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Barbara Lamarr
Category : Actress
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Barbara La Marr (July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American stage and film actress, cabaret artist, and screenwriter.
La Marr was known as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful," after a Hearst newspaper feature writer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, saw a judge sending her home during the police beat in Los Angeles because she was too beautiful and young to be on her own.
La Marr was born in 1896 as Reatha Dale Watson to William Wallace and Rosana "Rose" Watson in Yakima, Washington. Her father was an editor for a newspaper, and her mother had a son, Henry, born in 1878, and a daughter, Violet, born in February 1881, from a previous marriage. The couple wed some time during 1884, and they had William Watson, Jr., born in June 1886 in Washington. He would later, in the 1920s, become a vaudeville comedian under the stage name of "Billy Devore." The Watsons lived in various locations during La Marr's formative years. By 1900, she was living with her parents in Portland, Oregon, with her brother William, her half-sister Violet Ross, and Violet's husband Arvel Ross. As a child, La Marr also performed in a few stage productions in Tacoma, Washington.
By 1910, La Marr was living in Fresno, California, with her parents. Some time after 1911, the family moved to Los Angeles. In January 1913, La Marr's half-sister, now going by the name of Violet Ake, took her 16-year-old sister on a three-day automobile excursion with a man named C.C. Boxley. They drove up to Santa Barbara, but after a few days La Marr felt that they were not going to let her return home. Ake and Boxley finally let La Marr return to Los Angeles after they realized that there were warrants issued for their arrests accusing them of kidnapping. This episode was published in several newspapers, and La Marr even testified against her sister, but the case was eventually dropped.
La Marr's name appeared frequently in newspaper headlines during the next few years. In November 1914, she came back from Arizona and announced that she was the newly widowed wife of a rancher named Jack Lytell and that they were supposedly married in Mexico. As legend goes, Lytell became enamored of La Marr as he saw her one day riding in an automobile while he was out on horseback. He rode up to her car and swept her on his horse and rode off with her. They were married the next day. She also stated that she loathed the name Reatha and preferred to be called by the childhood nickname "Beth."
After marrying and moving with her second husband to New York City, La Marr found employment writing screenplays and her association with filmmakers led to her returning to Los Angeles and making her film debut in 1920. Over the next few years she acted frequently in films and was widely publicised as "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World." With this, she rapidly shot to stardom.
La Marr made the successful leap from writer to actress in Douglas Fairbanks' The Nut (1921), appeared in over 30 films, wrote seven successful screenplays for United Artists and Fox studios, and danced in musical comedies on Broadway. She is also said to have filmed dancing shorts in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with such diverse partners as Rudolph Valentino and Clifton Webb.
Among La Marr's films are The Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women, both 1922 releases directed by Rex Ingram.
La Marr married for the first time at the age of 17 and was ultimately married five times. At the time of her death she was married to actor Jack Dougherty. Some years after her death, it was revealed that she had mothered a son by a man whose name has never been released. The child, Marvin Carville La Marr, was adopted after her death by the actress ZaSu Pitts and her husband, film executive Tom Gallery. The child was renamed Don Gallery and grew up to become an actor and a sometime boyfriend of Elizabeth Taylor; he now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Her former dance partner, Robert Hobday (stage name Robert Carville), was named as her alleged lover by her third husband Phil Ainsworth in his divorce suit. Hobday's sister, Virginia, had been La Marr's manager and friend, who later went on to marry Jules Roth, manager of the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, and La Marr's former lover.
Later years and death
Although her film career flourished, she also embraced the fast-paced Hollywood nightlife, remarking in an interview that she slept no more than two hours a night.
On January 30, 1926, La Marr died of tuberculosis and nephritis in Altadena, California, at the age of 29. She was interred in a crypt at Hollywood Cathedral Mausoleum, in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, La Marr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1621 Vine Street.
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Giant Freakin Robot > Culture
Why Anya Taylor-Joy Thinks She’s Too Ugly To Be In Movies
By Drew Dietsch | 2 months ago
Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the fastest rising stars in all of Hollywood today. The 24-year-old actress has found herself in an astounding number of notable and lauded productions over the last few years, and it looks like her profile is only going to get even higher as she continues to be a magnetic presence in every project she is in. However, she does not believe that she is “beautiful,” and that comes as a bit of a shock.
Speaking with The Sun, Anya Taylor-Joy said, “I have never and I don’t think I will ever think of myself as beautiful. I don’t think I’m beautiful enough to be in films. It sounds pathetic and my boyfriend warns me people will think I’m an absolute d*** for saying these things, but I just think I’m weird-looking.” In this instance, we are going to have to disagree with her.
Anya Taylor-Joy has remained a captivating presence ever since she burst onto the scene in Robert Eggers’ excellent arthouse horror film The Witch back in 2015. She was a powerful actress at such a young age, and her piercing eyes shot through viewers as if she was looking directly into their souls. It was certain that she would be the breakout star of the film and would go on to even bigger ventures.
That proved true when she landed one of the lead roles in Split, the M. Night Shyamalan film that ended up being a secret sequel to Unbreakable. Once again, Anya Taylor-Joy provided a raw and relatable performance that endeared her to even more fans. She would return for the final installment in the trilogy, Glass.
Probably one of the more notable projects in Anya Taylor-Joy’s filmography is The New Mutants, the seemingly cursed X-Men film that finally got a release this year after many years of being postponed. In the film, the actress plays Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik, and she is unquestionably one of the biggest highlights of the movie. Though The New Mutants does not look to be warmly received by critics and audiences, it’s hopeful that people will still see how great Taylor-Joy is in the movie.
She also has some very exciting projects on the horizon. Anya Taylor-Joy will be starring in Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel that focuses on the character originally played by Charlize Theron. She will also be appearing as one of the lead characters in Last Night in Soho, the upcoming film from writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). Suffice to say that plenty of filmmakers want to work with Taylor-Joy, and her alluring qualities almost certainly play a part in that.
Anya Taylor-Joy can currently be seen on the hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit chess whiz Beth Harmon. The show has apparently been a massive success for the streaming platform, so it will be interesting to see if Netflix decides to push for any awards consideration with Taylor-Joy’s performance. Regardless, it is pretty clear that a lot of people enjoy watching Anya Taylor-Joy in films and television series. They probably wouldn’t feel as compelled to do so if she wasn’t as beautiful as she is talented.
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A Jason Statham Movie Many Overlooked Just Hit Netflix
By Faith McKay | 1 week ago
Jason Statham has had a healthy acting career, but even his most dedicated fans may have missed the latest movie from his catalog to reach Netflix. Redemption is a dramatic thriller set in London, and the directorial debut from writer-director Steven Knight. Redemption was met with mixed reviews and a poor showing at the box office, yet in Redemption, you can see a lot to like about this more dramatic role for the actor we mostly know as an action powerhouse.
In 2013, Redemption was released in the United States, but the film was released by different names in other countries. In the UK, it was called Hummingbird, and in France, it went by the name Crazy Joe. The story follows a veteran living on the streets of London who takes on the role of someone with much more fortunate circumstances, and falls into a seedy underground of criminal activity. In Jason Statham’s filmography, it stands out as one of his more serious roles, and one of the few films where you can see the actor with hair.
Every once in a while, Jason Statham will do a role where he reminds the audience that he’s a pretty decent actor. He may be the guy in Fast & Furious and The Expendables franchises, but he’s also the actor from the Guy Ritchie movies like Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He’s an action icon, but Statham has been showing his range in movies for quite a long time.
Some of the critics who saw Redemption missed that he has these more serious roles sprinkled throughout his career. A reviewer from Times of India said, “Statham’s stony visage tries to emote, often successfully. If this film marks a new direction for Statham’s career, he’s on the right track.” The reviews from critics and fans have been mixed. Empire wrote, “An awkward mix of realist social drama and Statham actioner, this doesn’t quite convince as either.”
But after Redemption, Jason Statham continued playing the big action roles we know him for. He returned to playing Deckard Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, and he had a more comedic action star role in the movie Spy with Melissa McCarthy. While he isn’t in as many movies these days, he’s still the Jason Statham action hero we know him as, and fans are still waiting on news of Hobbs & Shaw 2 and other blockbuster action films from the star.
While critics may not have known what to make of it, it didn’t do great at the box office either, making little over $12 million worldwide. Domestically, the film had a paltry release, coming to only 19 theaters and making a total of $36,895. Even though reviewers have had mixed reactions, Jason Statham fans still, by and large, enjoy this movie. DenofGeek ranked it as the eight best Statham movie ever. The Guardian ranked all of his movies and put it at number nine. If you like Statham, and you enjoy dramatic thrillers, you’ll want to check out Redemption on Netflix for yourself.
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FOOTBALL MUSEUM TO LAUNCH EXHIBITION
New exhibition to be marked by the Football League and National Football Museum
The Football League and the National Football Museum (NFM) are to mark the 125th Anniversary of the world’s original league football competition with a major new exhibition featuring some of professional football’s most iconic and historic items.
The exhibition, which will be free to all visitors, will run from September 2013 to April 2014, the same duration as The Football League’s inaugural season (1888/89) and fill a dedicated exhibition space in the museum’s stunning new Manchester home.
Manchester played a notable role in the formation of The Football League, with today (April 17) marking the 125th anniversary of the meeting of founder members at the city’s Royal Hotel – just 500m from where the National Football Museum is now located.
At that meeting, clubs agreed to call their new competition ‘The Football League’ with the first season kicking-off on September 8, 1888.
Having begun sourcing items of historical interest from clubs, its own archives and those of the National Football Museum, The Football League is also asking supporters to play their part in telling the story of 125 years of football history.
The Football League’s Head of Communications, John Nagle said: “Across the country there will be items of historical interest that have pride of place in supporters’ homes or are just gathering dust in their lofts.
“If it’s part of our competition’s history we’d love to know about it, so that we can put it on display for football supporters everywhere to enjoy.”
Anyone that would like to put forward an item of historical significance for the exhibition are asked to email details to 125@football-league.co.uk, including where possible an image and contact details.
The Football League 125th Anniversary Exhibition will be the museum’s fourth temporary exhibition since it opened in July 2012.
David Pearson, Deputy Director of the National Football Museum said: “The Football League is at the heart of the game’s history and this is a wonderful opportunity to display some of the objects that have touched the lives of millions of football supporters.
It will provide an insight into the impact league football has had on society and feature some of the game’s famous figures, including a special section dedicated to George Best that celebrates 50 years since he made his Football League debut.”
The exhibition will also be an inspiration for an ambitious National Football Museum visual arts programme funded by the Arts Council England through its Renaissance strategic support fund.
For more information on The Football League’s 125th anniversary visit www.football-league.co.uk or search for #FL125 on Twitter. For more information about the National Football Museum visit www.nationalfootballmuseum.com.
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Bryan Lee O'Malley Explains Scott Pilgrim Animation
Last week we ran a rather interesting news tidbit regarding Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, based on an Oni Press comic book series written and drawn by Bryan Lee O'Malley (seen above). Actor Brandon Routh, who has a role in the film as an evil ex-boyfriend, said that it will feature "a mix of real people and drawn animation." After the news hit, a reader wrote in our comments that they had asked Bryan Lee O'Malley about this and his response that he had "no idea" what Routh was talking about. Well, courtesy of the New York Comic Con, MTV followed up with O'Malley and got a bit of clarification.
"I think what he said was kind of blown out of proportion by the rumor mill," O'Malley told MTV. "It's not going to be like half the thing is hand-animated, like they're saying on the internet lately." I don't think we said anything that crazy, though we speculated some of the battles might have hand drawn backgrounds. Although he's not sure, O'Malley said that he believes Routh was talking "more about special effects and incorporating some hand-drawn doodling and stuff. It's not going to be a hand-drawn Michael Cera." Of course not! Based on Routh's statement, this is exactly what we were expecting anyway.
This should clear up any concerns that were brought up regarding the hand drawn animation aspect of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. MTV also asked O'Malley if might draw some of the animation himself. "I might be involved a little bit," he hinted, "but it's still kind of early on that." Whether or not he does end up contributing some hand drawn work to Scott Pilgrim, I'm still excited to see what Edgar Wright will come up with, especially with the impressive cast that he's rounded up as well as technical elements like this. Shooting will start in the next month or so in Toronto and we can expect to see Scott Pilgrim by 2010.
edgar wright himself is enough for me to glued to the seat ! this is getting better and better... im always been a sucker for hand drawn animation... how ever simple and rough it will be...
I love that there will be bits of animation throughout. There's a music video I saw recently that mixed animation and live-action (http://www.superu.ca/contestant/772/45). I hope the integration in Scott Pilgrim works the way we all imagine it will!
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Official US Trailer for French Thriller 'My Son' with Guillaume Canet
"How far would you go to bring your child home?" Cohen Media Group has released an official US trailer for the French thriller My Son, originally titled Mon Garçon in French (which just translates to My Son). This premiered in 2017 in France, but is just now finally getting a theatrical release in the US starting in Los Angeles next month. Guillaume Canet plays a man in the midst of a failing marriage. One day he receives a distressing message from his ex-wife that their seven-year-old son has disappeared while at camp, which sends him on a dark path to find out the truth. Director Christian Carion "places long-time collaborator Guillaume Canet in unique shooting conditions to create this searing portrait of a man out of control, a father forced into violence by his desire to protect his son." This also stars Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist, and Mohamed Brikat. It's been a long wait for this to play in the US, but might've been worth it.
Here's the official US trailer (+ US poster) for Christian Carion's My Son, direct from CMG's YouTube:
After years of putting his career above his family, Julien has found himself with a failed marriage. One day he receives a distressing message from his ex-wife that their seven-year-old son has disappeared while at camp. When authorities provide little help, Julien takes matters into his own hands and begins the treacherous search alone. Driven to reunite his family, he will stop at nothing to get his son back. My Son, originally titled Mon Garçon, is directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Christian Carion, of the films The Girl from Paris, Joyeux Noel, Farewell, and Come What May previously. The screenplay is written by Christian Carion & Laure Irrmann. This first premiered at the Angoulême Film Festival in 2017, and opened in France that year. CMG will release Carion's My Son in select US theaters starting May 10th next month.
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Fisher Construction Group recently announced crews have began construction on a new office in Vancouver, Washington. The project is located at 3200 NW 38th Circle in the Port of Vancouver.
When complete, the new office and shop will replace the company’s current offices in Hazel Dell. The Port sold the 2.28 acres in Centennial Industrial Park to Fisher Construction Group in 2019. Since opening an office in Vancouver in 2018, Fisher Construction Group has grown operations in Vancouver to 35+ employees with the expectation that 75 site and field employees will be working out of the Vancouver office five years from now.
“A new office in the Vancouver area has been in the planning stages for the last year and a half. We are pleased to seize this window of opportunity to keep our crews busy and expand our vision for operations in Vancouver,” says Dan Powers, President and CEO of Fisher Construction Group.
As one of the Pacific Northwest’s first design-build firms, Fisher’s in-house architectural team designed the 12,400 sf two-story office building. Showcasing construction techniques and materials often used on Fisher projects, the steel-frame building will be clad with insulated metal panels and feature concrete panel accents. The new office and shop are expected to be completed in early 2021.
Fisher’s home office is in Burlington, Washington. The company also has an office in Spokane, Washington. Incorporated in the State of Washington since 1979, Fisher has completed projects across the US and Canada, with currently active projects in Alaska, Georgia, Virginia, California, and throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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This Is Music Made From A Seizure
Published 7 years ago: October 13, 2013 at 11:30 am -
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Music, it seems, can be made from just about anything. Even bats. No surprise then that the electrical activity of the brain can be translated into tunes as well, something a pair of Standford professors have accomplished. However, instead of normal activity, they’ve captured the “sound” of a seizure.
Neurologist Josef Parvizi and music researcher Chris Chafe, both of whom work at Stanford University, teamed up to produce this surreal and at times, disturbing, piece of music. Parvizi provided Chafe with electroencephalogram of a seizure patient, which was then transformed into audio using tones resembling that of a voice. The final product is a “choir” that sings the seizure.
You can hear the result in the clip above. While it may sound disjointed, there’s actually quite a lot happening, as explained in the university’s newsletter, the Standford Report:
In the moments leading up to the seizure event, though, each of the singers begins to improvise. The notes become progressively louder and more scattered, as the full seizure event occurs (the ictal state). The way Chafe has orchestrated his singers, one can hear the electrical storm originate on one side of the brain and eventually cross over into the other hemisphere, creating a sort of sing-off between the two sides of the brain.
After about 30 seconds of full-on chaos, the singers begin to calm, trailing off into their post-ictal rhythm. Occasionally, one or two will pipe up erratically, but on the whole, the choir sounds extremely fatigued.
Parvizi hopes their work can be adapted to create an early warning system of sorts for carers of seizure patients, though he admits they’re still trying to figure out how the technique can be best utilised.
[Stanford University, via Neatorama]
Image: Jim Fischer / Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons 2.0
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City Seeks Developer for Office Building
SAN FRANCISCO-The City of San Francisco is seeking a developer to build a 400,000- to 500,000-sf building somewhere in the Civic Center area in order to consolidate city functions. The city hopes to choose a developer by the early part of 2003.
By Michelle Savage | December 16, 2002 at 01:01 AM
SAN FRANCISCO-The City of San Francisco has sent out a request for proposals in an effort to secure a developer for its planned 400,000- to 500,000-sf office building, which would consolidate its spread-out city offices.
According to city officials, the building would house most of its bureaucracy. While a specific site has not been determined, the city wants to build in the Civic Center area. Its preferred location is in the vicinity of Mission, Gough and Turk streets.
The city will hold a pre-bid conference today to discuss the specifications of the project. The city hopes to choose a developer by the early part of 2003 so that the building can be complete in 2007.
For the city, this project will enable it to cut leasing costs, as it currently spends more than $30 million per year to rent locations throughout San Francisco. If the city builds a new structure, it could cost more than $100 million but city officials say it would eventually be a valuable investment.
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Video: Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp Jam on "Whole Lotta Love" and "Brown Sugar"
The Dark Shadows premiere party took place Monday night, May 7, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Among the festivities was a star-studded jam session featuring the film's star, Johnny Depp, with Alice Cooper (who has a small part in the film) and Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler.
The makeshift band played a range of classic rock tunes, including an assortment of Cooper's hits, The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," The Beatles' "Come Together" and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."
The movie will be released in theaters nationwide on May 11.
Check out some fan-filmed footage of the band playing "Whole Lotta Love" and "Brown Sugar" below.
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5 Facts About Princess Beatrice And An Update About Her Wedding
Princess Beatrice of York might not ever be queen, but she leads a pretty sweet life as ninth in line for the throne. To protect her privacy, since she often finds herself targeted by cruel tabloids, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew doesn't let much information about herself out to the public. Despite her caution, some information about the secretive royal has come to light.
Princess Beatrice Is Not A "Working Royal"
She may make appearances at events like Trooping the Colour and royal weddings, but Princess Beatrice doesn't receive any funds through The Sovereign Grant through taxpayer funds. This is just one more difference between herself and her royal cousin and full-time member of The Firm, Prince William. In 2011, she also lost her police protection due to cuts in funding. Instead, she works to make her money in business, according to her biography on the Duke of York's website. She's on Linkedin, where her job title is listed as Vice President, partnerships and strategy for a New York-based software company called Afiniti.
She Became The First Royal To Run A Marathon
Princess Beatrice completed the London Marathon in 2010, which made her the first member of the royal family ever to do so. She competed as part of a team, "Team Caterpillar," and was able to support a number of charities, including Street Child (which was formerly called Children in Crisis), a charity that was founded by her mother, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
She Can Add A Film Credit To Her Resume
Meghan Markle isn't the only member of the royal family with acting chops. Princess Beatrice studied drama in school, which may be where she first caught the acting bug. In 2009, she became the first royal family member to appear in a feature film. She briefly appeared in the movie Young Victoria, which starred Emily Blunt, and chronicled the early life of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth's great-grandmother.
She Was Diagnosed With Dyslexia
As a child, Princess Beatrice discovered she was dyslexic. Now an adult, she is a patron of the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, where she received support when she was younger. When she first became the charity's patron in 2013, she revealed, "I would not have been able to achieve my academic results without the support I received from the Centre."
Her Famous Friend Accidentally Outed Her Secret Instagram Account
Princess Beatrice and supermodel Karlie Kloss are actually good friends. When Kloss got engaged to her now husband, Joshua Kushner, she captured her friends' reactions to the big news, and Princess Beatrice was one of the model's most surprised pals. In a screengrab Kloss posted to her Instagram stories, she added Princess Beatrice's Instagram handle to the photo, which inadvertently showcased the secretive royal's personal account. The account is marked private, so the slight indiscretion didn't cause too much trouble.
Princess Beatrice's Wedding Blues
Princess Beatrice planned to get married this May to her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, but due to the global coronavirus pandemic, those plans had to be put on hold. The wedding, which would have made Princess Beatrice a Countess since Mozzi is the son of an Italian Count, has been officially canceled, according to People. "There are no plans to switch venues or hold a bigger wedding. They aren't even thinking about their wedding at this time. There will come a time to rearrange, but that's not yet," a spokesperson for the couple revealed. Even princesses have to practice social distancing.
Princess Beatrice and her sister, Princess Eugenie, aren't reported on as often as their cousins Prince William and Prince Harry, but when they do appear in the tabloids, the stories about them are just as nasty. Take for instance the report from Celeb Dirty Laundry, which claimed in 2017 that the royal sisters had "ignored" Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement announcement. Gossip Cop proved the disreputable site wrong easily.
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An Accelerant for Change in Community Development
Community development is undergoing the greatest modernization that it’s ever had, and it's accelerated due to COVID-19. Learn how local governments are going above and beyond to create a better digital experience for its citizens for community development.
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While COVID-19 has made a permanent mark on how municipalities engage with citizens, in many ways it has merely accelerated the implementation of many long-standing technology goals. Discover the 3 lessons municipalities learned from this crisis.
How to Go Beyond the Manual to Solve Training Challenges
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Public safety agencies are understaffed and overextended. They juggle many different responsibilities throughout the day, including a critically important one: training users on new software systems. However, technical user manuals developed…
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Why the “C” in CIO Stands for Change
It’s a well-known fact that technology has dramatically revamped the way organizations accomplish business objectives. Organizations are now faster, more productive and more efficient, thanks to new technologies. However, less attention has…
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The Formula for a Winning Technology Transition
Danilo GargiuloPublic Administration
Selecting new software systems can be a time-intensive process for many municipal organizations, from the initial request for proposal (RFP) to the procurement. In fact, the RFP process takes about 57 days on average to complete, according…
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Why It’s Critical to Fix Your Permitting, Licensing and Inspection Problems
At its core, community development is a municipality’s commitment to create a thriving place for people to live, work and visit. Investing in community development means investing in long-term sustainability, meaningful growth, community…
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How to Take Control of Your City’s Finances During COVID-19
Patricia SongFeatured, Public Administration
The City of Garden Grove is undergoing a significant overhaul to its financial system. The City is going from a homegrown solution we’ve had for 40 years to an entirely new system to streamline processes and standardize operations. A technology…
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Working from Home When Working for the Government: Tips for Success
Telework has always been broadcast as the way of the future. However, up until a few months ago, few companies took advantage of teleworking as a solution for their personnel. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) swept the nation earlier this…
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Are two Latin Americas emerging?
International Business Report (IBR)
Madeleine Blankenstein on the Atlantic-Pacific split
I read a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal the other day which suggested that my region could broadly be thought of as two separate entities. On the Pacific side, you have the economies such as Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru, which embrace free trade and free markets. And on the Atlantic side, you have Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, economies where governments have adopted a much more interventionist approach.
Instinctively this struck me as true, rather than simply a neat piece of journalism. The Pacific Alliance economies recently signed an agreement scrapping the majority of tariffs on goods and services traded within the bloc. While the Atlantic economies are members of Mercosur, Latin America’s other big trade group, which tends to be much more protectionist. But does the data back up the story?
We used our International Business Report (IBR) and Global Dynamism Index (GDI) to delve a little deeper into this split. You can read the full results in our Focus on Latin America, but I just wanted to share some of the highlights with you.
In essence, our report concurs with the ‘Two Latin Americas’ theory. Forecast GDP growth rates for 2014 are telling: as a group, the Pacific economies are expected to grow by 4.3% this year, with those on the Atlantic side posting expansion expectations of around half that. And if the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, which include Chile, Mexico and Peru as well as the US, Japan and others, are successful this divergence could widen over coming years.
According to the IBR, business confidence dropped by 43 percentage points (pp) across the region over the past 12 months, while global business optimism has climbed 23pp. But while Brazilian business confidence dropped to an all-time low heading into 2014, peers in Chile, Mexico and Peru remain in the top eleven globally. Brazil is the regional giant, accounting for 40% of regional output, but despite gearing up to host the FIFA World Cup there is significant social unrest around poor quality infrastructure and high inflation, not to mention the extraordinary cost of doing business here.
Economic uncertainty, currency volatility, inflation and bureaucracy across the Atlantic side of Latin America are hampering businesses in their search for growth. Brazil has been named as one of the ‘fragile five’ economies whose currencies could suffer most from investor flight as the US Federal Reserve tapers its huge quantitative easing programme. Meanwhile, Argentina and Venezuela have imposed a range of foreign exchange and price controls to cool inflation and capital flight. By contrast, business leaders in Mexico, which pushed through a series of tough energy, education and competition reforms last year, like peers across the Pacific side, remain relatively untroubled by government and central bank action.
And there are signs that the Pacific economies are doing more to improve their investment attractiveness compared with Atlantic peers. Chile (2nd overall), Peru (24) and Mexico (31) all rank higher than Brazil (42) in the GDI 2013, which ranks the business growth environment improvements economies have made over the past 12 months. Argentina ranks down in 53rd place.
In some ways, the Pacific-Atlantic split does not completely stack up; for example, Brazilian businesses are more bullish than Mexican peers about increasing profits this year, and with 100 million inhabitants now in the middle class, there are still many business opportunities to explore. Also Brazil’s government is not really in the same league as Argentina and Venezuela when it comes to interventionism – it is a true democracy and it is hoped that the elections in October will establish a new more open economic framework. However, the Atlantic and Pacific – or inward and outward – reactions to globalisation hold true. While the Pacific side is signing free trade agreements with the rest of the world, the Atlantic side is limiting foreign investment and access to its markets, through monetary and fiscal policies.
Only time will tell which approach works best for the people and businesses of Latin America, but my money is on the Pacific side reaping the benefits of their more open approach. In 2010, when Brazil was growing by 7.5%, the government held up its model of economic development as an example for the rest of the world. I wonder how many economies view Brazil as the blueprint for success today?
Madeleine Blankenstein is a partner at Grant Thornton Brazil.
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Graphic shows the location of the South Atlantic Anomaly and what is believed to cause it.
شذوذ في المجال المغناطيسي للأرض
August 20, 2020 - NASA is monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field – a vast region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the South Atlantic.
A developing phenomenon, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has intrigued NASA for years. The mysterious dip in the Earth's magnetic field that runs from South America and across the South Atlantic to Africa, causes concern because low orbit spacecraft are vulnerable to charged particles from the sun as they pass through it.
The space agency likens the SAA to a "dent" in Earth's magnetic field, or a kind of "pothole in space". It generally doesn't cause concern for life on Earth, but it does for spacecraft like the International Space Station, which periodically pass through the anomaly. The weakened magnetic field exposes craft to high-energy protons emanating from the Sun, which means onboard technological systems can short-circuit and malfunction.
Satellites mainly experience low-level glitches while passing through the SAA, but there is a risk of significant data loss, or even permanent damage. The threat is serious enough for most satellite operators to now routinely shut down their spacecraft before they enter it.
The main contributor to Earth's mysterious magnetic field is considered to be the ocean of molten iron inside Earth's outer core, thousands of kilometres below ground. As is swirls around, it generates electrical currents that create Earth's magnetic field.
The field is important to life on Earth because it acts like a shield, pushing away charged particles ejected by the Sun, which could be disruptive if they reached the surface. The field also guides animal migrations and our own compasses.
Scientists believe a huge plateau of dense rock called the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province, located about 2,900km below Africa, disturbs the field's generation, resulting in the dramatic weakening effect – in part aided by the tilt of Earth's magnetic axis.
It is believed the SAA is a recurrent magnetic event that may have begun life 11 million years ago. It is also apparently slowly moving in a north-westerly direction and may even be splitting in two, meaning the future of the SAA remains unknown.
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field (ScienceAlert)
Earth's Interior (National Geographic)
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How Trump’s New Rule Aims to Expand Health Coverage and Lower Costs
Moffit specializes in health care and entitlement programs, especially Medicare.
Under the new rule, workers and their families could use employer contributions to the accounts to buy health insurance on their own. everythingpossible/Getty Images
The proposed rule...would allow employer-sponsored health reimbursement accounts to fund the purchase of individual health insurance on a tax-free basis.
The Trump rule has the potential not only to expand coverage, but also to increase employees’ choices in health plans.
Working together, Congress and the president could yet achieve the greater policy goal long supported by America’s most notable economists.
The Trump administration just announced a major regulatory change, effective Jan. 1, 2020, that could significantly expand access to affordable health coverage and increase the choice of health plans, particularly among workers and their families in small businesses.
The proposed rule, jointly developed by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department, would allow employer-sponsored health reimbursement accounts to fund the purchase of individual health insurance on a tax-free basis.
Today, workers and their families can use tax-free health reimbursement accounts to offset medical expenses, such as out-of-pocket medical costs. Under the new rule, workers and their families could use employer contributions to the accounts to buy health insurance on their own.
This opportunity is particularly valuable for workers employed by small business owners who cannot afford to offer standard group health insurance, but who could afford to help offset the premium costs of their employees’ individual coverage.
Treasury Department officials estimate that the new rule could encourage as many as 800,000 employers to sponsor health reimbursement accounts, or HRAs, to fund individual coverage for more than 10 million workers.
This relief is crucial, particularly for workers and their families in small businesses. With the enactment of Obamacare in 2010, the already fragile condition of health coverage among small businesses worsened. For little companies with fewer than 25 workers, the percentage of businesses offering health insurance fell from 44 percent in 2010 to just 30 percent in 2018.
Among small and midsize companies (with fewer than 200 employees), 81 percent offered only one health plan as of last year. No choice, just a “take it or leave it” option.
The Trump rule would open up new coverage opportunities for employers and employees.
The rule also has some ancillary benefits for workers already covered by traditional, employer-sponsored health insurance. It would permit employers to contribute up to $1,800 yearly (indexed to inflation) to reimburse workers for certain additional medical expenses, such as dental benefits, as well as premiums for short-term health insurance plans. Such less expensive plans are especially valuable for persons who are between jobs.
The impact of the Trump rule could prove genuinely transformational, if Congress would take the obvious next step: Adopt the reform policies outlined in the Health Care Choices Proposal, developed by a broad coalition of conservative health policy analysts.
That proposal would restore the bulk of regulatory authority over health insurance markets to the states, provide financial assistance for the poor and the sick, and enable persons in government programs to use public funding to enroll in a private health plan of their choice, if they wished to do so.
By enabling states to liberalize their health insurance markets, Congress could enable employees, using health reimbursement accounts as a vehicle for tax-free premium payments, to choose among a variety of new and innovative plans.
Today, enrollees in the broken individual and small group markets are trapped in artificially expensive Obamacare plans. They are punished with explosive deductibles, shrinking choices, and excessively narrow networks of doctors and hospitals.
Working together, Congress and the president could yet achieve the greater policy goal long supported by America’s most notable economists, including the late Milton Friedman: individual tax relief for the purchase of health insurance in a robust and competitive consumer-driven market.
That change could be, in the very best sense of the word, revolutionary.
Choice, Competition, And Flexibility, Part II
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Indulge in the history of Norwich
by Conrad - 17 April 2015
Hit television comedy I'm Alan Partridge may be the first thought that springs to mind when discussing Norwich, but the city is much more than the show that put this corner of England on the public radar - perhaps for all the wrong reasons. Far from boring and bland, this charming easterly city is England's first UNESCO City of Literature, and steeped in history boasting castles, cathedrals and other fine landmarks.
In fact Norwichis the most complete, medieval city in Britain, and with over 1,500 historic buildings lying in wait to be explored, here are some of the top sites to see when you take your journey through time.
Over 900 years ago, the Normans constructed this mammoth medieval castle as a palace for William the Conqueror. The royal fort, which was a palace and later a jail, offers visitors a look into the past and although it no longer fits the purpose of the original build, the castle now houses a collection of fine art, natural history and archaeology.
As one of Europe's finest Romanesque cathedrals, Norwich Cathedral offers visitors the chance to witness the second tallest spire and the largest monastic cloisters in the country. The religious building's periodic architecture and structure are second to none, while it is also home to Norman wall paintings and medieval graffiti.
Branch out with a visit to Elm Hill, one of the oldest streets in the city. With more Tudor buildings packed into this one narrow cobbled lane than found in the whole of central London, it has retained oodles of 16th century charm and character. The street is also famous for a blazing fire that ripped through and destroyed most of the street in 1507, which is why you will struggle to find any houses that pre-date that year.
Boudicca Way
Just south of the city lies Boudicca Way, a far-reaching footpath which is believed to be the route Queen Boudicca and her army travelled down on their march against the Romans. The trail is 36 miles long between Diss and Norwich although it is broken down in four easier sections.
To explore this historic city, hire a care from our Norwich pick up point.
Article by Conrad
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The city Parks and Recreation Department is installing a new railway for a second train that will run on the park's west side.
Park manager Jason Arnoldi said the new train's route will start near the Giant Slide in the middle of Bay Beach grounds, run along the shoreline and then go under or "through" the Zippin' Pippin' — one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the United States.
"Most people who've ridden it (the Zippin' Pippin') know that big bump toward the end of the roller coaster," Arnoldi said. "That's about where the tracks will be underneath."
Arnoldi said adding a train track on the west side, particularly one that intersects with another ride, was part of a 2008 master plan that was created even before the Zippin' Pippin' called Bay Beach home. The roller coaster was installed at the park in 2011.
Dan Ditschiet, the city's interim parks and recreation director, said the new railway will give riders a different view of the park than the train that runs on the east side of the grounds.
"The east bound train has always been one of our most popular rides," he said. "With the west bound train visitors wanting to ride that kind of ride can spend less time standing in lines."
The west-side train cost a little more than $1 million. The price also includes an additional train maintenance building, a canopy over the area where riders will wait in line and some other smaller features. The funds for the train came from Friends of Bay Beach and other donations.
A bigger concession building is also in the works.
Arnoldi said the larger concession area will be attached to the bumper cars building. He said another food outlet will help thin out large crowds that regularly formed around Bay Beach Grill, near the Zippin' Pippin', and other stands.
"This will be a nice upgrade and help with traffic," he said.
Ditscheit said the new food destination will also have a revamped menu including hot dogs, popcorn and nachos.
The $700,000 concession building will be paid for by park revenue.
Arnoldi expects the new railway and concession stand to be complete by late May or early June.
"But we're certainly aiming for Memorial Day weekend," Ditscheit said.
Ditscheit said the latest round of projects is a nice prelude to the park's highly-anticipated addition of a second Ferris wheel in 2019. At 100 feet tall, the new Ferris wheel will be double the size of the park's current wheel.
The goal, he said, is for the park to continue to add new rides and other attractions that offer a unique experience and keep up the momentum for the overall vision of the park as laid out in the master plan.
The amusement park logged just under 3.5 million riders last year.
Bay Beach opens May 5.
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Study of the electronic nematic phase of Sr{}_{3}Ru{}_{2}O{}_{7} with precise control of the applied magnetic field vector
Study of the electronic nematic phase of Sr3Ru2O7 with precise control of the applied magnetic field vector
J. A. N. Bruin SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom R. A. Borzi Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, UNLP-CONICET, 1900 La Plata, Argentina S. A. Grigera SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos, UNLP-CONICET, 1900 La Plata, Argentina A. W. Rost SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom R. S. Perry SUPA, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom A. P. Mackenzie SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
We report a study of the magnetoresistivity of high purity Sr3Ru2O7, in the vicinity of its electronic nematic phase. By employing a triple-axis (9/1/1T) vector magnet, we were able to precisely tune both the magnitude and direction of the in-plane component of the magnetic field (H∥). We report the dependence of the resistively determined anisotropy on H∥ in the phase, as well as across the wider temperature-field region. Our measurements reveal a high-temperature anisotropy which mimics the behaviour of fluctuations from the underlying quantum critical point, and suggest the existence of a more complicated phase diagram than previously reported.
Since the pioneering work of Pomeranchuk Pomeranchuk (1958) , it has been known that a fluid of interacting electrons might, in principle, develop a spontaneous macroscopic anisotropy. Through the 1990s, solutions of idealised models of electrons on lattices showed that a variety of spin and charge orders can occur that break the symmetries of the underlying lattice and are purely driven by electron-electron interactions. The most celebrated of these, stripes, have been widely discussed in relation to the cuprate high temperature superconductors Kivelson et al. (2003) . When the stripes are static there is both a macroscopic anisotropy and an observable translational symmetry breaking, but states in which translational symmetry is preserved may also exist. The analogy between this behaviour and that seen in liquid crystals has led to the adoption of liquid crystal terminology in correlated electron systems: a static stripe phase is equivalent to an electronic smectic, while a metal showing rotational but not translational symmetry breaking is often referred to as an electronic nematic Kivelson et al. (1998) .
In recent years, rapid advances have been made. Electronic nematicity has been reported in high purity two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) Lilly et al. (1999); Pan et al. (1999) , Sr3Ru2O7 Borzi et al. (2007) , cuprates Ando et al. (2002); Hinkov et al. (2008); Daou et al. (2010); Lawler et al. (2010) , pnictides Chuang et al. (2010); Chu et al. (2010); Kasahara et al. (2012) and URu2Si2 Okazaki et al. (2011) , stimulating a considerable body of theoretical work Fradkin et al. (2010) . In some cases, however, interpretation of the observations is complicated by the coexistence of nematicity with other ordering phenomena. One of the main requirements for further progress is identifying systems in which the onset of anisotropy can be unambiguously determined, and their physical properties established in depth. The material that is the subject of this paper, Sr3Ru2O7, is a particularly attractive host for such experiments. It is a layered perovskite metal in which conduction occurs in stacks of Ru-O bilayers. The two Ru-O planes in each bilayer couple relatively strongly, but bilayer-bilayer coupling is weak, so the electronic structure is nearly two-dimensional Ikeda et al. (2000); Singh and Mazin (2001); Tamai et al. (2008); Mercure et al. (2010) . In high magnetic fields of approximately 8 tesla applied normal to the Ru-O planes, a novel phase forms in the purest crystals Grigera et al. (2004); Rost et al. (2009) . Tilting the field to a small angle, θ, produces an in-plane field component which uncovers a large two-fold in-plane transport anisotropy whose easy and hard directions are perpendicular and parallel, respectively, to the direction of the in-plane field Borzi et al. (2007) .
While neutron studies were unable to resolve any accompanying anisotropic response of the lattice to the onset of the electronic anisotropy Borzi et al. (2007) , it was recently shown by dilatometry measurements to be less than one part in 106 Stingl et al. (2011) . This suggests that the coupling of the electronic distortion to the crystal lattice is extremely weak, and means that Sr3Ru2O7 offers, in principle, an ideal opportunity to study the way in which electronic nematics form and behave. In this paper, we report an experimental study of the transport-derived nematic susceptibility which reveals the full richness of the Sr3Ru2O7 phase diagram.
