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Market conditions boost the Philippines' insurance sector
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The Philippine life insurance sector has seen major growth in recent years, in market size, penetration rates and product range. New channels are also opening – there has been a surge in bancassurance, for example – and more market entrants are expected as the country moves towards fuller integration into the ASEAN Economic Community.
Underpinning all this is the continued economic growth of the Philippines, with the particular sectors driving this, such as business process outsourcing (BPO), also providing a lucrative platform for expansion in the life sector. As firms grow, demand for employee benefits rises, with demand for health insurance packages particularly strong.
Bodies & Numbers
As with the rest of the sector, the main regulator for life insurance is the Insurance Commission (IC) currently headed by Insurance Commissioner Emmanuel F Dooc. On the industry side, the Philippines Life Insurance Association (PLIA) represents all the licensed life insurers in the country, promoting the sector and its interests. As of November 2015, it had 30 members.
The sector is also one of the most liberal markets in ASEAN, in terms of regulation and barriers to entry. A recent survey by Milliman ranked the country second only to Singapore in terms of regulation, at 58 out of 100 to Singapore’s 70. Among the 10 ASEAN member states, the country also came second in product development, third in distribution and fourth in sophistication of capital regime. It also came first in terms of talent mobility and foreign ownership – something evident in the prevalence of Filipino expatriates in other countries’ insurance firms, of foreign workers in Philippines-based outfits, as well as in the large number of foreign names among the sector’s insurers.
Indeed, in terms of market share, Sun Life of Canada (Philippines) had the largest reported total premium income in 2014, at P30.7bn ($681.5m), up from P29.6bn ($657.1m) in 2013. Second in rank was Philippine AXA Life Insurance, which recorded total premiums of P18.35bn ($407.4m) in 2014, up from P18.2bn ($404.1m) the year before. Just behind, in third place, was Philippine American Life and General Insurance (PhilAm Life), with P18.3bn ($406.26m) in total premiums for 2014. In fourth place came Pru Life Insurance, with P15.4bn ($341.9m), while BPI Philam Life Assurance came fifth, with P14.4bn ($319.7m).
Many of the top life insurers are thus Filipino subsidiaries of foreign outfits or joint ventures (JVs). The largest Filipino-owned life insurer is Insular Life, which ended 2014 with P11.9bn ($264.2m) in total premiums, a 6% growth on 2013. Among the foreign firms, Philippine AXA is a JV between Metropolitan Bank and Trust and AXA of France, while BPI Philam is a JV bancassurance project between Philam and the Bank of the Philippine Islands. Indeed, several other bancassurance firms are strong performers in the rankings. Sunlife Grepa Financial, which has an agreement with the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, had premium income of P7bn ($155.4m) in 2014, while Manulife Chinabank Life Assurance had total premium income of P4.9bn ($108.8m). This reflects the history of bancassurance regulation in the Philippines, which until 2013 had only allowed banks to distribute life insurance products from companies in which they had at least a 5% equity stake. 2015 also saw the launch of the Security Bank and FWD partnership as well as the announcement of a new JV between East West Bank and Ageas, underlining continued growth in the bancassurance segment.
The sector penetration rate stood around 1.5% in August 2015, according to Reuters, although IC Commissioner Dooc put the figure at 1.84% for the whole sector at the end of the first half of 2015. Either figure is still higher than the 0.5% registered for non-life, but still lower than an ASEAN benchmark of 3%. In terms of actual policy coverage, the most recent IC data in 2013 gave preliminary figures of around 32.5%. This was up on 24.4% the year before.
This low penetration rate, however, is widely attributed to several factors. First, there is the lack of availability of financial intermediaries in many parts of the country. Data from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank, suggests that some 1630 cities and municipalities in the country did not have banking coverage in mid-2015, with insurance activity in such areas often limited to pre-need schemes distributed via micro-insurance operations based within local cooperatives, pawnshops and NGOs. Another factor is a lack of awareness of life insurance and its benefits. A 2012 survey by PhilAm Life, for example, showed that only 25% of Filipinos believed in the idea of securing their future through life insurance. This is an area on which PLIA has been concentrating, as have other major life insurance sector players.
Another factor is income levels and the cost of policies. Per capita income has been rising, from $2372 at current prices in 2011 to $2871 in 2014, with many Filipinos enjoying incomes far above the mean. Yet many citizens, particularly in rural areas, but also urban dwellers, continue to have low incomes and little savings. As a result, firms have been cutting prices, with some policies retailing for as little as P500 ($11.10) per month. Indeed, life insurance’s recent success is connected greatly to that of micro-insurance, a market segment that is particularly advanced in the Philippines and targets low-income earners. The average payment may not exceed 7.5% of the minimum wage of a non-agricultural worker in Metro Manila, calculated on a daily basis, according to IC regulations.
In terms of popularity, while traditional policies are a mainstay, variable life insurance products continue to dominate. The IC results for the third quarter of 2015, the latest available, showed that total premiums in life expanded 33.2% year-on-year, from P109.25bn ($2.43bn) in the third quarter of 2014 to P145.5bn ($3.23bn). Of the 2015 third-quarter total, variable products accounted for P104.9bn ($2.33bn), or 72%, compared to P71.6bn ($1.6bn), or 65.5% in the same period a year earlier. Variable product growth was a remarkable 46.6% between the two periods, while traditional products grew 7.7%. For some companies, variable universal life (VUL) products account for even more of their business. The Philippine branch of Sun Life of Canada, for example, reported in July 2015 that VULs constituted 95% of their protection business, with only 5% being traditional policies.
VULs, hybrids between mutual funds and traditional life insurance policies, are favoured in particular, because, being linked to stocks and bonds, they offer higher returns in a buoyant capital market. The Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE) has shown strong growth recently, starting to rise in early 2011, when it crossed the 4000-point mark, then hitting 7000 points two years later. In this period, sales of new variable products also took off, rising from 26.86% of all life products sold in 2011 to 52.7% in 2013. The PSE then reached an all-time high in April 2015 of 8100 points, though it has since fallen, ending 2015 at around 6720 points. A relatively low interest rate environment has also benefitted VULs, making such products highly competitive against other options.
Another area that is gaining increasing attention is health insurance. The latest IC figures for 2013 show accident and health taking 23.3% of all policies sold, by value, that year – almost as many as traditional life insurance policies, which took 23.4%. Partly this has come via the success of the BPO industry, whose employees, notorious for high churn rates, are increasingly being enticed to stay with more elaborate benefit packages. These usually now include either health insurance or health maintenance organisation (HMO) coverage.
In late 2015 President Benigno Aquino transferred responsibility for HMOs from the Department of Health (DoH) to the IC via executive order. Concerns were raised that while this might boost the competence of the sector’s overseers, the medical expertise that the DoH can bring to bear would be lost. The debate looks set to continue as the Philippine government presses ahead with its plans to launch universal health coverage in 2016.
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Steven Avery Is Still Guilty as Hell
By Dustin Rowles | Streaming | October 4, 2017 |
A few years ago, you may recall that I got really hopped up on Netflix’s Making a Murderer docuseries. I had an axe to grind with Steven Avery — who is definitely guilty of murdering Teresa Halbach — and with the documentary series, as well, which manipulated viewers and cherry picked evidence to suggest that Avery had been wronged. In fact, not only did I watch the series repeatedly, but I ended up reading three books about the case. I was not only left more convinced of Avery’s guilt, but that his nephew Brendan Dassey was involved, as well.
That doesn’t mean that the police acted appropriately, and in the case of Dassey, they clearly did not act properly in eliciting his confession. I believe the confession to be true based on the evidence, but I also believe that the confession was properly thrown out by an appellate court because it was obtained illegally. Dassey currently remains in custody pending an appeal. If the confession ultimately remains tossed, it is likely that Dassey will be sprung from prison. I think that’s appropriate; regardless of Dassey’s involvement in Halbach’s murder, there is little doubt that Avery coerced an intellectually limited teenager into aiding him in the murder of Halbach, and Dassey has served an appropriate amount of time for his involvement.
Meanwhile, Avery is not going anywhere. The Associated Press reports that his petition for a new trial based on additional evidence has been denied. Sheboygan County Circuit Judge Angela Sutkiewicz stated that the new evidence presented was not enough to warrant an additional trial, adding that the new evidence would not result in a different result.
In other words, Avery is going to serve out that life sentence and continue rotting in prison, as he should.
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Rail success positions Port of Gdansk as ‘logistics hub’
A new railway bridge at the Port of Gdansk (PGA) ensured rail freight volumes through Poland’s biggest sea port reached record levels in 2016. Almost 240,000 rail wagons were handled last year, up by 24 per cent on the previous year.
The Management Board of PGA say that, on average, one goods train was dealt with every 90 minutes in 2016, and taken together with road trucks it means that last year was the port’s ‘best result ever’ for land traffic.
Large increase
Measured against figures from from four years ago, rail traffic at Gdansk is up by nearly 40 per cent, and the board says that the ‘current dynamics confirms the large increase in the importance of Gdansk in the operation of overland transport’.
The outer port area accounted for three-quarters of the traffic, with rail freight having the largest share of individual means of traditional transport in overland freight handling with 31 per cent, ahead of 29 per cent for trucks, but both behind pipeline transport at 40 per cent.
Directional structure
Rail was utilised mainly for the transportation of coal, containers and chemicals, including fertilisers. A newly-built rail bridge over the Martwa Wisla river was crossed by more than 5,600 trains, or more than 220,000 wagons, according to estimates from port operators. Average daily rail freight traffic amounted to around 15 trains, or more than 620 wagons, a day.
“The achievement of such a result is pleasing, all the more so because during two quarters only one track was in operation on the bridge,” said the PGA Management Board in a statement. The second track was opened in the third quarter of 2016.
The bridge was mainly used for the transport of containerised cargo, which in the past year increased by more than half in terms of tonnage in overland traffic. This automatically led to a rapid increase in the amount of land transport used to handle freight at the port.
Logistics hub
“Detailed analysis of overland traffic in the port clearly demonstrates the growing importance of Gdansk as the logistics hub of the country,” said the board. “Each day it handles more than 650 full wagons, most of which usually travels to or from the port without load. Thus, in practice, this means almost double the traffic compared to average daily levels.
“This year, the Management Board of PGA expects consistent growth in land traffic and is taking action to stimulate further development in this field. The aim of the Management Board of PGA is to create favourable conditions for the further development of logistics operations in the port, which will translate into higher growth of transhipments, resulting in strengthening the position of the Port of Gdansk.”
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Popul Vuh: A Retelling is an inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Mayan myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.
The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popul Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid-sixteenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent were being threatened with destruction by European conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by members of the K’iche’ nobility in what is today Guatemala. In 1701, that text was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar and ethnographer before vanishing mysteriously.
Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popul Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being decimated by colonization-their code of ethics, their views on death and the afterlife, and their devotion to passion, courage and the natural world. It tells the story of how the world was created in a series of rehearsals that included wooden dummies, demi-gods, and eventually humans. It describes the underworld, Xibalba-a place as harrowing as Danta’s hell-and relates the legend of the ultimate king, who, in the face of tragedy, became a spirit that accompanies his people in their struggle for survival.
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin America and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the publisher of Restless Books. He is a prolific translator, author, and public intellectual. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his work, rendered into twenty languages, has been adapted to film, TV, radio, and theater.
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Canada pip Aussie Women's Sevens at the death to take Amsterdam title
A try in the final 30 seconds has seen the Qantas Australian Women's Sevens team beaten in the Cup Final at the Amsterdam Sevens.
Australia comfortably saw off Russia (31-0) in the Cup Quarter-Finals and then got the better of England (26-0) in the Semi's before Cup Final heartbreak against Canada (20-17).
Qantas Australian Women's Sevens Head Coach Tim Walsh said: "The last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster of emotions. The highs of winning in London and qualifying for the Olympics but then losing the Final like that stings. The girls are so disappointed, but we will learn from that.
"We've won in quite a few different ways this weekend in Amsterdam and adapted so well. The competition is so fierce now that you need to plan for every eventuality - dry weather, wet weather, opposition style, and so on.
"Sharni Williams has been spectacular for us in the last few weeks while Emma Tonegato is simply a world-class player who proved that again in Amsterdam. There were some really good positives. To try and go back-to-back is very tough and we so nearly achieved it.
"It's been an outstanding season for the team, a growth year for us. We've had to contend with disappointments of the tournaments in Canada and the USA, but all athletes in sport suffer setbacks and we've come back stronger for it. We've a young squad and we are excited what the future holds over the next 15 months in the lead up to the Rio Olympics."
There were five different try scorers on show as Australia took Russia apart in the Cup Quarter-Final. Emma Tonegato opened the scoring for the women in gold after a period of patient possession before Charlotte Caslick spotted a gap in the Russian defence to extend her sides advantage. Despite completely dominating the first half, the game was still in the balance but was put to bed early in the second stanza when Evania Pelite picked up a loose ball to race clear. Ellia Green, on as a second half replacement, scored her 25th try of the season with Nicole Beck rounding things off after the full-time siren.
In the Cup Semi-Final against England, the Aussies put on arguably their most complete performance of the season. In a tense first half England, as expected, came quickly out of the blocks and immediately put the Australian try-line under threat. After seeing off the danger, the women in gold worked themselves up the field and Shannon Parry eventually powered over the line. Seconds later, quick feet from Emma Tonegato saw her dissect the English defence and streak clear to extends Australia's lead. The classy Emilee Cherry added a third before Evania Pelite ran from an outside centre position to pierce a gap in England's defence and put the seal on a thoroughly convincing display.
In an epic Cup Final which saw the lead change hands no fewer than seven times, Canada's Ghislane Landry stole the game after picking up on a loose ball in her own half to stride clear and turn the tables on an Australia side that did the same to the same opponents last week in London. Sharni Williams and Emma Tonegato (2) scored for the Australians but Karen Paquin (2), Magali Harvey and Landry all replied to give Canada their first-ever Women's Sevens World Series leg victory.
Elsewhere, New Zealand were confirmed as 2014/15 Women's Sevens World Series champions for a third time in succession, while England secured the fourth automatic Olympic qualification spot with a nail-biting victory over the USA in the winner-takes-all 3rd/4th Place Play-Off.
The Women's Sevens team yesterday confirmed its spot in the Rio 2016 Olympics, becoming the first Australian team in any sport to do so. Tim Walsh's side finish the 2014/15 Women's Sevens World Series season in third position, two points behind Canada.
Qantas Australian Women’s Sevens results in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-24 May:
Australia 29-7 Russia, Pool B
Australia 48-0 China, Pool B
Australia 24-7 England, Pool B
Australia 31-0 Russia, Cup Quarter-Final
Australia 26-0 England, Cup Semi-Final
Australia 17-20 Canada, Cup Final
Final placings for the Amsterdam Sevens (Top 6): 1. Canada (20 World Series points), 2. Australia (18 points), 3. England (16 points), 4. USA (14 points), 5. New Zealand (12 points), 6. France (10 points)
Final standings in the 2014/15 World Rugby Women's Sevens World Series (top 6): 1. New Zealand (108 World Series points), 2. Canada (96 points), 3. Australia (94 points), 4. England (76 points), 5. USA (76 points), 6. France (72 points)
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IN CONVERSATION | PAINTER- OLHA PRYYMAK
“I wanted to relate the point that a balance of social and flexible work/exhibition space is key. It is super valuable for someone developing their practice and there’s not much of that great balance going around in the city at the moment.”
-Olha Pryymak
Olha Pryymak is a painter and multidisciplinary artist. One facet of her practice involves participation which includes staging encounters around herbal tea drinking. These tea session performances stem from her Ukrainian herbalist family history and borrows from traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Her recent bodies of work contain painted collages of these encounters, framed by contemporary wellness trends, animated by the voices of the women who participated in them. [opryymak.com]
What is your definition of studio space?
Studio is a space that is predominantly dedicated to developing work. There’s different aspects that go into it: the actual physical space and, for me as a painter, it’s the light that’s important. Wall space in particular, for the work to spread out. Equally as important as physical space it is that it has to be a social environment to a point – it has to be, how do you say, open to social encounters type of space. I’ve gone through a phase of having my own room in one of those office-turned-into-studio buildingswhere you just close the door where you get on with your work. Some people like that, it’s individual, but then I had a residency in a space that was completely open with just a few walls to hold your paintings on, but basically, there were no doors and people were passing by and that was hypersocial and I found that suited me better. Normally painter’s work is quite insular so it’s important for people to have, not necessarily full-on conversations, but once in a while have other people’s eyes on your work-in-progress. That helps me get ideas out of my mind and see them through the eyes of others, artists, especially those from other disciplines.
My current studio is in the ideal space that I have ever had and that’s why I was keen to respond to your request. I wanted to relate the point that a balance of social and flexible work/exhibition space is key. It is super valuable for someone developing their practice and there’s not much of that great balance going around in the city at the moment.
The collaborative/communal spaces are on the rise, do you believe this formula can work?
Yes, absolutely. My current studio semi-open layout really suits me now. There is part of the studio unit which offers more privacy – useful for meetings and phone calls. Also there is a possibility to hang curtains so there is that flexibility if someone needs more of that privacy for a longer period of time within their own space.
Because my current studio is in Shoreditch, it is quite competitively priced. The location is convenient, yet it has to stay affordable. One way to address it is to keep the studio rental flexible in a way that it would allow for movement and cost sharing: i. e. so it would be possible to sublet your space during the summer when you are off on a residency or to allow people sublet for a day or two to hold meetings, photoshoots, etc.
And then also, my studio is not necessarily an exhibition space but it is a very inviting environment, it lends itself to participatory events, which are at the core of my current practice. Now I can have comfortably over up to ten people at a time. The only thing that could possibly make the studio better if there would be a communal exhibition space where studio residents could have the opportunity to show their work-in-progress occasionally, hold performances, exhibitions, screenings, etc.
Do you believe London has an impact on your art?
By all means, it has nothing to do with London itself, but with the people that London attracts. In that diverse social environment, you never know who comes through your door the next day. And that’s very enriching if you are open to that. The more accessible geographically the better too, because obviously, people want to come to visit you, so travel time within reason is key, like if it takes an hour and half to travel to do a studio visit, that would not attract the same footfall. That’s why, at least for the moment, I feel like I would prioritise location over the amount of space that I get.
Would you consider moving out of London?
Not until I can afford it. But yeah, you never know how it turns out later.
Do you think it would impact your work if you were to move out of London?
It depends. People have different needs at different stages of their careers and the needs of the practice at the time. There are a few painters that I know that are quite established and chose to move out to the countryside or abroad.
What do you think the future of studio space looks like?
I am so happy with mine now I would not want to change much. Except for maybe if I could get a bit more wall space, it’s ideal otherwise.
How can we ensure artists remain in London in the future?
Give them work. Paid work.
How do you think artists can collaborate/ communicate with developers to try to maintain that cultural community the city is known for?
You’re making an effort already, that’s a good start.
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Amid U.S. trade war, China's Xi reiterates reform commitment
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is still determined to reform and wants to work with all parties to build an open world economy, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, reiterating Beijing’s message amid a bitter trade war with Washington.
FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops at the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Hong Kong Garrison, June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo
The two countries have been rolling out a series of tariffs on each other’s exports as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to tackle a range of issues from the large trade imbalance with China to forced technology transfers.
China has criticized the United States for resorting to protectionist and unilateral measures and says it will keep opening up its economy, providing a fair and transparent environment for foreign businesses.
Meeting U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in Beijing ahead of a major China-Africa summit, Xi made no direct mention of the trade tensions with the United States, referring instead to “unilateralism and protectionism rearing its head”.
“China’s determination to fully deepen reforms will not change,” China’s Foreign Ministry paraphrased Xi as telling Guterres.
“We are willing to use practical actions to drive all parties to jointly adhere to trade liberalization and facilitation and build an open world economy,” Xi added.
The ministry’s statement did not elaborate.
U.S. and Chinese officials ended two days of talks last month without a major breakthrough as their trade war escalated with the activation of a further round of tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other’s goods.
The two countries have now targeted $50 billion of each other’s goods and threatened duties on most of the rest of their bilateral trade, raising concerns that the conflict could dent global economic growth.
Trump administration officials have been divided over how hard to press Beijing, but the White House appears to believe it is winning the trade war as China’s economy slows and its stock markets falter.
Economists estimate that every $100 billion of imports hit by tariffs would reduce global trade by around 0.5 percent.
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kirsten Donovan
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Co-owner, co-director, Jimmy Possum Furniture.
Business / Motivational Speakers
“Don’t ever go into business, Margot, it would be a recipe for disaster”. Very often throughout her successful career in business Margot has remembered the words of her aunt, Jean Hutcheson, who took her and her brother and sister into her home, and very firmly into her care, when their parents died. Margot speaks openly about the effect of this heartbreaking part of her life, and how it was pivotal in the formation of her strong, and equally compassionate, character.
‘All this started because two people loved making things, and had lots of mouths to feed.’
- Margot Spalding referring to JIMMY POSSUM
Margot Spalding’s success story is inextricably linked with the JIMMY POSSUM success story. But this isn’t a story - it’s all true, and the Spalding / JIMMY POSSUM success is due, in no small measure, to Margot's energy, determination, a well-honed business intuition, a flair for colour and style, and a personal connectedness to JIMMY POSSUM’s customer base and to all associated with the company. And, although she probably wouldn’t like to admit it herself, Margot is also the ultimate, natural, ‘people (and business) person’!
Fast forward to 2016 and there are now exceptionally beautiful JIMMY POSSUM stores in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Richmond, and Cheltenham. In Bendigo, ‘the home’ of JIMMY POSSUM, there is the glamorous Gallery Store in the arts precinct of View Street to capitalise on the great success of The Bendigo Art Gallery, JIMMY POSSUM also has a strong online presence, having established and launched its online store in November 2010.
Beginnings: With the experience of their first furniture business, along with a very informative four year period as a Sales Consultant and then Store Manager of Greg McRae Fine Furniture in Bendigo, Margot and Alan moved with renewed vigour and focus into furniture design and production, and established JIMMY POSSUM Furniture in 1995.
JIMMY POSSUM: Margot has always admitted to ‘living, breathing, eating and sleeping JIMMY POSSUM’. It is true that she is totally passionate and committed to JIMMY POSSUM, but with her energy, enthusiasm and extensive personal capacity, she extends the same passion and commitment to her husband, and family of seven wonderfully talented children (several of whom, including sons-in-law work in the business), and ten grandsons and two granddaughters (to date); to the region; and to her growing community and philanthropic works. This is one demanding mix - but one on which Margot obviously thrives.
Award: Margot was named the ‘TELSTRA AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR’ in 2006.
Speaker: Margot speaks at numerous events and her “down to earth, inspirational, no nonsense, no frills, very practical, and fun” presentations filter through to groups and organisations at all levels, with many and varying backgrounds.
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The breakfast went very well and Margot was brilliant. The feedback has been fantastic, with a comment from one of our more critical but regular participants, that she was "the best speaker we have ever had". Nothing was too much trouble and she certainly didn't want a fuss made.
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Australia's longest serving judge.
Motivational Speakers / Politics & Advocacy
When he retired from the High Court of Australia on 2 February 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia’s longest serving judge.
Politics: He was first appointed in 1975 as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission. Soon after, he became inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84). Later, he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, then President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96) and, concurrently, President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-6). His appointment to the High Court of Australia followed in 1996 and he served thirteen years. In later years, he was Acting Chief Justice of Australia twice.
Member: In addition to his judicial duties, Michael Kirby has served on three university governing bodies being elected Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney (1984-93). He also served on many national and international bodies. Amongst the latter have been service as a member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS (1988-92); as President of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva (1995-8); as UN Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-6); as a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (1995-2005); as a member of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Judicial Reference Group (2007- 9) and as a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights(2004-).
Award: Following his judicial retirement, Michael Kirby was elected President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia from 2009-2010. He served as a Board Member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (2009-14). He has been appointed Honorary Visiting Professor by twelve universities. And he participates regularly in many local and international conferences and meetings. He has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at home and abroad. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia (2009 - ).
Commission: He served 2011-12 as a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the future of the Commonwealth of Nations. He was a Commissioner of the UNDP Global Commission of HIV and the Law 2011-2012. He was appointed to the Advisory Council of Transparency International, based in Berlin in 2012. In 2013- 2014, he was appointed Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea. He a Commissioner of the UNAIDS Lancet Commission on AIDS to the Right to Health (2013-2014); the Global Fund’s Equitable Access Panel (2015-16); the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Essential Medicines (2015-16); and UNAIDS/OHCHR’s panel on overreach of criminal law (2017).
Accolades: He was awarded the Gruber Justice Prize in 2010 and has been Patron of the Kirby Institute on Blood Borne Diseases in UNSW Sydney, Australia since 2011. In May 2017, he was invested with the insignia of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star in Tokyo, with an audience with the Emperor of Japan. In 2017 Japan conferred on him the Order of the Rising Sun - Gold and Silver Star, for his work on human rights in North Korea.
TEDxSydney - Michael Kirby - Asks Religious Leaders & God Botherers to Change their Messages
Before his retirement from the High Court of Australia in February 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia's longest serving judge. Since then Citizen Kirby has been busier than ever doing important work across a number of fields all over the world. Here he addresses the thorny issue of Church & State.
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The decade of the ‘Twenties’ began and how they roared following the pandemic! 1920s or 2020s? You decide, knowing that the former is already etched into the history books.
We believe it’s important to have a theme for a year ahead, but 2021, the year ahead, is not any old year. It is almost two years rolled into one, if you agree that 2020 was effectively cancelled. And for most, there is a lot of living to catch up on both nationally and globally. It may get a little crazy out there once everyone is released, and that sounds like fun!
There might also be some good news if you have money in stocks & shares ISAs and pensions, as many stock markets across the globe have reacted positively and strongly in recent weeks, with many values returning from the big falls in March 2020.
So, 2021 might (like 2020) be a year of two sections, with not a lot happening in the first quarter, but then, post Easter, things getting busy. That is not to say that there isn’t important financial stuff that needs to be remembered before Easter 2021, such as:
Tax payments for those that need to (self-Assessment) need to be paid by 31 January
The next Budget is due on 03 March 2021, and I expect there will be many changes. The Chancellor will need to raise taxes; it’s just whether he does it this time round.
For the self-employed, the next SEISS payment allowed from HMRC is currently open for applications for the third grant. Applications for the third grant must be made on or before January 29, 2020. The months of February to April 2021 will be covered by the fourth SEISS grant.
It’s been very, very tough for some; however, we also know that for some, huge personal savings were achieved in 2020 as discretionary spending in particular was curtailed owing to the pandemic.
Brits working from home saved an average £110 a week, according to a survey from Aldermore Bank; that’s about £5,700 over the full year. The ONS (Office for National Statistics) goes higher at £182 saved a week. That’s about £8,638 by the end of 2020…a lot of money!
With the new lockdown in place, could more be saved to use later in 2021?
The Bank of England reported at the end of November 2020 that household savings have risen substantially since the start of the pandemic – however, according to the Bank’s biannual survey of British households between 25 August and 15 September, only a small fraction of households intend to spend these savings.
28% of those surveyed had accumulated additional savings as a result of the pandemic
20% had depleted their savings
The accumulation of savings was greatest for high-income households. 42% of high-income employed households saved more during the pandemic, compared with 22% of low-income employed households.
Retirees also saved more: 36% of them had increased their savings.
The reported income of households that had increased their savings was 45% higher on average than households that had decreased their savings, and their reported holdings of deposits were over three times greater.
The Bank of England analysis suggests that the accumulation of saving has been concentrated among wealthier and less financially distressed households. These households may be less likely to spend their savings in support of the recovery: higher-income households tend to spend a smaller fraction of their income, both on average and in response to a positive shock to their finances.
Only 10% of the households that increased their savings (less than 3% of the whole sample) planned to spend the money they had saved. About 70% said they planned to continue to hold the savings in their bank accounts. Others planned to use their savings to pay off debts, invest, or top up their pensions.
Can you save more in the next four to five months as we wait to come out of lockdown? And what do you plan to spend it on?
The low points of the US election were…well, low, and they are still coming.
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Cover Review: Time Out New York
One of the most exciting series of magazine covers at the moment has come courtesy of Time Out New York. TONY has always had energetic covers, but its latest batch, created by new-ish art director Chris Deacon, are exceptional and rank among my favorite of 2014. In a way, it reminds me of the work that Richard Turley did at Bloomberg Businessweek over the past few years. Not so much in style, although there is a similar brashness and immediacy to the work, but more so that these covers reflect a true love and passion for graphic design and magazine making. Deacon and his editors are engaging in a very rare (these days) and exciting visual conversation with their readers that is smart and highly contemporary.
I reviewed this latest Time Out New York cover for the Folio Face Up column. With the exception of TONY’s iconic logo, which really needs some updating and fixing, I love everything about this cover. It’s bold and fresh, with simple, bright, poster-like visuals.
Read the full review here.
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Alum of The Second City Chicago and Toronto
Part of the iconic Emmy-winning SCTV team
Advisory board member of the Harold Ramis Film School
Joe Flaherty began his comedy career at The Second City in Chicago, where he wrote and performed in multiple Mainstage revues. He starred alongside Brian Doyle-Murray and Harold Ramis in The Next Generation, Justice is Done or Oh, Cal Coolidge, and Cooler Near The Lake. Three of his later revues, Cum Grano Salis, No, No, Wilmette, and 43rd Parallel or McCabre & Ms. Miller, also starred future comedic legend John Belushi. Flaherty later appeared on National Lampoon Radio Hour with Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, and past collaborators Doyle-Murray and Ramis.
Flaherty moved to Toronto after seven years in Chicago to help develop the Second City Toronto in an original cast also including Radner. While in Canada, he also starred in SCTV, along with John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, and Martin Short, and was nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards in Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program, winning twice in 1982 and 1983. Impressions he did on the show included Kirk Douglas, Richard Nixon, Art Garfunkel, Gregory Peck, Alan Alda, and many more. Original characters ranged from Big Jim McBob, Guy Caballero, and Count Floyd, the latter of which Alice Cooper gave a special thanks to on his album, Special Forces, in 1981.
Throughout his run at SCTV and beyond, Flaherty continued to act in both television and film. He had roles in many films that starred fellow Second City alum, such as 1941, Going Berserk, and Stripes. Additional films and television shows include Back to the Future II, Happy Gilmore, One Crazy Summer, National Security, Freaks and Geeks, Family Guy, The King of Queens, and more.
Flaherty is an advisory board member of the Harold Ramis Film School.
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Pele to be present for entire ATK match: Goenka
Kolkata, Sep 25: Brazilian legend Pele who will be in the city as chief guest for Atletico de Kolkata’s (ATK) first home game of the second season of the Indian Super League (ISL) will not only be rooting for the defending champions but will be present for the entire duration of the game.
“Pele will be present on the 13th (October 13) for the entire duration of the match, which will be around two hours. He going to spend time with the team and on the pitch,” ATK co-owner Sanjiv Goenka told reporters here on Friday.
In a video message, Pele said: “I am very happy to attend Atletico de Kolkata’s first home match. I am looking forward to visiting the Salt Lake stadium and meeting the players and the fans, ‘fatafati football’.”
The soccer legend would also interact with students and educators from NSHM Knowledge Campus, participate in a conversation with former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly as well as attend a gala dinner, that includes a charity sports memorabilia auction. He would also attend a private lunch. IANS
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Prithiram school gears up to celebrate 150 years of founding
From a Correspondent
Goalpara, October 23: The historical Prithiram Government Higher Secondary and Multipurpose School, situated at the foot of the beautiful Hulukanda hill, will celebrate 150 years of its establishment in 2017. To commemorate the occasion, large-scale preparations are underway at the school.
On Sunday, hundreds of alumni sat for a discussion at the school premise and decided to form a prelimiry convener committee with the Principal of the school as the chief convener. The meeting also decided to create a website to connect with the alumni all over the world and receive their suggestions and advise.
Popular local artist and anchor, Jayanta Medhi said that short story writer and alumni of the school, Atanu Bhattacharya had already given consent to work as the editor of the proposed magazine to be published on the occasion.
This première Assamese medium school was established in the year 1868 and was recognized by the government in the year 1905. The convener committee has appealed to all the former students to contact the school for further information.
Senior advocate Jiten Das, student leader Ratkar Das, columnist Dhiman Sinha, deputy secretary, Irrigation Department ,Shakil Masood Roni, Jayanta Medhi and many other academicians, businessman, senior citizens were present in the meeting on Sunday.
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J. Strauss, Jr: Furioso Polka, Opus 260 & Éljen a Magyar, Opus 332
Print Program Notes
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
BORN: October 25, 1825. Vienna, Austria
DIED: June 3, 1899. Vienna
COMPOSED: (Furioso Polka) 1861. Éljen a Magyar 1869
WORLD PREMIERE: (Furioso Polka) September 14, 1861. Vauxhall Pavilion in Pavlovsk Park, near Saint Petersburg, Russia.
(Éljen a Magyar) March 16, 1869. The composer led the Strauss Orchestra at the Redoutensaal in Pest, Hungary
INSTRUMENTATION: (Furioso Polka) 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, and strings.
(Éljen a Magyar) Flute and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and strings
DURATION: (Furioso Polka) About 2 mins.
(Éljen a Magyar) About 3 mins
Sorting out all the musical Strausses can be confusing. In the beginning was Johann Strauss (1804-49, later known as Johann Strauss, Sr.). The son of a dance-hall proprietor, he developed into an accomplished violinist and then a terrifically successful orchestra leader and bandmaster, composing a multitude of waltzes, quadrilles, polkas, and other dances. He made up his mind that his three sons (Johann, Josef, and Eduard) should become businessmen or soldiers, and certainly not musicians. In this regard, and this regard only, he was a failure, since all three entered the musical trade; and his failure was perpetuated when Eduard’s son, Johann III, carried on the waltz profession until his death in 1939.
Other famous musical Strausses were apparently sprung from separate family trees altogether: the waltzing Strausses, the eminent hornist Franz Strauss and his composer-son Richard, and the operetta composer Oscar Straus (who dropped the final “s” that appeared on his birth certificate to help differentiate his lineage)—these were three unconnected clans. Johann Strauss, Jr. was in fact greatly admired by many more “serious” musicians of the day. Richard Strauss remarked that in an era “when everything surrounding him had already evolved towards the complex and the premeditated, [he] was one of the last to have primary inspiration.” Gustav Mahler, who had conducted Die Fledermaus in Hamburg, complimented Strauss’s waltzes for “their uniqueness and delightful inventiveness.” Johannes Brahms is said to have never missed a performance of Die Fledermaus. Jules Massenet observed, “Brahms is the spirit of Vienna, but Strauss is the perfume.”
Johann Strauss, Jr. began achieving success as an orchestra leader at the age of nineteen, and he quickly achieved such popularity as to emerge as something of a rival to his more established father. Initial uneasiness over this situation was overcome, and when Johann, Sr. died in 1848, Johann, Jr. merged his late father’s orchestra into his own. From 1863 to 1871 he served as director of Viennese court balls, just as his father had, and when he relinquished the position he merely handed the reins off to his brother Eduard.
It was for his 1861 season in Saint Petersburg that Johann, Jr. wrote his Furioso Polka, which carries the subtitle quasi Galopp (“resembling a galop”—a lively ballroom dance). Polkas were among the most popular dances in mid-nineteenth century ballrooms. The Furioso Polka is a rambunctious example with a touch of Hungarian-style swagger in its main theme. The Hungarian “quick polka” Éljen a Magyar is from 1869.—James M. Keller
James M. Keller is Program Annotator of the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. His book Chamber Music: A Listener’s Guide (Oxford University Press) is now also available as an e-book and as an Oxford paperback.
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When is a change more than a change?
Sometimes a claimant realises that it has made a mistake. Its case may be pleaded incorrectly, elements of its claim may be unsustainable or stronger claims could be available to it. With permission, amendments can be made but when do these changes become something more than a simple amendment?
R G Carter
In the recent case of R. G. Carter Projects Limited v CUA Property Limited [2020] EWHC 3417 (TCC), R G Carter, in its original particulars of claim, sought damages for misrepresentation, a final account value and three extensions of time. However, once a defence and reply had been filed with the court, R G Carter instructed a new law firm.
After a review of the case by the new firm, R G Carter sought leave to amend its claim. In particular it:
(i) abandoned the misrepresentation claim; and
(ii) significantly reduced the final account claim.
A question arose as to whether the abandonment of the misrepresentation claim was an amendment or amounted to discontinuance of part of the claim.
The court found that the abandonment of the misrepresentation claim was more than a mere amendment. It amounted to a discontinuance of part of the claim, albeit R G Carter had not issued a notice of discontinuance.
Why the difference between amendment and discontinuance is important
It is expected that a party which discontinues or amends its claim will end up paying its opponent’s costs. However, the types of costs that are payable in the two situations are different. In the case of an amendment Practice Direction 17 to the Civil Procedure Rules states:
"A party applying for an amendment will usually be responsible for the costs of and arising from the amendment."
Pursuant to paragraph 4.2 of Practice Direction 44, this could include:
"… preparing for and attending the application and the costs of any consequential amendment to his own statement of case."
In contrast, where a party discontinues, Civil Procedure Rule 38.6 provides:
"(1) Unless the court orders otherwise, a claimant who discontinues is liable for the costs which a defendant against whom the claimant discontinues incurred on or before the date on which notice of discontinuance was served on the defendant."
This applies equally to any part of a claim which is discontinued. The costs payable on discontinuance are, therefore, greater.
The line between amendment and discontinuance
Whether a change to a claim is an amendment or a discontinuance is not always clear. In some cases, while a legal argument is dropped, other legal arguments relying on the same facts may remain or be inserted. In such a case the amendment may be considered as putting a new label on the pleaded facts (see for example Begum v Birmingham City Council [2015] EWCA Civ 386).
The test would appear to be whether or not the costs incurred have been wasted. As Pepperall J set out (R G Carter paragraph 11):
“Yet in other cases, the cause of action is simply abandoned and substantial costs will have been wasted. An award of costs on the conventional basis would, in such cases, cover the defendant's costs of amending his Defence to delete the now redundant answer to the abandoned plea, but would not recompense such defendant for the costs of investigating the original case or of pleading the first Defence. On such facts, the usual order would not be just and the appropriate order will often be to award the defendant not just the costs of and caused by the amendment, but also the costs in respect of the abandoned cause of action.”
Costs awarded to the other side when one party discontinues are intended to deal with costs that party has wasted in dealing with the discontinued claim. If the facts are still pleaded, albeit with a different interpretation, then the costs may not be entirely wasted.
The R G Carter case presents a clear warning to claimants. A case must be properly thought through, assessed and understood before it is pleaded. Otherwise the claimant puts itself at risk of having to amend its case, or even change tack entirely. At best this will mean paying the defendant’s costs of dealing with the amendment. At worst the court could decide that the amended claim is in fact an entirely new claim and that the original claim has been discontinued. In the latter case two very significant issues will arise.
First, where a party discontinues a claim the court will, generally, order the discontinuing party to pay a substantial part of the other side’s costs. If a Defence has been pleaded, these costs could be significant. In the R G Carter case, the actual amount of costs to be paid was not determined in the judgment. However, R G Carter will probably end up paying a significant sum in costs.
Second and possibly more significant, if the amendment presents a new case this may be time-barred if the claimant was close to expiry of the limitation period when it issued its original claim. In such a situation, where a claimant is discontinuing its original claim outside of limitation, it may not be possible to raise a claim at all. While this was not an issue in the R G Carter case, it is nonetheless an important point that claimants should consider.
This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. It is recommended that specific professional advice is sought before acting on any of the information given.
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Board index The Films Sci-fi and Horror
This week on SVENGOOLIE...
Post by RedRiver » March 11th, 2012, 3:24 pm
I hope I'm not repeating a thread, but I don't see anything on this cute Saturday night feature on ME TV. We all know Svengoolie. The format is familiar. But it's a good excuse to re-watch some cornball horror films, with some palatable humor on the side. This is not my first time, of course. I lived in Chicago for a long time. Let's just say Sven and I are getting re-acquainted!
I almost broke a date to watch THE INVISIBLE WOMAN a few weeks ago. My friend had other ideas! Last week I sat through Abbott and Costello. And I enjoyed THE MUMMY'S GHOST last night. Maybe it's the "so bad it's good" concept, but this less than creative creeper is at least as much fun as Karloff's entry. I'm thinking more so. Lon, Jr. wears the bandages in this one; doesn't speak a line that I recall. John Carradine does the talking. It has a goofy campus setting. That's always fun. Direct and to the point. (Oh, wait. There's not one!) Neither challenging nor dissapointing. I like this Killer B.
I probably won't watch the show every week. I don't know if this thread will take off. Certainly if anybody else has access, and nothing else to do on Saturday night, please jump in!
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Re: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
Post by MichiganJ » March 12th, 2012, 1:05 pm
RedRiver wrote: I hope I'm not repeating a thread, but I don't see anything on this cute Saturday night feature on ME TV. We all know Svengoolie. The format is familiar. But it's a good excuse to re-watch some cornball horror films, with some palatable humor on the side. This is not my first time, of course. I lived in Chicago for a long time. Let's just say Sven and I are getting re-acquainted!
I'm not familiar with Svengoolie, but I suspect he is similar to Philly's Dr. Shock. Don't remember a host for the NY saturday night horror show.
RedRiver wrote: And I enjoyed THE MUMMY'S GHOST last night. Maybe it's the "so bad it's good" concept, but this less than creative creeper is at least as much fun as Karloff's entry. I'm thinking more so. Lon, Jr. wears the bandages in this one; doesn't speak a line that I recall. John Carradine does the talking. It has a goofy campus setting. That's always fun. Direct and to the point. (Oh, wait. There's not one!) Neither challenging nor dissapointing. I like this Killer B.
I think the original Mummy is one of the best horror films. Like many of the other 'monsters' that Karloff played, his Imhotep is deserving of sympathy. Plus the film is quite a love story, tool. And, of course, as the "mummy" itself--wrapped in bandages, I mean--Karloff doesn't speak, either.
During Universal's second wave of horror films, instead of doing a direct sequel to The Mummy, they essentially rebooted the series and brought in a new mummy, Kharis, a mummy who stays a bandaged-wrapped mummy throughout the four films, three of which he was played by Lon Chaney. The four films actually work better as a whole rather then four individual films (and at only an hour each, it's not that hard to do). In none of the later mummy films, does the mummy speak. That includes Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, where, for reasons unknown to me, the mummy is named Klaris and not Kharis.
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Post by moira finnie » March 12th, 2012, 3:31 pm
I'd never heard of Svengoolie before our cable system added Me tv to the mix. I've watched it a few times, especially when they ran Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Son of Frankenstein (1939), which are both profoundly moving (thanks to good actors such as Lon Chaney Jr. and Basil Rathbone) and riotously preposterous and entertaining. In between endless advertisements for what my family calls "enough life insurance to kick-off in style" the "Sven" part of the program seems to slip in actual factoids about the production along with his bewhiskered old jokes. It's not bad, and if it gets kids interested in black and white movies, it's great.
I saw a few minutes of The Mummy's Ghost (1944) on Saturday and liked it--especially Universal Pictures idea of a small New England town, complete with crackpots and crones. Who knew that so many "tanna leaves" from an extinct Egyptian plant would turn up in the rural Northeast? How could The Mummy be so deadly and yet so infernally slow? Despite the fact that we really can't see Lon Chaney Jr.'s face in this version thanks to those bandages used to save time in the makeup chair, he still conveyed a mute helplessness and sorrow that was hard not to sympathize with a bit. How he did this, I'll never really know.
