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This session will explore the importance of relationship building when doing social justice, diversity and equity work with young people, communities, and other organizations alike. We will share best practices around how to most effectively build relationships when working with young people and in communities. We will also explore how our own identities show up in our relationship building with others and learn how to navigate the impact of our identities on connecting with others.
Participants will have the opportunity to share challenges they have have encountered when trying to build relationships in their own work, and get feedback on how to more effectively address those situations in the future. The goal of this workshop is to underscore the value of building authentic, genuine and strong relationships and to provide tangible strategies for how to effectively connect.
Part 1: Culturally Responsive Teaching: How to Build an Inclusive Classroom and Curriculum
In this session, participants will understand concepts of cultural competency, culturally responsive teaching and multicultural education and the difference between intent and impact as it relates to their work with young people. Participants will reflect on their own personal preferences and biases, especially around issues of diversity and identity, and will build an understanding of how their personal preferences and biases affect relationship building with young people. The group will identify effective strategies for communicating both with young people who may share similar life experiences to them and who may be different than them.
Want a customized version of this learning module? We can also offer this topic in 2-, 3-, and 4-hour versions. This session can also be bundled with Part 2 of Culturally Responsive Teaching. Just contact us!
After completing Part 1 of this series, this second session will take participants through how to create culturally responsive lesson plan. Participants will learn best practices for how to design lesson plans, both in the way of content and process, that are inclusive, culturally relevant, and engaging for students. Participants will contribute best practices from their own experiences and will also have space to workshop challenges they’ve encountered in their work as educators to get feedback from other practitioners and work time to incorporate the strategies and lessons learned in this two part series.
Want a customized version of this learning module? This session can be offered in 2-, 3-, and 4-hour formats. Just contact us!
Accessibility Awareness and Inclusion Techniques
In this workshop, participants will work with accessibility and learning advocates to address attitudinal barriers towards disability equality. Identify language and best practices within your environment that will empower your staff to activate inclusive practices and techniques and establish a framework of mutual understanding and respect for diversity and difference. This training will cover an overview of Universal Design and Universal Design Learning, disability language, and best practices for working with and being inclusive of people and learners with disabilities. Participants will gain a better overall understanding of accessibility and will leave with the tools to provide and share-out these awareness-building skills within their institution.
Learning Lab: Accessible Curriculum Design and Lesson-Plans
Work with experienced accessibility educators to design curricula and specific lesson-plans for after-school and recreation programs or community-based programming that will be more universally accessible. In this workshop you will learn about best practices in the field of accessible education with a focus on sensory and multi-modal learning. This workshop will introduce current thinking and best practices within accessible education and, through a hands-on workshop, inspire and challenge your staff to augment lesson plans and teaching strategies to be inclusive a wide variety of learners.
At the Museum: Object-based learning field trip at a NYC Cultural Institution
Object-based learning encourages close-looking, critical analysis, and communication skills. In this field trip, visit a NYC cultural institution with your trainer to learn about how to best utilize the city’s cultural resources for your programs and to implement object-based teaching techniques that you can bring back to the classroom. Participants will learn strategies for a variety of object-based learning techniques practiced by professional museum educators and will engage in hands-on learning by developing on site lesson-plans and activities. Participation in this program is limited to 15 people.
*Institution and trainer will work collaboratively to identify a site based upon availability and goals.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Book Club
Many educators and youth-serving professionals know CASEL as a leader in the SEL field who promotes five social and emotional competencies. Other organizations, such as Transforming Education, add to the national conversation by aggregating evidence and presenting alternative frameworks. Foundations, including the Susan Crown Exchange, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, have supported efforts to clarify the SEL field and build evidence of the impact of SEL. This offering uses readings, including reports and resources from leaders in the field, selections from the Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning, and peer review publications at the foundation of evidence-based SEL, as the basis of a book club format discussion group.
30-minute planning session with program leaders via videoconference
1-hour in-person, interactive book club style discussion for staff
4 additional 1-hour virtual book club sessions
Recommended readings for the book club to continue
Valuing and Celebrating Our Religious Diversity through Religious Literacy
Nearly 315 religions and denominations exist in the United States alone, and as a result of this increasing diversity in American public schools, the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) has long held the belief that they should be a key part of the social studies curriculum. To meet this mandate, there is a great need for teacher access to high quality religious literacy training across the US. The NCSS states that "knowledge about religion is not only a characteristic of an educated person, but necessary for effective and engaged citizenship in a diverse nation and world." Charles Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Center in Washington, rightly asserts that "millions of parents from diverse religious backgrounds entrust the education of their children to the teachers in our nation's public school" and that "teachers need to be fully informed about the constitutional and educational principles for understanding the role of religion in public education."
This workshop will train administrators, educators, guidance counselors, and youth workers how to talk and teach about religious diversity in a public school setting. The incorporation of religious literacy mitigates faith based prejudice and discrimination as well as create harmonious school communities.
Audience: Educators, school staff, and youth workers
Culturally Sensitive Up-Stander Training
With the growing tide of Islamophobia and the number of hate crime incidents in communities and school settings, this workshop aims to educate individuals on how to be Up Standers without violating religious limitations. It provides step by step strategies on how to be an Up Stander for an observant Muslim by providing cultural sensitivity tips followed by Q/A.
These techniques can be used with anyone being targeted regardless of race, religion, age, etc. The workshop presents how and when to intervene in an incident, offer techniques to distract the harasser, and offer support to the individual who is being targeted. This training incorporates non-invasive techniques and promotes a safe way to stand up to intervene, get the victim to safety, and how to discretely contact police or others to aid the victim.
Audience: School staff, students, nonprofit staff, house of worship leaders, and general public
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Cotton latest Australian product to be 'targeted' by China
Relations between China and Australia have been peppered with spy scandals and trade rows in recent months. (Photo: AFP)
SYDNEY: China has now started targeting cotton imports, Australian producers said on Friday (Oct 16), adding to an ever-expanding list of products targeted by Beijing as relations between the two countries continue to sour.
After measures aimed at the coal, wine, beef and barley sectors - industry officials said it "had become clear" that "China has recently been discouraging their country's spinning mills from using Australian cotton".
The value and volume of Australia's cotton exports are volatile, but are currently worth around A$1 billion (US$710 million) a year after benefiting hugely from a hike in Chinese tariffs on US-produced cotton.
Australia's agriculture minister David Littleproud called for the Chinese authorities to provide "clarity" on the situation and noted fair trade obligations under the World Trade Organisation.
READ: Australia seeks answers on reported Chinese coal 'ban'
Relations between Beijing and Canberra have worsened in recent years, with China appearing increasingly willing to use a range of economic and political tools to demonstrate the cost of poor relations.
The countries have clashed repeatedly, with Australia objecting to heightened political repression inside China and with Beijing's more aggressive flexing of its political, military and economic muscle in the Asia-Pacific.
Australian journalists have been hauled in for questioning in China and forced to flee the country, an Australian citizen has been detained on espionage charges and Beijing has told its people not to visit Australia for study or tourism, alleging anti-Asian racism in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Many of China's trade measures against Australian goods have not been officially confirmed or fully detailed, heightening speculation that Beijing is waging a shadow trade war.
"We are an open-trade nation but I am never going to trade our values in response to coercion from wherever it comes," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this year.
Cotton producers and exporters said they were trying to get clarity on the new rules of the game but indicated they may look to other markets.
"Despite these changes to our industry's export conditions, we know Australian cotton will find a home in the international market," said Adam Kay, CEO of Cotton Australia and Michael O'Rielley, Chair of the Australian Cotton Shippers Association.
Source: AFP/ga
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byBrené Brown
Brené Brown’s game-changing New York Times bestseller, The Gifts of Imperfection, has sold more than 2 million copies in more than 30 different languages and is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in print. Forbes magazine named Gifts one of the "Five Books That Will Actually Change Your Outlook On Life." Through this self-help classic we find courage to overcome paralyzing fear and self-consciousness, strengthening our connection to the world and helping us to believe we are worthy of self-discovery, personal growth, and boundless love.
A motivational and inspiring guide to wholehearted living, rather than just the average self-help book, with this groundbreaking work Brené Brown, Ph.D., bolsters the self-esteem and personal development process through her characteristic heartfelt, honest storytelling. With original research and plenty of encouragement, she explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an “imperfect” life and embracing living authentically. Brown’s “ten guideposts” are benchmarks for authenticity that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty—a perfectly imperfect life.
Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation—Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of four #1 New York Times bestsell...
Title:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Publisher:Hazelden Publishing
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Coronavirus: California announces seniors 65…
New plan comes out day after CDC expands access to speed rollout
By Paul Rogers and Lisa M. Krieger | Bay Area News Group
In an effort to speed the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine to people most at risk of dying, California state officials on Wednesday announced that people 65 and over will be eligible to receive the vaccine sooner than had previously been planned.
Under new guidelines from the California Department of Public Health, people in Phase 1A of the state’s tiered system – health care workers and nursing home residents – are still eligible to receive vaccines. After those people are given vaccines, seniors 65 and older will be in the next group.
The state is setting up an online system to let people know when they are eligible to receive a vaccine, Newsom’s office announced, and how to register to receive a notification via email or text. That system is expected to launch next week.
A second state system, expected to launch several weeks after, will help counties, cities and others run mass vaccination events at stadiums, fairgrounds and other locations. It will allow eligible members of the public to schedule vaccination appointments at those events. In addition to mass vaccination events, people also will be able to go to their doctor or pharmacy to receive the vaccine as more becomes available from the federal government, Newsom’s office said.
People also can contact their doctor’s office to find out when they are eligible, given that different providers have different amounts of the vaccine.
“There is no higher priority than efficiently and equitably distributing these vaccines as quickly as possible to those who face the gravest consequences,” Newsom said in a statement. “Individuals 65 and older are now the next group eligible to start receiving vaccines. To those not yet eligible for vaccines, your turn is coming. We are doing everything we can to bring more vaccine into the state.”
The change in policy comes one day after the Trump administration announced it was reversing course. The Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday began recommending that states expand access to Covid-19 vaccines to everyone 65 and older to speed up vaccine rollout.
The Trump administration had promised that 50 million doses would be administered nationwide by the end of January through Operation Warp Speed, its vaccine program. But through Tuesday, it had delivered only 25 million doses nationwide, and just under 9 million shots had been given, according to the CDC.
The federal government’s priority system, ranked by occupation and risk, and California’s similar system, have been widely viewed as too cumbersome and slow.
As of Monday, California had shipped 2.46 million vaccine does to city and county health departments, and large health care providers like Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health and Dignity Health. But only about one third of those — 816,673 vaccine doses — had been administered statewide.
“With our hospitals crowded and ICUs full, we need to focus on vaccinating Californians who are at highest risk of becoming hospitalized to alleviate stress on our health care facilities,” said Dr. Tomás Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health and State Public Health Officer.
There is no question that older Americans have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Of the 31,102 deaths in California since the disaster began last year, 75% have been people 65 and older, and 94% have been people 50 and older, according to state statistics.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist at UC-San Francisco of the new plan. “I’m pretty assured the vaccine manufacturers can ramp up to meet demand.”
COVID has not been spread evenly through California. Through Wednesday, 66% of the state’s total COVID deaths have occurred in just five of California’s 58 counties, all of them in Southern California — Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino. The nine Bay Area counties have accounted for just 10% of the statewide deaths.
Expanding the pool of people who can receive the vaccine is expected to raise new challenges. There are more than 6 million people over age 65 in California.
In Florida, after Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Dec. 23 saying anyone 65 and older could get the vaccine, along with health care workers, counties launched online registration websites. But they crashed due to a flood of interest. Phone lines set up for appointments were jammed. And seniors have sat all night in lawn chairs and cars outside hospitals, some of which announced they were administering the vaccines on a first-com-first-served basis.
On Tuesday, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to require large health care providers like Kaiser, Sutter, Stanford and Palo Alto Medical Foundation to produce written plans and timelines for COVID-19 vaccine distribution by Feb. 1.
“Time is of the essence,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian. “We can’t afford to lose a month; we can’t afford to lose a week; we can’t afford to lose a single day.”
Santa Clara County asked state officials this week for 100,000 more vaccine doses but received just 6,000, said Santa Clara County Executive Dr. Jeff Smith.
“We have lots of physical capacity,” Smith said, “and not as much vaccine as we need.”
Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, a Santa Clara County health official, said the goal is to vaccinate 85% of the county residents 16 years and older — 1.5 million people — by Aug. 1. The state, he said, has similar goal of vaccinating 70% of the eligible population by Aug. 1.
“There’s a lot of challenges reaching this goal,” Fenstersheib said. “The constantly changing state and federal guidance, every single day we seem to get a different message from the state or federal government. (And) the vaccine availability is unknown.”
Under California’s tiered system, health care workers and people in assisted living facilities have priority for vaccines, in phase 1A. Seniors 75 and older had been in the next group — phase 1B, tier 1 — along with teachers, childcare workers and agriculture industry workers. People 65 and older had been in the group after that, phase 1B, tier 2, along with transportation workers like bus drivers, manufacturing workers, and people in tight, risky settings, like jails and homeless camps.
But now, in essentially moving everyone 65 and older into phase 1B, tier 1, California now joins 23 other states. Alaska now offers the vaccine to residents over age 55. Washington state is vaccinating people 50 to 69 who live in multigenerational households. West Virginia is vaccinating teachers and school staff over the age of 50.
What’s driving the changes nationally and statewide? A growing number of Americans are frustrated, said bioethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University’s Langone Medical Center.
“People are seeing too few vaccines in a tiny number of arms,” he said. “There is disappointment with the slow rollout.”
Second, new vaccines by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are debuting in February, which will add to the number available already from Pfizer and Moderna. Also, there’s a perception that logistics, not limited supplies, are the problem, Caplan added. By opening more sites – such as civic centers, baseball stadiums, and Walgreens lobbies – California can accommodate more vaccines.
Finally, Californians are watching others get vaccinated, and feel left behind, he said. “People are saying ‘I see other people getting vaccines in Florida or bribing their way to get them, and I’m 65 too or I’m high risk — so do something.”
Mercury News staff writer John Woolfolk contributed to this report.
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Whether you’re searching for a diagnosis or exploring treatment options for your child, we’re here to help. Learn how to request a second opinion from U.S. News and World Report’s #1 pediatric gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery program.
What is primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare autoimmune disease that targets the bile ducts of the liver. PSC in children can lead to cirrhosis and an increased risk of biliary and colon cancers in adulthood.
What causes primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Genetics often play a part in making a person more likely to develop an autimmune disease. With autoimmune diseases, the person’s own immune system mistakenly sees a part of the body as a threat and attacks it. In many cases of autoimmune diseases, something triggers the immune system, such as an infection, to attack the body. In the case of PSC, an environmental trigger, such as a viral infection, may initiate a bile duct injury. This results in an immune-mediated attack on the bile ducts.
Who gets primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Pediatric PSC affects all ages, genders and ethnicities. It is more common in males and is usually associated with inflammatory bowel disease, another autoimmune disease.
What are the signs and symptoms of primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Many patients with PSC have no symptoms. However, some may have PSC symptoms such as fatigue, abdominal pain, severe itching, weight loss, jaundice (yellow eyes and skin) and fevers.
What tests are used to diagnose primary sclerosing cholangitis?
PSC diagnosis is most commonly based on imaging tests using a special type of MRI called a magnetic resonance cholangiogram (MRC). The MRC can show detailed narrowings and dilations of the bile ducts. Less frequently, we may perform a liver biopsy to help diagnose PSC that is affecting the smaller bile ducts within the liver.
Why choose us for the treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Our Pediatric Liver Center is one of the largest in the country and provides a fast and targeted approach to accurately diagnose and treat PSC.
What to expect from an MRC
Children’s Colorado caters to children and provides a safe and relaxing environment during the MRC. To help children stay still while the machine takes pictures, we use lights, music and videos for them to focus on. This is an outpatient procedure that we may perform with anesthesia if your child is younger than 8 years old.
What to expect from a liver biopsy
A board-certified liver specialist and pediatric anesthesiologist perform the liver biopsy under general anesthesia in our procedure center, so your child experiences no pain or discomfort. The pediatric hepatologist removes a small piece of the liver using a special needle through a tiny cut in the skin. A board-certified pediatric pathologist with extensive experience evaluating pediatric liver biopsies examines the biopsy using a special microscope to help diagnose PSC.
How do we make a diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis?
The diagnosis of PSC is confirmed based on scarring of bile ducts, which is a sign of PSC. This scarring can be seen on images taken by the MRC or from the liver biopsy itself.
How is primary sclerosing cholangitis treated?
The treatment of PSC includes medicine for itching, vitamin supplements and medicine to aid in bile flow. Our Pediatric Liver Center is at the forefront in caring for children with PSC. In addition to our clinical pediatric liver expertise, we are spearheading research at the national level to understand the progression of this disease and the impact that PSC has on a child’s overall well-being.
The American Liver Foundation (ALF) promotes education, advocacy, support services and research for the prevention, treatment and cure of liver diseases such as PSC.
PSC Partners Seeking a Cure is a nonprofit organization that provides education and support to PSC patients, families and caregivers. They also raise funds to research causes, treatments and cures for PSC.
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2017 Alfa Romeo Stelvio shown by accident in company video
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio, the brand's first SUV, has been shown with less disguise during an official company video.
Yesterday Fiat Chrysler posted a mini-documentary, on its YouTube account, about the construction of the Giulia at the company's factory in Cassino, Italy. Just over a minute into the video there's a shot of a pre-production version of the Stelvio SUV making its way through the factory.
The company has since taken the video offline, but thankfully Motor1 managed to get a screen capture of the upcoming model before this happened.
Although the Stelvio pictured in the video is still wearing pieces of rudimentary disguise over its doors, fenders and bonnet, it provides us our clearest look yet at Alfa Romeo's first SUV, as earlier spy photos featured prototypes wearing false body cladding all over.
Under the skin, the Stelvio uses the same rear- and all-wheel drive Giorgio platform as the Giulia sedan. The two cars should be roughly the same length and width, although the Stelvio will obviously be taller and have a higher ride height.
Motivation for the Stelvio should come from the same suite of engines offered in the Giulia. Depending on the market, this will include a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine in both 150kW and 206kW tunes, and a 2.2-litre turbo-diesel developing either 110kW or 135kW.
A high-performance variant, should it eventuate, will be powered by the same Ferrari-designed 2.9-litre turbo V6 as used in the Giulia Quadrifoglio. Alfa's new M3 challenger extracts 375kW of power and 600Nm of torque from that engine, and is good for a 0-100km/h time of 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 307km/h.
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio will be revealed at the 2016 Los Angeles motor show, which kicks off on November 15. That probably means that the crossover won't enter Australian showrooms until late 2017 or early 2018.
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Rolex Milgauss: Models and Prices. New, used, vintage.
Antimagnetic: The Rolex Milgauss
Magnetism is the ultimate enemy of a mechanical watch movement - but luckily, Rolex has declared war on this powerful rival with the Milgauss timepiece. The robust watch from the Oyster Perpetual collection is equipped with a special protective mechanism that guarantees the precision of the movement in magnetic fields of up to 1,000 gauss. Coincidentally enough, the solid and tasteful Milgauss is the favourite watch of scientists and engineers.
“Mille Gauss”
Resistance up to 1,000 gauss
Magnetic fields - produced in power plants and research centres, but also by many electrical appliances of everyday life - have a negative effect on clockwork mechanisms. Even a magnetic field of just 50 to 100 gauss can impair the functionality and precision of a watch. But the work of researchers and engineers leave them exposed to much stronger magnetic fields.
Rolex developed a wristwatch that was specifically designed to meet the needs of researchers and engineers: a shield made of ferromagnetic alloys offers reliable protection against magnetic fields of up to 1,000 gauss. The Milgauss with the Ref. 6541 first entered the market in 1954.
The name says it all: it is composed of the French word for thousand, “mille”, and the unit of measurement of a magnetic field, gauss. The watch is the result of years of research. The Rolex Milgauss is particularly popular with the staff members of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The return of the lightning bolt hand
Since the demand for the watch was moderate at best, the production of the second Milgauss model - Ref. 1019 - was stopped in 1988. As has previously been the case, the prices for the Milgauss consequently rose to impressive heights.
In 2007, Rolex decided to bring out a new edition of the model. Staying true to the original design of 1954, Rolex equipped the Milgauss with a bold second hand shaped like a lightning bolt. Today’s Milgauss preserves the character of the collection and continues to symbolize the strength and the spirit of research. Above all, it is the high recognition value that makes the Rolex Milgauss a much-desired watch. The most recent Milgauss generation features a pragmatic component since parts of the movement are comprised of the most modern materials that withstand magnetic interference. The Parachrom hairspring, for example, is insensitive to both shock and magnetism.
A watch with strength and character
The Milgauss is an exceptionally robust wristwatch. It is comprised of a screw-down Oyster case made of stainless steel with a diameter of 40 millimetres. The Perpetual movement with a self-winding mechanism is protected by a magnetic shield, which is indicated on the case back by the engraved B with an arrow - the symbol for magnetic flux density. The movement is made from stainless steel 904L, as is the Oyster bracelet with the classic flat three-piece links. Stainless steel 904L is extremely hard and resistant, which is why it is a material that is primarily used in high technology, aerospace, and chemical industries.
The characteristic feature of the Milgauss - the orange second hand shaped like a lightning bolt - grants the dial its unique style and reflects the invisible strength of the watch. Currently, the Rolex Milgauss watch face (Ref. 116400) is available in white, black, and blue. The latter two are available in a combination with green sapphire crystal, which achieves a glowing effect (Ref. 116400GV). The Milgauss also offers resistance in water: all new models are waterproof to 100 metres.
A watch for scientists, researchers, and engineers
The Rolex Milgauss has always targeted people who, through their work, come into contact with strong magnetic fields: engineers, laboratory researchers, and - last but not least - scientists. It is not only the classic and elegant design that makes the Milgauss so exceptional, but first and foremost, it is the robustness and durability of the watch that have made it so impressively popular. Researchers who have to work with generators and heavy-current devices on an everyday basis do not prefer regularly taking off their watches - for them, the Milgauss proves to be an ideal combination of functionality, comfort, and design.
Even if the only magnetic fields one is exposed to are that of induction cookers, the stylish Milgauss never fails to impress. A Rolex watch is more than merely functional, which holds true for the Milgauss model as well. The Milgauss is known for its distinctive design and it is therefore not only scientists, but collectors and appreciators of simple elegance that enjoy this fashionable yet practical watch.
Vintage Milgauss or the new Milgauss generation?
As with all Rolex models, the Milgauss is comprised of the highest quality materials. Consequently, the price for a new Rolex Milgauss is relatively high. The second-hand market offers attractive alternatives since all watches produced following the 2007 reintroduction of the Milgauss, are equipped with a durable chronometer movement and the resistant Parachrom hairspring. High quality at a good price: there is no need for long treasure hunts, it is not difficult to find a used Milgauss in good shape.
The search for a vintage Milgauss manufactured before the production stop in 1988 proves to be more difficult. At the time, the first Milgauss Ref. 6541 and the succeeding Ref. 1019, did not enjoy the same popularity level of a Rolex Submariner or a GMT-Master, and were thus produced in smaller numbers. Today, vintage models of the Milgauss are rare collector’s watches whose prices regularly increase from year to year.
Selling and buying Rolex Milgauss models at CHRONEXT
Perhaps, rather than looking to buy, you have a Rolex Milgauss for sale – CHRONEXT is the place for you! We offer a comprehensive service based on our many years of experience. We would be happy to advise you on the various sales options and help you find the best possible deal for your Milgauss watch.
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GSD pushes for details of Victoria Keys project, pledges transparency
The GSD has vowed to make public the full terms of the deals entered into by the current GSLP/Liberal administration over the Victoria Keys development should it be elected into government at the next general election.
The party also said it would review the arrangements over the development, adding that if any aspect of it was not in the public interest, it would seek to reopen the commercial arrangements or development scheme.
The GSD said this commitment was necessary because there are questions in relation to the proposed Victoria Keys Development that the “Government are sweeping under the carpet”.
“These questions will not go away,” it added, insisting that any potential “serious conflicts of interest” must be “scrutinised and allayed”.
“The Government are going to commit taxpayer’s monies to fund the reclamation, thereby reducing the economic risk to developers,” the party said in a statement.
“It is unclear how much the reclamation will cost and how much of the £300 million that the Government borrowed against housing estates is to be used, together with to whom the Government will be allocating some of the plots of land.”
GSD Leader Keith Azopardi said: “It is ironic that the money to finance a luxury development is being found by mortgaging housing estates.”
“As we have said previously, this is like Robin Hood in reverse – taking from the poorer to give to the rich.”
“There are serious questions of financial transparency as to the use of public monies and as to the effect on the environment also.”
The GSD underscored that the terms of the financing deal need to be published.
It added that if the Gibraltar Government has taken a policy decision to use public monies to fund the reclamation for a “select consortium of private developers”, then such a project should have been put out to competitive tender “…instead of simply agreeing deals privately with a select and privileged group of developers.”
The party again called on the Government to reveal who the developers are.
“The precise identity of the developers is unclear,” the GSD said.
“In a Viewpoint programme the Chief Minister mentioned some names but this did not accord with the publicly declared shareholding of the developer company, Harbour Development Limited [HDL].”
“In that same programme the Chief Minister stated that some of these developers were not the same as those who held development rights over Coaling Island prior to 2011.”
“Who are these new investors? HDL was not incorporated before 2016 and the shareholder company did not itself exist before 2017.”
The GSD added that if the Government is using taxpayers’ monies to help a few developers it should handle matters “…transparently, competitively and [should] reassure the public that there are no serious conflicts of interest”.
According to the GSD, two of the four directors of HDL have links with government ministers.
“One of them is the brother of Minister for Financial Services, Albert Isola,” the party said.
“Another is a partner in the Hassans law firm with no obvious track record in development. The Chief Minister continues to hold declared interests in companies associated with Hassans or investments arising from the capital in the Hassans legal partnership.”
The party said that against this backdrop, taxpayers should have reassurance that there are no conflicts of interest arising from the project.
“This is why the GSD will make all the Victoria Keys arrangements public if elected to Government, would seek to reopen these in the public interest, as necessary, and would ensure that the future award of public contracts is done transparently and against a set of tough and revised conflicts of interests rules,” the party said.
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COVID-19: NHS at breaking point and public 'not listening' to lockdown, warns top doctor
Dr Zudin Puthucheary, council member of the Intensive Care Society and a critical care consultant, told Sky News he was "scared and angry" as the COVID-19 crisis takes its toll on hospitals - notably in London.
A major incident was declared in the capital on Friday due to rising numbers of coronavirus cases threatening to overrun its already stretched hospitals.
Dr Puthucheary, who also works at the Royal London Hospital, said there is a shortage of critical care nursing staff and intensive care units "are full beyond bursting".
"There are more patients than we have ever had and we have less staff than we have ever had," he said.
"We've cannibalised staff from all around the hospital - volunteers are pouring in to try and look after these patients and deliver the best care we can.
"Staff are breaking themselves to make this happen and keep our patients safe - and it's not going to be enough."
He added that seven out of 10 people who go into intensive care with coronavirus will survive - meaning that 30% of people will die.
And he warned that those who survive could still face long-lasting damage, saying: "Seventy per cent of people will be disabled for years to come because they lose so much muscle - you lose almost two kilos."
Dr Puthucheary said the average age of intensive care patients is 60 and 90% of patients were leading normal working lives before admission, with many people filling up intensive care wards aged just in their 40s.
"They look like me, they look like my wife and my friends - they have children the same age as I do," he said.
He also said the term "underlying health condition" is a "made-up term" which is "meaningless to our patients and meaningless to us - it doesn't mean anything".
Dr Puthucheary said the major incident declared in London signals that hospitals' decision-making capacity may be taken away.
"Staff is going to be the single greatest bottleneck for us and I don't know what the solution is - and that really scares me," he said. "We don't have enough critical care nursing staff. We don't have enough doctors.
"We have volunteers coming in, we have very senior doctors and doctors with no training coming in to support our nursing staff, but you can't just magic up a critical care nurse - it takes years and years of training."
And in a message to the public, Dr Puthucheary said: "I'm scared and I'm angry.
"I'm scared because we are reaching a point where someone might tell us we can't prioritise our patients above everything else - those decisions are going to be taken away from us and none of us have ever lived through that."
He added: "The legacy of this pandemic will destroy 2021 and continue to destroy the NHS.
"That's what I'm scared about - and I'm angry that people are not listening. We hear the TfL (Transport For London) footfall is twice that of what it was in the first wave - twice as many people out there doing things on a Saturday when they should be home."
He continued: "I'm angry because we're talking about protecting the NHS and that's clearly failed - we should be talking about protecting the healthcare of the nation. That is what is suffering right now - not the NHS. The NHS is breaking in front of us and there is no plan to stop it breaking.
"We need to stop the health of the nation breaking - that's where we've got to.
"That's why I'm angry and that's why all of our staff are angry."
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COVID-19: UK records another 563 coronavirus deaths and 54,940 new cases
The latest data takes the total number of fatalities within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test to 81,431.
There have been 3,072,349 confirmed cases since the pandemic began - the fifth-highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The UK surpassed the grim milestone of 80,000 deaths on Saturday after another 1,035 were added to the total. A further 59,937 cases were also recorded yesterday.
This week also saw the highest number of COVID deaths reported in a single day in the UK, when 1,325 deaths were reported on Friday.
But as is the case with each update, it is important to note that deaths can occur days or even weeks before they are announced and added to the government's data dashboard.
There is also often a reporting lag at weekends, which can lead to lower numbers on Sundays.
Earlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News that more than 200,000 people are getting a COVID-19 jab every day and the government is on course to reach its target of two million vaccinations a week.
However, he said the current pressure on the NHS was "very bad" and repeated the need for people to follow lockdown rules and stay at home, warning "we can't let up" just because coronavirus injections are being rolled out.
It reiterated the message from England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty, who said that the NHS faced the "most dangerous situation" in living memory.
The ambulance service is also facing "unprecedented pressure" as it continues to struggle with the increasing demand this winter.
Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of College of Paramedics, said ambulances are waiting up to nine hours to offload patients at London hospitals.
She also said there was a "hidden risk", with many people in non-life threatening circumstances waiting for up to 10 hours for an ambulance.
The Metropolitan Police announced on Sunday that it will deploy 75 officers to drive ambulances in London.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said it is "sobering" to see the impact COVID-19 has had on health service workers.
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Appointment of New Registrar and CEO
The Council of the College of Early Childhood Educators is delighted to announce the appointment of Beth Deazeley, LL.B, C.Dir, ACIS, as Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the College effective January 4, 2016.
Beth brings a wealth of regulatory experience to her new role. In addition to her previous leadership role at the Certified Management Accountants of Ontario, Beth has written and published on governance trends, best practices and regulatory matters and has experience as a board member in both the regulator and non-profit sectors.
"I have observed with great interest the development that the College has undergone in recent years and I am excited by the opportunity to build on that solid foundation and lead its next stage of development," said Beth. "I look forward to working with the strong team at the College. I strongly believe in the critical importance of early childhood education and care and the role of professional registered early childhood educators (RECEs) in the lives of our young people and look forward to working with Council to protect the public interest in this regard."
As the College embarks on its new strategic priorities for 2015-18, Beth's leadership will be invaluable. Please join us in welcoming Beth to her role as Registrar and CEO.
Lois Mahon RECE
President, College of Early Childhood Educators
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Opinion: City broadband service is about connecting Fort Collins to opportunities
Darin Atteberry
After several months of laying the groundwork for building and operating a new high-speed broadband network, the community recently celebrated two significant milestones in that process.
The bond sale closed June 14, and from that the city of Fort Collins received $142.2 million to fund the fiber system build-out.
Investors interested in backing the broadband network bought out $1,000 bonds sold through three official brokers in just two days. During a one-day advance “retail” sale, prior to institutional and investment banker access, Colorado investors purchased $5.7 million of the bonds — with local residents given priority via zip codes — and another $11.1 million was invested in the retail setting nationally. The remaining available bonds were purchased the next day by institutional and investment bankers.
The successful bond sale, local investment and high-quality credit ratings from two agencies further demonstrate both the public support and investor confidence in a city-run broadband service.
We also unveiled the brand at a recent community kick-off event. Based on the belief that community is built through connection, I’m thrilled to introduce Fort Collins Connexion, our community-driven and community-owned fiber network.
Connection means different things to different people within our community. It can be cutting-edge technology for think tanks or research labs, or the ability to work from home for a global organization. It can also mean providing high-speed access to entertainment or reliable, equitable access to family, friends and opportunity.
Internet connectivity has become an essential utility in today’s culture. Reliable, high-speed access is a necessity, not only for the tech industry, but also for our health care systems, educational institutions, and thousands of other companies and their employees who work here. This will only be more true in the future, and our goal is to ensure all businesses and residents have access to affordable, reliable internet service.
I believe Connexion will be a cornerstone of Fort Collins’ legacy. We have not jumped into this carelessly. It has been many years of intentional and deliberative work, as well as thoughtful direction from the community and City Council, that has brought us to this point.
We are now moving forward in hiring key positions to lead Fort Collins Connexion and selecting partners to design and build the network. Construction will begin later this year, and we expect the service to be available to everyone in Fort Collins within 36 to 48 months. For more information, visit fcgov.com/broadband.
I’m thrilled to celebrate these important milestones on the journey to provide choice and high-speed internet service to all in our community. Thank you for trusting your local government for this critical service and for your future investment as a subscriber.
Darin Atteberry is the Fort Collins city manager. He can be reached at 970-221-6505 or datteberry@fcgov.com.
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Derrick Etienne Jr.
Real Name: Derrick Etienne Jr.
Pronunciation: eh-TYEN
Birthplace: Richmond, Va.
Hometown: Paterson, N.J.
@detienne_10
Columbus (2020): Etienne was signed by Crew SC on February 4, 2020 made 21 regular-season appearances (four starts as a left-midfielder, four as a right-midfielder). He made his Black & Gold debut as a substitute on the road against Seattle Sounders FC (March 7). Etienne also made three regular season appearances during the Group Stage of the MLS is Back Tournament – first as a substitute for Lucas Zelarayan against FC Cincinnati* (July 11), as a starter against the New York Red Bulls* and providing his first assist for the Crew (July 16) and as a substitute against Atlanta United* (July 21). He made a total of four appearances during the MLS is Back Tournament. Etienne Jr. made a start at home against Chicago Fire FC (August 20), where he netted his first regular-season and Crew SC goal in the 20th minute and earned MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week honors for his performance. He then started on the road at New York City FC (August 24). Etienne Jr. made substitute appearances on the road at FC Cincinnati (August 29) and at home against Philadelphia Union (September 2) and FC Cincinnati (September 6). He then started on the road at Chicago Fire FC (September 12) before making substitute appearances at home against Nashville SC (September 19) and Minnesota United FC (September 23). Etienne Jr. made five consecutive appearances (one start) from September 27 through October 18, where he recorded an assist at home against New York City FC (October 18). He then made four appearances (three starts) from October 24 through the November 8 match at home against Atlanta United. In Audi 2020 MLS Cup Playoffs action, Etienne made two appearances (two starts) at home against the New York Red Bulls (November 21) - providing the game winning assist - and against Seattle Sounders FC (December 12) during MLS Cup 2020, where he scored a goal.
2019 (Cincinnati): Made five regular-season appearances (two starts).
2019 (New York): Etienne made 11 regular-season appearances (five starts), scoring one goal and providing one assist for the New York Red Bulls. He made two Concacaf Champions League appearances. Etienne was loaned to FC Cincinnati on August 8.
2018 (New York): Etienne made 30 regular-season appearances (nine starts), tallying five goals and one assist. He scored his first career MLS regular-season goal against Orlando City SC (March 31). Additionally, he scored the game-winning goal against Orlando City SC (October 20) to clinch the 2018 MLS Supporter’s Shield. The midfielder made two appearances in the MLS playoffs. Etienne made two appearances in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, as well as five appearances in the Concacaf Champions League.
2017 (New York): Etienne made 17 regular-season appearances (17 starts), scoring two goals and providing two assists. He made his first MLS regular-season start against the Colorado Rapids (March 11). Etienne notched his first MLS regular-season assist against the San Jose Earthquakes (July 19). The midfielder made one appearance in the MLS playoffs against Toronto FC (November 5). Etienne made one appearance in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup as well as two appearances in the Concacaf Champions League.
2016 (New York): Etienne made one regular-season appearance. His MLS regular-season debut came in a match against D.C. United (September 11). The midfielder made two appearances in the Concacaf Champions League, with his debut coming in a match against Antigua GFC (August 3).
2015-2019 (New York Red Bulls II): While with the New York Red Bulls, Etienne also made 52 regular-season appearances and registered 13 goals and five assists for the Club’s USL Championship side the New York Red Bulls II. The midfielder was a key member of the Red Bulls II side that won the USL Regular Season and the USL Cup in 2016.
As a collegiate player, Etienne played for the University of Virginia in 2015, making 17 appearances while scoring two goals and providing one assist. In his lone season with the Cavaliers, the midfielder was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference All-Freshman Team.
YOUTH EXPERIENCE
Etienne joined the New York Red Bulls Academy as an Under-14 player, playing with the U-16 side and progressing to the U-18s. He captained the U-18 in the fall of 2014, a helping his side win the U.S. Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) Winter Showcase. In all, he scored 40 goals in four USSDA seasons from 2009-15. He was named to NSCAA’s 2014 Youth All-America Team.
At the international level, Etienne has earned 22 caps and scored three goals with the Haiti National Team since making his debut as a substitute in a Caribbean Cup Qualifer against French Guiana in 2016 (November 9). Etienne also represented Haiti at the youth level, featuring for Haiti’s Under-17 and U-20 sides, including featuring for Haiti at the Concacaf U-17 Championships in 2013.
Etienne’s parents are Derrick and Shamone Etienne. His father, Derrick, played soccer professionally for the Richmond Kickers as well as for the Long Island Rough Riders while also representing the Haiti National Team. Derrick has two sisters, Darice and Danielle. His sister Danielle plays soccer for the Haiti National Women’s Team.
Columbus Crew SC signs midfielder Derrick Etienne Jr. on February 4, 2020.
Name: Derrick Etienne Jr. (eh-TYEN)
Born: November 25, 1996 in Richmond, Virginia
Hometown: Paterson, New Jersey
Citizenship: United States/Haiti
Acquired: Signed by Crew SC on February 4, 2020
Previous Experience: New York Red Bulls (2015-2019), FC Cincinnati (2019)
2020 Columbus Crew SC 21 8 1 891 2 13 2 12 5 0 0
2019 FC Cincinnati 5 2 0 219 0 3 3 4 1 0 0
2019 NY Red Bulls 11 5 1 465 1 10 3 4 1 0 0
2018 NY Red Bulls 30 9 5 961 1 35 17 13 15 1 0
2017 NY Red Bulls 18 8 0 702 2 13 6 10 4 2 0
2016 NY Red Bulls 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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2018 NY Red Bulls 4 0 0 88 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
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Agocs, McKenzie, Named as Officers for Association for the History of Chiropractic (AHC)
The Association for the History of Chiropractic (AHC) named two from CUKC’s faculty and staff as officers for 2019-20. Dr. Edward McKenzie is First Vice President, and Dr. Steve Agocs is Secretary.
The Association for the History of Chiropractic is an international association founded in 1980. The association promotes the scholarly recording of the chiropractic profession’s history. This mission is fulfilled through the peer-reviewed journal, Chiropractic History, the support and publication of books related to chiropractic history, and an annual conference where presentations about chiropractic history are made.
Dr. McKenzie, a College of Chiropractic clinical instructor since 2017, received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Cleveland Chiropractic College in 1969. Following graduation, he worked in practice with his father in the Kansas City area. In 1976, he and his family moved to the Holton, Kan., area where he operates a practice.
In 2017, McKenzie was appointed a clinical educator in the Cleveland University-Kansas City (CUKC) student clinic. His other chiropractic leadership positions included officer and director in the Kansas Chiropractic Association (KCA), and serving as a delegate and alternate delegate to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA).
He serves as a member of the Chiropractic Review Committee for the Kansas Board of Healing Arts and is a member and past chairman of the High Country Chiropractic Knights of the Round Table. McKenzie has also served on the Board of Governors for CUKC.
Dr. Agocs, assistant dean of chiropractic education in the CUKC College of Chiropractic, is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and Palmer College of Chiropractic. He joined Cleveland University-Kansas City in 2007. He’s been involved with the AHC for the past 10 years.
“I am involved with the AHC because I enjoy history, in general, and I’m particularly interested in chiropractic history on a professional level,” Agocs said. “My understanding of chiropractic is much deeper and richer knowing the history of chiropractic. Every time I attend a conference or open our journal, or look at the AHC’s Facebook group, I learn something new.”
In addition to serving as a clinician at KC CARE Health Center, which serves a diverse population in the urban core of Kansas City, Mo., Agocs teaches History of Chiropractic and Technique Systems, Thompson Technique, and Flexion-Distraction Technique. He teaches pain science seminars, chiropractic technique, and RockTape’s Functional Movement Techniques at the postgraduate level.
Members of AHC are active in speaking to groups about chiropractic to provide a comprehensive perspective of the profession and preserve its history.
CUKC’s Dr. Agocs, for example, speaks on “Trials and Tribulations of the American Medical Association and Chiropractic,” “Overview of Chiropractic History,” and details the histories of Thompson, Gonstead, and Sacro Occipital techniques. He also presents “History of Cleveland Chiropractic College.”
Each year, the AHC presents its Lee-Homewood Chiropractic Heritage Award to a chiropractic pioneer who has made outstanding contributions to the chiropractic profession. The award includes a certificate and a lifetime membership to the AHC.
AHC also communicates to members about new books about chiropractic, such as 2020’s Finding Langworthy: The Quest to Discover the Life and Times of a Chiropractic Pioneer. This biography provides the story of an early chiropractic pioneer, Dr. Solon Massey Langworthy. The author is Steve Troyanovich, D.C.
“I encourage every student and D.C. to become a member of the AHC because it’s the only association dedicated to preserving and telling our important story,” Agocs said. “A great deal of what the AHC presents and publishes can only be shared when chiropractors research their regional history or tell the story of their family in chiropractic.”
The 40th Annual Conference of The Association for the History of Chiropractic is scheduled for June 19-20, 2021, at Palmer College of Chiropractic. Davenport, Ia.
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The furlough scheme is ending
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), often referred to as the furlough scheme, comes to an end at the end of October. The scheme funded wages for nine million workers at its peak, at a cost of c. £40bn. The CJRS has already been withdrawn in part, with employers contributing a share of employee wages, as well as pension and benefit costs, and the scheme is set to end fully at the end of October.
Support for spending
The CJRS has been an important, if costly, support for the UK economy, of which around 65% is consumption spending. The scheme has ensured that employees who may otherwise have been let go continued to receive a paycheck, supporting aggregate incomes, and kept unemployment statistics low, as furloughed workers remain employed according to national statistics. This is likely to have had a confidence effect. As the scheme ends, we are seeing a rise in unemployment, as businesses think to the future and evaluate their staffing needs.
Tighter measures
Unfortunately, the withdrawal of the furlough scheme coincides with a rise in new coronavirus cases in the UK and the tightening of social restrictions once more. So far the measures are much less stringent than those experienced in the spring, with a focus, where possible, on minimising economic impact. While office workers are being encouraged to return to work from home again, the pace of the return to work has been slow. Socialising is restricted to groups of six, but restaurants and bars remain open. Nonetheless, the impact of these measures will not be positive for sectors of the economy most hit, and further tightening of the restrictions is possible. This may weigh on business confidence.
In light of the economic challenges presented by a worsening public health outlook, the Treasury today announced further support measures designed to bolster employment. From November employers can claim wage support for workers on short hours. In a bid to limit support to only viable jobs, eligible workers must be employed for a minimum of 33% of their normal hours. The government and the employer will then share the bill for 66% of wages for the remaining hours not worked. While the scheme is quite generous to workers (a worker on 50% hours receives 83% of regular pay), it does not appear to be structured so as to incentivise employers to keep more employees on the payroll. On a wage basis alone, it would cost an employer 33% more to have two workers on 50% hours instead of one full time worker. The scheme announced is also only to be in place for six months, in contrast with short-working schemes across the Eurozone which have been extended more generously.
Don’t forget Brexit
While coronavirus has dominated headlines, the Brexit deadline advances with minimal progress made so far on any deal with the EU. While it is possible that the Executive’s controversial decision to break international law with the Internal Market Bill is part of a negotiating strategy, the type of deal being sought by UK negotiators appears narrow. This means that with or without a deal in December, businesses will have to adapt to new practices. The longer a decision takes, the more disruption is likely.
Whither GDP?
Having cratered in April, when social restrictions were at their most stringent, GDP growth has been recovering in recent months, recovering almost 20% over the three months to July. While pent-up demand may remain and businesses are finding innovative ways to respond to modern challenges, the outlook for consumption growth may be challenged by a weaker employment landscape, and a tightening of social restrictions will exacerbate the impact on the services sector. While production may be relatively immune to current measures, there is a risk that Brexit-related disruption weighs on the manufacturing sector also. As a result we think it more than likely that further monetary and fiscal support will be forthcoming which will support both the real economy and asset prices.
Until official data shows the full impact on employment of withdrawing the CJRS, we don’t yet have the full picture. The efficacy of health policy in managing the pandemic and avoiding tighter measures remains the deciding factor determining the path of the economy. With a vaccine or effective therapy unlikely to be delivered in 2020, some degree of social distancing is likely to remain in place for some time, and the economy must adapt. With this in mind, we continue to focus on identifying those business models that can survive and thrive in a post-pandemic world.
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South Africa luxury hotel invites guests to sleep on a train permanently parked on a bridge
Karla Cripps, CNN • Updated 7th July 2020
(CNN) — Though luxury hotel openings have slowed to a trickle this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there are still a few exciting new properties opening their doors to guests in 2020.
Among the most intriguing of the bunch is Kruger Shalati: The Train on the Bridge.
Now under construction in South Africa, this unique luxury resort sits partially on the historic Selati Bridge over the Sabie River in stunning Kruger National Park.
As the name implies, a newly refurbished train featuring 24 carriage rooms will be permanently stationed on the bridge's disused tracks.
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The opening date is still up in the air given construction has been paused due to Covid-19, but staff tell CNN Travel they're confident it will be operational by December 2020.
The glass-walled, large train rooms, all of which overlook the river, feature decor created in collaboration with local artists, while there's also a separate dining area and swimming pool -- also on the bridge.
Now comes the bad news for families with young kids. Only travelers 12 years and older will be permitted to stay in the train carriage rooms, though another seven land-based family-friendly "Bridge House" rooms will be added to the property in early 2022.
Even the bathrooms inside the carriage rooms offer river views.
Courtesy Kruger Shalati: The Train on the Bridge
Kruger Shalati pays homage to the national park's origins as a travel destination nearly 100 years ago, when the first visits to the park were permitted in the early 1920s. At the time, trains would park overnight in the exact spot where Kruger Shalati will be positioned.
The resort is adjacent to the Skukuza Camp inside Kruger National Park, where the so-called "Big Five" -- lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and African buffaloes -- roam freely. Rates, which start from about $520 per night per person, will include all meals, house-drinks and two daily game drives.
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The resort's name was inspired by Shalati, an African warrior queen who, according to legend, was one of the first female warrior chiefs of the small Tebula clan, part of the Tsonga tribe that lived in the bush around the Murchison Range in the present-day Limpopo Province.
As for the national park itself, Kruger is one of the largest game reserves in all of Africa. Covering 2 million hectares of land, it's filled with hundreds of animal species as well as cultural heritage and archaeological Stone Age sites.
The park closed on March 25 as part of South Africa's nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus but has recently reopened to self-drive excursions for day visitors.
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Angie Dickinson: Former 'Police Woman' an arresting presence at Memphis Film Festival
John Beifuss
For 47 years, the Memphis Film Festival has celebrated vintage television and classic cinema with an emphasis on the Western programs and cowboy movies that were a hard-riding, cow-punching, gun-slinging staple of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood.
As a result, testosterone levels among the festival's celebrity guests have been high, even when many of these actors have been well beyond retirement age.
For every "cowgirl" (Peggy Stewart), scream queen ("Creature from the Black Lagoon" star Julie Adams) or "girl reporter" (Noel "Lois Lane" Neill) in attendance, festivalgoers have been greeted by a Hole-in-the-Wall Gang's worth of cinematic he-men: cowpokes, outlaws, marshals, trail scouts, cavalry officers, Indian chiefs, sidekicks and singing cowboys, embodied by a who's who of sagebrush legends — Buster Crabbe, Lash LaRue, Sunset Carson, Clint Walker, Iron Eyes Cody, even the Lone Ranger himself, Clayton Moore.
