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Drones Increasing Danger for Firefighters
Flier released by the Forest Service regarding drones.
Firefighters in the western United States have seen a new obstacle this season: Drones.
Labeled “Hobby Drones” by officials, the unmanned vehicles that typically carry compact video cameras have exploded in popularity among amateur filmmakers over the past two years, and are now showing up in the dangerous perimeters of wildfires. According to Forest Service officials in Southern California, drones have disrupted fire suppression efforts at least four times in the last month.
When a wildfire occurs, a temporary flight restriction (TFR) is placed over the area, allowing fire-related air resources to operate unhindered. This is common practice that helps keep commercial airlines and media-related aircraft out of harm’s way, normally without incident. However, the new fad of camera-carrying drones presents a unique challenge and harm to firefighters: They are unpredictable and highly maneuverable, they can find their way into the flight paths of low-flying helicopters or tankers without warning, and a collision with one would prove disastrous for fire air traffic. On top of all of this, a drone pilot can be miles away from the perimeter, giving officials no effective way to track them down, much less communicate with them.
As a result, when drones have been spotted over wildfires, incident commanders have no choice but to ground all air traffic until the drones disappear. This has already had major consequences: Earlier this month, The North Fire in California made headlines as it jumped I-15 east of Los Angeles, burning over vehicles in a dramatic display that, amazingly, left no one injured. But just prior to the fire reaching the interstate, firefighters spotted up to five drones in the area. All air resources were grounded for 15 to 20 minutes, time that could have been used for at least one cycle of bucket drops. High winds and exceedingly dry brush created an extreme situation that inevitably led the North Fire towards the interstate, but every drop of retardant and water helps to slow the flames- allowing civilians to get to safety and firefighters to make progress on the ground. These drone operators stalled firefighters, putting countless civilians and first responders at even greater risk.
Vehicles on Interstate 15 burned by the North Fire. Photo via InciWeb.
Firefighters battling the Lake Fire in June near Southern California’s Big Bear Lake faced a similar obstacle when a drone interrupted air operations on the first day. After spotting a drone, a tanker carrying fire retardant was forced to jettison the load early in order to land, wasting 2,000 gallons of retardant costing an estimated $15,000. As all aircraft sat on the ground waiting for the drones to leave the airspace, gaps formed in the fire line allowing the fire to burn another 5,000 acres, costing even more time and money for firefighters.
Currently, drone pilots can be charged up to $1,000 for “interfering with firefighting efforts” or given a civil penalty for violating FAA regulations of “careless or reckless operation of an aircraft,” resulting in fines from $1,000 to $25,000. None of these laws apply specifically to drones, however, and they may not hold up in court should a case be brought against a pilot. It may also take the FAA weeks or months to investigate an incident, making it exceedingly difficult to track down a suspect.
California is hoping to change all of this.
On July 28, San Bernardino County Supervisors expect to pass a measure that would set aside reward money for anyone with information that leads to the conviction of the operators who interfered with recent firefighting efforts in that county. The vote comes ahead of proposed state legislation that would bring misdemeanor charges against pilots operating drones in restricted airspace, as well as a congressional bill that would make it a federal offense to fly drones over a wildfire on federal land (national forests and national parks).
“It can kill our firefighters in the air,” John Miller, Public Information Officer for the U.S. Forest Service in San Bernardino County, told the press earlier this month. “They could strike one of these things, and one of our aircraft could go down, killing the firefighters in the air. This is serious to us.”
This entry was posted in News on July 27, 2015 by Admin.
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An Interview with Will Courtney
By Christina Conway for No Depression
Will Courtney's 7 track solo album, A Century Behind, came out today on the label, The Calla Lily Company. It feels like a classic you already love. You can hear the warm reminders of our musical history, but they serve only as the canvas Courtney uses to paint his lyrical imagery on.
History is a good place to start. The album name and title track, "A Century Behind", speaks to a romantic past we never lived, a longing for something we only imagine. And aging, which we all know is coming, and yet still sneaks up, as Courtney's lyrics say, when "the timing is all wrong".
C-Hey Will, it's been a while. Want to jump right in there with what's behind the title track on this new record?
W-It’s a song being sung from the point of view of someone who is older, but who has never lost their passion. Perhaps it is written for my future self. I have written songs as that person before – old Will. The title kinda sums up how I feel on a daily basis.
C-There seems to be a theme of past on several tracks here. Historical past, personal past and regret, people clinging to their pasts. Was that intentional or just where the songs went?
W-As a musician and a music fan, I do sometimes feel stuck in the past. Even as a kid I always liked older music and the songwriters from years before I was even born. I like old movies, old clothes, old pictures, old books . I write about what I know and I guess all that stuff would end up in my music in some way, but it wasn’t until I sat down to listen to the whole album in the studio that I started seeing how it all went together.
C-I know you're from a very musical family. Your mom, Cynthia Clawson, is a well known Christian singer, and your dad wrote musicals. Do you still feel their influence when you write or perform today?
W-Absolutely. My dad is a great teacher and I learned a lot from him. He shared advice that he learned on Broadway - never be late when people are waiting on you. They’ll just replace you. My mom taught me how to sing. The biggest thing my mom and dad both taught me is that true art is absolutely honest. It is one of these reasons that I like so little modern music.
C-Your musical influences are so varied, but I've noticed that they mostly center on the most revered songwriters. Like when I saw you at Austin City Limits a couple of years ago, of all the acts there, you were reallt jazzed to see Randy Newman. Where do you pull from when you're creating?
W-Well, I have a huge record collection. I’m inspired by a lot of stuff. I have been a Randy Newman fan since I was very young. My dad used to play Nilsson Sings Newman a lot growing up. Land of Dreams was one of my favorite records as a kid, right next to Appetite for Destruction and Rubber Soul. When I was little, I loved movie soundtracks. I loved the music from the movie, The Natural, which I found out he was behind when I was older. I always liked music that I could see in my head. Randy Newman always made movies with his music. I like how he takes on a character and writes a song from their point of view. I do that a bit in my songs, but I think making records is kinda like taking different characters in music and putting them in the room and recording their conversation. You got George Harrison talking to Merle Haggard and Jimmy Webb and Elliott Smith and maybe 80’s Chicago and then you have this new sound.
C-Whats your process like?
W- I always have an acoustic guitar near me ready to go. I recently set up a little home studio and have been playing the piano more now that I have the space. There are different ways to write. Some people write the lyrics first, which I do sometimes, but I generally come up with the music first and I kinda hum the melody and mumble the phrasing and the sounds of words. Then I am looking down at the page and I have these very clear thoughts. I think that is why many songwriters talk about the songs coming from another place, from somebody else. I think that if you truly listen and you’re honest about what you hear, you’ll find that your inner self I revealing a lot of truth. Songs are sometimes like a conversation with your spirit.
C-I've been playing these songs a lot lately, and they feel so vast yet calm, like a great lake on a peaceful day. Such a perfect balance. I especially love the Steven Fromholz cover, "I'd Have To Be Crazy". Simple, and pure. It says it was recorded in a cabin, how was that solitary process compared to creating with a band?
W- I love that song so much. When I moved away from Austin, I spent a lot of my time alone, writing and recording demos without other musicians. I was moving around a lot between LA and Nashville and Maine and the cabin in Dripping Springs, but I always had a microphone, guitar and my computer and I kinda got comfortable just being alone to figure out how I wanted a song to ultimately sound. By the time I recorded this record I basically had demos that sounded like a crappy version of the final album. So, I guess the process is lonely, but I like the results.
C- Man, since I've known you, you've moved at least five times, yet you always seem at home where you are. What keeps you centered in your music?
W-I think it’s because when it all comes down to it, I’m moving because of music. Every place I’ve decided to try out is because I find the town inspiring and comfortable. Each place has different songs to give. In the end it is all about the song and where I need to go to find it.
C-The picture on the back of your record, do you want to share its secret? It's very sweet.
W-Yeah, I guess it is sweet. Well, it’s the photo we used on our wedding announcement. It’s actually a real Ambrotype that was taken by a guy from New Hampshire. I saw this guy at a Civil War reenactment when Melissa and I were living in Maine taking photos of the soldiers and asked if he would come to the house and shoot some pictures. I liked it a lot and figured it went along with the title of the album.
C-The bit in your liner notes about no auto tune being used is great. What made you want to add that?
W-Thank you for asking about that. I was hoping somebody would catch that. There is a lot that is wrong with modern music, but I guess I have a personal mission to tell everybody about how Auto-Tune it is ruining music. I’m not talking about the Cher or T-pain “vocoder” sound, I’m talking about how it is on literally every single major album over the past 5 or even 10 years. Even tons of indie bands and people who don’t need it are using it. They even put it on The Beach Boys new reunion album. The Beach Boys. I wouldn’t have made it past the 30 second mark of “God Only Knows” if they had this in the 60s. I hate it. Basically, after someone sings the song in the studio, the engineer takes a note that is a little flat or sharp and tunes it so that it is on pitch. That may not sound like a big deal to some, but we are not talking about tuning a guitar or fixing a bad snare hit. We’re talking about the human voice. All instruments are basically just mimicking the voice or the rhythms in nature. The human voice is the only thing that is actually 100% human. The voice is the reason the crowd got quiet every time Elliott Smith would sing. Happens every time my mom sings. When a singer does it right, people will cry because the vibrations in the voice touch people on a very deep, spiritual level. Can you imagine if Lou Reed came out today? “Here She Comes Now” would sound like Lady Antebellum. Basically, if a singer doesn’t like their voice, either do another take or stop trying to be a singer.
C-Oh, so you just got back from a tour in Europe with Lydia Loveless and Richard Lindgren, how was that? Where did you go?
W-It was life changing. I loved being with Lydia and Richard. We had such a great time together. We were all strangers before the tour, but luckily we all clicked. I would love to play with them again. We toured Sweden and Norway for 3 weeks and I saw what America could be. It’s like a clean, peaceful America with hormone-free meat, universal healthcare, delicious beer and it’s filled with the prettiest girls who listen to great music and still buy records. On my first day in Sweden, I walked into a gas station and they were selling Leonard Cohen CDs. I stopped by this bar in this small town in Norway and sat down next to a huge poster of The Byrds. They were playing Richard and Linda Thompson on the speakers and on the restroom doors they had Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra’s faces instead of the men and women logos. I still can’t believe that a place like that exists.
C-You're playing here in Austin this month. Is that your official record release show? Does that make Austin your adopted "hometown"?
W-Yeah, I guess this is the official release show. Some of the brothers from Brothers and Sisters will be playing with me. I’m trying to line one up in Santa Fe as well and then I head to California in a month to play some shows there. I’ve been apart of several music communities, but Austin will always feel like home.
C-What else do you have coming up?
W-After Austin I am playing Saturday and Sunday at the Texas Crawfish and Music Festival outside of Houston. I’ll be playing guitar with my friend’s band, Tenlons Fort, on Saturday and then playing my stuff on Sunday. I’ve got west coast dates in June and then I hope to have a bigger tour lined up for the fall. I’m ready to start recording my next record very soon.
C-Well, Will thanks so much for taking the time to answer all these questions, it's always nice to catch up with you. I have a good feeling there will be plenty more great records in your career, and I can't wait to hear them.
W-Thanks, Christina.
Originally published on April 23, 2013 www.nodepression.com
There's No Answer 3:29
Most Of My Life (LIVE in the studio) 3:56
The Pain (Song For Dennis Wilson) 3:36
Gave Into Temptation 3:41
Most Of My Life 3:57
The Pain (For Dennis Wilson) (LIVE in the studio) 3:24
A Century Behind 4:10
Billy (Planning Escapes BONUS TRACK) 5:51
Can't Hold Me Back 3:41
I'd Have To Be Crazy 3:46
Lonely Man 3:39
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Security investigation reveals large cyber-crime ring on Facebook
by Daniel Young | Apr 5, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Researchers belonging to Talos Intelligence Group, part of American multinational tech company Cisco, have unearthed 74 different cyber-crime groups on the social media website Facebook. These groups are accused of carrying out activities like buying, selling, and trading stolen credit card details and identity documents. And according to the study, just over a third of a million people are members of the groups.
According to the research carried out, investigators didn’t have to search too thoroughly to uncover the treasure trove of personal information being peddled. There was no level of sophistication to the groups, which were said to be operating “right out in the open“. Even the names of the groups were set to blatant things such as ‘Spammer & Hacker Professional‘.
Image credited to Cisco
The level of personal information — and indeed the amount that is being charged by scammers — varies from post to post within these groups. Some of the most basic involve credit cards that are being sold complete with CVVs — the code required from the back of the card to process a transaction online.
And more in-depth options were offered, too, such as ‘spam kits’ that would deliver phishing emails to victim’s email inboxes, encouraging them to visit malicious websites that would steal their data.
Most shockingly, these are not new groups that have recently been created on the social media website. According to Talos, “Despite the fairly obvious names, some of these groups have managed to remain on Facebook for up to eight years, and in the process acquire tens of thousands of group members”. And the same research investigation indicated that at some point, the website would suggest similar scam groups based on their ‘recommendations’ algorithm.
For the social media giant, which has seen a great deal of controversy within the past couple of years, this comes as another blow. Especially considering that the website allowed such groups to operate for nearly a decade without being shut down.
Since the publication of Talos’ research study, Facebook have confirmed that all 74 groups referenced have been closed down. They’ve also said, “We know we need to be more vigilant and we’re investing heavily to fight this type of activity”.
How to avoid scams
The information being traded on these Facebook groups at the time was mostly personal credit cards, plus identity documents like driving licenses. The most likely way that these were obtained was through the theft of a wallet or purse, or discovery of a lost card or cards by an opportunistic thief. Of course, if you lose a card, then you should immediately call your bank to cancel it so that it cannot be used. And if you lose your driving licence, then it should be reported to the Police so that your identity cannot be stolen.
In terms of the other advertised scam services, most rely on the dissemination of malicious, fake emails that appear to come from a reputable source like Apple. Avoiding victimisation in these cases is simply a case of following common sense when dealing with emails — don’t click on unusual links and don’t input your details into strange websites.
If you need any more advice on staying safe online, and how to avoid the most common scams, then get in touch with WiseGuys on 0808 123 2820. We can also provide information the various types of antivirus programs available on different devices.
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Ranking the 3D Mario Games
When Mario made the jump to 3D gaming in 1996 with Super Mario 64, in marked a turning point for both the Super Mario series and gaming as a whole. Super Mario 64 opened new doors and paved new ground for the world of video games. With such a heavy influence on gaming, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Mario series itself was particularly effected by its influence.
Mario would abandon his 2D sidescrolling roots for a good ten years before New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS made it a thing again. While New Super Mario Bros. launched its own sub-series that has kept 2D Mario games largely successful, most Mario fans these days consider the 3D entries to be the “core” titles in the franchise, and with good reason. New Super Mario Bros. is fun and all, but it relies too heavily on Mario’s past and relishing in nostalgia. It’s the 3D games that feel like the series’ evolution and future.
Five console games and one handheld title comprise the 3D Mario canon. While we all eagerly await what might be the next great 3D Mario adventure – whether it be a Wii U title or a key release on Nintendo’s upcoming “NX” console – let’s look back at the 3D Mario games that have been released so far.
As part of my celebration of Super Mario Bros’ 30th anniversary, here is my ranking of the 3D Mario games, from least to greatest.
6: Super Mario 3D Land
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Super Mario 3D Land is the first, and so far only, 3D Mario game released on a handheld. Because of that, it’s appropriately a smaller game. On the plus side, this means it’s 3D Mario on the go. But on the downside, it also seems like Nintendo’s ideas for the game were considerably smaller here than they were for the rest of the games on this list.
Super Mario 3D Land was Nintendo’s attempt at combining the approachability of the 2D Mario games with the gameplay of the 3D Mario titles. It was largely successful at pulling the feat off, with shorter levels that worked in a linear structure, but more robust character and camera movements. Not to mention this was the first truly great utilization of the 3DS’ 3D visual effects.
What puts 3D Land at the bottom of this ranking, however, is simply that the ideas at hand feel like condensed versions of what other 3D Mario games did in the past. It lacks the sense of invention that accompanies Mario’s grander adventures. In the end it feels like a solid, entertaining platforming romp. But it lacks the creativity and wow factor that Mario games are known for.
5: Super Mario Sunshine
Platform: Nintendo GameCube
Super Mario Sunshine is not nearly as bad as its detractors would make it seem, though it also isn’t as glorious as GameCube nostalgics claim it to be, either. It is an inspired but flawed entry in the series, and it proves that the main Mario entries – much like Zelda or Mega Man – never truly disappoint, even when they disappoint.
Sunshine was the second 3D Mario game, following Super Mario 64. As such, it plays things a bit closer to 64’s rulebook than the games that followed. But Sunshine didn’t merely take 64’s mechanics and levels and give them a new coat of paint. Instead it followed the most important unwritten rule of the Mario series of never making due with repeating past success.
Super Mario Sunshine’s new gig was a water pack named F.L.U.D.D. (Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device), that Mario used to clean up various goop, squirt enemies, and solve puzzles. It could even be used as a jetpack to make platforming in a 3D space easier (this being the reason Nintendo introduced the water pack in the first place).
It was actually a fun gimmick, and one that I hope Nintendo returns to in one way or another (why not make it a power-up in a future game since a full-on sequel seems unlikely?). It also had a great sense of control and wonderful bonus stages where Mario lost the F.L.U.D.D. and had to rely on old school platforming. But Sunshine had two key drawbacks that prevent it from placing higher on the list.
The first is that it is unquestionably the buggiest of the 3D Mario games. Mario games are usually polished to the point that you’d have to actively search for bugs and glitches to find them, but in Sunshine you may inadvertently run into a bug or two at a surprising frequency. It’s never flat-out broken, but you expect better from Mario.
The other drawback – and this may just be a personal gripe – is that the game’s setting, Isle Delfino, feels pretty repetitious after a while. I respect Nintendo for making the game’s levels part of a connected place, but between the hub town, beaches, small villages, and more beaches, the world of Isle Delfino, pretty as it may be, feels relatively bland. It lacks the series’ sense of surrealism, and feels far too set in a singular motif.
Super Mario Sunshine isn’t perfect then. But it still is a game that can be reflected on with respect for tackling the series in a different way. If Nintendo could expand on Sunshine’s ideas in a new game or clean up the original in a remake, it’s certainly an adventure worthy of a revisit.
4: Super Mario 3D World
Platform: Wii U
Super Mario 3D Land set out to merge the feeling of 2D Mario games into the world of 3D Mario. It did a pretty good job at it, but it was its quasi-sequel, Super Mario 3D World, that really nailed it.
3D World retains a similar gameplay setup as its predecessor, with linear, more compact levels that still utilize 3D space. But it’s a lot more creative and inspired than 3D Land, with some of the most ingenious level designs in the series, great new power-ups, and some of the most chaotic local multiplayer ever.
Taking a cue from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Mario 3D World added multiplayer into the 3D Mario formula for up to four players. Players could play as not only Mario, Luigi and Toad, but also a no-longer kidnapped Princess Peach, who returned to the role of a playable character in a platformer for the first time since Super Mario Bros. 2. You could additionally unlock Rosalina as a fifth character, whose spin attack is so useful players will argue amongst one another over who gets to play as her.
What’s great about 3D World is that it truly does feel like the great 2D Mario games of the past for a new generation. I felt this game gave a closer feeling to Super Mario Bros. 3 or World than any of the New Super Mario Bros. games ever did.
It’s just a shame that 3D World is already becoming something of an underrated gem. It may lack the newness of a Galaxy, but it’s still an amazing game. I suppose the downside to having a resume as lofty as Mario’s is that if you fail to live up to your best you tend to go underappreciated. I’d say it deserves mention alongside any of the great games of the modern console generation. If it weren’t for Ni No Kuni, I might even say it was my Game of 2013
Super Mario 3D World doesn’t quite feel like the next step in Mario’s evolution (something that the next Mario adventure can hopefully pull off), but it is a perfect marriage of the old and new.
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Author themancalledscottPosted on September 28, 2015 September 29, 2015 Categories 3DS, Classic Gaming, Video Games, Wii UTags Bowser, GameCube, Luigi, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 64, Princess Peach, Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Sunshine, Wii, Wii U, Yoshi
6 thoughts on “Ranking the 3D Mario Games”
AfterStory says:
I’ve only played Galaxy 2, 3D World, and 3D Land so 50% isn’t too bad 😛 I completely agree on your thoughts on 3D World, it does slightly feel underrated and less talked about in comparison to other Mario greats. It’s one of those rare games that I find extremely enjoyable whether I’m playing solo or with three friends, that amount of leeway and variance is impressive nonetheless. And Galaxy 2! God I love that game 😛 even though I’m currently engrossed by Mario maker and other current gen titles, I still get the urge to pop in Galaxy 2 and continue my conquest to collect every last power star and comet coin. It’s gameplay at its finest and a masterpiece nonetheless 😀 I definitely need to try Mario 64 and Sunshine though as they’re regarded as some of the greatest games of all time (well at least the former is)
You definitely need to get to Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy. 64 and Galaxy also represent Mario at his best, and though Sunshine is more flawed, it was still probably the most inventive platformer of its console generation (as much as I enjoyed Jak & Daxter, I just don’t think anyone matches Nintendo’s knowledge of platformers).
It really is a shame that 3D World doesn’t get more love. It’s one of the most purely fun gaming experiences I’ve had in years.
Hope you’re enjoying Mario Maker. I’m trying to rack my brain for what my next level should be, but I guess that’s all part of the fun of it.
Thanks for the comment, as always.
veryverygaming says:
Let me think… I’ve not played enough 3D Mario games to be able to do a top 6, but I can manage a top 4 at least! For me, Sunshine has got to be at the bottom in 4th. I didn’t hate it but didn’t love it either. After that in 3rd I think the first Galaxy game, I enjoyed it a lot but found it to be too easy. I ended up loving the concepts but found myself breezing through the levels and not really appreciating them. 2nd, and it’s a big step up quality wise in my opinion, is Galaxy 2. far superior to the first game in my opinion. Subtle changes but reducing the hub world, adding more challenge, and Yoshi made the game far greater than its predecessor in almost every way. And at no. 1, Mario 64. I love it, that’s all there is to it. The music, the look, the controls, the level design. I know it has its flaws, and it wasn’t my favourite game growing up, but I absolutely love it now.
That’s a respectable ranking (though I definitely recommend you give 3D World a go if you’re able to). There is something uniquely special about Super Mario 64 that, in a lot of ways, I can’t really describe. Obviously, I think the Galaxy titles are better games (particularly the second, which is “Mario World perfect”), but that doesn’t take away 64’s uniqueness and specialness.
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Kabul University of Medical Sciences
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Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium
Established in 1867, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (The Royal Danish Academy of Music) is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Copenhagen (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), Capital Region of Denmark. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Kulturministeriet, Danmark (Ministry of Culture, Denmark), Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (DKDM) is a very small (uniRank enrollment range: 250-499 students) coeducational higher education institution. Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (DKDM) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor degrees (i.e. certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation degrees), bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. This 152 years old higher-education institution has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. The admission rate range is 40-50% making this Danish higher education organization a averagely selective institution. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment.
DKDM
Rosenørns Allé 22
Copenhagen (population range: 1,000,000-5,000,000)
1970 Capital Region of Denmark
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(9,200-11,000 Euro) 12,500-15,000 US$
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Association of Nordic Music Academies (ANMA)
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Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee & Another (CA)
Reference: [2003] EWCA Civ 103; [2003] Ch 650; [2003] 2 All ER 318; [2003] EMLR 323; [2003] 3 WLR 999; [2003] EMLR 323
Judge: Simon Brown LJ, Sedley LJ, Arden LJ
Date of judgment: 13 Feb 2003
Summary: Breach of confidence - Injunction - Freedom of expression - s.12(3) Human Rights Act 1998 - Real Prospect of Success
Instructing Solicitors: Wacks Caller for the Claimant. Brabners Chaffe Street for the Defendants.
The second Defendant’s newspapers published allegations by the first Defendant, a former in-house accountant of the Claimant, of financial irregularities within the Claimant. The allegations were supported to a degree by documents of the Claimant’s which the first Defendant had copied (without permission). The Claimant obtained injunctive relief against the planned publication of further allegations, but did not complain about the article, claiming that the first Defendant was in clear breach of her duty of confidence. The court however refused to order the return of the documents to the Claimant. The Defendants appealed, relying on s.12(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998, which required the court to be satisfied that the Claimant has established that it is “likely” that that the publication should not be allowed. The Defendants argued that the judge had wrongly applied a test of “real prospect of success” to granting injunctive relief, rather than that of “more likely than not”.
What was the correct test for injunctive relief under s.12(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998
On a true construction of s 12(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998 the word ‘likely’ does not mean more probable than not. The threshold test to be applied when considering whether or not to grant an injunction to prevent publication, is that of a real prospect of success, convincingly established. When applying that test a court is required to consider the merits of the claim for injunctive relief so as to reach a judgment as to the prospects of eventual success, and cannot grant relief unless satisfied on cogent evidence that the claim does indeed have a real prospect of succeeding at trial notwithstanding the defendant’s conflicting right to freedom of expression.
The Court of Appeal’s interpretation of s.12(3) appears to conflict with statements made in Parliament by Jack Straw, the then Home Secretary, who stated that s.12 was intended to set “a much higher test” for obtaining interim injunctions restraining freedom of expression. Whether the decision will have an impact on the principles relating to defamation injunctions remains to be seen. It is at least arguable that s.12(3) applies equally to defamation injunctions, thereby undermining Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269.
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Echoes of the Rainbow
by hongkonggong, July 9, 2010.
“This is a movie that even makes men cry.” That was the claim laid by out newspaper and radio reports. Movie-goers were advised to bring a spare pack of tissues to mop up their tears.
Echoes of the Rainbow (歲月神偷, 2010) is a romantic film about the hardships of a stereotypical family in the 1960s. The story is inspired by the director-screenwriter’s own experience as a child. Through its 117 minutes, the plot takes us into the lives of each family member: An impish eight year, a high school champion, a hard-working shoemaker and a do-it-all mother.
Aside from making men cry at the theater, the film also topped local charts, won four prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and pushed the government to mark the film’s set as a historic preservation zone. The success is because they deftly tap into the growing wave of nostalgia today in Hong Kong for earlier, simpler times.
Director Alex Law and producer Mabel Cheung artfully weave images of 1960s Hong Kong together to create a fairy tale atmosphere. The film’s most ardent fans are probably those who grew up in that era. Ironically though, it’s this generation who both notice the film’s historical inaccuracies (somebody explain to me why they went to Beijing) and choose to ignore them for nostalgia’s sake. Despite its dodgy history though, Echoes of the Rainbow is a must-watch for those of us interested in an old Hong Kong.
By the way, I did not cry during this film.
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Article by hongkonggong, July 9, 2010.
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by Steve Huey One of the first vocalists to enter the Jamaican music business, Alton Ellis was generally revered as the greatest and most soulful singer the country ever produced — that is, until Bob Marley came along. Ellis had his first hit during the ska craze, but made his true lasting mark as the definitive solo singer of the rocksteady era. Sweet, smooth, and deeply emotive, Ellis was equally at home on Jamaican originals or reggae-fied covers of American R&B hits. He cut a series of ska singles for Clement Coxsone Dodds Studio One label, but reached his prime during the mid- to late 60s, when he recorded some of rocksteadys signature tunes for Duke Reids Treasure Isle imprint.Ellis was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1944, and grew up in the Trenchtown area as part of a musically inclined family. As a youngster, he learned to sing and play piano, the latter often by breaking into a local youth center to practice by night. In his early teens, he teamed up with another singer, Eddie Perkins, to form the duo Alton & Eddie. In 1959, after winning a prominent talent show, they recorded the single Muriel, which became a substantial hit in Jamaica. Not long after cutting the follow-up My Heaven, Perkins left to try a solo career in the United States, leaving Ellis a solo act.Ellis recorded for Dodds Studio One label during the early 60s, but made little money. Dissatisfied, he moved over to Reids Treasure Isle in 1965, and formed a backup vocal trio called the Flames (the first incarnation featured his brother Leslie, and membership would fluctuate). Ellis quickly scored a major hit with the antiviolence plea Dance Crasher, and the following year, he released what was arguably the first rocksteady single, Get Ready - Rock Steady. Its innovative beat grew out of a session where the scheduled bassist didnt show up, forcing keyboardist Jackie Mittoo to play the bass part himself; Mittoos left hand couldnt keep up with the frantic ska beat, so he elected to slow down the tempo. The result was a choppier rhythm that wound up allowing the vocalist to stretch out more, and soon the rocksteady sound had taken over Jamaican music, with Ellis leading the charge. He had several other major successes in 1966, including Cry Tough and the smash Girl Ive Got a Date, the latter of which became his biggest hit and signature song. He also cut several duets with Phyllis Dillon (making them Jamaicas answer to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell), as well as his sister Hortense Ellis (including a hit cover of Neil Sedakas Breaking Up Is Hard to Do). The classic LP Mr. Soul of Jamaica (later reissued on CD as Cry Tough) gathered many of his best Treasure Isle tracks.By 1968, Ellis had resumed working for Studio One in addition to his output for Treasure Isle, making him one of the few singers to bridge the gap between the two archrivals. Most of his biggest hits of the late 60s came on Studio One, including the American soul cover Willow Tree, Im Just a Guy, and Sitting in the Park. In 1970, he released the album Sunday Coming, one of his strongest Studio One sets. Ellis later teamed with producer Lloyd Daley for a brief period, which resulted in the more Rastafarian-tinged hits Lord Deliver Us and Back to Africa; he also worked with Keith Hudson. However, he was still not receiving proper financial compensation for all his success. Disillusioned, he spent some time in the U.S. and Canada, then relocated to England on a mostly permanent basis in 1973.In England, Ellis established his own Alltone label, which he devoted to both new recordings and compilations of his early classics. The international popularity of Bob Marley and the rise of roots reggae meant that Ellis considerable legacy was soon overshadowed, but over time, he remained a fondly remembered pioneer of Jamaican music. He made triumphant returns to Jamaica with well-received sets at the Reggae Sunsplash Festival in both 1983 and 1985, and recorded a new single, Man From Studio One, for Dodd in 1991. Numerous compilations of his work appeared during the CD era, illustrating his stunning consistency.
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Why Do Birds Legend 02:24
Rock Steady - Original 02:49
You Are Mine Honey, I Love You 03:39
Can I Change My Mind Can I Change My Mind 03:33
And I Love Her 05:30
Can I Change My Mind 03:27
I Want You Girl Honey, I Love You 04:28
Too Late To Turn Back Now 03:05
Sunday Coming 02:23
Ain't That Loving You Legend 02:30
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Benazir Bhutto — Female Leader in Public Policy
During women’s history month, it is important not only to reflect on women who are or have been leaders in American politics but also to commemorate the vast achievements of women leaders throughout the globe. I remember the day that Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in a brutal terrorist attack while campaigning in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I was shocked, and my spirit was saddened. Would the world know what it would miss?
I realize that there has been disagreement in the feminist community about whether Bhutto was a true champion of women’s rights, but in my opinion, considering the opposition she faced, I trust that she truly was. Bhutto did what she could to give optimism to women with no hope. The feminism of her loosely wrapped head scarf and red lipstick that many have criticized were merely compliments to her stoic and determined spirit. She was a woman; she was an acclaimed leader; and I absolutely admired her. Faced with steep resistance throughout her career, Bhutto never let go of the goals she had for her beloved country, Pakistan. Even while living in exile in Britain and with her country subject to military rule, Bhutto worked from abroad to strengthen her political party, the Pakistan People’s Party, and to foster the return of democracy to Pakistan. Although born into a family of political dignitaries and privileged to receive high quality education, Bhutto used her influence and affluence to effect change for the better. While serving as prime minister, she made hunger, poverty, education, and health care her top priorities as part of her dream to continue to modernize Pakistan. To me, Bhutto represented a “yes I can” attitude — one of determination for change, equality, and justice. Benazir Bhutto’s influential role in world politics signifies the rise of women as valued and essential world leaders.
This post is part of a special Women’s History Month series. It was written by Crystal Cazier, AAUW Public Policy Fellow.
By: AAUW Fellow | Issue: Advocacy | Tags: Civil Rights, Global Issues, Human Rights | March 23, 2009
Farhan says:
I have ever never seen the great personality like Shahid Benazir since my childhood. Perfect Leader, daughter, wife & mother. May God Peace her soul Aamin.
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Santa Fe raises cap on vacation rentals
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 at 1:28pm
Updated: Friday, May 13th, 2016 at 11:30am
SANTA FE—More homes and apartments will legally be available as short-term rental units in Santa Fe after the City Council unanimously voted late Wednesday to nearly triple the number allowable under a city ordinance and leaving room to add more.
The original ordinance limited the number of short-term rental permits to 350, but a new version introduced by City Councilor Joe Maestas and sponsored by Mayor Javier Gonzales and Councilor Peter Ives increases the limit to 1,000. But the legislation allows the City Council to increase the limit “whenever demand for short-term rental units exceeds the number permitted.”
An amendment added Wednesday after more than two hours of discussion requires a public hearing to be held before the council considers increasing the limit.
The city acknowledged since the ordinance first passed in 2008 hundreds of short-term rentals have been operating illegally and that it did not have the resources to regulate what was becoming a blossoming cottage industry capitalizing on Santa Fe’s appeal as a tourist destination.
The action taken by the City Council adds two full-time positions to the Land Use Division, one for code enforcement and another to serve as program manager while also performing code enforcement duties.
Currently, the city employs one person to handle code enforcement.
The same year the city first passed the ordinance Airbnb came online and other services found on the Internet emerged, opening the door for property owners to cushion the impact of the recession by renting rooms, homes, apartments and casitas. Though difficult to measure, Randy Randall, executive director of Tourism Santa Fe, said as many as 1,200 such units were being offered as short-term rental units. As a result, the city was missing out on perhaps millions of dollars of lodgers’ and gross receipt taxes annually.
The proposed 2016-2017 budget City Manager Brian Snyder submitted last month indicated the city expects to collect an additional $1 million through fees and taxes. A study commissioned by the city government last year estimated the city was losing up to $2.1 million in lodgers taxes annually from unlicensed short-term rentals, and that associated uncollected GRT could be between $500,000 and $2.5 million.
City officials then said that study made some “aggressive assumptions.” At that time, it was estimating it was losing out on $672,000 in lodgers taxes, $195,000 in license and permitting fees, and nearly $800,000 in GRT, a total of about $1.66 million.
Maestas said the idea behind the ordinance wasn’t to collect additional revenue, even as the city is working to close a projected $15 million budget deficit next year. He said the influence of the online services vastly changed the landscape and “we’re just trying to catch up.”
Mayor Gonzales agreed, saying the shared economy has gotten ahead of legislation. He said the purpose was to “create a level playing field” for the short-term housing market, “bringing it our of the shadows.”
However, he agreed with some members of the public that the short-term rental market had a negative impact on the affordable housing market in Santa Fe by reducing the inventory. He said it was his hope that some of the additional revenue the city raised under the revised ordinance could be directed to affordable housing program.
While the council’s vote was unanimous, sentiment was divided among the roughly 18 people who spoke during a public hearing beforehand.
Kurt Hill of the Santa Fe Association of Realtors said that group was supportive of the ordinance but had concerns that the permits wouldn’t be transferable to the new owner when a home was sold.
Preston Ellsworth, who operates the youth hostel on Cerrillos Road, said he has had a favorable relationship with Airbnb for several years. But he wondered if there was enough incentive for people to now begin following the law.
“I see a lot of stick in the proposed ordinance, but I don’t see a lot of carrot,” he said.
Anyone found in violation of the ordinance is subject to a fine of up to $500, increasing to $250 per day if not corrected after two weeks.
Christine McHugh said she has been an Airbnb host for about a year. She said she’s grateful for the opportunity to serve as a host and do it legitimately.
But others argued that the short-term rentals were hurting the city.
John Pen La Farge said the units had “torn apart” the fabric of the neighborhood where he grew up, turning it into a row of bed and breakfasts.
Bernice Rose told of having to fight with two landlords of short-term rental units near her home over problems she had with noise and tenants breaking rules and complained about the lack of enforcement.
Karen Heldmeyer, a former city councilor, made several points, including the impact the short-term units had on neighborhoods. “Don’t do this for Airbnb,” she said. “It should be for the people of Santa Fe.”
Thursday, she said by email: “The city got itself into this situation by
failing to vigorously enforce the existing law and allowing unpermitted
(short-term rentals) to proliferate. And it does not look like enforcement of anything except revenue collection will be any better under the new ordinance.”
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Foreigner to play at Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino
By Rozanna M. Martinez / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, September 2nd, 2016 at 12:02am
Foreigner performs a night full of hits on Saturday, Sept. 3, in Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino Hotel.
Rising to the challenge is something musician Thom Gimbel thought to himself he could do if ever asked to perform Foreigner’s song “Urgent.”
In the early 1990s, Gimbel got that call when Foreigner asked him to join the hard rock band after being impressed with his performances with Aerosmith. Gimbel was comfortable playing in front of thousands of people after his days in Aerosmith. It didn’t take long before Foreigner put Gimbel’s skills to the test to master the part saxophonist Junior Walker made famous on “Urgent.”
“Foreigner calls, and we’re doing some of our first shows,” Gimbel said. “It must have been New Year’s of ’92. They said we’re going to live TV and we want you to hit the high note on the saxophone on ‘Urgent’ right at midnight and there’s estimated viewership of 56 million or something like that. I was like OK, no problem, we can do this. … Sure, I was warming up beforehand, though. I was taking no chances.”
Gimbel said he hit the high notes and later the band allowed him to make some alterations to “Urgent” so he would not be flailing around and gasping for air after performing the song night after night.
“Eventually, I said, what if we modulate to a different key, then I can do something else and come back and it worked really well,” Gimbel said. “The band helped with the arrangement of the idea, and it just absolutely fit.”
Gimbel takes on several musical duties in the band, including backup vocals, rhythm and some lead guitar, flute and keyboards. He said the band works as a team, with frontman Kelly Hansen taking the lead and knocking it out of the park every show.
After all these years, Gimbel continues to enjoy performing Foreigner’s music catalog.
“I think all the songs resonate with me, but I get a supercharge of adrenaline with ‘Urgent,’ when I grab that saxophone,” he said. “That’s a direct shot of adrenaline straight to the central nervous system. They’re all like that, just starting with ‘Double Vision’ – the guitar riff in ‘Double Vision’ is so much fun to play, and those massive power chords in ‘Juke Box Hero.’ The signature riff in ‘Hot Blooded’ on guitar and ‘Waiting for a Girl Like You,’ I’ve always loved that song. I get to sing it in harmony with Kelly and everything; it’s pure joy. That’s why we feel so fortunate to keep this music going strong.”
WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3
WHERE: Legends Theater inside Route 66 Casino Hotel, 14500 W. Central, Interstate 40 at exit 140
HOW MUCH: $36-$70, plus fees at holdmyticket.com or 886-1251
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African Union Launches Continent-Wide Free Trade Area
NIAMEY, NIGER - At the African Union Summit in Niger, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari launched the African Continental Free Trade Area by signing the continent's largest economy onto the deal.
After months of reluctance over competition concerns, Nigeria's support gives weight to forming the world's largest free trade zone - a 55-nation bloc worth $3.4 trillion.
"Nigeria stands to profit and other African countries stand to profit also from Nigeria's participation," said Pat Utomi, a member of the Nigerian negotiating team. "It will not only lead to Nigeria's economy becoming bigger, but also help the economies of other African countries become stronger and much bigger. Together, the mutual benefits of trade will lead to elevating Africa's status away from the poverty of today."
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Intra-African trade makes up only 17% of exports, which are hampered by poor infrastructure, taxes, bureaucracy and corruption.
The trade pact aims to boost cross-border trade by reducing or eliminating duties and red tape.
To help lower costs, the AU launched a pan-African payment system at the summit in Niger's capital.
"African trade today is conducted on the U.S. dollars and the euro and increasingly, the pan-African payment system," said Okey Oramah, president of the African ExportImport Bank. "What this is doing is to reduce the use of third currencies in the bilateral trade settlement in Africa. Because we estimate that that costs Africa between $5 [billion] and $7 billion. Beyond that, it also reduces trade because Africa has a scarcity of foreign exchange."
African exporters want the free trade area to quickly enter into force to eliminate barriers and create free movement between states.
Adama Harouna, the coordinator of Niamey Onion Exporters, wants customs barriers to be broken, saying he does not understand why, for example, a person from Niger who goes with his goods to Burkina Faso still finds constraints there.
Despite the African free trade area's launch, much work remains before the agreement becomes effective.
While all of the African Union's 55 members except Eritrea have signed on to the free trade area, only half have ratified the deal.
And even after costs are reduced, Africa's exporters still will have to contend with non-tariff barriers that will take much longer to fix - such as corruption and poor transport links between nations.
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Today's St. Louis Union Station (also known by its initials, SLUS), once one of the busiest terminals in the world, no longer serves dozens of inbound and outbound passenger trains heading east and west. However, it is one of our country's largest, constructed during a time when the nation was rapidly expanding westward. Fortunately, the building has been beautifully restored and now serves more as an entertainment and shopping venue with museums (including an operating model railroad), plays, restaurants, and tours available (there is even a hotel on the grounds). The station was completed in the mid-1890s and served in its original role until 1978 when Amtrak's final long-distance passenger train left the magnificent train shed (at one time the station welcomed over 100,000 daily passengers through its doors). Today, the city's light-rail transit service, MetroLink, still serves the station from directly below the train shed within the subway tunnel.
A Brief History Of St. Louis Union Station
By the last decade of the 19th century St. Louis found itself in an increasingly important role as "The Gateway To The West" since it lay at the conjunction of the mighty Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The Transcontinental Railroad had been finished just over 20 years prior and new lines were still being built across the Frontier. In addition, many eastern and western trunk lines, or their future subsidiaries, terminated at the city such as the Iron Mountain & Southern (Missouri Pacific); Wabash; Ohio & Mississippi (Baltimore & Ohio), Louisville & Nashville; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four" controlled by the New York Central); St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco); Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy); New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate Road); and Pennsylvania. Following the Civil War, a growing St. Louis expanded to the point that it boasted the nation's fourth largest metropolitan region behind only New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
This growth was thanks largely to its gateway status with so many westbound settlers passing through the city. Understanding its role, St. Louis wanted a magnificent station to showcase its growing importance while combining several terminals then in use throughout the city. To do so it launched a worldwide design competition with architects from across Europe and the United States submitting proposals. Ultimately, a local firm, Link & Cameron, was awarded the winner. Headed by Thomas C. Link and Edward B. Cameron, according to Brian Solomon's, Railroad Stations, they suggested a design that played on the city's French heritage in the Norman Revival style (also known as the French Romanesque style). As Hans and April Halberstadt note in their book, The American Train Depot & Roundhouse, the building evoked a grand chateau along the Loire River. The terminal's cut-stone appearance, using nearby Missouri granite, was far different from others built in Midwestern cities such as Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Indianapolis between 1878 and 1890.
Its greatest exterior feature was a grand 280-foot clock tower as well as towering Romanesque arches. On the interior the terminal featured a 65-foot vaulted ceiling in the Grand Hall with stained-glass windows (manufactured by St. Louis firm Davis & Chambers). The inside was split into three main sections; the Headhouse (where the Grand Hall was located featuring mosiacs/frescoes by Healy & Millet [also of St. Louis], gold leaf details and scagliola surfaces); the Midway (which was the main concourse measuring at 610 feet long by 70 feet wide); and finally the 600-foot wide Trainshed (designed by engineer George H. Pegram) which featured 32 tracks on nearly 12 acres of ground. As construction and design plans came together the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis was formed in 1889, jointly owned by the the original tenants (MP, StLIM&S, Wabash, O&M, L&N, and the Big Four).
The station would ultimately combine 31 different rail lines and at its height served 22 different railroads (some of which later joined the association). Several of the very best trains ever put into service passed over the TRRA's rails including the B&O's National Limited and Diplomat; the NYC's Knickerbocker and Southwestern Limited; the Missouri Pacific's Missouri River Eagle, Missourian, Ozarker, Southerner,Sunflower, Sunshine Special, and Texan; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's Abraham Lincoln; the L&N's Humming Bird; Pennsylvania's Spirit Of St. Louis and Penn Texas (joint with MP); and about all of the Wabash's named trains like the Bluebird and the Wabash Cannon Ball (there were many more). Today the TRRA railroad is still in operation as a freight carrier owned by BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Canadian National Railway, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific.
St. Louis Union Station opened to the general public amid great fanfare on September 1, 1894 at a cost of $6.5 million. It was one of the earliest malls in the country with stores lining the arcade behind the Grand Hall and sporting an open, light, and airy atmosphere. After fewer than 10 years of service it was overhauled in 1903 to accommodate the many visitors for the upcoming 1904 World's Fair held in the city that year. It saw one final update in the 1940s, mostly revolving around the interior and then slowly declined during the 1950s and 1960s as the traveling public abandoned trains for highways and airlines. On May 1, 1971 Amtrak took over most intercity rail services across the country and Union Station was left with only three trains still calling at its trainshed. Finally, on October 31, 1978 the last train departed, the Inter-American (Chicago - Laredo, Texas). However, unlike many of its counterparts the building soon found a new life when it was purchased by Oppenheimer Properties for $5.5 million.
