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Applying Design Thinking to the Criminal Justice System
Santa Clara County Opts For Reducing Recidivism And Jail Reform, Delays Expansion
For the last 5 months, DC Design has been working with Santa Clara County to redesign aspects of their criminal justice system, applying our human centered design approach to reduce jail recidivism rates.
Recidivism: the tendency to end up in jail again after being released.
Five years ago, California faced a choice: build more prisons or figure out how to reduce its prison population. The number of incarcerated people in the state had increased exponentially with some prisons holding 300 percent of their capacity levels. California and Texas had the highest prison populations in the United States with each state exceeding 200,000 individuals.
In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a controversial bill called AB109: it mandates non-violent, non-sexual offenders be sent back to the criminal justice systems at the county level to reduce the burden on state prisons. The responsibility for inmate care shifted from state prisons to county jails.
Note: jails are typically where inmates await trial or complete a short sentence; prisons are for those who have already been convicted, usually of more serious crimes such as a felony or manslaughter. Jails are operated by local agencies; prisons are run by state or federal agencies.
While the new legislation decreased the number of prisoners, counties faced a new problem. What were they going to do with all the new inmates that had just been sent home? Many counties around California responded by immediately building more jails.
Santa Clara County, however, responded by asking what it could do to reduce the number of people locked away.
Taking a bolder approach than other counties, Santa Clara formed the Reentry Network (REN), a group of 27 leaders from across the criminal justice system. These stakeholders would meet quarterly to share information, thoughts, and insights about how to best help former inmates positively reintegrate into society. These stakeholders understood that repeat offenders make up a significant portion of the jail population. However, programs aimed at correcting behavior and providing resources reduce the chances someone will reoffend and end up back in jail. The county established the Reentry Resources Center, a one-stop shop for former inmates to receive the resources they need to get back on their feet.
These efforts, as well as adherence to a strategic, 5-year plan commissioned by the county succeeded in reducing recidivism numbers.
“Our Reentry Center’s innovative approach has a proven record of success,” said County of Santa Clara Supervisor Cindy Chavez, Chair of the Santa Clara County Reentry Network. “Our county recidivism rate, reported in 2015, is 34% — just about half of the national rate of 61%.”
Although this was great progress, in 2015, the death of Michael Tyree while in jail and the ensuing conviction of the three guards involved in his death sent a lightning rod through the county, igniting a debate about treatment of inmates, particularly those with mental illness.
With the end of their 5-year strategic plan on the horizon, the county wanted to chart out a new course for their criminal justice reform efforts, so they contacted DC Design.
Our speciality is multi-stakeholder systems design work. We work on challenging issues that directly affect the lives of those we aim to serve. Most often, those are people that the rest of society doesn’t pay much attention to. The people who are left behind. Those who often need another chance to succeed. We work on issues surrounding foster youth, we work with low income communities around the country and some of our current work is helping Santa Clara County redesign their approach to criminal justice and inmatereentry.
The process that we use to affect these complex systems is known as Human-Centered Design. Human-Centered Design, also known as design thinking, works off the principle of involving the person who experiences the problem in the creation of the solution. Historically, it’s been applied to product design but we take these concepts and apply them to our society’s complex social systems. Whereas a company would use it to build a product for a subset of potential customers by talking with them, and learning about what needs to change about their product, we work with multiple stakeholders to understand their varying needs, their diverse perspectives on the issue at hand, and the underlying opportunities that exist to improve the system.
In the case of criminal justice reform, our current work is with the Santa Clara County Reentry Network, an organization composed of the key leaders in the county criminal justice system — the Sheriff, the District Attorney, the Public Defender, a County Supervisors, the Director of Reentry Services, the Head of Parole, the Director of Behavioral Health and 20 other leaders and community members.
Our work is to understand the perspectives and needs of each stakeholder. What do they believe to be true? What have they seen as necessary to maintain public safety? How do their priorities and perspectives differ and overlap with the other stakeholders involved in the system? For example, we are asking, “What are the sheriff’s priorities? How do these differ from the district attorney’s? Where do they overlap?”
We look for areas of common thinking:
For instance, “the mentally ill don’t belong in jail.” This is a perspective shared by several key re-entry network stakeholders. We look for these overlaps as a way of identifying easy areas of collaboration.
We also look at areas of tension: “Our highest priority is maintaining public safety.”
These two views can be perceived as incompatible, but in reality we need to include them both in our problem definition. It is only by examining seemingly contradictory needs that we can design for multiple stakeholders.
So we ran the 27 members of the Reentry Network (REN) through our design process and identified 131 challenges to meeting the needs of those who are currently or were formerly incarcerated. We then sorted these challenges into 12 major challenge categories.
We analyzed the prevalence with which different challenges were cited and quantified them to understand where the areas of biggest needs are in the county, according to the Reentry Network stakeholders.
Santa Clara County Reentry Challenge Categories
By looking at both the 12 challenge categories and the specific challenges cited within those, we can better understand the types of improvements that would begin to make a difference for Santa Clara’s specific jail reentry system. We pulled out key insights that the county could use as a starting point to develop its new strategy.
A small sample of those insights are:
1. The Basic Needs challenge category is by far the most agreed upon problem across stakeholders in the county. Looking at the specifics within that challenge category we see that Housing, Employment, Education, and Transportation were cited as the areas where solutions are most needed.
Santa Clara County Reentry Basic Needs
2. Similar to what we found with Basic Needs, if we dive into the Employee Efficacy, which pertains to how easy it is for employees to do their jobs effectively and meet the needs of the formerly incarcerated, we see that a possible area of improvement is changing employee workflows and the way the organization is structured.
3. We were able to understand specifically how challenges overlap and show that addressing some of the specific challenges cited will require a concerted effort in multiple areas. One example of a complex challenge is to create a reentry process that is responsive to each individuals specific needs. To do so will require the county to address challenges in at least 5 different categories — Consumer Support, Reentry Network Offerings, Process Refinement, Consumer Insights and Consumer Education.
These are just a few of the insights gleaned from this work.
One key point that we ask organizations to keep in mind when reviewing our data and analysis is that ultimately, no solution should be implemented without involving the end user.
This point is frequently overlooked by governments and large organizations who are designing solutions. Most often, the people designing the solutions don’t ask the perspectives of the people who will be using them and it leads to the creation of ineffective solutions that waste time and money. While the reentry network is composed of the departmental leaders across Santa Clara County, many of our greatest insights will be gleaned from the inmates themselves. It will be the questions we ask them in the coming months that will truly inform the best solutions to come. Questions like: “Why have they been to jail 2 or 3 times?” “What would have kept them out of jail this last time?” “What sort of training do they think would be useful?”
It is this level of engagement with inmates and former inmates that will continue to set Santa Clara County apart from others that remain committed to top down approaches.
What’s most exciting to us is that because of the immense work that has already been done, the county is in a great position to act. Of the 12 challenge categories shown, 8 of them are areas the Reentry Network can influence right now. That means that 66 percent of these challenges categories can be addressed largely by redesigning internal processes and shifting focus and resources to those areas. Which in our opinion, is a great place to start.
To dig further into the full report of our findings with the Santa Clara County Reentry Network, click here.
Architects and Clinicians Rethink Emergency Departments For Efficiency
What Is Human-Centered Design? No, Really, What is it?
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The Supreme Court Just Gutted Another Campaign Finance Law. Here’s What Happened.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday released its decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the blockbuster money-in-politics case of the current term. The court's five conservative justices all agreed that the so-called aggregate limit on the amount of money a donor can give to candidates, political action committees, and political parties is unconstitutional. In a separate opinion, conservative justice Clarence Thomas went even further, calling on the court to overrule Buckley v. Valeo, the 1976 decision that concluded it was constitutional to limit contributions to candidates. [...]
The people who stand to benefit from McCutcheon are also the wealthy few who bankroll super-PACs on both sides of the aisle. According to the left-leaning think tank Demos, almost 60 percent of all super-PAC funding in the last election cycle came from 159 donors—that's two coach buses of people—who'd given $1 million or more. The casino magnate Sheldon Adelson alone reportedly gave $150 million in the 2012 election cycle. This Million-Dollar Donors Club rules the world of super-PACs, and critics of the McCutcheon ruling fear they'll now rule the world of candidates, PACs, and political parties, too.
Read the report: Billion-Dollar Democracy: The Unprecedented Role of Money in the 2012 Elections
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Behavioral Finance: Understanding How Biases Impact Decisions
Michael O. AdairManaging Director, Senior Investment Consultant | 2018
Behavioral finance has blossomed into a highly regarded discipline.
Behavioral finance has blossomed into a highly regarded discipline. Many of its proponents believe that in the coming years, behavioral finance will become so embedded in mainstream economics and business that the distinction will not have to be made. True progress in the field of economics cannot be made without the inclusion of research findings from the behavioral and psychological disciplines since the economic worldview of rational agents can no longer be supported. Although human behavior may appear irrational in some cases, the departures from complete rationality are systematic and can still be modeled and studied. By embracing behavioral finance, advisors and wealth managers can gain an edge over their competition by making better decisions and wiser choices.
The Origins of Behavioral Finance
Cognitive Errors: Heuristics & Biases
Emotional Errors
City National Rochdale's View
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S. Koreans Uneasy Over US Tack On North's Intransigence
By Cameron W. Barr Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
AS the international standoff over North Korea's alleged nuclear- weapons program reaches another crisis point, the countries involved are scrambling for an appropriate response to North Korean intransigence.
The United Nations Security Council was expected to meet today to consider the North's latest refusal to comply with international inspectors seeking to determine if the country has withdrawn plutonium from a nuclear reactor in order to build a bomb. The North denies any intention to build nuclear weapons.
Japanese and US news organizations, citing intelligence sources, have reported in recent days that the North is planning to test its medium-range missile, the Rodong 1, which reportedly can hit targets in western Japan.
No country, of course, is more directly affected by the prospect of a nuclear North Korea than South Korea. With or without the bomb, the North's formidable, million-man Army has threatened this country for decades.
Yesterday, South Korean officials asked the United States not to resume high-level talks with North Korea unless the Communist state allows full nuclear inspections.
The South, however, does not set the global agenda on the issue in the way the US does in its role as the remaining superpower and unofficial enforcer of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Despite a close relationship between Washington and Seoul, many South Koreans are frustrated with US leadership on the nuclear issue. And given the US commitment to this country during the Korean War and in the years since, people in positions of power and influence here do not criticize the US government lightly. Almost every complaint is prefaced by praise for the US.
While South Korean academics, politicians, and former government officials interviewed here in recent days tend to offer the same critique of US policy - that until recently it has been contradictory, erratic, and at times overly hawkish - there is less agreement on what should happen next to dissuade the North from its suspected ambitions.
South Korean liberals favor a soft, ``big carrot'' approach: offering the North diplomatic recognition and economic aid and then solving the nuclear question later. Once the country feels more a part of the international community, they argue, it will abandon any nuclear-weapons program it might have started.
Hard-liners here agree that aid and recognition should be granted the North - but only after it has proved that it is not developing nuclear weapons.
The liberals suggest that the US, Japan, and South Korea could pursue the soft approach on their own. But no one here says that the US should back up the ``hard'' approach with an American stick - such as a move to impose sanctions outside the framework of the UN.
US Secretary of Defense William Perry suggested in Tokyo last month that if the US were unable to obtain Security Council support for sanctions, presumably because of a Chinese veto, the US, South Korea, and Japan might seek to impose some sort of non-UN ``multinational sanctions.''
The criticism of US policy as contradictory derives from differing assessments of North Korea emanating from the US government. ``I'm a little confused about American involvement in North Korea,'' says Lee Sei Ki, a ruling party member of the National Assembly, ``and whether their position is hard or soft.''
Several of those interviewed noted that President Clinton, on a visit here last summer, vowed he would never allow North Korea to develop a bomb. That was just months before US intelligence officials said they believed the North had already assembled one or two nuclear weapons.
Even those most sympathetic to Washington say the Clinton administration has had to climb a steep learning curve in handling the North Koreans - a nice way of saying US officials have not known what they were doing, at least not at first.
``Washington was not the easiest part of the puzzle that South Korean policymakers had to deal with,'' says a former senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Less-than-diplomatic US statements do not sit well in Seoul. Secretary Perry, says Cho Se-Hyung, a National Assembly member who belongs to the opposition Democratic Party, ``has a big mouth, talking about war too much sometimes.''
South Korean advice on North Korea, however, needs to be taken with a grain of salt because of several conditions that govern the South's perceptions:
* South Koreans have bitterly mixed feelings for their estranged northern brethren. The debate runs like this: They are our Korean brothers and sisters. They are our Communist enemies. Brothers. Enemies. And so on.
* Nearly everyone here believes that the Korean Peninsula will eventually be unified under an essentially South Korean government. So talk of intentionally worsening North Korea's already dire economic situation through sanctions also means increasing the work for a unified Korea.
Liberals in particular worry that officials in Washington and Seoul seem to think that the regime of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung can be brought down over the nuclear issue. But they worry that such a collapse could force unification too quickly, hurting the South Korean economy by saddling it with an impoverished North, or give rise to an even more militaristic regime in Pyongyang.
* A third reality is that no matter how much anyone in the South rails against the North acquiring nuclear weapons, what South Koreans really abhor is the possibility of going to war over the issue.
``That's a very confused approach,'' acknowledges Kil Jeong-Woo of the Research Institute for National Unification, who is a former diplomat, ``but we do not have many options.''
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Why is North Korea's Kaesong industrial park closing?
Terrorism & Security North Korea threatens new nuclear test 'aimed' at US
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Caregiver Roommates Offer Housing Alternative For Adults with Disabilities
by Blythe Bernhard | June 28, 2019
Dinner is prepared at a L'Arche home in Decatur, Ga. where people with disabilities live together with typically-developing individuals. (Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
In a growing trend toward inclusion, young adults with disabilities now have more opportunities than ever to live with typically-developing peers who double as their caregivers.
A lack of safe and affordable housing is the number one issue for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to Shawn Ullman, senior director for national initiatives at The Arc.
“There’s a real crisis,” Ullman said. “People are having to get creative. The old way of doing things is not sustainable.”
Most adults with developmental disabilities who are no longer living with family members reside in group homes with other people with disabilities or live independently with assistance from service providers who come to the residence for support and therapy. But there is a national shortage of care providers, and group homes often have long waiting lists or are not compatible with jobs and transportation, Ullman said.
A Minnesota-based company has responded to the crisis by creating a roommate matching service for people with and without disabilities.
Since launching last summer, the new service, Rumi, has paired 12 sets of roommates who have signed long-term leases. The program matches people with disabilities who have Medicaid waivers with a compatible caregiver based on shared interests and needs. The pairs live in homes or apartments in the community just like typical roommates and the caregivers are paid for whatever level of services they provide, which can range from overnight supervision to around-the-clock support.
The benefits for people with disabilities are having a choice in where to live, who to live with and the level of support. For caregivers, the advantages are tax-free salaries compared to direct care jobs outside the home and helping people live more independently.
Rumi is run by Bridges, a company that provides housing, employment and other services to people with disabilities. The company conducts background checks, helps locate housing and assists with lease agreements and ongoing management.
The matching service can address not only the housing crisis but the shortage of caregivers, said Blake Elliott, Bridges’ vice president of disability services.
“We tell our caregivers, ‘We can’t promise you that it’s never going to feel like work, but our hope is that a lot of it doesn’t feel like work,'” Elliott said. “You’re getting paid to provide this support to somebody with some shared interests.”
Under IRS guidelines, the income of caregivers providing disability services in their own home is tax-free. The level of care provided can range from supplemental to full-time support, and caregiver roommates can be paid for overnight supervision. Bridges offers substitute caregivers for illness or vacation along with any additional support therapies needed. The program’s directors said they hope to expand beyond Minnesota in the future.
The concept of integrated housing is believed to have been started in the 1960s by the late Jean Vanier, whose roommates with intellectual disabilities had previously been living in institutions in France. Vanier’s mission developed into L’Arche, a nonprofit network of integrated homes. Each of the dozens of homes across the U.S. has four or five residents with developmental disabilities and three live-in assistants without disabilities.
A similar program, Friendship House, grew out of the L’Arche model and is often affiliated with Christian colleges. In this model, typically-developing students live with young adults with developmental disabilities who have moved out of their parents’ homes.
Friendship Houses are located at the Western Theological Seminary in Michigan, Duke Divinity School in North Carolina, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and George Fox University in Oregon. A fifth Friendship House is planned for Fayetteville, N.C. to bring students studying for health care careers together with people with disabilities.
Several colleges such as George Mason University in Virginia also have programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities that allow for inclusive experiences in dorms and classrooms.
Ullman, of The Arc, said the idea of fostering friendships among people with and without disabilities is a bonus on top of the housing opportunities. With the right protections in place, the new programs can provide continuity and independence to young adults who have only known a culture of inclusiveness, she said.
View this article online at https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2019/06/28/caregiver-roommates-housing-alternative/26854/
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What are national parks and what do they protect?
Mark Carwardine discusses the history of national parks, and their future.
By Mark Carwardine
Marloes is part of Pembrokeshire National Park in Wales © Loop Images / UIG / Getty
What is a national park?
That depends on where you are, because each country designates its national parks differently. There is, however, an official definition agreed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): in a nutshell, it is a large, naturally beautiful, ecologically rich area, relatively unaltered by people, with legal protection for its wildlife and habitats, that promotes education and recreation. The best national parks are hugely popular – America’s alone had a staggering 82.8 million visitors in 2016 – and protect some of the most important areas of biodiversity on Earth.
When was the first national park set up?
Protected areas of one kind or another have existed for at least 2,000 years, but national parks are much more recent. Yellowstone, established in 1872, famously claims to be the world’s first. However, there are other legitimate claims to the title – most notably Bogd Khan Uul, established in Mongolia in 1778 (it’s never been a national park by name, but ticks all the right boxes). Now, there are 6,555 ‘official’ national parks around the world, in nearly 100 countries. They range in size from tiny 22-acre Moyenne Island, in the Seychelles, to the Northeast Greenland National Park – at 971,000km2, four times the size of the UK.
Are they ALL well protected?
Some are, many are not. They are increasingly being downgraded, reduced in size or eliminated altogether. Their precious land is being taken away or altered to accommodate mining, logging and other damaging commercial activities, or to alleviate pressure for land caused by growing human populations.
What about the UK?
Our first – the Peak District National Park – was created in 1951. Now there are 10 in England covering 9.3% of the land area; two in Scotland covering 7.2%; and three in Wales covering 19.9%. Northern Ireland is currently considering its first, in the Mourne Mountains. They include well-known and popular places such as the Pembrokeshire Coast, Dartmoor, the New Forest, the Yorkshire Dales and the Cairngorms.
That sounds good?
Not really. Unfortunately, none of them meets IUCN’s standards for a national park. Unlike national parks in America, for example – which are owned by the nation and strictly prohibit activities such as hunting, livestock grazing, mining and logging (though there are changes afoot under the Trump administration) – ours are neither national, nor parks. Most of the land is privately owned (by a patchwork of individuals, companies, local councils and charities). Everything from grouse shooting and mining to logging and fracking is already permitted, about to be permitted, or actively encouraged. And the parks are full of active livestock farms, villages and even quite substantial towns (no fewer than 112,000 people live in South Downs National Park, for example).
What about wildlife?
The truth is that our national parks are not chunks of untouched wilderness set aside and protected for their wildlife and habitats. In fact, they fall into a different IUCN category altogether – protected areas that are ‘managed mainly for landscape/seascape protection and recreation’. Time and again, commercial considerations are given priority over environmental concerns. And most of our national parks have now lost any favourable conservation status they ever had.
What of the future?
Many people argue that the national park system in the UK needs to reinvent itself, or at least move into a new phase. It is in an ideal position to protect large-scale ecological processes and, more than that, should be at the forefront of restoring the wildlife and wild places that we have so comprehensively lost.
This ‘At A Glance’ opinion column originally appeared in the March 2018 of BBC Wildlife Magazine. Take a look inside the current issue and find out how to subscribe.
Click here to read more of Mark Carwardine’s columns.
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This Week in Betting, A to Z
by Trevor Whenham - 02/11/2008
A - Ascension. Few would be able to name the team at the top of the Big Ten standings at first guess. It's Purdue. It might seem like they are upstarts compared to the four other likely tournament-bound teams in the conference, but the Boilermakers proved they belonged this weekend by completing a season sweep of Wisconsin. Add in a sweep of Illinois, a solid beating of Ohio State, and a tight loss at Michigan State that far exceeded expectations and you have a team that has legitimately ascended to the upper tier of the conference.
B - Brady, John. LSU did a great disservice to sports handicappers this week. They fired coach John Brady. Ever since Brady made the Final Four with Tyrus Thomas and Glen Davis it seems he has completely forgotten how to coach and recruit. His teams have been terrible, and betting against them has been a virtual lock. The good days will end sooner or later for bettors, but the good news is he has made such a mess with the program that John Wooden himself wouldn't be able to turn it around in a hurry.
C - Chris Webber. Webber made his debut for Golden State this week and, well, it was a debut. It was a bit of a surprise to see him start after missing so much time, and it was pretty obvious that he was rusty. He had four points in 12 minutes as the Warriors lost to the Bulls. His two points next time out against Sacramento were even worse, but at least he added five rebounds. I'm sure he'll come around in time, but it's a good thing that that the team doesn't need a lot of immediate help.
D - Drake Bulldogs. Coming into the season, Drake was expected to be completely irrelevant in the Missouri Valley Conference. After all, the team has one winning season to its credit in the last two decades. You would be very rich if you had been able to predict before the season that this would be the team to reel off 21 straight wins. They have virtually clinched the conference already, and they are an incredible 15-4 ATS, to boot.
E - Earnhardt, Dale Jr. So much for an adjustment period for Junior with his new car and new team. In his Hendrick Motorsports debut, Earnhardt won the Bud Shootout at Daytona. It may have only come in an exhibition, but it was still a much-needed win for the driver - he hasn't had a win of any kind since the summer of 2006. Maybe this is a sign of what can happen when the popular driver has a good team on top of their game behind him. No team is stronger than Hendrick these days - they had four drivers in the top six.
F - Faint hope. Indulge me for a second here. As a guy who lives and dies for Michigan it has not been a fun basketball season. Not only have wins been scarce, but we haven't even been competitive. I knew it was going to be a painful transition to John Beilein but I wasn't expecting anything quite like this. It pleases me, then, that we have shown signs of hope in the last five games. They actually won one on the weekend against Penn State, and they have covered spreads against three impressive teams - Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State - as well. Bright days are still way off, but at least I can actually believe that they might eventually arrive. That's progress.
G - Gasol, Pau. How is Gasol fitting in with his new team? It depends upon the game. His first start was brilliant - Kobe Bryant struggled, but Gasol picked up the slack and led the Lakers to an easy win. The very next game, though, was a disaster. They lost to the Hawks of all teams, and Al Horford looked like Wilt Chamberlain as he posted a career high 20 rebounds. Overall, though, they have little to complain about - they've won three of four on the road since the trade, including a nice win at Orlando.
H - Hurler. The Mariners showed that they are heading into the season serious about winning. They were closer than people expected last year, and they are significantly better after finally adding Erik Bedard from the Orioles to the top of the rotation after weeks of flirting. The Canadian lefty is a true star who will only be better now that he is out of the dysfunctional mess in Baltimore. The surprising part is that Baltimore got a better package of players for Bedard than Minnesota did for Johan Santana. I really like Bedard, but I'd take Santana any day.
I - Insanity. At some point in this column this week I planned to write about the Pro Bowl. In the end, though, I couldn't even bring myself to read a recap of the game, never mind watch the game itself. I honestly have no idea why the league still insists on playing this glorified flag football game between all the good players who aren't smart enough or important enough to come up with an excuse to skip it. This dog needs to be taken out back and put down humanely.
J - Jozy Altidore. The future is now for the U.S. Soccer team. Altidore, the biggest soccer phenom in the country not named Freddy Adu, made his first career start for the national side in a friendly against Mexico this week. Altidore made a big impression in the game that was played to a 2-2 draw in front on a shockingly large crowd of 70,000 in Houston. He scored the second goal to give his team a lead, but they couldn't play the defense to stay ahead.
K - Knight, Bobby. The old coach pulled off his final surprise this week. Or maybe it won't be his final surprise and he has one up his sleeve that will put Eddie Sutton to shame. Regardless, it was a shock when word came down at the start of the week that Knight had resigned effectively immediately and passed his team off to his son. It wasn't hugely relevant because the Texas Tech was on a slow road to nowhere, but I would have liked to see the guy get a better send off than this.
L - Louisville. It was an exceptional week for the Cardinals. Any week with two wins against ranked teams is one to remember. On Monday they went on the road and made Marquette look ridiculous in a crushing defeat. On Saturday they hosted a tougher opponent in Georgetown, but they were able to fight back from a big halftime deficit to win going away. Louisville has found their form at just the right time, and I expect them to be extremely tough down the stretch.
M - Malkin, Evgeni. It could very easily have been a disaster for the Pittsburgh Penguins when Sidney Crosby was hurt. Instead, Malkin has stepped up and filled the gap nicely. The Russian has 21 points in the 10 games since Crosby went down, including 15 in the last five. The Pens have won six of 10, and picked up a point in two overtime losses, so they've hardly noticed that Crosby is gone. Not that they won't be thrilled to have him back, of course.
N - Nowitzki, Dirk. It probably doesn't seem like much of a surprise that the German star of the Mavs had a big triple double on Wednesday to lead his team past the Bucks. It should. As incredible as it seems, that was the first triple double of Nowitzki's career. The 29 points, 12 assists and 10 boards weren't enough to help his boys cover, though. For a team with a .680 win percentage, the Mavs are just a terrible bet - 20-27-3 ATS.
O - Older horse division. With Curlin off to Dubai for his next two starts, the division is very wide open in the States. All the names we have gotten used to in the last couple of years have been retired and it is time for new stars to emerge. One of the first appears to be Grasshopper. He got his first graded stakes win on Saturday in the Mineshaft, and he looked good doing it. Though he hadn't won before, he had a solid record - he was a strong second to Street Sense in the Travers last summer.
P - Pyro. I have my first crush on the Triple Crown trail this year, and for the second straight year he is from the Steve Asmussen stable. Curlin's stable mate Pyro was a strong second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year, but he looked like a whole new horse in the Risen Star Saturday. He was last of 12 at the top of the stretch before totally exploding in a move you have to see to believe to take it going away. If you missed it, you had better head to Youtube right away. You don't have to be a racing fan to be in awe of this one.
Q - Quite insane. I was on the edge of my seat for all of Wednesday because it was national signing day. Once I thought about it, though, I was a bit embarrassed that I was so interested and affected by the decisions of 17 year olds. It made me feel very old. Regardless, I was shocked by how well Miami and Notre Dame were able to do despite on-field struggles, I was saddened by the success of the devil himself in Alabama, and I was pleased by how well Michigan did despite the coaching change. It was nice to see USC not quite do as well as usual, too.
R - Reversal. Washington State had been free falling after a strong start, with consecutive losses to Cal, Stanford and UCLA, and six games without a cover. They found their form again with a bang on Saturday, though. USC rolled into town and probably wished they had just stayed at home. They lost by 24, and Wazzu shut down everything the team tried. O.J. Mayo was ineffective, and his teammates were no better. We'll have to wait to see if the Cougars just got lucky or if their mojo is back, but for one game at least we remembered why people were so high on this team a month ago.
S - Shaq. For the second time in two weeks we have been caught completely off guard by a huge NBA trade. Unlike the Gasol move, though, it isn't completely obvious why the better team made the deal. Shaq has a lot to offer, but he's also well past his prime, not totally healthy, and way to slow even at his best to fit seamlessly into the Phoenix offense. Still, I am cautiously optimistic that the deal will end up as a winner for the Suns. My biggest wish is a Phoenix - Lakers Western Conference Final - the hate on that court could be cut with a knife.
T - Ty Lawson. Tyler Hansbrough may be the superstar on the Tar Heels, but it's pretty clear that Ty Lawson is the engine that keeps the team rolling strong. Lawson has missed two games, and it hasn't been pretty. The Tar Heels got blown out at home by hated rivals Duke, and then needed a miraculous late comeback and two overtime periods to get past Clemson. Lawson can't heal fast enough.
U - UCLA. The Bruins will have to work very hard to find ways to spin the embarrassment they suffered on Sunday. They were playing Washington, a team that is just 4-7 in conference, and a pitiful 9-14 ATS, so there was no reason for them, the best team in the conference, to have any problems at all. There was really no reason for them to lose by 10, but they did it anyway. Darren Collison was terrible in the loss - three points in 38 minutes.
V - Vijay. Singh hung around all weekend, and was able to close with a birdie to force a playoff at Pebble Beach this weekend. It wasn't meant to be, though - the pride of Fiji was dispatched by Steve Lowery on the extra hole. The highlights of the tournament were elsewhere, though - seeing Phil Mickelson shoot an 11 on a par five on Friday made every amateur golfer in the world feel better, and it was a treat to see 48-year-old Corey Pavin finish an unexpected third.
W - Wildcats. Kansas State played an emotional game against Nebraska on Wednesday. Senior guard Clent Stewart lost his mother to bone cancer, and the team played in her honor. Michael Beasley, like he does so often we have almost become numb to it, stepped up and had a huge game. He pretty much beat Nebraska single-handedly with 35 points and 13 rebounds as the much-improved Wildcats won by 15.
X - Xavier. Our mascots made us nervous on Sunday when they looked like they were going to drop one to St. Joe's, the third best team in the A-10. In the end, though, our faith was rewarded as they won by four. There's a bit of a disturbing trend, though - that's the seventh time in nine games that they have failed to cover, and the second straight game when they won by far less than they really should have.
Y - Yahoo. I really don't like cheering for an injury, but I will make an exception in Curt Schilling's case. The Boston hurler has a serious arm injury, and there is at least a decent chance that it could be career ending for the aging player. I know that retirement won't totally shut the guy up, and it certainly won't make him any less annoying, but at least it would mean that he'd find himself in front of a microphone less often. That would make the world a better place.
Z - Zorn, Jim. The Redskins found yet another way to prove that they are a confused and ultimately doomed franchise. First they hire coordinators before they have a coach, then they strike out on landing their top choices for their empty head job, then they string along three contenders seemingly forever before ultimately elevating their new offensive coordinator, Zorn, to head coach. No one saw that one coming, and even fewer will be excited by this move that reeks of desperation and chronic ineptness. Zorn has never even been a coordinator before (unless you count his two weeks for the Redskins).
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Reviews » DVD Video Reviews » The Forgotten
Columbia/Tri-Star // PG-13 // January 18, 2005
Review by Jason Bovberg | posted January 28, 2005 | E-mail the Author
Largely dismissed by critics during its theatrical run in September 2004, Joseph Ruben's The Forgotten is a fine, albeit modest little thriller with a single admirable goal—to creep you out in the unnerving tradition of The Twilight Zone or The X-Files. Inexplicably, given my past appreciation for the work of Ruben (particularly The Stepfather) and the film's star, Julianne Moore, I missed the film in theaters, and have just discovered it on DVD. Coming from that perspective—expectations low, after the critical drubbing—I've found that The Forgotten is a shocker of fascinating thematic concerns that could have been great but settles for hair-raising B-movie goodness.
The central conceit of the film—not only losing your child but finding that everyone around you insists the child never existed—provided fodder for an excellent teaser trailer last summer. I remember thinking the film could be one of the powerhouse thrillers of the season. (I got a similar buzz after watching the Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow teaser trailer for the first time, and perhaps that's another underrated, intricately crafted film undone by high expectations engineered by the trailer.) How could the actual film hope to live up the promise of that terrific trailer? Maybe it was doomed from the start. However, even if The Forgotten doesn't necessarily ascend to dizzying cinematic heights, it's at least got a genuinely thought-provoking premise and more than its share of jolts. Tapping into—and drilling beyond—that basic human fear of losing a kid, the film disturbs mightily with its focus on grief-stricken Telly Paretta (Moore), as she becomes a bewildered victim of a seeming conspiracy, in which all her cherished memories of her lost son are being questioned by everyone one around her—even those closest to her heart. Or is Telly just plain nuts, as those people begin to suspect?
As the film begins, we learn that Telly's 9-year-old son Sam (Christopher Kovaleski) died more than a year earlier in the crash of a small plane. Telly is living a life of desperate grief, haunted and lost, and she's trying to work through it in therapy sessions with her psychiatrist, Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise). But soon, Sam begins to disappear from the memories of those around her—including her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards), her next-door neighbor and friend Eliot (Jessica Hecht), and fellow grieving parent Ash Corell (Dominic West). Ash is a bitter alcoholic who, according to Telly's urgent memory, lost his daughter in the same tragedy—but Ash vehemently denies ever having a daughter. The remainder of the film involves Telly's frantic struggle to solve what must be a supernatural mystery. And I would be lying to you if I said the resolution requires only a minimal amount of disbelief suspension—it's pretty out there—but in a goofy-grin, no-holds-barred sort of way, The Forgotten works.
Ruben infuses his film with a nervous energy that keeps you on edge throughout. It's an extended chase sequence through New York, involving weird, sinister agents—nightmare entities with a mysterious agenda who just keep coming at Telly and her reluctant ally, Ash. And, of course, not everyone is what he or she appears to be. What do we make of Dr. Munce's suspicious sidelong glances and his insistence that Telly tell him where she is? Is husband Jim somehow involved in the horror? Why does he suddenly have no memory of her, let alone his son? (Hmm, I'm still pondering that one.) Is increasingly empathetic detective Anne Pope (Alfre Woodard) for real? There is indeed an outrageous supernatural answer tying all these puzzle pieces together, and when you realize what it is, you'll either laugh or shake your head in a kind of disbelief, but either way, it's effective schlocky cinema.
And grounding it all is the human element brought to the proceedings by its talented leads. Both Moore and West are exceedingly capable actors who exude warmth and humanity, and they play Telly and Ash with a tangible conviction—despite the over-the-top schemes of screenwriter Gerald DiPego. All their interactions sting with the emotion of their shared loss and the urgency of solving a gigantic, vitally important riddle. And they're also very, very scared.
It's an emotion the film wants you to feel, but you—like many others who have already seen and forgotten The Forgotten—might prefer to laugh it all away. A perfectly valid reaction to this fun flick. Me, I love films that have the audacity to lunge for the crazy-ass idea, and even if they don't get everything right, they surely deserve my admiration. The Forgotten perhaps, in the end, explains itself a bit too much and dwells on plot points better left vague, but the build-up is more than worth the journey.
HOW'S IT LOOK?
Columbia/TriStar presents The Forgotten in a striking anamorphic-widescreen transfer of the film's 1.85:1 theatrical presentation. I didn't have the opportunity to catch this film in theaters, but the home-theater experience was one of great depth and detail. And this is a scene with quite a few scenes that take place in darkness, so the image is particularly satisfying. Sharpness is very fine, and blacks are deep and satisfying. Ruben uses some jarring stylistic effects, such as high-contrast grain and deliberate color saturation, that are rendered perfectly by this transfer. I enjoyed the varying color-palette choices depending on the mood of the scene.
HOW'S IT SOUND?
The disc's Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track is quite energizing and immersive—perfectly in service of this paranoid little thriller. Dialog is clean and accurate, even during screams. The score is nicely weighted throughout the room. Sound effects are very directional, coming at you from all directions. Panning is effective not only across the front but also from front to rear, and from left to right behind you.
The DVD presentation offers an Extended Cut With Alternate Ending via seamless branching. The alternate ending is only superficially different from the theatrical ending, and in fact I will choose to watch the theatrical cut in subsequent viewings. The new footage adds up to only a few extra minutes.
Primary among the special features is a Theatrical Version Commentary by Director Joseph Ruben and Writer Gerald DiPego. This is a low-key conversation that covers the usual ground, walking through the story of the film's making, beginning with the origin of the idea and commenting on everything from location shooting to the intricacies of character. Writer Gerald DiPego talks about how the initial idea came to him in a dream and compelled him immediately. Ruben thinks of The Forgotten as an "intelligent cockamamie movie." In general, this is one of those commentaries that rarely pitches into anything resembling enthusiasm, but the participants offer some low-key, mumbling insight.
The lightweight but informative 20-minute Remembering the Forgotten featurette talks about the origin of the film's story—so you get some redundancy from the commentary. Director Joseph Ruben chimes in to talk about his appreciation of the plot, as do several other crew members. Then we get a generous amount of behind-the-scenes footage and discussions about the setting. Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Anthony Edwards, and Alfre Woodard all discuss their characters, as well as the emotional elements of the story and how it connected with them. Linus Roache also appears, talking about his mysterious character. The film's effective special effects are discussed toward the end of the piece. One warning: Don't watch this featurette before you watch the movie. It's crammed with spoilers.
The 14-minute On the Set: The Making of The Forgotten is the disc's requisite EPK featurette. The cast and crew give the usual sound-bite interviews, in the interest of selling the film. Still, there's some fun behind-the-scenes footage to see.
Under Deleted Scenes, you get the 9-minute Alternate Ending in standalone form, the 30-second The Abduction (which offers a strange fate for Anthony Edwards), and the 3-minute The Kiss (which adds some extra romantic subtext).
You get two trailers for The Forgotten, but unfortunately the first theatrical teaser that was released—arguably the film's most effective trailer—isn't on this DVD. All you get are the second Theatrical Teaser and the final Theatrical Trailer.
Finally, you get anamorphic-widescreen Previews for Are We There Yet?, Guess Who, The Grudge, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Spanglish, Little Black Book, Boogeyman, and The Fifth Element: Ultimate Edition.
WHAT'S LEFT TO SAY?
Despite its lukewarm reception in theaters last fall, The Forgotten is a lost gem of a thriller that's certainly worth a look. Its premise is wicked, and even though its resolution is out there and more than a little indulgent, it's a satisfactory B flick boasting several pulse-pounding shocks, well-drawn characters, and the balls to really go for it. You've gotta admire that. And the DVD presentation is good if not great. Image and sound—the most important elements—are admirable, and supplements are midlevel. Give this disc a spin!
Aaron Beierle
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What Is The Meaning Of George Clooney's Babies' Names?
By Mary Kate Hoban
Amal and George Clooney are officially parents!
Amal gave birth to their twins this morning and the couple named them Ella and Alexander, E! News reports.
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In a statement, a rep for the couple said,
This morning Amal and George welcomed Ella and Alexander Clooney into their lives … Ella, Alexander and Amal are all healthy, happy and doing fine. George is sedated and should recover in a few days.
Ahhh! This is such happy news!
Now let's analyze the names, shall we?
Ella means "light," so that sounds like a pretty solid choice to me. The name can also mean "beautiful fairy woman" in English.
Alexander is Greek and means "defender of men." So that's also a very strong name.
The power couple are trendsetters themselves, so whatever they chose to name their son and daughter would have inevitably skyrocketed to the top of the baby name list.
However, they actually went with two of the top names of 2017.
Ella falls at number 12 on the list of top girl names for this year, and Alexander falls at number 16 on the list of popular boys' names.
It definitely sounds like Amal had a lot to do with the names, considering George revealed a few months ago his wife quickly shot down his idea to name them after his tequila company.
He joked,
My wife says I can't name them Casa and Amigos. That's the one thing I'm not allowed to do … It was just a thought. I mean, you know, it's a family business.
I think your kids will thank you one day for that one, Amal. Then again, it would have made them pretty popular in college I'm sure.
Ever since the birth announcement back in February -- and, honestly, even before that -- we've been eagerly waiting to see the 56-year-old Oscar winner and 39-year-old human rights lawyer become parents.
They both have opened up about this big change in their lives and their excitement to start a family together after almost three years of marriage.
In February, George said,
It's going to change a lot of things, but that's OK. That's life.
I think I speak for most of the internet when I say we can't wait to see you embrace these two big changes in your life. (We also can't wait to see photos of Ella and Alexander, but we'll try to be patient.)
Congratulations, George and Amal!
Citations: E! News
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Cars for employees
These are commonly referred to as company cars and are taxed by reference to the list price of the car but graduated according to the level of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. We outline the main areas to consider and the tax and national insurance implications. If your business is in the London area or you are employed in the area we, at Elman Wall, can advise you on the employer provided car benefit rules.
The current regime for taxing employer provided cars (commonly referred to as company cars) is intended:
to encourage manufacturers to produce cars which are more environmentally friendly and
to give employee drivers and their employers a tax incentive to choose more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles.
We set out below the main areas of importance. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information.
Employer provided cars are taxed by reference to the list price of the car but graduated according to the level of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Percentage charges
Emissions (g/km)
% of car's price taxed
0 - 50 13 16
For every additional 5g thereafter add 1% - -
Until the maximum percentage is reached 37 37
Jane was provided with a new company car, a Mercedes CLK 430, on 6 April 2018. The list price is £50,000. The CO2 emissions are 240g/km.
For 2018/19 and 2019/20 Jane’s benefit will be £50,000 × 37% = £18,500.
Phil has a company car, a BMW 318i, which had a list price of £21,000 when it was provided new on 6 April 2018. The CO2 emissions are 118g/km. Note: The CO2 emissions are rounded down to the nearest 5 grams per kilometre - in this case 115g/km.
Phil's benefit for 2018/19 is: £21,000 × 24% = £5,040. Phil’s benefit increases for 2019/20 to £5,670 being £21,000 × 27%.
Diesels
Diesel cars emit less CO2 than petrol cars and so would be taxed on a lower percentage of the list price than an equivalent petrol car. However, diesel cars emit greater quantities of air pollutants than petrol cars and therefore a supplement of 4% of the list price generally applies to diesel cars (unless the car is registered on or after 1 September 2017 and meets the Euro 6d emissions standard). For 2017/18 and previous years the diesel supplement was 3%.
The diesel supplement does not apply to hybrid cars.
A diesel car that would give rise to a 22% charge on the basis of its CO2 emissions will instead be charged at 26% for 2018/19. The maximum charge for diesel is capped at 37%.
Obtaining emissions data
The Vehicle Certification Agency produces a free guide to the fuel consumption and emissions figures of all new cars. It is available on the internet at http://carfueldata.direct.gov.uk. These figures are not however necessarily the definitive figures for a particular car. The definitive CO2 emissions figure for a particular vehicle is recorded on the Vehicle Registration Document (V5).
The list price
The list price of a car is the price when it was first registered including delivery, VAT and any accessories provided with the car. Accessories subsequently made available are included (unless they have a list price of less than £100).
Employee capital contributions up to £5,000 reduce the list price.
Employer's Class 1A national insurance contributions
The benefit chargeable to tax on the employee is also used to compute the employer's liability to Class 1A (the rate is currently 13.8%).
Some cars registered after 1 January 1998 may have no approved CO2 emissions figure, perhaps if they were imported from outside the EC. They are taxed according to engine size.
% of list price charged to tax
0 - 1400 23%
1401 - 2000 34%
over 2000 37%
Private fuel
There is a further tax charge where a company car user is supplied with or allowed to claim reimbursement for fuel for private journeys.
The fuel scale charge is based on the same percentage used to calculate the car benefit. This is applied to a set figure which is £24,100 for 2019/20 (£23,400 for 2018/19). As with the car benefit, the fuel benefit chargeable to tax on the employee is used to compute the employer's liability to Class 1A. The combined effect of the charges makes the provision of free fuel a tax inefficient means of remuneration unless there is high private mileage.
The benefit is proportionately reduced if private fuel is not provided for part of the year. So taking action now to stop providing free fuel will have an immediate impact on the fuel benefit chargeable to tax and NICs.
Please note that if free fuel is provided later in the same tax year there will be a full year’s charge.
Business fuel
No charge applies where the employee is solely reimbursed for fuel for business travel.
HMRC issue advisory fuel-only mileage rates for employer provided cars. Employers can adopt the rates in the following table but may pay lower rates if they choose.
From 1 June 2019:
Pence per mile
1400 or less 12
Over 2000 22
1400 or less 8
HMRC update these rates on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and December. The latest rates can be found here.
Employees' use of own car
There is also a statutory system of tax and NIC free mileage rates for business journeys in employees' own vehicles.
The statutory rates are:
Rate per mile
Up to 10,000 miles 45p
Over 10,000 miles 25p
Employers can pay up to the statutory amount without generating a tax or NIC charge. Payments made by employers are referred to as 'mileage allowance payments'. Where employers pay less than the statutory rate (or make no payment at all) employees can claim tax relief on the difference between any payment received and the statutory rate.
We can provide advice on such matters as:
whether a car should be provided to an employee or a private car used for business mileage
whether employee contributions are tax efficient
whether private fuel should be supplied with the car.
Please contact us at Elman Wall for more detailed advice on cars for employees in your business in the London area.
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Tax Pro Spotlight Our Blog
Lee Fulcher, CPA…Lessons from Athletics to Accounting
admin taxing_subjects - Monday, May 06, 2013
Lee Fulcher…
Lessons from Athletics Followed Him into Accounting
John Lee Fulcher’s roots in accounting go all the way back to his grandfather, who was a Registered Public Accountant in the small town of Millen, Georgia, in the 1960s. Though he died when Fulcher (who goes by Lee) was only five years old, he still remembers his grandfather and the work ethic he patterned for his family.
“My Millen office is in my grandfather’s old building,” Fulcher said, adding that it is the second oldest building in the town. Carrying on his grandfather’s tradition of personalized service coupled with knowledge-based competence is something Fulcher is proud to do each and every day.
As he puts it, “I look beyond the numbers – exploring all possibilities, finding solutions, and adding value to my clients’ decision making. Put simply, I always want to provide good service.”
How does Fulcher define good service? “Being proactive with advice, sticking to deadlines, being accessible with tax expertise, exceeding expectations, and remaining fully committed to helping my customers succeed.”
It might sound like he always focused on accounting as his career choice when he was a youngster growing up in Waynesboro, Georgia. That was not the case, however.
He entered Georgia Southern University in 1985, interested in studying in athletics and medicine. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a Registered Nurse.
“I started college as a pre-med major,” Fulcher recalled. “I was going to do sports medicine because of my interest in athletics—especially football. One day a doctor in the field looked at me and said, ‘Do not go into medicine.’” Though the advice was discouraging at the time, Fulcher feels it turned out to be sound.
“I decided to take some different classes … one of those was Accounting 1. I loved the class so much that was the path I decided to go on,” he said.
Of course, athletics continued to be a top priority for Fulcher as well. He worked as an athletic trainer for Georgia Southern during his entire college career from 1985-89. The highlight was being part of the program when the Eagles claimed two back-to-back I-AA national championships in 1985 and 1986.
Legendary football coach Erskine "Erk" Russell was the reason Georgia Southern's football team had such tremendous success. Fulcher recalled that Russell came to the college in the early 80s to restart a program that had been dormant for 40 years. In just a few years, he led the new team to three national championships 1985, 86, and 89.
"It was amazing to work for such a great man," Fulcher said. "He was by far the greatest mentor of my life. Erk (as he was known in college sports) only had one rule: Do right!" Fulcher has worked hard to apply this rule in his own accounting business.
Whether you are the head of a college football team or an accounting office it is important to motivate your team and be a positive example, Fulcher explained. He still remembers the T-shirts Erk printed for his football players: "TEAM" printed in large letters and "me" in small letters.
Fulcher is currently looking forward to a major motion picture about his mentor entitled "Erk." It is due to start production this summer. Erk was a very successful and innovative coach, but he was an even better and more interesting person, Fulcher noted. "I can't wait to see this movie!"
After completing his career at Georgia Southern University in 1989, Fulcher graduated with his BBA in Public Accounting. He joined an accounting firm with offices in Louisville, Swainsboro, and Wrens honing his skills for two years before opening his own practice.
Owning his own business enhanced his ability to understand the needs of businesses of all sizes, Fulcher said. He served as controller for the city of Millen from 1994 until 1997 and as chief financial officer for a franchise of Huddle House restaurants from 1997 until 2006.
When he started his own firm, Fulcher attended a seminar in Augusta, Georgia, called Drake Ventures. It was there that he met Warren Drake and learned more about Drake Software. Warren's singing and Drake Software's customer service had Fulcher hooked from the start.
"Drake's customer service is number one," he said. "It makes my business so much more fluid. It is so much easier and smoother than opposing products I've tried." In fact, each year when he receives the new Drake Software, Fulcher considers it his "Christmas present."
Fulcher said he trusts Drake Software because the tax preparation business is always changing and ever-challenging and Drake is always on the cutting-edge of these changes. He is happy that GruntWorx is now available to his business. He uses the secure web-based application to automate the time-consuming tasks of organizing and populating client tax data into his Drake Software. Scanned documents can be converted into an organized, bookmarked PDF file making the data much easier to review.
“I use it (GruntWorx) for trades because it is time and money saved.” Fulcher emphasized. “I have a client with 200 trades from Merrill Lynch. It used to take up to five days to key all those in. Now it takes three hours. Drake just makes things so much easier!”
Fulcher and his staff of five, run two busy CPA firms and serve more than 1,600 clients, having reliable tax software like Drake is essential.
Long days are the norm for Fulcher and his staff during tax season, but they consider it necessary to walk their clients through the process and look beyond the numbers on their tax returns. “I’ve had lots of customers since the get go,” Fulcher explained. “I appreciate each one of them. I may not remember each name but I remember faces.”
With the end of tax season each year, Fulcher looks forward to some time away from the business. He packs his bags and heads to Myrtle Beach or a mountain getaway near Murphy, NC. The downtime helps him recharge for his demanding business schedule.
His love of athletics also helps Fulcher relax. He is still a huge college football fanatic and enjoys going to Georgia Southern and other games with his brother and nephew. He has also become an avid fan of NASCAR and has traveled to Bristol, Daytona, and Talladega to watch his favorite racers. There is one week in February that everyone knows will be “no appointments” for Fulcher. That is when he takes off to attend the Daytona 500, which he and other NASCAR enthusiasts call “The Great American Race.”
It’s a busy life for Fulcher, who just completed a two-year term as president of the Georgia Southern Alumni Board and has been a member of that board since 1998. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accounts. He is thankful for the opportunity to run a business where he can carry on his grandfather’s legacy and help others succeed.
To learn more about John “Lee” Fulcher’s CPA firm visit his website at www.johnlfulchercpa.com
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Global Climate Debate
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Can this woman convince 195 nations to save the planet?
Lisa Friedman, E&E News reporter
Climatewire: Thursday, November 5, 2015
BONN, Germany -- U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres strode into a makeshift office she uses when negotiations are held here, preoccupied by the latest procedural skirmish in the long-running debate over how to save the planet.
Compact, with short brown hair, Figueres cuts an imposing figure despite her soft pink suit and 5-foot frame. She was tense at first, almost visibly trying to put the squabbles behind her and focus on the task at hand: convincing yet another journalist that an ambitious global climate change accord must be struck in Paris in December, and will be.
Distractedly shuffling papers, she mentioned that she starts her mornings by either meditating or marathon training. And just like that, Figueres has found her metaphor.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Photo courtesy of UNFCCC.
"It's very difficult for me to balance urgency with patience, and I think that is at the root of this whole process. We're all so aware of the urgency of response, and at the same time, we're all painfully aware of the complexity of this," she said, settling down to talk.
Trying to provide an analogy between her daily routine and her role in shepherding an international agreement that will keep global greenhouse gas emissions at safe levels, Figueres leaned forward.
"If you look at meditating as getting into the patience part, and running as getting the urgency part or fast pace, that's how I take it to my own personal level," she continued.
"In the ideal, I should be able to both meditate and run. That is, the system should also be able to run at the pace that is necessary, but also do it with the thoughtfulness and awareness of the complexity."
Colleagues say Figueres, 59, always energetic and on message, is also warm. She can be a spontaneous dancer, and emotional.
She is a frequent and unapologetic crier, welling up twice in a series of recent interviews. Figueres' admirers say they have no doubt the passion behind her tears is genuine.
Her penchant for metaphors comes from her father, three-time former president of Costa Rica, José Figueres Ferrer. He had a gift for it, a "genius," Figueres said, while she works constantly to make visceral connections between the seemingly abstract and long-term threats posed by rising global temperatures and the concrete impacts on people's lives.
It's a critical skill for someone in her position, charged with guiding 195 countries toward a global agreement on climate change in December. If the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change can be likened to a coach, Figueres is leading perhaps the most important but tumultuous team in history. Not all the players trust one another. Some don't believe they are on the same team. Few of them even agree what a win looks like.
But Figueres said she always tries to keep the goal in sight.
"Very often I wake up in the morning, and in my mind's eye I look down at the planet as if I were the atmosphere," she said, without a hint of irony. She recited from memory the objective of the 1992 U.N. climate convention to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate.
"How that's done is where I need to be neutral. That it needs to be done, there's no choice around it, and the fact that it needs to be done in a timely fashion, there's just no choice around it," she said.
An advocate and referee
Observers say the Costa Rican native and trained anthropologist has been able to walk a fine line between being an passionate advocate for the planet and a dispassionate referee to countries battling over money and atmospheric space.
"In essence, she's helping those who are the largest emitters accept that they have to do something else, and developing countries that have resisted change to accept that they can't have the same development pattern," said Farhana Yamin, an international environmental lawyer who has worked with Figueres since the first U.N. climate conference in 1995.
"She's kind of said, 'Being neutral is not my job. My job is to agitate for support.' And she's quite political about it," Yamin said. "She's not picking sides, but she's asking everybody to act."
Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's special envoy for climate change, said Figueres has managed the art of holding leaders' feet to the fire while not antagonizing them.
"I think she's very good at emotionally closing the door," Kyte said. "She doesn't give you any space to believe it isn't on your watch. I've seen her in small rooms, challenging people, masters of business and politicians. She holds up a mirror to all of us and says, 'What are you doing here?'"
Perhaps the most common description that comes up when negotiators describe Figueres is "optimistic" or even "relentlessly optimistic."
Figueres herself agrees with the assessment but insists she's not irresponsibly so. Building morale in the United Nations and worldwide, she said, has been a key part of her job.
Heiress to Copenhagen's failures
A former climate negotiator for Costa Rica, Figueres took the reins of the UNFCCC in July of 2010. It was a dark time for those who had hoped countries would sign a new international treaty the previous year in Copenhagen, Denmark. Figueres said the memories of demoralized U.N. staff, activists and diplomats haunt her and spur her still.
"I remind myself constantly that I inherited this process after Copenhagen. Frankly, I inherited a garbage can. The whole process was in the garbage, the morale of the world around being able to face climate change was in the garbage can, and the morale of my fantastic staff was in the garbage can," she said.
"Turning the global mood on climate change around was my absolute first priority," she said. "Five years later, we are where I wanted to bring us, to a realization that yes, this is complicated; I never said it was going to be easy. But doable."
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern agreed, saying Figueres has injected a positivity into the negotiations.
"She's a professional, and she has got a real and evident passion for the issue. That comes through in most everything he does," Stern said. "She projects a real can-do attitude. She doesn't project hand-wringing, and she doesn't pull punches. If she thinks there are problems, 'We aren't doing X,' she says it."
Monica Araya, a former Costa Rican negotiator who joined the delegation after Figueres left, credited her diplomatic skills for ratcheting down the levels of distrust between rich and poor countries after the chaos of Copenhagen.
"As a Costa Rican observing another Costa Rican, she can be very much in the camp of 'no drama,' and I like that because the UNFCCC has this kind of addiction to drama. I think that's very human, but it's not helpful sometimes, and I like that she can defuse it," Araya said.
She recalled a 2012 negotiating session in Qatar in which the low grumble of diplomats that the host country wasn't handling things well grew to a roar and threatened to dismantle the talks. Figueres remained upbeat, insisting that countries would find a way to successfully wrap up a deal to move forward on a Paris accord, which they finally did.
Observers say that even with countries still so far apart on dozens of issues just one month ahead of the Paris talks, no one will convince Figueres that this is the time to panic, either.
Politics from her father, protocol from her mother
"She's the daughter of a president of a country that got rid of an army. Being a Figueres in my country is a little bit like being a Kennedy in that it comes with expectations you will do things for society," Araya said.
"I am convinced Christiana Figueres is a woman on a mission. Between now and then, she will do everything possible to convince the world it is now or never," she said.
Born eight years after her father banged a mallet into a wall to symbolize the end of Costa Rica's military regime, Figueres said she still credits him with teaching her about leadership -- specifically, that policies are not academic exercises but directly affect people's lives.
"I just remember so many times going with him to the rural areas of Costa Rica and sitting down in peasants' homes. We went very often; he would walk through [villages], and he never wanted bodyguards or anything like that," she recalled.
"People would say, 'Don Pepe, Don Pepe, come in and have coffee!' He was completely addicted to coffee. And he would walk in and sit down and have coffee," she said. "Sometimes he didn't feel he had had enough coffee, and literally he would knock on someone's door and say, 'Excuse me, can I come in? I need some coffee.'"
The drive comes from her mother, Karen Olsen Beck, who is 85 and, Figueres said, "sometimes has more energy than I do, and I'm not exactly unenergetic." A former ambassador, Beck also taught her children protocol, which Figueres said she chafed at as a child but now appreciates every time she has dinner with a head of state.
But the ability to combine data and facts with narrative and emotion, Figueres said, was her father's special gift. She remembered as a teenager watching the country's finance minister flail in a televised address detailing the country's budget woes. The next day, she said, her father took to the airwaves and told Costa Ricans that for the next while, there would be no butter for their rice and beans.
"We Costa Ricans, we eat white rice and black beans all the time," Figueres said. "That was, I think, a stroke of genius to explain to everybody that we have to tighten our belts. Everybody understood."
Pausing to dry her eyes, Figueres said she still has a strong spiritual connection with her father, who died in 1990, and said he speaks to her when she needs to find a way to make the climate threat visceral.
Figueres was completely sincere when she stopped in the hallway of the U.N. conference center the next day to expand on her comments and said she has a recurring dream of seven pairs of eyes watching her.