I also think that the original The Mummy is great fun, though it scared the willies out of me as a kid.
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Post by MikeBSG » March 12th, 2012, 4:13 pm
I never especially liked horror hosts, but I am glad to know that they still exist. When they do "Patchy the Pirate" on SpongeBob, I tried to explain to my children how (in the old days of television) the weatherman would also be the horror movie host or the cartoon show host. What a bygone era!!
MikeBSG wrote: I never especially liked horror hosts, but I am glad to know that they still exist. When they do "Patchy the Pirate" on SpongeBob, I tried to explain to my children how (in the old days of television) the weatherman would also be the horror movie host or the cartoon show host. What a bygone era!!
Mike, we had three to choose from at one time:
Zacherley in NYC on WPIX who greeted us from his coffin
The Creep on WNEW
and a guy from Syracuse I hardly remember called Dr. E. Nick Witty (who wasn't very droll) who ran Monster Movie Mansion on Channel 3.
None of them were particularly good, but since watching these programs was verboten, seeing any portion of these broadcasts seemed to be a taste of forbidden fruit. Some of the movies they showed were actually good too--though a lot of schlock also slipped into the mix.
I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. I was too late for the legendary Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, the father of the guy who directed "Boogie Nights.") (Indeed, just last year a friend and I got upset when someone younger than us claimed that he had grown up watching Ghoulardi.)
The choice when I grew up was SuperHost (very lame, a Saturday afternoon host), the Ghoul (a Saturday night host) and Big Chuck and Houlihan (later replaced by Little John) on Friday nights. Big Chuck et. al. did some clever commercial parodies, but both nighttime hosts devoted time to pizza-eating contests that could get pretty ugly. And they made a lot of fun of "certain ethnic" people who lived in the suburbs.
Actually, now that I think of it, none of these guys even tried to project a mock-scary persona. Following in Ghoulardi's footsteps, they projected a mock-Beatnik, vaguely counter-cultural atmosphere.
Post by RedRiver » March 13th, 2012, 12:18 pm
Svengoolie is a Chicago landmark. I guess his connection to that TV channel has led to greater exposure. I'm so glad they're showing some decent movies, instead of junk that ONLY serves for ridicule. The mummy film is worth watching. Lord knows "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" and Son of Frankenstein" are better than most of what comes out today! I missed those.
Has Svengoolie been around for a long time or is he a relatively recent phenom, Red? Here's the upcoming movies they scheduled for the show:
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942-Earl Kenton)
with Lon Chaney, Jr. as Frankie, Cedric Hardwicke, Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi as Ygor.
When Ygor brings the monster to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein for care, Ludwig gets the idea of replacing the monster's current criminal brain, with a normal brain.
The Mole People (1956-Virgil W. Vogel)
with John Agar, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier and Cynthia Patrick in this cult classic (well, sort of)
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant 5000 year old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943-Roy William Neill)
with Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi , Maria Ouspenskaya, and Dwight Frye (in his last monster movie, alas)
Larry Talbot chips Frankenstein's monster out of a block of ice. When Talbot changes to the Wolf Man, the two creatures do battle.
With a script by Curt Siodmak and good direction by Neill, I'd probably watch this one again sometime. Besides, I keep trying to figure out what the glam songbird Ilona Massey said or did to Louis B. Mayer that led to her being cast upon her own in films like this one. Watch out for those suspicious villagers!
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Post by intothenitrate » March 13th, 2012, 9:16 pm
MikeBSG wrote: I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. I was too late for the legendary Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, the father of the guy who directed "Boogie Nights.") (Indeed, just last year a friend and I got upset when someone younger than us claimed that he had grown up watching Ghoulardi.)
Those are my roots too, Mike! Our TV didn't pull in UHF too well, so I watched the Hoolihan and Big Chuck program on network TV. They rotated through large swaths of the Universal catalog and the Tojo (Godzilla, et. al) films.
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Post by RedRiver » March 14th, 2012, 11:15 am
Holy Cow! That's a fine line up, Moira. Svengoolie, in one incarnation or another, has been on Chicago TV forever. At one point, he called himself "Son of Svengoolie." The explanation for that pre-dates even my time in the city. Was the original Sven a different person? I'm not sure.
Should anyone wonder about the BERWYN jokes, that's a western suburb. A fine place, I'm sure. But not quite hip enough for a horror host! I can't wait to see these Frankenstein movies again!
Big Frank walks again in THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. Tonight at 9:00 CST on ME TV.
I had fun watching "Ghost of Frank". The first half is much better than the conclusion. Once they get into "who gets what brain," it becomes forced and cliched. When Frank starts speaking in Igor's voice, it's downright silly! But earlier portions of the film are effective. There's an expressionistic look to the sets, making Lon, Jr look ten feet tall. The stuff with the little girl is unforgettable. I know this because I first saw it fifty years ago!
The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton. Mr. Kenton piloted a couple of the "House of..." horror films. A lot of stuff I've never heard of. But he was also the talent behind the chilling ISLAND OF LOST SOULS. This explains the impressive atmosphere injected into some pretty mediocre projects.
Next week on Svengoolie...I'm not sure!
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Post by Jezebel38 » March 18th, 2012, 2:59 pm
RedRiver wrote: Next week on Svengoolie...I'm not sure!
ME TV has a pretty good website - 3/24 is THE MOLE PEOPLE, and 3/31 is FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN.
I'm having fun tuning in some of these flix, although I rarely make it to the end of the movie... Svengoolie is growing on me.
It is hard to sit through the whole program. An 80 minute movie in a two hour time frame? That's a lot of Berwyn jokes!
Post by moira finnie » March 19th, 2012, 10:54 am
RedRiver wrote: I had fun watching "Ghost of Frank". The first half is much better than the conclusion. Once they get into "who gets what brain," it becomes forced and cliched. When Frank starts speaking in Igor's voice, it's downright silly! But earlier portions of the film are effective. There's an expressionistic look to the sets, making Lon, Jr look ten feet tall. The stuff with the little girl is unforgettable. I know this because I first saw it fifty years ago!
*SPOILERS*
Well said, Red. Since I had never seen this movie, I really enjoyed the build-up a lot and even spotted an uncredited Dwight Frye among the villagers who were so eager to blow up the castle. How sad that he didn't even get a nod in the credits!
Those townies in the village of Frankenstein really needed to switch to decaf or get a softball team going to get that energy focused on something other than their monster problems, don't you think?
Thanks for the heads up about Erle C. Kenton. I didn't connect him with Island of Lost Souls, but that credit makes him pretty impressive.
Because of the dramatic difference between the first and second halves of the movie and its relative brevity, I wonder if they had a completed script when they began filming with breakout star Lon Chaney (Universal dropped the Jr. part in the credits, to the actor's chagrin) just after The Wolf Man burst on the scene with spectacular success. Those ominous, expressionistic standing sets used from previous horror classics really were impressive, as was the lighting of all the exteriors (thanks to Woody Bredell and Milton R. Krasner and crew) though poor Chaney's ability to give an expressive performance seemed to be hampered by heavier than usual makeup from Jack Pierce. His flat-top head looked awfully rubbery in closeups and those heavy eyelids made me think the poor monster had myasthenia gravis in addition to all his other troubles. Of course, since Lon was reportedly a bit of a tippler, he may have had a hangover, giving his orbital socket some extra pouches anyway, I suppose. From what I've read, Pierce and Chaney did not get along very well. Not entirely surprisingly, reportedly Chaney at one point had a terrible problem with a rash on his head and neck caused by the layers of makeup but Pierce's assistant refused to take it off the actor, fearing his boss' wrath. Lon Chaney, Jr. ripped it off, causing part of his forehead to come off with it! Was it me or didn't Boris Karloff's makeup seem more organic--or as organic as a guy who was made up of spare parts can be?
I was ambivalent about Cedric Hardwicke's one-note grimly determined performance and was a bit disappointed, until he started to have conversations with the ghost of his father (played by Cedric as well), though Lionel Atwill almost made up for it since he really did bring a nice glint of arrogant creepiness to his part as the doctor frustrated by having his career overshadowed by a Frankenstein.
Bela Lugosi as Ygor was pretty entertaining and more coherent than usual, (I wonder if they dubbed him?) though I thought his eagerness "to be one" with his friend the Monster almost bordered on the prurient, though that is probably just me reading something bad into his friendship with his fellow outcast.
Why was Evelyn Ankers even in this movie? Just to give Ralph Bellamy's slightly pompous but rational law man a romantic partner? Playing Hardwicke's child, there seemed to be no bond between the two--though I have to admit I enjoyed seeing Anker's strangely funny duds around the mansion, (I think she had a bedazzler stashed away) but this one that looked like bear claws on her front and back was my favorite:
Every time Janet Ann Gallow was on-screen there was no one else but her who mattered--even the monster couldn't compete with her gentle little mug and remarkably poised serenity. My only quibble was that even the Monster didn't really seem to believe that his impulse to take Cloestine's brain was really a wise choice, though the two had chemistry.
Here's an interview with the one-time child actress, who is still around and active today:
http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/mo ... llow1.html
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During outbreak, SouthCoast faith leaders use technology to reach flocks
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT
Churches and synagogues place services and outreach on social media during pandemic
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SouthCoast faith leaders are providing spiritual guidance and attending to their parishioners' needs, despite limitations on crowd size and an emphasis on social distancing in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
They say they are just as busy as they always have been, perhaps more. They are just doing their work differently. Technology has been the answer to their prayers, they said.
Rabbis, priests and ministers are all using or figuring out how to use technology as they videotape or stream their services due to the state's crowd limitations of no more than 10 people in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
They have turned to Apple's Facetime and Zoom, an online application for video conferencing, that faith leaders are using to hold "virtual meetings" and speak directly with parishioners, or counsel parishioners in need over the phone or through an online app, they said.
"Christ is still present, just in a different way," said Rev. Michael Racine, pastor of St. Lawrence Martyr Church, Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Francis of Assisi, all in New Bedford.
"We are thinking of them (parishioners). They are not forgotten. We are doing it in ways modern technology allows," he said.
"We are looking for ways to remain engaged with parishioners and let them know that they are in the prayers of the bishop and the priests and for ways to connect with them," said John Kearns, a spokesman for the Fall River Diocese.
"You would think it would be slower, but that's wrong. There are more details to work out," Rabbi Raphael Kanter of Tifereth Israel Congregation of New Bedford said of current conditions. "We've basically moving our presence online."
"Zoom has become the soup de jour around New Bedford," said Rev. David A Lima, pastor of New Seasons Worship Center in East Freetown and executive minister of the Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford.
In this time of uncertainty and panic, the religious leaders all said faith is as important now as ever before.
"The church is able to strengthen people who may not be strong in their faiths and is able to to pull on your faith and help you get through this," Lima said. "My place of faith is Jesus Christ and that is who I go to for strength."
Melissa Kucharski, administrator of the Whaling City Catholic Collarborative, which includes St. Lawrence, Holy Name and St. Francis of Assisi, said she is posting Racine's daily Masses on whalingcitycatholics. org, an interactive website for the three churches, and their Facebook page, Whaling City Catholic Community.
They are still able to perform smaller weddings and funerals of less than 10 people by order of Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha of the Fall River Diocese, she said. St. Lawrence's food pantry, which is open every other Friday at 110 Summer St., is open this Friday. People are advised to remain in their vehicles and the food will be brought out to them to maintain social distancing.
"We're trying to bring the people the best we can," said Racine, adding at least they are receiving the celebration of Mass.
Racine plans to begin live streaming of his daily Mass at Holy Name this Friday and eventually will expand it to the two other parishes. "There won't be much of a congregation, but at least they they are watching us," he said.
He said he has performed three funerals at Holy Name and it has been difficult on the family because of the limitation on crowd size. "We're trying to make sure they are accommodated and no one is turned away," he said. He has postponed three baptisms because of the limitations on groups of people.
Tifereth Israel has stopped its daily morning and evening services and is slow to adapt to technology, Kanter said. "We're just doing some prayers to welcome the Sabbath and say goodbye to the Sabbath," he said.
His counseling work is being done either through Facetime or over the phone, he said. He is sending lesson plans to Hebrew students by email and the weekly Bible class is moving online as of Monday.
Lima said he has been holding virtual gatherings of 10 to 15 parishioners every night on Zoom. "It's different people every night. It's not the same people," he said.
The pastor said he has been streaming his services for a few years now and he continues to do so every week.
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Summit County police blotter: Bomb threat, cocaine test and cash theft
Elise Reuter
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White powder
False bomb threat
The morning of Saturday, Sept. 5, Breckenridge police were notified of a robbery in progress and bomb threat at Loaf N Jug on North Park Avenue. Two Loaf N Jug employees answered the phone and heard a person saying there was a bomb in the building. One police officer spoke with two men sitting on the floor, and another who was wearing all black and talking on the phone. The two men on the floor said they came into the store and noticed a man on the phone taking money from the registers and putting it in a plastic bag. An officer took the phone from the man dressed in all black, who said he received a call from an unidentified suspect that morning stating that there was a bomb in the building, and, if he didn’t do what he was told, the bomb would explode. The suspect told him to take all of the money out of the register, put it in a bag and go to the Western Union terminal, when police appeared.
Another witness approached police and said when he was in the store, he overheard the frightened clerk telling someone on the phone that he could not open the safe. After searching the building, Breckenridge police and Summit County Sheriff’s officers determined the bomb threat and robbery to be a hoax.
A key mistake
Breckenridge Police were dispatched to Mi Casa Mexican Grill on Sept. 7, after a man had left a bag containing a white, powdery substance at the bar. Ten minutes after he had left, the man returned to Mi Casa, smiling and asking for his “keys,” which he said were worth $300. When an employee did not give the man the bag of powder, which was locked away, he left and police were contacted. Police took the bag of powder and used a test kit, determining that the powder was, in fact, cocaine. Police did not see a suspect that matched the description before entering the restaurant.
Barefoot run
Silverthorne Police responded to reports of a barefoot woman running down Highway 6 early the morning of Sept. 1. Police found the woman, soaking wet after she had run through Blue River. The woman was transported to the hospital for medical attention after she told officers she had been on an all-night meth binge.
Silverthorne Police responded to reports of a suspicious person at the La Quinta Hotel on Aug. 27. A woman reported that after she left Old Chicago to use the restroom, a man followed her. While she was in a stall, she said the man crawled under the locked stall door, but he ran away after she yelled and kicked the door. Police located and arrested the man, who was visibly intoxicated. The bar was also cited for providing the man enough alcohol to be a danger to himself and others.
Cash for classes
Dillon police responded to reports of a theft in August at Colorado Mountain College. A woman said she left an envelope containing $1,266 in cash on top of the counter with her keys while registering for classes on a computer in the room. CMC helped officers identify three people who were at the counter during that time, but all three denied taking the money. After viewing video footage, an officer obtained an arrest warrant. The suspect was on probation, visited his probation officer and was arrested less than two days after the theft. He did not have the money with him when he was arrested.
Other brother
An officer pulled over a car for several traffic violations. The driver claimed to have no license, but he told the officer his name and date of birth. When the officer researched the name, he found no driver’s license attached to his name. The man was taken into custody — since he had nothing to prove his identity — and later admitted he had used his brother’s name because he thought he had an arrest warrant. This was the case, and he was transported to jail, charged as a fugitive of justice, with displaying fictitious plates, driving under restraint, failing to provide proof of insurance and attempting to influence a public servant by giving false identity information — a felony charge.
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Manufactured Gas Plant Remediation—Con Ed and NYS Public Meeting, Wed., Nov. 1, 2017
Councilmember Dan Garodnick has put together an FAQ about the MGP situation.
History: Before ST and PCV were built, parts of the site were occupied by manufactured gas plants to convert coal and oil into gas and store it. The process created by-products and waste, which are still underground. Three sites are in ST, and one is in PCV.
Now: For over 10 years, Con Ed has sampled our indoor air—they say it’s OK. Con Ed has also checked for evidence of MGP-related impacts below the ground surface—they say they’re at least 5 feet below the surface with the majority much deeper.
The plan: Con Ed plans to remove the MGP material, and there will be policies to prohibit and prevent exposure to any materials that remain on-site. Also involved are the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation and the NYS Dept. of Health.
This is a necessarily brief summary, so please go to this website. Click on the fact sheets for a two-page summary of the situation. The decision documents contain more information, including helpful maps on the last page. Materials are also available for viewing at the Epiphany branch of the New York Public Library, on E. 23rd St.
And come to the meeting on Wed., Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. at MSBI's Podell Auditorium to hear more and voice your concerns. The public review period will be extended until Dec. 1.
The Podell Auditorium is located in MSBI's Bernstein Building, 10 Perlman Place. That's one block west of First Ave. between 15th and 16th Sts.
Note: Some of the information contained here is taken from the Con Ed fact sheets.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov Breaks Silence For First Time Over His Father’s Death
Adnan Riaz in UFC
Last updated 10:54 AM, Thursday July 23 2020 GMT+1
UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov has sent out a touching tribute to his late father and mentor by saying that he hopes he is "pleased with me."
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, who coached the undefeated Russian fighter, tragically passed away at the age of 57 this month due to complications stemming from coronavirus.
And Khabib, who hasn't fought since his victory over Dustin Poirier last September, wrote a tribute on his Instagram page to the man who taught him "practically everything I know."
According to Russian news agency TASS, the 31-year-old UFC lightweight champ posted: "Father, I will miss you.
"You were my father, friend, brother and coach in one. You taught me practically everything I know. I hope you were pleased with me."
Football icon David Beckham also took to Instagram and commented on Khabib's post: "Thinking about you and your family my friend."
Khabib is set to defend his championship crown against Justin Gaethje, who captured the interim lightweight title in his stunning UFC 249 win over Tony Ferguson.
Ali Abdelaziz, who represents Khabib and Gaethje, has suggested that both UFC stars will fight before the end of 2020.
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However, UFC legend Daniel Cormier believes that the 'Eagle' might never fight again after the death of his father.
"I don't think he's fighting this year, honestly," 'DC' said.
"And it's going to take a lot of strength from a very strong man for Khabib to be back in the octagon, ever, I think."
Credit: PA
The 41-year-old UFC star continued: "I just know what Abdulmanap meant to him, I know that this was their journey together.
"I hope he fights, but I don't know. Like I said, he's going to have to muster up a lot of strength for an already strong person to go out there and do it.
"And if he does, I just don't know how long he'll be around. Maybe [Khabib] fights and honours his father with another massive and unbelievable performance.
"But, I look back at his fight in September and when he won, the way his dad reacted it almost like you saw the video when his dad reacts after he won against Dustin Poirier, and it was almost like his spirit was filled with joy watching his kid do that. I'm just happy they got to share that together."
Featured Image Credit: Instagram/PA
Topics: Khabib Nurmagomedov, UFC News, MMA News, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, UFC, eagle, MMA
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Adnan Riaz is a journalist for SPORTbible. He studied for a B.A. in History at the University of York and followed it up with an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism at MMU. Before he started writing about sports, he spent over four years in the gaming press. He has worked for several publications, including Hardcore Gamer, LADbible and the Manchester Evening News. Follow him on Twitter to find out what he is working on next. Got a story tip for Adnan? Email him: [email protected]
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Minister Paschal Donohoe stresses the importance of Tourism and Sport for Irish economy
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, yesterday updated Seanad Éireann on Ireland’s tourism performance and what he is doing to ensure our recent success is built upon into the future.
Not all of this is directly involved with sport of course but indirectly it will have a great longer term effect on tourism in Ireland and that is usually translated into more customers at sports fixtures, great on and offline sales of sports goods, jerseys etc when travellers be they Irish or International visit your region.
Plenty of attractive fixtures in the world of sports in the months ahead as indeed we had of late with the European Championship qualifiers and the Guinness Rugby Autumn series to name but two such success stories.
We’ve probably all heard too much from politicians of late, not all of it good news, but nonetheless worth studying what Minister Donohoe had to say:
“We have moved from a position in 2010 where overseas visitors had fallen by 16% in two years, to where those numbers have increased every year since 2011. This is thanks, in no small part, to Government initiatives such as the Gathering and the Wild Atlantic Way, and measures such as the 9% VAT rate, the British-Irish Visa Scheme and the setting of the rate of the Air Travel Tax to zero. This has resulted in Ireland attracting almost seven million overseas visitors to Ireland in 2013, and an estimated contribution of €3.3 billion to Irish economy. Figures released from the CSO show that we are continuing to build on that success with over 6.5 million visits recorded in the first ten months of the year – an increase of 8.8% compared to the same period in 2013. We also now have almost 140,000 people working in the food and accommodation sector as a result.
“But there is no room for complacency. The Wild Atlantic Way, which is the first ‘brand proposition’ developed by Fáilte Ireland, has been a great success, significantly enhancing the visibility of the west coast of Ireland. But in order to maintain our competitive position, we must continue to develop our tourism offering in a way that has the biggest impact on what is a very crowded international market.
“A proposition which is currently in development to encourage tourism in the South and East of the country, which I hope to launch early next year, will see the cultural and heritage tourism assets and experiences of that region being grouped via a network of routes, trails and journeys. This will result in a new tourism experience that can easily be understood and which attract overseas visitors.
“Where Dublin is concerned, I recently established the Grow Dublin Tourism Alliance, the aim of which is to create a unifying brand identity for the capital for the first time ever. This was done to ensure that we do not continue to lose market share to other ‘branded’ cities in Europe such as Berlin and Copenhagen and to enable us to we maximise what we have to offer.
“I will be publishing my Tourism Policy Statement in the coming weeks which will prioritise medium to long term investment. This will allow us to maximise our return from tourism, which will help in supporting the jobs we already have within the sector and enable the creation of many more into the future.”
Combining data from the domestic market and international visitors, total tourism revenue for the economy in 2013 was around €5.5 billion. Of this, €1.4 billion directly benefited the Exchequer through taxation. This is a very significant contribution by any benchmark.
I am pleased to report that the picture for 2014 is again very positive. CSO figures released just this morning show that there were over 6.5 million visits in the first ten months – an increase of 8.8% compared to the same period in 2013. This represents an additional 532,000 visitors from around the world.
There are almost 140,000 jobs in the accommodation and food sector, and overall employment in the tourism and hospitality sector is estimated to be in the region of 200,000.
I campaigned strongly at Cabinet for the retention of the 9% VAT rate, and I know its retention has been warmly welcomed by the industry.
On another taxation issue, the Air Travel Tax, introduced by the previous Government, damaged Ireland’s tourism competitiveness, particularly given our island status and the importance of air travel as a means of delivering overseas visitors to Ireland.
In Budget 2014, we set the rate of the Air Travel Tax to zero.
I am very pleased to report that airlines responded very strongly to our initiative, with substantial growth in air connectivity.
For the peak summer period of 2014, air access increased by 10% from Mainland Europe, by 14% from North America, and by 14% from Australia and other long-haul markets. I know the relevant agencies are all working hard to ensure that the positive momentum in this regard is maintained in the years ahead.
Initiatives such as Wild Atlantic Way, South and East proposition
This increased air capacity would not have been introduced by airlines unless there is a compelling business case to do so. It is clear that the quality of Ireland’s tourism offering continues to resonate with international consumers who are deciding, in increasing numbers, to select Ireland as their destination of choice.
In order to maintain our competitive position, we must continue to develop our tourism offering in a way that has impact in the very crowded international marketplace. To have an impact, new tourism initiatives must be of sufficient scale to push through the multitude of competing products and destinations.
This is the rationale behind Fáilte Ireland’s move towards developing what are called ‘brand propositions’ – projects of sufficient scale that they can be marketed overseas in their own right.
The Wild Atlantic Way project is the first major project to be developed on this basis. The aim was to develop a long-distance driving route that would achieve greater visibility for the west coast of Ireland in overseas tourist markets.
It is Ireland’s first long distance touring route, stretching for 2,500km from Malin Head to Mizen Head.
The Wild Atlantic Way was developed specifically for the Western seaboard to address the decline in international visitors to the region. It builds on what is distinctive and appealing about the West coast – its rugged coastline and powerful ocean, complemented by a deeply rooted and authentic culture and people – to give it visibility in a crowded international tourism market.
I know that it is already proving a major hit in our key overseas markets.
While Fáilte Ireland provided the central co-ordinating role for the Wild Atlantic Way, it would be impossible to develop a project of this magnitude without the support of the Local Authorities along the route and accordingly, I wish to take the opportunity to formally acknowledge and thank them in this regard.
Fáilte Ireland is currently developing a similar unifying tourism proposition for those counties in the east and south.
That brand proposition will group the cultural and heritage tourism assets and experiences of Ireland’s East and South via a network of routes, trails and journeys into a new tourism experience that can easily be understood by and will appeal to overseas visitors.
It will build on the very significant investment supported by Fáilte Ireland using capital funding from my Department across the region, such as the Medieval Mile in Kilkenny and the Waterford Viking Triangle.
I look forward to the completion and launch of this exciting new proposition next year.
Promotion overseas (work of Tourism Ireland, leveraging the new Common Travel Area visa)
While the tourism industry, Fáilte Ireland, Local Authorities and other stakeholders are engaged in the continuous development of our tourism offering, it is the responsibility of Tourism Ireland to bring that message to potential visitors in overseas markets.
Tourism Ireland will be building on the opportunities presented by the new British-Irish Visa Scheme, which was launched last month by the Irish and British Governments. The scheme, based on mutual recognition of each other’s visas by Ireland and the UK, is an historic breakthrough between the two jurisdictions and will be initially rolled out in the key growth markets of China and India.
The scheme will build on the success of the current Irish Short-stay Visa Waiver Programme which was launched by the Government in July 2011, and has led to significant increases in visits from the countries covered by the Programme.
Estimated visits to Ireland from China and India grew from around 25,000 in 2009 to nearly 40,000 in 2013. The new British-Irish Visa Scheme will make it even easier for those numbers to continue growing, as the hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Indian visitors to the UK each year will now be able to travel to Ireland on the same visa.
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St. Paul's Church
The St. Paul's Church exterior is mainly Gothic with a Baroque tower while the interior is characterised by rich Baroque decoration.
A small church was built here by the Dominican Order and consecrated in 1276. The church is named after the patron saint of the Dominicans, St. Paul. As the church had become exposed to flooding as a result of a change in course of the Scheldt river, the Dominican Prior A. van Leent decided to build a new church on a larger and higher-lying piece of land next to the existing church. The construction designs were probably made by Domien de Waghemakere, a co-designer of the Antwerp Cathedral. After his death in 1542 Rombout de Dryvere is known to have continued as the architect and master builder. The church was taken into partial use in 1548 and the following year the old church was demolished. The new church was completed and dedicated in 1571. In the same year, the Our Lady of the Rosary fraternity was founded in the church to celebrate the Battle of Lepanto in which the Spanish fleet defeated the Turks. Work on the new monastery probably also started around this time.
When the Calvinists came to power in Antwerp in 1578, the Dominicans were expelled, the church and monastery were cleared and the nave of the church was transformed into a Calvinist oratory. The transepts and chancel were partially demolished and part of the monastery was used as a cannon foundry of the army. When in 1584 Farnese laid siege to Antwerp to reclaim it for the Spanish throne, he had a bridge built over the Scheldt to block supply to the city. The defenders of the city tried to send fire ships to ignite the bridge. They used materials from the transepts and choir of St. Paul’s Church as ballast in these ships. After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the Dominican Fathers returned and began to rebuild and refurbish the church and the monastery.
The initial phase of the rebuilding of the monastery was undertaken between 1605 and 1616 and reconstruction was completed in 1662. In 1618 the first stone was laid of a new and enlarged choir and transept. In 1639 the new choir was consecrated by the Bishop of Antwerp. During the following decades, the interior of the church was fitted out with Baroque furniture and decoration. The Antwerp sculptor Pieter Verbrugghen I and his workshop made the oak confessionals between 1658 and 1660. The same artist made the oak organ case in the church in 1654 and together with his son Pieter Verbrugghen II he executed the designs for the high altar in 1670. The high altar was dedicated in 1670 by Mgr. Capello of Antwerp. In 1679 a major fire destroyed part of the vaults of the nave and the upper part of the western facade. The damage was repaired in 1680-81 and at the same time the top of the tower was finished in a Baroque style. In 1692 the Venerable Chapel was completed. The Calvary was constructed against the south side of the nave between 1697 and 1747.
In 1796 all Dominicans monasteries in the Southern Netherlands were closed down on the order of the French occupiers. At this time all the old church records, containing information about the Dominican Order, the church and the convent, were lost. The church was sold publicly and bought by Dominican Prior Peltiers. He was thus able to save the rich contents of the church. In 1802 the church, the Calvary and part of the monastery were taken over by the city council. The church was consecrated the following year as a parish church, replacing the old, dilapidated St. Walburga Church, which was demolished in 1817.
During the Ten Days' Campaign undertaken by the Dutch in 1830 after the Belgian Revolution, a Dutch garrison bombarded Antwerp. The church was damaged and all the 17th century stained glass windows, made after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, were destroyed. In 1833 the interior of the church was changed: the rood screen dating from 1654, which had been executed by Pieter Verbruggen II and his workshop was dismantled to allow an unobstructed view through the nave to the choir. A new rood screen had previously been built on the western side of the ship.
In April 1968 a fire destroyed the entire roof of the church, damaged the vaults and the interior, completely burned down the top of the Baroque tower and reduced three-quarters of the monastery to ruins. The restoration works have taken a long time to complete.
The exterior is mainly executed in the Brabantine Gothic style and is characterized by the austere architecture with little exterior decoration, which is common in churches of mendicant orders. For the interior walls brick was used, while the outer vestments and structural components are in Ledian sandstone.
The tower was rebuilt in the late 17th century with a Baroque top. The baroque portal on the angled corner of Veemarkt and Zwartzustersstraat dates from 1734. In the arch above the gate is a tympanum sculpture by Jan Claudius de Cock of 1734 depicting Our Lady of the Rosary giving the rosary to Saint Dominic and Catherine of Siena, the reformer of the Dominican Order.
The columns in St. Paul's Church are cylindrical and are topped by a capital with cabbage leaf motif. The interior decoration is a good example of the Flemish Baroque style in painting as well as church furniture.
Among the many works of art in the church are works by major artists such as the Antwerp painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, Frans Francken II, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Theodoor Boeyermans, Artus de Bruyn, Arnout Vinckenborch and Matthys Voet.
Main altar
Pieter Verbrugghen I and his son Pieter Verbrugghen II created a Baroque marble main altar that was constructed around Rubens’ painting The vision of St. Dominic. The Dominicans ordered in 1670 a new painting on the Martyrdom of St. Paul from Theodoor Boeyermans. This painting and Rubens’ painting were installed in the new main altar and could be shown alternately through a rotating mechanism with hinges. Both paintings were robbed by the French occupiers in 1794 and sent to Paris. In 1811 Napoleon donated the paintings to two regional museums: Rubens' St. Dominic to the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon, and Boeyermans’ St. Paul to that of Aix-en-Provence. Despite the agreements of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 neither altarpiece was ever returned by France on the pretext that Napoleon had given them to regional museums. The painting The Descent from the Cross completed by Cornelis Cels in 1830 is now placed in the space occupied by the stolen altar pieces.
The St. Paul's Church holds the most impressive array of Baroque confessionals in Belgium. The 10 confessionals, executed around 1659 by Pieter Verbrugghen I with the assistance of his workshop and other sculptors, are divided in groups of five on the side of both aisles. Each confessional is flanked by two statues on either side. The confessionals are not conceived as separate pieces of furniture but are connected by a wooden paneling. The entire wall of each aisle is thus turned into a single united piece of furniture, the iconography of which strives to achieve the same unity and synthesis as the whole structure.
The sculptors Artus Quellinus, Pieter Verbrugghen I, Jan Pieter van Baurscheit de Elder and Andries Colyns de Nole created 8 life-size white stone sculptures of Dominican saints between the years 1631 and 1700 which are placed between the windows of the choir.
On the south side is the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament and of the Sweet Name Jezus which has an altar sculpted by Pieter Verbrugghen I and an altar piece by Rubens on The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. This chapel also holds a Baroque confessional by Willem Kerricx the Elder that was originally placed on the north side of the main entrance.
On the north side is the Maria Chapel with a Baroque altar which was commenced by Huybrecht Van den Eynde, continued by his pupil Sebastiaan de Neve and completed by Jan Pieter van Baurscheit de Elder in 1728. A typical rubensian motif are the dozens of miniature putti and cherubs on the ascending branches of vegetal, Marian symbols on the twisted marble columns. The painting Adoration of the shepherds by Rubens forms the altar piece. The Maria Chapel also contains a white marble sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows by Jan Pieter van Baurscheit de Elder.
The 17th century organ is regarded as one of the most important organs of Belgium. The monumental organ case was sculpted by Pieter Verbrugghen I after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II.
The stolen Caravaggio
In 1623 the painting Madonna of the Rosary by Caravaggio arrived in Antwerp probably via the Dutch market. On the initiative of some artists, among whom Peter Paul Rubens, Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Elder, the painting was donated as altarpiece to the St. Paul’s Church. Rubens organized the leading Antwerp painters to make a series of 15 paintings on the theme of the 'Mystery of the Rosary Cycle' to flank the Caravaggio painting. In 1786 Emperor Joseph II of Austria, after ordering the closing of all ‘useless’ monastic orders, claimed the painting of Caravaggio for his art collection. It can now be admired in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The St. Paul’s Church replaced the original a few years later with a copy made by Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont, a director of the Antwerp Academy. Caravaggio 's work, which was a princely gift of Antwerp’s leading artists and an expression of their deep religious devotion had become the object of looting by the Austrian rulers.
The Calvary
On the outside of the church is a group of statues referred to as the Calvary. It was created on the location of an ancient Dominican cemetery by the brothers van Ketwigh who were Dominican friars. Its design dates from 1697. In 1734 construction of the Calvary was completed but further statues were added up to 1747. It is built as a courtyard and leans on one side against the south aisle of the church and the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament.
The structure includes 63 life-size statues and nine reliefs executed in a popular and theatrical style. Most statues are of white stone with some made of wood. Some statues are dated or signed. The principal sculptors were Michiel Van der Voort the Elder, Alexander van Papenhoven and Jan Claudius de Cock with some statues by the hand of father and son Willem Kerricx, Jan Pieter van Baurscheit de Elder and anonymous collaborators.
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Karolina Strużyńska-Matusiak (3 months ago)
Beautiful church. You have to visit when you are in Antwerp.
Tejmur Šihmamedov (12 months ago)
A very beautiful place indeed. Entire city of Antwerp is simply stunning to look at. This church has a little square of its own. A guy was playing violin out front, really added to the atmosphere. Visited it in winter time, january 1st 2020, get off the cold, see some nice artwork. I'm not religious but I enjoy the look and feel of old religious buildings.
Aishwarya J (12 months ago)
This is the iconic church of Antwerp, with historically relevant and incredible Jesuit architecture. The altar is framed with excellent paintings by the famed Ruben. Must visit for incredible insights into the Jesuit construction, and an enveloping serenity of the Divine.
Erik ter Wal (2 years ago)
Beautiful church. Also with a history of a great fire destroying most if not all works and murals by the great Rubens. Beautiful and peaceful interior.
P N (2 years ago)
Beautiful! One of the most beautiful church I've visited in recent years. You can see many artworks including a version of the Assumption of Virgin Mary by PP Rubens. The church also has a long history. Doing some research before visiting could help you enjoy it a lot more.
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ItalianThe History of the Italian Language
The Story of the Italian Language
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Rome wasn’t built in a day. Both Italy and Italian underwent a huge number throughout their history.
Do you like history? If so, you’re probably going to enjoy this article.
There’s a lot to get through so let’s get started with the first inhabitants of Italy’s various regions.
Our story starts in 800BC. At the time, the area that currently corresponds to Italy and Corsica was inhabited by various different peoples.
There were:
The Etruscans (in Tuscany)
The Greeks (in the South and in Sicily)
The Celts (in the North of Italy)
The Phoenicians
And various other ethnic Italian groups
These peoples didn’t have or share a single language. However, despite their differences, their languages were relatively similar and there were around 40 of them spoken in the region.
Latin descended from the languages spoken by the Italic peoples. Classic Latin is different to the Italic languages.
The Creation of Rome
The foundation of Rome in 753BC by the Etruscans, Sabines, and Romans changed everything.
Rome is one of the most magnificent cities in the world. (Source: stokpic.com)
Wars followed and the region was subsequently conquered. This resulted in a unified and Romanised Italy during the reign of Augustus from 27BC to 14BC. The Romans would later go on to conquer a large number of the surrounding regions, too.
By 200AD, the Roman Empire stretched across Western Europe, North Africa, England, Armenia, and Arabia. You should check out a map of the Roman Empire from the time. It's massive!
Thus, Latin was exported all over Europe with the exception of few places on the edges of the empire. The Romans also brought their culture and their religion, Christianity, with them.
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The Growth of Latin and the Decline of Greek
In 200AD, thanks to oral tradition, there were two main languages spoken across the Roman Empire, Latin and Greek. The rest were largely ignored.
Local leaders attempted to impose Latin across the empire by limiting the use of Greek and suppressing those who tried to speak it.
Latin was left and it split into two: Classical Latin (used by aristocrats) and Vulgar Latin (spoken by soldiers and colonists). Over time, Vulgar Latin (or Common Speech) took over and would become the foundation for Italian, Spanish, and French.
Bit by bit, the Roman Empire was weakening. It’s neighbours saw this as a great opportunity to move in.
The Barbarian Invasions took place between the 4th and 8th centuries.
First the Huns started moving into the Roman Empire in 375. Originally from Central Asia, they were led by Attila (the Hun) and really upset the geopolitical situation in the area when they arrived. With their arrival from the east, the Huns pushed various populations westwards and weakened the Western Roman Empire and its capital, Rome. Only the walls of Constantinople saved the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire) from the Huns.
Among the people driven west, we find the Visigoths whose siege of Rome led it to eventually fall in 410. Other Germanic peoples also made the most of the situation including:
The Francs
The Burgundians
The Ostrogoths
The Alemanni
By the end of the 5th century, the Germanic Kingdoms had replaced the Roman Empire.
The Lombards: Between the 6th to 8th Centuries
In 568, the Lombards, who originated in Scandinavia, took over Milan, Pavia, Tusany, and Venice. They progressively conquered the rest of Northern Italy and part of the south (which was also held by Byzantine Empire who had expanded the Eastern Roman Empire). Italy would remain shared by the Lombards and the Byzantine Empire until the 8th century.
Invasions by Francs and Muslims: 8th and 9th Centuries
Charlemagne, the King of the Francs at the time, capitalised on the various rivalries between the Lombards Duchies by invading Lombardy and Italy. He became King of both the Francs and Lombards and subsequently the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Italy was split into two: Roman Italy and Germanic Italy. Not to mention the Muslims that had made their way into Sicily and had conquered the whole island leaving the mainland up to Genoa. By the end of the 9th century, Italy was divided by several political entities:
The Kingdom of Italy
Papal States
The Byzantine Empire
The Muslims
The End of the 10th Century and the Arrival of the Normans
In 999, the Normans (who originated in Scandinavia) took to the seas and arrived in Southern Italy. They were very quickly able to defeat the Byzantines and the Arabs and conquer the south of Italy. In 1154, they created the Kingdom of Sicily which was comprised of Sicily and Southern Italy.
Various conquests brought with them linguistic diversity. In fact, these conquests caused Italy to have a huge mix of languages (over 1,000). While all of them originated from Latin, none of them were able to impose themselves over any of the others.
The Latin used by the Church was always influential in terms of culture in the region. However, the various peoples and the languages they spoke influenced Italian as we know it today. This began with Germanic tribes, the Lombards, and the Francs and was influenced by the Arabic, Norman, and Sicilian languages.
Furthermore, Italians also borrowed a lot of Medieval French words during the Middle Ages.
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The Start of Linguistic Unification through Literature
By the end of the Middles Ages, Italy was divided into two: the Principalities in the North (the Republic of Siena and the Republic of Florence) and the Kingdom of Naples in the South.
During the Renaissance in 16th century, Italy became hugely popular in terms of culture and science. It gained linguistic unification thanks to the writers of the time. Most of the famous writers of the time wrote in Florentine, a sub-dialect of the Tuscan dialect.
These writers included Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
It was Dante’s Divine Comedy that helped spread Florentine across Italy. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
This didn’t stop Ecclesiastic Latin from hanging around for a number of years, though. When printing came around and Pope Benedict XIV allowed the Bible to be read in a common language (Florentine in this case), the language spread even further.
In the 16th century, Italy was subject to Spanish cultural influence from Spain via Charles V. He became the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as well as King of Naples and Sicily and Jerusalem. This resulted in the Italian language being bolstered with plenty of words from Spanish and Portuguese.
The French Revolution and Influence on Italy
After the French Revolution, Napoleon came to power in France. In 1796, General Bonaparte arrived in Italy.
Few people know that the French revolution greatly affected the whole of Europe. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
This invasion resulted in the Italians wanting a unified country. This is why many historians consider the Napoleonic period as the start of Modern Italy. Between 1796 and 1861, Italy underwent several drastic changes including:
A redrawing of territories following the 1815 Congress of Vienna.
Almost total domination of Italy by the Austrian Empire.
A war between France and the Piedmontese against Austria which brought with it a unitarian movement across Italy.
The Italian Kingdom grew progressively over time. By 1861, there were various languages spoken across Italy. Including:
Franco-Provençal
Gallo-Italic
Central Dialects
Southern Dialects
Tuscan Dialects
Even modern Italian is home to many different dialects. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
However, Florentine was seen as the national Italian language.
Between 1922 and 1945, Mussolini’s fascist government imposed Italian across all of Italy. Learning Italian (and only Italian) was of highest priority.
Minority languages were driven out under Mussolini. The goal was to scare them into extinction. Teachers would teach only Italian. The administration itself was also fully Italian.
The linguistic rights of minority language speakers were eradicated in order to strengthen Italian as the sole official language.
Certain words that were considered “exotic” were also removed from the Italian lexicon. Thus, there were hundreds of words (expressions, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc.) from French, English, Arabic, and German that were transformed or given an Italian translation. It wasn’t until 1948, following the Second World War, that a culture of minority languages was able to be reborn.
Nowadays, Modern Italian doesn’t bear too much resemblance to the Italian used by Dante and his peers. Just like the English language, Italian went through a number of significant changes. According to data from the ISA (Instituto Nazional di Statistica), the number of people using only their regional dialect to communicate at home decreased from 32% to 19.1% between 1987 and 2000.
Italian is starting to take over the other languages both in terms of writing and speaking. Some of them are no longer even being spoken in everyday conversation. In any case, you’ll notice that Modern Italian has a diverse and rich history.
If you’d like to learn more about its grammar, conjugations, structures, and expressions during your courses, learning about the language’s history and roots is a good place to start. It’s also your gateway to Italian and European culture.
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Sustainability—Simple Rules in the Trenches
September 27, 2010 /in News /by TSC Webmaster
Kevin J. Dooley, Arizona State University and Co-Director, Sustainability Consortium
I’m currently Co-Director of the Sustainability Consortium, where we are working with retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, NGOs, and government agencies to develop science and tools that improve decision making about sustainable products. Our current focus is on developing uniform standards for measuring and reporting consumer product sustainability, and our pilot projects involve computers, home and personal care items, and food and beverages. In just over a year the Consortium has grown to involve over 100 organizations and 250 active participants.
