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Viva la Waffle working to open in new year; Ruffino's leadership | Business Buzz
William Taylor Potter | Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Each week, we’ll offer insights into new businesses, developments and closings in the area. And we’ll answer your questions about what’s happening in a vacant store or empty lot. Email us at wpotter@theadvertiser.com.
Viva la Waffle, an old beloved food truck that announced it would be returning with a brick-and-mortar location, received a commercial renovation permit for its location at 101 Liberty Avenue, records from Lafayette Consolidated Government show.
According to the LCG permit office, the renovation is valued at around $220,000 and includes about 3,000 square feet.
Viva la Waffle announced its comeback in September via a video posted to Facebook. The restaurant has not officially announced a target date for its opening, but it said on Facebook that it is "working feverishly" to open as close to the new year as possible.
Ruffino's Megan Klock working to continue 'Celebration of Life'
Following the death of Ruffino's owner and former LSU football player Ruffin Rodrigue Jr., the restaurant brand's director of operations is trying to keep the "Celebrate Life" theme alive.
Megan Klock, the director of operations for both Ruffino's in Baton Rouge and Ruffino's On The River in Lafayette, is staying on in her role and overseeing the operations of the two restaurants in the wake of Rodrigue's death. Rodrigue died of an apparent heart attack at 53 in late November.
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A Lafayette native, Klock had 25 years of experience working in restaurants prior to joining Ruffino's in 2018.
“I am honored to continue Ruffin’s legacy that I have been a part of for the past two years,” Klock said in a release. “I am working closely with Ruffin’s family to ensure that the restaurant will not skip a beat. We’ll continue to provide a warm atmosphere and excellent food for many years to come.”
Hot dog and barbecue franchise opening in Lafayette
Crave Hot Dogs and BBQ is opening a location in Lafayette, which will be the brand's third Louisiana location.
The franchise will be operated by Felicia and Corey Hebert, the company said in a release. The brand currently has locations in 12 states and is looking to add more than 100 locations over the next three years, as well as more than 20 food trucks.
Home Bank promotes David Kirkley to CFO
Lafayette-based bank Home Bank has promoted University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumnus David T. Kirkley as the bank's new chief financial officer, the company announced.
Kirkley has been with Home Bank since 2012. He has also served as funding manager and financial analyst for IBERIABANK. He has a finance degree and an MBA from UL.
"Mr. Kirkley brings a tremendous amount of experience in financial and strategic analysis to his new position," said John W. Bordelon, Home Bank's chairman of the board, president and CEO "Home Bank is fortunate to have such a talented employee capable of stepping into this important role and working closely with the management team in our strategic growth."
Home Bank was founded in 1908 and is the oldest financial institution founded in Lafayette Parish. It has expanded into markets across South Louisiana and parts of Mississippi.
Jaci Russo named to Women Presidents' Organization
The Women Presidents' Organization, a peer advisory group for multiple-million dollar companies led by women, announced Wednesday that brandRUSSO co-founder and CEO Jaci Russo had been named the newest member of the organization's New Orleans chapter.
"While the current business landscape has proved profoundly challenging, it has also offered a huge and dramatic opportunity for creativity, to redefine value propositions and speed to market," said Camille Burns, WPO CEO. "Collaboration has never been more important. I am very pleased to welcome Jaci Russo to the powerful WPO community, where successful entrepreneurs use the power of peer learning to take their businesses to the next level."
Russo is a Professional Certified Marketer and brand strategist with more than 25 years of experience at the national level. This year, Russo has also been chosen to mentor for the American Academy of Entrepreneurs Program and became a member of the Women's Business Enterprise Council.
"I enjoy spaces where I can encourage other women to advance their professional development, as well as become inspired by them myself," Russo said. "It is an honor to be a member of the New Orleans Chapter of the WPO, and I am proud to be a part of this organization."
Contact reporter William Taylor Potter with tips or questions at wpotter@theadvertiser.com or on Twitter at @wmtaylorpotter.
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Hauntology
Posted on July 7, 2011 by agallix
This appeared in Guardian Books on 17 June 2011:
Hauntology: A Not-So-New Critical Manifestation
The new vogue in literary theory is shot through with earlier ideas
[Haunting presence … Jacques Derrida, who coined the term hauntology, in a still from the documentary Derrida]
Hauntology is probably the first major trend in critical theory to have flourished online. In October 2006, Mark Fisher — aka k-punk — described it as “the closest thing we have to a movement, a zeitgeist”. A mere three years later, Adam Harper prefaced a piece on the subject with the following caveat: “I’m all too aware that it’s no longer 2006, the year to blog about hauntology”. Two months ago, James Bridle predicted that the concept was “about six months away from becoming the title of a column in a Sunday supplement magazine”. Only four months to go, then. My hunch is that hauntology is already haunting itself. The revival starts here.
Like its close relative psychogeography, hauntology originated in France but struck a chord on this side of the Channel. In Spectres of Marx (1993), where it first appeared, Jacques Derrida argued that Marxism would haunt Western society from beyond the grave. In the original French, “hauntology” sounds almost identical to “ontology”, a concept it haunts by replacing — in the words of Colin Davis — “the priority of being and presence with the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present, nor absent, neither dead nor alive”.
Today, hauntology inspires many fields of investigation, from the visual arts to philosophy through electronic music, politics, fiction and literary criticism. At its most basic level, it ties in with the popularity of faux-vintage photography, abandoned spaces and TV series like Life on Mars. Mark Fisher — whose forthcoming Ghosts of My Life (Zer0 Books) focuses primarily on hauntology as the manifestation of a specific “cultural moment” — acknowledges that “There’s a hauntological dimension to many different aspects of culture; in fact, in Moses and Monotheism, Freud practically argues that society as such is founded on a hauntological basis: the voice of the dead father”. When you come to think of it, all forms of representation are ghostly. Works of art are haunted, not only by the ideal forms of which they are imperfect instantiations, but also by what escapes representation. See, for instance, Borges‘s longing to capture in verse the “other tiger, that which is not in verse”. Or Maurice Blanchot, who outlines what could be described as a hauntological take on literature as “the eternal torment of our language, when its longing turns back toward what it always misses“. Julian Wolfreys argues in Victorian Hauntings (2002) that “to tell a story is always to invoke ghosts, to open a space through which something other returns” so that “all stories are, more or less, ghost stories” and all fiction is, more or less, hauntological. The best novels, according to Gabriel Josipovici, share a “sense of density of other worlds suggested but lying beyond words“. For the reader or critic, the mystery of literature is the opacity — the irreducible remainder — at the heart of writing that can never be completely interpreted away. The whole western literary tradition itself is founded on the notion of posterity, which Paul Eluard described as the “harsh desire to endure” through one’s works. And then, of course, there’s the death of the author… All this, as you can see, could go on for quite a while, so perhaps we should wonder if the concept does not just mean all things to all (wo)men. Steen Christiansen, who is writing a book on the subject, explains that “hauntology bleeds into the fields of postmodernism, metafiction and retro-futurism and that there is no clear distinction — that would go against the tension which hauntology aims at”.
As a reflection of the zeitgeist, hauntology is, above all, the product of a time which is seriously “out of joint” (Hamlet is one of Derrida’s crucial points of reference in Spectres of Marx). There is a prevailing sense among hauntologists that culture has lost its momentum and that we are all stuck at the “end of history“. Meanwhile, new technologies are dislocating more traditional notions of time and place. Smartphones, for instance, encourage us never to fully commit to the here and now, fostering a ghostly presence-absence. Internet time (which is increasingly replacing clock time) results in a kind of “non-time” that goes hand in hand with Marc Augé’s non-places. Perhaps even more crucially, the web has brought about a “crisis of overavailability” that, in effect, signifies the “loss of loss itself”: nothing dies any more, everything “comes back on YouTube or as a box set retrospective” like the looping, repetitive time of trauma (Fisher). This is why “retromania” has reached fever pitch in recent years, as Simon Reynolds demonstrates in his new book — a methodical dissection of “pop culture’s addiction to its own past”.
Hauntology is not just a symptom of the times, though: it is itself haunted by a nostalgia for all our lost futures. “So what would it mean, then, to look for the future’s remnants?” asks Owen Hatherley at the beginning of Militant Modernism, “Can we, should we, try and excavate utopia?” It might just be worth a shot.
This entry was posted in Non-fiction and tagged adam harper, borges, colin davis, death of the author, end of history, francis fukuyama, freud, gabriel josipovici, hamlet, jacques derrida, james bridle, julian wolfreys, k-punk, life on mars, marc augé, mark fisher, maurice blanchot, militant modernism, moses and monotheism, non-places, non-time, owen hatherley, paul eluard, psychogeography, retromania, simon reynolds, specters of marx, steen christiansen, victorian hauntings, zer0 books. Bookmark the permalink.
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This is a link, from YouTube, to one of the most beautiful recordings ever made. It is of Ella Fitzgerald, singing "Someone to Watch Over Me," from the 1950 album Ella Sings Gershwin.
She is accompanied by the wonderful pianist Ellis Larkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSjLFJBW6M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Sings_Gershwin
Mitchell Hadley's "It's About TV"
Here is an enjoyable and interesting post--by Mitchell Hadley, on his "It's About TV" blog" (www.itsabouttv.com)--about the use of guest hosts, years ago, on late-night talk shows, such as Johnny Carson's Tonight Show:
http://www.itsabouttv.com/2014/11/be-my-guest-host.html
Photograph of a Television Screen, Your Hit Parade, NBC, 1952
On the Hit Parade television show, the program's featured vocalists routinely sang to other performers, who, while acting with the singers in the program's song dramatizations, remained silent.
Singers from the show's choral group, the "Hit Paraders," were often sung to, as were Hit Parade dancers; outside actors were also hired for this purpose.
The picture, here, is of my mother, Sue Bennett, singing the song "Anytime," on the March 29, 1952 telecast of the program. (It was the number two song on the Hit Parade, that week; the first-place song was "Wheel of Fortune.") She is singing to Bob Herget, one of the Hit Parade dancers.
The picture is from a group of photos I found in 2012, in my father's apartment. The pictures are of a television screen/television set, and they show parts of a couple of Hit Parade telecasts, as the programs were in progress. I do not know who took them.
Bob Herget later became a prominent choreographer, for both television, and Broadway. (He was later, indeed, a choreographer for Your Hit Parade.)
Mr. Herget died in 1981. Here is his obituary from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/10/obituaries/bob-herget-56-choreographer-director-of-stage-and-tv-shows.html
Here, as well, is an entry about his career on the Internet Broadway Database (ibdb.com):
http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=112289
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Publishing Children’s Books: What Two Years Have Taught Me
Children's PublishingDataInterior Design
by Darcy Pattinson, Writer
Darcy Pattinson
My first children’s picture book, The River Dragon, was published in 1990 by HarperCollins, and I’ve been involved in the industry since then. But in the last 24 months, I’ve made the switch from traditional publishing to independent publishing. My company, Mims House, now has 20 titles, and I’ve found that the discipline of creating a catalog helps me put everything together and look at my overall publishing program with fresh eyes. The catalog I created (mimshouse.com/catalog) gives me an idea of the continuity and thrust of my publishing program and actually helps me decide on what to publish next.
So far, as a publisher, I’ve focused on learning to handle production, ways to reach readers, and accounting.
Production Choices
Print. Knowing that the industry standard for laying out books is Adobe’s InDesign program, I went with a subscription only to it for $19.99 a month, foregoing the entire suite of programs. I bought a couple of books on this complex, powerful program with a steep learning curve, and muddled through the difficulties. But tutorials, such as Lynda.com, are available. Using templates such as Joel Friedlander’s at bookdesigntemplates.com also makes the learning easier.
In the end, though, it’s not the programs that matter as much as a sense of design, especially for children’s picture books. They must look stunning. One of my favorite resources for graphic design is The Non-Designer’s Design & Type Books, by Robin Williams.
Handling production also meant that I needed artists. I found Behance.net, Adobe’s social media site for artists, to be a valuable resource. Artists from around the world post their portfolios, and you can search and sort as needed. Most of them aren’t doing children’s books, though, so I needed to be comfortable with providing specs (which I got from my printer), doing art direction, and otherwise making sure my books would look fantastic. I negotiate illustrator contracts that fit my budget and use PayPal to pay artists overseas.
I’ve had mixed success. One artist had a fantastic portfolio but, in the end, couldn’t tell a story with her art; there’s a difference between commercial art and illustrations that tell a story. I had to cancel that project.
On the other hand, three books in The Read and Write Series, illustrated by Ewa O’Neill from Poland, are complete: I Want a Dog: My Opinion Essay; I Want a Cat: My Opinion Essay; and My Crazy Dog: My Narrative Essay. With such a great working relationship, I’ve commissioned two more books from O’Neill.
Another way I’ve dealt with the illustrations is by partnering with a friend, Kitty Harvill (kittyharvill.com). She had previously illustrated and/or designed books published by August House and Holiday House, and she is a fantastic wildlife artist and book designer.
Our first book, Wisdom, The Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years, won the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Children’s Book Award and received a starred Publisher’s Weekly review. Our second, Abayomi, The Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub, was named a 2015 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, and a Portuguese version was released in Brazil this June.
Because we have a contract spelling out terms, the only hard part about working with Kitty is the accounting (since we split profit; thank heaven for Quickbooks—see Accounting later).
E-books. Moving from print to e-book formats is tricky, especially for children’s picture books, because most e-books have flowable text while picture books depend on the illustrations and the text being perfectly aligned. That means a fixed-format e-book. In 2014, Adobe InDesign added the capability of exporting to EPUB 3, and I was enthusiastic because the resulting file sizes were about half what I was getting with any other program.
Why does file size matter? If you use Amazon’s Kindle Kids’ Book Creator program and choose a 70 percent payment schedule, Amazon charges $0.15 per megabyte as a download fee, essentially creating a print charge. At 8MB—a typical file size for a children’s color picture book—the download fee is $1.20. That limits what you can charge for your e-book.
You can, of course, choose Amazon’s 35 percent payment schedule, which doesn’t charge any download fees, but that limits your profits.
I tried the InDesign-EPUB 3 format route with its 4MB file size and submitted two picture books for IBPA’s Digital Book awards. That was a disaster. Because EPUB 3 is still in its adoption phase—and may never become an industry standard—there were too many problems. Without software updated to the very latest versions, the judges couldn’t read the files. Older Kindle and Nook devices didn’t cooperate.
That taught me an important lesson: When dealing with technology, go with the lowest common denominator instead of cutting-edge. Make sure all your customers can read your book.
I’m still not happy with my methods of creating e-books. Currently, I use Jutoh or the Kindle Kids Creator program. But I’ll have to stick to the tried-and-true for a while longer.
Gearing Up to Reach Readers
Pricing. Once I had arranged for my books to be produced, I looked at how pricing would affect sales. I use a single design created to fit all formats so that I can publish e-books, paperbacks, and hardcovers simultaneously.
Pricing for each is determined largely by technology. POD technology is more expensive per copy, which puts the hardcovers out of the range of most trade markets, but squarely in the range of library and educational publishing markets.
Paperback books fit most comfortably in the trade market, although I’m forced to price on the high side. E-books give me the possibility of worldwide reach, through Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple. My books have sold in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, France, Croatia, and other places overseas. In fact, Wisdom, The Midway Albatross is on the reading list for the 2015 Sakura Award for children’s books given by the English-speaking schools in Japan.
Distribution channels. For print books—both hardcover and paperback—I use print-on-demand technology by working with Amazon’s Createspace and Ingram’s Lightning Source, and their distribution puts my books in most online markets and makes them available via Ingram’s large wholesale operation. A Createspace Expanded Distribution option makes my titles available wholesale via Baker & Taylor as well. I use a subscription to PubAlley to check these listings. And I make sure I price the Createspace version to produce an Expanded Distribution profit of at least $2, which makes it worthwhile for bookstores to order my books. Sometimes I create a different edition just for the Expanded Distribution channel so I can keep pricing under control.
The fact that I have distribution via the major wholesalers means that bookstores might order one of my books. But why should they? You must give stores reasons to order your book, which might include reviews in major media and a major publicity campaign.
Discoverability by bookstores is a major hurdle. But so what? A fundamental mind-shift needs to happen if you want to indie-publish. You are in the business of selling books, not in the business of stocking a bookstore. You must go anywhere and everywhere necessary to sell books, and bookstores are only one sales channel.
Here’s the basic question that independent publishers of children’s books must ask: Where do people buy children’s books? Schools and libraries are the most obvious answer, and they buy from educational distributors. I worked to get distribution from major distributors such as Follett School Solutions and Mackin Education Resources.
For e-books, the usual trade markets made sense: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple. But I also picked up the education distributors. School Library Journal reports that about 67 percent of e-books purchased by schools are bought through Follett, so that was a logical e-book distributor to approach.
For more on school use of e-books, see this 2014 survey from School Library Journal
Audiobook distribution has also been easy. I use Amazon’s ACX.com program to produce e-books, and it distributes to Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. I choose nonexclusive distribution, though, so I can also work with Findaway to place titles in education markets.
I looked at various accounting programs for small publishers, especially AnyBook and Publisher’s Assistant, but I found them a bit dated, and they didn’t handle e-books in the ways I wanted, although they might be fine for someone who does only print books.
Instead, I use TrackerBox to keep track of the online sales at Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Apple, Kobo, and so on. And for everything else, I use QuickBooks. Its weak point is tracking inventory, and I’m still struggling to find a better way to track the small inventory that I keep for back-of-the-room sales.
Accounting in general involved a huge learning curve for me because I’d never taken any accounting classes. I bought a tutorial book and cried for a month, but finally made friends with QuickBooks. For understanding general business accounting, though, I loved Dawn Fotopulos’s Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners. It grounded me in the numbers and told me where I need to pay attention.
It’s been an exciting two years of establishing an independent publishing business. With production, distribution, and accounting firmly established, I’ll turn my attention now to marketing. Seeking publicity and marketing aggressively didn’t make sense until I was sure that people could buy my books at their favorite distribution point. I expect the next two years will show a big increase in sales because the groundwork is done.
Darcy Pattison has written about writing for many industry periodicals, including Writer’s Digest and the Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market, and her work has been translated into nine languages. In 1999, she created the Novel Revision Retreat, which she teaches nationwide. Her books have been named the National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Trade Books of the Year, and she has won the Arkansas Governor’s Art Award for Individual Artist for contributions to children’s literature. To learn more: darcypattison.com; MimsHouse.com.
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Art faculty on display
For the past four years, the Education and Arts Building’s gallery has hosted the Faculty Exhibition near the beginning of the fall semester, and the tradition returned this year as past and present fine arts and new media faculty members are presenting a diverse array of works.
The exhibition opened on September 14 and is open and free to the public.
Most of the work presented at the show can be described as classical works: paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photography. The viewer interacts with these works emotionally, not physically. However, there are also several professors incorporating technology in their work, as well, and those pieces ask the patron to physically interact with the art. This relationship brings a newmeaning to art, while making it an interactive experience for gallery patrons.
For the artists involved in the show, this annual event allows them to not only be active inteaching but stay active in their own art. It is a way for them to show patrons what kind of work they make when they aren’t leading classes.
“One of the cool things about IU South Bend is that all the faculty works really hard on their art and they work really hard at teaching,” Susan Moore, associate professor of fine arts, says.
The work presented in the faculty show is just as diverse as the art world itself. From classical takes on work to abstract views, the way each professor is inspired to make work is just as different as their student’s work.
“I am inspired by mass produced objects around us. I consider it an extension of pop. I like to consider it conceptual pop art. I am very interested in mass produced images and how they create personal or cultural identity,” Angelo Ray Martinez, adjunct lecturer in fine arts, says.
Some faculty members have work inspired by what they see in modern times, while other a more historical basis for their art. No matter what a professor is interested in, it is interesting to get afeel of their work in person.
“As a printmaker, scroll is the original book form, so I am kind of looking back in the history of printmaking and finding a place for myself in that. The Chinese then folded it into an accordion book, so I am making work in that original content,” William Tourtillotte, lecturer in fine arts,says.
The narrative that each professor has to offer makes this show something a student should make the effort to see.
The faculty show is on display until October 21 in the Art Gallery in the E&A Building. The gallery is open from 12 - 5 pm Monday through Saturday
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World Americas 03 Jun 2020 US protesters return to streets defying curfew after Trump calls them 'lowlifes'
US protesters return to streets defying curfew after Trump calls them 'lowlifes'
Published : Jun 3, 2020, 9:22 am IST
Updated : Jun 3, 2020, 9:22 am IST
After ‘thugs’, Trump refers to protestors as ‘lowlifes and losers’
Demonstrators stand in front of Los Angeles City Hall during a protest over the death of George Floyd. (AP)
Washington: Undeterred by curfews, protesters streamed back into the US’s streets yesterday, hours after president Donald Trump pressed governors to put down the violence set off by George Floyd’s death and demanded that New York call up the National Guard to stop the “lowlifes and losers.”
As more demonstrations began taking shape around the country, and cities including Washington prepared for the possibility of more violence, the president amplified his hard-line calls of a day earlier, in which he threatened to send in the military to restore order if governors didn’t do it.
“NYC, CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD,” he tweeted. “The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart. Act fast!”
One day after a crackdown on peaceful protesters near the White House, thousands of demonstrators massed a block away from the presidential mansion, facing law enforcement personnel standing behind a black chain-link fence. The fence was put up overnight to block access to Lafayette Park, just across the street from the White House.
“Last night pushed me way over the edge,” said Jessica DeMaio, 40, of Washington, who attended a Floyd protest Tuesday for the first time. “Being here is better than being at home feeling helpless.”
The crowd remained in place after the city’s 7 p.m. curfew passed, defying warnings that the response from law enforcement could be even more forceful. But the protest lacked the tension of the previous nights’ demonstrations. The crowd Tuesday was peaceful, polite even. At one point, the crowd booed when a protester climbed a light post and took down a street sign. A chant went up: “Peaceful protest!”
On Monday, law enforcement officers on foot and horseback aggressively drove protesters away from Lafayette Park, clearing the way for president Donald Trump to do a photo op at nearby St. John’s Church. On Tuesday, pastors at the church prayed with demonstrators and handed out water bottles.
Protests ranged across the U.S., including in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, St. Paul, Minnesota, Columbia, South Carolina, and Orlando, Florida, where more than 1,000 people gathered in the afternoon to decry the killings of black people.
“This has to change,” said 39-year-old Aisxia Batiste, an out-of-work massage therapist in Orlando. “Something has to give. We’re done. This is the beginning of the end of something. It has to be.”
In New York, midtown Manhattan was pocked with battered storefronts after Monday’s protests. Macy’s flagship store was among those hit when crowds of people smashed windows and looted stores as they swept through the area. A police sergeant was hospitalized after being hit by a car in the Bronx, where people walked Tuesday between ransacked buildings and a burned-out car on the Grand Concourse, a commercial thoroughfare.
Police made nearly 700 arrests and Mayor Bill de Blasio extended an 8 p.m. curfew all week.
“We’re going to have a tough few days,” he warned, but added: “We’re going to beat it back.” He pleaded with community leaders to step forward and “create peace.”
Thousands of protesters marched Tuesday night in a string of demonstrations across Manhattan and Brooklyn after merchants boarded up their businesses, fearing a repeat of the night before. Many people remained on the streets after the curfew hour. Police eventually ordered them to move along and began taking some into custody.
More than 20,000 National Guard members have been called up in 29 states to deal with the violence. New York is not among them, and de Blasio has said he does not want the Guard. On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo called what happened in the city “a disgrace.”
“The NYPD and the mayor did not do their job last night,” Cuomo said at a briefing in Albany.
He said the mayor underestimated the problem, and the nation’s largest police force was not deployed in sufficient numbers, though the city had said it doubled the usual police presence.
Tuesday marked the eighth straight night of the protests, which began in Minneapolis, where Floyd died, and quickly spread across the country.
The mother of George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter, Gianna, said she wanted the world to know that her little girl lost a good father.
“I want everybody to know that this is what those officers took,” Roxie Washington said during a Minneapolis news conference with her young daughter at her side. “I want justice for him because he was good. No matter what anybody thinks, he was good.”
On Monday, scattered violence flared in multiple protests, including an officer who was shot and gravely wounded outside a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and four officers shot in St. Louis. They were expected to recover.
About a dozen other deaths have been reported around the country over the past week. And nearly 8,000 people nationwide have been arrested, according to a count by The Associated Press.
Some protesters framed the burgeoning movement as a necessity after a string of killings by police.
“It feels like it’s just been an endless cascade of hashtags of black people dying, and it feels like nothing’s really being done by our political leaders to actually enact real change,” said Christine Ohenzuwa, 19, who attended a peaceful protest at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul. “There’s always going to be a breaking point. I think right now, we’re seeing the breaking point around the country.”
“I live in this state. It’s really painful to see what’s going on, but it’s also really important to understand that it’s connected to a system of racial violence,” she said.
Meanwhile, governors and mayors, Republicans and Democrats alike, rejected Trump’s threat to send in the military, with some saying troops would be unnecessary and others questioning whether the government has such authority and warning that such a step would be dangerous.
“Denver is not Little Rock in 1957, and Donald Trump is not President Eisenhower. This is a time for healing, for bringing people together, and the best way to protect civil rights is to move away from escalating violence,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, both Democrats, said in a statement, referring to Eisenhower’s use of troops to enforce school desegregation in the South.
A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the president is not rushing to send in the military and that his goal was to pressure governors to deploy more National Guard members.
Such use of the military would mark a stunning federal intervention rarely seen in modern American history.
Amid the protests, nine states and the District of Columbia held presidential primaries that moved Joe Biden closer to formally clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. Voters waited in long lines hours after polls closed, brushing up against curfews in Washington and Philadelphia, two cities rocked by protests.
Also Tuesday, Minnesota opened an investigation into whether the Minneapolis Police Department has a pattern of discrimination against minorities. Floyd died May 25 after a white Minneapolis officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee on the handcuffed black man’s neck for several minutes.
Chauvin has been charged with murder. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said prosecutors are working as fast as they can to determine if the three other officers at the scene should be charged too. All four have been fired.
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AFA endorses Singapore Pool Freediving Open
If AIDA observer members in Oceania wish to run a competition, the AFA can help by registering competitions with AIDA.
The Singapore Pool Freediving Open (6th September 2015), hosted by the Apnea Association of Singapore (AAS), will be the first national freediving competition in Singapore. The AAS decided to run the event to facilitate the development of freediving. The competition will allow freedivers in Singapore to come together and exchange experience, raise the profile of freediving to the general community, provide a safe environment for freedivers to test their limits and give competitive athletes a goal to work towards.
Jonathan Chong, president of the AAS, commented,
The readily available support of other nationals provides an excellent ‘scaffolding’ for younger nationals to rely on. Australia, Malaysia and AIDA International were willing to endorse our competition despite us being only 4 months old. We are also appreciative of the organisational advice from members of the Brisbane freedivers, who have previous experience in running competitions. To further our national development, Singapore will be utilising the Judge Course at Pan Pacs to grow our own in-house capabilities. I believe that the willingness for nationals to collaborate will foster the growth of freediving internationally through the sharing of knowledge, experience and friendly competition.
Jonathan is a current Singaporean freediving national record holder. He was first exposed to the sport whilst studying in Australia, where he learned to freedive with the Brisbane Freedivers. Upon graduation, he returned to Singapore and formed the AAS to further the sport of freediving.
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VIDEO: Muslim Candidate For Michigan Governor Openly Declared His Support for Muslim Brotherhood
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, a Muslim candidate for Governor in Michigan openly supported the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt during the uprising against Hosni Mubarak. El-Sayed is a Sharia compliant Muslim who openly defended the Muslim Brotherhood in his own words. The ensuing Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt — facilitated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — led to disaster and to the Brotherhood’s removal in a popularly supported military coup.
In January of 2011, El-Sayed wrote for the Huffington Post entitled “Why The U.S. Should Support the Protesters in Egypt”:
“As an American, I ask you to support these freedom fighters…and as an Egyptian, I ask you to support them. If the Muslim Brotherhood were to take power, there are several reasons why the ensuing state would look nothing like Iran.
First, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni organization — Sunni Islam is, by its nature, less hierarchical than the Shiite brand of the religion. Hence, the concept of a “supreme leader” or theocratic figurehead is improbable under the Muslim Brotherhood. Second, as it stands, the Muslim Brotherhood lacks a popular leader akin to the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Thus, the movement will not be able to consolidate power as readily in these turbulent times as their counterparts did in Iran, and will therefore have limited input in shaping legislative procedure (it is this vital input on procedure which ultimately created the Iranian “Islamic Republic” as we know it today, rather than a liberal democracy run by an Islamic party, a la Turkey). Third, the military is, and will remain for the time being Egypt’s principal powerbroker—it is safe to say that the military wouldn’t back a Muslim Brotherhood government without strong liberal democratic structures in place. Fourth, the Muslim Brotherhood has recently agreed to support a transition government under Nobel Laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, who is not affiliated with the movement in any way, signaling the party’s willingness to compromise. Others argue that Muslim Brotherhood control in Egypt would echo Hamas’s leadership in Gaza. This is foolish—attempting to draw inference about one Islamic party’s behavior in Egypt, the Middle East’s largest country with considerable economic potential, from another party’s behavior in Gaza, a territory harrowed by over 60 years of occupation, ignores the influence of the vastly differing contexts within which each group operates, and is therefore, unproductive.
Lastly, supporting the right for self-determination in Egypt might promote uprisings in other volatile countries in the region, some argue. I concede; this is true.
El-Sayed is a dual citizen of the United States and Egypt, where was he was calling on Americans to support former Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammed Morsi.
Will the mainstream media ignore the fact that a supporter of Islamic Muslim Brotherhood terrorism is running for office?
The Michigan primary is August 7. Will the people of Michigan stand with the United States Constitution, or Sharia Law?
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Hardwired for God?
Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. An internationally recognized expert on the psychology of child development, social reasoning, and morality, he has won numerous awards for his research, writing, and teaching. Bloom’s previous books include Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil and How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, and he has written for Science, Nature, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
Question: Why does religious belief exist?
Paul Bloom: Most humans are religious. If you ask most people, they'll tell you they belong to one or another religion. The most common religion on earth is Christianity, but Islam is coming a close second. And then there's just all sorts of religions. They differ in many ways, both in the beliefs that they have and in their practices, but they share certain common properties. So, all religions believe in some sort of supernatural entities, preachers without bodies, but have minds, like gods and spirits and ghosts and angels. All religions believe that one or more of these supernatural created the earth and created animals and created us. And they all believe in different forms, that we can survive the death of our body, that we are immortal.
And I'm very interested in where these beliefs come from, why they exist at all. And you can imagine different extremes, so some scholars argue that they're social constructions, they're inventions of culture, and that's why they're universal. Others argue they're biological adaptations. They exist because of the selective advantage they gave to our ancestors.
I have a view which is different from both of those. I think they're accidents. I think they're accidental byproducts of cognitive systems that we've evolved for different reasons. More specifically, we've evolved a highly powerful social cognition. A highly powerful cognitive mechanism for thinking about the mental states of others and evaluating them and judging them. And I think that the system is so powerful that it sometimes leads to certain unpredicted byproducts. Things that we haven't evolved to do. So, for instance, we're highly animistic. We see consciousness and agency and humanity all over, even when, you know, a scientist would tell us it doesn't exist. We're natural creationists. In that when we see structure in the world, like a tree or a tiger, we think somebody must have made that, again, we're on the look out for design. And I think we're natural born dualists. And what I mean by that is, that we see our minds as inherently separate from our bodies. And so this makes possible idea that our mind could survive the destruction of our body, or that it could go to another body, as in reincarnation.
So, I think that these three habits of mind, animisms, creationism, dualism, are present in all of us. They're not biological adaptations, they're accidents. But I think they're what make religious belief attractive and plausible and universal.
Question: What connection, if any, exists between religion and morality?
Paul Bloom: Many people, many religious people, many people in general, think that religion plays an important role in one's moral life. The very strong view, which I think nobody can take seriously, is that without religion we'd be monsters, we wouldn't care about other people. And the existence of atheists, who don't rape and murder and so on, seems to falsify that claim. But what about a more subtle claim, which is that religion on the whole makes you nicer? Well, this isn't a crazy theory, there's actually some statistical evidence in favor of it. So, for instance, religious people in the United States tend to give more to charity than atheists, even when you factor out religious charities, even when you think about things like donating blood or giving to the homeless.
And so you might think that religion is sort of ramping up your niceness in general, but I think there's another explanation, which is that religious in the United States are part of the vast majority and they tend to be happier and they tend to be parts of communities to a greater extent than atheists. And it might be the happiness and the community nature that explains this difference in giving, not religion per se.
And the reason why I believe this to be correct, is that you have now societies in Europe, like Scandinavian countries, that are quite a bit atheist, far more than the United States, and if religion makes you nice, you would expect these societies to be monstrous, high rates of crime, of exploiting one another, and none of that's true. In fact, these are swell places to live. These atheist communities are filled with people who don't tend to murder each other, don't tend to rape each other, don't tend to have all sorts of social ills that the United States have.
So I think the relationship from religion from morality is going to be complicated and interesting. I think it won't be hard to find places where religion corrodes morality, where religious belief leads to people rejecting their gut and appropriate moral feelings and doing monstrous things. Religion is an ideology and all ideologies have that power. But for the most part, I think people can be religious and good and be atheists and good, and that's what the data shows us.
Recorded on November 20, 2009
Interviewed by Austin Allen
According to Paul Bloom, many religious notions arise out of innate features of our brains, including the tendency to "see consciousness all over."
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Photos: James Startt & Mari Oshaug
I guess I’m known as the cycling guy because I’ve spent 25 years doing this. But I think I got into photography a bit differently than others – I went to art school and got a masters in Art History. I thought I was going to be a teacher, but then I decided to focus on photography and thought maybe I’ll teach fine art photography.
At the same time, I was also racing bikes as a passion. I started out by running at Indiana University, but I found myself getting injured a lot, so I had to find another sport. I decided to start cycling because it was similar to running. Indiana is a very big center for cycling in the United States, so that’s how I got into bicycle racing. I would go to criterium races and bring my camera, so between my races I would shoot others. I didn’t know at the time that this was the start of what would later become my career.
My wife studied French at the time, and I got a job opportunity in Paris, which allowed me to come along and race. We later decided to move to Paris and I suddenly had to look for more creative ways of work. Paris is known for being a center of art and cycling, so it suited me well. But in Europe everybody wants to be a photographer. I was out on a bike ride one day and I thought, I do have a niche here. I enjoy cycling, I know the sport well, why not combine the two? So, I started sending out pictures and after a couple of years it eventually became my living.
At the same time – since I came from a fine arts background – my first love was street art photography. I wrote my masters on William Klein (born April 19, 1928) an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.
I always did sport photography like it was street photography. I never took a photo journalism class, which would have thought me the classic ways of storytelling, so it took me about 20 years to figure that out.
I shot my first Tour de France with a little pocket Olympus XA 28 mm and everybody looked at me like I was a Martian. It took me years to get over that first experience, because no one took me seriously. As a cycling photographer at the Tour, if you don’t have a 200 or 400mm bazooka lens then you’re not serious about it. But that was the first camera I used at the Tour de France.
I continued to do both street art and sport photography. In the 1990s I started working with the oldest photo gallery in Paris, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, where I’ve had several exhibitions. My first one was on cycling, then I did two on street art, as well as jazz music, which is also a huge part of my life.
To add to that, Agathe Gaillard founded the gallery in 1975 in the Marais, a central district in the city. She was encouraged by photographers such as Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Édouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau. The gallery is the first in Europe devoted solely to the art of photography with the goal of bringing it into contemporary art as a specific domain.
At first, I said that my cycling photography is just commercial stuff. But I’ve never been able to keep straight lines when it comes to my work. I have to combine my passions with my professional work. It was with the cycling photography that I realised I could make a living out by combining riding and shooting. Actually, some of my strongest pictures are of cycling.
One my first series on cycling photography was after the finish line. For years I traveled around and didn’t really care about the race that much; I was just trying to get to the finish line. This work was very inspired by William Klein – close and emotional.
Around 2008 I started collaborating with a photo agency here in France called Zoom. We started developing cycling as a summer sport and they pushed me to be broader in my picture taking. I still do after the finish line stuff, but it’s great to have someone push you creatively in a new direction. I have to have the landscape scenery and I have to have the stock finish line. But also combined with other commercial stuff and portraits, it been a great creative push and pull.
Last summer I picked up this old half frame Olympus camera from the 60s. This camera takes 72 pictures for each role of film. If you look through the lens you’ll see that it’s vertical, so it puts two vertical frames in the space of what is generally one negative. This is really interesting because you sometimes get these weird parings in terms of positioning and also because the negatives are so small, they compensated with really great lenses.
This again made me sense a more nostalgic way of picture taking when I’m out traveling the landscapes of France. So, during the Tour in 2017 I started early by driving ahead of the race and made stops around the villages to shoot the details of the town and the people without the cyclists. The colours are amazing and it has this retro feel to it. It is a different kind of storytelling. I’m never quite sure what I’m going to get, but it always comes with great surprises.
I started shooting with film again lately, but it quickly reminded me of how expensive it is and how you’re back to getting only a few nice pictures per role. You become much more aware of your failures because you can’t just go back and delete them. But when they work, they really work, and there is something great about that which you can’t compare to digital. I sold one of my frames to a collector and I was so worried about how they would blow up, but that’s the beauty of film, they scale so well because you’re working with grain, not pixels. I obviously could never shoot the races with film because it’s too slow for that, but for the right situation nothing beats film.
BV: How do you approach photography to tell the best story?
JS: It really depends on the type of picture taking I’m doing. Anytime I’m doing a story I’m constantly thinking in a reportage sense – a beginning, middle and end. Being at the back of a motorbike at a race, that narratives is assigned to you. There is a beginning, a middle, a break away, a chase and a finish. But I always try to tell the story in own my way by using a variety of tools, such as choices of lenses and angles. This reflects the things I learned from street photography. Unlike some “classic” sports photographers, I’m not just about the hype of action. I try to put each race in its context, showing the fans, the scenery and the villages we pass. With my photos, you’ll know you are in Argentina, not Japan. I focus on the important moments that help telling the whole story.
Other times as a sports photographer I’m assigned to document more aspects of behind the scenes. The main part of my work, besides the “after the finish line”, is doing behind the scenes. When I work on commercial stuff for brands like Zipp and Gortex, where I follow a rider up an alpine climb, I have to think about getting their bike ready, showing the materials, then the ride and the scenery. It’s a different way of telling a story.
Portrait stories are important, too. I always try to mix in some portraits in my storytelling. When I took Lance Armstrong’s cancer shots for his biography, it was a very different way of telling a story – in a single shot. At the time I was one of the few Americans in Europe covering the sport, so Lance and I had a friendly and pretty close relationship for a while. I went to his house in Italy, and often in races we got together. But the cycling sport was so different back then. No one had busses back then, they all traveled by cars or mini vans, but pretty small and basic, so it made the access to the rider easier as well. Lance called me up one night saying he was in town and we went out for dinner, and it turned out that it was two weeks before he was diagnosed with cancer. So that turned into me following him through the cancer treatment.
I was back home with my family in Indiana for Christmas at the same time that Lance was getting treated. I called him and said I wanted to see him and document the treatment. I told him, “I’ll come to Texas or if you want to meet up here before the chemo, we’ll do that.” I picked him up at Indiana Airport and took him to the hotel. We met up for dinner and I said “Tomorrow before your chemo, I’d like to do some portraits.” He was not too eager about it obviously, but he agreed. I brought my old Mamiya camera with 12 pictures on a role, so I told Lance that it would be a quick session. I pulled up a chair next to a window and got him to relax, but since he was going through chemo, his skin complexion wasn’t great. I decided to shoot it in black and white to make it more appropriate. I think we shot two roles before I sent him off and that was that. So fast forward to the eve of his first Tour victory after the chemo, I called him and expressed that I’d really like to redo the image, like a before and after. That ended up becoming the cover of his book.
When we shot the photos, the purpose was not for the book or anything else. It was based on our relationship and documenting what Lance was going through. He trusted me to do decent work and to treat it with dignity. At the time no one was really shooting portraits of cyclists like that. It was not the priority in the sport. So, it was a pleasant surprise when Nike called me years later and said that they would like to use one of my photos for an ad campaign. Apparently, they turned out to be some of Lance’s favourite photos.
Ultimately, I try to have dignity in all the work that I do. Even at the worst of the times, with the doping scandals, I still had pretty good access because the teams knew that I cared about the beauty of the sport more than anything else.
I was certainly bothered by the doping; how can you not be. When Lance started winning the Tour de France all of a sudden, the way he was doing it raised some questions for me. I knew Lance long before he started winning, and although I had no proof of doping, I was suspicious. I’ve been in the sport for a long time and having lived through the Festina scandal the year before (1998), it all seemed a bit too close for comfort. But I do believe you are innocent until you’re proven guilty, so it’s not for me to say if someone’s guilty or not, based on suspicion.
On that note, I never used the word doping in any of my writing, but I did start to pick and choose my adjectives. I stop using words like miraculous and replaced it with impressive or overwhelming. The years after the doping scandal I was never as close with Lance and by the time he fell, it just had to happen. I chose to step back for it all. At the time I was working with the magazine Bicycling and I was very happy that they didn’t pressure me to go after the Lance story. Some of my friends had to have Lance in every paragraph, even if he had finished 131st, that had to be the front line of the story, just because it was Lance.
I try to have a good professional working relationship, but it’s harder to get access once the machinery around a rider starts working. You never really get anything exclusive, so it better to step back and look at them from a far, like I did with Lance.
I’ve always preferred to do the smaller stories, on the mechanics, the drivers, the guys around the scene, rather than the stars and the champion. Although the race is centered around winning, the beauty of everything surrounding the sport is much more interesting. The Festina and Armstrong affair brought in a whole new school of investigating journalism. I had to make a choice to do my job because I love the sport and still find it fascinating after all these years. If I was going to be an investigative reporter, I would end up closing a lot of doors with friends and people I respect, and that has never been for me.
BV: You covered you’re first Tour in the 1990. How was the scene then compared to today?
JS: It has always been a huge show. I remember the first interview I did with Jean-Marie Leblanc (a French retired professional road cyclist who was General Director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2005). He told me to watch out for the “la géante”, the giant size of the Tour. I didn’t know what he meant by that, I was just thinking how can it get any bigger? But looking back at it now, it certainly was smaller.
Cycling was so much more closed before. You were in or out. It was an insiders game. You had to be part of the inner circle, and if you weren’t, they didn’t care at all. Where today it is much more open.
In terms of photo journalism, there’s a huge difference. When I first showed up in the 90s, you didn’t mix writing and photography. I’ve been in physical fights with some of the photographers. They did not want me at the finish line. They told me, “You’re doing the interviews and write the stories on these guys. You don’t have the right to take pictures like we do.” I got upset because at the time I didn’t have the money to support a motorbike, like the other photographers did. I had to take what I could get.
My clients at the time were interested in the words and the stories I could get, and my photography was illustrating the stories. But that all changed with the internet. Today I get pressured into doing video on top of it all. I was one of the first guys mixing it up, but I’m not interested in doing video. I’m sure there will be a young kid with all the tools that can do it all in a second, but that is not the thing for me.
BV: It seems like the aspect you care about the most has always been the story?
JS: Oh yeah. I have the shittiest equipment out there. Most of my camera bodies and lenses are used, but I like that. I like the flaws and imperfections of photography. No one else would show up to the Tour with a 12mm lens. Back in the days I could have done the entirety of the three weeks of the Tour with just that.
Additionally, I don’t like equipment that is too limiting. I like to be able to move around and if your too weighted down you can’t run that fast, although I’m getting slower by the years.
In terms of storytelling it’s important to have access to people. After 25 years I have a lot of contacts. That helps.
BV: Which cyclists have had the most impact on you?
JS: That is a good question. My first response is probably Lance. I had dinner with him in Toulouse the first year he went pro and followed his entire carrier from there. I visited him two times in Berlin, and we did the book, photo journals and race diaries together for five years of the Tour. One of my favourite pictures is of him. He is really just one of the few riders that actually did become a friend.
In terms of the older generation, I’ve met Eddy Merckx, and I’ve been in the same room as Gino Bartali in Italy in the 90s, and Roger Walkowiak (1927-2017) as well. I met Roger right before he died at his home in Vinchy in the center of France. I got him to take out his jerseys and told me about his victory at the 1956 Tour de France. The oldest rider has to be Robert Marchand (1911).
BV: I find it interesting to talk about the older generation and keeping the stories alive. I guess that’s what you’re doing with photography as well?
JS: Yes. I like talking to the old guys, too. In one story I went back to the old ACBB club, which was an amateur club outside of Paris who brought in the first Anglo-Saxon riders. Robert Millar, Stephen Roche and Philip Grant Anderson all became pros here. Amazing story.
BV: Do you have a favourite client that you been working with?
JS: Creatively, Peloton Magazine has been outstanding. I’ve never had better creative editors. I’ve had pictures published in Vanity Fair and The New York Times, but I don’t have a working relationship with them, as I have with Peloton. It’s finally a magazine that is the perfect fit for me, in terms of the balance between writing and photography, great editors, great design… and they listen to me, which I appreciate. I’ve been more creative than I ever was with Peloton.
BV: Do you still do street photography when you’re out and about?
JS: Yes, I have four cameras in my little bag of tricks. I got a half frame, a digital, an old Panoramic camera and a little Sony RX100 pocket camera. I always have one or more cameras with me. Several of the pictures that are at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard right now are shot on my little Sony. When I’m out on the street I don’t think about bikes or looking for anything in particular. It can be a staircase. Yesterday it was an escalator that I thought was pretty cool. I shoot anything that interests me. Whatever tells the story.
BV: How do you see your future as a photographer?
JS: I don’t know. There is a lot of movement, traditional journalism is constantly redefining itself, and for as long as I’ve been a photographer I’ve heard how the written press is dying and has no future. And yet it is still here. You see it in independent magazines, and with vinyl records and film cameras, too. There is a desire and a need to go back to the roots of things in order to get the real quality. No matter what the future brings, there will always be room for great storytelling.
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Jennifer Butler Bio, Family, Career, Husband, Net Worth, Measurements
Tags: Bill Murraydivorcefamous personalityfashion designer
Profession: Artists/Designers
Birth Place: Texas
Jennifer Butler is a famous personality and celebrity wife. She is popularly known as the ex-wife of the American actor, comedian, and writer, William Murray. The actor rose to fame on Saturday Night Live and later starred in comedy films including Meatballs (1979), Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Tootsie (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), What About Bob? (1991), and Kingpin (1996).
Furthermore, She has also made herself an identity as a fashion designer in the world of Fashion. She has designed clothes for many clients where some of them are famous celebrities. The designer has also worked in a number of movies like 1992 ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ and 1993 ‘Groundhog Day’. Let us scroll over to know more information on Bill Murray’s second wife.
Caption: The fashion designer and ex-wife of actor Bill Murray.
Jennifer Butler: Bio, Family, Career
Murray’s ex-wife was born 11 May 1966 which makes her age around 54 as of 2020. She was born as the daughter of supporting parents in Texas, the USA whose information is not involved in the media. Also, she has not provided information on her early years and siblings. She has a nationality of America and belongs to white Caucasian ethnicity.
Regarding her work, she has made a successful career as a fashion designer. She has designed high-end clothes for many clients including celebrities. She has also worked in numerous movies like ‘Firestarter (1984)’ and ‘The Last of the Mohicans (1992)’. However, there are not many details about her work when and how she started. In addition, she had created a YouTube channel under her name having 3.64k followers on 31 August 2010. But at the moment, she seems not to upload videos on her channel.
Jennifer Butler: Personal Life & Husband
Coming over to her personal life, she was previously married to William James Murray. They exchange vows on 4 July 1997 in a private ceremony attended by their close friends and family. However, their relationship didn’t last long, and separated after 11 years of togetherness. Butler had filed for divorce on 12 May 2008 and finalized on 13 June 2008. Additionally, their separation cited the reason for Bill’s addiction to sex, marijuana, and alcohol.
From their marriage, the couple welcomed four children. They are Caleb, Jackson, Cooper, and Lincoln Murray. Moreover, Bill has two sons Homer and Luke from his first marriage to Margaret Kelly on 25 January 1981. However, they divorced in 1996 following Murray’s affair with Butler. As of now, it is not clear whether Jennifer is in a relationship or single.
Caption: Jennifer Butler and ex-husband Bill Murray
Source: HuffPost
Jennifer Butler: Net Worth & Social Media Profiles
From her career in fashion designing, she surely is making a good income from it. Moreover, she hasn’t discussed much of her salary or earnings in the public. Further, she has a net worth estimated at around $1 million according to sources. With this huge net worth, she must be living a lavish lifestyle.
She has a Twitter account under her name with more than 2.1k followers. Further, there is no information about having information on account on Facebook and Instagram.
