying families, are causing families to sell their valuables in order to escape to
i think was said we should work together on. i think there is a crisis in europe with the refuges. the number is huge. and europe, and i know a lot of politicians in europe, are struggling from this. the last thing we want is national uprise against refuges in europe and there will be crisis and some may win in the next election in europe and i think the last thing we want is this. -- this -- this will play into the hands of daesh. they want this dividing of europe and this world so the...
France 24 : LINKTV : February 4, 2016 5:30am-6:01am PST
conference very much links into two of the big concerns in europe at the moment, one is the refugee and migration movement. withare trying to deal the problems of the syrians to prevent them from coming to europe. dealingr is they are with the growing fear of extremism and dispossession. i think that's why there is this focus on education and work and why there might be more impetus to carry out those pledges this year. genie: lucy fielder reporting from london. just before the donor's got underway in london, peace talks rs got underway in london, peace talks put on hold. armen: is being presented as not a failure. the u.n. special envoy says it is not the end of the process. it will resume on february 25. whether it does resume will be dictated by events on the ground, not by the u.n. special envoy. on the ground are very much working against the resumption of this genomic -- this geneva process. the regime finally is eyeing a victory in aleppo, as we heard in catherine clifford's report. it had been waiting a long time to have a breakthrough in aleppo province. immediate not be an vic
conference very much links into two of the big concerns in europe at the moment, one is the refugee and migration movement. withare trying to deal the problems of the syrians to prevent them from coming to europe. dealingr is they are with the growing fear of extremism and dispossession. i think that's why there is this focus on education and work and why there might be more impetus to carry out those pledges this year. genie: lucy fielder reporting from london. just before the donor's got...
Squawk Alley : CNBC : February 3, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST
over in europe. we'll bring that to you when you come right back. >> on the floor with more. >> john, the stock is getting hit after posting earnings that missed the street and retail and she's the ce of and chairman of mondelez. good to talk to you again irene. >> good to see you sarah. >> are you surprised that the stock is hit so hard. >> i understand that the earnings release is some what complicated because there's currency impacts and the deconsolidation of venezuela and it's important to understand that our business fundamentals are quite sound. as you mention we have significant margin expansion in 2015. we're up about 150 basis points. we forecast it to be up in 2016 and we have given guidance as we look out to 17 and 18 to be up again in the 17 to 18 ra range which would be about a 700 basis point expansion from over a five year period so significant improvements in margins. solid improvement in our top line growth funded by investment in marketing and foundational investments and factories as well as markets and we delivered solid double digit eps growth up about 19% in-tu
over in europe. we'll bring that to you when you come right back. >> on the floor with more. >> john, the stock is getting hit after posting earnings that missed the street and retail and she's the ce of and chairman of mondelez. good to talk to you again irene. >> good to see you sarah. >> are you surprised that the stock is hit so hard. >> i understand that the earnings release is some what complicated because there's currency impacts and the deconsolidation of...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : February 22, 2016 8:30pm-12:01am EST
that people know what is going on. >> and british prime minister -- mr. cameron said leaving europe would threaten our economic and national security. he spoke at the house of commons after some members of his own conservative party said they would vote to leave the eat you. from london, this is to our. >> order. statements, the prime minister. >> i like to make a statement on the agreement to reach in brussels last week. first let me say word about the migration crisis which was also discussed at the european council. we agreed we needed to press ahead with strengthening the eat use external borders to ensure non- refugees are returned promptly and disrupt the criminal gains between greece and turkey for putting so many people's lives at risk. britain will contribute to and step up their contribution all these areas. joining prints place in europe, i have spent the last nine months setting out for areas where we need reform and meeting with all of the 27 eu heads of state and government to reach an agreement that delivers concrete reforms in all four areas. let me take each in turn
that people know what is going on. >> and british prime minister -- mr. cameron said leaving europe would threaten our economic and national security. he spoke at the house of commons after some members of his own conservative party said they would vote to leave the eat you. from london, this is to our. >> order. statements, the prime minister. >> i like to make a statement on the agreement to reach in brussels last week. first let me say word about the migration crisis which...
Bloomberg Best : BLOOMBERG : February 14, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm EST
you have seen more effort by some of the world's central banks in japan and europe to either consider or adopt more unconventional monetary policy. and so far, that is not having the intended effect. it is making investors nervous about what happens in a world where central banks may be out of bullets. alix: we have been looking for the bond bubble to burst for years. it seems like the bond bears can go home right now, because it is exactly what is keeping the bonds propped up. >> it has gotten worse. we are in a world right now that defies everything we learned in school. you have close to half the european sovereign bond markets now with negative yields. for markets overall you have 25% of sovereign bond markets with negative yields. that wasn't supposed to happen. you were supposed to have to pay the government for the privilege of lending to them. so rather than rates going up, they have plunged into areas we did not think was possible. >> deutsche bank slumped yesterday, after becoming the lender in -- the biggest lender in four years, to try and reassure investors it has enough
you have seen more effort by some of the world's central banks in japan and europe to either consider or adopt more unconventional monetary policy. and so far, that is not having the intended effect. it is making investors nervous about what happens in a world where central banks may be out of bullets. alix: we have been looking for the bond bubble to burst for years. it seems like the bond bears can go home right now, because it is exactly what is keeping the bonds propped up. >> it has...
DW News : KCSM : February 24, 2016 6:00pm-6:31pm PST
massive influx of refugees is spreading -- splitting europe. a summit of falcon leaders, the eu and greece are outraged they were not invited to take part. >> it was the first country to seal off its border last year. >> it is for us. this northern border camp is filling up. the united states is calling for an urgent solution. >> will we have been noticing for a long time is for a common strategy, and a refugee crisis in europe. >> the countries are divided on how to tackle the migrant influx. the mandatory quota system remains disputed. greece is warning of a humanitarian crisis. brent: as we know, greece has been the first point of entry. borders closing a bottleneck is quickly forming. over 100,000 people have come to greece already this year. our correspondent is covering the story. he joins us this evening. we see there's a camp behind us. >> freezing temperatures of love zero. you can see the camp behind me. some fireplaces. we get some warmth. the u.n. refugee or the u.n. agency for refugees told me that this can't you see was installed about five months or six months ago as
massive influx of refugees is spreading -- splitting europe. a summit of falcon leaders, the eu and greece are outraged they were not invited to take part. >> it was the first country to seal off its border last year. >> it is for us. this northern border camp is filling up. the united states is calling for an urgent solution. >> will we have been noticing for a long time is for a common strategy, and a refugee crisis in europe. >> the countries are divided on how to...
, the stoxx europe 600 back in the red. that rally not holding for long. here are some of the sectors that really gained, now moving down. basic resources among them. more on that in a minute. let's look at how everything is faring. the ftse trailing by 0.4%. taking a look at the german main market after that data we had a bit earlier, we're looking at the main market off about 0.7% there. the french cac 40 just off about 0.1%. the ftse mib the only major in the green at this stage. let's recap exactly what happened in asia. we did see that rally we saw on monday giving away, especially when you look at the shanghai composite. overall, the chinese main market off about 0.8%. the nikkei 225 back in the red, off about 0.4%. a stronger yen moving equities there in the session. again, it's not just brexit weighing on the u.k. and europe. we're seeing that sterling move quite a bit lower. that's giving a boost to the yen, always raising concerns for japanese equities. the main australian market off. >> lots of news this morning. shares in standard charter have dropped to the bottom of the
, the stoxx europe 600 back in the red. that rally not holding for long. here are some of the sectors that really gained, now moving down. basic resources among them. more on that in a minute. let's look at how everything is faring. the ftse trailing by 0.4%. taking a look at the german main market after that data we had a bit earlier, we're looking at the main market off about 0.7% there. the french cac 40 just off about 0.1%. the ftse mib the only major in the green at this stage. let's recap...
American History TV : CSPAN3 : February 14, 2016 11:49pm-12:02am EST
nation was formed, more people came. people from north and central europe, especially from ireland, germany, and the scandinavian countries, came to america and early 1800s to the midwest. people immigrating to america, becoming americans. people from asia, many from china and japan in the late 1800s and early 1900 to the far west. the people of the world in america. but there was movement, and shifting of people. and intermixing. so the south became not just the home of the english and the negroes, and the french, but the home of these and other americans. and the midwest was not a land for only northern europeans to cultivate, not only for the french to farm, but a home for all americans. for the people were moving, and mixing. railroads expanded the nation, joined parts, helping to move and makes people. industry grew, and our great cities with it. people were needed to work in the cities and build them, so many more people came from europe, from eastern and southern europe. from poland, from russia, from the balkans, and central europe, from italy. millions of people, by the ea
nation was formed, more people came. people from north and central europe, especially from ireland, germany, and the scandinavian countries, came to america and early 1800s to the midwest. people immigrating to america, becoming americans. people from asia, many from china and japan in the late 1800s and early 1900 to the far west. the people of the world in america. but there was movement, and shifting of people. and intermixing. so the south became not just the home of the english and the...
nancy hulgrave. these are your headlines. >> shares in europe drifting lower with energy stocks leading the declines. crude gets hit hard after another build in inventories. and comments from the saudi oil minister dashing hopes for an output cut. >> not many countries are going to deliver, even if they say they will cut production. they will not deliver. >> peugeot accelerates to the top of the cac as sales shift up a gear here in europe. >> well, smooth landing. airbus delivering a 15% rise in full-year profits, and it's projecting higher orders for its a-330 model. we'll be speaking to the ceo of the plane maker at 13:00 at cte. >> and the sterling slide continues, hitting a fresh seven-year low on brexit fears. >>> hi, everybody. good morning and welcome to "street signs." good morning, nancy. >> good morning. >> how are you? >> very well, except these markets. can't keep the momentum to the upside. >> we're flip-flopping quite a bit this morning. quite a bit of red on the european markets. all of europe trading in negative territory at the moment. our main you're mean marke
nancy hulgrave. these are your headlines. >> shares in europe drifting lower with energy stocks leading the declines. crude gets hit hard after another build in inventories. and comments from the saudi oil minister dashing hopes for an output cut. >> not many countries are going to deliver, even if they say they will cut production. they will not deliver. >> peugeot accelerates to the top of the cac as sales shift up a gear here in europe. >> well, smooth landing....
The Pulse : BLOOMBERG : February 29, 2016 4:00am-5:01am EST
needs europe's help to deal with the influx of refugees. is this the next greece crisis in the making? zero down. zero zone inflation is expected to flatline in february. will this be the number that forces draghi to do more extra week? ♪ welcome to the pulse p where live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i am guy johnson. on scene is -- she will be here in the next hour. she will be up and surveillance. let's check up on the markets and see what is going on. this is the picture of negative euro stocks, 1.1%. banks are doing the damage. you can see the safe haven trade, dollar yen trading one one dollar $.12 -- most people are telling me we are at a stabilization rate. let's get your course of. here's nejra cehic. nejra: thinks guy. in the us government has stuck with its plan to narrow the deficit in the next fiscal year. financial minister says the shortfalls -- 3.9% of gdp. that is the smallest gap since 2008. providing relief for farmers and a budget that signals the intent to win back support in rural areas ahead of key state elections. prospects facing the of a
needs europe's help to deal with the influx of refugees. is this the next greece crisis in the making? zero down. zero zone inflation is expected to flatline in february. will this be the number that forces draghi to do more extra week? ♪ welcome to the pulse p where live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i am guy johnson. on scene is -- she will be here in the next hour. she will be up and surveillance. let's check up on the markets and see what is going on. this is the...
Iraqi Prime Minister at Munich Security Conference : CSPAN2 : February 13, 2016 4:07am-4:37am EST
something that the usmittee of europe and should work together on. i think there is a crisis in europe about refugees. asylum-seekers. the number is huge. and i know a lot of politicians in europe, are suffering from this. is last thing that we want nationalism to rise in europe against refugees and for there to be a crisis, and some of them may win in the next election, in europe, and i think that the last thing that we want is this. this would lay in the hands of daesh. daesh once the collapse of civilization between europe and between the islamic world, so that their recruitments of innocent people, innocent young people will increase. we should avoid that. one way of avoiding its, is to address the popular -- problem at the source. we are doing this in iraq, but we have to do in syria. because of people refuse to go back to their homes and their cities, they do not have to seek refugee somewhere else. and what i have also mentioned, is what the chancellor here in criminals i think the who are preying on people. these are not criminal gangs. they are not being stopped, collec
something that the usmittee of europe and should work together on. i think there is a crisis in europe about refugees. asylum-seekers. the number is huge. and i know a lot of politicians in europe, are suffering from this. is last thing that we want nationalism to rise in europe against refugees and for there to be a crisis, and some of them may win in the next election, in europe, and i think that the last thing that we want is this. this would lay in the hands of daesh. daesh once the...
Politics and Public Policy Today : CSPAN3 : February 9, 2016 11:00am-1:01pm EST
political union in europe we are a proud and independent nation with proud and independent democratic institutions that have served us well over the centuries. for us, europe is about working together to advance our shared prosperity and our shared security. it's not about being sucked into some kind of european superstate, not now, not ever. mr. speaker, the draft text set out in full the special status according to the uk and clearly carves us out of further political integration, and actually go further to make clear that eu countries don't even have to aim for a common defendant nation. this is a formal recognition of the flexible europe that britain has long been arguing for. in keeping britain out of ever-closer union. i also wanted to strengthen the role of this house and all national parliaments. we now have a prosecute proposal in the text that if brussels comes up with legislation we don't want, we can get together with other parliaments and block it with a red card, and we've also proposed a new mechanism to finally enforce the principle of subsidia subsidia subs
political union in europe we are a proud and independent nation with proud and independent democratic institutions that have served us well over the centuries. for us, europe is about working together to advance our shared prosperity and our shared security. it's not about being sucked into some kind of european superstate, not now, not ever. mr. speaker, the draft text set out in full the special status according to the uk and clearly carves us out of further political integration, and...
to europe. it is necessary to protect the rights of non-eurozone states, eu not to undermine regulations of the financial sector, including the board rooms in the city of london. pharmaceuticals says it will restate some of its past earnings. that is after a committee -- valeant says about $58 million in revenues previously recognized in 2014 should have been from subsequent periods. mark zuckerberg effectively backed apple in its privacy battle with u.s. authorities in a speech at the conference in barcelona. have backf tech firms to the refusal. apple says it will have a provision for the future, but the u.s. government says it is a one-off requests. mr. zuckerberg: we're sympathetic with apple. we believe in encryption, we think that is an important tool. honestly, people will find a way to get anything. i think it is not the right thing to try to block that from the mainstream products that people want to use. i think it is not going to be the right regulatory or economic policy to put in place. anna: global news 24 hours a day powered by our 2400 journalists in news bure
to europe. it is necessary to protect the rights of non-eurozone states, eu not to undermine regulations of the financial sector, including the board rooms in the city of london. pharmaceuticals says it will restate some of its past earnings. that is after a committee -- valeant says about $58 million in revenues previously recognized in 2014 should have been from subsequent periods. mark zuckerberg effectively backed apple in its privacy battle with u.s. authorities in a speech at the...
British Prime Minister David Cameron on U.K. Membership in the EU : CSPAN2 : February 24, 2016 5:18am-7:18am EST
, the chancellor of the exchequer, to rush to europe with an army of lawyers to oppose any regulation of the grotesque level of bankers' bonuses. it's necessary to protect the rights of non-eurozone statements but not to undermine e.u.-wide efforts to regulate the financial sector including the border -- [inaudible] stuffing in the city of london. labour stands for a different approach. that's why our members of the european parliament are opposing the the dangerous elements of the very secretive transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiation which threaten to undermine national sovereignty push down, push the privatization of public services, drive down standards for workers consumers, environment and public health. mr. speaker, human rights ought to be part of that treaty. indeed i believe it should be a feature of all trade treaties. then there is the so-called emergency brake. we support the principle of fair contribution to social security. however does the evidence not back up the claim that in work benefits are a significant draw for workers who come to britain from
, the chancellor of the exchequer, to rush to europe with an army of lawyers to oppose any regulation of the grotesque level of bankers' bonuses. it's necessary to protect the rights of non-eurozone statements but not to undermine e.u.-wide efforts to regulate the financial sector including the border -- [inaudible] stuffing in the city of london. labour stands for a different approach. that's why our members of the european parliament are opposing the the dangerous elements of the very...
morning in london. because we aret have one ofand we the biggest in europe and the largest hotel operator. withuch has this delivered 244 million? miss is a little bit of a against estimates. ceo has been in the post and they have been revamping instead of cutting costs in china. it is taking on some the upscale brands and requires a hotel reservation services. that is the background. >> we have a host of other reports. let's talk about the markets. the markets have risen for three straight days. before we went on the christmas holidays, i want to show you the breakdown of the relationship and this is the ironclad thetionship and they are euro stoxx 50 and they are all at a panic in correlation with the fever pitch and the 15 year high is dropping. sync, asfalling out of you said. during the panic, they had been moving in sync and they are reducing among the assets. is thes been happening four days do not make a year. >> it is four days of hope. >> let's check in on the risk and see what is happening in markets. this is in conjunction with the is drivingnd it markets in the short
morning in london. because we aret have one ofand we the biggest in europe and the largest hotel operator. withuch has this delivered 244 million? miss is a little bit of a against estimates. ceo has been in the post and they have been revamping instead of cutting costs in china. it is taking on some the upscale brands and requires a hotel reservation services. that is the background. >> we have a host of other reports. let's talk about the markets. the markets have risen for three...
Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : February 8, 2016 5:00am-7:01am EST
the flow of refugees bound for europe. there's pressure in germany for merkel to follow other eu countries and turn refugees away. new hampshire votes tomorrow in the first presidential primary. former president bill clinton can't hold back. mr. clinton accused bernie sanders of misleading voters. polls show sanders leading among them aquatic voters in new hampshire. in super bowl 50, denver shot down carolinas cam newton giving the broncos a 24-10 win. it may have been the last quarterback for denver -- last game for denver quarterback peyton manning. day.ll the news 24 hours a i'm vonnie quinn. tom: we've got to do super bowl chit chat, but we can't right now. markets are on the move. francine lacqua is looking at this. two-year yield in germany moves to new weakness. know,s were like, i don't negative five, negative six. forget about that. the 10-year yield comes in with a solid move. euro-dollar stable. oil, oil, oil, i'm watching. screen.e next it shows you the yields move that we are seeing right now. to german 10-year yield goes 0.25%. the two-year yield, check me on this.
the flow of refugees bound for europe. there's pressure in germany for merkel to follow other eu countries and turn refugees away. new hampshire votes tomorrow in the first presidential primary. former president bill clinton can't hold back. mr. clinton accused bernie sanders of misleading voters. polls show sanders leading among them aquatic voters in new hampshire. in super bowl 50, denver shot down carolinas cam newton giving the broncos a 24-10 win. it may have been the last quarterback...
jon: europe opens higher after the global equity selloff continues in asia. japanese equities suffer their worst week since 2008. commerzbank swings to a profit. the german bank expecting a slight increase to profit this year. we will speak to the ceo. buys more thanss $26 million of shares in the bank after they tumble to their lowest price in more than two years. that is roughly his annual salary. welcome to "the pulse" live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i'm going to take you to italy now. 0.1%talian economy growing in the fourth quarter versus an estimated 0.3%. that is a mess as i'm sure you can work out for yourself. negative news in the first 60 minutes of the session. let's bring up the equity market board for you. equities across europe rallying. commerzbank, one to watch on the dax. session highs of over 10%. the stoxx 600 by 1.73%. the ftse up by 86 points. let's get to the other asset classes. dollar-yen, 112.57. biggest weekly gain since 1998. your pro-nova, 1.12 76 -- euro-dollar, 1.1276. brent crude at $31 a barrel. let's cross over to carolin
jon: europe opens higher after the global equity selloff continues in asia. japanese equities suffer their worst week since 2008. commerzbank swings to a profit. the german bank expecting a slight increase to profit this year. we will speak to the ceo. buys more thanss $26 million of shares in the bank after they tumble to their lowest price in more than two years. that is roughly his annual salary. welcome to "the pulse" live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i'm...
Bloomberg Markets: European Close : BLOOMBERG : February 9, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST
in europe. autos, basic resources. for a seventh consecutive day, seven days of the climb to the longest losing streak since october, 2014. 2014 is below for today. at its lowest level since october 2014. this is the biggest corporate story of the day. at one stage today, this is a two day char, deutsche bank shares were up by 5% after declining on .5% yesterday. down over the two days by 13%. those gains didn't last despite deutsche bank reassuring investors. it does have cigna -- sufficient funds to pay on its riskiest that. default swaps arriving for an a day. of bothme to the junior doubled in the last three weeks. other banks are declining today. swedish mortgage lender. look at this. down by 6.3%. the biggest the client and almost two years. its chief executive after seven years in charge, the board said it is right for a change in leadership. i will tell you one thing. since he to -- took the home in march 2009, check this out. 1000%.have soared by the european financial industry according to bloomberg in that time has risen by 30%. his shares rocket in the last six years.
in europe. autos, basic resources. for a seventh consecutive day, seven days of the climb to the longest losing streak since october, 2014. 2014 is below for today. at its lowest level since october 2014. this is the biggest corporate story of the day. at one stage today, this is a two day char, deutsche bank shares were up by 5% after declining on .5% yesterday. down over the two days by 13%. those gains didn't last despite deutsche bank reassuring investors. it does have cigna -- sufficient...
Bloomberg Best : BLOOMBERG : February 15, 2016 7:00am-8:01am EST
stoxx 600 is up for a second day. european stocks looking at europe's equity benchmark heading for their biggest two-day gain since 2011. up as much as 6% over two days for today. they're up over 3% at the moment. thanks are still the worst performers this year on the stock 600. but they are some of the best performers today, along with carmakers. what's driving this optimism ha?ns: coming up on "bloomberg ? it has the biggest rally since 2013. 8.4 trillion dollars wiped from global equities this year, taking the stock 600 down as much a 17% from an april high on friday. but despite the route, strategists are still largely bullish on the stoxx 600, they are projecting a rebound on average of 23% from friday's close through the end of the year, all signs of an approving -- and improving economy. euro, this will be the currency to watch what we hear from mario draghi later today. at 3:00 p.m. brussels time, 2:00 p.m. uta time -- u.k. time. he will be speaking in front of lawmakers in the european parliament. it will be a test of his powers to whether he can still move markets, where
stoxx 600 is up for a second day. european stocks looking at europe's equity benchmark heading for their biggest two-day gain since 2011. up as much as 6% over two days for today. they're up over 3% at the moment. thanks are still the worst performers this year on the stock 600. but they are some of the best performers today, along with carmakers. what's driving this optimism ha?ns: coming up on "bloomberg ? it has the biggest rally since 2013. 8.4 trillion dollars wiped from global...
U.S. Foreign Relations Before and After 1916 : CSPAN3 : February 20, 2016 3:38am-5:30am EST
in this hour and 45-minute program include america's relations with europe, the caribbean, central america, and mexico. >> thank you for coming out. hello, my name is christopher mcknight nichols. i'm a historian at oregon state university. scholar of the u.s. role in the history of the world. my work that most pertains to our panel today is a book called "promise and peril -- america at the dawn of a global age" out in paper back. you can buy it down stairs. i had the distinction pleasure of being the chair and co-organizers of this really exciting panel, i think. and i hope you'll agree once we're done. 's not just really about foreign relations, but world relations. the spark for this panel is the centennial of the 1916 election in which wood row wilson ran on a he kept us out of war, despite the military interventions ongoing in meks keen the caribbean. marking the centennial of this election, this round table brings together superb historians with a wide array of focuses to address whether or not 1916 should be seen as the end of an era or the beginning of an era or was 1960 a
in this hour and 45-minute program include america's relations with europe, the caribbean, central america, and mexico. >> thank you for coming out. hello, my name is christopher mcknight nichols. i'm a historian at oregon state university. scholar of the u.s. role in the history of the world. my work that most pertains to our panel today is a book called "promise and peril -- america at the dawn of a global age" out in paper back. you can buy it down stairs. i had the...
Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : February 17, 2016 5:00am-7:01am EST
challenges in financial europe. was 32.ude i am watching mexican peso, nowhere near nine teen, but it is the emerging-market fracture of the morning. guy johnson, what do you have? guy: look what is happening with the dollar/en. earlier on, the end was gaining ground. a classic risk on risk working earlier. that is what is happening with the yen. futures seeing your forming stateside and european equities looking fairly firm. look at gold, the other trade at the bottom, 1202. tom: we look at natural gas a lot. go to bloomberg and look at inflation adjusted. image, thetunning low in the 1990's. this is a long-term decline in gas and supply and demand issues. we have just broken down under two dollars and are now down to a stunning low, back a good 15-years to 16-years, and gas below $2 is something to watch. making it clear that this is an oversupply issue as a we find all sorts of new oil. we have to look at asia and china. guy: as you said yesterday was a confusing day. the credit story confused a lot of people out of china. the current story of credit going up is ahead in china but is
challenges in financial europe. was 32.ude i am watching mexican peso, nowhere near nine teen, but it is the emerging-market fracture of the morning. guy johnson, what do you have? guy: look what is happening with the dollar/en. earlier on, the end was gaining ground. a classic risk on risk working earlier. that is what is happening with the yen. futures seeing your forming stateside and european equities looking fairly firm. look at gold, the other trade at the bottom, 1202. tom: we look at...
On the Move : BLOOMBERG : February 1, 2016 2:30am-4:01am EST
meetings in february, are going to be front and center. first europe, now in japan. the negative interest rate that has sently the japanese curve towards record lows. the 10-year is very close to a negative rate. nearly half are now negative. compare that to germany. 70% of the sovereign bonds are now negative. it has impact not only on central banks, investors, banks as well. hearing from the ceo of julius baer. we will get that interview cut, spliced, and diced. talk to gabriel. he says negative rates are here to stay. do we understand the implications of that if that is the case? >> not really. us totoo new to allow gauge what it means. a couple of years ago, everybody knew that interest rates cannot go negative. if they go negative, they could not go more than .5% because everyone goes into cash. cash.is no rush to negative interest rates should spur banks to lend so that they or requiredies reserves. that is not happening. we do know that negative interest rates work on the currency. that almost certainly is what the bank of japan is taking about -- is thinking about. possib
meetings in february, are going to be front and center. first europe, now in japan. the negative interest rate that has sently the japanese curve towards record lows. the 10-year is very close to a negative rate. nearly half are now negative. compare that to germany. 70% of the sovereign bonds are now negative. it has impact not only on central banks, investors, banks as well. hearing from the ceo of julius baer. we will get that interview cut, spliced, and diced. talk to gabriel. he says...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : February 17, 2016 10:00am-12:01pm EST
put the hard stuff on table first. europe had better restore the borders if not there's absolutely no future on these particular issue. that has to be a complete priority and that is a collective responsibility. in europe, for an old guy, games , we need to stop playing games and start really acting like adults. it is a collect eve responsibility if these are european borders, and since greece doesn't have enough money to pay its whatever it is. retirees, okay, all expenses associated with border control et cetera, et cetera have to cool out of the european budget. now you want me to really make it even, you know, more controversial, where will the money come from? finance minister an probably second most powerful person in europe after marco has flown, you know, on the gasoline tax. a fascinating idea. one penny per liter four liter for a quart, anding actually come u up with an awful lot of money. nobody wants to have a trial that was a led balloon but money will have come from somewhere else. what is the biggest budget item in europe? agriculture, the the entire budget. so on th
put the hard stuff on table first. europe had better restore the borders if not there's absolutely no future on these particular issue. that has to be a complete priority and that is a collective responsibility. in europe, for an old guy, games , we need to stop playing games and start really acting like adults. it is a collect eve responsibility if these are european borders, and since greece doesn't have enough money to pay its whatever it is. retirees, okay, all expenses associated with...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : February 17, 2016 8:00am-10:01am EST
europe went to war, our allies primarily england and france looked to washington, d.c. for goods and materials that they needed. washington, d.c. looked down to the textile capital of the world and all of a sudden it would contracts came funneling into this area asking the mills to begin producing for the war effort, initiative our allies and then, of course, for the united states as well. >> and on american history tv -- >> we are standing right here and this was a pretty nasty spot. it's hard to believe that looking at it one of the best parks in the country but this really was a very depressed, nasty place it at its a great story of how a community can get behind a park and start to appreciate it, cherish it river and its waterfall again. >> watch c-span cities tour saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. .. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning and welcome to this very timely event that we have entitled europe migration crisis a status report in way forward that. my name is doris meister, senior fellow here at the migration policy institute in washington dc. i direct ou
europe went to war, our allies primarily england and france looked to washington, d.c. for goods and materials that they needed. washington, d.c. looked down to the textile capital of the world and all of a sudden it would contracts came funneling into this area asking the mills to begin producing for the war effort, initiative our allies and then, of course, for the united states as well. >> and on american history tv -- >> we are standing right here and this was a pretty nasty...
