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"...these dinners [in RLE] were a seminal experience which both introduced us to a new world of ideas and new friends, many of whom became collaborators in later years. [Norbert] Wiener's theme that it was the organization of symbols, not their physical embodiment, bonded us together whatever our disciplinary origins."
Prof. H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech to deliver the second Hermann Anton Haus Lecture
posted February 3, 2006 at 11:00 am
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. H. Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, will deliver the second Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The lecture will take place at the MIT campus on Wednesday, 26 April 2006, in the Hermann Anton Haus Room of the RLE Conference Center (Room 36–428).
The title of the lecture is, “The New Science of Quantum Information — From Quantum Computers to Teleportation of Quantum States.”
Dr. Kimble has been a world-leading pioneer in the field of quantum optics. His group at Caltech investigates the quantum mechanics of open systems, particularly phenomena associated with the dissipation and decoherence that arise for interactions of a quantum system with its environment. In 1998, Dr. Kimble led an international effort that succeeded in demonstrating the first true teleportation of a quantum state, taking quantum teleportation from a purely theoretical concept into an actual experiment. Possible applications of this work include concepts that could be used for developing quantum computers and scalable quantum networks.
The Hermann Anton Haus Lecture is RLE’s visiting lecturer program designed to bring the leading world researchers in fields intersecting RLE interests to RLE to share their thoughts and perspectives with the MIT community. The lecture honors the memory of Professor Haus, and continues the process of collaborative dialog that he promoted throughout his lifetime.
Caltech Quantum Optics Group
Herman Anton Haus Fund
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Take Action to Stop Illegal Surveillance
URGENT: In just a few days, Congress will move to codify into law the unconstitutional, mass electronic surveillance of all Americans, for the first time in U.S. history.
They'll do this despite the backlash of millions of people who called for an end to these programs in the years since they were first revealed, and the security and intelligence experts who have said these programs make us less safe.
But there's a proposed amendment that would close a loophole that allows the NSA to spy on Americans without probable cause or a warrant.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell your lawmakers to support an amendment to close the "backdoor search" loophole that allows the NSA to spy on Americans.
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Chance the Rapper made his Saturday Night Live debut during its Chris Hemsworth-hosted episode, with the Chicago artist premiering a new song titled “Somewhere in Paradise” along with the Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment cut “Sunday Candy.”
An effusive Chance seemed thrilled to be added to the shortlist of rappers who have appeared on SNL, a list he retweeted during the actual episode. While debuting “Somewhere in Paradise,” he relished on the line, “Ain’t my principal told me I can’t rap on this show,” twisting the song’s original lyrics and triumphantly pointing down to the Studio 8H stage. Jeremih also made a surprise appearance to deliver the song’s chorus.
In his second performance of the night, Chance the Rapper – along with Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – next doled out “Sunday Candy,” a standout track from their collaborative Surf, one of Rolling Stone‘s 50 Best Albums of 2015.
Immediately following the SNL debut of “Somewhere in Paradise,” the rapper shared the studio version of the track, which features contributions from Jeremih, R. Kelly and Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, as a free download through his official website.
In This Article: Chance the Rapper, Jeremih, Saturday Night Live
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Here's How Knowing Your Discipline Style Can Help You Be A Better Parent
by Cat Bowen
Whether you're a lifelong rule-follower or more loosey goosey about the finer points probably says a lot about how you parent your children. But how do you know your own discipline style? Experts say that identifying and understanding the way you operate as a parent might help prevent potential head-butting with your partner and your children as the need to correct your child's behavior arises.
The only way to truly understand your discipline style is to evaluate how you react when in a situation with your child. That's because discipline is a reactionary event, not necessarily a predictive approach, even if how you react is already coded within your personality. Licensed clinical therapist Joseph Tropper, MS, LCPC, CCTP, tells Romper that understanding how you discipline is an important key to unlocking how you can best navigate the murky waters of parenting, because "oftentimes we are left to our own devices to figure out what works best for our child."
"Always be open to learning and changing your attitude and beliefs about best practice parenting," he says. Evaluating yourself is the first step.
But what are the basic styles of discipline? Are they universal? It turns out that much like anything involving parenting, that there are some pretty established categories. Dr. Jessica Myszak, a child psychologist and director of The Help and Healing Center, tells Romper that there are a few main styles of discipline and most parents will fall somewhere within their boundaries: "authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful." Other therapists might not use these exact words, but the sentiments are similar.
"Authoritative parents are parents who have high expectations for their children, but are also highly responsive to their needs," Myszak says. "They enforce rules but also help their children as they need it." This is the parenting style I most align with. I say that "I have a firm hand but give warm hugs." Yes, my kids have limits and I have high expectations, but I try to provide all the tools necessary and positive reinforcement to help them achieve their goals. Do I absolutely lose my crap sometimes? Of course. I also have been known to let things slide. But overall, this suits me.
Authoritarian parents take this a step further, notes Myszak. She says that they "are parents who have high expectations for their children, with less support. They often view that children should do what they are told, or they will be disciplined." This is more in-line with how I was raised. As the grandchild of immigrants, I feel like much of this style is cultural. It's a sink-or-swim style of disciplining, and whether I liked it or not, I definitely learned how to swim. (Even if I had to learn to develop my own strokes.)
As for permissive parents, they're just what you'd expect. Myszak says that these "parents often treat their child as a friend rather than acting like an authority figure. They are loving and caring, but don’t enforce rules and may either ignore or give in to their child when they act out." I know for a fact that at some point in every parent's life, they are the permissive parent. Maybe you're just over the day, or maybe you're not feeling great and you give in. The only problem is if it becomes a habit, and if you're letting your child routinely run roughshod over your limits.
Most of us aren't neglectful parents, which Myszak defines as parents "who are generally uninvolved with their child’s life. They do not enforce rules or structure, and are not present to provide support and loving guidance." I'm not talking about a parent with ADHD who forgets a test, or permission slip to the zoo. (Hello, me.) This is a parent who just cannot be bothered.
But no parent fits neatly into any of these categories. Yes, you might feel like you are more one than the other, but they're not monoliths of discipline. They are, like anything else, a shifting set of markers that help us find our way, and clinical psychologist Dr. Sarvenaz Sepehri agrees.
"Your discipline style as a parent is often determined by who your child is," she says, adding that "parents with a self-motivated teen who sees responsibility and independence as a package deal likely doesn't encounter the bad cop too often. So does that mean they have a laissez-faire parent? Not necessarily." Just as a parent of a strong-willed child might be forced to become more authoritarian, or the parent of someone who needs more help socially or academically might be more authoritative.
Parenting is truly difficult at the best of times. Determining your discipline style is just one more tool that you can use to help you figure out how best to proceed.
Experts:
Joseph Tropper, MS, LCPC, CCTP, licensed clinical therapist
Dr. Jessica Myszak, child psychologist and director of The Help and Healing Center
Dr. Sarvenaz Sepehri, clinical psychologist
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Here's Why Seeing 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' In IMAX Might Be Worth The Pricier Ticket
by Karen Veazey
When IMAX first debuted in the United States, it was assumed it would be a great format for showcasing the grandeur of documentaries and nature films. But in recent years, every blockbuster to come through theaters has been offered in IMAX. This weekend one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year opens, which begs the question: Should you spring to see Solo: A Star Wars Story in IMAX or will the normal big screen suffice?
The hotly anticipated movie is made in the same spirit of Rogue One, intended not to further the overall Star Wars saga but to fill in gaps in the viewers knowledge. In this case, the focus is on the early life of Han Solo: just how did he become the scoundrel we grew to love and what was his life like before he hooked up with the Rebellion? Chewbacca and Solo's longtime friend Lando Calrissian — played by Donald Glover — also get plenty of screen time.
The film is sure to include a lot of throwback details to other films in the franchise as well as an epic chase or two. And viewing it on an IMAX screen would serve those elements well and let the viewer get totally immersed into the complex scenery of new planets.
But was Solo: A Star Wars Story created to be seen in IMAX? That's an important distinction that can make or break the experience.
Although the producers and directors of Solo: A Star Wars Story haven't commented on whether they advise watching the movie in IMAX, Fansided reported that movie can indeed be viewed in IMAX. And those behind the film did go through the trouble of shooting key scenes for an IMAX screening, according to Variety, which is a good indication they really want to make the experience worth it.
Disney, which owns the Star Wars franchise, recently resigned its deal with IMAX, according to Variety, so all of the company's big tentpole films are at least partially filmed using IMAX technology. And that includes Solo: A Star Wars Story, which means viewers should really experience everything from the X-Wing fighters zooming by to Lando Calrissian’s cape blowing in the breeze.
And don’t forget that IMAX sound is as technically complex as its visuals, as Gizmodo explained, which means Chewie’s comments and Solo's smirking silences will all be crystal clear.
The cost of an IMAX ticket is usually $3 to $4 more than a normal ticket, according to information from theater chains AMC and Regal. That may be well worth it for many viewers. But if you're taking your little ones with you to see the latest installment, it's important to keep their limits in mind. For some children, especially young ones, the audio and visual stimulation of the IMAX theater may be overwhelming, as Fandango explained. And anything that might be a little scary is going to be bigger than life on that massive screen.
"Many kids won't react any differently to an IMAX movie than a regular one, but some might be frightened by the supersized screen," according to Fandango. "...those particularly prone to motion sickness might feel a bit queasy during an IMAX showing (3D movies can trigger motion sickness in those who are sensitive as well)."
So, ultimately, if you’re a casual viewer, or are really just interested in seeing how the creators developed the origin story for Han Solo, it’s probably not worth it to spring the extra bucks for a IMAX screening. But if you’re the viewer who wants the complete visual and audio experience alongside the story, then the extra money will certainly be well spent.
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GOP candidates make reducing power of federal courts a campaign issue
Muriel Kane
Even though the U.S. federal court are hardly hotbeds of liberal sentiment by most standards, their willingness to uphold freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, and equal protection for gay and lesbian citizens has frequently irked conservatives.
Now a majority of would-be Republican presidential candidates appear to have decided that proposing to limit the power of the courts could be a winning campaign issue -- especially among Tea Party-style voters.
Earlier this month, for example, Newt Gingrich declared that as president he would feel free to ignore Supreme Court rulings. He later went on to suggest that a judge who had ruled that a public high school could not include a formal prayer in its graduation ceremony should be forced to defend his decision before a Congressional committee.
Most of the other candidates have hopped on the anti-judicial bandwagon as well, with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman being the only holdouts. Rick Santorum, for example, complains that "we are tired of them feeling that these elites in society can dictate to us.”
As the New York Times reported on Sunday, "Gov. Rick Perry of Texas favors term limits for Supreme Court justices. Representatives Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Ron Paul of Texas say they would forbid the court from deciding cases concerning same-sex marriage. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania want to abolish the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, calling it 'a rogue court' that is 'consistently radical.'”
Paul has already gone so far as to introduce a bill, the "We the People Act," that would restrict the jurisdiction of federal courts and make any violation "an impeachable offence."
Although many of the proposals would probably be found unconstitutional -- particularly those which assert that Congress can legislatively overturn Supreme Court rulings -- a Republican Congress might use other methods to limit the influence of the courts. Gingrich, for example, has suggested withholding funding from the 9th Circuit Court to force them to fire their law clerks and turn off the lights in their courtrooms.
The executive director of the Justice at Stake Campaign, Bert Brandenburg, told the Associated Press that he is concerned the attacks on federal judges may mark the start of a "new cycle of attempts to politicize the courts" and that the proposals would make judges "accountable to politicians, not the Constitution."
Law professor Barry Friendman, however, is skeptical of the proposals, pointing out that any attempt to limit the power of the federal courts -- which are presently dominated by judges appointed by Republican presidents -- would only increase the influence of state courts, which tend to be more liberal.
"The wonder of it coming from the Republicans now is that we have what is easily the most conservative Supreme Court in many, many years," he told the AP. "This is nothing more than red meat they throw to the conservative base."
Photo from IowaPolitics.com, found at Flickr.
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Michelle Malkin: Democratic 'lynch mobs' are attacking ALEC
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin is accusing Democratic "lynch mobs" of attacking the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and Republican donors in an effort to distract voters from the nation's economic problems.
"They've got gimmicks like the Buffett rule, they're attacking 'evil oil companies,' 'evil Republicans' that want dirty air an water and don't care about kids or old people," Fox News host Sean Hannity complained to Malkin on Wednesday. "They're elevating controversies like the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, Sandra Fluke case."
"America has been collectively a slow learner when it comes to [President] Barack Obama," Malkin opined. "We were frustrated, you and I, trying to get the message out in 2008, and that is why we're trying overtime, redoubling our efforts to vet the president, not only his record over the last four years, but everything that led up to his grooming, the marinating in this leftist, progressive ideology."
"And it's going to get worse," she continued. "The fact that we have so many of these little lynch mobs that are going after Republican donors, Republican legislative associations like ALEC, and are trying to use as many ad hominem attacks as possible."
"The president is diminishing himself by allowing himself to run a campaign like this," Hannity agreed. "He's diminishing the office, diminishing himself, seemingly petty. And I don't know if that's going to work -- I don't see that working for him in the long term."
"Unfortunately, we have to battle a public education system that brainwashes these Obama zombies -- to use Jason Mattera's great term -- of these young generations. And President Obama has played these young people like a fiddle. He goes on comedy shows and does the slow jam to try and lull them into this sense of success."
ALEC has been under rhetorical fire from liberal groups since the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, whose defense hinges upon a claim of self defense under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which ALEC pushed in other states.
In response to the public outcry over ALEC’s support for the laws, the group said it had eliminated a task force that focused on non-economic issues, but it wasn’t enough to keep a number of corporate clients, like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Proctor & Gamble and Mars, Inc. from leaving.
ALEC has since called the backlash part of an “intimidation campaign” against its members. In a statement Monday, ALEC legal counsel Alan P. Dye called Common Cause a “liberal front group” attacking ALEC because of differences in “philosophical terms.”
The advocacy group Common Cause, which has been organizing boycotts against ALEC's corporate members, has filed an official complaint with the IRS charging that ALEC was lobbying in violation of its tax exempt status.
Watch the video below from Fox News' Hannity, broadcast April 25, 2012.
-- With earlier reporting by Stephen C. Webster
(h/t: Media Matters)
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Greenwald shreds Rep. Rogers' spying defense: He's 'exactly the reason' we need transparency
Appearing on CNN with host Howard Kurtz on Sunday, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald responded to Rep. Mike Rogers' (R-MI) allegation that he doesn't really "have a clue" about what's going on with the National Security Agency's massive spying programs, saying that people like Rogers are "exactly the reason" why this whole process requires transparency.
"First of all, to the extent that politicians like Republican Mike Rigers are running around boating that only they know, but not the rest of us know, about what the U.S. government is doing in terms of spying on its own citizens, that to me is exactly the reason why transparency is so vital here," he said. "We shouldn't have a massive spying aparatus being constructed completely beyond democratic accountability and beyond the knowledge of the citizens on whom it is spying... That's exactly why, as a journalist, I think it's so vital to shine light on what it is that the government is doing."
Greenwald also responded to Rogers' other claim: that he'd done real damage to U.S. national security by helping reveal the widespread nature of the NSA's spying dragnet.
"Every terrorist on the planet already knows, and has known for a long time, that the United States is trying to surveil their communications, eavesdrop on their telephone calls, read their emails. Any terrorist who isn't already aware of that is a terrorist incapable of tying their shoes, let alone detonating a bomb successfully in the United States. That isn't anything about what we disclosed."
"What we disclosed is that the American government is surveilling its own citizens, people who are suspected of no wrongdoing," he went on. "The only thing that has been damaged here is not national security. What has been damaged is the reputation and credibility of the political officials who want to hide behind top secret designations to conceal their own wrongdoing, and that's really what they're angry about."
This video is from CNN's "Reliable Sources," aired Sunday, June 9, 2013.
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St Louis protesters say cops are more aggressive 3 years after Michael Brown's death
A woman reacts as she is pushed by police in riot gear during a protest after a not guilty verdict in the murder trial of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
In interviews with the Guardian, veterans of the protests following the shooting of Michael Brown say that street confrontations with the police have worsened in the past three years.
Last weekend protesters turned out in force after white ex-cop Jason Stockley was acquitted of first-degree murder for killing Anthony Lamar Smith, 24.
Following the protests in 2014, after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, the federal government intervened with the Department of Justice issuing a scathing report calling for reforms.
The Guardian goes on to note that "there is evidence that in Ferguson, the consent decree – essentially a court order for the department to make certain reforms and adjustments – is working," but adds that other agencies have not and, instead, have refined their techniques and clamped down harder on protesters.
According to Christy Lopez a Georgetown law professor who worked on the DoJ report, "That’s one jurisdiction and it has no impact on what’s happening to the St Louis police."
Pointing out that she witnessed St. Louis cops chanting, "whose streets, our streets” last weekend as police conducted mass arrests of protesters, Lopez stated, "You can’t legislate goodwill.”
“It is worse than if they hadn’t learned anything. It’s more as if they’ve learned all the wrong lessons and drawn all the wrong conclusions,” she explained, noting the police clamped down faster, used new street techniques to bottle up protesters and then tear-gassed participants before arresting them.
Equally dismaying were comments made by interim police chief, Lawrence O’Toole, who announced, “The police owned tonight … We’re in control.”
According Gina Torres, the mother of Isaiah Hammett,22, who was killed by police in June -- nothing has changed and her push for independent investigations of the shootings have fallen on deaf ears.
“How can you have an investigation by the same police that murdered your kid? We need other people for investigations, because they’re going to write what they want. They’re going to sit there and say that they were innocent," she explained."We need people to investigate these killings who are not police officers.”
You can read the whole report here.
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by Alan Rapp on November 12, 2008
in Essays , Theme Week
After Sean Connery’s one film return, Diamonds are Forever, to keep the franchise alive, producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman needed to find a new leading man to keep the Bond saga alive. Jeremy Brett, Julian Glover and Michael Billington were considered (Glover and Billington eventually showed up as Bond villains).
In the end the role went to The Saint star Roger Moore who had briefly been originally considered for the role before it was given to Connery. Moore would go on to star in seven of the now 22 Bond films, the most of any actor to play the role in the series (discounting Connery’s late remake Never Say Never Again). Fleming hardliners and die-hard Connery fans were upset with Moore’s lighter touch and more humorous and suave version of 007. However the fans, and money, still rolled into the box office, and Moore found his own niche as a different, but still enjoyable, Bond.
Moore’s first film is something of a trainwreck that ended the most turbulent Bond years. It’s a wonder the series survived the disappointing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the terrible Diamonds are Forever and the unbelievably strange Live and Let Die. Of all the films in the series this one stands out as the most dated as a 70’s film that more resembles a blaxploitation film of the era (or even a “B” horror film with it’s interest in voodoo, the supernatural, and the ability to tell the future through tarot cards) than your typical Bond flick. Still it contains Moore’s first performance as Bond, the lovely Jane Seymour as Solitaire, and one of the best Bond title songs, ever. The plot involves Bond investigating the death of MI6 agents in New York which leads him to San Monique and a deadly drug dealer Dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Not Bond’s best hour, but far from the worst of the series.
James Bond becomes the newest obsession for the infamous assassin Fransisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), better known for his weapon of choice as “the man with the golden gun.” The plot of the film centers around Bond and Scaramanga hunting each other as Bond also investigates a scientist with a new solar power energy source that Scaramanga has deadly plans for. We get two Bond girls, the lovely Maud Adams as Scaramanga’s mistress Andrea, and Bond’s MI6 operative, and former flame, Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland). In all facets a good entry for Moore, who had begun to grow comfortable in the role, and for the series by returning to a more classical Bond-style picture. The film also was helped by Lee as a classic Bond villain, and a new take on the sidekick by casting Herve Villechaize (Fantasy Island‘s Tatu) as Scaramanga’s devious assistant Nick Nack.
Bond’s tenth film, and Moore’s third, is the first of the series not to be based, at least in part, on an Ian Fleming novel (though Fleming allowed them to use the title from an unrelated story). It’s Moore’s best, and one of the best of the entire series. The film focuses on a joint operation between the British and the Soviets to prevent a madman (Curd Jurgens) from launching stolen nuclear weapons and beginning WWIII. The British of course send Bond, the Soviets send their best agent Anya Amassavo (Barbara Bach), codename XXX. The partnership produces some heat and hatred as XXX discovers Bond killed her former lover in Switzerland. The film is memorable for Stromberg’s underwater city, a female agent who is Bond’s equal, big battle scenes (of the type not seen since You Only Live Twice), the title song “Nobody Does it Better” by Carly Simon, and the first appearance of Jaws (Richard Kiel).
James Bond in space. Bond is sent to investigate the disappearance of a Moonraker space shuttle orchestrated by Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), who plans to eradicate the Earth from space, creating a new world aboard his space station to be the beginnings of the new human race. With the help of terrifically named undercover CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles), Bond goes into space, once again fights Jaws, and saves the day. The ridiculous premise (in an attempt to cash-in on the sci-fi box office boom Star Wars began) has earned it snicker and sneers from many fans and critics. The film also “borrows” more than a few of the themes and plot threads for The Spy Who Loved Me including a villain bent on destroying the world from the safety of his secret base. Although it’s far from the best of the series, it does contain some memorable moments that make it an enjoyable, if campy, entry into the franchise.
A script that was melded together from parts of three different Fleming stories gives us the last great Bond film with Roger Moore. Bond attempts to recover an ATAC, an important military system used to coordinate the British Navy’s nuclear submarines. Bond’s search is aided by the daughter of murdered marine archaeologists (Carole Bouquet) who’s beauty is matched by her deadly accuracy with a crossbow. They find themselves in the middle of a battle between Greek spies Kristatos (Juline Glover) and Columbo (Topol). With the help of Columbo and his men, Bond storms Kristatos’ mountaintop fortress and stops the ATAC from being handed over to the KGB. Deadly and beautifully shot in the coasts of Italy and Greece, including some wonderful underwater photography, the film is also memorable for it’s opening sequence involving Bond’s final battle with Ernst Stravo Blofield.
The death of 009 and the theft of a Faberge egg lead Bond to an Afghan prince (Louis Jordan), a Soviet general (Steven Berkoff), and a smuggling cult led by a woman named Octopussy (Maud Adams, making her second appearance as a Bond girl), in India. Bond wins over Octopussy and together they try to stop Khan’s plan which involves a train, a traveling circus, a nuclear device, and James Bond dressed up like a clown. That’s right, James Bond dressed up as a clown. Not much of interest here in this forgettable entry into the Bond franchise. Robert Brown takes over the role of M. Roger Moore really starts to show his age (55), though he does supply some rather super-human abilities in the action scenes that make Moonraker seem quite rational. Also, Bond plays Backgammon instead of Baccarat? Huh? Someone want to explain to me how that’s cool?
Not even Christopher Walken and Duran Duran can save Bond here. In Moore’s final film, Bond investigates microchips and racehorses. Wow. A look at a businessman (Walken), who was experimented on as a child by Nazi scientists, and whose company makes the chip, reveals a plot to fix races by a time released drug given to the horses during a race. He also plans to detonate bombs along the San Andreas fault creating a huge earthquake. With the help of a beautiful geologist (Tanya Roberts), Bond defeats the mad horse racing, earthquake plotting psycho, and his crazy Amazon sidekick (Grace Jones), and saves the day. Not the best Bond, but memorable for the last performances of Moore (and his least favorite) as well as Lois Maxwell as Ms. Moneypenny, and the opening Siberian icecap sequence (including the iceberg submarine) with Bond girl Mary Stavin.
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Chesterfield Elementary School Receives a SRTS Mini-Grant
Chesterfield Elementary School in Chesterfield NJ has been awarded one of twenty five mini-grants from the National Center for Safe Routes to School and Schwinn’s Helmets on Heads Program. The two organizations teamed up to provide these $1,000 mini-grants to twenty five schools throughout the country. These mini-grants are intended to support a common goal of both organizations: to support educators, communities and families in encouraging children to safely bike to school.[lightbox link=”http://www.saferoutesnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/National-Partnership-logo.png” thumb=”http://www.saferoutesnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/National-Partnership-logo.png” width=”181″ align=”right” title=”National Partnership logo” frame=”true” icon=”image”]
With their mini-grant, Chesterfield Elementary School will purchase bicycle equipment to launch a bicycle safety program during their regular health and physical education classes. Their curriculum will include instruction on various bicycle safety skills, proper helmet fitting techniques and brain injury awareness. Once the fifth grade students graduate from the program, they will be able to assist in teaching these classes the following year as sixth graders.
The National Center for Safe Routes to School has reported receiving 170 eligible mini-grant applications from schools and community organizations nationwide. Chesterfield was able to distinguish their community in this highly competitive process through their innovative idea that identified a need for bicycle safety education and proposed a sustainable program to address it. Congratulations Chesterfield Elementary!
Learn more about the mini-grant program and view the full list of mini-grant recipients here
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Barnaby Joyce citizenship: Email that could bring down the deputy PM was sent on August 7 at 12.31pm
By Adam Gartrell
Updated August 14, 2017 — 5.42pm first published at 11.13am
Last Monday I got a phone call from a normally reliable source. With the section 44 wrecking ball still swinging through Parliament, the source suggested I might want to take a closer look at Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's citizenship.
My first reaction was to laugh. Joyce had been in Parliament since 2004, serving in both chambers. He'd risen to the second most powerful office in the land. Surely he'd done his due diligence? Plus, Joyce was a guy who prided himself in being authentically Aussie. The thought he might secretly be a Kiwi was almost too outlandish to contemplate.
The fear of getting scooped is a powerful motivator in journalism. So I quickly started digging, establishing that Joyce's father - James Joyce - had been born in the South Island city of Dunedin in 1924. He was born a British subject but New Zealand citizenship laws made him a New Zealand citizen. The same laws - the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 - said: "A person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a New Zealand citizen by descent if his father was a New Zealand citizen."
That seemed pretty black and white: there was no requirement to activate the citizenship, it was automatic.
So at 12.31pm on Monday, August 7, I sent Joyce's media adviser, Jake Smith, an email entitled: "Is the boss a Kiwi?"
I set out a series of questions based on what I'd found. During a subsequent phone call, Jake was dismissive. We've had all these questions before, he said, but there's nothing to see here. The NZ authorities have told us we don't have a problem, Barnaby established that many years ago.
I wasn't convinced. I dug some more and found a number of places where the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said citizenship by descent was automatic, and registration was only needed if you wanted a passport.
I went to the New Zealand high commission and the DIA and put to them a "hypothetical scenario" because they would not comment on specific cases. I pressed them repeatedly for a response but they did not answer.
At this point I decided I needed some extra firepower and brought colleague Amy Remeikis on board. I ran her through it and she agreed - there was something here.
So we decided to ask some experts. George Williams and Anne Twomey, Australia's top constitutional experts, were the logical choice. Both agreed that Joyce could be in trouble, but cautioned they were not experts on New Zealand law.
We found Anna Hood at the University of Auckland, an international law expert who had written a paper on New Zealand citizenship. She too agreed: at the very least Barnaby had a case to answer.
Satisfied we had something, we went back to Smith in Joyce's office at 1.39pm on Thursday, August 10.
"We have done some more digging, we have spoken to NZ authorities and we have obtained advice from three leading experts. Based on all this, we believe there are some open questions here - and we believe we have enough to write a story saying as much," we emailed.
"Our advice is that any person born to a Kiwi father between 1949 and 1978 automatically became an NZ citizen by descent. There is a further process you can go through to register that citizenship - the process that confers the rights such as passports etc. But even if that citizenship is never registered, the person is still an NZ citizen."
We now know that August 10 was when the government started discussing this looming bombshell with the Solicitor-General.
But Smith told us he would only respond to an on-the-record response from the New Zealand high commission. We explained they hadn't given us one yet but we still believed the story was strong enough run.
Ultimately, we decided to give Smith and Joyce some more time: it's a big thing to accuse the Deputy Prime Minister of potentially being ineligible to sit in the Parliament.
But first thing on Monday - at 7.56am - we told Smith his time was up. We were ready to write.
The story was just about ready to go when Joyce got to his feet in the House of Representatives to tell a stunned Parliament he may be a dual citizen and would refer himself to the High Court.
After repeatedly ignoring us and obfuscating, he finally confessed.
Adam Gartrell
Adam Gartrell is a former health and industrial relations correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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André-Jean is a Primary Care Paramedic, Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, professional avalanche forecaster, ski patroller and has been working in the outdoor industry as instructor and guide since 1990. For more than 10 years André-Jean has worked for Sirius Wilderness Medicine as a senior instructor and a medical attendant on remote worksites in the high arctic. He teaches Sirius programs in the Wilderness Leadership program at Capilano University and trains professional ski patrollers in first aid, avalanche rescue, critical decision making and leadership. Over the years he has gained experience in rock and ice climbing, backcountry skiing, mountaineering, as well as white-water and sea kayaking.
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David is Professor and Director of the Outdoor and Adventure Tourism Program at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). He also heads the University’s Outdoor Expertise and Research Laboratory (LERPA). His principal areas of expertise include remote emergency response, risk management and experiential education. David actively contributes to various sectors of outdoor pursuits, including remote public safety, search and rescue, technical and professional training. He runs several university and government projects including a cross-faculty regional project in adventure tourism and ecotourism at UQAC, a user safety project for the Haute-Gaspésie backcountry, and a project sponsored by Quebec’s Department of Public Safety and the National Secretariat for Search and Rescue to develop a training program for search and rescue volunteers in Quebec. David is a Master Instructor of Sirius Wilderness First Aid programs.
Matt Cruchet, HBOR, BSc, PCP
Matt is one of Canada’s leading experts in outdoor risk management. He is founding president of Direct Bearing Inc., a safety and risk management consulting firm. He regularly speaks at conferences and symposiums and his various publications are used by outdoor professionals in the field as well as in academic curricula throughout North America. He is a part-time professor at Algonquin College (ON), where he teaches in the Outdoor Adventure Programs. Matt has degrees in Outdoor Recreation and in Natural Sciences from Lakehead University (ON), and is a primary care paramedic currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Paramedicine. He is also Deputy Fire Chief and a Community Emergency Management Coordinator. Matt has been with Sirius since 1996 and is one of our Master Instructors.
Dominique Ballet, EMT
Dominique has more than 20 years of experience in pre-hospital emergency care. He is an emergency medical technician and a wilderness first responder. He has been a Sirius instructor since 2001, and has taught our courses all across Canada. Dominique combines his passion for pre-hospital emergency care and his love for the arctic in his work for Sirius. He has frequent mandates in the Canadian north, both as remote medic and as instructor. He is also a First Aid Instructor for Québec’s Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST), and has guided extensively across Canada and abroad.
Yannick Sisla, W-EMT
Yannick is a senior Sirius instructor, remote site medic and a member of our administrative staff. As a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, Yannick divides his time between working as a medic on remote work sites in the Canadian north and coordinating Sirius’s many Medical Support Services projects. He teaches the full range of our remote worksite safety programs, from wilderness first aid to search and rescue and wilderness readiness.
Joannie Venne, BSc
Joannie is a flight paramedic with Airmedic, a former member of the Canadian coast guard’s search and rescue team and an ambulance technician. She works as guide for the adventure therapy program at the Coopérative Intervention Nature Aventure Québec (INAQ). Joannie brings all of her rich field experience to her teaching as a Sirius instructor. She has a degree in adventure tourism and is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in biology at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
Julien Henry, RN, BScN, PCP
Julien is a Registered Nurse, licensed in Quebec, Nunavut and the NWT. He works for Sirius in a number of capacities. He is an active Sirius instructor, a regular nurse and paramedic on remote camps for our medical support services and a member of the Sirius administrative team in Sainte-Adèle. His administrative tasks involve program development for our medical support services, including developing medical ERPs and protocols and producing site documentation. In between his assignments for Sirius, Julien works as a paramedic on the streets of Montreal and Laval and as a professional ski patroller at Mont Tremblant. As a nurse, Julien worked for two years in a busy Montreal emergency department. He gained experience in the wilderness through many years in summer camps where he guided groups of youth on white-water canoeing and hiking expeditions.
Rick Wise, BA, BEd
Rick is director of Horizons Adventures, where he leads expeditions and teaches many of the courses. He has been paddling the North Shore of Lake Huron and Lake Superior for more than 25 years. He is a Level 4 sea kayaker and Level 3 Sea Kayak Instructor Trainer for Paddle Canada, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. He is a part-time, on-call Fire Fighter for the Greater City of Sudbury and an occasional elementary school teacher. He graduated from the University of Waterloo in Recreation and Environmental Studies. He has been involved with a number of Northern Ontario programs including part-time teaching at Laurentian University and Cambrian College. Rick is a Senior Instructor with Sirius and a First Aid and CPR instructor for the Canadian Red Cross.
Lise-Anne Masson, RN, BSc, W-EMT
Lise-Anne has been a Sirius Instructor since 2001 and a Master Instructor since 2006. She has taught all levels of Sirius courses to a wide variety of clientele and helped to develop Sirius training programs. As a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, she worked on numerous projects on Baffin Island and assisted in the development of our remote medical support services in the Arctic. After working as a clinical nurse in critical care, she now teaches nursing. She is a graduate of the Outdoor and Adventure Tourism program at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. An avid paddler and traveller, she worked as a guide in various fields, particularly therapeutic adventure.
Dominic Lavallée, BSc, SAR Tech, PCP
Dominic is a Search and Rescue Technician for the Canadian Armed Forces. He is a Primary Care Paramedic, skydiver, diver, vertical mountain rescuer, has his Avalanche Operations Level 1 certificate from the Canadian Avalanche Association and is a specialist in survival skills for all of Canada’s climates. He graduated from the Outdoor and Adventure Tourism Program at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and subsequently taught the program’s Emergency Intervention course. Before becoming a SARTech, Dominic was a rock climbing and kayak guide and taught swift water rescue for the Société de sauvetage. Dominic is a Senior Instructor with Sirius. He has taught the full range of our wilderness first aid programs and he has assisted in the training of new Sirius instructors.
Jim Little, BSc (Applied Science in Engineering)
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Serge Savard, BPhE, BSc
Serge has several years of military service, a Bachelor’s of Physical Education and a Bachelor’s of Science in Outdoor and Adventure Tourism from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. He has been guiding since 1990 and heavily involved in sea kayaking since 1995. He was instrumental in developing the national and provincial sea kayaking programs, among other organizations for Paddle Canada (formerly the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association) and the Fédération Québécoise du Canot et du Kayak. He also helped to develop the white-water rescue program for the Société de Sauvetage. Since 2005, Serge has taught survival skills to pilot trainees at the Centre Québécois de Formation Aéronautique. His passions include cycle touring, cyclo-cross, kayak marathons and hockey. Serge joined the Sirius Instructor Team in 1997 and has worked for Sirius as a First Responder on remote work sites in Nunavut.
Catherine Pinard, Bsc, MSc
Catherine is a biologist specializing in fauna. She is currently based in Kuujjuaq, in Northern Québec, where she works for Parcs Nunavik helping to establish new provincial parks. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a biologist with Native groups and government agencies in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Her passion for outdoor pursuits and travel has led her to work as a guide in Asia, Africa and North America. It was during her days with the Canadian ski patrol that she started teaching first aid in 2003. She joined the Sirius Instructor Team in 2009.
Annabelle Brossard, BSc
Annabelle has a degree in Outdoor and Adventure Tourism and a diploma in Youth Intervention from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. She served as coxswain on a search and rescue vessel for the Canadian coast guard and as a guide for the Coopérative Intervention Nature Aventure Québec (INAQ). She joined the Sirius Instructor Team in 2011. Her passion for first aid and search and rescue enhances the learning environment of each course she teaches.
Patrick has worked in remote areas around the world for 20 years from mustering sheep in the New Zealand highlands to tuna fishing in the Coral Sea south of Papua New Guinea. He was a trekking guide in the Nepalese and Indian Himalayas, in Eastern Europe and in Africa, and led desert expeditions on camel back in the Egyptian Sahara desert. Patrick joined the Sirius Instructor Team in 2012, where he teaches six months of every year. During the other six months, he is a safari guide in the remote Kenyan and Tanzanian savannah, an expertise he has developed over many years. His “hands-on” experience in many and varied fields of work, climates and environments allows him to respond with ease to the specific needs of a wide range of clients.
Frédéric Noël
Frédéric Noël is a graduate of Selkirk College, BC, where he studied Recreation, Fish and Wildlife technologies. He has been working as trail development manager and GIS technician for the city of La Tuque, QC, since 2009. His wide experience as a remote field worker was acquired from teaching forestry in Northern Quebec for the James Bay School Board, working as fishery technician, guiding various outdoor activities such as dogsledding and whitewater rafting, as well as motorized activities such as snowmobiling and ATV riding. His interest in safety issues and risk management in the workplace led him to Sirius, where he joined the Instructor Team in 2007. His primary clientele with Sirius are professional field workers in the forestry, mining and outdoor recreation industries.
Joël Deshaies, EMT
Joël is an emergency medical technician, a wilderness first responder and firefighter, with more than 5,000 medical volunteer hours (with the Red Cross and as a first responder). He teaches natural disaster management. Since 2006, he has helped establish emergency response plans for the deployment of emergency disaster teams and for the protection of essential infrastructure. He is an avid seakayer, hiker, canyoner, winter camper and parachutist. Since 1998, Joël has also worked as an explosives technician for an international geophysics firm. He joined the Sirius Instructor Team in 2012.
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Sara Harrison, BA, ACCP, EMT
Sara is co-owner of Momenta in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has an undergraduate degree in Criminology, completed the Canadian Outdoor Leadership Training Program, is a graduate of the Applied Counselling Certificate Program and is a provincially licensed EMT. She specializes in leadership development and the design and implementation of therapeutic adventure and outdoor education programs across Manitoba. Sara has been instructing Sirius Wilderness Medicine courses since 2006. She also teaches canoeing and kayaking through Paddle Canada.
Céline Jaccard, BSc, W-EMT
Céline is a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, has a diploma in adult education and a Bachelor’s of Science in Outdoor and Adventure Tourism from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Passionate about the outdoors and first aid, Céline has joined the local volunteer search and rescue team wherever she has chosen to live. She recently moved to Qikiqtarjuaq on Baffin Island, where she is partnering with members of the community to develop an adventure tourism program. Formerly a ski patroller and ski instructor in Alps, she is an avid backcountry and alpine skier. Céline joined the instructor team in 2012. She regularly works for Sirius as a medic in the arctic and as a Sirius instructor across Canada.
Julie Leblanc, BSc
Julie is an avalanche forecaster for the Centre d’avalanche de la Haute Gaspésie and teaches avalanche safety at Sainte-Anne-des-Monts in the Chic Choc mountains of the Gaspé region of Québec. She is a certified Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance ski instructor and an avalanche search and rescue technician. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from the Université du Québec à Rimouski and a diploma in Adventure Tourism from Thompson Rivers University (BC). In the summer months, she works as an ocean biologist with Exploramer in the Gaspé. She is also a certified sea kayak and rafting guide and holds a guide membership with Aventure Écotourisme Québec. Julie has been an instructor with Sirius since 2011.
Emmanuel Daigle, BBA
Emmanuel has been guiding internationally since 1995 and has developed a special expertise in and love for high altitude climbing. He is regularly called upon to share this expertise as a technical consultant and as a lecturer. He is currently writing a book on high altitude, which is due out in the fall of 2013. Among his many accreditations, Emmanuel is a No Trace Instructor, has his Avalanche Operations Level 1 certificate and is a member of the Canadian Avalanche Association. Emmanuel joined the Sirius Instructor team in 2009.
Craig Beattie, PCP
Craig has worked in outdoor safety and tourism since 1998, including at Whistler Blackcomb as a ski patroller, with BC Ambulance Service as a Primary Care Paramedic and, for more than 9 years, with Pemberton Search and Rescue. His accreditations include Ground Search and Rescue and Canadian Avalanche Association – Level 1 Ski Operations. Craig is currently General Manager at Canadian Wilderness Adventures, and is helping to develop a training module on mechanized guiding levels 1 and 2 for the BC Commercial Snowmobile Operators Association. Craig joined the Sirius instructor team in 2006 and has travelled, among other places, to the Yukon and Nunavut to teach our programs.
Véronique Fortin, B. Sc.
Véronique has worked in adventure tourism since 1998, including as a first aid attendant in Canada’s north, as a ski patroller and as a rafting, sea kayak, mountain and trekking guide. She has also guided internationally, leading groups in South America, Europe and Asia. She graduated from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi’s Outdoor and Adventure Tourism Program in 2003. Currently, Véronique coordinates and teaches in the Recreation and Outdoor Program at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme, a program she helped to develop. Before turning her focus to adventure tourism, Véronique competed at the international level as an elite athlete. Véronique joined the Sirius team in 2008. She has taught our courses and led projects for Sirius throughout Quebec and in the north.
Nicolas Létourneau, BSc, WFR
Nicolas divides his time between two passions: wilderness first aid and river running. In the last few years, he has transitioned from guiding to teaching, which has led him to work with different organizations across North America such as the National Outdoor leadership school (NOLS), Capilano University and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. As an active Sirius instructor since 2010, he has taught our courses across Canada with a special focus on northern communities. His extensive background both as a river instructor and a dogsledding expedition guide have given him a wealth of hands-on first aid experiences to draw from and share with Sirius participants. Nicolas has a bachelor’s degree in Outdoor and Adventure Tourism from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, is a certified white water instructor and an active NOLS course leader.
Amir Fishman, BA, BPHE
Amir Fishman is Director of Overhang Adventures Inc. where he leads many of the trips and teaches many of the courses. He spends the vast majority of his free time in the backcountry and logs more than 100 nights in a tent in any given year. He is passionate about all self-propelled outdoor activities, including rock climbing, sea kayaking, white water and flatwater paddling, hiking and biking. His passions have taken him around the globe, and have even landed him positions such as Assistant River and Mountain Guide in Hokkaido, Japan. A graduate of Laurentian University’s Outdoor Adventure Leadership program, Amir has been a Sirius Instructor since 2012. He is based out of the Toronto region.
Sébastien Rojo, BSc, MSc, MA, DEd (in progress)
A wilderness first aid teacher for many years and a former member of a high risk tactical unit, Sébastien has taught all levels of Sirius courses to a wide range of clients. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a professional guide throughout the world and has taught for numerous national and international organizations. His preferred areas of travel are the backcountry and altitude. Passionate about teaching and pedagogy, he teaches at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in Education and in the Outdoor and Adventure Tourism program. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Education. Sébastien is also president and senior facilitator at the Coopérative Intervention par la nature et l’aventure – Québec (INAQ). Fascinated by the use of nature and adventure as psychosocial tools, he conducts numerous research projects in this area.
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Darren Wilcox W-PCP
Darren was an instructor for the Atlantic Paramedic Academy from 2009 to 2010 and a student preceptor from 2005 to 2010. He has worked as a Primary Care Paramedic and Wilderness First Responder since 2000. He has also worked as a medic on a remote mine site in Nunavut where he was a member of the Emergency Response Team and a certified member of the mine rescue team. He became a Sirius instructor in 2013. When he is not on a remote camp-site, Darren enjoys the outdoors in his native New Brunswick and can always be found landscaping out on his land.
Annik Shamlian
As graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Resources, she lives her passion. Her full-time work for a company that offers educational linguistic excursions for Canadian and American students, allows her two principal interests to complement one another: education and the outdoors. Additional employment opportunities have also led her to guide European groups on hiking and canoeing excursions in Quebec and Labrador regions, and cultural trips across Quebec and Ontario. She also spent a year traveling aboard a tall ship on the Pacific Ocean with “SALTS”. She also participated in numerous expeditions of more than 25 days but since 2013, she has returned to her first love, as a guide at Camp Minogami, on the Broadback river in the James Bay region. In 2015, she completed an 190 days canoe trip from Montreal to Inuvik.
Aymie Rioux
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Bryce worked as a paramedic for a hospital based ambulance service in North Bay, Ontario for over 10 years before moving into a management position with the provincial air ambulance program in 2002. Within the airline industry Bryce became part of the Quality and Risk department responsible for occupational safety, internal auditing, emergency response, transportation of dangerous goods and incident investigation. Now employed by the Local Health Integration Network, Bryce works to ensure infection control, patient safety and incident investigation programs are developed and implemented. Bryce has worked as a canoe tripping guide in Northern Ontario in the areas of Algonquin Park, Temagami and the French River. He continues to enjoy mountain biking day trips in the summer and spending time on the slopes as a snowboard instructor in the winter. Originally an independent CPR & First Aid instructor with the Canadian Red Cross, Bryce joined the Sirius Team in 2017.
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Louise Tythacott, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, has been awarded a major philanthropic donation to undertake research on the histories and displays of objects from the Yuanmingyuan, or old ‘Summer Palace’, in Beijing.
Initiated by the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1662-1722) in the early eighteenth century, the ‘Summer Palace’ was developed by the Yongzheng (r.1723-1735) and Qianlong emperors (r. 1736-1795), and used during the eighteenth and nineteenth century as the principle residence of Qing dynasty emperors. It housed part of China’s most important imperial art collection. In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French regiments looted the buildings in the Yuanmingyuan: it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of objects were taken from the site, many of these now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums.
The project will trace the trajectories of Yuanmingyuan objects from China to Britain and France, and will explore the succession of meanings and values attributed to these imperial artefacts in the West - their existence as commodities in auction houses; their lives in international exhibitions and public displays; and their status as curiosities, art objects or ‘trophies of war’ in a range of different museums.
Shichun Lei has been appointed research assistant on the project, which will involve research in major museums, libraries, archives and auction houses across the UK, as well as in Paris.
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New ISIS leader to be labeled ‘specially designated global terrorist’ by US | Fox News
Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, the new leader of the Islamic State, has been officially labeled a specially designated global terrorist. Al-Mawla took control after his predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed himself when cornered during a raid in 2019. The new label prohibits any American from having any interaction with the terrorist leader, as well as interests in property and business. Al-Mawla was also a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq where he helped lead the abduction, killing and trafficking of Yazidi religious minorities throughout the country. The State Department also commented that they are making progress against ISIS and will continue to destroy their networks throughout the world.