Jennifer Butler: Body Measurements
The beautiful fashion designer has a slim and healthy body figure that stands to a height of 5 feet 6 inches or 1.67 meters. Her body weighs around 55 kg with unknown body measurements of chest, waist, and hips. She has blue eyes in color with white hair.
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Snooker UK Championship kicks off … Posted On 30 November 2020
The UK Snooker Championship will see big-hitters Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby battling it out to take Ding Junhui’s crown…
One of snooker’s most prestigious Triple Crown events, the UK Championship, started last week. It is the second-biggest ranking tournament after the World Championship. First held in 1977 in Blackpool, this year’s competition will take place at two venues to comply with Covid-19 social distancing guidelines.
The qualifiers and first round will be staged at the Marshall Arena in Milton keynes before reverting back to its usual home at the York Barbican. The first round will begin on the 23rd-26th November, while the second round starts on the 28th November till the 6th December.
Ronnie O’Sullivan holds the record for the most wins in the tournament with seven titles, closely followed by Steve Davis with six and Stephen Hendry – who has just announced his return to the sport – with five. Last year saw Ding Junhui beat Stephen Maguire in the final, 10-6.
It was Ding Junhui’s third UK Championship title, and despite Covid-19 restrictions, he should be in York to defend his title. He is currently ranked 10th in the world, with Judd Trump number one. Famous names such as O’Sullivan, Selby, Allen, Higgins and Murphy complete the top 10 and should be in this year’s tournament.
This year’s tournament is sponsored by Betway and offers total prize money of £1,009,000 with £200,000 for the winner.
First Round – 23rd – 26th November – Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes.
Second Round and Finals – 28th November – 6th December – York Barbican.
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Supernatural Finale: Creator Eric Kripke Apparently Had Another Ending Idea That Fans Would Have 'Hated'
Last week saw Supernatural fans have to confront something that they've known has been coming for quite some time: the series finale. After 15 seasons, the last of which was broken up by several months, so that the series' final episodes were seriously delayed, Sam and Dean Winchester, their friends, and assorted enemies have finally carried on for the last time. And guess what? The finale was majorly divisive. But, whatever your thoughts on that last episode, we know now that series creator Eric Kripke had something in mind for the finale that he believes fans would have "hated."
While Sam, Dean, their (mostly dead) buddies, and a whole assortment of Big Bads managed to keep the very dangerous monster / angel / God-hunting party going for a full 15 years, Eric Kripke took his leave of Supernatural after the Season 5 finale. But, even though he gave up the day to day duties involved in running the show, that doesn't mean that he hasn't been mulling over how it could have ended. Now, he's telling us that his idea for the series finale was actually probably way worse than what we got. He recent told Entertainment Weekly:
I will say this. There's only one scene that I haven't done that I would've done for the end of the show and I'm certainly not going to give it away, maybe one day I will. But I can assure the fans that my ending was so much darker than the ending they're going with, so anyone who's like, 'Kripke should've ended it,' I'm like, 'You would've hated my ending!' Because it was a horror movie and it was going to have a horror movie ending, so I can promise you the ending [they went with] you'll love much more than if you had let me end the show.
Uhhhhhh...Man, I simultaneously want to know exactly what Eric Kripke was planning for Supernatural's series finale while also being totally terrified of what he had in mind. Am I the only one? I can't be the only one!
Kripke noted during his interview that with the final episode he worked on, "Swan Song," he used up roughly eighty percent of the ideas he had for the series finale, thinking that the show might have another season or two where it would go on without him. These ideas included the man we thought to be only a prophet (Chuck Shurley) suddenly disappearing into thin air, Castiel and Bobby dying and being resurrected, Lucifer possessing Sam and a lot of ideas that we'd be able to see the echos of over he next 10 seasons.
Now, considering how many people were unhappy with how Supernatural did end, what the hell could Kripke have had in mind? As it is (SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FINALE) our favorite duo did, in fact die, but with Dean biting the dust during a rather routine seeming vamp hunt and Sam being able to finally live a sort of normal life. We then saw Sam die of old age, and be happily reunited with his brother and all of the other good people in heaven. (END SPOILERS)
If that ending, with both of the brothers finding a sort of peace, as promised, couldn't manage to make all of the fans happy, what kind of horror movie ending would have made everyone "hate" the finale? Evil wins and everyone in the world is turned into a demon?
Well, at least we don't currently have to mull over Eric Kripke's ending for Supernatural. Something tells me that it may have sent fans the world over into therapy. If you'd like to relive Kripke's years of the show, almost all of the series is streaming on Netflix. For more to watch, be sure to check out our guide to fall TV!
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Editor’s Choice Review April 2017, Horror
Published on April 19, 2017 by Jaime Moyer
Eye Of The Beholder by Kathryn Jankowski
This horror/mystery story has a well-drawn historical setting. With vivid, convincing details and a strong period voice, we’re immersed in the world of San Francisco, 1923. The opening draws me in with its close description of the most recent victim of the killer. For me, the heart of the story and the most appealing part of it is the relationship between Inspector Falcone and his daughter, Alessandra. The relationship feels real and warm.
I think some of the other elements could be strengthened, particularly the plot and character arcs. The plot has several weaknesses. Each scene should show a change to a value of significance for the main character of that scene. That’s how a writer can check to see if the scene is actually moving the story ahead and earning its place. For example, in the third scene, Alessandra goes from wanting her father’s permission to attend the ball to getting her father’s permission to attend the ball. This is a major change to something that Alessandra values.
The second scene, in contrary, shows no such change. Alessandra seems excited about the invitation from the beginning of the scene and remains excited about it at the end. The scene mainly serves to provide exposition (background information) as Alessandra thinks about the Conte who sent the invitation, about her life, about her status, and about her chances of getting a dance with the Conte. This is a common weakness in the work of developing writers–the scene in which nothing of significance changes that serves mainly to establish the status quo, often through a lot of exposition, in which the character, alone, thinks about her life.
The first scene has a similar problem. Most of the scene involves exposition, as Falcone, primarily alone, thinks about the facts of the case. A little something of significance changes in the scene, since Falcone gets a description from the Italian, but it doesn’t seem very important to Falcone. So these scenes are not serving the story as well as they might.
Once the father and daughter get together and start to interact, the scenes become stronger. My advice is to consider putting the father and daughter together from the beginning. This would allow more room in the story to develop their characters and relationship, and it would allow much of the exposition to be revealed through the actions and dialogue of the characters rather than through a lot of thought. One big challenge for writers is finding ways to externalize the internal. The first two scenes need to become more external, to have less exposition and more forward action, and to have something stronger of significance changing. These can all work together.
Before I go into some specific suggestions, let me briefly discuss the character arcs, the other area I said could be improved. Falcone and Alessandra don’t really seem to change over the course of the story, and thus their relationship doesn’t change. Alessandra seems to solve the case out of desperation and a moment of insight, not because she has changed as a person at all, so the solution seems kind of manipulated by the author, who puts a lot of clues in front of Alessandra and then makes her put them together. I don’t feel a strong reason why she puts them together or is able to do so. The ending, which should feel both surprising and inevitable, does not feel inevitable. I could just as easily imagine the Conte gets the better of her before she can use her mirror on him. Similarly, Alessandra’s transformation into a basilisk at the end does not feel inevitable. It feels like the author wanted to throw in a twist. The climax and denouement would work better if Alessandra had characteristics and a character arc that made this outcome seem more inevitable.
Now I’ll return to discussing the opening two scenes while keeping possible character arcs in mind. Perhaps Falcone drops his daughter off at school every morning. But this morning, he must stop to examine the latest victim of the killer. So Alessandra is with him as the story opens. He could ask her to stay in the carriage, but she could come out and examine the corpse, using her medical knowledge to provide some insight. Since she doesn’t know all the facts of the other murders, she could question her father, and he could answer, and that way, the reader could receive the exposition, but it would be revealed in a more lively, external way through this conversation. You could also mix conflict into the scene. Perhaps Alessandra resents her father making this stop before dropping her off. Maybe she has a test or something important at school and feels he doesn’t value her education. Maybe her mother always felt she took second place to his work. Falcone might ask her to come out of the carriage and look at the wound on the throat and give her opinion. Once she sees the dead woman and the wound, she gets involved, and we see how similar father and daughter are at heart. This could also set up a character arc of Alessandra overcoming her resentment of her father and becoming more concerned about people other than herself (as her father is), and a relationship arc as the father and daughter become closer over the course of the story.
Alessandra might still resent her father and his work at the end of the first scene. When he insisted on staying and questioning people, this caused her to miss her event at school entirely. But perhaps Alessandra contributed some new piece of information the father didn’t know–something about hemlock or strychnine–and the father now realizes the value of having someone with medical knowledge at his side during the investigation. This would be a change to something that the father values. He was stuck working this case alone; now he sees perhaps a way that he can have a breakthrough working with his daughter.
Perhaps when Alessandra returns from school that night, she has found out some more about the chemical that might have been used by the killer, and now she might want to get more involved. She could suggest the party as a way for them to investigate together. At the party, she might detect something in her drink and try to get the drink out of the party to test it, but the Conte stops her. There are many possibilities, but through something like this you could show Alessandra changing and coming closer to the solution of the mystery, rather than having it all hit her at once.
I don’t know if having her transform into a basilisk is the right ending. She seems to simply be a victim there, not a protagonist pursuing a goal that led to an unforeseen consequence. It’s not clear to me why this is her inevitable destiny. The answer to whether that’s the right ending will come once her character arc is more developed.
Developing the characters and their relationship more will give readers something else to pay attention to rather than just the mystery, and readers may become more engaged with and concerned about the characters. If we see the father and daughter growing closer through this investigation, then it could be particularly tragic to see the daughter transforming at the end.
I find the setting and voice very strong and enjoy the interaction of the father and daughter. I hope my comments are helpful.
–Jeanne Cavelos, editor, author, director of Odyssey
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“Who’s looney now?”: John Armstrong Chaloner’s fight to prove his sanity
May 3, 2017 Meghan Lyon
Post contributed by Dr. Paul Sommerfeld, Rubenstein Graduate Intern for Manuscripts Processing and one of Duke’s newest PhDs in the Dept. of Music.
By the age of 26, John Armstrong Chaloner (1862-1935)—or to his friends, Archie—had amassed a fortune of $4 million and seemed poised to live the privileged life the wealthy elite of New York City enjoyed in the late nineteenth century. In 1897, however, his family had him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Chaloner spent the next 22 years fighting to prove his sanity. His papers, a mixture of correspondence, legal documents, and writings by Chaloner himself, offer not only a fascinating portrait of Chaloner but also a snapshot of attitudes toward mental health in the early twentieth century.
In the 1890s, Chaloner became interested in psychological experiments. He believed that he possessed a new sense, which he termed the “X-Faculty.” Among many claims, Chaloner stated that the faculty provided him a profitable stock market tip, would turn his brown eyes gray, allowed him to carry hot coals in his hands unharmed, and caused him to resemble Napoleon.
Milwaukee Free Press, Oct. 1911
Chaloner’s family regarded his claims—in addition to his blasé attitude toward the scandal of his divorced wife, the novelist Amélie Rives—as evidence of insanity. Chaloner continued to live near Rives’ estate in Albemarle County, VA, and even befriended her second husband. Chaloner’s brother reportedly labeled him as “looney.” In response, Chaloner’s family had him committed to the Bloomingdale Hospital in White Plains. On 12 June 1899, a New York court declared him insane and ruled that he be permanently institutionalized.
Letter from Chaloner to attorney, 1897 July 3
But Chaloner had other plans. He believed his family had him committed to seize his fortune and stop his experiments. Bitter sonnets composed during his time at the asylum reflect his anger and desire to clear his name. In November of 1900, he managed to escape to a private clinic, whose doctors declared him able to function in society. Thereafter, Chaloner plotted strategies to both overturn the New York verdict and change lunacy laws in America.
During his legal challenges, Chaloner became immortalized by the phrase “Who’s looney now?.” In the summer of 1910, Chaloner’s brother married the opera singer Lina Cavalieri and signed over control of his property to her. The marriage soon broke down, and Chaloner wired his brother the pithy catchphrase. Four years later Chaloner even titled one of his many books The Swan-Song of “Who’s Looney Now?” (1914), drawing on the phrase’s subsequent popularity.
New York City Evening Mail, 1910 Oct. 4
Chaloner’s correspondence, copious notes, and book drafts speak to his dedication in clearing his name. Filled with legal strategy and instructions to attorneys in New York, North Carolina, and Virginia, his letters trace his maneuvering within the legal system, reaching even the U. S. Supreme Court in 1916. In Chaloner v. Thomas T. Sherman, Chaloner sought damages for the withholding of his estate and fortune. Chaloner argued that because he was a resident of Virginia, New York had no jurisdiction. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court affirmed the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision.
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals legal brief, 1914
Yet the courts of Virginia and North Carolina had declared Chaloner sane in 1901, allowing him to live and maintain business interests in both states. New York continued to declare him legally insane until 1919, when his family no longer challenged the petition and reconciled with Chaloner.
Letter congratulating Chaloner on his legal victory, 1919 July 8
Like his dogged legal challenges, Chaloner’s book drafts, including Four Years Behind the Bars of “Bloomingdale,” or, The Bankruptcy of Law in New York (1906) and The Lunacy Law of the World: Being That of Each of the Forty-Eight States and Territories of the United States, with an Examination Thereof and Leading Cases Thereon; Together with That of the Six Great Powers of Europe—Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia (1906), are also filled with annotations and revisions that fill every bit of available white space. Not even a calendar from the University of Virginia escaped unscathed.
Calendar with Chaloner’s notes, 1906
Chaloner’s papers offer a fascinating portrait into the mind of a determined, if eccentric, man, while also simultaneously portending the burgeoning changes toward psychiatry in both medicine and the law that developed throughout the twentieth century.
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Data visualization helps University of Louisville achieve its 2020 strategic plan
By Georgia Mariani on SAS Voices March 27, 2017 Topics | Analytics Data Visualization
When senior leaders at the University of Louisville (UofL) approached Vice Provost Bob Goldstein in early April 2016 with a request for a fully functioning data visualization platform by start of the 2016 fall semester—just four months away—he did not panic.
Instead, Goldstein, along with Becky Patterson, Executive Director of Institutional Research and Planning, and her team, were able to create a primary data platform to support the university’s strategic planning process in just 60 days using SAS! The platform was expanded and released to deans, associate deans and other academic leaders within 90 days of the product acquisition, and in time for the start of the fall term.
The platform includes data on a wide range of strategic focus areas — academics, student persistence and success, diversity, philanthropy, research spending, budgets, and more — to help UofL senior leaders make decisions in line with UofL’s 2020 strategic plan and measure progress toward those goals.
I was excited to chat with Goldstein and Patterson about how they made this happen with such an aggressive timeline.
What were your original goals/objectives for this project?
When UofL began our journey, it was to create a data visualization platform that would facilitate the strategic and academic planning processes for senior leadership. The goal was to make the data readily accessible in order to drive the establishment and implementation of the university’s strategic agenda and priorities. Senior leadership wanted the data visualization platform to be available to the academic units so they can strategically prioritize projects and initiatives to support UofL’s 2020 strategic plan and the recently announced 21st Century University Initiative.
UofL needed the platform to be quite extensive and include the broad areas of focus outlined within the 21st Century University Initiative.
In order to achieve this directive, was executive support required?
Absolutely. Using data to support strategic and academic planning has been, and continues to be, a priority for university senior leadership.
Who are the consumers of the reports?
Primarily it is the senior academic leadership—deans and associate deans, as well as the senior staff within the Provost’s office. The long-term plan is to grant access to academic department and program chairpersons. Presently, UofL has a controlled deployment of the data visualizations. Since June 2016, 35 dynamic reports have been created and published. About 20 additional reports are currently in development. Our team continues to work with university leadership by seeking input about the data that will be most useful to their decision making processes.
In what ways has this changed the way you are doing reporting?
It has allowed UofL to have the required data granularity. Reports can filter down to the academic program. The platform effectively visualizes the data with minimal training needed for report consumers. The data visualizations provide a systematic approach to presenting information about the university.
How were you doing this type of reporting before?
Multiple print-outs with limited data visualization along with summaries of key performance indicators. The previous process was entrenched with the development of lengthy SAS print-outs that required the manual creation of summary tables to detect trends.
Has this freed up time for Becky and her staff?
Both yes and no. The use of the data visualization platform has created an incredible thirst across the university. We have received several helpful suggestions about how the data should be presented. We continue to expand the number of reports available through the platform, which requires time. Great potential to free up more time in the future certainly exists.
Can you share any feedback you have received from these users?
The platform has created a lot of interest and a great deal of positive feedback. People are excited to see the data visualized and use the information to inform some of their strategic and academic planning. The data visualizations allow end users to discern trends and identify areas of potential growth.
What can your team do now that they couldn’t do before?
The overall objective was to provide access to a breadth of reports that enhances the leadership’s capacity to use the data for strategic and academic planning. This is now all achieved via one platform, with the data in one place, which allows for easy categorization of reports with direct links to documents describing the methodology employed and the definitions used.
Are you confident in the results?
Yes, we have confidence and trust in the quality of the platform. When somebody has a question or a concern around the data it generally is that they don’t understand the definitions employed or some of the inherent nuances within the data.
Where are your overall thoughts on the platform?
SAS Visual Analytics has been a great choice. The value-add of the SAS platform is that it enables much clearer visualizations of the data than we were previously able to employ. Users are able to get quick, clear, dynamic access to the data when previously they needed to cull it from a variety of static reports.
What are your future plans for the platform?
The potential here is seemingly endless. It is incredibly exciting to explore the possibilities for how we can create a comprehensive platform of the university’s information and data. We are planning to grow this platform for use in our academic program review process, enrollment management planning, and other strategic initiatives. We also are looking into incorporating other sources of data with regard to faculty productivity. We will use the platform as a vehicle to draw in other metrics for sources of university performance data. Ideally, we would also like to be able to have a public-facing portal with more general information about the university.
Interested in learning more? Read the e-book: Ten Tips for Using Data Visualization and Analytics Effectively in Education which provides a compilation of best practices from several education institutions. Also, the SAS higher education website has more information on how we partner with universities to help with their data, analytics and reporting needs.
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Coming Soon: Madame
The touching new documentary Madame is a double portrait of a young boy slowly coming out of the closet and of the lady that was, even more than his own mother, the woman of his life – his grandmother.
Based on private archival footage, Madame takes us onto an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Promised to domestic life in the 1920s, Caroline manages to free herself from the clutches of forced marriage and becomes a successful businesswoman, defying the social rules of her time. In parallel, Stephane struggles to play the role everyone expects in his Swiss bourgeois family until the day he comes out of the closet and sets off on a crusade against homophobia and sexism.
Watch the trailer for Madame below and click here to pre-order your copy. The film is coming to DVD and Blu-ray in January.
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Piers Morgan brands Harry and Meghan 'deluded, whiny brats' in new rant
Piers Morgan has launched yet another tirade against Meghan Markle. (AP)
Piers Morgan has launched yet another tirade against Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, calling them “the world's most tone-deaf, hypocritical, narcissistic, deluded, whiny brats”.
The Good Morning Britain presenter – currently on holiday in the south of France – hit out in a ranting column for the Mail Online, written in response to a new book published about the royal couple.
Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand is an upcoming unofficial biography about the Sussexes, which is said to be written in their favour, despite having no involvement from Harry and Meghan themselves.
Morgan declared: “It’s hard to think of anyone in public life right now more relentlessly miserable, angry and negative than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.... They’ve become serial victims, intent on painting themselves as the most hard-done-by people on God’s earth.
Meghan and Harry are the subject of a new biography. (AP)
“Yet the more they complain, as the rest of the world struggles with the very real hell of the worst pandemic for 100 years, the more they expose themselves as a pair of appallingly bitter, staggeringly self-obsessed, utterly deluded, and woefully tone-deaf laughing stocks.”
He went on: “If this book is supposed to be the pro Meghan and Harry one, I’d hate to see a hatchet job.”
Read more: Piers Morgan in U-turn over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Morgan finished his column saying: “I think what most of us would like now is to find freedom from this ridiculous pair’s incessantly negative, miserably, angry whining.”
Despite being pitched as telling the pair’s side of the story since their announcement in January that they were quitting the Royal Family, the couple have publicly distancing themselves.
A spokesperson for the royal couple said in a statement: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not interviewed and did not contribute to Finding Freedom. This book is based on the authors’ own experiences as members of the royal press corps and their own independent reporting.”
Piers Morgan claims to have been friends with Meghan Markle before she met Prince Harry. (Getty Images)
Morgan has been a staunch critic of Harry and Meghan even before their decision to resign from Royal duties.
The former tabloid journalist claims to have been friends with the Suits actress only to be ghosted by her when she began her relationship with the prince.
Read more: Piers Morgan leaked a private message Meghan Markle sent him
However, in an interview with The Times in May, he said that he had had a change of heart.
Morgan said: “Have I taken things a bit too far? Probably. Do I think that will govern and temper how I talk about them going forward? Absolutely.”
He added: “It's probably not wise, if you're a columnist, to make things too personal.”
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Hundreds attend pro-Islam rally in SLO
About 200 people attended a rally in San Luis Obispo in support of the local Muslim community. Attendees included pastors, rabbis and San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill. [Tribune]
The rally took place Friday afternoon at the Mosque of Nasreen. Participants condemned Islamophobia and called for peace, love and compassion.
Discrimination against American Muslims has reportedly been on the rise since the recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, which were carried out by supporters of ISIS. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a recent report that the United States Muslim community has experienced an unprecedented backlash since the attacks.
This week, a pig’s head was thrown at a mosque in Philadelphia and a possible arson fire broke out at a mosque in Coachella. Additionally, numerous people across the world are angry over Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remark calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
On the side, some people are questioning the language of the Koran and the possibility that refugees will include Trojan horses focused on attacks against citizens of the United States. Trump’s lead in the polls was undiminished following his comments about Muslims.
No reports of physical attacks on the local Muslim community have surfaced, though.
During the rally, Rev. Jay Perry, of the SLO Adventist Church, said the golden rule is at the heart of every major world religion and people must treat each other the way they would want to be treated in the same situation.
Hill said now is a time for local residents to look at the community and see where hate and division is being spread and to fight it. Hours following the San Bernardino massacre, Hill blamed the attack on “hate media” and warned about “local hate media like KVEC, KPRL, KKJL and CCN.”
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Rally against alleged discrimination?
Are the muslims rallying against mass murder or policing their own communities for radicals – they all hang out at mosques.
Time to stop protecting feelings and start protecting lives.
The omnibus spending bill contains full funding for Obama’s Syrian refugees in spite of serious threats of infiltration by ISIL terrorists.
According to WND.com, “Obama is keeping the information secret from the American public.”
Tell Congress to defund U.S. refugee resettlement in the omnibus spending bill because of the extreme danger of jihadi infiltration of the program, as explained by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX):
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Obama is hiding this information from America and pretending as if the refugees from Syria pose no threat to us. And negotiators on the omnibus spending bill have ignored the danger as well by fully funding refugee resettlement in a must-pass piece of legislation.
ABC News reported last week that the FBI Director believes that ISIL has a passport printing machine and blank passports in its possession to forge documents, making it even more impossible for US authorities to vet Syrian refugees.
Whether you support presidential candidate Donald Trump or not, the vast majority of the American people support his idea of a pause in all immigration from Muslim countries, not just refuge
The Dictionary of Islam defines Jihad as “A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Qur’an and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose of advancing Islam and of repelling evil from Muslims
This is what makes the Quran’s verses of violence so dangerous. They are given the weight of divine command. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in their holy book, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, There is very little else that they can point to as proof that theirs is a peaceful, tolerant religion.
Where Islam is dominant (as in the Middle East and Pakistan) religious minorities suffer brutal persecution with little resistance. Where Islam is in the minority (as in Thailand, the Philippines and Europe) there is the threat of violence if Muslim demands are not met.
Either situation seems to provide a justification for religious terrorism, which is persistent and endemic to Islamic fundamentalism.
The reasons are obvious and begin with the Quran. Few verses of Islam’s most sacred text can be construed to fit the contemporary virtues of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood.
The violent verses of the Quran have played a key role in very real massacre and genocide.
From the Hadith: the collections quoting what the prophet Muhammad said verbatim on any matter
Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
Bukhari (52:256) – The Prophet… was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, “They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans).” In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.
Muslim (20:4645) – “…He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa’id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!”
Muslim (20:4696) – “the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.'”
The left just won’t see it Otis…not until their eyes on their headless body see it for themselves. So we will have to win this fight without them…Been there done that before.
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Articles by Kevin Green
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Since joining CTV in 1982, Calgary-based Kevin Green has covered everything from natural disasters, to Stanley Cup and Grey Cup finals, royal tours, and international conflicts.
Though based in Calgary, Kevin has delivered reports from the United States, India, Bosnia and Croatia, Sudan, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
He specializes in stories about science and engineering, human rights, arts, and immigration. He also has a keen interest in training journalists, having been an instructor at both SAIT Polytechnic and Mount Royal University in Calgary. In 2018 he was instrumental in redesigning the broadcast journalism curriculum at SAIT Polytechnic, moving the course into the era of mobile journalism.
A photojournalist, Kevin has received Western Canadian News Photographer awards for his sports, and news photography. He was awarded an RTDNA Gold award for best documentary for coverage during the Balkan Conflict in the 1990s, and the Alberta Media Production Industries Association AMPIA award for best documentary production, for his work in South Sudan during that country’s civil war.
He has returned several times to South Sudan since its independence and has spent weeks living inside refugee camps to document the struggles of the world’s newest nation.
He is a member of the National Press Photographers Association, and also a member of the SAIT Polytechnic broadcasting advisory board.
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Jurassic Park at Cameo Cinema
127 mins | Rated PG-13 (for intense science fiction terror)
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Richard Attenborough, BD Wong, Joseph Mazzello, Wayne Knight, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Ariana Richards, Jeff Goldblum
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Tara Mohr
Playing Big
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How can we convey our ideas with confidence and clarity? Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message, has the answer. Though her mission is to help women be heard and take action, her wisdom applies to everyone. Discover how to embrace your inner critic, find your inner mentor, and the small words you can fix to make a big difference in how people perceive you.
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Website: TaraMohr.com
Book: Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message
Bio: Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks and now in paperback. In the book, she shares her pioneering model for making the journey from playing small–being held back by fear and self-doubt–to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings. A Coaches Training Institute-certified coach with an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Yale, Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training. Her work has been featured on national media from the New York Times to Today Show to Harvard Business Review, and has captivated women from all walks of life including Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels and Elizabeth Gilbert.
Peter: Welcome to the Bregman Leadership Podcast. I’m Peter Bregman, your host and CEO of Bregman Partners. This podcast is part of my mission to help you get massive traction on the things that matter most. With me today is Tara Mohr. The book is Playing Big; practical wisdom for women who want to speak up, create and lead. Tara is the founder of the acclaimed global Playing Big Leadership Program for women and the book is excellent. I highly suggest you pick a copy up whether you are a man or a woman.
I’m going to start with this beef that I have with you which is … It’s actually a beef that I have with myself, to be honest, which is that I received the book in the mail. I guess somebody sent me the book, it might have been your PR or the publisher, and I looked at it, and this is embarrassing but I’m going to admit to it because I think that this is important, I looked at it and it’s titled, “Playing Big; practical wisdom for women.” I turned to my wife, Eleanor, and I said, “Hey Eleanor, you should read this book. It’s for women to speak up, create, and lead.”
I was persuaded by the title just looking at it and thinking, “Okay, this is for women and I’m a man so I’m going to go give it to my wife and have her read it.” She loved it. I delayed a little bit more and finally read it. I found so much value for me in it. I found it so profound. I completely understand why it would make sense that this is specifically directed to woman but I want to admit to my own bypass of the book originally and I’m so happy that I didn’t pass it up in the end. I think that this is practical wisdom for men who want to speak up, create and lead as well.
Tara: Yes. Well, thank you for sharing that. I love that. Now, you know, it’s funny when the book came out people would send us photos if they snapped a guy reading it on the subway in his business suit or we were hearing from a lot of mean. It became clear to me that I wrote the book with that focus because of a passion for bringing women’s voices forward but not because the tools and concepts are only relevant to women. It’s been really heartening to see has the book makes its way into the world, people get that. They get that’s it’s relevant to everyone.
We are doing corporate trainings now that are coed and a company I just did an event at bought the book. I thought it was very courageous. They bought the book for all of their colleges interns; probably 75% percent whom were male because it was a tech company. I thought that was pretty cool that they were going to hand them all a book with women in the subtitle and say, “We trust this is relevant for you for your own career and because you’ll be managing and working with and being colleagues with woman.” Some of the things that are gender specific I think are great for men to have awareness raised about too.
Peter: I think that’s exactly right. I was going to say it and you said it. I find it’s as important for me personally, as a man, to use some of these techniques and I’ll point to a couple of things that really hit home for me but also as someone who runs a business. Women work for Bregman Partners and I’m working with female clients and I have daughters. I think we’re living in a world now in which this conversation has to happen. I think you articulate it really skillfully and beautifully so thank you.
Tara: Thank you.
Peter: I’m glad I didn’t bypass it. I would love for you to start with the story you have in the book about the producer. You identify a crucial balance between victim and actor which is really, really important. Can you share that story?
Tara: Sure. This is a story of years ago, I was doing a television segment about some of the ideas I talk about in my work and particularly some of the ways that women can use each patterns or phrases in our writing that undermined how we come across. I was waiting in the green room about to go on my segment. I was already feeling nervous because it’s TV and it’s 5:00 am and I was surrounded by the cast of a reality television show who were loudly bantering with each other.
About 5 minutes before I was supposed to go on, and it was a live show, the producer came in and she said, “Okay, I just want to do” … They do the quick talking points and run down. She said, “Here’s what the anchor’s going to say. The anchor’s going to say women are only 12% of senior managers and 4% of Fortune whatever CEO’s and our next guest, Tara Sophia Mohr, is here and she says women have no one to blame but themselves.” [crosstalk 00:05:24] You’ll need to find your voice on the spot in a moment when you’ve got five minutes, already nervous thinking about my talking points. I say to her, “Wait, wait, wait, wait. That’s not, can we change that?” “No, no, we can’t change it. It’s too late.” “What if we just said our next guest says there’s something women can do about that?” She said, “Oh, let me go talk to the executive producer.” Came back and it was changed.
I thought it was such a great emblematic moment about the confusion that we have between the internal and the external barrier that we all face but specifically that women face to their own empowerment and that we tend to think of those things as really separate. There’s bias and there’s discrimination and then there’s these habits and behavior patterns that women do to themselves and they should go fix them and it’s nobody else’s problem. Instead of seeing the connection that whatever those undermining patterns are that we might have, we have them in response to how we’ve been socialized or to external barriers. Some of those can also enhance or cause us to not enhance some of those external barriers or cause us to not be able to effectively navigate around them or beyond them.
Peter: You might not be the cause of your challenge and at the same time you can also be responsible for changing how it impacts you.
Tara: How else could you be at this transitional, historical moment. Right? Knowing what the history is for women. What our mother’s and grandmother’s and great grandmother’s lives and opportunities were like. Therefore, what we were taught. Therefore, what we saw about what women’s lives could be. Now having a set of pretty different opportunities, what else can we do except look at what the legacy of that history is and think about how we want to unlearn some things and learn some new things.
Peter: That’s great. Talk to us, if you would, about the inner critic and inner mentor which is a central piece of the book and I think important.
Tara: Yes. I think one of the most important things we all need to do is understand the multiplicity of voices inside ourselves and really stop thinking of ourselves as there’s just me. Nope, there’s different parts of you. There’s your inner wisdom. There’s your voice of self doubt. There’s the voice of fear. The more that the neuroscience is able to really help us understand our brains, the more science is also showing we’re not one holistic self with an executive function that controls everything else. There’s a lot of competing parts of us that evolved in different points of human evolution and they’re often conflicting.
Along those lines and the [inaudible 00:08:23] model we look at one inner critic which is that voice of self doubt that we all have. Two, something called the inner mentor. The inner critic, conventionally what people tend to think is, “I’m not that confident. I need to become more confident. I can really beat up on myself”, as if it’s a personal problem. It turns out this is a universal for men and women. We’ve all got this voice. It does tend to show up a little bit differently along some gender lines but we’ve all got that voice. We can come to look at it as not something we need to get over but a fundamental part of us that is an expression of our safety instinct. Any time we’re going out of the comfort zone. Any time we’re taking emotional risk our safety instinct doesn’t like that. Tries to get us to go back in the comfort zone and how is it going to do that?
One of the most powerful ways it can do that is by using that inner critic voice that says, “You’re about to make a fool of ourself. Who do you think you are? There’s no way you’re qualified for that. Better go home and get another PhD in that subject before you say anything about it.” Right? All those inner critic lines. We want to come to expect that the inner critic’s going to be there when we’re stepping forward and not try and overcome it or get rid of it but learn to hear it without taking direction from it.
Peter: I just read some research at HBR, that was looking at how the best CEO’s differ from average ones. What the researchers came to is two traits. The top CEO’s are more likely to embrace appropriate risk and they have a bias toward acting and capitalizing on opportunities. Both of those things are traits that your inner critic will say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. I don’t know that you should take that risk. Maybe wait on taking the action. Talk to a few more people.” While the inner critic might have value, there are ways in which these voices might hold us back from being, certainly in business in the CEO role, the most successful.
Tara: Absolutely. We know that the safety instinct in us, which is the root of the inner critic, the safety instinct is not looking out for probable danger. It’s not looking out for clear evidence of danger. It is looking out for any possible danger. Any possible danger because it has an evolutionary basis of if you think that that berry might be poisonous, if you think there might be a predator on the horizon avoid it. That’s how you’re going to survive. It’s very, very over reactive and very conservative.
Peter: It’s a survival instinct.
Tara: Yeah. When it’s applied to things that aren’t really about life and death survival in that over reactive way, it misleads us a lot of the time and we can’t see things that are low risk, that are medium risk. Everything is if it’s a risk, don’t go there.
Peter: How do we manage that? Meaning, how do we distinguish between the advice that our inner critic is giving us that actually should be listened to and the advice that’s actually holding us back?
Tara: Yeah. I would say there’s no advice our inner critic is giving us that we should listen too. There’s critical thinking that can be helpful. There’s realistic thinking that can be helpful. In the book I talk about how do you distinguish realistic thinking from inner critic. Sometimes you can tell from the tone of the voice. Realistic thinking tends to be linear, meaning forward moving. It will take you, “Oh, if this is [inaudible 00:12:27] then what can we do about that? Let’s brain storm.” Inner critic tends to really loop. Inner critic tends to talk in a very chattering, anxious ton. Realistic thinking is more curious and generative. You can start to distinguish.
When you’re hearing your inner critic, it’s really a mindfulness practice to say, “Oh, I know what that is now. I’ve spent some time studying what the inner critic is and what mine tends to say. Okay, I’m hearing my inner critic right now and now I get to make a choice. Do I want to take direction from that part of me or do I want to take direction from my mission, my values, my desire to serve, my instinct toward growth? All of those things.”
The inner mentor, which you referred to, is also a really great way. I think for me and from what I’ve seen and how it’s impacted so many people, it’s one of the most powerful and easy ways to move beyond the inner critic because it really replaces in a way that the inner critic voice in very important moments. The inner mentor, in the business world so much talk about mentoring and especially in women’s leadership conversation there’s another layer [inaudible 00:13:42] of mentoring which has not lived up to it’s promise.
The idea of the inner mentor is that through a guided visualization, that we do in the book, you meet an older, wiser version of yourself. Yourself about 30 years in the future. When people do this through that right brain vehicle and in a very relaxed state, they’re often very surprised and moved by who shows up. This is not your worries about how you’re going to look when you’re 30 and will you have a [inaudible 00:14:18] and will this partner be still … It’s almost like the image of your essential self or your elder self. Elder in the kind of most gracefully way shows up and then you can relate to that figure like a mentor and consult with them. Check in with them. Ask how they would handle any day to day situation in your life. The answers are really there for people and it’s very powerful.
Peter: I did that exercise as I was reading through the book and I was very handsome I aged very beautifully. I imaged myself in this garden but I couldn’t figure out if I was on the sea or not on the sea. I was relaxed, a writer. I struggled with that image a little. I thought, “Huh, is this really what I’m going to look like? Where I’m going to end up? What I’m going to be doing? Am I going to be this kind of a writer?” It was more fiction. Some fantasies that have showed up in the future looking view of my mentor. I found myself wondering, “Is this just my fantasy of what I would like to be or is this actually my future me?” I may be asking the wrong question.
Tara: Yeah. Often the images that come up, first of all, there’s a combination of literal and symbolic. We would want to look at, “Okay, what are your associations with that garden?” What did it feel like for you? What is that a metaphor for? How can you bring more of that energy into your life right now?” Similarly, maybe you’ll be writing fiction in 30 years, maybe not but that longing, what you’re calling a fantasy, I would be like, “Fantasy sounds a little demeaning to that.” That sounds like there’s something there that’s real that wants to come forward. What is that? That could be getting more into your creativity. That could be spending a couple hours a week writing fiction now. Right?
It’s not a literal prediction of the future. It’s really almost like dream imagery, expression of your more authentic self. Then the question becomes, “How do I move towards that?” Not, “How do I arrive at it?” It’s a north star. In whatever choices your making today, how would that self choose.
Peter: Also, the question that comes to me is how do I know to trust it? I’m going to take some risks to move in that direction. How do I know to trust it?
Tara: What would be a risk you would take?
Peter: I would put off doing some current work that I think would move me forward currently in my mission and the work that I’m doing and I would spend time doing some stuff that probably my inner critic would say is not a very good use of my time.
Tara: Got it. What is it that you have to trust? That that step is going to be what or bring what?
Peter: That is a great question, Tara. For me, what immediately comes up, is that it wouldn’t be successful. That I would write some fiction and it would be terrible.
Tara: What does your inner mentor say about that concern?
Peter: What my mentor says about that concern is, first of all, if you don’t do it there’s no way it could be successful. Second of all, the first few times that you do it, I could pretty much guarantee you that it won’t be successful. If you’re doing it in order to be successful certainly the first time out then you’re going to be disappointed because you can’t. If you don’t do it for fear of it not being successful then you’ll never really get to the point of success. If it is something you long for … I want to talk about the point that you made which is so valid and so right that I demean it by saying fantasy, but if you don’t pursue the things that you long for that’s exactly what you’re going to end up regretting whether it’s successful or not.
Tara: Yeah. For your inner mentor this is really not about whatever this definition of success is that your holding. There’s something more there and probably the more you delve into that conversation the more sense you can get from your inner mentor of what it is about and what the why really is for you. I also think this is a beautiful illustration of when you open about talking about the relevance for men. One of the big things I see for women there’s so much inner critic around, “Am I legitimate? Who do I think I am? Do I know enough?” That’s all our baggage.
For men, there’s this whole other set of challenges which is, “How do I trust the callings in me when I’m in a society that still defines so often men’s worth by an external success, earning power, all that stuff?” That’s a whole other load of inner critic messages and a different set of challenges around trusting what comes from within.
Peter: Right. That’s absolutely true and I immediately default to the consequences od not being successful enough. My inner critic can be very, very practical. Right? There’s really practical concerns. This is, I guess, how you know it’s an inner critic versus realistic . . .It is very easy for me to follow the imaginary path that leaves me homeless on the street. Step by step by step by step making all of these poor decisions.
Tara: Your inner critic would love to convince you it’s either/or. When, really, if you are to actually go sit with your inner mentor and say, “How do I honor this creative part of myself and be responsible and fulfill my financial responsibilities?” I can promise you your inner mentor is not going to say, “Tough, you got to choose. It’s one or the other.” You can tell me what your inner mentor would say.
Whenever we’re hearing that either/or between callings and financial liability that, to me, is like a number one sabotage tool of the inner critic because it’s a way of saying, “Don’t go there. Don’t go into the scary territory of listening to your voice. Don’t try something new. Don’t be a beginner. Don’t listen to these callings. Don’t standout because all of this will be lost if you do.” It’s not true. It’s not true. Find me a person who can’t find thirty minutes in their week to give a calling a little breathing room.
Peter: I don’t know if you know Hal Hershfield. I’ve written some on this and he’s done research on “future you.” This idea of your future self. He’s done these brain scan images where he has you think about, for example, yourself now and then he has you think about a stranger, a complete stranger. Name someone who comes to mind. Name anybody.
Tara: LeBron James.
Peter: LeBron James. [crosstalk 00:22:12]. First, think of yourself. Then you think of LeBron James and then you think of yourself in 30 years, your future self. The part of your brain that lights up when you’re thinking about yourself is different then the part of the brain that lights up when you’re thinking about LeBron James. The part of your brain that lights up when you’re thinking about yourself in the future is the same as the LeBron James part, not the same as the “you now”part. In other words, when you’re thinking about yourself in the future, you see yourself as a stranger.
He’s doing this research around how you get people to save for their retirement when they really see themselves in the future as a complete stranger. It’s much harder to get them to save and so he’s doing that research. We talked a lot about how you begin to connect yourself to your future self. You are suggesting something very beautiful which is that you could actually see your future self as a little bit of a stranger. That’s okay and let that stranger give you a little bit of advice and follow that advice. I think you’re suggesting something around this research that I think works very well.
Tara: That is very interesting. That’s very interesting around the research. I would say most people when they encounter their inner mentor, there’s some combination of surprise and otherness and deep familiarity. “Oh yeah, I know that. That’s all the parts of me that I left behind.” There is a resonance. That’s interesting.
Peter: Let’s talk about some of these communication moves that help us come across more powerfully. When I looked through your list and I’ve actually even heard myself say it here when I say, “I think blah, blah, blah.” I fall into this trap and I see people falling into this trap all the time. It almost feels aggressive to not use some of the language that makes us smaller because it feels like I’m imposing my view on people as opposed to stepping back and using words like just or actually or I think and I wonder if you can talk about that a little bit. First of all, could you share some of those words or some of those linguistic traps that we fall into that reduce our power in situations? How do we manage ourselves in those moments where we may not want to come across too forcefully but at the same time, we don’t want to undercut our own power?
Tara: Right, right. Yeah, there are a number of them. As you mentioned inserting a lot of just. “I just think, I just have a question.” Actually, actually I disagree is a really common one for women which, of course, [inaudible 00:25:08] we should be surprised that you have an opinion or that you’re disagreeing. I’m not an expert in this but a very common one is often after saying something that takes a few sentences to explaining asking, “Did that make sense? Does that make sense?” Which has a good intention to connect with the listener but the way it’s expressing that intention is, am I coherent or am I crazy kind of thing. “I almost think, I kind of think”. All of these things.
The research shows those speech patterns are more common for people who have lower status in society. There is a race and gender component there. Also that they are read differently when conflated with a stereotype. For women, for people of color, they’re more likely to have a dramatic effect in a negative way. Whereas for someone in a high status group in our society, it might soften how they sound [crosstalk 00:26:12].
Peter: I thought about that. As I hear myself saying it I think; I’m white, I’m male, I’m in a high status position, I’m somewhat known in the world. All of that already pushes up my authority – maybe using some of the same linguistic measures allows me to connect with people in a way that I might otherwise seem or feel standoffish or overpowering. I could see why this might be a section of the book where men should maybe use some of this softening language and women should not. Can you to talk about that?
Tara: Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Women tend to use them because either we’ve absorbed it by habit because we hear other women using it or we know we are much more likely to be told we’re too aggressive, we’re abrasive. That’s a world that only gets used for women. It often gets used in women’s performance reviews. We’re being too direct. We do these things to tone it down so we can be heard and we’ll still be seen as likable. The problem is it also tends to undermine how competent people perceive us to be.
What we can try and do is let go of those diminishing habits. The kinds of things I was just referring to. Not only do that, we also then need to be conscious of warmth because, for better or worse, if women don’t communicate in a way that conveys warmth … We just went through this election which we could say a million things about but one of them was that there was a huge discussion about how much Hillary should smile and trying to find the perfect balance. That’s exactly that. How is she communicating warmth so that people can also receive the competence that’s coming across in and the knowledge that’s coming across.
For women we want to let go of those diminishing the does it make sense, the just, the actually but then also think about, “How do I convey warmth?” That can help through facial expressions. That can happen through connecting with the listener, expressing a personal interest. Instead of, “Does this make sense?” It’s, “I really am looking forward to your thoughts.” What do you think kind of thing. The bid for connection is still there. The expression of warmth that we demand in women is still there but not in a way that diminishes us.
Peter: Let me ask you one final question which I should never promise because this conversation is really interesting and I’m going to want to continue it but I also want to keep to time. You are bringing this into organizations. There’s a very human side, an element, to your message and also to you that comes forth. You were talking about warmth and competence. The research says we build credibility through this combination of both warmth and competence.
I think there’s something useful to learn about what you’ve learned about bringing this kind of a message into corporations that can be somewhat results oriented and hard-nosed. I think there’s much more openness for this now then there was probably 20 years ago. I also think there’s something to learn from how you share this in a way that brings people in and on board and doesn’t threaten people and also allows for, what I’m going to call feminine energy, into the conversation which is often very much driven by male energy. Whether it’s women or men, the corporate world has a lot of male energy in it. You’re bringing this feminine energy into it. I’m wondering what you’ve learned from this or what you might be able to teach us.
Tara: It’s fun for me because I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling like I had one foot in each of 2 worlds. I grew up in a home where spirituality and psychology were everyday topics. I was raised from age 5, dream analysis and unconscious motivation [inaudible 00:30:39] but I was also expected to excel in school and school was a totally different world with a completely different set of values and norms. That often felt like a real split for me.
Now that I can go into companies with my left brain, with a MBA, with analytics about the impact of this training and bring in some concepts that are softer and an energy that’s softer that people are starving for in my experience, it’s a beautiful … This thing that people used to tell me. These two things have nothing to do with each other. It’s nice to see people being like, “Oh, that’s just what we need.”
I have found that, actually my assumptions, about what’s wanted in the corporate world are usually wrong and stereotypical. I have done trainings, for example, with conservative financial institutions where I thought, “Of course we’re not going to touch inner mentor. We’re going to do this module and this module.” 3 days before they’re like, “Why isn’t inner mentor in this agenda.” Doing inner mentor visualization with hundreds of people who work in a financial institution in their corporate office and having the room be so silent a pin could drop and have people weeping and love it. Me being surprised. That was my limiting vision and they’re so thankful to have the opportunity. I’ve had to learn a lot of the things I thought would be difficult to bring, people are so, so starving for it.
Peter: Right. That’s great. The book is Playing Big; practical wisdom for women who want to speak up, create and lead. The book itself was a high bar for this conversation and you have exceeded it. It’s such a pleasure to have this conversation with you, Tara. Thank you for being on the Bregman Leadership Podcast.
Tara: Thanks so much for having me and thanks everyone for listening.
Peter: If you enjoyed this episode of the Bregman Leadership Podcast, please subscribe and leave a review on iTunes. For more information about the Bregman Leadership Intensive as well as access to my articles, videos and podcasts visit peterbregman.com. Thank you to Claire Marshall for producing this episode and to Brian Wood who created our music. Thanks for listening and stay tuned for the next great conversation.
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Brekete Family Program 19th November, 2019
The Ordinary President, Dr. Ahmad Isah and Complete Package.
The Ordinary president reiterated on the importance of preparing a child for possible expectations. In his words, he said ‘prepare your children for the bad road and not the bad road for the children’.
The whole idea behind these sayings is that many times, parents only reveal the exciting part of life to their children without giving them a peek into the odd sides of life. When the odd side is revealed to them, it prepares them for their own experiences.
It doesn’t mean that they will have the same experiences as their parents but when they see what it is like to overcome the different obstacles, they are challenged to do better when theirs come.
The Presidential Amnesty Program issue was revisited with the Special Assistant (Media) to Prof. Charles Dokubo; Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Program, in attendance. Mr. Mcwary was asked to give a recap of the story which he did.
When Mr. Murphy Ganagana, the SA was asked to give his side of the story, he described the case as conscientious and said that the case at the moment is before the Maitama High Court and that he won’t be able to divulge any information. He further explained that PAP does not give a contract for Beauty Pageant as claimed by Mr. Mcwary on behalf of his sister, Tracy.
Contrary to Mr. Murphy’s claim that the case is being handled by a Federal High Court, Maitama, Mr. Mcwary said the case is being tried at the Jabi High Court. The Ordinary President then asked that he forwards evidence backing up his statement of the court’s involvement which he promised to send despite his busy schedule.
The IG Liaison said since he recognized that the complainant leveled allegations against the Nigeria Police, he had taken steps to see CP Bala Ciroma who claimed to have been involved in the matter before it was handed over to the DIG.
Mr. Murphy Ganagana
The accused is currently serving a jail term at the Suleja Prisons with her 7 months old baby. On hearing this, the Ordinary President was infuriated as to why a baby will be put in prison alongside the mother. He moved the motion to involve the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the Office of the Vice President because according to him, the Brekete Family is in partnership with the Vice president’s Chamber.