News : ALJAZAM : February 4, 2016 11:00am-11:31am EST
those nations will stop the refugees wanting to travel on to europe. syrians account for 43% of more than a million refugees who arrived in europe in the last year. barnaby phillips reports from that conference. >> reporter: the u.n. calls it the worst humanitarian crisis since second world war, and it's very difficult to see how it will be end. the failure of talking in geneva made this gathering in london, all the more urgent. >> the situation is not sustainable. we cannot go on like this. there's no military solution. only political dialogue, inclusive political dialogue will rescue the syrian people from their intolerable sufferings. >> reporter: there is a depressing assumption behind this conference, that the syrian crisis will be with us for sometime to come, and therefore, donors need to look at long-term assistance, education and employment for millions of syrians in the long years before they can return home. from turkey, lebanon, and jordan, stark warnings, they cannot carry on looking after millions of syrians without more assistance. >> looking into the eyes of my people
those nations will stop the refugees wanting to travel on to europe. syrians account for 43% of more than a million refugees who arrived in europe in the last year. barnaby phillips reports from that conference. >> reporter: the u.n. calls it the worst humanitarian crisis since second world war, and it's very difficult to see how it will be end. the failure of talking in geneva made this gathering in london, all the more urgent. >> the situation is not sustainable. we cannot go on...
just more proof that the migrant crisis in europe has become a political crisis. eu nations are at odds over how to handle the situation. greece has recalled its ambassador to austria in protest , saying it will not allow itself to be treated as europe costs warehouse for refugees. thousands of migrants remain stranded at europe's orders. reporter: without a home and with no place to go, macedonia's decision to close its borders to afghan migrants is causing a logjam in greece. the greek interior ministry says more than 10,000 people were stranded in the country. afghans are devastated they are being turned away. >> we took our lives into our own hands. we are demanding not to go back because we are in danger there. >> please open the borders for us so we can move forward. we came here to save our lives. reporter: officials are also concerned such border restrictions could cause further chaos. >> we don't want to make it worse by closures, which means more people here and more resources invested in supporting the refugees here. reporter: easing of controls on border crossings is no
just more proof that the migrant crisis in europe has become a political crisis. eu nations are at odds over how to handle the situation. greece has recalled its ambassador to austria in protest , saying it will not allow itself to be treated as europe costs warehouse for refugees. thousands of migrants remain stranded at europe's orders. reporter: without a home and with no place to go, macedonia's decision to close its borders to afghan migrants is causing a logjam in greece. the greek...
. stocks in theand u.s. are closed, but in europe it is exciting. banks are leaving the game, 3.5% higher. i want to show you gold and the japanese yen. as guy was saying, this may not last through the week but you can see gold is down, the japanese yen is down. japanese yen at 113.95. guy: everything has been beaten up or bought. let's show you what is happening with euro-dollar, this is what is in front of draghi. the portuguese ten-year backing off the 4% level. that is the biggest move since 2005 in u.s. dollar-chinese onshore. look at what the nikkei did overnight, up. 7%. francine: it is incredible. the biggest gain in seven years after plunging 3% next -- last week. we are joined by marvin barth. bosomworth. marvin, what is going on with the market? it seems one day we are getting 10% and the next day we are losing 20%, and nothing fundamentally is changing other than market apprehension. andrew: we have had market apprehension hanging over the market the entire year and i think people have been reticent to take significant positions. as a result, that has taken some short-
. stocks in theand u.s. are closed, but in europe it is exciting. banks are leaving the game, 3.5% higher. i want to show you gold and the japanese yen. as guy was saying, this may not last through the week but you can see gold is down, the japanese yen is down. japanese yen at 113.95. guy: everything has been beaten up or bought. let's show you what is happening with euro-dollar, this is what is in front of draghi. the portuguese ten-year backing off the 4% level. that is the biggest move...
CSPAN2 : February 19, 2016 4:26am-4:39am EST
it. they went to europe and studied all the great cities of europe all these guys great capitals of europe. very hard they were all in paris, but he had to go off to a meeting with james cassatt, and cassette was also head of the pennsylvania railroad, and he did not want the railroad where it was. and burn them shorted not wanted where it was. what they arranged this for a tunnel basically to go under capitol hill to the south and then they would build union station so that the trains would terminate there. and i think i have exhausted all my knowledge. >> the origin of the residency. >> excuse me? now you have got me started. the origin is in the constitution of the united states. article one section eight, clause 17 which says that this is a part from the country. and that is where it began. but i think you might want more. it has been reinforced. no one knew how to govern the city. congress did not want to govern it. and so they allowed for a man and then the mayor was elected, etc. it came up 1871. 1871, i think. therefore it had a territorial governor. it did not have any elec
it. they went to europe and studied all the great cities of europe all these guys great capitals of europe. very hard they were all in paris, but he had to go off to a meeting with james cassatt, and cassette was also head of the pennsylvania railroad, and he did not want the railroad where it was. and burn them shorted not wanted where it was. what they arranged this for a tunnel basically to go under capitol hill to the south and then they would build union station so that the trains would...
News : ALJAZAM : February 25, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EST
who are trying to move through europe. 100,000 people have arrived just this year, on top of a million people who arrived in 2015. thousands of migrantss and refugees are stranded on the greek border. we're joined by hoda abdel hamid. this is one place, isn't it where those border restrictions are being felt most keenly. we can see tents behind you of people who are simply stranded now. >> reporter: absolutely this is a scene that a few days ago did not exist here. the border closed, and only 100 people have been able to go into macedonia before that. so really, a trickle of the estimated 12,000 refugees and migrants who are currently in greece according to the authorities, and you have to remember that as we speak hundreds more make their way aguess the aegean sea and land on all of these islands. and greece has said that it will not allow its country to become, really, the bottleneck for all of these, quote, stranded souls here. now there is no indication on when the border will open. macedonia says it is taking that measure simply because that same measure is happening at it
who are trying to move through europe. 100,000 people have arrived just this year, on top of a million people who arrived in 2015. thousands of migrantss and refugees are stranded on the greek border. we're joined by hoda abdel hamid. this is one place, isn't it where those border restrictions are being felt most keenly. we can see tents behind you of people who are simply stranded now. >> reporter: absolutely this is a scene that a few days ago did not exist here. the border closed, and...
The Pulse : BLOOMBERG : February 2, 2016 4:00am-5:01am EST
europe. but because there is no firm foreign policy anchori in ameria you have this increased fragmentation in europe. own.merkel is on her she has lost a lot of traction. and that has also affected the role of an perception of the role of england and great britain in europe. francine: that is a smart way of looking at it. thank you so much. stay with "the pulse." ubs's ceo telling bloomberg he is doubling down in china. 91% bob dudley explains a drop in profit. alphabet set to take over for apple as the world's most profitable company. ♪ francine: welcome back to "the pulse." have opened lower this morning. fourth-quarter earnings need estimates but company saw net money o utflows, the biggest drop since 2010. manus cranny has been speaking to the company's ceo. about negative rights. the most interesting is when he is talking about volatility. manus: volatility and a paralysis. what you are betting on now is yield.ck gives youa 5% this is going to test the mettle of ubs. they bet the strategy on dividends and wealth management. people are talking about a steady erosion. th
europe. but because there is no firm foreign policy anchori in ameria you have this increased fragmentation in europe. own.merkel is on her she has lost a lot of traction. and that has also affected the role of an perception of the role of england and great britain in europe. francine: that is a smart way of looking at it. thank you so much. stay with "the pulse." ubs's ceo telling bloomberg he is doubling down in china. 91% bob dudley explains a drop in profit. alphabet set to take...
. these are your headlines today. miners driving a rally in europe. >>> meanwhile, sterling slides to a three-week low after boris johnson becomes the most high profile supporter of brexit. >> after a great deal, i don't think there's anything else i can do. i will be advocating that. >> hsbc with europe's biggest bank misses with the fourth quarter loss and predicts a bumpy future ahead. >>> let the battle begin. one-up for the bid for retail sending argos more than 10% higher. >>> and smartphone wars in swing in barcelona. they launched new models. meanwhile sony's ceo tells cnbc they won't be competing at any price. >> instead of going after market share, we really want to push for play in the premium segment of the market and make sure we have great phones that really appeal to that market segment. if that means we're selling less phones going out the door, we're fine with that, as long as we have a profitable business. >>> hi, everybody. welcome to the show. i'm glad you're with us here this morning. i just want get you the eurozone. mi data hitting the wires. essentially what we'r
. these are your headlines today. miners driving a rally in europe. >>> meanwhile, sterling slides to a three-week low after boris johnson becomes the most high profile supporter of brexit. >> after a great deal, i don't think there's anything else i can do. i will be advocating that. >> hsbc with europe's biggest bank misses with the fourth quarter loss and predicts a bumpy future ahead. >>> let the battle begin. one-up for the bid for retail sending argos more...
has been a big part of the strategy. one of the big decliners in europe, down by 9% with about 25 minutes left of today's session. as i said, every industry roup is getting slammed today. brendan: only five hours of light left today in stockholm anyway. nine hours away from the close of trading today anyway. to be hard to find reason happy if you are along the stock market indeed. losses continue to accelerate. less than two percentage points away from entering a bear market. going back to a closing high july 20, we are more than 18%. the losses just keep accelerating. the usual suspects. the cap technology continuing the selloff with the nasdaq under performance. facebook and amazon are down once again. the banks continue to sell lots of the worst performing far in 2016. 6%. of america declining what is going on here yet so we continue to see the collapse in the bond deal. the two in 10 year notes, we will see .67%. also, as we continue to seek, a compression of the yield curve thought to be bad news for the banks for a variety of different reasons. opec ministers furiously meeti
has been a big part of the strategy. one of the big decliners in europe, down by 9% with about 25 minutes left of today's session. as i said, every industry roup is getting slammed today. brendan: only five hours of light left today in stockholm anyway. nine hours away from the close of trading today anyway. to be hard to find reason happy if you are along the stock market indeed. losses continue to accelerate. less than two percentage points away from entering a bear market. going back to a...
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MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 6:00am-7:01am PST
. >> likely to see the same thing with mattis on the same topics. >> and especially pompeo. poor pompeo. >> that was quite a show this morning. that does it for us this morning here on "morning joe." brian williams picks up the coverageight now. >> it's always quite a show. thank you very much. and good morning, everyone. we're going to be talking about one hearing in particular this morning but also three of them concurrently in addition to general mattis there on the far left getting underway at 9:30, we have mike pompeo at 10 and dr. ben carson at hud 10:00 a.m. as well. the tillerson hearing continues as well. there is mattis on the far left, pompeo on the right. i guess they're preparing in chambers. tillerson actually is done for the day i'm told. at the studio here with us, we have katie ter and nicole wallace. >> general mattis is the singling most comforting decision that donald trump has made since the moment it was known that he would be our next commander in chief. and his appointment gives comfort to the intelligence community, very much in the spotlight and in the headline
. >> likely to see the same thing with mattis on the same topics. >> and especially pompeo. poor pompeo. >> that was quite a show this morning. that does it for us this morning here on "morning joe." brian williams picks up the coverageight now. >> it's always quite a show. thank you very much. and good morning, everyone. we're going to be talking about one hearing in particular this morning but also three of them concurrently in addition to general mattis...
MSNBC Live With Steve Kornacki : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
, donald trump there for the intering in of james mattis as his defense secretary. now mattis was confirmed by the senate last friday. he was officially sworn in that evening. he has been on the job since then. this is the most ceremonial swearing in. cameras, speeches, pomp, circumstance, that sort of thing. we are also expecting though that on this visit to the pentagon, trump will announce new executive orders. dealing potentially with refugees, with military readiness, and with national security. more on that in just a second. but to the matter at hand right now. the swearing in of james mattis, this is taking on new significance in light of several comments from trump this week that have caused quite a stir with the president insisting several times that he believes torture is effective. that is a declaration that has set off all kinds of alarm bells. trump also repeatedly saying that he will defer on the subject to mattis. to his defense secretary. this came up again a few hours ago. and this is what the president's saying. >> we have a great general who has just been appoin
, donald trump there for the intering in of james mattis as his defense secretary. now mattis was confirmed by the senate last friday. he was officially sworn in that evening. he has been on the job since then. this is the most ceremonial swearing in. cameras, speeches, pomp, circumstance, that sort of thing. we are also expecting though that on this visit to the pentagon, trump will announce new executive orders. dealing potentially with refugees, with military readiness, and with national...
MTP Daily : MSNBCW : January 20, 2017 2:00pm-3:01pm PST
saw him sign, the waiver for mattis and the declaring national patriot day, what are the first actions, the the first sort of subtantive action was that very obscure fha action. and what it speaks to is personnels policy, people that know how to get to the person that can make a decision who can work their way through can get things done and particularly in this period of uncertainty, when things aren't very well staffed, folks that managed to get stuff done early can have a really, really profound effect very early on. >> what it reminds me of is during the republican national convention when there were the basic things about conventions and getting people in place and having, you know, your platform stuff together and having your vote counting operations. all of this basic stuff didn't happen, but, there was an incredibly tightly managed, incredibly aggressive push to have pro-russia, anti-ukraine language changed in the republican platform around not providing lethal military aid to the ukrainians who were fighting against putin's militias in eastern ukraine. and it was a wa
saw him sign, the waiver for mattis and the declaring national patriot day, what are the first actions, the the first sort of subtantive action was that very obscure fha action. and what it speaks to is personnels policy, people that know how to get to the person that can make a decision who can work their way through can get things done and particularly in this period of uncertainty, when things aren't very well staffed, folks that managed to get stuff done early can have a really, really...
Morning Joe : MSNBCW : January 13, 2017 3:00am-6:01am PST
. general james mattis and mike pompeo and ben carson, all facing tough questions. a third straight day, trump's cabinet picks broke from policies the president-elect campaigned on. even statements that there soon to be commander in chief was making as recently as this week. take a look. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. >> i have no belief and do not support the idea that muslims, as a religious group, should be denied admission to the united states. >> i don't think it's ever appropriate to focus on something like religion as the only factor. >> when mexico sends their people. they are bringing drugs, they are committing crimes and some, i believe, are good people. >> do you believe mexicans are criminals, drug dealers, and rapists? >> i would never characterized an entire population with any single term at all. >> we are going to build a wall. if they ever get up, they are saying, oh, man, how do i get down from this wall. >> a physical barrier will
. general james mattis and mike pompeo and ben carson, all facing tough questions. a third straight day, trump's cabinet picks broke from policies the president-elect campaigned on. even statements that there soon to be commander in chief was making as recently as this week. take a look. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. >> i have no belief and do...
Andrea Mitchell Reports : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 9:00am-10:01am PST
veteran, now retired marine general james mattis being confirmed fsecretay of defense. we've been watching congressman pompeo, the trump nominee for cia. and in the lower right a hearing we have not been dwelling on but is going on nonetheless, dr. ben carson for housing and urban development n. a moment, we will play for you one of the more heated exchanges from that hearing between dr. ben carson and senator elizabeth warren, democrat, of the commonwealth of massachusetts. some highlights, though, from the other two hearings that have a military and intelligence, slash, national security bent. the headline by one way of viewing them is that both nominees, mattis and pompeo are way out ahead of donald trump, the president-elect. that is to say, a much more traditional view of u.s./russia policy and u.s./putin policy. looking at the quotes i have wrich down from general mattis on the subject of putin, first of all, senator mccain started off by saying putin will never be our partner. general mattis said of russia, they are an adversary. there are an increasing number of areas wher
veteran, now retired marine general james mattis being confirmed fsecretay of defense. we've been watching congressman pompeo, the trump nominee for cia. and in the lower right a hearing we have not been dwelling on but is going on nonetheless, dr. ben carson for housing and urban development n. a moment, we will play for you one of the more heated exchanges from that hearing between dr. ben carson and senator elizabeth warren, democrat, of the commonwealth of massachusetts. some highlights,...
figures, defense secretary jim mattis, homeland security john kelly and rex tillerson said they are not aware of details of directives until around the time trump signed it. leading intelligence officials were also left largely in the dark. according to u.s. officials the report goes on. quote, mattis, who stood next to trump during friday's signing ceremony is said to be particularly incensed. mattis along with joint chief charms joseph dunford was aware of the general concept of trump's order but not detail. materials tells advisers he was baffled over not being consulted on the contents of the order. insiders blasted communication with the hill as terrible. newt gingrich said the problem they have got, this is an off broadway performance of a show that is now the number one hit on broadway. aides confirmed to nbc news neither house chairman michael mcfaul or house chairman bob goodle goodlatte. they helped trump draft order but party leadership were not informed. >> so these people who worked for the chairman of the judiciary committee did it behind his back and did not inform him. >
figures, defense secretary jim mattis, homeland security john kelly and rex tillerson said they are not aware of details of directives until around the time trump signed it. leading intelligence officials were also left largely in the dark. according to u.s. officials the report goes on. quote, mattis, who stood next to trump during friday's signing ceremony is said to be particularly incensed. mattis along with joint chief charms joseph dunford was aware of the general concept of trump's...
MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 7:00am-8:01am PST
this morning. general mattis began his long and distinguished career and -- >> the 10 a.m. hour has arrived here in the east and i'm use a respectful gulf whisper. we're going to just dip out of the mattis confirmation hearing as senator reed from rhode island speaks before we hear from general mattis. to set the scene and show you what else is happening on the hill. we do have these two other important confirmation hearings. on the left, the future hoped for cia director congressman pompeiiio, his hearing in front of senate intelligence and on the right, dr. ben carson, who has been put up for housing and urban development. you see senators from both committees taking their positions. we just wanted to set the scene. we have kelly o'donnell standing by again, as she said an hour ago, her usual position in the hallway outside the hearing room. kelly? >> brian, i've been drifting between where dr. hearing's is and behind us is the building where the cia director designate's hearing is going on. at a time where the intelligence community could not be more at the center of the national
this morning. general mattis began his long and distinguished career and -- >> the 10 a.m. hour has arrived here in the east and i'm use a respectful gulf whisper. we're going to just dip out of the mattis confirmation hearing as senator reed from rhode island speaks before we hear from general mattis. to set the scene and show you what else is happening on the hill. we do have these two other important confirmation hearings. on the left, the future hoped for cia director congressman...
cia interrogation where the president has new people and the president after listening to jim mattis, i'm not so sure about torture. all of a sudden, he is back in the thick of that very divisive painful issue. >> then last night, david, you know, we have talked about this a good bit and i have tried the past several days to get clarification on what is torture, where does waterboarding fit. obviously, we consider that to be torture. but part of that exercise was i knew the president was speaking in an exact way, that he was talking about torture when what he meant to say was enhanced interrogation techniques. he tried to clear it up last night but that doesn't really matter because theresa may comes to the united states. he is talking about ftore furor which is illegal and nobody is going to allow that to happen. but she comes over and has to clear that up because of his inaccident language and makes her position far more tenuous, as well as republicans on the hill and americans standing in the world. >> a brief last thought on this, joe. never want to say that president trump shoul
cia interrogation where the president has new people and the president after listening to jim mattis, i'm not so sure about torture. all of a sudden, he is back in the thick of that very divisive painful issue. >> then last night, david, you know, we have talked about this a good bit and i have tried the past several days to get clarification on what is torture, where does waterboarding fit. obviously, we consider that to be torture. but part of that exercise was i knew the president was...
at how james mattis and ben carson handled their hearings. stay tuned. : this mom didn't hae to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite's exclusive "on my way text" she knew exactly when i'd be there, so she didn't miss a single shot. i replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most. tech: how'd ya do? player: we won! tech: nice! that's another safelite advantage. mom: thank you so much! (team sing) safelite repair, safelite replace. >>> welcome back. it was a big day for vice president biden. we'll show you the emotional surprise he got from president obama later in the show. >>> but first, earlier today. my colleague andrea mitchell sat down with the vice president for what we like to describe as a wide-ranging interview. this one actually was. the vp was, you know, mixed with serious policy and some laughter. here you go. >> one of the big issues is he said drain the swamp. now he is -- [ laughing ] >> yesterday he repeated that he's not going to release his taxes, ever, and said he doesn't need a blind trust. h
at how james mattis and ben carson handled their hearings. stay tuned. : this mom didn't hae to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite's exclusive "on my way text" she knew exactly when i'd be there, so she didn't miss a single shot. i replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most. tech: how'd ya do? player: we won! tech: nice! that's another safelite advantage. mom: thank you so much! (team sing) safelite repair,...
MSNBC Live With Kate Snow : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 12:00pm-1:01pm PST
, however, he again reiterated he is going to defer to his soon-to-be defense secretary james mattis who is going to be sworn in this afternoon and who has said he is opposed to water boarding. still the mere talk of it does rattle some world leaders. one more point i'll make. you heard him talk about that relationship, part of the goal of today was to reaffirm the so-called special relationship between the united states and britain, and underscoring all of that the fact that this was his first meeting with a foreign leader. so this was significant, a host of topics, trade, brexit, whether there will abtrade deal between the u.s. and britain. again, all aimed at reaffirming that relationship and ally. >> he heads over to the pentagon and briefly again, what do we expect there and also if you could forshadow tomorrow because i know he has a bunch of calls on his plate. >> he does. today i'm hearing according to my conversations he is going to sign three executive orders. one that has to do with vetting it we aren't getting the specifics but there has been talk about this extreme vetting, the
, however, he again reiterated he is going to defer to his soon-to-be defense secretary james mattis who is going to be sworn in this afternoon and who has said he is opposed to water boarding. still the mere talk of it does rattle some world leaders. one more point i'll make. you heard him talk about that relationship, part of the goal of today was to reaffirm the so-called special relationship between the united states and britain, and underscoring all of that the fact that this was his first...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 11:00pm-11:31pm PST
declassify it. what's so striking is we sat through the confirmation hearings with general mattis and pompeo today. i've been awake a long time, sorry. and you just can't fathom those guys operating the way you just described. so they're not going to consume or traffic or tolerate, you know. mattis, who is known as this intellectual force of nature the world over, i can't imagine him tolerating this. so i think there's one scenario where they're around him and able to change him. but there's another far more terrifying and perhaps more likely scenario where he's a leopard who can't change his spots. >> we're going to watch lindsey graham again on this trump tweet yesterday that compared u.s. intelligence, if they leaked this in any way, to nazi germany. here's what senator graham said. >> i don't think it's helpful for the commander in chief to question the competency, loyalty of those who are risking their lives to defend the nation. and the last thing i will say about anything working in the american intelligence community is to compare them to nazi germany. i can only imagine what
declassify it. what's so striking is we sat through the confirmation hearings with general mattis and pompeo today. i've been awake a long time, sorry. and you just can't fathom those guys operating the way you just described. so they're not going to consume or traffic or tolerate, you know. mattis, who is known as this intellectual force of nature the world over, i can't imagine him tolerating this. so i think there's one scenario where they're around him and able to change him. but there's...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 1:00am-2:01am PST
more democratic no votes to more trump nominees. >> well, take mattis. >> go ahead. >> take defense secretary mattis. you're right kirsten is the only one that's voted against every nominee to come before us because she's the only one who voted against mattis and i think mattis is against torture. mattis is a well-respected intellectual. we know we can't stop these nominees but, believe me, he's one of the best picks that we've seen among all the nominees. >> obviously general mattis' vote was overwhelming as you said. we've seen overwhelming votes for nikki haley and john kelly at department of homeland security. should we just -- is there an overall democratic strategy around these things or is every senator making their ownall because there's no democratic plan to stand together on these? >> you're right. we had a retreat this weekend. we talked about nominations and you talk about devos she's someone that there's not going to be one democratic vote for her and we're trying to find republicans who will vote against her because she's an ideologue who knows next to nothing about ed
more democratic no votes to more trump nominees. >> well, take mattis. >> go ahead. >> take defense secretary mattis. you're right kirsten is the only one that's voted against every nominee to come before us because she's the only one who voted against mattis and i think mattis is against torture. mattis is a well-respected intellectual. we know we can't stop these nominees but, believe me, he's one of the best picks that we've seen among all the nominees. >> obviously...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : January 20, 2017 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
going to see a big improvement, really, and i just want to tell you that general mattis was just approved by the senate. [ applause ] first one. general kelly was just approved by the senate. [ applause ] and wouldn't it -- isn't it something? two generals are the first ones. with all the people and all the politicians, the generals get approved first. maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. maybe that's the what i -- now, we have some folks right now in afghanistan, right? and i think they hear me. there's about a six-second delay, but i think they hear me. do you guys hear me? i think, maybe? let's see how good we're doing. yeah, they hear me! they hear me! they hear me! how is it over there? how's it going? >> good. go ahead. what question do you have. don't be like these people. don't be too tough on me. go ahead. >> hi, sir. i'm specialist tia kneesen of first division united states army. i would just like to say congratulations to your new position. >> thank you very much. that's so nice. thank you. thank you. that's very nice. thank you. we couldn't hear too clearly, but
going to see a big improvement, really, and i just want to tell you that general mattis was just approved by the senate. [ applause ] first one. general kelly was just approved by the senate. [ applause ] and wouldn't it -- isn't it something? two generals are the first ones. with all the people and all the politicians, the generals get approved first. maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. maybe that's the what i -- now, we have some folks right now in afghanistan, right? and i think they...
quick note on this meeting here, mattis will be meeting in the tank with the joint chiefs and president trump. they had dinner a couple of nights ago, all they white house about a two-hour meeting to discuss a range of issues. so we'll see whether or not there are actually any tasking orders or presidential directives to the present gone saying come up with some new plans to accelerate the plan. >> and mattis has been sworn in. he got his hair cut at the pentagon. the price is $12. you go in, you ask for a hair cut and they have one question, civilian or military? i'll get back to you on whether he asked for a civilian or military. >> hans, i don't know what we would do without you. thank you, pal. ambassador, hair cuts aside, i want to get your reaction on what we just heard from kellyanne conway. she said the lifting of sanctions on russia is under consideration. overall reaction to that, perhaps unsurprising maybe? >> this administration likes to lay out a lot of different options and create leverage for possible concessions. isis remains the priority for president trump an
quick note on this meeting here, mattis will be meeting in the tank with the joint chiefs and president trump. they had dinner a couple of nights ago, all they white house about a two-hour meeting to discuss a range of issues. so we'll see whether or not there are actually any tasking orders or presidential directives to the present gone saying come up with some new plans to accelerate the plan. >> and mattis has been sworn in. he got his hair cut at the pentagon. the price is $12. you...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 11:00am-12:01pm PST
the role of intelligence agencies dominated today's conversations. retired general james mattis and mike. general mattis overcame a major hurdle to become secretary of defense, getting a much needed waiver on the armed services committee. after a snafu delayed his hearing, pompeo got down to brass tacks answering questions on torture. >> the cia will play a role for this administration. i'm confident the president-elect trump will not only accept that but demand that. it's pretty clear about what took place here. about russian involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on american democracy. but this was an aggressive action taken by the senior leadership inside of russia. i have no doubt that the discourse that's been taking place is something that vladimir putin would look at and say, wow, that was among the objectives that i had. >> the president-elect's national security adviser general flynn has been quoted as saying the cia has become a very political organization. do you believe that? >> i have -- my experience is i have not seen that. >> if you were ord
the role of intelligence agencies dominated today's conversations. retired general james mattis and mike. general mattis overcame a major hurdle to become secretary of defense, getting a much needed waiver on the armed services committee. after a snafu delayed his hearing, pompeo got down to brass tacks answering questions on torture. >> the cia will play a role for this administration. i'm confident the president-elect trump will not only accept that but demand that. it's pretty clear...