This year, however, the festival's most notable celebrity attraction is a Western veteran and television crime fighter who in 1999 appeared on Playboy magazine's list of the "100 Sexiest Stars of the Century" — an achievement unmatched by such past fest guests as Huntz Hall and Elisha Cook Jr.
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In other words, the guest is a woman — an octogenarian three-time Emmy Best Actress nominee whose career includes collaborations with Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Burt Reynolds, Brian De Palma, Garry Shandling and John Wayne and Howard Hawks, in Hawks' 1959 masterpiece "Rio Bravo."
"My training was actually in Westerns," says actress Angie Dickinson, 87, on the phone from her home in Beverly Hills, a week before heading to the Mid-South for the Memphis Film Festival, which runs June 6-8 at Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall in Tunica County, Mississippi.
"I did a lot of Westerns," Dickinson said. One of the first was "Gun the Man Down" (1951), with future "Gunsmoke" TV superstar James Arness, and "I said, 'Sure, I can ride,' but of course I lied, and I nearly fell off the damn horse."
Undaunted if saddle-sore, the North Dakota-born actress also appeared in such vividly titled oaters as "The Return of Jack Slade" (1955), "Tension at Table Rock" (1956), "Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend" (1957) and "Sam Whiskey" (1969). Explained Dickinson: "I liked wearing jeans."
Dickinson is one of about a dozen actors and celebrity film folk set to attend the Memphis Film Festival.
Held for most of its length in various Memphis hotels and convention centers but now located in Tunica, the festival is a nostalgic event not to be confused with such local film -fest-come-latelies as the Indie Memphis Film Festival, On Location: Memphis and Outflix — events that focus mostly on new and often independent productions.
According to longtime festival organizer Ray Nielsen, hundreds of fans from around the country and sometimes even from overseas converge at the festival to swap and purchase memorabilia in a large "dealers room," watch old movies and television episodes in several screening rooms, and mingle with the celebrity guests, who share colorful career anecdotes at various panels.
Dickinson's key panel, set for 11 a.m. June 7, is titled "Wayne, Ford & Hawks." Dickinson will be joined by actor Patrick Wayne (son of John Wayne), actor Christopher Mitchum (son of Robert Mitchum) and actress Karolyn Grimes (young "Zuzu" from the classic "It's a Wonderful Life," who also appeared in director John Ford's "Rio Grande" with John Wayne).
Dickinson should have plenty of stories to contribute. "My most famous and most important movie, of course, is 'Rio Bravo,' " she said, referring to the Hawks-directed Western in which she plays a flower pot-tossing saloon singer named "Feathers," the distaff member of an ensemble that includes Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan.
At one point in the film, Dickinson says to Wayne: "Hey sheriff, you forgot your pants." However, the actress — romantically linked to Sinatra and Martin, and married to songwriter Burt Bacharach from 1965 to 1981 — never encouraged the Duke to disrobe while off camera because she figured her liberal philosophy wouldn't mesh with Wayne's conservative politics.
"I rather fancy I would have had a nice love affair with him, but I stayed my distance because I knew that would become a problem," said Dickinson, who knew President John F. Kennedy and was close friends with the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who served in the administrations of FDR, JFK and LBJ. "I still am a die-hard Democrat."
Politics aside, Wayne "was wonderful," Dickinson said, "because he was a very unassuming guy. He was who he was, and he was very patient with me. I was new and I wasn't polished yet, and Howard Hawks and John Wayne both were so patient with me, while Howard waited for me to get it right."
Although "Rio Bravo" is revered (the movie came in at No. 63 on the most recent Sight & Sound Magazine critics poll of the 100 "Greatest Films of All Time"), Dickinson may be best remembered for her arresting role as detective "Pepper" Anderson on "Police Woman," which ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC.
A TV Guide magazine cover story on Dickinson and the series asked "How Did She Ever Get on the Force?," but that headline was no more leering than the scripts for the actual show, which — in the words of the program's Wikipedia synopsis — required Pepper to go undercover "as a prostitute, nurse, teacher, flight attendant, prison inmate, dancer, waitress, etc.," to get the goods on various typically male malefactors. Nevertheless, "Police Woman" was praised for its almost unprecedented presentation of a tough woman as the lead in a network drama. According to Dickinson, its popularity inspired many women to enter law enforcement who might otherwise have stuck to more traditionally feminine careers.
Even so, "That wasn't real acting," Dickinson said of her "Police Woman" role. "Series, they get monotonous. When you're the lead in a series and you're a woman, with hair and costumes, there's an awful lot of work before every scene, unlike for the man, who simply changes his tie."
Nevertheless, "I'd rather be remembered as a hot cop than an old woman," she said.
"I don't feel older except when I fall down," she added. "I don't have that mindset. I like to call myself a woman who's old, not an old woman."
Dickinson said her greatest film other than "Rio Bravo" may be the dreamlike crime drama "Point Blank" (1967) with Lee Marvin, directed by John Boorman ("Deliverance").
She also had a startling turn in Brian De Palma's sexy-slashy "Dressed to Kill" (1980); she was the title liberated gangster in the Roger Corman-produced drive-in rabble-rouser "Big Bad Mama" (1974), with its infamous Dickinson-William Shatner lovemaking interlude ("If you could get rid of those naked love scenes, that would be a real good movie," Dickinson said); she was the wife of heist mastermind Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) in the "Rat Pack" caper comedy "Ocean's 11" (1960); and she previously visited Memphis on the way to Holly Springs to shoot "Big Bad Love" (2001), adapted from the short stories of Oxford author Larry Brown.
In "The Killers" (1964), she was slapped by future California governor/U.S. president Ronald Reagan, in a rare villain role. "Every time I would run into him, which was five or six times during his presidency, he would say, 'I'm sure glad I didn't really have to hit you.' "
Of course, coming to Memphis makes Dickinson think of Elvis, whom she knew slightly. The actress and her then-husband, Burt Bacharach, were at the first of Elvis' famous 1970 Las Vegas "comeback" shows at the International Hotel (immortalized in the documentary "Elvis: That's the Way It Is"). Elvis' manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, sat at their table. "The night before was Barbra Streisand — she closed her run of shows — and the next night was Elvis," Dickinson said. "It was a memorable, memorable time."
Memphis Film Festival
Stars of vintage television and classic cinema, including Angie Dickinson, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Alex Cord ("Airwolf"), Buck Taylor ("Gunsmoke") and "Emergency" actors Robert Fuller, Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe; panels; memorabilia dealers; screening rooms; more.
June 6-8, Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall, 1477 Casino Strip Resorts Blvd., Robinsonville, Mississippi.
Three-day admission: $80. Thursday or Friday only: $30. Saturday: $20.
Visit thememphisfilmfestival.com.
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Alice Hill Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
Alice has served as a federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to the US President, and senior director for the US National Security Council. At the White House, she led the development of policy regarding national security and climate change, building climate resilience considerations and capabilities into federal initiatives, and developing national risk management standards for the most damaging natural hazards.
Currently she serves as Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hill previously served as Senior Counsellor to the Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), helping guide senior leadership of DHS agencies, briefing Congress, and leading and establishing key programmes, including the internationally recognised anti-human trafficking initiative, Blue Campaign. For 3 years, Hill served on the National Security Council in the White House focused on national preparedness for all hazards of global consequence.
Early in her legal career, Hill served as chief of the major frauds division in California’s central district of the US Attorney’s Office, supervising over 30 prosecutors handling white-collar crime involving losses in the billions of dollars. Then as judge and supervising judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court, her fellow judges elected her to the committee responsible for overseeing all LA County court operations – 600 courtrooms and an annual budget of $900 million. At the beginning of her career, Hill clerked for a federal judge and practised law at the global firm of Morrison & Foerster.
Hill is a Member of Boards of Directors of subsidiaries of Munich Re Group, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Council on Strategic Risks, and a member of the Advisory Board of One Concern. Oxford University Press will publish her co-authored book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow, in November 2019
Alice Hill has also enjoyed living and working in France, Japan, and Indonesia.
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Snowflake Computing appointed former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman as Snowflake's new CEO and announced the immediate departure of former CEO Bob Muglia, who led the supplier of cloud data warehouse services through five years of rapid growth.
Slootman, who also will be Snowflake's chairman, served as chairman and CEO of ServiceNow between 2011 and 2017, taking the company from under $100 million in revenue to $1.4 billion in sales and leading the company through a successful IPO, according to the Snowflake statement. Prior to ServiceNow, Slootman was chairman and CEO of Data Domain.
Muglia worked at Microsoft between 1988 and 2011, including as president and senior vice president of the company's Server & Tools business for the last four years. He was then an executive vice president at Juniper Networks for two years before joining Snowflake as CEO in June 2014.
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The Millennial Takeover: How the Generation is Shaking up the Workplace
By 2025, more Millennials than Boomers will be in leadership positions across all industries. Here’s how ‘the kids’ will aim to instill change.
In the next five years, the U.S. workplace is poised to experience a changing of the guard.
The majority of Baby Boomers, now in their upper 50s, 60s, and lower 70s, will be well into retirement age. Their vacated executive positions and managerial roles will most likely be filled by up-and-coming Gen Xers and Millennials, if they haven’t already.
Currently the largest living generation in the U.S., by 2025 Millennials will account for 75 percent of the American workforce. While their habits as consumers often get maligned in the media for bringing about decline in industries and products as wide-ranging as napkins, cable TV, soda, razors, golf, mayonnaise, traditional weddings, department stores, starter homes, and “breastaurants,” what they bring to the table—rather than take off it—deserves more of the limelight.
Love them or hate them, here are major cultural shifts you can expect to see in the workplace as more Millennials take charge.
Mission-driven brands
While the jury is still out on whether Millennials are more or less brand loyal than preceding generations (some studies say they are, some say they aren’t, and some say it depends on the product category), one thing is for certain: Millennials value brands that demonstrate authenticity, and that authenticity is shown by remaining true to a cause.
This is the case for both patronage and workplace preference. Millennials want to buy from and work for businesses that have a purpose at their core. A job is no longer just about a paycheck and putting food on the family table; for Millennials, it’s very much about purpose, with 75 percent saying they want their personal values to align with their company’s values and are even willing to take a pay cut to work for a value-aligned company.
Co-authors John Izzo and Jeff Vanderweilen call it the forthcoming “Purpose Revolution.” Employees, customers and investors are increasingly looking beyond a company’s bottom line to ask how it’s making the world a better place. In the age of social good, the line between for-profit and not-for-profit becomes less rigid, and brands like TOMS, Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia and Warby Parker are all lead actors, as they put their social corporate responsibility front and center, a scorecard against which the world can judge their success. Expect Millennials to continue wearing their social causes on their sleeves as they move up the ranks and have a greater say in shaping their own company’s mission.
Another area in which you can expect to see Millennials making change is in leadership style. Fading are the days of the corporate strongman, whose word becomes instant workplace policy, and whose authority is derived solely by title or position.
It could be the result of growing up in a postmodern era, but many Millennials are very aware, and skeptical, of power dynamics, and tend to see legitimate authority as earned rather than assumed. Consequently, Millennials respond better to leaders who inspire by example and embody the mission of the company. A big part of authentic leadership is the willingness to solicit feedback and hear out ideas, not just from one’s own C-suite peers, but from all levels of an organization.
That ability to understand and share the feelings of others is what we call empathy, and it’s a huge component of emotional intelligence. Empathy is especially important for leaders, as they need to understand what truly motivates their team in order to build a successful, thriving culture on that foundation. Moreover, empathy is especially important today, as Daniel Goleman writes in Harvard Business Review, for three main reasons:
Work is increasingly team-based
The world is increasingly globalized, requiring coordination among diverse persons
Success is often dependent on retaining the best talent
As they step into leadership roles, expect Millennials to perform like the kind of leaders they most respect—the charismatic, caring, and listening kind.
Flattened hierarchy
Ever noticed how suits, once a staple of corporate America (Mad Men, anyone?), are slowly losing their prominence among the office dress code?
You could blame it on Silicon Valley. Tech execs like Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg have for years evinced a dressed-down style that’s more Tony Hawk than Tom Ford. The trend is so prevalent that Vox declared suits are now mostly reserved for “powerful men when they’re in trouble” (aka Zuckerberg at a Congressional hearing).
But the waning popularity of suits is symptomatic of something bigger than just workplace fashion trends. It’s about corporate structure. Along with open offices, corporate town halls, employee stock ownership, and rotating team leaders, casual attire is part of a larger Millennial-driven trend toward a flattened hierarchy in the workplace.
Sometimes described as a “flat organization” or a “holacracy,” a flattened hierarchy reduces bureaucracy overall and aims to eliminate the mid-management levels between executives and entry-level employees. Shrinking that gap has a number of advantages. Besides reducing unnecessary labor costs, it stresses individual responsibility and encourages each team member’s personal investment in the company; facilitates a freer flow of communication; allows for quicker, more nimble decision-making; and empowers team members to be proactive in leading and offering solutions rather than placing that burden entirely on the shoulders of the CEO.
And a flattened hierarchy is more in line with the type of leadership Millennials most resonate with—the kind that’s on their level rather than in some aloof, top-floor corner office.
At home with disruption
Born between 1981 and 1996, Millennials have grown up witnessing tremendous technological change, from the introduction of computers in the home, to dial-up internet, the dot-com boom, broadband, nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, self-driving vehicles, smartphones, smart houses, smart everything.
Nobody knows more experientially than Millennials the evidence for Moore’s Law—that computer chip-based technology seems to double every one-and-a-half to two years. Needless to say, for them, disruption has become cliché, a buzzword that’s lost its buzz.
While “digital natives” may gloss over the fact that Millennials come from diverse upbringings with unequal access to technology, the gist remains: as a generation accustomed to constant software updates and the breakneck pace of change, Millennials understand that successful businesses need to be ready to adapt or die.
Consider Apple’s goal to roll out a new iPhone every year and Facebook’s frequent overhauls. The generation that’s brought us Airbnb, Lyft, Groupon, Spotify, Tinder, Oculus RV, Stripe and nearly every social media platform imaginable will make it a key operational philosophy for the companies under their watch to remain relevant or risk fading into obscurity.
Flexible work/life
That same saturation with communication technologies that earns Millennials the label of digital natives has also taught them how hard it can be to “turn off.” When your mobile phone is your work phone and an office email can appear on your smartwatch at any time, the traditional nine-to-five schedule can take on the dreamlike aura of a bygone time in which it was once possible to keep work life enjoyably distinct from personal life.
In reaction, many Millennials have pushed back against the “always-on” expectations at their jobs and advocated for better work/life balance in their careers, which makes sense. Burn out is real, and it’s no secret that happier people are more productive employees, and more likely to stick around.
The irony is that the very technologies that make us accessible around the clock and thus the potential victim of 24/7 work demands are the same technologies that can deliver better work/life balance. For many skill-based creative professions, digital technologies allow for flexible work hours, telecommuting, location independence and a number of other benefits that boost individual control over one’s own work life.
As we reach a generational tipping point that sees more Millennials in leadership positions, expect them to introduce more workplace policies that contribute to employee happiness, particularly ones that increase self-autonomy and protect work/life balance.
Danny Bekkett Jr., July 21 2020
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Home » Uncategorized » Julian Assange’s Defence Statement
Julian Assange’s Defence Statement 257
December 7, 2016 in Uncategorized by craig
Julian Assange has published his statement given to the Swedish prosecutor. I give it in full below. I do implore you to read it. This is the first time his defence has been made public, although the media have been delighted to report the leaked allegations against him in detail.
His defence will not be given in the same detail in the media.
It is worth noting that under Swedish law the identity of both the accuser and the accused ought to be protected, but that did not prevent Swedish police and prosecutors leaking details to a complicit media, or the women concerned selling their story to the tabloids.
You really do owe it to yourself, to justice and to personal honesty to read Julian’s side of the story.
14/15 NOVEMBER 2016 QUESTIONING AT THE ECUADORIAN EMBASSY LEGALLY PRIVILEGED
You have subjected me to six years of unlawful, politicized detention without charge in prison, under house arrest and four and a half years at this embassy. You should have asked me this question six years ago. Your actions in refusing to take my statement for the last six years have been found to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and by the Swedish Court of Appeal. You have been found to have subjected me to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. You have denied me effective legal representation in this process. Despite this, I feel compelled to cooperate even though you are not safeguarding my rights.
I. THE SWEDISH PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
I, Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, have had my passport taken by British authorities and so cannot provide formal identification, am in a situation of arbitrary detention according to the decision of the United Nations Working Group of Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) of 4 December 2015; a political refugee since 19 June 2012 at the Embassy of Ecuador with asylum which was granted by Ecuador on 16 August 2012, and hereby appear before the authorities of Sweden and Ecuador in the framework of a rogatory commission that has been entered between these two states, requested by the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, and declare that:
1. I ratify what has been expressed by my Ecuadorian lawyer, both in relation to this procedure today and the concerns about the procedure pursued against me in Sweden, including the failure to allow my Swedish lawyer to be present and the failure to provide me with exculpatory and other discovery material, which I have, to date, not been given proper access to, including in the preparation for this statement today.
2. Today, 14 November 2016, after having made myself available to the Swedish authorities since the start of this outrageous process six years ago, I am finally given the opportunity to give my statement to the Swedish preliminary investigation. I am grateful to Ecuador for attempting to facilitate this process in the circumstances where the Swedish prosecutor has declined, since 2010, to accept this, my first statement on the allegation against me.
3. I went to Sweden on 11 August 2010. During my stay, I met a woman (hereinafter called ”SW”). On the evening of 16 August, 2010 she invited me to her home. During the night and in the morning we had consensual sexual intercourse on several occasions.
4. I therefore could not believe my eyes when five days later I saw a headline in a Swedish tabloid that I was suspected of a crime and arrested in my absence. I immediately made myself available to the Swedish authorities to clarify any questions that might exist, although I had no obligation to do so.
5. That same day (21 August 2010), the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm, Eva Finné, dropped the arrest warrant against me and within days would close the preliminary investigation with the finding that no crime whatsoever had been committed against the woman “SW” (who is the subject of this procedure). I drew the conclusion that, other than the worldwide damage to my reputation caused by millions of web pages saying that I was “wanted for rape”, my life, in this respect, would return to normal.
6. On 23 August 2010, the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm, Eva Finné stated she “made the assessment that the evidence did not disclose any offence of rape”.
7. On 25 August, the Chief Prosecutor found that “The conduct alleged disclosed no crime at all and that file (K246314-10) would be closed”.
8. A week later, I learned to my surprise that a different prosecutor by the name of “Marianne Ny” had reopened the preliminary investigation without any consultation or opportunity for me to be heard – after I had already been cleared and the case had been closed.
9. That prosecutor eventually issued an extradition warrant against me, supposedly to take my statement, even though I left Sweden with her permission and in good faith, and had repeatedly tried to see if the prosecutor was ready to accept my statement. I had not and have still not been charged with a crime.
10. It has taken more than six years for the prosecutor to now obtain my statement. The delay is entirely caused by the prosecutor who re-opened the closed preliminary investigation. A prosecutor is, according to Swedish law (Chapter 23, Section 4 of the Procedural Code), obligated to conduct the preliminary investigation as expeditiously as possible and when there is no longer reason for pursuing the investigation, it shall be discontinued. At the preliminary investigation phase, the prosecutor is obligated to take into account all the circumstances: those against the suspect as well as those circumstances in favour of the suspect, and any evidence favourable to the suspect shall be preserved. The investigation shall be conducted so that no person is unnecessarily exposed to suspicion, or put to unnecessary cost or inconvenience.
11. Instead of following the law, prosecutor Marianne Ny has kept the preliminary investigation open without justification for over six years. She deliberately suspended her work to progress and bring to a conclusion the preliminary investigation. She has for more than six years refused to take my statement during which time she has done nothing to pursue the preliminary investigation. The preliminary investigation entered into a stasis more than six years ago. I have always demonstrated my willingness to cooperate in order to speed up the process – although there is no obligation whatsoever for me to do so. All the obligation is on the prosecutor to progress the preliminary investigation. This attitude of the prosecutor has clearly breached mandatory rules in Swedish law.
12. I reiterate that over the past six years, I have continued to call for this prosecutor to accept my statement, including by:
— Willingly attending a questioning on 30 August 2010 in Stockholm, where no questions were asked about the allegation, as I had already been cleared. — Staying in Sweden for more than five weeks longer than planned, repeatedly asking if or when I could give a statement, despite pressing commitments elsewhere. — Gaining the prosecutor’s consent to leave Sweden before doing so on 27 September 2010 in good faith, understanding that I was not required to provide a further statement for the time being. On the day I left the country three of my encrypted laptops were seized from me at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. The laptops contained evidence of war crimes pending publication and protected legal correspondence. — Offering to return to Sweden to give a statement in October 2010.
— Offering to give my statement from London via numerous methods including telephone or videolink or in writing from London between October 2010 and up to and through the prosecutor unnecessarily issuing a European Arrest Warrant. The European Arrest Warrant attempted to extradite me, without charge, from the UK to Sweden, to take my statement. I was actively offering the testimony she claimed she wanted when she sought my arrest. — Providing a DNA sample six years ago in December 2010 when I was first arrested at Sweden’s request and which has been available to the prosecutor for the last six years. She has never bothered to even attempt to use it. — Offering to give a statement in London via Mutual Legal Assistance, among other suggestions, during my time of house arrest (7 December 2010 – 19 June 2012). — Offering to give a statement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London as from 19 June 2012, for instance via email from my Swedish lawyers on 24 July 2012 and during a meeting between my lawyers and the prosecutors in Stockholm 7 May 2013 – over four years ago and over three years ago respectively. — Offering to come to Sweden provided Sweden would give a guarantee that I am not extradited to another state over my publishing work. This offer was also requested by Ecuador through diplomatic channels and publicly in 2012, as I am a refugee in its jurisdiction.
13. As this demonstrates, although I have no obligation to do so, I have done everything within my power to offer my testimony to the prosecutor while protecting my right to asylum and protecting myself against the risk of extradition to the United States, where there is an open national security case against me. According to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, WikiLeaks’ alleged source in that matter, Chelsea Manning, has been subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in US detention, and has since been convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
14. The state of Sweden has refused to provide me the necessary assurances against extradition or other transport to the United States since 2010 when such was asked by my lawyers and since 2012 when requested to do so by the state of Ecuador. Sweden has also refused to accept that the asylum Ecuador has granted me requires it to protect me from onwards extradition to the United States, despite this being the recognized norm in asylum cases, thus making it impossible for me to go to Sweden without giving up my fundamental right as a political refugee. This refusal to recognize my rights as a political refugee has been the sole impediment to my presence in Sweden. I explicitly offered to accept extradition to Sweden provided it simply guarantee that it will not transfer me to another state. This was declined.
15. Nevertheless, I have continued to offer the prosecutor my statement through mechanisms which can be employed to achieve her stated purpose without putting at risk my fundamental rights, which she has, until recently, rejected.
16. Two years ago the Svea Court of Appeal on 20 November 2014 severely criticized the prosecutor for her negligence:
“The Court of Appeal notes, however, that the investigation into the suspected crimes has come to a halt and considers that the failure of the prosecutors to examine alternative avenues is not in line with their obligation – in the interests of everyone concerned – to move the preliminary investigation forward.”
17. It was not until March 2015 that Marianne Ny finally – after she had been found in breach of her duties by Sweden’s Court of Appeal and my case was before the Supreme Court and it became apparent that she might lose – claimed that she would, under certain restrictive conditions, accept my statement after all.
18. Since that time, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) released its ruling on 5 February 2016 that my situation in the embassy amounts to an unlawful and arbitrary detention, in breach of Sweden’s binding legal obligations under international law. UNWGAD found that Sweden and the UK have disregarded the asylum that I have been granted by Ecuador, forcing me to choose between deprivation of liberty and the risk of losing Ecuador’s protection and being extradited to the United States.
19. It then took Marianne Ny more than 18 months after her claimed change of position at the Supreme Court to arrange this meeting. I have not been responsible for a single day of delay in this process. All the delay has been caused by prosecutor Marianne Ny and the state authorities. Again note that all the obligation is on the prosecutor.
20. Furthermore, the UNWGAD concluded that the Swedish prosecutor has breached my due process rights in the conduct of this preliminary investigation and that seeking my extradition to Sweden as the only option in these circumstances was ”excessive and unnecessary” [para 97]. In particular, it found:
“…after more than five years’ time lapse, he is still left at the stage of preliminary investigation with no predictability as to whether and when a formal process of any judicial dealing would commence…” [para. 97] “…Mr Assange has been denied the opportunity to provide a statement, which is a fundamental aspect of the audi alteram partem principle, the access to exculpatory evidence, and thus the opportunity to defend himself against the allegations…” [para. 98] “…the duration of such detention is ipso facto incompatible with the presumption of innocence.” [para. 98]
21. As a result of the Swedish prosecutor’s actions, UNWGAD found my circumstances to be of an increasingly serious deprivation of liberty which is of an indefinite nature and is already far longer than the maximum penalty I could ever theoretically face in Sweden. For these reasons UNWGAD found that the severe and indefinite nature of these deprivations amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in breach of Sweden’s obligation under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Article 7. The severity of this treatment is further confirmed by the expert opinion of Fernando Mariño, the former President of the UN Committee Against Torture, which is entered into the official record of this proceeding.
22. Ten months after the UNWGAD determination the harshness of the situation continues to affect my physical and psychological health. My lawyers have informed the Swedish authorities of the ongoing deterioration of my health through the medical certificates and expert opinions of Dr. Michael Korzinski and Dr. Fluxman, from 11 November 2015; of Dr. Ladbrooke from 8 December 2015; of Dr. Michael Korzinski from 15 June 2016; and of Dr. Ladbrooke from 9 November 2016.
23. And so, finally, here we are today, under the jurisdiction of Ecuador, with my rights ever increasingly limited, as my Ecuadorian defence counsel has expressed. After more than six
years, I am finally being given the “opportunity” to give my statement but with my Swedish counsel having been excluded and under a clear situation of legal defencelessness, resulting from years of negligence and intentional and unlawful delays by the Swedish authorities.
24. All the irregularities that have occurred through the acts or omissions of the prosecution authority and the six-year delay to date of this disproportionate, inhumane and unlawful preliminary investigation have permanently destroyed all possibilities for me to properly defend myself – which is no doubt their intention.
25. Following the above, I wish to express in the strongest terms, that, in addition to the breaches of my due process rights in the investigation to date, the procedure to be adopted today in taking my statement further breaches those rights:
— My Swedish defence lawyer was not permitted to be present today, despite the fact that these proceedings concern a Swedish criminal preliminary investigation. — In the opinion of my general practitioner, I am unfit to prepare and participate in these proceedings (after having been denied hospital treatment and sunlight for 4.5 years). — My Ecuadorian defence counsel has had no access to the case file, let alone in Spanish, the language he understands, nor has he had adequate time to prepare my defence. — My lawyers and I have not been permitted access to the case file. — I have been denied my request to read the text messages that my Swedish defence lawyers have read, which are a key element to my defence because they clearly show that I am innocent.
26. Due to all the shortcomings stated above, prosecutor Marianne Ny should have drawn the obvious conclusion that she discontinue the preliminary investigation.
27. In this context I once again remind you that I have already been cleared and that the preliminary investigation was closed by Chief Prosecutor Eva Finné in August 2010.
28. Given this history I have good reason to have concern about whether this “preliminary investigation” is being conducted in good faith and whether honest and impartial consideration will be given to my statement. I suspect that the real purpose of the Swedish prosecutor coming here today is not to obtain my statement but is simply a ruse to tick a box to ensure the technical possibility to indict me, irrespective of how I answer any questions.
29. I do not believe that prosecutor Marianne Ny is acting in good faith or with the objectivity and impartiality required of her office. For example, after circumventing the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm’s decision to close this case, prosecutor Ny has made at least 40 press releases and press conferences about me where my name has been published, even though there is no charge against me and I have been previously cleared, subjecting me to endless needless suspicion, in clear violation of her duty to not do so under Chapter 23, Section 4 of the Swedish Procedural Code.
30. My overall conclusion is that the prosecutor’s conduct of the preliminary investigation, for all the reasons above has continued to deprive me of the right to defend myself.
31. I have no obligation to cooperate with this abuse, but I find myself in a coercive situation. I am meant to be protected by the decision of the UNWGAD which makes it clear that this “preliminary investigation” has violated my human rights and that its attempts to arrest me should be discontinued immediately. That decision was issued almost a year ago, but my situation remains unchanged. Despite the many violations already described I feel compelled to give my statement today so that there can be no more excuses for the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny to continue my indefinite unlawful detention, which is a threat to my health and even to my life. I have been pushing and indeed litigating for this prosecutor to take my statement for more than six years. The prosecutor has made excuse after excuse to not take my statement. I will not grant this prosecutor any excuse to continue to avoid taking my statement as I fear she would use it as a means to indefinitely prolong my cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
II. REASONS WHY I TRAVELLED TO STOCKHOLM IN AUGUST 2010
32. I am the editor-in-chief and publisher of WikiLeaks, a publishing organisation specializing in the analysis of records under risk of censorship that are of political, diplomatic, historical or ethical importance. Among other countries, WikiLeaks publishes and analyses documents that concern the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, including millions of documents relating to actions of military, intelligence and foreign services. I have received numerous awards in relation to my publishing work, including the 2008 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award, The Economist New Media Award (USA) 2008, the 2009 Amnesty International UK Media Award (New Media), the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (USA) award, the 2011 Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (Australia), the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (UK), the 2011 Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (Australia), the 2011 Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (Spain), the 2011 International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists, the 2011 Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (Spain), the 2012 Privacy International Award, the 2013 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award, and the 2013 Global Exchange Human Rights Awards, as well as formal nominations for the United Nations’ Mandela Prize (2014) and for the past six consecutive years for the Nobel Peace Prize.
33. The US launched an investigation against me in early 2010 under the Obama administration, while Hillary Clinton was the US Secretary of State. This administration has expended very substantial resources on attempting to prosecute me and attempting to spy on my publishing work despite its constitutionally protected status. The US government’s WikiLeaks investigation is described in official diplomatic correspondence as being “unprecedented in scale and nature”.
34. All the citations I mention are in my affidavit from 2 September 2013, which I am entering into the official record of this proceeding.
35. The US government has periodically confirmed in public that the national security case against WikiLeaks remains open and ongoing, including in proceedings from this year. Numerous human rights and freedom of speech organizations such as Human Rights Watch have criticized the Obama administration for pursuing a criminal case against WikiLeaks and me.
36. The investigation against Wikileaks is led by the FBI and has involved a dozen other agencies, including the CIA, the NSA, and the Defence Intelligence Agency. The US government has described the investigation as a “whole of government” investigation. In Alexandria, Virginia, a Grand Jury has been meeting behind closed doors for the past six years under case number 10GJ3793 to explore ways to imprison me and seven others who they have identified as “founders, owners or managers of WikiLeaks”. The prosecution in the Chelsea Manning case attempted to establish that Private Manning acted as an agent under my control rather than as a journalistic source of mine, even though in Private Manning’s own statement to the court, she said this was not the case. The US military charged Private Manning with twenty-two counts in connection with the release of more than 700,000 classified or confidential documents to WikiLeaks. On 30 July 2013 private Manning was convicted of twenty of these counts and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison on 20 August 2013.
37. Private Manning was detained for more than 1,000 days before the trial commenced. During this time she remained for 258 days in solitary confinement. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture found that the conditions and length of private Private Manning’s confinement at Quantico, Virginia, amounted to “inhuman and degrading treatmen t”. Private Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, said that the treatment of Private Manning was an attempt at breaking her so that Manning would implicate me. The US military court system eventually found that Private Manning was unlawfully punished as a result of this treatment while in US custody. Private Manning was convicted of espionage; the first whistleblower ever so convicted. Private Manning was acquitted of the “aiding the enemy” charge, but the US government could still seek to employ this charge against me. Private Manning is serving a 35 year prison sentence.
38. According to the respected UK newspaper The Independent, the US and Sweden entered informal talks regarding my extradition from Sweden to the United States in early December 2010. These talks of my extradition concerned the US Grand Jury and FBI investigation against WikiLeaks, which is also the reason that Ecuador granted me asylum.
39. The aggressive calls to stop WikiLeaks from publishing were the reason for my travel to Stockholm. US officials’ rhetoric grew increasingly aggressive in the period immediately prior to my visit to Sweden on 11 August 2010. In June, a Daily Beast news report entitled ‘The State Department’s Worst Nightmare’ revealed that the Pentagon was “conducting an aggressive investigation” into whether WikiLeaks had 260,000 US diplomatic cables and the material’s whereabouts.
40. Two days later, an article titled ‘Pentagon Manhunt’ appeared, describing Pentagon investigators desperately trying to track me down in relation to the impending publication of Cablegate:
“Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange”.
41. On 17 June 2010 US Department of Defense spokesman Geoff Morrell stated there was an
“ongoing criminal investigation [concerning WikiLeaks], involving the Army Criminal Investigation Division, as well as, I believe, some other law enforcement agencies.”
42. The Pentagon officials “would not discuss the methods being used to find Assange, nor would they say if they had information to suggest where he is now.” On reading this, I realised WikiLeaks’ continued ability to publish effectively and my own personal safety were at serious risk.
43. During the month of July I worked with a team of journalists in the United Kingdom to publish the Afghan War Diaries: 75,000 secret Pentagon documents about the war in Afghanistan, which included the detailed records about the deaths of nearly 20,000 people. The day after WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Diaries, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated that WikiLeaks “poses a very real and potential threat”.
44. I published the Afghan War Diaries approximately two weeks before I travelled to Sweden. In the aftermath of the publication, US government officials made efforts to influence the way in which the media reported on our publications. The purpose was to delegitimise WikiLeaks protections as a publisher under the US First Amendment. For example, it attempted to falsely cast WikiLeaks as an adversary, opposed to US national interests, a false claim that I would later see echoed in Swedish media.
45. The New York Times reported that the White House had emailed its reporters with suggested “reporting tacks to take” on WikiLeaks and WikiLeaks’ disclosures, in an attempt to induce news outlets into referring to WikiLeaks in these terms.
46. The White House sent an e-mail with the subject heading “Thoughts on Wikileaks” containing a memo in which the White House
“advised journalists on possible reporting tacks to take on the [Afghan War Diaries] documents […] As you report on this issue, it’s worth noting that wikileaks is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes US policy in Afghanistan.”
47. I also learned from news reports that security authorities from my home country Australia were assisting the US intelligence investigation into WikiLeaks and me:
“Australian security authorities are assisting a United States intelligence probe into the whistleblower website Wikileaks and its Australian founder and editor, Julian Assange. The US request for support in what Australian national security sources described as ‘a counter-espionage investigation’ preceded Wikileaks’ dramatic publication yesterday of a leaked US military operations log, described as an ”extraordinary compendium” of 91,000 reports by United States and allied soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.”
48. On July 28th, just three days after publishing the Afghan War Diaries and two weeks before I travelled to Sweden, US Department of Defense Secretary Gates “called FBI Director Robert Mueller and asked for the FBI’s assistance in [the WikiLeaks] investigation as a partner.” The US Defence Department declared:
“Calling on the FBI to aid the investigation ensures that the department will have all the resources needed to investigate… noting that use of the bureau ensures the investigation can go wherever it needs to go.”
49. The New York Times reported that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates
“declined to comment about the investigation beyond noting that he had enlisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist Army investigators, a move that is seen as a precursor to potentially charging people who are not uniformed service members […] A person familiar with the investigation has said that Justice Department lawyers are exploring whether Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks could be charged with inducing, or conspiring in, violations of the Espionage Act, a 1917 law that prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of national security information.”
50. On 1 August 2010, the press reported that the FBI and British police were carrying out searches and interrogations in the UK, where I found myself at the time, in connection with WikiLeaks’ publications.
51. Over the next days, US rhetoric and actions against WikiLeaks intensified. Prominent commentators and former White House officials championed extraterritorial measures and the violation of international law “if necessary”.
52. One of these commentators was former presidential speech writer Marc Thiessen, who published a Washington Post article entitled ‘WikiLeaks Must be Stopped’:
“…the government has a wide range of options for dealing with him. It can employ not only law enforcement but also intelligence and military assets to bring Assange to justice.”
53. Thiessen argued that the US should put pressure on any state in which I was located and that the US should, if necessary, arrest me even without the consent of that state. He cited legal advice from the Department of Justice regarding FBI operations abroad:
“The United States should make clear that it will not tolerate any country — and particularly NATO allies such as Belgium and Iceland — providing safe haven for criminals who put the lives of NATO forces at risk. With appropriate diplomatic pressure, these governments may cooperate in bringing Assange to justice. But if they refuse, the United States can arrest Assange on their territory without their knowledge or approval.”
54. Thiessen further asserted that the FBI could violate international law in order to stop me and apprehend other people associated with WikiLeaks’ publishing activities. Thiessen cited a Department of Justice memo:
“the FBI may use its statutory authority to investigate and arrest individuals for violating United States law, even if the FBI’s actions contravene customary international law” and that an “arrest that is inconsistent with international or foreign law does not violate the Fourth Amendment.” In other words, we do not need permission to apprehend Assange or his co-conspirators anywhere in the world.
Arresting Assange would be a major blow to his organization. But taking him off the streets is not enough; we must also recover the documents he unlawfully possesses
and disable the system he has built to illegally disseminate classified information.
This should be done, ideally, through international law enforcement cooperation. But if such cooperation is not forthcoming, the United States can and should act alone.”
55. Seven days before I travelled to Sweden I was acutely aware that my personal safety was at risk. Scott Horton, legal affairs and national security contributor at Harper’s, wrote the article ‘WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back’:
“[Assange] will certainly be targeted for petty harassment and subject to steady surveillance, and efforts to kidnap him are almost certainly being spun at this very moment.”
56. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell announced an anti-WikiLeaks task force comprised of 80 people was operating 24 hours a day. One month later, it had grown to 120 people. The “distinct responsibility” of the Information Review Task Force – dubbed by some occupants as the “WikiLeaks War Room” – was
“…to gather evidence about the workings of WikiLeaks that might someday be used by the Justice Department to prosecute Assange and others on espionage charges.”
57. The article “’The General Gunning for WikiLeaks” described the task force:
“In a nondescript suite of government offices not far from the Pentagon, nearly 120 intelligence analysts, FBI agents, and others are at work—24 hours a day, seven days a week—on the frontlines of the government’s secret war against WikiLeaks. Dubbed the WikiLeaks War Room by some of its occupants, the round-the-clock operation is on high alert this month …”
58. The same article states that Brig. General Robert A. Carr, who runs “the Pentagon’s equivalent to the CIA”, the Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was “handpicked” by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to head the team because he “is highly respected …and a fitting adversary to Assange”.
59. General Carr’s “central assignment” was reportedly “to try to determine exactly what classified information might have been leaked to WikiLeaks”. General Carr testified at the Chelsea Manning sentencing hearing on 31 July 2013.
60. I followed closely how pressure mounted on US allies to track my movements and to stop our publications. Official sources within the administration revealed to the press that the US was not only considering how to prosecute me in relation to WikiLeaks’ publications in the US, but was also requesting their allies to prosecute me under their own national security laws:
“American officials confirmed last month that the Justice Department was weighing a range of criminal charges against Assange and others […]
Now, the officials say, they want other foreign governments to consider the same sorts of criminal charges.”
An article published the day before I went to Sweden stated that “The Obama administration is pressing Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to consider opening criminal investigations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and to severely limit his nomadic travels across international borders, American officials say.”
61. In addition to the stated intention to restrict my freedom of movement, the US government attempted to convince its allies not to allow me entry into their territory as a warning to me, to those working with me and WikiLeaks, and to our supporters:
“Through diplomatic and military channels, the Obama administration is hoping to convince Britain, Germany, and Australia, among other allied governments, that Assange should not be welcome on their shores either, given the danger that his group poses to their troops stationed in Afghanistan, American officials say. They say severe limitations on Assange’s travels might serve as a useful warning to his followers that their own freedom is now at risk.”
62. The Australian government publicly entertained the possibility of canceling my passport, reportedly as a result of pressure placed on Australia by the United States. Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland assured the United States that the Australian government would “provide every assistance to United States law-enforcement authorities”, including by exploring the possibility of canceling my passport.
63. US pressure even resulted in public attempts to influence decisions based on human rights considerations where I and WikiLeaks were concerned. Through US ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer, the Obama administration pressured Switzerland not to grant me political asylum while I participated at the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the United States. US ambassador Beyer gave an interview to Swiss newspaper Sonntag:
“The United States ambassador to Switzerland, Donald Beyer, has also entered the Wikileaks debate. He has warned the Swiss government against granting Assange asylum, which the Australian founder of Wikileaks has said he was considering requesting. “Switzerland should very carefully consider whether to provide shelter to someone who is on the run from the law”.
64. The Daily Beast reported that Washington was prepared to review its diplomatic relations with Iceland because parts of WikiLeaks operations had been conducted in that country:
“An American military official tells The Daily Beast that Washington may also want to closely review its relations with Iceland in the wake of the release of the Afghan war logs.”
65. In the context of my heightened concerns about US activities in the United Kingdom in relation to the WikiLeaks investigation, I decided to leave the country. When I travelled to Sweden on 11 August 2010, the aggressive rhetoric against me had reached new heights.
Former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith told National Public Radio:
“I think it is entirely appropriate for us to be very aggressive […] If I were the US government, I would be trying to make it as difficult as possible for the WikiLeaks founder to continue to do business… To the extent we can persuade our allies to consider prosecution, I think that’s all to the good.”
66. On the same day I arrived in Sweden, 11 August 2010, I received information from an Australian intelligence source that extra-legal actions might be taken against me by the US or its allies. This was later reported in the Australian newspaper The Age:
“An Australian intelligence official privately warned Wikileaks on August 11 last year that Assange was the subject of inquiries by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and that information relating to him and others associated with Wikileaks had been provided to the US in response to requests through intelligence liaison channels. The Australian intelligence official is also claimed to have specifically warned that Assange could be at risk of ‘dirty tricks’ from the US intelligence community.”
67. Friends and associates of mine and volunteers for WikiLeaks were regularly targeted at borders from this moment on. Border searches and interrogations have affected security researcher Jacob Appelbaum, who had given the keynote speech in my place at the HOPE conference on 16 July 2010. In an interview for Democracy Now, Appelbaum described the targeting he experiences at airports:
In the period of time since [the HOPE conference on 16 July 2010] they’ve started detaining me, around a dozen-plus times… I was put into a special room, where they frisked me, put me up against the wall… they took my laptop… then they interrogated me, denied me access to a lawyer. And when they did the interrogation, they have a member of the U.S. Army, on American soil. And they refused to let me go. They … implied that if I didn’t make a deal with them, that I’d be sexually assaulted in prison.
68. Within days of arriving in Sweden I became concerned about my safety and security there, in particular because of the pressure being brought to bear on US allies, including Sweden.
69. I was aware of the publicly stated attempts to track my movements. I used a number of risk minimisation procedures, including relying on the goodwill of friends and their circles for my safety and to protect the confidentiality of my whereabouts and communications.
70. My contacts in Sweden had arranged for me to stay in two safe houses during the few days I had intended to stay in Sweden. One of the safe houses belonged to a journalist who I knew and another to a Social Democrat party figure unknown to me who had lent her apartment while she was away, or so I had been told. However, because these two original safe houses arranged prior to my arrival became known very soon, I stayed in three additional safe houses between 11 and 20 August 2010.
71. I travelled to Sweden to put in place a legal strategy to try to protect our publishing servers, some of which were in Sweden. I believed these assets were at risk as a result of the intense
political pressure from the US described above. I met with the Swedish Pirate Party, which was represented at the European Parliament at the time, who agreed to host copies of WikiLeaks servers under their party name in order to further protect our publishing work. I also felt it was best to leave the United Kingdom at that time because the FBI was known to be carrying out operations in connection with the investigation into our publications. I intended to stay in Sweden for less than a week.
72. My dependency on other people while in Sweden was aggravated when, shortly after my arrival in Stockholm, my personal bank cards were blocked. On 13 August 2010, the WikiLeaks organization’s Moneybookers account could no longer be accessed. That same day, I contacted the company, who replied: “following recent publicity and the subsequently (sic) addition of the Wikileaks entity to blacklists in Australia and watch lists in the USA, we have terminated the business relationship”. I requested further information from MoneyBookers on 13 August and 16 August regarding the closure, including which blacklists and watchlists my accounts and/or WikiLeaks’ account had been added to, but I was refused this information.
73. The freezing of WikiLeaks’ Moneybookers account was an early example of what in December 2010 would become a concerted extra-judicial global economic blockade against WikiLeaks by US financial service companies, including VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, Western Union and American Express. The blockade was the subject of several court actions, a European Commission investigation, a resolution by the European Parliament, and condemnation by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression. On 24 April 2013 the Supreme Court of Iceland found the blockade against WikiLeaks to be unlawful.
74. As a result of being suddenly cut off from personal and organizational funds upon arriving in Sweden, I had to rely on others not only for shelter, but also for food, safety and telephone credit. Unfortunately, I knew very few people in Sweden and those I did were only sporadically in the country.
75. On 13 August 2010 one of the main Swedish newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet, published an article entitled ‘Defence ministry prepared for the next leak’, which reported that the Swedish Ministry of Defence had a dedicated group ‘preparing for WikiLeaks next publication’ and had analysed 76,000 previous publications from WikiLeaks in relation to Swedish troops in Afghanistan.
76. Five days later, Swedish state television (SVT) published a segment entitled ‘We risk United States relationship deteriorating’, which argued that the presence of WikiLeaks in Sweden would negatively affect the strategic relationship between Sweden and the United States.
III. THE PERIOD 14-20 AUGUST 2010
77. I met “SW” during my visit to Stockholm. The first time I met her was on the morning of 14 August 2010 when she came to a speech I gave on what my work revealed about the war in Afghanistan, in which Sweden has troops under US command. She sat in the front row and
photographed me. She came to the small private lunch after my talk where one of the organizers stated that she was a volunteer for their organization although they would later claim that this was not true. Due to the security threats against me as a result of my work, I was in a precarious situation. I relied on the kindness of strangers and the safety and discretion they were willing to offer me. I was in a foreign northern country, where I did not speak the language. I had no access to cash because the bank cards I was travelling with had been frozen due to the extra-judicial political measures taken by financial service companies against my organization and me (which are well-documented and the subject of extensive litigation).
78. Prominent “pro-war” personalities were calling for my assassination and capture, and the US administration had stated publicly that my movements were being tracked. “SW” appeared to be sympathetic to my plight and also appeared to be romantically interested in me. She was not close to people I was close to, so it seemed that those who meant me harm would be unlikely to try to find me by monitoring her movements. She said she worked at the National Museum so I asked her to show me, to try to establish her bonafides. At the Museum an IMAX film was playing, where she kissed me and placed my hands on her breasts. She asked whether I was staying with woman “AA”, a Swedish politician, and seemed concerned by it in a manner which I found strange.
79. At her initiative we met again on the evening of 16 August 2010 and she suggested we go to a hotel in Stockholm. For security reasons, I said I would prefer to go to her house even though it was outside of Stockholm. She then invited me to her home. We went by train and she paid for my ticket since my bank cards had been frozen.
80. “SW” made it very clear that she wanted to have sexual intercourse with me. I felt concerned about the intensity of “SW”’s interest and I also deeply loved another woman, which played on my mind and left me emotionally distracted. “SW” knew an unusual amount of detail about me, and appeared annoyed with me when I was on my phone searching for news related to the US official government statements against me. I perceived she was irritated when I wasn’t giving her my full attention.
81. I felt there was a risk my location would be revealed and that she might act unpredictably if she believed I was rejecting her. During that night and again in the morning we had consensual sexual intercourse on four or five occasions. Her words, her expressions and her physical reactions made it clear to me that she encouraged and enjoyed our interactions.
82. I would later discover that she had collected dozens of photos of me in the weeks before we even met. Her recent FLIKR photo account was filled with pages and pages of photos of me and no other person.
83. In the morning she went out to pick up breakfast for us. After enjoying breakfast together, I left her home on good terms. At no stage when I was with her did she express that I had disrespected her in any way or acted contrary to her wishes other than to not be interested in her enough to pay her attention above my security situation or attempts to sleep. She accompanied me to the train station on her bicycle and we kissed each other goodbye. She asked that I call her so we could see each other again and I said I would. She called the next day or the day after. We made friendly small talk but we were quickly disconnected due to a failing mobile connection. I did not call her back due to problems obtaining telephone credit (as a result of my bank cards being blocked) and the pressing security situation.