He further appealed to the Presidential Liaison to present the case adequately so that it can be attended to as soon as possible not only for justice to prevail but so that the baby can leave prison soon to live a normal life because the baby’s right has been infringed on.
He implored the Presidency to carry out a thorough investigation on the Amnesty Office and everyone working there, the Complainant and any other person who is involved in the deal including the Police.
Speculations were raised as to how the money came into her account that resulted in her being trailed and threatened which eventually landed her in jail.
The ordinary President lamented on how unfair poor inmates are treated as against how the rich ones are. The rich ones are only limited because they are not in their homes but they are treated to the good things of life despite being in jail.
Mr. Tijani Abdulkareem.
Mr. Tijani Abdulkareem is the Executive Project Director of the Socio-Economic Research and Development Centre (SERDEC) and Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) @ scale.
PACFaH @ scale is a partnership between the civil society organizations which comes together to discuss child and maternal health; issues relating to immunization, child health, child nutrition, and family planning amongst other things.
According to him, health is human rights-related and it should be discussed often. Since the National Assembly promised to pass the 2020 budget on the 28th of November, it is expected that the health sector is given adequate consideration.
The government should invest greatly in health because a lot of lives are lost daily as a result of poor medical facilities and not many people are buoyant enough to seek proper medical help outside Nigeria.
Are Nigerians supposed to travel to other countries for treatment? Is the Government financially incapacitated that it cannot contribute to building standard health facilities? Ordinarily, the federal government’s budget on health is just 4.14% from the general budget, which is N19 on every Nigerian per month.
In the real sense of it, N19 is ridiculously low and will not cover one over ten of what an average Nigerian spends on his health monthly. In fact, a sachet of Paracetamol tablet costs more than N19.
The above-named organization seeks to appeal to the National Assembly on behalf of Nigerians so that there will be a timely and a total release of the said budgeted fund and that the NA should reconsider the amount it is putting up for health because health should be valued and without health, activities suffer.
In other words, there should be adequate funding for the health budget and the health sector should be prioritized. Mr. Tijani also advocated that whatever has been budgeted or is going to be budgeted should be realistic and be benefitting to the masses.
He advised Nigerians to also exercise their civil responsibilities and speak up on the dangers the governed are exposed to and the inadequacies on the part of the government.
Madam Nnenna Akajemele.
Madam Nnenna of SERVICOM appreciated the Brekete Family and said today makes it the 98th appearance of SERVICOM in the Reality Talk Show. She discussed the importance of adequate or excellent service delivery. She is of the opinion that when service is not delivered as expected, it leads to corruption.
In other words, to curb corruption, there is a need for improvement in service delivery and this includes leaders in different Government Parastatals. She mentioned that human waste disposal facilities (toilets) should be cleaned always because it creates a lasting impression on getting to an organization and the satisfaction won’t be there.
It is one of the reception experiences recorded by service receivers. When a toilet is not clean, it sure has its implication on the health of individuals and it is important to fix any damaged toilet. The Ordinary President appealed to the government to construct public toilets that will serve its purpose.
NFF Complainants.
Emmanuel Babayaro after introducing himself said that there is corruption in the football house. According to him, Nigerian footballers are losing out on matches in recent times because they are not adequately taken care of and whatever is given for their welfare is most times diverted for selfish interest.
Emmanuel explained that there are a lot of people who would love to be footballers but many of them have instead gotten entangled with criminal activities. He cited an instance of a particular boy his football academy trained who was formerly known and recognized for his notorious acts.
The boy had earlier enrolled but was rejected due to his limited football skills. As usual, he got his other gang members and robbed people of their belongings. As fate would have it, he recognized a student from the academy who almost fell victim to his gang’s escapades but the latter was fortunate because the gangster recognized him and ordered his release.
Tunde Aderibigbe.
He was later recruited into the academy and he is better and is no longer involved in criminal activities.
Tunde Aderibigbe expounded on the reason for their presence in the studio, just like Emmanuel said, the Football Association in Nigeria is corrupt and it is affecting the running of activities.
Tunde works for Nigerian Football Federation and was the Assistant Secretary for 12 years who took minutes of meetings and obviously has evidences to back up the several claims. According to him, the Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalong was the forerunner of this struggle as he had written a petition to EFCC in 2016.
Misappropriation of funds is not a new thing in Nigeria but it is just amazing how far it has gone to eat deep into the different sectors in the Nation. On 16th November, 2015, FIFA wrote an audit query to NFF on the manner in which 2.5 million dollars was spent. Surprisingly, according to claims, nobody knew about the money until the query arrived.
The money which is an accumulation of funds was meant for football development at grassroots, sports equipment, and referee development. This amongst other claims proves that Nigeria needs a restructuring in its different sectors. Other issues as regards corruption were discussed and would be continued tomorrow.
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West Oakland Celebrates Grand Opening of Lincoln – Mandela Family Resource Center
OAKLAND, CA, Sept. 11, 2019—BRIDGE Housing was honored to join Lincoln and the West Oakland community in celebrating the grand opening of the Lincoln – Mandela Family Resource Center today at 1340 7th Street.
Located in commercial space developed and owned by BRIDGE, Lincoln’s new center is a community hub for family services and safety-net resources that support children’s school readiness, literacy, workforce development, early childhood care and technology access.
The space is part of Mandela Gateway, across from the West Oakland BART Station, where in 2005 nonprofit BRIDGE replaced deteriorated public housing with 168 new affordable rental apartments and more than 20,000 square feet for community-serving retail.
“This is an exciting time for Lincoln and West Oakland,” said Allison Staulcup Becwar, President, and CEO of Lincoln. “We’ve seen the power of Family Resource Centers for creating community and change and generating sustainable support networks for families at Lincoln’s school-based center in East Oakland. Now West Oakland families will have their own space to drop in and break bread, discuss concerns and share successes, and get supports that enhance their lives.”
“Congratulations to Lincoln on the beautiful new Family Resource Center,” said Cynthia Parker, President and CEO of BRIDGE Housing. “We’re proud to work with Lincoln to support the West Oakland community with affordable housing and holistic services that will help families thrive.”
In additional collaboration, Lincoln is providing services to residents of three BRIDGE properties in West Oakland: Ironhorse at Central Station, Mandela Gateway Apartments and Chestnut Linden Court. These include activities such as winter or summer camps for children and youth as well as programs that build family capacity and community leadership skills.
For more information, visit www.lincolnfamilies.org and www.bridgehousing.com.
Since its founding in 1883 as the first racially integrated orphanage in Northern California, Lincoln has impacted the lives of children and families through evolving programs. Today, Lincoln provides preventative, individualized and comprehensive support services with a focus on three core areas that disrupt cycles of poverty and trauma:
• Education: Improving educational engagement, attendance, literacy, and achievement
• Family: Strengthening stability and creating permanency
• Well-Being: Building positive youth outlook and future readiness
For more information and stories, visit LincolnFamilies.org.
BRIDGE Housing strengthens communities and improves the lives of its residents, beginning–but not ending–with affordable housing. Since 1983, BRIDGE has participated in the development of more than 17,000 homes and apartments in California, Oregon and Washington. BRIDGE partners to bring a growing slate of educational, health and wellness programs to residents, with more than 350 programs and services offered today. For more information, visit www.bridgehousing.com.
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Alaska North America United States of America Trips
July 15, 2013 01 Comment Alaska, North America, United States of America
A new character was born on our trip to Prudhoe Bay. We called her Wilderness Woman. Wilderness Woman could take care of business in the wild. She would pee along highways unabashedly, leaving a trail of tampons in her wake. Wilderness Woman would stay up to all hours with the sun and weather the ferocious mosquitos and other insects that bit her in unlikely places. And…she would not complain.
The trip to the Arctic Ocean was surprisingly uneventful, though challenging and definitely tedious. Luckily, it was only 11 hours to Deadhorse from Fairbanks, rather than the projected 16 which meant that the overall length of the trip was only 22 hours rather than 32. That’s a big difference when we’re talking about not getting any sleep.
The thing is, though we drove for 22 hours total, the sun never set, which was weird and a little disorienting. When it was 11:00 PM, it could have just as easily been 11:00 AM.
But more notable even than the sun’s relatively static position in the sky were the roads which were sometimes acceptable, but mostly pretty crappy. Frost heaving creates some interesting patterns in the tarmac and the whole trip was mostly white-knuckle because of it. For the person driving, there was no “space-off” time to chat or really enjoy the scenery.
And there was scenery. Most of our Canada and Alaska journey could be described with one word: trees. But this part of Alaska was different. Gates of the Arctic National Park was situated along the Pan-American Highway that cuts through this area and it was a striking, unique set of landforms and vegetation, different from anything I’ve ever seen before. Rather than heavily treed mountains, the topography was highlighted with bright green and yellow mosses that gave the landscape a surreal appearance, like the negative of a photograph. Gates of the Arctic isn’t as accessible as Denali National Park, but it’s definitely got more Wow Factor, in my opinion. Even on the outskirts of this national park in Alaska, the landscape is awe-inspiring.
As we neared the Arctic Circle, the ice road truckers populated the roadhouses where we’d stop to fuel up and get water or a snack. Truckers lined up for the pay phone inside these rustic log structures. One of them had figured out a “system” and had his wife call back as soon as she got the payphone number. “You got the number?” John heard the man say on his way into the restroom. Then the man hung up and moments later, the phone rang again. As we walked inside, the men looked me over like a popular college girl at a party with my matted hair and smeared mascara. Those men hadn’t seen a woman for a long time.
I had hoped for a certificate that I’d read about online for reaching the official Arctic Circle latitude line. My urbanized brain envisioned a solidly built Visitor’s Center where a nice lady in a green vest would sign and stamp a certifying document for us that we could proudly display…somewhere. But alas, when we got to the Arctic Circle, there was nothing but a sign, some elderly folks who were on a bus tour, and bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
We posed for a photo, but the mosquitoes buzzed around us perilously. They weren’t ordinary insects and we weren’t exactly prepared to cope with frenzied blood-sucking mosquitoes on a trip to the Arctic Circle. We swatted and flailed and tried to stand still long enough for the photo. Camile hopped on one foot and rubbed her arms trying to protect them from bites. Lydian screamed and ran off, her arms flapping. “Hurry! Hurry!” John exclaimed and held the camera out in front of us. We gathered into the shot trying to look “cool” or like we were having fun, but the mosquitoes were unrelenting and the photos reflected it. Back in the car, we complained about our various bites.
We neared the Arctic Ocean and Prudhoe Bay around 11:00 PM at night. It was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit outside and the wind was blowing. The mountains receded into the background and the earth became flat, though the road twisted through marshy, grassy areas lined with gravelly riverbeds. In the distance, we saw a thick blanket of clouds descending over a bluff. It appeared to be a cold front and as we passed beneath it, the winds began to churn and John watched the temperature as it dropped 10 degrees within minutes. On July 8th, when we made the trip, it was only 36 degrees at the end of a long day of sunshine at the Arctic Ocean. And even under these cold, windy conditions, there were still mosquitoes out on the prowl.
Intrepid, leather-bound motorcyclists made their way through the treacherous weather. People were tent camping
Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
along the roads and rivers. Tent camping. Eleven hours into our marathon trip, observing their structures, weakly braced against the blustering winds with little holes through which mosquitoes could gain admittance, I was not jealous of them at all. Though I would’ve considered camping at Gates of the Arctic National Park, the Arctic Ocean and Deadhorse would’ve pushed my limits. My body is only rated down to about 40 degrees. When it’s 39 degrees or colder outside, I start getting lazy and inconsiderate toward others.
At 11:00 PM at night, John and I were a little concerned about getting fueled up in Deadhorse. We had expected to arrive around 7:00 AM in the morning, but the GPS calculations had been wrong. There weren’t many people out and about at this late hour (though it only seemed to be between 6:00 to 8:00 PM at night) and many of the modern conveniences that we take for granted in the lower 48 are hard to come by the further north you go. Card readers weren’t available in Deadhorse or many of the roadhouses along the way. If you can’t pay by cash, you can’t get gas at a lot of stations.
Deadhorse was a small town, but not especially intuitive in terms of finding one’s way around. The “city” reminded me of agricultural businesses in Nebraska where one might go to dump a grain truck or get a tank of anhydrous ammonia. Trucks were parked along special pipes with electrical cords hanging out of them so they could plug in and keep their engines warm in the inhospitable climate. It was the epitome of civilized desolation.
The mud actually made our car jolt around and shimmy even after we washed it off. It got in our tires and made them off-balance.
We fueled up after much searching at a little station that didn’t look anything like a convenience store. John had to go inside a small, empty building to start the process.
We stuck our hands in the water of the Arctic and then, within 30 minutes, we turned around to go back to the tent camper in Fairbanks. About 45 minutes later, we passed beyond the bluffs beneath what appeared to be the same embankment of clouds that were still whirling and raging with a wintery fury. I looked back into the rearview mirror at the stark line of dark blue clouds that were tumbling furiously through the sky and it occurred to me that we were at the top of the world. Perhaps the cold and the clouds and the wind were always at this pitch in this part of the world.
On the way home, as we passed through Gates of the Arctic, the fog was so thick, we couldn’t even see the mountains as we passed through their midst. Visibility was perhaps only about 20 feet for about 30 minutes while John, Lydi, and Camile slept, but I was entertained (in a sleepy sort of way) by the bumpy, irregular roads as they surprised me again and again with potholes, frostheaving, and various ups and downs through the fog. John woke up at one point with a start in the passenger seat. The view out the window was nothing but a creamy white, which contributed to the overall disorientation wrought by constant daylight and a lack of sleep. He wanted to know where we were.
I thought for a moment, trying to come up with the correct answer.
“Alaska.” I said finally.
This is a good summary photo of Deadhorse. It captures the essence of the place.
Huge and aggressive, arctic mosquitos make some of the tropical mosquitos seem lazy.
This is how we looked 22 hours later when we arrived back to the tent camper in Fairbanks, AK.
And anyway, we didn’t die on our big adventure, but we were very tired when we arrived “home” (to the tent camper) the next day. As all the other women tosseled their hair that morning at the RV park to add extra body to it and put on eyeliner to get ready for the day in the public bathrooms, Lydian, Camile, and I were just changing out of our daytime clothes and cozying up in our jammies after a much needed shower. The lack of daylight was a little messy as far as sleep was concerned, but we were tired enough that sleep came pretty easily for all of us over the next day and a half. After spending 22 hours in the car, the tent camper felt quite luxurious, at least to Wilderness Woman.
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Meet Our Breakfast Chair Susan Baumgaertel, MD
Susan Baumgaertel, MD is in Internal Medicine at the Polyclinic. She has served on the Cancer Lifeline board since 2018 and has chaired our annual signature fundraiser Breakfast with Friends for the past two years.
Below is an excerpt from her official bio with the Polyclinic.
“I believe in empowering people to make healthy changes. I strive to offer support and accountability for strengthening health and wellness goals along the way. My patients receive personalized continuity of care with respectful collaboration, and a sharing of information to improve both physical and mental health.”
Dr. Baumgaertel was honored as an Ontario Scholar in 1984 by the Minister of Education for the Ministry of Colleges & Universities in Ontario, Canada. She then completed her Bachelor of Arts in 1989 at the University of Washington College of Architecture & Urban Planning. She went on to receive her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1993 and completed her residency at UW Department of Medicine, including a rotation as Chief Resident at Swedish Medical Center.
Dr. Baumgaertel has been in full-time practice at The Polyclinic since 1996. Her practice encompasses all areas of internal medicine, including preventive medicine, women’s health, cancer care, menopausal concerns, weight management and managing chronic disease, all in the spirit of compassion and caring. She collaborates as needed with holistic support in her office suite, including acupuncture and naturopathic medicine. She served as medical director of Menu for Change, an innovative weight management & wellness program, and continues to incorporate this program’s philosophy into her medical practice.
“Over the years, I became very moved by the many stories of people struggling to lose weight. While each story was unique, there were also so many similarities that my interest in providing weight loss services intensified. I networked with researchers and specialists around the country and in other countries and got excited to see other ways to approach weight loss treatment. These relationships inspired me to develop the Menu for Change program, which ultimately developed into a rich tapestry of offerings.”
Professional Awards & Accomplishments
Top Doctor
The Best Doctors in America
America’s Top Physicians
Seattle Met Top Doctors
Seattle Magazine Top Doctors (Cont’d.)
American Diabetes Association and National Committee for Quality Assurance for delivery of quality diabetes care
American Heart Association /American Stroke Association and National Committee for Quality Assurance for delivery of quality stroke and cardiovascular care
Primary Care Section Chief at The Polyclinic
Chair of The Polyclinic Quality Management Committee
Medical Informatics Physician Champion for Electronic Health Record rollout at The Polyclinic, and Chair of the Technology Committee
Chair of The Polyclinic Integrative Medicine Committee
Teaching & Volunteer Activities
Internal Medicine Teaching Panel at Swedish Medical Center Department of Medical Education (1996-2000)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UW Department of Medicine (1997-2016)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (national audio conference)
Menu for Change lecture series (2012-2019)
YMCA Wellness leadership conference for Washington and Oregon (2014)
Board of Directors, Cancer Lifeline (2018 to present)
A Seattle native, Dr. Baumgaertel lived in Ontario, Canada during her childhood, returning to Seattle as an adult. Prior to medical school she followed her interests in architecture and completed a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning. Married since 1991, she and her husband Glenn try to get spare time with their daughter Jennifer who is in college. Family interests include many outdoor activities, restaurant patronage, movies, music, reading, and travel.
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International Services Advisor
Provide advising, programming, and other support services to international students, exchange visitors, and employees of all JHU campuses and sites. Serve as authorized school official for student (F-1) and exchange visitor (J-1) programs, working individually and with other staff to ensure compliance with immigration regulations and reporting requirements. Participate in outreach and training activities of the Office of International Services. Primary back-up to OIS Administrative Coordinator.
Advise international students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) and exchange visitors on matters pertaining to their immigration status, related concerns, administrative and cultural issues. Specifically, advise students and exchange visitors, individually and in groups on:
F and J immigration regulations
Issues of cultural adaptation and culture shock
Laws pertaining to employment eligibility and employment verification (form I-9), Social Security Numbers, driver’s licenses and related issues
Other individual concerns related to their status as an international student or scholar at Johns Hopkins
Serve as Designated School Official and Alternate Responsible Officer for Student and Exchange Visitor Program [SEVP].
Process immigration benefits for international students and exchange visitors.
Generate immigration documentation (I-20, DS-2019 forms) for new and continuing international students/exchange visitors.
Provide advising during assigned walk in advising hours and scheduled appointments.
Manage assigned reports and alerts in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).
Provide front desk coverage.
In the absence of the Administrative Coordinator, provide primary front desk coverage.
Assist visitors to the OIS who need to collect documents or see an OIS advisor.
Limited advising, as trained, on other immigration classifications as they relate to international students and exchange visitors.
Provide basic advising on H-1B, O-1, TN and other employment based non-immigrant statuses, referring to Sr. International Services Advisors as appropriate.
Advise on use of B-1/B-2 and other visitor immigration statuses.
Participate in formal and informal outreach for the Office of International Services, including:
Programming on immigration benefits, cultural adjustment, and related issues for students and exchange visitors.
Regulatory, procedural and cultural training for University faculty and staff.
Assist in the administration of the Office of International Services.
Serve on assigned OIS committees, working groups and task forces.
Serve as liaison to academic and administrative units as assigned.
Represent OIS on University committees.
Assist in the training of new OIS staff and student assistants.
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent,
Two (2) years professional experience.
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Must be U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident to meet regulatory requirements as a Designated School Official and Alternate Responsible Officer.
Knowledge of or demonstrated ability to learn U.S. Immigration laws and regulations pertaining to international students and exchange visitors.
Demonstrated ability to work on multiple complex tasks with limited supervision.
Prior experience working in international education or other overseas experience.
After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. When considered in partnership with its sister institution, the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, the university is Maryland's largest employer and contributes more than $10 billion a year to the state's economy. The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. All applicants who share this goal are encouraged to apply.
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Original Source: China Cashes in on the Cannabis Boom
China permits the sale of hemp seeds and hemp oil and the use of CBD in cosmetics, but it has not yet approved cannabidiol for use in food and medicines. So, for now, the bulk of Hempsoul’s product — roughly two tons a year — is bound for markets overseas. Mr. Tian said he believed it was only a matter of time before China, too, approved the compound for ingestion.
Hanma’s ambitions are global. It has acquired an extraction plant in Las Vegas, which is expected to begin production soon, and it plans one in Canada. Mr. Tan, the chairman, said he hoped that China, with the world’s largest market, would follow the lead of the United States, which he called “the best-educated” market for the benefits of cannabis.
“It’s a new application, but one that carries forward our tradition,” he said, citing the ancient texts describing its medicinal purposes.
Yang Ming, a scientist with the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Science who is one of China’s leading experts on hemp, said the plant’s seeds were traditionally formed into a ball and used to treat constipation, but the psychotropic qualities of cannabis were not broadly known by farmers or other residents.
As China gradually opened up following the Cultural Revolution, however, foreign visitors to Yunnan in the late 1980s and early 1990s discovered an abundance of cannabis growing wild. That, in part, turned the region into a destination for backpackers and adventurers seeking a certain kind of experience.
“They would go to the villagers’ cannabis fields, pick the buds and bring them back to the hotel to dry and smoke,” Dr. Yang said. “Some of them became deranged and ran around naked after smoking it.”
This article was republished on CBDNewsFeed.com from the original article, China Cashes in on the Cannabis Boom, which was originally published on 2019-05-04 06:48:45 (based on the date that was listed on the original article at the time it was republished). We shared this article on CBDNewsFeed.com because our editorial staff believed that its context was useful and helpful to our readers. If you have any questions regarding this article, please email us at info@CBDNewsFeed.com.
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The Largest International Technical Cyber Defence Exercise Launched This Week
The largest and most complex international technical network defence exercise Locked Shields 2017 is organized this week by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Around 800 participants from 25 nations are involved in the exercise this year.
“The level of complexity of Locked Shields has reached a new level this year to match also the growing expertise of participating IT network defenders from 19 nations and NATO. In addition to several new technological elements in parallel to the exercise a strategic track is organised for policy officers and legal advisors,” says Sven Sakkov, director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, a knowledge hub and training centre organising Locked Shields annually. “It has also become evident that the success in this exercise is determined by smooth coordination of different experts in a team. This goes to prove that the power of dialogue and cooperation is the key to successful cyber defence both in the daily work of national computer emergency teams and like-minded nations and international organisations.”
“Taking into consideration current key trends in cyber security we are introducing even more specialised systems to the exercise. This enables us to prepare cyber security experts to protect even better vital networks and systems that they are not working with on a regular basis,” highlights Aare Reintam, Technical Exercise Director at NATO CCD COE.
“In the course of the years Locked Shields has become a benchmark of live-fire technical exercises for our partners and other like-minded nations, the model of this exercise has been used in several countries,” notes Reintam.
The annual scenario-based real-time network defence exercise focuses on training the security experts who protect national IT systems on a daily basis. In 2017 the Blue Teams are tasked to maintain the services and networks of a military air base of the fictional country, which, according to the exercise scenario, will experience severe attacks on its electric power grid system, drones, military command and control systems and other operational infrastructure.
In addition to ordinary business IT environment, several specialised IT systems are introduced to Locked Shields in 2017, reflecting the current threat landscape. For example the following specialised systems will be included to the exercise – a large scale SCADA system controlling the power grid, an AirC2 system used for planning military air operations, military surveillance drones and Programmable Logic Controllers controlling the fuel supply of the air base.
Locked Shields exercise has been organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence since 2010. Every year, teams are put under intense pressure to maintain the networks and services of a fictional country. This includes handling and reporting incidents, solving forensic challenges, and responding to legal and strategic communications and scenario injects. To stay abreast of market developments, Locked Shields focuses on realistic and cutting-edge technologies, networks and attack methods.
Locked Shields 2017 is organised in cooperation with the Estonian Defence Forces, the Finnish Defence Forces, the Swedish Defence University, the British Joint Army, the United States European Command, Air Operations COE and Tallinn University of Technology.
Industry partners in the exercise include Siemens AG, Threod Systems, Cyber Test Systems, Clarified Security, Iptron, Synopsys, Bytelife, BHC Laboratory, openvpn.net, GuardTime and numerous others.
The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE) is a community of nations providing a 360-degree look at cyber defence, with expertise in the areas of technology, strategy, operations and law. The heart of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is a diverse group of international experts from military, government and industry backgrounds.
The Centre is staffed and financed by its sponsoring nations and contributing participants. As of October 2016, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States are signed on as Sponsoring Nations of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Austria and Finland have become Contributing Participants, Sweden has applied for membership in the same format, a status eligible for non-NATO countries.
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CDAS Hires Partner Andy Miller to Expand Its TV and Entertainment Practice and Growing Beverly Hills Office
This entry was posted in News on March 13, 2018 by CDAS.
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP is expanding its entertainment practice with the strategic hire of attorney Andy Miller, who has joined the firm as a partner.
Mr. Miller joined CDAS from Turner Entertainment Networks on March 1.
Andy Miller is the newest addition to the Firm’s growing Beverly Hills office and brings 21 plus years of legal and non-legal industry experience on all sides of the business to the representation of his clients in private practice.
Mr. Miller practiced as in-house counsel at The Disney Channel, TBS and TNT where he negotiated and drafted production agreements, license agreements and above and below the line deals for both scripted, non-scripted and animated television shows, overseeing the projects from acquisition through development, production, distribution and to exhibition, and providing legal advice at each step as the production attorney on such projects. Shows for which Mr. Miller provided legal services for include “The Walking Dead,” “Good Behavior,” “The Detour,” “Tarantula,” “Wrecked,” “Shake It Up” and “Make Your Mark.” He started his legal career as an associate at the law firm Doyle & Miller, where he acquired experience on all platforms and with a wide array of clients.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), founded a production company, is an Emmy nominated producer and has won a Peabody award for his work as a staff writer on “Friday Night Lights.”
“I’m thrilled to join CDAS,” says Mr. Miller. “Their expertise and varied clients makes it the perfect atmosphere for my re-entry into private practice.”
Frederick P. Bimbler, co-head of CDAS’s Entertainment practice explains, “So many of us at CDAS have learned the entertainment industry as professionals and artists, not solely from the practice of law. Andy’s creative background and years of in-house experience make him a perfect match for our firm’s Beverly Hills office.”
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YMCA of Coastal Georgia Appoints Brian Felder of Felder & Associates to Organization’s Corporate Board of Directors
(SAVANNAH, GA) The YMCA of Coastal Georgia has announced that Brian Felder, founder and managing principal of Felder & Associates, has been appointed to the organization’s Corporate Board of Directors.
The YMCA of Coastal Georgia’s Association Corporate Board of Directors governs 10 YMCA facility locations and 55 Before & After School Enrichment sites spanning across a seven-county service area. Felder will serve a three-year term as a member of the Advancement Committee. This committee plays an active role in driving the philanthropic activities that are part of a strategic long term focus engaging all branches and communities. “I have been a member of the YMCA since 1991 and am looking forward to being able to get involved on a new level,” Felder said. “As a board member, I will strive to support the goals of the YMCA of Coastal Georgia as an advocate and ambassador of its mission to build healthy spirit, mind and body in every community it serves.” In addition to his new appointment with the YMCA of Coastal Georgia, Felder’s community involvement extends to serving as chair of the Revolving Fund Committee, which is responsible for buying, protecting and selling endangered historic properties in Savannah and Chatham County, and he is immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Historic Savannah Foundation. “Brian’s professional experience and ability to offer guidance on business operations are assets to our Board that will only be compounded by his personal time, talents and connections within the community,” said Joel Smoker, president and CEO of the YMCA of Coastal Georgia. “A network of established relationships with community and business leaders both here in Savannah and throughout the Coastal Empire is essential to the long-term success of the YMCA of Coastal Georgia.” To volunteer with or learn more about the YMCA of Coastal Georgia, please visit ymcaofcoastalga.org. For more information or to contact Felder & Associates, call 912-777-3979, or visit felderassociates.net. ABOUT FELDER & ASSOCIATES Established in 2012, Felder & Associates specializes in historic preservation, commercial architecture, adaptive reuse architecture, corporate interior design, high-end residential design, green building and neo-traditional building. The company has experienced a yearly growth of 10% for the past three consecutive years. Felder & Associates is a member of the American Institutes of Architects, the American Society of Interior Designers, the United States Green Building Council and the International Interior Design Association, the Savannah Chamber of Commerce and Historic Savannah Foundation. The firm has been recognized with historic preservation awards from the Historic Savannah Foundation, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Excellence in Rehabilitation award, the Georgia Association of The American Institute of Architects Design Award in Renovation and a special judges’ award from Hospitality Design magazine. Felder & Associates is located at 2514 Abercorn St. Suite 110, Savannah, GA 31401. For more information or to contact Felder & Associates, call 912-777-3979, or visit www.felderassociates.net ABOUT THE YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA The YMCA of Coastal Georgia has been serving the Coastal Georgia community for over 164 years, and continues to work every day to advance its cause to strengthen community through its three areas of focus; youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Today the YMCA of Coastal Georgia operates 11 units, in Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, McIntosh and Glynn Counties; included is the YMCA before and after school enrichment program, operating in 55 elementary and middle schools throughout the markets served. The YMCA serves men and women, girls and boys of all ages and from all walks of life. All of this and more is accomplished while putting forth the Y mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. To learn more, visit www.ymcaofcoastalga.org or call 912-354-5480. MEDIA CONTACT Skylar Lanier Carriage Trade Public Relations®, Inc. Cecilia Russo Marketing skylar@crussomarketing.com 912-547-6610
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Home » TV & Movies » All 37 Stan Lee Marvel Movie Cameos Ranked (Photos)
All 37 Stan Lee Marvel Movie Cameos Ranked (Photos)
On what would have been the comics legend’s 98th birthday, The Wrap looks back at his sometimes forgettable — other times hilarious — onscreen appearances
For decades, Stan Lee was a staple of Marvel movies, making cameo appearances in most of them until his death in 2018. To celebrate his birthday — he would have been 98 years old today — let’s look back at every one of his Marvel cameos over the years.
37. “Deadpool 2” (2018) – The bottom of this list consists of Lee’s “blink and you’ll miss it” cameos. In “Deadpool 2,” he doesn’t actually appear in the movie in person — he pops up as a huge wall mural that’s a bit tough to spot, and gone almost immediately.
36. “Spider-Man 2” (2004) – Another super-quick Lee cameo, but during the first fight between Spidey and Doc Ock, Lee sees enough screen time to pull a women out of harm’s way. Watch the clip here.
35. “Spider-Man” (2002) – Same here. Lee gets a freeze-frame shot during one of the big fight scenes in the Sam Raimi original. This was before Stan Lee cameos became a major part of the Marvel moviegoing experience, explaining why so little thought was put into them. Watch the clip here.
34. Iron Man 3 (2013) – You can catch Lee for a split second as a beauty pageant judge in this film. Compared to some of the other recent Lee cameos, this one is extremely forgettable. Watch the clip here.
33. “X-Men: The Last Stand” (2006) – Lee appears in a flashback scene where Jean Grey demonstrates her powers. Another one of the more forgettable cameos, this one at least gives fans time to register who they’re looking at. Watch the clip here.
32. “X-Men” (2000) – This was the first Marvel feature film to include Stan Lee, and as such was purely an easter egg for eagle-eyed fans. Lee can be seen for several seconds as a beach-side hot dog vendor, but he’s not the focus of the shot as he is in later films. Watch the clip here.
31. “Daredevil” (2003) – Here’s where the cameos start getting good. Lee gets saved from walking into traffic by a young Matthew Murdock, marking the first time Lee is used as part of a gag in a Marvel film. Watch the clip here.
30. “Iron Man 2” (2010) – This is another fleeting clip, but it ranks higher for portraying Lee as Larry King, complete with glasses and suspenders. Watch the clip here.
29. “Fantastic Four” (2005) – The first film in which Lee talks with one of his creations portrays him this time as a mailman who extends Reed Richards a friendly greeting. Beyond that, there’s nothing too special about this appearance, but it demonstrates the pivot toward increased focus on these cameos. Watch the clip here.
28. “Doctor Strange” (2016) – This quick cameo sees Lee reading Aldus Huxley’s “The Doors of Perception” and otherwise remaining completely oblivious to the otherworldly goings-on just outside his bus window. Watch the clip here.
27. “X-Men: Apocalypse” (2016) – Lee appears with his wife, Joan Lee, pop up in “Apocalypse” as a couple watching as the world’s nuclear weapons are launched — although luckily, they’re being rendered useless in space. It was Joan’s final appearance on film before her death in 2017. Watch the clip here.
26. “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011) – Some films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe use Lee as the punchline for a gag scene. Here, Lee cameos as a military official at a White House press event that Cap no-shows. Watch the clip here.
25. “Thor” (2011) – Here’s another gag scene in which Lee uses a truck to try to uproot Thor’s hammer, which can only be wielded by someone who’s “worthy,” from the crater in which it’s stuck. Watch the clip here.
24. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014) – Lee plays a security guard at a museum where Cap’s suit is on display. Unfortunately for Stan’s job security, Steve Rogers needs it back. Watch the clip here.
23. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017) – Lee returns to New York to join in the neighborhood lecturing the Web-Slinger about a slightly botched attempt at heroism. Watch the clip here.
22. “Ant-Man” (2015) – During Luis’ madcap story, Lee appears as a bartender. Hearing Michael Pena’s voice come out of Lee’s mouth is a great surprise gag. Watch the clip here.
21. “Iron Man” (2008) – By the time “Iron Man” was released, Marvel knew its fans were on the lookout for the Stan cameo, so they put him in a smoking jacket, flanked him with some beautiful women and had him appear as Hugh Hefner. Watch the clip here.
20. “The Avengers” (2012) – This is a bit of a cheat. The actual Lee cameo used was another quick shot that would have ranked low on this list, but the deleted cameo is too funny to exclude. As Cap struggles to adjust to life in the 21st century, Lee shows up to call him out on his obliviousness. Watch the clip here.
19. “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) – Lee’s back in New York and completely unimpressed by Thanos and his minions in his “Infinity War” cameo. There’s a fair chance he’s reprising his role from “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in this one. Watch the clip here.
18. “Thor: The Dark World” (2013) – Poor Dr. Selvig. After getting his brain scrambled by the Mind Stone in “The Avengers,” he’s left in a mental ward where he uses Stan Lee’s shoe to deliver a lecture about the convergence theory before an ambivalent audience. Watch the clip here.
17. “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014) – It’s already surreal to see Rocket Raccoon in a blockbuster. It’s even weirder to hear him voiced by an A-List actor like Bradley Cooper. But nothing is as weird as seeing Rocket ask Stan Lee from afar, “Where’s your wife, you old codger?” Watch the clip here.
16. “Deadpool” (2016) – The raunchiest Marvel film deserves the raunchiest Stan Lee cameo. If you think it’s weird to see him guest star as a strip club DJ, remember that this is the guy who created “Stripperella.” Watch the clip here.
15. “Venom” (2018) – At the very end of the movie, after Eddie has one last heartfelt conversation with Annie, Stan Lee pops up to encourage Eddie in a very knowing way: “Don’t give up on her — either of you.”
14. “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007) – In a rare cameo as himself, Stan Lee tries and fails to get into a wedding guarded by a skeptical bouncer. Watch the clip here.
13. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (2014) – During Gwen and Peter’s graduation, Lee spots Peter swapping his Spider-Man costume for a cap and gown. “I think I know that guy,” he exclaims. Watch the clip here.
12. “Black Panther” (2018) – Lee is often seen as a blue collar guy just trying to make a living in his movie cameos, and in “Black Panther,” he seizes an opportunity, disapproving glare of Everett Ross be damned. Watch the clip here.
11. “Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Lee is back to being oblivious in his “Ant-Man and the Wasp” cameo, when his car is shrunk by some collateral Ant-Man mayhem right before he can get inside. “Well, the ’60s were fun, but now I’m payin’ for ’em,” Lee remarks, still holding his car keys.
10. “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) – Lee pops up here when Captain America and Iron Man travel back to the past to steal the Tesseract from a SHIELD base in the 1970s. Lee plays an old hippy who yells “Make love, not war” as he drives by the base. Watch the clip here.
9. “Captain America: Civil War” (2016) – The movie’s greatest strength is its balance of comedy and drama. At the film’s close, Tony and Rhodey have an emotional moment together when Lee arrives to lighten the mood as a mailman looking for “Tony Stank.” Watch the clip here.
8. “The Incredible Hulk” (2008) – Quentin Tarantino has been known to subject himself to some gruesome fates in his own films. Here Stan Lee gets a tough break as a poor sucker who accidentally gets gamma radiation poisoning from a contaminated soda. Watch the clip here.
7. “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012) – While the first two “Spider-Man” films saw Lee scrambling to get out of danger, the Andrew Garfield reboot made him completely oblivious to it. Watch the clip here.
6. “Captain Marvel” (2019) – Lee can be seen in this film on a bus reading the screenplay for the Kevin Smith movie “Mallrats,” which Lee appeared in. It’s one of the many nods to ’90s pop culture in “Captain Marvel.” Watch the clip here.
5. “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017) – Stan Lee follows his post “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” cosmic cameo and shows up as a barber on the planet Sakaar, looking to cut Thor’s hair. Lee says, “And don’t you move, my hands aren’t as steady as they used to be!” Watch the clip here.
4. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) – Seemingly confirming something Marvel fans have suspected for some time, Stan appears with the Watchers, the group of all-seeing cosmic beings who observe intelligent life in the universe. Fans have figured Lee shows up in every movie because he’s a Watcher himself. Watch the clip here.
3. “Hulk” (2003) – This cameo isn’t a gag, but it is the best easter egg in any Marvel movie. The fellow security guard to whom Lee is talking is none other than original TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno. Watch the clip here.
2. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015) – Stan the Man’s cameos may never get funnier than this. As Lee demonstrates, Asgardian ale packs more punch than Thor’s hammer. Watch the clip here.
1. “Spider-Man 3” (2007) – Our list began with a “Spider-man” film, so it’s fitting that it ends with one. “Spider-man 3” may have polarized Marvel fans, but this Stan Lee cameo in which he smiles at Peter Parker is a heartwarming meeting between a comic book icon and his creator. Watch the clip here.
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Two-Thirds of companies see insider data theft: Accenture
Media and technology firms, and enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region reported the highest rates — 77% and 80%, respectively.
As businesses spend billions of dollars a year trying to protect their data from hacking that’s costing trillions, they face another threat closer to home: data theft by their own employees.
That’s one of the findings in a survey published by management consultant Accenture and HfS Research on Monday.
Of 208 organisations surveyed, 69% “experienced an attempted or realised data theft or corruption by corporate insiders” over the past 12 months, the survey found, compared to 57% that experienced similar risks from external sources.
“Everyone’s always known that part of designing security starts with thinking that your employees could be a risk but I don’t think anyone could have said it was quite that high,” Omar Abbosh, Accenture chief strategy officer, said in an interview, where he announced Accenture’s purchase of Maglan Information Defense & Intelligence Group, an Israeli security company.
Each year, businesses spend an estimated $84 billion to defend against data theft that costs them about $2 trillion — damage that could rise to $90 trillion a year by 2030 if current trends continue, Abbosh forecast. He recommended that corporations change their approach to cybersecurity by cooperating with competitors to develop joint strategies to outwit increasingly sophisticated cyber-criminals.
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Home > Faculty Profiles > Jennifer L West
Jennifer L West
jennifer.l.west@duke.edu
http://westlab.pratt.duke.edu
Jennifer West’s research in biomaterials and tissue engineering involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel, biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems. Current projects include the design of ECM-mimetic hydrogel materials, novel microfabrication strategies for biomimetic patterning, and nanoparticle theranostics.
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin 1996
Abar, Bijan, et al. “3D printing of high-strength, porous, elastomeric structures to promote tissue integration of implants.” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A, vol. 109, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 54–63. Epmc, doi:10.1002/jbm.a.37006. Full Text
Chapla, R., et al. “Modulating functionalized poly(Ethylene glycol) diacrylate hydrogel mechanical properties through competitive crosslinking mechanics for soft tissue applications.” Polymers, vol. 12, no. 12, Dec. 2020, pp. 1–16. Scopus, doi:10.3390/polym12123000. Full Text
Hammer, Joshua A., and Jennifer L. West. “Chemically Orthogonal Protein Ligation Domains for Independent Control of Hydrogel Modification with Adhesive Ligands and Growth Factors.” Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 11, Nov. 2020, pp. 2504–12. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00405. Full Text
Unal, Asli Z., and Jennifer L. West. “Synthetic ECM: Bioactive Synthetic Hydrogels for 3D Tissue Engineering.” Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 10, Oct. 2020, pp. 2253–71. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00270. Full Text
Hammer, Joshua A., et al. “Using Tools from Optogenetics to Create Light-Responsive Biomaterials: LOVTRAP-PEG Hydrogels for Dynamic Peptide Immobilization.” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 48, no. 7, July 2020, pp. 1885–94. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10439-019-02407-w. Full Text
Suresh, V., and J. L. West. “3D Culture Facilitates VEGF-Stimulated Endothelial Differentiation of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells.” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 48, no. 3, Mar. 2020, pp. 1034–44. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10439-019-02297-y. Full Text
West, J. “Guest editor's note.” Bridge, vol. 49, no. 4, Dec. 2019, pp. 6–7.
Rastinehad, Ardeshir R., et al. “Gold nanoshell-localized photothermal ablation of prostate tumors in a clinical pilot device study.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 37, Sept. 2019, pp. 18590–96. Epmc, doi:10.1073/pnas.1906929116. Full Text
Hammer, Joshua A., et al. “Cell-Compatible, Site-Specific Covalent Modification of Hydrogel Scaffolds Enables User-Defined Control over Cell-Material Interactions.” Biomacromolecules, vol. 20, no. 7, July 2019, pp. 2486–93. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00183. Full Text
Suresh, V., and J. L. West. “Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Can Contribute to Vascular Network Formation in Poly(ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Scaffolds.” Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine, vol. 5, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 180–89. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s40883-018-0075-x. Full Text
West, J. L., et al. “Nanotechnology provides new tools for biomedical optics.” Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs, 2016, pp. 377–85.
Schmedlen, R. H., et al. “Tissue engineered vascular grafts.” Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs, 2016, pp. 863–75.
Nsiah, B. A., et al. “Angiogenesis in hydrogel biomaterials.” Biosynthetic Polymers for Medical Applications, 2016, pp. 189–203. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-1-78242-105-4.00008-0. Full Text
West, J. L., et al. “Hydrogels and Angiogenesis.” Biosynthetic Polymers for Medical Applications, edited by L. Poole-Warren et al., Elsevier, 2015.
West, J. L., et al. “Nanotechnology provides new tools for biomedical optics.” Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects, 2008, pp. 261–68.
Stephens-Altus, J. S., and J. L. West. “Nanotechnology for tissue engineering.” Advances in Tissue Engineering, 2008, pp. 333–47. Scopus, doi:10.1142/9781848161832_0016. Full Text
Schmedlen, R. H., et al. “Tissue engineered vascular grafts.” Tissue Engineering, 2007, pp. 423–36.
West, J. L. “Bioactive hydrogels: Mimicking the ecm with synthetic materials.” Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering, 2005, pp. 275–82.
Ashton, J. R., et al. “A dual energy CT study on vascular effects of gold nanoparticles in radiation therapy.” Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie, vol. 9788, 2016. Scopus, doi:10.1117/12.2217012. Full Text
Keynote: Biomimetic Patterning to Control Cell Behaviors. Hilton Head Regenerative Medicine Workshop. 2017
Translating Nanomedicine to the Clinic. National Academy of Engineering. 2017
Biomimetic Hydrogels in Cancer Research. Symposium K. Materials Research Society. December 2015
Micropatterning Strategies for Regenerative Medicine. BME Distinguished Leaders Symposium. University of Florida. September 2015
Biomimetic Strategies in Tissue Engineering. North Carolina State University. August 2015
Mimicking the ECM to Design Pro-Angiogenic Hydrogels. GRC on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. Gordon Research Conference. July 23, 2015
BME Faculty Search Committee. 2016 - 2017
Advisor to PhD+ Program. Pratt PhD+. 2015 - 2017
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Search Committee. 2016 - 2016
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science. Chair, MEMS TOPS Faculty Search Committee. 2015 - 2016
Biomedical Engineering. Chair, Molecular Bioengineering Search Committee. 2015 - 2016
Engineering Academic Council. 2015 - 2016
Search Committee for the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement. 2015 - 2016
Materials Science Institute Committee. 2014 - 2016
University Strategic Planning Committee. 2014 - 2016
CBTE Committee. 2013 - 2016
Chair. Frontiers of Engineering. National Academy of Engineering. 2016 - 2019
Vice Chair and Chair Elect. Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. 2015 - 2019
Selection Committee. TR35. Technology Review (MIT). 2016 - 2018
President Elect. North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society. 2016 - 2018
NIH Center for Scientific Review Advisory Council. NIH. 2015 - 2018
Diversity Committee. Biomedical Engineering Society. 2014 - 2017
ABET Program Evaluator. ABET and BMES. 2013 - 2017
Editorial Board. Annual Reviews Biomedical Engineering. 2005 - 2017
Associate Editor. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2004 - 2017
Editorial Board. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 2000 - 2016
Member. National Academy of Inventors. 2017
President's Circle Lecturer. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. 2017
Member. National Academy of Engineering. 2016
Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award. Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. 2016
Clemson Award. Society for Biomaterials. April 22, 2015
ACS Editors' Choice Manuscript. ACS Journals. 2015
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. Thomson Reuters. 2014
Inventor of the Year Award. State Bar of Texas. February 2012
J. M. Chance Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Rice University. February 2012
Most Cited Paper. Annual of Biomedical Engineering. February 2012
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News ‘Green Norrington’ scrutinises colleges
‘Green Norrington’ scrutinises colleges
COLLEGES’ green credentials have come under scrutiny following the release of a new environment survey, carried out by OUSU.
Graduate college Linacre came out top in OUSU’s environmental league table, with Merton and Hertford coming second and third. St Anne’s, Lincoln and Corpus Christi are bottom.
Each college’s ranking was based on a total score, calculated from its performance on a number of criteria including use of energy-saving light bulbs, recycling facilities, ethical food sourcing and whether or not it had a vegetable patch. The data was collected by anonymous volunteers from 25 colleges across the University.
Hector Guinness, a member of OUSU’s Environment and Ethics committee which organised the survey, said it was created to measure the impact of Oxford on the environment.
"Oxford is an international hub of great research into the environment and the atmosphere, but the environmental practices of many colleges is a shameful reminder of how much more could be done by the policymakers of each college," he said.
"Even some of the better colleges are still using energy-inefficient light bulbs, thereby not only adding unnecessary carbon emissions to the atmosphere, but costing the college and its students around £10 a year per light-bulb in unnecessary electricity costs. This league table should be able to show up the worst offending colleges and spur them into action."
Niel Bowerman, OUSU’s Environment and Ethics Officer, added, "Some colleges are more concerned with their finances and getting them to implement environmentally-friendly initiatives is sometimes very difficult because they make complaints such as, ‘recycling bins aren’t aesthetically pleasing’.
"It’s very difficult to make an Oxford college environmentally friendly; recycling and better light-bulbs are only scratching the surface."
Corpus Christi Environment Rep Eleanor Grieveson was surprised by her college’s poor performance in the table. "For a small and relatively poor college I think we do quite well," she said. "Many of the things to help the environment, although they cost less in the long run, have a larger immediate cost. Trying to persuade people like the Bursar that it’s really worth it is the problem. I’ve always had support from the JCR."
Guinness defended Corpus’s position in the table, saying, "Corpus score so low because, according to the person from Corpus who replied to our survey, they don’t use energy-saving light bulbs in student rooms, the library, or common areas; they don’t have an environmental policy; they haven’t had an environmental audit; they have no PIR sensors; the computers in their computer room are never turned off.
"They do well on recycling, getting 5 points for having two bins in each room, 4 points for paper recycling in the library, 4 for paper recycling in the computer room, 4 for paper recycling in the JCR and 1 for can recycling in the JCR," he said.
Sorcha McDonagh, St Anne’s College Environment Rep said, "Currently there is a green policy in place [at St Anne’s] which includes the provision of recycling facilities for the use of all students on campus. This term sees the beginning of a college-wide recycling drive and the publication of a new green policy under which each St Anne’s student will have a recycling bin in their room in addition to their standard bin. I firmly believe this will significantly reduce our impact on the environment."
Merton’s JCR President, Danielle Quinn, claimed that she did not expect Merton to have such a high position in OUSU’s table. "It’s a pleasant surprise to have done so well. College staff are open to hearing our suggestions and are very supportive of our efforts to be more environmentally friendly, but some projects are difficult to get implemented," she said.