In order to investigate the effect of an in-plane field with high experimental precision, it is necessary to tune its magnitude and orientation with respect to the sample. This cannot be done directly using a standard single-axis rotator. Although interesting experiments can be attempted using octagonal samples with multiple contact configurations Borzi et al. (2011) , changing contact configuration during an experiment introduces geometric correction factors that can be difficult to determine with accuracy. A precise investigation of transitions from two- to four-fold transport requires two axis rotation by some means. The standard approach would be to construct a two-axis mechanical rotator, but performing the rotation inevitably introduces heat which disrupts measurements at dilution refrigerator temperatures. The experiments described here result from a different experimental approach, using a bespoke triple-axis vector magnet capable of producing 9/1/1 tesla along z, x and y. We studied carefully characterised single crystals cut either into âneedleâ shapes (2 x 0.3 x 0.2 mm3 typical dimensions) or octagonal plates (1.8 x 1.8 x 0.1 mm3 typical dimensions). Transport measurements were performed in a dilution refrigerator using four-probe a.c. techniques employing room temperature passive amplification to achieve voltage noise levels of 100pV/√Hz. Careful centring using the vector field capability allowed θ to be determined to an accuracy of 0.1∘ relative to the crystallographic c axis Bruin (2012) .
Figure 1: Magnetoresistance of Sr3Ru2O7 versus an applied field tilted at θ = 6.4∘ parallel (green trace) and perpendicular (blue trace) to a current applied along the tetragonal a axis, as well as the difference between these (black trace). The inset shows the dimensionless anisotropy η (see: main text). Up to 7.78 tesla it is zero within our experimental resolution but then jumps sharply into a region of strong transport anisotropy which weakens gradually before returning to zero above approximately 8.5 tesla.
In Fig. 1 we show the magnetoresistivity of a single crystal of Sr3Ru2O7 as a function of the applied field modulus at θ = 6.4∘ and T = 100 mK. At this tilt angle the in-plane field H∥ reaches 1 tesla when the c axis field is 9 tesla. In both measurements the current was passed along the tetragonal a axis 111In the unfolded tetragonal zone the a axis is along the Ru-Ru bond direction., but for the blue curve the in-plane field component is perpendicular to the current (the âeasyâ direction), while for the green curve it is parallel to it (the âhardâ direction). Both the current and voltage contacts to the crystal remain identical, so this is a precise measurement of whether the resistivity changes for the two perpendicular in-plane field directions or not. Within our resistivity noise level of 2 nΩcm/√Hz, the resistivity is identical until the sharp jump at 7.78 tesla, as demonstrated by the black curve (ρhard−ρeasy) in Fig. 1. At higher fields there is a clear resistive anisotropy, which then falls to zero within experimental resolution near the experimentally limited maximum field. A convenient dimensionless measure of the degree of anisotropy is the ratio η=(ρhard−ρeasy)/(ρhard+ρeasy). We illustrate the onset and subsequent disappearance of anisotropy by plotting η as a function of field in the inset of Fig. 1.
The data shown in Fig. 1 emphasise the first key result of this paper: the uniqueness of Sr3Ru2O7 as a model material for the investigation of electronic nematicity. In all the systems in which large anisotropies have been observed, a symmetry-breaking field has been required to reveal them. In the 2DEGs, sample strain has been suggested as the source of this symmetry-breaking field Fradkin et al. (2010) , while in the cuprates and pnictides it arises from a pre-existing lattice anisotropy. In the latter case, deconvolving the nematicity due to electronic interactions from coupling to the anisotropic lattice is challenging, though ways of doing so have been proposed Ando et al. (2002); Chuang et al. (2010); Chu et al. (2012) . In Sr3Ru2O7, two issues could in principle complicate the interpretation of transport data. Firstly, there is one report of a small lattice anisotropy of approximately 5 parts in 104 even at zero applied magnetic field Kiyanagi et al. (2004) . Although small, and not reported in other crystallographic studies Shaked et al. (2000); Hu et al. (2010) , it could be a source of two-fold transport anisotropy. Secondly, an in-plane field component could lead to transport anisotropy because of the difference between transverse and longitudinal magneto-resistance 222If a lattice anisotropy of 5 parts in 104 creates no observable transport anisotropy, a change over two orders of magnitude less is not expected to do so either, while any difference between transverse and longitudinal magnetoresistance is a strong inverse function of the scattering rate, which is higher in the anisotropic region than outside it.. The fact that we resolve two-fold transport anisotropy only in a restricted range of fields shows that both effects are negligible in Sr3Ru2O7. Combined with the dilatometry data showing that the lattice anisotropy introduced by entering the region of two-fold transport is less than 1 part in 106, this provides strong evidence that the two-fold transport in Sr3Ru2O7 is induced by electron interactions. Further, the fact that the magnetoresistance makes such well-defined changes from four-fold (η=0 to within high experimental precision) to two-fold (η>0) strongly suggests that it is associated with symmetry breaking of the interacting electron system.
Figure 2: (a) data for magnetoresistance along the hard (green) and easy (blue) directions as a function of field tilted to θ = 7.5∘, T = 100 mK. The labels H1 and H2 mark the fields at which peaks in the magnetic susceptibility have been identified (see main text), taking into account the weak θ dependence of these features Raghu et al. (2009) . (b,c) Dimensionless anisotropy η (see: main text) as a function of temperature for H1<H<H2 and H2<H<H3, respectively. The data (solid markers) are interpolated from field sweeps at fixed temperature. The insets present points of greatest slope in η(T) (blue markers), as well as the loci of H1 (red markers) and H2 (black markers), extracted as the points of greatest slope in ρhard(H).
In Fig. 2a we show data in the close vicinity of the region of resistive anisotropy, for θ = 7.5∘ and T = 100 mK. The field labels facilitate comparison with previous thermodynamic and magnetic data, which have established the existence of first order phase transitions at H1 and H2 on the basis of dissipative peaks in the imaginary part of low-frequency a.c. susceptibility Perry et al. (2004) and features in the magnetocaloric effect Rost et al. (2009) . The data show that, as the field increases, the initial sharp rise in the anisotropy occurs at H1. Although there is a feature in ρhard at H2, anisotropy does not disappear there, but persists to the higher field H3.
The existence of resistive anisotropy between H2 and H3, beyond the boundaries of the previously-identified phase, is the second key result reported in this paper. Electrical transport in Sr3Ru2O7 is based mainly on bands with Ru 4dxy, 4dxz and 4dyz character. A body of theoretical work has shown that electronic anisotropy can arise from instabilities of either the quasi-1D 4dxz,yz-based bands Raghu et al. (2009); Lee and Wu (2009) or from a (bilayer-split) quasi-2D model Puetter et al. (2007); Yamase (2009) . The real Fermi surface is quite complicated, however, and the portions which are most strongly renormalised have hybrid 4dxy and 4dxz,yz character Tamai et al. (2008) . It seems plausible, therefore, that multiple instabilities may exist, as addressed recently in a model predicting a multi-component phase diagram Puetter et al. (2012) , and evidence for lattice constant anisotropy above H2 has also been reported Stingl et al. (2012) .
The observed transport anisotropy between H2 and H3 shows that the phase diagram of Sr3Ru2O7 is more complex than previously thought, motivating a thorough investigation of the field, temperature and θ dependence of the anisotropy. We have performed such a study, measuring η in the vector magnet for 7T <B< 8.5T, 0.1 K <T< 6K and θ = 1∘, 2∘, 4∘, 6.4∘ and 7.5∘. In Figs. 2b and 2c we show samples from this data set, namely the temperature dependence of η at θ = 7.5∘, for temperatures between 6 K and 100 mK, for fields between the H1 and H2, and fields above H2 and below H1 respectively.
The data in Fig. 2b are relevant to an important issue in the study of electronic nematicity: why anisotropy is observed only in the presence of a symmetry-breaking field. The most likely reason is the inherent degeneracy between the order developing along the a or b axes of a square-planar system. If a phase transition to a nematic state occurs, it would be expected to be accompanied by the formation of domains which would mask the microscopic anisotropy from observation in macroscopic measurements Fradkin et al. (2010) . In layered compounds like Sr3Ru2O7 it is also possible that even in mono-domain samples the preferred direction might rotate from layer to layer, again preventing the observation of anisotropy Puetter et al. (2007); Yamase (2009) . If a microscopic order parameter exists, the field that is applied to reveal the anisotropy must couple to it, so what is actually measured is the response of the system to the application of that field, which in the case of Sr3Ru2O7 is H∥. The first feature of Fig. 2b that is consistent with this basic picture is the pronounced high temperature ‘tail’ seen in η. Small but resolvable anisotropy exists to 6 K, the maximum temperature shown. Below approximately 1 K, η rises rapidly from its ‘background’ value. As shown in the inset (blue markers), the temperatures at which this happens agree closely with those of second order phase transitions previously identified for H∥ = 0 Rost et al. (2009) . The finite high temperature anisotropy along with a pronounced increase at 1K are characteristic of the behaviour expected for an ordered system in the presence of an external field to which it couples, and are reminiscent of previous measurements on the anisotropic state that exists at high field in high purity 2DEGs Lilly et al. (1999) .
Data for H2<H<H3 (Fig. 2c) share some but not all of the features of the data shown in Fig. 2b. The ‘tail’ extending to 6 K is still evident, as is the rise in η at low temperatures. The temperatures at which this rise occurs are lower and there is no evidence for the low-temperature saturation of η seen at most fields between H1 and H2, but the data close to H2 show little qualitative difference either side of it. This suggests that there might be a second phase between H2 and H3, raising the question of why it has not so far been observed in thermodynamic measurements. The issue may be disorder. The previously identified phase between H1 and H2 is strongly dependent on sample purity, and only becomes well-defined in samples with mean free paths of several thousand angstroms. If there were a phase between H2 and H3 with a lower transition temperature, it might be expected to suffer significant disorder broadening even at this high level of sample purity, making a thermodynamic signature difficult to observe. Our transport observations motivate further thermodynamic experiments to clarify this issue.
The third key finding from our study of the field and temperature dependence of η is also contained in Fig. 2c. The 7.65T and 8.45T curves (red and blue markers) are representative of the temperature dependence of η at fields away from, but in close proximity to, the main regions of anisotropy, both for H<H1 and H>H3. At high temperatures η is similar to the values measured for H1<H<H3. Instead of rising at low temperatures, however, it drops towards zero. This is characteristic of a quantum critical system tuned away from its critical field. At high temperatures, critical fluctuations affect a wide range of field, but this range is cut off when the temperature is too low to populate them. There is extensive thermodynamic and transport evidence that, away from its critical field, Sr3Ru2O7 behaves like a quantum critical system (with the actual approach to the quantum critical point cut off by the phase formation), but until this experiment there was no evidence that the fluctuations had any nematic character. The nematic response that we report here is small, and would have been difficult to determine with certainty without the use of a vector magnetic field. It is therefore not clear whether the primary fluctuations of the system are nematic or whether the nematicity is a by-product of more dominant fluctuations of some other kind, but it is intriguing to see a nematic signal with such direct characteristics of quantum criticality. It will be interesting to see if it can be enhanced by the application of in-plane stress, to allow the phase diagram to be traced out in detail.
Figure 3: (a) the temperature and field dependence of the dimensionless anisotropy ratio η measured, as described in the main text, in a field tilted at θ = 7.5∘. The white dots show the loci of H1 and H2, as extracted from points of greatest slope of ρ(H). The endpoints of the first order lines were determined by comparison to a.c. magnetic susceptibility. (b) the field dependence of the a.c. magnetic susceptibility at 100mK, θ≈7∘, over the same range of magnetic fields (background subtracted).
In Fig. 3a we summarise all the data in the vicinity of the regions of strong anisotropy in a colour scale contour plot of η for θ = 7.5∘, based on interpolating data taken at 17 closely spaced temperatures. The data shown in the insets of Fig. 2b and 2c for H1 and H2 are superposed here as white dots. The contouring of η in the higher field region is suggestive of that region being associated with a second phase.
Comparison with magnetic susceptibility data for similar θ (Fig. 3b) reveals a final noteworthy feature of the phase diagram. In addition to the sharp peaks at H1 and H2, which are known to signal first order phase transitions Grigera et al. (2003, 2004); Rost et al. (2009) , there is a broader peak at the lower field H0. Although it is associated with a larger moment change than that at H2, there is no evidence from either the imaginary part of the magnetic susceptibility or the magnetocaloric effect that it signals a first order magnetic transition. It might in principle be a crossover or a broadened second order transition (either a critical end-point or a symmetry-breaking transition to finite q order of some kind). Whether it is a crossover or a phase transition, it is clearly not associated with the onset of low temperature transport anisotropy. The resistivity falls slightly, but retains four-fold symmetry within our experimental resolution. In contrast, the disappearance of anisotropy at H3 does not coincide with any large feature in the magnetic susceptibility. The overall picture that emerges from these measurements is that the phase diagram of Sr3Ru2O7 may be richer than previously thought. High precision thermodynamic measurements extending to temperatures below 100 mK are highly desirable.
In conclusion, we have used a vector magnetic field to perform a series of high-precision measurements of anisotropic transport in Sr3Ru2O7. Within our high experimental resolution, we observe well-defined transitions from four-fold to two-fold to four-fold symmetry of in-plane resistivity as a function of magnetic field. Transport anisotropy exists in a region of field higher than that bounding a previously identified anisotropic phase. Even when the resistivity is four-fold symmetric at low temperatures, some anisotropy can be induced at higher temperatures, consistent with nematic fluctuations being an integral feature of the broader quantum critical phase diagram that is known to exist for Sr3Ru2O7.
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The Confessions of Dorian Gray : The Complete Series Three CD-Audio
by James Goss, David Llewellyn, Roy Gill
Narrated by Alexander Vlahos
Part of the Confessions of Dorian Gray series
Presented as a series of original horror stories, Alexander Vlahos (Merlin, Privates) takes us on a supernatural journey through the twentieth century: from Oscar Wilde's death in Paris, right through to the present day.This complete collection features every episode from the first and second series, including three hour-long special episodes - released on CD for the very first time!
BLANK CANVAS. Two years after the death of Dorian Gray, his home is broken into...but the intruders aren't expecting what they'll find there.
THE NEEDLE. Reunited with his former colleague, Simon Darlow, Dorian uncovers an centuries-old conspiracy behind one of London's newest office blocks.
WE ARE EVERYWHERE. When a serial-killing stalker discovers the truth about Dorian and his immortality, a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse ensues...ECHOES.
Trapped alone on the last Tube home, Dorian finds himself confronted by phantoms...but why have they waited until now to track him down?
PANDORA. Madame Pandora has the gift of the Tarot: she can predict your future with unnerving accuracy...a fact that unnerves Dorian more than anyone.
HEART AND SOUL. A reluctant Dorian finds himself drawn to a sinister circus, where a mythical creature is drawing the public to their deaths.
Cost of entry: one human heart, each night...DISPLACEMENT ACTIVITY.
When Dorian is offered an opportunity to discover the truth behind his revival, he agrees to assist the enigmatic Victoria Lowell in stealing a supernatural artefact - the Eternity Canvas - from a exhibition celebrating the occult...THE DARKEST HOUR.
Familiar faces gather as Dorian's past comes back to haunt him in his hour of need...Note: The Confessions of Dorian Gray contains adult material and is not suitable for younger listeners.
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Annett History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The current generations of the Annett family have inherited a surname that was first used hundreds of years ago by descendants of the ancient Scottish tribe called the Picts. The Annett family lived in the lands of Arnott in the parish of Portmoak in Kinross (now part of the region of Tayside), where one of the first times the name was listed was in 1150 when Michael de Arnoth was mentioned.
Early Origins of the Annett family
The surname Annett was first found in the lands of Arnott in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire. The first chief, recorded, Michael Arnott, held those lands about 1150. David, of Fifeshire, his successor was recorded in 1296 when he paid homage to King Edward 1st of England.
Early History of the Annett family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Annett research. Another 137 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1320, 1400, 1502, 1600, 1608, 1639, 1918, 1497, 1536, 1497, 1498, 1680, 1652, 1693, 1769, 1693, 1743, 1744 and are included under the topic Early Annett History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Annett Spelling Variations
Scribes in the Middle Ages did not have access to a set of spelling rules. They spelled according to sound, the result was a great number of spelling variations. In various documents, Annett has been spelled Arnott, Arnot, Arnatt, Arnocht, Arnote, Arnett, Anetts, Arnette, Ernot, Ernott, Annett, Annetts and many more.
Early Notables of the Annett family (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the Clan at this time was David Arnot, C.R.S.A., ( fl. 1497- c. 1536), Scottish canon regular and bishop from Arnot, Fife, Rector of Kirkforthar, Fife in 1497, Archdeacon of Lothian in 1498; Sir Michael Arnot, 1st Baronet (d. c. 1680) of Arnot in the County of Fife; and his son, Charles Arnot (d. before 1652) represented Kinross in the Scottish Parliament. Further to the south in England, Peter Annet (1693-1769)...
Another 70 words (5 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Annett Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Annett family to Ireland
Some of the Annett family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Annett migration to New Zealand +
Annett Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
Mr. William Annett, (b. 1839), aged 22, British ploughman travelling from Bristol aboard the ship "Matoaka" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 10th February 1862 [1]
James Annett, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Zealandia" in 1874
Contemporary Notables of the name Annett (post 1700) +
John Annett, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1972 [2]
Fred Annett, American Libertarian politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from Texas 4th District, 2008 [2]
Bruce J. Annett, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1952 [2]
The Annett Motto +
Motto: Speratum et completum
Motto Translation: Hoped for and Fulfilled.
^ New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
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Published by Bruce Whitehouse on 9 June 2014
Understanding the role of Africa’s immigrant entrepreneurs
Generations of Africans have debated the merits of foreign-controlled enterprise: do these businesses and the people who run them strengthen or undermine local economic opportunity? Do they benefit or exploit local workers and consumers?
Such debates often overlook that a large portion of these foreign-owned firms are small or medium enterprises, and that their owners are not European, North American or even Chinese. The commercial success of certain “middleman minority” groups, such as Indians in east Africa or Lebanese in West Africa, is widely known. Far more foreign business owners on the continent, however, originate in other African countries.
Their ranks include Somalis in South Africa, Nigerian Hausas in Ghana and Mauritanian Arabs in Senegal. They run a broad spectrum of businesses, from factories to dry goods stores to tailor shops. These African immigrant entrepreneurs’ vital role in host country economies has too often been misunderstood by observers and maligned by overzealous nationalists and cynical politicians.
Even after having established themselves, started businesses and learned local languages, immigrants often remain socially and culturally distinct from the host population. Their linguistic or religious traditions may set them apart.
These groups frequently maintain and cultivate enduring ties with their country of origin. Many send their children born in the host country to be raised by relatives back home, the better to instil in them the culture, language and values of their community of origin. When these offspring come of age, they rejoin their parents abroad and eventually take over their businesses and properties, perpetuating their families’ presence in the host country.
So although integrated into the host society in fundamental ways, such immigrants do not fully assimilate into it, even after generations. They are like a highly visible thread woven into, yet discrete from, the social fabric of the host country. The distinct status of these populations – “strangers” as some call them – is at once their greatest strength and their greatest vulnerability. (The use of the term “strangers” to refer to immigrant traders in West Africa has a long history in scholarship on the subject.)
Immigrants and their descendants can draw important economic benefits from their foreigner status. At home, the imperatives of successful entrepreneurship, such as making a profit and accumulating capital, frequently conflict with the imperatives of dutiful kinship, such as supporting the needy, offering credit, or providing discounts. Abroad, as nominal outsiders, immigrants are not bound by the same webs of reciprocal obligation: they can afford to scale back their social obligations and invest more in their enterprises than if they had never left home.
Although they still rely heavily on their own kin and co-ethnics abroad, immigrants stand apart from their clientele. Hence they enjoy more freedom to run their businesses as they see fit.
The tightly knit, kin-based nature of foreigner communities also fosters a degree of internal cohesion that the wider host society usually lacks. These migrants’ status as “strangers in a strange land” heightens their sense of shared identity and mutual responsibility.
This cohesion gives rise to “enforceable trust”, a mechanism for punishing malfeasance and rewarding good behaviour. Immigrants can ill afford alienation from their own community, and thus must abide by the group’s internal norms. Enforceable trust fills the void left by a dysfunctional formal legal system in settings where state institutions are weak, courts corrupt and contract enforcement uncertain – as is often the case in some African countries.
Immigrants also stand to benefit from their transnational connections. This writer studied traders from 2005 to 2006 in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. They belonged to networks linking them not only with their villages of origin in the western Sahel – especially Mali, Guinea and Senegal – but with kin and co-ethnics based in Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and as far afield as Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and China. Many had previously lived in some of these other cities and countries in their migrant network before coming to Congo. Travel between these nodes was a regular feature of doing business for the more successful entrepreneurs.
Even family-owned businesses can manage risk by diversifying operations across multiple countries. A Malian entrepreneur I interviewed operates a metal sheeting plant in the Republic of Congo, has one relative in charge of his Congolese sawmill, another running his plastics factory in Mali and a third managing his export office in south-eastern China. Such transnational networks lower business costs by making it easier to share information and technologies across borders.
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Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award
Right Honourable David Johnston
Right Honourable David Johnston is a champion for Canadian innovation. He started his career as a professor and went on to become the vice-chancellor and President of the University of Waterloo – one of Canada’s leading innovation hubs. In 2010, Mr. Johnston was called to serve as the Governor General of Canada. His tenure has been marked by his dedication to strengthening: learning and innovation, philanthropy and volunteerism, and families and children. Most notably, Mr. Johnston launched the first ever Governor General Innovation Awards to celebrate excellence in Canadian innovation, inspire Canadians, especially youth, to be entrepreneurial innovators, and foster a culture of innovation.
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Wildlife park draws visitors despite pandemic
The Ormanya Wildlife Park in the northwestern province of Kocaeli hosted 5 million visitors despite the coronavirus pandemic last year.
Kocaeli Mayor Tahir Büyükakın said that Ormanya, located in Kartepe district, opened in May 2018. With a spectacular natural habitat, Ormanya welcomes millions of visitors each year, becoming Turkey’s most visited one.
Büyükakın emphasized that Ormanya has become one of the favorite places of tourists and that the construction and maintenance works continue in Ormanya, which had been closed for about two months due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Ormanya had a very busy year with its zoo, wildlife area, Ormanköy, bird watching area, picnic area and camping area. Due to the pandemic, it was closed for two months. In this process, maintenance works continued and many measures were taken against the pandemic. A thermometer and COVID-19 notifications were placed at the entrance for visitors. Disinfectant machines were placed at many points in the area and frequent announcements are made for locals to pay attention to social distancing.”
Büyükakın stated that another noteworthy part of Ormanya is the Wild Habitat, and the reproduction of the red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, gazelle and jade horses living in this section is also a draw.
“With eight births of red deer, three of roe deer, six of fallow deer, 14 of gazelles and four births of jade horses, the Wild Habitat is home to a total of 154 wild animals. The number of red deer living in Ormanya Wildlife Area will be increased and they will be released to the wildlife areas in Samanlı Mountains and Kandıra region, where they are widely seen in Kocaeli.
Pointing out that the activities for children were also organized in Ormanya, Büyükakın said, “During the pandemic, the first stop of those who want to get away from the city was Ormanya, especially for campers. In addition to local nature lovers, Ormanya hosted tourists from countries such as Germany, Bulgaria, America, South Korea, France, Switzerland and England, and hosted 9,897 campers, 550 of whom were foreign tourists, during this period.”
Stating that there is also the Ormanya Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, he said that many difficult surgeries were performed in the center last year and many treatments were successfully completed.
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Left-Wing Activist
Adam Ruben is a political consultant and the principal consultant for Bigify, a Washington, D.C.-based consultancy whose clients include NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Fight for $15, Voter Participation Center, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Massachusetts) presidential campaign.
Ruben formerly worked as political and field director for the left-wing agitation group MoveOn.org, field director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), and organizing director for Green Corps, a left-of-center environmentalist organization aligned with US-PIRG and the Public Interest Network.[1]
“Profile: Adam Ruben.” LinkedIn. Accessed October 08, 2018. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamruben/. ^
Bigify (For-profit)
Principal Owner and Consultant
Economic Security Project Action (Non-profit)
Green Corps (Non-profit)
Former Organizing Director (1995-1999)
MoveOn Civic Action (MoveOn.org) (Non-profit)
Former Political and Field Director (2004-2012)
Sierra Club (Non-profit)
Former Field Organizer (1993-1995)
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RMG - 75th anniversary of death of Venerable Simone Srugi, Salesian Brother
(ANS - Rome) - Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 27th, 75 years shall have passed since the death of Venerable Salesian Brother Simone Srugi. Born and lived in the Holy Land, during his entire life he had set himself to follow Jesus completely, through a life of prayer and service and bearing witness of love for all.
Simone Srugi (15 April 1877 - 27 November 1943) spent the first 11 years of his life in his home town of Nazareth, where the Christological and Marian mysteries of the Incarnation, of adolescence and of the "hidden life" of Jesus impressed a profound mark on his sensitive soul. He also lved in Bethlehem for about 5 years, fraternising with the first Salesians who had arrived in the Holy Land in 1891.
In Bethlehem, he was struck by the humility and poverty of the Child Jesus in the grotto of the Nativity and he became steeped with devotions to the Holy Sacrament and the Sacred Heart much cultivated by the religious of the "Holy Family". The sanctuaries of Jerusalem became a constant source of inspiration towards conforming himself to Jesus crucified and resurrected.
In the 51 years lived in Betgamàl, site of the burial of St. Stephen, all these dimensions reached maturity: the work sanctified by the continuous prayer "in spirit and truth", the educational loving kindness, the kind and gentle humility, the practice of forgiveness and of reconciliation, the simplicity of the "little way" in the daily routines of community life, the compassion for the sick and the poor, at the service of which he spent himself fully, especially as a nurse.
Thus he was well liked by all: Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, young people and lay collaborators, poor and sick, Christians and Muslims - even the bandits who infested the area respected him. Years later, the past pupils of the house would remember him as the holiest Salesian and the most influential educator.
In the tragic events that followed between the two world wars, Simone listened to the voice of the Holy Spirit and was able to understand what was the educational, the welfare and religious mission that the Lord entrusted to him.
His interior life had a solid theological and sacramental foundation, resting on the doctrine of St Francis de Sales and of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, as well as on the teachings of Don Bosco. Along his journey of sanctification, he was sustained by the encouragement of Fr Michele Rua and accompanied by several “teachers of souls” and, thus, reaching the heroism of virtues.
The official recognition came with the decree of venerability signed by Pope John Paul II on April 2, 1993, twenty-five years ago.
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Home / Medical Engineering / Looking deeper into brain function
Looking deeper into brain function
Millions of neuroimages have been acquired in more than 20,000 published activation studies with fMRI and PET imaging. Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich
To uncover connections between brain regions and specific cognitive functions, neuroscientists have long made extensive use of techniques like functional resonance imaging (fMRI). First introduced in the 1990's, the method allows tracking the brain's activity while a test subject performs a task or responds to stimuli in the MRI scanner.
To date, fMRI has been employed in thousands of studies to determine the “locations” of a wide variety of behavioral functions in the brain. In spite of this, it has proved difficult to understand specific functions and complex interaction of brain areas and networks. For regions like the hippocampus, long lists of associated tasks have been described, but so far, the many individual results have not produced a conclusive picture.
A team of brain imaging researchers from Düsseldorf and Jülich in Germany now propose a new approach. The scientists are contributors to the multinational European Human Brain Project. Key to their idea is a reversal of the current practice: Instead of starting with pre-defined behavioral functions and then trying to assign brain regions, the areas would be selected first and then taken through a wide ranging statistical screening for potential behavioral associations, resulting in a “behavioral profile”.
Recently established large data bases of neuroimaging data provide the basis for this new bottom up approach, which, they argue, could help to reveal the “core functions” of brain areas.
“These basic operational functions would be the missing link between behavioral functions described by Psychology and the brain mapping community”, explains first author Sarah Genon, a researcher at University Hospital Düsseldorf and Research Center Jülich in Germany. In the European Human Brain Project, she heads the task Multimodal comparison of whole-brain maps.
“Many approaches to the description of human behavior and its dysfunction, not only from the many psychology fields, but also fields like psychiatry, neurology, or economics have produced rich knowledge, but mapping them onto the brain results in a kind of conceptual chaos”, Genon says. A psychologist by training who previously used fMRI to study Alzheimer's disease, she knows both sides. “It has been difficult for these fields and scientists interested in brain organization to find a common language.”
Basic operational functions of a brain area are not directly observed, but need to be derived from the range of much more complicated behavioral functions with which they are associated. The core “Job” of a brain area is veiled in a multitude of higher order behavioral functions that recruit it. Teasing out these base functions of individual structurally distinct brain areas is a challenge — but the researchers believe that the time is right, as recent advances in statistical methodology and availability of brain imaging data are converging:
“By now many different conditions have been tested in many different people and large databases make the compiled data of tens of thousands of different imaging studies available”, says senior author Simon Eickhoff, head of the area of Brain and Behaviour at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Institute of Systems Neuroscience at University Clinic Düsseldorf. In addition, extensive population samples have been collected by initiatives like the Human Connectome Project, the UK Biobank or the German 1000Brain study, which combine functional and anatomical brain data with anonymized results in various cognitive tests.
With the data from many studies one can begin identifying the basic sub-functions that are dynamically combined into more complex behaviors. “Basically we can now approach the middle level. This has been somewhat in the dark, compared to what is known from measurements about the microscopic level, like the neurophysiology of cells, and the higher functions of complex behavior.”
This focus of bridging between the different levels of brain organization is very much in line with the broader goals of the Human Brain Project, Eickhoff explains. With around 500 contributing scientists all over Europe, the project aims to set up a framework to understand the brain's complexity in a more unified way. The work in functional mapping will be integrated into a web-based 3D-Atlas that can be zoomed through all scales and reflects many different aspects, from genetics, cells and networks all the way up to a regions behavioral involvements.
Interview with Dr. Sarah Genon: Neuroscientist Dr. Sarah Genon explains a new approach to discover “operational functions” of brain areas https://blogs.fz-juelich.de/zweikommazwei/en/2018/03/26/brain-research-we-want-to-show-the-whole-picture/
Human Brain Project:
The authors are involved in the European Human Brain Project, a H2020 FET Flagship Project which strives to accelerate the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine. This acceleration will be achieved by a strategic alignment of scientific research programmes in fundamental neuroscience, advanced simulation and multi-scale modelling with the construction of an enabling Research Infrastructure. In the project, they contribute to the construction of the world's most comprehensive multimodal 3D atlas of the brain. Co-author of the article is Prof. Katrin Amunts, Scientific Director of the Project.
Information about the atlas: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/explore-the-brain/
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Westbrook: I'd love to return to Eagles
by Sheil Kapadia, Posted: March 7, 2011
After spending a year in San Francisco with the 6-10 49ers, Brian Westbrook doesn't sound like he's ready to call it quits.
The former Eagles great was in town for an autograph-signing event over the weekend and said he would love to return and play for Andy Reid.
"I talk to Coach Reid every week or so," Westbrook told NBC 10 and Comcast SportsNet. "We always talk. And I would love to be back in Philly, so we'll see how things go."
Westbrook carried 77 times for 340 yards (4.4 YPC) and had 16 receptions for 150 yards last season. In two games against the Cardinals, he had 36 carries for 215 yards. In all the other games combined, he had 41 carries for 125 yards.
But at the age of 31, he thinks he can still play.
"I think I can help out," he said. "I think they have a very good group of young guys on the team, as far as every position. But I still think that I can help this team win."
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While the Eagles have generally been open to veterans leaving and then returning (see Jeremiah Trotter and Hugh Douglas), a Westbrook return would seem unlikely.
With that being said, backup running back is a hole that will need to be addressed at some point. Jerome Harrison received a second-round tender last week, but he has five years of experience, and it's unclear what the chances are of him returning until the CBA is resolved.
Harrison carried 40 times for 239 yards (6.0 YPC) in eight regular-season games with the Eagles. But much of that (21 carries, 99 yards) came in the Week 17 loss to the Cowboys when the starters sat out. In the other seven games, he had 19 carries for 140 yards (7.37 YPC). He was effective when he played, but mostly because of LeSean McCoy's success, Harrison didn't see the field much. I also wonder how comfortable the coaches were with him in pass protection.
The only other running back on the Eagles' active roster is Eldra Buckley, who was also tendered last week. Leonard Weaver is an X-factor. He showed a couple seasons ago that he could be an effective ballcarrier, but Weaver's health remains a major concern.
Last year, the Eagles were in a similar position and chose to sign restricted free agent Mike Bell, who didn't work out and was dealt to Cleveland in the Harrison trade.
I don't expect them to address it in the early rounds, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the Birds pick up a running back in the middle or later rounds of April's draft.
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Australian football star Catley feels Tokyo 2020 "unthinkable at this stage" due to COVID-19 restrictions
Australian football star Steph Catley has described holding the Olympic Games this year in Tokyo as "unthinkable" due to continuing COVID-19 restrictions around the world.
Catley was part of the Australian women’s football team which booked a place at Tokyo 2020 after winning the playoff round of the Asian qualifying tournament in March.
The squad have not played or trained together since then, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic suspending sport across the world.
It is not known when the players will be able to assemble again to prepare for the postponed Tokyo 2020, now scheduled for July 23 to August 8.
Catley, who plays in England for Women’s Super League team Arsenal, claimed competing at the Games currently seemed "unthinkable".
"It's something that we all desperately want to happen, but it is hard to consider having that many different countries or people from different countries in the same place [at the Olympics]," Catley told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"It seems like it would be unthinkable at this stage.
"As athletes we all want the Olympics so bad but, at the end of the day, it's people's lives.
"Health and safety comes first.
"It does seem a little bit like a fantasy.
"I think as well because we've been so distant from the national team.
"We haven't had camps, we haven't played together for so long.
"Hopefully by that point in the year we're at a stage where we're good to go for the Olympics and we can figure out a way to host them safely.
"Until then we just cross our fingers."
Steph Catley played for Australia at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ©Getty Images
There are currently strict COVID-19 rules in place in the United Kingdom as it experiences a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
So far, the UK has reported more than 3.01 million cases and more than 80,800 deaths.
This is thought to be due to a new variant of coronavirus, suggested to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible.
A number of other Australian team members play in England, including Caitlin Foord at Arsenal and star striker Sam Kerr at Chelsea.
Catley feels the number of players competing outside of Australia has made the situation more difficult.
"At this stage we're banking on our Zoom meetings and crossing our fingers that things get better because it's so hard with everyone in different places to get everyone in the same place," she said.
"Especially with Australia - if you're coming back into the country it's difficult, so it's hard to get our staff over to where we are.
"There's just so many complicated things that have to be solved before we can get together, but we'll make it work at some stage, and I honestly can't wait."
The 26-year-old Catley has played in defence for Australia 82 times, scoring three goals for the country.
She has featured at two FIFA Women’s World Cups and was a part of the team which finished seventh at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Australia have competed at three Olympics in total, exiting at the group stage at Sydney 2000 and the quarter-finals at Athens 2004.
The next FIFA Women’s World Cup is due to be played in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
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Emma Stone’s Voice Is Incredible in This a Cappella Cover of “Call Your Girlfriend” with Maya Rudolph
By Olivia Bahou
We got a taste of Emma Stone’s singing skills when she belted out Natasha Bedingfield’s “Pocketful of Sunshine” in Easy A, but her latest performance has us aching for more.
The 27-year-old actress appeared on Maya Rudolph and Martin Short’s variety show, Maya & Marty, and joined Rudolph for an a cappella cover of Robyn's “Call Your Girlfriend.”
“I saw this thing on YouTube a couple years ago of these three girls in their kitchen in Sweden singing a song, playing butter tubs just like these, and I’ve been practicing ever since,” Rudolph said. “I feel like I’m finally ready to give it a shot. So I have Emma here to do this with me.”
“We’re going to try it for you for the first time today,” added Stone, who completed a run as the lead in Broadway's Cabaret last February. “No pressure at all.”
“Just two gals hanging out with butter tubs,” the host chimed in. The two then went on to perform an incredible rendition of the song, joined just by their clapping hands like in Anna Kendrick’s “Cups” from Pitch Perfect.
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Watch the impressive performance above.
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HAp Nanofibers Grown with Crystalline Preferential Orientation and Its Influence in Mechanical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Composite Materials
By Eric M. Rivera-Muñoz, Rodrigo Velázquez-Castillo, Susana Alonso- Sierra, J. Rafael Alanís-Gómez, Beatriz Millán-Malo, Lauro Bucio- Galindo, Rafael Huirache-Acuña, Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez, Rufino Nava and Miguel Apátiga-Castro
Submitted: May 8th 2017Reviewed: October 23rd 2017Published: December 20th 2017
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71850
Home > Books > Hydroxyapatite - Advances in Composite Nanomaterials, Biomedical Applications and Its Technological Facets
There are several synthesis techniques to obtain hydroxyapatite (HAp). Some use surfactant agents, amino acids or halogen salts to control structural nucleation and crystal growth. In others, the use of hydrothermal process to carry out the reaction is effective for HAp synthesis. Microwave-assisted hydrothermal method (MAHM) has been successfully applied in the synthesis of HAp nanostructures, which present well-defined morphologies, high crystallinity and high purity. This is important because nano-HAp is attracting interest as a biomaterial for use in prosthetic applications due to its similarity in size, crystallinity and chemical composition with human hard tissue. In this chapter, developments in obtaining HAp nanofibers, with a crystal growth with preferential orientation, as well as morphology control achieved by using the MAHM is discussed. Also, the synthesized fibers were used to cast ceramics with controlled and interconnected porosity through the modified gelcasting process. Then, these HAp ceramics were impregnated with a water solution of gelatin in order to obtain an organic-inorganic composite material, similar to natural bone tissue. The maximum compressive strengths were determined and the composite materials showed mechanical properties that make them suitable to be used as bone tissue implants.
bottom-up synthesis
HAp nanofibers
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Eric M. Rivera-Muñoz*
Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México
Rodrigo Velázquez-Castillo
Division of Research and Postgraduate, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Querétaro, México
Susana Alonso-Sierra
J. Rafael Alanís-Gómez
Beatriz Millán-Malo
Lauro Bucio-Galindo
Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México
Rafael Huirache-Acuña
Chemical Engineering Faculty, Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Ciudad Universitaria, México
Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez
CINVESTAV-Querétaro, Libramiento Norponiente # 2000, Fraccionamiento Real de Juriquilla, México
Rufino Nava
Miguel Apátiga-Castro
*Address all correspondence to: emrivera@fata.unam.mx
From the Edited Volume
HydroxyapatiteAdvances in Composite Nanomaterials, Biomedical Applications and Its Technological FacetsEdited by Jagannathan Thirumalai
Hydroxyapatite - Advances in Composite Nanomaterials, Biomedical Applications and Its Technological Facets
Edited by Jagannathan Thirumalai
Hydroxyapatite (HAp) is an inorganic compound made of calcium phosphate and hydroxyl groups, with a stoichiometry of (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) and a hexagonal crystal structure. Natural HAp is the main mineral constituent of hard human tissues such bones and teeth, and it has the same crystal structure, but a stoichiometry slightly different from the synthetic one since some calcium ions can be exchanged by other metallic ions, such magnesium or sodium. The production of synthetic HAp has acquired a great significance in recent years due to its excellent properties of biocompatibility, bioactivity, osteoconductivity and osteoinductivity. Those properties are produced, in part, by its similarity in structure and chemical composition to those in the natural HAp [1]. Consequently, synthetic HAp has been widely applied in health-related fields as a replace, bone reconstructing or implant material in the restoration of damaged bones or teeth [2].