Andrea Mitchell Reports : MSNBCW : January 4, 2017 9:00am-10:01am PST
hearings begin for general mattis in this. is there something to the politics or opt particulars of holding a news conference overlapping with these hearings for rex tillerson or perhaps general mattis? >> yes. democrats have made no secret, peter, that they believe rex tillerson's financial interests, the extent to which they have been scrutinized, are problematic for him as well as his relationships in russia. that will be part of a pretty aggressive questioning of him. trump, whatever you think of him, you need to give him credit for understanding of how people's attention gets maneuvered and manipulated. a donald trump press conference would be full stop of anything that would happen that day short of the super bowl. if there's a concern about tillerson and his performance, you would not -- or mattis, you would not be wrong to put something else that could zap attention away from that on that day. >> i'm thinking attorney general jeff sessions likely, who do you think is the most vulnerable as we look at some of these donald trump picks? >> i think attorney general jeff sessions
hearings begin for general mattis in this. is there something to the politics or opt particulars of holding a news conference overlapping with these hearings for rex tillerson or perhaps general mattis? >> yes. democrats have made no secret, peter, that they believe rex tillerson's financial interests, the extent to which they have been scrutinized, are problematic for him as well as his relationships in russia. that will be part of a pretty aggressive questioning of him. trump, whatever...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : January 30, 2017 9:00am-10:01am PST
the defense secretary from general mattis, one from general kelly at homeland security. in one case general mattis, excluding iraqis who have helped our military during the war, the other from homeland, excluding people with green cards and permanent, and citizens and permanent visas. these are the clarifications indicating there was not effective consultation with these cabinet level people with the different national security officials prior to the executive order. >> reporter: that's exactly right. the folks at the white house insist to us they communicated as necessary with all the appropriate people. we're hearing the inner agency communication did not happen. what you're reporting flies in the face of what we've been hearing from aides here at the white house, who insist the implementation of this policy was, in their words, a massive success story. obviously the swift reaction around the country has shown a very different reality going forward. they've also pushed back insisting that this is ultimately a decision that was implemented in effect by the obama administration by i
the defense secretary from general mattis, one from general kelly at homeland security. in one case general mattis, excluding iraqis who have helped our military during the war, the other from homeland, excluding people with green cards and permanent, and citizens and permanent visas. these are the clarifications indicating there was not effective consultation with these cabinet level people with the different national security officials prior to the executive order. >> reporter: that's...
setting policy. >> the national security -- already you can tell the flynn/mattis thing will be an issue. >> general flynn. >> the general rivalry -- you can't tell me. mattis kind of reports to flynn. flynn used to have to salute mattis. that's awkward. >> it's likely a dynamic that will only build. my experience -- i did not work closely with the defense secretary but defense secretaries and generals particularly don't like to be told what to do. and certainly general mattis, so accomplished, probably doesn't feel he needs to be told how his agency should be staffed. >> quickly on this larger issue of -- does any of these cabinet -- any of them really in trouble or not? i think on paper you could say, geez, seems to be a little bit of a challenge for price, a little bit of a challenge -- today i thought steve mnuchin handled himself better than expected. >> they'll vote against sessions, devos. those two. i think there will be unified opposition but i don't think -- their ideological problems -- >> even ben carson, who i didn't think was qualified for the agency did okay in the h
setting policy. >> the national security -- already you can tell the flynn/mattis thing will be an issue. >> general flynn. >> the general rivalry -- you can't tell me. mattis kind of reports to flynn. flynn used to have to salute mattis. that's awkward. >> it's likely a dynamic that will only build. my experience -- i did not work closely with the defense secretary but defense secretaries and generals particularly don't like to be told what to do. and certainly general...
about james mattis, pick for defense secretary. we thought he was going to have a number of different hearings. we're hearing one of them is being held off. what's the deal? what's going on? >> reporter: well, the unusual thing with james mattis is because he's only been out of uniform for three or four years, that does not meet the requirement to be the secretary of defense. the law states very clearly, it must be seven years or more. so, unlike the confirmation process, which is playing out here, for mattis it would be a two-step process, where congress would have to pass a new law -- it's not just a waiver, conversationally we can call it that, that would exempt him from that requirement. that means the house would be involved. confirmation is just the job of the senate. the house is not going to hear testimony from mattis but, instead, just take the vote on the floor. it's widely expected this waiver, again in the conversational way, will be granted, but they're just removing one of those steps. now, there are people in the house side who would say they to want hear from james mat
about james mattis, pick for defense secretary. we thought he was going to have a number of different hearings. we're hearing one of them is being held off. what's the deal? what's going on? >> reporter: well, the unusual thing with james mattis is because he's only been out of uniform for three or four years, that does not meet the requirement to be the secretary of defense. the law states very clearly, it must be seven years or more. so, unlike the confirmation process, which is...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : January 31, 2017 8:00am-9:01am PST
trump's executive order on travel and immigration. defense secretary james mattis, secretary john kelly and rex tillerson all reportedly left out. each of these men, quote, have told associates they were not aware of details of the directive until around the time trump signed it. the same report says that although mattis stood next to the president during friday's signing ceremony, mattis is said to be particularly incensed. some lawmakers said they were left out of the planning stages. aides confirmed neither house, homeland security mccall or been bob goodlatte were consulted, and some on goodlatte's staffers were involved. according to reports, trump made the staffers sign nondisclosure agreements. let's start with the staffers who reportedly were working on this without the knowledge of their superiors and their bosses. when are we looking at the timeline when this all started rolling here? >> there's new information a little bit go, bob goodlatte told a closed meeting of house republicans that his staffers were in fact working during the transition period and helped on some o
trump's executive order on travel and immigration. defense secretary james mattis, secretary john kelly and rex tillerson all reportedly left out. each of these men, quote, have told associates they were not aware of details of the directive until around the time trump signed it. the same report says that although mattis stood next to the president during friday's signing ceremony, mattis is said to be particularly incensed. some lawmakers said they were left out of the planning stages. aides...
For the Record With Greta : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 3:00pm-4:01pm PST
in for secretary james mattis and signing executive action. >> rebuilding of the armed services united states. definitelying a plan for new planes, ships, resources and new tools for our men and women in uniform. i'm proud to be doing this. secondly i'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. we don't want them here. >> the president not giving specifics on the vetting, but he said pure cuted will be giveren priority. >> if you were christian in syria, it was tough to get to into the united states. if you were muslim you could come in. if you were christian it was almost impossible. the reason it was unfair it's because everybody was per cuted they were chopping off the heads of everybody and i thought it was unfair. >> another busy bay for the president beginning with hour long phone call with the president of mexico. and tomorrow by phone with vladimir putin. today he theresa may at the white house. check out this moment. >> mr. president, you said before that torture works, you praised russian you said want to
in for secretary james mattis and signing executive action. >> rebuilding of the armed services united states. definitelying a plan for new planes, ships, resources and new tools for our men and women in uniform. i'm proud to be doing this. secondly i'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. we don't want them here. >> the president not giving specifics on the vetting, but he said pure cuted will be giveren...
. comments are contradictory by statements design signed by general mattis. and he said the increase -- he also criticized trump for saying his company spends too little to financial nato, saying they mkek a gigantic contribution. trump's comments more favorable in russia. here in the u.k., his comments were met with open armed. a spokesman for the prime minister said she welcomes president-elect trump's commit to working on a trade deal with britain. the president-elect has promised a swift and bilateral trade deal with the u.k. they expect the president-elect and the british prime minister to meet shortly after his inauguration. very important for england to have a trade deal with the united states as they head out of the european union. but the rest of the europe somewhat anxious to president-elect trump's comments. hallie? >> ali arouzi, thank you so much. ambassador, every time you're on, ambassador, i feel like we have so much to discuss. listen to this. >> nato, in my opinion, is obsolete because it's not covering terrorism. >> i think nato may be obsolete. it was set up a long time
. comments are contradictory by statements design signed by general mattis. and he said the increase -- he also criticized trump for saying his company spends too little to financial nato, saying they mkek a gigantic contribution. trump's comments more favorable in russia. here in the u.k., his comments were met with open armed. a spokesman for the prime minister said she welcomes president-elect trump's commit to working on a trade deal with britain. the president-elect has promised a swift...
that, but what is going on? >> well, that is a real big question for both general mattis and mike pompeo, the defense secretary and new cia director who were both greeted by this news as they began to take over their responsibilities and their respective agencies and departments. it is a concern. the administration seems to have pivoted into this new space which goes counter to the testimony that was just given a week ago by members of the incoming cabinet that were asked directly would you engage in this if ordered by the president? is this a policy of the united states going forward? and their answer was emphatically no. members of capitol hill, certainly the leadership have raised eyebrows about this. so to the point that sam was just making about what does this mean two or three months from now, i think that is what we are going to have to wait and see how the administration flushes this out. more importantly whether or not mike pompeo or general mattis are going to carry that water in the succeeding weeks and months. >> that, i think, is one of the big questions and so far we
that, but what is going on? >> well, that is a real big question for both general mattis and mike pompeo, the defense secretary and new cia director who were both greeted by this news as they began to take over their responsibilities and their respective agencies and departments. it is a concern. the administration seems to have pivoted into this new space which goes counter to the testimony that was just given a week ago by members of the incoming cabinet that were asked directly would...
MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 10:00am-11:01am PST
james mattis, and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture or waterboarding or however you want to define it, enhanced interrogation i guess would be a word that a lot of words that a lot of people would like to use. i don't necessarily agree but i would tell you that he will override because i'm giving him that power. he's an expert. he's highly respected. he's the general's general, got through the senate very, very quickly, which in this country is not easy, i will tell you, and so i'm going to rely on him. i happen to feel that it does work. i've been open about that for a long period of time, but i am going with our leaders. and we're going to win with or without but i do disagree. as far as again putin and russia, i don't say good, bad or indifferent. i don't know the gentleman. i hope we have a fantastic relationship. that's possible, and it's also possible that we won't. we will see what happens. i will be representing the american people very, very strongly, very forcefully, and if we have a great relationship with russia and others cou
james mattis, and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture or waterboarding or however you want to define it, enhanced interrogation i guess would be a word that a lot of words that a lot of people would like to use. i don't necessarily agree but i would tell you that he will override because i'm giving him that power. he's an expert. he's highly respected. he's the general's general, got through the senate very, very quickly, which in this country is not easy, i...
back. secretary jim mattis will never officially tolerate this and i doubt the cia will either. >> as a four-star general, the fact that to my first question, when i said do you believe the president, the president of the united states and you had to answer, i'm not sure, how does that make you feel? >> well, i think to be honest it's a disgraceful situation. the u.s. has a set of national values that we try to live up to, not always but they are as spirational in nature. publicly epousing torture, erodes our standing in the world. it's part of our power. we aspire to be a people who live up to the law. again, i'm real -- actually appalled. this happened before during the bush administration, bush 43 administration with secretary cheney. we had a bunch of washington lawyers all agreed that enhanced interrogation, we were torturing people. i think we killed people under our control both iraq and afghanistan both the agency and the u.s. armed forces. so we close that door thank god. we got an army manual that says how we deal with detainees under your control. that's what we got to live u
back. secretary jim mattis will never officially tolerate this and i doubt the cia will either. >> as a four-star general, the fact that to my first question, when i said do you believe the president, the president of the united states and you had to answer, i'm not sure, how does that make you feel? >> well, i think to be honest it's a disgraceful situation. the u.s. has a set of national values that we try to live up to, not always but they are as spirational in nature. publicly...
general mattis and others? >> the law the congress passed restricts the intelligence community to the techniques included in the army field manual. if this executive order goes around that law by essentially saying, okay, fine, we're going to edit the army field manual, that's a potential problem. a lot of these republicans went through a very difficult, very emotional debate. a lot of them have read speaker ryan, speaker mcconnell both get high level briefings not available to others. there was a torture report that says pretty clearly that these techniques did not work, that they had the opposite effect, they damaged -- potentially created false information for intelligence communities. this is going to be a major sticking point in the president in consultation with mattis and pompeo go forward with this. >> i want to go to kristen welker standing by at the white house before president trump leaves and heads here to philadelphia in the next 15 to 20 minutes, this is a key meeting between the new president and republican lawmakers, you've been told this is kind of a big moment for th
general mattis and others? >> the law the congress passed restricts the intelligence community to the techniques included in the army field manual. if this executive order goes around that law by essentially saying, okay, fine, we're going to edit the army field manual, that's a potential problem. a lot of these republicans went through a very difficult, very emotional debate. a lot of them have read speaker ryan, speaker mcconnell both get high level briefings not available to others....
The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell : MSNBCW : January 20, 2017 7:00pm-8:01pm PST
general mad dog mattis was approved, was approved tonight. the senate approved. he was first, and i went to sign and mike pence, who's coming out in a second, you saw what happened, right? he just swore him in. and general kelly, the border -- the border. oh, we're going to have a border again. he was approved tonight by the senate. so we're starting to work and we're going to do a great job. we are not going to let you down. remember, the theme, make america great again and make america great again, i'll tell you what, i have added since i got to know so many people in this country, greater than ever before. it will happen. so i want to thank everybody for being with us and for sticking with us us. it's been an amazing experience. now the fun begins, okay? now this fun begins. we're going to do a really good job and i will be fighting every single day for you. thank you, everybody. thank you and have a great time. thank you. >> and now the president and first lady of the united states will take their first dance. ladies and gentlemen, the first couple donald and melania trump. ♪
general mad dog mattis was approved, was approved tonight. the senate approved. he was first, and i went to sign and mike pence, who's coming out in a second, you saw what happened, right? he just swore him in. and general kelly, the border -- the border. oh, we're going to have a border again. he was approved tonight by the senate. so we're starting to work and we're going to do a great job. we are not going to let you down. remember, the theme, make america great again and make america great...
First Look : MSNBCW : January 12, 2017 2:00am-3:01am PST
. >>> all right, louis. >>> james mattis will no longer meet with the house arms services committee today. he was scheduled to talk to members today. he retired from the marine corps in 2013. the democratic ranking member of the committee, adam schiff says mattis was willing to testify but the trump transition team wouldn't allow him to. schiff says he probably would have supported the waiver, but would plan to vote no if they don't hear from the general. a spokeswoman for the transition team said in a statement that he's following the constitutional process for confirmation. >>> his pick for the head of the veteran affairs in a rare move by keeping a member of the obama administration on board. trump has tapped david shulkin to lead the va. he serveds for under secretary of health at the department. he's also tasked for focus on reducing waiting time for care. he is well-known to us, a man of character, and has been a trusted partner for the iava. however, his selection is unprecedent unprecedented. our membership overwhelmingly supported the selection of a veteran for this critica
. >>> all right, louis. >>> james mattis will no longer meet with the house arms services committee today. he was scheduled to talk to members today. he retired from the marine corps in 2013. the democratic ranking member of the committee, adam schiff says mattis was willing to testify but the trump transition team wouldn't allow him to. schiff says he probably would have supported the waiver, but would plan to vote no if they don't hear from the general. a spokeswoman for the...
secretary of defense nomi e nominee. general mattis who said we'd have to invent it. it is the greatest alliance in history. >> we're going to play some of general mattis' comments in a moment, but in simple terms. it seems as if you speak, i'm curious he'll tell you. it seems if there is a fundamental misunderstanding that nato plays just beyond relating to russ and putin, throughout other regions of the middle east. >> they've been key allies. nato has been part of the alliance in afghanistan for allful these years since just after 9/11. nato has sacrificed, nato soldiers have paid a heavy price in the netherlands, from throughout -- afghanistan and elsewhere. the night against terror. it's a mumt misunderstanding of what nato does, number one. it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the importance of angela merckle to criticize here migration policy at a time when she is under fire politically at home -- >> what's the risk to that in real terms. >> well, it's disrupting the alliance. the oldest atlantic alliance that we have. and i can tell you the french and the germans are deeply up
secretary of defense nomi e nominee. general mattis who said we'd have to invent it. it is the greatest alliance in history. >> we're going to play some of general mattis' comments in a moment, but in simple terms. it seems as if you speak, i'm curious he'll tell you. it seems if there is a fundamental misunderstanding that nato plays just beyond relating to russ and putin, throughout other regions of the middle east. >> they've been key allies. nato has been part of the alliance...
effort to repeal and replace obamacare but seems skeptical. >>> plus, james mattis wins a major victory in his bid for confirmation. those stories and much more are coming up next. it's not just a car... it's your daily retreat. go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. comes complete with six benefits in one bottle. so you and your family are completely ready to rise to the occasion. perhaps that's why listerine® users are more likely to lend a helping hand. six bold benefits. one take-charge family. bring out the bold™. bounty is more absorbent,mom" per roll so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty, the quicker picker upper ♪ >>> welcome back, everyone. i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. it's the top of the hour, we'll get you started with the top stories here. >> and the fbi is looking into james comey's handling of the hillary clinton e-mails. >>> and president obama is ending the policy that grants residency to cubans who arrive in the u.s. without visas. tens
effort to repeal and replace obamacare but seems skeptical. >>> plus, james mattis wins a major victory in his bid for confirmation. those stories and much more are coming up next. it's not just a car... it's your daily retreat. go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. comes complete with six benefits in one bottle. so you and your family are completely ready to rise to the occasion. perhaps that's why listerine® users are more likely to lend...
All In With Chris Hayes : MSNBCW : January 20, 2017 12:00am-1:01am PST
his nominees confirmed tomorrow, his first day in office, james mattis, secretary of defense john kelly, secretary of homeland security and possibly mike pompeo as cia director. that's compared to seven for both president obama and george w. bush. but the cabinet is only the tip of the proverbial federal bureaucracy iceberg. there are about 4,000 positions for political appointees. of those, 690 are crucial, trump has announced his picks for just 30 of them. meaning 96% of these key offices won't even have a nominee when he takes over the government according to an expert on transitions, the brookings institution, "it's just -- there is no other word for it, weird, for those of us who have been involved in government for decades." observers are most concerned about the national security council. politico reports most of the nsc's key policy jobs are still open including senior directors handling such issues as the middle east, russia, afghanistan, economic sanctions and nuclear proliferation. several different factors have contributed to the slowdown including multiple staff shake
his nominees confirmed tomorrow, his first day in office, james mattis, secretary of defense john kelly, secretary of homeland security and possibly mike pompeo as cia director. that's compared to seven for both president obama and george w. bush. but the cabinet is only the tip of the proverbial federal bureaucracy iceberg. there are about 4,000 positions for political appointees. of those, 690 are crucial, trump has announced his picks for just 30 of them. meaning 96% of these key offices...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : January 2, 2017 11:00pm-11:31pm PST
around him, general mattis, incoming secretary of defense, get this, and they get the threat that putin's russia represents to us and our -- >> so do you think they just haven't had enough time with him yet to explain it? i agree with you, general mattis clearly gets it. donald trump tweeted "great move on delay, v. putin." like he's batman to putin's robin. do you think he's not spent enough time with general mattis, do you think he has a delusional idea he and putin can save the world? do you think undergirds his affection for vladimir putin? >> i can't explain it, honestly. >> do you think john mccain has met with him and talked to him about the brutality putin shows to the former soviet -- >> i know, of course, john is pretty blunt, putin's a thug. >> and a butcher. >> and a butcher. unfortunately, the record shows john is absolutely right on the facts. the best explanation of what donald trump is saying what he's saying about putin is he's really trying to set this up for some kind of a global deal, but what is the deal you make -- >> right. >> -- with an expansionist tyrant
around him, general mattis, incoming secretary of defense, get this, and they get the threat that putin's russia represents to us and our -- >> so do you think they just haven't had enough time with him yet to explain it? i agree with you, general mattis clearly gets it. donald trump tweeted "great move on delay, v. putin." like he's batman to putin's robin. do you think he's not spent enough time with general mattis, do you think he has a delusional idea he and putin can save...
The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
. >>> we have a great general who has just been appointed secretary of defense, general james mattis and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture. i happen to feel that it does work. i have been open about that for a long period of time but i'm going with our leaders. >> joining us now pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times," msnbc political analyst and co-author of "we have the change we seek, the speeches of barack obama." i think the other co-author is joy reid, of that particular book. an opinion columnist for the "washington post." when we hear him talk about torture and last night talking to sean hannity he said that very high level people tell him it does work. it seems it is his obligation to tell us who these people are. we know his defense secretary says. >> he gets these hunches. i hate to think where they come from. i'm somewhat we leaved he seems to be listening to mattis on this. mattis is the grownup in the cabinet. i agree with kelly i hope he will listen to mattis, kelly and perhaps tillerson, as well. >> we have stumbled to t
. >>> we have a great general who has just been appointed secretary of defense, general james mattis and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture. i happen to feel that it does work. i have been open about that for a long period of time but i'm going with our leaders. >> joining us now pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times," msnbc political analyst and co-author of "we have the change we seek, the speeches of barack...
-elect trump's pick for secretary of defense, james mattis to serve in office. there of course is a long-standing restriction in place preventing someone whose been in uniform recently from being confirmed as secretary of defense. usually there is a seven year waiting period with mathty it'll only be three years, but that waiver now going through the house, but, the headline, the obamacare vote, repeal plans moving forward in the house. important to note though today that the legislation that just passed does not put anything into effect immediately. it is rather the second step in what is going to be a long process, if republicans are going to ultimately repeal obamacare. trump as of late has been to repeal and replace obamacare at at the same time, the problem with that idea, republicans have yet to put forward a plan that the majority of the republicans in congress can agree on to replace obamacare. some republicans now expressing frustrations before this vote today. others trying to rally their colleagues to forge ahead on the vote for repeal. one congressman using floor time by invo
-elect trump's pick for secretary of defense, james mattis to serve in office. there of course is a long-standing restriction in place preventing someone whose been in uniform recently from being confirmed as secretary of defense. usually there is a seven year waiting period with mathty it'll only be three years, but that waiver now going through the house, but, the headline, the obamacare vote, repeal plans moving forward in the house. important to note though today that the legislation that...
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hearings, trump's pick to lead the pentagon, james mattis goes before the senate arms services committee at 9:30. we're going to talk to a member of that committee, richard bl m bloombloo bloom bloomenthal next on "morning joe." when my doctor told me i have age-related macular degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact...
terrorists. and my real concern here is that when somebody like general mattis says that, does the president believe it? because that's where this question of crowd size and voter numbers and all of that stuff, those things themselves don't matter much. what matters is does he believe facts when they are presented to him? >> you have general mattis who has said they certainly are not going to support torture and donald trump sounded like he would prefer to him. mike pompeo said he would not follow instructions to torture detainees. i don't want to get mired down in this because we have debated this way too much over the past eight, nine, ten years here. there has been such a broad brush put across this entire topic of, quote, torture. suddenly sleep deprivation is torture. everything that is not in the army field manual has been -- there has been a broad brush and everything suddenly is torture. you talk to any intelligence official that knows this, has studied it, and lived it, let me finish my point, please, because i'm not going to allow another broad brushing, mika and i'm not
terrorists. and my real concern here is that when somebody like general mattis says that, does the president believe it? because that's where this question of crowd size and voter numbers and all of that stuff, those things themselves don't matter much. what matters is does he believe facts when they are presented to him? >> you have general mattis who has said they certainly are not going to support torture and donald trump sounded like he would prefer to him. mike pompeo said he would...
signed it. the report goes on, mattis, who stood next to trump during friday's signing ceremony, is particularly incensed. a senior u.s. official says mattis along with joint chiefs joseph dunford was aware of the general concept of trump's order but not the details. tillerson has told the president's political advisers he was baffled over not being consulted on the sub stance of the order. then there's lawmakers, insiders blasted communication with the hill as terrible. newt gingrich told "the washington post" the problem they've got is an off-broad way performance of a show that is now the number one hit on broadway. it's confirmed to nbc news that michael mccaul nor bob goodlatte were consulted on this executive order. and politico says senior staffers helped donald trump's top aides draft the executive order, but the party leadership were not informed. and that the small group of staffers were among the only people on capitol hill who knew about what was to come. politico cites two sources familiar with the matter that the trump administration even asked the staffers to sign non
signed it. the report goes on, mattis, who stood next to trump during friday's signing ceremony, is particularly incensed. a senior u.s. official says mattis along with joint chiefs joseph dunford was aware of the general concept of trump's order but not the details. tillerson has told the president's political advisers he was baffled over not being consulted on the sub stance of the order. then there's lawmakers, insiders blasted communication with the hill as terrible. newt gingrich told...
this administration? >> unbelievable. when you look at secretary mattis was in the oval office, he was on the phone with cia director pompeo this afternoon -- or this morning. he has had -- he values their opinion. i don't think you can express in words how much respect he has, whether it's chairman dunford, mattis, kelly, director pompeo. all of these individuals, i think he's shown through deed and action and word, how much he cares about them. the first stop he made was to the cia. because of how much he values the work they do and the respect he has for them. i don't know how much more he can do to show how much he values them. >> my second question, my last question. when you talk about these seven countries, these muslim-majority countries, talking to a formal official in the obama administration from homeland security, they're saying that what you're doing is very different from what they did and it's much more restrictive. what do you say to that? >> we're going to put the safety of americans first. we're not going to wait and react, as i said in the statement. the presiden
this administration? >> unbelievable. when you look at secretary mattis was in the oval office, he was on the phone with cia director pompeo this afternoon -- or this morning. he has had -- he values their opinion. i don't think you can express in words how much respect he has, whether it's chairman dunford, mattis, kelly, director pompeo. all of these individuals, i think he's shown through deed and action and word, how much he cares about them. the first stop he made was to the cia....
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : January 25, 2017 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
. >> you're now the president. do you want waterboarding? >> i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group and if they don't want to do, that's fine. if they do want to do then i will work toward that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the question of torture came up in this abc news interview tonight because this morning -- late last night, actually, the "new york times" reported draft executive orders were circulating in the white house that would move toward bringing back torture and reopening secret cia black site prisons where terror suspects were tortured abroad under the previous administration. asked about those draft orders today, the white house press secretary had an unusual response. he said "those are not white house documents. and the white house knows nothing about them. and we don't know what to make of that disavowel. joining us is david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for the "new york times." mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thank you for coming in. >> great
. >> you're now the president. do you want waterboarding? >> i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group and if they don't want to do, that's fine. if they do want to do then i will work toward that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the question of torture came up in this abc news interview tonight because this morning -- late last night, actually, the "new york...