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1,913 x 1,141 x 120 mm (75 3/8 x 45 x 4 3/4 in)
2202x1311x111 mm/86 3/4x51 5/8x4 3/8 in
1,913 x 1,226 x 432 mm (75 3/8 x 48 3/8 x 17 1/8 in)
2202x1395x486 mm/86 3/4x55x19 1/4 in
Direct LED (Backlight Master Drive™)
Local Dimming
Yes (HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision)
Picture Processor X1™ Ultimate
8K X-Reality™ PRO
Dual database processing
Object-based Super Resolution
Super bit mapping™ HDR
TRILUMINOS™ Display
8K X-tended Dynamic Range™ PRO
Dynamic Contrast Enhancer
Object-based HDR remaster
X-Motion Clarity, Auto mode
10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W
Acoustic Multi-Audio
S-Force Front Surround
Android™
Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
1(Bottom)
4 (1 Side, 3 Bottom)
2 (side), 1 (bottom)
XBR Z8H Series
Z8H | Full Array LED | 8K | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
Starting at$6,999.99
Approx. 1,680 x 977 x 84 mm / 66 1/4 x 38 1/2 x 3 3/8 inch
Approx. 1,904 x 1,109 x 84 mm / 75 x 43 3/4 x 3 3/8 inch
Approx. 1,696 x 986 x 356 mm / 66 7/8 x 38 7/8 x 14 1/8 inch
Approx. 1,920 x 1,117 x 428 mm / 75 5/8 x 44 x 16 7/8 inch
Direct (Full Array LED)
Live Colour™ Technology
Precision Colour Mapping
12.5 W + 12.5 W + 12.5 W + 12.5 W + 5 W + 5 W
Acoustic Multi-Audio; Frame Tweeter
1 (Bottom)
Premium Blade Stand
XBR A9G Series
A9G | MASTER Series | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
(12221,222)
1226x710x40 mm/48 3/8 x 28 x 1 5/8 in
1447x834x40 mm/57 x 32 7/8 x 1 5/8 in
1721x996x49 mm/67 7/8 x 39 1/4 x 1 15/16 in
1226x714x255 mm/48 3/8 x 28 1/8 x 10 1/8 in
1447x838x255 mm/57 x 33 x 10 1/8 in
1721x1001x302 mm/67 7/8 x 39 1/2 x 12 in
Pixel Contrast Booster
Motionflow™ XR, Auto mode
20 W + 20 W + 10 W + 10 W
XBR A9F Series
A9F | MASTER Series | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
1228 x 711 x 86 mm (48 3/8 x 28 x 3 1/2 inch)
1449 x 835 x 86 mm/57 1/8 x 32 7/8 x 3 1/2 inch
1228 x 709 x 320 mm/48 3/8 x 28 x 12 5/8 inch
1449 x 832 x 320 mm/57 1/8 x 32 7/8 x 12 5/8 inch
Super bit mapping™ 4K HDR
Motionflow™ XR
Acoustic Surface Audio+™ (Actuator+Subwoofer)
4 (1 side/3 bottom)
2 (Bottom)/1 (Side)
XBR Z9F Series
Z9F| MASTER Series | LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
1453 x 837 x 67 mm/57 1/4 x 33 x 2 3/4 inch
1676 x 963 x 67 mm/66 x 38 x 2 3/4 inch
1676 x 1039 x 399 mm/66 x 41 x 15 3/4 inch
X-tended Dynamic Range™ PRO
10W+10W
Bass Reflex Speaker
Black Chevron
A9S Series
A9S | MASTER Series | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
48 inch (47.5 inch)
Approx. 42 1/8 x 24 5/8 x 2 3/8 inch (1,069 x 624 x 58 mm)
Approx. 42 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 10 1/8 inch (1,069 x 629 x 255 mm)
10 W + 10 W + 5 W
Acoustic Surface Audio
Aluminum Central Stand
XBR A8H Series
A8H | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
Approx. 57 1/8 x 33 x 2 1/8 inch (1,448 x 836 x 52 mm)
10 W + 10 W + 5 W + 5 W
Metal Blade Stand
A8G | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
1,229 x 710 x 51 mm (48 1/2 x 28 x 2 1/8 in)
1,450 x 834 x 51 mm (57 1/8 x 32 7/8 x 2 1/8 in)
1,229 x 730 x 290 mm (48 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 11 1/2 in)
4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme
10W+10W+10W+10W
ClearAudio+
A1E 4K HDR OLED TV with Acoustic Surface™
1451 x 834 x 86 mm (57 1/4 x 32 7/8 x 3 1/2 inch)
1,721 x 997 x 99 mm (67 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 4 in)
1228 x 710 x 339 mm (48 3/8 x 28 x 13 3/8 inch)
1451 x 832 x 339 mm (57 1/4 x 32 7/8 x 13 3/8 inch)
10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W
Acoustic Surface(Actuator+Subwoofer)
4(Bottom4)
A8F Series
A8F | OLED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
1226 x 712 x 55 mm (48 3/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 1/4 in)
1447 x 836 x 55 mm (57 x 33 x 2 1/4 in)
1226 x 717 x 255 mm (48 3/8 x 28 1/4 x 10 1/8 in)
1447 x 841 x 255 mm (57 x 33 1/8 x 10 1/8 in)
Yes (HDR10, HLG)
Dark Silver Slate
XBR X950H Series
X950H | Full Array LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
Approx. 1093 x 629 x 69 mm (43 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 2 3/4 in)
Approx. 48-1/2 x 28 x 2-7/8 inch (1,229 x 710 x 70 mm)
Approx. 57-1/8 x 32-7/8 x 2-7/8 inch (1,448 x 833 x 70 mm)
Approx. 1910 x 1099 x 74 mm (75 1/4 x 43 3/8 x 3 inch)
Approx. 1093 x 699 x 261 mm (43 1/8 x 27 5/8 x 10 3/8 in)
Approx. 48-1/2 x 30-3/4 x 12-1/4 inch (1,230 x 779 x 310 mm)
Approx. 57-1/8 x 35-3/4 x 14 inch (1,449 x 906 x 353 mm)
Approx. 66 x 41-3/8 x 16-3/8 inch (1,675 x 1,048 x 415 mm)
Approx. 1910 x 1179 x 412 mm (75 1/4 x 46 1/2 x 16 1/4 inch)
Acoustic Multi-Audio; Sound Positioning Tweeter, X-Balanced Speaker
Acoustic Multi-Audio; Sound Positioning Tweeter
1 (Side)
4 (4 side)
XBR X950G Series
X950G | LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV™)
1228x709x69 mm (48 3/8 x 28 x 2 3/4 in)
1447x832x69 mm (57 x 32 7/8 x 2 3/4 in)
1,674x961x73 mm (66 x 37 7/8 x 2 7/8 in)
1,910x1,099x73 mm/75 1/4 x 43 3/8 x 2 7/8 inch
1228x776x274 mm (48 3/8 x 30 5/8 x 10 7/8 in)
1447x902x333 mm (57 x 35 5/8 x 13 1/8 in)
1,674x1,036x376 mm (66 x 40 7/8 x 14 7/8 in)
1,910x1,179x412 mm/75 1/4 x 46 1/2 x 16 1/4 inch
Approx. 66 x 37 7/8 x 2 7/8 inch (1,674 x 961 x 71 mm)
Approx. 74 7/8 x 42 7/8 x 2 7/8 inch (1,899 x 1,089 x 72 mm)
Approx. 66 x 40 3/4 x 16 1/4 inch (1,674 x 1,034 x 410 mm)
Approx. 74 7/8 x 45 3/4 x 17 3/8 inch (1,899 x 1,162 x 441 mm)
X1™ 4K HDR Processor
X-tended Dynamic Range™
Bass Reflex Speaker; X-Balanced Speaker
Starting at$999.99
1450 x 836 x 52 mm (57 1/8 x 33 x 2 1/8 in)
1,909 x 1097 x 80 mm (75 1/4 x 43 1/4 x 3 1/4 in)
1673 x 1031 x 358 mm (65 7/8 x 40 5/8 x 14 1/8 in)
1,909 x 1175 x 433 mm (75 1/4 x 46 3/8 x 17 1/8 in)
Frame Dimming
4K HDR Processor X1
Motionflow™ XR 960 (Native 120 Hz), Auto mode
4 (3 Side, 1 Rear)
X800H Series
X800H | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
Approx. 970 x 570 x 57 mm (38 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 1/4 inch)
Approx. 1101 x 645 x 57 mm (43 3/8 x 25 1/2 x 2 1/4 inch)
Approx. 1243 x 718 x 71 mm (49 x 28 3/8 x 2 7/8 inch)
Approx. 1899 x 1089 x 71 mm (74 7/8 x 42 7/8 x 2 7/8 inch)
Approx. 970 x 630 x 286 mm (38 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 11 3/8 inch)
Approx. 1101 x 704 x 286 mm (43 3/8 x 27 3/4 x 11 3/8 inch)
Approx. 1243 x 782 x 340 mm (49 x 30 7/8 x 13 1/2 inch)
Approx. 1686 x 1042 x 414 mm (66 3/8 x 41 x 16 3/8 inch)
Motionflow™ XR 240 (Native 60 Hz)
Slim Blade Stand
X800G Series
X800G | LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV
970 x 570 x 57 mm (38 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 1/4 in)
57 5/8 x 33 3/8 x 3 1/4 inch (1463 x 845 x 80 mm)
970 x 630 x 260 mm (38 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 10 1/4 in)
1241 x 785 x 336 mm (48 7/8 x 31 x 13 1/4 in)
XBR X900F Series
X900F| LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV (Android TV)
1447 x 829 x 69 mm (57 x 32 3/4 x 2 3/4 in)
1,910 x 1,096 x 73 mm (75 1/4 x 43 1/4 x 2 7/8 in)
1674 x 1032 x 355 mm (66 x 40 3/4 x 14 in)
Dark Silver L-Shape
1,911 x 1,176 x 429 mm (75 1/4 x 46 3/8 x 17 in)
Motionflow™ XR 960 (Native 120 Hz)
4 (3 side,1 rear)
Silver Chevron
1360 x 789 x 78 mm / 53 5/8 x 31 1/8 x 3 1/8 inch
1360 x 854 x 315 mm / 53 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 12 1/2 inch
Approx. 66.5 x 38.25 x 3.25 in (1,686 x 970 x 80 mm)
Approx. 66.5 x 40.88 x 16.38 in (1,686 x 1,038 x 414 mm)
4K Processor X1™
X750F Series
X750F | LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR)| Smart TV (Android TV)
970 x 571 x 58 mm / 38 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 3/8 inch
1242 x 721 x 80 mm / 49 x 28 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch
970 x 630 x 278 mm / 38 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 11 inch
1101 x 705 x 279 mm / 43 3/8 x 27 7/8 x 11 inch
1242 x 784 x 356 mm / 49 x 30 7/8 x 14 1/8 inch
XBR X940E / X930E Series
X940E / X930E 4K HDR TV with Slim Backlight Drive+
1,451 x 838 x 39 mm (57 1/4 x 33 x 1 9/16 in)
1,451 x 913 x 295 mm (57 1/4 x 36 x 11 5/8 in)
Edge LED (Slim Backlight Drive+)
5 W + 5 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W + 10 W
10W+10W+10W+10W+10W+10W
Front-face 3-way speaker (tweeter/mid-range/woofer)
60 Hz for UL cUL 50/60 Hz for other; AC 120 V for UL cUL AC 110–240 V for other
XBR X900E Series
X900E 4K HDR TV with X-tended Dynamic Range PRO
1,447 x 830 x 60 mm (57 x 32 3/4 x 2 3/8 in)
1,093 x 685 x 236 mm (43 1/8 x 27 x 9 3/8 in)
1,447 x 895 x 259 mm (57 x 35 1/4 x 10 1/4 in)
1,674 x 1021 x 296 mm (66 x 40 1/4 x 11 3/4 in)
4 (3 side/1 rear)
X850E 4K HDR TV with TRILUMINOS Display
Dark Silver U Slate
X800E 4K HDR TV with 4K X-Reality PRO
964 x 567 x 57 mm (38 x 22 3/8 x 2 1/4 in)
964 x 617 x 242 mm (38 x 24 3/8 x 9 5/8 in)
1096 x 691 x 252 mm (43 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 10 in)
1,232 x 772 x 252 mm (48 5/8 x 30 1/2 x 10 in)
X720E Series
X720E | LED | 4K Ultra HD | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Smart TV
971 x 571 x 70 mm/38 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 7/8 in
1102 x 646 x 70 mm/43 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 2 7/8 in
971 x 620 x 242 mm/38 1/4 x 24 1/2 x 9 5/8 in
1102 x 694 x 252 mm/43 1/2 x 27 3/8 x 10 in
Open Baffle Speaker
Wi-Fi® Certified 802.11b/g/n
Gunmetal U Slate
X690E 4K HDR Smart TV with ClearAudio+
60 in (60 in)
1124 x 657 x 83 mm / 44 3/8 x 25 7/8 x 3 3/8 in
1356.8 x 786.14 x 86 mm / 53 1/2 x 31 x 3 1/2 inch
1567.28 x 902.32 x 93 mm / 61 3/4 x 35 5/8 x 3 3/4 inch
1124 x 685 x 216 mm / 44 3/8 x 27 x 8 5/8 in
1356.8 x 834.82 x 304.8 mm / 53 1/2 x 32 7/8 x 12 1/8 inch
1567.28 x 951 x 304.8 mm / 61 3/4 x 37 1/2 x 12 1/8 inch
Yes (HDR10, HLG)*1
Plastic + bracket
W600D Series
W600D | LED | HD Ready | Smart TV
735 x 446 x 66 mm / 29 x 17 5/8 x 2 5/8 inch
735 x 481 x 174 mm / 29 x 19 x 6 7/8 inch
X-Reality™ PRO
5W+5W
2 (1 Rear/1 Side)
Black U Slate
1In order to watch HDR videos from internet video services, the TV would require a firmware update via internet.
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Shalem IPC
Shalem IPC, New Jersey
Rev. Mathew Philip
"...As for me and my Family, we will serve the LORD."
Hails from God's own country. Kerala, a small and lush southern State of India. Born in December, 1966 at Parakode, a village in the District of Pathanamthitta, to godly parents and was raised in the Pentecostal tradition.
Completed a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (B.Com.) from Kerala University in 1986. Involved in Christian ministry with Sharon Fellowship Church, Tiruvalla, Kerala. Then went on to complete Bachelor of Divinity (B.D) Degree from Southern Asia Bible College (SABC), Bangalore in 1990. Pioneered an English congregation (IPC Green Park English Fellowship now known as the City Fellowship Church) in New Delhi and served as a Bible teacher at IPC Bethel Bible College, New Delhi. After a time of missionary activity in North India with the India Pentecostal Church (Northern Region), went on to complete a Master of
Theology Degree (M.Th. in Missiology) from South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore in 1995.
Since 1995 served as the Dean of Students and an Associate Professor in the department of Mission & Ministry at Gospel For Asia Biblical Seminary (GFABS), Tiruvalla, Kerala.
Pastor Mathew Philip with his 31 years of ministry experience, has written several articles in journals & magazines and also authored 4 books, The Unique Christ-Dialogue in Missions; Expository Sermons in 1Thessalonians; An Expository Study of 2 Timothy and You can lead Effectively!
Currently serving also as a Spiritual Counselor with Caring Hospice Services at Fort Washington, PA. Now lives in Philadelphia, PA. along with his wife, Blessy and 3 children - Alan, Milan and Helan.
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When Caller ID tells all
Locations: News By Jeanne Souldern Published Jul. 31, 2019
A few months ago, I was calling Stephanie Askew, co-owner of the Redstone Art Gallery, to fact-check something for a story. After I introduced myself, she asked, “Where are you from in the Twin Cities?”
I was dumbfounded on a couple of fronts, the first being that not everyone necessarily knows that the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are known to every Minnesotan as the Twin Cities. The other reason I was stumped was I thought, ‘How does she know that’s where I’m from?’
Then a quick flip of the switch and the light bulb went on – Caller ID. It turned out that Stephanie knows that area code because that is where she grew up: in Bloomington, Minnesota. In those next few minutes, we discovered that we shared high schools and even graduated from the same women’s college. Small world? No, small valley.
Since that happened, I started noticing something else. I was not the only one around these parts with the ‘oddball’ non-970 area code. It made me wonder if you could ascertain anything about the people here by their telephone area codes.
With that in mind, The Sun created a survey and we asked our readers for input on area codes for their telephones. We also asked why people did or did not switch to a 970 area code after moving here. There were 26 replies to the survey, with the results as follows:
Was your first personal number outside the 970 area code? Yes – 77% No – 23%
Did you keep your phone number when you moved? Yes – 39% No – 46% Other – 15%
As for the area code people kept, seven were from California, four from 303 Denver and two from New York. States with one area code each were Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Why or why not keep your phone number? Some responses were:
“Back in those days, some friends were still limited to landlines with long-distance charges. This way, they could call my cell # without paying extra.”
“Wrapped up in everyday living. Hassle to change.”
“Moved back to Bonedale and wanted that nine-seven-ohhh.”
One interesting reply was:
“Well, 415 – San Francisco – is a really sexy area code. There are so many phones and devices on that area code, a high-tech hub; it’s a hard area code to even get. Sometimes people there can’t even get them; even with paying a premium! I had a 415 cell phone and a 415 Google number. Very prestigious. But eventually, the cell phone died… Giving up the last 415 number was really part of changing my identity. 970 says I’m now a wildlife artist and environmental advocate; it goes well with my Sopris Sun column. I’m not that 415 tech guru anymore.”
When we think of the changes, in just the last 30 years, the telephone is arguably one of the most transformed technologies. We have moved from landlines to mobile phones to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The telephone companies themselves have changed from the days of “Ma Bell”-monopoly to AT&T to a plethora of cell phone service providers.
The first phones in the state of Colorado were installed in Denver in 1879.
One of the early mentions of telephone service in the Roaring Fork Valley was from a May 1889 story in Glenwood Springs’ newspaper, The Avalanche Echo. It stated, “Glenwood Springs will soon have telephone communication between Denver and other points.” The long-distance line came in from Denver via Leadville and Aspen. In 1900, the line would be extended west to Grand Junction. In 1901, lines would go into Delta, Montrose, Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and the southwest.
While researching this story, I looked through files at the Carbondale and Glenwood Springs Historical Societies. One document I happened upon was an oral history interview, given by Mrs. Cleone (Hopper) Oliver in which she recalled Carbondale’s Main Street in the early days. Mrs. Oliver, who was born in 1903, remembered Tandy’s Drug Store [owned by Edward D. Tandy] at 335 Main Street, now the location of Allegria restaurant. She said, “I thought that when I went to heaven, I hoped it would be as nice as Mr. Tandy’s drug store.” She added that “in the back was where the first telephone office was, and I can’t remember just when it was moved from there.” Another document stated Tandy’s drug store was the location of the first telephone office in Carbondale, where there was also a payment window.
Larger mail-order companies, like Montgomery Ward and Sears and Roebuck, sold all that was needed for a town to construct their own rural telephone company. Construction and installation of a telephone system included line materials and the telephones themselves. Orders were placed via U.S. mail and the goods were shipped by rail.
Beginning in 1941, if you wanted to call a fellow Carbondale resident, you only had to know the last four numbers. Carbondale would be assigned the 963 prefix. Prefixes for surrounding communities would become: Aspen – 925, Woody Creek and Snowmass Village – 923, Basalt – 927, and Glenwood Springs – 945.
As the state’s population increased, so did the demand for telephones and, in turn, the need for area codes. The 970 area code, which serves most of western and northern Colorado, including Carbondale, was established in April 1995 when it split off of area code 303.
Splitting off into new area codes becomes necessary when the assignment of unique telephone numbers has reached capacity. Each three-digit area code may contain up to 7,919,900 unique telephone numbers.
There was a time when 303 was the only area code in the state of Colorado.
It was put into service in 1947, and it was not until 1988 that Colorado got its second area code – 719 — to service the southeastern part of the state. Area code 720 was activated on the Front Range in 1998 to alleviate the exhaustion of numbers within the 303 area code.
While some are keeping non-970 area codes, it does make me wonder if changing to a 970 area code is a statement about putting down roots and a willingness to belong to this community. Is that something that today, as a culture, we desire? Hmm, I will have to call you back on that one.
Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 13, 2021
Demolition and development
Locations: News By Trina Ortega Published Jan. 13, 2021
“This I Remember” tapes return to Carbondale
Locations: News By Geneviève Villamizar Published Jan. 13, 2021
Naturalist Nights
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Choriocarcinoma
Choriocarcinomas
Choriocarcinoma may present with the following symptomatology in patients:
First trimester bleeding (bright red to brown in color)
Severe nausea and vomiting due to increase beta-hCG in the serum
Passage of grape-like cysts per vagina (Hydatidiform mole preceding choriocarcinoma)
Pelvic pressure pains due to rapidly enlarging conceptus
Disproportionate growth of the uterus (as compared to actual age of gestation)
Pre-eclampsia and high blood pressure due to the constricting chorionic villi
Ovarian cyst forms with the hormonal imbalance states
Anemia due to chronic uterine hemorrhage
Acquired hyperthyroidism due to the hypothalamic-pituitary feedback disarray
Splenectomy
The patient underwent open splenectomy. [ajronline.org]
Choriocarcinoma may present with the following symptomatology in patients: First trimester bleeding (bright red to brown in color) Severe nausea and vomiting due to increase beta-hCG in the serum Passage of grape-like cysts per vagina (Hydatidiform mole [symptoma.com]
CASE REPORT: A 23-year-old woman presented to our Emergency Department with a left painful red eye with decreased visual acuity and was subsequently diagnosed with choriocarcinoma with metastasis to the lungs, brain, and choroid, causing a left exudative [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a rare congenital developmental disorder characterized by pre- and postnatal growth failure, relative macrocephaly, a triangular face, hemihypotrophy, and fifth-finger clinodactyly. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Sanger sequencing and chromosomal microarray studies of blood and tumor tissue from a 4-yr-old boy with glioblastoma demonstrated a germline TP53 mutation with loss of heterozygosity for the short arm of Chromosome 17 as the second inactivating event [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Cutaneous manifestations of ICC are extraordinarily rare with few documented cases. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Face, Head & Neck
Neck Mass
Findings on an incisional biopsy of the neck mass were consistent with a choriocarcinoma. The testicles were normal on palpation and ultrasonography. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Cause Chromosomal mutation and aneuploidy, and history of previous molar pregnancy Symptoms Vaginal bleeding, rapidly enlarging uterus, pelvic pain, anemia, and hypertension may occur. [symptoma.com]
• Pelvic pain or pressure –If an enlarged uterus or ovarian cysts are present, the patient may report pelvic pain or pressure 30. [slideshare.net]
Other symptoms can include regular pregnancy symptoms, menstrual or pelvic pain, increased or high b-hcg levels, coughing, shortness of breath, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches and even seizures. [themighty.com]
It is particularly challenging to differentiate choriocarcinoma from the more common ectopic pregnancy in a young woman who has a positive result of a pregnancy test, pelvic pain, and an adnexal mass. [ajronline.org]
Metrorrhagia
metrorrhagia following spontaneous abortion or VTP, occasionally unexplained metrorrhagia in the weeks or months following normal childbirth or an ectopic pregnancy. [orpha.net]
The first one was manifested by neurological deterioration as the first sign of metastasis, while the second patient had firstly metrorrhagia and in the further couse neurological disturbances that suggested the presence of brain tumor. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
We report the case of a patient who presented to the emergency department referring little metrorrhagia from a normal delivery two months ago and severe bleeding later during her hospital stay. [scielo.conicyt.cl]
The following diagnostic workups are performed in patients with choriocarcinoma and other gestational trophoblastic diseases:
Blood test: The serum determination of hCG is useful test in determining the presence of any GTD in the uterus. This may be used to prognosticate and manage cases of choriocarcinoma.
Pelvic ultrasound: In early pregnancy, a transvaginal probe may be used while those in midterm pregnancy may benefit from abdominal probes. Sonographic findings in GTD include: the absence of a fetus, oligohydramnios, presence of ovarian cysts and cystic placenta filling the uterus.
Hypertensive and thyroid workup: Patients diagnosed with Choriocarcinoma and molar pregnancies usually presents with a concomitant hypertension and hyperthyroidism. The medical stabilization of these complications may lower the morbidity rate among patients.
Beta-HCG Increased
If the blood level of beta-HCG increases or does not go down to normal, more tests will be done to see whether the tumor has spread. [theoncologyinstitute.com]
BACKGROUND: Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite commonly found in mammals, has been shown to induce trophoblast cell apoptosis and subsequently cause fetal damage and abortion. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Trophoblastic Cells
Additionally, in the trophoblastic cell line Swan71, we found a significant induction of RARRES1 expression with increased cell density, during mitosis and in syncytial knots. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] choriocarcinoma (kor″e-o-kahr″sĭ-no�mә) a malignant neoplasm of trophoblastic cells formed by abnormal proliferation of the placental epithelium, without production of chorionic villi. [web.archive.org]
Trophoblastic cells invade the myometrium and blood vessels The trophoblastic cells due to their abnormal growth gradually begin to attack the smooth muscles of the uterine wall (myometrium) and their blood vessels. [phaa.com]
The following treatment modalities are available in the treatment of choriocarcinoma:
Dilatation and Curettage (D and C): Hydatidiform moles as a choriocarcinoma precursor is usually removed by D and C as soon as it is diagnosed to prevent its complications.
Total hysterectomy: When gestational trophoblastic tumors are diagnosed and there are no further plans of conceiving, the patient and the doctor may opt to remove the whole uterus to prevent further complications.
Chemotherapy: Metastatic forms of choriocarcinoma may benefit with chemotherapeutic agents like methotrexate and actinomycin that retards the growth and spread of the cancer [10].
Patient diagnosed with metastatic choriocarcinoma is considered high risk and has a grim prognostic outlook [7]. Other parameters seen in choriocarcinoma which is considered high risk include: brain and liver metastasis, serum human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) level of more than 40,000 mlU/ml, disease duration of more than 4 months, previous history of unsuccessful chemotherapy, and malignant choriocarcinoma following a term pregnancy.
Chemotherapy has a success rate of 75% in the treatment of high risk malignant gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with metastasis [8]. The probability of late recurrence in choriocarcinoma approaches 1% after a year of remission from chometherapy [9].
The following complications are commonly seen in cases of Choriocarcinoma:
Persistent gestational trophoblastic disease
Uterine bleeding
Persistently high hCG levels (causes confusion for pregnancy tests)
Organ metastasis
Pregnancy-induced hypertension (preeclampsia and eclampsia)
Choriocarcinoma and the other gestational trophoblastic diseases are caused by an abnormally fertilized egg. In a complete molar pregnancy, all of the fertilized egg chromosomes are derived from the father. The mother’s chromosomes in the egg are lost shortly after fertilization and the father’s chromosome is duplicated resulting to an egg an inactive nucleus or no nucleus at all. In cases of partial and incomplete molar pregnancies, the father provides a duplicate set of chromosomes while the chromosome set from the mother remains. This will result in an embryo with 69 chromosomes instead of 46. Such etiology usually happens when two sperms fertilize a single egg in the uterus.
In the United States, gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) occurs in 15-20% of patients with a complete hydatidiform mole and only 2% from incomplete hydatidiform mole. The relative incidence of choriocarcinoma is 1 out of 40 hydatidiform molar pregnancies [1].
The pregnancy prevalence of choriocarcinoma is about 1 in 20,000 to 40,000 pregnancies [2]. However, choriocarcinoma incidence plunges to 1 out of 160,000 after a successful term pregnancy [3].
The relative prevalence of choriocarcinoma with any molar pregnancy and other GTD’s vary in every region of the globe. An increased prevalence rate of 1 in 500-600 pregnancies are observed in India [4] while a 1 in 50,000 pregnancy ratio is seen in Mexico, Paraguay and Sweden [5].
Choriocarcinoma starts as an aneuploidy of the chromosome set which can be heterozygous depending on the type pregnancy origin. Chromosomes may appear exclusively paternal in origin if the choriocarcinoma is preceded by a molar pregnancy. Majority of choriocarcinoma is virtually preceded by a hydatidiform mole pregnancy in up to 50% of the cases. However, both paternal and maternal sets of chromosomes are present in the choriocarcinoma if it follows a term pregnancy.
The condition may also follow an ectopic pregnancy in a relative ratio of 1 is to 5,333 ectopic pregnancies [6].
The incidence of choriocarcinoma increases significantly when the woman reaches the age of 40 years old; thus, it is prudent to avoid conceiving during this age to prevent this gestational tumor.
Women with previous history of a molar pregnancy should wait for six to twelve months before planning another conception to lower the risk given that choriocarcinoma stems out from molar pregnancies in 50% of the time. Careful monthly ultrasound monitoring of the fetus may be advised for those mothers with prior GTD histories.
Choriocarcinoma is a clinical disease described as the most aggressive form of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) characterized by rapid growth and a high metastatic potential. Choriocarcinoma is a cancer that originates from the trophoblast which surrounds the blastocyst. This aggressive tumor may occur during and after intrauterine pregnancy and ectopic pregnancy. When choriocarcinoma occurs during pregnancy, spontaneous abortions, preeclampsia and fetal death usually ensues with a very rare instance of fetal survival. Some forms of GTD are discovered malignant while others are benign although they may behave aggressively.
When choriocarcinoma develops in the absence of preceding gestation, it is referred to as non-gestational choriocarcinoma. These occur most often in the ovary or testes, but are very rare. It is important to distinguish the different forms because of the poor prognosis of non-gestational choriocarcinoma.
Choriocarcinoma is an aggressive form of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) characterized by rapid tumor growth and a high metastatic potential.
Chromosomal mutation and aneuploidy, and history of previous molar pregnancy
Vaginal bleeding, rapidly enlarging uterus, pelvic pain, anemia, and hypertension may occur.
Blood tests and abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound are done to diagnose choriocarcinoma.
Treatment and follow-up
Dilatation and Curettage, hysterectomy and chemotherapy are the most common treatment options.
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McDonald TW, Ruffolo EH. Modern management of gestational trophoblastic disease. Obstet Gynecol Surv. Feb 1983; 38(2):67-83.
Palmer JR. Advances in the epidemiology of gestational trophoblastic disease. J Reprod Med. Mar 1994; 39(3):155-62.
Chakrabarti BK, Mondal NR, Chatterjee T. Gestational trophoblastic tumor at a tertiary level cancer center: a retrospective study. J Reprod Med. Nov 2006; 51(11):875-8.
Lurain JR, Sand PK, Brewer JI. Choriocarcinoma associated with ectopic pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. Aug 1986; 68(2):286-7.
Soper JT. Gestational trophoblastic disease. Obstet Gynecol. Jul 2006; 108(1):176-87.
Soper JT, Evans AC, Conaway MR, et al. Evaluation of prognostic factors and staging in gestational trophoblastic tumor. Obstet Gynecol. Dec 1994; 84(6):969-73.
Mutch DG, Soper JT, Babcock CJ, et al. Recurrent gestational trophoblastic disease. Experience of the Southeastern Regional Trophoblastic Disease Center. Cancer. Sep 1 1990; 66(5):978-82.
Ngan HY, Odicino F, Maisonneuve P, Creasman WT, Beller U, Quinn MA, et al. Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. FIGO 6th Annual Report on the Results of Treatment in Gynecological Cancer. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. Nov 2006; 95 Suppl 1:S193-203.
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Produce Stunning Excel Reports from .NET Applications
Marissa Keller Outten
When it comes to producing Excel reports, the process has been more difficult than it ought to be, and the traditional alternatives for creating such reports have been weak. The old-school solutions such as using comma-separated values (CSV) format files or packages like Crystal Reports were the root cause of more than a few migraine headaches.
“The Excel file format is very complex,” says Daniel Jebaraj, the vice president at Syncfusion who leads product development. “The amount of code is pretty stunning. Complicating matters further, there are multiple versions of Excel to deal with. Applications that resort to CSV files, for instance, do not account for formatting, formulas, charts, data filters, and so forth. As a result, the overall user experience is poor. Applications such as Crystal Reports that use WYSIWYG designing focus on producing reports in multiple formats (least common denominator approach), making charts, pivot tables, and sparklines difficult if not impossible to produce.”
The good news for those faced with creating such reports is that Syncfusion has a high-fidelity Excel reporting solution called XlsIO that makes producing stunning Excel reports from .NET applications the easy and simple task that it should be. “Our solution is different because it offers the full power of the Excel platform and produces a report that the user is comfortable with, without having to do extra work,” says Jebaraj.
Syncfusion’s XlsIO is a .NET library that can read, write, and modify Microsoft Excel files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office Automation libraries. It can be used on systems that do not have Microsoft Excel installed, making it an excellent report engine. The solution enables users to create richly formatted Microsoft Excel reports in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight applications. Further, XlsIO lets you add Microsoft Excel reporting capabilities to your .NET applications within minutes.
“People can use the already familiar Microsoft Excel application to visually design their report,” says Jebaraj. “XlsIO can then be used to populate the template with real data during run time and save the final report to a file on disk, stream, or even stream to the client browser.”
Anton Yakushin, a systems analyst at Eastern Research Group (Boston, Mass.) had this to say about his experience using XlsIO: “This is by far the best component for dynamic Excel spreadsheet generation on the market. Our company has tried several alternatives, but nothing compares to the ease of use and performance of XlsIO. For programmers, [its] usability is similar to using the Office11-Office14 references in VB and C#.NET programming, except Syncfusion has found a way to make it even more intuitive and faster to work with. In fact, some functionalities are easier to do with Syncfusion’s XlsIO than VBA in Excel, and the fact that they support all formats, 2000 [through] 2010, is extremely helpful to our clients. The XlsIO code is ready-to-go for generating virtually any file and sending it right into the response stream!”
Jebaraj concludes, “The two popular solutions, CSV and WYSIWYG, have tremendous deficiencies. Our solution takes the production of these files to a new level. Users want Excel files that are very rich, complete, and can be used in the way they see fit. This library delivers that for them.”
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What Does A 'Tenancy Eviction Moratorium' Mean For You?
On Sunday the 29th of March, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australian states and territories will put a six-month moratorium on evictions for both residential and commercial tenants during the coronavirus pandemic. Under these new rental arrangements, “States and territories will be moving to put a moratorium on evictions of persons as a result of financial distress if they are unable to meet their commitments,” said Morrison.
To some tenants, this will come as a relief, as industries see more staff stand downs and redundancies. Having a roof over their heads will be one less thing to worry about. However, Morrison makes it a very clear point, to state that tenants and landlords need to work together now more than ever.
For the next six months, these two parties will need to combine forces to work on a solution that is best for everyone involved. “Now there is a lot more work to be done here and my message to tenants, particularly commercial tenants and commercial landlords is a very straightforward one: we need you to sit down, talk to each other and work this out,” said Morrison.
“[we need you to sit down] so on the other side the landlord has a tenant, which is a business that can pay rent, and the business is a business that can re-emerge on the other side of this and be able to go on and employ people on the other side of these arrangements… ” After also encouraging landlords to seek the help of the banks, Morrison states that “We will be working on measures that will be encouraging you to do just that and to support you to do just that, but also to ensure that if you aren’t going to engage in that sort of co-operative activity, between banks, between tenants and between landlords, then the sort of support that you might otherwise expect to receive, you will not receive. This is part of the hibernation approach.”
These rental amendments come off the back of several other government initiatives to assist our economy through these unprecedented times. Such as;
Record low interest rate cuts - The Reserve Bank of Australia has slashed the cash rate to a record low of 0.25%.
A cash injection for banks - The RBA is providing $90bn to the banks at a rate of 0.25 per cent – in line with the cash rate – to ensure a cheap line of credit is available. The RBA will fund the banks at that low rate over three years, and provide additional funding if the banks increase lending to small and medium-sized businesses.
Loan holidays for households and businesses - The Australian Banking Association has mandated that Australian banks defer the loan repayments of small businesses for six months, to help those that are struggling stay open and keep people in jobs.
Major stimulus for households and business - The package mainly targets low-income earners and business, with measures including one-off $750 payments and a coronavirus supplement for eligible welfare recipients; while some workers who find themselves without a job will be able to access jobseeker payments. Meantime, small businesses will be able to access wage subsidies of up to $100,000.
These are challenging times, but when this ends, which it will (!), we will come out on the other side as a stronger industry. If we work together and practice our natural characteristic of resilience, we will get through this.
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2021 Einstein Prize Recipients: Clifford Will &...
2021 Einstein Prize Recipients: Clifford Will & Saul Teukolsky
Congratulations to Living Reviews in Relativity's long-time editor!
Clifford Will and Saul Teukolsky have won the American Physical Society’s 2021 Einstein Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievement in gravitational physics.
Both scientists were recognized for
"outstanding contributions to observational tests of general relativity with theories of gravitational waves, astrophysical black holes, and neutron stars."
Clifford M. Will is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida, Chercheur Associé at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, and the James S. McDonnell Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis.
Saul Teukolsky is the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.
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SRMGI
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative is an international, NGO-driven project that seeks to expand the global conversation around the governance of SRM geoengineering research
What is SRM?
DECIMALS Fund
The research collaborators
Collaboration between the DECIMALS research teams and experienced SRM modelling scientists is a crucial part of the DECIMALS research process. While the DECIMALS scientists are experts in modelling the local impacts of climate change, few have worked on SRM before. Therefore, each team has been paired up with at least one SRM modelling expert and they will work together remotely over the duration of the DECIMALS projects. Eight of the world’s most experienced SRM modellers have volunteered for the research collaborator role, which is unpaid. The research collaboration should be mutually beneficial, with the SRM experts learning about local climate impact modelling, and the DECIMALS scientists learning more about the wrinkles of modelling SRM geoengineering. Further, the regular collaborations between the DECIMALS teams and the pool of collaborators will help connect the teams with the people, debates and opportunities of the wider SRM research community.
The DECIMALS research collaborators are:
Dr Olivier Boucher (French)
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (CNRS/Sorbonne Université)
Olivier Boucher is a research director at CNRS affiliated with the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) and located at Sorbonne Université in Paris. He is currently Head of the IPSL Climate Modelling Centre that develops the IPSL climate model for a range of research applications. He was previously appointed at the Met Office in the United Kingdom as Head of the Earth System Modelling and Mitigation team (2005-2011). His personal research interests include aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions, monitoring of atmospheric aerosols, Earth System modelling, biogeochemical feedbacks, climate effects of aviation, meteorological and climate aspects of renewable energies, and climate engineering. Olivier is currently coordinating an aerosol project as part of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) European initiative. Olivier was a coordinating lead author for the “Clouds and Aerosols” chapter of the IPCC fifth assessment report.
Dr Pete Irvine (British)
Dr Pete Irvine is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences working in Prof. David Keith’s group. Dr Irvine conducts research on the climate and broader impacts of solar geoengineering and works to put those findings into perspective with the risks posed by climate change. Dr Irvine was awarded his PhD on the climate response to solar geoengineering in 2012 and worked after this as a post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. In recent work, Dr Irvine has worked on novel analyses for evaluating solar geoengineering’s performance at offsetting climate change, and is currently working to evaluate the effects of solar geoengineering on drought and aridity. Beyond this, Dr Irvine has published on the sea-level rise response to solar geoengineering, produced reviews of its climate impacts, and collaborated to produce several interdisciplinary pieces addressing the broader socio-political implications of solar geoengineering.
Prof. Ben Kravitz (American)
University of Indiana
Ben Kravitz is an internationally recognized scientist in climate modelling studies of geoengineering and large perturbations to the climate system. He is the coordinator of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), a collaboration between climate modelling centers throughout the world to better understand the expected climate effects of various geoengineering scenarios. Results from GeoMIP have been featured in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for which Ben served as a contributing author, and a report on geoengineering from the National Research Council. He has received an Early Career Scientist Award from the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and the Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has been invited to speak on a variety of climate science topics domestically and internationally, most recently at the US National Academy of Sciences on the national security implications of climate change. Ben is currently a staff scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In addition to coordinating and participating in GeoMIP, his current activities include using engineering techniques in climate models to better understand climate feedbacks, studying teleconnections in high latitude climate, and developing climate model emulators for use in Integrated Assessment Models.
Dr Doug McMartin (American)
Cornell University & California Institute of Technology
Douglas MacMartin splits his time between Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. His primary research focus is on solar climate engineering, or geoengineering; working to develop the knowledge base for society to make informed future decisions on these technologies. This includes addressing questions such as estimating climate impacts, using design principles to improve outcomes, how to assess and manage uncertainty in predictions, and attribution. While too little is known today, it is plausible that these ideas could become an additional element of an overall strategy to minimize risks from climate change. In addition to geoengineering, research also includes applying engineering dynamics and feedback analysis to study climate dynamics and variability more broadly, and he is also involved in control design for the Thirty Meter Telescope project. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 journal articles and 70 conference papers, as well as several book chapters on flow control and patents on active noise control. In 2017, he testified in the US Congress at a hearing on geoengineering, and provided briefings to state government and to IPCC lead authors. He received his Bachelors’ degree from the University of Toronto in 1987, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1992. Prior to joining Caltech in 2000, he led the active control research and development program at United Technologies Research Center.
Prof. John Moore (British)
Beijing Normal University & University of Lapland, Finland
John Moore, British, is the Chief Scientist of GCESS at Beijing Normal University and a Research Professor at University of Lapland, Finland. He is also a Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, and a Guest Professor at the Polar Research Institute of China. Awarded the China Friendship medal 2014, he was also a China “1000 talent” awardee in 2010. John was Chief Scientist on the 2007-2009 Kinnvika International Polar Year project, member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Advisory Panel on Geoengineering, Steering Committee member of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), Finnish representative on the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Glaciology Network. He has been a member/leader of 6 Antarctic, 4 Greenland and 20 Svalbard expeditions. As a PhD student, he developed the Dielectric Profiling (DEP) method for rapid analysis of ice cores – now a standard technique for ice coring. One of Finland’s first joint university professors at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, and also with Thule Institute, University of Oulu. John was selected by NASA to help design the orbiting radar for the Jovian moon Europa, and is also one of the first non-Chinese born leaders of a major research program in China – the Chinese geoengineering research program. His research activities focus on geoengineering, sea level change, and ice sheet dynamics. He has authored 180 SCI articles (~11,000 citations, H-index=48, 18 articles published in PNAS & the “Nature” group). Editor of PNAS.
Dr Helene Muri (Norwegian & British)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Helene Muri is a Researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and holds a D.Phil (PhD) in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Oxford from 2009. After a post-doc at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, on ERC Advanced Grant on paleo-monsoons in East Asia, Muri has been working as a researcher in Norway at the University of Oslo on climate geoengineering. Her research has been focussed on Earth system modelling of solar radiation management techniques, contributing to the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) with simulations with the NorESM model. She is also involved with the Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDR-MIP) as a member of the scientific Steering Committee. She served as leader on projects “Exploring the potential and side-effects of climate engineering (EXPECT)” and “Potential of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage to limit warming to 1.5°C”, and has 45 scientific publications. Muri has been working on the modelling of multiple climate geoengineering techniques, including solar dimming, stratospheric aerosol injections, marine cloud brightening and cirrus cloud thinning, and the interpretation of the climate responses to these over the past seven years.
Dr Simone Tilmes (German & American)
Dr Simone Tilmes is a Project Scientist II at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the liaison for the Community Earth System Model (CESM) chemistry-climate working group. Her scientific interests cover the understanding and evaluation of chemical, aerosol and dynamical processes in chemistry-climate models. She has investigated past, present and future evolutions of the ozone hole in both hemispheres based on models and observations. Further research includes interactions in tropospheric chemistry, aerosols, air quality, long-range transport of pollutants, and tropospheric ozone. She is also studying the impact of geoengineering on the Earth’s climate system, the hydrological cycle, sea-ice, and the impact of solar radiation management on dynamics and chemistry in both the troposphere and the stratosphere. Together with a team of scientists, she produced the first stratospheric aerosol geoengineering large ensemble (GLENS) using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), which has been made available to the community in order to investigate the benefits, side effects and risks of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering.
Dr Lili Xia (Chinese)
Dr Lili Xia is a Research Associate at Rutgers University working with Dr Alan Robock. She graduated in 2014 with a PhD from the Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. She has been working on simulating sulphate injection geoengineering using climate models and focusing on estimating climate change impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, and air pollutants (e.g. surface ozone) under geoengineering. She actively collaborates with the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) and the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), to introduce geoengineering to the crop modelling community as one of the future climate scenarios. She is also interested in the interaction between land and the atmosphere through the biosphere. Another project Dr Xia is working on is to evaluate global agriculture impacts from a simulated regional nuclear conflict. She has published 11 peer-reviewed papers and 2 book chapters on her research.
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Mobile Learning and Performance Support: The Power Duo
Workforce Management and Development for Value-Based Care
Many of us learned early in life not to admit to being confused, even when it was painfully obvious we did not know how to react. There were times when we understood what was expected, but then things changed and no one thought to tell us—or if they did tell us, it was too late to meet their expectations.
Not only did our self-confidence take a hit, but we also came away feeling belittled, embarrassed, and more confused than before. These negative feelings implanted from previous experiences often return whenever we enter a state of confusion.
Performance management and process improvement are potent feedback tools that expose the sources of confusion. Once these factors are opened for discussion, leaders and followers will better understand how best to clarify their expectations and open the pathway to greater collaboration.
The most effective way to introduce performance management and process improvement is to frame two sets of questions in the form of checklists that follow the natural workflow as depicted in the image below.
Start with the affected individuals and work your way through the checklists until all parties can confidently and comfortably answer yes to every question. This process will require multiple sessions, so do not hurry to complete the checklists.
Here is an example of how an assembly line supervisor applied performance management and process improvement to address the inadequacies of a new employee.
Shortly after completing the orientation program, Susan was introduced to the other members of her team, who helped her settle in. It was not long, however, before she was making frequent errors and falling behind schedule.
Susan was confused and frustrated, but she kept working as if nothing was wrong. When her supervisor came by to see how she was doing, Susan said everything was fine. The supervisor knew otherwise.
The next morning Susan was summoned to her supervisor’s office. Instead of being upset as Susan had expected, the supervisor calmly presented a flowchart of how the output of Susan’s job affected the work of others in their department.
As she responded to her supervisor’s queries, Susan realized the critical importance of her place in the assembly process and why the company depended upon her to be in the right place at the right time and doing the right thing the right way for the right reason.
Susan’s supervisor explained why she should be thinking about the highest and best use of her talents so as not to miss an opportunity to improve the quality of her work. The supervisor made it clear that whenever Susan found it difficult to keep up, she should not be afraid to say so because there was no shame in not knowing what to do.
Relieved to know she still had a job, Susan promised to try harder. Her supervisor arranged for additional training with the stipulation that Susan would schedule periodic progress reviews. Susan now understood that she was expected to let her co-workers know when she became confused.
The purpose of performance management and process improvement is to provide underperforming employees with an awareness of why getting it right is important, coupled with an understanding of what they need to do differently to improve the outcome. Here are three real life examples:
A remote Midwest subsidiary of a national manufacturer converted $800,000 in weekly defects, rejections, and product waste into an equivalent amount in new sales by forming employee-directed process improvement teams in all departments. Their recommended changes in the engineering, production, quality control and marketing functions resulted in the elimination of the waste and improved the overall quality of the company's product line. Such profit-enhancing actions raised the value of the company's stock and attracted additional investors who were greatly impressed by such a rapid turnaround.
When the founder of a renowned counseling center serving more than 4,000 families of Down syndrome and autistic children unexpectedly announced her retirement, grant providers, corporate sponsors, and regulatory agencies voiced their confusion regarding her sudden, unexplained departure. To counteract rumors of layoffs and staff reductions, several long-term employees formed a performance management team. Their purpose was to develop and implement a capacity building plan that reinforced the founder’s vision while the board of directors scrambled to find her replacement. Their collaborative efforts restored confidence in the center's ability to function effectively without the founder and to provide new educational modalities and service deliver options to more families in the future.
The newly appointed director of a poorly performing Family Support Division serving custodial parents in a large metropolitan region formed cadres of disgruntled and disillusioned employees into performance management and process improvement teams for the purpose of building alliances and forming coalitions that focused on improving productivity and building reliable internal communications links. Within a short time frame their original ranking of 52nd among 53 peer agencies was elevated to the first position. Such an astonishing improvement won national acclaim and system-wide recognition, which resulted in a substantial increase in state and federal funding and the creation of new job openings.
Check out Part 1 here.
To be continued next week…
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MIT News magazine
World-renowned architect I. M. Pei ‘40 officially retired from Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. But at age 90, he’s still designing buildings in Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East, following the sun and an inner light.
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For the Chinese, 2007 is the year of the boar, the last in the cycle of the 12 animal years. For I. M. Pei ’40, 2007 is also a crowning and propitious year–the one in which he turns 90, celebrates his 65th wedding anniversary, and witnesses the opening of the 60th building he played a major role in designing. Pei has been called “the mandarin of modernism,” “the world’s greatest architect,” and “modernism’s elder statesman,” but he is impressed neither with labels nor with the hallmarks of age. “I don’t really believe in ‘isms,’” he says. “And age is not everything.”
I.M. Pei ‘40
On a misty Manhattan day in mid-January, Pei is nursing a cold. He and his wife, Eileen, have just returned from Qatar, where they attended the wedding of a daughter of the emir, for whom Pei has designed a new museum of Islamic art. Dressed in an elegant brown glen-plaid jacket–Pei is known for his sense of style and has most of his suits custom made in Hong Kong–he stands near a table stacked neatly with books and architectural drawings in his spare downtown office and asks a simple question, with his hands held open. “Why does MIT want to interview me? Will people know who I am?”
It’s difficult to imagine anyone who pays any attention to architecture not knowing who I. M. Pei is. And it’s equally difficult to imagine that his modesty is not genuine; both humble and cultured, Pei represents a world of formality and tradition in which distinguished and reserved gentlemen bow to each other as a sign of respect. Yet he personifies the modern world as well. During a career that has spanned nearly seven decades, Pei has worked with some of the world’s leading politicians and artists. He studied with Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement, and collaborated on building projects with the sculptor Henry Moore. Pei was also commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy to build the John F. Kennedy Library; encouraged by J. Carter Brown, then director of the National Gallery of Art, to push the edge of architecture and art with the gallery’s East Building; chosen by French president François Mitterrand to modernize the Louvre, one of France’s most beloved and important historical landmarks, which he did with a controversial glass-pyramid entrance; and championed by pop-culture icon and Atlantic Records CEO Ahmet Ertegun to design Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Although Pei retired from his firm in 1990, he’s not the sort of man who can easily give up his calling. These days, he treks regularly to a small office tucked away on the 10th floor of Wall Street Plaza, a sleek building designed in 1973 by I. M. Pei and Partners, which he formed in 1955. The firm changed its name to Pei Cobb Freed and Partners in 1989. “I was 73 and decided it was time to let the younger people take over the firm, but I was not ready to hibernate,” he says. “I had to do something different than what I had been doing. It was at that time that I made a turn from my usual past practice.”
View Pei's architectural designs.
For Pei, that meant looking beyond the American geography that had dominated his imagination since the 1950s: his postretirement projects have taken him to Japan, Spain, Greece, England, Germany, Luxembourg, China, and Macao. Although Pei began working on the Louvre while he was still a full partner at the firm, the time he spent in France spurred him to venture even farther from his New York City base.
“I’d been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn’t really,” he says. “You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies. Unless you fight, unless you really confront each other with differences of opinion, you don’t really know each other. That project gave me a wake-up call. It said, ‘If you are truly interested in the world, you have to work there.’ So I said, Now that I am retired, I am going to learn something about the world. It’s not too late. I’m still here.”
And he’s still going back to Paris, where the Louvre now needs interior changes to accommodate growing crowds. “If you go under the pyramid, it looks like an airport,” he says, noting that the museum now draws more than eight million people a year, up from about four to five million when he started working on the expansion and modernization in 1983. When asked what he thinks about the idea of Mary Magdalene being buried beneath his famous inverted pyramid, as was suggested in The Da Vinci Code, he scoffs and says, “Fiction,” but he is smiling as he says it. “The movie wasn’t very good. Disappointing. The book was better.” But The Da Vinci Code, he points out, “is part of the reason for the eight million people coming to the Louvre.” And he smiles again.
Pei, who comes from a prominent Chinese family, grew up in Hong Kong and Shanghai; he left China in 1935 and became an American citizen in 1954. When he came to the United States for college, however, he had no idea that global politics would keep him from returning to China for nearly 40 years.
He still feels the pull of his homeland. “You have to give up one citizenship in order to acquire another one. That’s the only honest thing to do,” he says in the 1997 documentary First Person Singular: I. M. Pei. “But it was really difficult for me to give up China.” Upon winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he used the $100,000 award to establish a fund to help Chinese students study architecture in the United States, with the stipulation that they return to China. And when hundreds of people were killed in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Pei was so distressed that he wrote a piece deploring the violence, titled “China Won’t Ever Be the Same,” for the New York Times. In 1990, he cofounded the Committee of 100 to foster relations between citizens of the United States and China.