"It's seven generations, and they're asking me, 'What did you do?'" she said, once more tearing up. "That's the point. I really want everybody to answer that question to those seven little pairs of eyes."
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4-H launches into National Youth Science Day
Above is the sixth-grade group from the Effingham 4-H Rockets to the Rescue, which was part of the 4-H National Youth Science Day. - photo by Photo provided
Updated: Feb. 3, 2015, 8:27 p.m.
It’s not rocket science, or maybe it is …
Effingham 4-H’ers launched into Rockets to the Rescue, the national science experiment as part of 4-H National Youth Science Day. The project emphasized aerospace engineering while incorporating lessons related to math, science and physics.
4-H’ers were given a fictional scenario, with real-life parallels. They were told a terrible tsunami had wiped out an entire island’s resources, and it was up to them to design a rocket with a food source inside and launch it to the survivors.
A make-believe island with a target point was set up for the engineers to test their skills. Imaginations took off, as the students designed their soda bottle launchers and tested their rockets for accuracy.
“The competition was fierce, as teams contended for the first-place award,” said 4-H program assistant Faith Jaudon. “This was a fun yet educational activity for all the participants.”
For more information regarding the Effingham County 4-H program, contact the Extension office at 754-8040.
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Idiots on Ladders [Photo Gallery]
Sandy Smith Jan 15, 2015
We don't know whether to laugh or cry at this first place, award-winning example of Idiots on Ladders. This photo of the "Biggest Idiot on a Ladder" received 60 percent more votes than the two runner up photos. Is there such a thing as a "winner" in a contest like this?
First Runner Up
Michael Fern, the communications and social media officer for the Ladder Association, said the association received not one but two photos of workers using ladders inside the bucket of an excavator, something he called “worrying.” We call it "crazy."
Second Runner Up
The goal of Idiots on Ladders is to show the importance of training and competence in preventing falls from heights. Somehow, we don't think the worker who is standing on the scaffold is telling the worker who's balanced his ladder on a pitched roof that he's in danger. And then there's that opening in the scaffold that's right behind him...
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
It appears that in this case, the ladder is being used to hold the board on which the worker is standing...jutting out over the railing...dozens of feet above the ground... We're getting vertigo just looking at this one.
Fall Protection? Who Needs Fall Protection?
In this case, the ladder was used to access the glass roof, which appears to be about 20 or 25 feet above the ground. It counts as safe as long as one foot is touching the top support of the ladder, right? (Answer: Are you kidding?!)
Use the Other Ladder!!
Apparently, it is easier to balance a ladder in the bulldozer than it is to raise the ladder laying on the ground, which looks to be the right height to reach the roof. [We're scratching our heads over this one, too.]
Because Three Is Better Than One?
Because why not have three people standing on the same ladder, which is balanced on top of a construction trailer?
Lots of Bad Choices In This One
Apparently this worker needed lots of risk factors in his workday. He's straddling a scaffold and a free-standing ladder, which is balanced against the board he's working on. Is there any wonder that falls from heights cause severe injuries and death to thousands of workers each year?
Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
Hey! I have a good idea...rather than use a scaffold, let's put up lots of ladders! And we can balance one on two-by-fours on a pitched roof because that's not dangerous... Hey, great idea...NOT!
Eventually, He'll Run Out of Ladders
We don't even know what to say about this one...
When a Ladder Becomes a Mode of Transporation
Apparently, the ladder was just the mode of transportation to get to the window ledge.
When a Mode of Transportation Becomes a Ladder
Doesn't everyone use their work van as a ladder?
The Buddy System
We don't think this is what people mean when they talk about the buddy system.
Off-the-Job Safety: 8 Fireworks Safety Tips
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Is Riot spending less on professional League of Legends?
‘If revenue does not pick up enough, our budget will need to decrease by some amount.’
Nick Summers, @nisummers
08.30.18 in Business
Kevin "Hauntzer" Yarnell prepares to play with TSM in the NA LCS. Riot Games
Three days ago, League of Legends owner Riot confirmed that it wouldn't be sending English commentators to the early stages of Worlds in South Korea. Instead, casters will be covering the games from Los Angeles, likely inside the NA LCS (North American League of Legends Championship Series) studio. Riot's official NA and EU interviewers, Ovilee May and Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere, will be in attendance. But unlike previous years, US commentators won't be casting from inside South Korea until the finals.
The move has worried some fans.
Riot has struggled to secure a venue for the finals of Worlds this year. It's also condensed the competition's group stages into eight days, rather than the usual two weeks. A few months back, Riot held some of the group stages for MSI, a mid-season tournament between some of the world's best teams, inside the EU LCS Studio in Berlin, rather than a prestigious independent venue. Many, including longtime League interviewer Travis Gafford, felt the studio was too small, and lacked the spectacle that the competition deserved.
"It doesn't feel like an international event," he said during a travel vlog.
Viewers, unsurprisingly, started to wonder if Riot was cutting costs, possibly in response to the game's perceived drop-off in popularity.
The crowd at the MSI group stage in Berlin.
The company responded on Reddit two days ago. Derrick "FearGorm" Asiedu, Head of Global Events for Riot Games, said the team had spent over $100 million annually for the last few years. It hasn't reduced its esports budget, but was experimenting with ways to cut costs throughout the season. That's because Riot wants to operate less like a startup, simply burning money to increase viewership, and more like a company that can run a profitable business. "Instead of just making esports happen and be awesome," he explained, "we also want to focus on making this a financially sustainable endeavor that can last decades or more."
"We want to to invest even more than what we do now in the future, but only if it makes sense for the business."
Riot hopes to increase revenue to offset its own investment. If that doesn't happen, though, the company will need to reduce its esports budget "by some amount," Asiedu said. "To be clear, the goal isn't to decrease our investment in esports: we want to to invest even more than what we do now in the future, but only if it makes sense for the business (and if revenue continues to increase)."
He acknowledged that fans were angry at Riot's decision to hold some of MSI at the EU LCS studio. "We don't want to do an MSI group stage that small again," he said. The company will use its studios, which are already well-equipped for broadcasting, for less crucial games. It has recognized, however, that higher-level competitions including MSI and Rift Rivals need a larger venue to reflect their importance. "We want to make sure [we're] smart about investing in areas you care about," he added. "Venue size is clearly one of them."
The company will try to increase revenue through sponsorships and "digital experiences," according to Asiedu. Critics are questioning, though, why Riot hasn't maximised these opportunities already. Other than the State Farm-sponsored analyst desk, the NA LCS has little in the way of traditional advertising or sponsorship. The Overwatch League, by comparison, has partnered with Toyota, T-Mobile and even Sour Patch Kids candy in its inaugural season.
100 Thieves take on Flyquest in the NA LCS.
Riot's experimental cost-cutting will concern NA LCS team owners that paid $10 million -- and for newcomers 100 Thieves, Clutch Gaming, Golden Guardians and OpTic Gaming, $13 million -- to join the franchising setup. The company is planning a similar franchising model for the EU LCS next year. After handing over so much cash, these organisations will be expecting Riot spend to more, not less, on the venues and broadcast production.
The lack of revenue could be the result of a failed deal with video streaming specialist BAMTech. In December 2016, Riot announced a "first-of-its-kind long-term commercialization partnership" with the company, which started as a Major League Baseball spin-off, that would run until 2023. BAMTech became the exclusive sponsorship and advertising sales agent for Riot, and promised to build a streaming app similar to MLB At-Bat for League. "As an innovator in digital sponsorship and media sales, BAMTech will help us unlock long-lasting and meaningful value for our digital sport as it matures," Riot said in a blog post at the time.
If the game is to survive long-term, Riot needs to keep fans happy and quickly figure out its monetization strategy.
As part of the deal, BAMTech paid Riot roughly $50 million each year. Disney, however, became BAMTech's majority shareholder in September 2017. Eight months later, Riot unveiled an "evolution" of the BAMTech partnership that would bring League to the ESPN+ subscription service. The terms of the new deal are unknown, but many suspect the money and promised investment is lower. There's some evidence to support that theory -- ESPN+ isn't a dedicated League app -- but the specifics around sales and advertising assistance is murky.
Riot still has a successful eSport and, unlike the Overwatch League, can offer plenty of veteran players and long-standing team rivals. Despite its slight decline, League of Legends is hugely popular and should be attractive to advertisers. If the game is to survive long-term, Riot needs to keep fans happy and quickly figure out its monetization strategy. Pushing competitive play into smaller arenas, and with cheaper commentary setups, will only encourage viewers to close their browser tab and watch a different video game on Twitch.
Images: Riot Games
In this article: business, eSports, gaming, League, LeagueofLegends, Riot, Riotgames
By Nick Summers @nisummers
Nick Summers is a senior reporter, editor and photographer at Engadget. He studied multimedia journalism at Bournemouth University and holds an NCTJ certificate. Nick previously worked at The Next Web and FE Week, an education-focused newspaper in the UK.
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First layperson elected to lead Order of the Ascension
Michelle Heyne, OA, was elected April 21, 2016, by the professed members of the Order of the Ascension to serve as the eighth Presiding Officer of the community. Michelle assumed her role immediately during the Order’s retreat at the Community of St. John the Baptist in Mendham, NJ.
Michelle has been a professed member since 2010 and is the first layperson to lead the community since its founding in 1983. She works full-time as a consultant to financial services firms, having previously worked as a financial industry executive. She also consults with Episcopal churches and dioceses, and leads leadership retreats and training programs. She is interested in helping build productive relationships between clergy and lay leaders, and in developing capacity for parish health and management through sound spiritual and secular processes and methods.
The Order of the Ascension is a dispersed Benedictine community with a charism for parish revitalization. The charism is expressed through the individual work of members, as well as through materials published by Ascension Press of the Order of the Ascension. Michelle brings to the Order a particular passion for Christian formation, and for truly equipping the laity for service in daily life by building proficiency in traditional practices. She received training through the Church Development Institute and National Training Laboratories, and is the author of In Your Holy Spirit: Traditional Spiritual Practices in Today’s Christian Life.
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Canadian church report accepts physician-assisted dying as new reality
By Tali Folkins
[Anglican Journal] In a nod to changing times, the Anglican Church of Canada’s latest report on physician-assisted dying, rather than opposing the practice, recognizes it as a reality. The report offers reflections and resources around assisted dying and related issues, such as palliative care.
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down last year a ban on physician-assisted death for the “grievously and irremediably ill” as unconstitutional, notes the paper, entitled In Sure and Certain Hope: Resources to Assist Pastoral and Theological Approaches to Physician Assisted Dying, released on June 9.
In the wake of this decision, the paper states, “public debate concerning the legal ban on physician assisted dying is in some ways over.”
As a result, the authors continue, “our energy is best spent at this time ensuring that this practice is governed in ways that reflect insofar as possible a just expression of care for the dignity of every human being, whatever the circumstances.”
The paper offers to Canadian Anglicans “a framework for effective pastoral support for all concerned (patients, family, loved ones, care providers, and wider communities of support), whatever decisions particular patients ultimately believe themselves called to make.”
“We’re no longer in a debate about whether or not society is going to legalize physician-assisted dying—that’s happening, that train is out of the station,” says Canon Eric Beresford, chair of the church’s task force on physician-assisted death, which produced the report. “So now our question as Anglicans is, ‘How do we provide pastoral care to people…some of whom will choose to avail themselves of physician-assisted dying?’ ”
The paper opens with an introduction to the issue, and moves on to a discussion of related theological concerns and questions. It discusses how palliative and pastoral care ought to be provided to those facing the end of their lives. It includes suggested prayers and litanies and a list of books and other resources. It also includes the submission the task force made in February to the parliamentary committee charged with advising Ottawa on drafting the legislation around the practice, which consists of 16 questions the task force wanted lawmakers to ponder.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, was not available for comment on the report as of press time. In a statement accompanying its release, however, Hiltz acknowledged that not everyone would like the fact that the report argued neither against nor in favour of physician-assisted dying.
“A report like this is not going to please everybody because it doesn’t give a direct answer, and that will frustrate some people,” Hiltz said. “But…to give a direct answer is, in fact, to alienate people over a very sensitive and complex issue.”
Hiltz stressed the use in the paper of the term “covenant of presence”—the commitment of clergy and loved ones to be with people contemplating assisted dying, whatever their own views on the matter.
This is not the church’s first formal response to the issue. In 1998, it released Care in Dying: A Consideration of the Practices of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide. This earlier paper voiced a “cautiously negative” view on legalizing physician-assisted dying, Beresford says.
“That document, in the end, couldn’t believe that assisting a person with their dying was an act of care,” he says. “Our society disagrees—it thinks it can be.”
Beresford says some people see the new paper as an argument in favour of physician-assisted dying. These people, he says, have “completely misread” the report.
“At this point, physician-assisted dying is a part of our society,” he says. “Now, some churches are going to continue to argue this is a bad, bad thing, and we must stop it. That’s a decision that some churches have made. I suppose our problem with that is…what do you do with those members of your congregation who say, ‘Yes, but we believe it’s the right thing for us’? Are you really going to abandon them by simply saying, ‘Well, you know, tough luck—it’s not something you should be deciding’?” he says.
“I don’t think that’s the Anglican way. I think the Anglican way has always been one of trying to find methods of pastoral accommodation, trying to find ways of being present to people who are in a diversity of situations making a diversity of decisions.”
The paper includes personal reflections by Anglican priests, including Canon Douglas Graydon, a member of the task force who also specialized in end-of-life care for more than 20 years.
“Within that experience I learned that, for some, assisted dying, if it had been possible, would have been a choice that would uphold the dignity, autonomy and humanity of their lives,” states Graydon in his reflection. “Assisted dying would have been the natural extension of ensuring control within their life and therefore would have maintained a sense of quality of life and a recognition of the sacredness of life.”
In an interview with the Anglican Journal, Graydon, speaking on his own behalf rather than that of the task force, praises the report for not arguing either for or against physician-assisted suicide, but instead focusing on the challenge of how clerics and loved ones can be present and attentive to people struggling with end-of-life questions.
“I think its strength is that it theologically challenges people to think, and reflect, and study on the dimensions of suffering and autonomy and our duty to care for [them], and how one goes about celebrating the sacredness of life within the crucible of a conversation around ‘Help me to die,’ ” he says.
Graydon says he hopes the paper will help Anglicans talk with each other about a subject that can be very divisive.
“My fear is, and my experience to a certain degree has been, that assisted dying is one of those topics that people very quickly retreat into a corner and then they come out boxing…to defend their position,” he says. “So first and foremost, I hope the document stimulates conversation and encourages people to come together, regardless of their personal views, to learn and explore and study the issue.”
The Supreme Court of Canada has given Ottawa until June 6 to enact new legislation allowing the practice. The deadline has passed, with a bill proposed by the government passed in the House of Commons but now held up by debate in the Senate—meaning the issue is now in a kind of legal limbo.
“It is not illegal. The sections of the Criminal Code that would have made it illegal have been struck down and nothing has replaced them,” Beresford says. “You couldn’t break the law in this area because there’s no law to break.”
The parliamentary committee, Beresford says, appeared to have “completely ignored” the Anglican Church of Canada’s submission, which sought to ensure that especially vulnerable people would be protected. Instead, he says, the committee seemed to favour allowing relatively broad access to physician-assisted death—granting access to children and depressed people, for example. The bill as it was actually introduced by the Liberal government, however, was narrower—though amendments have been proposed in the Senate to broaden access once again, he says.
Beresford says he hopes lawmakers’ attempts to open up access to physician-assisted dying won’t include those in the especially vulnerable groups outlined in the task force’s submission.
“If they reopen it to people who don’t have the capacity for consent, I think this is deeply problematic—children, for example,” he says. “Do we really want to have physicians ending the lives of children—on what basis? Are we really going to limit this to like, putting a dog down?”
Also, if Canadians really want those facing end-of-life decisions to be able to decide freely, we need to significantly improve the quality of palliative care, he says.
“Our current levels of palliative care leave a lot of people, to our mind, without a genuine choice…[provision is] spotty at best and in many places quite poor,” he says. “If that’s the situation, I can completely understand why somebody would say, ‘In my current medical situation, this medical system basically abandons me to intolerable suffering or choosing death. And I choose death.’ ”
Frank Riggio-Preston says:
Ok to assisted suicide?. Not ok to the reality of same-sex marriage? Does not make sense.
J. R. Holt Jr. says:
One wonders when the church will approve of heir assisted suicide or group marriage or open marriage or horrors marriage between humans and non-humans. Shame on the Anglican Church of Canada. BTW I am an Anglican myself in fact I am my parish’s Senior Warden at All Saints Anglican Church Huntington WV. I was for almost forty years an Episcopalian, who fled the ECUSA for its increasingly insane heretical policies. I fled to the Anglican Church, but now I wonder if might not have fled far enough. Our parish is in the Anglican Diocese of the South, and we are affiliated with ACNA our bishop is the Archbishop of ACNA, which is the Anglican Church in North America, and I thought that included some if not all the Canadian Anglican parishes
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Douglas Flatters Zeta-Jones on Oscars Performance
By Robert Pace 5:24 AM PST, February 25, 2013
Amid the many festivities of Sunday's Academy Awards was a performance by Catherine Zeta-Jones from Chicago, the musical that won her an Oscar a decade ago. Her husband, Michael Douglas, dazzled her with compliments for the impressive number.
"I can't believe it was ten years ago," the Wall Street actor said on the red carpet of the Vanity Fair after-party. "She looks as beautiful...and just amazing. That's a workout, and there she is. [She] looks great; the show stands up pretty good too."
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Just before the stars capped the night with a celebration, they revealed their favorite moments of the ceremony. The consensus among the majority of the attendees was that they enjoyed musical performances like Zeta-Jones'.
"The music was fantastic, actually," said Daniel Day-Lewis, who won Best Actor for his role as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. "Adele's a bit of a favorite in our family."
Longtime actor Jon Voight, who has attended many an award show in his day, gave his opinion on why the show was a success.
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"I really enjoyed tonight. I thought [it] was nice [and] evenly spread out and all these wonderful, talented people getting attention," said Voight, father of actress Angelina Jolie. "...The speeches were great, and I was very moved by the final speech by Ben [Affleck]. ...It was very beautiful."
One of a handful of actors who completed an awards sweep by notching an Oscar in addition to SAG and Golden Globes Awards was Anne Hathaway, who won yet again for her supporting role in Les Misérables.
Although she had already won two major awards for her role, Hathaway claims she wasn't expecting to win the Oscar on Sunday.
VIDEO: Oscars Flashback '03: Zeta-Jones 8 Mos. Pregnant
"No. [I didn't know]," she replied when ET's Rocsi suggested she had a premonition she would win the award. "Not until Christopher Plummer said my name."
Watch the video to see more from the stars before they began their post-Oscars celebration.
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Public Release: 15-Jan-2014
Acidification, predators pose double threat to oysters
University of California - Davis
The once-booming, now struggling Olympia oyster native to the West Coast could face a double threat from ocean acidification and invasive predators, according to new research from the University of California, Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory. The work is published Jan. 15 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Invasive snails ate 20 percent more juvenile oysters when both oysters and snails were raised under ocean conditions forecast for the end of this century, the researchers found. The results highlight the dangers of multiple stressors on ecosystems, said Eric Sanford, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and first author on the study.
"You might decide to go to work if you had a toothache. But what if you had a toothache, the flu, and a broken leg? At some point, multiple stressors will cause natural systems to break down," he said.
Native Olympia oysters were once so common in San Francisco Bay that they were a cheap food during the Gold Rush, commemorated in Hangtown Fry, an omelet of eggs, bacon and oysters. The population collapsed from overfishing in the late 1800s and has never recovered.
Atlantic oysters imported to the West Coast brought predatory snails such as the Atlantic oyster drill, which uses acid and a rasping tongue to drill holes in oyster shells.
Scientists have become increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change on ocean chemistry. As heat-trapping carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, some of the gas dissolves in the oceans, causing a steady rise in the overall acidity of the oceans. An interdisciplinary team of researchers based at UC Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory is looking into the oceans' future by raising animals in seawater with raised levels of dissolved carbon dioxide. In earlier work, they found that oysters raised under conditions predicted for the end of this century are smaller than present-day animals.
In Tomales Bay north of San Francisco, young snails emerge from egg capsules at about the same time of year that juvenile oysters settle from the plankton and grow into adults. Sanford and colleagues raised both oysters and snails in the lab to simulate this process under present-day conditions and with levels of carbon dioxide forecast for 2100.
They found that oysters raised under high carbon dioxide were smaller, but did not have thinner shells than oysters reared under present-day conditions. The snails were not affected by high carbon dioxide, but ate 20 percent more oysters under these conditions.
"It's like if you go out for tacos," Sanford said. "If the tacos are smaller, you're going to eat more of them."
The experiment was based on the average acidity of the oceans. However, as the overall acidity of the ocean rises, short-term fluctuations mean that locations like Tomales Bay are already experiencing peaks of acidity similar to those used in the experiment.
Apart from their culinary delights, oysters perform important ecosystem services, for example filtering material out of the water, and there have been growing efforts to restore their populations along the West Coast, including in San Francisco Bay. But the new work shows that the combination of climate change and invasive predators may make restoration increasingly difficult.
Co-authors on the study are: Professor Brian Gaylord, graduate student Annaliese Hettinger and researcher Elizabeth Lenz, Department of Evolution and Ecology and Bodega Marine Lab; Professor Tessa Hill, Department of Earth and Physical Sciences and Bodega Marine Lab; and Kirstin Meyer, undergraduate student at Northern Michigan University. The work was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Cyra McFadden (born 1937) is an American writer, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.McFadden's 1977 novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County satirized the trendy lifestyles of the affluent residents of Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. The book was made into a 1980 movie called Serial, starring Tuesday Weld and Martin Mull.In 1986, McFadden wrote a positively reviewed personal memoir entitled Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir, in which she described her childhood growing up as the daughter of free-spirited parents. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer that year. Her father, Cy Taillon, was arguably the most famous American rodeo announcer of the mid-20th century. After being out of print for several years, Rain or Shine was reprinted in 1998.McFadden wrote a biweekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for six years, mostly in the 1980s, and was also a features writer for that daily newspaper.She was born in Great Falls, Montana, and spent much of her childhood traveling with her parents on the rodeo circuit and living in Missoula, Montana.
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Basic Income Calgary is an action group of the Basic Income Canada Network and an Enough for All stakeholder. Basic Income Calgary’s goals align with Enough for All, Calgary’s poverty reduction strategy, and the growing national movement for a basic income guarantee.
We believe in and support the creation of a basic income guarantee program that would create a regular, predictable income, universally and unconditionally available to all who need it, and sufficient to provide for a decent life style and enable full participation in the community.
The United Nations Human Rights Declaration and Sustainable Development Goals establish a framework of critical importance for global action of which the primary objective is “to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality and a healthy environment.”
This means that every Canadian has a right to live in dignity, with adequate means to achieve physical, mental and social well-being.
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Quick notes from Basic Income Guarantee Panel – falicon.com
I took some time out to attend the Basic Income Guarantee talk tonightoverall a really really interesting discussion that Im still processing a bit in my head.
I also used the event to practice myvisual note taking skills (related to another book Im reading)so I thought I would just take a minute to upload/share a copy of those notes here (along with some personal takeaways and caveats).
#1. The single biggest, and most important, note I came away with is that Basic Income Guarantee is really a discussion about basic FREEDOM for individuals and not really so much about individual wealth or revenue.
#2. My handwriting is most likely tough to read here (and in real life too)my artwork is also seriously lacking here (and in real life too)so Ill try to post some notes below to explain some things (but also feel free to ask questions/leave comments about anything you need deciphered).
and a few other quick bits I added on a second page:
throughout the talks, I also wrote a handful of questions (that ended up mostly being answered via questions the rest of the crowd asked and/or the panelists decided to mention in related answers)here is the list of questions I had jotted down during the initial talk portion:
A.) Downside? Who is against this?
General answer was some companies; some fear too much freedom given to the masses; there is a potential moral challenge to what people would/will do with freedom; the current wealthy/middle may feel devalued/threatened.
B.) If oil goes away what does Alaska do? How would it affect the state?
In my opinion this was mostly addressed by the answers to A.
C.) What dependancies would this build? How is it kept in check to remain useful?
A couple of people in the crowd expressed concern that prices would simply rise as a result of this the panel (especially Albert) made the point that most of this only works in a deflationary economy, but they also touched on the fact that distribution and scale of the plan would ensure more freedom to the consumers (and hence the balance of price power would actually become *more* equal between consumers and sellers).
D.) How to get it started/tested?
Most agreed that an iterative approach was the most likely waysome private initiatives are already doing things/testing versions of this which is leading and driving the discussion if nothing else
E.) How does healthcare fit into this? If we cant get universal healthcare, how can we get this?
Albert touched on this in response to some of the other questions but didnt have the opportunity to really deep dive into itbut hes clearly thinking about it and I expect will address it more going forward.
F.) What can this crowd do to help? What are our action items/take aways?
Essentially the panel just wants the word and the discussion to spread at this point.
SOnow to explain a few key things about my notes above:
1. Unfort. I had Michael Lewis and Nathan Schneider mixed up throughout most of my note taking (Michael is the one that talked about political hurdles, freedom, and trade offs; Nathan was the one coming from the time management angle and was the biggest proponent of doing this all outside of government [and not testing the ideas by taking anything *away* from the current poor])
2. The interesting thing about the panel was that everyone came to the idea/desire for a basic income guarantee from a completely different angle (Albert; robots and tech make it reasonable/possible. Peter; Climate & environment changes make it required. Michael; political hurdles are getting too high and difficult for the majority of people to get any value out of current gov. programs. Nathan; Time management is forcing the issue because we no longer have time for *anything* but, often meaningless, work).
3. There was no real opposing view; many in the crowd appeared to have askeptical reactionbut mostly, I think, because they havent fully dug into the source material the panelists have been sharing (yet).
4. I knew about Alberts work around this topic (its also how I knew about the event) but was not aware of the othersof the panel, I found Michaels take very rooted in reality and at least possibleI will dig into all of the panelists content/ideas a bit more over the next few weeks, but Im excited to dig into Michaels stuff the most.
5. Unrelated to anything really, but holy cow do people need to work on asking questionsevery single question that came from the crowd was a multi-minute ramble fest (kinda like this post)they were great questions, but they took a lot to get out.
6. There is clearly a lot of growing passion around this topicthats both encouraging and excitingI hope it continues to grow.
7. If you want to get involved in this topic and other stuff around it you should check out the web site they mentioned at the end http://basicincome.nyc, follow the panelists on twitter (and their blogs), and also check out @civichall
‘Hartz reforms’: how a benefits shakeup changed Germany …
Exactly 10 years ago today, Germany’s labour market was subjected to the first of the so-called Hartz IV reforms. Brought about by the smooth centre-left chancellor Gerhard Schrder, it was a watershed moment that changed the way the German government deals with poverty.
The changes were riddled with the kind of Anglicisms that German officialdom likes to deploy for any modernisation. In the past decade, unemployed Germans have been bewildered with a kaleidoscope of new “Denglish” terms, from “Jobcenter” to “Personal Service Agentur” to “Mini-Job” to “BridgeSystem”. But the measures recommended by the Hartz commission named after its chairman, former Volkswagen executive Peter Hartz boiled to down to this: the bundling of unemployment benefits and social welfare benefits into one neat package.
The immediate effect was to leave those living on benefits worse off (as of 2013, the standard rate for a single person is 382 a month, plus the cost of “adequate housing” and healthcare). But the new element that brought the most profound change was the contract, drawn up between the “jobseeker” and the “Jobcenter”, which defined what each party promised to do to get the jobseeker back on somebody’s payroll. This was coupled with “sanctions” in other words, benefit cuts if the jobseeker failed to keep up his or her side of the bargain. With those two measures, Germany came to accept the modern interpretation of the word “incentive” in the job market: the doctrine that poor people will only work if they are they are not given money.
There are myriad debates about the net results or benefits of the Hartz reforms. Unemployment, both long-term and short-term, has certainly dropped considerably in Germany since 1 January 2003, but critics say that’s only because most jobless people are forced to accept the next job they can find and often they end up in one so low-paid and part-time that they were still dependent on some sort of state welfare anyway. Then again, the flexibility that allows employers especially major industrial companies to take on and lay off part-time shift workers depending on the state of the export market has certainly helped Germany to ride out the global economic crisis in the past three years.
But what is hard to overlook is that the Hartz reforms have had two social effects. First, they have helped to accelerate inequality in Germany. According to an April 2012 OECD report, “Germany is the only [EU] country that has seen an increase in labour earnings inequality from the mid 1990s to the end 2000s driven by increasing inequality in the bottom half of the distribution.” The report goes on to point to “a set of reforms in 2003 meant to increase the flexibility of the labour market” which help to explain the “wage moderation”.
Second, the Hartz concept has created new support for an old idea that is its ideological opposite the basic income guarantee, or the bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen. This proposes that every citizen should simply be handed an unconditional income, without means-testing or any pressure to work, and thus be allowed to do more or less what they want with their lives. The German website of the income guarantee movement dates the explosion of interest to the fourth and final phase of the Hartz reforms, which came into effect in 2005.
Hartz IV, which still stirred enough anger last autumn to drive one activist to go on hunger strike, has intensified the debate around this radical alternative. And while none of the major parties have adopted it as policy, every one of them including Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has raised the notion in their internal party debates.
On top of this, the basic income advocates have even been handed some ammunition by Germany’s consititution, the Basic Law. Over the years, certain elements of the Hartz reforms have fallen foul of the constitution and its celebrated opening line “human dignity is inviolable”. The German state is obliged to guarantee its citizens a life compatible with “human dignity,” a principle that resulted in a 2010 court ruling that said the standard Hartz IV payment is not calculated in a way that ensures that. In April 2012, a Berlin court decided that the monthly Hartz IV payment was exactly 36 too little (or 100 for a family) to comply with constitutional requirements. That is not yet, and probably won’t ever be, enough to overthrow the entire Hartz concept, but the conflict with the “pressure to work” ideology is growing more apparent.
Basic income could end food insecurity – Upstream
Eating is an essential act of survival that we do every day. But eating is much more than biology. It’s also social, cultural, psychological, emotional and political.
The food we eat and the circumstances we eat it in tell us who we are and where we belong in our society.
What does it tell us about who we are, and where we belong, when we cant afford to buy the food we need and want for ourselves and our families? All of us have had the experience of being hungry, having skipped a meal or as we await our next. But for most of us, we know that food will soon be available. That is an entirely different experience than having no food in the cupboard and no money to buy more. This condition of food insecurity affects at least 4 million Canadians, including more than a million kids. What does it tell us about who we are as a society that we tolerate this in a land of such wealth and abundance?
Most Canadians cannot bear the thought that so many in this country are hungry. That’s why we have food banks, an effort started by ordinary Canadians in their communities, distributing food to those who didnt have enough to eat. But after more than thirty years of trying, food banks have been unable to solve the problem of hunger. When they started in the 80s, food banks saw themselves as a temporary measure. They expected to fold up and disappear once the economy improved. But even though we are vastly more wealthy as a country, the number of Canadians using food banks remains high, and the number of food insecure Canadians is even higher.
“What does it tell us about who we are as a society that we tolerate this in a land of such wealth and abundance?”
Its not surprising that food banks havent been able to eliminate hunger, because the upstream problem is poverty. Food insecurity is one of the many symptoms of poverty and will disappear only when we effectively tackle its source.
As an academic and researcher who has studied food insecurity for more than twenty years, I yearn for the day when food banks can close because they are no longer needed. Two years ago, I learned about an exciting new national campaign to promote an unconditional basic income guarantee to eliminate poverty. I became a founding member of the Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee and have watched this idea take off. While there have been national conversations off and on about basic income for many years, it now appears basic incomes time has finally come.
As part of a progressive package of social supports including programs like pharmacare and affordable housing, an effective basic income guarantee really could eliminate poverty. In doing so it would also eliminate food insecurity and a host of other social determinants of stress, poor health, suffering and premature death. Some of us believe there is a strong moral and ethical imperative for us to look after each other. There is also a strong economic case. We know that for every dollar we invest in reducing poverty, eventually we will save about two dollars in health care, education and the justice system.
“Its not surprising that food banks havent been able to eliminate hunger, because the upstream problem is poverty.”
For these reasons, even those uninterested in poverty reduction have become supporters. A basic income guarantee could help alleviate the pervasive sense of insecurity that we are experiencing, as full-time jobs with benefits disappear and climate change creates uncertainty. At Queens university where I teach, at least 40% of the undergraduate students are on anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medications. That anxiety has in part been created by the systematic underfunding and dismantling of social programs, and years of being told that we are on our own to face the uncertainties of life. Intense individualism and competition for allegedly scarce resources (like a decent, stable job) have taken an immense toll.
All across the country health professionals, non-governmental organizations, elected officials and ordinary citizens are becoming enthusiastic about basic income. Food Banks Canada has endorsed basic income. Mayors Nenshi (Calgary) and Iveson (Edmonton) are fans, as well as mayors in many other cities. The recently elected premier of PEI, Wade McLaughlin, has pledged his support. Kingston City Council recently became the first elected body to endorse basic income, and did so unanimously. Now other municipal governments are following suit.
“It now appears basic incomes time has finally come.”
Just last month Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, has begun seriously considering a federal basic income guarantee, and newly appointed Quebec Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity, Franois Blais, has been mandated to explore a basic income for Quebecers. Former Senator Hugh Segal is one of Canadas biggest (and most persistent) champions of basic income. The Ontario Public Health Association, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Medical Association, and many other health professionals and their associations are calling for a basic income guarantee to eliminate poverty, improve health, and save Medicare.
Well-known author and activist Naomi Klein recommends the implementation a basic income as the most important step in solving global climate change. She believes it will foster a sense of collectivity, enabling us to work together to tackle this urgent public health problem.
From solving poverty and food insecurity to facilitating action on global climate change, a basic income guarantee can give us a solid collective footing to work together again, to find new ways to live together and more sustainably on the planet, and reimagine our collective future. Implementing a basic income guarantee would tell us a lot about who we imagine ourselves to be as Canadians a compassionate and pragmatic people who understand that addressing the upstream causes of poor health and premature death is a nations most urgent and important goal.
Elaine Power is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queens University. She teaches social determinants of health to several hundred undergraduate students and does research about food and eating, especially in the context of poverty. She is a co-founder of the Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee and a member of the Basic Income Canada Network.
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Over 50 presentations made at the2018North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress, held May 24-27 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, are now available!
Titled “Basic Income: Bold Ideas, Practical Solutions for discussion of the idea of Basic Income,” the 17th Annual NABIG Congress wasthemed around (1) the converging paths leading to basic income (e.g., health, human rights, automation, sustainability, democracy, etc.); and (2) making basic income a reality, through pilots, policy, and public support. Approximately 275 people, from Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Chile, the U.K., Germany, Portugal, Russia, and Australia attended, including approximately 120 people who presented on a wide range of topics. See the final Congress Program.
The annual NABIG Congress is organized by the Basic Income Canada Network and theU.S. Basic Income GuaranteeNetwork. The 2018 Congress was organized in collaboration with McMaster University, the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Low Income Families Together (in Toronto), and otherpartners. Very special thanks are given to McMaster University for tremendous on-site logistical support, and to McMaster University, the LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Chair in Global Labour Issues, theHamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Deloitte Canada, the Hamilton Community Foundation, theSisters of Providence (Kingston, Ontario), and to a number of individuals for their very kind financial or in-kind support.
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Basic Income Guarantee – Your Right to Economic Security …
“This book is a great idea – brilliantly stated. Some may think it’s ultra-liberal, as they did when I proposed a similar idea in 1972. I see it as true conservatism – the right of income for all Americans sufficient for food, shelter, and basic necessities. Or, what Jefferson referred to as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” – U.S. Senator George McGovern, 1972 Democratic Party Presidential Candidate
“Sheahen and I are as far apart on political philosophy and the causes of the nation’s current mess as two people can be, but we both think that a basic income guarantee has to be part of the solution. That says something about the potential of this important idea whose time, as we both hope, is coming. Basic Income Guarantee will help make that happen.” – Charles Murray, author of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
“Basic Income Guarantee is a fascinating, lucid presentation of a complex subject. Sheahen asks and answers the questions of what a just society should and could do to overcome income insecurity. Given our prolonged economic malaise, everyone in America should be thinking about it.” – Theresa Funiciello, author of Tyranny of Kindness and head of Social Agenda
“Absent as an issue for almost fifty years, Allan Sheahen places the idea of a basic income for all Americans squarely back on the national agenda. In plain English, this radical idea is not only clearly explained but answers even the toughest objections that can be raised. This book should make sense even to my most dysfunctional colleagues in Congress.” – Bob Filner, U.S. Congressman of San Diego and former chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee
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The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee …
‘Yes, a different world is possible, and it will include basic income security for all. But it will not come about without a thorough discussion involving a broad range of scholars, determined to look beyond the borders of their discipline and their nation, and eager to learn from the failures of the past. This is precisely the sort of collective effort which this book splendidly illustrates.’ Professor Philippe Van Parijs, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Harvard University, USA ‘Big ideas like these, carefully considered, could change the world. Although not everyone will agree that basic income guarantees should top the progressive social policy agenda, readers of this book will be enriched by the breadth and depth of arguments on their behalf. Ranging from narrative history to technical labour economics, these essays describe a compelling strategy for developing a kinder, gentler economy.’ Professor Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, USA ‘For anyone researching a Citizen’s Income this book is essential reading.’ Citizen’s Income Newsletter ‘The book makes an excellent contribution to the literature…the quality of the essays is truly outstanding…thought provoking, well researched, well written, and well edited.’ Journal of Economic Issues
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Everton sign Andre Gomes permanently from Barcelona
Everton have completed the signing of midfielder Andre Gomes from Barcelona in a permanent deal worth €25m plus add-ons, it has been confirmed.
The Toffees paid a season-long loan fee of €2.5m to land the Portuguese international but did not possess an option to sign the midfielder permanently.
Both Tottenham and West Ham had been extensively linked to the former Benfica midfielder, leading to reports that the transfer fee could be as high as €35m.
However, he has now secured a move to Goodison Park on a permanent contract having enjoyed a high level of performance across 29 matches last season.
He is set to be one of a number of permanent exits from the Camp Nou this summer as they aim to raise funds and free-up wages to then reinvest further in their first-team squad - goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen joined Valencia earlier on Tuesday.
Gomes joined Barca from Valencia in 2016 in a deal worth up to €55m but failed to settle at the Catalan giants, appearing in 78 matches and scoring in three matches.
He has won 29 caps with Portugal, with whom he won the 2016 European Championships.
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Richard Blade
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At the start of his entertainment career, billing himself as "The Young Dick Sheppard," he worked as a UK and European-based DJ.
Between 2010 and 2011, he appeared in four episodes of the television series Glory Daze.
Raised in Torquay, England, he rose to fame while living and working in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Born Richard Sheppard, he took his stage name, Richard Blade, from the title of the 1982 film Blade Runner.
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Home Knowledge Base Conspiring to redefine conspiracy to defraud
Conspiring to redefine conspiracy to defraud
Company directors who design and pursue a lawful transaction designed to remove from the company hefty future obligations do not conspire to defraud those who might be financially affected by their doing so.
Furthermore, the High Court will not allow the exceptional procedure for preferring voluntary bills of indictment to be used when a prosecuting authority repeatedly changes the way it puts its case.
Those were the conclusions of Lord Justice Fulford sitting as a High Court Judge in Serious Fraud Office v Evans and others following an application by the SFO for a voluntary bill of indictment after Mr Justice Hickinbottom dismissed a charge of conspiracy to defraud in February 2014 at the Crown Court at Cardiff.
Fulford LJ found that Hickinbottom J had made no material error of law in Evans and Others [2014] 1 WLR 2817 in dismissing charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office against two company directors, three of their solicitors and Queen’s Counsel. The particular transaction involved Wales’ biggest opencast mining company, Celtic Energy Ltd, selling freehold open cast mining sites to a British Virgin Islands company (‘Oak’). The aim of the transaction was to transfer away from Celtic responsibility for the £170 million cost of restoring the opencast sites, for which provision in excess of £70m had been made in Celtic’s accounts.
The SFO failed in an attempt to argue that the sale of the freeholds did not actually transfer the restoration liabilities away from Celtic. It further failed to establish that the defendants had sought to defraud the enforcing authorities into believing that the transfer had removed the restoration liabilities.
The SFO then ‘very substantially’[1] changed its case. The core argument advanced by the SFO was that those who dishonestly agree to act to the prejudice of others enter into a conspiracy to defraud, even if both the object of the agreement and the means by which they act pursuant to it are entirely lawful.
Before Fulford LJ the SFO again very significantly changed its case, prompting the Court to say:
This has not involved a simple and understandable change of heart by the prosecution. Instead, it reveals, as Hickinbottom J mildly expressed the position, that the Crown has not approached this case with “particular analytical precision” [130]. I am unpersuaded that it would be in the interests of justice to permit the prosecution to use this exceptional procedure to reformulate the legal basis of the charge or charges when the case should have been presented on the current proposed legal foundations at the time the case was sent for trial. I am reinforced in that conclusion by the repeat nature of the shifts in the prosecution’s stance in this regard, which have operated to the real prejudice of the accused. One of the consequences of seeking a voluntary bill of indictment is that nearly a year after the submissions on the dismissal application concluded, the court is being asked to decide whether the prosecution can conduct a trial against the accused on a wholly new legal basis [95].
It is unsurprising that Lord Justice Fulford found that Mr Justice Hickinbottom had made no material error of law. That the pursuit of financial advantage through lawful means might amount to a criminal conspiracy is naturally counter-intuitive. Beyond that, commerce depends on such behaviour and the fiduciary obligations of directors require it. What is more, it is difficult to comprehend how one can act dishonestly whilst conducting oneself lawfully. As the Hickinbottom J noted[2], one cannot act dishonestly by doing that which one is entitled to do.
That was not, however, the only flaw in the SFO’s case. The SFO alleged that the right of the authorities to recover the costs of any restoration had been prejudiced. The difficulty with that as a basis for the prosecution case, the Judge found, was that a dishonest agreement is only criminalised where there is at least the potential to interfere with a victim’s proprietary rights. On the facts of this case, the rights of the enforcing authorities were contingent and unsecured[3]. No proprietary interest therefore existed. None could be affected by the defendants’ agreement.
What should not be overlooked is that the directors were able to make commercial decisions, and to benefit their company, in the way that they did by virtue of decisions made by the enforcing authorities when Celtic was granted its licence to undertake the work.
As the Crown Court set out, it would have been open to the authorities to have imposed conditions on Celtic’s licences. Conditions could have caused Celtic to retain the restoration liabilities after any sale of the freeholds. They could also have prevented Celtic from selling the sites without the authorities’ approval. The SFO’s attempt to prosecute was, in essence, an attempt to evade the consequences of the ‘important commercial decision’ made by the authorities[4].
Lord Justice Fulford’s analysis of when a voluntary bill might properly be preferred is a welcome reinforcement of the fact that the procedure is exceptional.
Patrick Harrington QC and Ben Douglas-Jones, instructed by Philip Williams and Emma Harris of Blackfords, represented the first defendant with John de Waal QC. Andrew Johnson is a barrister specialising in white collar fraud and regulatory law.
[1] As Hickinbottom J described, the shift in the SFO’s case only became entirely clear at the outset of the hearing of the application to dismiss the charges paragraph 123.
[2] Paragraph 159.
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Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, having succeeded Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess in July to become the agency’s 18th director and assume leadership of 16,000 professionals.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta nominated Flynn to lead the DIA in April after serving as assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement since 2001.
Flynn has also served in director of intelligence posts at the Joint Staff; U.S. Central Command with duty in Afghanistan and Iraq; Joint Special Operations Command with duty in Afghanistan and Iraq; International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan; and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.
Other command and staff positions include commander of the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion and G2, 82nd Airborne Division; G2, 18th Airborne Corps, CJ2, CJTF-180 in Afghanistan; and commander of the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade at the Army’s Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Flynn has served multiple tours at Fort Bragg, N.C. where he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division as a platoon leader in Grenada and as chief of joint war plans for JTF-180 in Haiti.
He also served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and as the senior observer and controller for Intelligence at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La.
Flynn holds an undergraduate degree in management science from the University of Rhode Island and holds three graduate degrees: an M.B.A. in telecommunications from Golden Gate University, San Francisco; a master’s degree in military arts and sciences from Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; and a master’s of in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
He also holds an honorary doctorate of laws from the Institute of World Politics in Washington.
Flynn is also a graduate of the Army’s Intelligence Officer basic, advanced, and electronic warfare courses; the Combined Armed Services Staff Course; the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies; and the U.S. Naval War College.
He is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, the NATO Service Medal, the Ranger Tab and Master Parachutist Badge and the Joint Staff Identification Badge.
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Donaldson Report on 'Options Counseling': No surprises, proceed to adoption as primary 'solution'
Adoption counseling is biased towards adoption rather than providing a full consideration of all options available (parenting, adoption, abortion, foster care, family placement) so that the parents experiencing a crises pregnancy can make a sound and informed decision about their pregnancy, according to a recent report by The Donaldson Adoption Institute and the University of Texas, Arlington School of Social Work, Understanding Options Counseling in Adoption.
Researchers surveyed 20 adoption professionals who worked in different types of settings and had various levels of experience. Less than half reported specifically mentioning "parenting" as an option. Those that did framed it in terms of finding a "resource" ignoring the inherent value of maintaining the natural bond between mother and child. Only a small number discussed terminating the pregnancy.
The researchers also surveyed 28 women who had given up their babies for adoption. While some mothers found working with adoption professionals helpful, others experienced "unacceptable interactions" that could be interpreted as subtle and coercive. Expectant mothers were merely a step in the process of helping the agency fulfill the desires of adoptive parents who are the agencies' real clients, the ones whose fees keep them in business.
Many of the mothers felt contact with the prospective adoptive parents before birth influenced their decision to place their baby because they didn't want to disappoint the prospective adoptive couple. The presence of the prospective adoptive parents in the hospital, coupled with limited time to sign the papers, exacerbated the pressure to relinquish with mothers already reeling with the emotional impact of giving birth.
While a small number of mothers stated that adoption was the best option for them, many suffered from a "a deep and abiding sense of regret ... in the days, months, and years following their decision."
Promised post-adoption contact was at the whim of the adoptive parents. Many mothers reported a decline in the amount of post-adoption contact from what they expected. Mothers also wanted the agencies to provide post-placement support, beyond just handing over a phone number to call if they were desperate. When I was a representative for Concerned United Birthparents some years ago, mothers who had recently given up their babies contacted me for support at the suggestion of the adoption agency as though I could undo the emotional damage the agency caused. I had no training in counseling and could do little but connect them with other suffering first mothers. I was just a tool for the agency to get the mothers off their backs.
While the Institute's findings are valuable as they highlight to a larger audience what we as first mothers have known since we lost our children, the ensuing recommendations are naive and do not go nearly far enough. The takeaway is that simply with more research and more education, everyone will do the right thing, and all will be well. The recommendations ignore the harsh reality that the adoption industry (agencies, attorneys, counselors, facilitators) depends on babies being available to those who can pay the price, and to that end is why adoption counselors and adoption agencies exist. They are not in business--for profit or non-profit--to counsel women to make fully informed decisions. They are in business to move babies from typically impoverished, addicted or young mothers to others.
Real change will come only if money is taken out of adoption so that the only relevant factor is what's best for mother and child. In other words, the government should take over adoption as is the case in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, and other western countries. Short of this, the system can be improved only by changing laws. You can conduct research and educate people forever, but at the end of the day the imposition of serious penalties for failing to provide meaningful information or comply with open-adoption contracts is what works. This is as true in adoption as it is on Wall Street. As many young mothers who feel tricked will attest, good intentions often vanish in the cold morning light after the relinquishment papers are signed.--jane
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND FMF's RESPONSES:
Mandate (by whom?) that adoption agencies and attorneys provide free access to pre- and post relinquishment services for expectant and first parents. No problem with this but it's not a panacea. Oregon statues require adoptive parents to pay for three counseling sessions for first mothers, but few mothers take advantage of it.
Mandate (by whom?) that adoption agencies and attorneys provide expectant parents a standardized informed consent that details the possible outcomes associated with relinquishment as well as potential outcomes the child may experience. While we support this, by the time a mother is presented with the consent papers, the deal is likely done. Information should be given to her at her first encounter with the adoption professionals, not while in the hospital shortly after the birth of her child.
Increase and standardize education for expectant parents and prospective adoptive parents about strengths, limitations, and legalities of post-relinquishment contact. This begs the question. If adoption is her only option, what difference does it make if a mother knows of the "limitations" of post-adoption contact with her child? The recommendation should have been that state laws make such agreements enforceable.
Mandate (by whom?) biannual ethics in adoption continuing education for adoption professionals. You can ace ethics education but not do the right thing, particularly when doing the wrong thing pays the bills.
Conduct research on the implications of pre-birth matching expectant parents with prospective adoptive parents. We know it's coercive but as I learned from working with representatives of the adoption industry developing legislation in Oregon, the alternatives are not much better. We can go back to the practice of adoption professionals selecting the adoptive parents without regard to the mother's wishes and, in some cases, prolonged time in foster care for the child while this happens. The mother can select adoptive parents after birth, but this means keeping the baby in foster care while she interviews prospective adoptive parents or taking the baby home which she could have done originally--if she had a home to take the baby.
Include adoption-related content in relevant post-secondary educational programs for adoption professionals which address the need for unbiased options counseling. This assumes that education will change behavior. Without teeth, it won't happen any more than more training will stop racist cops from shooting innocent black men.
Conduct additional research on the practice of prospective adoptive families being present at the hospital pre-and post-birth. There is no practical way to do this since it's not possible to set up a blind study with a control group and an experimental group. It is obvious that the presence of the prospective adoptive parents in the hospital (and often in the delivery room) can influence an uncertain mother without resources and family not providing support to keep the baby. However, the adoption practitioners in our work group have told me that some mothers choose to have the prospective adoptive parents in the delivery room because otherwise they would be alone.
Institute a best practice guideline that mandates professionals in an agency should work with only first parents or only with prospective adoptive parents to prevent bias and over-identification with one group at the expense of the other. A good practice but as long as both work for the same employer, this can have only a minimal impact.
Institute a best practice guideline that allows expectant parents to attend at least one session with adoption professionals prior to the completion of intake paperwork needs assessments, service contracts, or releases of information to reduce the likelihood that the professionals influence an expectant's parent's decision regarding the pregnancy. This will create an environment that is lower in stakes for vulnerable parents and reduce the likelihood that adoption professionals influence an expectant parent's decision regarding their pregnancy before they have carefully weighed and considered options. No problem with this but it is unlikely to do much since professionals know that they can keep their jobs only if the expectant parent returns as a client. Peel away the gloss that surrounds adoption, and we end up with this disturbing truism: Adoption in America is a business, and children are the product that keeps the industry going.
Understanding Options Counseling Experiences in Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of First/Birth Parents and Adoption Professionals, The Donaldson Institute and the University of Texas Arlington School of Social Work, March 2017
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Ethics in American Adoption
By L. Anne Babb
"Ethics In American Adoption is a benchmark publication in the fields of ethics and adoption. [Babb] offers numerous case studies describing what is amiss with America's adoption system as it is currently constituted. She raises significant questions about what adoption facilitators are doing who is accountable for what they are doing, and whose interests they are serving. This seminal work should be read by policy makers, social workers, children's court judges, prospective adopters, and anyone else involved in the adoption process."-Wisconsin Bookwatch
Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice
By Laury Oaks
“Oak’s analysis intersects with the larger story of adoption in the United States—particularly its commodification, even as infants are understood as ‘priceless.’ She shows evocatively that the supply-and-demand exigencies of adoption dovetail with imaginaries of good and bad mothers, as they do with constructions of maternal love.”-American Anthropologist
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Labels: adoptive parents in hospital , biased adoption counseling , options counseling , post adoption contact , The Donaldson Adoption Institute
DM March 15, 2017 at 9:42 AM
I take issue with the following suggestion in the blog. "They (adoption agencies" are in business to move babies from typically impoverished, addicted or young mothers to others...Real change will come only if money is taken out of adoption so that the only relevant factor is what's best for mother and child. In other words, the government should take over adoption as is the case in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, and other western countries. Short of this, the system can be improved only by changing laws." For one thing, Australia, parts of the UK and other western countries...Canada?...have been in charge of the social service systems that enabled "faith based" religious hierarchies to stigmatize unmarried mothers as unfit to begin with because they were unmarried. Unmarried mothers were considered unfit because they were unmarried and deemed to be feeble minded and/or wayward. A very young girl, as I was, was all the more shamed. Laws will work in the interest of economics and the fact is western culture as manifested in the USA does not economically value mothering unless it is some commercial caretaker who is being compensated or some wealthy woman or couple who is secure enough to buy a poor woman's child. I have read many posts and I admit, I am a latecomer to the discussion. Still, until we as human beings make the point that separating a mother and child is in NOT in the best interests of either, legislation will work toward separating mothers and infants and, the system will come up with reasons to do so: waywardness, youth, drug use, economic status, etc.
Jane Edwards March 15, 2017 at 2:25 PM
It's true that in the past these governments pressured unmarried mothers to give up their babies and placed babies in unsafe orphanages. Today, though, these governments run mother and infant centered programs. Australia has apologized for its role in separating mothers and children.
As a result of reforms, these countries have only a few infant adoptions each year. In England and Wales, it's about 125 compared to 15,000 in the U. S. My state, Oregon with less than a tenth of the population of England and Wales has about 180 infant adoptions each year. The reasons for the small number of infant adoptions in the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands include less stigma for single mothers, child welfare programs including medical care, and the lack of financial incentives to push adoption.
The pressure on single mothers in the U. K. to give up their babies is described as a "national travesty" in a recent film produced by Ronachan Films, "Breaking the Silence: Britain's Adoption Scandal." http://www.ronachanfilms.co.uk/breaking-the-silence-britains-adoption-scandal-2/
The U. S., however, has failed to acknowledge the wrongs perpetrated on mothers in the Baby Scoop Era, perhaps because these wrongs are continuing. While adoption has changed -- domestic adoptions are open to some degree and poverty and "not ready to be a parent" rather than shame are the factors which motivate mothers to give up their babies, adoption continues to be promoted by those who profit from it.
DM March 15, 2017 at 7:31 PM
Thank you for the statistics in your replies. I believe that here in the USA, things are all about money. I fear that things might get worse under our new executive leadership.
Kira March 15, 2017 at 9:51 AM
The natural bond between a mother and her child??? Well, some people claim a natural mother is NOT even a mother. Recently I asked a few times if a poor, single, abandoned by her family teenager should keep her child. The child is with a foster family, and the teen continues her education, visits the child and plans to take him/her back one day. Some people said she should fight for the baby. But others insisted that she let him/he go, because:
- she is SINGLE (and children raised without a father fare much worse)
- she is poor and without any support, so if she keeps her child, she'll have to resort to daycare which means a child being raised by strangers
- she is young
One man suggested she is NOT a real mother, she just gave birth to the said child. And the most selfless thing she could do for a child would be to let it be adopted. Because two adoptive parents are better than one biological.
So what kind of "natural bond" are we talking about? All that matters is opportunities a mother can give to her child. Many people don't care about family preservation, because - as another man stated - "biological parenthood is terribly overrated".
The socioeconomic system in which we live provides the broth in which we are steeped. What your post seems to say is that the societal circumstances in which a young mother finds herself means she is less of a mother. I don't agree with that. Our system should support the mother-child bond at least in cases where the mother wants her child. Back in the day, the social workers, churches, guardians at litem, and "society" stigmatized the mother, the child and the mother's family if the family supported the mother. Most mother's family did not support their daughters because raising a daughter who had "gotten herself pregnant" cast aspersions on them.
I did not say that that young single mothers are less than a mother. I said quite the opposite. I criticized the adoption professionals for not placing value on the natural bond between mother and child into the discussion on "parenting."
I am sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Who else but first mothers can understand how painful it is to relinquish a child. I was talking about the attitude of some people. I myself come from a culture where it would be UNIMAGINABLE to say that two adoptive parents are better than one bio (provided all parties are loving). So I am very bitter when I read such statements made by some Americans.
Years ago, I remember hearing of a survey concerning adoption that was done of adoption professionals. The closer the relationship to the professional, the less likely they were to recommend adoption as the answer to an untimely pregnancy. For a stranger, it was the best answer. For a casual acquaintance's child, a good possibility. For their own child, a last resort.
Wish I could remember more than the results. It was probably at a CUB or AAC conference in the 80s. But it brought home the idea that they knew how devastating surrender is to a birthmother.
whirling dervish March 15, 2017 at 12:05 PM
Jane, desperate women will always find ways to adopt. Flooding education out to women, preemptively, with articles like yours, is the hopeful avenue to one of humanity's inhumanity toward mothers. Thank you.
With the Trump administration's childcare assistance plan, revised health care plan and VP Pence's penchant for "counseling" women toward adoption to help "childless couples build families," I believe those of us who believe in the importance of the natural biological mother-child family relationship will find ourselves in an increasingly uphill journey.
Cindy March 15, 2017 at 10:17 PM
I have just finished reading the first part of the study; Understanding Options Counseling Experiences in Adoption: A Quantitative Analysis, on the Donaldson Adoption Institute site. It's PDF and very long with graphs and charts, etc.. I personally like, very much, what the Institute recommended for future. *IF* those things recommended on THAT page were implemented, it would be a game changer. It surely would have made all the difference for me and others I knew.