In spite of HAp is mainly useful as a biomaterial for implants in bone tissue, other interesting application have been developed in recent years. Some authors have explored the use of the HAp piezoelectric properties [3, 4, 5], some HAp-collagen composite materials have been studied to be applied in bone regeneration and osteogenesis using their piezoelectric properties [6, 7] or other composite materials based on HAp use this property to be used as a immunosensor material [8]. In addition, this HAp property was also studied to analyze its impact in the design and development of ferroelectric memories and micro-electro-mechanical systems, and consequently, some materials have been obtained for those applications [9]. Other interesting uses of HAp have been reported as catalysts [10, 11, 12], especially for the synthesis of organic compounds [13, 14], and some application in obtaining ecological biofuels [15, 16]. Additionally, the HAp has been used in water treatments [17, 18, 19] and for the environment remediation [20, 21, 22] to remove heavy metals. All these diverse applications have made the HAp a quite interesting material and the relevance of its synthesis and production methods are still increasing.
2. Different hydroxyapatite synthesis methods
Several synthesis methods have been proposed by many scientists in order to obtain HAp. The morphology, dimensions, crystalline quality and purity of the synthesized HAp have an impact on its properties, and the properties determine the final application of the HAp; for that reason, those structural characteristics often tried to control the synthesis process. Table 1 summarizes the different HAp synthesis methods, their reaction times and the corresponding obtained morphology.
Type of reaction
Reaction features
Reaction temperature
Obtained morphology
Sol-gel 24–120 h A little energy available inside the reactor 25–45°C Nanoparticles nanorods
Solid-state reaction Several hours Diffusion difficulties, calcination process required 25–1250°C Nanoparticles
Conventional hydrothermal Several minutes Inhomogeneous temperature inside reactor 170°C Nanoparticles, nanowires, nanofibers and nanoplates
Different HAp synthesis methods and their corresponding outcome.
Sol-gel is one of the most used methods to obtain HAp. Here, the chemical substances, used as precursors, are dissolved in water (wet chemistry), and then this solution are blended with some monomer molecules to form a sol (colloid) at the beginning of the reaction, and posteriorly, the polymerization process continues until the formation of the gel. The chemical reaction takes place at room temperature, and therefore, there is little amount of energy for the reaction and, consequently, it takes several days [23, 24, 25], and the morphology mainly produce are particles.
An interesting example of wet chemical reaction is obtaining HAp from eggshells. The hen eggshells are made basically of calcium carbonate. In the synthesis to obtain HAp, the eggshells are cleaned and milled; posteriorly, the powder undergoes an initial thermal treatment at 450°C to eliminate organic residues and after that, the calcination of the powder is made to transform the calcium carbonate into calcium oxide. This calcium oxide could be hydrated to form calcium hydroxide, which is put in reaction with a solution of phosphoric acid to finally obtain the HAp [26]. In a variation of this reaction, the calcium oxide could be put in contact with a water solution of calcium phosphate in order to obtain the HAp [27].
Other authors have used the calcium oxide to obtain HAp through a solid-state reaction. The calcium oxide is mixed with phosphorus oxide and other additives; then, the mixture is sintered inside an oven at 1250°C, and the HAp is finally obtained [28]. In other solid-state method to produce HAp, diammonium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate and calcium nitrate are used as the main precursors of the synthesis. The reactants are mixed in the proportion to achieve the stoichiometric of HAp and milled. The mixture is aged at room temperature and posteriorly, this blend is washed, dried and calcined to produce HAp [29]. In several cases, where a solid-state method was used to obtain the HAp, the final product was mixed with other by-products.
Although the aforementioned synthesis methods are important for the HAp obtention, in most of the works where those procedures were used the authors did not report a control on the morphology, size, crystalline quality or structural parameters of the HAp aggregates, which made suppose that those structural features were difficult to regulate through those methods.
In other more innovative synthesis methods, the production of HAp involves the use of different chemical substances such surfactants, amino acids or halogen salts to control the nucleation and crystal growth. The last one has, as a consequence, the control on the final morphology of HAp assembly [30, 31, 32, 33]. Additionally, some of those methods use a conventional hydrothermal process (CHP) to carry out the synthesis reaction. In CHP, the precursors are dissolved in water and put inside an autoclave. The heat to perform the reaction comes from the outer side of the reactor walls, and produces a temperature gradient in the solution. Mechanical agitation can be suitable to help in the heat distribution, and thus, try to generate a homogeneous temperature in the whole reactor. The steam produced by water increases the pressure on the solution and therefore, the boiling point of water is increased and the solution can reach a higher temperature. This higher temperature in the reactor can increase the reaction rate. A measured supply of heat makes possible to have a control on the temperature of the reacting solution, and thus, also a control on the pressure. These reaction conditions make the crystallizing substances possible in a short time; additionally, the size and crystal quality can be controlled during the crystal growth.
The CHP has demonstrated to be effective for the HAp synthesis; the use of this method has been improved due to the relative low cost and simplicity to synthesize HAp in a large scale and with a high purity [34, 35, 36, 37]. The CHP experienced an important development when a microwave oven was used for the synthesis reaction. The microwaves provide the energy required to carry out a chemical reaction. The emission of microwaves could be focused into the reactor to reduce the amount of energy used. Thus, the microwave-assisted hydrothermal method (MAHM) was developed. Currently, this method is applied in the crystal growth of multiple substances with an excellent control on their morphology, size and preferential crystal orientation. Several works have reported the use of MAHM in the synthesis of HAp nanostructures, which possess well-defined morphologies, high crystallinity and purity [38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44]. According to literature, the structures more often synthesized by this synthesis method are nanoparticles, nanorods and nanofibers.
3. The microwave-assisted hydrothermal method
In the MAHM, the electric field of microwaves interacts with the dipole moment of molecules to produce heat. When a molecule is irradiated with a microwave, its dipole moment tries to align with the electric field vector. In an electromagnetic wave, the electric field is oscillating, and the dipole moment vector always attempts to be aligned with it. During the aligning process, the molecules disperse energy in the form of heat, which is produced by intermolecular frictions, collisions and dielectric losses. If the dipole moment of the molecules in a sample has not enough time to align with the electric field or if their reorientation occurs in a short time, the sample is not warming up.
In a conventional microwave oven, the magnetron produces electromagnetic wave with a frequency of 2.45 GHz and the waves possess energy of 0.0016 eV, but the electric field spins 4.9 × 109 times in a second. The dipole moment in the molecules has enough time to align with the electric field, but they cannot oscillate with the same frequency. Therefore, phase differences between the electric field and the dipole moments are generated, and these phase differences cause energy dispersion, and the lost energy has the form of heat, which is generated by the intermolecular collisions, frictions and dielectric losses. The heat produced increases the temperature of the sample. The presence of ions could accelerate the heating process. In that way, the reacting mixture inside the reactor could be heated quite homogeneously in a microwave oven. A better heat distribution produces a quite similar temperature into the whole reactor, and this cause that the chemical reaction take place with a similar rate everywhere into the reactor; thus, the crystal growth is rather homogeneous and, consequently, the size and the crystalline quality in the obtained crystal can be controlled.
Some materials can reflect the microwaves, for example, metals, and they do not allow the wave pass. In other materials, the microwaves produce low dielectric losses and then, those materials such glass, Teflon and quartz are transparent and they permit the microwave to pass. In MAHM, the vessels (reactors) are made of transparent materials. The absorbing materials are dielectrics and they have great dielectric losses generated by the interactions of microwaves; therefore, they can be heated by microwaves.
In this work, a detailed description is made of how the microwave-assisted hydrothermal method was used to prepare several types of HAp morphologies, from particles until nanofibers with a preferential crystalline orientation in the [300]. Some of these nanostructures had a high crystallinity and good purity, which were a consequence of the synthesis method used. A careful control on the operation conditions in the microwave oven concerning pressure and temperature allowed obtaining controlled heating and cooling rates to produce the HAp. The suitable chemical composition in the reacting mixture, and posteriorly, the use of the glutamic acid (GA) as the substance to guide and control the crystal growth of HAp nanostructures, were the main factors to obtain the different morphologies in the HAp assemblies.
Posteriorly, the HAp nanofibers were selected to produce a ceramic with a controlled porosity through the modified gelcasting process (MGCP). Porosity is rather relevant for the HAp in its application as a bone tissue implant. Dimension of pores must be large enough to permit the flow of nutrients, substances and cells with the purpose of carry out the regeneration process in the damaged bone tissue.
Once the porous ceramic was made, an organic phase made of protein was added in order to obtain an inorganic-organic composite material. The chemical interaction between both phases produced synergic mechanical properties.
4. Synthesis of HAp with different morphologies through MAHM
The long experimental way to obtain different morphologies in the HAp began with the formulation of the reacting mixture to perform the synthesis reactions. The chemical substances chosen for the synthesis were calcium nitrate [Ca(NO3)2∙4H2O] as the source of calcium, monobasic potassium phosphate [KH2PO4] as the source of phosphate groups and potassium hydroxide [KOH] to supply the hydroxyl groups. These inorganic compounds were dissolved separately in 100 ml of distillated water to achieve the stoichiometry of HAp. After that, the solutions were mixed and a 400-ml new dissolution (reacting mixture) was made, which was put inside eight Teflon tubes (50 ml each). The tubes were placed inside the microwave oven. This reaction was numerated as “1” ( Table 2 ), and took place within the microwave oven at 150°C at a pressure of 690 kPa, 100 W power was used for a reaction time of 90 min. When the reaction was over, the final product was washed with ethanol, filtered and dried at room temperature. The HAp synthesized was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) by powders to identify the crystalline phases present in the sample and the respective diffractogram is shown in Figure 1(a) . The phase identification was done by comparison using the powder diffraction file (PDF) data bank provided by the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD), and only one crystalline phase was found, which correspond to HAp, with PDF #86-1199. The presence of a single crystalline phase indicates that the synthesis method is suitable to obtain HAp with a good purity. The diffractogram shows a background with a high noise level and the Bragg reflection are well-enough defined, those are indicative of an acceptable crystalline quality. Afterward, the HAp sample was observed by means of a scanning electron microscope, and the morphology found correspond to particles, as can be seen in Figure 1(a) . The diameter in the particles was in the range from 90 until 160 nm. This reaction was useful to probe that HAp can be synthesized through the MAHM.
Ca(NO3)2
HAp crystalline features
1 CNC 0.0 Good purity and satisfactory crystalline quality Nanoparticles
2 CNC 0.2 (CNC) Better crystalline quality and defined morphology Nanowires-nanofibers
3 CNC 0.9 (CNC) Excellent crystalline quality and preferential crystalline orientation Nanofibers
4 CNC 2 (CNC) Remarkable preferential crystalline orientation and structural organization Nanofiber closely packed in microfibers
5 CNC 2.5 (CNC) Decrease in the preferential crystalline orientation and a multilayer structure Nanoplates
Different HAp morphologies obtained by MAHM.
X-ray diffractograms and morphology of the HAp structures synthesized by the MAHM in reactions 1 (a), 2 (b), 3 (c) and 4 (d).
The next step was to include the glutamic acid (GA) in the chemical formulation of the reacting mixture and analyze the influence of this amino acid in the morphology of the HAp. The concentration of the other components in the reacting mixture was kept constant and the amount of GA varied. The reaction conditions in the microwave oven were the same as those described for reaction 1.
The GA has two carboxyl groups and one amine group. The nitrogen and the oxygen in these functional groups possess electron-pairs, which can be donated to the calcium ions in their empty “d” orbitals in order to form coordinate covalent bonds. Thus, the GA molecules bond the calcium ions and the acid can guide the crystal growth of HAp.
In reaction 2, the GA was added to the reacting mixture. The calcium nitrate concentration (CNC) was the reference and the GA concentration was 0.2 CNC in this reaction. The GA was dissolved in 200 ml of distilled water along with the calcium nitrate. At first, the solution was cloudy due to the GA solubility and for this reason, mechanical agitation was performed for about 2 h; posteriorly, the solution turned transparent and both chemical substances became dissolved. It is possible that the coordinate covalent bonds between Ca ions and the oxygen or nitrogen atoms could occur during this solution preparation, and consequently, the solubility of both substances was facilitated by these bonds formations.
The other reacting substances, KH2PO4 and KOH, were dissolved together in 200 ml of distilled water to form an additional solution. This solution was agitated for 15 min. Posteriorly, both dissolutions were mixed to produce 400 ml of the final reacting mixture, which is placed in eight Teflon vessels (50 ml each). These tubes are put inside the microwave oven, and the synthesis reaction was carried out using the same reaction conditions as reaction 1. Finally, the product was filtered and washed with distilled water.
X-ray diffraction analysis was performed to obtained the product, and again a single crystalline phase was obtained, and it was identified with the ICCD PDF #86-1199 ( Figure 1(b) ). The crystalline quality was improved in comparison to that showed by the HAp in reaction 1. Observation by SEM was also done to the sample, and an evident change in the morphology could be seen. This time the HAp possessed the morphology of nanowires as shown in Figure 1(b) .
Reaction 3 was done with a GA concentration of 0.9 CNC. The reaction conditions were the same as those in reaction 1. The synthesized product from this reaction also showed a single crystalline phase identified as PDF #86-1199, but this time the Bragg reflection corresponding to the planes (300) at 32.92° in 2θ showed an increased intensity according to that reported in the mentioned PDF (as shown in Figure 1(c) ). This is an evidence of a preferential crystalline orientation. The crystalline quality was increased again. The observation done by means of SEM revealed the morphology of well-defined fibers ( Figure 1c ).
For reaction 4, once again, the GA concentration was increased to 2 CNC, and the results were rather significant. This time, the X-ray diffraction showed a notorious increment in the intensity of the Bragg reflection produced by the (300) at 32.92°. This intensity is even higher than that for the (211), which is the most intense Bragg reflection according to the ICDD PDF #86-1199 ( Figure 1(d) ).
Similarly, the Bragg reflections produced by the planes (100) and (200) also experienced an increment in their intensities but in the diffractogram depicted in Figure 1(d) , it is also possible to see a reduction in the intensity of the signal at 26°, which is generated by the (002). These changes in the Bragg reflection intensities are indicative of a remarkable preferential crystalline orientation on the HAp crystal structure.
Observations made using the SEM allowed seeing the morphology in the HAp obtained in this reaction, and the microscope revealed the morphology of microfibers as shown in Figure 1(d) . This time, the microfibers were larger and thicker than those obtained in reaction 3, and they showed a quite smooth surface, their facets and ends looked well-defined, which is an evidence of a good-quality crystal growth. Additionally, all fibers showed a hexagonal cross section, their average diameter was 4.67 μm, and their lengths were in the range of hundreds of micrometers.
This morphology of fiber with a hexagonal profile allowed understanding the XRD results is depicted in Figure 1(d) . During sample preparation for XRD experiments, most of the fibers laid on the sample holder and they acquired an arrangement in such way that their hexagonal profiles were perpendicular to the sample holder surface and their lengths were parallel to it (see Figure 2 ). As a result, most of the reciprocal vectors a* of the HAp crystal structure laid orthogonal to the surface and the possibilities to satisfy the diffraction conditions were increased. In contrast, a large number of reciprocal vectors c* laid parallel to the sample surface, and the probability to satisfy the Bragg conditions decreased considerably. Therefore, this fibers distribution made possible that the Bragg reflections produced by those planes orthogonal to the “a” axis in the HAp crystal structure (or “b” axis) had bigger intensity; In contrast, the reflection generated by the planes perpendicular to the “c” axis decreased their intensity significantly in the X-ray diffraction experiments. Consequently, in the diffractogram shown in Figure 1(d) , the contributions of the (300), (200) and (100) planes possess higher intensities and that corresponding to the (002) plane is nearly null.
SEM micrograph showing the hexagonal profile in the HAp microfiber (left) and the schematic representation of the vectors “a” and “b” in the direct space, and the vectors “a*” and “b*” in the reciprocal space (right).
In a closer observation on the hexagonal cross section of the fiber in Figure 1(d) , it was possible to see the microfiber was formed of small fibers closely packed within its body. These small fibers possessed pointed-end structures as can be seen in Figure 1(d) and the right micrograph in Figure 3 . Besides, some of the microfibers also had a pointed-end structure as it was depicted in the left image in Figure 3 .
SEM micrographs of HAp microfibers showing the pointed-end (left) and how those nanofibers joint to form the microfiber structure (right), the white arrows indicate some nanofibers.
In the SEM micrograph on the right side of Figure 3 , it is also possible to see a hole in the center of the microfiber profile, this empty space could be produced when some loose nanofibers slid out of the microfiber body, and then those free nanofibers were finally situated near of the microfiber. It is possible that the lone nanofiber indicated by the white arrow could have undergone a slide as described before.
Observation of nanofibers using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) revealed that they had an average diameter of 97.5 nm, and a polycrystalline microstructure as can be seen in Figure 4(b) and (c). The average crystallite size was of 9.76 nm, which was calculated using the Digital Micrograph software.
HRTEM images of nanofibers depicting their diameter size (a), and the polycrystallinity in their structure (b) and (c).
Using that software, it was possible to obtain fast Fourier transforms (FFT) from the high-resolution images to analyze the crystal structure of the HAp in the nanofibers. The interplanar distances were also determined to identify the crystalline planes that contributed to form the images. In Figure 5 , a bright field image of a nanofiber is depicted. In the upper right inset of Figure 5 , a high-resolution micrograph of the nanofiber tip was showed. In this micrograph, it was possible to observe an arrangement of lines and dots, which were produced by the HAp crystal structure. The distances between lines were determined and the value of 0.344 nm corresponds to the interplanar distance of (002) planes, and the distances between dots were of 0.295 nm, which were related to the (211) planes. A FFT was produced from the high-resolution micrograph and the dot pattern displayed in the bottom right inset was obtained.
HRTEM image of a nanofiber showing its morphology. In the upper right inset, a high-resolution image of the fiber tip is displayed, the interplanar distances were calculated, and in the bottom right inset, a FFT was generated form the upper image and all dots were indexed.
The planes (002) generated the most intense dots in the pattern and this intensity is indicative of their abundance, which was also corroborated by the high-resolution micrograph in the upper inset of Figure 5 . Other dots were produced by the planes (211). These crystalline planes are the most abundant according to the PDF 86-1199, but they are not numerous in the HAp obtained in this experiment. All dots in the FFT were laid on parallel lines and their arrangement is indicative of a high crystallinity. All (002) planes were stacked along the length of the nanofiber, and this stacking line was parallel to the “c” axis of the HAp crystal structure, this is indicative that the nanostructure was grown in the [002] direction as it was indicated in the upper right inset in Figure 5 . These results were very significant because the preferred crystalline orientation found in the X-ray diffraction analysis, in the [300] direction, along with the SEM and HRTEM results indicates that the HAp fibers grow in [002] direction.
These morphological and structural features of HAp fibers made them suitable to be used as the main material to elaborate porous ceramics, which must have porosity in the macro scale to allow the flow of nutrients and cells and consequently, a bone regeneration process could be possible.
Finally, once again the glutamic acid concentration increased in the reaction mixture and reaction 5 was performed to obtain another HAp structure. This time the concentration of glutamic acid was 250% related to the calcium nitrate content. The X-ray analysis of the product obtained in this reaction showed a small decrement on the intensity of the Bragg reflection corresponding to the (300) planes, and an increase in the intensity of the Bragg reflection at 26° related to the (002) planes, this is observed in the diffractogram in Figure 6(a) . The latest is indicative that the preferential crystalline orientation is lesser in this product in comparison with the microfibers described before.
X-ray diffractogram of the HAp synthesized by the fifth chemical reaction and the morphology of nanoplates observed (a). SEM micrographs of nanoplates showing different shapes and sizes on the flat surfaces (b) and (c). The white arrows indicate the union between nanoribbons to form the flat surface, and the stacking of those nanoribbons to form the nanoplate thickness.
The HAp obtained in this reaction was observed by means of the SEM and the morphology of nanoplates was found. These nanoplates had different shape in the plane surface, and they had an average thickness of 62.3 nm. This morphology can be seen in Figure 6(b) .
Similar to the case of the HAp microfibers, the nanoplates were formed by several small tickertapes or nanoribbons, which were joined to build the nanoplate surface (see Figure 6(c) ). Besides, the thickness of these nanoplates were also formed by the stacking of those small nanoribbons in Figure 6(c) is possible to see some layers on the nanoplate surface and they were produce by the superposition of those nanoribbons. May be the whole nanoplate volume was formed by the union of several nanoribbons.
Possibly, during the crystal growth mechanism, the nanofibers or nanoribbons were formed, depending on the GA concentration in the reacting mixture, and their growing continued until these nanostructures were linked to form the microfiber or nanoplate volume, respectively. The energy available within the reacting solution, especially in the regions close to the outer surface of the nanostructure, could be fused with the nanostructures to form a smooth surface. When the microfiber or nanoplate surface was degraded or corroded, it revealed that it was formed by the union of smaller pieces, corresponding to the nanofiber or nanoribbons.
5. Elaboration of HAp ceramics with interconnected porosity
Porosity plays a decisive role in the behavior of biomaterials. It is necessary to have sufficient pore size and interconnected porosity to promote osteoblasts to grow into a ceramic device [45, 46] and to allow cell penetration, internal tissue growth, vascular incursion and nutrient supply.
In order to manufacture HAp objects with different (and desired) shapes and sizes, which possess controlled and interconnected porosity, enough to permit cellular mobility and tissue ingrowth, it has used a successful process, named as modified gelcasting process (MGCP), previously reported by our group [47, 48, 49, 50]. The key process is the proper use of a monomer-polymer blend, which can function as plasticizers, binders and dispersants and holds HAp powders or fibers together. During the polymerization, the slurry can be poured into silicone molds and a green body is obtained. PMMA micro balls (10–40 μm in diameter) were used as sacrificial porogens and oxalic acid was used to produce CO2 bubbles during the polymerization to form the microporosity. Once the ceramic pieces are demolded, they are subjected to a thermal treatment in order to remove the polymers and promote a sintering of the HAp particles or fibers to obtain a ceramic with interconnected and controlled porosity. Figure 7 shows HAp ceramic pieces with different shapes and sizes obtained through the MGCP.
Hydroxyapatite objects molded in different sizes and shapes by the modified gelcasting process (scale in cm).
Figure 8(a) and (b) shows SEM micrographs of two demolded samples after the gelcasting process, in which polymers have not been eliminated. The difference between these two samples consists in that in the one of Figure 8(a) there is no PMMA micro balls, meanwhile in the sample of Figure 8(b) they can be clearly observed occupying spherical spaces that will generate the larger (or macro) porosity in the final HAp ceramic.
SEM micrographs of samples after gelcasting without PMMA micro balls (a) and with PMMA micro balls (b). SEM micrographs of HAp scaffold after polymer removal showing interconnected micro and macro porosity (c) and (d), and typical SEM micrographs of the HAp-based biomimetic organic-inorganic, composite material. The organic phase wet and links the HAp inorganic structure (e) and (f).
After the thermal treatment, polymers were removed and HAp fibers (or particles) are sintered to form a ceramic with interconnected porosity in micro (1–5 μm) and macro (20–40 μm) scales. This is relevant for the application as bone replacement because the osteocyte cells have a size between 100 and 500 nm [51], while osteoclast cells have a size of about 10 μm [52], which means that there is sufficient space to move through the porous structure. Figure 8(c) and (d) show SEM micrographs in two different magnifications in which the interconnected micro and macro porosity is observed.
6. Obtaining the HAp-based organic-inorganic composite material
Due to the fact that the combination of polymers and hydroxyapatite to fabricate bone substitutes is a natural strategy, in order to elaborate a HAp-based organic-inorganic composite material, a water solution of gelatin (or collagen) was used as organic phase. HAp ceramics with interconnected and controlled porosity, obtained as described earlier, were used as inorganic phase and the final composite material was obtained by following the steps described in Figure 9 .
General procedure to obtain HAp-based organic-inorganic composite material.
Different water solutions of gelatin with 1.5, 2.5, 5, 6.75 and 7.5 wt%, were dripped to ceramic scaffolds to generate an organic-inorganic composite material. SEM analyzed the incorporation of gelatin (collagen) to the matrix and a typical example is shown in Figure 8(e) and (f). It is interesting to notice that the organic phase wet and links the HAp inorganic structure to form the organic-inorganic composite material in a similar way as in the natural bone tissue.
It has been established that a complex between calcium ions (Ca2+) in HAp and ─COO─ groups in the amino acids in the organic phase is formed, which means that a chemical interaction between the organic and inorganic phases occurs to form the composite material [49, 50]. These interactions will play an important role in improving the mechanical properties of the final material.
Mechanical properties were evaluated under compression. Figure 10(a) shows a typical mechanical behavior of composite samples which corresponds to a typical non-linear elastic behavior showed by cellular materials and which agrees completely with the observations of SEM images as shown in Figure 8(c) and (d). The mechanical behavior shows two stages; in each of them, a linear behavior, corresponding to an elastic deformation is observed, after which a change in the slope of the curve is observed. At that point, the cells are deformed plastically until they reach the maximum compressive strength and begin to collapse, dissipating energy by breaking the bonds between the Ca2+ ions of the HAp and the ─COO─ groups of the organic phase mentioned above. Then, a densification of the material follows until the second stage is reached and the behavior is repeated until reaching a second maximum compressive strength (with a lower value). The highest of these maximum is reached due to the macroporosity while the following are reached due to the microporosity. Similar behavior has been described in different materials and studied by Maskery et al. [53].
Mechanical compressive behavior of HAp-based biomimetic composite material (a). Stress-strain curves obtained in compressive tests for samples with different concentrations (wt%) of gelatin (b).
The maximum compressive strengths were determined as a function of the gelatin concentration, as can be observed in Figure 10(b) , and it is interesting to notice that there is a dramatic increase in the maximum compressive strength for the composite materials compared with the sample in which no organic phase was added (marked as WOP). Moreover, the maximum compressive strength increases as the amount of gelatin in the composite material increases, due to a synergic behavior between the inorganic and organic phases, to reach a value of 18 MPa for the sample with 7.5 wt% of gelatin. The aforementioned Ca─O bonds can absorb energy as sacrificial bonds, resulting in a synergic contribution to improve the mechanical properties of this composite material as well as due to the morphology of the HAp fibers. It is clear that for a hexagonal-shaped crystal, the direction in which it can withstand greater mechanical stresses is precisely [001] parallel to the axis of the hexagon. Consequently, the morphology of the HAp fibers obtained by the MAHM (grown with preferential orientation in the direction [001]), positively influences the improvement of the mechanical properties of the final HAp-based organic-inorganic composite material.
This value of 18 MPa, is 3.2 times higher than that reported for cancellous bone, and in the same order of magnitude for the cancellous-cortical bone tested under the same conditions [54], which implies that this biomimetic organic-inorganic composite material could be suitable for bone replacement.
After all experiments to synthesize different HAp nanostructures, it is possible to assure that the GA in the reacting mixture had a relevant impact on the final morphology of HAp clusters. This amino acid guided the HAp crystal growth and also leads the arrangement of small structures to form the final morphology, which was dependent on the GA concentration. In addition, this amino acid also allowed to obtain a preferential crystalline orientation in the [001] direction of the HAp crystal structure in most of the nanostructures obtained. The use of the MAHM made the synthesis of HAp with a high crystalline quality and purity easier.
Nanofiber was the most relevant morphology obtained in the synthesis reactions, and the arrangement of those to form microfibers with a hexagonal profile was unique. This morphology was selected to be used in the production of HAp porous ceramics due to its similarity with that of HAp morphology present in the human bone tissue.
The porous ceramic was successfully obtained through the MGP using the HAp microfibers. The micro and macro porosity were controlled in the ceramic body by the use of different polymers and chemical substances during the production process, and the pore size distribution was suitable to permit the flow of nutrients and cells.
The addition of protein to the porous ceramic allowed producing organic-inorganic composite materials in a biomimetic way. The strong chemical interaction between both phases leads to synergic mechanical properties in the composite materials.
Mechanical tests showed that the composite materials had a similar mechanical strength to that observed in the trabecular bone. These results suggest that this composite material can be an excellent option to be used as bone replacement or implant materials. In addition, the characterization of those composite materials proved that they also had an interconnected porosity in the micro and macro scales, which was proper to permit the natural regeneration processes of the human bone tissue.
Authors acknowledge the financial support of CONACYT scholarships and Fondo Salud 2013-01-201329. Authors also acknowledge Alicia del Real López and Carmen Peza Ledesma for technical assistance in SEM analysis and Gilberto Mondragón Galicia and Jesús Arenas Alatorre for technical assistance in HRTEM studies.
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2.Different hydroxyapatite synthesis methods
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4.Synthesis of HAp with different morphologies through MAHM
5.Elaboration of HAp ceramics with interconnected porosity
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Eric M. Rivera-Muñoz, Rodrigo Velázquez-Castillo, Susana Alonso- Sierra, J. Rafael Alanís-Gómez, Beatriz Millán-Malo, Lauro Bucio- Galindo, Rafael Huirache-Acuña, Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez, Rufino Nava and Miguel Apátiga-Castro (December 20th 2017). HAp Nanofibers Grown with Crystalline Preferential Orientation and Its Influence in Mechanical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Composite Materials, Hydroxyapatite - Advances in Composite Nanomaterials, Biomedical Applications and Its Technological Facets, Jagannathan Thirumalai, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71850. Available from:
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Season 4 of the Podcast is Here!
The day has come! Our month-long break is over and the podcast has returned for it's fourth season. Our latest episode covers the new film "The Disaster Artist". We also talk about "The Room" itself for a bit too. Turned out to be a pretty decent episode.
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In a couple weeks, we will be doing an episode on the new Star Wars movie. We have plenty of really great episodes to come. There will be a decent amount of variety this season with a rotating cast of hosts. Season 3 turned out pretty well, this should take it a step further into the right direction.
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#megamillions October heats up as the Mega Millions jackpot grows!
The weather may be cooler as fall sets in, but Mega Millions is getting hotter! The sixth largest jackpot in the game's history will be up for grabs on Tuesday, October 9. The prize jumps to an estimated $470 million ($265.3 million cash) after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night – the white balls 27, 28, 32, 41 and 69, plus the gold Mega Ball 12.
While the jackpot rolls, there were still big winners Friday night. Two tickets matched the five white balls to win the game's second prize; they were sold in California and Kentucky. Thirty tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize; three of those are actually worth $20,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier (available in most states for an extra $1 purchase), which was 2x Friday night.
In total, there were 1,357,503 winning tickets at all prize levels in the October 5 drawing. Since the last jackpot was won on July 24, there have been more than 13.3 million winning tickets at all prize levels, including 20 worth $1 million or more.
A California office pool of 11 co-workers shared the last Mega Millions jackpot won – a whopping $543 million prize on July 24, the third largest in the game's history and the largest ever won with a single ticket. Three other jackpots have been won this year – $451 million on January 5 (Florida), $533 million on March 30 (New Jersey), and $142 million on May 4 (Ohio).
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Temple Run 2 Surpasses 20 Million Downloads in 4 Days
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Temple Run 2 was released just five days ago and quickly vaulted into the number one spot in the App Store. Imangi Studios released Temple Run 2 under the freemium model which they admitted was a better model compared to a paid download.
Today, the company has announced the app has exceeded over 20 million downloads in just four days, with 6 million downloads taking place on its launch day alone:
“The response from fans has been overwhelming,” says Keith Shepherd, co-founder of Imangi. “We are thrilled players want more of the Temple Run universe, and we hope to grow and expand the game over the coming months.”
In under one week, Temple Run 2 has accumulated over 210 million sessions, which garners a combined time of over 1,775 years of gameplay.
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Dental implants are widely recognized as the best tooth replacement option available. For most people, though, it’s a long process: after a tooth is extracted the socket is allowed to heal and fill in with new bone before implant surgery: that can take anywhere from two to five months. Afterward, there’s usually a two– to three–month period after the implant is placed before the permanent crown (the visible tooth) can be attached.
Without adequate bone present the implant’s long-term stability might be compromised. Furthermore, the implant’s durability is dependent upon bone growth around and attaching to its titanium post after surgery in a process known as osseo-integration. These two considerations indeed serve a critical function in the implant’s ultimate success.
In recent years, however, a variation to this traditional implant process has emerged that allows for immediate implantation right after extraction. Besides combining extraction and implantation into one surgical procedure, immediate implants minimize the disruption to a person’s appearance (especially with visibly prominent front teeth) when combined with a provisional crown.
Immediate implants joined together that replace a full arch of teeth can receive biting forces and succeed. Individual implants that replace single teeth, however, won’t work in all situations and must be undertaken with care to ensure long-term success. Because there may be less available bone, the implant must fit snugly within the socket to maintain as secure a hold as possible. The surgeon must also take care not to damage too much of the gum and bone tissue when extracting the tooth, which could affect both the integrity of the implant and its appearance in the gum line.
Temporary crowns may be attached during the implant surgery, but they’re installed for appearance’ sake only. For individual crowns, they must be designed not to make contact with the teeth on the opposing jaw to avoid generating biting forces that will cause the implant to fail and stop the bone-healing process that occurs with osseo–integration.
If you’re considering dental implants, it’s important to discuss with us which type of procedure, traditional or immediate, would be best for you, and only after a comprehensive examination of your mouth and jaw structure. Regardless of the approach, our goal is to provide you with a smile-transforming restoration that will last for many years to come.
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Seeing red over the All Blacks
This article first appeared in NZ Herald.
Businesses warned they could be ‘sin-binned’ for unauthorised association with big name brands.
Businesses wanting to promote their services and products by hitching their wagon to popular brands such as the All Blacks and the Rugby World Cup, risk – like many of the players – being red or yellow carded.
Tonia Brugh, a senior associate at intellectual property law firm James & Wells, says it is only natural that business owners will want to associate with popular events and personalities, but using logos, brands, slogans and other intellectual property (IP) without permission can have serious legal implications.
“If you are selling a product that gives the impression that you are associated with another entity – for example selling a rugby jersey with an All Blacks logo on it – this may amount to an infringement of trade mark rights or a breach of the Fair Trading Act,” she says.
“Big brands like the All Blacks rely on their name, IP and reputation so these are carefully guarded and protected. Every day IP owners are scouring the web and social media looking for infringers of their copyright, IP and trade marks – so be vigilant.”
Brugh says cases like this can lead to anything from a cease and desist letter, to a demand that unauthorised logos are removed from advertising and counterfeit goods are destroyed. Significant costs and damages can be incurred and the whole issue could end up in court – all part of an ongoing battle for companies and corporates to retain control of their brand and prevent it being exploited or tainted.
James & Wells specialises in IP, patents and trademarks. When they are not advising clients on how to register and protect their IP, they help them seek remedies for unauthorised use.
In broad terms one can’t use another entity’s name, slogan, logo or IP without their permission. Still, says Brugh, a mixture of dodgy-dealers and opportunists regularly chance their arm only to be blindsided by a red card from a firm such as James & Wells.
Brugh says those wanting to use another’s name to boost their business, or sell products featuring another company’s logo, need to understand the legal restrictions of trade marks, copyright, passing off and the Fair Trading Act.
“Some businesses have been known to place a logo – such as the All Blacks’ silver fern – in their advertisements or their website causing people to instantly assume there is an association with the World Cup. It happens a lot and the business may be in breach of the All Black’s IP rights, unless permission has been given.
“Traders might say they didn’t know, but it would be foolish to take on a big brand. Others will knowingly place popular logos on clothing and sell it as official merchandise,” Brugh says. “In one recent case a retailer had to destroy boxes of counterfeit handbags featuring the Louis Vuitton logo.”
In another copyright case a man in the UK was given an £85,000 (NZ$168,000) bill from Sky TV for broadcasting a pay-to-view boxing match on his Facebook Live page to 4000 people. The man’s defence of “not doing it to make money” didn’t wash. He settled by paying Sky $10,000.
“Spark Sport has the rights to broadcast the World Cup in New Zealand,” says Brugh. “That means no one else can use match footage or stills from the footage without permission.
“It may seem harmless to stream World Cup matches and sell tickets to other spectators – but that could amount to a breach of copyright,” she says. “Spark Sport will have paid a lot of money to broadcast those games and businesses that screen them to paying customers need to hold a commercial license.”
So, if you are a company that’s a big fan of the Rugby World Cup and want to feature it in your marketing what can you do?
“Advertising using a rugby theme will need to be generic so as not to give the look of sponsorship,” says Brugh. “There’s a fine line between advertising with a theme and ambush marketing, where you’re cashing in on an event without the event organiser’s permission.”
Tonia Brugh
Tonia is a member of our Trade Marks team. Her practice includes all aspects of branding and trade marks, as well as reviewing and advising on a wide range of commercial agreements.
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Maryland workers’ compensation: What is average weekly wage?
AWW is not always clearly defined and takes into account factors other than actual hours worked.
Under Maryland law, for most workers who have been injured on the job or contracted industrial diseases, monthly workers’ compensation payments designed to provide support equal two-thirds of “average weekly wage.” While that sounds straightforward and east to calculate, there can be complicated, difficult issues that come up when AWW is calculated in a workers’ compensation claim.
On March 1, 2018, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland issued an important decision that provides legal guidance on this question.
Richard Beavers Construction, Inc., v. Wagstaff
Dexter Wagstaff was a construction worker who accepted work as a lift operator for Richard Beavers Construction, Inc., also called RBCI. He signed onto the job expecting to work full time, meaning 40 hours total per week during regular business hours. The employer told him not to come to work if it was snowing or raining since they could not work outside safely.
According to the court opinion, Wagstaff started work in February 2013 at an hourly rate of $18.95. For the first six weeks on the job, he missed a lot of work because of wet weather, averaging 16.74 hours per week. On April 1, he had a horrific, 18-foot fall through a warehouse roof on the job site, landing on his face. He sustained multiple severe injuries, including a skull fracture and fractures to four facial bones.
The legal issue was whether during his period of temporary total disability he should be paid an AWW of $317.44 based on actual hours worked (reduced because of weather) or of $758 based on a full-time week. The Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission after a hearing decided that AWW should use the full-time figure. This finding was confirmed by the Circuit Court for Talbot County and the employer and its insurer appealed again.
Interpretation of the workers’ compensation laws
On appeal again, the Court of Special Appeals said that it had to look at the “ordinary meaning” of the statute in light of the requirement that workers’ compensation laws are to be viewed as “remedial” and interpreted “as liberally in favor of the injured employees as its provisions will permit in order to effectuate its benevolent purposes.” Any “uncertainty” about the meaning of the law should be interpreted in favor of the injured claimant.
Considering this, the court found that the law contemplates not only looking at actual past earnings, but also at earnings capacity and the schedule the employer contemplated when it hired the claimant – here, full time work. The six weeks of reduced hours because of weather were not representative of what he “would expect to earn in a normal week.”
To use the actual hours worked in this case would have been a “windfall” to the employer.
Therefore, the correct AWW was based on a 40-hour week, the higher figure.
Based in Annapolis, the lawyers at Joel L. Katz, L.L.C., represent injured or ill workers in their workers’ compensation claims across the state.
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AP sources: Eagles won't be penalized for QB decisions
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles won’t be penalized after the NFL looked into the way the team handled its quarterback decisions in the final regular-season game against Washington, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Both people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to reveal the conversations.