The new owners quickly set about a major overhaul of the structure, envisioning a popular entertainment venue albeit without long-distance rail service. It reopened to the public during August of 1985 after a restoration of $150 million. Today, Saint Louis Union Station is perhaps in better condition than it ever was under railroad ownership. The interior's lavish decorations and restored rooms have transformed it into one of the city's preeminent destinations. You can find more than two dozen places to dine inside as well as numerous shops and specialty stores. In 2011 the station finished a major restoration and upgrade by Marriott Hotel in the building's main terminal, moving several stores to the next door train shed. This has allowed it to provide even more luxurious accommodations for travelers and visitors. While it has been discussed recently to remove the four remaining tracks serving the station, today service is still available via Metro Link.
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The pace of nonprofit media growth is picking up
You are here: American University School of Communication News The Pace of Nonprofit Media Growth is Picking Up
By Charles Lewis | July 13, 2018
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million. His gift was big enough to prompt rebranding at what will now be called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Newmark’s big gift made a big splash, but charitable gifts that support the media are pretty common. Some 6,568 foundations gave nonprofit media outlets a total of $1.8 billion distributed between 2010 and 2015, according to a recent study.
All that largesse is responding to the loss of hundreds of newspapers and 35,000 newsroom employees since 2006, according to Pew Research Center analysis of federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data. I believe this workforce erosion endangers all Americans because accurate and timely information is the lifeblood of any democracy. As Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Nonprofit media proliferation
Back when I founded the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations, at my home in 1989, it was just the third of its kind in the whole country. Two decades later, when I co-founded what later morphed into the Institute for Nonprofit News, there were at least 27 of these operations.
According to Sue Cross, the institute’s executive director and CEO, there are approximately 270 U.S. nonprofit news sites today, 165 of which are annual dues-paying members of her organization. Some are small with a handful of staffers. A few are much bigger.
After the cable TV entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest bought Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers – The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and their joint website, philly.com – in 2016, he donated them to the Philadelphia Foundation. The nonprofit Lenfest Institute for Journalism, to which he has donated $129.5 million, oversees the papers.
I expect nonprofit daily news sites of that kind to become more common due to the collapse of commercial newspaper and television newsroom staff levels, which have weakened news coverage capacities.
Public media operations like National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service and individual broadcast stations get nearly half of the media funding foundations parcel out: $800 million, or 44.3 percent of that $1.8 billion distributed between 2010 and 2015, according to a study from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.
National nonprofit media organizations such as ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting took in $220 million. Local nonprofit news outfits pulled in $80 million, and university-based journalism initiatives drew $36 million in grants over this same period.
In general, national nonprofit media outlets attract more funding than local news operations. This lack of support for local news is coinciding with an increase in the number of “news deserts,” regions without viable commercial or nonprofit news organizations.
This serious problem isn’t a surprise, given the disparities in terms of everything from the quality of trained medical personnel and facilities, to online internet access and per capita income between America’s rural and urban communities.
For visual data representations see a study on non-profit funding of journalism by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.
Why are foundations, individual philanthropists and now states pouring more money into the media? The answer is very simple. Without credible news and information, and thus a public that’s at least somewhat informed about the uses and abuses of power, a healthy democracy is not possible.
Maybe because his website took a big bite out of newspapers’ classified advertising revenue by digitally connecting buyers and sellers, which makes him at least indirectly responsible for some of the media’s decline, Newmark is clearly worried about that problem.
“In this time, when trustworthy news is under attack, somebody has to stand up,” he told The New York Times. “And the way you stand up these days is by putting your money where your mouth is.”
Cross, a former Associated Press executive, says donations to her organization’s member organizations began to surge at the end of 2016.
“Initially we thought that might be prompted by reaction to (President Donald) Trump’s attacks on the press,” she told me. “We now believe it is a broader and more sustained growth in nonprofit news fueled in good part by community concern over continuing losses of reporting by the traditional press.”
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DM seeks report after human skeletons found behind SKMCH in Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], June 22 (ANI): A report has been sought by District Magistrate (DM) Alok Ranjan Ghosh from the authorities concerned after human skeletons were recovered from behind the building of Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) here on Saturday.
The state's Health Department has also given the order for an investigation into the matter. As many as 108 people have died due to acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) at SKMCH so far, which is grappling with the influx of AES cases for want of facilities and other necessary wherewithal.
The total toll due to the vector-borne disease mounted to 128 on Saturday.
An investigation team of SKMCH accompanied by policemen visited the spot on Saturday. According to sources, one or two of bodies were found to be charred, while many skeletons were found strewn on the ground or stuffed into sacks in the forest area.
Sona Prasad Singh, SHO Ahiyapur, said: "The investigation suggests that unclaimed bodies are burnt here. Further probe is on to establish any foul play in this regard."
As per the norms, when a hospital receives a body, it has to immediately contact the nearest police station and file a report in this connection. The corpse has to be kept in the post-mortem examination room for 72 hours after the report is filed.
"If no family member arrives for the identification of the body within 72 hours, it is the duty of the post-mortem examination department of the hospital to bury or burn the body following the stipulated procedure," said SKMC Medical Superintendent Dr SK Shahi. (ANI)
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USDA Confirms Highly Pathogenic H5N2 Avian Influenza in Jefferson County, Wisconsin
CDC considers the risk to people from these HPAI H5 infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2015 -- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial layer flock in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. The flock of 200,000 chickens is located within the Mississippi flyway where this strain of avian influenza has previously been identified. CDC considers the risk to people from these HPAI H5 infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low. No human infections with the virus have been detected at this time.
Samples from the chicken flock, which experienced increased mortality, were tested at the Missouri Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa confirmed the findings. NVSL is the only internationally recognized AI reference laboratory in the United States. APHIS is working closely with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection on a joint incident response. State officials quarantined the premises and birds on the property will be depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Birds from the flock will not enter the food system.
The United States has the strongest AI surveillance program in the world. As part of the existing USDA avian influenza response plans, Federal and State partners as well as industry are responding quickly and decisively to these outbreaks by following these five basic steps: 1) Quarantine – restricting movement of poultry and poultry-moving equipment into and out of the control area; 2) Eradicate – humanely euthanizing the affected flock(s); 3) Monitor region – testing wild and domestic birds in a broad area around the quarantine area; 4) Disinfect – kills the virus in the affected flock locations; and 5) Test – confirming that the poultry farm is AI virus-free. USDA also is working with its partners to actively look and test for the disease in commercial poultry operations, live bird markets and in migratory wild bird populations.
The Wisconsin Department of Health is working directly with poultry workers at the affected facility to ensure that they are taking the proper precautions. As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 ˚F kills bacteria and viruses.
USDA will include the confirmation information in routine updates to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and will notify international trading partners of this finding as appropriate. OIE trade guidelines call on countries to base trade restrictions on sound science and, whenever possible, limit restrictions to those animals and animal products within a defined region that pose a risk of spreading disease of concern.
These virus strains can travel in wild birds without them appearing sick. People should avoid contact with sick/dead poultry or wildlife. If contact occurs, wash your hands with soap and water and change clothing before having any contact with healthy domestic poultry and birds.
All bird owners, whether commercial producers or backyard enthusiasts, should continue to practice good biosecurity, prevent contact between their birds and wild birds, and report sick birds or unusual bird deaths to State/Federal officials, either through their state veterinarian or through USDA’s toll-free number at 1-866-536-7593. Additional information on biosecurity for backyard flocks can be found at http://healthybirds.aphis.usda.gov.
USDA has identified two mixed-origin viruses in the Pacific Flyway: the HPAI H5N2 virus and new HPAI H5N1 virus. The new HPAI H5N1 virus is not the same virus as the HPAI H5N1 virus found in Asia, Europe and Africa that has caused some human illness. Only the HPAI H5N2 virus has been detected in the Pacific, Mississippi and Central Flyways.
Detailed analysis of the virus is underway in cooperation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For more information about the ongoing avian influenza disease incidents visit the APHIS website. More information about avian influenza can be found on the USDA avian influenza page. More information about avian influenza and public health is available on the CDC website.
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Controversy over choice of hospitals authorised to use CAR-T in Spain
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MADRID, 10 May (APM) - Autonomous regions in Spain are concerned about an "uneven" distribution of Spanish hospitals authorised to use CAR-T cancer therapies, both Europa Press agency and medical journal Diario Médico reported on Wednesday.
The Spanish ministry of health announced on Monday that 11 hospitals have been authorised to use CAR-Ts, Diario Médico reported. (APMHE 60971)
Shortly after the announcement, representatives of a number of autonomous regions complained that three of these are in Catalonia, whereas patients in some northern regions such as Navarra have no authorised hospitals near their home, the journal noted.
Madrid healthcare authorities have complained that only one hospital has the ministry’s green light to use CAR-Ts in this highly populated region, which will make it extremely difficult to meet patients’ needs.
Speaking at a press conference after the latest meeting of the council of regions in Madrid on Thursday, health minister María Luisa Carcedo told reporters that the list of authorised hospitals will be revised in six months, Europa Press added.
The agency quoted Carcedo as saying that the geographical distribution of hospitals will not be a reason to deprive patients of the treatment they need. She admitted that having a reference hospital relatively close is certainly and advantage, but clarified that safety comes first and that each hospital had been chosen based on its resources in terms of experienced professionals and quality procedures, Europa Press reported.
Opioid use on the rise
Healthcare authorities are increasingly worried about abuse of opioids in Spain, where consumption of these drugs has grown 79% over the past seven years according to drug regulator AEMPS, daily El País reported on Wednesday.
The Spanish ministry of health and regional authorities have created a working group to assess prescription of opioids in the country. Abuse of fast-release fentanyl, an extremely strong opioid, has caused alarm, El País said.
The newspaper quoted María Ángeles Canos, head of the pain unit at Hospital La Fe in Valencia as saying: “The use [of fentanyl] has increased because pain is now treated in a more efficient way. It is not right to stigmatise a group of medicines which is quite useful and greatly improve patients’ quality of life”.
However, with a number of documented cases of inadequate prescriptions, healthcare authorities have decided to take a step forward. Fast-release fentanyl is up to 100 times stronger than morphine and its action is practically immediate. However, risk of addiction is high. That is why it is authorised exclusively for cancer patients with irruptive pain, Antonio Alcántara, from medical society SEMERGEN, told El País.
In other patients, slow-release fentanyl must be the preferred treatment of irruptive pain, Alcántara added.
Both clinicians and representatives of the government admit that off-label use of fast-release fentanyl exists, according to the newspaper.
Hyperplasia drugs delay cancer diagnosis
The use of 5α-reductase inhibitors (also known as 5-ARIs) to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) has been found to delay cancer diagnosis, daily ABC and Europa Press agency reported on Monday.
According to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, patients treated with 5-ARIs were diagnosed with prostate cancer an average of 3.6 years after the first signs of the disease were observed. The average time from the first signs to the diagnosis was 1.4 years in individuals who had not been treated with these drugs, ABC reported.
The study also suggested that 25% of patients who were treated with 5-ARIs suffered from more aggressive forms of prostate cancer, and 7% of them were diagnosed at a metastatic phase.
Innovation is key to guarantee the system's sustainability
On Thursday, financial paper Cinco Días carried an editorial from AbbVie medical director of Spain, Luis Nudelman, who argued that pharma contributes to the sustainability of the Spanish healthcare system in a number of ways, such as strongly investing in R&D. Pharma is the second industry by R&D investment in Spain, he noted.
Nudelman followed the arguments of European pharma trade body EFPIA, emphasising the importance of pharmaceutical innovation as a guarantee of high-quality healthcare.
“Innovation is about objective, measurable benefits for patients and society as a whole. By reducing the progression of chronic diseases and their complications, innovative therapies diminish costs”, he wrote.
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Thailand. Grain and Feed Outlook
Thailand. Grain and Feed Outlook April 27, 2017
MY2017/18 main-crop rice and corn planting is unlikely to be delay due to favorable rainfall and a recovery in reservoir levels. Domestic corn prices remain under downward pressure despite the domestic corn absorption requirements under the new import regulations for feed wheat. Feed wheat imports have declined significantly as a result of the new regulations.
MY2017/18 main-crop rice and corn planting is unlikely to be delay due to favorable rainfall and a recovery in reservoir levels. Post’s rice production forecast remains unchanged at 19.5 million metric tons, up 5 percent from MY2016/17 in anticipation of a recovery in main-crop rice production due to sufficient irrigation supplies. The export forecast for rice in 2017 remains unchanged at 10 million metric tons driven by the sale of government stocks and the recovery of white rice supplies. The government is expected to sell all of their food-quality rice stocks in 2017 which totals approximately 3 million metric tons. Post’s forecast for corn production remains unchanged at 4.9 million metric tons, down 6 percent from MY2016/17 in anticipation of an acreage reduction in response to unattractive returns. Despite the domestic corn absorption requirements under the new import regulations for feed wheat, farm-gate prices for corn remain under downward pressure in line with world corn prices. Additionally, the recent sale of 1.4 million metric tons of government feed-quality rice stocks to swine feed industry will likely reduce domestic demand for corn and imported feed wheat throughout 2017. Feed wheat imports have declined significantly since the new import regulations were implemented in January 2017. Post foresaw this trend, so the forecast for wheat imports remains unchanged at 3.6 million metric tons in MY2016/17 and 3 million metric tons in MY2017/18.
1.Rice Update
1.1 No Delay in MY2017/18 Main-Crop Rice Planting
Unlike in MY2016/17 when severe drought delayed and prevented farmers from planting main-crop rice in many irrigated areas in the lower northern region and the central plains, farmers will be able to plant MY2017/18 main-crop rice as usual in May 2017 due to sufficient water supplies. Main-crop rice acreage in these areas accounts for approximately 20 percent of total main-crop rice production. The government recently announced their support for the Royal Irrigation Department’s plan to supply water for main-crop rice planting in May 2017, compared to last year when irrigation supplies were not available until August 2016 which was too late for main-crop rice planting in many locations. As of April 18, 2017, the RID reported that water supplies in major reservoirs totaled 4.9 billion cubic meters, which is more than double last year’s record low levels. Therefore, Post’s forecast for MY2017/18 rice production remains unchanged at 19.5 million metric tons which is approximately a 5 percent increase from MY2016/17 in anticipation of a recovery of main-crop rice production.
On April 5, 2017, MY2016/17 off-season rice planting area totaled approximately 12 million rai (1.9 million hectares), of which about 8 million rai (1.3 million hectares) were in irrigated areas. Second off-season rice acreage increased significantly to 0.2 million rai (0.03million hectares), from 31,000 rai (4,960 hectares) the previous year due to sufficient irrigation supplies. This year, the RID has provided irrigation supplies to rice farmers through April 2017 even though the government is also encouraging rice farmers to shift to alternative crops that are less water intensive. Presently, approximately 60 percent of MY2016/17 off-season rice production has been harvested. The MY2016/17 off-season rice harvested area will likely more than double last year’s off-season acreage due to sufficient irrigation supplies. As a result, MY2016/17 off-season rice production should recover from the drought-triggered record low production in MY2015/16. Post’s forecast for MY2016/17 rice production remains unchanged at 18.6 million metric tons which is an 18 percent increase from MY2015/16.
1.2 Exports
Thai rice exports during January - March 2017 totaled 2.7 million metric tons, down 6 percent from the same period last year due to a reduction in white rice exports. Exports of white rice declined to 1.3 million metric tons, down 19 percent from the same period last year due mainly to competition from Vietnamese rice which was approximately 30-40 USD/MT cheaper. Additionally, the government suspended the sale of old-crop white rice stocks during the harvest of main-crop rice in January and February 2017. Typically, old-crop white rice from government stocks is very competitive in the African market as the price is 30-35 USD/MT cheaper than new-crop white rice. However, at the same time, exports of parboiled rice increased 10 percent and fragrant rice increased 4 percent from the same period last year, totaling 0.5 and 0.7 million metric tons, respectively. Post’s forecast for Thai rice exports remains unchanged at 10 million metric tons in MY2016/17 and MY2017/2018, up 1 percent from last year, driven by the government’s sale of the remaining rice stocks in the second and third quarter of 2017.
1.3 Stocks
By the end of April 2017, the government rice stocks are expected to decline to approximately 5 million metric tons consisting of 1.7 million metric tons of food-quality rice, 2.2 million metric tons of feed-quality rice, and 1.1 million metric tons of deteriorated rice. This is a 38 percent reduction from the amount of rice held by the government at the start of 2017. From January to April 2017, the government announced the sale of approximately 3 million metric tons of rice from two tenders issued on February 16, 2017 and March 23, 2017. These sales consisted of 1.4 million metric tons of food-quality rice, and 1.6 million metric tons of feed-quality rice. Around 1.4 million metric tons of the feed-quality rice was sold to Thai swine feed mills. Additionally, the Thai government has announced that it will issue a new tender for 1 million metric tons of deteriorated rice stocks on April 28, 2017. The deteriorated rice stocks will mainly be used for ethanol production. The government also plans to retender the remaining 1.7 million metric tons of food-quality rice stocks in May 2017, followed by tenders for feed quality and deteriorated rice in June and July 2017, respectively. Post’s forecast for MY2016/17 rice stocks remains unchanged at around 6 million metric tons, a decline from MY2015/16 due to the sale of government stocks. Around half of the forecasted MY2016/17 rice stocks are expected to be government owned old-crop rice.
1.4 Policy Update
The government did not implement the on-farm pledging program for MY2016/17 off-season rice. However, the government did extend the Interest-Rate Subsidy Program to encourage rice millers and traders to store MY2016/17 off-season rice between April 1 – July 31, 2017 in order to stabilize farm-gate prices of off-season rice. Off-season rice currently has a farm-gate price of 7,300 – 7,800 baht per metric ton (217-226 USD/MT), compared to 7,500 – 8,000 baht per metric ton (217-232 USD/MT) for the same period last year. Rice millers participating in this program will receive a 3 percent interest rate discount from the banks for 2 to 6 months of storage. This is a slight reduction from the 4 percent interest rate discount that was provided for MY2016/17 main-crop rice paddy. Approximately 3.8 million metric tons were stored under this program from November 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017. The government paid 368 million baht ($10.5 million dollar) as a compensation for the interest rate discount the banks provided to the farmers.
2.Corn Update
Despite the domestic corn absorption requirement under the new import regulations for feed wheat, farm-gate prices for corn remain under downward pressure. In the first quarter of 2017, farm-gate prices for corn averaged 6,280 baht per metric ton (182 USD/MT). This is a 22 percent reduction from average farm-gate prices of around 8,100 baht per metric ton (235 USD/MT) for the same period last year. Feed mills reportedly have had large inventories of feed wheat during the first quarter of 2017 that they imported prior to the implementation of the new import regulations. Additionally, large feed mills are only purchasing corn grown on privately owned land due to concerns about the EU potentially banning livestock products raised on corn-based feed from deforested areas. Corn from untitled land is reportedly being sold to export markets. However, export prices for corn have declined approximately 40 percent from last year due to lower prices on the world market. During the first eight month of MY2016/17, corn exports totaled 0.4 million metric tons, a significant increase from the same period last year in which corn exports totaled only 67,350 metric tons. Also, the sale of 1.4 million metric tons of feed-quality rice from government stocks for the swine feed industry in late April 2017, will likely reduce demand for domestic corn in swine feed rations throughout 2017 as the sale price of feed-quality rice stocks is approximately 30 percent lower than the domestic price for corn. MY2017/18 corn planting has reportedly begun in the main growing areas in the northern region due to favorable weather conditions. Corn production in this region accounts for approximately 70 percent of total corn production. Some corn areas in the northeastern region have reportedly shifted to sugarcane production due to relatively higher return. Farm-gate prices for sugarcane increased 28 percent in the first quarter of 2017. Post’s forecast for corn production remains unchanged at 4.9 million metric tons. This is a 6 percent reduction from MY2016/17 in anticipation of an acreage reduction.
3. Wheat update
Thai Feed Mill Association (TFMA) is negotiating with the government over the new import regulations on feed wheat that were implemented in January 2017. These new regulations require feed mills to purchase domestic corn prior to importing feed wheat (at a 3:1 domestic absorption rate of imported feed wheat/domestic corn). The TFMA wants the government to reconsider the corn absorption rates for feeds which do not typically use corn, such as fish feed, shrimp feed, and pet food. However, the government is reportedly considering an exemption only for the shrimp feed industry and may allow them to import approximately 110,000 metric tons of feed wheat without being required to use domestic corn. This figure is based on the amount of feed wheat that has historically been imported for shrimp feed production, and accounts for 10-20 percent of the total shrimp feed ration. The government is also considering a 2:1 domestic corn absorption rate for a pet food producer that requires approximately 20,000 metric tons of feed wheat annually. The Ministry of Commerce in consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives’ Department of Livestock Development and Department of Fishery is seeking cabinet approval which may be granted in the next couple of months.
The new feed wheat import regulations have caused a significant reduction in Thai feed wheat imports. During January – February 2017, imports of feed wheat totaled 226,170 metric tons, down 60 percent from the same period last year, with the quantity imported from the Ukraine declining 86 percent. For the first eight months of MY2016/17, all wheat imports totaled 2.9 million metric tons. This is a 7 percent reduction from the same period in MY2015/16 due mainly to the reduction in imported feed wheat which declined to approximately 2.1 million metric tons, down 8 percent from the same period in MY2015/16. Also, imports of milling wheat declined approximately 4 percent due to lower imports of Canadian wheat due to concerns about crop quality. Meanwhile, U.S. wheat imports increased to approximately 0.4 million metric tons, up 4 percent from the same period of MY2015/16. Post’s forecast of declining wheat imports remains unchanged at 3.6 million metric tons in MY2016/17 and 3 million metric tons in MY2017/18 due to the reduction in feed wheat imports. In addition to the new import regulations, the sale of government feed-quality rice stocks of around 1.6 million metric tons in April 2017 will reduce import demand for feed wheat in swine feed rations as the price of feed-quality rice stocks is 30-35 percent lower than the price for imported feed wheat.
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The Orlando Project has been generously supported by the Vice-President (Research), the Vice-President (Academic), the Director of Libraries, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Dean of Arts, and the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta; and by the School of English and Theatre Studies, the Faculty of Arts, and the Vice-President Research at the University of Guelph.
The first phase in Orlando’s development – creation of the Project infrastructure, the DTDs, and extensive encoding – was funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Council has since awarded Standard Research Grants to each of Dr. Brown, Dr. Clements, and Dr. Grundy for work on the Orlando narrative history.
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The Orlando Project Team is moved by, and grateful for, personal donations from Don Buchanan and Shirley and Christopher Head.
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Mark your calendars: the 2019 Orlando Lecture in Women’s Writing, Gender and Sexuality
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Dark Victory Brendan DuBois
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A decade ago, the alien Creepers came to Earth, dropping asteroids to drown our coastal cities, detonating nuclear weapons overhead to destroy our communications, power and computer systems, and to set up their network of killer stealth satellites to kill anything on our planet that used modern technology. In a matter of days, Earth was driven back to a nineteenth century existence. Then the war really began, as the Creepers descended and set up domed bases that were impervious to everything save a nuclear bomb. For ten years then, the battered and surviving members of humanity have fought against the Creepers and their mechanized exoskeletons, until something unexpected has happened: a chance for victory. Sixteen‑year‑old Randy Knox has the usual problems of a teenage boy: getting along with his father, dating his sweetheart, and trying not to fail his junior year of high school. But Randy also has other demands on his time, as a sergeant in the N.H. National Guard, attached to the U.S. Army, and fighting the invading Creepers. Randy has dim memories of a time of electric lights, laptop computers, television screens and above all, plenty of food at every meal. On his twelfth birthday, he enlisted in the Army to carry on the fight, since most of the world’s adults have been killed off and it’s up to the younger generations to serve. But now, as a veteran of the Creeper war and with his K‑9 partner Thor, Randy has learned to focus on the essentials: the best way to kill a Creeper, scrounge through abandoned buildings for old canned goods, and to avoid being turned into “barbecue bait.” He has earned the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Endless war is all he knows. But now change has drastically come to his life. The current President of the United States—a former Assistant Secretary of Defense—has announced that scattered remnants of the Air Force have destroyed the Creeper’s Orbital Base, ensuring victory over the alien invaders. Those surviving Creepers on the Earth’s surface will be hunted down and exterminated, as a weary and wary population celebrates victory. Yet Randy is assigned a new mission: to escort a secret representative from the Governor of New Hampshire to the nation’s capital, to meet with the President. And at the last moment, a fellow teen soldier—the beautiful Serena Coulson and her mute younger brother Buddy—are assigned to join Randy. This secretive mission proves to be the most dangerous assignment of his life, as Randy tries to protect his charges from rampaging Creepers and criminal humans. And as he fights to reach the capitol with a vital mission, Randy learns that all of his skills in combating aliens may not be enough to survive the dark conspiracies of his fellow humans.
Dark Victory
Brendan DuBois
Dark Victory Brendan DuBois
A decade ago, the alien Creepers came to Earth, dropping asteroids to drown our coastal cities, detonating nuclear weapons overhead to destroy our communications, power and computer systems, and to set up their network of killer stealth satellites to kill anything on our planet that used modern technology. In a matter of days, Earth was driven back to a nineteenth century existence.
Then the war really began, as the Creepers descended and set up domed bases that were impervious to everything save a nuclear bomb.
For ten years then, the battered and surviving members of humanity have fought against the Creepers and their mechanized exoskeletons, until something unexpected has happened: a chance for victory.
Sixteen‑year‑old Randy Knox has the usual problems of a teenage boy: getting along with his father, dating his sweetheart, and trying not to fail his junior year of high school. But Randy also has other demands on his time, as a sergeant in the N.H. National Guard, attached to the U.S. Army, and fighting the invading Creepers.
Randy has dim memories of a time of electric lights, laptop computers, television screens and above all, plenty of food at every meal. On his twelfth birthday, he enlisted in the Army to carry on the fight, since most of the world’s adults have been killed off and it’s up to the younger generations to serve. But now, as a veteran of the Creeper war and with his K‑9 partner Thor, Randy has learned to focus on the essentials: the best way to kill a Creeper, scrounge through abandoned buildings for old canned goods, and to avoid being turned into “barbecue bait.” He has earned the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Endless war is all he knows.
But now change has drastically come to his life. The current President of the United States—a former Assistant Secretary of Defense—has announced that scattered remnants of the Air Force have destroyed the Creeper’s Orbital Base, ensuring victory over the alien invaders. Those surviving Creepers on the Earth’s surface will be hunted down and exterminated, as a weary and wary population celebrates victory.
Yet Randy is assigned a new mission: to escort a secret representative from the Governor of New Hampshire to the nation’s capital, to meet with the President. And at the last moment, a fellow teen soldier—the beautiful Serena Coulson and her mute younger brother Buddy—are assigned to join Randy.
This secretive mission proves to be the most dangerous assignment of his life, as Randy tries to protect his charges from rampaging Creepers and criminal humans. And as he fights to reach the capitol with a vital mission, Randy learns that all of his skills in combating aliens may not be enough to survive the dark conspiracies of his fellow humans.
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News & eventsNewsroomBAE Systems to Build Platform Supply Vessels for Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC
BAE Systems to Build Platform Supply Vessels for Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC
7 Nov 2012 2012-11-07T00:00:00+01:00
Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC has selected BAE Systems’ shipyard in Jacksonville, Florida to build two new platform supply vessels (PSVs) that will serve offshore drilling operations.
The contract reflects continued growth in U.S. commercial shipbuilding for BAE Systems and is another major step forward in the company’s support to the oil and gas industry.
Each of the Jackson Offshore Operators vessels will be qualified under the U.S. Jones Act and will measure 252 feet long and 60 feet wide. The contract, which was announced at this week’s International Work Boat Show in New Orleans, Louisiana, also includes options to build two additional PSVs in the future.
The GPA 675J PSV design will be provided by Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. The vessels will include an integrated Rolls-Royce ship systems package inclusive of low-voltage active front end diesel electric system and a complete Rolls-Royce propulsion package with Azipull propulsion thrusters.
“We are very excited to be moving forward with the construction of two GPA 675J PSVs,” said Lee Jackson, president and chief executive officer of Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC. “We are confident that BAE Systems can deliver the vessel on time and on budget.”
“This contract is a good fit for BAE Systems in Jacksonville as the facility has a proven track record and has been successful in the construction of vessels to support the offshore market,” said Richard McCreary, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards.
“Our commitment to new construction in the commercial market is unwavering as we continue to strengthen BAE Systems’ position as a highly competitive and financially stable builder of technically sophisticated ships,” McCreary said. “As our backlog grows, we will continue to build our workforce in Jacksonville.”
The Jackson Offshore contract is part of a continued effort by BAE Systems to increase the backlog of new construction work at its facilities in Jacksonville and in Mobile, Alabama. The company is currently constructing two dump scows and a trailing suction hopper dredge in Mobile with scheduled deliveries in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In August, the Mobile facility was awarded a contract to build two PSVs, with start of construction for the first vessel to begin in January.
BAE Systems currently employs 630 people in Jacksonville and expects to hire an additional 250 workers there by mid-2013.
Karl D. Johnson Director, Communications Platforms & Services
BAE Systems Ship Repair
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berrym @ballardspahr.com
+ Areas of Focus
Litigation, Media and Entertainment Law
+ Background & Experience
For more than 15 years, Michael Berry has represented news, entertainment, and other media clients in defamation and privacy suits, fought for the right of the press and public to access government and court records, defended reporters who are subpoenaed, and advised clients on newsgathering and other First Amendment matters. He is a trial lawyer who regularly defends media companies in federal and state courts throughout the country. For example, in recent years, Michael served as trial counsel for prominent newspapers and websites, defeated an effort to subpoena reporters’ sources as part of an inquiry into alleged grand jury leaks, and succeeded in unsealing records in high-profile criminal prosecutions and high-stakes corporate litigation. In light of his accomplishments, The Best Lawyers in America named Michael its First Amendment Law Lawyer of the Year in Philadelphia for 2018 and its Media Lawyer of the Year in Philadelphia for 2019.
Michael speaks frequently on matters affecting the freedom of the press, and his writings about First Amendment issues have appeared in a variety of publications. Prior to practicing law, he worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Paul D. Coverdell (R-Ga.).
Michael was a partner at the highly regarded First Amendment boutique law firm Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, which merged with Ballard Spahr in October 2017.
Judicial Clerkship
Hon. David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Successfully represented The Associated Press in unsealing numerous records in the criminal cases against the former Penn State administrators prosecuted in the wake of the Sandusky scandal in Commonwealth v. Curley, 189 A.3d 467 (Pa. Super. 2018)
Successfully represented Dow Jones & Company, Inc. in obtaining access to records that had been filed under seal in an investor lawsuit against the controversial blood-testing company, Theranos, Inc. in Partner Investments, L.P. v. Theranos, Inc., 2017 WL 2303954 (Del. Ch. 2017)
Successfully defended CBS's Philadelphia television station against a lawsuit brought by a New Jersey church and pastor who claimed they were defamed by a news report describing the arrest of one of the church's preachers on child molestation charges, prevailing on summary judgment and the the plaintiff's subsequent appeal in Gordon v. CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Successfully represented the Virgin Islands Daily News in a defamation suit by a local judge in Kendall v. Daily News Publishing Co., 716 F. 2d 82 (3d Cir. 2013). Following a two-week jury trial, the trial court entered judgment in the newspaper’s favor. That decision was affirmed by the Virgin Islands Supreme Court in its first decision on the law of defamation, and then by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which issued a significant ruling detailing the requirements public officials must meet when they claim to be defamed by alleged implications.
Successfully defended The Pocono Record in a defamation trial in which the plaintiffs claimed that the newspaper falsely accused them of selling homes at inflated prices using inflated appraisals, often leading buyers into foreclosure. After a nine-day trial in which the plaintiffs were seeking over $27 million in damages, the jury unanimously decided in under two hours that the articles were true. The verdict subsequently was affirmed on appeal in Raintree Homes v. Birkbeck.
+ Professional Highlights
Media Law Resource Center Institute, Board of Directors
Media Law Resource Center, past Co-Chair, MediaLawLetter Committee
Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition, Founding Member, Board of Directors
Pennsylvania Bar Association, past Co-Chair, Bar-Press Committee
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, top First Amendment, First Amendment litigation, and Media Law lawyer, 2014-2019
Named Best Lawyers' 2019 Philadelphia Media Lawyer of the Year
Named Best Lawyers' 2018 Philadelphia First Amendment Lawyer of the Year
Named as a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly in their 40 Under 40 rankings, 2009
Lead author, Pennsylvania Chapter, Reporters Privilege Compendium (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Lead author, Pennsylvania Chapter, Open Courts Compendium (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Co-author, "Survey of Virgin Islands Libel Law," Media Libel Law 2018-2019 State Survey (MLRC and LexisNexis)
"Does Pa. Really Need New Laws on Drones?" PennLive.com, January 18, 2017
"The State Office of Open Records Must Remain Independent," The Patriot-News, January 30, 2015
"Journo-Drones: A Flight Over the Legal Landscape," Communications Lawyer, June 2014
"Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law Protects the Crooks, Not the People," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 11, 2012
Recent Speaking Engagements
Speaker and Panelist, "The First Amendment, Court Proceedings, and Judicial Records: A Discussion of the Public's Right of Access," Pennsylvania Continuing Judicial Education Program, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and University of Pennsylvania Law School, March 1, 2019
Moderator, "Trial Tales: Lessons Learned from Recent Media Trials," Media Law Resource Center Media Law Conference, September 27, 2018
"The Press and the First Amendment," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual Civil Rights Symposium, April 12, 2018
"Basics of Internet Defamation Law," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual Internet Defamation Seminar, February 9, 2018
"Legal Issues: What's Hot Right Now?" Pennsylvania News Media Association Annual Convention, November 2, 2017
"Social Media and the First Amendment," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual Internet Law Update, May 15, 2017
"False Light and Implication Claims," Pennsylvania News Media Association and Pennsylvania Society of News Editors, April 21, 2017
"What You Need to Know About Drones," Drones Journalism, Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, December 21, 2016
"Trial Tales: Lessons Learned from Recent Media Trials," Media Law Resource Center Media Law Conference, September 22, 2016
"Drones: Navigating a New Legal Frontier," Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs, April 28, 2015
Moderator, "You Watch Us, We Watch You: Assessing the Effects of Emerging Surveillance Technologies," Media and the Law Seminar, University of Kansas School of Law and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Media Law Committee, April 17, 2015
Panelist, "Navigating the Legal and Media Issues Involved in Litigating a High-Profile Case," Pennsylvania Bar Association, May 8, 2013
University of North Carolina School of Law (J.D. 2000, with highest honors)
Editor in Chief, North Carolina Law Review
Duke University (M.P.P. 2000)
Emory University (B.A. 1994)
+ Admissions
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Ninth, and 10th Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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Baltimore veteran and teacher wins first playwright award from Arts in the Armed Forces
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Vinnie Lyman (Courtesy Vinnie Lyman)
Vinnie Lyman, a Baltimore special education teacher and U.S. Army veteran, is the winner of the first Bridge Award, awarded by the nonprofit Arts in the Armed Forces, for his first play, “War Stories.”
The $10,000 prize was established last fall by the nonprofit Arts in the Armed Forces to encourage playwrighting by current or former members of the U.S. military. Lyman, who teaches at William S. Baer School, served tour tours of duty in Iraq with the 101st Airborne.
“This is my first break,” Lyman, 39, said, “and I’m thrilled. I’ve been a writer for a long time, but an unpublished writer. I send things to publishers that get put in a hole where dreams go to die. When I saw an article in the New York Times about the [Bridge Award], I thought I’d give it a shot.”
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By Jessica Gelt
Announcing the Bridge Award on a Twitter video, Adam Driver, a veteran and successful actor who founded Arts in the Armed Forces, called “War Stories” a “great play” and said it will receive a public reading in New York this fall.
Meanwhile, Lyman will be going in a few weeks for a reading of the play and mentoring at New York’s Juilliard School.
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Judging the Bridge Award was Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. She selected Lyman’s work out of about two dozen semi-finalists selected by a team of readers that considered “hundreds of submissions,” Driver said.
“War Stories” focuses on 10 soldiers from the same unit who recount their experiences in the army on duty overseas and when they returned.
“It is definitely fictional,” Lyman said, but, “with a couple of exceptions, most of the stories are [based on] things I heard.”
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Founded in 2008, the New York-based Arts in the Armed Forces offers a variety of free theater arts programs to active duty service members and veterans, as well as their families and support staff, throughout this country and abroad.
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AvidXchange is Named to Forbes Cloud 100 List for Second Year in a Row
AvidXchange™ is named to the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners. AvidXchange™ was celebrated last night in San Francisco at The Cloud 100 Celebration, an exclusive event hosted by Bessemer Venture Partners, Forbes and Salesforce Ventures. The celebration was attended by the CEOs of the public cloud companies and the CEOs named to The Cloud 100 and The 20 Rising Stars lists.
As part of the rigorous selection process for the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100, Forbes’ data partner, Bessemer Venture Partners, received hundreds of submissions from the top cloud startups. With that data, the Forbes Cloud 100 judge panel, made up of a majority of public cloud company CEOs, was then responsible for selecting and ranking the top 100 companies from all over the world. The evaluation process involved four factors: estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), people & culture (15%) and market leadership (35%), which the judge panel then weighed to select, score and rank the winners.
“Our inaugural Cloud 100 list showed the tech and venture capital community just how many standout private cloud companies there are to watch, and this year’s list is no exception,” said Forbes editor of the Cloud 100 list Alex Konrad. “Forbes has a keen eye for businesses, and combining that with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures’ deep knowledge of the cloud industry, any company’s inclusion on the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 list is cause to celebrate.”
“These companies are leading the cloud technology revolution!” said Byron Deeter, a top cloud investor and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “The founders and teams behind the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 companies are of another caliber and we are beyond excited to celebrate the hard work and enormous value these companies are creating as they propel the trillion-dollar software industry forward.”
“The business opportunity for cloud computing is tremendous as the spend on cloud computing and the rate of adoption continues to grow and advance the ecosystem,” said John Somorjai, EVP Salesforce Ventures and Corporate Development. “We’re thrilled to highlight the potential of these top-tier private companies in the field and see where they take their businesses and the economies around the world.”
The Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising Stars lists are published online at www.forbes.com/cloud100 and will appear in the July 27, 2017 issue of Forbes magazine.
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ALS patient dies in minivan fire on way to Super Bowl dream
Feb 5, 2019 at 9:43 AM Feb 5, 2019 at 9:43 AM
ATLANTA — A man with Lou Gehrig's disease who dreamed of going to the Super Bowl secured tickets from a charity, but was killed when the minivan he was traveling in caught fire on the way to Atlanta.
News outlets report that 39-year-old Ed Cushman of Shelby, N.C., got tickets through ALS-dedicated charity Team Gleason in New Orleans.
His brother was driving him Saturday when the minivan began smoking on Interstate 85. A Georgia State Patrol release says Robert Cushman got out to examine the vehicle, at which point flames erupted. He tried to rescue Ed Cushman, who was in a wheelchair and on a ventilator, but the "flames were too intense."
Ed Cushman ultimately died in the fire.
In a Facebook post, Robert Cushman called the fire a "freak accident."
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CNN series raises questions about James Brown's death
Susan McCord @reportr1
Feb 5, 2019 at 3:18 PM Feb 5, 2019 at 7:44 PM
A new CNN series suggests possible foul play in the 2006 death of James Brown and draws parallels to the 1996 death of his third wife, Adrienne.
The series, from CNN writer Thomas Lake, stems from a phone call Lake said he received in 2017 from Jacque Hollander, a songwriter who claimed Brown raped her in 1988. Lake said the call came after he wrote about the unsolved 2008 murder of Brown's son-in-law Darren Lumar, who claimed the famous singer had been killed.
The contact led Lake to identify numerous contemporaries of Brown who he says questioned the official report that Brown died of a heart attack brought on by pneumonia, including Atlanta physician Marvin Crawford, who signed Brown's death certificate.
"At least 13 people who knew James Brown have said they want police to open a criminal investigation into his death or exhume Brown's body for an autopsy," Lake wrote.
Lake said Crawford told him in an interview that he "suspected Brown died of an overdose, accidental or otherwise," and had "wanted an autopsy all along." An autopsy was declined by Brown's daughter, Yamma Brown, according to Lake.
Hollander connected with Brown after she wrote a song for her hometown, Atlanta, and the Atlanta Falcons, "Atlanta will be Rockin.'" The Falcons wanted Brown to sing lead, so she sent him a demo tape, and the pair became close friends, Lake wrote.
According to Hollander, Brown's lawyer – Thomson attorney Buddy Dallas – would immediately warn her about his then-wife Adrienne, while Adrienne Brown told her that Dallas "was the problem" and "not to be trusted," Lake says in the series.
The women became friends and Adrienne Brown confided to Hollander that she was threatened with death if she pursued abuse charges against her husband, Lake wrote. When Hollander told Dallas about her assault by Brown, he told her to keep quiet, and she "played along" and continued to perform with Brown, the report said.
Dallas is retired from his law practice, a receptionist said. He did not return a call to his mobile phone.
Lake wrote that Hollander led him to a retired police detective who showed him a notebook written by an informant, Linda Bennett, who claimed the doctor who treated Adrienne Brown prior to her death told Bennett she was killed.
James Brown's fourth wife, Tomirae Brown, said Brown himself questioned the circumstances of Adrienne Brown's death, Lake said.
The series goes on to raise "15 questions surrounding James Brown's death," including the lack of an autopsy, Lumar's murder and Crawford's assertion that Brown did not die of natural causes. Lake says in the series that Crawford told him he expected Brown to make a quick recovery and had cocaine in his system.
Brown's friend Andre White, who was with him in the hospital, told Lake that a nurse informed him that Brown had been visited during the night by an unknown man and pointed to residue on Brown's endotracheal tube, Lake said. White had a vial of Brown's blood that might reveal his true cause of death, he said.
Other questions include whether Brown was trying to "escape" the influence of Dallas, his lawyer for 22 years, and accountant David Cannon, by moving north with his new wife, Tomirae, whom Lake suggests could compete with the men for a share of James Brown's fortune.
Another question is the location of Brown's body, Lake said. He describes questioning Brown's daughter, Deanna Brown Thomas, about its location and said she repeatedly declined to answer. Its last known location is a crypt at her home.
Brown Thomas did not return calls seeking comment.
A last question surrounds Brown's hairdresser, Candice Hurst, who spent time with Brown during his final days.
Dallas told Hollander to retrieve a duffel bag stored by Hurst in an Augusta storage facility and to toss it in a lake, according to the series. Hollander kept the bag, and showed Lake its contents, which he said included Christmas gift-wrapping paper, festive lingerie and black stiletto heels with residue on the soles.
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FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS
KATHERINE ASHENBURG
TORONTO LIFE - DECEMBER, 2002
Moving from a three-storey house to a one bedroom flat allowed Helen Rayne and Jane O’Hara to adopt a cool, modern aesthetic. Their rallying cry “Death to tchotchkes”
A warren of low-ceilinged, gumwood trimmed rooms, the apartment had spelled domesticity in 1920s Toronto. But in 2001, it simply looked dark and congested and had what the owner’s called “an old lady feel.” The two top floors of a standard-issue three storey brick box, it had a living room that overlooked traffic-ridden St. Clair East. Across the mangy hall, a trio of dismal little rooms lined up. The kitchen, a dispirited cavern, faced the garage, and a short staircase led from there to an attic bedroom.
Jane O’Hara and Helen Rayne bought the apartment, along with the rest of the building, five years ago as a rental property. At the time, they lived with their Wheaton terrier in a tall, vaguely Georgian house on Summerhill Avenue. In addition to the usual spaces, its three storeys accommodated two guest rooms, separate offices and a spacious music room. O’Hara spent hundreds of hours coaxing the shady-65-foot long garden into bloom, While Riley, The Wheaten, tore up and down in an unflagging search for smaller forms of life.
Although they loved the Summerhill house, both women were finding it increasingly burdensome. Rayne fancied more of a pied-a-terre, a place she could forget while she traveled or spent time in Vancouver, where she has a house. O’Hara chafed at the taxes and the cost of upkeep. A prize-winning journalist and staff writer at Maclean’s, she wanted to work less, on a freelance basis, and she started to see the house as “all that money sitting there.” Rayne, who founded a consulting company in Vancouver in the 1980’s and now specializes in executive coaching, had an immediate response to O’Hara’s suggestion that they shift to the apartment: “I will never live on St. Clair. I didn’t work this hard to live on a busy street.” That kind of amiable dissent marks their relationship. So does an equitable division of emotional labour, where O’Hara frets about financial security but is otherwise sanguine, while Rayne combines a sharp head for business with a free spirit.
Still debating about where to live (Rayne liked the idea of a small townhouse in Yorkville), they rather suddenly sold the Summerhill house in the fall of 2001. In O’Hara’s case the “apocalyptic mood” create by 9/11 may have contributed, but both women, in their 50’s were ready to pare down and rethink their priorities. Rayne still wasn’t keen on the St. Clair apartment, but O’Hara persuaded her that if they didn’t like the renovation they would rent I out and but something else. As befits and investigative reporter, O’Hara is a straight shooter; Rayne likes to tease. It makes for a couple who do the unexpected, even without complete unanimity. Trading their 3,500-square-foot house on a quiet street for half as much space on a noisy one is a case in point.