He has designed significant buildings in China as well. In the early 1980s, he began work on the Bank of China headquarters in Hong Kong, a project that tied together three generations; his father, Tsuyee, had been one of the bank’s early managers, and Pei’s collaborators on the project were two of his sons, Chien Chung (Didi) and Li Chung (Sandi), who have their own firm, Pei Partnership Architects. In keeping with the Chinese tradition of respecting elders, the Bank of China asked Tsuyee for permission to approach his son about designing the building. However, the elder Pei did not live long enough to see the bank open in 1989. The building, a stunning structure of glass and steel, was an engineering triumph. Challenged to make it resistant to typhoons, Pei abandoned the traditional column-and-beam structural model. Instead, most of the building’s weight is borne by huge diagonal trusses, which are fitted into the interior and connected to the vertical planes of the exterior. The trusses transfer the building’s wind and gravity loads to its four corners, which are reinforced with composite columns. The Bank of China tower soars 72 stories and was the tallest building in Asia when it opened. A model of the bank is one of the few embellishments in Pei’s New York office.
In October 2006, Pei was on hand when the Suzhou Museum, which he also designed with Didi and Sandi, opened with great fanfare in the Chinese city of Suzhou. The media made much of the Pei family’s 600-year history in the ancient city, a center of art and culture known for elaborate retreats built by well-to-do families. Pei spent his childhood summers there, playing in the famed rock gardens at his family’s retreat, the Garden of the Lion Forest.
In First Person Singular, he tells of how rock gardeners choose rocks, chisel them, and place them on a beach to let the tides smooth away the edges, sometimes for decades. His early exposure to the Suzhou rock gardeners, with their respect for the importance of time, had a lasting effect on him–“not just [on] my work but the way I am,” he says in the film. “There is no instant gratification in creating a work of art. … A work of art or architecture needs time [for us] to finally make a judgment as to whether it is right or not.”
Pei’s architectural sensibility, too, took time to develop. When he left China, he planned to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania but was dismayed by Penn’s adherence to the Beaux Arts style and left after two weeks. He says, “I wrote to MIT that I wanted to come and learn about architectural engineering. I had an adequate [math and] science background, but not art, especially Western art. So I thought that might be a better field for me to pursue.”
William Emerson, dean of MIT’s School of Architecture, encouraged Pei to study architecture, but Pei resisted, saying that he didn’t draw well. Emerson countered that he didn’t know any Chinese who couldn’t draw. “The dean was wonderful,” says Pei. “I owe a lot to him.”
In the early years of his career, Pei claims, he was “an empty vessel” with no defined aesthetic of his own, aside from a debt to the Bauhaus movement, which he encountered when studying with Gropius in graduate school. He had always been interested in light, however. “The essence of architecture is form and space,” he says, “and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.”
For Pei, technology has its uses, but it never drives design. He readily admits that he is “anticomputer” and does not use computer-aided design tools for conceptual work. “MIT will be surprised to hear that, and probably not very happy,” he says. “What does a computer show you that you yourself can think about? For making drawings today, I can’t imagine practicing without a computer. In a technical sense, it is a very wonderful tool. But in the conceptual sense … does the computer help poetry?”
Pei, who comes from a long line of artists, poets, calligraphers, and musicians on his mother’s side, says that he is an admirer of poetry, particularly Whitman, Thoreau, Li Bai, and Du Fu. He recites Chinese poetry and writes his own poems in Chinese. Like poetry, architecture depends on inspiration from an internal source, he says.
For the Museum of Islamic Art, Pei drew on his knowledge of Islamic buildings in Spain, India, and places in between. But traveling to North Africa to learn more, he saw that Islamic architecture follows the sun. For an architect whose best works are defined by the play of light, the commission was ideal.
“The architecture is determined by the sun,” he says. “I had to look for the essence of Islamic architecture …. All the way from Cordoba to Fatepuhr Sikri is all sun, but the sun does different things in different places.” In the desert, the sun reveals form, and form, he says, takes on a special importance there: “Geometry and mathematics actually originated in this part of the world. So I decided to find the magical example, if there is such a thing. I found it in Egypt.
“There is a mosque called Ibn Tulun. Inside the mosque is a big courtyard, and there is a little ablution fountain. It starts as a square inside another square, then an octagon, then a circle. It’s a small thing. The total height of that little ablution fountain could not be more than 60 or 70 feet, but because of that piling up of geometric forms, under the sun, it is magical. You walk around it, and it changes all the time. Therefore, my building learned from that building,” says Pei.
“That little building is a poem.”
To create his own poem, Pei collaborated with the sun. “The form comes to life under light,” he says of his Museum of Islamic Art, which opens in Doha, Qatar, this fall. “It doesn’t matter where you build, but when you are building under the desert sun, it becomes more important. Form doesn’t need to be complicated. The light gives it so much life. In northern architecture–the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches–the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
“The stronger the light plays into it, the more architecture tends to be simple; the light itself can enrich simple forms,” he says. “The Pyramids are perfect, but you can’t put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.”
Pei’s Architectural Mark on MIT
When I. M. Pei began designing buildings for MIT in the 1960s, he had just finished a low-cost-housing project in Manhattan’s Kips Bay. The Institute, he says, gave him the opportunity to move beyond a developer-architect relationship to a client-architect relationship: “I was a member of a development company, almost a hired hand. But I became an independent practitioner with MIT.” He designed the Green Building for earth sciences (1964), the Dreyfus chemistry building (1969), the Landau chemical-engineering building (1976), and the Wiesner Building (1984, above), which houses the MIT Media Lab.
The Wiesner Building, he says, was an “interesting combination of architecture and art,” a collaboration that incorporated Kenneth Noland’s artwork directly into the design. And because the building would mark the edge of East Campus, “we made a big gateway there that not only enters into the Media Lab but enters into the East Campus,” Pei says.
Though he seems proud of his MIT buildings, Pei does not consider them his best work. “The chemistry building is probably for me a nuts-and-bolts building, but it’s quite well done, and I am not ashamed of it,” he says. “It defined the campus at the time. You have no idea how Eastman Building all the way to the dorms was one big field with nothing there. The buildings are there to define spaces, and I think they have played that role well. Before, even grass did not grow there. If I made any contribution to MIT, it’s more in site planning than in buildings.”
But O. Robert Simha, MCP ‘57, retired MIT director of planning and a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has worked with Pei and says that he is being too modest. Simha says while the designs of the Green, Landau, and Dreyfus buildings are deliberately–and appropriately–understated, their elegance brings together landscape and buildings, architecture and art. “The buildings themselves are not dramatic, they don’t scream at you, but it’s the ensemble of the buildings that’s the achievement,” he says. “They have an architectural interest and visual impact that is quite amazing.
“I. M. is loyal to his alma mater,” says Simha, “and his contributions will be lasting. He was always technologically on the cutting edge, always brought a sense of grace and cultural sensitivity, and really cares about the place. He’s also indefatigable.”
As for the architectural risks being taken on campus now, Pei is impressed. “I would like to work for MIT today if I were younger,” he says.–G.M.
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Robots Start to Grasp Food Processing
Advances in robotics make it possible to automate tasks such as processing poultry and vegetables.
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It is less striking than Deep Blue’s victory over chess champ Garry Kasparov, but Richard van der Linde says that his robotic hand’s mastery at picking up cabbage is something of a milestone for machines. With the aid of five cameras, plus sensors in its wrist to monitor the resistance it encounters, the three-fingered gripper can carefully pick up a cabbage, reorient it, and place it into a machine that removes the core. “In industry, only humans can do that at the moment,” says van der Linde.
His company Lacquey, based in Delft, the Netherlands, is working with FTNON, a manufacturer of food-processing equipment, to get the technology ready to go to work inside the giant chillers where today humans process cabbage, lettuce, and other produce for packaging. Lacquey is also testing versions for other sorts of jobs, such as packaging tomatoes, peppers, and mangoes.
The company’s progress is an example of how advances in robotic manipulation technology are opening up new jobs for robots in the food-processing business. Solid, hard, identical objects such as car parts are easy for robots to move around. But delicate, flexible, naturally variable objects such as meat, fruit, and vegetables require much more sophisticated sensing and manipulation.
Interest is driven partly by the potential to cut labor costs, just as in other industries. But food-processing companies also see robotics as a way to increase safety, says Gary McMurray, who leads the Food Processing Technology division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. “Anywhere you have people in there handling food, they make mistakes from time to time,” he says. Incidents where meat or vegetables become contaminated with, say, E. coli or Listeria are costly to a food processor. A 2015 study found that on average, meat recalls wiped $109 million from a public food-processing company’s value within five days of their announcement. Though figures are not available for the specific number of cases originating from contamination at a food-processing plant, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 128,000 Americans are hospitalized with food-borne illness from all causes each year, and of those, 3,000 die.
McMurray’s research group is currently developing two systems for the poultry industry. One can grasp a chicken carcass moving along a production line and cut the shoulder tendons in preparation for the removal of the breasts and wings. That system can already match the average yield of a human worker. In a second project, a low-cost two-armed robot called Baxter, produced by Rethink Robotics and designed to work safely alongside humans, is being programmed to place poultry carcasses onto the cone-shaped holders that carry them through a processing plant.
Both systems rely on visual and physical feedback. For example, the cutting robot uses a 3-D vision system to estimate the location of a chicken’s joints and tendons. It then uses sensors on its knife to “feel” whether it is cutting meat or bone. “Working with these wet, deformable, slippery objects is challenging, but it seems to be doable,” says McMurray.
Getting a robot to do a task like that well usually requires engineers to carefully program in specific techniques and commands. But machine-learning software could automate much of that process and make it practical for robots to carry out more complex tasks with a variety of foods, says Ashutosh Saxena, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University.
He used that approach to teach a two-armed robot to assemble a simple salad. The robot first went through a training phase in which it used knives, spatulas, forks, and other implements to probe the physical properties of foods including tomatoes, lettuce, and cheddar cheese. Afterward, the robot could figure out for itself how to slice up the elements of the salad and then move them around.
It is unclear when, if ever, it might be possible for a robot to keep pace with a human chef. In the near term, van der Linde says, Lacquey and others have to prove that their machines can match or exceed the pace of humans doing specific tasks on existing production lines.
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Definition - What does WebOS mean?
WebOS is a Linux-based proprietary mobile operating system. This mobile OS runs on devices like Palm Pre phones, Palm Pixi phones and the HP Veer.
Originally designed for Palm, and generally written as "webOS," it is now currently owned by Hewlett-Packard Co. after it acquired Palm in 2010. As of August 2011, Hewlett Packard announced it would no longer be manufacturing webOS hardware but would look into options for licensing to other manufacturers.
Techopedia explains WebOS
Like most modern mobile operating systems, WebOS is already designed for smartphones and can respond to touch screen events and multitouch gestures. webOS is best known for its ability to integrate seamlessly with Web 2.0 technologies with the Synergy feature, which allows users to sign in to online accounts (like Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange and LinkedIn), from which the application gathers information to populate the device.
WebOS also supports multitasking. For example, when an email notification pops up while you’re playing a game, you can tap on the notification to view the message. The game then shifts to pause mode. When you’re done reading, you can return to the game where you left off.
There are two ways of developing WebOS applications:
By using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This requires the software development kit, which can be installed on a computer running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu.
By using C or C++., This requires the platform development kit, which can only run on Windows and Mac computers.
Developers will also need Oracle’s VirtualBox to emulate the webOS environment on the desktop. Although webOS apps can be developed at the command line, the preferred method is by using an integreated development enivronment such as Eclipse.
C Programming Language (C)
Software Development Kit (SDK)
What is the difference between mobile communication and mobile computing?
What is the difference between cloud computing and mobile computing?
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Fight. For your right. For the Parrrrrty.
The GOP Senate primary in Florida may be the most interesting race next Summer.
We have the squishy Governor, Charlie Crist, with ridiculously high approval ratings versus the young and talented conservative former Florida Speaker of the House in Marco Rubio.
In a time when the GOP is desperate to figure out its direction, it’s a battle for the Party’s soul.
Do we want to squash the youthful, up and coming conservative in favor of a moderate who will assuredly win the race?
And it sucks.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of Marco Rubio. He is right on the issues and has a magnetic personality. And while it would cost one helluva lot, he’d have a decent shot at winning the seat. But sometimes we have to sacrifice the ideal candidate in order to protect the greater good. And that greater good is about increasing the likelihood that Democrats will not have an absolute Majority in the U.S. Senate.
We’ve already seen how dangerous our President can be without 60 Democrats in the Senate – now imagine what policies will be passed if that comes to be.
Sen. Cornyn, Chairman of the NRSC, endorsed Charlie Crist several weeks ago to the sound of conservative activists booing. Today he posted his reasoning on Red State:
While Rubio is certainly an up-and-comer in Florida, a recent Mason Dixon poll showed that he only has a 44 percent name ID among Republicans, which will ultimately force him to spend a lot more money introducing himself to Floridians. Govenor Crist, in contrast, has a 100 percent name ID among Republicans, according to the same poll. In a general election match-up with Democrat Congressman Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist wins handily 55 percent to 24 percent.
We have a chance to field competitive candidates in Connecticut, Illinois, Nevada, California, Arkansas, and Colorado in 2010.
Now, while I disagree with the NRSC officially endorsing Crist, the reasoning is sound from a political perspective. There is a finite amount of resources able to be spent on campaigns in 2010. And even less money available in this time of recession. It isn’t sound politics to spend money unnecessarily when you can prevent a Democrat from taking the seat at a drastically lower cost.
Will Crist be the kinda Republican we want in the Senate? No. But his election may enable Republicans to win elsewhere.
And unfortunately, some of the fault may lie with Rubio. He had the opportunity to avoid a primary with Crist, thereby risking his political career, and run for Governor instead. This would have enabled him to serve as the executive for 1-2 terms, gain more experience in a vital state in national politics and set himself up for a run for President. Now, Bill McCollum has announced his candidacy for Governor and Rubio has thrown all his chits on the table to the point where if he backed out of the Senate primary he’d lose credibility.
It’s a tough and unfortunate situation. One that I hoped we could avoid. But it’s all moot if Rubio is able to pull off the upset against Crist and raise much of his own cash.
And that’s why the NRSC should have stayed out of it.
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Oxford And Cambridge Cup – SUBC Seeking 5th Win
The Intervarsity rowing competition dates from 1860 when it began with “unofficial” races between Sydney and Melbourne. Races occured at spasmodic intervals between 1860 and 1869 in fours. In 1870 the first “official” intervarsity boat race was contested between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide universities.
In that race Edmund Barton, Australia’s first Prime Minister rowed at No 2 in the Sydney University four.
In 1888 the race was converted to eights and in 1893 the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge through connections with the Presidents of Sydney and Melbourne Boat clubs donated this magnificent trophy.
The men’s eight has been raced annually for this trophy ever since except for suspension of competition in the wars and in 1965, following and outbreak of party activity by competitors in the 1964 event in Tasmania.
Sydney University Boat Club won the 2007 race at Hinze Dam in Queensland equalling their best of four in a row having won in 2004-5-6. The previous record was set in 1935-36-37-38.
This year SUBC will attempt to create club history when the men’s eight will race
at the Regatta Centre, Penrith on 3rd October for a hoped 5th victory in a row.
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Home Music Nickelback To Headline Fire Aid For Fort McMurray Concert With Blue Rodeo...
Nickelback To Headline Fire Aid For Fort McMurray Concert With Blue Rodeo And More
Members of Alberta’s Fire Aid Organizing Committee, comprised of volunteers from across the province of Alberta, proudly announced today the details for Fire Aid for Fort McMurray – a major benefit concert being planned in support of people in the City of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) directly impacted by the Alberta Fires. Fire Aid for Fort McMurray is set to hit Commonwealth Stadium on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 4PM MT. All proceeds raised from this event will benefit the Fort McMurray United Way to support the city’s efforts to rebuild for all residents, individuals, families and businesses.
Canadians have expressed immense compassion and generosity during this time and many award-winning Canadian musicians have been keen to contribute to these efforts. World-class Canadian talent, including many hailing from Alberta, are ready to take the stage at Commonwealth Stadium on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 including Nickelback, Blue Rodeo, Corb Lund, Dean Brody, The Rankin Family, Dallas Smith, Brett Kissel, Randy Bachman with The Sadies, Ian Tyson, Alan Doyle and the Beautiful Gypsies, Dear Rouge, and High Valley.Tickets for Fire Aid for Fort McMurray, a major benefit concert in the name of community, are on sale Monday, May 30, 2016 at 10AM MT. Tickets are $35.00, $60.00 and $99.00 and will be available at ticketmaster.ca or charge by phone at 1-855-985-5000.
This past May, Albertans, Canadians and the entire world were shocked by the devastation of the wildfires in Fort McMurray and across the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Those affected were friends, neighbours, family and colleagues, and our hearts have continually gone out to them in their time of need. In the spirit of community, a dedicated group of volunteers from across the province, including the core team of organizers of the 2013 Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert, have come together to create Alberta’s Fire Aid Committee, working to help rebuild and sustain the future of Fort McMurray and surrounding regions.
Co-chairing Fire Aid for Fort McMurray are Edmonton-based community leaders Bob Nicholson, Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG) CEO and Vice Chair, Len Rhodes, Edmonton Eskimos Football Club President and CEO and Tim Reid, Northlands President and CEO, alongside special Honorary Chair, her Worship Mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Melissa Blake.
All funds raised will go directly to the community as the Fort McMurray United Way has been selected as the beneficiary from Fire Aid. United Way’s mission is “to improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action,” making this cause the perfect fit for Fire Aid for Fort McMurray’s beneficiary. The United Way will work with the various agencies on the ground in the region and help the thousands of residents with the support they need now and for however long it will take to rebuild.
TD Bank Group has joined the Fire Aid effort knowing that the recovery and rebuilding efforts will be massive, and through their early efforts and contribution of $500,000 to Fire Aid, they show their commitment to rebuilding this community. The TD First Responders sponsorship highlights the heroic efforts of those who have given so much and in addition to supporting relief efforts, are honoured to host first responders during the concert.
For tickets, please visit here or for more information on Fire Aid for Fort McMurray, visit fireaid.ca
Alan Doyle and the Beautiful Gypsies
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Corb Lund
Dallas Smith
Dean Brody
Dear Rouge
Ian Tyson
The Rankin Family
The Sadies
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Why Scalia Could Uphold Obamacare
He may be a staunch conservative, but the justice understands the commerce clause better than anyone else on the Supreme Court.
In this court illustration, Justice Antonin Scalia listens to U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler argue in favor of health care. (Reuters)
Most non-lawyers have been bemused by the confidence that constitutional lawyers once had about the Supreme Court's likely decision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka, the Obamacare) case. The idea that this Republican Court would not give the Republicans their victory seemed silly to most, or at least naive. What possible reason would there be to imagine the Court would hold its punches?
But indeed, there was a confidence, at least among those whose career is focused upon the intricacies of commerce clause jurisprudence, that the Court would uphold the statute. When I read that my colleague Charles Fried -- Ronald Reagan's solicitor general -- said that he would eat his hat if the Court struck the statute, I didn't think Fried was being brave or reckless: the point seemed too obvious to remark. Whether wise or not, Obamacare is plainly constitutional under the Court's existing precedents. That's not to say the Court couldn't make up a new rule by which the law was deemed unconstitutional. But against the history of the repeated embarrassments that the Court has suffered as it has tried to police Congress' commerce authority, it seemed genuinely unimaginable that it would again make the same mistake.
The simplest way to see this point is to focus on the jurisprudence of a key vote in any hypothetical 5-4 decision to strike the law -- Justice Antonin Scalia.
Scalia's commerce clause jurisprudence is among the most careful, and, in my view, precise among the justices likely to impose a constitutional limit on Congress' authority. His concurring opinion in Gonzales v. Raich, a case about whether Congress had the power to regulate home-grown marijuana, maps a very clear formula for testing Congress's authority. If you apply that test to Obamacare -- especially in light of the evidence just published by my colleague Einer Elhauge -- there can be little doubt about the answer.
Under Scalia's approach, the question of Congress's authority is not answered by asking whether the activity regulated is, or affects, interstate commerce. Though that clause only gives Congress the power to regulate "commerce among the several states," as Scalia said in Raich, Congress's power is supplemented by the Constitution's "Necessary and Proper Clause" power. That clause means that "Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce," at least if such regulation is "Necessary and Proper" to Congress' commerce power or to any other power granted the federal government. In other words, Congress can regulate an activity that is not interstate commerce so long as regulating it is "Necessary and Proper" to Congress' regulating interstate commerce.
Whether a regulation is "necessary and proper" is a question Scalia has also answered carefully. While the Court since the early 19th century has read "necessary" very loosely, Scalia has insisted that a regulation must also be "proper." And while the full scope of that propriety has not yet been clearly set, it is at least the case, Scalia has insisted, that the regulation should not conflict with other constitutional values, or with longstanding tradition. If it does, then it would fall outside Congress' power.
The Obamacare case forces the Court to decide whether the power to regulate "activities" that are, or might substantially affect "commerce among the several states" could also include the power to regulate "non-activities" -- the failure to buy health insurance -- that likewise affect "commerce among the several states."
For less nuanced theories, this question presents a puzzle. How can a non-activity be regulated by a clause that gives Congress the power to regulate "commerce" -- quintessentially an "activity"?
But for Scalia's theory, there is no puzzle. Just as intrastate activities that don't substantially affect interstate commerce can be regulated, on Scalia's account, if "Necessary and Proper" to some commerce-clause end, so too should Congress have the power to regulate non-activities, so long as they are "Necessary and Proper" to some commerce-clause end.
No one doubts that under the current Court's reading of "necessary," the alleged effect of this non-activity -- the failure of some to buy insurance -- substantially affects interstate commerce. The only question for Scalia -- and he made this question clear in oral argument -- is whether regulating a non-activity is also "proper." Put most strongly, at least for an originalist: is there evidence that the Framers would have deemed "improper" a law that forced citizens to do something they didn't want to do or to buy something they didn't want to buy? Or again, is there evidence that the Framers would have channeled Justice Brandeis by protecting a fundamental "right to be left alone," economic efficiencies notwithstanding?
Here's where Elhauge's evidence could be conclusive, at least for an originalist like Scalia. Elhauge points to at least three statutes enacted by the first Congress that explicitly regulated non-activity: Congress mandated that ship-owners buy medical insurance for their seamen; Congress mandated that every able-bodied male buy a fire-arm; and Congress mandated that seamen buy hospital insurance for themselves. For an originalist, these statutes should resolve the question of whether the Framers thought there was something "improper" in forcing individuals to do something or buy something they otherwise would not want or need.
Of course, not all of these statutes were enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause (though as Elhauge points out, the maritime statutes were). But again, on Scalia's method, the question is not whether the thing being regulated could have been regulated under the Commerce Clause. On Scalia's method, whether or not it could have been regulated under the Commerce Clause, it can be regulated under the Necessary and Proper Clause if part of a more general commerce-clause scheme. This the individual mandate certainly is. And if forcing individuals to act is not improper, and if a law that forces people to act is necessary (as in conducive to) a general scheme regulating commerce, then an originalist applying Scalia's test should conclude that the individual mandate in Obamacare is constitutional. Thus the confidence of even conservative constitutional scholars: if Scalia followed his opinion in Raich, the law would be upheld.
That confidence was, of course, shaken by a truly extraordinary oral argument. Scalia took the lead in attacking the law. He challenged the Solicitor General to show why it was "proper." The SG didn't seem to know about the First Congress's practice. Indeed, the government's whole argument seemed strangely oblivious to the contours of the Court's expressed views about the scope of the commerce authority.
So to say Scalia's Raich test should yield an obvious and clear answer is not necessarily to say that five justices will vote to uphold the law. Scalia could change his test. The Court could launch itself on a new mission to supervise the scope of Congress's economic authority.
But here, then, is a second recognition that leads both scholars on the right (like Fried) and scholars on the left (like Laurence Tribe) to pray that the Court doesn't take this disastrous step. Fried and Tribe (and I and many others) want the ability to present the work of the Court in a way that belies the common but (we believe) uninformed view that all law, especially constitutional law, is just politics. If the Court strikes this law, then that hope fades.
The Court has been asked to limit the scope of Congress's authority in a wide range of cases. Some of these have been for liberal causes, some for conservative. I was lead counsel in a case that asked the Court to apply its newly announced will to enforce the limits on enumerated powers in the context of the copyright clause -- viewed by many as a "liberal cause." The Court said no, twice. The same with federal regulation of medical marijuana, which, the (said to be liberal) 9th Circuit had ruled, violated the limits on Congress's power. The Supreme Court -- including Scalia -- said it didn't.
So with these liberal cases, limits were not enforced. But when the cause is conservative, the willingness to limit Congress' power comes alive. The Court has struck laws regulating guns -- twice. It has struck a law that regulated violence against women. And if Obamacare falls, it will have struck down the most important social legislation advanced by the Democratic Party in a generation.
With that score sheet, I fear the cynics win. When the Frieds, or Tribes (or Lessigs) of the world want to insist that "it's not all just politics," the cynics (including most forcefully, our students) will insist the facts just don't support the theory. Even I would have to concede the appearance that it's just politics, even if I don't believe I could ever believe it.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and the founder of EqualCitizens. His latest book is They Don’t Represent Us.
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ins and outs Aug. 23, 2010
Barneys Finally Hired a CEO After Two Years Without One
Barneys has been without a CEO since Howard Socol resigned in 2008 amid the store’s troubling debt concerns. Former Gucci president and CEO Mark Lee will assume the role on September 1. Lee, who is 47, has worked for Saks, Giorgio Armani, and Yves Saint Laurent. Over the course of the economic meltdown, Barneys’ value plummeted, from the $942 million that parent company Istithmar purchased it for a few years ago to $350 million. The store also almost didn’t get its deliveries one season because analysts feared they wouldn’t have the money to pay for them. And oh! There were also those layoffs and that time experts said they probably could have avoided all these issues if they’d just hired a CEO and centralized management, instead of putting the company in the hands of seven executives. Good luck, Mark! At least this is one of those jobs where he can say he has a lot to work with.
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Historically Black Tuskegee University Sued by White Professor for Age, Racial Discrimination
‘IT’S JUST WRONG’
Marshall Burns claims he is paid far less than younger peers, despite his long tenure and funding he helped get the historically black college because of his “white race.”
Olivia Messer
Jeff Greenberg/Getty
A 73-year-old white physics professor at Alabama’s Tuskegee University is suing the historically black college for what he says is age and racial discrimination.
Marshall Burns’ 12-page lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, contends his salary is 30 to 50 percent lower than that of Tuskegee’s younger professors despite his more than four decades of tenure at the private university.
The physics scholar began working at Tuskegee as an assistant professor in 1976, according to the lawsuit, and was promoted to full professor in 1980. Burns published a textbook that was recognized by the state legislature and was named Teacher of the Year in 1989, the complaint claims.
That same year, Burns’ lawsuit claims that when the school was seeking more money from the legislature, it was his “level of scholarship, and his white race, [that] helped Tuskegee University succeed in obtaining additional funding from more conservative legislators.”
“It’s just wrong,” Burns told The Daily Beast of his purported pay gap on Wednesday.
The Montgomery Advertiser broke news of the lawsuit on Tuesday.
Despite Burns’ purported accomplishments—and 12 verbal and written requests for a raise—the scholar’s current salary of $60,500 is equivalent to associate professor salaries, and younger full professors are making between $78,000 and $90,000, his lawsuit alleges. He initially filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in November 2018.
The university has “discriminated against [Burns] due to his age by continually denying justified requests for salary adjustments and by paying [Burns] less than younger, less qualified professors,” his lawsuit states.
“Notwithstanding Dr. Burns’ significant contributions to Tuskegee University, and his stellar help in getting it more money, Tuskegee has ungratefully kept [Burns] at an associate level of pay for his entire academic career,” the complaint claims.
Burns told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that he didn’t want to sue the school, but that he’d “tried everything else.”
“I’ve had what I consider to be exceptional students,” Burns told the Advertiser. “At Tuskegee, I’ve had classes with students who are go-getters and very smart. That’s what gives me enthusiasm to teach.”
Burns also clarified to The Daily Beast that he had never “felt any racial discrimination on campus” and has been treated “with respect,” but that “something has to be going on, to be totally ignored on this issue.”
“I’ve suffered financially, emotionally,” Burns added. “I kept trying to think of what I could do to make them realize that I deserve full-professor pay.”
Burns’ lawsuit asks for a jury trial and requests unspecified back pay for unpaid wages, damages, and attorney’s fees.
“We’d been trying to get them for over a year to do something for him” before filing the suit, said Burns’ attorney, Julian McPhillips, in an interview with The Daily Beast.
“They offered him a few peanuts,” McPhillips said. “It was nowhere near enough.”
“We just finally gave up waiting. It was like waiting for Godot,” he added.
A Tuskegee spokesperson declined to comment to The Daily Beast on the lawsuit Wednesday, citing legal and personnel concerns.
Undergraduate students at the university are required to pay a minimum of $33,360 in tuition, board, and fees each year.
Data from the Chronicle of Higher Education for the 2017-18 academic year put the average salary for full professors at Tuskegee University at $91,095 and the average salary nationally for a full-time physics professor at a four-year private institution at $74,447.
@OliviaMesserolivia.messer@thedailybeast.com
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Neo-Nazis’ Air-to-Air Missile: An Explosive New Clue to Salvini’s Intrigues With the Russians
Italian anti-terrorism investigators looking into Neo-Nazi militants fighting for pro-Russian forces in the Ukraine stumbled on a cache of war-ready weapons.
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large
Tino Romano/AP
ROME—Italian police say they knew they were onto something big when they caught two Neo-Nazi sympathizers discussing the latest weapon in their arsenal on a tapped WhatsApp thread. And when the cops started seeing chatter the group was moving the weapon close to an airport near the northern city of Turin, they pounced.
They found a massive French-made Matra Super 530 F air-to-air missile originally purchased by the military of Qatar, a rich little emirate on the Arabian Peninsula. “During the operation, an air-to-air missile in perfect working order and used by the Qatari army was seized,” Italian police said in a statement. They also confirmed that they stumbled upon the find when they were investigating far-right Italians “who have fought in Ukraine’s Donbass region against the [pro-Russian] separatists.”
But the situation is murky, to say the least, and it now seems possible those fighting alongside the pro-Russian forces in the Ukraine were the ones who actually hoped to get their hands on the missile. Under the same investigation in the same area of Italy on July 3, two Italians and a Moldovan who had been picked up earlier this summer were convicted on terrorism charges. The three had recently returned from fighting on the pro-Russian side in Ukraine. It seems unlikely this was pure coincidence.
At the time of the discovery on Monday, authorities said they had no clear idea just what the Matra Super 530 F or any of the many other weapons in the cache would be used for. Those arrested this week— two Italians and a Swiss national—said they were not part of any political party despite one of them having run for office as a member of Forza Nuova, Italy’s most extreme far-right group.
Then on Tuesday, Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who is on the far right himself and has become Italy’s more prominent politician, said the weapons were meant to be used against him, and that he had tipped off the police after his secret service detail alerted him to the threat.
“I signaled it,” he said on Tuesday. “It was one of the many threats on my life that I get every day. The secret service spoke of a Ukrainian group that threatened my life. I am happy that it served to discover the arsenal of someone demented.”
The police, who work under the Interior Minister and, effectively, for Salvini, could not confirm or deny the claim. “Salvini is the head of the police, so he speaks for the force,” a Turin police spokesperson told The Daily Beast.
It is certainly convenient for Salvini to say that neo-Nazis want him dead. After all, the far-right leader has lately been under heavy scrutiny for his anti-immigration and nationalist rhetoric in an ongoing battle with those who want to save migrants at sea. His closed-port policy has seen a massive reduction in arrivals of Africans and Middle Easterners into the country, though it has put him the sights of human rights campaigners who liken his policy to Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims and racist rants laced with promises to keep people of color out of the country.
Salvini has long distanced himself from the most extreme alt-right factions of the Italian political spectrum including the Forza Nuova caught up in Monday's weapons find. But the group has been a vocal supporter of Salvini, and often is represented in his rallies. Such an outright threat–albeit a convenient one—muddies that point.
Before Salvini claimed to be the target of the weapons cache, which included 800 bullets, 26 guns, 20 bayonets, and more than 300 weapons parts like silencers and long-range scopes from Austria, Germany and the United States, police had a different motive in mind.
A source with Turin’s anti-terrorism arm called DIGOS told The Daily Beast that they thought perhaps the weapons were on the market to support Russian-backed forces fighting in the Ukraine. One of the men arrested, a 42-year-old Swiss national the Italian press named as Alessandro Monti, had a business buying and selling aircraft parts in Bissone, Switzerland, and he had been overheard trying to peddle the air-to-air missile for around half a million dollars to buyers supporting pro-Russian troops. “We only moved now rather than wait to find more because they moved the bigger weapon near an airport,” the source said.
Salvini and his Lega party are currently tied up in a scandal involving allegations that they are receiving money from Russia to bolster their political party and the European Parliament with those sympathetic to lifting sanctions on Russia.
As The Daily Beast reported earlier this year an Italian exposé claimed that Vladimir Putin funneled around $65 million to Salvini via a Russian company to the Italian state company, Eni, which Salvini helps manage in his role as interior minister. A tape that turned up earlier this month seems to prove at least some of that is true. On Monday, his close associate Gianluca Savoini testified in front of prosecutors looking into the matter.
If the Neo-Nazi weapons were actually meant for the pro-Russia fighters in the Ukraine, as the investigation originally suggested before Salvini said they were directed at him, it could spell even more trouble for Salvini.
And while they may well have been mentioned in death threats to the divisive leader, it is now impossible to confirm since, as the Turin police official suggested, Salvini controls the message.
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Fiorina Trumps Six Other GOP Candidates in the ‘Happy Hour’ Debate
Policy + Politics
By Eric Pianin and Martin Matishak
In a showdown of second-tier Republican presidential candidates Thursday evening, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina quickly emerged as the strongest conservative voice on the stage – a searing critic of Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and someone not a bit reluctant to do battle with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Fiorina didn’t mince words on the topic of Trump’s reported ties to the Clintons, following a Washington Post report that Bill Clinton called Trump and gave him some advice before he formally hopped into the GOP race in early June.
"I didn’t get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race," Fiorina, said during a televised forum in Cleveland for candidates who missed a cutoff in the polls for the main debate. “Maybe it’s because I didn’t give money to [the Clinton] Foundation or donate to his wife’s Senate campaign.”
Fiorina was sharp coming out of the box, and she quickly pooh-poohed a Fox News moderator’s question about her poor showing in the polls. “I would begin by reminding people that at this point in previous presidential elections, Jimmy Carter couldn’t win, Ronald Reagan couldn’t win, Bill Clinton couldn’t win and neither could have Barack Obama.
“I started as a secretary and became ultimately the CEO of the largest technology company in the world, almost $90 billion and 150 countries,” she added in burnishing her resume. “I know personally how extraordinary and unique this nation is.”
If Fiorina more than exceeded expectations – and showed that the only woman in the GOP presidential campaign deserved to be on stage at the main event with Trump and nine others in Cleveland – former Texas governor Rick Perry may have been the biggest disappointment of the night.
Perry, who is still living down his infamous “oops” comment after forgetting one of the three government agencies he vowed to eliminate during his disastrous 2012 campaign, once again stumbled over answers and frequently had awkward pauses.
He insisted that as the longest serving governor of Texas he had more experience than anyone else on the stage to create jobs and crack down on illegal immigration at the border. And yet he was oddly deferential to Fiorina, and at one point suggested that the U.S. should have sent her to the bargaining table to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran rather than Secretary of State John F. Kerry.
That line may come back to haunt him.
In the wake of his recent assertion that Trump was a “cancer” on the Republican party and conservative movements after the billionaire businessman and TV showman openly questioned the heroism of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a Vietnam War era prisoner of war, one might have expected much sharper rhetoric about Trump tonight.
Instead, he watered down his rhetoric in response to a question of whether, as evidenced by his poll numbers, that Trump was “getting the best” of the Republicans in the field.
"When you look at the celebrity of Donald Trump, I think that says a lot about him,” Perry said. “One thing I like to remind people is back in 2007 Rudy Giuliani was leading the polls for almost a year. I’ll suggest a part of that was his celebrity. Fred Thompson was the other man who spent a lot of time on that screen."
"I’ve had my issues with Donald Trump,” Perry prattled on. “I talked about Donald Trump from the standpoint of being an individual who was using his celebrity rather than his conservatism. How can you run for the Republican nomination and be for single payer healthcare. I ask that with all due respect. And nobody, nobody on these stages has done more than I have done and the people of the state of Texas to deal with securing that border.”
For Fiorina, Perry and five others, it was embarrassing to be relegated to the warm up act for the Big Boys who were scheduled to go on the air at 9 p.m. EST. The political world is riveted on that debate, pitting Trump against Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and seven other top-tier GOP candidates gathering in Cleveland at the Quicken Loans Arena.
Yet those seven Republican presidential candidates made the best of a bad situation during an early evening consolation round in the near-empty arena hours before the main event.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who dubbed this the "happy hour debate" was hoping to showcase his hardline stands on defense and the war against ISIS. He repeatedly touted his bonafides to be the next commander in chief, and vowed to crush the terrorists with U.S. ground troops and a simple strategy: “Whatever it takes as long as it takes to defeat them.” But he seemed almost lethargic at times, and repeatedly returned to his comfort zone of defense related issues, even when talking about the economy or women’s reproductive rights.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, once a rising star within the GOP, provided scripted, well-rehearsed responses to most of the questions asked of him. The only time he went off book was when he was pressed on whether he thought Ohio Gov. John Kasich was wrong to expand Medicaid in his state. "I don't think anyone should expand Medicaid, in Ohio and across the country,” according to Jindal. He saved his best comments for his closing remarks, calling out former Florida governor Jeb Bush for arguing that a candidate needs to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general.” And, in his most eyebrow raising statement, Jindal took on illegal immigration. “We must insist on assimilation -- immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work,” he said.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses, was furious that he was left out of the main event. He had demonstrated why he was able to attract significant support last time – especially among social conservatives and anti-abortion forces -- even though his latest bid for his party’s nomination is falling flat. Santorum repeatedly mentioned his “20-20 perfect vision for America” economic plan that includes replacing the current tax code with a 20 percent flat tax and overhauling food stamps, Medicaid and housing programs to force beneficiaries to find work and to limit their stay on the rolls. He also vowed to slash immigration to preserve good manufacturing jobs for Americans.
Former New York governor George Pataki, stuck near the bottom of the polls and the only pro-choice candidate on the stage, said the recent hidden-camera videos of Planned Parenthood hadn’t changed his view on abortion. “My heart was not changed, because I’ve always been appalled by abortion,” Pataki said. He said the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion has been settled law for decades. “I don’t think we should continue to try to change it,” according to Pataki.
Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, the last to enter the race and probably the single most obscure of the 17 GOP candidates, spent most of the night explaining why he’s the man to sit in the Oval Office, despite the fact that he hasn’t held elected office in 13 years. When it comes to national security, Gilmore talked said he’s “proposed there be a Middle East NATO so that we can combine our allies there to stand up to Iranian expansion, and at the same time join together to begin to stop and this ISIL thing before it becomes an actual state.”
Rob Garver contributed to this report.
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Martin Matishak is Washington Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He has written for The Hill, Atlantic Media and Inside Washington Publishers, among other publications.
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Police check neo-Nazi link to Belfast attack
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
Tue 1 Apr 2008 19.52 EDT
Police have confirmed they are investigating a possible link between supporters of British neo-Nazi group Combat 18 and a mass loyalist attack on a Belfast pub in which one man had his throat slashed.
Hugh McAnally, 32, was beaten to the ground and had this throat cut as up to 50 people attempted to storm Cosgrove's bar on Saturday after the screening of the Celtic-Rangers Old Firm derby. Some of the mob shouted, "Combat 18" and "Section F", a far-right soccer hooligan gang in Northern Ireland, witnesses said.
Yesterday a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman confirmed that officers were investigating possible links to the extremist group, which has had irregular links with the loyalists in the past, though less so in recent years since some members were told by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force at gunpoint to leave Northern Ireland.
Yesterday, loyalist sources and the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight said it was unlikely that Saturday's attack involved English members of Combat 18. A senior UVF source said that, as paramilitary groups became less active because of the peace process, there was a nucleus of younger loyalists who wished to emulate Combat 18 and its hooligan offshoots.
They were trying to stir up sectarian trouble in Northern Irish football, the UVF source said, but loyalists who had been through the Troubles, especially those who served time in prison, regarded these hooligan street fighters contemptuously.
Saturday's attack followed the end of the Irish Cup semi-final between Linfield, a club with a large loyalist following, and Cliftonville, which draws a lot of its support from the Catholic community.
Witnesses said the assault appeared to be well organised; those leading the charge wore scarves over their faces, and carried knuckledusters and knives.
The most high-profile incident involving Combat 18 in Ireland was 13 years ago when neo-Nazi hooligans started a riot in Dublin's Lansdowne Road, resulting in a friendly between England and the Republic of Ireland being abandoned.
Football violence
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Bordering Cultures
A Rhodes Scholar Laments The Life Progress Left Behind.
By Randall Holdridge
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, by John Phillip Santos (Viking Press). Cloth, $24.95.
THIS MEMOIR OF Mexican-American experience on the U.S. side of the border traces the process of loss and recording old family stories. One minority family's balance sheet of the American 20th century, it bemoans the costs of progress in terms of cultural values and courtesy. It echoes unwittingly the reactionary plaints of the white Southern agrarian movement 75 years ago, but is such a good-natured account that this irony hardly matters.
John Phillip Santos, the first Mexican-American Rhodes scholar, is the Emmy-nominated writer and producer for CBS and PBS of more than 40 documentaries. A widely published journalist, he now lives in New York City. Places Left Unfinished draws on the author's youth in San Antonio, adolescent summers spent dirtying his hands in the ranching villages of Coahuila, and adult journeys to find spiritual roots among pre-Columbian and colonial sites in the Mexican interior.
A thread of narrative tension is provided by his investigation into the mysterious drowning of his grandfather in the shallow San Antonio River in 1939.
The book's structure is self-consciously circular, returning to images of the Voladores, ancient Nahua pole-dancers who represent ties to both Santos' youth and to the ancient wisdom of Mexico. Sustaining this structure requires lengthy flats in which momentum sometimes falters, suggesting not even the author takes this heavy dose of pre-Columbian mysticism literally. However, its inclusion allows the introduction of many interesting facts about ancient Mayan civilization.
By contrast, the great bulk of the book is anecdotally rich and conceived with great respect and generosity toward its characters, who are the author's family. Santos has wonderful relatives -- a lot of them -- whom he brings endearingly to life.
On his mother's side they are Tejano, descendants of Mexican settlers prior to the 1836 Texas revolution. His father's family fled Coahuila during the chaos of the 1910 revolution. Both families were country or small-town dwellers until economic opportunity united them in San Antonio's old town, a place Santos calls la Tierra de Viejitas, ruled as it was by wizened grandmothers and great-aunts who retained the old ways of cooking, remedies and superstition. The men, evoked by Santos in a chapter entitled Códices de los Abuelos, are handy with plants, animals and machinery, and they launch themselves creatively into the work of the burgeoning city.
Although this barrio life seems traditional, it's already a world away from that of the cousins and family friends who remained in Coahuila. In stories of summer vacations as a ranch hand, Santos recreates an idyllic pastoral simplicity while also detailing the dangers and hardships of such exposure to the elements.
The tale then becomes an ambivalent account of upward mobility and assimilation, typified above all by author Santos himself. As he evokes a fond, nostalgic sense of the old barrio, he also communicates the unfamiliar affluence and privacy of the suburb in sprawling new San Antonio, where his parents move to assure better schools for their children. He becomes the first in his family to graduate from college.
At Oxford, he visits the ancient Gothic manuscript room of the Bodleian library in search of plundered Mixteca codices: One of my Tony Lama pigskin suede cowboy boots, once as supple as chamois leather...had developed a squeak in its sole. As I walked across the long chamber...the boot let out a series of slow, high-pitched squeals that irritated the scholars and drew a volley of shushes and tsks from both sides of the aisle.
With every family encouragement, he aspires to a life of books and poetry. He hurls his Tony Lamas into the Thames, which glowers "matte gunmetal gray in London's sulfurous twilight." His family having successfully followed the American dream, Santos nonetheless regrets acutely their loss, "the society of pecans and cabrito." He writes:
I can remember feeling, since long ago, that my generation was destined to be the end of our ancient family lines. Maybe not in terms of offspring, but the end, once and for all, of that old life of rivers and rancher'a, the life that began to ebb when we first left Mexico.
Though he calls it "the Mexican diaspora," more profoundly it's the dilemma of modern life. To cast the cruel paradox of economic progress in ethnic terms risks what Freud called the "narcissism of minor differences." The cross-cultural canon is rife with extended families who no longer live in close proximity; whose home-cooked meals and traditional ingredients are preserved mostly in memory; and whose struggles to bridge generational differences and preserve the faith of their fathers are formidable.
While one may well sigh over the loss of grandma's "wild dove soup con limón," or the old barrio atmosphere, it's quite another thing to wish for the realities of the past to resume -- to forego the positive gains. Remembering this allows one to appreciate Places Left Unfinished not only as an eloquent expression of Mexican-American life, but also as a reminder that the commonality of the human condition enables us to share these fleeting moments. Perhaps also it's a warning to consider critically the pace and purpose of our progress.
Randall Holdridge
Women's Paths
By Jarret Keene
Native Places
By Tim Hull
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'Nothing, Nothing.' Aid Lags in Hurricane-Torn Puerto Rico
A man and child walk down street strewn with debris and downed power lines in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico,photo: AP/Gerald Herbert
Hurricane Maria was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in nearly 100 years and officials say the cost of recovery will dwarf that of the punishing Hurricane Georges in 1998
Relatives helped Maribel Valentin Espino find shelter when Hurricane Maria roared through her community in northern Puerto Rico. Neighbors formed volunteer brigades to cut fallen trees and clear twisty mountain roads after the storm had passed. Now, friends and a local cattle ranch provide the water they need to survive in the tropical heat.
Valentin and her husband say they have not seen anyone from the Puerto Rican government, much less the Federal Emergency Management Agency, since the storm tore up the island Sept. 20, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all 3.4 million people in Puerto Rico without power and most without water.
“People say FEMA is going to help us,” Valentin said Tuesday as she showed Associated Press journalists around the sodden wreckage of her home. “We’re waiting.”
Many others are also waiting for help from anyone from the federal or Puerto Rican government. But the scope of the devastation is so broad, and the relief effort so concentrated in San Juan, that many people from outside the capital say they have received little to no help.
Valentin, her husband and teenage son live in one such area, Montebello, a 20-minute drive into what used to be lushly forested mountains near the northern coastal municipality of Manati. Hurricane Maria’s Category 4 winds stripped the trees bare and scattered them like matchsticks. “It seemed like a monster,” she recalled.
The roads are passable now but the community is still isolated. “Nobody has visited, not from the government, not from the city, no one,” said Antonio Velez, a 64-year-old who has lived there his entire life.
The same complaint echoed throughout the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa, the first town Maria hit as it barreled across the island with 155 mph winds.
“Nothing, nothing, nothing,” said 58-year-old retiree Angel Luis Rodriguez. “I’ve lost everything, and no one has shown up to see if anyone lives here.”
At a nearby river, dozens of people gathered to bathe and wash clothes as they grumbled about the lack of aid.
“There’s been no help from the mayor or from the federal government,” said 64-year-old retiree Maria Rodriguez as she held a coconut in her right hand and took sips from it. “After Georges hit us (in 1998), they responded quickly. But now? Nothing. We need water and food.”
Nearby, one girl engaged in a thumb war with a friend as she filled an empty water bottle with her other hand. Downstream, a woman sat cross-legged in the water behind a friend and helped wash her hair.
The recovery in the first week since the storm has largely been a do-it-yourself affair. People collect water from wells and streams, clear roads and repair their own homes when they are not waiting in daylong lines for gasoline and diesel. For most, the only visible sign of authority are police officers directing traffic, a critical service because traffic lights are out across the island.
“I have seen a lot of helicopters go by. I assume those are people from FEMA,” said Jesus Argilagos, who lives in Manati and works at a grocery store that is only open part of the day because of the power crisis. “People get pissed off because they see them going back and forth and not doing anything.”
There are several thousand U.S. federal employees in Puerto Rico helping with the recovery effort. They are most visible in San Juan, where officials with FEMA, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection have a presence at hotels that before the storm served tourists in the Condado neighborhood or at the convention center that has become a staging ground for relief efforts.
Federal workers supplied diesel to generators at hospitals and delivered desperately needed food and water to hard-hit communities across the island. They have repaired the air traffic control systems and power at the airport, which is far from normal operations with only about a dozen commercial flights per day. U.S. agents have also provided security across the island and the Coast Guard has worked with local authorities to restore the sea ports, a vital link because Puerto Rico is almost completely dependent on imports.
In addition, teams from the Army Corps of Engineers are helping to repair the electricity grid and to inspect and look for ways to avert the collapse of a dam near the western town of Quebradillas that has developed a crack and that officials have said could potentially fail. And personnel from Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs have provided care and helped evacuate people from Puerto Rico with chronic medical conditions.
Teams also were scheduled to visit the central mountain town of Aibonito, which was cut off from the rest of the island for five days. Many people began rationing their food and water supplies as they dwindled, unclear of when they would have contact with the outside world.
“We thought somebody was going to stop by,” said Ana Lidia Mendoza, a 48-year-old cook at a barbecue restaurant who lost part of her roof. “They told us that we had to stay calm.”