84. I spoke to her next on Friday 20 August, after a Swedish friend said that he had heard that “SW” was at the hospital and that she wanted to talk to me. As I had not called her back, and she had previously gone through considerable effort to attract my attention, I was initially concerned that she may have attempted self-harm in order to force me to pay attention to her. So I called her. She said she was at a hospital and asked me to come down to meet her to test myself for sexually transmitted diseases so she would not have to worry while she was waiting for her own test results (HIV, for instance, needs months to show up).
85. But I was busy that day attempting to deal with the escalating political and legal threats against me from the Pentagon. I said I couldn’t do anything until the next day (a Saturday). She said that it was normal in Sweden to go to the police to get advice about STDs and that if I didn’t come down to the hospital she would go to the police to ask whether I could be forced to get tested. I told her I found her mention of police strange and threatening. She stated that she was only concerned about the tests and that it had no concealed meaning. I agreed to take the test out of goodwill and to reassure her, although I told her I could not do it until the following day, Saturday.
86. We were in agreement and arranged to meet the following day in the nearby park around lunchtime when I would have time to get tested. She said she was fine and seemed at ease.
87. You can imagine my disbelief when I woke the next morning to the news that I had been arrested in my absence for ”rape” and that police were ”hunting” all over Stockholm for me.
88. Her behaviour towards me on the night in question and in the morning made it clear that she actively and enthusiastically wanted me to have sex with her. This is also shown by text messages “SW” sent to her friends during the course of the evening I was at her home and during that week, which the Swedish police collected from her phone. Although the prosecutor has fought for years to prevent me, the public and the courts from seeing them, my lawyers were permitted to see them at the police station and were able to note down a number of them, including:
— On 14August 2010 “SW” sent the following text to a friend: I want him. I want him. Followed by several more of similar content (all referring to me) in the lead-up to the events in question (13:05); — On 17 August “SW” wrote that we had long foreplay, but nothing happened (01:14); then it got better (05:15); — On 17 August, after all sex had occurred, “SW” wrote to a friend that it ”turned out all right” other than STD/pregnancy risk (10:29); — On 20 August “SW”, while at the police station, wrote that she “did not want to put any charges on Julian Assange” but that “the police were keen on getting their hands on him” (14:26); and that she was “chocked (sic shocked) when they arrested him” because she “only wanted him to take a test” (17:06); — On 21 August “SW” wrote that she “did not want to accuse” Julian Assange “for anything”, (07:27); and that it was the “police who made up the charges (sic)” (22:25); — On 23 August “AA” (the other woman whose case was dropped in August 2015) wrote to “SW” that it was important that she went public with her story so that they could form public opinion for their case (06:43);
— On 23 August “SW” wrote that it was the police, not herself, who started the whole thing (16:02); — On 26 August “AA” wrote to “SW” that they ought to sell their stories for money to a newspaper (13:38); — On 28 August “AA” wrote that they had a contact on the biggest Swedish tabloid (12:53); and “SW” wrote that their lawyer negotiated with the tabloid (15:59);
89. These text messages clearly show what really happened between “SW” and me. It is clearly consensual sex between adults. The communication between “AA” and “SW” later sadly speaks for itself.
90. The prosecutor’s allegation in the extradition proceeding was reported to be that one of these sexual interactions started the next morning while “SW” was asleep (in the same bed after a night of consensual intercourse) and that when she woke up she consented to the intercourse in question, but for the first few moments was not theoretically capable of consent due to sleep.
91. This is false. I was certain “SW” was not asleep. I was also certain she expressly consented to unprotected sex before such intercourse started. This is also evidenced by “SW”’s own text messages. For example, my lawyers refer me to the following text message to her friend:
— 17 August, 08:42 am: JA did not want to use a condom.
92. Then a day later she explicitly texts her friend that she had not, in fact, been asleep.
— 18 August, 06:59 am: I was half asleep.
IV. SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS
93. Although the police initially opened an investigation into ‘rape’ in relation to woman AA, there was no allegation in her testimony that she had been raped. She expressed in her statement to the police that she consented to sex and subsequently tweeted on 22 April in 2013 “ I have not been raped”.
94. The press was immediately and unlawfully informed that there was a warrant for my arrest for what was reported as the “rape of two” women. The prosecutor unlawfully, and without any subsequent explanation or remedy, immediately confirmed to the press that there was a live warrant for my arrest. The prosecutor’s breach triggered an avalanche of news reports. Within days there were millions of references online which associated my name with the word ‘rape’.
95. Immediately the police accusations were used to attack WikiLeaks’ work and my reputation as its publisher. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates celebrated the news of my ‘rape’ arrest warrant with a smile, telling reporters that the arrest “sounds like good news to me”. Various twitter accounts officially associated with the Pentagon spread descriptions of me as a “rapist” and a “fugitive”. This slander was then used as a means to attack my organization’s reputation.
96. I canceled my other appointments and remained in Sweden. I gave an interview to the police on 30 August 2010 in relation to the only remaining allegation. The Agreed Statement of Facts and Issues submitted to the Supreme Court of the UK states:
“On 30th August 2010, the Appellant, who had voluntarily remained in Sweden to cooperate with the investigation,attended for police interview in respect of the ongoing Preliminary Investigation in respect of AA’s report. Heanswered all questions asked of him.”
97. I was highly concerned for my personal safety and the safety of WikiLeaks’ operations while I remained in Sweden, but I stayed for another five weeks after the ‘preliminary investigation’ was initiated in order to clear my name and to cooperate with the police investigation. Only after I had obtained an assurance from the prosecutor Marianne Ny that I could leave the jurisdiction did I prepare to leave the country
98. Less than 24 hours after the warrant for my arrest was issued, the chief prosecutor of Stockholm was appointed to take over the investigation and canceled the arrest warrant, stating “I don’t believe there is any reason to suspect that he has committed rape”.
99. Shortly after prosecutor Marianne Ny had resurrected the “SW” allegation, the head of the Swedish military intelligence service (“MUST”) published an article ‘WikiLeaks is a threat to our soldiers’. I became increasingly concerned about Sweden’s close relationship to the US government in military and intelligence matters.
100. Through the diplomatic cables I also learned of secret, informal arrangements between Sweden and the United States. The cables revealed that Swedish intelligence services have a pattern of lawless conduct where US government interests are concerned. The US diplomatic cables revealed that the Swedish Justice Department had deliberately hidden particular intelligence information exchanges with the United States from the Parliament of Sweden because they believed the exchanges were likely unlawful.
101. The US diplomatic cables, reports by major human rights organizations, and the UN’s own findings made me aware that Sweden had been complicit in torture as a result of its participation in secret CIA renditions from 2001 through to at least 2006 (which I would subsequently reveal). The rendition of the Swedish political refugees Agiza and Alzery resulted in strong condemnation by the UN Committee Against Torture, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and others. There is still complete impunity for the officers of the Swedish state involved and their US counterparts. No charges have been laid although the complicity of the Swedish state has been well established in successful civil litigation. I subsequently learned that Sweden was partly implicated in CIA renditions of its own citizens from Djibouti in 2013. My Swedish lawyer Thomas Olsson represents one of the rendered.
102. Through an intelligence source, I became aware that on 19 August 2010, the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) had requested information about me from an Australian intelligence organization. The Australian intelligence organization (ASIO) responded to the request with information about me on 21 August 2010.
103. On 29 November 2010 WikiLeaks commenced publishing Cablegate, 251,287 US State Department diplomatic cables. The classified diplomatic dispatches related to every country
in the world. In terms of content, it was the largest set of classified documents ever to be published.
104. The next day State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley stated that “we are investigating aggressively” into WikiLeaks and that a State Department “War Room”, which is different from the Pentagon “War Room”, had been set up.
105. On 30 November 2010, two days after WikiLeaks started publishing Cablegate, Interpol, at the request of Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, issued a Red Notice to 188 countries for my arrest in relation to the Swedish “preliminary investigation” (for which no charges or indictment existed). At the request of the Swedish prosecutor Interpol also made the notice public.
106. The Swedish prosecutor issued a European Arrest Warrant on 2 December 2010 to the UK which was processed by the UK Serious Organised Crimes Agency (SOCA).
107. I lost my freedom on 7 December 2010, the day after UK authorities certified the Swedish extradition warrant. I appeared at the police station, having made a prior appointment. I was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in the highest security unit of Wandsworth prison, the CSU.
108. The day after I was imprisoned, the UK newspaper The Independent reported that US and Swedish officials had entered informal talks regarding my extradition from Sweden to the United States in connection with the US Grand Jury and FBI investigation against WikiLeaks.
109. After ten days, the UK courts found that I should be released on bail. In response the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny instructed her representatives in the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), to appeal to keep me in prison, but the UK courts found her request to be excessive.
110. I was moved to house arrest after providing UK authorities with £340,000 (nearly half a million dollars) and having an electronic monitoring device fitted to my ankle.
111. On 13 January 2011 the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wrote to Marianne Ny, assuring her “Please do not think that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request”.
112. I was forced to meet with police for 551 days in a row. I continued publishing regardless.
113. I applied for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy on 19 June 2012. The embassy was then surrounded by police at an admitted cost to the UK taxpayer of £12.6 million by October 2015.
114. On 28 October 2014, the UK Minister of State of Hugo Swire, told Parliament that “if she [Marianne Ny] wishes to travel here to question Mr. Assange in the embassy in London, we would do absolutely everything to facilitate that, indeed, we would actively welcome it.”
115. On 14 November 2014 I submitted my case to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD).
116. On 20 November 2014 Sweden’s Court of Appeal (Svea) found that the Swedish prosecutor had breached her duty by failing to accept my statement.
117. On 12 October 2015 the UK announced that it was removing the overt police around the embassy as it was “no longer proportionate”.
118. On 14 October 2015 London police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe told the Standard that the visible police were being removed from the embassy encirclement as “it seems a disproportionate response” and “we think the public are not necessarily supportive of it.”
119. Subsequently (6 Feb 2016) the London Times would report that the removal of overt police was also due to “fears that officers of the diplomatic protection group standing guard were thought to resemble jailers” during the UNWGAD determination. However the 12 October statement reveals that the “overt” police had in fact been replaced with a “strengthened” “covert plan”.
120. On 5 February 2016 UNWGAD found that I have been unlawfully deprived of my liberty since 7 December 2010 as a result of the actions of the Swedish prosecutor.
Answer to subsequent questions:
You have subjected me to six years of unlawful, politicized detention without charge in prison, under house arrest and four and a half years at this embassy. You should have asked me this question six years ago. Your actions in refusing to take my statement for the last six years have been found to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and by the Swedish Court of Appeal. You have been found to have subjected me to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. You have denied me effective legal representation in this process. Despite this, I feel compelled to cooperate even though you are not safeguarding my rights. I refer you to my statement where all these questions were answered.
257 thoughts on “Julian Assange’s Defence Statement”
writerman December 7, 2016 at 21:48
What’s unforgivable, given the Guardian’s resources and the piles of money and prestige they’ve received due to their association with Assange, is how little they’ve spent on actually looking at the ‘evidence’ ranged against the man, how incredibly weak it really is, let alone how on earth one would actually prove any of it in a court of law.
What about the famous interview? Hasn’t anyone at the Guardian wondered what possible new questions the prosecutor could possibly pull, magician-like, out of her hat that would so radically alter the situation that suddenly she’d smack a whole set of charges on the table against Assange? What could these incredibly important questions be? And it’s no good saying that she’s waiting because she wants to be fair to Assange and give him a chance to reply before she makes her final decision, nobody believes that, surely?
In a way the attitude and actions of the Guardian symbolizes what’s wrong with the liberal left in Britain and elsewhere. Their almost total lack of real and true principles. The liberals I used to know actually had some and were radicals and people who really supported freedom and democracy and were opponents of imperialism, war and raving capitalism. They were even Green years before anyone else. What happened? As the entire political spectrum lurched to the right, they went with it.
The fundamental principle that one is innocent until proven guilty meand nothing to them. That one has a right to know the charges against one, means nothing to them. That one has a right to a fair and speedy trial, means nothing to them. If justice means nothing to them, does democracy? I seriously doubt it.
Courtenay Barnett December 7, 2016 at 22:18
Writerman,
For the answer read below at 22:13.
Aubrey December 7, 2016 at 21:58
This brings more information on the subject! I need some time to make this puzzle!
lysias December 7, 2016 at 22:06
I know nothing about the source and its reliability, but I thought this was worth reporting here: Gateway Pundit: REVEALED: Michigan Recount Uncovers Serious Voter Fraud in Detroit- VOTES COUNTED UP TO 6 TIMES. Ironic if the result of the Michigan recount that Jill Stein demanded is to reveal that the Democrats practiced electoral fraud against Trump.
bevin December 7, 2016 at 23:49
I don’t doubt that the story is correct. As everyone knows the Democratic machines have been falsifying urban votes since the Year Dot.
This is not to argue that the Republicans are any better-just different. Except in the South where they have taken over the old Redeemers’ machines and send as solid a South to the Electoral College as the Dems ever did.
But you know all this Lysias, its the non Americans who can’t bring themselves to understand what every American knows, that the famous US democracy is a bad joke. It always was.
The story I’ve heard about the 1960 U.S. election is that Nixon didn’t challenge the result despite the manifest fraud that had occurred in Illinois and Texas, because pursuing the matter would have brought out the votes that the Republicans stole, in particular in downstate Illinois.
I wonder if that’s why Gore challenged the 2000 result only anemically, and Kerry the 2004 result not at all.
The 2004 results in Ohio were so obviously rigged that I was amazed that Kerry said nothing. But then who, since Tilden in 1876, did?
It is one saving grace of the Electoral College that the poliyticos have never been given the temptation-which they could never resist- of piling up tens of millions of votes in safe states to win the popular vote.
Brianfujisan December 7, 2016 at 22:08
Herbie is correct..
The texts are Absolute Proof of Innocence..
Ny Should be charged with breaking the law.. Nasty piece of work.. Deliberate Torture of J.A for all this time. I could never cope with being caged up like that..unable to get out to the wide spaces, Big skies, MY islands.. Best wishes to his Health.
Very revealing though. how deeply Sweden is in the Pocket of the U.S. just like U.K.
A mission to read the whole Statement, But every word is necessary..
P.s I wish they could construct something on the roof so that Julian could get some sun..How hard can it be Fks.. or would he get Zapped from space, or Sleekit Helicopters.. Mmmm
I do not know and did not study Swedish law, having been qualified in England and in the Caribbean, but let’s use reasonable sense:-
The Swedish law reads: “He who lays hands on or by means of shooting from a firearm, throwing of stones, noise or in any other way harasses another person will be sentenced for harassment to fines or imprisonment for up to one year.”
Q. Mr. Assange – you are accused of harassment – what do you have to say in response to the charge?
A. I had no weapon and did not harass anyone.
Q. I put it to you that you are being less than frank with this honourable court.
A. I reject your suggestion Sir.
Q. You did have a dangerous weapon in use at the material time Mr. Assange.
A. No Sir!
Q. But there is no dispute that you had sex with these two women – how could you in all honesty deny that there was an attack. Mr. Assange I urge you at this point to take responsibility for the misuse of your harassing rod – what do you say to that?
A. It was not a harassing one Sir – it was very friendly and fully accommodated one by both ladies Sir – and that is the truth! Actually, by reference to the law – I laid a hand on it, they both did too – I worked them both over without any harassment – and all in all relative to the charge – I did shoot my “firearm” at the end in the most pleasurable way Sir. BUT, IN ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES – NOT GUILTY AS CHARGED!
THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE TOLD TO GO FUCK ITSELF ON THIS ONE!
P.S. Did the people elect the officials – or – are we all blindly subservient to them wot hold the power? You decide for yourself. You decide – many lie, steal trillions, fabricate reasons to start wars – and you think that the Wikileaks information is dangerous and that it is not your right to know? Consider yourself a freethinker? – maybe not.
RobG December 7, 2016 at 22:30
All Kudos to David Seaman (who used to work for the Huffington Post). He’s one of literally a handful of us who are reporting honestly on Pizzagate…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4hC0a_9ALA
As I said in another thread, Pizzagate is certainly sorting out the wheat from the chaff. The chaff will get what’s coming to them…
Paul Barbara December 8, 2016 at 03:01
@ RobG
Few more links:
‘BREAKING – #PizzaGate: 100’s of CHILDREN MISSING IN VIRGINIA’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaM3GIEX0yU
‘PIZZAGATE SMOKING GUN: Senator Nancy Schaefer MURDERED for Exposing CPS?’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oj_eQmmHUI
‘Senator Nancy Schaefer: Did her Fight Against CPS Child Kidnapping Cause her Murder?’: http://medicalkidnap.com/2015/04/27/senator-nancy-schaefer-did-her-fig ht-against-cps-corruption-cost-her-life/
Israel may once have been considered a left-wing cause. But that was before it became clear that it is an apartheid state.
Remember, liberals supported the Boers at the time of the Boer War.
Times change, and people’s eyes are opened.
Habbabkuk December 8, 2016 at 09:51
That is nonsense, in the sense that Soviet support of Israel disappeared by the end of 1940s when it became clear that the new State of Israel was aligning itself in the Western camp and not the Soviet one. Nothing to do with Soviet dislike or disapproval of the allegedly “apartheid” or “racist” nature of the State of Israel, which is in any event a relatively recent trope.
Dave Price December 8, 2016 at 12:25
Habbakuk
I don’t see any reference to ancient Soviet support in Lysias’ comment. A much more natural interpretation of his comment is that until recently Israel attracted support from the left, since a characteristic of the left is to be anti-racist; but as it has become clear that Palestinian citizens of Israel are discriminated against in Israeli law, support from the left is waning, for the same reason.
The Assange statement that Craig posts here was apparently made during the middle of last month (November).
We’re still waiting for proof of life, and so far we haven’t had any.
Clark December 8, 2016 at 00:37
Very powerful statement from Julian Assange. It is good to read it, at long last.
What’s going on – I heartily agree with you! I must have forgot my medication!
giyane December 8, 2016 at 01:05
Nothing in Assange’s words addresses the real charge against him of exposing Western hypocrisy in flouting the Geneva and other conventions and pursuing every form of illegal activity including rendition against international Human Rights law.
Why does he suppose that the US will be impressed with a logical, frank, full explanation set out in legal terms when they have trashed every truth and legal word in their fight against Islam?
One upon a time the French monarchy seemed absolute. Once upon a time the Soviet system seemed impregnable. But every writing of the philosophes, every piece of Samizdat chipped away at the legitimacy of those systems. Until eventually they were faced with a crisis, and collapsed.
The missing link here?
The Russian Revolutions of 1917- the Revolution of which men dare not speak, a century later.
Resident Dissident December 9, 2016 at 07:05
Tosh!
Brian Clifford-Smith December 8, 2016 at 01:48
Other than a few confused typing arrangements, JA has produced a simple history of what happens when an individual takes on the “establishment’. His financial resources were restricted, his liberty was threatened and his right to fair legal treatment severely eroded. But what did he expect? To be allowed to roam freely across the globe, waving his publishers credentials as some sort of trump card. History clearly shows that although he may have the high moral ground, the patch he resides upon is but a dot when compared to the entire landscape. Far better that a global movement be stimulated that can counter the power of national governments, whose vested interests are huge.
I feel for JA, he is in a fight for his life. He may not ever be able to leave his bolt-hole, but from that balcony upon which he talks he will always be known as a fighter for openness in national governance.
But would I give up my freedoms to join him? No, because I am, like most of us, comfortable and not willing to sacrifice my life to such a cause. And that’s why nationalism invariably crushes individualism.
Hang in there JA; you are an inspiration to us mere mortals.
Here’s an example of why the Guardian is so ghastly. This stuff by Orr is truly awful. She finds Assange guilty of lacking empathy, which she admits isn’t a crime in law, on the most flimsy evidence imaginable, and then concludes, like so many men, that he’s an abject human being. How does she get away with writing this bullshit? It’s like a parody of feminism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/07/julian-assange-empathy-women-wikileaks
Sharp Ears December 8, 2016 at 09:50
Did you ever see this callous gesture?
Our mercy mission for Julian Assange
The Wikileaks boss’s mum is worried about how he’s getting on holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy. We decided to drop round with a few goodies for him
‘And so we decided to assemble a collection of items that Assange might be missing, and deliver them. There is surprisingly little in the public domain that illustrates Assange’s private tastes and passions – beyond, of course, that famous OKCupid profile, in which he spoke of his desire to find a “spirited, erotic, non-conformist” woman with “innate perceptiveness and spunk” – and really there are limits to my dedication to investigative journalism.
So instead we packed our hamper with a selection of edible items not native to Ecuador – Kellogg’s cornflakes fortified with vitamin D to compensate for the lack of sunlight in Assange’s life, a jar of Vegemite (as an antipodean, Julian was likely to spurn Marmite), a packet of chocolate-chip cookies, and a punnet of clementines.’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2012/jul/31/our-mercy-mission-for-julian-assange
She goes in for gestures. Being a Guardianista remoaner, she fly posted a UKIP office. How very daring.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/22/eu-direct-action-ukip-offices-referendum
I hope she manages to achieve some maturity.
@ writerman December 8, 2016 at 09:28
Notice none of these Guardian articles on Assange allow for comments!
Redmanwanted96 December 8, 2016 at 12:01
The complicity of these government “officials” to deny J.A. his freedom is sickening, however, given the treatment meted out to Chelsea Manning it is, perhaps, not surprising.
What I do find surprising though is how far the authorities in Sweden have removed themselves from what we think of being a liberal and even-handed society.
It would appear that the pervasive evil that is Washington, is just that: pervasive. It literally infiltrates everywhere.
Consider this: at the behest of the U.S. authorities j.A. has for 6+ years been held a prisoner within the jurisdiction of the U.K. authorities, whilst the McCanns have been allowed their freedom after the unlawful disappearance of their daughter under some pretext of abduction.
DG December 8, 2016 at 12:56
“His defence will not be given in the same detail in the media.” No prizes for guessing why.
I suspect there is a good reason why he has not been smuggled out of the embassy as “diplomatic baggage” but I do not know what it is.
PS I think the Swedish & British Governments’ bevahiour stinks, and support you Mr Assange. Mr Murray may call me a racist but I think of myself as liberal. Good luck and thank you for the brave work you have done.
fwl December 8, 2016 at 20:58
US liberal press still has a certain objectivity sadly lacking here. See for example the NY Times on this story, which has a link through to the statement and (in my humble opinion) is expressed with a certain detachment lacking in the Guardian piece on this story today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/world/europe/assange-gives-detailed-account-of-rape-accusation.html?ref=world&_r=0
John Goss December 8, 2016 at 21:20
I am sorry I missed this post yesterday since I have had a close interest in the case. Having inspected prosecutor Marianne Ny’s legal web-site I can verify that articles have appeared there that were both false and derogatory towards Julian Assange. Together with two colleagues (one since deceased) we wrote to her questioning the validity of a certain article together with other questions but did not illicit a response form her or her office. The close connections between Ny and high-ranking government people, including the then prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt. The political nature of this prosecution of a case that has already been closed shows exactly what the true purpose has been from the start.
It is criminal of Sweden to continue persecuting Julian Assange over a clearly fabricated case, especially since the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found clearly in his favour. He has no case to answer. As the editor and co-founder of Wikileaks everybody in this country and in nearly every country in the world are indebted to a journalist of integrity, such a rare commodity.
Thanks Craig for posting his statement in full.
“The close connections between Ny and high-ranking government people, including the then prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt. The political nature of this prosecution of a case that has already been closed shows exactly what the true purpose has been from the start.”
“The close connections between Ny and high-ranking government people, including the then prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt demonstrate the political nature of this prosecution of a case that has already been closed which shows exactly what the true purpose has been from the start.”
SV December 8, 2016 at 21:59
As a Swede who have lived in the UK and Australia for many years I have followed this case in different news outlets. I am so disappointed that neither one of these supposedly free countries are willing to stand up for our freedom fighters. I’m especially ashamed over my own country Sweden, who generally pat themselves on the back for being soooo good, and supposedly we are for a free press and against the death penalty and torture. But when the US says so the government just lays down flat and is prepared to send a man to possibly be electrocuted for publishing the truth. Their cowardice is revolting! Sweden has changed a lot in recent decades, many people here are becoming brainwashed by and increasingly biased press. Wikileaks are completely blacked out of the media, except for reports on the fabricated rape-case! Many people here still think that Hillary is a saint, because none of the big leaks, like weapons for ISIS and election-rigging, have made any headlines, or even been published. The situation is made worse by the fanatical feminist ideology sweeping the country, also helped along by the media, resulting in political correctness gone mad and anyone saying anything bad about Hillary being called a bigot, not to mention all things soft, funny and humane being sucked out of the society. If his case was dropped, the feminists would be up in arms. But we are not all bad, there are still quite a few who think freely and source their information from alternative sources, so on behalf of those, I would like to sincerely apologise to Mr Assange for the degrading situation that my country has put him in, we head our heads in shame!
Alcyone December 9, 2016 at 20:24
Good heartfelt note.
SV December 12, 2016 at 22:19
Just to clarify based on the post below, that I am a woman and I’m obviously FOR the type of feminism that is about equality for women I just have a problem with the ideology in Sweden that blindly picks apart and makes literally anything about sexism. This is what complicates the matter in the Assange case, because the media gets away with their one-sided reporting (and indeed would probably be critiqued for printing anything else) and hence the government gets away with interfering with the justice system on behalf the US without any public scrutiny. Basically a “sex-case” is the perfect method for framing someone – especially in Sweden!
Julian, this indisputably proves you gave SW a damned good fuck, something she was obviously just dying and hankering for. Given the “fanatical feminist ideology” rampant in Sweden that SV refers to, I imagine that a good proportion of Swedish men have become wimps. And their women starved, vindictive bitches like the ageing-shrivelling Ny. I would be very interested in any studies on sex in the bedroom in Sweden post the Great Swedish Feminist Revolution. Cunts!
What SV outlines above is a very sorry situation. The cuntry’s (deliberate Maryesque jibe) reputation deserves to be tarnished.
Jane Carnall December 10, 2016 at 00:51
Julian Assange is not in “arbitrary detention”. He’s voluntarily sitting in the Ecuadorean embassy: he can walk out any time, though if he does so before 2020, he’ll be extradited to Sweden to face the rape charge (he’s outwaited the statute of limitations on the sexual assault charges), and if after 2020, when the Swedish statute of limitations on the rape charge expires, the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether to prosecute on bail avoidance, which has no statute of limitations in the UK.
Far from “making himself available to the Swedish authorities”, Assange left Sweden shortly after the two incidents and went to the UK, where he refused to leave, using every legal method of resisting until he finally dodged bail – costing his supporters a fair amount of money – into the Ecuadorean embassy.
Far from wanting to leave Sweden, in August 2010, until Assange discovered there were questions being asked about sexual assault and rape, Assange was trying to obtain a legal residence permit. Understandably, since Sweden has an extremely strong track record of resisting US attempts to extradite people – even US citizens – for purely political reasons.
Alcyone December 10, 2016 at 10:23
Far from knowing the truth, you don’t even know how to tell a lie.
Have a fun weekend with your ‘gamer girlfriend’, shallow twit.
Sharp Ears December 10, 2016 at 13:50
I read some of your blog posts Jane. Very interesting including the one about Tuam.
Take no notice of your ‘follower’ here btw. A misogyny problem exists.
Thanks, Sharp Ears. Unimpressed in all sorts of ways byAlcyone…
Trolls of a feather stick together!
Mods you deleted my comment earlier. I put these trolls on the spot for asserting that ‘charges’ have been brought against Assange. What is your problem with that? Please read before you apply your nervous finger. Thank you!
John Spencer-Davis December 14, 2016 at 20:13
Julian Assange has not been charged with rape, so we do not know if he would “face the rape charge” or not, if he were extradited to Sweden.
My guess is that the case will shortly be abandoned.
Robert Campbell December 14, 2016 at 19:54
But we are told we live in a democracy SH!T
← Back Up and Running
Ken Clarke →
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What are the mobile phones that will be listed in 2019 - when will it be listed
In 2019, many Chinese manufacturers will launch 5G mobile phones, so which mobile phones will be listed in 2019? What new mobile phone is worth buying in 2019? Take a look.
In the 5G report of the Samsung Galaxy S10, it explains in detail how Qualcomm and Korean manufacturers have cooperated and announced a “strategic partnership” agreement, which specifically mentions “transition to 5G”. The transition to 5G S10 is very meaningful for the flagship product and will add a list of features that are worrying Apple.
The 5G connection on the S10 will allow users to easily download and upload speeds, while also opening the gateway to play AAA games via streaming services such as PS Now, as well as streaming high-fidelity 4K movies. With the launch of the S10 at the Mobile World Congress in 2019, which will be held at the end of February, it will also consolidate Samsung's position before the 5G fee, allowing its many competitors to catch up.
However, if we call, we can only expect the "Beyond 1" and "Beyond 2" models to have a 5G connection instead of the entry-level "Beyond 0" model.
We know that Huawei is developing a 5G smartphone because Waltji, president of Huawei's Western European Consumer Business Group, spoke to T3 during an exclusive interview. Huawei's senior management confirmed that the 5G feature is "if it is not P30, then it will definitely appear in the Mate series in September next year. " As for why it can reach any kind of equipment, the person in charge said: "We have two flagships. Products. In March, we have the P series, in October, we have the Mate series . Therefore, it will depend on the way the chipset is developed, because 5G requires high power consumption."
Moreover, for 5G, this is an interesting consideration, and the technology requires more physical space because the antenna needs to be larger and power . Considering that battery life is one of the biggest problems in the smartphone industry today, most flagship phones can only provide one and a half days of battery life between charging. Obviously manufacturers will have to find ways to increase the internal power supply of the phone, or simplify and Optimize how energy is used.
Either way, if Huawei's comments are true, then P30, P30 Pro or the next Mate device will enable 5G.3. ONEPLUS 7
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau recently confirmed at the World Mobile Communications Conference in Shanghai that the company is "cooperating with US carriers" to bring 5G smartphones to market next year.
Since OnePlus only launches one major flagship refresh per year, this means that OnePlus 7 will be a 5G phone. This makes sense, because 5G will be a great fit for this avid Chinese manufacturer, and it likes crazy speed and performance in sync with 5G's fast data transfer speed . Considering that OnePlus also knows what it does on the hardware side, this year's OnePlus 6 flagship product definitely attracts competitors in benchmarking, and next year will launch a 5G-enabled device, which will make it a simple way to buy. .
OnePlus usually releases mobile phones in May/July, so OnePlus 7 may become one of the second wave of 5G devices, possibly following Samsung, Sony and Huawei.
4.Sony XPERIA XZ3
"Smartphone innovation has always been at the heart of Sony's mobile engineer design philosophy," Sony recently talked about in the world of smartphone technology. These comments were made a few days after competitors OnePlus and Huawei confirmed that they were developing 5G phones.
In fact, we already know Sony's commitment to 5G, and Sony's track record, it seems that the new Sony Xperia looks really the world's first 5G smartphone . If it is the first 5G phone, and there may be a battery that lasts for a whole week, it seems that Sony will launch it before the end of February 2019, which is the time scheduled for the Samsung Galaxy S10.
5. IPHONE X (2019)
Finally, a report released only this week indicates that Apple is currently negotiating with MediaTek to provide a 5G modem.
Now, it must be said that Apple is usually not the first to adopt new technology manufacturers (for example, even if iPhone X does not launch LTE-Advanced), but considering its flagship new phone will often postpone the sale in this year, in theory this will make the company Most time to deliver 5G phones.
This will also give Apple time to really assess the possibilities of 5G technology and provide Apple's magical power, and perhaps a truly shocking "another thing...".
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Washington Twp. committeeman facing DWI charge after crash
Mayor: "He apologized for the indiscretion"
Washington Committeeman James C. Liabraaten was charged with driving while intoxicated after striking a utility pole in a single-car crash on Friday, according to a township police report.
"Jim did call to apologize for the indiscretion," said Mayor William Roehrich. "He will go through the system like anyone else and due process will take its course."
According to the report, released by police on Wednesday, Patrol Officer John Lee responded to a motor-vehicle crash at 198 West Mill Road and found a 2013 Audi had struck a utility pole. He identified Liabraaten as the driver.
Liabraaten, 71, was treated at the scene by the Long Valley First Aid Squad and later transported to Hackettstown Medical Center for observation.
He was later issued motor-vehicle complaints for DWI, reckless driving and failure to keep right.
Liabraaten was appointed by township committee members in 2010 to finish the term of Kevin Walsh, who resigned on Jan. 5 of that year, then died at home on Jan. 16. He was elected to a full term in the 2010 general election. He previously served for a term from 2004 to 2007 on the township board of education.
He is running unopposed for re-election in November.
A call to Liabraaten's home number was not immediately returned.
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HubSpot and Ten Years of the Inbound Marketing Movement
Written by David Meerman Scott on June 9th, 2016
New Rules of Marketing and PR | Case Studies | Marketing
Ten years ago today, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah co-founded HubSpot with a SaaS-based marketing platform as the initial offering the company was working on. Happy birthday HubSpot(!)
Brian and Dharmesh recognized that the way people buy products and services had changed. People were doing independent research on the Web, and companies needed to adapt in order to reach them.
Ten years ago I also recognized how the world was changing. At the same time as HubSpot was founded, I was writing the first edition of my book The New Rules of Marketing and PR, which was published in its first edition June 2007. I saw that the traditional ways of marketing and reaching the media were increasingly less effective and I offered a roadmap for reaching people in more effective ways through online content.
Radical Marketers
You have to realize that ten years ago, we were complete radicals. There were only a handful of people talking about what marketers needed to do in order to reach buyers in the new world. The entire planet was still marketing in the traditional ways (spending huge budgets on advertising) and there were very few companies focused on reaching buyers directly by publishing content for free.
It's odd to think that a decade ago we lived in a world where Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone weren't household names. Twitter had been founded just 3 months before and the first generation iPhone was yet to be released. Facebook was only in dorm rooms at the time – it was still months away from being available to those without an .edu email address. At the time, it wasn’t so obvious that marketing success would come from a new approach.
At the time, people would actively fight our thesis that marketing needed to fundamentally change because buyers were making independent decisions based on Web content. We were met with skepticism and sometimes outright verbal hostility, frequently from vested interests in traditional advertising agencies.
Fortunately, fate brought us together.
Brian and Dharmesh read The New Rules of Marketing and PR soon after it was published and invited me into their Cambridge, MA offices in August of 2007. They told me that five copies of my book were being shared around the office (the Kindle had not been released yet) and they said “Your book is almost a sales pitch for our product.”
As we talked, it became clear quite quickly that we were in complete alignment. This was remarkable at the time since almost every other marketer on the planet hadn’t seen the new world coming. In that first meeting we decided to collaborate and I joined the company’s advisory board where I have served for nine years (so far).
Inbound Marketing: the Category
I distinctly remember one of the early discussions around how to position the company. Was HubSpot a new company in an established marketplace? Or was the company doing something completely new?
From my point of view, the most important early decision HubSpot made was to pour time and effort into defining a new category called “Inbound Marketing”. It was a brilliant move in hindsight, but not so obvious at the time.
Brian and Dharmesh argued that cold calling, e-mail blasts, and direct mail were turning consumers off to an ever-greater extent, so consumers were increasingly doing research online to choose companies and products that meet their needs. Inbound Marketing recognizes these behavioral changes as opportunities, and explains how marketers can make the most of this shift online. This not only addresses turning strangers into website visitors, but explains how best to convert those visitors to leads, and to nurture those leads to the point of becoming delighted customers. This was very different than the marketing approach widely used at the time.
Back then, the small HubSpot team correctly surmised that if they focused their fledgling promotional efforts on the idea of Inbound Marketing - rather than just talking about the HubSpot marketing platform - they could educate potential customers about how marketing has changed. That effort would take longer and perhaps be more risky than a product pitch, but would yield a bigger payoff if it worked.
In 2007, nobody had heard of “Inbound Marketing” so I convinced Brian and Dharmesh to write a book on the subject. As busy entrepreneurs without many employees at the time, the task of writing a book was nontrivial. But they accepted the challenge and in 2009 Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs was published and I was thrilled to write the forward to the book. (The book has since been revised and updated in a new paperback edition titled Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online.)
Soon after, the INBOUND conference was established. Rather than make the event exclusively for HubSpot customers and partners, which is the norm for many companies, the team decided to make the annual gathering inclusive of everyone who wanted to learn about modern marketing. This clever move further solidified the idea that Inbound Marketing was a movement and HubSpot was leading the charge. INBOUND has been held every year since and INBOUND 2015 attracted more than 14,000 attendees. While I’ve spoken at INBOUND every year, I particularly look forward to meeting people and attending the sessions.
There’s no doubt that Inbound has become a movement.
Sales and marketing are converging
In 2014, HubSpot (the company) moved into the sales marketplace as well, creating products and services that help people sell. Now, HubSpot (the product) is an inbound marketing and sales platform that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers. The Inbound movement now includes both marketing and sales.
Today, more than 19,000 customers in more than 90 countries use HubSpot’s software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. I’m one of those happy customers, with this blog as well as my primary website and my Newsjacking website all on the HubSpot platform. Since going onto HubSpot several years ago, I have seen the number of visitors to this blog and my sites grow quickly and the leads I generate from my online content double.
HubSpot now employs more than 1,300 people and besides its Cambridge, MA headquarters, it has offices in Dublin, Ireland; Singapore, Sydney, Australia; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Happy 10th birthday, HubSpot!
I'd like to offer personal congratulations to Brian and Dharmesh for founding such an awesome company. I am honored to be a part of the continuing journey and am eager to see what the next decade will bring.
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Midmark to expand Darke County location, add 99 jobs
The Midmark Corporation manufacturing campus in Versailles. Midmark designs and manufactures medical equipment for doctors, dentists and veterinarians including powered exam chairs, furniture and workflow for exam and minor surgical procedure rooms. TY GREENLEES / STAFF
Business | Jan 27, 2020
By Business Staff
Midmark Corp., a manufacturer of medical, dental and veterinary equipment, today announced plans to expand its manufacturing footprint in Versailles and to add 99 new jobs at its plant.
Construction on the 73,000-square-foot expansion is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.
This expansion is just the latest sign of the growth Midmark is experiencing. In 2017, Midmark announced construction of a new technology center and a customer experience center in Versailles.
Once completed, the centers will bring together Midmark engineers, designers and experts from across the company to develop new approaches, the company said.
“Midmark is grateful for the continued support from the State of Ohio and the Village of Versailles and its residents,” said John Baumann, president and CEO of Midmark. “That support, combined with the commitment of our teammates, is one of the reasons Midmark is at the forefront of healthcare. We are creating the facilities and resources we need to carry us into the future and bring innovation and new ideas to Ohio.”
The project will allow for the expansion of the company’s manufacturing footprint in specific areas as well as shipping and receiving. It will also connect the plant to a second existing facility, supporting a safer environment by allowing teammates to remain indoors as they move between the plants, the company said in a release.
In support of the project, the Ohio Development Services Agency has approved a $785,000 job creation tax credit, which will be distributed annually for eight years at $98,125 per year. The tax credit is based on Midmark’s commitment to invest $4.5 million in a 73,000-square-foot expansion and the creation of 99 jobs over three years.
Midmark will also invest nearly $500,000 in additional start-up costs.
Karl Weidner, vice president, global supply chain for Midmark stated, “Midmark is grateful for the tremendous support from the Dayton Development Coalition and JobsOhio. This assistance supports our growth plan strategy and strengthens product development, business quality and compliance activities, as well as safety improvement efforts.”
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By Alasdair Fotheringham 10 September 2015
Movistar duo move up after Burgos time trial
Alejando Valverde (Movistar) before the stage 14 start.
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) (Image credit: Bettini)
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) after the stage (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
After his excellent third place in the time trial at Burgos, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) remains adamant that the fight for the Vuelta a España podium “is not yet over,” even if the overall lead is out of reach.
Crash injuries slow Valverde on Vuelta a Espana summit finish
Movistar boss sees 'certain similarities' between Tom Dumoulin and Miguel Indurain
News shorts: Valverde eschews Vuelta helicopter transfer
“My feelings were very good,” Valverde said afterwards. “I went all out and I’m always a fighter, right the way to the end.”
Valverde has moved up from ninth to sixth overall, 3:15 behind overall leader Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin). Asked if the podium was still a possibility, Valverde insisted: “It’s not decided yet.” His team-mate Nairo Quintana, who has jumped from eighth to fifth, at 2:53, is also far better positioned than he was 48 hours before.
Valverde said he was “not surprised” that Dumoulin had raced so strongly. “He was always going to do that,” he said. “But it is not decided yet. And I’m not doing so badly.”
The Spaniard’s upbeat tone contrasted strongly with his more pessimistic outlook during the second rest day, when he was even asked if he had considered abandoning in order to conserve his strength for the World Championships road race in Richmond. In what is proving to be a rollercoaster Vuelta for Valverde, however, it would appear that he has yet more cards left to play.
Quintana was equally belligerent. “I don’t know if I’m at 100 percent, but I feel like I’ve recovered well and my morale is very high after this time trial performance. I rode the first part very well and in the second I improved even more. Am I fighting for the podium? Of course. There’s nothing to lose if we try for it, and I will have to go on pushing for a good result in the race.”
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Audio captures kids screaming for their parents after being separated at the border
A White House official said she hadn't heard the audio—so reporters played it.
Kris Seavers
David Covucci
Audio obtained by ProPublica captures the noises of children inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility screaming and crying because they’ve just been separated from their parents.
The harrowing clip released Monday includes the voices of 10 kids from Central America who were separated from their parents at the U.S. border by immigration authorities last week, ProPublica reported. The children scream for their parents; one 6-year-old girl begs to be allowed to phone her aunt.
Over their screams, a Border Patrol agent jokes about the noise.
“Well, we have an orchestra here,” he can be heard saying in Spanish. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
The release of the audio comes amid public outcry over the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policies, fueling outrage over what many people see as inhumane treatment of immigrant children.
This isn't hypothetical.
This isn't political.
This is frightened children crying out for their moms and dads.@realDonaldTrump, this is because of you.
End this #FamilySeparation policy before one more child is permanently damaged by you.#FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/OGx2KE4hXh
— Rep. Cheri Bustos (@RepCheri) June 18, 2018
Since the policy was announced in April, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border, according to reports. Photos and videos released over the weekend showed children being held in metal cages in processing facilities.
As the outrage over the audio boiled over online, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at the White House to address the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children and parents.
Nielsen admitted that the administration was separating families at a higher rate than previous administrations but that the DHS was fairly and appropriately enforcing the law.
She repeatedly called on Congress to fix the loopholes that allowed family separations at the border but adamantly said that the administration was not using children as “pawns” to get Congress to act. She denied seeing pictures of children in detention centers and did not know of the audio from the ProPublica story.
However, during her briefing, a reporter played it.
.@Olivianuzzi is playing it right next to me in the briefing room right now. https://t.co/1RiATBWYaP
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 18, 2018
*First Published: Jun 18, 2018, 5:16 pm
Kris Seavers is the IRL editor for the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in Central Texas publications, including Austin Monthly and San Antonio Magazine, and on NPR.
David Covucci is the Layer 8 editor at the Daily Dot, covering the intersection of politics and the web. His work has appeared in Vice, the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gothamist, and other publications. He is particularly interested in hearing any tips you have. Reach out at [email protected]
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The Southampton bakers making free birthday cakes for families who would otherwise go without
A TEAM of volunteer bakers are busy creating cakes for struggling Southampton families.
The city branch of Free Cakes For Kids, which now has 60 groups across the UK, has produced 218 colourful creations for youngsters since its inception in May 2019.
And they're busier than ever with families feeling the financial impact of Covid.
All the birthday cakes are lovingly prepared in volunteers’ own homes, and decorated specially with each child’s favourite theme – free of charge.
Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol are the most commonly requested themes, but youngsters have also been treated to Wallace and Gromit, Minions, sports and chocolate cakes.
Bakers have been set some interesting challenges including producing a go-karting rat cake for twins, one of whom was an animal lover and the other an adrenaline junkie.
Co-ordinator Milly Thomas told the Daily Echo: "We all love baking. If we can make a child happy with something we've made for them, it's definitely worth it.
"Many of the children will have never had a birthday cake before, let alone one personally baked for them. One of the first cakes was for a 16-year-old who had never had a party or a cake or even a present that somebody had bought specifically for her because she had been in foster care all her life.
"Some people think it's just a birthday cake but, if you've never had one, it's a huge deal. It's a little bit of normality for these children. It's nice for them to know that they're being thought of."
A team of around 15 bakers, some with their own professional baking businesses and others enthusiastic amateur bakers, are assisted by three volunteer drivers and they continue to offer their services through the latest lockdown.
Milly added: "When we first locked down, we stopped baking. But so many kids have missed out on so much. You're allowed to go out for food deliveries and volunteering so we polled our bakers and decided to keep going. It's important to keep going for the kids. Everyone deserves a bit of luxury, particularly at times like this."
Milly first decided to set up the group nearly two years ago with the help of Swaythling ward councillor Lorna Fielker.
She now has regular referrals from social services in Southampton as well as Southampton Voluntary Services, Mencap, Solent Mind and the Rose Road Association and is helping set up groups in Winchester, Fareham and Gosport, Bournemouth and Poole and on the Isle of Wight.
To get involved, email freecakesforkidssouthampton@gmail.com
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Extending human and civic rights
Nicole Bolleyer examines the extent and form of legal changes across five western countries in the decades that span 9/11 and finds that in general the level of legal constraints on civil liberties has grown, though with considerable variation between countries and in types of restrictions.
On Thursday 23 May, the UK participated in European Parliament elections. Citizens of all EU countries should be able to vote in these elections in the country they live, but many non-UK EU citizens found they had been excluded from the electoral register and were unable to vote. Toby James explains how the government’s long-term failure to improve our electoral laws and short-term pressures led to many people being denied their right to vote.
The underrepresentation of women in politics is often portrayed as a pyramid, with the main problem identified as too few at the top. However, research by Ulrik Kjær and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, shows that, in the case of Denmark, it follows an hourglass pattern, with underrepresentation worst at the intermediary stages of party membership and candidate identification. This suggests that party strategies for encouraging women to stand are important for improving representation.
A strange irony: How the EU withdrawal process ended up saving the Human Rights Act
Even though it looks increasingly likely the Brexit deal will not survive its first hurdle in parliament, there is yet more evidence in its pages that Brexit has saved the Human Rights Act and secured Britain’s long term future as party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), writes Frederick Cowell. In the Political Declaration on the Framework of Future relations with the EU, the document accompanying the withdrawal agreement, under the heading ‘core values and rights there is a commitment to ‘respect the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights’. In the text of the withdrawal agreement itself – which would be a legally binding on the government – there are provisions in the Protocols on Northern Ireland, which seem to assume the UK remains a party to the ECHR.
Book Review | Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson
In Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet, Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson offer an in-depth examination of two strikes – the Grunwick strike of 1976–78 and the strike at Gate Gourmet in 2005 – to highlight how South Asian migrant women have contributed to the struggle for workers rights in the UK. Praising the book’s incorporation of the wider social and historical context, Amal Shahid finds this an informative and accessible read for those passionate about the history and sociology of labour, gender and migration studies.
The Supreme Court’s decision on Northern Ireland’s abortion law – what now?
Kathryn McNeilly, Fiona Bloomer and Claire Pierson explain the background and implications of the recent ruling which, although found Northern Ireland’s abortion law to be incompatible with human rights law, dismissed the case on technical grounds.
The Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the 8th Amendment is a model for participatory democracy, which other democratic countries should follow
Ireland’s referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment of its constitution, and so liberalise the country’s abortion laws, was preceded by a Citizens’ Assembly which recommended these reforms. This form of democratic participation, which crucially was state funded and informed the Irish government’s approach, is a model for producing better democratic decision making, argues Jack Bridgewater.
Ireland votes to repeal the 8th: will Northern Ireland be next to liberalise its abortion laws?
Ireland’s abortion referendum on 25 May resulted in a victory for the ‘Yes’ side campaigning to reform the country’s strict abortion laws by repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution. For Jennifer Thomson, the result underlines a dramatic transformation that has taken place in Irish society over recent decades, however it also shines a light on Northern Ireland, which now looks increasingly isolated in its lack of liberalisation around abortion and LGBT rights.
Repeal the 8th amendment to allow abortion in Ireland – this constitutional experiment has failed
On 25 May, the Republic of Ireland votes in a referendum to decide whether to repeal the 8th amendment of its constitution, which effectively outlaws abortion. Fiona de Londras explains how the 8th amendment works, and what the proposed legal changes are.
Collateral damage or a direct hit? Democratic ideals in the age of Trump
How robust are American democratic institutions under Trump’s presidency? Jennifer Earl argues that, even if his actions and lies do not amount to a coordinated effort to undermine democracy, the effect will be to systematically weaken the institutions of US democracy in the long term.