What they wanted was loosely defined: “light, informal, open, a beautiful space where we can entertain with closets and separate offices,” in Rayne’s words. Neither had much in the way of concrete ideas about how to morph the fussy “old lady” in to the breezy contemporary flat they imagined.
Cue John O’Connor, an architect and acquaintance. One night, while still undecided, they took him over to the St. Clair apartment. “Tell us the truth,” they said. “Can you do anything with this?” The architect responded, “It has to be something radical.”
O’Hara and Rayne hired O’Connor not because they ever completely visualized his design, but because they more or less trusted (O’Hara more, Rayne less) that he could translate their nebulous wishes into reality. A hands-on direct personality who knew as a toddler that he wanted to build things (his first drawing was of a construction site), O’Connor runs a design-build company-meaning he came with an experienced crew of stoneworkers, tile setters, carpenters and electricians. When it came to the “old lady”, his main idea was to orient the living room, dining room and kitchen to the north, away from St. Clair. He toyed with four or five plans, all reversing the original layout and turning their back to the street. A wide hall would house O’Hara’s baby grand piano and the dining table. A back porch and sunroom would be enlarged and transformed into a glassy cube of a living room, warmed by ribs of reclaimed Douglas fir. (An advocate of salvaged wood, for its texture and history, O’Connor chose Douglas fir for the structural beams as a nod to Rayne’s West Coast affiliation.)
Accommodating his client’s need for a live work space, O’Connor turned the old living and dining rooms to the right of the entrance door into an office suite. For O’Hara (who craved light more than space), there would be a small office overlooking the street. Rayne (the untidy one, she wanted more space than O’Hara, to hide her surfeit of papers) would get the old dining room, and the two would share and in formal sitting room.
Unlike in the modernized living-dining area, O’Connor set out to “respect the integrity” of the 1923 house in the office suite. Seeing beyond the indigenous frumpiness of the Arts and Crafts style to its sheltering intimacy, he fiddled with the details but kept the envelope. “It’s a house of a certain age in a certain neighbourhood,” he says. “That’s part of the story.” Preserving the dark green-tiled fireplace with its distressed brass outline, he installed another big piece of reclaimed Douglas fir for the mantel and replaced the grandmotherly side cabinets with his own open shelves. The vintage knobs stayed, as did the rounded arch between the sitting room and O’Hara’s office. The windows kept their original shape but were triple-glazed to minimize street noise. Other period details got painted out or simplified, and O’Connor designed a shelf that runs around the suite, unifying it, upgrading the IKEA storage underneath it and making space for family pictures and other mementoes (among them O’Hara’s four Wimbledon competitor’s tags from 1969 to 1972, a souvenir of her youthful tennis career).
For the attic bedroom, O’Connor wasn’t about to reinvent the wheel. The main floor was more important to his clients, so he contented himself with a few frugal interventions. The result, with its peaked roof and unpainted plywood-panelled walls, is a surpassingly cozy ark for sleeping and watching television. In addition to installing triple-glazed panes up here as well, between the front window and the bed he added further insulation with a novel material: clothing. Camouflaged by a partial wall behind the bed, a casual closet-dressing room, its contents simply hidden by linen curtains, muffles noise and conserves heat.
Remarkable, for two take-charge characters, the women mostly let O’Connor run with his vision. O’Hara says she always knew when the architect didn’t like one of their ideas: “He would take a few steps back while listening respectfully. These steps back invariably meant that it was a no go.” But she demurs when it’s suggested that they were an architect’s dream. “Helen was not the perfect client,” she says, not because she is a goody two-shoes, but because she has to set the record straight. Rayne would wring her hands over the living room’s low ceilings, and O’Hara would urge, “Let’s just give John a chance to finish before you throw in the towel.” Meanwhile both found unexpected therapy in clearing out their basement at Summerhill-“like cleaning your id,” O’Hara reports. The rallying cry for moving house and home was “lighter” -less responsibility, fewer burdens, and death to tchotchkes.
Last April 23, they moved into something that was part home, part construction site and entirely according to John O’Connor’s meticulous master plan. Their bedroom, with its luxurious ensuite bath, was ready, as were the offices and sitting room at the front of the house. But the rest was chaos, hidden behind plastic sheets, a blue tarpaulin and a temporary plywood wall.
The finished areas said good things about O’Connor-his frugality, for one thing, as evidenced in his sagacious ways with the storage cabinets, and Beryll, a $60 IKEA light fixture used in the bedroom and sitting room. (Occasionally bemused by clients in the grip of “pedigree fixation,” he marvels, “Five hundred dollars for the world’s best toilet, yet they’re eager to spend $1,800 for a brand.”)
It was a promising start, but Rayne and O’Hara still didn’t have much sense of what was going on behind the tarp. They feared the hall-dining room was going to look like a large tunnel. “Riley and I were very depressed,” Rayne remembers. The dog wouldn’t eat and wouldn’t go out, moped around her new quarters. Rayne dates her own nadir to a blustery April day when here office was in a shambles and the apartment was as dark as her mood. As she tried to back her car out onto St. Clair, “where I never wanted to live,” she was convinced the move had been a terrible mistake.
The turning point came two months later, when O’Hara and Rayne returned from a week in Vancouver to see the wide-planked reclaimed black ash floors laid in the hall and living room. Even more dramatic, with the tarp finally removed, was the living room. Rayne thought, “A tree house!” Dominated by windows, it seems to float in space, engulfed by the fingerlike tress of their neighbours’ tree. The room, both arresting and soothing, inspires metaphors. O’Connor thinks of it as a pavilion. Anchoring it is a gleaming white limestone box of a fireplace, which in the early evening, illuminated by two pot lights, strikes O’Hara as a domestic altar. Far from the gloomy tunnel that they feared, the hall-dining room is spacious. The living-room ceiling is distinctly lower than the dining room’s-but that’s only discernible once it’s pointed out. From O’Connor’s bag of tromp l’oeil tricks came a simple, modern archway that separates the two rooms and seemingly raises the lower ceiling.
Rayne and O’Hara’s downsizing had effectively eliminated guest rooms, but they still wanted a shower in the main floor washroom, just in case. O’Connor shoehorned it in by rounding the hall wall, which softens the long rectangle and screens the kitchen with its gentle curve. European style, the egg shaped washroom, entirely lined in apple green tiles and outfitted with a drain, conveniently doubles as the shower when the need arises. The kitchen-a calm meeting of limestone the colour of face powder, stainless steel appliances and a painstakingly trowelled concrete counter- affords its own verdant view of mature gardens and trees, spiked by the occasional blue spruce
Once the wraps were off the north end, everything seemed to fall into place. A born-again devotee of second-floor living O’Hara claims, “Once you think about it, down at ground level is not usually a nice place to be.”
A tour through their aerie demonstrates the benefits of simplification – more like distillation in their case. The extraneous is gone, leaving the things that matter, like the selection of family pictures; flower-choked canvas by the Vancouver painter Jamie Everard in Rayne’s office; and a memento of O’Hara’s Ottawa years, the satirical paintings chez Mulroney by the former prime minister’s embittered chef and household coordinator, Francois Martin, in the sitting room. Other than two midnight brown leather club chairs from Roots that face the living-room fireplace and a long, chunky dining table designed by O’Connor, there are relatively few new possessions. And each one is warmly debated by the potential owners, as are a few unresolved issues. Rayne for example wants to put a whitewash on the plywood walls in their bedroom; O’Connor and O’Hara don’t. Every time Rayne gets a visitor to agree with her, there’s a loud crow from the bedroom.
The work came in on time and within the $200,000 budget. The unexpected expenses were almost always the clients’ doing, as on the famous day when Rayne insisted on a brushed stainless steel faucet, at $300 more that the shiny one that O’Connor had installed. The “skinflint” architect jumped in the truck and tore off to procure the new hardware. “Clients focus on the details,” he says indulgently.
O’Hara, a freelance writer wishes that her office were a tad bigger. And her chic concrete counter (she is the family cook) is turning out to be more maintenance that she bargained for. “Just use it and call the stains patina,” O’Connor tells her, but she points out a dingy sidewalk and says, “See that? That’s the future of my concrete counter.”
Rayne admits to a certain nostalgia for the Summerhill garden: “I miss Jane and Riley sitting out on the back stoop in the evening, looking at the garden together.” But O’Hara, who tends the handkerchief-sized plot on St. Clair, says she loves the attention she gets from passers-by.
Beyond those details, the two women are superbly content. Not only happy, they seem genuinely surprised that an impulse move verging at times on the tentative has resulted in quarters both stylish and unconventionally tailored to their wants. Rayne, the doubting Thomas, feels she’s the daily beneficiary of John O’Connor’s passion for materials and attention to detail. O’Hara, the St. Clair booster from the start, adds: “No way I ever dreamed it would be this nice.”
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Listed below are comments made by sicilian29 between Thursday, 9th July 2009 and Tuesday, 25th August 2009.
The PM breaks his silence... 8:39pm on 25 Aug 2009 Reflecting what he believes to be the the populist view in order to gain popularity and attempting to steal the stardust of others are his stock in trade. Both these traits were seen in abundance today. Any guesses as to whom I speak of?
A final thought before a summer break 4:44pm on 30 Jul 2009 #87:
Agree on post 64: Could have been written by Brown or Mandy himself. Self deluded and vacuous in nature and weak in all aspects!
It matters little how soon or how well The Recession will bottom out and show signs of recovery. We have an enormous debt burden which is growing by the day and will hold us back for at least 15 years into the future.
A final thought before a summer break 4:02pm on 30 Jul 2009 21#:
To be fair to Nick the 'glee' thing was mentioned by Mandelson in a vain attempt to bathe his opponents in a bad light. Most of the things he says you can take with a pinch of salt. It's best just to ignore it! Robin Day by the way would have slaughtered him. He was one interviewer didn't give a tinker's cuss about grace and favour.
A final thought before a summer break 11:20am on 30 Jul 2009 Even Obama's ratings are dropping if the polls are to be believed. For Mandy to attempt to align dead duck Brown with The US President under any circumstances seems to me to be a fruitless exercise! The gold dust dissolves as soon as it hits the shoulders of our failed P.M.
'Safe in our hands' 2:29pm on 29 Jul 2009 Lord Mandelson told you that he has no designs on higher office Nick but do we really believe him? The Labour Party might give him the inkling of an opportunity to fulfil his dreams but the people most definitely would not!
'Safe in our hands' 08:56am on 28 Jul 2009 A year or two ago I forgot to make a appointment within 6 months and was struck of The NHS list. My dentist HAS TOLD ME THAT THE PRIVATE CHARGES ARE NOT THAT MUCH MORE AND THAT THEY USE SUPERIOR INGREDIENTS FOR FILLINGS. THE nhs ONES HE SAYS ARE SUB PAR, LESS SAFE AND OFTEN NEED TO BE REPLACED MUCH SOONER. MAKES YOU THINK DOESN'T IT? Sorry about the caps but hit the caps lock half way through and can't be ar _ _ _ to go back and correct it!
A massive swing 5:53pm on 25 Jul 2009 Virtually everything that Brown touches turns to dust. That simple fact has now ceased to surprise anyone.
Cameron aide emerges unscathed 4:26pm on 21 Jul 2009 What a total waste of money this Select Committee hearing was. At least we won't be seeing or hearing from Prescott for a while! The latest UK debt figures are far more concerning than the consequences of this attempted smear by The Guardian.
Surreal politics 1:15pm on 21 Jul 2009 The Select Committee going round and round in circles with Andy Coulson today just goes to prove what a non story The Guardian put out a few weeks ago! Let's hope this latest charade puts an end to it. How much does it cost to organise these meetings I wonder?
Surreal politics 10:15am on 21 Jul 2009 87;
I think the general consensus is that The Telegraph did us all a favour by exposing The MP's expenses shenanigans. The question of whether MPs are adequately paid is an entirely different matter. As for The Telegraph itself as a teacher for most of my life I fell out with the paper when it followed the Thatcher line of having a go at Public Sector workers in the 80s and 90s. That doesn't mean to say that it doesn't do a good job in other respects and I disagree with your assertion that it is a useless vehicle. I think it would be sorely missed if it disappeared.
Gordon Brown in the firing line 06:53am on 17 Jul 2009 Brown's entire performance in front of The Select Committe yesterday was a lesson in mendacity, question avoidance and blame deflection. For those that know him well it was no surprise but there will be some sadly who are taken in by him. The constant boasting about putting in more money than previous administrations was one of the worst red herrings and entirely irrrelevant in the context of present problems. If I were a soldier I'd want to return home pronto and leave the army forthwith. Jeff Randall's article for Sky sums up his performance beautifully!
Gordon Brown in the firing line 12:27pm on 16 Jul 2009 The P.M. in front of The Select Committee this morning:
The answer to the question relating to 2000 more troops was met with 'We looked at four options'.
On helicopters we got 'There has been a 64% increase in helicopter deployment'.
Neither answer addressed the relevant questions. In fact although we all know how many helicopters we have in Afghanistan because it was mentioned in The Commons yesterday and and previously Brown said he had been advised not to divulge numbers. Very convenient! The 64% thing is also a disgrace. 64% 0f 20 is barely 10 when The USA already have 120 for the same number of troops. The P.M. is fond of bragging about his financial commitment to our troops but in reality doesn't deliver what is actually needed to reduce casualties.
Gordon Brown in the firing line 07:54am on 16 Jul 2009 Bob Ainsworth said that the availability of "elicopters" would not have prevented the "hambush" of our troops last week. It is a point echoed by Gordon Brown in PMQs on Wednesday. What they fail to add is that more helicpters may well have helped to save the lives of countless other soldiers in the front line as would the availability of more jamming devices to prevent the deployment of remotely controlled trip wire bombs.
On a side issue why were no representatives of The Government at Wooton Basset? The sitting Conservative MP was there as was a representative of The Royal Family.
Politicians, the press and the police 06:59am on 13 Jul 2009 #541:
I find the best policy for a blogger like this is to totally ignore their threads altogether. This is what I have done with at least four or five on here. They'll soon get fed up with chucking out abuse at you as a means of supporting their weak arguments and it also makes you feel a whole lot better because you then never get riled or caught up in the tit for tat nonsense which inevitably ensues.
On another note I feel it's time for Nick to close this particular blog because the original fuss stoked up by the likes of Prescott has now died a fairly quick death.
Politicians, the press and the police 07:18am on 11 Jul 2009 This non story is now off the front page of The BBC News web site and most daily newspapers. Far more concerning right now is the rising tragic death toll amongst our soldiers in Afghanistan. The Sky News web site roll of honour pays tribute to all those that have died with pertinent comments from commanding officers and close relatives. The solution is a massively difficult one. How we can we withdraw now having already lost nearly 180 lives? On the other hand can we continue to sustain such heavy losses? The deployment of more helicopters would help to ease the situation with regard to roadside bombs but how can we afford them in the middle of a Recesssion partly caused by The Government's mismanagement of the economy.
Politicians, the press and the police 3:25pm on 10 Jul 2009 #282:
Here's a little piece on Labour donors and Government contractors:
http://www.againstcorruption.org/BriefingsItem.asp?id=13013
Politicians, the press and the police 12:01pm on 10 Jul 2009 There is an easy answer to all of this. Change or set up your phone pin to one that cannot be linked to you or unsubscribe via your phone provider. Anyone with an ounce of common sense and a regard to their privacy such as an important celebrity would have done this from the outset!
Politicians, the press and the police 11:56am on 10 Jul 2009 Many of my comments were allowed through by The Mods originally but then removed some hours later because someone complained. The subject matter related to senior Labour figures going for the throat of David Cameron on the strength of mere allegations and implied criticism of Nick's stance. So much for free speech!
Politicians, the press and the police 07:20am on 10 Jul 2009 Stephen Pound on BBC Breakfast News this morning saying that 'David cameron would regret his 'I'm feeling relaxed' comment on this issue and that it would come back to haunt him. We'll see won't we.
Politicians, the press and the police 6:51pm on 09 Jul 2009 'There are serious questions that have to be answered' is the response from clown smiling Brown at the G8. Why not 'There may be serious questions that have to be answered but I will not attempt to preempt the results of any investigations until they are concluded'. The man is positively relishing the prospect of placing his opponent in a bad light.
Becoming the story 5:23pm on 09 Jul 2009 #243:
Are you a fly on the wall of David Cameron's office? How can you profess to know his intentions? Do you have a phone tap on him? No you don't so stop making unfounded accusations about his intentions unless you are absolutely certain of your facts! If Coulson is found to be culpable he will be dismissed from his post and a new Comunications Director will be appointed.
Becoming the story 5:18pm on 09 Jul 2009 Nick Robinson on BBC News claimed that David Cameron was supporting Andy Coulson whatever the extent of his possible crimes and that he was therefore on very thin ground. Never at any stage have I witnessed David cameron saying that he would support his Communications Director whatever the extent of his crimes and I believe Nick should retract his comments. Cameron fervently believes that his man has done no wrong and right now there is is no proof that he has!
Becoming the story 4:35pm on 09 Jul 2009 Indirectly of course this is a desperate attempt to put David Cameron in a bad light in order to direct a beautiful, warming soft sheen on Brown. It ain't working. This is not a political matter. It could be a breach of privacy police matter but as yet noone knows because they are just media accusations by one newspaper at the moment.
Becoming the story 2:34pm on 09 Jul 2009 If Coulson is found to be culpable then he will be jettisoned and rightly so. If no worthwhile evidence can be dredged up to implicate him he will be retained because his services are well appreciated. End of story. To listen to Prescott you would think that Cameron has been the one tapping phones. At present these accusations are just that, allegations propagated by a labour leaning newspaper. Let's just wait and see what develops. Nick Robinson himself has said that The Guardian has no solid evidence to back up their claims and they may even find themselves the recipients of a heavy law suit if they are proven to have been too hasty in publishing their information. I have no great love for Rupert Murdoch btw. If his fingers are in this pie he will deserve all he gets!
Max Clifford saying that he fell out with The News of The World over their treatment of Kerry Katona doesn't put him in a particularly good light either. I can't see the point of any celebrities such as this.
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'Action needed on vitamin D levels'
By Professor Mitch Blair Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-20710026
Image caption Some groups are already told to take vitamin D supplements
There is growing awareness about the importance of the "sunshine vitamin" - vitamin D - for health.
But Professor Mitch Blair, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, says more action is needed - potentially including fortifying more foods and even cutting the cost of the vitamin to make it more easily available,
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient that contributes to healthy, strong bones and helps to control the amount of calcium in the blood.
Unlike many other vitamins, getting your recommended daily amount of vitamin D is not that easy.
The main source is sunlight; but with short days, long nights and limited sunlight even during the summer, it's not easy to get your fix that way.
Vitamin D can be found in some foods such as oily fish, eggs and mushrooms - but only 10% of a person's recommended daily amount is found naturally in food.
Put bluntly, eating more fish and getting out in the sun a bit more won't make much of a difference to your vitamin D levels.
Unfortunately, there is limited national research on the true extent of vitamin D deficiency in the UK population.
But we do know that there has been a four-fold increase in admissions to hospital with rickets in the last 15 years and that some groups are more 'at risk' than others - namely children, pregnant women and certain ethnic minority groups.
Pilot studies and regional monitoring suggests that vitamin D deficiency is likely to affect at least half the UK's white population, up to 90% of the multi-ethnic population and a quarter of all children living in Britain.
In some countries, supplements are free for all
Cheap vitamin D 'would boost health'
A recent study in Australia revealed that a third of under-25s are vitamin D deficient - perhaps surprising in a country blessed with plenty of sunshine.
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a range of debilitating diseases in children and adults - including diabetes, tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis and rickets, a bone disease associated with poor children in Victorian England.
Lack of vitamin D is often cited as a contributory factor in broken bones and fractures, with obvious implications for some child protection cases.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends supplements for pregnant or breastfeeding women and their children from six months to four years.
The Chief Medical Officer recommends supplements for children up to the age of five and the government's Healthy Start programme provides vitamins free for people on income support.
'Out of the shadows'
But we believe more needs to be done.
Firstly, Vitamin D supplementation should be widely available at low-cost.
In some countries, supplements are free for all.
Whilst the Healthy Start programme of free supplements for low income families is a positive step, evidence suggest the vitamins are in short supply and uptake is low - with many eligible people unaware that they are available or of the need to take them.
Secondly, we need to look at fortifying more foods with vitamin D.
Currently, many brands of cereal and orange juice contain added vitamin D which helps boost daily intake.
In the USA most milk is supplemented with vitamin D, which has helped reduce deficiency, particularly in children. The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition is currently looking into this.
We also need to make sure healthcare professionals - including GPs, paediatricians, doctors and nurses - know the signs and symptoms of vitamin D deficiency, but more importantly give appropriate advice to patients who are 'at risk' to prevent problems developing.
And it's important that the public are aware of the implications of vitamin D deficiency, where they can get supplements and how they can boost their intake.
In addition, we need more research into the links between vitamin D deficiency and bone disease - and there must be better surveillance to monitor the prevalence and incidence of vitamin D deficiency across the population.
Only by knowing the true extent of the problem can we develop the most appropriate preventions - and ensure that vitamin D is brought out of the shadows and into the sun.
SCRUBBING UP
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
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Stoke & Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent suspect re-arrested after man's death
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-48503604
Image caption Mark McNair suffered severe injuries in an attack at Imperial Court, Hanley, on 8 May
A suspect has been re-arrested following the death of a man weeks after he was attacked.
The man, who has not been named, was detained after 62-year-old Mark McNair suffered severe injuries in an assault at Imperial Court, Hanley, on 8 May.
The 49-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent had been arrested over the assault and bailed, Staffordshire Police said.
Mr McNair died at Royal Stoke Hospital on Sunday and the man has since been arrested on suspicion of murder.
He is now in police custody for questioning.
Latest news from the West Midlands
Officers said a post-mortem examination is due to take place later.
Det Insp Alan Lyford, senior investigating officer for Staffordshire Police, said: "This is now being treated as a murder investigation and we would appeal for anyone with information about the circumstances leading up to Mr McNair's death to contact us."
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Animals, Africa and other secrets…
What’s this website all about?
This website displays around 400 photographs of animals, people and places in West Africa; all enlarge on-screen at the click of a mouse. I first travelled to Cameroon in West Africa with Gerald Durrell who had asked me to accompany him on an animal collecting trip there in 1957, when I was nineteen years old and had just left Chipping Sodbury Grammar School. This trip was subsequently written up by Durrell in his book ‘A Zoo in my Luggage’. I returned to West Africa in 1963, this time to Nigeria, where I then spent sixteen years as Curator then Director of the Zoological Garden at the University of Ibadan. During that period I developed the Zoo from a small teaching collection attached to the Department of Zoology to the most popular public attraction of any kind in Nigeria. The photographs here feature many animal species native to West Africa – some rarely photographed – as well as people and locations. They tell the story of my work and life in West Africa. They also demonstrate that, as is evidenced by emails and other messages I receive to this day, a properly targeted zoo can be highly effective in stimulating and maintaining an interest in animals and indeed the natural world in people from many different backgrounds. Please click on the headings across the top of this page to explore this website further. Please note:- the enlargeable images in the photo galleries on this website are designed to display on a desktop or laptop computer screen; they may not display in the same way on a tablet or mobile. True Short Stories. I am in the process of writing a number of true short stories based on my work at the Zoological Garden at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1963 and 1979. I have now completed six such stories. Most are somewhere between 14 and 20 pages long and includes many photographs and illustrations. All six stories are available here in PDF format and can be downloaded to your computer and printed or read at your convenience. They are: –
New story June 2019 – ‘CAN GORILLAS SWIM?’ – 10,000 w0rds, 23 pages. I describe how two young gorillas were brought for sale (illegally) to the Zoological Garden and were confiscated from the vendors. I describe the bizarre road journey across the city of Ibadan with the newly arrived gorillas; also how they first came into contact with water and how this influenced the design of a water barrier that was planned as part of a new ape building. But… can gorillas actually swim?
‘The Leigh Woods Python’ – 4,700 words, 13 pages. This is a story about a royal python from Nigeria that lived with me in Bristol, England, for more than 25 years.
‘The Green Mamba’ – 5,400 words, 15 pages. This tells how a zoo keeper from the University Zoological Garden was bitten by a green mamba, not in the Zoo but a long way from home, and nearly died after being injected in hospital with the wrong antivenom
‘In The Beginning Were Two Chameleons’ – 7,800 words, 19 pages. I describe how, from 1963 and for several years, I built up a collection of indigenous reptiles, and then designed a reptile house where many reptile species were exhibited to the Nigerian public for the first time; and I attempt to describe just how fascinating our zoo visitors, including school children, found these animals once they could observe them in conditions of complete safety.
‘The Magnificent Bee-eaters’ – 4,800 words, 17 pages. I visit and describe some of the breeding sites of the northern carmine bee-eater in the banks of the River Niger in western Nigeria before and after the closing of the Kainji Dam in 1968. I managed to send a few of these birds to London Zoo – the first of this species the Zoo had ever exbibited.
‘The Christmas Gorillas’ – 5,200 words, 12 pages. I relate how, on Christmas morning 1970, two young gorillas reacted to my surprise visit to them while still dressed in a Father Christmas costume and how they seemed not to recognise me until I spoke.
To download – for printing / reading – any of the six short stories above, simply click on the button ‘True Short Stories’ at the top of this page, then select a story. Each story will appear on-screen as a PDF document.
Bob Golding, Bristol, England, 2019.
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Riding an eBike up the highest volcano on earth
On 13 January, four men set off on their eMountain bikes – epowered by Bosch - on a special expedition through Chile. The aim was to enjoy the view from the world's highest volcano: the Ojos del Salado. Powerful and reliable support was provided by the Bosch Performance Line CX drive unit.
An expedition through Chile with Bosch eBike Systems
A 400 kilometre journey inland from the Pacific on paved roads, gravel paths and steep mountain trails: four men set off on their eMountain bikes on January 13th on a special expedition through Chile. Their aim was to enjoy the view from the world's highest volcano, the Ojos del Salados, at 6,893 metres on 24 January. The four athletes relied on unrivalled support to make this dream come true; their bikes were fitted with the Performance Line CX from Bosch. The eBike drive system is one of the most dynamic on the market. A new development from Bosch ensured enough power would be available: DualBattery, a combination of two PowerPacks.
Sport and diabetes don't have to be mutually exclusive
"My aim is to move people - not just literally on the bike, but also emotionally," says Mike Fuchs, who masterminded the Chile expedition, explaining his motivation. He started out with a hand-picked team: master craftsman and diabetic Pitt Schmidt, doctor and sports diabetes expert Jörg von Hübbenet and sports scientist Sebastian Gerl. Fuchs had already placed the topic of "diabetes and sports" on the agenda last year. Together with 12 diabetics he rode 1,001 kilometres through Germany by eBike. Further information about the tour can be found at tour-de-diabetes.de. His message: sport and diabetes don't have to be mutually exclusive. Quite the contrary. With the right preparation and appropriate accompanying measures, cycling can have a positive effect on health and well-being.
High-end equipment for ambitious goals
To avoid over-exertion and to compensate for different levels of fitness, Fuchs has also relied on the electric tailwind for the Chile expedition. Although pure muscle power might still suffice for first few stages, by the time the men reached the foot of the volcano, the powerful Performance Line CX would prove invaluable in helping the men to reach the summit. The batteries used by the team were a newly developed concept, the DualBattery from Bosch. Depending on the battery capacity, up to 1,000 Watt hours can be generated for long journeys, steep inclines and heavy loads.
The expedition involves many challenges: deep ravines and gravel paths as well as hot and cold temperatures all demand a great deal from both rider and equipment. For example, the journey to the volcano peak takes in desert, sections of the Dakar rally route, bumpy tracks and mountain passes at attitudes of 4,500 metres. Ojos del Salado is also the second highest mountain in South America. The high-end eMountain bikes from Riese & Müller, paired with the powerful Performance Line CX, are ideally suited to these challenges. With their direct response, impressive torque and maximum support of up to 300%, the Performance Line CX is particularly convincing on challenging terrain. It also has a non-scratch surface and is weather-resistant - making it the perfect choice for off-road use.
Man and machine – it all comes down to preparation
To ensure the smooth interaction between man and machine, the team undertook extensive preparation for the expedition. The plan was that test rides in the Black Forest and early arrival in Chile in early January would help the team to become familiar with their equipment and allow sufficient time for acclimatisation. Extreme heat during the day, cold at the night, desert climate, mountain air, lack of water. These special conditions require particularly intensive preparation. "It's all about the symbiosis of man and machine: research and progress in mobility make the almost impossible possible," said Fuchs eagerly.
(Pictures: Mike Fuchs)
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Zichri
Zich'ri (Heb. Zikr זַכרַי, umy memorial or memzorable; Sept. Ζεχρί v.r. Ζαχρό, Ζοχοί, Ζαρί, and even sometimes Ζαχαρίας, Ε᾿ζεχρί; Vulg. Zechri), the name of numerous Hebrews.
1. Last named of the three sons of Izhar the son of Kohath of the tribe of Levi (Ex 6:21, where most editions of the A.V. incorrectly have "Zithri"). B.C. cir. 1658.
2. Second named of the nine sons of Shimhi of the tribe of Benjamin (1Ch 8:19). B.C. cir. 1612.
⇒Bible concordance for ZICHRI.
3. Fifth named of the eleven sons of Shashak of the tribe of Benjamin (1Ch 8:23). B.C. cir. 1612.
4. Last named of the six sons of Jeroham of the, tribe of Benjamin (1Ch 8:27). B.C. cir. 1612. 5. A "son" of Asaph and father of Micah (1Ch 9:15); elsewhere called Zabdi (Ne 11:17) and Zaccur (12, 35).
⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
6. A descendant of Eliezer the son of Moses, being son of Joram and father of the treasurer Shelomith (1Ch 26:25). B.C. ante 1043.
7. The father of Eliezer, which latter was chief of the Reubenites in David's reign (1Ch 27:16). B.C. ante 1043.
8. A Judahite whose son Amasiah volunteered at the head of 200,000 men in Jehoshaphat's army (2Ch 17:16). B.C. 909.
9. Father of Elishaphat, which latter was one of the conspirators with Jehoiada to restore Joash (2Ch 23:1). B.C. ante 876.
10. An Ephraimitish chief in the invading army of Pekah the son of Remaliah (2Ch 28:7). B.C. cir. 734. It seems that he took advantage of the victory of this monarch over the army of Judah to penetrate into Jerusalem, where he slew one of the sons of Ahaz, the governor of the palace, and the king's chief minister or favorite. SEE AHAZ; SEE PEKAH. There is some probability in the conjecture that he was the "Tabael's son" whom Pekah and Rezin designed to set upon the throne of Judah (Isa 7:6). SEE TABAEL.
11. Father of Joel, which latter was superintendent of the Benjamites after the return from Babylon (Ne 11:9). B.C. ante 536.
12. A priest of the family of Abijah in the days of the high-priest Joiakim the son of Jeshua (Ne 12:17). B.C. cir. 480.
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https://www.blackenterprise.com/mary-schmidt-campbell-named-president-spelman-college/
Mary Schmidt Campbell Named President of Spelman College
by Courtney Connley
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Spelman
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D
Spelman College has named educator Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. as its next president to follow the 13 year legacy of Beverly Tatum, Ph.D.
Coming from an extensive background in education, public service and the arts, Campbell was appointed dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1991 and retired from her position in August 2014. Prior to her tenure at NYU, Campbell led efforts in transforming the Studio Museum in Harlem from a rented loft over a liquor store into the country’s first accredited black fine arts museum. She currently serves as vice chairwoman of a presidential committee that works to improve the importance of art in public schools.
Last September, Campbell visited the prestigious black women’s college to help the school plan the renovation of its art facility and from there the relationship grew.
[Related: Former NYU Dean in the Running to Become Next Spelman President]
“I was blown away,” Campbell told Philly.com. “…I thought how phenomenal it is to be a black woman and come to a place where you are the heart and soul of the mission of that place.”
Campbell, who earned a bachelor’s in English literature from Swarthmore College and a master’s and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, will officially step into her new role August 1, 2015. She says her goal at Spelman is to focus on increasing financial aid to attract the best students, while bringing in more resources for teaching and research and developing the new arts facility.
Tatum, who is Black Enterprise’s 2015 Barbara Graves Legacy Award recipient, sent the below congratulatory tweet to Campbell.
Congratulations to Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, president-elect of Spelman College! So excited for her & for Spelman! I’ll pass the baton 8/1!
– Beverly Daniel Tatum (@BDTSpelman) March 28, 2015
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Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone: Play Ball – The Mets in ‘Please Pass the Guilt’
Thursday, March 28th, 2019 | Posted by Bob Byrne
Archie Goodwin was a fan of America’s national pastime, and the Wolfe Corpus is full of baseball references. One story is even shades of the 1919 Black Sox scandal! In 2020, you’re going to see a lot of Nero Wolfe Wolfe here at Black Gate (assuming I don’t get canned before then). Since today is Opening Day, here’s a little Archie and baseball. Play ball!
Since the Nero Wolfe tales were all essentially set in the year that Rex Stout wrote them, we can answer the question I’m about to posit simply by looking at the publication date. Except, as I’ll show, it couldn’t have been 1973. So that approach is out.
Baseball references can be found throughout the Corpus. Archie was a Giants fan – at least he was until Horace Stoneham abandoned Coogan’s Bluff for sunny San Francisco — while Saul preferred his games at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. There’s no indication of who Saul rooted for after Dem Bums relocated to Los Angeles, though it’s reasonable to assume that he, like Archie, followed the Mets, who played at the Polo Grounds until Shea Stadium was ready.
“This Won’t Kill You” took place at game seven of the World Series, with the Giants playing the Red Sox. All players were fictitious, however. In “Please Pass the Guilt” we get the real deal. Archie goes to visit a prospective client as the Mets are hosting the Pirates. Fortunately, she has the game on television, with Hall of Fame slugger Ralph Kiner calling the action.
Over the course of a couple innings, Archie mentions the actions of several Met players. From his comments, we’re going to reconstruct the two missing pieces of the lineup that day. Which of course first requires us to identify the year. Which poses a few questions but is no problem for a seasoned baseball investigator.
The following players, with the positions they played regularly and their years with the Mets, are identified by Archie:
SP – Jerry Koosman (1967-1978)
C – Jerry Grote (1966 – 1977)
1B/RF/LF – Ed Kranepool (1962-1979)
SS – Bud Harrelson (1965-1977)
3B – Ed Charles (1967-1969)
RF/CF/LF – Tommie Agee (1968-1972)
LF/CF – Cleon Jones (1963-1975)
Two additional players are mentioned by Archie during the case, though not as having played in the game in question:
SP – Tom Seaver (1967-1977)
RF/LF – Ron Swoboda (1965-1971)
A couple basics that will help us nail down the year. Charles is our foundation point, since he was only in New York for parts of three seasons. He was acquired from the Kansas City (not Oakland) A’s on May 10, 1967 and appeared at third base in 89 games, starting in 86 of them. So, he started just over half the season at third. In 1968, he started 90 games at third, appearing there in 16 more there. In 1969, he only started 45 games at third.
Koosman was a rookie in 1967 and only pitched in 9 games, with 3 starts. The lefty was an All Star in each of the next two seasons.
Also, the Mets were three games above .500 on June 5th in 1969. Since their inception in 1962, the team had never been above .500 on this date. In the prior seven seasons, on average, they were eleven games below .500. One might have expected Archie to make some comment about the team’s relatively successful start. Maybe a wry comment about it being their first opportunity to experience that baseball malady, the ‘June Swoon.’ It’s not conclusive, but we can view it as suggestive.
Given those factors, 1968 is a reasonable conclusion for the year of the game. Given that year, here is all but one member of the squad that day, with the number of games they played at the position:
C – Jerry Grote (115) – From 1967 to 1976, Grote was primarily the starting catcher for the Mets, having been acquired from the Astros after spending 1966 in the minors.
1B – Ed Kranepool (113) – Kranepool appeared in three games in 1962 and spent his entire career with the. Mets retiring after the 1979 season. Playing both first and the outfield, he was really the team’s first star in those awful early years. So much so that he was known as ‘Mister Met.’
SS – Bud Harrelson (106) – The ten-year starter batted slightly more than his weight – and he was skinny. Best-known for his brawl with Pete Rose.
3B – Ed Charles (106) – Arguably the best player on the sad Kansas City A’s teams of the sixties, the veteran Charles, a poet, batted poorly but helped steady the youthful Amazin’ Mets of 1969.
CF – Tommie Agee (116) – A two-time all-star, the graceful Agee had power and speed and played a marvelous center field. He was the key White Sox in the trade that sent Tommy Davis from the Mets to Chicago.
LF – Cleon Jones (117) – The twelve-season Met exploded for a .340 average in 1969.
RF – Ron Swoboda (124) – Rocky hit 19 homers in his rookie season but never produced that kind of power number again.
Each player led the team in games at their respective positions in 1968, further solidifying our choice of year.
That leaves us only one major question mark: second base. Left handed-hitting Ken Boswell and right handed-hitting Phil Linz both started 67 games at second that year. 1968 was Linz’ final season in the majors, while Boswell was in his first full season. Linz played 573.1 innings in the field at second, while Boswell logged 623.2. A difference of only about five full games.
Now, we do have one more clue. The game took place on June 6th. It looks like Linz started 11 games in June, Boswell 14. Linz did start the real game on the 6th, but that was at the Cubs. In 1968, Linz started 6 games against the Pirates, while Boswell started 7.
It may well have simply come down to whether the Pirates started a righty or a lefty. Right handed pitchers made 128 starts for the Pirates in 1968: lefties made 33 (all by Bob Veale). So, the odds clearly favor Boswell if manager Gil Hodges was using a righty/lefty platoon.
We’ll go ahead and plug Boswell in as Bud Harrelson’s double play partner.
The Mets were trailing 2-4 going into the bottom of the fourth but ended up with a 7-5 win. Koosman completed exactly half of his starts in 1968 and 1969, and he was still in the game after giving up 4 runs, so he may have made it to the finish line. But since he gave up 4 or more runs 8 times and was pulled in every one of them, probably not.
Ron Taylor and Carl Koonce combined to finish more than twice as many games as the rest of the staff together and they recorded 25 of the team’s 33 saves, so one or both probably saw the mound in a two-run win.
The Pirates probably used at least one righty out of the bullpen, so the Met’s top pinch hitter, the left-handed Art Shamsky, likely got an at bat.
And that’s the story of the game that Archie partly watched at Madeline O’Dell’s house a few days after Ron Seaver came to the brownstone.
The 1968 Mets were 73-89, avoiding last place by finishing 1 game ahead of the woeful Astros and trailing the NL-winning Cardinals by a mere 24 games. Which made next year’s Amazing Mets the most unlikely World Series champions ever. Archie surely attended several games at Shea Stadium that year.
PRIOR NERO WOLFE POSTS
The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes
Meet Nero Wolfe
The R-Rated Nero Wolfe
Radio & Screen Wolfe
A&E’s ‘A Nero Wolfe Mystery’
A Sidney Greenstreet Nero Wolfe Pastiche – ‘Stamped for Murder’
Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone
3 Good Reasons – ‘Not Quite Dead Enough’
Bob Byrne organized Black Gate’s current Monday morning ‘Hither Came Conan’ series, which features a different Robert E. Howard scholar each week, putting forth the best elements of each original story featuring Conan the Cimmerian.
His ‘A (Black) Gat in the Hand’ was a regular Monday morning hardboiled pulp column from May through December, 2018.
His ‘The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes’ column ran every Monday morning at Black Gate from March, 2014 through March, 2017 (still making an occasional return appearance!).
He also organized Black Gate’s award-nominated ‘Discovering Robert E. Howard’ series.
You can find his free, online Nero Wolfe Newsletter here. Also, his Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons Newsletters. Also free!
He is a member of the Praed Street Irregulars, founded www.SolarPons.com (the only website dedicated to the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street’) and blogs about Holmes and other mystery matters at Almost Holmes.
He has contributed stories to The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Parts III, IV, V and VI.
And he is in a new anthology of new Solar Pons stories, out now.
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There are baseball references by Archie throughout the Wolfe Corpus. And along with Stout’s story set at a World Series game, one of Robert Goldsborough’s pastiches is titled ‘Murder in the BallPark.’
Comment by Bob Byrne - March 28, 2019 6:47 am
A future post will examine the baseball question Archie asked himself in’Death of a Doxy.’
DoD is one of my favorite Wolfe stories.
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You are here: Home / What You Need To Know About Cape Cod / Island of Nantucket News & Information
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CLAIM TO FAME: Pleasant isolation, cobblestone streets, some of the most historic buildings in the Cape area
HISTORICAL BRAGGING RIGHTS: Former whaling capital of the world
BEACHES: Brant Point, Jetties, Cisco, Miacomet, Surfside, Eel Point, Madaket, Great Point
DON’T MISS: Whaling museum, Cisco brewers, four lighthouses, Jethro Coffin House, rosehip and beach plum jellies, Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge
Situated about 16 miles south of the Cape Cod shore line in the Atlantic Ocean, the island of Nantucket is the largest island in the group that forms the county. At its greatest extremes, it runs about 15 miles from east to west and 10 miles from north to south.
Nantucket is a place of incredible natural beauty and unspoiled historic charm. For more than 150 years it served as the center of the world’s whaling industry. In recognition of this heritage, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the town a National Historic Landmark in 1966, claiming it is “the finest surviving architectural and environmental example of a late 18th- and early 19th-century New England seaport town.”
The name probably translates from the Native American Wampanoag terms natocke, nantaticu, nantican, nautica or natockete, which originate in the tribe’s early lore regarding the creation of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. It may roughly translate to “faraway land” or “in the midst of water.”
The Wampanoag people lived here undisturbed until 1641 when the land was given to Thomas Mayhew by the English. Many later homes and mansions from the 1700s and 1800s are still a part of the community and are open to the public as museums and historic sites.
The Nantucket economy is based upon tourism and second-home development. Connected to Hyannis by two ferry services and several airlines, Nantucket regularly peaks at approximately 40,000 in August. Residents and visitors alike enjoy Nantucket’s many bike paths and beaches, as well as seasonal events, including the Daffodil Weekend, Harborfest and the Cranberry Festival.
The Nantucket Land Bank was founded in 1984 as the nation’s first local land trust. Utilizing funding from a local real estate transaction fee, the Land Bank has purchased over 1000 acres of open space to date. The unique character of Nantucket has been carefully nurtured through open-space preservation and strict architectural and land-use controls. Nantucket is, for the many that make this their home or their vacation destination, a refuge from suburban sprawl and all of its negative connotations.
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Ellie Goulding Has Finally Spoken Out About Being Diagnosed With Exhaustion
22 September 2016, 16:05 | Updated: 22 September 2016, 16:13
The star felt like she was 'dying of a heart attack'...
Earlier this year Ellie Goulding had to cancel a few live shows.
Fans weren't happy about it, but when the reasons behind the cancellations came to light, it all made sense.
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Ellie had been diagnosed with exhaustion and was suffering from really bad panic attacks at the same time.
She's kept relatively quiet about the details of her diagnosis, until now.
In an interview with Stylist magazine, Ellie revealed, "I'd have panic attacks and, to me, they felt like I was dying of a heart attack."
"It's a very hot, burning feeling, like your heart is racing uncontrollably which is extra scary for me because I actually have a heart defect."
She always made it clear that she hated cancelling shows, but when it comes to your health there really isn’t a lot you can do.
“When I think back to my tiredness, my slump, not wanting to exercise and not being interested in anything. It wasn't depression, it was just my body giving up.”
Ellie has previously tweeted support to Zayn Malik, who has also suffered from anxiety in the recent past, plus at the same time highlighted her own battle.
Anxiety is real... I know the feeling https://t.co/Tt18LZJWsU
— Ellie Goulding (@elliegoulding) June 12, 2016
During her interview, Ellie also added, “Too many people are quiet about mental health.”
“When you feel anxiety, it's a very lonely feeling. It makes you feel like you're the only person in the world feeling that way.”
Ellie has since been spotted with her ex Dougie Poynter who has been there for her through her recent struggles.
Fans thought the pair might be getting back together, but Dougie recently revealed that they were just good friends.
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6 PhD Scholarships, School of Art History, University of St Andrews
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The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews is offering 6 fully-funded PhD Scholarships of £15,000 in the areas of Museum & Gallery Studies, Art History and History of Photography to begin in September 2013. The Scholarships will cover the cost of fees (at the UK/EU home rate) and provide a tax-free bursary to successful candidates.
The School is one of the most highly rated departments in Britain for research and teaching, and with 17 faculty members, it is also one of the largest. Staff research interests include Late Medieval art in Britain and Northern Europe, Italian art and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, French art of the 19th and 20th centuries, art, architecture & design in Britain from the 18th to the 20th century, modern art in Eastern Europe, Sculpture from the 13th to 21st centuries, and the History of Photography.
The highly regarded Museum & Gallery Studies programme at St Andrews attracts students from across the world. The four members of staff offer full and part-time postgraduate tuition in museology and aspects of current museum practice. They also run courses in Abu Dhabi for Zayed University. Staff interests include collections management, museum governance and management, ethics, visitor studies, learning and access, interpretation, and the history of collecting.