It's astounding and proof that not so much has changed as people think or hope. Isolation, no support, no resources and finances offered or available...how many of us lost (were forced)/gave up/"made a plan" due to those things. I found it very interesting, though not at all surprising, to note in the short synopsis of their second part, -Baylor Research Sparks Calls for Change in Adoption Counseling- that shame played a big part for some. Why do so many (family and friends of the mother) refuse to discuss the pregnancy, why are so many of them pressuring "give the baby up"? Why does isolation play such a huge part in the experience of these more recent mothers? Why are women still being so isolated with little to no mental, emotional or financial support? Why are so many making, what I call, decisions of desperation, if they were not being shamed or feeling great shame? Why does a family in this day and age not support, at least emotionally and with ability to freely talk (a big opposite of feeling isolated) if there is no shame? Many families do have financial difficulties but there are other options and resources available. Is it the shame of having a pregnant daughter or the shame of possibly having to ask for assistance? Either way, I feel that in too many ways shame is still running the show. i.e. "you're not the best or right choice to raise your own child".
The reason there is no marked change in state support for women to keep their babies is that the market for the babies has increased at the same time the supply in percentages has gone down.
You are right Cindy, when you say that the message has only shifted a little bit from the old days of the shame of being pregnant to "think of what this child could have if only you loved him/her enough to give him/her to someone who has so much to give...."
The psychological downside to mother and child is ignored.
Eileen March 16, 2017 at 11:20 AM
"We know it's coercive but as I learned from working with representatives of the adoption industry developing legislation in Oregon, the alternatives are not much better."
So it's not a much better alternative for a woman to keep her child than for her to surrender because she feels coerced? I strongly disagree. Given the number of people waiting to adopt an infant, I have a hard time seeing how there would be a long waiting period in between the time the mother chooses to surrender and a set of adoptive parents is found. Also, I know from a close relative who adopted (from a supposedly modern, open-minded adoption agency) that the PAPs choose which mothers they want to be marketed to. This limits the PAPs that a mother has to choose from. The agency is already playing a part in selecting the adoptive parents. The idea that expectant mothers have control over the situation is really overblown in my opinion.
If first mothers aren't going to stand up against coercion, than who is?
Absolutely, the best outcome in many cases is for the mother to take her baby home. However, if the mother is undecided about adoption and has not selected the APs, the baby will go to foster care and the mother will be under immense pressure to make a quick decision.
Other than anecdotes, there is no evidence that mothers are more likely to give up their babies if the PAPs are in the hospital. Lorraine and I and many mothers gave up our daughters even though we didn't have a clue about the family they would go to.
Practitioners tell me they give mothers a choice about whether they want the PAPs any where near the hospital. The agency or attorney goes through a check list before birth asking them, among other things whether they want the PAPs present.
The agencies do market certain PAPs to mothers and mothers to certain PAPSs Something that is really pernicious is that agencies deliberately arrange adoptions where the PAPs and mothers live some distance from each other. PAPs want this because distance will reduce visits and avoid accidental encounters at the grocery store or mothers showing up at the child's school. In accomplish this, agencies offer mothers three couple, two less than attractive couples and the favored PAPs so that the mother will feel she has to chose the distant couple. Mothers are unaware that they can ask for more couples to select from or go to another agency.
When the mother goes into labor, the PAPS buy a return plane ticket. The mother is under pressure to give them the baby even though they are nowhere near the hospital because she is told the couple will leave at such and such time with the baby or without. The mother is not prepared to take the baby home. This was the case for Amy Seek, author of "God and Jetfire."
It was no accident that Caitlyn and Tyler who lived in Michigan chose a couple in New Jersey. It was no accident that Adam Pertman and his who lived in Massachusetts were matched with a couple in Denver.
Barbara March 21, 2017 at 11:56 PM
"Real change will come only if money is taken out of adoption so that the only relevant factor is what's best for mother and child. In other words, the government should take over adoption as is the case in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, and other western countries. Short of this, the system can be improved only by changing laws."
I agree with this, Jane. It has been nearly 25 years since I found my daughter and all this time I've been reading about the pain and suffering of those like myself who gave up children for adoption. Yet adoption continues, not as much as during the "Baby Scoop" era, but with the same deceit, regret and sorrow for those caught in its trap. We don't join together to put a stop to it legally. Why is that?
I think the cause of the problem is shame. That's what caused us to be taken advantage of in the first place. I still have a hard time with the shame. I can't find any birthmothers here in Idaho willing to come out of the closet. To do something to stop this injustice, some people have to be willing to speak up and organize and believe in the cause enough to do something. Other groups who have been treated cruelly and unjustly have effected changed, but not us for the most part. It's very frustrating. Although there are a few wonderful organizations such as Saving our Sisters, more is needed, especially legal action. I think we who care about this issue need to do something to get the laws changed and to make the situation in the United States more in conformity to the changes already in place in other parts of the world that have limited the transfer to babies for money and all the attendant suffering this causes.
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Asbestos fears as McDonald's gets set to demolish tile warehouse
FAST FOOD giant McDonald's is pressing ahead with its plans for a drive-through on Fishponds Road.
The firm, which won permission after a six-day public inquiry in June to open the two-storey restaurant, has now applied to Bristol City Council for planning permission to demolish the derelict tile warehouse on the site at 541-551 Fishponds Road.
The Say No to McDonald's in Fishponds group, which led a spirited opposition to the drive-through alongside a busy road in a built-up area, has pledged to monitor developments closely and to ensure that the impact is minimised through the 29 planning conditions stipulated by the inspector Martin Whitehead.
Some members have lodged concerns about the demolition application - 17/04974/N - on the Bristol City Council planning website.
Pauline Shaw, of Grove Park Terrace, said she was worried about the risks of asbestos removal.
" I am particularly concerned about the impact on the local residents, customers of the Star public house, pedestrians, cyclists and children as no consideration has been given to these people whatsoever. I would therefore like to be given complete reassurance that this large-scale demolition will not impact the health of the general public," she commented online.
She also asked: "How will an effective traffic management system be put into place both for construction vehicles on site but also for managing the transition of vehicles between site and on to the main road?"
Ms Shaw and others also expressed anxieties about the threat to a badger sett and about the removal of guano - feathers and pigeon droppings - from the site, as well as possible noise and air pollution.
Louise Lowman, of Lodore Road, commented that she had multiple concerns about the demolition process.
However, another commenter on the site supported the demolition, saying: "I hope the council will do all it can to help expedite the completion of this eagerly anticipated development and get the new significant sums of business rates from McDonald's rolling into the council coffers as soon as possible. I know the vast majority of my Fishponds friends and acquaintances can't wait for the new restaurant to open."
McDonald's estimates that the demolition works will take about ten weeks.
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Michigan Governor to Hold Proceedings That Could Lead to Detroit Mayor’s Ouster
The proceedings could result in the removal of Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick of Detroit, who is accused of perjury, misconduct and assaulting police officers.
DETROIT — In a blow to Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick’s tenuous grip on his job here, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan said Tuesday that she would hold proceedings next week that could result in Mr. Kilpatrick’s removal.
The mayor, who stands accused of 10 felony counts in two separate criminal cases, will have to defend himself before Ms. Granholm, who under state law is authorized to convene the proceedings.
The Detroit City Council, which has no authority to remove Mr. Kilpatrick from office, had asked Ms. Granholm to take up the matter after having urged the mayor to resign.
The proceedings — and whether they would happen at all — have been the subject of speculation for weeks because they pit two of the state’s high-ranking Democrats against each other.
The removal of the mayor of the state’s largest city by the governor would be a contentious affair, even given that Mr. Kilpatrick is facing a rising tide of resentment in Detroit and across Michigan. Mr. Kilpatrick has maintained his innocence and has refused to step down even as Detroit strains under the weight of the political standoff.
“The problem is we’re at a standstill,” said a Detroit historian, Michael Smith, director of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. “And we’re at a point in time where we can’t afford to be at a standstill.”
Some political analysts have suggested that Mr. Kilpatrick has been holding on to his office as a bargaining chip with prosecutors. The governor’s announcement adds pressure on Mr. Kilpatrick to resolve the cases — one involving perjury and misconduct in office, and the other assaulting police officers — and avoid the possibility of being thrown out of office without having reached a deal.
“I feel for him, wanting to hold on,” said Lori Smith, a city employee. “But at some point you have to know when to let go. Right now, all this controversy about him is more hurtful than helpful.”
Mr. Kilpatrick, 37, declined to be interviewed. Sharon McPhail, a lawyer for the mayor, said in a statement that he was “very disappointed” in the governor’s decision.
“Our only expectation for the hearing next week is that it is rooted in law and not the political pressures that have surrounded this matter,” Ms. McPhail’s statement said. “It is only fair that every person in these United States receives a fair trial and that includes Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.”
Mr. Kilpatrick’s fate has overshadowed most everything else in Detroit for months.
“The city’s agenda is being held hostage to the mayor’s needs at any given time,” said one City Council member, Shelia Cockrel. “The focus of key leadership is elsewhere, and it’s really beginning to take a toll. You can’t imagine that it would have ever gotten this bad.”
Wayne County’s chief executive, Robert A. Ficano, said real estate and transportation deals had been postponed because of the political paralysis, while less tangible costs of the mayor’s fight were building up, too.
“It’s taken the focus off some issues that we think are critical,” said Mr. Ficano, who has called for Mr. Kilpatrick’s resignation. “It’s unfortunate, but we do have to continue to do business, and this creates a certain frustration level.”
As the mayor’s troubles have deepened, calls for his resignation have increased, even from former supporters.
“It was gut-wrenching to be among the first to say the mayor has to go,” said Sam Riddle, a political consultant who worked for Mr. Kilpatrick’s re-election in 2005. “But Detroit has come to a state of paralysis, and Kwame Kilpatrick is the cause of that.”
Ms. Granholm, who is in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, issued an order on Tuesday stating that she had found sufficient evidence to warrant the proceedings based on information submitted to her by the Detroit City Council. The session, beginning Sept. 3, will set out to determine if Mr. Kilpatrick abused his office to seek private gain and if he concealed information from the City Council.
The Council said in the submission that it had been deceived by Mr. Kilpatrick when he entered into a settlement agreement on the city’s behalf. The Council stated that Mr. Kilpatrick had sought to settle a case involving police officers who claimed that Mr. Kilpatrick had forced them out of their jobs with $8.4 million in public money to keep quiet an extramarital affair with his chief of staff.
The mayor’s fear, prosecutors say, was that the affair might become public during an airing of the police officers’ grievances.
The affair became public anyway, when The Detroit Free Press published steamy text messages earlier this year from a city-owned pager that detailed much of the romance between Mr. Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The messages and the affair contradicted testimony both Mr. Kilpatrick and Ms. Beatty had given under oath last year.
Mr. Kilpatrick, a two-term mayor who had brimmed with promise early in his career, was charged with eight felonies including perjury and misconduct in office. Ms. Beatty, who was also charged with felony counts, resigned in January.
Earlier this month, the Michigan attorney general, Mike Cox, compounded Mr. Kilpatrick’s legal troubles, charging him with two felony counts of assault against police officers. According to Mr. Cox, the mayor interfered with the officers, shouting and shoving, as they tried to serve a subpoena on one of his friends.
On Thursday, a judge in the assault case is scheduled to hold a hearing on whether Mr. Kilpatrick has to continue to wear an electronically monitored tether and remain under travel restrictions.
Once again, Detroit’s political problems will be front and center.
“This scandal set us back 50 years, easy,” said John Schink, a contractor in Detroit. “It’s killing us.”
Ms. Cockrel, the councilwoman, said in an interview, “There is a fundamental breach of the trust that I do not believe can be rebuilt with this administration.”
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Gleaning Information From a Record or Article
Geoff Rasmussen had an hour-long presentation on the Legacy Family Tree 2013 Cruise concerning extracting information from an obituary for Nancy Brown. The broad context was about adding source documents to the software program, but the really interesting material was extracting all of the information. I worked along with him on my laptop, trying to enter as much information as I saw in the obituary. I did OK, but Geoff "saw things" that I didn't see.
Therefore, I resolved to do a much better job of data extraction from source documents.
Last night, I ran across a sketch for Andrew Patrick in the book:
Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, Chicago, Ill. : G. A. Ogle & Co., 1901), Pages 585 - 586 (accessible at http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialbiograph02ogle/memorialbiograph02ogle_djvu.txt)
The sketch was of interest to me because it mentions a Carringer person who is a relative. The sketch for Andrew Patrick reads:
"Andrew Patrick, an agriculturist of energy and ability residing on section 9, New Chester township, Adams county, Wisconsin, was born in Oneida county, New York, September 18, 1833, and is a son of Ralph and Marilla (Skinner) Patrick, also natives of that county, the former born June 25, 1801, the latter March 8, 1801. His paternal grandfather, Ralph Patrick, Sr., served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war under the commands of Washington and La Fayette. After the war he settled in Oneida county, New York, where he spent the remainder of his life.
"On leaving his native state the subject of this sketch came to Wisconsin in 1845, and made his home in Walworth county for five years, at the end of which time he removed to Adams county, locating on the place where he now resides. As the country had not been surveyed at that time, he took a squatter's claim and resided thereon until the land came into the market, when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres from the government. He has since placed one half of the amount under cultivation, and has erected thereon a fine residence, good barns and outbuildings, and made other improvements, which add greatly to the value and attractive appearance of the farm.
"On the 6th of October, 1858, Mr. Patrick was united in marriage with Miss Fideliea Carringer, who died April 6, 1863, and he was again married, March 14, 1865, his second union being with Miss Olive Carringer, by whom he has one child, Louis P. The son was married, March 16, 1899, to Elsie Schieber, and resides at home with his parents.
"Mrs. Patrick's parents were William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer, the former born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1816, the latter in Vermont, May 3, 1813. In 1844 they removed from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and first settled in Walworth county, but in the spring of 1852 came to Adams county, locating in Lincoln township, on what is now known as the Eberhard place. In the fall of 1855 they removed to New Chester township, and lived there until the spring of 1865, when they went to Minnesota. In 1895 they returned to Wisconsin on a visit and remained here a year, but at the end of that time removed to California, where the father died May 19, 1900. He was a farmer and carpenter by occupation, and was a member of the Close Communion Baptist church, to which his wife also belonged, her father, Samuel Churchill, being a minister of that church. She died in San Diego, California, April 23, 1899. Mrs. Patrick's great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and her grandfather a soldier of the war of 1812.
"Politically Mr. Patrick is a stanch Democrat, and has always taken considerable interest in local affairs, serving as chairman of his township for a number of terms and as assessor one term. For a great many years he also served as postmaster of Grand Marsh, which is the oldest postoffice in the county. He has been prominently identified with almost the entire growth and development of the county, and has ever borne his part in those interests calculated to advance the public welfare. He is therefore numbered among the valued and useful citizens of the community, as well as one of its honored pioneers."
1) What "Events" can I extract from this sketch of the life of Andrew Patrick and his two Carringer wives? Here's my list:
* Andrew Patrick resided on Section 9, New Chester Township, Adams County, Wisconsin when the sketch was written
* Andrew Patrick was an agriculturist of energy and ability when the sketch was written
* Andrew Patrick was born 18 September 1833 in Oneida County, New York
* Andrew Patrick's parents were Ralph and Marilla (Skinner) Patrick
* Ralph Patrick was born 25 June 1801 in Oneida County, New York
* Marilla Skinner was born 8 March 1801 in Oneida County, New York
* Ralph Patrick's father, Ralph Patrick, Sr., was a Revolutionary War soldier
* Ralph Patrick, Sr. settled in Oneida County, New York after the Revolutionary War
* Andrew Patrick came to Wisconsin in 1845 and resided in Walworth County for 5 years
* Andrew Patrick moved to Adams County in about 1850 and located to the place he now resides.
* Andrew Patrick bought 160 acres of land from the U.S. Government.
* Andrew Patrick married (1) Miss Fideliea Carringer on 6 October 1858
* Fideliea (Carringer) Patrick died on 6 April 1863
* Andrew Patrick married (2) Miss Olive Carringer on 14 March 1865.
* Andrew and Olive (Carringer) Patrick had one son, Louis P. Patrick.
* Louis P. Patrick married Elsie Scheiber on 16 March 1899.
* Olive (Carringer) Patrick's parents were William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer.
* William Carringer was born 3 April 1816 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
* Irene Churchill was born 3 May 1813 in Vermont.
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer settled in Walworth County, Wisconsin in 1844.
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer removed to Adams County, Wisconsin in Spring 1852 and located in Lincoln Township.
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer removed to New Chester Township in Adams County in Fall 1855.
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer removed to Minnesota in Spring 1865.
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer returned to Wisconsin in 1895
* William and Irene (Churchill) Carringer removed to California in about 1896.
* William Carringer died on 19 May 1900 in Califronia.
* William Carringer was a farmer and carpenter.
* William and Irene Carrringer were members of the Close Communion Baptist Church
* Irene Churchill's father was Samuel Churchill.
* Samuel Churchill was a minister of the Close Communion Baptist Church.
* Irene (Churchill) Carringer died on 23 April 1899 in San Diego, California.
* Mrs. Olive (Carringer) Patrick's great-grandfather was a Revolutionary War soldier.
* Mrs. Olive (Carringer) Patrick's grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812.
* Andrew Patrick was a staunch Democrat at the time of writing this sketch.
* Andrew Patrick served as chairman of his township for a number of terms
* Andrew Patrick served as assessor one term.
* Andrew Patrick served as postmaster at Grand Marsh for many years
There at least those 37 "Events" or "Facts" that could be entered into my genealogy software database concerning these families. All from one source!
2) But how reliable is this source? It is not an Original Source - it is an Authored Work (with information from a number of persons and many original and/or derivative sources). Who was the Informant - the person who wrote this sketch before 1901 for publication in this book? I don't know, but my educated guess is that they are Andrew Patrick and his wife, Olive (Carringer) Patrick. They may have relied on family papers, one or more family Bibles, church records, gravestone records, etc. So most of the Information on the list above is Secondary Information (obtained from other records or hearsay). A lot of the Evidence provided is Direct Evidence - the dates and places are Direct, as are the relationships with spouses and parents. Different "Quality Levels" can be assigned for each Event or Fact.
The information in this sketch may or may not be accurate - determining the accuracy of the information depends upon finding other records that provide more information, analyzing all of the available evidence, and resolving conflicting information. Based on what I knew previously about the Carringer family, the information is very accurate.
Some information about persons mentioned in this sketch is not provided. For instance, the birth dates of the two Carringer wives, Fidelia's parents names (she was a sister of Olive), and Fidelia's death date in 1863. The birth and death of Andrew and Fidelia's child, Fidelia, in 1863. The locations of many of the events are not provided, although the events for Andrew and his family can be inferred to be Adams County, Wisconsin, and probably New Chester Township.
I have found that sketches of this sort are both self-serving and informative. They are usually accurate for the persons who contribute the information and their children, but are often sketchy (or even wrong) for their ancestral families. Sources of this nature should be treated with suspicion until Events and Facts provided by them can be compared with information from other sources (e.g., vital records, church records, gravestone records, census records, military records, etc.).
3) What other "Events" or "Facts" did I not enumerate? I'm sure that I overlooked some of them.
Do you do a similar listing for every Source that you obtain during your research that applies to your ancestral families? Should you?
See, I was listening to all of the presentations on the Legacy 2013 Cruise. This one was a lot of fun since I got to participate in it!
The URL from this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/10/gleaning-information-from-record-or.html
Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver
Labels: Biographies, Carringer Research, Genealogy Books, Genealogy/History
Russ Worthington said...
Randy,
The only event I saw that you didn't mention was:
"The son was married, March 16, 1899, to Elsie Schieber, and resides at home with his parents."
Not that this is important, but it is a starting point, as to where they lived for a 1900 Census perhaps.
Not included in the article about this couple would be "why" were they living with "his parents". Not that this is a bad thing, just the question that went through my mind while reading the story.
Totally agree with you, I do much that same, and as I learned with Mastering Genealogical Proof, don't trust anything.
Thank you for the details and process of capturing the data.
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 3:38:00 PM PDT
Randy Seaver said...
Russ, the marriage of "the son" (who I assumed was Louis P. Patrick) was in #16 on my list. I didn't add anything about "lives at home with his parents.
Probably living with his parents because they were fairly old, they needed farm help, and he would be the heir since he's an only child. Conjecture.
Certainly makes sense to me.
Geolover said...
Randy, your notes regarding caution/suspicion of these accounts are spot-on. A factor in addition to the usual wishes for happy tales, in this case, is that the main subject was a politician, and maybe only some of his offices were listed. Persons don't get appointed and reappointed Postmaster for 'many years' without some fairly hefty connections. Such sketches and obituaries tend not to mention such items as might have been newsworthy, and the upshots of personal temptations might only be buried in court records. And even then such court items might have been sealed.
Lisa Gorrell said...
Randy, Great post. Since I learned to make assertions in the program Evidentia, I have been listing assertions from sources when I record them in RootsMagic.
Here is an example of what I'm working on now: an obituary of Harry R. Gorrell.
"What is learned from the obit:
--Harry was 64 when he died, making him born about 1880
--Harry was born in Jamestown, Ohio
--He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan university in 1903
--He taught school for 3 years in Bloomington, Illinois"
I then use these assertions to find additional sources.
bgwiehle said...
As Russ said, you had missed the son's residence with his parents. That was the only explicit fact missed. You might also make deductions, such as, Louis was born after 1865 and probably before 1880, and that Andrew and Olive must have died after 1901.
You didn't explain what you do with the text of the article.
In my database, I put a copy of the full text in the primary person's Notes, and include specific excerpts with the source citation for each event. I put name and relationship information with the name citation and I add events to document people referenced in the article that I can't definitely identify yet or won't be researching extensively. As I enter the new citations, I review existing citations for conflicts and questions and may add or revise comments and explain deductions. As the various facts are documented, new research approaches or gaps are noted in the appropriate location.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 6:18:00 AM PDT
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Tombstone Tuesday - Frederick W. and Betty V. Seav...
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Best of the Genea-Blogs - 6 to 12 October 2013
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Steven Spielberg Makes A Plea For Movie Theaters As Streaming Continues Its Rise
At the Cinema Audio Society's Awards, director Steven Spielberg made pointed comments against streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. This isn't the first time the director has vented his feelings about the services.
While accepting a Filmmaker Award, Spielberg said:
"I love television. I love the opportunity. Some of the greatest writing being done today is for television, some of the best directing for television, some of the best performances [are] on television today.
"The sound is better in homes more than it ever has been in history but there's nothing like going to a big dark theater with people you've never met before and having the experience wash over you. That's something we all truly believe in."
It's hard to not write him off as someone out of touch with modern life.
Spielberg's views have never been a secret. He's often railed against streaming content being put in the same category as theatrical films.
In an interview with ITV News almost a year ago, the director said,
"Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie. You certainly, if it's a good show, deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar.
"I don't believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the Academy Award nomination."
There is a point to be made about a movie theater experience vs an at home experience.
However, this discussion has resurfaced after the 'Netflix Original' film Roma was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including for "Best Picture" and "Best Director". The film is the top pick in both categories.
This brings up what Spielberg is talking about. Roma was a personal, passion project, that happened to get funding and distribution by Netflix. It met the minimum requirements to be considered for an Academy Award.
So does it belong on that list?
To many, the at-home experience is preferable in many ways to a theater.
While his opinion on streaming vs theater makes sense considering it's how he made his career, and spends his days, it becomes strange when you compare it to how he talks about the movie industry as a whole.
In a 2013 panel, Spielberg said,
"You're at the point right now where a studio would rather invest $250 million in one film for a real shot at the brass ring than make a whole bunch of really interesting, deeply personal — and even maybe historical — projects that may get lost in the shuffle…"
Spielberg was on that panel with George Lucas, who potentially prophesized the very situation that is now upsetting his friend.
"It's a mess. It's total chaos. But out of that chaos will come some really amazing things.
"And right now there are amazing opportunities for young people coming into the industry to say, 'Hey, I think I'm going to do this and there's nobody to stop me.'"
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Pope Franics
Abortion, Arts, Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Clemente Lisi, Europe, Evil-Satan, Journalism, Marriage & Family, Pop Culture
The Godfather’s Catholic symbolism is often overlooked during book’s 50th anniversary
The Godfather, before it was an Academy-Award winning film, was a book. The crime novel, written by Mario Puzo, was released on March 10, 1969. The fictional account of Vito Corleone’s life is chronicled during a 10-year span starting in 1945.
The book’s 50th anniversary has been a great opportunity for newspapers, magazines and websites — especially the ones that cover the entertainment industry — to unleash nostalgia pieces looking back at the book and the three movies that later grew out of Puzo’s book and Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece films, the first of which was released in 1972.
Amid all the immorality, crime, violence and ultimately Michael Corleone’s final despair (for anyone who could sit through The Godfather III) isn’t just a series of mob movies. The Godfather book and movie trilogy is loaded with religious symbolism.
Anniversary journalism is a very big part of what reporters write and what Google search thrives on — so it’s important that The Godfather get the proper treatment. This is something another book/movie from that era, The Exorcist, also suffered the same lack of religion coverage.
Since Corleone (played by Marlon Brando and by Roberto De Nero in the sequel during the flashback scenes) is an immigrant from Sicily, the story’s symbolism is largely Roman Catholic. Like The Exorcist, The Godfather has suffered the same journalistic fate when it comes to lack of a religion angle. Even the book’s name, The Godfather, refers to a male godparent in the Christian tradition tied with baptism and original sin.
This is not to say the Catholic angle has been totally ignored. In 2013, The Georgia Bulletin, the newspaper of the Atlanta diocese, ran an opinion piece by Dr. David King, an associate professor of English and film studies at Kennesaw State University.
Though Coppola himself has struggled with his Catholicism, his imagination is so steeped in Catholic practice and atmosphere that he can never fully abandon the faith, any more than his greatest character Michael Corleone can. Coppola has often said that his favorite word is “hope,” and it is that sense of hope and belief in redemption that best defines “The Godfather” films as Catholic art.
King goes on to say that the films are “full of Catholic themes, including justice and mercy, fate vs. spirituality, the dialectic between family and country and community, the letter and the spirit of the law, and time and timelessness, they are also charged with a deep Catholic mise en scene, or atmosphere.”
The Church is everywhere in “The Godfather” films: baptisms, funerals, confessions.
Tagged: Catholic Church, The Godfather, Don Corleone, movies, film, Pope Franics, Clemente Lisi
Catholicism, Churches, Clemente Lisi, Clergy, Journalism, Pope Francis, Sexual abuse, Vatican, Godbeat
Catholic beat memo: Ongoing questions linger on who knew what and when regarding McCarrick
In a world where technology has forced the news cycle to speed up, the constantly-changing developments that have engulfed the Catholic church since last summer have required readers (and those on the religion beat) to wade through large amounts of information filtering through social media feeds.
Lost in all the news barrage sometimes are pieces that make you sit up and ponder the ramifications of all these sordid revelations regarding the clerical sex abuse crisis. More importantly, what are the ramifications are for the church’s hierarchy.
The big story remains who knew what and when. Who’s implicated in potentially covering up the misdeeds of now-former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick over the years? The implication here is that the cover-up — if that’s the word you want to use — goes beyond Pope Francis, but back in time years to when Saint Pope John Paul II was the head of the Roman Catholic church.
Last August, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano released an 11-page letter describing a series of events in which the Vatican — and specifically Francis — had been made aware of McCarrick’s immoral behavior years ago. Vigano claimed Pope Benedict XVI had placed restrictions on McCarrick, including not allowing him to say Mass in public. Vigano alleged that Francis reversed those sanctions. In the letter, Vigano, a former papal ambassador to the United States, said Francis “knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator who attacked young men. He knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end.”
Over the past seven months, the allegations have yielded few answers. McCarrick was recently defrocked — the church’s version of the death penalty — but little else has been made public about the timeline. A news analysis piece by veteran Vatican journalist John Allen, writing in Crux, makes some wonderful points. His piece, under the headline “Vigano may have made it harder to get to the truth on McCarrick,” has a series of wonderful strands worth the time to read. It also gives a roadmap for reporters on the beat and editors to look at and track down.
Here’s a breakdown of the piece, chopping off the various strands worthy of a deeper investigation. Right from the start, Allen gives us this thesis:
Tagged: Roman Catholicism, Vatican, Pope John Paul II, Pope Franics, Carlo Maria Vigano, Catholic sex abuse crisis, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Godbeat, Clemente Lisi
Abortion, Catholicism, Christianity, Churches, Clemente Lisi, Clergy, Holidays, Journalism, Pope Francis, Social Media
What do Valentine's Day, Jeff Bezos and Catholicism have in common? Time to read some 'explainers'
The primarily role of journalism is to inform. How that is done has dramatically changed over the past two decades. That time encompasses most of my adult life, where I worked as a reporter and later editor.
“Information overload” and “fake news” are both seen as major impediments to an educated population that can make sound decisions. Long gone are the days of my childhood when getting the morning paper and catching up on the day’s events by watching one of the evening network newscasts. We live in a frenetic 24-hour news cycle with a seemingly never-ending scroll of social media posts and constant chatter by “expert panels” on cable TV.
This takes me to my main point regarding journalism (specifically religion coverage) and how major news organizations can, and have, done a good job explaining faith. The journalistic form — commonly referred to in newsrooms as “the explainer” — has been one of the positives to come out of the digital age. It’s one that I increasingly have come to rely on when trying to make sense of a topic or ever-changing news developments that span days or even weeks.
Complex issues and topics have always been boiled down for ordinary readers to understand. After all, that’s what journalism is really all about. The same goes for understanding religion — and this is where journalism can be a wonderful tool to help people understands different belief systems, traditions, how they intersect with politics and how it impacts our culture and society. How journalists can create better explainers by using newspapers archives, social media, video — and yes, original reporting — is vital to the storytelling of the 21st century.
In explaining the Catholic church, for example, as it is repeatedly thrust into the media spotlight due to the clergy sex scandal, the abortion debate or any other topic means news websites have the vital responsibility of both informing and educating readers. Many of these readers are Roman Catholics, but most are not. Here’s where journalism is vital and a great way for reporters to delve into complex issues in addition to their news coverage of a given topic.
Take St. Valentine’s Day as an example.
Tagged: Jeff Bezos, Valentine's Day, Pope Franics, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Clemente Lisi
Mark Kellner
Godbeat, Mark Kellner, Catholicism, Journalism, Scriptures, WWW-Tech
Why did Reuters (and almost everyone else) miss Pope Francis' all-too-familiar Bible/cellphone quote?
Your correspondent is neither a prophet nor is he the son of a prophet, but I can muster one small claim to fame in the predictive realm. In 2013, I reported in The Washington Times the rather prophetic utterance of Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington that the next Pope would have to master social media.
There can be little doubt that the current Pontifex Maximus, the Argentinian-born Pope Francis, has indeed done so, having an estimated 23 million Twitter followers.
Thus, it's certainly news when the tweeting pontiff says, before a congregation of thousands in St. Peter's Square, that it's time to "Love your Bible as you do your cellphone," as the Christian Science Monitor headlined it. The Monitor report indicates it included data from a Reuters dispatch, which was the first I'd seen of the comments:
Pope Francis on Sunday called on people to carry and read the bible with as much dedication as they do their mobile phones.
Speaking to pilgrims in a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square, the 80-year-old pope asked: "What would happen if we treated the bible like we do our mobile phones?"
He continued: "If we turned around to retrieve it when we forgot it? If we carried it with us always, even a small pocket version? If we read God's messages in the bible like we read messages on the mobile phone?"
Francis called the comparison "paradoxical" and said it was meant to be a source of reflection, adding that bible reading would help people resist daily temptations.
Tagged: Time magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Pope Franics, Mark Kellner, Bible, Cellphones, The Washington Times, Reuters
Catholicism, Churches, Episcopalians, Journalism, Jim Davis, Pope Francis, Women
WomenPriests scores yet another PR feature in yet another sympathetic newspaper
It's not every day that I see a news feature that starts with a fact error.
"Mary Alice Nolan will soon be ordained a Roman Catholic priest," says the lede of a Q&A feature in the Marin Independent Journal.
Well, no, actually she won't.
Nolan will undergo a ritual that resembles a Catholic ordination. But it will be sanctioned by the WomenPriests movement -- not the canonical Roman Catholic Church. You see, Vatican has a system in which it chooses its clergy. It's kind of like the New York Yankees getting to decide who makes their 40-man roster and who does not.
Wish it was the only place this article messes up the facts.
Somehow, the Journal can call Nolan a future Catholic priest while acknowledging the centuries-old corporation that holds the brand:
The 64-year-old’s ordination will not be acknowledged by the Catholic church, which only allows men to become priests, but the lifelong follower of the faith is not letting that stop her.
The San Rafael resident plans to press onward with the ordination, to be conducted by a female bishop of the Western Region of Roman Catholic Priest, in October at an Episcopalian church in San Francisco.
Though skeptical that in her lifetime she will see the church modify its rules of who can take the priesthood, Nolan said she hopes one day the church becomes more inclusive.
As a Q&A, made almost totally of a single subject's quotes, the Journal conveniently sidesteps many of the things I'd expect of a regular, reported news feature.
Tagged: women in the church, WomenPriests, Catholicism, Pope Franics, Pope Francis
Catholicism, Godbeat, Jim Davis, Journalism, Middle East, Persecution, Pope Francis, Religious Liberty, Terrorism, Vatican, Islam-Muslims
Pope and imam dial back talks about Christian concerns, with assist from some journalists
The leader of a billion-plus Catholics met with a leader of a billion-plus Muslims, and media gave it appropriately thorough coverage.
Except for one matter: persecution of Christians in Muslim lands.
Pope Francis himself was oddly timid on the point. But that doesn't mean mainstream media had to downplay it also -- especially when they cover plenty of such incidents.
Typical was the Associated Press report:
Pope Francis on Monday embraced the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, reopening an important channel for Catholic-Muslim dialogue after a five-year lull and at a time of increased Islamic extremist attacks on Christians.
As Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib arrived for his audience in the Apostolic Palace, Francis said that the fact that they were meeting at all was significant.
"The meeting is the message," Francis told the imam.
Following this press release-style lede, though, AP says the two leaders discussed "the plight of Christians 'in the context of conflicts and tensions in the Mideast and their protection,' the statement said." It adds that Al-Azhar broke off talks alks with the Vatican a decade ago, after Pope Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor saying that some Muhammad's teachings were "evil and inhuman."
The article also retells some bloody specifics:
Benedict had demanded greater protection for Christians in Egypt after a New Year's bombing on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria killed 21 people. Since then, Islamic attacks on Christians in the region have only increased, but the Vatican and Al-Azhar nevertheless sought to rekindle ties, with a Vatican delegation visiting Cairo in February and extending the invitation for el-Tayyib to visit.
But if any Mideastern Christian leaders had opinions on the meeting -- and it's hard to imagine they wouldn't -- AP wasn't interested.
Tagged: Pope Franics, Pope Benedict XVI, Associate Press, Crux, Middle East, persecution of Christians, Christian persecution, Vatican, interfaith, Muslims, Islam, Al-Azhar
Catholicism, Holidays, Israel, Jim Davis, Journalism, Persecution, Pope Francis, Religious Liberty, Social Issues, Terrorism, Vatican, World Religions
Mangling the message: Papal Easter talk gets a warped reflection in The Mirror
How many gaffes can you pack into the start of a story? In its coverage of Pope Francis' Easter message yesterday, the UK-based Mirror seemed to be trying to find out.
And what a time for sloppy reporting -- the most important holiday on the calendar of the world's largest religion.
Pope Francis says defeat Islamic State 'with weapons of love' during Easter message
Pope Francis has urged the world in his Easter message to use the "weapons of love" to combat the evil of "blind and brutal violence" following the tragic attacks in Brussels.
The Roman Catholic church leader said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square.
After the service, he gave a traditional speech in which he addressed violence, injustice and threats to peace in many parts of the world.
He said: "May he [the risen Jesus] draw us closer on this Easter feast to the victims of terrorism, that blind and brutal form of violence which continues to shed blood in different parts of the world."
Francis did decry multiple social ills: armed conflicts, "brutal crimes," ethnic and religious persecution, climate change caused by exploiting natural resources, fears of the young and the elderly alike. And yes, he denounced terrorism, "that blind and brutal form of violence which continues to shed blood in different parts of the world."
But he said nothing about the Islamic State -- or, for that matter, the acronyms of ISIS, ISIL or Daesh. Nor did he tell anyone to use the "weapons of love" in the Middle East conflict.
Tagged: Pope Franics, Urbi et Orbi, Vatican, Easter, Catholics, The Mirror, Reuters, New York Times, Religion News Service, National Catholic Register, Deutsche Welle, Breitbart, terrorism, Brussels terror attacks, ISIL, ISIS, Middle East
Bobby Ross Jr., Catholicism, Abortion, Journalism, Pope Francis, Women
Wait, did Pope Francis just change Catholic doctrine on abortion? Or did he simply tell people to go to confession?
I'm not Catholic.
So I was befuddled when I saw this Associated Press news alert this morning:
BREAKING: Pope to let all priests in Holy Year absolve people from `sin of abortion' if they repent.
I wondered: Can priests not forgive abortion under normal circumstances? Is abortion ordinarily an unforgivable sin for Catholics? (My apologies to tmatt for not paying close enough attention.)
In an email to GetReligion, a reader complained:
This is in the vein of "Breaking news! Pope Francis changing everything about the mean, backward Catholic church!" while Pope Francis reiterates the orthodoxy taught by all his successors. My head is exploding. May the truth reign in the hearts of all.
I started clicking links to see if I could make sense of this breaking news.
The full AP report provided important context:
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis declared Tuesday he is allowing all priests in the church's upcoming Year of Mercy to absolve women of the "sin of abortion" if they repent with a "contrite heart."
Reflecting his papacy's central theme of mercy, Francis said in letter published Tuesday by the Vatican that he has met many women bearing "the scar of this agonizing" decision to abort. He said God's forgiveness cannot be denied to those who repent, and thus is giving all priests the discretion to absolve the sin in the Holy Year of Mercy running Dec. 8, 2015 until Nov. 20, 2016.
The church views abortion as such as grave sin that, until now, a Catholic woman who wanted to repent for an abortion could not simply go to her local parish priest. Instead, her diocese's bishop needed to delegate a priest, expert at dealing with such confessions, to hear the woman's confession.
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Amending Article 5 Of The Law Of The Russian Federation "on Road Funds In The Russian Federation"
Original Language Title: О внесении изменений в статью 5 Закона Российской Федерации "О дорожных фондах в Российской Федерации"
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Expired-the Federal law from 22/08/2004, no. 122-FZ (January 1, 2005 onwards), the Russian Federation, the FEDERAL LAW on amendments to article 5 of the law of the Russian Federation "on road funds in the Russian Federation" adopted by the State Duma May 20, 1998 the year approved by the Federation Council June 10, 1998 year Article 1. Amend paragraph 2 of article 5 of the law of the Russian Federation "on road funds in the Russian Federation (RSFSR Congress of people's deputies and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, 1991, no. 44, art. 1426; Gazette of the Congress of people's deputies of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, 1993, N 3, p. 102; Collection of laws of the Russian Federation, 1994, no. 29, art. 3010; 1995, N 26, art. 2402; N 35, St. 3503; 1996, N 1, art. 4; 1997, N 22, art. 2545) as follows: the sixth paragraph, the words "at a rate of 1.25 per cent" were replaced by the words "at a rate of 0.5 per cent";
in the seventh paragraph, the words "at the rate of 1.25 per cent" were replaced by the words "at the rate of 2 per cent".
Article 2. This federal law shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the Federal law on the federal budget for the year 1998 ".
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Everyone is Fair Game: Spy Agency Conducts Surveillance on All US Citizens
Global Research, December 14, 2012
https://www.globalresearch.ca/everyone-is-fair-game-spy-agency-conducts-surveillance-on-all-us-citizens/5315628
The Obama administration overruled recommendations from within the US Department of Homeland Security and implemented new guidelines earlier this year that allow the government to gather and analyze intelligence on every single US citizen.
Since the spring, a little-know intelligence agency outside of Washington, DC has been able to circumvent the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution and conduct dragnet surveillance of the entire country, combing massive datasets using advanced algorithms to search and seize personal info on anyone this wish, reports the Wall Street Journal this week.
There’s no safeguard that says only Americans with criminal records are the ones included, and it’s not just suspected terrorists that are considered in the searches either. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has been provided with entire government databases and given nearly endless access to intelligence on everyone in the country, regardless of whether or not they’ve done anything that would have made them a person of interest. As long as data is “reasonably believed” to contain “terrorism information,” the agency can do as they wish.
What’s more is the NCTC can retain that information for years, reviewing it whenever they’d like to take a look.
The update to the agency’s policies, reported by RT at the time and reexamined this week in the Journal, expose any person in the country to invasive and nearly endless government surveillance.
“This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public,” Mary Ellen Callahan is reported by the Journal to have said during a Situation Room meeting earlier this year within the walls of the White House. At the time, Callahan was chief privacy officer at DHS as well as one of the only staffers inside the Obama administration concerned with what was about to happen.
According to documents obtained by the Journal through Freedom of Information Act requests and conversations between the paper and persons familiar with that Situation Room sound-off, Ms. Callahan unsuccessfully argued against updating a 2008 Justice Department memo about what intel the NCTC can have and how they use it. Just weeks after that meeting, new guidelines were authorized and, within months, Ms. Callahan was working elsewhere.
Despite her efforts, a 32-page document, “Guidelines for Access, Retention, Use and Dissemination by the National Counterterrorism Center and other Agencies of Information in Datasets Containing Non-Terrorism Information,” went into effect, and with that the NCTC was no longer restricted to only terrorism-related intelligence and instead
“The 2008 memo’s title referred to NCTC’s access to ‘terrorism information’ contained in non-terrorism datasets. The 2012 title simply refers to ‘information’ in those datasets,” reports the Journal. “The removal of the world ‘terrorism’ is an indication of how this memo expands NCTC’s mandate to allow surveillance of US citizens based on more than just the terrorism information.’”
Indeed, the changes aren’t just within the name of the document. The 2012 update to the NCTC’s data-mining policies expand the intelligence the agency can comb while at the same time removing safeguards that were in place for privacy’s sake. Under the new rules, data on innocent Americans can be retained for five years, and intel on anyone “reasonably believed to constitute terrorism information” can be kept until the end of time.
“It’s breathtaking” in its scope, one former senior administration official tells the Journal.
According to the paper, “flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others” can be collected indefinitely and searched at will within the NCTC, an agency only nine years old and not nearly as well-known as her sister spy groups: the CIA and FBI.
Once the NCTC has the info, though, they can decide who else can be made privy to it. If the US government is so inclined, intelligence on specific citizens can be sent to any foreign nation in the world.
“Literally anything the government collects would be fair game, and the original agency in charge of protecting the privacy of those records would have little say over whether this happened, or what the spy agency did with the information afterward,” writes Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s DC branch. Calabrese testified before Congress earlier this year, and in a blog post authored by him in July, he describes just how detrimental the new policies are to personal privacy.
“That sharing can happen in relation to national security and safety, drug investigations [or] if it’s evidence of a crime or to evaluate sources or contacts. This boundless sharing is broad enough to encompass disclosures to an employer or landlord about someone who NCTC may think is potentially a criminal, or at the request of local law enforcement for vetting an informant,” he writes.
On the blog PrivacySOS, civil liberties advocate Kade Crockford condemns the spy program by saying any safeguard that could be implemented wouldn’t end what appears to be a serious constitutional violation.
“And even if it was an effective anti-terrorism technique, widespread, warrantless surveillance of every single living human being – suspicious or not – damn sure isn’t democratic practice. We are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in this country, not the other way around,” Crockford writes.
In his post from earlier this year, the ACLU’s Calabrese says the real dangers could come if the government decides to supplement their statistics with other private information purchased from third-parties.
“What if that spy agency could add commercial information, anything it – or any other federal agency – could buy from the huge data aggregators that are monitoring our every move?” he asks.
Meanwhile, in-between Calabrese’s original post and the Journal’s article from this week, search giant Google confirmed that the federal government has sent more requests for personal user data in 2012 than ever before.
“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google explained last month.
The latest revelation from the Journal of course is but the most recent installation in what has become a remarkable year in terms of finding out the truth about Uncle Sam’s shocking full-fledged surveillance. Throughout 2012, several former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) have stepped up and given interviews about the grievances with the office, particularly their disregard for the privacy of Americans.
“When you open up the Pandora’s Box of just getting access to incredible amounts of data, for people that have no reason to be put under suspicion, no reason to have done anything wrong, and just collect all that for potential future use or even current use, it opens up a real danger — and to what else what they could use that data for, particularly when it’s all being hidden behind the mantle of national security,” NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer earlier this year.
Journalist Julia Angwin writes for the Journal that the DHS is currently working out the details on how to provide the NCTC with new lists of data, but acknowledges that every federal agency can come up with their own rules regarding what they want handed over.
Earlier this month, former NSA analyst William Binney spoke with RT and said that the FBI — who maintains databases that can be requested by the NCTC under their latest policies — has been storing the emails of every person in America for at least a decade.
“So, yes, this can happen to anyone. If they become a target for whatever reason – they are targeted by the government, the government can go in, or the FBI, or other agencies of the government, they can go into their database, pull all that data collected on them over the years, and we analyze it all. So, we have to actively analyze everything they’ve done for the last 10 years at least,” he said.
Upon winning a Callaway award for civic courage in DC last month, Mr. Binney explained that he and other former NSA agents “could not be accessories to violations of the US Constitution.” Ms. Callahan has since left her post within the NCTC and is now practicing law in the nation’s capital focusing specifically on privacy.
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Ukraine: A Country of Miracles, Where People Rise from the Dead. The Staged “Assassination” of Russian Journalist Arkady Babchenko
Representatives of the Security Bureau of Ukraine said that the information about the killing of Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kiev was part of the operation of the Ukrainian special services.
By Dmitriy Sudakov
PravdaReport 31 May 2018
Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation
The operation, Ukrainian officials said, helped to capture the person, who initiated the upcoming attempted assassination.
On May 29, it became known that journalist Arkady Babchenko was shot in the back in his apartment building. It was reported that Babchenko died on the way to hospital. On May 30, however, he appeared alive at a news conference, at which he said that the special operation had been prepared two months in advance.
“I was let into a month ago, and during this month I saw that the guys were working very hard, they were taking pains and plowing like buffaloes. We were in touch the whole month, we were thinking and working everything through. As a result, the special operation was conducted,” Babchenko said.
As he added, he was supposed to be killed prior to the Champions League finals in Kiev. He also said that the price for his assassination was set at $40,000.
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the staging of Babchenko’s murder had a propaganda effect.
Chairman of the International Association of Veterans of Alfa anti-terror unit, Sergei Goncharov, said that Ukraine’s operation was an “anachronism.” Yet, member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, believes that the Ukrainian security forces were guided by finest role models in their actions.
The head of the Council Committee on International Affairs of the Council of Federation, Konstantin Kosachev, said that the staging of the journalist’s assassination should be attributed to “a string of delusional actions of the Ukrainian authorities against Russia.”
The head of Reporters without Borders NGO Christophe Deloir called the situation part of the media war and expressed his deepest indignation in connection with the manipulations conducted by Ukrainian secret services.”
Ukrainian security forces claim that Russian special services stand behind the operation to plot Babchenko’s assassination. SBU representatives did not provide any evidence to prove their point, but said that the organiser “was talking about the need to eliminate 30 persons in Ukraine.” No names were specified.
Many assumed that the whole operation to stage the journalist’s death was bizarre. According to the version of the SBU, the Ukrainian special services knew who the organiser was (the “hand of the Kremlin”). Plus, the assassin had received $40,000 on his account. Consequently, the SBU had known the identity of the assassin long in advance. It was also said that the assassin had Babchenko’s passport photo. Why would the killer need such a photo given that it was taken nearly 20 years ago? It is an open secret that people may look very different from their passport photos. SBU claims that as long as the assassin had Babchenko’s passport photo, it means that the assassination was arranged by Russian special services. Yet, it is not only Russia that may have access to Babchenko’s passport. Passport is not a matter of state secrecy. Babchenko, like any other Russian citizen, would very often hand his passport to commercial organisations, such as banks, travel agencies, visa centres, etc. To crown it all, Babchenko, apparently, had received residence permit in Ukraine, which means that the Ukrainian government has a copy of his passport.
US journalist Jill Dougherty noted that the fact that Babchenko is alive was obviously good news, but this fact also struck a huge blow to the reputation of Ukraine, because no one would ever trust what the Ukrainians say.
The silence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier looked particularly remarkable.
It is worthy of note that a number of Western leaders condemned the “killing” of the Russian journalist and implied in their comments that Russia was to blame again.
“The Skripal case was made before the presidential election in Russia. The case of Babchenko was fabricated on the eve of the World Cup in Russia. It is important for them to disrupt all political processes and develop the process of Russophobia instead,” Russian Senator Franz Klintsevich said.
Traditionally, after the announcement of the news about the killing of Babchenko, the perpetrators were announced immediately – Russian special services. No investigation is required for such cases at all – they just point fingers at Russia and say it. The scenario was used in the UK, when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were said to have suffered from exposure to a highly toxic poison, from which they miraculously recovered within a very short period of time. A similar story was used in Syria, when the West masterminded the chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta. A number of victims of that attack soon rose from the dead and said that the attack was staged.
The Babchenko story is bizarre indeed. The journalist is alive, and all those, who have accused Russia of the crime seem to have made a blunder. So far, Western leaders have not released any new comments on the subject.
The original source of this article is PravdaReport
Copyright © Dmitriy Sudakov, PravdaReport, 2018
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Turkish Indigenous Helicopter Program
The objective of the Indigenous Helicopter program is the local design, development and production of civil certified light utility/training helicopters for the government and public sector. The project scope includes local design, development and production of civil certified light utility helicopters based on the capabilities acquired under the T-129 ATAK [PAH-2 Tiger built in Turkey] and T-70 Turkish Utility Helicopter [TUHP, Sikorsky S-70 Blackhawk built in Turkey] Programs.
This is not a single helicopter project, but rather a helicopter family. The aim is to produce at least 4 models, to catch the opportunities open in foreign markets. Turkey is also a good market for the produce of its own helicopter designs. The air fleet of the Security General Directorate (EGM - Police Department) will be an important part of the market the "original Turkish Helicopter" project, with a police user inventory of 80-100 light and medium twin-engine helicopters.
On June 15th, 2010 Defense Industry Executive Committee appointed TAI as the Prime Contractor for the "Indigenous Helicopter" Program. Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) released the RFP on May 18th, 2012 and TAI submitted the Proposal on October 2nd, 2012. The dates for projects that will make Turkey a regional power and add strength to the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in counter-terrorism were finalized in March 2012. According to the strategic plan prepared by the Turkish Undersecretariat of Defense Industry, the first indigenous ATAK helicopterwill be ready in 2013.
A feasibility report for the construction of the Turkish Indigenous Helicopter, which is included among the targets planned for meeting the requirements of the Turkish Defence Industries with national means, was prepared and submitted to the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) by STM.
In the report, which was completed in quite a short time as a result of the interviews made with various agencies and organizations and analyses of national and international publications in the field, Turkey’s military and civic helicopter inventory was created and user-based numbers, models and ages of the helicopters were identified. Surveys were made regarding the needs of Turkish users, and the class and specific design features of the helicopter that may be seen as the initial target in case design and production of an indigenous helicopter is preferred were identified.
Furthermore, in the report that takes a detailed look at the trends in world markets and the industry, it was assessed that a double-engine light/mid class general-purpose helicopter would be a good choice for starting helicopter design and production activities in Turkey and also for potential markets.
In the comprehensive report, procurement methods were examined, and “national development”, “co-development with a foreign partner”, “licensed production and system integration rights” and “comparison of direct purchase methods” were analyzed, and it was pointed out that except for the national development option, the national industry will not have the necessary knowledge and experience for any of the other methods. It was expressed that in case the national development option is considered, the design infrastructure will be more critical compared to the production infrastructure.
In the report prepared by field experts of STM, the gaps of the Turkish helicopter Industry were identified and it was stated that the priority areas for improvement are the helicopter powertrain, rotor roots and impellers and hydraulic systems.
In the report, the current situation of Turkey’s helicopter industry infrastructure in terms of production and design capabilities was identified, using as a reference the information requested from national companies on the basis of a refractive tree for helicopters. It was emphasized that reaching the target of building an Indigenous Helicopter will be possible if all works are controlled from a single point and if with a realistic planning the facilities of the Turkish Defence Industry are used with some additional investments in deficient areas.
STM has prepared a lot of Feasibility and Strategy Documents in many areas in the past for the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries. Identifying hi-tech platforms/systems/devices fitting the national concept/strategies for the defence requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces and offering solutions to increase national contribution or all-national production is a part of the mission undertaken by STM.
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PETROUNIAS Eleftherios (GRE)
PETROUNIAS
Eleftherios
(GRE)
1990 (28 y.o.)
165 cm / 5' 5''
Open ...
Website / fan page
Parkour. (protothema.gr, 06 Apr 2015)
Athlete, Student
Communications, Marketing - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
English, Greek
Dimitris Raftis [national], GRE (gymnovosti.com, 18 Aug 2018)
A persistent shoulder injury initially forced him to withdraw from the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. However, he later reversed his decision and decided to compete. He won a gold medal on rings before having surgery on his shoulder after the championships. (fig-gymnastics.com, 02 Nov 2018; gymnovosti.com, 14 Oct 2018)
He has two screws in one of his fingers and has had two hernia operations during his competitive career. (lifo.gr, 24 Apr 2015)
Start sporting career
He took up gymnastics at age five at the Panionios Gymnastics Club in Greece. (lifo.gr, 24 Apr 2015; protothema.gr, 06 Apr 2015)
Reason for taking up the sport
A teacher encouraged his mother to enrol him in the sport to deal with his hyperactivity. "Since I had a lot of energy, I was very lively and had a tendency to climb everywhere." (protothema.gr, 06 Apr 2015)
To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (agonasport.com, 20 Dec 2016)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning gold on rings at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (epetrounias.com, 24 Apr 2017)
Philosophy / Motto
"Training is above all else centred on the brain." (gymnovosti.com, 18 Aug 2018)
He was named the Greek Sportsman of the Year in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by the Panhellenic Association of Sports Press. (ego-gymnastics.gr, 22 Dec 2017; agonasport.com, 20 Dec 2016; gymnastics.gr, 22 Dec 2015)
In April 2016 he carried the Olympic torch in Greece during the first stage of the relay for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 11 Apr 2016)
PASSION FOR GREEK YOUTH
He has a desire to help young Greeks get into gymnastics. "The first thing I am planning, and I am planning it already and it should be ready in September [2018], is a gymnastics club, a really nice one. I don't want it to be like the other clubs in Greece, I want it to be perfect. I want to find a way to make it easier for kids in Greece to do gymnastics because the clubs here are not very high-tech. I want good coaches, good equipment, a good culture, everything." But he will not restrict his efforts to gymnastics. "One big thought is to do something to help all sports in Greece, not gymnastics only. I don't yet have my plan for that, but something like a village for all sports, a centre of excellence with really high-tech gym halls for every Olympic sport. The best coaches in Greece in every sport in one place. I know it is really difficult to create this, especially in Greece, but I am a dreamer, that's me. I will keep dreaming until I have the results I want, just like I have done in gymnastics." (fig-gymnastics.com, 02 Jul 2018)
He was bullied about his size when he was a child. "A lot of kids would make fun of me because I was short. Other kids could have fallen down with this and never got up, but I would just do a salto [somersault] and ask them, 'Can you do that?' and then say, 'I can because I am short'. It was never a problem for me but I can understand that for a lot of kids it could be really tough. So, I am always trying to be at the front of the anti-bullying campaigns in Greece." (fig-gymnastics.com, 02 Jul 2018)
EMOTIONAL WIN
His victory on the rings at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, came shortly after the death of his father. "Everything I do now, I do for my father. I'm sure he's proud of me." (thehardwaytosuccess.nl, 26 Oct 2015)
TIME OUT OF THE SPORT
He began gymnastics at age five and says it took over his life. But at age 14, he took a break from the sport for three years. "For many years I was trying to be a good athlete and a good student. I was tired, my body was tired, my elbows were in trouble and I told my mother I wanted to stop. I wanted to see my friends and live like them. Be crazy, ride motorbikes, party, meet girls and have fun. For the next few years, I was just another teenager. One morning [at age 17] I thought about returning to the gym. When I went on the rings, my body remembered and began to operate as if it had never stopped. I was refreshed, stronger." (protothema.gr, 06 Apr 2015; lifo.gr, 24 Apr 2014)
2016 Olympic Games - Games of the XXXI Olympiad RIO DE JANEIRO (BRA)
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Still Rings
2016 Test Events Olympic Games - Aquece Rio Final Gymnastics Qualifier (Test Event) RIO DE JANEIRO (BRA)
2018 World Championships - 48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships DOHA (QAT)
Floor Exercise
2017 World Championships - 47th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships MONTREAL (CAN)
2015 World Championships - 46th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships GLASGOW (GBR)
Pommel Horse
2014 World Championships - 45th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships NANNING (CHN)
2013 World Championships - 44th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships ANTWERP (BEL)
2009 World Championships - 41st FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships LONDON (GBR)
2018 World / Challenge Cup - FIG World Cup 2018 BAKU (AZE)
2017 World / Challenge Cup - FIG World Challenge Cup - 20th Internationaux de France 2017 PARIS (FRA)
2017 World / Challenge Cup - FIG World Cup 2017 AGF Trophy BAKU (AZE)
2016 World / Challenge Cup - 9th World Challenge Cup 2016 DOHA (QAT)
2015 World / Challenge Cup - 39th Turnier der Meister World Challenge Cup 2015 COTTBUS (GER)
2018 Continental Championships - 33rd Men's Artistic European Championships GLASGOW (GBR)
2017 Continental Championships - 7th European Individual Championships 2017 CLUJ NAPOCA (ROU)
2016 Continental Championships - 32nd European Championships 2016 BERN (SUI)
2015 Continental Championships - 6th European Individual Championships 2015 MONTPELLIER (FRA)
2014 Continental Championships - European Championships 2014 SOFIA (BUL)
2013 Continental Championships - 5th European individual Championships 2013 MOSCOW (RUS)
2015 Multisport Events / Games - 1st European Games Baku 2015 BAKU (AZE)
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Poverty in Scotland
Communities and third sector, Statistics
National and Official Statistics published
Statistics indicate poverty and inequality slowly rising in Scotland in recent years.