? and the answer was, yes, absolutely. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group. and if they don't want to do it, that's fine. if they do want to do it, i will work toward that end. do i feel it works? absolutely, i feel it works. >> the president today reiterating what he often said on the campaign trail, his belief that torture works. here was british prime minister theresa may today, just days ahead of her visit to the white house. >> president trump has repeatedly said that he will bring back torture as an instrument of policy. when she sees him on friday, will the prime minister make clear that in no circumstances will she permit britain to be dragged into facilitating that torture as we were after september 11th? >> i can assure my friend that we have a very clear position on torture. we do not sanction torture. we do not get involved in that. that will continue to be our position. >> remaining with us is our national security analyst jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia. jeremy, that is a ricochet right there. that's how something uttered here becomes news aro
? and the answer was, yes, absolutely. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group. and if they don't want to do it, that's fine. if they do want to do it, i will work toward that end. do i feel it works? absolutely, i feel it works. >> the president today reiterating what he often said on the campaign trail, his belief that torture works. here was british prime minister theresa may today, just days ahead of her visit to the white house. >> president trump has repeatedly said that...
with him. we saw last week, rex tillerson, mike mattis, pompeo reaffirming the importance of nato. they are not necessarily all on the same page. what that does tell you is that we have an incoherence in policy coming in. it's okay to have different actors with those positions but then you need a strong president who can actually take the time to sit down and give direction and move a vision. and it doesn't seem like he's going to have that patience to do that at all. >> what does that incoherent -- the u.s. is a cornerstone of this sort of post world war ii order for good or for bad and there's lots of things to critique about it, we should be clear. what is it like to have incoherence at the highest levels of government that is essentially that cornerstone? >> well, i think what we're going to see is essentially an nsc working on it is own, sort of white house staff, very ideological right wing as we saw with some of these calls that mike flynn was making to the russian ambassador and then a pentagon acting very independently. a state department that's incredibly weak and an int
with him. we saw last week, rex tillerson, mike mattis, pompeo reaffirming the importance of nato. they are not necessarily all on the same page. what that does tell you is that we have an incoherence in policy coming in. it's okay to have different actors with those positions but then you need a strong president who can actually take the time to sit down and give direction and move a vision. and it doesn't seem like he's going to have that patience to do that at all. >> what does that...
Hardball With Chris Matthews : MSNBCW : January 27, 2017 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
an empty threat. mattis if he gets upset with the president, if general mattis gets upset with him -- secretary mattis now, he could say, okay i'm leaving. that would be a disaster for president trump. >> you have great pipe lines around the world. i have been to india, and ireland and they are scared of him before ask after the election. what's your sense of world leader. the woman who said a lot of people are alarmed at you. >> it was a tough question and -- he i think you say this president has people destabilized that's exactly what he wants to do. whether he will find a way get negotiating gains out of that remains to be seen. i thought the efforts to gets a deal with mexico that would be acceptable that would show in its way mexico is going to pay for the wall, he really very close to that, then with a tweet it was gone. take a long time to put it together. he has world leaders nervous and ready to make some consop conce. that's exactly what he wants. >> his inircircle know what he is planning. the other thing about sanctions, you have to remember that's our best leverage, he
an empty threat. mattis if he gets upset with the president, if general mattis gets upset with him -- secretary mattis now, he could say, okay i'm leaving. that would be a disaster for president trump. >> you have great pipe lines around the world. i have been to india, and ireland and they are scared of him before ask after the election. what's your sense of world leader. the woman who said a lot of people are alarmed at you. >> it was a tough question and -- he i think you say...
MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson : MSNBCW : January 9, 2017 7:00am-8:01am PST
mattis is a former marine, retired in 2014. this two or three-year cooling off period. are you concerned about this? do you think that that is going to be problematic formatis mo-- for mattis? >> the law says that you must come from civilian life. i'm pretty confident at the end of the day mattis will receive the waiver. i think he is a very qualified pick. you have someone who is a combatant commander, understands combat and who understands wh what -- i think at the end of the day he'll get the waiver and he'll be confirmed. >> what do you think about the schism? >> the entire team is basically thrown together and they haven't necessarily worked together before and they're going to sit for hours upon hours in the white house situation room hashing out the most complicated life-and-death issues that our nation faces, whether to deploy troops into harm's way, whether to shoot down a miss they'll may or may not be aimed from the west by north korea, wh to take on russia as they move against our nato allies. if you don't have chemistry between the people, it makes the decision making that m
mattis is a former marine, retired in 2014. this two or three-year cooling off period. are you concerned about this? do you think that that is going to be problematic formatis mo-- for mattis? >> the law says that you must come from civilian life. i'm pretty confident at the end of the day mattis will receive the waiver. i think he is a very qualified pick. you have someone who is a combatant commander, understands combat and who understands wh what -- i think at the end of the day he'll...
All In With Chris Hayes : MSNBCW : January 26, 2017 5:00pm-6:01pm PST
yourself. xfinity, the future of awesome. >> i'm going with general mattis. i'm going with my secretary because i think pompeo is going to be phenomenal. i'm going with what they say. but i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence and i asked them the question. does it work. does torture work? and the answer was yes. absolutely. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally but do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the president of the united states last night explicitly endorsed the idea the u.s. might bring back torture. while claiming he would stay within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally, trump repeatedly praised torture. to be clear, even when the bush administration called torture enhanced interrogation techniques, it was still torture. trump, however, didn't bother renaming it. he called it torture. he used the war torture either unaware or unconcerned torture is by definition a war crime as well as a federal crime. trump made those statements on a day when both the "new yo
yourself. xfinity, the future of awesome. >> i'm going with general mattis. i'm going with my secretary because i think pompeo is going to be phenomenal. i'm going with what they say. but i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence and i asked them the question. does it work. does torture work? and the answer was yes. absolutely. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally but do i feel it works? absolutely...
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Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : March 22, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm EDT
david: welcome to bloomberg markets. here is what we are watching this hour. terror he and europe, the latest on the attacks in brussels that left dozens dead and hundreds hurt. the police are not -- are on the hunt for a suspect. and what is left for the intelligence community after an attack like this? trading,cover in late largely higher despite the attacks and dungeon, offsetting declines in consumer staples. we continue with our coverage of the terror attacks in europe. islamic state reportedly is claiming responsibility. at least 31 people are dead, more than 200 injured. the bombs exploded during rush hour this morning, first at the brussels airport and then at a train station near the european union. present obama vowed terrorism will be defeated. president obama: this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. we must be together, regardless ,f nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. we can and we will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world. david: moment ago, belgian police released an i
david: welcome to bloomberg markets. here is what we are watching this hour. terror he and europe, the latest on the attacks in brussels that left dozens dead and hundreds hurt. the police are not -- are on the hunt for a suspect. and what is left for the intelligence community after an attack like this? trading,cover in late largely higher despite the attacks and dungeon, offsetting declines in consumer staples. we continue with our coverage of the terror attacks in europe. islamic state...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : April 27, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EDT
single market in europe. if they live -- leave the european union, they have lost their biggest customer. they will try to renegotiate their way back in. it will not be on better terms than what they are in right now so just from a pure economic perspective, this should be a no-brainer. there is a larger set of forces at work here mother. there is a corollary between those who are demanding that britain leave the eu, anti-immigrant forces that are concerned about outsiders changing their culture, what we see back home with mr. trump, and some of the rhetoric there, we are in a moment of global change, and people have anxieties about that change. some of it very legitimate. global capital is moving, workers are less mobile, and their -- as a consequence they have less leverage, wages stagnate, there is obviously terrorism fears that have emerged that are very complicated but people want to simple five them by thinking if we could just her seal ourselves off than we would be ok and what all this adds up to is a desire to pull back with the draw and reject the global integration th
single market in europe. if they live -- leave the european union, they have lost their biggest customer. they will try to renegotiate their way back in. it will not be on better terms than what they are in right now so just from a pure economic perspective, this should be a no-brainer. there is a larger set of forces at work here mother. there is a corollary between those who are demanding that britain leave the eu, anti-immigrant forces that are concerned about outsiders changing their...
Charlie Rose : KQED : June 27, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
very bad day for europe because this isn't the end of the story and i think it speaks to a real indictment of the political leadership center right and left who's clearly lost a lot of confidence of the public and the fat of the campaign was defined as a revolt against experts and reason. the unanimity of economic opinion, widespread, other expert opinion speaks, i think, to the fundamental condition of our politics that's very, very dangerous. >> rose: we conclude with improvisational comedy, specifically the upright citizens brigade. joining me matt walsh, ian roberts, matt besser and amy poehler. >> the name started with the name of our comedy troupe but it's much bigger than that, with comedians and writers. it's a philosophy, a community and made up of the people that inhabit it. so there is many members. >> rose: an analysis of brexit and the joy of improvisational comedy, when we return. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose
very bad day for europe because this isn't the end of the story and i think it speaks to a real indictment of the political leadership center right and left who's clearly lost a lot of confidence of the public and the fat of the campaign was defined as a revolt against experts and reason. the unanimity of economic opinion, widespread, other expert opinion speaks, i think, to the fundamental condition of our politics that's very, very dangerous. >> rose: we conclude with improvisational...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : June 27, 2016 12:00pm-2:01pm EDT
set the tone for europe's response. scarlet: we are halfway through the u.s. trading day. european equities trading ended for the day. get acu catch up and glimpse from julie hyman. julie: they are hovering around the lows as well. we are not seeing any kind of rebound really in today's session when it comes to equities whether it is here in the united states or in the european session. the pound is also continuing its downward march. the s&p 500 is a bit slow slightly. it was down below 2000. it is down 1.75%. the selling we are seeing is on relatively high volume interestingly enough. this looks at volume by various sectors and what you have is the volume versus the 20 day average. overall volume is about 60% above the 20 day average. not only do you have selling, but you have selling on heavy volume and in particular within financials, the worst-performing group along with industrials. --ume is about 20 the double is about double the 20 day moving average. we have now gone below that level. this is the 200 day moving average and the drop below it as of today. that is a momentum
set the tone for europe's response. scarlet: we are halfway through the u.s. trading day. european equities trading ended for the day. get acu catch up and glimpse from julie hyman. julie: they are hovering around the lows as well. we are not seeing any kind of rebound really in today's session when it comes to equities whether it is here in the united states or in the european session. the pound is also continuing its downward march. the s&p 500 is a bit slow slightly. it was down below...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : June 29, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EDT
britain would not be turning its back on europe. prime minister cameron: i want to process to be as constructive as possible. i hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible, because while we are leaving the european union, we mustn't be turning our backs on europe. these countries are our neighbors, our friends, our i lies, our partners -- allies, our partners, and we will seek the closest relationship and trade and to operation and security, and because it is good for us and them. charlie: eu leaders said britain could no longer expect full access to the eu's common market without accepting the other conditions like the free flow of workers. in a statement to german parliament, angela merkel said there must be and there will be a noticeable difference between whether a country want to be a part of the european member family or not. this would end excerpt of tea -- uncertainty, but she wants to give them ample time how to exit . internal turmoil persists in britain. jeremy corbyn the leader of the , labour party, lost a vote of no-confidence but has refused to step down. in t
britain would not be turning its back on europe. prime minister cameron: i want to process to be as constructive as possible. i hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible, because while we are leaving the european union, we mustn't be turning our backs on europe. these countries are our neighbors, our friends, our i lies, our partners -- allies, our partners, and we will seek the closest relationship and trade and to operation and security, and because it is good for us and them....
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : February 27, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EST
europe. cameron decided to offer them a referendum. huge debates about whether he should have done that. that is the starting the british point. have not voted this since the 1970's. i think there was a lot of pressure on cameron to give them a chance to have another say on this. it has been building and building, particularly within the conservative party. david cameron and the conservative party. within the conservative party, the easiest way to think about europe is it is roughly akin to being pro-life in the republican party. if you want to be selected as a tory being skeptical about , europe is part of being elected. anyway cameron's deal has always , been he would go to europe and he would come back with kind of improvements in the relationship. charlie: he negotiated with? john: angela merkel and francois hollande. he brought the package back to parliament and said we will have a referendum on whether to stay in or go. i will offer everyone a free vote, but i want to stay. charlie rose: stop right there, --l us what the european and union is, and what is the advantage of bei
europe. cameron decided to offer them a referendum. huge debates about whether he should have done that. that is the starting the british point. have not voted this since the 1970's. i think there was a lot of pressure on cameron to give them a chance to have another say on this. it has been building and building, particularly within the conservative party. david cameron and the conservative party. within the conservative party, the easiest way to think about europe is it is roughly akin to...
you think obama is doing on europe, on the transatlantic legendship, and how about this special relationship? >> i am not concerned about the special relationship either, because i do not think europe and britain in particular have any place to go. so that doesn't mean you take them for granted. it is not like [indiscernible] exactly. europe itself is obviously the second area of the world in crisis after the middle east. it is ironic to say that, partly in connection but not entirely. unfortunately again, it is not entirely clear what the united states can do to help europe solve its own problem. europe, the eu needs to get a new lease on life and a new sense of vision. talk about leaders who have not sold their peoples on the benefits of greater integration and ideas beyond the nation, it would be in europe rather than anywhere else. that project is one of its rock used periods. john micklethwait: i agree, it is more easy to absorb obama. things like syria, not intervening, that affected people like the baltics and estonia, like that. [speaking simultaneously] john micklethwai
you think obama is doing on europe, on the transatlantic legendship, and how about this special relationship? >> i am not concerned about the special relationship either, because i do not think europe and britain in particular have any place to go. so that doesn't mean you take them for granted. it is not like [indiscernible] exactly. europe itself is obviously the second area of the world in crisis after the middle east. it is ironic to say that, partly in connection but not entirely....
Charlie Rose : KQED : April 22, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PDT
europe means because obama is on his way to the uk. and britain, special relationship we don't hear it described as special relationship by the united states or britain anyone. i want to ask you from the british perspective what extent can obama make a difference and how trickly is it easiest to for the pride to tell the britts which way they should be voting. >> many people see obama going there is one of the better cards because it's a reminder from the american pointed of view it's basically much better for britain to save the european union. that's where america as a whole there might be individual disagreements but on the whole that's where they want britain to be. showing unusual canniness jumped ahead and didn't wait for obama to came in who is the main politician on the exit side. he came out quite strongly saying this is fine obama, massively hypocritical america anywhere has always been the place that stresses the importance of individual sovereignty. this is all about sovereignty. by doing that actually strangely i think he actually managed to sort of fire something into oba
europe means because obama is on his way to the uk. and britain, special relationship we don't hear it described as special relationship by the united states or britain anyone. i want to ask you from the british perspective what extent can obama make a difference and how trickly is it easiest to for the pride to tell the britts which way they should be voting. >> many people see obama going there is one of the better cards because it's a reminder from the american pointed of view it's...
Charlie Rose : KQED : December 6, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
referendum and the rise of pop lism in europe with ivo daalder. >> what matter is people want to say enough is enough. this is not working. we don't like anybody, frankly, who is in power. and they will vote against anybody who is in power. so when the populists get in there in a year or two, they too will have a problem because the problems that are there are big. >> rose: the u.s. and china, italy and populism next. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with china, donald trump a unprecedented call with the tie want ease president on friday has put u.s. china relations into sharp focus. it was the first time since 1979 that american and taiwant ease leaders have spoken in a broke from practice. it was a routine congrat la tore call but on sunday night he rit sized china economic and military policies in a series of tweets. dm china a front page ed
referendum and the rise of pop lism in europe with ivo daalder. >> what matter is people want to say enough is enough. this is not working. we don't like anybody, frankly, who is in power. and they will vote against anybody who is in power. so when the populists get in there in a year or two, they too will have a problem because the problems that are there are big. >> rose: the u.s. and china, italy and populism next. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following....
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : June 30, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm EDT
up an endorsement from europe. the french president is backing up -- he says donald trump's president puts them on the same level as europe's extreme right and says it would hurt europe's ties with the u.s.. americans are more worried about , thatthan the zika virus is the finding of a new washington post abc news poll. two thirds of americans say they are not at all worried about zika affecting them or a family member. dayal news 24 hours a powered by more than 120 countries. back to you. how well were investors prepared for the brexit vote? very well according to one investor. explain k's following. for more, let's ring in jack, ceo and chief investment strategist. what has been the most surprising thing? >> the most surprising thing and maybe it should not have in a surprise, that johnson had no clue as to what to do. having withdrawn from the prime minister race is an indication , whichy has no clue means most of britain has no clue how to really deal with this problem and they're having to depend on mark carney, much as the rest of the world is, to soften the blow here.
up an endorsement from europe. the french president is backing up -- he says donald trump's president puts them on the same level as europe's extreme right and says it would hurt europe's ties with the u.s.. americans are more worried about , thatthan the zika virus is the finding of a new washington post abc news poll. two thirds of americans say they are not at all worried about zika affecting them or a family member. dayal news 24 hours a powered by more than 120 countries. back to you. how...
shockwaves across europe and around the world. the british pound fell to a 30-year low. it momentarily dropped. prime minister david cameron said he would step down in october. mr. cameron: the negotiation will need to begin under a new prime minister. i think it is right this new prime minister takes the decision about when to trigger article 50 and stop the horrible and legal process of leaving the eu. charlie: nigel farage called the decision independence day for britain. presumptive republican nominee donald trump also praised the result. mr. trump people want to take : their country back. they want to have independence in a sense. you see that all over europe. you're going to have more than just what happened last night. they are going to take their borders back, monetary back. they want to take a lot of things back. charlie president obama : maintained that they would maintain the relationship with the u.k. boris johnson said there was no need to rush britain's exit. martin scholz said that he wants britain out as soon as possible. joining me right now is the editor in chief of b
shockwaves across europe and around the world. the british pound fell to a 30-year low. it momentarily dropped. prime minister david cameron said he would step down in october. mr. cameron: the negotiation will need to begin under a new prime minister. i think it is right this new prime minister takes the decision about when to trigger article 50 and stop the horrible and legal process of leaving the eu. charlie: nigel farage called the decision independence day for britain. presumptive...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : April 5, 2016 2:00pm-3:01pm EDT
. they're facing regulators in europe and brazil as well. they've been trying to make this work, weeks and -- we've seen halliburton trying to offload a bunch of assets. antitrust officials will be talking about the global reach. >> it is a huge deal. i will be at the conference. a lot of antitrust regulators and attorneys and analysts attend that conference. say very much because they will not say anything publicly that they have not already said publicly in a press release or otherwise. deal, but a decision to block a deal -- lisa: what does this mean going forward? everyone's been waiting for this wave of consolidation within the oil and gas industry. what does this mean for the potential acquisition and consolidations that everyone's been expecting? jennifer: i don't think it means very much. it is very sector specific. it depends on competition in a sector. in the areas where baker hughes and halliburton complete, there is a concentration problem. in other areas come in may be way the market is defined, it may -- there may be other concessions. ohat deal may be able to g forward.
. they're facing regulators in europe and brazil as well. they've been trying to make this work, weeks and -- we've seen halliburton trying to offload a bunch of assets. antitrust officials will be talking about the global reach. >> it is a huge deal. i will be at the conference. a lot of antitrust regulators and attorneys and analysts attend that conference. say very much because they will not say anything publicly that they have not already said publicly in a press release or otherwise....
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : June 20, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EDT
biggest carmaker in europe according to people familiar with the situation. up by four point 7%. what a day and what a start and what a big week we are to have. vonnie: let's check in on the bloomberg first alert news this morning. here is am a. >> the supreme court has decided to stay out of the growing debate over assault weapons bans. the highest court refused to question assault rifle bans in connecticut. court rulingss that said the bans comply with a constitutional right to bear arms. new york and connecticut are among seven states that outlaw weapons similar to the ones used by omar mateen in asker that killed 49 people. a major shakeup in donald trump's presidential campaign. staffers tell bloomberg politics there had been friction and political -- a political veteran who had been brought in as campaign chairman. trump has been brought in to ascuss whether to shift strategy. david cameron is trying to regain the initiative as the grexit campaign and -- enters its last few days. he accused his opponents of lying about immigration. meanwhile, the former mayor of london says camero
biggest carmaker in europe according to people familiar with the situation. up by four point 7%. what a day and what a start and what a big week we are to have. vonnie: let's check in on the bloomberg first alert news this morning. here is am a. >> the supreme court has decided to stay out of the growing debate over assault weapons bans. the highest court refused to question assault rifle bans in connecticut. court rulingss that said the bans comply with a constitutional right to bear...
Charlie Rose : KQED : March 23, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PDT
about primarily in europe. so another paris, brussels-style attack in europe over the next several weeks. i think you will see a very high state of alert as a result of that. second, you have to worry about copy cat attacks. whenever there is a terrorist attack, it leads others to say, hey, maybe i should do something to joint the effort here. >> rose: do we assume this is directed from i.s.i.s. headquarters? >> we don't know. paris certainly was. we know paris was conceived, planned, directed -- >> rose: and connected to brussels. >> -- and we know paris was connected to brussels in some way. whether these guys were told do something similar or do this specific thing or whether they were just left to their own devices, not so sure. i'm not sure that really matters anymore at the end of the day. >> rose: why not? because if you're conducting these large-scale attacks on your own, you know, you have been to syria and iraq, you come back, you're conducting attacks on your own now that look athlike paris, doesn't make any difference whether you have been directed to do it or not. you'
about primarily in europe. so another paris, brussels-style attack in europe over the next several weeks. i think you will see a very high state of alert as a result of that. second, you have to worry about copy cat attacks. whenever there is a terrorist attack, it leads others to say, hey, maybe i should do something to joint the effort here. >> rose: do we assume this is directed from i.s.i.s. headquarters? >> we don't know. paris certainly was. we know paris was conceived,...
coverage of the terror attacks in europe today. to recap, there were three bombings at two locations, beginning first around 8:00 a.m. local time at the brussels airport, and a second attack about an hour later at the maelbeek metro station. this is the worst terror attack ever on belgian soil. leaders around the world have been speaking out against the act of terror, pushing for allies to stand side by side in order to fight back. these are difficult times, these are appalling terrorists, we must stand together and do every thing we can to stop them. and make sure that even though they attack our way of life, we will never let them win. matt: in the last hour, belgian police tweeted an image of the suspect wanted in the airport bombing, let's go now to ryan chilcote, live outside the european commission in brussels with the latest. how is the city holding up? i know that was in order for people to stay off of public transportation, a lot of it was closed. has that opened up again? visiono, public transit has not opened. much of the city, particularly the central part of the city is
coverage of the terror attacks in europe today. to recap, there were three bombings at two locations, beginning first around 8:00 a.m. local time at the brussels airport, and a second attack about an hour later at the maelbeek metro station. this is the worst terror attack ever on belgian soil. leaders around the world have been speaking out against the act of terror, pushing for allies to stand side by side in order to fight back. these are difficult times, these are appalling terrorists, we...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : January 21, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST
, china, india, south aftera. europe is a relatively small part of what we do. from a pearson point of view, we are agnostic and don't have a view. my own personal view is on balance i think it would be better for the u.k. to stay in europe. that's where i'm hopeful mr. cameron can do a good job of negotiating those terms and persuade the british public of his case. mark: great to see you. share price heading for the highest close since the inception in 1988. there you go, betty, john fallon, chief executive of pearson. betty: in the meantime we are holding on to our gains here in stocks. we are coming off a little bit from our high of the session, still up over 130 points, 140 points now on the dow. despite that buildup in inventory, oil inventories, crude oil prices are also keeping to their highs of the session. mark? mark: coming up on the european close, petty, stocks close in matter ever minutes. stay with us. betty: welcome back to bloomberg markets i'm betty liu with mark barton. the markets are just finishing the day in europe powered by mario draghi. mark: like powdered by cu
, china, india, south aftera. europe is a relatively small part of what we do. from a pearson point of view, we are agnostic and don't have a view. my own personal view is on balance i think it would be better for the u.k. to stay in europe. that's where i'm hopeful mr. cameron can do a good job of negotiating those terms and persuade the british public of his case. mark: great to see you. share price heading for the highest close since the inception in 1988. there you go, betty, john fallon,...
global concerns. matt: i want to ask about the situation here in europe. at least in the u k we saw inflation come out at a disappointing 0.3%. we were looking for 0.5. the central bank in europe is going the other direction, or at least on hold in the other direction as the u.s. is. i bring that back to investing, let me draw your attention to the group ranked returns on the stoxx 600. i'm sure you know that year to date as well as over the last 12 months the banks are the worst performers. in 2016 they are down almost 23% . is there any way out of this for gom with ecb continuing to negative? does the central bank have to turn around before banks can start to become a good investment? george: that has confounded a lot of market participants. i would argue you don't need the ecb to reverse their rate loosening regime to have .uropean banks work ar general uncertainty macro economically, banks are going to be the focal point with respect to that and markets will selloff. rates have split people but what the ecb has done is created a profitable negative rate regime where the banks ca
global concerns. matt: i want to ask about the situation here in europe. at least in the u k we saw inflation come out at a disappointing 0.3%. we were looking for 0.5. the central bank in europe is going the other direction, or at least on hold in the other direction as the u.s. is. i bring that back to investing, let me draw your attention to the group ranked returns on the stoxx 600. i'm sure you know that year to date as well as over the last 12 months the banks are the worst performers....
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : June 26, 2016 7:00am-8:01am EDT
a big tent and the country best positioned to deliver. >> a john kerry is in europe right now headed to brussels as i understand. what can he do to make it better? look, the uss huge interests in europe. you do not need me to tell you that. he wants to signify to the european union and the u.k. that the u.s. is neutral. maybe not impartial but definitely neutral. do not forget the last big u.s. politician in europe was donald trump. i do not think you are going to hear john kerry say that. the big thing for the united states is trying to get a sense of where this is going and how they can maneuver it. they're concerned about geopolitics, about a disunited in eu and what that means for russia. they are concerned about trade. the u.s. and the eu together represent 60% of global trade. they've been working on this for three years. they're getting close. there were already set. now what the second-most -- tradet economy, the u.s. deal might be dead. >> thank you very much. that was reporting from brussels. >> we have breaking news from two places right now. we will deal with the u.k. stu
a big tent and the country best positioned to deliver. >> a john kerry is in europe right now headed to brussels as i understand. what can he do to make it better? look, the uss huge interests in europe. you do not need me to tell you that. he wants to signify to the european union and the u.k. that the u.s. is neutral. maybe not impartial but definitely neutral. do not forget the last big u.s. politician in europe was donald trump. i do not think you are going to hear john kerry say...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : June 27, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
. which is that there is an assault on reason. 60% of britain's laws are made in europe. it was the house of commons library that said that. >> others have documented this. it is very important to understand that the economic fact side by side. real tragedy for britain is that the prospect of being able to be part of tackling what still exists around europe: migration issues, economic issues. we have lost that privilege. >> i'm in the sad and bad category as well. we're going to have a long procedure of negotiations. let's getgoing to say a big divorce. the british is good to say we want time. it is highly likely that nothing is going to begin and told october. it will not file article 50 until then. have a long. of uncertainty. that is what markets hate. there looking at britain. i am a little more sympathetic to some of the least people. liverpoola noble and trend to it. was a britaint free of regulations but there are a lot of people on the other side who wants to get rid of immigrants. that seems to have driven the passion. charlie rose: david, what do you think? the british peo
. which is that there is an assault on reason. 60% of britain's laws are made in europe. it was the house of commons library that said that. >> others have documented this. it is very important to understand that the economic fact side by side. real tragedy for britain is that the prospect of being able to be part of tackling what still exists around europe: migration issues, economic issues. we have lost that privilege. >> i'm in the sad and bad category as well. we're going to...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : March 23, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
days or weeks ahead? tot is something you have worry about primarily in europe. think you are going to see a high state of alert as a result of that. second you have to worry about copycat attacks. whenever there is a terrorist attack it leads others to think maybe i should do something to join the effort. this wasdo we assume directed from isis headquarters? mike: paris certainly was. we know paris was conceived, planned, directed, and we know paris is connected to brussels in some way. whether these guys were told to do something similar or told to do this specific thing, or left to their own devices, not so sure. sure that matters anymore at the end of the day. if you are conducting these large-scale attacks on your own, you have been to syria and iraq, you are conducting attacks on your own now that look like paris, it doesn't make any difference whether you are directed to do it or not. charlie: my understanding is these bombs can be made from readily accessible materials. mike: think about the plan to airliners.15 it was an al qaeda plot. they were going to mix chemicals on th
days or weeks ahead? tot is something you have worry about primarily in europe. think you are going to see a high state of alert as a result of that. second you have to worry about copycat attacks. whenever there is a terrorist attack it leads others to think maybe i should do something to join the effort. this wasdo we assume directed from isis headquarters? mike: paris certainly was. we know paris was conceived, planned, directed, and we know paris is connected to brussels in some way....