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The role of scientific advice in modern society
Last 9-14 of July, took place in Toulouse (France) the 8th edition of ESOF(EuroScience Open Forum), the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. The initiative was dedicated to scientific research and innovation: hundreds of conferences, workshops and debates were joined by scientists, innovators, policy makers, business people, offering a unique framework for interaction and debate.
Particularly aligned with REACH project principle of participatory approaches was the scientific programme, which highlighted and questioned the interplay between science and society: in this context specific attention was dedicated to discuss the role of scientific advice in modern society.
The session, titled "Citizens and science advice - challenges and opportunities of participatory science advice" explored ways of engaging citizens at different stages during the development of science advice, in particular on questions which are of direct concern to civil society (such as climate change, health and environment-related issues, digital rights and cyber security).
The session was presented by different structures delivering science advice to governments, including the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (SAM), science advice bodies from European Member States, the European Academy Networks and national Academies.
Attendants debated and shared experiences and lessons aiming to identify best practice which includes an interactive discussion with the audience on new ways of bringing science advice and citizens closer together.
Horizon, the EU research & innovation magazine detailed the opinions expressed by the speakers, all remarking the importance to involve civic society into science advice mechanisms and all acribable to this statement: "The scientific community needs to listen more to people outside academia if it wants to continue to help politicians create good evidence-based policies that will benefit the public".
Read more about ESOF 2018
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Tag: Td Bank
20 U.S. and Canadian Cities Receive 2019 TD Green Space Grants
Featured Partners April 23, 2019 by DiversityInc Staff
TD Bank is funding the grants and the Arbor Day Foundation will administer the program. Originally Published by TD Bank. Twenty cities in the U.S. and Canada are getting a $20,000 boost to be greener as TD Bank Group and the Arbor Day Foundation announced the recipients of the inaugural…
TD Bank: How Workplaces Can Help Remove Barriers to Benefit Employees with Autism
While it’s clear that workplaces of the future need to access more diverse pools of talent to thrive, the question is how can they become more accommodating and inclusive? Originally Published by TD Bank. Anthony Spezzano joined the Capital Markets Risk Management group at TD in 2017 at the age…
TD Bank: World Autism Awareness Day: “I Am Proud”
Featured Partners April 2, 2019 by DiversityInc Staff
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TD Bank: Girish Ganesan’s Favorite Things Include Helping Colleagues Grow…and Elephants
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TD Bank: Women’s History Month: Shelley Sylva Followed Her Passions and Talents
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TD Bank: Nora Hamza Celebrates Excellence
Originally Published by TD Bank. When TD Bank’s Nora Hamza first heard about the hashtag #blackexcellence last year, it gave her pause. “A lot of time is spent during Black History Month talking about the challenges and appreciation of ancestors who shaped history, which is extremely important, said Nora, a…
TD Bank: Black History Month Series: Black Excellence and Legacies
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Cub Cadet Renews Partnership with TD Bank
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TD Bank Survey: Medical Professionals Anticipate Revenue Growth; Concerned About Politics
Originally Published by TD Bank. Medical practitioners are optimistic about their practices’ finances but remain concerned about the impact of politics on the American healthcare industry, finds a survey released today by TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank. According to TD Bank’s Healthcare Survey of U.S. doctors in the medical,…
TD Banks Unexpectedly Human Brand Campaign Aims to Redefine Banking
Originally Published by TD Bank. TD launched its Unexpectedly Human brand campaign, which shows how the bank prioritizes modern convenience and customer centricity, while elevating its focus on local communities and small businesses. Developed with a sense of humor and healthy dose of humanity, the campaign celebrates the bank’s reputation…
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Michael Johnston is the co-founder of ETFdb. Michael is one of the most widely-followed authors in the ETF world, and he is regularly quoted in publications such as Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal. His articles are syndicated in a number of online publications, including Fidelity.com, Yahoo! Finance, and Business Insider. Michael is also a contributor to TheStreet's Real Money product. Michael is a regular on the ETF conference circuit, having hosted panels at events such as Inside ETFs, Super Bowl of Indexing, and Global Indexing and ETFs. Michael also participated in the Barron's Alternative ETF Roundtable. Michael graduated with a degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame, and has completed the exam portion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. Michael lives in Chicago where he's an avid Cubs and Blackhawks fan.
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Looking at Trends in the Video Game Industry
April 9, 2019 by outside contributor
Fashion and video games have something in common – new trends that come and have the upper hand in the entire industry. Every year there are new game trends that publishers are chasing to get the maximum profit and make profits out of popular. Today we will touch upon new trends in games.
To Be Continued – Episodic Games
Who knew that someday the phrase “To Be Continued” will grow to incredible dimensions and will become the normgames. To give us a full-fledged set, the developers divide it into episodes and feed piece by piece. The game itself is not cut, because there is nothing to cut. The creation of such a game takes place in real time, and the first series can be released long before the project comes to an end.
On the one hand, we get a lively story with gameplay for two hours, on the other – too long to wait for the continuation. However, this gaming trend is about to end due to the death of Telltale, which has parasitized on it.
Improvements Everywhere – Reprints of Games
It was largely due to the release of the current generation of consoles. It is difficult and time-consuming to make new games, and why do not we then reprint the old game on new platforms? And this does not work out only but also generated money, so now remaster everything, enveloping the old HD games with a wrapper. Although this trend in gaming is positive because many classic projects are not adapted to the same Windows 10 and wide screens. Also, a new generation of gamers can get acquainted with the cult games fear of times without such terrible for the old graphics.
All Against All – The Battle Royale
Today, the battle royale or battle royal has become the latest gaming trend in 2018 and into 2019 with Apex Legends. This style of gaming which appeared very quickly and became the components of any game that wants to excite and take the audience from PUBG or Fortnite. In just this one year, we have released dozens of games with royal battles or with a ruling battle regime. Even more, when mastodons like Dying Light and Call of Duty Black Ops 4 follow this gaming trend, introducing their actions, you realize how great its influence is.
“What are you, this is not a donation, but a fee for customization and all” – microtransactions
Today, microtransactions can surprise only a gamer who has been sitting with a Game Boy in a cave for the past 20 years. Today, microtransactions for character customization have become commonplace. The problem is that if earlier they were only in free to play games, then for some reason someone decided that if the scheme works there, then it should work in games for which we already paid a lot of money.
Even more, some developers are inserting a direct donation into the game, as in the upcoming DMC5 and the new Artifact. In general, they always want to make us pay twice per game.
Flying to the Cloud – Cloud Server Gaming
If three years ago it was only an assumption, today we can confidently say those cloud servers are the future of the industry, and many game makers are already thinking about it. For example, Sony has been developing the PlayStation Now for a long time, and even Google said last month that it was in the process of creating its cloud gaming platform with Stadia.
In its concept, going is just perfect – you can run any game on any device, not having much hardware and saving space on your hard disk, since the game starts on a remote service, and you just broadcast the image. There are two problems – you need a stable and fast Internet connection, as well as the fact that the subscription to such servers is paid. Alas, but the world is cruel.
The Game is Good, and it Remains Only to Attach Another Monitor – Gadgets, as an Auxiliary Device
The developers realized that the gameplay could be significantly improved and made more convenient, giving gamers the opportunity to use smartphones. And the idea is excellgoodent. Remember RDR 2, where you could transfer the entire game interface to your phone to get a clean, unloaded screen for full immersion. Or for example GTA 5, where from the mobile application it was possible to train Franklin, the dog.
Simulate Me Completely – Stupid Simulators
Somewhere in 2015, there was such a foolish gaming trend as silly simulators. Yes, to start playing the surgeon simulator or bread simulator, goat simulator, baking simulator, and many other projects from Bossa Studios and the company are fun, but it becomes boring soon.
It is funny, but it comes to such an absurdity as a simulator of throwing logs into a fireplace or simulating a farting frog (yes, there is one too). On the way, we have a simulator of an exorcist priest from the Poles … The question arises, who really needs them and who plays them? And the answer is, if they are released, then there is demand.
Convenience Comes First – Compact Gaming
In many ways, now this fashion in the game industry began with the release of the Nintendo Switch, and before it, Valve tried to do it with its Steam Machine. It is very convenient when you can play quality games anywhere, wearing not just a small console, but a standard platform, but in small dimensions. Judge for yourself, today, each new version of the new generation of consoles bragging about what has decreased in size and so on.
The Coaxing of Noobs is a Slope in Casual
Today, many big studios, in the hopes of attracting new audiences, decide to launch their well-known series of games in an unexpected direction, so that for Noobs it is simple, understandable, with the network mode and to be ready. Sometimes it is bad for the studio’s reputation. You do not need to go far for an example – Fallout 76 was just for Noobs, and we see what happened.
These were modern gaming industry trends. Some of them are positive, and some are negative. It is up to you, a reader to decide which of them are wrong, and which are good.
Melisa Marzett was born on July 4, 1986, in Kiev, Ukraine. Her family moved to the USA when she was five years old. Since then, she lives in Phoenix, Arizona and works as a freelance writer for resumeperk.com/. She has always wanted to write and travel. She did not forget for one minute where she comes from originally and always appreciates communication with people of other cultures.
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Simple Machines are basic mechanical devices for applying a force and doing work. More complex machines are made up of a bunch of simple machines.
There are 6 basic types of simple machines:
The lever is made up of a straight rigid object like a board or a bar which pivots on a turning point called a fulcrum. Levers make work easier by using leverage which multiplies the force. When you use a lever, you move a smaller force a longer distance in order to lift a load a short distance. Examples of levers include a seesaw, pliers, crowbars, and tweezers.
See the above pictures for examples of how a lever is used in a wheelbarrow and construction equipment.
The wheel and axle is another simple machine. It uses a wheel with a rod attached in the middle as an axle to help it to lift or move loads. In some cases this machine works like a lever to multiply force (like with a doorknob or a fishing reel). In other cases it is used to move objects easier such as with wheels on a bicycle.
A pulley is a type of simple machine that uses a wheel with a groove in it and a rope. The rope fits into the groove and one end of the rope goes around the load. You pull on the other end. The pulley helps you to move the load or change direction of the force.
Some examples of pulleys include cranes, flag poles, and window blinds. When multiple pulleys are used together it's called a block and tackle. Another use of the pulley is with a flat wheel and belts. These kinds of pulleys are often used in cars.
An inclined plane is a flat surface with one end higher than the other. This allows for heavy objects to slide up to a higher point rather than be lifted. It is generally easier to slide something than to lift it.
Examples of inclined planes include slides and ramps.
If you put two inclined planes back to back, you get a wedge. A wedge is a simple machine used to push two objects apart.
Examples of the wedge include knives, chisels, and axes.
A screw is a special kind of inclined plane. It's basically an inclined plane wrapped around a pole. Screws can be used to lift things or to hold them together.
Examples of the screw simple machine include swivel chairs, jar lids, and, of course, screws.
Fun Facts about Simple Machines
Simple machines were first discovered and described by Greek philosopher Archimedes.
The Egyptians likely used the inclined plane to help build the pyramids. Using ramps would have made getting the large stones to the top much easier.
Galileo was the first to work out a working mathematical theory on how simple machines worked.
Your bicycle makes use of nearly every kind of simple machine in order to make a more complex machine.
The wheel and axle was an important invention in the history of mankind. It was first used around 5,000 years ago by the Sumerians.
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Albert Pujols is a Major League baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels. He played much of his career for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is considered one of the best all around baseball players in the game. He can hit for average and power and is a great fielder as well. He currently plays first base.
Since coming up to the majors in 2001, Albert Pujols has become one of the games stars. He was voted the best player of the decade by Sports Illustrated, Sporting News, and ESPN.com. He has won the Golden Glove twice, three National League MVP awards, and is very high on many all-time batting statistics even at a young age.
Where did Albert Pujols grow up?
Albert grew up in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was born there on January 16, 1980. When he was 16 his family moved to New York City in the United States. They then moved to Independence, Missouri where Albert starred at high school baseball. Before going to the minor leagues, he played baseball for 1 year at Maple Woods Community College.
Where did Albert Pujols play in the minor leagues?
He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1999 as the 402nd pick. What a deal the Cardinals got. He played in their farm system during 2000, going from the Peoria Chiefs single-A to the Potomac Cannons to the Memphis Redbirds.
By 2001 Albert Pujols was playing in the majors. He started out at third base and played several positions his rookie year. His meteoric rise didn't stop as he was voted National League Rookie of the Year.
How many Major League teams has Albert played for?
Two. Albert has played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Angels during his career.
Is Pujols right or left handed?
Albert throws and bats right handed.
Fun Facts about Albert Pujols
In his first college game, Albert hit a grand slam and had an unassisted triple play. Wow!
His full name is Jose Alberto Pujols Alcantara.
He has four kids.
He started the Pujols Family Foundation, which focuses on helping kids with Down Syndrome as well as the poor in the Dominican Republic.
Being a Christian is a big part of Albert Pujols life. On his website he says "In the Pujols family, God is first. Everything else is a distant second."
His jersey number is 5.
The Boston Red Sox considered drafting Pujols in the first round, but then changed their mind. Ooops!
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Interview with 1LT Amber English - 2021 Skeet Olympian & U.S. Army Reserve Soldier (Part 2)
FORT BENNING, GA, UNITED STATES
Video by Maj. Michelle Lunato
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1st Lt. Amber English, a Colorado Springs, Colorado native who is an instructor/shooter with the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, was recently selected for a spot on Team USA in the Skeet event for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
English grew up around the shooting sports but wasn’t really competitive in it until she was 17. After progressing up the competitive circuit, she became a full-time athlete at the Olympic Training Center in 2012. In 2016, she came close to her dream of making Team USA when she was selected as an alternate in the Skeet Trials for the Rio Games.
Looking for a change, she joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 2017 with a special assignment to the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program. As an Army athlete, English is attached to the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning, Georgia to train with other elite marksmen in uniform.
Since joining the Army, this Soldier has earned a number of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at international competitions, bringing her closer to that Olympic dream.
In March 2020, English completed the second, and final, part to the Skeet Olympic Trials and earned a spot on Team USA. Not only did she earn her spot, she took it with determination, shooting a perfect score in six of 10 rounds. English’s cumulative score was 532.
English will compete in the Women’s Skeet event at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
This interview is some basic Q & A with her from March 2020.
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An Indigenous immersion: Introducing Arcadia’s new Australian expedition
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Arcadia Expeditions has announced the release of its latest expedition – ‘Indigenous Immersion: The Art of Storytelling’, a 15-day air safari travelling to rarely-visited parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Led by Professor Jo McDonald, one of Australia’s most distinguished rock art experts and a specialist in Indigenous archaeology, this unique expedition explores the painted landscapes of Australia’s remote north. Staying at the region’s most luxurious camps and lodges, throughout this immersive journey guests spend time with Indigenous custodians, meeting Indigenous guides, elders and artists, hearing their stories and looking at the history and culture of Aboriginal Australia through their eyes.
Highlights include exploring some of Australia’s most remote locations by private plane, including Groote Eylandt, Arnhem Land and a flight on the Paspaley Pearling’s meticulously restored Mallard flying boat to the Kimberley Coast. A wealth of activities give clients the chance to immerse themselves in Aboriginal culture including Indigenous-led bush tucker walks and river cruises.
Insider access to the most unforgettable and thought-provoking local experiences have been curated exclusively by Arcadia for their guests. This includes a behind the scenes visit to Darwin’s Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory with the museum’s curator and visiting the remote Aboriginal communities of Maningrida and Elcho Island, where clients meet with local artists to learn more about their craft and how rock art and Dreaming stories inspire their work.
Arcadia Expeditions Co-Founder, David Adams says this expedition is ideal for those wanting to learn more about Australia’s rich indigenous culture and traditions. “Aboriginal Australians remain one of the most misunderstood Indigenous populations in the world. This expedition is aimed at people who are curious to learn about the complexity and spiritual depth of Indigenous Australia and discover more about this remarkable culture.”
Adams adds: “The history of Australia is not written in books, it’s painted and etched on rock shelters and caves. With Jo McDonald, one of Australia’s most accomplished rock art experts acting as our Storyteller, and numerous meetings with Indigenous custodians, the rock art we will see and interpret offers us a window into the past and enrich our understanding of the continent and its ancient peoples.”
This 15-Day expedition travels exclusively by private aircraft and is available for private departures only with a flexible range of dates available in 2021 and 2022. Prices start from AUD$35,000 per person. For more information, visit the Arcadia Expeditions website: www.arcadiaexpeditions.com or call +612 83198762 (International) or 1300 907 819 (Australia).
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Schaeuble: collapse of Greek talks 'predictable,' Athens never wanted reforms
TAGS: Euro, Politics
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, whose popularity in his country has skyrocketed following the hard line he has assumed opposite Greece, said in an interview with Germany's mass-circulation Bild published on Saturday that the collapse of negotiations with the Greek government was "predictable" as Athens "doesn't want any reform program."
Those who were aware of Greece's financial situation and took the claims by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras seriously realized that the Greek government never wanted a program of reforms, Schaeuble told Bild.
"This is why I was always skeptical of the outcome of talks with the government in Athens," he said. "The fact that this skepticism was finally confirmed did not really surprise me."
Asked whether Greece should stay in the eurozone or not, Schaeuble said this was a question that "only Greeks can answer." "One thing is certain: we will not abandon the people of Greece," he said, without elaborating.
The contagion risk for European banks is "relatively small," he said, adding that European banking monitors were "observing the situation."
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Element rises to 39th place on the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250
London, UK – October 07, 2018 - Element Materials Technology (Element) has been ranked number 39 in the Sunday Times’ Top Track 250, climbing an impressive 105 places since the company’s debut listing in 2016.
This top 40 ranking recognizes Element’s seventh successive year of exceptional growth and cements its position as a global leader in materials and product qualification testing, inspection and certification services.
In June 2017, Element completed the acquisition and delisting of Exova Group PLC, becoming the leading testing provider in the global aerospace and oil and gas sectors and the regional market leader in the US transportation and the European and Middle East fire and building safety sectors.
Since then, the Group has made significant progress with the large-scale integration of the two organizations. In parallel, Element has continued to grow organically and through the continued successful delivery of its M&A strategy, including the latest acquisitions of vohtec in Germany and Orbit in the USA.
Charles Noall, President and CEO of Element, says: “We are absolutely delighted to be ranked 39 in this year’s Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 which recognizes the excellent operational and financial performance our teams have delivered during the past year.
We have a clear growth strategy and we continue to invest and expand our geographic reach, capacities, and technical capabilities to best support our customers across the globe. This recognition is further evidence of our progress towards fulfilling our ambition to be the world’s best and most trusted testing partner.’’
Published on the 7th of October in the Sunday Times, the Top Track 250 league table ranks Britain’s leading mid-market private companies based on a combination of their annual sales and operating profits. View the full Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 listing for 2018.
Devan LaBrash, Pagoda Public Relations
“This recognition is further evidence of our progress towards fulfilling our ambition to be the world’s best and most trusted testing partner.”
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HomeNational NewsLatest National NewsSEIU: Working Families Poised to Take Fight-back Against Wealthy Special Interests’ Agenda, Exposed in Friedrichs and SCOTUS Fight, to Polls in November
SEIU: Working Families Poised to Take Fight-back Against Wealthy Special Interests’ Agenda, Exposed in Friedrichs and SCOTUS Fight, to Polls in November
March 29, 2016 Press Latest National News
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2016. In issuing a 4-4 opinion in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by wealthy special interests to restrict opportunities for America’s teachers, firefighters, police officers, nurses and others who provide our vital services for our communities to have a voice at work and join together to build a better future for their families. The result in Friedrichs is meaningful for millions of families across the country, as it is a rebuke against this well-funded attack on workers’ voice and ability to join together.
Corporate special interests have used their dark money to push through the courts their anti-worker political agenda to restrict voting rights, to limit the ability for workers to have a voice and to restrict opportunities for women and immigrants as part of their multi-front attack on working families and their communities. This corporate agenda has polluted America’s electoral system and civil political discourse and has made it increasingly apparent for working families that the stakes of the 2016 election couldn’t be higher.
Today in a news media call at noon EDT, the presidents of the nation’s largest public employee unions will discuss how working families are joining together as never before to fight back against this attack — and what members are doing to take this fight all the way to the polls this November.
“The Supreme Court today rejected a political ploy by the wealthy corporate special interests backing this case to make it harder for working families and the middle class to come together, speak up and get ahead. California’s educators will continue to work together to provide quality, safe and healthy schools as we continue to ensure our students get the quality public education they need and deserve. Now it’s time for senators to do their job and appoint a successor justice to the highest court in our land,” said Eric C. Heins, president of the California Teachers Association (CTA).
“From the beginning, this case was never about what’s good for our students; it was a thinly veiled attempt to weaken the rights of public employees, like teachers and other educators. The corporate interests behind this case know that if our union is weakened, it will be harder for us to stand together to negotiate good wages and benefits and to continue fighting for the things our students need. We must join together against these attacks because this country can’t grow stronger until we defeat those who want to hold down working people,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association (NEA).
“Millions of working people who understand the importance of their unions in bettering their lives and the wellbeing of their communities are breathing a sigh of relief today. Even so, we know this fight is far from over. Just as our opponents won’t stop coming after us, we will continue full speed ahead in our effort to mobilize our members and their neighbors around a shared vision to reclaim the promise of America. While we wait for Senate Republicans to do their job and appoint a new justice to the Court, we’re working hard for the future we want to see—one with vibrant public education from pre-K through college; affordable, accessible healthcare; public services that support strong neighborhoods, and the right to organize and bargain for a fair wage and a voice on the job,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
“AFSCME members are more resolved than ever to band together and stand up to future attempts to silence the voices of working families. As public service workers learn more about the Friedrichs case, they are shocked to hear about such a political attack through the Supreme Court, and more motivated than ever to step up, get involved, and organize. It’s never been clearer that our most basic rights are at stake,” said Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
“Working people are in the fight of their lives to make ends meet and build a better future for their families, and today the Supreme Court rightly protected their ability to join together in the workplace. We know the wealthy extremists who pushed this case want to limit the ability for workers to have a voice, curb voting rights and restrict opportunities for women and immigrants, and we know the way to stop them is by taking our fight to the polls in November,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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Beyonce Writes to Blind Teen
Beyonce may not have the power to heal, but a personal letter from the international superstar might just be the next best thing. The singer has recently penned a correspondence to Timmy Kelly, an 18 year-old who is blind and has cerebral palsy. Having met Timmy when he was only 13, the young man has now graduated high school and been accepted to college. Like a proud friend, Beyonce wrote about Timmy's accomplishments and how he is an inspiration to others, herself included.
Beyonce's letter to Timmy read:
"The first time I met Timmy Kelly was in 2007, backstage at the Grammys. He was only 13 and he touched my heart with his voice and his love of music and life. He’s now 18 and he’s graduated high school — I’m so proud of him! Timmy was born blind, and with cerebral palsy. But this never slowed him down — he has proven to everyone, that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and work hard. In Philadelphia, he’s known as the good luck charm to the Eagles and whenever he sings the national anthem before a game they always win. His strength and determination is an inspiration. Timmy was just accepted to Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. Congratulations Timmy!
Love, B”
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Integrated efforts will work for sustainable consumption in Pakistan
USPCAS-W, MUET Jamshoro
Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed Memon, an expert in United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said that proper planning, implementation, and integrated efforts were required to ensure the sustainable consumption and production in Pakistan.
This he said while conducting a graduate seminar on Sustainable Consumption and Production: Sustainable Development Goal-12, organised by U.S-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water (USPCAS-W) at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) Jamshoro for MS/Ph.D. students of the Center.
Dr. Memon said that due to rapid growth in population particularly in Asia Pacific, consumption of various products had been increased dramatically. He briefed about the importance of SDG -12 which is about Responsible Consumption and Production and said that achieving economic growth and sustainable development requires that to reduce our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and resources.
He further said that Pakistan is basically an agricultural country consequently the agriculture sector is the biggest user of water in the country, in this connection, we must focus on the sustainable crops particularly the sustainable rice production.
Dr. Memon said apart from the ownership and behavioral change, we must have specific regulations and enforcement for sustainable consumptions, agriculture/water waste management, and for keeping the clean environment. He also pointed out the recycling also requires resources, so we also have to find the local solutions to avoid the procedural loop of recycling.
He said that the efficient management of the shared natural resources and the way of the dispose of toxic waste and pollutants are important targets to achieve the SDG-12.
He further said that encouraging industries, businesses, and consumers to recycle and reduce waste is equally important, as is supporting developing countries to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption by 2030.
Dr. Memon divided the participants among three groups to have the discussion and come up with the solutions for their respective domains. The group representatives shared their presentation on sustainable consumption, agricultural waste management and what is the current situation and how to improve.
On this occasion, Dr. Bakhshal Khan Lashari introduced the speaker of the seminar and share that Dr. Memon is graduated from MUET and now serving as Program Officer at International Environmental Technology Centre of Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics. Dr. Lashari said that leadership paly the vital role in the sustainable development so this Center is production the water leaders who will contribute their key role for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Pakistan.
On this occasion, Dr. Lashari also presented the traditional gifts, souvenir and publication material of the Center to the guest speaker. USPCAS-W faculty, management, and students participated in the graduate seminar.
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Levi Strauss Furthers Commitment to Sustainability With Responsible Sourcing Process
Nov. 07, 2013 04:09PM EST Business
Though Paul Dillinger knew he wanted to work in the fashion industry nearly 30 years ago when he was a teenager, he believes the industry needs more focus on sustainability.
"The fashion cycle that seeks to reinvent itself every six months? It doesn't ask, 'How do we improve the lives of the people we touch?'" the senior director of design for Levi Strauss' Dockers brand told The Guardian.
He and Levi Strauss seek to change that with the debut of the Dockers Wellthread process, by creating products with sustainable practices for manufacturing and material sourcing. The company also promises to provide social and economic benefits to factory workers in Bangladesh while creating durable khakis, jackets and T-shirts.
Dockers Senior Director of Design Paul Dillinger. Photo credit: Levi Strauss & Co.
“How you make a garment is just as important as the garment itself,” Michael Kobori, vice president of social and environmental sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co., said. "We believe that we can use our iconic brands to drive positive sustainable change and profitable results."
Levi & Strauss debuted the concept yesterday at its new innovation lab near San Francisco, CA. The company says the garments were engineered with "lasting value" by reinforcing points of stress on pants and shirts, making stronger buttonholes and more durable pockets.
With the Wellthread process, the company said it wants to:
Create a sustainable design increasing the durability of apparel
Reduce its environmental impact with the efficient use of materials, water and energy
Partner with factories that improve the well-being of workers
The idea was initially developed last year when Dillinger was selected for a First Movers Fellowship with the Aspen Institute. The program is designed for leaders within various industries that focus on sustainability along with growing their businesses. After that, workers began testing designs at the innovation lab, which is next to Levi Strauss' headquarters.
Before Dillinger took off for the fellowship he said, "Maybe one day, discussions of the celebrities’ red carpet choices will be go beyond daring color and revealing neckline to include the use of sustainable fibers and natural dyes."
Aspen Institute officials applaud the end result of his time in the program and the process that emerged as a result of his participation.
"The Dockers Wellthread process is a remarkable achievement for the apparel industry,” said Nancy McGaw, the founder and deputy director of the business and society program at the Aspen Institute. "The company took a risk on this groundbreaking vision and then supported it all the way through its implementation. Levi Strauss & Co. has a culture that inspires innovation.”
Initially, the line will be sold in Europe, starting this spring and serving as a pilot for further expansion.
"By having this little lab to test and substantiate ideas at small-risk scale, we're then able to deploy these new best practices at large scale," Dillinger said
Dillinger told The Guardian that he wants to weave responsibility into each stage of design, manufacturing and end-use.
"I saw all these different nodes of activity in the company that were tackling different problems," Dillinger said. "The opportunity, to me, was to string all of these ideas together and create a systems approach to change."
Visit EcoWatch’s SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS page for more related news on this topic.
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Are men or women paid more in your job? Use new tool to find out
Lauren Cope
Published: 12:18 PM December 16, 2016 Updated: 10:49 AM October 10, 2020
The gender pay gap. Joe Giddens/PA Wire - Credit: PA
What is the gender pay gap in your line of work?
Secretary of State for education, Justine Greening visits City College, Norwich.PHOTO: Nick Butcher - Credit: Nick Butcher
The Minister for Women and Equalities, Justine Greening, has launched an interactive tool allowing people to find out the differences and average earnings in their field.
It also shows how many women and men work in each role and is based on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings data in the UK this year.
The online tool, created by the government and the Office for National Statistics, shows construction and building trades, and financial managers and directors have the highest gender pay gaps.
At 18.1pc, the gap in average pay between men and women, for all employees, is the lowest since records began.
The government admits the underlying causes for differences are complex and may include more women working part-time and the under representation of women in senior roles.
Let us know what you think of the differences in the comments below.
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Graphic designer running the 2017 London Marathon for trio of health charities
Sophie Wyllie
Published: 4:24 PM April 5, 2017 Updated: 10:59 AM October 10, 2020
Owen Mathers who is running the 2017 London Marathon for the first time for three charities. Picture: SENT IN BY OWEN MATHERS. - Credit: SENT IN BY OWEN MATHERS.
A Norwich graphic designer who is running the London Marathon for the first time this year wants to raise £1,000 for three charities.
Owen Mathers, 36, from Glebe Road in Norwich, is running the 26.2-mile course on April 23 for Macmillan Cancer Support, Dementia UK and national mental health campaign Heads Together.
Mr Mathers, who works for Virgin Money, chose Macmillan Cancer Support because his mother was treated for breast cancer four years ago.
She has since had the all clear.
He is running for Dementia UK because his grandfather, who died in December 2016, had dementia.
The 36-year-old is also raising money for Heads Together, supported by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, because it was selected by Virgin Money.
Mr Mathers said the Heads Together campaign meant something to him as two of his close relatives suffer with anxiety and depression.
He said: 'The charities are close to my heart. They are all good causes and for me the marathon is a once in a lifetime event. I'm looking forward to it.'
He is holding a fundraising Familiar Faces art event on Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, from 11am-5pm, at the Two Fat Ladies Gallery on Upper St Giles Street, Norwich.
During the fundraiser, the former Norwich University of the Arts pupil will be drawing live portraits of visitors.
People can make donations for the original pieces of art.
Mr Mathers has previously run the City of Norwich Half Marathon in 2007 and 2008 and the Windsor Half Marathon in 2009.
He started training for the marathon in December 2016 and was originally aiming to complete the run in under four and a half hours. He added: 'I just want to complete it.'
To donate visit www.virginmoneygiving and type in Owen Mathers.
For more information about the charities visit www.headstogether.org.uk, www.macmillan.org.uk, and www.dementiauk.org.
The EDP and Norwich Evening News would like to speak to people from this region attempting the marathon this year.
It takes in the capital's famous landmarks including the Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace.
To get in touch with your story email reporter sophie.wyllie@archant.co.uk or call 01603 772531.
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U.S. Senator Boxer Presents Inaugural Climate Hero Award in Dallas to George W. Bush Presidential Center
Washington, D.C. - Today in Dallas, Texas, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, presented the inaugural Climate Hero Award to the George W. Bush Presidential Center for achievement in energy conservation, renewable energy, and sustainable design. Former First Lady Laura Bush accepted the award on behalf of the Bush Center and provided a tour of the center and its surroundings.
Senator Boxer said: "The George W. Bush Presidential Center has demonstrated true leadership in making energy conservation a top priority. It was a pleasure to see first-hand the library's innovative and energy efficient designs and to honor these important achievements with the Climate Hero Award."
Mrs. Laura Bush said: "It is really terrific to receive the inaugural Climate Hero Award from Senator Boxer. It recognizes how hard we worked to achieve LEED Platinum certification."
The George W. Bush Presidential Center achieved the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating - LEED Platinum certification - given for green building design, construction, maintenance and operation. The Bush Center is being honored for its achievement and leadership in energy conservation, use of renewable energy, and reductions in carbon pollution.
Senator Boxer announced last week that the inaugural Climate Hero Awards are being presented to the George W. Bush Presidential Center and William J. Clinton Presidential Center for achieving LEED Platinum certification. Senator Boxer plans to present the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum with the award in Little Rock, Arkansas at a later date.
Senator Boxer co-chairs the U.S. Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse. The Climate Hero Award was established to recognize leadership by individuals, state and local governments, organizations, and other institutions that make significant strides in energy conservation, use of renewable energy technology, and reductions in carbon pollution.
To see a photo from the award presentation, please click here.
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More than 500 reported over drink and drug-driving during festive period
14/01/2021, 11:22 am Updated: 14/01/2021, 11:30 am
Officers carried out more than 4000 roadside tests during the campaign (Andrew Milligan/PA)
More than 500 motorists in Scotland were reported for drink and drug-driving offences during the festive period.
Officers carried out 4,013 roadside tests between December 1 and January 3, with 508 drivers detected for such crimes.
Of those, 28 drivers were caught the morning after drinking.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said “It is extremely disappointing to see that people are still willing to take the risk and drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
“The current pandemic has seen a decrease in the number of vehicles on the road, however our campaign to improve road safety has been as important as ever and was focused and intelligence-led.
“Once again this year, a number of drivers were reported to us by colleagues, friends or family members and I wish to thank everyone who had the courage to report drink or drug-drivers and I ask that you continue to report concerning driving behaviour to us.
“We will continue to take action against those who selfishly put others at risk by driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”
The reports were made during Police Scotland’s annual festive drink drug drive campaign.
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf added: “It is disappointing that some people are selfish and irresponsible by taking drugs or alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a car – putting themselves as well as other road users and officers at risk.
“I commend those who took steps to report individuals they suspected of drink or drug-driving to the police.”
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Police officer assaulted during a struggle with ‘violent’ man
Photo: PA Wire. - Credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images
A police officer was assaulted in a struggle to restrain a man suspected of criminal damage in a Norfolk town.
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Police were called to Fakenham at 10pm on Sunday after reports that a man in his 30s was causing criminal damage to a fence.
Several officers were dispatched to the scene and conducted a search of the area.
When they located the man he resisted arrest and assaulted an officer, leaving him with a minor hand injury.
One officer involved in the arrest posted on social media calling the suspect “violent” and said he had to be “sprayed with captor spray”. He was also “red-dotted” with a taser, which is when officers use the red dot sight to aim the taser but do not fire it.
Norfolk Constabulary confirmed the man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. He has been taken to Kings Lynn where he remains for questioning.
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Ohio State commit Bosa gets UA Game jersey
8yBrad Bournival
Joey Bosa adds to his accolades
Brad BournivalRecruitingNation
Big Ten recruiting reporter
Graduated from the University of Akron
At 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds, Joey Bosa of Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas is hard to miss in offseason combines. Put the Ohio State commit in front of a trembling offensive lineman and the defensive tackle comes into his own.
Most often the best player in high school camps, the senior could be one of the best in St. Thomas Aquinas history. At least according to Raiders coach Rocco Casullo, who is no stranger to having All-Americans.
Ohio State commit Joey Bosa is the nation's No. 46 prospect in the ESPN 150. Jeff Peoples/Intersport
"We've had some All-Americans in the past and it's quite an accomplishment," Casullo said. "If you look at the defensive line position, Geno Atkins is one of the most recognized names to come out of St. Thomas Aquinas and now he's starting for the Cincinnati Bengals.
"I think Joey is one of the more complete defensive linemen to ever come out of here as far as size, strength and his work ethic. He's pretty special."
And on Thursday, the No. 46 overall prospect in the ESPN 150 received his jersey as part of the American Family Insurance Selection Tour for the 2013 Under Armour All-America Game, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Fla., at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN.
He did it in front of a select gathering and accepted his jersey with a mountain of humility.
"You look at all the awesome players that are in college now that played in this and it's great," Bosa said. "I know former teammates that I played with that were in this game. It's just an honor to be recognized as an All-American. I'm super excited to play in it. It'll be a real test of how good I really am."
Being around the best is nothing new for Bosa as his father John was a first-round pick by the Miami Dolphins at defensive end in the 1987 NFL draft. Throw in his brother Nick, who already has an Ohio State offer as a freshman, and Bosa is all about the game. It's a family the senior defensive tackle embraces and feels no pressure from as he continues to hone his trade.
"It's good to have someone who played at the highest level being my dad," Bosa said. "I can ask him questions to make me better.
"It helps a lot. I have great coaching here at school, but I can go home and he can critique me on things that maybe my coaches missed."
His 50 tackles -- a team-leading 14 for loss -- and eight sacks don't look like a lot, but those numbers came in seven games as he has battled injury this season.
Bosa's versatility stands out even more, with Casullo putting his standout senior at every position on the defensive line.
It's led to another playoff appearance for St. Thomas Aquinas at a school known for its football prowess.
"Just his presence alone is tough for an offensive lineman to deal with," said Casullo.
"You can't tell me they don't have in the back of their head that they have to go up against Joey Bosa on Friday night. He has a huge effect in the game. He's huge for our defense and huge for the psychology of the opponents."
As for playing at the next level, Bosa is taking things one day at a time.
"Hopefully the future is bright," Bosa said. "As long as I can keep working hard I should be OK."
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'Bachelorette' Recap: 'I Love You' Comes Too Late
By Krista Wick 7:50 PM PDT, July 29, 2013
Desiree Hartsock harbored some marriage-worthy feelings for one of her three remaining suitors in Monday's Bachelorette finale, but her failure to reveal the true contents of her heart appear to have cost this singleton a happily ever after with the love of her life.
Part one of season nine's devastating two-part finale began with romantic, sun-soaked one-on-ones in the Caribbean with Des' remaining guys, Chris Siegfried and Drew Kenney. Though the dates teased promise of an accepted "I do," it turns out the 27-year-old bridal stylist had only one person on her mind that could do the job, Brooks Forester, and he was about break her dream into a million pieces.
Pics: Meet 'Bachelorette' Desiree's Hot Hunks!
Harboring doubts about whether or not he could propose, Brooks booked a last-minute trip to Boise, Idaho to consult with his sisters. Finding little solace there, the 28-year-old jumped on a jet to Antigua to ultimately work out his doubts with Des. Before that, Brooks sat down with host Chris Harrison for a surprising heart-to-heart where he came to the conclusion he wasn't quite ready to settle down with Desiree when it all came down to it.
Expecting a carefree date, Des was visibly surprised when pulled aside to hear Brooks' unsettling news. Fumbling for the right words to say, he tried to convey, in as nice a way as he could, that he would likely never feel as strongly for her as she deserved.
"I really want to be madly in love with you," Brooks said to a devastated Des. "I don't feel like the moments apart are hard enough."
Sensing a breakup, Des burst into tears and, at long last, dropped the L-word to an astonished Brooks, who wasn't previously convinced of her strong feeling for him.
Related: Former 'Bachelorette' Reveals Prediction for Des
"I don't care that you just broke my heart," she said. "I love you."
After many, many "sorries," the pair eventually parted ways, leaving Brooks to proclaim their split on the beach as "the worst day of my life," and "way worse than I thought it was going to be."
In a sneak peek of next week's finale, airing in front of a live studio audience, Desiree contemplates leaving the show now that Brooks is no longer in the running.
"I just can't love them as much as they deserve," she says of her remaining suitors through tears. "Honestly for me, it's over."
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Margot Kidder, 69
May 14, 2018 William Gatevackes Obituary
She wasn’t the first actress to play the part, nor was she the last. But for an entire generation of fans, Margot Kidder was Lois Lane and always will be. Kidder died in her Montana home on Sunday from as yet undisclosed causes. She was 69.
Born Margaret Ruth Kidder in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, she first fell in love with acting after seeing a Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie when she was 12. She got her start making short Canadian films before making her American debut in 1969’s Gaily Gaily.
She would eventually move to the United States, landing a role in the 1970 Gen Wilder vehicle Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx and garnered guest roles in TV series such as Banacek and The Mod Squad. Her film career grew, with bigger parts in notable movies such as Brian DePalma’s Sisters, the cult-horror film Black Christmas and The Great Waldo Pepper.
Kidder was chosen for the role of Lois Lane in 1978’s Superman over such actresses as Anne Archer, Leslie Anne Warren and Stockard Channing. All were great actresses, but it’s hard to think of any of them playing the role as well as Kidder did. Kidder brought a modern take to the character.
Her Lois wasn’t a docile victim-in-waiting, nor was she a scheming minx trying to trick Superman into either revealing his identity or into marriage. Instead, she made Lois as strong-willed, smart, sarcastic professional woman who could hold her own with anyone. Her performance would go on to inform future interpretations of the character inside the comic books and out.
Kidder played Lois in all four of the Superman films, although her part was severely reduced after she spoke out in protest over the Salkind’s firing of Richard Donner on Superman II (Donner repaid her loyalty with a small role in his 1994 film, Maverick). She still was able to parlay her new superstardom into bigger roles in films such as The Amityville Horror and Some Kind of Hero.
After her run of Superman films, Kidder’s career took a downturn. Her film roles slid into the B-movie or special cameo categories. She gained voice work in the animation industry and made guest appearances on TV shows. In 1996, Kidder, who was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, suffered manic episode which caused her to go missing for several days.
Recently, she has been scheduled on the convention circuit, making appearances with other cast members in salute of Superman film’s 40 anniversary. She was scheduled to appear at New York’s Eternal Con next month.
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Henry Cavill Cast As Superman
January 30, 2011 Rich Drees Comics And Film
Warner Brothers has chosen the next actor to slip on the red cape of the most iconic of all superheroes. Henry Cavill, co-star of the Showtime series The Tudors, has been cast as the Man [click for more]
New MAN OF STEEL Set Photos Reveal More Of Superman’s New Costume
September 1, 2011 William Gatevackes Comics And Film, Movie News
We get a look at Superman’s new comic book costume and new film costume in the same week. Coincidence…or something more? [click for more]
Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack dies.
CNN is reporting that Academy Award winning director Sydney Pollack has succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was 73. Look for a full obituary to come in the next several days.
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Abhishek Bachchan Talks About His Look In Bob Biswas
Abhishek Bachchan is currently in Kolkata shooting for his forthcoming film Bob Biswas. The actor has gone under a major transformation to look the part and just a couple of days back a few pictures of him from the sets of the film were leaked online. Reacting to the same, Abhishek told a leading daily, "The media knew we were shooting in Kolkata. So, the photographers showed up at the venue. I would have loved for the look to come out the way Diya (Annapurna Ghosh, director) intended — during our marketing campaign."
He added, "The reaction was an endorsement that we are doing something right. I believe that if you look like the character, half your job is done. In Kahaani, Bob Biswas (portrayed by Saswata Chatterjee) is portly, so I had to pile on the kilos. Maintaining the frame during the lockdown was difficult."
He wrapped up by stating, "When you are shooting a film, there's a creative momentum that builds up. So, getting back in the groove can be challenging. But, after the first day, it didn't feel like we had a nine-month break." We loved Bob Biswas and we hope Abhishek does full justice to it.
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Graphic albums featuring Batman and Superman to Be developed into cutting edge motion comics
Warner Premiere recently announced the renowned graphic album Batman: Black & White and graphic novel Superman: Red Son are being developed into short-form digital Motion Comics. In addition the first and highly anticipated second chapter of the Watchmen Motion Comics are now available for download via iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Xbox Live and the Sony PlayStation Store. Summary editions of the Watchmen Motion Comics are available to Verizon Wireless V Cast customers as well as Sprint TV customers via the DC Comics Channel.
Warner Premiere’s Motion Comics are a new way for comic fans to connect with their favorite characters and the stories they know and love through short-form digital content. The Motion Comics slate draws on a deep reservoir of source material to bring a new visually engaging experience to life through the use of subtle movements, voice-overs, sweeping music scores and stunning comic book artwork.
Watchmen – Motion Comics
The second chapter of the Watchmen Motion Comics is now available via iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Xbox Live and the Sony PlayStation Store. This gripping chapter is set against The Comedian’s funeral where Silk Spectre recalls her horrific assault at the hands of The Comedian and while Nite Owl and Doctor Manhattan recount their own experiences that reveal The Comedian to have been a larger-than-life enigma: a hero and a villain in one costume. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will debut chapter three of the Watchmen Motion Comics the week of October 20 and future chapters every two weeks thereafter. Chapter one is also now available from the digital content providers listed above.
Summary editions of the Watchmen Motion Comics are available to Verizon Wireless V Cast customers as well as Sprint TV customers via the DC Comics Channel.
Watchmen takes viewers through the critically acclaimed DC Comics and Hugo award-winning graphic novel by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Set in 1985 at the height of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, costumed avengers have been banned with the exception of two – The Comedian and Rorschach. During this time the mysterious murder of a United States government official named Edward Blake occurs in New York, possibly by Soviet Communists. It is later confirmed that Blake is actually a costumed avenger – The Comedian.
The news of the murder is discovered by his fellow costumed avenger, Rorschach who sets out to discover the murderer. During his search viewers discover whether Rorschach is really insane or if he’s uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians. On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives. But what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet. Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story — the story of the Watchmen.
A new addition to the Warner Premiere Motion Comics slate, Batman: Black & White is taken from three award-winning volumes of short stories starring the Caped Crusader. The Motion Comics will reflect the original and diverse visions of various artists and writers as they tell stories in the now-infamous world of Gotham City.
The Batman: Black & White stories are told from the perspective of Batman and range in theme from the unsettling drama of solving a brutal murder to the light comedy of fighting bad guys with a broken nose. These short episodes also touch on elements of romance, mystery and even the supernatural. And like any exciting Batman story, classic villains such as The Joker, Harley Quinn and Two-Face make heralded appearances. It’s Batman as seen through the prism of some of today’s most eloquent graphic artists and writers.
Warner Premiere Motion Comics is proud to bring Superman: Red Son to its Motion Comics slate. Based on the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel written by Mark Milar and drawn by Dave Johnson, Superman: Red Son will take viewers back in time to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union where Superman is fighting for the Communists. Raised in Russia, Superman grows to become the Soviet Union’s greatest weapon as the world is transformed into a communist state opposed only by a crumbling capitalistic America and its President Lex Luthor. Now as Superman stands on the brink of ultimate power, three heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, each make a valiant stand to destroy the reign of the Man of Steel.
Release dates for Batman: Black and White and Superman: Red Son will be announced in the coming months, as well as the next assortment of titles coming to the Warner Premiere Motion Comics slate.
Warner Premiere is a Warner Bros. production company focused on the development, production and marketing of feature-length-DVD and short-form digital content for this growing space. Warner Premiere is committed to being at the creative forefront in the evolution of quality product in the direct-to-consumer business, creating material that exemplifies the commitment to story, production and brand equity for which Warner Bros. is known.
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mahindras arm ssangyong motor files for bankruptcy after missing loan repayment all details rexton south korea court debt
Mahindra’s arm SsangYong Motor files for bankruptcy after missing loan repayment: All details
M&M stated that the Seoul Bankruptcy Court will be deliberating and reviewing the application and relevant documents submitted by SYMC to determine whether or not the court will commence the restructuring process of SYMC.
By:PTIDecember 22, 2020 2:56 PM
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has said that its loss-making South Korean arm SsangYong Motor Company (SYMC) has now filed for bankruptcy. M&M said in a regulatory filing that the SYMC has filed an application for the commencement of rehabilitation procedure with the Seoul Bankruptcy Court under the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act of South Korea. The troubled automaker has also applied for an autonomous restructuring support (ARS) programme which is a court designed process, it added. M&M said that if the court approves the ARS, SYMC will continue to function under the supervision of its board and will negotiate with the stakeholders to reach an understanding about a revival package which may include equity and debt financing and other related actions. However, some of its decisions will be subject to Court approval, it noted.
M&M also stated that the Seoul Bankruptcy Court will be deliberating and reviewing the application and relevant documents submitted by SYMC to determine whether or not the court will commence the restructuring process of SYMC. Last week, M&M had informed the bourses that SYMC has missed repayments of loans aggregating to 60 billion KRW that translates to around Rs 408 crore. The Korean automaker has outstanding loans aggregating to 100 billion Korean Won or close to Rs 680 crore.
In April this year, M&M board rejected a proposal to inject any fresh equity into SYMC. The Mumbai-based auto major had acquired the loss-making SsangYong in 2010 but failed to turn it around since then despite several attempts. M&M holds nearly 75 percent in the Korean company now and has since invested over USD 110 million. SsangYong has been struggling with deteriorating earnings since 2017 when it slipped into the red with a net loss of 66 billion wons as against a net profit of 58 billion wons in 2016. In 2018, its net loss rose to 62 billion wons and then ballooned to 341 billion wons in 2019.