Doug Pederson, who was on Monday, removed Jalen Hurts for third-string quarterback Nate Sudfeld in the fourth quarter of a 20-14 loss on Jan. 3. The Eagles trailed by a field goal when Sudfeld, who hadn’t thrown a pass in a game since 2018, entered. He was picked on his second attempt and also lost a fumble.
Washington (7-10) secured the NFC East title with the victory and the New York Giants (6-10) were eliminated. Giants players and their fans were angry that Pederson benched Hurts, feeling the Eagles tanked. The loss gave Philadelphia the sixth pick in the draft instead of the ninth.
“To disrespect the effort that everyone put forward to make this season a success for the National Football League, to disrespect the game by going out there and not competing for 60 minutes and doing everything you can to help those players win, we will never do that as long as I’m the head coach of the New York Giants,” Giants coach Joe Judge said about it.
Eagles running back Miles Sanders, who was one of several starters inactive for the game, also was critical of Pederson’s decision to bench Hurts.
“Man, if I’m being honest, nobody liked the decision, nobody,” Sanders said in a radio interview a day after the game. “That’s all I can say really. I don’t know who was the main person behind that decision. All I know is that a lot of people on the team (were) confused.”
Pederson told his quarterbacks the week leading up to the game that Carson Wentz would be inactive and Sudfeld would get some snaps. Hurts, who took over after Wentz was benched in Week 13, had two touchdowns rushing but was only 7 of 20 for 72 yards with one interception against Washington. His last pass from the Washington 4 bounced in front of Quez Watkins, who was open for a go-ahead touchdown catch. Hurts also was playing through a leg injury.
For all those reasons, it couldn’t be determined the Eagles intentionally tried to lose the game.
“Doug had said we were going to use as many young players as we could,” owner Jeffrey Lurie said earlier this week. “Jalen had the injury in the Dallas game in the second quarter. He, of course, wants to play, but you know, significant hamstring (injury). I think Doug just wanted to give Nate a chance. He deserved it. He’s been part of our Super Bowl-winning team. He contributed to the scout team. He contributed so much. I think it was just with good intentions. The circumstances weren’t the best, maybe the communication wasn’t the best, but we would have loved to have eliminated Washington.”
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Saudi king aiming to split Syria-Iran alliance
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The king of Saudi Arabia will travel to Syria to try to weaken the Syria-Iran alliance, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Saudi officials told the paper that King Abdullah will press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to loosen his country’s ties with Iran as well as build Arab consensus on other regional issues, including the formation of a new government in Lebanon and reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah.
The Wall Street Journal said Damascus is portraying the trip as a sign of the increased importance of Syria in the region. Relations between the Saudis and Syrians froze in 2005 after the assasination of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, a friend of the Saudi royal family. Syria has been suspected of playing a role in the killing.
Ties have warmed in recent months, however, with the Saudis sending an ambassador back to Damascus after an 18-month vacancy.
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“Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,”
Luke 3:33 Context
30Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim, 31Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David, 32Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson, 33Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, 34Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, 35Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, 36Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
Bible Verses like Luke 3:33
Other Translations for Luke 3:33
Which was the sonne of Aminadab, which was the sonne of Aram, which was the sonne of Esrom, which was the sonne of Phares, which was the sonne of Iuda,
the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
the `son' of Amminadab, the `son' of Arni, the `son' of Hezron, the `son' of Perez, the `son' of Judah,
The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,
Who was the son of Aminadab, who was the son of Aram, who was the son of Esrom, who was the son of Phares, who was the son of Judah,
son of Amminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni, son of Hezron, son of Perez, son of Judah,
- Weymouth Bible
the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
that was of Amynadab, that was of Aram, that was of Esrom, that was of Fares,
- Wycliffe Bible
the [son] of Amminadab, the [son] of Aram, the [son] of Esrom, the [son] of Pharez,
Bible Commentary for Luke 3:33
Discussion for Luke 3:33
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A Lovely Way to Die (Blu-ray)
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kenneth Haigh
Lincoln Kirkpatrick
Conrad Bain
A Lovely Way to Die stars screen legend Kirk Douglas (Lonely Are the Brave, The Vikings) as Schuyler, a hard-boiled police detective who turns in his badge after charges of brutality are made against him. Hired by a prominent attorney (Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Schuyler is assigned to protect Rena Westabrook (Sylva Koscina, The Secret War of Harry Frigg), a beautiful young woman who is accused of murdering her wealthy husband. While trying to uncover more information about the murder, Schuyler falls for his lovely client and gets embroiled in a murderous scheme of blackmail, deadly secrets and lies. David Lowell Rich (Madame X) wonderfully directed this colorful sixties caper featuring early unbilled screen appearances by Ali MacGraw (The Getaway), Doris Roberts (TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond) and John P. Ryan (Runaway Train).
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell
U.S. Theatrical Trailer (HD)
International Theatrical Trailer (HD)
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Queen Elisabeth Hall – Koningin...
By Leslie Williams|2021-01-04T16:19:20-06:00June 22nd, 2011|Arts, Concert Halls, Featured, Projects|
In January of 2010, the Joint Venture Team of Ian Simpson Architects, Kirkegaard, and Bureau Bouwtechniek was awarded this project after competing and winning the international architectural competition for the redesign Queen Elizabeth Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. The new design provides a world-class concert hall and conference facility for the KMDA, the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, and the deFilharmonie, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra.
Our basic goal was to transform Queen Elizabeth Hall into one of the world’s most admired concert halls in terms of its acoustics, its architecture, and its capabilities to accommodate a wide range of performance, theatrical productions, and conference activities. Quality of acoustics for symphonic performances has been the strongest driving force for the project and a very strong design determinant in our team’s Competition and Final design.
The Competition brief called for the new multi-purpose hall to accommodate the following formats:
Orchestral Format: approx. 1930 seats
Theatrical Format: approx. 1850 seats
Conference Format: approx. 2050 seats
In addition to the Queen Elizabeth Hall, there are important support spaces that have significant acoustic performance requirements. Among these spaces are Loos Hall, the large ensemble space, and individual rehearsal spaces as well as dressing rooms and backstage support spaces.
Antwerp's Queen Elisabeth Hall brings a new world-class concert hall and conference space to life within the shell of the existing facility. This new concert venue seats 1,900 in a flexible music, conference, and theatre space serving the KMDA (the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp), and deFilharmonie, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra. Quality of acoustics for symphonic performances has been the strongest driving force behind this endeavour. The project also incorporated the renovation of Loos Hall, providing large ensemble and individual rehearsal spaces, dressing rooms and backstage support spaces. BREEAM Certification is in progress.
Ian Simpson Architects, Design Architect, London, England
Charcoalblue, Theater Consultant, London, England
1,900-seat venue
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Older Coloradans, Teachers And Frontline Workers Next In Line For COVID-19 Vaccine
A clinic staff member holds a vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Colorado has changed its vaccine distribution plan to give higher priority to residents who are 70 years or older, along with essential frontline workers.
Gov. Jared Polis says the vaccines for older Coloradans are starting now in counties that have completed distributing their first doses to frontline health care workers.
Polis estimates it should take about four to five weeks to get the vaccines to any Coloradan aged 70 or older who wants it.
“If you’re 70 and up, you really, really, really, really, really should want it,” Polis said. “While we lose people of all ages, 78% of those we’ve lost to coronavirus are over age 70.”
Meanwhile, teachers, grocery store employees, bus drivers and other frontline workers are also being moved up in line to the so-called 1-B phase of vaccinations happening this winter.
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Polis says the changes were made to protect those most at risk of dying from the virus and to match new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“For a lot of these other groups — teachers, food and ag workers — we will be scheduling with the county health departments and with other providers (to set up) largely employment-based, site-based clinics for that,” Polis said.
He suggested those might occur in mid-February.
The governor cautioned that the vaccine timeline is still dependent on how quickly the state gets doses from the federal government.
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Rahm moves into strong position to win Race to Dubai title
Jon Rahm of Spain plays a shot on the 2nd hole during the third round of the DP World Tour Championship golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jon Rahm moved into a strong position to win the Race to Dubai title after shooting 6-under 66 in the third round of the season-ending World Tour Championship to tie the lead with Mike Lorenzo-Vera on Saturday.
Lorenzo-Vera bogeyed the 18th hole for the second straight day to shoot 69 and drop into a share of the lead with Rahm, who needs to finish first or second to stand a chance of becoming European No. 1 for the first time.
They are 15 under par overall, two strokes ahead of Rory McIlroy (65) and four clear of fourth-place Tommy Fleetwood (70) — another Race to Dubai contender.
Bernd Wiesberger, who leads the Race to Dubai standings, was tied for 24th place — 13 strokes behind Rahm and Lorenzo-Vera — after shooting 73.
Rahm can take the title if he wins and Wiesberger finishes lower than outright second, or if he finishes outright second and Wiesberger finishes worse than tied for fifth place with one other player.
“Playing pretty solid. Really confident off the tee. Really confident with every part of my game right now,” Rahm said. “I’m hitting a lot of great shots and giving myself chances.”
Rahm won the season-ending event once and claimed a share of fourth place in his two starts at the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Another victory will earn him $3 million — the richest first prize in golf.
Rahm would also join the late Seve Ballesteros as the second Spaniard to win the Race to Dubai.
“Gives me goosebumps to think about that,” he said. “I’ve said it many times, as a Spaniard, any time you join or you have the chance to put your name on a list where there’s only one name and that name is Seve, it’s pretty impactful
“It’s really emotional for all of us. To think not even Sergio (Garcia) or Miguel Angel (Jimenez) or Olly (Jose Maria Olazabal) or many other great players couldn’t get it done. It’s hard to believe that I have the chance to be the second.”
Lorenzo-Vera, who is ranked No. 96, still has a chance to become the first wire-to-wire winner of the event, after opening with a 63 and then establishing a three-shot lead with a second-round 69.
“That’s one of the things I think about the most, to win in Dubai,” the Frenchman said. “Only big names do it … to achieve that tomorrow would be really an awesome achievement.”
McIlroy shot the lowest round of the day to power back into contention at an event he won in 2012 and ’15. He was 5 under after eight holes, having started birdie-birdie and eagled the par-5 7th hole after carrying a bunker 240 yards with a 5-wood, and picked up two more birdies in the back nine.
“You’ve got Tommy and Jon up there obviously, and Mike’s holding steady at the top,” said McIlroy, who opened with 64 on Thursday only to drop down the leaderboard after a second-round 74.
“I’m going to have to go out there and shoot a similar score tomorrow to what I did today to really have a chance. But just really pleased that I got myself back in the golf tournament.”
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House Passes Farm Bill, Removes Food Stamp Program
House Passes Farm Bill, Removes Food Stamp Program | KCET
Speaker John Boehner and, from left, Reps. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Todd Platts (R-PA). | Photo by SpeakerBoehner
A stripped-down farm bill was passed through Congress last night by a narrow 216-to-208 vote. It removed any food stamp protections, decreasing the per-year cost of the bill from $100 billion to about $20 billion.
The bill also repealed laws originally written in the 1930s and '40s that provided incentives to continually update the farm bill. But the bulk of the shouting on the floor yesterday was over the future of food stamps, known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "You are taking food out of the mouths of your own poor constituents."
The congressional bill will now have to be merged with the version recently passed by the Senate. (Yes, this is a bewilderingly drawn-out process.)
As the New York Times reported:
House and Senate negotiators could produce a compromise measure with the robust food stamp program the Senate wants, but such a bill would almost certainly have to pass the House with significant Republican defections.
Asked before the vote Thursday if he would allow a compromise bill to come to a final vote in the House, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio shrugged and said: "If ands and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas. You've heard that before. My goal right now is to get the farm bill passed. We'll get to those other issues later."
Perhaps using a food analogy wasn't the most sensitive move on Boehner's part.
Read Rick Paulas' explanation of all the myriad issues in this year's Farm Bill here.
Public Media and KCET Legend Bill Kobin Dies at 91
William H. “Bill” Kobin, a public media icon who helped build PBS flagship station KCET into a Los Angeles powerhouse, airing news programs like the acclaimed “Life & Times” and helping to launch Huell Howser’s career, has died.
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The Power of Poetry in Florence
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Kelley's Military was one of multiple family businesses established in the 1950's by Harold Kelley (the original Kelley) after his service in the Korean Conflict. Kelley's was originally opened as a Gun & Hunting shop in Woburn Massachusetts. If you collected between the 50's and 70's more than likely you purchased memorabilia from Kelley himself. He was one of the first to introduce Militaria Auctions to the public in the 60's and 70's.
In the 70's we gave up our FFL license and turned our attention to the sale of original and reproduction WWII militaria which laid the foundation for the future of the business. From the first reproduction Railway Eagle made in the 70's to the more current reproductions of today we try to deliver quality products at an affordable price.
Thru its transitions over the past half century Kelley's Military has always remained family owned and operated and has seen 3 generations pass thru its doors.
We have provided our services and products to films and theaters throughout the past 50 years. We offer original and reproduction militaria for collectors, reenactors or anyone with an interest in military history.
If you have any questions about our service or products please feel free to contact us either by email or by phone.
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UK in ‘eye of the storm’ amid surging new coronavirus cases
A woman with a bicycle walks past an ambulance and members of the media on the north bank of the River Thames opposite the London Eye ferris wheel by the River Thames in London, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. The London Eye is one of the traditional sites for New Year’s Eve firework display, but it has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions in place to try and stop its spread. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
LONDON (AP) — British hospitals around the country face a perilous situation in January, medical workers warned Friday amid surging coronavirus infections blamed on a new virus variant. Authorities pressed to reactivate field hospitals previously mothballed just to handle the crush of new patients.
Concerns are mounting about the ability of the already stretched National Health Service to cope with the anticipated increase in people seeking treatment for COVID-19 infections over the coming weeks that could be further fueled by holiday gatherings over Christmas and New Year’s.
On Friday, the U.K. recorded another 53,285 new infections, down slightly from the previous day’s record high of 55,892. Although comparisons with the outset of the pandemic are difficult given that testing was limited in the spring, the U.K. has recorded its four highest daily new infection numbers over the past four days — all above 50,000 and around double the daily number of a few weeks ago.
The Royal College of Nursing’s England director, Mike Adams, told Sky News that the U.K. was in the “eye of the storm” and that it was “infuriating” to see people not following social distancing guidance or wearing masks.
A leading physician also warned of burnout among health workers on the front line in hospitals, while also urging people to follow the rules.
“I am worried,” Adrian Boyle, vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the BBC. “We are very much at battle stations.”
The spike in new cases is said to be due to a new, more contagious variant of the virus first identified around London and the southeast of England.
Given the time lags between new cases, hospitalizations and COVID-19 deaths, there are huge concerns about the path of the pandemic over the coming month or two. Britain already has Europe’s second-highest virus death toll at 74,125 after another 613 deaths were recorded Friday. The country looks set to overtake Italy and become Europe’s worst-hit country once again.
As a result of the spike in new infections, which has prompted even tighter lockdown restrictions, British authorities have changed their strategy for rolling out coronavirus vaccines, choosing to get more people an initial jab as soon as possible, and delaying the second shot for up to three months.
In a joint statement, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, said the first vaccine dose offers “substantial” protection.
Currently, two vaccines have been approved for use in the U.K. and both require two doses per person.
Around 1 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine developed by American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech, with a small minority also getting the second dose as planned after 21 days.
Earlier this week, Britain also approved a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca that is substantially cheaper and easier to use.
Authorities then outlined the new dosing regimen, which delays a person’s second vaccine shot from being done at three weeks to being given up to 12 weeks after the first shot.
“In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest. The great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine,” the medical officers said.
Still, the new plan has faced some criticism. The U.K.’s main union for doctors warned that delaying the second dose causes huge scheduling problems for thousands of partially vaccinated elderly and vulnerable people.
“It is grossly and patently unfair to tens of thousands of our most at-risk patients to now try to reschedule their appointments,” said Richard Vautrey from the British Medical Association.
Follow AP coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemicand https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccines and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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Al-Qaeda commander among 5 killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan
By Khaama Press / in Afghanistan / on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 10:42 AM / 0 Comment / 686 views
A commander of the al-Qaeda terrorist network was killed with four others during separate airstrikes involving unmanned aerial vehicle of the US forces in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrikes were carried out in southern Zabul and northern Kunduz provinces.
According to a statement by MoD, the al-Qaeda commander killed in the airstrike has been identified as Mullah Mohammad Ali.
The statement further added that the militants were involved in major terrorist attacks and atrocities committed against the citizens of the country.
The airstrike targeting the al-Qaeda comes amid concerns that the terrorist network is attempting to consolidate operations with the other militant groups, including the Taliban insurgents in a bid to expand foothold in the country.
Meanwhile, the Afghan and US forces have stepped up counter-terrorism operations against the terrorist groups in Afghanistan, including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
According to reports, the US Air Force dropped 251 bombs and missiles targeting mainly the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan during the months of January and February.
On the other hand, the Afghan forces are routinely targeting the terrorist groups in Afghanistan with increased capabilities, specifically with the addition of more combat helicopters and fixed wing light attack planes.
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When Sound Waves Do the Twist—Backwards!
Researchers have built a system capable of reversing the angular momentum of a sound wave without the need for supersonic velocities
Scientists based in the UK and the US have demonstrated for the first time how ‘twisted’ sound waves from a rotating source can produce negative frequencies, analogous to turning back time.
A team of researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Exeter, and Illinois Wesleyan report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science how they have built a system capable of reversing the angular momentum of a sound wave without the need for supersonic velocities.
The Doppler effect is a familiar phenomenon to anyone who has observed an ambulance pass by while sounding its siren. As the ambulance approaches the observer, the sound waves ‘pile up,’ raising the frequency of the waves and thus causing the sound of the siren to rise in pitch, a process known to scientists as a ‘blueshift’. Once the ambulance passes, the sound waves ‘stretch out,’ lowering their frequency and dropping the pitch—a ‘redshift.’
Professor Miles Padgett, the University of Glasgow’s Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy, said: “We’ve known for a while now that strange things occur when the hypothetical observer chases after the sound emitted from an ambulance siren at supersonic speeds and creates what we might be called a ‘negative’ frequency.
“At those velocities, the observer would hear the sound of the siren backwards instead of the familiar repetitive rise and fall, because the observer is now moving faster than the sound they are hearing—the most recent sound it makes will reach the observer ahead of those it made in the past, the opposite of how sound travels at subsonic speeds.”
Whether supersonic or subsonic, what the hypothetical ambulance-watcher is observing is more properly known as the linear Doppler effect, where the sound waves are travelling in a straight line as motion occurs between object and observer.
In 1981, a chemist named Bruce Garetz first demonstrated the rotational Doppler effect, where frequency shifts occur when electromagnetic waves (in this case light waves) move in a circle around a single fixed point. Unlike linear Doppler shifts, rotational Doppler shifts have not been shown to generate negative frequencies, since there is no motion between the object and observer.
In previous research, Glasgow researchers have explored how the rotational Doppler shift is affected when light’s electric and magnetic fields are given a corkscrew-style ‘twist’—a property known as the orbital angular momentum, or ‘OAM.’ Their work showed that the OAM of laser light is Doppler-shifted when it hits a rotating reflective surface, and carries information about the surface’s rate of rotation.
In their new research, they chose to explore how the OAM of sound waves is affected by rotation. To do so, they arranged 16 loudspeakers into a circle, facing two microphones mounted on a rotating ring. By arranging the microphones very slightly offset from each other, they could measure the magnitude and directional OAM of acoustic waves from the loudspeakers as the rotating ring span.
Dr. Graham Gibson of the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy, a primary author of the paper, added: “We found that we could indeed generate negative rotational Doppler-shifted acoustic waves which reversed the wave’s OAM, which is something that has not been demonstrated before—essentially, we could reverse the twist of the acoustic waves.
“Moreover, we could generate those negative frequencies while our microphone ring span at very low, sub-sonic speeds, with a rotation rate of around 25Hz, something that is impossible in linear Doppler shifts.”
Dr. Dave Phillips, of the University of Exeter, added: “It’s a very interesting finding, with potential applications in a range of scientific disciplines including quantum field theory. We’re keen to continue exploring the implications of the findings in the future.”
The team’s paper, titled ‘Reversal of Orbital Angular Momentum arising
from an Extreme Doppler Shift’, is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The research was supported by funding from the European Research Council, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Sensing and Measurement.
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The dapper gentleman pictured in the middle is none other than our client Anthony Gentles, who has struggled for over 30 years to receive his green card. Mr. Gentles comes from a violent neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica where young men were being killed for political/gang affiliations and some for simply being unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire. Recognizing the threat such a dangerous environment posed to her son, Anthony’s terminally ill mother only wished for him to move to the United States for a safer life. Shortly after she passed away, he fulfilled her dying wish and arrived on the shores of Miami as a young man in September of 1980.
While living in the United States, Anthony had ten children and his first wife petitioned for him in 1982. When this was denied by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service his oldest son petitioned for him in 2009 which also, sadly, was rejected. Despite living the better part of his life as an exemplary citizen, a past criminal record from his youth resulted in his green card application being turned down and the transferring of his case to Immigration Court. Frustrated with the ups and downs of his case throughout the past years, Anthony approached Spar & Bernstein. Our office took the initiative and submitted a waiver to establish how Mr. Gentle’s wife and father (a legal permanent resident) would suffer should he not be granted a green card. Just a few years earlier, Anthony’s physician had informed him that he had a heart condition however, without proper health insurance he would be unable to sufficiently address it.
This past September, while visiting the hospital to obtain evidence for his case, Mr. Gentle’s physician insisted that he have a routine check-up. This resulted in his hospitalization where he underwent a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. It is always scary going under the knife, and we are thankful Anthony has made a full recovery. The surgery marked a turning point in his case and lead to the immigration judge granting his lawful permanent residence and green card! Anthony was all smiles when returning to the firm to offer his thanks, and we’re glad he chose Spar & Bernstein!
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The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein, P.C. is a full-service law firm with more than half a century of experience. The firm was founded in 1958 by Harry Spar, one of the original members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Over the years, Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein, P.C. excelled — handling all phases of immigration, including permanent residence, green cards, corporate immigration, family immigration, violations of immigration law, work, training and investor visas, and deportation defense. The firm also takes immense pride in its sponsorship of Brad Show Live, a two-hour daily digital infotainment talk and legal advice show broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube. It reaches hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide. Brad Show Live is hosted by Brad Bernstein, Managing Partner of the Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein who has provided invaluable legal immigration help to 70,000 plus clients over two decades. As the host of Brad Show Live, Brad takes a compassionate, straightforward and humorous approach on immigration, civil rights, family unity, humanity, news, politics, and social justice.
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Larry G. Evans is a partner with the Valparaiso/Merrillville firm of Hoeppner, Wagner and Evans, practicing in the areas of civil litigation, occupational safety and health and employment law. He has been named one of "The Best Lawyers in America," served as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Valparaiso University School of Law, President of the Indiana Bar Foundation and a Diplomat of the Indiana Defense Trial Counsel. He has also served as President of the Porter County Chapter of the American Inns of Court and as President of the Northwest Indiana Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, Inc., the Indiana Defense Lawyers Association, and the Porter County, Indiana State, 7th Circuit and American Bar Associations. He is the author of "Article Eight of the Federal Rules of Evidence: The Hearsay Rule," published in the Valparaiso University Law Review.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, a member of the National Council of Valparaiso University School of Law, and a member of the Local Rules Advisory Committee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He has been selected as an Indiana Super Lawyer.
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Former Spanish king Juan Carlos 'leaves country' amid corruption scandal
Juan Carlos said he plans to move into exile. Picture: PA
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos has left the country while mired in a corruption scandal, it has been reported.
The 82-year-old wrote to his son and successor, King Felipe VI, on Monday evening to say he had decided to move into exile.
"Guided by the conviction to best serve the people of Spain, its institutions, and you as King, I inform you of my decision at this time to go into exile outside Spain," Juan Carlos wrote.
He added: "It's a decision I take with deep anguish, but great peace of mind.”
The current premier accepted his decision, the royal palace said in a statement.
Spanish newspaper El Mundo quoted sources as having indicated he "has already left the country" as of Monday, however this has not been officially confirmed.
It is unclear which country he has chosen to reside in.
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In his letter, he said he made the decision against the backdrop of "public repercussions of certain episodes of my past private life."
He explained that he wants to ensure he does not make his son's role difficult, adding: "My legacy and my own dignity, demand that it should be so."
The Spanish supreme court opened an investigation in June into his involvement in a high-speed rail contract in Saudi Arabia.
It came after Switzerland's La Tribune de Geneve newspaper reported Carlos had received $100m (£75m) from the late Saudi King in 2008.
He has not commented publicly on the allegations.
Businesswoman Corinna Larsen claimed he had transferred her nearly €65m in 2012 “out of gratitude and love”, from the alleged $100m Saudi gift.
Spain's prime minister recently said he found the developments about Juan Carlos - including investigations in Spain and Switzerland - "disturbing".
Carlos began his reign in 1975, following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
He was celebrated for thwarting a military coup in 1981, but has faced a series of corruption controversies since his abdication in June 2014.
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Canada seeks to ban LGBT conversion therapy
TORONTO (Lgbtqcommunities) – The Canadian federal government introduced new legislation on Monday to criminalize LGBTQ conversion therapy, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government moves to fulfill one of its 2019 election promises.
The proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code include offenses such as causing a person to undergo conversion therapy, advertising and profiting from conversion therapy and removing a minor from Canada.
Conversion therapy is any practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, gender identity to one that matches the sex assigned at birth, or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual sexual attraction or behaviors, according to the legislation.
The bill also amends the Criminal Code to authorize courts to order disposing of or deleting advertisements for conversion therapy.
“Conversion therapy has been discredited and denounced by professionals and health associations in Canada, the United States and around the world. It has no basis on science or facts,” said Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti.
The legislation would not criminalize personal views expressed in private conversations by individuals looking to provide support to those struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The bill was introduced by Lametti and Bardish Chagger, minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth.
Conversion therapy has been banned in some Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Ontario was the first Canadian province to ban the practice in 2015.
Several U.S. states, including California, Colorado, New York and Washington, have banned conversion therapy.
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Reed Erickson was a trans man who bankrolled early LGBT movements
Fundraising is central to the LGBTQ movement today. But decades ago, several organizations depended on one trans man.
By Michael Bedwell Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: ONE Archives
No LGBTQ History Month should pass without recognition of the unique, pivotal role in improving LGBTQ lives played by Reed Erickson.
Like many other social change movements, the history of the LGB and Trans movements is one of financial struggle to function and survive. More so than most other movements because of both their social disapproval and legal jeopardy aspects. For example, financial donations are sometimes anonymous, and, when requirements apply for the reporting to the state of the names of donors giving above a particular amount, some donors carefully give precisely less such as $99.99 rather than $100.
Related: This trans activist recently shared her memories of the Stonewall uprising and early life in NYC
Until the creation of the Human Rights Campaign Fund in 1980, there was little formal attention to fundraising, and the death of many a grassroots LGBTQ group can be attributed to other groups being better at raising money. A study a few years back showed that only a tiny fraction of the LGBTQ community contributes to any organization working on their behalf.
Reed Erickson was born on October 13, 1917, had a circle of publicly closeted lesbian friends while attending Philadelphia High School for Girls (where he later tried, unsuccessfully, to create a scholarship for lesbian students), and was still presenting as female while earning a degree in mechanical engineering in 1946.
Dr. Harry Benjamin’s legendary gender identity practice began with a trans man referred to him by Dr. Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Christine Jorgensen became one of his patients following her return to the United States in 1952 after initial surgery in Denmark.
Some time before publication of Benjamin’s classic The Transsexual Phenomenon in 1966, Erickson, too, became a patient followed by surgery and a legal name change on his birth certificate, rare for the time.
He married the first of three women in 1963. His second wife had a daughter by artificial insemination and they adopted a boy. While each marriage eventually ended, his constant companion wherever he went was a leopard named Henry he’d raised from a cub.
ONE Archives
During this time he’d already begun parlaying inherited wealth into millions more, particularly from investments in oil-rich real estate in Louisiana. In 1964, he founded the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) whose goals were “to provide assistance and support in areas where human potential was limited by adverse physical, mental or social conditions, or where the scope of research was too new, controversial or imaginative to receive traditionally oriented support.”
His work through EEF was crucial to improving the lives of countless trans people. In addition to funding many of the earliest research projects, his two main contributions were the financial support he gave to the Harry Benjamin Foundation and the first North American gender clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Erickson funded international conferences on trans topics in 1969 (cosponsored by the Albany Trust of London), 1971, and 1973. Later conferences were organized by the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) founded in 1979. It changed its name to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in 2007.
EEF made major contributions to growing public awareness, too, through funding lectures, educational films, newspaper articles, radio, and television programs, and books including Money and Green’s Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, 1969, and Money and Ehrhardt’s Man, Woman, Boy, Girl, 1972.
The Reed Erickson Collection in the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada, contain many of EFF’s publications and other relevant materials.
University of Victoria Transgender Archives collection. Published in 1976. University of Victoria Transgender Archives collection.
A list of some of the other specific projects funded by Erickson from the article Reed Erickson and the Erickson Educational Foundation:
Albany Trust, London, UK, 1969 – 1970
Preliminary Invitational Florida Symposium On Gender Identity, Miami, USA, 1970
Invitational workshop for faculty members of University Gender Identity Medical Units, New Orleans, USA, 1971
Symposium on the transsexual phenomenon at Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA, 1971
Seattle Counseling Center for Sexual Minorities, USA, 1972 – 1973
National Transsexual Counseling Unit (NTCU), San Francisco, CA, USA,1972 – 1974
Symposium on Transsexualism, Philadelphia, USA, 1973
New York Academy of Medicine Symposium on Gender Identity, USA, 1973
Symposium on Gender Identity, Kings Cross Training Centre, London, UK, 1974
Janus Information Facility, Galveston & San Francisco, USA, 1977 – 1980
Stanford University Gender Identity Clinic, USA
San Francisco Police Community Relations Unit, USA
University of Victoria Transgender Archives collection. University of Victoria
After learning about Los Angeles-based gay and lesbian rights group ONE, Inc., which published the highly influential ONE magazine, in 1964, Erickson began giving them money after convincing them to form the nonprofit, tax-exempt Institute for the Study of Human Resources.
With the huge amounts of money he gave them over the years that other gay groups at the time could barely dream of (some $1.5 million in today’s dollars), they published a two-volume Annotated Bibliography of Homosexuality and created a variety of unprecedented gay equality focused research and education programs including lectures, and, ultimately, accreditation in 1981 by the state of California as a graduate degree-granting institution.
But their long honeymoon ended in 1983 when Erickson – now addicted to ketamine and cocaine – decided, for some reason, not to give ONE ownership, as they claimed he had promised, of a million-dollar estate in which they’d moved.
The deeply bitter dispute did not end until 1992 when Erickson’s daughter agreed to divide the property in lieu of her father who had died months before in a hotel in Mexico where he’d fled to avoid prosecution on drug charges in the US and built a grand mansion. He was 74.
Neither the estrangement with ONE nor his tragic last years can erase how much today’s LGBTQ communities owe him.
Many thanks for the input from Erickson expert Prof. Aaron Devor of the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, Canada, which include Erickson personal papers, business records, legal files, and art works.
“Remember your roots, your history, and the forebears’ shoulders on which you stand.” – Marion Wright Edelman.
Alfred Kinsey, Christine Jorgensen, Erickson Educational Foundation, Harry Benjamin, One magazine, Reed Erickson, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH
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Dollars and scents: Trademark disputes over smells
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
Traditionally, trademarks have consisted of logos or brand names that are uniquely associated with a particular company. However, trademarks aren’t necessarily limited to logos or names. In rare cases, they can be a nonconventional part of the product — such as its scent.
Registering a smell is much more difficult than registering a logo, but it is possible, and some companies are attempting it. This year Hasbro applied for a trademark to protect the unique odor of one of its most iconic products: Play-Doh.
If you have young kids or have otherwise spent time around this particular children’s product, you can probably conjure up the scent in your mind. You may not describe it exactly like Hasbro does (a slightly musky, vanilla-and-cherry scent combined with a salty wheat odor), but if you smelled a colorful lump of this substance, you would probably identify it as Play-Doh without question.
What does it take to obtain trademark registration for a smell?
If you are wondering whether you should apply for a trademark for your own fragrant product, keep these three points in mind:
1. The scent can’t be a functional part of the product. For instance, you can’t trademark the smell of an air freshener because that’s what the product does. The smell is utilitarian, the main point of the product, not a feature that serves no other purpose than to identify the product as yours.
2. The scent must be quite distinctive. All trademarks – whether conventional or nonconventional – must be distinctive. If the average consumer can’t smell a difference between your product and another one, it’s probably not unique enough to serve as a trademark.
3. Be prepared to provide evidence (and lots of it). The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure specifically states that the “amount of evidence required to establish that a scent or fragrance functions as a mark is substantial.”
The last point above doesn’t mean that you should simply forget about the idea of registering your scent, but it does mean that you would be well advised to consult with a seasoned legal professional. A lawyer skilled in trademark law can provide the valuable counsel you need to make the most compelling case possible.
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Tim Stephen steps into head of US business and legal affairs role at Gaumont
Stories film company Gaumont has promoted Tim Stephen to the post of head of business and legal affairs.
Stephen joined Gaumont in October 2014 as SVP, U.S. business and legal affairs. His broad-ranging responsibilities encompass the television, animation and distribution divisions, working for Gene Stein, president U.S. Television; Nicolas Atlan, president, animation; and Vanessa Shapiro, president of worldwide TV distribution & co-production.
During his tenure Stephen has worked on many of Gaumont flagship titles including Narcos, F is For Family, Hannibal and Hemlock Grove, as well as upcoming titles including High in the Clouds, an animated feature in development based on the book authored by Sir Paul McCartney and Philip Ardagh and illustrated by Geoff Dunbar.
Also among Stephen’s credits is Do, Re & Mi, an animated series in development with the multi-talented Kristen Bell and The Star Shards Chronicles, also in development, based on the book trilogy from The New York Times best-selling author, Neal Shusterman.
“Tim has proven to be an invaluable member of our team with his broad-ranging experience across all entertainment-industry disciplines, including business and legal affairs, television development and production, and international co-financing,” commented Christophe Riandee, vice CEO at Gaumont. “He is respected for his inclusive leadership style and focused approach to problem-solving, and is fully deserving of this promotion.”
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What had begun as a violent attempt to stop the draft by targeting military and governmental buildings, soon turned into one of the most vicious race riots in American history. The four-story Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue, home to more than 200 children was financially stable and well stocked with food, clothing and provisions. To the infuriated mob it was apparently a symbol of black upward mobility. After looting the building, rioters burned it to the ground. Miraculously the children were spared. Other African Americans in the path of the rioters were not so fortunate. At least 11 men were lynched from lampposts and their bodies subsequently burned or mutilated. A group of men and boys mortally attacked a black sailor named William Williams -jumping on his chest, stabbing him repeatedly and crushing his body with paving stones while a howling group of onlookers urged them on, demanding vengeance on every black person in New York and cheering for Jefferson Davis.
“The Riots in New York – Destruction of the Coloured Orphan Asylum” (New York Historical Society)
His policemen overwhelmed, Mayor George Opdyke reluctantly appealed for state and federal assistance. Governor Horatio Seymour arrived on July 12 and attempted to calm the situation by addressing a crowd assuring them that the draft was unconstitutional. More importantly, 800 soldiers garrisoning forts in the harbor under the command of General John Wool were brought into the city. Harsh measures were used to clear the streets including rifle volleys. Five regiments from the Army of the Potomac, which had been pursuing Robert E. Lee following the battle of Gettysburg just 10 days prior, were detached and rushed to New York. Their arrival, coupled with a calming speech by Roman Catholic Archbishop John Hughes at old St. Patrick’s Cathedral before a crowd of 5,000 on the 14th, ended the violence.
The exact death toll during the four days of rioting is unknown. Historian James McPherson believes at least 120 civilians were killed although other estimates are much higher as many bodies were believed to have been thrown into the East River and never recovered. Herbert Asbury, the author of the 1928 book Gangs of New York upon which the 2002 film is based, puts the figure at more than 2,000 with an additional 8,000 wounded. At least 50 buildings were burned to the ground with total property damage estimated at more than $1 million.
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This week’s Oscars was a celebration of the past year’s best films. Not sure about you, but it made me excited about the state of movies today and not only the talented actors, but directors, editors, composers, writers, etc. It’s kind of mind-blowing to think about the effort and talent that goes into one film.
Did you miss anything from the show? Check out a Twitter recap of the big night (and the Literally, Darling nod!) on Huff Post Women.
Now that we’re on a movie high this week, it’s time to hit the theaters and check out Hollywood’s latest creations.
For the Wes Anderson worshiper: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Wes Anderson’s films are nothing if not opulent and endearing. It’s no surprise that Anderson’s latest creation, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” stars his regular cast of characters including Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman. In fact, GBH looks like the guest list for one of Hollywood’s most elite soirées. Our thoughts on the film’s potential? Mindy Kaling said (err, tweeted) it best:
I wanna stay at the Grand Budapest Hotel
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) March 4, 2014
Release Date: March 7
For the ‘inappropriate laugher’: “Bad Words”
Jason Bateman makes his directorial debut in what looks like a hilarious story of a 40-something man kicking ass and taking names at middle school spelling bees. How do you spell ‘cinematic success?’ C-I-N-E-M-A-T-I-C-S-U-C-C-E-S-S. “That’s coooorect.” Cue the mic drop, Mr. Bateman.
For the thrill-seeker: “Divergent”
Based on the best-selling book series, “Divergent” is set in a futuristic dystopia where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris (Shailene Woodley) finds she is one of the few categorized as Divergent and must join the other societal outcasts to find out why they’re a threat to the system. If you’re into series like “The Hunger Games” this looks like a must-see.
So what’s your pick? Tweet @litdarling with the movie you plan on checking out this month.
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Places to Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 in Singapore (and See Lanterns Too)
This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Wednesday, 4 October 2017. The festival is synonymous with colourful lanterns, delicious mooncakes and sipping tea while admiring the moon. Sometimes also referred to as the lantern festival or mooncake festival, it is also a great time to plan a get-together with friends and family. If you are wondering what is taking place this year, we round up some places to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 in Singapore.
Where to Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 in Singapore
Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival 2017
Chinatown is the place to be during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The celebrations officially kick off with an opening ceremony and official street light up on Saturday, 23 September 2017. The street light-up will run till 19 October. The festivities start even earlier with a carnival at the open space in front of People’s Park Complex running from 10 September till 9 October. The festive trade fair and street stalls open for business from 20 September till 4 October. Also returning to the Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 is the Mass Lantern Walk. New this year is a Mid-Autumn Family Fest @ Chinatown which takes place on 24 September 2017. Chinatown is definitely a place to be for the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 in Singapore, especially if you wish to view lanterns. Find out more.
Mid-Autumn @ Gardens by the Bay 2017
The glow of lantern displays will light up the outdoor gardens at Gardens by the Bay. Mid-Autumn @ Gardens by the Bay takes place from 22 September till 8 October. Highlights of this celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 in Singapore include the largest lantern set to go on display at Gardens by the Bay to date, Waters of Prosperity, and a paddy field lantern display with 4,000 glowing stalks of rice. In addition to the display of lanterns, there will also be performances, a fun zone for kids and a special edition of Garden Rhapsody. Find out more.
Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival 2017
Visit the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall on the weekend before the Mid-Autumn Festival, 30 September and 1 October, 10 am to 9.30 pm, for programmes such as snowskin mooncake-making workshops, storytelling sessions, games and lantern-making workshops. The grounds of Wan Qing Yuan will also feature cellophane lanterns in familiar designs and shapes from 26 September to 15 October 2017.