Gov. Ricardo Rossello and Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez, the island’s representative in Congress, have said they intend to seek more than a billion dollars in federal assistance and they have praised the response to the disaster by President Donald Trump, who plans to visit Puerto Rico next week, as well as FEMA Administrator Brock Long.
“I am confident that they understand the seriousness of the situation,” the governor said Tuesday.
Still, it is hard to avoid the fact that the response looks different than previous ones. After hurricanes in Louisiana, Texas and Florida, waves of power company trucks from other states descended in long convoys, something that is obviously not possible on an island 1,000 miles to the southeast of the mainland. After the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, the U.S. military sent ships and the skies seemed to be filled with heavy-lift helicopters and planes carrying emergency relief, though the scale of that disaster was far worse.
Hurricane Maria was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in nearly 100 years and officials say the cost of recovery will dwarf that of the punishing Hurricane Georges in 1998. Whatever the final bill, Valentin just hopes it will factor in people like her. “If FEMA helps us, we are going to build again,” she said.
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by Tina Arnoldi
The Possibilities of Chatbots as Therapists: A Replacement or Addition?
September 12, 2018 11:02 by Tina Arnoldi [About the Author]
The World Health Organization believes that by the year 2030, mental health will be the most significant disease worldwide. With an increase in the number who need treatment, advances in technology are one way to extend the reach to patients that need help. But is that a replacement for face-to-face connection? Recent research found that chatbots, or conversational agents, cannot express empathy to the extent a human can and people appreciate the nuances from their peers. However, there is some benefit in the act of disclosing personal information - even to a computer.
Earlier this year, Woebot, a mental health chatbot, received $8 million in funding. Another startup, Wysa, was recently accepted to Launchpad Accelerator India. With a significant number of people not getting help for their mental illness and the increase of options available through AI (artificial intelligence), perhaps a chatbot can help as a replacement or supplement to traditional mental health therapy.
Roselyn G. Smith, Ph.D., has concerns about the use of an AI for mental health treatment. “One of the most important elements of effective therapy is the bond and rapport between the client/patient and therapist.” Something a computer cannot replicate. She notes that therapy is a “very complex, multi-faceted evaluation and approach, not one that can be programmed in a linear fashion.” When asked if there was ever a case for using a chatbot, such as when therapy is not accessible in rural areas or those with a limited income, she still said ‘no’.
In those cases, Smith would encourage tele-therapy through a secure connection or turning to a nearby college or university to seek assistance at a clinic. Emily Mendez, M.S. EdS, also a therapist, is open to chatbots as a supplement to counseling. “These applications are helpful — but only when used with the guidance of a trained therapist or mental health professional. Mental health disorders are quite complicated and require the skill of a person trained with them.” But what about when the therapist is not available? Or, if someone is struggling in the middle of the night, yet not in a crisis situation.
Nenad Cuk, with CroatiaTech , who works in software development, VR/AR, machine learning and AI, sees application for mental health treatment. “Having someone to talk to about how you're feeling or what some of your thoughts are, at any time of day or night, would go a long way to prevent suicides and to encourage individuals to seek further help. Bots don't sleep, and they can stay as emotional or distant as we program them to be, so this has some good opportunities from the get go. “
Others have a less favorable view of therapy as a profession.. Dary Merckens with Gunner Technology expressed his perspective. “Whether it's supposedly scientific fields like Freudian analysis or new-age religious experiments like so much of the self-help movement, therapy is largely a sham - an incredibly lucrative sham, but a sham nonetheless. What most people need is basic, age-old advice.” Merckens see therapy as primarily a motivation tool which can be be done through AI, such as a chatbot. When asked if there is ever a case where seeing a therapist is the right thing for a person, he concedes it is something for those who are seriously mentally ill compared to those who function day-to-day, but are “emotionally discontent”. He makes a case that this group needs “guidance, motivation, and a sounding board for their problems, all of which could be supplied by a sufficiently robust application.”
Merckens is currently working on a product “to replace the positive aspects of therapy with an app that is always available and doesn't charge you a couple hundred bucks for standard advice.” He believes most people can benefit from basic assistance. “Eat better. Exercise. Accomplish things on a daily basis. Devote yourself to something. Educate yourself. Etc. You don't need a therapist to tell you that. You just need someone to keep you motivated.” As stigma continues to be an issue when it comes to receiving a mental health diagnosis and seeking treatment, technology solutions are a potential resource for people who may not receive help otherwise. Whether that is in the form of apps, avatars or chatbots remains to be seen.
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Tina Arnoldi, MA is a business consultant and freelance writer in Charleston SC. She has reviewed books for PsychCentral and has a portfolio on Contently. You can learn more about her and connect at TinaArnoldi.com
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Opinion | Rights | Feb 14, 2017
Regulating the Reasonableness of Police Violence
Seth W. Stoughton
The legal standard governing police force provides inadequate guidance to police officers and the courts.
Imagine that you agree to participate in a game or competition of some sort, one that you are not intimately familiar with. Perhaps the first thing you would do is review the rules. After all, you cannot train, practice, or prepare appropriately without knowing what you can and cannot do. But when you receive the rulebook, you find it consists of exactly three words: “Be objectively reasonable.” That is not very helpful, is it?
The scenario above roughly describes the constitutional regulation of police use of force in the United States. The Fourth Amendment rules governing the use of force provide little guidance, and even this minimal guidance is often sloppily applied. Those problems will need to be fixed if the nation is to solve its current crisis of confidence over law enforcement.
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Graham v. Connor, which held that police use of force was to be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment, “which guarantees citizens the right ‘to be secure in their persons . . . against unreasonable . . . seizures.’” The Court held that the use of force was constitutional if it was “objectively reasonable,” and it purported to provide some guidance to lower courts about how they were to make that determination. That guidance came in three parts.
First, the Court wrote that “the ‘reasonableness’ of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.” In other words, the objective reasonableness of a use of force depends on the subjective knowledge and perception of the officer involved, a concept that has been described as “subjective objectivity.” If, for example, it was reasonable for the officer to perceive at the time that the suspect was armed with a knife, courts will review the use of force as if the suspect was armed with a knife even if later investigation determined that the “knife” was actually a harmless, plastic toy.
Second, the Court provided what have come to be known as “the Graham factors.” It said that the inquiry into whether a particular use of force was reasonable “requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case, including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
Finally, the Court cautioned that officers could not be expected to make perfect decisions in use- of-force situations. In evaluating the reasonableness of a use of force, lower courts must keep in mind “the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.”
For almost 30 years, the Graham standard has featured prominently in police training, literature, and agency policy. Its prevalence makes its substantial shortcomings all the more problematic.
Graham’s prohibition on 20/20 hindsight is entirely appropriate, but as University of Virginia School of Law Professor Brandon Garrett and I argue in a forthcoming article, the artificially narrow interpretation of the “objectively reasonable” standard is not. The legal construct known as the “reasonable man” is a civilian who is not trained in tactics and the use of force. One might assume that the “reasonable officer” is held to a higher standard, but that is not currently the case.
In Mullenix v. Luna, for example, the Supreme Court held that a reasonable officer could assume that shooting at a fleeing vehicle was allowed under existing law—even though doing so contradicts clear and long-standing best practices. Furthermore, in this particular case, the officer lacked appropriate training, the officer’s direct supervisor had instructed him not to shoot, and stop strips had already been deployed as an alternative means of ending the pursuit. Under the Court’s artificially narrow perspective, those factors could not affect a reasonable officer’s assessment of what was permissible.
The Supreme Court applied a similar logic in San Francisco v. Sheehan, in which it held that a reasonable officer interacting with an emotionally disturbed person could ignore not only decades of tactical research and well-established best practices, but also the training an officer personally received on those best practices. Would a reasonable officer truly act in a way that contradicts the norms and standards the police profession had developed over decades?
Both Mullenix and Sheehan fundamentally misunderstand what it means to be a “reasonable officer.” A reasonable officer is trained in and uses sound tactics, makes use of alternatives to force when possible, and uses force properly only when it is necessary.
The three Graham factors themselves can be irrelevant or misleading, as Rachel Harmon, a Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, has argued. The crime’s severity is, at best, a loose proxy for dangerousness that officers can use in the absence of other information. At worst, however, it is entirely irrelevant, as when officers are defending themselves from a sudden attack by someone who was not suspected of committing any underlying crime or when arresting a fully compliant suspect even for a very serious crime.
The remaining factors are little better. For each factor, the answers are binary; someone is actively resisting or they are not. Although that simplistic distinction can help answer the question of whether force was justified, it provides no assistance in identifying what type of force or how much force was appropriate. And these factors, too, can be misleading. A hyper-obese octogenarian may satisfy the third factor by attempting to “evade arrest” by fleeing on foot, but that would hardly ever require a forceful response.
There is a similar problem with Graham’s assertion that use-of-force incidents require officers to make “split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving.” That can certainly be the case. But as I have written elsewhere, that is not an accurate description of most use-of-force situations. Dr. James Fyfe, a New York City Police Department police lieutenant and a leading use-of-force scholar in the 1970s and 1980s, described the assumption that use-of-force incidents typically turn on last-minute decisions as the “split-second fallacy.”
Yet many lower courts have adopted the “split-second” assumption, focusing on the precise moment at which force was used rather than looking more broadly at whether an officer’s tactical decisions that led up to the use of force were reasonable. Imagine, for example, an officer standing within arm’s length of a paraplegic suspect sitting in the middle of an empty parking lot aggressively waving a knife. By focusing solely on the threat to the officer in that moment, deadly force would certainly seem appropriate. But that narrow view misses two important points. First, did officers unreasonably create a dangerous situation? After all, the “split-second” nature of the use-of-force decision depends in large part on the officer’s tactical choice to approach. Second, when the threat manifested, were there reasonably safe options other than using force? If, for example, the officer could have easily stepped away from the suspect and taken cover behind a squad car, the choice to shoot would seem quite problematic.
“Objective reasonableness” is an appropriate touchstone for regulating police force, but the sloppy and ill-informed way the Graham standard has been defined by the Supreme Court and then applied by lower courts has created real problems. Those problems are eminently fixable. There is a growing understanding among the police community, including by professional organizations like the Police Executive Research Forum, that the rote recitation of “be objectively reasonable” provides insufficient guidance to officers in the field.
The use of force is not a game or competition. But it is, and it must be, governed by rules. Those rules must be flexible, given the volatility of use-of-force incidents, but they must also provide meaningful guidance to the officers who apply them and to the courts who review use of force by officers. The failure to do so results in the dilution of constitutional rights.
Professor Seth W. Stoughton is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His scholarship on the regulation of police has appeared in the Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, The New York Times, and other publications. He also served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years.
This essay is part of a fifteen-part series, Regulating Police Use of Force.
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Our ultimate guide of things to do in Frankfurt
Frankfurt is the commercial and economic hub of Germany. With its modern and vibrant vibe, it’s an exciting destination you shouldn’t miss. Also, if you travel by train, you can reach Frankfurt quite easily from almost any German or European city. Read our travel guide below and learn more about the best things to do in Frankfurt.
How to get to Frankfurt by train
Frankfurt is one of the country's main rail hubs, with excellent links across Germany and beyond. For example, you can get from Stuttgart to Frankfurt in about 1h 20m and from Nuremberg to Frankfurt in 2 hours on Deutsche Bahn trains. Most trains into the city arrive at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (Central Station).
From further afield, journeys can be as short as 1h 45m from Strasbourg to Frankfurt or a bit longer (3h 40m) from Luxembourg to Frankfurt. This makes Frankfurt an excellent destination for an international day trip, offering the sights of a true German cosmopolitan gem.
Things to do in Frankfurt for a day
Make the most of the metropolis on a short trip
If you've only got a day to spend in Frankfurt, check out these sights. Take the lift up to the top of the Main Tower, one of Germany's tallest buildings. You'll get breathtaking views of Frankfurt's glittering skyline from 200 metres up high! Palmengarten is another great attraction – it’s a gorgeous botanical garden with a network of greenhouses.
For a look at historic Frankfurt, check out the Aldstadt, the old town. Sights include the Römer, the medieval town hall which dates back to 1405. Also here is the gorgeous Old St Nicholas Church, and a number of old winding streets perfect for an afternoon stroll. This is also an excellent place to stop for traditional Frankfurt cuisine. Naturally, this includes Frankfurter sausages, either as hot dogs or served with herbed mashed potatoes.
Tour Frankfurt's best museums
If you fancy a culture vulture, check out the world-class institutions that call Frankfurt home. The Städel Museum is one of the most important art museums in Germany. It houses thousands of sculptures and paintings, including works by Vermeer and van Eyck. The MMK Museum of Modern Art offers a look at more contemporary masterpieces.
Also worth seeing is the whimsical Caricatura Museum, which contains a wonderful collection of comic art. Another top visitor site is Frankfurt's Carmelite Monastery, dating all the way back to 1246. It now serves as the Institute for City History, housing important records dating from the medieval era. Tour the inside for a look at one of Germany's oldest buildings in one of its most modern cities.
Things to do in Frankfurt with kids
Come face-to-face with animals and experience hands-on exhibits
As Frankfurt is a major city, there's plenty of visitor attractions which are particularly suited for families. One is the fabulous Zoo Frankfurt. Highlights here include the nocturnal Madagascar zone and the Exotarium, which is a combined reptile house and aquarium. The Senckenburg Natural History Museum is another sure-fire hit with kids. Come up close with mighty dinosaurs, and learn about the history of Germany and our planet over millions of years.
Experiminta is a special hands-on museum, focused on science and technology. Kids and grown-ups are encouraged to touch and experiment with the exhibits while learning about the fields of IT, maths, natural sciences and more. If travelling to Frankfurt in the autumn or winter, the Eissporthalle arena offers ice skating and curling. Year-round, it's the place to see professional ice hockey matches.
A day of play, indoors or out
You don't need to leave the city for a family day out in Germany's glorious natural environment. The Scheerwald Forest Playground is a fantastic place to visit in summer, offering a huge array of activities, including a roller rink and basketball court, as well as ping-pong tables. There's even an 18-hole minigolf course, providing fun activities for everyone in the family.
Young kids will also adore a day at the Minischirn. This innovative indoor play centre stimulates curious minds with colourful playrooms full of puzzles, things to climb, and opportunities to make new friends. The centre is suitable for children aged three to eight. There are also art exhibitions held here, making it an interesting place for parents to visit too.
Things to do in Frankfurt on Sunday
Find Frankfurt's best photo opportunities
Although it's traditionally a day of rest, there's so much to do out and about in Frankfurt on Sundays. You can wander around the downtown business district, which is much quieter on Sundays than during the week. Keen urban photographers will find plenty of interesting buildings to snap on their visit. The Eiserner Steg is a scenic footbridge over the Main River. It's always open and offers a romantic spot for a walk, and a popular photography locale in Frankfurt.
Rothschildpark is one of the most beautiful in the city. It's right off the central business district, so you won't have to go far to find a serene green spot for a stroll or picnic. There's a children's play area here, too. Nearby is the smaller Bethmannpark, which features a sublime Chinese garden with a magnificent gate guarded by lion statues. It's yet another perfect spot to snap some enviable photos in Frankfurt!
Go on a culinary tour
While Frankfurt is somewhat quieter on Sundays, you'll still find plenty of superb places to eat and drink. You've probably already tried a Frankfurter sausage or two, but how about some Rippchen? This sumptuous dish consists of pork cutlets served with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes with mustard. For dessert, try a slice of Kranz, which is a delicious cherry or strawberry sponge cake with buttercream icing.
For a drink, head to one of the traditional ale houses, where the beers are served in huge steins. Pfungstädter and Schmucker are two local favourite brands. Apple wine is another local delicacy. If you're looking for a local soft drink, try a non-alcoholic Schorle, often made with apple juice and sparkling mineral water. It's a marvellous thirst quencher on warm days in Frankfurt.
Things to do in Frankfurt at night
Go partying in the city
Frankfurt caters well to its professional crowd, who frequent its chic cocktail bars after work and at the weekend. The large downtown area is a safe bet for finding great places to drink, along with the Sachsenhausen suburb. You'll also find an abundance of pubs and more relaxed bars catering to the city's student population.
Alt-Sachsenhausen (‘Old Sachsenhausen’) is a particularly traditional part of the neighbourhood, perfect for finding traditional German ale houses. These are also excellent places to eat, so they're not necessarily just for a night of partying. If you're heading for a big night out, you'll find many clubs specialising in electronic dance music, particularly in the downtown area.
A night of high culture
This city isn't all about bars and clubs – there's a lot to uncover in its performing arts scene too. The English Theatre is a superb place for travellers to Frankfurt, with plays and comedy in English. This theatre is continental Europe's largest English-speaking theatre, so you're bound to find something that catches your fancy.
The modern Frankfurt Opera House puts on classical music and opera performances, which everyone can enjoy no matter what language they speak. For something on the silver screen, the CineStar Metropolis is a huge cinema in the centre of town. Look out for 'OF' or 'OV' on the listing, which means that the film is shown in the original (usually English) version with German subtitles.
Frankfurt is famous for being one of the major driving forces of the German economy. Yet, it also boasts urban and natural beauty, with plenty for visitors of all ages to enjoy. Dive into the sightseeing and activities Frankfurt has to offer, and check out our website for great fares for your train travel to Frankfurt.
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Green Finance Leaders Convene to Develop Financial Solutions for Global Goals
Edinburgh, Scotland - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Scottish-Government backed Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), together with the New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform, gather experts in Edinburgh, Scotland today to develop financial solutions that drive socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable development.
The two-day “Finance for Nature Global Summit,” hosted by independent investment manager Baillie Gifford, brings together Government officials, financial institutions, consumer goods corporations, supply chain intermediaries and conservation organisations to explore a new investment paradigm aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Omar Shaikh, Founder of GEFI said: “Hosting this event in Scotland is recognition of our growing reputation as a leader in convening the ethical finance debate and by facilitating finance-related partnerships in support of SDG-aligned investments we hope to demonstrate genuine impact.”
Andrew Cave, Head of Governance and Sustainability at Baillie Gifford added: “As long-term investors, we understand the importance of considering sustainability issues in the investment process. Therefore, we are delighted to support this important event.”
The summit comes less than a month after Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish National party’s spring conference in Edinburgh that the world is facing a "climate emergency" and vowed that “if advice says we can go further or go faster, we will do so. Scotland will lead by example.”
According to the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Risks Report, half of the top global risks, relate to the environment and climate change, and have a material impact on a company’s operational costs, reputation, risk and profitability. The SDGs, which reflect the aspirations of people around the world, provide a global framework for businesses and financial institutions to address these challenges.
With an estimated US$ 2.4 trillion annual shortfall in the investment required to achieve the 2030 target there is an urgent need for private sector finance. Despite growing interest, a fraction of the worldwide invested assets are currently aligned to the SDGs. The Finance for Nature Global Summit will seek to develop and shape innovative financial instruments to mitigate complex risk, particularly from climate change.
UNDP’s Global Programme on Nature for Development Manager Jamison Ervin said: “The recent UN report on nature issued a clarion call regarding our global biodiversity crisis. This Summit helps us understand how private sector capital can accelerate nature-friendly growth while also catalysing an inclusive and sustainable future. We need a new economic model, and where better to look for this model than Scotland!”
The summit is part of a pioneering $1 million two-year programme of collaboration aimed at mobilising private capital for the SDGs that was announced by UNDP and Scottish Government in October 2018.
For media queries:
UNDP - Sangita Khadka, Communications Specialist, Email: sangita.khadka@undp.org; Tel: +1 212 906 5043
Global Ethical Finance Initiative – Chris Tait, Project Manager, Global Ethical Finance Initiative, Edinburgh Email : chris@globalethicalfinance.org, Tel : +44(0)7931 103573
UNDP – www.undp.org
Healthy ecosystems are at the heart of development, underpinning societal well-being and economic growth. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through its work in nearly 170 countries and territories, creates nature-friendly solutions that balance two imperatives: secure, restore and sustainably manage natural resources, while also protecting the environment that enables human life to flourish.
Scottish Government – www.gov.scot
In 2015 Scotland was one of the first countries in the world to sign up to adopting the SDGs. With the SDGs now embedded into the country’s National Performance Framework the Scottish Government is leading by example through its focus on wellbeing, and sustainable and inclusive economic growth. The Principles provide a framework which align well with the tradition of the Scottish banking industry which over the past two centuries pioneered movements focused on alignment, stewardship and governance.
Global Ethical Finance Initiative – www.globalethicalfinance.org
The Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI) oversees, organises and coordinates a series of global programmes and initiatives to promote finance for positive change around the world. Along with delivering practical projects, GEFI annually hosts in Edinburgh the premier platform that convenes the world’s foremost business, political, civic and social leaders of society to network, share, co-develop and shape a fairer, more sustainable financial system.
The New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform– www.NYDFglobalplatform.org
The New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) outlines ten ambitious global targets to protect and restore forests and end natural forest loss by 2030. The NYDF has been endorsed by 200 countries, sub-national governments, companies, indigenous peoples and NGOs. In 2017, the Global Platform for the New York Declaration on Forests was launched to support endorsers and accelerate achievement of the global goals expressed in the New York Declaration on Forests.
Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth
Goal 12 Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13 Climate action
Goal 7 Affordable and clean energy
Goal 17 Partnerships for the goals
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon tell UNHCR's Guterres and Angelina Jolie of escape and challenges
Guterres and UNHCR Special Envoy Jolie hear about the difficulties people face in escaping Syria and the challenges of finding shelter for them in Lebanon.
By Melissa Fleming | 12 September 2012 | Español | Français
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets today with a young Syrian refugee in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © UNHCR/J.Tanner
BEIRUT, Lebanon, September 12 (UNHCR) - On the second day of a joint visit to countries hosting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, UNHCR chief António Guterres and Angelina Jolie heard about the difficulties people face in escaping war-torn Syria and the challenges of finding shelter for them in Lebanon.
Guterres and Jolie, his Special Envoy, visited the Bekaa Valley neighbouring Syria on Wednesday morning and met some of the 67,000 registered refugees in Lebanon as well as members of host communities. In the afternoon, they held talks with top officials, including President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, on the situation and challenges facing Lebanon and the humanitarian response from UNHCR and others.
At a press conference after these talks, Guterres paid tribute to Lebanon for helping so many people at a time when it faced its own acute economic and security concerns. Urging the international community to help shoulder the burden, he said: "It is in everyone's interest to support not only refugees, but also the states of the region."
At the same briefing, Jolie spoke about her meetings earlier in the day with refugees living with host families near the Lebanon-Syria border. "I was moved to meet Syrian families … in homes where they are welcomed and protected," she told journalists.
Jolie met three women who had crossed to Lebanon with their children while their husbands remained in Syria because they feared being killed if they attempted escape. One woman tearfully described a four-hour trek to the border after she had told her children they were going to visit relatives in Lebanon. "They lost so much," she said. "I just didn't also want to break their hearts."
The Special Envoy and Guterres also heard from the refugees they met about the risks and terror they faced heading for the border on escape routes, including constant shelling and harsh security checks. One man left his mother, sister and 15-year-old brother behind because the teenager lacked ID to get through checkpoints or the border. A young woman they met was recovering from a gunshot wound to her stomach. Her fiancé told the group she was shot while shopping for her planned wedding in Damascus.
The UNHCR visitors also heard about the chronic problem of providing shelter for the growing number of refugees crossing into areas with limited hosting capacity. Many people have been staying in schools, but these need to be vacated because the academic year is about to begin. The government is considering a UNHCR plan to use vacant buildings, land and cash for rent.
Guterres and Jolie also heard stories of Lebanese families voluntarily driving to the borders to pick up displaced families and take them back to their homes. Some have been sharing their small apartments since the conflict began 18 months ago.
In one village, Guterres met a 77-year-old man who offered room in his house to a family rent-free. "I was struck by his generosity at a time when communities are becoming increasingly stretched in their capacity to host refugees," stressed Guterres. In his meetings with government officials, the High Commissioner asked for approval of the alternative shelter options as a matter of priority.
With children making up more than half of the refugee population, and the school year about to begin, UNHCR and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched back-to-school campaigns targeting refugee children. Syrian children are also being helped to adapt to the Lebanese curriculum and the French language.
To show her particular concern for refugee children, Jolie visited the Bar Elias School where UNHCR and Save the Children run remedial classes and provide psychological and social support. Many of the children have missed up to two years of school and are traumatized. Lebanese children also attend the programme to promote integration.
Every day, some 1,000 refugees request registration appointments from UNHCR. To ensure that refugees are quickly registered and assisted, a new mobile registration team was established in the Bekaa Valley city of Baalbek last week, and a registration centre opened in Tripoli on the coast last month.
UNHCR will also establish a presence in the south of Lebanon, where some 7,000 refugees are believed to be residing. In the meantime, UNHCR continues to provide food vouchers and non-food items, shelter improvements, health subsidies and education grants to all refugees who approach its offices.
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A coalition of more than 2,700 high-profile evangelicals spanning the fields of science and religion have signed onto a statement billed “A christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times,” which warns against the politicization of the new coronavirus and urges Christians to take appropriate action against it, including taking a vaccine when it’s ready.
“We are deeply concerned about the polarization and politicization of science in the public square when so many lives are at stake. The word ‘science’ has become a weapon in the culture wars. Scientists are vilified and their findings ignored, while conspiracy theories go viral. Sadly, Christians seem just as susceptible to these trends. Thoughtful Christians may disagree on public policy in response to the coronavirus, but none of us should ignore clear scientific evidence,” the statement published online by the nonprofit organization BioLogos says.
“We call on all Christians to follow the advice of public health experts and support scientists doing crucial biomedical research on COVID-19.”
BioLogos was founded by U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, a devout christian geneticist, and his wife, to foster discussions about the harmony between science and biblical faith. Collins was honored earlier this year with the Templeton Prize, a financial award of $1.3 million for his storied career using science to advocate for the “integration of faith and reason.”
Some of the influential evangelicals who have already signed the statement include: Bishop Claude Alexander, senior pastor, The Park Church, Charlotte, North Carolina; National Association of Evangelicals President Walter Kim; William Phillips, a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light” in 1997; and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic christian Leadership Conference.
The signers affirm that they “uphold the authority of God’s Word and see science as a tool to understand God’s world.”
The statement comes in the wake of the fragmented response in the christian community to the coronavirus which has fed skepticism about how it has been handled and challenged advice from public health officials on issues such as the wearing of masks to stem the spread of the disease.
From L-R, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins. | National Institutes of Health
A vocal minority of churches also spoke out against calls from federal and local government authorities to close their churches amid the new coronavirus pandemic, risking fines and arrests. As recently as Sunday, North Carolina Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr. of the conservative Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, slammed Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, as a “backslidden Catholic and self-professed humanist” who is being used as a political tool by the left.
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“Humanists do not believe in prayer, humanists do not believe that God intervenes, humanists do not believe that we need help from the Lord at all. That may be one of the reasons he could easily recommend that churches be closed, but he fumbled and waffled when they suggested perhaps the protests should be curtailed because they spread the virus,” he asserted.
The statement acknowledges that while Christians have a valid reason to be skeptical of the scientific process, it would be unwise to dismiss their research.
“It is appropriate for Christians to be skeptical of claims made by scientists who speak outside their area of expertise. We firmly reject claims that science has somehow shown God does not exist or faith is mere superstition. Such claims go beyond what science is capable of investigating. We lament the times when science and medicine have been misused to perpetrate atrocities like the racist Tuskegee experiments. But Christians should listen to scientists and doctors when they speak in their area of expertise, especially when millions of lives are at stake,” the statement warns.
It also explains that while some of the scientific guidance on the virus may seem confusing at times, it’s simply the nature of the process of trying to fight a virus they are still learning about each day.
“Experts have been communicating their knowledge in real time as the pandemic progresses, which has led to some confusion. In the early days, they advised the public against masks when supplies were needed for healthcare workers, but later they changed their message in response to more data. A change in expert advice is not a sign of weakness or unreliability, but of good scientific practice and honesty,” it notes.
“On the biggest points, scientific predictions have been proven right: scientists said stay-home orders would reduce cases, and thankfully those measures worked. Scientists predicted that ending quarantine too soon would increase cases, and that has been the case.
“While any individual scientist may be biased, the community actively critiques each other’s work to reduce bias and errors until together they develop a consensus on what the data are saying. It’s not a perfect process and one can always find dissenters, but scientists working together are far more accurate than one person’s theory on YouTube. Scientists are trained to communicate where the consensus is uncertain and to not overstate conclusions. They may speak in sound bites in an interview, but if you listen a bit longer you will hear the caveats. So when Dr. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, tells us what scientists have learned about this infectious disease, he should be listened to.”
On the reopening of churches, signers of the statement agree that “Christians need to balance God’s call to meet together with God’s call to protect the vulnerable among us.”
“Our faith calls us to sacrifice ourselves for others and accept temporary limitations on our freedoms because we have a permanent and complete freedom in Christ (Hebrews 10:34). Our faith helps us be humble and patient when discussing contentious issues (Ephesians 4:2-3). It is our faith, not science, that overcomes fear and brings hope.”
The statement acknowledges that “the economic losses and social hardships of the pandemic are painful, and thoughtful Christians will disagree on how to balance those needs with health needs.”
Nevertheless, it urges Christians to wear masks, get vaccinated, correct misinformation, work for justice and pray.
“Mask rules are not experts taking away our freedom, but an opportunity to follow Jesus’ command to love our neighbors as ourselves,” it says. “Christians are called to love the truth; we should not be swayed by falsehoods.
“Get vaccinated against COVID-19 when a safe and effective vaccine is available and as directed by a physician. A large fraction of the population needs to be vaccinated to develop the ‘herd immunity’ which protects the immuno-compromised and others who cannot be vaccinated. Vaccination is a provision from God that will prevent disease not only for ourselves but for the most vulnerable among us (Matthew 25:31-36).”
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Gastric bypass can be good option for obese teens, study says
June 18, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC
By Linda Carroll
Amanda Rodriguez had weight problems from the minute she came into this world at a chubby 10 pounds. “I was always overweight, tall, and chunky,” Rodriguez said. “I never had a skinny day in my life.”
That all changed with the stomach shrinking surgery Rodriguez got two years ago, at age 17. Within days, the pounds started peeling off. Once topping the scales near 300 pounds, the 19-year-old is a much trimmer 186 now.
“I tried dieting and exercise before,” Rodriguez told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie. “And I lost some weight, but then I gained it back double.”
Rodriguez is part of a new trend: Doctors are offering weight-loss surgery to a much younger group of patients, kids in their teens. Up until now, doctors have been loath to suggest the surgery to teens, fearing that the risks of the operation might outweigh the benefits.
But a new study shows that the more severe type of bariatric surgery can yield dramatic weight loss in this age group.
Bariatric or weight-loss surgery commonly involves gastric banding (reducing the size of the stomach with an implanted medical device); sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (removing a portion of the stomach, which is irreversible); or gastric bypass (resecting and rerouting the small intestines to a small stomach pouch, also irreversible).
The study, which followed 890 morbidly obese teens across the nation who got either gastric bypass or gastric banding surgery, was published online in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. Researchers from the University of Miami found that one year after their operations, teens who got gastric bypass surgery lost almost twice as much weight as those who got the gastric banding procedure.
Teens in the study lost more than 66 pounds on average, the researchers reported.
“So it’s pretty clear from these results that the surgery can have a very strong impact on various quality of life issues for these patients,” the study’s lead author Sarah Messiah, a researcher at the University of Miami Health System, told TODAY.
Nevertheless, people need to realize the surgery isn’t for every overweight teen, said NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman.
“Certainly we don’t want to tell every child and every adolescent that this is the first thing to do,” Snyderman said. “This is not a quick fix for obesity. This is really when your back is against the wall and you’re facing diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and the inability to walk. Arthritis is a huge problem.”
For Amanda Rodriguez, the payoff has been much bigger than the 66-pound average weight loss enjoyed by the teens in the study. She’s lost more than 100 pounds since her life-changing surgery.
Prior to her operation, Rodriguez could barely move. “I wasn’t able to walk very far,” she told Guthrie. “I needed an elevator key to [get] up the stairs in my high school. I was barely able to breathe after walking.”
Tired of battling the social stigma of obesity, another teen, 17-year-old Megan Huffman, jumped at the chance to get a surgery that might help shed some of her 300 pounds.
“I was getting teased a lot, so it made me decide to do something about it,” Huffman told TODAY.
But patients don’t lose all their weight through surgery alone, Snyderman points out.
“Frankly, it’s learning to embrace food differently for the rest of your life,” she said. “It isn’t go in and have surgery and then drink milkshakes for the rest of your life. You have to embrace health and wellness in a way that a lot of adolescents have never had to think about.“
Surgery does make dieting much easier, Rodriguez said.
"Before on a night out, when my parents would order pizza I could eat an entire pie by myself, not just a slice," she told Guthrie. "Now I can eat one slice, maybe two."
Rodriguez said her doctor told her to think of the surgery as a tool.
“You still need to do the mental preparation," she said. "And you still need to figure out what you’re going to do on your diet. You still need to exercise. So it’s definitely not the easy way out.”
Still, Rodriguez feels it’s been worthwhile.
“I’m dating and all those things,” she told Guthrie with a big smile. “I used to see a therapist. Now I do not see a therapist anymore."
For Huffman, the results after three months have already been dramatic with a loss of 50 pounds. It’s even looking like she might get her pre-surgery wish.
“I’d like to fit into my prom dress senior year,” she told TODAY.
Linda Carroll is a regular contributor to msnbc.com and TODAY.com. She is co-author of the new book "The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic.”
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TIFF Organizers Hope Revamped Inclusion Efforts Pay Dividends
“You’ve got to diversify your journalist pool,” said organizer Cameron Bailey about efforts to increase representation among critics who attend TIFF.
By Nicole Sperling
Clockwise, from top left: The Hate U Give, If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, and Where Hands Touch.Photos courtesy of TIFF.
When Amma Asante’s fourth film, Where Hands Touch, debuts Sunday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, it will mark the culmination of a 12-year odyssey for the British filmmaker of Ghanaian descent. It’s a journey that took Asante (Belle; A United Kingdom) into Adolf Hitler’s Germany to learn more about how the country’s own children of color were treated during World War II. The result of her copious research is a film set in 1944 Berlin, centered on bi-racial German teen Leyna (played by Toronto’s “It girl” Amandla Stenberg, who also stars in another TIFF film, The Hate U Give), who falls in love with a Nazi youth (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) despite their government’s racist attitudes toward black Germans.
“It’s not an easy film,” said Asante. “It is complex. It is nuanced. It is painful. The history is fascinating, and I hope that I’ve somehow managed to capture that in the story as well.”
Asante’s angst over the worldwide debut of her new film is understandable and not at all unique. The 48-year-old filmmaker has been on this roller coaster before—three times, in fact—debuting every one of her four films at the Canadian festival. Each time the experience is filled with agitation and uncertainty.
“If your film doesn’t do well at any festival, we all know what can happen,” she added.
Yet Asante is encouraged by the festival organizer’s efforts this year to expand its pool of credentialed reporters covering the event by some 20 percent, primarily adding critics and reporters from under-represented groups in a diversifying effort. According to TIFF’s co-head of the festival, Cameron Bailey, the move was prompted by the recent debates over critical representation. According to U.S.C.’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which studied “reviews of the 100 top-grossing films of 2017 posted on the site Rotten Tomatoes,” white male critics wrote 63.9 percent more than their white female (18.1 percent) or under-represented male (13.8 percent) counterparts. Under-represented female critics wrote only 4.1 percent of those sampled. And often those initial critical reviews are what set the fate for a film’s future, especially films like Asante’s that are looking for theatrical distribution.
“We’re seeing real debates rise up about who’s covering films at festivals, how the reactions at those initial screenings [are] so prominent online now, and how it’s not always the same debates when the films go to general audiences,” said Bailey. “We thought, ‘How can we bring those things together so that the debate that’s happening when a film is first released is actually reflective of how audiences as a whole might respond to it?’ And to do that, you’ve got to diversify your journalist pool.”
Bailey’s inclusion efforts extend beyond his critical ones. It’s also the second year of the Share Her Journey program, a fund-raising campaign started at the 2017 festival to raise money to improve gender equity in the film business. The program has raised $1.5 million thus far, with an eye on generating twice that amount to encourage more women to enter the business. The fest has also taken steps to achieve gender parity with its filmmakers. This year female filmmakers account for 34 percent of the movies screened.
These steps may feel small, but filmmakers are taking notice. And in the competitive world of fall film festivals, TIFF might be regaining some of its influence after losing ground over the last few years to more exclusive confabs like Venice and Telluride. Toronto will never be able to compete with Venice’s glam. You saw it this year with Lady Gaga’s over-the-top arrival in a water taxi for her debut in the Bradley Cooper-directed A Star Is Born; the world premiere of Damien Chazelle’s First Man; Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix drama, Roma; and Yorgos Lanthimos’s profane period drama, The Favourite, starring Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman. It also can’t muster the exclusivity of Telluride, which doubled down on its rarified air this year, boasting Robert Redford’s final performance in The Old Man & the Gun; Jason Reitman’s Hugh Jackman-starring pic, The Front Runner; Melissa McCarthy in a dramatic turn, with Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Nicole Kidman’s gritty portrayal in Destroyer, from director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight; The Invitation).
Rather, Toronto’s charm comes with its reputation as a festival for the people. Its diversity push, coupled with an active film market, and an already inclusive audience base, is luring filmmakers interested in getting their films out to the masses in the most equitable way possible.
“These changes are vital,” wrote director Steve McQueen, in an e-mail response to questions. The Oscar-winning McQueen is headed to TIFF for his follow-up to best-picture winner 12 Years a Slave, the world premiere of his heist film, Widows, which stars Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez. “Without a diverse cross-section of criticism and discourse in general, it’s impossible to have a truly critical and fair-minded dialogue. It’s simply not right to have such a lack of genuine representation in film criticism to match the level of representation on-screen and in society.”
In addition to McQueen’s film, TIFF will also debut George Tillman Jr.’s adaptation of the New York Times best-selling novel The Hate U Give; Beautiful Boy, starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet; Claire Denis’s English-language debut, High Life, with Robert Pattinson; and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight follow-up, If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s not clear if Jenkins declined an invitation to debut his film at Telluride, where Moonlight bowed—and where he’s worked as a shorts programmer for years—or if the festival didn’t choose to screen his James Baldwin adaptation. Either way, he’s enthusiastic about the changes Bailey has made to the TIFF critics pool.
“It seems clear to me from the buzz on Twitter and other places, that many folks who maybe in years past couldn’t make the festival are certainly making it out this year,” said Jenkins. “On the whole, I think it’s fantastic.”
Asante doesn’t think she will be given more favorable reviews because there will be more diverse critics reviewing their work. Rather, she is just looking for a more expansive, thoughtful critique that feels as nuanced as their arduous film efforts.
“The idea that we have a wider range of people being able to write about a film like this, for me, is like gold. It’s a new day,” said Asante. “That doesn’t mean that every person [who] might not previously have attended TIFF as a critic will suddenly embrace my film. I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying, the wider the views and the background of the people that come to a film, the better chance any filmmaker has of having their film live.”
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More Competition Amongst MBAs for Jobs Overseas?
by Vault Education Editors | November 24, 2009
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) announced the GMAT results for the 2008-2009 testing year, which ended in June. According to their report, the number of tests taken reached an all-time high of 265,613.
What is most interesting about the GMAC report is that the number of tests taken outside of the United States exceeded the number of tests taken in the United States. There were 135,105 non-U.S. test-takers and only 130,508 U.S. However, a smaller percentage of the international students sent their scores to U.S. business schools than in previous years. From The Chronicle of Higher Education, only 59 percent of 2009 non-U.S. GMAT takers sent their scores to U.S. MBA programs, compared with 65 percent in 2008 and 75 percent in 2000. In other words, more students are choosing to study in Europe and Asia, where business school quality has been improving consistently in recent years. In addition, by attending an MBA program in Europe or Asia, these students may have better access to jobs in those areas after graduation.
What does this mean for U.S. MBAs who want to work overseas after graduation? With more high-quality graduates from local business schools, it may be harder for U.S. students to compete in the international market, particularly when recruiting at a nearby business school instead of in the United States may make economic sense.
That said, the United States is still the leader in graduate business education and jobs will be available for students interested in working abroad. As The Wall Street Journal pointed out at the beginning of the 2008-2009 recruiting season, MBA students will have a better chance of finding a job if they look overseas as well as at home. So dust off your resume, ace your global business midterm and you'll be able to find a job away from home.
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Environment management is in
Deepak Bagai
Environment is no longer the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink or the house, which we live in. It is becoming, a mandatory requirement, for the business houses to have an environment friendly internal working, and the final product worth international environment norms.
Arsenic to cure leukaemia
It’s best known as a weed-killer or a favourite weapon of murderous old ladies, but arsenic could find a new role as a mainstream treatment for leukaemia, Iranian researchers said. They were so impressed with trials involving patients with a rare type of leukaemia that they have suggested it could be used as an initial treatment.
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Understanding the Universe
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My question might sound a bit absurd, but I am putting it forward after having thought about it quite a bit. Is there any possibility that humans are a minute part of a large organism, the existence of which and the dimensions of which are presently beyond our comprehension?
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Environment is no longer the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink or the house, which we live in. It is becoming, a mandatory requirement, for the business houses to have an environment friendly internal working, and the final product worth international environment norms. Environment management is emerging as a major thrust area. It will include all the new policies, procedures, programmes and practices to boost environment conditions of the company. This shall pave the way, for cost savings, customer requirements, enhance corporate image, ensure legislation implementation, protect investments, reduce insurance premiums and last but not the least, enhance market opportunities.
An environment management system (EMS) is a set of management processes and procedures which enable an organisation to analyze, control and reduce the environmental impact of its activities, products and services. The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO), located in Geneva, Switzerland caters to the development and implementation of international standards for products and environmental related issues
Most of the ISO standards are developed through a consensus based approach of each member country representative. ISO 14000 refers to the standards in the environment field. ISO 14001 is an internationally recognised environment management system (EMS) standard and is included in the ISO 14000 series. The ISO 14001 standard depicts requirements for unfolding a well documented, environmental policy, objectives, activities, management, monitoring, and review and corrective measures. ISO 14001 follows a similar approach as in ISO 9000. At the same time, ISO 14001 has a better way to handle the economics part than followed by ISO 9000. ISO 14001 takes into consideration the setting of quantified targets, emergency exigencies, prevention of pollution, compliance with legislation and regulations and public disclosure of the environment policy of the company.
The environmental management systems (ISO 14001) will have different modules like environmental policy, planning, implementation and operation, checking and corrective action, and finally the management review.
The planning stage will include all the environmental aspects, legal requirements, environment management programmes, objectives and targets. Implementation and operation stage will define the structure and responsibility training and documentation control, and preparing for emergencies. Checking and corrective action will include monitoring and measurement, nonconformance, preventive and corrective actions. EMS audit is also conducted at this level. Then comes the management review. The top management has a major role in EMS implementation as the employees throughout the organisation have to participate in this activity.
It is a proven fact now that EMS yields financial savings. At the same time it leads to better business practices.
The prominent domains needing immediate EMS attention are the management of fuel energy, water, waste, transport, emissions to air, and noise. Conformance to ISO-14001 EMS is going to become a mandatory requirement for industry. This will enable the companies to remain competitive in global market and ensure “green” products.
It’s best known as a weed-killer or a favourite weapon of murderous old ladies, but arsenic could find a new role as a mainstream treatment for leukaemia, Iranian researchers said.
They were so impressed with trials involving patients with a rare type of leukaemia that they have suggested it could be used as an initial treatment.
“There have been a few studies done using arsenic...but we are the first group to suggest that it is acceptable as a first-line treatment,” Dr Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh of Tehran University of Medical Sciences says in a statement.
In a study reported at a European oncology meeting in Geneva, the researchers said arsenic was effective against acute promyeloctytic leukaemia, or APL, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that affects myeloid or white blood cells.
APL, which affects 20,000 people worldwide, is most common in the elderly. It is a subtype of acute myeloid leukaemia, the most common form of adult leukaemia.
Ninety per cent of 63 patients who had not been previously treated for the illness had complete remission after two courses of the arsenic treatment.
More than 88 per cent were still alive with a mean survival time of nearly 34 months.
“What this means is that we now have the possibility of offering APL patients a new first-line treatment that avoids conventional chemotherapy,” said Ghavamzadeh.
Arsenic compounds have been used in medicine for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient Chinese and Romans, In the 1980s, Chinese researchers first tried it in leukaemia after discovering it was an active ingredient in some traditional Chinese medicines, according to the researchers.
The poison was made famous in the 1944 film “Arsenic and Old Lace” starring Cary Grant. It was based on a stage play of the same name. — Reuters
Your wondering is not so absurd. Such thoughts have occurred to several persons. Ecological thinking emphasises a similar train of thought. Our planet is in a very delicate balance. We have just the right fraction of oxygen in the atmosphere. A little more or a little less would not do — at least for the kind of life that inhabits the planet now. The atmospheric composition has colluded with the sun to ensure that we have an ozone layer to protect us. The temperature on the earth is maintained within very stringent limits so well. It could very well have been hundreds of degrees higher, as on Venus! This is maintained by a fantastic air-conditioning system that works effortlessly, with the involvement of so many features and so many kinds of life. It seems that the balance could easily be tilted in a direction such that we might have a runaway greenhouse effect, the death destruction of the ozone layer and much else. Because of all these aspects, it is attractive sometimes to think of the planet as an organism of which we are just a small component. It is not ours to exploit, only ours to maintain for the coming generations. Elimination, even reduction, of bio-diversity might have disastrous consequences. It is possible of course, that the planet will adapt itself to another state of existence in which we humans do not figure. Even though we find it hard to get away from the misconception that all this of creation was meant for us, we might be a very brief temporal component of the history of the planet. One hopes that we will not work to make it our stay even more brief than what it might otherwise be.
While we are entertaining such thoughts, a subset of such thinking may also merit some consideration. A friend of mine once wondered aloud that each of us might be like a single cell in relation to the whole of human society. The number of humans on the planet is now rather similar to the number of cells in our bodies. In this sense, the whole of humanity might also be considered a single organism — particularly now that interdependence and the communication systems can keep us in an interacting soup! If so, this organism has a long way to go before it begins to behave like one. Furthermore, if some “cells” in the organism become oblivious of the importance and needs of ten million others sharing the same home, our future might not be so secure. I doubt if parochialism of any kind is an enhancing influence in the long run. The dilemma is that the way we are constructed, we often make a virtue of infinite parochialism. Otherwise, we would not have had to constantly deal with regional and national conflicts, or the fundamentalist agendas of various kinds.
What is antimatter?
The answer to this question could be simple or detailed. I would stay with what I hope is a simple explanation. We all know that an electron has a negative charge. We also know that a proton has an equal and opposite (positive) charge. Incidentally, calling one negative and the other positive is only a convention. But this convention already recognises that there is a two-ness to the property we call charge. About 70 years ago, Paul Dirac tried to construct a theory of the electron, and he was surprised that the same equations also described a particle of the same mass but opposite, namely positive charge. If you were to start with vacuum, with no charge or mass, but enough energy was available, you could create a negative electron along with positive electron if the process could conserve energy and momentum. The positive electron now called the positron is an anti-particle of the electron. The positron was discovered a year after Dirac gave his theory in cosmic rays, where a gamma ray, scattered off a nucleus, and created an electron-positron pair. It was clear from then on that we must also have an anti-particle for the proton that will have the same mass but a negative charge. Such particles have also been discovered. It is then clear that as far as chemistry is concerned, there would be no difference between a hydrogen atom made of a positive proton and negative electron and another one made of a negative proton and a positive electron. An earth made of the elements we know could not be distinguished, by an observer in another solar system, from one made of the very same anti-elements. The two could have exactly the same geology, chemistry and life. The only requirement for a future for either of them would be that they stay away from each other because a contact between them would result in annihilation of the both into an enormous ball of energy.
The problem remains, however. If both a universe and anti-universe were theoretically possible and if they would have had indistinguishable fortunes, how come only one was chosen? It is another matter that if such a differentiation had not occurred, we would not have been around. Nevertheless, this question remains one of the most profound concerns of present day physics and cosmology. Are their any deep reasons for the observed asymmetry between matter and anti-matter? If so, what are they?
What do scientists learn by banding birds?
There is a great deal of interest in learning the migration pattern of birds. As you know, some birds travel thousands of kilometers each year, seeking breeding grounds suitable for raising their young, and then they travel back home. Banding enables subsequent recognition of individual birds; if you could identify the place where the bird came from and when it left, you would learn a great deal. If you band a large number of individuals, you can also find their varying preferences, as also the dangers and hazards they have to overcome on various routes and distances.
These days, one can also put bands containing tiny transmitters and track the birds via satellite as they proceed on their journey.
Why do our eyes close during sneezing?
Let me try a commonsense answer. It is clear that while sneezing our body is trying to expel air through our nasal passages with an explosive force.
In order to do that all the muscles around our face are asked to fasten seat belts and tighten up. No wonder then that the eyes are also closed shut. That is what we do to our doors and windows before a hurricane strikes.
When people exercise, their muscles consume energy and generate heat as a byproduct. When enough heat accumulates internally, it can limit exercise performance. Two Stanford biologists have developed a method for cooling that maximises heat transfer through the palms of the hands. The idea is to engorge confluences of arteries and veins located there by mechanically drawing blood into them. The technology was used by some athletes during training for the Olympic Games in Athens, and it may soon find its way into attire for military personnel and others who work in extreme heat.
“We literally cool the body from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, which is the conventional method,” explains Senior Research Scientist Dennis Grahn, who developed the cooling device with H. Craig Heller, the Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor in Human Biology and Environmental Biology.