Knowing my background in complexity science, some of my colleagues ask me, “Kevin, where is the complexity thinking in what you’re doing?” My reply is, “Complexity science is how I view this effort every second of every day!” It’s true. I honestly can’t comprehend how I would approach this effort without a complexity science perspective. I do know that in a large, multi-stakeholder environment, there is no other perspective that can provide as much insight as complexity does.
It’s instructive to note that the Consortium’s other Co-Director, Jon Johnson from University of Arkansas, is an expert at social networks and wrote some of the early papers on management and chaos theory. I guess it should be no surprise this endeavor attracted two complexity folk.
In my role as Co-Director, one of the most practical and impactful concepts that I use from complexity science is that of “simple rules”. The concept of simple rules stems from the observation that in a complex system, a few simple rules that define interactions amongst agents or variables can yield complex, nonlinear dynamics. Coupled with the Zipf’s Law that human systems seek to minimize energy expenditure, this implies that human systems will tend to seek a small set of simple rules by which to guide collective behavior.
In an organizational setting, these simple rules can be usefully considered to be the principles or values by which members of the organization act and make decisions. In the Sustainability Consortium, our core values are:
Collaboration of Diverse Participants
This impacts how we compose our Steering Committee, our Working Groups, and our Advisory Boards; who we seek to partner with in research; and how we build the staff of the Consortium.
Scientific Integrity
Whenever you’re developing standards to be used in the real business world, there’s a tension between science and economics. We are a member funded organization, so we are especially sensitive to developing systems and values that uphold this core principle. For example, each of our standards is based on an underlying research document that is peer-reviewed by academic experts, and not subject to consensus review by industry members.
Comprehensiveness and Holism
One of the reasons we exist is because existing efforts to measure and report product sustainability have been fragmented and partial, in terms of their scope, the impacts of concern, or the life cycle stage being addressed. Our approach seeks to capture all environmental and social impacts across the whole life cycle of a product. Holism, and complexity science more specifically, also impacts how we develop our own decision support systems, using principles of modularity and distributed control as key design criteria.
Transparency and Accessibility
To be open, to all, is an easy thing to say but a hard thing to do. Transparency impacts both how we operate, the relations that we seek, and the data and methods we seek to use. Numerous research studies have shown that transparency of data and methods is key to buyer trust of product information.
Progress and Solutions Orientation
Our members and stakeholders want results, our earth and society want results, and we want results, sooner than later. In a sense, this is where science becomes engineering. From a complex systems perspective, this means we strive for short learning cycles and multiple iterations, in order to adapt to good solutions.
I’ve seen the same thing in other organizations I have been part of, especially smaller organizations. For example, when I worked in two different, small community radio stations, our mission statements were key in every day decision making. Other research into new venture development highlights the importance of principled decision making.
In order for “simple rules” to work however, it can’t just be in my mind—it has to be in the mind of all the agents (people) in the Consortium. This comes from agents co-creating the principles, and having a relatively simple set of principles so people can remember and therefore use.
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The Taco Bell® System Commits To Hire 30,000 New Restaurant Team Members This Summer
May 21, 2020 | People | Business
The company strives to be the safest place to work for all team members
IRVINE, Calif. (May 21, 2020) -- Taco Bell announced today that it, together with its franchisees and licensees, plans to hire at least 30,000 team members this summer.* The company and its franchisees are committed to being the safest place to work, and Taco Bell has previously introduced strict steps to protect team members, including temperature checks, contactless service and mask and glove requirements. During a time of uncertainty, Taco Bell and its franchisees are proud to offer jobs and welcome more individuals to their community.
“Since COVID-19 became a reality, we have continued our commitment to putting our people first,” said Taco Bell’s Chief People Officer Kelly McCulloch. “We work closely with our franchisees to ensure that we’re meeting the needs of our restaurant teams. Their safety and wellbeing remain our first priority. With this new hiring wave, we look forward to expanding our Taco Bell family and providing great, safe jobs to even more people.”
Taco Bell and its franchisees are evolving and innovating recruitment efforts in response to the current realities of social distancing requirements and enhanced safety needs. The system will be hiring for existing positions at all levels in the restaurant, as well as new roles that have been created to reflect the recent shift in operations. The newly-created positions are intended to keep the drive-thru running smoothly, to manage delivery, curb-side pickup and mobile app orders, and to maintain industry-leading sanitation and cleanliness practices.
The brand is complying with safety standards by adopting best practices for hiring, such as introducing virtual and curbside interviews. Taco Bell will continue to consider what is best for team member safety as states begin to re-open, but this new hiring push will position restaurants to be staffed and ready when the times comes.
Team member safety remains the brand’s top priority during this unprecedented time. Before interacting with any food or equipment, all employees have their temperature checked using a contactless infrared thermometer. Taco Bell and franchise owners provide gloves and masks to their respective team members, while also providing guidelines on alternative facial coverings in case employees prefer their own. The company, as well as many of its franchise organizations, offer support for team members like access to employee assistance programs and virtual doctor appointments. Because this is an ever-evolving situation, the brand is constantly reevaluating safety initiatives and shifting strategies to enable team members work in a safe environment.
“During these tough times, we want job-seekers to know that we’re hiring and we’re safe,” said McCulloch. “Our ‘Start With Us, Stay With Us’ mantra rings true even during this unprecedented time. Whether you’ve worked with us before, find yourself looking for a new opportunity or are looking for your first job, we’re here for you and can provide great career opportunities – even if it’s just to help get you back on your feet. In partnership with our franchisees, we hope that we can use our footprint and be a part of the solution to help kickstart the workforce.”
Taco Bell’s “Start with Us, Stay with Us” platform is the brand’s way of saying that whether team members need a temporary job, or want to begin a career, they’re welcome to join. Team members are encouraged to participate in the optional education and career-building programs Taco Bell offers no matter how long they’ve been with, or plan to stay with, the brand. Just last week, the Taco Bell Foundation awarded $3 million in Live Más Scholarships, with more than 100 of those scholarships going to restaurant team members.
Information about careers at Taco Bell can be found here: https://www.tacobell.com/careers.
* Those applying for a position with a franchisee or licensee of Taco Bell are not applying for to work at Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. Franchisees and licensees are independent business owners and employers, who are responsible for their own employment practices, including setting their own wage and benefit programs. Taco Bell Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants for all job openings are welcome and will be considered without regard to race, gender, age, national origin, color, religion, disability, military status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law. An offer of employment may be contingent upon a satisfactory background check and proof of employment eligibility.
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Ka Pae Ranasingam Tamil Movie Review
James Occoner Sunday, October 04, 2020
Vijay Sethupathi, Aiswarya Rajesh, Poo Ramu, Rangaraj Pandey, Bhavani, and others are all directing the film to zeePlex OTT today. Directed by Director Virumandi, the film is produced by KJR Studios. Music composer Gibran has composed the music for the film.
Ranasingham (Vijay Sethupathi) is a young man from Ramanathapuram who is in the grip of water shortage. He is constantly giving voice to the problems of the village. He also plays a romantic prank with Ariyanachi (Ayyarajesh). At one point, Ranasingham, who is going to Dubai, is breaking down when it comes to the news that he has died there. Ariyanachi wants to bring her husband's body home and see her face at least once, and there are many obstacles in power. Despite all this, she struggled to see her husband last, and what finally happened?
Vijay Sethupathi as Ranasinghe. If there is a problem in the town, he is a young man who comes to the village and gives a voice to him. Vijay Sethupathi's trademark stuff is amazing with a soft body language and a salt dialogue.
Beyond the heroine of the film, Ishwarya Rajesh has mixed up another hero. The emotional struggles that she has shown in her face to rescue her husband make the film a 'One of the Best' by Ishwarya Rajesh. Especially in the climax scene, he is so deep in acting. No matter how many films they have done, Vijay Sethupathi and Aishwarya Rajesh's chemistry is fresh.
The acting of GV Prakash's sister Bhavani Sri, who is Vijay Sethupathi's sister, is hopeful in the first film itself. Rangaraj Pandey as a kalakad, Poo Ramu, Vela Ramamurthy, Muniskanth, and Arunraja Kamaraj are the people of Ramanathapuram. The music of Jibran and the lyrics of Vairamuthu have given the songs to the field. The music director is impressed by the background music.
Cameraman Ekambaram's camera brings heat to the southern districts on the screen. The cinematographer's success made the reality of the land, be it dry landscapes or night water pipes. Dialogues, editing, and art direction have done their job well.
Director Virumandi has also shown the family and social environment that has brought them to work abroad from the village. The film is specially shot in the airport scene, climax, and the way everyone has gone abroad. The director who has been a live lying face-to-face slap is a must to appreciate the fact that the funeral for a celebrity actress is not going to happen easily.
If the screenplay was fixed, Ranasingham would have been an inevitable Tamil film. However, the film impresses us with the way in which the essential idea was made to be expressed, realistically, and deeply, between emotional struggles.
Verdict: The common man's disability and anger is a very honest way of saying the same. Ranasingham stands high. It is definitely an effort to appreciate it.
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Star Trek Picard: Season 1 Episode 4: Absolute Candor - Review
Following on from their mission to journey to Freecloud to find synth-creator, Maddox, the new crew find themselves on a bit of a detour, where they pick up another couple of crew members.
On the one hand it is good that Picard has taken the time to introduce us to each member of the crew. On the other, it is odd that we are nearly half-way through the debut season and the production team are still giving us episodes like this assemble the crew, without progressing the plot by any degree. Still, I'm hoping that given the episodes' ending, that will be a thing of the past and the story can now really get moving.
If this episode does one thing, its make us excited for next weeks one, with the promise of the crew going undercover, its nice to see that Picard isn't going to shy away from some of the sillier aspects of the show's premise. There were a few things in this episode which were enjoyably silly. There are loads of Romulans walking around carrying swords, on a previous visit, Picard left a copy of The Three Musketeers with a young boy called Elnor, did he share it around? It wouldn't be the first time that a piece of literature changed a planet.
And yet, while Picard still does have some storytelling kinks to work out, I'm really liking the characters on offer. More often than not, I'm happy enough to overlook a scripts weaknesses if the characters are enjoyable, and maybe this is why I've sometimes struggled with the new era of Doctor Who, I just don't care about any of the side characters and few of the main ones, despite being a Doctor Who fan for my whole life.
But this isn't the case here, Absolute Candor is the first episode to see the whole crew working together, and they are well on their way to becoming one of the strongest crews from the franchise. Of course, Patrick Stewart is still brilliant as the older, wiser and more remorseful Jean-Luc, but this isn't just his show. Each character gets a time a shine from Jurati's adorable awkwardness, or Captain Rios modelling all the ship's holograms on himself. Elnor looks to be a promising addition, even if here he felt like a bit of a Dungeons and Dragons stereotype.
But the best bit of the episode was the moment where Seven of Nine finally turns up, leaving us waiting for more this Friday. I'm really looking forward to seeing some backstory between her and Picard, given how they have both escaped the Borg after having been assimilated. And I cant' wait to see what she's been up to in the twenty-years since Voyager returned home.
And the other thing this show is excelling at is showing us what life is like in the 24th century. Picard is placed on the verge between 24th and 25th centuries, and I'm really enjoying learning about the state of things in the universe now that the Federation have a more limited presence. And placing a lot of the plot on the Romulans is allowing us to learn more about them as they are definitely the most underrated alien species out there, we never got a good look at their lives, society and culture in the same way we did with the Klingons, Cardassians or even the Borg.
After four episodes spent assembling a formidable crew, it seems Picard is finally ready to get going, perhaps boldly where no one has gone before...
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In my review for the previous episode Nepenthe , I said that I don't like shows to take breathers when they are reaching their conclusions and the pace is really picking up. However, Nepenthe had a lot going for it, including the return of Will Riker and Deanna Troi. Broken Pieces , which is another breather-episode despite being only two episodes from the end, doesn't have much going for it and while it should have been picking up the pace, it seemed much happier keeping things confined to a few sets and not really advancing the plot. It was a bottle episode, but it didn't try to hide it. What Broken Pieces did do though was show us the new status quo for Picard. All the characters are finally where they are meant to be with Soji finally aboard La Sirena, alongside most of the main cast and its the first time she's joined them for any reasonable length of time, though she hasn't met Elnor in any meaningful way, despite a scene a few episodes ago where he re
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U.K. Scientists Create Human-Cow Hybrid Embryos
The controversial approach could help overcome a major hurdle in stem cell research.
Scientists in Newcastle set off a media firestorm in the U.K. earlier this week by announcing that they had created a human-animal hybrid–a cow egg whose nuclear DNA had been replaced by DNA from human skin cells. (The research has garnered little attention outside the British press.)
From the BBC report:
The Catholic Church describes it as “monstrous”. But medical bodies and patient groups say such research is vital for our understanding of disease.
They argue that the work could pave the way for new treatments for conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Lack of access to human eggs has been a major impediment to embryonic-stem-cell research, which is why scientists are turning to animal eggs. (See “Human Therapeutic Cloning at a Standstill”).
From the BBC:
The Newcastle team say they are using cow ovaries because human eggs from donors are a precious resource and in short supply.
The hybrid embryos are purely for research and would never be allowed to develop beyond 14 days, when they are still smaller than a pinhead.
The scientists have been criticized for releasing their results through a news organization rather than through the traditional medium of a peer-reviewed journal.
From New Scientist:
Other scientists working in this area of research have had difficulty in growing cybrids past the 16-cell stage, so they will be looking forward to seeing the Newcastle team’s results in a scientific journal–as will the rest of us. After the Woo-Suk Hwang scandal, you would think that scientists working in this most controversial of areas would be extra cautious about their results, but not, apparently, Armstrong’s team.
Perhaps they want to take greater control of the media reporting of their work, given the extreme reaction last month to the creation of cybrid embryos shown by the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien. But is it a good idea to bypass peer-review with announcements of such sensitivity? I’m not so sure.
A backgrounder on human-animal hybrids from the Guardian outlines previous hybrid research:
What is the situation in other countries?
Chinese scientists were reportedly the first to successfully create human-animal embryos. In 2003 a team at the Shanghai Second Medical University fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before being destroyed to harvest their stem cells. Later that same year, a US scientist, Panayiotis Zavos, announced he had created “human-cow” embryos that lived for around a fortnight and could theoretically have been implanted into a woman’s womb.
In 2004 researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota produced pigs with hybrid pig-human blood cells. In 2005 Parkinson’s disease researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego reported they had created mice with 0.01% human cells by injecting about 100,000 human embryonic stem cells per mouse. Last year a Yale researcher, Eugene Redmond, led a project injecting millions of human neural stem cells into the brains of monkeys afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. Many countries have banned this human-animal embryo research, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Italy.
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Copyright vs Freedom of the Internet: Round 1 just passed the European Parliament
By Isobel Taylor (AU) and Georgina Hey (AU) on April 29, 2019 Posted in Copyright
At the end of last month, the European Union Parliament adopted a controversial new “Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” (Directive).
One of the stated aims of the Directive is to give copyright holders such as musicians, artists, performers and authors greater bargaining power against tech giants like Google, YouTube and Facebook in the modern age of online content creation and distribution. However, as the widespread and vocal outcry against the Directive has demonstrated, other internet users remain concerned about its potential implications for freedom of information and censorship online.
In this article, we explore some of the more controversial aspects of the Directive, including:
the shifting of liability from users onto online platforms to compensate rights holders fairly for the use of their works; and
the introduction of the so-called “link tax”, which provides ancillary copyright to press publishers for the use of snippets of articles on news aggregator sites.
We also consider the potential implications for various stakeholders in the EU and beyond.
Shifting liability to distribution platforms
Article 17 (previously Article 13) of the Directive makes online content-sharing platforms such as YouTube and Facebook legally liable for content uploaded by their users. This means that creators whose copyright is infringed by works uploaded to these platforms now have a legal remedy against the platforms for unpaid licence fees, providing greater incentive for platforms to take copyright infringement seriously and implement strategies to avoid it.
There is nothing in the Directive that specifically requires these platforms to implement automatic screening mechanisms to check for copyrighted material prior to upload. However, critics fear that this will be a necessary consequence of the shift in liability onto the platforms. Given the sheer quantity of material uploaded to these sites on a daily basis, it would be impossible for the platforms to perform manual checks of uploaded material in practice. This means that automatic filtering of content may be the only way for the platforms to ensure compliance, or at least reduce their risks of significant financial exposure.
Critics also fear that, if implemented, such filters would not be sophisticated enough to distinguish properly between infringing material and legitimate content (including content that is specifically excluded from the scope of the Directive), leading to unintended internet censorship. For example, the Directive contains specific provisions allowing for the free sharing of works for the purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche. These carve-outs were added to quell fears that the Directive would prevent users from uploading and sharing popular content like memes and GIFs. However, it is not clear how automated filtering processes would be able to determine the intended ‘purpose’ of a work, and therefore whether or not it falls within a relevant exception.
The adoption of the Directive should be welcome news for rights holders who have, to date, been in a relatively weak bargaining position when seeking remuneration for the use of their works online. The limited recourse available to rights holders against platforms onto which their content was uploaded without compensation has meant that platforms have little incentive to actively discourage such behaviour from users.
On the flipside, content distribution platforms will need to begin thinking immediately about how best to ensure that they comply with the new requirements of the Directive, whether by introducing automatic filtering or otherwise.
Australian lawmakers, platforms and copyright holders will also be watching the effects of Article 17 with interest in the coming years, as the state of Australian law with respect to the copyright liabilities is currently the subject of litigation which has the potential to make platforms liable for infringing content uploaded by users, both as direct infringers and also for “authorising” the infringing conduct of their users. We report here on two recent decisions in this area, and whether they are likely to align Australian copyright law more closely with the EU under Article 17.
The “link tax”: providing ancillary copyright for press publishers
Article 15 (previously Article 11) of the Directive, which has been dubbed the “link tax”, allows press publishers to require news aggregators like Google News to pay licensing fees for reproducing snippets of text from news articles.
There is a specific exception in the Directive for “individual words or very short extracts” and also (despite the “link tax” moniker) for hyperlinks. However, it is not clear what length will be considered “very short” and thereby excluded from the requirement, or how the requirement will work in practice (if indeed it will work at all).
It is worth noting that both Germany (in 2013) and Spain (in 2014) previously attempted to introduce similar legislation at a national level. In both countries, the attempts are widely considered to have been ultimately unsuccessful.
In Germany, while the law is still in place, it has been largely ineffective, with many publishers simply providing free licences to news aggregators to allow them to continue to aggregating and linking to their content without charge.
The Spanish legislation went a step further, denying publishers the choice to opt out of the tax by providing a free licence. In response, Google News simply shut down its services in Spain, which led to many Spanish news sites losing significant online traffic.
Critics of Article 15 fear that it will mean the end of news aggregator services altogether (as was the case for Google News in Spain). However, as the example of Germany shows, if press publishers consider that it is ultimately in their best interests to have their content displayed and linked on news aggregator sites, they may choose to provide a free licence, essentially avoiding the consequences of the new payment scheme altogether.
The Q&A webpage on the Directive is quick to emphasise that ordinary users are not the target of the Directive and are unlikely to be affected by its implementation. Rather, the Directive is aimed at ensuring that original content creators and press publishers are properly and fairly compensated for the use of their material, and it is these stakeholders that are likely to feel the effects of the changes most fully, as outlined above.
However, the practical effects of the Directive will not be known until it becomes clear exactly how the EU member states intend to implement its contents over the next two years. The resulting binding legislation will look slightly different in each jurisdiction which, given the borderless nature of the Internet, will add an additional layer of complexity for companies as they attempt to realign their online activities to comply with the new requirements.
Although the requirements of the Directive will, of course, only apply within the EU, internet users in other jurisdictions may also feel its effects. As occurred when the EU introduced its sweeping data protection regulations last year, it is expected that some companies, which operate both inside and outside the EU, will choose to introduce global measures to ensure compliance.
All this means that your memes and GIFs are safe for now, but it remains to be seen whether they will one day be automatically filtered out of the EU altogether, a consequence of which the UK, at least, will be safe.
Tags: copyright; liability; infringement; Europe; Australia
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Anna Nicole Smith Biography
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Also Known As: Vickie Lynn Hogan
Born in: Harris County
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Spouse/Ex-: Billy Wayne Smith (m. 1985–1993), J. Howard Marshall (m. 1994–1995)
father: Donald Eugene Hogan
mother: Virgie Mae
siblings: Donna Hogan
children: Daniel Wayne Smith, Dannielynn Marshall
Died on: February 8, 2007
Cause of Death: Drug Overdose
U.S. State: Texas
education: Durkee Elementary School, Mexia High School, Aldine Intermediate School
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Anna Nicole Smith was the epitome of the classic voluptuous blonde in the mid 90s. Her life story is the story of a woman who was flamboyant and went rags-to-riches. Even though she was a school drop-out and had a disturbed family life, she always wanted to make it big in life by hook or crook. She gained the publicity by posing for ‘Playboy’ magazine. She also modeled for the international magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Face etc. She garnered lot of attention by marrying the 89 year old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II when she was just 26 years of age. She was desperately trying to build her career in movies. She got few roles in films and TV series. She was always given a role to cash in her sex symbol image. Whatever she did was the topic of headlines. Even after her death, she continues to be a subject of great fascination and speculation to this day. Her life and sudden death has inspired numerous books, documentaries and movies.
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Anna was born on 28th November, 1967 in Houston and was raised in Mexia, Texas by Donald Hogan and Virgie Mae. Her mother was working as sheriff’s deputy.
After her parents’ divorce in 1969, Anna was raised by her mother and aunt. She had a difficult childhood. She attended Durkee Elementary School and Aldine Senior High School in Houston. However, she dropped out of the school.
As a teenager she worked at local fried chicken restaurant where she met a cook, Billy Smith. At the age of 17, in 1985, she married Billy and had a son named Daniel a year later. Anna and Billy separated in 1993.
After the separation, she moved to Houston and started doing odd jobs such as working at Wal-Mart and exotic dancer at a strip club.
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In 1992, she shot to fame when she modeled for ‘Playboy’ magazine. Immediately, she became the modeling sensation. She also appeared in advertisements for ‘Guess’ fashion brand later that same year.
In 1993, she modeled for Swedish clothing company H&M.
In 1994, she appeared in the comedy series ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’. She appeared as a celebrity who flirts with the lead character. The same year she also appeared in the movie ‘Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’. This film was a commercial success. Both these roles were small. After this she remained in the news by appearing in many celebrity magazines. She enjoyed being in news and all the attention she was garnering from media.
The film ‘To The Limit’ fetched her the lead role and released in 1995. In this film, she portrayed a retired spy seeking revenge of murderer of her husband. This film was not successful. She appeared as herself in the pilot episode of ‘The Naked Truth’.
In 1996, she again tried to make a place in Hollywood by playing a lead role in ‘Skyscraper’. This was a low budget, direct to video movie. This film too did not do well and her film career got stalled.
Thereafter, she turned to small screen. She appeared in ‘Sin City Spectacular’ in 1998. The same year, she appeared in tell-all, self promoting film ‘Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed’. This film was based on her ‘Playboy’ tenure.
In 1999, she played the role of Veronica Chase’s friend in sitcom ‘Veronica’s Closet’. She also played a guest role in ‘Ally McBeal’.
In 2002, her daily life was brought in front of people with a reality show ‘The Anna Nicole Show’. Even though for major part of this show, she seemed to be disoriented or confused; the show was a big hit.
She returned to film acting in 2003 with a comedy film ‘Wasabi Tuna’.
In her entire career, she struggled with her weight on and off. Her weight was 224lbs in 1996, which she brought down to 138lbs in 1997. Hence, she represented line of diet products in 2003. She also did some modeling during this period.
In 2006, she starred in science fiction comedy ‘Illegal Aliens’. Her son Daniel also appeared with her on this project.
Even after death, she continued to inspire movies and books. In 2011, an opera titled ‘Anna Nicole: telling Smith's tragic tale in song’ was launched in London. Lifetime TV network released ‘The Anna Nicole Story’.
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Her reality show ‘The Anna Nicole Show’, released in 2002, was a success. This show was created to cash on her rising popularity with gossip columnist. This show was given the highest cable rating. This show featured herself, her son Daniel, assistant Kimberly Walther, her gay interior decorator Bobby Trendy, her cousin Shelly Cloud, her poodle ‘Sugar Pie’ and lawyer / boyfriend Howard K. Stern. The show had created quite a stir in college students and pop fans. Still second season of this show was not aired because till that time, the chAnnal had lost interest in the show.
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In 1993, she was one of the beauties who had been selected as ‘Playmate of the year’ by Playboy magazine. This magazine gave her the identity and created her sex symbol image which stuck to her for whole life.
Personal Life & Legacy
She was born as Vickie Lynn Hogan. During one of the advertisement assignments she changed her name to Anna Smith.
She was not happy with the small town life in Mexia and wanted to make it big in life. Hence, she came to Houston and started working as a dancer in a strip club. In 199she met J. Howard Marshal II at this club. He was an American business magnet.
Anna and Marshal got married in 1994 and remained married until his death in 1995. Their marriage created a huge controversy as at the time of marriage, she was 26 years old whereas he was 89 years of age. She allegedly married Marshal only for his estate.
After Marshal’s death, she filed a case against her former step son E. Pierce Marshall, for half of her late husband’s estate, worth $1.6 billion. J. Howard Marshall II’s contested will had been drawn up soon after his marriage to Smith and neither she nor his younger son was mentioned in it. She claimed that he had verbally promised her half of his fortune if she married him. She fought a lengthy legal battle. In September 2005, the case reached the US Supreme Court and on 1st May, 2006 she won the chance to pursue her claims in a federal court. However, her life took tragic turns thereafter.
She delivered her second baby on 7th September 2006 in Bahamas. She named this baby girl Dannielynn. However, just after three days of birth of her daughter, Daniel, her 20 year old son, died in the same hospital room from an apparent drug overdose.
After her son’s death, she again became the subject of headline and gossip over paternity issue of her daughter. Her ex-boyfriend and photographer Larry Birkhead, claimed to be Dannielynn’s father. However, Anna stated that her attorney, Howard K. Stern, was her daughter’s father, and he was listed on the birth certificate. In the midst of all the paternity issue, Anna and Stern held a small mock commitment ceremony. However, this ceremony was not legally binding.
On 8th February 2007, at the age of 39, she died after being unconscious in her hotel room in Florida. Her death was supposed to be from overdose of drugs which she was addicted to.
After her death, DNA test certified that Larry Brickhead was biological father of her daughter.
As on 2015, her net worth is estimated to be $ 50million.
When she got married to Howard Marshal, she took off for Greece without him. They were not even staying together in his last days.
She filed for bankruptcy in 1996 when a former female assistant sued her for $850,000 on sexual harassment charges
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She supported anti-fur movement. She also appeared in the advertisements for animal rights group ‘PETA’.
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How About This 2016 Matchup? Clinton vs. Romney
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By Eric Pianin
Here’s a 2016 presidential matchup that nobody seriously contemplated until now: Clinton vs Romney.
It wasn’t long ago that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was consigned to the political dustbin of history after his dismal showing against President Obama in the November 2012 election. Republicans distanced themselves from Romney almost as quickly as they’d turned away from former President George W. Bush.
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Romney hoped at best to assume the role of elder statesman – a seasoned politician and businessman who could advise a fresh crop of GOP presidential wannabes. Just as he was being airbrushed from view by Republican strategists, former Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton seemingly donned the mantle of invincibility – and inevitability – as Obama’s successor.
With her new book, Hard Choices, a sky-high public approval rating and the early semblance of a strong campaign apparatus, Clinton eclipsed Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats with the temerity to think about challenging her for their party’s nomination.
Last week, Clinton stumbled badly out of the gate as she mounted her book tour and media blitz and even saw a dip in her overall popularity, while Romney savored a whiff of interest in a possible new candidacy.
A new Bloomberg News poll indicates Clinton’s once-overwhelming lead is beginning to shrink. The poll says 52 percent of Americans view her favorably, down from 56 percent in March and 70 percent at the end of 2012, as she was preparing to leave the State Dept.
Romney, meanwhile, enjoyed a sudden surge in popularity – even blandishments from some establishment Republicans and business leaders to consider making another bid for the White House.
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While a third Romney campaign must be treated as the longest of long shots, former GOP presidents Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan proved that it sometimes takes multiple tries to win the highest office.
“There’s a remote chance, sure,” that Romney might run again, University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato said in an interview. “You can conjure up wild scenarios that might produce a GOP deadlock, and the leadership grabs the only guy around who could quickly raise money and knows the ropes. But it’s a tiny chance.”
Renewed interest in Romney may have begun with the Sundance Film Festival’s screening last January of “Mitt,” a sympathetic documentary that showed a much more human and introspective man than was seen during the campaign. Then, last week, Romney hosted a GOP summit and retreat in Park City, Utah, to help political leaders and conservative thinkers carve a winning path to the 2016 presidential election and beyond.
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The summit drew party activists, business leaders and six GOP presidential aspirants, including N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rob Portman of Ohio, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Romney’s running mate in 2012. Romney waved off any suggestion he might consider running again and insisted others were just trying to make him feel good. “I’m not running and they know it,” he told The LA Times.
However, he could’ve fooled a lot of people, according to The Washington Post. He sparked speculation with a “sweeping, campaign-style speech” that skewered Obama’s foreign policy decision-making and took Clinton to task as well. “The Obama-Biden-Hillary Clinton foreign policy is a monumental bust,” Romney told a cheering throng.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said during a private dinner during the conference that Romney “is the only person that can fill the stage,” according to The Post.
Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a maverick Democrat who befriended Romney when the two men were governors, also old reporters Romney would be “a giant in a field of midgets” if he were to run again.
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Schweitzer, though, contemplating his own presidential bid, told Business Insider Monday, “Mitt Romney is not running for president or anything else,” adding, “If I were a betting man, I’d give you 4-to-1 odds.”
As memories begin to fade about Romney’s flaws as a politician and campaigner in the 2012 race, his strengths as a political leader, strategist, debater and business and government official may begin to appeal more to the rank and file. Last March, 34 percent of Republicans said in a Washington Post-ABC News poll they could definitely back him in the 2016 GOP primary.
That was the highest number recorded for any Republican. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee tied for second at 15 percent each.
Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, calls the renewed interest in Romney among some as choosing “any port in the storm.” “There’s a storm going on in the Republican Party right now and they’re looking for a figure who represents stability, sanity in a sense – someone who the party has rallied around in the past,” Baker said in an interview on Monday. “I think they’re groping for someone who has those qualities. There are not that many people around.
“Romney has a very soothing manner, he doesn’t go out of his way to pick fights, and I think he’s kind of a mediator – the kind of person you look for in a debate who is going to call it fair for both sides,” Baker added.
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Make-A-Wish finds alternative activities to fit current time
Eric Lagatta
elagatta@dispatch.com
As the Hummer limo rolled to a stop outside the Macy's at Polaris Fashion Place on Aug. 18, Jasmine Konneker and her family emerged to see a red carpet that had been rolled out in their honor.
Lining the red carpet, greeters bearing gift baskets from Cheryl's Cookies and Chanel were eagerly awaiting the 19-year-old and her guests.
Arriving an hour and a half before the shopping center opened to the public, Konneker -- who was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2018 as a junior at Westerville South High School -- was welcomed inside for her own private shopping spree provided by the Midwest chapter of Make-A-Wish.
"I'm just really happy to have this experience," Konneker said as she wiped away tears.
It may not have been the Westerville resident's first wish -- that was to go on a cruise -- but the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has put a halt on all travel-related requests granted by Make-A-Wish.
Konneker is one of hundreds of youth in the Midwest whose wishes were delayed or altered because of COVID-19. Travel wishes account for more than 80% of requests made to the regional chapter, said Stephanie McCormick, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana.
"That is very difficult because these kids, they get their true heartfelt wish and all of a sudden the brakes are put on," McCormick said. "These wishes are so essential to bring hope to these kids."
Wish granters at the foundation have worked with families and their children to either postpone a wish or decide on an alternative. As the pandemic continues, many are changing their requests to camping outings, bedroom renovations and chats with celebrities by videoconferencing.
"We're really excited to repurpose, reimagine these wishes where they have other choices," McCormick said. "The important thing is to get that wish granted for the child."
For Konneker, who loves fashion and shopping, the choice for a reimagined wish was easy, and representatives at Polaris Fashion Place were more than happy to make it a reality.
"We absolutely wanted to be part of the community and work with Make-A-Wish to help make Jasmine's dream come true," Polaris general manager Tamra Bower said.
With the assistance of a personal shopper, Anna Karamatic, a stylist at Macy's, Konneker had the department store to herself as she considered dresses, jackets, shoes and accessories. Later, she was treated to lunch at Brio Italian Grille and a manicure and pedicure at a nail salon. Make-A-Wish officials declined to reveal the monetary value of Konneker's outing.
As Konneker enters her sophomore year at Otterbein University in Westerville, where she is studying sociology and criminology, her cancer has been in remission for more than a year. She is hopeful about the future, full of confidence that her dream of taking a cruise one day will be realized.
"I'll eventually get to do that," Konneker said. "I know that."
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Biography and Legacy of Ferdinand Magellan
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Christopher Minster
Professor of History and Literature
Ph.D., Spanish, Ohio State University
M.A., Spanish, University of Montana
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One of the greatest explorers of the Age of Discovery, Ferdinand Magellan is best known for leading the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe. However, he personally did not complete the route and perished in the South Pacific. A determined man, he overcame personal obstacles, mutinies, uncharted seas, biting hunger, and malnutrition during the course of his voyage. Today, his name is synonymous with discovery and exploration.
Early Years and Education
Fernão Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan is an anglicized version of his name) was born in approximately 1480 in the small Portuguese town of Villa de Sabroza. As the son of the mayor, he led a privileged childhood, and at an early age, he went to the royal court in Lisbon to serve as page to the Queen. He was very well educated, studying with some of the finest tutors in Portugal, and from an early age showed an interest in navigation and exploration.
The De Almeida Expedition
As a well-educated and well-connected young man, it was easy for Magellan to sign on with many of the different expeditions departing from Spain and Portugal at the time. In 1505, he accompanied Francisco De Almeida, who had been named Viceroy of India. De Almeida had a fleet of 20 heavily-armed ships, and they sacked settlements and established towns and forts in north-eastern Africa along the way. Magellan fell out of favor with De Almeida around 1510 when he was accused of illegally trading with Islamic locals. He returned to Portugal in disgrace and offers for him to join new expeditions dried up.
From Portugal to Spain
Magellan was convinced that a new route to the lucrative Spice Islands could be found by going through the New World. He presented his plan to the King of Portugal, Manuel I. He was rejected, possibly because of his past problems with De Almeida. Determined to get funding for his trip, Magellan went to Spain. Here, he was granted an audience with Charles V, who agreed to finance his journey. By August of 1519, Magellan had five ships: the Trinidad (his flagship), Victoria, San Antonio, Concepción, and the Santiago. His crew of 270 men was mostly Spanish.
Departure, Mutiny, and the Wreck
Magellan’s fleet left Seville on August 10, 1519. After stopovers in the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, they headed for Portuguese Brazil. Here, they anchored near present-day Rio de Janeiro in January of 1520 to take on supplies, trading with locals for food and water. It was at this time that serious troubles began: the Santiago was wrecked and the survivors had to be picked up. The captains of the other ships attempted to mutiny. At one point, Magellan was forced to open fire on the San Antonio. He reasserted command and executed or marooned most of those responsible, pardoning the others.
The Strait of Magellan
The four remaining ships headed south, searching for passage around South America. Between October and November 1520, they navigated through the islands and waterways on the continent’s southern tip. The passage they found was named the Strait of Magellan. They discovered Tierra del Fuego as the sailed. On November 28, 1520, they found a tranquil-looking body of water. Magellan named it the Mar Pacífico, or the Pacific Ocean. During the exploration of the islands, the San Antonio deserted. The ship returned to Spain and took too much of the remaining provisions with it, forcing the men to hunt and fish for food.
Across the Pacific
Convinced the Spice Islands were only a short sail away, Magellan led his ships across the Pacific, discovering the Marianas Islands and Guam. Although Magellan named them the Islas de las Velas Latinas (Islands of the Triangular Sails), the name Islas de los Ladrones (Islands of Thieves) stuck because locals made off with one of the landing boats after giving Magellan’s men some supplies. Pressing on, they landed on Homonhon Island in the Philippines. Magellan found he could communicate with the people, as one of his men spoke Malay. He had reached the Eastern edge of the world known to Europeans.
Homonhon was uninhabited, but Magellan’s ships were seen and contacted by some locals who led them to Cebu, home of Chief Humabon, who befriended Magellan. Humabon and his wife even converted to Christianity along with many of the locals. They then convinced Magellan to attack Lapu-Lapu, a rival chieftain on nearby Mactan Island. On April 17, 1521, Magellan and some of his men attacked a much larger force of islanders, trusting their armor and advanced weapons to win the day. The attack was fought off, however, and Magellan was among those killed. Efforts to ransom his body failed. It was never recovered.
Return to Spain
Leaderless and short on men, the remaining sailors decided to burn the Concepción and return to Spain. The two ships managed to find the Spice Islands and loaded up the holds with valuable cinnamon and cloves. As they crossed the Indian Ocean, however, the Trinidad began to leak. It eventually sank, although some of the men made it to India and from there back to Spain. The Victoria kept going, losing several men to starvation. It arrived in Spain on September 6, 1522, more than three years after it had left. There were only 18 sickly men crewing the ship, a fraction of the 270 who had set out.
Ferdinand Magellan Legacy
Magellan is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world in spite of two somewhat glaring details: first, he died halfway through the journey and second, he never intended to travel in a circle. He simply wanted to find a new route to the Spice Islands. Some historians have said that Juan Sebastián Elcano, who captained the Victoria back from the Philippines, is a worthier candidate for the title of first to circumnavigate the globe. Elcano had begun the voyage as master on board the Concepción.
There are two written records of the journey. The first was a journal kept by an Italian passenger who paid to go on the trip, Antonio Pigafetta. The second was a series of interviews with the survivors made by Maximilianus of Transylvania upon their return. Both documents reveal a fascinating voyage of discovery.
The Magellan expedition was responsible for several major discoveries. In addition to the Pacific Ocean and numerous islands, waterways and other geographic information, the expedition also sighted a great many new animals, including penguins and guanacos. The discrepancies between the log book and the date when they returned to Spain led directly to the concept of the International Date Line. Their measurements of distances traveled helped contemporary scientists determine the size of the earth. They were the first to sight certain galaxies visible in the night sky, now aptly known as the Magellanic Clouds. Although the Pacific had been first discovered in 1513 by Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, it is Magellan's name for it that stuck. Balboa called it the "South Sea."
Immediately upon the return of the Victoria, European sailing ships began trying to duplicate the voyage, including an expedition led by surviving captain Elcano. It wasn’t until Sir Francis Drake’s 1577 voyage, however, that anyone managed to do it again. Still, the knowledge gained from Magellan's voyage immensely advanced the science of navigation at the time.
Today, Magellan’s name is synonymous with discovery and exploration. Telescopes and spacecraft bear his name, as does a region in Chile. Perhaps because of his untimely demise, his name does not have the negative baggage associated with it like fellow explorer Christopher Columbus, blamed by many for subsequent atrocities in the lands he discovered.
Thomas, Hugh. "Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan." Paperback, Random House Trade Paperback, May 31, 2005.
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Catherine of Aragon - Marriage to Henry VIII
From Widow to Wife to Mother: Was It Enough?
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Continued from: Catherine of Aragon: Early Life and First Marriage
The Dowager Princess of Wales
When her young husband, Arthur, Prince of Wales, died suddenly in 1502, Catherine of Aragon was left with the title of Dowager Princess of Wales. The marriage had been meant to solidify the alliance of the ruling families of Spain and England.
The natural next step was to marry Catherine to Arthur's younger brother, Henry, five years younger than Catherine. The political reasons for the marriage remained. Prince Henry had been promised to Eleanor of Austria. But fairly quickly, Henry VII and Ferdinand and Isabella agreed to pursue the marriage of Prince Henry and Catherine.
Arranging Marriage and Fighting Over Dowry
The next years were marked by acrimonious conflict between the two families over Catherine's dowry. Though the marriage had taken place, the last of Catherine's dowry had not been paid, and Henry VII demanded that it be paid. Henry reduced his support for Catherine and her household, to put pressure on her parents to pay the dowry, and Ferdinand and Isaella threatened to have Catherine return to Spain.
In 1502, a draft of a treaty between the Spanish and English families was ready, and the final version was signed in June 1503, promising a betrothal within two months, and then, after Catherine's second dowry payment was made, and after Henry turned fifteen, the marriage would take place. They were formally betrothed on June 25, 1503.
To marry, they would need a papal dispensation -- because Catherine's first marriage to Arthur was defined in church rules as consanguinity. The papers sent to Rome, and the dispensation which was sent from Rome, assumed that Catherine's marriage to Arthur was consummated. The English insisted on adding this clause to cover all possible objections in the dispensation. Catherine's duenna wrote at that time to Ferdinand and Isabella protesting this clause, saying that the marriage had not been consummated. This disagreement about the consummation of Catherine's first marriage was later to become very important.
Changing Alliances?
The papal bull with the dispensation arrived in 1505. Meanwhile, in late 1504, Isabella had died, leaving no living sons. Catherine's sister, Joanna or Juana, and her husband, Archduke Philip, were named Isabella's heirs to Castile. Ferdinand was still ruler of Aragon; Isabella's will had named him to govern Castile. Ferdinand contended for the right to govern, but Henry VII allied himself with Philip, and this led to Ferdinand's acceptance of Philip's rule. But then Philip died. Joanna, known as Juana the Mad, was not thought fit to rule herself, and Ferdinand stepped in for his mentally incompetent daughter.
All this contention in Spain made alliance with Spain no longer quite as valuable to Henry VII and England. He continued to press Ferdinand for payment of Catherine's dowry. Catherine, who had after Arthur died lived mostly apart from the royal court with her mostly Spanish household, still barely spoke English, and was often ill during those years.
In 1505, with the confusion in Spain, Henry VII saw his chance to have Catherine moved to court, and to reduce his financial support of Catherine and her household. Catherine sold some of her property including jewels in order to raise funds for her expenses. Because Catherine's dowry was still not fully paid, Henry VII began planning to end the betrothal and send Catherine home. In 1508, Ferdinand offered to pay the remaining dowry, at last -- but he and Henry VII still disagreed on how much was to be paid. Catherine asked to go back to Spain and become a nun.
Henry VII's Death
The situation changed suddenly when Henry VII died on April 21, 1509, and Prince Henry became King Henry VIII. Henry VIII announced to the Spanish ambassador that he wanted to marry Catherine quickly, claiming that it was his father's deathbed wish. Many doubt that Henry VII said any such thing, given his long resistance to the marriage.
Catherine the Queen
Catherine and Henry were married on June 11, 1509, at Greenwich. Catherine was 24 years old and Henry was 19. They had, in an unusual move, a joint coronation ceremony -- more often, queens were crowned after giving birth to the first heir.
Catherine became somewhat involved in politics that first year. She was responsible in 1509 for the Spanish ambassador being recalled. When Ferdinand failed to follow through on a promised joint military action to conquer Guyenne for England, and instead conquered Navarre for himself, Catherine helped to calm the relationship between her father and husband. But when Ferdinand made similar choices to abandon agreements with Henry in 1513 and 1514, Catherine decided to "forget Spain and everything Spanish."