A recent national survey of UK universities conducted by People & Planet placed Oxford University joint 27th with a score of 35 out of 50. Cambridge came 8th in the league and Oxford Brookes were awarded 5th place.
Kate Aydin, Oxford’s Sustainable Development and Waste Management Officer, said, "I’m aware that some of the colleges are very keen to improve their environmental performance, though I hope that in the near future, all colleges will be paying attention to their environmental impacts and developing plans to improve them."
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CLEVELAND (WJW) – thousands of howling football fans watched Sunday’s Browns game at FirstEnergy Stadium despite local notices for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. “I’m here to watch football,” said young […]
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Ohio State Beats Back Comeback Bid By No. 9 Indiana
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Billy Evans, 88, member of 1956 gold medal U.S. team, dies
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Billy Evans, a member of the 1956 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team and Kentucky Hall of Famer who helped the Wildcats go 25-0 in 1953-54, has died. He was 88.
The school announced Evans’ death on Sunday upon confirmation from his family. He had 716 points and 549 rebounds in 83 career games over three seasons from 1952-55 playing under legendary coach Adolph Rupp.
Evans was selected by the Rochester Royals in the fifth round of the 1955 NBA draft, a year before he won gold with the U.S. at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame teammates Bill Russell and K.C. Jones.
A forward known for being a team player who did a little bit of everything for the Wildcats, Evans played with teammates and fellow Hall of Famers Cliff Hagan, Frank Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos that unbeaten season. Kentucky received its second Helms Foundation national championship in 1954 but declined an NCAA Tournament bid a year after suspension. The Wildcats won SEC championships in all three of Evans’ seasons.
The Berea, Kentucky, native averaged 13.9 points and 8.5 rebounds his final year and was an Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference third team selection. He was later a charter member of Kentucky’s Athletics Hall of Fame class, and his jersey hangs from the Rupp Arena rafters.
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Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women in EDA - Breakfast Bytes - Cadence Blogs - Cadence Community
Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women…
Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women in EDA
Cadence's Alessandra Nardi, software engineering group director, is the 2020 recipient of the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Award, an annual honor that recognizes individuals who have significantly helped advance women in electronic design. The award is named for the late Marie R. Pistilli. Although she had retired, she was one of the driving forces in the creation of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and all that it has become. Her name lives on in the award and in MP Associates, the company that still runs DAC.
I called up Alessandra to find out a bit more about her background. I knew that she heads up our engineering for automotive functional safety. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago, she gave the keynote at this year's European Test Conference (ETS2020). I wrote about that in my post ETS2020: Functional Safety. I also attended a presentation that she made at, I think, OIP a couple of years ago and covered that in a post where I stole the title from her since it sums up automotive functional safety: Make Sure Your Car Doesn't Break Too Often...When It Does, Make Sure You Catch It.
With the name Alessandra Nardi, I don't think you'll be surprised to learn that she is Italian. She grew up 20 kilometers from Venice in a city called Padova. It is a university city, home to the sixth oldest university in the world (Bologna is the oldest, founded in 1080). But, relevant for this award, maybe, Padova is the first university where a woman was awarded a PhD...in 1678.
She studied in Italy, and then started a PhD in 1997 in her hometown university, which was strong on microelectronics reliability. But she got an opportunity to do an internship in the CAD group at ST Microelectronics in Milan on something new: statistical worst-case modeling of VLSI circuits. So she ended up doing part of her PhD in Milan, But then in 1999, she came to UC Berkeley as an exchange program. Eventually, she went back to Italy for one week, graduated, and then returned to Berkeley.
She joined Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli's (you can read his story in my post Alberto and the Origins of the EDA Industry) group and stayed as a post-doc with the full intention of becoming a professor. However, she got an offer from Magma and thought it would be good to do one or two years of industrial experience and then go back. She enjoyed it a lot, since it was a research style. She spearheaded a statistical timing engine from scratch.
After Magma was acquired, she decided to stay in industry, and came to Cadence in 2013, seven years ago. She started work on power integrity (Voltus and Voltus-Fi) and her background until then was digital signoff.
At the end of 2015, she was at a meeting with an automotive semi talking about reliability. The guy said that Cadence "has no idea what OEMs and tier-1s ask us to do". He explained what it took to satisfy the automotive segment. Alessandra talked to Anirudh Devgan (then running some of the product groups, now president of Cadence) and he said "go figure it out".
Or, as it says more formally in the DAC press release announcing her award:
Dr. Nardi created her own initiative at Cadence based upon her vision for a holistic approach to functional safety, which involved embedding functional safety capabilities directly into the semiconductor development flow. In support of the initiative, Dr. Nardi developed a patent for the automatic design and verification of safety-critical electronic systems, and she managed cross-functional collaborations on the development of a functional safety flow for digital, analog, and mixed-signal semiconductors.
She found it a different type of experience because until then she had worked mostly on one product at a time, but automotive is more of a complete solution, and so is much closer to the actual application. She ended up moving to the foundry team, since it was about the only team in Cadence in those days that was cross-functional.
When TSMC asked about automotive and wanted a presentation in 5 days, we put it together. It wasn’t perfect but it was good (153 slides). It covered reliability, quality, and a core of functional safety. I started working on a story that connected all pieces together and how a functional safety solution should look like.
That was four years ago. I took the TÜV SÜD class and did our first presentation at DAC (just 20 slides this time!). She told me:
It is really difficult to go back to a single product after you have tasted the fun of a holistic product-centric solution connected to the final applications. Besides, revealing that I'm working on enabling autonomous driving earned me a whole new level of respect from my kids!
But functional safety is in many ways a green field still to be defined. There is a small set of people who have done it forever and for whom it is almost a religion. But now there is lots of automation that can be done and that we already have in EDA, that can be made safety aware: capture information, propagate information, define the direction. Plus automotive silicon doesn't just mean simple analog parts in decade-old process technology.
We need to leverage the work that we have already done in EDA.
I asked her about functional safety in the future. She emphasized that it is not just automotive but other stuff that is safety-critical: industrial, aerospace, medical.
Years ago, in manufacturing, people used to just throw requirements over the wall to a foundry or fab and not worry about manufacturability, but that has changed. Modern electronics cannot be implemented over the wall. What happened in manufacturing is now happening in the automotive supply chain, where everyone has to work with and talk to each other.
I had planned to attend a presentation of the Accellera group on functional safety at DVCon, but DVCon got semi-canceled. I asked her how the working group got started:
Years ago, I had the idea of a safety language. I talked to NXP, Arm, AMD, Qualcomm, ST, TI, Mentor, and others. Everyone wanted a standard so we proposed an Accellera working group. That kicked off in December last year to gather industry requirements, and then present to the Accellera board with companies who are supportive. There was overwhelming support. Cadence is the chair, but it is just getting started. We want a data model to capture safety info, similar to the way in which UPF captures power intent. The actual technical effort just started in February.
Actually, Alessandra was being modest — she is the chair of the working group.
More information about functional safety in Accellera is on the Functional Safety Working Group page. As is obvious from the previous paragraph, the work is just beginning so if you are interested you can still participate. There is an overview set of slides of the group available.
My Life at Cadence
Alessandra was one of the women featured in the recent My Life at Cadence video series. 2' 20" long:
You can read the DAC Press Release making the announcement.
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Pakistan Issued Its First Third Gender Passport But Can It Give Respect?
July 5, 2017 July 7, 2017 Purniya Awan Blawgs, Commentary
Pakistan Issued Its First Third Gender Passport – But Giving Respect To The Transgender Community Is Asking For Too Much
Shortly after the holy month of Ramazan was over and Eid was being celebrated, a group of Pakistani men of all ages thought it was amusing and entertaining to publicly harass a group of transgender people in Murree. As part of Pakistan’s minority group which seems to care about our country’s transgender community, watching this video has been disturbing to say the least.
The video itself left viewers, including myself, completely taken aback and disappointed. It was a stark reminder of how pathetic people can be. I couldn’t help but wonder how much time it would take for people of this country to become responsible and empathetic citizens. How many battles will activists have to fight to truly shift the way people think and feel about others and ideas that don’t necessarily fit their own schools of thought? Why aren’t members of minority groups in our country treated with the respect they deserve?
I am a hardcore patriot but incidents like these make me question my love for my country. Pakistan has endured all sorts of pain and continues to do so, yet there is still a large pool of people who are still heartless and insensitive to others’ pain. Being resilient should not mean lack of compassion and sensitivity towards others.
Let’s not forget that minorities in Pakistan continue to be discriminated against in the local Pakistani society. People belonging to minority groups seldom receive positive support from the general public, and even though there are several different legislations and campaigns in progress, their treatment by fellow citizens seizes to change for the better.
Let’s also not forget that the Pakistani government just issued its first third gender passport to a transgender activist in Peshawar. This step was campaigned for by activist Farzana Riaz, the 30-year-old co-founder and president of the rights organisation, TransAction Pakistan. This lifelong battle was fought in order to help Riaz campaign universally on behalf of her community. The Pakistani passport now includes a new “X” category for people who do not prescribe as either “M” (male) or “F” (female). The “X” category will finally give a chance to khawajasaras – an umbrella term for a third sex that includes transsexuals, transvestites and eunuchs – to register according to their gender.
Not only that, Pakistan was one of the first countries in the world to legally recognise the third sex in 2009, when it allowed transgender people to acquire identity cards and run for elections. They are not allowed to get married legally but recently, a fatwa has been issued by clerics stating otherwise. In a country like Pakistan, where there is now an increasing number of conservatives and religious extremists, I believe these are bold steps taken by the government.
But how long will this brutality last? Why are people so intolerant here?
What is even more demoralising about this incident is that not one person stood up for the victims being harassed. A hoard of men continued to laugh and humiliate them while touching them without their consent. The men shown in this video clearly belong to different age groups, ranging from boys in their teens to grown up men, which is more troubling because it shows how normative and acceptable this kind of behavior really is. What this behavior shows though is the high level of insecurity these men have about their own sexuality. Furthermore, it states that there is a desperate need on their part to prove their masculinity by harassing soft targets.
These self-proclaimed patriots and so-called macho men are so threatened by concepts, ideas and people which do not resonate or fit into their own ideals of society, that they feel the need to take matters into their own hands to change things around them. They believe that if they harass other more vulnerable groups enough, they may be able to get rid of them altogether. However, by acting out this way, all they are doing in reality is showing their extreme ignorance and weakness.
Many people have argued that these incidents are a direct result of the lack of education, and I do agree with this argument but only to a certain extent, because general kindness towards other human beings is neither taught in schools nor is it learnt by reading books. It is the simplest yet the most important gesture.
However, there is no doubt that people need to be sensitised when it comes to understanding and talking about gender and sexuality. I am not sure how much of that will help though, considering fasting for a whole month in the name of religion did practically nothing to change their characters.
What is even more terrifying is that it is not the first time something like this has happened. I have written about injustices against transgender people about three times in the past few months, all as a result of viral videos showing members of the transgender community being beaten brutally or being treated like garbage.
Even though a handful of transgender activists continue to fight this battle, they are constantly faced with supreme abuse and oppression from others around them. A new and serious legislation needs to be tabled which criminalises harassment against transgender people so that perpetrators of this filth and violence can be punished. A truly sad state of affairs!
Previously published in The Express Tribune and republished here with permission.
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Author: Purniya Awan
The writer is a Gender Studies graduate from York University, has been nominated as a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, is a former member of Youth Parliament Pakistan and is currently working as a Communications Specialist at the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women. She tweets @PurniyaA
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Lovell appoints new contracts managers due to success of East Anglia region
Phil Tipping
Lovell has recently promoted previous site managers Phil Tipping and Tommy Salmon to contracts managers, working on recently launched projects in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
Phil Tipping, 30, has been appointed as contracts manager for the brand-new projects in Wymondham and Witchford.
Joining Lovell in January 2017 as an award-winning site manager, Phil began as a senior site manager on an award-winning project in Cambridgeshire, before moving on to complete 115 homes at Beck Row, Mildenhall, for which Phil won the Lovell National Safety Award.
Phil, who lives in Cambridge, said: “I face a variety of challenges from day-to-day, which can involve planning works from head office, meeting design and commercial teams to prepare strategies for efficient delivery, but mostly overseeing site operations and putting the planning of activities into action to deliver high-quality homes on time.
“I get to interact with people from all walks of life, so being adaptable to give the best service I can is important for me to remember in my role.
“Lovell has provided me with fantastic opportunities to succeed. It’s a very people-focused business, providing a great atmosphere to work in, whilst ensuring its employees work together to deliver the best possible service.
“I am looking forward to becoming established in this role and aim to complete a number of successful projects, promoting better working practices and pushing Lovell to be a leader in our industry for innovation.”
Tommy Salmon
Tommy Salmon, 31, has been promoted to contracts manager at St Edmund’s Park, a £25 million housing development in Acle, consisting of 137 homes in partnership with Repton Property Developments.
Tommy has worked at Lovell for 15 years after joining the leading developer as an apprentice bricklayer, where he was recognised as regional Apprentice of the Year in 2008.
Upon completing his apprenticeship, Tommy joined Lovell’s management trainee scheme where he worked towards becoming a site manager and entered his first management role in 2013. Since then, Tommy had been working as Site Manager at Lovell’s Wensum Grange development in Fakenham, and won the National Site Supervisor of the Year Award from LABC in 2015.
Tommy, from Norwich, commented: “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time working at Lovell and I’m very grateful for the opportunities I’ve received since starting my apprenticeship 15 years ago. It’s brilliant how much the company invests in its employees and the training programs are second-to-none.”
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Crypto Enthusiasts Flock to Puerto Rico for Its First-Ever Major Blockchain Conference
Puerto Rican officials see being a part of the expanding crypto market as being a win-win situation for investors and the U.S. territory.
Bitcoin enthusiasts may be ending the week feeling a bit lousy about the crypto’s price performance, but for those attending a conference in Puerto Rico, the mood is likely a bit more lively.
Called the Blockchain Unbound conference, the three-day event was held in San Juan from March 14 through March 16. Participants were afforded more details about how the U.S. territory is positioning itself to be a major player in the crypto space when it comes to Blockchain.
Puerto Rico’s efforts in Blockchain
At the conference, Manuel Laboy, the secretary of Puerto Rico’s Department of Economic Development and Commerce, made an important announcement about the U.S. territory’s latest Blockchain efforts.
He said that an advisory council is being launched to help Blockchain businesses grow in the U.S. territory.
Also noted was that for every 14 available Blockchain developer jobs, there was only one qualified person to fill the position, reported Brian Kelly, who attended the three-day event. He regularly appears on CNBC’s Fast Money show to discuss Bitcoin.
Calling Puerto Rico a viable place to set up shop, Kelly said from the conference:
“The government is looking for new ways to attract business. And that what we’re all here to find out, is how to do it in this environment.”
Gov. Ricardo Rossello has made it clear that his administration would like to “take advantage of the Blockchain component of it because it has transformative and disruptive components for business and for government.”
Perceived hurdles
We told you last month about Puerto Rico’s interest in the crypto space coming as it faces a number of hurdles that have depressed its economy. This includes last year’s Hurricane Maria, which has been described as the worst natural disaster to ever hit Puerto Rico. Some areas are still without power or running water, now six months after the storm.
We also reported to you how that hasn’t deterred many crypto entrepreneurs from gearing up to move their businesses to Puerto Rico to capitalize on massive tax incentives.
Tax incentives win for many
As the left-over devastation from the storm aren’t deterring crypto enthusiasts from moving to Puerto Rico, there’s something that is not phasing government officials. That is the influx of U.S. citizens trying to avoid taxes.
As noted above, those massive tax incentives, outweigh the territory’s devastation. Although, it is unclear how many are actually living in Puerto Rico.
No matter, Puerto Rico is attractive for crypto enthusiasts thanks to an exemption within the Internal Revenue Code, called Act 22, which allows non-residents of Puerto Rico to pay no taxes on their long-term capital gains, according to CNBC.
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26 dead in landslides after Philippine storm
Children walk past debris and damaged houses trees in Barangay San Mateo Borongan in eastern Samar on December 17, 2017, after Tropical Depression Kai-Tak blew through the area. Thousands of people heading home for Christmas in the Philippines were stranded on December 17 by Tropical Depression Kai-Tak, a day after the storm killed three people as it pounded the nation’s eastern islands.ALREN BERONIO / AFP
Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people and 23 more are missing in the eastern Philippines, authorities said Sunday.The deaths were reported in the small island province of Biliran, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation.
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Kai-Tak tore across the major islands of Samar and Leyte on Saturday, toppling power lines in 39 towns or cities and damaging roads and bridges, the national disaster agency said.
Some 87,700 people were forced from their homes in the region. But the previous death toll had stood at just three.
“There is a total of 26 people dead from landslides in four towns of Biliran. We have recovered the bodies,” Sofronio Dacillo, provincial disaster risk reduction and management officer, told AFP.
Gerardo Espina, governor of the island province just east of Leyte, gave the same figure for deaths in an interview on ABS-CBN television. He said 23 people were missing.
The national disaster risk reduction agency could not immediately confirm if the 26 deaths in Biliran included the initial three fatalities it reported on Saturday.
Kai-Tak weakened on Sunday afternoon, with gusts of up to 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour, and was reclassified as a tropical depression, state weather forecasters said.
But disaster officials warned that more floods and landslides were possible and said 15,500 passengers were stranded because ferry services remained suspended in parts of the region.
“I’ve been stranded for three days, sleeping in the bus, and I just want to get home to my family for Christmas,” Eliaquin Pilapil, a 55-year-old farmer, told AFP from a port in the town of Matnog in the eastern province of Sorsogon.
The Christmas holidays are a busy travel season in the mainly Catholic Philippines, with people heading home to the provinces.
The nation is battered by about 20 major storms each year.
Samar and Leyte bore the brunt in 2013 of Super Typhoon Haiyan which left more than 7,350 people dead or missing.
In the Leyte city of Tacloban, Saturday’s storm brought flash floods of up to 1.5 metres (five feet) and strong winds that left the city without power and water, according to its disaster office chief.
“The storm moved so slowly that it brought so much rain to our city. The floods resulted from four days of rain,” Ildebrando Bernadas, head of Tacloban’s disaster risk reduction office, told AFP. Bernadas said 82 percent of Tacloban’s districts were flooded.
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E. Jean Carroll Says She Has ‘Not Been Raped’ Following Accusation Against Trump
Columnist E. Jean Carroll said she doesn’t consider herself to be a victim and has “not been raped” after she alleged President Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
Carroll, 75, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 52 at a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The accusation came ahead of her upcoming book “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal.” An excerpt of that book describing the alleged sexual assault was published in New York Magazine on June 21.
Various media outlets have interviewed Carroll since the allegation. Most recently, she told The New York Times’ “The Daily” that she isn’t a victim and has “not been raped.”
Our reporter @mega2e interviewed E. Jean Carroll and the 2 women, Carol Martin and Lisa Birnbach, who were well-known figures in the ’90s world of New York media. They had not been publicly identified until now. https://t.co/AOITKV6hOb
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“Every woman gets to choose her word,” Carroll said. “Every woman gets to choose how she describes it … My word is fight, my word is not the victim one. I have not been raped. Something has not been done to me. I fought.”
In Carroll’s account of the alleged incident, however, she said Trump shoved her against a wall inside of the dressing room, pulled her tights down, and penetrated her.
Trump was “forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway—or completely, I’m not certain—inside me,” Carroll wrote.
She has been vocal in not calling herself a rape victim and has suggested Trump’s alleged actions don’t qualify as rape.
“I am not faced with sexual violence every day like many women around the world, and so, yes, I’m very careful with that word [rape],” Carroll said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.”
Host Alisyn Camerota then told Carroll the scene described in her book is “legally rape,” but Carroll did not verbally reply.
In previous interviews, Carroll has said she wouldn’t bring a rape charge against Trump because it would be “disrespectful” to women on the border while on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” She also said people view rape as “sexy” during a talk with Anderson Cooper.
Although Carroll said she has “not been raped,” two women whom she confided in have come forward publicly to corroborate her story, The New York Times reported.
Carroll has written “Ask E. Jean,” an advice column in Elle Magazine, since 1993.
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Shalu Monastery
Shalu Monastery (Tibetan: ཞྭ་ལུ།, Wylie: zhwa lu) is small monastery 22 kilometres (14 mi) south of Shigatse in Tibet. Founded in 1040 by Chetsun Sherab Jungnay, for centuries it was renowned as a centre of scholarly learning and psychic training and its mural paintings were considered to be the most ancient and beautiful in Tibet. Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsangpa during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition.
A 14th-century depiction of the 11th abbot of Shalu Buton Rinchen (left) and his successor, a wall painting inside the monastery
Repair and reconstruction of Shalu Monastery began on May 13, 2009, according to the Chinese government Xinhua online news. "The project, one of Tibet's biggest heritage renovation projects under the 11th Five Year Plan (2006–2010), involves reinforcement of its buildings, maintenance of sewage treatment facilities and improvement of fire and flood control systems", a prefectural government official said. It is planned to spend more than 16 million RMB yuan on the project.[1]
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Users will no longer be able to subscribe to Netflix through their iOS app.
In this month, we comment here as the Netflix had snapped up almost $ 800 million from subscriptions made by App storeby placing the platform streaming like the revenue-driven leader in Ma's app store. Well, apparently this whole spree won't last long.
The company confirmed to VentureBeat As soon as new subscribers will no longer be able to subscribe to Netflix iOS apps, they will need to go to the platform's website to sign up and then return to the app with credentials to access the catalog. The change has already begun to be implemented in some territories and should be completed over the next few weeks.
Although no explanation has been offered for the change, the company's motivation is clear: when the user subscribes for the iOS app, he is essentially performing a In-App Purchase which means that Apple gets a 30% share of the amount paid, to be exact, although subscriptions older than one year have been reduced to 15%. Leading users to subscribe to the service on its website, Netflix need not share this revenue with anyone.
Older iOS users will remember that, until long ago, Spotify also offered the in-app subscription option for iPhones and iPads; the music service, however, charged a higher price for this type of subscription and, at one time, even directed users to subscribe to the service through their site to pay less before canceling subscriptions via iOS as a whole.
Netflix, unlike Spotify, has always charged the same subscription price in any medium, regardless of whether the user closed the package through the app or on the site itself.
It is worth noting that, at least until the second order, users who already maintain their subscriptions through the iOS app may continue to pay for the service as normal and will not have to re-contract. If you have already subscribed to Netflix through the App Store and canceled the service, however, you will necessarily have to go to the site to re-subscribe.
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Home Court room news Why Supreme Court Sacked Ihedioha, Declared APC’s Uzodinma Winner in Imo
Why Supreme Court Sacked Ihedioha, Declared APC’s Uzodinma Winner in Imo
The Supreme Court on Tuesday nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Imo State.
The apex court declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 9 governorship election in the state.
In the unanimous judgment of the seven-member panel, read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the apex court agreed that results in 388 polling units were unlawfully excluded during the collation of the final governorship election result in Imo State.
Justice Kekere-Ekun said with the results from the 388 polling units added, Mr Uzodinma polled a majority of the lawful votes and ought to have been declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The judge did not provide the details of the new votes scored by each of the candidates after the addition of the results from the 388 polling units.
Consequently, she voided and set aside the declaration of Mr lhedioha as the winner of the 2019 governorship election in the South-East state.
The court ordered that the certificate of return wrongly or unlawfully issued to Mr lhedioha be immediately withdrawn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a fresh one issued to Mr Uzodinma as the elected governor of the state.
“Vote due to the appellant Senator Hope Uzodinma and the APC from 388 Polling Units were wrongly excluded from scores ascribed to the appellant(to them),” the justices ruled.
“It is thereby ordered that the appellant votes from 388 Polling Units unlawfully excluded from the appellant vote declared shall be added and that the first respondent, Emeka Ihedioha, was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the said election.”
“His return as the elected governor of Imo State is hereby declared null and void and accordingly set aside
“It is hereby declared that the first appellant (Mr Uzodinma) holds the majority of lawful votes cast at the governorship election held in Imo State on March 9, 2019.”
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The justice said Mr Uzodinma has satisfied the mandatory constitutional requirements to be declared governor.
“It is hereby declared that first appellant, Senator Hope Uzodinma, is the winner of the governorship of Imo State held on March 9, 2019.
“The certificate issued to the first defendant (Mr Ihedioha) is hereby withdrawn.
“It is hereby ordered that the certificate of return shall be issued to the first appellant, Senator Hope Uzodinma, forthwith and he should be sworn in as the governor of Imo State,” she ruled.
Lower court’s earlier decision
The Court of Appeal on November 19 had affirmed the victory of Mr Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State.
A five-member panel of the court led by Oyebisi Omoleye delivered the judgement following the appeals filed by the Action Alliance, All Progressives Grand Alliance and the All Progressives Congress challenging the election of the governor.
The appellants had argued that Mr Ihedioha did not obtain the constitutionally required one-quarter of the votes cast in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, as provided under Section 179 of the Constitution.
The appellants, therefore, asked the court to set aside the decision of the election petition tribunal and declare them the winner of the election or in the alternative order a rerun.
The three appeals filed against the judgment of the Imo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Mr Ihedioha, include that of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and its candidate, Ifeanyi Ararume; Action Alliance (AA) and its candidate, Uche Nwosu and that of the APC and its candidate, Mr Uzodinma.
The different appellants asked the Court of Appeal to void the election of Mr Ihedioha on grounds that he did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, in line with Section 179 of the Constitution.
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In their various submissions, through their counsel, they asked the court to set aside the decision of the tribunal and declare them the winner of the March 9 governorship election or in the alternative order INEC to conduct a fresh election into the office of Governor of Imo State.
The three-member panel of the tribunal had in a unanimous decision delivered on September 21 held that Mr Ihedioha was lawfully declared the winner of the governorship election by INEC.
The panel led by Justice Malami Dongondaji had in the judgment dismissed Messrs Ararume, Nwosu and Uzodinma’s petitions for lacking in merit on the grounds that they failed to prove the allegations made in their petitions.
Apart from claims that Mr Ihedioha did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, in line with the provisions of the law, the petitioners had also alleged substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act and Guidelines, including other irregularities.
But the tribunal in its judgement held that the case of the petitioners was unmeritorious because they failed to call relevant witnesses and that evidence of witnesses called were based on hearsay.
The tribunal, in addition, rejected documents tendered by the petitioners in support of their claims on the grounds that those who led evidence in the documents were not the makers of the documents.
In his appeal, Mr Ararume urged the appellate court to upturn the decision of the tribunal on the grounds that the lower court erred in law when it arrived at the decision that his case and that of his party lacked merit and accordingly dismissed it.
The appeal which was predicated on 22 grounds was argued by his lead lawyer, Awal Kalu, while that of Mr Nwosu and AA, was argued by Niyi Akintola. That of Mr Uzodinma and APC was argued by Damian Dodo.
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They all urged the panel to allow the appeal and grant all the reliefs sought by the appellants.
However, the lead counsel to Mr Ihedioha and the PDP, Onyechi Ikpeazu and Kaham Ejelam respectively, urged the court to dismiss the appeals for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
In a surprise move on Tuesday, Mr Nwosu withdrew his appeal, through his lawyer, Solomon Umoh.
He withdrew the appeal based on a December 20 Supreme Court ruling that he, Mr Nwosu, was not a validly nominated candidate for the election.
The respondents in the matter, including Mr Ihedioha and the PDP, did not object to the application of Mr Nwosu to withdraw his appeal before the apex court.
Consequently, the court dismissed Mr Nwosu’s appeal.
Ahead of today’s judgment, controversial catholic cleric, Ejike Mbaka, had prophesied that the Supreme Court verdict would see would lead to Mr Ihedioha losing his position and Mr Uzodinma replacing him.
THE CONTROVERSIAL 2019 ELECTION
INEC said Mr Ihedioha polled 273,404 ahead of his closest rival and candidate of the Action Alliance, Uche Nwosu, who the electoral body said scored 190,364 votes.
Mr Nwosu is the son-in-law of former Governor Rochas Okorocha who strongly backed his candidacy. Mr Nwosu lost his own case from the election petition tribunal to the Supreme Court.
By the INEC result, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ifeanyi Ararume, came third ahead of Hope Uzondinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former polled 114, 676 while the latter polled 96,458. A total of 70 candidates representing various political parties took part in the election.
Mr Ihedioha is the first of the governors elected during the 2019 governorship elections to be so removed.
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Booming and Bubbling India-XXV
“It is undeniable that India is on a new growth trajectory. A trajectory where sustained economic growth of 9-10 per cent per annum – growth rates which were considered impossible even five years ago – seems possible for many years to come,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a conference organised by a business magazine. Indian economy is likely to expand at close to 9 per cent this fiscal and the government may take more steps such as relaxing norms for infrastructure companies to raise funds abroad for sustaining high growth, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
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Q2 good show keeps going: Indian Inc report high net up of Q2: HDFC 75%, SAIL 18%, Nestle 40%, Bharti Airtel 87%, and RCom 86%,….. India Inc seems to have warded off adverse macroeconomic factors, including a rising rupee and growing raw material costs, with better cost-management and by reworking their product portfolio.
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Goldman may invest $2 bn: Goldman Sachs, which has invested more than $1 billion in the Indian market, is ready to double or triple its exposure to the country, its chairman and chief executive said in a newspaper interview published on Monday 28 Oct. Dubai’s DP World to invest $500 mn in India: Dubai’s DP World plans to invest $500 million in India over the next two years to development infrastructure at its port operations in the South Asian country, including rail links and roads.
Cisco on track to invest $1.1 bn in India: Cisco Systems Inc is on target to invest the $1.1 billion (Rs4, 337 crore) it committed in 2005 to spend in India and plans to scale up its staff strength to 10, 000 people in India by the end of 2010, chief executive John Chambers, who is currently on a trip to India, said on 29 October.
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Harvard dresses up for growth courses in India: Harvard Business School will start an executive education programme in India next year, stepping out of its traditional East Coast venue in the US, targeting companies with global ambitions to address what it believes is the typical challenge in the booming economy–managing hypergrowth.
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Dow plans $100mn R&D facility near Pune: The Dow Chemical Company will be investing $100 million for a research and development (R&D) facility at Chakan near Pune.
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NCAER raises GDP growth forecast to 8.9%: The National Council of Applied Economic Research, which had forecast the country’s economy to grow by 8.5 per cent in 2007-08, has raised projection to 8.9 per cent on improved performance of agriculture and services sectors.
India to stay in talent top club till 2012: For 2012 ranking, India gets the 2nd rank on its demographics; 9th on its labour mobility and relative openness of the labour market; 13th on its proclivity to attract talent; 13th on its environment to nurture talent, but a poor 25th on education and 26th on FDI inflow.
India geared up to tap $31 bn drug outsourcing market: Contract Research and Manufacturing Services (CRAMS), is becoming one of the most promising opportunities for the Indian pharma industry. India, with its intrinsic competitive advantages, remains as one of the most preferred outsourcing destinations with the global manufacturing outsourcing opportunity estimated at $20 billion targeting $31 billion by 2010.
India’s exports rise by 19.26% despite rupee rise: India’s exports increased by 19.26 per cent in September this year, despite a rise in rupee value, while imports went up by a moderate 2.31 per cent.
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Suzlon plans exports to 40 countries: World’s fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy seeks to export its products to 40 countries including South Africa, South Korea and parts of emerging Europe.
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For most who matter in the developing countries, India is becoming important, though many skeptical in India are counting the days the booming mood lasts. But look at the revolution that one sees on the street. “India’s economy is growing at over 9%, and younger consumers, especially those working in call centers, can now afford the personal digital assistants and Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerrys that, as recently as a year ago, seemed out of reach to everyone but wealthy businesspeople and other professionals.”
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Fourth man sentenced in slaying of Fort Lewis College student
Judge: Kodi Kuauhtli betrayed friendship
By Shane Benjamin Deputy editor
Updated: Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 9:02 PM
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Kuauhtli
An Arizona man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for his role in a home invasion and shooting death of a Fort Lewis College student.
Kodi Kuauhtli, 21, looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes at the end of the four-hour hearing in 6th Judicial District Court. He wore a tie, white dress shirt, gray slacks and shackles. He looked back at family and friends as deputies led him away.
He apologized to the victim’s friends and family, and sang a Native American prayer song during his statement to the judge.
“I want to take responsibility, I want to take accountability,” he said.
Kuauhtli was facing 10 to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary in a plea agreement with the 6th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Before the plea deal, he was charged with first-degree murder for his role in the shooting death of Samuel Xarius Gordon, 20.
The shooting occurred about 3:40 a.m. May 24, 2016, at 253 Jenkins Ranch Road in the SkyRidge subdivision east of downtown.
Kuauhtli and three co-defendants – Alvin Noel Flores, 22, of Phoenix; Kuauhtleko Garcia, 21, of Scottsdale, Arizona; and Daniel Nelson Wright, 21, of Phoenix – drove to Gordon’s house planning to rob him of his marijuana.
They wore hoodies, masks and had zip ties to detain people in the house. Two of the men were armed with handguns. When Gordon heard the commotion, he exited his upstairs bedroom with a flare gun and was shot once in the abdomen. He died a few hours later during surgery at Mercy Regional Medical Center.
Prosecutors said either Flores or Garcia pulled the trigger. Wright stayed downstairs, and Kuauhtli doesn’t appear to have entered the house.
Prosecutors portrayed Kuauhtli as the mastermind, or at least the “fabric” that brought the plan together. It was Kuauhtli who came up with the “thoughtless, ridiculous, violent plan” to break into Gordon’s home in the middle of the night to steal several pounds of marijuana, said Assistant District Attorney David Ottman. He called it a “crime of opportunity.”
Kuauhtli was friends with Gordon and knew the layout of the townhome.
His Durango defense lawyers said Kuauhtli lacked knowledge of the robbery plan until midnight and had no idea his co-defendants were armed with handguns.
District Judge William Herringer wasn’t buying it.
He said common sense and the weight of the evidence points to Kuauhtli knowing his co-defendants were armed. It also makes sense that he would stay outside because he was well-known by Gordon. The judge said Kuauhtli betrayed his friendship to Gordon.
“I’m not sure how well you knew Samuel Gordon, but I’m guessing you knew him well enough to know he was a good guy.”
Kuauhtli admitted to walking his co-defendants to the house because they couldn’t find it on their own.
Defense lawyer David Greenberg said Kuauhtli has no criminal history, is unlikely to re-offend, is not a danger to society and has built positive relationships.
He asked that Kuauhtli be sentenced to the minimum 10 years in prison.
About 14 family members and friends spoke on Gordon’s behalf, all who described Gordon as a gentle soul who loved nature. They wore green T-shirts with a tree printed on the front and the words “Justice for Sam” on the back.
Ryneal Lewis-Adams, a friend of Gordon’s, said he knew both Gordon and Kuauhtli. Gordon was in a tree shaking pears to the ground the first time they met. Gordon opened his eyes to nature, like so many others, and proved to be someone who could inspire others, Lewis-Adams said.
“Kodi, I hope you find your way, because Sam was a leader for all of those who were lost, and you took that,” he said Friday.
Some expressed forgiveness, but nearly all asked that Kuauhtli be given the maximum penalty.
Gordon’s mother, Jeanette Phillips, asked Herringer to reject the plea agreement and set the case for trial on first-degree murder, which carries a life-in-prison sentence if found guilty. She asked the same of all the co-defendants.
“I’m the one that got a life sentence, and I don’t deserve it,” she said. “I’ve been a good person and my son was a good person.”
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Shooting victim lived simply, loved nature
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Asterix and the Normans (#9)
Author(s): René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo
Normans never feel fear—but they do believe that terror literally gives one wings, enabling a person to fly. Now they’re planning to test their theory on Vitalstatistix’s cowardly nephew Jusforkix by pushing him right off the edge of a cliff.
Asterix is the highest-selling book series in the world. Worldwide sales now exceed 320,000,000, outstripping even J K Rowling. Asterix has been translated into 107 languages and dialects. 11,000 web sites devoted to Asterix. Combined UK sales of the last 5 books - 2.2 million copies.
Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977. Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. Asterix the Gaul, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 33 Asterix albums. Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. Asterix the Gaul, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 33 Asterix albums.
Imprint : Asterix
Author : René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo
Illustrations : 48 Colour Photo\Illu(s)
Illustrator : Albert Uderzo
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By Avry Lewis-McDougall | November 2, 2020
Erin Baker, Founder and Owner of True Movement
Job Title: Founder and Owner of True Movement
A lot can change in just over a decade — and it did for Erin Baker.
In 2009, the first True Movement studio opened in Red Deer. By 2014, there was a second one, based in Edmonton. Since then, True Movement has worked with over 400 clients, and now has over 40 private and semi-private classes and individual training.
For 10 years, she’s been Canada’s only Master Trainer in The Garuda Method (a method based in yoga, Pilates and dance), before creating her own True Movement Method. This has allowed her to incorporate principles that help everyday people as well as high-level athletes.
“The three principles of True Movement are performance, posture and mobility,” she says. “How do we enhance performance? How do we restore posture and how do we increase mobility?”
Hockey players — including Columbus Blue Jackets draft pick Trey Fix-Wolansky, a few members of the Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers goalie Carter Hart have been among Baker’s clients. Baker also helps goaltenders increase their hip mobility and focus on pelvic and spine stability, as well as injury prevention.
“What we need to teach them is how to engage their lower abdominals and have their glutes and inner thighs work together. So all of those muscles stabilize your pelvis to help it stay in place.
“The biggest thing I’ve learned with goalies is that when they come in, they learn a new sense of awareness about their bodies, that they haven’t learned before. I love working with them.”
Baker has also expanded with the True Movement Platform machine to allow home training year round, especially to work with people who don’t live in Edmonton.
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Who We Are > Staff > Nancy Duchesneau
Nancy Duchesneau
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Senior P-12 Research Associate
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Nancy is a Senior P-12 Research Associate and leads the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development work at EdTrust. In this role, she works to fill current gaps in research, policy, and advocacy to ensure that schools holistically support the well-being and development of students, and especially for low-income students and students of color.
In addition to having served as EdTrust’s Spencer Fellow for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, Nancy worked in multiple roles prior to joining EdTrust. Experiences include being a tutor and barista before graduate school, and more recently as a research assistant under education faculty at Michigan State University. She has also previously worked on projects with researchers at ETS and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment.
Nancy received her B.S. from Lehigh University in psychology and is currently in the final stages of the Education Policy Ph.D. program at Michigan State University, with a dissertation that focuses on the intersections of social-emotional learning with culture and restorative justice.
Proudest Moment
Receiving my first acceptance letter to graduate school
What are people most surprised to learn about you?
I used to breakdance in college.
What drew you to education?
After college, I served as both a private tutor for wealthy families and a sub-contracted tutor in a low-income school district. Although my own experiences growing up had shown me that opportunities differ based on race and income, the differences in educational opportunities I saw as a tutor were stark. Upset with what I was seeing, I entered graduate school for education policy intent on finding ways to reduce these inequities.
Author Archives: Nancy Duchesneau
“And they cared”: How to Create Better, Safer Learning Environments for Girls of Color
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All across the country, girls of color are excluded from school for subjective offenses like these, missing out on…
Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens
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The majority of public schools and districts in the U.S. report they are working to support the social and…
Self-Advocacy or Defiance in Protests? Depends: Are You White or Black?
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“Please, I can’t breathe.”Are these words of “resistance,” or are they a man’s simple plea to stay alive? In…
When it Comes to Social Emotional Development, Relationships Matter, Especially During COVID-19
April 27, 2020 by Nancy Duchesneau
Last year, I spent four months traveling around the country interviewing students and families of color about how schools…
A Holistic Approach to Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD)
February 20, 2020 by Nancy Duchesneau
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD) is the latest buzzword in education. But what does it mean exactly? Usually,…
SEAD Through a Race-Equity Lens
January 29, 2020 by Nancy Duchesneau
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD), is a holistic approach to supporting students that is gaining momentum across the…
What Purpose Does Your Dress Code Serve? Why Inclusive School Policies Matter
When Tvli Birdshead, a senior at an Oklahoma high school was denied the freedom to wear his Native American…
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»LGBT»Costa Rica: Lawmakers criticise delay on gay marriage
Costa Rica: Lawmakers criticise delay on gay marriage
Posted by EILE Magazine on May 15, 2020 in LGBT, News & Current Affairs
A gay couple in front of the Supreme Court of Justice, in San Jose, Costa Rica, August 4, 2018 – Image: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate
Lawmakers and government officials in Costa Rica on Wednesday chided fellow politicians trying to delay a landmark gay marriage ruling, an effort which ended in a punch-up between members of a leading political party.
Costa Rica’s constitutional court voted in August 2018 to legalise gay marriage, with the ruling to take effect on May 26 of this year.
The decision made Costa Rica the first country in socially conservative Central America to recognise the right of same-sex couples to marry.
On Tuesday, more than 20 lawmakers attempted to introduce a motion to delay the ruling another 18 months, arguing legislators had not had enough time to review the decision because of other issues, including the novel coronavirus.
Rights activists, politicians, and government officials say the push from conservatives to delay same-sex marriage detracted from efforts to address the pandemic, given the constitutional court has ruled on the matter.
“There are many other issues that we as a country need to resolve, especially in the face of the emergency we are confronting due to the global pandemic,” said Luis Salazar, presidential commissioner for LGBTI population affairs.
“It’s a waste of time in the sense that the issue is … settled,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The dispute came to blows on Tuesday, when deputy David Gourzong of the National Liberation Party (PLN) physically attacked the legal advisor to fellow PLN deputy, Gustavo Viales, local media reported.
Gourzong apologised on Twitter late Tuesday, tweeting:
“It’s clear to me that neither verbal nor physical violence is the way to resolve differences.”
Lawmakers would need 38 votes in Costa Rica’s 57-member assembly to bring the issue to the top of the agenda, otherwise it is unlikely to be taken up before the May 26 deadline.
Enrique Sanchez, Costa Rica’s first openly gay congressman with the centre-left Citizens’ Action Party, said there was little chance of conservatives gaining the necessary majority.
“It’s been a shameful spectacle,” he said.
“It gives me peace of mind that this will possibly die from tomorrow, and there will be no going back.”
Legalising gay marriage was a major campaign promise by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who took office in 2018.
Rights activists fear that reopening the issue could re-ignite the fierce debate that roiled the election.
“The moment the topic is placed on the table again and the (country’s) polarisation is exposed, hate speech starts to rise and physical assaults begin,” said Margarita Salas, an LGBT+ rights campaigner and president of the VAMOS political party.
“It seems like a reflection of deep homophobia that, in the midst of a pandemic, they want to reopen these issues.”
Same-sex marriage has become increasingly accepted in Latin America, with gay couples allowed to marry in Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and parts of Mexico
-Oscar Lopez @oscarlopezgib – Thomson Reuters Foundation
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How Many Verastem, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSTM) Shares Do Institutions Own?
NASDAQ:VSTM) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. Large companies usually have institutions as shareholders, and we usually see insiders owning shares in smaller companies. Companies that used to be publicly owned tend to have lower insider ownership.” data-reactid=”28″ type=”text”>Every investor in Verastem, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSTM) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. Large companies usually have institutions as shareholders, and we usually see insiders owning shares in smaller companies. Companies that used to be publicly owned tend to have lower insider ownership.
Verastem is a smaller company with a market capitalization of US$231m, so it may still be flying under the radar of many institutional investors. Taking a look at our data on the ownership groups (below), it seems that institutions are noticeable on the share registry. Let’s delve deeper into each type of owner, to discover more about Verastem.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Verastem?
Institutions typically measure themselves against a benchmark when reporting to their own investors, so they often become more enthusiastic about a stock once it’s included in a major index. We would expect most companies to have some institutions on the register, especially if they are growing.
Verastem already has institutions on the share registry. Indeed, they own a respectable stake in the company. This implies the analysts working for those institutions have looked at the stock and they like it. But just like anyone else, they could be wrong. When multiple institutions own a stock, there’s always a risk that they are in a ‘crowded trade’. When such a trade goes wrong, multiple parties may compete to sell stock fast. This risk is higher in a company without a history of growth. You can see Verastem’s historic earnings and revenue below, but keep in mind there’s always more to the story.
Verastem is not owned by hedge funds. Our data shows that BlackRock, Inc. is the largest shareholder with 6.5% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 5.9% and 5.4%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.
A deeper look at our ownership data shows that the top 25 shareholders collectively hold less than half of the register, suggesting a large group of small holders where no single shareholder has a majority.
While it makes sense to study institutional ownership data for a company, it also makes sense to study analyst sentiments to know which way the wind is blowing. There are a reasonable number of analysts covering the stock, so it might be useful to find out their aggregate view on the future.
Insider Ownership Of Verastem
The definition of an insider can differ slightly between different countries, but members of the board of directors always count. The company management answer to the board and the latter should represent the interests of shareholders. Notably, sometimes top-level managers are on the board themselves.
Most consider insider ownership a positive because it can indicate the board is well aligned with other shareholders. However, on some occasions too much power is concentrated within this group.
click here to see if those insiders have been buying or selling. ” data-reactid=”72″ type=”text”>Our information suggests that Verastem, Inc. insiders own under 1% of the company. However, it’s possible that insiders might have an indirect interest through a more complex structure. It appears that the board holds about US$933k worth of stock. This compares to a market capitalization of US$231m. Many investors in smaller companies prefer to see the board more heavily invested. You can click here to see if those insiders have been buying or selling.
General Public Ownership
With a 49% ownership, the general public have some degree of sway over Verastem. While this size of ownership may not be enough to sway a policy decision in their favour, they can still make a collective impact on company policies.
Private Equity Ownership
With an ownership of 5.4%, private equity firms are in a position to play a role in shaping corporate strategy with a focus on value creation. Sometimes we see private equity stick around for the long term, but generally speaking they have a shorter investment horizon and — as the name suggests — don’t invest in public companies much. After some time they may look to sell and redeploy capital elsewhere.
4 warning signs for Verastem (2 are a bit unpleasant) that you should be aware of.” data-reactid=”78″ type=”text”>I find it very interesting to look at who exactly owns a company. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. For instance, we’ve identified 4 warning signs for Verastem (2 are a bit unpleasant) that you should be aware of.
this free report showing whether analysts are predicting a brighter future.” data-reactid=”79″ type=”text”>But ultimately it is the future, not the past, that will determine how well the owners of this business will do. Therefore we think it advisable to take a look at this free report showing whether analysts are predicting a brighter future.
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A sudden psychological state of alarm is felt by a person during a phenomenon known as a panic attack. The person is affected by abrupt, uncontrollably wild and frantic feelings that induce the heart to beat faster and throws the body into the preparation for flight or fight. In other people, panic attacks create the sense of suffocation. Other individuals may simply be trembling and are unable to move even a single muscle in the body because of the intense and uncontrollable rage. Physical symptoms such as spells of dizziness, the development of a dry mouth, the sudden sweating of the palms and a tightening sensation in the chest are also very commonly observed. Butterflies in the stomach and lumps in the throat also affect some individuals who undergo a panic attack. In general, during a panic attack the body goes into a sudden state of alarm and psychological stress.
Panic attacks in general persists only for seconds at any time, while in some cases it might last minutes at a single stretch-the time period is short in all cases. The difference between panic attacks and phobias is that the latter tend to be always present as long as the stressing agent exists and these are moreover overwhelming and intense fears caused by some specific stressor or phenomenon. In general, all panic attacks develop unexpectedly, with an unknown reason and come about without warning and can usually be attributed to no specific event or phenomenon. If the panic attacks are severe or intense, the chances of them being mistaken for heart attacks exist and they are sometimes confused with cardiac problems especially recurring attacks. As such panic attacks are related in some way to general feelings of vague anxiety, and these often develop or are accompanied by other psychological disturbances, including disorders such as long term nightmares, bouts of sleeplessness, and sudden changes in the appetite, physical fatigue also often accompanies such panic attacks. Frustration and depression often affect a person as a result of long-term grappling with these anxiety disorders along with the panic attacks. By and large, panic attacks are surprisingly common in occurrence as a condition and it affects both men and women equally.
The occurrence of panic attacks is the most frequent during periods of extreme stress and anxiety even though there occurrence by itself is still without any obvious reasons in all cases. It is very important therefore to try to identify the real triggers behind such attacks in order to have any chance at resolving the problem, whether the actual cause is psychological grief or the result of being in a stressful work environment or an anxious period of life. The loss of psychological and actual control over events and situations is often indicative of panic attacks, which is the reason that these occur in periods of great emotional turmoil and stress. Trying to rid oneself of personal problems by overworking and using alcohol at the time of great emotional turmoil increases the chance of a panic attack occurring and these must be avoided, the avoidance of overworking and alcohol also helps the body resolve underlying problems which might trigger an attack by itself.