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : January 5, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EST
with europe. charlie: is that because most of the dialogue is about and from trump? ian: i think it doesn't help. i think outsiders are playing as much of a political role as they have in europe for the last few years. while i don't think the u.s. election is a risk of, i don't think it will impact investment or any of that, but i do think the impact of 2016 will matter internationally. when you think about america's european allies, britain, france, and germany, and how they look at what their priorities are, britain is looking for cash. they want investments into britain. they see that the americans are --ful for that going forward not that useful going forward, but china is writing the checks, so britain wants to be the best friend of china. i see the friends -- french saying they are concerned about security in their region, the united states is not looking like much of a leader there. russia is suddenly playing a big role in syria, we want to hedge with the russians. the germans, they say they are going to take 200,000 refugees a year, but the united states is not going to do a
with europe. charlie: is that because most of the dialogue is about and from trump? ian: i think it doesn't help. i think outsiders are playing as much of a political role as they have in europe for the last few years. while i don't think the u.s. election is a risk of, i don't think it will impact investment or any of that, but i do think the impact of 2016 will matter internationally. when you think about america's european allies, britain, france, and germany, and how they look at what...
. to be fair safe haven assets worldwide falling to record lows across europe. it's been the month of two halves. the first dominated by volatility in china. and then central banks came to the rescue. the boj, the ecb and the fed. yes it's up over the week for the month it was like it will fall about 7%. worst month since august. worst january since 2008. every single industry group on the stoxx 600 is going to fall in the month of january led by the banks, the autos, and the resources. roughly 500 stocks have fallen this month. volatility has risen this month. europe's big fear gauge has risen by 26% in january. the most since august. whenever surpassed the levels we saw in august when china devalued the yuan. it was about bonds. bond yields falling to record lows. look at the two-year portion of the curve. record lows in france, belgium, holland and germany. all negative. u.k. two-year debt has had its best year since 2009. back in 2009 the bank of england was buying debt. the bank of england buying debt. i asked simon smith how soon it could be the for the bank of england buys t
. to be fair safe haven assets worldwide falling to record lows across europe. it's been the month of two halves. the first dominated by volatility in china. and then central banks came to the rescue. the boj, the ecb and the fed. yes it's up over the week for the month it was like it will fall about 7%. worst month since august. worst january since 2008. every single industry group on the stoxx 600 is going to fall in the month of january led by the banks, the autos, and the resources. roughly...
Charlie Rose : KQED : June 29, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PDT
todaye decision. prime minister cameron said britain will not be turning its back on europe. >> britain will be leaving the european union but you want -- i want the process and outcome to be as constructive as possible because while we're leaving the european union, we mustn't be turning our backs on europe. these countries are our neighbors, friends, allies, partners and i hope we'll seek the closest possible relationship in terms of trade, cooperation and security because that is good for us and for them. >> rose: e.u. leaders, however, said britain could no longer expect full access to the e.u.'s common market without accepting the other conditions including the free flow of workers in. a statement to german parliament, chancellor angela merkel said there must be and will be a noticeable difference between whether a country wants to be a member of the european union family or not. the european parliament called for a swift brexit to end uncertainty, but merkel stressed the importance of giving the u.k. ample time to decide how to exit. internal turmoil exists in britain.
todaye decision. prime minister cameron said britain will not be turning its back on europe. >> britain will be leaving the european union but you want -- i want the process and outcome to be as constructive as possible because while we're leaving the european union, we mustn't be turning our backs on europe. these countries are our neighbors, friends, allies, partners and i hope we'll seek the closest possible relationship in terms of trade, cooperation and security because that is good...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : July 15, 2016 2:00pm-3:01pm EDT
europe, really a reflection point for europe. they not only need to deal with brexit, but a big issue developing there is the fragility of the banking sector. since the financial crisis, banks have increased their capital buffer. however, in europe, these increases have been much lower than what we've seen in the u.s. are of the european banks still undercapitalized and that's why we see the pressures we are seeing recently. that's on top of the issues they need to deal with with spain and portugal having reached their budget deficit limits. at the same time, we are going through a prolonged period of low inflation there. x: we've seen spanish spreads tighten while european stocks continue to get hit a bit. you would think of european stocks were lower, the spreads should be whitening. -- widening. maria: we saw spreads increase, however, as stocks have bounced back from of the spreads have tightened again. the question is whether the market anticipates there will be more accommodation or not. the rally we see in the equity markets is really driven by more expectations of accomm
europe, really a reflection point for europe. they not only need to deal with brexit, but a big issue developing there is the fragility of the banking sector. since the financial crisis, banks have increased their capital buffer. however, in europe, these increases have been much lower than what we've seen in the u.s. are of the european banks still undercapitalized and that's why we see the pressures we are seeing recently. that's on top of the issues they need to deal with with spain and...
negotiating with europe. for europe, i don't think another country want to follow britain. britain will be a cautionary yale and tell voters you ma not do it because you will have a recession if you do. britain is less of 1% of global gdp. i don't think it has a big impact. vonnie: what george soros was saying was mainly for his own purposes? >> i think he is completely wrong in this. i believe britain should of stayed in. it is a big deal for them. they will regretted in the years to come. when i look at the economics of it, when i look at financial it doesn't really affect the global economy that much. the key about financial crisis at her the economy is allowing the other shoe to drop. i don't know what this british decision would cause with other -- mark: minimum two years. look back at history, traditionally it takes longer than two years to achieve the sorts of things. how do we as investors sort of try and behave during that period? had to be get our heads around that? -- how do begin our heads around that? david: the rest of europe will be in no hurry to come up with an agreemen
negotiating with europe. for europe, i don't think another country want to follow britain. britain will be a cautionary yale and tell voters you ma not do it because you will have a recession if you do. britain is less of 1% of global gdp. i don't think it has a big impact. vonnie: what george soros was saying was mainly for his own purposes? >> i think he is completely wrong in this. i believe britain should of stayed in. it is a big deal for them. they will regretted in the years to...
contributed not just to political tension and stress in the u.k. but across europe and even here in the u.s., where as you know, net migration from mexico has been zero in recent years. as many mexicans have been leaving as have been coming in. immigration has been made an issue in the u.s. these stresses are clearly and expressed politically and they spill over into the financial markets. we have seen this movie before. i would just site for you -- cite for you. a great professor of history at princeton, "the end of globalization." he's talking about 1900-1910. roderick wrote a wonderful book called "the globalization paradox" which is clearly evident today. the trilemma he defines is very simple. you can have national autonomy, representative government, and deep globalization. two out of three. vonnie: matt has a question in london. matt: if they are really going back to mexico, it's a dangerous country now. they might want to think about now. don't you think the immigration problem in europe is a much bigger one? onrge soros in his op-ed saturday said that while it was a nice gesture fr
contributed not just to political tension and stress in the u.k. but across europe and even here in the u.s., where as you know, net migration from mexico has been zero in recent years. as many mexicans have been leaving as have been coming in. immigration has been made an issue in the u.s. these stresses are clearly and expressed politically and they spill over into the financial markets. we have seen this movie before. i would just site for you -- cite for you. a great professor of history...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : January 21, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm EST
the solution on the refugee crisis in europe? basically, you have to set a high enough target for refugees to be accepted. let's say a million a year. and you have to make it clear that you will keep that open until those who qualify are actually accepted. and then you can demand that they should stay where they are and wait their turn. that way they won't rush as they do now to get here while the door is still open. flow to will reduce the manageable proportions, because now we have passed a tipping influx reduces the ability, the capacity of the receiving countries to assimilate or to integrate the refugees. so you have a panic. without a common european asylum policy, there is a panic. it's like a cinema on fire without exit signs. that affects the general , the refugees, and the authorities that are in charge of maintaining law and order. so there is a genuine panic. everybody out for himself. been or blame victor or ordersto protect country under those conditions. i can blame him for perch -- for fusing -- for refusing to participate in an asylum policy. that is the problem,
the solution on the refugee crisis in europe? basically, you have to set a high enough target for refugees to be accepted. let's say a million a year. and you have to make it clear that you will keep that open until those who qualify are actually accepted. and then you can demand that they should stay where they are and wait their turn. that way they won't rush as they do now to get here while the door is still open. flow to will reduce the manageable proportions, because now we have passed a...
clearing of europe will move to continental europe and the exchanges will be moved. him aactical things straightaway, longer-term, you can have all sorts of issues on movement of labor and visa travel. this is affecting risk appetite and business decisions. what do you see specifically among your domestic clients and international clients? guest: i'm not going to comment on the u.s. election as an irishman, i think that would be impertinent. big we have seen is a falloff in volumes. uncertainty in the u.s., it is >> it, it is china, it is a brexitof things -- it is , it is china, it is a number of things. the: which is to say if brexit issue is resolved favorably, which is to say britain chooses to remain a member of the european union, that does not remove the cloud of uncertainty. what will it take for client volumes to return? you will have a small rally, but it would be significant and it's just one thing you take off the list. for clients to come back, we need a normalization of economic and 70. erik: how many years away are we from that -- normalization of economic activity. ofid:
clearing of europe will move to continental europe and the exchanges will be moved. him aactical things straightaway, longer-term, you can have all sorts of issues on movement of labor and visa travel. this is affecting risk appetite and business decisions. what do you see specifically among your domestic clients and international clients? guest: i'm not going to comment on the u.s. election as an irishman, i think that would be impertinent. big we have seen is a falloff in volumes....
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : February 11, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EST
we're seeing the kind of selloff we saw in europe in u.s. markets. a special chart for you this is possibly the greatest chart i have ever seen. markets.ok at we are seeing drops of about 1% on the s&p 500 and a little more on the dow jones. 6/10sdaq is down about of 1% after it closed in the green yesterday. in europe, losses of 4% on the major indexes so this is not as bad as it was over there. the banks with a problem in europe and they are the big weight on the index here as well. if you look at the s&p 500 banks, they are falling. they are all down. oil stocks are down as well. that is waiting on the index. let me off the chart. it is absolutely fascinating. this is an estimate of fed bias that michael mcdonald has together. rules combined the taylor and the bloomberg financial conditions index and made changes for certain events. are -- thesenes gold lines are fed hikes or decreases in the federal funds target rate. the red shading is recession's shading and the sales is quantitative easing. we dipped way down during the recession but we have been steadily climbing our way ba
we're seeing the kind of selloff we saw in europe in u.s. markets. a special chart for you this is possibly the greatest chart i have ever seen. markets.ok at we are seeing drops of about 1% on the s&p 500 and a little more on the dow jones. 6/10sdaq is down about of 1% after it closed in the green yesterday. in europe, losses of 4% on the major indexes so this is not as bad as it was over there. the banks with a problem in europe and they are the big weight on the index here as well. if...
. the refugee flow to europe won't slow down this year. as many as one million people will seek refuge in europe this year, that is similar to last year. the fighting in syria and iraq theort -- is thought to be main cause. and thousands of holocaust survivors gather today in auschwitz. dayal news, 24 hours a powered by our 2400 journalists. i am courtney donohoe. betty: thank you. we will have our special edition of bloomberg markets with scarlet fu and tom keene -- that will be at 2:00 in new york and 7:00 in london on bloomberg television. you do not want to miss their coverage. ♪ mark: welcome back to bloomberg markets, live from london and new york. this is the european close. betty: markets are anxiously awaiting the latest statement from the fed today. we will bring that to you live. no expectation on any great move that we want to know what they are thinking. is howhe big question the recent global market volatility impact the interest rate hikes. joining us now is richard jeffrey. it manages about $42 billion in assets, thank you for joining us today. within the fedke
. the refugee flow to europe won't slow down this year. as many as one million people will seek refuge in europe this year, that is similar to last year. the fighting in syria and iraq theort -- is thought to be main cause. and thousands of holocaust survivors gather today in auschwitz. dayal news, 24 hours a powered by our 2400 journalists. i am courtney donohoe. betty: thank you. we will have our special edition of bloomberg markets with scarlet fu and tom keene -- that will be at 2:00 in new...
the turks. and let's be fair, it's a tough time for everything in europe, turkey plays into this. >> rose: i want to show you a conversation i had with joe biden talking about russia, suggesting essentially-- well, here it is, suggesting that they really would like to get out of syria. >> vladimir putin is in real trouble because of-- es he trying to figure out how the hell to get out of syria. it's costing him billions of dollars. the rest of the world is observing his fighters aren't that capable. they are showing where is he. they have a great problem in ukraine and europe now. his economy is in not-- almost free fall. this is a guy who's not winning anything. >> rose: but he's a player in the world. >> well, look, i mean he's a player in the sense that he is engaged in practically, as a practical matter, sporting a dictator-- dictatedder who is il killing tens of thousands of his people. and so if-- if you call that a player. but is he influential in the world, no. >> a willingness on the part of russia to talk about a new constitution in syria where assad is still there but
the turks. and let's be fair, it's a tough time for everything in europe, turkey plays into this. >> rose: i want to show you a conversation i had with joe biden talking about russia, suggesting essentially-- well, here it is, suggesting that they really would like to get out of syria. >> vladimir putin is in real trouble because of-- es he trying to figure out how the hell to get out of syria. it's costing him billions of dollars. the rest of the world is observing his fighters...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : March 9, 2016 12:00pm-2:01pm EST
in volume and maybe assets. one surprise he might pull off his europe has a problem with bad debts at the banks. you can pack them up and the ecb is willing to buy them, you go a long way of freeing up the channels. the reason he's doing this is not because it is fun. it wants to generate and stimulate lending in the eurozone. if it can find a way of taking the bad loans off the banks, oft might be a good new way surprising the market and exceeding expectations. scarlet: there has been a lot of chatter around the loans. how far has the ecb been ahead of these nonperforming loans? have negative interest rates, it makes it hard to generate any profit for yourself. doing that, you hardly going to be seeking to lend to small and medium-size enterprises, the stories that have been missing so far. you see the ecb saying we've seen the problems. we don't want to make the situation any worse. there's also a two-tier interest rate where investing in the impact on the bank where you have those negative rates forcing inflation back toward the 2% target. scarlet: do targeting the banks anyway
in volume and maybe assets. one surprise he might pull off his europe has a problem with bad debts at the banks. you can pack them up and the ecb is willing to buy them, you go a long way of freeing up the channels. the reason he's doing this is not because it is fun. it wants to generate and stimulate lending in the eurozone. if it can find a way of taking the bad loans off the banks, oft might be a good new way surprising the market and exceeding expectations. scarlet: there has been a lot...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : October 6, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EDT
trading in europe. let's have a look at where asset classes are trading. we start with a mixed picture grid italy's ftse having higher up 6/10 of a percent. some banks pushing the index higher. portugal down 5/10 of a percent. under -- other indices lower too. the pound keeps taking a pounding. sterling at 12641. down almost 9/10 of a percent at the 31 year low. a lot of the story is about dollar strength so that is likely playing into it but it is also about those brexit concerns. euro down to tenths of 1%. interms of what is happening bond markets we are yields push higher across the spectrum. particularly when we look at 10 year yields, portugal's 10 year yield up almost seven basis points. if we take a look at the stoxx 600 the equity benchmark, we are off by about 2/10 of a percent. it is a second day of losses. what is interesting about happening in europe today and what happened yesterday is that yesterday we saw banks gain while the stoxx 600 fell for the first time in seven days three and if we take a look at the stoxx 600 bank index it is headed for its greatest three-day gai
trading in europe. let's have a look at where asset classes are trading. we start with a mixed picture grid italy's ftse having higher up 6/10 of a percent. some banks pushing the index higher. portugal down 5/10 of a percent. under -- other indices lower too. the pound keeps taking a pounding. sterling at 12641. down almost 9/10 of a percent at the 31 year low. a lot of the story is about dollar strength so that is likely playing into it but it is also about those brexit concerns. euro down...
Charlie Rose : KQED : January 5, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
the coming year. this year's list includes a transatlantic alliance, an increasingly closed europe, china's global footprint as well as isis. saudi arabia is another country on the list. the country's foreign minister announced on monday that trade and diplomatic links with iran would be cut. it comes in response to the attacks on the saudi em basessee in tehran. tensions between the two countries em flamed after saudi arabia executed a shia muslim cleric with 46 others who had been convicted of terror-related offenses. i'm pleased to have ian bremmer back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: how do you go about compiling this list? tell me what you and your team do, and what are you looking for when you talk about the top risk of 2016. >> well, number one, we keep these up on our home page for the entire year. so it can't just be hitting the headlines for this week and making news. it has to actually stick. and you know, we've got over 130 people. and the process, i mean every one at the beginning is asked to come up with their best and biggest and most insightf
the coming year. this year's list includes a transatlantic alliance, an increasingly closed europe, china's global footprint as well as isis. saudi arabia is another country on the list. the country's foreign minister announced on monday that trade and diplomatic links with iran would be cut. it comes in response to the attacks on the saudi em basessee in tehran. tensions between the two countries em flamed after saudi arabia executed a shia muslim cleric with 46 others who had been convicted...
Charlie Rose : KQED : March 9, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
very interested in what's going on in europe and the refugee crises. as you might know, yesterday was very important summit of the european government concerning the refugee crises. and they focused on how to tackle the problem of illegal migration triggered by smugglers and traffickers. mainly in the agency that is the area between turkey and greece. and yesterday, there was two things that happened. first of all, nato started an activity on the agency to dismantel the patterns of the smugglers and the coast off turkey and greece so that we can stop them from pursuing their horrible business. >> rose: in respect to angela merkel, does she see how much germany can do, how many refugees germany can take. >> we took approximately one million last year. and you know, if you define asylum as the duty to give shelter or to protect people who are politically persecuted and who come from a war country. this is fine because the high value to do that. but of course we see a lot of migrants coming out of economic reasons and those migrants cannot ask for asylum, they cannot stay in europe, they
very interested in what's going on in europe and the refugee crises. as you might know, yesterday was very important summit of the european government concerning the refugee crises. and they focused on how to tackle the problem of illegal migration triggered by smugglers and traffickers. mainly in the agency that is the area between turkey and greece. and yesterday, there was two things that happened. first of all, nato started an activity on the agency to dismantel the patterns of the...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : February 28, 2016 7:00am-8:01am EST
of angst about europe. cameron decided to offer them a referendum. debate about where he that. have done i think there was a lot of pressure on cameron to give them to have another say on this. it's been building and building theparticularly within conservative party. david cameron prime minster and head of the conservative party. within the conservative party, the easiest way to think about is akin to being pro-life in the republican party. cameron his deal has been to go to europe and he would come back the improvements in relationship. he negotiated with angel markell. he brought back a package, brought that back to parliament and said we'll have a referendum whether to stay or go. in.nt to stay >> stop right there. unions what the european is and what's the advantage to being a member of the european member? of being aantage european member, you're part of world's biggest economy. that's the main thing. bad ideauld think it's to leave. it's a bigger reason for people up.set it let french and german and the european union was about bringing peace and long term prosperity to europ
of angst about europe. cameron decided to offer them a referendum. debate about where he that. have done i think there was a lot of pressure on cameron to give them to have another say on this. it's been building and building theparticularly within conservative party. david cameron prime minster and head of the conservative party. within the conservative party, the easiest way to think about is akin to being pro-life in the republican party. cameron his deal has been to go to europe and he...
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Joaquín García, La Luz del Mundo church leader, expected to be arraigned on sex-related charges
By John Gregory
EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Worshippers gathered to pray at the La Luz del Mundo church in East Los Angeles Wednesday in the wake of the church's leader Joaquín García facing human trafficking and child rape charges.
García and a 24-year-old church follower were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport Monday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's office said. García is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
EN ESPANOL: Joaquin Garcia, lider de Iglesia La Luz del Mundo, acusado de violacion
Becerra filed 26 charges against him, ranging from human trafficking and production of child pornography to rape of a minor. García is being held in Los Angeles on $25 million bail.
A criminal complaint filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges García committed the felonies over an approximately four year period.
Church officials insist the allegations are false.
He and his co-defendants are alleged to have coerced the victims into performing sex acts by telling them that refusing would be going against God. He allegedly forced the victims, who were members of the church, to sexually touch themselves and each other. One of his co-defendants also allegedly took nude photographs of the victims and sent the pictures to García.
The three other co-defendants are affiliated with La Luz Del Mundo, according to California officials.
The fundamentalist Christian church, whose name translates to Light of The World Church, is headquartered in Guadalajara, Mexico, and claims to have more than a million followers around the world.
There are dozens of congregations in Southern California.
According to church doctrine, García is an apostle handpicked by God.
The 50 year old is originally from Los Angeles and took over leadership of the church from his grandfather.
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Location: Wythe County VA
Biographical Sketch of Isaac King
Isaac King, of Germany, settled in Wythe County, Va., and married Barbara Stroup (late Mrs. Fipps, of Montgomery County, Mo.), by whom he had one son, John P. The latter settled in Montgomery County in 1835, and married Susan Stephenson; a granddaughter of James Heller, of revolutionary fame, and who was at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Col. Robert Love – Revolutionary War Record
Revolutionary War Record of Col. Robert Love. (Some Data) Lieutenant Robert Love, in the year 1776 was stationed at Ft. Robertson, which was located at the head of the Clinch and Sandy rivers in what was then Montgomery County, Virginia, and served as Sergeant in Captain John Stephens company against the Shawnee Indians from April to October. 1780 he served about six months against the Tories as Lieutenant under Col. William Campbell. This service was rendered on Tom’s Creek at the Moravian Old Town in North Carolina, and on an excursion up to and near the Shallow Ford of the
Biography of John Green
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The Villa Planchart (1954-1957) was not a typical Venezuelan home, and its patrons Anala and Armando Planchart were not a conventional couple. Armando Planchart had a thriving business as a General Motors car dealer in Caracas during a time when the city was experiencing a boom of prosperity due to the oil industry. The Planchart couple desired a unique home to be constructed on their newly bought plot of land that was nestled between the city of Caracas and the Avila Mountains. In 1953, Armando and Anala travelled to Milan in order to interview the famous Italian architect Gio Ponti. The story goes that Ponti brought out a roll of tracing paper and began sketching a hacienda-like house to which Anala immediately rejected declaring “I want a modern house.”[1] From that moment on, the Plancharts found a kindred spirit in Gio Ponti whose ideal vision of a modern home that was filled with light and a sense of joy. Since the design process of the Villa Planchart was a form of architectural poetry, the interplay of spaces must be discussed in a series of metaphors including a butterfly, a diamond, a world within a world, and a gallery/greenhouse. By using these metaphors to describe how the Villa Planchart functioned as an unorthodox house, Gio Ponti’s vision of the home as a “poetry of precisions” can be better understood.[2]
As founder and editor of the architectural magazines Domus and Stile, Gio Ponti had often delved into the concept of the home or domus. For Ponti, domus was essentially a world of its own where nature, people, and artifice were in harmony. Ponti once stated, “The home is the source, the image, of a happiness…the home lies at the origin of life which, within its human limits, is wonderfully unlimited.”[3] Since Ponti realized that the architect could never realistically obtain a perfect balance of these elements, he believed that the idea of domus would be fulfilled if an inhabitant were to discover enchantment within his architecture.[4] In the Villa Planchart, enchantment of the ten thousand square foot space was achieved through creating multiple lines of vision and a blurring between structure and furnishings. The surviving drawings of the house by Ponti demonstrate this focus on the inhabitant’s experience of visual delight in which his plans are populated with either figures or eyes; these eyes are especially evident on the second floor indicating the private nature of the upper level.[5] The argument that Ponti’s thought process was as more like a poet than that of an architect is especially exemplified in the Villa Planchart project since he only visited the construction site four times and chiefly communicated his vision through numerous letters and drawings.[6] In fact, the Villa Planchart can be viewed as a reinvention of the Italian poesia for the twentieth century. Instead of using a literary language, Ponti employed an architectural language in order to poetically evoke a domus filled with rhythm and vibrancy.
When considering the construction of the Villa Planchart, Ponti often envisioned the building as a butterfly in terms of form, metamorphosis, and lightness. In one letter to the Plancharts, Gio Ponti wrote that the “villa must have the grace and lightness of a resting butterfly. The roof must be like a wing.”[7] Indeed the exterior of the villa resembles a fluttering butterfly with its seemingly foldable white walls making the building seem to move forwards and upwards as if about to attempt flight. The most obvious allusion to insect wings can be seen in the V-shaped canopy at the entrance of the house. As the day transitions into night the sense of dynamism which Ponti desired for the villa is apparent with the edges of the house illuminated by hidden light fixtures causing the structure to glow above and below. Ponti’s butterfly metamorphosises from a butterfly into a nocturnal moth or perhaps into a light-filled work of origami.[8]
Interestingly, in writing about the Villa Planchart for a Domus article, Ponti commented that the best way to understand this tropical Italian villa was not to study its exterior but rather by examining the interplay of the interior spaces; Ponti wrote, “…it is an abstract sculpture on an enormous scale, not to be looked at from [the] outside, but from the inside by penetrating it and walking around it - made to be observed by constantly moving one’s eyes around it."[9] While there is a clear demarcation between the house, land, and sky, the boundaries between the interior and exterior of the villa are more blurred. This fluid relationship between inside and outside is evident in the Living Room in which glass windows fill the double height of the space providing a sense of openness as well as taking advantage of the exterior views. There are also internal windows between the Living Room and the Dining Room in which the revolving wainscots are decorated in a polychromatic design of yellow, cream, gray - the main color palette for the villa; in fact, similar to the way the color pattern of a butterfly is pleasing, Ponti employed hues to bring sense of lively unity to the house.[10] Decoration can also be found on the ceiling decoration of the stenciled sun and the moon which were the emblem for the Plancharts (sun/Armando and moon/Anala). This sun and moon motif are found throughout the house and even on some of the dinnerware which Ponti designed. Within the Living Room, the couple’s emblem reappears with the sun and moon balcony providing an abstracted fairytale setting. Ponti’s belief that rooms should function as microcosms is demonstrated by this metaphoric sky as Ponti once commented, “A colored floor…is a meadow; it needs a light ceiling, a morning sky.”[11]
During his career, Ponti often declared, “Architecture is a crystal.”[12] For Ponti, crystals were the ideal structure of nature. It is to easy to see why the architect admired the paradoxical qualities of a crystal which is simultaneously rigid and airy, hard and transparent - qualities which can be found in Ponti’s own work. The use of the crystal as a form of inspiration is clearly expressed in the Villa Planchart through the repeated use of the diamond shapes for surface decoration. In fact, the diamond is echoed throughout the home from its roof structure to its marble floor pattern. Sometimes described as a harlequin pattern, the custom-made Italian marble floors throughout the ground level of the villa add a sense of playfulness to house’s joyful atmosphere yet were also used by Ponti for functional reasons. By employing the repeating shape of the diamond, Ponti successfully provided rhythm to the space and a sense of uninterrupted flow between rooms. In particular, the Tropical Dining Room is a fascinating space where Ponti achieves aspects of his ideal domus . The Tropical Dining Room blurs the distinction between indoors and outdoors since the “room” is partly covered, but there are no walls or weather barriers to divide it from the garden. In order for the interior and exterior to converge seamlessly, Ponti extended the diamond floor pattern from the Living Room into the Tropical Dining Room.[13] This blurring of boundaries (between architecture and decoration as well as indoors and outdoors) can also be viewed in terms of camouflage, like that of a butterfly. In other words, Ponti conceals the physical demarcations of different functioning spaces (i.e. the Living Room and the Tropical Dining Room) so that they are able to visually blend without disruption. Even the dining table plays a role in the blending of spaces. Rather than using a traditional dining table shape such as a circle or a square, Ponti commissioned a polygonal table with eight sides, which echoes the surface treatment of both the floor and walls.[14]
Ponti’s desire for a poetic harmony between nature and artifice within the home is also evident in the Tropical Dining Room when considering the artwork by Fausto Melotti and Romano Rui. Although the Plancharts were already collectors of mainly Venzuelan modern art, Ponti encouraged his clients to acquire numerous Italian artworks and furnishings for their new home. In some instances, like that of the Tropical Dining Room, Italian artists were commissioned to create site-specific pieces. While Romano Rui constructed the fireplace and chimneystack, Fuasto Melotti created a ceramic mosaic sculpture for the patio’s southern wall, which was originally intended to have a waterfall flowing over the artwork. Melotti also created a similar mosaic sculpture displayed on the wall of the staircase. For both sculptures, Melotti received harsh reviews by Italian critics who considered this collaboration with artist and architect to be demeaning. The press even condescendingly called him an “interior decorator” who had compromised “his artistic integrity.”[15] Such comments reveal the period sentiment towards interior designers, which may partly explain why Ponti considered himself solely as an architect despite his crucial involvement with planning the interiors of the building.