Pregnancies and Births
In January, 1510, Catherine miscarried a daughter. She and Henry quickly conceived again, and with great rejoicing, their son, Prince Henry, was born on January 1 of the next year. He was made prince of Wales -- and died on February 22.
In 1513, Catherine was again pregnant. Henry went to France with his army from June to October, and made Catherine Queen Regent during his absence. On August 22, the forces of James IV of Scotland invaded England; the English defeated the Scots at Flodden, killing James and many others. Catherine had the bloody coat of the Scottish king sent to her husband in France. That Catherine spoke to the English troops to rally them to battle is likely apocryphal.
That September or October, Catherine either miscarried or a child was born who died very soon after birth. Sometime between November 1514 and February 1515 (sources differ on the dates), Catherine had another stillborn son. There was a rumor in 1514 that Henry was going to repudiate Catherine, as they still had no living children, but they remained together with no actual moves to separate legally at that time.
Changing Alliances -- and Finally, an Heir
In 1515, Henry again allied England with Spain and Ferdinand. The next February, on the 18th, Catherine gave birth to a healthy daughter who they named Mary, who would later rule England as Mary I. Catherine's father, Ferdinand, had died on January 23, but that news was kept from Catherine to protect her pregnancy. With Ferdinand's death, his grandson, Charles, son of Joanna (Juana) and thus nephew of Catherine, became the ruler of both Castile and Aragon.
In 1518, Catherine, 32 years old, was again pregnant. But on the night of November 9-10, she gave birth to a stillborn daughter. She was not to become pregnant again.
This left Henry VIII with a daughter as his only direct heir. Henry himself had become king only when his brother, Arthur, died, and so he knew how risky it was to have only a single heir. He also knew that the last time a daughter was the heir to the throne of England, Matilda daughter of Henry I, a civil war ensued when much of the nobility did not support a woman's rule. Because his own father had come to power only after the long unstable time of family contention over the crown with the War of the Roses, Henry had good reason to be worried about the future of the Tudor dynasty.
Some historians have suggested that the failure of so many of Catherine's pregnancies was because Henry was infected with syphilis. Today, that's usually thought to be unlikely. In 1519, Henry's mistress, Elizabeth or Bessie Blount, gave birth to a son. Henry acknowledged the boy as his own, to be called Lord Henry FitzRoy (son of the king). For Catherine, this meant that Henry knew that he could produce a healthy male heir -- with another woman.
In 1518, Henry arranged to have their daughter, Mary, betrothed to the French Dauphin, which was not to the liking of Catherine, who wanted Mary to marry her nephew and Mary's first cousin, Charles. In 1519, Charles was elected Holy Roman Emperor, making him considerably more powerful than he was as just the ruler of Castile and Aragon. Catherine promoted Henry's alliance with Charles when she saw that Henry seemed to be leaning towards the French. The Princess Mary, at age 5, was betrothed to Charles in 1521. But then Charles married someone else, ending that possibility for marriage.
Catherine's Married Life
By most accounts, Henry and Catherine's marriage was generally a happy or at least peaceful one, through most of their years together, aside from the tragedies of miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. There were many indications of their devotion to each other. Catherine kept a separate household, with some 140 people in it -- but separate households was the norm for royal couples. Despite that, Catherine was noted for personally ironing her husband's shirts.
Catherine tended to prefer to associate with scholars over participating in the social life of the court. She was known as a generous supporter of learning and also generous to the poor. Among the institutions she supported were Queens College and St. John's College. Erasmus, who visited England in 1514, praised Catherine highly. Catherine commissioned Juan Luis Vives to come to England to complete one book and then write another which made recommendations for the education of women. Vives became a tutor for the Princess Mary. As her mother had overseen her education, Catherine saw to it that her daughter, Mary, was educated well.
Among her religious projects, she supported the Observant Franciscans.
That Henry valued Catherine and the marriage in their early years is attested to by the many love knots made up of their initials which decorate several of their homes and were even used to decorate his armor.
Henry later said that he'd stopped having marital relations with Catherine about 1524. On June 18, 1525, Henry made his son by Bessie Blount, Henry FitzRoy, the Duke of Richmond and Somerset and declared him second in line for succession after Mary. There were some rumors later that he'd be named King of Ireland. But having an heir born out of wedlock was also risky for the future of the Tudors.
In 1525, the French and English signed a peace treaty, and by 1528, Henry and England were at war with Catherine's nephew, Charles.
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Celebs Who Won't Get Hitched
7/4/2006 4:00 PM PT
From last weekend's celebrity wedding trifecta featuring the nuptials of Nicole Kidman, Marcia Cross and Patricia Arquette, it may seem like Hollywood is in a frenzy to walk down the aisle.
But for every Elizabeth Taylor and Jennifer Lopez wedding announcement there are stars that are avoiding saying their 'I Dos' like the bird flu.
Check out which celebrities have a serious case of cold feet.
Oprah and her rarely-seen main man Stedman Graham have been together for 20 years but she has no plans in sporting a Vera Wang anytime soon. Even though the talk show host doesn't see the point in marrying her partner, she insists Stedman did ask. While she may be a mentor to married housewives everywhere, Ms. Winfrey admits "A piece of paper does not define a life. I always knew that was not the answer for me." The Big O goes on to say "I do believe that had we gotten married, we would not be together today. The traditional role of marriage would not work in this relationship." And we all know if Oprah says so then it must be true!
Despite winning an Oscar and being one of the "Sexiest Men Alive," George Clooney has yet to land a permanent leading lady in his life. He's been linked to nearly every starlet around the world and was once married to actress Talia Balsam, but the confirmed bachelor swears he will never wed again. Earlier this year gorgeous George told Barbara Walters "I know I'll never get married again because I wasn't very good at it." While we may not agree, the one thing we know he is good at is making women (and some men) swoon.
Charlize Theron and her boyfriend, fellow actor Stuart Townsend, have been dating for nearly five years and are one of the hottest Hollywood couples around. Naturally they have the whole world wondering when they will tie the knot. Well to keep the press at bay, the couple has announced the exact date of their impending nuptials while simultaneously taking a political stand. Theron says "we will get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married (in America) - when that right is given to them." With Massachusetts being the only state so far to legalize gay marriage, sadly it seems, Charlize and Stuart will have to deal with a very long engagement.
The King of all Media aka Howard Stern is another celeb making their bachelorhood a political issue. On May 15, Stern announced on his Sirius radio show that "I'm never getting married unless gays can get married." The shock jock says this is no joke and has declared the issue "his cause." Stern divorced his ex-wife Alison Stern, the mother for his three children, in 2001. He has since been dating his longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky.
After two failed marriages to baseball player David Justice and R+B singer Eric Benet, Halle Berry has sworn off the institution for good. On an episode of "Oprah" in 2004, Berry said "I will never marry again. I mean it with every bone in my body."
The gorgeous Oscar-winner went on to say that despite not wanting to marry she does "need a partner."
So it isn't all bad news for the luckiest man in the world - Berry's boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubrey. If Gabriel is smart as he is hot, he'll prove to Halle why you should never say never.
After being married once in the 80s and engaged four times to Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder and Kate Moss, Johnny Depp finally found the woman of his dreams in Vanessa Paradis.
Together since 1998, the couple have two children together but have yet to make their relationship official. The reason - Depp says he doesn't want to ruin her last name. "It would be such a drag to stick her with Paradis-Depp. It's like a flat note." Whatever you say Johnny. We don't think it'd be too hard to find someone willing to be stuck with the title of Mrs. Depp.
To make hearts a flutter even more, Depp adds "For all intents and purposes we are married. We have two kids together and she is the woman in my life. But if she ever said: 'Hey, let's get hitched', I would do it in a second."
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Biden Recalls Action on BLM Protesters; Trump Calls for ‘Healing’
“I wish we could say we couldn’t see it coming, but that isn’t true,” Biden said about the US Capitol siege.
Published: 08 Jan 2021, 9:57 AM IST
United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden, in a remark made in Wilmington, Delaware, lambasted President Donald Trump, blaming him for the havoc wreaked by a mob of his supporters at the US Capitol.
Joe Biden on Thursday, 7 January, stated that the treatment meted out by the law enforcement to this “mob of thugs” that stormed the Capitol was contrasting to the treatment subjected to those protesting police brutality and racial injustice.
Trump, on his part, following his return to Twitter after a 12-hour-long freeze posted, what is being dubbed, by sections of International Media, as a “conciliatory message” and said “this moment calls for healing and reconciliation”.
What Did Biden Say?
The President-elect, on Thursday, said:
“No one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.”
(Photo: Screenshot/JoeBiden/Twitter)
Biden also added: "We all know that's true and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw in plain view and I hope it sensitised them to what we have to do."
Terming the incident at the Capitol as not merely a failure to protect one of the three branches of the US government but also a "clear failure to carry out equal justice”, Biden added:
“(The scene) vividly demonstrated some of the most important work we have to do in this nation, committing ourselves to the rule of law in this nation.”
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For the past four years, President Trump has unleashed an all-out assault on the institutions of our democracy.
Yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack. pic.twitter.com/Mcli7mzENu
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 8, 2021
Further, alleging that Trump had mounted a four-year-long campaign attacking the nation’s institutions, including the press, the Justice Department and the federal judiciary. Biden, according to the video shared on Twitter, said:
“I wish we could say we couldn’t see it coming, but that isn’t true. We could see it coming.”
Referring to Wednesday as "one of the darkest days of the history of our nation”, Biden, according to said:
"It was chaos…They weren't protesters, don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It's that basic, it's that simple."
Condemning the “heinous attack” at the Capitol, Trump said:
“Now Congress has certified the results...a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January...My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”
He also praised his “wonderful supporters”, saying "our incredible journey is only just beginning".
According to BBC, Trump’s message came while top Democrats sought his removal from office, a mere 13 days before he is supposed to step down.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2021
What’s Behind Trump Supporters’ Brazen Storming of the Capitol
Outgoing US President Donald Trump’s account was temporarily blocked by Twitter and Facebook, after he sent out tweets backing his supporters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, 6 January.
While making false claims about election fraud, Trump, in a series of tweets, told the protesters that he "loves” them, before telling them to go home.
Both companies removed several posts of Trump that cast doubt on the election results and lauded his supporters. Twitter also threatened to put a permanent ban on his account after he violated their social media policies.
Pro-Trump protesters stormed the United States (US) Capitol in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, in scenes that were broadcast live on multiple news channels across the world.
Members of both Houses of the US Congress were meeting to conduct the vote certifying the Electoral College victory of Joe Biden in the US presidential election. Both Houses had to be evacuated, before the Senate reconvened later.
Several hours after the crisis began, the Capitol Police finally managed to clear the mob from the building after 5:30 pm (EST), with the Capitol’s Sergeant-at-Arms confirming the building was secure, according to CNN.
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A Brief History of Stephen Hawking’s Time on Earth (1942-2018)
Renowned Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking breathed his last at the age of 76.
Anmol Saini
Published: 14 Mar 2018, 2:38 PM IST
Video Editor: Ashutosh Bhardwaj
The coolest professor, wittiest astrophysicist and perhaps one of the most famous and loved scientists, Stephen Hawking breathed his last on Wednesday, 14 March at the age of 76. His dry wit, steadfast belief in aliens and explanation of black holes, and his ‘theory of everything’ (regularly refurbished), however, is something that will never be forgotten.
In a public statement, the family announced the news of the rockstar scientist’s death.
"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years," Hawking's children said in a statement.
"His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world. He once said, it would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love. We will miss him for ever," the statement added.
Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England, to Frank and Isobel Hawking. His birth connection to Galileo and the pathbreaking theories about the universe were considered a ‘cosmic coincidence.’
He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1963, at the age of 21, while he was studying at Oxford University. While the doctors predicted he wouldn’t survive more than 2 years, Hawking made it to 76. His disease, progressively paralysed him over the years, but did not hinder him from living life the way he wanted. In other words, Hawking was an all-round badass.
His body of scientific work includes his analysis of gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity with Roger Penrose, as well as the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, commonly termed ‘Hawking radiation’.
Hawking was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1974, becoming one of the youngest people to receive the honour at the time.
At the age of 65, in 2007, Hawking managed to travel to space to experience zero-degree gravity with the help of Richard Branson. Once he was floating in space, he even ditched his chair and performed a backflip for kicks!
He was nicknamed ‘Einstein’ for his genius but was never a textbook nerd in real life. His work in the field of science and his simplification of the most complicated concepts about the universe have fuelled a million dreams.
Hawking has left behind an unrivalled legacy. One, that will be celebrated and remembered for decades to come.
Rest in peace, Professor Hawking. May you make the brightest star in the galaxy.
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Remembering the Kothkai Rape Victim Whose Death Shocked India
16-year-old Gudiya was raped and murdered on her way back from school in Himachal Pradesh’s Kothkai.
Aishwarya S Iyer
Updated: 01 Nov 2017, 4:59 PM IST
Fifteen-year-old Aman looks down in thought and deep regret, as he recalls the last time he spoke to his 16-year-old sister, affectionately known as Gudiya.
(“Didi came and said she was heading home. She asked me if I would accompany her back. I said no... I wish I hadn't.”)
It was on the way back home from school the same day that his Gudiya was brutally raped and murdered in Himachal Pradesh’s Kothkai on 4 July this year. With no clothes on her – even her socks pulled off – she lay in the forest with a liquor bottle on her side.
The family's pain was amplified by the way the case was handled. The police was initially investigating the case, but the CBI took over on 22 July, after one of the suspects, a Nepalese worker, was killed in police custody. There was and continues to be widespread discontentment and anger in the region.
‘Virbhadra Should Be Locked up in Jail’
Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh did little to help. He made a comment saying such incidents happen all the time, further antagonising people in the region. This could be one of the reasons Singh didn't stand from Theog, despite veteran Congress leader Vidya Stokes giving way to him. Theog is the constituency Gudiya's family lives in, and is adjacent to Kothkai, where the rape happened.
On the morning of 5 July, after Gudiya failed to return home, around 200 people from across the villages swept the jungle in search of her as the sun rose. The family thought she had probably been killed or attacked by an animal.
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The family's ire is concentrated on the Congress government. Gudiya's father Keshav Ram, 56, whose emotions swing from grief to anger, wants Virbhadra in jail.
Keshav is certain no one is going to vote for him.
Everyone is constantly paranoid and scared. No one gets out after sunset here anymore.
‘She Had Been Using That Route Only for 48 Days’
Earlier, Gudiya used to study in a different school nearby, but was moved to the Kothkai school. Her father tells The Quint she failed in two papers in class 10.
I knew she wanted to study. So we thought she should start Class 10 again in another school.
As she moved schools, so did her everyday route. The new route had no houses on the way, just dense forests with one muddy path leading towards the hilltop. Since the incident, villagers have stopped taking that path.
Remembering the Day Gudiya Was Born
“This is where my daughter was born, next to the stove right here,” Keshav says. After six daughters, the youngest of whom was Gudiya, the family had their first son. "Apne peeche beta bhi de gayi thi (after her, we had our first son), " Keshav says looking towards Aman.
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Her mother, Krishna, 47, breaks down while remembering the day her daughter was born. I leave my pen and close my notebook for a few minutes. After a while she gathers herself, and says:
("How am I supposed to accept this? Every evening at 5:00 she used to come home. Where is my daughter?”)
Gudiya's Belongings Are Still Scattered Around the House
Krishna walks up to a cupboard to show me some of Gudiya's belongings.
She didn’t ask for much. She was shy and well-behaved, but when she asked for a pink wallet, her father bought it for her.
Keshav says Gudiya was very particular about her hair, nails. She would spend hours in front of the mirror.
‘Once the Remote Was Hers, No One Could Get It’
Gudhiya loved the television and would spend hours listening to Punjabi music in front of it. She would learn the dance moves and show it to her father when he returned from work. Her mother says her days even started in front of the television. Everyday, just like on 4 July, she woke up to listen to a local programme where an astrologer predicted the day for every horoscope.
Her mother wonders what was foretold for Gudiya on that unforgiving day.
Gudhiya and Aman, the youngest in the house, used to often fight for the remote control.
"Didi never let me watch television. We would have a battle almost everyday about getting our hands on the remote control first, she would win often," Aman says with a reluctant smile.
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Today the TV is still there, the remote control too – but no one is fighting over it. The set remains in the room as the family tries to cope with everything that reminds them of their daughter.
Meanwhile, Aman searches for peace and sense in the aftermath of his sister's death. On some days, the burden is too big for a 15-year-old to comprehend. While everyone waits for the day the accused are arrested, the safety of other young school and college going girls – and justice for Gudiya – has become a key concern for the people of Theog and Kothkai as they decide their vote in Himachal Pradesh’s upcoming assembly elections.
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Reset of Vatican's finances still on course thanks to increase in lay experts
11 November 2015, The Tablet
US aid to Africa not dependent on same-sex marriage policy, envoy to Vatican says
by Christopher Lamb in Rome
During a visit to the Vatican this week a United States’ envoy for the human rights of gays and lesbians has described the claim that western aid to Africa is given on condition that those countries approve of same-sex marriage as “completely false”.
The final document of last month’s Synod on the Family said it was “totally unacceptable” that international organisations “attach conditions to financial aid to poor countries with the introduction of laws establishing marriage between persons of the same sex”.
But Randy Berry, the first Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI people appointed by President Barack Obama this year, denied this was the case.
“It is not. Period. Full stop,” he said. “In the case of Uganda, for example, my government did suspend certain types of aid. That was the process of a very careful review about the types of assistance that would have gone into strengthening the mechanisms that would have allowed the state to prosecute people based on this awful law, which the Church also opposed.”
He added that it was done “to make sure that US taxpayer money was not used to fund legal structures that would prosecute people based on their identity” and “the notion that aid was given on the basis of civil unions is completely false”.
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On Tuesday Mr Berry met with officials from the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace to discuss persecution of gay and transgendered people across the world. He also held meetings with government officials from Italy which has been accused of breaching the human rights of gay people as it offers no legal protection for the rights of same-sex couples.
Mr Berry stressed he had not come to the Vatican to pressure the Church to change its position on same-sex marriage rather to discuss violence and discrimination of gay people in parts of the world where homosexuality is illegal.
Later this month, Pope Francis is due to visit two countries where this is the case: Kenya and Uganda. The latter has instituted a law last year that could mean life imprisonment for homosexuality (an earlier proposal to punish with the death sentence had been scrapped).
Mr Berry, who is gay, said the Vatican and the United States are in agreement over the need to combat violence and discrimination while accepted there are “clearly differences” with the Church and the country over civil unions.
He pointed out that after travelling to 30 countries since taking up the post, Mr Berry said: “there is a significant global movement on the side of justice on this issue and I don’t think it is led from any one place.”
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Mr Berry said it was not possible for countries and institutions to “live in a bubble” on the question of the rights for gay couples. He explained that Malta, a strongly Catholic country, which passed a law in 2014 recognising same-sex unions and adoption, had borrowed from similar legislation in Argentina in drafting its law.
During the synod Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, which described gender ideology - including homosexual unions - as a threat to western civilisation.
When asked about these remarks Mr Berry said: “I’m not sure what gender ideology is supposed to mean. What we are talking about are issues of identity. I don’t think that respecting the integrity and dignity of a person based on their identity is necessarily a threat to anyone. I think the failure to do that is a threat to us all.”
He added: “The discussion is whether or not we have advanced as a people, whether we can respect the integrity and dignity of all individuals absent these aspects of identity.”
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Share this Story: FATAH: Kabul 2020 is a reminder of Karbala 680CE
FATAH: Kabul 2020 is a reminder of Karbala 680CE
Tarek Fatah
A woman sits next to newborn babies who lost their mothers following a suicide attack in a maternity hospital, in Kabul on May 13, 2020. Photo by Stringer /AFP via Getty Images
The dull daily drumbeat of deaths because of the pandemic was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by news of a massacre of babies and expectant mothers at a maternity hospital in Kabul.
One could shrug one’s shoulders and say, ‘Well, what else do you expect from Afghanistan,’ and many did as was illustrated by the lack of space given to the first-ever baby massacre of our times.
But for some of us who are students of Islamic history, this slaughter was no ordinary killing; it was a reminder of a similar massacre 1,400 years ago in the Iraqi city of Karbala, where the then rulers of Islamdom surrounded the progeny of Prophet Muhammad and, like Kabul, slit the throats of babies and the grandson of Muhammad, Imam Hussain Ibn Ali.
They later paraded his severed head through the streets of the capital of the Islamic Caliphate in Damascus.
Islam died that day and horrific killings became the order of the day ever since, be it the beheading of the Mansoor Hallaj in Baghdad in 952 or the Moghul crown prince Dara Shikoh in Delhi in 1659.
Permit me to be the canary in the coal mine to suggest that while 1,400-year-old incidents may be pre-medieval history for most non-Muslims, for us, ‘the faithful’, it is like yesterday, as it has been for centuries.
The followers of Imam Hussain and his father Ali have faced horrific discrimination, slaughters and ethnic cleansing by those best described as ‘Sunni Muslims’ while their victims are the ‘Shias’ or the ‘Party of Ali.’
Understanding this divide is crucial to grasp the significance of what happened on Tuesday in the Dasht-e-Barchi district west of Kabul, at the maternity clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The locality was, until the 2000s, a barren patch of land that became the home of the internally displaced refugees, mostly ethnic Hazara community, which is Shia.
It was liquidating future followers of the Prophet’s progeny that was the reason the Pakistan-backed Taliban devastated the lives of so many.
This is the direct result of bankrupt U.S. foreign policy in the region and its stupidity was reflected in what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had to say. He called the assault “appalling,” adding “the Taliban and the Afghan government should cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice. … As long as there is no sustained reduction in violence and insufficient progress towards a negotiated political settlement, Afghanistan will remain vulnerable to terrorism.”
After legitimizing the Taliban and exonerating it of the crimes against humanity it has committed over decades, Pompeo was marketing them as equal partners, a suggestion totally rejected by Afghan president Ghani who knows better than to be pompous.
The question we have before us is this: How do we eradicate the virus of violence, bullying and intimidation from among some Muslims of this world, be they the Kabul killers or those who have me on a death list or those who have vowed to behead India’s leading TV host, Sudhir Chaudhury?
Here in Canada, some Muslims have pressured city councils to permit mosques to blare “Allah O Akbar” into the homes and neighbourhoods of non-Muslims.
In the words of Canadian Islamic scholar Syed Muhammad Rizvi, “the Ummah (Muslim community) has reached a point where human life has no value anymore. We don’t think twice about killing someone who doesn’t agree with us.”
Even Mahatma Gandhi was troubled by the attitude of Muslims. In an article published in 1924, Gandhi asserts, “My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Mussalman, as a rule, is a bully.”
While the rest of world bestows great respect on Gandhi, they’ll be surprised to learn that many Muslims portrayed him as an ’Islamophobe,’ especially Pakistani Muslims.
Before this dormant virus of hate erupts in Canada as well, we need to stand up to the bullies and take them head on instead of whimpering in the face of intimidation.
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Share this Story: Canadian women running away with distance records
Canadian women running away with distance records
Dan Barnes • Postmedia
Jan 20, 2020 • January 20, 2020 • 4 minute read
Canadian marathon runner Rachel Cliff runs by the Stanley Park seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada March 15, 2019. Photo by MILES CLARK /via REUTERS
If there was one moment or one reaction that best captures the essence of a revolution in Canadian distance running, it belongs to Rachel Cliff.
Because when she woke up on Sunday morning in Houston, Texas, the national records for the women’s marathon and half marathon also belonged to her. By lunchtime, she owned neither one.
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In a stunning couple of hours on the streets of Houston, Natasha Wodak became the first Canadian female to run under 70 minutes for the half marathon, posting a time of 1:09.41 to ease past Cliff’s mark of 1:10.06; and then Malindi Elmore crushed Cliff’s time in the marathon, reducing it by two minutes to 2:24.50.
And, after finishing her own half marathon in 1:10.13 on Sunday, what did Cliff do?
“Rachel was so gracious and kind after,” said Wodak. “It was a tough day for her, to see both of her records be broken. She was very kind and congratulated me. We sat down and had lunch after. She’s handling it very well.”
In general, Canadian women are handling distances like never before in the history of track and field. Between 2017 and Sunday, the distance record book has been totally rewritten. Outdoors, there’s Melissa Bishop at 800 metres, Gabriella DeBues-Stafford at 1,500, 5,000 and the mile, Cliff and Wodak in the half, Cliff and Elmore in the 25k, 30k and marathon. Indoors, there’s Jenna Westaway at 800 and 1,000 metres, Debues-Stafford at 5,000 and the mile, and Jessica O’Connell at 3,000 metres.
And it all seems a bit self-perpetuating.
“It’s such a special group of women and no one seems to be jealous or envious,” said Wodak. “We all just seem to support each other and that’s a really cool thing. We are competitors but we want to see one another run fast and that’s why all these Canadian records are being broken, because we’re constantly supporting each other and raising the bar. When Malindi finished, all of us Canadian women who had run the half were there at the finish line, giving her a hug. That’s what it’s about, right.”
Exactly. In an Instagram post, Elmore acknowledged the Canadian women who have helped and inspired her journey from middle distance runner to marathon record holder; Lanni Marchant, Dayna Pidhoresky, Cliff, Krista Duchene and the late Silvia Ruegger.
“So awesome to be greeted at the line by so many of my Canadian running friends, including (Wodak), who broke the Canadian half-marathon record today, and who is someone I raced against 20+ years ago in high school! Elmore wrote on Sunday. “Full circle!”
Wodak was thrilled for Elmore, and excited and proud to be the first Canadian woman to go sub-70 minutes in the half. She will cherish that accomplishment forever, but knows that the record is almost certainly going to change hands sooner than later.
“I have no doubt that Rachel is hungry and she’s going to come back and get those records again,” continued Wodak.
“With this record, my boyfriend and I said (Sunday) let’s celebrate this and really enjoy it today but know that it can be broken at any time and it’s very likely to be taken back within the year. I’m pretty confident that Andrea Secaffien and Rachel Cliff are going to run sub-70, they’re going to take it back.
“And you know, I’ll come back for it too, but celebrate it while you have it now, it’s pretty cool, and nobody can ever take away from me that I’m the first (Canadian) woman to run under 70. I’m going to enjoy that, celebrate with my parents and coach this week, but you don’t let the highs get too high or the lows get too low, so back to training, back to normal, and know that records are meant to be broken and when it is broken, be happy for that person and celebrate.”
She was scrolling through about 100 congratulatory messages herself on Monday. She heard from Bishop, DeBues-Stafford, Secaffien, O’Connell, Marchant, Kate Van Buskirk and Lyndsay Tessier.
They are all doing great things, inspiring one another to do even greater things.
“Watching Gabriella continue to just crush every race she did this year is incredible,” said Wodak. “We’re like ‘wow can a Canadian woman run under four minutes in the 1,500?’ Not only does she do that, she smashes that by almost five seconds.
“We are capable of so much more. Watching Rachel run two Canadian records this year and then make the (World Championships) team in the 5,000, it’s all very inspiring. We can do it, you know.
“I don’t think I would have ever thought I could run sub-70 if Rachel hadn’t taken it down to where she did. I don’t think I would have been like ‘oh yeah I can do this too.’ So I’m thankful for all these women who are just crushing it. It’s really cool to be a part of the women’s distance running era right now.”
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New Life on Canal Street: The Saenger Theatre is Restored
Restoration of New Orleans' Saenger Theatre.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
When the ill winds of Katrina blew New Orleans apart, they ripped out the heart and soul of the Saenger Theatre, an iconic and historic movie palace/entertainment center that was much beloved in the community. The 2005 storm literally “drowned” the historic landmark, which, when it opened its doors in 1927 on Canal Street, was the flagship of the celebrated 300-theater Saenger chain. Even in its day, it was a rarity. It’s an atmospheric theater: The intricate Disneyesque interior is designed to give theatergoers the illusion that they are in the great outdoors.
Unlike many historic theaters that have required saving, the Saenger, which was owned by ACE Theatrical Group, was going on with the show even though its small stage severely limited the types of productions that could play there. It became a favorite on the circuit of Broadway touring companies.
“Because of the storm damage, it opened up the opportunity to look at the theater in a whole new perspective,” says architect Gary Martinez, FAIA, principal of Martinez + Johnson, which has offices in Washington, DC, and New York City and has made a mark for itself in the restoration of historic theaters. “Ultimately, it gave us the opportunity to expand and enlarge the space.”
The renovation and restoration became possible when ACE donated the theater, which was shut down for eight years after the disaster, to the city in 2011. A private-public partnership comprised of ACE, the city and the Canal Street Development Corporation financed the project with expanded federal and state preservation tax credits, New Markets tax credits and state tax credit programs aimed at the economic recovery of the cultural and entertainment arts in New Orleans.
“We were happy to turn the Saenger over,” says ACE CEO and president David Anderson, who, with his partners, has restored more than 40 theaters in the last three decades. “Doing so allowed us to make it bigger and better than ever. It’s now the showplace of the South.”
Amenities, amenities, amenities
The biggest challenge of the project was adding patron amenities, including bathrooms and a comprehensive concession stand, while preserving the building’s historic character. Designed by architect Emile Weil, the Saenger, which is centered around two public arcades that form a T-shape, was built in two phases. The entrance and east-west façade of the 4,000-seat theater were completed in 1924, the cross north-south arcade was added in 1925, and the first performance was applauded in 1927.
Designed for silent movies and dramatic and musical performances, it houses a 2,000-pipe Robert Morton organ. The theater’s intricately intoxicating decoration required meticulous restoration. There’s a sky with twinkling stars, drifting clouds and a rising and setting sun as well as false façades, fountains and flowering plantings wrought in the rich ornament of statuary, metal grillwork, urns and painted plasterwork.
Once the financing was in place, it took a year to pump out and dry out the interior, where the water rose 8 ft. above the stage. “This was a monumental task,” Anderson says. “New Orleans is 3 ft. below sea level, and after Katrina, you could see boats floating by the theater. The water under the theater was 25-ft. deep.”
While this work was being undertaken, the scope of the project grew. The street behind the theater was closed off to provide extra stage and dressing room space as well as a loading dock, and the neighboring 20,000-sq.ft. building, which had been home to a Popeye’s fast-food restaurant, was bought and transformed into a concession stand, offices and bathrooms. Stairs and an elevator also were added in this nondescript, adjacent building.
“We had to excavate the street to enlarge the stage, which projects 16 ft. out into it,” Anderson says. “And we had to tear out the old wood pilings, which had been there since the theater opened, and put new ones in the middle of the street. Nobody had ever dug up that street before; the contractors and engineers were petrified.”
Martinez adds that the new stage was so much larger – it is 95 ft. tall and 50 ft. deep as opposed to the original 65 x 34 ft. – that extensive studies were conducted to ensure that it could be supported within the framework of the original building.
The interior and exterior of the theater were restored, as were the public interior arcades, foyer lobbies and audience chamber. The outside façades, which included decorative masonry, terra-cotta elements, sidewalk canopies and wrought-iron work, were rehabilitated, and new marquees, poster boxes and storefronts were designed to continue the vintage theme. The escalator, a decades-old obstructive addition, was removed.
The attention to detail is evident in every detail.
Although new seats were produced by Irwin Seating Co. of Grand Rapids, MI, and Altamont, IL, Martinez + Johnson salvaged some of the original decorative end pieces and made molds so each row would be finished in vintage style. The original iridescent wall and ceiling colors, too, were researched and re-created and then clear varnished as they had been in 1927.
“The trick was to build into the venue amenities people today expect and not have it look like it was two different buildings,” says Martinez. “Before we got the extra building, we were challenged.”
The seating layouts, acoustics, lighting and front-of-house units were upgraded, and the soft finishes were executed byEvergreene Architectural Arts of New York City and Oak Park, IL. The historic ornamental lighting, which includes crystal chandeliers, was restored, re-lamped and reinstalled. Schuler Shook, which has offices in Chicago, Dallas and Minneapolis, also designed more than 40 missing historic fixtures and chandeliers that were fabricated by St. Louis Antique Lighting Co. of St. Louis, MO.
“We wanted to honor the history of the building,” Martinez says. “We relied upon old photos, and working under the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings, the historically significant spaces and their finishes were meticulously studied to determine the best process for rehabilitation.”
When the Saenger reopened in 2013, it was to great fanfare. People laughed. People cried. They hugged each other. And Mayor Mitch Landrieu called it the “best symbol of resurrection, redemption and resilience of building the city, not the way she was but the way she should have always been.”
The night, according to Martinez, went on and on as only it can in The Big Easy. “It was the first major remake of a cultural institution on Canal Street,” he says. “It was extremely satisfying to see the healing that was going on.”
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This short course provides you with a broad overview and high-level understanding of the implementation of systems engineering principles and practices in the defence and security environment.
It examines:
the ever-changing threats to security
the process for defining the capability required to counter the threat
the wide range of systems required to deliver the required effect.
You'll also hear from external speakers who are defence experts in their field from industry and defence institutions, including the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
The course is run by staff from the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering (UCLse) within UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL).
The course starts with a study of the global threats to national and international security, and an overview of UK government policy towards defence.
Having understood the need for defence, you'll move on to looking at:
how to define the capability required from defence systems
how to make a wide variety of complex defence systems work together in order to provide an overall defence capability
the need to plan for long system lifecycles.
You'll then get an overview of the air, land and sea defence systems that are required to provide the defence capability, and the role of space systems in defence.
The threats from non-conventional attack will be covered by examining security systems and an approach to design against attack.
The course concludes with a case study which brings together the key messages.
You'll be provided with a hard copy of the taught material.
Teaching, structure and assessment
This is a blended course involving both in-person and remote teaching.
It's delivered as a combination of lectures, group exercises, group discussions and case studies.
This course is an optional module within UCLse's Master's degree programmes. You can take this course as either:
a standalone short course
a 'taster module' that allows you to earn UCL credits towards a Master's degree
To earn UCL credits you'll need to complete an assessment. For more details on this option, please contact the course administrator.
This short course will help you to:
understand the global defence issues which relate to the development of defence systems
gain an appreciation of government policy on the defence industry and its impact on system development
describe the complexity and challenges of developing defence systems to meet global defence requirements
apply systems engineering principles to the development of defence systems
understand the range of land, sea and air defence systems and the role of space in defence
describe the impact of terrorism and the development of associated security systems
The fee for the short course is £1,450.
To take as a taster module and earn UCL credits, the fee is:
£1,681 for UK/EU
£2,512 for overseas
Discounts may be available for the short course. Contact uclse.courses@ucl.ac.uk for more information.
Professor Doug Cowper
Doug is a UCL Visiting Professor in Systems Engineering and has over 20 years of industrial experience working on various aspects of systems in the defence, aerospace and rail sectors. He's a proven track record of delivering systems engineering, technical management and governance and technology decision making with a diverse range of organisations. He's also led a number of working groups developing the definition and teaching of systems engineering core competencies in the UK. Doug is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET. He's Co-chair of the joint APM and INCOSE UK Systems Thinking SIG, an INCOSE Certification Application Reviewer (CAR) and Member of the INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG).
Ian Raper
Ian is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Technology Management Group at UCL. He's Programme Director for the MSc in Systems Engineering Management. He has 22 years of industrial experience working on all aspects of the systems design lifecycle from user requirements through to integration, acceptance and deployment. Part of Ian's career was in the defence sector, within Vickers Shipbuilding and BAE SYSTEMS. Following this, he worked in the space sector covering mission and system level activities at EADS Astrium. Ian is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering. He has an MSc in Systems Engineering from UCL and a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education.
Dr Hervé Borrion
Hervé is an Associate Professor in UCL's Department of Security and Crime Science. He's been helping bring together a community of academics in the engineering and social sciences around various security projects. His research interest lies in the application of systems modelling techniques to security, and the enhancement of security risk assessment for counter-terrorism and organised crime. He was the founding director of the MSc in Countering Terrorism and Organised Crime and the MRes Security Science, and is now the Deputy Director of SECReT. He's a visiting scholar at the Centre for Public Safety Research in Tsinghua University (Beijing).
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UEFA Women's Champions League - Pernille Harder named Women's Champions League Forward of the Season - News
Pernille Harder named Women's Champions League Forward of the Season
Pernille Harder is the inaugural UEFA Women's Champions League Forward of the Season.
Pernille Harder: Women's Champions League forward of the 2019/20 season
Pernille Harder has been named the first UEFA Women's Champions League Forward of the Season at the UEFA Awards ceremony in Geneva.
Harder, a UEFA Women’s Champions League runner-up with Wolfsburg in August, moved to Chelsea last month. The 27-year-old Denmark forward only augmented her reputation as probably the most accomplished all-around attacker in Europe in the 2019/20 campaign, scoring 38 goals in 33 games as Wolfsburg completed another German double. Nine of those goals came in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Forward of the Season voting
Watch Harder Best Forward award speech
1 Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg) – 93 points
2 Delphine Cascarino (Lyon) – 32 points
3 Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal) – 31 points
4 Eugénie Le Sommer (Lyon) – 23 points
5 Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) – 15 points
6 Marie-Antoinette Katoto (Paris Saint-Germain) – 10 points
7 Ewa Pajor (Wolfsburg) – 7 points
8 Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona) – 6 points
= Jenni Hermoso (Barcelona) – 6 points
10 Fridolina Rolfö (Wolfsburg) – 5 points
Clubs listed those for who players took the pitch during the 2019/20 UEFA Women's Champions League (i.e. not including as unused substitute).
Harder's 2019/20 in numbers
Appearances: 7
Minutes: 527
Goals: 9
Assists: 2
Highlights: Harder stars against Glasgow
How Harder was chosen
The jury comprised the coaches of the eight clubs that participated in the 2019/20 UEFA Women’s Champions League final tournament in Spain, and 20 journalists specialising in women’s football and selected by the ESM group.
Coaches and journalists were requested to pick a shortlist of three players by allocating respectively five points, three points and one point to each of them. The final result was based on the total number of votes cast by the coaches and the journalists. The coaches were not allowed to choose players from their own team.
The other award winners
UEFA Men's Player of the Year: Robert Lewandowski
UEFA Women's Player of the Year: Pernille Harder
Men's Coach of the Year: Hansi Flick
Women's Coach of the Year: Jean-Luc Vasseur
Men's Goalkeeper of the Season: Manuel Neuer
Men's Defender of the Season: Joshua Kimmich
Men's Midfielder of the Season: Kevin De Bruyne
Men's Forward of the Season: Robert Lewandowski
Women's Goalkeeper of the Season: Sarah Bouhaddi
Women's Defender of the Season: Wendie Renard
Women's Midfielder of the Season: Dzsenifer Marozsán
UEFA President’s Award: Didier Drogba
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50 years on, Central Jurisdiction’s shadow looms
By Joey Butler April 18, 2018 | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS)
Photo from the 1968 General Conference, held April 21-May 4, 1968, Dallas. Racial segregation was one of the main issues confronting the merger that created The United Methodist Church. Photo courtesy of United Methodist Commission on Archives and History.
The April 1968 merger that created The United Methodist Church not only birthed a new denomination, it abolished a painful part of Methodist history: The Central Jurisdiction, which segregated African-Americans from their Methodist brethren.
It was an earlier 1939 merger that created The Methodist Church from the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South and Methodist Protestant Church. The Southern church only agreed to union after a compromise created a jurisdiction based exclusively on race — not geography.
Nineteen black annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church were placed in the Central Jurisdiction and the white conferences were placed in five regional jurisdictions. Seventeen of the 19 black conferences voted against the 1939 Plan of Union.
Map illustrating the proposed jurisdictional conferences for the 1939 merger creating the Methodist Church. Five of the jurisdictions are based on geography, while the shaded area representing the Central Jurisdiction would segregate African-American Methodists from the rest of the denominational structure. Map courtesy of Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.
Almost as soon as the Central Jurisdiction was established, attempts began to get rid of it.
Though the episcopal address to the 1940 General Conference alluded to black Methodists’ “cordial acceptance of the outcome” and urged delegates to “attempt no radical changes” to church structure, the 1944 General Conference appointed a commission to study race relations in the church. That commission’s report to the 1948 General Conference acknowledged the problem posed by discrimination and offered hope that it “shall ultimately be eliminated from our fellowship.” The report did not specifically suggest abolishing the Central Jurisdiction.
A printed pamphlet relating to the Central Jurisdiction. Photo courtesy of Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University
The 1956 General Conference took probably the most significant steps toward ultimately doing away with the Central Jurisdiction. More than 4,000 petitions were submitted regarding the jurisdictional system, specifically the Central. As a result, delegates took two actions: drafting Amendment IX to the constitution and creating a study commission to evaluate the jurisdictional system.
Amendment IX provided a means for a local church to transfer to another annual conference, or for a conference to transfer out of its jurisdiction. The proposal acknowledged that when all of the Central Jurisdiction’s conferences used this process to voluntarily transfer to other jurisdictions, it would in effect be abolished.
It seems a given that members of the Central Jurisdiction would have overwhelmingly supported its elimination, but that was not the case.
“Central Jurisdiction leadership supported Amendment IX but discouraged its strongest churches from leaving, for fears it would weaken us financially,” said retired Bishop Woodie W. White. “They didn’t want the jurisdiction to be weakened by attrition.”
Despite its segregated existence, the Central elected its own bishops, was given representation on church boards and commissions, and provided leadership opportunities that blacks may not have otherwise been granted.
At a 2004 reunion of Central Jurisdiction members, some spoke of those opportunities and the sense of family that was fostered within the segregated church body.
Mai H. Gray, was a retired educator and former president of the Women’s Division of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. File photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
“If there was no Central Jurisdiction, a lot of our people wouldn’t have had opportunities for real leadership,” said Mai Gray. “This is where they honed their skills, even though it was not pleasant.” Gray, who passed away in 2010, became the first African-American to lead United Methodist Women in 1976.
Mollie Stewart, former president and CEO of Gulfside Assembly in Waveland, Mississippi, called the Central a “nurturing community, where everybody was your momma and your poppa.”
But at that same reunion, the Rev. Joseph Lowery laid out the complicated choice that faced African-American Methodists if the church were to desegregate.
“In the Central Jurisdiction, blacks elected their leadership. In a larger church, blacks don’t have enough members to elect leadership,” Lowery said. “The real power to elect black leadership (in an integrated church) rests in the hands of whites. That was the dilemma.”
The State of the Church report to the 1960 General Conference declared: “There must be no place in the Methodist Church for racial discrimination or forced segregation …. We recommend that discrimination or segregation by any method or practice, whether by conference structure or otherwise … be abolished with reasonable speed.”
In its report, the Commission to Study and Recommend Action Concerning the Jurisdictional System, noted the 1956 conference placed the Central Jurisdiction “in the line of ultimate extinction.”
The commission reported that six local churches had already transferred out of the Central Jurisdiction and 36 more were in the process. The commission took a wait-and-see approach to whether voluntary transfer via Amendment IX would solve the problem.
In a 2005 interview with United Methodist Communications, the late Bishop James S. Thomas said that “if you read the (legislative proposals) of 1964, the church was intensely concerned about segregation, but there were very strong efforts to hold on to the past.”
By this time, plans were well underway for the Methodist Church to merge with the Evangelical United Brethren. The EUB, which was not segregated, made it clear that the Methodists needed to resolve the issue. They ultimately made abolishing the segregated institution a condition for union.
Photos from the Central Jurisdiction era. Photos courtesy of the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History.