High levels of the compound lactate in the body shows a relationship with the occurrence of panic attacks-this heightening of the levels of lactate in the body is brought about by the consumption of too much caffeine by the person. In those sensitive to its biochemical effects, the alkaloid caffeine has been known to cause irritation in the nerves and might be responsible for triggering panic attacks. Panic attacks by and large can also be triggered by low blood-sugar levels in the body. In addition, fainting spells are also caused by hyperventilation; these fainting spells are common during states of anxiety or fear in the affected individual.
The stress levels in the body can be reduced by the use of these supplements, which also support the functioning of the nervous system and help alleviate stress in the body of the affected person. All supplements that have nervous system stimulants must be avoided if possible-and particularly by those who are affected by recurring panic attacks. The nervous system is also bolstered by the action of the B vitamins, during times of stress in particular- the body makes rapid use of these substances. The increase in the lactate content of the body is also stabilized at certain times by the use of the B vitamins taken in supplemental form. Among all the vitamins, the B6 is considered to be the most important vitamin. The susceptibility of a person to anxiety and panic attacks can also be reduced by taking supplements of the essential minerals calcium or magnesium, the deficiency of one or both of these in the body will increase the likelihood of a panic attack affecting an individual. Proper nerve function and relaxation in the body is promoted by the essential minerals calcium and magnesium when they are taken on a regular basis. A deficiency of the essential mineral magnesium is caused by a poor diet and the abuse of alcohol-this produces nervousness and irritability in the person.
An irritated nervous system has traditionally been treated using the herbs such as passion flower, the valerian, the St. John's wort or the lemon balm as herbal remedies. These help relax and soothe the nervous system in the affected individual. The use of these herbs by the affected individual will also aid in giving the person a good night's rest and will relax him or her in general. Emotional problems that cause panic attacks are better handles by a person who has rested and whose mind is in a state of relaxation. The herbal remedies must be used as teas or in the form of herbal tinctures strictly according to the directions given on the label of the product.
Use herbs before sleeping or retiring during particularly stressful periods, make sure that you drink some lemon balm or valerian herbal tea before bedtime as this will help relax and calm the mind. The nervous system is bolstered by the use of black cohosh herbal tea which is a very relaxing tea during times of anxiety and has great restorative powers. Use about twenty drops of herbal tincture mixed in liquid thrice every day to calm nerves and treat anxiety disorders. In addition prepare an herbal tea, using a tsp. of the herb mixed in a cup of boiling water, strain the solution and drink as and when needed. The herbal teas made from herbs such as the cohosh can be used in combination with herbs such as the skullcap, the passion flower, the valerian, the St. John's wort or the lemon balm-drinking these herbal teas will enable the person to relax and prevent the likelihood of panic attacks.
Balancing the body's energy is the best way to deal with fear and panic especially when such emotions threaten to go out of conscious control. The fearful and panic stricken individual must be comforted by gently touches and the use of massage-such techniques will help calm and comfort the person. Massage the affected individual by place the palm of your hand flat along the upper stomach of the person, and in the area immediately under the sternum, carefully hold your hand and touch lightly. The touch must be assuring and comfortable to the person, slowly rub and bring him or her to a calm state of mind. A person stricken by a panic attack must be helped through progressive muscle relaxation techniques and such methods will help his or her body respond positively to the anxiety felt during a panic attack. Hold the tension in your muscles for five to ten seconds whenever you feel a panic attack coming on, any part of the body can be tensed up in these situations. The tension in the muscles can be gradually released; the same method can be repeated with another muscle in another area of the body till such times as the entire body begins to go into a state of relaxation and calmness.
Vitamin B complex, 100 mg.
Magnesium, 200 mg two times daily.
Calcium, 1,000 mg.
Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate or vitamin B6, 50 mg.
From Mary Kings - Apr-02-2015
Why don't they mention the homeopathic remedy Aconite. It really, really works when you suffer like me from severe fears and panic attacks. Please try this, it gave me back my life. I started with the lowest potency D6. Now I am using D30 and C30.
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Kabuki dance
Kabuki is a term used by American political pundits as a synonym for political posturing.[1] It acquired this derogatory meaning after drawn out peace-time treaty negotiations between the United States and Japan which had extended to 1960, and because Japan, in an effort "to shed its image as a global marauder" sent kabuki theater tours to the U.S. after World War II to sow the seeds of goodwill.[1] It first appeared in print in 1961 in the Los Angeles Times in an article written by Henry J. Taylor.[1] Outside the United States of America, analysts and commentators may refer to a similar phenomenon as political theatre.[2]
In common English usage, a kabuki dance, also kabuki play,[3] is an activity or drama carried out in real life in a predictable or stylized fashion, reminiscent of the kabuki style of Japanese stage play.[1][4][5] It refers to an event that is designed to create the appearance of conflict or of an uncertain outcome, when in fact the actors have worked together to determine the outcome beforehand. For example, Tom Brokaw used the term to describe U.S. Democratic party and U.S. Republican party political conventions,[4] which purport to be competitive contests to nominate presidential candidates, yet in reality the nominees are known well beforehand.
A more recent example of the use of this phrase by popular media in a Wall Street Journal article on the Supreme Court nomination hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.[6] Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut, also used the term to refer to the Republican Party effort to repeal the 2010 health-care reform act, telling reporters, "It's a kabuki dance. The fact of the matter is we're not going to repeal it."[7]
^ a b c d Lackman, Jon (April 14, 2010). "It's Time To Retire Kabuki: The word doesn't mean what pundits think it does". Slate.
^ For example: Bennister, Mark; Larkin, Phil (2018). "14: Accountability in Parliament". In Leston-Bandeira, Cristina; Thompson, Louise (eds.). Exploring Parliament. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 149-150. ISBN 9780198788430. Retrieved 2018-09-22. Though occasionally the sessions are illuminating in the way they expose how much control of policy detail prime ministers possess, they are still political theatre in which MPs wish to make overlong statements, or, in the words of one Chair, 'give a PM a bloody nose' [...]. [...] Although the [Liaison Committee] sessions were initially mocked as 'bore-a-thons' that failed to deliver the headline-generating political theatre journalists may have hoped for, that is in fact the key point: the sessions can involve exchanges on broad government strategy and contemporary issues [...].
^ Schechter, Danny. The kabuki play on Capitol Hill. Al Jazeera English, 31 July 2011. Accessed 1 August 2011.
^ a b Webber, Elizabeth; Mike Feinsilber (1999). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions. Merriam-Webster. pp. 300. ISBN 0-87779-628-9.
^ Mundy, Alicia (2006-06-13). "Budget's released: Everybody dance!". Seattle Times.
^ Greenberg, David (2009-07-23). "The Supreme Court Kabuki Dance". Wall Street Journal.
^ Altman, Alex (2011-01-05). "The GOP House's Opening Act: Making a Statement — or Making a Mockery?". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
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GAU-12 Equalizer
The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon. [1]
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ADEN cannon
The Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN is a 30 mm revolver cannon used on many military aircraft, particularly those of the British Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm.
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An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the capability of engaging targets on the ground, such as enemy infantry and armored fighting vehicles.
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Bell AH-1 Cobra
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is a two-blade, single-engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter. It was developed using the engine, transmission and rotor system of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois. A member of the prolific Huey family, the AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake. The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army's attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin-engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps (USMC) as the service's primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires.
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Bleed air
Bleed air produced by gas turbine engines is compressed air that is taken from the compressor stage of those engines, which is upstream of the fuel-burning sections.
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British Aerospace Harrier II
The British Aerospace Harrier II was a second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN).
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Close-in weapon system
A close-in weapon system (CIWS), is a point-defense weapon system for detecting and destroying short-range incoming missiles and enemy aircraft which have penetrated the outer defenses, typically mounted shipboard in a naval capacity.
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A corvette is a small warship.
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CTOL
CTOL is an acronym for conventional take-off and landing, and is the process whereby conventional aircraft (such as passenger aircraft) take off and land, involving the use of runways.
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The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.
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A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
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The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun.
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GAU-8 Avenger
The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type autocannon that is typically mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.
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General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American aerospace and defense multinational corporation formed by mergers and divestitures.
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Gun pod
A gun pod is a detachable pod or pack containing machine guns or automatic cannon and ancillaries, mounted externally on a vehicle such as a military aircraft which may or may not also have its own guns.
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A gunship is a military aircraft armed with heavy guns, primarily intended for attacking ground targets.
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High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition
High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition (HEIAP) is a form of shell which combines armor-piercing capability and a high-explosive effect.
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The Italian Navy (Marina Militare, "Military Navy"; abbreviated as MM) is the maritime defence force of the Italian Republic.
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LAV-25
The LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle) is an eight-wheeled amphibious armored reconnaissance vehicle used by the United States Marine Corps and Canadian Army.
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Lead–acid battery
The lead–acid battery was invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté and is the oldest type of rechargeable battery.
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The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport fixed-wing aircraft.
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The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters.
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Magazine (firearms)
A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm.
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The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family.
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Milliradian
A milliradian, often called a mil or mrad, is an SI derived unit for angular measurement which is defined as a thousandth of a radian (0.001 radian).
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Nammo, short for Nordic Ammunition Company, is a Norwegian/Finnish aerospace and defence group specialized in production of ammunition, rocket motors and space applications.
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The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is an association for the United States government and the defense industry.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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A pneumatic control valve actuator converts energy (typically in the form of compressed air) into mechanical motion.
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Rotary cannon
A rotary cannon, rotary autocannon, or Gatling-type cannon is a rapid-firing weapon that utilizes multiple barrels in a rotating cluster to provide a sustained rate of fire greater than single-barreled machine guns or automatic cannon of equivalent caliber.
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Scaled Composites ARES
The Scaled Composites ARES is a demonstrator aircraft built by Scaled Composites.
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The Spanish Navy (Armada Española) is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.
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STOVL
A short take-off and vertical landing aircraft (STOVL aircraft) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is able to take off from a short runway (or take off vertically if it does not have a heavy payload) and land vertically (i.e. with no runway).
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The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
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1999 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1999.
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25 mm caliber
The 25 mm caliber is a specific size of cannon or autocannon ammunition.
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The 30 mm caliber is a specific size of autocannon ammunition.
GAU-12, GAU-12 Equaliser, GAU-12/U Equaliser, GAU-12/U Equalizer.
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Famine scales
Famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine. The word "famine" has highly emotive and political connotations and there has been extensive discussion among international relief agencies offering food aid as to its exact definition. For example, in 1998, although a full-scale famine had developed in southern Sudan, a disproportionate amount of donor food resources went to the Kosovo War. This ambiguity about whether or not a famine is occurring, and the lack of commonly agreed upon criteria by which to differentiate food insecurity has prompted renewed interest in offering precise definitions. As different levels of food insecurity demand different types of response, there have been various methods of famine measurement proposed to help agencies determine the appropriate response.
1 Measurement methods
2 Livelihoods strategies
3 Nutrition levels
4 Combined intensity and magnitude scales
Measurement methods[edit]
A tension that has existed in all attempts to define a famine is between definitions of famine as an event and definitions as a process. In the first case, famine is defined (roughly) as the event of many people dying of starvation within a locality or region. In the second, famine is described as a chronology beginning with a disruption or disruptions that gradually leads to widespread death. However, these general definitions have little utility for those implementing food relief as "region", "widespread", etc. are undefined.
One of the earliest methods of measurement was the Indian Famine Codes developed by the colonial British in the 1880s. The Famine Codes defined three levels of food insecurity: near-scarcity, scarcity, and famine. "Scarcity" was defined as three successive years of crop failure, crop yields of one-third or one-half normal, and large populations in distress. "Famine" further included a rise in food prices above 140% of "normal", the movement of people in search of food, and widespread mortality. The Punjab Food Code stated, "Imminence of death is the sole criterion for declaration of famine.". Inherent in the Famine Codes was the assumption that famine was an event, and not a process.
The basic premise of the Famine Codes formed the basis of numerous subsequent early warning systems. One of the most efficacious is the Turkana District Early Warning System in northern Kenya in which indicators include rainfall levels, market prices of cereals, status of livestock, rangeland conditions and trends, and enrollment on food-for-work projects. The system identifies three levels of crisis: alarm, alert and emergency, each of which is linked to a planned response to mitigate the crisis and try to prevent a worsening of the situation.
International organizations responding to recent food crises created ad hoc measurements. In 2002, the World Food Programme created a number of "pre-famine indicators" for Ethiopia and combined it with measurements of nutrition levels to create recommendations. The Food Security Assessment Unit (FSAU) devised a system for Somalia with four levels: Non-alert (near normal), Alert (requires close attention), Livelihood Crisis (basic social structures under threat) and Humanitarian Emergency (threat of widespread mortality requiring immediate humanitarian assistance).
Livelihoods strategies[edit]
The FSAU system is one of several recent systems that draws a distinction between "saving lives" and "saving livelihoods". Older models concentrated simply on the mortality of famine victims. However, relief agencies gradually realized that the means by which families and individuals supported themselves were threatened first.
Previously famines had been perceived as a threat to individuals, even large numbers of individuals. Inherent in the livelihoods strategies outlook is the conception of famine as a social problem. Populations affected by increased food stress will try to cope through market structures (i.e. selling possessions for food) and reliance upon community and family support structures. It is only when such social structures collapse under the strain that individuals are faced with the malnutrition and starvation that has commonly been viewed as "famine".
During the 1980s and 1990s, studies of the process by which populations adapted to food stress as food security worsened received much attention. Four stages of the process were identified:
Reversible strategies, in response to 'normal' food stress, such as rationing food or diversifying income
Irreversible strategies in response to prolonged food stress, such as selling breeding livestock or mortgaging land, which trade short-term survival for long-term difficulty
The failure of internal coping methods and total dependence on external food aid
Severe malnutrition leading to weakened immune systems, illness and death, in the event of the failure of the first three levels of coping. Death caused directly by starvation forms a fraction of deaths in a famine.
Nutrition levels[edit]
Various nutrition benchmarks have been proposed as the cut-off points for food insecurity levels. The United Nations Refugee Nutrition Information System lists a number of such indicator cutoff points:
Freshly-dug graves for child victims of the 2011 East Africa drought, Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya
Wasting - defined as less than -2 standard deviations in body weight, usually for children between six and 59 months
5-10% = normal in African populations in non-drought conditions
Greater than 20% = "serious situation"
Greater than 40% = "severe crisis"
Oedema due to kwashiorkor (swollen belly) is always a "cause for concern"
Crude mortality rate (CMR), i.e. number of deaths per ten thousand people in a time span
1/10,000/day = "serious situation"
Greater than 2/10,000/day = "emergency out of control"
Under-five mortality rate (U5MR), i.e. number of deaths of children under five years of age within a time span
4/10,000/day = "emergency out of control"
The use of these cut-offs is contentious. Some argue that a crude mortality rate of one death per ten thousand people per day is already a full-scale emergency. Others note that while most indicators are focused on children, parents will often reduce their own food consumption in favor of their children. Child malnutrition may thus be a trailing indicator, indicating non-emergency levels even after adult malnutrition has reached crisis levels. It has also been noted that malnutrition is often not directly related to food availability; malnutrition is often the result of disease or poor child-care practices, even with adequate food availability.
Combined intensity and magnitude scales[edit]
In an influential paper published in 2004, Paul Howe and Stephen Devereux, both of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, set forth a measurement of famine with scales for both "intensity" and "magnitude", incorporating many of the developments of recent decades. The intensity scale is:
0 Food secure Crude Mortality Rate (CMR) < 0.2/10,000/day; and/or Wasting < 2.3% Cohesive social system; food prices stable; Coping strategies not utilized
1 Food insecure 0.2 ≤ CMR < 0.5/10,000/day; and/or 2.3% ≤ Wasting < 10% Cohesive social system; Food prices unstable; Seasonal shortages; Reversible coping strategies taken
2 Food crisis 0.5 ≤ CMR < 1/10,000/day; 10% ≤ Wasting < 20%; and/or prevalence of oedema Social system stressed but largely cohesive; Dramatic rise in food and basic items prices; Adaptive mechanisms begin to fail; Increase in irreversible coping strategies
3 Famine 1 ≤ CMR < 5/10,000/day; 20% ≤ Wasting < 40%; and/or
prevalence of oedema
Clear signs of social breakdown; markets begin to collapse; coping strategies exhausted and survival strategies (migration in search of help, abandonment of weaker members of the community) adopted; affected population identifies food scarcity as the major societal problem
4 Severe famine 5 ≤ CMR <15/10,000/day; Wasting ≥ 40%; and/or prevalence of oedema Widespread social breakdown; markets close; survival strategies widespread; affected population identifies food scarcity as the major societal problem
5 Extreme famine CMR ≥ 15/10,000/day Complete social breakdown; widespread mortality; affected population identifies food scarcity as the major societal problem
On the magnitude scale:
Mortality range
A Minor famine 0-999
B Moderate famine 1,000-9,999
C Major famine 10,000-99,999
D Great famine 100,000-999,999
E Catastrophic famine 1,000,000 and over
Using this framework, each famine would receive a Magnitude designation, but locations within the affected region would be classified at varying Intensities. The 1998 southern Sudan famine would be a C: Major Famine, with an intensity of 5: Extreme famine in Ajiep village ranging to 3: Famine in Rumbek town. In comparison, the 2000 Ethiopian famine in Gode district would be classified as a B: Moderate famine, and would thus should demand proportionally less of the limited resources available for famine relief.
While each organization working in famine-related areas has its own operational interpretation of specific indicators, the Howe-Devereaux framework has been widely adopted as a common framework by which famine warning and famine relief may be discussed worldwide, in particular in the use of the intensity scale. This has led organizations such as the World Food Programme to refrain from referring to the 2005 Niger food crisis as a famine, as indicators had not deteriorated into a Level 3: Famine.
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
Global Acute Malnutrition
Famine Intensity and Magnitude Scales: A Proposal for an Instrumental Definition of Famine, (PDF) Howe, P. and S. Devereux, Disasters, 2004, 28 (4): 353-372
Extract from "The Challenge of Famine", Osfood Field, J. Kumarian Press, Connecticut, 1993
Synthesis Report on the Famine Forum (PDF), USAID and OFDA, May 2004
How many dying babies make a famine?, BBC News, 10 August 2005 - an article examining how the "famine" label was mediated by politicians and media in the 2005 Niger food crisis
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TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Too few teenage boys at risk for HIV infection are tested for the AIDS-causing virus in the United States, researchers say.
And this contributes to the growing epidemic of undiagnosed HIV in the nation.
Close to 15% of HIV infections in the United States are undiagnosed, but the undiagnosed rate is more than 3.5 times higher (51%) among 13- to 24-year-olds, according to the study authors.
"Doctors -- pediatricians in particular -- need to be having more frank and open conversations with their male teenage patients," said study co-author Brian Mustanski. He's director of the Northwestern University School of Medicine Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing.
"If parents ask their teen's provider to talk about sexual health and testing, this may be enough to start that key dialogue in the exam room, leading to an HIV test," Mustanski said in a university news release.
These talks should include a detailed sexual history and a discussion about sexual orientation -- "ideally a private conversation without parents present," he added.
For the study, the investigators asked nearly 700 gay, bisexual and questioning male teenagers, aged 13 to 18, if they'd ever had an HIV test. The researchers also asked about their sexual behaviors and condom use, any HIV education from schools and family, sexual health discussions with doctors, HIV knowledge, and attitudes about prevention and risk.
Overall, fewer than one in four had ever had an HIV test. Only one-third of those who engaged in anal sex without a condom -- which carries a high risk of HIV transmission -- said they'd been tested, according to the report.
Barriers to HIV testing among this high-risk group of teen boys include being unaware that they can legally consent to an HIV test, not knowing where to get tested and fears of being outed, the study authors said.
Factors that increase the likelihood of testing include talking with parents about sex and HIV prevention, knowing basic facts about HIV, feeling that testing is important and feeling empowered to do it.
The study was published online Feb. 11 in the journal Pediatrics.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on HIV risk and prevention.
SOURCE: Northwestern University, news release, Feb. 11, 2020
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AHA News: With Symptoms Blamed on Stress, She Pressed On – and Learned the Truth
WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- A few years after her first child was born, Nina Stanley began experiencing strange blood pressure spikes.
While pregnant, she'd had preeclampsia, a condition characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine. She also had HELLP syndrome, a disorder of the liver and blood cells. But all those complications seemed to clear once she delivered her son.
She still had a blood pressure monitor from her pregnancy, so she periodically checked her numbers. She kept a journal in hopes of identifying what could be triggering the spikes. She changed her diet. But she couldn't find a pattern.
Then came her second pregnancy, and with it the similar complications, with symptoms subsiding after her daughter's birth.
But seven years ago when that daughter was 4, Stanley's blood pressure again started to spike and then return to normal. The spikes were happening more frequently and accompanied by headaches and a few common heart attack symptoms: chest pain, shortness of breath, pain in her jaw and left arm.
For five years, she went to the hospital and underwent tests when symptoms occurred. Each time she was told it was not a heart attack and sent home.
Finally, a catheterization procedure revealed Stanley had an undiagnosed congenital heart defect called a myocardial bridge, which is when a section of the coronary artery tunnels into the heart muscle instead of outside of it. But doctors said her myocardial bridges weren't to blame for the heart attack-like symptoms.
Stanley was put on medication and told to track her blood pressure readings. Then came a new problem. Her blood pressure fell too low.
"I had one cardiologist tell me I was an overstressed woman and should quit my job," she said.
After pushing for more answers, Stanley underwent a new test. It showed that when her blood pressure spiked, her myocardial bridge compressed, impairing blood flow to her heart by 50%. Still, a doctor said that wasn't the cause of her symptoms.
"But I refused to believe it," she said.
Stanley's health struggles were taking a toll. While she once got up early to exercise five to six times a week, now she could barely manage demands of work and kids.
"I was always feeling sick and in bed," she said.
Her husband, John Stanley, said it was frustrating to see her struggle.
"50% of Nina is like 200% of anyone else, but that super vibrant person was starting to diminish," he said. "She would work and that would be it. She would have no energy left."
An intensive study for answers – including weeding through medical journals – ultimately led her to consult a specialist in small vessels. However, she lived in Philadelphia and the doctor was in Los Angeles.
She made the trip. After three days of testing, Stanley learned the microvessels branching off her main cardiac arteries had been damaged while she had preeclampsia and were undergoing spasms that prevented her from getting adequate blood flow. Testing also showed those spasms were occurring in her myocardial bridge, too, causing the section of artery to kink inside the heart muscle when under stress, an action that also damaged the heart muscle.
"I finally felt like I wasn't crazy," Stanley said.
She underwent open-heart surgery in August 2017 to "unroof" her myocardial bridge, moving it outside the heart muscle so it would no longer get squeezed shut.
"I went from doctors telling me I didn't have a cardiac issue to open-heart surgery a few months later," Stanley said.
She continues to recover, a process her doctor said could last until August 2022. Meanwhile, her husband has become more devoted to his health, losing 30 pounds through improved diet and more exercise.
That's one of the messages she likes to share, encouraging people to advocate for their health and seek specialists if necessary.
"Ask questions and do your research," she said. "Ask your doctor if there are any other opinions they are soliciting from other specialists or if they have presented your case to the medical board."
Building trust with your health provider also is important, Stanley said.
"If you feel dismissed, or rushed, or that your doctor isn't listening to you, find another doctor," she said. "Nobody knows your body like you and if you really feel something is wrong, don't give up looking for answers."
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MONDAY, June 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An inhaled version of the antiviral drug remdesivir will soon be tested outside a hospital setting, Gilead Sciences announced Monday.
Remdesivir, which is made by Gilead, is now being used to treat COVID-19 patients worldwide. Currently, the drug has to be given intravenously through daily infusions in the hospital.
"An inhaled formulation would be given through a nebulizer, which could potentially allow for easier administration outside the hospital, at earlier stages of disease," Gilead chairman and CEO Daniel O'Day said in a company news release.
"That could have significant implications in helping to stem the tide of the pandemic," he added.
Screening will start this week for healthy volunteers to take part in Phase 1 trials of inhaled remdesivir and the trials should start in August, the company said.
"As part of our next wave of clinical development, we will study remdesivir in treating earlier in the disease, in combination with other therapies and in additional patient groups," O'Day explained.
Other clinical trials of intravenous remdesivir have assessed its safety and efficacy in hospitalized patients. A U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) study found that the drug shortened recovery time by an average of four days, and a study of moderately ill patients (hospitalized but not requiring oxygen) found that those who received five days of treatment with remdesivir had better outcomes than those who received standard care.
The NIAID data also showed that remdesivir was most effective in patients who did not yet require medical ventilation, supporting further study of the drug in patients earlier in the disease, according to O'Day.
The inhaled version is one way of assessing the use of remdesivir in the earlier stages of COVID-19.
"We will also conduct trials using intravenous infusions in outpatient settings such as infusion centers and nursing homes. For patients who are at high risk of disease progression, it could be particularly beneficial to start treatment outside the hospital," O'Day said.
"Our hope is that earlier intervention could help patients avoid hospitalization altogether," O'Day said. "Based on our knowledge of the disease so far, it seems that in the earlier stages of COVID-19, the virus itself is the primary driver of illness."
He noted that in the later stages of the disease, "the body's inflammatory response may cause some of the most life-threatening aspects of the disease," he said. "It is important, therefore, to have tools that can work together to fight both aspects of the disease: an antiviral to target the virus itself and another therapy to tackle the inflammatory response."
In the coming months, results are expected from trials of remdesivir with two immune system modulators, the JAK inhibitor baricitinib and the IL-6 receptor antagonist tocilizumab.
"Last week's news on dexamethasone appears to further support the study of complementary approaches for treating COVID-19. Dexamethasone is a steroid that potentially reduces the body's inflammatory response to the virus. In addition to extending our focus to earlier treatment and combinations, our next wave of studies of remdesivir will include vulnerable patient populations," O'Day said.
Last week, Gilead announced a clinical trial for children that will include about 50 newborns to teens hospitalized with COVID-19, and the company is also collaborating with a partner on a study in pregnant women.
O'Day said the company is working on ensuring sufficient supplies of remdesivir.
"We now expect to have more than 2 million remdesivir treatment courses manufactured by the end of the year and many millions more by 2021. Our scientists will stay focused on optimizing the manufacturing process, and we will continue to collaborate globally to ensure sufficient worldwide supply. We donated our entire existing supplies of remdesivir through June," he said.
SOURCE: Gilead Sciences, news release, June 22, 2020
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Jerome (Drew County)
33°23’58″N 091°28’12″W
0.168 square miles (2010 Census)
39 (2010 Census)
Historical Population as per the U.S. Census:
The town of Jerome is located in southeastern Drew County, although its residents are more tied to Dermott (Chicot County) than to any city in Drew County. The location of a Japanese American relocation camp during World War II, the town of Jerome has been a transportation crossroads for most of its history.
Jerome is located near Bayou Bartholomew, which was the main route used by travelers during the territorial time of Arkansas. In 1835, Moses Upshard Payne of New Orleans, Louisiana, purchased several tracts of land near the bayou as an investment; some cotton was grown on the clearer patches of land, but much of the land was swampland filled with hardwood trees. The land was frequently rented or sold during the remaining years of the nineteenth century with little development taking place. In 1886, J. M. Waddell of New Orleans, along with at least two partners, acquired an interest in the land, and the group of investors conveyed a right-of-way for a railroad line to E. P. Reynolds & Company in 1890; the company was building a rail line for the Houston, Central Arkansas and Northern Railroad Company. (The rail line through Jerome would eventually become part of the Missouri Pacific system, which later was folded into the Union Pacific Railroad.) In 1900, interest in the land was acquired by the Chicot Lumber Company of Chicago, Illinois, which sold the same interest in 1905 to Aaron P. Bliss, who began the Bliss-Cook Oak Company at that time.
A sawmill town was established where the railroad tracks met the bayou; the town, first called Blissville, was incorporated in 1908. At that time, the town consisted of twenty-five men living on 260 acres. Herman Moehler, the secretary of the company, owned the sawmill in the town and began to refer to the company as the Jerome Hardwood Lumber Company, in honor of his son, Jerome Moehler. In 1919, Moehler officially incorporated the company under the name he had chosen, and the next year the town also reincorporated as Jerome, though its incorporation would later lapse.
During the 1920s, Jerome prospered. It had a movie theater, a pharmacy with a soda fountain, three doctor’s offices, hotels (including at least one hotel for African-American clients), and a school; the school consisted of several buildings, including a gymnasium, an auditorium, a cafeteria, and a home economics building. The sawmill burned in 1927 and was not replaced, but the planing mill continued to operate until about 1930. John Currie of Montrose (Ashley County) managed the general store until 1937. That year, the company sold the land and the buildings of Jerome to Sam Wilson of Montrose.
Two years later, Wilson sold this property to the U.S. government for $100,000. The government received 3,508 acres of land, all the houses in Jerome, a cotton gin, a general store, sixty-five mules, and three tractors. Under the guidance of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA), Jerome became a resettlement colony, populated by thirty-six families who were moved from the Sunnyside Plantation Settlement near Lake Village (Chicot County).
A different group of Americans was resettled into the Jerome area after the United States entered World War II. Japanese-American citizens were removed from their homes in the western states of California, Oregon, and Washington and resettled inland based on fears that these Americans might cooperate with the government of Japan during the course of the war. Of the ten relocation camps built on government land, two were in Arkansas: one near Rohwer (Desha County) and the other near Jerome. The Jerome Relocation Center operated from October 6, 1942, to June 30, 1944; it was the last of the ten camps to open and the first to close. It was built by the A. J. Rife Construction Company of Dallas, Texas, at a cost of $4,703,347 and covered more than 10,000 acres between the Big and Crooked bayous near Jerome. The population of the camp reached 7,932 by January 1943 and eventually totaled 8,497. After the Japanese-American occupants were sent to other camps in June 1944, the same structures were used for German prisoners of war until the end of the war in 1945. Little remains of the camp, though a monument marks the location.
After the war, the government began selling the land it had acquired before the war, and the town of Jerome was purchased by John Baxter, who then sold the land to Charles Clifford Gibson Sr. Gibson and his son used the town as a headquarters for their extensive farming operations, running both the general store and the cotton gin. The Jerome School District was consolidated with that of Dermott in 1950, and the main school building was moved to Dermott, where it was used exclusively for black students until the end of segregation. In 1954, the Alice-Sidney Dryer and Seed Company built a large drying plant along the railroad tracks in Jerome. The dryer has a storage capacity of 267,000 bushels of grain and can dry 2,000 bushels of grain an hour.
Incorporation of the town was allowed to lapse for some years, but the town of Jerome reincorporated in 1965. The remaining buildings of the school were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. In the twenty-first century, the dryer remains the principal structure in Jerome and the largest employer in the area.
Cofer, Brian. “Residents’ Sweat, Arm-Twisting Help Tiny Towns Survive.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 1, 1998, p. 1B.
DeArmond-Huskey, Rebecca. Bartholomew’s Song: A Bayou History. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2001.
Gibson, C. C., III “Jerome, Arkansas: Some Personal Recollections and a Brief History.” Drew County Historical Journal 18 (2003): 24–33.
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James R. Gaddis
James R. Gaddis (1940 - )
Jim Gaddis ranks among the few skiers in the Intermountain Area who earned elite status on and off the competitive scene. His skiing prowess won him Intermountain Division Ski Racer of the Year honors in 1957, 1958, 1962 and 1963. In 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1963 he was the division’s slalom, downhill and giant slalom champion. He was co-captain of the University of Utah ski team in 1959, 1960 and 1962 and was named to the NCAA All-American Ski Team in 1960 and 1962. He won the NCAA Alpine Combined title in 1960 and 1962.
In 1962 he also won the NCAA slalom, the U.S. Giant Slalom Championships and the Snow Cup, repeating as Snow Cup winner in 1963 and 1964. In 1964 he founded one of Utah’s first racing programs for the development of junior racers that evolved into the touted Gaddis Training Organization (GTO) which later became the Park City Racing Team. He was coach of the Intermountain Division Junior National Ski Team from 1970-1976 and guest coach for the U.S. Ski Team Training Camps. Jim certified as a ski instructor in 1964 and was a member of the PSIA-Intermountain.
Jim volunteered his time and talents to numerous ski-related organizations, including chairing the U.S. Ski Team Ski Ball, the Jimmie Huega Snow Express for MS and the Alpine Site Selection Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. He also served on the boards of the National Abilities Center, the Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation, the Intermountain Division – USSA, the Coaches Association of ID-USSA and the Snowbird Ski Team. Jim founded and served on the boards of the Utah Ski Racers Foundation, the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library’s Ski Archives and the Youth Winter Sports Alliance.
He was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame and the University of Utah Crimson Club Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
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National-level hockey player, friend shot dead in Punjab
Chandigarh: A national-level hockey player and his friend were shot dead by their colleague in Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's hometown in Patiala on Wednesday night over a petty issue.
The victims, who have been identified as Amrik Singh and Simranjit Singh Happy, were employed with Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd.
The police said the duo had an altercation with a person named Manoj Kumar and his son at an eatery. They beat up the father-son duo.
Later, Manoj went to his home to bring his double-barrelled rifle and allegedly fired at Amrik and Simranjit. Both Amrik and Simranjit died on the spot.
A case has been registered under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Latino Studies
Concurrent Faculty, Gender Studies Program
Specialties: Chicanx Literature, African American Literature, American Literatures, Postcolonial Literature
Degrees: BA, Washington University in St. Louis; MA, PhD, Princeton University
My name is Dr. Francisco E. Robles, and I teach and research in American Literatures of the twentieth century, focusing in particular on Multi-Ethnic American Literature.
My current book project, Migrant Modes: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury U.S. Multiethnic Writing, examines literary and musical representations of migrants in the United States, spanning from the 1930s into the 1980s. I assert that the aesthetic and political legacies of the Popular Front transform into the Progressive Party’s coalitional post-war platform, which in turn shifts with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which has its own resonance and legacy in the 1970s. Insisting on this continuity, I trace a distinctive genealogy of coalitional aesthetics that has not yet received literary theoretical or historical treatment. Some of the texts I look at in Migrant Modes are by Zora Neale Hurston, Muriel Rukeyser, Sanora Babb, Carlos Bulosan, Woody Guthrie, Américo Paredes, Tomás Rivera, Los Lobos, Alice Walker, Odetta, and the authors included in This Bridge Called My Back. I am also a co-convener of the Desert Futures Collective: https://desertfutures.yale.edu/.
“Transformation and Generation: Preliminary Notes on Reading the Poetics of the Memphis Sanitation Strike.” Post45: Peer Reviewed Issue 5, Part 1 (Fall 2020), “Formalism Now.” <http://post45.org/2020/12/robles-transformation-and-generation>
“Unsettling Monuments of Chicanx Masculinity in Estela Portillo Trambley’s ‘Rain of Scorpions.’” In Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities, ed. Frederick Luis Aldama and Arturo Aldama. University of Arizona Press (August 2020), Pages 228-247: <https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/decolonizing-latinx-masculinities>
“Jean Toomer’s Cane and the Borderlands of Encounter and Contradiction.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Volume 45, Issue 1 (Spring 2020), Pages 27–48: <https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz064>
“Lamentation, Remembrance, the Body.” Post45: Contemporaries (January 2020). <https://post45.org/2020/01/lamentation-remembrance-the-body/>
“Introduction: The Body of Contemporary Latina/o/x Poetry.” With William Orchard. Post45: Contemporaries (January 2020). <https://post45.org/2020/01/the-body-of-contemporary-latina-o-x-poetry/>
“Lamentations.” Killing the Buddha (Summer 2019): <http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/lamentations>
“Illuminating Narratives of and by the Undocumented: A Review of Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper, by Marta Caminero-Santangelo.” Small Axe: SX Salon 29, Fall 2018: <http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/reviews/illuminating-narratives-and-undocumented>
“Review of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture, by Raúl Coronado.” New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 92 Issue 4, Fall 2017: 498-499.
Forthcoming Work:
“Communal Imagination and the Problem of Allegory in Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra.” Twentieth-Century Literature. Forthcoming.
“Lydia Mendoza’s Moving Homelands.” Latino Studies. Forthcoming.
“Afrofuturism: Heuristic or Historical Descriptor? And Some Thoughts on Phillis Wheatley.” In Justice in Time: Critical Afrofuturism and the Struggle for Black Freedom, ed. Elizabeth Reich and Ryan Kernan. University of Minnesota Press. Under contract.
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Nepal reports 4,364 fresh cases in highest single-day spike
8 October 2020, Kathmandu
The country recorded a total of 4,364 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours in a record high single-day spike.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, with the recent data, the total number of active cases reached 98,617 in the country as of Thursday afternoon.
Ministry’s Spokesperson Dr. Jageshwor said that altogether 18,473 sample tests were conducted across the country in the past 24 hours.
According to Dr. Gautam, 2,675 individuals got discharged from the hospitals in the past 24 hours while the number of people winning the battle against the virus reached 71,343 in the country.
Nepal’s recovery rate stands at 72.3 percent, he added.
Nepal currently has 26,684 active cases, he said.
Dr. Gautam stated that a total of 11,717 people are in institutional isolation and 14,967 others are in home isolation facilities.
Likewise, 4,460 people are in quarantine facilities across the country at present.
Similarly, he said that 235 infected ones are receiving treatment in ICU beds and 42 others are on ventilators across the country.
Likewise, 12 people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours taking the tally of coronavirus caused deaths in the country to 590, the Ministry confirmed.
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Arrow Electronics Names Sean J. Kerins Chief Operating Officer
— Kristin D. Russell Named President, Global Enterprise Computing Solutions —
CENTENNIAL, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) announced that Sean J. Kerins has been named the company’s chief operating officer. He will continue to report to Michael J. Long, chairman, president, and chief executive officer.
Previously, Mr. Kerins served as president of Arrow’s global enterprise computing solutions business since 2014. Prior to that, he was president of the North American region for the enterprise computing solutions business since 2010 and was vice president of storage and networking since 2007. Prior to joining Arrow, Mr. Kerins spent ten years at EMC in sales, marketing, and professional services roles around the world. Earlier in his career, he held progressively senior roles at Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, and served as an industrial engineer with General Motors.
Mr. Kerins holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Syracuse University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
“Sean’s leadership and proven track record at Arrow make him the ideal executive to advance innovation across our global sales, marketing, and operations,” said Mr. Long. “Our commitment to succession planning provides continuity and certainty to our customers and suppliers.”
Kristin D. Russell succeeds Mr. Kerins as president of global enterprise computing solutions. Ms. Russell previously served as president of Arrow’s global services business since 2016. Prior to joining Arrow, Ms. Russell spent two years as managing director for public and private sectors at Deloitte Consulting and, from 2011 to 2014, served as secretary of technology and chief information officer for the State of Colorado. Earlier in her career, she held progressively senior roles at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Ms. Russell holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from the University of Colorado.
“Kristin’s leadership and extensive industry experience will serve the company well as she succeeds Sean in leading our global enterprise computing solutions business,” Mr. Long said.
Ms. Russell and David A. West, president, global components, will report to Mr. Kerins.
Arrow Electronics guides innovation forward for over 175,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2019 sales of $29 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life. Learn more at fiveyearsout.com.
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Josh Ritter, Union Chapel, London live review
The Americana singer-songwriter played the second of two sold-out shows at the London venue last night.
Credit: Laura Wilson
Originally from Idaho, Josh Ritter recorded his self-titled debut album at the age of just 21. Since then he’s gone on to be one of the most popular and respected Americana artists around, including being named among the 100 Greatest Living Songwriters by Paste Magazine. He released his tenth album, Fever Breaks – produced by Jason Isbell – this April and is currently out on tour across the UK in support of the record, including two shows at London’s Union Chapel.
Ritter arrived on stage around 8.45 with his four-piece band to huge cheers for the audience. After thanking them for coming out, he promised ‘we’re gonna have an amazing night’ before launching into the dreamlike Idaho, from his 2006 album The Animal Years. The stripped back approach to the song put the emphasis firmly on his distinctive vocals and the vivid imagery of the lyrics, and he showed off some impressive long notes which were delivered effortlessly. The crowd burst into cheers as the song drew to a close and it was clear we were in for a very special evening.
Throughout the set Ritter drew on songs from across his career, showing off the range of styles and influences in his music. From the driving small town life tale Me & Jiggs with its classic rock sound and quick delivery, to the folk-influenced intro of On The Water, bluesy vibes of Losing Battle and the rollicking, jangly Ground Don’t Want Me, he displayed great versatility and fantastic musicianship throughout. As a relatively new listener it was a great introduction to his sound, and judging from the crowd’s reactions – many of whom could be seen swaying in their seats and tapping their toes throughout – there were plenty of old favourites in there alongside songs from the new record.
Ritter is known for his skill as a storyteller, and that was definitely on show last night. The atmospheric Henrietta, Indiana told the tale of a small town family wrecked by alcoholism, with Ritter’s rapid-fire delivery taking on an edge of menace against the clipped guitar, whilst the dark, unsettling Torch Committee was given weight by his great control throughout. Meanwhile, Blazing Highway Home highlighted Ritter’s ability to capture emotions, and new song The Gospel Of Mary provided a moving yet powerful commentary on the refugee crisis. Ritter has a real skill in crafting characters so vivid that they leap out of the songs, and it’s not hard to see why he’s received so much acclaim as a songwriter.
That said, there was also plenty of fun to be had too, with the joyful Thunderbolt’s Goodnight giving Ritter a chance to show off his guitar-playing skills, the pounding piano-led Homecoming getting the crowd clapping along, and the pounding Lantern seeing him leap about the stage and jam with his bandmates. It’s a cliche to say that musicians love being on stage, but with Ritter you really feel that he completely comes alive up there and it makes for a really compelling performance. He also came across as incredibly warm and witty, cracking jokes when things went wrong and encouraging the audience to be kinder to each other in dark times.
For me the highlight of the show was the acoustic section midway through, featuring Ritter and bass player Zach. They opened with Annabelle Lee, a mournful, subdued tale of a sunken ship and its adventurous captain. Ritter’s soft vocals and the song’s narrative completely drew you in and you could genuinely have heard a pin drop in the room, before the crowd erupted into cheers and applause. He followed that with a lively rendition of Joy To You Baby which had a lovely sense of brightness and was impossible not to feel uplifted by. I also loved the moment when all five members crammed into the Union Chapel pulpit to perform When Will I Be Changed, which really added to the spiritual feel of the song and showed off how well their voices blend together. The light, playful Old Old Fashioned was another high point, crammed full of lovely little details and with a lovely sense of comfort about it.
Ritter closed the main part of his set with a passionate performance of Getting Ready To Get Down. The upbeat, lively song had a really celebratory feel to it and it was great to see both Ritter and the audience getting into it and feeding off each other’s energy. It was so much fun to watch and he was rewarded with the first standing ovation of the evening from the crowd. He followed that with The Curse, a delicate, meandering song with a waltz melody and a fairytale narrative that was full of twists and turns and had an absolutely heartbreaking ending. For me the two songs showed off both sides of his sound really well and perfectly summed up the show as a whole.
After thanking the crowd for an ‘amazing night’, Ritter and his band briefly left the stage before he returned to perform a solo acoustic version of All Some Kind Of Dream, from his current album. I loved the upbeat feel of the song, which provided a great contrast to the fiery lyrics and their commentary on the current political situation in the US. It was a really inspiring and hopeful note to end the set on and the crowd responded by giving him yet another standing ovation. He clearly really loves playing for the UK audience and the feeling is definitely mutual.
Overall Josh Ritter delivered a jam-packed set that covered a huge range of musical styles and was full of fun and energy as well as brilliant storytelling and characters. He showed his skill as a lyricist and musician – as well as that of his band – throughout, and produced an absolutely fantastic performance to boot. It was a really enjoyable evening that had me laughing, smiling and crying and one of my favourite live performances of the year so far. If you ever get the chance to see him live, grab it with both hands; I promise you won’t regret it!
Set list: 1. Idaho 2. Me And Jiggs 3. On The Water 4. Ground Don’t Want Me 5. Henrietta, Indiana 6. Thunderbolt’s Goodnight 7. Torch Committee 8. Lantern 9. Annabelle Lee 10. Joy To You Baby 11. The Gospel Of Mary 12. Girl In The War 13. Homecoming 14. When Will I Be Changed 15. Old Old Fashioned 16. Oh Lord, Pt. 3 17. Blazing Highway Home 18. Losing Battle 19. Getting Ready To Get Down 20. The Curse 21. All Some Kind Of Dream Performance date: 23rd July 2019
See Josh Ritter on tour in the UK and Ireland this July:
Wednesday 24 July – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Thursday 25 July – Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Saturday 27 July – National Concert Hall, Dublin
Sunday 28 July – National Concert Hall, Dublin
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The Donbas Conflict and the Future of Armoured Warfare
More than six years since the beginning of the war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – and after what is in excess of 13,000 deaths on both sides – it is possible to come to some conclusions about the Russian advantages in the conflict. While the fighting has not proceeded along the lines of what is normally thought of as a conventional military operation, what falls out of the years of this war, which is often kept at a low boil so as to not prompt the entrance of other nations into the fight, are some distinct indicators of how the Russians are preparing for future engagements.
First of all, there is truth in the observation that Russia has been sending its personnel into the Donbas almost as a kind of an initial training ground before they are then deployed elsewhere. Often those personnel are then sent on into Syria for additional combat experience. This has created the false impression that there is some common, “cookie cutter” model of operations that the Russian military is engaged in being practised in parallel in both conflicts.
A road to Artemivsk littered with Ukrainian tanks and vehicles just outside of Debaltseve, Ukraine (Photo: AP/ Vadim Ghirda.)
On the contrary, the Russian operations in Ukraine and Syria – as well as other operations in previous conflicts like the invasion of Georgia – show that Moscow’s military prosecutes conflicts under distinctly different sets of objectives and divergent approaches.
Therefore, it is not a valid approach to be looking for an A to Z textbook that one can expect Russian military units to follow – a kind of template that they would utilise in any given conflict. It is also equally inaccurate to project that current-day Russian warfare would be based on the doctrinal approaches that dominated military thinking during the Soviet period.
There is an argument to be made that the most recent conflicts have featured a substantial increase in the use of non-kinetic methodologies and what have been referred to as “hybrid” approaches to overcoming an adversary, but these again cannot be codified into a pre-programmed set of options that are always brought to bear.
Supporting Moscow’s Narrative
The primary driver for the campaign in the Donbas not to follow any pre-programmed Russian operations plan was a set of political considerations. These were issues that supersede normal battlefield imperatives that dictate combat units being committed in the most effective or expeditious manner. Bringing Russian military power into the fight, in this case, has other imperatives besides the goal of achieving a set of military objectives.
Moscow’s initial narrative was that the outbreak of hostilities were solely the product of a pro-Russian separatist movement in which there was no Russian involvement – and that President Vladimir Putin’s “Little Green Men” did not even exist. In the initial phases of the conflict this called for a minimal and at times even obscured Russian presence on the battlefield. Instead, the plan called for handing over large quantities of weapons platforms delivered from Russia into the separatists’ hands.
The almost overnight acquisition of such a considerable fleet of military equipment was “officially” explained by Moscow initially as the spoils of war in a rather feeble attempt to once again hide Russia’s intervention in the conflict. This narrative was that these vehicles fell into separatist hands after a force of these pro-Russian units successfully attacked and overran a Ukrainian military armoured vehicle base in Artemivsk. This Ukrainian installation contained almost 800 types of different armoured vehicles, including an estimated 250 tanks, but most of these were in the process of being refurbished and were not ready for combat.
Despite the reality that obtaining any significant quantity of useable armour that could be deployed in battle from what is essentially a repair and maintenance base is impossible, the truth is that the separatist formations had not actually even taken the base from the Ukrainian military. During the spring and on into the summer 2014, separatist units tried to take over this installation in five different assaults and were unsuccessful on each attempt.
The source of the separatist armoured force has instead come across the border in one long column of Russian military equipment after another. These vehicles, which had their identification markings and traditional vehicle numbering removed in an attempt to mask their origins, made regular transfers of ownership across into Ukraine at border crossings where Russian units control these movements.
The volume of equipment and frequency of these crossings has been such that mass transport of such an amount of equipment and weapons can neither be camouflaged nor concealed. Attempts to move them in smaller numbers or engage in any other subterfuge would disrupt the armaments supply tempo for the separatist groups fighting on behalf of the Russian Federation. This battlefield imperative has revealed that Russian-origin vehicles constitute the majority of the materiel being deployed against the Ukrainian military.
Origin of Artillery Attacks on Ukrainian Military Positions in Eastern Ukraine. This war has continued since 2014 with minimal apparent Western engagement. (Graphic: NSDC Ukraine)
Russian Armour: How It Is Being Supplied
Re-supply of armoured units with new platforms was observed in August 2018 by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operated by the OSCE Observer Mission, which reported sighting two such columns in the occupied regions of the Donbas. One of these columns entered Ukraine in Manych, 70 kilometres from the regional capital of Donetsk, and a second column was moving in the opposite direction and crossed back over into Russia.
These sightings by the OSCE confirmed three realities that the Ukrainian military had long been trying to make the international community recognise.