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A Man for Strengthening Others
When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father’s House on September 3, I hope the seraphic choirmaster chose music appropriate to the occasion. Had I been asked, I would have suggested the Latin antiphon Ecce sacerdos magnus as arranged by Anton Bruckner. The all-stops-pulled moments in Bruckner’s composition, deploying organ, brass, and full choir, would have been a perfect match for Paul Mankowski’s rock-solid Catholic faith, his heroic ministry, and his robust literary and oratorical style; the a cappella sections, softly sung, mirror the gentleness with which he healed souls. Above all, I would have suggested Bruckner’s motet because Father Mankowski truly was what the antiphon celebrates: “a great priest who in his days pleased God.”
We were friends for some 30 years and I can say without reservation that I have never met anyone like Paul Mankowski. He was off-the-charts brilliant, an extraordinary linguist and scholar; but he wore his learning lightly and was a tremendous wit. He rarely expressed doubts about anything; but he displayed a great sensitivity to the doubts and confusions of those who had the humility to confess that they were at sea. He could be as fierce as Jeremiah in denouncing injustice and dishonesty; but the compassion he displayed to spiritually wounded fellow priests and laity, who sought healing through the work of grace at his hands, was just as notable a feature of his personality.
His curriculum vitae was singular. The son of working-class parents, he put himself through the University of Chicago working summers in a steel mill. He did advanced degrees at Oxford and Harvard, becoming the sparring partner of a future Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, at the former, and delving deeply into the mysteries of Semitic philology—unfathomable, to most of his friends—at the latter. He taught at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and was pastor of an English-speaking parish in Amman, Jordan. Wherever he was, he lived like a true ascetic; he was also the best company imaginable at a meal or a party.
He was a writer of genius, although his published bibliography is considerably slimmer than it might have been, thanks to the years when he was silenced or censored by his religious superiors. A good example of his ability to combine keen insight and droll humor is his 1992 dissection of the goings-on at the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion (available here). More recently, Father Mankowski drew on his extensive experience as a confessor and spiritual director to pen, with his superiors’ permission, a respectful but sharp critique of his fellow Jesuit James Martin’s book, Building a Bridge (available here). In the decades between those two pieces, and when permitted to do so, he published essays and reviews on a wide range of topics, including literature, politics, Church affairs, biblical translations, and the priesthood, while sharing his private musings with friends in a seemingly endless series of pungent parodies, revised song lyrics, and imagined news stories.
Years ago, his friend Father Richard John Neuhaus dubbed Father Mankowski one of the “Papal Bulls”: Jesuits of a certain generation notable for their intellectually sophisticated and unwavering Catholic orthodoxy, which often got them into hot water of various temperatures (including boiling) with their Ignatian brothers and superiors. Paul Mankowski was no bull, papal or otherwise, in a china shop, though. He relished debate and was courteous in it; what he found off-putting was the unwillingness of Catholic progressives to fight their corner with a frank delineation of their position. This struck him as a form of hypocrisy. And while Father Mankowski, the good shepherd, often brought strays back to the Lord’s flock, he was unsparingly candid about what he perceived as intellectual dishonesty, or what he recently deplored as “ignoble timidity” in facing clerical corruption. Paul Mankowski was not a man of the subjunctive, and he paid the price for it.
He is beyond all that now, and I like to imagine St. Ignatius of Loyola welcoming him to the Father’s House with a hearty “Well done, my son.” In this valley of tears, freshly moistened by those who mourn his untimely death at age 66, Father Paul V. Mankowski, SJ, will be remembered by those of us who loved him as a man and a priest who, remaining faithful to his Jesuit and sacerdotal vocations, became a tower of strength for others. This was a man of God. This was a man whose courageous manliness reflected his godliness.
Photo by Eric Drost via Creative Commons. Image cropped.
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Control Your Own Super Fund
More and more Australians each year are opting to manage their own superannuation. Control Your Own Super Fund is essential reading for anyone contemplating DIY super.
Paul Clitheroe is a founding director of leading financial planning firm ipac, and has been involved in the investment industry since he graduated from the University of New South Wales in the late 1970s. He has completed the two-year postgraduate course offered by the Securities Institute and is a Fellow of that professional body. He was a board member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia between 1992 and 1994; in 1993 he was elected the Vice President and in 1994, the President. From 1993 to 2002 Paul hosted the popular Channel 9 program Money. Since 1999 he has been the chairman and chief commentator of Money magazine. He writes personal finance columns for metropolitan, suburban and regional newspapers across Australia and presents Talking Money on radio nationally. Paul has been a media commentator and conference speaker for more than 30 years, and is regarded as one of Australia's leading experts in the field of personal investment strategies and advice. In 2003, the federal government appointed Paul Chairman of the Financial Literacy Taskforce. That body has since evolved into the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board, and Paul continues as Chairman. In 2008, Paul was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the community and the financial sector through the promotion of financial literacy. <
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The Moon vs. the Mariana Trench: Which has had more human visitors?
Mark Thiessen/National Geographic
(Updated on June 11, 2020) A total of 12 men have walked on the Moon, all under NASA’s Apollo program. Given the gargantuan complexity and resource requirements of a space mission, this isn’t really surprising. What may come as a shock, though, is the fact that the number of people who’ve stood on Earth’s satellite is actually thrice the number of people who’ve reached the planet’s deepest point: the Mariana (or Marianas) Trench.
A crescent-shaped sea floor depression that’s over 2,550 km (1,500 mi) long and 69 km (43 mi) wide, the Mariana Trench is located east of the Philippines, about 200 km (124 mi) away from the Mariana Islands. Its deepest point, the Challenger Deep, is about 11 km (7 mi) from the surface of the ocean. If one were to drop Mount Everest into the trench, it would be fully submerged, its peak about 1.6 km (0.99 mi) beneath the surface. Traveling to the Challenger Deep would cover roughly the same distance as climbing Mount Apo, the Philippines’ highest mountain, 3.7 times. Down there, it’s perpetually dark and downright freezing, and the water pressure is said to be at about 8 tons per square inch. Experts say that the weight you’d feel if you were standing at the bottom of the trench would be that of a hundred adult elephants!
To date, only five humans have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached a depth of 10.92 km (35,814 feet) in the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe (deep-sea submersible) Trieste, spending only 20 minutes at the bottom.
42 years later, director James Cameron went to the same site and descended 10.91 km (35,787 ft) in a submersible vehicle he designed, the Deepsea Challenger. “We treated it like a space mission, and you have to go in with a lot of redundancy in the way you design it,” he shared in an article published in National Geographic. “So, I wasn’t surprised when it worked. But you’re always a little bit relieved, because the alternative is not pretty.”
In 2019, entrepreneur and retired Naval officer Victor Vescovo dove 10.93 km (35,853 ft) into the trench, setting a new record. Sadly, the four new species Vescovo discovered during this trip weren’t the only colorful things he found in the ocean’s deepest depths—he claimed to have also spotted candy wrappers and a plastic bag.
On June 7, 2020, Vescovo returned to the Challenger Deep with a co-pilot: Dr. Kathy Sullivan of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a former astronaut who is now the first woman to travel to the bottom of the ocean.
http://www.deepseachallenge.com/the-expedition/mariana-trench/
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise-log-post/life-under-pressure-100-elephants-on-your-head/
https://www.livescience.com/65468-explorer-breaks-record-deepest-ocean-dive.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/23/186302916/Mariana-Trench
https://www.space.com/17317-nasa-apollo-moon-astronauts.html
https://twitter.com/VictorVescovo/status/1269565492492189701
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What will 2020’s ‘Strawberry Moon’ eclipse look like from the Philippines?
Stojan Stojanovski
Have you ever wondered why the different lunar events and phases throughout the year have so many creative and colorful names? Take the 2020 Strawberry Moon, for example, which is expected to be visible from the Philippines on June 6, from 1:45 AM to about 5:04 AM. Hearing the words “strawberry” and “moon” together may lead you to think that Earth’s satellite will take on a reddish hue. (It also doesn’t help that there tends to be plenty of edited Moon photos that pop up at around this time every year.) However, the fruity name of this lunar phenomenon has nothing to do with the Moon actually changing colors—and everything to do with what the astronomical event signaled for tribesmen centuries ago.
Full Moons were typically used by tribes for keeping track of seasonal transitions, and were exceptionally helpful for harvesters. The Strawberry Moon is the full Moon that takes place in June, which also happens to be either the last of spring or the first of summer. It was named as such by the Algonquin tribes in eastern North America because to them, it meant that wild strawberries were turning ripe and almost ready for picking. In other areas of the world, it’s called the Honey Moon, Mead Moon, Hot Moon, or Rose Moon.
This year, the Strawberry Moon brings with it another special event that will only be noticeable from certain parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia. When the Moon crosses Earth’s penumbra (or the faint outer part of its shadow), we may witness what’s called a penumbral lunar eclipse. It won’t be a full-blown blackout, though. Instead, expect the Moon to be just ever-so-slightly dimmer than normal (think brownish or tea-colored instead of bright white). In fact, we’ll probably only be able to notice the actual “Strawberry Moon Eclipse” midway through, when Earth’s penumbral shadow covers more than half of the Moon.
http://bagong.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/astronomy/astronomical-diary
https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-june
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/strawberry.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/penumbral-lunar-eclipse.html
https://www.universetoday.com/146258/how-to-see-this-fridays-penumbral-lunar-eclipse/
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Why USDA Needs a New Program to Export Sandwiches to Canada
By Lydia Zuraw on November 5, 2015
Which foods the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates and which foods the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulates are not easy questions to answer. One oft-repeated example used to demonstrate the complexities is that cheese pizza falls under the jurisdiction of FDA, but a pizza topped with pepperoni is under USDA’s jurisdiction. Another example is that USDA regulates open-face sandwiches with meat on them. But put the top of the bun on there, and it becomes FDA’s responsibility. Come February 2016, USDA will be giving closed-face sandwiches a little attention. Earlier this week, USDA announced a new Export Verification Program for sandwiches destined for Canada. It entails two types of testing to make sure manufacturers are controlling the risk of Listeria and Salmonella contamination, as well as Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspections to verify the sandwiches are produced under a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan. In February 2013, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) audited the U.S. food safety system for meat and poultry products intended for export to Canada. In its report, “they identified that these products were being certified by FSIS to come to Canada, but they observed that FSIS was not verifying the same requirements for just the meat product,” said Daniel Engeljohn, assistant administrator for FSIS’ Office of Policy and Program Development. CFIA notified FSIS that it requires these products to be produced according to HACCP plans and Listeria controls. Ready-to-eat meat products going to Canada are ensured to meet the testing and HACCP requirements, but because closed-face sandwiches fall outside the jurisdiction of FSIS, and FDA isn’t authorized to conduct the same inspections as FSIS, the products weren’t given the same attention. That’s not to say that there were no inspections. All along, the companies have “been paying for FSIS inspection that was for sanitation, but they were not paying for an FSIS inspection program that included verification of HACCP requirements and the same requirements that we have for other ready-to-eat meat products,” Engeljohn explained. The agency’s decision to subject closed-face sandwiches to those requirements within the voluntary program will “make it essentially the same as any other meat product,” he added. Engeljohn emphasized that the change is “not because [Canada] identified a risk or they found Listeria in product or they had concerns about it. It’s just that they wanted any product that contained meat to be treated the same as FSIS does other ready-to-eat meat products.” The program will be implemented on Feb. 1, 2016, and USDA invites the public to comment on:
The timetable for implementation of this program, including readiness to participate in the program’s pathogen testing and HACCP verification, and business and trade interests affected by compliance or non-compliance with the program;
How the proposed programs can be implemented operationally to avoid disruption of trade or business activities; and,
Any other operational issues that commenters need to have explained.
FSIS will clarify any issues or make adjustments to the implementation date of the program in a Constituent Update. (To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)
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Isco Biography, Personal Life, Club Career, Awards & Honors
Club Career of Isco
Career Awards and Honors
Isco Girlfriend & Earnings
Isco is a Spanish football professional football player who plays for his Spanish national football team. Here is the complete biography with personal & career with awards of Isco. His current club is Real Madrid for which he is playing from 2013. His playing position is Attacking midfielder. Isco has played for under 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 23 in same position in major competitions. His first senior club was Valencia B.
Isco Profile
Full Name Francisco Roman Alarcon Suarez
Birth date 21 April 1992
Birth Place Benalmadena, Spain
Senior Career
Year Team
2010–2011 Valencia
2011–2013 Malaga
2013* Real Madrid
The first ever football club of Isco was Valencia CF’s which he joined in 2009. He played his first game on 11 November 2010 against UD Logrones which was a game of Copa del Rey tournament. In that match, he scored 2 goals & his team won that with final score of 4–1.
On 14 November 2009, the attacking midfielder played his debut in La Liga. He played rest of 20 minutes & the result was in favor of his team with a 2–0 win. He made his debut as a substitute player with Artiz Aduriz. At Valencia B, with 52 appearances, he scored 16 goals total which was source of media’s attraction towards him.
Thereafter, he joined another Spanish club called Malaga in between July 2011. The deal with Isco was completed with total price of 6 million Euros. On 21 November 2011, he netted for the fist time for Mala football club against Racing de Santander which they won with 3–1. Then against Villareal CF, he scored a goal & helped his team to qualify for UEFA Champions league for the first time.
Then a biggest offer from the richest club was offered to him. Isco decided to join one of the top football club of Spain in terms of Real Madrid. The Vikings completed a contract with Isco with total amount of 30 million Euros. It was 17 June 2013, when the player announced his transfer to Real Madrid. He played his first game for Los Blancos on 18 August 2013 in which he made an assist & made victory over Real Betis by 2–1. He also scored a single goal on his first appearance for Real Madrid. On 1 September 2013, he scored 2 against Athletic Bilbao. Isco scored his first Champions league goal against Galatasaray in round of group stage in season 2013–14.
Award Team Year
UEFA European Under 21 Spain U21 2013
FIFA U17 world Cup Spain U17 [3rd place] 2009
League Breakthrough Player
La Liga Breakthrough player 2012
Golden boy award 2012
UEFA European U21 Bronze boot 2013
Trofeo Bravo 2013
Isco is not only known for his on field techniques, he is also known for his simple personal life & manages his personal life with professional very well. The player is also a great performer on & off-field. He was spotted with his new girlfriend with whom he spent his free time. His girl fan followers like cuteness & style of play.
The player is playing with world’s richest football club. Naturally he is earning in millions. The attacking midfielder is earning 40,000 pounds per week which means he is earning 1,60,000 pounds per month. In his team, Cristiano Ronaldo is the player whose earnings are maximum in this club.
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Interview with BATTLEROAR
If there’s one band out there that has every right to the Greek Epic Metal throne, that’s definitely BATTLEROAR. We had the chance to chat with band's mastermind and guitarist Kostas Tzortzis about "Codex Epicus", as well as a couple of other interesting topics. Hope you enjoy it...
Greetings guys! Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. So, it’s been four years from the release of “Blood of Legends”. What has happened during this time?
Greetings! Indeed, it has been 4 years since our previous album. We had a major line-up change, mostly because of life changes of the previous members. We did some shows around Europe and we released a split 7″ single along with my good friend Kenny Powell and OMEN!
Let’s talk about a bit “Codex Epicus” and more specifically about the cover artwork and album title. Which was the source of inspiration for these two?
The main idea behind the concept of the cover artwork is that you need to defeat the dragon, to earn a place in the book of epic. It is a symbolic way of saying that you need to do what you must, and try hard if you want to make things happen in life, no matter how hard and unfair a battle may seem.
Can you provide a few technical details for all metal geeks out there? When, where and how was the album recorded?
It took us about five months to record the album, most of which took place at Devasoundz Studios under the guidance of producer Thimios Krikos (INNERWISH). The mixing and mastering process took place there as wel.
When did you start working on the material for “Codex Epicus”? Would you say the recent line-up changes affected in any way the songwriting process?
For the past one year and a half we were working on the new material; almost exclusively. Regarding material, there were some older ideas of mine to use, but most of the new stuff have been composed during the last year. As for the songwriting process and line-up changes, of course every member contributed in its own special way with its style to the finished result and affected the music we made together. That is what bands are for!
Not sure if you’d agree with the following statement, but I think this is the darkest sounding album BATTLEROAR ever made. Do you feel the same way?
Without being absolutely sure, I agree with you…I think it’s by far the most “doom” album than any other album we’ve made and that makes it sounds… dark. However, we did not do it on purpose. It just happened.
Judging by the outcome, I’d say Gerrit Mutz’s voice sounds more fitting in BATTLEROAR’s music than ever. Did the fact you had more time to work together play a role in this?
I believe that since this is the second album with Gerrit, he managed through experience and work to find a way to make his voice fit, even more, to the BATTLEROAR sound and sounds more into it. That’s all.
BATTLEROAR – Codex Epicus
How do you handle collaboration with Gerrit? Probably the internet helps a lot, but is there anything more than that?
It is mostly through internet as you said. Of course, we try to take advantage of all the time we have when we meet here and there but still, sometimes this is not enough. So, yes, we need to do some extra traveling here and there when its needed.
As you’ve done in the past, you got the mighty “Shark” to participate in this album as well. Your relationship with Mark Shelton (MANILLA ROAD) goes way back. Would you like to share a few words about your collaboration this time?
I am lucky enough to know Mark [Shelton] personally for more than 16 years now. He has been my mentor, my influence and a great friend throughout the years. We share a lot of great moments and memories from all around the world. So, this time, I just needed his help on completing the song he did, cause I was out of ideas, and so he did without a second thought… what can I say more? The rest is history…
This time we get to see the inclusion of clarinet in one of your tunes which reflects on Greek folk songs. How come? Is there a special meaning behind it?
It has to do with my personal homeland and all the tradition, the history and the music that comes from it. It definitely has affected me musically since I was a kid and so I decided to make a song about all these. So, I could not think of such a song without the elements of clarinet or the female polyphonic mourning choir which are the “emblems” of this land in it!
Which are the band’s imminent plans?
Planning some shows from this autumn and on, so we will get in touch with our friends all over Europe.
You’ve been around for about two decades. What has changed and what has remained the same throughout the years?
Things change every day… some for good, some for bad. It has to do with the way people take advantage of the new possibilities… like the internet for example. Too much information and not much time to check everything… and while this happens, the magic of discovering and getting into new music is almost gone. At the same time without it, half of the world of music would not function.
Anyway, I want to believe that the feelings people get from the music they like do not change and this is the most important aspect in music.
As a “senior” of the epic metal scene, are there any new epic metal bands you enjoy listening at the moment?
To be honest I am a bit stuck to some old epic metal stuff. I wish I had the time to check the new bands that come out, more often… so, can not say that I am checking for newcomers while listening to the new PRIMORDIAL album or waiting for example, the new IMMORTAL album.
Lately, an increasing number of bands are forming up to pay homage to the glorious 80’s metal scene. Do you think this New Wave Of Traditional Heavy Metal is a good thing or something that stalls the “evolution” of the metal scene?
Well… first thing that comes to my mind is that I got older, hehe… Anyway, I think we have to separate this scene into bands that want to imitate and copy bands from the 80’s, and bands that make music influenced from the 80’s which is good according to my taste. I hate coping on purpose… there is no music there, no inspiration, nothing… just stealing. So, lets pay attention on each band individually and make our own results.
Why do you think this is happening? Is it a trend, a nostalgia crisis or something deeper?
A bit of everything. It depends on where this comes from and what purpose it serves.
If there’s anything you’d like to mention, now is the time…
Hope our fans will enjoy our new album…
Thank you folks! That’s all on my end. The closing remarks always belong to the guest, so suite yourselves!
I would like to thank you too, as also, all our friends out there who have supported us for all these years! It means so much to us! HAIL!
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DRIVER MARKET: Raikkonen in no rush to decide future amid ‘odd situation’
With his 2021 plans still unknown, the ever-enigmatic Kimi Raikkonen has commented on speculation over his future as the 40-year-old gets ready for his 18th season in Formula 1, and a second with Alfa Romeo.
The Finn’s contract with the team expires at the end of this season and, with F1’s new rules package delayed until 2022 – and a cost cap coming in next season to make the sport more competitive and sustainable – Raikkonen was asked if that had any bearing on his decision to continue in F1 or call it quits at the end of this year.
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“It hasn’t," he replied. "That’s how it’s going to be with the rules, but it doesn’t dictate what happens in the future. Right answer: [the decision will be made] before next year starts, but I don’t know. We haven’t done a single race. A very odd situation this year, we’ll wait and see.”
Speaking in the press conference ahead of the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, Raikkonen was also asked where his team lie in the order after their P8 finish in the 2019 standings.
Kimi Raikkonen: Everything is unknown, so we'll 'see what the season brings'
“Testing every year, it’s impossible to say who is where. A lot of speculation. But in the first race, we always see what is the real story; and we never managed to do the first race. Now, months later, we’re obviously going to do it. Then we’ll see where we are. People are bringing updates, so who knows? We’ll see.
As for team mate Antonio Giovinazzi, the Italian – also gearing up for a second season with Alfa Romeo – said that he wasn’t paying attention to junior drivers who could poach his seat for 2021, with Ferrari’s Driver Academy and the newly formed Sauber Academy two major potential sources of talent for the team.
He said: “Every year, you have some pressure, so for me it will be similar from last year. Of course I knew that in F2 [there would be] a lot of young drivers, especially from the driver academy, but [I] just need to focus on my job and not waste time looking at F2 drivers. Focus on my job, do the best I can and then we’ll see.”
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Brice Trouillet
Université de Nantes, France
Front. Mar. Sci., 30 October 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00345
Integrating Science-Based Co-management, Partnerships, Participatory Processes and Stewardship Incentives to Improve the Performance of Small-Scale Fisheries
Kendra A. Karr1*, Rod Fujita1, Ramon Carcamo2, Lawrence Epstein3, James R. Foley4, José A. Fraire-Cervantes5, Mauro Gongora2, Ollin T. Gonzalez-Cuellar6, Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff7, Julius Guirjen8, Amy H. Weaver6, Héctor Licón-González5, Emilie Litsinger9, Julio Maaz10, Roquelito Mancao8, Valerie Miller11, Rafael Ortiz-Rodriguez5, Tomás Plomozo-Lugo6, Laura F. Rodriguez-Harker12, Salvador Rodríguez-Van Dyck6, Aristóteles Stavrinaky5, Cristina Villanueva-Aznar12, Beverly Wade2, Daniel Whittle13 and Jacob P. Kritzer14
1Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States
2Belize Fisheries Department, Belize City, Belize
3Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, United States
4Toledo Institute for Development and Environment, Port Honduras, Belize
5Environmental Defense Fund de México A.C., La Paz, Mexico
6Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá, A.C., La Paz, Mexico
7Fish Forever Program, Rare, Arlington, VA, United States
8Fish Forever Program, Rare, Cebu, Philippines
9Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, Cebu, Philippines
10Wildlife Conservation Society, Belize City, Belize
11Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States
12Environmental Defense Fund de México A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
13Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, Raleigh, NC, United States
14Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA, United States
Small scale fisheries are critically important for the provision of food security, livelihoods, and economic development for billions of people. Yet, most of these fisheries appear to not be achieving either fisheries or conservation goals, with respect to creating healthier oceans that support more fish, feed more people and improve livelihoods. Research and practical experience have elucidated many insights into how to improve the performance of small-scale fisheries. Here, we present lessons learned from five case studies of small-scale fisheries in Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, and Belize. The major lessons that arise from these cases are: (1) participatory processes empower fishers, increase compliance, and support integration of local and scientific knowledge; (2) partnership across sectors improves communication and community buy-in; (3) scientific analysis can lead fishery reform and be directly applicable to co-management structures. These case studies suggest that a fully integrated approach that implements a participatory process to generate a scientific basis for fishery management (e.g., data collection, analysis, design) and to design management measures among stakeholders will increase the probability that small-scale fisheries will implement science-based management and improve their performance.
Small-scale fisheries are critically important globally for supporting local economies, poverty alleviation, and food security (Berkes et al., 2001; FAO, 2012). A recent analysis (Costello et al., 2012) suggests that fisheries that collect data, use the data to assess stock status against management targets, and employ effective governance regimes to achieve these targets perform relatively well with respect to management objectives. Small-scale fisheries, many of which are lacking a formal data collect system to guide management and which lack strong governance (Salas et al., 2007; Purcell and Pomeroy, 2015), appear to be underperforming with respect to conservation, the amount of food they can produce, the amount of money they can generate, and the quality of the livelihoods they can support (Costello et al., 2012).
Many factors related to successful small-scale fisheries management have been elucidated in the literature and through practical experience, including strong leadership (Gutiérrez et al., 2011), co-management (Gelcich et al., 2010; Cinner et al., 2013), secure catch or marine tenure privileges (Ovando et al., 2013), and scientific assessment of fishery status (Worm and Branch, 2012). Both the pathways and tools employed in fishery reform vary, but there is a growing consensus that the integration of effective fisheries governance and science-based management is crucial for success (Worm and Branch, 2012). For example, strong leadership and co-management with high social capital may not result in sustainable yields if scientific information on the true status of target stocks and the level of fishing mortality is not available due to the lack of monitoring and rampant illegal fishing (Hauck and Kroese, 2006; van Sittert et al., 2006; Spiller et al., 2016). To ensure good and sustainable yields, credible assessments of stock status should be integrated into a management regime that promulgates management measures on the basis of scientific assessment and monitoring, such as the Adaptive Fisheries Assessment and Management framework (Fujita et al., 2017; McDonald et al., 2017).
Because factors external to the harvest sector can drive overfishing or fishery stewardship, other strategies can and should be integrated with science and governance to improve fishery performance with respect to conservation, social, and economic goals. For example, seafood certification systems such as Fair Trade USA and the Marine Stewardship Council programs provide standards, information, training, and (in the case of Fair Trade USA) price premiums to facilitate and incentivize better performance (Gutiérrez et al., 2016). Such programs also provide better market access, in particular access to buyers committed to sourcing sustainable seafood, as do Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) (Bush and Oosterveer, 2015; Sampson et al., 2015). Ideally, science-based management, good fisheries governance, and demand-side strategies that reward good fishery performance are combined to generate strong incentives for continued improvement throughout a fishery's supply chain. Market access tied to outcome-based performance benchmarks could be used as a powerful driver for fishery improvement (Sampson et al., 2015), which should include the implementation of science-based harvest controls embedded within a good governance system that incentivizes high compliance.
The importance of integrating good governance with science-based management is also supported by case studies and experience in large scale fisheries (Costello et al., 2008; Grimm et al., 2012) and by a growing number of case studies of small-scale fisheries reform. Here, we examine five case studies of small-scale fisheries in Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, and Belize to show lessons for how to integrate science-based management with good fisheries governance (Table 1).
Table 1. Fishery characterization of Multispecies Fishery, Cuba; Curvina Fishery of the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico; Multispecies Finfish Fishery of El Corredor San Cosme-Punta Coyote, Mexico; Nearshore Multispecies Fisheries, Philippines; and the Lobster and Conch Fisheries, Belize.
Multispecies Fishery, Cuba
The coastal and marine ecosystems of Cuba support rich biodiversity and a variety of fisheries (Kritzer et al., 2014). Lobster and shrimp fisheries important for exports have been monitored and managed based on scientific stock assessments for over 30 years (Alfonso et al., 2004; Puga et al., 2005, 2013; González-Yáñez et al., 2006; Formoso, 2007; Alzugaray and Puga, 2012; Giménez Hurtado et al., 2012). Cuba is now focusing on the assessment and management of nearshore finfish fisheries due to their importance for maintaining coastal ecosystem integrity, local livelihoods, food security, and many other ecosystem services such as nature-based tourism. Overfishing appears to be worsening and, though information about the health of most fish populations is sparse, scientists estimate that up to 60% of ecologically and commercially important fish species are overfished, threatening fishing communities, food security and biodiversity (Valle et al., 2011).
In 2012, the Cuban government initiated a community-based fisheries management project, Sostenibilidad de las Pesquerías (SOS Pesca). SOS Pesca is an international collaboration that targets two fishing communities (Playa Florida and Guyabal; Figure 1A) to demonstrate how marine protected areas and community-based fisheries management can work together to improve livelihoods, end overfishing and protect habitats. Scientists, managers and fishers worked collaboratively to complete a Productivity and Susceptibility Analysis (Puga et al., in press) of marine fisheries, using available life history data and expert knowledge to identify which fish stocks are most vulnerable to overfishing and should be priorities for management. Concurrently, diverse stakeholders from the communities, industry, NGOs and the government collaborated to enacted new community-based monitoring programs, proposed a fishery management plan to include catch limits and season closures for priority species (including current and future commercial targets and ecologically important species) and finalized a National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks. This experience suggests that scientific analysis, even when data are limited, can help initiate and guide a strategy for fishery improvement which included the management of priority species based on their vulnerability to overfishing and value to the nation. These scientific management activities are embedded within a more collaborative approach to management that is based on a partnership between scientists, fishery managers, fishers, community members and NGOs. Efforts are now underway to scale the success of this model for collaboration between managers, scientists, fishers and communities through participatory process and capacity-building, which increased environmental consciousness at the community-level and in turn spurred local action to make fisheries more sustainable and to protect resources to other sites across Cuba.
Figure 1. Maps of the regions presented in the case studies for (A) Cuba multispecies and (B) Gulf of California Curvina fishery.
Curvina Fishery of the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico
The Gulf curvina (Cynoscion othonopterus) fishery is a small-scale fishery in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico (Figure 1B). Fishing occurs primarily within the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve. The curvina fishery has become one of the most important fisheries sustaining remote communities in these regions, both socially and economically. Gulf curvina are synchronous, multiple batch spawners (Gherard et al., 2013). The entire spawning stock of adult curvina migrates into the spawning aggregation grounds from late February through early June, making it highly vulnerable to overfishing (Erisman et al., 2012, 2014). Another aggregating fish, the Totoaba macdonaldi, was severely overfished in this region during the 1950s (Barrera Guevara, 1990; IUCN, 2010) resulting in the closure of the fishery in 1974 (Cisneros-Mata et al., 1995; Lercari and Chávez, 2007).
Subsequently, the Gulf curvina fishery developed—in the absence of any scientific assessments or fishery governance—into an intense race for fish and supply gluts resulting in price collapses and high discard levels. Fishery monitoring initiated in 1997 generated data streams that were used to conduct data-limited assessments of stock status. These assessments suggested that the stock contained a low proportion of older, highly fecund individuals (Erisman et al., 2014) and other indications that the stock was experiencing high levels of fishing mortality, creating a relatively high risk of overfishing and stock collapse (Erisman et al., 2012).
In 2011, the Mexican National Fisheries Commission, based on a stock assessment and other analyses conducted by the Mexican National Fisheries Institute, established an annual Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limiting the amount of curvina landed to about half of recent levels. This application of science to management could have resulted in economic hardship and conflict, but instead served as a catalyst for participatory work with upper Gulf communities to improve fisheries governance in order to reduce the economic impacts of the TAC. Community-based systems analysis (Cap Log, 2014) was used to develop common understandings of the dynamics driving overfishing, supply gluts, and price collapses. These efforts resulted in a highly participatory system (i.e., a new governance system), with shares of the TAC allocated to each fishing permit. Agreements were signed in 2012 between the cooperatives and major curvina buyers that set minimum prices in return for commitments to stabilize the supply of fish. These governance improvements resulted in dramatically reduced discards and high compliance with the TAC, while simultaneously keeping prices high resulting in economic benefits to fishermen (Cap Log, 2014). As part of the transition to catch shares, a technical group composed of scientists, NGOs and government authorities, as well as a multi-stakeholder committee were established to identify research priorities to improve science, inform management decisions and provide a space for management discussions among interested parties. During this transition a community catch accounting program was set up with the support of government and NGOs (Espinosa-Romero et al., 2014). This program has increased stewardship and trust in the fisheries management. The curvina fishery is now managed with a science-based TAC and other regulations embedded within a catch shares governance system with associated accountability measures (i.e., permits, seasonal closure, size limits, gillnet mesh size, and designated landing sites).
Multispecies Finfish Fishery of EI Corredor San Cosme-Punta Coyote, Mexico
The El Corredor San Cosme-Punta Coyote region in Baja California Sur, Mexico, includes a remote archipelago that lies between La Paz and Loreto; it includes 12 small fishing communities (Figure 2A). The NGO Niparaja worked with fishermen in El Corredor to collect data on the distribution and abundance of target species. As a result of the co-production of knowledge about the potential effects of increased fishing effort and mortality on these populations, and subsequent impacts on livelihoods and food security, fishermen asked the Mexican government to establish a network of fishing refugia, which was completed in 2012. Three key drivers of success were identified. First, the government, fishers and Niparaja developed a common understanding of the problems and steps for marine resource security. Second, to overcome limited data availability, Niparaja worked with fishermen and the fishing community to both elicit empirical local knowledge through siting surveys in the development of the fishing refugia network and the implementation of scientific monitoring programs to collect fishery independent and dependent data. The data generated from these programs were used to conduct data-limited stock assessments showing that most of the six target species were being fished at unsustainable levels (Mateo, 2012; Niparaja, 2012). Finally, sufficient social capital and trust was built among the government, fishers and Niparaja to overcome poor governance and lack of capacity to implement and assess management actions. Partnerships between the government, fishers and NGOs were initiated and formed through the continual leadership from Niparaja to promote compliance with refugia regulations, resulting in a form of co-management which included enforcement and decision-making committees. Organizing at both the community and fishery cooperatives enabled participation in different processes related to local production and increasing economic incentives to comply with the refugia regulations (Ostrom, 2009; Niparaja, 2012; Ovando et al., 2013). The next step will be to use the scientific basis for fisheries management generated through collaborative research with fishermen to articulate management targets and limits that will be embedded in the emerging co-management governance system. It is expected that high levels of social capital generated thus far coupled with co-management and accountability measures will result in good compliance with science based limits on fishing mortality.
Figure 2. Maps of the regions presented in the case studies for (A) El Corredor multispecies finfish and (B) Belize conch and lobster (Fujita et al. 2017) and (C) the Philippines multispecies fisheries.
Nearshore Multispecies Fisheries, Philippines
Improving the management of small-scale fisheries has become a major focus in the Philippines. The Philippines is among the top 15 nations in global marine fisheries capture production (FAO, 2014), and many Filipinos depend on fish products for both food and livelihood. The average Filipinos derives an estimated 43% of their animal protein diet from fish and fish products (FAO, 2001), and over 1.6 million Filipinos were employed in fisheries-related occupations based on 2011 data (BFAR, 2011). Historically, fisheries management is the responsibility of the government, both national and municipal. But the participation of local management units has increased, decentralizing the management of nearshore fisheries to municipalities and local fishing communities (Pomeroy, 1995; Alcala and Russ, 2006). Information on stock status is limited, but research suggests 10 of 13 fishing grounds are overfished and that catch-per-unit effort is erratic or has dramatically declined in many of these fisheries (Green et al., 2003), indicating stock decline and economic underperformance (Muallil et al., 2014).
To reverse these trends, an initial four prototype sites started in 2013, expanding in 2017 to 19 sites in the Philippines combined science-based fishery management with an existing governance structure (co-management) enhanced with Territorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURFs) and with no-take marine reserves located within the TURF, creating a TURFs+Reserves system (locally known as the Managed Access Areas + Sanctuaries system). In exchange for secure access privileges to the TURF and exclusive access to the spillover from the reserve which often associated with higher catch rates and lower fishing costs (Buxton et al., 2014; Lester et al., 2017), these fishermen bear the responsibility for conservation. Specific responsibilities include data collection, participation in fishery management, patrolling, and reporting violations. Together communities and the government across the 19 sites have developed a system for rights, rewards and responsibilities to align fisheries governance with desired outcomes. These sites are part of an effort to develop a network of TURF+Reserves both within municipal waters (0–15 km) and between adjoining municipalities (Figure 2B). These communities have engaged in participatory design processes that have produced detailed plans for TURF+Reserves which have recently been approved by the relevant authorities. They have also collected fisheries data, and are now embarking on efforts to use data-limited analytical methods to assess fish stock status, articulate targets and limits for harvest management, and implement harvest-control measures. Efforts to improve fishery governance through the development of co-management and TURFs preceded the collection and analysis of scientific data at these sites, largely to avoid fears of catch restrictions and opposition prior to the development of motivation and institutional capacity to manage fisheries sustainably. Social marketing and behavior change techniques based on Rare's Pride methodology (Rare, 2017) of partnering with local organizations were used successfully to build awareness and motivation, while participatory processes and trainings were used to build buy-in, harness local knowledge, and build the capacity to scientifically assess and manage stocks. A strong platform for marine resource stewardship was created as a result of decades of investment and efforts aimed at building up the capacity of communities to manage marine resources, with a focus on the implementation of marine protected areas (Pollnac, 1994; Alcala and Russ, 2006). Increasing concern with the status of fisheries important for food security, livelihood, and economic development outside of the MPAs prompted a more recent round of initiatives centering on restoring these fisheries, including social marketing efforts, community-based fishery management (influenced by traditional marine tenure systems such as Indonesia's sasi system—Novaczek et al., 2001), and the enactment of new legislation requiring the science-based fishery management. These efforts are anticipated to result in better long-term social, biological, ecological, and economic outcomes (Costello et al., 2008; White and Costello, 2011; Lester et al., 2017).
Lobster and Conch Fisheries, Belize
The Central American nation of Belize has been innovating a range of stakeholder-centered solutions to integrate fisheries governance and science-based management. In 2009, the Government of Belize initiated efforts to improve fisheries governance in order to address trends of rising fishing effort and declining catch of lobster and conch, the two most valuable export species (Government of Belize, 2009). In 2011, the Belize Fisheries Department established two pilot sites (Glover's Reef and Port Honduras Marine Reserves, which are multi-use Marine Protected Areas) to study the effects of TURF (or Managed Access Areas in Belize) as a management tool. The pilot Managed Access Areas with several management zones (e.g., no-take and general use with Managed Access to fishing) were expected to result in reduction of fishing effort through the restriction of fishing licenses and allow for fish recovery within the no-take areas and into the attached areas from spillover into to the Managed Access Areas (Uchida et al., 2012; Lester et al., 2017; Figure 2C).
Improvements in lobster and conch population status have been observed in these pilot sites (Babcock et al., 2015). The success of these pilot areas in increasing catches, reducing fishing effort, and increasing catch reporting and compliance with regulations led to the scaling of Managed Access Areas to the rest of Belize's fishing grounds in 2016 (Government of Belize, 2015; Fujita et al., 2017). Participatory and behavior change processes were used to engage about 2000 of Belize's 2700 fishermen in the design of the national Managed Access system, led by a team that included fishermen, government officials, and NGOs. Elected Managed Access committees for each of Belize's eight TURFs determine who is eligible for Managed Access licenses in each area (Fujita et al., 2017).
Recognizing that a combination of fisheries governance, scientific assessment and science-based fishing mortality control are the next step to prevent overfishing or stock collapse, the government initiated an effort to develop an adaptive management framework (AMF) for its conch and lobster fisheries that is designed for data-limited circumstances (Fujita et al., 2017). It uses fishery-dependent (catch) and fishery-independent (underwater visual censuses) data to set harvest controls and adjusts them every year as new data are collected and analyzed and compared with fishery performance indicators and reference values. Data collection and monitoring is being structured and standardized through a Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) that is deployed throughout Belize. The use of the AMF and SMART has strengthened collaboration among scientists, government and fishermen in Belize. A training and education program for managers and fishermen in the AMF and SMART systems is building capacity and improving the data collection and analysis processes. AMF and SMART are being integrated into Belize's fisheries management system to ensure that the Managed Access governance system coupled with science based adaptive management results in good fishery outcomes.
How can the performance of small-scale fisheries be improved across a variety of contexts? Based on these case studies, the solution often includes: participatory processes; partnerships across agencies and sectors (government, NGOs, stakeholders); and scientific analysis directly applicable to co-management structures. Participatory processes are important for supplementing scientific knowledge with local knowledge and generating buy-in, as seen in each of the case studies. Each of the five case studies utilized participatory processes to engage participants in decision making, goal setting, scientific data-collection and ultimately implementation of measures aimed at improving fishery performance.
In addition, successful implementation of fishery management is associated with the formation of partnerships across agencies and sectors (governments, NGOs, stakeholders) early in the process—with frequent communication across agencies and sectors. The clearest examples described here of well-developed partnerships among stakeholders and sectors are in Cuba and the El Corredor fishery in Baja Sur, California. In Cuba, the community-based fisheries management project SOS Pesca utilized communication, goal setting and interests of fishing communities and the government to introduce alternative fishing management options. Similarly, the El Corredor fishery used the partnership developed between NGOs and fishers, and NGOs and the government to facilitate communication and the development of common goals by all the stakeholders, resulting in newly developed Marine Protected Areas/Refugia and fishing zones for sustainable fishery management.
The third major lesson learned from the case studies is that scientific data collection and analysis must be embedded within policies that bring science to action (e.g., Belize's adaptive management framework). Each of the case studies either developed new systems for data collection and analysis or made better use of existing data streams, using the best available science to assess fishery performance relative to science-based targets and limits. Fishery sustainability, in part, depends on this scientific enterprise, but even the best stock assessments, targets, and limits cannot result in sustainability without good fishery governance and compliance.
Additionally, the prevalence of policy or management system that generates stewardship incentives, also promote users to comply with science-based regulations. Although the case studies examined here vary in context, all of them made use of the participatory processes to build buy-in, harness local knowledge, build the capacity to scientifically assess and manage stocks, and to design and implement management and governance systems that could generate stewardship incentives. The integration of these elements appears to be important for improving management outcomes in these small scale fisheries (Pollnac, 1994; Pomeroy, 1995; Lester et al., 2017).
Small-scale fisheries occur in many different governance and data contexts. By elucidating attributes of successful small-scale fishery reform efforts and mainstreaming this dialogue, we can begin to understand what conditions result in success. Embedding science-based fisheries management within governance systems that create incentives aligned with management objectives, such as strengthened traditional tenure systems, co-management systems, and well-designed rights-based systems has the potential for dramatically improving the performance of small-scale fisheries, just as it has for large-scale fisheries (Costello et al., 2008; Cinner et al., 2012).
KK, RF, and JK conceived the study, organized the case studies, and processed the lessons learned. KK, RF, JK contributed to the organization of information for each case study and wrote the manuscript. RC, LE, JRF, MG, PG, JM, and BW contributed to the Belize case study. JF, RO, LR, HL, AS, and CV contributed to the Curvina case study. OG, AW, TP, and SR contributed to the El Corredor case study. JG, EL, and RM contributed to the Philippines case study. VM and DW contributed to the Cuba case study. All authors wrote the manuscript and gave final approval of the version to be published and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
The authors would like to thank collaborators E. Garcia, R. Puga, and S. Valle and collaborations with COSPE, National Center for Protected Areas (CNAP) and Fish Forever (a partnership of Rare, Environmental Defense Fund, and the Sustainable Fisheries Group at University of California Santa Barbara) and two referees for helpful suggestions.
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Keywords: fishery management, science-based, rights-based management, sustainability, adaptive management, data-limited fisheries
Citation: Karr KA, Fujita R, Carcamo R, Epstein L, Foley JR, Fraire-Cervantes JA, Gongora M, Gonzalez-Cuellar OT, Granados-Dieseldorff P, Guirjen J, Weaver AH, Licón-González H, Litsinger E, Maaz J, Mancao R, Miller V, Ortiz-Rodriguez R, Plomozo-Lugo T, Rodriguez-Harker LF, Rodríguez-Van Dyck S, Stavrinaky A, Villanueva-Aznar C, Wade B, Whittle D and Kritzer JP (2017) Integrating Science-Based Co-management, Partnerships, Participatory Processes and Stewardship Incentives to Improve the Performance of Small-Scale Fisheries. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:345. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00345
Received: 13 March 2017; Accepted: 13 October 2017;
Brett Favaro, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Samantha Oester, George Mason University, United States
Brice Trouillet, University of Nantes, France (Emilie Novaczek contributed to the review of Brice Trouillet)
Copyright © 2017 Karr, Fujita, Carcamo, Epstein, Foley, Fraire-Cervantes, Gongora, Gonzalez-Cuellar, Granados-Dieseldorff, Guirjen, Weaver, Licón-González, Litsinger, Maaz, Mancao, Miller, Ortiz-Rodriguez, Plomozo-Lugo, Rodriguez-Harker, Rodríguez-Van Dyck, Stavrinaky, Villanueva-Aznar, Wade, Whittle and Kritzer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Kendra A. Karr, kkarr@edf.org
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Ministry of Labor and Social Security
This ministry contributes to Chile’s development by driving public policies that promote decent jobs, vocational training, health and safety in the workplace, greater integration of vulnerable groups into the job market as well as the regulatory changes required for the expansion and exercise of workers’ rights, particularly collective rights. The Ministry will also promote the necessary changes to the pension system.
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María José Zaldívar
LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY MINISTER
Ms. Zaldívar holds Degrees in History and Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. From 2005-2014 she was part of the Superintendence of Social Security, first as an informant lawyer (2005), then as a prosecutor (2006-2010) and finally as Superintendent of Social Security, a position she held until May 2014. Later, Ms. Zaldívar assumed the role of General Manager at a nonprofit that carries out research into social security Corporación de Investigación, Estudio y Desarrollo de la Seguridad Social (CIEDESS).
During her professional career she has taught various courses at Universidad Andrés Bello, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, at the law school of Universidad del Desarrollo and, since 2014, she has been a professor for the Business Law department of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has written a series of publications regarding public policy with a focus on law.
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Fernando Arab
LABOR UNDERSECRETARY
Mr. Arab holds a Law Degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a major in Civil Law. He also holds a Diploma in Law pertaining to Labor and Social Security in companies and a Master’s degree in Law with a major in Business Law from the same university.
Currently he is a Business Law professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for both undergraduate and graduate level courses.
Mr. Arab served as Labor Undersecretary during the administration of Sebastián Piñera from 2013 to 2014.
He has presented at several labor-related conferences both in Chile and abroad and he has also written various publications on this topic.
Mr. Arab is married and is the father of three children.
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Pedro Pizarro
Social Security Undersecretary
Mr. Pizarro holds a law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a master’s in Tax Management from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2008).
He has specialized in corporate counseling on tax matters and as a trial attorney in commercial, civil and tax matters.
Prior to his appointment, he worked as an attorney with law firm Guerrero y Cía, and was part of the technical roundtable that counseled the government on labor legislation and quality of life.
In the public sphere, he is vice-president of the Renovación Nacional political party.
Institutions of Ministry of Labor and Social Security
Labor Directorate (DT)
National Service of Training and Employment (SENCE)
General Directorate of Collateral Loans (DICREP)
Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (ISL)
Superintendency of Pensions (SP)
National Job Skills Certification System Commission (CHILEVALORA)
Social Security Institute (IPS)
Occupational Health and Safety Superintendency (ISL)
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Podcasts to Listen To: Dunc’d On and the best NBA podcasts to listen to
After one of the most exciting offseasons in league history, the 2019-20 NBA season tips off Oct. 22. The Toronto Raptors come into the new season as the defending champions after upsetting the Golden State Warriors, but the team saw 2019 Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard leave for the Los Angeles Clippers. Along with Leonard moving to L.A., Anthony Davis joined LeBron James and the Lakers via trade, and Kyrie Irving signed with the Brooklyn Nets. With Leonard, the Clippers come into the season as the favorites to win the 2020 championship. To get you ready for the season, here are a few podcasts to listen to.
Dunc’d On
Salary cap expert and writer Nate Duncan goes in-depth into the NBA. Duncan features detailed game breakdowns, salary cap analysis and the latest in scouting news. Along with guests, Duncan previews the day’s biggest games, covers the latest on the league’s superstars and gets inside the business of running a team. Recent episodes include "NOP Outlook w/ Mason Ginsberg," "NBA/China w/ Bill Bishop of Sinocism" and "Dallas Mavericks 2019-20 Outlook w/ Tim Cato."
Find it: http://nateduncannba.com/
Hosted by Adrian Wojnarowski, one of the NBA’s most prolific reporters, this show probes the biggest newsmakers in the NBA. Wojnarowski interviews everyone from the commissioner to general managers, coaches and players about the latest breaking news. Recent episodes include "ESPN’s Doris Burke," "The Woj & Lowe Show" and "Cavaliers coach John Beilein."
Find it: http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/26974840
Presented by The Ringer basketball staff, this podcast features a daily breakdown of the latest storylines, trends and developments in the NBA by a variety of hosts, including Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor. It also features interviews with players, coaches and front-office personnel. Recent episodes include "Group Chat: Rookie Standouts: Zion, Herro, Morant, Barrett, and More," "The Mismatch: LeBron James’s Comments on China Spur Backlash" and "Heat Check: The Shallow Lakers, a Kyrie Irving Setback, and Max Player Buddy Hield?"