Ponti also incorporated his patrons’ passion for art collecting and growing orchids into the house. For the Plancharts’ love of tropical botany, the landscape of the garden is brought into the house through an outdoor dining area, but also through the inclusion of flower containers throughout the house. For example one of the stair rails had sprouting orchids.[16] Also, in the living room were metal trays known as “portable gardens” in which the units could be fitted together and set into floor design making the flowers part of the construction of the home, another way in which Ponti made sure that the Villa Planchart was a total work of art.[17] While functioning has a mini greenhouse, the villa simultaneously functioned as a display for modern art. One example is the Calder mobile found in the Entrance Hall. Although Ponti declared the Plancharts as the “ideal client” since he was given almost full creative license in designing the Villa Planchart, there was naturally some conflict. For instance, the Calder mobile Anala wished to have it in the living room while Ponti desired it in the entrance hall since he planned to redesign the upper portion of the wall to frame the view of the Calder.[18] Although Ponti was willing to integrate the Plancharts’ personality into the villa, there was one collection that the architect had difficulty with- gaming trophies. Armando insisted on having his trophies of animal heads displayed in the Studio-Library to which Ponti found such a display incongruous with the beautiful home he had created. However, Ponti once again was able to use invention as a form of compromise by creating one his signature “organized walls” with a mechanical twist.[19] At the push of a button, six of the cabinetry niches rotated to reveals the heads of gazelles and water buffalo.
Gio Ponti's unique designs for the Villa Planchart made it an early example of humanistic modernism at work in a domestic setting. Ponti created not only a home, but a building that also functioned as a greenhouse, an art gallery, and a mediator between nature and civilization. Both a sense of lightness and an organic flow are achieved by blurring the boundaries between architecture and interior design. In addition, the repeating motifs of diamonds and butterflies provide rhythm to the villa that reflected the couple's passions for art and nature. Still to this day, the architectural poem crafted by Ponti and the Plancharts, survives as an ode to precision - a truly modern house.
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[1] Massimiliano Di Bartolomeo. “A villa in the tropics,” Domus 925 (Jun. 2009). http://www.domusweb.it/books/book.cfm?id=190410&lingua=_english&inizio, accessed 19 Nov. 2009, 2.
[2] Phrase used by Gio Ponti to describe his design process. See Roberto Schezen. Text by Susan Doubilet. Private Architecture: Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century. (New York: The Monticelli Press, 1998), 260.
[3] Lisa Ponti. Gio Ponti: the complete work 1923-1978. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), 269.
[4] Keith Evan Green. Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino: Postwar Italian Architects and the Relevance of Their Work Today. (Lewiston: The Edwin Meller Press, 2006), 19.
[5] Monica Ponce de Leon. “Villa Planchart: Gio Ponti Snapshots from Caracas,” Harvard Design Magazine (Summer 1998), 34.
[6] Anneke Bokern. “Complete artwork including big game,” Stylepark (Feb. 2009) http://www.stylepark.com/en/news/complete-artwork-including-big-game/289417, accessed 19 Nov. 2009, 1.
[7] Keith Evan Green. Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino: Postwar Italian Architects and the Relevance of Their Work Today. (Lewiston: The Edwin Meller Press, 2006), 161.
[8] Marco Romanelli, ed. Gio Ponti: A World. (Milan: Abitare Segesta, 2002), 133.
[9] Gio Ponti. “A Florentine Villa,” Domus 303 (1955) in La Pietra, Ugo ed. Gio Ponti. (New York: Rizzoli, 1996), 276.
[10] Ugo La Pietra ed. Gio Ponti. (New York: Rizzoli, 1996), 242.
[11] Gio Ponti, “The Floor Is a Theorem,” Love Architecture (Genoa: Vitali and Ghianda, 1957) from Ugo La Pietra ed. Gio Ponti. (New York: Rizzoli, 1996), 242.
[12] Gio Ponti. In Praise of Architecture. (F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1960), http://ia331315.us.archive.org/1/items/inpraiseofarchit010163mbp/inpraiseofarchit010163mbp.pdf, accessed 27 Nov. 2009, 92.
[13] Monica Ponce de Leon. “Villa Planchart: Gio Ponti Snapshots from Caracas,” Harvard Design Magazine (Summer 1998), 34.
[14] Keith Evan Green. Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino: Postwar Italian Architects and the Relevance of Their Work Today. (Lewiston: The Edwin Meller Press, 2006), 1.
[16] Anneke Bokern. “Complete artwork including big game,” Stylepark (Feb. 2009) http://www.stylepark.com/en/news/complete-artwork-including-big-game/289417, accessed 19 Nov. 2009, 2.
[17] Massimiliano Di Bartolomeo. “A villa in the tropics,” Domus 925 (Jun. 2009). http://www.domusweb.it/books/book.cfm?id=190410&lingua=_english&inizio, accessed 19 Nov. 2009, 3.
[18] Ponce de Leon, Monica. “Villa Planchart: Gio Ponti Snapshots from Caracas,” p. 33.
[19] Ibid., 35.
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1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribed the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
The full title of the book is Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI.
Through the reception of this book, Crowley proclaimed the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the “Æon of Horus”. The primary precept of this new aeon is the charge to “Do what thou wilt”.
The book contains three chapters, each of which was written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on 8 April 9 April, and 10 April in Cairo, Egypt. Crowley claimed that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel (analogous to but not identical with “Higher Self”).
1929 – Jacques Brel born. Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in Belgium and France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson.
Although he recorded most of his songs in French, he became a major influence on English-speaking songwriters and performers such as David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Marc Almond and Rod McKuen.
In French-speaking countries, Brel was also a successful actor, appearing in ten films. He also directed two films, one of which, Le Far West, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973.
1973 – Pablo Picasso died. Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer.
As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
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March 2, 2013 · 13:24
Almanac – March 02
1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus – the first ballet performed in England – made its premiere at the Drury Lane Theater in London.
The creation of choreographer John Weaver, the story of the ballet was derived from Greek mythology, although Weaver’s immediate source was P.A. Motteux‘s play, The Loves of Mars and Venus.
The role of Venus was performed by Hester Santlow, who was highly regarded for her beauty, dancing, and ability as an actress. Although it is not certain, many believe the role of Mars was performed by the French dancer Louis Dupre.
At the time, most classical ballet was nearly devoid of dramatic content, and Weaver sought to change that using dancing, gestures and movement to convey the plot and emotions of the ballet, without relying on spoken or sung text.
1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, was defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
Better known as El Pirata Cofresí, he was the most renowned pirate in Puerto Rico, and his life story, particularly in its Robin Hood “steal from the rich, give to the poor” aspect, has become legendary in Puerto Rico and throughout the rest of Latin America. It has inspired countless songs, poems, books and films.
The entire town of Cofresí, near Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, was named after him.
1900 – Kurt Weill born. German composer, active from the 1920s, in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, with whom he developed productions such as his most well known work The Threepenny Opera, a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad “Mack the Knife“.
1930 – D. H. Lawrence died. English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter . His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
Lawrence’s opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his “savage pilgrimage”.
At the time of his death – from complications of tuberculosis – his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, “The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.”
Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence’s fiction within the canonical “great tradition” of the English novel. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature.
1933 – The film King Kong opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Variety thought the film a powerful adventure. The New York Times gave readers an enthusiastic account of the plot and thought the film a fascinating adventure, although the film’s subtextual threat to Aryan womanhood got Kong banned in Nazi Germany.
1942 – Lou Reed born. American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades.
1991 – Serge Gainsbourg died. French singer, songwriter, poet, composer, artist, actor and director.
Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to reggae, funk, rock, electronic and disco music – his extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize.
His legacy has been firmly established, and he is often regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians.
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December 19, 2012 · 18:23
Almanac – December 19
1111 – Al-Ghazali died. Abū Hāmed Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī , known as Al-Ghazali or Algazel to the Western medieval world, was a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent.
Al-Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Others have cited his movement from science to faith as a detriment to Islamic scientific progress.
Besides his work that successfully changed the course of Islamic philosophy—the early Islamic Neoplatonism developed on the grounds of Hellenistic philosophy, for example, was so successfully refuted by al-Ghazali that it never recovered—he also brought the orthodox Islam of his time in close contact with Sufism.
1843 – Charles Dickens‘ A Christmas Carol first went on sale. It remains popular, has never been out of print, and has been adapted to film, stage, opera, and other media multiple times.
1848 – Emily Brontë died. English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She died of tuberculosis, aged 30.
1915 – Édith Piaf born. French singer who became widely regarded as France’s national popular singer, as well as being one of France’s greatest international stars. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads. Among her songs are “La Vie en rose” (1946), “Non, je ne regrette rien” (1960), “Hymne à l’amour” (1949), “Milord” (1959), “La Foule” (1957), “l’Accordéoniste” (1955), and “Padam… Padam…” (1951).
1918 – Professor Longhair born. AKA Henry Roeland Byrd, New Orleans blues singer and pianist, noteworthy for having been active in two distinct periods, both in the heyday of early rhythm and blues, and in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz after the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
The journalist Tony Russell, in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated “The vivacious rhumba-rhythmed piano blues and choked singing typical of Fess were too weird to sell millions of records; he had to be content with siring musical offspring who were simple enough to manage that, like Fats Domino or Huey “Piano” Smith. But he is also acknowledged as a father figure by subtler players like Allen Toussaint and Dr. John.”
1989 – Stella Gibbons died aged 87. English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer, best remembered for her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, the sucess of which tended to overshadow her subsequent work, and of which she later commented “Cold Comfort Farm is a member of my family; he is like some unignorable old uncle, to whom you have to be grateful because he makes you a handsome allowance, but who is often an embarrassment and a bore.”
2000 – Roebuck “Pops” Staples died. American gospel and R&B musician. A pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 70s, he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha.
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October 9, 2012 · 16:13
Almanac – October 09
1635 – Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident. An English Protestant theologian, he was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities, and started the first Baptist church in America. He was a student of Native American languages and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans. Williams was arguably the very first abolitionist in North America, having organized the first attempt to prohibit slavery in any of the original thirteen colonies.
He was tried by the General Court and convicted of sedition and heresy, the Court declaring that he was spreading “diverse, new, and dangerous opinions”.
1920 – Yusef Lateef born, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator.
1934 – Abdullah Ibrahim born. South African pianist and composer, his music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the sub-genre Cape jazz.
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1978 – Jacques Brel died. Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.
He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson, and although he recorded most of his songs in French, he became a major influence on English-speaking songwriters and performers such as David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Marc Almond and Rod McKuen. English translations of his songs were recorded by many top performers, including Ray Charles, Judy Collins, John Denver, the Kingston Trio, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, and Andy Williams.He has sold over 25 million records worldwide.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reported the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. The alleged landing occurred the previous month in the city’s park, and subsequently led to encounters between citizens and extraterrestrial beings.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite landed on the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
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Watch Your Back: States with the Most Tailgating Violations
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Tailgating is one of the most annoying driving behaviors. These are the states whose drivers are most guilty of following too closely.
It is a beautiful day outside, and, as the cliche goes, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping. You’re on your way to do something outdoors, until all of a sudden your day is ruined by tailgating. Not the kind you do before a football game—that isn’t very likely to ruin your day, unless you don’t care for football—but the more dangerous kind that occurs on the roads.
As you drive down the street, you brake a little suddenly to avoid a speed bump. Unfortunately, the person behind you is following you a little too closely and can’t avoid the rear end of your car. Their tailgating has just caused an accident, and it’s a costly collision for both parties involved. Your car is out of commission, while the other driver is fined for tailgating, meaning their driving record takes a hit, and their insurance rates go up.
With that in mind, the research team at Insurify, an auto insurance quotes comparison site, ran the numbers to find which states are guilty of the most tailgating violations.
National Averages. On average, 14 out of every 10,000 drivers nationwide have a prior citation for tailgating. In addition, 33.0 percent of car collisions are rear-end impacts, according to data gathered in 2017 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Nationwide, the seatbelt usage rate was 89.7 percent, and the traffic fatality rate per 100,000 people was 11.4.
A Nationwide Problem. The data showed that there was no particular area of the country that the worst tailgating states were concentrated within. In fact, there was a fairly even spread. Four of the states ranking in the top 10 for share of tailgaters were located on the east coast, while two more reside close to the west coast. The remaining four are split between the Mountain and Midwest regions.
More Tailgating Doesn’t Mean Increased Fatalities. There’s no denying that tailgating is a dangerous driving practice, but it is not a leading cause of vehicle-related deaths. It can lead to rear-end collisions that are possibly fatal, but there are other accident causes—such as alcohol or drugs—that are so common that these incidents are just a drop in the bucket. In other words, a state with a lot of tailgaters isn’t enough to significantly increase the number of traffic fatalities. The data showed no significant correlation between the proportion of drivers who have been cited for tailgating in each state and the amount of vehicle-related deaths per 10,000 people.
To assess which states have the most tailgaters, Insurify, an auto insurance quotes comparison website, pulled data from its database of over 1.6 million car insurance applications. To apply, drivers input personal and vehicle information, as well as details about their driving history, including whether or not they have been cited for tailgating in the past seven years. Researchers then compared the number of drivers with a tailgating violation against the total number of drivers in a state to identify which states had the highest proportion of tailgaters. Data about the rate of seatbelt usage by state is also included, which comes from a 2017 study from the NHTSA. Additionally, the number of vehicle-related deaths per 100,000 people, as well as data on the percentage of crashes with multiple vehicles, come from data compiled for the year 2017 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
10. Colorado
Drivers that have been cited for tailgating per 10,000 motorists: 20
Rate of seatbelt usage: 83.8%
Percentage of crashes involving multiple vehicles: 49%
Vehicle-related deaths per 100,000 people: 11.6
The Centennial State is more known for its beautiful mountains and excellent skiing than bad driving, but it boasts the 10th-worst rate of tailgaters out of the 50 states. Interestingly, Colorado does have the highest percentage of multiple-vehicle crashes out of the 10 states discussed here, and is tied for fifth-highest nationally. The state also has relatively more vehicle-related deaths than the national average.
9. New Hampshire
Drivers that have been cited for tailgating per 10,000 motorists: 2
Vehicle-related deaths per 100,000 people: 7.6
New Hampshire slots it at the number nine spot on the list, but tailgating isn’t the only problem it has to work on. Just 67.6 percent of residents wear seatbelts when driving, a rate which ranks worst in the country. That low number ranks a full 22.1 percent below the national average. Despite this, the New England state still sees relatively few fatalities. Their rate of vehicle-related deaths is the 7th lowest in the country.
8. Ohio
Ohio is certainly home to a lot of the other type of tailgating. Two professional football teams, as well as Ohio State—one of the biggest college football programs in the country—play there. Unfortunately, the Buckeye State also has a problem with tailgating on the roads, as 22 out of every 10,000 drivers have received a citation for driving too closely. Ohio is also worse than the national average in both rate of seatbelt usage and the proportion of vehicle crashes involving multiple cars. It has the third-worst rate of seatbelt usage among states on this list, and that could be due in part to its lax safety laws. Only people riding in the front seat of a car in Ohio and children between the ages of eight and 15 are required to wear seatbelts.
7. Connecticut
One of four east coast states on the list, Connecticut actually measures up well in other metrics. It ranks better than the national average in seatbelt usage, multiple-vehicle crashes, and car crash fatalities. Its proportion of 7.7 vehicle-related deaths per 100,000 people is actually the third-best out of the states discussed. However, it’s also the state with the seventh-most tailgaters per 10,000 people, so not all is perfect.
6. Washington
Washington may be on the opposite side of the United States, but much like Connecticut, it performs better than the national average in every metric except tailgating. It is especially excellent when it comes to seatbelts. 94.8 percent of riders wear seatbelts, the fifth-highest figure in the country. This could be due in part to the hefty fines imposed for failing to strap in. Washingtonians have to pay $124 if caught not wearing a seatbelt. By comparison, Ohio—which as discussed above has weak seatbelt laws—fines offenders just $30, and police can only fine a driver if they have already been pulled over for another offense.
5. Virginia
Virginia holds the fifth-worst rate of tailgaters among all 50 states, and also struggles to get drivers to buckle in, as its seatbelt usage rate is a full 4.6 percent less than the national average. However, Virginia also sees fewer multi-driver collisions than all but two of the other top 10 worst tailgating states, and holds a rate of vehicle-related fatalities that is 13 percent less than the national mean.
4. Utah
Drivers that have been cited for tailgating per 10,000 motorists:36
Utah, which like Colorado is famous for its bevy of beautiful ski resorts and hiking destinations, is nonetheless even worse than its alpine neighbor when it comes to driving too closely to neighboring cars. Its proportion of tailgaters per 10,000 is nearly two times that of Colorado’s, though Utah does fare better in the other three metrics than Colorado does. As well, despite its struggles with tailgating, Utah does a good job limiting alcohol-related driving incidents. It has the 14th fewest alcohol-related driving deaths out of all the 50 states.
3. Nebraska
The Cornhusker state, which slots in at number three, doesn’t just have a tailgating problem. Nebraska actually measures below average in seatbelt usage and vehicle-related fatalities as well. Driving without a seatbelt in Nebraska appears to be especially dangerous. In 2017, 60 percent of fatally injured drivers were determined to have not been wearing their seatbelts. That mark ranks fifth-highest out of the 50 states.
2. Georgia
This top-10 list is home to the state with the lowest seatbelt usage rate (New Hampshire), and the state with the highest rate of seatbelt usage in Georgia. The stellar record of strapping in doesn’t seem to help with tailgating though, as Georgia holds the second worst proportion of drivers cited for tailgating. Additionally, the southernmost state on this list has a fatality rate that’s tied for 16th worst nationally.
1. Idaho
No state has as big of a problem with following too closely as Idaho does. Their rate of drivers who have been cited for tailgating, 76 out of every 10,000, is nearly double that of Georgia, the second-worst state, and exactly double that of Nebraska, the number three state on the list. Idaho has more than one problem with driving safely, though. It’s seatbelt usage percentage is second-worst on this list, and ranks in the bottom eight nationally.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1950s → 1954 → June 1954 → 30 June 1954 → Commons Sitting
COVENTRY CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)
§ Read a Second time, and committed.
§ Sir Herbert Williams (Croydon, East)
I beg to move, That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill to leave out Clause 11. As we spent rather a long time on the previous Measure, I shall endeavour to be shorter than otherwise might have been the case. That sentiment will, I hope, receive your approbation, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.
Clause 11 is a very strange Clause, and it is also unique. The fact that a thing is done for the first time is, of course, no fundamental reason against it. It is also the reason for a very close examination, and we must bear in mind that it is not our duty to say that the Clause is a bad one, but for those who support it and for those who are petitioning Parliament to grant this somewhat novel power to say that it is a good one.
I have always been a very strict opponent of monopoly. Wherever I find it, I am inclined to oppose it, because, in the nature of things, monopoly is evil.
§ Mr. William Keenan (Liverpool, Kirkdale)
How many directorships does the hon. Gentleman monopolise?
§ Sir H. Williams
I do not monopolise anything. It is not my fault if people think that my advice is worth taking. I should be very interested to discuss the point on some other occasion, but the hon. Gentleman need not be jealous.
I only saw the petition today and do not know any of the petitioners, but they are numerous. There are the National Farmers' Union; the British Flower Association—the organisation commonly known as "Interflora"; the Horticultural Trades Association; the National Federation of Fruit and Potato Trades, Limited, and the Retail Fruit Trade Association. They are bodies representative, I think, of the people who would send goods to a market.
We are familiar with the fact that in the time of the ancient monarchies when Parliament had failed to make adequate provision for the service both of the 1462 monarch and of the State—because it was a common pot—the monarch frequently granted monopolies on terms favourable to his own interests and those of the State, but for a long time it has been regarded as undesirable to create these monopolies.
I understand that the market in Coventry is not a place where the corporation itself engages in trade, but it wants to have a monopoly in the sense that: only the people who have stalls in the market would be permitted to deal wholesale in what is commonly called market garden produce. Poultry, fruit and vegetables. I think, are included, although I have not a copy of the Bill—but it is that variety of produce commonly found in market gardens.
The corporation wants to make it a crime for anyone to sell wholesale to retailers in the City of Coventry except through this one central establishment. I do not understand its purpose. I have never, directly or indirectly, been engaged in this branch of trade.
§ Dr. H. Morgan (Warrington)
That is why they are doing well.
Maybe, but I have never been engaged in the wholesale or retail distribution of what is called market garden produce. However, as a customer who moves about, as do most, I have observed that very often a Rood deal of the trade is done by the mobile market—the lorry which is loaded up at the market garden or farm and sent round a particular town delivering the requisite consignments of produce to the retail shops. That would become impossible in Coventry.
§ Mr. Percy Shurmer (Birmingham, Sparkbrook)
No, it would not. I object to that. I spent 28 years on a market stall.
That may be so—
§ Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris)
Order. I hope that the conversation at that end of the Chamber will stop.
I do not know whether the hon. Member said he was a licensed hawker, or words to that effect. All I am concerned with is whether or not he has read the Bill. He may have been engaged for 28 years in retail distribution—
§ Mr. Shurmer
I am very sorry that the hon. Member is so careless in his utterances that we cannot understand what he said and he cannot recollect what he did say. If the hon. Member interrupted a little less frequently, it might help the debate.
That kind of distribution, as I understand the Bill, would become illegal.
§ Mr. Maurice Edelman (Coventry, North)
Is not the hon. Gentleman aware that Clause 11 (3) specifically says that the Section shall not apply to the sale of goods sold by the person who grew or reared the same; That would apply to the goods produced by a market gardener. On a question of fact, may I be allowed to say that that is so?
I have not got a copy of the Bill. There are a very few copies. It is the case that for many years—
§ Mr. R. H. S. Crossman (Coventry, East)
On a point of order. The hon. Gentleman has made a serious suggestion which has been denied. Would he please withdraw the downright untruth that he uttered?
The hon. Gentleman has accused me of uttering a downright untruth. A downright untruth is a breach of the way in which we conduct business in this House. If an hon. Member says something which may be inaccurate, it is not the practice to describe that as an untruth.
§ Mr. Crossman
It is not for the hon. Gentleman to decide what the practice is.
§ Mr. Deputy-Speaker
To accuse an hon. Member of a downright untruth is not in accordance with the rules of the House. It would simplify matters a good deal if the Chair were addressed in this debate.
Of course, I will withdraw the phrase "downright untruth" and substitute "a totally inaccurate description of the Bill." The hon. Gentleman has asserted that those market gardeners who come with a lorry to Coventry will be forbidden to market their produce in the retail shops. That is untrue. In the very Clause which he is opposing it is explicitly stated that 1464 they are exempted from the provisions of the Clause, and that the practice will be permitted. I only ask the hon. Gentleman to read the Clause which he is opposing before he gets on with his speech.
I now have a copy of the Bill. I was labouring under a disability.
§ Dr. Morgan
As always.
The only effect of these ceaseless interruptions is to prolong the debate. I am never put off by interruptions—
Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will address his remarks to the Chair.
I find that I had overlooked subsection (2, b). I make mistakes from time to time. I do not see why it should cause anyone distress. But because I have made an honest mistake, I object strongly to it being described as an untruth, because one is intentional and the other is inadvertent.
I said that it was a totally inaccurate statement.
The hon. Gentleman's first statement was different.
I withdrew it.
I must ask the hon. Member to address the Chair.
I will do my best, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.
The hon. Gentleman had better hurry up. There are perishable goods in this market.
It is true that there are certain provisos which limit the extent of the monopoly, but that does not alter the fact that the whole conception of the Clause is to create a partial monopoly. As I am one of those who are opposed to monopolies, I am opposed to this Clause. This Clause, as I have said earlier, is novel. It is a power not possessed by any other local authority in this country. To the best of my knowledge, it is a power not previously sought by any local authority in this country, and I hope that in due course hon. Members opposite will give some justification for this Clause. That is what I want to hear, 1465 because if I am convinced that this is not the monopoly that I conceive it to be, then naturally I shall not persist in supporting the Instruction. I want to approach this matter in quite a fair-minded manner.
As I have said, I had seen none of the documents produced by those who have petitioned against the Bill until I received them some time this afternoon, but I understand from what happened in another place that one of the arguments in support of this monopoly was the traffic question. It was suggested that there would be less congestion of traffic if the whole of the goods to be sold were sent to a central market.
That seems to me to be entirely delusive. We all know the appalling congestion which is caused in London—although this kind of restriction does not exist there—because a large proportion of market garden produce is concentrated in the Covent Garden area for distribution. Anyone who drives through that area knows how appalling the congestion is. It is a terrible mistake to centralise the distribution of produce in a place right in the centre of a town. The less it is centralised, the better. That is one reason I believe this to be an unfortunate Clause. I am inclined to think that it will add to prices. If a large proportion of the produce has to be taken to a central point from places outside and then has to be redistributed to points of retail distribution, there will be a duplication of traffic, which will have to be paid for, and the cost of this transport will ultimately be added to the cost of the goods.
I do not know whether the hon. Baronet is aware that this site was selected after consultations between all the wholesalers and retailers in the area. It is two miles from the centre of the town, on the side from which the produce will be chiefly derived. Does not that fact affect his argument to some extent?
§ Mr. Nabarro
On which side of the town is it situated?
Order. The hon. Baronet the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) is in possession of the House.
I am rather pleased to hear that, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. As 1466 I said earlier, I have no desire unduly to prolong this debate, because there is another Private Bill to be taken after this one and then there are Affirmative Resolutions in connection with Sunday cinematograph entertainments. As I—in common with many other hon. Members—got to bed very late last night, I am undesirous of prolonging the debate. I think I have said enough to indicate the grounds upon which I tabled this Instruction.
§ Mr. Gerald Nabarro (Kidderminster)
I beg to second the Motion.
I have a direct interest in this matter from a constituency standpoint, and, if I may say with very great respect and humility to my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams), I trust that the observations I shall make on behalf of a number of small enterprises in western Worcestershire—responsible for growing much of the fruit and vegetables which finds its way to the industrial areas of Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry—will be listened to more quietly than were the observations of my hon. Friend.
The reason why I asked the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) on which side of Coventry the market to which he referred is to be sited is that it has some bearing upon transportation costs in respect of the fruit and vegetables we are discussing under this Clause much of which come from certain areas of my constituency, namely, the Teme Valley, the northern end of the Vale of Evesham and in western Worcestershire, which are predominantly associated with the horticultural industry.
Clause 11 is restrictive in its effect. It is quite true that a grower or rearer is not precluded from direct sale, within the boundaries of the City of Coventry, to a retail organisation or a consumer. The hon. Member for Coventry, East was, in essence, correct in what he said about Subsection (3, b), for that paragraph reads: the sale of goods sold by the person who grew or reared the same … and the subsection begins with the words: This section shall not apply to … It is, therefore, clear that there is no restrictive element in respect of a grower himself selling direct to a retailer or a consumer, but what the hon. Gentleman 1467 conveniently forgot, in his intervention, is that the bulk of the horticultural produce of west Worcestershire and other Midlands horticultural producing areas is sold by rural wholesalers, to other wholesalers in the urban areas, or to retailers or to consumers.