Statistics show the incomes of poorer households fell further behind those of middle income households in recent years, pushing more people into poverty.
Overall poverty rates have been relatively stable over the last decade with some fluctuations year on year. However in recent years, rising poverty rates alongside other indicators suggest low income households - especially households with children - are falling further behind those on middle incomes. Over the three-year period 2014-17, one million people in Scotland (each year) were in relative poverty after they had paid their housing costs.
In 2014-17, 16% of people in Scotland were living in relative poverty, before housing costs, approximately 860,000 people each year. This compares to 15% in 2013-16 and suggests a slowly rising trend since the all-time low in 2011-14.
After housing costs, 19% of people in Scotland were living in relative poverty in 2014-17, representing one million people each year. This is the same poverty rate as in 2013-16, but remained higher than previous years.
Between 2012 and 2016, 8% of people in Scotland were in persistent poverty before housing costs, or living in poverty for three or more of the four years. This rate was the same before and after housing costs.
Trends in child poverty are more complex. The latest estimates signal relative child poverty and in-work poverty for children continue to rise before and after housing costs, but absolute poverty and the combined low income and material deprivation rate for children have remained broadly stable, and persistent poverty appears to have fallen.
Over the three-year period 2014-17, 19% of children in Scotland, approximately 180,000 each year, were living in relative poverty before housing costs. This compares to 17% in 2013-16. After housing costs, 24% of children in Scotland were living in relative poverty in 2014-17, approximately 230,000 children. This compares to 23% in 2013-16.
In-work poverty showed a long term rising trend since 2007-10 which continued in 2014-17 with two thirds of children in in-work poverty (both before and after housing costs), living in households with at least one member in paid work.
Absolute child poverty had been falling for a long time and was broadly stable in recent years, with 15% of children in absolute poverty before housing costs in 2014-17, and 22% after housing costs, both rates the same as in the previous three-year period.
In 2014-17, 10% of children were living in combined low income (before housing costs) and material deprivation, compared to 11% in 2013-16. After housing costs, 12% of children were living in combined low income and material deprivation, compared to 13% in 2013-16. Further data will be required to clarify whether this is a longer term trend.
Persistent poverty rates were higher for children compared to other age groups. Before housing costs, 9% of children in Scotland were in persistent poverty between 2012 and 2016, compared to 10% in the previous period. After housing costs, in 2012-16 10% of children were in persistent poverty, compared to 14% in the previous period. Further data will be required to clarify whether this is a longer term trend.
Single-year estimates of child poverty that will be required for reporting as part of the Child Poverty Act are provided in data tables in the publication.
Pensioner poverty and material deprivation present a mixed picture as well. Relative poverty for pensioners had been stable at a lower level than the other age groups for several years and may have started to rise in recent years. Pensioner material deprivation on the other hand appears to have fallen.
Relative pensioner poverty before housing cost was 17% (170,000 pensioners each year) in the three-year period 2014-17, compared to 16% in 2013-16. After housing costs, relative pensioner poverty was 13% (140,000 pensioners each year), compared to 12% in the previous three-year period.
Pensioner material deprivation was 6% in 2014-17 (60,000 pensioners each year), compared to 7% in 2013-2016.
Poverty by gender, disability and ethnicity: In the three-year period 2014-17, poverty rates for single adult women were higher than for single adult men, whether or not they had children. Poverty rates for minority ethnic groups were higher than for the white ethnic group. Poverty rates for families with a disabled family member were higher than for families with nobody in the family was disabled.
Income inequality has continued to rise in the three-year period 2014-17. The top ten per cent of households saw larger increases compared to lower income households. This resulted in low income households falling behind those in the middle and even further behind those at the top.
The full statistical publications are available online:
Persistent Poverty in Scotland
The Poverty in Scotland publication contains information on poverty and income inequality statistics for Scotland. The data comes from the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Family Resources Survey, Households Below Average Income dataset. Comparable UK income and poverty figures are published on the same day by DWP.
In this year’s Poverty in Scotland update, the data is presented for the first time as three-year averages of each estimate. Single year estimates are still available in the associated tables. Single year estimates are best used for understanding the current situation, whereas trends over time are better identified using three-year estimates.
The Persistent Poverty in Scotland publication presents estimates of how many people in Scotland live in persistent poverty. The data comes from the Understanding Society Survey.
Key poverty measures:
Relative poverty: A household is in relative poverty if its income is below 60% of the middle household income in the UK (the poverty threshold). Relative poverty is a measure of whether the income of the poorest households are keeping pace with middle income households across the UK.
Absolute poverty: A household is in absolute poverty if its income is below the poverty threshold from 2010/11. This way, it measures whether the incomes of the poorest households are keeping pace with rising prices.
Combined low income and material deprivation identifies the number of children in families that cannot afford basic essential goods and services because of a low income (below 70% of the middle household income).
Persistent poverty identifies the number of people in relative poverty for three or more out of four years. People who live in poverty for several years are affected by it through their lifetime.
This publication presents poverty figures before and after housing costs. Before housing costs figures are a basic measure of household income from earnings and benefits. After housing costs figures subtract spending on rents, mortgage interest payments and other unavoidable housing costs from this basic income.
Further information on income and poverty statistics within Scotland is available online.
Official statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff – more information on the standards of official statistics in Scotland can be assessed online.
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Scotland a low carbon leader
Business, industry and innovation, Environment and climate change, Transport
New Innovation Fund to meet environmental ambitions.
£60 million will be made available to accelerate innovation in new technologies, including low carbon and digital projects by 2020.
The Innovation Fund, announced in Programme for Government, will support the development of low carbon energy infrastructure, such as electricity battery storage, sustainable heating systems and electric vehicle charging.
The Scottish Government intends to end the need for new petrol or diesel vehicles in Scotland by 2032 by taking a range of actions, including expanding the charging network and making the A9 Scotland’s first electric-enabled highway.
The new Innovation Fund will also encourage academia and business to find solutions to some of the challenges that will be faced - for example, among projects the fund could support include identifying innovative solutions to the challenge of charging electric vehicles in heavily tenemented towns and cities.
Making the announcement while visiting the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, the First Minister said:
“For centuries, Scotland has been home to many great inventions and I want this technological innovation to be renewed for the future. I want us to be world leaders in developing new low carbon energy technologies and embrace social changes that will reduce our emissions.
“We have set out a bold new ambition on ultra-low emission vehicles, including electric cars and vans, with a target to phase out the need for petrol and diesel vehicles by 2032, underpinned by a range of actions to expand the charging network, support innovative approaches and encourage the public sector to lead the way.
“Earlier this year I visited Tesla in Silicon Valley to discuss the importance of energy storage technology to Scotland’s wider energy strategy. That visit was an inspiration. We’re witnessing rapid technological change and the many companies focussing their efforts on this sector are making extraordinary advances. I want to see Scotland play its full part in this age of innovation.”
Environment Secretary Rosanna Cunningham said:
“As well as pushing ahead with the decarbonisation of road transport, we have also announced plans to introduce Low Emission Zones into Scotland’s four biggest cities between 2018 and 2020 – improving air quality and making our city centres a more desirable place to live, work and visit.
“Scotland has made good progress in tackling air pollution, but a there are still areas of our towns and cities where levels are too high. We want to develop a sustainable future for younger generations.
“Taken together, these measures along with our plans to build an Active Nation by investing record sums in walking and cycling, represent a step change in our levels of ambition and it’s heartening to see this being described as Scotland’s boldest and greenest Programme for Government.”
Low Emission Zone consultation
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John William Dunne
John William Dunne (1875-1949) established his career as an aeronautical engineer working on several early military aircraft. A soldier in the Boer War, Dunne worked on tailless designs in the early years of the 20th century, producing inherently stable aircraft.
1875 Born at the Curragh camp, Ireland, the elder son of General Sir John Hart Dunne KCB of Cartron, Co. Roscommon, and his wife, Julia Elizabeth.
1881 Living in Leamington Priors with his parents[1]
He was brought up in South Africa; at the age of six he had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years. He read a great deal as a child and later said that he read Euclid as easily as an adult reads a novel.
1900 Began to study aviation
At seventeen he became a pupil on a farm.
Served with the imperial yeomanry in the South African War
1904 Designed the "Dunne-Huntington" triplane
1905 Dunne designed a tailless monoplane wing.
1906 He showed his design to Colonel Capper, of the Army Balloon Section. Col. Capper, however, asked for a biplane, so a biplane version was designed and built at Blair Atholl.[2]
Unlike the Wright brothers, Dunne aimed at maximum stability so that, on a straight course at least, the controls could be locked and the aircraft "fly itself." He considered the monoplane to be better than biplane but low wing loading was more readily achieved with a biplane and, as mentioned, Col. Capper had asked for a biplane. This was tested secretly at Blair Atholl in 1907 and 1908 - it rose under its own power, and gliding was successfully accomplished.
1909 After the War Office discontinued funding for Dunne's work, he proceeded to develop his ideas privately; he took out patents to protect his invention[3]
Manager and designer Blair Atholl Aeroplane Co.
1910 the D.5 aircraft was the first to be built by the Short Brothers for the Blair Atholl Aeroplane Syndicate[4]. Like its predecessors it was a biplane with highly-swept wings driven by twin pusher propellers. It had a much more powerful engine. In the summer of 1910, it was piloted on its first flight by Dunne himself.
Two demonstration flights were made over the flying field at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, on December 20th, 1910. The flights were observed, on behalf of the Royal Aero Club, by Orville Wright and Mr. Griffith Brewer. On the second of the two flights a typewritten statement by Mr. Griffith Brewer was handed to Lt. Dunne, who was asked to make notes on it during the flight. The statement was on very thin paper, making it impossible for Dunne to write notes on it without using both hands. The Dunne biplane was undoubtedly stable.
1911 Designed and built a monoplane with a 50 h.p. Green four-cylinder water-cooled engine. The wingtip flaps were rudders and elevators as well as ailerons. The wing tips were down-turned and carried the controlling surfaces rather than using vertical control surfaces as he had done in the biplane designs. A characteristic feature of this machine was the absence of a tail and the V-plan form of the wings, which also had a varying angle of incidence from root to tip.[5]
1911 An aeronautical engineer and retired army officer, visiting Belgrave Mansion, Hanover Square, London; postal address: Parsonage Farm, Minster, Sheerness.[6]
1912 Successful tests of the "Perodactyl" were conducted on Salisbury Plain but the War Office were not interested.
1912 A French officer flew one of the planes to France[7]
c.1913 a French syndicate was formed and Dunne assigned the relevant patent to them but attracted criticism at home for handing over the rights.
WWI Two aircraft (called Burgess-Dunnes) were used for flying training by the American Navy.
1914-15 Served as Brigade Musketry instructor to 63rd Brigade.
Although he did not design further aircraft, he continued to take an interest in developments in aviation.
After experiencing a precognitive dream of the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique, Dunne became seriously interested in the nature of time. Through years of experimentation with precognitive dreams and hypnagogic states Dunne posited that our experience of Time as linear was an illusion brought about by human consciousness. Dunne argued that past, present and future were in fact simultaneous and only experienced sequentially because of our mental perception of them. It was his belief that in the dream state the mind was not shackled in this way and was able to perceive events in the past and future with equal facility. In 1927 he published "An Experiment with Time".
1928 Married Hon. Cecily Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes; they had a son and a daughter.
He published several more books.
1949 Died at Banbury.
This British pioneer achieved automatic stability, two-control flying, and tricycle undercarriages, features which were not destined to reappear for many years.
The Blair Atholl Experiments
These were secret tests carried out by the British government into an early flying machine. They were held in 1906-8 on the Duke of Atholl's estate at Glen Tilt. The aircraft was a Dunne. L. D. L. Gibbs flew the aircraft in 1908.
List of Models
↑ 1881 census
↑ Flight 27 May 1943
↑ The Times, Aug 18, 1913
↑ The Times Aug 27, 1949
↑ Flight 1 April 1911
↑ The Times, Dec 18, 1953
[1] Wikipedia
Biography of John William Dunne, DNB
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William Henry Owen
William Henry Owen (c1871-1937) of Owen Power Plant, Carrier Engineering Co and W. H. Owen (Company)
The "Carrier-Owen " air preheater improved the process of combustion with shorter flame length and faster ignition of the volatile and combustible gases, thereby preventing formation of soot. Use of the preheater increased the furnace temperature so that more of the heat of combustion contributes to the radiation in the furnace, increasing efficiency[1]
1937 Died
WIDESPREAD regret will be felt at the death of Mr. William Henry Owen, M.Inst.C.E., well known in the engineering profession as chairman and managing director of Owen Power Plant, Ltd., London, who died at Wimbledon on Sunday, January 3rd, after a very brief illness, in his sixty-seventh year.
He was the oldest son of the late William Owen, of Stoke-on-Trent, who in the 'eighties owned and edited newspapers in Staffordshire and Cheshire, and he was educated in the “Five Towns."
At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to William Boulton and Co., Ltd., of Burslem, where he remained for six years.
In 1892 he joined the drawing-office staff of Benjamin Goodfellow, of Hyde, near Manchester, and after three years went to Belliss and Morcom, Ltd., of Birmingham, where he was assistant to the works manager on the design of special tools, laying out of plant, &c.
In 1896 he joined the drawing-office staff of Robey and Co., Ltd., of Lincoln.
From 1898 he was for three years leading draughtsman to Willans and Robinson, of Rugby, and in 1901 went as chief draughtsman to James Howden and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, with which firm he remained for about twenty-five years.
In 1907 he came to London as the firm's technical and commercial representative, a position he held for many years, having complete charge of arrangements of plant, erecting, and testing of engines, turbines, and boilers on site, as well as of all technical questions arising during the carrying out and completion of contracts.
An active and inventive mind supported by sound practical experience led Mr. Owen to take out a number of patents covering a wide field of engineering subjects, and it was in order to develop certain of these relating to high-pressure steam boilers, air preheaters, and fuel economy that he left James Howden and Co., Ltd., in 1924.
After that date the commercial development of the Owen air preheater and heat interchanger was begun in association with the Carrier Engineering Company, of Buckingham-gate, London. Subsequently it became necessary to establish the present organisation, Owen Power Plant, Ltd., Townsend House, Westminster, of which Mr. Owen was managing director, as well as chairman, at the time of his death.
During the war Mr. Owen was called on to assist the French Government to speed up the production of shells, and in that connection made many trips to France. He also assisted in the early days of the war, when tonnage was so badly needed, in bringing about the purchase by the British Government of a number of steamships then nearing completion in Japanese shipyards.
↑ The Engineer 1931/06/12
↑ The Engineer 1937/01/15 p80
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Escorted Rail Tours to Graceland
The home of The King
Having been completed in 1939, the Graceland mansion has only been standing for a relatively short period of time. Yet it has achieved infamy for being Elvis Presley's home for 20 years, and also his final resting place. Presley bought the house for $100,000 in 1957, by which time he had racked up his eighth number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Elvis' neighbours had begun to complain of excessive numbers of fans crowding around his former home, and so he decided it was time for something more suitable. Given that Elvis lived at Graceland until his death in 1977, it naturally contains a lot of his personal effects and examples of his style - many of the rooms are still decorated in the way he had chosen. Following Presley's burial in the mansion's grounds, Graceland was opened as a museum commemorating his life and works in 1982. It is seen as so culturally important that it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It is the USA's second most-visited private home, after the White House.
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Ganymede – Cupbearer to the Gods of Greek Mythology
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Ganymede was a hero in Greek mythology who came from the fabled city of Troy. He was the son of Tros, who was from Dardania, and Callirrhoe, the daughter of Scamander, who was a river god in Greek mythology. He is also described as having two brothers, Ilus and Assaracus. Like many tales in Greek mythology, there are several versions and Ganymede is no exception. Here is an overview of some of the takes that are told about him:
Ganymede Was Abducted by Zeus
In one version of Ganymede’s tale, he was abducted by Zeus in order to become the cupbearer of the gods. When abducted, Zeus took the form of a large eagle and snatched the youth while he was on Mount Ida, which was located near Troy. In order to make amends for this abduction, Zeus offered Ganymede’s father horses that were of the finest quality. Even though his father was initially upset by the abduction, he eventually understood that the abduction could eventually benefit his son. Zeus explained that in becoming the cupbearer, he would become immortal. As cupbearer, Ganymede had the duty of serving the gods drinks while they dined at the royal table.
Ganymede Replaces Hebes as Cupbearer
Before Ganymede became cupbearer, Hebes, the eventual wife of Hercules, was the cupbearer. He duties included serving the gods nectar and ambrosia, drawing baths for Ares, who was also her brother, and helping Hera enter her chariot. Once she became married to Hercules, this left Mount Olympus without a cupbearer. To fix this problem, Zeus turned into an eagle and kidnapped Ganymede so that he could assume the position.
Ganymede’s Reception in Mount Olympus
Things weren’t exactly the same for Ganymede as they were for his predecessor, Hebes. First of all, Ganymede is said to have introduce the sweet and intoxicating drink of mead to Mount Olympus. The gods were pleased with this addition, but not all of the gods were happy. Hera, who was often jealous, directed her attentions to Ganymede who she saw as a rival for Zeus’s affections. Eventually, Ganymede stopped being the cupbearer and was eventually sent into the sky as a constellation.
Differences in Ganymede’s Story
The details of the abduction do differ, however, depending on who tells the story. In some versions of the tale of his kidnapping, Zeus actually rapes him while he is in the form of the eagle. Some stories describe Ganymede as so attractive that he often inspired homosexual attraction from other males. In many ways, he was perceived in much the same way that Adonis was.
In Greek mythology, there were individuals who served different roles. Not everyone in the stories were gods and goddesses. However, heroes like Ganymede were also an important part of the stories. Although the tales do differ depending on who tells them, the fact that Ganymede was an attractive prince from Troy who eventually became immortal serving as cupbearer to the gods.
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Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston reunite for romantic dinner date
July 28, 2016 - 12:16 BST hellomagazine.com Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift enjoy a romantic dinner date in California
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Sonatinas op. 89
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Max Hehemann stated once, “Reger just simply happens to be complicated”. This sums up the usual and for the main part accurate assessment that is prevalent in the music world of the works of one of the most important German composers at the turn of the twentieth century. The Piano Sonatinas op. 89 are a marked exception to the Reger rule. Reger, whose writing for the piano was often virtuosic and dense, greatly retracted this here, favouring instead a wonderful airiness and transparency. Nevertheless, unlike a sonatina by Clementi for instance, these four Reger Sonatinas are not easy to play (according to our levels of difficulty, the easiest, the Sonatina in D major [No. 2], is considered 5/6 – that is medium level of difficulty.)
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The present pieces by Max Reger occupy a special and unique place in the history of the sonatina. They consciously take historically established traditions as their starting point, and yet, in aesthetic terms, differ markedly from works of the same name by composers such as Anton Diabelli or Friedrich Kuhlau. The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed changes both in the … more
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Late-Romantic composer who combines a chromatic tonal language with Baroque and Classical forms, thus anticipating 1920s neoclassicism.
1873 Born in Brand (Upper Palatinate) on March 19, the son of a teacher. First piano lessons from his mother.
1888 After a visit to Bayreuth (for Meistersinger and Parsifal), decides on a career in music.
1890–93 Studies with Hugo Riemann at the conservatory in Wiesbaden, composes chamber works. Thereafter he endeavors to publish his own works as a freelance composer, albeit with multiple failures.
1898 Return to his parents’ home in Weiden. Composition of organ works: choral fantasies, “Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H,” Op. 46 (1900); Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue (“Inferno”), Op. 57.
1901–07 Living in Munich.
1903 Publication of his “On the Theory of Modulation,” causing Riemann to feel attacked because Reger espouses a different understanding of the role of chromatics. “Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme,” Op. 73.
1904 Breakthrough with his first performance for the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein (General German Music Association). First volume of his “Simple Songs” for voice and piano, Op. 76; String Quartet in D minor, Op. 74, one of the most significant works in that genre at the beginning of the century.
From 1905 Instructor at Munich’s Academy of Music. “Sinfonietta” in A major, Op. 90.
1907–11 Music director and professor of composition at the University of Leipzig. Orchestral work “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller,” Op. 100.
1909 “The 100th Psalm,” Op. 106, his most popular choral work.
1911–14 Director of the royal court orchestra of Saxe-Meiningen.
1912 “Concerto in the Old Style,” Op. 123. Orchestral song “An die Hoffnung” (“To Hope”), Op. 124.
1913 “Four Tone Poems after A. Böcklin” for large orchestra, Op. 128; “A Ballet Suite,” Op. 130.
1914 “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart,” Op. 132
1915 He resides in Jena. Late compositions.
1916 Death in Leipzig on May 11.
Dr. Egon Voss, born in 1938 in Magdeburg, did a secondary school teaching degree in Detmold (Staatsexamen in 1961) and studied German, philosophy and pedagogy in Kiel and Münster (Staatsexamen 1964). He subsequently studied musicology in Cologne, Kiel and Saarbrücken and completed his doctorate in 1968.
In 1969 Voss became a scholar at the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich, since 1981 he has been its Head. From 1989 to 1990 he was the dramaturg at the Théȃtre la Monnaie/de Munt Brüssel, and from 1996 to 2002 a lecturer at the post-graduate programme “Textkritik” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Voss is a member of the advisory board for the edition “Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Briefe” as well as the journals “wagnerspectrum” and “The Wagner Journal”. He has published several books and a great many essays on Wagner, Schumann, Bach and other composers and musicological topics.
Prof. Helmut Brauss, concert pianist, was born in 1930 in Milan and studied with Elly Ney, Hans Ehlers and Edwin Fischer amongst others. He performed in over 1500 concerts, chamber music concerts and radio broadcasts, and appeared as a soloist with renowned orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia.
For over 25 years, Brauss was professor of music at the University of Alberta, Canada and a visiting professor at the Musashino Ongaku Daigaku in Tokyo. His discography comprises numerous works. He is the author of several books including “Max Reger’s Music for Solo Piano” (Alberta University Press) and “Der singende Klavierton” (Heinrichshofen Verlag). He died in Toronto on 7th October 2017.
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HEG Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary & Decade of Innovation
Posted June 2, 2017 by Mary McWilliams
TEMPE, Ariz. (June 2, 2017) – Higher Ed Growth (HEG), a full-service marketing agency specializing in post-secondary education, is proud to announce its 10-year anniversary as a leading provider of higher education marketing services and innovative IT solutions.
“When my founding peers and I started HEG in June 2007, we knew it had endless potential, and we couldn’t be prouder of where the company is today – 10 years later,” said Frank Healy, President and CEO of HEG. “Ten years is a testament to our steadfast commitment to innovation, to working with the best marketing partners in the industry, and to having an incredibly forward-thinking team always pushing us to new heights.”
A DECADE OF GROWTH & LEADERSHIP
Over the past 10 years, HEG has built a reputation as an industry leader. The company is regularly recognized by pillars of the industry. In March, it received a LEADER Award from LeadsCouncil, an independent association dedicated to compliance in lead generation,for being one of higher education’s top marketing agencies.
The company is also a leader in industry technology, developing first-of-its-kind proprietary tools like EduMaximizer, an all-in-one SaaS platform that streamlines the inquiry generation process for EDU contact centers and higher education institutions. Such tools have driven growth for the company. In 2016, the company saw its client list and EduMaximizer integrations more than double. There was over 350 percent growth in the volume throughout the system.
As further evidence of HEG’s growth, the agency was named to the Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, three years in a row.
A STRONG FOUNDATION: ITS TEAM
The company says building a strong team is key to its lasting success. It works hard to go above and beyond traditional workplace benefits and show employee appreciation. HEG employees stay at the company longer than average: 69 percent of its team has been with the company for 5 years or more, which is well above the average tenure for those in the private sector. The company has also won three Best Place to Work awards in three years: Inc. magazine in 2017 and Phoenix Business Journal in 2016 and 2015.
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
HEG recently moved to a larger headquarters to allow for expansion and in preparation for future market-defining technology, products and services, like its new Master Vendor Division. The company plans to continue its steadfast focus on streamlining the inquiry lifecycle, simplifying compliance and driving high-quality leads for its higher education partners.
“The next 10 years promise to drive even more growth for our partners and be full of new ideas and disruptive technologies. At HEG, we’re excited for tomorrow,” said Healy.
HEG will be celebrating its 10 years throughout the month of June. Stay tuned to its channels to join in.
About Higher Ed Growth
Higher Ed Growth (HEG) is a full-service marketing agency specializing in post-secondary education. HEG uses proprietary technology to deliver targeted enrollment leads to for-profit and nonprofit education clients. In addition to lead generation, HEG offers services such as white label software solutions, inquiry management and enrollment analytics – with the ultimate goal of boosting enrollment and retention numbers for clients. HEG was named one of the Best Places to Work in 2015 and 2016 by Phoenix Business Journal. The company was also featured in Inc. Magazine’s list of 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the US in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Visit www.higheredgrowth.com or stay connected with us on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
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TEEN VAPING: THE NEW EPIDEMIC
January 30, 2019 Andrew Liston
Vape culture is exploding in American high schools. Last year, 37.3% of high school seniors admitted to having vaped in the past year, up from 28.7% in 2017. This means that whether your child vapes or not, they are surrounded by kids who do. Here are a few things you should know.
Why do teens vape? If you ever took a puff of a cigarette when you were a teen, you already know the answer to this question. The teenage years are a time of unparalleled emotional insecurity. Back when you took that first puff, it was a way to demonstrate to your peers that you could be edgy or cool. It was also a way to rebel, to break the rules, and to assert your independence. It might also have been an attempt to deal with stress, depression, or anxiety. The same applies to vaping for today’s teens. There is one insidious difference between vaping and smoking, however. While it has been suspected since the 1600s that smoking is terribly unhealthy—a suspicion that received exhaustive scientific confirmation beginning in the 1950s—the acceptance of vaping has hinged on the assumption that it’s mostly harmless. Most teens don’t realize that vaping is a form of substance abuse that can quickly progress from experimentation to addiction. So in addition to all the usual peer pressure kids have to deal with, they have to contend with the deceptively simple justification that “it’s just vapor, bro.” The problem is, it’s not just vapor.
How addictive is vaping? An easier question would be: how addictive is nicotine? We all know the answer to that one: extremely. The most commonly cited attempt to rate the addictiveness of various drugs places nicotine next to heroin and crack cocaine on a list of drugs that “induce powerful dependence.” Some e-juices are nicotine-free, but most aren’t. A single cartridge of e-juice from JUUL—the most popular brand by far among teens—yields 200 puffs and contains the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. While 200 puffs might sound like a lot, ease of concealment means that kids can vape almost anywhere: in class, on a school bus, or in their own bedroom. With such meager barriers, it’s not uncommon for habituated vapers to consume a pod or more per day.
But addiction is just the tip of the iceberg.
How dangerous is vaping? Unfortunately, when it comes to children, there are deeper concerns about nicotine than mere addiction. Nicotine affects an adolescent’s brain differently than an adult’s brain, impacting development in various ways. Worse, it may sensitize the adolescent brain to other drugs, priming it for more serious addictions in adulthood. Because of these high nicotine levels, vaping is extremely addictive — and teens are already more susceptible to addiction than adults because their brains are still developing, which makes them more likely to habituate to using drugs and alcohol.Beyond the presence of nicotine itself, it is important to understand that kids who vape are not simply inhaling benign water vapor. E-juice ingredients vary widely, are largely unregulated, and can contain a variety of chemical compounds. One analysis of 51 flavored e-juice varieties chosen for their obvious appeal to kids—products with names like “Bubble Gum” and “CooCoo Coconut”—showed that the overwhelming majority of them contained the flavoring chemical diacetyl, which has been linked to “popcorn lung” when inhaled. There is an array of other potential dangers as well, including suppressing immunity in much the same way as smoking cigarettes does, a possible impact on gene expression in the hippocampus and, in rare cases, a serious condition known as water lung. But wait. It gets worse. Some vapers use their devices in ways not intended by the manufacturer. One example of this is called “dripping,” where the user bypasses the mouthpiece and inhales the vapor from e-juice that has been dripped directly onto the battery-powered heating coil. This technique heats the liquid at a higher temperature, which increases the thickness of the smoke and the strength of the hit. It also may increase their exposure to nicotine and toxins like formaldehyde. While this may sound like a fringe practice, 26% of high school kids who have tried vaping have also tried dripping. Finally, vaping devices can be used to vaporize more than just e-juice. Marijuana, opiates, and some amphetamines can also be on the menu, each of which carries risks of their own.
How can I tell if my child is vaping? Vaping is much easier to conceal than smoking. The odor that results from vaping is faint or nonexistent, and is far less conspicuous than that of cigarette smoke. Depending on the type or flavor of e-juice being vaped, the residual odor—which dissipates quickly—might smell like fruit, candy or bubble gum. Modern vaping devices are also more difficult to recognize than a pack of Marlboros. JUUL Labs makes a device that looks a lot like a flash drive, and can even be charged through a USB port. Other manufacturers make equally inconspicuous devices that look like pens or styluses, so vaping devices can be difficult to notice unless a parent is vigilant. E-juice contains propylene glycol, which can dry out the nose, skin and mouth, so nosebleeds or constant thirst might be an indicator that your child is vaping.Some vapers develop a sensitivity to caffeine, so any sudden changes in caffeine intake might be a red flag as well.
How to talk to your child about vaping. This will depend on your relationship with your child, and on whether your child has begun vaping or is merely trying to deal with pressure from their friend group. That said, there is one important piece of advice to keep in mind: don’t lecture. Even if you find that your teen has started vaping, and even if you are worried or disappointed, an open and honest conversation is the best way forward. Realize that there are often multiple factors in a child’s decision to vape. Approach the matter calmly, displaying empathy and concern, and avoid handing down moral judgments that may only serve to provoke anger and defiance, further alienating your child.
If you feel the matter has progressed beyond your child’s control, we can help. At HarrisKramer & Liston we work with numerous professionals who are well versed in addiction treatments. Our consultation begins with a phone call or an email. Visit our website to learn more at www.HarrisKramer.com or give us a call at 914-401-4442.
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£1.5m bid to create new cafe and volunteer centre to boost beach on outskirts of Hartlepool
Tourism bosses are working on a bid for more than a million pounds to improve facilities at Crimdon beach.
Wednesday, 16 January, 2019, 14:55
Crimdon beach.
Durham County Council is preparing to submit an application later this month for £1.5m.
If approved, this cash, from the Government’s Coastal Communities Fund, would be put towards a new cafe, toilets and volunteer centre, with building work potentially starting later this year.
The area is popular with families and with bird watchers, who are drawn by Little Terns, a rare sea bird which migrates from West Africa to breed.
Improvements at Crimdon are parts of wider plans to overhaul the Durham Heritage Coast.
According to council reports, Crimdon was once a ‘thriving holiday destination’ and it is hoped investment could return some of its former popularity.
“The short version is miners got holidays and went to Crimdon,” said Niall Benson, the county council’s principal heritage coast officer.
“In its heyday there was a Miss Crimdon competition and it was a big resort locally.
“Then, Spain and jet travel came and it declined and was demolished.
“But it’s still a lovely place to go to, it’s got sandy beaches in a way that the rest of the Durham coast doesn’t really have.”
As well as the Coastal Communities Fund, the area also hopes to secure more cash through the SeaScapes project.
The Tyne to Tees Shores and Seas, Seascape Partnership Project, to give it its full title, covers the coastline from the iIver Tees up to the River Tyne, including Crimdon.
With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund the scheme, is expected to see about £5m spent on the coast over the next six years improving the environment and other elements of coastal heritage.
This could include up to 30 ‘special projects’, such as improved access to beaches, wildlife surveys and exploration of shipwrecks.
Crimdon also provides access to the England Coast Path, which is expected to be the world’s longest managed coastal trail when it is completed in 2020.
James Harrison , Local Democracy Reporting Service
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[Online-Tv]England vs New Zealand World Cup 2019 Final Live Stream
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England vs New Zealand live stream: Free 2019 Cricket World Cup final coverage on Sky 'major blow' for online piracy
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The England cricket team have reached a world cup final for the first time in nearly three decades, taking on New Zealand after beating Australia in the semi-finals in spectacular fashion.
In the UK, Sky Sports has taken the unusual step of making the stream of the game free to watch online, as well as on terrestrial TV in the UK through a partnership with Channel 4. (The same is true for New Zealand, where the unconnected local broadcaster Sky Sports has also celebrated the occasion by making the stream available for everyone.)
All other matches of the 2019 Cricket World Cup have only been available to Sky subscribers in the UK, meaning hundreds of links to free and illegal pirated streams have spread online and across social media in the build up to each match.
Cricket World Cup finals only roll around every four years, but the 2019 edition will see a first-time champion crowned - hosts England or last time's losing finalists New Zealand. It's all set to be an unforgettable match and you can read on how to discover how to watch your England vs New Zealand live stream options for the Cricket World Cup final.
LIVE STREAM ENGLAND VS NEW ZEALAND - WHERE AND WHEN
The 2019 Cricket World Cup final takes place - wher else? - at the legendary Lord's in London.
Play begins at 10.30am BST on Sunday, July 14. For those tuning in from New Zealand that's a 9.30pm NZST start.
Having dominated one day cricket for the last few years, it will likely seem just reward to many cricket watchers should England win their first ever World Cup title at Lord's on Sunday. Their ruthless dismantling of Australia in the semi-final at Edgbaston showed a coolness under pressure that bodes well ahead of a game that offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for glory.
Standing in England's way of making it into the history books are a New Zealand side who will themselves have been buoyed by a glorious semi-final win. Having come through as underdogs in the semi-finals to beat India, arguably the tournament's strongest team, they too must fancy their chances at Lord's.
The match marks the the fourth time England have reached the final. Having beaten New Zealand in the group stage and with a partisan home crowd urging them on, Eoin Morgan's side unsurprisingly go into the match as clear favourites. Kane Williamson's side nevertheless have shown their capability for causing an upset with their win over India, and will be out to ensure they are not runners-up once again after losing the 2015 final to the Aussies.
England made relatively light work of the Kiwis in their round-robin stage clash earlier in the tournament, winning by 119 runs, with Jonny Bairstow smashing 106.
Key to any Black Caps' victory will be a good knock from Kane Williamson - an early takeout of the talismanic batsman will likely hand the trophy to the hosts.
You’ll be able to watch all the 2019 Cricket World Cup final action with ease from anywhere in the world if you follow our England vs New Zealand live stream guide below.
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Youth minister acknowledges Eucharist as 'summit of life'
Special to The Hays Daily News
Rick Binder always knew attending Mass on Sunday was important. His faith told him that. However, it wasn't until he took three youth to a One Bread, One Cup Conference at St. Meinrad Seminary in the summer of 2004 did he fully understand what was taking place at the Catholic Mass.
Now, the Catholic Youth Organization director of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, can't keep the good news to himself. He shares what he has learned with anyone who will listen. This includes giving presentations to his larger CYO group, youth retreats throughout the diocese, presenting classes to catechumens and candidates of the Rite of Christian Initiation, teaching a four-week adult class on the Eucharist, and returning to the same conference each summer at St. Meinrad with a new group of teens.
This is the enthusiasm Bishop Paul Coakley of the Diocese of Salina is hoping for in implementing Stewards of Hope: A Pastoral Plan for the Diocese of Salina. This plan will be proclaimed with a Diocesan Assembly in Hays on June 6 as Catholics celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi -- a feast in which Catholics celebrate the importance of the Eucharist which Catholics believe is the sacrament of �the Body and Blood of Christ that Jesus established and entrusted to the Church through his apostles at �the Last Supper. Bishop Coakley wants the faithful to be excited in keeping Sunday holy with the Eucharistic celebration of Mass as the center of their day.
In the fourth century, Christians died because of their desire to celebrate the Eucharist at Mass, something that was considered a capital offense.
"When a group of Christians were arrested and brought before a judge for disregarding this unjust law, these heroic Christians replied, 'Sine dominico non possumus,'" Bishop Coakley said. "This Latin expression has rich meaning: Without the gift of the Lord, we cannot live! Without the Sunday Eucharist, we are powerless! This is the realization that we need to rekindle in our time."
Binder agreed, saying the Eucharist is "the summit of my life."
"I always knew the Eucharist was the body and blood of Christ. My faith told me that. But I was blind to seeing Christ in the flesh as I fully should," he said.
Binder said one of his CYO teens, Audrey Polifka, who attended the first conference, said it best as the group was discussing the personal benefits each received on the drive home.
"Each time I receive the Eucharist, I thanked Jesus for my life and the blessings -- both good and difficult in my life. But now I realize that by not going to Mass on Sunday, I deny God of his greatest desire of completing the kingdom of heaven," Binder recalled Polifka saying.
"Her sentence summed up what I was feeling but couldn't say," he said. "Mass on Sunday means that I will have the most intimate encounter with Jesus I can have on earth, and I get a glimpse of what heaven will be like. I'm also nourished to be more Christ-like."
Coakley is hoping section three in part one of the diocesan plan will encourage a greater participation in the Lord's day and Sunday Eucharist.
"Keeping the Lord's day holy expresses our gratitude to the Lord for the gifts he has given us," Coakley said. "Celebrating the Sunday Eucharist at Mass renews our faith by worshiping together, and being fed by the word of God and the Holy Eucharist. It strengthens us for our mission as we return to our daily lives in order to be a light for the world and salt for the earth."
The word and the Eucharist together increase understanding, Binder said.
"It's like walking along the Road to Emmaus. Jesus' followers understood the word as Jesus spoke, but it was only in the breaking of the bread that Jesus fully revealed himself to them.
"For me, that one hour of Mass, well, I just lose a sense of time. It's not long enough."
Binder hopes more people come to realize this unique gift Jesus gives at Mass, and also how people can, in turn, bring their gifts and their struggles to Jesus.
Bishop Coakley agrees.
"If we really understand what the Sunday celebration of Mass means, we too will cry out with those ancient Christian heroes, 'Sine dominico, non possumus!' "
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Stay Tuned: The best scenes in ‘Game of Thrones’
Melissa Crawley More Content Now
As “Game of Thrones” comes to an end, this week’s column takes a break from its regular format to celebrate one of the best shows on television. Throughout its remarkable eight seasons of epic storytelling, it created some of TV’s most memorable moments. Here are my picks for the series’ best scenes.
The pilot episode, “Winter Is Coming,” set the stage for the show’s major storylines - the unease between the Stark/Lannister/Baratheon families, the introduction of the White Walkers, Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) three dragon eggs - but it was Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) pushing Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) out of a tower window after he saw Jaime and his twin sister Cersei (Lena Headey) in bed that screamed this was no ordinary show.
“Baelor” (Season 1, Episode 9) once again showed us the unexpected, as no character was safe, even a beloved one. In a surprising scene, Ned Stark (Sean Bean) lost his head, despite being promised mercy if he confessed to treason.
In “Fire and Blood” (Season 1, Episode 10) Daenerys placed her three dragon eggs on a pyre and walked into the flames. She walked back out hours later, unharmed and with three baby dragons. The Mother of Dragons was born.
Glowing pregnant bride plus Robb Stark (Richard Madden) divided by one angry Walder Frey (David Bradley) equaled the Red Wedding. More happened in “The Rains of Castamere” (Season 3, Episode 9) but it was the slaughter of the Starks at Robb’s nuptials that had everyone who watched the shocking spectacle talking about it for days.
Balancing out all the deaths of good guys was the satisfying death of a very bad guy. In “The Lion and the Rose” (Season 4, Episode 2), Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) finally got what was coming to him when he was poisoned at yes, another wedding. This time, his own.
There was something visually terrifying about The Night King (Richard Brake) and his quiet power to reanimate the dead. He took it to the next level in “Hardhome” (Season 5, Episode 8) when he stared down Jon Snow (Kit Harington), raised his hands and thousands of dead wildlings rose to join his army.
No mercy was found in “Mother’s Mercy” (Season 5, Episode 10) at least not for Cersei and Jon. Broken and defeated by the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce), Cersei’s hair was chopped off and she was forced to make a naked walk of atonement through the streets of Kings Landing. Jon died alone after repeatedly being stabbed by a group of his fellow Night’s Watch men. (His later resurrection was some consolation).
“The Long Night” (Season 8, Episode 3) was the 82-minute end to the White Walker war. Putting aside Theon Greyjoy’s (Alfie Allen) final redemption, Jorah Mormont’s (Iain Glen) last sacrifice for Daenerys and Arya Stark’s (Maisie Williams) masterful murder of The Night King, the episode belonged to Lyanna Mormont, the Lady of Bear Island. Played by Bella Ramsey, Lyanna, who was first introduced in the sixth season, was a tiny tour de force. Screaming a war cry and rushing toward a giant, her death scene was a fitting end to her story.
Melissa Crawley is the author of “Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television’s ‘The West Wing.’” She has a Ph.D. in media studies and is a member of the Television Critics Association. To comment on Stay Tuned, email her at staytuned@outlook.com or follow her on Twitter at @mcstaytuned.
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STEVE TANGER AWARDED ORDER OF THE PALMETTO
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley presented Steve Tanger with the Order of the Palmetto on Aug. 19, the highest civilian honor the state can give.
“This award is in recognition of his extraordinary work and dedication to the citizens of our state,” Haley proclaimed.
Tanger Factory Outlets owns and operates five shopping centers in South Carolina: two locally, two in Myrtle Beach and one in Charleston. The centers have created an estimated 6,000 jobs and approximately $246 million in retail sales tax to the state.
The Order of the Palmetto was first awarded in 1971 to recognize a person’s lifetime achievements and contributions to the state of South Carolina. Awardees include singer James Brown, author Pat Conroy and rock band Hootie & the Blowfish.
Before accepting the award in Columbia, Tanger flew into Hilton Head Island Airport to celebrate with team members at Tanger I. He took a few minutes to speak with Hilton Head Monthly about the award, his love of the Carolina coast and how his company shined through the recession.
Hilton Head Monthly: The Palmetto Award is the highest civilian honor awarded by the governor of South Carolina. How do you feel about receiving it?
Steve Tanger: I’m very flattered. I accept it on behalf of the colleagues we have and the 40,000 people that work in the Tanger centers every day. Even though my name may be on it, it’s an award given to everybody that works for our company.
HHM: You have five shopping centers here in South Carolina. What makes our state so attractive to your company?
ST: I like the coastline. I think that people want to go to the beach and they like the good weather. The South Carolina coastline is situated halfway between the New York metropolitan market and the Florida market. I think long-term, this is going to be a terrific area.
HHM: We live in a very beautiful area but there isn’t much industry. You employ a large portion of the workforce here. Do you take any pride in that?
ST: We create jobs. We’re an American company creating jobs for Americans. We’re very proud of that.
HHM: While many companies were struggling during the recent economic crisis, your company was posting record profits. What do you attribute that to?
ST: The business model the outlet industry is based upon is simple and elegant. It’s brand names selling direct to the consumer. You cut out the middle man. In good times, people liked a bargain. In tough times like these, they need a bargain. We do well in most economic cycles. When the great recession hit four or five years ago, we were prepared for it because we had kept our balance sheet as a fortress. Our debt is low and we were able to avoid a lot of the issues that over-leveraged companies faced. They couldn’t afford the debt service and they started laying people off. We were fortunate and never had that issue. We now have 34 consecutive quarters, 8 1/2 years, of net operating income growth. We’re very happy with that.
HHM: How has e-commerce affected your growth?
ST: E-commerce takes disposable dollars out of the system. It has affected the purchase of consumer electronics, consumer hardware and other fair traded items — items that are commodities. You can find them at the best price on the Internet. Items that are sized and colored are difficult. It is difficult to make a profit selling apparel and shoes on the internet. People still like to see those items in person and try them on before buying them.
HHM: Your company does have a strong web and social media presence with online coupons, the Tanger Club the Tanger app and more. How else has Tanger embraced technology?
ST: We were the first real estate developer to provide free Wi-Fi at every one of our shopping centers. That seems to work. It provides entertainment for the non-shopping spouse. You may like to shop, your spouse may like to shop but it’s rare that both like to shop at the same time. One is always looking for something to do. By providing free Wi-Fi and nice, attractive common areas, the person that is not shopping can be entertained.
HHM: The shopping culture seems to have changed. It’s hard to justify paying full price at a clothing store when you know you can get the same thing for much less at an outlet.
ST: It doesn’t matter what your demographic status is. You earned your money and you want to spend it wisely. The outlets are 30 to 50 percent off full price, every day. You know you’re getting the best price. That’s why we’ve been very fortunate to have been successful.
HHM: Tanger Outlets have become somewhat of a destination. We get people here all the time from Savannah, Jacksonville and other larger markets. Do you see that at all of your centers?
ST: Yes. We are a regional shopping destination. We love and value our local shoppers, but we don’t provide a grocery store, a hairdresser or a manicure place. We don’t compete with the local merchants. We bring disposable dollars into the local economy from the outside economy, which is great. It’s a win-win for everybody. That’s why we’ve been able to provide jobs. These are new, well-paying jobs — not replacement jobs. We’re not cannibalizing other businesses and stealing their employees. We’re adding new jobs to the system.
HHM: What does the future hold?
ST: The business model seems to have worked for the past 33 years. Hopefully it will continue to work for a long period of time. We’re excited about the direction we’re headed.
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3 charged under National Security Act in Bulandshahr cow slaughter case
The discovery of the cow carcasses had triggered mob violence in the district on December 3, leaving a police inspector and a local youth dead.
india Updated: Jan 14, 2019 21:03 IST
Hindustan Times, Meerut
Vehicles set on fire by a mob during a protest over the alleged illegal slaughter of cattle, in Bulandshahr on December 3, 2018. (PTI Photo)
The Uttar Pradesh government included on Monday stringent charges under the National Security Act (NSA) against three people accused of slaughtering cows in the Bulandshahr district, an incident from last month that is believed to have been the trigger for violence that led to the deaths of two people, including a police inspector.
So far 35 people have been arrested in connection with the violence, including the alleged shooter of the inspector, Prashant Nat and Yogesh Raj, a district co-ordinator for a right-wing group.
Suspects charged under NSA can be detained for up to a year without a chargesheet in court, as opposed to regular rules that entitle a person to default bail if investigators fail to bring a formal indictment within 90 days.
“Their actions hurt the sentiments of Hindus in the area... This had disturbed public order and communal harmony,” said Bulandshahr district magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha. He added that the three applied for bail, which was rejected.
A district administration official, who asked not to be named, said the police feared the perpetrators could slaughter more cows and that “this may cause serious threat to law and order, peace and communal harmony in the area. Therefore, it has been decided to book them under NSA,” added the officials.
Afaq Ahmad, advocate for the three accused, said they had been falsely implicated in the cow slaughter case. “I have not received a copy of NSA against them. If it is true, we will challenge the decision,” he added.
The NSA is usually invoked in far more serious cases involving matters of national security, although the law gives administrators and police officials wide leeway in its use. Late last year, a Manipuri journalist was held under NSA and jailed for a year for criticising the local government.
Violence in Bulandshahr’s Mahav village on December 3 saw mobs of right-wing Hindu groups to go on a violent protest. One of the protesters is believed to have shot dead the local police station in-charge Subodh Kumar, while a local resident was killed as cops opened fire to tackle the situation.
The use of NSA comes at a time when the UP police and the government are accused of going easy on the suspects, including Raj, the district coordinator of Bajrang Dal, a hardline group affiliated to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Over the weekend, local Bajrang Dal members put up posters featuring the faces of Raj and several others accused in the December violence. The group’s western UP region co-convenor Praveen Bhati, whose photo also appears in the hoardings, said the hoardings carry pictures of local functionaries group. “Also, they all are accused in the case, not guilty. It is for the court to decide. Putting pictures of organisation’s office bearers on hoardings is not a crime,” Bhati told PTI
The murder of inspector Kumar is part of a separate investigation from the case against the alleged cattle traders who were booked under NSA: Azhar Khan, Nadeem Khan and Mehboob Ali of Syana town.
Cattle carcasses were found strewn in the fields outside village Mahaw in Siyana on December 3.
First Published: Jan 14, 2019 17:55 IST
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Cablegram Sent August 21, 1917
To Opnav Washington Serial No. 313
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Sent <21 Aug 1917> Initials <E Mc C>1 File No. <11-14-1a>
Copies to: Chief of Staff; Babcock; Tobey.2
Number three hundred thirteen. 19017. Referring your 1863 minimum military need of situation requires development of shore establishment at Pauillac along lines recommended by my 208 stop4 To furnish such mother ships as are contemplated by Department will afford most expensive substitute by diverting valuable trans-Atlantic tonnage stop. Existing tonnage situation is such that only gravest consideration of policy will justify permanent removal from ocean trade of even one such ship stop The complete facilities ashore at Gibraltar make mother ship that base unnecessary stop Tentative arrangements indicate that shore base Pauillac may be ready for work in eight weeks after authorization and completed within three months if tools are received promptly from United States stop Urgently request authority to proceed with work at once.5
Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B.
Footnote 1: E. H. McCrary, a member of Sims' staff.
Footnote 2: Sims’ Chief of Staff was Capt. Nathan C. Twining. Cmdr. John V. Babcock was Sims’ aide, as was Paymaster Eugene C. Tobey.
Footnote 3: See: William S. Benson to Sims, 17 August 1917.
Footnote 4: See: Sims to Benson, 7 August 1917.
Footnote 5: See: Benson to Sims, 31 August 1917.
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Campaign Order Number One, 8/1/1917
Executive Order of President Woodrow Wilson, 8/1/1917
Captain William B. Fletcher, Commander, Special Patrol Squadrons, Operation Order Number Six, 8/1/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to All Officers of the United States Navy, 8/2/1917
Major General Tasker H. Bliss, Chief of Staff, to Adjutant General Henry P. McCain, 8/2/1917
Winston Churchill to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 8/2/1917
New York Herald Report on Alleged Submarine Attack, 8/2/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/3/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Captain William B. Fletcher, Force Commander, Patrol Squadrons, French Waters, 8/3/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Richard H. Jackson, American Naval Representative to the Ministry of Marine, 8/3/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Captain William B. Fletcher, Commander, Special Patrol Squadrons, 8/3/1917
Major General John J. Pershing, Commander, American Expeditionary Force, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/4/1917
Captain Josiah S. McKean, Staff, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/4/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, United States, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/4/1917
Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, to Commander John V. Babcock, 8/4/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 8/4/1917
Lieutenant Commander Halsey Powell, Commander, Parker, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/5/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of Chief of Naval Operations., 8/6/1917
Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Division Eight, 8/6/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operation to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/7/1917
Rear Admiral Heathcote S. Grant, Senior Naval Officer, Gibraltar, to British Admiralty, 8/7/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Sara Hitchcock Shepley, 8/8/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Southern Ireland, 8/8/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, 8/8/1917
List of Ships to be Based at Gibraltar, 8/8/1917
Memorandum to Committee on Standard Plans, Fleet Emergency Corporation, 8/8/1917
Commander Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, to Commander Henry B. Price, Commander, Melville, 8/8/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, United States, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters 8/8/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Lindon W. Bates, Chairman of Engineering Committee, Submarine Defense Association, 8/8/1917
Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/9/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, 8/9/1917
Captain Richard H. Jackson. American Naval Representative to the Ministry of Marine, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/9/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 8/9/1917
Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/10/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/10/1917
Notice Posted on U.S.S. Reid by Commander, Lieutenant Commander Charles G. Slayton, 8/10/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Force Instructions No. 1, 8/11/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Admiral William B. Caperton, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, 8/11/1917
British Admiralty to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, 8/11/1917
President Woodrow Wilson to the Officers of the Atlantic Fleet, 8/11/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché at Rome, 8/13/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Operating Forces in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 8/13/1917
Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché at Washington, to the British Admiralty, 8/13/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, 8/14/1917
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Memorandum on Foreign Fuel Oil Situation, 8/14/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, United States, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/14/1917
Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Division Eight, 8/14/1917
Commander André M. Proctor, Commander, Flotilla One, Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/15/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of Chief of Naval Operations, 8/15/1917
War Diary of U.S.S. Palos, 8/16/1917
British Foreign Office to the Governments of France and Italy, 8/17/1917
Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillass, to Lieutenant Commander Ernest Friedrick, Commander, Nahma, 8/17/1917
Seaman Timothy Brown, Reid, to his Family, 8/18/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in Europe Waters, 8/18/1917
War Diary of U.S.S. Rowan, 8/19/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 8/20/1917
Office of Naval Intelligence to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/20/1917
Lieutenant Commander Paul Foley to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/20/1917
British Admiralty to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/20/1917
President Woodrow Wilson Executive Order, 8/21/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Ordnance, 8/22/1917
British Admiralty Assessment of United States Submarines, 8/24/1917
Lieutenant Commander Rufus King, Intelligence Officer, Atlantic Fleet, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Patrol Squadron Based at Gibraltar, 8/24/1917
Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Patrol Squadron Based at Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/25/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, 8/25/1917
Captain William B. Fletcher, Commander, United States Patrol Squadrons Operating in French Waters, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/25/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/27/1917
Vice Admiral Williams S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/28/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Commander Orin G. Murfin, 8/28/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral Williams S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/28/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, Circular for Ship Owners, 8/28/1917
Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Intra-Bureau Order Number 216, 8/29/1917
Secretary of State Robert Lansing to United States Ambassador to The United Kingdom Walter Hines Page 8/29/1917
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/29/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain William B. Fletcher, Force Commander, Patrol Squadrons, French Waters, 8/30/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Lieutenant Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché in Paris, 8/30/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Oswyn A. R. Murray, Secretary, British Admiralty , 8/30/1917
Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster General, Intra-Bureau Order 217, 8/30/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché at London, 8/31/1917
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Fred O. Marcus Partner
fmarcus@hmblaw.com
Fred O. Marcus
“I’ve been a part of the SALT community since it’s beginnings and have had the privilege to help it become what it is today.”
Fred is a partner in HMB’s State and Local Tax (SALT) group. He provides Fortune 500 companies with comprehensive state and local tax planning.
Fred assists multinational and multi-state companies in formulating their tax reporting positions at the state and local level, helping them advocate those positions and, when necessary, resolve disputes in courts up to, and including, the United States Supreme Court. His practice spans planning for state and local income, franchise, sales and use taxes, as well as support with tax audits and litigation.
A Pioneer in SALT Planning
A frequent lecturer with notable higher education and policy institutions, Fred is deeply involved in passing knowledge along to the next generation, acting as an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Graduate Tax Program. He is the recipient of the 2018 State Tax Author of the Year Award, selected by Bloomberg Tax, as well as the Council on State Taxation’s 2015 Paul H. Frankel Excellence in State Taxation Award.
Fortune 500 companies routinely turn to Fred as a recognized authority and they appreciate his experience and candor in complex SALT matters.
DePaul University College of Law, J.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, B.S. in Accounting
Illinois Super Lawyers, 2005-2006, 2008-2019
American Bar Association, Section of Taxation’s State and Local Tax Committee, Member
Illinois Department of Revenue’s Director’s Practitioner Advisory Group, Member
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, Member
Illinois Taxpayers’ Federation, Board of Trustees and Advisory Board Member
New York University School of Continuing Legal Education, State and Local Tax Advisory Board Member
Bloomberg BNA’s State Tax Advisory Board, Member
Accounting for Income Taxes
Fred Marcus, Jordan Goodman and Marilyn Wethekam authored Bloomberg Tax Management Portfolio, "Sales and Use Taxes: The Machinery and Equipment Exemption"April 3, 2018
State and Local Tax Attorneys Fred Marcus, Jordan Goodman and Marilyn Wethekam recently authored "Sales and Use Taxes: The Machinery and Equipment Exemption" for Bloomberg BNA's Tax Management Portfolios, 1330 3rd edition. This portfolio discusses sales and use tax incentives for machinery and equipment used in manufacturing operations. HMB offers a limited number of hard copies for clients. Click here to…
Fred Marcus Presents "What's Happening Everywhere Today" at NYU's 37th Institute on State and Local TaxationDecember 18, 2018
Get ready for a jam-packed show. It's hard to cover the ever-changing state and local tax landscape, but our all-star team of special reporters provides a rundown of what you need to know about the most important SALT developments affecting taxpayers today. Included in this year's "Hardball" segment is a discussion of the applicability of local which are widespread and…
Fred Marcus and David Hughes Present "Wayfair and Its Impacts" at Nebraska Chapter TEI - Eleventh Annual Fall Training Day - 11/13/18November 12, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's Wayfair decision is one of the most important state and local tax decisions of the last 25 years. By eliminating the physical presence requirement for sales tax nexus, the Court has completely changed the landscape for remote sellers. This session will explore how states are responding after Wayfair and the potential problems that sellers can expect…
Fred Marcus Presents "Quilling Me Softly" at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the California Tax Bar and California Tax Policy ConferenceNovember 7, 2018
After waiting patiently for over 25 years, South Dakota finally bested her northern sister in the battle of naming rights to the most important nexus case. Our panel will discuss the Wayfair decision in depth, including its implications for economic nexus standards outside sales and use taxes (e.g. income taxes and gross receipts taxes). Panel members included Fred Marcus, Randy Ferris,…
Fred Marcus Presents "Today in Taxes" at the 2017 Annual NYU Institute on State and Local Taxation - 12/4/17December 4, 2017
Grand Hyatt New York New York, NY 12/4/17 - 12/5/17 Click here for more info Download the presentation here Get ready for a jam-packed show! It's hard to cover the ever changing state and local tax landscape, but an all-star team of "special reporters" provides a rundown of what you need to know about the most important SALT developments affecting…
Fred Marcus in "Ask the Experts" Panel Session at Taxpayers' Federation for Illinois - Annual State and Local Tax ConferenceSeptember 26, 2017
9/26/17 8:00 AM - 4:50 PM Meridian Conference Center 1701 W. Algonquin Road Rolling Meadows, Illinois 6 MCLE/CPE Credits Click here for more info and to register. This year's conference will focus on technical tax and policy developments in Illinois, plus provide updates to changes occurring in other states. The speakers for the State and Local Tax Conference are some…
Congratulations to Fred Marcus, the Recipient The State Tax Author of the Year Award Given by Bloomberg Tax and the Bloomberg Tax State Tax Advisory BoardNovember 20, 2018
Fred Marcus has been selected to be the recipient of this year's Bloomberg Tax State Tax Author of the Year Award. "As the lead author for two State Tax Portfolios and three State Tax Navigators, you have significantly contributed to our state tax analysis. Over the past two years in particular, you have delivered top notch analysis and shown tremendous…
Fred Marcus Provides Insight to State Tax Notes - "Wayfair Settlement is a Missed Opportunity"November 20, 2018
An article published by State Tax Notes discusses how South Dakota's recent Wayfair settlement has eliminated an opportunity to provide further guidance for other states' remote seller laws. State and Local Tax attorney, Fred Marcus, stated, "Wayfair shows an acknowledgment by the Court that the economy has changed since Quill was decided, and that the inability to tax online commerce…
South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. and Illinois' Marketplace Fairness ActMarch 2, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court granted South Dakota's certiorari petition in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al., No. 17-494 and scheduled oral arguments for April 17, 2018. Illinois now proposes to enter the fray with the Marketplace Fairness Act.