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To India and back again: A cultural exchange
In December 2013, Voice Box Theatre's Michael Ritchie and Fiona Oliver-Larkin journeyed to South India. They went to create connections between children in Scotland and India, to initiate pen-pal relationships and to connect schools. They worked with educational initiatives based on Waldorf methodology and with NGOs and government supported slum schools.
Voice Box Theatre managed to raise £2000 with the generous support of donors, friends and family through a crowd-funding campaign, to help with travel costs, accommodation and teaching resources. Here follows a summary of Michael and Fiona's time in India.
Our Hosts in Mumbai: TRIDHA Waldorf School
TRIDHA Waldorf School is nestled in amongst the winding back streets of Andheri East, a district in the North of Mumbai. 10 minutes in a rickshaw (about 30 pence) to the Pumphouse and from there the school is a short walk away. TRIDHA is a large and rapidly growing school. The grounds are large for a city school with plenty of outdoor space. The slum to the back has encroached on the grounds, but they don't seem to mind. The director, Patrick, says that this is just the way things are in Mumbai: people live where they can.
We stayed here for two weeks, working with TRIDHA in the mornings, and outreaching into slums and deprived communities in the afternoons.
For the first part of the morning, we went into classes to assist and contribute to the morning rhythmic time. This is where the class learn songs and poems, and work with coordination and basic movement skills. We were able to contribute with Scottish songs and poems, as well as skipping and juggling skills. We brought a lot of new material to the classes and it was rewarding how receptive and appreciative both teachers and students were.
We also performed Selkie Tales for the classes: The children were keen to tell us how much they had enjoyed the show, and indeed to give us specific feedback. Despite the language barrier, it was clear that they had been completely engaged by the narrative of the story, movement and the songs. They produced some really beautiful artwork, depicting the story. Our performance style was proving to be even more successful than we had hoped!
We spent a lot of our time at TRIDHA working with and mentoring the Games and Sport teachers, whose background is in coaching. They were hungry for additional material and teaching practices and we had a lot of fun sharing ideas, joining in, observing, and running lessons with them. As a bonus, we taught them both to juggle. It was gratifying to see them implementing our advice and new teaching methods through our time there.We were also invited in to the teachers meetings and were given the opportunity to run Bothmer gymnastic workshops for the teachers. They found some of the trust exercises particularly challenging and enriching. They decided to continue to work with some of these in future teachers meetings. We are exploring the possibilities for returning to run longer full-time workshops, as there is so much more we can cover.
TRIDHA's yearly Mela was on Saturday 14th December and they invited us to perform. It was a large and exciting affair, with a turnout of approximately 2000 people and a wonderfully festive atmosphere. The theme was 'Global Village', and the individual classes had stalls representing countries from all over the world. We performed in the evening, clowning, juggling, acrobatics and singing. The children of the school were able to join in with Wild Mountain Thyme, which is one of the songs we had taught them.
Cultural Exchange: TRIDHA
As part of our project, we are exchanging letters, pictures, cards and gifts between school children in India and in Scotland. We carried letters and gifts from The Edinburgh Steiner School's Class 4 and presented them to Class 4 in TRIDHA. It was inspiring to see the children in TRIDHA responding to their new pen-pals, writing about their school, their homes, their favourite things. The exchange between these two classes is now firmly established. The latest from Edinburgh to TRIDHA is a large poster, made by the children and along with it, animal drawings for the class to cut out and attach.
Into our Adventure: Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia
The school we are visiting caters for first generation educated children. This means that their parents are generally illiterate. The school is 13 years old, built in an old garbage processing unit and run entirely on donations. Giving is important in Indian culture, and it is common to give to charities regularly. The school pulls in enough sponsorship to pay the teachers a reasonable salary, and the children are given uniforms, basic supplies and basic hot food every day.
Dropped off on a busy junction, we crossed through the streams of honking traffic and ducked into a small alleyway. All along the streets we caught glimpses into small-scale factories: tanneries, with piles of fresh goat skins constantly being delivered; tailor shops full of men hunched over rows of sewing machines . Dharavi is a production hub. Labour here is at its cheapest. There is also a bustling street life: hawkers selling clothes and colourful kids toys; sizzling woks full of samosas and pakoras and a million other things all at once. There are tiny schools and temples everywhere, and everywhere, we had to watch our step, to avoid treading on and into the piles of garbage that litter these streets. We got thoroughly lost over the course of the next hour, pointed in good faith and with lots of encouraging smiles in the wrong direction many times, until we found a helpful man who stayed with us and guided us for about 20 minutes, further through the warren of back streets and alleyways until finally we arrived at our destination, the Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) School, Dharavi.
Simple concrete classroom blocks line a narrow open courtyard, topped with corrugated iron roofing on bamboo poles, with classrooms off to the sides. It is cool and quiet compared to the bustling heat outside. Our contact, the principal had left for the afternoon and it turns out that no one had been told we were coming. We were greeted by a couple of young, smiling teachers who were glad to hear about our performance and workshops. After about 10 minutes, around 100 children aged 5-15 emerged from the classrooms to where we'd set up our mat in the courtyard, where they sat on the floor and watched and listened with focused attention on our performance of Selkie Tales. Their feedback was again very gratifying, showing that without understanding specific words, they were able to follow the narrative. They had obviously been fully engaged and when we had finished some of the more enthusiastic children started playing and trying to climb on each other in imitation of our acrobatics.
The teachers were surprised and impressed, saying that they had never seen the children so attentive and engaged. They were keen to have us back for workshops and asked if we could also help out with the drama group.
We returned the following week to teach the workshops, and ran them for groups of 20-40 children at a time. The children were very keen and very able. They learned quickly. We managed to cover as much as we had hoped to in the time. Our only regret was that we had so little time to work with such enthusiastic and positive students. They were also incredibly creative with the new skills we had taught them and immediately began making up their own moves and tricks.
It is always gratifying to see young people working together positively and effectively. It was great to see the extra support and encouragement that they were giving each other to achieve the simple acrobatic balances. We also helped out with the drama group. They were working on A Midsummer Nights Dream for a performance in the new year. They struggle with English and this is a big focus for the school as having a good grasp of English opens up a lot of possibilities for future employment. We worked with theatre games which help to develop stage presence and a feeling for space.
Cultural Exchange: Dharavi
The children at the Dharavi School loved the book made by Class Ten at the Edinburgh Steiner School. They engaged with the pictures and were full of questions and eager to learn about life in Scotland and Edinburgh. We gave them an address, and they are writing letters back to the students who made the book. We are excited about their volunteering programme as an opportunity for Scottish School leavers and this is a connection we are committed to support and maintain.
The Doorstep Foundation: Education on a bus
The Doorstep School is an educational initiative that began on donated buses. Children are picked up from street corners and slums and taught as the bus moves from place to place. Their aim is to bring education to marginalised communities and they have enrolled over 10,000 first generation learners since 1990. So they have expanded and now share space with government schools, halls and any spare space they can gain access to.
We were met at the train station by one of the organisers and we walked with him, about a mile to the school. We stopped to pick up oranges for juggling (the idea is to perform with them and then give them to the children, demonstrating that all you need to learn to juggle is some pieces of fruit). We arrived at a large government school building on a busy junction, packed with market stalls. There were streams of children flowing in and out of the building, and we let ourselves be swept in with the flow.
Our performance and workshop space was a large hall with a stage. We didn't have long to wait for our audience, around 200 children in total, ranging from 4 to about 13 years. They sat on the floor, facing the stage. We started with some clowning and skipping, to hoots of laughter. We juggled to cheers and applause and we followed with our performance of Selkie Tales.
After the show, we took a 15 minute break, then ran workshops, first for the boys, then for the girls
.Unlike the scrubbed clean children in pristine uniforms of the Dharavi school, these children were wearing their uniforms on top of grubby vests and torn trousers, and we saw faces which seemed far older than their years. A few of the children were unusually fearful, in stark contrast to the majority of beaming smiles and energetic enthusiasm. One girl, of about four years old remained in an inner world for most of the time. Seeing her break through and communicate with a brief smile was heart-warming as well as wrenching. The teachers gave all they could and joined in the workshop with hands-on enthusiasm and obvious affection. They clearly know each child well and gave a lot of positive attention and encouragement. The children were younger than those we had taught at Dharavi, there were a lot of them, and they had a lot of excess energy and so we played a lot of games, as well as teaching some skipping and basic partner balances.
We were impressed by how well the teachers and support workers at Doorstep worked with the children. We were able to give examples to them of positive discipline during our workshop and we showed them how to teach fundamental movement skills through skipping and beanbag/(fruit!) passing.
Yellow Train: An organic experience
Yellow Train is a new school on the outskirts of Coimbatore. It is set on an organic farm and is home to a small community of farm workers. We stayed in a large farmhouse, on the school premises. The school is beautiful. It is open and spacious, with a small open air hall and stage. It currently has grades 1-4, and it is expanding upwards yearly. The children arrive in a school bus, and breakfast is waiting for them. They eat together, and the day begins. The education draws on Waldorf methodology, as well as other teachings such as The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, but the main curriculum is the Indian National Curriculum, ICSE and IGCSE . All the teachers here are teaching for the first time. We found it incredibly inspiring and refreshing to see the fresh impulse of Yellow Train's new teacher's working so effectively and the new and the old in harmony.
We ran a day of lessons for the classes at the school, and helped with their current production of Noah's Ark. We included a lot of theatre games which encourage the imagination, with a focus on animals. A game that everyone particularly enjoyed was Animal Tag, where the chasers have to imitate a selected animal until everyone is caught. They were particularly able also in terms of acrobatics, achieving what we could teach them in the limited time available with graceful success. The teachers observed the lessons and afterwards began to use the new material and methods they had gathered.
On Saturday we ran a 7 hour workshop (with breaks) for the teachers of Yellow Train. We taught exercises for fundamental movement skills like rhythm, coordination and balancing. We talked about the physical development of children of the ages they have at the school, and practised gymnastic exercises according to these stages. We also worked with songs and rhythmic activities, integrating movement and eurythmy through gesture.
In the evening, the children, their parents and friends of the school were invited to our performance of Selkie Tales. We expanded it to 50 minutes especially for the event by including an element of audience participation. We invited the children in the audience to come onto the stage and decorate a spiral maze with marigold flowers. After the show we were interviewed by Parshathy. J. Nath. Her review appeared in The Hindu, Coimbatore:
“Movement and drama can bring a story alive” Parshathy. J. Nath
Teachers and students of the Yellow Train Grade School sing aloud, as along with them sing two guests, Michael Ritchie and Fiona Oliver-Larkin, from Voice Box Theatre. They tell the children Scottish tales of the selkie, a mythical creature that takes the form of a seal but can also assume human form.
There is action, drama and acrobatics as the story of selkie and the sailor progresses. Fiona climbs on to Michael’s shoulders as he strides across the stage. She gracefully slides off his back saying, “The sea, my home the sea”.
The moment is touching and even the restless kids sit still and listen. “Here is your skin my Selkie, my love. Go forth and be free,” Michael sings.
The story telling concludes with the children playing with the marigolds strewn on the stage, as Michael plays on a flute. Music and the excited squeals of children break the silence of the night.
Cultural Exchange: Yellow Train
At Yellow Train, we presented letters from Class 5 at the Edinburgh Steiner School, and we carried gifts and returning letters for the students back in Scotland. There are 35 children at the Yellow Train School, and all of them now have Scottish pen pals. The children were delighted to receive the letters. The staff at the school welcomed the opportunity for cultural exchange.
The Bangalore Steiner School: Teacher Training and Home School Students
The Bangalore Steiner School is on the outskirts of the city. The school has a fleet of buses which ferry the children and staff to and from the school every day. It is in an idyllic setting. There are many climbing trees with tree houses and all sorts of self built climbing structures. One is even shaped like a ship. There are gardens and a playground surrounding the main house.
We came here to lead a course in movement within the Waldorf curriculum, the purpose being to help the teachers integrate fundamental movement skills into their teaching practice. We ran sessions every morning, talking about and moving according to the Bothmer and rhythmic curriculum. The teachers, who are mostly first time teachers, were very responsive, asking lots of questions. We were able to help them explore and resolve several issues relating to movement and social education that had arisen in the previous school term.
We also ran sessions with a group of home schooled teenagers. It became clear that they needed extra support in developing their social and movement skills so we ran games and activities such as group acrobatics and juggling with a focus on teamwork, trust building and social inclusion.
Bangalore: AMIGOS
We were contacted whilst we were working with The Bangalore Steiner School by Amith, who had read our article in the Hindu. He invited us to stay with him and his family, and we were able to perform Selkie Tales to two very different audiences. Amith runs an initiative called Amigos (www.fuelurfuture.com), which provides non-academic education for children from schools at each end of the economic and social spectrum.
Our first performance was to 350 children at a private International School. We were given a microphone, which we didn’t use, and didn’t need to as the children although laughing occasionally were attentive and quiet. After the show, we ran a workshop with 30 or so of the older students, teaching them basic acrobatic balances and pyramids. After this, we were interviewed by two aspiring journalists in the 10th Standard.
In the evening we visited an orphanage, home to around 35 children. It is a small home which provides housing, school placements, food and basic living materials. The children, ranging in age from 5-18 sat on the floor in a room of about 4 square meters. This was certainly our smallest performance venue to date, and taking care to not stand on, or inadvertently kick any children or furniture we performed Selkie Tales
The interaction with the children was very gratifying. They were full of appreciation for Fiona’s singing and Michael was asked to play another tune on the pipe. It was overwhelming to experience the loving energy we received from the children at this orphanage. They were obviously destitute, with torn clothes and old eyes, but we felt blessed to see and support the initiative which is giving these young people a prospect at life away from the streets.
Cultural Exchange: Orphanage
We presented the children with one of Class 10's handmade books. A short impromptu English lesson ensued. As we pointed to each of the pictures in the book, the children relished the opportunity to show off their vocabularies and to learn about Scotland. They even learned some new words!
Mother Teresa's Roses: Mumbai again
Mother Teresa's Roses is a Christian charity for street kids. Michael met one of the volunteers in Bandra, exchanged numbers and so we arranged a visit. In a back street, past another busy junction, we found the place: a day care centre for 30 or so orphaned street children. We were ushered into the middle of the circle of children sitting on the floor and we did some juggling, some singing, and we performed Selkie Tales. We ran a short acrobatics workshop, and had a cup of tea. We communicated mostly in sign language, although one of the nuns spoke some English and translated the story for the others.
Back home to Scotland
Full of the riches of our experience, we arrived back in Scotland in the new year. Returning to the UK was quite a culture shock, and after a short recuperation period, we are tying up loose ends and following up the contacts we made. We bring back with us inspiration and a new enthusiasm for education and teaching. We are deeply grateful for the lessons we received on our journey with Selkie Tales in India. We feel blessed to have had this opportunity to have touched the lives of so many inspirational people.
Our journey took us from some of the most privileged to some of the poorest communities in the world. We worked with specialists in education, and first time teachers. We taught children who struggled socially, academically, and physically. We also taught children who excelled in these. We found that the poorest communities are home to some of the most capable.
The young people we worked with in Scotland have shown us tremendous support and interest for our work and we are grateful for their eager participation. The young people from India have filled us with a sense of wonder at their strength in the face of their individual difficulties. We are excited to see how the cultural exchange we have facilitated continues and grows. We are committed to maintaining relationships between schools and young people in both countries and are keen to continue and develop our work within marginalised and mainstream communities.
During our journey we had the opportunity to work with a lot of people, from many different groups and initiatives. Some of these we visited by chance, and were only able to stay for a day or two, meaning we were only able to begin teaching and learning. We wish we could have stayed for longer and have dedicated at least a couple of weeks at each initiative. This is definitely a lesson we will take away in planning future trips.
Thank you for your time, your interest, your support,
Michael and Fiona for Voice Box Theatre
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Pat Moramarco is a recipient of the CIF Model Coach Award.
The CIF has a Model Coach Award, and one of the 2019-2020 recipients is Pat Moramarco, a 1982 Fallbrook High School graduate and current Vista High School girls' basketball coach.
"It's obviously a great honor. It's a little bit of a surprise because it comes from the state, not the section," Moramarco said. "It's a great accomplishment, and I really appreciate that."
The CIF Model Coach Award program was created by the CIF State Federated Council to recognize coaches who have served as positive role models in their schools and communities and who have exhibited the traits of the CIF's Pursuing Victory with Honor principles. A model coach demonstrates and teaches the six core ethical values of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and good citizenship; the CIF sometimes refers to those as the Six Pillars of Character.
"It's based on a lot of things," Moramarco said.
Twelve coaches throughout California were selected as 2019-2020 CIF Model Coach Award recipients. Moramarco was the only coach from the CIF San Diego Section to receive that recognition.
"I think it's probably a longevity thing. It's more of a career award," Moramarco said. "It's just such a great honor."
As solely a CIF season coach, Moramarco's most prominent achievement during the 2019-2020 girls' basketball season was winning his 365th career game, which moved him to eighth place on the all-time San Diego Section list. Vista finished third in the 2019-2020 Avocado East League standings.
The Moramarco family moved from Whittier to Rainbow in 1975. Moramarco was a Vallecitos Elementary School student for sixth through eighth grades before beginning the student portion of his Fallbrook High School history. He was on the Warriors' football and baseball teams, playing one year of varsity football under head coach Tom Pack and two years of varsity baseball under head coach Dave Heid. Moramarco played wide receiver during the football season and center field in baseball competition.
Moramarco took classes at both Palomar College and Mira Costa College, and at the time those two schools had a combined athletic program. Moramarco threw the javelin and discus for the track and field team. He transferred to San Diego State University and received a degree in physical education. Moramarco's student teaching assignments were at San Marcos Middle School and Mira Mesa High School.
Although he was teaching at Mira Mesa High School, Moramarco began coaching at Fallbrook High School. He coached football, basketball and track and field for the Warriors from 1986 to 1989. He was a lower-level coach when Fallbrook's varsity football team won the 1986 CIF championship.
Moramarco was the head junior varsity basketball coach when Jerry Port was the varsity head coach, and he was an assistant coach for football and track and field. Moramarco also was a substitute teacher at Fallbrook High School before being hired by the Vista Unified School District in 1990.
Moramarco was an assistant football coach for Vista from 1990 to 1993 and also from 1996 to 1999, so that was his first coaching position with the Panthers. He first coached the Vista girls' varsity basketball team for the 1990-1991 season. He has had two stints, totaling 22 seasons, as the Panthers' head girls' basketball coach. He took over as the school's athletic director in 1997 and stepped down as the varsity basketball coach in 2002.
"It became a lot of stuff, so I took some time off from being a varsity coach," Moramarco said.
Moramarco had no other coaching positions during the 2002-2003 season; he was solely the athletic director. At the time, Vista High School had drug testing for all extracurricular activities, and he also administered the school's drug testing program.
"It was the least eventful, least fun year that I've had in my career," Moramarco said.
Between 2003 and 2010, Moramarco coached at lower-level programs before returning as the Panthers' head girls basketball coach in 2010. He is still the school's athletic director.
Moramarco also teaches a basketball physical education class. He is also a proctor for online courses administered by the high school.
The Vista team coached by Moramarco won the CIF Division I championship in 1994. Vista reached the CIF Division I final in 1996 and the CIF Division II final in 2018. The Panthers won league championships in 1995, 2000 and 2018.
Moramarco has been the league representative for girls' basketball for more than 20 years. He is on the CIF's girls' basketball advisory committee as well as on other CIF committees, and he was on the initial power rankings committee which determines playoff seeding.
During his first stint as Vista's girls' basketball coach Moramarco hosted a Christmas tournament and also a summer tournament. He still runs a summer league for North County and has done so since the 1990s.
"I even continued to run it when I wasn't the varsity coach," he said.
Moramarco said he relishes his status not only as a current coach but also as a former coach of Vista alumni.
"The best feeling I get is seeing my former players come back," he said.
The interaction with his former players focuses on memories rather than necessarily wins and losses.
"It makes me feel good about what I've been doing," Moramarco said.
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Renata Tarragó Fábregas (1927-August 2, 2005), a Catalan guitarist and vihuelist, was a teacher and performer, both as a solo artist and an accompanist. She was the first female guitarist to record Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, and was the editor of the first published edition of the Concierto de Aranjuez score.
Renata Tarragó was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1927, the second of two children of Graciano Tarragó Pons, who was a musician, composer, and teacher, and his first wife, Renata Fábregas. She studied at the Barcelona Conservatory, where her first teacher was her father. Graciano Tarragó (1892-1973), who had previously taught the soprano Victoria de los Ángeles, had studied the guitar under Miguel Llobet, and also played the violin and viola.
Renata Tarragó made her first public appearance at the age of 14, and was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Barcelona Conservatory upon the completion of her studies there in 1944. In 1951, the Barcelona Conservatory awarded Tarragó the “Premio Extraordinario” for her artistic accomplishments.
Renata Tarragó played guitar accompaniment (with credits on the labels) on numerous HMV 78 and LP recordings with the soprano Victoria de los Ángeles, as well as a 1948 BBC recording in London of Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve.
In 1958, Renata Tarragó became the first female guitarist to record Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, in a recording accompanied by the Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid, conducted by Odón Alonso. She also was the first to edit the Aranjuez score for publication (1959), and Rodrigo’s esteem for her was evidenced by the dedication of his Sonata Giocosa (1960) to her. Her father, Graciano Tarragó, published the first edition of Rodrigo’s Invocation et danse in 1962.
Renata Tarragó’s repertoire ranged from music written for the viheula and Baroque guitar to that of the twentieth century. Among her solo recordings are the works of Federico Moreno Torroba, Francisco Tárrega, Fernando Sor, Gaspar Sanz, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Luigi Boccherini. In 1962, she made the first recording of Torroba’s Concierto de Castilla, accompanied by the Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid, conducted by Jesús Arámbarri. Unlike the majority of classical guitarists, who play notes with their fingernails, Tarragó used her fingertips.
Renata Tarragó concertized widely in Europe and abroad (including South Africa and the Soviet Union), and made her U.S. debut in 1960. In 1962, she represented Spain at the International Congress of the Guitar in Tokyo, and received a Gold Medal for her performances. During a 1962 concert at New York’s Town Hall, she played both the vihuela and guitar, and the New York Times noted: “A musically sensitive performer, the beautiful Spanish artist explored the ranges of tonal subtlety and nuance.”
In the 1968 film Deadfall, she appeared onscreen playing John Barry’s Romance for Guitar and Orchestra in a concert scene, as well as on the soundtrack recording. The adagio from her recording of the Concierto de Aranjuez was used by Rex Nettleford and the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica for their dance piece, “Dialogue for Three.”
Among the guitarists who studied with her are Jaume Abad (one of the founders of the Barcelona Guitar Quartet), Glorianne Collver-Jacobson, Ernesto Cordero, Darryl Denning, and Michael Johnson.
Renata Tarragó was married to Dr. José Antonio Osorio Gullón. She collapsed while swimming in Caldes d’Estrac, and died on Aug. 2, 2005, in Mataró, Spain, at age 77
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Violinist.com - Violin Blogs - Karen Allendoerfer - Blog Entry
This morning I had jury duty. I was summoned to the Framingham Courthouse to, as it turned out, watch a video and be sent home again. While I was not particularly looking forward to missing work and having to rearrange a bunch of kid-related carpools and other events in order to serve, I was kind of disappointed not to be able to get out of my rut and do something completely different--to administer justice.
Another thing that has been not happening this fall is my violin blog. I really don't think my absent blog has much to do with perfectionism on my part . . . anyone who has heard me play or read my previous blogs is likely to realize that I'm not a perfectionist. But I can and do get out of the groove, and that has been dangerously close to happening to me, not just for jury service, or blogging, but also for playing.
Last weekend I played in my first concert of the 2011-12 season with the Arlington Philharmonic:
From violinist.com blog
I wanted to post the poster even though the concert is over because it's so pretty. Especially for an amateur group, we have some of the nicest publicity fliers I've seen. A member of the cello section donates his time and efforts. And, the poster lists the program, which I suspect may be at the root of some of my unrest.
In this concert, we played two French pieces, the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, and the Franck Symphony in D Minor. The Franck Symphony was chosen for this performance by our orchestra's longest-serving member, Phyllis Spence, a 95-year-old woman who served as concertmaster for many years and who is something of a Franck fan. After 77 years, this was her last concert with the group and the conductor wanted to honor her by allowing her to choose one of the pieces. Composed in 1888 and premiered in 1889, this piece was relatively new when Phyllis was born in 1916. It's closer to Phyllis than, say, the Beatles are to today's conservatory students. And the Ravel concerto. That piece is younger than Phyllis. The North American premiere by the Boston and Philadelphia Symphonies took place in 1932, one year before the Arlington Philharmonic was founded.
Both of these were new to me for this concert, and both were challenging in ways that were not straightforward to address. One approach I sometimes take to learning new orchestral music is to do a little reading about the pieces. In this case, wikipedia was my friend. I learned that both of these works were composed and premiered after 1850, which seems to be a personal line of demarcation, a time after which I am no longer guaranteed to like the period's orchestral music. I also learned that during this time and place, the symphony was considered a German art form and was therefore out of favor in much of France in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war. That Franck dared to write a "German" symphony caused much controversy and consternation among different factions of the Société Nationale de Musique. I felt bad for Franck, reading some of the negative reactions his symphony elicited. Yet, my feeling bad for the composer wasn't really the point.
My violin teacher, too, had some ideas when I brought my part to her for help with practicing. "The world was getting noisier by then," she said. "More chaotic, busier. There were trains and carriages going by outside his window. This is what the world sounded like to him."
That helped. Since playing a movement of the Franck violin and piano sonata last spring, I've tended to associate Franck with storms and water. There's a particularly wicked part in the sonata when the piano is pounding away like the ocean surf and the violin comes in, loud and high, like a seagull diving for a particularly tasty fish. And then both of them get caught up in a tidal wave that crashes onto a beach, and then washes, with relief and joy, back out to sea.
The symphony has water too. But rather than a playful seagull violin playing on its ocean, it has a large steamship crossing it with purpose. Not the Titanic or anything, mind you (or at least I hope not). . . but a ship, large and noisy and industrial. And beautiful and awe-ful, like the trains.
And the soloist for the Ravel was a complete delight. Her enthusiasm and professionalism were infectious, and she had to be careful not to leave the rest of us in the dust while still adhering to a lightning fast tempo, a line she toed with grace. She delighted the audience and gave them their money's worth and then some.
Still, rehearsals for this concert were among the most difficult I've had with this orchestra. Last winter after several snowstorm-related cancellations, we had a Saturday morning rehearsal the day before the concert. This was productive, and the lesson was taken to heart. Long before the snow started falling, a Saturday rehearsal was scheduled for this concert too, which we desperately needed to avoid the icebergs. Even the day before, we were still working out tempos and transitions.
I wish I could tie up the experience in a neat package, and say, "this is how we rose to the occasion," but that wasn't what happened. It was all these little things: the soloist's enthusiasm, the extra rehearsal, listening to recordings on YouTube, lessons, and lots of practicing. But I still want to pause and offer this blog about it, however imperfectly, before the holiday season starts with its Bach and Brahms and Handel. We were all summoned to stretch ourselves, to be a little better musicians than we were before.
From Lisa Van Sickle
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Karen, I laughed out loud when I read your comment about Franck reminding you of storms and water. I still have clear memories of watching a science film in high school where the soundtrack used large chunks of the Franck symphony. Subject of the film: thunderstorms! I can't hear that symphony without getting the visual image of huge, towering thunderheads, rain, and wind.
The other thing about playing it is Franck's love of changing key every few measures, from six flats to five sharps and back again, with as many accidentals as possible thrown in.
From Karen Allendoerfer
Yes, sharp- and flat-heavy key modulations were familiar from the sonata too. My teacher said it was a way of creating musical excitement and suspense. (As well as creating "excitement"--or is that anxiety?--in the players).
My kids, however, announced to me after the concert that the 3rd movement theme sounded like "My Little Pony," which isn't exactly known for its dramatic tension ;-)
From Anne Horvath
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:38 PM
I'm not familiar with this My Little Pony theme. Thank goodness for Youtube...
Your kids are right.
And now the Franck Symphony in D Minor is ruined. Forever ruined. (Smiley face!)
What kind of orchestra is the Arlington Philharmonic? Is it a professional orchestra?
Paul, no it is not a professional orchestra, it is a volunteer community orchestra, part of the Philharmonic Society of Arlington. The conductors are professionals, though, and sometimes we hire professional singers as soloists for joint concerts with the chorale.
We also have a Young Artist's competition with an under-18 category and an under-30 category. The piano soloist for this concert, Inesa Gegprifti, was this year's under-30 winner.
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How we use the land; crops and farm animals.
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ALSTON WITH GARRIGILL RD Local Government District 1894 1974 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 651.
ARLECDON AND FRIZINGTON UD Local Government District 1894 1934 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 651.
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Managing habitats for red squirrels
Keeping pets away from squirrels
Helping red squirrels in your garden
Where to see red squirrels
Squirrels in the UK
There are two species of squirrel in the UK; red squirrels and grey squirrels. Populations are currently estimated at approximately 140,000 red squirrels and 2.5 million grey squirrels. Red squirrels are our native species and have lived in the UK for around 10,000 years, Grey squirrels were introduced to the UK from North America by the Victorians in the 1800s, the first record of them escaping and establishing a wild population is 1876.
Why do red squirrels need protecting?
Grey squirrels are a familiar sight for many people across large parts of the UK and are often seen in parks and gardens, whilst the range of our native red squirrels is now limited to certain areas of the UK, such as Anglesey, parts of northern England and Scotland. In many cases they have retreated to wilder, remote locations. Unfortunately, without conservation management, red squirrels could become extinct in England in approximately 10 years. Time is really running out to save our red squirrels.
To preserve red squirrels, they must be kept apart from grey squirrels as the two species cannot live together long term. The map below illustrates this as it shows that grey squirrels have replaced red squirrels across almost all of England and Wales.
Red and grey squirrels distribution in the British Isles in 1945 and 2010. © Craig Shuttleworth/RSST
How are The Wildlife Trusts helping?
The Wildlife Trusts has been at the forefront of efforts to save red squirrels for decades; undertaking habitat management to help red squirrels, education and awareness projects, monitoring of squirrel populations and targeted control of grey squirrels in areas where red squirrels are at risk of extinction.
The Wildlife Trusts was part of Red Squirrels United, a partnership of academics, practitioners and volunteers, working together on a programme of red squirrel conservation. It launched in 2015 and was focused on conserving red squirrel populations in nine specific areas in Northern Ireland, Northern England and Wales (see map below).
Local red squirrel conservation projects are also taking place with Dorset Wildlife Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
Can red squirrels and grey squirrels live together?
Unfortunately not. Grey squirrels compete more successfully than red squirrels for food and habitat. They are larger and more robust, and can digest seeds with high tannin content, such as acorns, more efficiently. This forces red squirrels into other areas where they can find it more difficult to survive.
Grey squirrels also transmit a squirrelpox virus which can normally kill red squirrels. Once infected, red squirrels often die of starvation or dehydration.
What are the main threats to red squirrels?
The grey squirrel is the main reason for the decline of the red squirrel. Habitat loss has also contributed to the red squirrel’s decline. This occurs when areas of woodland are destroyed or become separated by development and changing land-use. This leads to isolated areas which cannot sustain viable populations of wildlife, including red squirrels in some places. Squirrelpox virus is fatal to red squirrels but is carried by grey squirrels without causing them any harm.
What is squirrelpox and what can be done about it?
This virus, carried by grey squirrels without causing them harm, is fatal to red squirrels and once infected red squirrels often suffer a slow and painful death. The virus produces scabs and sores in and around the eyes, nose, mouth, feet, ears and genitalia. The infected squirrel is very quickly unable to see or to feed properly and rapidly becomes dehydrated and malnourished.
A vaccine against squirrelpox is in development but it could be many years before this is available in the affordable and easily dispensable form necessary to assist red squirrel conservation. Targeted and co-ordinated grey squirrel control to keep densities of grey squirrel very low in carefully chosen areas is used to combat the spread of disease.
Where in the UK does this project work?
This project is about maintaining the remaining red squirrels we have in parts of Northern Ireland and Wales and some parts of the north of England and expanding them in a few places in these areas to give some of the more isolated populations a better chance of survival.
The map above shows the project areas where Red Squirrels United is working (a separate project is carrying out similar work in Scotland).
Conservation management is targeted only to red squirrel stronghold areas and enables red squirrels to exist in these areas. This project is not working in the remainder of the UK which is still home to grey squirrels. Ultimately it means that both red and grey squirrels continue to exist in the UK although they must be kept apart as the two species cannot live together in the long-term, primarily because grey squirrels carry the squirrel-pox virus which kills red squirrels.
What scientific evidence is there?
Natural England is the the government's adviser for nature conservation in England. It's 'Review of red squirrel conservation activity in northern England (2009)' is the most comprehensive review of the science to date.
Other reading:
Conservation Plan for Red Squirrel Conservation (2009)
Scottish Strategy for Red Squirrel Conservation (2015)
Red Squirrel Conservation Action Plan (1999)
What happens if grey squirrels are not managed in places where they interact with red squirrels?
As the historic loss of red squirrels from much of Ireland, England, and Wales shows, non-intervention would lead to further loss of red squirrels ultimately ending in their extinction on the UK mainland. Evidence shows that without conservation management red squirrels are likely to become extinct in England within 10 years, and extinct in Scotland within the lifetime of today’s children (1). New research suggests this timeframe may be shorter.
Do pine martens help control grey squirrels?
Research by NUI Galway has shown that a high-density of Irish pine marten populations is causing corresponding populations of grey squirrels to collapse, with a recovery of red squirrels following. A new project has been launched by the University of Aberdeen to investigate whether the same effect is occurring in Scotland in areas where the pine marten is recovering, where differences in ecological conditions may make the outcome different to that in Ireland. The project will run until the end of 2017 and is led by Dr Emma Sheehy and Professor Xavier Lambin. This area of research is of interest but at the moment the fledgling recovery of the pine marten cannot be sole prospect for survival of our red squirrel due to its relatively low population densities.
The Wildlife Trusts worked with the following organisations to form Red Squirrels United: Newcastle University, Forest Research, The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, Red Squirrels Trust Wales, Northumberland Wildlife Trust, Ulster Wildlife and The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.
Find out more about Red Squirrels United.
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I Miss the Muppets.
So it's Thanksgiving. One of the things that Kerry and I have done for years is volunteer for / at God's Love We Deliver, followed by lunch and then usually a ridiculous dinner and a movie, leaving our own Turkey plans for Friday. This year is no different.
However, today, children's television station "The Hub" was showing the three worst pieces of Muppet movie trash, "Muppet Treasure Island," "Muppets from Space," and "A Muppet Christmas Carol." We were watching bits and pieces of them, mostly in anticipation of our annual Thanksgiving Night movie excursion, this time to see "The Muppets," Disney's attempt to reboot the franchise.
Now, a little bit of history and backstory. I was born in 1973, which puts me smack in the target audience for "The Muppets." I am right in the middle of generation X, saw "The Muppet Movie" in the theatres in 1979, danced as Kermit with a Miss Piggy in first grade to "The Rainbow Connection," and was young enough to experience the Muppets for the first time with a child's eyes. I didn't understand the camp, the satire, the multiple layers until later, but I always understood that at the very heart of the, there was a message of hope, of creativity and of fitting in to the world around you while maintaining your individuality. When I was 9, I drove my parents crazy to get me a Miss Piggy Puppet for Christmas, and then crazier trying to find hair accessories for it. (Should i have known THEN that I was destined to be a drag queen? Probably.) A singing Miss Piggy delivered balloons to the office where I was working the summer I turned 16. I have ALWAYS cried at the finale of that first movie ("Life's like a movie/write your own ending/keep believing/keep pretending..."). One night about a dozen years ago, I met a new friend who immediately seemed like a soulmate. After several hours of conversation, I said to him, unironically, "There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met." He got a look in his eyes and raced back to his bedroom and returned with the framed lyric from "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday," Gonzo's song which I had just quoted.
Needless to say, I have always felt a deep, deep connection to the Muppets. When Jim Henson died, I was devastated, but never more so than the TV special several years later where the Muppets were looking for Kermit. In the last moments of that special, he entered and spoke for the first time without Jim Henson's voice and i bawled like a baby.
Tonight sitting in the theatre watching "The Muppets" I was very glad that i had extra napkins, because I relied on them frequently: When Kermits photo wall had a picture of him in Jim's arms; when the cast started backing up Kermit and Piggy on an ensemble version of "Rainbow Connection," and just about a dozen other times.
I AM the target audience for "The Muppets." The running theme of this movie involves trying to recapture the magic that the gang used to have. In some subtle way, they're saying "Back in the 70's, we knew what we were doing. Since Jim died, we've been floundering. We sold ourselves to some German company, and they sold us to Disney, and neither of them had figured out what made us so special back in the days of The Muppet Show." And they'd be right. But I can tell you what made them so special:
The Muppets have ALWAYS referenced a kinder, simpler time. In the 1970's, we were at war in Vietnam, we were in the middle of a crumbling recession, national pride was in the toilet, our government was floundering. There's a great joke where Kermit pulls out his rolodex and tries to call President Carter. Well, the Muppet Show was always vaudeville, in the 1970's a throwback to the 20's, today a throwback to the colorful halcyon days of the 1970's. We've let things get too serious again. We've forgotten that when we all work together, we can accomplish miracles. When I ran for Empress, I used the platform of "Community, Camp and Collaboration." What are the Muppets if not a shining beacon of all three of those concepts?
Let's learn from new muppet Walter (who can be a manly muppet, while his brother can be a muppetish man). We can accomplish amazing things if we just try. Let's learn from Kermit and Piggy, who look at each other like Amanda and Elyot in Private Lives and realize that while they may occasionally make each other miserable, they have a love that can survive ages. Let's look at Gonzo, who although he is a rich and famous plumber, still wears The Great Gonzo's jumpsuit under his pinstripes. Let's learn from Scooter, who within a beat changes from "I don't go onstage!" to the host of the Muppet Telethon. And let's learn from the producers of "The Muppets," who although they kept Rowlf (as the true alter-ego of Jim Henson) silent for years, brought him back as if to say, "Jim's spirit, his laugh-at-ourselves-first perspective and his sense that we ALL fit in, even as we are all individuals" was missing, but it's back.
I'm still emotional from having seen this movie, and that may be silly. But it's making me reconnect with a more colorful time when we all worked together, when we all problem-solved our way out of crisis, and when we all put on rose-colored glasses, not because we were naive, but because the world was a little bit prettier that way.
I AM the target audience for "The Muppets"...but so are you. And so are we all.
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New agreement makes CATA free on campus for MSU students, staff and faculty
by: Megan Schellong
East Lansing — Getting around the MSU campus will continue to be accessible in years to come.
In a new agreement between Michigan State University and Capital Area Transit Authority (CATA), MSU students faculty and staff will have free access to the on-campus bus system for the next coming years. The agreement is specific to on-campus rides only.
Since the complimentary service began last year in its first test phase, studies found campus ridership increased by approximately 40%.
“Last year’s trial of providing free bus service to routes on campus proved very successful and extremely popular,” sMSU President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said. “Providing safe, convenient and efficient transportation options for students, faculty and staff is a top priority for MSU’s mobility planning. CATA provides a reliable bus system throughout the year, in any weather.”
The newly proposed service agreement will expire on June 30, 2021. The service is funded through the university’s general fund.
During this time period, free rides will continue during weekdays, including routes 30, 31, 32, 33, 38 and 39; and weekend service on routes 34, 35 and 36. Additionally, as of August 2018, CATA has been offering bus service during summer, spring and winter breaks on route 32, which serves Ramp 1, the MSU Auditorium, Snyder-Phillips, the Clinical Center and Lot 89. MSU and CATA may make service adjustments from semester to semester as they see fit.
CATA has been serving the MSU campus for 20 years — since April 1999.
In addition to the new agreement, some bus stops will include new solar-powered lighting, a feature made possible by a $25,000 Ford Motor Company donation. The lights will improve safety and students’ awareness of their surroundings as well as make bus riders more visible to CATA operators.
Those who are looking to take rides off-campus will have to pay an extra fee, as the agreement only includes on-campus rides.
by The Associated Press, By JILL COLVIN and ALEXANDRA JAFFE / Jan 15, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has called his soon-to-be successor Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
It’s the first known contact between the elected members of the outgoing and incoming administrations. President Donald Trump has not reached out to President-elect Joe Biden or invited him to the White House, and has instead spent the weeks since he lost the Nov. 3 election holed up at the White House, trying to undermine the legitimacy of Biden’s win with baseless claims of mass voter fraud that culminated in last week’s violent storming of the Capitol building.
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Bill seeks extended safety netting at all Ohio pro ballparks
Updated: 1:52 PM EST Jan 27, 2020
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An Ohio state lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday requiring all major and minor league baseball teams in the state to install protective netting from foul pole to foul pole.State Rep. John Patterson introduced his bill in response to concern from a constituent blinded in one eye by a hard-hit foul ball, The Columbus Dispatch reported.Dina Simpson, 46, has been pushing for the change since her injury in 2017.She was sitting along the third-base line with her family at a Lake County Captains game outside Cleveland when she was struck in the eye by a line drive. She suffered a concussion, a broken nose and a broken orbital bone. She has been told by doctors that her right eye is permanently blinded.“I’m thankful I took the hit and not my son,” said Simpson, who was sitting with her 4-year-old when she was struck.The Captains, a Single A farm club for the Cleveland Indians, extended netting to the end of the dugouts before the 2018 season.The legislation from Patterson, a Geauga County Democrat, would require pole-to-pole netting be installed by the 2021 season. No additional protection would be required in front of the outfield bleachers.Similar safety concerns have arisen elsewhere in the country. A 2-year-old girl sitting on her grandfather’s lap at a Houston Astros game last season was struck by a foul ball, causing a fractured skull and permanent brain damage, an attorney for the girl's family said.Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced in December that protective netting at every park must extend “substantially beyond the end of the dugout.” He said seven teams will have netting from foul pole to foul pole. The Cincinnati Reds have cited structural issues for not expanding netting the foul poles at Great American Ball Park. A team spokesman said netting will stretch significantly past each dugout.The Cleveland Indians will be extending netting at Progressive Field this season but have not said how far. An announcement is expected by the end of the month.The Columbus Clippers, the Indians' AAA affiliate, have pledged to extend netting to the foul poles for the upcoming season at Huntington Park.No additional protection would be required in front of outfield bleachers.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
An Ohio state lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday requiring all major and minor league baseball teams in the state to install protective netting from foul pole to foul pole.
State Rep. John Patterson introduced his bill in response to concern from a constituent blinded in one eye by a hard-hit foul ball, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Dina Simpson, 46, has been pushing for the change since her injury in 2017.
She was sitting along the third-base line with her family at a Lake County Captains game outside Cleveland when she was struck in the eye by a line drive. She suffered a concussion, a broken nose and a broken orbital bone. She has been told by doctors that her right eye is permanently blinded.
“I’m thankful I took the hit and not my son,” said Simpson, who was sitting with her 4-year-old when she was struck.
The Captains, a Single A farm club for the Cleveland Indians, extended netting to the end of the dugouts before the 2018 season.
The legislation from Patterson, a Geauga County Democrat, would require pole-to-pole netting be installed by the 2021 season. No additional protection would be required in front of the outfield bleachers.
Similar safety concerns have arisen elsewhere in the country. A 2-year-old girl sitting on her grandfather’s lap at a Houston Astros game last season was struck by a foul ball, causing a fractured skull and permanent brain damage, an attorney for the girl's family said.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced in December that protective netting at every park must extend “substantially beyond the end of the dugout.” He said seven teams will have netting from foul pole to foul pole.
The Cincinnati Reds have cited structural issues for not expanding netting the foul poles at Great American Ball Park. A team spokesman said netting will stretch significantly past each dugout.
The Cleveland Indians will be extending netting at Progressive Field this season but have not said how far. An announcement is expected by the end of the month.
The Columbus Clippers, the Indians' AAA affiliate, have pledged to extend netting to the foul poles for the upcoming season at Huntington Park.
No additional protection would be required in front of outfield bleachers.
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Wolves And Council Announce Special Event
Wolves supporters will be able to celebrate a sensational return to the Premier League on Bank Holiday Monday, 7th May, in a special event organised by the club and the City of Wolverhampton Council.
The event will give staff and players at the club the opportunity to thank supporters, and the city, for its tremendous support throughout the season, and show off the famous Sky Bet Championship trophy that was clinched with yesterday's 4-0 win over Bolton Wanderers.
Further details for the event will be released in due course on Wolves’ channels, so please stay tuned to wolves.co.uk for more information.
Keith Ireland, the City of Wolverhampton Council's Managing Director, said: "It is brilliant that Wolves will be back playing in the promised land of the Premier League once again next season, and are going up as champions.
“This is great news not only for the club and their incredible fans, but for the City of Wolverhampton as a whole, and we are looking forward to celebrating their fantastic achievements on 7 May."
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What's on Netflix > Netflix News > This Week on Chelsea (July 13th – July 15th)
This Week on Chelsea (July 13th – July 15th)
by Kasey Moore @kasey__moore on July 16, 2016, 2:43 pm EST
A recap of all of the events that happened on this weeks three new episodes of the Netflix talk show Chelsea. This week, we get an extra long episode as Chelsea explores Mexico as well as some superb guests including the ex-president of Mexico, Bill Maher and Charlize Theron.
Vincente Fox & All Things Mexico
Wednesday July 13th
In a special extended episode of Chelsea (probably to make up for the past few weeks only having two episodes a week) Chelsea sets out to discover all things about Mexico. She travels to Mexico City to meet up with Diego Luna who is starring in the upcoming Star Wars movie Rogue One. He’s also starred in Elysium, The Book of Life and the 2004 Dirty Dancing remake. They tour Mexico City seeing the sights and sounds.
Other guests throughout the episode included Eva Longoria, former president of Mexico Vincente Fox.
We also explore bull fighting a controversial subject for many and if you don’t know why it’s controversial, then take a watch of this episode although discretion is advised.
Charlize Theron & Convention Fever
Thursday July 14th
Thursdays episode began with the segment I probably hate about the show the most, the two writers in front of a television screen segment. They pick up where they left off with the whole Summer Redstone debacle. Skip to 9:30 if you’d rather pass over this – we recommend it.
The big guest this episode is Charlize Theron who talks about her new animation movie, starring in Mad Max and her charity work. We have a sit down with Puerto Ricans about the upcoming general election and a talk to MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff.
Bill Maher & Dirty Water Polo
We hear about Chelsea’s vacation and more Donald Trump bashing. The HBO host and political commentator Bill Maher drops by to talk about his upcoming show covering the DMC and RNC conventions. We have an in-depth talk with a former police chief talking with Bill Maher about the recent police shooting and events that took place in Dallas. This is probably one of the best interviews I’ve seen so far, you’re drawn into the interview and forget you’re watching a TV show.
The second half of the show is taken up by Olympic Water Polo athlete and sports columnist, a definite change of pace.
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Musician celebrates diversity in blind community
Cancelled virtual concert won't stop Precious Perez from spreading her message
Kevin Perrington-Turner
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Before COVID-19 cancelled almost everything, musician Precious Perez was ready to hit the stage for an April 19 event initially aimed to be the celebration of National Volunteer Week for an event called “Beats for Braille.”
Sponsored by the National Braille Press, 17 blind musicians were going to share their stories and entertain in a virtual concert and leading the event was Perez.
In hopes of bringing awareness to Braille literacy, the Medford resident worked tirelessly to bring the event together. She was able to contact young musicians from all over the country for the event. Being that she is blind herself, Perez’s love for music began at an early age.
“I was born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts,” said the former Berklee College of Music student. “I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 6 years old. I had been gifted a Barbie karaoke machine, and I would sing along to songs on the radio or to all the music my mom surrounded me with, everything from Mariah Carey to Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys.”
Growing up not being able to see, Perez was still heavily influenced by her environment which she implemented in her music.
“I was brought up around pop, r&b, hip-hop, reggae and everything in between," she said. "I’m Puerto Rican. So another huge influence was all styles of Latin music: artists like Daddy Yankee, Jerry Rivera, and Elvis Crespo.”
She also mentioned Taylor Swift being her biggest influence on her songwriting. After getting over some shyness, she became more serious with music as she got older. Her influence and love for music allowed Perez to go places after high school.
“I delved more into musical endeavors in high school,” she said. “I received a full scholarship to the Handel and Hayden Society’s Vocal Arts Program, which allowed me to take four years of private lessons at the New England Conservatory along with participating in the Chorus of Sopranos and Altos.”
Perez always knew she wanted to pursue music after high school. Thanks to some help from a teacher, she was able to gain a new skill.
“My teacher of the visually impaired, Janey Ulwick-Sacca, learned Braille music so she could teach it to me, because she knew I would need it in the future” said Perez.
In fall of 2016, Perez enrolled at Berkeley College of Music in Boston with a double-major in music education and vocal performance. While there, she became busy exploring and learning.
“I released my first album produced by Doug Batchelder at the Den Studios in North Reading, with Pete Pappavaselio as executive producer in that same year,” she said. “And I studied abroad in Valencia, Spain which inspired my latest EP that was released last July.”
Despite all of the odds stacked up against her, Perez still found a passion that drives her. She urged everyone to work for what they want.
“Everyone has to work for what they have," she said. "As a first generation Hispanic blind woman with diagnosed anxiety, that process can be 10 times harder.”
“I was born with retinopathy of prematurity, which is the condition that caused my blindness,” said the musician. “I was raised by my mom to be strong and independent. She always knew that no matter what, I would be treated like anyone else.”