Mooncake Mania
Delectable mooncakes are a must during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Whether you favour traditional baked mooncakes or more innovative concoctions, there is something out there for every palate. Two places you should know about when shopping for mooncakes in Singapore are the mooncake fairs at Takashimaya and VivoCity. More than 50 local and international brands are selling mooncakes at the Takashimaya fair at basement 2 which runs from 31 August to 4 October. Over at VivoCity, over 35 brands have congregated at the Central Court offering different varieties of mooncakes for sale till 4 October 2017.
One Community Fiesta Celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 at Our Tampines Hub on 23 September 2017 at the One Community Fiesta Celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival. A collaboration between Our Tampines Hub and Tampines Integration and Naturalisation Champions, there will be multi-ethnic cultural performances, mid-autumn themed games, mooncake making and craft activities as well as lantern walk. Tickets cost $2 and are available for purchase at five Tampines CCs.
The story of the lady in the moon gets staged at Singapore Botanic Gardens for the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017. The Arts Fission Company will be presenting a contemporary dance-theatre performance, Moonstruck, based on the Chinese legend of Chang Er. Moonstruck will also feature music inspired by the moon such as Beethoven’s famous Moonlight Sonata. The free performance will be held on Saturday, 30 September, 7 pm to 8 pm at the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage.
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Southern EU leaders seek united policy front at meeting
Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, is welcomed by Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on the occasion of the Mediterranean Summit of Southern EU countries in Valetta, Malta, Friday, June 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jonathan Borg)
ROME (AP) — The leaders of southern European nations gathered in Malta on Friday to build a united front on key economic and political issues before next week’s European Council meeting.
Key European Union jobs, migration issues and climate change were at the top of the agenda in Valletta, where the meeting included the leaders of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
At a final news conference, Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, said the main focus of the summit was to reach “common ground” on the priorities of the EU for the next five years.
The southern European leaders discussed climate change, among other issues, with the aim of making all EU countries set a goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.
Economic and social policies were also in focus, with the leaders agreeing on the need to discuss a “European minimum salary” to face high unemployment levels across Europe.
Migration and cooperation with African countries to help managing migrant flows were also among the top priorities, with both Malta and Italy stressing the need to tighten EU immigration and asylum policies.
All the leaders voiced their worries over the conflict in Libya, which also risks fuelling migrants’ departures from the country in the coming months.
“We need to work together for a cease-fire in Libya and promote political dialogue,” Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said.
French President Emmanuel Macron asked for more solidarity in EU migration policies and promised that the new EU leaders will be chosen based on a common agreement.
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Indy 500 champions choose Andretti as best to never win
by: JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
The words were stunning as they flew out of announcer Paul Page’s mouth in the waning laps of the 1992 Indianapolis 500.
“Michael is slowing! Michael is slowing!” Page declared. “The rest of the field is coming past. Michael Andretti is slowing down.”
Andretti was within 20 miles of earning a coveted Indianapolis 500 victory. He’d dominated the race, led 160 laps, had the field covered. Then just like that, his car slowed to a crawl because of a broken fuel pump and his heartbreak was complete.
“It was that close to being the greatest moment in my life and it turned out to be the worst moment,” he later told Indianapolis Motor Speedway historians. “Me breaking down with 10 laps to go with a totally dominant car, it was a killer.”
In the lead-up to the 100th running of the “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” The Associated Press interviewed the 27 living race winners on topics ranging from the greatest driver to most memorable moment. Their answers to the best driver to never win the Indianapolis 500 gave Andretti a distinction he’d rather go to anyone else.
Andretti received 17 of the 27 votes, while Lloyd Ruby received four. Others mentioned were Tony Stewart, Jim Clark – who actually won the race in 1965 – Roberto Guerrero and Alex Zanardi.
“Being the best driver to have not won Indy is an unfortunate honor,” Andretti told the AP. “I think I’d much rather be one of the winners and not be honored in this category at all. But a lot of great drivers have raced here and never did win, so to be picked among those names is a real honor.”
Andretti built one of the most impressive careers in American open-wheel racing history. He ranks fifth in starts (317), third in wins (42) and laps led (6,607). But his career is widely defined by his oh-so-close moments at Indy that added to the lore of the “Andretti curse.”
Michael’s father, Mario, won the Indy 500 just once, in 1969. Since then, Mario, his sons Michael and Jeff, nephew John and grandson Marco have come up empty time and time again.
“All this stuff about the Andretti curse is nonsense, I never, ever dwelled on the negative,” Mario Andretti told AP. “You have to look at the positive. Michael controlled this race better than some of the four-time winners. In `92, he had a 1 1/2-lap lead and he could have pushed the car back to win the race. You look at things like that, and that’s how some people judge you.
“But the other thing you look at is this: Was he capable of winning it? You’re darn right he was. So he can be proud of what he’s done here. He did pretty damn well here.”
Michael Andretti led 421 laps in 16 starts. His career-best finish was second to four-time winner Rick Mears in 1991, and victory was snatched from him in the cruelest fashion the next season.
Another near miss came in 2006 when Andretti had come out of retirement for the chance to run the 500 against son Marco, a rookie that year. Using fuel strategy, Andretti found himself out front with three laps remaining but he had to back off the gas to make it to the finish.
That gave Marco the chance to slide past his father into the lead, and Sam Hornish Jr. followed to put Andretti in third. Excited that his son might put an Andretti in victory lane, he was crushed when Hornish snatched the win away at the line.
“He led laps. He was fast. He made mistakes at times and at times, the car let him down,” said Hornish, who noted Andretti also could have won in 1991 until he “just got out-dueled by one of the best guys to ever race there.”
“The heartbreak that Michael had for the Indianapolis 500, for how good he was, what he did outside out of that, I don’t think you can dispute that he’s the guy,” Hornish said. “It was cruel to him in a lot of ways.”
There is an upside to Andretti’s time at Indy. He’s won three times as a car owner, most recently in 2014 with Ryan Hunter-Reay. He will try for a fourth victory on Sunday in the historic centennial race, and he’d love any of his drivers to get the win, including his son.
Mario Andretti doesn’t think never winning hangs over his son, but it certainly stings.
“It hurts, but there are things you just cannot control – what do we have, what we drive,” Mario Andretti said. “But he loves being an IndyCar owner and he’s won three times as a car owner, so I think he feels he’s been compensated for that. You know, I think sooner or later, the luck factor is going to give us a win.”
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FILE – Bill Murray massages a volunteers shoulders on the fifth tee of the Monterey Peninsula County Club Shore Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., in this Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, file photo. The only stars at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year will be the players. The spike in COVID-19 cases in California led organizers to cancel the pro-am portion of a tournament. Pebble has a long history of entertainers and celebrities mixing with the pros on one of the most picturesque courses in the country. That means no antics from Bill Murray.(AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)
The only stars at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year will be the players and the golf course.
The spike in COVID-19 cases in California led organizers to cancel the pro-am portion of a tournament with a long history of entertainers, celebrities and CEOs mixing with the pros on one of the most famous and picturesque landscapes in America.
That means no antics from Bill Murray, Justin Timberlake breaking out into song while waiting on a tee box or even the latest fashion statement from rap singer Macklemore.
The tournament also is losing one of its golf courses. The 156-man field on Feb. 11-14 will be held only at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. It typically includes the Shore course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club.
Tournament director Steve John said the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company, longtime sponsor AT&T and the PGA Tour all were involved in the decision.
“I know we did the right thing,” John said. “We had to come to this decision. It’s still disappointing.”
Coronavirus cases in California have risen sharply since Thanksgiving, though the numbers have leveled off in recent days. Even so, new cases over the last week in the nation’s most populous state are far greater than Texas and Florida.
California reported another 589 deaths Wednesday, bringing the total to 31,102 and 33,751 new infections, some of which will inevitably lead to more hospitalizations and deaths.
Pebble Beach, which already had announced it would not have spectators, is the second PGA Tour event to lose a pro-am format during competition. The American Express next week in La Quinta, California, previously announced it would have only professionals on two courses instead of three in the desert.
“This was a very difficult decision, but the right one given the recent surge in COVID-19 cases,” said Bill Perocchi, CEO of the Pebble Beach Company.
The tournament will have a pro-am on Wednesday at Pebble Beach, as other PGA Tour events have done in recent months. John said that would primarily be for the secondary sponsors that have helped the Monterey Peninsula Foundation raise more than $176 million for charitable contributions in three neighboring counties.
The tournament still plans a charity component targeting COVID-related needs such as food, health and education.
This was to be the 75th anniversary of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am since moving to the Monterey Peninsula in 1947 as the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, and celebrities have been a major part of the scene ever since.
The late Jack Lemmon, who once hit a tee shot so bad on the first hole that it crashed through a window into his own room at the Lodge, always said he would trade one of his Oscars if he could make the 54-hole pro-am cut. He never did.
Murray’s antics include slinging a woman into a bunker during Saturday’s round. He later won the pro-am portion of the tournament with D.A. Points. Timberlake was at Spyglass Hill in 2016 when he was handed a guitar and sang “Drink You Away” to a small but thrilled gallery before he teed off on the 16th hole.
A house above the par-5 fifth green is where fans throw a football to Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady or whichever quarterback is in the field. Tiger Woods played for the first time in 1997 with Kevin Costner as his amateur partner.
This is what will be missing in what past champion Peter Jacobsen once described as the essence of tournament golf for its blend of sport, entertainment and corporate support. Several CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are part of the field — the waiting list is such that some can’t play every year — and some hold parties to celebrating making the cut.
The tournament recently posted an Instagram bracket of the most famous moments over the years, many of whom involved the celebrities or the weather. That even includes John, who was at the volunteer party one year when he began choking on a piece of cheese. The Heimlich Maneuver was performed by none other than Clint Eastwood.
A big part of the week for John is seeing 1,600 volunteers at a party on Saturday night in which all the celebrity amateurs drop in for a brief performance.
“We’re going to miss that,” he said. “It’s unfortunate. It’s the right decision. And I can’t wait for 2022.”
John referred to moments like that as the “secret sauce” that makes Pebble stand out, from the fame of the golf course to the celebrities and CEOs who join PGA Tour stars. Pebble Beach winners include Woods and Jack Nicklaus, and more recently Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and five-time winner Phil Mickelson.
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绿手指 >> 干货 >> Plant clinic >> Disease
Plants Fasciation
Fasciation (from the Latin root meaning "band" or "stripe"), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip), which normally is concentrated around a single point and produces approximately cylindrical tissue, instead becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested (or "cristate"), or elaborately contorted, tissue. Fasciation may also cause plant parts to increase in weight and volume in some instances.The phenomenon may occur in the stem, root, fruit, or flower head. Some plants are grown and prized aesthetically for their development of fasciation. Any occurrence of fasciation has several possible causes, including hormonal, genetic, bacterial, fungal, viral and environmental causes.
Although fasciation is rare overall, it has been observed in over 100 plant species, including members of the genera Acer, Aloe, Acanthosicyos, Cannabis, Celosia, Cycas, Delphinium, Digitalis, Euphorbia, Forsythia, Glycine max (specifically, soybean plants), Primula, Prunus, Salix and many genera of the cactus family, Cactaceae. Cresting results in undulating folds instead of the typical "arms" found on mature saguaro cactus.
Some varieties of Celosia are raised especially for their dependably fasciated flower heads, for which they are called "cockscomb". The Japanese fantail willow (Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka') is another plant that is valued for its fasciations.
Fasciation that is caused by damage to genetic material and by bacteria can be controlled by not using fasciated plants and disposing of fasciated plants. Avoiding injury to plant bases and keeping them dry can reduce the spread of bacteria. Avoidance of grafting fasciated plants and the pruning of fasciated matter can also reduce the spread of bacteria.
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Diana Ross Buy This Song
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Transfer of deceased from Israel abroad
First of all, transfer of deceased persons from Israel abroad begins with receiving the case from the family or its representative, and then dealing with the police/hospital/Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Health, or the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in order to release the deceased for further preparations for transfer abroad.
The company currently carries out hundreds of flights a year, to destinations such as: USA, Canada, France, UK, Germany, Philippines, Thailand, China, India, Australia, Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Belarus, Georgia, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Netherlands, Norway, Sri Lanka, Moldova, Romania, Sudan, and all other countries around the world.
Services for the transfer of deceased from Israel abroad are as follows:
Company services are provided to the various government ministries, the Jewish Agency, various churches, foreign insurance companies, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Providing a coffin of suitable size for transfer of the deceased; the coffin shall include an internal sheet metal casing and cover and external wooden casing and cover. The coffin undergoes testing to determine compliance with Ministry of Health regulations and security check.
Washing and dressing, with clothing provided either by the family or purchased by us, summoning a security officer to check the clothing, and injection of preservative into the body of the deceased (embalming) in accordance with the reburial law.
Issuing an official certificate of death at the Ministry of the Interior:
Checking the coffin at the Ministry of Health, including embalming the deceased;
Ordering a bill of lading for shipping the deceased;
Having the official documents signed – certificate of death and apostille of certificate of health by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
Translating the documents – notary authentication and court apostille;
Transfer of the deceased from the place of death (hospital) or the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute to storage in Hevra Kadisha refrigeration, transfer to the embassy for sealing of the coffin, and transfer to Ben-Gurion Airport to deposit for flight.
Receipt of a consular mortuary certificate, transit visa or entry permit for the coffin, and legalization of the documents.
Paying the embassy for the documents;
Organizing release of the coffin at the foreign airport by a local company, and transfer to location requested by the family.
Transferring the belongings of the deceased abroad – receiving, packing and shipping them abroad by mail or airline.
Payment to the hospital at which the deceased was hospitalized;
Assistance to family members accompanying the deceased, flying with the coffin – organizing airline tickets, payment to the hotel, transport to the airport, etc.
The company’s motto is to enable the family to engage in its mourning and not have to deal with arrangements for the deceased.
Dealing with Israeli customs, filling out paperwork for deposit of coffin and export of goods, ordering bill of lading, and release of coffin for flight, customs and security;
Transfer of deceased from abroad to Israel
Menuha La'ad ("Eternal Rest") is a company with over 40 years of experience in the transfer of deceased persons from abroad to Israel.
When a relative dies abroad, far from the family, whether Israeli or not, the distance itself constitutes a major problem, resulting in paralysis. In addition, beyond the event of the death, there is a need to organize the funeral and the actions accompanying it. Who will organize it? How should it be dealt with? How do you make sure that it is dealt with in a suitable and reliable manner? How do you make sure that the price is reasonable and not blackmail? That the deceased is treated with due respect, etc.? For this, Menuha La'ad is at your disposal to organize the funeral and arrange the transfer of the deceased from abroad.
As is known, in the State of Israel, National Insurance finances the full cost of burial for every Israeli citizen with rights, and/or every deceased person in Israel regardless of race, gender, or religion.
One should distinguish between two kinds of transfer of deceased for burial in Israel:
An Israeli citizen with National Insurance rights.
An Israeli citizen without National Insurance rights and/or any other person.
Menuha La'ad has connections and collaborates with burial companies from around the world, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in organizing transfer to Israel. The company’s motto is reliable, professional and courteous service; hence, the company will do everything in its power in order to provide reliable and mainly professional service in the transport of deceased from abroad. The company undertakes all organization and execution required for and connected with organizing the funeral and carrying out transfer of the deceased from abroad.
In transferring a deceased person from abroad, the most important thing is confirmation of a place of burial in Israel, given by the Hevra Kadisha or burial company.
Confirmation may be obtained for free for those entitled burial in Israel at the expense of National Insurance, and for the purchase of a place of burial by those not entitled.
The confirmation shall be transferred to the Israeli Embassy, to approve transfer of the deceased.
Handling by the company shall include:
Receipt of power of attorney to transfer the deceased.
Receipt of information on the event and on the deceased.
Receipt of confirmation on the place of burial in Israel.
Getting in touch with a representative of the family at the place of death.
Giving the representative power of attorney to arrange the transfer of the deceased to Israel.
Handling of the deceased shall be done in accordance with the family’s wishes.
Embalming/purification/dressing of the deceased.
Coordinating a date for transfer of the deceased.
Receipt of payment for carrying out the transfer.
Receiving the coffin at Ben-Gurion Airport, transporting it to the place of burial and organizing the funeral and burial..Menuha La'ad has representation all over the world.
For further information on the transfer of deceased from abroad, get in touch with the Menuha La'ad team: 03-6872929
Exhuming a deceased person from his grave and transferring him for reburial in Israel. This is usually requested by relatives who have decided to live their lives in Israel and want graves of loved ones secure and accessible in Israel.
Exhumation requires specialization in several different areas: practical and Halachic aspects, laws of the country of origin, laws of the State of Israel, and international health laws.
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Christie says he's removed himself from White House chief of staff consideration
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday removed himself from consideration for the White House chief of staff job, according to a statement given to ABC News. Christie said it was an honor to be considered but that "now is not the right time for me or my family to undertake this serious assignment."
Steven Goldstein is based in London and responsible for MarketWatch's coverage of financial markets in Europe, with a particular focus on global macro and commodities. Previously, he was Washington bureau chief, directing MarketWatch's economic, political and regulatory coverage. Follow Steve on Twitter: @MKTWgoldstein.
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Democratic Leader Schumer Joins Markey’s Congressional Review Act Resolution to Undo FCC Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules
CRA now has 43 co-sponsors, would overturn FCC decision with majority vote by Congress
Boston (December 15, 2017) – Today, Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) joined Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and 42 Senators in a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would undo action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and restore the 2015 net neutrality rules. Yesterday, in a partisan 3-2 vote, the FCC approved an item that repeals the 2015 Open Internet Order, which the D.C. Circuit Court upheld in 2016. The Open Internet Order prohibits internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against content online. Repealing these rules could lead to higher prices for consumers, slower internet traffic, and even blocked websites. A recent poll concluded that 83 percent of Americans do not approve of the FCC proposal to repeal net neutrality rules.
Several stakeholders have pledged to file lawsuits challenging the FCC action, including several state attorneys general, including Massachusetts and New York.
“To the millions of Americans who are outraged by the FCC’s decision to end net neutrality, your voices are being heard,” said Senator Markey, a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. “Support for the Congressional Review Act to restore the Open Internet Order is growing in Congress. I am proud to have Leader Schumer by my side in this fight, and I look forward to bringing this issue to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Our Republicans colleagues have a choice - be on the right side of history and stand with the American people who support net neutrality, or hold hands with big corporations who only want to increase their profits at the expense of consumers and our economy.”
Senators co-sponsoring the CRA resolution include: Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii.), Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Angus King (I-Maine), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.).
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ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENT
Senator Markey is a national leader on energy, climate change, and the environment. While serving in the House of Representatives, Markey was the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Markey also served as the Chairman of the Select Committee on Global Warming & Energy Independence. He was the House co-author of the only comprehensive climate change bill to ever pass a chamber of Congress, and was the principal House author of the 2007 fuel economy law, the Appliance Efficiency Act of 1987, and the law that established the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
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Electricity & Grid Security
Clean Air & Water
Global climate change presents one of the gravest threats to our planet’s health, and to America’s economy, national security, and public health. Landmark studies such as the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report and the U.S. National Climate Assessment Fourth Report have made it clear that we need bold action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and we may have as few as 12 years to achieve it.
Senator Markey is a national leader on energy, the environment, and climate change and has authored legislation that address the energy, economic and national security challenges associated with increasing carbon pollution. In 2009, then-Rep. Markey partnered with Rep. Henry Waxman to introduce the landmark Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, the only comprehensive climate change bill ever to pass a chamber of Congress. The legislation slashed global warming emissions 17 percent by 2020, and 80 percent by 2050. Markey authored the renewable electricity standard in the bill that said by 2020, 20 percent of America’s electricity should come from renewable sources.
In February 2019, Senator Markey partnered with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to introduce the Green New Deal, an historic resolution that would create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States, provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for Americans, and counteract systemic injustices – all while addressing the existential challenge of climate change.
Senator Markey is Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force. Throughout the first session of the 116th Congress, the Task Force held 31 Member-level meetings to build political momentum in the U.S. Senate on climate action. From 2007-2010, Markey served as Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
While serving in the House of Representatives as the Chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, Markey pushed BP to disclose all that it knew about the true flow rate of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and conducted aggressive oversight into the use of unprecedented volumes of chemical dispersants that were used to combat the effects of the oil spill. In addition, Markey pressed the Department of the Interior for information regarding their Blowout Preventer investigation.
Read more about the flow rate investigation here
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Read more about Markey's Work to Ensure Credibility of the Federal Blowout Preventer here
Before being elected to Senate, Markey served as the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources. Markey fought to ensure American taxpayers received a fair return on oil, gas and other minerals produced from public lands onshore and offshore. He pushed to reduce the federal deficit by recovering up to $53 billion dollars in lost royalty payments from oil companies who are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico. Markey also worked to promote clean renewable energy development on public lands while protecting our environment. He also fought to protect our nation’s most important natural treasures such as Georges Bank off the coast of New England and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as to fully fund our nation’s best idea, the National Parks System. Markey also introduced legislation to implement of the recommendations of the BP Oil Spill Commission. In the Senate, Markey will continue fighting to create clean energy jobs, combat climate change and to protect our environment and wildlife.
Senator Markey has consistently played a critical role in the oversight of Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling. Click here to read more.
ELECTRICITY AND GRID SECURITY
In 2006, government researchers discovered the potentially devastating “Aurora” vulnerability – through which hackers could use communications networks to physically destroy the electricity grid. This could cause billions of dollars of economic damages and render systems inoperable for months or even years. Since the utility industry has failed to take the necessary steps to protect against this and other grid security challenges, Senator Markey has led efforts to craft bipartisan legislation to require the needed upgrades. Markey's grid security legislation the “GRID Act” passed the House of Representatives overwhelmingly in the 112th Congress, but the Republican controlled House failed move it forward in the 113th Congress.
In 2013, while serving in the House, Markey and Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California released a report(pictured) highlighting gaps in grid security. The lawmakers' report indicates that the lengthy, industry-driven process by which grid security standards are set results in long delays and haphazard implementation of the voluntary security recommendations the industry refuses to make mandatory. Markey will continue working to ensure grid security in the Senate.
For decades, Senator Markey has led Congressional efforts to increase the fuel efficiency of cars and light trucks in order to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. President Obama announced that by 2025, the automotive fleet will average 54.5 miles per gallon. This standard will reduce the need for as much as 3.8 million barrels of oil per day by 2030, and was enabled by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which included higher fuel economy standards co-authored by Markey while serving in the House. The fuel economy legislation, combined with the 2007 Supreme Court decision of Massachusetts v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which affirmed the agency’s authority to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles, paved the way for these new standards.
Senator Markey has long championed the Clean Air Act and strong rules that help reduce the amount of pollution from smokestacks that harm health and warm the planet. He has fought attempts to block the Environmental Protection Agency from updating clean air safeguards to protect public health and has introduced legislation to protect clean air standards that reduce mercury, lead, dioxins and other pollutants.
Senators Markey and Warren Urge PHSMA to Rescind Restart Approval for the Weymouth Compressor Station Pending Full Safety Analysis
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Senator Markey Statement in Opposition to Nomination of David Bernhardt as Secretary of Interior
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In Wake Of Senate Republicans’ Refusal To Take Action On Climate Crisis, Schumer Launches New Senate Democratic Special Committee On The Climate Crisis
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BLUMENTHAL & MARKEY STATEMENT ON SEC CHARGES AGAINST VOLKSWAGEN & ITS FORMER CEO
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Anne Gaze Totemic Remains
monotype, 1/1, 22x30cm
Anne Gaze is a visual artist working in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Born in England, she grew up in southern Ontario, where she studied Textiles at Sheridan College School of Design. When she moved to Vancouver in 1979, she started to produce hand-painted silk garments, which were sold locally, and taught classes in her studio and through the Vancouver School Board. She went on to study painting at the Emily Carr University, graduating in 1993, and printmaking at Malaspina Printmakers, where she became a member, and worked in the studio to produce hand-printed woodcuts, collagraphs, and monotypes. She participates in the annual Eastside Culture Crawl, and has exhibited throughout the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, as well as in the United States and Japan.
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It all started in June 1952 when a celebrated physician decided to introduce the myxomatosis virus into rabbits with the intention of eradicating the individuals on his estate. He had a great success with this project as 98% of the rabbits on his property died over the next two months. Regrettably, his actions were to have consequences over a vast distance and an unspeakable ecological impact. The virus spread rapidly within the wild population of rabbits making its way across the European countryside.
Over 1500 km away, an endemic wild felid which was already facing multiple threats began to see its preferred food, the European wild rabbit, declining at great pace. The Iberian lynx, one of the four species in the Lynx genus, historically called the continental Iberian Peninsula their home. It is a species closely linked to a very particular habitat, the Mediterranean scrubland, dominated by holm and cork oak interspaced with shrubs and grasslands. Over time, herbivores like rabbits and deer played an important role in shaping the vegetal landscape, keeping it open. Non-native pines dot the landscape and create a beautiful although not so natural effect. Red deer, wild boar, Spanish ibex and fallow deer have traditionally been hunted for sport and continue to be game species.
The Iberian lynx was considered to be vermin among the farming communities in Spain and Portugal and were actively hunted. Hunting, habitat loss, declining rabbit population and low genetic diversity were the main causes that led to the species being categorised as “Critically Endangered” by the IUCN. In 2002, the Iberian lynx was thought to be the most endangered felid species in the world. It was evident that serious action and a dedicated team to save this species.
It would take a team of dedicated researchers from Switzerland and Spain find ways to communicate and work together to reverse the decline of the Iberian lynx. Several projects were launched with the European Union LIFE initiative and through these, the lynx and rabbit populations were monitored. Warrens were built to facilitate to breed successfully, a captive lynx population was established, and reintroductions were carefully monitored. Other causes for lynx mortality such as road kills and habitat loss were addressed through road signs and raising awareness among the local population.
Lynx are not the only endemic species which suffered from a severe population decline. The Spanish imperial eagle with their iconic splashes of white on their shoulders were nearly annihilated. In the 1960s with only 30 breeding pairs left in Spain, the species was listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Like the Iberian lynx, these raptors are heavily dependent on rabbits as a food source and the decline in the rabbit population was among the causes for the drop in the eagle population. Conservation efforts which began in the 1980s led to the recovery of the species and today, the IUCN reports 970 mature individuals and an increasing population trend. However, some of the threats persist and are currently being addressed.
I visited Andalusia in January 2020 with great hopes of seeing and photographing this wild cat, the star of an incredible recovery. What was most surprising about this visit was to see the number of local Spanish people willing to wait out for hours in freezing temperatures just to catch a glimpse of an Iberian lynx. Families with young children, retirees, young adults; Spanish people of all ages equipped with scopes, binoculars and high-end cameras lined the roads in search of the lynx. Clearly, somewhere along the way, a change in perception among the local population had occurred and the lynx was no longer considered to be a pest. New generations of farmers and landowners were also changing their attitude towards this wild cat.
Waiting for the cats to move can take some time. On one occasion, we located a young lynx at around seven in the morning. She was asleep among the rocks and did not look like she would move for quite a while. Every time she raised her head to yawn or have a quick wash, there was a flurry of camera shutters going off and hushed whispers of excitement, anticipating her next move. Would she get up? She did not, and by nine in the morning, as the sun began to warm up the surroundings, we went to search along the road for other wildlife. Red deer can be seen in abundance, rabbits, kestrels, vultures, hawfinches, alpine accentors and azure-winged magpies are just some of the other species of interest in the area. For keen birders, the Iberian green woodpecker and moustached warbler are highlights. The ever-present red-legged partridges and magpies are great at signalling the presence and movement of lynx.
A personal highlight was a group of long-tailed tits that were foraging on the lichen in the tree I was sitting in, while waiting for the lynx. A noisy bunch bursting with energy and not sitting in one spot for more than a few seconds, they were a great entertainment during the long wait.
Even though it was January and the temperatures were sub-zero every morning and evening, flowers were bursting with colour along the sides of the road and in the scrubland. Glittering gold miniature wild daffodils, purple and blue wild rosemary, pink herb-Roberts and many more surprises for this time of the year. As the afternoon wore on, the sun made its way across the sky and with the shadows lengthening, we returned to the lynx.
She had moved on to another rock behind a bush and was barely visible. After a while, she slipped off the rock into a cave below. To the delight of all, she suddenly emerged from the shadows just as the golden light touched the entrance of the rock cave. What an incredible moment! But that was not all; she walked towards the fence lined with photographers and began playing with a dead rabbit. This went on for quite a while and as the veil of night lowered, so did the ability of cameras to capture these moments. We continued to watch her until she was barely visible and then headed back to our lodgings with hearts bursting with happiness and cameras filled with incredible images.
The story of the Iberian lynx recovery is indeed one of great determination, extensive biological and genetic studies and changing attitudes. The IUCN Cat Specialist Group played a pivotal role in turning the Iberian lynx’s future into a success; unifying different people/interests together towards a common goal while providing vital scientific support.
The way forward for the Iberian lynx is to surely continue down this path, encouraging ecotourism and creating varied opportunities for people to see these beautiful felids. Some enterprising farmers have begun building hides, providing photography stands with lunchboxes and removing fences; actions which will have positive impact for the general lynx situation. Additional actions in the future could include setting up mobile tea/coffee wagons which could make the wait for the lynx more comfortable during these foot-stamping freezing mornings.
Today the message is clear: a live Iberian lynx is worth far more than a dead one.
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Panasonic, Tesla Eye Joint Plant In U.S.
Panasonic Corp. is considering setting up a new plant jointly with Tesla Motors Inc. in the United States to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Panasonic Corp. is considering setting up a new plant jointly with Tesla Motors Inc. in the United States to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
The Japanese electronics maker is mulling asking Japanese materials makers to set up bases at the new plant to create integrated production of batteries, the sources said. Investment in the plant is expected to be around 100 billion yen, with the prospect of starting operation in 2017, they said.
In addition to the U.S. EV manufacturer, Panasonic is also considering supplying batteries to Toyota Motor Corp., which has a business alliance with Tesla, the sources said.
The move comes as Panasonic aims to chalk up sales of 2 trillion yen in auto-related operations in fiscal 2018.
The company plans to actively invest in batteries for EVs, foreseeing demand will grow with overseas automakers such as BMW AG and Volkswagen AG of Germany having started to make EVs in addition to Japanese automakers Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
For Tesla, Panasonic plans to supply about 2 billion lithium-ion battery cells from 2014 to 2017. They will be installed in Tesla's Model S sedans and Model X crossover utility vehicle.
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Airservices Australia workplace culture so poor it could "compromise the safety of passengers"
Former Federal Court Judge, the Honourable Anthony North QC, has released a report detailing serious concerns that Airservices Australia is so pervaded by bullying and sexual harassment that it poses a possible threat to the safety of air travellers.
Mr North's report found that there was a serious argument that Airservices' workplace culture was not only compromising the health and safety of its employees, but may also endanger the safety of Australia's air navigation system.
Mr North's report was commissioned by leading workplace lawyers Maurice Blackburn Lawyers for Civil Air, the trade union covering employees of Airservices.
In light of Airservices' core safety function, Mr North observes: "Of particular concern in the air navigation control environment, in which Airservices operates, is the potential for the poor workplace culture to have effects which compromise the safety of aircraft and passengers."
"It is evident… that bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment are features of the experience of many employees of Airservices and that they are not confident that management condemns the behaviour and acts effectively to prevent or stop it," Mr North’s report found.
After considering extensive materials concerning the workplace at Airservices, Mr North’s report said: "the fact that such behaviour has been documented as occurring over many years and at various Airservices worksites allows for the conclusion that bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment is part of the way things are done at Airservices, that they are part of its culture, and that they are not isolated or aberrant occurrences."
A YouGov Galaxy Survey of more than 500 Airservices employees conducted in January revealed widespread bullying and sexual harassment in Airservices, which is responsible for air safety on some of the world’s busiest airline routes.
Almost half of respondents, and more than three quarters of female respondents, said that they had experienced bullying, discrimination or sexual harassment while working at Airservices, with managers often the perpetrators.
Mr North's report also reveals extreme sexual harassment of female employees, widespread inappropriate language, sexist remarks about women, and even some staff using control tower binoculars to ogle women.
In the YouGov survey, one Air Traffic Controller described her experience reporting sexual harassment within Airservices: "Nothing changed. When managers were approached again they had nothing to offer.
The issue starts right at the top of the tree. There are way points in my airspace that spell out 'put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone'. There is a penis drawn on our chair. It goes on and on. It's disgusting but nothing can be done. If I could move to another company and be an Air Traffic Controller I would have long ago."
Another Air Traffic Controller said that "every female I know personally at Airservices has experienced sexual harassment on numerous occasions."
Mr North's report also reveals that Airservices experiences abnormally high rates of absenteeism, which on occasion has resulted in cancelled flights. Mr North said it was "reasonable to conclude that the high comparative rates of absenteeism in the Airservices workforce may be linked to the state of the workplace culture at Airservices."
Maurice Blackburn Principal Kamal Farouque said that bullying and sexual harassment had been allowed to flourish unchecked at Airservices for too long.
"Airservices needs to change. The data disclosed in Mr North's report and the YouGov Galaxy Survey reflects a seriously unhealthy workplace. This should be a matter of great concern to all Australians who value a safe and efficient air navigation service."
"Employees have the right to attend a safe workplace, free from bullying and harassment. It is imperative that the Minister intervene and order an urgent and independent inquiry into Airservices."
Civil Air Executive Secretary Peter McGuane said: "Airservices have for far too long tolerated a systematic culture of bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment by condoning the behaviour, often promoting the perpetrators and disciplining an employee who complains"
"Civil Air calls on the Minister and the Morrison government to urgently step up and direct a full and independent enquiry. The Minister must direct an inquiry into the workplace culture of Airservices be undertaken and that any recommendations be implemented"
"Employees lives are being ruined by the culture of bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment that Airservices have allowed, and the government must intervene stop this"
It is noteworthy that Airservices does not have a specific sexual harassment policy. Having a sexual harassment policy is entry level – Airservices have failed to reach even that level."
"This employer has known about this culture for many years but it still refuses to change"
Mr North’s report and the YouGov survey are available upon request to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers at pmurphy@mauriceblackburn.com.au
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Goodieson Brewery is owned by Jeff and Mary Goodieson and is run from our home in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Our passion for brewing came from our passion for drinking good beer, and we've put a lot of "research" into drinking good beer. Both Jeff and Mary spent many years as 20 something's in Europe and developed a taste and respect for traditional beers from Austria and Germany. On returning to Australia we did a bit of home brewing before we decided to get serious about beer. We moved to Ballarat in 1996 and spent four years there whilst Jeff completed a degree in Food Technology and an Honours year in Malting and Brewing. Since his graduation at the end of 1999 he has worked for Lion Nathan in many capacities. Stout is a strong tasting dark beer made using roasted malt. The word ‘stout’ was traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest porters, typically 6% to 8%. Our rich black Stout has enjoyed an extended maturation after being hopped with Pride of Ringwood and fermented at 18°C. The bitterness has mellowed and it is beautifully balanced by the malty flavours with deep strong coffee, malt aromas and a hint of chocolate and licorice. 6.5% alcohol by volume
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Compliance Dates for 5010 & ICD-10 Extensions
Hitech Final Rule Expected Soon
May 1, 2012 Patricia Cordy Henricksen
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced changes for two important compliance mandates. A short-term extension of an additional 90-days delays the enforcement of HIPAA 5010 standards until June 30, 2012. A more far-reaching compliance change involves a proposed rule to delay until October 1, 2014, implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS, which was originally scheduled for October 1, 2013.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the extension for enforcement of 5010 was based upon industry feedback, which revealed that testing between some covered entities and their trading partners had not yet reached a threshold that would allow them to meet an earlier compliance date. The CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) also stated that it had received reports that many covered entities are still awaiting software upgrades.
Under pressure from the AMA, MGMA, and several other groups, HHS Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius introduced on April 9, 2012, a proposed rule that the ICD-10 implementation requirements be extended until October 1, 2014.
“ICD-10 codes are important to many positive improvements in our healthcare system,” Secretary Sebelius said. “We have heard from many in the provider community who have concerns about the administrative burdens they face in the years ahead, and we are committed to working with providers to reexamine the pace at which HHS and the nation implement these important improvements to our healthcare system.” ICD-10 codes provide more specificity for diagnoses and procedures, requiring precise medical record documentation, and are designed to help improve patient care and accuracy in reimbursement, as well as fraud detection and patient non-compliance.
HHS stated that all covered entities must be compliant with ICD-10 at the same time in order to ensure a smooth transition to the new code sets and that failure of one industry segment to achieve compliance would negatively impact all other industry segments, which would result in rejected claims and provider payment delays. HHS considered three main issues in the deadline extension, including realization that the transition to 5010 has not been as smooth as expected, many surveys still show a lack of readiness by providers and payers for the transition, and providers are concerned about a lack of resources due to investment in competing statutory initiatives. In addition to extending ICD-10 implementation, the proposed rule includes directives for adoption of new standards for a Unique Health Plan Identifier, as well as a National Provider Identifier.
Healthcare providers are also awaiting the final Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) regulations amending the HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Although the Final Rule was expected at the end of 2011, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is still addressing numerous policy reviews and responding to more than 300 comments it has received, so the Final Rule for HITECH has not yet been released.
Despite the ongoing delay in HITECH, covered entities and business associates should continue to review, update, and implement their HIPAA privacy and security policies and procedures with diligence. Some key HIPAA privacy and security components include:
Disclosure of PHI (Protected Health Information) is permitted only when used for treatment, payment, and operations (TPO), except when records are subpoenaed, required by law, or requested by public agencies such as the FDA or law enforcement.
Under HIPAA, patients have the right to review their records and to request a copy. According to Kentucky statutes the first copy is free, with a modest charge allowed for additional copies.
When releasing records, only the minimum information necessary to respond to the inquiry should be released and a log documenting to whom the records were released is required.
No consent is required when PHI is released for public health activities, such as to the FDA for drug efficacy, public health concerns, or cases involving abuse, neglect, and domestic violence, although release documentation must be logged.
Third party entities, including attorneys, accountants, and billing companies, who have access to PHI are required to have Business Associate Agreements with Covered Entities (CE) in order to protect inappropriate disclosure of PHI, and they must return or destroy any records containing PHI upon conclusion of their contracts with the Covered Entities.
Privacy Notices must be posted in patient waiting areas and patient acknowledgement of receipt of Privacy Practices must be retained in the patient’s medical record.
HIPAA disclosure logs must be maintained for at least six years. A Covered Entity must also maintain privacy policies and procedures, privacy notices, and records for disposition of any complaints for six years after the last effective date.
The HITECH Final Rule will definitely address increased enforcement for protection of patient health information, especially with respect to breach notification regulations, which require Covered Entities and Business Associates to report a breach of unsecured PHI, including loss or theft of unsecured PHI. Stronger enforcement of breach reporting is mandated under the HITECH Act final regulations, along with provisions for civil and criminal penalties. Prior to release of the Final Rule, self audit of HIPAA policies and practices is strongly encouraged.
Formerly, government audits were only conducted when breaches were reported, however, investigations are now being conducted randomly. The audit services firm KPMG began random audits in January of 2012, under a $9 million contract with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Initially the audits will focus on Covered Entities of various sizes, with only 10 business days allowed for provision of the requested documentation. According to attorney and HITECH expert, William O’Toole, “mandatory penalties will be imposed for willful neglect on the part of the health care provider. It is not possible to explain today what ‘willful neglect’ could be interpreted to mean in the future, but sound advice to providers includes once again a careful review of your existing policies and procedures with regard to the protection of patient information.”