The School is keen to build on its research strengths and to develop an already vigorous postgraduate community by offering studentships to outstanding candidates whose research interests in Art History, History of Photography or Museum & Gallery Studies broadly coincide with those of members of the academic staff. Applicants should have an excellent first degree or Masters in a relevant subject area. Further information on the School of Art History may be found at http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/
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Testimony: Israeli army bombs home in Gaza City, killing 21 members of a single family, Jan. '09
Nafez a-Daiyah, policeman
Our family's house was in the center of Gaza City, next to the Hassan al-Bana mosque. It had four floors, and more than thirty of us lived in it. My brother ‘Amer and my four married sisters live elsewhere.
Three days ago, the army called the house of our neighbors, the a-Shatiwi family, and told them that it intended to bomb the house. Their house is only fifteen meters from ours, and only one house stands between us. The a-Shatiwi family left the house after receiving the notice.
My wife, children, and I went to stay with my wife's parents. The distance from their house to our house is about 500 meters. Yesterday morning, after prayers, I heard two explosions from the area of our house. The local radio reported that the army blew up “the house of the a-Daiyah family,” in the center of Gaza City. I was at our house in five minutes.
I was shocked. The house was totally destroyed, with only a few pillars remaining. There were body parts everywhere. I started shouting the names of my family, hoping that somebody would answer. Neighbors came to help look for survivors. I only found my brother Muhammad. He was crying and screaming. He told me that the house had been bombed while he was on his way home from prayers, right when he was about to enter. We found ‘Amer. He was lightly wounded from shrapnel and was in shock. Then we found my brothers Rida and Radwan, who were in very bad condition. We managed to take them to a-Shifa'a Hospital. They're both in intensive care, and Radwan is brain dead.
From six in the morning until evening prayers, we kept on looking for body parts. This morning, we continued our search until noon. The neighbors helped us, using their two tractors. Rescue forces didn't come because they were busy in other places that had been bombed.
The members of my family who were killed in the bombing are my father, Fayiz, 60, my mother, Kawkab, 55, my sisters Raghdah, 30, and Sabrin, 26, both single. My brother Muhammad's wife, Tazal Isma'il, 26, who was nine months pregnant, and they had four children, Amani, 7, Qamar, 5, Arij, 3, and Yusef, 2. My brother Iyad, 35, his wife Rawdah, 28, and their children ‘Ali, 10, Khitam, 9, Alaa, 8, Duha, 6, Sharaf a-Din, 5, and Muhammad, 1. My brother Ramez, 25, his wife Wafaa, 20, and their children, Baraa, 3, and Salsabil, 4 months.
Nafez Fayez a-Daiyah, 38, married with seven children, is a policeman and a resident of Gaza City. His testimony was given to Iyad Hadad by telephone on 7 Jan. '09.
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The island country's rough terrain and lack of infrastructure effectively isolate the 85 percent of its people who live outside cities. Following many years of inefficient coverage, Papua New Guinea's Government reformed the IT sector in 2005, opening the door for private entrepreneurship.
Since its founding in 2007, Digicel has become the country's largest mobile operator by increasing mobile penetration among rural areas that previously lacked basic telecom infrastructure, and offering affordable products and services to low-income communities.
However, Digicel recognizes that its expanding network has limited value without access to affordable power for recharging communication devices. To date, approximately only 10 percent of the total households in Papua New Guinea are connected to the national electricity grid. Access to solar power would not only facilitate greater connectivity: it will enable millions of people to cost-effectively and efficiently cook and light their homes, allow children to study after dark and spur economic development. Solar power also reduces indoor air pollution and mitigates the risk of fires started by kerosene lamps, candles and wood burning. Furthermore, it will allow more people to keep their devices charged, giving them greater access to communication and information via voice, SMS and data services.
As part of its BCtA commitment, the company has extended an invitation for investors, government and development partners in the region to partner in implementing its inclusive business model.
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Trump was reportedly given a statement to make after the raid in Niger that left 4 US soldiers dead -- but he never made it
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump.
A statement of condolence following the deaths of US soldiers in Niger was reportedly drafted for President Donald Trump to deliver, but was never made, Politico reported Wednesday.
The statement, drafted on October 5 by a National Security Council staffer, was meant for Trump to issue almost immediately and was circulated around the Defence Department and the National Security Council, Politico reported.
“We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of these brave American soldiers and patriots,” the statement read, according to Politico. “They will remain in our thoughts and prayers.”
“Our administration and our entire nation are deeply grateful for their sacrifice, for their service, and for their patriotism,” the statement continued.
News of the unreleased statement comes amid criticism of Trump’s response to the service member deaths. Following the initial reports of the deaths of US soldiers in an ambush in Niger earlier in October, Trump made his first public remarks on the incident 12 days later.
As Trump delivered his remarks on Monday, he mentioned that he had written letters and was planning on making calls to the families of the fallen soldiers. His remarks further received criticism after he falsely claimed that his predecessors failed to take action.
“President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls,” Trump said. “I call when it’s appropriate.”
On Tuesday, Trump was further criticised for statements he reportedly made during his call to one of the families.
According to Rep. Frederic Wilson of Florida, who was reportedly with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson when Trump called her, Trump said, “He knew what he signed up for, but when it happens, it hurts anyway.”
“So insensitive,” Wilson told Miami affiliate WPLG. “He should not have said that — he shouldn’t have said it.”
Read the statement, as reported by Politico:
“Melania and I are heartbroken at the news that three U.S. service members were killed in Niger on October 4 while providing guidance and assistance to Nigerien security force counter-terror operations. We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of these brave American soldiers and patriots. They will remain in our thoughts and prayers.
“We are also praying for the two U.S. service members who were injured in the incident. We wish them a complete and swift recovery.
“The heroic Americans who lost their lives yesterday did so defending our freedom and fighting violent extremism in Niger. Our administration and our entire nation are deeply grateful for their sacrifice, for their service, and for their patriotism.”
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Lead Your Team Women in Business
Flexibility Key to Promoting Women's Career Growth
By Chad Brooks, Writer November 12, 2013 09:33 pm EST
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Giving women a salary increase and instituting more flexible workplace policies are among the ways employers can help them advance in their careers, new research shows.
While nearly 70 percent of employees expect to see more women in leadership roles in their companies by the year 2020, it won't happen without some help from employers, a study by Randstad US revealed. When both men and women were asked about the top ways in which their company can best help women advance to leadership levels, equal pay was cited the most often.
The other top ways businesses can help women advance their careers include:
Having more women in leadership positions.
Establishing more family-friendly work policies.
Offering more leadership development programs for women.
Providing greater flexibility in terms of scheduling and telecommuting.
The research found that women take notice when other females are in charge. More than three-quarters of the women surveyed said that women in positions of leadership is important when considering taking a position with a new company.
Lisa Crawford, senior vice president, Randstad US, said that with nearly 1 billion women poised to enter the global economy in the coming decade, and representing the majority of college and advanced degree holders, employers will be increasingly reliant upon women in the workplace to drive innovation and corporate success.
"In order to compete in the growing war for female talent in the years ahead, companies that encourage the development and attainment of leadership positions equitably will be well-positioned in their recruitment efforts," Crawford said. "The pursuit of leadership rank is a universal aspiration, and therefore organizations that help their work force achieve those goals, regardless of gender, will emerge successful."
The study found that women are more optimistic than men about their prospects. Only 46 percent of women expect to have to switch employers to grow their careers, compared to 56 percent of men.
The research was based on surveys of more than 2,000 full-time employees over age 18.
Originally published on BusinessNewsDaily.
Chad Brooks
Chad Brooks is a Chicago-based writer and editor with nearly 20 years in media. A 1998 journalism graduate of Indiana University, Chad began his career with Business News Daily in 2011 as a freelance writer. In 2014, he joined the staff full time as a senior writer. Before Business News Daily, Chad spent nearly a decade as a staff reporter for the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago, covering a wide array of topics including local and state government, crime, the legal system and education. Chad has also worked on the other side of the media industry, promoting small businesses throughout the United States for two years in a public relations role. His first book, How to Start a Home-Based App Development Business, was published in 2014. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Chicago suburbs.
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Mercury Retrograde For 2017 Starts April 9 In Taurus & Things Are About To Get Complicated
By Brandi Neal
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The planet Mercury rules all types of communication, and things are about to go haywire. That's right, the first full Mercury Retrograde of 2017 starts April 9 and lasts until May 3. As if things aren't already tough enough these days, the cosmos decided to make life even more difficult for you. While many planets have retrograde cycles (Jupiter is retrograde until June 9, for example), Mercury is likely the one you've heard the most about. This is because Mercury Retrograde has the ability to wreak havoc on everyone, no matter their astrological sign.
"This phenomenon is one of the few that affects everyone in a fairly uniform way, and its effects are always obvious," Susan Miller wrote on Astrology Zone. "Once you begin to pay attention to how events in your life change during these phases, you will soon see how important it is to take note of them."
Some of the fun things you can look forward to during Mercury Retrograde include misunderstandings, mistakes, and disruptions related to listening, speaking, learning, reading, editing, researching, negotiating, selling, buying, travel, shipping, and anything related to computers and phones.
"When this planet retrogrades, these areas tend to get scrambled or spin out of control," Miller wrote.
There is also a slight overlap between Venus and Mercury's retrograde periods. Venus Retrograde, which ends April 15, can cause you to be overly impulsive and trigger heightened feelings of love and desire that aren't necessarily real. During the six-day overlap, your impulses could be thwarted by communication meltdowns, which could be a blessing or a curse, depending on how you look at it.
If you impulsively send a text to an ex-lover and it doesn't go through, that could be a good thing. But it also means you're at risk of sending that steamy Venus-Retrograde-induced text to the wrong person, like your boss. I'm exhausted just thinking about this.
Mercury Retrograde begins in stubborn Earth sign Taurus, which means life can become slower and more frustrating than usual. The astrology website Find Your Fate advises, "Be very practical about finding a solution, and strictly adhere to limits of time or budget. Money often plays a big part of both the problem and the answer when Mercury is retrograde in earthy signs [like Taurus."
Luckily, things will ease up when Mercury moves into Aries on April 20.
In 2017, Mercury retrogrades four times, beginning a new nine-year cycle, according to Find Your Fate. During this time, expect new people and new situations to enter your circle who can determine the direction of your life for the next nine-year period. While that might feel like a lot of pressure, because nine years seems like a long time, Mercury can bring about transformations in your life that you might not have envisioned, which can be a good thing.
For your best chance of having a smooth Mercury Retrograde, don’t make any important moves, sign any contracts, or launch a new endeavor. Miller also writes that it's not a good time to have any type of elective surgery, because doctors are affected by the retrograde too.
"It’s not that the people you are dealing with are necessarily duplicitous," Miller wrote on Astrology Zone. "It’s just that nobody can fully predict what conditions will be like later. If you start a new job, it won’t necessarily be the position you thought it was when you accepted it. If you are a manager, you will have difficulty choosing the right candidate for the job, so, if you can, hold off hiring anyone. If you buy a house, problems could crop up later that were completely unanticipated."
So what's the good news? Since Mercury Retrograde affects everyone, we're all in this together, and we don't have to go through it again until August.
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Toyota's Carma Project targets owners of cars with faulty Takata airbags
By Carolyn KaberlineSpecial to The Capital-Journal
May 11, 2019 at 12:19 PM May 12, 2019 at 12:33 PM
Care to earn some money and save lives at the same time? Then joining the Carma Project may be for you.
Although the recalls of cars carrying faulty Takata airbags began in 2015, there are still more than 17 million cars with these airbags on the road — including 100,000 in Kansas alone. In an attempt to reach the owners of these vehicles, car manufacturers have sent out notices, used robo calls and text messages to owners of record. Despite these attempts, and the large number of vehicles still needing repairs, the Carma Project was launched by Toyota in December of last year.
According to Tony Lim, co-founder and president of the Carma Project, the goal is to reward those people who spread the word about cars with these air bags to their family and friends.
“Those who sign up to be ambassadors are asked to share simple messages in an attempt to get people to check whether their vehicles have the airbags,” Lim said. “There’s a $5 reward for the ambassador just to take a photo of the license tag of the suspected vehicle. If the owner of the car takes it in for repairs, the ambassador will receive a $55 gift card.”
Lim said that while the reward is unusual for recalls, it’s the danger of these bags that necessitates getting as many fixed as possible.
“These bags have faulty inflators,” Lim said. “In the process of deploying during an accident, the metal inflators will shatter and spray shrapnel-like fragments in all directions.”
So far, more than 240 injuries and 24 deaths have been attributed to these airbags, and with so many vehicles still on the road — 7,000 of these are registered to Topeka owners — the risk for more injuries is present.
Cars on the recall list include vehicles from almost every manufacturer: Chrysler, Honda, Ford, Toyota, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Nissan, Mazda, Volkswagen, General Motors, Daimler Vans, Tesla, Mitsubishi, Jaguar Land Rover, Ferrari, Daimler Trucks, Fisker and McLaren.
“Safety repairs to these vehicles are free and take about an hour and a half,” Lim said. “If necessary, a loaner vehicle or free pickup and towing can be provided to eliminate any inconvenience. Either the owner or another person can bring the vehicle in. The important thing is to get these cars repaired.
“Even if you can’t do it [get your vehicle repaired] for yourself, do it for your family and friends,” Lim pleaded.
To become an ambassador or to check whether your vehicle is on the recall list, visit the Carma Project website at https://www.carmaproject.com/home
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Brown v. Board of Education: Challenge in Hays lies in funding special education
By Linn Ann HuntingtonHays Daily News
HAYS — Ask Hays Unified School District 489 Superintendent John Thissen about the most significant challenge affecting Hays Public Schools in the past 20 years, and his answer is immediate and unequivocal:
“Our challenges have been tremendous because the state has not funded facilities for the most physically and mentally challenged children," Thissen said.
Around 19 percent of USD 489 students receive some type of special education services, Thissen said. That compares to the state average of 14 percent.
He said there has been a lot of discussion among school superintendents in the state of “where is the limit? We want to serve everybody, but is the majority not being served? How much is being taken from the majority? We are still in the mode of trying to figure it out — that balance.”
The Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 opened the door to recognition that all children — regardless of race, gender or disability — have a right to the same public education.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, addressed protections for students with disabilities in programs that receive federal financial assistance. The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), which passed in 1975, “took that further, saying students with disabilities deserve an equal education, too,” said Chris Hipp, USD 489 director of special education.
Hays is the host district for the West Central Kansas Special Education Co-operative that also serves Elis, Victoria and LaCrosse. The co-op, which has 68 certified special education teachers and staff, serves all special education students in these public schools, as well as all those in private schools.
Hipp said special ed teachers are assigned in each building, but there are also specialists who travel from building to building.
Special education serves students with intellectual disabilities, autism, learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, traumatic brain injuries, hearing impairments, visual impairments, speech impairments, orthopedic impairments and students who are considered gifted, according to the USD 489 website.
According to the U.S. Department of Education website, IDEA has two purposes: To provide a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities and to give parents a voice in their child’s education.
The law requires that all special education students have an IEP — an Individualized Education Program. In USD 489, that individualized program looks not just at performance in the classroom, it also focuses on the student’s post-secondary goals, Hipp said. “What does success for this kid look like?”
Special education funding challenges
When the state of Kansas begin closing mental hospitals, private companies, such as KVS Wheatland Hospital in Hays, came in to provide treatment options for children with significant emotional needs around 1999 to 2000, Hipp said.
But those placement options are limited. “It shifts the responsibility to the schools to meet the needs of these kids,” Hipp said.
USD 489 opened Westside Alternative School, 323 W. 12th, in 1991. Students aged 10 to 15 were referred to Westside because they had demonstrated emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require intensive mental health services. The district currently partners with High Plains Mental Health to provide special services for students at Westside.
“School districts have to figure out how to meet the state (mandated) outcomes with a certain pot of money,” Hipp said.
That pot of money comes from three different sources.
When the federal law regarding special education was first passed, Hipp said, it promised the federal government would provide 40 percent of the funding for special education. In reality, the federal government provides about 15 percent, he said.
The state is supposed to provide 92 percent of the 60 percent the feds didn’t fund, Hipp said. In reality, “only one year in the last 10 has the state actually funded the 92 percent. It has actually funded around 80 percent,” Hipp said.
“Basically, the federal government gives us a little bit of money. The state gives us a little bit of money, and the district has to come up with the rest.”
According to the district’s website, in 2018-2019 the special education co-op was budgeted to receive $8.3 million out of the total school district budget of $49 million, or around $17 percent of the budget.
The STAR Program
One approach that USD 489 has taken to special education has been to consolidate some special education services at one site, Roosevelt Elementary, 2000 MacArthur.
“You can be a lot more specific and focused by bringing kids together who have similar needs,” Hipp said. “It’s also more efficient.”
The Systematic Teaching with Adaptations and Reinforcement (STAR) program was begun three years ago by Lindy McDaniel, one of the special education teachers at Roosevelt.
This year STAR is serving 34 children, preschool through fifth grade. There are four teachers involved with the program — one specific to preschool — and the equivalent of 17 full-time paraprofessionals.
In conjunction with each individual student’s IEP, the STAR program focuses on what specifically that child needs. In addition to academics, that learning can include social skills, personal hygiene and how to follow simple directions.
“It depends on the child’s needs and what the family wants for their child,” McDaniel said.
The biggest challenge, McDaniel said, is reaching children and helping them reach their highest level of potential.
“The range of needs and abilities is so great," she said. Some students may come to us at a second grade age level, but a 6-month-old developmental level.”
Paula Rice, principal at Roosevelt, said students in the general population at Roosevelt don’t treat the STAR students as “different.”
“The most heart-warming thing for me is children don’t know any different unless we teach them there is a difference. It’s not tolerance. It’s inclusion and equitability,” Rice said.
The ABC’s of demographics
USD 489 has had a fairly stable FTE (full-time equivalency) enrollment of around 3,000 students the past few years. That figure, taken from the district’s website, includes kindergarten and at-risk 4-year-olds, but not virtual students.
In 2018 the racial/ethnic breakdown was as follows: 91 percent white, 0.2 percent African-American, 4.5 percent Hispanic and 4.3 percent other ethnicities.
That compares to the following figures in 2014, the earliest year such statistics are available: 84 percent white, 0.9 percent African-American, 9.7 percent Hispanic and 5.4 percent other ethnicities.
These figures are tracked and reported by the Kansas State Department of Education.
Sarah Wasinger, USD 489 board clerk, said in the past 15 to 20 years, the district’s Hispanic population has been between 9 and 10 percent. She had no explanation for the drop by almost half in 2018 other than that families self-report their ethnic heritage.
Historical records show there has never been racial segregation in the Hays School District. For several decades the school system has had an open district policy, “meaning families can request the elementary school they want their children to go to,” Wasinger said.
In 2018 the percentage of students who were non-English native speakers was 6.1 percent, compared to 0.1 percent in 2014. Wasinger said the most common language was Spanish, followed by Chinese.
The percentage of economically disadvantaged children in the district has remained fairly consistent in the past five years, ranging between 40 and 41 percent.
The district’s website reports that the number of students receiving free lunches has likewise remained steady the past two years at around 900 students. The number of students receiving reduced-cost lunches has been 270 in 2018-2019, compared to 319 in the 2017-2018 school year.
That compares to 896 students receiving free lunches in 2014-2015 and 350 students receiving reduced-cost lunches.
Other figures that are tracked are children from migrant families and those from homeless families.
Wasinger said migrant families are defined as those whose parents have to travel as part of their work, such as in the agriculture and oil field sectors. A special coordinator within the district is assigned to visit with each of these families and share what local resources are available to them, Wasinger said.
No children from migrant families were enrolled in the district in 2018, compared to 3 percent in 2014.
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act, passed in 1987, defines homeless children and youth as “individuals who lack fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.”
The federal law requires “each state to ensure that each homeless child or child of a homeless individual has access to the same education as other children, including public preschool programs.”
The number of homeless children was not tracked in the district until the 2008-2009 school year. No homeless children were enrolled that year. Since then, the number of homeless children has ranged from a high of 31 in 2009-2010 and 2015-2016 to a low of 12 children in 2012-2013. This year there are 27 homeless children enrolled in USD 489.
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A gay cannibal patsy for drug cartel murder (pt. 1)
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A Border War cover-up in the Hollywood Hills
by Daniel Hopsicker
Mad Cow Productions
It was a murder mystery made for Hollywood, as well as made in Hollywood…
Two weeks ago, on a hiking trail in the shadow of the iconic Hollywood Sign, a decapitated human head was found in a plastic bag.
It was a moment many have dreaded, when the Drug War raging in Mexico and along the U.S.-Mexican Border finally spilled over into Anytown USA.
The LAPD, the law enforcement agency in charge of the investigation, has apparently been too busy with local crime to realize that decapitation has become a Mexican drug cartel’s signature atrocity.
They announced that until they had a motive, the killers could be anyone.
“Without identifying the victim, and without knowing why this person was killed, and the people that’s he’s associated with, it could be anything,” said Commander Andrew Smith, the officer in charge of the investigation, and chief spokeman in the case.
But that’s not strictly true. A lot of men kill their wives. Very few cut their heads off. That shrinks the pool of potential suspects somewhat.
The LAPD announced they had a 100-person crime team of detectives, criminologists and search & rescue specialists on the severed head case. Maybe they should get them all in a room somewhere to brainstorm a little. Get their thinking caps on. Ask questions. Think outside the box.
Guys, you’ve got a severed head case to solve. Hmm. Severed head, severed heads… Where are they seeing a lot of that sort of thing these days?
Few noticed the potentially dire consequences. Police didn’t mention it. Neither did reporters. Why?
Because there was a cover-up. Yes, but why was there a cover-up?
Ay, that’s the real question, now, isn’t it? This is the story of how it went down.
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Rachel Zoe is one of the most influential forces in fashion today. Raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, she was exposed at a very young age to the worlds of contemporary art and fashion by her parents. With her mother's influence and access to countless designer treasures, she developed a very strong passion for vintage and all things glamour. After completing her degree at George Washington University where she studied psychology and sociology, Rachel moved to New York City to take on the fashion capitol of the world. She started her career as a fashion assistant at a New York-based fashion magazine and was quickly promoted to senior fashion editor. Seeking to diversify her experience, she began to work directly with top pop stars and actresses to create their images and continued to work as a contributing editor to numerous fashion magazines.
An avid fan of old Hollywood glamour since childhood, Rachel decided to undertake a new challenge and move to Los Angeles where she could merge the worlds of fashion and Hollywood after working a decade in the fashion world of New York City. Immediately, Rachel made a name for herself amongst celebrities and high profile personalities by singlehandedly bringing the vintage movement into fruition with her devotion to the style eras of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Determined to make her style accessible to all, Rachel's first tome, Style A to Zoe, hit bookstores in October 2007. It was released in paperback domestically in September 2008, making the very prestigious, New York Times Best Seller List.
In September 2008, The Rachel Zoe Project debuted on Bravo and instantly made Rachel Zoe a household name. By welcoming audiences into her world, she provided access into the previously unseen worlds of fashion and jet set lifestyle.
Inspired by the success of her luxury handbag design collaboration with Judith Leiber in 2006, Rachel felt it was time to embrace her passion for design and launched Luxe Rachel Zoe, a collection of jewelry, handbags, scarves, sunglasses, hats, and outerwear exclusively for QVC. Determined to make her iconic style accessible to all, Rachel created one of the most successful launches in QVC history.
In an effort to further expand her direct relationship with her audience and share her knowledge and expertise, Rachel launched "The Zoe Report," a free daily newsletter featuring her latest obsessions in the ever-evolving worlds of fashion, beauty and lifestyle in August 2009. In response to the demands of her growing digital audience, she launched two additional daily newsletters, "Zoe Beautiful" and "AccesZOEries," in October of 2011 focusing on beauty and accessories.
Recognizing her success as a call to expand her fashion imprint, Rachel launched her eponymous contemporary collection in 2011. Drawing on vintage-inspired fabrics, patterns and the spirit of her style icons from the '60s and '70s, her line introduced separates, footwear and handbags evocative of the modern take on timelessness, which she had come to be known for. In February 2012, Rachel also announced the launch of an extensive jewelry collection, taking inspiration from her personal vintage collection, as well as a highly anticipated cold weather accessories line of hats, gloves, belts and scarves.
The newly formed Rachel Zoe Productions (RZP) creates programming that is relevant, relatable, and aspirational and collaborates with innovators in the fashion, beauty, design, travel, home, and lifestyle spaces. Known for infusing glamour into every day life, RZP brings Rachel's enthusiasm for style and accessible luxury across a variety of platforms. With its first show premiering on the Style network this spring, RZP's original programming showcases a variety of life experiences through the lense of style.
Rachel's latest venture will now bring her expertise to the hair industry with DreamDry, a chain of blow dry salons opening its first two locations in New York City this year. Whether dressing her distinguished clients for the red carpet or styling editorial spreads, Rachel believes that hair completes any look. With DreamDry, Rachel is creating a place where women can go to ensure that their hair is consistently as stylish and chic as they are.
Rachel has been the recipient of numerous prestigious industry awards including: The Fashion Group International’s Fashion Oracle Award, the Accessories Council Fashion Influencer Ace Award, Hollywood Life Magazine’s Star Stylist Award and Hollywood Reporter’s Most Influential Stylist. And perhaps most notably, Rachel was the recipient of 2011’s Launch of the Year Award from the Footwear News Association.
Rachel currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Rodger Berman, business partner and President of Rachel Zoe, Inc., and their son, Skyler.
Rodger Berman
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Rodger Berman, is the President of Rachel Zoe Inc., and Rachel Zoe's devoted husband. In addition, Berman handles all finance, legal, and employee oversight. With the scope of their company constantly expanding, Berman works in conjunction with Zoe to set the overall direction and strategy of the brand. His responsibilities also include negotiating partnerships with licensing partners and seeking new opportunities to extend the Rachel Zoe name.
Previously, Berman was the co-founder and president of Recognition Media, a leading owner and producer of internet-media and advertising industry awards, programs and events including the Webby Awards and Internet Week.
Berman is originally from New York and attended George Washington University, where he received his B.A. and M.B.A. He met Rachel in 1991 when he was working as a waiter in D.C. and she was hostess at a local restaurant. Upon graduation, Rodger moved with Rachel to New York City where he worked as an investment banker for eight years. The two were married in February 1998 and have remained each other's best friends for the last 22 years.
The couple currently resides in Los Angeles with their son, Skyler. He enjoys golf, skiing, and the beach.
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Brad Goreski is making great strides in the fashion world, which is documented on his series, It’s a Brad, Brad World.
Brad’s love affair with fashion began at age 12 when he picked up his first Vogue magazine and became mesmerized by its pages. During summer breaks while attending the University of Southern California, Brad interned in the New York offices of Vogue and W magazines. After graduating with a B.A. in Art History, he landed a position as the Vogue West Coast assistant. In 2008, he began working for Rachel Zoe, and was eventually featured in the popular series The Rachel Zoe Project.
Currently serving as Exclusive Brand Stylist for Kate Spade New York, Brad has traveled around the world styling print and online ad campaigns, as well as all fashion presentations at New York Fashion Week.
Additionally, Brad’s A-list clients are a fixture on “Best Dressed” lists for every occasion. His clients include Jessica Alba, Christina Ricci, Stacy Keibler, Demi Moore, Minka Kelly, and Rashida Jones, among others. Brad and his work have been featured in a number of publications, some of which include InStyle, Details, OUT, BlackBook and LA Confidential. Additionally, he has appeared on Good Morning America several times.
Brad’s knack for being an on-air personality has served him well, as he was host of the American Music Awards red carpet in 2012, as well as a judge for the Miss Universe pageant that same year.
In 2012, Brad’s memoir, Born to Be Brad: My Life and Style, So Far, was released, which chronicles life stories and his favorite fashion tips. He also recently launched his own website, MrBradGoreski.com, which features style tips and exclusive behind-the-scenes videos and photos from his work and life.
Born and raised in the town of Port Perry, Ontario, Canada, he has made his home in Los Angeles for the past 12 years, where he lives with longtime boyfriend, Gary and their dog, Penelope.
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Revenge Of The Nerd – The Brian Rogers Story
I was a nerd, yes, and always will be. But in my early years, the more accurate description would be a “misfit”. I grew up in white suburbia, and went to a youth group with other Black kids in a similar situation, just so we could be around each other. But then, one year, I didn’t even fit in with them, when they started calling each other nigga and baggin’ on me for talking funny, like an oreo. Plus, they were college bound and I was a hippie who played music all day and skipped school sometimes, and had band practice 3 days per week. My drummer’s dad was a famous actor, who played Pointdexter in Revenge of the Nerds, and looking back, that was prophetic – my story, since being a misfit with white kids, a misfit with black kids and also Asian kids who let me play with them during 5th grade, has been a story of health revenge in finding my tribe with musicians, and my real voice (oreo or otherwise) with music itself. Songwriting being the clearest.
My first word was actually, “light”. I grew up with a Mom who spoke clearly to me every day when when was an infant, imploring me to speak back even though she knew I couldn’t, until one day, 9 months in, I did. And it was the word, “light”, since every time she changed my diaper I would be looking up at the light giggling, and the say, “Can you say, ‘light’?!” She was an over achiever, gave me so much love, made me into a self proclaimed Mama’s boy lol.
She also instilled in me a tendency to be an over achiever as well, and not always in a good way. However, taking unnecessary paths out of a feeling of neediness, people pleasing or unworthiness, has had a positive side effect of giving my life bright color and experience that I’m better off with. For example, backing up countless songwriters when I should have been focusing on my own the whole time, has turned me into a world class drummer and bassist. In fact, my city awarded me “Hall of Fame” status, TWICE, for my drumming and for my singing.
But before any awards, writing any songs or backing other songwriters up, I was into science, geography and astronomy. So much so, that I thought, as a child until the age of 10, that music was pointless. I know, I was a real nerd, and a loser for that lol. But to be fair, I DID like Michael Jackson and George Michael for some reason, I thought they were both super heroes on MTV when I was 7.
But the idea of PLAYING music, to be honest, seemed kind of girlish to my ignorantly sexist 7 year old brain. That was, until, the ultimate woman, my own mother, FORCED me to play music because not only was I quitting Taekwondo RIGHT before earning a black belt, but it was a family tradition. She dragged me, kicking and screaming to the music store and I chose, begrudgingly, clarinet (at least it was small and I would have to bother much carrying it).
Fast forward learning 3 years of classical music, 5 years of bass guitar study with a blind teacher, self taught guitar, 1500 jazz gigs on drums, 750 gigs as a bassist and 750 gigs as a singer songwriter or frontman of a band, at least 20 national tours, 1 international tour, 3 solo albums, 5 band albums, opening for Chris Tucker, Bernie Sanders and playing with Rock n Roll Hall of Famers Larry Graham and Bill Kreutzmann, I think its safe to say I’d found my thing. I was still a misfit, but now I’d found a tribe of other misfits in music!
And being that classic over achiever, I learned ALL the styles of music, instead of sticking with the music I should’ve been honing – my own. After all the ups, downs, backs and forth of jumping all around the music biz, I’d always find myself to be, again, a misfit. I think the biggest lesson I learned from touring with too many bands, playing too many styles and learning to be too good technically, is that you can play as flashy, and with as many superstars as you want, but at the end of the day we’re all just humans with a voice – and if you’re not speaking clearly, you ain’t saying’ nothin.
That’s what made me decide to be true, be loyal, be who I really am and simply share my art without flash, pretense or wavering. Flat out stark to be judged or to be loved and finally, most importantly, UNDERSTOOD. And don’t get me wrong, I STILL love rockin out for the sake of killing a drum solo or writing the craziest bass line I can think of, but even that kind of playing means so much more when its played at the right time, for the right reason, to support a good song, and sing it for ears that needed to hear that one lyric just that one way at just the right time. Thats what my favorite songwriters did for me, so I’m giving it back.
And that’s why perhaps YOU, the listener, are the most important part.
And THATS the drive behind what makes me play hard, and what makes me stick to my guns as a singer songwriter, instead of floating a drift at musical sea. All those experiences and different kinds of people I’ve met along the road have given me a lot to write about, and YOUR ears give the songs those memories and experiences they support along your journey.
And after all that time in the spot light, its still that original buzz of being a nerd and practicing my clarinet that I treasure. I love creating music, but I love creating music even more, for YOU, the listener. 🙂
If you’d like to check out the latest creation I’ve made, click here to listen to Brian Rogers Live at Barnstormers Theater. All acoustic, one man and a mic, and all stories along of finding “light” along the dark and winding path.
Thanks for being a listener and for keeping my aim clear, I look forward to making even more for you.
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A surplus with consequences
The transcription factor Myc has two faces: On the one hand, the protein is indispensable for cell growth and division. On the other hand, it is prevalent in virtually all cancer cells - however in a much higher concentration. So it is obvious to suspect Myc of playing a key role when cells turn cancerous. However, there have been conflicting theories as to how this process takes place in detail.
Study at the Biocenter
A new study conducted by Würzburg scientists now presents what's going on inside cells in a new light. According to the study, high levels of the Myc proteins are the prerequisite for tumour genesis. The study was conceived at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Chair: Prof. Dr. Martin Eilers) of the University of Würzburg; junior team leader Dr. Elmar Wolf is in charge of the study.
"We studied cells that have both a very low level of Myc and are well understood in terms of molecular biology," says Elmar Wolf. The scientists gradually increased the Myc level in these cells and subsequently investigated the consequences. They then validated their findings in real tumours.
The concentration regulates the function
"According to previous doctrine, the transcription factor Myc activates a number of genes which are responsible for cell growth and division," Wolf explains. As in the intestine for example: The cells of the intestinal mucosa have a very short life-span due to the harsh conditions prevailing there. Therefore, the cells of the intestinal epithelium are continuously renewed about once a week - which is a straightforward process when Myc levels are normal. But when excessive amounts of Myc are produced in a cell, these genes are also much more active, transforming the cell into a tumour cell - so the previous notion. A view not shared by Elmar Wolf: "In reality, the processes are much more complex."
Actually, Myc not only regulates the expression of known genes in tumour cells. Wolf and his team were able to demonstrate that the protein binds to other genes as its level increases and enhances their transcription. "In normal concentrations, Myc binds to certain genes with a high affinity. As the concentration rises, however, it also regulates genes with a low affinity," Wolf explains the principle. Depending on the concentration, the scientists found different gene regulation patterns that each trigger different processes.
Major contribution to tumour growth
"High affinity": This includes genes that control cell growth and division. "Low affinity": These are genes regulated by Myc that control processes which promote other aspects of tumour growth. "For example, the tumour must be supplied with nutrients in order to grow. To do so, it needs blood vessels," Wolf explains. And Myc only binds to the genes responsible for creating new blood vessels once it has reached a high level in the tumour cell.
Migration is another example of such a process Myc triggers by activating low-affinity genes. It enables tumour cells to migrate to other parts of the body and create metastases.
New target for tumour therapy
The observation that Myc has a different impact in healthy persons (regulating the expression of genes with a "high affinity") and in tumours (regulating the expression of genes with a "low affinity") opens up new fascinating possibilities in tumour therapy according to the scientists: "If there was a drug to inhibit the function of Myc, our study suggests that there should be a dose that would curb the tumour-promoting properties of Myc while preserving important functions of Myc for the healthy tissue," says Elmar Wolf.
Unlike standard chemotherapy drugs that target rapidly dividing cells, as are found in the intestinal mucosa, such a therapeutic approach would drastically reduce the side effects of treatment. At present, however, no such drugs are available to inhibit the function of Myc. But international researchers are working feverishly to achieve this goal.
Different promoter affinities account for specificity in Myc-dependent gene regulation. Francesca Lorenzin, Uwe Benary, Apoorva Baluapuri, Susanne Walz, Lisa Anna Jung, Björn von Eyss, Caroline Kisker, Jana Wolf, Martin Eilers, Elmar Wolf. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.15161.001
University of Würzburg
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Matamba
historical kingdom, Africa
Matamba, historical African kingdom located on the Cuango River northeast of Luanda, Angola. Founded by Kimbundu-speaking people (see Mbundu) before the 16th century, it was loosely under the orbit of the Kongo kingdom until about 1550. The Matamba kingdom was noteworthy in that it was frequently ruled by females. In 1630–32 it was conquered by Njinga Mbande (often referred to simply as Njinga, also spelled Nzinga, Jinga, or Ginga; also known by her Christian name, Ana de Sousa), ruler of the neighbouring Ndongo kingdom, when she was expelled from some of her domains by rivals and their Portuguese allies. Matamba served as Njinga’s main base in the long war with Portugal and her Ndongo rival, Ngola a Hari. A treaty in 1656 ended the war and established Matamba’s boundary with the Portuguese colony of Angola. Njinga left no children, and, following a civil war in 1666, Matamba was ruled by the descendants of her general, João Guterres Ngola Kanini. Matamba wrestled with the neighbouring Kasanje kingdom for control of the Cuango River valley until Queen Verónica Guterres Ngola Kanini settled border issues and regularized the new kingdom. Matamba then enjoyed generally peaceful relations with Portugal that were only occasionally broken by war, as in 1744 when Portuguese troops invaded and defeated a Matamba army before withdrawing, resulting in the imposition of a nominal relationship of vassalage on Queen Ana II Guterres da Silva Ngola Kanini. In a succession dispute following the death of Ana III Guterres in 1767, the state was split in two by a rivalry between her nephew Francisco II Kaluete ka Mbandi and her daughter Kamana, but it was later reunited by Kamana’s son.
During the 19th century—particularly after 1830—the Portuguese began to encroach on Matamba’s western provinces with the goal of expanding their coffee plantations, leading to the establishment of a fort at Duque de Bragança (present-day Calandula) in 1838. Matamba participated in a number of wars to stop Portuguese expansion in the 1890s, but the kingdom became the focus of a Portuguese expedition in 1909 and ultimately was integrated into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy McKenna, Senior Editor.
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Le Havre travel guide
About Le Havre
After serious devastation during the WW2 bombings, Le Havre has risen phoenix-like from the ashes to become a recognised UNESCO World Heritage Site for its post-war architecture.
Used as a war port during the 17th century, Le Havre became a trade port in the 18th century and was a popular choice for those emigrating to America in the 19th century. The city became known for its trade in coffee and cotton, and semi-traditionally roasted coffee with the label 'made in Le Havre' can still be bought in the city's shops today. However, in recent history, Le Havre is most known for the devastation wreaked by the events of WW2. With just 2% of the city left standing and the port completely destroyed, Le Havre underwent a huge renovation process designed by architect August Perret, known as the 'concrete poet'. Perret's unusual designs, using concrete to rebuild the city quickly, have made the city centre a World Heritage site recognised by UNESCO.
The most striking example of Perret's architecture is the concrete Eglise St Joseph, shaped like a lighthouse, with 12,768 pieces of coloured glass inside the 107m high octagonal lantern tower where the colours reflected differ throughout the day due to the placement of the sun. Built to commemorate the victims of the Allied bombings in 1944, it is an architectural masterpiece of the 20th century and is well worth visiting. The 16th century cathedral is one of the few buildings left of that era that survived the bombing although it did suffer damage. At the Appartement Témoin, a show apartment from the 1950s, you can discover what life was like in the 50s at the birth of consumerism and mass-production.
Le Havre also has some great museums with a Natural History Museum and the arts museum, MuMa, the Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, which contains some of the greatest French Impressionist paintings by artists such as Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas and many more. Why not enjoy the beauty that inspired the Impressionists by visiting the 2km beach of sand and pebbles where you can do lots of water sports from the beach including surfing, windsurfing, sea-fishing and swimming? Volleyball courts, a skatepark and other amenities are all near the beach. English languages are also available from the Tourist Office so you can take your own sightseeing tour of the city.
Le Havre offers some great shopping opportunities including the Docks Vauban shopping complex (approximately 400m from the port, with parking), which includes a supermarket, shops and restaurants. Other shopping areas include the Coty shopping centre, the pedestrian Halles filled with delicatessens, restaurants and cafés, and clothes shops, and the village style shopping of the St Vincent district. There is also a thriving nightlife with lively bars, and the Le Volcan cultural centre with its cinema and theatre housed inside a remarkable volcano-shaped building that seems to emerge from the ground, which is currently being renovated. Try some traditional Norman seafood or sample some of Le Havre's multicultural restaurants that have been set up by emigrants who have come through the port over the centuries. With a huge variety of cuisines in one city - North African, Central American, Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean amongst others - you are certain to find some new and interesting dishes to try!
Why visit Le Havre?
World Heritage City Centre
Multicultural Cuisine
The Impressionists
Region: Normandy
Department: Seine-Maritime
Coordinates: 49.494835,0.108082
Coordinates shown are based on the WGS84 system, please check driving directions before departing.
Brittany Ferries holidays include return ferry travel with your car so you can explore at your own pace. What's more, you can pack everything you need to make the most of your time away - from bikes to surfboards and even the family pet.
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CalPERS Highlights 2017 Proxy Season Accomplishments
Brad W. Pacheco, Deputy Executive Officer
Wayne Davis, Chief, Office of Public Affairs
newsroom@calpers.ca.gov
SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Public Employees' Retirement System continued advancing corporate governance reforms on behalf of shareowners during the 2017 proxy season, including passing important resolutions on proxy access and climate risk reporting.
CalPERS invests in more than 10,000 public companies worldwide, and uses its proxy voting rights at those companies to effect changes in line with its Governance & Sustainability Principles (PDF), Pension Beliefs, and the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) 5-Year Strategic Plan (PDF).
"We saw progress with victories in climate risk reporting and proxy access, which are main themes in our ESG Strategic Plan," said Ted Eliopolous, CalPERS chief investment officer. "The first step is to win the vote. Now, we will be engaging with these companies to ensure that they follow through with their responsibilities to their shareholders."
Climate risk reporting proposals at Occidental Petroleum, PPL and ExxonMobil passed, while the proposal at Chevron was withdrawn after reforms were substantially implemented. The win at Occidental Petroleum was the first of its kind in the United States. Prior to this win, a climate risk reporting proposal had not received the majority of votes at a U.S. oil company.
CalPERS also ran proxy solicitations at another 13 companies. The average level of shareowner support for shareholder proposals that went to vote in 2017 was 45 percent, up from 34 percent in 2016.
In addition to CalPERS-led proposals, 17 proxy solicitation campaigns were run in connection with the New York City Comptroller's Board Accountability Project regarding proxy access. In total, 14 proposals passed with more than 50 percent shareowner support.
Proxy access helps to ensure that corporate boards are independent, competent, diverse, and accountable to shareowners. CalPERS' proxy access proposal at Old Republic International Corporation passed overwhelmingly with 74 percent shareowner support.
"We believe engagement is an important part of being a responsible shareowner," said Anne Simpson, CalPERS investment director, sustainability. "Our intent is to create long-term sustainable value that will benefit the companies and our members."
For more than eight decades, CalPERS has built retirement and health security for state, school, and public agency members who invest their lifework in public service. Our pension fund serves more than 1.8 million members in the CalPERS retirement system and administers benefits for 1.4 million members and their families in our health program. CalPERS' total fund market value currently stands at approximately $330 billion. For more information, visit www.calpers.ca.gov.
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CalPERS Unveils Direct Investment Model for Private Equity
(916) 795-3991 - newsroom@calpers.ca.gov
Fund will explore directly investing in companies to hold long term
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalPERS today unveiled two new strategic business models for its private equity program, after more than a year of discussion and examination among the board and investment office.
The forward-looking models, which are part of a larger review of the private equity program, would create a new and separate entity known as CalPERS Direct to make direct private equity investments.
CalPERS Direct would be governed by a separate, independent board to advise on allocation and longer-term capital market perspectives. It would consist of two separate funds. One would focus on late-stage investments in technology, life sciences, and healthcare, and the other on long-term investments in established companies. These would operate alongside CalPERS' existing private equity structure that typically invests in co-mingled private equity funds.
Plans call for CalPERS Direct to launch in the first half of 2019, following final review and approval by the Board. CalPERS anticipates that up to $13 billion a year will need to be invested in private equity to achieve a ten percent allocation of the portfolio.
"We're excited to move forward with this new approach for CalPERS," said Ted Eliopoulos, CalPERS chief investment officer. "Our investment team has spent months exploring options in order to design an approach to private equity that takes advantage of our size and brand. We believe it will drive stronger private equity returns and help achieve economies of scale over time."
CalPERS' private equity program was launched in the early 1990s, and over the past 20 years has been the fund's highest returning asset class, with a 10.6 percent annual return. The CalPERS Direct model continues the fund's efforts to find new approaches to increasing investment returns, while it works to increase the System's funded ratio and help its employer partners manage pension contributions.
"We need to think differently about how we invest so that we can generate the returns that we need," said Marcie Frost, CalPERS CEO. "Our members and employers need us to be focused on strong risk-adjusted returns and growing our funded status, and this approach does just that."
This plan allows CalPERS to deploy investments at the scale CalPERS requires, and builds a base of talent and relationships that will strengthen over time.