Perez expressed the biggest issue she had to face growing up. Both as an artist and a blind women, she still struggles with those obstacles day-to-day.
“I represent multiple minorities, but the biggest obstacles I've faced have been related to my blindness,” said Perez. “The music industry is difficult enough being an up-and-coming artist. When you add in the fact that I look different, and that I do things differently, opportunities can be limited not by myself, but by the perception of others. I've faced a lot of rejection, and I've dealt with being told that I'm not capable.”
However, with the obstacles of being a up-and-coming artist, Perez is optimistic. She's positive and uses each challenge as a way to grow.
“Ultimately, I see obstacles as challenges and tests, because I know that they will only make me stronger in the end. I know my worth, and I know my value," she said. "If someone doesn't see it, then that's not who I need to be working with.”
Perez is a Latina women that had to work for everything. Knowing that, she values her experiences and shares them with others. Although the virtual concert didn’t happen, that doesn’t stop Perez from giving back to her neighborhood.
“I strongly believe that I am here exactly the way I am to use my platform to better the world, and to lift up and represent all of my communities. Giving back is what fuels me,” she said.
Perez said the importance of the National Braille Press and the impact it had on her life.
“The National Braille Press is a wonderful organization, and Braille is something that I cannot live without,” she said. “Braille is literacy for myself and blind people everywhere, so when I was asked to pull together blind musicians for this virtual concert, of course I did not hesitate to reach out to a few of my talented friends.”
She also advocated for the musicians who may have a disability. Advising people to look passed what they see and instead listen to the music.
“There are so many wonderful blind musicians, and I knew I couldn't ask every single one, but I really wanted to shed light on some people who may not be as well-known or have the opportunity to perform often,” she said.
Perez not only wished to push people from her community and those who look like her, she also wants to shed light on all musicians and those with similar backgrounds.
“I wanted to lift up the people I know and love and show them that they are musicians, whether they pursue it full-time or not,” she said.
The event was not able to happen on the day scheduled. However, the Perez wanted to show others the importance in Braille and the impact that it has. She also gave credit to the group that sponsored the event.
“This event highlights the significance of braille and the crucial work that the National Braille Press does," she said. "I'm extremely honored to be a part of it."
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Economist magazine calls for soldier MPs to lead UK
Julie Hyland
The Bagehot notebook in the Economist has urged the rise of a “new generation of soldier-statesman” as “politicians steeled in war are well placed to unite a divided country.”
The Economist was founded in 1843 to agitate for the repeal of the Corn Laws (import tariffs) and was described by Karl Marx as the “aristocracy of finance.” Its column is named after Walter Bagehot, editor of the Economist between 1861-1877, banker, journalist and British constitutional expert and is written in Bagehot’s name. Currently authored by Adrian Wooldridge, it is considered a must read on British politics.
The August 30 edition begins, “Whenever it has been confronted with crisis in the past, Britain has summoned up leaders worthy of the challenge. Yet today it faces the crisis of Brexit [British exit from the European Union] without any leaders who deserve the name.”
Prime Minister Theresa May has “dithered,” while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has “been on the wrong side of most of the serious arguments in post-war history.” Boris Johnson, May’s likely challenger as leader of the Conservative Party, “is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving.”
It is not only the current crop of leaders that earn Bagehot’s disdain. Those like Tony Blair and David Cameron, “who slithered from Oxbridge to the cabinet while barely making contact with the public,” have compounded the “growing problem of trust in leadership in general,” he writes.
Bagehot does not examine the causes behind this state of affairs—the huge growth of social inequality, the monopolisation of all aspects of life by the financial oligarchy, and the resulting putrefaction and disintegration of bourgeois democracy. Rather, he holds out as an example to be aspired to, “John McCain, America’s great soldier-statesman,” whose death, he writes, “is a reminder that Britain has another model of leadership to turn to: politicians who experienced the real world in the sharpest way possible before going into politics, but who are temperamentally sceptical of political dogma.”
The WSWS has analysed the outpouring of “moral hypocrisy, cant and myth-making surrounding the death of Republican Senator John McCain” by the Democrat and Republican apparatuses. The elevation of one of the most vociferous proponents of US military aggression into a political secular saint is bound up with the factional conflict within the US ruling class over foreign policy—especially against Russia. Its overarching objective is to overcome “the ‘Vietnam Syndrome,’ i.e., mass popular hostility to military interventions” to prepare the political climate for an even greater explosion of US violence.
The eulogising of the neo-con warmonger was also a phenomenon in Britain and for similar reasons.
In the final analysis, the Brexit referendum and the vote to leave the European Union expressed the centrifugal pressures tearing apart the capitalist world order and the turn to nationalist reaction by the powers-that-be to direct class tensions outwards.
Britain’s political class is at one another’s throats over the result and its consequences, but no faction—Leave or Remain—offers any progressive solution to this crisis. All are committed to austerity and war, with their differences over how best to pursue this—from within the European Union or directly against it.
Bagehot posits “soldier-statesman” as those best placed to overcome these divisions and unite the nation. They are in a unique position, he writes, “to solve the biggest problem facing the country: the growing social divisions between the elite and the masses, the provinces and the capital, and indeed, between Brexiteers and Remainers. This is not just because they have access to a language of patriotism that is denied to people who have not risked their lives in combat. It is because they are probably the only members of the leadership class who have lived cheek by jowl, day in day out, with people from every class of society.”
“Politics was defined by soldier-statesman for much of the post-war era,” he writes wistfully, citing Clement Attlee and Harold Macmillan (First World War) and Edward Heath and James Callaghan (Second World War), a “tradition [that] faded in peacetime ...”
That the tradition “faded” is due, in no small part, to widespread opposition to militarism, which had embroiled the globe in two world wars, and witnessed the horror of mass slaughter, fascism and the decimation of European Jewry.
However, Bagehot celebrates that the tradition of solider-statesman is “now being renewed, after a succession of wars in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.” He gives as an example the uptick in the number of former soldiers turned MPs, of which there are now 52 of the 2016 intake, the overwhelming majority in the Tory Party—48 Conservatives, compared to three Labour MPs and two Democratic Unionists.
Bagehot name-checks Tories Tom Tugendhat (Iraq/Afghanistan), Adam Holloway (Iraq), Johnny Mercer (Afghanistan) and Rory Stewart (Iraq/Afghanistan), along with Labour’s Clive Lewis and Dan Jarvis (Afghanistan).
“Perhaps the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq will help to produce a new type of one-nation politics that can bring Britain back together after the shocks of the financial crisis and Brexit,” he opines.
The fact that these were illegal ventures, commissioned by war criminals and that they were opposed by millions of people is not referenced, and for good reason. The British equivalent of “Vietnam Syndrome” is the 2003 Iraq war. The outright lies and scheming by Tony Blair’s Labour government, in concert with the military-intelligence services, to justify the US-led invasion had such an impact on political consciousness that parliament was forced to veto military intervention against Syria in 2013.
This has not prevented covert British military action, but this is insufficient under conditions in which Brexit risks not only Britain’s position in Europe and, with it, its principal use-value for Washington, but the undermining of its role within NATO, i.e., the essential mechanisms through which it maintained a global political and military clout in the post-war period despite the loss of Empire. It acquires greater urgency given that the target of British and US aggression is no longer only largely defenceless, semi-colonial countries in the Middle East but Russia and China, both nuclear powers.
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Bagehot’s political concerns were amplified in his subsequent column, September 6, on “Britain’s equilibrium of incompetence.” It was previously “common for one of Britain’s great parties to be in crisis when the other is in clover,” he notes. Today, however, “Britain is currently witnessing something unusual: both its main parties are in crisis at the same time, divided over their future direction, racked by factional fights and worried about leadership challenges.”
“The two main parties are incompetent as well as divided” and “The cabinet and shadow-cabinet are stuffed with hangers-on.” With the UK set to quit the EU on March 29, 2019—just six months away—options are dwindling.
With an eye to plans by sections of the Tories and the Labour right to form a new so-called centre-right party committed to preventing a government led by Jeremy Corbyn and dedicated to overturning Brexit, Bagehot warns, “The British system makes it difficult for a new party to get off the ground.”
The right-wing split off from Labour in 1981—the Social Democratic Party— “won enough votes to shore up [Margaret] Thatcher,” he writes, “but not enough to win significant representation in parliament.” Efforts to emulate it today would still mean Britain “leaving the European Union without a plan or a parachute.”
For Bagehot, the turn to solider-statesman raises the possibility of overcoming “the problem of partisanship by instinctively reaching across party lines.” His August 30 column specifically cites how Conservative MP “Tugendhat points out that he has a personal bond with [Labour’s] Mr. Jarvis, with whom he served in Afghanistan, that transcends political divisions.”
In 2016, Tugendhat and Jarvis were promoted as the two “Afghan veterans” who—despite representing supposedly opposing parties—were once again fighting side by side in favour of Remain in the Brexit referendum. Both made NATO and the war drive against Russia central to their support. Jarvis said that a vote to quit the EU would be a “gift to Putin,” as “NATO plays a big role in our national security” and would be “weakened if Britain leaves the EU.” Tugendhat argued that Britain’s position in the EU was critical “for the security of our allies.” “Today, under pressure from growing Russian expansionism, our friends are again under threat,” he wrote.
Tugendhat is a rising Tory star and serves as chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, in which capacity he has demanded a stepping up of British action against Russia and has condemned supposed British “inaction” in Syria as opening the way for Russia and Iran to intervene. Just days ago, the Spectator ran a flattering interview with the former lieutenant colonel under the heading “[T]he next Tory leader should be from my generation,” in which he was clearly speaking of himself.
Jarvis opposed Corbyn in both Labour leadership challenges and voted in favour of military air strikes on Syria in 2015. In April, he announced he would run for the position of Sheffield city mayor and would retain his parliamentary seat if he won. He faced down objections to his “unfair and undemocratic” pronouncement, winning the backing of Labour’s National Executive Committee. He won the mayoralty. He is part of the “Spirit of Britain” group, alongside the likes of Stephen Kinnock, who has played a lead role in the attempts to remove Corbyn and who is now promoting the values of “localism, community, patriotism, pragmatism” as an alternative to the “Hard Left’s” criticism of NATO and capitalism.
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Netherlands: 10,000 protest pro-corporate government policies
Harm Zonderland
On Saturday, November 10, 10,000 people protested against the pro-corporate policies of the liberal-conservative government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD), which has been in power for a year. The government has already lowered corporate taxes, and is about to increase taxes on basic supplies, such as foodstuffs and medicine. One particular plan sparked most public outrage: the abolition of dividend taxes, a handout of 1.9 billion euro to shareholders.
The demonstration on the “Dam” square in Amsterdam was organised by the trade union federation FNV and its Christian counterpart CNV. FNV chairman Han Busker (annual salary: slightly over 100,000 euro) delivered the opening speech. He declared, “We're not going to stand for this. We do not accept that the money is spent on the companies and the rich, but not on the people. We do not accept that banks are bailed out, but hospitals are allowed to go bankrupt.”
Recently, in the course of just three days, five hospitals and a labour clinic went bankrupt. Patients were moved out and relocated, which led to at least one life-threatening situation.
“Just a month ago, the government thought it was a good idea to abolish dividend taxes. We, together, protested and this ridiculous idea was off the table,” Busker claimed.
This is, in fact, a lie. The tax handout was included in the coalition agreement of Rutte’s government on the behest of a lobby of influential Dutch companies, such as Shell Oil, foodstuffs giant Unilever, medical and electrical equipment maker Philips, plus the employers’ organisation VNO-NCW. Prime Minister Rutte, who felt “with every fiber in his body” that this was the right thing to do to create the right “climate” for multinationals to settle and bring in jobs, strongly supported it.
As it turned out, many foreign shareholders were not too concerned about paying a small tax on their stock profits, which were still enormous. The American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands (AmCham) announced that a deal exists between the US and the Netherlands that exempts US shareholders of American companies operating in the Netherlands from paying the dividend tax.
Finally the dividend tax remained, not because of the unions, but because Unilever, one of the multinationals that lobbied for its abolition, announced that it has cancelled its plans to move its headquarters from England to the Netherlands. The issue was “reconsidered” within the coalition, and then dropped.
Later in his speech, Busker acknowledged that it was not public outrage which changed Rutte’s mind, but simply a “text message from the CEO of Unilever.”
Living conditions for ordinary workers have drastically deteriorated under Rutte, who has been Dutch prime minister for eight years at the head of shifting coalitions of parties. Nowhere else has the number of “flexible” temporary contracts increased as much as in the Netherlands.
Since 2008, there has been a shortage of 10,000 new homes and apartments every year. In the northern province of Groningen, houses are literally shaken apart by earthquakes, which increase in frequency and intensity due to natural gas extraction. Earlier this year, a secretive deal between the state tax service and Shell, which exploits the gas fields, was exposed. Apparently, Shell was able to avoid paying dividend taxes since 2005.
These policies are responsible for growing social inequality. The wealthiest 10 percent of the Dutch population control 68 percent of Dutch wealth, which totals 726 billion euro. The poorest 10 percent have a combined debt of 65 billion euro.
This assault on the working class will continue. Corporate taxes, which now stand at 25 percent for large companies and 20 percent for small to medium-sized companies, will be reduced gradually to 20.5 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Company directors will see a tax cut on corporate loans. Investments in research and development will also be taxed less.
Furthermore, starting in 2021, some 200 million euro will be allocated annually towards reducing the cost of labour. This might include cuts to social security benefits or holiday and Christmas bonuses. All these measures total up to about 1.9 billion euro, the same sum the abolition of dividend tax would have cost.
A new labour law reform has also been presented. Permanent contracts can now be ended on many minor pretexts. Many previous criteria protecting workers have been scrapped. Moreover, the temporary contracts can now be extended over three years instead of two years.
The demonstration on Dam square was followed by a protest-march through the city towards the Museum square, where it ended after a brief closing speech by a union official.
It was a trade union show from start to finish, a rally to boost the position of the trade unions. It was an attempt to channel popular opposition against the government’s pro-corporate policies behind the nationalist, social-democratic, dead-end perspective of the trade unions.
The trade unions will never challenge class relations, because their comfortable position at the negotiating tables ensures them a good share of the spoils. With their nationalist approach, trade unions seek to divide the international working class, in order to prevent workers from uniting with their brothers and sisters from abroad and find strength in their massive numbers.
FNV chairman Han Busker, in his opening speech, appealed many times to the government to pursue a more social-democratic instead of a neo-liberal policy. But social democracy today is a nationalistic dead end, abolishing all the social reforms of the past.
During the protest march, many people voiced concern and anger over the government’s spending of taxpayer money on companies and international shareholders. “The entire parliament has shifted towards the right-wing. There are no ‘left-wing’ parties anymore,” is a much-heard critique.
The social-democratic labour party PvdA was decimated in last year’s national election, losing 29 seats in parliament. GroenLinks (Green Left) is neither green nor left, and the Socialist Party (SP) has linked their social demagogy with attacks on immigrants.
Most of those on the demonstration had still some faith in the trade unions, and thought that the government will eventually listen to the public, if these demonstrations grow in frequency and proportion.
A janitor at a public school, who has a minor disability, told the WSWS that he is paid according to his productivity. His wage is below the legal minimum and is supplemented by the social-welfare institution UWV, towards the minimum income. “What is a minimum-wage good for, if employers can find a way around and still pay you less?” he asked.
Max, a young chef who works at a restaurant in the southern province of Zeeland, said that he is participating in the demonstration because the government works for big business, not the people. Max said that Dutch politics was shifting to the right, even to the extreme right, and that workers need an “extreme left party” to counter that. One of his thoughts was that a state-funded, basic income would be a great first step towards income equality, so people could really develop their talents and pursue their interests.
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LEADING OFF: Pads upgrade ‘pen, Mets-Yanks play 2 again
FILE – In this July 25, 2020, file photo, Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Trevor Rosenthal delivers in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. The San Diego Padres acquired Rosenthal in a trade with the Royals on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, bolstering their bullpen for their pursuit of their first playoff appearance in 14 years. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
A look at what’s happening around the major leagues Sunday:
Trevor Rosenthal’s bounce-back season has put him in the middle of a playoff race. The San Diego Padres acquired the reliever from Kansas City on Saturday for outfielder Edward Olivares and a player to be named.
The Padres, trying for their first postseason appearance in 14 years, thought their bullpen would be a strength this season after they traded for Emilio Pagán and signed Drew Pomeranz in free agency. But it has been hit hard by injuries, losing closer Kirby Yates for the rest of the season because of an inflamed right elbow.
The 30-year-old Rosenthal has a 3.29 ERA and seven saves after struggling with injuries and poor performance in recent years. He could join the Padres in time for their game against Colorado at Coors Field.
SUBWAY SERIES
The Yankees and Mets are set for their second seven-inning doubleheader in three days to make up games postponed last weekend at Citi Field after a Mets player and a coach tested positive for the coronavirus. The Mets will be the “home” team at Yankee Stadium in the second game, just as they were Friday when Amed Rosario hit a walkoff home run in his road grays.
The Yankees will let prized pitching prospect Deivi Garcia make his major league debut starting one of the games, and right-hander Michael King (1-1, 6.59 ERA) will start the other. The Mets plan to start righty Rick Porcello (1-4, 6.43 ERA) and converted closer Seth Lugo (1-2, 2.03).
Tampa Bay’s lead in the AL East is not a healthy one. Left-hander Ryan Yarbrough became the 11th Rays pitcher since the start of summer camp to be sidelined with an injury when he went on the 10-day injured list Saturday because of left groin tightness.
The Rays have maintained their grip on the division lead as the Yankees battle their own injury woes. Blake Snell, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner, is one of the regulars remaining on the staff and gets the ball against the Marlins and right-hander Sandy Alcantara (1-0, 1.35).
HOLT JOLT
The Washington Nationals are hoping Brock Holt can give them a boost down the stretch. The defending World Series champs signed the longtime Boston utilityman before their game at Fenway Park.
Holt got a $3.25 million, one-year deal with Milwaukee in the offseason. He was cut by the Brewers a few days ago after hitting just 3 for 30 (.100).
Holt was a popular player with the Red Sox and helped them win the 2018 World Series. That year, he became the only player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game.
The Nationals had the second-worst record in the NL when they made the move to get Holt, but were only a couple games out of the expanded playoff field. They made the move with infielder Starlin Castro expected to miss the rest of the season with a broken wrist.
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'The show must go on' in Sandusky, as a high school musical is animated online for all to see
Sandusky Central Catholic School's music director had his student cast record their parts, and he animated the entire musical to post online.
Author: Jonathan Monk
Published: 6:02 PM EDT June 19, 2020
Updated: 6:46 PM EDT June 19, 2020
SANDUSKY, Ohio — For many highschoolers, the annual high school musical is the highlight of the school year.
And one school district found a way to stick to the saying "The Show Must Go On", even during the current pandemic.
"When we went on break, we were going to start tech week that Monday. So were ready to go, we were practicing choreography," said Matt Hadsell, music director at Sandusky Central Catholic Schools.
When Matt Hadsell understood that his Sandusky Central Catholic Schools production of 'Hello My Baby' was not going to be performed on stage, he went back to work on his computer.
Matt found the animation website VYOND, and this music teacher began learning how to animate.
He then got all of his student cast members to record their parts from home, and from there it was all a matter of putting the show together as an animated movie.
"From their, it went into receiving audio via email from all of the students, and then we put that all together in a cartoon," said Hadsell.
Now, the fruition of all there work is now online as a two-hour cartoon featuring the voice over talents of the students.
And to make up the difference in lost admission, a Give Smart donation campaign has been launched online.
For the cast, especially for the graduating seniors who love performing on stage, it is a bittersweet end to their high school musical career; but they're happy people are still able to enjoy their work.
"Maybe sometimes music and arts. when something like this happens, COVID, might be some of the things that's easy to overlook. But we can still show people what we've done," said Abigail Grant, a graduated senior who says she has loved performing on stage since the 1st grade.
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Top 10 Best Schools in Saharanpur
Top 10 Best Schools in Saharanpur -
Finding best school for your child is a very important step towards children’s future .To make research easier for you Yayskool has brought the top 10 best schools in Saharanpur city. At Yayskool, we continuously try to make things easier for parents by providing them information about providing accurate information about schools with locations, top 10 schools, parenting tips, health and nutrition tips etc.
About Saharanpur:
Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district. Saharanpur is named after Shah Harun Chisti, a Sufi saint but was founded by Shah Ranveer Singh, a Jain nobleman who was a Mughal treasurer and is credited with laying the city foundations on the site of an army cantonment. The history of Saharanpur dates back to 2000 B.C. and archaeological sites have been unearthed throughout the adjoining area. It was part of the Indus Valley civilization and was later ruled by Aryan kings.
Apart from being a prominent agricultural hub, it has carved its own niche in the global arena of wood and handicraft production.
Here is the list of Top 10 Best Schools in Saharanpur for your convinience:
Brownwood Public School
Brownwood Public School is a boys, english medium, senior secondary school, affiliated with CBSE and located at Chilkana Road, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Address: Chilkana Road, Khatakheri, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Medium: English
Website: http://brownwoodschool.in
Asha Modern School
The school became functional on 1st July 1966 under the management of a Committee comprising of noted educationists and eminent personalities. Asha Modern School is the enterprise and endeavour of the Founder Principal and currently the Manager Miss Asha Jain who realized the need to provide meaningful education to a large number of children.
Address: Near Civil Court, Chander Nagar, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Website: http://ashamodernschool.in
Euro kids
Euro kids Preschool is a co-education, english medium, pre-school school, affiliated with STATE BOARD and located at Kamal Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Address: Kamal Colony, Delhi Road. Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001,
Board: State Board
Website: https://www.eurokidsindia.com
St. Mary’s Academy, Saharanpur, is a minority educational institution, recognized by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institution Act 2004, covered under article 30 of the Constitution of India. All important decisions are taken by its Managing Committee. In its day-to-day affairs, the Academy is administered by the Manager and the principal. In urgent cases, their decision is final.
Address: Mission Compound, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Website: http://www.stmaryssaharanpur.org
Sophia Girls' Senior Secondary School
Sophia Girls Senior Secondary School is a girls, english medium, senior secondary school, affiliated with CBSE and located at Railway Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Address: Railway Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Website: http://www.sophiagirlsschoolsaharanpur.in
Infant Jesus School
Infant Jesus School, Saharanpur, is an educational institution providing education in science and commerce stream. Its building is located near Delhi road. In short known as IJS, the school is affiliated to I.S.C, New Delhi. The school is owned by the school principal, Ashish Dale.
Address: Vasant Vihar, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Board: ICSE
Website: NA
Lord Mahavira Academy
Lord Mahavira Academy is a co-education, english medium, senior secondary school, affiliated with CBSE and located at Chilkana Road, Hayat Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Website: http://www.lordmahaviraacademy.in
New Era Academy
New Era Academy is a co-education, english medium, senior secondary school, affiliated with CBSE and located at 62, Fita Road, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Address: 62, Fita Road, Kamal Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Gyankalash International School
Gyankalash International School is a co-education, english medium, senior secondary school, affiliated with CBSE and located at Near P & T Centre, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Address: Ambala Road, Near P & T Centre, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Little Angels School
Little Angels School is a co-education, english medium, play school, affiliated with STATE BOARD and located at Vishnudham Colony, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Address: Vishnudham Colony, Madho Nagar, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh 247001
Picking the right school for your child can be tricky and stressful. We hope that the compilation in this article helps you narrow-down your options. These are the school where we received most favourable reviews but it doesn't mean these are the only good school in Saharanpur. If you have an opinion about the list of Top 10 best schools in Saharanpur or any school which should be part of top 10 schools list, please write to us at [email protected]
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Adaptiv is an active camouflage technology developed by BAE Systems AB to protect military vehicles from detection by near infrared night vision devices. It consists of an array of hexagonal Peltier plates which can be rapidly heated and cooled to form any desired image, such as of the natural background or of a non-target object. In 2011, BAE Systems announced their Adaptiv infrared military camouflage technology, likening it to "a thermal TV screen". It uses about 1000 hexagonal panels to cover the sides of an armoured vehicle such as a tank or personnel carrier. Infrared cameras continuously gather thermal images of the vehicle's surroundings. The Peltier plate panels are rapidly heated and cooled to match either the temperature of the background, such as a forest, or one of the objects in the thermal cloaking system's "library" such as a truck, car or large rock. The system is able to gather and display thermal images while the vehicle is moving. The result is to "cloak" the vehicle from detection by heat-detecting night vision devices (thermographic camera systems). For crypsis, the panels can display an infrared image of the vehicle's background; this can be updated as the vehicle moves. For mimesis, an image of a chosen object, such as a car, can be retrieved from Adaptiv's library and superimposed on the background. The illustration shows Adaptiv mimicking a four wheel drive car, using part of the panel, while the rest of the panel is cryptic, imitating the natural background. The technology is said to reduce the range at which a vehicle would be detected to less than 500 metres. The panels forming Adaptiv's pixels are hexagons approximately 5.5 inches (14 cm) wide. They are robust, contributing to the armour of the vehicle that carries them. The system allows its operator to "grab" a thermal image from a vehicle or other object for display. Adaptiv was developed by BAE Systems AB's survivability programme at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, initially for Combat Vehi
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TCL unveils the company’s brand ambassador line-up featuring some of the world’s top football stars
BERLIN 3 September 2020
TCL, one of the world’s best-selling consumer electronics brands and leading technology companies, are proud to announce their partnership with six of the world’s top footballers as part of the company’s European brand ambassador program for the 2020/2021 football season in Europe.
TCL is a leader in display technologies who provides one of the best sports-watching experience and have been involved in sport partnerships for many years. It thus made sense for TCL to assemble a team of talents from all over Europe who come to reinforce the brand’s visibility in several communication actions and engage even further TCL community.
French midfielder, Paul Pogba, Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Polish forward, Krzysztof Piatek, England’s Football Captain, Harry Kane, Spanish midfielder, Saúl Ñíguez and German forward, Marco Reus will join the TCL brand ambassador program. These outstanding sporting talents were chosen to form one strong TCL team due to their fierce team spirit and dedication to achieving excellence, on and off the field but also because of their personal interest in technology. These players are the best in their field and each of them embodies the idea that every detail matters. Working with such talents and technology enthusiasts inspires TCL engineers to display this level of greatness, pushing the limits of what technology can do even further.
The partnerships will feature the ambassador team within TCL’s advertising campaigns both online and offline and will run until July 2021, comprising the entire 2021 EU football season for clubs and national teams.
“We are very excited to welcome six of the most talented footballers in the modern game with Paul Pogba, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Krzysztof Piatek, Harry Kane, Saul Ñíguez and Marco Reus as TCL brand ambassadors.TCL as one of the dominant players in the global TV industry and a leading consumer electronics company continue to provide users an intelligent life with innovative technologies”, said Kevin Wang, CEO of TCL Industrial Holdings. “Via this meshwork of activities, we can offer consumers affordable products that function flawlessly in conjunction with each other. Through the inclusion of these first-rate athletes, TCL is furthering our commitment to ‘Display Greatness’ via sport and anticipate that 2021 will be an exciting year with international competitions for both clubs and national European teams”
TCL’s product range is the ideal companion for sports and entertainment, thanks to the excellent image quality, and display expertise on all form factors, be it on TV´s, or TCL mobile devices. In addition to TCL's televisions and smartphones, other product categories are also included in the collaboration, from headsets and soundbars to home appliances. Each brand ambassador will create exclusive content with the brand to be shared across social media channels.
TCL Brand Ambassador Statements:
When questioned on the partnership, Paul Pogba responded: “I’m delighted to have this chance to partner with TCL, it’s great to be working side by side with a company that is dedicated to providing top-quality experiences for our supporters.”
Gianluigi Donnarumma further commented: “Playing a role as a TCL brand ambassador is a positive way to connect with sports fans, and I’m excited to have this chance to partner with a brand that puts excellence and outstanding quality above all else.”
Following on, Krzysztof Piatek stated: “TCL’s vision of displaying greatness in all things that we do falls in-line with my constant pursuit of excellence. It is a pleasure to be partnering with a company that is committed to providing exceptional encounters through sport.”
Speaking on the partnership, Harry Kane stated: “I am thrilled to be working alongside the TCL EU team. During these uncertain times, it’s great to be working with a brand that is committed to quality, excellence, and in delivering great, positive experiences for fans.”
In regards to his role as TCL brand ambassador, Saul Ñíguez asserts: "Happy and excited to begin this relationship with TCL! Together we will make it an exciting experience for consumers to live with family and friends, spreading the passion for sport. We hope you will join us in this exciting adventure, as great things are yet to come.”
Marco Reus also added: “I am looking forward to working with TCL - especially in these uncertain times, it is important to me to have a strong partner like TCL by my side and, despite everything, to spread the sporting spirit and positive energy.”
For further information on the TCL brand ambassador team, please visit:
Website: https://www.tcl.com/eu/en.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TCLEurope
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TCL_Europe
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcl_europe/
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TCLeuropemovies
About TCL Electronics
TCL Electronics (1070.HK) is one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer electronics companies and one of the world’s leading television and mobile device manufacturers. For nearly 40 years TCL has operated its own manufacturing and R&D centers worldwide, with products sold in more than 160 countries throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. TCL specializes in the research, development and manufacturing of consumer electronics ranging from TVs, mobile phones, audio devices and smart home products as part of the company’s “AI x IoT” strategy. For more information on TCL mobile devices, please visit: http://www.tcl.com/global/en.html.
Google, Android, Google Lens and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Watch Romance on the High Seas (1948) Online
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Busby Berkeley, Michael Curtiz
Actors: Don DeFore, Doris Day, Fortunio Bonanova, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017)
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are…
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could…
Genre: Comedy, Sport
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential…
Country: France, Germany, Japan, UK, USA
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had — a boy raised in…
Ashby (2015)
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads…
The Sixth Man
Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Sport
Doc Hollywood (1991)
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he’s sentenced to perform as the…
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1986)
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
This comedy, set in 1983 in small town Virginia, centers around a 13 year old and her family. The story of a hairstyle gone incredibly wrong and a young girl’s…
I Hate New Year’s (2020)
Rising music star Layne heads home to Nashville for New Year’s Eve to break her writer’s block, but sometimes you find inspiration – and love – where you least expect…
I Give It a Year (2013)
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette’s husband to find her.
Trailer: Romance on the High Seas (1948)
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US President Donald Trump with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office at the White House on June 20, 2017.
The BBC said in a statement Thursday that it had agreed to pay damages to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.
It all stemmed from a since-retracted report, published in May 2018, that alleged Poroshenko had paid attorney Michael Cohen $400,000 to secure access to President Donald Trump.
The BBC issued a statement announcing the damages and said it accepts its report was untrue.
Poroshenko’s lawyers had said the report caused their client “substantial distress and embarrassment.”
The BBC said, “We apologise to Mr Poroshenko for any distress caused.”
The BBC said it would to pay damages to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko to make amends for erroneously claiming in a report that he paid $400,000 to President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to secure access to the US president.
In a statement posted on its website, the BBC said the report featured in an online article published in May 2018 and in its 10 p.m. news broadcast in the UK.
The BBC admitted in the statement that it “incorrectly reported” that Petro Poroshenko “had procured or authorised a corrupt payment of $400,000 to be made to Michael Cohen.”
It reported that the payment was “to extend a brief meeting between Mr Poroshenko and President Trump, that had already been agreed, into more substantial talks.”
According to the now retracted report, Poroshenko had been able to secure only a handshake and few moments of small talk with Trump after his election, and wanted more time with him. Cohen testifies to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on February 27, 2019. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Business Insider reported on the BBC’s claim at the time.
Trump hosted Poroshenko at the White House for extended discussions in June 2018.
In September, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that Poroshenko’s lawyers had filed a libel action against the BBC over the story.
The lawyers said Poroshenko had been “seriously injured in his reputation and has been caused substantial distress and embarrassment.” They said the false claim was particularly damaging because of Poroshenko’s role in promoting anti-corruption measures in Ukraine.
The claim asserted that the BBC had “no evidence of any payment or secret talks” and that it “chose to publish this hugely serious and damaging allegation despite its journalists having been repeatedly told by those alleged to be involved that it was completely untrue, and that there had been no payment and no back-channel talks.”
In its statement, the BBC said it accepted allegation of the payment “was untrue.”
“We apologise to Mr Poroshenko for any distress caused and have agreed to pay him damages, legal costs and have participated in a joint statement in open court,” it said.
Poroshenko, who has been Ukraine’s president since 2014, is up for reelection in a national vote this weekend.
Cohen’s relationship with Trump has collapsed since last May, with the former attorney sentenced to three years in prison in December for campaign-finance violations and lying to Congress, and denouncing his former boss as a “liar” and “racist” in recent testimony to Congress.
Facing calls to resign from his Republican rivals, the chair of the US Congress’ house intelligence committee, Adam Schiff, responded by listing many of the ways the Trump campaign sought to cooperate with Russia.
All nine Republican members of the committee signed a letter calling for Mr Schiff’s “immediate resignation”. They said he had promoted a “demonstrably false narrative” by continuing to investigate the president’s ties to Russia.
It came after a four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report cleared Mr Trump’s presidential campaign of conspiring with Moscow and concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge the president with obstruction of justice.
The summary was written by Mr Trump’s hand-picked attorney general William Barr.
Republicans have since claimed the full report was a “complete exoneration” of Mr Trump, although on the issue of whether justice was obstructed, Mr Barr said the report says: “While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Despite their apparent support for their president, many appear reluctant to support making the full report public. Hundreds of pages long, it is thought to contain details of Trump campaign communications with Russian-linked individuals.
After Republican committee member Mike Conaway used the hearing to read the letter out, Mr Schiff hit back, launching a long monologue that began with a reference to a Trump Tower meeting in August 2016 attended by a number of Mr Trump’s campaign team.
Among those in attendance was Mr Trump’s son, Donald Jr and a Russian lawyer with links to the Kremlin.
“My colleagues may think it’s ok that the Russians offered dirt on a Democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as part of the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign. You might think that’s ok,” Mr Schiff said.
“My colleagues might think it’s ok when that was offered to the son of the president – who had a pivotal role in the campaign – that the president’s son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help. No instead that son said that he would ‘love’ the help of the Russians.”
Mr Schiff went on to list many of the other incidents of links with Russians or attempts to cooperate with them.
Among them was an offer by Mr Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, to give sensitive polling data to a man linked to Russian intelligence.
He also mentioned Mr Trump’s request to Russia during a campaign rally to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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Mr Bernard Hogan-Howe recently stated that victims of online fraud should not be refunded. It worries me that a man of your power and position is incapable of understanding that being safe from fraud is not just a case of updating your software. The biggest factor in any hack is the human factor. The attacker is specifically hoping to take advantage of a weakness, whether he may pretend to a relative of the victim, or targets an employee of the financial institute to bypass any protection procedures in place. It’s common knowledge that in order for a claim of fraud to go through, and to protect the bank from malicious users, banks must do everything to protect their customers, in this case it could mean asking for additional confirmation with unfamiliar transactions. The user also has to show there was no negligence, e.g. pins were covered. The banks should be the people trying to prevent the fraud happening in the first place. If somehow the user has committed fraud, does that not point to flaws in the detection of these crimes? If the banks did their job, they would be able to stop these transactions going through in the first place.
People get smarter, they learn from their mistakes. The same thing happens with criminals. Credit card fraud isn’t a small crime. It’s big, there are gangs making millions. Do you really think that your systems would stop them? They’ve been milking your financial institution for ages, yet not one company has looked at resolving fraudulent transactions, or at least looking at how to reduce them.
I know certain online payment methods ask for additional verification when completing transactions, so why can’t this be done for banks or online credit card payments? It’s not always the user that is at fault. No matter how good your software is, or how good you think you are with your personal information, these people have proven time after time that your virtual security does not mean anything. If they are able to find one weak link, especially a human one, then you never stood a chance in the first place. It’s not a case of just updating your systems, it’s about educating people on safe practices.
Use HTTPS, make sure the green padlock is there. Don’t use your information on sites which don’t have a good reputation, you’ll have no recourse. Look at additional safer methods to protect your card details, can you buy a gift card? Even in a case like this, what happens when the company themselves get breached, who protects the cardholders then?
“My broad point is that if you are continually rewarded for bad behavior you will probably continue to do it.”
These people aren’t doing this on purpose. Have you ever been a victim of fraud? Have you any idea how daunting it could be? Do you really think someone will be the victim of fraud twice through their own doing? They’ve been victims because it’s your own system that has failed them in the first place. If you looked after your customers information, encrypted them accordingly, you wouldn’t have breaches like the ones we’ve had that resulted in thousands of credit card details being leaked. If that information was encrypted, it wouldn’t even be a problem right now. Your systems get abused on a daily basis by these criminals and you want to shift the blame on the user? You can only do so much to educate the user, you can implement policies that protect both parties but at the of the day, the weak point in this chain is not the user, it’s the failure to detect these fraudulent transactions in the first place. I agree that if I was told that if I didn’t protect my PIN, if I’m hit by fraud then I am liable for charges.
The problem is, you’re assuming everyone is breached because of their own fault. Almost every single case of credit card fraud has happened because the people committing the crime have been smarter, they’ve been duped into handing over CC details on what they believed was secure communication lines, or they were just unlucky and got affected like the victims of the Target breach. As part of the police, your job is to provide the public with the tools so they can be more aware of these scams and learn to protect themselves better. The public look to you to provide them with the support they need, instead you tell them their pretty much on their own if they didn’t know. It’s not like these people are committing crimes when they get targeted, they’ve not been aware of what’s been happening to them. Do you know how credit cards get harvested? Either through breaches of cardholders, ie online stores, or when cards have been intercepted, ie, skimming. Neither of these were the customers fault so would you put the blame on them?
You should be making your ATMs more secure so criminals can’t install unauthorized devices and making mandatory regulations that anyone who holds certain information must be handling it securely. Failure to comply with those regulations and you get fined for endangering customers. The same way courier scams take advantage of the fact that a customer is not protected if he hands over his card and pin to anyone else, the fraudsters take advantage of weaknesses in your system. The courier scam victim would have to pay back all the losses, but why should they be held responsible if you allowed a stolen transaction to go through approval, despite the transaction appearing from a device that’s not familiar, or from a different location. These people get away with it because people let them. They take advantage of gift shipping options as to avoid conflicts with billing & shipping addresses, that’s not an issue with the people, it’s an issue with the system processing the payment. Credit card fraud happens because your own payment systems get abused and tricked. The same way Amazon protects me by asking me for my full credit card number, if I log in from another device or a different location, banks need to offer more protection, so just having a set of details doesn’t mean the abuser is always going to get away with it. Focus more on educating and preventing rather than shifting blame. It also helps if you look at the root cause of an issue rather than assuming you can update your systems and be safe, if that was the case, no one would be getting hacked.
SudoCC.org home/login page.
I came across this site being spammed on many forums, and I wanted to look into this further. What kind of criminal spams his illegal website on a public forum that is probably monitored by the respective authorities? Probably not a smart one so I wanted to see what I could dig up just from the website and free tools, usable by anyone.
Well the first thing I did was use a Firefox plugin called FlagFox. All I have to do is click the flag in the URL bar (which already shows the hosting country) and I get redirected to a site which shows a map, and the following details.
You can confirm these yourself by checking here:
http://geoip.flagfox.net/?ip=50.7.199.221&host=www.sudocc.org
So for starters, at least it’s not hosted in the US….so he’s safe…right?
So the next thing I did was look up the IP of the server hosting the content and were presented with the following information. So we can clearly see FDCservers.net is the host. We’ve also got the contact information for their abuse & support departments should we require them. Next step? Let’s visit the FDCServers AUP (Acceptable Use Policy Website.)
Uh oh…FDC Servers do NOT support illegal activities. ( http://fdcservers.net/aup.php ) FDC servers are also hosted in the US, so that means we have a hacker / vendor who is selling credit card and financial data on a US hosted smart…either we have a honeypot, someone very desperate or an idiot.
http://whois.domaintools.com/sudocc.org
What else can we do? Let’s check out the domain registrar. Finally, we’re seeing SOME sense. He’s enabled domain WHOIS privacy. Must be impossible to get busted from this right….
Well…let’s go and ask Gossimer.com what they think;
http://www.gossimer.com/tos.html
Nope…Gossimer isn’t having any of that either. So we have a vendor, who is selling the financial data, which is illegal and has a domain that is from a US based site which strictly prohibits the use of their services for such activities…and is hosted on a US based site.
Honeypot / It’s a tarp!
Desperate individual who cannot afford off-shore hosting?
An idiot.
If you’re going to enter the online cyber-crime world….at least do it properly.
IJJI.com Hacked.
Update – it seems like IJJI.com has been hacked about 4 times now, each by different groups. As of this update it directs to DXT gaming (http://dxtgaming.com/) All I can say is iJJi is getting owned pretty hard, you would think that they would have some sort of protection for such a sophisticated gaming network but instead they’ve left themselves vulnerable to many attacks. Let’s hope the sites DB or any personal information wasn’t extracted. Just goes to show not every site is safe from attack.
Had to post about this one. IJJI was hacked. Little information is out on who did it except that the website redirects to (http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=L3L0963Z) and quoted “Owned by n0ths hacker group.” Video below to prove it was real. (may still be processing)
Some are saying it was an ex-webmaster but nothing has been confirmed atm. Either way props to the group and hopefully this will be a lesson to Ijji to fix up their security.
Taking Back Hacker.
I thought it was about time I wrote this up. This post is in response to Omniscient’s post regarding Taking Back Hacker.
“I am sick of hearing how the term “hacker” means you’re a criminal. I’d like to start a serious campaign to spread the message that hackers are people that are computer enthusiasts using computers in unorthodox and creative ways. Hackers are people that think outside the box. Hackers learn to manipulate code, hardware, and software.
I think the time has come to undo the damage the media has done to the good name of hackers by slurring the term on the airwaves and damaging reputations everywhere.
Any good website will give multiple meanings for the term hacker. It was originally not intended to be criminals that use computers to commit crime. But now this is the public perception and it hurts all of us. I don’t see why I can’t be a proud hacker and have to hide it amongst friends as if it’s something shameful. “
This is my part in this campaign if you will. Firstly, I think the term hacking has been almost criminalised by the media. Nearly all of the time when hackers or any sort of hacking is mentioned in the media it is in a negative view. The rare times that it’s shown in a good light, it’s not very beneficial to the world, so most just dismiss it. This only shows one side of the story and shouldn’t act as a reference to the whole idea of a hacker. Hacking can be viewed in different ways, but firstly we must understand that they’re are different types of hackers.
White Hat Hackers.
These are the good guys. White Hat hackers are the angels of the computing world. They are people who use unorthodox and uncommon ways of protecting computers. Whilst most do not dabble in any sort of blackhat activity, many are skilled in (and some are ex blackhats) and have vast knowledge of how blackhats operate and the techniques they use. They can then use this knowledge to come up with a defence of their own.
Grey Hat Hackers.
Grey hat hackers are in the middle. They have knowledge of both black hat and white hat activities, however they can go either way. Some decide to protect themselves by using blackhat techniques against their attackers (eye for an eye mentality.) whilst others just choose to go either way whenever they feel like it. It really depends on the person.
Black Hat Hackers.
Black hat hackers exist simply to cause damage or do anything to get their own way. They will not give a second thought about causing damage or breaking into a system for their own needs.
So as you can see, there are many aspects to hacking then you originally think. The aim of hacking is not always to cause damage, but instead it can be used for various thing – protection, to gain more knowledge and even for fun and creativity.
As we have advanced into a new age, a new generation must arise. This is no different in the hacking community. Over the past few years (and even from the start in some cases) a new generation of so called hackers has arisen. The hacking community refers to these as script kiddies. Script kiddies (or skiddies.) are people who use tools created by legitimate hackers without having any idea what they do. A good example of this was David Lennon who used Avalanche – a mail bomber to email bomb his employer, which crashed the email servers (source.) Script kiddies often have no understanding of how things work, sometimes even leeching other’s work without credit. Then we move onto the hackers who think they are actually hackers because they use tools like RATs or hostbooters. I think I speak for the rest of the community when I say that they do not represent us as a whole. They have tarnished the name of hackers just because they can pay someone to set up a botnet for them and enter some simple commands.
If you’ve ever seen Hackers Wanted it sums up how I feel about this. The movie makes some good points, and some I agree with strongly. Society is based around conformity, you all answer to a higher authority – whether it be a boss, parent or even God. You all answer to someone. You all have some sort of job, go to school and conform in some sort of way. So when someone like a hacker breaks that conformity, society isn’t going to accept it nicely. As long as someone who breaks that conformity exists, society will always have someone to blame – and why’s that? Because they’re different. You wouldn’t blame them if they followed your way. However, what most people fail to realise is that if you don’t dare to break the current boundaries, you can’t ever expect to advance. Your just stuck inside your box, living the same way.
So the next time you decide to label a hacker, have a think. Some of them are the reason your living the way you are right now.
Bad Boys II – Vista Fix [Error During Babel Installation]
Below is just a back story. I felt in the typing mood so I thought why not. If you want the fix, just scroll down.
Recently I purchased a copy of Bad Boys II for the PC. I know. It’s a shit game, but I had some fun memories of playing the promotional copy that was given out about 12 years ago that I decided to buy a full copy. At first I tried to obtain it via “sources” but every time I attempted to play, I was greeted with the message “Error during babel installation”. I tried everything I knew at that time, various registry edits, checking for conflicts, reinstalling, searching Google and even the method I’m about to show you now. For some weird reason it works now, but didn’t seem to work back then. Anyway, I ended giving up on the game, coming to the conclusion that it probably wasn’t work because it was a copied game.
I then came across the game on eBay for about £1.99. I decided to buy it, hoping that it would work…and if it didn’t, oh well. Not much of a loss. I ordered the game and installed it. To my annoyance, it failed to work. I decided to contact the supplier of the game and I was told
“The issue is sometimes linked to the Graphics Controller Chipset. We would recommend that you check with the PC Manufacturers website and see if there is an updated driver for your Graphics Card. If there is then download and install the update. Also ensure you have the following resolution settings 1024 x 768 32 bit colour.
To change your screen resolution / colour settings Open Display in Control Panel.
Windows XP = To open Display, click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Display.
On the Settings tab, under Display Properties, drag the screen area slider to the required setting, and then click Apply.
A default setting of 1024 x 768 is a standard option to set this to. Also ensure that your colour quality is set to either highest 32bit or true colour 32 bit. When prompted to apply the settings, click OK. Your screen will turn black for a moment. Once your screen resolution changes, you have 15 seconds to confirm the change.
Click Yes to confirm the change; click No or do nothing to revert to your previous setting.
If this does not resolve the issue then the issue will be a compatibility problem with the Graphics Card and you will possibly not be able to resolve the problem.
Bad Boys II requires a 3d video card with at least 32Mb of memory that can display 16bit colour or better. The primary video card in your machine MUST have at least 32Mb of memory for Bad Boys II to run, the memory of any additional accelerator cards will not necessarily be taken into account. If your video card has insufficient memory the game will not run correctly, or at all.”
I tried all the above, and once again to my annoyance…no luck. After another good hour messing around with settings and tweaking I finally came to the solution. It’s simply that Bad Boys II wasn’t designed to be run on a machine running anything higher than Windows XP. The solution? Compatability Mode.
The long awaited solution. Thankfully it doesn’t involve anything too technical and everyone who has a simple understanding of computers will be able to perform the fix.
First, make sure the game is installed correctly. Once installed, Right Click on the launcher icon and click on Properties.
Switch to the compatibility tab and make sure your settings match mine.
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[Episode #98] – Why Building Transmission is So Hard
https://media.blubrry.com/extraenvironmentalist/p/xepodcasts.com/assets/podcasts/energytransitionshow/ETS-98-transmissionhard-mini.mp3
Building high voltage transmission lines has never been easy, but now it’s arguably both harder than ever, and more necessary than ever, as we seek to unlock the vast potential of wind and solar in the US and ship it to major population centers. But it’s not a business for the faint of heart, as we’ll hear in this incredible story by award-winning investigative reporter and author Russell Gold of the Wall Street Journal. His new book, Superpower, chronicles the story of Michael Skelly, a developer who spent a decade and a great deal of money trying to build five major transmission lines in the US to support the burgeoning wind industry, only to be undermined, deceived, shot down, and ultimately driven to giving up, by people who opposed the lines for their own selfish interests. It’s an amazing story and a great cautionary tale for any prospective transmission line developer, as well as a wellspring of crucial insights that will benefit all who work in energy transition.
Russell Gold is an award-winning investigative reporter and author. He has reported on energy at the Wall Street Journal since 2000, covering many of the major stories of the period including the rise of fracking, the Deepwater Horizon and the energy transition. His 2014 book, The Boom, was longlisted for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book prize. Superpower was published in June 2019. He lives in Texas, with his wife and children.
On Twitter: @russellgold
On the Web: www.russellgold.net
Recording date: May 17, 2019
Air date: June 26, 2019
[Episode #97] – How State Policies Can Drive Decarbonization
[Episode #99] – Metals Supply in Energy Transition
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Palace, Samotwór
gallery Panorama
Samotwór
l. 1776-81
The palace in Samotwór is one of the earliest of the Silesian Classicist residences in existence, inspired by the Palladian architecture of England as well as by the French variant of Neoclassicism. It was designed by the eminent architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, the designer of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
The Classicist palace was originally erected in the years 1776-1781 based on the design produced by Carl Gotthard Langhans at the request of Gottlob Albrecht von Saurm and his wife Maria Francisci Clairon d'Haussouville. The palace was erected on an artificial elevation located inside the meander of the Bystrzyca river; together with the relatively small landscape park which accompanies it, the palace is a truly picturesque sight to behold. The initial layout of the piano nobile level was based around a central axis marked by the vestibule with staircase in the front suite of rooms as well as the oval drawing room in the rear suite of rooms, the latter overlooking the river that flows at the foot of the hill. The drawing room décor and façade detailing are the works of Johann Peter Echtler, a plasterer from Wrocław.