Helpful websites for further information regarding HIPAA can be found at: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding.html
www.cms.gov/hipaaageninfo/
www.ama-assn.org
www.hipaasurvivalguide.com/hitech-act-text.php
We are committed to working with providers to reexamine the pace at which HHs and the nation implement these important improvements to our healthcare system
Patricia Cordy henricksen, MS, CHCA, CPC-I, CPC, CCP-P, PCS, ACS-PM, is the Executive Vice President of Medical Services, www.soterionmedical.com
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Could certain gut bacteria protect against food allergy?
Written by Catharine Paddock, Ph.D. on June 25, 2019 — Fact checked by Isabel Godfrey
New research reinforces the idea that the absence of certain bacteria in the gut can cause food allergy, a condition that affects millions of people. The study also suggests that replenishing key gut bacteria could offer a way to treat food allergy.
New research suggests that food allergies, such as an allergy to peanuts, may be due to a lack of beneficial bacteria in the gut.
Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also in Boston, MA, found that babies and children with food allergies are missing certain species of gut bacteria.
When the team gave the missing bacteria to mice, the microbes protected the animals from food allergies.
The researchers also mapped the mouse cell and bacteria interactions behind the protective effect.
They describe their findings in a recent Nature Medicine paper.
Previous studies have reached similar conclusions about the links between gut bacteria and food allergy. However, they did not conduct detailed analyses of the interactions at the cellular level.
“We identified culturable human-origin bacteria that modulate the immune system to become tolerant to food allergens,” says co-senior study author Dr. Lynn Bry, director of the Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The findings point to a new way to treat food allergy that uses beneficial bacteria to alter the wiring of the immune system. Rather than targeting any particular food allergen, this method could potentially treat all food allergies in one go.
Such an approach is very different than oral immunotherapy, in which the aim is to raise the threshold of allergic response through tiny, increasing exposures to the relevant food allergen.
“This represents a sea change in our approach to therapeutics for food allergies,” Dr. Bry adds.
Food allergy and gut bacteria
An allergy arises when a person’s immune system has an extreme reaction to a substance that does not typically provoke a response in other people.
The allergic response can range from mild irritation to anaphylaxis, a severe, life-threatening immune reaction that needs immediate medical attention. Food allergies are among those that can result in anaphylaxis.
A 2018 study on the global prevalence of food allergy suggests that in Western countries at least, the condition affects about 10% of people, being most common among younger children. There is also evidence that developing countries are seeing a rise in food allergy.
Allergies to cow’s milk and eggs are among the most common food allergies in many parts of the world. However, patterns of food allergy can vary from country to country, depending on the dietary habits of their populations.
The human gut, or digestive tract, is home to trillions of microorganisms, including more than 1,000 species of bacteria. These microbes play crucial roles in health and disease.
Gut bacteria can influence the biology of their hosts in numerous ways. For example, they can interact with hormones to trigger inflammation. Researchers have also found links between gut bacteria imbalances and the workings of the nervous system and brain.
There is also solid evidence that gut microbes work in close partnership with the gut’s immune system and form a “complex immune-functional organ” with its own subpopulations of immune cells, chemical messengers, and bacteria.
Any alteration in the balance between gut microbes and these immune system components can trigger a range of diseases, and it can even promote cancer and disrupt its treatment.
How may gut bacteria influence food allergy?
A theory that is gaining ground among scientists is that certain lifestyle and care patterns in the Western world could be reducing the opportunities for infants to accumulate beneficial gut bacteria that help wire the gut immune system in ways that prevent food allergy.
These lifestyle patterns include smaller families, a reduction in breastfeeding, an increase in cesarean deliveries, and higher use of antibiotics.
To test this idea, the team behind the new study began by collecting fecal samples every few months from babies. Using these samples, the researchers compared the gut bacteria of 56 infants and children who developed food allergies with those of 98 matched individuals who did not.
The results showed, as previous studies have also shown, that the gut bacteria of the individuals with food allergies were different from those of the participants without food allergies. However, this result then begs the question: To what extent did these differences account for the food allergies?
For the next phase of the study, the team transplanted gut microbe samples from children with and without food allergies into mice that were sensitive to eggs.
The researchers found that mice that received gut bacteria samples from children without food allergies were less likely to have allergic reactions to egg than mice that received samples from children with food allergies.
The researchers then used advanced computational techniques to identify differences between the gut bacteria samples from children with and without food allergies. Thanks to these powerful tools, the analysis could single out individual species of bacteria and test them in small groups.
From repeat testing of the bacteria in the mice, the team developed two groups of microbes, each comprising five or six Clostridiales or Bacteroidetes species of human gut bacteria.
These particular bacterial groups kept the mice resistant to egg allergy. When the team tested groups comprising other bacterial species on the mice, they did not protect them.
Mapping the cell-level interactions
In the next stage of the study, the researchers examined what might be happening at the cellular level to produce these effects. Again, thanks to the sophisticated techniques, they were able to look at changes in the immune interactions both in the humans and the mice.
They found that the beneficial Clostridiales and Bacteroidetes groups that protected the mice from food allergies targeted two immune pathways and triggered specific T cells in the immune system.
The T cells that the beneficial bacteria triggered were regulatory T cells. The bacteria had altered their state so that they did not provoke extreme immune reactions to chicken egg protein.
The researchers caution that while these results appear to show great promise, they are only valid in mice. Further studies now need to replicate the findings in humans.
Some members of the team are already setting up a trial at Boston Children’s Hospital to test a fecal transplant approach to treating adults with peanut allergy.
In addition, a number of private companies are producing different bacteria compositions for clinical trials. At this pace, it is feasible that treatments could be available in approximately 5 years.
It appears that having the ability to drill down to detailed interactions between microbes and human cells opens up the possibility of “finding a better therapeutic and a better diagnostic approach to disease,” comments Dr. Bry.
“With food allergies, this has given us a credible therapeutic that we can now take forward for patient care.”
Dr. Lynn Bry
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4.47 crores unemployed in the country
New Delhi: Union minister for labour and employment Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge said in a written reply to a question in Parliament on 22 April that at present 4.47 crore unemployed persons are registered in employment exchanges of the country, adding that between the years 2005 and 2010 the increase in the number of unemployed persons is 2.002 crores. He said that the maximum number of unemployed persons i.e. 77,51,300 is in Tamil Nadu followed by West Bengal (40,68,300) and U.P. (6,07,000). He said in the 11th [sic] Five Year Plan a target of creating 5.807 crore new jobs has been laid down for the 12th 5 year Plan.
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More than one-in-ten Aussie kids falling behind their peers
A new report shows that Aussie kids are falling behind.
Highgate Playgroup, Perth for Telethon. Photo Credit: Stewart Allen.
Thrive by Five, a national campaign lobbying for significant childcare reform, has again called on the Australian government to act after an OECD report showed Australian kids were well behind those in other developed nations when it comes to kindergarten attendance.
The study of about 600,000 students from around the world found 11.5 per cent of Australian students either did not attend pre-primary school or attended for less than a year, which is much higher than the OECD average of 6.2 per cent.
Thrive by Five CEO Jay Weatherill said the statistics should cause alarm for governments all over Australia.
“The fact that Australia is so far behind the OECD average is quite damning and shows that the current childcare system isn’t doing its job properly; it hurts kids, families and the economy,” Mr Weatherill said.
The study showed that children who did not attend pre-primary school or who attended for less than a year were less competent at reading by the age of 15 than those who attended for between one and three years.
“The science shows us that the kids who start behind often never catch up and the OECD study is further proof,” Mr Weatherill said.
“Some people may think a year or two of pre-school is not a big deal, but we know that when a child falls behind in the first five years they stay behind for life, and this can lead to major health, economic, legal and social issues during adulthood.”
There are several reasons that Australian parents may not send their children to pre-school, and high costs that can account for as much as 27 per cent of household income is at the top of the list.
“This needs to change,” Mr Weatherill said. “We can’t continue to let our kids slip through the cracks. Rather than throwing away billions of dollars in late intervention, we could be investing in a proper early learning system that will benefit our kids and our economy.”
The Thrive by Five campaign is asking for:
Universal access to early learning;
Integrated services with children at the centre;
Quality early learning delivery standards with secure, appropriately paid employment for educators;
Place-based, community-driven centres;
Early childhood development system connected to the education system.
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Mining + Last 2 years = Radical Change for many!
Source: KenWalker CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
You're considering a career change in your 30's, 40's or 50's: How to do that - successfully ...
At 30, 40 or 50 can be as frightening as standing on cliff edge. Most people assume that age is the only factor to consider, but it’s only half the equation. The other half is the career-changer’s support system. To use the climbing analogy, a mountaineer can descend a cliff in one of two ways: by using a rappelling system to quickly leap off or, lacking this support, by climbing down inch by inch.
Likewise, older career-changers can either make a major leap or inch into it.
Like the rappelling method those desiring to make a drastic career change must have a substantial support system in place before leaving the security of a full-time job. A good support system consists of both money and time. Before jumping into full-time university life or starting a business, there must be enough money to bridge the gap and enough time to learn new skills. Most people with dependent children won’t be able to leap from their current job but instead must inch into a new occupation in the same way a climber makes sure a new foothold is secure before leaving the safety of the old.
Making a Career Change at 30
If you don’t have children making a change at 30 is easier now than later. Narrow your choices by taking career tests offered at Universities. When making a change at 30, you cannot afford the wrong choice. At least one of the tests should focus on your aptitude, not merely your interests. When Dan took an interest inventory before a career change at 30, it revealed an interest in literature, but he didn’t have an aptitude for teaching or writing. An aptitude test revealed that he had the spatial and analytical abilities of an engineer.
A pitfall to changing at 30 is playing it too safe for fear of failure. Don’t let mediocre high school grades have you rule out certain occupations. Older students usually do better because they’ve developed organisational skills.
When Lori wanted a career change at 30, medicine interested her. Remembering her dismal high school chemistry grades, she chose a less challenging path. After a few years, she was as bored in her new career as she had been in her old one. When nearing retirement, she took an aptitude test and was chagrined to find that she had the ability to handle those chemistry courses after all.
If you are the sole provider for young children, make incremental moves. David wanted to change to aerospace engineering, but he had a family to support. He got a job as a planner at an aircraft manufacturer and took classes online. The contacts he made in the engineering department put him well ahead of other applicants.
Forty-year-olds typically have high levels of responsibilities and it’s probably unfeasible to drop everything to return to school or start a business.
Marketing and networking, rather than radical leaps, are the two key concepts for making career change at 40.
First, market your skill-set like a product. Marketers take an existing product and launch it into new markets. Look beyond job titles and degrees to focus on skills you’ve gained. Sarah wanted to make a career change at 40 to teaching. She had an engineering degree and moved into teaching math by taking just a few University courses.
Second, networking is crucial. By age 40 you have many more potential job contacts than at age 20.
Many people consider themselves too old for a career change at 50, but an empty nest can provide the freedom to take risks. By now, you may have more savings and your spouse may have gone back to work. Analyse your finances and closely and consider how much time you plan to work before retirement. For most people planning a career change at 50, spending several years in school is impractical. Also, choose your industry wisely since some businesses are less friendly to those making a career change at 50.
Usually at 50 job satisfaction is as important as income alone. Despite your nearness to retirement, keep your goals long-term, choose a career you will enjoy and one that could last for many years or turn part-time later.
After raising six children, Steve downsized to a condominium to make a career change at 50. He then bought a retail store and hired his son as a manager so he could still travel.
When considering a career change at 50, don’t rule out physical careers just because you’re older. When Sue hit 50 she turned to her love of physical fitness and became licensed as a personal trainer and now has a booming business catering to older clientele. In this market, her age is a plus.
Source: Based on an article found at http://kustomeyez.hubpages.com/
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“Very impressive”, “quick, efficient and helpful” – Chambers UK 2018
“Very thorough and compelling” – Chambers UK, 2018
Conor’s practice encompasses public law, civil claims and international law. He is regularly instructed in complex disputes, both public and commercial, across chambers’ core areas of work. He has particular expertise in the areas of competition law, data protection and in claims involving issues of public or private international law or civil liberties.
He has substantial experience of multi-jurisdictional commercial and competition disputes, often being instructed in matters raising issues of jurisdiction, applicable law or international enforcement. He also has expertise in international trade law and sanctions. He has been instructed in cases before both domestic and international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice. He was appointed independent expert to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Hearing on Sanctions.
Prior to coming to the bar, Conor was a fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and taught international law at Cambridge University. He has published widely on issues of international law
Supreme Court finds government cooperation with US death penalty proceedings unlawful under data protection law
Conor is instructed in a wide range of cases concerning competition law and commercial regulation. He has acted for claimants, defendants and regulators in matters concerning: cartels; abuse of dominance; the conduct of trade associations; private damages actions; and the enforceability of contractual arrangements in light of competition law requirements and related remedies. He has substantial experience in the fields of jurisdiction, applicable law and the enforcement of foreign judgments. He also has significant knowledge of merger control, having advised the CMA throughout its SKY / Fox merger investigation as well as in connection with a range of other merger inquiries, including Sabre/ Farelogix and Sainsbury’s / Asda.
He has substantial litigation experience before courts of all levels, including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Competition Appeal Tribunal, all divisions of the High Court as well as the Court of Justice of the EU.
Conor has been instructed in litigation or advisory work by a wide range of regulators including the CMA, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Payment Systems Regulator, Ofgem, Ofwat and Ofcom. He is often instructed in matters of competition law or commercial regulation raising complex points of public law.
Sabre v. Competition and Markets Authority: junior counsel to the CMA in challenge to prohibition decision in merger inquiry.
Payment Systems Regulator: Advising on a complex cartel investigation.
Advanz Pharma Corp v. Competition and Markets Authority [2019] EWHC 1605: junior counsel to Advanz in challenge to lawfulness of procedure of CMA’s investigation into abusive pricing in respect of pharmaceuticals.
Dixons Retail Ltd and ors v. MasterCard Incorporated & ors [2020] EWCA CIV 671 (Court of Appeal): junior counsel for Dixons in complex dispute on limitation as part of the interchange fees litigation.
Sainsburys v. Competition and Markets Authority: Advising CMA on challenge to CMA’s procedures in Sainsbury’s/ASDA merger.
21st Century Fox/Sky – merger inquiry: Advising the Competition and Markets Authority on a wide range of issues concerning the proposed merger between 21st Century Fox and Sky.
R (Banks) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (High Court) (2020): junior counsel for the Secretary of State in a complex state aid challenge concerning the government’s “contracts for difference” scheme to support renewable energy infrastructure in the United Kingdom.
R (Tempus Energy) v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (High Court) (2019): junior counsel for the Secretary of State in a state aid judicial review concerning the United Kingdom’s energy capacity market.
Emerald Supplies Limited v. British Airways and Ors (Air Cargo): Junior Counsel for several hundred corporate claimants in large mutli- jurisdictional damages claim arising from the Air Cargo Cartel.
Leeds City Council and others v Samsung Electronics Corporation, High Court, Chancery Division: acting for Claimant and advising on various jurisdictional matters in this follow-on damages claim in respect of the operation of the LCD Cartel.
Hyundai Heavy Industries and ors v. British Airways: Junior Counsel for the Claimants in damages claim based on both EU and foreign law.
Dixons Retail Limited and another v. MasterCard Incorporated & ors [2015] Comp. A.R. 199: Acting as junior counsel for the Claimant in CAT proceedings, in a claim involving complex issues of private international law jurisdiction and applicable law under both Rome II earlier enactments.
David Haigh v. Gulf Finance House Capital Ltd and ors (High Court, QBD): Instructed by Stephenson Harwood in a complex private international law claim in QBD involving issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and the torts of deceit, conspiracy to injury and unlawful means conspiracy.
Conor has extensive experience of advising businesses and regulators on competition and commercial regulatory issues, including in relation to:
regulatory investigations concerning potential breaches of competition law, including by the CMA, PSR and Ofgem.
the compatibility and validity of contractual terms with competition law and related questions of remedies.
the legal obligations of companies, and other bodies, who hold a dominant market position.
complaints to the CMA and European Commission about the conduct of competitors.
competition and state aid issues arising from new projects or initiatives from central Government and other public bodies.
competition issues relating to trade organisations and industry bodies.
Ranked as a leading junior in both public law and human rights, Conor has substantial experience in complex civil claims, or judicial review proceedings, involving public authorities.
He is often instructed in heavy commercial regulatory, competition or state aid disputes, by companies, regulators or central government.
He also has significant expertise in matters of data protection and information law (both judicial review and civil claims) as well as in disputes raising questions of international law, including trade law, export control, immunities, human rights, state responsibility, and jurisdictional disputes.
In the field of human rights, Conor has has appeared before the European Court of Human Rights on many occasions. He also has considerable experience in the use of international mechanisms including the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, individual applications in other UN and regional human rights systems as well as in challenges to Interpol Red Notices.
R (Elgizouli) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Information Commissioner Intervening) [2020] UKSC 10 (Supreme Court): junior counsel for the Information Commissioner in proceedings concerning information sharing between the United Kingdom and the United States and its compatibility with the Data Protection Act 2018
Campaign Against Arms Trade v. Secretary of State for Trade [2019] 1 WLR 5765 (Court of Appeal): Junior Counsel for the Claimant in landmark challenge to the legality of continued licensing of arms and military equipment for export to Saudi Arabia on grounds that weapons may be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law.
AK v. Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police (High Court): complex claim against Devon and Cornwall Police for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, misuse of private information and Article 8, ECHR.
R (Banks) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (High Court): junior counsel for the Secretary of State in a complex state aid challenge concerning the government’s “contracts for difference” scheme to support renewable energy infrastructure in the United Kingdom.
R (Tempus Energy) v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (High Court): junior counsel for the Secretary of State in a state aid judicial review concerning the United Kingdom’s energy capacity market.
Western Saharan Campaign UK v. (1) HMRC and (2) Minister for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (High Court) [2016] 1 C.M.L.R. 36 (and C-266/16 R (O.A.O Western Sahara Campaign UK v. Revenue and Customs Commissioners (Grand Chamber) [2018] 3 C.M.L.R. 15: Junior Counsel for Claimant in challenge to legality of the EU-Morocco Association Agreement and the EU Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement on grounds of incompatibility with public international law obligations of the EU
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v G [2017] EWCA Civ 61 (Court of Appeal): Junior counsel for Claimant in landmark case concerning the interpretation and application of the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979.
R (on the application of T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2015] A.C. 49 (Supreme Court): Junior counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the Supreme Court in case concerning disclosure of personal information by police.
Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales [2015] A.C. 1732 (Supreme Court): Junior Counsel for Welsh Women’s Aid in Supreme Court case concerning scope of protective duty under Article 2, ECHR and also concerning whether the police owe a duty of care in negligence to persons who contact them in an emergency.
Belhadj v. Security Service [2015] UKIP Trib 13 132-H (IPT): Junior Counsel for the Claimant in a landmark case concerning the interpretation and application of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the protection under Article 8, ECHR of confidential information, in particular, legally privileged information.
Chief Constable of South Wales Police v. Daniels and other (Court of Appeal) [2015] EWCA Civ 680, (led by Stephen Cragg QC), landmark judgment of the Court of Appeal on scope of immunity attaching to participants in legal proceedings.
R (On the application of Catt) v. Association of Chief Police Oicers and Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2012] EWHC 1042 (Court of Appeal), junior counsel in intervention on behalf of Liberty in judicial review of decision to retain information on national extremism database in reliance on Article 8, ECHR.
Girleanu v. Romania, ECtHR, acting alone, represented Guardian News and Media Limited in a third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning the imposition of sanctions upon a journalist for possession of sensitive information alleged to impinge upon national security.
Couderc and Hachette Filipacchi v. France, ECtHR (Grand Chamber): acting alone, represented Media Legal Defence Initiative in an intervention before the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR on issues of privacy and free expression.
David Haigh v. Gulf Finance House Capital Ltd and ors (High Court, QBD): Instructed by Stephenson Harwood in a complex private international law claim in the QBD involving issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and the torts of deceit, conspiracy to injury and unlawful means conspiracy.
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13 Feb 2017Challenge to Sale of Arms to Saudi Arabia before High Court
Conor is regularly instructed in both private law claims and judicial reivew challenges in the field of information and data protection law, in cases raising issues concerning the retention, exploitation and disclosure of information. He has particular expertise in issues of confidentiality, including the protection of journalistically privileged material and free expression. He also has experience in the field of collective actions.
He has been instructed in numerous civil claims raising issues of misuse of personal information, confidentiality and data protection, including claims under the DPA and GDPR.
Big Brother Watch and others v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR Grand Chamber (2020): counsel for Bureau of Investigative Journalism in challenge to legality of regime in Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 for interception, storage, dissemination and destruction of journalistically privileged information.
R. (on the application of T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2015] A.C. 49 (Supreme Court): Junior counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the Supreme Court in case concerning disclosure of personal information by police.
AK v. Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police (High Court): counsel in complex claim against Devon and Cornwall Police for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, misuse of private information and Article 8, ECHR.
R (On the application of Catt) v. Association of Chief Police Officers and Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (Court of Appeal): intervention on behalf of Liberty in judicial review of decision to retain information on national extremism database, in reliance on Article 8, ECHR.
Kupiec v. National Crime Agency and Chief Constable of West Mercia Police: Complex claim arising from the detention and imprisonment of a foreign national wrongly identified as wanted for extradition in a murder case.
Sheriff v. HMCTS and Chief Constable of Derbyshire: successful claim against both Defendants in a complex damages action for breach of the DPA, Article 8, ECHR and Article 5, ECHR.
Conor has considerable experience of issues of general international law. He has been instructed in a range of international courts, tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, as well as in arbitral proceedings.
In the field of human rights, he has considerable experience in cases utilising international mechanisms, including applications to the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, as well as other UN and regional human rights treaties, including the ECHR where he has appeared on numerous occasions. He has also been instructed in applications for the deletion and removal of Interpol Red Notices.
As regards international trade law in particular, Conor has experience advising on a range of areas including market access, MFN and national treatment issues, issues of treaty interpretation in the trade context (as well as in the context of a range of other international law disputes). Recent advisory work in the field of trade includes significant advisory work for the Westminster and Welsh Governments on a issues regarding WTO agreements. He is instructed by trade associations as well as companies to advise on issues of trade and export control as well as supply chain obligations and due diligence.
Prior to coming to the Bar Conor completed a PhD in international law at Cambridge University, where he also taught international law.
Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua in the Border Area) (Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Nicaragua
UK National v. State Official from Middle Eastern State (confidential): Advised the claimant on state immunity in respect of a potential private international law civil claim.
Jones v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR: Landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights (Grand Chamber) concerning State immunity and Article 6, ECHR.
Zubaydah v. Lithuania, ECtHR: work for Interights in case concerning extraordinary rendition, extraterritorial jurisdiction and torture.
Garzon v. Spain, ECtHR: Produced an expert opinion with James Crawford SC on permissibility under international law of application of limitation periods in respect of grave violations of international human rights law.
Matua & Others v Foreign and Commonwealth Office: the ‘Mau Mau’ litigation, relating to claims for colonial-era ill-treatment in Kenya.
Haquim v. Secretary of State for Defence (High Court, Administrative Division): led by Martin Westgate QC, claim relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees from UK custody to Afghan detention.
Recent advisory work includes:
Advice for a trade association in respect of certain public international law trade issues arising from Brexit.
Advising a governmental body on certain international law issues in connection with Brexit.
Advising a Caribbean State in connection with potential international litigation
Conor has considerable expertise of issues of private international law. He regularly advises on private international law claims, particularly in connection with tortious liability, including applicable law, the application of foreign law, jurisdiction, procedural issues arising in such litigation as well as issues arising under Rome II Regulation (EC) No 864/2007. He has advised in relation to such proceedings both inside and outside the EU, including a variety of States in the Middle East.
Administrative and Public Law: “He’s got an incredible intellectual mind and is probably one of the most thorough juniors I have come across. He’s also started to work on some pretty important cases.” “If we have another judicial review I would have zero hesitation in calling him again – he clearly knows the subject and I have been very impressed with his work.” – Chambers UK, 2021
Civil Liberties and Human Rights: “He really understands the area well.” – Chambers UK, 2021
Leading Junior in Competition: “He is enthusiastic and inventive. Easy to work with.” – Legal 500, 2021
Leading Junior in Administrative and Public Law: “He is intelligent, knowledgeable and inventive.” – Legal 500, 2021
Administrative and Public Law: “I’d highly recommend him for any judicial review with international elements. He’s one of the few people who really understands this niche area well.” “He provides very thorough, detailed and comprehensive advice.” – Chambers UK, 2020
Civil Liberties and Human Rights: “A good junior and pleasant to work with.” – Chambers UK, 2020
Administrative and Public Law: “An excellent drafter and an excellent advocate.” “Has a very impressive background as an academic and is a very good lawyer with substantive knowledge.” – Chambers UK, 2019
Civil Liberties and Human Rights: “An effective human rights lawyer.” – Chambers UK, 2019
Administrative and Public Law: “He is very thorough and compelling.” – Chambers UK, 2018
Civil Liberties and Human Rights: “Very quick, efficient and helpful.” “He is a very impressive international human rights specialist.” – Chambers UK, 2018
Conor has published numerous articles in leading peer reviewed journals on questions of international law, in particular in the areas of remedies in international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law including pieces in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell) and the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press) among others.
Conor’s book, Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) explores the ICC’s regime of victim redress and the role it plays within the context of other systems of remedies for grave violations of international law at the national and international levels.
Conor’s published articles include the following:
“Victim Redress and International Criminal Justice: Competing Paradigms or Compatible Forms of Justice?”, 10 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2012).
“What Happens to the Frozen Fortune? The Libya Situation and Claims for Reparation”, 3 European Human Rights Law Review (2011).
“Reparation for Gross Violations of Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law at the International Court of Justice” in Reparations for Victims of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making, C. Ferstman, M. Goetz and A. Stephens (eds.) (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2009) .
“Reparations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and Reparative Justice Theory”, 3 International Journal of Transitional Justice 250 (2009).
“Human Rights and the Laws of War under the American Convention on Human Rights”, 6 European Human Rights Law Review 762 (2008) .
“Legal Conclusion or Interpretative Process? Lex Specialis and the Applicability of International Human Rights Standards”, in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law: Towards a New Merger in International Law, in N. Quenivet and R. Arnold (eds.) (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2008).
“Legal Reasoning and the Applicability of International Human Rights Standards during Military Occupation”, in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law: Towards a New Merger in International Law, N. Quenivet and R. Arnold (eds.) (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2008).
“The Paradox of the International Law of Military Occupation: Sovereignty and the Occupation of Iraq”, 10 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 43 (2005).
“Optimal Protection of International Law: Navigating between European Absolutism and American Voluntarism”, Joost Pauwelyn, book review, Irish Yearbook of International Law, 2008 (Oxford: Hart Publications, 2010).
“International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction”, Richard Caplan, book review, 20 Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 62 (2007)
Conor McCarthy and Nik Grubeck – Court of Appeal grants permission to appeal decision to allow UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v (1) Visa Europe Services LLC (2) Visa Europe Ltd and (3) Visa UK Ltd
R (Western Sahara Campaign UK) v The Commissioners for HMRC and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2015] EWHC 2898 (Admin)
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The unrelenting fraud: Ponzi Scheme
July 8, 2020 Follow the MoneyBudgeting & LifeLeave a comment0
We all know that in investment, high returns mean high risks. As the old saying goes: no pains, no gains. We have to take high risks in order to gain large benefits, though sometimes we still fail.
What if someone comes to you saying that he has a pretty good project with no risks, if you invest, you can have 45% of return on investment in 45 days or 100% in 90 days. Would you believe him?
Well, a lot of people did in 1919. Citizens in Boston believed Charles Ponzi, a man from Italy, who claimed that he could earn a profit from selling European international reply coupons to Americans.
A lot of people thought it was ridiculous, while some believed him. Those who believed him invested in this project and had their return in time. People were crazy. A large number of citizens in Boston invested. Ponzi soon became rich.
However, it was just a fraud. This type of exchange was called arbitrage, which is not illegal. But Ponzi couldn’t have such high rate of return on investment. Actually, he just redistributed the money. For example, when some people invested, he gave the second investor’s capital to the first investor and called this money as the first one’s return. The third investor’s capital was given to the second one. All he needed to do was to attract more people investing, therefore, he would always have money.
The fraud was revealed by the investigation of The Boston Post. After that, this kind of financial fraud was called the Ponzi Scheme.
In 2008, during the international economic crisis, another Ponzi Scheme was reported. Most victims were experienced investors and brokers, staffs from the Wall Street, even European banks.
Bernard Madoff, a respectable and reputable stock broker and investor, the former NASDAQ Chairman, was found guilty in stock and securities fraud. The case involved more than $50 billion.
No one knew exactly what Madoff invested, but he could give 10% of return on investment for many years. Everyone believed him. When economic crisis came, his customers all asked to withdraw their money. Madoff couldn’t give them the money, he confessed to his son. His son told the police.
We should always keep calm when we invest. Always remember that high returns come with high risks. As time goes by, Ponzi Scheme is developing in more and more new forms. Keep calm and think over, hope all of us can avoid such financial frauds.
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S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism (2014)
By Richard Swift
Editions:Paperback: £ 9.99
With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises SOS Alternatives to Capitalism investigates the alternatives that are on offer - including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology. It aims to pick its way through the thickets of resistant thinking and emerge with paths to changing the world that rest less on rigid ideology imposed from above than on practical transformation.
Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers' greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative, but are continually told that one does not exist. Richard Swift proves this to be wrong with style and assurance.
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism examines the past shortcomings and present health of not one but many other paths to changing the world, including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth. Combining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left – it is an urgent planetary necessity.
About Richard Swift
Richard Swift was co-editor for the New Internationalist magazine from 1984 to 2007 and is based in Toronto. He has written and broadcast on questions of ecology and democracy for many years. In 2011 he won the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize for an original essay which helps further socialist ideas.
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Reviews:Tom Malleson on New Political Science wrote:
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism "provides a brief historical survey of alternatives to contemporary capitalism. In seeking out alternatives he explores the existence of pre-capitalist indigenous radicalism, the utopian tradition, state socialism and social democracy, anarchism, European autonomism, twenty-first century socialism in Latin America, and the contemporary degrowth movement. [...] While there is no one right answer, Swift’s sympathies lie with ecosocialism and degrowth, the key components of which include localism, decentralized democracy, reduced working hours,socialization of finance, and the introduction of a universal basic income. [...] This is a book of many strengths. In a little more than 150 pages Swift introduces the reader to the major trajectories of the radical left over the last several hundred years. [...] His history is accurate and his conclusions are largely compelling. He shows persuasively that the major problem with state socialism has been its top-down nature, and he does a good job in bringing to light the lesser known tradition of anti-authoritarian socialism associated with the anarchists. Yet although he is clearly sympathetic to the radical democratic impulse of the anarchists, he avoids simple cheer leading. Indeed, the book is refreshingly non-dogmatic and unsectarian. He interprets Marx charitably and does not hesitate to point out the places where the anarchists lose their way. [...] One topic that is unfortunately absent from the book is any sustained discussion of feminism and the gendered division of labor. [...] while there is perhaps too much discussion of autonomism, there is arguably too little paid to the theorists at the cutting edge of envisioning alternatives — people like David Schweickart, Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, Juliet Schor, and Erik Olin Wright. These thinkers have done the most over recent years to investigate the ins and outs of concrete institutional alternatives — the 'real utopias' — that could conceivably replace neoliberal capitalism. [...] A deeper problem, and the only significant theoretical shortcoming of the book, is the tendency to conceptualize capitalism as a single, uniform, system defined at its core by the widespread use of markets. [...] Polanyi taught us that that there is no such thing as a pure capitalist system: the system has no DNA or essential nature; there are only different ways, some better some worse, in which markets are embedded in political systems. [...] Swift’s unPolanyian analysis undermines his discussion of social democracy and possible alternatives. Because he cannot recognize the fundamental plasticity of market systems, he is led to denigrate social democracy as a false alternative. But then what would be a short-term alternative to neoliberalism? [...] Overall, S.O.S.: Alternatives to Capitalism is an excellent book. [...] Though not an academic text, it is a sophisticated and lucid introduction to the radical left. It would be an excellent addition to undergraduate courses in political science or sociology, and will, hopefully, be read much wider than that."
Jeremy Seabrook on Red Pepper wrote:
"If the title of the book is excitingly misleading, since it suggests a multiplicity of alternatives to capitalism when most of us would settle for only one, Richard Swift’s advocacy of a ‘democratic ecosocialism’ as an alternative to capitalism is sustained and persuasive. [...] Swift is particularly powerful when he moves effortlessly across the globe, highlighting inventive local initiatives; what he has in mind is truly international in scope and suggests the power to unite rich and poor countries in a common project. [...] His historical overview of the variants of socialism and their shortcomings, although brief, is incisive and to the point. [...] His historical overview of the variants of socialism and their shortcomings, although brief, is incisive and to the point. [...] The formulation of ecosocialism – that we court catastrophe unless we limit our predations on the planet – is too negative, and requires a positive, emancipatory slogan. Richard Swift’s book, eloquent and inspirational, is certainly a movement in that direction."
"Capitalism’s stormy sea" - introductory article by Richard Swift of a special issue of the New Internationalist on the book (July 2015)
Interview with Richard Swift on the book, Canadian Dimension (4 November 2014)
Table of Contents of SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
Introduction: A sad and beautiful world in peril
Sources of hope: life before capitalism
Capitalism: a system of reckless resilience
The anarchist impulse
The eco-divide
The utopia debate
Rebuilding the alternatives Southern-style
The democratic emergency
The autonomous rupture
What should we stand for?
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Posted on October 14, 2018 by morrowcountysentinel
Reflections: Memories of Imogene
By Evelyn Long - Contributing Columnist
I wonder how many readers remember or have heard of Imogene Snider.
A 38-year business owner in Cardington, her business on West Main Street, Imogene’s Dry Goods, first opened on the west end of the business district in the building that later became Bean’s Oliver Sales. On the west side of this was the business owned by Hank Newcomer, now a Marion resident, who remembers Imogene as “a very nice lady.”
She moved the business In 1944 when she purchased the two story brick building that housed her business for the next 22 years until she retired and closed it in 1966. This building was constructed by her grandfather, Jonathan Shaw, and was out of the family ownership for just six months before its sale June 13, 1966, to Max and Barb Weise, who owned Max’s Clothing Store, the building immediately east.
They later sold that store and opened the business in what was Imogene’s. The couple remembers finding boxes and boxes of merchandise in the building. “There was even an elevator,” said Barbara. It was operated by a rope connected to a pulley that one pulled to raise it to the second floor.
“We found boxes of uniforms for children,” said Barbara, noting they still have some of the display cases from the store. Imogene taught Barbara to knit, something she has never forgotten. The Weise’s owned and operated “Max’s Clothing Store” for 18 years before moving it to Mount Gilead. Maureen Shephard bought the building from the Weise’s. It was destroyed in the 1981 tornado.
Imogene was active in the community, with membership on the library board from about 1910. She was also a 55 year member of the Pythian Sisters, serving as the District Deputy Grand Chief at one time. One of those Sisters, Jackie Winchell, remembers Imogene as being very friendly. “When my daughter was born, she gave me a pretty little outfit from the store,” said Jackie.
By today’s standards, Imogene’s merchandise was not organized but if you asked for what you wanted, she knew right where to find it. She was at one time a deputy registrar of motor vehicles in Cardington and worked for the Morrow County Telephone Company.
Always learning, she also took art classes. She attended Cardington High School but had to drop out her senior year due to illness. She began working in her father’s hardware store at age 16.
Imogene’s first husband, Dr. Snider, a dentist, died in 1925. In 1962 she married Lindsay Bartlow. Imogene died in 1974. I remember Imogene fondly and her contributions to Cardington.
Morrow County highlights
70 years ago, October, 1948: Mrs. Mary Mills bought the Milky Way Restaurant from Mr. and Mrs. George Arthur. Nearly 2000 attended the dedication of the Lutheran Memorial Camp in Fulton on Oct. 24.
60 years ago, October 1958: A curbside mail box was installed in front of the post office on South Marion Street in Cardington.
50 years ago, 1968: A total of 8860 residents voted in the November election. Richard Nixon carried the county with 4,901 votes; Hubert Humphrey received 2195 votes and George Wallace, 1,509 votes. There was a total of 17 traffic fatalities in the county in 1968.
40 years ago, October, 1978: Members of the Cardington High School football team, 35 total, attended the Ohio State-Iowa game in Ohio Stadium. Mrs. Jack Wilhelm was named chairman of the coming Easter Seal campaign in Morrow County.
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GOBLIN MARKET SETS REOPENING DATE IN MOUNT DORA
For six months, Mount Dora diners have felt the absence of one of downtown’s most acclaimed bistros. Since COVID-19 resulted in limiting the capacity of restaurants, some smaller eateries opted to remain closed until reopening was more economically feasible.
The owners of the Goblin Market announced the restaurant, the winner of two Best of Mount Dora awards this year, will reopen on October 1 with extra safety precautions, and fifty percent of its seating capacity. To ensure social distancing, larger parties are limited to eight patrons in the eclectic fine dining restaurant. Due to the limited number of seats in the quaint alley building, making dinner reservations a week or two in advance is highly recommended. The restaurant's popular lunch will be first-come, first-served, as it was in the past. Guests can be added to the waiting list via phone on the same day.
The intimate upstairs bar will also reopen on a first-come, first-served basis, but there will be no standing room or waiting in the bar, so staff will take guests into the bar when seats are available.
Beginning October 1, Goblin Market’s new hours will be:
Wednesday: Lunch 11:30-3:00. Dinner 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Thursday: Lunch 11:30-3:00. Dinner 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Friday: Lunch 11:30-3:00. Dinner 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday: Lunch 11:30-3:00. Dinner 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Sunday: Lunch 11:30-3:00. Dinner CLOSED.
Before October 1, reservations can be called in to (352) 735-0059 between 12 pm. to 2 pm., Tuesday through Friday, to accept reservations. Goblin Market is located at 330 Dora Drawdy Way in downtown Mount Dora.
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MOUNT DORA SHOPKEEPERS TO SWAP MOUNT DORA FOR NEW ZEALAND
ABOVE: Dudley and Janet Askew outside their shop on Donnelly Street in downtown Mount Dora.
The quaint streets of a Central Florida small town are a long way from an island in the South Pacific, but that’s exactly where the shopkeepers of one downtown Mount Dora store are headed.
In a move across the globe Dudley and Janet Askew, owners of Noni at the Olive Branch, are selling their eclectic gift store and returning to New Zealand, Dudley’s native country. The couple had lived on the island nation when they first married and now plan to retire to the North Island to live close to their daughter who resides there.
The gift shop had been a staple on downtown's Donnelly Street for approximately 15 years before the couple purchased it in 2014. They had moved to Mount Dora a year earlier to escape the harsh winters of Plainfield, Vermont, where they previously lived and owned a gift shop and cafe.
RELATED: Discover other local stores on the Local Shopping Guide
Noni, as it’s often called by Mount Dorans, has long been known for its diverse mix of home accents, casual apparel, pottery, costume jewelry, plus bath and body products. The store is now among a small handful of downtown Mount Dora shops and eateries currently on the market.