"CalPERS Direct is a long-term investment strategy specifically designed to align with the long-term liabilities we have as a pension system," said Henry Jones, chair of Investment Committee. "That long horizon also gives the CalPERS Board an opportunity to influence the culture of CalPERS Direct to ensure their actions are in sync with our Investment Beliefs. The Board will continue to review each step in the development of CalPERS Direct before we give final approval to launch it."
CalPERS' Investment Office will now begin talking with industry professionals about the makeup of both the independent advisory boards and the management teams.
View Strategic Business Models for Private Equity Investing (PDF).
For more than eight decades, CalPERS has built retirement and health security for state, school, and public agency members who invest their lifework in public service. Our pension fund serves more than 1.9 million members in the CalPERS retirement system and administers benefits for more than 1.4 million members and their families in our health program, making us the largest defined-benefit public pension in the U.S. CalPERS' total fund market value currently stands at approximately $349 billion. For more information, visit www.calpers.ca.gov.
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News: Neuhaus Plays in Pre-NBA Draft
CCU's Neuhaus Plays in Pre-NBA Draft Showcase
Last week Colorado Christian University senior Justin Neuhaus was a long shot from the University's suburban Denver campus, after accepting an invitation to play in the elite Portsmouth Invitational Tournament on April 7-10, 2010, in front of scouts from all 30 NBA teams. The 6-11 center from San Marcos, Tex., joined 63 of the best men's college basketball seniors from across the nation for the four-day, 12-game tournament.
Approximately 60 former and current NBA players and coaches have played at Portsmouth, including John Stockton, Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen, Derek Fisher, and Ben Wallace.
Although the tournament is a major honor usually extended to talented NCAA Division-I athletes, four Division-II players were invited this year. Neuhaus received his bid after Duke University center Brian Zoubek vacated his spot on a team that included Wayne Chism (University of Tennessee) and Raymar Morgan (Michigan State University). Neuhaus' invitation was the first ever for a player from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, in which CCU competes.
During on-court action on Thursday, April 8, the three-time RMAC Defensive Player of the Year played 19 minutes and tallied 11 points and 4 rebounds. Across the tournament, he averaged 7 points, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 19 minutes per outing, and helped his team battle to the championship game.
"We are extremely proud of Justin and excited about the opportunity he's been given," commented CCU men's head coach David Daniels. "Justin has played a tremendous role in our success over the last four years, and we look forward to watching his future as a basketball player unfold."
For more information about Neuhaus or CCU's athletic programs, contact Sports Information Director Aimee Davison at 303-963-3185 or adavison@ccu.edu.
Boy Battling Cancer Signed As Honorary Soccer Player At CCU
Sophia Proano, a Former CCU Student, Named NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist
CCU Wins 6th RMAC Sportsmanship Cup
Evan Verbal Sets Top NCAA DII Time
Cougars Retain NCCAA Championship
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Tamerlane's Ant
by Mike Ford
Forerunner, "Ready Answer," November 2005
Leadership, Personal
Resourcefulness
Diligence in Practice
The Seven Laws of Success
Consider the Butterfly
"Go to the ant, you sluggard!" —Proverbs 6:6
In the fourteenth century, a man called Tamerlane rose from the breeding ground of conquerors, Central Asia. He had many titles, including Conqueror of the Earth and Lord of the Sun. He swept across Asia and Europe, conquering, raping, pillaging, and erecting huge mounds of human skulls to mark his passage.
Nevertheless, early in his rise to power, he was routed in battle by a powerful enemy. Tamerlane himself lay hidden in a deserted building while the enemy searched for him. As he hid, dejected and desperate to escape, he noticed an ant carrying a kernel of corn. He watched this ant try to carry the grain, which was much larger than herself, up and over a wall. Repeatedly, the weight proved too much, and the ant fell back. Undeterred, the ant would load up and begin her climb all over again.
Tamerlane began to count the attempts. Sixty-nine times the little ant fell back. On the seventieth try, she was able to push the piece of corn over the top. Tamerlane was so inspired by this display of perseverance that he was able to regroup his army and put the enemy to flight. So the story goes.
Another story tells a similar tale, though in a negative vein: Once upon a time, there were four men named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. An important job needed to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. But Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about it, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, and Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, and Nobody did the job that Anybody could have done in the first place.
What is the point of these two stories? We can begin to answer this question in Proverbs 6:6-8: "Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest."
Tamerlane watched that ant struggle to carry a kernel of corn over a wall and came away so inspired that he went on to conquer much of the known world! Could Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody have used some inspiration from the ant? Apparently so. A job that Anybody could have done was ignored by Everybody, causing Nobody to do the job, and Somebody got blamed!
What Tamerlane's ant had, and these four Bodies lacked, was initiative, "the power or ability to begin or follow through on a plan or task." A person with enterprise and determination is said to have initiative. Roget's Thesaurus describes it as "an eagerness to do something." Some synonyms are "ambition," "drive," "dynamism," "energy," "get-up-and-go," "gumption," "inventiveness," "leadership," "resourcefulness," and "vigor."
Do any of these words describe us? Should they? Do any of them describe Christ? Of course they do! Christ's ambition is to have us in the God Family. He has drive, dynamism, energy, leadership, and so on. How about other influences in our lives, such as Herbert Armstrong? Not a single person, in or out of the church, would disagree that Herbert Armstrong personified initiative.
So, again, do any of these words describe us? Should they? Yes, indeed. Is our ambition to be in the Kingdom of God? Will it take drive, dynamism, and energy to pray, to study, to fast, to do all the things a Christian must do to grow in character and in his relationship with God? The answer to these questions is, again, yes.
What about success on a physical level, in our jobs and marriages? Initiative is needful here as well. In just about every human endeavor, initiative is necessary in being successful and reaching one's goals.
In Proverbs 14:23, Solomon warns "In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty." We have all known coworkers like this, who spend too much time in the break room or around the water cooler. They make a career out of keeping themselves from work, and commandeering anyone they can to listen to them.
The book of Proverbs is full of similar verses, exhorting us to work hard and to avoid laziness. However, our work is to be focused; we are to work intelligently. Proverbs 21:5 supports this point: "The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty." Recall that one definition of initiative is an "eagerness to do something." Yet, it is important that this "something" be part of an overall plan. In other words, the hole one is digging should have a purpose, and we should know what it is.
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that one could utterly crush a man by giving him work of a completely senseless, irrational nature. Thus, whether it is pushing a wheelbarrow or studying for a degree, we should have a good idea what the point of our work is. Some of the synonyms for initiative include "inventiveness" and "resourcefulness," which fit in well with Solomon's maxim, "The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty."
The Life of Ants
We can illustrate the concept of initiative by using the example of ants. While we review some of the habits of these insects, please keep in mind that initiative is "an eagerness to do something," and some of its synonyms are "ambition," "drive," "dynamism," "energy," "inventiveness," "leadership," and "resourcefulness." We should examine our lives to see if we can add any of these traits, or if we already have them, to improve on them. It makes no difference if our job is temporary laborer or Bank President, student or housewife—we need to show initiative.
Ants, being insects, have six legs, and each leg has three joints. They can run very quickly for their size. Ants are also quite strong, lifting twenty times their body weight. An ant's brain has about 250,000 brain cells, while a human brain has 10 million cells or forty times more. For its size, an ant packs a fair amount of brain power.
An ant's average life expectancy is 45-60 days. It has antennae, which it uses, not only for touching, but also for smelling. It has two stomachs: One holds the food for itself, and the second stomach holds food to be shared with other ants.
There are many thousands of different ant species, and many types of ant mounds. Some species build simple mounds out of dirt or sand, while others use small sticks mixed with dirt to make a stronger mound. Western Harvester ants make a small mound on top, but then tunnel 15 feet straight down!
Ant mounds consist of many chambers connected by tunnels. Different chambers are used for nurseries, food storage, and even resting places for the worker ants. A single ant colony can include over five million members. Each ant colony has at least one queen, as well as sterile female workers and males.
The sole job of the queen is to lay eggs, which the worker ants look after. She is a busy queen, laying up to two million eggs a month. She needs to mate only once in her lifetime to be able to produce eggs for at least 15 years!
Worker ants look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest. If a worker ant finds a good source of food, it leaves a trail of scent so that the other ants in the colony can find the food as well. At night, the worker ants move the eggs and larvae deep into the nest to protect them from the cold. During the day, they move them back to the top of the nest so they can be warmer. Unbeknownst to many, ants are very clean and tidy. Some worker ants are tasked with taking out the trash to special dumps outside the colony.
For any of us men who need a little humbling—probably all of us—dwell on this: Male ants serve only one purpose, to mate with future queen ants. Once they have carried out this purpose, they do not live very long.
Solomon advises, "Consider [the ant's] ways, and be wise." What can we learn from this brief overview of an ant's life?
Even though the colony has a "queen," she is more of an egg factory than a ruler. Ants do not have a leader, yet God designed them to be efficient and organized. Unlike ants, human beings need leadership, but we can use their example in developing initiative.
Ants have a sort of language with which they communicate with one another, and each colony member has a task. No ants are hanging out at the entrance to a cubicle, coffee cup in hand, keeping another from her work with a long-winded story. No ants are complaining that the "loading dock is no place for someone with my talent." Each ant has a job, and she does it. Individual ants see the tasks that need to be done, and they do them without being told. For anyone who runs a business or manages others, this is a simply stunning concept.
Ants carry on complex social organizations, building projects, and communications, all without leadership! They can do this, perhaps, because they are not out for themselves. Each ant is concerned only with the health and well-being of the colony. Most of us have probably kicked an ant mound and watched the thousands, if not millions, of ants rush out to defend the colony. Did we ever see any ants running the other way, trying to save their own lives? Of course not. Their innate focus is on serving the colony and maintaining its welfare.
Too many times, in human society, when someone shows initiative, he is shot down. Years ago, I was in a rental store to pick up a piece of equipment, and in line ahead of me were two county employees, a supervisor and a new employee. The clerk brought around the pressure washer they had rented, and the new guy started to walk off with it. His boss said, very sharply, "What do you think you're doing?" The new man replied he was just going to put it in the truck. The supervisor said, "You just slow down! We have all day to do this job." In other words, if they finished early, they would be assigned more work to do, and they could not have that!
Ants do not have these problems. They do not become jealous or suspect the motives of others—they just do their jobs. For many Americans, the very fact that they show up for work, in their minds, entitles them to a paycheck. If they actually do anything productive, it is cause for celebration!
We have probably all spent long periods watching ants go about their work, and it is a sure bet that we have never seen a lazy one. Are there any road-worker ants? That is, five ants watching one ant with a shovel? Of course not. No one told Tamerlane's ant to carry the grain of corn back to the colony. Most likely, the colony needed food, and the job of this particular ant was to forage for it. The idea of not doing her job was alien to this ant.
How we apply these examples to our own lives is up to us. However, the thought of not praying or studying each day should be alien to us. The possibility of us not doing our tasks well should never cross our minds, nor the minds of our employers. Whatever gifts God has given us, we should be eager to use them. Whatever our position in life, we should have ambition, drive, dynamism, energy, get-up-and-go, inventiveness, leadership, and resourcefulness. In short, initiative.
Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God." "Seek first" implies effort, striving towards a goal. It supposes a plan and a set of priorities. In addition, it is a directive to us individually from our Lord and Master. No one else will do our job for us! We will not ride the coattails of anyone into God's Kingdom.
Finally, in Proverbs 22:29, God tells us through Solomon, "Do you see a man who excels in his work [who shows initiative]? He will stand before kings." Will we allow the example of an ant to show us the way to initiative and the rewards it can bring?
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Home » About Us » Port Profile
Chennai Port, the third oldest port among the 12 major ports, is an emerging hub port in the East Coast of India. This gateway port for all cargo has completed 137 years of glorious service to the nation’s maritime trade.
Maritime trade started way back in 1639 on the sea shore Chennai. It was an open road -stead and exposed sandy coast till 1815. The initial piers were built in 1861, but the storms of 1868 and 1872 made them inoperative.So an artificial harbour was built and the operations were started in 1881. The cargo operations were carried out on the northern pier, located on the northeastern side of Fort St. George in Chennai. In the first couple of years the port registered traffic of 3 lakh tonnes of cargo handling 600 ships.
Being an artificial harbour, the port was vulnerable to the cyclones, accretion of sand inside the basin due to underwater currents, which reduced the draft. Sir Francis Spring a visionary skillfully drew a long-term plan to charter the course of the port in a scientific manner, overcoming both man-made and natural challenges. The shifting of the entrance of the port from eastern side to the North Eastern side protected the port to a large extent from the natural vulnerabilities. By the end of 1920 the port was equipped with a dock consisting of four berths in the West Quays, one each in the East & South Quay along with the transit sheds, warehouses and a marshalling yard to facilitate the transfer of cargo from land to sea and vice versa. Additional berths were added with a berth at South Quay and another between WQ2 & WQ3 in the forties.
India’s Independence saw the port gathering development, momentum. The topography of the Port changed in 1964 when the Jawahar dock with capacity to berth 6 vessels to handle Dry Bulk cargoes such as Coal, Iron ore, Fertilizer and non hazardous liquid cargoes was carved out on the southern side.
In tune with the international maritime developments, the port developed the Outer Harbour, named Bharathi Dock for handling Petroleum in 1972 and for mechanized handling of Iron Ore in 1974. The Iron ore terminal is equipped with Mechanized ore handling plant, one of the three such facilities in the country, with a capacity of handling 8 million tonnes. The Chennai port’s share of Iron ore export from India is 12%. However, at present due to Hon'ble High Court's order handling of Ore is stopped. The dedicated facility for oil supports the expansion of the CPCL's oil refinery in the hinterland. This oil terminal is capable of handling Suezmax vessels.
In 1983, the port heralded the country’s first dedicated container terminal facility commissioned by the then Prime Minister Smt.Indira Gandhi on 18th December 1983. The Port privatized this terminal and is operated by M/s. D.P.World (Chennai Container Terminal Private Limited). The port is ranked in the top 100 container ports in the world. Witnessing a phenomenal growth in container handling year after in 2009 commenced the Second Container Terminal operated by M/s. PSA (Chennai International Terminals Private Limited) with a capacity to handle 1.5 M TEU's to meet the increasing demand.
The Port now with three docks, 24 berths and draft ranging 8.5 m to 16.5 m has become a hub port for Containers, Cars and Project Cargo in the East Coast
Chennai Port is one among major ports having Terminal Shunting Yard and running their own Railway operations inside the harbour. The port is having railway lines running up to 41 Kms, 8 sidings to handle wide range of cargo like Granite, Food grains, Dry Bulk, etc. For handling containers seperate sidings are available.
The Port has handled 51.88 Million Tonnes of cargo volume for 2017-18 vis-a-vis 50.21 Million Tonnes of Cargo in 2016-17. Container Volume increased to 1549457 TEU's against 1494831 TEU's in 2016-17. Physical performance parameters like Pre-Berthing Detention, Turn Around Time and Ship Berth day Output continued to improve.
The existing Cruise Terminal was being upgraded to International Standards as a part of Cruise Shipping Policy. The induction of Mobile Harbour Cranes 100T - 2 Nos is expected to improve the productivity of Cargo Handling of the Port.
Aggressive marketing initiatives are being undertaken to improve the Port Trade, Logistics and also to attract new Cargoes.
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Commentary: Could the ’95 heat deaths happen again? Climate change, income disparities keep Chicago at risk
By Eric Klinenberg and Judith Helfand
Chicago police officers carry the body of a woman who died of heat-related causes from her apartment on July 17, 1995. (Phil Greer/Chicago Tribune)
Friday marks 24 years since the start of the 1995 Chicago heat wave, when temperatures hit 106 degrees and more than 700 people died over the course of one sweltering week. The tragic images from that week are forever imprinted on those most affected by the losses.
Hundreds of deceased residents, most of them black, elderly and poor, filled nine 18-wheel refrigerated food trucks parked outside the Cook County medical examiner’s office for weeks. These trucks were an emergency stopgap measure to hold the overflow of heat death victims. The irony was not lost on anyone. While awaiting autopsy, the deceased residents in these refrigerated trucks were finally getting the air conditioning that might have saved their lives.
Fatal heat wave 20 years ago changed Chicago's emergency response »
Another mind-bending image from that week was from Homewood, of a 160-foot-long trench, with a row of more than 40 plain plywood coffins. Each held an unclaimed heat death victim, each affixed with a yellow tag. Not what you expect to see in one of Chicago’s suburban cemeteries.
Despite all the bodies, despite all the trucks, Mayor Richard M. Daley spent most of the heat wave denying that people were dying because of the heat. At news conferences he referred to them as “nonviolent” deaths — meaning that no guns had been used, no homicides reported. But ask yourself: How nonviolent is it to die alone, slowly and painfully, behind closed doors?
Steven Whitman, the city’s chief epidemiologist in 1995, plotted the official final tally of 739 deaths on a community area map and confirmed what he expected: The neighborhoods with the greatest poverty, on the South and West sides, were those with the highest concentration of heat deaths.
Photo gallery: Heat wave of 1995 »
Nearly a quarter-century later, the map of Chicago’s inequality has hardly changed.
The black dots and gray shadings representing the heat deaths and extreme poverty of 1995 are now overlaid with the city’s highest number of school closings and rates of unemployment, fewest grocery stores, most uninsured, most breast cancer deaths, most abandoned buildings, highest rates of violent crime, most incarcerated. And on and on.
According to one recent New York University study, these racial and spatial health disparities in Chicago contribute to a startling life-span gap. Residents in Streeterville live to be 90 on average, while residents of Englewood, just 9 miles south, die at an average age of 60. This 30-year difference in life span is the largest within any American city.
The heat trap of 1995 that left some Chicago residents having to choose between staying “safe” and staying cool, was, and still is, the result of deep-rooted segregationist policies stemming from real estate redlining, restrictive covenants and Mayor Richard J. Daley’s refusal to place public housing in white neighborhoods. It is a disaster of our own making.
The story of the heat wave matters because it’s our history. It also matters because, with climate change, it’s most certainly our future. Chicago summers will get hotter and hotter. Unless we reduce our consumption of greenhouse gasses, summers like 1995 will be typical.
How will climate change affect Chicago and the Midwest? Here's what the experts are telling us. »
But climate is not the only danger.
In June, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele signed a resolution officially declaring systemic racism a “public health crisis.” It calls for local government to take a leadership role in actively addressing disparities in employment, education, income and access to resources.
Chicago needs the same kind of emergency plan.
This year, Chicago is in the midst of a historic political transition. New leaders at the state and city level have declared their commitment to reform. They need new language as well.
Chicago needs an emergency plan for dealing with long-term structural racism and for the climate crisis — issues that are now inextricably linked. How we name, frame and define these urgent issues shapes how we prepare for, respond to, recover from and — most important — prevent future public health crises like the one we experienced in 1995. It also shapes how we deal with the slow-motion emergencies that afflict Chicago’s most vulnerable communities every day.
Can we agree that a 30-year disparity in the life expectancy for two neighborhoods in the same city is a public health crisis?
Can we agree that the thousands of Chicagoans dying from treatable diseases and the cumulative impact of segregation and social inequality is an everyday disaster?
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If we can, we need to place health, economic equity and racial justice at the center of Chicago’s new political map, regardless of ZIP code. If we can’t, Chicago is doomed.
Eric Klinenberg, a Chicago native, is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences at NYU and author of “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” Judith Helfand is a documentary filmmaker who directed and produced “Cooked: Survival By Zip Code.”
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History/
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Most Focused 2019 History Schools in New York
New York Schools Most Focused on History
A college or university focused on your major means you should expect to have great opportunities waiting for you after graduation. Find out why so many students study History at the schools below.
What New York Schools are the Most Focused in History?
Visit the Most Focused Ranking methodology page to find out more about how the schools below were chosen.
Colgate University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a History degree. Hamilton, New York presents a charming small-town ambiance for young people to learn in.
This college is a good bang for the buck for students in New York. This school appeals to the best of the best; the typical SAT score of applicants is around 1,375. Videos from Colgate can be a great way to get more info on the university.
It's difficult to beat Mount Saint Mary College if you want to study History. The locale of Newburgh, New York, is nice for individuals who opt for a less busy, suburban place.
Even if you're not from New York, you won't feel like the odd one out at this school. About 16.8% of undergrads are from out-of-state. About 77.0% of freshmen decide to come back to this school for their following year. Videos from Mount Saint Mary are a great way to get more info on the college.
Manhattanville College is a good option for students pursuing a History degree. The area of Purchase, New York, is great for students who desire a less busy, suburban space.
Around 76.0% of freshmen come back to this school for their second year of school. Because of the school's fantastic four-year graduation rate of 42.3%, college students usually accumulate much less debt compared to what they would at other institutions. A virtual tour may be a good way to explore Manhattanville College.
St Lawrence University
Any student who is interested in History has to take a look at St Lawrence University. Students who like a more relaxed life will enjoy the school's position in the little town of Canton, New York.
Rated #34 in New York for value for the money, we would have estimated this university's terrific instructional programs to come with a larger price tag. You will be able to meet others from many different nationalities because of St. Lawrence's diverse campus. Want to learn more details on St Lawrence University's campus? Have a virtual tour.
Any student pursuing a degree in History needs to look into Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students who love a more relaxed life will appreciate the school's setting in the small town of Geneva, New York.
This school does not require freshman students to live on-campus. This college features a high freshman retention rate, with 85.0% of first-year students returning the next year. The scorecard provides a fantastic overview of The Colleges.
Any student pursuing a degree in History has to check out Columbia University in the City of New York. With over 20,000 undergraduates, Columbia University in the City of New York is among the biggest schools in the country.
There is a graduate program available for students who are interested. The typical scholarship amount awarded to freshman students is $43,750 with 52.0% of freshman students obtaining some form of scholarship. If you are considering learning more, you will find every one of Columbia University in the City of New York's rankings here.
SUNY Potsdam is among your best bets if you're planning on studying History. Students who like a more relaxed life will treasure the school's position in the smallish town of Potsdam, New York.
With the diverse population at SUNY Potsdam, you'll have numerous chances to meet individuals from many cultures. Worried about student loans? (We understand!) SUNY Potsdam and its $18,086 annual net price could be a good match for you. The scorecard will give you a fantastic summary of SUNY Potsdam.
Every student pursuing a degree in History needs to check out Barnard College. Positioned in New York, New York, this college is ideal for students who blossom in a city atmosphere.
Around 96.0% of freshmen decide to come back to Barnard College for their next year. Barnard College's rate of student loan default of 0.9% is significantly below the national average of 7.0%. Go deeper to see how well Barnard College ranks in other categories.
Vassar College is a great decision for students pursuing a History degree. The specific location of Poughkeepsie, New York, is nice for individuals who favor a less busy, suburban place.
Vassar College graduates are generally succeeding in the world as they are less likely to go into default on their student loans than those from other schools. On account of Vassar's outstanding student-to-faculty ratio of 8:1, there are numerous opportunities for learners to work closely with their professors. Get an idea of what being on campus at Vassar is really like by seeing a few campus videos.
Any student pursuing a degree in History has to check out Hartwick College. Students who enjoy a more slow-paced life will appreciate Hartwick College's location in the small town of Oneonta, New York.
With 59.8% of the professors working full time, students are sure to get plenty of interaction with educators. Nationally, only 37.0% of students graduate in four years. Hartwick is way ahead of the pack on that mark with 49.5% of students finishing on time. Interested in learning more about Hartwick College's campus? Have a virtual tour.
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Albert Einstein on Power of Prayer: 'Belief in Existence of Final Spirit Rests on a Kind of Faith'
By Sami K. Martin, Christian Post Reporter | Friday, January 31, 2014
Albert Einstein may best be remembered for his theories and scientific explanations, but the world-renown scientist also had a faithful side and once tried to explain the power of prayer in regards to science. The letter explaining his views was written to a young girl named Phyllis, who was a member of a Sunday school class that wanted to know his views.
Albert Einstein | (Photo: Reuters)
"My dear Mr. Einstein, We have brought up the question: Do scientists pray? In our Sunday school class. It began by asking whether we could believe in both science and religion. We are writing to scientists and other important men to try and have our own question answered. We will feel greatly honored if you will answer our question: Do scientists pray, and what do they pray for? We are in the sixth grade, Miss Ellis's class. Respectfully yours, Phyllis," the young girl wrote.
Einstein replied with a letter of his own just five days later.
"Dear Phyllis, I will attempt to reply to your question as simply as I can," he wrote. "Here is my answer: Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish."
"However," he continued, "we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith. Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science. But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naïve."
Einstein was never vocal about his personal beliefs, although he labeled himself an agnostic. He was raised by secular Jewish parents but did not follow their traditions or beliefs.
Letters from Einstein to inquisitive kids can be read in the newly released "Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children" by Alice Calaprice.
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Latin Mass Locations
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The following are links to Latin Mass locations in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Links to Latin Mass Locations served by priests and communities not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church (e.g., SSPX, sedevacantists, various independent Catholic groups) are deliberately excluded.
It is commonly claimed that Catholics may fulfill their Sunday obligation at valid Catholic Masses offered by suspended, schismatic or otherwise censured priests. In response to such claims by those who participate in SSPX settings, the January, 2003 statement from Monsignor Perl of the Ecclesia Dei Commission says: "In the strict sense you may fulfill your Sunday obligation by attending a Mass celebrated by a priest of the Society of St. Pius X."
He says further: "We have already told you [in earlier communications] that we cannot recommend your attendance at such a Mass and have explained the reason why." And what was this reason why?
A celebration of Holy Mass should be done in communion with the Church and with the Pope, and with the bishop of the place. The celebration of the Mass should be done by a priest who is in union with the Church. Attendance at Masses celebrated by other priests is permitted only where access to a Mass celebrated by a priest in union with the Church is impossible. Now, the priests of the FSSPX are not in union with the Church because of their adherence to the schism of Archbishop LeFebvre who provoked the schism by his ordination of some bishops contrary to the will of the Pope, who has called the act on 30 June 1988 as schismatic. (Response of Monsignor Perl in April 2002 and restated in September 2002)
In other words, regular participation in SSPX settings is not permitted. Occasional participation is permitted “only where access to a Mass celebrated by a priest in union with the Church is impossible.”
List of diocesan-approved Traditional Latin Masses
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Rose Hudson-Wilkin named as next Bishop of Dover
The Queen has approved the appointment of the Revd Preb Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons and Priest in Charge of St Mary-at-Hill, London, as the next Bishop of Dover, Downing Street has announced.
The new bishop was introduced to the Diocese by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a visit to St George’s School in Broadstairs.
She said: "I am excited to have been called to be the next bishop of Dover in the Diocese of Canterbury with its long history of Christian witness.
"I am looking forward to journeying with the people of Kent, celebrating the good work that is already happening there and working together with its religious and secular leaders to ensure that the good news of hope, love and justice remains at the heart of our changed lives together."
For full details read the release from the Diocese of Canterbury.
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Home reviews Fisherman's Friends: Feels Like Home In A Movie | Review
By Billie Melissa At Monday, March 11, 2019 0
From director Chris Foggin comes his second feature film, Fisherman's Friends, a true story of a group of fisherman who charted their way to the Top 10 after being spotted by a music agent in the small village of Port Isaac. I feel confident enough to say this is one of the most enjoyable films I have seen this so far this year. Chris Foggin found beautifully universal moments inside a story that is so specific yet highlights the importance of love and friendship by hitting every note it sets out to.
BAFTA nominated Daniel Mays does a wonderful job of positioning the audience with him on his journey as Danny without diminishing the importance of the actors around him. He hits all of his comedic moments and still finds the heart at the centre of his narrative without sacrificing any elements of his performance. Ensemble casts are easy to get lost amongst but there were strong performances all round from a cast with diverse performance backgrounds who also mixed comedy in perfectly with the dramatic elements of the story and did an incredible job of making Port Isaac feel like home for 112 minutes.
Foggin builds a wonderfully quaint and quiet way of life through all of his characters who feel like they have lived in the village for years. It's so easy to fall in love with the community they've built around them. The rich source material for Foggin enabled him to tell a fantastic story but he does an even better job of not getting lost inside the details of the real life tale. The film still follows a traditional cinematic structure but it doesn't compromise the soul of the men whose story he tells.
It's reassuring to see the rise of British cinema by doing what Americans do so well in finding small stories in small corners of a big place and making them apply to an audience across the globe. Fisherman's Friends is a step in the right direction for what I hope to be a continued rise in stories like these. It's hard not to fall in love with this wonderfully family friendly film that'll remind you of the joy that comes from the little things in life and will have you singing the sea shanties all the way home.
Fisherman's Friends hits UK Cinemas March 15th 2019.
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CINS is shortlisted for 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards
Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) is among the individuals and organisations shortlisted for the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowships, which celebrates individuals or groups who have had a significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world.
Awards are offered in four categories: arts, campaigning, digital activism and journalism. Beside CINS, in the category of journalism are: Bihus.info, a group of independent investigative journalists in Ukraine who are exposing corruption of many Ukrainian officials, Mehman Huseynov from Azerbaijan, a journalist and human rights defender who documents corruption and human rights violations in this country, and who was sentenced to two years in prison in March 2017 after describing abuses he had suffered at a police station, and Mimi Mefo as an award-winning broadcast journalist working in Cameroon’s climate of repression and self-censorship, who was arrested in November 2018 after she published reports that the military was behind the death of an American missionary in the country. Read more about all nominees here.
In its press release Index on Censorship stated that many of the 15 shortlisted nominees face regular death threats, others criminal prosecution or exile. Some are currently in prison for daring to speak out against the status quo.
Judges for this year’s awards are award-winning investigative journalist and Rappler.com Editor-in-Chief Maria Ressa, actor and filmmaker Khalid Abdalla, computer scientist and author Dr. Kate Devlin, and writer and social activist Nimco Ali.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 4 April and will join Index’s Awards Fellowship programme and receive dedicated training and support. Index on Censorship is a UK-based non-profit organisation that publishes work by censored writers and artists and campaigns against censorship worldwide.
Previous winners in the category of journalism were Wendy Funes, an investigative journalist from Honduras who regularly risks her life for her right to report on what is happening in the country, website Maldives Independent, as one of the few remaining independent media outlets in a country that ranked 112 out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, and Syrian-native Zaina Erhaim who returned to her war-ravaged country and the city of Aleppo in 2013 and was one of the few female journalists braving the twin threat of violence from both ISIS and the president, Bashar al-Assad.
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List of atheist shooters and serial killers
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As an atheist, the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer engaged in cannibalism.[1] See also: Atheism and cannibalism
The following is a list of atheist shooters and serial killers. Atheists have a long record of being mass shooters and militant atheism in general has a causal association with mass murder.
Due to this fact, peer reviewed research published in academic journals has found that society-at-large is likely to hold atheists responsible for capital criminal acts and that even atheists are likely to assume that serial killers are fellow atheists.[2][3][4]
3 Study: People assume serial killers are atheists
4 Agnostic shooters, serial killers and domestic terrorists
Jared Loughner's mugshot, released January 10, 2011
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Santa Fe, Texas shooter who killed at least 10 people at a public school, described himself as an atheist on his Facebook page (May 2018)[5]
Gabriel Ross Parker, shooter at Marshall County High School in Kentucky who murdered two people (January 2018)[6][7][8]
Devin Patrick Kelley, perpetrator of the Sutherland Springs, Texas shooting at First Baptist Church, murdered 26 people (November 2017)[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Chris Harper Mercer, Umpqua Community College gunman (October 2015)[15][16]
Craig Stephen Hicks, perpetator of the Chapel Hill Shootings (February 2015)[17]
Jared Lee Loughner, perpetrator of the Tucson Shootings (January 2011)[18]
Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings (April 2007)[19]
Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer and sex offender responsible for the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys (1978 - 1991)[1]
James Oliver Huberty, perpetrator of the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre (July 1984)[20]
Carl Panzram (1891-1930) was an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, robber and burglar. In his autobiography and prison confessions Panzram claimed he committed 21 murders (a majority of which were not corroborated) and over 1,000 sodomies of boys and men. Panzram declared "“I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others: might makes right.”[21]
Kimveer Gill, perpetrator of the Dawson College Shooting (September 2006)[22]
Study: People assume serial killers are atheists
See also: Atheism and serial killers
The news and analysis website Axios reported:
“ A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour found that people around the world are predisposed to believe that atheists are more likely to be serial killers than religious believers — a bias even held by atheists themselves.
By the numbers: The study included 3,256 participants across 13 diverse countries that included highly secular nations like Finland and the Netherlands as well as highly religious ones like the United Arab Emirates and India.[23]
Agnostic shooters, serial killers and domestic terrorists
James Holmes, perpetrator of the Aurora shooting (July 2012)[24]
Timothy McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was the main perpetrator in the Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people in the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. Contrary to the popular and oft-repeated belief among liberals and the irreligious, McVeigh was not a right-wing evangelical Christian. In fact, McVeigh was raised Roman Catholic, but professed agnosticism.[25] His political beliefs were libertarian.
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↑ 1.0 1.1 Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer (1994). Jeffrey Dahmer Interview - MSNBC Footage. Dateline NBC. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Pettit, Harry (August 7, 2017). Do we need religion to have good morals? Even atheists think horrific crimes are likely committed by atheists. Daily Mail. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Atheists tend to be seen as immoral – even by other atheists: study. The Guardian (August 7, 2017). Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Daisy Grewal (January 17, 2012). In Atheists We Distrust. Scientific American. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ With graduation just days away, Texas school becomes latest casualty — 10 dead, 10 wounded in latest campus shooting, LA Times
↑ Sayers, Justin; Wolfson, Andrew (March 7, 2018). Gabe Parker saw Marshall County school shooting as an experiment, officer says. The Courier-Journal. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
↑ Police: Teen Saw Shooting as Experiment, Showed No Remorse. U.S. News & World Report (from the Associated Press). March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
↑ Root, Kayla (January 25, 2018). Kentucky Shooter Joined Atheist Group, but Couldn't Stop ALL These Students from Praying. CBN News. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
↑ Stanton, Jenny (November 5, 2017). Texas church shooter Devin Kelley was an 'outcast'. Daily Mail. Retrieved on November 5, 2017.
↑ Shoebat, Theodore (November 5, 2017). Make No Mistake About It, The Man Who Slaughtered 26 Christians In A Baptist Church In Texas Was An Atheist Who Hated Christ And The Christian Faith. Walid Shoebat. Retrieved on November 5, 2017.
↑ UPDATE: Sutherland Springs Gunman Devin Kelley Wore "All Black" - Facebook Page Suggests He Was Diehard Atheist, CNN Fan. The Gateway Pundit (November 5, 2017). Retrieved on November 5, 2017.
↑ Devin Kelley: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Heavy (November 5, 2017). Retrieved on November 5, 2017.
↑ Texas shooter Devin Patrick Kelley was a radical SJW Atheist!. OneHallyu (November 5, 2017). Retrieved on November 5, 2017.
↑ DEVIN KELLEY FACEBOOK LIKED ATHEIST PAGES, CNN, Pacific Pundit
↑ Katie Zavadski (October 2, 2015). Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper Mercer Hated Religion Online. The Daily Beast. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Eli Saslow, Sarah Kaplan and Joseph Hoyt (October 2, 2015). Oregon shooter said to have singled out Christians for killing in ‘horrific act of cowardice’. The Washington Post. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ The Chapel Hill shooting: White male atheist murders three Muslim students. New Statesman. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Who is Jared Loughner? Friends Reveal Alienation. CBS News (January 10, 2011). Retrieved on 7 October 2017. “An ardent atheist, he began to characterize people as sheep whose free will was being sapped by the government and the monotony of modern life.”
↑ Keane, Brett (August 16, 2017). Atheists List of Killers and Criminals. GodTVRadio News. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Wolcott, Martin Gilman (2004). The Evil 100. Kensington Publishing Corporation. ISBN 9780806525556. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
↑ Carl Panzram Quotes
↑ Langton, Jerry (January 12, 2010). Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470739969. Retrieved on 7 October 2017. “I hate this world, I hate the people in it, I hate the way people live, I hate God, I hate the deceivers, I hate betrayers, I hate religious zealots...”
↑ People assume serial killers are atheists, Axios
↑ Rogers, Abby (July 23, 2012). Alleged Shooter James Holmes Bragged Of 'Soul Penetrating Eyes' On Dating Website (English). Business Insider. Retrieved on October 8, 2017. “In his profile, Holmes described himself as an agnostic man who "definitely" wants kids, only drinks "socially," and doesn't smoke.”
↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/11/mcveigh.usa4
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Charles Marquand
The writer is a lawyer and a keen observer of European affairs, and works in the UK and France
Macron’s test: To retain the magic
Published May 16, 2017, 3:18 am IST
Updated May 16, 2017, 3:19 am IST
Mr Macron fought his campaign on an unashamedly pro-European platform.
French President Emmanuel Macron with wife Brigitte Trogneux.
Just over a week ago we learned that liberal-centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron had been elected President of France. He had overwhelmingly won the second round run-off against nationalist Marine Le Pen, with some 65 per cent of the vote. Let's be clear, this is unequivocally good news for Europe and for France — or at least for the time being.
First Europe: Mr Macron fought his campaign on an unashamedly pro-European platform. When he gave speeches, behind him on the platform were the French tricolour and the European Union's golden stars. At his victory parade the European anthem was proudly played. This was in stark contrast to Ms Le Pen.
Ms Le Pen chose to play on people's fears of economic and social change. She presented a false prospectus, claiming that security could only be assured by the destruction of Europe's single market and single social space. Her programme of economic protectionism and narrow nationalism was profoundly defeatist, as well as profoundly wrong. If each nation retreats into its own silo, looking only to its own interests, all nations will be worse off; politically, culturally and economically.
Mr Macron understands that in today's globalised world the European model — the tripartite combination of political liberty, social solidarity and economic prosperity — can only be preserved and pursued if Europe coheres. He has proposed a much closer European economic cooperation — a common European fiscal policy. He has mentioned a “Buy European” policy in public procurement. He favours greater integration of environmental and social regulation. The point is not whether these policies may be right or wrong — they are largely right — but rather that Mr Macron sees Europe as part of the solution, not part of the problem. We can look forward then to a renewed emphasis on European unity from France, one of the most important players in the European Union.
It may be added that Mr Macron considers Britain’s decision to quit the EU as certainly harmful to the UK and potentially to the EU as well. Entirely justifiably, he will therefore be firm in ensuring that the benefits of EU membership are not extended to a state that leaves. European cohesion requires nothing less.
Although Mr Macron was generally supportive of British economic liberalism, the UK can expect no special favours from Mr Macron during the Brexit negotiations.
Then consider France: The opinion polls had predicted a higher vote for Ms Le Pen, somewhere in the region of 40 per cent. In the event she achieved barely a third. The fact only two regions voted by a majority for Ms Le Pen, and then only by the smallest of margins, was a deep disappointment for her and her entourage. One of the party’s stars, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Ms Le Pen's niece, has now decided to leave politics. Ms Le Pen’s failure to fulfil expectations is also leading to ructions inside the Front National. There are proposals for a profound transformation of the party, though these are likely to meet stiff resistance. For the far-right to be in deep disarray, after having set the tone of political discourse in France for some time, can only be good for French democracy.
But Mr Macron’s victory may also lead to ructions elsewhere. Mr Macron was elected without the backing of a major political party. Although he had been the minister of the economy and finance in the socialist government, he resigned from his post and party affiliation in 2015. He founded his own loose party En Marche! (Moving Forward), but it does not have either the well-established structures or deep roots of the traditional parties. For the first time since the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958, there was no candidate in the second round from either the moderate-left or the moderate-right. In fact, the combined vote of Benoît Hamon, the candidate of the moderate-left Socialist Party, and François Fillon, the candidate of the conservative-right Republicans, in the first round amounted to only just over 25 per cent. It seems that the liberal-centre, a major force in French politics from the 1870s to the 1950s, has been resurrected.
Or has it? Although Mr Macron won convincingly, more than half his vote came from supporters who would have preferred another candidate. Their prime motivation for supporting him was to prevent a victory for Ms Le Pen. This could be a problem for Mr Macron. On June 11, the first round of elections to the National Assembly, the French Parliament, will take place. The second round run-off takes place a week later. Enthusiastic and optimistic as the En Marche! candidates are, they lack experience. Around 95 per cent of them are not deputies (National Assembly members). More than half of them have never stood for election to the National Assembly before. For the most part they do not have experienced party machines behind them. Will their enthusiasm and optimism be sufficient to attract support from electors whose support for Mr Macron is only lukewarm?
If it is not, then Mr Macron's presidency could end in tears. Although the French economy is highly advanced — its workers are some of the most productive in the world — it suffers from high unemployment. Mr Macron's solution is essentially economic liberalism. He wants to lower corporate tax rates, which he considers are holding back investment and growth. Rather than impose uniform employment conditions, he would leave it to firms and employees to negotiate specific deals on working hours and pay. He would seek to lower employers' compulsory contributions to social funds to lower the cost of taking on workers.
Whatever the merits of these policies, they are likely to lead to a confrontation. The French left, particularly the hard-left, is not shy of taking to the streets to defend what it considers to be inalienable rights to social protections; and it has already done so. The day after Mr Macron's victory there were demonstrations organised by the hard-left in several of France's major cities against Mr Macron's economic policies. Mr Macron will need the support of the National Assembly to get his domestic reforms through. If it is dominated by deputies from parties jealous of his victory, he is unlikely to get it. If Mr Macron cannot implement his reforms, disillusion in France with democracy and Europe may soon become poisonous.
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New president has bold vision for the Atlantic Jewish Council
Joel Jacobson, Atlantic Correspondent
Atlantic Jewish Council president Marilyn Chippin Kaufman
Marilyn Chippin Kaufman has added another item to her already busy agenda. The Fredericton woman assumed the two-year mantle of president of the Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC) at the organization’s annual general meeting in Halifax on Nov. 18.
Kaufman also serves as president of Fredericton’s Orthodox Sgoolai Israel Synagogue, the first woman in that role, teaches Hebrew school and is the Atlantic representative on the board of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
“With the demands of this new role, I’d love to give up the shul presidency,” she smiled, “but no one else wants it.”
Kaufman is the first AJC president from outside Halifax since 1988.
“It’s important we have someone from the smaller communities in the chair,” she said after her unanimous election. “The region needs all of our voices to be constantly heard.”
She admitted that Halifax is dominant because it has the largest Jewish population in the wide-spread region, but she said that, “We want a feeling of Yiddishkeit, religion, tradition and belonging throughout. It’s important people in the region know who we are – as an AJC and as people living here – to understand we’re all Jews who must be proactive to educate our own people, and others, about us and to combat things like anti-Semitism in a meaningful way.”
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She wants to promote more programming in smaller communities throughout Atlantic Canada.
“They want to be included. They want programming. We have to find ways to bring them in,” she said in an interview with The CJN.
She told the meeting that she hoped her board would be open to new ideas and would listen to the concerns of a very diverse and scattered population. She stressed that the AJC must continue to build bridges with people of other faiths, while retaining Jewish solidarity.
Naomi Rosenfeld, who’s completing her second year as executive-director of the AJC, said she was “excited for Marilyn, who brings leadership skills and a knowledge of the national Jewish system to the position.
“We want to take more programming on the road, to the communities outside Halifax, which we are already doing, but we must expand it. There’s no one better to do that than Marilyn.”
Rosenfeld reported to the meeting that, despite a staff of only four, but with an “amazing volunteer base,” the AJC is building a sense of Jewish community by holding events, such as dinners, barbecues and holiday parties. Likewise, it is bringing Jewish identity to the region’s youth through Camp Kadimah and other projects.
Marilyn brings leadership skills and a knowledge of the national Jewish system to the position.
– Marilyn Chippin Kaufman
PJ Library, for example, has distributed more than 1,000 books to children and their families. Jewish teens have taken part in a leadership training group that has reached out to the broader community. Through Hillel and Birthright, a younger population has been engaged and Holocaust education programs have been disseminated to thousands of school children.
“We’ve connected our community to Israel through art, films, comedy shows,” added Rosenfeld. “Eight Israeli youngsters were subsidized to attend Kadimah. We had a shaliach here for two months and hope to do that program again in the spring. And we’re getting our people to Israel through missions, Biluim Israel and the March of the Living.”
The annual meeting included the Biennial Conference of the AJC. It featured discussion groups on Camp Kadimah, the iconic, 75-year-old summer camp in Nova Scotia, on Atlantic Canada’s relationship to the Canadian Jewish community at large and on retaining and engaging a younger demographic.
* This story has been modified from the original version to correct the date of the AGM.
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Water summit underlines growing importance in Middle East
By RTCC Staff
Water’s significance to the Middle East has been underlined with the announcement that an International Water Summit will be held in Abu Dhabi next year.
The summit will be held alongside the World Future Energy Summit in 2013, in association with the International Water Association (IWA).
Speaking at a press conference, Dr Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahd, United Arab Emirates Minister of Environment and Water said the new initiative was a response to the growing importance the UAE government gives to water.
“Sheikh Mohammad [Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi] underlined in a lecture last month that water is much more important than oil for the UAE and its people,” he said.
“As a result of the increased pressure on this valuable resource due to various factors including overpopulation, agricultural and economic growth, and unsustainable consumption patterns, various countries around the world are currently facing real problems with water resources.”
“Climate change has increased the pressure on this resource as well,” added Bin Fahd.
Water scarcity – both in terms of clean drinking water and that used for agricultural irrigation – are already putting pressure on many countries, including those in the Middle East.
Hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods are likely to further exacerbate the problem and could put more pressure on existing social tensions in the region.
This announcement comes the same week as a European Commission event entitled ‘Climate change and water security in the Middle East’ looks to address these problems.
In 2011 a study from risk analysts Maplecroft found much of the Gulf and North Africa ranking high or extreme for water stress, compared to much of Europe where water stress is low.
Many commentators are already predicting that water resources will be the next big issue in these regions which have already experienced political and social unrest over the last year.
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Marrakech talks must focus on global adaptation challenge
Climate talks are not just about carbon cuts, writes Maldives minister Thoriq Ibrahim
Male, Maldives: small island states are increasingly vulnerable to storm surges and drought (Pic: Flickr/Nattu)
By Thoriq Ibrahim
This week delegations will gather in Marrakech, Morocco to prepare for the United Nations climate negotiations scheduled to begin there next month.
Those talks will also serve as the first meeting of parties to the Paris Agreement, after the required number of countries representing 55% of total global emissions formally joined the agreement on 4 October.
Much of the attention on the agreement has focused on how it will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change.
But another aspect that is just as important to its adoption, and one that will be critical to the health and prosperity of countless communities moving forward is adaptation – the actions that must be taken to adjust to climate impacts like droughts, floods, erosion, and sea level rise.
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The international community has agreed that developed countries will mobilise at least US$100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to help developing countries deploy clean energy sources and climate-proof infrastructure from worsening impacts.
However, this level of financial support has so far failed to materialise and besides, funding for adaptation has historically lagged behind that for mitigation.
Though the Paris Agreement calls for a “balance” between climate finance provided for adaptation and mitigation it does not enumerate a specific amount.
What further complicates this calculus is that determining precise numbers for these costs is difficult if not impossible because they are so intertwined with other development needs. Several studies, however, project a range in the tens of billions of dollars per year. A significant figure, particularly given the difficulty involved with raising private funds for adaptation projects that aren’t designed to provide a return on investment.
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In the Maldives, for example, we have been increasingly experiencing droughts tied to climate change. Fortunately, we were among the first countries to receive support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for an adaptation project designed to enhance water security in some of our most remote atolls.
Work has begun and we expect it to deliver clean water and sanitation to at least 20,000 people within the five-year timeframe laid out under the proposal.
But, like other small island developing states, the Maldives population is widely dispersed over many islands and thousands of square kilometers of ocean. More support will be needed to adapt to water shortages and other climate impacts.
One challenge that affects much of our archipelago is sea level rise and erosion. Since the early 1970s, coastal land loss has been observed across the country and it is getting worse.
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A 2010 survey of inhabited islands estimated that the cost to protect shorelines using fixed concrete structures would exceed US$8.7 billion. By contrast, sand bags that provide a similar level of defence would be about US$1.6 billion. There are different rationales for using these options with pros and cons for each, but suffice it to say that the price tag in either case is prohibitive for an economy as small as ours.
Like the Maldives, every country, and every community within every country has very specific adaptation needs. While shifting rain patterns in the Indian Ocean, for example, have led to droughts in one corner of our archipelago, they have also brought unprecedented rains to the other – making a much different kind of adaptive response necessary.
Other islands around the world have unique adaptation needs, and places like Africa, where some countries have entered what could be called a permanent drought, must find ways to adapt entire agricultural sectors.
Adaptation, in other words, is a local issue of global concern and we will only be able to manage it well if we match solutions on the ground with adequate support from the international community. Something to think about as we prepare to implement the Paris Agreement in a few weeks.
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Edenton vs Outer Banks (Aug 04, 2008)
Edenton at Outer Banks (Game 1)
Aug 04, 2008 at Kill Devil Hills (First Flight HS)
Edenton 4 (33-20)
Jacob Robbins cf......... 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
Brett Nommensen dh....... 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Ryan Mollica 2b.......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
Ryan Boelsen 1b.......... 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
Kyle Rice ph/1b......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Broc Sutton 3b........... 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Bradley Agustin ss....... 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1
Ty Boyles c.............. 2 2 1 1 1 0 4 0 0
R.J. Harris rf........... 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
Luke Williford lf........ 3 0 1 1 0 1 6 0 0
Dan Gardo p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Evan Sanford p.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Luke Demko p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Outer Banks 2 (27-26)
Chandler Snell ss........ 4 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 0
Dylan Petrich lf......... 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
Brian Bistagne 2b........ 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 4
Dusty Quattlebaum 1b..... 3 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1
Justin Schumer 3b........ 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0
Pete Paris c............. 3 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0
Bryan Rose dh............ 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Daniel Baatz rf.......... 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0
Jeff Ritter cf........... 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
Stephen Shackleford p.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Travis McSweeney p...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edenton............. 030 100 0 - 4 5 2
Outer Banks......... 000 000 2 - 2 7 2
E - Sutton, B. 2; Snell, C.; Ritter, J.. LOB - Edenton 4; Outer Banks 7. 2B
- Boyles, T.. HBP - Agustin, B.. SB - Williford, L.
Edenton IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
Dan Gardo........... 5.0 3 0 0 1 2 19 20
Evan Sanford........ 1.2 4 2 1 0 1 9 9
Luke Demko.......... 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Outer Banks IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
Stephen Shackleford. 3.1 3 4 2 2 3 15 18
Travis McSweeney.... 3.2 2 0 0 0 1 11 11
Win - Gardo, D. (2-3). Loss - Shackleford, (1-1). Save - Demko, L. (13).
WP - Shackleford,. HBP - by Shackleford, (Agustin, B.). PB - Paris, P..
Umpires - HP: Matt Springer 1B: Micky Irving
Start: 6:05 Time: 2:00 Attendance: 1450
Game: OBX8-4A
Edenton at Outer Banks (Game 1) - Play-by-Play
Edenton starters: 1/cf Robbins, J.; 9/dh Nommensen, B; 15/2b Mollica, R.; 27/1b
Boelsen, R.; 3/3b Sutton, B.; 4/ss Agustin, B.; 2/c Boyles, T.; 21/rf Harris,
R.; 11/lf Williford, L; 22/p Gardo, D.;
Outer Banks starters: 13/ss Snell, C.; 21/lf Petrich, D.; 8/2b Bistagne, B.;
15/1b Quattlebaum,; 2/3b Schumer, J.; 19/c Paris, P.; 20/dh Rose, B.; 10/rf
Baatz, D.; 12/cf Ritter, J.; 7/p Shackleford,;
Edenton 1st - Robbins, J. grounded out to ss. Nommensen, B grounded out
to 2b. Mollica, R. struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Outer Banks 1st - Snell, C. grounded out to 2b. Petrich, D. grounded out
to ss. Bistagne, B. singled up the middle. Quattlebaum, grounded out to 2b.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Edenton 2nd - Boelsen, R. grounded out to 1b unassisted. Sutton, B.
grounded out to 2b. Agustin, B. hit by pitch. Boyles, T. doubled to left
center, RBI; Agustin, B. scored. Boyles, T. advanced to third on a passed ball.
Harris, R. reached on an error by ss; Boyles, T. scored, unearned. Williford, L
reached on an error by cf, advanced to second; Harris, R. scored, unearned.
Robbins, J. walked. Nommensen, B struck out looking. 3 runs, 1 hit, 2
Outer Banks 2nd - Schumer, J. struck out swinging. Paris, P. flied out
to lf. Rose, B. grounded out to 2b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Edenton 3rd - Mollica, R. grounded out to p. Boelsen, R. singled to
right center. Sutton, B. flied out to lf. Agustin, B. struck out swinging. 0
runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Outer Banks 3rd - Baatz, D. walked. Ritter, J. flied out to rf. Snell,
C. singled to shortstop; Baatz, D. advanced to second. Petrich, D. flied out to
cf. Bistagne, B. reached on a fielder's choice; Snell, C. advanced to second;
Baatz, D. out at third 3b unassisted. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Edenton 4th - Boyles, T. walked. Boyles, T. advanced to second on a wild
pitch. Harris, R. out at first 2b to p; Boyles, T. advanced to third.
Williford, L singled up the middle, RBI; Boyles, T. scored. McSweeney, T to p
for Shackleford,. Williford, L stole second, out at second ss unassisted.
Robbins, J. flied out to cf. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Outer Banks 4th - Quattlebaum, grounded out to p. Schumer, J. struck out
swinging. Paris, P. flied out to lf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Edenton 5th - Nommensen, B flied out to cf. Mollica, R. grounded out to
3b. Rice, K. pinch hit for Boelsen, R.. Rice, K. grounded out to 1b unassisted.
Outer Banks 5th - Rice, K. to 1b. Rose, B. flied out to lf. Baatz, D.
grounded out to 3b. Ritter, J. reached on an error by 3b. Snell, C. singled to
left field; Ritter, J. advanced to second. Petrich, D. flied out to rf. 0
runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Edenton 6th - Sutton, B. grounded out to 3b. Agustin, B. singled to
third base. Boyles, T. grounded out to 3b; Agustin, B. advanced to second.
Harris, R. flied out to rf. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Outer Banks 6th - Sanford, E. to p for Gardo, D.. Bistagne, B. flied out
to lf. Quattlebaum, flied out to lf. Schumer, J. flied out to lf. 0 runs, 0
Edenton 7th - Williford, L struck out looking. Robbins, J. singled to
right field. Nommensen, B flied out to rf; Robbins, J. out at first rf to 1b.
Outer Banks 7th - Paris, P. singled up the middle. Rose, B. struck out
swinging. Baatz, D. grounded out to ss; Paris, P. advanced to second. Ritter,
J. singled up the middle; Paris, P. advanced to third. Snell, C. singled to
right field, RBI; Ritter, J. advanced to second; Paris, P. scored. Petrich, D.
singled to third base, advanced to second on an error by 3b; Snell, C. advanced
to third; Ritter, J. scored, unearned. Demko, L. to p for Sanford, E..
Bistagne, B. struck out swinging. 2 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
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Building a prosperous future for Indigenous communities
Features | Profile
12.10.2018 | Margaret Craig-Bourdin
In a Q&A with CPA Canada, the president and CEO of AFOA Canada opens up about the challenges these communities face on the road to a better future
“Good business is about protecting the environment,” says Terry Goodtrack. (Image provided)
As a CPA with more than 20 years’ experience in senior finance and management positions with high-profile Indigenous organizations, Terry Goodtrack has a keen sense of the challenges Indigenous communities face as they work toward a better future. Since 2011, he has been president and CEO of AFOA Canada (formerly Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada), an Ottawa-based non-profit organization that provides finance and leadership training to Indigenous Peoples across Canada.
Goodtrack also sits on a number of committees and task forces, including the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s National Steering Committee on Financial Literacy and the Advisory Committee of the CPA Martin Mentorship Program for Indigenous High School Students. He was recently awarded a Fellows (FCPA) designation—the CPA profession’s highest distinction, which recognizes members whose achievements and contributions, in their careers and in the community, have rendered exceptional service to the profession.
At CPA Canada’s Mastering Money Conference in Vancouver this past November, Goodtrack served on a panel devoted to the theme of Indigenous communities: Managing poverty to prosperity and the importance of understanding the language of money. Earlier this year, he was also featured in a video and profile demonstrating how his work aligns with the Canadian Ideal of Good Business.
In a recent interview, Goodtrack spoke with CPA Canada about his own background, the history of AFOA, the need for inclusivity, and some of the characteristics of high-performing Indigenous communities.
CPA CANADA: You grew up on a reserve called the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation in rural Saskatchewan. How did this prepare you for the work you do with AFOA today?
TG: Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, I developed an appreciation for what resources are available to such communities. Ottawa is quite disconnected from the way rural life really operates. When you are at Wood Mountain, the closest town is Assiniboia, and it’s a 45-minute drive away. For that reason, even getting groceries is a major task. You go only once a week. And in winter, it’s even worse. So I have a good sense of what these relatively isolated communities go through and the services that we need to provide.
CPA CANADA: How did AFOA Canada come to be and how is it structured?
TG: The idea for AFOA Canada can be traced back to the 1970s. The impetus came from community-minded people who believed in improving financial skills and providing networking and professional development opportunities for Indigenous Peoples. The cause was as relevant then as it is today. The organization was opened as a not-for-profit association in 1999, so next year, we’ll be celebrating our 20th anniversary. Our conference will be taking place Oct. 2-4, 2019, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Structurally speaking, AFOA has eight chapters across Canada. These are all independent entities, operating under one umbrella. Funding comes from different sources, including registration fees and sales from products and services. Often, AFOA will go into communities to train community staff in workshop settings or online. For the Certified Aboriginal Financial Manager designation, the training can be completed online. We are working toward an in-person session for this designation as well.
CPA CANADA: In a video and profile for CPA Canada, you explained that there is a wealth gap in Indigenous communities—that some communities are quite challenged, while others are higher performing.
TG: There is actually a spectrum. Some communities receive a majority of their funding from government programming. They are essentially managing poverty. Other communities have significant business operations. This might include joint ventures, equity stakes in companies or managing and operating companies. They are managing prosperity and wealth.
One example of a high-performing community is Osoyoos First Nation in B.C. It has found a way to create an economic engine to bring in revenue. It does not operate on government funding alone. Osoyoos converted some of its land for economic development opportunities in the Okanagan Valley and Kelowna. It also has a golf course, hotel and speedway. The community members have managed to retain who they are.
CPA CANADA: In the video, you also spoke about the necessity for inclusivity.
TG: Yes, and the question is, how do we ensure that Indigenous communities are included in the Canadian economy? How do we participate in major projects? There is a lot of catching up to do. A 2011 economic report pointed out that by 2016, the GDP of the Indigenous economy would be $32-billion. It ended up being $31-billion. However, that is far below what it should be. If Canada’s GDP is $1.5-trillion, and the Indigenous population represents four per cent to six per cent of the national total, the Indigenous GDP should be $75-billion.
CPA CANADA: For you, how does the notion of sustainability relate to the notion of good business?
TG: Good business is about protecting the environment. We have already done enough harm. If we want to be sustainable, we need to find different ways to do business.
Watch the video and profile about Terry Goodtrack to learn about how his work aligns with the Canadian Ideal of Good Business.
CPAs can provide great support for innovation, says FNFA head
2.7.2019 | Margaret Craig-Bourdin
Ernie Daniels, CEO of the First Nations Finance Authority, explains how the organization won a Governor General’s Award—and why CPA skills are so valuable to innovators
How to work as a team when you’re all digital nomads
1.15.2019 | Margaret Craig-Bourdin
From using Slack to implementing ‘no-calls’ days, the founders of virtual accounting firm LiveCA explain how they work from anywhere in the world
Dr. Sonny Kohli: AI can help free up time for doctors—and CPAs
For the award winning physician, AI can be a boon—not only in medicine, but also in accounting. Here’s how.
Margaret Craig-Bourdin
Margaret Craig-Bourdin is a digital writer and editor with CPA Canada. She is the recipient of many business press awards, and is also a certified member of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario.
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Elvis’ 40 Year Reign (1976-Tomorrow)
The Nintendo “Switch” is the company’s big do-over
Posted on October 20, 2016 by Matthew Martin
First things first: Let’s all rejoice that they didn’t call the thing “sWiitch.”
Nintendo has always been a company that prided itself on great innovations. Yet, just as often as they innovate, they stubbornly push concepts no one wants, creates solutions to problems no one has, ignore modern trends in gaming and technology, and frequently exhibit a terrible lack of awareness (coupled with their patented arrogance).
They’re a great company—the Walt Disney of video games—but they’re not perfect.
Even during their peak years (the NES and SNES days) the company made moves and decisions against game developers that they are still paying the price for. In their arrogance they resisted the trend toward CD-based gaming and as a result, lost three-quarters of their 3rd-party support for the N64. They tried to bounce back with the Gamecube, and though the system was a technical marvel and boasted a marvelous library of games, it sold terribly due to the company’s insistence on small, proprietary discs and an oddball controller.
They bounced back considerably with the Wii, but that too brought negative repercussions to Nintendo. Sales of the little white system were stellar in terms of raw numbers, but the trendline for the sales show a large initial spike followed by a steady decline. The Wii was a fad in every sense of the word. It did not, as Nintendo hoped, turn a new generation of people into gamers; it turned a new generation of people into “Wii buyers.” That’s good initially but once the fad wore off there wasn’t much left for the under-powered, standard-definition system.
The company’s lack of awareness was at its worst in the development of the WiiU. In hindsight, the system was doomed from the beginning. It tried to be and do too much, and as a result, accomplished nothing. It was marketed to hardcore gamers as a “hardcore version of the Wii” but it lacked the power of the PS4 and Xbox One. It was marketed to casual buyers as “the next Wii” but due to the too-similar name, they, being casual buyers, merely assumed it was a (very expensive) add-on to the original Wii. Since the Wii itself was sitting on most shelves collecting dust, there was no incentive to buy what was perceived to be an add-on. The system wasn’t the Sega 32X, but it may as well have been. To the tech junkies, Nintendo marketed the machine as a tablet gaming device, but the bulky size compared to the sleek and slim iPad, as well as the short battery life and limited range meant that aspect of the marketing died too.
With the instant dud of the WiiU hanging like an albatross around the company’s neck, Nintendo fans have been waiting a long time for the next console, hoping against hope that the machine will bring the Big N back to their place atop the video game mountain.
Enter “Switch.”
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On the one hand the machine can be summarized, cynically as, “what the WiiU should have been.” Having said that, there’s something to be said for the humility it takes to admit “yeah we screwed up the first time…here, let’s try again.”
Switch improves on the WiiU name
“Wii” was clever for about ten seconds. After that it was a joke. Sure, Nintendo made a lot of money off of the name, and they went so far as to feature it instead of their own name, but in the end it became more of a hindrance than anything. Attempts to turn it into its own brand with the WiiU failed miserably. As previously stated, the casual fans who initially bought “That little white box that plays tennis” never transitioned into buying Metroid Prime or Mario Galaxy. Those games were bought by the traditional Nintendo faithful. The rest of the fanbase saw the system as either a clever novelty or as a gimmick; no one saw it as the future of gaming, merely as a pleasant distraction. The “WiiU” only confused the casuals, and put-off the hardcore gamers. Had Nintendo released another system with “Wii” in the title, no matter how creative or innovative, it would have been dead on arrival.
By contrast “Switch” is a fine name. It feels a little un-Nintendo, since it’s just a regular word in the English language; the first three consoles were just “Nintendo this” or “Nintendo that” (Nintendo Entertainment System, SUPER Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64). The “Gamecube” name was a little odd, but at least it was descriptive. “Switch” is descriptive too, but in a different way. It highlights a feature of the system, which none of the previous console names (except for maybe N64) did. It’s different, yet…ordinary, but by the time it releases we’ll all be used to it, and it doesn’t have the built-in embarrassment that “Wii” has. It tells you what it does and it tells you who made it. It’s good and simple, to the point of being blunt, which the WiiU was not.
Switch improves on the WiiU concept
The idea behind the WiiU is a sound one: “Console gaming on the go.” Unfortunately how far you were able to “go” was limited to “about a quarter of your house, depending on how many walls…” As a result, the marketing focused on the “second screen” aspect, highlighting one family member watching TV while you continued playing Mario. Developers never really did much with the screen-in-controller idea; instead of developing DS-like games with console-like graphics and concepts, developers mostly ignored the second screen. A few games seemed to understand what to do with it (ZombiiU for example) but most just reduced it to a mirror of the main screen or just a giant map. Due to EA’s backing away from the system, we never got what seemed a natural usage out of the tablet: play calling in Madden.
With “Switch” Nintendo can finally market this machine as a “console on the go.” The reveal trailer does that: Players are seen gaming on their big screen and then take the console with them to the airport (yes!), to parties (maybe?) and to pick-up basketball games (no.). Unseen is the most likely usage of the system: Taking it to the crapper. People are going to get so many hemorrhoids.
A couple years ago Nintendo merged their home and portable system game development groups into one entity, and with this machine they seem to have merged their hardware as well. The system—while portable—isn’t as compact as a 3DS, but it’s small enough to fit in a college student’s backpack, or in the glovebox of your car, etc. It’s portable and assuming the battery life is good, that’s revolutionary for console gaming.
Switch improves on the WiiU controller
As previously stated, the WiiU tried to do too much. “It works with your Wii-motes!” they said. “It has a touch screen!” they said. “It has a gyroscope!” they said. “It has a microphone!” they said. “It works with your TV shows!” they said (though never really delivered). It could do a little of everything, but it needed to just focus on doing one thing really well and giving 3rd party developers some focus on which to work. Not to mention the controller itself was bulky and cumbersome, often tiring out wrists after long sessions, and being nearly impossible to hold with one hand and write/draw on the screen with the other. It was functionality over form and never lived up to Nintendo’s promises. On the other hand, the WiiU Pro Controller is often regarded as one of Nintendo’s best controllers. The size was perfect, the battery life was phenomenal, the buttons and layout were flawless. It was a great piece of equipment, so much so that many gamers just used it instead of the tablet, whenever possible.
“Switch” seems to have fixed all the criticisms of the WiiU’s tablet. First of all, the variety of functions seems to have been streamlined considerably. It doesn’t appear to have touch-screen capabilities, to start with. Instead it seems only to offer a screen…and not even a “second” screen at that, since the reveal trailer shows the tablet being “docked” while playing on your TV. Not having a touchscreen will certainly help with battery life and cost, two things Nintendo is going to have to be extra careful with if they want to win over gamers near the end of this console generation.
In addition there are two other controllers to use. One is a “split” concept (dubbed the “Joy-Con” controllers), that features all the standard buttons (four primary face inputs, four triggers, menu buttons, d-pad and sticks) with the option to detach the two sides and hold them like you would the old Wiimote+nunchuck, or turn them sideways for multiplayer gaming on the go. The other optional controller is the “Switch Pro.” It looks like a more traditional controller, with the same buttons on a more typical controller body. The size of this controller is comparable to the WiiU Pro and will probably be the go-to device for home-players. Without all the gimmicks the WiiU had, developers will be free to create more traditional games (and port them from system to system) without having to shoe-horn in features to take advantage of everything the system can do.
Switch improves upon the WiiU’s third-party support
WiiU was a disaster for non-Nintendo games, there’s no other way to put it. Not even the N64 had such abysmal third party support. A combination of high price for low horsepower, plus a serious lack of desire to innovate and risk-take (in an era where video games cost a lot to make but sometimes do not sell a lot) led to multi-platform developers to back away from the system. Some showed strong early interest, such as Ubisoft, but over time abandoned the machine.
There are some great games to be found on WiiU, but almost all of them were either developed by Nintendo or had their development paid for by Nintendo (Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mario Maker, Splatoon, Bayonetta 2, Wonderful 101). More than any other console, WiiU was Nintendo-centric. That means the games are mostly great, but it also means there aren’t very many of them. With the company devoted to developing Switch games, the Christmas forecast for WiiU is the most barren Nintendo has had in twenty years.
But with “Switch” there is hope. Other than the reveal trailer, the first item Nintendo released regarding “Switch” was a giant infographic highlighting the committed third-party support for the system. The system will be more powerful than the WiiU, but probably not much more powerful. Nevertheless, it has been described as very easy to develop for, and thanks to its mostly gimmick-free design, will be easy to port games onto. In terms of big games, Skyrim Remastered was featured in the trailer, as was NBA2K; Square Enix is listed as a developer, as is EA and dozens more. The system looks to—at least initially—feature all the big games that aren’t paid-exclusives. Whether those games last beyond the first year of the system will depend on if it sells better than WiiU, but that’s a given.
The teaser video highlighted the “concept” but shied away from really showing off how powerful the system will be, how long the battery-life will last, or—most importantly—how much it will cost. Assuming the system is comparable to the Xbox One, has a battery life of at least six hours and isn’t priced out of the market, Nintendo may have a true hit on their hands. It may not be the explosion that the Wii was, but it won’t fizzle and die the way the Wii did either; likewise it won’t drop like a wet fart that only the most diehard Nintendo fans buy, the way WiiU did.
It all comes down to the price. Nintendo is the only company committed to selling systems for profit. Sony and Microsoft take a hit on their machines for the first half of their existence in the marketplace. They absorb their losses due to their being divisions in larger companies; Nintendo strictly is a gaming company. They are in the business of making money selling game systems and games. Yet, they have more money, pound-for-pound, to spend on their systems and games than Sony and Microsoft combined. They have a big enough war chest to take in huge financial losses for decades.
They can afford to take a hit if they have to. Making sure the system is not a $350 behemoth is critical, especially since it’s going to release in an off-calendar time like Spring (people are more willing to drop the big bucks around Christmas time). $299 is acceptable, if there were a lot of games at launch, but $249 would be ideal. WiiU was the company’s biggest financial loss and worst-performing home console. It is completely invisible in the marketplace, which could not be said of Nintendo during the N64 or Gamecube years. After the failure of WiiU, the Big N’s back is against the wall now more than ever. What they’ve shown promises a great do-over.
Let’s hope they deliver.
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Ready, Set, Bag! (2008)
A documentary about being the best you can be.
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One October (2017)
A lyrical loving portrait of New York City and its people in October, 2008.
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Garret Savage is the producer of "One October" (World Premiere, Full Frame Film Festival) with director Rachel Shuman and is the Board President of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. Feature documentary editing projects include the Peabody Award-winning "My Perestroika," directed by Robin Hessman, an episode of "How Democracy Works Now," a 12-part film series about immigration reform directed by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson ("Well Founded Fear"); and "Ready, Set, Bag!" directed by Justine Jacob and Alex DaSilva. His film directing credits include "4-Cylinder 400" (2004, a short documentary which premiered on IFC), "For Food" (2003, short comedy), "Shoot the Freak" (2004, short documentary), "The List" (2005, short comedy), and "1-24" (1995, experimental short, winner of UC Santa Barbara's Corwin Award for Best Short Film). In 2005 he was chosen by The Independent magazine as a "Top Short Filmmaker." As an editor, he cut the award-winning comedic feature "Olympia" (Slamdance, Sundance Channel), has worked on projects for clients including AMC, MTV, Discovery, ABC/ESPN, IFC, WE, Paramount Pictures, and the Style Network, and has cut all of his short films. As an educator, he was the Program Director of the Nantucket Film Festival's Teen View Filmmaking Workshop and has volunteered as a mentor for the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking program, an award-winning youth media organization in Brooklyn. He received his BA in Film Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. later studied acting and directing at the Atlantic Theater Company, and has taught documentary editing at NYU.
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A life more Eminent: Tracey Emin opens up her intimate photo memoir - and tells Liz Jones why her 'not always palatable' past has shaped her life's work
By Liz Jones
Tracey Emin in her Spitalfields studio: 'Me working is me experimenting, me trying something new, me doing something badly but seeing something good in it'
From wild Young British Artist to Royal Academician, Tracey Emin has evoked acclaim and controversy for nearly two decades. Britain's most provocative artist opens up to Britain's most controversial columnist...
I'm in Tracey Emin’s Spitalfields studio. It’s so big, on four floors, you could park an aeroplane in here, yet it’s full to the rafters with works of art in wooden crates, canvases in floor-to-ceiling cubbyholes, a huge desk covered in neat rows of tubes of oil paint (and I thought she’d be messy).
There are two works in progress: sculptures of her beloved cat Docket, asleep in the shape of a comma. It’s so very much a cat, you feel you want to stroke it. One day, 100 years from now, I say, as Tracey appears, all honed thighs and knee boots, a jaunty scarf over a jumper, hair expensively dyed and in a neat ponytail (she eschewed our offer of hair, make-up and stylist), this will all be preserved in aspic. There’s enough here to fill a museum. Does she worry she’s producing too much?
‘Doesn’t happen. When Edvard Munch died he had over 2,000 drawings, 500 paintings and 1,000 watercolours in his house.’ Does she work all the time? ‘I can sit here and sew while talking to you, but that’s not work, it’s production. Me working is me experimenting, me trying something new, me doing something badly but seeing something good in it, having time to open stuff up and reinvent things.’
Does she feel guilty if she isn’t working, could quickly become out of practice, maybe? ‘I feel physically ill if I don’t make work, I don’t create. I don’t feel very good, I don’t feel right, I feel wrong.’ She sounds a perfectionist, disciplined.
‘Sometimes magic things happen; it’s just something within the process. I don’t like it when the drawings get too neat. It looks like a machine’s done them, so it’s no good, it’s got to be real, you know? I’m disciplined in the fact that I get everything done but I’m prone to change my mind on things.
‘I’ve planned my death, what happens afterwards. As an artist you have to, otherwise what would happen? It would just be such a mess, wouldn’t it? One thing about an artist, it doesn’t matter how much your work sells for in your life, it’s going to sell for ten times more than that after you’re dead, and that’s what you have to protect.’
'I wouldn’t want to be really thin now. I don’t not eat, but I do exercise and I watch more what I eat and I try not to drink as much now [she’s had some famously drunken episodes in the past]; I never drink at home alone any more’
It’s a gruesome contradiction, talking about what will happen after her death, when we are meant to be discussing her new book, My Photo Album, which is largely about her childhood and teenage years, before she found success as a conceptual, confrontational artist. It’s a wonderful, evocative edit from a personal stash of 10,000 photos. Can she see she was destined for great things in those early snapshots?
‘I was brought up with a lot of love from my mum and dad. Being wilful meant I had an idea of what was wrong and what was right for me. I spent quite a lot of time alone as a child, too, so I think I was always introspective. And even when I was little, I liked creating things. I used to make doll’s houses out of cardboard boxes.’
She must like looking at herself, I venture; much of her art consists of her own body, photographed, drawn or painted. (She works in many different media: at the moment, watercolour.) Not vain, exactly, but self-obsessed. Did she realise she was, is, beautiful? ‘I never realised what I looked like and I wish I had; I would have made much more of it.
'I’ve always had a thing about my body, always not felt good about it. The happiest I am is the thinnest I can be. I think the less of me there is the better I feel about it. It’s a thing you shouldn’t really say, but that’s the truth, that made me feel good. I was super-fit as well, rode a bike everywhere, swam a kilometre every day… You’re not going to be fat if you do that, and also I was never a big eater.’ And now? ‘Not now. I wouldn’t want to be really thin now. I don’t not eat, but I do exercise and I watch more what I eat and I try not to drink as much now [she’s had some famously drunken episodes in the past]; I never drink at home alone any more.’
She then tells me that, as an artist, you cannot worry there is too much of ‘you’, because that’s exactly what people want.
SELF-PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST: ‘Photo-booth photos were my marking of time. From the age of ten to my 30s I have documented my mood and face alone in the photo booth’
''You can see how much I've been crying here [following the death of her grandmother]
'I stole gallery owner Carl Freedman's shirt in this booth shoot - but I gave it back'
'I was trying to see what I looked like. it was almost like the mirror didn't work and I had to have this other proof'
'I've got my nan's wedding ring around my neck [Tracey's grandmother May had died recently]'
‘You know when you feel physically sick of yourself, if you see your name once more, you’re going to run away from yourself? I have to be outside of myself quite often to be able to do what I do; I have to have some kind of objectivity. I’m over here somewhere looking at me thinking, “Oh look, there she goes, look, she’s doing that.”’
In the book it’s striking that there are so many photos of Tracey alone in photo booths, when most people are always crowded out with friends.
‘I was trying to see what I looked like. It was almost like the mirror didn’t work and I had to have this other proof of who I was.
‘I don’t like looking in a mirror. I look because I have to make sure my hair is tidy and my spot isn’t too big and I haven’t got any junk in the corner of my eye, and to make sure everything’s tucked in and it looks all right, that’s it. I’m not interested in looking in the mirror to see my reflection, I don’t think I ever have been.’
Tracey was born in 1963, and grew up in Margate, now firmly on the art map with its own Turner Contemporary gallery. ‘Half a million visitors,’ she says with pride, suggesting the town has overcome its association with the artist’s rape, aged 13, by older boys; she has said it was ‘par for the course’ in Margate at the time.
She graduated from Maidstone College of Art before earning a place at the Royal College of Art to complete her master’s, in the mid-1980s, and shot to stardom with her tent, with embroidered and appliquéd names, entitled Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (I tell her my names would fit on a hanky), bought for a bargain £40,000 (her work can now fetch millions) by Charles Saatchi in 1997; it was destroyed in a warehouse fire in 2004.
'My nan said, "There's money in chairs." She meant that people hide it in them - but I took it as a signifier'
'That's me at the South London Gallery at my opening in 1997. Now I knew I could make it as an artist'
Tracey created Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, also known as My Tent, in 1995
She has endured as a conceptual, autobiographical artist – she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, the year she showed My Bed at the Tate, represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and her show She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea at Margate last year received the best reviews of her career – where other artists have failed because she is ‘emotionally honest. I prefer to call it emotional art, which is really difficult to do. Before, people thought it was pretty basic and looked down on it, you know, but now I don’t think they do. A lot changed after the death of Diana; people’s emotions came to the surface.
My Bed, one of Tracey's most famous and controversial works
‘You know that thing I said earlier about saying I get sick of my own name? You, Liz, have to get over that one too. I remember reading about when your mum was ill, and you wrote about how much more distraught you were when your cat died, and I was thinking, f***ing hell, I wonder whether she should really be saying that. On the other hand, I wonder how many people can relate to that?’
I tell her that I have found revealing so much in my column has come with a huge price tag. There is no mystery, no privacy, and I gesture at the charcoal drawings around us of Tracey naked, her pubic hair a scribble. That must be hard, surely? I ask if she feels she knows where to draw the line when it comes to self-revelation. ‘There’s a modicum of decorum in everything and there’s a level of vulgarity that you just wouldn’t want to go to. I’m not interested in shocking, never have been interested in shocking, never will be interested in shocking.’
I tell her what strikes me most about the photo album is that she seems to be alone a lot, once she is no longer a child and is parted from her twin brother Paul. (Tracey says that they are close to this day and she loves him very much; she also has an elder brother, Alan.) She says many of the photos are taken ‘like this’, and mimes holding her camera at arm’s length, lens pointed myopically at her face. ‘It’s not like I’ve got a full-blown family, I haven’t, it’s not like I’ve got me and my husband there, children.’
'That's my studio at the Elephant & Castle. I was pregnant in this picture and also I was incredibly healthy. You can see I'm confused. I had my abortion when I was three and a half months pregnant. Quite late. Dave Dawson, Lucian Freud's assistant for 20 years, took the picture; he photographed Lucian and the Queen'
Left: Tracey drawing Kate Moss in 1999. Right: 'I was quite old - 32, 33. It was 1997. I had my South London show and Time Out got me to give them a guided tour around Margate. I asked someone to take this photo of me. The old pier doesn't exist any more. It looks like a really strange place, doesn't it? My mum was in hospital on a life-support machine and I thought she was going to die, so I was in Margate a lot in case I had to rush to hospital in time to see her. I'm amazed at how open I'm being about my body. I would never do that now'
In the book’s epilogue, she describes her family as ‘dysfunctional. There are hardly any photos of family occasions. This is because we never really existed like a family. I grew up with a strange extended family of people coming and going. [The family ran a hotel in Margate.] My mum worked from 7am to 9pm. My father lived with his wife and we rarely saw him [Turkish Cypriot property developer Enver Emin was married to another woman, with whom he had three children. By the time he died he had fathered 23.]’
We turn to the photo of her in a cable car in Barcelona in 2001. ‘I like this photo because it was such a fantastic experience. There I was, on my own in Barcelona, in a cable car, going to have tea at the Miró museum, and it was really lovely. If I want to go somewhere, I’ll go whether I’m with someone or not, but obviously I’d like to go with someone who’d appreciate the same things as me.
‘When people have children, they have a sense of purpose. When you don’t have children you have to make your own reasons for being here’
'But recently I was supposed to go to Uruguay to see the waterfalls. I had booked my flight and hotel but I had no one to go with and at the last minute I decided not to go because these waterfalls are the most amazing waterfalls in the world and, ideally, I should see them with someone.’
One reviewer noted that, post menopause, she has ceased the man bashing that seeped into much of her work. ‘I really don’t want to wage war on 50 per cent of the world that happens to be men, just because I haven’t got one,’ she says.
‘I want to enjoy all the brilliant things that I’ve got. I didn’t go to the waterfalls on my own and feel sorry for myself. I made a choice, and I went horse-riding instead.’
There are lots of happy photos in the book of her with fellow YBA (Young British Artist, as they were known in the 1990s) Mat Collishaw; they were in a relationship for six years, broke up a decade ago, but remain friends (there are no photos of Scott Douglas, a handsome photographer whom she was with for four tempestuous years, until 2010). ‘Even when I was with Mat, we were both artists, so we were constantly travelling together or separately as artists, doing shows abroad and that kind of thing.’ Was he competitive with you? ‘No, never ever, not at all. It’s quite good being with an artist, because they understand.’
I remind her she once biked to my house two drawings of cats, for me to auction on behalf of the Celia Hammond Animal Trust, which mainly rescues cats in East London – proving that she is generous. ‘Some of my estate will go to animal charities. Plus some to the Terrence Higgins Trust, the Blue Cross and a children’s library that I set up in Uganda. And, yes, some to family.’ I ask how she has managed to stay close to family and friends when so often the famous and the successful make those around them resentful, greedy. ‘Absolutely not, I don’t have people around me like that. My mum just spent a week with me, we had a fantastic time. They know I work really hard and everyone’s sort of quite proud of me.
‘Modelling my own clothes made out of curtains, 1982’
'My parents never married, but I was very close to my dad; he died three years ago. I’ve got one friend from 46 years ago [Maria, whom she met at primary school in Margate]. I’m friends with Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, heart surgeon Jullien Gaer, Ben Ainslie… I like people who work hard.’
There is one very poignant photo in the book. She’s on the edge of the frame, in her studio at Elephant & Castle, and she tells me that photo was taken when she was 26 and pregnant. She had an abortion at three and a half months. ‘I could’ve had children as an artist. It’s not because I didn’t meet anyone; if I wanted to have a baby, I could’ve. I didn’t want to because the creative yearning and wanting to be an artist far overrode the physical feelings of wanting to be a mother – they were much stronger. Being an artist, being a writer, really sucks it out of you. The mother who is the CEO of the company or whatever can’t wait to get home and see her children. The mother who’s in the studio painting will resent going home to see her children.’
She is 50 this year – maybe I shouldn’t have brought up the subject of ageing, especially as the photos in the book prove she has the exact same lopsided face she had when she was five, but she says, with no hint of self-pity, ‘For me, it’s all over! It’s kind of good, there’s no desperation at all. Men reach their peak when they’re about 40, 45, and women just keep going and going!
‘I made two seminal pieces of art, I made My Tent and My Bed, they’re well known and whatever, I wouldn’t make that work now, would I? I’ve got a show in New York on 2 May and the work I’ve made for that is drawings of myself sitting in a chair and they’re not particularly flattering but some of them really look like my body as it is now, so it’s a confrontational thing, it’s an understanding of what I am.
‘I’m nearly 50 and that’s where I am. I know I’m supposed to say ageing doesn’t bother me, then suddenly you’re like, “Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it, I’m getting old. I’m old!”
Tracey with chef Mark Hix at a party celebrating her Emin International homeware range at Selfridges in 2011. Tracey designed labels for Hix’s wine bottles. Tracey’s Love Is What You Want exhibition is at the Southbank Centre from mid May
‘You can only be miss if you’re under ten and over 70, really. And I feel like I’m going to be that “miss”, you know? It’s OK to call me miss now, because I’m actually past the age where it would be disrespectful. My mum can’t walk so well at the moment and has to be in a wheelchair the whole time. And recently, before going to Buckingham Palace to collect my CBE, going down Bond Street with the wheelchair was brilliant.
We were trying on hats and my mum said, “Imagine if I couldn’t enjoy this?” Hopefully, the last bit of me to go will be my brain. For the future, drinking is a big question mark. It’s not being holier than thou, it’s that I know what I’d rather be doing when I’m 95.’ Working? ‘Yes. And it would be so stupid not to be able to do that because my brain had gone to mush.’
She says her only regret is that she ever took up smoking; she has now quit. She has a gorgeous early Georgian house nearby on Fournier Street, and a home in the South of France. The book makes her appear lonely, but that’s not how she feels.
She returns to the subject of children. ‘When people have children, they have a sense of purpose. When you don’t have children you have to define and make your own purpose and make your own reasons for being here. I’d like to think I inspire young people to be creative.’
As I leave, I tell her my favourite pieces are the sculptures of her baby (the cat) Docket (when she’s away, he’s looked after by his ‘uncle’, who lives in a cottage in the garden), in bronze. ‘I was really missing him when I made them. I feel they look like him, but then I took hundreds and hundreds of photos. He’s a good little soul to have around. He stops me from feeling alone. I’m actually really happy about being on my own, I really feel good about it. I feel like I’ve achieved something, just a little bit.’
The serial rights to Tracey’s book have been donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust, tht.org.uk
An extract from My Photo Album
I had grown up with images of myself as a baby, myself and my twin brother, being held in my mother’s arms, being pushed in a giant double pram, sitting on a beach on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, a family photo of us surrounded by Turkish wrestlers.
Until the age of four I had a weird little princess look about me. Long, golden curly hair, white gloves, handbag and ankle socks. Posing for the photographer, looking straight into the lens. Giant almond-shaped eyes. Miniature button turned-up nose. Sad, pouty turned-down lips. Never, ever a smile. I saw all these images of myself and other family members in my mum’s photo album. The album didn’t just have straightforward photos. She had cut some figures so they would be floating or just suspended on the page. The album went from the late 1950s, with her husband Frank Cashin, my elder brother Alan and their life in West Africa, to life with my father, travelling by road through Turkey in the 1960s, and finally our strange dysfunctional life in Margate in the 1970s.
Tracey as a child with her twin brother Paul, with whom she remains close
'Look how sad I am. I'm three. Do you think I'm sad because I didn't want to have my photo taken? Yeah'
Tracey's mother Pam's album: 'That's a brilliant picture of my nan May in a deckchair'
Then there are hardly any photos. Apart from the ones my brother and I took ourselves with our little camera, and the obligatory school photos taken every year, where I look strange – a giant smile but unhappy behind my eyes – there are hardly any photos of family occasions. This is because we never really existed like a family. I grew up with a strange extended family. My mum worked long hours. My father lived with his wife and other family.
After the age of seven, moments captured on camera were few and far between. And there was no responsible witness. The eye behind the camera just wasn’t there. So for me there are massive gaps of documentation in my childhood. This would explain why so much of my work relates to memories of my early years. A need to clarify and confirm events. Not all palatable. I did not grow up with any images of the family marking of time, but an image of the self.
'David leaned over on the table and said, “I’m so sorry to interrupt, my name’s David and I’d just like to say that I really like your work.” And I looked up and went, “The feeling’s mutual”’
Photo-booth photos were my marking of time. From the age of ten to my 30s, I have documented my mood and face alone in the photo booth. When I was 13, my purse went missing at school. Inside were maybe 50 strips of photo-booth pictures. I found them in a pile in the playground, ripped into tiny pieces. It was all I had to prove to myself who I had been and how I appeared. They were my identity. The memory of my own existence. And someone had destroyed them.
At 17, I even tried to emulate my mother’s exotic photo album, with floating cutouts of myself and friends, suspended in time. Now in my mind both these albums collide into one. I feel this book is similar to those albums – a document of the passing of time. An invisible line held by the hand of a ghost, moving from one world to the next. I think when I’m old, I’m going to like this book even more.
With David Bowie and Iman in 1997: ‘I met him when I was in a restaurant in Kensington. We exchanged phone numbers and stuff like that and we kept in
touch. These photos were taken in Dublin, where we’d gone for the weekend. The little girl was an unknown interloper’
© Tracey Emin 2013. Extracted from Tracey Emin: My Photo Album
Tracey Emin: My Photo Album, edited, designed and published by Fuel (fuel-design.com), will be out on 6 May, price £19.95. To order a copy for £16.99 with free p&p, contact the YOU Bookshop on 0844 472 4157, you-bookshop.co.uk.
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Iran and Trump: Here’s What’s Really Going On
James Carafano / @JJCarafano / June 19, 2019 / Leave a comment
"The more malicious behavior Tehran exhibits, the more incontrovertible evidence it produces of the fact that the regime has no respect for international norms. It is making [President Donald] Trump’s case for him. He should continue to let it," James Carafano writes. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
James Carafano / @JJCarafano
James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. Read his research.
There are wars and rumors of war. And then there is President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran, which fuels endless speculation.
Despite much public handwringing over the announcement that the Pentagon is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Gulf region, there are no signs the U.S. plans to escalate the standoff with Tehran.
I spent 25 years in the Army, but it doesn’t take a military career and a war college diploma to deconstruct what is going on.
Let’s start with numbers.
A thousand troops do not an invasion force make.
Even counting the additional troops deployed last month on the strength of intelligence concerning an Iranian threat to shipping and (potentially) U.S. forces and assets in the Middle East, the number of U.S. boots on the ground are far too small to suggest a buildup for any major offensive action.
Now, let’s look at the kind and scale of troops being sent.
They are completely consistent with what is required for “force protection”—defending U.S. forces in the region, as well as policing the Hormuz against malicious attacks on shipping.
Next, let’s consider the source.
The reinforcements are being sent at the request of Central Command, based on an assessment of what the commanders on the ground think they need. These are not troops dispatched from the White House to ratchet up the pressure on Iran.
Finally, let’s step back for a broader view.