Find it: https://www.theringer.com/the-nba-show
Produced by Sports Illustrated, hosts Andrew Sharp and Ben Golliver give fans the latest news on the NBA. Sharp and Golliver break down the biggest news, moves and events around the league. Episodes feature deep dives into the league’s best players, their teammates and their coaches. Recent episodes include "Harden and Westbrook deep dive," "The NBA game goes on in China" and "Daryl Morey’s China crisis."
Find it: https://www.si.com/si-nba-open-floor-podcast
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Everything We Know About Donnie Wahlberg And Jenny McCarthy’s Relationship
Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy are one of the cutest couples in Hollywood. The Blue Bloods actor fell head over heels for The Masked Singer judge McCarthy almost immediately and a whirlwind romance ensued. Their love story is one we can't help gushing over.
A "Steamy" Start
The romance began on Jenny McCarthy's VH1 talk show. Though Wahlberg and McCarthy had met once before during a 2012 guest appearance on Watch What Happens Live!, they'd had a chaperone in the form of the host, Andy Cohen. This time, it was just the two of them and things got, in McCarthy's own words, "steamy." In a blog post she wrote teasing the new episode, via E! News, she confessed, "It gets steamy. I mean like really steamy. Being turned on by a guy is always fun but to have it legitimately happen to you on TV is to be turned back into a 12-year-old."
Though their chemistry was instantly palpable, it took Donnie Wahlberg a little longer than McCarthy liked for him to call after she gave him her number. "It took two weeks for him to call me back, and I thought for sure he was playing for a different team, if you know what I'm saying," McCarthy joked on PLJ-FM.
Donnie Wahlberg Pops The Question
When Wahlberg did call, the sparks flew right away. A year later, in April 2014, the New Kids On The Block front man asked McCarthy to marry him. McCarthy broke the news during an appearance on The View, where she also spilled the details about how Wahlberg asked."This weekend I was sitting with Donnie and he went into the other room and out came Evan with a card that said 'Will.' And he ran away and came back with a card that said 'You.'"
"I knew what was happening and I just started crying," McCarthy recalled, causing a dreamy sigh to spread through the audience. "And then he came out with a card that said 'Marry,' but it was spelled 'Mary,' and the last time Donnie came out with Evan and Evan's shirt said 'Me?' and he was holding the ring. He asked, 'Will you marry me?' I of course said yes."
Jenny McCarthy's Happily Ever After
"And in that moment, Evan yelled, 'I have another dad! I have another dad.' And it was just — it made all of us cry," she said, tearing up a bit while remembering. "I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. He's so wonderful." Of course Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy didn't have a long engagement, and they were married a few months later in August 2014. They even starred in their own reality show shortly afterwards, called Donnie Loves Jenny. The show ended after three seasons, but McCarthy and Wahlberg's marriage is still going strong.
Jenny McCarthy has been subjected to some strange tabloid rumors over the years. For instance, the National Enquirer claimed that McCarthy and Andy Cohen were feuding over radio show guests. This bizarre rumor was also repeated by Radar Online. Gossip Cop proved that the two talk show hosts did not have beef over guests. That same outlet also alleged that McCarthy's son called A-list celebrities from his mom's phone. That, too, was false and McCarthy herself denied the rumor on Twitter.
In need of a good laugh? Even celebrities are struggling to keep it together during quarantine and are turning to social media to share their meltdowns. Our friends at CinemaBlend compiled the best celeb posts into one hilarious video.
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Arla distribution centre gets planning
Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK: Arla Foods has planning permission for a 21,000sq metre distribution centre at Hatfield. Welwyn Hatfield council approved the development on the 17-acre plot on Hatfield Business Park.
The distribution centre will be operated by Hoddesdon-based chilled food distribution firm PCL Transport on behalf of Arla Foods, a dairy co-operative.
Construction is to start this summer and the site is expected to be operational by mid-2013. Arlington Business Parks, a division of Australian property comoany Goodman, will develop the centre for Arla. Goodman has a 15-year lease with PCL Transport.
The site is close to the A1M at junction 4 to the north and 3 to the south. Both junctions can be accessed via the A1001 Comet Way.
The warehouse will have 70 loading docks and 10 level access bays on two sides, a 1,300sq metre office block, and an HGV servicing and wash facility.
The warehouse will be 15m high to the underside of internal haunch, with a further 3.5m to the ridge.
Tenants at the 400-acre park include Ocado, Booker and Royal Mail.
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UN Council Ends Bans on Sierra Leone Diamonds
By Evelyn Leopold
U.N. Security Council members decided on Wednesday to drop sanctions on "blood diamonds" from Sierra Leone when the global ban expires this week, its president reported.
Council members reviewed the sanctions, first imposed in July 2000 when the Freetown government was barely functioning and rebels were financing a brutal war by smuggling gems to Liberia in exchange for arms. The ban on diamond exports from Liberia, however, remains intact. "It was decided not to extend them and a special statement on this will be made Thursday," Russia's U.N. ambassador, Sergei Lavrov, this month's council president told Reuters after consultations. The sanctions expire on Friday.
The Security Council had imposed bans on illicit diamond exports three years ago until the Freetown government could set up a proper certification system for the gems -- as well as regain access to diamond-mining areas then under rebel control. Members now believe that Sierra Leone has devised its own system to certify diamonds, which, despite problems, could function with international support but without punitive measures.
Nevertheless, a March report by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that "diamond trading is yet to be adequately regulated" by the government although legal exports last year increased to $41 million from about $26 million in 2001.
However, council diplomats said the situation no longer merited sanctions as it did not pose a threat to international peace and security. Instead, they said foreign groups, such as the U.S. Development Program, the World Bank, British mining experts, the U.S. government and others were assisting Sierra Leone in regulating the gems. Diamonds, gold, iron ore and bauxite accounted for about two thirds of Sierra Leone's exports before war in the 1990s wrecked the economy of the former British colony.
Some 70 diamond producing countries agreed in April to curb trade in "blood diamonds," which originate in conflict zones and have helped to fund Africa's wars. They have until July 31 to meet monitoring requirements or face a trading ban from other participants in the plan, agreed to in South Africa and known as the Kimberley Process Certification scheme.
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Home Russia & China China Will China gradually replace the United States in the Middle East?
Will China gradually replace the United States in the Middle East?
China, with its dependence on energy supplies from Middle East, has huge stakes in the region. With US tired of its international responsibilities it's only a matter of time before China and Russia replace the United States with a new security arrangement for the region. It's not a question of "if" but "when" argues Prof. Dr. James Dorsey from Rajaratnum School of International Studies, Singapore. Dorsey had previously served as Wall Street Journal's Bureau Chief for Middle East.
Dr. James Dorsey
The question is not if, but when the long-standing American defence umbrella in the Gulf, the world’s most militarised and volatile region, will be replaced by a multilateral security arrangement that would have to include China as well as Russia.
The United States’ perceived diminishing commitment to the Gulf and the broader Middle East and mounting doubts about the deterrence value of its defence umbrella leave the Gulf stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The American umbrella is shrinking, but neither China nor Russia, despite their obvious interests, are capable or willing simply to shoulder the responsibility, political risk and cost of replacing it.
China’s stakes in Middle East are huge
On balance, China’s interests seem self-evident. It needs to secure its mushrooming political and economic interests in the Gulf, which includes ensuring the flow of oil and gas and protecting its infrastructure investment and the expanding Chinese diaspora in the region.
Nonetheless, China has so far refrained from putting its might where its money is, free-riding instead (in the words of US officials) on America’s regional military presence.
#Opinion | A multilateral arrangement, in which the US remained the key military player, would further fit the pattern of China’s gradual projection of its growing military power beyond its borders
By: James M Dorsey https://t.co/p50dI0eDfz
— WION (@WIONews) March 27, 2020
China’s approach is grounded in the belief that economics rather than geopolitics is the key to solving disputes.
Indeed, for the longest time, China has been able to outsource the protection of its interests to the United States at virtually no cost. For the US, guaranteeing security in the Gulf has been anchored in an American policy which accepted that maintaining security far beyond the borders of the United States was in America’s national interest, including the protection of Chinese assets. All China needed to do, therefore, was to make minimal gestures such as contributing to the multi-national effort in the Gulf and adjacent waters to counter Somali pirates.
In the meantime, China could pursue a long-term strategy to bolster its capabilities. This included infrastructure projects related to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with dual-purpose potential (such as the strategic ports of Gwadar in Pakistan and Duqm in Oman as well as commercial investment in Dubai’s Jebel Ali), the creation of China’s first overseas military facility in Djibouti, and significant expenditure on upgrading the Chinese armed forces.
Read more: China-Iran Partnership: Infrastructural Development & New Silk Road
All that potentially changed with the rise of US President Donald J. Trump, who advocated an America First policy that attributed little value to past US commitments or to maintaining existing alliances. Hence Trump embarked on a trade war with China – viewed as a strategic competitor – and appeared to fuel rather than resolve regional stability by uncritically aligning American policy with that of Saudi Arabia and Israel and targeted Iran as the source of all evil.
This change has yet to translate into specific Chinese policy statements or actions. Nonetheless, the anticipated shift from a unipolar to a multilateral security architecture in the Gulf has cast a new light on the first-ever joint naval exercise involving Chinese, Russian and Iranian naval forces, as well as China’s seemingly lukewarm support for a Russian proposal for a multilateral security approach in the Gulf.
China was careful to signal that neither the joint exercise nor its closer military ties with a host of other Middle Eastern nations meant it was aspiring to a greater role in regional security any time soon. If anything, both the exercise and China’s notional support for Russia’s proposed restructuring of regional security suggest that China envisions a continued US lead in Gulf security, despite the mounting rivalry between the world’s two largest economies.
Russia & China will replace the United States?
The Russian proposal in many ways fits China’s bill. Its calls for a multilateral structure involving Russia, China, the United States, Europe and India that would evolve out of a regional security conference along the lines of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). While backing Russia’s proposal in general terms, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang stopped short of specifically endorsing it. Geng welcomed ‘all proposals and diplomatic efforts conducive to de-escalating the situation in the Gulf region’.
China’s reluctance to endorse the Russian proposal more wholeheartedly is rooted in differing approaches towards multilateralism in general and alliances in particular. China shies away from alliances, with their emphasis on geo-economics rather than geopolitics, while Russia still operates in terms of alliances. Despite favouring a continued American lead, China sees a broadening of security arrangements that would embed rather than replace the US defence umbrella in the Gulf as a way to reduce regional tensions.
China also believes that a multilateral arrangement would allow it to continue to steer clear of being sucked into conflicts and disputes in the Middle East, particularly the Saudi-Iranian rivalry. A multilateral arrangement in which the US remained the key military player would further fit the pattern of China’s gradual projection of its growing military power beyond its borders.
With the exception of the facility in Djibouti, China’s projection becomes less hardcore the further one gets from the borders of the People’s Republic. More fundamentally, China’s approach is grounded in the belief that economics rather than geopolitics is the key to solving disputes, which so far has allowed it to remain detached from the Middle East’s multiple conflicts. It remains to be seen how sustainable this approach is in the long term.
Read more: Trump thinks tariffs are hurting China, but aides warn of long war
Such an approach is unlikely to shield China forever from the Middle East’s penchant for ensuring it is at the heart of the major external parties’ concerns. And as Jiang Xudong, a Middle East scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, puts it: ‘Economic investment will not solve all other problems when there are religious and ethnic conflicts at play’.
Dr James M. Dorsey is a Senior Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute, and Co-Director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Global Village Space.
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[TV] Sense8: Season 1
At first I wanted to post this review on Thursday, together with my other TV reviews, but the nature of the show kind of made it perfect for my Sunday LGBT feature, and so here we are. And as much as being LGBT isn't necessarily a core pillar of the show, the character-centric narratives do bring one's LGBT self to the foreground. Thus making it quite the interesting thought experiment as well.
Sense8 is a tricky show to describe since at times it feels more like some sort of an experience captured in a show. And while it does have a pretty evident meta-plot that is active from the very first episode, most of the series almost feels like a bunch of character-centric vignettes with everyone working independently.
Tobie points out that this very much feels like a tabletop RPG campaign with each of the 8 primary characters being something like player characters in the game. Hence the reason they end up operating independently with limited options for interaction. Diversity is key.
Synopsis: Sense8 is science fiction drama series created by Andy and Lana Wachowski together with J. Michael Straczynski. The 12-episode first season debuted on Netflix in its entirety on June 5, 2015.
Sense8 is the story of 8 strangers from around the world who find themselves linked by the vision of the violent death of a woman later revealed to be Angelica (Daryl Hannah). Will (Brian J. Smith) is a Chicago police officer. Riley (Tuppence Middleton) is a DJ in Iceland. Capheus (Aml Ameen)is a bus driver in Nairobi. Sun (Bae Doona) is the daughter of a powerful businessman in Seoul. Lito (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), a closeted actor. Kala (Tina Desai) is a woman in Mumbai engaged to marry someone she does not love.Wolfgang (Max Riemelt) is a locksmith and safecracker in Berlin. Nomi (Jamie Clayton) is a transgender woman and hacktivist blogger in San Francisco.
After that first vision that they all witnessed and experienced as if they had all been at the scene, they start to find themselves seeing through one another eyes and eventually feeling everything that the others feel. It happens at seemingly random intervals as they start to discover the other members of their "cluster" but soon they're actually taking over one another's bodies in order to help out in situations where the skills of the other actually work out better. But all the while they're also being hunted down by an individual only known as Whispers (Terrance Mann), who is working for some other corporation. The group's only help is coming from Jonas (Naveen Andrews), a sensate from a different cluster.
At first glance, the show can be pretty confusing. We start with the surprising death of Daryl Hannah's character and from there we're jumping all around the world following these different people. And most of the series focuses on making sure we know who they are and we understand the story of their lives. If anything, it feels like the show's writers took it upon themselves to pretty much tell 8 separate stories fully with very limited points of interaction between the two.
Tobie pointed out an interesting aspect to the show - the fact that all of them were pretty average people with limited financial means or at least are generally not in a position to fly around the world. As they meet the other members of their sensate cluster, they quickly discover that they're all from different parts of the world, but you also don't see an immediate effort to try and find one another. Thus their stories progress on largely independent tracks until we get towards the end.
The skill-swapping angle is pretty brilliant - how they are able to pretty much project themselves into each others bodies and use their own knowledge and experience to get past challenges. Thus a man without fighting skills can take on the abilities of someone else who is better equipped to handle the challenge when the need arises. Of course the fact that they don't immediately show them actively knowing how the links happen and yet they do happen does feel like quite the interesting series of coincidences.
And you have very heavy-handed parallels between characters where they all seem to be going through pretty similar situations at generally the same time. This can be amusing initially but a little strained at other times since it seems like such a lucky break that things work out the way they do. But I suppose it can be argued that this is all part of the fact that they're part of a sensate to begin with and so maybe this is a factor in the shape of their lives and the many coincidences?
The show may not be a purely LGBT show, but it is one that preaches a song message about diversity. We have people from very different cultures and even different genders, the more obvious ones being Lito as a homosexual male and Nomi as a transgender woman. But I love the fact that they're stories aren't solely about their sexual identities for these particular characters. But they are strong parts of the story and some of the challenges that they face.
Sense8 is an experience and quite the beautiful one that takes us into the lives of 8 different characters from 8 different cultures. It's a series with a meta-plot that is still important but generally takes a back seat to the characters and yet still draws you in wanting to know more. Thus the first season gets 4 crazy moments of body-swapping within their cluster out of a possible 5.
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Dr Vikash R Keshri
Senior Research Fellow, Injury Division
Vikash R Keshri is Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. He has completed MBBS and MD in community medicine from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Wardha in India, and a short course in Health Policy Analysis from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Vikash has around 10 years of experience in public health and health systems besides a couple of years as a clinician. Prior to joining TGI, has worked extensively in various capacity in varied organizations, such as missionary hospital, Department of Community Medicine at MGIMS, FHI 360 for MP health sector reform project, State Resource Unit and Care INDIA in Bihar, the Centre for Health Policy at Asian Development Research Institute, Patna. He has experience of working closely with policymakers and health systems stakeholders in many states in India.
His professional and research interest revolve around health systems and policy research (HPSR), especially policy analysis, governance, human resource for health and organization of health services in resource-constrained settings. At TGI, he is working on improving recovery outcome of Burns survivors with a systems approach applying the HPSR lens.
Clinical trials are neglecting the interplay between COVID-19 and chronic diseases, analysis shows
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Prince George's County 5-car crash kills 2
BELTSVILLE, Md. - Two people have died after a five-car crash in Prince George's County early Monday morning, according to officials.
U.S. Park police said the crash happened at about midnight on Edmonston Road near Sunnyside Road in Beltsville, Maryland.
Authorities said five cars were involved in the crash and confirmed two people had been killed.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation and no other details were released at this time.
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Win in NASCAR’s Final 8 with FOX’s Super 6
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LEFT: Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Beer/National Forest Foundation Ford, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 21, 2019 in Loudon, New
The NASCAR season has just three races remaining as the NASCAR Cup Playoffs head to Fort Worth and the Texas Motor Speedway this Sunday for the Autotrader Echo Park 500 – the second race of the three contests in Round of Eight portion.
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The 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion won last week at Kansas to vault from fifth to first in the Cup Standings and earn a berth in the championship chase. Logano has 18 Top 10 finishes. At Texas, Logano has one win and 11 Top 5 finishes.
Second in Kansas last weekend, Harvick fell to second in the NASCAR Cup standings, Harvick has nine wins and 26 top 10 finishes in 33 starts this year. He has three wins and twelve Top 5 finishes at Texas Motor Speedway.
The No. 11 had a disappointing 15th place finish last week at Kansas after leading for 58 laps. At Fort Worth, Hamlin has three wins and seven Top 5 finishes in 29 starts.
The No. 2 car is holding onto the fourth spot and the final position in the title race at Phoenix following his fourth-place finish at Kansas. He has yet to win at the Texas Motor Speedway in 24 starts in his career with an average finish of 17.3 place.
Elliott and the No. 9 car are 8 points back of the fourth and final position in the chase at Phoenix following his sixth-place showing at Kansas. Elliott has two Top 5 finishes in nine previous races at Texas Motor Speedway as he looks for his first victory.
The No. 88 car is 27 points behind the fourth spot in the Chase standings. Texas Motor Speedway has not been kind to Bowman, who has three DNF out of ten races in Fort Worth and only one Top 5.
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Greece mulling 15 percent levy for Greeks to legalize undeclared bank deposits abroad
A man lowers the Greek flag on the roof of an office block, as an ornamental lamppost base from the neoclassical National Library building in central Athens is seen in the foreground, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Greece's finance minister insisted Tuesday that the cash-strapped country will soon reach an agreement with bailout creditors, that will enable it to make a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on June 5 _ which it would be otherwise unable to pay. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)(The Associated Press)
An elderly woman climbs up ancient stone steps leading to the church of Panaghia Theotokos, in the archaeological site of Elefsina west of Athens, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Greece's finance minister insisted Tuesday that the cash-strapped country will soon reach an agreement with bailout creditors, that will enable it to make a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on June 5 _ which it would be otherwise unable to pay. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)(The Associated Press)
Visitors looks at the archaeological site of Elefsina west of Athens, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Greece's finance minister insisted Tuesday that the cash-strapped country will soon reach an agreement with bailout creditors, that will enable it to make a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on June 5 _ which it would be otherwise unable to pay. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)(The Associated Press)
ATHENS, Greece – Greece is considering a 15 percent levy on undeclared foreign deposits, and double that rate on undeclared deposits in domestic banks, as an enticement for tax-dodgers to legalize assets.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says he is also thinking of imposing a charge on cash withdrawals from bank ATMs and on over-the-counter transactions, to encourage electronic banking and fight widespread tax evasion.
Greece's radical left-led government is locked in negotiations with bailout creditors over reforms demanded in return for a vital rescue loan payment — without which the government says it can't make a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on June 5.
Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, Varoufakis insisted that the payment will be made because a deal will be struck by then.
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Pollution costs India $80 bn a year: World Bank
A factory chimney belches smoke in a residential area as haze casts a blanket over Bangalore, southern India on December 11, 2009. Pollution and other environmental degradation costs India $80 billion a year, nearly six percent of gross domestic product, the World Bank said in a report released on Wednesday. (AFP/File)
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Pollution and other environmental degradation costs India $80 billion a year, nearly six percent of gross domestic product, the World Bank said in a report released on Wednesday.
The report, requested by the national government, points to air pollution and contaminated water supplies as some of the main environmental problems facing India.
The study, which assesses the impact of environmental damage in India, also said that air pollution and contaminated water could be responsible for large numbers of child deaths in the country.
"About 23 percent of child mortality and 2.5 percent of all adult deaths in the country can be attributed to environmental degradation," Muthukumara S. Mani, a senior economist at the World Bank, said at the launch of the report in New Delhi.
The report cited a recent survey of 132 countries which ranked India 126th for environmental performance and last for air pollution, even worse than neighbouring China, due to its power stations, traffic congestion, industry and other factors.
"The rankings show that India's stellar economic record during the last decade is not reflected in its environmental performance," Mani said, adding the government needed to focus on sustainable economic growth and greener growth options.
"India needs to put a value to its natural resources and ecosystem services for an environmentally sustainable future," he said.
Reducing harmful carbon emissions was possible without a negative impact on economic growth, the report stated.
"India can reduce its emissions at very little cost to the GDP by switching to green technology, even this loss gets offset by the tangible health benefits," Mani said.
The World Bank study comes on the back of the devastating flash floods in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand which environmentalists have blamed on unregulated development and deforestation in the area.
Nearly 6,000 people are believed to have died in the disaster triggered by heavy early monsoon rains that lashed the region last month.
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$22 million to fast track early stage research
The Liberal National Government is providing more than $22 million for important early stage research that will lead to new interventions, cures and treatments of major diseases. Major diseases – like arthritis, asthma, back pain, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and mental health conditions – have a severe impact on the…
Free flu vaccines for Aboriginal children and $12 million to boost immunisation
The Liberal National Government will ensure 170,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and adolescents are vaccinated against the flu for free and additionally provide a $12 million to boost a nation immunisation education campaign. I am delighted to announce that seasonal influenza vaccines will be available at no cost through the National Immunisation…
$38.6 million for rare cancer and diseases clinical trials
The Liberal National Government will provide $38.6 million to support 23 new clinical trials to improve treatments and discover cures for debilitating and deadly rare cancers and rare diseases. The Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Need Clinical Trials program is a competitive program that focuses on clinical trials that address areas of health…
The HeartKids Project: $26 million to tackle childhood heart disease
The Liberal National Government will establish the HeartKids Project with $26 million to tackle childhood heart disease, which affects more than 65,000 Australians. Today, on international day for congenital heart disease, our Government will provide $20 million for medical research into congenital heart disease. This funding from the Medical Research Future Fund will…
$1.6 million for innovative ovarian cancer care pilot
The Liberal National Government will invest $1.6 million in an innovative pilot project to support women living with ovarian cancer. Delivered through Ovarian Cancer Australia, the pilot program is built upon a psychosocial support case management model using telehealth to provide care and support to ovarian cancer patients and their families. It is…
$32 million program to support Australian researchers
The Liberal National Government is providing the medical research sector a $32 million boost over four years to help researchers make their medical breakthroughs a commercial success. Funded through the landmark Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), the Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry (REDI) grant initiative will assist Australian researchers gain access to entrepreneurial…
$26 million for perinatal mental health
The Liberal National Government will support the mental health of expectant and new parents with $26 million for a new Perinatal Mental Health and Wellbeing Program. The impending birth and arrival of a baby—the perinatal period—brings incredible joy as well as new challenges and responsibilities which can be overwhelming. Each year, an estimated…
Full sails for McCrae Yacht Club
The McCrae Yacht Club will receive a welcome boost to its upgrade plans after securing $147,000 through round two of the Federal Government’s Community Sport Infrastructure Grants program. The funding will allow the club to proceed with plans to improve disability access, install additional female facilities and undergo expansion to improve participation. Federal…
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The Zevenbergen Hike
This trail also leads to Mount Christoffel.
The Zevenbergen Plantation Hike, almost 7 miles long, takes between 2-3 hours to complete. Constant exposure to the sun and occasional climbing make the Zevenbergen Hike moderately difficult.
The Trailhead is in the Parking lot at the visitor entrance. Marked in yellow, this undulating road passes through the Curacao Lava Formation and ends up at the base of Mount Christoffel.
Start by making about a 10-minute climb of Seru Tinta. Besides excellent panoramic views and the chance to view more of the island's geology, the real reason for the climb is Piedra di Monton--what looks like a large heap of stones deposited by several dump trucks.
Instead, they represent the dreams of escape of 18th and 19th century slaves. The legend handed down is this: salt is a crucial in the tropics because without it, you lose your own body salts by sweating.
Slaves apparently believed that if they didn't eat salt, they would be able to fly (probably because of the feeling of light-headedness symptomatic of salt deprivation). It was believed that every slave who had not eaten salt could place a stone at the foot of Mount Christoffel and sing a song that would enable them to fly back to Africa.
In the 20th century, the stones piles (Piedra di Monton) were appropriated to help maintain the park roads. Although it may be tempting, it is now forbidden to collect anything, even stones, in the park.
Taking the main yellow route, climb a little over 600 feet for an excellent view of Santa Martha Bay to the south. In this spot are the only two species of orchids that occur on the island.
The prettiest is the purple orchid, which blooms in July and August. White orchids peak in December and January but are present anytime there's sufficient rain.
Continuing along the main road, you'll come to the Seru Bientu trail, a 10-minute path to the top of a hill whose name literally means "wind" (bientu).
The climb is not steep but the wind can be strong enough literally to stop you in your tracks. The trail begins among dyewood trees and shrubby kamalia, although lichens and bare rock soon become characteristic on the right side. In the valley below, on the left, is a manganese mine that closed in 1881.
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Tremonti Premiere "Dust" Lyric Video
By Guitar World Staff 18 March 2016
After the recent announcement of Tremonti’s third album Dust, which is scheduled for an April 29 release via Fret 12 Records, the band has released a lyric video for the title track and debut single.
“Dust” premiered yesterday on Sirius/XM’s Octane channel. The lyric video contains imagery from the Cauterize and Dust albums as the backdrop behind the moving lyrics.
“Dust is about how it feels to watch a close friend close confidence in you,” Mark Tremonti says.Dust was recorded during same sessions as the band’s last release, Cauterize, and features Mark Tremonti on vocals/guitars, Eric Friedman on guitars, Wolfgang Van Halen on bass and Garrett Whitlock on drums.
Tremonti will be heading to Europe later this spring in support of Dust. The band will be making stops at some of the largest festivals in the world including Hellfest, Graspop Metal Meeting, and Download Festival. Aside from the festivals, the band has several headline dates confirmed as well as a few shows opening for metal legends Iron Maiden.
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Justin Townes Earle, Americana star and son of Steve Earle, dies aged 38
The critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist mixed roots, country, blues and old-timey music across eight solo albums
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Singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Townes Earle, a celebrated Americana and roots music artist and the son of country star Steve Earle, has died at the age of 38.
Earle’s passing was announced in a posting on his social media pages: “It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the passing of our son, husband, father and friend Justin,” the post read.
“So many of you have relied on his music and lyrics over the years and we hope that his music will continue to guide you on your journeys.”
No cause of death has been revealed.
It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the passing of our son, husband, father and friend Justin. So many of you have relied on his music and lyrics over the years and we hope that his music will continue to guide you on your journeys. You will be missed dearly Justin 💔 “I've crossed oceans Fought freezing rain and blowing sand I've crossed lines and roads and wondering rivers Just looking for a place to land” 📷 by @thejoshuablackwilkins Justin Townes Earle
A photo posted by @justintownesearle on Aug 23, 2020 at 5:30pm PDT
The artist, who was named after his father’s friend, Townes Van Zandt, cut his teeth playing in Nashville-area bands, among them a rock outfit named the Distributors, and a bluesgrass act, the Swindlers. He also joined his father’s touring band, the Dukes, playing keyboards and guitar.
Early in his career he became known for his stark, sometimes old-timey approach, as well as an ongoing battle with drug addiction that became intertwined with his music and story.
Regarding his early guitar influences, Earle told the Chicagoist, “I learned about Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb through my father. I also picked up a few things from a street player in New Orleans named Frank Schapp. He's an amazing picker. Another guitarist I look up to is a man named Malcolm Holcomb. I've picked up a thing here, a thing there, and incorporate it into my own style. I'm kind of a ‘collector’ of picking styles.”
In 2007, Earle released his critically-acclaimed 2007 debut EP, Yuma, and went on to sign a recording contract with Bloodshot Records. He has since released eight studio albums, including the "family trilogy" of 2014’s Single Mothers, 2015’s Absent Fathers and 2017’s Kids in the Street.
His most recent release was 2019’s The Saint of Lost Causes, which mixed everything from traditional country, blues and folk to western swing, roots-rock and boogie-woogie.
“I kind of see it the same way that maybe Gram Parsons did,” he said of the record. “There’s this idea of moving forward and playing with newer sounds and different modes, but at the same time making sure you keep one foot firmly planted in the past as you feel out the future.
"I think it’s really important to leave a trail, you know? Put down some breadcrumbs behind you.”
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World famous MG, The ‘Old Speckled Hen’ – which lent its name to a beer - for sale with H&H Classics
At £50,000 to £60,000 - 1927 MG 14/40 Featherweight Sporting Saloon
Probably the best-known MG in the world – The Old Speckled Hen, a 1927 14/40 Featherweight Sporting Saloon - is coming up for sale with H&H Classics at the Imperial War Museum Duxford on October 14th with an estimate of £50,000 to £60,000.
Beginning life as a 14/28 model in May 1927, ‘WL 3450’ was among a small number of sister cars that had yet to be sold when Morris Garages (or MG for short) became a limited company that September.
Recalled to the Works, it was mechanically updated to 14/40 specification and is believed to be one of just three cars that were clothed with fabric Salonette coachwork by Gordon England (the enclosed body style was more expensive and considerably less popular than the open designs on offer).
Serving as the Works demonstrator once completed, the four-seater’s distinctive silver and black fleck livery saw it christened ‘Speckled Hen’ (a memorable nickname which has stuck ever since).
Keen to establish a reputation as a sports car maker, MG are understood to have fitted ‘WL 3450’ with a lowered back axle for competition events. The Salonette is also documented as having been returned to Gordon England for repairs presumably so that it could present its ‘best face’ to the public.
The victim of a major fire shortly before the outbreak of World War Two, ‘Speckled Hen’ survived the conflict and passed through the hands of several owners before the vendor, an acknowledged ‘flat rad’ MG specialist, discovered it in South Wales during the late 1990s.
A testament to the seller’s skills, ‘WL 3450’ remains extremely presentable twenty-one years after its ‘chassis up’ restoration. The subject of at least three articles in MG World by automotive historian Jonathan Wood, ‘Speckled Hen’ is also referenced in ex-MG employee Mike Allison’s excellent tome ‘The Magic of MG’.
Damian Jones, Head of Sales for H&H Classics comments: “There can be few Vintage cars that have had a beer named after them; Morland Brewery first concocting ‘Old Speckled Hen’ in 1979 to mark the 50th Anniversary of MG and fewer still that have led such an interesting life. A fascinating car in its own right, ‘WL 3450’ has been pictured with the likes of petrolhead and AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson and is surely a ‘must buy’ for anyone compiling the ultimate MG collection!”
The car is offered for sale with history file including various evocative period photos.
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TINCKNELL SLIPS TO TENTH IN SHANGHAI STORMS
Harry finishes 6th on the road only to be demoted after a post race time penalty was applied for an infringement during the first pit stop.
Harry Tincknell endured a tough ending to his 2018 season at the Shanghai International Circuit. The 5th round of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship was held in torrid conditions just outside the Chinese capital and it proved to be a long afternoon for the 27 year old and his Ford Chip Ganassi Racing team. Tincknell’s team mate, Guernseyman Andy Priaulx, started from the unusually low position of 7th on the grid following a dramatic qualifying session where the #67 briefly caught fire in the garage during the routine, pre session warm up. Luckily damage was minimal and the Ford mechanics did a fantastic job to repair the car in time for the second half of qualifying, allowing Tincknell and Priaulx to at least get themselves halfway up the GTE Pro grid. Dry weather on Saturday turned into torrential rain for race day. After starting behind the safety car, the race was red flagged due to the unsafe nature of the track with standing water covering many areas of the 3.4 mile circuit. Racing briefly resumed but with cars spiralling out of control in the perilous conditions, the officials were once again forced to suspend the race. Finally, with 3 hours and 40 minutes remaining on the clock, the race resumed and Priaulx immediately set about trying to fight through the spray and up the order. But disaster struck on lap 30 when following closely to an LMP1 competitor, Priaulx slid wide at the first corner, beaching the Ford GT in the gravel. Crucially however, he managed to haul his way back onto the circuit before the car lost a lap to the overall leader and pitted to hand over to Tincknell at the half way point of the 6 hour race. Now at the wheel in last place and with nothing to lose, Tincknell started the the fight back passing the sister Ford during the pit phase on lap 65 and overtaking the Corvette of Oliver Gavin at turn one on the following lap. On a role but still with a lot of time to make up, Tincknell hunted down the BMW of Dutchman Nicky Catsberg and took 8th position on lap 86 while a problem for the second BMW moved the Devonian higher to 7th. Not finished yet, Tincknell had the #71 Ferrari in his sights, passing Italian Davide Rigon on the penultimate lap to move up to 6th place at the checkered flag. Initial delight of a spirited comeback were short lived, as shortly after the race the #67 car was handed a 54 second penalty for an infringement at Priaulx’s first pit stop, demoting the car to 10th place, scoring just a solitary point for their afternoon’s work.
"It was a tough and demanding weekend with lots of obstacles to overcome. We had a lot of set up issues with the car during practice while the fire before qualifying coupled with the horrendous conditions on Sunday meant that it would have been easy to jump in the car in last place and given up. But we did exactly the opposite and I am proud that we kept fighting to the finish as high up the order as possible. We definitely struggled to maximise grip from our wet tyres this weekend so we will go away and analyse what we can do to improve this and make sure that we come back next year stronger and with no penalties!"
Harry’s next FIA World Endurance Championship race is the 1000 miles of Sebring on the 15th March, 2019.
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Radisson Prince Charles Hotel
16.2 miles from Falcon, NC
Reports say that this hotel may be closed for business, but the building is said to be haunted by the ghost of Charlotte, a young woman who committed suicide here in the early 1900s. It seems that Charlotte was distraught after finding her new husband in bed with a bridesmaid ...
Bentonville Battlefield
Four Oaks, North Carolina
Phantom gunfire and shouts have been heard on the battlefield at night, and the ghost of a girl who died of tuberculosis is believed to haunt an upstairs room in the plantation house.
The ghostly campus legends at North Carolina State University include a haunting by a student who threw herself off the roof of the D.H. Hill Library in the 1980s (her silhouette is occasionally spotted on the roof) and a construction worker who haunts the Bell Tower.
Mordecai House
The oldest part of Mordecai House, part of a public park, dates to around 1785 and was constructed by Joel Lane for his son Henry. The name of the house changed when Moses Mordecai married Margaret Lane in 1817. It is said to be haunted by family member Mary Willis ...
Gimghoul Castle - Dromgoole's Castle
Ghimghoul Castle near the University of North Carolina campus is a ruin with many legends attached. One says that 18-year-old Peter Dromgoole was buried here in 1833 after he lost a duel for the hand of his beloved Miss Fanny. Another tale says that Fanny loved Peter and didn't know ...
Devil's Tramping Ground
Bennett, North Carolina
According to local lore, this area near Bennett is a 40-foot circle in the middle of a forest in which nothing will grow. Legend has maintained, for over a century, that it is the site where the devil himself rises to the surface to wreak havoc on mankind. Reports say ...
As many as 20 ghosts are said to haunt this 1924 hotel building. The most well-known is that of Dr. William Jacocks, a frequent guest who made the hotel his home after he retired -- and still resides here, folks say. He lived in Room 256, and he makes himself ...
Horace Williams House
55 miles from Falcon, NC
The 1840s Horace Williams House was the home of University of North Carolina's Philosophy Department chairman and taught future renowned author Thomas Wolfe. Williams is said to haunt his former home, moving objects around, rocking a rocking chair and flushing toilets.
Patterson-Noble-Baker House
The circa-1820 Patterson-Noble-Baker House was a plantation home originally, but now serves as a private home. Reports say it is a hot spot for paranormal activity, and ghost hunters have recorded EVPs inside.
Ghosts of the Triangle (NC): Historic Haunts of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill (Haunted America)
Ghosts of the Yadkin Valley (NC) (Haunted America)
R.G. Absher
Ghosts of the Triad: Tales from the Haunted Heart of the Piedmont
Michael Renegar
Louisburg College, founded in 1787, is a private Methodist institution with many suspected ghosts. Its Main Building, used as a hospital during the Civil War, is haunted by a little boy with no face. Voices and sounds abound here, and other ghosts are suspected to call the building home. In ...
Old Tram Road Light
A light comes out of the swamp and chases you as you drive down Old Tram Road. (Submitted by Brian)
Heartbeat Bridge
Nakina, North Carolina
Shadowy figures can be seen. Lights in the woods sounds of a heart beat can be heard. (Submitted by Brian)
Bingham's Light
Binghams's Light is believed to be the lantern of the ghost of a man named Bingham who was killed by a train. Some say he appears as a warning or that the ghost is searching for his lost children.
USS North Carolina
The World War II battleship is believed to be haunted by a blond sailor who shows up in passageways and another sailor who peeks out from portholes. Witnesses say hatch doors slam, cold spots are felt and footsteps are heard.
Bellamy Mansion is believed to be haunted by members of the Bellamy family and their servants. Investigators have recorded several EVPs and witnessed slamming doors.
Elon University is said to be haunted by Mary, who resides in the West Dormitory and is known for talking to students while they're sleeping. Mary also is blamed for swinging light fixtures, footsteps, electrical anomalies, apparitions, and shattering mirrors. According to campus legend, Mary died in the Jan. 18, ...
Tarboro, North Carolina
In a Revolutionary War tale, a miller and patriot was drowned in the river by a group of British soldiers. Before he died, he threatened that if they killed him, they would be haunted by a banshee. According to the tale, the banshee appeared, killed the soldiers, and avenged the ...
Colonel Kolb's Tomb
According to reports, Colonel Kolb, along with his family, was burned alive nearby during the Revolutionary War. According to local lore, those who visit Colonel Kolb's tomb at night will hear the sound of someone walking in the woods and may suddenly find the apparition of a man right next ...
Foscue Plantation House
Pollocksville, North Carolina
Foscue Plantation House was constructed in 1824 and is said to be haunted by the ghosts of slaves from the 1800s. According to reports, slaves were chained in the attic and their cries and moans are said to ring out at night. A legend about the staircase says that slaves' ...
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Ghosts of the Pee Dee (Haunted America)
Tally Johnson
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Stephanie Burt Williams
Montrose Cemetery - Lowthers Hill Cemetery
Darlington, South Carolina
Montrose Cemetery, aka Lowthers Hill Cemetery, is very old and spooky, according to witnesses who describe feelings of fear and nausea on the grounds. The cemetery was so old and run down that a mass marker was placed outside naming the known burials inside. Some say a murderer brought children ...
In 1981 a fire broke out in the Carolina Theatre while it was closed and killed a woman. As the woman was not supposed to have been there at the time, it is believed she deliberately set the fire that killed her. People now claim that her ghost ...
The Winds Resort Beach Club
A ghost named Sam lingers in one of the cabins here. Sam was a guest here when he died of a heart attack, and many claim he never left the buidling. Witnesses, both guests and employees, have reported cold spots and window shades opening on their own, and some have ...
Brentwood Bistro
This place has been on Haunted America, National Geographic Haunted, and several other media projects. Faces, shadows, orbs and all manner of strange things are seen by staff and visitors alike.
Lydia's Bridge
Jamestown, North Carolina
This bridge outside of Greensboro is said to be haunted by a phantom hitchhiker. Lydia was headed home from a dance in the early 1920s, and as her story goes, her date lost control of the car. He was kileld instantly, but she, badly injured, died on the roadside while ...
High Point City Hall
During "active hours" in city hall, there is not much activity that is reported. But at night, shift workers inside the building, which is secured, have experienced multiple occasions of paranormal activity. The various types of accounts have been listed below and further investigation is on going by ...
Guilford College is said to have haunts in its 1961 Dana Auditorium. The building is said to stand on the site of a makeshift Civil War hospital where many soldiers died. The oldest ghost in residence is Lucas, a soldier who tends to appear at 2 a.m. in the Moon ...
Fort Fisher
At Fort Fisher, Civil War ghosts and Fort Fisher hermit Robert E. Harrill, who died under suspicious circumstances, are believed to reside. Civil War General William Whitting, who was injured in the final battle at Fort Fisher and died as a prisoner in 1865 at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, ...
Live Oak Cafe
There are alleged to be two resident ghosts here that constantly mess around with the staff and owners. (Submitted by Margo RS)
Alston House - Cryptozoology and Paranormal Museum
Littleton, North Carolina
The Alston House is home to many disembodied voices. Items in the house have moved, reappeared and disappeared again. Contractor had to stop working and leave the house because he felt there was a presence with him. (Submitted by Stephen Barcelo)
Ghosts of the Carolina Coasts
Terrance Zepke
Ghosts of the Carolinas for Kids
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Tim Bullard
Lois Jane's Riverview Inn
The 1892 bed and breakfast inn is haunted by the daughter of a sea captain who once owned the place during the twentieth-century. Known as 'Lois Jane', the spirit has been heard laughing and singing on the upper floor of the mansion, and on one occasion shook the bed of ...
Brunswick Inn
A ghost named Tony haunts the Brunswick Inn. He was a riverboat harpist who drowned in 1882 while on a visit here, and he likes to wander through the inn's halls and play tricks on the owners.
Prospect Church
Patrick, South Carolina
According to local legend, on moonlit nights at Prospect Church, those who park in the last parking space on the right side of the church and peer at the last window on the second story will see a ghost who moves the curtains violently as if in a struggle inside.
Theodosia's
Although reports say it is no longer open, this b&b was said to be haunted by the ghost of Theodosia Burr Alston. Thoedosia was the daughter of Aaron Burr and the wife of South Carolina governor Joseph Alston. Mysteriously, the ship she was on disappeared in 1812. She had been ...
At Coker College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1908, a ghostly girl is said to roam in a dorm building. The ghost also is said to cause strange sounds, turn off radios and make alarm clocks ring in the middle of the night. According to campus legend, she ...
Tans Bay Baptist Church
Effingham, South Carolina
Tans Bay Baptist Church is thought to be haunted by the ghost of a baby who died here before the building housed a church. It's said that the baby accidentally fell on its head and died instantly, and now floating lights and the sound of a baby crying can be ...
Graves near Lincoln Village
According to local tales, an overgrown and haunted graveyard stands adjacent to the abandoned Lincoln Village apartment complex, in the wooded area at the northwest corner of the complex. Caution: The graves are sunken and the ground is soft; graves here may be deep.
Sansbury Cemetery
Timmonsville, South Carolina
102.4 miles from Falcon, NC
Different from the Sansbury Hill Cemetery, also in Timmonsville, the Sansbury Cemetery is an eerie place where unexplained noises, including a baby crying, have been reported. Folks also have reported feelings of despair and fear here, but giving the surroundings, this is may not be unusual!
Danville Museum - Sutherlin Mansion
The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, located inside the Sutherlin Mansion (originally built for William T. Sutherlin in 1859), has been called the "Last Capitol of the Confederacy." It was here that Jefferson Davis spent long hours staring out the parlor window after he heard the news of ...
Lanier House
The Lanier House, the oldest documented residence in the city, was built in 1830 by Danville's first mayor, Captain James Lanier. Although the structure now holds law offices, it has been the office of the city's first pediatrician as well as a private residence. It is said to be haunted; ...
Ghosthunting North Carolina
Kala Ambrose
Ghosts of the North Carolina Piedmont
Frances H. Casstevens
Ghosts of North Carolina: The Haunted Locations of Durham, Fayetteville, Greenville, Cary, Chapel Hill, Wilmington and Jacksonville
Jeffrey Fisher
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Old Abilene Town
28 miles from Smolan, KS
This recreation of "Old Town Abilene" features mock gunfights, shopping at the "General Store," and if some people are to be believed, ghosts! In fact, the "Ghost Tours of Kansas" company listed Old Abilene Town as the most haunted spot in the state in 2012. We don't have ...
Rivendell Book Store
28.1 miles from Smolan, KS
Bookstore owners have reported shadowy figures, the unexplained sound of jingle bells at Christmastime, and books that seemed to be pushed off of shelves by unseen hands. It is reported that, appropriately, one of the books that fell off the shelves was called "Living with Ghosts."
Midland Railroad Hotel
Built at the turn of the twentieth century, this historic hotel was the site of an inferno in 1902 that gutted the building, and it has been established that several guests perished in the blaze that took place. Guests staying on the third floor have reportedly smelt smoke and ...
Wildmead Cemetery
Nickerson, Kansas
Legend has it that this cemetery has a guardian, one who may appear as a woman, a light, or even a demon. Those who visit the cemetery because they have family buried there will be protected by the guardian. But those who come only to cause trouble? Beware!
Hutchinson Public Library
Hutchinson, Kansas
Ida Day Holzapfel, according to local lore, is the ghost who haunts the library. The former librarian, who began working here in 1915, may never have left. She is said to reside in the basement, watching over her beloved library. She left in 1954 to become a catalog librarian for ...
Doors slam late at night, theater seats lift and lower as if someone unseen is using them, and in 2001, the glass from a fire extinguisher panel broke by itself when no one was around.
Hutchinson Municipal Court
At this city courthouse, the fifth floor is said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman. Her apparition in white has been spotted, and she is blamed for slamming doors and files that appear to have been moved or tampered with.
Reno County Museum
The buildings that make up the Reno County Museum are both over 100 years old. There were several deaths recorded in the Rosemont apartment building,one of the buildings that became the Reno County Museum. Former staff and visitors have reported hearing strange noises and seeing the apparition of a little girl ...
Near Moon Lake is reportedly a Chief's Circle. Witnesses describe what look like fireflies in sets of two that stay close to the ground, whoops and howls. The lights are rumored to be the eyes of braves' spirits protecting the area.
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Cheryl Carvajal
Ghosts of Kansas
Beth Coopers
At this 1850s Civil War fort, visitors may see more than war relics. According to local legend, an apparition of a woman in chains can be seen walking across the fields, and a group of spectral riders appear on the Cavalry Parade Field. One dismounts, and the rest ride away. ...
Brown Grand Theatre
At this theater and opera house you may see more than just a show. Locals say a ghost haunts this theater, and is especially active during the opening season.
Doctor W.B. Jones House
Florence, Kansas
This historic abandoned house was built in 1879, and was formerly the residence of a doctor and his family. People have reportedly seen the apparition of the doctor staring down at them from the upper floor of the house. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
The Cottage House Bed and Breakfast
This historic hotel dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, and was formerly a boarding house and apartment block prior to its restoration and conversion to a bed and breakfast inn. Rumour has it that the building houses some ghostly tenants that never left, but reports are very generalised and ...
Wilbur's Grocery Store
Potwin, Kansas
This historic building is now a grocery store, but was a former orphanage and home for wayward women. People working here have reported objects moving around by themselves, feeling cold spots and smelling coffees when no one is around. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
East Stadium - Purple Masque Theatre
The Stadium was dedicated in the early '20s in remembrance of students and graduates who died in WWI. The East Stadium was the college's athletic center until the 1950s, when a new athletic center was built. After this, the Purple Masque Theatre occupied Rooms 109 and 121 on the first ...
Kansas State University's Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house is rumored to be haunted by a former fraternity brother named Duncan, who died from a hazing accident. And the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House is said to be haunted by a former house mother who was murdered by the house cook. ...
Old Saint Mary Hospital
Old Saint Mary Hospital was built in 1907, which is no longer a hospital, is said to be haunted by two spirits from its hospital days. One is a night nurse who fell to her death down an elevator shaft, seen carrying a tray and a candle on the first ...
Wolf House Museum
Apparitions of men with canes in top hats have been reported here, as well as phantom conversations and dishes being violently thrown against the wall. Legend has it that the museum building was once a brothel, and one of its workers was murdered there... and fast-forward to several years later: ...
Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview
Some strange occurrences reported in this hotel include lights that flicker only in the guest rooms (not the hallways), and violently shaking doors. Also, the furniture is rearranged within seconds of a person leaving a room.
Lisa Hefner Heitz
Haunted Schools: True Ghost Stories
Central Plains Novelty Store
This original historic building is over one hundred years old, and the staff here have reported many instances of paranormal activity. Staff and customers have reported smelling perfume when there is no one around and hearing disembodied footsteps on the upper floor. Strange lights and figures in period clothing have ...