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Shakespeare's Courts And The Promise To Marry
December 31, 2011 / Lisa Silver
Today let's travel back some three hundred years from Dickens to Shakespeare. Shakespeare would undoubtedly be familiar with the Prerogative Court and the Consistory Court of the 1500s. Prerogative Court was a Church Court in which the powers and privileges of the sovereign were exercised. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury handled the probate of Wills for the south of England and Wales. This court was eventually subsumed into the Court of Probate in 1858. You can find some of these Wills at the National Archive website such as Jane Austen’s Will from 1817.
The Consistory Court of London was another Church Court involved in marital issues including disagreements over estates. In "The Lodger Shakespeare" by Charles Nicholl, Shakespeare's life is illuminated not through his plays but through his personal relationships while he lived in London. Nicholl examines those around Shakespeare: his landlord and landlady as well as those he interacted with on a daily basis. Nicholl describes Shakespeare witnessing or actually presiding over his landlady's daughter's plight ceremony or betrothing. According to Nicholl, such a ceremony was a recognized form of marriage occurring before the religious ceremony. This betrothing had the force and effect of a signed contract and an aggrieved party could sue on the basis of a breach of this plight troth.
These contracts were the precursor to the common law marriages recognized by the courts even today. Nicholl discussed the difference between the de futuro marriage (a future agreement) contract and the de praesenti (a present marriage contract). The de futuro contract is only binding upon consummation of the marriage, while the de praesenti is binding immediately. Indeed, Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure revolves around such a ceremony and contract with a delightful “play” on the sexual requirements to make such a contract enforceable.
In Canada there is no right to sue on a breach of a promise to marry. However, there may be an action to return an engagement ring if an engagement is broken. In D’Andrea v. Schmidt, a 2005 Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench case, the defendant Kim Schmidt, who was the wearer of the ring, argued that such a lawsuit was based on an “anachronistic law” which discriminated against women and perpetuated stereotypes contrary to s.15 of the Charter. Such a cause of action, she argued, treated women like chattels and was not within the spirit of societal values. Needless to say, this argument did not have the “ring” of truth as the Court found a lawsuit for the return of gifts given in promise of marriage could be brought by either sex.
In McManus v. McCarthy there was a valid marriage but the husband wanted the return of the engagement ring after the marital breakdown. Madame Justice Kenny ordered the return of the ring as it was found to be a conditional gift only. No surprise as this marriage lasted 9 days and occurred after 4 prior engagements!
Betrothals do matter, however, when it comes to immigration. Refugee applications in Canada can be based upon the coercive effects of arranged marriages in foreign countries such as Ghana. See this link for a case on point. Such “marriages” can start at a very early age with a betrothal and thus an expectation of marriage at a much later date. This situation is a contract de futuro where the woman, when old enough to appreciate the situation, does not consent. It appears these claimants are not typically granted refugee status.
Shakespeare was therefore very much aware of the necessity for the rule of law as in his famous line from Henry VI suggests:"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." This line was not written to incite against the law or rail against lawyers, but was written to underscore the need society has for the rule of law, without which, anarchy reigns.
December 31, 2011 / Lisa Silver/ Comment
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Apple ID 2-step verification live in 48 new markets
Christian Zibreg on July 17, 2014
It appears that Apple has rolled out its two-factor authentication feature for Apple ID accounts in an additional 48 markets, bringing the total number of countries which support this security-minded feature to a cool 59.
Two-factor authentication bolsters up your security when logging in to your Apple ID account on the web by combining something you know – your Apple ID username and password or a Recovery Key – with something you own – a four-digit authorization code sent to your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad device…
Mark Gurman, writing for 9to5Mac:
Apple this week has greatly expanded the availability of its Apple ID two-step verification, bringing the feature from 11 countries to 59 countries.
The feature first rolled out for Apple ID accounts in March 2013 in a few key markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.
As part of the staggered roll-out, it then expanded to a few more countries later that year and to an additional six markets in February 2014. And just last month, Apple enabled two-step verification for iCloud accounts.
According to Apple’s support document, two-factor Apple ID authentication is now available in 59 countries around the world
As of this writing, the following countries support the feature: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
My home country (Croatia) is notably absent from the list, though I think it’s fairly safe to assume that additional markets will follow at a later stage.
You should definitely enable two-step verification to prevent or make it harder for nefarious users to hijack your Apple ID, and with it all your purchased apps, books, games, music, movies and more.
Speaking of which, do you use two-step verification for your Apple ID?
macOS Catalina 10.15 brings streamlined Apple ID account management to System Preferences
Sources say locked Apple ID accounts have nothing to do with a software bug
Apple apologizes over Apple ID account hacks in China
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige Talks Doctor Strange, Netflix Series and Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Reaction
We chatted one-on-one with the producer about the studio's future slate.
By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: 25 Feb 2014 8:25 pm
We caught up Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige last night at the screening launch for the Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, available exclusively on the Thor: The Dark World Blu-ray out today, during which time we got to chat him up about all those Doctor Strange reports and more.
IGN Movies: I'm a huge Doctor Strange fan. There are a lot of rumors swirling now. How far along are you guys with that?
Kevin Feige: Well, that article [from The Hollywood Reporter] was true that we're meeting a lot of people now. That article was not true about who we're meeting or what level anybody is. But we're actively looking.
IGN: It's a very eclectic mix. Are you actually looking for directors who have experience beyond just the fantasy realm for this? Certainly, the Russo Brothers and Cap 2 --
Feige: Of course, of course. We always look at a wide range of people with a wide range of backgrounds. There's only one criteria: do something that we think is really cool. [Laughs] That's about it.
IGN: What do you make of those recent rumors about Johnny Depp having been approached about playing Doctor Strange? Was there ever any truth to that? Did you guys ever reach out to him?
Feige: No, no. When you have a project that's been around as long as Doctor Strange, there is sometimes, "Oh, I've met with Stan about this! Or I did that!" So Strange is one of those projects that predates me by a long shot. Obviously, the character does, but even in its cinematic brewing. So there's a lot of things that have happened before me, and I've been here 14 years. So that's a long time ago. I don't know if that happened then.
IGN: Are you guys looking for a star to play Doctor Strange?
Feige: You know, I would say that we're pretty transparent, right? Doctor Strange would be our -- well, depending on when we make it, it could be our 13th, 14th, 15th movie, right? I think if you're looking to track our decision-making and how we've done things, we have a pretty wide track record now where you can sort of see. So, no, a movie star is not required, but that doesn't mean a movie star wouldn't be great. It just depends.
IGN: How do you feel about the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer?
Feige: Well, I was very pleased with it, because it's still early days for us, as the movie is coalescing and formulating itself in the cutting room, but there are a few things that we would be locked into: the cast, their looks, our use of music and our very unique tone. The fact that that's what that teaser is about and that's what people are embracing, there are a lot of happy people in the offices, that people are into this.
IGN: How much are you guys hands-on at all with the X-Men movies? Does Fox simply say, "We're gonna do this"?
Feige: There are some contractual requirements on both ends, but it's minimal.
IGN: At what point do you think we'll see casting for the Marvel Netflix series?
Feige: That's a good question, and Jeph Loeb and the TV group would better answer that. I'm actually sure when that would be.
IGN: Are you guys looking to film this year? Isn't it supposed to be a 2015 premiere?
Feige: It might be. They're working on them now, but I don't know the day-to-day.
IGN: Comic-Con this year -- are we actually going to get Phase 3 announcements?
Feige: You know, Comic-Con always comes together, and we do the best we can with what we've got at the time. So it remains to be seen what we'll have between now and two weeks before Comic-Con.
IGN: We should just be happy that we're getting Guardians.
Feige: Please, please!
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Bush's Depressing Goodbye Party: One Staffer Gets Job At Abercrombie
By Jason Linkins
Washington DC's social scene is in full swing this weekend, with events and galas and fetes and soirees and makeout sessions between Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. It's a level of excitement that Washington only occasionally sees. But it's not just the inauguration of Barack Obama that people are celebrating -- it's also the end of the Bush administration, and Sunday night, President Bush and his friends celebrated the end of his term with a party of their own at Glen Echo Park. Slate went, for some reason, and their account makes the whole thing sound like the most depressing event in the world.
The party, dubbed "Crossing the Finish Line" and held in the park's giant Spanish Ballroom, was organized by outgoing White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and his predecessor, Andy Card.
The venue had been somewhat controversial, according to attendees. There was no heating, so a lot of bodies were needed. "Due to the historic nature of the venue, there are limitations on what can be done in terms of climate control," the hosts warned in an e-mail. "DO: Wear layers and coats. DON'T: Dress like you're going to Gold Cup or Smith Point."
Apparently some of the more climate-controlled venues had been taken. "There weren't a lot [of places] available," said Card. "There weren't a lot of bands available, either."
So, basically, everyone was rubbing against each other for warmth and totally unemployed. Just contemplate the multitudes that are contained in this single depressing sentence: "One outgoing Treasury employee had already landed a job as a manager at Abercrombie & Fitch." The Great Gatsby could have ended with that line.
Anyway, there they all mingled, freezing their asses off, as Karl Rove talked about Twitter, Alberto Gonzalez walked around with a bloodshot eye, and the president mangled some more grammar.
Look, people, if you are out the next two days, and you see these mopes walking all despondent down the street, for God's sake, take them out a plate of canapes or something and call it national service. Then wish them luck at their new jobs, folding on, sweaters against the sale rack, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Jason Linkins
Eat The Press Editor, HuffPost
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Literati Bookstore, New Independent Book Shop, To Open In Downtown Ann Arbor
By David Sands
The last few years haven't been easy for book lovers in the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich. Not only did they lose Borders Books' flagship store, which closed when the company went out of business in 2011, but they've also suffered the departure of the campus retailer Michigan Book & Supply and the Shaman Drum bookstore. Fortunately, there's a happy twist to this sad tale; a new independent bookstore will soon be opening its doors near the University of Michigan in the city's downtown.
The new shop, Literati Bookstore, is the work of Hilary Lowe and Michael Gustafson, an engaged couple who relocated from Brooklyn last year to live out their dreams of being bookstore proprietors. Lowe, a former sales representative for Simon & Schuster, grew up in Ann Arbor. Gustafson is a freelance sports writer, video producer and aspiring novelist with family ties to the area.
Literati will be located at 124 East Washington St., in a bi-level 2,600 sq. ft. building that once served as the campaign headquarters for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Gustafson envisions it becoming a downtown community center for book lovers.
"We want to offer the whimsy and personal connection that Amazon algorithms cannot," he told The Huffington Post in an email.
The couple will program a "robust" store events schedule that they hope will connect authors with the city's bustling cultural community. Although Ann Arbor's downtown currently boasts a number of used and specialty bookshops, Lowe and Gustafson hope to fill a niche by establishing a more generalized type of bookstore that covers a broad range of subjects.
"When we saw the potential market opportunity to open a bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, we jumped at the chance," he said. "Hilary put in her notice at Simon & Schuster, we packed up our U-Haul and our three cats, and we moved. That was last August. We spent about six months here without a signed lease. Then we finally signed the lease in January, and it’s been a whirlwind since."
Right now, the space is still under construction, but the couple hopes to have it open for business later this month. Before the owners can do that, though, they'll have stock the store's shelves with thousands of books. It's a collection they've assembled with help of John Tewsley, a former Borders Books' buyer, who they hired to provide suggestions for nonfiction subjects like history, politics and current events. Literati's owners hope to staff the store with a number of former Borders' employees like Tewsley.
"We are still going through the hiring process, but we have interviewed some fantastic candidates for positions, and there will definitely be a few Borders people in Literati. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have their wide expertise."
Gustafson said they'll be posting the bookstore's opening day soon on the shop's Facebook page. Once they do that, based on the reaction he and his fiancee have been receiving so far, it seems like they shouldn't have any problem getting people in the door.
"The response has been overwhelming, in a good way. As soon as we signed the lease, word spread around Ann Arbor like wildfire," he said. "People peek in our windows and wave. Sometimes people take their picture outside our windows. It’s been incredible."
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Where Is Music Heading?
Hartmut Moeller’s interview of David Hush first appeared in the March 2001 issue of Quadrant.
HM: You lived in the USA for thirteen years. What is your opinion on the New Music scene there?
DH: American culture has always been famous for its extreme diversity, and music is no exception. There is no doubt in my mind that never before has the American music scene comprised so many composers each of whom is doing something quite different from the others. These differences make the imposition of categories very misleading. Take computer music. Two composers who use computers tend to be grouped together. But computer technology has become so advanced that it has given the composer far more flexibility than before, and so the differences in the finished products of two computer composers are considerable. In my opinion it makes no more sense to group together composers who use computers than it does to group together composers who write for acoustic instruments.
Perhaps the most fundamental yardstick for scores designed for real instruments is the degree of specificity of the notation. A score by Babbitt or Carter is very precise with regard to every aspect of performance, while the opposite extreme would be a so-called ‘open score’ consisting of verbal directions for improvisation — but there are a great many levels in between.
I myself write for real instruments and voices. While I have been impressed with recent developments in computer technology I am not drawn to working with computers. I use relatively precise notation; I certainly do not ask the performers of my scores to improvise. The pieces that have most recently been released on CD are all very different from each other. The principal bond between them is their tonality. Yet each piece is tonal in a different way.
HM: We should take the time, I think, to comment on the different ways in which tonality is realised in your compositions.
DH: The First Partita for Violoncello Solo (1989) is the only piece of mine on CD that adheres to the harmonic idiom of Bach for the full duration of the score. The principal twentieth-century contribution is the employment of mixed metres. The Partita therefore represents my own individual interpretation of the baroque period.
The First String Quartet (1988) is based principally on what I call ‘relativised tonality’, by which I mean a situation where the basis of the harmonic language is defined not by the triad but by the chromatic scale. But traditional tonality still finds its way in. The second movement of the Quartet divides into a series of episodes. Solo episodes, designed to highlight the talents of a specific member of the quartet against the background of the other three, are juxtaposed with ensemble episodes. While the solo episodes are based on relativised tonality, the ensemble ones are a direct quotation from Haydn’s Quartet, Opus 64/3, and are therefore instances of traditional tonality.
The Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1990) also juxtaposes the two types of tonality but in a different way from the Quartet. While the first movement of the Sonata draws upon relativised tonality, the second is based entirely on triads. The differences in the types of tonality used in each movement interact with form: while the first movement is a sonata form the second is not.
My most recent recording, Sonata for Violin Solo, comprises the centrepiece of King David’s Lyre, the disc released in celebration of Jerusalem’s 3,000th anniversary. This sonata is unusual in that it offers a symbiosis of traditional and relativised tonality.
There is of course a great deal more to these works than the outline I have just given but it should be enough to provide a general picture. I don’t know whether there are any composers who are doing similar things with tonality as I am.
HM: During your years of education you moved around a lot: you were born in Bristol, England, and educated at Clifton College, the University of Sydney, and Princeton University, where you studied composition with Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky and Peter Westergaard. How do you see your musical journey retrospectively?
DH: My first move to a new continent was the move from England to Australia, where I completed high school and attended the University of Sydney. Moving to a new part of the world cannot fail to exert a profound influence on one’s musical outlook. When I was in Australia the very distance from Western Europe in general and England in particular enabled me to absorb the music of Bartók on the one hand and the work of Milton Babbitt on the other with a speed and objectivity that probably would not have been the case had I remained in England. My arrival in Princeton marked my second move to a new continent. The most obvious advantage of coming to Princeton was the opportunity to work closely with Babbitt.
HM: Can you tell us something of your experiences with Milton Babbitt as your teacher in composition? What do you think you owe to him?
DH: I found Babbitt to be a wonderful teacher both in the classroom and in private composition sessions. Babbitt’s seminar on twelve-tone music aroused in me a tremendous admiration for Schoenberg (in Australia I had been more interested in Webern). The first thing that impressed me about Babbitt as a private teacher is that he was able to hear anything I put in front of him perfectly. Regarding his ability to conceptualise on the structural ideas of my music, Babbitt showed an acuity of perception that would have been intimidating but for the fact that he is by nature relaxed and warm. Working privately with Babbitt had special advantages over the seminars; in private sessions I could talk at length on any subject I wanted to.
There was one enormous asset in both seminars and private sessions. This was Babbitt’s ability to make me aware of the importance of structure in music on every level. In his classroom teaching he stressed not only the mere existence of structural levels but also the organic relationship between them, and he managed to transmit the same point in his private evaluations of the pieces I was working on. This is the mark not just of a great teacher but of a first-rate mind. A man with lesser intellect who was interested in layered structures would not have been able to progress beyond imparting the theories of Heinrich Schenker. Babbitt’s intellect is so vast that he can accommodate Schenker into his own way of thinking, resulting in an application of Schenkerian ideas to a repertory that resided outside Schenker’s territory, specifically the twelve-tone repertory.
I am enormously indebted to Babbitt for the emphasis he placed in his teaching on structural layers and the organic relation between them. The fact that I now write tonal music in a certain respect signals that the wheel has come full circle, for tonality was the focus of Schenker’s entire life, although I suspect that if Schenker had come across one of my relativised-tonal scores he would have inserted more than a few exclamation marks to indicate his disapproval of the voice-leading!
On the face of it, the recent works I just commented on could not be further away from the music of Schoenberg and Babbitt: while my pieces are tonal, the works of Babbitt and of the later Schoenberg are twelve-tone. I have already pointed out the influence of Babbitt with respect to structural layers; this influence may be discerned in my recordings. In addition, when I was a graduate student at Princeton one of my principal interests in twelve-tone music was its capacity to generate a network of varying rates-of-unfolding in an enormous diversity of contexts.
One of the purposes of the first part of my article on Babbitt’s Composition for Twelve Instruments is to show how the set-forms within each twelve-part array are made to unfold at different rates from each other; it is these varying rates that enable the construction of hierarchical layers. Similarly, my doctoral dissertation postulates that Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Film Scene, Opus 34, operates on different modes of continuity. An analytical exposition of these modes owes a great deal to the consideration of Schoenberg’s methods of varying the rates with which sets unfold. These varying rates are shown to have ramifications for many aspects of the piece’s structure. When I started to write tonal works in Princeton, I was very interested in the compositional potential of the general idea of varying rates-of-unfolding whose specific application I had studied in the music of Babbitt and Schoenberg.
HM: But what connects these concepts of twelve-tone-music with a work like your Solo Cello Partita which, as you said, adheres to the harmonic idiom of Bach?
DH: Prior to writing the Partita, I became immersed in Bach’s remarkable techniques of varying the rates of harmonic unfolding in his works for solo violin and for solo cello. This was not a novel perception; on the contrary. My point is that my study of Babbitt and Schoenberg had served to heighten my awareness of Bach’s particular techniques. I felt that I had something to add to Bach’s contribution to the solo cello repertory; hence the Partita. My Sonata for Cello and Piano incorporates a much more individual approach to the practice of varying rates-of-unfolding. The Sonata embodies a technique that I have called the counterpoint of cycles.
HM: Having made clear the indebtedness of the structures of your tonal works to Babbitt and Schoenberg, the question remains: Why did you choose tonality?
DH: There are two main reasons. The first was essentially historical. I felt that after Schoenberg, Babbitt had taken twelve-tone music almost literally as far as any one individual could possibly do; what could I possibly add to Babbitt’s contribution? The second factor was more personal. After having spent a great deal of time writing in the twelve-tone idiom I felt that my gifts were better suited to tonality. My move to tonality was not so much a step forward as a return to my roots. While my Sonata for Violin Solo is my most recent recording, in dating back to 1976 it also represents my first acknowledged work. And as I mentioned earlier, the Solo Sonata is a tonal composition.
HM: Moving on to a more recent work: in March 2000 your Second Symphony received its world premiere in Australia. Sir Georg Solti has called it a fine work. Can you say something about the main ideas behind the Symphony?
DH: A well-known European critic recently raised the question of whether there is such a thing as a contemporary symphony. When you think about it, most contemporary orchestral works are not called symphonies, and those comparatively few new works that are presented as symphonies generally bear no obvious connection to the symphonic tradition that we are all familiar with. So the question that the critic raised is not unimportant. I look on my Second Symphony as an answer in the affirmative — namely, that there is certainly such a thing as a contemporary symphony, that the phenomenon of the symphony is definitely not relegated to the realm of the past.
The main idea behind my Second Symphony is that it represents a late twentieth-century interpretation of Beethoven. In being a contemporary work, it is a symphony born of the age in which we live. But in addition, I wanted the Symphony to bear an organic connection to the music of Beethoven.
HM: How far do you see the Second Symphony leading to other pieces?
DH: It would be quite absurd to suggest that my Second Symphony represents the last word on contemporary compositional interpretation of Beethoven. I see no reason why the Second Symphony cannot be followed up by other works pointing in a similar direction.
HM: Let us now turn to some more technical matters of your music. I notice that your music contains comparatively fewer dynamic indications than many contemporary scores. What is your attitude towards dynamics?
DH: I have always maintained that the only significant difference between Babbitt’s music and mine is that Babbitt inserts a greater number of p’s in his scores than I do, even though I am entitled to use more. Speaking seriously, to talk about how I treat dynamics I need to elucidate my attitude towards performers.
Far from viewing the role of performers as solely technical, I see collaboration between composer and performer as a collaboration of artists. If the performer is an artist, he or she will confer on a piece an interpretation that is unique. I learn a great deal from such interpretation. I learn not only about the piece at issue but also about more general possibilities of creating with sounds. Because I revere the individual interpretation of an artist in performance, I like to give him or her a fair amount of freedom. This is why I specify in the performance notes of my scores that all tempo indications are approximate, even though each metronome indication I notate is the one I would choose if I were playing.
Likewise, while I do not explicitly state in the performance notes that each dynamic indication is approximate, I don’t like performers of my work to feel tied to only one dynamic level in every passage. In certain passages, performers may use minor fluctuations in dynamic to articulate phrases and phrase-rhythms. If these fluctuations make the flow of the music more convincing and effective, they are fine with me. When I say that I like to give performers a fair amount of freedom, I should add that freedom is, of course, relative. I do not, for example, condone a performance that all but ignores such things as rhythm and tempo for the sake of expression. And I am no friend of rubato unless it is specifically requested by the composer.
HM: Can you give an example from any performance or recording of your work where a performer takes a certain liberty with dynamics to good effect?
DH: Yes: Mirjam Ingolfsson’s recording of my Solo Cello Partita. At the very end of the first movement, the principal theme makes a final appearance. There is no new dynamic in the score at this point, yet Ingolfsson drops down a dynamic notch to piano. This has the effect of conferring a quite new meaning upon the theme. In the recording, these last few bars of the first movement come across both as a conclusion to and a commentary on all that has preceded, not unlike the final couplet of a Shakespeare sonnet. Yet the final couplet of a Shakespeare sonnet always consists of new lines while here, in the Partita, Ingolfsson is playing bars that we have heard before. In my opinion, it is precisely her choice of a new dynamic that enables her to confer a new meaning on these notes. This is the sign of a real artist!
HM: Can you think of any recording of Bach’s music where similar liberties are taken?
DH: Probably the locus classicus is Zina Schiff’s 1989 recording of the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin. Schiff’s innovations here pertain to far more than dynamics alone, however. They pertain to phrasing as well, but then the two are hardly unrelated. In many recordings of Bach, a soloist will make the music sound all but static in maintaining a near-constant dynamic level and flow of notes without any particular awareness of phrase rhythm. Schiff, by contrast, is completely attuned to what Bach is about; the listener is therefore able to discern contours of phrasing and of articulation in the music of Bach of which other recording artists seem for the most part not to have been aware. Schiff’s interpretation of the Chaconne is nothing short of amazing; it represents one of the highest artistic levels achieved in the history of recorded sound. Her innovations cannot fail to make the listener conceive of the piece in a different way.
HM: Returning to your Cello Partita, the links of this work to Bach are clear. To what extent are baroque performance practice techniques applicable to this work?
DH: Some baroque performance conventions may be applicable, but the most important issue is the insight of the performer into the piece and what he or she will come up with as a result of this insight. It’s important, in other words, not to approach the Partita — or, for that matter, a work from the baroque era — with a preconceived idea of how it should be played, because a preconceived idea carries with it certain conclusions about the music.
HM: One of the most frequently heard complaints about contemporary music from performers is that it is so difficult to play. Performers seem to feel that composers make unreasonable demands on their time and patience.
DH: It is true that a lot of contemporary music poses special problems to the performer because it lacks a precedent which the performer can draw upon. Leaving aside problems of notation, a performer who has been raised on the traditional (that is, baroque, classical and romantic) repertory is going to have enormous problems with a work that bears no obvious relation to this repertory, and here we are talking about ninety-nine per cent of contemporary music!
It is invariably the rhythmic aspects of new scores that baffle so many performers. If the composer has a good reason to use difficult rhythms it is surely incumbent on the performer to learn them, no matter how much time is involved. If, on the other hand, there is no discernible rationale for difficult rhythms then the performer is quite understandably reluctant to devote time to mastering a score whose surface intricacies appear to be nothing more than the result of a whim on the composer’s part.
HM: Which of your works would you consider the most difficult to play from a technical standpoint?
DH: Probably Contrapunctus (1986) — the solo version for unaccompanied viola. It is probably one of the most consistently and uncompromisingly contrapuntal works ever written for an unaccompanied stringed instrument. I was very attracted to the idea of using a single stringed instrument to evoke a continuously evolving dialogue between independent voices. It is certainly not easy to play — Walter Trampler and Michael Tree have, independently of each other, each played it and find this to be the case — but the main point is that difficulties aside, it is playable. And I believe that composers should not be afraid to take instruments into new territory; Babbitt said that if music ceases to evolve, it will cease to live.
HM: Though you have, I suppose, much more to tell about Babbitt and Princeton, let’s now concentrate on other, later points of reference for your artistic development.
DH: The musicians of the generation after Babbitt that have influenced me the most are not composers but instrumentalists. My love of Beethoven owes a great deal to the recordings of Ashkenazy, particularly of Beethoven’s sonatas. The influence of Beethoven in my work is unmistakable. In particular, the two-movement design of my Cello Sonata is very much influenced by Beethoven’s last Piano Sonata, Opus 111. While I was not aware of it at the time I wrote the piece, it is no coincidence that the opening of the second subject in the first movement of the Cello Sonata directly recalls a theme from the exposition of the first movement of Beethoven’s Opus 111.
Another great ‘teacher’ is the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. Of all the violinists I have heard interpreting the solo violin works of Bach, Grumiaux is the most natural. He had the most remarkable gift for intuiting the inner logic and unfolding of Bach’s music and for imparting this logic in his performances and recordings. Grumiaux’s recordings greatly enhanced my understanding and appreciation of Bach; without them I would have never written my Cello Partita. And if you listen carefully to the Partita you will discern the influence of Bach’s solo violin works.
HM: In the light of this influence, it seems appropriate that when Carter Brey gave the New York premiere of the Partita, he opened his recital with the Partita and followed it with one of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites. What qualities of the music of past masters fascinate you the most?
DH: In a great work of music, one always has the sense of the intuitive working in tandem with the rational. Exactly how the two are correlated will depend on the composer and on the piece. But when they are really working together, the result is very special. The two composers who come most readily to mind are Bach and Mozart.
Hartmut Moeller is Professor of Musicology at the Music University in Freiburg and Lecturer at the Music University in Rostock, Germany.
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Fred and Lynne have been married for 40+ years. When talking about Fred’s illness, Lynne often looks back to when she said, “I do,” and thinks about how she had no idea at the time what “in sickness and in health” would really mean.
A mysterious condition
During their third year of marriage, Fred learned that his brother was diagnosed with cancer, as well as a rare condition. Since the condition was hereditary, Fred was also tested. Although he had no symptoms, he tested positive for what at the time was
considered hyperlipidemia, which today is known as familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS).
FCS occurs in about one in one million people and is a genetic disorder in which the body cannot break down certain fats correctly. This disease frequently leads to symptoms such as pancreatitis, a very serious condition that causes inflammation of the pancreas and can lead to death, and fatty deposits in the skin. With no treatment available at the time of diagnosis, Fred was told to modify his lifestyle to keep his triglycerides down.
At first, incorporating these changes seemed relatively minor. Lynne and Fred switched to a low-fat diet, he tried to exercise more, and life continued as a young married couple. Fred felt good and pursued a career as a research chemist for about 20 years.
But in the late ’90s, things began to change. Subtle at first, his triglycerides rose from 200 to 500, even though his diet and
exercise regimen remained the same. His doctor placed him on medication in hopes of lowering his triglycerides, but they
continued to rise, going as high as 8000. A diagnosis of type II diabetes at this same time did not help.
An isolating journey
As the year 2000 approached and the world was speculating about what the new century would bring, Lynne and Fred didn’t
anticipate how much their own world would change. Like so many who suffer from FCS, Fred’s medical journey started to become an odyssey. Feeling discouraged and helpless, their search for answers began.
The sense of hopelessness Fred felt was contagious. Lynne did her best to be strong. Being a Registered Nurse helped her be his advocate since she understood the doctors and was able to translate it in a way both she and Fred could comprehend. Throughout their journey to grasp why this was happening, Fred experienced frequent episodes of pancreatitis, with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and mental fog. As a result, Fred required a lot of down time. He continued to work as a chemist during the week, but the weekends he spent in bed, trying to regain strength and stamina for the week ahead. Being home was safe, yet isolating.
In 2015, Fred was officially diagnosed with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), three words the couple explains as being hard to pronounce, yet a relief to hear. After all those years of searching and hoping, the fact that Fred’s rare disease actually had a name legitimized his experience to the world.
The couple soon learned about a clinical trial for those with FCS, studying volanesorsen, a potential treatment designed to reduce the production of a protein produced in the liver that plays a central role in the regulation of plasma triglycerides and may also affect other metabolic parameters. Ionis believes its antisense technology could disrupt the production of this protein. After so many years of battling an unknown, debilitating disease, this news felt life-affirming on many levels.
Since the trial ended, Fred still has bad days, but recently, his good days outnumber the bad. Through this experience, the couple also found an FCS community and share their experiences. With the good days becoming more frequent and a support system in place, Fred and Lynne remain hopeful for their future.
Sonia and Eric’s story
In 2010, otherwise healthy mother and poet Kamni Vallabh started to experience weakened eye sight. Kamni’s journey that started as a few visits to the opthamologist soon escalated into a dizzying array of specialists as both her mental and physical decline progressed. Testing Kamni for everything under the sun, from heavy-metal poisoning to Lyme disease, meant only one thing was for sure—Kamni’s illness was unknown.
An unknown illness
Finally, in December 2010, Kamni’s family received the diagnosis that had been elusive for so long—prion disease. Prion disease occurs when normal prion proteins, found on the surface of many cells, become abnormal and clump in the brain, causing memory problems, personality changes, and trouble with movement—many of the same symptoms that plagued Kamni as the prions
aggressively made their way through her brain tissue, causing irreparable damage.
Since prion disease is currently incurable, this diagnosis didn’t bring relief for the family, and Kamni passed away in late 2010.
Taking action in the face of uncertainty
An autopsy revealed that Kamni’s prion disease was a genetic subtype sometimes called fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and through predictive testing, the family learned that Kamni’s daughter, Sonia, would eventually succumb to the disease that took her mother’s life. Prion diseases are extremely rare. Between all of the different subtypes, which include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) in addition to FFI, only about 300 cases are reported in the US each year.
This news sparked a new life pursuit for Sonia and her husband, Eric. Although Eric had recently completed his master’s degree in Urban Planning at MIT and Sonia had graduated from Harvard Law School, they both eventually quit their jobs to focus on finding a cure full time. For the next few years, refusing to sit back and let the disease ravage her family, the couple was determined to live and breathe the science of the disease. But as the couple got deeper in research, the gravity of their challenge began to sink in. Hope they originally felt while unearthing preliminary research crumbled as limitations of possible treatment approaches became evident, due in part to the challenge of identifying a strategy that could stop brain damage before it’s too late.
During this time, the couple met Jeff Carroll, a scientist who partnered with Ionis to develop a therapy for Huntington’s Disease, a disease with which he had been diagnosed. Similar to Jeff’s work with Ionis, Sonia and Eric learned that Ionis’ antisense technology may also help make a positive difference in the lives of those with prion disease. And, Ionis said yes and stepped in to help.
Ultimately, with Ionis’ help, Sonia and Eric were cleared by the FDA to develop a therapy for prion disease.
The next big challenge is for the couple to recruit people at risk for genetic prion disease to the natural history study they are helping to run at Massachusetts General Hospital. With a disease so rare, recruitment may be a challenge. But with renewed hope and purpose, there’s no telling how far their pursuit will go.
Chuck’s story
In Chuck’s family, the awareness of hATTR amyloidosis started with his uncle Bill, who was on a mission to find out what was wrong with him. He called an Amyloidosis Center of Excellence, gave them his symptoms, and within a week saw a doctor who diagnosed him.
But the diagnosis did not stop there as Bill suspected others in the family should be tested as well. Bill's sister, who is Chuck's mom, was the next one who received a positive diagnosis. After his mother was diagnosed, Chuck went for testing and found out he was also positive for hATTR.
A family diagnosis
But the diagnosis did not stop there as Bill suspected others in the family should be tested as well. Bill’s sister, who is Chuck’s mom, was the next one who received a positive diagnosis. After his mother was diagnosed, Chuck went for testing and found out he was also positive for hATTR.
Out of 24 family members who were tested, 18 are positive—including two out of Chuck’s three sons and his two remaining siblings.
Hereditary ATTR amyloidosis (hATTR) is an inherited disease that often affects the liver, nerves, heart and kidneys. The disease is characterized by the deposit of an abnormal protein called amyloid in multiple organs of the body where it should not be, which causes disruption of organ tissue structure and function. The amyloid deposits most often occur in tissues of the nervous system, heart, and digestive tract.
Chuck’s first symptoms were autonomic issues, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and he thought it was just part of getting older. But as he became more symptomatic, hATTR started to completely change his life.
A rare disease that robs its patients
Later, he developed additional polyneuropathy symptoms, such as pain in his hands and feet, loss of grip and dexterity in his hands, balance issues, stumbling and falling and tingling and numbness in his hands and feet. These symptoms got so bad he felt like he could not carry his grandchildren.
Active throughout his life, he enjoyed riding his bicycle, dancing, and racing motorcycles. But hATTR robbed him of what he loved.
His moment of YES
Chuck was just about to give up when someone from his support group told him to go to a meeting about Ionis’ NEURO-TTR clinical trial, which was designed to study the safety and efficacy of inotersen from Ionis. Inotersen is an antisense drug that was designed to decrease the amount of mutant and normal TTR made by the liver. Ionis believed that decreasing the amount of TTR protein would result in a decrease in the formation of TTR deposits, and thus slow or stop disease progression. Chuck met the criteria for the trial and began participation, and was excited at the potential to help those living with hATTR.
Since the trial’s completion and subsequent FDA approval, inotersen, now known as TEGSEDI™ has become available to treat patients like Chuck. With optimism for the future for himself and his sons, Chuck’s advice to anyone living with this disease is to face it with strength, and to be thankful that hope has been renewed for those living with hATTR.
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Get spooked in Ireland...
Did you know Ireland is the birthplace of Halloween?! It was the Celtic festival of Samhain that first inspired the holiday we know today, and there's no place better to spend the scariest time of the year!
1 The Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin
Dracula, that beloved literary heavyweight, was written by none other than Dublin native Abraham “Bram” Stoker. Born in the Dublin suburb of Clontarf, his novel went on to influence the worlds of literature, film and TV around the world. Every year, his life is celebrated during the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin, with parades, readings and, of course, haunting performance pieces...
2 DerryHalloween, Derry~Londonderry city
Having been voted the best place in the world to celebrate Halloween, Derry~Londonderry has a long legacy of spook-tacular celebrations. During the DerryHalloween festival, people prowl beneath the city's 400-year-old walls as ghouls, ghosts and witches. With parties, parades, live music and delicious food and drink, we think you'll be well able to handle the spine-tingling goings-on at one of the haunted tours. Boo!
3 Jailbird tales in Belfast, Wicklow and Cork
Some of the island's most brutal criminals never came to rest after leaving this mortal coil. Instead, their spirits roam through the walls of this island's historic jails. Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast is one of the island’s most haunted sites, and has never quite managed to shake the spirits who were shackled here. Wicklow’s Historic Gaol unearths tales of the “forgotten Irish” – those banished from our shores to work in labour camps in Australia and the West Indies. And, while tranquil now, Spike Island off the coast of County Cork, was once a monastery, then a fortress and finally the largest convict depot in Ireland. Feeling brave? A tour will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing up...
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Ratings provided by TripAdvisor Check out what other travellers say about Ireland and Ireland Hotels on TripAdvisor.
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Rajkumar Hirani Sexual Harassment Row: Arshad Warsi Speaks After sharman Joshi And Dia Mirza
Arshad Warsi, who worked with Rajkumar Hirani in the Munna Bhai films, said that he has immense respect for the director
Published: January 15, 2019 12:18 AM IST
By India.com Entertainment Desk Email
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Arshad Warsi's statement on sexual harassment allegations against Rajkumar Hirani (Photo Courtesy: STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Actor Arshad Warsi is the latest one from Bollywood to have commented on the sexual harassment allegations against filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani. In an interview with Zoom TV, Arshad said that he has immense respect for Hirani and he is in shock knowing about the issue, much like others. Arshad was promoting his next film, Fraud Saiyaan when he took a moment to share his views on the matter.
Zoom quoted the actor saying, “If you talk to me about Raju Hirani as a person, as a personality and how he is, I think he is a wonderful person and a thorough gentleman. So, for me, It’s a shocker as it is for everybody else who has heard this news.” The actor has worked with Hirani in the popular Munna Bhai series. In fact, it is said that he was in talks with the director for the much-awaited third part in the franchise.
Earlier, actors Sharman Joshi and Dia Mirza also shared their opinions on the accusations. While Sharman openly supported Hirani and said the director is a man of immense integrity and character, Dia said it won’t be right on her part to take a side without being aware of the facts.
A report published on Huff Post on January 13, 2019, claimed that a woman accused Rajkumar Hirani of sexually harassing her more than once over a period of six months on the sets of Sanju. The filmmaker denied all the allegations and released a statement saying he was in shock to hear about the allegations that were brought to his notice a few months back.
Dia Mirza’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Rajkumar Hirani (Photo Courtesy: Getty Images/ India.com)
In his statements to Bombay Times, published on Twitter, he said, “I was completely shocked when these allegations were brought to my notice about two months back”. He also questioned the woman’s decision of reaching out to the media to express her story. He added, “I had suggested immediately that it is essential to take this matter to any committee or any legal body. The complainant has chosen to go to the media instead. I want to very strongly state that this is a false, malicious and mischievous story being spread with the sole intention of destroying my reputation”.
Here’s what the complainant said in her statement to the website: “I had no choice but to be polite to him. It was unbearable but the reason I endured it all until I couldn’t, was because I didn’t want my job to be taken away from me, and work to be questioned. Ever I was worried that if I left midway, it would be impossible to find another job in this industry if he were to speak badly about my work”.
Woman’s statement against Rajkumar Hirani (Photo Courtesy: Getty Images/ India.com)
The filmmaker’s close friend and partner Vidhu Vinod Chopra has refused to comment on the issue. However, his wife and popular journalist Anupama Chopra said, “I’ve met the complainant twice. Both times, I have offered my full support and recommended that she take the complaint to a legal body or a neutral party since we cannot be arbitrators or judges on this. We also offered to set up an ICC at VCF (which we have set up since then) even though a VCF ICC could not have taken up the case since she was an RHF (Rajkumar Hirani Films) employee at the time. These are two separate companies”.
Published Date: January 15, 2019 12:18 AM IST
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CSU San Marcos Will Graduate Biggest Class Ever
By Maya Trabulsi
Photo by Alison St John
Above: California State University San Marcos campus, Feb. 4, 2016.
California State University, San Marcos is about to graduate the school’s largest class in its 29-year history: nearly 3,800 students.
University officials say 55% of the graduating students in the class of 2019 are the first members of their family to graduate with a four-year college degree. Forty-two percent of the graduates identify as underrepresented minorities.
CSU San Marcos spokeswoman Christine Vaughan said the school has worked hard to narrow achievement gaps among student groups, and that is reflected in its diverse student body.
“We know the transformative power of a college education and we have stayed true in our mission to be that catalyst in our region,” Vaughan said.
She said the school has tried to raise the educational attainment rate in the region.
“Academic support services, resources, increased scholarship support, degree planning tools and mentoring programs help students persist and ultimately graduate," Vaughan said.
The graduating class this year is large enough that, for the first time, the commencement will stretch over three days with six ceremonies. Total student enrollment in the university is 17,000.
Commencement ceremonies take place Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19.
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Young Central American Refugees Share Theirs Stories In Their Own Words
"Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America" is a new book that features the stories of 15 young migrants who left home to seek asylum in the U.S.
Speaker 1: 00:00 President Trump has called it a national emergency. He's talking about the hundreds of migrants seeking asylum at the u s Mexico border. His administration has introduced a number of programs aimed at discouraging people from making the journey to the border, but there has been little effort to explain why so many people are risking everything to try to enter the U s a new book documents the stories of 15 young Central American migrants who several years ago left their home countries to seek asylum in the u s they reveal what they were escaping, what they endured along the journey, and what they found once they got here. The book is called Solitos Lolita crossing borders with youth refugees from Central America and joining me as the books editor, a Pulitzer Prize winning former editorial writer for the San Diego Tribune. Jonathan Freedman. Jonathan, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: 00:51 Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: 00:53 Yeah. You've been writing about the big picture politics of immigration for decades, but for this book, the focuses on human stories. Why, why that change?
Speaker 2: 01:03 Well, my co-editor Steven mayors and I became very concerned in the year 2014 when suddenly thousands of children of young people, teenagers, mothers with kids and kids as young as nine and 10 years old, started crossing the u s border right at San Diego. And of course the news was shocking, but having written about this for many years on the border, I saw a new group of people. These are young people. Why were they coming? Who were they? What had happened to them inside their lives, in their, in their homes to make them leave and why were they crossing, you know, the very dangerous Mexico to get here and what was happening to them when they reached the border us border and what was happening to them inside United States.
Speaker 1: 01:52 This book is made up of stories coming from interviews conducted with a number of these young people. Can you tell us about what drove some of the people profiled in the book to make the journey?
Speaker 2: 02:03 Is he young woman named Soledad Castillo? She was growing up in Honduras in her family, had the poorest house in the barrio as a young girl, she was sexually abused by her stepfather. She was sent to work as a child, labor in the, in the nearby capitol, and she got sick. She recovered and begged her father who had worked in the United States to bring her to the United States. She was 14 at the time.
Speaker 1: 02:32 Jonathan, do you think you could read an excerpt for us from solid odd story?
Speaker 2: 02:38 I'd be very, very happy to the SEC serp just called. I just remember their hands. It took more than one month to get to the United States. The three of us left Honduras and went to Guatemala on the bus. My Dad sat in the front seat and I sat behind with other people. There were gangsters on board. First One guy took out a gun and then the other guys did too. They put a gun to my head, telling me to give them all my money. I didn't have money, but they didn't believe me. They took my pants off. I don't remember their faces. I just remember their hands. I remember hands touching me all over my body and I couldn't say anything. At that time. I was 14,
Speaker 1: 03:29 Jonathan Freedman reading from the book he's edited. So solita and Jonathan, I want to ask you a question about that title because what we hear mostly about today, our caravans, uh, of of young people at people coming from Central America to seek asylum in the u s yet the title of this book means alone alone. Can you talk about the significance of the title?
Speaker 2: 03:53 Yes. Uh, we were interviewing one of our first, um, refugees, a young man named Adrienne who had been shot and stabbed and left for dead by a gang in El Salvador. Neat. We interviewed him. He told us his story, why he left and he kept muttering to himself. So Lita Salita, that means alone alone, he's, there are thousands and thousands of people who are refugees. Each one is traveling alone. These stories are important, we believe because each is an individual person. They have very, very different stories, but they all in a sense are traveling alone.
Speaker 1: 04:36 The excerpt that you read for us, that terrible experience. That's solid dot. Casio had on her way to the u s she's actually made quite a success here in the u s she's now a US citizen. Isn't that right?
Speaker 2: 04:49 Not only is she a u s citizen, she put herself through community college, City College of San Francisco and then graduated from San Francisco State University.
Speaker 1: 05:02 Jonathan, what's happened to some of the other people whose stories are told in the book? Are they all happy endings like solar downs?
Speaker 2: 05:11 I wish they were, but they're not. This is a book of real lives and real lives have many different kinds of endings. One of one of our narrators nim posts way came here. He idolized his father who was a uh, coconut grower and he had to flee because of the gangs and when hosts way God here. He just told me how much he loved his father, how you wanted to be like his father. And a few months after our first interview, he got word that his father had been murdered by the gang back in El Salvador
Speaker 1: 05:42 and book we've been talking about is Solitos Lolita crossing borders with youth refugees from Central America. It was edited by my guests, Jonathan Freedman and by Stephen Myers. Jonathan, thank you very much for your time and for talking to us about your book.
Speaker 2: 05:57 Thank you so much.
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Woman fired after video shows her blocking black man from entering his apartment building
Courtesy D'Arreion Toles(ST. LOUIS) -- A white woman in St. Louis was fired after videos went viral of her trying to block a black man from entering his own apartment building on Saturday.
D'Arreion Toles recorded his attempts to enter his apartment complex after returning home late from work. The woman can be seen standing in the doorway, asking what unit Toles lives in, and to see his key fob.
"It's not your building, you're not the owner," Toles says in the video before getting past her. The woman continues to follow Toles up to his fourth-floor loft and demands to find out whom he's "going to see" and “why he's there."
Toles asked her to stop following him, but she continued as he used his keys to open his door. Toles told ABC News that 30 minutes later police showed up because the woman had called 911.
Toles posted the videos to his Facebook page early Saturday morning and they've been viewed more than 5 million times. He wrote that the videos show what it's like "to be a black man in America" and "this is America in 2018."
The woman's employer, Tribeca-STL, which manages real estate properties, said in a statement on its website that the company was aware of the video and that the woman had been terminated.
"The Tribeca-STL family is a minority-owned company that consists of employees and residents from many racial backgrounds," the statement continued. "We are proud of this fact and do not and never will stand for racism or racial profiling at our company."
The woman’s estranged husband, Brandon Mueller, posted a public video to his Facebook page condemning his ex-partner’s behavior.
“As a man of color I have spent most of my professional career teaching others the importance of diversity and inclusion,” Mueller said. He hopes that the community will “not allow others ignorance to incite anger and hatred, but to use it as an opportunity to learn, grow, and promote love.”
This is the latest video that has gone viral of a white person threatening to call the police on a black person for performing daily tasks.
Internet users were quick to dub the woman in the video "Apartment Patty" after a woman dubbed "Permit Patty" who threatened to call 911 on an 8-year-old black girl for selling bottled water without a permit in California.
Toles says this isn't a time for negativity and asked people to send the woman "positive waves of energy."
"I wish anybody well," Toles said.
ABC News has reached out to Brandon Mueller for comment and is working to confirm the identity of the woman in the video.
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Actress Alysia Reiner suggests ways to build green and create a more environmentally friendly home
Parenting and Family Advice | Top tips for building green
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Top tips for the environmentally friendly construction project
If you're looking to build green in your house there's a couple things to look at. One is do you have construction already or are you starting from absolute scratch. If you're starting from scratch you can do things like radiant heating. You can do bamboo flooring. You can do double flush toilets. You can do water filtration-there's some really awesome things you can do. If you're starting with something that's already been built, the number one thing is taking the toxins out and you can do that with low VOC paints. You can really look at are the furnishings organic, what-how can you create a home with as little chemicals as possible. That's really what you're looking at and it's really fun with my daughter because we have that conversation all the time, be it about food or about our clothes or about our house. We talk about chemicals and what does that mean and how do we live with the least amount of chemicals and additives and preservatives in our life. If you're interested in building green in your home, one of the most important things you can do is research and online now it's so easy. I personally used "Healthy Child, Healthy World", they have an amazing kit and outrageous resources to really teach you about how to build green, how to live green and how to have a whole green environment in your home.
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Alysia Reiner
Mother & Actress
Alysia is an award winning actress, producer, mother, humanitarian, and outspoken environmentalist. As an actress her work is prolific, she’s appeared on screen and stage, has won awards and rave reviews, and has even been suggested on IMDB as one of top 3 picks for the next “Bond Girl.” She is still often recognized as Christine, Thomas Hayden Church’s fiancee and then bride in the Oscar-winning cult film favorite “Sideways,” for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance for an Ensemble Cast.
She is currently shooting her second season of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, playing FIG, the assistant warden in the new series by Jenji Kohan who created WEEDS, and she just wrapped the film LIFE ITSELF with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton. Reiner has roles in a slew of upcoming films including Martin Scorsese’s REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS, THE GIRL IN THE BOOK, and KELLY AND CAL, playing opposite Juliette Lewis. She also stars in THAT AKWARD MOMENT with Zac Efron in theatres now.
Alysia’s other film credits include the period thriller “Primrose Lane,” ”Backwards” with James Van Der Beek, “Not For Nothing,” “Schooled,” “Arranged,” “Kissing Jessica Stein,” “One Last Thing,” “The A List,” “For Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner, “Row Your Boat” with Jon Bon Jovi, “The Narrow Gate,” “Little Pieces,” “Hourly Rates,” “3 Body Problem,” “The Stand In,” and Lee Toland Krieger’s “The Vicious Kind,” nominated for two independent Spirit Awards.
While currently shooting the role of Natalie “Fig” Figueroa on “Orange Is The New Black”, Alysia’s many other TV recurring and guest star roles include “Blue Bloods,” “The Sopranos,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order” (multiple episodes on regular, CI & SVU), “White Collar,” “Love Monkey,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “The Practice,” “The Exes,” “The Starter Wife,” “The Jury,” “Family Law,” “Jack & Jill,” and series lead in the pilot “An Englishman in New York.”
Alysia has appeared on stages around the country; from the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in Utah to the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem NYC. She’s graced stages around the world too, from The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland to The Royal Court Theatre in London. Among her many theatrical roles, she starred in the New York Premiere of “Pentecost” by Tony-winning playwright David Edgar, and starred in the provocative two character play “An Oak Tree” with Tim Crouch which won a Special Obie Award. Her portrayal of June Miller in “Anais Nin: One Of Her Lives” was critically acclaimed, as was her turn in “Wasps In Bed” at The Beckett Theater, of which the New York Times wrote “Alysia Reiner is priceless.” She originated the title role of Tina Modotti in “Modotti,” and other New York theater includes “A Charity Case,” “Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy With A Somewhat Happy Ending” at The Public Theater, “Jayson With a Y,” “Manhattan Cassanova” with Mercedes Ruehl, and “Love in the Age of Narcissism” and “Dating Games,” both with her husband, actor David Alan Basche.
“Speed Grieving,” the award winning short film that Alysia created, produced and stars in, had it’s world premiere at The Hamptons International Film Festival, has screened at over a dozen more film festivals, and is now used as a grief counseling tool in every Cancer Support Community center in the country.
She is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Maria Shriver’s Website, and has been featured on CNN, People.com, Celebrity Baby Scoop, Stroller Traffic, Healthy Child Healthy World, Family Focus Blog, Today I ate a Rainbow, Your Green Baby, and others. She is also a celebrity green momma spokesperson for Best For Babes, an organization that works to change how we view and support breast feeding, and gives moms the solutions they need to make it work.
Alysia is a champion of all things eco-friendly, and she and her husband used their own home as a way to share information about building green. Their brownstone renovation in Harlem was featured on television’s “World’s Greenest Homes,” ”HOME & FAMILY“ and “Renovation Nation;” in various magazines like Dwell, Gotham, and The Nest; and they allowed the environmentally friendly construction process to be chronicled on Web sites such as Dwell.com and Kohler.com.
She was recently recognized as an INTELLIGENT OPTIMIST in Ode Magazine and profiled by New York Women in Film and Television as a woman to watch.
Alysia is on the board of The Broad Collective, and is involved with many charities including The Cancer Support Community, Women’s Prison Association, Actors For Autism, The Young Women’s Leadership Network, Amnesty International, Our Time Theatre Company, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Joyful Heart Foundation, GEMS, and Circle of Health International.
Parenting expert on: Effective Discipline, Gender Differences, Working Parents, Avoiding Chemicals and Toxins
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Government appointee with reported ties to Dean French resigns
TORONTO — The head of a committee that helps appoint justices of the peace has resigned after reports that he has ties to the premier's former chief of staff.
Premier Doug Ford's office said it had been reviewing lawyer Andrew Suboch's appointment as chair of the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee and that he has now resigned.
The Globe and Mail reported that Suboch is a long-time friend of Dean French, who abruptly left his job as Ford's top adviser three weeks ago when it first emerged that people given lucrative foreign postings were connected to him. Their sons also played lacrosse together, the Globe reported.
When contacted by The Canadian Press, Suboch would not comment on a connection to French or why he resigned.
"There is a public portal that ANYONE can apply to [which I did], there is vetting of the application, AND, the Legislature through the Standing Committee of Government Agencies, which I understand was chaired at all relevant times by the NDP, can call appointees, such as myself, to testify as to their qualifications," Suboch wrote in an email.
"I was never called by the Standing Committee to demonstrate my qualifications."
He did not say if French encouraged him to apply for the role.
Suboch was appointed to the committee in September 2018, then was given the job of chair in February. The committee meets about 12 times a year and the chair is paid a $566 per diem.
Speaking at the end of a premiers' conference in Saskatoon, Ford said Thursday that government appointments are under review. His staff have previously said the review encompasses pending appointments.
"I'm responsible for everything that happens at that province and I take responsibility," he said. "Yes, we always look at improvement on vetting candidates. Keep in mind we appoint close to 3,200 people ... I look at qualifications on the job and we're going to continue appointing good, quality people."
The premier revoked the agents-general appointments in London and New York City of Taylor Shields and Tyler Albrecht shortly after Shields was reported to be related to French and it emerged that Albrecht played lacrosse with French's son.
Four days later, Katherine Pal resigned from the Public Accountants Council after the NDP noted that she is a niece of French's wife.
Ontario's strategic transformation adviser was fired last week as a report emerged that he had known French for a long time, including buying life insurance from him. The civil service said the office he led was being eliminated after a review of its structure.
The opposition parties want Ford's review of appointments to be conducted externally, and not by the same office that originally signed off on the appointments in question. Ford's staff haven't said who is conducting the review, how many appointments are pending, what criteria are being used, and if all revoked appointments will be announced.
Ford said Thursday he is "putting it through the treasury," but NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said "it's pretty clear" whatever process Ford purports to have underway is not happening. Most of the now-revoked appointments or resignations in the past few weeks have come after media reports.
"When's the next person going to slide out from under a rock that's received an appointment inappropriately?" she said.
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
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Ticket, Brandy, Pistol: All you need on the first Tube ride
Posted on January 6, 2013 by inspectorbucket
On 9 January 1863 was both a day of celebration, and sheer relief. 650 of the great and the good travelled three and a half miles by underground railway, from Paddington to Farringdon Road, stopping to admire all six intermediary stations before lunching at Farringdon Station to mark the completion of what, two decades before, had seemed nothing more than fantasy: a railway under the earth. Palmerston, the Prime Minister, had refused the invitation, saying that he thought it prudent, at the advanced age of 79, to stay above ground for as long as possible. (Allegedly. Almost as many bons-mots are attributed to Palmerston as they are to Churchill. And some of them are even true.)