That is general throughout the horticultural industry, and I hope that hon. Gentlemen will not condemn it too strongly, for this is an arrangement generally subscribed to by the Cooperative societies. They follow almost exactly the same arrangements. It may not be so in Coventry. I have no precise knowledge of what the Co-operatives do in Coventry, but in various other parts of the country they do, and my argument against this Clause and my objection to it is simply that if it becomes effective it will prevent a growers' organisation, a growers' co-operative or wholesale body that has bought produce from a number of primary producers, from selling in the City of Coventry direct to retailers or to consumers except through the municipal market. The Clause will require that wholesale or co-operative organisation to sell only through the City municipal market. I do not think that interpretation of the Clause can be open to question.
In broad principle, I dislike any tendency towards collectivisation. I dislike, on principle, any tendency towards the creation of municipal or monopoly markets, particularly in perishable goods, and particularly in the case of horticultural products, for which the growers are, by and large, very large numbers of small men. Such growers have not the channels of sale and distribution on their own account, and thus they sell through a wholesale organisation, or through a co-operative organisation, representing them.
§ Mr. Edelman
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that there is nothing in Clause 11 (3, b) that prevents a group of producers from getting together to sell their goods as they would wish, and as if they were market gardeners selling on their own account. Indeed, a co-operative arrangement as described by the hon. Gentleman could be specifically excluded by the Clause.
That is not the interpretation I put on the Clause. I have 1468 described precisely the interpretation that I put on it, and to repeat it in shorter form it is simply that a grower is not precluded from direct sale to a wholesaler or to a retailer or to a consumer in Coventry, whereas an organisation of wholesalers or retailers representing the growers is obliged to go through the municipal market, thereby creating an additional tier of trade distribution and adding to costs.
It must be made clear that if this Clause were accepted, if the Bill went without the Instruction to the Committee, the general effect would be to add an additional link in the chain of distribution—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman must realise that some of the biggest retail organisations in the country which will equally be affected by an arrangement of this kind are the Co-operative societies—
§ Mr. G. Lindgren (Wellingborough)
You are not worried about them, brother.
I am not worried about them, and I wish the hon. Gentleman would not indulge in his camaraderie slang and call me "brother" in the House of Commons, for I am not a brother to the hon. Gentleman or to his Parliamentary colleagues.
The Co-operative societies selling to the general public will be in exactly the same position as other retail traders in having to buy a part of their produce at least from the centralised municipal market. If this Clause became effective it would undoubtedly impose an additional link in the chain of distribution of horticultural produce, in Coventry, in certain circumstances thereby inflating costs.
I have always been greatly opposed to the views of the hon. Lady for Coventry, South (Miss Burton) upon the cost of distribution of horticultural produce. Her view is that the present arrangements are extravagant and too diversified. She thinks that they ought to be organised on some form of communal or centralised basis, similar to that provided by the Clause. If that is done, a measure of competition will thereby be eliminated, and because that measure of competition is eliminated, it will add to the cost of distribution and, in my view, result ultimately in a still higher price having to be paid for perishable horticultural goods.
1469 The City of Coventry has a Socialist Council with a large majority. The Borough of Kidderminster has a Conservative majority. It is perhaps logical that a city council with a Socialist majority should tend towards the municipalisation of its essential or semi-essential services.
I might tell the hon. Member who constantly interrupts me that I cannot imagine a Conservative Council bringing in a Communist measure such as is contained in Clause 11, and I am using communist with a small "c" because that is exactly what the Clause implies. It is depriving certain private traders of facilities for obtaining and distributing their goods and, is thus a restrictive practice.
The hon. Member is shouting about markets and about communism and Socialist councils. Is he aware that the Birmingham City Council had such an arrangement for many years—in fact, until 1945—from the time I went on to the council. It had a large Conservative majority—[Laughter.] Never mind the "Ha, Ha." The hon. Member for Kidderminster need not laugh. I can play him at his own game at any time. The point is, who is in these markets? Is it the Socialist council which is selling the produce? No; it is the great wholesalers, many of whom support the Conservative Party.
The hon. Member is in his customary, confused state of mind. I know the market conditions in the City of Birmingham quite as well as he does. What is the position? The Birmingham City Council controls the granting of facilities for marketing within the city, but it has never sought to impose such a stringent limitation as the Coventry City Council now requires, which is, in effect, that no person shall distribute horticultural produce in Coventry—unless he be a grower; there is that caveat—without a licence or a permissive document issued by the city council. No such provision exists, in such stringent terms in the City Birmingham, and that is the essential difference between the two cities.
I am speaking on behalf of a large number of horticultural growers and—I make no denial of it—on behalf of the National Farmers' Union. The N.F.U. 1470 has 200,000 members in the country, and I can claim that its largest branch in the West Midlands is in Kidderminster, with no fewer than 600 members, a high percentage of whom are horticultural growers.
§ Mr. J. B. Godber (Grantham)
My hon. Friend should not say that that is the largest branch. We have much larger branches in Lincolnshire.
Where my hon. Friend makes his mistake is that we are concerned in the debate primarily with Coventry, Birmingham and Kidderminster, all of which are in the West Midlands, a long way from my hon. Friend's native Lincolnshire.
The horticultural community is greatly opposed to this provision and wishes to see the Clause deleted. The National Farmers' Union is unanimous in that regard. It conceives that this Clause has been included in the Bill by the Coventry City Council as a Socialist aberration, similar, of course to the aberration of the Coventry City Council in regard to Civil Defence.
I hope that the majority of the House will conceive that it is not in the national interest, the interest of the City of Coventry or in the interest of the horticultural producers. The provisions of Clause 11 are also opposed by consumers, who see the possibility of prices for horticultural provisions being substantially increased. I hope that, for all those reasons, the House will overwhelmingly support the Instruction to the Committee for the deletion of the Clause and require that free and unfettered competition shall be the means of reducing the price of fruit and vegetables in Coventry and elsewhere.
Having listened to the hon. Members for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) and Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) dealing with the Coventry Corporation Bill, I feel obliged to declare my interest in the matter, in conjunction with my hon. Friends the Members for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) and Coventry, South (Miss Burton). We are closely associated with the Coventry City Council in advancing tonight certain arguments in favour of the Bill which I hope will have the close attention of the House.
1471 The hon. Member for Kidderminster, in his familiar, megaphonic fatuous confusion, tried to import into this Bill a high degree of political prejudice. What are the facts? He spoke of Communism, of a Socialist-controlled council, but he at no time made mention of the fact that the Bill has, and has always had, the unanimous support of the Coventry City Council. Though it is the case that the council has a Socialist majority, the fact is that when the Bill was discussed and brought before the council it received the unanimous support of Socialists and Conservatives.
It might be thought, if one were merely to listen to the hon. Member for Kidderminster, that in some curious and conspiratorial way this Bill was a Socialist plot in order, by some backstairs method, to introduce a Socialist technique into the marketing affairs of the city. Not a bit of it. For a very long period the proposals contained in the Bill were the subject of consultations between the city council and all the interests represented in the city.
There were discussions with the trade, with the wholesalers, with the retailers; in fact all those in Coventry who had a direct concern with marketing were consulted. No objection was made. On the contrary, the Bill had the enthusiastic support of all the traders, whether wholesalers or retailers, in Coventry. It is perfectly true that there was one inquiry—not an objection—from outside. It was from the Bedworth Council; it was answered, and the inquirers were satisfied.
I wish to emphasise that this is not a partisan matter; it is not a case of party politics. The proposals contained in the Bill have been the subject of close and careful scrutiny by Conservatives and Socialists and by the business community in the city, and as a result it was decided unanimously in Coventry that the Bill should be put forward.
Would the hon. Gentleman tell us why, among all those bodies consulted, Coventry did not have regard to the interests of the private producers and consult the National Farmers' Union?
The National Farmers' Union can speak for itself and has spoken for itself by laying petitions before the House. It has in the person of the hon. 1472 Gentleman, I will not say an adequate spokesman, but at any rate a spokesman who has been able to present the case of the N.F.U.
I am at the moment dealing with the question of Coventry as such, and I say that in Coventry the proposals in the Bill were heard and unanimously accepted. If the hon. Gentleman is not satisfied with that submission, may I also remind him that, at a later stage, a resolution for the promotion of the Bill was passed at a public meeting of local government electors and a separate resolution was passed in respect of marketing.
At that time, had it been the wish of anyone to demand a poll, it would have required only 100 voices to obtain a poll, and had that been the wish in Coventry, a poll could have been demanded, would have been granted, and the objectors would have been heard. The fact is that no such objections were made.
I think that tonight my hon. Friends and I can claim that we speak on behalf of Coventry, on behalf of its council, producers, consumers, wholesalers and retailers—
Not the producers.
—and of all those concerned in the matter, who will benefit from the admirable proposals which are contained in the Bill.
It is not my purpose tonight to suggest that there have not been any objections. There have been certain objections advanced by the Home Office, which made certain submissions, particularly concerning Clause 11. Afterwards, when the Clause went to the Lord Chairman of Committees in another place, certain of the objections put forward by the Home Office were adequately met, and the Clause was amended until it reached its present form. It now contains a most important and valuable provision, which I very much regret to say the hon. Member for Croydon, East overlooked. I am sure that he will agree that it is a most important provision.
The hon. Gentleman says that I overlooked the point; but, on the other hand, the argument put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) with regard to the wholesale distributors has not been met.
That is a point which I should like to meet. It is a fair and valid point, and, in my own interpretation of the Clause, I believe that point is in fact left, I will in a few moments submit for the consideration of hon. Members on both sides what I think is necessary.
What is necessary tonight is that we should agree to allow the Bill to go upstairs to Committee in its present form. If there are matters of fact which require clarification, such as those advanced by the hon. Member for Kidderminster, and it is necessary to introduce certain Amendments, let the case be heard upstairs, and let those who are interested advance their arguments and put forward their particular interests in the matter. I am quite sure that the hon. Member for Croydon, East will find that the Coventry City Council is very anxious to meet any particular objections which may be advanced, and will do what lies in its power to satisfy those who may have doubts about what appears to be the monopolistic character of this Clause.
When the hon. Member for Croydon, East was speaking he laid very great stress on the question of monopoly. One can well understand that that is a matter which agitates the hon. Member, and I am sure that it would agitate many hon. Members on this side of the House if they felt that anyone were trying to obtain monopolistic powers which might be abused. But let us consider, for a moment, the nature of this so-called monopoly. The Coventry City Council is attempting to set up a market which will provide certain facilities for the city, and where it will be necessary in the normal way for all who sell fruit, vegetables, game and meat wholesale to sell their goods.
What are the substantial reasons why the Coventry City Council is committing itself to the heavy expense of setting up the only wholesale market in the centre of a market of this kind? The fact is that the city was destroyed by bombing during the war. Since that time, in the general replanning of the city and in its general redevelopment, it was decided—particularly as the major part of the produce which is the subject of this Bill comes from the east—to remove the market and establish a new market on the eastern side of the city. I would stress to the hon. Member for Kidderminster that the whole point of that decision was to provide 1474 access for the private producers and their wholesalers who would be bringing their goods to the market from the eastern side.
All who know Coventry will agree that it is a rapidly expanding city. It developed greatly during the war and it is constantly increasing in population—
§ Mr. Ellis Smith (Stoke-on-Trent, South)
And importance.
Quite so, and it is becoming congested. If it were possible for wholesalers to run their heavy lorries from all sides of the city at their own discretion, and without any consideration for the amenities of the city—bearing in mind the fact that Coventry is vitally important as an export centre—obviously we would have a wholly inefficient system of marketing in the city. For that reason, the city council decided that it would make this substantial investment in a market on the eastern side of the city, where the produce comes from, and where it will be distributed.
Does it constitute a monopoly to provide a service, a facility, a private meeting place, where the competitive market gardeners and wholesalers can engage in their normal business? No one is saying that competition should be throttled. No one is saying that competition in wholesale marketing should be done away with, All that is suggested is that the Coventry Corporation should provide a meeting place where the wholesalers who feed the city will be able to meet in the most sanitary and convenient place and in the most favourable conditions both for themselves and for the consumers. Surely it is not a monopoly when there is no commercial advantage in terms of profit for the Corporation as such?
No one has any objection at all to Coventry, or any other town, having a new market. That is not the argument. It never has been the argument that this Clause creates a complete monopoly; but it is restrictive, and it does create a partial monopoly. Will the hon. Gentleman answer that?
The only comment I would make on what the hon. Member for Kidderminster has said is that he is abusing language when he calls the provision of a unique service a monopoly.
Bearing in mind the intention of the City Corporation, and the fact that it is 1475 willing to make such Amendments in Committee upstairs as may be asked for by those specially interested, I hope that the hon. Member for Croydon, East will withdraw his objection to Clause 11; that the Bill may be committed to go to a Committee upstairs; that evidence may be called; that counsel may be allowed to speak, and the Bill be given that careful consideration which it is the tradition of this House to extend to Private Bills. If that is done, then we can hope that ultimately we shall have a Bill which in its final form will serve not only Coventry but the rest of the country as well.
At the outset I should like to clear up a little misunderstanding between my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) and myself. He is justly proud of his close connection with his virile branches of the National Farmers' Union, but I remind him that the N.F.U. started in Lincolnshire, in my constituency, and it has always continued to flourish there to a greater extent than elsewhere.
I should like to put my hon. Friend right. He is talking about the North Midlands. I am talking about the West Midlands.
§ Mr. Godber
I had better move on from that point before I incur your displeasure, Mr. Speaker.
The hon. Member for Coventry, North (Mr. Edelman) put his case most persuasively and reasonably. We listened carefully to the points which he tried to make, but there are some very strong reasons why we should resist the Clause. A number of those reasons have been put by my hon. Friends.
Before I proceed further, I should declare an interest in that I myself sell a considerable proportion of the horticultural produce of my own business in Coventry and in its wholesale market. In actual fact, the provisions of the Bill would be helpful to me. My interests will be adversely affected by what I am saying, but I believe most sincerely in the principle of freedom against monopoly and even if it harmed my own interests I would still vote against the Clause. I make that absolutely clear.
1476 I have sent a large proportion of my produce into Coventry for many years. I know the conditions there and I realise that there is need for a new market. I accept that absolutely, but I do not see why in the provision of a new market the Coventry Corporation should seek to impose restrictions on those wholesalers who regularly bring produce into Coventry—not only those from Birmingham, Evesham, and other areas, but also those who come from the area in which I live in Bedfordshire.
I am thinking especially of the small grower who brings in his own produce and also the produce of his friends. The small grower with one lorry, who has a few acres of land and who collects a certain amount of produce from some of his friends, goes into towns such as Coventry and delivers and sells on the doorsteps of the shops. Those people are not wholly covered. They are covered only so far as their own produce is concerned, and many of them could not make a living on that alone. I say most sincerely that this is a genuine point which must be met.
Coventry Corporation must meet the point. The Corporation has introduced subsection (3) to which reference has been made, but it introduced that only as the result of representations. I suggest that it would be right and fitting now for the Corporation to go a stage further and try to meet the genuine points. Then perhaps they would be able to get agreement upon the matter.
If they would do that and allow freedom for the seller of horticultural products, I believe that that would take away very much of the antagonism of my hon. Friends and myself. No assurance has been given on that point, and for that reason we must press for the Clause to be deleted from the Bill.
It should be noted that this is an entirely new point. There are many towns and cities which have their own markets. Many of them are very fine wholesale markets but, as far as I know, there is no other case where it has been sought to prevent competition with those markets by people with lorries delivering produce and selling at the doorstep. This is a most unfair restriction which it is sought to make. It is an unfair restriction against the smallest producer of all who is most in need of help.
1477 There is a point that I would put to the hon. Lady the Member for Coventry, South (Miss Burton), who, I know, is very concerned about the housewives in many ways. On many ocasions in this House I have heard her standing up for the housewives. The people about whom I am talking are bringing their produce to the towns in the freshest way possible, and they are probably getting it to the housewives in the cheapest way possible. I am sure that we shall have the hon. Lady's support in seeking to delete the Clause.
I gather that what the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) wants is an assurance on the specific point about the small grower. That can surely be worked out upstairs when the Bill goes to a Committee. I gather that what he is urging is that we should send the Bill upstairs provided he is told that his point will be met there.
It is not only that. I want a little more than that, and I hope the hon. Member does not think I am unreasonable. There is the valid case of the wholesalers who bring produce in from Birmingham, and there is a similar point in respect of the co-operatives. We have to consider those who buy in Birmingham market and take their produce to surrounding towns. Birmingham market is a much larger market than that in Coventry, and it caters for a considerable part of that trade.
Also, this is an entirely new provision for any corporation to seek to secure. For that reason, the National Farmers' Union and all the other organisations concerned view it with the greatest suspicion. If this provision were written into the Bill, no doubt many other corporations would want similar powers. We ought to be quite certain that the powers are not unreasonably given.
I do not feel that a case has been made for the provision. As my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) said earlier, it is up to the promoters of the Bill to make their case. I feel that they have not made their case. Unless we get a very real assurance on this point, I hope the House will reject the Clause.
In view of the offers which have been made by the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr.Crossman) and the hon. Member for Coventry, North 1478 (Mr. Edelman), I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion in order that the matter may be examined by a Committee.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
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A judge has ordered a sports marketing group to pay a total of $1 million in fines in the FIFA soccer scandal. U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen set the fine on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn. Traffic Sports International and Traffic Sports USA were implicated in the sprawling U.S. case accusing the companies and other firms of bribing international soccer officials in exchange for commercial rights to major tournaments.
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ordered a sports marketing group on Monday to pay a total of $1 million in fines in the FIFA soccer scandal.
U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen fined Traffic Sports International and Traffic Sports USA at a hearing federal court in Brooklyn. The companies had been implicated in the sprawling U.S. case accusing the companies and other firms of bribing top international soccer officials in exchange for commercial rights to major tournaments.
They were each was fined $500,000. They had previously agreed to shut down operations as part of a plea agreement.
A Traffic executive, Jose Hawilla, was a key witness at the 2017 trial of three South American soccer officials accused of corruption. He told the jury that he and other marketing executives he worked with paid tens of millions of dollars over the years in bribes papered over by falsified contracts.
The Brazilian witness described how in one instance his marketing business and two other firms joined forces to pay a $10 million bribe to Jeffrey Webb, then a FIFA vice president and president of CONCACAF, the governing body for soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, to help secure the rights for the Copa America in 2016. Webb has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and is awaiting sentencing.
The jury at the trial where Hawilla testified convicted Angel Napout, former president of Paraguay’s soccer federation, and Jose Maria Marin, the former president of Brazil’s soccer federation. Manuel Burga, the former head of Peru’s soccer federation was acquitted.
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WACs > Title 332 > Chapter 332-100
Chapter 332-100 WAC
Last Update: 8/7/07
LEASES, SALES, RIGHTS OF WAY, ETC.
WAC Sections
332-100-020 Leasing—Priority to public school districts.
332-100-030 Rate of interest for sales.
332-100-040 Deduction determination.
332-100-050 Rate of interest for contracts.
DISPOSITION OF SECTIONS FORMERLY CODIFIED IN THIS TITLE
332-100-010 Percentage of proceeds to management account. [Resolution No. 16, filed 4/5/61.] Repealed by WSR 78-10-039 (Order 308, Resolution No. 241), filed 9/18/78. Statutory Authority: RCW 79.64.040.
332-100-060 Rate of interest for repayment. [Statutory Authority: RCW 79.01.132, 79.01.216 and 79.64.030. WSR 80-11-013 (Order 346, Resolution No. 304), § 332-100-060, filed 8/11/80.] Repealed by WSR 88-22-049 (Resolution No. 600), filed 10/31/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 79.64.030, 43.30.135 and 43.30.150.
Leasing—Priority to public school districts.
Acting under the authority as hereinbefore set forth and RCW 79.01.096, the board of natural resources declares it to be the policy of the department of natural resources to grant priority to public school districts in the leasing of common school lands under the jurisdiction of the department of natural resources: Provided, however, That the needs of such lands for public school purposes is clearly demonstrated and the request is not in excess of actual or reasonably foreseeable needs.
[Resolution No. 32, filed 4/3/62.]
Rate of interest for sales.
The interest rate to be charged on all sales requiring the same pursuant to RCW 79.01.132 shall be twelve percent per annum.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 79.01.132, 79.01.216, 79.90.520, 79.90.535 and 1991 c 64 §§ 1 and 2. WSR 91-22-079 (Order 580), § 332-100-030, filed 11/5/91, effective 12/6/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 79.01.132, 79.01.216 and 79.64.030. WSR 80-11-013 (Order 346, Resolution No. 304), § 332-100-030, filed 8/11/80; Order 27, § 332-100-030, filed 11/19/69.]
Deduction determination.
(1) The board of natural resources hereby determines that a deduction from the gross proceeds of all leases, sales, contracts, licenses, permits, easements, and rights of way issued by the department of natural resources and affecting public lands as provided for in subsection (2) hereof is necessary in order to achieve the purposes of chapter 79.64 RCW.
(2) The department of natural resources shall deduct up to the maximum percentages as provided for in RCW 79.64.040 and related statutes. Except for transactions involving aquatic lands, harbor areas and trust land categories that have a deficit revenue/expenditure status, the deductions may be temporarily discontinued by a resolution of the board of natural resources at such times as the balance in the resource management cost account exceeds an amount equal to twelve months operating expenses for the department of natural resources or when the board determines such discontinuation is in the best interest of the trust beneficiaries. The board shall specify the trust lands subject to such discontinuation. The duration of such orders shall be for a specified time period calculated to allow a reduction of the resource management cost account balance to an amount approximately equal to three months operating expenses for the department. Operating expense needs will be determined by the board based on pro rata increments of biennial legislative appropriations. All sums so deducted shall be paid into the resource management cost account in the state general fund created by chapter 79.64 RCW.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 79.64.040. WSR 07-17-031, § 332-100-040, filed 8/7/07, effective 9/7/07; WSR 06-03-016, § 332-100-040, filed 1/6/06, effective 2/6/06; WSR 83-11-008 (Order 398, Resolution No. 419), § 332-100-040, filed 5/6/83, effective 6/30/83; WSR 78-10-039 (Order 308, Resolution No. 241), § 332-100-040, filed 9/18/78.]
Rate of interest for contracts.
The interest rate to be charged on all contracts requiring the same pursuant to RCW 79.01.216 shall be the average for thirty year fixed conventional mortgages on the first day of the last full month preceding approval by the board of natural resources. Said rate shall not be less than six percent.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 79.01.132, 79.01.216, 79.90.520, 79.90.535 and 1991 c 64 §§ 1 and 2. WSR 91-22-079 (Order 580), § 332-100-050, filed 11/5/91, effective 12/6/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 79.01.132, 79.01.216 and 79.64.030. WSR 80-11-013 (Order 346, Resolution No. 304), § 332-100-050, filed 8/11/80.]
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National Media Highlights UMD Hurricane...
National Media Highlights UMD Hurricane Research, Wind Tunnel
disaster resilience
Wind Tunnel
With hurricane season in full swing, University of Maryland (UMD) A. James Clark School of Engineering and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC) experts accompanied national and local media to UMD’s Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel to explain why “it only takes one storm” to expose a region’s infrastructure vulnerabilities and emergency response challenges.
Joined by the TODAY Show’s Dylan Dreyer, as well as reporters from USA TODAY and metropolitan area broadcast outlets, UMD researchers set out to demonstrate how hurricane force winds – as well as flooding and storm surge – could spell trouble for coastal and riverine communities, and even the nation’s capital.
“Anywhere on the Gulf Coast to the upper East Coast, we’re all vulnerable,” said Dr. Antonio Busalacchi, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Director of UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.
While early reports indicate this year’s North Atlantic hurricane season could carry fewer named storms than the historical average, both Busalacchi and Clark School engineers warn this is not the time to scale back on storm preparedness and resilience measures.
“It matters little what the number of named or major hurricanes expected for the 2015 season might be,” said Dr. Sandra Knight, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Senior Research Engineer and Director of UMD’s Center for Disaster Resilience. “Some of the nation’s costliest storms – including Hurricane Sandy – were Category 2 or lower when they made U.S. landfall.”
With the help of Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel Director and Department of Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Dr. Jewel Barlow and his researchers, Dreyer and others experienced up to 115 MPH wind speeds, demonstrating for viewing audiences just how powerful a Category 2 storm can be.
Wearing a harness strapped into bolts in the tunnel floor, one at a time, each of the reporters experienced how even sustained tropical storm force winds would make it very difficult for a person to stand, walk or even speak. As Barlow and his team slowly raised the wind speeds, each of the daring media personnel illustrated why a storm not classified as a “major hurricane” can still pack a serious punch – one that would cause significant damage and risks to human life.
In fact, a direct hit by a hurricane could spell calamity even for the Washington metropolitan area, Knight warned.
“Many people in the D.C. area do not realize that they’re actually in a tidal zone and that they are subject to coastal inundation,” she said. “Often, they feel like they are far away from the beach, so they are not at risk, but D.C. is certainly impacted by tides and coastal storms. The first step toward building resilience in the capital region is raising awareness to the fact that this is a coastal region, subject to many of the same risks shoreline communities face.”
Even with the recent completion of Washington’s 17th Street flood levee – designed to reduce risk to human safety and critical infrastructure from Potomac River flooding – floods pose a major concern throughout the area.
“The largest flood ever recorded in Washington, D.C. reached 7.9 feet in the early 1930s,” Knight said. “But, unprecedented storm surge could threaten billions of dollars’ worth of property, including critical infrastructure, national icons, and national security interests. When you factor in the impact of climate change and rising sea levels, you realize that a direct hit from even a Category 2 hurricane could carry a significant amount of risk in the nation’s capital.”
While the 17th Street levee serves to protect downtown Washington in the event a 100-year storm should hit the Potomac region, interior flooding – such as that resulting from heavy rainfall – is still a major risk. Even more, a significant weather event in the nation’s capital could have a spillover impact on other areas across the East Coast.
“Washington presents a unique scenario,” Knight said. “In addition to concerns over human safety and property, residents, emergency responders and policymakers must also consider how a major weather event in the capital region could impact government operations, national security, transportation systems, and the economy. For instance, a direct hit from a major hurricane could put military bases and Department of Defense facilities at risk. A major weather event in D.C. could also impact travel and the transport of goods, and force a government shutdown that could cause a ripple effect on the national economy.”
Such consequences only scratch the surface on why communities across the United States must build resilience, Knight said.
“Until the right measures and structural safeguards are in place, the odds a hurricane or summer storm could make a historical impact on the D.C. area – or another riverine or coastal community – will continue to rise,” she said.
View the TODAY Show’s, USA TODAY’s, WTOP’s, and ABC Washington’s coverage from the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel.
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Home/All Africa/Cameroon: 2019 AFCON – Indomitable Lions Return Home
Cameroon: 2019 AFCON – Indomitable Lions Return Home
The African champions are expected to arrive in the country this Tuesday after holding training camps in Spain and Qatar ahead of the competition in Egypt.
The Indomitable Lions ended their preparations in Doha, Qatar, yesterday, June 17, 2019. The African champions are expected to arrive in the country today Tuesday, June 18, 2019 after holding training camps in Spain and Qatar ahead of the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. The team will arrive in the country after drawing 1-1 with Mali on June 14, 2019 at the Wakra Stadium in Doha in a friendly encounter ahead of the AFCON.
Last Friday’s match was an opportunity for Head Coach, Clarence Seedorf, to evaluate his players and also the level of preparedness of the team a few days to the kick off of the AFCON. Mali opened scores at the 22nd minute through Koné, but Karl Toko Ekambi equalised for Cameroon at the end of the first half. The match was the second for the Lions during their training abroad. The Indomitable Lions beat the Chipolopolo of Zambia 2-1 in their first friendly match at the training centre of Atletico Madrid on June 9, 2019.