Coon Creek Bridge
About five miles south of Barnes on the east side of Coon Creek Bridge, you may see the ghost of a young girl walking through the woods, especially just before sunrise. Her identity is unknown, as townspeople have no knowledge of any deaths ever occurring nearby.
Alma Cemetery
Visitors here may see orbs and mists, some which have occurred in photographs. The Devils Chair is also a thing of legend. Folks say those who sit in it will be cursed by the ghost of an evil farmer who refused to sell his land to a city for the ...
Belle Vista Cemetery
Ghost tourists who stop around the grave of Clara Wiley, a woman who was murdered in the 1900s, find that their cameras seem to malfunction. The cemetery also is said to be haunted by a ghost called Two Moons, whose bones were said to have been dug up during the ...
Employees at the museum say they have heard slamming doors, old-fashioned music, and happily chatting voices, and they even have seen the apparition of a man in a 1940s hat. Among the 40 old planes here is said to be least one haunted one: A yellow crop duster is said ...
The Columbian Theatre
A great many weird things have been reported in the Columbian Theater: Props seem to move when no one was there to move them, lights turn on and off by themselves, and folks have reported hearing moans, groans, and the sound of someone unseen climbing stairs. A fire alarm once ...
Weaver Hotel
The 1905 hotel served as railroad accommodation, and the original inn and restaurant are in operation over a century later. The establishment is rumoured to be haunted by two spirits, including the wife of a former owner and a workman who threw himself to his death during a bout ...
Schroyer Cemetery
Marysville, Kansas
Hollenberg Pony Express Station
The historic Hollenberg Pony Express Station is a state park with a museum and visitor center, and both employees and guests have reported seeing signs of the supernatural here. Apparitions of Pony Express riders have been seen in the summer months, and the sound of running hooves and shouts are ...
Beaumont, Kansas
Allegedly haunted by a cowboy called Zeke who was shot and killed by the innkeeper in its stagecoach heyday. People claim to see the apparition of a cowboy, hear the jangle of spurs and also claim that objects move on their own.
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TrailBlazers - Old Montgomery Ward Building
Fairbury, Nebraska
100.2 miles from Smolan, KS
Formerly TrailBlazers restaurant and before that a Montgomery Ward department store, this office building is believed to be haunted due to reports that objects move about on their own here.
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Saving your marriage with two willing people can feel daunting and overwhelming at times. But saving your marriage when one spouse is not participating and has said very hurtful things can feel downright impossible. A wife might be dealing with a marriage in which both parties have said hurtful things that have caused resentments, hurt feelings, and a sense of hopelessness. In this type of situation, it can be hard to determine where to even start.
A wife might say, “I admit that while my husband and I have been struggling while going through a separation, I've said some pretty mean things to him. I am frustrated with feeling as if I don't matter to him. I feel like I've just been dismissed while he gets the luxury of sorting himself out and deciding what he wants. So yes, in my frustration, I have called him selfish. But before we even separated, he was saying really hurtful things to me. For example, he said that I sold him a bill of goods when we were dating. He said that he was dating a laid back, funny girl who was thin and healthy. But then after he married me he got an uptight, overly-serious person who was overweight. He acts as if I purposely tricked him and then switched my personality for spite. He doesn't realize that people naturally mature and change over time. He even called me ‘portly' once. And he said that he thinks that I take joy in making him unhappy. These are low blows. But we have kids to think about. So I've asked him if he thinks that it will be possible to save our marriage. His answer was that he doesn't know, but that he thinks that we are better off just going with the flow right now. He's pretty distant and cold. In spite of this, I would like to save my marriage for the sake of my children. But when I mention this to my sister or to my friends, they both ask why I'd want to maintain a marriage to someone who has said hurtful things to me. I do see their point. Are hurtful words an indication that you can't or shouldn't save your marriage?”
I'm not a counselor, but in my nonprofessional opinion, that depends. If your spouse makes a habit of saying hurtful things to you regardless of whether he is angry or you are fighting, then this is problematic because it shows a pattern of cruelty or a lack of empathy. If he is saying mean things just to hurt you without any regard for your feelings and the relationship is constantly toxic, then I'd want to see some changes before I make any long term commitment.
With that said, it's extremely common for both people to say some pretty awful things in the middle of a fight or during a separation. Emotions can be incredibly high. Both spouses can say things that they deeply regret and are incredibly embarrassed and remorseful about later. I know that this was the case during my own separation. We both said really regretful things to one another. I wish I could take them back, but I can't. Your husband may feel this way also. It really does come down to a question of whether the hurtful things were said in the heat of the moment or whether it is your husband's typical habit to be hurtful or verbally abusive. There is a difference between a couple who has a regrettable fight and trades hurtful insults and a marriage where one spouse is constantly belittling the other for sport. If you can't decide which category your marriage falls into, I'd suggest asking a counselor or neutral third party. Sometimes, we get so close to our situation that we can't see it objectively anymore.
If you decide that your husband's words were due to the situation instead of intentionally meant to hurt you, then I can tell you that it's possible to move beyond hurtful interactions. My husband and I were truly brutal one another at times during our separation. And I was just as guilty as he was. I was so hurt that he was moving out that I was deliberately cruel because I was just trying to get a reaction out of him. Ultimately though, I made a decision to let go of any anger I had about these conversations because I wanted to move on. I decided to use the conversations to draw a line in the sand to define the type of marriage that I no longer wanted. Sure, no one can get through life without ever saying something in anger to their spouse, but with effort and in time, you can improve your marriage so that more words are said in happiness than in anger.
When your marriage is back on track and you are feeling loving and protective of your spouse again, those types of hurtful conversations usually don't surface very often. If the conversations are bothering you, then you can certainly ask for clarification when things calm down and when you are back on solid ground. It would be fair to ask if he really has an issue with your weight or demeanor, but I'd suspect that if you have this conversation when things are better (or you've reconciled) he will say that he only said those things because he was angry at the time.
But to answer the original question, you save your marriage in this scenario by asking yourself what your husband's intentions were. Once you're satisfied that these hurtful remarks aren't a habit, then you work on yourself first and then on your marriage as things calm down and you are able to do so. I know that things seem immediate and explosive now, but as time moves on, things tend to calm down so that you can communicate in more productive ways and without hurting one another.
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#HusbandNotDad: What Experts Say About Relationships With Large Age Gaps
A new hashtag is confronting the issue of age gaps in relationships in a big way. You can guess how Twitter reacts.
BY Nick Horn
Courtney and Vann Thornton started out as friends.
“We wrote music. More importantly, we connected over music,” Courtney wrote about their early days. Gradually, though, the two became more than just friends making music.
There was something a little unusual about Courtney and Vann’s friendship-turned-relationship-turned-marriage
“He is very handsome and I became increasingly aware of that as we bonded and laughed,” Courtney wrote. “I enjoyed his company and found myself happier than I had been in a long time.”
After several months, as the pair’s friendship blossomed, and they began dating. Pretty soon, they decided to tie the knot.
While that all may sound pretty normal (if not idyllic), there was something a little unusual about Courtney and Vann’s friendship-turned-relationship-turned-marriage: Courtney was 25. Vann was 50.
In typical millennial style, Courtney shared tons selfies of herself with her beau on social media. After their marriage, the two even began adding the winking hashtag #HusbandNotDad, referencing the relational confusion caused by the pair’s age gap, to the captions of their photos together.
As you’d probably expect, Twitter had opinions—lots of them.
“You can’t help who you fall for; you love who you love.”
—Courtney Thornton
The responses to the hashtag and the posts it accompanied ranged from supportive to skeptical, disparaging, mocking, and even occasionally threatening and abusive. Courtney’s managing to brush it off, and she’s encouraging everyone to do the same.
“Don’t be swayed by the opinions of others and don’t be discouraged by their disapproval,” she wrote.
Still, the response to the Thorntons’ social media presence—not to mention the controversy surrounding 39-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron’s marriage to his 64-year-old wife, Brigitte—make clear that romantic relationships with a large age gap are a charged issue for many. At the very least, they’re treated as something of an oddity.
Which brings us to the question—how common are age gap relationships?
Turns out, they’re more common than you might think, and they become even more common when you’re looking at those who have married more than once.
The majority of heterosexual Americans (about 80 percent) opt for a partner within five years of their own age when they first marry, according to the Pew Research Center. That number, however, drops to 57 percent for the men surveyed and 62 percent for the women in subsequent marriages.
Unfortunately, because the analysis used data collected in the 2013 American Community Survey and same-sex marriage didn’t become legal in the U.S. until 2015, we don’t yet know what these numbers look like for homosexual couples.
Additionally, in keeping with the stereotype of the older man remarrying a younger woman, approximately 20 percent of remarried men chose a spouse who was more than 10 years their junior, with another 18 percent men surveyed marrying someone six to nine years younger.
In contrast, only 5 percent of women remarried someone 10 or more years younger, while 6 percent chose a subsequent partner six to nine years younger.
Put more simply, about one in five married Americans surveyed had a spouse more than five years older or younger than themselves.
While those numbers may seem to lend credence to the old cliche that “age is just a number,” other research suggests it’s not quite that simple.
Research out of the University of Colorado at Boulder found that both men and women reported greater relationship satisfaction with younger spouses, specifically in the early years of the marriage.
The study, published in August 2017 in the Journal of Population Economics, looked at data collected from thousands of Australian households by the Household, Income, and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey between 2001 and 2014.
And while, at a glance, this may seem like an argument in favor of marriages with large age gaps, it’s important to consider that this higher level of satisfaction only benefits one of the parties in the relationship.
Men who marry younger wives tend to show more satisfaction in their marriages, the research found. Meanwhile, the men who marry women who are older than they are show less satisfaction.
Considering how many marriages there are between younger women and older men, that’s not especially surprising. What might come as a surprise to some, though, was that women also seemed to prefer younger spouses. As the authors of the study noted, women also report more satisfaction with younger husbands compared to older ones.
The research also told a different story as time passed. Despite the higher level of satisfaction reported by those with a younger spouse early-on in the relationship, the study found that the initial boost wears off quickly—generally within the first six to 10 years of a relationship.
A study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, published in 2014, suggests another important implication of the previous work in the field.
The study, which recorded and analyzed a variety of data from 3,000 individuals who had been married at least once in their lives, centered on the relationship between the amount of money spent on a marriage and that longevity of the marriage. Throughout the course of the study, though, another interesting trend emerged: a correlation between age differences and marriages ending in divorce.
According to the data published in the study, couples with ages within one year of each other had only a 3 percent chance of splitting up. Those with a five-year difference in ages were 18 percent more likely to to split up. As the gap widened, the likelihood of a split continued to increase. Couples with a 10-year gap had a 39 percent chance of splitting up, and the chance of splitting for couples with a 20-year gap was a whopping 95 percent.
While the connection is by no means definitive, it seems possible that the rapid decline in marital satisfaction relative to similarly aged couples observed in the University of Colorado study may lead to an increased likelihood that marriages with large age differences will end in divorce.
Neither study, however, was able to ascertain the reasons why large age gap relationships correlated to initially high but rapidly declining satisfaction and eventual divorce.
Jonathan Bennett, however, has a few ideas why. Bennett is a certified counselor and a relationship coach; he also runs The Popular Man, a website he says is “dedicated to helping men make friends, find love, succeed at work, and live a happy, free, and fulfilling life.”
This is one of my favorite pictures of us because it describes the silliness in our relationship. When this was snapped, we were standing in the line at a @train show. The security guard thought you were my dad and his head exploded when I kissed you right smack on the lips. We laughed about his facial expression for the rest of the night. That’s what I remember most from backstage. I’ve never loved anyone like you!
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Bennett believes that the initial high levels of satisfaction among those with younger partners may owe, at least in part, to an “us against the world” sort of mentality caused by social disapproval. According to Bennett, “Forbidden or frowned upon relationships provide a greater meaning and purpose to love. The relationship becomes about standing up to others, even entire institutions and systems.”
As time passes, though, that disapproval may grow wearisome.
“The negative social pressure from age-gap marriages can take its toll,” he tells HealthyWay, a sentiment supported by a 2006 study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “Over time, that judgment can get tiresome and cause one or both partners to want to end the relationship.”
Bennett also tells us that, “age gaps don’t always age well.” Large age differences can also mean that a couple find themselves in significantly disparate stages of life.
“A woman might like a guy who is much older and it is fun and exciting when he’s in his forties. However, when he’s reached his seventies and is less mobile and energetic, the difference in age becomes much more apparent,” he says. “She might be healthy and active and feel weighed down by his health issues.
Ultimately, though, while age may be an important consideration when entering a relationship, it’s far from the only factor.
For anyone considering initiating a relationship with someone of a significantly different age, it’s important to ask yourself a few questions.
First, how much do you actually have in common? The saying goes that “opposites attract,” but a 2005 study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests that perceived similarity is highly indicative of a highly committed, long-term relationship’s longevity.
Next, are your social circles supportive? As both Bennet and the 2006 study referenced above mention, general and ongoing disapproval of a relationship can lead to fatigue and a reduced commitment to resolving tensions that arise between yourself and your spouse.
Excited for a life with you. Photo by: @themilla
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Finally, are you financially prepared to deal with a long-term relationship with someone much older or younger? According to McKennish, couples with a large age gap “tend to have a much larger decline in marital satisfaction when faced with an economic shock than couples that have a very small age difference.” Additionally, age-gap relationships can present difficulties in retirement planning.
Courtney Thornton, however, has a more romantic take on the matter.
“Love is a rare thing and it is worth fighting for,” she says. “Because at the end of the day, you can’t help who you fall for; you love who you love.”
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The Story Behind the 2020 Rockefeller Christmas Tree
By Mackenzie Hornik • CU Boulder Contributor • News December 4, 2020 at 4:00pm
Every year, a giant tree is brought to the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan to signal the beginning of the Christmas season. In the past, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree has elicited only positive feedback from the public. However, in classic 2020 style, putting up this year’s tree proved to be more eventful than anyone could have expected...
1. The Origin Story.
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Four years ago, an employee of Rockefeller Center took notice of a Norway spruce tree outside Daddy Al’s General Store in Oneonta, New York. After contacting the owner, it was decided the tree would be a promising candidate for Rockefeller Center. Finally, this year it was deemed tall enough (at an impressive 75 feet) to make the journey from Oneonta to New York City.
2. The Controversy Begins.
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After the tree safely arrived at the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, all was looking well...until a picture of the tree was posted to social media. Unfortunately, during transit, the tree’s limbs had collected together, causing it to look...well, let’s just say less than appealing. This photo sparked a firestorm of debate across all social media platforms, with many people claiming that this was the “saddest” Rockefeller Christmas Tree in history--drawing comparisons to the classic depressed-looking sapling from “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
3. The Tree’s Epic Clapback.
Not willing to stand idly by while people mocked it, the Rockefeller Tree took to the official Rockefeller Center Twitter: “Wow, you all must look great right after a two-day drive, huh? Just wait until I get my lights on!”
4. The Hitchhiker.
Adding more drama to this already eventful tale was the discovery of a small saw-whet owl hidden amongst the Rockefeller tree’s branches. The little bird had made its home in the tree and was not discovered until after the 200-mile truck ride to New York City. Thankfully, the owl, nicknamed Rockefeller, was safely placed in the care of wildlife experts. Many people on social media rebuked the Rockefeller Center for not checking the tree more thoroughly before cutting it down, while Rockefeller Center continued to claim that the owl must have flown in sometime during the journey.
While the drama surrounding this year’s Rockefeller tree was not surprising considering how 2020 has gone so far, it did provide some much-appreciated lighthearted entertainment and an interesting start to the holiday season!
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Mackenzie Hornik (CU Boulder ‘24)
Mackenzie is currently a freshman in Exploratory Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. When she’s not figuring out what to major in, you can find her either hanging out in a coffee shop, shopping, or enjoying a movie night with her friends. Check out her Instagram @mackenziehornik
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Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe’s unholiest holy men
He maimed, he murdered, he lied, he double-crossed. Eight centuries after Eustace the Monk died supporting a massive French invasion of England, Sean McGlynn profiles one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men...
Eight hundred years ago, one of the most hated men in England met a grisly end. As the battle of Sandwich – fought off the Kent coast on 24 August 1217 between the English and French navies – reached its bloody conclusion, Eustace the Monk was on the deck of his ship, vigorously swinging an oar around him as he tried to fend off his English enemies. A contemporary writer describes how he “knocked down a good number… some had their arms broken, others their head smashed in… another had his collar bone shattered”. But Eustace’s luck was about to run out. Soon he was overwhelmed by his foes – and, after attempting to escape, he was dragged on deck and decapitated.
Eustace’s severed head was fixed on a spear and paraded around the southern ports of England to reassure their residents that this fearsome pirate was finally dead. The people celebrated his bloody demise long and lustily. But why? How had a former Benedictine monk become reviled for his lust for loot and violence? And what was a man who had once dedicated his life to the service of God doing throwing his weight behind a French invasion of England?
How had a former Benedictine monk become reviled for his lust for loot and violence?
Eustace was born around 1170, son of Baudoin Busket, a lord of the county of Boulogne on the northern coast of France. Though Eustace started his early adult life as a knight, the call of the sea proved strong, and he soon mastered the skills of seamanship through extensive travels. According to The Romance of Eustace the Monk – a poem penned by an anonymous author who enthusiastically embellished fact with fiction – Eustace soon turned up at the Castilian city of Toledo. This was a notorious centre of black magic, where, we’re told, he learned the dark arts of necromancy in a cave. For the chroniclers, it was as if the devil himself had become Eustace’s mentor. But then something entirely unexpected happened: Eustace became a monk.
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Farting, not fasting
We can’t be sure why Eustace chose to join the Benedictines at the monastery of St Samer near Boulogne. But one thing’s for sure: if ever anyone was ill-suited to the reflective life of this holy order, it was Eustace. No sooner had he joined the monastery than we’re told that he was performing “many devilish acts”. He encouraged the brothers to eat when they should have been fasting, curse “when they should have been reciting the office”, and he urged them to “fart in the cloister”. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t long before he left (or, more probably, was ejected from) the Benedictines. But from that moment on, his epithet was sealed: he would always be known as Eustace the Monk.
He encouraged the brothers to eat when they should have been fasting… and urged them to 'fart in the cloister'
For all his capacity for mischief, Eustace clearly had some talent, for next he landed a job as seneschal (administrative officer) to the powerful Count of Boulogne, Renaud de Dammartin. But it seems that Eustace was soon up to his old tricks again as he was accused of financial impropriety. Fearing prison, Eustace fled and began a new career, this time as a bandit.
Taking to the forests around Boulogne, Eustace sustained himself through brigandage and a thirst for revenge against the count. Here the legend really takes off. Eustace and his men engaged in a series of outrageous escapades – robbery, lightning raids, dramatic escapes – as they pursued the former monk’s vendetta against the count.
There is very much a Robin Hood element to the tales told of Eustace, not least in the proliferation of disguises he employed. At one point in the Romance, he takes on the garb of a leper with a clapper (bell) to trick Count Renaud into giving him money as charity. He also, we’re told, bound up one of his legs to play the part of a one-legged beggar, again deceiving the count into handing money over – before promptly jumping onto one of the count’s horses and riding off “with his crutch hanging down”.
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On another occasion, Eustace dresses up as a woman and approaches one of the count’s young knights. “Let me get on this horse and I will give you a f***,” he says. The knight is keen to pay for the indecent proposal, so Eustace entices him further, declaring: “I will teach you how to use your bum.” As the man lifts Eustace’s leg, Eustace “let out a fart”. Needless to say, this story ends with Eustace stealing the knight’s horse.
But there’s a dark side to these humorous tales. When Eustace captures five of the count’s men-at-arms, he cuts off the feet of four of them, telling the fifth to convey a message to the count. The knight does so and, as the chronicle wryly tells us, does “not forget his trotters”. Blacker still is the episode in which Eustace seizes one of the count’s spies – a young boy – and forces him to hang himself without even the opportunity to make his confession.
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England’s cunning ally
By now, Eustace’s cunning and cruelty had earned him quite a reputation in the environs of Boulogne. Soon he would be making waves on the other side of English Channel too. For, by early 1206, he had started working for King John of England.
Eustace picked an opportune moment to ally himself with the English king, for John was in the middle of a bitter struggle to wrest the duchy of Normandy back from the French. By supporting John’s campaign, Eustace would propel himself from the forests of northern France onto the international arena.
John no doubt recognised Eustace’s maritime ability and, seeing the potential for a pirate to inflict havoc on French shipping in the Channel, gave him command of, according to one source, 30 galleys.
It wasn’t long before Eustace was using these vessels to devastating effect. His force of English, Flemish and French sailors seized Sark, one of the Channel Islands, and set up a pirate base, from where they launched a series of raids against the French seaports.
At first it seems that John and Eustace got on famously. Not only did the king grant Eustace land in Norfolk (and possibly a palace in London), he also turned a blind eye to the monk’s side-line in private profiteering. Eustace’s pirates terrorised ships of all nations in the Channel – and that included English ones. In doing so, he earned himself a notorious reputation in the ports and towns on England’s south coast – so much so that, if he wanted to land in England (to conduct business, or to visit his wife and daughter), he first had to gain a safe-conduct pass to do so.
But soon Eustace would be looking for new employment once again, because sometime between 1212 and 1214, he and John fell out. There are a number of potential reasons why their relationship hit the rocks. Money was possibly a factor. The chronicler known as the Anonymous of Béthune relates that, when Eustace failed to repay a debt of 20 marks to John, he and his wife were imprisoned. According to the Romance, the king had Eustace’s daughter, at the time John’s hostage, “burned, disfigured” and “killed”.
John’s perennial mistrust of those whom he deemed to have grown too powerful may also have contributed to the dispute. Perhaps the king was fearful of Eustace’s semi-independent position in the Channel Islands, and distrustful of his intentions. This would explain the king’s decision to order a naval assault on Sark, in which many of Eustace’s men were taken prisoner.
But the principal bone of contention between king and monk was probably Eustace’s old enemy Count Renaud of Boulogne. In 1212, the count decided to switch sides in the Anglo-French war and throw his support behind John. It appears that John welcomed him with open arms. Renaud’s lands were a huge boon to the king – assets well worth putting Eustace’s nose out of joint for.
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Whatever the reason for John and Eustace’s contretemps, by early 1215 the ever-opportunistic Eustace had switched sides in the war and presented himself to the French court. Just as John had once been quick to realise the potential in employing Eustace’s talents against the French, so the French king, Philip Augustus, was keen to make use of Eustace’s knowledge of the Channel and his inside information on English military organisation. The Romance reports the first meeting between the two men: “You are not big, but small, yet you are so brave and bold,” Philip reportedly told his slippery new ally. “You know a great deal about guile and cunning and do not need a cat’s grease to help you.”
Eustace was appointed Philip’s admiral for the Channel, and now – with the war against England entering a dramatic new phase – embarked upon the most intense and spectacular military chapter of his career. In May 1216, Prince Louis, heir to the Capetian throne in France, invaded England, quickly seizing half the country and receiving the homage of up to two-thirds of England’s barons.
Eustace played a major role in the French invasion, ferrying troops and supplies across the Channel. In the spring of 1217, he was to prove his worth to the French campaign once more, dramatically breaking through an English blockade of the coastal town of Rye and rescuing Louis, who was trapped there.
Caught at sea
A few months later, Louis needed Eustace’s help once again. Having suffered a defeat at the battle of Lincoln in May 1217, the French prince found himself holed up in London, desperately needing the monk to provide the supplies and reinforcements he required to continue waging his campaign. Eustace set sail for England in August but, on the 24th, his fleet was intercepted and annihilated by the English at Sandwich – a defeat that would ultimately force Louis to return to France with his tail between his legs (for more on the battle, see our box, right).
According to the chronicler Roger of Wendover, when Eustace faced his end on the deck of his flagship, the last words he heard were: “Never again in this world, wicked traitor, shall you deceive anyone with your false promises.”
It was a fittingly bloody end to a violent life. Although the Romance focuses on his escapades as an outlaw, it was in his role as a pirate and an admiral that Eustace made his most telling impact on 13th-century Europe. It was certainly not in his role as a monk.
Dr Sean McGlynn is lecturer in history at Plymouth University. His next book is Medieval Generals (Pen and Sword) and he is planning a book on Eustace.
This article was first published in the September 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine.
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That England wasn't entirely consumed by violence in the years following the Norman Conquest is a tribute to the diplomatic skills of William I's wife, Matilda. Tracy Borman hails a woman who "inspired a new model of queenship"...
This article was first published in the October 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine
In late autumn 1066, a diminutive woman of 35 prayed fervently in the Benedictine priory of Nôtre Dame du Pré, a small chapel that she had founded in 1060 on the banks of the river Seine near Rouen. Flanked by her ladies, she had spent many hours at her devotions during the previous few days.
It was with good cause that she had kept such an anxious vigil. Her husband, William ‘the Bastard’, Duke of Normandy, had set sail for England more than two weeks before, determined to wrest the throne from Harold Godwinson. At last, a messenger arrived with news that her prayers had been answered. William and his Norman army had triumphed over the Saxons at Senlac hill, close to the town of Hastings by which the battle would henceforth be known. She, Matilda, was now not just Duchess of Normandy, but Queen of England.
Upon hearing the momentous tidings, Matilda joyfully proclaimed that the priory should henceforth be known as ‘Nôtre Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles’ (‘Our Lady of Good News’). She had good reason to rejoice. The crown of England was a glittering prize that even she, with her overweening ambition, could not possibly have hoped for when she had become the wife of the baseborn Duke of Normandy some 15 years earlier.
But Hastings, decisive as it was, marked the start, not the end, of William’s campaign to conquer England. It would take years of bitter fighting before he was finally able to establish a measure of control over the country. William himself realised that he could not rule by the sword alone: he needed to win the hearts and minds of his resentful new subjects. The surest means of achieving this was to place his wife at centre stage.
Matilda had already won great renown within Normandy for her piety, political shrewdness and, above all, her unimpeachable lineage. Daughter of the formidable Count Baldwin V of Flanders and niece of the King of France, she could trace her descent from the great Charlemagne, founding father of the French and German empires.
Even more valuable, from her husband’s perspective, was the fact that she had English royal blood in her veins, for she was descended from King Alfred the Great. Little wonder that William had been so desperate to marry her that, according to one account, he had ridden at full speed to Bruges and dragged her by the hair into the mud, kicking and beating her until she agreed to become his wife.
Despite its rather inauspicious beginnings, William and Matilda’s marriage would prove one of the most successful in history. Together, they established the mighty Norman dynasty which would dominate Europe for more than a hundred years. In an age when the primary duty of female consorts was to produce an heir, Matilda exceeded expectations by giving birth to four sons and at least five daughters, all of whom survived well into adulthood.
She may have been the model of wifely obedience on the surface, but this masked a fierce ambition for power. Matilda combined the unrelenting duties of motherhood with an increasingly active role in the government of Normandy. By 1066, she had gained unrivalled influence over her husband, and he had no hesitation in appointing her regent of the duchy when he embarked upon the invasion of England.
Within weeks of his victory at Hastings, William was sorely missing his wife’s presence. He resolved to defer his coronation (which was scheduled for Christmas Day 1066) so that Matilda might join him, “since if God granted him this honour, he wished for his wife to be crowned with him”. This was more than mere devotion: he knew full well that Matilda’s presence – given her ancestral ties with previous English kings – would lend the occasion much-needed legitimacy. But his advisers urged that he could brook no delay and his coronation went ahead before Matilda was able to leave Normandy.
Matilda was every bit as eager as William to establish herself in England, and had already begun to style herself queen. But it was not until the spring of 1068 that she finally arrived in her new kingdom. The delay had been caused not just by the demands of her regency in Normandy, but also her role as matriarch of the Norman dynasty. She had fallen pregnant shortly before William’s departure for England in 1066 (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Adela), and by the time she landed on English soil, she was pregnant once more.
The new queen’s arrival in England was noted by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which referred to her derisively as “the Lady Matilda”, while her new subjects called her “the strange woman”. Their suspicion was rooted in the fact that she was spoken of as ‘la Royne’ by the Normans, which implied that she was a female sovereign in her own right. This was shocking to her new subjects: previous English queens had been referred to merely as ‘the king’s wife’.
Opulent spectacle
Undeterred, Matilda threw herself into the task of bringing much-needed glamour to her husband’s court. A magnificent gathering was held at Winchester to celebrate Easter, and another at Westminster shortly afterwards, attended by a host of English notables. Even the anti-Norman chroniclers could not help but be impressed by the opulent spectacle that the couple presented, clad from head to toe in gold-encrusted robes and eating their sumptuous meals from gold and silver platters.
As soon as these celebrations were out of the way, plans began in earnest for the main purpose of Matilda’s visit: her coronation. The event was loaded with significance. Besides being vital to William’s efforts to reinforce his legitimacy in the eyes of his new subjects, Matilda would be the first queen of England to be formally styled ‘Regina’.
Her coronation was also the first ever staged just for a queen, and Matilda was determined that it should eclipse her husband’s in splendour and magnificence. Every detail was planned with meticulous care. Special laudes (ritual chants) were written for the occasion, declaring that Matilda ‘shared’ William’s authority. Never before had a queen’s power been so formalised – or so equal to that of the king. It was a sign of things to come.
The new queen’s presence did not immediately establish order in England. Barely were the coronation celebrations out of the way than fresh trouble had broken out in the north of the kingdom. Fearing a rebellion, William hastened to York, the principal city of the north, from where he could prepare his own forces to quell any uprisings.
Matilda had no intention of staying behind in the relatively safe confines of the court in London. Sensing an opportunity to win over their recalcitrant subjects, she decided to join her husband in Yorkshire. This involved a journey of some 200 miles on roads that were little more than mud tracks – a considerable enough feat in itself, let alone for a woman who was by then heavily pregnant. Foremost in her mind was the thought that if she could give birth to this new heir in the most rebellious region of her kingdom, it would achieve more towards Anglo-Norman integration than her husband’s strong-arm tactics ever could.
Although she was bound for York, the onset of labour forced Matilda to take refuge in Selby, some 14 miles south of the northern capital. There, she gave birth to Henry, her ninth and final child.
Her plan worked brilliantly. The English came to regard this prince as the only lawful successor to their throne from among the Norman dynasty, even though he had three elder brothers. Matilda encouraged this view by making Henry heir to all of her lands in England. She also named him after her uncle, the King of France, to strengthen his legitimacy. Matilda returned to Normandy shortly after Henry’s birth in order to take up the reins of government once more. But when a fresh uprising broke out in the north of England in 1069, William urged her return.
While he dealt with the rebels in York and the surrounding area, a strong presence was required to guard against any sympathetic uprisings in the south of the kingdom. Matilda, already gaining favour among the English people thanks to her dignified bearing and gentle demeanour, formed a welcome contrast to her husband’s brutality. She was therefore ideally suited for this task.
During the next 12 years, Matilda constantly flitted between England and Normandy, bolstering her husband’s rule in both countries and becoming an ever more powerful figurehead for the Norman regime. In England, she was particularly active in the sphere of justice. There are numerous references in Domesday Book to her hearing English legal cases during William’s absences, which became increasingly frequent during the 1070s. The impressive variety of English charters in which Matilda was involved attests to her versatility in business matters.
The queen was also at the heart of some of the most important religious debates of the reign, notably when she and her husband ordered that the primacy of York should be subject to the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury – a symbolic ruling which effectively brought the north under the control of the court in London. Ever sensitive to the mood of the English people, though, she subsequently made a series of generous bequests to the church. In so doing, she won praise from the chroniclers, who described her as “munificent and liberal of her gifts” and “indefatigable at alleviating distress in every shape”.
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Matilda’s liberality set her apart from the other members of the Norman ruling elite who had shared in the spoils of the conquest. And whereas her husband and his Norman entourage relied upon interpreters, she made the effort to master the English language – a fact that greatly endeared her to the native population.
As well as winning popularity in her own right, Matilda also gradually succeeded in persuading her husband to adopt a more conciliatory stance towards his conquered subjects. “King William, by the advice of Matilda, treated the English kindly as long as she lived,” observed one contemporary. When Edward the Confessor’s widow, Edith, who hadlong been a figurehead for the Saxon regime, died in 1075, Matilda urged William to arrange for her remains to be conveyed from Winchester to Westminster with great honour so that she might be interred in the abbey next to her husband. There, a tomb “lavishly decorated with gold and silver” was erected, and William also paid for a suitably ostentatious funeral.
By the time of her last sojourn in England, in 1081, Matilda had earned widespread admiration among the people. A consummate diplomat, she had steadily and patiently overcome their initial suspicion with a brilliantly executed public relations campaign.
Whereas in the early days of her reign, she had been dismissed as William’s ‘gebedde’ (bedfellow), now she was known as “the queen of the English, Matilda, wealthy and powerful”. Even the most misogynistic of the chroniclers claimed that “the common people, the rich, every gender and age, the whole clergy, every tongue, every class” admired her “just” and “prudent” character.
Matilda’s natural shrewdness and diplomacy had done at least as much – if not more – to secure England for the Normans than her Conqueror husband’s military campaigns ever could.
Mourning Matilda
Matilda’s death in November 1083 was deeply mourned on both sides of the Channel. As one contemporary observed, she would be “wept for by the English and the Normans for many years”. Principal among them was her husband, who fell into a deep depression from which he never recovered. He had good reason to mourn her loss. Matilda had proved the mainstay of William’s rule in England, and without her he was “continually forced to struggle against the storms of troubles that rose up against him”.
Her career marked the dawning of a new era for royal consorts. By wielding immense power in both Normandy and England – not just on behalf of her husband, but at times in direct opposition to him – Matilda confounded the traditional views of women in medieval society and provided an inspiring new model of queenship. No longer confined to the domestic sphere, her successors were able to play an active part in the political, judicial and spiritual life of their kingdoms for centuries to come.
Tracy Borman is a historian and author of Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror (Jonathan Cape, September 2011).
Timeline: The life and times of Queen Matilda
Matilda is born to Count Baldwin V of Flanders and his wife, Adela of France. She immediately becomes a highly prized pawn in the international marriage market
Wedding of Matilda and William takes place at Eu, on the border between Normandy and Flanders, in defiance of a papal ban on the grounds of consanguinity
Work begins on Matilda’s magnificent abbey of La Trinité in Caen, built as a penance after Pope Nicholas II formally lifts the interdict on her marriage
The Norman Conquest. Matilda’s husband triumphs at Hastings and she immediately begins styling herself Queen of England. She inherits substantial landed wealth in her new kingdom
Matilda is crowned at Westminster Abbey and becomes the first consort to be formally recognised as queen in her own right. She gives birth to her fourth son, Henry, shortly afterwards
Death of Edith, widow of Edward the Confessor, a powerful figurehead for the Saxon regime, leads to the full acceptance of Matilda as queen in England
Rebellion led by Robert ‘Curthose’, William and Matilda’s eldest son. Matilda secretly sends money to support him. William furiously denounces her as a “faithless wife”
Matilda dies on 2 November and is buried at La Trinité. William commissions an exquisite monument “wonderfully worked with gold and precious stones” to be erected over her tomb
Matilda: how much do we know?
Although the lives of medieval women are typically obscure, there is a surprisingly rich collection of sources for Matilda’s career as Duchess of Normandy and Queen of England. Principal among them are the chronicles.
The 11th and early 12th centuries were a time of intense activity among monastic historians, and their accounts vividly (and often salaciously) bring to life the characters and events of Matilda’s story. These are supported by the charters to which she put her name, as well as her husband’s ambitious survey of England, known as Domesday Book, and the unique record of the Bayeux tapestry, which was for many years believed to be the work of Matilda and her ladies.
Sadly, there are few clues to Matilda’s appearance. Although all of the chroniclers agree that she was “very beautiful”, any contemporary portraits or statues have long since been destroyed. A number of engravings claiming to be based upon a contemporary likeness appeared in the 19th century, in which Matilda bears a suspiciously close resemblance to Queen Victoria. The only reliable evidence we have derives from the discovery of her skeleton in 1961 at the abbey of La Trinité.
A study of her remains suggested that she was extremely small, for the skeleton measured just 4ft2ins high.
British queens
Norman women: the power behind the thrones
Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world
What the Normans did for us
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Long-Range Planning & Special Projects
Historic Preservation in Holly Springs
Protecting historically important places while promoting their use and conservation for the education, pleasure and enrichment of residents.
The Town of Holly Springs became a participating member of the Wake County Historic Preservation Program in 1992. In 2007, Vision Holly Springs, the town’s comprehensive plan, established policies on community character and local historic resources to protect, preserve and manage cultural and historical resources.
Beginning in 2017, the town contracted with Capital Area Preservation to provide historic resource evaluations and services. Today, when town staff become aware of the potential development of a property that contains a structure with historical significance, staff consult with Capital Area Preservation in an effort to determine if the structure or elements of the structure can or should be salvaged.
The Town of Holly Springs also works actively to promote community awareness of town history. Efforts include:
signs identifying properties with historic significance
events such as the annual Founder’s Day at the Holly Springs Farmers Market
street names referencing the town’s founders and history, such as Bennet Knoll Parkway and GB Alford Highway
books, webpages and a downtown walking tour
National Register of Historic Places & Local Historic Landmarks
Leslie-Alford-Mims House
National Register of Historic Places and Local Historic Landmark
When tailor Archibald Leslie came to Holly Springs in 1817, he purchased land for a home and set plans in motion to build a general mercantile store. By 1840, construction of the 38-room mansion was under way. Archibald and his wife Isabelle Rogers were well-known locally as socialites enjoying life in the antebellum South through the onset of the Civil War in the mid-1860s.
At the end of the Civil War for a two-week period, the home was occupied as the headquarters for Major General Jefferson C. Davis of the Union’s 14th U.S. Army Corp of Georgia. With her husband and son off fighting the war, Mrs. Leslie was alone and in charge of the home, as well as a nearby general store and turpentine distillery. Local lore tells that Mrs. Leslie, a true southern belle, allowed the officers into her home while “expecting them to act as gentlemen.” Her charm prevented her home from the fate of so many others.
In 1876, Col. George B. Alford acquired and built additions to the home. He also built a general merchandise store on Main Street, which is now Dewar’s Antiques & Florist Shop. This National Registry of Historical Places home is a true example of the grandeur of the old South.
Norris-Holland-Hare House
Local Historic Landmark
2329 Avent Ferry Road.
This two-story home was spared from destruction during the Civil War as a former occupant is said to have taken in a wounded Union officer and nursed him back to health during the encampment of Union troops in the area in 1865.
Holly Springs Masonic Lodge
224 Raleigh Street
The Holly Springs Masonic Lodge #115 on Raleigh Street was completed in the early 1850s. The utilitarian Greek Revival-influenced building is one of the oldest lodge and school buildings in Wake County.
The lodge was the location of the earliest school in Holly Springs, as well as the first school available to female students in town. Upstairs, visitors still can view graffiti scribbled on exposed pine walls by students who attended school in the building. Holly Springs masons, who began meeting in the lodge around 1852, still meet in this lodge today.
Samuel Bartley Holleman House
3424 Avent Ferry Road
The 1913 Samuel Bartley Holleman House, a two-and-a-half-story, Queen Anne-Colonial Revival transition house, stands at the northeast corner of Avent Ferry Road and New Hill Holleman Road at Holleman’s Crossroads. The property is outside town limits in western Wake County, within the Holly Springs future planning jurisdiction. Outbuildings include a well house, pump house, engine house, smokehouse, and washhouse, also built in 1913.
Samuel Bartley Holleman (1861-1927) built the house at Enno, a crossroads community known in the mid-nineteenth century. He ran a store, cotton gin, sawmill, and planer at the turn of the twentieth century.
Capital Area Preservation
Wake County Historic Preservation Program
North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office Map Service
Apply to serve on the Wake County Historic Preservation Commission.
Interested in having your property designated as a local historic landmark?
Contact Holly Springs Development Services at (919) 557-3908 to allow staff to help you with the process.
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Hasan Minhaj Talks Fatherhood, Bribery And 'Insane' Children's Books
The comedian and 'Patriot Act' host and his wife have a toddler and an infant at home.
03/08/2020 04:55pm AEST | Updated August 19, 2020
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Hasan Minhaj, host of Netflix's "Patriot Act," stresses the need to teach kids messages of empowerment, diversity and inclusion.
Two years into parenting, Hasan Minhaj has come to some funny conclusions about children’s media.
“I’ve been reading a lot of books with my daughter, but I’ve realised a lot of children’s books are insane in terms of the plot points,” the comedian told HuffPost while promoting his involvement with “Dads,” a documentary from Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard in partnership with Dove Men+Care, which aims to celebrate fatherhood as “the ultimate expression of a man’s care.”
“If you read ‘The Giving Tree,’ it’s super sad. That’s like a book about unfettered capitalism and/or global warming. It’s basically like, ‘You cannot trust human beings, they’re gonna destroy planet Earth,’” he said. “Or if you’ve read ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ that kid is a sociopath. He basically leaves his family to live with monsters, and he only comes back because dinner’s ready.”
Minhaj and his wife, Beena, have a 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son. He said he was inspired to get involved with “Dads” because of its goal to “dispel the stereotypes around being a father,” particularly the rigid notion of dads as providers who don’t have as much involvement in their children’s day-to-day lives.
Jokes about literary classics aside, the “Patriot Act” host said he’s found a lot of “really amazing” children’s books to read to his kids, including “Hair Love” by Matthew A. Cherry. The book encourages Black children to love their natural hair and highlights the beauty of differences, a message that’s all too relevant in 2020 as racial injustice dominates the national conversation.
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The son of Indian Muslim immigrants, Minhaj believes in teaching kids messages of empowerment, diversity and inclusion.
“When my dad came to this country in 1982, his goal was to survive,” he said. “For me, I feel like he fought to survive so I could live. A thing I talk about in my special ‘Homecoming King’ is ‘the audacity of equality’ ― which is something I want my kids to have.”
Minhaj believes a book he’s been reading to his daughter of late captures that message ― “A Is for Awesome!: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World” by Eva Chen.
“It’s about all these women who had a huge impact in the world ― female inventors, scientists and athletes, who caused monumental, seismic shifts in pop culture, sports, media, science, etc.,” he said. “That theme of swinging for the fences and going for it is the undercurrent in this book. Even though it’s about how they’re all awesome, the real undercurrent is, ‘Look at all these people who are superheroes who are just like you.’ I try to tell that to my daughter.”
Now that he has two children, Minhaj feels the demands of parenting more strongly than before.
“With one child when it was just my daughter, we were playing zone defense. We could switch up. My wife could take her for a bit, and I could take her for a bit. We could take her to daycare when both of us were working,” he said.
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“Now because people work from home and we have two kids, we have to do man-to-man,” he joked. “We basically go, ‘This one’s yours, this one’s yours, let’s go! I’ll see you at 7:30!’ That’s been the most difficult thing ― having two children, working from home, doing man-to-man defense and figuring out their nap schedule so you can get things done.”
Through the challenges of quarantining amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Minhaj has learned some valuable parenting lessons.
“Bribery works,” he said, only half-kiddingly. “I had to stay with our 2-year-old through the day. Our newborn son is with Mommy most of the time and I’m with our 2-year-old. Right now we’re potty training her, and to get her to sit on the potty for long periods of time, I have a lot of quid pro quo and bribery. I think it works for both adults and children.”
On a more serious note, the comedian said he has a new appreciation for just how important educators and schools are.
“I hope when we come out of this pandemic, we really start to treat and compensate teachers like the necessary workers they are,” he said. He added that he did not realize the “magnitude” of the effect they have on children, “just in terms of socialization, community, learning how to live and exist and cooperate with others, all these invaluable things that I wish she would be learning right now in school. I’m doing the best I can to teach them to her, but I’m not an educator and it made me realise that her going to school is so much more than just tetherball and fruit snacks. There’s all these unseen things that have an incredible impact on children.”
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As for the advice he’d pass on to new dads, Minhaj’s answer was simple: Document everything.
“Take as many photos as possible,” he said. “I know it sucks right now when you feel like you have to make the choice between being with your kids or sleeping. But take the option of being with your kids because iPhoto or Google Photos will show you the memory and you’re gonna break down crying. That has happened to me multiple times. It’ll be like, ‘One year ago,’ and show me a super emotional video, and I’m so glad I was able to participate in that.”
He said he recently found himself tearing up over a special video his wife took when his daughter was 11 months old and started walking for the first time.
“My wife texted me, ‘Come home real quick it’s an emergency.’ Our apartment is a block away from the office, so I sprinted out of a meeting, ran as fast as I could, took the elevator up to our apartment and burst into the apartment,” he recalled. “My daughter walked from the living room to the door, and my wife recorded it on video. She has the video of me bursting through the door shocked, worried and then looking down at our daughter walking toward me. It’s something I’ll never forget, and the fact that I have the video of it is just a really cool amazing thing.”
Beyond documenting and looking back on special memories, Minhaj has another piece of advice for new dads: “More practically, take your full paternity leave!”
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Boy Scouts End Ban On Gay Adults
Vote allows religiously affiliated scout groups to set their own LGBT policies.
The Boy Scouts of America voted Monday to lift a long-established ban on gay adults as employees and volunteers within the organization.
The BSA's full executive board voted 45 to 12 in favor of the change, effective immediately. The vote came after the National Executive Committee unanimously approved a resolution earlier this month stating that "no adult applicant for registration as an employee or non-unit-serving volunteer, who otherwise meets the requirements of the Boy Scouts of America, may be denied registration on the basis of sexual orientation."
BSA President Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense, had called for an end to the ban.
"For far too long, this issue has divided and distracted us," Gates said in a video released Monday. "Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the extraordinary power of scouting to be a force for good in the community and in the lives of its youth members."
The resolution, which allows previously removed leaders to reapply for their positions, lifts the BSA's across-the-board ban on gay leaders, but allows religiously affiliated troops to determine their own policies regarding LGBT adults, as scout units are chartered by other non-profits to which the BSA licenses its intellectual property.
“Finally, hardworking and devoted gay adult leaders can serve openly and honestly in Scouting without fear of rejection or retribution,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the advocacy group GLAAD. “Today's historic vote will strengthen Scouting and sends a message of acceptance that will resonate for years to come, as future Scout leaders are judged by their ability to lead and not their sexual orientation.”
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said the vote "is a welcome step toward erasing a stain on this important organization.” He added: "Including an exemption for troops sponsored by religious organizations undermines and diminishes the historic nature of today's decision. Discrimination should have no place in the Boy Scouts, period.”
“There are differences of opinion, and we need to be respectful of them,” Michael Harrison, a businessman who led the Boy Scouts in Orange County, California, who supported the resolution, told The New York Times this week. “It doesn’t mean the Mormons have to pick a gay scoutmaster, but please don’t tell the Unitarians they can’t.”
The Mormon church quickly issued a statement saying that it was "deeply troubled" by the vote and that its "century-long association with Scouting will need to be examined."
"The Church has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation," the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints statement said. "However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the Church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America."
Zach Wahls, an Eagle scout and executive director of Scouts for Equality, told The Huffington Post earlier this month that the resolution was imperfect, but a major step.
“It’s better than it was,” Wahls said, adding, “I honestly thought we were in for a 10-year wait.
Watch Gates' remarks on the vote in the video above.
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ICC-SRCC an Industry Partner in DOE Solar Training and Education Program
www.iccsafe.org Contact: Trey Hughes
1-888-ICC-SAFE (422-7233), ext. 5237
thughes@iccsafe.org
Grant Funding Will Provide Training and Resources to More Than 100,000 Industry Professionals
The International Code Council’s Solar Rating & Certification Corporation (ICC-SRCC) is an allied industry partner in the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s (IREC) two-year project to develop solar resources and training to reach 100,000 industry professionals in the code official, inspection and firefighting sectors, with a goal of delivering direct training to 10,000 individuals.
As the solar industry matures and diversifies, there is an increasing need for industry professionals to know more about solar technologies, both for safety and quality assurance. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded grant funding under the new Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP) program.
“Building and fire officials, along with the other stakeholders the STEP award aims to reach, are key components in the continued growth of the U.S. solar industry,” explained ICC-SRCC Executive Director Eileen Prado. “We hope to address gaps in training and education for code officials and other industry professionals who play a critical role in solar deployment, and give consumers access to highly-trained professionals working to provide a safe, affordable, and more energy-efficient built environment.”
IREC’s partners represent the industries to be reached with solar training: ICC-SRCC and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors representing a wide range of code officials and inspectors; and the International Association of Fire Fighters and National Association of State Fire Marshals representing the fire service. Rounding out the team are private sector partners Interplay Learning and Embedded Assessments, which will support development, delivery and evaluation of training.