Most Londoners thought the day would never come. When the Great Northern Railway arrived at Euston in 1850, a few visionaries – or fantasists – had seen that, in the world’s most densely populated city, underground was the only way to go. As with HS2, from the beginning the political will was there, but money was harder to come by. It was 1859 before Charles Pearson, solicitor to the Corporation of the City of London, persuaded his paymasters to invest in the project, and building began.
London had been a building-site for most of the century. If it was not gas-pipes being laid for street-lighting, it was Bazalgette’s great sewer, or water-mains, or new bridges, or streets. But what followed was worse than anyone had imagined. The word ‘Underground’, despaired the Daily News, implied ‘mole-like secrecy’, but ‘this is a great mistake.’ Just as Crossrail today has devastated whole neighbourhoods, nothing was more visible to Victorian Londoners than the installation of the supposedly invisible tube. (And while Crossrail – theoretically – will take eight years, construction of the underground continued for three decades.)
The first Metropolitan Railway used the ‘cut-and-cover’ system: a trench was dug, the railway was inserted and then the ditch was covered up again. Endless streets were therefore boarded off, or narrowed to a single pathway for carriages and pedestrians alike, for years at a time. For the creation of the District line, Parliament Square was one great pit for much of the 1860s, resembling some hideous natural disaster.
Certainly enough disasters, natural and man-made, occurred along the way. In 1860 a locomotive exploded, killing two; in 1861 there was a landslide; and in 1862 the Fleet River, long covered over and filled with sewage, ruptured. The western embankment of the new railway, its brickwork eight feet thick, was tossed up in the air by the power of rushing water, and a hundred feet of wall was carried away in an instant.
Meanwhile, the poor were more permanently disrupted. Where possible the railway lines followed the roads, but often whole neighbourhoods were demolished. As usual, the poor suffered the most. Compensating large tenement-owners was cheaper than compensating individual homeowners, with less chance of vexatious lawsuits. (The Duke of Buccleuch’s claim for compensation when his house was razed to make way for Bazalgette’s sewer took eight years to grind its way through the courts.) Theoretically the railways were obliged to declare how many people they displaced, but without oversight their reports were plainly fiction: a mere 307 people, they claimed, had been made homeless between Paddington and Farringdon Street, whereas contemporary observers put the number at closer to 12,000 for just half that distance. Between 1850 and 1900, as many as 100,000 people may have been evicted, their homes destroyed.
In 1848, a Royal Commission had drawn a line around central London, into which the railways would not be allowed to stray. Instead of one or two mainline stations in the centre of the city, therefore, as in most European capitals, London is ringed by terminals. A mere ten years later this seemed like the natural order of things, and so the first underground silently follows this path: its later extension followed the border too, creating the loop we know as the Circle line.
Then as much as now, great civic projects routinely overran. One newspaper wrote in exasperation in 1862, the opening ‘was fixed for May last; then it was positively promised for the 1st of October; and, finally, for the 1st of January next.’ It wasn’t quite the 1st, but on 10 January 1863, the public was finally allowed to see what all the fuss was about.
As with the overground, the underground trains had first, second and third-class carriages, all lit by gas. Fares were 6d., 4d. and 3d., and 30,000 people were happy to pay that the very first day. By evening Farringdon station was so crowded, it looked like the opening of a West End play. Nearly a quarter of a million more travelled underground the following week, and by the 1870s the Metropolitan line alone was carrying 48 million passengers annually.
Not that it was always, or even often, an enjoyable experience. An American tourist was at first disappointed: it would be no more exciting than going through a tunnel, he grumbled. But he soon realized that, between the smoke from the steam-locomotives and the lack of ventilation, a voyage underground ‘was more disagreeable than the longest tunnel the writer had ever passed through’, and the foggy, smoggy London air above was, by contrast, as limpidly pure as that found on any Swiss alp. For below-ground, travellers’ mouths filled with the taste of sulphur, breathing was difficult. In 1867 a woman’s death was attributed to ‘natural causes, accelerated by the suffocating atmosphere of the Underground Railway’.
‘First’ is not always best. Other undergrounds learned from London’s early foray, and even today some of London underground’s problems arise from those first designs. Air-conditioning requires larger tunnels than the early engineers could have foreseen. And later systems were designed for electricity, not steam-power. (Glasgow and Liverpool’s Mersey Railway were exceptions.) Most countries, too, relied on central planning, whereas in Britain, private development rather than state control produced a spaghetti-bowl of lines.
By the 1880s, Punch magazine satirically recommended that essential equipment for any tube voyage include smelling-salts, a fan, potted shrimps, a brandy-flask, a pistol and a lamp. There was, however, no mention of a map: such were the constant additions to lines that it took over four decades for one to become available.
Finding your way, therefore, was a challenge. Station staff were just as bewildered as passengers. ‘If they do attempt to advise you, take some other ticket than the one recommended’: the odds are against them being right, claimed a west London resident. He added: ‘How many Kensington stations there may be…I do not know; but I know…that the officials always send you to the wrong one… All very well to say that we should look at the map at home and ascertain our route: firstly, there is no map.’ (After that ‘firstly’, pragmatism suggests he needed to go no further. Harry Beck’s iconic diagram, still the basis for us today, did not appear until the 1930s. The special Johnston typeface designed for clarity and reading at speed, and used across the underground came earlier, in 1916.)
Yet to the pioneers who had dreamed of an underground world, and then made those dreams concrete, these were details. They were men who failed to be daunted. Explosions, floods, wars, they overcame them all. A route was blocked by a canal? They re-purposed it as the bed of the new District line. Rivers were in the way? They moved them. (The Westbourne was culverted, and is still visible over the District and Circle line platforms at Sloane Square station.)
And so the oldest underground in the world, a matter of compromise, and patching, and scrabbling, is today still the third largest system in the world (surpassed only by Beijing and Shanghai), carrying 1.2 billion passengers a year.
On that triumphant 9 January 1853 at Farringdon Station, toasts were made to Charles Pearson, that forward-thinking solicitor, who had not lived to see his dream a reality. Let us hope that next Sunday, when the newly restored Met Steam Locomotive No. 1 runs along the original route, glasses will be raised once more to the man who, as his project neared its brilliant conclusion, rejected a cash bonus from the Metropolitan Railway Company: ‘I am the servant of the Corporation’, he said; ‘they are my masters and entitled to all my time and service.’
We shall not see his like again.
Sunday Times, 6 January 2013
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Justia Lawyer Directory Personal Injury Montana Ronan Attorneys
Ronan, Montana Personal Injury Lawyers
Philip J. Grainey
Ronan, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 44 years experience
(406) 676-4470 324 Main St SW
Personal Injury, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Edward K. Duckworth
(406) 676-3395 11 Main Street SE
Personal Injury, Criminal and Workers' Comp
Edward Kiel Duckworth
Ronan, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 8 years experience
Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Gary Dwaine Rice
Polson, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 42 years experience
Michigan State-Detroit COL
Santana Kortum
Kalispell, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 14 years experience
(800) 257-1482 1382 Airport Road
Santana Caballero handles injury cases arising out of accidents, medical malpractice, employment, nursing home abuse and neglect as well as wrongful death claims across the state of Montana. Santana brings to the table a strong Montana work ethic and common sense while maintaining result orientated relationships with insurance carriers and opposing counsel. Santana is admitted to practice in Montana Administrative matters, Montana District Courts, Montana Federal District Courts and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. No obligation free initial consultations.
Thomas Bulman
Missoula, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 39 years experience
(800) 272-7744 416 E. Pine St
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Workers' Comp
Thomas Bulman opened his disability law practice in 1981 after finishing a law clerk assignment for the Montana Supreme Court. He learned that he had to study medicine in order to best serve his injured clients with workers compensation and other injury cases. After 35 years, he has learned a great deal about doctors and medical treatment.
Bradley Jay Jones
Missoula, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 5 years experience
(406) 543-3800 416 East Pine Street
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Divorce, Family and Workers' Comp
University of Montana School of Law and Willamette University College of Law
Bradley J. Jones and his wife Brenda have been married for more than twenty years and are raising their four sons and one daughter in the Bitterroot. Following his first career in construction (carpenter/construction management/contractor) Brad joined Bulman Law Associates PLLC. as an intern in January 2013, and was an associate disability attorney from July 2014 thru December 2017. In January 2018 Brad struck out on his own froming Jones & Cook Attorneys at Law. Taking advantage of past experience, Brad’s practice focuses on workers’ compensation disputes, denial of veterans’ benefits, family law, wills and estates and...
Miva VanEngen
Missoula, MT Personal Injury Lawyer
(406) 214-3978 1800 S. Reserve St., Suite C-2
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal, Divorce and Products Liability
Miva VanEngen fights vigorously in her representation of clients who have been injured by others: whether by car crash, negligent acts of others, or at work (personal injury and workers' compensation claims). She also works hard for her clients who have been charged with a DUI or other crime. Finally, she represents a variety of clients in simple and complex divorces, parenting plans, pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements and other family law matters.
Her clients can be found all over Montana and in other states. Technological advances make it possible to represent clients without the need for travel, depending on the reason...
Wilton H. Strickland
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Appeals, Insurance Claims and Products Liability
I am an attorney with many years of litigation experience who now focuses on providing legal research and writing. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000, I practiced in my home state of Florida and handled a wide variety of matters such as commercial disputes, premises liability, products liability, family matters, contracts, property law, constitutional law, and international law. In 2010 I moved to Missoula, Montana, and practiced in the areas of insurance defense, insurance coverage, and bad faith until establishing my own practice in 2013. The law firm of Wilton H. Strickland, PLLC is...
Terance P. Perry
Missoula, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 26 years experience
(406) 728-0810 201 West Main Street
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
Bryan L. Spoon Esq.
Missoula, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 8 years experience
(406) 541-2200 800 S. 3rd St. W.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Employment, Insurance Defense and Medical Malpractice
John Bradley Horrell
(406) 546-2080 430 Ryman St.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Employment and Real Estate
Personal Injury, Employment, and Property Law.
We tell your story in pursuit of the right results. Your claim is your story. You deserve to be heard, and to have your story told by an experienced attorney advocating solely on your behalf. With more than 15 years of legal experience representing diverse clients, we are focused on pursuing the right results while giving our clients the freedom to focus on their lives, not their problems. Call today for a free consultation - (406) 546-2080.
Paul D. Sullivan
Kalispell, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 10 years experience
(406) 752-6373 24 First Avenue East, Suite C
Alex K Evans
Kalispell, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 9 years experience
(406) 755-6828 278 4th Ave EN
Personal Injury, Asbestos and Business
Willamette University College of Law and Seton Hall University School of Law
Meghan Michele Doud
(406) 755-7600 60 Four Mile Drive, Suite 11
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Workers' Comp
Gonzaga University School of Law
Michael A. Bliven
Kalispell, MT Personal Injury Attorney
(406) 755-6828 278 Fourth Avenue East North
Shandor Syed Badaruddin
(406) 728-6868 124 W Pine St
Personal Injury, Civil Rights, Criminal and Products Liability
Mark Philip Dupont
Bigfork, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 21 years experience
(406) 837-3363 443 Osborn Ave Ste 105
Personal Injury and Maritime
Washington Univ School of Law
Matthew Brannan Hayhurst
Personal Injury and Business
Penni Chisholm
Columbia Falls, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 27 years experience
(406) 892-4356 516 First Avenue West
Personal Injury, Divorce and Family
Penni has been practicing law in Montana since 1992, specializing in litigation and family law. She has successfully tried cases across the state, preserving millions of dollars of assets for her clients in divorce cases and recovering millions of dollars for her clients in injury cases. Penni, her husband and partner Dean Chisholm, and their staff of five are Chisholm & Chisholm, P.C. The law firm represents individuals and businesses in a variety of legal matters throughout Montana. The firm offers the highest quality legal services to its clients in the relaxed atmosphere of its Columbia...
Scott Roy McLean
Hamilton, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 7 years experience
(406) 534-9421 716 South First Street
Hamilton, MT 59840
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Estate Planning, Probate and Products Liability
A considerate approach to the loss of a loved one. Montana Legacy Law, PLLC helps families navigate the process of death. Montana Legacy Law, PLLC practices in estates, Wills, real estate, bankruptcy, business law, personal injury, non-profit, and civil litigation. We are caring, and every client's needs are equally important to us, regardless of scope or size.
Scott Roy McLean is a Hamilton native who opened his own practice in 2017. Previously, Scott practiced in Washington, DC for six years where he attended law school at The George Washington University School of Law. Scott holds a bachelor's degree in business management....
Philip Lance McGrady
Whitefish, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 14 years experience
(406) 322-8647 309 Wisconsin Avenue
Whitefish, MT 59937
Personal Injury, Insurance Claims, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
Philip is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. While attending the University of Montana law school, Philip was a member of the National Moot Court Team, he clerked for United States Magistrate Judge Leif Erickson, and also taught first year law students legal research and legal writing. Following graduation, Philip clerked for Superior Court Judge Dan Hensley in Anchorage, Alaska, and then for Yellowstone County District Court Judge Russell Fagg in Billings, Montana, before joining Edwards, Frickle & Culver in 2005.
Philip has...
Michael Viscomi
(406) 862-7800 121 Wisconsin Ave
Charles Sprinkle
Libby, Mt Personal Injury Lawyer with 33 years experience
(406) 293-6267 417 Mineral Ave
Libby, MT 59923
Herman Austin Watson IV
Bozeman, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 5 years experience
(406) 586-4707 424 E Main St
Ste 203A
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal and DUI
University of California - Hastings College of the Law and Leiden Universitat
You could say he is well-rounded: Herman was born in Macon, Georgia, where etiquette and manners make an impression. However, he grew up in Montana, settling scores with a friendly punch in the face. As for schooling, the third-generation criminal defense attorney went to preparatory school outside Boston, where he learned well how to read and write, but attended college in Portland, Oregon, where he avoided doing either, choosing instead to invest in the burgeoning beer market; Herman has worked in and managed several bars across the globe. After year-long sojourns in Oxford, England, and Holland, where he studied...
Eric E Holm
Billings, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 11 years experience
(406) 252-2900 115 N. Broadway, Suite 304
Personal Injury, Employment and Insurance Claims
Eric Holm is a Montana attorney and founding member of Holm Law Firm, PLLC. Eric enjoys a civil litigation practice in the areas of personal injury, insurance disputes, employment law, business law and commercial litigation, and general civil litigation. He is a member of the American, State and Yellowstone Area Bar Associations and is admitted to practice before all Montana state courts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ben Snipes
(406) 761-5595 725 3rd Ave North
Free ConsultationGreat Falls, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 10 years experience
Ben Snipes is a plaintiff's personal injury attorney, specializing in serious injury cases. His practice presently focuses on catastrophic workplace injuries, trucking and motor vehicle accidents, asbestos related diseases and mesothelioma cases.
In addition to a traditional plaintiffs practice, Mr. Snipes carries a significant Qui Tam/False Claims Act whistleblower and workers' compensation caseload.
He is an AV Preeminent rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell® and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Montana by The National Trial Lawyers® since 2014. In 2018, he was recognized as a Rising Star (for attorneys 40 years or...
Helena, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 7 years experience
(406) 442-3261 Morrison, Sherwood, Wilson, and Deola, PLLP
401 N. Last Chance Gulch St.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Construction, Employment and Insurance Claims
Scott was born and raised in eastern Montana. He graduated with honors from the University of Montana Law School in 2011, where he served as the Articles Editor for the Montana Law Review. Scott also interned for a federal magistrate judge, the Honorable Jeremiah Lynch in Missoula. He competed on UM Law’s National Moot Court Team, and his team won both first place brief and first place overall for the Northwest Region. After law school, Scott served as a law clerk for the Honorable Brian Morris, a Justice at the Montana Supreme Court. Since joining private practice, Scott has...
Michael McKeon
Butte, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 10 years experience
(406) 494-8890 600 Dewey Blvd, Ste C
Michael J. McKeon Jr. was born and raised in Butte, Montana. Michael graduated from Butte Central High School in 2000 and then attended Villanova University, graduating with a B.A. in Communications in 2004. Michael attended law school at the University of Montana School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in May 2008.
Throughout his career, Michael’s has focused his practice on representing those who have been injured due to the negligence of others, including claims involving workplace accidents, personal injuries, insurance claims, slip/trip & fall claims, products liability and medical malpractice.
Michael is admitted to the Montana and U.S. District...
William Gilbert
(406) 254-8903 2718 Montana Ave
Personal Injury, Business, Construction and Insurance Claims
High Plains Law, P.L.L.C. is a general practice law firm servicing Central Montana from our office in downtown Billings. We are dedicated to giving our clients not only quality legal representation but also outstanding customer service and value. The grandson of Butte miners, Will Gilbert is a fourth generation Montanan. Will graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 2000 and has been practicing in Montana since that time. Prior to founding High Plains Law, P.L.L.C., he was a partner in a well-respected firm and focused his practice on insurance defense, including personal injury, premises liability, construction...
Colin Gerstner
Billings, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 6 years experience
(406) 969-3100 2702 Montana Ave Ste 201B
Personal Injury, Consumer and Insurance Claims
When Colin Gerstner went to college, he was studying history with no idea of what he really wanted to do with his life. Luckily, one of his professors gave him great advice to go to law school, hoping that he might find his passion. This was exactly the right fit for Colin, as law school gave him a new purpose, and showed him just how much he wanted to help people and be a part of social change.
He didn’t become an attorney to get rich, he just enjoys working with individuals and helping them get through whatever problem they are...
Benjamin C. Tiller
Helena, MT Personal Injury Attorney
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Bankruptcy, Business and Products Liability
University of Oregon School of Law
I focus my practice on business bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy, personal injury, and insurance law (including insurance bad faith). Here are a few examples of recent cases I have handled***: In a 2011 chapter 13 bankruptcy, I reduced the Debtors' second mortgage from $51,740.57 to $10,000.00 through an adversary proceeding against the lender. In a 2010 chapter 11 bankruptcy, I reduced a $202,248.12 secured obligation to $15,000.00 through an adversary proceeding against the lender. Obtained confirmation of a plan of reorganization that reduced the business's unsecured debt by 60%. Representing the Moonlight Basin Golf Club Member Committee in the Moonlight...
Craig Hensel
Billings, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 22 years experience
(406) 325-7000 1780 N. Shiloh Road
Suite B1
Craig C. Hensel has been practicing law in Billings, Montana since 1996. Craig is licensed in all state courts in Montana, all state courts in North Dakota, and Federal Court for the District of Montana. Craig spent over a decade as a prosecutor where he gained extensive courtroom and jury trial experience, trying hundreds of cases to verdict. Craig also has extensive civil experience and represented defendants and insurance companies in personal injury actions for several years, before deciding to switch sides and represent injured individuals.
“I used to work for insurance companies, and saw how they would drag out...
Douglas Day
(406) 272-6986 611 N 31st Street
Douglas Day has lived in Montana since 2001 when he and his family moved to Missoula to enter Law School at the University of Montana. Before that, Douglas completed a bachelor of science double major in biochemistry and cellular biology from the University of California, San Diego. It did not take long to fall in love with Big Sky country. After law school, his family moved to Lewistown to clerk for the 10th Judicial District Court for a year. Douglas then joined the Office of Public Defender as a Regional Deputy. He has served as...
Helena, MT Personal Injury Attorney with 11 years experience
(406) 442-7830 307 N Jackson St
New York University School of Law
Prior to joining Doubek, Pyfer & Storrar, PLLP Jon King founded Jonathan King PLLC and worked for some of the top law firms in the country, including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He also worked for United States District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips.
Since moving to Montana in 2012, Jon has dedicated himself to helping Montanans in Montana trial courts and before the Montana Supreme Court. “I represent people who have gone through stressful events and find themselves in tough situations, and I get to help them get back on their feet. I can’t...
James Ragain
(406) 651-8888 3936 Ave. B
Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice
University of Florida and Washburn University School of Law
Jim Ragain has over 40 years of substantial trial experience in both state and federal courts and has been nationally recognized by some of the industry's most prestigious awards including Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.
Veronica A. Procter
Billings, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 7 years experience
2718 Montana Avenue
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Civil Rights, Employment and Insurance Claims
Born and raised in Billings, Montana, Veronica A. Procter offers clients a personalized approach to identify and resolve a wide range of legal issues in a timely and cost effective manner. She will explain your legal rights, available remedies and guide you to the best choice to maximize your recovery or minimize your liability. justice, state and federal courts. She is admitted to practice in all Montana state courts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mathew Johnson
Helena, MT Personal Injury Lawyer with 19 years experience
(406) 442-3625 1085 Helena Avenue
Personal Injury, Criminal, DUI and Family
I have over 19 years experience in criminal law, DUI cases, divorces, family law, guardianships, and estates/probate. I am a former county attorney for 13 years. I handle cases in Helena and western Montana with my office located in Helena. Let me put my experience to work for you.
Keif Storrar
(406) 442-7830 307 N. Jackson
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Products Liability
Keif represents people who have been injured by the misconduct or negligence of others and seek justice in Montana’s courts. Keif handles cases involving motor vehicle accidents, defective products, medical malpractice, workers' compensation and breach of contract litigation. Keif is a member of the Montana State Bar and the Montana Trial Lawyers.
Philip Hohenlohe
(406) 443-4601 316 Fuller Ave.
Personal Injury, Civil Rights and Employment
Phil received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1989. In 1994, he graduated first in his class from George Washington University law school, where he served on the law review. He began his legal career as associate appellate counsel with the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the New York Legal Aid Society, and then served as a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then worked at the Montana Advocacy Program from 2002 to 2007, where he represented clients in state and federal courts and administrative agencies in cases of discrimination...
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When a person is injured, tort law will govern whether that person may be compensated for the injury, the amount of compensation that may be recovered, as well as which parties will be liable for the injury. Tort law, also known as injury law, comes from federal and state codes, as well as judicial opinions from prior cases. The amount of damages a plaintiff to a personal injury action may receive can be determined by statute, or by a judge or jury. Typical recoveries may include compensatory damages (e.g., lost wages, medical bills, etc.) and in particularly egregious situations, punitive damages. In some cases, a plaintiff may recover certain non-economic damages such as pain and suffering, loss of consortium, or loss of enjoyment of life.
Personal injury lawyers help injured people seek compensation from those who have harmed them. Some injury attorneys focus on a specific type of case, such as truck accidents, car accidents, slip-and-fall injuries, medical malpractice or products liability cases. If a person is injured as a result of criminal behavior, it may be appropriate to pursue a personal injury lawsuit in addition to the state's criminal investigation or prosecution.
Many personal injury attorneys offer a free consultation to evaluate your claim.
Negligence: Failure to use care which a reasonable and prudent person would use under similar circumstances.
Joint and several liability: A legal doctrine that makes each of the parties who are responsible for an injury, liable for all the damages awarded in a lawsuit if the other parties responsible cannot pay.
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Justia Lawyer Directory West Virginia East Bank Attorneys
East Bank, West Virginia Lawyers
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Gordon Billheimer Esq
Montgomery, WV Attorney with 70 years experience
Montgomery, WV 25136
Tiffany Marie Arbaugh Esq
Montgomery, WV Lawyer with 14 years experience
(304) 442-4506 606 4th Ave
Sarah Brack Esq
Seth S. Gaskins
Charleston, WV Lawyer with 6 years experience
(888) 451-1757 303 Washington Street, West
Divorce, Family, Immigration and Personal Injury
Seth has had a varied career and has taken a winding road to get to where he is today. "I'm kind of a jack of all trades," says Seth. Before founding Gaskins Law Group with his wife, Chelsea Walker-Gaskins, Seth was a coal miner, a teacher, Deputy Clerk of the West Virginia Court of Claims, and most recently serving as Chief Counsel to the House of Delegates' Committee on Energy. Seth also regularly performs consulting work for the energy industry on numerous issues involving insurance risk.
Seth attended Marshall University and later attended law school...
Thomas Wilson Esq
Charleston, WV Attorney with 34 years experience
(304) 345-5508 120 Capitol Street
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
30 years of litigation experience. Admitted to practice in WV, FL & CA.
Michelle Johnson Esq
Charleston, WV Lawyer with 21 years experience
(304) 768-5291 410 Tennessee Ave.
Free ConsultationDivorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Personal Injury
In 1997, Michelle Johnson graduated West Virginia University College of Law. With over 20 years of experience under her belt, Ms. Johnson has worked with cases involving auto accidents, premise liability, wrongful death, intentional acts, Mandolitis, product liability, nursing home negligence and medical malpractice. Michelle Johnson has worked in the federal district, state circuit, and magistrate courts in numerous bench trials, jury trials, and before Administrative Law Judges. On top of all of the experience Michelle has in the court, she is also a Professional Registered Nurse. With 30 years in the nursing field, Michelle can help you better than...
Elliot G. Hicks
(304) 400-4955 706 Central Avenue
I have been a trial lawyer since 1981, with a very broad practice mix. I have tried cases to verdict in many of the counties in West Virginia, and I have handled cases in nearly all of the counties in the state. My practice is now comprised of mediation and designing creative early dispute resolution programs tailored for my clients, all under the name Hicks Resolutions, PLLC. My mediation practice serves all of our region and beyond.
Sean McGinley Esq.
(304) 342-0133 604 Virginia Street East
Free ConsultationAntitrust, Appeals, Business and Consumer
Sean McGinley is a trial and appellate attorney. His statewide West Virginia law practice includes personal injury and accident cases, medical malpractice, coal mine injury and accidents, serious workplace accidents, commercial and business litigation, and class actions. During his twenty years practicing law, Mr. McGinley has helped his clients recover tens of millions of dollars. He is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. McGinley was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, and attended college at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, receiving an A.B. degree in 1987. He studied law at Oxford University (Keble College) in Oxford, England, where he obtained...
Charles Love IV
(304) 344-5683 405 Capitol Street, Suite 309
Charles "Chad" M. Love, IV, earned a Juris Doctorate from the West Virginia University College of Law. He graduated in economics and French, cum laude, from Denison University. Mr. Love has been acknowledged as being a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers Magazine in general plaintiffs litigation area for last seven years. He is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the West Virginia Association for Justice. He is right now an individual from the West Virginia Law Institute and also licensed as an Athletic Agent with the State of West...
David Roger Pence Esq
DUI and Social Security Disability
For over ten years, my office has been defending West Virginia citizens accused of driving under the influence and assisting disabled individuals secure the Social Security Disability Benefits they deserve.
Brooks West II
(877) 943-9378 1201 Jefferson Road
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brooks earned his Bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University in 1996. He then earned a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Personal Injury Law (Torts) for achieving the highest grade. He was also named to Thomas Jefferson’s Dean’s List and the National Dean’s List for outstanding academic performance. Brooks then spent several years working for a large personal injury law firm where he litigated complex, high value personal injury cases and environmental lawsuits, like the Nitro Dioxin Class Action against Monsanto. Brooks then...
Christopher Sears
(304) 444-8780 1471 Brook Road
Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Since 1999, he has been representing individuals, businesses, and insurance companies in both West Virginia and Ohio in a wide range of matters. He has gathered a vast wealth of experience at every stage of the litigation and appellate process in both state and federal courts and has appeared before numerous state agencies and boards. From pre-litigation activity to the final step of the appellate process, Mr. Sears has both the knowledge and tenacity to be the zealous advocate you are seeking.
What Mr. Sears loves most about the practice of law is both the written and oral advocacy....
William Schwartz Esq
(304) 343-4100 2018 Kanawha Blvd E
Free ConsultationNursing Home, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Bill Schwartz has been representing workers and families for many years. The National Trial Lawyers Association lists him as one of the top 100 lawyers in West Virginia and the publication Benchmark Litigation selected him as a litigation star. He represents injured workers and mesothelioma victims.
Mark Troy
Free ConsultationHealth Care, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
With over two decades of professional practice, I’ve assisted numerous clients throughout West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky in litigation, mediation, and arbitration, helping obtain millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements. No matter how complicated the case, my goal is to provide high-quality, results-driven service.
I am proud to hold an AV Distinguished® Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®, the most recognized attorney rating service in the country. This peer rating is based upon the comments of more than 20 attorneys and up to 4 judges in our community. I’ve also received Martindale-Hubbell’s® “Premier” Client Review Rating, which is the highest recognition given based...
Charles Johnstone II
(304) 343-7100 1125 Virginia St E
Business, Personal Injury and Real Estate
University of Kentucky College of Law
Charles M. Johnstone, II (“Sonny”) has been practicing law in the states of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky since graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1988. Sonny has helped thousands of individuals and businesses with their legal needs. His personal injury practice has covered a wide range of case types including, but not limited to, automobile accidents, trucking accidents, logging accidents, mining accident, medical malpractice, industrial accidents and slip and fall accidents. He has successfully tried and settled cases valued in the tens of millions of dollars.
Benjamin Salango
(304) 902-4266 108 Capitol St #300
Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Are you looking for a Charleston attorney who may be able to assist you in filing a personal injury claim? If so, it may be helpful for you to contact a lawyer from Preston & Salango, PLLC. The team of attorneys has over 40 years of combined legal experience, and they understand how overwhelming it is to be involved in an accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence. In addition, the lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers® Rising Stars ?Edition of 2012 and 2013, and the entire firm has been included in the U.S. News...
George E. Chamberlain
Charleston, WV Attorney
Jackson Kelly PLLC
Free ConsultationBusiness, Education, Employment and Insurance Defense
Mr. Chamberlain has extensive civil litigation experience and focuses his practice on commercial litigation, insurance litigation, and labor and employment litigation at state and federal levels. Mr. Chamberlain received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 2012. While in law school, he served as a Senior Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International law. He also worked as a member of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic where he counseled and advised corporate clients on a variety of legal issues. He also holds a Certificate in Trial Skills from the National Institute for Trial...
Barry John Nace
(304) 741-8079 3501 MacCorkle Avenue SE
Consumer, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Barry J. Nace has worked to protect the rights of victims of medical malpractice and other personal injuries, for nearly 40 years.
Anthony Cicconi Esq
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
I take pride in doing a good job for the people i represent and being available to them when they need to speak with me. Just check out what my clients say on lawyers.com. For almost 35 years i have been handling social security disability cases, workers’ compensation claims, long term disability claims, and insurance and accident claims. I graduated from the West Virginia University College of Law, where I was a member of the Board of Editors of the West Virginia Law Review. My workers’ compensation practice covers all of West Virginia and my Social Security disability practice...
Tony O'Dell Esq
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Tony O'Dell has 20 years of experience helping his clients navigate through some of the toughest times in their lives. He has handled multi-million dollar cases involving auto accidents, medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, nursing home neglect and abuse, insurance bad faith and trucking accidents. Tony prides himself on providing diligent and aggressive representation to his clients, while ensuring that he is responsive to their needs and questions. Many clients continue to call him well after their cases are resolved, seeking advice or just to stay in touch. It is for this reason that many of Tonyâs clients and former...
Dean Hartley Esq
227 Capitol Street
Asbestos, Maritime, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Attorney Dean Hartley is one of the founding attorneys at Hartley and O’Brien, PLLC. Mr. Hartley received his Bachelor of Sciences degree from East Carolina University in 1978. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 1981 from West Virginia University College of Law. Attorney Hartley has a strong passion for personal injury victims and puts his knowledge of the law to use in order to help clients achieve their rightful compensation. Mr. Hartley makes it his personal mission to step in and fight for the rights of those who have been injured on the job due to exposure of toxic...
Charles "Rusty" Webb
(888) 344-9322 The Webb Law Centre
716 Lee Street, East
Collections, Consumer, Divorce and Personal Injury
I received my Bachelors Degree in Political Science at Marshall University in 1983. I attended graduate school at Marshall University for the academic year 1983-1984. Beginning academic year 1984 I attended the Ohio Northern University School of Law. In the summer of 1985 I attended the University of Notre Dame’s London summer law program in London, England where I studied international law. While in London, I learned that I had been accepted for transfer to the West Virginia University College of Law, where I received my law degree in May of 1987. I have practiced...
William Tiano Esq
Robert Berthold Jr
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Robert Berthold Jr is a Charleston personal injury attorney and founder of Berthold Law Firm. Robert completed his undergraduate education at West Virginia University in 1973, where he graduated cum laude.
J. Michael Prascik
700 Virginia Street East
Asbestos, Maritime and Personal Injury
Attorney J. Michael Prascik received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Sociology magna cum laude in 1999 from West Virginia University. In 2002, he earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in the Legal Research and Writing Program. Mr. Prascik is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, the Ohio Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice. In 2002, Attorney Prascik joined Hartley Law Group, PLLC, where he has represented clients against corporate defendants in complex litigation in fourteen states and a...
Kathy Alice Brown Esq
(304) 720-2351 405 Capitol Street, Suite 1001
Asbestos, Employment, Insurance Claims and Medical Malpractice
A Former TV anchor and investigative reporter now has her own law firm. Kathy Brown struck out on her own this year. Brown represents individuals who have been injured through no fault of their own. Brownâs office, Kathy Brown Law, PLLC, is located in Charleston, WV where she currently resides, but she has a statewide practice. She currently handles cases for clients in Cabell, Kanawha, Ohio, Nicholas and Marshall Counties. Brown was a television newscaster at WSAZ-TV in Huntington-Charleston for nearly 20 years before heading off to law school. She is a 2001 graduate of the West Virginia University...
Keith Hoover
Charleston, WV Attorney with 9 years experience
(304) 340-2918 1900 Kanawha Blvd East
Building 1, Room E-100
Administrative, Business and Employment
Ross Miltner
Charleston, WV Lawyer
(877) 526-3457 500 Virginia St. E., Ste. 710
Ohio Northern University
Presenting a strong and well-planned argument for each clientâs case at their hearing. This is the goal that attorney Ross Miltner has in mind when he begins working on every case. When asked what he enjoys most about working with his clients, Ross cited the sense of satisfaction he gets from helping make a difference in the lives of others. As a member of the Jan Dils team since December, 2012, Ross also enjoys the teamwork in the office, and the upbeat attitude of each team member. Prior to joining Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law, Ross earned his B.A. degree...
C. Page Hamrick III
(304) 345-8283 1550 Kanawha Blvd. East
Bankruptcy, Divorce, Estate Planning and Foreclosure Defense
Chris Heavens
Free ConsultationAnimal, Construction, Consumer and Employment
Paul Perfater Esq
Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
West Virginia University College of Law and Gonzaga University School of Law
Harry Bell Jr
(800) 342-1701 30 Capitol St
Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Jane Charnock
(304) 982-6778 P.O. Box 20525
Attorney with over two decades' experience in a variety of fields, including criminal defense, family and personal injury. Former judge and assistant prosecuting attorney.
Allyson E. Hilliard
Divorce and Family
Jacqueline Hallinan Esq
(304) 346-1201 100 Capitol St
Criminal, DUI, Municipal and Social Security Disability
David Schles Esq
(304) 344-1559 815 Quarrier St
Appeals, Criminal, DUI and Juvenile
The Law Office of David Schles will provide personal representation. If you are facing criminal charges, you need an experienced and aggressive criminal defense lawyer, not a secretary or a paralegal responding for a lawyer who does not communicate directly with you. At the Law Office of David Schles, David Schles will be personally available to keep you fully informed about all aspects of your case and involve you in all important decisions concerning your case. David Schles attended West Virginia University (B.A. Political Science and History, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), George Washington University, and the West Virginia University...
Jerred Roth
Appeals, Military and Social Security Disability
With his experience and expertise, attorney Jerred Roth had his choice of legal practices—but he chose to join the Jan Dils team. One of the reasons he did so was the fact that the entire Jan Dils family is so committed to fighting for the benfits each and every one of their clients deserve. Prior to joining Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law in January 2013, Jerred was a member of two different legal practices in Lexington, Kentucky. Before that, he earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from West Virginia Wesleyan College, and completed law school...
Madeline G. George
(304) 553-0830 1125 Virginia Street East
Business, Construction, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Madeline “Maddie” George joined Johnstone & Gabhart, LLP in August of 2013. In 2008, Maddie graduated from Rhodes College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. While at Rhodes, Maddie was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority and also a senior representative of the Panhellenic counsel. Following graduation from Rhodes College, Maddie moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked for a lobbying firm for two years. Maddie received her Juris Doctorate degree from the West Virginia University College of Law 2013. As an Associate at Johnstone & Gabhart, Maddie focuses...
Jeffrey Jones Esq
(304) 346-5990 346 Myrtle Rd
Christopher Thomas Nace
Business, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
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Charlestown, WV
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Justia Lawyer Directory Workers' Compensation North Carolina Wilson County Attorneys
Wilson County, North Carolina Workers' Compensation Lawyers
Find Wilson County, North Carolina Workers' Compensation Lawyers by City
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Mr. B. Perry Morrison Jr.
Wilson County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer
(252) 243-1003 4612 Nash Street North
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
After 15 years with other firms, I started my own law practice in 2004. I am a disability lawyer practicing before the N.C. Industrial Commission and the Social Security Administration.
Andrew Whitley
Wilson County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney
(252) 291-7500 309 Mt Vernon Dr NW
Albeon G Anderson Jr
Nash County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney with 50 years experience
(800) 441-0095 1605 W Thomas St
Rocky Mt, NC 27804
Al Patrick
Pitt County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney with 33 years experience
(252) 353-1333 110 East Arlington Boulevard
Workers' Comp, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Wake Forest University School of Law and University of Arkansas School of Law
Brian C. Gambrell
Pitt County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 18 years experience
(800) 351-3008 313 Evans St
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brian is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2000. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, and he has served on numerous committees including the Ethics Advisory Committee, Professional Responsibility Committee, and the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.
Brian and his wife, Amy, have two sons. Brian has served as a volunteer youth soccer coach for more than 10 years. He is also an avid band parent and enjoys playing computer/video/board games with his boys in his spare time.
Gene A. Riddle
Wayne County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney with 34 years experience
(919) 778-9700 601 N Spence Ave
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Employment, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
For more than 30 years, Gene Riddle has been fighting for the rights of the injured. As the founder and Managing Partner of Riddle & Brantley, LLP, Gene has earned a reputation of excellence within the legal community and is a valued leader at our law firm.
Today, Gene believes honesty, integrity and willingness to work hard are the bedrock principles of a good attorney. That is what he and the other lawyers at Riddle & Brantley provide to their injured clients. Gene spends much of his time reviewing cases as well as instructing and supervising attorneys and paralegals. However, he...
George Wright Lennon
Wake County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney with 42 years experience
(919) 856-9000 3622 Haworth Drive
40+ years of legal experience. Our firm limits its practice to representation of injured and disabled claimants in NC workers Compensation and Social Security Disability cases. Board Certified Specialist in NC Workers' Compensation Law. Licensed to practice in State and Federal courts. AV rated by Martindale Hubbell. Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Best Law Firms, Americas Most Honored Professionals, etc. Member, NC Advocates for Justice, NC Bar Association, National Association of Social Security Claimants Representatives. Captain, JAGC, USNR (Ret.)
Jerry Parker Jr
Harnett County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney
(910) 591-2551 600 W Cumberland St
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Animal, Business and Personal Injury
Jerry D. Parker, Jr., is a co-founding principal partner of Parker & Frey, PLLC. Mr. Parker directs all litigation operations. Mr. Parker is personally involved in every case and insures that each client receives impeccable representation. Mr. Parker's litigation team includes very experienced attorneys and paralegals as well as investigators who have worked as a cohesive unit successfully for over 25 years. Jerry recently received an AV rating from his peers, which means that he was deemed to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability. Only lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability receive a...
Kenneth Gregory Gunter
Wake County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 18 years experience
(919) 670-1070 4940-A Windy Hill Drive
For more than a decade, K. Gregory Gunter has been working hard to protect the rights of his North Carolina clients with their workers' compensation - personal injury cases and is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, a prominent group dedicated to doing the same.
Pitt County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney
(252) 353-5500 1702-A E. Arlington Blvd.
Workers' Comp, Consumer and Personal Injury
Mississippi College School of Law
Do you need quality legal advice? Then look to Ben Whitely, of Whitley Law Firm. Don’t suffer through your personal injury alone. Contact a Raleigh personal injury lawyer to schedule a meeting today!
David Vtipil
(919) 661-9000 3701 Lake Boone Trail
Workers' Comp, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Social Security Disability
David Vtipil is a skilled personal injury lawyer serving North Carolina. He handles cases in many different areas including car accidents, work injuries, dog bites, and more. David is also a NC certified board specialist in Workers' Compensation cases. He has won many awards including being named one of the Best Lawyers in America in the field of workers' compensation law.
Robert Adam Frey
(910) 591-2551 600 W. Cumberland St.
Robert Frey is recognized by his peers and his clients as an expert in Workers' Compensation cases. In his law career, he has helped countless of injured workers and their families obtain the medical care and the compensation they deserve. Known for his accessibility, compassion and tenacious trial preparation, Mr. Frey is one of the leading worker's compensation attorneys in North Carolina. Mr. Frey has litigated complex workers compensation and personal injury cases. He takes pride not only in advocating for victims of workplace and personal injury, but in providing them with the resources and information they...
Timothy Burch
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Tim is a Trial Lawyer that you can trust when you or a family member has been injured. He has dedicated his career to representing individuals and families facing the uncertainty of how to navigate the process of filing and successfully pursuing a claim against the at-fault party and their insurance company when an injury occurs. Tim is grateful to be able to work with the professional staff and attorneys who make up the Law Offices of Jason E. Taylor, P.C. as they demonstrate daily their commitment to excellence in law. The firm has locations in multiple...
David Hyland
(919) 419-9933 3737 Glenwood Ave, Ste 100
Chris Hyland is an experiences personal injury lawyer and managing partner at Hyland + Padilla, PLLC. He is committed to protecting the rights of injury victims in Raleigh and Durham. Chris attended College of Wooster for his undergraduate degree and earned his Juris Doctor from Campbell University School of Law. Active in the legal community, he is a current member, and former president, of the Durham County Bar Association. He is also a part of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Fourteenth Judicial District, the North Carolina Bar Association, and more. For his dedication and success, he was awarded the...
Jason E. Taylor
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Construction, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Jeannette Griffith Congdon
(919) 552-6940 1000 N. Main St.
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Arbitration & Mediation and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
Jeannette has 11 years of experience working in the insurance industry in claims handling. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants and is bilingual in Spanish and English.
William J. Vasquez
Johnston County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 7 years experience
(919) 989-3000 612 S Bright Leaf Blvd
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Criminal, Immigration and Personal Injury
North Carolina Central University
William Vásquez is a native of Queens, NY. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 2000-2007. He is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and received the Joint Service Achievement Medal for his work as a Spanish linguist for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2005. William graduated from Campbell University in 2007 with a degree in computer science. He earned his J.D. in 2011 from the North Carolina Central University School of Law. His practice areas include immigration law and criminal defense cases. He is licensed and in good standing with the State Bar of North Carolina and...
Kelly Stevens
(919) 277-0161 5540 McNeely Drive, #202
University of Missouri - Columbia
Kelly A. Stevens is a co-founder and managing member of the law firm of Hemmings & Stevens, P.L.L.C. and has been practicing as an attorney since 1994. She grew up in the mid-west and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. While in college she was elected President of her pre-law fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta. She attended law school at the University of Missouri-Columbia and graduated in 1994. While in law school she performed an internship at the Attorney General's Office for the State of Missouri and later clerked for...
Mr. Brent Adams
(919) 863-0877 3200 Wake Forest Road, Suite 275
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
North Carolina personal injury lawyer Brenton D. Adams has represented individuals against insurance companies since 1973. Mr. Adams is board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocacy Forum. He has been selected as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in North Carolina by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Adams has given lectures to trial lawyers at numerous seminars dealing with trial advocacy and trial practice issues. Among the trial lawyer organizations at which Mr. Adams has lectured are the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, The North Carolina Bar Association,...
Mr Jonathan M. Smith
Wayne County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 9 years experience
As a Goldsboro native, Mr. Smith brings a wealth of knowledge to the law offices of Riddle & Brantley and has received numerous accolades within the legal community including being a recipient of the National Trial Lawyers To 40 Under 40 Award.
Naomi L. Ellis
(919) 229-8359 1511 Sunday Dr
Free ConsultationWake County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney with 5 years experience
Workers' Comp, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
North Carolina Central University School of Law
Naomi has been with Maurer Law since 2015 and serves in an "Of Counsel" role at the firm. She practices personal injury law focusing primarily on motor vehicle accidents, motorcycle accidents, trucking accidents and slip and falls. After many years of representing injured clients, Naomi has a unique understanding of the difficulties and stresses an accident and injury can place on a person's life. She is very passionate about helping her clients through these difficult times and fights to ensure her clients are fairly compensated for their losses.
Naomi graduated with honors from North Carolina Central University School of Law where...
Steven Corriveau
Wake County, NC Workers' Compensation Attorney
(800) 662-1234 4140 Parklake Ave
Steven maintains a varied practice focusing on representing workers who have been injured on the job and people who have been injured due to the negligence of others. His practice also includes representing consumers who have been harmed by unfair or deceptive business practices.
Steven started his legal career with the office of the North Carolina Attorney General, where he worked primarily defending the state of North Carolina in workers’ compensation cases, before deciding to join Martin & Jones out of a desire to help real people who have been injured or harmed. Steven understands how difficult it is for people...
David Spencer
(919) 787-9944 2443 Lynn Road
A North Carolina native, David was born and raised in a commercial fishing family on the Outer Banks. He decided to attend law school while he was at North Carolina State University earning dual BAs in Economics and Business Management. Even then, he knew that “fighting for the little guy” was his destiny. After 20 years, he and his partners continue to stand for the same principles.
An avid Top Dragster racer (with an IHRA Class B license), David has written articles on the importance of adequate insurance coverage and appropriate legal representation for several racing industry publications.
He spent years dedicated...
Robert Younce Jr
Workers' Comp, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mr Jesse C. Brantley
Wayne County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 26 years experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Social Security Disability
Mr. Brantley is a co-founder and Partner at the law offices of Riddle & Brantley, LLP. With a proven track record obtained from representing thousands of clients throughout North Carolina, Christopher is a board-certified North Carolina State Bar Specialist in Workers’ Compensation law that is also a recipient of the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum award. An honor provided to less than 1% of all trial lawyers in the United States that recognizes his achievement of obtaining a trial verdict, award or settlement in excess of $1 million or more.
Howard Kurtz
(888) 505-7780 434 Fayetteville Street
Workers' Comp, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
University of North Carolina School of Law
Since 1992 I have focused my practice primarily on criminal defense. In 1998, along with Seth Blum, I founded the Raleigh Law Firm of Kurtz & Blum PLLC. At Kurtz & Blum we help people who have been accused of crimes from minor traffic cases and DWIs all the way up through high profile murder trials. On our civil side we help people who have been harmed by the negligence of another such as in car wrecks, nursing home negligence cases and legal malpractice cases. We round out our practice by helping people with family law...
Mrs. Kimberly Bishop
(919) 615-3095 8374 Six Forks Rd STE 101
Workers' Comp, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Kimberly Blackwell (maiden name) was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Law Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008, she married her husband, Malcolm F. Bishop, III. In 2012, she changed her name to Kimberly D. Bishop. Kimberly D. Bishop, Attorney at Law has dedicated her practice to Social Security Disability Law since 2009. She has appeared before Raleigh, Greensboro, Fayetteville and Charlotte Administrative Law Judges. She also has experience with the Appeals Council and Federal Court. She...
Jeremy Tanner
Johnston County, NC Workers' Compensation Lawyer
10027 Us 70 Business Hwy W
Jeremy concentrates in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, workers' compensation, social security and medical malpractice. He has tried cases in the Superior and District Courts as well as before the Industrial Commission and Administrative Law Judges. In 2003, Jeremy received the Commonwealth of Kentucky's Highest Civilian Honor. Jeremy received his undergraduate degree from St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and his law degree from Widener University in Delaware. In addition to being licensed as an Attorney, Jeremy also holds a Real Estate Sales License and is certified as both a mediator and arbitrator.
Aaron Hemmings Esq
(919) 277-0161 5613 Duraleigh Rd
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University of Dayton School of Law
Aaron C. Hemmings is a co-founder of the law firm of Hemmings & Stevens, PLLC, and has been a practicing attorney since 1999. His practice includes Consumer Class Actions, Banking Law, Insurance Bad Faith, Professional Negligence and other Civil Litigation. In 2005, Aaron Hemmings and Kelly Stevens decided to start their own law firm and co-founded Hemmings & Stevens, PLLC. They opened their doors on September 5, 2005. Since then and throughout his career, Aaron has aggressively represented individuals and small businesses in cases involving consumer fraud, and wrongfully denied insurance claims. Aaron has represented clients in numerous jury...
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A personal injury is traumatic, a legal battle shouldn’t be. Look to Brad Clark of Whitley Law Firm for your help. Contact a personal injury lawyer in Raleigh today for your personalized advice!
Kurt Dixon
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Reagan Weaver
(919) 828-0363 P. O. Box 25096
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Profile » Biography » Women Empowerment
Dr. Maratha Farrell Profile, Early Life, Achievements, Awards, Social Works
Dr. Maratha Farrell Biography, Profile, Early Life, Education, Family Background, Social Works, Awards, Achievements
Dr Maratha Farrell Indian social work congress in New Delhi.
In the 6th Indian social work congress in New Delhi, late Dr Maratha Farrell has been honoured by lifetime achievement award.
Dr Maratha Farrell was recognized for her lifelong work towards gender equality, women empowerment, and prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace.
Dr Maratha Farrell was born on 5 June 1959 in New Delhi.
Dr Maratha Farrell studied English literature at Delhi University and did master of social work at the Delhi school of social work.
Dr Maratha Farrell completed her PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2013.
Dr Maratha Farrell began her career in 1981 as a literacy worker at Ankur, an NGO working for women's literacy and empowerment in Delhi.
In 2014 she published her first Indian book on the subject Gender discrimination and prevention of sexual harassment in the organization.
Dr Maratha Farrell wrote many other books on other issues related to it Adult education, Environment, occupational health and safety, Gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.
Dr Maratha Farrell was among 14 people killed in terrorist attack on a guest house in Kabul, Afganistan on 13 May 2015.
Dr Maratha Farrell has been leading a gender training workshop with the Aga Khan Foundation in Kabul at the time of the attack.
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Yuba City, CA Cremation Services
What to Expect from Cremation Services in Yuba City, CA
Cremation services in Yuba City, CA completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Yuba City, CA. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Yuba City, CA.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Yuba City, CA?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Yuba City, CA cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Yuba City, CA. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
Were you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Yuba City, CA cremation costs and choose it as their best option
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Yuba City, CA will undertake the facility.
Yuba City, CA cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Yuba City, CA.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Yuba City, CA cremation services.
The Yuba City, CA cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Yuba City, CA cremation services.
Religious Questions in Yuba City, CA
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Yuba City, CA cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Yuba City, CA cremation services.
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The Red Journey: Oral history
BUY the book at DeCoubertin.
The Red Journey: Oral history is the latest offering from Mark Platt who from variety of sources and his own interviews offers insight into the minds of those who have graced Liverpool Football Club's history from the very beginning. Mark has done great work promoting the club's history in his celebrated documentaries on the official TV channel of Liverpool and in various publications associated with LFC.
Here is an excerpt from the book that deals with the summer of 1977 that saw the departure of Kevin Keegan and arrival of Kenny Dalglish.
Terry McDermott: Kevin and Kenny were the two best players I ever played with.
Bob Paisley: I told Kenny when he arrived that I wished we still had Kevin too. Then it would simply have been a case of choosing the other nine players and a substitute and I’d expect to win the Grand National as well as cups and championships! There is no doubt in my mind that Kevin and Kenny together would have formed a lethal blend. Great players can always play together.
Bill Shankly: They would have to form a society for the prevention of cruelty to opponents if the two of them were in the same team.
Kevin Keegan: Six years is an awfully long time in football. It may only seem a short period of time to people outside the game but bearing in mind the average career only lasts between twelve and fifteen years, spending six of them at one club is a large percentage of a players’ time in the game. The fact that I won so much during my time at Liverpool is something which will always give me a lot of pleasure but it wasn’t that difficult a decision to leave in the end because I felt I was stagnating at Liverpool. Shankly had gone and I just felt that there was another mountain for me to climb somewhere.
Terry McDermott: We thought no-one could take the place of Kevin Keegan, he was the superstar of English football. Of course, he’d given the club a year’s notice of his intention to leave but, still, when he left in the summer of 1977 we were all gutted because he was such a fantastic player and a terrific role model for us all.
Kevin Keegan: A deal had been done twelve months before. I’d signed on for one last year at Liverpool and a fee for me to leave was fixed at £500,000. It was a good deal for both of us and I think it would have been a mistake not to announce it. It was the right thing to do. I was just being honest with the punters and I think a lot of them accepted my reasons. It was out there and everyone knew what was happening. For Liverpool it gave them a year to find my replacement, to go out and head-hunt the right person. As it happens they didn’t do too badly out of it because they went out and bought Kenny Dalglish. Having sold me for £500,000 and paying £440,000 for Kenny they banked £60,000, which, as it turned out, was a great piece of business.
Bob Paisley: I just hoped that after the trials and tribulations of my early years in management, someone up high would smile on me and guide my hand. My plea was answered when we got Kenny Dalglish. What a player, what a great professional. Just as Kevin had wanted a new challenge, so Kenny let it be known to Celtic that he was unsettled and wanted to embark on a new chapter of his career.
Kenny Dalglish: There was something very appealing about Liverpool. I was there briefly as a 15-year- old when Bill Shankly was manager, and I knew it was similar to Celtic. When the time came for me to leave Parkhead there was only one place I wanted to go and that was Liverpool. I also knew they’d give me the chance of success in Europe which I was yearning for.
Terry McDermott: We were all wondering who they’d bring in and there’d been rumours that it would be Kenny Dalglish. Obviously we knew about what he’d done up in Scotland. Everyone was aware of the goals he’d scored there but that was no guarantee that he’d fit in at Liverpool. It was only natural that we were a bit wary when he joined. Within half an hour of his first training session with us though we realised just what a talent he was. That’s all it took. He was beyond belief really. What a replacement. Bob Paisley was a great spotter of talent but credit also to Geoff Twentyman who must have been to watch him.
Bob Paisley: It wasn’t just Kevin’s departure that made me go for Kenny. It was the fact that Kenny looked so much a Liverpool-type player because of his attitude to the game. He did the simple things and he was so consistent.
Phil Thompson: We’d always thought that Dalglish was a good player, we’d heard so much of him, but we didn’t realise what a great player he was until he came to Liverpool. From the first games you knew of his ability, what he could do, not only for himself, he could create space, he could create goals, but what he could do for everybody else. He could hold the ball up, turn the ball into everybody and create things. He had assists galore and we knew that if we could get the ball into his feet, in and around the box, he’d cause havoc and he did that for the rest of his career at Liverpool.
Ronnie Moran: It was a lot of money to pay in those days and there was always a saying that players needed time to ‘feel their way’ when they came to a new club. Not Kenny. He went straight in. I think the Charity Shield was his first game, then we went to Middlesbrough on the opening day of the season and he scored. He was that good a player, he just muscled in to everything, you didn’t have to ask him to work. He was a great player who worked all the time.
Tommy Smith: He came down and was as good as anybody I’d ever seen, one of the greatest players ever. There was no big fuss. He just got on with it and you could tell straight away that he was one of us.
Kenny Dalglish: I felt comfortable the very first time I walked into the place. That was the thing that struck me in training. They’d just come straight off two trophies the year before and they just said, ‘You get nothing for last year’. The attitude was magnificent.
Phil Thompson: He settled very, very, quickly. He was quite shy, was Kenny, but I think Glaswegians and Scousers had always got along very well. They’ve got quite a similar mentality. He was a great laugh. He liked to laugh and joke. I couldn’t understand him too much in those early days, but he went on to make himself a legend at the club.
Kenny Dalglish: The great thing about when I arrived is that there were a lot of people at Liverpool who were well set in their ways. When I got there it wasn’t difficult to get into the Liverpool way of doing things because if I hadn’t I would have been out of tune. Everything was set up for me to just slot in. But it wasn’t like a machine because a machine doesn’t have any feeling.
Phil Thompson: Because we were a good team with good players, we understood his ability and played to his strengths and he gave so much back, he was such a tremendous team player.
Ray Clemence: Kenny Dalglish was the best I ever played with. He could score, create, hold the ball up. I’ve played against Pele and Johan Cruyff, but Kenny was magical. He was a dream to have in your side, but a nightmare to face because you were always wondering what trick he’d come up with next.
David Johnson: What people don’t realise is that he wasn’t just a great player, he was also unselfish and his bravery, something no one ever mentions, was something else. In our playing days, players could tackle from behind and as Kenny’s game was holding the ball up and linking the play, the amount of stick he used to get from defenders sliding in and tackling him from behind was unbelievable. I’ve seen him in the dressing room afterwards and his legs were cut to ribbons. It just shows you how tough he was because he hardly ever missed a game. So he was a great, great player, but brave as well.
Bob Paisley: The best buy we ever made.
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G.E.M. Requests for Contract Termination from Management Agency
By addy on March 7, 2019 in MUSIC, NEWS
In a public statement released on social media Thursday night, Hong Kong singer G.E.M. (鄧紫棋) announced her decision to request for early contract termination from her agency Hummingbird Music (蜂鳥音樂), her management agency of 11 years.
The decision did not come lightly for G.E.M., who sat on the idea for months. She began to consult a lawyer three months ago, which helped her throughout the negotiation process. G.E.M. said her agency had “severely breached contract terms” and received jobs for her without considering her consent. For months, G.E.M. had tried to maintain peace by yielding to the company’s demands, even if they were in violation of her contractual rights. After giving multiple second chances, G.E.M. has decided that it is finally time to step up and say no.
G.E.M.’s statement is as follows:
In my life, besides my father, you two were the men I trusted the most. It’s a pity that we have come to this, the end.