From a distance, the U.S. posture in the Middle East looks pretty steady. The Pentagon has modestly beefed up its capacity to: safeguard U.S. forces already there; preserve freedom of operation on the seas; and respond to any threats.
The last-mentioned item would include, if necessary, conducting proportional punitive strikes against anyone threatening the shipping lanes.
And while we’re taking in that broader view, let’s turn our eyes on Iran.
From what we can tell, it hasn’t introduced any game-changers either. The regime continues to deny it’s up to anything in the straits.
While it did announce plans to increase its uranium enrichment activities and exceed agreed-upon restrictions on its stockpiles of enriched uranium, it has not completely abrogated its commitments.
Moreover, Iran’s enrichment activities fall far short of what it’d doing if it were sprinting to a nuclear breakout.
Europe hasn’t changed much either. It is increasingly clear that Britain is breaking ranks with the continental powers and aiding the U.S. It would be no surprise if a new conservative British government backed out of the Iran deal altogether.
The rest of Europe, however, seems frozen in dither-mode: unable to give up the ghost of the Obama-era deal; flummoxed by Iran’s unremittingly belligerent activity, and unwilling to condemn Iran’s attack on the tankers.
They are like the kid in Stephen King’s “The Shining” who hopes that if he closes his eyes tightly, when he opens them, the monster will have disappeared.
With all sides seemingly willing to stand pat, the worries about escalating conflict seem overblown.
Yes, some have called for the U.S. to punish Iran with military strikes, but that’s a step that doesn’t make much sense right now.
The longer Washington exercises restraint, the more Iran reveals itself as the problem here. The mullahs threatening to enrich is a case point.
Critics of the Iran deal long-maintained that the agreement didn’t put any real obstacles in front of the Iran nuclear program.
They warned that it allowed Tehran to pick up where it left off whenever it wanted and in the meantime, left the regime free to continue all its other lawless behavior.
They were exactly right. Tehran pretty much just made the case that the agreement is a paper tiger.
Further, the longer this goes and the more malicious behavior Tehran exhibits, the more incontrovertible evidence it produces of the fact that the regime has no respect for international norms.
It is making Trump’s case for him. He should continue to let it.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has other defensive options it can roll out.
During the “tanker wars” of the 1980s, the U.S. allowed foreign oil tankers to reflag as American ships. In addition, the U.S. adapted oil platforms in the Gulf to use as surveillance posts, monitoring and responding to shipping threats.
All of this is to say that the U.S. can establish a sustained presence in the Gulf with low risk, at a reasonable cost, keeping the waters open forever.
Iran knows it can’t win a war of intimidation in the Gulf. Why does it bother? Well, it’s a tough neighborhood. If it doesn’t act tough, it will lose all respect.
Moreover, the mullahs have fond memories of how their taking of American hostages helped deny President Jimmy Carter a second term.
Maybe they hope that, by roiling the waters anew, they will help turn Trump out of office in 2020 and perhaps get a more compliant replacement.
Originally published in Fox News
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Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company sued for denying lifetime disability benefits to former attorney
Recently, in the case of Steven J. Kravitz v Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company (Provident Life), an action alleging breach of a disability insurance contract and promissory estoppel was filed at the District Court of the Southern district of Florida by a disability attorney. This lawsuit deals with the issue of whether a disability was caused by an accident or sickness. In this case if the claimant can prove that his disability was caused by an accident, then he will be entitled to lifetime disability benefits.
Background of the Case
The plaintiff Steven J. Kravitz was a former leading real estate attorney who purchased a disability income insurance policy from Provident Life which had became effective on July 1st 1980. Under the terms of the policy, total disabilitycan result from an accident or sickness. The terms of the policy also indicated that if an insured was to suffer from a Sickness Total Disability prior to age 50, or an Accident Total Disability, the maximum period for which the disability benefits will be paid out will be the insured’s lifetime. For a Sickness Total Disability that occurred after age 50, the maximum period for the disability benefits to be payable will be until the insured’s 65th birthday. It was also stated that not less than 24 months of benefits will be paid out to the insured in the case of the second scenario.
In December 1996, the plaintiff received a flu vaccination which caused him to be totally disabled from his occupation due to chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), a variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). At the time when the plaintiff was diagnosed with CIDP, he was unaware that the flu vaccination was a rare cause of GBS. In 1998, due to further deterioration of his physical condition, the plaintiff was unable to work and submitted to Provident Life a claim for long term disability benefits. Provident Life determined that the plaintiff was totally disabled under the terms of the policy as of April 1st 1998 and approved the plaintiff’s claim for disability benefits. Since then, the plaintiff has remained totally disabled as defined under the terms of the policy.
Offer to buyout insurance policy by Provident Life
On April 1st 2005, Provident Life while in the administration of the plaintiff’s disability claim offered to buyout the plaintiff’s policy bundled with the plaintiff’s two other disability polices administered by Provident Life parent company, UNUM. In the letter dated April 1st 2005 informing the plaintiff of the offer, Provident Life also indicated that the plaintiff was entitled to receive lifetime benefits under the policy. Prior to this letter, Provident Life had never informed the plaintiff whether it was administrating the plaintiff’s disability claim under a sickness disability or an accident disability.
Because Provident Life had indicated that the plaintiff was entitled to a lifetime of benefits, he rejected the buyout offer made by Provident Life. Provident Life then informed the plaintiff on July 9th 2010 that his benefits under the policy would terminate on April 1st 2011 (at age 65 instead of lifetime benefits).
The plaintiff subsequently reminded Provident Life of its prior representation that the plaintiff was entitled to lifetime benefits. In addition, the plaintiff provided medical statements from his physicians that his disability was accidental due to the flu vaccination he received in December 1986. On October 14th 2010, the plaintiff filed a Civil Remedy Notice to the Florida Department of Financial Services about Provident Life’s refusal to pay lifetime benefits to the plaintiff under the policy.
Provident Life in response to the Civil Remedy Notice argued that its prior representation of lifetime benefits to the plaintiff was a “mistake” as a result of an “administrative error”. Although Provident Life’s internal medical review had also indicated that the plaintiff’s disability could had been caused by the flu vaccination, Provident Life still maintained that the plaintiff was disabled due to sickness and as such limited the payment of disability benefits to the insured until the insured’s 65th birthday. Subsequently Provident Life terminated the plaintiff’s benefits on April 1st 2011.
Judgment sought under the Lawsuit
In the action filed against Provident Life in the District Court, the plaintiff alleged that he had suffered damages due to the conduct by Provident Life. As such, the plaintiff is demanding from Provident Life:
Payment of unpaid benefits
Prejudgment interest
Attorney fees and costs
Other relief deemed proper by the court
That Provident Life be prevented from asserting that the plaintiff’s disability is a result of sickness for which disability benefits are payable until the insured had reached the age of 65 as this would represent an injustice upon the plaintiff as he had relied upon Provident Life’s representation of lifetime disability benefits.
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These terms and conditions apply to any work (“the work”) undertaken by Devstars Limited (“the Agency”) arising from verbal or written instructions given by a Client (‘the Client’) following a provision of an estimate for a specified number of hours required for completion of the work (“the estimate”). These terms and conditions apply unless a variation has been subsequently agreed and confirmed in writing, signed by an authorised representative of Agency and the Client.
The work: the Agency will carry out any and all work requested by and agreed with (verbally or in writing) the Client in consideration for a fee based on the hourly rate set out in the estimate.
(i) The applicable rate of fees for the work is hourly rate set out in the estimate.
(ii) Any estimates of the whole or any part of the total fee applicable for the work (“the total fee”) is given in good faith and shall be treated as an estimate only and all errors and omissions shall be excepted.
(iii) Any estimates of the total fee shall be valid for 30 days from the date of the estimate.
(iv) The Agency reserves its right to apply additional charges for any work entailed in altering or modifying the deliverables caused by any changes, amendments or additions requested by the Client after the date of the estimate.
(i) Payment of the fees shall be made in pounds sterling according to the terms of the invoice.
(ii) The Agency shall be entitled to charge interest on overdue sums.
Upon Delivery and provided that the Client has complied with its obligations to pay off all sums due for the work, the Agency grants to the Client a non-exclusive worldwide licence to use any proprietary software of the Agency used in the creation, development and/or operation of the deliverables (including any sub-routines, sub-elements or other generic parts of such software incorporated into the deliverables which constitute the “building blocks” of the underlying code) (the “Agency Software”) solely in connection with the normal operation of the deliverables and, where applicable, in accordance with the Agency’s express instructions. The Agency shall obtain all such usage rights for the Client in respect of any software owned by a third party used in the creation, development and/or operation of the deliverables (the “Third Party Software”) as are deemed necessary by the Agency. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agency’s assignment under this clause 5 to the Client of any copyright and intellectual property rights in the deliverables shall not include the Agency Software, the Third Party Software or any software distributed under the general public license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt) used by the Agency in the course of the development of the deliverables or incorporated by the Agency into the deliverables.
Subject to the above clause 5 and provided that the Client has complied with its obligations to pay off all sums due to the Agency from the Client, any copyright and intellectual property rights in all any artwork, photograph, layout, copy, designs or any other material created by the Agency under the Agreement shall be assigned to the Client upon Delivery. The Agency reserves the right to use all creative work or materials for its own portfolio or demonstration purposes. The creation of any materials for the Client by the Agency may involve making use of any artwork, photograph, layout, copy, designs or any other material protected by copyright and intellectual property rights belonging to a third party and in existence at the time it is desired to make use of it for the purposes of the Services (“Existing Work”) or any database or methodologies, system or know-how owned, used or created by the Agency, which is also intended for the Client’s use (“Generic Work”). The Agency shall obtain all such usage rights for the Client in respect of the use the Existing Work and Generic Work as are deemed necessary by the Agency. Unless expressly requested and paid for by the Client the copyright in ‘stock’ photographs obtained from news or photographic agencies for particular deliverables or to photographic or film negatives or to any other medium in which this material may be supplied will not be assigned to the Client.
Confidential Information:
The parties acknowledge a duty, subsisting during and after the termination of this Agreement between the Agency and the Client, not to disclose without the other’s prior written permission any confidential information either concerning the other’s business, its business plans, customers or associated companies. The Agency acknowledges its responsibility to treat in complete confidence all the marketing and sales information and statistics relating to the Client’s business with which the Client may supply the Agency in the course of any work for the Client. The Agency shall impose obligations in terms equivalent to those in this clause 7 on its own personnel. The restrictions in this clause 7 shall not prevent the disclosure or use of information in the proper performance of the Agency’s duties; disclosure as required by law; and the disclosure of information which has come into the public domain other than through unauthorised disclosure.
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(i) All estimate prepared by the Agency are prepared in good faith and on the basis of instructions and information put before the Agency by the Client at the time of preparation. Their suitability or application of effectiveness will depend on the Client, the Client’s staff and subcontractors to the Client and no proposal is to be taken to warrant achievable or attainable results or performance.
(ii) The Agency warrants that having taken such legal advice and undertaken such searches as the Agency considers reasonably necessary, to the best of its knowledge and belief any creative work produced by the Agency as part of the Services will be original to its authors, has not been previously published in any form in the United Kingdom (the “UK”) and will not infringe the copyright of any third party in the UK.
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(i) the Agency’s maximum aggregate liability under or in connection with the Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will in no circumstances exceed £1,000,000 ; and
(ii) the Agency will not be liable under these Terms and Conditions of Provision of Service for any loss of actual or anticipated income or profits, loss of contracts or for any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind howsoever arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, whether or not such loss or damage is foreseeable, foreseen or known.
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18 Distinctive Poster Designs that Inspire and Shape Ideas and Movements
Image series via Wallpaper.zone community celebrating Marvel Superheroes, from left, Spiderman, Captain America and Iron Man.
Design is integral to our work at Elf - it's our bedrock upon which we dream up all our ideas and make them come to life. While much of our work today involves digital screens, we love posters, an iconic cornerstone of print graphic design too!
Posters celebrate ideas and moments in history or in the life of a person. They help us remember the past while looking forward to the future. Posters can be both gorgeous works of art as well as printed historical reference for their time period. We're most inspired by posters that go beyond mere illustration to actually shaping how people think, act and feel, thereby shaping the future.
Here's a look at some iconic posters over the years.
Absinthe Robette
This Henri Privat-Livemont’s poster in the 1920s is typical of the period's style. A Pre-Raphelite inspired figure enjoys and celebrates what was considered a luxury good at the time – in this case, Absinthe Robette.
I Want You for U.S. Army
This famous, iconic poster by J.M. Flagg in 1917 used the artist's own face to depict Uncle Sam and was used to recruit soldiers to fight in both World War I and World War II.
Designed by the British Ministry of Information in 1939 to boost and sustain public morale during World War II, the poster was not used much at the time.
However since 1999, this iconic British slogan has gained tremendous popularity and is now used everywhere.
Designed in 1943 as an American wartime propaganda poster to boost worker morale, the poster was rediscovered in the 1980s and the heroine proclaimed 'Rosie the Riveter,' a symbol of feminism and empowerment.
In the 1980s it was rediscovered and its hero, who came to be known as ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ found fame again as a symbol of feminism and political empowerment.
Designed by German artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm, this 1927 poster for the German sci-fi classic Metropolis movie has had a tremendous influence on both poster and movie set design.
In 2005, the original poster sold at auction for $690,000 - the highest fee for a poster design.
See America
During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the Works Projects Administration to spur economic growth. The artist Dux Alexander created a series of prints to bring tourists to visit American national parks.
SS Normandie
Adolphe Cassandra created this poster with an Art Deco style to match the 1935 Normandie ocean liner's interior while demonstrating the ship's large bow. Built in Saint-Nazaire, the Normandie was the largest and fastest ship of its time.
Saul Bass designed this poster to match the distinctive style of Alfred Hitchcock’s blockbuster. The poster invokes a feeling of vertigo as two figures fall in space. Bass used geometric shapes called hypotrochoid curves to create this effect.
Die Gute Form
Known as the International Typographic Style, this new style of poster emerged after World War II. Amin Hofmann, a well known Swiss designer, created this modern poster with a grid-based design, bold use of san serif typeface Helvetica and monochrome photography.
Giornata Olimpica
This style of iconic Olympic posters takes the sport back to its roots in a simple, elegant and distinctive form.
This 1961 poster by Robert McGinnis depicts Audrey Hepburn in her most memorable role as Holly Golightly in the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
This poster with psychedelic colors in the singer's mane, was designed by Milton Glaser in 1966 to accompany Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits album.
This poster captures the marvelous moment in Steven Spielberg’s movie E.T. where Elliott and his friend E.T., cross the moon as they escape to the forest.
These posters were created for the California Milk Processer Board and have helped boost dairy milk consumption.
Since these posters appeared in the 1990s, many famous people have worn a white mustache. This image in 1996 features baseball star Cal Ripken Jr.
Created by the McCann agency in Australia, this poster ran along with a viral video for a rail safety campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia.
Funny and to the point, the poster series and video showed that there are plenty of dumb ways to die and successfully prevented as many as 20 percent of accidents that occurred in the Melbourne Metro after its release.
Visit Mars
SpaceX, the space company founded by Elon Musk, created a series of posters similar to NASA's series with the goal of future interstellar travel.
This poster of Iron Man in the trilogy's first movie, reintroduced the Marvel comic's iconic character to the public. Depicted by Charles Downey Jr. with great style and humor, the character of Iron Man has transformed both the movie and television industry as audiences loved the excellent storytelling, use of technology and personal empowerment conveyed. www.marvel.com
Alcest
These limited edition posters by the dreamy French pop band Alcest, demonstrates both craftsmanship and silk screening prowess.
The band is known for always seeking out original styles and new art forms for its print and digital media.
This style also demonstrates a growing popularity in the last decade for handmade, silkscreen prints and a return to artisanal craftsmanship. www.alcest-music.com
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categories: Elf News & Case Studies
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Watch out Mickey: 'Star Wars' theme parks are not 'far, far away'
Disney's Bob Iger announced that the company will introduce 'Star Wars'-themed lands in the company's Disneyland park in Anaheim, Calif., and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., during Disney's D23 Expo on Aug 15, 2015. (Pic: Disneyparks.disney.go.com)
Published Sunday, August 16, 2015
R2-D2 will be rolling into Mickey Mouse's neighborhood, Disney announced Saturday, unveiling plans for two huge 'Star Wars' theme parks adjacent to existing US venues in Florida and California.
With star Harrison Ford on hand, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that after Disney's $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm three years ago, "we wanted to bring 'Star Wars' to every corner of our company... Not only on screens but in real life."
(Pic: Disneyparks.disney.go.com)
"We are creating a jaw-dropping new world that represents our largest single-themed land expansion ever," Iger said.
"These new lands at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will transport guests to a whole new Star Wars planet, including an epic Star Wars adventure that puts you in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance."
In addition to that battle experience, visitors will be able to drive "one of the most recognizable ships in the galaxy," the Millennium Falcon, on a secret mission, he said.
The Star Wars parks will be in Orlando, next to Disney Hollywood Studios, and in Anaheim, next to Disneyland.
The 14-acre (5.6-hectare) sites will have their own staff and restaurants will be staffed by wild creatures from the space saga.
"You'll have a chance to run into all the droids and fantastic beasts," Iger added.
It's the first time the entertainment giant is trying the 'Star Wars' theme at its parks.
New films in pipeline
The three-day D23 expo at the convention center in Anaheim -- home to the original Disneyland Park -- has drawn Disney fans and media representatives from around the globe.
Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said that on the heels of his smashing success with 'Jurassic World,' director Colin Trevorrow would be at the helm for the upcoming 'Star Wars - Episode IX.' It is due out in 2019.
The cast of 'Star Wars - Episode VII - The Force Awakens' -- the next chapter in the wildly popular franchise -- drew a massive round of cheering, particularly for Ford, known for playing Han Solo.
As part of its strategy to squeeze the most out of the 'Star Wars' universe, Disney plans to release one film a year until 2019.
After 'Episode 7' will come 'Rogue One,' in December 2016. It is currently filming with Gareth Edwards ('Godzilla') directing, and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn and Forest Whitaker.
Jungle Book going live
Johnny Depp wowed the crowd decked out as his popular Jack Sparrow character from 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
Its next installment comes out in 2017 starring Orlando Bloom and Javier Bardem.
Disney is planning to keep turning animated favorites into live-action blockbusters.
On the heels of 'Maleficent' and 'Cinderella,' it is the turn of Rudyard Kipling's 'Jungle Book' to shine with live actors next year.
The film was shot using cutting-edge digital technologies and has a star-studded cast.
Ben Kingsley plays black panther Bagheera, Neel Sethi takes the role of Mowgli and Lupita Nyong'o is cast as wolf Raksha.
Star voicings also come from Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Christopher Walken and Idris Elba.
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HomeAnalysisReports: Trump Administration Plans to Slash Funding for Drug Czar’s Office
Reports: Trump Administration Plans to Slash Funding for Drug Czar’s Office
May 5, 2017 Press Analysis, Commentary
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 5, 2017. Today, reports have emerged that the Trump Administration plans to cut the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s budget by nearly 95%.
Below is a statement by Grant Smith, deputy director of national affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance:
“The reality is that ONDCP is an agency in dire need of reform. Under Michael Botticelli, during Obama’s second term, the agency made progress in terms of seeing drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal justice issue. But we know that Trump and Sessions are keen on escalating the war on drugs, so there is a real fear that ONDCP will be used as another tool to prosecute this failed drug war – as it was under Bill Clinton and both Bush presidencies. If that was the plan for ONDCP, then we would rather see it eliminated. The HIDTA and Drug Free Communities grant programs, run by ONDCP, are a phenomenal waste of money that contribute to the incarceration and stigmatization of drug users, so their elimination is a welcome move.”
Related Material:
Trump administration proposes massive cuts to Drug Czar Office; By: Jacqueline Alemany, May 5, 2017
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-proposes-massive-cuts-to-drug-czar-office/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=37243518
The Trump administration is looking to slash the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) budget by nearly 95 percent, according to a memo obtained by CBS News.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed major ONDCP budget cuts for fiscal year 2018 that would cut 33 employees, nearly half the office staff, along with intelligence, research and budget functions at the agency, as well as the Model State Drug Laws and Drug Court grant programs.
The cuts were outlined in OMB’s “passback” document, a part of the budget process where the Office instructs federal agencies to draw up preliminary budgets that are subject to Congressional approval. It was uploaded to MAX Collect, the OMB’s budget database.
The document also zeroes out funding to a number of grant programs including the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program and the Drug-free Communities Support Program. These grants are “duplicative of other efforts across the Federal government and supplant State and local responsibilities,” the memo states.
HIDTA serves as a catalyst for coordination among federal state and local enforcement entities, and funds task forces in 49 states across the country. It is considered a vital tool used by law enforcement agencies to go after very high profile drug dealers and conduct in-depth interagency investigations.
The drug free communities support program is the nation’s largest drug prevention program and funds 5,000 local anti-drug community coalitions across the country. This program has also enjoyed broad bipartisan support.
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order last month to create a presidential commission to tackle the national opioid commissions, chaired by New Jersey Governor Christ Christie. The Order stated that the ONDCP would be providing support for the Commission.
“I have been encouraged by the Administration’s commitment to addressing the opioid epidemic, and the President’s personal engagement on the issue, both during the campaign and since he was sworn into office,” the ONDCP’s Acting Director, Richard Baum, wrote in an office-wide email.
“However, since OMB’s proposed cuts are also at odds with the fact that the President has tasked us with supporting his Commission on Combatting drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.”
“These drastic proposed cuts are frankly heartbreaking, and if carried out, would cause us to lose many good people who contribute greatly to ONDCP’s mission and core activities,” Baum wrote.
The staff was notified of the cuts Friday after Baum and top aides were notified of the draconian cuts last Thursday. According to a source familiar with the discussions, Baum has been in close contact with Jared Kushner, who heads up the White House Office of American Innovation.
Baum had hoped to convince the Office of American Innovation that the ONDCP is an essential tool in combatting the opioid epidemic. The discussions did not go as planned.
“The budget process is a complex one with many moving parts,” The White House said in a statement to CBS. “It would be premature for us to comment – or anyone to report – on any aspect of this ever-changing, internal discussion before the publication of the document. The President and his cabinet are working collaboratively to create a leaner, more efficient government that does more with less of tax payers’ hard-earned dollars.”
Source: www.drugpolicy.org
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DrFirst Exclusively Hosts Fallon Community Health Plan Formulary in Massachusetts
ROCKVILLE, MD, March 15, 2005 – DrFirst announced today that it is exclusively hosting Fallon Community Health Plan’s formulary. Through DrFirst Rcopia, Massachusetts’ physicians will have access to formularies for the state’s four largest health insurers. This agreement will allow FCHP’s 12,000 contracted doctors and 41 hospitals to utilize DrFirst’s award-winning Rcopia Electronic Prescription Management program, which is also endorsed by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
“The addition of Fallon Community Health Plan expands on the initial group of payors in Massachusetts dedicated to delivering the benefits of technology and electronic prescription management to the mainstream medical market,” said Cameron Deemer, Senior VP and General Manager of DrFirst. “These new alliances extend our portfolio of existing partners and assist in achieving the goal of helping doctors and their staffs take advantage of real-time information about patients’ health plans, formularies and medication histories in order to improve patient safety and convenience, and reduce prescribing errors.”
DrFirst Rcopia offers an end-to-end electronic prescribing system that integrates patient eligibility and formulary information with medication history at the point of care. The system allows the physician to transmit the prescription electronically to the pharmacy of the patient’s choosing. This process works for renewals as well as new prescriptions. DrFirst Rcopia is designed to produce legible and error-free prescriptions, reducing the number of phone calls and faxes between the physician’s office and the pharmacy. The system also increases patient safety by incorporating automatic drug-to-drug and drug-to-allergy interaction checking at the time of prescribing.
“Fallon Community Health Plan is working hard to promote and enable the use of technology among physicians across the Commonwealth. By partnering with DrFirst, we are expanding our long-term commitment to e-prescribing and broadening access to our formulary,” says Mark Fisher, Chief Operating Officer at Fallon Community Health Plan. “This is a great benefit to our members, our network physicians, the pharmacies, and, in fact, the entire health care system in Massachusetts and we are pleased to have the opportunity to engage DrFirst in this effort.”
Physicians can use DrFirst Rcopia via the web on desktop, laptop and tablet PCs. Mobile implementation is powered by DrFirst Rcopia for Palm OS® and PocketPC® which integrates seamlessly with the web-based system to ensure full on-line and off-line functionality.
About DrFirst
Utilizing the latest advancements in Internet, security, wireless, web and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technology, DrFirst provides a suite of integrated, affordable, intuitive and easily implemented products and services for the healthcare community. DrFirst’s products include electronic prescribing, charge capture and secure messaging. These comprehensive solutions solve critical communication, business productivity and clinical needs of physicians, clinics, and health systems. More information about DrFirst can be found at www.drfirst.com.
Fallon Community Health Plan
Founded in 1977, Fallon Community Health Plan (FCHP) provides health care services designed to meet the unique and changing needs of all we serve. Our robust product portfolio includes a variety of health plan options (HMO, POS and Medicare Advantage plans, as well as a national PPO) featuring flexible and innovative benefit designs. Our carefully developed networks provide cost-effective, coordinated care and give our members access to physicians and hospitals throughout Massachusetts. We also offer a broad spectrum of health and wellness services and programs to ensure our members, at any stage of life, receive the highest quality of care. Because of our continued commitment to deliver high-quality health care and exceptional customer service, FCHP is consistently rated as one of the nation’s top health plans. Both our commercial HMO and Medicare Advantage plans have been awarded “Excellent” accreditation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. For more information on FCHP, www.fchp.org
This press release may be deemed to contain “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements are made as of today’s date and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements. You can identify such statements by our use of such words as “should,” “expect,” “will,” “intends,” and similar words and phrases which denote future events and which may depend on the future performance of the Company. Our assumptions underlying these statements are also “forward-looking” statements. Forward-looking statements are based on information and assumptions that are dynamic in nature and subject to rapid and sometimes abrupt changes. Our forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include risks related to our failure to improve our operating cash flow, the inability of our restructuring efforts to improve profitability and our inability to increase our revenues or to grow the sales of our products. Our forward-looking statements are also subject to important risks and uncertainties detailed in our latest reports filed with the SEC and available on its website at www.sec.gov.
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Two Major Airlines Impose New Rules for Service and Emotional Support Animals
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In response to what they claim are growing complaints, two of the nation’s largest airlines – Delta and United – have imposed new rules effective March 1, 2018, regarding passengers traveling with service and emotional-support animals.
Delta, which says travelers bring about 250,000 service or support animals on its planes each year, reported an 84 percent increase in consumer complaints in 2017 from the previous year. The airline said the complaints have included “urination/defecation, biting and even a widely reported attack by a 70-pound dog,” as well as “increased acts of aggression (barking, growling, lunging and biting) from service and support animals.” United saw a 75 percent jump in complaints.
“Delta Air Lines is taking steps to further protect its customers, employees and service and support animals by implementing advance documentation requirements for those animals,” Delta announced in a January 19 news release. “This comes as a result of a lack of regulation that has led to serious safety risks involving untrained animals in flight.”
Airline rules concerning service and emotional-support animals are governed by the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA), which preceded the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by two years. The ACAA distinguishes between service animals—animals trained to perform specific tasks to accommodate a person’s disability—and emotional-support animals, which receive no protection under the ADA.
While airlines cannot require documentation proving that an animal is a service animal, they can do so for emotional-support animals. Airlines can request documentation for both types of animals for flights of eight or more hours to demonstrate that the animal will not have to relieve itself in-flight.
Although airlines cannot require advance notice that a person is traveling with a service animal, they can require 48 hours’ notice for emotional-support animals, as well as for all animals for flights of eight hours or more.
Under Delta’s new policy, passengers flying with either service or emotional-support animals must provide proof of health or vaccinations for the animals 48 hours before take-off.
In the case of emotional-support animals, passengers will have to both submit a doctor's or licensed mental health professional’s note concerning the passenger's need for the animal, as well as a signed document concerning the animal’s ability to behave, particularly when stimulated by untrained household pets.
United Airlines’ new policy, announced February 1, appears to be essentially identical to Delta’s. Americans Airlines is also reportedly reviewing its policies.
“Under (the Department of Transportation’s) current rules implementing the Air Carrier Access Act, airlines are required to accommodate passengers with disabilities who depend on the assistance of service animals within limits,” the DOT said in a statement, as reported by Disability Scoop. “In enforcing the requirements of federal law, the department is committed to ensuring that our air transportation system is safe and accessible for everyone.”
For more information about the ACAA, click here.
For more information from the U.S. Department of Justice about service and emotional-support animals, click here.
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Inspiring the next generation of rocket scientists and astronauts
By: Jenny Parker | Date: 25/02/2016
ESA British Astronaut Tim Peake launch day at Eureka! - Picture date Tuesday 15 December, 2015 (Halifax, West Yorkshire) Photo credit should read: Jonathan Pow/jp@jonathanpow.com
Unless you’ve been hiding under a piece of moon rock lately, you’ll know that Britain currently has its first astronaut living and working on board the International Space Station.
British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake launched on 15 December 2015 for his 6 month Principia mission where he’ll be carrying out all manner of scientific experiments.
Whilst Tim isn’t the first Britain in space – that accolade goes to Dr Helen Sharman OBE who went to the Russian space station Mir in 1991 – he is the first British astronaut whose mission is supported by the British government and the first Brit on board the ISS. So the UK Space Agency is using Tim and his mission to raise the profile of space and to inspire children to take a greater interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and perhaps become the space scientists and astronauts of the future.
And it certainly seems to be working. As well as actively supporting the education programmes taking place on Earth, Tim is using the power of social media to engage with children and adults alike, regularly posting images and video of himself at work on the ISS. It’s great that his mission is inspiring a new generation. We perhaps haven’t seen this level of interest in space exploration since the Apollo missions. But why is it so important that children are encouraged to take an interest in STEM based subjects?
It’s been well reported that gaining STEM qualifications opens doors and increases a young person’s chances of finding and retaining work in the future and pretty well paid work at that. But according to a 2014 report from the Association of Science & Discovery Centres, businesses across the UK are already reporting STEM skills shortages and the UK’s future economic success and growth depends on us building a “world-leading knowledge intensive economy underpinned by an exceptional, skilled STEM workforce”.
One of those sectors looking to increase its workforce is the UK space industry which currently employs around 37,000 people with 100,000 more planned by 2030. But working in the space industry isn’t just about being an astronaut. For every astronaut there are thousands of people working hard behind the scenes to make the mission a success and that’s what programmes like ‘Destination Space’ are aiming to show.
Eureka! is one of 20 science and discovery centres across the UK delivering the Destination Space programme which has been funded by the UK Space Agency and is designed to inspire curiosity and young minds with the wonders of human spaceflight, and to promote the importance of the STEM skills that make spaceflight possible. With events for both families and schools the programme allows them to find out about the team behind Tim and his mission, as well as providing an insight into some of the science and technology needed to travel to, live on and return from the International Space Station.
Destination Space activities for families will run at Eureka! on selected dates until 13 March with special events for Brownies and Guides planned for later in the year. Almost the whole nation has become fascinated with Tim Peake and we hope that some of our younger visitors inspired by Tim’s mission could be the space scientists, engineers, mission planners and maybe even astronauts of tomorrow.
For further information visit the Destination Space website and the Principia Website.
This blog originally appeared as a column in the Halifax Courier.
2017: A great Eureka! year
Play Local – Act Global!
By: Liz Peniston
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Responding to the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Decision
By Nathan TiemeyerJune 30, 2015
As you’ve probably heard, last Friday the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges recognized same-sex marriage as a right protected by the United States Constitution. For those Christians who ascribe to a biblical understanding of marriage—that it involves a unique union between one man and one woman—the ruling is a cause to think carefully about how to respond. No doubt that answer deserves much more than a single blog post, but here are at least a few broad points to consider:
Meet the New Boss…Yet Again
By Warren MayerJune 29, 2015
For the past few days, I’ve been reflecting on two passages of Scripture, the first nine verses of Genesis 11 and the opening lines from Psalm 2. What I find most interesting about the story of the Tower of Babel is that it represents the pride and achievement of mankind, the height and pinnacle of
Getting Ready for Sunday June 28th at The Crossing
By Charles AndersonJune 26, 2015
Worship on a Sunday starts before Sunday morning. That’s true not just for the band and the pastor and tech crew but for all of us. When you prepare ahead of time, you are getting yourself in the right frame of mind and heart. It gives you a chance to read the Bible passage in advance, see the song list, and get yourself ready. You can see some of the rationale here.
Keith Simon continues our sermon series, “Life According to the Psalms,” with a sermon entitled “The King Worthy of Your Submission,” from Psalm 72. The Scripture reads,
432 Years or 23 Ears: Does it matter in eternity?
By Erin AndersonJune 24, 2015
These tiny blocks are very precious to me. They represent far more than the $1.80 they cost me at my favorite gift store.
I was fortunate enough to attend a parenting seminar at The Crossing a few years back where two godly, wise women shared some insight on how to parent well. In particular, one of them walked up to the dry erase board in the old, tatty trailers and wrote 10,000. She explained that our parenting should be centered on things that will matter in 10,000 years.
I went home and immediately decided I wanted to remember this. This doesn’t just pertain to parenting – I want to remember this in all areas of my life. So I searched through the gift store for some way to decorate my house with this reminder to base my life on eternal things, not temporal things that will pass away. I found these blocks, and after a search through the basket, 432 was the highest number I could find so I went with that (same idea, right?). My search for how to decorate my house was over, but the lesson it was teaching me was just beginning.
Mini-Movie Review: Inside Out
Pixar strikes again. With its latest feature, Inside Out, the celebrated animation studio has once more managed to fashion a work that combines striking creativity with real insight into the human condition.
Inside Out renders our ever-changing internal experiences as a cleverly imagined world behind the eyes. The hub of this mindscape is the appropriately named Headquarters, in which a handful of personified emotions both cooperate and compete to shape the personality and actions of Riley, a young girl grappling with the challenges of her family’s cross-country move. The premise allows for a host of creative plot devices, including the Train of Thought, an indifferently guarded subconscious (with Riley’s fear of clowns among those locked inside), a studio that churns out nightly dream productions and a deep, dark chasm in which memories are discarded forever. The movie’s casting is nearly perfect, with Amy Poehler’s leading turn as Joy being a prime example. And Pixar’s ability to deliver captivating animation is, as usual, on full display.
Unless the Lord Builds Bedtime
By Michele MayerJune 22, 2015
As a parent of young adults – as well as an eight-year-old – I know firsthand how hard parenting can be. No matter how many parenting books you read or how much advice you seek from others, there are simply times when it feels like parenting is an unsolvable mystery. I really thought when my
A Prayer for Charleston (and us)
At last night’s worship night we used Psalm 23 as our guide, which shows us the seasons of life. Our lives are secure and yet endangered as God leads us through dark valleys (23:4). What happened in Charleston, SC is a dark valley for many of us. We prayed in the spirit of the psalms to be able to bring this threat, this dark valley to God. Perhaps this prayer can help you give expression to how to respond to what has happened.
Our Father, as we see the evil committed Wednesday night in Charleston in the Emmanuel AME Church, we take our example from the Psalms, and we lament.
Getting Ready for Sunday June 21st at The Crossing
Shay Roush continues our sermon series, “Life According to the Psalms,” with a sermon entitled “When You’ve Blown It,” from Psalm 51. The Scripture reads,
Glad To Be a Part of the Team
Rachel tar and feathering at Kids Club.
Every once in a while, I want to disassociate myself from my “team,” i.e., Christianity. It’s not that I no longer believe it to be true. It’s almost always because embarrassed by the actions of one of my “teammates.” If that’s Christianity, I say to myself, then I want no part of it. (Notice in these moments that I conveniently forget all the times I’ve played the role of BoBo the nitwit Christian, but that’s a subject for another day.)
Fairly regularly, however, it seems like God shows me just how privileged I am to be a part of a genuine Christian community, one that lives out its faith in all kinds of tangible ways. Two recent and related examples come to mind that I hope will briefly illustrate the point.
The first has to do with the sprawling, week-long event that is Kids Club at The Crossing. Now of course I’m biased. Along with the rest of the talented and dedicated Crossing Kids team, my wife Rachel plays big role in making Kids Club happen. But I’m continually struck by how many people, both kids and adults, so thoroughly enjoy that week. I think it has something to do with the fact that Kids Club, for lack of a better way to put it, bursts with life. It’s a week saturated with the vitality of life-changing truth and overflowing with creativity and fun. And it says something significant that so many are willing to put in so much effort to bring it about. More than once during the week I thought about how great it was to see what was taking place. I’m grateful to experience it, and I’ve long since lost track of the number of people (of all ages) I’ve heard express the same thing.
Finding a Mentor in an Unlikely Place
By Colleen LuleyJune 17, 2015
We all want a mentor. Someone to teach us, coach us, counsel us, and disciple us. Someone to whom we can ask hard questions and someone who has walked one step ahead of us, showing us the way forward. Sometimes we’re blessed by a real-life mentor who can physically sit down with us and share coffee. But oftentimes it can feel like there’s not enough to go around! When that’s been the case in my life, there’s one place I turn to: books. Books, especially biographies, have this certain knack for giving us access to the thoughts and stories of people we would ordinarily be separated from by time and location. We can learn how to cook from Julia Child, learn to love without partiality from Harper Lee, or learn how to read the Bible from Jen Wilkin.
I stumbled upon Elisabeth Elliot years ago when I was hungry to learn from an older woman. I hadn’t grown up in a Christian home and my mom, for many reasons, couldn’t be physically present to teach me and raise me and do so many of those “mom” things that we take for granted. I didn’t have any healthy pictures of what it looked like to marry a Christian man, to confess my sin to someone else, to raise a godly family, or to walk with God amidst intense suffering or trial. I so badly craved a living picture of the gospel in every day life.
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The $70 billion quest for a good night’s sleep
Rest has become the ultimate luxury.
[Photo: Bearaby]
By Elizabeth Segran 9 minute Read
I’m pinned down to my bed, like a fish caught in a net. I’m trapped under a cozy, chunky knit blanket made by Bearaby, a six-month old startup. The blanket looks light and fluffy, but do not be deceived: It weighs 20 pounds. I have given up trying to wiggle or roll around underneath it, so here I am, just staring blankly at the ceiling. A few minutes later, I’ve dozed off, and I will not wake up for eight and a half hours.
In the modern world, where people are plagued with sleeplessness, this–the simple experience of falling, and staying, asleep–has become something of a luxury. A third of Americans experience brief stretches of insomnia, and a tenth experience three sleepless nights a week for months on end. This sleeplessness is responsible for an estimated $63 billion in lost productivity every year in the United States.
The good news for the sleep-deprived is that we’re living through a golden age of sleep aids. A decade ago, “sleep aid” was synonymous with sleeping pills, but these days, medication only makes up 65% of the market. The last three years have seen an explosion of other types of products designed to help people to fall asleep more easily and stay asleep longer. Initially, many of these sleep tools were tech gadgets, including sleep trackers, apps, lights, and noisemakers, many of which I tested for a story in 2017. But more recently, the trend has shifted toward low-tech products like weighted blankets, temperature-regulating duvets, and pillows with built-in hoods to block out light and keep the sleeper’s head warm. “I think we’re increasingly coming to understand that technology is partly what is causing us stress and insomnia,” says Kathrin Hamm, Bearaby’s founder. “Consumers seem to be gravitating toward products that take them away from all of this blue light.”
Sleep aids are big money. In 2017, they generated $69.5 billion in revenue worldwide and analysts say the industry is on track to hit $101.9 billion by 2023. And given what we now know about how sleep impacts our quality of life, it is perhaps unsurprising that consumers are willing to shell out a lot of money for these products. Case in point: The Bearaby blanket costs $259. That’s on par with other weighted blankets on the market, including the Gravity Blanket and Coolmax. “People are setting aside a budget for self-care,” says Hamm. “It’s really hard to put a price on getting a good night’s sleep.”
[Photo: Ostrichpillow]
The Anxiety Economy
So what’s driving this boom in sleep aids? After all, insomnia is an age-old problem.
An increasing amount of research suggests that not getting enough sleep (defined by the Centers for Disease Control as seven hours a night) increases our risk of diseases including obesity and diabetes. Sleeplessness also can also trigger mental illnesses, including depression, ADHD, anxiety disorders, and even suicide. Doctors have long suspected that insomnia may be related to the onset of Alzheimer’s, and medical researchers in the U.K. are currently conducting a study to see if there is indeed a link.
Part of the reason today’s consumers are so eager to buy sleep aids is that they appear to be more willing than generations past to acknowledge their own mental health, and take charge of it. “There are brands like Casper and Brooklinen that are creating products for you to sleep on, but there’s this separate market of sleep aids which are really part of the anxiety economy,” says Hamm. “In some ways, the sleep aids industry springs out of the mental health industry, and more consumers are willing to acknowledge that they struggle with psychological issues like stress.”
Americans are very stressed out. A newly released Gallup poll found that 55% of adults in the United States describe feeling stressed, which is 20% higher than the global average. And since there is a clear link between stress and insomnia, it makes sense that this anxiety is keeping Americans up at night. PS Market Research found that North America dominated the sleep-aids market, contributing 49.3% of total revenue. In its report, the firm made the case that this was because of two factors: “the growing incidence of sleep disorders and rising initiatives by several government and non-government organizations for increasing awareness about sleep disorders and sleep hygiene.”
Consumers seem to have a limitless appetite for trying products that will help them sleep–and startups are taking note.
[Photo: Gravity]
Commercializing “Deep Touch Pressure”
Before launching Bearaby last December, Hamm worked in developing countries as an economist. She had been a good sleeper all her life, but suddenly, she found herself unable to sleep during a sweltering, noisy night in Mumbai, India. This quickly spiraled into a an extended period of insomnia. She spent her days groggy, grumpy, and unproductive. She became increasingly desperate for a solution. “It became clear to me that anxiety is at the root of many of our sleeping problems,” Hamm says. “You have trouble quieting your mind. Then you’re stressed about not sleeping.”
Eventually, she began searching for sleep aids. She discovered that many of the tools on the market are based on mental health research. For decades, scientists have known that experiencing pressure across the body–known in the medical community as “deep touch pressure”–increases happiness hormone serotonin and sleep hormone melatonin, while decreasing the stress hormone cortisol. Weighted blankets, for instance, were first implemented in 1999 to help patients with acute psychological disorders, and have been used over the years to help people with autism and PTSD.
In 2017, Gravity Blankets was among the first brands to try to commercialize these blankets for the everyday consumer. The company made a blanket full of plastic pellets that weighed between 15 and 25 pounds. More than 23,800 backers contributed more than $4.7 million to the project. Now Gravity is a full-fledged company and there are dozens of other brands making similar items including Layla, YnM, and Quility Premium.
Hamm, for her part, tried one of these blankets, and found it instantly effective at sending her to sleep. “When it arrived, I fell asleep for four hours on my couch,” she says. But there were several things she wanted to modify. She found that the blanket trapped heat, which was not great in a tropical city like Mumbai, and she also didn’t like how most weighted blankets on the market were made from synthetic fabrics and plastic pellets, which would just contribute to plastic pollution. She decided to create her own blanket from natural yarns that will biodegrade, like cotton and Tencel (which comes from tree pulp), that would be knit together in thick loops allowing air to pass through it. “There is nothing inside the blanket,” she says. “We simply use so many layers of material that the blanket becomes very heavy.”
Another startup, Hatch Sleep, developed its own approach to creating deep touch pressure in the form of a sleep swaddle, called the “Sleep Pod,” made from highly stretchy material. As I described a product review I wrote earlier this year, the fabric exerts pressure on your body without weight. Like all of the other weighted blankets, the swaddle is designed to address stress, and sleep will follow. “Many customers don’t use the Sleep Pod just while they’re in bed,” says Matt Mundt, Hatch Sleep’s founder. “They will wear it on the couch after a long day, just to calm down and relax.”
[Photo: Hoodie Pillow]
Controlling Your Sleep Environment
Other brands are experimenting with products that can block out more of your environment–some of which veer toward the wacky. Ostrichpillow, for instance, sells pillows that go over your entire head, blocking out light and sound, so you can catch a nap in any setting (though you’ll certainly look weird wearing it).
And then there’s the Hoodie Pillow, which serves a similar purpose but is designed to better blend into your outfit. Rebecca Rescate, who developed it, remembers turning toward her trusty hoodie when she was struggling to sleep in college. It served many purposes: It kept her warm, if she wore it over her eyes it would block the light, and it was also thick enough to block out some sound. “What we’re learning from sleep science is that all of these factors influences the quality of our sleep,” she says.
Rescate and her cofounder developed a $30 pillow that has a hood attached to it, so wearers get all the benefits of a hoodie without actually needing to wear one (there’s also a portable version, also $30, for travel). The brand has found several markets for the product: It’s been a hit with travelers and college students, but Rescate says it has also proven to sell well at hospital gift shops, particularly with chemotherapy patients who struggle to sleep because their heads are cold. “Many wear a hat to sleep, but when it comes off as they roll around, they wake up and have to locate it again,” she says. “With the hood attached to the pillow, they don’t have this problem.”