After last Friday’s encounter the Indomitable Lions had a break on June 15, 2019 as part of their training for the AFCON. The Lions trained on the gym for their post-game practice. The training included a bike-based recovery programme and stretching. At the end a workout in the pool for those who played more than 50 minutes. For the others, an athletic programme also based on the bike and on the reinforcement of the abdominal strap, proprioception exercises and plyometric training. The Indomitable Lion’s training programme ahead of the 2019 AFCON comprised of three friendly matches notably against Zambia, Mali and Spanish Division Two side, Alcorcon. Out of the three encounters the Lions won two matches and drew one. The training in Qatar enabled the Lions to acclimatise with the climate in Egypt.
The Indomitable Lions will continue training in Yaounde and will bid farewell to the Cameroonian football public tomorrow June 19, 2019 in a gala match before heading for the Egyptian campaign on June 20, 2019. The Lions will play their first match against Guinea Bissau on Tuesday June 25, 2019.
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FALL WITH ME (PART II): AND WHEN YOU’RE TUMBLING DOWN, YOU JUST LOOK BETTER
“Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves, 2” by Vincent van Gogh, November 1888
Today’s post comes as an addendum to the last, as I have not been able to get this song out of my head lately. This past weekend I was fortunate to travel upstate for an afternoon fishing trip, as the leaves had just begun to turn colors, dressing up the scenery quite nicely. While my wife and buddy cast their lines out into the rushing current and his wife fed their newborn baby girl, I sat on the smooth stone banks reading Peter Guralnick’s engaging article about Howlin’ Wolf from this past winter’s Oxford American, their “Thirteenth Annual Southern Music Issue.”
I’ve often thought that there may be one common denominator
for all great music, and that is its capacity to bring a smile to your
lips. It’s not the subject matter. And it doesn’t really have much to
do with mood. It’s the commitment to the moment. It’s what Sam
Phillips called throwing yourself into the music with abandon
(Guralnick, 2012).
Just as I read these lines I paused to glance into the clear, blue sky and watch a Turkey Vulture glide in concentric circles on the thermal currents up above. My eyes then spied the only other object moving overhead: a solitary yellow leaf spinning in the distance and lilting on a gentle breeze. Certainly long enough to notice, it seemingly danced in place. I watched for a moment more only to witness this little, yellow leaf abruptly plummet directly down into my glass of beer.
—When you’re tumbling down, you just look better—
[Note: In order to focus upon just the one featured song, this is a condensed version of what will be a larger post concerned with this stage of Iggy Pop’s career.]
Today’s feature comes from Iggy Pop’s phenomenal album of 1977, Lust For Life. The second LP that he would release that year, this album also marked his second collaboration with David Bowie (excluding Bowie’s mixing work for The Stooges’ final album, 1973’s appropriately titled, Raw Power). Although these two artists entered into a working relationship when both had been reduced into fairly unhealthy neurotics from years of excessive substance abuse (and in Bowie’s case, I’m sure the manic rate at which he not only produced music but continually re-conceptualized his entire approach to his craft contributed greatly to this as well), their joint relocation to Berlin would prove to be the onset of one of the most fecund periods in either man’s career.
David Bowie and Iggy Pop, Copenhagen Railway Station, 1976
In April of ’77, nearly immediately after coming off a tour that promoted their first collaboration, The Idiot, Iggy and Bowie entered Hansa By The Wall Studios in Berlin to record a follow-up. For “The Idiot World Tour” Bowie had momentarily slowed the pace of his own career by relegating himself with little fanfare to a supporting role as the organ player for Iggy’s live band and occasionally singing backing vocals.
The sessions for Lust For Life would be completed in a mere eight days and the album itself finished in under three weeks—impressive, as they entered the studio with very few (if any) true arrangements for any of the compositions. Iggy must have enjoyed being the main attraction while on tour, as he made a concerted effort to take the more dominant role for these sessions, sleeping little and often tailoring or outright disregarding Bowie’s input to meet his own vision for the album. “See, Bowie’s a hell of a fast guy,” Iggy later commented, “I realized I had to be quicker than him, otherwise whose album was it gonna be? (Pegg, 2000), and “The band and David would leave the studio to go to sleep, but not me (Griffin, 2012). He must have sensed that his faculty for whirlwind creativity and spontaneous songwriting had been somewhat taken advantage of the first go-around; a lab-rat/mad-scientist dynamic being something to which Bowie admitted years later:
Poor Jim, in a way, became a guinea pig for what I wanted
to do with sound. I didn’t have the material at the time, and I
didn’t feel like writing at all. I felt much more like laying back
and getting behind someone else’s work, so that album was
opportune, creatively (Loder, 1989).
However, ultimately this was a mutually beneficial relationship, as Pop’s shambled career had been revitalized and thrust into the mainstream, while Bowie had been significantly inspired enough to end the decade on a high-note with his ingenious “Berlin Trilogy.”
Yet, Lust For Life truly does come across as a wholly different animal than its predecessor. The Idiot is a sonically ambitious album, primarily concerned with atmosphere.
It is a projection of harsh neon upon the slate-grey façade of an industrial-park-nightclub, featuring twitch-&-glitch guitars and synths pulsing and scouring through viscous funk and robotic cabaret; all while Pop’s strung-out baritone—sounding like the ghoul of some forgotten ’50s crooner who refuses to quit the scene, despite being dead of TB near on a decade now—permeates each tune to its capacity. Whereas The Idiot is the inevitable conclusion for Glam Rock, music for those with bloody noses and barely enough strength left to climb the walls, Lust For Life (as its title suggests) is an album full of vigor, featuring last night’s survivor now willing-and-able to run down any street and dance on any floor. This flavor is perfectly captured by the child-like imp grinning mischievously on the cover photo taken by Andy Kent.
Although the creation of this album generally followed the same formula used when assembling The Idiot—with Bowie suggesting a riff or melody while Iggy would mold these through his (often spur-of-the-moment) lyrical composition as the band expanded upon these components—Lust For Life is much more rooted in the traditional R&B and Rock & Roll of the ’50s and early ’60s, particularly Bo Diddley’s pioneering use of rhythm as melody. However, the predominant distinction between this album and the one prior, despite any particular song’s subject matter or form, is its overwhelming sense of alacrity. With Lust For Life there’s room for Iggy Pop to laugh.
Towards the end of these sessions, someone suggested that the musicians swap instruments. Guitarist Ricky Gardiner manned the drums, while drummer Hunt Sales took the bass from his brother Tony Sales (both being the son of comedian Soupy Sales). Tony switched over to play guitar alongside Carlos Alomar, and soon they found themselves jamming along on a groove created by shuffling around a descending melody that Bowie hit upon on the organ. Presumably inspired by his then girlfriend (and daughter of an American diplomat) Esther Friedmann, Iggy Pop entered the vocal booth and began to spontaneously recite some of his finest imagist lyrics—his true poetic talent for this being typically and grossly overlooked by reviewers who tend to focus on the abrasive, yet admittedly, wholly captivating physicality of his performances. With succinct lines like “A bottle of white wine/ White wine and you,” “A table made of wood,” and “Standing in the snow/You’re younger than you look” Pop perfectly conveys both scene and mood to the listener. Edited down, this vamp would come to be sequenced as the album’s hip-swinging closing track, “Fall in Love with Me.” Although generally considered a minor song by Pop, I believe this track is a perfect example of how his vocals should be recorded: with a bit of vinyl grit, as if he were attempting to sweet-talk you through a megaphone.
I recall watching an interview with Pop shortly after this stage of his career where the interviewer asked what it was that he learned from working with David Bowie. Iggy answered something to the effect of “compromise.” Although he did not elaborate, I’ve always taken that statement to mean that through these collaborations Iggy learned that he did not need to remain an unappreciated, loony-bin proto-punk rocker who bludgeoned his audience with acts of self-mutilation and the relentless, frustrated stomp of his previous musical incarnation; Iggy Pop could retain his artistic integrity and yet still create music that the rest of us, not so maniacally inclined, could dance to too.
Iggy Pop & Esther Friedmann in Berlin, 1977.
Fall in Love with Me.
You look so good to me
Here in this old saloon
Way back in west berlin
A bottle of white wine
White wine and you
A table made of wood
And how I wish you would
Fall in love with me
Standing out in the street
With your cheap fur on
Or maybe your plastic raincoat
And your plastic shoes
They look good too
You’re younger than you look
How I wish you would
And a bottle of white wine
And you-and a bottle of
And when you’re standing
In the street and it’s cold
And it snows on you
And you look younger
Than you really are
I wish you would
The way your eyes are black
The way your hair is black
The way your heart is young
There’s just a few like you
Just the kind I need
To fall in love with me
Oh and you look so good
Yes you look so good
A cigarette and you
Here in this saloon
I wish you’d fall in love with me
’cause there’s
Just a few like you
So young and real
You look so good
When you’re young at heart
You’re young at heart
Won’t you
Come to this old saloon
Come to my waiting arms
And I will look at you
’cause you’re so young and pure
And you’re young at heart
And when you’re tumbling down
You just look better
When you’re tumbling down
You just look finer
——————————————–Bobby Calero
Griffin, R. (n.d.). Bowiegoldenyears: 1977. Retrieved October 5, 2012 from http://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/index.html
Guralnick, P. (2012). Howlin’ Wolf: The Soul of Man. Oxford American.
Loder, K. (1989). Sound and Vision. [CD liner notes].
Pegg, N. (2000). The Complete David Bowie. Reynolds & Hearn: California.
Pop, I., Bowie, D., Sales, T., & Sales, H. (1977). Fall In Love With Me [recorded by Iggy Pop] On Lust For Life. RCA (1977).
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FALL WITH ME (PART I): LOVE COMES DOWN
“Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves,” Vincent van Gogh, November 1888.
The Fall officially began a few days ago and so I have a two-for for you today; both tracks concerned with the theme of women letting their love come down.
Up first is an artist who inexplicably is not a household name. Working extensively with the top-notch writing and production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter—who at the time served as the prolific house composers for Stax Records—and backed by such legendary musicians as guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson, Jr. (all members of Booker T. & the M.G.’s), how an artist as talented as Ruby Johnson failed to hit it big is beyond me.
Isaac Hayes & David Porter in the studio.
Booker T and the MGs in 1970; from left to right: Al Jackson, Jr.; Booker T. Jones; Donald “Duck” Dunn; and Steve Cropper.
When it came time to lend her distinctive contralto vocal style to these compositions, Ruby was willing to explore the full emotional range of each song. At the prefect moment Ruby could thrust her immense and torn voice forward through the melody and let it hang there raw and ragged as a display of her sincere investment in the material, which too few singers have the ability to convey. She actually attributed her trademark sound to her enthusiasm and work ethic: “I think a lot of that came from actually being on the hoarse side at that particular time. I didn’t get to go to Stax often, and when I did get down there to record, we worked hard. We were in the studio all day and half the night” (Perrone, 1999).
Born April 19, 1936 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Ruby Johnson was raised in the Jewish faith and began singing alongside her eight brothers and sisters in the Temple Beth-El choir. Upon finishing high school, Ruby began performing with local rhythm and blues bands in Virginia Beach and Washington DC while supporting herself as a waitress. Her career came to be managed by local entrepreneur Never Duncan Junior who subsequently hired the talented Dicky Williams to serve as arranger/producer for her recordings. In 1960 they began to release a series of 45s, first on the Philadelphia-based V-Tone label, and eventually for her manager’s own NEBS Records (Sir Shambling, 2012).
Al Bell (Photo by Josh Anderson for The New York Times)
While working for Washington DC station WLOK, disc-jockey Al Bell had been an early proponent of Ruby Johnson’s music. When Stax hired him as its first in-house promotional manager in 1965, Bell helped Ruby secure a contract with the preeminent label for Southern Soul. Al Bell himself would go on to own Stax during the label’s ’70s heyday; unfortunately, it was under his leadership that the company was forced into involuntary bankruptcy in 1975 (Sontag, 2009). Her 45s now being issued on the Stax subsidiary label, Volt, Ruby later recalled that she was “[…] very excited, very nervous, because that was my first attempt to record on that level. […] They would give me those songs on a piece of paper and say: ‘here’s the lyric.’ We would sort of run over them to let me get familiar with the words, and then we’d say: ‘let’s do a take.’ We were in there for hours sometimes” (Perrone, 1999).
Although several of her records sold fairly well, her recording career never seemed to reflect her great talent and a good deal of Johnson’s Stax sessions remained in the vaults until 1993, when the compilation I’ll Run Your Hurt Away was released. Ruby Johnson eventually quit the music business in 1974 and went on to be the director of Foster Grandparents, a federal program helping handicapped children relate to older generations. Although she continued to sing twice a week at Temple Beth-El near her home in Lanham, Maryland, Ruby admitted to missing the old days: “Every time I see some of those big shows, I long for it sometimes, I really do. I enjoyed what I was doing. […] I always aspired to be a professional singer, even as a child” (Perrone, 1999). Sadly, Ruby Johnson passed away at the age of 63 on July 4, 1999.
“When My Love Comes Down” is as fine an example of Ruby Johnson’s talent as you can get, and certainly one of the best 45s ever issued by Stax. Released as the flip-side to the tender ballad “Come To Me My Darling” on October 19, 1966, “When My Love Comes Down” features a gentle melody played on the organ (either by Booker T. or Isaac Hayes) exquisitely contrasted with the punch and pierce of Steve Cropper’s chopped guitar and the The Memphis Horns‘ emotive blare; all-the-while Ruby’s intense vocals alternately smolder, swagger, or just plain tear at the seams.
Evelyn “Champagne” King
Up next: Although this track could perhaps be considered lighter fare than the above, Evelyn “Champagne” King’s #1 R&B hit “Love Come Down,” off her certified double platinum album of 1982, Get Loose, is another fine example of superb arrangement and production value, albeit from a completely different approach.
There’s a certain simmer and bounce to the streamlined synth-funk of this song that makes it stand-out against the assembly-line beats that began to dominate the digitally recorded music of the 1980s. Unlike the majority of music in this category, here is a dance song that is still permitted to have character.
Written by the multi-talented Kashif—a pioneer of hypnotic synth grooves and guitar sheen—he shared production duties with Morrie Brown. When Get Loose was released Evelyn King was in the midst of a somewhat career comeback, as she was crossing over from Disco to R&B. Born in the Bronx on July 1, 1960 but raised in Philadelphia, her career has a bit of a storybook beginning. A 16-year-old Evelyn was working as an office cleaner at Philadelphia International Records when producer Theodore T. Life who had overheard her singing in a washroom discovered her (Hogan, 2012). She was eventually signed to RCA Records and had a string of hits with the label. With its slippery, yet coiled bass-line, up-beat vocals, and quirky chimes and blips it is not difficult to imagine this song as a precursor to Prince’s brilliant B-side of 1984, “Erotic City.” Enjoy a bit of bouncing around with this number, and hopefully this autumn will treat you all right.
Hayes, I. & Porter, D. (1966). When My Love Comes Down [recorded by Ruby Johnson] On I’ll Run Your Hurt Away [CD] Volt (1966), Stax (1993).
Hogen, E. (2012). Evelyn “Champagne” King: Biography. Billboard. Retrieved September 26, 2012 from http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/evelyn-champagne-king/bio/76577
Kashif. (1982). Love Come Down [recorded by Evelyn King] On Get Loose [CD] RCA (1982), BBR (2010).
Perrone, P. (1999, September 10). Obituary: Ruby Johnson. The Independent. Retrieved September 26, 2012 from http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ruby-johnson-1117495.html.
Ridley, J. (2012). Ruby Johnson. Sir Shambling’s Deep Soul Heaven. Retrieved September 26, 2012 from http://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/J/ruby_johnson/index.php
Sontag, D. (2009, August 14). Out of Exile, Back in Soulsville. The New York Times. Retrieved September 26, 2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/arts/music/16sont.html.
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DEFINITELY VAN GOGH
Wheat Field with Crows: Painted in July 1890, this work is one of the two debated to be Vincent van Gogh’s final painting. Regardless, this dramatically lonesome landscape would have been one of the last things seen by the painter other than the immediate surroundings of his deathbed.
One hundred and twenty-two years ago today, on July 28th, 1890, in Auvers, France, the outstanding but wholly dismissed artist Vincent van Gogh lay prostrate on the precarious balance between life and death. The day prior he had walked alone into a field and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He would spend the next day lying in bed smoking a pipe before finally, on July 29th, succumbing to an infection in the wound. He was 37 years old and had sold only one painting during his lifetime (Sherwood, 2006). Attended to by his brother Theo, his last words were reported to be, “The sadness will last forever” (Sweetman, 1990).
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Self-Portrait 1889. Paris. Musée d’Orsay.
In memoriam to this brilliant artist, I present to you today an unfinished work by another. Captured on tape by biographer Robert Shelton in a Denver hotel room on March 13, 1966—just three days after the final sessions for Blonde On Blonde—this “sketch” by Bob Dylan would come to acquire several names over the years, given by various bootleggers and fans: “Definitely Van Gogh;” “Positively Van Gogh;” and “Spuriously Seventeen Windows (The Painting By Van Gogh).” After this date, Dylan would go on to complete his European tour in a blur of inspiration and stimulants before entering a reclusive period on July 29, 1966, when he crashed his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle on a road near his home in Woodstock, New York. The extents of his injuries from this accident were never fully disclosed, however, Dylan claimed that he broke several vertebrae in his neck. As for why he never returned to this composition—the narrative of which had the potential to develop into something with a grandeur to rival his “Visions of Johanna”—Dylan had told the press at the time: “The songs I don’t publish, I usually do forget…I have to start over all the time. I can’t really keep notes or anything like that” (Heylin, 2009).
Tree Roots: An intense vision cut off sharply, this turbulent tangle of dense paint applied by fevered brushstrokes is the other of the two works disputed to be Van Gogh’s “final painting.”
When I’d ask why the painting was deadly
Nobody could pick up my sign
‘Cept for the cook, she was always friendly
But she’d only ask, “What’s on your mind?”
She’d say that especially when it was raining
I’d say “Oh, I don’t know”
But then she’d press and I’d say, “You see that painting?
Do you think it’s been done by Van Gogh?”
The cook she said call her Maria
She’d always point for the same boy to come forth
Saying, “He trades cattle, it’s his own idea
And he also makes trips to the North
Have you ever seen his naked calf bleed?”
I’d say, “Oh no, why, does it show?”
Then she’d whisper in my ear that he’s a half-breed
And I’d say, “Fine, but can he paint like Van Gogh?”
I can’t remember his name he never gave it
But I always figured he could go home
‘Til when he gave me his card and said, “Save it”
I could see by his eyes he was alone
But it was sad how his four leaf clover
Drawn on his calling card showed
That it was given back to him a-many times over
And it most definitely was not done by Van Gogh.
It was either she or the maid just to please me
Though I sensed she could not understand
And she made a thing out of it by saying, “Go easy
He’s a straight, but he’s a very crooked straight man.”
And I’d say, “Does the girl in the calendar doubt it?
And by the way is it Marilyn Monroe?”
But she’d just get salty and say, “Why you wanna know about it?”
And I’d say, “I was just wondering if she ever sat for Van Gogh.”
[from here the recording becomes too damaged, and is not worth listening to]
It was either her or the straight man who introduced me
To Jeanette, Camilla’s friend
Who later on falsely accused me
Of stealing her locket and pen
When I said “I don’t have the locket”
She said “You steal pictures of everybody’s mother I know”
And I said “There’s no locket
No picture of any mother I would pocket
Unless it’s been done by Van Gogh.”
Camilla’s house stood on the outskirts
How strange to see the chandeliers destroyed…
[tape ends]
Bob Dylan, “Paranoid” Birmingham, England, 1966 by Barry Feinstein.
Heylin, C. (2009). Revolution In The Air: The Songs Of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.
Sherwood, K. (2006). van Gogh, Vincent (1853–1890). Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Vol. 4. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference. Retrieved July 29, 2012 from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Sweetman, D. (1990). Van Gogh: His Life and His Art. New York: Crown Publishers.
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Posts tagged a life full of holes
Paul Bowles, from "The Sheltering Sky" to "A Life Full of Holes"
I was out to dinner with some friends last year and two of them had just seen Bertolucci's film adaptation of Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky." They were having a debate over whether it was Orientalist or not. I haven't seen the film, but I'd read the first half of the novel and their discussion made me pick it up again and finish it.
I had been curious to read it in the first place after a visit to Tangiers (a city I fell in love with), where Bowles lived for decades and where he still looms large. I have to say that, even making all possible allowances, yes, it is deeply Orientalist: it exoticizes and objectifies the Algerian landscape and the Arab characters as the quintessential Other. The Western characters are self-conscious, lost and alienated--the Arabs are unthinking, instinctual, and presented merely as impenetrable foils for the Western protagonists to act out their neuroses and self-destructive urges. The Westerners immerse themselves in an Orient that is sensual and deadly.
So much for "The Sheltering Sky." Then recently I picked up another Bowles book, "A Life Full of Holes," which is the transcription and translation of the life story of Driss Ben Hamad Charhadi, a friend of Bowles'. I found it a very fresh, very strong work--a fascinating historical document of life under colonialism for a poor Moroccan boy struggling to survive in Tangiers, and a really gripping narrative, told in a voice that avoids explication, analysis or commentary and is all the more narratively suspenseful and emotionally moving because of that. It is also almost the opposite of "The Sheltering Sky," in that here the point of view is entirely "indigenous," there is no exoticizing and projecting, and it's the Western characters (the narrator meet and works with several) who are presented, not as stereotypes, but certainly as hard to understand.
Bowles went on to repeat this kind of collaboration, writing several books based on the stories of Mohammed Mrabet, which I am now very eager to read. This type of collaboration, or ventriloquism, has also been used by other authors--notably Dave Eggars did in his recent acclaimed "What Is The What," the story of the life of the Sudanese Valentino Achak Deng. It raises obvious questions about the power dynamics between Western authors and their non-Western co-authors/subjects, but the results can nonetheless be excellent.
PostsUrsula Lindsey July 2, 2009 Morocco, a life full of holes, bowles, novels, orientalism, the sheltering skyComment
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Ten Years On: Murder and Mayhem Prevail in Iraq
By Ernest Corea* | IDN-InDepth News Analysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Anniversaries are usually treated as occasions for celebration. They are given special names as in “golden” for a fiftieth anniversary and “tin” for a tenth. Goodwill is in the air, food and drinks are brought out, and “don’t worry, be happy” is the overarching theme for all concerned. Not so in contemporary Iraq, where the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of that country fell on March 19, 2013. The event was not commemorated with joyous activity. Instead, murder and mayhem prevailed.
International news agencies reported that Baghdad was wracked by death and destruction on the tenth anniversary of the invasion. Over 50 people were reported dead in a wave of bombings that ripped through the capital and its environs.
Sporadic sectarian violence has continued throughout the post-Saddam period. So has corruption, as near-anarchy continues to dominate post-invasion Iraq. The Washington Post comments that “haunted by the ghosts of its brutal past, Iraq is teetering between progress and chaos, a country threatened by local and regional conflicts that could drag it back into the sustained bloodshed its citizens know so well.”
“Mission Accomplished,” President Bush?
Outcome of “Rash War”
In Iraq as elsewhere, recollections during the tenth anniversary of an invasion that was said to be characterized by “shock and awe” evoked sorrow over deaths and suffering, anger at the launching of a war on false grounds, and baffled introspection over how the US as a whole – the people, politicians, and the press – were bamboozled into supporting a “dumb war” and a “rash war” as then State Senator Barack Obama called it.
Looking back at the US invasion and its aftermath, perhaps the most cogent encapsulation has come from Hans Blix, the distinguished Swedish diplomat who was formerly his country’s foreign minister and who headed the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC). In an Iraq retrospective published by CNN to mark the 10th anniversary of a deadly misadventure, Blix wrote:
“-- The war aimed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, but there weren't any.
-- The war aimed to eliminate al Qaeda in Iraq, but the terrorist group didn't exist in the country until after the invasion.
-- The war aimed to make Iraq a model democracy based on law, but it replaced tyranny with anarchy and led America to practices that violated the laws of war.
-- The war aimed to transform Iraq to a friendly base for U.S. troops capable to act, if needed, against Iran -- but instead it gave Iran a new ally in Baghdad.”
Blix’s pithy summation provides a salutary warning to all those whose reaction to a conflict taking place beyond America’s shores is a yearning for direct intervention.
WMD were non-existent
Many influential supporters of the US invasion of Iraq remain hawkish, nevertheless. They have not shifted from their original positions and some of them are so committed to their own misadventure that they claim they would “do it all over again” if an opportunity arose.
Moreover, some remain faithful to the dubious proposition that the invasion was justified because at the time it was launched, intelligence agencies all over the world were convinced that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Some national intelligence agencies did, indeed, make this assumption from the safety of distance. UNMOVIC, which had deployed inspectors on the ground in Iraq, was not convinced.
As Blix told the UN Security Council and through it the world on Feb. 14, 2003, well ahead of the invasion:
“How much, if any, is left of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and related proscribed items and programs? So far, UNMOVIC has not found any such weapons, only a small number of empty chemical munitions, which should have been declared and destroyed.”
That was not just a “gut feeling,” or idle speculation. It was an assessment based on actual facts.
Knowing that the Bush Administration was inexorably moving towards war although the justification it claimed did not exist, Blix, as well as others associated with UNMOVIC, sought to avert a disaster. They attempted to persuade Western leaders, among others, that potentially cataclysmic decisions were being approached on the basis of flawed assumptions.
Blix records, for instance, that “during a telephone chat with Tony Blair on February 20, I told the British prime minister that it would be paradoxical and absurd if a quarter of a million troops were to invade Iraq and find very little in the way of weapons. He (i.e. Blair) responded by telling me intelligence was clear that Saddam had reconstituted his weapons of mass destruction program.” (Readers will recall that Blair was as gung ho as President George W. Bush about the invasion.)
Blix shared his misgivings with others in high positions who might have been able to halt or slow down the drift towards war. He writes: “…suspicions are one thing and reality is quite another. U.N. inspectors were asked to search for, report and destroy real weapons.
“As we found no weapons and no evidence supporting the suspicions, we reported this. But U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed our reports with one of his wittier retorts: ‘The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’” Verbal dexterity is a helpful trait in a politician but does not supplant the need for realism in the decision-making process. Policy decisions on war and peace require more than comedic talent.
In yet another intervention, Blix writes, “on February 11 -- less than five weeks before the invasion -- I told U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice I wasn't terribly impressed by the intelligence we had received from the U.S., and that there had been no weapons of mass destruction at any of the sites we had been recommended (to inspect) by American forces. Her response was that it was Iraq, and not the intelligence, that was on trial.” Oh, wow.
Fake premise, Real problems
A war launched on a cooked-up premise is likely, at best, to have mixed results. On the plus side, Iraq has the benefit of Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical – in some situations, brutal – regime having ended. Few but his closest associates mourned his eviction from power. The end of his regime has not, however, been an unmixed blessing for the people of Iraq.
Over 130,000 Iraqis died as a result of the invasion and its consequences. Families were disrupted as they are in any war, and the hope of a “new tomorrow” remains distant for the nation. Stable, democratic governance is yet to be achieved. Corruption has been woven into the fabric of life.
On the US side, over 4,000 deaths have been reported, with so many more injured. Military personnel have lost their limbs and, thereby, their capacity for employment. They, and many others, have become victims of emotional trauma.
A report on the Costs of War compiled by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University calculates that US war expenditures at over $2 trillion – yes, with a “t.” This upsurge of unfunded expenditure aggravated the recession from which the US has not fully recovered.
The world’s policymakers would be well advised to think deeply on the effects of the Bush Administration’s intervention in Iraq as they consider their responses to other regional and global problems that cry out for resolution.
*The writer has served as Sri Lanka's ambassador to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the USA. He was Chairman of the Commonwealth Select Committee on the media and development, Editor of the Ceylon 'Daily News' and the Ceylon 'Observer', and was for a time Features Editor and Foreign Affairs columnist of the Singapore 'Straits Times'. He is Global Editor of and Editorial Adviser to IDN-InDepthNews as well as President of the Media Task Force of Global Cooperation Council. [IDN-InDepthNews – March 21, 2013]
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