These years I have tried again and again to adjust my mindset while being treated unfairly; time and time again I brushed off my tears and reminded myself to stay peaceful, be patient and accommodating; even a few months ago when I discovered that my agency had severely breached contract terms, I stayed calm and tried my best to communicate with them, hoping to settle with peace. I know in my conscience, I’d really tried my best.
For three months, I communicated with my lawyer every single day, and even brought my lawyer along during negotiations with my agency. We even hired a mediator. Time and time again I lowered myself, and during this process, I continued to do the jobs that they’ve already given me (besides one, which was an endorsement contract that my agency had signed without my permission). I accommodated and made an effort to finish the jobs because I wanted to peacefully settle in a low profile manner. In late January, I thought we were getting closer to a settlement, which was why I talked about the second part of my concert tour on Weibo. I did not expect that it would come to this. They even disregarded the severity of the situation and continued to announce new dates for the tour. I really didn’t want this to turn into a big deal.
My lawyer had asked me to consider legal action multiple times. There were times when I felt angry and was close to doing it, but I still gave them a second chance, because I believed there could still be a peaceful resolution. It wasn’t until today when I’ve reached my limit. Tomorrow, I will be leaving for Macau for concert rehearsals. Should I continue to let this pressure compromise me?
A few days ago when I was on the plane, I watched the film Green Book. Jamaican American pianist Don Shirley had been receiving unfair treatment. On the day of his final performance in Birmingham, he was refused entry into a whites-only restaurant. Don Shirley stopped Tony Lip from attacking the owner and told him, “You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity.” At the same time, he stood up for himself and refused to perform. That scene really encouraged me.
After considering over and over again, I finally came to a decision. As for the upcoming eight shows that have already been sold, as well as the announced dates, I will not cancel them and will continue to perform my best. I don’t want to let down the fans who have already purchased tickets. However, I am now declaring my position: Hummingbird Music and I no longer have an agency and artist relationship. I am willing to continue the last eight shows of my concert because I want to reduce the amount of damage as much as possible.
Three feet of ice does not form in a single day. I’ve come to this stage only after losing hope from a long journey. No matter what, I know I really have to stand up for myself this time. I really do not want this to end up in court, but if that is the only way to justice, then I will face it with courage. I will not back down!
Finally, I am extremely thankful to those who continue to love and support me. You give me the courage and power! Thank you!
Source: On.cc
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
TAGS: G.E.M., G.E.M. Tang, Hummingbird Music
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4 comments to G.E.M. Requests for Contract Termination from Management Agency
Well her agent Tan Cheung is def the one going against GEMs wishes. He’s the one thhat caused those incidents with HK reporters which started the rumours that GEM is rude and all that… wonder if Lupo is on this too.
So maybe GEM didn’t want to have additional tour dates …. Tan is really just treating her as a money tree ever since she went on I am a Singer.
terrycrews19 replied:
@bubbles23
Tan cheung always rubbed me the wrong way, he seemed to much of a narcissist and a huge snake.
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hazel replied:
@bubbles23 Totally agree. Tan Cheung really thinks he’s a superstar manager. I feel like GEM has gotten tired of being his workhorse for the past five years, but he keeps taking up job offers for her without her consent. Considering how much she makes (and how much he gets from her), she should have a say in what she wants to do.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out because Tan needs her more than she needs him. He has nothing without her, whereas GEM can sign to a big international company after this dispute because she’s still marketable and obviously has the talent.
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tomtom says:
Hummingbird Music, like most Hong Kong business, only have the capacity look for short monetary gain instead of long term growth and development.
Really hope GEM will find a better management agency to continue her future growth. She does have talent.
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Enforcement Guidance › Reasonable Accommodation › Supreme Court of the United States
Quirky Question #266: What’s up with Pregnancy Discrimination?
by Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/15/2015
Question: Over the summer, we heard a lot about new guidance on pregnancy discrimination. What do we need to know to ensure we are complying with local, state, and federal laws on pregnancy discrimination?...more
Impact of Young V. UPS and Steps for Employers
by Jaburg Wilk on 7/8/2015
Since 1978, pregnancy and pregnancy related health conditions have been protected conditions under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”). A recent Supreme Court case, Young v. UPS may increase the ability of pregnant...more
Labor and Employment: The Supreme Court Addresses Pregnancy Accommodations Under Title VII (4/15)
by Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 4/7/2015
On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., which centered on whether UPS unlawfully discriminated against a pregnant employee by denying her a light-duty...more
Supreme Court Clarifies Framework for Proving Discrimination Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
by Goodwin on 4/3/2015
The Supreme Court recently clarified the framework that applies to certain claims for accommodations under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (the “PDA”). The case, Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., was a partial victory...more
Supreme Court Clarifies Test for Accommodating Pregnancy Limitations
by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/3/2015
The United States Supreme Court recently established a new test to evaluate whether an employer discriminates against a pregnant employee under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) when it denies an accommodation or...more
Supreme Court Delivers New Life to Pregnancy Discrimination Act Claim
by Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/1/2015
In an eagerly awaited ruling expected to provide greater guidance on an employer’s obligation to accommodate pregnant employees, last week the U.S. Supreme Court established the standard an employee must meet to state a...more
Pregnancy: Employers’ newest “accommodation obligation”
by Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 4/1/2015
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Supreme Court Crafts Modified McDonnell Douglas Analysis to Handle Pregnancy Discrimination Claims
by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/31/2015
On March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a long-awaited decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., wherein the Court vacated the Fourth Circuit’s decision to affirm UPS’s successful motion for...more
PDA and Young: Pregnancy Discrimination Law to Break from Its Infancy
by Orrick - Global Employment Law Group on 7/16/2014
On the heels of the Hobby Lobby decision in late June, the Supreme Court has signaled that women’s health issues in the workplace will continue to be a central issue by granting a petition for certiorari in Young v. United...more
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Amanda Jewell
Associate Attorney at Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC
Amanda Jewell joined Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC as an Associate in 2019. Her areas of practice include labor, employment, student discipline, special education, Right-to-Know, and general solicitor work.
Before joining WBK, Amanda was a judicial clerk at the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania where she served in the chambers of Senior Judge Pellegrini. Amanda is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, active in both the Young Lawyers Division, and the Municipal and School Solicitors sections of the ACBA. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, a Master’s in Art History from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, and her Bachelor of Arts from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky where she studied both art history and theater.
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Stan Lee And The Death Of A Jewish-American Idealism
Stan Lee,creator of Spider-Man. Guardian video obit here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/12/stan-lee-spider-man-x-men-avengers-marvel-universe-dies
Stan Lee, Jewish superhero and co-creator of Marvel Comics superheroes including Spider-Man and the X-Men, has died.
Paul Lee writes: “Born Stanley Lieber on December 28, 1922, Lee helped usher comic books’ rise to an art form, a distinctly American mythology inked onto his issues’ panels like handprints on cave walls. Alongside fellow Yids like Jack Kirby, as well as DC’s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Lee co-created characters who came to represent the best of what America can, and should, be…”
Now read on!
Andrew Paul, Forward
A friend of mine once said there are three unarguably American creations: Baseball, Jazz, and Comic Books. Jews historically had a hand in all of them, but thanks to geniuses like Stan Lee, the latter is what we can claim as truly ours. Stan Lee’s passing marks the end of an era not only for American pop culture, but for modern Jews’ influence upon it. It’s also a conclusion that potentially signifies the death of something even larger.
Now especially, those caped saviors that Lee helped to create can seem all the more far-fetched, which might be why so many of us still cling to them. Outside the movie theaters and comic book stores, no Black Panther has emerged to stop a police officer from killing an innocent African American kid. No team of X-Men offered sanctuary to the dehumanized minorities hiding in fear of retribution. No Captain America has renounced his title in protest of his country giving in to its worst inclinations.
The passing of Lee could very well coincide with the passing of this kind of pervasive, hopeful American fiction.
Born Stanley Lieber on December 28, 1922, Lee helped usher comic books’ rise to an art form, a distinctly American mythology inked onto his issues’ panels like handprints on cave walls. Alongside fellow Yids like Jack Kirby, as well as DC’s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Lee co-created characters who came to represent the best of what America can, and should, be: Bruce Banner, whose war against his utterly destructive tendencies resonates on personal and national levels. Peter Parker, the brilliant, enthusiastic neighborhood kid devoted to improving his community. Reed and Susan Richards, the hardworking couple representing the pinnacle of American innovation Some of pop culture’s biggest superheroes came from creators with distinctly American Jewish upbringings. Their backgrounds helped shape our larger cultural ideals. Thousands of issues and interpretations later, the superhero genre rightfully includes all manner of representations and opinions, but Lee was instrumental in laying the groundwork.
I doubt Lee ever expected this kind of success for himself, to watch his creations soar from page to screen, to subsequently dominate television and film in a way arguably only matched by the mid-century’s craze for Westerns. He certainly wasn’t opposed to it, first embracing his role as comic book champion during the sixties and seventies, all the way his through his later life’s front-facing resurgence with cameos in 24 of Marvel’s films alongside a near-constant gauntlet of convention appearances and interviews. His death on November 12 signals the passing of one of superhero comics’ last founding fathers, and the closing of a chapter of American culture truly reflective of Jews’ struggle for a place in our society.
Critics will often disparage or wholly write off Lee’s superhero work, or at least the film industry it spawned. Occasionally that criticism has come from within the industry itself. Where one sees depictions of American ideals at their best, others see our culture’s very worst inclinations — the crushing, capitalist monetization of creative work, diversity’s destruction in favor of corporations’ urge to dominate the marketplace, marginalized Americans’ representation only arriving if a profit is attached. When I say “modern Jews’ influence” on the medium, I refer to a specific kind of Jew — a predominantly white, male, Ashkenazi version — which has for so long inaccurately dictated the representation of wider Judaism. Many know the size of Lee’s role in Marvel’s formative days is itself a mix of fact and fiction, subjected for decades to endless argument and frustration.
The reality, of course, is probably somewhere between the two ends of the spectrum. As another friend phrased it to me yesterday, envisioning comic books as American mythology only works if you can admit the mythology is “just as complicated and convoluted as America itself.” Most probably won’t have trouble admitting that. But much like determining which is a superhero’s alter-ego and which is their true self, the answer is rarely as binary as we’d prefer.
Without a doubt, Stan Lee gave us heroes so many Americans strive to resemble, even if we know that, like those heroes, it all might just be a fiction. But if so, it’s perhaps important to remember what any fan of Stan Lee’s creations know: No superhero who dies stays dead for long. There is always a second — or third, or fourth — rebirth possible. Maybe that’s the fitting lesson from Lee’s legacy — that, like his creations, we should keep striving to be something better to repair the world, no matter how difficult or improbable it may seem.
Hope for the future, striving towards tikkun olam, is as integral to superhero stories as it is for Judaism. Every day, Jews say “kadosh, kadosh, kadosh” during the Amidah, “holy, holy, holy,” rising further each recitation in an attempt to move closer to God. Lee closed his recurring column tucked away in the back of Marvel comics, “Stan’s Soapbox,”with “Excelsior!” — ever higher — a signoff that will be remembered fondly many times over over this week, and one befitting Judaism’s central prayers.
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Krispy Kreme in Dallas, TX
2 Krispy Kreme locations found near Dallas
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts - 5118 Greenville Ave
5118 Greenville Ave, Dallas TX 75206
Krispy Kreme Dallas - 18305 Marsh Lane
18305 Marsh Lane, Dallas TX 75287
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There is nothing like a hot and fresh Krispy Kreme glazed donut. And while you've probably had one before (likely many more than one), you probably don't know how your favorite donut came to be, do you? It all started in 1933 when a man named Vernon Rudolph worked for his uncle Ishmael Armstrong in Paducah, Kentucky. At this small general store, they sold donuts that are believed to have been inspired by a cook named Joseph LeBeouf from an Ohio River barge. When the Great Depression took hold, Vernon and his uncle moved to Nashville, Tennessee in hopes of getting better business. It was here that they focused only on selling their donuts and officially opened Krispy Kreme. As they became successful, Vernon moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1937 to open his own Krispy Kreme location. Luck was on their side and as Krispy Kreme grew, by the 1960s everyone in the southeast was in love with it. Today, Krispy Kreme is no less famous and is craved by many. The "Hot and Fresh Now" signs beckon passersby to stop in and get a glazed donut fresh off the line. It's fun to watch the donuts being made. Of course, it's even more fun to eat them. Do you feel like having donuts? Then get to a Krispy Kreme near you today.
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Shake Shack in Dallas, TX
2 Shake Shack locations found near Dallas
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6025 Royal Ln #305, Dallas TX 75230
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2500 N Pearl St, Dallas TX 75201
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Gov. Cuomo: Marijuana legalization likely won’t be included in budget
by: Howard Thompson
Monday, while addressing budget issues, Governor Andrew Cuomo said he isn’t sure if legislation to legalize marijuana in New York will be included in this year’s budget.
Marijuana legalization was among the items the governor planned to get done in the first 100 days of his third term.
The governor called for the legislation to be included in the budget — where the state often bundles together big or controversial bills.
But, speaking Monday, the governor says he isn’t sure if the bill will be included in the budget legislation, which is due by April 1.
The governor says there is a “wide divide” on the issues and he isn’t confident if they will be able to reach an agreement in time for approval.
State Senator Bob Antonacci told NewsChannel 9 he does not support the proposal, but until it is stricken from the budget, the Governor could be posturing to place pressure on lawmakers to get it passed.
If it’s not included in the budget, lawmakers would have until the end of the session in the summer to put together an independent bill for legalization or it may not get done until 2020.
According to WNYC reporter Fred Mogul, Governor Cuomo says he believes lawmakers will eventually reach an agreement, “but not in the next two weeks.”
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Jim Downing
Jim Downing founded LYR in 2004 and is now President of LYR.
Jim also serves as a Non-Executive Chairman for Native Land Ltd while participating as a Non-Executive Director and adviser to a number of other companies including Andrew Martin Ltd, Cydar Ltd and Essex Group Asia Pacific Ltd. Until July 2016 he was Non-Executive Director and Acting Chairman of Winsway Enterprises.
From 2001-2003, he was Deputy Head of JP Morgan Chase & Co's European Investment Banking group. Prior to the merger of JP Morgan & Co. with Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000, he worked as their Co-Head European Investment Banking.
Jim obtained an MBA from Yale in 1982 and a BSc. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976.
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Updated: 6th December, 2018
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Judas Priest Angel Of Retribution
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It’s 2005 and the Priest is back! Now with the mighty Rob Halford back in the fold can Judas Priest resurrect their past glories? If you close your eyes while listening to Angel Of Retribution you’ll.
I look back on these years of Queensryche very fondly. Opening for Judas Priest on their "Angel Of Retribution" tour. A DREAM TOUR for sure! Again, it was the best Queensryche sounded in YEARS. A real.
The reunited Judas Priest’s first order of business was a 2004 European tour, followed by a co-headlining spot on the Ozzfest tour. In 2005 they released the well-regarded Angel of Retribution album,
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Like Guns N’ Roses, Judas Priest never entirely split up, touring and releasing albums with new vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens. That said, it was the return of original singer Rob Halford and the release.
Deep Purple and Judas Priest. metal band Judas Priest, from a modest but vocal crowd of 5,000 at the Bell Centre last night. And while the group made a point of playing several — too many? — songs.
Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing’s 1967 Flying V. Then when Rob came back, I enjoyed Angel of Retribution and Nostradamus. For the most part, when we were together being prolific, it was.
Of that sum, 48,000 were in traditional album sales — the act’s best sales frame since 2005’s "Angel of Retribution." Judas Priest’s album sales were bolstered from a concert ticket/album sale.
On Tuesday March 1st, the wait will be over. At least the wait that has been ruling the lives of diehard Judas Priest fans. This is the announced release date for Angel of Retribution, the new album.
For the generation of metal fans who have only felt Judas Priest’s impact secondhand via bands like Pantera and Iced Earth, Angel of Retribution may sound retro, if not positively restrained. But if.
After issuing a statement earlier this week that came off as slightly salty, ex-Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing is now. Consequently, albums like Painkiller and Angel of Retribution would not.
Angel of Retribution follows the 2004 release of Judas Priest’s career-spanning boxed set, Metalogy, as well as a berth on last summer’s Ozzfest tour. To support the new album, the quintet will kick.
Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing recalls having a revelation. Then when Rob came back, I enjoyed Angel of Retribution and Nostradamus. For the most part, when we were together being.
ALSO READ: CBS SF Talks To Judas Priest Bassist Ian Hill Though the. year and a string of successful album releases beginning with Angel of Retribution in 2005 have reaffirmed Priest as one of the.
The new set’s sales count marks Judas Priest’s best since 2005, when Angel of Retribution bowed with 58,000. "Lightning Strike," the lead single from Firepower, has reached No. 21 on the Mainstream.
Heavy metal band Judas Priest has been making music for over 40 years. This one is really a follow-up to ‘Angel of Retribution.’ On the Epitaph Tour, we tried to fit a song in from each album and.
Sta Ana Church Taguig Wedding Dressed in dreamy creams and whites were Cris’ mother, Wanda Louwallien, and sister Ana Abad. chic wedding gown by Inno Sotto, looked like a princess during the wedding ceremony last January 22 at. It was a real wedding officiated by a priest and witnessed by two required witnesses in a dimly-lit chapel near Sta. Ana,
Rob Halford can use the phrase because his 45-year-old band remains so high in the heavy metal stratosphere that you don’t ask the singer those questions anymore, just prompt him on the history and.
MW: There’s usually a spark of an idea [from the band]. For example, when Rob Halford rejoined Judas Priest for Angel of Retribution, they had had an idea to do something like the Angel of the North.
Graveyard Classics Iv The Number Of The Priest Death Metal veterans Six Feet Under’s relentless fascination with cover albums is evident from the band’s ‘Graveyard Classics’ series. On the fourth installment of the series, ‘Graveyard Classics IV – The Number of the Priest’, they pay homage to two of the greatest bands in Heavy Metal – Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. The album
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Robotic Arm Helps Stroke Victims by Playing Video Games
Wouter Stomp Neurology, Rehab
Researchers from Spain have developed a portable robotic device and a matching video game software platform for tele-rehabilitation, which they hope will help people with neuromuscular disabilities, such as stroke victims, regain function.
The ArmAssist, a project backed by a business initiative called FIK, consists of a mobile-based device that is connected to the user through an orthotic that records and measures the movements of the shoulder and elbow. Arm movements are translated to movements in a video game, thus helping with rehabilitation of the upper limbs. The device can be used at home, while the doctor can monitor the performance online through the quantitative results obtained from the games. The device is currently being tested in La Fe Hospital in Valencia.
The exercises proposed for favouring the rehabilitation of the patient are of two kinds: evaluation and training. The evaluation ones are short and which should be undertaken every day at the beginning and the end of the training session. These videogames train independently the range of motion, force, distance and of precision, so that the therapist can evaluate the progress of the patient.
For their part, the training games last longer and are more amenable for the patient. The objective is precisely to motivate the patient, training the arm over a longer period. These games also integrate a cognitive component in order to train also this aspect. Amongst these videogames, there are puzzles, memory games and card solitaire games.
The programmes of rehabilitation involve a combination of exercises to be carried out in the hospital under medical supervision and a series of exercises recommended to be undertaken at home. Currently, these exercises, in the majority of cases, cannot be done outside the medical centre – due to the excessive size of the current systems and which impede their portability. Moreover, the therapists have no kind of control over the therapy and so cannot provide a suitable programme of monitoring and enhancement.
Using telerehabilitation software that this assitive arm includes, a link is created between the patient and the therapist, which enables training him or her in their homes, and more independently, given that, using the computer programme with an Internet connection, the doctor can ensure the patient is doing the exercises correctly.
The therapist will thus be able to carry out a quantitative evaluation of the progress of the patient, an aspect that to date has not been covered by rehabilitation systems and represents a value enhancement for both patient and doctor. This software for telerehabilitation is a complete tool as it encompasses all stages of the therapy, from planning, carrying it out, and its monitoring.
ArmAssist can be used by acute phase patients, after having suffered a brain stroke, as well as chronic patients, for continuous training of the upper limbs for other kinds of disorders apart from ictus.
Press release: Patients suffering stroke will be able to recover using an assistive robot and videogames…
Wouter Stomp
Wouter Stomp is a radiology resident at the radiology department of Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. He is also a PhD candidate with his research focussing on the role of MRI in early rheumatoid arthritis.
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MARIAH CAREY ANNOUNCES HEADLINING RESIDENCY AT
THE COLOSSEUM AT CAESARS PALACE
RESIDENCY BEGINS MAY 6, 2015
"MARIAH CAREY #1's," an innovative original production of Carey's unprecedented 18 #1 singles performed live in concert for the first time
LAS VEGAS, NV (Jan. 15, 2015) Mariah Carey, the iconic chanteuse and best-selling female artist of all time with over 200 million records sold, is coming to Las Vegas with a headlining residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. For the first time ever, she will perform all 18 of her timeless and beloved Number One Hits together in one concert. Designed exclusively for The Colosseum, the production will also feature fan-favorite album cuts, never-before-performed selections and many more musical surprises.
Mariah announced the exciting news today on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she surprised the entire studio audience with tickets to her Las Vegas show and a hotel stay at Caesars Palace.
Honey B. Fly has reserved a special allotment of tickets and VIP Packages exclusively for our members! Fans can register for the Honey B. Live Pass to access our HBF Ticket Sale. Click here for complete details!
"I have so many ideas for the show that I'm currently working on and am excited to perform all of my #1 singles together for the first time and others that are very close to my heart," said Mariah. "My songs are the soundtrack of my life and I can't wait to share them with my fans on stage!"
"Vision of Love," "Hero," "Fantasy," "We Belong Together" and "Touch My Body" to name a few, are among Mariah's 18 songs to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat that has not been achieved by any other solo artist in music history.
In celebration of Mariah's groundbreaking record, and in tandem with the concert series, Mariah is working on a new edition of her worldwide best-selling album #1's. Set to include all 18 of her number one hits, along with newly recorded music, the album will be released later this year.
“Revisiting these songs for the show, working on the updated compilation and creating new music has really let me reconnect with my songs and I hope my fans will enjoy the experience,” said Mariah.
“As a consummate songwriter, producer and internationally-renowned performer with a remarkable string of number one hits, Mariah brings a unique presence to Las Vegas that speaks to so many fans across the globe,” said John Nelson, Sr. Vice President of AEG Live, Las Vegas. “AEG Live and Caesars Palace are honored to be part of this collaboration and proudly welcome Mariah to her new residence at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, home of the greatest entertainers in the world.”
“Over the past nearly 50 years, Caesars Palace has served as home to the most celebrated entertainers in history. With the addition of one of the world’s most iconic artists, Mariah Carey, The Colosseum now offers more variety than ever before with its lineup of resident headliners,” said Gary Selesner, Caesars Palace regional president. “We look forward to welcoming Mariah and continuing our rich tradition of shining the spotlight on world-class stars.”
Presented jointly by AEG Live and Caesars Palace, the residency will launch Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Tickets to the first 18 performances in 2015 are on-sale now:
May: 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24
July 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26
Tickets may be purchased in person at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Box Office, by calling 866-320-9763, or online at thecolosseum.com or axs.com. Orders are subject to additional service charges and fees. Ticket prices are $250/$175/$140/$95/$55 (prices include 10% Live Entertainment Tax). For groups of 10 or more, call 866-574-3851. All shows are scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
Visit the TOUR section for a complete listing of show dates.
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Your Amazon deliveries don’t just magically appear at your door
Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman Jul 3, 2018
Packages are stored at the Amazon's logistics center in San Fernando de Henares, near Madrid, on the eve of 'Black Friday', on Nov. 24, 2016.
Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images
In the gig economy, it seems like no task is specialized. Regular people can do pretty much anything as long as they can download an app and pass a background check. That’s how easy it is to deliver packages with Amazon Flex, the e-commerce giant’s ever-expanding delivery program where you can pick up packages at a warehouse somewhere and deliver them right out of your car. While it may be easy to get hired, the work itself is a bit trickier. The Atlantic’s Alana Semuels decided to give it a try, and ended up finding out a lot about what the gig economy runs on. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal talked with her about what went down on her first day on the job. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Kai Ryssdal: Did it seem like a good idea, right out the gate, to do this? Because loading a bunch of packages in the trunk of your car … I don’t know.
Alana Semuels: I actually thought it wouldn’t be that bad. I live in San Francisco and I imagined going to some suburbs, listening to an audio book … just being a little chill while I deliver packages. Figured it’d be a good way to get out of the office for a day and it actually ended up being a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
Ryssdal: Yeah, well, so describe to me day one, would you?
Semuels: Well so you drive into the warehouse and they give you this yellow vest to put on. And I started loading the packages into my car and I kind of paused because the first group of them were on Market Street, which is kind of the main thoroughfare of downtown San Francisco. And I thought … okay, this is not going to be a nice drive through the suburbs.
Ryssdal: Yeah, there are many anecdotes in this piece, which I encourage folks to read. I want you to tell me about the parking enforcement guy.
Semuels: So I came out of this building and saw this guy about to write me a ticket. And I said, you know, I’m delivering packages for Amazon, is there anywhere I can park? And he said, “see this red meter? You can’t park here. See that yellow meter across the street? You can’t park there. See that white meter? You can’t park there.” And so I said, “where can I park?” and he said, “you can park in a garage, basically.” And I convinced him not to give me a ticket, but he said, you know, parking enforcement people are constantly circling the blocks downtown San Francisco, and “I’m leaving. .. I’m not going to give you a ticket but someone could pull up in two minutes and give you another ticket.” You know, the guys at the Flex warehouse told me that a lot of people just do get tickets. But there really is no solution as Flex has expanded, a lot of cities haven’t really responded to make it easier for drivers driving out of their own cars.
Ryssdal: Let me ask you this, though: if you had gotten — it would have been a $110 ticket, right?
Semuels: Would have been a $110 ticket, right.
Ryssdal: Would you be making enough money to pay a $110 ticket and still have enough to, like, buy lunch?
Semuels: No. I mean that would have wiped out all of my earnings. As it was, I made less than the minimum wage in San Francisco. You know, a lot of expenses come up that you don’t think about when you sign up to drive for Flex. And that’s, for a lot of people, one of the biggest problems.
Ryssdal: Well, you know, it’s really interesting because you quote, I guess it’s an economist in this piece, as saying “the driving that people used to do to go to a store and take something off a shelf and drive home, we’re turning that into jobs.”
Semuels: Yeah, that’s right, and I think we’re going to do that even more in the future, you know, there are certain things that the tech economy makes really convenient. You know, I love ordering things online because that means I don’t have to go to a store. But you just have to think about the things that are good for the consumer aren’t always good for the worker. And I think that’s going to be a really big divide in the tech economy in the coming years, and something that workers and these tech companies should really be thinking about.
Ryssdal: Which gets me to this: tell me who you were delivering these packages to?
Semuels: Well, some of them were big tech firms. And that’s really when this started to bother me. I went into these offices, and, you know, if you go to a lot of these tech offices, they get free food and free coffee. They have these fancy coffee bars and these people were walking around with their free lattes talking about their weekend plans and it just felt like these people were really winning in the tech economy and the people that were delivering packages were really losing. And it just seemed like as the tech economy grows, it should be helping everyone do better.
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I n fashion, the 1960s and the 1970s were decades of repeated revolutionary change. The youth explosion and mod craze of the early 1960s were followed quickly by the hippie look of the late 1960s, the antifashion trends of the early 1970s, and the punk and disco styles of the mid- to late 1970s. By the late 1970s, people throughout the West seemed content to wear "regular" clothes once more. Taken together, these high profile fashion fads forever changed the way the fashion industry worked.
Before the 1960s high-profile designers in Paris, France, and London, England, in cooperation with celebrity fashion trendsetters, had dictated the styles that were worn by people of all ages. Under this fashion system, news about what was stylish to wear came from the top down. Designers created a line of clothing, rich people bought the originals, and clothing retailers sold copies to the common man and woman. During and after the 1960s, common people, especially young people, began to exercise far more control in determining what was in style, and designers increasingly tried to keep up with the newest trends. Under the new fashion system, new styles were invented by people in hot cultural scenes or by rock bands; followers adopted and modified the new styles; and designers then copied the new styles and marketed them to the masses through a growing assortment of retail outlets.
Rebellious young people known as mods and rockers began to invent their own clothing in trendy parts of London. Women wore very short skirts, tall, brightly colored boots, and clinging, sleeveless tunics. Young men wore suits in bright paisley patterns, boxy jackets, and high-topped, black leather boots, or they wore leather jackets and shirts made of British flags, like rock star Pete Townshend (1945—) of the rock band the Who. The boldly colored new styles worn by men took a name of their own, the Peacock Revolution,
Trendsetters in 1970 London. The bold, new fashions of the Peacock Revolution were a far cry from traditional men's styles.
Reproduced by permission of AP/Wide World Photos.
and were striking because men's styles before this time were so conservative.
Vogue magazine, the world's premier source for fashion information, called this fashion upsurge "Youthquake." The fashion movement was led by young people, such as British designer Mary Quant (1934—), who shares credit with French designer André Courreges (1923—) for the introduction of the one garment most associated with the youth explosion: the miniskirt. Quant famously
denied that she had created the miniskirt, claiming that it was the "girls in the street who did it." Her point was that the new styles were created by young people who rejected the old-fashioned system and created clothes that expressed their own values. These young people often followed the lead of rock stars like the members of the bands the Beatles, the Who, and the Rolling Stones who were notorious for rejecting existing styles and creating new ones.
The various London-based youth fashion fads dominated clothing trends through the mid-1960s, but soon a new trend took its place. Emerging first on the West Coast of the United States, the hippies were one of the most colorful and high-profile social movements of an interesting decade. Hippies rejected their parents' values about sex, work, and patriotism. They protested against the U.S. war in Vietnam (1954—75), switched sexual partners freely, experimented with drugs, and "dropped out" of regular society. They wanted clothes that reflected their values and adopted a huge range of diverse styles, from fringe looks that paid respect to Native Americans, to various exotic fashions borrowed from Indian, Asian, and other cultures, to hand-me-down and thrift store clothes that showed their rejection of materialism. Though hippie styles are usually associated with long hair, tie-dyed shirts, long skirts for women, jeans for men, and paisley and flowered patterns, in truth hippie styles were extremely varied.
The choices hippies made about clothing were a direct criticism of fashion, the system by which certain elite designers and trendsetters determine what everyone wears. Hippies wanted everyone to choose for themselves. Even though they tried to be an-tifashion, the fashion industry celebrated and borrowed from hippie clothing, making such things as the long wrap dress, the fringed shirt, blue jeans, and other items available to the masses. But in doing so the fashion industry recognized that its control was over.
By the early 1970s clothing styles had gone off in so many different directions that it was difficult for anyone to say what was in fashion and what was not. Men and women had a great variety of
MOD STYLES AND THE LONDON SCENE
In the early to mid-1960s, London, England, briefly became the fashion center of the world as a revolution in style rocked the world of dress. Carnaby Street was a street in the Soho section of London that was home to many of the innovative boutiques and shops associated with London fashion of the mid-1960s. The most famous of these was His Clothes, the flagship of a chain opened in 1957 by clothier John Stephen, whose outrageous looks, cheap prices, and fast turnover of styles helped transform menswear fashion retailing. Stephen's mod, short for modern, designs and relaxed sales approach signaled a break with the stuffy customs of conventional British clothing shops, and helped turn Carnaby Street into a center for young clothes fanatics of both sexes.
The changes in men's fashions were labeled a "Peacock Revolution" by Esquire magazine columnist George Frazier (1911-1974), one of the first mainstream journalists to take notice of the flamboyant fashions parading along Carnaby Street. These fashions included Nehru jackets (close-fitted, single-breasted coats with stand-up collars and no lapels) in psychedelic colors and patterns, velvet suits, bold patterned shirts and ties, and pointy-toed boots with high heels. John Stephen dressed rock stars like the Who and the
Rolling Stones, creating a unisex look marked by long, exquisitely styled hair and a lean silhouette, or shape. Their clothes were flamboyant and designed to attract attention. Even the Beatles traded in their drab gray suits for paisley scarves, flowered shirts, and striped bell-bottomed pants in the mid-1960s. Lines between the sexes became so blurred that a 1964 London Sunday Times magazine article on London styles famously asked "Is that a boy, or is it a girl?" Despite, or perhaps because of, this ambiguity, the look became extremely popular, even outside of Great Britain. The French designer Pierre Cardin (1922—) created an American version of the slim-lined European silhouette, which, along with the immense popularity of jeans, led to the acceptance of extremely close-fitting clothing.
The young women of London wore their hair long as well, usually straight, or cropped into the angular cuts made popular by hair stylist Vidal Sassoon (1928—). One of the great influences on women's fashions of this period was designer Mary Quant (1934—), who opened her flagship boutique Bazaar in 1958 on the Kings Road in London. Quant, who coined the word "youthquake" to describe what was going on in fashion at the time, sought to liberate women from the tyranny of the long skirt and cardigan with a series of fresh, innovative designs. These included a line of signature jumpers, ready-to-wear dresses, colored tights, hipster belts, plastic garments, sleeveless, crocheted tops, and her most celebrated choices in what they wore. Men could still wear the standard business suit that looked much like it had in the 1950s, but they could also enliven their business look with brightly colored shirts, very wide neckties, or bell-bottom trousers. They could reject business attire altogether, wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt or even a jogging suit. Some women still discriminated between day wear and evening wear, but most women now chose from a range of dress styles depending on their personal preferences. Skirt lengths had changed so much, from the high-on-the-thigh mini to the knee-length midi to the ankle-length maxi, that anything was now permissible. And by garment, the scandalously short miniskirt. The mini became a worldwide phenomenon, and Quant eventually branched out beyond clothes into cosmetics, all bearing her trademark five-petaled daisy.
Around 1967 the growth of the hippie movement and its styles replaced the London Scene as the center of fashion innovation, but in its brief period as a fashion center London had a huge influence on international styles.
the 1970s pants were so common among women that they no longer attracted any comment.
One of the ways that people could stand out in such a tolerant clothing climate was to be deliberately bold or shocking. Hot pants (extremely short shorts), huge bell-bottoms, vividly colored leisure suits, polyester shirts, and tight catsuits are all examples of clothing styles that flirted with being over-the-top, but were fashionable for a time.
The two most distinct fashion fads of the 1970s grew out of very different music scenes. In the mid-1970s a subgenre of rock
'n' roll called punk rock—loud, fast, and angry—helped give birth to an entire punk scene, first in London and then in other major cities in the West. Punks wore ripped clothes, wildly spiked hairstyles, and huge Doc Marten boots, among other things. A very different style emerged from the disco scene, a dance-based music and culture trend that flourished in New York City in the mid-1970s. Disco dancers wore formal-looking clothes in flamboyant cuts and colors, including leisure suits and extremely skimpy dresses.
After nearly two decades of absolute excess, clothing styles became somewhat more conservative in the late 1970s. Aided by the rise of Italian fashion designers whose clothes were elegant and restrained, people in general turned to comfortable clothes that fit the body's natural contours. The end result of these tumultuous decades, however, was that most people felt completely free to assemble their wardrobe from a variety of clothes that best expressed their personal sense of style, rather than from a limited set of clothes determined by a selective fashion industry.
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VIDEO: Victory to bring out the mongrel
Melbourne Victory midfielder Mark Milligan has called on his team-mates to find some extra mongrel as they look to turn around a run of three straight losses.
Speaking on Thursday after a high-intensity training session at AAMI Park, Milligan said the time for reflecting on last Saturday's 6-2 loss to Central Coast was well and truly over.
Instead it was time for action, and he said there would be no more nice guys on the pitch for Victory this weekend as they take on Newcastle.
"I think sometimes, it (the rapport among the Victory squad) can be, not too friendly, but when times are bad I guess you need a little bit of mongrel as well to get the boys up around you," Milligan said.
"I think you saw that reaction in training today.
"We've spoken about it (the loss), we've done all that, but at the end of the day we can speak about it all we want, it doesn't help.
"We need to get on with it and train and work hard on the things that went wrong and make sure that doesn't happen again.
"We have had our little period of hurting after the game but there's no point crying about it all week otherwise it's just going to hurt us again this weekend."
Milligan said the focus on lifting an extra cog in training would help the side overcome some mental flatness against the Mariners that was shown up in the post-match reviews.
"We've analysed games the same way all season," Milligan said.
"It gets analysed in the sense of how we play and how we do things and on the weekend there wasn't a great deal to analyse in that sense.
"We as a team, we didn't execute things that we wanted to and we got hurt, especially late in the game.
"One of the hardest things in football is when you're in maybe a little bit of a slump and you've lost a couple of games, is to come out of it.
"It's always smiles and quite easy going you know when you're winning games but it shows the true character of a team to turn things around.
"So it's going to be a test."
Marcos Flores (quad) will miss again on Sunday, but star forward Archie Thompson is expected to be fit after his hamstring injury.
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entities, mystical journeys
Connecting with the land
I'm visiting the Black Hills in South Dakota with Kat. We drove through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming to get here and for the last couple of days we've been exploring this area, seeing Mt. Rushmore and Mt. Crazy Horse, the needles, the lakes and the wildlife here. Something which is really important to me, and always has been, is the connection I have with the land. I love Portland and Oregon because of how the land's energy and my own mesh. I could also feel a resonance with the energy in Montana and in the Black Hills. That kind of resonance is important for me. To be really comfortable, I need to connect with the energy of the land. That's why Seattle didn't work for me. The energy of the land and my energy didn't mesh well. Connecting with land isn't as simple as deciding it feels right to you. The land needs to tell you if you feel right to it, if you belong there. And if you don't belong, it will tell you. The land doesn't belong to you. You belong to the land. It's something where the land basically says, "You fit with this land, so I call you as one of mine." I've felt that feeling in a few places in my life, where I've known there was this acceptance from the land and an equal acceptance from myself.
I think of the land as alive, and myself as just one microorganism among many that effect the land, either for good or ill. While a land can accept you, there's still something to be said for making an offering to it. An offering of your sweat, tears, and blood, of your effort, of going into a place, and blending with it, letting it speak to you and through you.
Anytime I feel such a connection I am reminded of how small I really am, how important it is to respect the connection and respect, and how much it matters to me, to feel this intangible connection that speaks so loudly to me and reminds me that I am not over or on top, but really just a part of something much more powerful, much more beautiful, much more significant than myself.
Tagged: land, ley lines, powerspots, spirit of the land
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The terrible truth about being married to a well paid miner.
Rebecca Wallis
Something told me it was too good to be true the day my husband got the job offer he had been waiting for.
As he told me excitedly he’d been given a permanent position at one of Australia’s best-paying mines, I knew it was a dream come true for him. He’d been talking about this moment for years.
“Our money worries are over,” he said, excitedly.
“Yeh I guess so,” I replied, a sinking feeling forming in the pit of my stomach.
“It’s just that I was hoping you’d get a shorter roster. Two weeks away is a long time.”
On Toby’s first birthday, John was away working. Image: Supplied.
Our first baby was just three months old.
“Just for a year,” he said. “Just to get my foot in the door. Then I can look around for something better.”
“Ok” I said. One year. It’s nothing.
Sure, in the beginning, it was exciting. When he was gone I would shop to fill the time. We moved to Perth from Cairns and rented a large, new home at a ridiculous price. We had a holiday in Bali. Bought a $3,000 fridge freezer. Ate out at expensive eateries. But it didn’t take long for cracks to show.
I had no family around for support and new in town, I knew no one.
Rebecca and Toby back when things were tough. He was one year old then. Image: Supplied.
Two weeks dragged. I was exhausted looking after a baby 24/7 with no help and the days were long and boring with no one to talk to.
I would count down the time until John walked back through the door but when he did he was exhausted. Seven day shifts and then seven night shifts. 12 hours at a time. It took him two days to recover enough to have a proper conversation. He’d been away for two weeks so he didn’t want to leave the house and as far as the baby was concerned, he was practically a stranger.
Routines had changed, he had lost the momentum of parenthood and forgotten the rituals. He stepped back and I picked up the slack.
John with Toby on the one Christmas day he was home about 3 years ago.
It didn’t take long for resentment to kick in.
“I’m not sure I can do this John,” I said to him, on many, many occasions.
“Can’t you look for a shorter roster now, so that you’re home more?”
“I’m doing this for us,” came the reply, over and over. “So that we can have a future.”
“I don’t care about the money,” I said. “I never have. I just want you home. I can’t live like this.”
John with the kids today.
A year came and went and nothing changed. Holidays were rare – 50 men in one section and only four could take a holiday at one time. For two years John didn’t have a break.
Our relationship started to deteriorate.
I wanted him to leave the job but he was hooked on the money. It didn’t matter how much he spent – more was coming in. Thousands every fortnight – and so the credit cards started, car loans and finally a massive mortgage. Now he couldn’t leave, even if he wanted to.
Two years into the job and the mood swings started. He was drinking more. Acting aggressively. Short tempered and nasty. It went on for months. We were all so miserable and I was ready to leave.
We never saw him anyway, what was the difference?
LISTEN: Osher Gunsberg speaks about how to start a conversation with your partner about depression. Post continues after audio.
Then one day after a visit to the doctor about a sore back, he called me to say he had diagnosed him with severe depression. He sounded relieved. He was put on anti-depressants, signed off work for a few months and told to attend some counselling sessions.
He started to open up to me about how awful the job was. He missed us and wanted to get off the merry-go round but he felt he was in too deep. The bills, the mortgage – he had no back up plan. He had no skills, no qualifications. He had come from nothing to this and it would be one hell of a fall from grace if it all ended tomorrow.
As he opened up, I began to understand. I knew that for someone like him, who had so little growing up, who struggled at school, how much of a lure a life in the mines is. All you have to do is stick it out.
Last year there were nine suicides among workers in the Pilbara alone.
Rebecca now has two children – Toby, 5 and Pia, 1. Still doing many fun things like trips to the beach on our own without daddy. Image: Supplied.
The effects on the mental health of these men and not to mention their families is extensive.
My husband still works at the same job. Thanks to the help he got early on, he is much healthier and happier. It nearly cost him his marriage and has had a massive impact on his mental health, but he feels the positives outweigh the negatives.
I’m not so sure.
Rebecca is 35 years old, a mum of two and a business owner. She runs a horse riding magazine in WA called Perth Rider magazine and is also a freelance sub editor for a newspaper in Queensland. Rebecca lives in Beverley, a small town about one and a half hours east of Perth on a small hobby farm and is originally from the UK where she worked for a daily regional newspaper in Essex before emigrating to Australia nearly eight years ago. Rebecca worked for three years for the Cairns Post and their regional papers in the Atherton Tablelands before she had her first child and gave up full time work.
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2015 a Year of Unprecedented Growth, Fort Gordon Official Says
Fort Gordon unit (U.S. Army photo)
The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. | By Travis Highfield
This year will be remembered as Fort Gordon's "coming out party," Garrison Commander Col. Sam Anderson said.
It was a year of unprecedented growth in both personnel and construction, he said.
As expected, the installation swelled by roughly 1,000 service members as it continues to prepare for the arrival of Army Cyber Command, expected to relocate to the Augusta-area post by 2019. Those soldiers were companied by an estimated 1,500 family members in 2015, something Anderson said not only has an impact on the installation, but also on the community as a whole.
Driving down orange cone-lined Chamberlain Avenue, it's hard to ignore the $200 million renovation, restoration and modernization projects that have sprung up at the installation. Most of the projects, including one to update Fort Gordon's Advanced Individual Training barracks, were "pre-programmed" before this year, Anderson said.
Army Installation Management Command also developed a cyber installation support summit, bringing together officials from Fort Gordon, Fort Meade and Fort Belvior to discuss issues relating to cyber growth.
"Through that effort, we were able to receive $60 million in resources to either do renovation projects of existing facilities or do road network improvements," he said.
Looking back on 2015, Anderson said he felt the installation was as active as it had ever been in community outreach, taking the opportunity to inform local officials of the opportunities that exist because of the installation's growth while also addressing areas of need.
One of the direct results of those talks was the creation of the Alliance for Cybersecurity Education to inject cyber-based curriculum into area high schools.
Leadership from area chambers of commerce also traveled with Fort Gordon officials to participate in a series of town hall meetings in Washington, which allowed them to educate companies and individuals who will be affected by the Army Cyber Command move.
"It's really important, from a military prospective, because we want them to make the decision to move from the D.C. area to Augusta," Anderson said. "When Army Cyber Command comes to Augusta, we want them to be operational."
Fort Gordon did experience some hiccups, particularly with the implementation of new access control procedures. Department of the Army policy changes issued last fall require visitors to military installations to receive a National Crime Information Center background check, and the post's new Automated Installation Entry systems caused some delays after going live.
Some of those issues could be alleviated by the construction of a new entrance west of Gate 3, which was met favorably by officials in 2015, though those plans likely wouldn't come into fruition until 2018.
Also this year, Fort Gordon commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Fogarty announced his vision for the future of the Cyber Center of Excellence, which includes plans to develop the already existing campus into one that more closely resembles a college, Anderson said. He added that it's promising that Fort Gordon can discuss growth at a time when the Army is experiencing cutbacks.
"I think the community is starting to realize it has an extraordinary opportunity," he said. "Installations across the Army are trying to figure out how to reduce their footprint. Communities across the country are seeing a military population they depend on for economic continuity ... dwindling.
"By comparison, we're seeing a 22 percent growth in our population. That's incredible for our area."
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Soldiers Will Control Robotic Combat Vehicles in Upcoming Test
Next year, the Army plans to have soldiers fire at targets using remote-controlled robotic vehicles.
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82nd Airborne Division Aims for Greater Reach with Airdrop Procedure
Components of a forward arming and refueling point descend during airborne FARP operations hosted by the 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, Jan. 11, 2016. U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | By Drew Brooks
Amid continued efforts to speed up the nation's quick reaction force, the 82nd Airborne Division is testing a new technique that could extend Army helicopters by hundreds of miles.
The "Airborne FARP" being tested by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade could help Army helicopters reach the ground forces that train to parachute into enemy territory under the cover of darkness.
A FARP, or forward arming and refueling point, provides fuel and ammunition for helicopter crews.
Often, they are located at forward operating bases or airfields in areas with existing military security.
The 82nd Airborne wants to be able to place them well beyond the reach of those bases and closer to the front lines of battle. To do that, the 82nd is developing procedures to airdrop components of a FARP and the soldiers who would operate it.
That would extend the reach of helicopters, which unlike much of the 82nd Airborne's equipment, cannot be dropped from a plane.
Col. Erik Gilbert, commander of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, said the Airborne FARP helps bring the division's air power to the fight and gives additional options for commanders planning for the Global Response Force, which is tasked with deploying anywhere in the world on short notice.
Without a FARP, the helicopters would need to wait for an airlift into paratrooper-held territory. With a FARP, their reach would be expanded by hundreds of miles.
"It's all about getting combat power to the fight," Gilbert said. "All this comes together and extends the legs of the CAB to get to the fight."
On a recent night at Sicily Drop Zone, soldiers continued to hone the skills and develop the standard procedures for the future Airborne FARP mission.
Ahead of coming thunderstorms, an Air Force C-17 flew over Fort Bragg as aviation brigade leaders watched.
Three large packages slid from the back of the plane as massive parachutes filled with air above them. The air drops -- which included simulated fuel, a pump system, ammunition and a Humvee -- fell silently, punctuated by a reverberating thud upon landing.
Minutes later, the C-17 again flew over the drop zone. This time, it released about 50 paratroopers into the air.
Twenty soldiers, mostly assigned to A Company, 122nd Aviation Support Battalion, worked with little light and virtually no noise, unpacking the pump system, known as an Advanced Aviation Forward Area Refueling System, or AAFARS, and hooking it up to real fuel, delivered to the drop zone via truck to replace the water dropped as part of the exercise.
The soldiers had little time to prepare the FARP to support eight helicopters -- four AH-64 Apaches and four UH-60 Black Hawks.
They worked under the watchful eyes of the company's leadership team, Capt. Jesse Monico and 1st Sgt. Michael Smith.
Monico said the exercise was the first time the entire system had been tested.
Soldiers previously practiced "dry runs" without drops in both day and night conditions. And earlier in September, they trained at Fort Stewart, Georgia, while dropping a smaller package that did not include a Humvee or simulated ammunition.
"This is the first time it's all together," he said, adding that he was excited with the progress made over more than a year of training.
"They've gotten a lot quicker. That is good," said Monico, comparing them to NASCAR pit crews.
Lt. Col. Stephen Owen, commander of the 122nd Aviation Support Battalion, said the capability of dropping a FARP from a plane was not entirely new to the 82nd Airborne, but it hadn't been done in more than a decade.
That's how long it's been since the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade has been on jump status. Army leaders took the brigade off jump status to allow for the growth of a fourth infantry brigade within the division.
A decade later, that brigade has been inactivated. And 82nd Airborne officials are looking at again expanding paid parachutist positions into the aviation brigade.
In the meantime, paratroopers from another 82nd Airborne Division unit are jumping after the FARP supplies. And the aviation soldiers are running onto the drop zone after them.
Eventually, Owen said the goal was to have aviation soldiers jumping after the equipment as part of a self-sustaining operation, providing their own security and eventually maintaining 24-hour operations if the mission calls for it.
"It's a new capability right now," Owen said.
The brigade has been developing the Airborne FARP capabilities for about 15 months, officials said.
The Fort Stewart exercise was meant to illustrate how soldiers conducting Airborne FARP operations could help facilitate travel over great distances, by refueling helicopters en route to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
The Fort Bragg training built on that exercise, adding more equipment and more complex conditions, with rain and lightning on the horizon.
Owen said the training will get even more complex. He said the battalion has begun sending some soldiers to the Army's airborne school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
It also has sent soldiers to Kentucky to work with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell.
Currently, only the 160th maintains Airborne FARP capabilities, so 82nd Airborne soldiers have learned from that unit, although they are developing their own operating procedures to guide future missions.
"We're pioneering this capability for the 82nd," Monico said.
Gilbert said the Airborne FARP was one of several ongoing efforts by the brigade to speed up its deployments and prepare for operating in austere environments.
The brigade has focused on expeditionary training and has developed plans to more quickly outload Apache helicopters.
Apaches are now among the first equipment unloaded from Air Force planes after a paratrooper force seizes an airfield. The Global Response Force previously relied on OH-58 Kiowa Warriors to deploy quickly after an airfield seizure, providing eyes and combat support for paratroopers.
With the Army phasing the Kiowa out of the force, Gilbert said the outload training is meant to help the Apache and unmanned aerial systems replace the older helicopter.
So far, he said, that has been a success.
The Apache is a more modern and lethal helicopter, Gilbert said. And crews are continuing to develop ways to deploy it faster.
Col. Michael R. Fenzel, deputy commanding general for support of the 82nd Airborne, said more than just the aviation brigade was focused on speed.
The Global Response Force must be able to quickly respond to any theater anywhere in the world. To prepare for that mission, the division is constantly looking to extend the reach of its capabilities.
He said the Airborne FARP, Apache outload and the use of ultra-light tactical all-terrain vehicles, like the MRZR and DAGOR, are a few of the efforts underway to speed up the 82nd Airborne.
"They're parts and pieces of a larger strategy to make us more expeditionary," Fenzel said. "They give us additional capabilities and additional options."
Among those options, Fenzel said, is that troops can now push out from the drop zone faster using the all-terrain vehicles. And with an Airborne FARP, they could get helicopter support faster than before.
"Wherever we go in, we can expand quickly," Fenzel said. "That's the idea."
"Lighter, faster, more capable and more lethal," he added. "That's our mantra."
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Trump: Turkey Will Be Out of F-35 Fighter Jet Program After S-400 Buy
The Trump administration has confirmed that NATO ally Turkey will be removed from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Russian Planes Continue to Deliver S-400 Parts to Turkey
Washington says the Russian S-400s are incompatible with NATO equipment and may lead to Russia acquiring sensitive data.
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Category: Books,Justice,Prose/Essays — Seven @ 7:52 pm
I squawked about this on Twitter several days ago and posted it on my MJJ-777 Facebook page last Friday. Now, everyone in the MJ fan community is abuzz about it. Guess it took them a while to catch up with the news.
The GQ article “Was Michael Jackson Framed?” by Mary A. Fischer is now available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Was-Michael-Jackson-Framed-Superstar/dp/0786754133.
If you have a Kindle, it’s also available in that format for only $2.99: http://www.amazon.com/Was-Michael-Jackson-Framed-ebook/dp/B009G1SX0S/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
From the Amazon writer bio:
Award-winning writer and journalist Mary A. Fischer has tracked down crime and corruption stories from around the world for national magazines including, GQ, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times magazine, New York, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, O-Oprah, ELLE and AARP.
Twice she has been ranked as one of the top five print reporters in the U.S., when two of her GQ articles, including her cover story on Michael Jackson, were finalists for the National Magazine Award.
Known for pursuing under reported stories, Fischer is credited with breaking several high-profile criminal cases, among them, the ’93 Michael Jackson case originally published in GQ, and the McMartin Preschool child molestation scandal. She was the first print reporter to take the controversial position, backed up by her six-month investigation, that there was no credible evidence against the McMartin defendants and the allegations against them were not credible.
In her memoir Stealing Love, Fischer tells the personal story of why she is passionately drawn to stories, and life situations, of injustice.
She lives in Los Angeles and is at work on another eBook and a news-making journalist project, this time in Washington D.C.
Joe Vogel, author of “Man in the Music, the Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson” and the recent article “Studying Michael Jackson“, says this about the Mary Fischer piece (via Twitter):
Mary A. Fischer was one of few voices of reason and fairness during the first MJ extortion case. Highly recommend this.
-Joe Vogel
Well, I’ve got my copy. I think this was and is a very important voice in the sensational pro-guilt wilderness surrounding the allegations against Michael. There were and sadly still are few factual and objective voices on the subject. Among a few others, I’m happy to support this one, too.
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New slider in tow, Nicolino hoping to make roster
Left-hander, who is out of options, scrapped cutter in offseason
By Joe Frisaro
JUPITER, Fla. -- It's a make-or-break Spring Training for Marlins lefty Justin Nicolino.Out of options, the 26-year-old needs to make the Opening Day roster; otherwise, he could be let loose by the organization. Nicolino is in the mix for a rotation or bullpen role, and he has a refreshed mentality
JUPITER, Fla. -- It's a make-or-break Spring Training for Marlins lefty Justin Nicolino.
Out of options, the 26-year-old needs to make the Opening Day roster; otherwise, he could be let loose by the organization. Nicolino is in the mix for a rotation or bullpen role, and he has a refreshed mentality -- and one fewer pitch at his disposal -- in hopes of sticking with the club.
"It's one of those things where I look at it like I'm still young," Nicolino said. "For me, I'm in a situation of whatever happens, happens. All I can do is go out there and do my job, whatever job that is. Whatever is asked of me. That's been my mentality since I showed up.
"It was either worry about it [and] let it affect my Spring Training, or keep doing what I've been doing but making it better and not worrying about it."
Nicolino has been off and on with the Marlins since 2015, jumping from the Minors to the big leagues. He made 20 appearances with eight starts last season, posting a 5.06 ERA in 48 innings. In his career, he is 10-13 with a 4.65 ERA in 201 1/3 innings.
The most dramatic difference with Nicolino this spring is that he's scrapped throwing his cutter, replacing it with a slider.
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"I became, I guess, cutter-happy," Nicolino said.
Often, the results of the pitch were rough. According to Statcast™, opponents batted .355 off of Nicolino's cut fastball in 2017.
"We've never been a fan of the cutter," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. "The cutter, it seems like when he made mistakes, it got hit hard. Obviously, you can't force a guy to do anything. But we've been talking about trying to get rid of that cutter for two years now."
In breaking down the pitch, Nicolino discovered the cutter tended to sweep across the plate rather than break downward.
"I made some mechanical adjustments, and it's helped a lot. I think what happened when I was throwing the cutter the previous two years, I was getting on the side of the baseball with everything. Now I'm just gripping it and ripping it."
Players union meeting
The Marlins had their annual meeting with MLB Players Association officials on Friday morning. The players met for about two hours.
MLBPA executive director Tony Clark acknowledged afterward to reporters that in late February, the union filed a grievance against four clubs, including Miami.
"We filed a grievance against the concerns that we have related to revenue sharing, and the obligations in the CBA," Clark said. "We're looking to address those concerns and the obligations we believe the team has."
The Marlins were one of the most active teams in the offseason, trading high-profile players like Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna, Christian Yelich and Dee Gordon.
New team ownership has repeatedly said the Marlins are building from the bottom up.
"As we have done since the day we took over in October," Marlins chief executive officer Derek Jeter has stated, "we will continue to do everything we can to build a foundation for sustained success and improve this organization -- which has not made the postseason since 2003 and has gone eight seasons without a winning record."
Shortstop JT Riddle (left shoulder) got six at-bats in a Minor League game on Friday. Third baseman Martin Prado (right knee) could start playing in gamelike situations on the back fields next week. With less than three weeks until Opening Day, the Marlins are hopeful both will be ready by then. If not, they could open the season on the disabled list.
"Obviously, we're going to do what's best for these guys, make sure they're fully ready to be ready," Mattingly said. "Once you get to the season, then you can't just be playing guys five innings and taking them out of the games when you've got four guys on your bench or five or whatever it is. You're playing a regular game, so at that point, they've got to be ready for nine innings."
"You don't expect to give up two hits in an inning and face the minimum in an inning, that's for sure. … It's good to see the stuff we're working on in Spring Training is going to get outs and is going to be an effective tool, and not just something to kill time in Spring Training." -- Marlins starter Dan Straily, who picked off Christian Vazquez at second base and Sam Travis at first, in a second inning where he faced just three batters
The Marlins face the Cardinals at 1:05 p.m. ET on Saturday at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, live on MLB.TV. Miami is the visiting club. Rule 5 pick Elieser Hernandez is getting the start for Miami against St. Louis' Michael Wacha. Catcher J.T. Realmuto, scratched from Friday's game due to a bruised left knee, expects to be back in the lineup.