The Askews, a very active couple, plan on enjoying their retirement with a lot of biking and hiking when they get to New Zealand to take full advantage of the country’s natural beauty.
“Going back to New Zealand now seems to be completing a circle which we are both happy to be able to do once Noni sells,” said Janet, adding that they will miss their Mount Dora friends and the community.
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EUSTIS TO GET NEW WATERFRONT RESTAURANT
The scenic view of Lake Eustis will be expansive and enviable. Lake Eustis Waterfront Grill is currently under construction at the shore of Eustis Marina. The restaurant is being constructed in a “Florida-Fish-Lodge style” and will serve traditional American fare and seafood in its indoor and outdoor dining options that will seat 150 people.
In October, the developers will choose a restaurant operator from among the five that expressed interest in the project. Lake Eustis Waterfront Grill is expected to open in the spring of 2021 at the three-and-a-half-acre site less than a mile from the city’s downtown core.
RELATED: Find the best local restaurants on the Local Dining Guide
The restaurant isn’t all that’s new at the marina, one of the best kept secrets of the Golden Triangle. The 50-slip marina was purchased in 2018 and has since undergone major upgrades to the docks and boat slips. The site plan for the project was approved by the Eustis City Commission approximately two years ago, according to one of the project’s partners, Daniel DiVenanzo.
Improvements are continuing at the marina which has approximately 1000 feet of waterfront on Lake Eustis and the canal. All of the boat slips have been rented except five, as well as a handful of covered, dry storage spaces that are currently available. The new owners also added 24-hour manned security at the marina, as well as security cameras to the marina on Lake Eustis’ south shore.
The marina is located at 350 Lakeshore Drive in Eustis.
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Tammy DVD Review: Melissa McCarthy Makes a Mockery of Herself
by Joel D Amos at November 13, 2014 2:09 pm . Updated at November 13, 2014 4:14 pm . Comments
The making of Tammy was a family affair and a passion project for Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone. Falcone wrote the script (with a little help from the missus) and made his directorial debut with the hit comedy. Tammy has arrived on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download and now the whole world can take home their little comedic baby.
As the Tammy trailer so hilariously shows, McCarthy is the title character and she’s not doing too well in this thing called life.
Tammy loses her job, totals her car and comes home to her husband cheating on her with their neighbor. What’s a girl to do?
She heads over to her mother's (Allison Janney) and looks for sympathy. And no, she doesn’t get it. But, grandma (Susan Sarandon) offers to take Tammy on a little road trip to get away from it all. Reluctantly, she agrees and our hilarity is on.
Janney and Sarandon aren’t the only fantastic names in this cast. Falcone scored Dan Aykroyd as Tammy’s dad, Mark Duplass as a guy who might be interested in Tammy romantically and Gary Cole (Office Space) as Duplass’ dad, plus Sandra Oh and Oscar winner Kathy Bates as lesbian lovers who are friends with Sarandon’s character.
Oh, and the film is co-produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (Anchorman)!
We are usually not the biggest fans of extended cut releases, except in cases where the director was controlled by the studio and the director’s edition proves to be more in line with his or her vision. But with Tammy, the theatrical version was just fine. And surprisingly, the Tammy extended cut includes facets of the film that must have been cut for time, because they are fantastic. Falcone truly shows his mettle as a budding comedic director and we cannot wait to see what he does next.
When it comes to bonus features on the Tammy DVD and Blu-Ray, the Tammy’s Road Trip Checklist is a hilarious delight. As Tammy is such a unique character, what she thinks is important for a road trip with grandma might not be what you and I would bring, and that’s what makes it so funny. It is a Tammy bonus feature must-see!
With so many comic talents, you can probably guess that the Gag Reel is something to behold. It’s not the best one we’ve ever seen (watch Anchorman online and you’ll see our fave!), but it is quite the study in brilliantly funny people firmly in their element.
Intrigued? Watch Tammy online right now!
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Coronavirus: Government updates self-declaration form for flyers
India resumed domestic passengers flights from May 25 after a gap of two months due to the coronavirus pandemic
New Delhi: The civil aviation ministry has told the airlines that passengers who submit a self-declaration form that they have not tested positive for COVID-19 during the three weeks prior to the departure date are allowed to take their flight, officials said.
On May 21, the government had made it mandatory for all passengers to submit the self-declaration form before a flight stating that they did not test positive for COVID-19 during two months prior to the departure date.
The officials told PTI that as there are a large number of people in India now who have recovered from the deadly virus, a need was felt to update the self-declaration form to avoid any hardships to them.
Therefore, a few days back, the government told the airlines that passengers need to give a declaration that "they have not tested positive for COVID-19 in the last three weeks" prior to the flight, the officials said.
"Persons who have recovered from COVID-19 and who fulfil the three-week criteria will be allowed to travel by flights if they show a COVID-recovery or COVID-discharge certificate from their hospital," they mentioned.
Out of around 8.2 lakh people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in India till now, around 5.15 lakh have recovered.
This means the recovery rate is around 63%. More than 22,000 people have died due to the virus in the country.
India resumed domestic passengers flights from May 25 after a gap of two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Scheduled international passenger flights continue to remain suspended in the country.
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Reports agree: Public-private partnership not best for Ottawa
The lack of other options and a skewed repayment formula make the Lansdowne Partnership Proposal a bad deal for Ottawa residents, say the authors of two academic reports released at the annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association.
The first, by political science PhD candidates at the University of Ottawa, examines the nature of the public-private partnership in this deal.
Good governance dictates before entering into a PPP arrangement, government should first do a cost comparison to determine if working with the private sector would be more affordable than going alone, said co-author Pierre-Andre Hudon. The only option the city presented was doing a PPP with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group.
The other report, produced by three professors at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, looked at how city government managed the development process.
There should have been a consultation on the general direction of Lansdowne Park at the start of the process, as opposed to a pseudo-public consultation that collected reactions to a single unsolicited bid, said co-author and Carleton Prof. Robert Hilton.
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Miami Beach Dems Statement on Child Detention and Family Separation
At our monthly meeting last night, the Miami Beach Democratic Club unanimously endorsed a statement condemning the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant families and detaining immigrant children in facilities like the Tornillo Detention Center near El Paso, TX.
Last summer, the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy on immigration resulted in the separation of more than 2,500 children from their parents at the US-Mexican border.
After enormous public outcry, a federal judge ordered the administration to reunite the families. Months later, the administration is still in violation of that court order, and over a hundred of those children remain separated. Moreover, the Associated Press recently reported that these children could be legally adopted in the United States without their parents’ consent.
At the same time, detention centers are expanding across the border region to warehouse immigrant children. The Tornillo Detention Center near El Paso, TX opened this summer and has grown sixfold since then, with no end in sight. Over two thousand children are believed to be detained there. They represent just a fraction of the 13,289 children in detention as of early October.
Many of these children and families are fleeing the Northern Triangle, a region that includes Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where vicious infighting between gangs and drug cartels makes death a daily reality for those who remain. For those who are sent back, deportation can be a death sentence.
Separating immigrant children from their parents also puts them at risk for long-term physical and psychological damage. Many of these children may never recover from the trauma inflicted on them by an inhumane immigration policy.
In addition, the Trump administration has ramped up militarization of the border with Mexico and put immigrant children at risk by attacking families who receive public benefits, all while the president uses the same dehumanizing rhetoric that characterized his campaign. Thanks in part to the xenophobic atmosphere that President Trump and his surrogates stoke on a daily basis, hate crimes are on the rise across the U.S.
Many of our Miami Beach neighbors came to South Florida from across Latin America and the Caribbean fleeing oppression; others simply came seeking a better life. Our synagogues are also home to those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, and to their descendants. We know that our community is stronger for its diversity, and that official hatred leads down a dark path.
The immigration policies of the Trump administration and the Republican Party do irreparable damage to children and families, and betray American values of fairness and equality. The Miami Beach Democratic Club joins the vast number of fair-minded Americans who demand an end to child detention and family separation for those seeking refuge in the United States.
Many thanks to Ileana Oroza, our secretary, for drafting this statement.
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Sacred To The Memory Of
Captain Donald Charles Hugh MACLEAN D.S.O.
The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Major General C.S. Maclean C.B. C.I.E.
Of The Coll Family
Died At Royal Victoria Hospital Netley On The 12th April 1909 Aged 33 Years.
The actor Rupert EVERETT is the great grandson of Captain Donald Charles Hugh Maclean.
Captain Donald Charles Hugh Macleans's father, Major General Charles Smith MacLean 1836 - 1921 (Rupert's great great grandfather) and great great uncle John Mackenzie MacLean 1839 - 1882 are buried in Netley as well.
Bewickshire News April 1909
4604 Sergeant William.George MADGE Royal Field Artillery died 28th September 1920. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field in 1918
William was a boot maker before he signed up in London on 5th February 1900.
1911 census has William a Bombardier age 29, single, born in London, in India.
Burial no.2037 Church of England
Major John Edwin MAYNARD London Regiment 6th Battalion died on the 17th October 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross.
John was married to Elizabeth Howard Maynard. His name is featured on the soldiers who died in WW1 page for the Alleyn’s School of which he attended.
Maj JOHN E. MAYNARD
Regiment: London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Decoration: MC
Date of death: 17/10/18
Memorial: Netley, Hants
Year of leaving school: 1900
Photo information: He was wounded on Aug 23 1918 when in command of his battalion.
Other information: EA Mag: 'died of wounds at Netley Hospital... after nearly 3 yrs' continuous service in France. He was a very keen soldier, obtained rapid promotion, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917.
http://www.edwardalleynclub.com/page/archive_school_honours_board
Burial no. 1979 Officers Church of England
Major Hugh Richard McGILLYCUDDY Royal Army Medical Corps, died on 21st October 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross.
Richard was born 15th September 1883. He was the son of Dennis Charles McGillycuddy and Gertrude Laura Miller. He married Ethel Florence Lukey.
They had 2 children, Arthur Richard Burton McGillycuddy born February 1914 and Patricia McGillycuddy born June 1919.
From http://thepeerage.com/p50405.htm#i504044
Educated at Fettes College (Army Class), Edinburgh from 1898 to Dec 1900 and was a student at Univ. College London in the Faculty of Medical Services from 1901 to 1907 and at University College Hospital (MRCS, LRCP, 1911).
2nd Lieut., 4th Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1902-1906
Then appointed District Medical Officer, Borough of St. Pancras
In practice in West London until the outbreak of war
Lieut, RAMC, 4 July 1915
Attached as Medical Officer to the 9th Bn, KOYLI
Took part in Battle of Loos in Sept 1915 and served with the Battalion until Spring 1916 when he was invalided home
Military Cross, London Gazette 14 Jan 1916 (dated 1 Jan 1916)(a New Year's honour so no published citation)
Mentioned in Despatches
Captain, 4 July 1916
Major, 1917
Adjutant HMNT Aquitania
Later medical officer in charge of HMNTT Aberdonian and Formosa
Died at sea of pneumonia on 20 Oct 1918
Information from kind person on Great War Forum
8091 Serjeant William MONEY Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry) born in Burton-on-Trent and died on 31st July 1916. He was formerly 9545, Northumberland Fusiliers and enlisted in Leicester.
1911 census has a Private William Money age 26 and single at the Hillsborough Barracks in Sheffield. He was entitled to the Indian General Service Medal with clasp enscribed “North West Frontier 1908”
William was awarded the Military Medal.
Burial record states that William died in the Regents Park Hospital Southampton aged 31.
15822 Captain David ROBERTS-MORGAN Royal Welch Fusiliers died on the 17th September 1939 age 53. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal “For conspicuous courage and ability when, as platoon serjeant, he organized bombing parties against the enemy in dug-outs who would not surrender” (19th August 1916) He was 9358 Sjt D. ROBERTS –MORGAN IN 1916. He was also awarded the Military Medal.
His parents were Ebenezer Morgan and Annie Roberts-Morgan. His wife was Gwendoline and he had a son Derek.
1911 census has David born in South Wales age 25, single, Lance Corporal in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Burma and Andaman Islands
123867 Major Charles Wesley NEWELL age 56 Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 23rd June 1946 and was awarded the Military Medal.
"In Arduis Fidelis"
At The Setting Of The Sun
And In The Dawning
Below is about Major Newell's wife who died two years before him.
(CONSTANCE DORA NEWELL, (1892 - 1944) aged 52, of Yvonne, Lunsford Lane, Maidstone, Kent. Wife of Maj. Charles Wesley Newell, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died at New Cross Road. Husband died 1946 NEWELL, CHARLES WESLEY.
http://lewishamwarmemorials.wikidot.com/names:new-cross-woolworths-v2-ww2-names
Mrs Constance Dora Newell appears to have been killed when a V2 rocket hit the Woolworths store in London. The following information is from
http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V2_maintextb.html
Contemporary reports from a number of witnesses indicate that the V2 had been seen in its last moments of flight, a line drawn across the grey November sky.The store bulged outwards and then imploded and in the carnage 168 people were killed and 121 were seriously injured. It was the 251'st Rocket to be successfully launched. This was the worst tragedy in the entire V weapon campaign and one of the worst civilian disasters of World War II.As the store exploded there was blinding flash of light and an enormous roar followed by a dense cloud of smoke and powdered dust. Witnesses several hundred yards away felt the warm blast on their faces,some were physically pushed backward by its force. The Co-Op Store next door also collapsed killing more people inside. The bodies of passers by were flung for great distances, and an army lorry was overturned and destroyed killing its occupants. A double decker bus was spun round causing yet more deaths and injuries,its occupants were seen still sitting in their seats covered in dust..There were piles of masonry and pieces of bodies all around, where Woolworth's had been was just an enormous gap.The debris stretched from the Town Hall to New Cross Gate station and it was to take 3 days to clear this and to retrieve all the bodies from the debris.Today the site has been totally re-developed but the extent of the damage area can be seen from where the new buildings commence both in the New Cross Road and in surrounding streets. Lewisham council have erected a blue plaque on the building to commemorate the tragedy.)
Colonel Arthur Reginald NYE M.C.
? P.W.O. Ghurkha Rifles
Died 27th June 1948
…………….. Into The Hills
Military Cross Citation:
Lt. Arthur Reginald Nye, I.A.R.O., attd.
2/4th Gurkha Rifles. (MESOPOTAMIA)
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty. He exposed himself freely under
heavy fire in order' to visit all portions of his
front line. His cool and fearless conduct
encouraged his men, thereby turning a temporary
check into a successful offensive.
London Gazette 11th January 1919
Captain T. O’CONNOR Royal Air Force died on 2nd September 1918 age 36. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. This is all I have found out about this man so far.
Captain O'Connor did indeed receive a DSC, Gazetted 1 May 1918 (among others for the same reason) "for zeal and devotion to duty for the period 1 July to 31 Dec 1917 in Seaplane Carrier ICARUS, additional,(E) from 2 April 1917." Navy List Feb 1918. Died 2.9.1918.
From kind person on Great War Forum
RAF unit Calshot
2222 Private Herbert George PERKINS 45th Battalion Australian Infantry was awarded the Military Medal. He died on 13th June 1918 age 37.
Have Mercy Upon Him Lord
And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him
Herbert received his Military Medal for his actions “at Messines during operations from the 7.6.17 to 11.5.17. Pte. Perkins did very excellent work as a stretcher bearer carrying wounded men back from front line to regimental aid post under very heavy artillery and machine gun fire showing utter disregard to personal safety.”
Lt. Colonel S.C.E. Herring D.S.O. (from www.awm.gov.au))
He died on board H.M.A.T. Essequibo due to a bullet wound through the left lung (received in action) haemorrhage and heart failure.
Herbert was 34 years old when he signed up on the 3rd May 1915. He was a labourer and unmarried. His parents were George and Ann Mary Perkins from Launceston Australia.
He was buried at 2pm on 17th June 1918.The Rev. Forrest took the service.
The grave will be turfed and an oak cross will be erected by the A.I.F. London.
Burial no 1954 Church of England
Colonel Eric Gordon PERRY age 51 12th Frontier Force Regiment Indian Army Died 27th November 1947 . He received an Member of the British Empire award.
His parents were Herbert and Catherine and he was married to Constance Mary.
Colonel Jack POWELL D.S.O. R.A.M.C.
Who Passed Away June 8th 1936
"In Ever Loving Memory"
Colonel Powell was living in Alderbury Rd, Oxford at the time of his death.
In Thanksgiving For
Annie Vincent PRICE M.B.E.
Of Bristol.
M.M.S. At Netley Hospital
Red Cross Section 1916-1921
Called June 2 1921 Aged 58.
"A Great Heart"
Annie was a masseuse at Netley
Annie Vincent price was 48 in the 1911 census and was with her mother Catherine Sharrock Price age 77 and sister Florence Dupen? Price age 43, both single. Annie was a masseuse. Catherine had 9 children of which one died.
They are all living at 19 York Crescent Road, Clifton Bristol.
Source Citation: Class: RG14; Piece: 14837; Schedule Number: 198;
1881 census has the family in a hotel run by father Walter
Annie's brother was Walter Samuel Vincent Price, Master Mariner, Lieut. R.A.F. and he died in September 1921 in Johannesburg. Not sure of his burial place.
1984 Company Serjeant Major Lawrence Adrian RENOU 52ndBattalion Australian Infantry who died on 6th November 1916 age 24 of a gunshot wound to the head received in action.
Lawrence was born in 1892 son of Frederick and Henrietta, in Seymour Victoria. He was a Civil Engineer before he signed up.
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8029052
Lawrence received the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action. He carried out patrol work during a heavy bombardment. Later, in order to build a barricade, he filled sandbags for one and a half hours under very heavy fire. He showed a splendid example of courage and determination throughout. 14.11.16
From Gravesecrets
16573 Lieutenant William Arthur RICHMOND-DABELL Royal Army Ordnance Corps. died 23rd August 1940 age 44 and was awarded the Military Cross.
In the 1914-1918 war, William was a Captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers
Son of A. Richmond-Dabell and Beatrice.
Richard Adare ROCHFORT D.S.O. MC
Died 23rd July 1954 Aged 73
He was born in Surrey in 1879. His medal cards records that he was a Sergeant in the Grenadier Guards then a Captain in the Royal Inniskiling Fusiliers.
His Distinguished Service Order was awarded for conspicuous gallantry, devotion to duty and initiative during operations near Poelcappelle.
On the night of the 11/12th October 1917 when the Battalion was moving up the line to it's forming up position ready for the attack on the following morning, it was heavily engaged by the enemy with shells and gas. He perceiving that there was danger of the Batalion losing it's way owing to the necessity of having to wear gas masks and the intense darkness of the night, he placed himself at the head of the leading party and guided it along the correct route. It is certain but for this prompt action the Battalion would not have reached its forming up place in time.
During the operations on the morning of the 12th, owing to the heavy and difficult condition of the ground and the hevy shell, machine gun and rifle fire, the Battalion experienced gret difficulty in pushing forward, he immediately went forward to ascertain the situation and encouraged the men by his example.
Although severely wounded while leading the men he remained with them for nearly two hours encouraging them in their work until through sheer exhaustion he was forced to desist. This Officer by his cheerful and inspiring personality and by the exceptional bravery of his conduct set a magnificent example to all ranks.
He was so badly wounded that his arm had to be amputated on his arrival at the dressing station.
This record comes from the Australian War Memorial page from Australia. Have no idea why it's on there.
The Index of Wills and Administrations states that Richard was living at Wedge Farm Itchingfield Horsham Sussex. He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley and probate was given to Amy Ross Robinson.
To The Dear Memory of Major William McElrea SNODGRASS Military Cross R.A.M.C.
Who died on February 1st 1934 in Netley Hospital age 43
Among The Chosen Few
Among The Very Fine
The Very True
Burial Record no. 442 Presbyterian
And Kathleen Mabel His Wife who died on March 16th 1988 aged 89
Lieutenant Alexander VINGOE died of TB (aged 47) on troopship HMT Navasa on 25th December 1928 and is burial number 2121 but has no headstone. His grandaughter Sheena said that he was "born in Ramsden Oxfordshire. He joined the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry date not known. 1914/1918 Staff Sargeant 2nd Indian cavalry division.1925 Staff Sargeant Major eastern command. His rank when he died was Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant M.B.E.
He had a First World War service medal, mentioned in dispatches. Territory Force Efficiency medal, Meritorious Service medal."
Thank you Sheena.
Edward Harold WILDBLOOD
DSO and Bar
Lieut. Colonel Royal Tank Corps.
Late Leinster Regt.
Died March 12th 1926 aged 47 Years
Possible marriage to Margaret Spencer Bull on 27th August 1908 in Kashmir Hormozgan Iran.Youngest child Timothy Seddon Wildblood was born in Egypt in 1920 and died in 1940 in the Channel Islands. (Ancestry. co. uk tree)
1923 passenger lists has Lt Col. Wildblood and his wife and child coming to London from Bombay India on the Kaiser-I-Hind
The Times newspaper March 18th 1926
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stevenson WRIGHT Royal Army Service Corps died 30th September 1919 and was awarded the CMG which is the Order of Saint Michael and St. George.
“The Order of Saint Michael and St George is awarded to men and women who render extraordinary or important non-military service in a foreign country. It can be conferred for important or loyal service in relation to foreign and Commonwealth affairs.” Wikipedia
He was born around 1871 in India and was married to Wilhelmina Margaret.
1901 census has Harry, single, aged 29 and a Captain in the Army Service Corps at the Army Service Corps Cleaning Area in Aldershot.
1911 census has Harry 39, wife Wilhelmina 34 (born in India) and daughter Iris (born in Brighton) living at Weston Farm House with two servants. Harry is a Captain in the ASC (at Netley?)
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Expectations all over the map for Polian’s first season
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Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .What should we expect out of the Nevada Wolf Pack football team this year? The answer to that loaded question probably depends on how much silver and blue apparel is in your closet. There are five games — UC Davis, Hawaii, Air Force, UNLV and Colorado State — that the Nevada Wolf Pack football team should absolutely win this season. And there are five games — on the road at UCLA, Florida State, Boise State, San Diego State and Fresno State — where they will likely be the clear underdog. That leaves two games — San Jose State and BYU at home in the final two games of the year — that will make or break the Wolf Pack’s bowl chances under new head coach Brian Polian.
The expectations surrounding this Pack football team are all over the road. Anywhere from five to seven wins is a reasonable guess for Polian’s first season. That’s the sane, logical and safe prediction for a rookie head coach with a new staff competing in a league they know nothing about and doing it with the previous head coach’s players for the most part. Anything less than five wins you have to give Polian the Chris Tormey Award. Anything more than seven wins and Polian can run for mayor.
Polian might not know it yet, but the biggest game on his first Wolf Pack schedule is not Florida State, UCLA, BYU or Boise State. It’s UNLV. Tormey never figured that out and he was run out of town after four seasons. Chris Ault, who won his last eight games against UNLV (and nine of his last 10) never lost sight of the fact that UNLV was the prize he had to get every season. Tormey was 0-4 against UNLV so he was fired despite the fact that his teams always won more games than the year before. The Pack could go 4-8 or 5-7 in Polian’s first year and nobody will be calling for his job as long as one of those four or five wins is against UNLV.
A couple of former Pack players not named Colin Kaepernick have an excellent chance at considerable playing time this NFL season. Tight end Zach Sudfeld is practicing with the New England Patriots’ starters and defensive back Isaiah Frey is in the running to be the Chicago Bears’ fifth defensive back. Sudfeld, who wasn’t even drafted last spring, is already earning the nickname “Baby Gronk” in honor of injured tight end Rob Gronkowski.
Bishop Gorman graduate Shabazz Muhammad was sent home recently from the NBA’s four-day Rookie Transition Program because he brought a woman to his hotel room. The program, which warns NBA rookies of all the evils to look out for in the NBA, only lasts four days and Muhammad, now the Minnesota Timberwolves’ problem, couldn’t last the 96 hours without breaking the rules. Bringing a woman to the NBA rookie seminar is sort of like sneaking a six pack into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Muhammad is a wonderful talent but it seems he can’t go six months without some controversy. He would have to be the next Michael Jordan to make all the trouble worth it to the Timberwolves.
Johnny Manziel, it seems, is doing everything he can to put Texas A&M in his rearview mirror. He now is being investigated for allegedly accepting payment for his signing his name on hundreds of items. If you were waiting for Texas A&M to remember it is an institution of higher learning with the goal of turning impressionable young adults into responsible adults, well, forget it. This is the same football factory that didn’t even make Manziel miss a game after he was involved in a fight outside a bar and was caught with two fake ID’s. And that was before he was Johnny Football. Manziel is further proof that Division I universities all over the nation — yes, even on north Virginia Street — have sold their soul to the great money making machine that is college football. Texas A&M is not going to discipline Manziel. Their only goal is to squeeze every dollar it can out of its bad boy quarterback.
The New York Yankees’ organization should be ashamed of itself for playing Alex Rodriguez. Just because Rodriguez is allowed to play while he appeals his suspension doesn’t mean the Yankees have to play him. The Yankees are a mediocre team with or without him. This would be the perfect time for the Yankees, as one of the most respected organizations in all of sports, to send a message that cheating will not be tolerated.
It would also be a great message for the Yankees to send to America’s youth. The Yankees, though, are knowingly playing one of the biggest performance enhancing cheaters in baseball history.
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Flashback Photo: Gabby Hartnett, the Pride of Millville, Mass.
Gabby Hartnett signs autographs for three boys in Boston, 1938. Photo courtesty Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gabby Hartnett, a native of Woonsocket, R.I., was one of the greatest catchers ever to play baseball during his years with the Chicago Cubs from 1922 to 1940.
He especially liked playing the Boston Braves during his professional career because he could take the train home to Millville, Mass. There he’d see his parents and hit the taverns with his brothers and sisters. Also, the Braves only had two winning seasons during Hartnett’s playing career.
Buster, Chickie, Gisser, Sweetie
Charles Leo Hartnett was born Dec. 20, 1900, the oldest of 14 children in a baseball-crazy family. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Millville, a town that was about 98 percent Irish Catholic until the 1980s.
As a boy he was called Dowdy. His brothers were Buster, Chickie, Gisser and Sweetie. In 1929, three of his brothers listed their occupations as ‘ballplayer.’ His sisters were good baseball players as well. His brother Chickie signed a professional contract, but got homesick and returned to Millville before he ever played.
Gabby Hartnett was a star player in high school. He played in the Blackstone Valley League and for the United States Rubber Company team after he started working at the plant.
In 1921, he signed a contract with the Worcester Boosters. A year later, he was a Cubs rookie. When he left home, his mother told him, ‘keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and behave yourself.’ A Chicago Herald Examiner sportswriter interviewed him upon his arrival, and the rookie replied with just a few words. The sportswriter said, ‘You’re certainly a gabby guy.’ The name stuck, but his wife and close friends called him ‘Leo.’
Homer in the Gloamin’
Gabby Hartnett pleads his case with an umpire, Braves Field. Photo courtesy Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gabby participated in some of baseball’s most memorable moments: Babe Ruth’s called home run in the 1932 World Series; Carl Hubbell’s strike out of the game’s five greatest hitters in the 1934 All-Star Game; and the line drive that ended Dizzy Dean’s career in the 1937 All-Star Game.
Gabby Hartnett’s greatest day in baseball came on Sept. 28, 1938 season, when he was 37. The Cubs had won their last eight games and were only a half game behind the first-place Pittsburgh Pirates, who they played that day. The score was tied 5-5 and it was getting so dark the umpires decided to call the game after Hartnett’s at bat.
With two strikes on him, Hartnett drilled a curveball into the left-field bleachers at 5:37 p.m. Pirate Paul Waner described the mayhem that followed in Lawrence Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times:
The crowd was in an uproar, absolutely gone wild. They ran onto the field like a bunch of maniacs, and his teammates and the crowd were mobbing Hartnett, and piling on top of him, and throwing him up in the air, and everything you could think of. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since.
“We surrender to inadequacy,” wrote sportswriter John Carmichael. Hartnett’s home run, which propelled the Cubs to the pennant, was forever after known as The Homer in The Gloamin’.
Gabby Hartnett’s worst season was 1929, when his arm went mysteriously dead after he showed up at spring training with his new wife, Martha. His mother predicted his arm would recover as soon as his pregnant wife delivered their first child. Charles Jr. was born Dec. 4, and his arm soreness disappeared two weeks later.
Gabby Hartnett rounds third after hitting a home run at Braves field. Photo courtesy Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gabbing with Capone
In a charity game during the 1930s, Gabby Hartnett was photographed chatting with Al Capone in his front-row box at Comiskey Park. The bootlegger had just gotten out of prison. A photographer snapped the encounter and sent it to the newswires. (Click here to see the photo.)
Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis was furious. There are several versions of the story. In one, Landis sent him a telegram that said, “You are no longer allowed to have your picture taken with Al Capone.” Hartnett sent him a telegram saying, “OK, but if you don’t want me having my picture taken with Al Capone, you tell him.”
According to another version, Landis chastised him personally. Gabby Hartnett replied: “I go to his place of business, why shouldn’t he come to mine?”
Gabby Hartnett was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He died on his 72nd birthday, Dec. 20, 1972.
This story was updated from the 2013 version. With thanks to Gabby Hartnett: The Life and Times of the Cubs’ Greatest Catcher
By William F. McNeil and WrigleyIvy.com.
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Mets batters getting hit by pitches a lot this season
Pete Alonso of the Mets reacts after he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the seventh inning against the Phillies at Citi Field on April 22. Credit: Jim McIsaac
By Anthony Rieber anthony.rieber@newsday.com @AnthonyRieber Updated May 4, 2019 6:47 PM
Jacob Rhame was just another hard-throwing, fairly anonymous reliever in the back of the Mets’ bullpen when he decided — according to Major League Baseball — to “intentionally” throw a pitch in the head area of Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins on April 23 at Citi Field.
Rhame denied he was throwing at Hoskins. But the repercussions from that decision — if Rhame made it — have followed the 26-year-old ever since.
First, Hoskins homered off Rhame the next night and took a 34-second trot around the bases that went viral.
Then, Rhame was suspended for two games by MLB. The bespectacled righthander filed an appeal, but the next day was sent to Triple-A Syracuse by the Mets.
The appeal won’t be heard until (or if) Rhame is called up again. But why would the Mets rush to call up a pitcher with a 6.65 career ERA who is going to be suspended (unless the entire suspension is rescinded, which is unlikely) when they have five other righthanded pitchers at Syracuse who are on the 40-man roster and aren’t facing a suspension upon their callup to the bigs?
Finally, on Monday, Rhame entered a game against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was greeted by the video of Hoskins’ slow journey. The Syracuse ballclub was not amused, and, according to Syrcause.com, the IronPigs later apologized.
The funny thing about Rhame’s not-so excellent adventure is he may be the only Mets pitcher who has tried to retaliate (if he did) for the high number of times Mets batters have been hit by pitches and have been sent to the X-ray machine in 2019.
Six times this season a Met has had to get an X-ray after getting hit in the hand by a baseball while in the batter’s box. So far, the Mets are 6-for-6 in nothing getting broken.
The Mets officially have been hit 18 times (all stats are going into Saturday), which is second in baseball to the Cubs’ 21.
But that doesn’t include the two times in an eight-day span that Robinson Cano was hit in the hand and knocked out of a game, because both times Cano was called for a swing. And it doesn’t include April 20 in St. Louis, when the same thing happened to Pete Alonso — he was hit in the hand, was called for a swing and had to exit the game.
On April 1 in Miami, Juan Lagares had to get an X-ray after he was hit in the knuckle while attempting to bunt. Brandon Nimmo was hit two days later and had to leave a game vs. the Marlins.
Cano, who broke his hand when he was hit by a pitch while with the Mariners last season, was lucky to only get bruised this year. Still, because of the HBPs, Cano missed two full games, was knocked out of one in the first inning and another in the seventh. The Mets went 2-2 in those games.
“You don’t ever want that,” Mets manager Mickey Callaway said after Cano was hit for the second time. “You don’t want your players being exposed like that. One of the reasons is we were leading our division in runs. So we had really good hitters and when you have really good hitters, you have to pitch in. So I get it from the opposing side. But you still don’t want your guys getting hit.”
When he was hit by Gio Gonzalez of the Brewers in the first inning last Sunday, the normally calm Cano angrily slammed his helmet to the ground.
“Just a reaction,” Cano said. “Nothing against him or anybody.”
Other than Cano’s helmet slam and Rhame’s moment in the spotlight, the Mets really haven’t gotten mad — or even — for all the times their batters have been plunked.
“When I came up in ’05, you’re going to get the retaliation right away,” Cano said. “It’s a different game than it is right now. Guys have more fun. I love when guys have fun. When someone has fun, they don’t take it personally. If you strike me out, do whatever the [heck] you want. Because if I get you, I’m going to do whatever the [heck] I want.”
Mets pitchers have hit 16 batters, which is fourth in the NL, with Jacob deGrom having the most with three. Remember, Rhame didn’t hit Hoskins on the 98 mile-per-hour fastball over his head or the later 3-and-2 pitch that was also high and tight and drew Hoskins’ ire and almost led to a bench-clearing brawl.
If Rhame was retaliating, was it because the Phillies had hit Alonso and Jeff McNeil with pitches the night before? McNeil had to get X-rays on his hand.
Or was it a cumulative thing? Were the Mets just fed up with getting hit and starting to think it was more than just a happenstance?
“It’s a good question,” Todd Frazier said. “I think [pitching inside] is part of it. I think it’s part of the game. Maybe some are intentional. Maybe some are not. You just never know, but the more you keep coming in on a guy like Cano, the more it makes you think a little bit. Maybe something along the lines of, ‘If you’re going to come in, fine, but sometimes it’s a little too far in.’ I think getting hit is a part of baseball, though, at the end of the day. It’s something that you keep in the back of your mind. If it keeps going on, then there’s something fishy going on.”
McNeil, who has been hit a team-high six times, said: “I think that’s just baseball. Teams pitching inside. I think I’ve gotten nicked like three of my times I got hit — I barely got touched. I’m on the plate a little bit. The one time I got hit on the hand, it didn’t feel good.”
Frazier, who has been hit once this season and 60 times in his nine-year career, said a batter knows when he is getting thrown at — or at least thinks he does.
“Just depends on the situation,” he said. “What happened the night before, what happened during that game, what have you done to that person in the past. I always give a look just to make sure. Usually when you get hit, nowadays they give you a nod to make sure you knew it wasn’t on purpose, which is fine. If they don’t, then it makes you wonder. Most of us have been around long enough to know that.”
As for Rhame, Callaway vowed this week that the suspension hanging around the righthander’s neck won’t factor in when the Mets are looking to call up an arm for their bullpen. His sacrifice (if it was one) won’t have been for nothing.
“No, that doesn’t [factor in],” Callaway said. “I think when we call up Rhame, we’ll be able to use him and then we can figure out what to do with the suspension when the times comes.”
On Saturday, the Mets called up a righthander from Syracuse to replace the injured Luis Avilan. It was Chris Flexen.
The Mets who have been hit by pitches this season, with number of times hit and number of times in the x-ray machine (going into Saturday):
Jeff McNeil 6 1
Brandon Nimmo 3 1
Pete Alonso* 2 1
Michael Conforto 2 0
Robinson Cano* 1 2
Todd Frazier 1 0
Juan Lagares 1 1
Wilson Ramos 1 0
Dominic Smith 1 0
*Cano (twice) and Alonso (once) were called for swings on pitches that hit them in the hand, so those don’t count as HBPs. But they still hurt and still led to x-rays.
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Home Life Style Health & Fitness One person dies every six seconds due to Tobacco: W.H.O.
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One person dies every six seconds due to Tobacco: W.H.O.
Among smokers who are aware of the dangers of tobacco, most want to quit. Counseling and medication can more than double the chance that a smoker who tries to quit will succeed.
One person dies every six seconds due to tobacco: World Health Organization
Tobacco is a major killer worldwide. Smoking nicotine is linked to many diseases including cancers.
Tobacco Kills:An undisputed fact
Tobacco smoking has become a major single cause of cancer mortality [death] around the world.
According to a report by WHO, the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, which kills nearly six million people a year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
Approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco, accounting for one in 10 adult deaths. Up to half of current users will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease.
The report says, “Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. If current trends continue, it may cause one billion deaths in the 21st century.”
Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million per year by 2030. More than 80% of those deaths will be in low-and middle-income countries, the report suggests.
However, despite the menace caused by tobacco consumption, only four countries, representing just over a third of the world’s population, monitor tobacco use by repeating nationally representative youth and adult surveys at least once every five years.
As per the report, studies show that few people understand the specific health risks of tobacco use. For example, a 2009 survey in China revealed that only 38% of smokers knew that smoking causes coronary heart disease and only 27% knew that it causes stroke.
National comprehensive cessation services with full or partial cost-coverage are available to assist tobacco users to quit in only 21 countries, representing 15% of the world’s population.
-Prepared by NewsGram staff writer.
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“Respecting Notre-Dame means respecting the innovation present at its genesis”
La Croix: Why did you offer a New Year’s concert in a virtual Notre-Dame cathedral?
Jean Michel Jarre : Notre-Dame is a strong symbol of the Church and, beyond that, one of the jewels of the heritage which connects us to each other. With the fire, the cathedral was weakened as we ourselves are today with this pandemic.
→ READ. For the New Year, a concert by Jean-Michel Jarre in digitized Notre-Dame
I found it relevant to celebrate the New Year and its message of hope by connecting it to a cathedral that we want to recover quickly, like ours. The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo liked this idea of resilience and resistance and wanted Paris to send this message to the whole world.
What will the concert look like?
JM. J. : Those who are equipped with a virtual headset will be able to immerse themselves in the virtual cathedral and attend the concert by means of an avatar. Me, I will be both physically present in Studio Gabriel, in the center of Paris, and virtually present, via my avatar, in the cathedral. I would have sensors on me, which will allow me to play as if I were in the cathedral, whose facade has been specially modeled for the occasion.
Final days of rehearsals for WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE. Cannot wait to perform this show for you on New Years Eve. I’ll be doing a Facebook Live tonight at 6:30pm CET (Paris time) from the broadcasting studio. pic.twitter.com/3Mdok5dBJg
– Jean-Michel Jarre (@jeanmicheljarre) December 29, 2020
I would like to share with those who are worried that this concert carries the deepest respect for what the cathedral is, both religiously and heritage. He will not fall into the anecdote, will not project figurative images on the cathedral.
The scenography will be abstract and geometric. I like to remember that those who built it in the Middle Ages were visionaries and futurists. Their research on the balance of volumes, stained glass, acoustics were revolutionary. In the 21st century, respecting Notre-Dame also means respecting the innovation present at its genesis.
→ THE FACTS. Notre-Dame de Paris: images from Jean-Michel Jarre’s New Year’s concert
Do you plan to give a spiritual dimension to your show?
JM. J. : Music has always had a spiritual dimension for me. I remember my meeting with John Paul II, when I did the concert for his coming to Lyon (in 1986, Editor’s note), he told me (with his accent!): “ I love your laser harp that touches the sky “. Much has been said about the relationship of spirituality to modern music, electronic, classical or others. I carry this dimension within me, even if the music of December 31 must be festive.
Have you been inspired by the long musical tradition created by Notre-Dame?
JM. J. : At the opening of the concert, I placed the sounds of the great organs of Notre-Dame, which I modified and rearranged with a very electro side. But I’m keeping my DNA, I’m not going to do anything special and fall into the caricature of integrating Gregorian sounds. Even though I love Gregorian chant!