One is the simple fact that the some of the latest and most effective weaponry in the Russian arsenal has been supplied by Russia. Moreover, the commander of the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas has stated that these crossings are taking place “constantly” and that these columns of armour and heavy-laden lorries are the tell-tale signs of a Russian incursion.
(Ukraine has informed the international community about these crossing on numerous occasions but has not been able to gain official recognition from certain states that this activity is taking place until the OSCE sighted these transfers. Confirmation by the OSCE was considered to be a major step in receiving official recognition of this activity.)
A second issue is that the separatists operating these vehicles had to have been extensively trained by the Russians. A Colonel in command of the Ukrainian 93rd Brigade stated “yesterday’s miners can’t just find a tank in their mines and instantly learn how to drive it without special training.” Many of the locals from the separatist units are former coal miners, which is one of the primary industries in the Donbas, and they continue to receive Russian training.
Finally, while personnel being trained by the Russians have learned how to operate Russian armoured vehicles, there apparently has been no parallel activity to train them in maintaining them.
Ukraine’s intelligence service has reported that since the beginning of 2018, more than 40 armoured fighting vehicles have been delivered to Ukrainian separatists as replacements for broken down hardware. The movement of columns out of Ukraine and back into Russia is for disabled vehicles that require maintenance or other servicing – which could not be repaired on the territory of the occupied territories in the Donbas.
Former NATO intelligence officers who spoke to ESD stated that Russian intervention in the Donbas was not well thought through. This can be seen first of all by the “poor performance of the units in battle and their very low levels of leadership and discipline.”
The other failure, as noted above, was the lack of preparation of the separatists in maintaining the equipment being supplied to them by Moscow.
In the very beginning in 2014, said one former defence attaché who was deployed in the region, “the logistics for these armoured vehicles were dire at best. You would see tanks and IFVs supplied by the Russians – but then no servicing vehicles at all coming up with them. Supporting infantry and other personnel would be trailing along behind them in regular civilian vehicles – private automobiles and ordinary delivery vans. So, the first time there was a need for any serious servicing of these vehicles it was time to drag them back across the border to Russia.”
Russian Units in The Donbas
The Ukrainian “statelets,” as they are known, that Moscow has established in the Donbas are the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR), the two regional capital cities of eastern Ukraine. Multiple analysts looking at the current military situation say that the continuous traffic of military hardware being shipped out of Russia into these occupied zones has created significant armoured formations in both “republics.”.
According to Ukrainian intelligence reports, these pro-Russian enclaves now have in their arsenal 475 tanks, about 1000 armoured fighting vehicles, over 700 artillery systems and more than 200 multiple launch rocket systems. These platforms are almost entirely Soviet/Russian-design equipment which were passed to these “military corps” of DNR and LPR groupings from bases in Russia.
But while the separatist formations in Ukraine now feature a high-profile presence of Russian military hardware there has still been a considerable effort to minimise the presence of actual Russian military personnel.
Russian forces have also been equipped with progressively more advanced air defence systems and some of the most advanced electronic warfare equipment in Moscow’s arsenal. Both of these assets were put in place as force protection to keep the Ukrainian air force from being able to strike Russian regular military units, many of which are composed of “contract soldiers” – those serving under agreements for pay scales comparable to the private sector, rather than units of conscripts.
In large measure, Russian regular formations were only used in combat against major Ukrainian-held objectives and supported by main battle tanks and IFVs and equipped with modern, encrypted communications systems and reconnaissance drones.
EW: What Gives Russian Armour the Edge in the Donbas
Ukrainian soldiers from the 25th airborne brigade on the outskirts of Marinka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. (Photo: AP/ Evgeniy Maloletka.)
Ukrainian units and intelligence services have sighted and verified the use of 44 different kinds of weapons being employed in the Donbas – all of which could only have come from the territory of the Russian Federation as they were never in the Ukrainian inventory.
These range from trucks and tanks, to more advanced systems that are the latest iterations of post-Soviet-era designs. For example: the PANTSIR-S1 air defence system – an anti-aircraft platform armed with two paired 30 mm cannons, which was accepted into service into the Russian armed forces only in 2012: Ukraine has never acquired this weapon system. In the same category is the T-72B3 tank, which is the main battle tank of the Russian army for those units not yet upgraded to the T-90. It differs from other tanks of similar configuration in that it has a new fire control system fitted with a Belarusian SOSNA-U gunsight. Introduced in Russia in 2011, it was never delivered to Ukraine. Use by the Russians of this tank in the Donbas was confirmed when one of them was captured in Ilovaisk by Ukrainian troops.
Another armoured system used in the Donbas is the BPM-97, which is also a Russian-only armoured 4 x 4 MRAP vehicle, with some specific features that differentiate it from other platforms of its kind. It exists in several configurations, some of them used by special forces of the Russian Federation since 2009, but has never been delivered to Ukraine in any military configuration. The well-known mercenary corporation ChVK (Частная Военная Компания) or the private military company the Wagner Group, has used the vehicle, which was originally designed for the Border Guards Service in Russia due to its smaller size and manoeuvrability. Wagner Group took certain measures to obscure their employment of the BPM-97 in Ukraine during the battle for Debaltseve. (The mercenary company also made use of the BPM-97 during their operations in Syria.)
But it is not just having these more advanced platforms that gives the Russians and their surrogates the edge over Ukrainian armed forces in the Donbas. At the beginning of the conflict, the Ukrainian military found itself at an disadvantage due to the advanced reactive armour technology and active anti-ATGM protection fitted to Russian vehicles. In the early phases of the Donbas war Ukraine’s military had no anti-tank missiles with a tandem warhead that could penetrate the armour plating of the T-90 and advanced T-72 models.
This vulnerability was eliminated when units in the Donbas began receiving the first new-design SKIF ATGM from the Luch Design Bureau in Kiev. Ukraine had also requested that it be permitted to acquire the US-made Raytheon FGM-148 JAVELIN ATGM, but the purchase was blocked on multiple occasions by the Obama White House. After the Trump Administration took office in January 2017 this policy was reversed and in 2018 Ukraine’s military was given the option to procure the missile.
In the meantime, the effective use of armour by the Russians in the Donbas has been augmented by the expanding commitment of some of their most modern electronic warfare (EW) systems. Confirmed in numerous reports by both Ukraine’s intelligence services and the OSCE Monitoring Mission, Moscow has equipped separatist units from Donbas with the KRASUKHA-2 1L269 jammer, the Bylina RB-109A REPELLENT-1 and the LEYER-3 RB-3418.
These are some of the latest Russian EW systems and they only began to be deployed with combat units after 2010. As with the advanced armoured vehicles discussed above they have never been possessed by the Ukrainian army. The RB-3418 has also been used in the field in Donbas operations in conjunction with the Russian-made ORLAN-10 UAV, which has a considerable loiter capability of up 16 hours and operates at distances in excess of 100 km.
Aside from being able to use the considerable Russian EW assets to essentially blind the Ukrainian military’s sensors and constantly disrupt their situational awareness, the ORLAN-10 allows separatist units to pinpoint the location of Ukraine units, which accounts for the increasing lethality of Russian artillery and rocket attacks.
A Frozen Conflict
More than a year ago, a senior political leader in the Donbas gave an assessment of the conflict in the more recent past, stating “when the first casualties started, nobody believed it would last so long. The worst thing is, that people have gotten used to the conflict … for instance, they can tell by the sound of flying objects what kind of weapon it is and even its calibre. Everybody’s pretty tired of this. People who live along the contact line don’t care who’s president [of Ukraine], they just want the war to stop,” he said.
Two elements keep the fight at a stalemate in which one side cannot displace the other. One is that while the commitment of armour makes a difference – in both numbers and the modernity of the tanks themselves – it is not enough by itself. American advocates of heavy armour forces have analysed the loss by the Ukrainians at the battle of Debaltseve as validation that “tanks still matter.”
But the Debaltseve fight shows once again that while combat vehicles must have the combat potential needed in the present day, armour still has to be integrated effectively with infantry, and artillery into a combined arms order of battle. Both sides have been learning these lessons, but Ukraine still lacks the numbers of personnel and equipment in sufficient numbers to be able to re-take the entirety of the Donbas.
At the same time, the separatist formations suffer from what could be called the lack of a legitimate motivation to prosecute the war. The separatists are not fighting for their own nation, but instead for the interests of Moscow. Russian military units support them and at times do all of the heavy lifting for them, but they will not and cannot fight the entire conflict for them.
Lt. Gen Sergei Nayev, the Ukrainian commander in Donbas, told the daily Golos Ukrainy in 2019 that “Russian mercenaries who are shelling peaceful cities and villages, killing women, children and old people have no right to call themselves servicemen. To be a serviceman means to be a person of honor and courage. To be a true serviceman means to be ready to defend one’s native land to the last breath. He who craves for a foreign peaceful land is a marauder and a criminal rather than a serviceman.”
As long as the conflict is characterised by this kind of a standoff there seems little chance for it to come to an end.
Reuben F. Johnson is a 30-year veteran of reporting on the defence sector and analysing political-military affairs in the former USSR and East- ern Europe, the PRC and SE Asia
and Latin America. His articles have appeared frequently in US, European and Asian defence and public affairs journals and he is also a long-time consultant to the Department of Defense. He is based in Kiev, Ukraine where hs has covered both the 2004- 2005 Orange Revolution and the 2013-2014 Maidan Revolution.
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'Bridgerton' Hair Designer Marc Pilcher On Queen Charlotte's Wigs: "I Was Inspired By Beyoncé"
While yes, the twist and turns of the plot, paired with the marvelous acting of Bridgerton is deserving of plenty of praise, the wigs, to me, as a beauty obsessive, were the true standout. I was particularly enamored by those of Queen Charlotte, played by Golda Roushouvel. Her looks were marked by braids, locs, and afros, all celebrating the hair of Black women while still maintaining the general aesthetic of the hair of the monarch.
Responsible for the many jaw-dropping looks was hair and makeup designer Marc Pilcher, who along with his wonderful team was able to curate a brand new wig for each and every one of the Queen’s looks. I got to chat with Pilsher about the creation of the pieces of artwork, his inspiration, and how long each masterpiece actually took to master.
Why were the wigs, particularly for Queen Charlotte, so important?
Pilcher: We actually ended up using more wigs than we normally would. Usually we would use a lot of the actor’s own hair and just add pieces, but we have so many characters that had specific characteristics, for example, the Featheringtons all have to be red heads. Luckily we had a really nice budget of money that we were able to create a variety of wigs for each character. I have the most amazing wig maker over here that I’ve mentored a few years and she made all of these beautiful creations.
Obviously when it came to the queen, we started off with two wigs: the natural Afro wig and then a white yak-hair powder wig. I was chatting with Chris Van Dusen, who’s the show runner and we just came up with the idea that because she has nothing to do all day long, she basically waits for her husband to die, and all she does is eat, and play with the dogs, and her ladies in waiting. So we were like she’s obviously someone who has time for a new dress, and a new wig to match everyday. So we sort of formulated her looks from there. I was doing my research at the beginning, and obviously there aren’t many portraits of people of African descent back then, so what I wanted to do is keep that traditional wig silhouette and make a more relevant version for the Queen.
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That’s when I decided to add locs, braids, and massive afros. I was picking through some images and then I saw Beyoncé Knowles in Austin Powers Goldmember and that’s when I thought, ‘That’s what I want.’ I wanted the biggest afro someone had ever seen. That wig in particular was actually four or five wigs all placed together. So we had the wigs for the ringlets and then the we bought afros and then straightened them out and reset them on curls sticks and brushed them through so that we would get the best volume of afro, then sewed them on top of each other just to get that beautiful shape.
What was lovely was most of the time we would never tell Golda what wigs she was going to wear, we’d always like to surprise her and she’s ended up screaming in the morning.
How long did the wigs take to create?
Pilcher: You see, that’s the thing because we didn’t decide right at the beginning of production that we were going to be giving her a different wig every time. So we didn’t manage to do any of those wigs in prep. All those wigs we decided we had to create whilst we were filming. I would design the look and I would say to Hunter who looked after the Queen’s wigs, I would give him my idea. Then he might do a little sketch and we would work through that. Each wig probably took about three or four weeks to do. The larger one, like the one with locs, however, took more time because of the setting process.
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Were there any ever wig dilemmas on set?
Pilcher: I don’t think so. We were really lucky. And with Golda, remember the wig that was really tall and had all the black braids and red ribbons in the back? That was the heaviest one of all the wigs. By the end of filming, once we got to the really big, white, beautiful one with the bows and locs. By that point, we’d sort of worked out how to make it so that it wasn’t so heavy, but just as large as the other one. We made sure that it could be made in a way that as soon as she came off camera, we could at least take it off. If we knew she had an half an hour break, we could take it off so she could rest her neck. You don’t want really heavy wigs. So I don’t think we had any catastrophes, and certainly not with the Queen. We were lucky.
What was your favorite wig to design for Queen Charlotte?
Pilcher: I think it’s the white one with the bows and the locs. That wasn’t the original intention I had for the look. At first, I wanted to have the locs sort of tied atop the Queen’s head, but it wasn’t working out. At the time I was making it for the Hastings Ball with the white bows and I just popped some around a birdcage and I thought, ‘Oh my God, that’s it.’ It literally just came from nowhere. I think it was my favorite. And it’s interesting because it’s one of the ones that’s almost seen the least because it’s such a fleeting moment which is a shame, but we can always pull it out another time, I suppose.
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Was the application process marked by ease or was it difficult?
Pilcher: It was actually really quick because obviously these wigs were not supposed to look real. Golda would come in having braids with her stocking cap on, and she would have a makeup done. After that, it would probably take about 20 minutes. So it was actually quite quick in comparison to the other wigs,
Do you hope that what you all have done with Queen Charlotte’s wigs will impact future on-screen hair?
Pilcher: I hope so. I don’t want to stand here praising myself, but growing up, I loved history at school, and I loved old movies. I think these days, people don’t have that knowledge. But I hope that Queen Charlotte’s wigs with ultimately influence people. It’s actually been really sweet to see the reaction. There’s been somebody on Instagram who’s been practicing my looks and they’ve been posting it. So I think it really is impactful. I can’t believe that we’ve been so lucky and it was such a beautiful project.
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Why Did the Clones Betray the Jedi?
The Star Wars franchise was full of important events that helped shape the narrative and that had an essential influence on what happened within the stories. Sadly (or not, depends on how you look at it), most of these events have to do with betrayal – Anakin betrays the Jedi, Darth Vader betrays Darth Sidious, Count Dooku betrays the Jedi, Palpatine betrays Count Dooku, ans so forth – which is why we have decided to talk about one of those events. This betrayal is certainly among the biggest ones, as it directly led to the Purge of the Jedi and the formation of the Galactic Empire. So, if you wanted to know why the Clones betrayed the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith, keep reading!
The Clones were pre-programmed to obey their orders without questioning, which was further assured when Palpatine implanted specific chips into them during Stage 3 of their lives. Not all Clones agreed with Order 66, but were still obliged to enforce it.
Order 66, or Why the Clones betrayed the Jedi
In order to fully comprehend the Clones’ betrayal of the Jedi, we have to analyse context of the whole situation at the time. Namely, the Republic was at war with the separatists, whose perceived leader was General Grievous. The Senate has, at one point, given emergency powers to Palpatine, but only until General Grievous was defeated. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was sent to deal with Grievous. In the meantime, Palpatine approached the unstable Anakin Skywalker and manipulated him into leaning towards the Dark Side of the Force. Anakin initially declined, but his personal issues (his relationship with Padmé Amidala, his status within the Jedi Order) clouded his judgment. Palpatine also admitted to Anakin that he was, in fact, Darth Sidious.
When news came of general Kenobi’s defeat of General Grievous, Jedi Master Mace Windu concluded that the Chancellor must give up his emergency powers, but then came Anakin’s warning:
Windu: “We just received word that Obi-Wan has destroyed General Grievous. We’re on our way to make sure the Chancellor returns emergency power back to the Senate.”
Anakin: “He won’t give up his power. I’ve just learned a terrible truth. I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord.”
Windu: “A Sith Lord?”
Anakin: “Yes. The one we’ve been looking for.”
Windu: “How do you know this?”
Anakin: “He knows the ways of the Force. He’s been trained to use the dark side.”
Windu: “Are you sure?”
Anakin: “Absolutely.”
Windu: “Then our worst fears have been realized. We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive.”
Windu left Anakin and went to arrest Palpatine, but things didn’t go all too well for the Jedi. Palpatine revealed himself to be Darth Sidious and quickly kills Windu’s associates, but the Jedi Master managed to gain the upper hand. Mace Windu initially stated that Palpatine was under arrest, pending a trial in front of the Senate, but Palpatine’s reluctance to accept that fate and Anakin’s arrival changed his decision. Realising that Palpatine would not yield, Mace Windu proceeded to kill him, but was betrayed by Anakin and soon killed by Palpatine. Anakin soon became Darth Vader, Palpatine initiated Order 66 and the rest is history.
So, the Clones betrayed the Jedi because Supreme Chancellor Palpatine activated Order 66. Sadly, Palpatine had every right to do it, as Order 66 was a contingency order that could be initiated by the Chancellor without prior consent of any other body of the Republic.
Did the Clones want to kill the Jedi?
Well, this question is relatively simple to answer, because there really wasn’t any murderous intention on the side of the Clones. The Clone Army was an “instrument” of the Galactic Republic, just like the Jedi (in one aspect), and although they collaborated with the Jedi and followed them, they were actually under direct control by the Supreme Commander, i.e., the Chancellor.
So, no, the Clones did not want to kill the Jedi, but because they were obliged to follow the Chancellor’s orders, they had to treat the Jedi as traitors and execute them as per Palpatine’s instructions.
Still, it didn’t look pretty:
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Why didn’t the Clones kill Anakin Skywalker?
Now this is an interesting one, since, at the time when the order to execute Order 66 was given, Anakin’s betrayal was not publicly known. The only living character who knew of Anakin’s crossing to the Dark Side was Palpatine and we’ve seen that he had not explicitly told the Clones to not attack Anakin. So, why did they not attack the – at the time – former Jedi?
The movie canon doesn’t explicitly answer this question, although there is only one possible explanation, which was confirmed in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, which is part of the expanded universe. Namely, the only way that the Clones could’ve known that Anakin – i.e., Darth Vader – was on their side is if Palpatine had told them. This is confirmed in Battlefront 2, when one of the Clones confirms that “Lord Vader” would be their field commander.
So, even if we did not see it in the movie, it seems that Palpatine did tell the Clones that Anakin had joined them, which means that the movie did not show the whole conversation between Palpatine and the Clones, as was originally thought. Despite this being a hypothesis, there is just no other plausible solution that we can think of.
Did all the Clones betray the Jedi? Did any of them refuse Order 66?
Another big question related to the infamous Order 66 is whether the Clones could do anything about it. Namely, as we know, the Clones were an artificially created army whose main trait was complete loyalty. Still, they were sentient beings and there was a chance that they would stop being loyal at one point. This is why Palpatine, unbeknownst to the Jedi, had an “inhibitor chip” implanted in all the Clones to assure their full obedience. This was revealed in The Clone Wars animated series. So, according to this fact, it would seem that the Clones were unable to refuse Palpatine’s orders and indeed, the canon material offers no evidence to the contrary. With one notable exception. Maybe.
Namely, the second season of The Clone Wars animated series reveals a rogue Clone Trooper, Cut Lawquane, who ran during the Battle of Geonosis and escaped to a solitary planet and started a family. He was later found by Commander Rex and it was revealed that he deserted the Empire and still supported the Jedi. So, how was this possible? Well, there are two possibilities:
Due to the injuries sustained while fighting on Geonisis, Cut’s “inhibitor chip” might’ve gotten damaged so he was able to refuse Order 66 and make a decision based on his own, free will.
Due to him finding refuge on a distant, solitary planet and not being part of any regiment or unit, Cut might not have even received Palpatine’s order, so he was completely unaware of it and was thus able to keep his loyalty towards the Jedi and the Republic, unaware of everything else.
This is the only canon example of a possible refusal of Order 66 by a Clone Trooper, but the show never really confirmed why Cut Lawquane continued to support the Jedi. The expanded universe, on the other hand, gives us an example of a whole unit refusing Palpatine’s order, as stated in Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader:
“Word has reached me,” Palpatine was saying, “that a group of clone troopers on Murkhana may have deliberately refused to comply with Order Sixty-Six.”
Vader tightened his hold on the lightsaber. “I had not heard, Master.”
He knew that Order Sixty-Six had not been hardwired into the clones by the Kaminoans who had grown them. Rather, the troopers-the commanders, especially-had been programmed to demonstrate unfailing loyalty to the Supreme Chancellor, in his role as Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. And so when the Jedi had revealed their seditious plans, they had become a threat to Palpatine, and had been sentenced to death.
On myriad worlds Order 66 had been executed without misfortune-on Mygeeto, Saleucami, Felucia, and many others. Taken by surprise, thousands of Jedi had been assassinated by troopers who had for three years answered almost exclusively to them. A few Jedi were known to have escaped death by dint of superior skill or accident. But on Murkhana, apparently unique events had played out; events that were potentially more dangerous to the Empire than the few Jedi who had survived.
“What was the cause of the troopers’ insubordination, Master?” Vader asked.
“Contagion.” Palpatine sneered. “Contagion brought about by fighting alongside the Jedi for so many years. Clone or otherwise, there is only so much a being can be programmed to do. Sooner or later even a lowly trooper will become the sum of his experiences.”
Here, we have an official confirmation of two facts. For one, that Palpatine really did program the Clones to be completely loyal, but also that the programming’s effects are in fact limited and that the Clones were, despite all their interventions, sentient beings to a certain degree. The latter fact is quite important as it opens up a possibility that there have been more individual Clones or even whole units who refused to execute Order 66 due to their loyalty to their Jedi friends.
Did any Clones regret executing order 66?
Well, this one is tough to answer, mainly because there is no precise evidence in any of the material. The canon certainly doesn’t suggest that the Clones regretted their participation. Firstly, they couldn’t do anything about it and, secondly, it was a “this is just business” situation from their point of view. In addition to that, the Clones were programmed to be obedient so even if they felt bad about their actions, they kept quiet about it and did not reveal their true sentiments.
On the other hand, in Battlefront 2, a Clone Trooper says nobody was able to look the Jedi in the eye before the killing started, which would suggest that they did feel at least some degree of remorse. But, whatever the truth might have been, the Clones never expressed their regret outwardly.
What happened to the Clones after Order 66?
As we all know, the successful execution of Order 66 enabled Palpatine to become Emperor and establish the Galactic Empire. The Clones remained loyal to the Emperor and were reformed as Stormtroopers during the the initial years of the Empire. Still, the need for new clones decreased until it fully disappeared at one point, so production halted. The Empire started recruiting regular humans into their army so the Clones’ numbers eventually decreased, even if their legacy lived on with the Stormtroopers.
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In the last decade of his life, architect Frank Lloyd Wright described his Frederick C. Bogk House (1916-17) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as “a good house from a good period for a good client.”
The Bogk House was significant to Wright because it represented a synthesis of ideas he had employed in some of his most important projects up to that time. Echoes of commissions such as the Midway Gardens (1914) in Chicago, Ill., with its strategic use of sculpted decoration, and the Unity Temple (1905-1908) in Oak Park, Illinois, with its formal, respectful and monolithic street façade are clearly evident in the Bogk House design, which incorporates these strategies to establish a suitable public face separate from the private interior of a middle-class family home.
Designed for Frederick C. Bogk, a prominent Milwaukee businessman and city alderman, the house was the only custom-built, single-family residence Wright designed in Milwaukee. An admirer of Wright’s Avery Coonley House (1907) in Riverside, Illinois, Mrs. Bogk encouraged her husband to select Wright as the architect for a new home they wished to build in the Water Tower District north of the city.
The drawings of the Bogk House—cre-ated by Wright and his draftsmen in just a fewmonths prior to his departure for Japan in late 1917 to begin work on the Imperial Hotel (1923)—provide insight into the architect’s design process as demonstrated by several versions of Wright’s approach to the façade and to the first-floor plan. In the perspective drawing of the living room, one of the earlier and more fully rendered sketches for the Bogk House, one can easily see decorative elements in the fabrics and surfaces Wright employed in the interior and for the window designs of the Coonley House.
The decorative elements of the Bogk House façade, broad overhang, substantial lintel over the screen of windows facing the street, along with a small raised terrace flanked by temple urns cast from concrete and impressed with geometricized organic forms would be repeated in a variety of ways (including the green hipped roof) in his Imperial Hotel design.
Perhaps more significant in the Bogk design was Wright’s emphasis on a free-flowing, open design for the first floor, a design strategy that would become a hallmark and the heart of Wright’s domestic interiors and Usonian designs for the remainder of his career.
These details and others can be seen in the Figge’s unique collection of Bogk House drawings on display in Gallery 201.
This exhibition will be on view June 19-September 28, 2013.
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China Southern To Fly To New York
China Southern Airlines will launch direct flights from Guangzhou to New York this summer.
The carrier will start taking delivery of a new fleet of Boeing 777-300ER aircraft next week, and these new long-haul aircraft will enable it to expand its trans-Pacific operations.
Commencing on 6 August 2014, the New York services will operate four times a week, departing Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 0140, and arriving at New York’s JFK Airport at 0545. The return service will leave the ‘Big Apple’ at 1115, getting back into Guangzhou at 1515.
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The new flight will become the only direct connection between Guangzhou and New York, which have a combined population of approximately 20 million people.
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Poll Finds Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage in California
Mar. 1, 2013 , at 4:43 PM
The same week the Obama administration filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a new Field Poll was released showing that support for same-sex marriage in the state has increased drastically since the ban was passed there a little more than four years ago.
The Field Poll, conducted Feb. 5 to 17 among 834 registered voters, found a record majority of Californians, 61 percent, say they support extending the right to marry to same-sex couples. Just 32 percent were against doing so.
California voters approved the state’s ban on gay marriage, Proposition 8, in November 2008. At the time, a Field poll found that 51 percent of registered voters supported same-sex marriage; 42 percent were against it. Still, Proposition 8 passed, 52 percent to 48 percent.
Since 2009, however, support for gay marriage in California has risen sharply. A chart of Field polling from the Bay Area News Group shows the shift:
Another major California pollster, the Public Policy Institute of California, has not surveyed the state about gay marriage since March 2012, but its polling has shown the same trend as the Field Poll. The Public Policy Institute of California found support for same-sex marriage increased from 44 percent in March 2009 to 54 percent in March 2012. Opposition decreased from 49 percent to 40 percent.
California’s evolving views on same-sex marriage are indicative of a fast-moving shift in attitudes nationwide. In the past few years, support for gay marriage overtook opposition, according to polling, and the trend has continued. In a national CBS News poll of 1,148 adults in early February, 54 percent of respondents said it should be legal for same-sex couples to marry.
In 2011, FiveThirtyEight published a statistical model that used past ballot initiatives as well as data on religious participation to project the vote share in all 50 states and the District of Columbia on hypothetical ballot measures prohibiting same-sex marriage. The model projected that — unlike as in 2008 — California voters would have rejected a same-sex marriage ban had it been on the ballot in November 2012.
The latest poll from Field appears to bear that out.
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tarantolabus » Pop » Ink Spots - Who Do You Know In Heaven (That Made You The Angel You Are?) / You're Breaking My Heart
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The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Their unique musical style presaged the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop. The Ink Spots were widely accepted in both the white and black communities, largely due to the ballad style introduced to the group by lead singer Bill Kenny. In 1989, the Ink Spots (Bill Kenny, Deek Watson, Charlie Fuqua and Hoppy Jones) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1999 they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Many of recordings Watson made with his groups were released and re-released on various low budget labels. Watson led various groups until his death in 1969. "Who Do You Know in Heaven (That Made You the Angel You Are?)" 21. - 1950.
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Social Networks Ranking – Liga NOS (07/2020)
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Social networks are undoubtedly the fastest and most comprehensive way for clubs to communicate with their supporters. Today, we present the third ranking of Liga NOS clubs on social networks related to the total number of followers. In this edition we have added the numbers from YouTube.
In aggregate terms, the number of fans of the clubs present in this edition of Liga NOS in the current month corresponds to a total of 20,278,500, representing an increase of 0.5% compared to June not taking into account the numbers from YouTube. Facebook continues to aggregate 58% while Instagram represents now 22%, Twitter 18%, and YouTube only 2%.
Regarding the clubs, FC Porto, SL Benfica, and Sporting CP remain on the top-3 with a growth of about 0.5%, followed by SC Braga, with the first three clubs aggregating 88% of the total fans.
Note 1: Values rounded up to hundreds.
Note 2: Amounts collected on July 20, 2020.
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Social networks are undoubtedly the fastest and most comprehensive way for clubs to communicate with their supporters. Today, we present the second ranking of Liga NOS clubs on social networks related to the total number of followers.
In aggregate terms, the number of fans of the clubs present in this edition of Liga NOS in the current month corresponds to a total of 19,753,600, representing an increase of 0.2% compared to May. Facebook continues to aggregate 59%, although some clubs have recorded decreasing numbers, while Instagram represents now 23% and Twitter 18%.
Regarding the clubs, FC Porto, SL Benfica, and Sporting CP remain on the top-3 with a growth of about 0.1%, followed by SC Braga, with the first three clubs aggregating 88% of the total fans (1% less compared to last month).
Note 2: Amounts collected on June 20, 2020.
Social media is undoubtedly the fastest and most comprehensive way for clubs to communicate with their supporters. Today we present you the first ranking of Liga NOS clubs on social networks concerning their total number of followers.
In aggregate terms, the number of fans of the clubs participating in this edition of Liga NOS corresponds to a total of 19,722,800. Facebook represents 59% while Instagram accounts for 22% and Twitter 19%.
Regarding the clubs, FC Porto, SL Benfica, and Sporting CP occupy the podium, followed by SC Braga, with the first three clubs accounting for 89% of total fans.
Note 2: Amounts collected on May 20, 2020.
The 20 most effective and influential forwards in the 2019/2020 Liga NOS
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With Liga NOS still waiting for its start, Football Industry analyzed the performance of the 83 players who occupy the most advanced positions of the 18 clubs that are part of the competition and who participated in at least 50% of the games. The indicators analyzed were its effectiveness (conversion rate – the percentage of shots turned into goals) and its influence on the team (weight of its goals in the club’s total).
Regarding the analysis of the conversion rate, Carlos Vinicius from SL Benfica stands out in the first position with 32% having scored 15 goals in 22 games. It is also, in this ranking, the player with most goals scored so far followed by Fábio Abreu from Moreirense FC, Sandro Lima from Gil Vicente FC, and Paulinho from SC Braga all of them with 10 goals so far. Of the 20 players, only 4 belong to SL Benfica, FC Porto, and Sporting CP. It is also important to emphasize that this is not a ranking of scored goals, but a ranking of effectiveness given the number of shots made per game turned into goals.
Regarding influence (weight of their goals in the clubs’ total), Sandro Lima from Gil Vicente FC (15th most effective forward) is the most influential striker so far, accounting for 40% of his team’s total goals and having participated in all Liga NOS games. It is also observed that 11 of the 20 players that are part of the ranking of the most effective forwards are also part of the list of the most influential ones.
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By Yotam Marom, posted on Medium
A Brief Note to the Reader: I’ve been writing this piece for a year and a half. I’ve thought a lot about how complicated it is to share something like this in a time of such upheaval – in a country where an unarmed Black person is murdered by cops every day, at a time when our movement is in a moment of intense grieving and fierce uprising around this and so many other life and death struggles. What I didn’t expect, however, was that folks would be actively talking about anti-Semitism in the movement at exactly the time I wanted to publish this. The brilliant and powerful Vision for Black Lives and the responses to it from a dozen different directions have put debate about anti-Semitism back on the Facebook feeds of many of my movement partners and friends. It’s important to me to be clear that this piece is not a response to those events or statements. This has nothing to do with that. And yet, in another way, it has everything to do with it. This piece is a deep reflection on anti-Semitism and Jewish assimilation in the movement, an invitation to hard but compassionate discussion, and a call to arms for all of us, but above all, to Jews in the movement. I imagine it not as the answer, but as a beginning. I invite you, then, into that beginning with me, and to the long road ahead toward collective liberation – toward the world we all deserve.
Savta’s Kitchen
I’m in my Savta’s breezy kitchen in Haifa. The balcony is open, bringing in gusts of warm wind from the Carmel Mountains. The tiled floor keeps my bare feet cool, tucked under my grandma’s tiny kitchen table. She feeds me chicken with onions, white rice, and her famous pickled eggplants that she makes especially when she knows I’m coming over. She keeps bringing more food, as if she is trying to empty the fridge before a big trip. I tell her I can’t possibly eat it all, but, like any good grandma, she ignores me. Finally Savta sits. She waves away my compliments, folds her hands neatly, and smiles, bashfully even, as she watches me enjoy her cooking.
Nine times out of ten, we talk about the Holocaust. When I think about it later, I’m not totally sure why. Maybe it’s because I’m acutely aware of how much history will be lost when her generation is gone – feel guilty that I was more interested in playing soccer with the neighborhood kids than listening to my Sabba’s stories while he was still alive – my grandpa who shouted in Yiddish at the TV, whose eyes twinkled when he laughed with me, who brought our leftover chicken bones down to the neighborhood cats every night. Or maybe, to me, part of my Savta is still stuck back there, like an artifact, an ambassador from another time. Maybe she is stuck there to herself too. This is, after all, how unhealed trauma works; we dance the same dance again and again, as if there were no other songs we could choose to dance to.
Savta tells me about the German occupation of her shtetl in Poland, and the day they started shooting. She talks about seeing her father shot, when her neighbor pointed him out to the soldiers as a Jew. She tells me about the next few days of hiding, and how she joined up with the Jewish partisans, leaving the woods where many of the Jews were hiding – her mother and sisters and grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins and friends, and on and on. They were all murdered there soon after, when their Polish neighbors led the SS to their hiding spot. Just like that, a whole tribe disappears. It startles me to think of how quiet the woods must have been just after.
Savta tells me of her journey to Russia to find her little brother, her travels back through Europe after the war. She tells me about meeting my Sabba at a refugee camp in Italy, and getting on a rickety ship to Palestine. She tells it matter-of-factly, without ideology or pomp, as if this were the only rational thing to do. Savta talks about the kibbutz she lived on, and then their first apartment in Haifa. It had dirt floors and broken windows, and had belonged to a Palestinian family, gone before they arrived. She says it with a genuine sadness, but not guilt, as if to say that the world is tragic one way or another and we all just do what we have to in order to survive. Somewhere out there, perhaps, a Palestinian family still hangs the key to that home on their wall. Perhaps a young man and grandma sit, like we do, in Nablus or Amman or down the block from me in Brooklyn, and discuss the Nakba, the ruins of a much fresher tragedy lying on top of ruins from the tragedy before, and the one before that.
I have heard this story a hundred times, and Savta always tells it the same way. It’s almost like she is reading from cue cards, like she is a bystander in the story and not its main character. The words seem to be held at arm’s length, as if they are separate from her – separate from these legs that carried her through Europe, these arms that held family members living and dead, these hands that pickle eggplants, these eyes that look away bashfully as I eat them. In the end, it seems very sensible that my Savta doesn’t cry, doesn’t live her story again each time she tells it, doesn’t acknowledge her trauma. After all, people do what they must to carry on; if she had to actually feel what she was describing, I doubt she would have survived.
As I wash the dishes it occurs to me that her stories are so powerful, her scars so deep, that they have left their imprints on me as well, two generations later and a world away. I think about the way I mistrust people for fear of being betrayed and abandoned, the anxiety I’ve carried with me everywhere I’ve gone as if the worst is still to come, the tendency I have to control things for fear that otherwise their design will not protect me, the way I’ve always tried to be the best at everything so that people would want me around, and more. I think about the guilt that drives so much of my behavior, guilt, I suppose, for not having had to live my Savta’s life. It occurs to me that even my Savta seems to feel guilty; after all, she survived. I don’t yet know the term ancestral Jewish trauma as I dry my hands on Savta’s dish towel, but I do begin to realize that these traits were handed down to me by ancestors both living and dead so that I would survive, and it’s the first time I think to forgive myself for them, even if just a little.
A couple years later, I was in a discussion about ancestral Jewish trauma hosted by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and facilitated by Cherie Brown, who writes and speaks on the subject. She told us about an episode of This Is Your Life, an old American TV show where an audience member would be plucked from the crowd to become the subject of the show. The audience is carried through the story of the person’s life as a cast of characters from their past are called up for them to reunite with.
In 1953, (as Brown has written about as well), This is Your Life did an episode on Hanna Bloch Kohner, a young, beautiful wife of a Hollywood executive. Hanna was a Holocaust survivor – the first to appear on national TV.
I watched the episode on YouTube and I don’t think I can quite describe how jarring it was. Only eight years earlier, this woman had barely survived a genocide that claimed her parents, fiancé, an unborn child, and so much more, and now she was propped on stage to re-enact that experience for a national audience. I can still hear the host’s booming voice say something like: Do you recognize that voice, Hanna? It’s Eva, your best friend from Auschwitz! Come out here and give Hanna a big hug, Eva. And yes, yes, your whole family died in the Nazi gas chambers, so very tragic…but do you remember this next voice? That’s right, it’s the American soldier who saved you! Come on out here Harold! Isn’t this just swell?!
In 1945, many Jews were being freed from concentration camps only to be murdered by their neighbors upon returning home. In the aftermath, many of them were still trapped all over Europe, unsure of their futures. And at the same time, the American “liberators” were systematically liquidating the resistance groups that had fought the Nazis in France, Italy, and elsewhere, and putting fascists back into government all across the continent, from West Germany to Greece. McCarthyism was just kicking into gear in the US, with Jews disproportionately targeted. And as Brown reminds us in her own account, the same year that Hanna Bloch Kohner appeared on TV, thousands of Jews, wondering if they were still in the midst of the genocide many of them had barely escaped, gathered outside Madison Square Garden in breathless silence as the state executed the Rosenbergs for treason.
Of course the survivors had not yet healed – in many ways, the war wasn’t even over yet. But This Is Your Life willed it all away with a magic wand, and its message was the perfect encapsulation of the American response to Jewish trauma: That awful thing happened, but we saved you. Now look how pretty you are – a Hollywood star! No need to thank us: just move on and be good, upstanding citizens. Just assimilate.
In many ways, we did assimilate, as Jews have been attempting to do on multiple continents since long before the Holocaust – and as many other oppressed peoples have attempted in the face of an imminent threat. But here lies an important difference between anti-Semitism and other forms of oppression. As Aurora Levins Morales writes: “The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top.” The ruling class never meant for us to disappear entirely; it meant for us to be tamed, and put at the service of the ruling class.
So we brought the Christmas trees into our living rooms, gave up a bustling Yiddish-speaking Flatbush Avenue for the manicured suburbs of New Jersey, replaced a vibrant cultural and ethnic identity with a sanitized religious denomination modeled after Protestantism, more palatable (as April Rosenblum writes about) to the guardians of Christian Hegemony. Some elements of Jewish culture entered the mainstream, because the Jewish community fought to be included, and because the system is happy to appropriate that which its elites find exotic, controllable, and aesthetically pleasing – the bagels and lox, the Seinfelds, the quaint Yiddishisms like putz and shmuck. Some Jews became middle managers for the Empire and benefited greatly from it, the way some of our ancestors had been the tax collectors for the feudal lords of the centuries before. Mostly, as Karen Brodkin writes about in How Jews Became White Folks, we just tried to blend in. The mainstream Jewish community traded in its peoplehood for Whiteness, upward mobility, and a strong Israel – an arrangement that was based on the oppression of the Palestinians and the denial of that very same American Dream to people of color in this country, including many Jews of color.
I realized somewhere along the way that, even with Israeli parents and various entry-points into Jewish community, I had also, in a way, assimilated – repressed historical traumas, muted parts of myself, sectioned off different pieces of my identity, and separated my worlds for the sake of blending in. Only I, like so many of the other young Jews I know, didn’t assimilate into the mainstream; we assimilated into the social justice movement.
Anti-Semitism on the Left
It is a bright, warm, summer day in July 2014. I’m in Midtown Manhattan, surrounded by thousands of people, protesting the Israeli assault on Gaza, which began a week ago.
At first, I feel small in the face of the big, shiny skyscrapers that ignore us with their cold glass, structures that were built so tall as if intentionally to remind us how tiny we are. It drives me a little crazy to know that one person can march on 5th Avenue in a sea of thousands of people protesting the war, while another person can eat a hot dog on 6th avenue and not even know that war is taking place.
But this march is alive – people weaving in and out of the police barricades, folks dancing and singing, banners waving in the Midtown wind tunnels. It’s led by young people, but I notice, to my surprise, that it is also full of families – mothers in hijabs pushing strollers, kids waving Palestinian flags, teenagers climbing trash cans on the way downtown. There is a palpable feeling of warmth and hope and resilience, even despite the heartbreak and mourning and fury. I’m glad I’m here, with these people.
Then I see a poster that shows the Jewish Star of David, with an equal sign next to a Nazi swastika. I see the Neturei Karta (an Orthodox Jewish sect) in their black coats and hats and beards, paraded at the front of the demonstrations – as if to say, look, even the Jews hate Israel – even though they are right wingers who are anti-Zionists merely because they believe the land of Israel should be settled only after the Messiah comes. Another sign says “Good job Israel, Hitler would be proud,” and a poster shows Israeli soldiers alongside black and white photos of the SS. No one says anything about it.
I don’t immediately identify these signals as proof that the movement is anti-Semitic. After all, I know that claims of anti-Semitism are constantly used as a ploy by the Right to defend the worst of Israel and smear the Left. I remember that I too have been called a self-hating Jew for criticizing Israel. I know that the discomfort of Jews going to rallies in New York cannot even begin to compare to the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, or the Black folks being shot down in the streets in this country, or any number of other oppressed groups – that many Jews in this country have achieved an unprecedented level of security and prosperity. I know it is a good thing that the movement pays attention to the struggle for a free Palestine, that the Black movement today is seeing the links between occupation abroad and at home. And I know that, no matter what, there’s never an excuse for occupation – for the death and torture and detention and separation that come along with it – and so there is also never an excuse for those of us in whose name these injustices are carried out to sit on the sidelines.
Nonetheless, I feel sick to my stomach, a kind of sinking knot of betrayal. I think back to the dozens of other things like these that I’ve seen in the past week – posts my friends have written on Facebook, articles they’ve share, things they’ve said to me – and it hits me like an anvil: Yes, there is anti-Semitism on the Left. And it is a threat to me, to the movement, to all of us.
As I march, it dawns on me that this anti-Semitism I’ve been brushing under carpets my whole life sits not only in the far reaches of the movement, where folks peddle conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the media and the banks (these are as old as Christianity, and still alive and well, as Chip Berlet writes about). And no, anti-Semitism doesn’t only creep up late at night at the end of the housing justice meeting, when folks vent blame their “Jew Landlords” for gentrification. It does not appear merely in the form of improprieties we might turn a blind eye to – like the participant who called my friend a “Jew Lawyer” at the Know-Your-Rights training he led last week. No, it is not only in these quiet corners we can forgive or ignore, but here, in the open, among my friends.
My knot turns into a hot anger. Why doesn’t anyone say anything about this? And then it occurs to me that, I, too, have said nothing.
I said nothing when my friends blamed the Israel Lobby for US support of the war on Gaza and shared articles about how the US was tricked by Jews into supporting Israel in the first place, as if a lobby is actually what’s responsible for US elites deciding that it is in their interests to support a colonial Israel, as if even an organ as powerful as AIPAC can be held responsible for centuries of US imperialist foreign policy, as if it is always the all-powerful Jews behind the scenes pulling the strings.
I said nothing as friends of mine rejoiced at the deaths of Israeli soldiers with a glee I’d never seen toward any other soldiers, as if to root for the underdog also meant relishing the death of the opponent, as if the dead soldiers were not 18 year old kids raised on war and drafted by law into it by their leaders but somehow patently evil in their blood and their bones, as if slogans we used during the Iraq war like “Bring the troops home,” were too generous for them.
I said nothing when friends pumped out articles about how Israelis had trained the American police officers that Black communities were now resisting, on one hand bringing to light important connections, but at the same time obscuring important power dynamics – as if we should take the connections to mean that Israel is so powerful it is even responsible for Ferguson, as if these police trainings or even Israel itself could exist without US imperialism, as if the wily Jews in Israel are the Americans’ puppet-masters and not the other way around.
I said nothing when Qassam rockets were celebrated as they flew toward civilians in Sderot, as if questioning a strategy that targeted innocents was somehow giving cover to the brutality of the Israeli military – as if the Palestinian resistance is one homogenous blob, as if all strategies are equal, as if we are unable to hold both horror at the assault on Gaza and a critique of some forms of resistance to it.
I said nothing about the massacres of civilians in Syria that took place at the same time, just as most of my friends said nothing about it, as if the only reason to do so would be to distract from the war on Gaza, as if the Syrians must be forgotten so that the Jews can be held accountable.
I said nothing about the deafening silence of my friends about the children murdered at the Jewish day school in France, the shootings at Jewish community centers in Kansas City and Seattle, the Bat Mitzvah shot up in Denmark, the Jewish stores destroyed in Brussels, the synagogues firebombed in Germany, the Jewish graves defaced in Toronto – as if the only purpose of grieving Jewish death would be to justify Israeli militarism or American Islamophobia, as if mentioning these tragedies was to equate them with the oppression of other peoples, as if Jews today are too powerful to have compassion for.
I said nothing when, after helping lead a sit-in as part of If Not Now (a new group organizing young American Jews to end the Jewish community’s support for the occupation), a friend implied that I needed to do more not because the struggle was still ongoing, and not because we all needed to throw down to stop it, but because I had a debt to pay – as if I needed to prove to the white non-Jewish leftists around me the that I was a Good Jew, the way Jews swore loyalty oaths to the US and European countries even as late as the 50s.
And I said nothing when, over and over and over again, my friends posted on Facebook that Israel is the leading cause of anti-Semitism today and that therefore we Jews are at fault for other people’s hatred of us, as if we deserve to be hated because of the actions of elites who claim to represent us, as if a minority group could ever be held responsible for other people’s categorical hatred of that entire group, as if any of my friends in the movement would tolerate that kind of talk about Black folks or Muslims or anyone else.
I said nothing about the silence about all of this, and the silence, I think, is what broke my heart the most.
My Friends are Anti-Semitic
I wonder whether my silence about anti-Semitism has been warranted. I wonder if my movement partners truly will abandon me if I challenge them in this, or find the weakest examples and pick them apart in order to argue that the pattern itself does not exist. I wonder if they’ll reject me as an apologist for Israeli violence, discredit my movement credentials with the news that some years ago I was a leader in a Socialist-Zionist youth movement (I confess! And I’m proud of that time in my life, though I no longer identify as a Zionist – perhaps the subject for another piece). Or maybe my fear is just paranoia, an outdated defense mechanism handed down from my Savta, a fear and vigilance learned by Jewish bodies over literally thousands of years to protect us from the next crusade or pogrom or gulag or blacklist or cattle-car that we assume is surely just around the corner.
Alongside the fear, there are also some feelings of shame at speaking out about these issues during a time of such upheaval for other people and groups. But I suppose there’s never a good time, and I will have to trust my friends to see that this is meant not to take away, but to make us stronger and more connected. And then, alongside that, there is a deep resentment that we Jews, whose ancestors have been forcibly converted, raped, tortured, slaughtered, and chased across the globe for literally thousands of years, still have to prove that people hate us and that there are systems in place to ensure it. But my friends are worth convincing, and capable of transforming, and we need each other.
Throughout the dozen earlier drafts of this piece, I wrote: “My friends are not anti-Semitic, but…” I know my friends don’t believe in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I know they think anti-Semitism is wrong. And I know with every fiber of my being that they would defend me and my family if they believed anti-Semitism was a real threat. But I know, too, that their disbelief is part of the very fabric of anti-Semitism. I know that, in another time and place not far from here, it was a similar disbelief that made possible the wiping away of my tribe, the orphaning of my Savta, the chopping down of my family tree. Silence, perhaps more than the careless repetition of ignorant ideas, is fundamental to this system, perhaps to every system of oppression.
Being ignored or dismissed is not an experience unique to Jews; women, queer folks, people of color, working class folks, and other marginalized groups are always disbelieved, always have to fight like hell to be heard, understood, and supported. I know this to be true because I have been, many times in my life, the one unwilling to do the listening and transforming. And so it occurs to me finally that of course my friends are anti-Semitic. Not in any vulgar or intentional way, merely in the way that we are all shaped by the systems around us until we do the work of uprooting them – in the same way that I carried racism and sexism in my every mannerism until folks helped me practice something different instead (or in the way that I still do carry those values around with me, because such things are burrowed deep into our bodies and the work of unlearning them is perhaps as long as our lives).