Joe Frisaro has covered the Marlins for MLB.com since 2002. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro and listen to his podcast.
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Vol. 63: Mike Burgett's Chesapeake & Ohio
Mike Burgett’s Chesapeake & Ohio runs along the James River Valley in Virginia in 1965. This HO double deck railroad was built with the prototype always as a guide. The layout is a coal hauling line yet it has no coal mines. Mike’s knowledge of the placement and operation of signals has been applied to this layout and has kept the whole system relatively simple yet prototypical. The layout features a 600 foot mainline in a 24x36 foot basement with two decks. It’s based on stories and research that he has gathered from current and retired railroaders and supports his belief that the prototype has the answers for model railroads. The layout is a time machine for Mike and his friends when they run eight to 10 trains during their operating sessions.
A Behind the Scenes Tour of the Chesapeake & Ohio
The exploration of expert model layouts can lead to a world of inspiration. The creative and innovative Chesapeake & Ohio layout by Mike Burgett may help spark the imagination for your very own design. The layout is set in August of 1965 when the coal industry was flourishing throughout the mountains of Virginia. Although Mike
Exploring Operations on the Chesapeake & Ohio
It can be easy to get wrapped up in the appearance of a model train layout, but operation design is an aspect worth studying. Layout scenery planning and design can take an abundance of time and effort, but the most remarkable layouts give careful thought and planning to the operations as well. Understanding railroad operations
Insight Behind the Operations of the Clifton Forge Division
Model railroad experts with exceptional layouts commonly serve as influencers for the hobby. For example, Mike Burgett has dedicated many hours, skill and hard work to the Chesapeake & Ohio layout and he graciously shares it with the model railroading community. Many modelers seek help and guidance from well-known experts to improve their skills. Experts
Designing Model Railroad Signal Systems
A mistake many modelers make is finishing the scenery before even giving thought to a centralized traffic control machine and model railroad signal systems. Incorporating a CTC machine can cost a bulk of money and time, so it’s not necessarily something you want to toss off to the side and figure out after the entire
Model Railway Signals and Locations
Installing model railway signals in your layout requires planning, measuring and calculating. Mike Burgett’s Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad was initially based on the signal system and served as the foundation for the planning stages of the track. Mike stressed importance on the signaling system for his layout and gained valuable experience and expertise in
Union Switch and Signal Components
Mike Burgett not only builds and operates model trains, but he also works for the Canadian National Railway. He is able to combine his professional work experience with the model-railroading hobby to obtain a deeper understanding of railroad operations. Mike describes railroading as something he thinks about when he is lying in bed at night
Touring the Dispatchers Office
Mike Burgett built the centralized traffic control machine for the Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad layout himself, making use of original 1950’s hardware from actual railroad equipment. It is housed in its very own room upstairs from the layout. Mike visits the dispatcher’s office to exhibit the powerful CTC machine. A Thorough Look at the
Creating a Realistic C&O
Mike Burgett aims to fully immerse the operators in the Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad. He desires to give them a sense of actually working a shift on the railroad. His dedication to realism is beyond the imagination. As a matter of fact, Mike explains that there are times when operating sessions get so intense
Review of the Double Deck Layout Design
There are various methods and styles for constructing a model railroad layout. Track plans can range in size from a micro layout to a large layout that fills an entire room. There are numerous ways to house the track as well. They can be built on a table in the middle of a room or
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Milpitas: Community college extension facility…
Milpitas: Community college extension facility completed on Escuela Parkway
Members of the Milpitas and San Jose Evergreen Community College Districts board of education members, past and present, listen to San Jose City College President Byron Breland during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the San Jose Evergreen-MUSD college extension on Escuela Parkway on Oct. 25. Photo by Jubil Mathew
By Aliyah Mohammed | Bay Area News Group
A promise made to Milpitas voters in 2004 for a community college campus to be located in this city has finally come to fruition. On Tuesday, members of the Milpitas Unified School District and San Jose-Evergreen Community College District joined together for a ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Milpitas extension where high school students and adults in the community can take courses starting next February at 1450 Escuela Parkway.
The new facility, which will offer general education and transfer-level classes to Milpitas students and residents starting next spring, is supposed to fulfill a commitment made by the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District under Measure G.
Passed by San Jose and Milpitas voters in 2004, the measure was to allocate $185 million to the San Jose-Evergreen district. The land for the facility was donated by Milpitas Unified School District, while the facility was constructed by the college district for $11.5 million.
“The location of the extension is ideal for serving high school students and creating clear high school-to-college pathways. In the future we hope to create a middle college at the Milpitas extension so students will be able to graduate high school and simultaneously receive their A.A. degree,” San Jose-Evergreen Community College Chancellor Deborah Budd said on Tuesday.
Milpitas Interim Superintendent Cheryl Jordan, center right, and San Jose Evergreen Community College District Chancellor Debbie Budd cut the ribbon in front of the San Jose-Evergreen Milpitas Extension, a 12-year effort finally come to fruition during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 25. Classes will start to be offered in spring 2017.Photo by Jubil Mathew
Students at the high school will be able to be dual enrolled in the school district and in the community college district, and take classes that could count toward an associate’s degree or could be used to transfer to a University of California or California State University campus, according to Budd.
At the ribbon cutting, Budd and Interim Superintendent Cheryl Jordan, to much applause and cheering, thanked everyone who had been a part of the process over the last 12 years to make this goal a reality.
Jordan said this collaboration between a kindergarten through 12th grade district and a community college district, the first of its kind in the state, would help educate and prepare students and adults for careers. She added the college would open up accessibility to education and opportunities to the whole community.
“It is because of this dynamic, coupled with the moral imperative to make sure everyone in Milpitas has the opportunity to learn in this building, not only providing opportunities for students in our district who would be the first in their families to go to college, or who live in poverty, but can also provide a means for their parents to continue their educational pursuits as well,” Jordan said. “In educating the family we are creating an environment and learning opportunity for all our students.”
The facility consists of a single-story building with four classrooms, one English second language lab, one biology lab, one technology lab, two lecture halls, one community hub and collaboration spaces throughout that could accommodate around 280 students during the day — 130 Milpitas High School students and 150 adult learners — and 240 students in the evenings.
Jorge Escobar, vice president of administrative services for San Jose City College, which is part of the district, said that although the building was completed, classes would not begin until spring 2017 because it was not fully operational as all the technology needed to be installed.
“We need to have a period for us to start operations and find out the plan about the schedule with Milpitas Unified. Because these are college classes, we are already in the middle of fall semester so we have to wait for the new semester to begin to offer classes,” Escobar said.
Escobar, who will be the onsite administrator, said both the timing and types of classes that will be offered are still being worked out.
“We are intentionally opening very slowly, we want to go slow and that every step we make is a good approach to the number of classes we can handle and supervise and test how it is going to work,” Escobar said. “We can offer 30 classes on the schedule if every classroom and time of the day is maximized, I’m not sure when we’ll get to that point, we want to have the right balance.”
At a special joint meeting Tuesday night, Escobar told the respective boards that the facility would offer a coding academy and adult education classes. He added students enrolled at the high school would not have to pay for classes taken at the extension.
“We are also developing a new site with specific information about the Milpitas college extension with directions, and admission information,” Escobar said. “Our enrollment advisers will be there, they don’t need to come to the city college if they don’t need to, so we are going to try and provide as many services as possible so they can enroll and go to school in Milpitas.”
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The White Savior Industrial Complex
"From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex." (Teju Cole, The Atlantic)
posted by naju (93 comments total) 50 users marked this as a favorite
I couldn't figure out why Kristoff supported the Kony 2012 campaign, despite the fact it was so inaccurate.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:40 AM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
TED talks? Most of those are scientific, or social sciences.
I don't really see how TED fits into this.
posted by Flood at 7:49 AM on March 21, 2012 [5 favorites]
I so totally can't wait to see all of the protests after rural villages inhabitants in Africa and elsewhere receiving low cost HIV prophylactics and malaria nets from rich Americans realize after studying this article and being forwarded these tweets that they are just on the crap-end of the white savior industrial complex.
posted by gagglezoomer at 7:50 AM on March 21, 2012 [6 favorites]
He's obviously not looked at my overwhelmed apathy portfolio.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 7:53 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
gagglezoomer: "I so totally can't wait to see all of the protests after rural villages inhabitants in Africa and elsewhere receiving low cost HIV prophylactics and malaria nets from rich Americans realize after studying this article and being forwarded these tweets that they are just on the crap-end of the white savior industrial complex"
Wow. Talk about missing the point of the article. Or, even, the first sentence.
posted by barnacles at 7:54 AM on March 21, 2012 [9 favorites]
Flood: <cynical hat on>TED peddles easy solutions to difficult problems to a bunch of (on average) rich, white, men who can go home and pat themselves on the back afterwards for taking the time out of their busy lives to think about the little people. In this sense, TED is just like Kony 2012.
posted by pharm at 7:54 AM on March 21, 2012 [18 favorites]
I consider myself a pretty good reader, but I'll admit in this case that I really don't understand the point here. Then again, to quote the author "A good [article / comment] doesn't need to have a point."
posted by gagglezoomer at 7:57 AM on March 21, 2012
The point of the article:
"...there is much more to doing good work than "making a difference." There is the principle of first do no harm. There is the idea that those who are being helped ought to be consulted over the matters that concern them."
Reiterated:
"Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the heart of American foreign policy. To do this would be to give up the illusion that the sentimental need to "make a difference" trumps all other considerations. What innocent heroes don't always understand is that they play a useful role for people who have much more cynical motives. The White Savior Industrial Complex is a valve for releasing the unbearable pressures that build in a system built on pillage. We can participate in the economic destruction of Haiti over long years, but when the earthquake strikes it feels good to send $10 each to the rescue fund. I have no opposition, in principle, to such donations (I frequently make them myself), but we must do such things only with awareness of what else is involved. If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement."
posted by whimsicalnymph at 8:00 AM on March 21, 2012 [38 favorites]
The point:
"If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself. ... Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the heart of American foreign policy. To do this would be to give up the illusion that the sentimental need to "make a difference" trumps all other considerations. What innocent heroes don't always understand is that they play a useful role for people who have much more cynical motives. The White Savior Industrial Complex is a valve for releasing the unbearable pressures that build in a system built on pillage. ... If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement."
posted by Saxon Kane at 8:01 AM on March 21, 2012 [12 favorites]
D'oh. I owe whimsicalnymph a Coke.
posted by Saxon Kane at 8:02 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Feverish worry over that awful African warlord. But close to 1.5 million Iraqis died from an American war of choice. Worry about that.
posted by Slothrup at 8:02 AM on March 21, 2012 [11 favorites]
Okay, I disagree, but he is a fantastic writer.
Saxon Kane: Don't feel bad for the double - that section ought to be quoted three or four more times, just to let it sink in.
posted by absalom at 8:04 AM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
pharm: "Flood: <cynical hat on>TED peddles easy solutions to difficult problems to a bunch of (on average) rich, white, men who can go home and pat themselves on the back afterwards for taking the time out of their busy lives to think about the little people. In this sense, TED is just like Kony 2012."
Wow. That is ridiculously cynical. (Nice hat, btw.) :)
The thing about TED is it's basically a stream of information, personal experiences and speculation on all topics. The idea that it actively promotes disrespect of other cultures is a little strange, imho. Should we respect the needs and values of other cultures if we are considering getting involved or directly interfering with them? Sure. But I really don't think TED is part of the "White Saviour Industry" problem.
posted by zarq at 8:04 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
But there's a place in the political sphere for direct speech and, in the past few years in the U.S., there has been a chilling effect on a certain kind of direct speech pertaining to rights. The president is wary of being seen as the "angry black man." People of color, women, and gays -- who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before -- are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as "racially charged" even in those cases when it would be more honest to say "racist"; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.
posted by WidgetAlley at 8:04 AM on March 21, 2012 [45 favorites]
From Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid:
"There's a mosquito net maker in Africa. He manufactures around 500 nets a week. He employs ten people, who (as with many African countries) each have to support upwards of fifteen relatives. However hard they work, they can't make enough nets to combat the malaria-carrying mosquito....
With the market flooded with foreign nets [from well-meaning aid projects], however, our mosquito net maker is promptly put out of business. His ten workers can no longer support their 150 dependents (who are now forced to depend on handouts), and one mustn't forget that in a maximum of five years the majority of the nets will be torn, damaged, and of no further use.
This is the micro-macro paradox. A short term efficacious intervention may have few discernible, sustainable long-term benefits. Worse still, it can unintentionally undermine whatever fragile chance for sustainable development may already be in play."
posted by ChuraChura at 8:05 AM on March 21, 2012 [33 favorites]
Part of me really gets annoyed at the fact that progressives seem to save the most hurtful venom for those whom they agree with 90%. I understand that writing pissed off articles at African warlords really doesn't help, but it seems like, even on Metafilter, an asshole of a Republican will get a simple "Fuck you" while some of the most knock down, drag out fights, with metatalk highlights, take place when one progressive disagrees with the means, not the end, of another.
Ok, people protested in the streets, people voted for people that were against the war. How the hell do we deal with the fact that half the country disagrees with us on a fundamental level, at least?
posted by zabuni at 8:10 AM on March 21, 2012 [20 favorites]
It's kind of fascinating to see a leftie novelist committing the same sin of group identification that Iran hawks indulge. I would wager that at least 80% of the people at TED Talks either protested the Iraq war at the start, or went against it early on (oh David Remnick, you poor sucker). They are *quite* worried about U.S. foreign policy and its effects. The people who aren't... are not listening to TED Talks! But he seems to think that one white person is just the same as any other, that "U.S. policy" is a great big monolith rather than the result of a bunch of rather fierce arguments, and that he's blowing our Atlantic-reading minds by suggesting that U.S. policy sometimes makes life worse for people in other countries. I don't think that's particularly racist, but it is incredibly stupid.
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 8:14 AM on March 21, 2012 [10 favorites]
Individual issues in Africa (and everywhere) have to be considered in contexts that are inclusive of everything that has provoked them to unfold. Our exponentially complex world is so far gone that to be on the right page requires a tremendous amount of work. And to get everyone up to speed knowledge-wise in order to even have a coherent global conversation is so dizzying a task that until we evolve into cyborgs I just don't see it happening.
TL;DR we are fucked until we become cyborgs.
posted by pwally at 8:17 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm going to double down on the cynic hat.
Well I doubt this really plays that well in the US to people who are seeing their debts rise up and the futures for their children grow dimmer and dimmer. I imagine people are going to prefer a 1%er person like Newt Gingrich who is clearly just abusing money for the most egotistical and lurid reasons imaginable, to a naive rich guy who doesn't think he should be required to sacrifice his position, but does think we should be informed about what he thinks are the biggest problems in the world.
I am personally pretty sick of private charity, and I don't think I'm alone. The amount of money these people have accumulated is obscene, and the idea that because they utilize some of it on fanciful but hopeless programs that get their names in the news is disgusting. Here's what we should actually do, take the money from you via taxes, namelessly and thanklessly, and spend it as best helps society after having input from experts on the most crucial problems, not from rich people with too much free time.
posted by SomeOneElse at 8:19 AM on March 21, 2012 [12 favorites]
The idea that it actively promotes disrespect of other cultures is a little strange, imho
Enthusiasm is an affectation of the cryptosyndicalist bourgeoisie. Technology is the instantiation of enthusiasm, and should be shunned by all correct cadres.
The correct proletariat cadres know that the only acceptable emotion is despair. Those who profess non-communitarian responses must be cleansed with the cynical fist, so that the subproletarian unhumans may be mercilessly exterminated without pause. They demand it of us with their every waking breath, and we will provide it unthinkingly.
Let us take this opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the proper path of global rectitude, global victory, and global extermination. Only through correct cultivation of the true proletarian disdain may we carry through to the glorious goal of universal suffering.
Join me brothers, that we may drape the world with the gray flag of victory!
posted by aramaic at 8:19 AM on March 21, 2012 [16 favorites]
Flood: "TED talks? Most of those are scientific, or social sciences.
I don't really see how TED fits into this."
Maybe the whole water filter thing?
I like TED talks, but I think they focus too much on how great the ideas are, instead of just the ideas themselves.
posted by Deathalicious at 8:22 AM on March 21, 2012
"What Africa needs more pressingly than Kony's indictment is more equitable civil society, more robust democracy, and a fairer system of justice."
I work at an NGO that assists developing countries with exactly these things, and I think this point is absolutely right. There is a huge difference between trying to solve someone else's problems for them, and helping people to solve their own problems themselves. It's the difference between saying "I know what you need" and asking "what do you need?"
posted by showbiz_liz at 8:25 AM on March 21, 2012 [11 favorites]
zarq: I'm glad you like it :)
Being slightly more serious, I think TED can often fall into the classic fallacy of proposing technical solutions to social problems. People like the technical solutions because it means that they don't have to confront the difficult social issues underlying the problem in question. When the technical solution inevitably fails (as technical solutions to social problems usually do) everyone has moved on to the next thing & so the real problem never gets fixed. Then the whole cycle starts all over again when the next well meaning activist comes along to try and fix the problem with their new solution.
Also, can't remember the source, but I remember someone contrasting the behavior of the Chinese vs. the behavior of white Europeans in Africa. China is actually doing things like building infrastructure because they see Africa in terms of its resources and as a market for consumers, labor, and materials.
What Africa needs more pressingly than Kony's indictment is more equitable civil society, more robust democracy, and a fairer system of justice.
Are the two mutually exclusive? Aren't we shitting on people for trying to make a small difference because they aren't trying to make a big difference?
posted by rocket88 at 8:35 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
I only disagree with the suggestion that the "White Savior Industrial Complex" is either a new thing or more prominent than a generation or two ago. That "We Are The World" song totally saved Africa, didn't it?
I would wager that at least 80% of the people at TED Talks either protested the Iraq war at the start, or went against it early on
Which is why so many of them cancelled their New York Times subscriptions to protest its Iraq War Cheerleading (which it never fully apologized for, and, hey, look! It's doing it again with Iran!)
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:35 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
It's the difference between saying "I know what you need" and asking "what do you need?"
Or, for that matter, asking "What are your strengths, and how can we support you in developing them?"
There are organizations that have attempted to support rather than provide for developing societies/communities.
One of the interesting ones is Future Generations, whose mission is Future Generations teaches and enables a process for equitable community change that integrates environmental conservation with development.
Theirs is a process, not a product, that builds capacity, not just offers resources.
posted by entropone at 8:35 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
This article is pretty great.
posted by Chungking Express at 8:43 AM on March 21, 2012
Another important quote that gives some policy details:
Success for Kony 2012 would mean increased militarization of the anti-democratic Yoweri Museveni government, which has been in power in Uganda since 1986 and has played a major role in the world's deadliest ongoing conflict, the war in the Congo. But those whom privilege allows to deny constellational thinking would enjoy ignoring this fact. There are other troubling connections, not least of them being that Museveni appears to be a U.S. proxy in its shadowy battles against militants in Sudan and, especially, in Somalia. Who sanctions these conflicts? Under whose authority and oversight are they conducted? Who is being killed and why?
In short, sometimes a well-meaning, ignorant person can actually make problems worse by doing the "common sense" thing. Surely we have all done this - I know I have.
I think many of us both want to feel good about ourselves and achieve meaningful outcomes, but it's very easy for the desire to feel good about ourselves to trump any kind of outcomes-based thinking. So we often insist that anything that seems "common sense" or "generous" must contribute to meaningful social change and must not have a significant down side, because then we can feel good.
Also, then we can feel powerful, but sometimes there is nothing helpful you can do.
I once planned an event that went terribly wrong. Without going into details, I will say that it was a disaster on almost every level - interpersonal, ideological, organizational. In talking about this event with someone who gave me valuable critical feedback, I said something like "but some of it was out of my hands because of the limits on participants' schedules - I had limited control over [who could participate and various other things]." She said to me, "Wouldn't it have been better to have canceled the event and had nothing at all than to have had an event which made things worse?" And those were the words of wisdom. Given the resources that I had, the best actually possible outcome would have been to have no event whatsoever, but because I was committed to the idea of "doing something", I charged ahead and made things worse. Luckily, I was not in charge of a major aid program and so did minimal harm.
posted by Frowner at 8:43 AM on March 21, 2012 [5 favorites]
As someone who finds themselves increasingly on the outside looking in at the progressive camp, I can say this whole thing has the air of cultural superiority about it.
It's one thing to say, hey, the Kony campaign was dramatically simplified, ignores the opinions of actual Ugandans, has a slightly creepy neo-colonial vibe to it, etc. It's quite another to pile derision on people who mean very well, which is the direction most of this commentary has taken, particularly from white writers.
Digging into my stereotype bag, it feels a lot like people who were Death Cab fans before they got big slagging off all the people who heard them on One Tree Hill or whatever.
posted by downing street memo at 8:44 AM on March 21, 2012 [5 favorites]
Which is why so many of them cancelled their New York Times subscriptions to protest its Iraq War Cheerleading
Interesting that you not only have a database of TED attendees, but have cross-referenced it with versions of the NYT subscriber database from multiple dates. Or just made up a straw man to prove a point. One of the two.
posted by kersplunk at 8:46 AM on March 21, 2012
Tweet three is what I was trying to say in that TED thread the other day, only much better put.
Your bracket insert is the equivalent of "'water is [dry],' according to Cole." He was specifically and explicitly drawing a distinction between his work as a novelist and an essayist, viz. that in the former he relishes ambiguity and whereas here he was trying to be clear and persuasive. I cannot concur with your self-assessment.
As for Cole's point....those are some compelling, thoughtful tweets. But when it comes to something like the State department's boilerplate BS in favour of democracy....I wonder what he really wants, or if what he seems to say he wants is possible, or wise. All diplomacy is dissembling; the United States is hypocritical because it claims to value freedom and serves its own interest. Other powerful countries may be less hypocritical, but merely because they make no such claim in the first place, and nakedly serve.
He's right about the saviour complex, too, of course. But these is an ambition in extremity which I necessary to drive people toward unpleasant work...after all, they're certainly not going to get paid doing it. How much more grand to travel halfway across the world, to endure the same conditions as the poorest of the poor, then to be a social worker back at home....it's a tough gig either way but only one brings glamour. I don't have any answers either, of course, I'm just afraid that if we really did cut the bullshit we'd find there's nothing underneath, it's turtles and blowjobs all the ways down....
posted by Diablevert at 8:46 AM on March 21, 2012
...some of the most knock down, drag out fights, with metatalk highlights, take place when one progressive disagrees with the means, not the end, of another.
But the thing is ... the means of the "White Savior Industrial Complex" don't lead to the ends that people intend them to. Foreign aid being paid out in the form of loans have led to the huge, horrible cycle of debt trapping a significant proportion of African countries and increased corruption. Food aid in the form of surplus corn flooding the markets in developing countries have completely destroyed local agricultural prospects. Shoes and secondhand clothing donated to African countries have ruined livelihoods of local producers of shoes and secondhand clothing. Integrated development and conservation programs have attracted more people to environmentally sensitive areas and spurred further environmental degradation. There are hundreds of similar examples.
The fact is that people telling simplified versions of these stories allow people to congratulate themselves for knowing and caring, and then move on with their lives after participating in some Activism, like posting a link to a video, or an article. It lets us all off the hook, when instead (as Cole points out), we should be figuring out how we can use our mobility, our money, and our influence as members of Western Nation X, to take nuanced looks at complex situations and then figure out what the means are, and to what end.
But close to 1.5 million Iraqis died from an American war of choice.
This is OT, but in the interest of precision and accuracy, how was that number arrived at and what exactly does it specify (excess deaths, violent deaths, etc)? It is literally the largest estimate that I've ever seen, and smaller estimates have been labeled as implausible.
posted by cosmic.osmo at 8:55 AM on March 21, 2012
I do not like the image in that article either, of the angelic blonde dude rescuing all these dark children from horrible fates. It's super-creepy. But "savior complex" doesn't capture it; it's the natural human tendency to think of the world - particularly the abstract world - in terms of stories, with good and bad guys. For most of us, Africa exists only in our imaginations, and we need stories to understand even a tiny bit of it. This is not a phenomenon to which progressives are immune - Occupy Wall Street is one big story, about the similarly abstract world of high finance.
What kills me about this line of commentary is that we're presented with all the context and complexities about events in Uganda with respect to Kony, and asked to acknowledge that Uganda and Ugandans exist in a complex system immune to white saviorhood. But these same pieces ask Westerners to super-humanly transcend our own structural barriers (societal and psychological) to understand these complexities - something that almost certainly will not happen.
If you want people to begin to understand an abstract world, you need to dramatically simplify that world and create a narrative. We can't overcome that limitation.
What these people need is a white dude! is certainly a resonant theme for American audiences. Along with Hey, I can fix this, I'm a NICE WHITE LADY.
posted by rmd1023 at 9:08 AM on March 21, 2012
Well, to argue out the other side of my mouth, as I am wont to do --- maybe you need a story but you can change the story, change the frame. Fashions change, and there's fashions in everything. "sustainability," micro-finance --- these are en vogue and part of what makes them do is that they are more attuned to the agency of the recipient. Every aid model will have flaws and virtues; as the former are discovered people react against them and the fashion changes. It is to be hoped I suppose that some of the shifts are true evolution, towards stuff that actually does work better; likely if it is we would cease to think of it as being optional. Conversations like this are a part of changing the story, changing the outline if the avatar of the Virtuous Man we all seek to embody with this behaviour...
I agree with the article. I think that, at least part of this, is a wholesale lack of faith in the democratic process. In the wake of various bubbles bursting, the financial meltdown, massive amounts of corporate money in politics, and a thousand other failures of our society (echoed endlessly by a 24 hour news media, which would have you believe the world is ending in a different way each morning) people don't really have much faith in elected officials to do anything. Probably rightly so. The alternative to this is to throw money at problems, but not tax money because you can't trust those clowns in Washington to throw it the right way. Instead it's thrown towards charities which are equally feckless or inept, and possibly even more so. The mode of the average person isn't citizen (since civil society by way of democracy is broken), but rather as a consumer. You can pass along advertisements on Facebook, and organize boycotts, or make your political statement by what you buy.
posted by codacorolla at 9:24 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Trying ... to ... worry about ... two things at once ... Head pounding ... must stop [KABLOOM]
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 9:30 AM on March 21, 2012 [7 favorites]
may we have a tv tropes warning on links? I just fell down the rabbit hole and didn't climb out for 20+ minutes.
(love the site, but man, it's like crack)
posted by jb at 9:37 AM on March 21, 2012
I agree with the article. I think that, at least part of this, is a wholesale lack of faith in the democratic process. In the wake of various bubbles bursting, the financial meltdown, massive amounts of corporate money in politics, and a thousand other failures of our society (echoed endlessly by a 24 hour news media, which would have you believe the world is ending in a different way each morning) people don't really have much faith in elected officials to do anything.
I've noticed a real change in tone on MetaFilter over the past few years. More anger.
posted by KokuRyu at 9:50 AM on March 21, 2012
I found the article thoughtful. It's interesting how defensive we are when someone points out the obvious and suggests that solutions are at best going to be complex and messy.
posted by maxwelton at 9:52 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Or just made up a straw man to prove a point.
No more than the poster who pulled the 80% figure out of his ass. In fact, less so, because I used the less specific reference "so many of them". How many NYT subscribers have canceled their subscriptions in protest of something written there? Here's the only one I could Google up, and everyone knows how Paul Krugman controls the rest of the paper's content.
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:53 AM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
This reminds me quite a bit of the Ivan Illich speech on the Peace Corps:
I am here to suggest that you voluntarily renounce exercising the power which being an American gives you. I am here to entreat you to freely, consciously and humbly give up the legal right you have to impose your benevolence on Mexico. I am here to challenge you to recognize your inability, your powerlessness and your incapacity to do the good which you intended to do.
I am here to entreat you to use your money, your status and your education to travel in Latin America. Come to look, come to climb our mountains, to enjoy our flowers. Come to study. But do not come to help.
posted by allen.spaulding at 9:54 AM on March 21, 2012 [9 favorites]
It's not that you can't worry about two things at once, it's that the specific solution we're discussing for the worries about that awful African warlord is very similar to the process that lead to all of those dead Iraqis.
posted by cdward at 10:03 AM on March 21, 2012
Another way you can tell who's serious about local culture and context flavoring efforts to help and make a difference, and who's just culturally posturing: look at how many people applaud articles like these, yet turn around and suggest boycotting Apple over their labor practices.
posted by downing street memo at 10:12 AM on March 21, 2012
Look, we all know that if these guys really cared about Africa and it's problems, instead of getting involved with a charity, they'd be making cynical comments on Metafilter. the 101st Chairborn Brigade is the REAL solution to everything!
posted by happyroach at 10:15 AM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
This idea is what I found most disturbing about the IC video. I'm a pessimistic guy, but this is far more cynical and defeatist than anything I would have dreamed.
If this is really true - if the only real way to make change is slick ad campaigns and simplistic narratives - then we're stuck in an endless game of political football, constantly losing ground to whoever has the most money.
I think the truth is just the opposite; that real, transformative change only comes from engaging people and teaching them to recognize that the world can be understood and changed by people like them, who aren't professionals or celebrities.
posted by cdward at 10:17 AM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
Is this not kinda problematic? People who might actually care about Africa are probably a small subset of voters, and have a choice between whatever package o' policies the Democrats and Republicans offer publicly at election time every 4 years. What happens if the cause you care about isn't one that's even on the table? I understand that people should probably familiarize themselves with the issues before diving in headfirst, but surely some things can be dealt with outside of US foreign policy...or even in response to US foreign policy to address its effects.
The American government did not see fit to support the Nigeria protests. (Though the State Department issued a supportive statement -- "our view on that is that the Nigerian people have the right to peaceful protest, we want to see them protest peacefully, and we're also urging the Nigerian security services to respect the right of popular protest and conduct themselves professionally in dealing with the strikes" -- it reeked of boilerplate rhetoric and, unsurprisingly, nothing tangible came of it.)
What is something tangible the American government could do here? What could the small subset of American voters that care about protesters in Nigeria do to influence the American government and other voters?
posted by Hoopo at 10:22 AM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
Okay, so the point of the article is to say that we have to stop making things worse in Africa via shitty foreign policy.
It also seems to be saying that there is a link to privileged white folks making it worse in Africa via foreign policy and the privileged white folks trying to make it better in Africa.
The insidious undertone is that it is getting worse so that privileged folks can swoop in and be the hero. Like starting a fire then putting it out, or something like that.
What Africa needs more pressingly than Kony's indictment is more equitable civil society, more robust democracy, and a fairer system of justice. This is the scaffolding from which infrastructure, security, healthcare, and education can be built. How do we encourage voices like those of the Nigerian masses who marched this January, or those who are engaged in the struggle to develop Ugandan democracy?
Who's spouting White Saviour principles now? Telling Africans what they need - robust democracy, fair justice system. Oddly, the people guiding foreign policy often ask the same questions, but ultimately use shitty selfish methods to effect it.
I have no opposition, in principle, to such donations (I frequently make them myself), but we must do such things only with awareness of what else is involved. If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.
Wait - how does he know what's going on in the minds of people donating to charity? And what else, is he proposing that people be tested before they text money to a foreign charity? I'm not sure I know what he's saying here. There seems to be a dissonance.
I get it if he wants people to be better educated about the evils expounded by the US government on third world countries. But I don't think that making people question their charity is a good way to do it. People help where they can, and effect change where they can, and sometimes it has to do with convenience.
I think that this article is really more of a well-meaning rant than anything else, and doesn't propose any solutions to the problems he's complaining about.
posted by jabberjaw at 10:29 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
Cultural posturing, or signaling, is no doubt a huge driver of opinion. I can see how some MF folks could applaud the article and simultaneously suggest boycotting Apple, even if there are incongruities to be found between the two issues. Nobody ever said signaling had to be logical.
posted by 2N2222 at 10:36 AM on March 21, 2012
"I get it if he wants people to be better educated about the evils expounded by the US government on third world countries. But I don't think that making people question their charity is a good way to do it."
I disagree, I think making people question their charity is incredibly important in making sure that whatever monies they are donating are going toward helping in the long term rather than perpetuating what has become a sick system. This article is less about individual donations and more about the self-perpetuating system that's now in place: hence the the term "Industrial Complex". The pushback I'm seeing is from people feeling personally affronted that their desire to help is being criticized. It's not the impulse to help that's being examined so much as what form that help ultimately takes, and whether it's actually helpful or *harmful* to the communities it purports to support. (I was going to say "rescue" rather than support, since that's the loaded word at the center of this article but there are organizations out there that are trying to lend support in a way that's directed by the communities being aided rather than from the outside in).
posted by stagewhisper at 10:37 AM on March 21, 2012 [4 favorites]
Is this not kinda problematic? People who might actually care about Africa are probably a small subset of voters, and have a choice between whatever package o' policies the Democrats and Republicans offer publicly at election time every 4 years.
There is a middle ground of sorts. Instead of social-media'ing so that people send old t-shirts to African villages, one can do social-media'ing to rouse people to affect policy - not just by voting, but by pressing those elected.
The focus is different, but the same useful means can be applied to a more effective end.
posted by entropone at 10:39 AM on March 21, 2012
I think there is something else driving this. I don't usually want to put down people's good intentions, or their desire to good work. And I think social media has, on the whole, been a good thing for activism -- it was rather extraordinary to see a nonhierarchic, genuinely grassroots response to Rush Limbaugh recently, and it seemed to be effective.
But the downside to it is something I have started calling Facebook Outrage Du Jour Activism. I see it from a lot of people I follow. Every day something new pops up that they are angry about, usually in the form of a simplified narrative that can be communicated in a single Facebook post or link, with a simple call to action. A few days later, the activism has ended, like a tantrum that just needs to spin itself out. And these are people who admit to not following the news in general, and tend not to evidence any clear political ideas beside the fact that they can work themselves up into a froth every so often.
I suppose it's a double-edged sword. There are some simple evils in this world, and there are some problems that are vastly helped by simple calls to action. Boycotts can work, as can donating money. But, when you start reducing complex problems down to simple talking points to harness a sort of inchoate online outrage, I think there is a very great risk of the problem getting middied and the solution being short-lived and ineffective.
But maybe these are just the growing pains of a new kind of activism. Social media is, in the long picture, still a very new thing, and the power of social media activism is newer still.
Nonetheless, it is a bit annoying to discover people I fundamentally agree with are sometimes so shallow and reactionary, with no politics other than what is making them mad at the moment. I would like less of this.
I think that's a paranoid misreading of the essay. He's saying that many of these charitable efforts may be succeed in making the contributors feel good about themselves, while not doing much to help their intended targets, because people don't really understand the complexities of the situation they're trying to fix.
Who's spouting White Saviour principles now? Telling Africans what they need - robust democracy, fair justice system.
A first-generation Nigerian American who grew up mostly in Nigeria?
posted by Diablevert at 10:46 AM on March 21, 2012 [8 favorites]
The two positions are logically inconsistent. "Let local people handle their own affairs" is not ambiguous.
Somehow I've managed to avoid this Kony 2012 business almost entirely; I think it's because I don't use Facebook. I can't comment on what they're getting right or wrong. But this is from the Kony 2012 website:
"We are taking action to ensure these two things:
1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That U.S. and international efforts to stop Kony are bolstered with a more comprehensive strategy for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR)."
It's pretty much exactly rousing people "to affect policy - not just by voting, but by pressing those elected," not shipping used t-shirts, and it's specifically called out.
posted by Hoopo at 10:59 AM on March 21, 2012
I agree. But like I said, it's about signaling. Not reason. MeFites are not immune. I don't think anyone is, really. It's more about staking out ideological ground for others to see.
Both involve giving their US dollars to a western organization in a way that influences the practices in another country; to question that influence and consider not participating in it is not inconsistent whether you agree with any given position or not. That one is charity and the other is commerce may not be such a key differentiator, particularly given the Friedmanesque hype about the benign effects of globalization; the two are conflated on both sides of the issue.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:04 AM on March 21, 2012
>people send old t-shirts to African villages
This, of course, creates more problems than it solves.
SWEDOW flow chart.
posted by obscurator at 11:09 AM on March 21, 2012
Ha! Fair enough.
He's saying that many of these charitable efforts may be succeed in making the contributors feel good about themselves, while not doing much to help their intended targets, because people don't really understand the complexities of the situation they're trying to fix.
Okay, that makes more sense to me, but there is still a disconnect. It's a "so what" issue for me. Who cares if people feel good about doing things they think is charitable? It doesn't fix anything to make them feel bad about it.
The problem with charities not helping their intended targets is a problem with charities, not the people who support them. I think the bigger problem of things like the Stop Kony campaign had to do with the campaign, not the people who jumped on the bandwagon.
(I think that was his point)
Sorry, but Hon Hai and Foxconn is a Chinese company doing business in China, a country that certainly has the power to regulate those companies if it wished. The main complaint Foxconn workers have about their jobs isn't the (admittedly very rough) conditions; it's the fact that they don't get enough overtime.
Boycotting their products is functionally identical to white saviorism; it's the assumption that the actions of white Westerners can save impoverished people from their fates. In this case, it would provide Chinese workers exactly what they say they don't want, which is a reduction in hours.
It is true that many people, myself included, want to engage in actions that help people in need because it feels good to do so. I don't see this as a bad thing, and I am not seeing how this feeling is connected to the color of a person's skin. Most people who live in a western country are probably much better off, as regards access to human needs like good food, shelter, education, ability to participate in society, etc. Some may even feel ethically obliged to help people who are less fortunate then themselves.
The problem, though, is that it is very difficult and probably full of pitfalls and landmines to actually be truly helpful and useful to someone you don't understand. Perhaps too often, as the author points out, not enough effort is made to truly know and understand the people who are supposedly being helped. And people may think they are helping when actually they are not. A lot of mistakes have probably been made, though intentions were good. But to call this a "White Savior Industrial Complex" seems very hostile to me, and surely not helpful. And, yes, racist.
posted by Golden Eternity at 11:40 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
We are taking action to ensure these two things:
2) That U.S. and international efforts to stop Kony are bolstered with a more comprehensive strategy for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR).
1) Kony was already a marginal character in the eyes of pretty much everyone.
2) Those efforts were naive, not terribly thought through, and/or counterproductive.
Furthermore, the Kony 2012 campaign appeared to be more a creative outlet for Jason Russell than about the welfare of Ugandans. And Ugandans themselves seem, at best, unimpressed with the campaign.
Making people feel bad about doing counterproductive work in the name of charity can be a very positive development. The way charity achieves positive outcomes is by doing work that makes for a positive outcome. I've no doubt pointing out ineffectual charitable efforts can give those who've contributed a big sad. But that's the point! It stops people from wasting their time and effort, and hobbles ineffectual charities for doing ineffectual work.
posted by 2N2222 at 11:42 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
Boycotting their products is functionally identical to white saviorism;
First of all we're talking about Apple products subcontracted to those companies. Second, it doesn't change what we're talking about; someone declining to participate in contributory economic activity that enables or rewards certain outcomes in another country. Again, you may not agree with the choice but it's not inconsistent.
Yeah I'm not trying to defend the Kony guys, I know nothing about it. I haven't even watched the video. The issue is that my take-away from what's being suggested here is that you shouldn't contribute to anything without essentially being an expert on it first. That would be crippling to so many charities, many of which do good work.
But fear not, good people of Metafilter; I am doing nothing for anyone! I can still feel good about myself, right?
An appropriately cynical assessment might say the choice of Kony was not naive, but calculated in providing a singular, well-defined boogieman without allies, thus trying to ensure a thoroughly non-controversial campaign. The fact that it didn't is a proud achievement for what some would call the "the 101st Chairborn Brigade".
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:50 AM on March 21, 2012
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!"
"What if it's a Trojan Horse?"
"Beggars can't be choosers"
"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!"
I propose that we carry the conversation entirely using such sayings.
"The law of unintended consequences"
"The perfect is the enemy of the good"
Add your own.
posted by VikingSword at 11:51 AM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
It doesn't fix anything to make them feel bad about it.
If feeling bad makes them think about their actions in the future then yeah, it does help.
posted by cdward at 12:09 PM on March 21, 2012 [3 favorites]
Can you find a way to make them think about their actions that doesn't involve insulting them or making them feel bad?
posted by rocket88 at 1:24 PM on March 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
Probably, but would it be worth it? I spend most of my fixing-the-world time on things that are much more fruitful than trying to educate the endless supply of privileged people who do ignorant things. Making them feel bad has a pretty high bang/buck ratio.
posted by cdward at 2:06 PM on March 21, 2012
Making them feel bad has a pretty high bang/buck ratio.
Assuming they're a) listening to you and b) aren't put off charitable causes completely. Otherwise telling people they're doing something shitty by putting something on Facebook or whatever when it's better described as meaningless might get you a lot of apathy for your proverbial buck. It is a mistake; you risk cutting off a huge source of revenue for good causes.
Most people--as in the vast, vast majority of people--are pretty ignorant about what's going on in the world. Not everybody has the time. Not everybody reads the news. Not everybody is up on politics. Not everybody is an expert in international aid. Even worse? There's no consensus among people who are experts, who do have specialized education, who do read the news, about the appropriate way to tackle the world's problems. I think it's more or less assumed that the people who canvas and solicit donations for whatever cause are more knowledgeable about it than you are, and by giving to people or organizations who are going out and doing something about it, yeah you might feel good for doing it, but that's not really the cause of the problem, it's a side effect.
I spend most of my fixing-the-world time on things that are much more fruitful than trying to educate the endless supply of privileged people who do ignorant things
I just threw up a little.
posted by Hoopo at 3:01 PM on March 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
I've been on Metafilter for quite a while. My experience, especially on this site, has not been this. Guilt does not make people less bigoted. Guilt does not make them thin. Guilt does not make not poor. It does not make them eat organic/vegan/non-fast food. It does not make them drive fewer miles per day. It does not make them treat cyclers with respect. It does not make them vote for laws that would benefit environment causes/women's health/the poor.
All I've ever seen guilt do is make people defensive, and if applied in sufficient quantity, apathetic.
And guilt delivered with scorn for the people it's aimed at doesn't do a damn bit of good, in any medium, real or virtual. In fact, it's probably one of my least loved things about this site.
posted by zabuni at 3:06 PM on March 21, 2012 [5 favorites]
"Putting something on Facebook or whatever" isn't what's shitty. The shitty part is supporting shitty ideas.
Don't forget that the specific example that we're talking about here is a campaign for American military intervention (because we know that always works out well, right?) and military support for a corrupt government.
If people are, out of ignorance or privilege, doing the wrong things for the right reasons, then education is precisely what they need.
We're talking about preventing people from supporting bad ideas. Guilt takes away the cheap thrill of being part of a "movement". Moving them from supporting the bad idea to being apathetic towards it is exactly the desired result.
You're not wrong, it's just a question of where to apply resources.
The people who live in the region were unhappy with the movie. Cenk and Anna, the people discussing it in the video think it's a national pride issue, but what if they're just worried that a major push to go after this guy might result in a lot of violence and bloodshed in the region. They aren't able to get many interviews in after the movie, because there's a gunshot and people run away.
It seems like with the Kony 2012 video what a lot of people are saying is that it relies on the of thinking that says "Saddam is a bad guy, so taking an action against him must be a good idea"
I don't know how analogous the Kony thing is. Maybe getting rid of him will be easy and quickly make the world a better place. Maybe there is enough information out there that you can do the numbers and estimate how risky it would be. I don't know. but I don't think Invisible Children knew either and I don't think they did any math.
Part of me really gets annoyed at the fact that progressives seem to save the most hurtful venom for those whom they agree with 90%. - zabuni
Well, results matter. If what these guys are doing is harmful, what difference does it make that we might "agree" with them?
Plus, what makes you think these guys are progressives? (or "Liberal" might be a better term here*) Christian evangelicals have been all over Uganda lately, remember the connection between people like Rick Warren and the politician there who wanted to ban homosexuality -- on pain of death. I'd heard invisible children was connected/funded by that that right-wing "cultural exchange" movement.
Doing a google search for "invisible children right wing" I found this This claiming they actually coordinated with Martin Ssempa, the kill the gays guy. Jason Russell the leader cum naked pavement pounder spoke at liberty U in 11/2011 and said:
"A lot of people fear Christians, they fear Liberty University, they fear Invisible Children - because they feel like we have an agenda. They see us and they go, "You want me to sign up for something, you want my money. You want, you want me to believe in your God." And it freaks them out."
Here's an article about their funding, funded by a lot of the same people who fund right-wing evangelical things.
So I don't think it's fair to say that I would agree with 90% of what they believe.
(*Of course, historically turn of the century progressives were mostly Christians. Historically 'progressives' were very different then modern liberals, who just started calling themselves 'progressives' because the republicans turned "Liberal" into a bad word, and they were too lazy to do anything about it. Many actual progressives, like Woodrow Wilson were racist, not 'product of their time' racist but way outside the norms of the era. They were into Eugenics, and prohibition as well - in comparison, modern day liberals basically have the same ideals and values as 1960s liberals like MLK, JFK, etc)
Feverish worry over that awful African warlord. But close to 1.5 million Iraqis died from an American war of choice. Worry about that.-- cdward
Trying ... to ... worry about ... two things at once ... Head pounding ... must stop [KABLOOM] -- Tell Me No Lies
Before this movie came out, there were already US troops in Uganda. This is someone who had been inactive for a while. What if all this pressure causes him to "reactivate" like the black hole at the center of a galaxy, except instead of sucking in matter and releasing a plume of gamma rays, he's sucking in children to become soldiers and releasing corpses? Putting pressure on this guy might cause more instability, requiring more militarism, more fighting, more death.
The issue is that my take-away from what's being suggested here is that you shouldn't contribute to anything without essentially being an expert on it first. -- Hoopo
Right, but usually that's done by working through an established channel, not by just doing whatever pops into your head, while pissing off the people you're claiming to help
With the market flooded with foreign nets [from well-meaning aid projects], however, our mosquito net maker is promptly put out of business. His ten workers can no longer support their 150 dependents (who are now forced to depend on handouts), and one mustn't forget that in a maximum of five years the majority of the nets will be torn, damaged, and of no further use. -- ChuraChura quoting Dambisa Moyo's book
On the other hand, the "aide is bad" argument is as dumb as some of the "white savior" nonsense. Why should people die so one hypothetical person can keep his job? And why would he employ people rather then simply importing nets from China?
Yes, certainly protectionism can help local industries, but protectionism that costs lives isn't a good way to do things. Someone who knows how make mosquito nets could also make fabric.
A sensible thing would be to help him by providing equipment and training that he could use to scale up, rather then letting people die of malaria.
SWEDOW flow chart. -- obscurator
Then how come every time I see pictures from Africa, people are wearing second hand clothes from the west? It's probably the biggest change in the images we've seen from there over the past few decades, I think. Importing of second hand clothes for retail is big business there, even if people stopped 'donating' to Africa it would still be imported, there is a profitable commercial market for it.
I think in some cases the need to be contrarian and believe something that seems obviously true overwhelms people's brains. Yes, we all know the "Give a man a fish" thing but that doesn't help if they 100 miles from water, or if they don't have a rod and reel or if you need a license to fish or whatever.
There isn't a one-dimensional vector that says if you support aide to Africa, you also support invisible children the Kony 2012 thing. Are there problems with the way Aide works? Probably. But a bunch of conservative think-tanks promoting the "Aide never works" thing are about as reliable as those same think tanks when they make bullshit claims about global warming.
The purpose of Kony 2012 isn't to distribute mosquito nets or vaccinations or build roads or power lines - its to instigate state violence against someone the makes of the film didn't like. Maybe he deserves it, but it's not going to be cost free.
Boycotting their products is functionally identical to white saviorism; it's the assumption that the actions of white Westerners can save impoverished people from their fates. In this case, it would provide Chinese workers exactly what they say they don't want, which is a reduction in hours. -- downing street memo
Okay, that is completely ridiculous. functionally identical. If you believe that the working conditions used to create iPads is inhumane, and you pay for an iPad, then you are participating in something that is inhumane.
Lets imagine two different situations: 1) You hear a fight in the next apartment. You think there might be domestic abuse. Do you break down the door and try to break up the fight? Do you worry that might make things worse in the long run, as the abuser might take out his humiliation on his wife later. Do you're worry your hearing wrong and maybe nothing is going on and you'll ruin their door for no reason?
Now another scenario. Money is tight, and you just found out your girlfriend spent money you need for gas on Farmville credits. You're angry, and you want to punch her in the face. Should you refrain from punching her in the face?
Are those two choices "functionally equivalent"?
One involves choosing whether to act and try to make things better, the other is a question of whether or you should choose not to act in a way that makes things worse.
With the Foxconn thing, it has nothing to do with being a "White" savior. As you point out, the people most responsible are the Chinese government. The question is whether you want to benefit and support that arrangement, or should you demand that products you pay for be manufactured in a humane way?
It seems like some people in this thread can't understand that it's not a binary switch where "all activism is stupid and counterproductive" or "all activism is good".
It's entirely possible for some things to be bad, and some things to be bad even if they are vaguely metaphorically similar in some abstract sense.
Now, Let's look at TED.
I don't really see how TED fits into this. -- Flood
Lol seriously?
Just looking at their site now, in chronological order
#3 is T. Boone Pickens talking about natural gas,
#4 is "Victims of the city"
#6 is "lisening to shame"
#7 is "The $8 billion iPod"
#8 is "Religion, evolution and the ecstasy of self-transcendence"
#13 is "why you will fail to have a great career"
#14 is "Design to change reality"
#15 is that beachball thing that was posted,
#16 is "Coding a better government"
#18 is "the clues to a great story"
#19 is "We need to talk about an injustice"
#20 is "The power of introverts"
I would hardly call that science-heavy.
Should we respect the needs and values of other cultures if we are considering getting involved or directly interfering with them? Sure. But I really don't think TED is part of the "White Saviour Industry" problem. -- zarq
Not really, but they take the same cavalier attitude towards knowledge that Kony 2012 takes to preventing war crimes.
Which is why so many of them cancelled their New York Times subscriptions to protest its Iraq War Cheerleading (which it never fully apologized for, and, hey, look! It's doing it again with Iran!) -- oneswellfoop
Before it started? I highly doubt it. These people were the influential voices. How many influential voices were out there opposing the war before it started? Hardly any. #3 above was T. Boone Pickens rambling on about natural gas. T. Boone was one of the major funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who ran around lying about John Kerry in 2004. Niall Ferguson is another Neo-con who gave a TED talk recently, basically praising the British empire. It somewhat ties into this thread as well, since "White mans' burden" was a major justification for it.
But the downside to it is something I have started calling Facebook Outrage Du Jour Activism. I see it from a lot of people I follow. Every day something new pops up that they are angry about, usually in the form of a simplified narrative that can be communicated in a single Facebook post or link, with a simple call to action. -- Bunny Ultramod
Remember how everyone changed their profile picture to a cartoon character, and then child abuse ended forever?
posted by delmoi at 4:10 PM on March 21, 2012 [7 favorites]
Invisible Children has apparently been around since 2004 and enjoys a lot of endorsements from all kinds of high-profile famous people etc. To someone that gets informed about things like this through Facebook, that seems pretty established, doesn't it? I gather you're talking about the actual guys IN Invisible Children; I'm talking about people who put it up on Facebook or buy a T-Shirt or whatever else people do for this Kony 2012 business.
Facebook Outrage Du Jour Activism.
This isn't a new thing and isn't much different from those bracelet or ribbon campaigns 99% of the time.
posted by Hoopo at 6:22 PM on March 21, 2012
But is apparently associated with the same "western" (i.e. American) religious nutters who have been pushing anti-gay laws in Uganda
posted by delmoi at 9:54 PM on March 21, 2012
This reply to Cole's article is excellent.
As for the MeFi discussion:
Ugandans themselves seem, at best, unimpressed with the campaign
Citation? I'm interested to see how representative samples of the Ugandan population respond to the Kony 2012 campaign in carefully conducted surveys.
posted by fatehunter at 10:13 PM on March 21, 2012
I'm more interested in hearing what White people have to think. I hope a couple post here.
posted by Chungking Express at 7:23 AM on March 22, 2012 [3 favorites]
A few things bothered me about this article, especially in light of the fact that Teju Cole is clearly a very intelligent and well-spoken man. The article's largest shortcomings were really hard to reconcile with the nagging fact at the back of my mind, that Cole really should know better.
Most of my other concerns have already been discussed above, but the largest issue I took with the article (and subsequent discussion) is that we've already implicitly accepted the labeling of this issue as the "White Savior" complex. He's taken an issue that is largely delineated by nationality (American) and class (Upper-middle), and unnecessarily added racially-charged language to his argument.
Yes, race and class are (sadly) closely correlated in America, but there are enough exceptions to the rule that someone like Cole should know how dangerous it is to conflate and generalize the two. In my own (admittedly anecdotal) experience, the brand of activisim that Cole is deriding is by no means limited to white people.
Somehow, this makes me feel squicky, and seems to cheapen his argument.
You can find plenty of arguments against Invisible Children and the Kony 2012 campaign without bringing skin color into the conversation. It's a red herring, and a dangerous one at that.
posted by schmod at 8:29 AM on March 22, 2012 [1 favorite]
Well, the Al Jazera peace was from the specific area where Kony had been active, which seems like the most relevant. It's not a scientific poll, sure.
Can you link to any Ugandans who are fans of this? I'm not aware of any, all the reaction I've seen has been negative.
posted by delmoi at 8:52 AM on March 22, 2012
But this really is not the equivalent of, say, most of the entries in Stuff White People Like, where race is largely a proxy for class; what he's referring to here is a pathology stemming very specifically from white privilege and colonialism, and has roots going back hundreds of years. This passage is specifically about white people, for example, and trying to substitute Asian-Americans here simply doesn't make sense:
"One song we hear too often is the one in which Africa serves as a backdrop for white fantasies of conquest and heroism. From the colonial project to Out of Africa to The Constant Gardener and Kony 2012, Africa has provided a space onto which white egos can conveniently be projected. It is a liberated space in which the usual rules do not apply: a nobody from America or Europe can go to Africa and become a godlike savior or, at the very least, have his or her emotional needs satisfied. Many have done it under the banner of "making a difference." To state this obvious and well-attested truth does not make me a racist or a Mau Mau. It does give me away as an "educated middle-class African," and I plead guilty as charged. (It is also worth noting that there are other educated middle-class Africans who see this matter differently from me. That is what people, educated and otherwise, do: they assess information and sometimes disagree with each other.)"
No doubt you have an argument lined up for why this is a symptom of affluence rather than race, but it very obviously and clearly is a (well-intentioned) White Thing, wherein under the banner of helping out those poor suffering third world people, it's really about you as a white person, really about you attempting to absolve yourself of the guilt you're carrying around and make yourself feel better. It's played out for centuries and to ignore it as a well-established racial phenomenon is very dangerous. Maybe someone out there can provide a nice, serious, academic bibliography on postcolonial whiteness to convince you that it's not a "cheap argument?"
posted by naju at 8:56 AM on March 22, 2012 [3 favorites]
I think it's disingenuous to say that there's no racial component here. In a lot of ways, it goes right back to the White Man's Burden and the urge to civilize and improve the lot of the Brown Poor. That's not to say there aren't lots and lots of non-White people participating, but I think taking race totally out of the equation is a silly thing to do - and also ignores his point about the way the US is afraid of radical brown voices.
posted by ChuraChura at 8:57 AM on March 22, 2012
ChuraChura: " That's not to say there aren't lots and lots of non-White people participating, but I think taking race totally out of the equation is a silly thing to do - and also ignores his point about the way the US is afraid of radical brown voices."
I'm not making that argument. There's undoubtedly a racial component, but I think that it's disingenuous to label this as a "white" thing in 2012. There are too many exceptions to the rule, and I thought that we'd all agreed that stereotypes were a bad thing?
posted by schmod at 9:05 AM on March 22, 2012
I was trying to (quickly) make the points naju did ... and subsequently lost all the nuance by typing three lines instead of something eloquent.
wherein under the banner of helping out those poor suffering third world people, it's really about you as a white person, really about you attempting to absolve yourself of the guilt you're carrying around and make yourself feel better.
Are you speaking strictly for yourself, or are you assigning a motive to other people's actions that they don't even know they have?
posted by rocket88 at 10:02 AM on March 22, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm not making this stuff up out of whole cloth, the 'white savior', 'mighty whitey', and white man's burden narratives are very, very familiar, old, and constantly recurring. And people can have unconscious racial motivations, and other people can call them out on it without being able to read minds. But lest you think Teju Cole and I are calling out every single white person who wants to help out third world countries, please remember that I'm speaking about a specific frame of mind that we see popping up over and over in countless obvious examples, both historically and in the present day. Simply put, if it doesn't apply to you, then it doesn't apply to you. I think the overwhelming groundswell of support for Kony 2012 without any real examination of the issues is one of the more obvious demonstrations of this phenomenon in recent memory. You're free to disagree.
posted by naju at 10:51 AM on March 22, 2012
Honest question: Has the cultural relevance of the Kony 2012 backlash actually eclipsed the original campaign by now?
It's probably just confirmation bias, but I've seen far more "groundswell" gathering against the campaign than I have for it.
posted by schmod at 11:31 AM on March 22, 2012
The video has been seen a bajillion times. How many people watched it, liked it, and then promptly moved on with their lives. I'm guessing a whole bunch.
I also need to remember not to use my baby's gift MeFi account to post my (brilliant) snark.
posted by chunking express at 11:46 AM on March 22, 2012
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