The Commission on Interjurisdictional Relations’ report to the 1964 General Conference cited some positives — namely that the Central Jurisdiction allowed blacks to hold church leadership positions. However, the report also noted that it made Methodists “the only church in America which segregates, by its constitution, one sector of its membership on the basis of race.”
While hoping Amendment IX would dissolve the Central Jurisdiction, the commission did ask that if there were still conferences that had not transferred out by 1967, a formal termination of the jurisdiction by the end of 1968 should be enacted.
Dissatisfied with the passive recommendations of the committee, W. Astor Kirk, an alternate delegate from West Texas, introduced an amendment that stipulated “the Central Jurisdiction structure … not be made a part of the Plan of Merger.” It became known as the Kirk Amendment, passing 464 to 362.
The following year, Southern church leaders argued before the Judicial Council — the church’s top court — that jurisdictions had the right to preserve segregated conferences. Kirk prepared the brief opposing their stance, and the council decided in his favor.
Kirk passed away in 2011 after a lifetime of advocating for a more inclusive United Methodist Church. In a 2004 interview, he said, “My hope is that we can take the past as a guide and get beyond it and really begin within the UMC to interact with people just as people, without regard to race, color or gender.”
Moving toward integration, delegates approved a $20 million Temporary General Aid Fund to assist the Central Jurisdiction in raising the levels of pensions and minimum salaries. Salary assistance was supposed to steadily decrease over a 20-year period as the post-merger conferences got their financial footing.
The Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell. Photo courtesy of the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History
“The efforts of the church to respond to the gap in income, pensions and health care of the black pastors of the Central Jurisdiction and the white pastors of the geographical jurisdictions was commendable,” said the Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell, a civil rights pioneer and retired clergy member of the Rocky Mountain Conference. “My preacher father was one of those pastors.
By the 1968 Uniting Conference in Dallas, all that remained was to make official the elimination of the Central Jurisdiction. Still, some trepidation remained.
Retired Bishop Melvin Talbert said he favored doing away with the Central Jurisdiction until the time came to vote at General Conference.
“I voted against the merger because it gave the EUB everything they wanted while the black jurisdiction got nothing but a promise. There was no commitment to having a number of delegates; they just did away with it.”
The Rev. Woodie White. Courtesy of United Methodist Commission on Archives and History.
“Only one jurisdiction was closed in 1968: the one that gave people of African-American descent power around appointment, around personnel, around vote, more power in voting our episcopacy,” said Vance Ross, director of annual conference relations at Discipleship Ministries. “That segment of people — my grandmother and her contemporaries — said, ‘We will stay and cause you to have to look at us and say you don’t love us, that we’re not equal.’”
White added that there was a risk of losing representatives at the agencies. “But they felt segregation was so untenable, they’d be willing to make that sacrifice,” White said.
A constitutional amendment was passed to “eliminate by 1972 any structure based on race.”
A minority report claimed there were still 11 black conferences that had not transferred out.
The Central Jurisdiction was no more.
To aid in the merging of white and black conferences, a quadrennial Commission on Religion and Race was created. Four years after its creation, the Commission on Religion and Race was established as a permanent general agency of the church and continues to advocate for inclusion at all levels.
Above: Methodist Bishop James S. Thomas speaks during the 1968 Uniting Conference. Photo courtesy of the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History. Below: United Methodist Bishop James S. Thomas (left) is honored by the denomination's 2004 General Conference in Pittsburgh for the contributions he made in the former Central Jurisdiction of the church. Applauding Thomas are Charles Yrigoyen (left), top staff executive of the church's Commission on Archives and History, and Bishop Solito Kuramin Toquero. File photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Bishop Thomas, who died in 2010, said, “There were those who thought the Central Jurisdiction would remain a permanent arrangement. We have to remember that every step toward eliminating segregation, from 1877 to 1968, in this nation and in the church was a difficult process. The U.S. didn’t do this easily, nor did the church.”
Much has been accomplished in terms of race relations in The United Methodist Church in the past 50 years, but many say there is always more work to be done.
Caldwell expressed some frustration that the church frequently lags behind society in terms of social progress.
“The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education) that ‘separate but equal’ is invalid but our Central Jurisdiction was not officially dissolved until 1968,” he said. “Martin Luther King Jr. raised the question, ‘Why is the church always the tail light rather than the headlight?’”
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: "Voices of the Central Jurisdiction"
Butler is a multimedia producer/editor for United Methodist News Service. Contact him at (615) 742-5470 or [email protected]. To read more United Methodist news, subscribe to the free Daily or Weekly Digests.
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Andrew Ryan "Andy" Dick (born December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician and television/film producer. Dick became well known for his sensationalistic and controversial behavior related to drug and alcohol abuse. His first regular television role was on the short-lived but highly influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s, he had a long-running stint on NBC's NewsRadio. He briefly had his own program, The Andy Dick Show on MTV, and he is also noted for his outlandish behavior from a number of Comedy Central Roasts.
Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick. He was raised Presbyterian. As a child, Dick and his family lived in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Yugoslavia, and Illinois. He attended Lassiter High School, which was being temporarily housed at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Cobb County, Georgia. Dick was in numerous theater productions during high school and was elected homecoming king his senior year in 1983. While in high school, Dick tended to use his name as a joke; one day, he dressed in a homemade superhero costume and presented himself at school as "Super Dick". Dick graduated from Joliet West High School in 1984, and is a friend of actor Anthony Rapp, whom he had known since childhood. After graduating from high school, Dick joined Chicago's Second City and attended Columbia College Chicago. He took improv comedy classes at i.O. (formerly 'ImprovOlympic') in the mid-1980s.
Dick started his television comedy career as a cast member on the sketch comedy program The Ben Stiller Show, which aired on the Fox Network from September 1992 to January 1993.
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Driving the New Climate Economy: How Companies and Communities Can Thrive in a Changing World
Words by 3p Contributor
By Lisa Manley
There are clear signals that the climate has changed over the past century. Around the world, people are beginning to feel the effects, from increased average and extreme temperatures, to changes in rainfall patterns, to more severe and less predictable storms. At Mars, we source key agricultural materials from countries and communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. We believe it’s time to take a new approach to addressing this challenge, using our influence and reach to take action that proactively addresses the impacts of climate change within our supply chain and operations. Here are three things our business and others are doing to take action.
Setting Science-Based Targets
More than 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree human activity is extremely likely to be causing the climate-warming trends over the last century. To avoid the worst consequences of climate change, science tells us we should limit global warming to less than the two degree Celsius threshold outlined in the Paris Agreement on climate change. As the saying goes, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. With that in mind, the first thing business should do is trust the science; then align measurable goals and actions around that science.
We looked to the best-available science to guide us in setting our climate goals at Mars. That science says we must reduce the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our value chain by 27 percent by 2025 and by 67 percent by 2050 (from 2015 levels). That means not only changing how we operate, but also working with partners and suppliers to transform entire value chains so that the ingredients we need to make our best-loved products, like M&Ms and Uncle Bens, are produced with lower environmental impacts. This isn’t an easy goal to meet. But we know it’s what’s necessary to unlock the systemic changes that are needed to benefit people and the planet.
Committing to Renewable Energy
The second thing business should do is look for the places where we can get the most immediate momentum and leverage that momentum for scale. At Mars, energy use is the major driver of our GHG emissions from direct operations. That’s why we’re big fans of renewable electricity with a goal to eliminate 100 percent of the GHG emissions from our direct operations by 2040. This goal covers the energy use from about 420 sites in more than 80 countries around the world.
We’re already using or purchasing renewable electricity to cover 100 percent of our operations in Belgium, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and the United States. And in 2018, we plan to add Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Poland and Spain to this list. In addition to renewable electricity, renewable thermal energy is an important part of our energy use in our factories. For that reason, we helped launch the Renewable Thermal Collaborative – a coalition for organizations that are committed to scaling up renewable heating and cooling at their facilities and dramatically cutting carbon emissions.
Fostering Executive Engagement and Advocacy
The third imperative for business action is to ensure we are aligning what we say with what we do. We need more vocal business advocates for climate action. We are walking this talk through coalitions such as We Are Still In, a declaration made by 2,700 cross-sector leaders in the U.S. to commit to tackling climate change, ensuring a clean energy future and upholding the Paris Agreement. It also can happen through executive advocacy. For example, our Mars chairman, Stephen Badger, recently authored an op/ed piece in The Washington Post, which makes a strong call to action to global businesses on climate change.
We also need to extend our advocacy to include the seats of power and influence within government. That’s why we engage with groups like the Ceres BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy) Network, to bring business leaders’ voices to Capitol Hill and local legislatures on climate action and clean energy.
For global businesses, it is our time to step up and lead on climate action. This is not just the “right thing to do,” but also makes good business sense; investing in sustainable practices today will help us become stronger, more resilient businesses in the future.
Lisa Manley is Senior Director, Sustainability Engagement & Partnerships, Mars, Inc.
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EPA Relaxes Automobile Efficiency Standards Through 2026
Words by Phil Covington
With all the turmoil going on in the world today and everyone’s attention diverted by the global pandemic, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) once again slipped through a ruling this week that imposes less demands on the U.S. transportation sector.
The final ruling of the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks was signed on March 30. This ruling undermines the vehicle fuel efficiency requirements through model year 2026 that the Obama administration had established.
A rollback on mileage standards
While the existing rules demand a 5 percent boost in annual fuel efficiency for manufacturers’ fleet averages, the new rule instead relaxes this to 1.5 percent. In effect, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the result is that by 2026, cars will only have to achieve on average 40 miles per gallon (MPG) as opposed to closer to 50 MPG under the existing rule.
The Obama administration established these fuel efficiency goals to align federal standards with California’s stricter ones. California has always had a waiver to the EPA’s Clean Air Act, allowing the state to set its own, more stringent targets. In part, this policy aimed to satisfy auto manufacturers' desire for a single fuel efficiency standard across the country rather than having to meet a patchwork of different ones state by state.
With the EPA’s new rule, the current administration advances its strategy to rollback efficiency standards in a two-pronged attack. First, the Trump administration announced in September 2019 its intent to withdraw California’s Clean Air Act waiver. Now, it is following up with looser federal fuel efficiency standards to be imposed nationwide.
California pushes back against the EPA
California, along with 22 other states, is fighting the Trump administration in court over the removal of the waiver, claiming that similar waivers have never been revoked in the past and that the Clean Air Act, in any case, provides no process for doing so. Ken Kimmel, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists said last year, “It’s yet another way the administration is defying science, the law, and democratic norms to enable increased pollution.”
Indeed, according to the Chronicle, more than one billion metric tons of carbon emissions will result from cars that automakers would manufacture under the more relaxed new standards, citing an analysis of models undertaken by the Climate Law Institute’s Maya Golden.
Nevertheless, the EPA claims it’s pursuing the new standard in the interest of consumers. The agency’s premise is that meeting existing fuel efficiency targets would be too expensive due to increased technology costs. Relaxing them, as the EPA says in their final rule document, would save automakers between $86 billion and $126 billion over the lifetime of vehicles through model year 2029, and consumers would pay between $977 and $1,023 less per vehicle.
Still, what consumers might save on the dealer forecourt, they’ll spend at the pumps - in all likelihood completely offsetting any increased cost of a more efficient vehicle. The Sierra Club asserts:
“Preliminary analysis indicates that the rollback would increase fuel costs by more than $240 billion; result in 18,555 premature deaths; produce 1.5 billion metric tons of climate pollution (comparable to the pollution emitted by 68 coal plants operating for 5 years); and contribute to one million lost work days.”
The rollback in fuel standards has been in the pipeline since 2017, almost from the advent of the Trump administration. This shift in policy stems in part from a request from auto manufacturers who were lobbying for a relaxation of the EPA’s targets as they deemed them overly expensive to meet.
Automakers now face confusion
But whereas under the Obama EPA’s rules, car makers were ensured a consistent standard to meet across the country, instead they now face uncertainty as to whether the new, or the old rule will stand, as the new rule will doubtless face legal challenges. Furthermore, the EPA’s ruling leaves them all in limbo as they proceed with their 2022 fleets and beyond.
The EPA’s decision has also left a divided automobile industry.
Ford, Honda, BMW and Volkswagen have pushed for tighter standards and have agreed to meet California’s goals, while other major automakers have sided with the Trump administration, no doubt preferring some leeway to produce larger, less efficient vehicles.
Plug In America sees the EPA’s new rule as a blow to electrification, asserting that tighter fuel economy standards send a stronger signal to consumers to adopt EV’s. Furthermore, from Plug In America’s point of view, introducing the new rule now is tone deaf. “At a time when we are experiencing a global health crisis, we should not be weakening fuel efficiency standards and adding more pollution to the air we breathe,” said Plug In America’s executive director Joel Levin.
Of course, the matter will now head to the courts and the EPA may face shaky ground there. The Chronicle quoted Julia Stein, environmental law professor at the UCLA School of Law, who said: “the administration has really struggled to provide an adequate basis to roll back the Obama-era standards.”
The EPA’s head, Andrew Wheeler, says the new rule will save lives and money. Wheeler’s “saving lives” argument is based on the tenuous claim that consumers won’t be able to afford a new car under the existing Obama-era rules, and therefore will drive older vehicles. That assumption, however, is hard for the EPA to substantiate.
In the meantime, auto manufacturers can circumvent the uncertainty they face by simply adopting the stricter standards. They can also look at cues visible in other countries where demands for zero emissions vehicles are growing, such as in the United Kingdom, which plans to phase out all fossil fuel powered cars by 2035. The auto industry is, after all, a global one - and if the automakers want to compete globally, they’ll need to invest in new technology anyway.
Image credit: Joey Kyber/Unsplash
Phil Covington
Phil Covington holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. In the past, he spent 16 years in the freight transportation and logistics industry. Today, Phil's writing focuses on transportation, forestry, technology and matters of sustainability in business.
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Eta downgraded to tropical storm again; Florida's west coast under storm surge warning
Grace Hauck
Tropical Storm Eta is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Gulf Coast early Thursday with heavy rainfall across west and central Florida and possible flash flooding in south Florida.
Eta was about 65 miles north-northwest of St. Petersburg, and moving north at 10 mph with top winds of 60 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in its 1 a.m. EST update.
Eta became a Category 1 hurricane early Wednesday but was downgraded to a tropical storm by the afternoon, and the hurricane watch for portions of the west coast of Florida was discontinued.
"Almost as quickly as Eta regained hurricane status, it then lost it shortly thereafter," the National Hurricane Center said.
The storm was expected to approach the west-central coast Wednesday evening and rapidly weaken as it moves inland over the northern portion of the Florida peninsula Thursday. Late Thursday and early Friday, Eta is expected to move northeastward into the western Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center.
"There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast from Bonita Beach to Suwannee River, including Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor," the center said.
2020 hurricane season sets yet another record:2 Theta forms in the Atlantic
Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys on Sunday evening and left thousands of Floridians without power. The storm unleashed a deluge that flooded entire neighborhoods and filled some homes with rising water.
"Stay weather aware today South Florida, and have a way to receive warnings!" the National Weather Service Miami-South Florida said on Twitter on Wednesday.
Last week, it was unclear whether the storm would strike Louisiana, which has been hit by five tropical storms or hurricanes this year – an all-time record for the state. But the storm shifted eastward on Tuesday. The National Hurricane Center called the eastward shift "the biggest surprise" of the day's forecast.
The 2020 hurricane season has been relentless and record-breaking.
Eta is the record-breaking 12th named tropical system to strike the continental U.S. this season and was the first tropical storm to make a November landfall in Florida since Mitch in 1998, according to Phil Klotzbach, a Colorado State University meteorologist. Hurricane Eta was also the latest calendar year hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Kate in 1985, Klotzbach said.
The record for named storms in a single season was broken early Tuesday morning with the formation of Subtropical Storm Theta far out in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Theta is the 29th named storm of 2020, breaking the record of 28 from 2005, the National Hurricane Center said. Theta transitioned to a "regular" tropical storm Tuesday afternoon.
The Hurricane Center said Theta poses no immediate threat to any land areas as it spins in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. According to AccuWeather, this is the latest in the calendar year that there were two storms swirling simultaneously in the Atlantic basin since Nov. 10, 1932.
Elsewhere, yet another system could evolve over the Caribbean late this week to this weekend, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. Hurricane season doesn't end until Nov. 30, although storms sometimes form after that date.
Tropical Storm Eta track
Contributing: Doyle Rice; Cheryl McCloud, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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The purpose of the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) Teen Volunteer Program (TVP) is to promote youth involvement at NMMC and to supplement the adult volunteers at the museum in fulfilling these duties. Recruitment of local high school students to work here as volunteers — working with the public with interactive interpretation and exemplary visitor service — are the goals for the program. By having teens participate in this program, we hope to prepare and inspire students to become active participants in shaping their community, society, and the museum profession.
Participating teens perform the following type of service within the TVP:
Teen Hospitality Ambassadors manage the Front Desk as well as greet and orient visitors entering the museum. In addition, they are responsible for answering general questions that visitors may have about the museum while acting in a responsible and professional manner as a representative of the museum. Tenn Hospitality Ambassadors generally work on weekends, and during holidays and school breaks.
TVP training is conducted during the summer and includes 20 hours of formal classroom work with an additional 20 hours under senior volunteer mentors totaling 40 hours of training. Teen Visitor Services Volunteers will be instructed on front desk protocols (e.g. handing out wheelchairs, answering the phone, handling object donations, and greeting visitors). They will also be instructed on appropriate museum terminology and practices, museum history, gallery information, staff and general security procedures. Training will include history of the USMC, as presented within the various galleries, and object interpretation while staffing interactive gallery carts. Evaluation will be executed once training is complete and will be performed by peers, senior docents, and staff.
By participating in the NMMC TVP we believe that students will receive many intrinsic benefits that will support their future goals in life. Our current teen volunteers have told us they have developed leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills throughout their involvement in the NMMC Teen Volunteer Program as well as gaining a sense of pride in themselves and in their community. An understanding of the Marine Corps and its history is another benefit which has assisted them in realizing the importance in preserving their community's and the Marine Corps heritage which are intertwined in many cases. Our hope that student participants would gain confidence, self-assurance, and pride in themselves as well as their community has been solidified and we couldn't be more proud of their accomplishments!
Students who desire to join the NMMC Teen Volunteer Program must be at least 16 years old, highly motivated, interested in history, and willing to work with people in public. We expect volunteers to commit to the program for a year and work a minimum of 8 hours per month. Students will be required to submit an application and a signed parental permission form in order to be considered for the NMMC Teen Volunteer Program.
DOWNLOAD THE TEEN VOLUNTEER APPLICATION
and email to Scott Gardiner at Scott.gardiner@usmcu.edu.
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Utica council hears concerns with S. Utica housing project
By Greg Masongmason@uticaod.com
Aug 23, 2019 at 6:13 PM Aug 23, 2019 at 6:22 PM
UTICA — Members of the Utica Common Council met Friday with neighbors of the former Sunset School in South Utica where a local nonprofit is planning to build a new apartment complex.
The Kelberman Center, a nonprofit that provides services and support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has targeted the school for a four-story, 60-unit apartment building, with 12 units dedicated to individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
And while the nonprofit received site plan approval from the City of Utica Planning Board more than a year ago, neighbors say they were not notified about the project until it was too late. Area residents now want the Kelberman Center to reduce the size of the project to conform to the neighborhood.
With Friday’s meeting, they looked to their local leaders for recourse.
“I’m getting frustrated because people make it out that we don’t want the building, that we don’t want the folks. That’s not the case,” neighbor Lindsay Bonanza said. “We want it to match the neighborhood we all fought so hard to build up.”
Dr. Robert Myers, executive director of the Kelberman Center, did not return a call for comment following the meeting. During a meeting with neighbors in July, Myers then said he expected the project to break ground sometime in September or October.
Bonanza and neighbor Jamie Weber expressed their concerns to five members of the Common Council with around 20 other residents attending the meeting.
The meeting comes as the Common Council is considering legislation that would require the Planning Board to notify residents neighboring a project upon accepting an application for preliminary site plan review. Another proposed ordinance would require city officials to advertise and hold public meetings to residents in the area of projects at least 20,000 square feet in size and with a projected budget of at least $2 million.
With the legislation currently in committee, Common Council President Michael Galime said the meeting’s greater purpose was to discuss the city’s planning process as a whole.
Last year, the Common Council endorsed an application for the Kelberman Center to apply for grant funding for the project. Council members discussed potentially voting to reconsider that endorsement in an effort to make the project smaller, though Galime speculated it's possible such action might halt the project completely.
The meeting concluded with plans by lawmakers to reach out to the Kelberman Center and review how the project proceeded through the Planning Board.
Contact Digital Editor Greg Mason at 315-792-5038 or follow him on Twitter (@OD_Mason).
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Home Bareacts Waterpcpc Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977
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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977
1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.—
(1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), it applies to all the States to which the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) applies and the Union territories.
(4) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “local authority” means a municipal corporation or a municipal council (by whatever name called) or a cantonment board or by other body, entrusted with the duty of supplying water under the law by or under which it is constituted;
(b) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
1[(c) “industry” includes any operation or process, or treatment and disposal system, which consumes water or gives rise to sewage effluent or trade effluent, but does nto include any hydel power unit;]
(d) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.
1. Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 2, for clause (c) (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
3. Levy and collection of cess.—
(1) There shall be levied and collected a cess for the purposes of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) and utilisation thereunder.
(2) The cess under sub-section (1) shall be payable by—
(a) every person carrying on any 1[industry]; and
(b) every local authority,and shall be calculated on the basis of the water consumed by such person or local authority, as the case may be, for any of the purposes specified in column (1) of Schedule II, at such rate, not exceeding the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) thereof, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, specify.
2[(2A) Where any person carrying on any 3[industry] or any local authority consuming water for domestic purpose liable to pay cess fails to comply with any of the provisions of section 25 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) or any of the standards laid down by the Central Government under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), cess shall be, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of this section, calculated and payable at such rate, not exceeding the rate specified in column (3) of Schedule II, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, specify.]
(3) Where any local authority supplies water to any person carrying on any 3[industry] or to any other local authority and such person or other local authority is liable to pay cess 4[under sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A)] in respect of the water so supplied, then, notwithstanding anything contained 4[in those sub-sections], the local authority first mentioned shall not liable to any such cess in respect of such water.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section and section 4, “consumption of water” includes supply of water.
A cess shall be (i) levied and collected for the purposes of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and utilisation thereunder; (ii) payable by every person carrying on any industry and every local authority; (iii) calculated on the basis of the water consumed for any of the purposes specified in column (i) of Schedule II; (iv) at such rate as the Central Government shall notify.
1. Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 2, for “specified industry” (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
2. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 2 (a) (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
4. Subs. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 2 (b), for “under sub-section (2)” and “in that sub-section” respectively (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
4. Affixing of meters.—
(1) For the purpose of measuring and recording the quantity of water consumed, every person carrying on any 1[industry] and every local authority shall affix meters of such standards and at such places as may be prescribed and it shall be presumed that the quantity indicated by the meter has been consumed by such person or local authority, as the case may be, until the contrary is proved.
(2) Where any person or local authority fails to affix any meter as required by sub-section (1), the Central Government shall, after notice to such person or local authority, as the case may be, cause such meter to be affixed and the cost of such meter together with the cost for affixing the meter may be recovered from such person or local authority by the Central Government in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue.
It shall be incumbent on every person carrying on any industry, or every local authority, to affix meters for the purpose of measuring and recording the quantity of water consumed. In case of default, the Central Government shall recover the cost of meter together with the cost for affixing the meter in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue from the defaulter.
5. Furnishing of returns.—
1[(1)] Every person carrying on any 2[industry] and every local authority, liable to pay the cess under section 3, shall furnish such returns, in such form, at such intervals and containing such particulars to such officer or authority, as may be prescribed.
1[(2) If a person carrying on any 2[industry] or a local authority, liable to pay the cess under section 3, fails to furnish any return under sub-section (1), the officer or the authority shall give a notice requiring such person or local authority to furnish such return before such date as may be specified in the notice.]
1. Section 5 re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and sub-section (2) ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 3 (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
6. Assessment of cess.—
1(1) The officer or authority to whom or which the return has been furnished under section 5 shall, after making or causing to be made such inquiry as he or it thinks fit and after satisfying himself or itself that the particulars stated in the return are correct, by order, assess the amount of cess payable by the concerned person carrying on any 1[industry] or local authority, as the case may be.
2[(1A) If the return has not been furnished to the officer or authority under sub-section (2) of section 5, he or it shall, after making or causing to be made such inquiry as he or it thinks fit, by order, assess the amount of cess payable by the concerned person carrying on any 2[industry] or local authority, as the case may be.]
(2) An order of assessment made under sub-section (1) 3[or sub-section (1A)] shall specify the date within which the cess shall be paid to the State Government.
(3) A copy each of the order of assessment made under sub-section (1) 4[or sub-section (1A)] shall be sent to the person or, as the case may be, to the local authority concerned and to the State Government.
(4) The State Government shall, through such of its officers or authorities as may be specified by it in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette, collect the cess from the person or local authority liable to pay the same and pay the amount so collected to the Central Government in such manner and within such time as may be prescribed.
2. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 4(a) (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
3. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 4 (b) (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
4. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 4 (c) (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
7. Rebate.—
Where any person or local authority, liable to pay the cess under this Act, installs any plant for the treatment of sewage or trade effluent, such person or local authority shall from such date as may be prescribed, be entitled to a rebate of 1[twenty-five per cent.] of the cess payable by such person or, as the case may be, local authority:
2[Provided that a person or local authority shall not be entitled to any rebate, if he or it—
(a) consumes water in excess of the maximum quantity as may be prescribed in this behalf for any 3[industry] or local authority; or
(b) fails to comply with any of the provisions of section 25 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) or any of the standards laid down by the Central Government under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986).]
1. Subs. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 5(a), for “seventy per cent” (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
2. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 5(b) (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
8. Crediting proceeds of cess to Consolidated Fund of India and application thereof.—
The proceeds of the cess levied under section 3 shall first be credited to the Consolidated Fund of India and the Central Government may, if Parliament, by appropriation made by law in this behalf, so provides, pay the Central Board and every State Board, from time to time, from out of such proceeds, after deducting the expenses on collection, such sums of money as it may think fit for being utilised under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974):
Provided that while determining the sum of money to be paid to any State Board under this section, the Central Government shall have regard to the amount of cess collected by the State Government concerned under sub-section (4) of section 6.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, “State Board” includes a Joint Board, if any, constituted under section 13 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974).
9. Power of entry.—
Any officer or authority of the State Government specially empowered in this behalf by that Government may,—
(a) with such assistance, if any, as he or it may think fit, enter at any reasonable time any place which he or it considers it necessary to enter for carrying out the purposes of this Act including the testing of the correctness of the meters affixed under section 4;
(b) do within such place anything necessary for the proper discharge of his or its duties under this Act; and
(c) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.
10. Interest payable for delay in payment of cess.—
If any person carrying on any 1[industry] or any local authority fail to pay any amount of cess payable under section 3 to the State Government within the date specified in the order of assessment made under section 6, such person or local authority, as the case may be, shall be liable to pay 2[interest on the amount to be paid at the rate of two per cent. for every month or part of a month comprised in the period from the date on which such payment is due till such amount is actually paid.]
Interest payable for delay in payment of cess shall be at the rate of 2% on the amount to be paid for every month or part thereof till such amount is actually paid.
2. Subs. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 6, for the words “interest at twelve per cent. per annum on the amount to be paid from the date on which such payment is due till such amount is actually paid” (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
11. Penalty for non-payment of cess within the specified time.—
If any amount of cess payable by any person carrying on any 1[industry] or any local authority under section 3 is not paid to the State Government within the date specified in the order of assessment made under section 6, it shall be deemed to be in arrears and the authority prescribed in this behalf may, after such inquiry as it deems fit, impose on such person or, as the case may be, local authority, a penalty not exceeding the amount of cess in arrears:
Provided that before imposing any such penalty, such person or, as the case may be, the local authority shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard and if after such hearing the said authority is satisfied that the default was for any good and sufficient reason, no penalty shall be imposed under this section.
If any amount of cess is not paid within the date specified in the order of assessment to the State Government then a penalty not exceeding the amount of cess in arrears is to be imposed on the defaulter. However, no such penalty shall be imposed if the default was for any good and sufficient reason.
12. Recovery of amount due under the Act.—
Any amount due under this Act (including any interest or penalty payable under section 10 or section 11, as the case may be) from any person carrying on any 1[industry] or from any local authority may be recovered by the Central Government in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue.
1. Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 3, for “specified industry” (w.e.f. 6-5-2003)
13. Appeals.—
(1) Any person or local authority aggrieved by an order of assessment made under section 6 or by an order imposing penalty made under section 11 may, within such time as may be prescribed, appeal to such authority in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) Every appeal preferred under sub-section (1) shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed.
(3) After the receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard in the matter, dispose of the appeal as expeditiously as possible.
(4) Every order passed in appeal under this section shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court of law.
14. Penalty.—
(1) Whoever, being under an obligation to furnish a return under this Act, furnishes any return knowing, or having reason to believe, the same to be false shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
(2) Whoever, being liable to pay cess under this Act, wilfully or intentionally evades or attempts to evade the payment of such cess shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
(3) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section save on a complaint made by or under the authority of the Central Government.
If any person furnishes any return knowing or having reason to believe, the same to be false shall be punishable with imprisonment upto six months or with fine upto one thousand rupees or with both. Wilful or intentional evasion of payment of cess is punishable with imprisonment upto six months, or with fine upto one thousand rupees, or with both.
15. Offences by companies.—
(1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence, under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,—
(a) “company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and
(b) “director”, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.
16. Power of Central Government to exempt the levy of water cess.—
1[16. Power of Central Government to exempt the levy of water cess.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any industry, consuming water below the quantity specified in the notification, from the levy of water cess.
(2) In exempting an industry under sub-section (1), the Central Government shall take into consideration—
(a) the nature of raw material used;
(b) the nature of manufacturing process employed;
(c) the nature of effluent generated;
(d) the source of water extraction;
(e) the nature of effluent receiving bodies; and
(f) the production data, including water consumption per unit production,
in the industry and the location of the industry.]
1. Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 4, for section 16 (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
17. Power to make rules.—
(1) The Central Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
(a) the standards of the meters to be affixed and the places at which such meters are to be affixed under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(b) the returns to be furnished under section 5, the form in which and the intervals at which such returns are to be furnished, the particulars which such returns shall contain and the officer or authority to whom or which such returns shall be furnished;
(c) the manner in which and the time within which the cess collected shall be paid to the Central Government under sub-section (4) of section 6;
(d) the date from which any person or local authority liable to pay cess shall be entitled to the rebate 1[and the maximum quantity of water in excess of consumption whereof any person or local authority shall not be entitled to the rebate];
(e) the powers which may be exercised by the officer or authority under section 9;
(f) the authority which may impose penalty under section 11;
(g) the authority to which an appeal may be filed under sub-section (1) of section 13 and the time within which and the form and manner in which such appeal may be filed;
(h) the fees which shall accompany an appeal under sub-section (2) of section 13; and
(i) any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this Act, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of on effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
1. Ins. by Act 53 of 1991, sec. 7 (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
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1. Schedule I omitted by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 5 (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
SCHEDULE II
1[SCHEDULE II
(See section 3)
Purpose for which water is consumed Maximum rate under sub-section(2) of Section 3 Maximum rate under sub-section (2A) of Section 3
1. Industrial cooling, praying in mine pits or boiler feeds Five paise per kiloletre Ten paise per kiloletre
2. Domestic purpose Two paise per kiloletre Three paise per kiloletre
3. Processing whereby water gets polluted and the pollutants are—
(i) easily biodegradable; or
(ii) non-toxic; or
(iii) both non-toxic and easily biodegradable Two paise per kiloletre
Three paise per kiloletre
4. Processing whiereby water get polluted and the pollutants are—(i) not easily biodegradable; or
(ii) toxic; or
(iii) both toxic and not easily
biodegradable Two paise per kiloletre
Thirty paise per kiloletre
1. Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, sec. 6, for Schedule II (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
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•July 20, 2015
•Mexico News
Mexico Homicide Rate Drops 27 Percent
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was continuing to recover from a tough week that saw both the dazzling escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and a disappointing show for its historic oilfield auction. Still, there were some hopeful statistics for the president to tout: New government figures released Monday showed that homicides fell again last year from the year before, making for a continuous downward streak since Peña Nieto first took office.
The national statistics office published its most recent homicide tally Monday, showing 19,669 homicides for 2014, or a rate of 16 per 100,000 people. That marks a 27 percent decrease in homicides since 2012, when Peña Nieto first stepped into office, and a 37 percent increase since Mexican homicide figures hit their peak in 2011. The figures include intentional as well as unintentional killings.
Peña Nieto said earlier this month that numbers were still on their way down in 2015. Speaking at a governor’s appointment ceremony in early July, he said Mexico saw a 27 percent decline in intentional homicides in the first five months of 2015 compared to the same period a year before, in addition to a 23.2 percent drop in kidnappings. Extortions also fell by 22.4 percent in early 2015, he said, crediting structural reforms for the recent shifts.
Although the killings were on the wane for the country as a whole, the violence was rising in certain parts of the country. In Michoacán, where autodefensas, or vigilante groups, have been more and more visible, the 2014 homicide rate was the highest the state had seen since 2009, with 931 deaths. Guerrero, the state that served as the flashpoint for nationwide outrage last year following the disappearance of 43 students allegedly at the hands of police and local criminal groups, remained one of the most violent states in the country, with 1,719 homicides last year.
Violence in Mexico jumped under the administration of former President Felipe Calderon, who launched the so-called War on Drugs, backed by U.S. help. President Peña Nieto entered into office with a pledge to stem the everyday violence that resulted from the escalating fighting between government forces and drug organizations, which increasingly enveloped civilians over the years. Although the 2014 figures showed the downward trend was continuing, Mexico still has a ways to go before reaching homicide figures from a decade ago, which stood at 8,867 homicides in 2007.
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STORIES OF OUR FAMILIES
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
Alfred Sheppard - England to Trinidad
Sheppard Family- Trinidad
Gomez Family - Trinidad
My Portuguese/Dutch Ancestry & More
Don Pedro de Roy
From Portugal to Trinidad
In Lisbon, Portugal, during the early years of the 19th Century, there lived a very wealthy man who owned and resided in one of his large mansions with his wife and daughter. His name was Don Pedro de Roy; de Roy signified that he was a close relative of the King of Portugal. “Don” is the Portuguese equivalent of Lord or Sir. In any event, he was a Knight of the Court of the King. Don Pedro was a first cousin to the King.
His wife gave birth to an attractive black haired, blue-eyed daughter who was educated in all the arts and graces appropriate for a lady of such high stature in the society. Her name was Antionette and she was particularly keen on horticulture, spending a great deal of time in the beautiful gardens surrounding their palatial residence. These extensive gardens were superbly maintained and improved by the gardener who was a Scotsman who hailed from the highlands of Scotland. Religious persecution had driven his parents and himself as well as hundreds of other faithful subjects of the United Kingdom to seek refuge in nearby Europe. Many of these refuges sought residence and employment in Portugal and Spain. Alexander was one of these unfortunate people.
Alexander was in his mid-twenties when he obtained employment with Don Pedro. He was all, 6’3” and possessed a fine physique. He was also ruggedly handsome, with dark curly hair and green eyes, sheltered by bushy eyebrows. The very moment that Antionette and Alexander saw each other, it was a biological fusion of looks of love at first sight. Yes, the daughter of the King’s cousin had fallen in love with the family’s gardener.
As expected, Don Pedro was horrified that his only child and daughter had chosen as his lover a person of such low degree - a gardener - and a Scotsman to boot. Her mother, Maria, was also very disappointed in Antoinette's choice. All the dreams of her daughter being married to a Duke of the Realm were now shattered. The social status of Don Pedro was now in the balance. Either Antoinette give up this "infatuation" or she would be placed in a convent in France, there to languish indefinitely, for her folly.
Rather than face such a fate, Alexander and Antoinette eloped and stayed in Madeira. Alexander, who carried the family name of McClean, had his name changed to Perreira, which name was rare in Madeira and which indicated that he was of good stock. Alex and Antoinette soon became parents of a beautiful daughter, whom they named Virginia. At that time, manh Portuguese were leaving to reside in distant Brazil which was encouraging the emigration of Portuguese families to develop that vast country. Interested parties pooled their resources and obtained small ships and their crews to convey these adventurous people to the new land of promise in the West. Among the adventurers were Alex and Antoinette McClean Perreira and their baby daughter Virginia. They were accompanied by Alex's brother Luis, who was part-owner of the brig, a three-masted schooner measuring 98 feet, 26 feet wide. The "Santa Lucia" had a crew of eleven, including the Captain, Vernal de Silva, an old seafarer of some 25 years. He knew where Brazil was and let it be known to all 132 passengers on this small, frail craft that they need not fear. He would get them there.
The prevailing winds carried their tight little schooner at a fair clip, until they encountered their first tropical storm, of such intensity that it ripped the mainsail and broke the aft mast which crushed two young sailors and injured a pregnant passenger. When the storm subsided, the crew were able to repair the mainsail but they were sailing without the rear mast and sails. This slowed their progress, apart from the inevitable shoratges of food and water which were becoming apparent.
Despite their privations and the heat which was oppressive in their confined quarters (basic sanitation was a constant problem) the optimism and natural cheerfulness of these new-world aspirants sustained them. They were all very religious people and were victims of religious persecution. The were Presbyterians of the Scottish following, their ancestors having flown from the tyranny of Oliver Cromwell and his intolerant regime and settled in Portugal and Madeira.
Sickness and shortages of food and water, combined with a crippled ship, influenced the Captain to alter his course and he steered his cramped vessel towards Trinidad where they landed after an arduous vorage from Madeira lasting 82 days. With great relief, passengers and crew prised God that they had arrived on "terra firma", although it was not Brazil. Fifty percent of the passengers opted to remain in Trinidad, the remainder would continue the voyage to Brazil after the necessary repairs were done to the Santa Lucia and she was re-victualled. So here they were in Port of Spain, which had not yet become the capital. St. Joseph, eight miles to the east, was the capital city of Trinidad. However, the settlers decided to make their home in Port of Spain. The British authorities were sympathetic to their plight and welcomed them and gave their full cooperation and support. Fortunately, among their members, there were many artisans. Excellent masons who were experienced in working with stone which was abundantly available, carpenters, joiners who would make beautiful furniture for their eventual wooden homes with substantial stone walls and steps and pathways.
Trinidad was a lush country with extensive areas of swamps, rivers and forests. The new settlers soon discovered that there were deer, manicou, agouti, wild pics, all types of birds, etc. Food was no probloem. Every plant grew healthily. Water everywhere. Ans the sea and rivers, fish, sobsters, shrimp in great abundance. This was indeed Paradise on earth. The population mainly comprised English military and merchants and their families, descendants of Spanish and french settlers and, of course, Caribs who chose to live in the middle of Trinidad - i.e. Arima and Couva and the negro slaves who were brought from Africa to work in the sugar cane plantations. They were liberated in 1831 and by 1936 were becoming assimilated into the commercial world in the labouring field. This newly arrived group from Madeira were the first Portuguese to settle in Trinidad.
Among the names of these new Trinidadians were Gomez, de Freitas, de Silva, Pereira, Ferreira, Gonzales, de Souza, Fernandes, etc. Their descendants mostly remained in Trinidad and inter-married, thus creating a fairly large Portuguese community. The majority of the men found themselves in the business of importing and distributing basic food supplies and became known as provision merchants. Salted cod-fish, pig-tails and other parts, rice, peas, garlic, onions, potatoes and a host of other food items were imported mainly from Madeira and Portugal and South America. These businesses thrived and their owners soon became owners of cocoa-bearing land. They also branched out into the production and for importation of rum and wines which were marketed through their own outlets known as rum-shops which proliferated. General shops offered for sale all other items of food and general merchandise for the home.
This group of Portuguese settlers quickly identified themselves as very hard workers who possessed natural ability to run their own businesses. Their contribution to the development of Trinidad was considerable. They formed their own social clubs and organised several activities to assist in the charitable work for which they became well known. Within their own society they separated the shop-keepers and provision merchants from the business executives, doctors, lawyers and other professionals by creating their own social clubs. The Portuguese Association offupied an attractive and substantial building in Richmond Street in Port of Spain, whose members were the provision traders, etc. and the other group created the Portuguese Club in St. Voincent Street, which was larger and even more posh than their counterpart, with miniature golf course, tennis courts, etc. Bridge clubs abounded and occasional balls were held. Members of both clubs did not have automatic entry to the other's dances or other festivities. invitations or membership were the only passports. Codes of behaviour and dress had to be strictly adhered to.
In all of this development the lives of young Alexander and Antoinette McClean Pereira and their daughter Virginia truly became involved with the development of their new home, Trinidad. Alexander was versatile and used his knowledge of gardening and stone-masonary to great effect. Plans were drawn for the building of a church out of concrete and stone and it was built on St. Ann's road, later known as Charlotte Street, the first Presbyterian Church, St. Ann's Church of Scotland. Alexander was the architect and builder.
All of the stone work was quarried, transported and made into this magnificent building by the Portuguese community. The woodwork was all hewed and formed by their own carpenters and the benches and other accoutrements were all fashioned from local wood. The beautiful stained glass window was installed by Scottish experts. The pipe organ was imported and installed by Scottish engineers. It was truly a work of love and dedication and even today, nearly 200 years later, St. Ann's Church of Scotland stands beautiful and proud as a symbol of faith and courage. The members of the Church were mainly Portuguese, including families like Gomez, Perreira, Ferreira, de Silva, de Freitas, Jardine, Mendes, Govia, Viera. and incongruously, the name Sheppard appeared on the list of members. How this happened is because Virginia McClean Pereira fell in love with a British Army Officer of the Royal Sussex Regiment stationed in Trinidad, Alfred James Sheppard, whose rank was Sergeant Major. This interesting couple were joined in holy matrimony at the Free Church as St. Ann's was then known. The marriage took place on 25th June 1897. Children of this union were Charles Sebastian Theodore Sheppard, born 21st October 1885 and Amalia Elizabeth Sheppard, born 14th May, 1887. They were preceded by Alfred Sheppard born 8th January 1884, Arthur Hybrow de Freitas Sheppard, born 6th November 1888 and Albert Edward James Sheppard, born 6th April, 1890. Both Albert and his brother Arthur died 14 days apart on 11th June and 25th June 1873, both of acute dysentery. At that time their father Alfred James Sheppard was a Trinidad Police Inspector in charge of the San Fernando Station. This terrible grief sadly affected Alfred and Virginia. When the Royal Sussex Regiment left Trinidad to return to England, Alfred accepted a commission in the Police Force.
The eldest son of Alfred and Virginia, Charles Sebastian Theodore Sheppard was married to another member of the Free Church - Elsie Mabel Gomez, whose father was Albert Gomez and her mother, the former Christine Pereira. The marriage took place at St. Ann's Free Church on 30th January, 1909. They were blessed by 13 children, the youngest of whom died a baby of 8 months, he was Arthur. The rest of the children, six boys and six girls were all married and have produced 58 children. Only one son died at 44, George. His son, Stanley, died at 38. Another sad loss was that of David Gibbon, whose mother was Sybil Sheppard and Patrick Gibbon. David was killed while riding his racing bicycle on a highway, hit by a truck.