Yes, my friends are anti-Semitic. Now the challenge: To convince them that anti-Semitism even still exists, that it is hurting all of us, and that it can be undone.
Anti-Semitism is Killing Us
The measure of anti-Semitism in a society isn’t the number of synagogues being burned to the ground at any given moment. Anti-Semitism is cyclical.
As April Rosenblum writes in her groundbreaking pamphlet: “Attacks come in waves; but each time things calm down and Jews are able to blend in or succeed in society again, it gives the appearance that antisemitism is ‘over.’ In some of the most famous examples of anti-Jewish expulsion and mass murder (i.e., medieval Spain or modern Germany), just prior to the attacks, Jews appeared to be one of society’s most successful, comfortable, well-integrated minorities.” August Bebel, a prominent non-Jewish German socialist known for being vocal against anti-Semitism as a distraction from the real source of oppression (he famously called it “the socialism of fools,”) wrote that anti-Semitism had: “…No prospect of ever exercising a decisive influence on political and social life in Germany.” That was in 1906, less than thirty years before the Nazis took power.
I’m reminded that in that workshop with JFREJ and Cherie Brown, she mentioned that Harvey Jackins, founder of Co-Counseling, once drew a diagram of anti-Semitism as a loose noose. Perhaps the Jews in the US are safe for good. Or perhaps now is a time of loose nooses for us. Or maybe, they’re not so loose after all. Perhaps the political crisis in which we find ourselves now – the rise of a Trump candidacy, the fascist grassroots he has awakened from its slumber, the openly anti-Semitic things he has said, the twitter trolls that have sprouted like weeds, the fascist politicians winning elections across Europe, the rise of hate groups around the country and the world, the rise of recorded hate crimes against Jews – can be seen as a tightening of that noose.
Even when Jews aren’t being rounded onto cattle cars, anti-Semitism plays its part. The Israeli state uses it to justify its aggression, and the Right wing around the world uses it to justify its fascism. As Naomi Klein wrote in 2006, during the openly fascistic Jean-Marie Le Pen’s rise to prominence in France and the Right wing Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s consolidation of power: “…Anyone interested in fighting Le Pen-style fascism or Sharon-style brutality has to deal with the reality of anti-Semitism head-on. The hatred of Jews is a potent political tool in the hands of both the right in Europe and in Israel. For Le Pen, anti-Semitism is a windfall, helping spike his support from 10 percent to 17 percent in a week. For Ariel Sharon, it is the fear of anti-Semitism, both real and imagined, that is the weapon.” The very real anti-Semitism in the world, the unhealed trauma generationally passed down, and the silence around both in the movement are precisely the things the Right uses to support its claim that Jews need an Israel that is armed to the teeth and aligned with the Empire in order to survive.
And so, anti-Semitism is still playing its part today, taking the heat off the systems we’re facing and the groups that control them, putting the Jews in the middle to obscure the bigger picture. As Levins-Morales writes: “Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won’t make it to the nobleman’s palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.” Israel is powerful, and deserves to be held accountable. And yet, how absurd it is to watch Anglo-European elites, sitting on piles of gold brutally plundered from the rest of the world in what must be the bloodiest transfer of wealth in human history, self-righteously scolding the naughty Jews in Israel. Let’s not forget who drew those borders in the first place, and who funds their policing today. As James Baldwin wrote: “The crisis taking place in the world, and in the minds and hearts of black men everywhere, is not produced by the star of David, but by the old, rugged Roman cross on which Christendom’s most celebrated Jew was murdered. And not by Jews.”
Of course, This is Your Life tells us that the Jews are safe and sound, that anti-Semitism went down into the rubble with Hitler’s bunker. Of course, the hangman wants us to believe the noose does not exist, that he has adopted the Jews as his children. But we should know better. The Empire’s anointment of a people’s struggle has never led to freedom. No, anti-Semitism is alive and well because it is in the interests of the ruling class. To quote Sartre from Anti-Semite and Jew: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” Anti-Semitism is a system, part of Christian hegemony, tied to white supremacy and capitalism, fulfilling a function of protecting the ruling elite; it won’t wither away on its own. And if that is the case, it shouldn’t be so surprising that anti-Semitism finds its way into our movements too, just like the values of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism do. It must, like any other system, be confronted at its roots and replaced by something else.
Until we do this work, we will continue fighting in a way that strengthens our enemies. Until we face anti-Semitism, Jews will always be at risk of being targeted by the ruling class when it becomes politically useful. Until we face anti-Semitism, the fascist Right will continue to use it as a recruitment strategy, and Jews will continue to cling to a militarized Israel for protection. Until we face anti-Semitism, many Jews will continue to play the middleman role prescribed to us by the system, causing harm to other oppressed communities. Until we face anti-Semitism, the Jews in the movement will never address our trauma, never be able to bring our most powerful selves to the many struggles in which we are disproportionately active. And as I’ve written about before, becoming our powerful selves is not only a pre-requisite for winning the world we deserve, but a pre-requisite for survival.
Anti-Semitism, like any other system, can be undone. And people – including those of us who keep anti-Semitism alive whether intentionally or not – can transform. It is time, then, for Jews to step forward and lead this transformation.
A Note to Rebellious Jews
It’s two days after the Palestine rally in Midtown. I’m on the back patio of an apartment in Clinton Hill with a mentor of mine. It is warm and still. Bars of sunlight crack through the trees, and the singing of flirtatious birds is interrupted from time to time by the pounding of construction two doors over. She tells me to feel my shirt on my back, and remember what is behind me – where I’ve been, my ancestors, my people. I’ve been given this prompt before, but it’s never meant much to me. Today, maybe because of what is happening in the world around me, maybe because of what is happening in my body, I think of my Sabba and Savta. I think of their families in Poland, the Jewish partisans who helped them escape, the Jewish ghetto fighters who died defending their people, the Jewish revolutionaries across a dozen borders who struggled to topple the social orders that have brought the world such misery.
How strange, I think to myself, that in the fifteen years I’ve spent doing political work, I’ve always thought of myself as being in the movement despite my people – my people being white, class-privileged, straight men. I had always, it now occurs to me, thought of myself as a traitor, and even been proud of it. It is only now, as my mind scans the faces of the fighters and dreamers and martyrs and prophets behind me that I realize that it’s not in spite of my people that I am here, but because of them. We all, I remember now, choose our origin stories. It is the first time my back has felt straight and broad, my chest open and powerful.
Our inability, as young Jews in the movement today, to talk about anti-Semitism is a product of internalized anti-Semitism itself, and it is killing us. It puts us and our families at risk, weakens the political struggles of which we are a part, denies us our full agency, and makes it impossible for us to ask for help from our would-be allies.
So often, we collaborate with the silence around anti-Semitism, erase our own stakes in the struggles of which we’re a part, do everything we can to impress the non-Jews in the movement so they’ll keep us around. We perform our Jewishness for gentiles – tattooing our bodies with Jewish slogans about justice and making claims about how our ancestors wouldn’t stand for this sort of oppression – but put so little of ourselves in actual Jewish community. We spend our time surrounded by one another, because so many of us are drawn to the struggle for freedom and justice for all peoples, but we so rarely speak to each other as Jews, so rarely look each other in the eye – like scared high school sweethearts who put their heads down as they pass one another in the hall. When the movement asks us to prove we are Good Jews by taking personal responsibility for everything Israel does, we oblige, and wear our Jewishness full to the brim with shame. We even, when we are asked to, compare ourselves to the people who murdered our families in Europe.
Have we forgotten where we come from? We have risen up against some of the most violent conquering armies ever assembled, played meaningful roles in revolutions throughout history, have been part of countless undergrounds, organized labor struggles, fought for civil rights, led student movements, stood up to Apartheid, and more. We are survivors of never-ending attempts to wipe out our people. We are famous for carrying humor, intelligence, and a commitment to truth as forms of resilience and resistance. I even read somewhere that the Romans used to think of us as innately rebellious.
We must become, once again, that rebellious tribe the Romans feared. We must acknowledge generational trauma so we can move past it, break open the ways we have internalized anti-Semitism so we can develop new practices instead. We must tell a different story about ourselves and invite the people around us be our allies in that reclamation. We must fight against the anti-Semitism and demand that all our movements take responsibility for this alongside us. We must reclaim our identity.
Identity is not merely about recognition, or acceptance, or representation; it is about becoming a people again, about finding our potential within that, about power. We must acknowledge the advantages we’ve been given by this system so we can use them as weapons to destroy it. But we must also acknowledge that we are an oppressed people – not so that we can evade responsibility for the ways we are empowered, or use our victimhood to shame and tear others down – but so we can align ourselves deeply and authentically with the titanic struggles for collective freedom before us. It is the only way we will ever genuinely stand in solidarity with others, the only way we will truly become our most powerful selves, the only way we will become whole again.
And as we become whole, we can play an even more grounded role as partners in the struggle for a free Palestine by refusing to allow Israel and the US to shed blood in our name. We can show up in this moment for Black Lives as true partners, as we are being called upon to do. Those of us who are white can disrupt white supremacy by using the benefits it gives us as tools to destroy it, sabotage it by reclaiming our Jewishness and refusing to do its dirty work. We can make all the movements of which we are a part stronger, smarter, fiercer, kinder, and funnier. And we can reclaim the peoplehood that is at our fingertips, protect our people – love our people. We can even, perhaps, give ourselves permission to grieve – for ourselves and our children, but also for our Savtas and Sabbas who never got the chance.
Imagine how the entire movement would benefit from this, how much better off we’d all be if we fought from a place of wisdom, pride, and love, instead of guilt, shame, and fear. Imagine how much closer we’d be to winning freedom for all people. And this is where the lesson transcends the question of Jewishness and anti-Semitism and goes hand in hand with the most essential questions the movement must ask itself today: What do we – each and every one of us – have to do to become our most powerful selves? We had better have a good answer, because becoming our most powerful selves is the only chance we have at winning the world we all deserve.
What a humbling challenge, then: to become whole again.
Special thanks to the many people who supported me in this journey, debated ideas, taught me, read drafts, and pushed me. This time, there were too many of you to list one by one, but that’s all the more proof that we are in a time of enormous potential, that there is a radical Jewish renaissance underway, and that we do, truly, have allies.
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The Catholic Message Board • View topic - Rod Stewart
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Post subject: Rod Stewart
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At work today, I was singing a little, 'Maggie May'.
The young university graduates ask me what was I singing. They like my guitar improv ...
I told them, and said it was Rod Stewart.
Who's that ???
It is true that all roads to success are under construction. It is easy to say because, in this city, all roads are under construction. The real surprise is that success lies not in the road, but in the destination. If you don't go to heaven, your life is a failure!
Post subject: Re: Rod Stewart
i was shocked that stewart beat out bullet bob in the R&R hall of fame vote on the ultimate classic rock site ... and disgusted
Banned for being shocked.
Sorry, that's another thread.
I've got 5 of his songs on my playlist. And I love his renditions of some American classics.
Who the hell is Bullet Bob?
At any rate, the rock and roll hall of fame is a complete joke. It is nothing more than Jan Wenner and Dave Marsh's personal taste, and a reflection of their personal biases. How else to explain how a band like the Velvet Underground, who sold like 3 records worldwide when they were together and who are still virtually unknown today, or MC5 about whom the same can be said, could be enshrined, while Kiss, one of the biggest bands of the 1970's who have sold a hundred million records and influenced literally hundreds of hard rock and heavy metal acts for the last 40 years, has never even been nominated. Or what about Rush? They practically invented the genre of progressive rock, have consistently produced gold records and successful tours for 40 years, and still get tons of air time on classic rock radio stations. Yet, they've never even been nominated. Indeed, entire genres have been excluded, there is not a single progressive rock band (not even Genesis! )
What are the criteria? Record sales? Then half of the people there don't belong. Influence? Ditto. Critical acclaim? Well then they need to include a lot of bands that they've rejected.
And how come so many people who aren't even ROCK musicians have been inducted? Johnny Cash is iffy, but can be justified because his early albums with Sun Records were very rockabilly, and he used to tour with Roy Orbison, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, indisputably rock. But how about Michael Jackson? Sure he did try his hand at the occasional rocker, such as Beat It, Smooth Criminal or Dirty Diana, but can anyone SERIOUSLY call him a rock musician? And choices like Aretha Franklin and Madonna are ridiculous under any criteria.
How can Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin, who aren't even rockers, in the hall, but AC/DC, whose album 'Back to Black' is the best selling rock album EVER have been excluded?
The hall is a joke, period.
doom, the R&R hall of fame i referred specifically to has NOTHING to do with the official R&R hall of fame in cleveland...
ever heard of bob seger and the silver bullet band ... that was my reference to bullet bob... not an official title, just one i assumed someone knowledgeable about classic rock would understand ... the fact that he was not inducted into the hall until 2004 is almost as much of a disgrace as Stevie Ray Vaughn not being in at all
at least i can agree with you about the membership of the hall being a joke for its omissions, compared to some who have made it
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anawim wrote:
there are some songs of his i like... as a body of work, bob seger wins hands down...not even close... at least in my opinion with my musical tastes
When Rod started recording show tunes, he lost me. Next I expect him to have a show in Branson, Mo.
Except for Shakedown, I don't care for Bob Seger.
there are some songs of his i like... as a body of work, bob seeger wins hands down...not even close... at least in my opinion with my musical tastes
You just keep running against the wind!
story of my life fo' sho' ... seger has one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbY2cmEsS0
Srsly, anyone our age who can't figure out who "Bullet Bob" is needs to put his corded headphones back on and put another Lawrence Welk tape on his reel-to-reel player.
I've always wanted to karaoke "Still the Same." One of these day's I will. Y'all consider yourselves forewarned.
There's only one Bob Seger song I genuinely don't like: "Fire Lake." It's got the most insipid lyrics since "MacArthur Park." I cringe whenever I hear it. The rest of the time, though...ROCK ON, BABY! \,,/ \,,/
kage_ar wrote:
He never recorded 'show tunes', the fact that you even used that phrase, makes me wonder if you know what a 'show tune' is. A 'show tune' is a song from a broadway musical. Rod Stewart has never recorded 'show tunes', what he did record was 5 volumes of 'standards', songs by people like Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael or Cole Porter. That ain't 'show tunes'.
And the reason why he decided to record standards is basic common sense. His rock and roll records were no longer selling. His producer told him that since the young people are no longer interested, he should shoot for an older audience. What do older audiences listen to? Standards. Albums of standards are always popular, precisely because the songs themselves are always popular. And they are popular because they are GOOD, the fact that they are good is why they became a standard. And one of those albums of standards was actually an album of rock standards, covering songs by Chuck Berry, Bob Seger, The Pretenders, Eric Claption and Van Morrison. And he did an album of Motown covers also. Hardly 'show tunes', although there is nothing wrong with 'show tunes'.
You guys all lost me. Most of the names mentioned I never even heard of. I prefer classical music. I guess at 85 I am out of range.
"The real aim of all spiritual growth is to become your true self." (Thomas Merton)
you're right muirfield... it would have been your kids listening to these folk... you were probably in your late 30s to early 40s during their heyday
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I'd like to know what groups or singers were you tapping your toes to when you were 18?
bing...frank...benny goodman
Yes indeed. Bing and Frank, but also Caruso, Maria Callas, Gregorian chant et al.
Primarily heard on the radio? Records?
Radio? Yes, but also 78's, LP's, and CD's and downloads copied to flash sticks.
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Toys ‘R’ Us to hold going-out-of-business sales
Posted: Feb 7, 2018 / 07:43 AM PST / Updated: Feb 7, 2018 / 07:58 AM PST
A Toys R Us sign is visible at a Toys R Us store January 28, 2002 in Arlington Heights, IL. Toys R Us Inc. plans to cut 1,900 jobs and to close 27 Toys R Us stores and 37 Kids R Us stores in a drive to cut costs and boost its operating profits. The toy and childrens apparel retailer said on January 28, 2002 it will take a $213 million pretax restructuring charge as a result of the moves in its fiscal fourth quarter ending February 2, 2002. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO – Over 150 Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores are about to hold going-out-of-business sales, according to Time Magazine.
The chain announced in January it would be closing more than 180 stores, which is about a third of their locations, as part of a bankruptcy plan. The stores were expected to close between February and mid-April, according to the report.
Three stores in San Diego County were among in the closings, including the Mission Valley, Mira Mesa and Vista locations.
The company would not confirm when the official date of sales will be, but it could start as early as Wednesday, according to USA Today.
Full list of Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores that are closing.
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Bob and I had been at Grand Canyon National Park for a few days, and on top of exploring the phenomenal panoramic sights, we had also been engrossed in the observation of a variety of bird species. It was not until the morning of a guided Fossil Hike that we first came upon some Mule Deer. People wanting to join the hike were to assemble on the canyon-side patio of Bright Angel Lodge, and there, just below the stone wall edging the pathway, a family of Mule Deer was having its breakfast.
The Canyon was aglow with early-morning sunshine, so we took our time enjoying the view as we made our way from Maswik Lodge to the rallying point for the guided walk.
Despite our being out and about the trails and village for most daylight hours of the previous few days, we were oblivious to the large numbers of Mule Deer that inhabit Grand Canyon National Park because, oddly enough, they had remained out of sight. It was quite the surprise, then, to see a pair almost at arm’s reach below the South Rim Trail. Inching along narrow paths forged by the wildlife, this young Mule Deer and its mother had found some tasty bushes to munch on.
Mule Deer eat a variety of vegetation, but being browsers, the majority of their diet consists of either weeds or leaves and twigs of woody shrubs. These may include mesquite leaves and beans, a flowering shrub known as Fairy Duster, Jojoba, and Cat Claw Acacia, to name a few, but one thing they seldom eat is grass.
As I observed this young Mule Deer, I was struck by the size of its ears. Mule Deer get their name from the fact that their ears are very large and resemble those of a mule, but to actually see these deer with their over-sized ears made me giggle. My first thought was of Dumbo the Elephant. Normally, a Mule Deer’s ears are equal to 3/4 the length of its head. In my photo, you can also see the distinctive black forehead that contrasts sharply with the deer’s light grey face.
It was also impossible for me to miss noting the deer’s distinctive tail. Unlike the large tails on White-tailed Deer, common at home in Ontario, the tail of the Mule Deer is small, and white like the rump patch, but it is set off by a black tip. A Mule Deer’s tail can be anywhere from 4.6 to 9.0 inches long, and it is carried in a drooped position.
In the forests near Oxtongue Lake, Ontario, where I was born and raised, White-tailed Deer are a very familiar sight.
As Bob and I hiked through the woods near Oxtongue Lake on one occasion, we spooked a young deer that immediately took off on the run but simultaneously lifted its white tail as a warning to any other deer in the area. That action is called “flagging”. Mule Deer do not flag their tails, but instead escape danger using stiff-legged jumps that have them bouncing up and over rugged terrain. This action is called “stotting”. All 4 hooves push off the ground at the same time, and in one bound, a Mule Deer can travel a distance of 15 feet over thick brush, at a height of 2 feet, giving the deer a good vantage point for planning its escape and allowing it to out-distance its predators.
You will also note that the ears of the White-tailed Deer are much smaller in size compared to those of the Mule Deer, an advantage when it comes to enduring -40F. temperatures during the winter months. They are less prone to frostbite.
As Bob and I proceeded along the South Rim Trail, the pair of Mule Deer sauntered along in the same direction, nibbling at leaves and twigs along the way. They were totally unfazed by the collection of people lurking above them. They, too, had been drawn to the edge of the trail for a look.
When we heard the rallying call from the Park Ranger who would be leading the Fossil Hike, we had to abandon our morning’s wildlife viewing for the present time.
A few days later, when Bob and I were three hours into our hike down the Bright Angel Trail, we were startled by the appearance of a Mule Deer just off to the side of the trail. It appeared to be surprised by our presence, too, even though other hikers had passed that way ahead of us. Like a lot of animals in that arid environment, Mule Deer are most active early in the morning, at dusk or even on moonlit nights. We commenced our hike at 5 a.m. so it was no surprise to come across this Deer feeding during the cool early morning hours.
Our hike began on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, at the trailhead of Bright Angel Trail, located on the lip of the canyon at the top of this photograph. Even though we were descending into the Inner Canyon, care had to be taken because of the steep decline and sharp drop-offs, so it was at about 8:30 a.m. when we saw the Deer, at about Mile 4 from the outset.
It was a little easier negotiating the trail from that point on towards Indian Garden because the surface was more level, but even though it was still fairly early in the morning, the temperatures were scorching. Indian Garden is an oasis that promised a welcome reprieve from the heat. A spring-fed river is the source of water at the oasis, a rarity in that desert world.
It seemed natural to find another Mule Deer on the trail near Indian Garden, given the available source of water at the oasis, but this Deer was more interested in taking advantage of the shade it had found. That close to the oasis, there was an abundance of trees whereas the area surrounding Indian Garden, the Tonto Platform, supports only those plants typical of a desert environment…low scrub and cacti.
Mule Deer eke out a good existence in desert regions where there is sufficient vegetation to eat and to hide in. Only during the hottest parts of the summer months will the Mule Deer in the Grand Canyon move to higher elevations where they can find cooler temperatures, ample water and lush vegetation. The lower elevations maintain a warmer temperature during the winter months, so that is where most of the Mule Deer will be found at that time of the year.
After taking a break at Indian Garden, Bob and I made the decision to carry on to Plateau Point, a lookout with a view of the Colorado River. We had to make haste as the afternoon temperature was at 100F and rising. Already, a few Mule Deer were seeking refuge in the shade of a small tree. The young deer usually forage together in family groups, and then bed down in a cool secluded place during midday. The bucks, on the other hand, go off by themselves and are more apt to bed down on some rocky ridge to pass the afternoon hours.
Mule Deer rarely travel far from water and forage, so there, not far from Indian Garden, made a perfect spot to bed down. For them, it was a short walk to the river running through the oasis. Mule Deer have adapted to living in the desert by keeping daytime activity to a minimum, thus keeping their body temperature within safe limits and conserving water.
Other adaptations that contribute to their survival in a dry and harsh desert climate include the fact that their grey-buff coloured coats help camouflage them from predators in their sandy surroundings. With their keen sense of smell…1,000 times stronger than a human’s…, Mule Deer can detect water 2 feet underground, and specially adapted larger feet enable them to claw away the earth to reach the water.
It was late spring when we traveled to the Grand Canyon, so the Mule Deer in the Inner Canyon had not yet been inclined to move to higher altitudes. They would wait until the daytime temperatures got even hotter. The day following our 13-hour hike to Plateau Point and back up to the South Rim, a road trip seemed in order. Our legs were in serious need of some rest so we set off for the North Rim, visible in the distance in this snapshot.
After crossing back into Grand Canyon National Park on the North Rim, Bob and I drove through extensive meadowland on the Kaibab Plateau as we made our way towards Point Imperial. Seeing several Mule Deer in that alpine environment was more akin to seeing White-tailed Deer at home. Mule Deer are smaller, slower and less colourful than White-tailed Deer, ranging in size from 3-3.5 feet tall at the shoulder and from 4.5-7.0 feet long, with does being smaller than the bucks.
Mule Deer eat a wide variety of vegetation types in order to meet their nutritional needs, but because they have no upper teeth, only a hard palate, and because their digestive tracts are different from those of cattle and elk, Mule Deer must be quite selective in their food choices. Rather than eating large quantities of low-quality food like grass, they select the most nutritious plants and plant parts to meet their forage requirements. Like with a cow, food is digested after ingestion when the deer chews its cud.
Considering the various locations where Bob and I had sighted the Mule Deer, we felt we had been very lucky. They are quite endearing with their large ears, and knowing how important they are to the wildlife food chain, Grand Canyon National Park is fortunate to have a healthy population living within its boundaries.
California Condors at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
An Eastern Wolf in Algonguin Park
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Chivas Femenil Chat: Week 1 Preview
By Melissa Hernandez
Chivas Femenil will be opening the Guard1anes 2020 season with a visit to FC Juárez, five months since the last time they played. Whether you’re already following them or want to get started, here’s a recap on the team’s current situation and roster, and a preview of their history against Juárez.
Edgar “Chore” Mejía stepped in as a coach almost two weeks ago, after a surprise exit of Ramón Villa Zevallos. A former Chivas player (and league champion with the club), Mejía has no previous experience with women’s teams as a head coach, but has mentioned in interviews that he worked as an assistant during the team’s earlier seasons helping out Fernando Camacho, and had since followed or attended their matches during his stint as third division coach, so he’s not a complete stranger to the team.
Before his arrival, there were four signings, mainly focused on bringing in players with plenty of experience:
– Alicia Cervantes, who came in from current champions Rayadas and has played as a left winger and striker.
– Carolina Jaramillo, a midfielder/winger who boasts two titles with Tigres.
– Fernanda Ayala, a goalkeeper from now-defunct Monarcas Femenil.
– Dayana Madrigal, a centre-back. Madrigal hails from the youth squad and had previously joined the team’s preseason last December, as well as having trained with the senior team this whole year.
Sporting Director Nelly Simón made it very clear that they would not release anyone unless they asked to go, offering certainty in a season that saw over 100 players without a team in the midst of a pandemic. There were only two departures, as well as one ended loan:
– Ana Paula Ruvalcaba (Goalkeeper): Ruvalcaba decided to step down from the team so she could focus on her college studies.
– Rubí Soto (Striker): Soto was signed by Spain’s 2nd division team Villareal CF Femenino, becoming not only the first Chivas export, but also the first player fully developed in the league to go abroad. Having been the team’s main assist provider and second goalscorer during the past year, figuring out how to compensate her exit is going to be one of coach Mejía’s biggest challenges.
–Karen Loya (Defender): Loya arrived on a loan from FC Juárez, but she injured her back during preseason, and returned to Juárez not having been able to play with Chivas.
What should we expect?
The team’s most frequently used lineup is 4-3-3, but it could change under the new coaching staff. Let’s take a look at each of the team’s lines:
Goal: Blanca Félix has been the undisputed starting goalkeeper for three years now. We’ll see if Fernanda Ayala can challenge her, or if we’ll start seeing Celeste Espino, a consistent U-17 national team presence, continue her development and get minutes.
– Centre-backs: With Mexican international Janelly Farías currently out after having shoulder surgery (she’s mentioned she expects to be back around mid-season), we should be seeing Miriam García continue to lead and take over the left side of the defense. The right side could go to either Priscila Padilla, or Kinberly Guzmán, a Chivas youth-team developed player who continues to show great promise and perform well. Overall, all of these players have been reliable when needed, and while rookie Dayana Madrigal might not get too many minutes soon, she’ll definitely be surrounded by plenty of talent that she can learn from.
– Left-back: Andrea Sánchez has only relinquished her spot as starter due to injury or national team call-ups, but it would be interesting to see if Samara Alcalá can get minutes to shine in the position. Araceli Torres has also occasionally shown up.
– Right-back: Damaris Godínez took over on the last matches of the season before suspension, but Jaqueline Rodríguez could build a case to regain starter status.
Midfield: The team’s most consistent line until now, with captain Tania Morales on the left, Miriam Castillo on the center, and Nicole Pérez on the right. We’ll see if coach Mejía is willing to shake things up, and possible options are Michelle González (who’s back after a year of being out with an ACL tear), youth-developed and U-17 national team player Isabella Gutiérrez, and Susan Bejarano, who had some minutes last season. Chivas midfielders typically have enough firepower to try mid and long-distance shots, an asset that has been somewhat underutilized recently by the team. We’ll see if it makes a comeback.
Attack: It will be interesting to follow María Sánchez on the left wing, as she had very little time to showcase her talents before the season was suspended. The team’s offense poses the biggest questions, as they need to figure out to how to fill the massive gap left by Rubí Soto, who was the league’s best winger any team could ask for on their right side. The main options to cover for her are Norma Palafox or Joseline Montoya (usually plays on the left, but would switch sides with Soto during matches), with new signing Carolina Jaramillo also looking to land that job.
Coach Mejía’s choice of centre-forward will be interesting to see, as one of former coach Villa’s most questionable decisions was to leave the team’s highest-scoring player Yashira Barrientos on the bench, in favor of Evelyn González. Barrientos’s performance, not just as a scorer, but also as the team’s second-best player in assists should make her the obvious choice to start, but anything can happen, especially with Alicia Cervantes in the mix, with her being versatile enough to play the center or one of the wings.
Other options are Anette Vázquez, who was part of the U17 World Cup 2018 finalists alongside midfielder Nicole Pérez as well as Lupita Velázquez and Gabriela Huerta, who is back from an ACL tear. Chivas’ playing style has never relied on a single player to score, so it will be a matter of finding the right combination of players, or if any of them step up into a leading role.
Chivas Femenil vs FC Juárez Preview
While Chivas should be the favorites to win, their two previous meetings with FC Juárez have not exactly been easy. Chivas won their first game 1-0, with a goal scored by defender Kinberly Guzmán at home at Estadio Akron, on August 26th, 2018.
Their only visit so far to FC Juárez’s turf ended in a 0-0 draw, on January of this year, in conditions that were much colder than what the team’s used to facing. We’ll see if the weather’s more favorable this time around, but they should now brace for some heat.
Cracking their opponent’s defense is not going to be an easy task either, as centre-back Melissa Sosa was loaned from Chivas to Juárez and has since earned a starting spot, becoming one of the league’s best performers in her position. The other expected centre-back could be Karen Loya, who had a stint at Chivas on loan as well last season, but was unable to play due to a back injury. However, Loya is fully fit now and ready to return to her duties as Juárez captain.
Adding the expected rust and the struggle to adapt to a new coach so quickly, it’s going to be an interesting test for Chivas to see if they can begin the season with an away win.
Chivas Femenil vs FC Juárez head to head:
1 Win, 1 draw, 0 losses
Chivas Femenil 1-0 FC Juárez – Apertura 2019
FC Juárez 0-0 Chivas Femenil – Clausura 2020
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Metabiota Pulls In $30 Million In Funding To Help Predict The Global Spread Of Disease
Disease outbreak prediction startup Metabiota has raised $30 million in Series A funding to help build out its offerings to government organizations and insurers on a global scale.
The San Francisco startup uses computer modeling to predict and prevent disease outbreaks in populations throughout the world, including Africa and Asia. It does this by collecting data from various communities and regional clinics to map out where a disease might strike next. Metabiota technology played a role in helping the Sierra Leone government stem Ebola outbreaks in the country.
Government organizations and NGOs, such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, have traditionally gathered information on the ground about outbreaks and then tried to work with various governments on a plan of action. Metabiota is one of the first companies to use a combination of field data and analytics to help governments and insurers stem these epidemics.
Global hotspots for disease outbreaks throughout the world.
While this is technically a Series A, Metabiota notes that it considers this more of a growth round. The new funds will be used to scale the business and continue building into more areas throughout the globe. This means hiring engineers and working with insurers and reinsurers to provide financial tools to governments for epidemic outbreaks.
Adding financial means to help out in particular disease hotspots will significantly improve the speed of funds to affected countries, according to Dr. Richard Wilcox, founding director general of the African Union’s African Risk Capacity (ARC) agency.
“Outbreak and epidemic insurance will provide immediate funding to operationalize peer-reviewed and approved contingency plans for early intervention activities,” Wilcox said.
Growth equity firm RSTP, a previous investor in Metabiota, led this round of funding for what it sees as a continued potential for the startup to become a multi-billion dollar company.
“Metabiota is digitizing the world’s microbial threats so that governments, insurance companies and corporations in multiple industries can be proactive about fighting disease spread and epidemic risk financing,” RSTP’s John DeLoche said of the decision to re-up financing.
Along with participation from Capricorn Healthcare, WP Global Partners, Industry Ventures and Data Collective. The startup raised $2.8 million in seed a little over a year ago, putting the total investment at $32.8 million.
Capricorn Healthcare, WP Global Partners, Industry Ventures and Data Collective also participated in the round. The startup raised $2.8 million in seed a little over a year ago, making the current total investment $32.8 million.
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Dengue epidemic/ IDF: Syria could attack Israel soon/Adding to the Ministry work/Feb. 17, 2012
This is a special note to anyone who chooses to read my prophecy documentary. My book was written in the hope that those reading it will be driven to the Bible where they should have been in the first place. This book, or for that matter any other book, should never come or be placed above the Holy Bible. The Last Chronicles was written only to help you see how close we are to the second coming of Christ, and how important it is for you to begin studying the Bible in preparation to meet Jesus. Millions of people know nothing about the Bible or Bible prophecy and will not be ready to meet Christ. My book will help you see exactly what the Lord has shown us about these last days via His Word.
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Prophecy Sign: Jeremiah 49: 24-27
Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.
25 Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the LORD of hosts.
27 “ I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”[a]
Prophecy Sign: “Isaiah 17:1 “The burden against Damascus.
“ Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.”
The Jerusalem Postreported on Thursday that there is growing concern in the Israeli army that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad could attack the Jewish state as pressure mounts for him to step down.
Assad is currently facing a revolution in his own country that he has sought to quell with brutal military force. Those bloody tactics have resulted in a good portion of the Syrian army joining the opposition, and Syria is nearing the point of full-scale civil war.
The situation has prompted the Arab League and Western powers to consider injecting their own military forces into Syria with the aim of ending Assad's rule. But before that happens, Israeli military officials believe Assad would lash out at Israel, both to divert Arab attention on Syria's internal struggle and to establish a lasting legacy for himself.
What has made this prospect all the more worrying is that recent reports suggest Assad has been using chemical weapons against the Syrian opposition, including civilians. If he attacks Israel, it is believed Assad would have no problem using those same weapons against the Jewish state.
Syria reportedly has the most extensive chemical weapons arsenal in the world.
The Israeli army has been holding drills and formulating plans focused on dealing with a number of possible scenarios springing from the situation in Syria.
Subscribers: Read our interview with Israeli experts concerning the situation in Syria and the possibility that Syrian chemical weapons will be used against Israel, either by Syria or by Assad's allies in Hizballah.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/23119/language/en-US/Default.aspx
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.N. General Assembly, dealing a major blow to the Syrian government, passed a resolution by a 137-12 vote calling for President Bashar Assad to step down.
The non-binding resolution endorsed the Arab League's effort for an end to the Assad government's deadly crackdown on the nearly yearlong pro-democracy uprising and asking the president to leave office.
Those voting against the measure included Russia and China, CNN reported. There were 17 abstentions.
Russia and China had vetoed a similar effort this month in the U.N. Security Council, which would have made it binding. Besides Russia and China, other permanent members of the Security Council are the United States, France and Britain.
The General Assembly vote was thus seen as showing where the rest of the world stands on the issue
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/02/16/General-Assembly-passes-Syria-resolution/UPI-10481329397103/#ixzz1metejJrm
Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24:7 (disease). Knowing that we are in the labor pains of the last days, we therefore should expect to see more of these strange types of diseases showing up,
Headline: “Rio faces dengue epidemic: Brazil health minister”
“Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilla on Thursday warned that Rio de Janeiro faced a major dengue epidemic, although he said the virus strain prevalent was not fatal. "I believe that Rio could this year face one of the worst dengue epidemics in its history, in terms of number of cases," he said in a television interview. Padilla said the dengue virus strain prevalent in Riowas not the most serious and was not fatal. The official Agencia Brasil said since the start of the year, 3,499 dengue cases have been recorded in Rio, compared with 2,322 last year, but none were fatal. The government said that nationally cases dropped 62 percent this year to 40,486. Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, resulting in fever, muscle and joint ache.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?
Many of you don't know, but Timothy Moore and I have been placed together by the Lord to help spread the Word of God in Africa. The message of Christ about His Salvation, and His warnings concerning the last days has hit home in Africa and, as you will read by this email below our Ministry in Africa is being blessed by Christ and is growing into different Ministries.
Bro. Frank
You will rejoice with me about the new evangelism/missions outreach that we have begun in Kenya. The Lord has spoken to a family who has agreed to fund the cost for a year of training and placing 6 missionary evangelists into the field to preach, win the lost and establish new churches. Most will be in Kenya but I expect at least one will be in Tanzania. In obedience to the Lord, this family is providing $100. per evangelist per month and an additional $100. per month for their supervising pastor as well as funds for about 200 Bibles for them to provide to new converts. The $100. per month is adequate to provide for rental housing and support in the field.
They are undergoing a month of intensive daily training and field experience out of the Christ the Rebuilder Church in Eldoret, Kenya under the supervision of Pastor Enock Burudi; then they will be commissioned and set forth into their assigned missions area with a new mountain bicycle which this family has also provided the funding for. Praise the Lord for His great provision! In the first day of so of their field training in Eldoret, the first 4 men of the six won five people to the Lord, and they have the local church there for their discipleship and followup.
I have attached a photo of the first 4 missionary /evangelists standing next to the church in Eldoret. The last two have now been assigned and will join the others for training on Monday. The four in the photo are (L to R) Pastor Ken, Pastor Ben, Isaac and Pastor Nathan. The ministry effort is called Jesus' Call International Ministries and the men will report regularly to Pastor Burudi for review and modification of their ministry assignment , if needed. I expect to have a number of good photos to send to you after the end of February when they will have the commissioning service and give them their certificates and bicycles and Bibles. Please remember to pray for these men and this outreach over the next year. These men will be ministering under very difficult conditions in new areas where there are many unsaved. Some of the areas will probably also have significant Muslim presence that will make the ministry work more challenging. They need our prayers.
The four in the photo are (L to R) Pastor Ken, Pastor Ben, Isaac and Pastor Nathan.
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Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan – Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
On January 17, 2020 By Genyc79In Biographies, Middle East
On December 25, 1979, the armed forces of the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in support of pro-Communist forces engaged in a power struggle with insurgent forces known as the mujahideen. Soviet forces marched into the capital city of Kabul and later succeeded in staging a coup in which President Hafizullah Amin (1929-1979) was removed and replaced with Soviet loyalist Babrak Karmal (1929-1966). Thousands of Afghan citizens were rendered homeless as bombs fells and brutal fighting produced collateral damage. For Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller, the war changed her life in ways she could have never imagined.
This moving autobiography is Ahmadi-Miller’s story of life in Afghanistan and her family’s journey across cities and countries in search of a better life far removed from war torn Kabul. As the book begins, we are taken inside her home where she and her seven siblings are being raised by their parents Abdullah and Miriam. Their daily routine is what we would expect of large family and the interactions between siblings is something that anyone with brothers and sisters can easily relate to. Her parents care deeply for each other but Abdullah, whom Enjeela affectionately calls Padar, has a vice that eventually fractures their marriage. Though they are able to move past it, changes in the Afghan government coupled with a crackdown on opposition voices, results in Miriam making the decision to leave the country with half of their children, leaving Padar and the rest behind. He is determined never to leave Afghanistan and is certain they can ride out the war. However, the reality of the conflict begins to hit home as he finds himself suspected by the Soviets of secretly working for the United States. Time begins to run out and Padar decides that they will join their mother who has settled in India. He sends his children on their journey with a trusted friend, Masood, and promises to join them in neighboring Pakistan. Masood is a loyal and dedicated friend who serves as their guardian as they traverse across mountains, valleys and small villages across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Enjeela and her siblings soon experience the realities of the world that have a profound effect on all them.
As they move through Afghanistan and later Pakistan, they encounter many dark realities of life that children in the west are never exposed to. Soviet fighters had engulfed the city and their presence alone is enough to cause fear and consternation among the local populace. Enjeela has plenty to tell us and her memories of the migration between the two countries are filled with anecdotes that reveal the brutal reality that is life in remote locations. Nomads, rebels, shepherds and bandits roam freely resulting in Masood keeping a watchful eye over his group. Mina enters the story and young Enjeela soon makes a new friend. But over time, Mina’s life at home reveals a dark side of Afghanistan that Enjeela was unaware of. She is slowly growing up on this trip but in ways she could never have imagined. Their bond as siblings and support for each other are tested time and again as they are forced to use critical thought in situations that could have easily gone the wrong way.
Pakistan proves to be a refuge for the group of siblings who eventually realize that they are in fact refugees. But they have many guardian angels along the way and their roles in the story were unexpected but definitely welcomed. Those moments add a touch of humanity to a story filled with adversity. Padar eventually reenters the story and the Ahmadi family that has survived thus far, is determined to make it to India. The next leg of their journey to what they believe is their final destination, is by far the most dangerous and the escapades that ensue are what we would describe as “close calls”. Padar remains the voice of reason and their source of eternal faith. Throughout the book he is anchor upon which everyone relies for support and reassurance. His strengths and flaws are on display but it is clear that Enjeela truly loves him and the two have a special bond. After a series of mishaps, Padar and the four siblings finally reach India where a sense of normalcy sets in again. However, their mother Miriam has her own struggle and needs the support of her family at this time more than ever. Her plight and the family’s status in India, forces her and Padar to make another life altering decision that will take the family across several continents to place none of them ever thought they would live in.
This book came as a recommendation on Amazon and at first glance, the cover caught my attention. I have always been fascinated about the Middle East, a region which many westerners still struggle to understand. Enjeela’s story shows a side of Islam that is often omitted and her observations about what true Islam is and how we should treat each other, are insightful and thought provoking. My only complaint is that I wish the book had continued for a few more chapters to see how life changed for the Ahmadi family after their final move. Perhaps that part is not as important or possibly boilerplate in development. Regardless, this story of her early years in the Middle East and the struggle to survive and emigrate is enough to inspire anyone that decides to read this story. And her account goes to show that broken circles can be repaired.
ASIN: B07DK7FBDS
I Am Perhaps Dying: The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham – Dennis A. Rasbach MD FACS (Author), Janet Elizabeth Croon (Editor)
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America – Shelby Steele
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Enter The Matrix – Second Opinion
By Guest Critic on June 17, 2003 in Reviews
I agree with Gene that Enter The Matrix is a disappointment, but my reasons for thinking so are a little more complicated. I didn't pay much attention to the hype surrounding the game, so in my mind it isn't a question of "does it live up to the hype" so much as "does it live up to the potential of the concept." Considering the fact that a videogame based on The Matrix is a unique opportunity to construct a "virtual world" where seeing and exploiting its artificiality is precisely the point, Shiny really blew it. Any game based on the Wachowski Brothers soon-to-be trilogy should be, obviously, the Matrix itself. When adapting a film that knows the conventions of computer and videogames so well, you'd think the designers would recognize that what they've been handed is already a finished blue-print for a great game. But no. Rather than try to adapt the aspects of the film(s) which lend themselves naturally to the pace, structure, and conventions of a videogame, they've instead focused on adapting those aspects which are inherently filmic which, to me, seems to defeat the entire purpose of making a videogame out of The Matrix at all.
So what exactly do I mean by this? Take the way Enter The Matrix is paced, for example. The game is saved practically every few minutes, so that each mission becomes an endless string of save-points that the player can go back to if he or she fails. What seems frustrating about this is that the films actually had a much more compelling save-game paradigm: phone booths. One of the reasons the films are such a pleasure for a gamer such as myself is because of their ability to leverage videogame logic for suspense. In the films the tension of having to get to a phone booth to get out of the Matrix is, essentially, the tension any gamer knows of having to get to a save-point. You'd think that a videogame based on this fictive world would simply copy this, since that would easily recreate the suspense and excitement of the films in one effortless and economical design choice not to mention take advantage of the videogaming metaphor which is the backbone of the whole franchise. However, Enter The Matrix seems to have been designed with only the vaguest awareness of this and shows a general failure to realize how its transmedia aspects could (or should) have been used to make the persistence of the Matrix universe stronger rather than weaker. This can be seen again in their use of cut-scenes. The idea of film footage shot with real actors might have been a nice way to differentiate between the real world and the world of the Matrix, but no. If the Matrix is a videogame and the real world isn't, doesn't it completely muck up the metaphor to have there be no rhyme or reason as to which portions of the game are portrayed on film and which are portrayed with computer graphics? What sense does it make for us to see events going on in the real world seen in graphics, let alone play arcade-style sequences set in the real world? Where does the "game" stop and reality begin? A game designed by people with even the slightest curiosity as to how the potent metaphors and themes of the films might play out in a virtual space could have been a fascinating piece of work, a videogame that was about videogames which might have used the excellent lead of the films to explore ideas inherent to digital media. Unfortunately, there is nothing even remotely this interesting going on in Enter The Matrix.
So Enter The Matrix obviously isn't the game I would have made with the Matrix license. That much is clear. At this point I suppose I should ask myself if this is even fair criticism. I know that I sometimes read reviews and get annoyed with critics who seem to be reviewing the game they wanted to play, rather than the game they did play. If we leave aside for a moment the fact that Enter The Matrix doesn't make good on any of the metaphors from the films, what does it accomplish? I'd say that in terms of "giving the players the experience of the films" it does deliver in one—and only one—area: combat. If nothing else, it does allow the player the opportunity to dodge bullets in slow-motion, run on walls, do flips, and take apart opponents with the Hong Kong/anime-inspired finesse of the films. However, this mostly works on an aesthetic level, since both the control scheme and difficulty balance is rather sloppy. I cannot deny that—even for the 50th time—running up a wall and kicking a cop in the face was a thrill. However, the fact that I rarely did so exactly how I intended to made the experience ultimately superficial. It's true that there are dozens of moves available to the player, but the controls, while seemingly intuitive, just don't allow for the kind of mastery that better action games have. Players can count on doing cool movies successfully and often, but they can forget pulling off a complete strategy with any kind of consistent precision. So even on a more modest level of simply comparing Enter The Matrix to other games of its genre, it still does not stand out (although it does provide some entertainment). Ironically, it is not as good as the action games that were inspired by the aesthetics of original Matrix. Games like Max Payne and Devil May Cry did a much better job of mixing intuitive controls, cool looks, and gratuitous gunplay.
I suppose I shouldn't be so hard on Shiny. I do realize they weren't exactly given free reign to do whatever they wanted with this game. The incorporation of film footage alone probably dictated a lot of the design, much of which they were depending on the filmmakers for. Enter The Matrix no doubt is an experiment, the third prong of the ambitious transmedia "synergy" of which The Matrix Reloaded and The Animatrix are also a part. In truth, this is much of the appeal of playing the game. Although it is clearly a much uninspired adaptation of The Matrix and only a slightly better-than-average action game, I do admit that its continuation (or, I should say, complementation) of Reloaded's plot was well worth the rental. Even with all its flaws, I can't say it's a game I wouldn't recommend under any circumstances. If you're a fan of the films and merely want the chance to don the studly clothes and kick butt, Enter The Matrix does that much if unevenly. However, I can't help but be genuinely depressed at the apparent lack of thought, creativity, or inspiration that went into the long awaited videogame adaptation of the most videogame-friendly film in the short history of the medium. Rating: 6 out of 10.
Disclaimer: This review is based on the PlayStation 2 version of the game.
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Acme Studios — Ina Boesch
Ina Boesch is a cultural scholar, author and editor living and working in Zürich, Switzerland. Ina studied Ethnology, History and Journalism at the University of Zurich and completed a doctorate in Swiss history. As well as writing books on European cultural history and curating cultural projects and exhibitiions, Ina has worked for many years as a cultural editor and scriptwriter for Swiss Radio’s culture channel (Radio SRF2 Kultur) and as a lecturer in cultural studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She has also worked for development organizations both in Switzerland and abroad, and has travelled to many countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia as part of this work, and for her own research.
In 2014, Ina recevied support from the Stiftung für Frauenarbeit Foundation for research in connection with her book Die Dada, which was published in 2015. Ina also curated an exhibtion around this publication, entitled Di Dada La Dada She Dada. Further publications include: Tu was du willst. Sinnsuche in Stein (2017), and Grenzfälle: Von Flucht und Hilfe (2008).
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‘Ken Agyapong is more than a prophet’ – Prophet Amoako-Atta
The Founder and Leader of the Parliament House Chapel, Prophet Francis Amoako-Atta has labelled Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong as ‘someone who is more than a prophet’.
According to him, the controversial Legislator has been making several comments which later comes to past and hence must be taken seriously.
One of these prophecies, the man of God who was speaking on Angel 102.9FM’s Anopa Bofo⊃ said is his call on the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop the fight over who succeeds the presidency.
Kennedy Agyapong had said that the timing for such activity is not right given that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has just been sworn into office for his second term.
He explained that if the NPP will be able to win the next elections it will largely depend on the performance of Mr Akufo-Addo hence, he should be supported to deliver.
Posters of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Trade Minister Alan Kyeremateng vying for the flagbearership position of the NPP ahead of the next elections have emerged on social media just few weeks after the party won the December 7 2020 elections.
“Even when we haven’t sworn in President Akufo-Addo there was this issue about Alan and Bawumia, who among them will lead NPP into 2024. What is this? This brings a lot of fragmentation, it disintegrates the party completely.
“I will appeal to the party people to take a lesson from how most of the NPP MPs lost in the 2020 elections. Ghanaians are not fed up with the NPP, rather the doing of NPP members themselves is costing the party.
“What happened to our MPs is a sign that we need to work hard to win 2024. If we all come together , realize our mistakes and put things behind us and rally behind whoever will eventually win the flagbearer position when the time comes we will have victory. With unity definitely we will win 2024.