“This project represents a natural progression for IREC, based on our long history building a competent and highly-skilled workforce and quality assurances for the clean energy sectors,” said IREC President/CEO Jane Weissman. “Our colleagues in the allied industries are key players in ensuring safe, sustainable market growth, and in reducing solar soft costs, ultimately passed along to the energy consumer.”
About the Solar Rating & Certification Corporation
The Solar Rating Certification Corporation is a member of the ICC Family of Companies. The primary purpose of ICC-SRCC is to provide authoritative performance ratings, certifications and standards for renewable energy products with the intention of protecting and providing guidance to consumers, incentive providers, government and the industry.
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Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey
of Not-for-Profit Law
Christian Moe*
In 1998, the Turkish Constitutional Court dissolved the Refah Party as a “center of activities contrary to the principle of secularism” and banned six of its leaders from political party activities for five years. Two of the judges dissented, arguing, inter alia, the incompatibility of this measure with the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The party, and the politicians affected, applied to the European Court of Human Rights (the Court).
The Court is part of the enforcement mechanism set up under the ECHR. It can hear complaints by individuals, including legal persons such as political parties. Until recently a separate body, the Commission, determined the admissibility of applications and sought to bring about a settlement in cases declared admissible, but this body was abolished in 1998 as part of an institutional reform.[1] Individual applications are now examined by a seven-judge Chamber, which determines both admissibility and merits. A Chamber may choose to relinquish jurisdiction to a seventeen-member Grand Chamber where important issues of interpretation are involved. Within three months after the Chamber’s judgment, either party may request that the case be referred to a Grand Chamber. Final judgments of the Court are binding on the respondent States, and may require States to award the applicants just satisfaction.
On July 10, 2001, a Chamber of the Court found that there had been no violation of the applicants’ freedom of association in the Refah case. The measures were found to be prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society for the pursuit of legitimate aims. Three of the seven judges dissented, finding the measures disproportionate. On the request of the applicants, the case was referred to a Grand Chamber of the Court. On February 13, 2003, the 17 judges of the Grand Chamber upheld the previous judgment, with no dissent, though with two concurring opinions.[2]
The Refah case is a modern test case for the notion of “militant democracy.” It raises questions as to the range of policies and opinions that political parties may espouse under the ECHR’s Article 11 on the freedom of association. While the Court chose to deal with it as an Article 11 case, the case is also of clear interest to those concerned with the right to freedom of religion or belief in conjunction with the right to freedom of expression. This is so not least because of the Court’s interpretations of key Islamic concepts such as sharia and jihad, its endorsement of the Turkish model of secularism, and its arguments against the plurality of legal systems allegedly promoted by the Refah party. Finally, because of a specific legal maneuver carried out by the Turkish Constitutional Court, the case raises certain concerns over due process.
A. Factual background
The Court’s judgment is remarkable in light of the fact that Refah was the fifteenth political party to be dissolved by Turkish authorities in recent times. The Court had previously examined three of these cases and had found violations of Article 11 in all three.[3] Furthermore, Refah had existed as a political party for fifteen years. Its leader, Necmettin Erbakan, had been a fixture of Turkish politics for nearly twice that long. He had led a succession of political parties broadly described as “Islamist,” which articulated a defense of national and traditional religious values and the interests of provincial small businesses. Erbakan’s Islamists, immoderate in rhetoric but pragmatic office-seekers rather than rigid ideologues in practical politics, had served as coalition partners with parties of both the center-left and the center-right.
At the time of its dissolution, Refah was the largest party in parliament, having gained a plurality (21.4%) of the popular vote and 158 out of 450 parliamentary seats in the 1995 national elections. Before its dissolution, it had ruled for nearly a year in a coalition government with the center-right True Path party, with Erbakan as prime minister. Leaving aside certain symbolic measures and ill-fated initiatives that galvanized sectors of public opinion against it, the party had not realized any radical Islamist agenda while in power. On the contrary, it had had to preside over an extension of military-industrial cooperation with Israel and a pruning of religious education. It had left office peacefully when it lost parliamentary support, apparently as a result of pressure from the Turkish military leadership.
The military leadership, which has staged three coups since multi-party politics began in Turkey in the 1940 and exerts considerable influence on the civilian government,[4] acts as the self-appointed guardian of the principles established by the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, including the principle of secularism or laïcism. Turkish secularism, however, allows for state control of mosques, and since 1980 the military leadership has supported the government’s instrumentalization of conservative Sunni forces as a counterweight to radical leftism.
B. The Refah Case
Unlike the previous cases before the Court, the judgment in Refah was based not on the party’s statutes or program, but on various statements and symbolic public acts by party members of various standing (mayors, MPs, the chairman) over a six-year period. The Court found that these controversial statements and acts, taken as a whole, pointed to a theocratic vision incompatible with democracy, which Refah would be able to realize through its political influence, as fundamentalists had done elsewhere.
The Court’s reasoning follows a set pattern, first determining whether there was an “interference” with the applicants’ rights, and then whether this interference was “prescribed by law.” If so, the Court examines whether the interference was “in pursuit of legitimate aims” (i.e., the specific limitations on the right to freedom of assembly expressly set out in Article 11 of the ECHR), and whether it meets the test of “a pressing social need” that is “necessary in a democratic society.” I will depart from this order to deal first with the critically important questions pertaining to the limitations on a political party’s freedom of assembly. Then I will return briefly to the separate technical question whether Refah’s dissolution was in fact prescribed by law.
II. Necessary in a democratic society?
The Court determined that Refah’s dissolution pursued several of the legitimate aims set out in Article 11 as grounds for restrictions on the right to freedom of association: viz., national security, public safety, prevention of disorder or crime, and protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
A. Statements of Law
The Court reiterated its general principles that “democracy appears to be the only political model contemplated by the Convention and, accordingly, the only one compatible with it”; that political parties are a form of association essential to the proper functioning of democracy; that the freedom of expression applies all the more in relation to political parties and that it extends to ideas that “offend, shock or disturb”; and that the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion is one of the foundations of a democratic society (§§86-90).[5] The State should be the “neutral and impartial organizer of the exercise of various religions.” Restrictions on the freedom of religion might be necessary, however, and the freedom to manifest one’s beliefs “does not protect every act motivated or influenced by a religion or belief” (§§91-92).
With regard to Turkey, the Court stated that:
[…] the principle of secularism is certainly one of the fundamental principles of the State which are in harmony with the rule of law and respect for human rights and democracy. An attitude which fails to respect that principle will not necessarily be accepted as being covered by the freedom to manifest one’s religion. [§93]
The Court recalled in this context its decisions allowing the Turkish State to require its civil servants to refrain from taking part in the Islamic fundamentalist movement and to impose restrictions on the use of headscarves in universities.[6]
One may wonder if too much weight is being placed on this case law, which consists of inadmissibility decisions made by the Court’s now-defunct screening body, the Commission, and not actual judgments by chambers of the Court. The Court unfortunately did not take the opportunity afforded by the Refah case to reexamine the problematic assumption that the Turkish understanding of secularism is fully in harmony with respect for human rights.[7]
As for the permissible limits to the activities of political parties, the Court sets out the dual test that:
[…] a political party may promote a change in the law or the legal and constitutional structures of the State on two conditions: firstly, the means used to that end must be legal and democratic; secondly, the change proposed must itself be compatible with fundamental democratic principles. It necessarily follows that a political party whose leaders incite violence or put forward a policy which fails to respect democracy or which is aimed at the destruction of democracy and the flouting of rights and freedoms recognised in a democracy cannot lay claim to the Convention’s protection against penalties imposed on those grounds […] [§98]
The dissenting minority in the first Chamber, however, added a proviso that had already been established in previous cases on Turkish political parties:
The fact that a political programme is considered incompatible with the current principles and structures of a State does not make it incompatible with the rules of democracy. It is of the essence of democracy to allow diverse political programmes to be proposed and debated, even those that call into question the way a State is currently organized, provided that they do not harm democracy itself.[8]
This proviso was not incorporated in the Refah judgments. The Grand Chamber repeated the two conditions set out in the previous judgment, though a concurring opinion states that this should not be interpreted “to the effect that any campaign to change rights and freedoms recognised in a democracy amount to a situation where a political party would lose protection” (p. 47).
As compared to previous cases, Refah thus appears to have narrowed somewhat the range of permissible policies promoted by political parties that enjoy protection under the ECHR, and a minority of judges in both Chambers appeared uncomfortable with this development.
Still, the Court reiterated that, where political parties are concerned, the exceptions in Article 11 are to be construed strictly, the States have only a limited margin of appreciation, and drastic measures such as dissolving a party might be taken only in the most serious cases (§100).
The Court considered it not improbable that totalitarian political parties might do away with democracy after prospering under a democratic regime (§99). A party’s political program might conceal its real objectives, and it must therefore be compared with the acts and stances of the party’s leaders. A State could not be required to wait until a party had seized power and begun to implement a policy before intervening. The Court held that a State’s “power of preventing intervention” is consistent with, inter alia, the States’ positive obligations to secure the rights and freedoms of persons within their jurisdiction against interference from private individuals within non-State entities. (§§101-103).[9]
Such intervention met the standard of a “pressing social need” if (1) the risk to democracy was sufficiently imminent, (2) the acts and speeches were imputable to the party as a whole, and (3) those acts and speeches as a whole gave a clear picture of a model of society which was incompatible with the concept of a “democratic society” (§104). However, the Court had also to take account of the historical context and “the general interest in preserving the principle of secularism in that context in the country concerned” (§105).
B. Application of the law to the facts in Refah
The Court held that in this case:
The risk to democracy was found to be sufficiently imminent because of Refah’s rise in influence as a political party and its considerable chances of coming to power alone (§§107-110). The importance placed on the political influence of the party is consistent with the Court’s approach in the previous Turkish party cases, which differed from the Refah case in that the parties concerned had hardly had a chance to carry out any activities before they were dissolved.
The statements and acts of the chairman and vice-chairman were clearly imputable to the party, and those of other party members who held government posts were imputable to the party as it had not distanced itself from them (§§111-115).
The Court grouped the evidence under three main headings, finding that Refah had (a) sought to establish a plurality of legal systems, (b) sought to introduce sharia, and (c) suggested the use of jihad and political violence.
(a) The notion of a plurality of legal systems, grounded on religion, was found incompatible with the Convention system for two reasons:
Firstly, it would do away with the State’s role as the guarantor of individual rights and freedoms and the impartial organiser of the practice of the various beliefs and religions in a democratic society, since it would oblige individuals to obey, not rules laid down by the State in the exercise of its above-mentioned functions, but static rules of law imposed by the religion concerned. […]
Secondly, such a system would undeniably infringe the principle of non-discrimination between individuals as regards their enjoyment of public freedoms, which is one of the fundamental principles of democracy. […] [§119]
(b) As for Refah’s alleged intention of introducing sharia law, the Court found that “sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy”:
[…T]he Court considers that sharia, which faithfully reflects the dogmas and divine rules laid down by religion, is stable and invariable. Principles such as pluralism in the political sphere or the constant evolution of public freedoms have no place in it. […] It is difficult to declare one’s respect for democracy and human rights while at the same time supporting a regime based on sharia, which clearly diverges from Convention values, particularly with regard to its criminal law and criminal procedure, its rules on the legal status of women and the way it intervenes in all spheres of private and public life in accordance with religious precepts. [§123]
In this connection the Court also made the historical argument that religious fundamentalist movements have in the past seized power in certain states, and that Turkey had experienced “an Islamic theocratic regime” under Ottoman law (§125).
The Court rejected the applicants’ argument that it was self-contradictory to accuse them of having wished to introduce both legal pluralism and sharia, as well as the argument that “prohibiting a plurality of private-law systems […] amounted to establishing discrimination against Muslims who wished to live their private lives in accordance with the precepts of their religion.” In this regard, the court stressed that “freedom of religion, including the freedom to manifest one’s religion by worship and observance, is primarily a matter of individual conscience,” and that “the sphere of individual conscience is quite different from the field of private law […].” The Grand Chamber here referred specifically to polygamy and privileges for the male sex in divorce and in succession as gender-discriminatory rules contrary to the Convention. (§§126-128)
(c) The possibility of recourse to force had been raised by several speeches by Refah members, some of which contained references to “jihad.” The Court considers that the “primary meaning” of the term is “holy war and the struggle to be waged until the total domination of Islam in society is achieved,” but also that whatever the interpretation of that term, Refah had not dispelled the “ambiguity” of its statements about the possibility of using violent methods. (§§129-131)
The Court accordingly concluded that acts and speeches imputable to the whole of the party “revealed Refah’s long-term policy of setting up a regime based on sharia within the framework of a plurality of legal systems and that Refah did not exclude recourse to force in order to implement its policy and keep the system it envisaged in place.” In view of the incompatibility of these plans with democracy, and Refah’s real opportunities to put them into practice, the Court held that the Turkish Constitutional Court’s decision had met a “pressing social need.” Nor could the interference be regarded as disproportionate in relation to the aims pursued; in short, Refah’s dissolution was “necessary in a democratic society,” and Article 11 had not been violated. (§132-136)
I have argued at length elsewhere that the Court reaches an implausible conclusion by interpreting the evidence in the light of questionable assumptions about Islamic law, the meaning of religious terms, and the lessons to be drawn from Muslim history. These assumptions are couched in problematic language that reflects stereotypes of Muslims, disregarding the diversity of Muslim thought by equating it with the views of a fundamentalist minority.[10] The concurring opinion of Judge Kovler also expresses concern about the “unmodulated” findings of the court as regards sensitive religious issues, and voices regret that the Court “missed the opportunity to analyse in more detail the concept of a plurality of legal systems” (p. 48). The entrenchment of these findings in the Court’s case law by a judgment of a full seventeen-member Grand Chamber raises troubling prospects for the equal protection of Muslims’ rights to freedom of belief, association, and expression under the European Convention.
Some of the statements made by party members were highly provocative and could only be understood as threats of violence against secularists. A slender case for the banning of Refah might conceivably have been built on these statements alone, taking into account the polarization of Turkish opinion and the country’s relatively recent history of political violence. By taking this line of argument, the Court would have avoided interpreting ambiguous religious symbolic expressions and taking a stand on Turkish secularism.
III. Prescribed by law?
Before examining whether the actions of the Turkish Constitutional Court were necessary in a democratic society, the Court also addressed the issue of whether these actions were prescribed by law. A loophole in Turkish law had presented an obstacle to dissolving Refah as a “centre of activities contrary to the fundamental principles of the Republic” (i.e., secularism). One week before its judgment in the Refah case, the Turkish Constitutional Court closed the loophole by declaring the relevant portion of Turkish legislation unconstitutional.
Article 69 §4 of the Turkish Constitution authorizes the Constitutional Court to dissolve a political party if the party is held to constitute a “centre” of such activities (Art. 69 §6). The law regulating political parties imposed a specific and rather peculiar procedure for determining whether the party was such a center.[11] Following this procedure, State Counsel would have to order the permanent exclusion from the party of those members who had been convicted of activities against secularism; only if the party had failed to comply within thirty days could State Counsel institute proceedings for the dissolution of the party. However, activities against the principle of secularism no longer constituted a criminal offense after the repeal, in 1991, of the applicable Article 163 of the Criminal Code. Since party members could not be convicted of activities against secularism, State Counsel could not order their exclusion, and hence should not be able to institute proceedings for the dissolution of a party as a center of such activities. During the proceedings against Refah, the Turkish Constitutional Court ruled the relevant paragraph of the law on political parties unconstitutional, null, and void.
On the face of things, this violates the principle of legality, as Refah representatives could not have foreseen the legal consequences of their actions: the legal situation was changed as a result of issues arising from the Refah case, and the resultant legal situation was applied, retroactively, to that same case. Due process would seem a particularly sensitive issue given the broader political context: i.e., the military leadership’s evident commitment to removing Refah from politics.
In the hearings before the first Chamber, curiously, the applicants had come to agree that the dissolution of the party was “prescribed by law.” The dissenting minority of judges plainly expressed regret that this prevented them from examining the matter. The issue, however, was examined by the Grand Chamber, which considered that the applicants were not estopped from raising the issue again. The Grand Chamber noted that the changes to the criminal law had resulted in a divergence between the law on the regulation of political parties and the Constitution, and that this had rendered meaningless the Constitutional Court’s constitutionally prescribed power to dissolve political parties which constituted centers of anti-secular activities. The Court found that, given such a discrepancy between statutory law and the Constitution, the Constitutional Court was clearly required to disregard the unconstitutional provisions of the relevant legislation and exercise its constitutional authority directly. The Court further found that the applicants, being experienced politicians who had taken part in relevant parliamentary discussions and who were in two cases lawyers by profession, were reasonably able to foresee this outcome. Hence the interference was “prescribed by law.” (§§52-64)
The courts understood the discrepancy as an unintended outcome of changes in the criminal code that had to be remedied. It might be argued, however, that a constitutional provision giving a court the sole authority to dissolve political parties does not in itself require that it actually exercise this authority–i. e., that political parties actually be dissolved. If so, procedural obstacles to their dissolution do not necessarily constitute a violation of the constitution. It is surely acceptable, and not unusual in some countries, for constitutional provisions to be rendered dormant even though they remain on the books. Might the applicants reasonably have assumed this to be the case with regard to their situation?
That question, which the present author is in no way competent to address, could presumably only be settled by a deeper study of Turkish law, including the lawgivers’ intent behind the legal changes concerned. A supporting argument for construing the constitutional provisions as dormant in this case, however, is that the relevant statutory legal changes and their effects tend to strengthen democracy and human rights. Decriminalizing “acts against the principle of secularism” strengthens the freedoms of belief and of expression. Restricting the state prosecutor from requiring political parties to exclude members strengthens the internal autonomy of parties against government interference. It will remain a contested issue whether parties with anti-democratic aims may be dissolved only if their members are convicted of criminal acts – there are good reasons why “militant democracies” might consider this too stringent a test. Again, however, preventing the judiciary from dissolving parties on grounds of acts against secularism (rather than acts against democracy as such, which is arguably not quite the same category) may be a sound policy for strengthening the freedoms of belief and of expression.
Trying, over the years, to balance national sovereignty and European supervision, the Court has developed the doctrine that States should be allowed a certain discretion – a “margin of appreciation” – in implementing the standards of the ECHR. Being closer to the issues at hand, it is argued, national authorities are in a better position than international judges to decide on the appropriateness of derogations from or limitations to rights in a given situation. Critics have argued that the expansion of this doctrine has led to excessive deference to States, based on opaque arguments, to the detriment of individual rights when these are most at risk.[12]
In the Refah case, the Court reiterated its view that States have only a limited margin of appreciation where the dissolution of political parties is at stake. However, the Court appears implicitly to give the national authorities a rather wide margin of appreciation. In effect, it defers to their particular understanding of secularism, to their understanding of Refah as a theocratic threat to democracy, and to their constitutional argument on due process. Besides the usual reasons, this deference may also owe something to the judges’ lack of experience with political Islam and a feeling that their Turkish colleagues were better placed to interpret notions of sharia and jihad. However, numerous factors argue instead for a closer independent scrutiny. These factors include the behind-the-scenes role of the Turkish military and the intensely emotional polarization of Turkish public opinion on the appropriate role of religion, from which the judiciary can hardly be expected to be detached.
The Court’s resulting “unmodulated” formulations about Islamic matters will remain part of the case law under the ECHR, raising concerns about European Muslims’ equal enjoyment of political freedoms. As compared with some other recent cases, the Court has also set out a stricter test as to the substantive policies that political parties of any persuasion may legitimately espouse. It remains to be seen whether Refah therefore heralds a more restrictive line toward political parties in general.[13]
*Christian Moe is a research fellow at the Norwegian Centre of Human Rights, pursuing a Ph.D. in the History of Religions at the University of Oslo. He is currently based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
[1] Protocol No. 11 to the ECHR.
[2]Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey, Judgment, Strasbourg, February 13, 2003 (includes a concurring opinion of Judges Ress and Rozakis [pp. 46-7] and a concurring opinion by Judge Kovler [p. 48]).
The first Chamber’s judgment was given on July 31, 2001, and includes a joint dissenting opinion of Judges Fuhrmann, Lucaides, and Sir Nicolas Bratza (pp. 35-47).
[3]United Communist Party of Turkey and Others v. Turkey (133/1996/752/951), January 30, 1998; Socialist Party and Others v. Turkey (20/1997/804/1007), May 25, 1998; Freedom and Democracy Party (ÖZDEP) v. Turkey (Application no. 23885/94), December 8, 1999.
[4] At the time of writing, the influence of the military through the National Security Council looks set to be reduced as a part of reforms aimed at preparing Turkey for eventual EU membership.
[5] In the following, all paragraph and page references in the text are to the Grand Chamber judgment unless a different source is expressly identified.
[6]Kalaç v. Turkey, no. 20704/92, judgment of June 23, 1997, Reports 1997-IV; Yanasik v. Turkey, no. 14254/89, Commission decision of January 6, 1993, DR 74, p. 14; Karaduman v. Turkey, no. 16278/90, Commission decision of May 3, 1993, DR 74, p. 93. Cf. Dahlab v. Switzerland, no. 42393/98, ECHR 2001-V.
[7] See, e.g., the concerns raised by Abdelfattah Amor, “Situation in Turkey,” Add. 1 to the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, August 11, 2000 (UN Doc. A/55/280/Add. 1).
[8] Joint dissenting opinion of Judges Fuhrmann, Loucaides, and Sir Nicolas Bratza, Refah v. Turkey, judgment, July 31, 2001, p. 38. Cf. Socialist Party (§47) and ÖZDEP (§41), cited in n. 3 supra.
[9] The classic “militant democracy” case under the ECHR is Communist Party (KPD) v. the Federal Republic of Germany, no. 250/57, Commission decision of July 20, 1957, Yearbook 1, p. 222.
[10] C. Moe, “Refah Revisited: Strasbourg’s Construction of Islam,” paper presented at the conference “The Turkish Welfare Party Case: Implications for Human Rights in Europe,” Central European University, Budapest, June 12-15, 2003.
[11] Law no. 2820 on the regulation of political parties, sections 103 (second paragraph) and 101 (d).
[12] See e.g. Oren Gross and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, “From Discretion to Scrutiny: Revisiting the Application of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in the Context of Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly 23 (2001): 625-649. This article focuses on derogation from rights (under Article 15 of the ECHR) in times of declared national emergency rather than on the inherent limitations of rights as in the Refah case, but the argument could easily be extended.
[13] So far, Refah has been cited in passing in a handful of cases, most importantly (on the justifiability under Article 11 of drastic measures against organizations in serious cases) in the rather different case of Gorzelik and Others v. Poland, no. 44158/98, judgment, December 20, 2001, §60.
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Indiana National Guard soldiers compete in the honorary Bataan Memorial Death March
By Spc. Tackora Hand - Indiana National Guard
Courtesy Photo | Indiana National Guard soldiers compete in the Bataan Memorial Death March
INDIANAPOLIS – Three teams from the Indiana National Guard participated in the Bataan Memorial Death March Sunday, March 25 to honor World War II service members.
Sixteen Indiana National Guard soldiers participated with more than 8,400 marchers in the largest turnout ever for the event.
All three teams performed outstandingly taking first and second place in the National Guard light division and first place in the National Guard heavy division.
“Both first place finishes are testament to the hard work and dedication put in by these traditional soldiers,” said Capt. Adam Barlow, Company D, 151st Infantry Regiment commander. “Their commitment to excellence in their daily lives and as Guardsmen is evident in victories such as Bataan.”
The 26.2-mile march takes place in the mountainous desert terrain of New Mexico with light and heavy divisions competing as a team or individually. The heavy division is required to carry a 35-pound rucksack.
“This is the most humbling experience I’ve ever had,” said Spc. Philip Craig, a heavy division competitor with Company D. “When you finish the march and you’re feeling exhausted and fatigued, at the end you see the survivors, and that made me stand up a little straighter.”
The memorial march honors members of the military who were forced by Japanese captors to make a grueling, 65-mile march across the Bataan Peninsula. In 1942, 75,000 U.S. and Filipino troops endured harsh conditions, including lack of water and food, torture and executions at the hands of Japanese soldiers.
“It's paratroopers like this emulating and honoring the men who endured the true Bataan Death March, that makes our unique unit a refreshing, challenging and rewarding place to serve our country.” said Barlow.
Some commissaries, exchanges to honor Vietnam veterans with lapel pins on Thursday
By: Kevin Lilley and Karen Jowers - Military Times
More than 100 military exchange locations will provide Vietnam Veteran lapel pins as part of National Vietnam Veterans Day on March 29. (Stephen Baack/Army)
Military commissaries and exchanges will be among the many businesses, community groups and other organizations that will honor those who served in uniform from 1955 to 1975 by providing lapel pins as part of National Vietnam Veterans Day on Thursday.
About 130 Army and Air Force Exchange stores worldwide, as well as seven Navy Exchange stores and some Marine Corps Exchange locations, will hand out the pins provided by the Vietnam War Commemoration office, a Defense Department-backed agency responsible for marking the 50th anniversary of the conflict. Seventy commissaries will host commemorative ceremonies that day, according to commissary officials. The ceremonies will be free and open to the public, but those planning to attend should check with their local store to confirm location and time of ceremony.
The pins are available for “United States veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any time during the period of November 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975, regardless of location,” per the group’s website.
But AAFES and NEX officials said neither chain will require proof of service for veterans to receive the pin; an MCX spokesman said via email that he could not immediately answer questions about eligibility.
Commissary officials said the 70 commissaries will hand out the lapel pins as part of their ceremonies. There was no published requirement for veterans to provide proof of Vietnam-period service to get the pin at commissaries, a commissary spokesman said.
Commissary and exchange officials have compiled a joint list of locations.
The AAFES locations include stores throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Guam and other overseas outlets that will be providing the pins from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Participating NEX locations include stores in Norfolk, Virginia; Jacksonville and Pensacola, Florida; Bethesda, Maryland; San Diego; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and Guam. Details on those events are available on NEX’s Facebook events page.
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Veterans Build Resilience Through Equine-Assisted Therapy
By Air Force Senior Airman Laura Turner, 310th Space Wing
Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center staff member Amy May and Bear, a therapeutic horse, train in a round pen on the center’s grounds in Colorado Springs, Colo., March 5, 2018. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Laura Turner
About 20 veterans a day die from suicide, according to a Veterans Affairs Department analysis released in 2016. Multiple programs have begun to provide the nation’s veterans with the help they need.
One such program is based at the Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center here. The center provides services to veterans through the TRICARE insurance program, and it also helps veterans’ families.
“We serve veterans, [and] we serve children with various diagnoses or needs,” said Sarah Price, a mental health counselor for equine-assisted psychotherapy. “Some diagnoses include anxiety disorder. Some adults might have bipolar disorders or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. It really just depends. There are lots of different needs and symptoms that EAP can address and be beneficial for.”
The riding center offers a certified Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International program to assist its clients.
“I have post-traumatic stress disorder] and I have bipolar disorder, said Carolyn Burke, a Navy veteran. “For me, they’ve helped me through all of those, each one individually. And the social anxiety -- just dealing with people in general -- you can learn to do that here.”
Understanding the Struggle
Experienced veteran staff members understand what their military and prior-military clients are going through.
“I was active duty Navy for six years,” said Adam Morrison, an equine specialist in mental health and learning at the center. “I was in operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Desert Sweep. Now I’m a student with Arizona State, [going through] their social work program for my master’s, and the population that I wanted to work with was veterans with PTSD, traumatic brain injury and the growing need for combat trauma. That, and I never have a bad day when I’m out around the horses, so I thought this would be a perfect mix.”
Morrison tells potential clients who may be experiencing PTSD symptoms that this program is not your typical in-office therapy.
Therapy Teams
“We’re able to create what I call a therapy team -- an equine specialist instructor, a therapist, the client and a horse -- and it has a lot of advantages,” Morrison said. “I think it feels more free-flowing. There’s not that rigid office setting. And the horse is highly reflective of the client’s emotions and what they’re feeling.”
Amy May, a PATH-certified therapeutic riding instructor and equine specialist in mental health and learning, said she believes the program has affected local veterans most by giving them a chance just to be present with the horse.
“I’ve had quite a few of them tell me that this is the first time in years that they haven’t been thinking about their anxiety or their experiences that are always kind of haunting them,” May said. “So it’s a moment for them to relax and to breathe and be with the horse -- sometimes challenged by the horse -- and really build that bond.”
The program reaches a wide range of veterans: active duty, National Guard, reservists and retired military. The center has even started offering a free course to families, with a few requirements: the family must have TRICARE coverage, no more than four members can participate, and the youngest participant must be at least age 7.
Fancy, a therapeutic horse, awaits instruction from a staff member during training at the Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., March 9, 2018. PPTRC provides assistance to veterans. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Laura Turner
Veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan is deported to Mexico
By Tim Stelloh - NBC News
Miguel Perez holds a photo of his son Miguel Perez Jr. in Chicago in April 2017. Joshua Lott / AFP - Getty Images File
Federal authorities deported a military veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan but was later convicted of drug crimes, an agency spokeswoman said Sunday.
In a statement, the spokeswoman, Nicole Alberico of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said immigration agents returned Miguel Perez Jr., 39, to Mexican authorities on Friday.
In an email to NBC News, Perez's lawyer, Chris Bergen, said Perez was left with no money and only his orange prison uniform.
"He was dumped in one of the most dangerous areas of the Mexican border," Bergen said. "We will continue to fight his case and appeal his citizenship denial."
Perez had lived in the United States as a legal permanent resident since age 11 but was never granted citizenship, said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., who has advocated for Perez and criticized ICE's handling of his case.
"This is a deplorable way to treat a veteran who risked his life in combat for our nation," she said in a statement Friday.
Alberico said the agency was "very deliberate" in its review of veteran deportation cases.
"ICE exercises prosecutorial discretion, when appropriate, on a case-by-case basis for members of the armed forces who have served our country," she said. "ICE specifically identifies service in the U.S. military as a positive factor that is considered when deciding whether or not prosecutorial discretion should be exercised."
Perez was convicted in 2010 of manufacturing or delivering more than two pounds of cocaine in Cook County, Illinois, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune this year, Perez said that after his service, he had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He also may have had a traumatic brain injury. Perez started hanging out with an old friend who gave him free drugs and alcohol, he told the paper, and while he was hanging out with that friend, he delivered a laptop case with cocaine to an undercover officer.
He told the Tribune that he mistakenly believed his military service granted him citizenship. It doesn't: In 2002, President George W. Bush signed an executive order allowing non-citizens who served honorably after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to apply.
Perez's parents and children are citizens.
Hector Barajas, director and founder of the Deported Veterans' Support House, a service agency in Tijuana, Mexico, told NBC News that it was unclear how many veterans had been kicked out the country.
"The government isn't tracking them, so we don't know," he said.
Nor was it clear whether the deportation rate has changed during the Trump administration.
"The pattern I'm seeing is that less people are getting deported from the new wars because the military is doing a better job at making them citizens," he said. "But we don't have the real numbers."
Indianapolis VA director: We remain laser-focused
It’s a rare week that Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin’s name isn’t in the national news. But the head of the Indianapolis VA facility said he and his staff aren’t letting news reports get in the way of the care they provide to Indiana’s veterans.
Dr. J. Brian Hancock, director of the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, told Legionnaires in attendance at American Legion Post 495 for Historic Fort Benjamin Harrison Post 510’s March 17 meeting that he remains in full support of Shulkin and recently reminded the secretary of that fact.
“I just wrote a letter to the secretary explaining my concerns for what he is going through right now and reminding him that we remain laser-focused on our veterans. We remain laser-focused on our mission,” Hancock said. “When there’s challenging times, there’s uncertain times, we remain focused.”
Hancock, who has spent more than 30 years in the health-care field as both a physician and administrator, said VA is open to more scrutiny that other health-care providers. “When you hear things about the VA, the press can take a pretty hard stance because we are federally funded and because we are transparent,” he said. “You hear things that go on that make us not proud of things that are happening from time to time – hopefully elsewhere."
Hancock, who spent 25 years in the private health-care sector, said VA regularly completes issue briefs for anything from a water leak to having a veteran die while under VA care. “I will tell you that I have not yet seen an issue brief during my nine years in the VA regarding something that has not happened in the private sector,” he said. “Here’s the difference: They don’t tell anybody.
“So when we get this wave of enthusiasm to send all of your health care to the private sector because they do so, it’s not (that) they do well. They just don’t tell you when they don’t do well. That’s OK. That’s the way it is.”
Despite some rough patches, including a nationwide scandal that broke in 2014, Hancock said VA has improved access to care for its stakeholders. “The VA is not the VA of five years ago, nine years ago and not 20 years ago,” he said. “If I did not believe we were providing the best care possible, I would not stay there. I want to continue to improve what we are already doing. And where we stumble, which we will – and any health-care system will stumble – but we will identify … every opportunity to look at things and see how we make them better continuously.”
Hancock briefly spoke about VA expanding its services to Shelbyville, Ind., via a partnership with Major Health Partners. Approximately 5,000 square feet of physician offices have been donated by Major Health Partners to VA, which will use the space to establish a clinic in April that initially will provide primary and mental health care.
Hancock also told Legionnaires of what he said is VA’s first-ever collaboration with a YMCA to build a combined veteran-based and civilian-based YMCA in Pike Township in Indianapolis. He said 5,000 feet will be dedicated to providing veterans with rehabilitation, health, dietary and mental health needs.
And VA has teamed up with Gov. Eric Holcomb – a member of Post 510 – to use space located in downtown Indianapolis as a veterans resource center. “This will be a one-stop shop for our veterans and unique to the state of Indiana,” Hancock said. “We are very, very proud that we have the fortitude to go where the government has not gone before.”
The son of a U.S. Navy veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, Hancock said it took his father 60 years to talk about what happened on Dec. 7, 1941. Hancock’s father had been invited to spend the night of Dec. 6 on either the U.S.S. West Virginia or U.S.S. Arizona but chose to remain in the barracks because he was on duty the next morning.
“If he had slept on board one of those battleships, I would probably not be here today,” Hancock said. “I am committed to making sure that the veterans that we serve are treated every single day, day in and day out, like I would want my father to be treated. That’s my commitment.”
Hancock’s presentation was one of four to five appearances by guest speakers at Post 510’s regularly scheduled meetings. Paul Norton, the post’s second vice commander, urged other Legion posts to take a similar approach in order to attract better turnout at meetings and, in turn, boost membership.
“Bring in someone interesting and someone with credibility,” Norton said. “We’ve been doing that, and it’s working. Posts should think outside of the template of the Post Officer Guide for ways to reach more members and bring them into the post.”
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US-South Korean military exercises to begin April 1
By: Robert Burns, The Associated Press
In this March 25, 2015, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and South Korean soldiers take their position during the annual joint military exercise Foal Eagle at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, north of Seoul, South Korea. The Pentagon says the annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that had been postponed for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will begin April 1. (ALee Jin-man/AP)
WASHINGTON — At a potentially pivotal moment of diplomacy with North Korea, the Pentagon said Monday that annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that had been postponed for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will begin April 1.
In a brief statement, the Pentagon said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his South Korean counterpart, Song Young-moo, agreed to go forward with the maneuvers, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, “at a scale similar to” that of previous years.
North Korea has been notified of the schedule “as well as the defensive nature” of the exercises, the Pentagon said.
The timing and size of the annual maneuvers are especially sensitive this year because of heightened tension over the North’s accelerated work last year on a nuclear-armed missile potentially capable of reaching the United States ― followed, unexpectedly, by prospects for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis.
North Korea typically objects to U.S.-South Korean military exercises, calling them dress rehearsals for an invasion. Washington and Seoul insist they are defensive and are needed to keep allied forces combat-ready.
After recent high-level talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean officials said Kim indicated his acceptance of the maneuvers. Kim also offered to meet personally with President Donald Trump to discuss giving up his nuclear weapons on unspecified terms, and Trump quickly agreed. The time and place of the unprecedented talks have not been set, but the White House indicated the summit would happen by May.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to set the stage for that summit by meeting with Kim in April in the Demilitarized Zone, which separates the two Koreas.
It had been widely expected that the U.S.-South Korean military exercises would go ahead, even with the new prospects for diplomacy. Some have speculated that the maneuvers would be scaled back, but the Pentagon said they would be conducted at “the same scale, scope and duration” as in previous years.
The larger of the two exercises, Foal Eagle, is a field training exercise with about 11,500 U.S. troops and about 290,000 South Korean troops, according to a Pentagon spokesman, Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Logan. The other, known as Key Resolve, will involve about 12,200 U.S. troops and about 10,000 from South Korea.
“To avoid compromising exercise objectives, specifics regarding the exercise scenarios will not be discussed,” Logan said, adding that the purpose is to “enhance” the ability of the U.S.-South Korean alliance to defend South Korean territory.
The U.S. has about 28,500 troops permanently stationed in South Korea and is obligated by treaty to defend the South in the event it is attacked by the North. The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
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Department of Indiana 2018 Jr. Shooting Sports Program (JSSP) Championship Results
The American Legion Department of Indiana held the 2018 Jr. Shooting Sports Program (JSSP) Championship on March 17th at Post 89, Seymour, IN.
The American Legion Junior Shooting Sports Program is a gun safety education and marksmanship program that encompasses the basic elements of safety, education, enjoyment and competition. Shooters use the .177 caliber air rifle.
This unique program gives students across Indiana, ages 12 – 18, the opportunity to learn marksmanship from National Rifle Association trained coaches.
Both males and females can participate, through Legion sponsorship; disabled youth are encouraged to join, as competitive shooting is a sport that creates an equal playing field for all competitors.
Results for the Department of Indiana 2018 Jr. Shooting Sports Program (JSSP) Championship:
1st Tabit, Claire – Hancock 4-H - Post 182
2nd Kleber, James – Screaming Eagles - Post 241
3rd Hamilton, John – Young Gunz - Post 42
Kneeling Position
1st Hofmann, Levi – Marion HS JROTC
2nd Hamilton, Josia – Marion HS JROTC
3rd Holt, Maggie – Versailles AL Jr. Shooting Sports – Post 173
1st Higgins, Luci - Screaming Eagles - Post 241
2nd Block, Richard - Versailles AL Jr. Shooting Sports – Post 173
3rd Teeguarden, Hailey - Marion HS JROTC
Individual Overall Champion
1st Kleber, James - Screaming Eagles (Fort Wayne Post 241)
2nd Hofmann, Levi - Marion High School JROTC
3rd Block, Richard - Versailles AL Jr. Shooting Sports – Post 173
1st Marion High School JROTC
2nd Versailles AL Jr. Shooting Sports (Post 173)
3rd Screaming Eagles (Fort Wayne Post 241)
4th Young Gunz (Floyds Knob Post 42)
5th Hancock County 4-H (Post 182)
6th Southern Indiana Sharpshooters (Jasper Post 147)
7th Jr. Sharpshooters (North Webster Post 253)
8th Seymour Post 89
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Students and parents interested in participating in next year’s program are encouraged to contact their local American Legion post. Learn more about JSSP at: www.indianalegion.org/junior-shooting-sports.
Big bank-reform bill that passed Senate includes new VA loan refinance rules
By: Kevin Lilley - Military Times
Senators added language to a just-passed bank-reform bill that could change how veterans refinance their VA-backed loans. (Alex Brandon/AP)
A banking-reform bill that dials back regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis includes language that targets predatory lenders offering VA-backed home loan refinancing.
The Senate voted 67-31 on Wednesday to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. The House has passed a separate bank-reform bill; per The Associated Press, the next likely step is a compromise bill that would be voted on by both chambers.
Should the VA-related language in the Senate bill survive, it would prohibit lenders from offering VA-backed refinance loans within six months of a veterans’ initial loan. Lenders also would need to provide borrowers with a “net tangible benefits test” that outlines the full financial scope of the refinanced loan, so borrowers have a complete picture of what they’re saving over time.
All fees associated with refinanced VA loans would need to be recouped within 36 months, and loans that weren’t at least 50 basis points lower than the initial loan’s fixed rate wouldn’t be eligible for VA backing.
The language comes from a bipartisan lending bill co-authored by Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and introduced in mid-January ― in part, at least, to combat “churn” issues that have caused concern among loan officials regarding rapid VA-backed refinancing. The Senate hasn’t acted on the measure since its initial committee assignment.
Despite sponsoring the VA-related bill, Warren was one of the 31 “nay” votes, all Democrats, on the overall bank-reform legislation.
Vietnam veteran, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Sammy L. Davis honored with Indiana’s highest award
BY FOX59 WEB
Gov. Eric Holcomb presents the Sachem Award to Sammy L. Davis on March 12, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Gov. Eric Holcomb awarded Indiana’s highest honor Monday to a Vietnam veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
Sammy L. Davis of Freedom received the 2018 Sachem Award during a ceremony at the Indiana War Memorial.
Davis was near the South Vietnamese city of Cai Lay in 1967 when his unit came under fire. He was wounded, but took over a burning artillery piece and fired off several rounds at the Viet Cong. He then used an air mattress to cross a river and rescue wounded before joining another unit with a howitzer to continue fighting.
Davis broke his back, but continued serving in the Army until 1984. His actions inspired those of the lead character in Forrest Gump.
“You hear what he did on that day in 1967, how with a body full of shrapnel, he ignored the risk to his own life to slow the enemy advance and save three comrades,” Holcomb said during the ceremony.
Holcomb said Davis dedicated his life after Vietnam to raise alarms about the dangers of Agent Orange and the problems veterans exposed to the chemical faced.
Davis said it was an “honor” to receive the award. During his speech Monday, he said we must “pass on our dreams of a greater America to our children.”
“All of us must take responsibility for our actions and the actions of our government. Citizenship in the United States of America is a privilege that can only be safeguarded by each of us taking an active role in our nation,” Davis said.
The 71-year-old joins a distinguished group of Sachem winners, including Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor and late Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh.
Davis has also been awarded a Silver Star, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. He was among veterans who appeared at the coin toss at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis.
Bill would allow military tuition assistance to be used for training outside colleges, universities
By: Leo Shane III - Military Times
A new plan being introduced in Congress Monday would allow troops to use military tuition assistance for non-college training programs. (File photo)
WASHINGTON — Service members could use their military tuition assistance for training programs outside of traditional colleges and universities under legislation being introduced Monday in the House and Senate.
The plan, offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in each chamber, would allow eligible troops to use the money for licensing, credentialing and certification programs offered outside of institutions of higher education.
Backers said the change is needed to help better prepare service members for post-military life, and recognizes that not all civilian jobs require a traditional four-year degree.
“We have an obligation to ensure service members have access to the resources they need as they transition to civilian life,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is co-sponsoring the Senate proposal with the chamber’s Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman, Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and ranking member Jon Tester, D-Mont.
“Service members possess unique skill sets that make them great candidates for many in-demand jobs, but the current system makes it difficult for service members to obtain the licensing or credentialing needed for those jobs. As many skills based jobs do not require four-year degrees, [this bill] would allow service members to receive the [assistance] they need in a more expedient manner.”
Veterans can already use their post-military education benefits for a host of non-college certification programs, particularly for specialties such as truck driving and emergency medical training.
But tuition assistance provided to currently serving troops has a separate set of rules and restrictions. Nearly all of the funding supplied under current initiatives is based on how many credit hours service members complete as part of degree programs.
Amanda Hayman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University adjunct instructor, reviews the course syllabus with students on the second floor of the training building, Oct. 21. A new bill would allow military students to use tuition assistance for non-college certification and licensing programs. (Defense Department photo)
Tester called it a “commonsense measure” that provides more flexibility in preparation for a modern civilian workforce.
“The jobs of the 21st century evolve quickly, and today’s workers never stop learning,” he said in a statement. “We’re committed to helping our service members succeed at every stage: on active-duty, in the reserves or as a veteran.”
Transition assistance for troops has been a major focus for lawmakers in recent years, with a focus on allowing service members to more easily transfer their military skills to civilian-sector jobs.
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Ola to launch services in London on February 10
Indian cab hailing major Ola on Friday announced it will launch its operations in London on February 10 with over 20,000 registered drivers.
The ride hailing platform will be fully operational from day one, with over 20,000 drivers having registered on the platform since it began onboarding a month ago.
“The overwhelmingly positive reception to Ola since launching in the UK in 2018 illustrates the significant demand from drivers, riders and communities. We are working closely with drivers to build a high quality and reliable service for Londoners,” Simon Smith, Head of Ola International, said in a statement.
“Launching in London is a major milestone for us and we are keen to offer a first class experience for all our customers.”
The company aims to offer a differentiated experience on the platform with features such as 24×7 helplines for drivers and customers and an in-app emergency button, while providing the best quality of service through its large network of drivers across the city of London.
Ola’s passengers will benefit £25 worth of ride credit for signing up in the first week after the launch, the company added.
Ola, operating in the UK since 2018, obtained the licence to operate in London in 2019.The firm has expanded rapidly throughout the UK since its launch and will now operate across 28 local authorities.
Cities including Birmingham, Coventry and Warwick have seen more than double-digit growth in rides in the last quarter.To date, Ola has provided over 3 million rides with more than 11,000 drivers already operating on the platform in the UK.
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The Art of The Boss Baby
Zahed Ramin, Alec Baldwin (Foreword by), Tom McGrath (Preface by), Marla Frazee (Afterword by)
A beautifully illustrated look at the art, design and making of DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming movie Boss Baby, a family film about a young boy and his fast-talking, corporate-type baby who have to fight the evil plot of the CEO of Puppy Co. to save the world.
Go behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation's smart and hilarious comedy called The Boss Baby. In one of the most anticipated comedies of 2017, a young boy named Tim feels there is something unusual about his baby brother from the day he arrives ... in a taxi, and speaking with the voice of Alec Baldwin. The two brothers embark on a sibling rivalry battle for the ages, but then must work together when an unexpected adventure takes them to places they can’t imagine.
This beautifully illustrated book will feature a wide range of colorful development art, storyboards and character sketches as well as in-depth interviews with director Tom McGrath (the Madagascar franchise), writer Michael McCullers (Austin Powers), producer Ramsey Naito (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), plus key members of the storyboard, visual development, visual effects, CG animation, modeling and layout departments.
The Boss Baby © 2017 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Insight Editions, 9781608876822, 156pp.
Ramin Zahed is a senior editor at Insight Editions and the former editor in chief of Animation Magazine. A journalist who has covered the film and television industries for over 20 years, his writing has appeared in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and Movieline. He is also the author of The Art of Home, The Art of Puss in Boots, The Art of Rise of the Guardians, and The Art of DreamWorks. He lives in Los Angeles.
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News of the death of Hoosier entertainer Florence Henderson arrived as a surprise to Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles, who said the track had begun discussions with “The Brady Bunch” star about her role at the 2017 Indianapolis 500.
Henderson served as grand marshal for the 100th running of the race in 2016, and she sang "America the Beautiful," "God Bless America" or "The Star-Spangled Banner" at 23 editions of the race.
Boles said Henderson expressed interested in hosting video reports on Race Day morning from different spots at the 1,025-acre track.
10 things Florence Henderson told us through the years
“Our fans expect Florence Henderson to be (at the race),” Boles said. “Our fans loved having her there because of her authentic passion for the Speedway.”
Henderson, 82, died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Her manager, Kayla Pressman, said Henderson had suffered heart failure.
The actress-singer saw IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe compete in person at Monday’s “Dancing with the Stars” season finale. Henderson danced as a “DWTS” contestant when she was 76.
Her vitality was remembered Friday by 500 Festival president and CEO Bob Bryant.
“She was always such a positive, engaging and highly energetic person,” Bryant said. “You think of history and tradition, but really you could not have a better shining personality for everyone she would engage with.”
Bryant said Henderson’s sunny disposition could be seen before the annual 500 Festival Parade when she interacted with volunteers and staffers and then during the parade when she interacted with fans.
Florence Henderson sang at 23 editions of the Indy 500
Henderson was born in Dale, Ind., and grew up in Rockport, Ind., an Ohio River town of 2,200 residents about 30 miles east of Evansville.
“I think that small-town Indiana feel never left her, and she never grew out of it,” Bryant said.
Carmel resident Rob Kirsh shared an anecdote of Henderson's accessibility, which he learned about when contacting the celebrity's website with hopes of assisting his 9-year-old daughter with a "famous Hoosier" research project in 2015.
"It never hurts to ask," said Kirsh, who soon received a phone call from Henderson.
Kirsh said Henderson devoted 30 minutes to answering his daughter's questions.
"(Henderson) could not have been friendlier or kinder or more gracious," said Kirsh, a 47-year-old who estimates he's seen every "Brady Bunch" episode twice.
Kirsh said Henderson's rags-to-riches story -- one that began as the 10th child of tobacco sharecropper and led to a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame -- made an enduring impact.
“She told us about performing at the Hollywood Bowl," Kirsh said. "She said she was standing on the stage crying, because this had been her dream.”
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