Other brands are addressing atmospheric conditions in the bedroom. People’s body temperatures vary a great deal; while some people wake up because they feel too cold, others seem to feel constantly hot under the covers. Leo Wang, founder of direct to consumer comforter brand Buffy, wanted to address the issue of temperature with his duvets. The company spent months developing a comforter made out of eucalyptus (which costs $210 for a queen size version). Material science research has found that eucalyptus fibers are highly breathable, which means this bedding allows heat from the body can escape while you are sleeping. “We had heard from plenty of hot sleepers who complained that there weren’t any good options on the market for them,” Wang says. “Unlike polyester or down filling, which traps heat, eucalyptus fabric is designed to be breathable.”
But Who Can Afford to Sleep Well?
Industry analysts at PS Market Research believe we’re only at the start of the sleep-aid boom. The global wellness industry is now worth $4.2 trillion, as consumers around the world invest in products that claim to promote wellness, from fitness classes to better food to sleep aids.
However, it is worth pointing out that many sleep aids on the market are incredibly expensive–and are out of reach for many people who might really need them. While insomnia affects all people, regardless of social class, the CDC has found that poverty is closely linked to sleeplessness. The organization has found that those who live in less affluent parts of the country–like parts of the South and Appalachia–are far more likely to be sleep-deprived. People who are struggling to make ends meet may take multiple jobs to pay the bills, which cuts down on sleep time. The CDC also found that people who are unable to work, or who are unemployed, also have trouble getting enough sleep. And since untreated sleeplessness leads to other problems, those who are less well off are at an increased risk of many medical conditions, falling sleep while driving, or getting hurt on the job.
The well-off generally sleep more, and if they struggle with insomnia, they can afford to shell out hundreds of dollars on sleep aids. In other words, getting a good night’s sleep has become a luxury, in every sense of the word.
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Florida man pleads guilty to mailing bombs to Democrats, CNN
This Aug. 30, 2015 file photo released by the Broward County Sheriff's Office shows Cesar Sayoc in Miami. (Source: Broward County Sheriff's Office/AP)
March 21, 2019 at 5:01 AM EDT - Updated March 21 at 6:40 PM
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man pleaded guilty Thursday to sending pipe bombs to CNN and prominent critics of President Donald Trump in a wave of attacks that harmed no one but spread fear of political violence across the U.S. for days leading up to last fall's midterm elections.
Cesar Sayoc, 57, sobbed as he entered the plea before a federal judge in New York.
"I'm extremely sorry," he said, adding that he never intended for the devices to explode.
He could get life in prison at sentencing Sept. 12 on 65 counts, including using weapons of mass destruction and mailing explosives with intent to kill. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a charge that carried a mandatory life sentence.
Sayoc sent rudimentary bombs — none of which detonated — to 16 targets, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden, several members of Congress, former President Barack Obama and actor Robert De Niro. Devices were also mailed to CNN offices in New York and Atlanta.
The bombs began turning up weeks before the hotly contested midterms, contributing to an already tense political environment.
Sayoc was arrested in late October at a Florida auto parts store. He had been living in a van plastered with Trump stickers and images of Trump opponents with crosshairs over their faces.
On Thursday, he told the judge he made objects designed to look like pipe bombs and filled them with explosive powder from fireworks.
"Did you intend they would explode?" U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff asked.
"No, sir," Sayoc said.
"What would prevent powder from fireworks from exploding?" Rakoff asked.
"I was aware of the risk they would explode," Sayoc said.
The first of the bombs was discovered Oct. 22 in a mailbox at an estate in New York City's northern suburbs owned by the billionaire George Soros, a liberal political activist and frequent subject of conspiracy theories.
A device addressed to the Clintons was discovered the following day, followed a day later by a slew of bombs found at the homes or offices of prominent Democrats. One, addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, was sent to CNN in New York.
Others targeted included California Sen. Kamala Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
Over several days, investigators tracked the packages to a mail center in Florida. Prosecutors said the evidence against Sayoc included DNA that linked him to 10 of the devices and fingerprints on two of them.
This story has been corrected to fix the wording of the first quote from the defendant.
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T-Mobile US Launches New Service With Unlimited Talk, Text And High-speed Smartphone Data
By Ciara Linnane Published August 18, 2016 MarketsMarketWatch Pulse
Mobile US said Thursday it is launching a new service with unlimited talk, text and high-speed smartphone data. The new product, called T-Mobile ONE will be priced at $40 a line for a family of four. "The era of the data plan is over," Chief Executive John Legere said in a statement. A T&T Inc. said Wednesday that it will launch new data plans that end data overage charges for wireless customers on August 21. T-Mobile shares were not active in premarket trade, but are up 19% in the year so far, while the S&P 500 has gained about 7%.
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PSG: Pre-E3 Day 2
E3 is nine days away and the first to kick off the main event is Microsoft. You can watch the thrilling event on Monday June 10th at 12:30pm ET/9:30 am PT/16:30 GMT streaming live on Xbox Live and Xbox.com and will be available on demand later on if you missed it. You can also watch it on Spike TV (US or Canada residents) where the show will be 90 minutes with no commercial interruptions. June 11th – 13th Xbox will be on 7pm – 8pm ET, covering live during the ongoing E3 convention where they will go over previous announcements, developer interviews, and gameplay footage from a variety of titles.
Now let’s recap, Microsoft had their own conference in their headquarters a couple weeks ago unveiling their next generation console, the Xbox One and all its specifications. They showed the consoles entertainment social networking capabilities working with the Kinect and for that, the console has been labeled the “All-In-One Entertainment system.” It will be ready to purchase later this year, most likely around the holidays, the price has not been confirmed yet.
Even though Microsoft showed their fans what the Xbox One is capable of, they did not show the console’s game-play capabilities, which people questioned “is this a gaming console or not?” For the upcoming E3 press conference, we are curious to know what Microsoft is bringing to the table to win people over.
Microsoft’s Chief of Staff for Interactive Entertainment Business Aaron Greenberg says, “E3, if you’re a gamer, it’s going to be tons of exclusives, world premieres, and obviously even beyond that we have a lot to share between than and this holiday.” The Employee is very confident that Microsoft will clear up many questions being asked about the Xbox One, making fans looking forward to this year’s E3 more than ever.
We want you to comment in any of the E3 articles about anything E3! It can be what you expect from the event, what you want to happen there, your opinion on the consoles, anything gaming anything E3 please post in the comments below. The more creative and in depth your comments are the better because we will be reading through them and will be posting the best in every upcoming article to answer your comments. It is a wonderful opportunity to be interacting with our fellow fans so please comment away!
Check out Microsoft’s E3 Schedule below:
Schedule for the other June 10th conference’s below:
Just in case you missed it, click the link to the first Pre-E3 article: PSG: Pre-E3 Day 1
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Blessed Raymond Lull’s Story
Raymond worked all his life to promote the missions and died a missionary to North Africa.
Raymond was born at Palma on the island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea. He earned a position in the king’s court there. One day a sermon inspired him to dedicate his life to working for the conversion of the Muslims in North Africa. He became a Secular Franciscan and founded a college where missionaries could learn the Arabic they would need in the missions. Retiring to solitude, he spent nine years as a hermit. During that time he wrote on all branches of knowledge, a work which earned him the title “Enlightened Doctor.”
Raymond then made many trips through Europe to interest popes, kings, and princes in establishing special colleges to prepare future missionaries. He achieved his goal in 1311, when the Council of Vienne ordered the creation of chairs of Hebrew, Arabic, and Chaldean at the universities of Bologna, Oxford, Paris, and Salamanca. At the age of 79, Raymond went to North Africa in 1314 to be a missionary himself. An angry crowd of Muslims stoned him in the city of Bougie. Genoese merchants took him back to Mallorca, where he died. Raymond was beatified in 1514. His Liturgical Feast Day is June 30.
Raymond worked most of his life to help spread the gospel. Indifference on the part of some Christian leaders and opposition in North Africa did not turn him from his goal. Three hundred years later Raymond’s work began to have an influence in the Americas. When the Spanish began to spread the gospel in the New World, they set up missionary colleges to aid the work. Saint Junípero Serra belonged to such a college.
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The Motley Fool Canada » Cannabis Stocks » 2 Stocks That Could Double by Year-End
2 Stocks That Could Double by Year-End
Prosper Bakiny | March 22, 2019 | More on: ACB SHOP ACB SHOP
To consistently beat the market, investors have to find companies whose business models and market positions can consistently support sales and earnings growth. There are, of course, many industries to turn to when looking for such companies, but the cannabis and tech industries are indubitably two of the best. Let’s look at two firms — one in each of the aforementioned industries — with the potential to double their share prices by year-end: Aurora Cannabis (TSX:ACB)(NYSE:ACB) and Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP)(NYSE:SHOP).
Aurora’s costly rise to stardom
As one of the leaders in a high-potential industry, Aurora garners a lot of positive attention from investors, but the Edmonton-based cannabis firm also has its doubters. Concerns about Aurora diluting its shares time and time again aren’t rare. By relying on bought-deal offerings to go on an acquisition spree, Aurora took the risk of its share price being dragged down hard due to an insane number of outstanding shares.
Aurora’s spending hasn’t been a complete waste, however, and the company is making serious headway in the industry. With a presence in over 22 countries in five continents, Aurora is arguably the international leader among Canadian pot companies. Further, Aurora’s production capacity exceeds that of any of its competitors, and the firm holds about 20% of the domestic market share.
More recently, Aurora’s stock popped after the company announced a partnership with Billionaire Nelson Peltz. The investing guru’s job will be to line up partners for Aurora to work with, something a few rival companies have already managed. Nelson Peltz will receive payment in the form of options to purchase almost 20 million of Aurora’s shares for $10.34.
So far this year, Aurora’s share price is already up by 80%. How much Aurora has left in the tank hinges on several factors. There is the company’s share dilution problem, whether Aurora manages to land a partner with deep pockets and industry know-how, and of course, the company’s actual financial results. Aurora’s shares could wind up significantly higher than they were at the beginning of the year.
Capturing the e-commerce sector
E-commerce giant Shopify isn’t done turning in market-beating returns. The Ottawa-based firm’s meteoric rise has been dizzying, and investors have flocked to cash in. The firm is benefitting like no other from an industry that is projected to continue on an upward trajectory for years to come. What’s more, Shopify is doing it in a unique way. The company provides a different experience from that of its competitors.
Online merchants looking to stand out from the crowd can hardly do better than Shopify. The platform offers enough autonomy to its users who can focus on customizing their online stores based on their marketing needs. Shopify’s Software as a Service model also comes with high switching costs. A unique service and high switching costs add up to an economic moat, one of the hallmarks of a great growth stock.
Shopify’s revenues have soared by more than 500% over the past three years. The firm’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) — or the total sales dollar value for the merchandise on its platform — reached 41 billion last year, a 57% increase from the previous year. Shopify is currently trading at about $267 per share at writing. Low analyst estimates put the company’s sales for the current year at about $1.36 billion, which means that the company is trading at about 19 times its sales, a reasonable valuation given Shopify’s prospects.
While the number of merchants on its platform and its GMV are still on the rise, Shopify has several more avenues for growth. Chief among them is its international operations. The firm has opened beta versions of its platform in various languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, among others. The e-commerce sector presents enough growth opportunities for the Ottawa-based company’s share price — already up more than 40% this year — to increase substantially more.
A lot of things can go wrong between now and December 31. Perhaps Aurora’s share dilution problem will rear its ugly head and hinder the company’s growth, and maybe Shopify’s sales and GMV will decrease. Even if both companies end the year significantly higher than than at the start of the year, it still wouldn’t mean that they are currently compelling buys, all things considered. However, it’s essential to note that both firms are currently riding the wave of their respective industries.
Fool contributor Prosper Bakiny owns shares of Shopify. Tom Gardner owns shares of Shopify. The Motley Fool owns shares of Shopify and Shopify. Shopify is a recommendation of Stock Advisor Canada.
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Al-Dukhaan 1 of 3
Smoke (Al-Dukhaan)
59 verses, revealed in Mecca after Vanity (Al-Zukhruf) before Kneeling (Al-Jaatheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Ha-Mim. 1 I swear by the Book that makes manifest (the truth). 2 (That) We sent it down one night of blessing -- so that We could warn -- 3 On that night is made distinct every precise matter - 4 [Every] matter [proceeding] from Us. Indeed, We were to send [a messenger] 5 in pursuance of thy Sustainer's grace [unto man]. Verily, He alone is all-hearing, all-knowing, 6 The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if you (but) have a faith with certainty. 7 There is no god but He; He gives life and causes death, your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore. 8 yet, they toy with their doubts. 9 Then wait you for the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke. 10 Which will envelop the people; this is a painful punishment. 11 (People will then say): “Our Lord, remove this scourge from us; we shall believe.” 12 How can there be an admonition unto them, when surely there came unto them an apostle manifest! 13 And they had turned away from him and said: One taught (by others), a madman? 14 Yet We will hold the scourge back for a while, (but no sooner than We will do so) you will revert to your old ways. 15 On the day when We shall seize them with the greater seizure, (then) in truth We shall punish. 16 ۞ And indeed We tried before them Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people, when there came to them a noble Messenger [i.e. Musa (Moses)], 17 saying, "Hand over God's servants to me. I am a trustworthy messenger for you. 18 And [saying], "Be not haughty with Allah. Indeed, I have come to you with clear authority. 19 "And truly, I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you stone me (or call me a sorcerer or kill me). 20 If you do not want to believe, leave me alone". 21 Then he supplicated to his Lord saying: 'These are sinful people' 22 Then (his Lord commanded): Take away My slaves by night. Lo! ye will be followed, 23 Then leave the sea calm they are an army that will be drowned. 24 How many gardens and water-springs they left behind! 25 And cornfields and goodly positions. 26 And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; 27 We gave these as an inheritance to other people. 28 The sky nor the earth cried for them, nor were they given respite. 29
Translators: Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1 Mohammad Habib Shakir 2 Ahmed Ali 3 Saheeh International 4 Saheeh International 5 Muhammad Asad 6 Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan 7 Mohammad Habib Shakir 8 Wahiduddin Khan 9 Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan 10 Ahmed Raza Khan 11 Abul Ala Maududi 12 Abdul Majid Daryabadi 13 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 14 Abul Ala Maududi 15 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 16 Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan 17 Wahiduddin Khan 18 Saheeh International 19 Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan 20 Muhammad Sarwar 21 Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish 22 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 23 Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish 24 Ahmed Raza Khan 25 Abdul Majid Daryabadi 26 Mohammad Habib Shakir 27 Muhammad Sarwar 28 Muhammad Sarwar 29
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Part 1 The Key 1
The Heifer 2
The Amramites 3
The Feast 5
A 'araaf 7
The Spoils of War 8
Repentance 9
Jonah 10
Part 12 Hood 11
Joseph 12
Thunder 13
Abraham 14
Part 14 The Hijjr Valley 15
The Bee 16
Part 15 The Night Journey 17
The Cave 18
Mary 19
T H 20
Part 17 The Prophets 21
Pilgrimage 22
Part 18 The Believers 23
The Statute Book 25
The Poets 26
The Ant 27
The Spider 29
The Romans 30
Luqmaan 31
Prostration 32
The Parties 33
Sheba 34
Initiator 35
Y S 36
The Arrangers 37
The Throngs 39
Forgiver 40
Elucidated 41
Consultation 42
Vanity 43
Kneeling 45
Part 26 The Dunes 46
Muhammad 47
Victory 48
The Wall 49
Q 50
Drivers of the Winds 51
The Mountain 52
The Stars 53
The Moon 54
The All Compassionate 55
The Inevitable 56
Part 28 The Debate 58
The Test 60
The Column 61
The Hypocrites 63
Mutual Blaming 64
Divorce 65
Prohibition 66
Part 29 Kingship 67
The Pen 68
Incontestable 69
The Heights 70
Noah 71
Jinns 72
Unknown Person 73
The Hidden Secret 74
Resurrection 75
The Human 76
Dispatched 77
Part 30 The News 78
The Snatchers 79
He Frowned 80
The Rolling 81
Shattering 82
The Cheaters 83
The Splitting 84
The Galaxies 85
The Comet 86
The All High 87
Overwhelming 88
Dawn 89
The Town 90
The Sun 91
The Night 92
The Forenoon 93
Cooling the Temper 94
The Fig 95
The Embryo 96
Destiny 97
Proof 98
The Quake 99
The Galloppers 100
The Shocker 101
Hoarding 102
The Afternoon 103
The Backbiter 104
The Elephant 105
Quraish 106
Charity 107
The Disbelievers 109
Triumph 110
Thorns 111
Absoluteness 112
Daybreak 113
Juz Table of Contents
PART 1 Hizb 1 1, 2, 3, 1/4 4, 5, 1/2 6, 7, 3/4 8, 9, Hizb 2 10, 11, 1/4 12, 13, 1/2 14, 15, 3/4 16, 17,
PART 2 Hizb 3 18, 19, 1/4 20, 21, 22, 1/2 23, 24, 3/4 25, Hizb 4 26, 27, 1/4 28, 29, 30, 1/2 31, 32, 3/4 33,
PART 3 Hizb 5 34, 35, 36, 1/4 37, 1/2 38, 39, 3/4 40, 41, 42, Hizb 6 43, 44, 1/4 45, 1/2 46, 47, 48, 3/4 49, 50,
PART 4 Hizb 7 51, 52, 1/4 53, 54, 1/2 55, 56, 3/4 57, Hizb 8 58, 59, 1/4 60, 61, 1/2 62, 3/4 63, 64,
PART 5 Hizb 9 65, 66, 1/4 67, 68, 1/2 69, 70, 3/4 71, 72, Hizb 10 73, 74, 1/4 75, 76, 77, 1/2 78, 79, 80, 3/4 81,
PART 6 Hizb 11 82, 83, 1/4 84, 85, 1/2 86, 87, 3/4 88, 89, Hizb 12 90, 1/4 91, 92, 1/2 93, 94, 3/4 95,
PART 7 Hizb 13 96, 97, 1/4 98, 99, 1/2 100, 101, 102, 3/4 103, 104, Hizb 14 105, 106, 107, 1/4 108, 109, 1/2 110, 111, 112, 3/4 113, 114,
PART 8 Hizb 15 115, 1/4 116, 117, 1/2 118, 119, 3/4 120, 121, Hizb 16 122, 123, 1/4 124, 125, 1/2 126, 127, 128, 129, 3/4 130, 131,
PART 9 Hizb 17 132, 133, 134, 1/4 135, 136, 137, 1/2 138, 139, 3/4 140, 141, Hizb 18 142, 143, 144, 1/4 145, 1/2 146, 147, 3/4 148, 149,
PART 10 Hizb 19 150, 151, 152, 1/4 153, 154, 155, 1/2 156, 157, 3/4 158, 159, Hizb 20 160, 161, 1/4 162, 1/2 163, 164, 3/4 165, 166,
PART 11 Hizb 21 167, 168, 1/4 169, 1/2 170, 171, 172, 3/4 173, Hizb 22 174, 175, 176, 1/4 177, 178, 1/2 179, 3/4 180, 181, 182,
PART 12 Hizb 23 183, 1/4 184, 185, 1/2 186, 187, 3/4 188, 189, Hizb 24 190, 1/4 191, 192, 193, 1/2 194, 195, 3/4 196, 197, 198,
PART 13 Hizb 25 199, 200, 1/4 201, 202, 1/2 203, 204, 3/4 205, 206, Hizb 26 207, 208, 1/4 209, 210, 211, 1/2 212, 213, 214, 3/4 215, 216, 217,
PART 14 Hizb 27 218, 219, 220, 1/4 221, 222, 223, 1/2 224, 225, 226, 3/4 227, 228, 229, Hizb 28 230, 231, 232, 1/4 233, 234, 235, 1/2 236, 3/4 237, 238, 239,
PART 15 Hizb 29 240, 241, 1/4 242, 243, 1/2 244, 245, 3/4 246, 247, 248, 249, Hizb 30 250, 251, 252, 1/4 253, 254, 255, 1/2 256, 257, 3/4 258, 259, 260,
PART 16 Hizb 31 261, 1/4 262, 263, 264, 1/2 265, 266, 3/4 267, 268, 269, Hizb 32 270, 271, 1/4 272, 1/2 273, 274, 3/4 275, 276, 277,
PART 17 Hizb 33 278, 1/4 279, 280, 281, 1/2 282, 3/4 283, 284, Hizb 34 285, 1/4 286, 287, 288, 289, 1/2 290, 291, 3/4 292, 293, 294,
PART 18 Hizb 35 295, 296, 1/4 297, 1/2 298, 299, 300, 3/4 301, 302, Hizb 36 303, 304, 1/4 305, 306, 1/2 307, 308, 309, 3/4 310, 311,
PART 19 Hizb 37 312, 313, 1/4 314, 315, 1/2 316, 317, 318, 3/4 319, 320, Hizb 38 321, 322, 323, 324, 1/4 325, 326, 1/2 327, 3/4 328, 329,
PART 20 Hizb 39 330, 331, 1/4 332, 333, 1/2 334, 335, 336, 3/4 337, 338, Hizb 40 339, 340, 1/4 341, 342, 1/2 343, 344, 3/4 345, 346,
PART 21 Hizb 41 347, 348, 349, 1/4 350, 351, 352, 1/2 353, 354, 3/4 355, 356, 357, Hizb 42 358, 359, 1/4 360, 361, 362, 1/2 363, 3/4 364, 365,
PART 22 Hizb 43 366, 367, 1/4 368, 369, 1/2 370, 371, 372, 3/4 373, Hizb 44 374, 375, 376, 1/4 377, 378, 379, 1/2 380, 381, 3/4 382, 383,
PART 23 Hizb 45 384, 385, 1/4 386, 387, 388, 1/2 389, 3/4 390, 391, Hizb 46 392, 393, 1/4 394, 395, 1/2 396, 397, 3/4 398, 399, 400,
PART 24 Hizb 47 401, 402, 1/4 403, 404, 405, 1/2 406, 407, 3/4 408, 409, Hizb 48 410, 411, 1/4 412, 413, 414, 415, 1/2 416, 3/4 417, 418, 419,
PART 25 Hizb 49 420, 421, 1/4 422, 1/2 423, 424, 3/4 425, 426, Hizb 50 427, 428, 429, 430, 1/4 431, 432, 1/2 433, 434, 435, 436, 3/4 437, 438, 439,
PART 26 Hizb 51 440, 441, 1/4 442, 443, 1/2 444, 445, 446, 3/4 447, 448, 449, Hizb 52 450, 451, 1/4 452, 1/2 453, 454, 3/4 455, 456, 457,
PART 27 Hizb 53 458, 459, 1/4 460, 461, 462, 1/2 463, 464, 3/4 465, 466, 467, Hizb 54 468, 469, 470, 1/4 471, 472, 1/2 473, 474, 3/4 475, 476, 477,
PART 28 Hizb 55 478, 479, 1/4 480, 481, 1/2 482, 483, 484, 3/4 485, 486, 487, Hizb 56 488, 489, 1/4 490, 491, 492, 493, 1/2 494, 495, 3/4 496, 497,
PART 29 Hizb 57 498, 499, 1/4 500, 501, 1/2 502, 503, 3/4 504, 505, 506, 507, Hizb 58 508, 509, 510, 1/4 511, 512, 513, 1/2 514, 515, 3/4 516, 517, 518, 519,
PART 30 Hizb 59 520, 521, 522, 523, 1/4 524, 525, 1/2 526, 527, 3/4 528, 529, 530, Hizb 60 531, 532, 533, 1/4 534, 535, 536, 537, 1/2 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 3/4 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558,
Surah Table of Contents
The Key 1, The Heifer 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, The Amramites 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, Women 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, The Feast 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, Animals 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, A 'araaf 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, The Spoils of War 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, Repentance 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, Jonah 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, Hood 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, Joseph 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, Thunder 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, Abraham 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, The Hijjr Valley 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, The Bee 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, The Night Journey 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, The Cave 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, Mary 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, T H 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, The Prophets 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, Pilgrimage 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, The Believers 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, Light 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, The Statute Book 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, The Poets 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, The Ant 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, Stories 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, The Spider 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, The Romans 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, Luqmaan 356, 357, 358, 359, Prostration 360, 361, 362, The Parties 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, Sheba 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, Initiator 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, Y S 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, The Arrangers 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, S 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, The Throngs 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, Forgiver 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, Elucidated 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, Consultation 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, Vanity 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, Smoke 433, 434, 435, Kneeling 436, 437, 438, 439, The Dunes 440, 441, 442, 443, Muhammad 444, 445, 446, 447, Victory 448, 449, 450, 451, The Wall 452, 453, Q 454, 455, 456, Drivers of the Winds 457, 458, 459, The Mountain 460, 461, The Stars 462, 463, 464, The Moon 465, 466, 467, The All Compassionate 468, 469, 470, The Inevitable 471, 472, 473, Iron 474, 475, 476, 477, The Debate 478, 479, 480, Exodus 481, 482, 483, The Test 484, 485, The Column 486, 487, Friday 488, 489, The Hypocrites 490, 491, Mutual Blaming 492, 493, Divorce 494, 495, Prohibition 496, 497, Kingship 498, 499, The Pen 500, 501, Incontestable 502, 503, The Heights 504, 505, Noah 506, 507, Jinns 508, 509, Unknown Person 510, 511, The Hidden Secret 512, 513, Resurrection 514, 515, The Human 516, 517, Dispatched 518, 519, The News 520, 521, The Snatchers 522, 523, He Frowned 524, The Rolling 525, Shattering 526, The Cheaters 527, The Splitting 528, The Galaxies 529, The Comet 530, The All High 531, Overwhelming 532, Dawn 533, The Town 534, The Sun 535, The Night 536, The Forenoon 537, Cooling the Temper 538, The Fig 539, The Embryo 540, Destiny 541, Proof 542, The Quake 543, The Galloppers 544, The Shocker 545, Hoarding 546, The Afternoon 547, The Backbiter 548, The Elephant 549, Quraish 550, Charity 551, Bounty 552, The Disbelievers 553, Triumph 554, Thorns 555, Absoluteness 556, Daybreak 557, People 558,
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27th March 2008 27th March 2008
NEW LOTTO DEAL FOR QPR
It’s all getting very Italian at Loftus Road.
Italian joint owner in Flavio Britaore, Italian manager in Luigi de Canio and now, if the players don’t do the business on the pitch, they are in serious danger of waking up next to a horses head or swimming with the fishes. You hear what I’m saying? Capiche?
Well perhaps, not quite that extreme.
But the Italian connection at Queens Park Rangers has been further strengthened after the club announced that next season’s official kit supplier will be Lotto Sport Italia.
The deal could be worth as much as £20 million over five seasons, depending on the success of QPR as the club embarks on its mission to achieve Premier League football and represents the most lucrative sponsorship deal in the London club’s history.
Lotto Sport Italia will be providing new home and away kits and training wear for the first team through to the Centre of Excellence, as well as developing additional lines of stylish and fashionable QPR branded clothing and shoes.
The contract also includes a substantial annual investment for the duration of the contract into QPR’s ‘Football In The Community’ scheme, which will assist the department’s continued efforts to improve the standard of life for people within the local area.
Andrea Tomat, President of Lotto Sport Italia, said: “We cannot wait to start this new alliance with a team that we feel very close to Lotto. This is an important partnership which will enhance the brand awareness of Lotto not only in the UK but also at international level, thanks to the worldwide media coverage of English football and in particular of Queens Park Rangers and the club’s new owners.”
“This partnership with QPR will also see both parties develop mutually-beneficial commercial ideas along with new product lines – also for leisure wear – inspired by the team with an unmistakeable Italian touch.”
Flavio Briatore, chairman of QPR Holdings Limited, added: “This is the first significant new partnership for the club since I became involved, and I am very excited about it. Lotto Sport Italia are the perfect fit as our new kit supplier. As a brand, I am certain that their involvement will benefit us on and off the pitch.
“I am delighted with the design of the new team strip, which maintains the QPR tradition of blue and white hoops. I know how important it is to the fans that the hoops remain, and that was always going to be the case.”
The new kit design for next season will be revealed at a later date. Compulsory attendance by the media will be called for and for those hacks who don’t pitch up, they can expect a visit from a chap who’s middle name is ‘The’.
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U.S. Texas and Oklahoma Flooding – Update
Another round of heavy thunderstorms and intense rainfall affected the Southern Plains over the weekend. This follows a month of excessive rainfall in the area, with frequent periods of organized and slow-moving intense thunderstorms. Widespread and severe flooding has affected many areas, including flash flooding in both the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth areas. Many area rivers have yet to crest after the last round of heavy rainfall.
It will take some time to fully assess the scope and severity of impacts of this event. Media reports indicate at least 31 fatalities in Texas and Oklahoma, with an additional ten reported missing. Damage to autos, homes, businesses and infrastructure has been widespread and severe. Thousands of autos have been flooded, and at least 1,500 homes have been affected in Harris County, Texas (this number may increase as survey teams assess the area).
General outlook for significant flooding. Does not depict smaller flood areas. Source: U.S. National Weather Service.
Hazard data illustrated in the CAT-i map was taken from i-aXs®, Guy Carpenter’s web-based risk management platform. i-aXs users can view impacted areas on any map as well as see how their portfolios were affected. Please contact your broker or GC Analytics® representative for assistance or go to www.i-axs.info for further information.
Radar-estimated May rainfall. Source: U.S. National Weather Service
Radar-estimated May percent of normal rainfall. Source: U.S. National Weather Service
Meteorological/Hydrological Summary
Last week, organized and slow-moving thunderstorm clusters produced intense and long-lived rainfall events over the Southern Plains, including notably severe events over the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth areas. These events were enabled in the presence of moist, unstable air and a potent upper-level low. Upper-level mechanics also were especially supportive of long-lived and slow-moving organized thunderstorm clusters (called mesoscale convective systems). Rainfall rates often exceeded two inches per hour, and 24-hour rainfall accumulations exceeded 11 inches for areas around Houston, and seven inches for areas adjacent to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Excessive rainfall in urban areas overwhelmed drainage systems and also caused rivers to overtop their banks and spill into adjacent flood plains. The Austin, Houston and Dallas metro areas suffered especially severe flash flooding, with a dramatic rise in flood waters reaching historic levels at some river gauges. The intense rainfall immediately contributed to flash flooding, but also has and will continue to contribute to river flooding further downstream.
Flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in downstream communities along the Arkansas River and Red River in parts of Arkansas and Louisiana. Although attenuation is reducing the overall impacts of the flood waters, many river gauges are still at or above flood stage in the surrounding area. Interests further downstream are preparing for the coming flood peak expected early this week.
While the worst of the rainfall has passed, some Dallas lakes are beginning to overtop due to previous persistent rainfall, and flooding downstream locations.
The weekend passage of a frontal boundary brought another round of intense rainfall to the affected areas of Oklahoma and Texas, which has contributed to the ongoing flood threat. However, conditions have improved behind the front, bringing a period of much-needed relief from a month of excessive rainfall.
Weather patterns over the last month have frequently enabled organized clusters of heavy thunderstorms. These thunderstorm clusters have often moved slowly resulting in excessive rainfall totals on an ongoing basis. Most of Texas and Oklahoma have seen monthly totals for May exceeding normal by 200 percent, with some areas even exceeding 400 percent. Local monthly amounts exceeding 20 inches have been reported. A multi-year period of severe drought in the Southern Plains has been all but eliminated over a month-long period.
Oklahoma experienced the wettest month in history during the month of May. Reports indicate that the final statewide average rainfall for May was 14.41 inches, which according to the state climatologist is 9.59 inches above normal. According to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, the previous record was 10.75 inches, set in October 1941. The previous record for the month of May was 10.54 inches in 1957.
Thousands of vehicles were reported flooded. Media reports indicate that loss estimates from flooded autos was around USD250 million, and could reach USD350 million, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. About two dozen roads and some interstate entrance ramps were closed in one of the busiest commercial areas in northwest Dallas. Reports indicate at least 155 roads underwater or closed due to damage, with about USD27 million in infrastructure damage according to Texas Transportation officials.
According to reports, the Office of Emergency Management warned some areas in Dallas to expect rising waters and street flooding. Approximately 1,500 homes in Harris County experienced flood damage, and this number is expected to increase as damage assessment teams survey the area. Southeast of San Antonio, reports indicate more than 150 homes near the city of Victoria have been flooded or threatened by rising waters. Media reports indicate at least USD25 million in damage to critical infrastructure and utilities in Harris County, with more the USD4 million to public buildings in the Houston area, according to state officials.
President Obama has declared a major disaster in the state of Texas. According to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), Texas carries nearly 600,000 flood insurance policies in force statewide as of March 31, 2015. The figure represents nearly USD375 million in premium.
Media reports indicate significant damage to public infrastructure including roads and bridges across the state from excessive rainfall and flooding this month. Numerous properties have been affected. Dozens of state highways were closed on Tuesday in 20 counties from central and northern Oklahoma to the borders of Texas and Arkansas.
Sources: Insurance Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, U.S. National Weather Service.
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Innovation and the water industry
In late 2017 Ofwat, the industry regulator for England and Wales, said it would require water companies to put innovation at the heart of their business plans for 2020 to 2025. In launching its 2019 price review, Ofwat said it expected companies not only to make technological advances, but also to develop a culture of innovation with every process geared to that end, customers engaged as active participants, and companies collaborating within and outside of their sector.
“Without innovating, companies will not and cannot deliver enough of what matters to customers and the environment or play a leading part in helping the sector face a range of significant challenges,” the regulator said, in a nod to climate change, population growth and other demands on the industry.
As a carrot, Ofwat promised an additional financial benefit to those companies it judged to have the most innovative business plans. In short, this was not so much a nudge as a powerful elbow in the industry’s side.
Fast-track trio
In its initial January 2019 assessment of the business plans subsequently submitted by the 18 companies under its purview, Ofwat said three – South West Water, United Utilities and Severn Trent Water – had produced overall high-quality plans. Accordingly, it put them on a ‘fast track’ for early draft determinations of their price, service and incentive package for 2020-25, a financial benefit and a boost to their reputation.
Innovation was just one of a host of criteria by which Ofwat came to its decision. But, in light of its judgment, it’s instructive to take a closer look at the approach to innovation taken by one of the fast-track trio, United Utilities (UU), which provides water and wastewater services in northwest England.
In the section of UU’s price review submission to Ofwat devoted to innovation, three drivers stand out: making greater use of markets, harnessing new technologies and thinking beyond the boundaries of the water industry.
Making greater use of markets
UU says it has identified £359m of cost savings by market-testing its entire cost base against best procurement practice and by re-examining the product or service it is buying.
The company is also making broader use of markets – as demanded by Ofwat – through initiatives ranging from nutrient trading to debt collection. In the same vein, UU has come to regard its energy assets as a virtual power plant, allowing it to provide its wholesale business with power at an acceptable price while selling surplus energy to the National Grid. By next year, it aims to be able to supply 50MW of power from multiple sites, enough to save having to turn on a power plant.
Apart from seeking to deploy ground-breaking processes to improve water quality and reduce leakage, UU’s innovation strategy focuses heavily on digital technologies emerging around artificial intelligence. The application of advanced analytics, increasing volumes of customer data and connected smart meters all have the potential not only to improve reliability and efficiency but to change the very way residential water retailers operate, the company reckons.
For example, UU already uses robotic automation for some high volume/low value tasks such as preparing maintenance scheduling reports. The robot takes 32 minutes to perform with complete accuracy what it took eight people a combined 12 hours of work a day. The technology will be applied to other business processes, saving UU more than 18,000 hours of (human) work a year.
And UU is using sniffer dogs – as well as satellites - to detect water leaks. The firm expects the dogs to reduce leakage by 1.3Ml a day.
Communicating with customers
Some of UU’s innovations are also focused on changing the way that it communicates with its customers and enabling them to become more active in the way that choices are made. UU has pioneered innovative customer research in the water sector, including using behavioural economics to improve the cognitive validity of its more traditional research and designing the first immersive research in the sector. UU is continuing to use insights from behavioural economics to help it make good on the commitments in its business plan. Frontier Economics partnered with UU on its PR19 Behavioural Economics Programme and continues to advise the team.
By putting innovation in all its forms at the heart of its price review process, Ofwat has challenged firms to examine every aspect of their operations to make water supplies more resilient, improve customer service and keep bills affordable. Harnessing new technologies to deliver higher levels of customer service and a greater recourse to markets are among the most promising channels to spur innovation.
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China’s grape rush
Chinese buyers thirsty for profits and prestige are developing a taste for wineries in California’s Napa Valley
A hot-air balloon floats above a vineyard near Oakville, Napa County
Hannah Kuchler
The early morning fog floats away over the imposing Mount George, revealing Joe Chuang’s rows of Chardonnay vines running across the floor of Napa Valley. Short and neat in a dark corduroy jacket and blue striped shirt, Chuang surveys the vineyard from the balcony of a pale yellow, two-storey house.
Inside, the interiors are decorated with Chinese calligraphy; Chinese characters are written on bottles of his Firefly Vineyards wine. But outside, the 12-acre vineyard is sandwiched between fields (where a Texan cowboy is storing hay) and twee wooden Napa houses with US flags hanging from their porches.
Chuang frequently insists that he only makes wine as a “hobby”, with the profits going to fund education for underprivileged children in China. Yet with 5,000 cases a year to sell from Napa, another vineyard in China 20 times the size of this one, and a new non-profit organisation set up to promote Californian wine in China, it is hard to believe.
“Actually, I was not looking for a property that can grow so much wine. I just wanted a gentleman’s vineyard so I can make a little bit of something,” the 72-year-old owner of energy company Eco Global Solutions says. “If I keep it as a hobby, it is more fun. If I turn it into a business then all the grey hair will come and I will look 80 years old.”
Chuang was one of the first Chinese investors to buy a Napa vineyard when he moved to the Californian wine-growing region eight years ago. Since then, many more have bought properties as they seek to sell wine to China, which consumed 1.94bn bottles in 2014, according to a report from the Wine Academy at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in China’s Shaanxi province.
Some, like Chuang, have lived in the US for decades but maintain strong links with China, others have moved to California to try their hand at winemaking or employ Americans to run their vineyards and produce wine for Chinese tastes.
Joe Chuang, owner of Firefly Vineyards
Even Yao Ming, the 7ft 6in Chinese basketball star, launched a Napa wine label in 2009, and now sells Yao Family Wines to China. He visits four times a year to help steer the creation of the wines. His 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon was rated 90 points by eminent wine critic Robert Parker.
As well as profits, Chinese owners benefit from the prestige of owning premium property in Napa, where they often throw parties for business associates, and the potential to gain US residency thanks to the EB-5 immigrant investor programme that offers a visa in return for creating or preserving jobs in the US.
One of Chuang's fields
Stanley Cheng, a Chinese-American who is chief executive of the Meyer cookware company, appears to have taken the hotly disputed title of the first Chinese winemaker in Napa when he bought what became Hestan Vineyards in 1997. Originally from Hong Kong, Cheng made his mark more recently by opening a tasting room just a few doors down from the triple Michelin-starred French Laundry restaurant.
Yet the wave of buyers has taken off in the past five years as demand for wine in China grew and people began to look beyond buying in Bordeaux. Those shelling out for wineries and vineyards included the Sloan Estate, which sold to a Hong Kong-based company in 2011 for a reported $40m; Bialla Vineyards, which sold for about $3.2m to another Hong Kong buyer in 2012; and Quixote Winery, which was bought by a Chinese company last year for about $29m.
John Bergman, a realtor who has been in Napa since 1987, is predicting an “onslaught from the Asian market”. He says that as well as good wine brands, a beautiful property and views were important to these buyers, who regard a winery as a high-end possession.
A tasting room at Hestan Vineyards, owned by Stanley Cheng
“They would like to make sure it is aesthetically pretty, has good ‘eye appeal’. It is important to be able to bring their friends over and show off a little bit,” he says, adding that many such buyers host large dinners for associates to taste their wine.
Realtors describe Chinese and other Asian clients making a splash at the annual charity auction in Napa, held in June, by trying to bid up the most expensive wines as a way to promote themselves in their new community.
Xinyue Zhang moved from China in 2011, working her first harvest in Napa in 2012. The 25-year-old oenologist at Calla Lily Vineyards speaks fast as she runs through the grapes that we see on the hillside in front of us: 60 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 per cent Petite Syrah and 15 per cent other Bordeaux varieties. But she gets even more excited when she recalls the moment she found out that a nearby vineyard had also been bought by Chinese owners.
“This winery property was purchased at almost the same time. So after I moved here to work, I heard about them, then I knocked on their door and talked to them,” she says. They now see each other two or three times a week. “Both of us are new wineries and we’re all from China so there are many times if we need help, we do help each other.”
One of the grapevines at Firefly Vineyards
On the other side of Howell Mountain from the centre of Napa Valley, the sun beats down and a small lake glistens. Far from the tourist-jammed roads, the silence is broken only by birdsong. Since Calla Lily Vineyards was bought by CCF Wines, a group of Hong Kong-based businessmen in 2013, the tasting room has been closed to visitors.
Anthony Fung, chief executive of CCF, said the group first looked at buying a Bordeaux vineyard. In a China preoccupied with buying the most premium brands, old-world wines have been traditionally more popular for impressing dinner guests.
“[But] we couldn’t really find any quality vineyards in France and Bordeaux that were for sale and in the US we were able to get good quality land at more reasonable prices,” he says. “We have no regrets whatsoever.”
Xinyue Zhang, oenologist at Calla Lily Vineyards
Latife Hayson, a real estate agent for Sotheby’s in Napa, says CCF is not alone. There is still a “great fascination with Bordeaux” for Chinese vineyard buyers, she says, but the prices are becoming “ridiculous”. “You can pay up to $1m per planted acre over there, which can really, really zing.”
Prices in Napa are less than a third of that, at an average of about $300k an acre last year, according to research by Vintroux Estates and Vineyards, a real estate company.
Californian wines are less well known in China but many in the Napa wine industry believe that they suit Chinese palates better, since they tend to be bolder, fruitier and better paired with strongly flavoured foods.
Vintroux is marketing a Napa wine estate for $9.5m, featuring a 5,000 sq ft house with a heated pool on the edge of a private five-acre lake. The vineyard has 35 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vines. The property also includes a potential winery site.
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In neighbouring Sonoma, the same agent is selling a 13-acre estate, with a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house and 20,000 Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines, for $2.3m.
Meanwhile, Hayson is offering a large estate in Calistoga, Napa Valley’s spa town, for $8.75m. An unusual building with floor-to-ceiling windows and a large wooden terrace with mountain views, the estate does not yet feature a vineyard or winery but the preliminary work has been done if the new owner wants to explore that option.
In the small close-knit community of Napa, everyone has their own story of Chinese buyers misunderstanding the wine business. For Hayson, it is the former farmers who swilled cola with their Château Latour and came to Napa looking to make a quick buck. Seeing how complicated the wine business can be, they gave up on the wine industry to buy apartment blocks in Ohio instead.
Scott Meadows, the ebullient US general manager of Chinese-owned Silenus Winery, tells of how at the height of the boom in China, from about 2010 to 2012, students from the University of California in Berkeley would drive up to Napa and “break down the door” to try to buy containers of wine. They promised to make the owners a lot of money by selling it in China as long as they could buy it from the winery at less than $5 a bottle.
“I’d be like, ‘Kid, you don’t understand, I don’t need to sell my wine to you and we’re not going to’,” he says. Meadows sells Silenus wines at between $19 and $85 a bottle in the US — and about 200 per cent more than that in China.
Vineyard estate in Napa Valley with private lake, $9.5m
All agree, however, that Chinese investors now either understand much more about wine or are happy to run their properties at arm’s length. Silenus Winery is owned by Chinese real estate developer Veronica Wang, but managed by Meadows, and the company sells its wine in China with his help. “Frankly, one of the things [Wang] did that I thought was very smart was she knew enough to realise that it is one thing to buy a Napa winery, it is another thing to know something about wine and running a winery,” he says.
Many in the valley are even hopeful that the anti-corruption crackdown launched by Xi Jinping, China’s president, could help sell more Napa wines, as Chinese wine buyers seek bottles of what they enjoy, rather than the big-name French wines that were commonly used to bribe officials. “There will be fewer people trying to make a quick buck and not really understanding what they are doing, but there will be more investment,” says Meadows.
Pouring his own Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon at a nearby Italian restaurant, Chuang believes that only the top 1 per cent of wines will suffer from the drive to eliminate bribery in China.
“It is limited to a very small number of people that drink it not because they really, really like them. They drink them because they are hosting important officials, so [they think] ‘I have to order this because it is the most expensive’,” he says. “This won’t happen from now on: people will go after the wine they like the most.”
● Napa’s population is about 80,000, with 11,000 living in neighbouring Sonoma
● Average temperatures range from about 13C in January to 27C in September
● There are about 400 wineries in Napa
● A winery permit is required, costing $500 to $2,000 for a small winery
What you can buy for . . .
$1m A four-bedroom house with a pool on the outskirts of Napa, or a 20-acre vineyard with no buildings
$5m A two-bedroom house with a 5,000 sq ft winery and an 8,000-case permit
$10m A 5,000 sq ft residence with a premium vineyard, including a tasting room and a permit for up to 15,000 cases
Hannah Kuchler is the FT’s San Francisco correspondent
Photographs: Gary Crabbe/ Robert Harding; Jamie Kingham
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