In 1836, the palace and the surrounding manor in Samotwór was acquired by Karl Mauritius von Zedlitz-Trützschler und Falkenstein as a dowry when he married Albertyna Henrietta, the granddaughter of Gottlob Albercht von Saurm. From the year 1900 onwards, the manor remained in the hands of the Jedsiński family, who commissioned modernisation works in 1919, with Erich Grau, an architect from Wrocław, taking it upon himself to create a design which would suit their expectations. The alteration works covered, among others, the roof and the western portico; the shape of the vestibule was altered, the staircase moved to a different location, while the interior received a new layout and divisions. The palace also underwent renovation works in 1973, when the drawing room was refurbished and when various works were performed on the hitherto neglected terraces, as well as in years 1983-1984, when the layout of the rooms in the semi-basement was changed. The current owner adapted the residence to serve as the “Pałac Alexandrów Wrocław Airport” hotel and conference centre. Renovation and adaptation works have been performed on an ongoing basis since 2007.
The palace is located on an elevation which lies inside the meander of the Bystrzyca river; a relatively small park overgrown with old trees lies north and south of the palace. The front façade is preceded by an ornamental lawn in the middle of an expansive courtyard surrounded by former manor farm buildings.
The palace itself is a three-storey brick structure, its walls covered with plaster. It features a tall semi-basement, a grand piano nobile and a mezzanine, topped with a mansard roof punctuated with dormer windows. Designed on a rectangular floor plan, the palace features a pair of shallow avant-corps projecting from the front and rear façades, incorporating recessed colonnaded porticos which follow the shape of a Palladian window. The front façade portico is decorated with medallions incorporating the personifications of Harmony and Moderation as well as the coat of arms of count Karl Mauritiu von Zedlitz-Trützschler und Falkenstein, the latter having been embedded inside the triangular pediment after 1836. The portico of the garden façade, which was redesigned in 1919, is adorned with the coat of arms of Gottlob Albrecht von Saurm (positioned inside the pediment) as well as a supraporte with sculpted scenes from the life of Hercules (the slaying of the Lion of Nemea and the Hydra of Lerna) in bas-relief. The façades of the palace are partitioned by a cornice running between the storeys, taking the form of a plain, profiled strip, as well as by a corbelled crowning cornice. The piano nobile windows feature plasterwork window surrounds with decorative panels above the lintels, adorned with panoplies and laurel festoon The front façade portico is preceded by a tall flight of steps, mirrored by the terrace which adjoins the rear façade. The interior follows a two-bay layout, with a rectangular vestibule positioned on the building’s middle axis; behind the vestibule lies the drawing room, designed on the floor plan of an oval within a rectangle. The walls of the drawing room are graced by a profusion of Classicist stucco decorations from ca. 1780, designed to reflect the earlier design of the interior. Pairs of Ionic columns flank four corner annexes and support the entablature with a corbelled cornice, above which rises the oval ceiling. Elongated decorative panels topped with medallions grace the walls between the columns, flanking the supraportes positioned above the doors; originally, there were four different doors leading into the drawing room. The bas-relief images incorporated into the medallions and the supraportes depict the personifications of Peace, Concord, Plenty, Authority, Fidelity, Happiness, Strength, Prudence, Valor and Health. A Neoclassical fireplace surround now occupies the spot where the eastern door had once been, having been added in 1919.
The historic monument is accessible to visitors; it is currently a private property and serves as a hotel and conference centre.
compiled by Beata Sebzda, Regional Branch of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Wrocław, 29-01-2015.
Degen K., Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreises Breslau, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 247-248.
Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce. Seria Nowa, vol. IV, issue 2, Województwo wrocławskie, Sobótka, Kąty Wrocławskie i okolice, J. Pokora and M. Zlat (eds.), Warsaw 1991, pp. 90-92.
Kos J.K., Carl Gotthard Langhans 1732-1808. Architekt z Kamiennej Góry. Jelenia Góra 2008, pp. 15-17.
Pilch J., Leksykon zabytków architektury Dolnego Śląska. Warsaw 2005, p. 300.
Zabytki sztuki w Polsce. Śląsk, Warsaw 2006, p. 765.
Type: palace
Chronology: l. 1776-81
Address: Samotwór
Location: Voivodeship dolnośląskie, district wrocławski, commune Kąty Wrocławskie - obszar wiejski
Parish Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Sośnica
Filial Church of St Hedwig
Sadków
Parish church of the Ascension of Christ
Jaszkotle
Filial Church of St Nicholas
Pełcznica
The parish church of St Philomena (originally known as the church of St Martin)
Palace ruins
Kamionna
Evangelical church, currently the Roman Catholic filial church of Our Lady of the Rosary
Księginice Małe
Filial church, currently the Parish Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Jaksonów
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Sunday Long Read: Moscow Mule
The now-infamous Steele Dossier on Donald Trump and his Russian contacts is the product of former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who gathered information on Trump at the request of his private sector employers, Fusion GPS. The Guardian has a good piece on Steele and his story by Luke Harding, who is writing a book on Steele, Trump, and Putin titled, fittingly enough, Collusion.
In mid-2015, the Republican front-runner had been Jeb Bush, son of one US president and brother of another. But as the campaign got under way, Bush struggled. Trump dubbed the former Florida governor “low-energy”. During the primaries, a website funded by one of Trump’s wealthy Republican critics, Paul Singer, commissioned Fusion to investigate Trump.
After Trump became the presumptive nominee in May 2016, Singer’s involvement ended and senior Democrats seeking to elect Hillary Clinton took over the Trump contract. The new client was the Democratic National Committee. A lawyer working for Clinton’s campaign, Marc E Elias, retained Fusion and received its reports. The world of private investigation was a morally ambiguous one – a sort of open market in dirt. Information on Trump was of no further use to Republicans, but it could be of value to Democrats, Trump’s next set of opponents.
Before this, in early spring 2016, Simpson approached Steele, his friend and colleague. Steele began to scrutinise Paul Manafort, who would soon become Trump’s new campaign manager. From April, Steele investigated Trump on behalf of the DNC, Fusion’s anonymous client. All Steele knew at first was that the client was a law firm. He had no idea what he would find. He later told David Corn, Washington editor of the magazine Mother Jones: “It started off as a fairly general inquiry.” Trump’s organisation owned luxury hotels around the world. Trump had, as far back as 1987, sought to do real estate deals in Moscow. One obvious question for him, Steele said, was: “Are there business ties to Russia?”Over time, Steele had built up a network of sources. He was protective of them: who they were he would never say. It could be someone well-known – a foreign government official or diplomat with access to secret material. Or it could be someone obscure – a lowly chambermaid cleaning the penthouse suite and emptying the bins in a five-star hotel.
Normally an intelligence officer would debrief sources directly, but since Steele could no longer visit Russia, this had to be done by others, or in third countries. There were intermediaries, subsources, operators – a sensitive chain. Only one of Steele’s sources on Trump knew of Steele. Steele put out his Trump-Russia query and waited for answers. His sources started reporting back. The information was astonishing; “hair-raising”. As he told friends: “For anyone who reads it, this is a life-changing experience.”
Steele had stumbled upon a well-advanced conspiracy that went beyond anything he had discovered with Litvinenko or Fifa. It was the boldest plot yet. It involved the Kremlin and Trump. Their relationship, Steele’s sources claimed, went back a long way. For at least the past five years, Russian intelligence had been secretly cultivating Trump. This operation had succeeded beyond Moscow’s wildest expectations. Not only had Trump upended political debate in the US – raining chaos wherever he went and winning the nomination – but it was just possible that he might become the next president. This opened all sorts of intriguing options for Putin.
In June 2016, Steele typed up his first memo. He sent it to Fusion. It arrived via enciphered mail. The headline read: US Presidential Election: Republican Candidate Donald Trump’s Activities in Russia and Compromising Relationship with the Kremlin. Its text began: “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in the western alliance.”
“So far TRUMP has declined various sweetener real estate business deals, offered him in Russia to further the Kremlin’s cultivation of him. However he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.
“Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised TRUMP through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him. According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sexual acts which have been arranged/monitored by the FSB.
“A dossier of compromising material on Hillary CLINTON has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services over many years and mainly comprises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct. The dossier is controlled by Kremlin spokesman, PESKOV, directly on Putin’s orders. However, it has not yet been distributed abroad, including to TRUMP. Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.”
The memo was sensational. There would be others, 16 in all, sent to Fusion between June and early November 2016. At first, obtaining intelligence from Moscow went well. For around six months – during the first half of the year – Steele was able to make inquiries in Russia with relative ease. It got harder from late July, as Trump’s ties to Russia came under scrutiny. Finally, the lights went out. Amid a Kremlin cover-up, the sources went silent and information channels shut down.
If Steele’s reporting was to be believed, Trump had been colluding with Russia. This arrangement was transactional, with both sides trading favours. The report said Trump had turned down “various lucrative real estate development business deals in Russia”, especially in connection with the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Moscow. But he had been happy to accept a flow of Kremlin-sourced intelligence material, apparently delivered to him by his inner circle. That didn’t necessarily mean the candidate was a Russian agent. But it did signify that Russia’s leading spy agency had expended considerable effort in getting close to Trump – and, by extension, to his family, friends, close associates and business partners, not to mention his campaign manager and personal lawyer.
On the eve of the most consequential US election for generations, one of the two candidates was compromised, Steele’s sources claimed. The memo alleged that Trump had unusual sexual proclivities, and that the FSB had a tape. If true, this meant he could indeed be blackmailed.
When I met Steele in December 2016, he gave no hint he had been involved in what was the single most important investigation in decades.
It turns out Steele has stumbled onto the FBI, CIA and NSA already taking a long, hard look at Trump's Moscow connections. Steele's own contacts allowed him to put together a dossier of reports that, in his professional judgment, were "70-90%" accurate. It's a pretty fascinating story.
One we're still neck deep in, of course. How it ends, is anyone's guess.
StupidiTags(tm): Criminal Stupidity, Intelligence Stupidity, Russia, Sunday Long Read, Trump Regime, Vlad The Dudesplainer Putin, Wingnut Stupidity
From Harare To Eternity, Con't
As widely expected in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has now been given an ultimatum to step down by his own political party and by the military coup d'etat that took power last week.
President Robert Mugabe’s own party voted to oust him as its leader on Sunday, a day after thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets to celebrate his stunning fall from power after a military takeover.
The governing ZANU-PF party, which held emergency talks at its headquarters in the capital, Harare, to consider the fate of the president who had ruled for 37 years, appointed the previously fired vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as Mr. Mugabe’s successor.
Under the Constitution, Mr. Mugabe remains president, even if in name only. But if he does not resign by noon Monday, the committee members decided, he would face impeachment by Parliament.
Cheers and dancing broke out in the building after the vote, according to video shared on social media.
Before the committee’s decision, Chris Mutsvangwa, a war veteran who has led the campaign to oust Mr. Mugabe, said as he went into the meeting, “We are going all the way,” according to Reuters.
He said that Mr. Mugabe should just resign and leave the country: “He’s trying to bargain for a dignified exit but he should just smell the coffee.”
The central committee also expelled the president’s wife, Grace Mugabe, as head of the ZANU-PF Women’s League. Mrs. Mugabe, widely viewed as his likely successor, has not been seen in public since Wednesday.
On Sunday, she was barred from the party for life, along with several other government officials — including Jonathan Moyo, the minister of higher and tertiary education.
It's all over but the shouting at this point, Mugabe is done. Mnangagwa is now the de facto leader of the country. Whether much will change remains to be seen, but however the country does move forward, it will be without Mugabe or his wife.
StupidiTags(tm): Africa, Executive Stupidity, Financial Stupidity, GIANT BRASS BALLS, Military Stupidity
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Last Call For The Blue Wave Wipes Out The Orange
That sound you heard last night is the fork being stuck in the California GOP, effectively wiped off the map in the 2018 midterms as all 7 congressional districts in formerly red Orange County now belong to Team Blue.
California Democrats completed their sweep of the congressional delegation in Orange County on Saturday as Gil Cisneros defeated Young Kim, a Republican, to capture a fourth seat in what had once been one of the most conservative Republican bastions in the nation.
The victory by Mr. Cisneros, a philanthropist, was declared by The Associated Press. It completes what has amounted to a Democratic rout in California this year. Democrats set out to capture seven Republican-held seats where Hillary Clinton defeated President Trump in 2016, including four in Orange County. They won six of them.
Representative David Valadao, from the Central Valley, is the only Republican who survived the Democratic onslaught in those seven districts, according to The Associated Press. His margin has shrunk as mail-in votes have continued to be counted. The deadline for counting those votes in California is Dec. 7.
With Mr. Cisneros’s victory, Democrats now control all four House seats in Orange County — the birthplace of Richard M. Nixon and modern-day conservatism. The party also won supermajorities in the California Assembly and Senate, while the party’s candidate for governor — Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor — easily turned back a Republican challenge. Democrats control every statewide elected position in California.
Before this election, the 53-member California congressional delegation included 39 Democrats and 14 Republicans. Assuming Mr. Valadao keeps his lead, after this year’s midterms it will be 45 Democrats and eight Republicans.
Mr. Cisneros and Ms. Kim were competing for the seat left open after Representative Ed Royce, who has represented the area since 1993, decided not to seek re-election. Mr. Cisneros won by about 3,500 votes, receiving 50.8 percent of the votes cast.
And it's still possible that Valadao loses to Democrat TJ Cox as Valadao's lead has been cut to under 2,000 votes. It's entirely possible that the Republican GOP delegation, a massive group compared to just about any other state at 14, will be 7 by the time January rolls around. That would be just 13% of the state's delegation, a smaller percentage than Democrats have here in Kentucky (17%), Ohio (29%) or Indiana (22%).
If the Democrats are toast in the Rust Belt, then the GOP is on the slab in California, and there's no real reason to think they're coming back anytime soon. Pollster Stan Greenberg:
At first, the results looked like something of a stalemate. The Republican Party retained and even strengthened its hold on the Senate. President Trump’s approval rating was at 45 percent, one percentage point below his percentage of the popular vote in the 2016 election. Analysts said that Mr. Trump still knew how to get Republicans “excited, interested and turn them out” and that he had “deepened his hold on rural areas.”
In the days that followed, though, it became clear that Democrats had made substantial gains. Analysts I trusted concluded that this was because suburban and college-educated women issued “a sharp rebuke to President Trump” that set off a “blue wave through the urban and suburban House districts.” At first, I also believed that was the main story line.
But the 2018 election was much bigger than that. It was transformative, knocking down what we assumed were Electoral College certainties. We didn’t immediately see this transformation because we assumed that Mr. Trump and the polarization in his wake still governed as before.
First of all, Democrats did not win simply because white women with college degrees rebelled against Mr. Trump’s misogyny, sexism and disrespect for women. Nearly every category of women rebelled.
These conclusions are based on Democracy Corps’ election night survey for Women’s Voice Women’s Vote Action Fund and a study of the exit polls conducted for Edison and Catalist.
Yes, House Democrats increased their vote margin nationally among white women with at least a four-year degree by 13 points compared with the Clinton-Trump margin in 2016. But Democrats also won 71 percent of millennial women and 54 percent of unmarried white women (who split their votes two years earlier). In 2018, unmarried white women pushed up their vote margin for Democrats by 10 points. In fact, white women without a four-year degree (pollster shorthand for the white working class) raised their vote margin for Democrats by 13 points.
Overall, white women split their vote between Democrats and Republicans, but it is clear which way they are moving. Interestingly, the white college women who were supposed to be the “fuel for this Democratic wave” played a smaller role in the Democrats’ increased 2018 margin than white working class women, because the former were 15 percent of midterm voters and the latter 25 percent.
Yes, white women made up 40% of the 2018 vote, but moving that needle from a 4-5% Trump win to an even split turned the overall election into a full 2% swing in favor of the Dems, and that turned this from 20-25 Dem seats to 40.
The other big move to Dems: No national third party candidates stealing Dem votes among men. In 2016, men voted 52%-41% for the GOP and nearly ten percent voted for a third party candidate. In 2018, that went to 51%-47%. That also made a huge difference.
Dems can win in 2020 by huge margins if voters keep dropping Trump.
StupidiTags(tm): 2018 Elections, GOP Stupidity, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Mississippi Turning
There's still one more Senate race to be decided next week, the runoff in Mississippi between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic candidate Mike Espy, and we could very well have another Doug Jones/Roy Moore situation in the works.
A U.S. Senate runoff that was supposed to provide an easy Republican win has turned into an unexpectedly competitive contest, driving Republicans and Democrats to pour in resources and prompting a planned visit by President Trump to boost his party’s faltering candidate.
Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbled recently when, in praise of a supporter, she spoke of her willingness to sit in the front row of a public hanging if he invited her — words that, in the South, evoked images of lynchings. She has struggled to grapple with the fallout, baffling members of her party and causing even faithful Republicans to consider voting for her opponent, former congressman Mike Espy.
That Espy is attempting to become the state’s first black senator since shortly after the Civil War made her remarks all the more glaring. It has positioned him to take advantage not only of a substantial black turnout but of a potential swell of crossover support from those put off by Hyde-Smith’s campaign.
Espy remains the underdog in the conservative state, but Republicans with access to private polling say Hyde-Smith’s lead has narrowed significantly in recent days. Republicans need only to look to next-door Alabama, where Democrat Doug Jones pulled out a surprise win last year, to stoke concern.
For Republicans, the Nov. 27 runoff is a chance for a slight expansion of their majority in the Senate, their one bright spot in this year’s midterm elections. If Hyde-Smith wins and Gov. Rick Scott keeps his lead in the Senate race in Florida, Republicans would have a senate majority of 53 to 47. A loss in Mississippi would give the GOP a 52-to-48 majority, only one up from the current razor-thin margin.
Trump’s campaign announced Saturday that he would hold rallies for Hyde-Smith in Tupelo and Biloxi the night before the election. The Republican National Committee, meantime, has two dozen staffers in Mississippi and plans to send more. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is also sending reinforcements and last week made a $700,000 ad buy.
The GOP is in full panic mode here and will most likely lock the state down as they did with Tennessee and Sen. Marsha Blackburn cruising to a easy win. But -- and it's a big caveat here -- Hyde-Smith was appointed earlier this year and Mike Espy is a former Congressman, there's more than a bit of name recognition on Espy's side.
Republicans will almost certainly keep this seat, but it won't be a double-digit runaway win, either.
If you're in the Magnolia State, you can make a difference next week!
StupidiTags(tm): 2018 Elections, GOP Stupidity, Racist Stupidity, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Sunday Long Read: We Gotta Face The Face
With all due respect to Pete Townshend...
You must have heard the cautionary tales
The dangers hidden on the cul-de-sac trails
From wiser men who've been through it all
And the ghosts of failures spray-canned up on the wall
Sheryl Sandberg was seething.
Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to disrupt the 2016 American election. Congressional and federal investigators were closing in on evidence that would implicate the company.
But it wasn’t the looming disaster at Facebook that angered Ms. Sandberg. It was the social network’s security chief, Alex Stamos, who had informed company board members the day before that Facebook had yet to contain the Russian infestation. Mr. Stamos’s briefing had prompted a humiliating boardroom interrogation of Ms. Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, and her billionaire boss. She appeared to regard the admission as a betrayal.
“You threw us under the bus!” she yelled at Mr. Stamos, according to people who were present.
The clash that day would set off a reckoning — for Mr. Zuckerberg, for Ms. Sandberg and for the business they had built together. In just over a decade, Facebook has connected more than 2.2 billion people, a global nation unto itself that reshaped political campaigns, the advertising business and daily life around the world. Along the way, Facebook accumulated one of the largest-ever repositories of personal data, a treasure trove of photos, messages and likes that propelled the company into the Fortune 500.
But as evidence accumulated that Facebook’s power could also be exploited to disrupt elections, broadcast viral propaganda and inspire deadly campaigns of hate around the globe, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg stumbled. Bent on growth, the pair ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view. At critical moments over the last three years, they were distracted by personal projects, and passed off security and policy decisions to subordinates, according to current and former executives.
When Facebook users learned last spring that the company had compromised their privacy in its rush to expand, allowing access to the personal information of tens of millions of people to a political data firm linked to President Trump, Facebook sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem.
And when that failed — as the company’s stock price plummeted and it faced a consumer backlash — Facebook went on the attack.
While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.
In Washington, allies of Facebook, including Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, intervened on its behalf. And Ms. Sandberg wooed or cajoled hostile lawmakers, while trying to dispel Facebook’s reputation as a bastion of Bay Area liberalism.
This account of how Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg navigated Facebook’s cascading crises, much of which has not been previously reported, is based on interviews with more than 50 people. They include current and former Facebook executives and other employees, lawmakers and government officials, lobbyists and congressional staff members. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had signed confidentiality agreements, were not authorized to speak to reporters or feared retaliation.
Facebook declined to make Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg available for comment. In a statement, a spokesman acknowledged that Facebook had been slow to address its challenges but had since made progress fixing the platform.
Facebook really does need to be shut down, or at least, Zuckerberg and Sandberg need to be summarily fired and replaced by people who actually care about Facebook's users. But this NY Times piece makes the strong case for the former, that Facebook isn't salvageable, and that they've done more damage to the US as a whole than just about any other corporate cancer in this country.
House Democrats really do need to come down on Facebook, and hard.
StupidiTags(tm): 2016 Election, Racist Stupidity, Religious Stupidity, Social Stupidity, Sunday Long Read, Technology Stupidity, Wingnut Stupidity
Meat The Press, Con't
With the CIA now firmly pointing the finger for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist and Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it appears that at least one Trump regime official has resigned over the White House's complicity in Khashoggi's grisly death.
A top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia resigned on Friday evening, a move that may suggest fractures inside the Trump administration over the response to the brutal killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
The official, Kirsten Fontenrose, had pushed for tough measures against the Saudi government, and had been in Riyadh to discuss a raft of sanctions that the American government imposed in recent days against those identified as responsible for the killing, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Specifically, she advocated that Saud al-Qahtani, a top adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, be added to the list, and he ultimately was.
The exact circumstances of her departure are murky, and it is unclear whether her advocacy for a hawkish response to the killing angered some in the White House. When she returned to Washington, according to the two people, she had a dispute with her bosses at the National Security Council, where she had served as the director for the Persian Gulf region.
A representative for the council declined to comment. Ms. Fontenrose did not reply to messages seeking comment.
It gets worse, as the Turks are understandably pissed about having the Saudis run US hit squads in their back yard, and the White House is now trying to appease them as well.
President Donald Trump on Saturday declined to say whether American intelligence officials had implicated Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, following reports the CIA had concluded the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's assassination.
"They haven’t assessed anything yet. It’s too early,” the president told reporters when asked if the CIA had assessed the crown prince's involvement, according to a pool report.
“It’s a horrible thing that took place, the killing of a journalist,” Trump said. “We’ll be having a very full report over the next two days, probably Monday or Tuesday.”
Trump said that report will convey what members of the intelligence community "think the overall impact was, and who caused it, and who did it.” Trump also said he spoke with CIA Director Gina Haspel earlier in the day.
Upon departing the White House on Saturday morning for a trip to survey damage from wildfires in California, Trump heralded Saudi Arabia as a “spectacular ally” — two days after his administration leveled sanctions against 17 Saudi officials for Khashoggi's death. The president demurred on any potential involvement by the crown prince.
“As of this moment we were told that he did not play a role,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to have to find out what they have to say.”
Trump also rejected a Thursday report by NBC News alleging that his administration is considering extraditing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in the hope of dissuading Turkish President Recep Erdogan from punishing the Saudis for Khashoggi’s murder.
“It’s not under consideration,” Trump said, adding that “we’re having a very good moment with Turkey,” and citing Erdogan’s release of American pastor Andrew Brunson in October.
Needless to say, this is a full-blown diplomatic nightmare and Trump is bending over backwards to make both Riyadh and Ankara happy, while each one would love for the US relationship with the other to crumble. It also means somebody at the CIA definitely wants the Trump regime to dump the Crown Prince as the result of the leaked report late last week.
Trump is dithering on the report's contents, but it's pretty clear that the Crown Prince is responsible. What happens from here is anyone's guess. Say what you will about the CIA leaking for political reasons, but Trump has gone out of his way to piss off the intelligence community, and they were always able to make his life miserable.
They did just that this week. There's a lesson there for Trump.
StupidiTags(tm): Criminal Stupidity, Intelligence Stupidity, International Stupidity, Legal Stupidity, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Village Stupidity
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A Modern-Day Mayflower
����������� Today's Snack: In honor of the 102 Pilgrims who came to what is now America on the Mayflower, count out 102 (shelled) sunflower seeds, and while you're munching them, think about how the Pilgrims were like "seeds" for this nation. How can YOU be a "seed" for the U.S.A. of the future?
Paper and pencil
The Mayflower was the sailing ship that transported 102 Pilgrims from England to the New World, landing in Plymouth, Mass., in November 1620.
����������� Most everybody knows that. A lot of people know that it took 66 days to travel the 3,000 miles, and that space was very cramped on the ship, which measured about 100 feet long by 25 feet wide.
But did you know the Mayflower was never meant to transport passengers?
Instead of humans, it usually took goods from England to France, and wine back to England.
Did you know the ship's doctor was Dr. Heale?
What's a fo'c'sle?
Did you know a violent mid-ocean storm knocked the ship off course, and instead of landing in Virginia with its moderate weather, the Pilgrims literally settled for, and settled in, cold and wintry Massachusetts, by mistake?
����������� You can learn a lot more about that first American epic, the Mayflower, by browsing through the websites, below. Take notes! When you feel you know enough about the Mayflower's voyage, here's an offbeat assignment:
����������� Invent a New World for the 21st Century - a brand-new continent which suddenly sprang up out of the ocean.
Write down:
� what the land is like
� what animals and plants are there
� how people there might get their food
� what their homes are like and how they made them
� what plants and animals are there
� what the water source is
� whether there are humans already living there.
����������� Now come up with a name for a new Mayflower - a modern-day ship. Describe the ship. Draw a picture of it with colored pencils.
����������� You get to send a boatload of Americans to this new land to populate it, the way the Mayflower populated the newborn colony in America.
Who would you include among the first 102 people? Think about the kinds of skills and personalities it would be good to include in a brand-new society.
Write down real names of people, or the types of jobs or skills they might have. You know: "a rock star," "a farmer," "a carpenter," "my soccer coach," and so on. Your list may or may not include your own family, friends, classmates and teammates; it's up to you.
����������� Make your "passenger list" for a modern-day Mayflower, and then write a story about the journey there, and the settlement's first year.
����������� Here are those Mayflower and First Thanksgiving websites to give you some ideas about the real Pilgrims who came to America, and the imaginary ones you're going to invent:
����������� http://www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonalholidays/thanksgiving/
����������� http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/index.htm
����������� http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/mflower1.php
By Susan Darst Williams � www.AfterSchoolTreats.com � Americanism 01 � � 2008
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Brain Imaging Techniques Provide Answers About Vegetative Patients
An example of a PET scan of a brain. Credit to Jens Maus – http://jens-maus.de/
By Emma Yasinksi
In 2005, a serious car accident left a 23-year-old woman in a vegetative, unresponsive state.
For six months, she experienced sleep-wake cycles but was never able to communicate with her doctors and visitors. She couldn’t respond to simple commands such as “squeeze my hand,” or “look at this pen.”
Adrian Owen, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at Western University, Canada wondered what was actually happening in her brain.
He slid her inside an fMRI, a machine that measures changes in the brain’s blood flow over time. Not knowing whether she could hear him, he told her to imagine she was playing tennis. He was excited to see that in response to his request, blood flow in her brain increased in the areas she would need to use to imagine herself playing the sport. While the blood flow in his patient’s brain was nowhere near that of a healthy individual, he felt that the increase was enough to indicate that she had heard him and was responding.
Over the past ten years, Owen’s “tennis test” has been replicated many times. Researchers have come to consider it a benchmark for studying vegetative patients, but it has never been applied as diagnostic tool. Now researchers are testing other imaging techniques that they hope will suggest which vegetative patients are most likely to awaken.
For now, clinicians are still using a scale developed in the 1970s to judge patients’ awareness based on their ability to respond to commands. The doctor will ask the patient to squeeze a hand, or look around the room. Then doctors use the responses to measure a patient’s diagnosis and likelihood of waking up on a scale which ranges from brain dead to conscious. Brain imaging studies using the tennis test have made it clear that doctors using behavioral methods are missing a group of patients who may be conscious but can’t respond to physical commands.
Up to 20% of patients who are diagnosed as vegetative using this scale actually pass the “tennis test,” according to Srivas Chennu, PhD, Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University, UK. This suggests that there is more going on in these patients’ brains than doctors might think.
Researchers are exploring two main imaging techniques that measure brain activity in vegetative patients. The first is the PET scan, which measures glucose in the brain. Johan Stender, graduate student at the University of Copenhagen, and his team PET-scanned the brains of 126 patients who were vegetative or minimally conscious (inconsistently able to respond to commands,) without asking the patients to imagine anything. They followed the patients’ progress for a year, to see who regained consciousness. The team compared the results of the PET scans to the results of the fMRI tennis test on the same patients. Those patients who showed activity in the PET scan also passed the tennis test, and were the most likely to wake up within a year. According to the study, published in The Lancet in 2014, The PET scan correctly predicted who would wake up three out of four times. The authors recommended using the PET scans to complement behavioral tests when diagnosing vegetative patients.
Another group, led by Chennu, aimed to find the most convenient and cost-effective way to measure brain activity in vegetative patients. They used eletro encephylograms (EEG’s) – administered at the bedside with a cap and some electrodes – to measure the electrical activity in patients’ brains. The EEG showed that 4 of 13 vegetative patients showed much more electrical activity than the others. They found that these same four patients passed the fMRI tennis test, suggesting that the EEG could also distinguish this type of consciousness. They published the study in PLOS Computational Biology in October of 2014.
Although these results need to be confirmed in a larger study, it seems all three types of brain measurements may be able to help clarify diagnosis of vegetative patients and possibly predict who will wake up within the year.
In an effort to gain more information from the convenient EEG test, Chennu’s team used graph theory, a type of mathematics designed to measure systems and networks to measure the strength of the activity in the patients’ brains. With more research, these rankings may give even more detailed information about an individual patient’s diagnosis
“[Families] want to know what the diagnosis really is so that they can move on and deal with that. Doubt and uncertainty are always bad things.” Owen told Nature in 2012. As studies move forward and validate tools and help doctors understand their patients’ level of consciousness, the technology promises to help families cope with heart-wrenching diagnoses as well.
Posted by: Emma Yasinski on February 19, 2015
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9 Days To Go, Going Dark
It’s been quite a week. I started this week’s 20 Weeks column a few days ago. Back then, the story was about how the two frontrunners in the race are movies that I have been embedded with – for lack of a better term – from their first public screenings, so I will be happy whichever way it goes… and indeed, even in the case of many of the upset possibilities.
Yesterday, the column idea morphed into a bit of anger at the media for going buck wild, trying to start a fire here at the tail end of the voting period with very little real ammunition. And as has become the ugly standard in entertainment media, one weak story can start a firestorm of idiocy, as the “look at me” specialists feel a lack of attention requires further falsely-nuclear offerings to draw fear and page views.
Today, as Summit forced Nicolas Chartier into hiding, cancelling an interview I set up weeks ago which was delayed by Chartier’s trip to the Berlin Festival (where he first found money for The Hurt Locker), and sent out its various media manipulators to spin the minor story, the column became, for me, about a studio flexing its ability to control the allegedly truth-seeking media… at least for a weekend and a couple of days, as The Academy has graciously decided to stay out of the Chartier story and not make any ruling about his possible punishment until the day after polls close.
To recount… I went from writing about the most peaceful, civil, sane Oscar season in my decade-long career of closely covering these races to absolute and unrelenting rage about the ridiculous behavior of the media, Summit (standing alone in this particular misguided thinking because of the circumstance of whom they are in business with), and even The Academy, for reasons I will indicate forthwith.
Of course, time tends to lessen rage.
And so, after a breath, I will recount rather than throw bombs.
My first interest in Nic Chartier came from Mark Boal’s Oscar reaction press release in which he singled out Chartier for appreciation. And the truth is, in every conversation about the funding of the movie and in every interview, Boal has been clearly grateful to Chartier for being the one person/company that wanted to make this movie.
And once the movie was funded, this first-time producer, became a pain in the ass according to just about everyone involved. A volatile, demanding, sometime disruptive personality. After jumping into the project because he wanted to be in business with Kathryn Bigelow, her cut was too long, too slow, etc… which may have distracted, but was overruled by the fact that she had final cut. Thank God.
And Summit is no happier with the guy than Boal & Bigelow.
However… he did earn his place at the table by getting the money. And in a season that has been rather calm, setting Nic Chartier off by letting him get excluded from the Oscar nomination was seen as an extremely dangerous choice. Better to have him on the team, hopefully malleable, rather than to have him angry and ranting.
Still, when I made a request to shoot and interview with the guy after the nominations were announced three weeks ago, he was contacted, no one objected, and the date was set for his post-Berlin return to LA… the day of this writing… February 26.
And today… no dice.
Summit was not prepared to take a chance on Chartier making a bad situation worse.
However, at the same time, Pete Hammond, not exactly the hardest-edged journalist we know, was posting even more e-mail notes, this time ones sent to individuals, that allegedly infringed on Academy rules. So why no rush to plug up the leak… to mea cupla this to silence… to Hugh Grant it?
Well, this is where the clever publicists and the pliant media come in. One of the town’s early Nikki Whisperers, Paul Pflug, does corporate for Summit, and he pulled Nikki Finke out of his pocket, put her on his lap, and yanked her string. Yesterday, she claimed, “I’ll show how this is but the tip of the iceberg. I have a complete wrap-up on why this was the worst Oscar campaign season for media manipulation I can remember. And I’ll be naming names.”
Of course, she knows nothing and has no actual contact with the Oscar season, other than to threaten executives to give her gossip – or to trade not running nasty slander in payment for future gossip – late in the game after others have mined the news.
I would tell you more about Tom Sherak’s Academy president brief career as a Nikki Whisperer, but the only relevant thing in that is that The Academy, which ends up being represented from many different and not-necessarily synced angles, does not have clean hands in the gossip-ication of the season either.
Like I said before, this was not a nasty season. Not by comparison to any of the decade of seasons I have closely covered. And the most obvious “media manipulation” remains hers.
To wit, yesterday, Finke pooh-poohed the Chartier story. And today, she told the story that Summit told her to tell. “I do think, however, that the Los Angeles Times should have explained in its posting that there was no other mass mailing to Oscar voters by Chartier. It makes a difference. Because can you imagine if Hollywood’s private correspondence about the Oscar pics were monitored by the Academy Awards rules police?”
Uh… how does she know this is true? Answer: she doesn’t.
But more importantly, the very same “Academy Awards rules police” she mocked the day before for not having any fangs still had no fangs… only Summit was still scared to death that they might. As is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention, The Academy, for all the grandeur, pretty much let’s people do what people do – gossip, personal glad handing, cocktails – and only gets involved when public explosions happen.
Back at the LA Times, Pete Hammond was, indeed, posting the story about more e-mails. Why? Because the first non-story got so much attention.
And of course, there was the downright idiotic story yesterday that couldn’t come close to making up its mind whether The Hurt Locker was a documentary or abusive to soldiers because it made them seem too heroic. Are you kidding me?!?!
Of course, the Oscar Monkeys – which ST VanArsdale, who is about as interested in Oscar as Kevin Spacey is in Penthouse, has somehow joined the ranks of – turned this into some Harvey Weinstein conspiracy… which is a load of excrement of an epic size. This media obsession with Harvey and Oscar is the only obsession that grossly outweighs Harvey’s own obsession with Oscar.
Why was this stupid story – which has already been done elsewhere… months ago – done now? Because there was a Truman National Security Project screening of the film on Wednesday. Why were there a group of stories about Inglourious Basterds and A Serious Man and the relationship of those films to Jews done? Because Weinstein started pushing the Jewish angle by doing screenings and discussions for rabbis and Jewish groups. This is not brain surgery. People are looking for stories and stunts in which nominated films participate create stories.
And let’s be crystal clear now… an aging story about Tarantino buying the last revival house in Los Angeles is not negative campaigning. It’s positive campaigning. That piece – while perhaps a bad editorial choice by the LA Times – should not be put in the same sentence as the few truly negative (though minor) things going on this season.
Meanwhile, in a happily pale reflection of Nikki, Anne Thompson at IndieWIRE was offering the tale of 42 West with no facts … except for the word of 42 West. “Despite the whisper campaign against 42 West (which had done much to push Hurt Locker toward the winner’s circle), Chartier did indeed act alone.”
I ’m not saying that she’s wrong. I am saying that she doesn’t have any way at all of knowing the truth of the situation.
And 42 West as a victim! Wow. That’s a great story. Yeah, they get accused of being more mighty manipulators than they are. If it was 1963, someone would accuse them of killing Kennedy to turn the tide against Dr. Strangelove and back to My Fair Lady. But victim? As much as Avatar is a victim. One day of the fourth weekend of Avatar at the domestic box office alone outgrossed the entire worldwide theatrical life of The Hurt Locker. Let’s be real. Nic Chartier’s e-mails may have been obnoxious, but if Avatar’s Oscar story hasn’t been told well enough to win, getting caught in the Goliath tale for the last month is at fault, not “Crazy Nic” or “Hard Chargin’ Harv.”
Wrapping up … Chartier a problem… Summit scared of him dropping another shoe… 42 West not interested in being accused of being behind the e-mails… Bigelow & Boal feeling helpless and exposed even though they did nothing wrong at all.
For the media, desperation to find any story that anyone cares about this late in a rather boring season … overhype of the Chartier story followed by excessive willingness to swallow what they are told when pressed hard by the flacks… and at the same time, dragging the usual suspects in front of the firing squad with absolutely no proof of any kind. In other words, failure to use judgment going either direction.
And if you have read me more than once, you know that nothing pisses me off more than hypocrisy. I am no fan of bad behavior and I won ’t be an apologist for it, but real people with real reputations are being spotlighted and smeared in all of this… people who did nothing wrong… people who are doing business as usual… spending millions to manipulate this race, this year just as every year before, as the Academy looks the other way.
If some of us in the media want to get hard about the season, great. Do some serious reporting. There is plenty to expose. And someone may care. Of course, most will not, as in the end, The Academy is a Country Club with a theater instead of a gold course.
And oh, the irony that all this screaming is going on over some e-mails in pursuit of a little gold statue when the movie in the center of it is about real men who put their lives on the line to protect our nation daily.
And so … the pleasure of this week has turned to irritation… at publicists… and studios… at journalists… at myself for forgetting how petty all of these concerns really are.
I have, as I have all season, had the opportunity to spend time with some of the people who are nominated, but more important, have contributed mightily to the best work in commercial cinema this year. From Jon Landau, who very civilly discussed this Chartier mess from a hotel room in upstate New York, to composers Horner, Desplat, and Giacchino, to cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, to Robert Kenner, who made Food, Inc. And those are just the Oscar nominees from this week’s shoots. They are what’s important. Their work is what we are celebrating.
I am a lucky man.
Everyone associated with The Hurt Locker and Avatar and all the other nominees … lucky and talented people.
We in media have been partners with the savvy publicists and executives in the commoditizing of the awards season. And this doesn ’t often bring out the best in us… any of us.
In the end, wild card or not, I will not get the chance to hear Nic Chartier ’s perspective on putting together one of the great films of 2010. And that’s a shame too.
But in 10 days, all of this will be history. And most of us can go back to worrying about Robert Pattinson ’s sex life. Proud times.
– by David Poland
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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16 Days To Go, Backing Into The End Zone
It’s fourth down, 16 days to go, and even though one team is poised to score and put the game out of reach, they can’t just kick the field goal… they need to go for it. Because this year, the game seems to be about who has “the ball” last.
“The ball,” of course, is The Narrative of the Season.
What’s tricky is not so much figuring out what “your” film’s narrative is, but figuring out how to move it down the field. Too aggressive and you can make a mistake and give it up to the other team. Too passive and you can nickel & dime your way effectively only to find yourself stalled after making too many positive plays in a row.
There have been years, like when The Departed won, in which I really wasn’t sure what the answer was going to be. There were too many films with too many good answers and no clear choice to be made. I wasn’t stunned when The Departed won. It was my favorite in the group and I was amongst the first to note that the film was more than simply a Scorsese payback vehicle. I also looked at history and saw the rarity of a film as violent as this one winning. But it was, in a tight field, the favorite of the voters. But being favorite isn’t always the key to winning. In fact, it rarely is.
The narrative for The Hurt Locker is, “We’re the underdog… we will allow you to feel great about awarding the first female director ever… you like us, you really really like us… and there’s not a lick of CG in our masterful little film… the kind of film Hollywood should be making but forgets to… send a message that you want more quality films.”
Good story. And a great film with great work by director Bigelow and on down the line.
But the only reason this narrative works this year is because of the other great narrative…
“Over 2.5 BILLION dollars. We are the biggest f-ing film in history. We are leading the way to all the things that keep this town working. You want to raise ticket prices? People were willing to pay $3 premiums in a recession to watch our movie… at least 200 million people dug deeper into their pockets. You want to see how the future will work? Forget about the blue people and look at the ability to create a completely believable, living breathing photo real universe. We’re doing over $150m in China, folks… land of the illegal DVD… almost 4 times the previous record holder for an American film. International is where the money is… and we have the Godzilla of international grosses… $1.7 billion and counting…
And you heard about that budget? Not only wasn’t it the most expensive film ever, but by breaking through technologically, the film opens the door to films with smaller budgets and ambitions to use this technology at a price, much as CG has become standard in most studio movies, even if only to clean things up. (And yeah, Hurt Locker… that includes you!) When you look back at what film got Best Picture 20 years from now, what movie will be remembered most fondly… what film is a landmark? And you can thank us for the ratings that might save the Academy’s deal with ABC at something close to the current price, thanks.”
Of course, neither film can make their case for themselves or to paint their rival as a loser so plainly. And both films carry unspoken burdens. The Hurt Locker didn’t make as much as the disastrous Amelia in theaters. The Academy has a long history of not rewarding that kind of box office failure. And the story for Hurt Locker is no better overseas. On the other hand, there is a tendency to see Avatar as a kids movie, a cartoon, a mega-budget spectacle reaching out for the lowest common denominator.
Ironically, The Hurt Locker benefits from the mistake of including the then-unereleased film into the Independent Spirit Awards last year, eliminating the “win on Saturday (now Friday), lose on Sunday” thing as an issue. The only love Hurt Locker can still get is Oscar. And Avatar, ironically, benefits from some of the negative attention the media showered on it all fall, turning its quality into a surprise… a key narrative shifter.
And the other narratives?
Inglourious Basterds ramped up, seeing an opportunity, a few weeks ago. And pretty much overshot its wad. The problem being, there is no real narrative to sell. Tarantino doesn’t “have it coming.” The movie’s appeal to women is limited. It’s a well-liked movie, but it neither works as an underdog or as a game changer. It’s the latest example of the media being Harvey Weinstein’s pet.
No one is a better salesman than Mr Weinstein. And he’s been selling HARD. But he only wins when he has the right hand. And media needs to learn that when they play “Follow The Queen” with The King of Selling You What You Didnn’t Mean To Buy, the red card isn’t on the table, no matter what they want to believe they see.
The truth is, the effort went right past a surge into overhype and the clear scent of desperation. Count that one as over.
Up In The Air has a similar problem on the narrative, though not the desperation part. Paramount has handled the push about as well as could be expected. UITA wants to be “the film of the moment,” but it butts up against the two front runners on that count. Box office is solid, as it the passion for the film. But for all the attention, the discussion of the film has gone nearly silent, except for a highly possible screenplay win.
Another popular narrative of the moment is a false one, being perpetrated onto the race in a real way… the “how they count” spin. Yes, the methodology is odd and could have an effect on the outcome… but the odds are strongly against it. The ONLY scenario in which it is a game changer is if there is a film with massive 1-slot support and very little else above a 4-slot or 5-slot vote.
The answer is really simple, actually. If the film doesn’t have the support of 50% of The Academy in the top 3 slots, it was highly unlikely to win anyway. In fact, a straight “pick a winner” vote, with 10 nominees, is much more likely, in my opinion, to result in an upset than the system in place. 1000 votes or less probably wins the Oscar in that case. In a five-film vote, that border was probably around 1800 votes. And now, it demands a majority. That’s great. That said, it still favors the front-runners and makes an upset even less likely.
But don’t let me get in the way of the favorite upset narrative of the month, which is designed by those selling it less to grab votes than it is to loosen the hold on votes by those frontrunners. The only way it works is if it causes a couple of thousand voters to decide they should push Avatar and The Hurt Locker out of their Top 3 because they aren’t going to win anyway. Good luck with that. (“They” even have the adorably brain damaged Tom O’Neill writing about the race as though it is a 2 horse race… between Basterds and Locker. Oy.)
In my strongly held opinion, if a movie is going to push the frontrunners out, it’s not going to be Inglourious Basterds. It’s just not the kind of movie – as Shakespeare in Love was – that slides in by being easily likable. That would be The Blind Side, folks. And don’t look for that to happen either.
And then there are the unspoken narratives, like…
Lee Daniels, who is only the second black person ever nominated for Best Director and just one of three blacks ever nominated as the producer of a Best Film. Wouldn’t this be more historic than a first win by a female director? Statistically, yes. But you barely ever hear a word about it.
Meryl Streep continues her chase of Randy Newman for Oscar futility as a nominee. She could lose her 14th this year… still 4 behind Newman if he loses twice this year. However, she is closer to Newman’s record for missed opportunities, as he competed against himself in the same category twice, meaning he could only have won 16 more Oscars than he has on his shelf. With a loss this season, she is only one behind and could go for the tie next year! (Meanwhile, the two are amongst the true and deserved legends of the industry.)
None of the Score nominees has not been nominated at least twice before… and of 23 nominations for these five nominees (for the record, Buck Sanders is a first-timer, teamed with multiple nominee Marco Beltrami), there have only been 2 wins, each over a decade ago. So Beltrami, Desplat or Giacchino would be winning their first and Horner (Titanic) and Zimmer (The Lion King) are so far removed from their last win that they are virtual virgins. Not only that, but the two previous winners won when the score award was split into comedy/musical and drama, so this would be their first win against tighter competition.
One thing is for sure… everyone loves a great story. Right now, we’re just waiting on that third act twist. But it’s unlikely that we’ll see much of a twist. The die is cast. Cameron is working on appearing modest in public… as he is much more modest and gentle in private than people think. The Hurt Locker is gently flashing its ongoing parade of bling. And Harvey is working on the story that Hitler and the Bear Jew are as charming and fresh as a young, sexy Shakespeare and young Gwynnie Paltrow being unwrapped like a sexy tamale.
In the days to come, voters will pick their poison… big, little, kinky… this is when we start to remember that the Academy is, after all the shouting, about the quality middle. It’s a game that is almost always won on a safety.
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Has anything changed in your
opinion since nominations?
If so, what?
Scott Bowles Nope
Anthony Breznican I don’t think much has changed. Jeff Bridges wins. Sandra Bullock wins. Christoph Waltz. Mo’Nique. Best picture — Avatar? Probably. But looking at the formula for calculating the 10 votes to include second and third choices makes me wonder how solid that is. Does that potentially benefit The Hurt Locker? Dark-horse Up in the Air? Invictus? (Wait, nevermind …) Probably Bigelow for director. Avatar for picture. Up in the Air gets adapted screenplay for Reitman, while Inglourious Basterds wins original screenplay for Tarantino. And overall, the Academy spreads the wealth during a very strong year.
Gregory Ellwood I think the only thing that has changed – ever so slightly – is that people would actually be surprised of Streep won Best Actress. It’s pretty much expected that Bullock will win.
Pete Hammond I think the Best Picture race is appearing more fluid because of the uncertainty of how the preferential balloting will affect certain films. Still no matter how many times I come up with an alternative premise that tries to make the race interesting and suspenseful I then talk to a handful of Oscar voters who tell me they are voting for The Hurt Locker. Go figure. No other changes in the acting races. They appear locked as far as I can see although the actress race has gotten more aggressive but will it help? We’ll see. It’s Bullock’s to lose at this point.
Eugene Hernandez In the wake of her DGA win and continued momentum for The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow seems to be solidly on track for the directing Oscar. Meanwhile Jeff Bridges, Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique appear headed for wins, as well. I think Sandra Bullock is well positioned, but keep an eye on Meryl Streep. At this stage, is anyone willing to consider a surprise in this category: Gabourey Sidibe or Carey Mulligan. Not out of the question. Also, I’m keeping an eye on the doc category. Food Inc. seems solid, but The Cove got a boost this week with news of a release in Japan. Don’t count out Daniel Ellsberg, which is a strong film. Finally, best picture: In any other year I’d predict The Hurt Locker at this moment, but given the new ballot with ten nominees… We’ll all be holding our breath down to the final award of the night. Just what the Academy ordered.
Peter Howell I don’t think anything has changed, apart from firming up of the top prospects. I’ve talked to lot of people who are FINALLY going to see The Hurt Locker as result of the noms — which is good.