“Let us give ourselves two years and see. The likelihood of any candidate to win 2024 will depend on Akufo-Addo. The man has just been sworn-in and so let us see how far he can take the country,” he said.
Prophet Amoako-Atta had predicted that the NPP would lose the 2024 elections if they do no put an end to the early lobbying for the flagbearer slot of the party.
“You see Ken Agyapong also said same and I am glad they have put an end to this nonsense of internal competition for the flagbearer…,” he said.
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NO MORE NEONICS
THREE POPULAR ACTIVE INGREDIENTS ON THE GOVERNMENT’S CHOPPING BLOCK
BY TREVOR BACQUE
What’s your secret cure for the hiccups? Do you hold your breath? Do you drink a glass of water from the side? Do you hop on one leg?
What if you weren’t allowed to do anything and had to hope the diaphragmatic dilemma resolved itself? When we have problems, we look for solutions to solve them. It’s instinctive. But what if the solutions to your problems became unavailable? Or worse yet, illegal.
Western Canadian farmers may experience a few hiccups of their own when it comes to protecting their crops thanks to recent decisions by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) surrounding three common neonicotinoids.
Neonics have been commonplace for Western Canada’s farmers since the early 2000s with the introduction of imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin, which replaced harsh and more toxic organophosphates such as lindane and diazinon, which farmers often mixed by hand.
“When [neonics] were brought to Canada, the PMRA and other regulators fast-tracked those because they were in the process of getting rid of the organophosphates. This new class heralded a new approach and less human toxicity and they were welcomed as a great alternative to the organophosphates,” said Pierre Petelle, CEO of CropLife Canada, an Ottawa, ON-based industry group representing the world’s largest agrochemical companies within Canada.
Imidacloprid is a neonic used extensively to combat wireworm in wheat. As with all active ingredients, it was subject to a 15-year cyclical review by the PMRA. This Nov. 23, 2016 report concluded there were concerns related to aquatic invertebrates. Its findings triggered special re-evaluations of two other common neonics— thiamethoxam and clothianidin—also based on potential risk to the health of the aquatic species.
During the 120-day consultation period on imidacloprid, more than 46,000 comments were submitted to the government on its proposed ban. The final proposals may push for the complete revocation of all three ingredients in outdoor operations with the exception of thiamethoxam in greenhouses.
“My concern is that not only are Canadian growers losing significant and important active ingredients, the reputation [of Canada] as a predictable scientific country to come to might erode the attractiveness for new chemistries, as well,” said Petelle.
The publication of the imidacloprid decision was released after press time. The decisions for thiamethoxan and clothianidin are expected in January 2020.
SO, HOW DID CANADA GET HERE?
In January 2016, the Auditor General’s office published a report by the PMRA on its study of the government agency’s activities during fiscal year 2014/15. Julie Gelfand, Canada’s federal commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, made a three-minute video to publicly lambaste the agency for various infractions in what was effectively a disciplinary report. Of the seven recommendations that came down on the PMRA, most related to correcting poor internal controls and lack of oversight. The report suggested these deficiencies resulted in lost productivity, misspent work time and in the agency falling behind on re-evaluations of critical ingredients.
Any active ingredient becomes subject to a special review prior to its 15-year operating period if an OECD country prohibits that active ingredient due to health or environmental concerns. Today, there are still about 30 outstanding active ingredients that require PMRA re-evaluations.
In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority published a report about risks associated with the three neonicotinoids and their potential threat to bees, which was years in the making. Two months later, EU member states approved the European Commission’s pitch to ban all outdoor uses of the three active ingredients currently being debated in Canada. The decision came into force May 29 with a grace period that recently expired on Dec. 19, 2018. The state of affairs in Europe was perhaps spurred on by Canada’s expedited pace of re-evaluations.
“Now, PMRA is under self-imposed deadline to get them all cleared out,” said Petelle of re-evaluations. “Whether it was dragging their heels or the complexity of some of these chemistries; now, in their haste to complete these, to clear them off their books, they’re inadvertently creating upheaval in the industry.”
Petelle’s group advocates for regulators to be involved in decision-making to help export-dependent Canada thrive and meet its target of $75 billion in agri-food exports by 2025. “We have all this talk about increasing our exports … the regulators aren’t part of that discussion. Our ask is that if we have the Government of Canada’s commitment to increasing agricultural production, the regulators cannot be on the sidelines because they have the ability to enable or very much hamper that ability to achieve those goals,” he said. In addition, Petelle stated that the potential alternative of returning to greater foliar spraying hasn’t been considered, something he bluntly labelled “a problem.” He cited the wider sustainability issues such a return would create, such as increased fuel consumption, reduced carbon sequestration and the greater number of applications required to get results comparable to those of the neonics in question.
However, the PMRA typically does not evaluate alternatives. The organization looks at the issue at hand and its potential effects on human health and the environment, not a farmer’s in-field practices or what they may do if that chemical is pulled off the shelf. Petelle called it “short-sighted” to not review impacts for a ban on certain chemistries but does understand the government’s predicament. “If they identify a risk issue, it’s about mitigation, not how canola or apple growers will adapt to that. That’s also part of the problem—we’re very much looking at this in isolation,” he said.
The government has made it clear that it won’t involve industry every step of the way, despite the insistence. “I can see why the [product] registrant would want that, but the public might not be on board with that,” said Frederic Bissonnette, a spokesperson for Health Canada, regarding re-evaluations. He added the process would take even longer if corporations were involved from the outset.
The government’s recent proposed decisions pertaining to both thiamethoxam and clothianidin were based on water monitoring samples that showed risk to aquatic invertebrates, which included midges and mayflies. Eastern Canadian data was robust and plentiful while, by comparison, almost non-existent out West, where both geography and usage differ. A lack of hard numbers is not an issue, though. When it comes to data monitoring, the PMRA utilizes quantitative data sets as well as estimated environmental concentrations or EECs, which is extrapolated data based on water modelling. The PMRA says it always uses both, when available, but prefers real data, and the weight given to the data depends on the circumstances.
The real data came up short in Alberta due to one of the driest years in recent memory, so the EECs were used in the findings and perhaps given greater weight given the conditions. “We had to make an assumption,” said Bissonnette.
To complicate matters further, thiamethoxam and clothianidin are similar in nature, which caused the PMRA to conclude that since “both pesticides are registered for use on many of the same crops, it is often not possible to determine whether concentrations of clothianidin measured in water are a result of the transformation of thiamethoxam, a result of the use of clothianidin as an insecticide, or a combination of the two.” Nonetheless, the recommendation was put forth to revoke both their use for agricultural operations.
Shannon Sereda, government relations and policy manager of Alberta Barley and the Alberta Wheat Commission, decried the EECs as “super concerning.” “You’re basing a risk analysis on a study and proposing the cancellation of a product across the country, but you’re not proving that the science is rigorous in arriving at that decision, particularly the work that was done in Alberta. It’s very inconclusive,” she said.
In 2017, an initial chronic endpoint (HC5) reference value, or maximum allowable levels, for imidacloprid was set at 41 parts per trillion (PPT) by the PMRA, and most of the agricultural industry believed that the threshold values would be similar for both clothianidin and thiamethoxam. However, the PMRA subsequently indicated HC5 reference points of 1.5 and 26 PPT, for clothianidin and thiamethoxam, respectively. The issue became clouded yet again when different reference standards were announced for the PMRA’s risk assessments on clothianidin and thiamethoxam, this time higher, to 20 and 300 PPT, respectively.
Nevin Rosaasen is the Alberta Pulse Growers’ policy and programs specialist as well as a Saskatchewan grain farmer who is concerned with the aquatic findings. “They should consider other impactful substances to waterways and specifically those downstream from urban centres,” he said. The substances in question include medications, hormones, air source pollutants and other contaminants, most of which were found downstream of dense population zones in recent monitoring. “The data should be collected in a manner that’s common and consistent across the country. The PMRA’s work could be further harmonized with the U.S. EPA and include work sharing in special reviews or re-evaluations. We want them to come to similar conclusions using similar methods. That’s what we’re striving for.”
For wheat and barley farmers, Sereda is concerned about wireworm and that alternatives do not exist to treat this invasive pest. “From a cereals perspective, lindane was an effective product available for the eradication of wireworm but was cancelled in 2004. Since then, there has been an anecdotal increase in wireworm, because neonics do not eradicate it. They’re a suppressant and only work to allow the plant to emerge but will not reduce the prevalence of wireworm,” she said.
Both she and Rosaasen agree that the PMRA needs to change the process it uses to engage with stakeholders, including the creation of a draft assessment prior to a publicly proposed decision to avoid alarmist language in the public domain. As well, they’re advocates of the PMRA expanding its mandate. Aside from evaluating environmental risks, they believe it should consider economic impacts to farmers and the economy, if and when chemistries are no longer available to Canadian farmers despite remaining in use in other countries.
Today, Alberta has surpassed Saskatchewan as the No. 1 producer and exporter of Canadian yellow peas. The increase in production has raised red flags about increasing pest prevalence, specifically the pea leaf weevil. Pulse farmers now have two suppression options: thiamethoxam and imidacloprid. If these active ingredients become unavailable, there will be no accessible products to suppress or control the weevil. There is also no product now available to farmers that is 100 per cent effective against the pest.
“The lifecycle of pea leaf weevil is such that by the time you notice any notching in your plants, the adult weevil has laid an egg at the surface of the soil. Once the egg has hatched, the larvae begin chewing away on the nodules of pea plants,” said Rosaasen.
What makes pea leaf weevil that much harder to control is they can fly in from adjacent fields and continue multiple life cycles during a growing season. Rosaasen describes foliar spraying for weevil as “revenge killing” that would accomplish nothing and certainly not control adult populations. To salvage a pea crop, it must become attractive enough for farmers to apply a nitrogen rescue.
“To finish a 50-bushel pea crop, peas will need 150 pounds of actual nitrogen, which basically negates our pulse advantage,” he said. Losing not only a pulse advantage, but also a general agronomic advantage, is what these neonics in question continue to represent for western Canadian farmers.
Despite reservations over research methods and chronic endpoints at the PMRA, both Sereda and Rosaasen side with Petelle and are eager to continue to collaborate to reform the PMRA’s decision-making process.
“One glimmer of hope is that we are having dialogue with the PMRA. They have committed and acknowledged that the re-evaluation process needs to change. We’re engaging with them on that process. My expectation is that we’ll have a better outcome on that program in the future. The next cycle of re-evaluation—we’re hopeful and optimistic that the process will be improved, with less surprises with negative impacts for ag,” said Petelle.
For a chemical company to bring a new active ingredient to Canadian farmers, it costs more than $300 million and takes anywhere from eight to 11 years. If the three active ingredients in question vanish, conventional farmers should hope that new research has already begun so they may have new options to protect their crops. Hiccup.
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សហគមន៍
ទទួលបានការពាក់ព័ន្ធ
About GRN
The History of GRN
ទំព័រនេះគឺជាបច្ចុប្បន្នមិនអាចប្រើបាននៅក្នុងភាសាខ្មែរ.
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The CardTalk cardboard record player
Illness Prevented Her ...
The ministry of Gospel Recordings was founded in Los Angeles in 1937. At that time Joy Ridderhof lay on her sickbed after returning from her time as a missionary in Honduras. All she felt was a deep sense of disappointment and sorrow at having to leave her beloved converts behind - people who in most cases were unable to read or write and relied on a verbal message to bring them to a saving knowledge of Christ.
Something To Leave Behind
If only she could have left behind recorded messages in their native Spanish, how wonderful a legacy! In this way the existing converts could be built up in their faith and other people reached ... after all, "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."
First Recording In 1938!
Thanks to several friends' generosity, Joy was able to see the beginning of this coming to fruition as she recorded the first gospel record in Spanish in the last day of 1938. What started out as a trickle soon became a veritable flood as enquiries for the Spanish records started coming in thick and fast not only from Honduras, but increasingly from other Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America, as well.
A turning point was reached in 1940. Joy was asked to make a number of gospel recordings for the Navajo Indians in Arizona. Each additional language would lead to requests for more languages to be recorded. She agreed, and so began the fulfilment of the wider commission - to take the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Today - In Over 30 Countries
Gospel Recordings has developed into an international mission with centers and bases in over 30 countries.
Recording work is done in makeshift recording studios in church buildings, classrooms, or just out under a tree. This material then has to be edited and have some music or songs added to it, to make it ready for distribution.
Distribution is done by teams of people moving from village to village, or through missions or churches that have been established in the particular language area. Recordings are also played or made available in clinics, schools and in market places. Villagers hear (in many cases for the first time), the Word of Life - and in a language that they fully understand.
The Mission is constantly seeking to update its equipment and methods so that people might be more effectively reached; there are thousands more new recordings to be made and older ones to be updated; new Recordists to be trained; and new distribution methods such as mobile technologies to be developed.
Please support the work of GRN by praying for the Members serving around the world, and for the projects in which they are involved. Pray also for a constant flow of new workers to carry on the task. There is so much yet to be done to bring the gospel to every tribe and tongue and it can only be done with the prayer support of God's faithful people.
Audio playback devices from GRN
Special purpose audio players for use where commercial players just won't do.
ពដែលទាក់ទង
Brief History of GRN - Since 1939 GRN has been working to reach the smallest language groups with the Good News of Jesus Christ in their own language through audio recordings.
ស្វែងយល់បន្ថែមទៀត
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Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate: A Resource Guide
American poet Robert Pinsky served as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1997-2000 at the Library of Congress. This guide provides access to selected print and online resources related to Pinsky’s life and work.
About Robert Pinsky at the Library of Congress
Maura Byrne, Intern, Poetry and Literature Center
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. 1997-2000. Photo credit: robertpinskypoet.com/bio External
On March 28, 1997, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Robert Pinsky to be the 9th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky was the first and only poet laureate to serve three terms, finishing his duties in spring 2000. Upon his appointment, Dr. Billington said:
We are fortunate to have a poet of Robert Pinsky's versatility and wide interests as Poet Laureate. His accomplishments in translation, his interest in making poetry accessible through digital technology on the Internet, and his own probing poetry promise an exciting year for us in Washington.
Pinsky took up his duties in fall 1997, opening the Library's annual literary season in October with a reading of his work in the Coolidge Auditorium. He closed his three-year tenure as Poet Laureate on May 10th, 2000, with another reading of his work in the Coolidge Auditorium.
This guide provides an overview of print and online resources related to Robert Pinsky's life and work. To suggest additions to this guide, please contact the Researcher and Reference Services Division.
Contact Information for Robert Pinsky
If you would like to contact Robert Pinsky please direct your inquiries as suggested below:
Reading and Event Requests: Contact the Steven Barclay Agency External, which represents Robert Pinsky, if you would like to schedule Pinsky for a reading or other event.
Permissions Requests: Contact the publisher of the poem or work written by Robert Pinsky that you'd like to use.
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URL: https://guides.loc.gov/poet-laureate-robert-pinsky
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711.21/445a: Telegram
Washington, February 18, 1919, 7 p.m.
Strictly confidential. For Minister Philip.
To be deciphered upon arrival of the Minister.7
On February 7 the Colombian Minister called at the Department. The statement which Mr. Polk had made to the Minister at his dinner on January 27 was reiterated to him. This statement was as follows. “That Mr. Polk had told the Minister that the Department felt that it was not possible to send Mr. Philip to Colombia until this time owing to the status of the Treaty but that it was now definitely known what the Republican senators would approve of and support and that Mr. Philip had been instructed to bring this to the attention of the Colombian Government; further that Mr. Polk knew definitely that the Republican senators were very uncompromising in their feelings and that he had just been able at this moment to obtain a statement of their maximum concessions”.
The Minister then asked to be informed what were the maximum concessions. He was told that the total elimination of Article 1 and certain other modifications were necessary. He then requested that he be informed as to these modifications as he knew his Government would inquire of him concerning his opinion as to all contemplated changes in the Treaty, going on to say that he desired to be fully informed as the Liberal Party in Colombia in addition to his Government would ask his advice in connection with Mr. Philip’s negotiations with Colombia. He stated that he was of the opinion that the Treaty should go through even though Article 1 is eliminated and that in view of the fact that he was convinced of the good feeling of the Administration in trying to do everything in its power to have the Treaty ratified as signed, he felt that this should be sufficient to satisfy Colombia even though political [Page 729]opposition in the United States Senate prevented ratification of the signed Treaty. He further said that he would counsel his Government and the Liberal Party along these lines and recommend acceptance of Treaty with the elimination of Article 1. The Department considered that it was advisable that the Minister be given the information requested and a statement of the maximum desires of the Republican senators and therefore such a statement was prepared embodying most of the modifications suggested by Senators Knox and Lodge and the Minister on February 15 was handed the following statement confidentially and informally and told that Mr. Philip had received more detailed instructions and that this statement could only be considered as an outline. “The entire Article 1 in the original text to be stricken out of the Treaty. ‘Article 2’ in original text to be changed to read Article 1. The words ‘Even in case of war between Colombia and another country’ in Paragraph 1 of Article 2 of original text to be striken out. The words ‘During the construction of the interoceanic canal and afterwards’ in Paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the original text to be stricken out. The words ‘Even in case of war between Colombia and another country’ in Paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the original text to be stricken out. The sentence ‘The provisions of this paragraph shall not however apply in case of war between Colombia and Panama’ in Paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the original text to be stricken out. The words for Colombian consumption to be inserted between the words ‘Colombia’ and ‘passing from’ in Paragraph 5 of Article 2 of the original text. The words Whenever traffic by the canal is interrupted to be inserted between the words ‘shall’ and ‘be transported’ in Paragraph 5 of article 2 of the original text.
[“]The words ‘Article 3’ in the original text to be changed to read Article 2. The original text of this said ‘Article 3’ to be stricken out and replaced by the following. The Government of the United States of America agrees to pay at the city of Washington to the Republic of Colombia the sum of $25,000,000, gold, United States money, as follows: The sum of $5,000,000 shall be paid within six months after the exchange of ratifications of the present Treaty, and reckoning from the date of that payment, the remaining $20,000,000 shall be paid in four annual installments of $5,000,000 each; it being understood by the high contracting parties that no attorney or other person shall be entitled to receive compensation from these moneys for legal or other fees incurred in the United States during the negotiations for or in connection with the ratification of the Treaty between them. The words ‘Article 4’ and ‘Article 5’ in the original text to be stricken out and replaced by the words Article 3 and Article 4 respectively”.
After reading the above statement the Colombian Minister said in regard to the text of Article 2 as it stands modified at present that he considered the last Section beginning “It being understood” and ending “between them” as being a statement which would be resented by the Colombian people and by the President himself.
The Minister further stated that the Government of Colombia before his arrival in Washington had paid Hannis Taylor for all his legal services and upon Doctor Urueta’s arrival in Washington acting under the instructions of his Government he had officially advised Mr. Taylor that his services would be no longer required and that since this time no attorney or legal officer has been employed by the Colombian Legation in Washington.
The Minister feels that it would be most unwise to include this statement regarding legal fees in the Treaty and suggests that if possible the Government of Colombia send him instructions to present a formal note to the Government of the United States in the sense of his various statements to the Department in connection with the employment of attorneys.
The Minister feels that owing to the many conversations which he had at the Department in connection with Smith’s8 letters both to himself and to Mr. Polk that a note such as suggested could well be written at this time not necessarily having particular connection with the present status of the Treaty, and that this note would serve the same purpose. As the statement which was presented to the Minister is considered informal and only as a guide and particularly for his own information, he feels that it would be best for him not to include the portion of Article 2 which has been mentioned above in the cable which he will send his Government.
The Minister stated that he felt that the principal objection in the Colombian Congress would be to the elimination of Article 1 and that the other modifications suggested did not appear to be so essential or difficult with the exception of the matter of the attorney’s fees. He stated that he strongly hoped that the matter could be brought before the United States Senate before the fourth of March both on account of the complexion of the United States Senate and also in view of the fact that the Colombian elections will be held in the spring and it would be advisable to call a special session of the Colombian Congress to pass upon the Treaty in its modified form if agreed to by the Government of Colombia and ratified by the United States Senate before these elections, on account of party politics in [Page 731]Colombia. The Minister said that if his Government was willing to accept the modifications which Mr. Philip would suggest he trusted that an expression on the part of the Colombian Government that it approved of the modifications and would do all in its power to have them passed by the Colombian Congress, would be all that was necessary to have the matter brought up in the United States Senate. This would seem to be sufficient to the Department for it is obvious that the Colombian Government cannot officially guarantee the approval of the Colombian Congress to the modified Treaty. It is understood that the Minister is cabling his Government urging prompt action as soon as you have had time to present matters to them.
Hoffman Philip was appointed Minister to Colombia Aug. 8, 1917, but did not assume charge until Feb. 22, 1919.↩
Harry Worcester Smith, an American citizen, had proffered his services to the Colombian Government to act as “confidential adviser” with a view to bringing about a settlement, on a commission basis, of the pending question of a treaty between Colombia and the United States (File No. 711.21/432).↩
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What is an Ancient Egyptian Deity?
What is Ancient Egypt?
The God and Goddesses who are worshipped in Ancient Egypt formed the centre of the Religion and had a plethora of rituals that went with them, as do many ancient and more modern religions. Looking back at older cultures always highlights the number of deities who were worshipped in line with what we today call natural phenomena or social phenomena. Rituals were undertaken to appease or beckon a deity to assist in daily life, local life and national life.
The majority of the deities worked to maintain Ma’at although, as with all religions, some worked against this principle to account for the “evil” in the world.
What is Ma’at?
The worldly and afterlife core that was the central guide of Egyptian life and religion.
Ma’at was so important that the concept was brought to life as a Goddess.
Pharaoh had the jurisdiction to perform all necessary religious rituals on behalf of Egypt as a whole which was ennobled on Pharaoh at the Coronation. The Coronation Rituals literally re-enacted God Horus’ accession to the Throne of Egypt in place of his father Osiris. After Coronation, Pharaoh was the Deities living representative within the Land; and would become a Deity on death.
He presided over the Temples, their Priests and Priestesses and ruled to ensure that the concept of Ma’at was maintained throughout.
Domestic Worship: Characters
Deities have a complex character list, and many performed more than one specific function; meaning that not only could they appear in human form but also in animal and object form as seen in the artwork.
Their characteristics, however, did not always stick to their “known” functions and could change and evolve over time.
Where did the Deities Live?
Each Deity, every day made their Journey from their Sky location to their earthly Temples within their Statue inside the Temple. The Deity within the Temple would become the “patron deity” for that area or City and often the surrounding lands. This allowed the Egyptians to physically interact with the Deities in daily and Festival Temple Rituals.
The Deity’s sacred force was shielded in the Temple Sanctuary from the outside with limited access to humans usually only being the Pharaoh and High Priest or High Priestess.
The Deities Families
The deities were inter-related and had very complex family trees and hierarchies. The Ancestors were often thought of as Deities or at least living with, and may be influential to, the Deities thought process. As such, most families would visit their Ancestor’s Tombs on the relevant Festival day and ask them to intervene on their behalf. These visits were usually happy events that were almost in the form of a structured picnic where families would sit with their Ancestor for the day and offer them food and drink as they were consuming.
Most of the more important Deities for intervention purposes were grouped together to form a Triad of 3 members; allowing the People and the Temples to house and worship a trio of Deities in one location.
Divine Acts
The first is the creation of the universe
8 Gods of the Ogdoad serve to represent the Chaos that goes before the Creation
They give birth to the Sun God to provide Order in the new World of Egypt
The God Ptah, the God of Knowledge, brings form to every living thing by thinking about and then naming them
The God Atum produces all the named things
The God Amun watches over and ensures everything proceeds correctly
The World is born, and the Deities work to ensure that Chaos cannot reign
When this is done, the Deities withdraw to their sky world; away from the human world and they charge the Pharaohs of Egypt to rule in their place
There are a number of different versions of the Creation Divine Act. These do not act against each other but rather form together to all be true. This only proves to the Egyptians that the Chaos before the Creation was so volatile, and the Deities are to be thanked and called on to continue to maintain the Ma’at.
The next Divine Acts tend to involve a small number of Deities who are fighting terrifically violent battles for Ma’at against Chaos. Such as:
God Ra for Ma’at vs. God Apep for Chaos Battle each other each night
God Osiris for Ma’at vs. God Set for Chaos Battle each other for the Throne
It can be considered, as a wide thought that the Female Deities, Goddesses, acted as the Mothers and Wives of Pharaohs and the People of Egypt: nearly every Chief Royal Wife was also the Chief Priestess of the Land. In this role the Goddess was the one more closely connected to the People and embodied the “Mother” role, but do not be fooled into believing that the Goddess could not also be violent and rampage until she was appeased.
In turn, and again, as a wide thought that the Male Deities, Gods, acted as the Creator and was charged with the active role of conceiving the children. In this role the God was the one more closely connected with Creation and the policing of the World, and not the nurturing of the People.
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Taylor B. The Lucianic Manuscripts of I Reigns, Volume 2: Analysis.; 1993. Publisher's Version
Taylor BA. The Lucianic Manuscripts of I Reigns, Volume 1: Majority Text.; 1992. Publisher's Version
Tigay JH. You Shall Have No Other Gods: Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions.; 1987. Publisher's Version
Tuell SS. The Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 40-48.; 1992. Publisher's VersionAbstract
"In the closing chapters of Ezekiel, a great Temple is described, one reminiscent of Solomon's but in fact like none ever built. From that Temple, a river flows through the land, with healing in its wake; within the Temple dwells the divine Glory, depicted here alone in Ezekiel as coming to rest, never again to be removed. All of these features of Ezekiel's grand vision are embedded in the core of Jewish and Christian devotional and mystical practice. Yet no less intriguing for the exegete is the legislation promulgated in this elaborate vision report. Here is found the only body of law in the Hebrew Scriptures not placed in the mouth of Moses. Laws regarding sacrifices and festivals, the conduct of the prince, the nature of the priesthood, and the division of the land all center upon the Temple, which is the one common reference for this rich, multifaceted material." From Chapter 1: The Unity and Theme of the Temple Vision.
Ulrich EC. The Qumran Text of Samuel and Josephus.; 1978. Publisher's Version
Vanderhooft DS. The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets.; 1999. Publisher's VersionAbstract
This present study seeks to clarify the character and functions of the Neo-Babylonian empire in its relationship to subjugated populations, and in particular to the population of Judah. Vanderhooft investigates Babylonian imperialism from two complementary perspectives: from native sources, which project the Babylonian imperial self-portrait, and from the writings of the biblical prophets, which provide a portrait from the perspective of a subjugated population.
Walsh CE. The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel.; 2000. Publisher's VersionAbstract
The practice of viticulture--from planting vines to drinking wine--in Israelite culture is the focus of Walsh's investigation. Viticulture, no less than drinking, marked the social sphere of Israelite practitioners, and so its details were often enlisted to describe social relations in the Hebrew Bible. These features of everyday life offer important clues for the reconstruction of Israelite social history, the literary constructions of the oral transmitters, authors, and redactors and for thematic and theological meanings attached to biblical representations of the vine and wine imagery.
Whitney KW. Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism.; 2006. Publisher's VersionAbstract
The ancient myth of a battle between a Divine Warrior and a primordial monster undergoes significant development in postbiblical and rabbinic literatures. This development is the focus of the present study. In particular, it examines the monsters Leviathan and Behemoth, showing that the postbiblical and rabbinic traditions about them are derived from ancient sources that are not all preserved in the biblical texts.
In the Apocalypse of Abraham and the Ladder of Jacob, the monster Leviathan is placed at the juncture of heaven and the underworld. This cosmological focus appears in rabbinic literature in traditions concerning Behemoth, Leviathan, and the world rivers, and concerning Leviathan as the foundation of the axis mundi. These originate in the Divine Warrior's enthronement upon the vanquished chaos dragon.
A second role in which Leviathan and Behemoth appear in postbiblical literature is as food for the eschatological banquet. Whitney studies this in a variety of sources, among them 4 Ezra 6:47-52, 2 Apocalypse of Baruch 29:4, and 1 Enoch 60:7-9, 24, and a number of rabbinic texts. In one tradition, the battle between God and monster becomes an angelic hunt, described by the Greek word kynegesia. This sometimes referred to battles between beasts in the arena, and in a variant tradition Leviathan battles Behemoth in a fight to the death before the banquet. The "food for the righteous" motif possibly stems from the introduction of hunting imagery into the combat myth: the prevalence of hunting banquets gave rise to the expectation that these monsters, the prey in a divine hunt, would feed the righteous at the end of time.
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Djibouti, U.S. Service Members Learn Side-by-Side During Joint Corporals Course
Service members from Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD), and Marines from across East Africa have successfully completed the Joint Corporals Course.
By Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners , Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti Feb 02, 2018
13 photos: Djibouti, U.S. Service Members Learn Side-by-Side During Joint Corporals Course
Photo 1 of 13: U.S. service members look over a map as part of land navigation training during a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 11, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners
Photo 2 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob Blanzy examines a Djiboutian Coast Guard member on during a sword and guidon evaluation as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 17, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 3 of 13: U.S. Army Spc. Christinejoy Cantor instructs Djiboutian military members on radio usage during a Tactical Communications class as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 11, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 4 of 13: U.S. Army Non-Commissioned Officers administer an Army physical fitness test as part of the Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 13, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 5 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Ariel Burton instructs Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors on proper arm position during sword and guidon training as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 12, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 6 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob Blanzy examines Cpl. Devin Upson during a sword and guidon evaluation as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 17, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 7 of 13: U.S. Marines, Soldiers and Sailors and Djiboutian military members pose for a group photo after graduating the Joint Corporals Course, hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 24, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 8 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob Blanzy examines Cpl. Edward Harrison during a sword and guidon evaluation as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 17, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 9 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Raymundo Rodriguez shows a Djiboutian military member the proper arm position during sword and guidon training as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 12, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 10 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General David Furness, commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, speaks to U.S. and Djiboutian students about leadership as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 23, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 11 of 13: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Raymundo Rodriguez shows U.S. Army Cpl. Shawn Bergers the proper arm position during sword and guidon training as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 12, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 12 of 13: U.S. Marines and Djiboutian military members prepare for the order to present their swords during sword and guidon training as part of a Joint Corporals Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Jan. 12, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
Photo 13 of 13: U.S. Marines, Sailors and Soldiers and Djiboutian military members stretch on the turf field of Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, before beginning a physical fitness test as part of the Joint Corporals Course, hosted by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, Jan. 9, 2018. The Joint Corporals Course is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer, as well as strengthen bonds between participating militaries. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners)
The class, consisting of two Marines, two Soldiers and a Sailor from CJTF-HOA, along with seven FAD members and nine Marines stationed at various U.S. Embassies throughout Africa, began the physically and mentally challenging leadership course January 4, 2018, and finished with a graduation ceremony at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, on January 24.
The Joint Corporals Course, hosted by CJTF-HOA, is rooted in the Marine Corps Corporals Course, which is designed to provide junior service members with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles of greater responsibility as a non-commissioned officer (NCO). It covers all topics in the Marine Corps course, while also serving as a forum to trade best practices and develop relationships with military members from Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD), as well as service members from other U.S. military branches.
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. David Furness, commanding general of CJTF-HOA, was also invited to speak to the class during one of the classroom sessions.
“This is a great example of our military working with our Djiboutian partners to strengthen our relationship, and at the same time maintaining and improving the readiness of our junior NCO leadership,” Furness said.
Each military group brings its’ own perspective to leadership and problem-solving skills, making this a unique environment.
“Leadership, like any other experienced based skill set, requires constant education and practice,” said U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Steven Andrews, who was in charge of training for the course. “Being in an educational setting here really opens the forum to discuss leadership commonalities and differences, and how that knowledge can be applied in a joint environment.”
Each student began most days of the course with a physical fitness test from one of the U.S. military branches, before attending classes that totaled over 120 hours of instruction. Topics covered include public speaking, operational stress control, tactical communication and land navigation.
“Attending the Joint Corporals Course builds a common understanding between these junior NCOs,” said Master Sgt. Michael Messina, Director of the Joint Corporals Course. “By working together, they learn how the same goals can be met in different ways.”
There were several unique challenges involved in participating in the joint course. The FAD service members speak French, so a translator was needed. The students are also in a deployed environment, and the mission must come first. If someone missed part of the course due to mission requirements, they were expected to make that work up, and stay on track, Andrews said.
Despite language barriers, rigorous coursework and the added stressors of being deployed, all 21 of the students graduated the Joint Corporals Course.
“Leadership across the board does not change from one branch or one country to the next,” said Messina. “Not only did these students do a phenomenal job, giving 100% effort the entire course, but they have worked to build relationships that will last them a lifetime.”
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Home / Stories of Hope / Single mom discovers new hope, new extended family
When COVID-19 hit, Michelle found herself in a bleak situation.
“I had people who were under contract just say, ‘I lost my job or whatever, and I can’t do this deal,’” explained the realtor and single mom. “I literally got down to $100 in my account. I was like, ‘Lord, what have I done?’ I just couldn’t believe I allowed this to happen. I was just so devastated.”
But it wasn’t just Michelle’s real estate business that crumbled.
The room-share Michelle and her seven-year-old daughter Lydia had been renting also turned into an unsafe situation. Michelle felt out of options until she remembered Home of Hope.
“I remember walking into Home of Hope with such a heavy heart,” she said. “And as soon as Maureen [Kornowa, the executive director], saw me, she said, ‘It’s going to be OK. We got you. You’re going to be fine.’”
Michelle is no stranger to challenges, though.
Originally from South Africa, Michelle grew up with a big family and a father who taught her how to run a successful business. But life changed when her father was tragically killed in 2003.
The following year, Michelle decided to put her college education to work. Moving to the UK, she launched a teaching career and discovered good friends. A few years later, she met her daughter’s father through a dating app. The pair hit it off, and she moved to the U.S. What she didn’t realize at the time? Her husband was suffering from PTSD.
In 2012, not long after the birth of their daughter, he disappeared.
“He asked me to drop him off at Barnes and Noble one day, and that was the last time I ever saw him,” she said. “That was it. He was gone.”
Despite everything that’s happened, Michelle’s faith is still strong.
“My father raised me just like he raised his sons. He taught me to think like a businesswoman,” she said. “And now, in retrospect, God knew what my life was going to be like. He knew that I would have to be tough and be hard to withstand the storms. And that’s how I feel. I cannot feel sorry for myself.”
She’s also learned never to give up hope.
“You don’t have the right to get mad at life. You don’t have the right to get angry about stuff or about how people treat you. You just have to be a fighter and use your strength to help other women,” she said.
Coming to Home of Hope has offered Michelle the chance to regroup and build her nest egg. But it’s also helped Michelle and her daughter discover a whole new “extended family.”
“I have no one here. All I have is Lydia,” explained Michelle. “And the fact that these strangers said to me, ‘Come on in. We got you.’ It meant a lot to me. I told Maureen that I’ll never forget the kindness they showed me. It’s made me a different person.”
As Michelle and her daughter plan for the future, they’ll be leaving Home of Hope with a new home base. But according to Michelle, they’ll also be leaving with a new heart for helping others in need.
“I made the right decision to come to Home of Hope. I think it was the best decision for us,” she said. “And it has really put inside me a desire to serve others.”
For Lydia, who dreams of one day becoming a brain surgeon, being at Home of Hope has made her feel secure.
“Since we came here I felt protected,” she said. “I think I came here to make friends and find out what it feels like to be in a home so that one day I can make my own Home of Hope.”
November 13, 2020 Home of Hope Posted in: Stories of Hope
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by Brandon Hill — Monday, February 24, 2020, 10:57 AM EDT
Microsoft Xbox Series X Confirmed With Beefy 12 TFLOP AMD Radeon RDNA 2 GPU And Hardware Ray-Tracing
Microsoft spilled the beans on its next-generation Xbox Series X game console last year, letting us know that it would be powered by a 7nm AMD Ryzen 3000-class processor and Navi graphics. It was also revealed that the console would bring a revolution in a game loading times thanks to its ultra-fast solid-state drive (SSD).
Today, Microsoft is delivering some additional critical hardware details on the Xbox Series X, including the fact that the GPU will be based on next-generation AMD RDNA 2 architecture. First-generation RDNA architecture is included in today’s crop of Navi-based Radeon desktop and laptop graphics cards, but RDNA 2 brings a number of optimizations to the table including Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and hardware-accelerated DirectX Ray Tracing support.
More importantly, the new GPU will have enough grunt to deliver consistent 4K gaming experiences at high frame rates, as it has 12 TFLOPs of compute performance to back it up. This is roughly twice the performance of the current top dog Xbox One X and 8 times the performance of the original Xbox One. In fact, Microsoft says that the Xbox Series X can support up to 120 FPS gaming (this is up to each individual developer).
The aforementioned SSD not only allows you to load games in an instant, the Xbox Series X also support Quick Resume functionality. With Quick Resume, Microsoft says that you will be able to pick up where you left off with multiple games from a suspended state without facing loading screens. Rounding out the hardware features, HDMI 2.1 with Variable Refresh Rate is supported and Dynamic Latency Input is enabled to optimize latency with using an Xbox Wireless controller.
On the software front, Microsoft is touting that the Xbox Series X will be backwards compatible with games dating back to the original Xbox. In other words, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One games are all supported in addition to the next-generation Xbox One Series X games that will be coming down the pipeline.
And in another interesting twist, Microsoft says that it will be enabling Smart Delivery technology will allow you to buy a game once, and then play the optimized version for your particular game console. For example, if you were to purchase Cyberpunk 2077 for your Xbox One, you wouldn’t have to go out and repurchase the game if you upgrade to an Xbox Series X down the road. And most importantly, the Xbox Series X version of the game that you would later receive would support all of the hardware and graphics capabilities of your new console rather than being locked to the Xbox One version. While Microsoft is making Smart Delivery available with the Xbox Series X, it’s up to developers to implement it for their games.
Microsoft has revealed most of its cards with respect to the Xbox Series X; now it’s time for Sony to do the same with the PlayStation 5.
Tags: AMD, Microsoft, (nasdaq:msft), nasdaqmsft, (nasdaq:amd), xbox series x, rdna 2
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Inside the Dark Web
Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence: surveillance.
The Swiss Army Knife, the Winglet, English Saddle
We explore the hidden history and super science of the Swiss Army Knife, the Winglet and the English Saddle.
1/10 • Incredible Inventions • 2017 • Technology
Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing
Ada Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century Ada was a countess of the realm, a scandalous socialite and an 'enchantress of numbers'. The film is an enthralling tale of how a life infused with brilliance, but blighted by illness and gambling addiction, helped give rise to the modern era of computing. Hannah traces Ada's unlikely union with the father of computers, Charles Babbage. Babbage designed the world's first steam-powered computers - most famously the analytical engine - but it was Ada who realised the full potential of these new machines. During her own lifetime Ada was most famous for being the daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron ('mad, bad and dangerous to know'). It was only with the advent of modern computing that Ada's understanding of their flexibility and power (that they could be far more than mere number crunchers) was recognised as truly visionary. Hannah explores how Ada's unique inheritance - poetic imagination and rational logic - made her the ideal prophet of the digital age. This moving, intelligent and beautiful film makes you realise we nearly had a Victorian computer revolution.
Horizon • 2017 • Technology
The promise of quantum computers is that what would otherwise take a billion years to calculate, could be done in a few seconds. First-generation quantum computers have started to appear. Indeed, earlier this year, Google bought one, The D-Wave 2. How will this advance change our future lives?
5/10 • Catalyst: Season 1 • 2015 • Technology
Inside The Internet: 50 Years of Life Online
Maserati Mega Plant
Maserati takes production of their luxury automotive brand to another level at the Mirafiori facility in Turin, Italy, where the highest standards of materials and manufacturing result in handcrafted cars built on a cutting-edge assembly line.
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2. 实践\含有危险力量的工程和装置
The UK LOAC Pamphlet (1981) states that it is prohibited “to attack dykes, nuclear power stations or dams if to do so would cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population, unless they are used in direct support of military operations or for military purposes”.
United Kingdom, The Law of Armed Conflict, D/DAT/13/35/66, Army Code 71130 (Revised 1981), Ministry of Defence, prepared under the Direction of The Chief of the General Staff, 1981, Section 4, p. 15, § 5(i).
5.30. Dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations “shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.” “Other military objectives located at or in the vicinity of these works or installations shall not be made the object of attack if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces from the works or installations and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.”
5.30.3. The United Kingdom, on ratification of Additional Protocol I, declared that:
The United Kingdom cannot undertake to grant absolute protection to installations which may contribute to the opposing Party’s war effort, or to the defenders of such installations, but will take due precautions in military operations at or near the installation … in the light of the known facts, including any special markings which the installation may carry, to avoid severe collateral losses among the civilian population; direct attacks on such installations will be launched only on authorisation at a high level of command.
5.30.4. Attacks only become unlawful if they may result in the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population …
5.30.5. In certain exceptional circumstances the protection afforded to dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations ceases:
a. “for a dam or dyke only if it is used for other than its normal function and in regular, significant and direct support of military operations”;
b. “for a nuclear electrical generating station only if it provides electric power in regular, significant and direct support of military operations”;
c. “for other military objectives located at or in the vicinity of” dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations “only if they are used in regular, significant and direct support of military operations”;
and, in the case of a, b, and c, “if such attack is the only feasible way to terminate such support.”
United Kingdom, The Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict, Ministry of Defence, 1 July 2004, §§ 5.30 and 5.30.3–5.30.5.
With regard to internal armed conflict, the manual states:
15.21. In accordance with the general principles of targeting set out above, objects such as dams, dykes, and nuclear power stations which contain forces, the escape of which would be likely to endanger the civilian population, may only be attacked if they (a) constitute military objectives and (b) care is taken to minimize the risk to the civilian population. The latter requirement is of special importance with such targets because of the danger that they can pose.
15.21.1. The protection given to these objects in international conflicts is much more detailed.
With regard to internal armed conflicts in which the 1977 Additional Protocol II is applicable, the manual specifies:
15.51. It is forbidden to attack dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations “even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population”.
15.51.1. This would not, however, prevent an attack on a nuclear, chemical or bacteriological research centre, even though such an attack might release dangerous forces, provided that the attack was not made illegal by some other provision of the Protocol.
(3) launching an attack against works or installations containing dangerous forces in the knowledge that such attack will cause excessive loss of life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.
The UK Geneva Conventions Act (1957), as amended in 1995, punishes “any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside the United Kingdom, commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, a grave breach of … [the 1977 Additional Protocol I]”.
In 1986, in reply to a question in the House of Lords, the UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement declared:
Existing laws of war already impose restrictions on attacks on [nuclear] installations which would pose a particular threat to civilian populations and require a balance to be struck between the military advantage and the danger of collateral damage to the civilian population.
United Kingdom, House of Lords, Statement by the Minister of State for Defence Procurement, Hansard, 10 June 1986, Vol. 476, col. 112.
In 1991, in reply to a question in the House of Lords concerning “the position in international law relating to the use of ‘conventional’ weapons against (a) nuclear facilities, (b) chemical weapons plants and dumps, and (c) petrochemical enterprises situated in towns or cities, when such use may release radioactivity, toxic chemicals, or firestorms, on a scale comparable to the use of nuclear, chemical, and other weapons deemed to be weapons of mass destruction,” the UK Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, stated:
International law requires that, in planning an attack on any military objective, account is taken of certain principles. These include the principles that civilian losses, whether of life or property, should be avoided or minimised so far as practicable, and that an attack should not be launched if it can be expected to cause civilian losses which would be disproportionate to the military advantage expected from the attack as a whole.
United Kingdom, House of Lords, Statement of the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hansard, 4 February 1991, Vol. 525, Written Answers, col. 37.
In 1993, in reply to a question in the House of Lords as to whether the bombing of nuclear facilities in Iraq was concordant with international law, the UK Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, wrote that “the then Prime Minister condemned the Israeli bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities as a grave breach of international law”.
United Kingdom, House of Lords, Reply of the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hansard, 31 March 1993, Vol. 544, Written Answers, col. 53.
In 1991, the UK Secretary of State for Defence, responding to questions in the Defence Committee concerning the United Kingdom’s participation in bombing nuclear reactors during the Gulf War, declared that the attack was undertaken “with the very greatest care and after the most detailed planning to minimise the risk of any contamination or the risk of any radiation spreading outside the site”. He went on to say that he was “not aware of any evidence that there was a risk of any contamination outside the site which would tend to suggest that those were very precise and very carefully planned attacks”.
United Kingdom, Statement by Secretary of Defence before the Defence Committee, Minutes of evidence, 6 March 1991, Report on UK Practice, 1997, Chapter 1.9.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, the United Kingdom stated with respect to Articles 56 and 85(3)(c):
The United Kingdom cannot undertake to grant absolute protection to installations which may contribute to the opposing Party’s war effort, or to the defenders of such installations, but will take all due precautions in military operations at or near the installations referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 56 in the light of the known facts, including any special marking which the installation may carry, to avoid severe collateral losses among the civilian population; direct attacks on such installations will be launched only on authorisation at a high level of command.
United Kingdom, Reservations and declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 28 January 1998, § n.
Section B. Placement of military objectives near works and installations containing dangerous forces
To avoid the risks to the civilian population, there is an obligation on the parties to the conflict “to endeavour to avoid locating any military objectives in the vicinity of the works or installations” containing dangerous forces. They may install weapons such as anti-aircraft or anti-missile missiles solely for the defence of these installations and those weapons are also protected from attack so long as they are not used for offensive purposes.
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Arun Mehta Receives Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman Award
Mercy Kodur | Mar 20, 2014
From Left to Right: Hon. Baroness Sandeep Verma, Minister of Energy, U.K; Mr. Narain Singh, Dr. Arun Mehta, M.D.; Mr. Gauhar Nawab, & Mr. Gurinder Singh.
NRI(Non-resident Indians) Welfare Society is a registered voluntary organization playing a significant role in bringing NRIs closer to the motherland. The Society provides a common platform to NRIs from all over the world.
Mahatma Gandhi was the first Pravasi (traveler) who left an impeccable mark in the history of the world. Every year selection is made by the Board of NRI Welfare Society of India, New Delhi, for outstanding services, achievements, and contributions made by Global Indians in their respective fields in the country of residence and also in the service of wider global community in the international arena with community projects and international philanthropic endeavors.
Dr. Mehta was presented the award by United Kingdom’s Junior Minister of Energy and Climate Change, Honorable Baroness Sandip Verma. Several dignitaries attended the ceremony in which 30 NRIs from around the world were recognized. All delegates were given a personal tour of House of Lords and House of Commons.
Dr. Mehta feels privileged, honored, and humbled by receiving this prestigious award.
He will certainly look forward to continuing his local and international medical and charitable work towards the assistance of others in need and sync with the spirit of this award.
He thanks everyone for all the good wishes.
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi.
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Bharatanatyam at Its Finest
Vandana Kumar | Apr 18, 2011
A dance presentation showcasing the many styles of the most popular classical dance form of India, “Varnam … The Many Hues of Bharata Natyam,” will feature some of the finest dance companies in California is this third installment of the Nachle India series. Dancers representing four, award-winning bharatanatyam companies will highlight the similarities and differences within this dance tradition and present for the first time new collaborative work between the companies. The featured companies in Varnam include the Abhinaya Dance Company, Kalanjali Dances of India, Shakti Dance Company, and the Arpana Dance Company.
Kalanjali was founded by Katherine and K.P. Kunhiraman in Berkeley and for the last 36 years have brought the best of India’s ancient culture before public audiences in a wide variety of venues. Trained at Kalakshetra, Chennai, a premier institution for the arts, Kunhiraman was the first Indian to receive the Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mythili Kumar, artistic director of the Abhinaya Dance Company based in San Jose, was recently awarded the Isadora Duncan Sustained Achievement award for three decades of teaching, directing, and creation in the South Indian classical dance forms of bharatanatyam and kuchipudi. A premier dance company in the Bay Area, Abhinaya has produced a variety of traditional, contemporary and collaborative works.
Representing the Tanjore tradition of bharatanatyam, Viji Prakash is the recipient of the “Best Guru” award from the renown Music Academy of Chennai, India. Director of the Shakti Dance Company of Los Angeles, she has trained hundreds of young dancers in the last 32 years and is an adjunct professor of bharatanatyam in the World Arts and Culture Department at UCLA.
Based in Irvine, the Arpana Dance Company, under the guidance of Ramya Harishankar, represents the Vazhavoor style of bharatanatyam. Recipient of the Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy award for her contribution to the cultural landscape of Southern California, she has performed, taught and presented in the area for nearly 30 years.
Presented by the Ektaa Center, the first center in Southern California dedicated to the arts and culture of India. Based in Irvine, the center serves the southland community with classes, events, and activities that promote an awareness and understanding of the India’s diverse and rich artistic traditions.
Sunday, April 24, 6 p.m. The Irvine Barclay Theater, 4646 Campus Drive, Irvine. $18, $28, $38. Tickets: (949) 854-4646; www.thebarclay.org. www.ektaacenter.org.
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