Elsie Mabel's parents had a son George, who was a brilliant Trinidad scholar who graduated fron Edinburgh University in Scotland with highest honours. He volunteered for service with the Medical Corps and was sent to India with the British Army in 1915. He eventually went to Nevis as the solitary surgeon and died while directing his own operation (with the aid of mirrors) to have a highly infectred appendix removed. He died on the operating theatre table of peritonitis in 1931. A large marble memorial was erected over his grave by public subscription because of his contributions to the public of Nevis and St. Kitts. Elsie's mother also had two brothers who had qualified as surgeons at Edinburgh University and who prctised at Harley Street in London.
The union of Alexander and Antoinette produced many talented Trinidadians who became famous doctors, surgeons, business executives, politicians, military officers, accountants, competent musicians and good citizens. Love conquered all. Don Pedro's loss was ouor gain. Long live Alexander and Antoinette.
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Husband and children of mother who bled to death awarded $24.5M
On behalf of Vocelle & Berg, LLP | Oct 16, 2019 | Firm News
Physicians owe patients delivering babies in Florida hospitals the utmost duty of care. Holding negligent doctors responsible for injuries and premature deaths may help surviving relatives seek relief for the victim’s and their own pain and suffering. A jury may place a great deal of weight on the lasting mental and emotional suffering endured by a wrongful death victim’s family members.
A grieving husband and his four children received a jury award of $24.5 million after their wife and mother bled to death from a Cesarean section procedure, as reported by the Herald-Tribune. Records of the hospital’s scheduling for July 21, 2015 showed that the 34-year-old pregnant mother’s C-section would take place at 10:00 a.m. Her team of doctors, however, did not perform the procedure until after midnight on July 22. The more than 14-hour difference in time resulted in her bleeding to death in the hospital shortly after the birth of her daughter. During the trial, doctors admitted to their negligence.
While no amount of money can compensate for the loss of a loved one, Floridians can take comfort in knowing that pain and suffering is cause for legal justice. In the case of the death resulting from the delayed C-section, the husband and four surviving children of the deceased mother had previously received a settlement of $1 million each for the doctors’ negligence. The 2019 damages-only jury trial, however, focused on the lasting mental and emotional pain the family has suffered over the years following the fatal childbirth.
The jury divided the $24.5 million damages-only award between the widower and the four surviving children. The largest amount went to the child who was born during the tragic 2015 C-section. Currently approaching her fourth birthday, the jury awarded the young girl an additional $6.12 million for the loss of her mother’s “parental companionship, instruction and guidance” in addition to her emotional pain and suffering. The jury deliberated for only two hours before deciding on their award verdict.
It is difficult to quantify how much monetary compensation might reasonably make up for surviving family members’ mental and emotional suffering. According to a study conducted by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, juries may tend to base their award decisions on the emotional impact suffered by both victims and family members. As reported by MarketWatch, this may result in a jury calculating a much higher award.
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Home Politics Over Half of Americans Want Trump Gone Before Inauguration Day
Over Half of Americans Want Trump Gone Before Inauguration Day
Samantha Renck
Fifty-six percent of Americans want President Donald Trump out of office before Inauguration Day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
Additionally, two-thirds of those surveyed said that Trump deserved “a great deal or a good amount” of blame for the riots, the poll showed. But while the majority of voters indicated that they wanted Trump gone before Jan. 20, Democrats and Republicans were sharply split on the issue, with 94% and 13% saying so respectively.
Trump has been accused of encouraging Wednesday’s riot after urging his supporters to march from the White House to the Capitol to pressure lawmakers to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women,” Trump said on Wednesday. “We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
The riots forced the Capitol into lockdown with lawmakers, staffers and reporters trapped inside, and resulted in dozens of arrests and 5 deaths.
Lawmakers, including some Republicans, have called for Trump’s removal, with some calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and others calling for his impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed the effort last week, and the House plans to introduce articles of impeachment as soon as Monday.
Though dozens of congressional Republicans have abandoned the president, over half of Republicans surveyed said that they believed the president did nothing wrong, and one-third said that removing him before his term expires in 10 days was not worth the effort.
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Home>Columnists>Bill Fletcher Jr.>Trump’s Attack on Immigrants of Color
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Trump’s Attack on Immigrants of Color
Bill Fletcher Jr. Follow on Twitter Send an email September 14, 2015
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
NNPA Columnist
I want to address this column quite explicitly to African Americans. If you are not African American, please feel free to read this, however. When you hear Donald Trump wail against immigrants, I hope that you understand that he is also talking about you.
I realize that many African Americans – too many, as far as I am concerned – believe that immigrants from Asia and Latin America are the source of our economic problems. They are not, but I will get to that in a moment. What is more urgent, however, is that we appreciate that what Trump and others are doing is not really crusading against immigrants but crusading against people of color.
Let’s think about this for a moment. Trump attacks Mexicans, quite explicitly, suggesting that they are bringing crime to the U.S. Well, the facts prove otherwise. Immigrants, legal or undocumented, are less likely to be criminals. But let’s stick with this for a moment. If, for the sake of argument, Trump wanted to make a case against immigrants, why does he not once mention Russians? The Russian mafia is known to be among the most dangerous criminal outfits in the U.S.A. So, if we are talking about immigrants bringing in crime, why not the Russians?
There is a very simple reason. The issue with immigrants, for people such as Trump, is not that they are immigrants but that they are immigrants of color. There is a fear among a section of the White population that the U.S. will soon cease to be a predominantly White country and that all hell will break loose. For completely opportunistic reasons they want to enlist you – African Americans – in this battle against immigrants of color.
It does not stop with immigrants of color. Trump is the person who would not let go of his “birther” allegations that President Obama was, allegedly, not born here. This was aimed at suggesting that an African American could not be a legitimate president. Trump continued this, in a pattern with which we are now familiar, irrespective of the facts. These “birther” arguments go hand-in-hand with his anti-immigrant of color stand, i.e., if you are not White, you are – at best – a guest in the U.S.
There is no question but that immigrants have an impact on the job market but what has been going on for centuries is that businesses use new and vulnerable workforces as a way of trying to divide up the larger workforce. One hundred years ago, underpaid African American workers from the South were used accordingly by businesses in the North and Midwest in an attempt to undermine White-dominated unions. Many of these White workers, instead of organizing with Black workers against the antics of the employers, turned on the Black workers as if they were the problem. Trump, et.al., are trying to do the same thing today.
Jobs are not being moved to other countries (or to rural parts of the U.S.) by undocumented workers. They are being moved by businesses that care more about the bottom line than they do the fact that you will be on the unemployment line. Donald Trump is part of that select group that has made this situation possible and thrives while the rest of us fight like crabs in a barrel.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the host of The Global African on Telesur-English. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr.com.
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Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.
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Myrtle Beach man sentenced to 12 years in prison for dealing heroin
by: Braley Dodson
(Source: J. Reuben Long Detention Center) Marcus Dwayne Grissett
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) — A 37-year-old Myrtle Beach man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for distributing heroin last year, according to information released Monday from the United States Attorney District of South Carolina.
Marcus Dwayne Grissett pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute and for distributing heroin, according to authorities, after selling heroin to a confidential informant from the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
On March 28, 2019, Grissett sold 60 individually packed wax slips of heroin to the informant, according to authorities.
He will spend 144 months in prison followed by three years of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
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HomeNewsWatch Korn’s Eerie New “You’ll Never Find Me” Video
Watch Korn’s Eerie New “You’ll Never Find Me” Video
Photo by Brian Ziff
In late June, nu-metal godfathers Korn announced their forthcoming 13th album, The Nothing, and offered up the record’s sleek, dynamic lead single, “You’ll Never Find Me.” Now, the song — which features vocal melodies conceived by singer Jonathan Davis with assistance from Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan — has gotten an spooky, cinematic music video, directed by the band and Andzej Gavriss. The Nothing is available for pre-order now, and is set to drop September 13th via Roadrunner Record/Elektra. Check out the cover art and track listing below.
“Deep, within our Earth lives an extraordinary force,” Davis said of the new album when it was first announced. “Very few are aware of the magnitude and significance of this place where good/evil, dark/light, bliss/torment, loss/gain and hope/despair all exist as one — pulling at us every moment of our lives. It’s not something we can choose to navigate, but rather an awareness of this ‘presence’ that surrounds us with every breath, as if we are being watched at every moment. It’s the place where black and white energies attach themselves to our souls, and shape our emotion, choices, perspective and ultimately our very existence. There is a miraculous and small realm within this vortex and it’s the only place where balance between these dynamic and polarizing forces exists — where the soul finds it refuge. Welcome to … THE NOTHING.”
The Nothing track listing:
1. The End Begins
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7. Finally Free
8. Can You Hear Me
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10. Gravity of Discomfort
11. H@rd3r
12. This Loss
13. Surrender to Failure
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Nairobi city tours excursions daily departure, Nairobi day tour excursions, Nairobi city tours, Nairobi city excursions to Nairobi national park, Karen blixen museum, Giraffe centre and Daphne sheldrick's elephant orphanage
NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK | ANIMAL ORPHANAGE (4 hrs)
Most of us would of course want to go for cheap all inclusive holidays. This is not necessarily a bad thing because there are plenty of great vacations that won't break your budget. One such holiday is going for a trip to see various animals in a park. The Nairobi National Park is a great destination especially for families who want to just have a fun and exciting time together. You and your loved ones willd definitely enjoy seeing the various attractions in this park.
Visit this unique sanctuary just a few kilometres from Nairobi ’s bustling City centre, but despite its proximity over species of mammals that can be found there including four of the big five, a variety of wildlife lies and roams freely in this unique park which covers an area of 44 square miles. Nairobi national park is the oldest of Kenya's National parks and game reserves. It was gazetted in December 1946. the game sanctuary is a glorious stretch of Savannah that is set against the dramatic skyline of Nairobi, the capital City.Its main entrances are merely a stone's throw from the outskirts of the city, thus making Nairobi the only City in the world that borders a natural game protection area.The chief attraction here is the African lion.
Well over one hundred species of mammals mainly plains game have been recorded in this park.The big five are represented except the elephant.
A unique feature of Nairobi national park is that visitors do not have to travel far to view game in their natural habitat.Another unique feature of Nairobi national park that should not be missed is the Animal orphanage.
The tour also includes a visit to the animal orphanage near the main entrance of the park, the orphanage is home to the injured and orphaned young animal, here they are nursed back to health before being released back to the wild.
The park is also ideal for ornithological safaris as four hundred species of birdlife have been recorded.
Full Day Excursion to Karen Blixen Museum, Giraffe centre and Daphne Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage Nairobi.
A Nairobi excursion where you spend a wonderful half day at the historical Karen Blixen museum ( Out of Africa) and with giraffes and baby elephants! Visiting the Giraffe Manor and the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage - The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: A Haven for Elephants and Rhinos.
Karen Blixen Museum
Karen Blixen Museum is located on theoutskirts of Nairobi on Karen road. Its history dates back to 1914, during the First World War, with the arrival of Karen Blixen from Denmark. At the foot of Ngong hills, Karen Blixen established herself as a farmer. After her departure in 1931 the suburbs retained the commemorative home of Karen.
The Karen Blixen museum is one of a number of very interesting regional museums and archeological and prehistoric sites of the National museums of Kenya, and it continues to be an immensely popular tourist attraction with the same words ' I dreamt of Africa'
Drive toward the Ngong Hills to the Karen Blixen Museum.
This museum was originally the home of Karen Blixen, who came to Kenya from Denmark in the early part of this century; the present museum site is at the heart of the larger coffee plantation run by Blixen between 1914 and 1931. The house and surrounding land was donated by the Danish government to Kenya at independence; the house was restored by the Danish government and was used during the filming of Out of Africa, which immortalized Karen Blixen's book by the same name. The Museum was opened to the public in 1986.
Much of the original furniture is on display in the house, and combined with the beautifully landscaped gardens and encompassing view of the Ngong Hills, the Museum has continued to a be very popular destination for international and local visitors.
The original kitchen has been restored and is now open for viewing. A Dove Stove similar to the one used by Blixen is on display, as are other period kitchen utensils. Reconstruction of the coffee factory as an additional attraction is underway and other early farm machinery is also on display, depicting the early settler life in Kenya.
Later proceed to the Giraffe Centre to see and feed the famous Rothschild giraffe.
The Giraffe Center is a non-profit organization founded by Betty and Jock Leslie-Melville in 1979. Situated in Langata, just 20 km outside Nairobi City Center, the Center is dedicated to educating the Kenyan youth in conservation of the environment and the preservation of endangered wildlife and their habitats.
The Center is home to endangered Rothschild giraffes, only found in the semi-arid regions of Africa where trees and bushes are plentiful. They live to be about thirty years old and their main enemy is man, who kills them for their meat and hide. Their main defense is their keen eyesight, running speed (up to 35 mph) and their powerful kicks. The conservation of the Rothschild became necessary following the destruction of their natural habitat in Western Kenya and their slaughter in Uganda during Gen. Iddi Amin's era.
There are over 500 Rothschild giraffes in Kenya today including seven at the Center. Their conservation is a success story in Kenya and the world.
The Giraffe center also home to the leopard, tortoise and boasts over a hundred acres of undeveloped and undisturbed indigenous forest, the remnant of the natural forest that once surrounded Nairobi.The forest is an extension of the type occurring in the adjacent Nairobi National Park and the Langata Ololua forests, which have identical tree species. The forest also has an impressive variety of bird species, which can be viewed throughout the year.
The giraffe center is a wonderful and refreshing experience to enjoy as an excursion while in Nairobi. The tour gives a completely up close and personal interaction where guests have the opportunity to view giraffes as well as feed them.
personal interaction where guests have the opportunity to view giraffes as well as feed them.kiss them,touch them- just a great feeling!!!!!.
Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
David Sheldrick Elephant orphanage where you come close to elephant calves! Daphne Sheldrick As part of the David Sheldrick Conservation Foundation rehabilitates baby elephants and other wildlife here at her home just outside of Nairobi National Park. These babies have lost their mothers to poaching, death, injuries, on getting lost in the wild or other tragedies. Daphne and her dedicated staff raise them to be released back into the wild when they are ready. Its worth visiting and see humanitarian care to the wildlife and the heart it takes to care. They charge a small entrance fees instead you can buy a souvenir or donate for the conservation.
Giraffe centre AFEW (African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Ltd)
The Giraffe Manor Africa's pride of international celebrity. Since its founders, Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville, rescued a baby giraffe named Daisy from a heavily-poached area of western Kenya in 1974, their home has become a household name among wildlife lovers world-wide - and Daisy a star in her own right.
Today, Daisy's home has been opened to the world - and provides what is
felt is the very best place to begin or end your safari or if in a conference or transit it worth coming close to wildlife from the bustle of the city where you feed giraffes with your own hands and have the closest touch.Other animals includes the tortoise, warthog and a parrot.
*Pick up at the hotel or airport
*Sheldrick Orphanage: 11am-12pm
*Giraffe center: 12pm -1:30pm
*Karen Blixen Museum: 1:.30 -3pm
*Rate includes - Transport / all entrance fees
( Optional Lunch at Carnivore restaurant for US$ 45 ).
Minimum Rate per person US$ 110
BOMAS OF KENYA EXCURSIONS (3 hrs)
A drive to the Bomas of Kenya situated off Langata Road 15kms from the city centre. This is an amazing set up that offers you a first hand experience of the culture and lifestyle of many of Kenya's tribal groups.
Enjoy the rich traditional dances, villages and handicrafts displayed at the Bomas of Kenya.and view numerous homesteads reflecting Kenya ’s cocktail of cultures which have been faithfully re-created for visitors to see traditional village life. But the greatest excitement during the afternoon is a visit to the display of traditional dancing music and folklore songs performed in splendid arena.
Minimum Rate per person US$ 50
LUNCH / DINNER AT CARNIVORE RESTAURANT - The Carnivore - 2 hrs
The Carnivore Meat Eater's Experience ( Eating out for Dinner or Lunch in Nairobi )
Book for Dinner / Lunch In Nairobi
The Carnivore is considered 'Africa’s Greatest Eating Experience'. This open-air meat speciality restaurant has strikingly different food, service and atmosphere to anything ever seen in Kenya. Every type of meat imaginable, including four choices of wild game, are roasted on traditional Maasai swords over a huge, visually spectacular charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant. The waiters then carry these swords around the restaurant, carving unlimited amounts of the prime meats onto sizzling, cast iron plates in front of you. A wide selection of salads, vegetable side dishes, and a variety of exotic sauces accompany the meat feast. Dessert and coffee follow this. The full meal including a soup course is at a set price.
The Carnivore is also the home of the Simba Saloon, Nairobi's most popular nightclub and disco. The informal outdoor atmosphere, exceptional snacks and outstanding entertainment ensure a vibrant and exciting night out.
Guaranteed daily at 12.30 p.m and 7.00 p.m.Nairobi has many restaurants offering varieties of cuisines.We recommend a dinner or lunch at the carnivore which is famous for the succulent stew and barbecue dishes of the Game meat as an excellent welcome or farewell dinner.
Carnivore Restaurant Lunch/Dinner time table is as follows:
Lunch-1230hrs -14.00hrs
Dinner18.30hrs to 2130hrs
Drop off to Nairobi airport extra is 25 USD
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Citizenship concerns remain as immigration agency reopens
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by: PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
New citizens are sworn in while observing social distancing, outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Lawrence, Mass. The federal agency is resuming services in many cities across the country after being shuttered for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — For Albert Baraka, the ceremony outside the federal immigration office in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was brief, but the change was a lifetime.
The 20-year-old, who came to the country six years ago as a refugee from Congo, joined nine others Thursday morning to recite the oath of allegiance, the final, ceremonial step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
A junior studying business management at Norwich University, a private military college in Vermont, he said he’s looking forward to being able to cast his very first ballot this election.
“In these hard times, it’s a blessing,” Baraka said, standing with his mother, who became a citizen earlier this year, and his younger sister. “Voting is the most important thing for me now because I feel like it’s important to choose wisely in who you want to be your leader, and to speak out on what you believe in.”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is charged with overseeing the nation’s legal immigration system, resumed in-person services in many cities across the country Thursday after closing offices mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The agency conducted naturalization ceremonies in small groups and allowed limited, in-person visits for interviews, biometric intakes and other immigration matters. In Massachusetts, Baraka was among more than 100 people to officially became a U.S. citizen outside the Lawrence office.
But immigrant rights groups say the agency still hasn’t come up with an efficient plan to get through the backlog of people already approved to become citizens but had oath ceremonies cancelled in recent months because of the pandemic.
More than 100,000 people nationwide are impacted, and thousands of them each day risk running out of time to become an American citizen before the presidential election, according to Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based tech company that helps immigrants through the citizenship process.
Registration deadlines for primary elections are approaching in a number of states this summer, and would-be voters must be citizens when they register or risk facing criminal charges or even deportation, Boundless and immigrant rights groups have said.
USCIS, which has said it needs $1.2 billion in emergency fundingjust to avoid insolvency because of pandemic-related economic shutdowns, said reopened field offices are sending out notices to applicants to reschedule their cancelled ceremonies.
“A key aim of this agency has been and continues to be the timely naturalization of qualified and vetted candidates for American citizenship, any suggestion to the contrary ignores an 11-year high in naturalizations last year and a 12% reduction in pending naturalizations,” spokesman Joe Sowers said in a statement Thursday.
In Massachusetts, meanwhile, local immigrant rights groups have asked the federal court to intervene.
More than 4,000 people in the state have been denied the ability to vote because of the delayed ceremonies, a number that will swell to more than 12,000 if oath ceremonies are not consistently conducted before the fall, Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and other organizations said in a letter to the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on Wednesday.
The Boston court should consider holding virtual ceremonies online, or at least host larger outdoor ceremonies than USCIS is currently offering, the organizations said. If not, the court should waive the oath requirement entirely.
Sameer Ahmed, a clinical instructor with the Harvard Law School program, said coming up with a plan to handle the ceremonies is critical in the event a resurgence of COVID-19 prompts further economic shutdowns.
USCIS has said federal law requires people to take their oath “publicly” and “in person” and that key parts of the ceremony can’t be done virtually, such as collecting permanent resident cards and issuing citizenship certificates.
The current plan in Massachusetts calls for USCIS to swear in 80 to 200 new citizens a day, starting with Thursday’s small group ceremonies in Lawrence, a predominantly Latino city along the New Hampshire state line, according to Judge Dennis Saylor, chief justice of the Boston federal court. USCIS’s Boston office will follow suit Monday, he said.
Then, around mid-July, when the state enters the next phase of its economic restart, the Boston federal court will hold about four ceremonies each day with up to 25 people in each group, according to Saylor. That should clear the backlog of citizenship cases by at least early August.
“Every single judge of this court views this as a priority,” he said. “If I have to stand outside in a parking lot with a bullhorn to get it done, I’d do it. But it’s more complicated than that.”
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Pope: Migrants are people, not just a social issue
Posted: Jul 8, 2019 / 06:04 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 8, 2019 / 07:02 AM CDT
The Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans’ Alex migrant rescue ship carrying 46 migrants rescued off Libya coasts, docks in the port of Lampedusa, Sicily island, Italy, Saturday, July 6, 2019. Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has barred all private rescue ships from entering Italian ports. He pointed to an offer from Malta to accept the migrants from the Italian-flagged ship. (Elio Desiderio/ANSA via AP)
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has prayed for migrants in a special Mass, saying they are people and not just a social issue.
The Mass, celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday, marked the sixth anniversary of the pope’s visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on July 8, 2013.
Francis had been pope for only four months when he made the surprise visit, his first pastoral visit outside Rome.
The island, halfway between Sicily and the North African coast, has become one of the main European points of entry for migrants and refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
The pope said “they are persons. These are not mere social or migrant issues. They are the symbol of all those rejected by today’s globalized society.”
by CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press / Jan 15, 2021
MEXICO CITY (AP) — One day after Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was dropping the drug trafficking case against its former defense secretary, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” the accusations against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos.
López Obrador said there was a lack of professionalism in the U.S. investigation and suggested that there could have been political motivations behind U.S. authorities' arrest of Cienfuegos at Los Angeles International Airport in October, noting that the investigation had been ongoing for years, but the arrest came shortly before U.S. presidential elections.
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Students sue Georgia’s university system over tuition, fees
University System of Georgia(WRDW)
Published: Dec. 2, 2020 at 9:35 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) — Students who took online classes at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology due to the pandemic are now seeking a return of some tuition and fees.
The students filed two class-action lawsuits this week, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. They say they didn’t get the full educational experience they anticipated when they paid their tuition and fees.
A representative of the University System of Georgia says the institution does not discuss pending litigation and declined comment. The system oversees operations at the two schools and Georgia’s other public colleges and universities and is a defendant in the lawsuits.
The lawsuits are similar to others which have been filed against colleges and universities across the nation.
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Paris Rulebook: Common Time Frames
Navigating the Paris Agreement Rulebook:
In the run-up to the Paris Agreement’s creation, over 180 countries submitted their first climate plans, known as intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) which become nationally determined contributions (NDCs) once countries formally joined the Agreement. However, the end-dates of these plans are different: some cover the period through 2025, while others run through 2030. Most NDCs also did not specify the beginning date that they were covering. As part of the Paris Rulebook negotiations, countries grappled with three key questions: 1) whether future NDCs should all cover the same time frame, 2) if so, starting when, and 3) the length of the common time frame.
Key Rulebook Decisions from COP24
Ultimately, in Katowice countries were only able to decide whether and from when common time frames should apply. Countries agreed that the NDCs implemented beginning in 2031 should have common time frames.
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Countries could not agree on the length of the common time frame. This means that we still do not know whether an NDC submitted in 2025 would have an end date in 2035 or 2040, or whether one submitted in 2030 would have an end date in 2040 or 2045, etc. Negotiations have focused on three main options: a five-year implementing period, a 10-year implementing period, and a compromise option known as 5+5.
The five-year implementing period requires that countries update their targets regularly and ensures that countries re-evaluate their contributions every five years. The 10-year time frame may allow more time for planning and implementation but could also lock in high-emitting infrastructure that would make it more challenging to limit global temperatures in the long term. The 5+5 approach would require countries to use a five-year time frame but would also encourage them to communicate tentative 10-year targets so that the necessary planning processes can prepare for their implementation.
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As US Election Day Nears, Both Support & Controversy for Maryland Sports Wagering
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Maryland Sports Betting
Larry Gibbs - October 12, 2020
Besides deciding a next President, Maryland voters will cast an opinion on sports wagering
Like all US state wagering bills, the message comes with significant political support
A lobbyist group has thrown a bit of late controversy into the mix for potential passage
Deciding a US President will not be the only interesting issue to be decided for Marylanders in the upcoming November 3rd election.
Two members of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee sit on opposite sides emphasizing their support for the initiative on the election day ballot that would legalize sports betting in Maryland. The issue is focusing on highlighting potential economic gains and downplaying potential negative consequences.
As stated to the voters as Question 2 it states “Do you approve the expansion of commercial gaming in the State of Maryland to authorize sports and events betting for the primary purpose of raising revenue for education?”
A vote for the stated referral would authorize the General Assembly to create guidelines for licensing and establishing rules for sports wagering. Voting against the referral would keep sports wagering illegal in the state for the time being. At present, Maryland has 15 licensed casinos with a history of voting for slot machines in 2008 and then table games in 2012.
Political Support
Like any other bill, building support has come from some influential political forces who have both introduced legislation and continued pushing for its path to voters saying Yes.
Senator Cory McCray (D-Baltimore City) told MarylandReporter.com “I’m a supporter of Question 2, I think that it’s supposed to bring in about $20 million worth of revenue”.
Those sentiments were also echoed by Senator Johnny Ray Salling(R-Baltimore County), who is running for Congress in the Second District. “The good thing about this is it’s going to benefit our state for education, which we continue to need because of the lack of money for basic needs…old buildings, old schools…if we can get this financing it’s just more help through the state and it can literally be divided up through the counties to help that out.”
McCray and Salling also pointed out that resources are readily available for people who struggle with gambling addiction. “There are a number of programs that are out there in reference to sports betting,” McCray said. “It’s revenue that we’re leaving on the table. Other states have already started to move in this direction. We don’t want Maryland to move in an uncompetitive direction.”
In translation, that means the ancillary sports wagering revenue that has been developed over the past 12-24 for months for neighboring states New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and now Washington DC.
Controversial Bump
Some controversy has accompanied the road to passage for supporters as a few large gambling companies have spent more than $2 million trying to persuade Maryland voters to approve sports wagering, according to recent campaign finance reports.
It was mentioned according to a report last Friday that DraftKings Sportsbook and FanDuel, two online betting companies that stand to profit off sports wagering, have approximately $486,000 remaining of $2.75 million they have invested into a group called “Vote Yes on Question 2,”.
Most of the funding has gone into television, radio, and online advertising plus direct mail campaigns. The group’s account was started in July 2020 with $250K invested from DraftKings Sportsbook. In the past two months, DraftKings Sportsbook funded another $1M with FanDuel contributing $1.5M.
Timing has also caused onlookers as the state’s casinos and the Maryland Jockey Club have been offering free onsite advertising, social media, and mailings in favor of sports wagering in the name of “Fund Our Future”. The practice has taken place during the state’s busy Preakness period. According to the report filed, the group has contributed $32,300 to Fund Our Future but little has been spent.
As an example, the casinos have been making “in-kind” contributions, meaning they are offering work on behalf of the group at no cost. That has included advertising, media, and free signs at N/C for the Preakness event.
Approaching the question on the state’s ballot in approximately three weeks, it will now be up to the Maryland voters to decide.
Looking Into the Future and the New “Sports Betting Video Game”
It has been challenging deciding which headline the past few weeks will have the largest impact upon the US sports wagering industry forecasting the near future.
Larry Gibbs
Updated Bill for Sports Wagering Sent Back to the Legislative Starting Gate in Kentucky
Kentucky has revamped legislative efforts to pursue sports wagering for the state in 2021.
Indiana Scores New Sports Wagering Record in December Topping $300M Mark
Indiana topped the $300 million plateau for the first time, increasing their wagering handle by almost 25% from November.
Expert on Sports Betting Industry
Larry Gibbs is both a seasoned journalist and a respected online gaming industry consultant. His wry commentary & sharp analysis have appeared in numerous top gaming and sports wagering publications. He has also served as Vice President of US Gaming Services, a marketing research organization with 15 years of experience in US online wagering. He has spoken at noted gaming industry conferences including G2E, GiGSE, and NCLGS.
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Comptroller Warns: Don't Confuse $5b Windfall With a Surplus
By Karen DeWitt • Dec 1, 2014
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NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli speaks to reporters at the State Capitol Monday.
The State Comptroller says the $5 billion dollars in extra money that New York is reaping from the bank settlements should not be viewed as a surplus, and should not be spent as though there will be more money coming in the future.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says the $5 billion dollar plus pot of money due to settlements with banks and other financial institutions over alleged wrongdoing in the Wall Street crash should not be looked at as a budget surplus.
“I wouldn’t call it a surplus,” Di Napoli said. “It’s really more a windfall.”
And so, the Comptroller says, it should not be used for recurring expenses, like tax cuts or increased school aid, as some legislators have suggested.
“If you use some of that money for school aid today, you’re going to have a hole down the road,” the Comptroller warned. “You’ll just get back to creating out -year budget gaps, which caused so many of our problems in past years.”
According to the Comptroller’s projections, the state still has a structural deficit of nearly $2 billion dollars for the upcoming budget year, though Governor Cuomo has promised to hold spending increases to below 2% to prevent that from happening.
Cuomo and legislative leaders have all said they want the $5 billion dollars to be kept separate from the budget and placed in an infrastructure fund. DiNapoli says that would be a “smart” use of the money. He says it could also be used to pay down the state’s high debt, or to create a trust fund to pay for retiree health insurance costs.
The governor and lawmakers have not yet defined what exactly they mean by infrastructure. Projects range from economic development aid for troubled regions, to funding the $4 billion dollar new Tappan Zee Bridge on the New York State Thruway over the Hudson River. Governor Cuomo has not yet detailed how he will pay for the bridge, which is already under construction. Comptroller DiNapoli, who has had an increasingly tense relationship with the governor, criticized Cuomo for not being more forthcoming.
“That is a key missing piece,” Di Napoli said. “We should have had that information already.”
The Comptroller is currently auditing the Cuomo Administration’s contracts with advertising firms that were paid millions of dollars in state funds to air ads promoting New York’s Open for Business campaign, and a tax abatement program to attract new start- up businesses. Critics, including Cuomo’s opponent in the 2014 elections, says the ads were political in nature and aimed at boosting the incumbents governor’s standing.
The Comptroller would not say whether he thinks the ads were an appropriate use of taxpayer money.
The Comptroller says he does not expect that the audit will be completed before the end of the year, but he says it will be ready soon.
“Stay tuned,” he said.
The Comptroller also opined on talk of a pay raise for state lawmakers, who currently earn a base salary of $79,500 per year.
The State Comptroller says a commission should be set up to evaluate whether New York lawmakers should get a salary increase next year. He says instead of state lawmakers voting later this month to raise their own pay beginning in January, they should instead let an independent body make that decision.
“It would make the most sense to have a commission or someone take a look at that question, it’s probably something that should have been done a long time ago,” said DiNapoli, who says it’s preferable to resolving the matter in an end of the year “horse trading” session.
There’s been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.
DiNapoli was previously an Assemblyman for several years. He says it’s been a long time since legislators have had a pay increase, the last was in 1999, so it’s “not an unreasonable area of discussion”.
Governor Cuomo and the legislature have not yet decided whether to hold a special session, if they do it will need to happen soon, by mid December
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Distillery status: Operational
Bottles Produced: 600
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About the distillery
Glenfarclas is a Speyside whisky distillery in Ballindalloch, Scotland. Glenfarclas translates as meaning valley of the green grass. The distillery is owned and run by the Grant family. The distillery has six stills which are heated directly by gas burners.
The distillery has a production capacity of around 3.5 million litres of spirit per year. Normally four stills are used for production with two kept in reserve.
The distillery has approximately 68,000 casks maturing on site, in traditional dunnage warehouses, with stock from every year from 1953 to the current year. Glenfarclas produce a traditional Highland malt with a heavy sherry influence.
This is part of the Scottish Classic series in celebration of the third millennium.
There are 30 different illustrations in this series designed by three Scottish artist's with only 600 bottles worldwide.
One of only 600 bottles and this is bottle number 160.
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Girl, 7, raises alarm after family killed in plane crash
Marty Gutzler, 48, and his wife Kimberly Gutzler, 46, died in the crash. Photo: Facebook
by Ben Tufft
5th Jan 2015 7:02 AM
SAILOR Gutzler, the seven-year-old "miracle" girl who survived a plane crash in Kentucky and walked almost a mile barefoot in freezing conditions to raise the alarm, used survival skills passed on by her dad to reach safety.
She was the sole survivor of the crash that killed her parents, sister and cousin and is now being looked after by her grandparents.
Using techniques learnt from her dad, Sailor lit a stick from the flames of her family's small Piper PA-34 aircraft to help guide her through the woods after the plane crashed in Lyon Country, Kentucky on Friday.
She crossed two embankments and a river creek in darkness and near freezing temperatures, before she reached the house of Larry Wilkins, about three-quarters of a mile from the crash site.
Mr Wilkins, 71, who immediately phoned the police, said that Sailor was trembling, bloodied and wearing summer clothes when he opened his door to her.
The scene of the plane crash (NBC News)
"I come to the door and there's a little girl, seven years old, bloody nose, bloody arms, bloody legs, one sock, no shoes, crying," he said.
"She told me that her mom and dad were dead, and she had been in a plane crash, and the plane was upside down.
"Brave little girl, outstanding little girl," he added. "I feel real bad for her."
In a statement, released by their lawyer, the family said: "We are devastated by this loss, but are confident that they rest in God's loving arms. We ask that you respect our privacy at this difficult time. Please pray for us, especially for Sailor Gutzler."
Kentucky State Police Lieutenant Brent White said that the girl had a broken wrist, but appeared coherent and calm when interviewed.
He described the terrain Sailor had to traverse to reach Mr Wilkins's house as heavily wooded with thick brush.
"She literally fell out of the sky into a dark hole and didn't have anybody but her own will to live and get help for her family," he said, "Absolutely amazing."
Sailor was taken to Lourdes hospital in Parducah, Kentucky for treatment and was released on Saturday morning.
Sailor's parents Marty Gutzler, 48, and his wife Kimberly Gutzler, 46, sister Piper Gutzler, 9, and cousin Sierra Wilder, 14, all died in the crash.
They were returning from holiday in Florida to their home in Nashville, Illinois.
"It's a miracle in a sense that she survived it, but it's tragic that four others didn't," Sergeant Dean Patterson of Kentucky State Police said.
Mr Gutzler, who was flying the aircraft was an experienced pilot who had been piloting light aircraft since he was 16 and taught as a flight instructor. He had made the Florida to Illinois flight, "many, many times" a family friend told NBC News.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials said that the plane had reported engine problems shortly before it lost contact with air traffic controllers just before 6pm local time.
Police received a phone call from Mr Wilkins about 30 minutes after the plane lost radio contact to report the crash and Sailor's survival.
The plane had taken off from Tallahassee in Florida and was bound for Mount Vernon, Illinois.
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Potters Bar lifesavers boat feat
Paul Christian
Published: 2:56 PM October 1, 2010 Updated: 8:10 PM November 3, 2020
LANDLOCKED Potters Bar is the unlikely home of a crack team of sea rescuers.
On Saturday, four members of Potters Bar Lifesaving Club reached the semi-finals of the British Inshore Rescue Boat Championships organised by the Surf Lifesaving Association of Great Britain.
At the event, in Bournemouth, Alistair Strong, Richard Pingram, Cameron Hart and Ryan Houldsworth competed against teams from eight other clubs in several events.
The scenarios were designed to demonstrate speed and skill in rescuing casualties from the sea, using Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) standard Arancia inflatable rescue boats fitted with powerful outboard motors.
Driver Alistair had to race down the beach to where his crewman, Richard, was steadying the boat, start the engine, and power the craft over the waves to save ‘casualties’ Cameron and Ryan, who were in the sea some distance from the shore.
One event simulated rescues in hazardous locations such as rocks, where the boat would not be able to come close to the casualty.
Richard had to dive in, swim to the casualty and tow them back to the boat.
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Alistair then piloted the boat back to the beach as quickly as possible, racing to get back before the other teams.
The standard of competition was very high and the eight other clubs entered a total of 24 teams in the various events.
Potters Bar was the only team not based on the coast and, therefore, without the opportunity for regular practice in the surf.
The team was “delighted” to reach the semi-finals in all three competitions they entered, demonstrating that good training, fitness and enthusiasm can achieve great results.
The club meets every Tuesday at the Furzefield Centre in Potters Bar, and trains people of all ages from 11 upwards in lifesaving and lifeguarding skills leading to qualifications recognised by the Royal Lifesaving Society and the Surf Lifesaving Association of Great Britain.
A spokesman said: “As an inland club, it is unusual in owning its own inshore rescue boat and there are regular training trips to the south coast and Cornwall to learn and hone surf lifesaving skills.”
• Anyone interested in learning more about the club can contact Carl Goulding, the chief coach, on 07970 336668, or just turn up at Furzefield pool on a Tuesday evening at 8pm.
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Carmen Sandiego (TV series)
For other uses, see Carmen Sandiego (disambiguation).
Mystery-Drama
by Broderbund
Jos Humphrey
Kenny Park
Voices of
Abby Trott
Michael Hawley
Theme music composer
Jared Lee Gosselin
"Carmen Sandiego"
performed by Raquel Castro
Steve D'Angelo
Lorenzo Castelli
C.J. Kettler
Anne Loi
Kirsten Newlands
Brian Hulme
WildBrain Studios[a]
HMH Productions
I Can & I Will Productions
January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18) –
January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
Carmen Sandiego is a Canadian-American animated action-adventure streaming television series with educational elements, based on the media franchise of the same name created by Broderbund. The series is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with WildBrain serving as the production company, and contains a "serialized look at Carmen’s backstory that is told from her perspective".[1] Serving as an origin story for the fictional thieving villain of the same name, it is the fourth Carmen Sandiego television show after the PBS game shows Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, and the Fox animated series Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?; it is also the first Carmen Sandiego show since the end of Where on Earth in 1999.
The series sees many characters drawn from the franchise's 35-year history: Carmen Sandiego herself who debuted in the original World video game; The Chief who took her current form in the World game show; Player, Zack, and Ivy who featured in the Earth animated series, Chase Devineaux who debuted in Word Detective, and Julia Argent who featured in Treasures of Knowledge.
The first season was released on January 18, 2019 on Netflix.[2] A second season was released on October 1, 2019.[3] A third season was renewed in an announcement on April 24, 2020[4] and was released on October 1.[5] On October 2, 2020, it was announced that it was renewed for a fourth season, which was later announced to be the final season, which was released on January 15, 2021.[6][7]
An interactive special, titled Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal, was released on March 10, 2020.[8]
2.2 A.C.M.E.
2.3 V.I.L.E.
2.3.1 The Faculty
2.3.2 Operatives
2.3.3 Former
3.1 Season 1 (2019)
3.3 Special (2020)
5.1 Pre-release
5.2 Post-release
5.3 Awards and nominations
Carmen is a modern-day Robin Hood, traveling the globe, stealing from V.I.L.E. and giving back to its victims. Cloaked in red, she is accompanied by her hacker Player, and her best friends Zack and Ivy. Carmen is publicly perceived as a criminal by most law enforcement agencies – or actually, make that a master criminal due to the sheer scale and theatricality of her heists. We will follow her escapades and get to determine not only where in the world but “who” is Carmen Sandiego?[9]
A recurring theme is that both V.I.L.E. and A.C.M.E. make mistaken assumptions about Carmen's actions.
In season 2, Carmen seeks answers about her past, while V.I.L.E. attempts to keep their finances from plummeting even further into the red; the Faculty attempt to find a new fifth member as well. Thanks to Julia's encouragement, Carmen and the Chief make a loose alliance to take down V.I.L.E.
In season 3, Carmen has been off the grid for weeks upon months, looking for clues to her mother. Julia quits A.C.M.E., after Chief has become too blinded by distrust toward Carmen, for stealing Intel on her father from them, to see that she isn't stealing from anyone. V.I.L.E. sets up base in Scotland, sending new agents, specifically trained to capture Carmen, after her; once both they and A.C.M.E. discover her latest whereabouts.
In season 4, after several failed attempts to claim gold, including the lost hidden treasures stolen by the past generations of the organization, V.I.L.E. has been pushed to its limits and they start using robot operatives but the facility used to make the robots gets destroyed by Carmen. Ultimately, they eventually capture and brainwashed her into becoming pure evil, who then quickly rebuilds their funds and gains the Faculty's favor. However, Graham helps A.C.M.E. bring the real Carmen back, while selling out V.I.L.E. in the process. Carmen finally tracks down and meets her mother and Shadowsan retires, while Zack and Ivy join A.C.M.E. in crime fighting. For two years since the downfall of V.I.L.E., A.C.M.E. chases down the leftover V.I.L.E. members, with the occasional help from Carmen.
Carmen Sandiego / 'Black Sheep' (voiced by Gina Rodriguez) – The eponymous protagonist and heroine seeking to dissolve V.I.L.E. and donate their stolen funds to humanitarian causes (the proceeds go through Carmen's charity Black Sheep Inc, as subtle taunt to V.I.L.E.); this Carmen is notably different than previous incarnations, who were leaders of V.I.L.E. and lady thieves. The story she knew was that she was found as an abandoned baby on the roadside of Buenos Aires, Argentina 20 years ago. At a young age, she used to be a student at V.I.L.E. Academy until she left when she didn't want to take the life of anyone who gets in her way after stowing away on a mission and seeing what really goes on in V.I.L.E. She takes her name from the brand name tag in the hat she used in her escape disguise. She is also nicknamed "Carm" by Zack & Ivy and "Red" by Player. By the end of the second season, Carmen learns of her true heritage as the daughter of former V.I.L.E. Faculty Member Dexter Wolfe, who was killed by the mysterious Chief of A.C.M.E. during an ambush by Interpol and assassination attempt by V.I.L.E. and that her mother may still be alive, thus making it her new secondary objective to find her mother.
Player (voiced by Finn Wolfhard) – A white-hat hacker from Niagara Falls, Ontario who helps Carmen plan her heist, gives her intel about the places she visits, and keeps her updated on the local authorities and any possibilities she may have missed; Player is inspired by the live-action character of the same name from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, who in turn is a reference to people playing the video games—this version, however, has met Carmen in person at least once, as he has the stolen V.I.L.E. drive which he uses to plan out Carmen's trips to the caches of V.I.L.E.'s stolen goods. He cares for Carmen as a friend, and helps Shadowsan uncover The Chief's identity. In Season 4, his last name is revealed to be Bouchard.
Zack (voiced by Michael Hawley) and Ivy (voiced by Abby Trott) – Twin siblings from South Boston helping Carmen after they met during a Donut shop heist which was a V.I.L.E. front; they are inspired by the A.C.M.E. detectives of the same names from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, voiced by Scott Menville and Jennifer Hale respectively. Ivy, the older of the two, often runs interference for Carmen, either through disguises or her engineering skills; she also is much more well-read than Zack, who habitually makes mistakes about their discoveries and is less experienced with going undercover (almost giving himself away when tricking the Countess), hence why he more often serves as Carmen's wheelman/getaway driver.