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For this concert, I was very interested in the acoustics of Notre-Dame. I used Ircam software to reconstruct the reverberation of the cathedral, while having the ability to control it, because as soon as we play more rhythmic music, percussions for example, the sounds get blurred in such a building. With this software, we were able to reduce the reverberation of the bass part of the orchestra and keep the fullness of the volume on everything that is melodic. It works very well.
Are there things that you forbid yourself, even though Notre-Dame will be virtual?
JM. J. : The avatars will have to be dressed correctly and I will not be alone in the cathedral, that would have been arrogant. I will not be in front of the altar, nor in the center, but on the side of the people, in the central aisle. Avatars will be able to dance, as is done in some American churches. It is important to celebrate the transition to 2021 in a joyful way. The Church needs it too.
→ READ. Notre-Dame: Roselyne Bachelot refutes any modification of the stained glass windows
What is your personal connection to Notre-Dame?
JM. J. : I remember visiting the cathedral as a child and being very impressed by its majestic side, its extraordinary strength, which almost scared me. I was only able to formulate it after the fact, but it was the perfect symmetry of the monument that struck me. It gave me the feeling of something futuristic. It is not for nothing that the Gothic influences science fiction. Notre-Dame makes the link between the past and the future. It’s a spaceship! Notre-Dame is also for me that of the work of Victor Hugo, where it becomes the backdrop for the social crisis of an eternal and popular Paris.
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Michel Onfray: My 500 hours of death with Corona
The coronavirus doesn’t just cause existential pain. It dominates people in their identity. The philosopher Michel Onfray felt like a mindless creature for 21 days. In the beginning and in the end he even saw the twilight of his own death.
I am cold as a corpse, I know that, because I kissed the cheeks of loved ones after they died. I see myself still alive as a corpse and those who love me kiss me one last time. A living corpse, alive and dead, dead alive… Nobody’s cold in the car, just me.
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We will survive – but will no longer be human
The second wave is here and we are reacting to Covid very differently than the first time. The third wave will usher in the “posthuman” age. There are disturbing possibilities of what comes next. .
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Michel Foucault: The lecture that changed our thinking forever
Foucault develops concern about the power of the ‘wild’ discourse from the circumstances of his own speech: he would like not to have to begin to have arrived in the discourse before he has to speak. In retrospect it becomes clear where this fear comes from, as he says, as seen, that the truth has something to be taken for granted from the inside and only reveals its threat potential when viewed from the outside.
Last but not least, the institutions, including those before which Foucault is now speaking, serve to tame this fear. But what if it were exactly the other way around? If all institutions were not the external instances of control over the discourse, but represented places where discourse becomes possible. Does it exist at all – outside of theoretical abstraction the Discourse, a discourse in and of itself that would precede all social practice? Isn’t all speech always already included in situations in which it fulfills certain functions?
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“For de Gaulle, the dream had to cross politics”
The cross. You published this biography of Charles de Gaulle and you have just published a book of memories on your childhood. In 1945, at 8 years old, what vision did you have of the General?
Michel Winock : I remember seeing him cheered by the crowd in a convertible car on the Champs-Élysées. It was June 18, 1945. With my brothers and sisters, we had come from Arcueil to participate in the great anniversary celebration of the call of June 18. There was an extraordinary euphoria!
→ CHRONICLES. De Gaulle, an extraordinary story
My family was Catholic and conservative. In 1940, Pétain’s photo was displayed with us, but it was replaced during the war – around 1942, I think – by that of General de Gaulle. At home, we listened to Radio Londres every night, hunched over my father’s wonderful nine-bulb radio station. De Gaulle was a hero for us.
In 1958, you were 21 when de Gaulle was recalled to power and installed the Ve Republic. How has your outlook on him evolved?
M. W. : In 1958, we are in the Algerian war and I am a student activist in favor of independence. I am hostile to the return of De Gaulle, who is returning to power with the support of the army. There was an aspect of illegality that the Republican, Democratic and Socialist left – not to mention the Communists – could not accept. I was on Pierre Mendès France’s side. Quickly, I understood that there were no other solutions, but I voted “no” in the 1958 referendum, like a last-ditch…
→ READ. De Gaulle, Genevoix: for Emmanuel Macron, the opportunity to “become president”
And in May 68?
M. W. : In 1968, I was 31 years old and I was a high school history teacher and lecturer at Sciences-Po. I live the “Events” in happiness, seeing the assertion of a principle that is dear to me, that of the autonomy of people – in family, political, social relations… – and the principle of federation against vertical, Jacobin politics. In all areas, new social relations were invented, undermining the patriarchal, hierarchical, authoritarian model.
De Gaulle, despite his greatness, represented this model, even if he was a democrat, as he showed by renouncing power after his failure in the 1969 referendum. At the time, one of the slogans against him was: “Ten years is enough! “ I shared this idea, without being an opponent of De Gaulle. There was a certain charm about him that had come to correct my hostility in 1958 …
We commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. How do the French today view it?
M. W. : There is a form of longing for a prestigious power. The nostalgia for a leader who was respected, esteemed and, for many, loved, whose popularity rating – which still greatly exceeded 50% of favorable opinions – is the dream of current presidents. The relationship with De Gaulle also goes hand in hand with a certain image of France, that of the Trente Glorieuses, marked by industrial development and the equipment of households by car, television, refrigerator… De Gaulle played a role in economic policy of those years, but he was also the great beneficiary of a prosperous period, for which the French are also nostalgic.
Hasn’t it become an indisputable benchmark?
M. W. : Absolutely. The most extraordinary thing is that even Marine Le Pen claims to be his, even though she comes from the Pétainist right, “French Algeria” and xenophobia that he has always fought. Being picked up by your enemies is a sign!
The extreme right claims him in the name of his defense of national identity against Europe. However, it must be remembered that De Gaulle was European. He was against the idea of federation, but in favor of a confederation, a union of states. And De Gaulle was not a nationalist. Nationalism, he reproached, is defending one’s country against others. He defends the nations, their right to independence and freedom. Its idea of national independence is not reserved for France. He defends it for all peoples.
Can we say that he was the last great French Catholic Head of State?
M. W. : The Second World War, with the engagement of many Catholics in the Resistance, led by a Catholic leader, marks a great moment for the reintegration of Catholics into the Republic. De Gaulle carried this and, at the same time, he perfectly assumed the secular nature of the French state. He respects secularism and he will not manifest his faith during major religious ceremonies, where he does not take Communion, except exceptionally, as in Moscow in 1966.
Is his permanent desire to unite the French people a trace of his Catholicism?
M. W. : Yes, this idea is very Catholic. For a very long time, Catholics hated politics, accused of sowing division while the Catholic faith carries an idea of unanimity. De Gaulle’s hostility towards political parties comes in part from there. But it is also a Jacobin idea. And let’s not forget that De Gaulle was also a soldier of 1914, marked by the Sacred Union. He always had this idea of bringing the French together. The great paradox is that his idea of electing the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage will, on the contrary, create bipartisanship, by cutting France in two during the second round.
What to remember from his style of government?
M. W. : In the collective imagination, he is first of all the honest and incorruptible man. In a mediocre Republic, where corruption remains common, this reference to his honesty is complete. Then, De Gaulle understood perfectly that the dream had to cross politics. He said : “With chimeras, we do not play politics, but without chimeras, we do nothing. “ He combines a great sense of reality and great daring. It’s a “Realistic dreamer”, as Romain Gary said.
Finally, we can not forget that he was a brilliant character. His press conferences were magnificent theater numbers. He appears there as a first-rate actor, accepting to wear make-up to appear on television, to remove his glasses, learning his carefully written texts by heart …
Despite everything, isn’t his way of exercising power dated?
M. W. : Indeed, there is an obsolete aspect in the verticality of power as it has exercised it. It was acceptable during the Algerian war, but sixty years later, it seems obsolete. The body of citizens is no longer the same. The French are now mostly educated, they no longer accept that decrees fall from above. This is why the style of the Ve République has something archaic and abnormal in comparison with other liberal democracies. At the same time, you have to realize that we are an extremely difficult country to govern. In France, the union is weak in relation to the forces of division: ideologies, inheritances, parties, personal quarrels …
The French have an extraordinary ability to say no, to criticize power, to disobey. They are not Democrats, they are rebels. They do not know how to negotiate, are incapable of compromise. For all these reasons, Gaullian verticality has some virtues: it keeps governments in place which govern. Somehow, despite its flaws in democracy, this Ve Republic is holding up. It’s too presidential, too personal, too vertical, but we can democratize it.
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“Islamophobia”: “Our continent has suicidally bowed to the madmen of God”
“Islamophobia” is a very topical battle term. It is often and reflexively used to outlaw criticism of acts of violence in the name of Islam, the oppression of women, homosexuals, ethnic minorities and other religions in Islamic cultures. The French writer and essayist Pascal Bruckner has for years been opposed to the fashionable term, which he believes is used politically to protect an anti-democratic and violent ideology. In his treatise “Imagined Racism – Islamophobia and Guilt” (Edition Tiamat, 240 pp., 24 €) the Parisian intellectual explores the historical causes for the worldwide success of the homicide argument.
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When the error of the philosopher Michel Onfray on the Covid-19 arouses the mockery of Internet users (video)
On CNews, the French philosopher has advanced an enormity about the coronavirus. This did not escape the journalist on the set, nor the Internet users who hijacked Michel Onfray’s assertion via the hashtag #JoueLaCommeOnfray.
On CNews, Michel Onfray showed that he did not really master the name Covid-19. On set against Laurence Ferrari for the morning show of October 14, the French philosopher made a mistake … which was not pinned on social networks until Monday, October 19. He believed that the management of the coronavirus should be made easier by the experience we have with previous viruses.
« There, we are in an emergency, so we tinker. We say good, Covid-19 is that there have been 18 previously. We will see how those worked “, He blurted out. There, Laurence Ferrari reminded him that if the Covid-19 is called that way, it is in relation to the year 2019, and not to a 19th version of the Covid. The philosopher recovered: “It was 2019, was it the year? But anyway, there were others. I believe SARS is part of the Covid, if I understand correctly. You tell yourself that it existed, it was taken care of ”.
Too late, as the Huffington Post pins. On Twitter, many Internet users reacted to the hashtag #JoueLaCommeOnfray and hijacked Michel Onfray’s assertion. And the least we can say is that they amused the gallery. Small top 10 of the best valves pinned on the web.
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Míchel: I don’t regret having left Pumas
September 13, 2020 September 11, 2020 by drbyos
Even if Pumas be as a leader in the GuarD1anes 2020 being one of the best teams in the tournament, the Spanish Míchel González, He does not regret having left the team within hours of starting the contest and on the contrary, he said he was surprised that the University was left with Juan Manuel Iturbe, one of the figures of the current team of Andrés Lillini, due to how expensive the player is.
The Spanish, in an interview with Fox Sports, revealed that he never had problems off the field with the Paraguayan and, on the contrary, the board agreed that he should not use him in the team, so they sent him six months on loan to Pachuca, as the idea was to sell it and thus alleviate the club’s very affected finances.
“Iturbe was in Pachuca, things did not go quite right for him (in Clausura 2020). And he has always seemed to me to be a fairly important player, but for the idea we had of reshaping the squad, the situation went through an economic one of players who logically have a high contract.
“But in no football case, I have no problem with him, among other things because he was one of the players who most affectionately said goodbye to me, surely thinking that he would have more opportunities later.”
COUGAR NEEDS MORE MONEY TO FIGHT FOR THE TITLE
The Spanish DT is pleased that Pumas is in the first place, but remains firm that University does not have the financial resources to fight for a title due to the vast number of other teams; This will be seen as the Leaguesaid the strategist.
“I do not regret (having left); Pumas is in a championship (at the top), around there it was demonstrated with (David) Patiño that it can exist (in the first places), but to maintain a team as big as Pumas and with as much fans as Pumas in the elite, much more consistency is needed and that also happens due to an economic situation that the club cannot maintain right now and that is not easy, fight against the greats, we will see it as that the championship is getting closer to the Liguilla “.
‘TALAVERA, A LEADER IN THE PUMAS DRESSING ROOM’
On the other hand, the coach also highlighted the great role that Alfredo Talavera has had in the team and considered him the first University leader in several years.
“There is a circumstance that I do not know if it is being valued a lot in Mexico, that for the first time in that dressing room or at least in the time that I have followed Pumas and I’ve been a coach there is a leader on the field and outside; that’s talavera“.
Categories Sport Tags Guard1anes 2020, Liga MX, Liga MX 2020, Mexican league, mexican soccer, michel, Opening 2020, Pumas, Pumas news
The abbey of Mont Saint-Michel wakes up
The walks in the streets of Mont Saint Michel can again culminate in the gothic Wonder. Monday 15 June, the famous abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has welcomed its first visitors, after more than two months of closure due to the epidemic of coronavirus.
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Until the end of the month of August, the abbey will be open from 9 h 30 to 18 h 30, in the strict observance of the safety instructions. Wearing a mask is mandatory as early as 11 years and the route has been marked in order to comply with the rules of distancing. A gauge of visitors reduced has been put in place, limited to” a little less than 1 500 visitors per day “says the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN), in charge of the building. And the itinerary of the visit is done in a unique sense.
In order to manage the flow of tourists on this site that has welcomed over 1.4 million people in 2019 and that is the most visited of France in the regions, the Centre des monuments nationaux has chosen not to re-open the ticket office on site. The purchase of tickets is required in advance, either via the Internet site of the abbey (abbaye-mont-saint-michel.fr), or from the offices of the Tourist Office of Mont-Saint-Michel Normandy and reseller partners. Each visitor is given a tour slot. In addition, the guided tours are cancelled. The reopening of the site represents a major issue for the SPC that assesses at 50 million euros, the losses relating to the crisis of the Covid 19.
Wearing a mask is mandatory in the village
Confined for two months, the Mont-Saint-Michel had returned to life with the return of the visitors, and the re-opening of its shops, outside cafes and restaurants, on the 11th of may. Because of the health crisis, specific measures had been put in place on the rock, with a unique sense of movement in the village, in order to avoid crossings of people. This sense of movement has since been lifted and the curious can again walk the streets of the Mount freely, but wearing a mask is still required in the village.
Other famous monuments of the French may have re-opened on Monday 15 June, including the arc de Triomphe, the Pantheon, and the Castle of Vincennes in Île-de-France. The Centre des monuments nationaux has released to the public Friday, June 12, the timing of re-openings of the monuments of its network, which is expected to be fully operational on 23 June, with the final re-openings of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and of the Gallo-roman site of Sanxay (Vienne).
Categories Entertainment Tags abbey, culture, Facts of religious, michel, Mont-Saint-Michel, Museum, saint, wake up
Santander League: La Quinta del Buitre, Sergio Ramos, Fernando Torres or Iago Aspas appeared thanks to the crisis | LaLiga Santander 2019
The Quinta del Buitre was a product of the crisis. It saysMchel, a member of one of the most significant groups in Spanish football, in the 1980s. Madrid was going through a very delicate period economically. They gave us the opportunity because they had no choice. I am convinced that otherwise the Quinta would not have appeared as it did, adds the former Real Madrid player, currently at the head of the Pumas, in Mexico. The quarry as a solution to a specific crisis has been repeated in other cases, Sevilla, Celta or Atltico. Now, however, a conjuncture is looming, a consequence of the pandemic, which will affect the entire sector. A unique occasion. Mchel’s question is whether the quarry is ready, because it is not taken care of in all the clubs as it was then.
It is clear that this situation will represent an opportunity, but it will be necessary to see how many can take advantage of it for a matter of level, says Mchel, back to Madrid for the break of the Mexican league. After the effects of the last crisis, the clubs in Spain became economically balanced and this has allowed them to have money to invest in transfers. I am not saying that they have neglected the quarry because of this, but also because the culture has been lost. When we were in Castilla, most of the subsidiaries played in Segunda. Now you have to look for them in Segunda B, regrets who was the coach of the white subsidiary and responsible for the Madrid youth team.
J knows of crisisoaqun Caparrs, who arrived at a Seville sunk in Second and loaded with debts.MonchiAnd I had to impose the figure of the ‘zero cost footballer’, and for this we had to bring in young players in formation, and accelerate those we had in the quarry, recalls the technician, who takes the reins of the team from Armenia.
Sergio RamosandKingsThey were two of the players who went up to the first team and whose subsequent sale[al Real Madrid y al Arsenal, respectivamente]It would allow Sevilla to make good money and begin to recover financially, recalls the Utreran coach. Many others will follow, such asAntoito, the missingAntonio Puerta,Capelor, later,Jess Navas. A trend that Sevilla knew how to alternate with Monchi’s skillful acquisitions, either due to his contribution to the team or the generation of capital gains. The model of current Seville, in short, was generated thanks to making virtue of necessity.
Caparrs is somewhat more optimistic than Mchel: I think that in a few months we will see players we did not know and some of them will make their way. They will be the generation of Covid-19. In charge of the sevillista quarry continuesPablo Blanco, former legendary player of the club and a sensible man. Not only the economic crises have meant opportunities for the quarry, but also the sports ones. They are a push, he says. In front of a base football that has borne good results, he believes that Spain continues to work well, although not all the clubs are on the same line. Blanco agrees with Mchel in highlighting Real Sociedad as one of the teams that benefits the most.
If the coaches dare, I see footballers who can give a very good level. I also think that they will be necessary, because everything indicates that there will be more injuries and five changes can be made. We have loaned asCarlos Fernndez(Granada) orBryan(Legans), who may be part of Sevilla’s squad next year, in addition to others who come,Alfonso Pastor, Pablo Prez, Juanlu, Lara…, continues the person in charge of the Sevilla team, for whom there is a factor that can favor the performance of the youngest in these circumstances. Playing without the public, without that pressure, can make them feel more uninhibited, he adds.
Madrid, for example, play in the field of the subsidiary, although the jump to the first team is difficult for its youth squads. The club has opted for a successful recruitment of young talents in the market, such asRodrigoorReinier, forwards of Ral’s subsidiary, who add competition to that already signings for the first team. The consolidatedFede Valverdetoday it is the model.
Since his arrival at Camp Nou,Quique Setinhas given minutes toRiqui Puig, the result of a leaked quarry. The club has sold players from the house for its salary balance, but has acquired one of the most promising youngsters, the CanaryPedri. In the Atlantic,Simeoneuses youth squads asCamelorRiquelmefor specific situations, because the physical requirement of the equipment makes them necessary. Continuity is another thing in a club that, at the youth level, has one of the best batches of Spanish football.
This Attic has been in heaven for years, not in hell where the beardless man made his wayFernando Torres. El Nio became a man at once thanks to a total crisis, economic, sports and institutional, and the best manager of the absurd,Luis Aragons.
Mchel’s son and captain of Malaga,Adrin Gonzlez, took to AFE the proposal to expand the quota of four footballers beyond number 25 present in the lineups. The union must transfer it to the Federation. An emergency solution for a bankrupt Malaga, this may be the case now for many other clubs. In fact, it is in the most modest teams, with less capacity to generate income, where the needs are greatest.
For some in that segment, the quarry was the salvation. This is the case of Celta, who entered the bankruptcy in the 2007/08 season. The arrival ofCarlos Mourioimposed the economy of own resources on the team to the presidency, carried out by the hand ofEusebius, in second. AppearedYoel, Hugo Mallo, Oubiaand of course,Iago Aspas. In the team that returned to Primera, under the command ofPaco HerreraSeven players were already playing. Between 2006 and 2017, the sale of players from the house reported to Celta 40.2 million euros. The quarry, then, took him out of the crisis, returned him to his place and paid the bill, in excess. It was the perfect antibody.
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Jeopardy! Just Revealed Who Will Be Taking Over As Host Following Alex Trebek's Death
The game show will resume production later this month.
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Just in time for production to resume later this month, plans for the new Jeopardy! host were revealed via social media.
In a post just after 5 p.m. on Monday evening, the game show’s official Twitter page announced that filming would restart on November 30.
Following the death of host Alex Trebek earlier this month, the production confirmed that “a series of interim guest hosts” would be taking over for the time being.
Starting, they revealed, with Ken Jennings.
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Jennings is already pretty familiar with Jeopardy!, having won 74 games in a row and claiming the show’s “Greatest of All Time” title.
The episodes starring Jennings will air in January.
“Additional guest hosts [are] to be announced,” the game show explained in Monday's Tweet.
Prior to his death, 80-year-old Alex Trebek was the first and only host of the TV show.
The Canadian-American personality passed away on November 8, following a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Concluding their statement on Monday, Jeopardy! added, “We will honour his legacy by continuing to produce the game he loved.”
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Initial purchase for FMD vaccine bank
TAGS: Farm Operations Livestock Handling Regulatory
UPDATED: Two companies awarded vaccine contracts.
Compiled by Kevin Schulz | Jul 08, 2020
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces the initial purchase of vaccine for the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank. APHIS will invest $27.1 million in foot-and-mouth disease vaccine, which the agency would use in the event of an outbreak to protect animals and help stop the spread of disease.
"While we are confident we can keep foot-and-mouth disease out of the country, as we have since 1929, having access to vaccine is an important insurance policy," says Marketing and Regulatory Programs Under Secretary Greg Ibach. "Vaccines could be an important tool in the event of an incursion of the disease in the U.S, but their use will depend on the circumstances of the incursion and require careful coordination with the affected animal industries."
Vaccination helps control the spread of infection by reducing the amount of virus shed by animals and by controlling clinical signs of illness. While an outbreak would temporarily disrupt international markets, vaccination would allow animals to move through domestic production channels. FMD is not a threat to public health or food safety. It is also not related to hand, foot and mouth disease, which is a common childhood illness caused by a different virus.
The establishment of a robust foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank — a top, long-term priority for the National Pork Producers Council — came closer to reality today as the USDA announces its first significant vaccine purchase. NPPC was instrumental in advocating for establishment of the FMD vaccine bank as part of the 2018 farm bill.
Currently, the USDA, which has prescribed vaccination for dealing with an FMD outbreak, does not have access to enough vaccine should an outbreak occur. FMD is an infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, pigs and sheep; it is not a food safety or human health threat. The disease is endemic in many parts of the world and would have widespread, long-term fallout for livestock and crop agriculture, including the immediate loss of export markets.
"Today's announcement is momentous, representing years of NPPC advocacy to ensure U.S. agriculture is protected should we have an FMD outbreak," says NPPC President Howard "AV" Roth, a hog farmer from Wauzeka, Wis. "While U.S. pork producers and other farmers face significant challenges and uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a solution to FMD preparedness is in our grasp. We thank USDA and especially Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Greg Ibach for proceeding with such an important effort and look forward to continuing to work with the agency to ensure the FMD vaccine bank is adequately stocked."
The 2018 farm bill provided $150 million in mandatory funding over the next five years for the FMD vaccine bank, the National Animal Health Laboratory Network and the National Animal Disease Preparedness Program.
According to Iowa State University research, an FMD outbreak would result in $128 billion in losses for the pork and beef sectors, $44 billion and $25 billion, respectively, to the corn and soybean farmers, and job losses of more than 1.5 million across U.S. agriculture over 10 years.
Boehringer Ingelheim announced in a press release that the company has been awarded a contract by the USDA to help supply the vaccine bank. The contract calls for Boehringer Ingelheim to create and maintain a strategic reserve of frozen vaccine antigen concentrate that the company could quickly formulate into a vaccine for FMD in the event of an outbreak in the United States.
"Boehringer Ingelheim has proudly supported the U.S. livestock industry for decades as a leader in animal vaccine technology," says Everett Hoekstra, president of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. "Infectious animal diseases can disrupt our food supply, and governments make significant investments to help prevent and prepare for such events."
"As a global leader in the storage and management of FMD vaccine banks, with FMD expertise dating back more than 70 years, Boehringer Ingelheim constantly monitors emerging disease threats," says Steve Boren, vice president of the U.S. Livestock Business at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health.
A USDA spokesperson says Biogénesis Bagó, an Argentina-based company, was also awarded a contract. According to the Biogénesis Bagó website, the company obtained the first registration for a vaccine against FMD in Argentina in 1952.
"This contract enhances Biogénesis Bagó's commitment with animal health evolution worldwide," says Esteban Turic, corporate CEO. The new achievement was possible because of the commitment of the entire team of professionals and technicians at Biogénesis Bagó. Consistent quality standards for its production processes to provide animal health solutions in the most diverse territories are the key for the company to provide high-value technologies from Argentina to the world.
Rodolfo Bellinzoni, COO and Innovation director for Biogénesis Bagó, also a world expert in this disease says, "We have many years of experience, developing technological solutions with high qualified human capital that allowed us to consolidate as a world referent in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease. It is validated with other important achievements as our endorsement as a key player in emergency campaigns during outbreaks in Argentina, Uruguay, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam. Also we are the only foreign company in China to produce FMD vaccine in the world largest market."
The NAVVCB is one component of a three-part program established by the 2018 farm bill to comprehensively support animal disease prevention and management. The new U.S.-only vaccine bank — a concept APHIS officials have long discussed with stakeholders and industry — makes a much larger number of vaccine doses available than we currently have through the North American Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank. APHIS will continue to participate in the NAFMDVB, and this new program adds to the nation's level of protection against this devastating disease. In the event of an outbreak, animal health officials would decide when, where and how to use the available vaccine, based on the circumstances of the outbreak.
Sources: USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Pork Producers Council and Boehringer Ingelheim, which are solely responsible for the information provided, and wholly own the information. Informa Business Media and all its subsidiaries are not responsible for any of the content contained in this information asset.
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Summer swimming on cards in Southern Cross with new $5.65 million aquatic centre
Southern Cross Aquatic Centre in eastern Wheatbelt region officially opened today
State Government contributed $700,000 under CSRFF funding
The new $5.65 million Southern Cross Aquatic Centre was officially opened today by Sport and Recreation Minister Mick Murray.
The pool was built with the help of a $700,000 Community Sporting and Recreation Facilities Fund (CSRFF) grant, administered by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
The original pool serving residents living in and near the eastern Wheatbelt town of Southern Cross was built in 1963, but its condition in recent years meant it was no longer fit for purpose.
The redeveloped aquatic centre includes the replacement of the original swimming pool and upgrading the associated facilities such as:
a separate toddlers’ pool;
change rooms and toilet facilities with universal access;
kiosk and first aid station;
barbecues, seating and shade; and
half basketball court and cricket net.
Additional funding for the project was provided by the Shire of Yilgarn ($4.9 million) and Mineral Resources Limited ($53,000).
As stated by Sport and Recreation Minister Mick Murray:
“This aquatic centre is an example of the commitment of the Shire of Yilgarn and the wider community to ensure people in Southern Cross have the best facilities possible.
“This centre has been designed and built to cater specifically for the needs of this community – young and old – as well as those who want to maintain peak fitness.
“It’s a wonderful amenity which I know will be well used for many years to come.”
As stated by Agricultural Region MLC Darren West:
“The Southern Cross community has waited patiently for this new pool for many years and I thank Minister Murray for making these works a priority.
“We all know that it can get very hot in Southern Cross and I am sure this pool will be much appreciated by all members of the local community.
“This is yet another investment in regional WA by the McGowan Government.”
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White nationalists caught trying to record video in front of Emmett Till memorial
The Emmett Till Memorial Commission executive director said the group, carrying a neo-Confederate flag, appeared to be making a propaganda video.
Watch: White nationalists trigger sirens in front of Emmett Till memorial
A group of people carrying a white nationalist flag were caught on camera Saturday attempting to record a video in front of the Emmett Till memorial in Sumner, Mississippi.
Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, told NBC News that the group was captured on camera by a new surveillance system that was updated when the bulletproof memorial was dedicated on Oct. 19.
"This is the first incident we’ve seen of what appears to be white nationalists making a propaganda video," Weems said.
One man can be heard in the video identifying the sign as a monument representing the "civil rights movement for blacks."
"What we want to know is, where are all of the white people?" he continued.
In another clip, the group can be seen scrambling for their cars after sirens go off, a newly added security feature.
A clip of the video was posted to the Sumner Courthouse and Emmett Till Interpretive Center Facebook page on Saturday.
Since the incident, the site has been monitored by the Tallahatchie County Sheriff's Office.
The group was carrying a white flag with a black St. Andrews cross, a symbol authorities said were connected to a neo-Confederate group called the League of the South in Alabama, according to Weems.
Southern Poverty Law Center identifies the League of the South as a hate group that has "increasingly embraced violence, criticized perceived Jewish power and warned black people that they would be defeated in a future race war."
Emmett Till was 14 years old when he was abducted, tortured and brutally murdered by two white men in 1955 after the teen was accused of whistling at a white woman. Till was visiting family in the area when he was kidnapped and then found dead days later in the Tallahatchie River.
Signs memorializing Till have been vandalized and shot at multiple times since the first marker was put up in 2007, according to the commission. A bulletproof sign, the fourth Till memorial in the area, was dedicated on Oct. 19, to replace a sign that had been "riddled with 20 bullet holes."
The memorial commission launched the Emmett Till Memory Project the same day, an app that uses GPS markers at historic sites to tell the story of Emmett Till. The landowner who owned the farm by the river where Till's body was found has donated the land, where the memorial commission hopes to raise funds to create another memorial site.
Weems told NBC News that the organization was proud to work with the community to keep the legacy of Emmett Till alive.
"We want to respond to this hate speech by continuing to do this work."
Doha Madani is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Associated Press contributed.
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Japan Shifting to Allow the Use of U.S. Ethanol
Earlier today, the U.S. Grains Council announced that Japan had finalized a change to the country’s biofuels policy. As a result of this policy change, Japan will now allow the use of U.S. ethanol to meet its greenhouse gas reduction standard. The National Corn Growers Association is pleased with today’s announcement. “We applaud the Japanese government for recognizing the benefits of U.S. ethanol and its improved lifecycle assessment resulting from farmers’ production efficiency and sustainability,” said NCGA President Kevin Skunes. “We appreciate Japan’s consumers putting their trust in America’s corn farmers and the ethanol industry to be a consistent and reliable supplier of bio-ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) made from U.S. corn-based ethanol.”
To read the full announcement, click here.
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What Happened, Miss Simone? is a 2015 American biographical documentary film about Nina Simone directed by Liz Garbus. The film opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released by Netflix on June 26, 2015. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.
THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE
The Amazing Nina Simone is a 2015 American documentary film by director Jeff L. Lieberman. The film details the life, legacy and musical accomplishments of singer, musician, pianist, songwriter and Civil Rights activist, Nina Simone through interviews with over 50 of the subject’s friends, family, band members, lovers and fellow activists. The film has been called the best of the three Nina Simone films by The New Yorker Magazine, and “The Nina Simone film we should all be watching” by Blavity.
This documentary film, The Legend, on Nina’s life and music, made in France by Frank Lords is told in large part by Nina Simone herself. It is an honest portrayal based on her autobiography “I Put A Spell On You,” that shows Nina at her mightiest and at her most vulnerable. The live concert footage is fantastic.
KULTUR: LIVE IN '61 & '62
Nina Simone has always been hard to classify. The “High Priestess of Soul” was trained as a classical pianist, but branched out early into pop, gospel, jazz and blues, playing and singing everyone’s compositions and writing many of her own.
At 28 years old, she had already been seen in many clubs and had recorded several LP’s when in 1961-62 she agreed to be filmed, without an audience, in a New York City studio.
With a justified reputation as one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, Nina Simone has lit up the music world with some superlative performances over the years.
This footage is culled from shows in 1961 and 1962, and sees Simone tackling a number of songs alone at the piano. Among them are I Loves You Porgy, For All We Know, Sunday In Savannah, and many others.
JAZZ ICONS: LIVE IN '65 & '68
Jazz Icons is the folk Nina (The Ballad of Hollis Brown) and the jazz Nina (Love Me Or Leave Me) presented here in live club and TV performances in typically Nina Simone spellbinding fashion. Nina recalls the passion, fury and angst of the Civil Rights struggle and the 1960s with impassioned renditions of Brown Baby, Four Women and Mississippi Goddam. This collection of Nina Simone, a superb vocalist-pianist who absolutely defied categorization, includes a stirring rendition of her signature song I Loves You Porgy.
LIVE AT MONTREUX, 1976
Nina Simone made four appearances at the Montreux Festival between 1968 and 1990. This film features the whole performance from 1976 as the main feature and is supplemented by bonus features of two tracks from her concert in 1987 and four from her final show in 1990.
Ronnie Scott’s opened in 1959 to provide a place where British Jazz musicians could jam. Eventually, American music musicians such as Johnny Griffin, Roland Kirk, Al Cohn, Stan Getz, Sony Stitt, Benny Golson, Donald Byrd, and Ben Webster played at the club making it the legendary Jazz club it is today.
Today, the club that resides at 47 Frith Street still books the greatest Jazz acts in the world, but also plays host to such diverse musicians as Tom Waits, Linda Lewis, Elkie Brooks, Eric Burdon, Paul Rodgers, Jack Bruce, and also the talented Nina Simone…
This film features Nina Simone (vocals, piano) delivering an intense emotional performance at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, London on November 17, 1985.
Simone is considered to be one of the most diverse singers of the 20th century, recording material in multiple genres including soul, jazz, pop, blues, gospel, and Broadway. Most often labeled a “soul” singer due to her emotional performing tendencies, Simone is an eclectic musician, who adds a soulful mystique to whatever material she interprets. This brilliant performance at Ronnie Scott’s is testament to this fact.
THE SOUL OF NINA SIMONE
What will undoubtedly excite Simone fans, and what is truly the highlight of The Soul of Nina Simone is the DualDisc’s video portion. Featuring live performances that have been impeccably restored, it is a rare chance to witness the raw energy of both Simone’s playing and singing in a live setting. The first two cuts take us back to 1960, with Simone’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The other performances fast forward to the tail end of the ’60s, when Simone was at the peak of her popularity.
But it’s the most potent material that is saved for last. In what became known as the “Black Woodstock”, 1969’s Harlem Festival was a series of six concerts that drew nearly 100 000 people to Central Park’s northern end. For the first time, Simone’s performances have made available to the American public and they are simply fantastic. Watching Simone perform these songs in her prime is mesmerizing, astonishing and a real gift.
TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY
There was only one Nina Simone, an original and highly imaginative artist whose style embodied a wide range of influences from musical Americana and beyond. To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story (three CDs and a DVD) is a fine boxed set overview of her career, emphasizing the live performances where she was most in her element.
Culling material from her Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA, PM, CTI and Elektra recordings, To Be Free is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging of many available collections; it includes all the Billboard and UK national chart singles plus previously unreleased jewels.
(The film included on the DVD is also known as Nina: A Historical Perspective, a documentary produced by Peter Rodis in 1970.)
Great Performances: College Concerts and Interviews is an exceptionally rare but powerful collection of performances and interviews compiled by Nina Simone’s ex-husband and manager, Andy Stroud. Performances include concerts at Amherst College and at Morehouse College, both in 1969.
Interspersed between performances are behind the scenes clips of Nina speaking candidly about her music plus insights into her philosophies about music, race, and human relations.
Filmed at the Savoy Theatre in London, this 1985 live recording is dedicated to Nat King Cole. Nina is accompanied by Danny Williams, Lon Statton, Valerie Masters, The GB Blues Band, Root Jackson, Georg Lee, Rol Raye, and Will Gaines. Nina performs Young, Gifted, and Black, Ain’t Got No / I Got Life, I Loves You Porgy, and Mississippi Goddam.
A TRIBUTE TO BILLIE HOLIDAY
A one hour color special performed at the Hollywood Bowl in 1979 capturing 17,000 people and a star-studded concert performance by five of today’s top jazz and blues female performers, all present to pay tribute to the legendary Billie Holiday.
LIVE FROM GREENWICH VILLAGE, VOL. 1
In the sixties, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles were the music capitals of America. It was in such clubs as the Troubadour, Mister Kelly’s, and The Bitter End that young artists learned and performed their craft. Many of them went onto stardom and became part of the pop culture of our time.
Nina performs at The Bitter End in 1968, singing House of the Rising Sun and You’ll Go To Hell.
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B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau speaks during a media availability following her speech at the UBCM convention at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday September 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
The ‘relentless underdog’: Green Leader Sonia Furstenau ready for uphill battle
Furstenau was only named the party’s leader one week before the election was called
Green Leader Sonia Furstenau was driving Monday when she turned on the radio and learned an early election would be called that day in B.C.
She felt a kind of disappointment that she says she’s felt many times in the past — one that fuels her.
“It’s the disappointment that a lot of people feel when these kinds of cynical decisions are made that put a party ahead of the people that we’re in here to serve,” she said in an interview.
COVID-19 pandemic aside, it’s not an ideal time for an election for the Greens.
Furstenau was only named the party’s leader one week before the election was called and the Greens have never had the coffers of their political opponents.
On top of that, the Greens have a lot to prove, having won a record-breaking three seats in 2017. After holding the balance of power in the NDP’s minority government, Furstenau and her team must demonstrate the party is more than an anomaly and has a sustainable role to play.
So what has prepared her for this uphill battle?
“Everything. I seem to be in a relentless underdog story.”
The mother of three children and two step-children,Furstenau, 50, said she was drawn to politics by a sincere hope in a better future.
Her first foray came in 2014, when she ran for local government as part of her fight for clean drinking water in Shawnigan Lake, north of Victoria. For years she wrote letters, attended hearings and organized rallies against a provincial permit that allowed a company to store contaminated soil in the watershed.
“I was told every step of the way this was an unwinnable fight,” said Furstenau, who relaxes by knitting dolls in the likeness of people she loves or admires.
The permit was cancelled in 2017.
She won the leadership even as former leader Andrew Weaver told the Vancouver Sun he was advising her two competitors.
“The former leader was clearly working to not have me succeed in that role and I succeeded,” she said.
Weaver told the Vancouver Sun newspaper that Furstenau didn’t think she needed advice, but if she asked he would be happy to provide it.
Furstenau also overcame obstacles early in life, she said.
She was raised by a single mother in subsidized housing in Edmonton, and benefited from an experimental early childhood education program that meant she entered Grade 1 knowing how to read and write.
In the 1990s, she became a single mother too. But she could go to the University of Victoria because a tuition freeze meant she could afford it, and there was childcare for her young son, she said.
Before entering politics, she worked as a waitress, a bookkeeper and high school teacher.
Furstenau studied history and education in university and had started a PhD in England until examining the public value of her path.
“A friend of mine asked me a question that I really wrestled with, which was how does this help the world?”
Furstenau took it seriously enough to drop out and return to teaching in B.C., where she thought she could have a more direct impact.
She ran for the Greens in 2017 because she said she couldn’t get behind NDP or Liberal policies that supported the oil and gas sectors, or didn’t do enough in other areas that are important to her, like child welfare reform.
Adam Olsen, the other member of the Green caucus, said Furstenau was not deterred when she ran for a seat in the legislature, even though her Cowichan Valley riding was widely considered an NDP stronghold.
Olsen said he believes Furstenau is comfortable in the leadership role and ready to prove any doubters wrong.
“I think, actually, she cherishes this opportunity to be in this situation to some extent because I think some people have overlooked (her). She’s had shade cast on her since the beginning of the campaign to become leader and she shone through that shade,” he said.
“I think that will shine through the next 30 days.”
If there’s one misconception that people have about her, Olsen said it’s that Furstenau is a radical activist. She is a strong organizer and advocates for her community, and Olsen said he believes the two get confused.
“She’s very very principled and has a very strong moral compass, is very ethical in her approach to governance,” Olsen said.
For her part, Furstenau doesn’t see “activist” as a dirty word.
“If it means somebody who stands up for a future that’s better, then I’m an activist,” she said.
“I think so much of the good outcomes that we have are because of people who stand up for what they believe in.”
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