Shadowsan / Suhara (voiced by Paul Nakauchi; main – season 2) – A Japanese master thief, skilled swordsman, assassin, and a former-member of the Faculty of V.I.L.E. teaching stealth and covert thievery. He gave a test where students had to find and steal a dollar from his coat when Carmen was still in school, and emptied his coat so she wouldn't be able to find the dollar, which caused Carmen's need to outdo Tigress. In the season one finale, Shadowsan revealed that he was really on Carmen's side all her life, and that he was the one who found her in Argentina when she was a baby. He emptied his coat in order to protect her from joining V.I.L.E. He is a secret member of Carmen's team as well, providing her with a new drive on V.I.L.E.'s financial data at the end of the season. By season 2, his betrayal is revealed and he becomes an enemy of V.I.L.E. while helping Carmen foil their plans. In the Daishō Caper, his real name is revealed to be Suhara, having stolen his katana from his brother decades earlier and regretting the life he chose. In the season 2 finale, he reveals to Carmen that he was sent to kill her father Dexter Wolfe, a.k.a. The Wolf, a V.I.L.E. Faculty member, but witnessed his death by Tamara Fraser who then became Chief of A.C.M.E. He joins Carmen's search to find her mother, who went into hiding just before Wolfe's death. While he's not stated it, Shadowsan sees Carmen's team as family. In the 1994 animated series, Suhara was the name of a great Japanese detective who mentored Carmen when she was an A.C.M.E. agent.
A.C.M.E.[edit]
A.C.M.E. (short for Agency to Classify & Monitor Evildoers) is the secret law enforcement agency that often combats V.I.L.E. and the anti-heroes of the series. In this iteration, they seek out finding proof leading to the dissolution of the criminal organization through the means of finding and capturing Carmen and her crew for intel on them.
The Chief / Tamara Fraser (voiced by Dawnn Lewis) – Head of A.C.M.E. and supervises all of the organization; she is inspired by the Chief from the PBS game shows, played by the late Lynne Thigpen. She has only appeared via hologram in most of the series, but believes Carmen may be a lead to helping A.C.M.E. prove the existence and downfall of V.I.L.E. By the end of season 2, it is revealed that her name is Tamara Fraser, and that she was the one who killed Carmen's father, Dexter Wolfe, the night she was taken in by Shadowsan; it's possible that due to her error in judgement that caused Wolfe's death, The Chief does not tolerate incompetence and issues agents with capture only gear, despite her own assumptions about and eventually mistaken obsession with Carmen. The Chief has also been obsessed in her pursuit of finding evidence on V.I.L.E.'s existence ever since killing Wolfe, for as yet unknown motivations.
Chase Devineaux (voiced by Rafael Petardi) – A French Interpol inspector turned A.C.M.E. recruit. He, along with Julia, is one of the only two agents to get close enough to see Carmen's face. He is arrogant, pompous, and constantly over-estimating his own abilities. By the end of the first season, Chase is put into mental strain caused by a device Brunt and Shadowsan used to force him to answer their questions. In season 2, after waking up from his coma, he provides a lead but is dismissed and returned to Interpol with a desk job, only to be fired for going off the grid in pursuit of Carmen and finds the Isle of V.I.L.E. only after it was destroyed. By the season 2 finale, A.C.M.E. rehires him after Carmen steals from their databanks. At the end of Season 3, Chase realized Julia was right about Carmen; he decides to help her stop V.I.L.E. subtly.
Julia Argent (voiced by Charlet Chung) – An Interpol agent turned A.C.M.E. recruit, Chase's partner and opposite: she usually does the logistics and fact finding that Chase would otherwise overlook or disregard; is more highly intelligent, competent and perceptive; and is the most open to believing Carmen is instead stealing from other thieves—this is explicit and given the option of exploitation in the interactive episode To Steal or Not to Steal (it is even suggested that she may have feelings for Carmen, and vice versa); and in season 2, she in fact actively tries to recruit Carmen as an A.C.M.E. agent despite being undermined by the Chief's focus to outright arrest Carmen to gain intel on V.I.L.E. She, along with Chase Devineaux, is one of the only two officers to get close enough to see Carmen's face. She is also the only A.C.M.E. agent to visibly keep her job for the whole of both seasons until season 3, when she quit due to the Chief's mistaken assumptions with Carmen.
Zari (voiced by Sharon Muthu; main – season 2) – A longtime pursuant of Carmen Sandiego's, who becomes Argent's partner in season 2. While focused and efficient, her loyalty is shown to lie with the Chief and not her partner, as seen in Stockholm when her team swarmed Carmen in talks with Argent to secure loyalty after Zari realized she was following a decoy (Ivy). She is later partnered with Devineaux in season 3.
V.I.L.E.[edit]
V.I.L.E., short for Villains' International League of Evil (undercover as Valuable Imports, Lavish Exports) is a shadowy international criminal organization of thieves and the main antagonists of the series. They make their headquarters on one of the Canary Islands and use the academy there to train their new recruits for a one-year semester. As of the end of Season 2, V.I.L.E. Island was destroyed after the V.I.L.E. Faculty believed that A.C.M.E. had found their location. V.I.L.E. was then relocated to a castle in Scotland in Season 3.
The Faculty[edit]
A council of five masterminds who are the leaders of V.I.L.E., the instructors of V.I.L.E. Academy and the primary antagonists of the series and who Carmen considered the only family she knew before betraying them. They each have equal authority, and reach decisions by a majority vote; thus they ensure an odd number is always present.
Professor Gunnar Maelstrom (voiced by Liam O'Brien) – A Norwegian psychiatrist and teacher of psychological manipulation. Sinister and quite psychotic, often the classic Machiavellian type villain and coming off as creepy to the V.I.L.E. graduates and faculty. Unlike his 1994 series counterpart, he is part of V.I.L.E. itself, often acts as the leader, a mediator and head spokesperson for the faculty as a group.
Coach Brunt (voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) – A Texan coach and teacher of combat and physical training. She was Carmen's favorite teacher, and the two had soft spots for each other. Carmen always thought that Coach Brunt was the one who found her, so the two shared a good relationship. Brunt, like the other faculty members, was quite upset over Carmen's betrayal. However, it seems that Carmen still has a soft spot for Coach Brunt. This is thought when Carmen gets altitude sickness and mistakes Dr. Pilar as Coach Brunt, saying that she always knew it was Coach Brunt who found her as a baby (however, that honor is revealed to go to Shadowsan).
Countess Cleo (voiced by Toks Olagundoye) – An Egyptian wealthy debutant and teacher of culture, class, and forgery, possibly a reference to the Contessa, a recurring villain from the World gameshow. She seems to not really care that much about Carmen, and always tries to use her etiquette lessons to get rid of Carmen's rebellious streak. Her crimes deal with obtaining fine art and fashion which she keeps for short periods before selling them off.
Dr. Saira Bellum (voiced by Sharon Muthu) – An Indian mad scientist and V.I.L.E.'s master inventor; teacher of technology and science and much like her 1994 animated series counterpart, is the main technical expert, responsible for creating all of the many gadgets and tools V.I.L.E. uses in their heists and schemes. She is shown to be slightly more reasonable than the other faculty, though still willing to destroy the food supply of Indonesia just to shill in a market for an artificial commercial brand; she also has trouble understanding metaphors. She tends to multitask even during council meetings, focusing on numerous screens of information, much to Maelstrom's annoyance. It is shown on multiple occasions that she is a cat lover.
Roundabout / Nigel Braithwaite (voiced by Trevor Devall) – A senior V.I.L.E. operative and British MI6 double-agent who takes the place of Shadowsan in the end of season 2. He utilizes his influence in British Intelligence to give V.I.L.E. a leg up on any law-enforcement that may zero in on their operations, as well as divert attention away with proper diversionary substance. Like his namesake, he speaks in the manner of one who received a prodigious education, but also uses that vernacular to imply something without saying so and leading people into how he wants them. In Season 3, he is revealed to be a talented fencer. By the end of season 3, he was exposed to rest of the world as a criminal for stealing the Crown Jewels thanks to Player by uploading a video of him stealing them. He was arrested, but the cleaners rescued him.
Operatives[edit]
Tigress / Sheena (voiced by Kari Wahlgren) – A spy with a literal catsuit and mask to match her namesake, who is particularly antagonistic toward Carmen, even while at the Academy. She is based on the character of the same name from the original 1994 animated series; though, unlike the original, who was nothing more than a disguise donned by Ivy, Tigress is a separate person in the 2019 continuum. She is the longest-running combatant against Carmen, who felt like she needed to prove she was better than Tigress at pick-pocketing due to Tigress acing a test set by Shadowsan that Carmen failed (however, this is only because Shadowsan cheated so Carmen could fail). Tigress also dislikes Paper Star. In the interactive game it is shown that in spite of her dislike of Carmen, Tigress is still capable of returning the favor if Carmen helps her out, showing that she has a sense of honor.
El Topo / Antonio (voiced by Andrew Pifko) and Le Chevre / Jean Paul (voiced by Bernardo de Paula) – A pair of V.I.L.E. operatives who used to be in Carmen's group of friends before she left. El Topo is a wisecracking Spanish spy with streamlined powerful digging gauntlets, while Le Chevre is a no-nonsense French spy with incredible parkour skills. In the interactive game, if Carmen works with El Topo, he holds no hostility towards her, stating his belief they are just pawns in the game of life; Le Chev on the other hand, will taunt her.
Paper Star (voiced by Kimiko Glenn) – A psychopathic master of origami weapons, she is Maelstrom's favorite pupil. While on the contrary, Shadowsan rightfully believes Paper Star to be too psychotic to carryout orders, as Paper Star refused to hand over the stolen goods to Le Chevre per V.I.L.E. protocol. Paper Star has little combat experience outside of her origami techniques; whenever they have been negated, Carmen has gained the upper hand.
Mime Bomb – A silent spy and snitch; dresses as a mime artist for public camouflage. He is usually used by the faculty to spy on the students, which is also how the faculty found out that Carmen had stowed away. However, they sometimes wonder if it was a good idea to hire a mime as a spy since they can't really understand what he's trying to say though he does communicate through charades or sign language.
The Cleaners / Boris and Vlad (voiced by Liam O'Brien) – Two men who are not just the cleaning crew at V.I.L.E. Academy but also the men-in-black who are deployed to extricate V.I.L.E. members who have failed their missions by being apprehended and "Scrub" any evidence of V.I.L.E.'s existence. The duo rarely speak, but are diligent in their jobs. They work quickly, quietly, and without complaint. As Shadowsan notes, they are without fear. Vlad is shorter than Boris and has brown hair and eyebrows with a sharper chin than him. He possesses a more tired expression as well. His hair is revealed to be balding. Boris's chin is more square and blunt than Vlad's and is taller than him. His hair and eyebrows are black and tilted. They both have somewhat wrinkly faces with their hair cut short. Their attire changes depending on their part in missions but they mainly wear pale green-grey shirts and pants with a black belt. During a costume party in the episode "The Haunted Bayou Caper", Boris dresses as Frankenstein, and Vlad as Count Dracula. They are based on Rick and Nick ICK, commonly known as The ICK Brothers, a pair of V.I.L.E. henchmen who had similar jobs, seen in the 1996 edition of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, who were assigned to "clean up" the evidence of V.I.L.E.'s whereabouts. However, the brothers' incompetence always ends up creating more messes for V.I.L.E.'s members as ACME's detectives continue to pursue them.
Cookie Booker (voiced by Rita Moreno) – V.I.L.E.'s bookkeeper and financier; she believes in white collar crime above other forms. Rita Moreno was the voice of Carmen Sandiego in the 1994 animated series, a connection subtly referenced when Carmen steals her trademark outfit from Booker as a kind of "passing of the torch."
Dash Haber (voiced by Troy Baker) – Countess Cleo's executive courier and personal assistant. Dash Haber's main weapon is his hat, which is embellished with razor-sharp blades and can be thrown. His name is a pun of the word haberdasher.
Neal the Eel (voiced by Rhys Darby) – A New Zealand thief that wears a wet suit allowing him to slip through vents, tight spaces and anyone that attempts to grab him. He mostly works for Dr. Bellum and rarely teams up with another agent. His offensive weapons are a pair of tasers.
Spin Kick (voiced by Dante Basco) – A member of V.I.L.E. Academy's newest graduated class that specializes in kickboxing and partnered with Fly Trap. Carmen simply avoids him as they are too evenly matched.
Fly Trap (voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles) – A member of V.I.L.E. Academy's newest graduated class that wields a pair of bolas and partnered with Spin Kick. Carmen outwits her by using the bolas in ricochet attacks to catch Fly Trap off guard.
The Troll (voiced by Osric Chau) – A Korean skilled internet hacker and computer tech who is like an evil counterpart to Player. Though it is unknown if The Troll is also a white-hat hacker, he has demonstrated as high a proficiency in encryption breaking, hacking and data collection as Player. The Troll hates it when people call him simply "Troll", though he admits that it's not always best to pronounce it that way.
Graham Calloway (voiced by Michael Goldsmith) – Also known as Gray or Crackle, Graham is Carmen's former best friend at V.I.L.E. Academy. However, after a failed mission, Graham had his memories erased by Bellum. He returned to Australia where he met up with Carmen once again (only this time, he didn't remember her) and asked her out on a date. However she left before she even got there, because she thought that Gray had a chance to start over, and that Carmen Sandiego would ruin that chance. In "The Crackle Goes Kiwi Caper", Carmen recruits him to help her infiltrate Dr. Bellum's New Zealand lab, but upon his realizing Carmen's true mission, he helps destroy Bellum's experiment; they then finally have that date and talk more. By the end of season 3, it's revealed that Graham has been spied on by A.C.M.E. since then, acknowledging that he is the last and only link they have to Carmen, and it is hinted they intend to bring him in.
Dexter Wolfe / The Wolf – Carmen's father and Shadowsan's predecessor as a member of the V.I.L.E. Faculty and Stealth 101 Professor. Wolfe was a master thief who was often allowed to leave V.I.L.E. Island due to his expertise, though he preferred stealing for the thrill rather than for selfish gain. However, when Carmen was born, the rest of the faculty realized that he was planning to leave the organization and sent Shadowsan to assassinate him. By this point, he was attempting to make his escape with Baby Carmen to be reunited with his wife "Vera Cruz" but was accidentally killed instead by the current Chief of A.C.M.E. after hiding Carmen in the closet, leaving her to be taken to V.I.L.E. Island by Shadowsan.
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Season 1 (2019)[edit]
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1 "Becoming Carmen Sandiego" (Part 1) Jos Humphrey and Kenny Park Duane Capizzi January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
In the present, Carmen Sandiego robs the Poitiers estate of Countess Cleo, a V.I.L.E. Academy professor, and is pursued by French Interpol Inspector Chase Devineaux and his junior partner Julia Argent. Fleeing the scene on a train to Paris, Carmen is cornered by her old classmate Graham, a V.I.L.E. Agent nicknamed "Gray" by her and codenamed "Crackle" – as she lured him to a train knowing there was a tracker in the item she stole. In the past, Carmen, a mischievous orphan, grows up on V.I.L.E. Isle and enrolls in V.I.L.E. Academy, a school for thieves, the academy’s youngest person to do so. Given the code name Black Sheep by her mentor Coach Brunt, she makes fast friends and enemies. When pickpocketing a phone from a staff member, she is called by a white hat hacker called "Player" who hacked into the V.I.L.E. network, and the two build a covert friendship. When Black Sheep takes her final exams, she fails a test with Professor Shadowsan, and cannot graduate, but secretly sneaks aboard the graduates’ helicopter to their mission.
Seeing her classmates going on their first mission, Carmen crashes the graduates' caper, after touching down at an archaeological dig site near Casablanca, Morocco. There, Carmen meets with the dig leader and develops an appreciation for history and culture, but the camp soon comes under attack by the graduates. She saves the dig leader from Gray, but is captured and returned to V.I.L.E. Isle. Now, knowing the truth about V.I.L.E., she makes a new plan: stealing from them to dissolve the organization. Recovering her phone, she calls Player and narrowly escapes, stealing a hard-drive with all of V.I.L.E.'s funding and prospective capers for the next year. As she leaves, she takes the name "Carmen Sandiego" from the fashion store brand stitched onto her hat. Back in the present, she recounts her origin to Crackle, who she defeats and leaves for Inspector Devineaux. Meanwhile, Agent Argent finds the stolen diamond from the dig in Morocco; Carmen left it to be recovered by the authorities, instead taking back her old matryoshka dolls she had left behind on the island and that Graham had used for his bait, and makes her escape through Paris’ canals.
3 "The Sticky Rice Caper" Kenny Park May Chan January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
Escaping on the River Seine, a pair of unidentified agents pursue Carmen, but she escapes with the help of her partners: Boston twin siblings Zack and Ivy. Player navigates the trio to a secret lab in Java, Indonesia, where V.I.L.E. is developing a fungus designed to destroy the country's rice supply- after which, they would promote their V.I.L.E. imitation rice (although according to Carmen, the imitation was terrible, so even if V.I.L.E. succeeded, it’s likely that no one would buy it). Meanwhile, before Devineaux and Argent can interview Crackle, the "Cleaners" pick him up and take him back to V.I.L.E. Isle, erasing all evidence he was there. V.I.L.E. also orders Tigress, Carmen's class rival, to intercept her. Carmen's team track the supply truck carrying the bioweapon to a shadow-puppet festival, planning to covertly disperse the fungus in fireworks. Carmen engages Tigress in combat and is defeated, but Zack and Ivy successfully remove and destroy the fungus during the fight. Back on V.I.L.E. island, Crackle is brought before Dr. Bellum for debriefing, and she plugs a device on his head. The next day, the two unknown agents get a call from their Chief to begin "Plan B".
4 "The Fishy Doubloon Caper" Jos Humphrey Becky Tinker January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
While exploring a shipwreck off the coast of Ecuador, Carmen stumbles upon hidden treasure in the form of an old gold coin, but her old classmate "El Topo" battles her underwater for it while his partner "Le Chevre" confronts Zack and Ivy. The chase continues to the mainland after a tuna swallows it, gets caught by fishermen and then later to be sold at a fish auction. Carmen meets with local archaeologist; Dr. Pilar Marquez, who tells Carmen of the historical value of the Ecuadorian doubloon back in the 19th Century, prompting Carmen to find it and return it to the doctor. Chevre and Topo also pursue the coin, believing that if Carmen is after it, then it must be worth a fortune. Reaching a fish market in Quito, Carmen faints from altitude sickness, but Pilar finds and treats her. After Zack and Ivy find the right fish at the auction, a fight with Topo and Chevre allows Carmen a chance to reclaim the coin without their knowing. Carmen gives the coin to Pilar, and the two part ways as friends, as Carmen must intercept another V.I.L.E. target in the Rijksmuseum. Meanwhile, as Devineaux and Argent part ways after a long day, the two agents kidnap Devineaux to have a holographic conference call with the Chief of A.C.M.E, who is determined to prove the existence of V.I.L.E. and believes Carmen can lead them to it. But during the call, Argent finds them and both she and Devineaux are recruited to A.C.M.E.
5 "The Duke of Vermeer Caper" Kenny Park Greg Ernstrom January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
In Amsterdam, Carmen goes undercover to stop Countess Cleo, who's been replacing priceless paintings with forgeries and plans to sell them off to the highest bidder. Carmen steals the last Vermeer painting on the list, and sets up a meeting. But awaiting their contact, Zack mistakenly opens the door to Cleo's assistant; Dash Haber and, as "The Duke", accepts the invitation to a dinner party and auction, giving the crew only 24 hours to save the mission; while Devineaux and Argent search for "The Dutchess", unaware that she is Carmen's alias. After preparing and following Zack, Carmen spots and eludes a following Devineaux. As Zack meets with and distracts the Countess at the dinner, Carmen infiltrates her Swiss manor to switch the stolen Vermeer collection with blanks. When dessert is being handed out, Cleo serves Caviar, and Zack, who has a fear of fish, is saved when Devineaux arrives to warn them and the party guests that Carmen Sandiego is near; coincidentally allowing Carmen more time to steal all the paintings. Zack then points out the window and Devineaux sees a woman with a red cloak motor-skiing away, prompting the agent to give chase after her, while inadvertently saving Zack from suspicion. Cleo declares the party over and later finds her collection gone. Devineaux catches up with "Carmen", but it turns out to be Ivy pretending to be a tourist in a red cloak, while Zack and Carmen escape with the paintings. The next day, A.C.M.E. finds the chateau destroyed and no trace remaining, as well as all Vermeer paintings returned. Meanwhile in Sydney, Crackle gets off a bus in front of the Sydney Opera House.
6 "The Opera in the Outback Caper" Jos Humphrey Becky Tinker January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
In Australia at the Sydney Opera House during an Opera, Carmen finds Crackle, not recognizing her and going by Graham again. Carmen later finds and fights Le Chevre, who deploys a low-frequency sound-wave generating device on the show and it's audience, including Carmen, and leaves. Player analyzes Carmen's commlink device's data and finds a hypnotic subliminal message in it by Dr. Saira Bellum directed at Jeanine Dennam, a Helio-Gem rocket scientist who was in the audience. Outside, after the opera, Graham asks Carmen, who was asking for his help in finding a outback guide, out on a date. Reaching the outback next day, Carmen and her team tour around Uluru as the Helio-Gem base is nearby. Player and Carmen then deduce V.I.L.E.'s plan: launch a defective "Boomerang" rocket to rain debris over the outback, forcing Helio-Gem out and allowing V.I.L.E. to take over their contracts. At the launch station, Zack and Ivy protect Dennam, while Carmen keeps the rocket grounded. As El Topo hacks the station's audio system to play the trigger music, Zack and Ivy restrain Dennam, but Carmen falls victim to the hypnosis and starts the 3 minute launch sequence. Zack and Ivy handle Topo and Chevre respectively, and once Carmen returns to normal, she stops the rocket. When Carmen goes to meet Graham, she decides that he'll be better off without 'Carmen Sandiego' back in his life. While on the Isle of V.I.L.E., Professor Maelstrom assigns the next agent to fight Carmen Sandiego.
7 "The Chasing Paper Caper" Kenny Park Greg Ernstrom January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
Professor Gunnar Maelstrom schemes to steal all 17 pages of the Magna Carta, with origami weapons expert; Paper Star, despite Shadowsan's viewing Paper Star as unpredictable. In Mumbai, India, Carmen predicts Maelstrom's plan and fights defensively, but is restrained and unable to stop Paper Star. When Le Chevre meets Paper Star at the rendezvous, she paper-cuts his hands to make him confess the next drop location in Agra, seeing him as an "easy mark" for capture. Player finds Paper Star on surveillance and he and Carmen track her to a train in Agra City, where Devineaux and Argent are also on. Carmen gets confronted by Devineaux in a car, but manages to cuff him to a seat and swipes his A.C.M.E. ID Card. She then meets and greets Argent in the dining car for a short talk before leaving; Argent realizes that she met Carmen and looks for Devineaux. Carmen and Paper Star clash again, but Carmen gets the upper hand by leading the fight to the roof where the wind counters the origami weapons. As Carmen retrieves the Magna Carta, Argent finds Devineaux, and Carmen covertly leaves the Magna Carta for Argent. When asking Player to hack Devineaux's A.C.M.E. keycard, she finds that Paper Star took it off her during their fight. Back on The Isle of V.I.L.E., Paper Star submits the A.C.M.E. keycard as a consolation prize.
8 "The Lucky Cat Caper" Jos Humphrey May Chan January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
In foggy San Francisco, Carmen attends an elegant charity auction. After buying a car for Zack, she discovers Mime Bomb stole a rare stamp worth $10,000,000. Following him to Chinatown, he stashed the stamp in a maneki-neko. Shadowsan sends in Tigress to pick up the stamp, and Coach Brunt secretly sends the Cleaners as unseen backup, while Bellum is trying to hack the A.C.M.E. ID card. As Carmen battles Tigress over the maneki-neko, tricking her with bait & switch, the statue was Mime Bomb's diversion to hold the real stamp. After encountering Devineaux and Argent, he slips the stamp into Devineaux's coat. At Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, Tigress rendezvouses with Mime Bomb and covertly steals the stamp from Devineaux's coat; leading Carmen, and by extent Devineaux, on a car chase to the Golden Gate Bridge. Devineaux crashes his A.C.M.E. car into the bay, while the Cleaners rendezvous to get Tigress, but Carmen manages to swipe the stamp from her and escape with Tigress' phone to call V.I.L.E. and gloat. Despite the defeat, Dr. Bellum announces she learned the owner of the A.C.M.E. ID Card: Chase Devineaux.
9 "The French Connection Caper" Kenny Park Duane Capizzi January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
Studying Devineaux, the Faculty find he is always there where Carmen appears, seeing him as a partner. Shadowsan and Brunt are elected to interrogate Devineaux. After debrief with Chief, Devineaux accuses Argent of being Carmen Sandiego's "silent partner", and upon returning home, the Cleaners capture him and leave a message on the Dark Web for Carmen. Arriving in Poitiers, Zack & Ivy each disguise as Carmen to lure the Faculty members out, but when Brunt corners Zack, she realizes the trick and races back. Before passing out, Devineaux calls the Chief, who greets Carmen before alerting Argent to his location. Before Carmen can move Devineaux, Brunt returns and overwhelms Carmen, making one final offer to return, which Carmen rejects. As Brunt attempts to bear hugs Carmen to death, Shadowsan returns and stuns Brunt unconscious. He then helps Carmen escape before authorities arrive, but Brunt awakens also and escapes before capture. Elsewhere, Shadowsan reveals that it was he who found Carmen 20 years ago, intentionally failing her knowing that she'd reject V.I.L.E.'s mission. He tried joining her escape, but she got away without him, but not before he sabotaged the Cleaner's air-transport. Argent reports to Chief of Devineaux's condition, and The Chief believes Carmen took his keycard to lure Devineaux into a trap; Argent remains uncertain. As Shadowsan vanishes, he leaves behind another V.I.L.E. hard-drive for Carmen's next series of capers.
1 "The Hot Rocks of Rio Caper" (Part 1) Jos Humphrey Becky Tinker October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
One week after learning Shadowsan's true alignment, Carmen's mind is too distracted and fumbles on a mission in Prague, but still gets a clue of uncut Alexandrite, learning V.I.L.E. is selling the stone source for funding in Rio de Janeiro. The Faculty debate Shadowsan's fate as he is missing, as Le Chevre reports mission success in the Alexandrite mining. Meanwhile, Devineaux wakes up and gives details of Brunt & Shadowsan, but Chief has him put on permanent leave for his recklessness and is forced to go back to Interpol to work a boring desk job; Argent is partnered with Agent Zari and sent to Rio after CrimeNet deduced Carmen to be there. In Rio, Ivy & Zack get information from a dealer, and come upon Le Chevre who flees. A distressed Carmen is invited by a kind family to dinner, and they inform her of a likely V.I.L.E. safe house. There, Carmen finds a tunnel to the V.I.L.E. mining operation, but is caught by Tigress, Le Chevre and El Topo. Shadowsan then steps out of the shadows to congratulate them.
2 "The Hot Rocks of Rio Caper" (Part 2) Kenny Park Greg Ernstrom October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
Shadowsan elaborates to the V.I.L.E. agents about his scarcity as being on Carmen's trail while pretending to earn her trust, but he drops a code phrase which informs Carmen of his true allegiance. When Le Chevre states an inaccuracy, Shadowsan uses his position to detain him and takes Carmen away. Tigress informs the Faculty of Shadowsan being there, relaying his story which reveals his treachery, and they contemplate the extent of his infiltration. Elsewhere, Carmen's crew work with Shadowsan, while Argent and Zari follow sightings of Carmen. During Rio Carnival, Carmen's team realize V.I.L.E.'s planning to use Carnival as cover to use a Duck boat to covertly deliver the gems from Rio to Prague, and find a stray Dragon float. Intercepting on the water, Carmen and Shadowsan successfully retrieve the gemstones, and disguise the float as a duck to escape. Carmen uses her charity foundation, Black Sheep Inc., to open a community fund for the family that gave her dinner and their neighbors, with the value of the gemstones. As Shadowsan ponders what to do now that he blew his cover, Carmen invites him to join her. Agents Argent & Zari find them, but lose the thieves in the crowd, but an image capture of Shadowsan inadvertently links Carmen to V.I.L.E.
3 "The Daisho Caper" Kenny Park Greg Ernstrom October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
As Carmen awakes in Matsumoto, Nagano, Shadowsan has once more vanished. At Matsumoto Castle, she learns Shadowsan's Katana is part of a Daishō, realizing he stole the other half of the pair. Meeting with him, Shadowsan aims to return the katana, having stolen it as initiation as a thief. Carmen encounters Paper Star, who distracts her so Lady Dokuso, a veteran V.I.L.E. agent, can retrieve the Tantō; reporting her success, she is offered to replace Shadowsan should she prevail. Carmen meets Shadowsan, learning his true name 'Suhara' from the curator, who is revealed by him to be his elder brother- Hideo. Shadowsan explains that, while Hideo was content with his scholar's livelihood, Suhara was not content living poor and became a thief. To prove himself, he stole the katana while Hideo saved the Tantō, and has regretted the choice ever since. Now understanding, Ivy covertly disarms the guards before Shadowsan fights, while Carmen fights Paper Star for the Tantō and entraps her. As Dokuso poisons Shadowsan into being temporarily paralyzed, Carmen arrives and forces Dokuso to flee. They return the Daishō to Matsumoto Castle, and Suhara pleads with Hideo. While he still does not forgive Suhara, he allows him to return the sword. Shadowsan then joins Carmen's crew, no longer calling Japan home.
4 "The Fashionista Caper" Jos Humphrey Becky Tinker October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
After failing to stop V.I.L.E. Agent Dash Haber from stealing smart-fabric in Greece, Player finds chatter leading the team to Fashion Fest in Milan, where V.I.L.E.'s plan will be enacted and Shadowsan deduces that Countess Cleo and Dr. Bellum are working together on a caper, likely an idea from an operative aiming to replace him as Faculty. V.I.L.E. accountant Cookie Booker, in a bid for Shadowsan's old seat, coordinates with Bellum & Cleo in a plan to save V.I.L.E. from debt. Eavesdropping, Carmen learns Dash Haber is adding the smart-fabric to supermodel attire to mind control the models, part of the plan to abscond with original Medici 14th Century attire. After evading A.C.M.E., Carmen enlists Argent's aid in securing the gowns, and fights off the mind-controlled models in a secluded space. Once Shadowsan swipes Haber's weaponized chapeau, he and Carmen destroy the mind-control hats, and stop V.I.L.E.'s plan. Taking Shadowsan to a clothing store, he changes his attire to something not as ostentatious as his Wafuku and Player finds a possible HQ location for the crew to have, which coincidentally happens to be the warehouse of the same brand of Carmen’s hat she used to escape from the island. On the Isle of V.I.L.E., as Booker's application as Faculty is denied, other operatives are being looked at for the position.
5 "The Boston Tea Party Caper" Kenny Park Becky Tinker October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
As Carmen's team look at the warehouse building in San Diego for a possible stationery HQ, they tell Shadowsan the story of how they all first meet on their very first heist: the Donut Shop Caper. One year ago, Zack & Ivy were a brother-sister racing team trying to earn prize money so they could get out of Southie, but after Zack loses against his rival racer silver spoon Trey Sterling and busts up his car in the process, the siblings had to ask gangster Shark Head Eddie for help, as he was the one who loaned them the money for the car. Eddie gave them a simple job- rob a donut shop which was a front for, according to Eddie, the Mob. It was there they encountered Carmen, who had to keep them safe as V.I.L.E. used the donut shop as a front for printing money with stolen treasury plates. V.I.L.E.'s plan was to print money as a way of buying prime real estate in Boston to expand their influence and enterprises. Despite Carmen's efforts to keep them away, the siblings still gave her help in finding and destroying V.I.L.E.'s money printing, making their own tea party. Realizing they have nothing in Boston, and to avoid Eddie, the siblings opt to join Carmen on her globe trotting capers. Hearing their story, Shadowsan also adds that the V.I.L.E. Faculty had no idea how dangerous Carmen was to them until now. Following the story, Player relays V.I.L.E.'s plan to steal the world's fastest electric car in Dubai, and the team sets out again.
6 "The Need For Speed Caper" Jos Humphrey Greg Ernstrom October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
V.I.L.E. operative 'The Mechanic' comes from London with a plan: steal the most advanced car in the world to make a fleet of V.I.L.E. super-getaway-cars. As Shadowsan coordinates with Player, Carmen's team go to Dubai to steal the super car to keep it away from V.I.L.E. As they infiltrate a Palm Jumeirah gala, Zack and Ivy come across Trey Sterling and his father Sterling Sterling, the latter who is supportive of the two unlike Trey. As the caper goes off, Zack is triggered by posters of Trey and makes a scene stealing the car which lands him and Ivy in jail. However, an impressed Sterling Sr. bails them out and offers them a job under him, while Carmen is angered that they risked the mission and calls them amateurs. This leads to the siblings coming to the conclusion that they weren’t meant for the life of thievery and ponder on whether or not to take Sterling Sr.’s offer. The next morning, Ivy & Zack find Trey tied-up realizing his "girlfriend" was a V.I.L.E. agent, 'The Driver', and follow her across Dubai. Clashing with The Mechanic & The Driver in a getaway blimp, Team Carmen save the car. Afterwards, Carmen waits for Zack and Ivy, who have turned down Sterling Sr.’s offer and rejoin her. As thanks, Carmen buys the warehouse to give the two roots to call home, and Player then calls with a lead in Moscow; Carmen and Shadowsan go, while Zack and Ivy stay behind to remodel their new home.
7 "The Crackle Goes Kiwi Caper" Jos Humphrey Steven Melching October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
In Moscow, Shadowsan and Carmen encounter Neal the Eel at the Kremlin, but he escapes. Player learns Neal stole schematics of "The Trip Wire" EMP weapon, which Dr. Bellum will likely improve upon. With Neal involved, Shadowsan deduces Bellum's lab to be in New Zealand. Player urges they need to have a skilled electrician on-site to manage the power grid hack, suggesting Crackle, despite Carmen's wish to protect Graham. Still recruiting him in Sydney for 'a charity opera', they fly him to Auckland. As Graham's memories in V.I.L.E. were wiped, Shadowsan stays at their warehouse HQ, not risking triggering any V.I.L.E. memories or impulses. In the lab, Carmen deletes all Trip Wire data, but runs into Neal upon exiting. As Graham starts the "encore," he realizes the deception, enters Bellum's lab and finds Carmen mid-caper. She exfils Graham to the roof, but Bellum holds Auckland hostage for her capitulation. At the roof, Graham's subconscious V.I.L.E. training allows him to sabotage the Trip Wire, which Bellum destroys activating. Carmen finally has coffee with Graham, content V.I.L.E. is unaware of his involvement. Elsewhere, A.C.M.E. tracks Carmen and learns about Graham, believing him to be of use.
8 "The Stockholm Syndrome Caper" Kenny Park and Mike West Benjamin Townsend October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
With only Four members, V.I.L.E.'s Faculty reach an impasse on whether or not to abandon V.I.L.E. Isle. They ultimately decide to do so once their current class graduates, and motivates them to hunt down Carmen Sandiego. Elsewhere in Stockholm, Ivy dresses as Carmen to play decoy with A.C.M.E. agents, while Argent petitions the Chief to allow her a chance to recruit Carmen- which is approved. Alone, Carmen finds and talks with Argent about stopping a major V.I.L.E. plan; but when Zari spots Ivy is a decoy, Argent's plan is revoked and Carmen is swarmed by ACME agents. Barely escaping, Carmen is hit by tranquilizer gas while escaping, causing her to glide crashing into a forest; and Argent is incensed by Chief's actions. Meanwhile, V.I.L.E. agents Otter Man and Moose Boy capture Ivy, thinking her to be Carmen. With both the girls missing, Player directs Zack to find Ivy, trusting Carmen's survival skills. As Ivy escapes Otter and Moose, she also recovers stolen Gold Codes to complete Carmen's original mission, and reunites with Zack. Carmen reluctantly uses Argent's A.C.M.E. pen, having swiped it earlier, as a last resort. She activates it to call Chief for help, but faints from the cold before she can ask. It is believed she got frostbite and is later given over to her team to get medical help as a show of trust between them.
9 "The African Ice Caper" Jos Humphrey Steven Melching October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
Carmen's team admit her to a hospital for treatment, then move her to HQ while Shadowsan completes her missions as she recovers. Meanwhile, Devineaux analyzes all of Carmen's past capers, realizing the only anomaly is an isle of the Canary Islands with no data. As Carmen works to recover, she heads to Botswana which Player connects to an illegal diamond mining operation. Meanwhile, V.I.L.E. operative "Roundabout" informs Maelstrom of Shadowsan's involvement on a mission, compromising their mining operation. As Carmen's team discover the operation's extent and locate Brunt, Tigress corners Carmen until Zack and Ivy help to subdue her. Carmen calls the Chief for help, and Player transmits a visual of the Chief to Shadowsan, who recognizes her, and asks him to trace the signal. As the authorities raid the mine, they narrowly escape a trap, giving "proof" to V.I.L.E. of Carmen's collusion with A.C.M.E. On a train to the airport, Carmen promises Chief a better outcome next time, later captured by Brunt and the Cleaners. Waking up, Brunt doesn't kill her, but informs her that Shadowsan killed her father the night "he found her", leaving her tied-up to reel from the revelation.
10 "The Deep Dive Caper" Kenny Park and Mike West Duane Capizzi October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
Carmen ventures to the now destroyed Isle of V.I.L.E. to crack the main databank. Devineaux, stranded on the island following Carmen's trail, starts a fire and is then rescued, but was fired during his absence. After recovering the data, Carmen learns her father was Dexter Wolfe, codenamed "The Wolf"; V.I.L.E. Faculty and Shadowsan's predecessor as professor of stealth and thievery. Confronting Shadowsan, he reveals Wolfe was mostly absent as a teacher, but always delivered results. The Faculty then learned of his planning to leave V.I.L.E., ordering Shadowsan to remove him. After finding Wolfe's secret family life, Interpol swarmed Wolfe's home that night before Shadowsan could carry out the mission, and Wolfe was accidentally killed by Agent Tamara Fraser, the now Chief of A.C.M.E. After burning Wolfe's house per protocol, Shadowsan saved baby Carmen and her Matryoshka dolls; the Faculty then voted to keep her lineage secret and induct Shadowsan in Wolfe’s place. After Player tracks the Chief in Seattle, Carmen confronts her and leaves behind a V.I.L.E. data-drive, which allows Player to hack A.C.M.E. and corroborate Shadowsan's account. From that file, Carmen also learns her mother "Vera Cruz" faked her death and is somewhere in the world and now sets out to find her as a secondary mission. Enraged by the hack, Chief Fraser reinstates Devineaux to hunt down Carmen, which he gleefully accepts.
Special (2020)[edit]
Main article: Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal
"Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal" Jos Humphrey and Kenny Park; Co-Directed by: Mike West Duane Capizzi, May Chan, Sam Nesson, & Susan O’Connor T: Greg Erstrom, & Becky Tinker March 10, 2020 (2020-03-10)
This is an interactive movie. While attempting to steal from a V.I.L.E. building, Carmen learns that her friends, Zack and Ivy, have been kidnapped by V.I.L.E., who threaten to brainwash them into being V.I.L.E. henchmen unless Carmen steals some objects for them. There are multiple endings that can be taken. Upon finding the good endings, a bonus scene will be unlocked, with all of the cast members but Carmen and the Chief singing the theme song from the 1990s game show.
Original release date [10]
1 "The Luchadora Tango Caper" Jos Humphrey Duane Capizzi October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
V.I.L.E. relocates to a Scotland castle, with Roundabout, now as the fifth faculty member, still working his double life on their behalf. Roundabout reveals that after weeks and upon months of being off the grid, Carmen has been spotted first in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then Veracruz, Mexico. Carmen is searching for clues to her mother's identity, befriending a friendly luchadora in the process: a masked wrestler named Lupe Peligro. Brunt decides to go one last time herself to bring Carmen in, stealing a luchadora mask to hide her face. Carmen teams up with Lupe to beat Brunt, who flees back to V.I.L.E. in anger, all while A.C.M.E. agents, Julia and the newly rehired Chase, zone in on her.
2 "The Day of the Dead Caper" Mike West Sharon Flynn October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
As Mexico City celebrates Día de los Muertos – The Day of the Dead – Carmen tracks a young art thief who just might be recruited into V.I.L.E. by one of Cleo's art contacts. The Faculty celebrate Halloween, with an enthusiastic Maelstrom embracing the holiday. Carmen convinces the recruit to use her skills for helping others; the thief takes it to heart and begins tracking down all the art she helped steal. Meanwhile, Shadowsan leads V.I.L.E.'s new graduate agents, Spin Kick and Fly Trap, on a wild goose chase to keep them off Carmen's trail. Julia decides to quit A.C.M.E. to work in a university; having become tired of Chief's distrust towards Carmen.
3 "The Haunted Bayou Caper" Jos Humphrey Kathryn Lyn October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
In New Orleans, a celebrity chef hosts a costume gala at his spooky mansion. V.I.L.E. sends Tigress, Paper Star and the Cleaners to steal the charity money digitally with the help of The Troll's retinal scan app. Carmen's Team goes undercover to save him as Chase, now partnerless, tries his hardest not to bumble and destroy his A.C.M.E. gear; however, Carmen evades him at every step. Zack and Ivy manage to keep the chef away from V.I.L.E until the midnight deadline forces them to give up.
4 "The Masks of Venice Caper" Mike West Steven Melching October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
V.I.L.E. plots to steal priceless masks from a museum in Venice, Italy. Shadowsan's brother, Hideo, is also there, having lent Japanese artifacts. Chase is partnered with Agent Zari, due to the Chief's growing frustration at his lack of capturing Carmen or a V.I.L.E. agent, and they inform museum security of "Carmen's" incoming theft. Mime Bomb and Neal the Eel are sent to commit the theft, forcing Shadowsan to meet his brother and explain that he and Carmen are hiding the artifacts from the real thieves. After duping the V.I.L.E. goons into taking fake masks during a boat chase, Carmen is caught by Chase; however, he is surprised that she hands over the real ones, making him realize Julia was right all along. Shadowsan makes amends with his brother, who tells him that he will be welcomed home once his fight against V.I.L.E. is over. Meanwhile, as Neal and Mime Bomb realise they've been duped, Mime Bomb tries to warn Neal of incoming police, but he is misunderstood and instead dives into the water, leaving Neal to be arrested. At V.I.L.E. Castle, Roundabout reassures the rest of the V.I.L.E. Faculty that Neal the Eel will be released and that an elaborate trap will be set for Carmen Sandiego that she will not be able to resist.
5 "The Jolly Good Show Caper" Jos Humphrey Greg Ernstrom October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
In London, Carmen and her crew break into the Tower of London to stop V.I.L.E. from nabbing the Crown Jewels of England. Roundabout and The Troll trick her into starting the theft, getting her caught by the authorities, while Roundabout switches St. Edward's Crown with a replica and hands it off to Le Chevre to take back to V.I.L.E. at Big Ben, only later to be confronted by Shadowsan. Roundabout follows and fights Shadowsan to the top of the clocktower, where the police arrive via helicopter and order Roundabout to surrender for the theft of the crown. Shadowsan then slips to the shadows while revealing the team's true plan: Player tricked The Troll and forwarded footage of the theft to the police, while Zack and Ivy posed as the officers taking away Carmen, allowing her to take back the real crown from Le Chevre and placing it in Roundabout's office, thus pinning the crime on him. Defeated, Roundabout accepts arrest, only to be freed by the Cleaners to be taken to V.I.L.E. in Scotland. Meanwhile at A.C.M.E., Chief has finally run out of leads and patience to catch Carmen and stopping V.I.L.E. She decides to bring in Graham, the only link to Carmen left exposed.
1 "The Beijing Bullion Caper" Mike West Becky Tinker January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Roundabout and Neal escape a mindwipe due to Scotland's climate shorting out Dr. Bellum's equipment. They are given a chance to redeem themselves with the aid of Lady Dokuso. However, their plans to steal gold are foiled by Carmen pulling a bait and switch with the knocked out bank manager; they get Zack instead. Roundabout is taken away, while Neal leaves V.I.L.E. During the caper, Shadowsan falls and hurts his leg, requiring a cast for him to heal.
2 "The Big Bad Ivy Caper" Jos Humphery Kathryn Lyn January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Dr. Bellum suggests using robot operatives, but is still getting the kinks out of the works. Cleo sends Dash Haber to meet with LadyGold to smuggle gold out of Germany in chocolates. With Player now in public school and Zack taking care of (actually annoying) Shadowsan, Carmen and Ivy are left to work on their own. A.C.M.E. questions Graham about Carmen and use a device to help restore his memories, this causes his Crackle persona to manifest briefly and make him escape.
3 "The Robo Caper" Mike West Carly Denure January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Dr. Bellum sends her robot operative to steal a golden crown. Without Player's help, Carmen and Ivy fail to stop it. At the same time, Graham is stuck in a fugue state due to his confused memories. He is arrested for stealing in Iceland after calling V.I.L.E for help during a delirium.
4 "The Himalayan Rescue Caper" Jos Humphrey Greg Ernstrom January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Carmen heads to V.I.L.E.'s hideout in the Himalayas on a rescue mission to save Graham. She needs Player's help, but he's stuck at school.
5 "The V.I.L.E. History Caper" Mike West Story by Greg Ernstrom & Kathryn Lyn Teleplay by Greg Ernstrom January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
V.I.L.E. learns that a tomb created by its founders has been found. El Topo and Le Chevre are sent to recover the emblem of V.I.L.E. which has Nordic runes leading to the second map. Brunt and Maelstrom team up to investigate. Carmen has Julia and Player work together to find the second map. It turns out to be part of a Viking ship. Brunt accidentally causes a cave-in, nearly drowning herself. However, both parties get a clue to the final map.
6 "The Egyptian Decryption Caper" Jos Humphrey Carly Denure, Nicole Belisle & Sharon Flynn January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
After Carmen steals the final map, an angry Dr. Bellum and Cleo use surveillance of Carmen to track Julia down. With the help of Tigress and the Cleaners, Cleo kidnaps her and takes Julia to Egypt to find the vault in the pyramids. Carmen calls in Chase, who in turn has Chief call in the police to reveal the treasure. Chief accepts Carmen has been helping take down V.I.L.E the entire time. Enraged beyond reason, Cleo tells the Faculty they must punish Carmen severely. Carmen asks the Chief to find her mother on exchange for V.I.L.E Intel. Afterwards in a park, The Cleaners kidnap Carmen, taking her to back to V.I.L.E. Castle.
7 "The Viennese Waltz Caper" Mike West Sharon Flynn & Duane Capizzi January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Shadowsan, Zack, Ivy and A.C.M.E. fly to Vienna to intercept V.I.L.E.'s latest heist, hoping it'll lead them to the missing Carmen, unaware that the Faculty have successfully brainwashed Carmen into becoming a pure evil version of herself.
8 "The Dark Red Caper" Jos Humphrey Duane Capizzi January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
The brainwashed Carmen is added to V.I.L.E's faculty. The Chief finds Carmen's mother runs an orphanage, originally in the hopes of finding her daughter. While A.C.M.E. keeps an eye on the orphanage, Shadowsan infiltrates and finds the final Russian nesting doll missing from Carmen's collection. Graham asks for A.C.M.E.'s help to restore Carmen's memories, helping trick V.I.L.E. into sending her after the treasure that she help recover from her first trip in Poitiers; the diamond from the Morocco heist. During a struggle with Chase, Julia, Graham and Shadowsan, Carmen is zapped with the memory restorer and returns to her senses after Shadowsan shows her the last doll. Carmen gives Chief V.I.L.E.'s location, leading to the arrest of Brunt, Bellum, Cleo, Maelstrom, Roundabout, Tigress and Mime Bomb. While El Topo and Le Chevre open a food truck, the rest of V.I.L.E. remains at large. Shadowsan returns home, while Carmen finally meets her mother; Graham is rewarded with being let go by A.C.M.E. Two years later, Zack and Ivy are now A.C.M.E. agents paired with Chase and Julia; they track Paper Star down to a building, only to find her tied up. They catch sight of Carmen on the roof, happy to see her again, before she takes off to parts unknown.
On April 14, 2017, Hollywood insider information site The Tracking Board reported that they had exclusively learned of an animated Carmen Sandiego project at Netflix, that Gina Rodriguez as the voice of the titular character. The site reported that the 20-episode series would aim to be "as educational as it is entertaining", in keeping with the style of the franchise.[11] It was later confirmed that the series would be called Carmen Sandiego. Rodriguez confirmed the story via her Twitter feed the following day in response to a Hypable story, which compared the news to that of a Kate McKinnon-led revival of The Magic School Bus.[12][13] Carmen Sandiego was set to appeal to a wider audience (ages 6–11), plus the parents of those kids and fans of the original series.[1] On April 18 and 19, the news began to be published by reputable news sites, where it was confirmed that Netflix had rebooted the franchise on TV by ordering twenty 22-minute episodes of Carmen Sandiego, which would premiere in 2019 and with Gina Rodriguez in the starring role. Rotoscopers noted that this was "more than most Netflix Originals receive".[14] The Hollywood Reporter noted that Rita Moreno, who voiced Carmen in the FOX animated series Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, had recently guest-starred on Rodriguez's show Jane the Virgin. The new series was described as having "thrilling adventure and intrigue", while offering an "intimate look into Carmen's past" and what inspired her career choices, essentially answering the question "Who in the world [is] Carmen Sandiego?" while simultaneously following her on her thieving escapades.[15]
Promotional material for the series
Caroline Fraser, Head of HMH Productions, is the Executive Producer of the series. Duane Capizzi, known for Transformers: Prime and The Batman, is the showrunner and Co-Executive Producer. Kevin Dart serves as visual designer. It is a production by DHX Media, providing production work, and Chromosphere, providing the design work.[16][17][15] Animation services are outsourced to Top Draw Animation in the Philippines. DHX Media is the current owner of the library of DIC Entertainment, the animation studio which produced the Earth animated series.[18] The series is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who own the rights to the franchise after their corporate predecessor Riverdeep acquired the property in 2002.[15][19] The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the series followed in the wake of Bill Nye Saves the World and Julie's Greenroom.[15] Finn Wolfhard signed on to lend his voice to the character Player, who is described as Carmen's chief accomplice and friend.[20] Another character called "Player" was featured in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, but this character was a fourth wall-breaking live action boy who bookended the show and interacted with Carmen, implied to be the player of a video game featuring her. E! Online reported that the new series would be called, simply, "Carmen Sandiego".[21]
Rodriguez, who had first learned about the series through the PBS game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, asserted that the new Carmen Sandiego origin series was "tight", "well written", "really, really good", and "unbelievable". She mentioned that Netflix was a home for great programming and that the show had partnered with talented illustrators. She added that despite being entertaining, the show would still provide geographic and historical education.[22] In another interview, she said that she loved the art and story of the animated series, and praised the show's executive producer, Duane Capizzi, for making the world that Carmen inhabits in the show itself.[23]
Andy Yeatman, Netflix director of global kids content, explained “We think there’s a huge benefit of having a program that parents remember fondly and grew up with. We are giving them the opportunity to introduce it to their kids and spark a conversation", explaining that while the service pitched reboots of many '80s and '90s shows, Carmen Sandiego was one that "made sense" and "really stood out". They responded to the fact that this is not a show that is perennially rebooted, as the last Carmen Sandiego series ended 20 years before this new series would premiere, and that there are interesting ways to retell the story.[1] In addition to Yeatman's comments, Amy Dunkin, Houghton Mifflin's the chief marketing officer, noted that many had "fond memories" of Carmen Sandiego, and added that there are many ways "you can go with Carmen just based on what she stands for."[24]
In March 2018, Netflix also ordered a live-action film of Carmen Sandiego, once again with Rodriguez as the titular character.[25]
On February 15, 2019, it was announced that Netflix had renewed the series for a second season.[3]
On April 24, 2020, Netflix announced it had renewed the series for a third season.[4]
On October 2, 2020, Netflix announced it had renewed the series for a fourth season, which was later announced to be the final season.[6][7]
Pre-release[edit]
The announcement saw a positive response by the media, who appreciated the throwback, and a return for the Carmen Sandiego franchise to the small screen. TVShowsOnDVD wrote "It's awesome to see this franchise return to television".[26] The Rolling Stone thought the TV series' origin story subject matter offers what was once one of "golden age of television's favorite thematic trappings".[27] Commenting "children of the 90's rejoice", Maxim suggested that Netflix enlist the talents of World game show theme song performers Rockapella to provide music for the show.[28] ScreenRant noted that "those who still hold fond memories of the property" would be intrigued as to what type of shape the new series will take; adding that it has a "storied legacy" to live up to and will likely take some inspiration from Earth.[29] Dark Horizons expressed sadness that the show was two years away.[30] Toonzone wondered if the new show would maintain the established backstory of the red fedora-wearing villain, which in mid-to-late ‘90s canon involved Carmen Sandiego beginning as an A.C.M.E. agent before finding the work too easy so wanting to outsmart her former colleagues.[18] Gizmodo thought the new series would "bring the character's trademark blend of edutainment to new audiences".[31] Mashable said "fans demanding the series NOW".[32] Pedestrian thought the trend toward series such as this was a sign that producers were aiming to " trap people in a downwards vortex of nostalgia ".[33] Fortune suggested that the new show offered Netflix "huge merchandizing potential", and that the company could follow in the footsteps of Disney by creating a merchandising arm to support its shows.[34] Rom-Game saw this as a sign that Netflix was "indirectly interested in gaming heritage".[35] MiscRave mentioned how much potential the franchise with its interactive edutainment in a compelling package it previously had.[36] NerdHQ noted that the new series offered an opportunity to resuscitate the "once-dormant" and "dying" franchise.[37] Apart from these media reviews, various Latina women across the United States were excited and energized by the show's release.[38]
Post-release[edit]
The show currently holds a 93% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews, with the site's consensus reading, "Vivid animation and creative reconstruction of the Carmen Sandiego backstory elevates this property beyond its edutainment roots."[39] Other reviewers are more critical. Renaldo Matadeen of CBR, for instance, critically reviewed the series. He argued that the second season ended on a "very intense note," while noting the family history themes in the show,[40] and stated that the final episode of the third season remixes all the movies of the Ocean's franchise.[41] In a review of all the episodes of the third season, he wrote that there is a "lot packed in" the third season, predicting the revenge of the villainous Roundabout, saving Gray, a face-off between The Chief and Carmen, and the continued search for Carmen's mom in the show's next season.[42] At the same time, Martha Sorren of Bust also predicted that the fourth season could explore the relationship between Carmen and her mother.[43] Apart from these reviewers, Megan Summers of ScreenRant highlighted Wolfhard's role as Player, calling it one of his best roles,[44] and Prabhdeep Dhaliwal in The Peak stated that while the show is "geared towards a younger demographic," adults can still be entertained by it.[45] He also stated that the show has sympathetic characters and an "overarching theme of good winning over evil." Katherine Smith of Paste took a different tact. While stating that Carmen Sandiego has returned to relevance with the Netflix series, she also highlights how animated projects "hustle their employees out of sight," contrasting the gains in visible representation with "very plausible worker exploitation." She cites an example of Filipino company, Top Draw (working on the animation), which fired a whistleblower who demanded proper compensation.[46] She concludes by saying that in the current series, Carmen Sandiego is a female thief who "steals only from thieves now," and worries about where her character has gone, compared to the original story.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Recipients and nominees
2019 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children's Program Caroline Fraser, C.J. Kettler, Kirsten Newlands, Anne Loi, Duane Capizzi and Brian Hulme Nominated[47]
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Elaine Lee (as background painter) (for "The Chasing Paper Caper") Won[48]
2020 Annie Awards Best Character Design — TV/Media Keiko Murayama (for "The Chasing Paper Caper") Won
Best Music — TV/Media Jared Lee Gosselin, Steve D'Angelo and Lorenzo Castelli (for "The Chasing Paper Caper") Nominated
Best Production Design — TV/Media Eastwood Wong, Sylvia Liu, Elaine Lee, Linda Fong and Emily Paik (for "Becoming Carmen Sandiego") Nominated
Best Storyboarding — TV/Media Kenny Park (for "Becoming Carmen Sandiego") Won
Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Caroline Fraser, C.J. Kettler, Kirsten Newlands, Anne Loi, Duane Capizzi and Brian Hulme Nominated
Outstanding Directing for an Animated Program Jos Humphrey, Kenny Park, Mike West, Flávia Guttler and Jamie Simone Nominated
Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special Jamie Simone and Sierra Leoni Nominated
Individual Achievement in Animation Wei Li and Sylvia Liu Won
TCA Awards Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming Carmen Sandiego Nominated[49]
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^ Known as DHX Studios Vancouver for the first two seasons.
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Donald Trump Ungkap akan Nyapres Lagi di 2024
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Donald Trump akhirnya mengonfirmasi ke publik untuk pertama kali dia akan kembali maju pada pemilihan presiden Amerika Serikat (AS) pada 2024 mendatang. Pada pilpres 2020, Trump dikalahkan mantan wakil presiden Joe Biden.
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The Confederate battle flag, which rioters flew inside the US Capitol, has long been a symbol of white insurrection
A historic first: the Confederate battle flag inside the U.S. Capitol. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesConfederate soldiers never reached the Capitol during the Civil War. But the Confederate battle flag was flown by rioters in the U.S. Capitol building for the first time ever on Jan. 6. The flag’s prominence in the Capitol riot comes as no surprise to those who, like me, know its history: Since its debut during the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag has been flown regularly by white insurrectionists and reactionaries fighting against rising tides of newly won Black political power. An 1897 lithograph shows changes in Confederate flag design. The ‘Southern Cross’ design, chosen to visually distinguish Confederates from Union soldiers in battle, became a symbol of white insurrection. Library of Congress via National Geographic The infamous diagonal blue cross with white stars on a red background was never the Confederacy’s official symbol. The Confederacy’s original “stars and bars” design was too similar to the U.S. flag, which led to confusion on the battlefields, where troop positions were marked by flags. The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the “Southern Cross” as its battle flag – cementing it as a symbol of white insurrection. While it is technically the battle flag, it has been used the most, and therefore has become known more generally as the Confederate flag. The Confederate battle flag figures prominently in this depiction of the 1864 battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Kurz and Allison, restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons The original emblem Six decades before the Nazi swastika became an instantly recognizable symbol of white supremacists, the Confederate battle flag flew over the forces of the insurgent Confederate States of America – military troops organized in revolt against the idea that the federal government could outlaw slavery. The founding documents of the Confederacy make its goals of white supremacy and preservation of slavery explicitly clear. In March 1861, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens declared of the Confederacy, “its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.” The documents drafted by seceding states make this same point. Mississippi’s declaration, for instance, was very specific: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world.” Rioting white students at University of Mississippi hoist a Confederate battle flag in a backlash against James Meredith’s attendance as the first Black student in 1962. Bettman via Getty Images Backlash against racial integration After the Civil War, Confederate veterans groups used the flag at their meetings to commemorate fallen soldiers, but otherwise the flag mostly disappeared from public life. After World War II, though, the flag surfaced as part of a backlash against racial integration. Black soldiers who fought discrimination abroad experienced discrimination when they came home. Racist violence against Black veterans who had returned from battle prompted President Harry Truman to issue an executive order desegregating the military and banning discrimination in federal hiring. Truman also asked Congress to pass a federal ban on lynching, one of nearly 200 unsuccessful attempts to do so. In 1948, the retaliation for Truman’s integration efforts came, and the Confederate battle flag resurfaced as a symbol of white supremacist public intimidation. That year, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina Democrat, ran for president as the leader of a new political party of segregationist Southern Democrats, nicknamed the “Dixiecrats.” At their rallies and riots, they opposed Truman’s integration under the banner of the Confederate battle flag. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, white Southerners flew the Confederate battle flag at riots – including violent ones – to oppose racial integration, especially in schools. For example, in 1962, white students at the University of Mississippi hoisted it at a riot defying James Meredith’s enrollment as the university’s first Black student. It took the deployment of 30,000 U.S. troops, federal marshals and National Guardsmen to get Meredith to class after the violent race riot left two dead. Historian William Doyle called the riot – which featured the Confederate battle flag at its center – an “American insurrection.” Charleston, Charlottesville and the Capitol More recently, the Black Lives Matter era has seen an increase in violent incidents involving the Confederate battle flag. It has now featured prominently in at least three recent major violent events carried out by people on the far right. In 2015, a white supremacist who had posed with the Confederate battle flag online killed nine Black parishioners during a prayer meeting at their church. In 2017, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists carried the battle flag when they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, seeking to prevent the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. One white supremacist drove his car through a crowd of anti-racist counterprotestors, killing Heather Heyer. [Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation’s newsletter.] At the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, an image of an insurrectionist toting the Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol building arguably distills the siege’s dark historical context. In the background of the photo are the portraits of two Civil War-era U.S. senators – one an ardent proponent of slavery and the other an abolitionist once beaten unconscious for his views on the Senate floor. A man carries the Confederate battle flag in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, between portraits of senators who both opposed and supported slavery. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The flag has always represented white resistance to increasing Black power. It may be a coincidence of exact timing, but certainly not of context, that the riot happened the day after Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won U.S. Senate seats representing Georgia. Respectively, they are the first Black and first Jewish senators from the former Confederate state. Warnock will be only the second Black senator from below the Mason-Dixon Line since Reconstruction. Their historic victories – and President-elect Joe Biden’s – in Georgia happened through large-scale organizing and turnout of people of color, especially Black people. Since 2014, nearly 2 million voters have been added to the rolls in Georgia, signaling a new bloc of Black voting power. It should come as no surprise, then, that today’s white insurrectionists opposed to the shifting tides of power identify with the Confederate battle flag.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: Jordan Brasher, Columbus State University. Read more:Capitol siege raises questions over extent of white supremacist infiltration of US policeA second impeachment is just the start of Trump’s legal woes Jordan Brasher does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Less than a week before the inauguration, Vice President Mike Pence has reportedly called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations.Pence and Harris spoke over the phone Thursday, with Pence congratulating the incoming vice president and offering "his belated assistance," The New York Times reported on Friday and The Associated Press confirmed.This is the first time Pence and Harris have spoken since their debate in October, and the call was "described as gracious and pleasant," the Times writes. President Trump has yet to speak with President-elect Joe Biden since the election, having spent more than two months falsely claiming to have won.Pence may invite Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, to the vice-presidential residence prior to next week's inauguration, according to the Times, though this is reportedly not set in stone due to scheduling issues created by the ongoing security concerns following last week's Capitol riot.Trump is reportedly expected to leave Washington, D.C. the morning of the inauguration. The president previously confirmed he will skip Biden's swearing-in, but Pence is expected to attend.More stories from theweek.com Trump's vaccine delay is getting suspicious The worst-case scenario for America's immediate future 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's second impeachment
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his first public comments since the Jan. 6 violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump, said Thursday that law enforcement has arrested more than 100 people in connection with the assault and is aware of "an extensive amount of concerning online chatter" ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration.Most of those arrested so far have been far-right militants, off-duty police, retired military personnel, GOP officials, QAnon adherents, and white supremacists. For example, the man photographed carrying a Confederate battle flag through the Capitol, Kevin Seefried, and his son, Hunter Seefried, surrendered to the FBI in Delaware on Thursday, the Justice Department said.Embed from Getty ImagesAuthorities also arrested "liberal activist" John Sullivan on Thursday, making him, Politico says, "the first person to be charged who appears to have been active in liberal causes." Sullivan, who filmed the siege, claims he was just following the rioters as a "journalist," but the FBI said his own video showed him to be a booster of the lawlessness and even an active participant.Trump supporters, including Rudy Giuliani, and conservative media outlets pointed to Sullivan's arrest to bolster their counterfactual claim that "antifa" or Black Lives Matter were actually behind the assault on the Capitol. But "even before his arrest, left wing activists had described concerns in that community, going back some time, that Sullivan was a provocateur working with others, including his brother James, who has ties to the Proud Boys and runs a pro-Trump organization," Marcy Wheeler notes at EmptyWheel.> pic.twitter.com/oRri9hyHGv> > — New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) January 7, 2021"Sullivan's presence in the Capitol, and his previous record of anti-Trump activism, has been the focus of frenzied attention in the right-wing media," Robert Mackey reports at The Intercept, while "left-wing organizers have been keen to stress that they ejected Sullivan from their ranks months ago." Since adopting the nom de guerre "Activist John" last summer, Mackey notes, Sullivan has been blacklisted by "left-wing organizers associated with Black Lives Matter and antifascism in Utah, California, and the Pacific Northwest" who say he's "either a right-wing infiltrator or a dangerously naive amateur."More stories from theweek.com Trump's vaccine delay is getting suspicious The worst-case scenario for America's immediate future 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's second impeachment
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Federal prosecutors in a new court filing reportedly point to "strong evidence" that rioters who stormed the Capitol building last week aimed to "capture and assassinate elected officials."The prosecutors included this assessment while asking a judge to detain Jacob Chansley, one of the men who was arrested and charged following the deadly Capitol riot, Reuters reports."Strong evidence, including Chansley's own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government," the prosecutors wrote.Supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building on the day Congress was meeting to certify President-elect Joe Biden's election win, leaving five people dead. Trump was subsequently impeached for a second time for "incitement of insurrection" after delivering a speech calling on his supporters to march to the Capitol building.The prosecutors in the filing reportedly wrote that the charges against Chansley "involve active participation in an insurrection attempting to violently overthrow the United States government," adding that the "insurrection is still in progress." They also revealed that Chansley, who was photographed wearing horns at Vice President Mike Pence's desk, allegedly left a note for Pence that warned, "it's only a matter of time, justice is coming," Reuters reports. The filing, Politico writes, "spells out clearly the government's view of an ongoing 'insurrection movement' that is reaching a potential climax as Biden's inauguration approaches." More stories from theweek.com Trump's vaccine delay is getting suspicious The worst-case scenario for America's immediate future 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's second impeachment
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Lashana Lynch Wraps BBC Film and BFI’s ‘Ear For Eye’ Adaptation
December 1, 2020, 12:48 PM ·2 min read
“Captain Marvel” and “No Time To Die” star Lashana Lynch has wrapped principal photography on BAFTA and Olivier-winning Debbie Tucker Green’s “Ear For Eye” at Kennington Studios.
The film is an adaptation of Tucker Green’s own acclaimed play, which was staged at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2018, starring Lynch.
The play, and the film, follows British and American Black characters of different generations navigating their way through today’s society, offering a critical perspective on the state of the nation.
The film is produced by Fiona Lamptey for Fruit Tree Media. In October, Lamptey joined Netflix as director of U.K. features.
The cast also includes Tosin Cole (“The Souvenir”), Carmen Munroe (“Desmond’s”), Danny Sapani (“MotherFatherSon”), Nadine Marshall (“Sitting In Limbo”) and Arinzé Kene (“I’m Your Woman”).
The film is backed by BBC Film and the British Film Institute (BFI). Executive producers are Rose Garnett for BBC Film, Farhana Bhula for the BFI, Barbara Broccoli for Eon Productions and Tucker Green.
Plans for a multi-platform release in early 2021 will be announced soon, followed by a broadcast premiere on BBC Two in spring of 2021.
Tucker Green wrote the play “Born Bad” in 2003, for which she won the Olivier Award for most promising newcomer in 2004. She won the BAFTA for single TV drama in 2012 for “Random,” which was broadcast on Channel 4. She made her feature debut with “Second Coming,” which was nominated for the Sutherland award at the BFI London Film Festival, and she was nominated for outstanding debut at the BAFTAs. The film went on to win the Big Screen award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2015.
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DARZALEX FASPRO® (daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj) Becomes the First FDA-Approved Treatment for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis
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MCI Onehealth to present at Canaccord Canadian Tech Conference
TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MCI Onehealth Technologies Inc. ("MCI Onehealth", “the Company”) (TSX: DRDR), a clinician-led healthcare technology company focused on increasing access to and quality of healthcare, is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Dobranowski MD, MCI Onehealth’s CEO will be presenting at Canaccord Genuity’s Canadian Tech: New Wave of Public Companies Virtual Conference taking place January 19, 2021 at 12pm. The conference is dedicated to educating investors on the cohort of new public Canadian technology companies and connecting them with a select group who may form the next wave of new issuers in the year ahead. “With the recent completion of our IPO, I’m excited by the opportunity to communicate our recent progress and showcase the Company’s larger vision to investors while speaking to the opportunities that exist within the industry at large," said Dr. Dobranowski. “MCI Onehealth has a strong roadmap that I look forward to sharing at the Conference.” Already one of the leaders in primary care, MCI Onehealth is evolving its business from a brick and mortar clinic network towards a modernized technology-enabled health services platform. For additional details about the conference and Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., please visit: www.canaccordgenuity.com/capital-markets About MCI Onehealth:MCI Onehealth is a healthcare technology company focused on empowering patients and doctors with advanced technologies to increase access, improve quality, and reduce healthcare costs. As part of the healthcare community for over 30 years, MCI Onehealth operates one of Canada’s leading primary care networks with 25 clinics, serves over 850,000 patients annually and had over 200,000 telehealth visits last year. MCI Onehealth additionally offers an expanding suite of occupational health service offerings that support a growing list of over 250 corporate customers. Led by a proven management team of doctors and experienced executives, MCI Onehealth remains focused on executing a strategy centered around acquiring technology and health services that complement the company’s current roadmap.For more information, visit mcionehealth.com CONTACT: For media enquiries please contact: Genna Alexopoulos | genna@yprcanada.com | +1 (647) 671-4279
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Robotics Team Makes It to Final Round of NASA-Sponsored Competition
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NCPA: Community pharmacies can’t wait any longer for reliefAlexandria, Va., Jan. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the National Community Pharmacists Association filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations that enable pharmacy direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees that are driving small business neighborhood pharmacies out of business. The lawsuit alleges that the fees are without reasonable transparency, and they conceal from patients and taxpayers the true cost of prescription drugs. "Pharmacy clawbacks are fundamentally dishonest and unfair for patients and pharmacies, and they make it impossible for pharmacies to predict their costs," says NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey, pharmacist, MBA. “60 percent of community pharmacies believe they may go out of business in the next two years if the clawbacks are not addressed. That’s not just a threat to community pharmacies but also to the millions of patients who rely on them, whether during a public health emergency or otherwise. This is about fairness for community pharmacies and access for their patients. "NCPA and others have pursued a fix through the regulatory and legislative processes for years," Hoey says. "We have exhausted those options and unfortunately, small business independent pharmacies cannot wait any longer." The case, NCPA v. Azar, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In its complaint, NCPA argues that a rule allowing price concessions to be imposed on pharmacies long after the point of sale violates the language and intent of the Medicare Act. The lawsuit addresses an exception included in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule that states all negotiated prices must include price concessions from network pharmacies except those contingent price concessions that cannot reasonably be determined at the point of sale. The exception has opened a “pandora’s box” for Part D plans and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which are among the richest corporations in the world. A recent study cited in the complaint showed that pharmacy DIR fees have increased 1,600 percent since 2015, with $4 billion in DIR fees being squeezed from pharmacies in 2017 alone. Further, the exception was inserted into the final rule without providing notice to interested parties or letting them comment. That, says NCPA, violated the legal process for proper rulemaking. "PBMs force pharmacists to make an impossible choice: pay the concessions or lose your patients. Pharmacies have no practical ability to negotiate better terms because these are always take-it-or-leave it contracts. PBMs have been exploiting the loophole to extract billions from pharmacies without any benefit for patients," says Hoey. "Our backs are against the wall, and we won’t stop fighting until we win." BACKGROUND: Under the current system, PBMs – the middlemen hired by health insurers to administer prescription drug benefits – often claw back fees from pharmacies well after a transaction. Pharmacy DIR fees are recouped from pharmacies weeks or even months after a medication has been dispensed and the patient has left the pharmacy. The fees also disadvantage seniors, who are assessed higher cost-sharing (prescription copay) based on their Medicare Part D deductible rather than the retroactive, lower adjusted price. The result is seniors pay more out of pocket then they should until they reach Part D’s “catastrophic coverage” where taxpayers are then responsible for the majority of the costs. ### Founded in 1898, the National Community Pharmacists Association is the voice for the community pharmacist, representing more than 21,000 pharmacies that employ 250,000 individuals nationwide. Community pharmacies are rooted in the communities where they are located and are among America's most accessible health care providers. To learn more, visit www.ncpa.org. CONTACT: Andie Pivarunas National Community Pharmacists Association 703-600-1174 andrea.pivarunas@ncpa.org
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—The Great Lakes region accounted for 17.1 percent of angel investments in the first quarter, according to the latest Halo Report from Silicon Valley Bank, the Angel Resource Institute, and CB Insights. That trailed only California’s 17.7 percent of angel deal flow and bested the activity in New England (12.7 percent of the pie) and New York (12 percent). When considering the share of angel dollars invested during the quarter, the Great Lakes region (Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana) ranked highest with 24.6 percent, ahead of 16.7 percent in California. Among the top 10 most active angel groups in the quarter, the only Midwest representative was Madison-based Wisconsin Investment Partners.
—Cerner’s $1.3 billion cash acquisition of Siemens Health Services was a bold move that could have big implications for the electronic health records software field. The deal not only combines two of the big names in the industry, but it also strengthens the top competitor to Verona-based market leader Epic Systems.
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—Rick Anderson, a veteran healthtech executive whose career includes a high-level position with WebMD, was named CEO of Milwaukee-based Smart Choice MRI, a provider of flat-rate MRI services in Wisconsin. The company announced a new management team as part of a planned Midwest expansion. Anderson previously served as senior vice president for Sharecare, the health and wellness software platform co-founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz of TV fame. In the late 1990s, Anderson served as director of national accounts for WebMD. He also co-founded Milwaukee-based startup Alithias, a healthcare cost comparison tool.
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The Ancient City of Angkor – A Cautionary Tale
2nd in a series on Siem Reap
Previously in this series:
Of Back Roads and Red Dirt | A Primer to the Cambodian Countryside
Truth be told, I don’t know anything much about Cambodia before this trip. So are most of the people I talked to. Stories circulating online show others being so clueless they don’t know they are dressing inappropriately – some go shirtless, or worse, naked!
Ok, maybe it’s because of the heat, but still, it underscores the fact how little they know about the place and what these ancient structures mean to the local people. They think Siem Reap is just another exotic Southeast Asian beach town. Don’t get me wrong, Cambodia has beaches, but Siem Reap (where the concentration of the ancient temples are) is 280 miles from the nearest seashore.
I surmise most Filipinos are introduced to Cambodian history some time during middle school. This is where we’ve probably heard of Angkor Wat the first time. However, as is true with most of the things we learn in school, we only remember them by rote (only because we need to pass the subject) but not really getting the import of what was taught (more often than not, I suppose). Not only until later in life and until it fits into one’s scheme of things, does one able to make sense of these things.
Cambodia, for a long time, isn’t really the kind of destination Filipinos are very familiar with. Except recently, it isn’t in the Filipino tourist’s radar. Not even in the OFW’s radar. I mean, I don’t hear OFW’s saying: “Oh, I work in Cambodia“ very often. In fact, nada.
I think the one time it made an impression on me as an exciting destination was when it came out in the first Tomb Raider movie. A very smart move to break into popular culture, I would say. It has effectively put Cambodia back on the map.
The image of giant trees growing on top of ancient temple walls, with huge roots exposed, left a strong impression. There’s an otherworldly feel to it. It’s become iconic now.
This is a departure from the bad image the country has suffered for years under the Pol Pot regime – one of gruesome violence and genocide. Almost every Cambodian alive today has some loved one or relative, who fell victim to the atrocities. Truly a dark chapter in this country’s history.
Some people may not be too keen on studying history, hence, must have felt on the fence regarding this trip. I get that. But just like anything else in life that is good for us, like a healthy diet and exercise, it’s something we should develop a liking for, for our own good. It takes discipline.
Also, because our modern global civilization is faced with a similar crisis the ancients did, the repercussions of which we haven’t fully realized. We need all the help we can get to overcome it. Any precedence in history that could be of any value would be a good start to even get a bit of a clue on what’s the best way to deal with this problem.
And so, although I don’t know much about Cambodia, I approached it with an open mind. I was an empty cup willing to learn, and boy, did I realize a lot of things. Just the magnificence of it all – the splendor, the scale, the engineering marvel, especially at a time when (complex) machinery was unheard of – took my breath away. Mind you, this vast area dotted with numerous temple sites was once a vibrant metropolis (or whatever the equivalent of it is in ancient times). This, in fact, was once the world’s largest city before the Industrial Age – a world heritage that merits our admiration and appreciation. A gift to humanity.
There are three temple sites we visited that are in relatively close proximity to each other (satellite view below).
First is Ta Prohm, where part of the Tomb Raider movie was filmed. I’m sure you’ve become familiar with this image by now, thanks to the movie.
“Founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university, it was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm is in much the same condition in which it was found – the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor’s most popular temples with visitors” – Wikipedia
All this traveling back in time, at the same time being surrounded by magnificent ancient architecture, makes one feel like going on an adventure – Indiana Jones level 🙂 And to kick it off, we were given a group activity – a treasure hunt of sorts. We are to find a bas relief of an apsara head partially hidden behind some huge temple block ruins, overgrown with tree roots. We were just given a picture of how it looks like facing the image and then had to find the actual location for ourselves. Given the huge area we need to scour and the seemingly similar features of a lot of the places in the temple grounds, it seemed like an insurmountable task to accomplish. However, persistence and team work paid off and has won the day. Surely no task is so great with a clear vision and game plan, and a strong team spirit 🙂
Do you see in this photo where the apsara is hiding?
Apsaras seem to be the first ones to greet us upon entering our first temple – Ta Prohm. They serve as good introduction to Cambodian culture and history. In fact, they play a prominent part in the whole Angkorian culture and architectural theme of the day. Below are the apsaras stationed at the wall near the entrance.
“Apsara (in Hindu mythology) is a celestial nymph, typically the consort of a gandharva or heavenly musician. In the Cambodian culture, Khmer female figures that are dancing or are poised to dance are considered apsaras; female figures, depicted individually or in groups, who are standing still and facing forward in the manner of temple guardians or custodians are called devatas.” – Wikipedia
Here are some of the other areas inside the temple grounds. As expected, it’s teeming with tourists 🙂
Next stop is the Bayon Temple, also known as Angkor Thom.
“Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman’s death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences” – Wikipedia
It goes on to say that the JSA, the main conservatory body in charge of the conservation and preservation of the site, describes the temple as “the most striking expression of the baroque style” of Khmer architecture, as contrasted with the classical style of Angkor Wat.
This is where I got lost for a time, having been separated from the group. Was having a hard time finding my pass and so the group went ahead without me. By the time I was allowed to get in, the group is nowhere to be found. So I just made my way to the top and explored Bayon by myself.
Been exploring corridors and galleries on the lower levels and got few surprises here and there. Turned a corner and found “treasures” like this.
I wonder what it’s like being a Buddhist.
Made my way the to the top and found gigantic statues (towers) of Avalokiteshvara faces, a bodhisattva. This is actually a Bayon temple signature. Hence, its other title – ‘the face temple‘.
Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who are destined to become buddhas but postpone that final state in order to help humanity.
Another striking feature of Bayon is its adornment of 1.2 kms of extraordinary bas-reliefs incorporating more than 11,000 figures.
I wouldn’t be delving much into the details and stories behind these bas-reliefs but I highly suggest you search and read up on their background. It’s full of history and lots of interesting stories to tell. It’s like taking a peek into the soul of a proud kingdom – its glorious past, its people, its kings, its tales and legends; its everyday life; the mundane and the otherworldly; its idiosyncrasies and all.
Lonely Planet was on point when it said : “There is still much mystery associated with Bayon – such as its exact function and symbolism – and this seems only appropriate for a monument whose signature is an enigmatic smiling face”.
By this time, I was already able to catch up with the group.
Our final temple to visit is no other than the grandest and most majestic of them all – Angkor Wat. But before that, we first went to a restaurant outside the temple grounds as we all have been wanting to eat and take a break from all the walking and climbing, under a terribly hot weather.
Here are some of the food we devoured. I didn’t get the names of everything but some of them include: chicken with Khmer spice, deep-fried fish, fried egg, sauteed fried pork with eggplant, stir-fried veggies. I may not have gotten all the names correctly but you get the idea, right? No need to be all fussy about it 🙂
And so we entered the Angkor Wat temple grounds. ‘Massive’ is an understatement. We had to cross a body of water which seemed like some natural waterway, a river or something, but in reality is a gigantic man-made moat that surrounds the complex.
We noticed monkeys roaming around freely. There are those who seem to be welcoming us on the other end of the pontoon bridge, seated on stairwells and on railings.
Angkor Wat is “one of the largest religious monuments in the world, on a site measuring 162.6 hectares. It was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura (present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum” – Wikipedia
Angkor Wat was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century. Coming from a predominantly Catholic country, this is a sight to behold. I feel like finding new religion 😀
Though damage is minimal, Angkor Wat has not been spared the effects of modern warfare. In fact, before entering, our guide showed us bullet holes left by a shoot-out between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese forces in the late ’70’s. This photo, in particular, shows bullet still left inside one of the walls of this ancient structure.
Even more destructive than the war itself though, were the rampant looting of the archaeological finds, by art thieves working out of Thailand. One could not help but notice the numerous headless statues and figures, as a consequence of this looting.
“Breaking from the Shaiva tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to Vishnu. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation” – Wikipedia
Statue of god Vishnu
Once again, monkeys roam careless and free 😀
Angkor Wat is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia and is the country’s prime attraction for visitors.
Before entering the temple itself, we gathered in front of, what looked like a depression on the earth with a small lake-like structure at the bottom, to have our group and individual photos taken. This is a popular spot where people can take picture-perfect photos because of the reflection created by the water, for added drama.
Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple-mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology.
The magnificence, the splendor, the scale of this ancient wonder. I was in awe.
The temple is admired for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, its extensive bas-reliefs, and for the numerous devatas adorning its walls.
“The temple stands on a terrace raised higher than the city. It is made of three rectangular galleries rising to a central tower, each level higher than the last. Each gallery has a gopura at each of the points, and the two inner galleries each have towers at their corners, forming a quincunx with the central tower. Connecting the outer gallery to the second enclosure on the west side is a cruciform cloister called Preah Poan (the “Hall of a Thousand Gods”). The four small courtyards marked out by the cloister may originally have been filled with water. North and south of the cloister are libraries” – Wikipedia
The steep stairway symbolizes the difficulty of reaching heaven
“One of these temples, a rival to that of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo, might take an honorable place beside our most beautiful buildings. It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome…”
Henri Mouhot, 19th-century French naturalist and explorer
Yes, we romanticize how magnificent the structures are and how ingenious the engineering that was used to build them, but I don’t think people really understand the enormity and scale of this project even if I say it repeatedly and candidly. So, let’s put it in perspective, shall we?
The Khmer Empire ruled over a vast area of Southeast Asia, even larger than what modern Cambodia is today.
Its capital city is Angkor. At the time, before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, it was the world’s largest urban center. And in order to support such huge population, the Khmer built water management systems like huge reservoirs, canals, channels and dikes. They made good use of the resources that are available in season such as the monsoon. Water can be abundant in one season and scarce the next. This ingenious solution of efficiently utilizing a precious resource secured them a regular harvest.
For a long time, it has been a mystery how the society collapsed after about 200-300 years after its peak. There have been lots of theories, of course. Recently, however, a new one surfaced (and this is a real kicker). It states that environmental factors, otherwise known as ‘climate change‘ could have played a huge role in its demise. The ‘freaky’ weather patterns, like floods and droughts, overwhelmed those water management systems. And when I say freaky, I mean those that are not within the parameters of what is considered regular or normal. Basically, weather phenomenon that are off the charts.
We often hear about once in a 100-year type of flooding or drought, or heavy rainfall, right? They do happen as part of the natural cycles of the earth. What’s scary about our time though, is that our brand of climate change is self-inflicted. We create the causes for our own demise. And there’s no precedence of it anywhere in history. The CO2 levels and other pollutants we put in the air are staggering. Nowhere in recorded history has there been this much level of CO2 in the atmosphere. Scientists fear reaching a tipping point where we face the risk of a runaway weather, in which we wouldn’t have any control over nor could we predict with a much better certainty how the weather is going to behave.
Now who says history is not relevant to us today? We may have come a long way as a species but we surely have not learned from the errors of the past, or at least not have been as vigilant as we should have. The ancient ruins of Angkor are a poignant reminder of how even with the best technology and advancements, humans are no match to nature. We could very well suffer the same fate as the ancient Khmer people if we don’t change our ways.
So often we fail to value the natural world because of our greed. We treat it like a commodity, an unlimited resource. We need to realize that it is to our best interest to work with it and not against it.
Here’s to hoping things would work for the better. And soon.
Special thanks to Real World Adventure for arranging our tour of the temples.
To Vox for this video, where screen grabs of the maps of Southeast Asia were taken.
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Author zeroaintheroPosted on February 23, 2019 October 26, 2019 Categories Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, art, Bayon Temple, Buddhist, Cambodia, Cambodian, Cambodian restaurant, climate change, culture, entertainment, food & beverage, Hindu, indigenous, Khmer, religious, restaurant, science & technology, Siem Reap, Ta Prohm, temple, temple tour, travel, World HeritageTags Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, apsara, apsaras, Avalokiteshvara, ប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត, ព្រះបាទជ័យវរ្ម័នទី ៧, យសោធរបុរៈ, រឿង ប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត, អង្គរធំ, អង្គរវត្ត 意味, baroque, bas relief, bas-reliefs, Bayon, Bayon Temple, bodhisattva, buddhas, Buddhist, Cambodia, canals, channels, chicken with Khmer spice, classical, climate change, CO2, devas, devatas, dikes, Filipinos, galleried temple, gandharva, gopura, Greece, Hall of a Thousand Gods, Henri Mouhot, Hindu, Industrial Age, Industrial Revolution, Jayavarman VII, Khmer, Khmer architecture, Khmer Empire, Khmer King Jayavarman VII, Khmer King Suryavarman II, Khmer Rouge, Mahayana Buddhism, Michelangelo, monastery, monsoon, Mount Meru, OFW, OFWs, Pol Pot, Preah Poan, quincunx, Rajavihara, reservoirs, Rome, runaway weather, Shaive, Siem Reap, Solomon, Southeast Asia, Suryavarman II, Ta Prohm, temple-mountain, the face temple, Tomb Raider, university, Vietnamese, Vishnu, World Heritage, Yaśodharapura4 Comments on The Ancient City of Angkor – A Cautionary Tale
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