Dave Karger No, we’re definitely in a lull right now…
Nothing has changed, things have just solidified/been confirmed. It’s kind of the scourge of the extended awards season and our microscopic coverage, that we take much of the surprise out of it both for ourselves and anyone else who actually follows along. Of course, if things weren’t quite so predictable/understandable we’d all be out of business, so…
David Poland Well, there’s a lot of talk. Seems to me that the thing that has changed is that viewers of The Hurt Locker in The Academy has probably jumped from 40% to 90%. That’s a huge win.
Steve Pond What’s changed is that we’re looking for things to write about, and there aren’t as many of those things as there were a week ago.
Movement in the races, momentum shifts, that kind of thing? Not so much.
Sean Smith –
Sasha Stone What has changed is that we are entering the second phase of the Oscar race. Not many people seem to notice that there was a date extension, which means that there are a few weeks with ballots outstanding. This is very different from the past several years when there wasn’t any time to mull over the frontrunners. That means there will be more careful consideration of the contenders.
Avatar has been seriously hurt by not winning the DGA or the PGA, or having any SAG nominations — heading into the Oscar race with no acting nor writing nominations means that it is weakest at the heart of the voting academy, where actors kind of rule. This change took place, it feels like, because of the momentum put forth by Cameron’s winning the Golden Globe. Voters after that in the various races seemed to go, “hold on a minute, THAT is the best film of 2009?” At the same time, though Avatar has become the highest earner, the week that ballots went out its position dipped to one behind Dear John. Had it remained in a dominant spot throughout these next few weeks it still might have been enough.What has changed, though, ultimately, is not a question we can answer because none of us have ever been through a ten-picture race. What is exciting is that anything is possible and no one should be surprised if a film not expected to win turns up in the number one spot, like Up or Precious, or even Inglourious Basterds. For me the miracle of this race, the truly surprising thing about it so far, is how well a small film written off by almost everyone (one that continues to be written off) keeps winning despite its box office returns. On the one hand, this could be seen as an anti-Cameron vote, on the other hand, wow.
The Oscar race is usually about the team who played it best. But this year it feels like it’s actually about the movie. That means that, perhaps, Hollywood might not be ready just yet to give up their nuts and bolts filmmaking and embrace the brave new world of computer-generated worlds and emotion-capture actors. On the other hand, maybe they are.
Kris Tapley Immediately after the Oscar nominations were announced, journalists in the broader media began to dig into the red meat of ” Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker” and all the nifty headlines it conjured. But at least in fringe corners of the web — where this nonsense is a focus (raises hand) — an awareness of the Best Picture category’s use of the preferential ballot has begun to pick up steam. This is, after all, one more change in protocol that could have as big an impact as “the 10.” Suddenly Avatar is understood as a more polarizing film than its competition, and therefore weak to surprise attacks from consensus favorites like Up, Up in the Air or even Inglourious Basterds. That The Hurt Locker rarely inspires active disapproval probably makes the slow realization moot, but the simple fact that the race can’t be boiled to two contenders is at least making the rounds.
Anne Thompson It’s hard to imagine anything dive-bombing Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique’s Oscar chances. Sandra Bullock is not a lock to beat Meryl Streep. Many older Academy members are rooting for Hollywood’s most-nominated actress, who hasn’t won an Oscar since 1983’s Sophie’s Choice. And The Hurt Locker‘s Jeremy Renner, who actually played the piano and sang on The View, is challenging veteran Jeff Bridges, whose singing in Crazy Heart not only makes the movie, but should win him his first Oscar. Does Renner have a shot? Most folks didn’t call Adrien Brody’s win for The Pianist. But it’s Bridges’ turn.As for best picture and director, it’s Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker all the way. The trick is to convince people that Avatar isn’t just a great technological achievement but a movie to be taken seriously. That’s why I wonder: if Academy members vote for The Hurt Locker for best picture, wouldn’t they consider giving Cameron best director? Who else could have accomplished what he did on Avatar? It’s a director’s achievement. If it’s a popularity contest, self-effacing Bigelow wins against her egoistic ex-mate. But the Academy didn’t “like” Cameron last time, when Titanic won 11 Oscars. The major difference: Oscar voters took historic romantic period epic Titanic more seriously than tree-hugging sci-fi Avatar.
Susan Wloszczyna The excitement over Avatar and its record box office has subsided, Cameron gave a couple just-OK acceptance speeches and now it looks as if The Hurt Locker and — given the weighted voting — Inglourious Basterds might have a better chance at winning best picture. That surprises me since I would think Hollywood would celebrate the green the blue people brought in and how Cameron proved that 3D is not just a gimmick. Up in the Air seems to be deflating by the minute whereas Precious is taking its op-ed blows pretty well. As much as I am behind Team Bigelow, part of me would love to see a sci-fi film actually win the top prize.
23 Days To Go Sit Back, Relax, Enjoy Being The Show
And so, with 23 days to go, here we sit. Once again, frontrunners emerge with such force that everyone – except Paramount – is laying down and letting it happen to their movies.
Not the least of this are Fox and Summit, who really care… but are just not that interested in spending money on this Best Picture fight… at least, not much money.
Warner Bros is now supporting Sandra “Sandy” Bullock’s campaign in earnest… which mostly means paying for her travel, parties, and hair. They weren’t so interested in doing so before she became the co-frontrunner in the Best Actress category. How much of it Alcon is paying for is unknown by this chronicler of Oscar.
Sony has the Statue of Liberty in Meryl Streep… unassailable… unexcitable. The big loss for their awards efforts was Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, which actually is a shame. Their big win was getting in District 9… which somehow has not turned into something that anyone is talking much about.
The Weinstein Company is praying for a shocking upset with Inglourious Basterds swooping in to win Best Picture while the expected duo duke it out.
And Paramount is, indeed, fighting the big fight for Up In The Air, the quietest $80 million grosser with a really well liked star, a fast-rising writer/director, and all the heat you could have coming out of Toronto… which was almost 5 months ago now.
Lionsgate shot their Precious wad in November, their one big move – after Oprah – being the unveiling of a sweet, goofy, charming Gabby Sidibe.
Focus and Sony Classics are very happy to be at the table… again… and would be thrilled to score and animation upset or to win Foreign Language as expected.
And Disney still wants their Up Oscar for Animation… but would seem to have given up on Best Picture… though there is no one left over there to give up. It’s like the bad guys riding into Rock Ridge and finding an empty town that only looks like Rock Ridge.
The media equation for this year’s Oscar season has been interesting. It’s crowded. Way too crowded. But the 10 nominees allowed a much wider spread of “the wealth,” both in stories and advertising gelt.
It’s getting pretty clear that while the move to 10 BP nominees helped keep start-ups in business, things are not as pretty for the Trades and print media that solicit awards advertising aggressively, as just getting ads is not enough… they need high rates. And this year, studios went bargain hunting, even as they were doling out cash.
Meanwhile, on the editorial side, there was near desperation to find some breathing room for stories that could be in any way unique.
The Story has evolved from:
10 Nominees! It’s Gonna Be Star Trek & The Hangover!, to…
It’s Gonna Have To Be Star Trek & The Hangover, Because There Is Nothing Else To Vote For!, to…
Precious! Up In the Air!… Up In The Air! Precious!, to…
We’re Waiting On Eastwood and Harvey Now, to…
Are Nine & Invictus really that bad?, to…
Up In The Air! The Hurt Locker!, Precious!, Inglourious Basterds!, to…
Avatar, really?, to…
Avatar Vs The Hurt Locker… Artifice Vs Art… Big Vs Little, to…
Sandy’s Turn,…
The new spin that Oscarologists are trying to sell is that the races are not as clear as everyone seems to think they are because the counting methodzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
Need I remind everything that there have been two real surprise wins for Best Picture in the last 30 years… Shakespeare In Love and The Last Emperor.
Shakespeare In Love upset Saving Private Ryan, which had been a summer movie against a lighter film about show business folk that was commercially hot as the Oscar season rolled out.
The Last Emperor, a period epic from a legendary director, was relatively low grossing… but not the lowest grosser amongst the nominees in the 1987 race. John Boorman’s brilliant Hope & Glory had that distinction. Fatal Attraction was the big grosser in the group, but wasn’t the kind of movie that ever wins. The rest of the field did some business… but the commercial spread was not massive, from Moonstruck’s $60m when nominated to Broadcast News’ $48m to The Last Emperor’s $25m to Hope & Glory’s $10m.
Did either movie win because it was objectively “better” or more lastingly popular, as we look back? Not so much.
How about Meryl vs Sandra?
The Great Streep has lost to Shirley MacLaine, Geraldine Page, Cher, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Susan Sarandon, Hillary Swank, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet. Katherine Hepburn, Maggie Smith.
Freaks and career achievement awards.
I’m not diminishing any of these performances. Just saying… the way thinks work at the Academy is not as simple and pure as we’d like to think. As Mark Harris smartly pointed out in a NY Mag story this week, a lot of it is about The Story.
When Streep won her first Oscar, she was the stunning newcomer (freak!). When she won for Sophie’s Choice, she was, amazingly, already getting a lifetime achievement award. (She was also stunning in the role and the competition wasn’t her toughest.)
Who is the big competition, all of a sudden, this year? A lifetime achievement award for a terrific performance.
If you want real surprises, look to the categories that no one much is talking about. What would Mark Boal beating Tarantino for Original Screenplay mean? Could be a signal for Picture or it could be a well-deserved consolation prize.
Film Editing could be a signal category. Perhaps neither Avatar or The Hurt Locker will win. Don’t be too shocked if Sally Menke takes home the gold. It doesn’t mean that Inglourious Basterds is going to win Best Picture. But if Avatar or Locker does win… it could be a signal.
Inglourious could well win Cinematography also, over both front-runners. But if Avatar does win, it would seem to signal an acceptance that the film was not just made by some guy in a computer closet somewhere. If it’s The Hurt Locker, it could also be a signal, but a less well-defined one.
I don’t expect either film to win for Score or Song. If Avatar loses Art Direction, it will be a bad sign for them.
But the “locked in” categories… pretty much locked in. If there are surprises, they will come from the co-front-runners.
I am always surprised by how smart studio folks actually are. They know. They aren’t interested in throwing good money after bad. So we have a very quite Phase 2 upon us.
There was no Great Settling this year because there was nothing much left to settle.
So let’s enjoy the celebration of film. Leave the handicapping to Vegas.
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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Maternal Critical Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Decreasing Maternal Mortality
March 10, 2017 by Dr. Clemens Leave a Comment
Authors: Cesar R. Padilla, M.D.; Sarah Rae Easter, M.D.
ASA Monitor 03 2017, Vol.81, 44-46.
Cesar R. Padilla, M.D., is an Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Sarah Rae Easter, M.D., is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Let’s imagine the world of obstetric anesthesiology in 1948. Neonatal and maternal mortality were incredibly high in comparison to today’s standards. Anesthesia-related events accounted for 30 percent of mortality.1 Furthermore, only 24 percent of hospitals offered 24-hour anesthesiology service.1 The field of obstetric anesthesiology was in its infancy. Although epidural anesthesia was introduced in this era for laboring patients, it was rarely used for this reason.
Recognizing the need for improvements in safety and advocacy, several physicians from different medical subspecialties convened to establish a society dedicated to obstetric anesthesiology and improving maternal safety. James Elam M.D., father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, along with Otto Phillips M.D., chair of the ASA Committee on Maternal Welfare (later renamed the “Obstetric Anesthesia Committee”), agreed on plans to create an organization dedicated to this very cause. The first meeting, held on May 25, 1968, included six physicians and was held at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. This meeting was the foundation for what later evolved into the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP).1
The blueprint of SOAP’s foundation has not only withstood the test of time, but has evolved into a major organization for advocacy, research and innovation.
Almost 50 years later, maternal demographics are slowly changing the practice of obstetric medicine. Obstetric anesthesiology is once again being faced with similar challenges it faced upon the inception of SOAP.
While advancements have been made in all the subspecialties of pediatric, regional and cardiac anesthesiology, obstetric anesthesiology is faced by a unique dilemma that few other fields face: a rise in obstetric mortality. The decrease in maternal mortality, long a beacon and benchmark of medical success in the developed world, is on the rise in the United States. Although considerable success has been made in lowering mortality from postpartum hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia by instituting evidence-based protocols, other unsuspecting diseases, such as cardiomyopathy, sepsis and congenital heart disease, have reared their ugly heads. An increase in cardiovascular disease, including congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure, has been shown to be the leading cause of maternal mortality in developed countries.2
When it comes to creating a system to decrease maternal mortality, we’ve seen great contributions from our obstetric colleagues. In 2015, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) outlined “Maternal Levels of Care.” The goal of this document is to stratify hospitals based on the availability of medical care to aid in triaging patients for delivery in a center equipped to manage their unique medical comorbidities. The levels are straightforward: Level I (Birth Center) to Level IV, also referred to as a “Regional Perinatal Health Care Center,” which is equipped with the resources and infrastructure for management of medically comorbid pregnancies. These centers focus on maternal care by employing a multidisciplinary approach to clinical care and quality improvement with the goal of decreasing severe maternal morbidity and mortality.3 These maternal “supercenters” are aimed precisely at attacking maternal mortality head on.
Although tremendous progress is being made by the establishment of Maternal Levels of Care and outlining quality improvement review processes for cases of severe maternal morbidity, there is still more work to be done. Tackling the timely task of maternal mortality will take years of careful strategy, passion and will. More important, it will take a concerted effort from our mentors, program directors and section chiefs in inspiring a new generation of doctors to take on this task. This effort has to go beyond anesthesia and be a true multidisciplinary strategy.
This is why when I received an invitation from Dr. Lisa Leffert, Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, to meet with other residents and fellows interested in maternal critical care, I knew this meeting would be special. In short, a small group of interested obstetric anesthesiologists and obstetricians from both Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital met to discuss the emerging concept of the specialty of “Maternal Critical Care.” The energy and excitement during our meeting was palpable. We all agreed that the only way forward was through a multispecialty approach.
It turns out expert consensus has already confirmed this. Leading experts have repeatedly called for a multidisciplinary team approach, which includes a critical care team, when treating high-risk maternal patients.4 -6 There is even a call by international experts to change our very definition of high-risk maternal care. Experts have now abandoned the term “obstetrical critical care” in favor of “maternal critical care,” which describes patient-centered, multidisciplinary care rather than specialty-focused care.5 Introducing these concepts early in the training of obstetric and anesthesia residents is essential to transform the future culture of maternal care to be more inclusive and multidisciplinary in nature.
In order to achieve formidable changes in our approach to maternal critical care, the training of physicians must also be highlighted. The training of ACGME Fellows in obstetric anesthesiology and maternal-fetal medicine is at a crossroads. In obstetric anesthesiology, for example, there is currently no formal requirement for critical care training. In contrast, the maternal-fetal medicine fellowship requires a formal ICU rotation.7 In light of an increasingly complex patient population, obstetric anesthesiology training must be updated to reflect the stable trend of increasing maternal mortality. This is not unique to anesthesiology. It’s not uncommon to hear the phrase “putting the ‘M’ back in MFM” among obstetricians. The meaning of this is to swing the pendulum of focus back from fetal to maternal care, a statement coined by Mary D’Alton, M.D., maternal-fetal medicine expert.8
Important pillars in maternal critical care are already in place as we speak. Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, in conjunction with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, offers on site simulation training in critical care obstetrics.6 This is largely the vision of Dr. Michael Foley, Professor and Chair at the University of Arizona and editor of the Obstetric Intensive Care Manual. This simulation program aims to “put the ‘M’ back into maternal-fetal medicine in an effort to reduce our national maternal mortality rate.” 9
Obstetric anesthesiology and critical care trainees would benefit from the expertise and training from simulation courses such as these. This is definitely the time to look across specialties for answers. Within the obstetrical community, and hence by extension within our own community, there is active discussion of how the field of “maternal critical care” will be structured. For example, where is the best location to care for such patients? Is it on a labor and delivery unit, with input from intensivists, or is it in an ICU, with input from obstetrical colleagues? Or perhaps a hybrid model, where physicians in all relevant specialties join forces to care for such patients in a variety of locations, the so-called “Virtual Maternal ICU,” a phrase originated by Dr. Foley and colleagues.10
Moreover, the centralization of complex obstetrical care is being embraced as a means to focus clinical expertise in the treatment of a variety of challenging conditions. For example, the concept of “Centers of Excellence,” for conditions such as abnormal placentation (i.e., accreta), are being developed.10 We have personally seen the benefit of having such a model in place. Here at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, our obstetrics department centralized our efforts to help recruit and treat patients with abnormal placentation.12 Improved outcomes have been shown when delivery is performed at these centers, which emphasize multidisciplinary expertise and experience in the care of placenta accreta.11
With leading experts looking to shape the field of maternal critical care, it’s up to the proper guidance of the next generation of physicians to complete the task and establish the field moving forward. Our leadership must span disciplines and our strategy needs a multidisciplinary approach moving forward. Maternal mortality is the challenge of this generation of maternal critical care providers.
During his candidacy speech in 2015, Dr. Mark Zakowski, the incoming president of SOAP, stated we must “adapt or die” to survive in medicine. To be leaders in maternal critical care we must train and inspire the next generation of intensivists, obstetricians and anesthesiologists to help advance maternal care in the 21st century. Our specialties – and more important, our patients – demand it.
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Upcoming events: Critical Care in Obstetrics (onsite course). Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. https://www.smfm.org/events/42-critical-care-in-obstetrics-onsite-course. Last accessed January 17, 2017.
D’Alton ME, Bonanno CA, Berkowitz RL, et al. Putting the “M” back in maternal-fetal medicine. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013;208(6): 442–448. [Article] [PubMed]
Leovic MP, Robbins HN, Foley MR, Starikov RS . The “virtual” obstetrical intensive care unit: providing critical care for contemporary obstetrics in nontraditional locations. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;215(6):736.e1-736.e4. [Article]
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Piante Officinali della Sicilia
Saturday October 31st, 2020 Saturday October 31st, 2020 ecosostenibile 0 Comments Historia y tradiciones de las plantas medicinales de Sicilia, History and traditions of the medicinal plants of Sicily, Storia e tradizioni delle piante officinali della Sicilia
Officinal plants of Sicily
Since ancient times, humans have used plants, both for food and for therapeutic purposes; some of them with particular medicinal properties became bargaining chips, so much so that their value was comparable to that of gold and silver. The first evidence dates back to 3,000 BC. and the use of many of them is evidenced in the Ebers Papyrus which lists tips for their use.
Up to a certain age, plants also had an important social value as they were often attributed magical powers in those cultures where medicine and magic often merged and confused. Once upon a time, knowledge of spontaneous plants and their seasonality was learned through direct experience; city life and the departure from cultural practices have made them alien to us, a subject for scholars and researchers, abruptly interrupting the transmission from generation to generation of those knowledge that have accompanied the history of peoples on the planet for millennia.
In the multiform and heterogeneous array of Sicilian spontaneous plants, out of about three thousand known species, only about a hundred can be considered fully officinal.
The term officinale derives from workshop, the place where, in the Middle Ages, plants were manipulated for the preparation of medicinal remedies; today it is the laboratory, that is the place of transformation in which the herbs are dried or processed fresh to prepare herbal teas, creams, tinctures, syrups, etc. and there is no botanical family that does not include a species due to a particular “active ingredient” that makes it exclusive for this or that other use.
The knowledge of the different species of medicinal interest is an indispensable condition for their possible use: the leaves, flowers, fruits, bark, roots are the usable parts of each and for each plant it is necessary to know which part to use.
Plants, as we know, are natural chemical laboratories, capable of synthesizing substances that it is difficult for specialized laboratories to reproduce artificially; these substances, made up of chemical molecules, are indicated in the pharmacological terminology as active ingredients.
Many officinal species also have other uses such as aromatic ones, so called due to the presence inside them of essential oils, used in aromatherapy; others are edible and are the main ingredient of various regional recipes; others are used in organic farming in the fight and prevention against phytopathogens, without forgetting those used for cosmetic, liqueur and dyeing purposes.
Today, the reference to “natural” and “alternative” medicine has brought many people closer to using spontaneous plants for their health effects; the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries make extensive use of these plants whose cultivation has spread for these purposes.
Often during a walk in the woods or a simple trip to the countryside we observe plants that we find on display in the jars of herbalists, whose features we are not able to recognize in nature.
To help us regain possession of this ancient knowledge, this work has been written which, on the basis of a scientific path, is presented in an informative language, easier for those who want to come into direct contact with the biodiversity of our spontaneous vegetation.
Let us remember that nature provides man with a great wealth of species with many properties, some of which are still irreplaceable and many still to be discovered, but that there are also plants that are toxic or that can become so for humans if collected in areas subjected to pollution. Plants, in fact, absorb harmful substances by taking them within their own tissues so it is necessary to be very careful in picking a plant if you are no longer certain that you have correctly identified it and take care to do it only in areas far from sources of pollution. . Let us also remember that all medicinal plants contain active ingredients that, like those contained in drugs, can have side effects, so it is always a good idea to contact a competent person in the matter when you want to use medicinal plants in place or in complementarity. conventional drugs.
Sicily with its multiplicity of natural environments and its high biodiversity, preserves an immense heritage of species with medicinal, aromatic and edible properties that for centuries have been a source of care and survival in daily use.
Today there is a scientific discipline called ethnobotany that brings together the uses of plants as they were in the popular tradition: medicines, food, crafts, veterinary and rituals.
Maria Canzoneri *
* Maria Canzoneri is an agronomist employed by the Agricultural Development Agency, within the Development Services, who in 1999 began the knowledge of medicinal plants by attending a specialization course in Medicinal Plants, at the Federico II University of Naples, perfected with a theoretical-practical internship at the Botanical Garden of Palermo from 2000 to 2003; with this training, between 2007 and 2011 he carried out activities and dissemination projects with the Sicilian Region thanks to a collaboration between ESA and the then Azienda Foreste, now the Department of Rural and Territorial Development, also creating a field catalog of the flora spontaneous Sicilian.
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Shripad Mahadev Mate (2 September 1886–25 December 1957) was a Marathi writer and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. Mate was a teacher of English and Marathi literature by profession. Although he took up writing at the relatively late age of forty-four, during the remainder of his life he wrote eclectically and copiously on a variety of social, scientific, biographical and historical subjects. He was deeply troubled by the social scourge of untouchability in contemporary India, and wrote several short stories as well as essays arguing for the abolition of this practice. Although he was a Brahmin by birth and retained a spiritual affinity for the cultural and religious tenets of Hinduism, his writings show his sustained scepticism towards many of its dogmas.
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Shripad Mahadev Mate (2 September 1886–25 December 1957) was a Marathi writer and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. Mate was a teacher of English and Marathi literature by profession. Although he took up writing at the relatively late age of forty-four, during the remainder of his life he wrote eclectically and copiously on a variety of social, scientific, biographical and historical subjects. He was deeply troubled by the social scourge of untouchability in contemporary India, and wrote several short stories as well as essays arguing for the abolition of this practice. Although he was a Brahmin by birth and retained a spiritual affinity for the cultural and religious tenets of Hinduism, his writings show his sustained scepticism towards many of its dogmas. Mate was born in the town of Shirpur in Vidarbha. He went to New English School, Satara and acquired his university education (up to an M.A.) in Pune. For a few years, he served as a teacher at the Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya, Pune and later as a professor at Sir Parshurambhau College. His son Madhukar Mate (born 1930) was an eminent archaeologist with expertise in medieval India. Mate presided over the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Sangli in 1943.
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Is Too Much Homework Hurting Your Child?
Research shows that having too much Homework Hurting Your Child can be counterproductive to school performance and take a toll on a child’s health. But how much homework is too much?
When it comes to a child’s health and development, homework may be a double-edged sword.
While there’s no doubt that it’s an important part of the learning process, research shows that too much homework can have a boomerang effect and end up hurting kids. And too often, parents get caught in the crossfire between their kids and school.
Is it possible to find the right balance?
The Facts on Homework and Child Health
Homework has proven to be important in reinforcing what kids learn and advancing their school performance. In fact, a 2006 Duke University review of more than 60 research studies done between 1987 and 2003 found a positive correlation between how much homework students do and their school performance, especially in secondary school, grades 7 through 12.
But the same Duke review found that when homework was piled too high, it was counterproductive for students of all grade levels. In the years since, researchers have found even greater downsides to having tons of homework. A 2014 Stanford University study published in the Journal of Experimental Education showed that spending excessive time on homework led to unhealthy sleep habits, stress, health problems, a lack of balance, and even alienation from society.
“We found that the biggest impact of having too much homework is the sleep kids are missing in order to get that homework done,” says Denise Pope, PhD, co-author of the study and a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in Palo Alto, Calif. Pope and her fellow researchers looked at 4,317 students from 10 high-performing high schools in upper-middle-class California and found that students were averaging about 3.1 hours of homework each night — this on top of sports and other
“By the time these kids even start on homework, it’s usually dinnertime or after dinnertime, so they are staying up to finish their homework instead of getting the sleep they need,” Pope says. “Researchers say teenagers need more than 9 hours of sleep. If you do the math, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day for them to sleep that much.”
Pope and her colleagues also found that parents feel homework robs them of quality time with their children and interferes with weekend and holiday time as well.
Homework also forces children to sit for long periods of time, and being sedentary is a risk factor for obesity and poor health. In their book, “The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It,” authors Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish argue that too much homework is creating a nation of “homework potatoes.”
How Much Homework Is Too Much?
Clearly, the right amount of homework can help kids keep their school performance sharp. The Duke research supports the 10-minute rule: 10 minutes of homework for every grade. So on a given night, a first-grader would get 10 minutes of homework, a fifth-grader would get 50 minutes, and a high school senior would get about 2 hours.
However, Pope doesn’t believe that the hours put in are as important as the purpose of the homework and whether it’s engaging and differentiated to students’ specific abilities. “Time is certainly a factor, but I also think homework success depends on a lot of other things,” she says.
What You Can Do to Help Your Child
Parents often struggle with their role when it comes to their children’s homework. “A lot of parents feel they are kind of powerless. But they can be advocates for their children,” Pope says. “I encourage parents to have a dialogue with their children about their thoughts on homework — whether they believe it’s worthwhile or just busywork — and then present that dialogue to the school in a respectful way.”
Also, take a fresh look at your involvement with your child’s homework. “For the most part, homework is between a child and the teacher,” Pope says. “Parents shouldn’t sit next to the child the entire time, making sure they are doing every problem, do some of it themselves, or grade the homework.” These are unhealthy habits that can become a source of stress for the child.
What parents should do, she says, is communicate openly with the school and teachers and let them know if homework is becoming a problem for their child or their family. After all, homework can be a very powerful learning tool when it’s properly focused and assigned in a reasonable amount, and parents can partner with teachers to make sure homework is helping, not hurting, their child.
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s Zeeshan-ul-Farid secured 40th position in 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions event in the 52nd ISSF World Championship being held in Changwon, South Korea, on Thursday.Zeeshan.
Armed with his girlfriend’s rifle, Olympic champion Niccolo Campriani narrowly won his second gold of the Games on Sunday at the men’s 50 metre rifle three positions event, making Italy the.
The target in this event was 1 metre in diameter with 10 scoring rings, with a black aiming mark of 60 cm in diameter. Competitors shot 40 shots each from prone, kneeling, and standing positions from 300 metres for a possible 1,200 points. The individual event was held concurrently with the free rifle team event.
The 50 metre rifle events will be held at the Sinclair Range, St John's. This is in the centre of the Island and approximately a 20 minute drive from Douglas. The Range has 32 shooting lanes equipped with Gehmann target systems. There is a roomy covered firing point and Clubhouse serving refreshments throughout the day. The Clubhouse and its facilities are wheelchair friendly. SHOOTING.
Indian shooters had a field day at Karni Singh Range on Friday with the duo of Gagan Narang and Imran Hasan Khan winning gold medal in pairs 50-metre rifle 3 positions before Vijay Kumar swelled.
The winners in women's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Rio 2016 Olympics: Gold: Barbara Engleder of Germany with a score of 458.6 Silver: Binbin Zhang of China with a score of 458.4 Bronze.
Hui Zicheng, who won gold at 2017 ISSF World Cup is the most probable winner in men’s 50 metre rifle three positions. China’s Mingyang Wu and Ruozhu Zhao are the favourites in women’s 10.
Li Du of China won the bronze medal in women's 50 metre rifle three positions. She had a score of 447.4 which was 11 behind the silver medalist and 11.2 behind the gold medalist.
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India shows fastest progress in the world in shooting.
Her perseverance seems to have paid off, for Bhakti won the gold in the 50-metre rifle category three positions in the ongoing 62nd National Shooting Championship held at Vattiyoorkavu Shooting.
Meanwhile, Russia's Lioubov Galkina won the gold medal in the women's 50 metre rifle three-positions target event yesterday after setting an Olympic record for the final round.
At the 2009 ISSF World Cup in Munich, she won a bronze medal in 50-metre rifle three positions. She became the World Champion and the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal by making a world-record equalling score at the World Championships in the 50 m Rifle Prone event.
The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 20 October 1964 at the shooting ranges in Tokyo. 53 shooters from 33 nations competed.
Read more about Shooter Rajput bags silver in men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions on Business Standard. India's Sanjeev Rajput clinched a silver medal in the men's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions shooting event of the 18th Asian Games here on Tuesday.
Rajmond Debevec (born 29 March 1963) is a Slovenian shooter.He has won three Olympic and five World Championship medals in shooting. He also holds the world record for the 50 metre rifle three positions event. Career. Debevec started shooting in 1971 and became a member of the Yugoslavian junior national team in 1979.
Hammond came 34th in the 50 metre rifle prone again scoring 589 points as gold was won by Artur Ayvazian of Ukraine. In the 50 metres rifle three positions Hammond finished 42nd out of the 49 athletes who started in an event, won by China's Qiu Jian At the 2010 Commonwealth Games Hammond won a total of four medals, two gold, a silver and a bronze, making him the most successful Scottish.
Sanjeev Rajput is an Arjuna Awardee Indian shooter from Yamuna Nagar, Haryana.
The men's 50 metre pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 30 November 1956 at the shooting ranges in Melbourne. 33 shooters from 22 nations competed.
List of 2000 Summer Olympics Medal Winners - Shooting. Shooting. See also: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze; Men's 10 metre air rifle details: Cai Yalin China: Artem Khadjibekov Russia: Yevgeni Aleinikov Russia (RUS) Women's 10 metre air rifle details: Nancy Johnson United States (USA) Kang Cho-hyun South Korea (KOR) Gao Jing China (CHN) Men's 50 metre rifle.
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Old Style and New Style dates
"Old Style" redirects here. For other uses, see Old Style (disambiguation).
This article is about the 18th-century changes in calendar conventions used by Great Britain and its colonies, together with a brief explanation of usage of the term in other contexts. For a more general discussion of the equivalent transitions in other countries, see Adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are terms sometimes used with dates to indicate that the calendar convention used at the time described is different from that in use at the time the document was being written. There were two calendar changes in Great Britain and its colonies, which may sometimes complicate matters: the first was to change the start of the year from Lady Day (25 March) to 1 January; the second was to discard the Julian calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.[2][3][4] Closely related is the custom of dual dating, where writers gave two consecutive years to reflect differences in the starting date of the year, or to include both the Julian and Gregorian dates.
Issue 9198 of The London Gazette, covering the calendar change in Great Britain. The date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752".[1]
Beginning in 1582, the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian in Roman Catholic countries. This change was implemented subsequently in Protestant and Orthodox countries, usually at much later dates. In England and Wales, Ireland, and the British colonies, the change to the start of the year and the changeover from the Julian calendar occurred in 1752 under the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750. In Scotland, the legal start of the year had already been moved to 1 January (in 1600), but Scotland otherwise continued to use the Julian calendar until 1752. Thus "New Style" can either refer to the start of year adjustment, or to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
In Russia, new style dates came into use in early 1918. Other countries in Eastern Orthodoxy adopted new style dating for their civil calendars but most continue to use the Julian calendar for religious use. In English-language histories of other countries (especially Russia), the Anglophone OS/NS convention is often used to identify which calendar is being used when giving a date.
1 Start of the year in the historical records of Britain and its colonies and possessions
2 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar
2.1 Adoption in the Americas
3 Anglophone usage describing events in other countries
4 Transposition of historical event dates and possible date conflicts
5 Differences between Julian and Gregorian dates
5.1 Other notations
Start of the year in the historical records of Britain and its colonies and possessionsEdit
Further information: Julian calendar § New Year's Day, and Regnal year
Memorial plaque to John Etty in All Saints' Church, North Street, York, recording his date of death as 28 January 170+8/9
When recording British history, it is usual to use the same dates recorded at the time of the event, with the year adjusted to start on 1 January.[5] The latter adjustment may be needed because the start of the civil calendar year was not always 1 January and was altered at different times in different countries.[a] From 1155 to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March (Lady Day);[6][7] so for example, the execution of Charles I was recorded at the time in Parliament as happening on 30 January 1648 (Old Style).[8] In newer English language texts this date is usually shown as "30 January 1649" (New Style).[2] The corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar is 9 February 1649, the date by which his contemporaries in some parts of continental Europe would have recorded his execution.
The O.S./N.S. designation is particularly relevant for dates which fall between the start of the "historical year" (1 January) and the official start date, where different. This was 25 March in England, Wales and the colonies until 1752 and until 1600 in Scotland.
During the years between the first introduction of the Gregorian calendar in continental Europe and its introduction in Britain, contemporary usage in England started to change.[4] In Britain, 1 January was celebrated as the New Year festival,[9] but the "year starting 25th March was called the Civil or Legal Year, although the phrase Old Style was more commonly used."[4] To reduce misunderstandings about the date, it was normal in parish registers to place a new year heading after 24 March (for example "1661") and another heading from the end of the following December, 1661/62, a form of dual dating to indicate that in the following twelve weeks or so, the year was 1661 Old Style but 1662 New Style.[10] Some more modern sources, often more academic ones (e.g. the History of Parliament) also use the 1661/62 style for the period between 1 January and 24 March for years before the introduction of the New Style calendar in England.[11]
Scotland had already partly made the change: its calendar year had begun on 1 January since 1600.[12][13]
Adoption of the Gregorian calendarEdit
Main article: Adoption of the Gregorian calendar
William Hogarth painting: Humours of an Election (c. 1755), which is the main source for "Give us our Eleven Days".
Through the enactment of the British Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 and of the Irish Parliament's Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750,[14] Great Britain, Ireland and the British Empire (including much of what is now the eastern part of the United States and Canada) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752, was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752. Claims that rioters demanded "Give us our eleven days" grew out of a misinterpretation of a painting by William Hogarth.[15] The British tax year traditionally ended on Lady Day (25 March) on the Julian calendar and this became 5 April, which was the "New Style" equivalent.[16] Since then, the British fiscal year has uniquely run from 6 April to 5 April, rather than being coordinated with the calendar year or starting at the beginning of a month as in other countries. Dr Robert Poole explains:[17] "The twelve- rather than eleven-day discrepancy between the start of the old year (25 March) and that of the modern financial year (6 April) has caused puzzlement, [...] In fact, 25 March was first day of the [calendar] year but the last day of the financial quarter, corresponding to 5 April; the difference was thus exactly eleven days".[b]
Adoption in the AmericasEdit
The European colonies of the Americas adopted the new style calendar when their mother countries did. In what is now the continental United States, the French and Spanish possessions did so before the British colonies. In Alaska, the change took place after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. Friday, 6 October 1867 was followed by Friday, 18 October. Instead of 12 days, only 11 were skipped, and the day of the week was repeated on successive days, because at the same time the International Date Line was moved, from following Alaska's eastern border with Canada to following its new western border, now with Russia.[19]
Anglophone usage describing events in other countriesEdit
It is common in English-language publications to use the familiar Old Style and/or New Style terms to discuss events and personalities in other countries, especially with reference to the Russian Empire and the very beginning of Soviet Russia. For example, in the article "The October (November) Revolution," the Encyclopædia Britannica uses the format of "25 October (7 November, New Style)" to describe the date of the start of the revolution.[20]
When that usage is encountered, the British adoption date is not necessarily intended. The 'start of year' change and the calendar system change were not always adopted concurrently. Similarly, civil and religious adoption may not have happened at the same time or even at all. In the case of Eastern Europe, for example, all of those assumptions would be incorrect.
Transposition of historical event dates and possible date conflictsEdit
Thomas Jefferson's tombstone. Written below the epitaph is "Born April 2 1743 O.S. Died July 4 1826"
Usually, the mapping of New Style dates onto Old Style dates with a start of year adjustment works well with little confusion for events before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. For example, the Battle of Agincourt is well known to have been fought on 25 October 1415, which is Saint Crispin's Day. However, for the period between the first introduction of the Gregorian calendar on 15 October 1582 and its introduction in Britain on 14 September 1752, there can be considerable confusion between events in Continental Western Europe and in British domains. Events in Continental Western Europe are usually reported in English-language histories by using the Gregorian calendar. For example, the Battle of Blenheim is always given as 13 August 1704. However, confusion occurs when an event involves both. For example, William III of England arrived at Brixham in England on 5 November (Julian calendar), after he had set sail from the Netherlands on 11 November (Gregorian calendar) 1688.[21]
The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland took place a few months later on 1 July 1690 (Julian calendar). That maps to 11 July (Gregorian calendar), conveniently close to the Julian date of the subsequent (and more decisive) Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691 (Julian). The latter battle was commemorated annually throughout the 18th century on 12 July,[22] following the usual historical convention of commemorating events of that period within Great Britain and Ireland by mapping the Julian date directly onto the modern Gregorian calendar date (as happens, for example, with Guy Fawkes Night on 5 November). The Battle of the Boyne was commemorated with smaller parades on 1 July. However, both events were combined in the late 18th century,[22] and continue to be celebrated as "The Twelfth".
Because of the differences, British writers and their correspondents often employed two dates, which is called dual dating, more or less automatically. Letters concerning diplomacy and international trade thus sometimes bore both Julian and Gregorian dates to prevent confusion. For example, Sir William Boswell wrote to Sir John Coke from The Hague a letter dated "12/22 Dec. 1635".[21] In his biography of John Dee, The Queen's Conjurer, Benjamin Woolley surmises that because Dee fought unsuccessfully for England to embrace the 1583/84 date set for the change, "England remained outside the Gregorian system for a further 170 years, communications during that period customarily carrying two dates".[23] In contrast, Thomas Jefferson, who lived while the British Isles and colonies eventually converted to the Gregorian calendar, instructed that his tombstone bear his date of birth by using the Julian calendar (notated O.S. for Old Style) and his date of death by using the Gregorian calendar.[24] At Jefferson's birth, the difference was eleven days between the Julian and Gregorian calendars and so his birthday of 2 April in the Julian calendar is 13 April in the Gregorian calendar. Similarly, George Washington is now officially reported as having been born on 22 February 1732, rather than on 11 February 1731/32 (Julian calendar).[25]
There is some evidence that the calendar change was not easily accepted. Many British people continued to celebrate their holidays "Old Style" well into the 19th century,[c] a practice that the author Karen Bellenir considered to reveal a deep emotional resistance to calendar reform.[26]
Differences between Julian and Gregorian datesEdit
Main article: Gregorian calendar § Difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates
The change arose from the realisation that the correct figure for the number of days in a year is not 365.25 (365 days 6 hours) as assumed by the Julian calendar but slightly less (c. 365.242 days): the Julian calendar has too many leap years. The consequence was that the basis for calculation of the date of Easter as decided in the 4th century had drifted from reality. The Gregorian calendar reform also dealt with the accumulated difference between these figures, between the years 325 and 1582 (1752 in the British Empire), by skipping 10 days (11 in the case of Great Britain, including its colonies and Ireland) to restore the date of the vernal equinox to approximately 21 March, the approximate date it occurred at the time of the First Council of Nicea in 325.
For a ready reckoner to assist in converting O.S. dates to N.S. and vice versa, see this table.
Other notationsEdit
The Latin equivalents, which are used in many languages, are stili veteris (genitive) or stilo vetere (ablative), abbreviated st.v. and respectively meaning "(of) old style" and "(in) old style", and stili novi or stilo novo, abbreviated st.n. and meaning "(of/in) new style".[27] The Latin abbreviations may be capitalised differently by different users, e.g., St.n. or St.N. for stili novi.[27] There are equivalents for these terms in other languages as well, such as the German a.St. ("alten Stils" for O.S.).
Dual dating
^ British official legal documents of the 16th and 17th centuries were usually dated by the regnal year of the monarch. As these commence on the day and date of the monarch's accession, they normally span two consecutive calendar years and have to be calculated accordingly, but the resultant dates should be unambiguous.
^ For further details, see History of taxation in the United Kingdom#Why the United Kingdom income tax year begins on 6 April (and History of taxation in the United Kingdom#Incorrect explanation for 6 April tax year for the 'leap year in 1800' misunderstanding posited by Philips (1921).[18])
^ See also Little Christmas.
^ Gazette 9198. sfn error: no target: CITEREFGazette9198 (help)
^ a b Death warrant of Charles I web page of the UK National Archives. A demonstration of New Style, meaning Julian calendar with a start of year adjustment.
^ Stockton, J.R. Date Miscellany I: The Old and New Styles "The terms 'Old Style' and 'New Style' are now commonly used for both the 'Start of Year' and 'Leap Year' [(Gregorian calendar)] changes (England & Wales: both in 1752; Scotland: 1600, 1752). I believe that, properly and historically, the 'Styles' really refer only to the 'Start of Year' change (from March 25th to January 1); and that the 'Leap Year' change should be described as the change from Julian to Gregorian."
^ a b c Spathaky, Mike Old Style and New Style Dates and the change to the Gregorian Calendar. "Before 1752, parish registers, in addition to a new year heading after 24th March showing, for example '1733', had another heading at the end of the following December indicating '1733/4'. This showed where the Historical Year 1734 started even though the Civil Year 1733 continued until 24th March. ... We as historians have no excuse for creating ambiguity and must keep to the notation described above in one of its forms. It is no good writing simply 20th January 1745, for a reader is left wondering whether we have used the Civil or the Historical Year. The date should either be written 20th January 1745 OS (if indeed it was Old Style) or as 20th January 1745/6. The hyphen (1745-6) is best avoided as it can be interpreted as indicating a period of time."
^ e.g. Woolf, Daniel (2003). The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. xiii. ISBN 0-19-925778-7. Dates are Old Style, but the year is calculated from 1 January. On occasion, where clarity requires it, dates are written 1687/8.
^ Nørby, Toke. The Perpetual Calendar: What about England? Version 29 February 2000.
^ Gerard 1908.
^ "House of Commons Journal Volume 8, 9 June 1660 (Regicides)". British History Online. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
^ Tuesday 31 December 1661, Pepys Diary "I sat down to end my journell for this year, .."
^ Spathaky, Mike Old Style and New Style Dates and the change to the Gregorian Calendar. "An oblique stroke is by far the most usual indicator, but sometimes the alternative final figures of the year are written above and below a horizontal line, as in a fraction, thus: 17 33 34 {\displaystyle 17{\tfrac {33}{34}}}
. Very occasionally a hyphen is used, as 1733-34."
^ See for example this biographical entry: Lancaster, Henry (2010). "Chocke, Alexander II (1593/4–1625), of Shalbourne, Wilts.; later of Hungerford Park, Berks". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Steele 2000, p. 4.
^ Bond 1875, See footnote on pages xvii–xviii: original text of the Scottish decree.
^ Parliament of Ireland 1750.
^ Poole 1995, pp. 95–139.
^ Cheney & Jones 2000, p. 18
^ Poole 1995, footnote 77, page 117.
^ Philip 1921, p. 24.
^ Dershowitz, Nachum; Reingold, Edward M. (2008). Calendrical Calculations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780521885409.
^ EB online 2017.
^ a b Cheney & Jones 2000, p. 19.
^ a b Lenihan, Pádraig (2003). 1690 Battle of the Boyne. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus. pp. 258–259. ISBN 0-7524-2597-8.
^ Baker, John. "Why Bacon, Oxford and Other's Weren't Shakespeare". Archived from the original on 4 April 2005. ) uses the quote by Benjamin Woolley and cites The Queen's Conjurer, The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, page 173.
^ "Old Style (O.S.)". monticello.org. June 1995. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^ Engber, Daniel (18 January 2006). "What's Benjamin Franklin's Birthday?". Slate. Retrieved 8 February 2013. (Both Franklin's and Washington's confusing birth dates are clearly explained.)
^ Bellenir, Karen (2004). Religious Holidays and Calendars. Detroit: Omnigraphics. p. 33.
^ a b Lenz, Rudolf; Uwe Bredehorn; Marek Winiarczyk (2002). Abkürzungen aus Personalschriften des XVI. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts (3 ed.). Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 210. ISBN 3-515-08152-6.
Cheney, C. R.; Jones, Michael, eds. (2000). A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History (PDF). Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. 4 (Revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 17–20. ISBN 978-0-521-77095-8.
Gerard, John (1908). "General Chronology § Beginning of the year" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
"No. 9198". The London Gazette. 1 September 1752. p. 1.
Parliament of Ireland (1750). "Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750". Government of Ireland. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
Philip, Alexander (1921). The Calendar: its history, structure and improvement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ISBN 9781107640214.
Russia: The October (November) Revolution (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
Steele, Duncan (2000). Marking Time: the epic quest to invent the perfect calendar. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471404217.
Bond, John James (1875), Handy-book of rules and tables, London: George Bell & Sons, pp. xvii–xviii
Poole, Robert (1995). "'Give us our eleven days!': calendar reform in eighteenth-century England". Past & Present. Oxford Academic. 149 (1): 95–139. doi:10.1093/past/149.1.95. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014.
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Fewer Is Not Better
(Judges that is)
In October the ISU Council approved a reduction in the number of judges that are used to determine the results in ISU Championships. This action was taken to reduce the cost of officials at championships. In March the Council extended this policy to the number of judges to be used at the Olympics in Vancouver. The justification for the most recent decision was to establish a uniform panel size at competitions. It was not to save money since the cost of officials at the Olympics is not carried by the ISU.
In a previous article we took the position that reducing the number of officials was penny wise and pound foolish in that it saved the ISU a small amount of money at the cost of reducing the mathematical reliability and integrity of the results, and increased the impact misconduct would have on the results of competitions. In effect it devalued the ISU's most important "product" -- the reliable and integrity of its competitions.
Reduced panel sizes were used in the ISU, Four Continents, European and World Championships this year. In this article we compare results from these championships with those from Championships held in the 2004/05 season.
When the adoption of IJS was first proposed in 2003 I was told by several ISU officials that it would take up to five years before judges were fully comfortable and adept in the scoring system, and that judging the quality of the method should be reserved until the system had been used for several.
It is now nearly six years since the first test events were held in 2003. How does the quality of the judging today compare to past seasons? Inquiring minds would like to know.
But first let's review the basic foundation of IJS.
Under IJS, the basic premise is that the value of a performance will be determined on an absolute scale and the performance with the highest value wins, the next highest value is second, etc. ISU rules and communications define what aspects of a skating performance will receive points, what aspects will reduce the value of a performance and what aspects will increase the value of a performance. A panel of officials is used to determine whether the skaters meet the requirements for gaining or losing points in accordance with the rules and communications.
If the rules were complete and unambiguous, a single omniscient person could score a competition with 100% accuracy. All we would have to do is hire that person to judge all competitions and life would be simple. Unfortunately GOD is unavailable to take on that job, and we are forced to rely on a collection of mortals to determine the results.
Because even well trained individuals come to different conclusions for points the skaters should earn or lose, we use more that one official to get the job done. The individuals serve on Technical Panels and some number of judges mark the elements and components. The wider the spread of opinions among the pool of judges, the more judges one needs on a panel to determine the value of performances and hence the order of finish for a competition. If judges were in fairly narrow agreement in their evaluations we could get by with just a few. If they have widely divergent conclusions we need many.
For reasons we have discussed elsewhere, and will not repeat here, the use of nine scoring judges in the past was woefully inadequate given the wide range of conclusions judges came to in evaluating performances. The only valid technical argument for reducing the number of scoring judges to seven would be that the diversity of opinion among the judges is now better than it was in the past (after 6 years of experience) and thus seven is now enough.
The question for this article then becomes: "Is the spread of opinion among the judges better than it was when IJS was first introduced, to an extent that justifies a reduction in the size of panels?"
Instead, the spread of opinion is nearly the same as it was at the introduction of IJS, and the reliability of the results is now worse than it was because of the reduced panel size.
In the following table we compare the average standard deviation of the GoEs and Program Components for several event segments from the 2004/05 season and the 2008/09 season. In the right hand column we compare the percentage of places that are not statistically significant for these events (for the skaters that completed the event). These events are typical of all championship events for these two season.
Statistical Significance of ISU Championship Results
Event Spread of GoE Values Spread of PC Values Percent Places Not Significant
2005 4C Ladies SP 0.43 0.45 46
2005 4C Ladies FS 0.40 0.34
2005 Euros Ladies SP 0.45 0.41 33
2005 Euros Ladies FS 0.41 0.34
2005 Worlds Qual A FS 0.41 0.49 54
2005 Worlds Qual B FS 0.35 0.41
2005 Worlds Ladies SP 0.43 0.31
2005 Worlds Ladies FS 0.42 0.41
2005 Worlds Men's SP 0.48 0.41
2005 Worlds Men's FS 0.41 0.39
Average 0.41 0.40 44
2009 Worlds Ladies SP 0.44 0.43 88
2009 Worlds Men's SP 0.46 0.42 46
Reducing panel size in championship events has clearly had an adverse effect on the reliability and integrity of results this season. To a cynical person, the only plausible reason to have extended the reduction in panel size to the Olympic Games is that to have not done so would give the appearance that the original decision in October was an error -- which indeed it was.
The spread in the judges marks currently is slightly greater than it was four years.
The standard deviation of the mean for event results for this season (2008/09) is significantly greater than it was four years ago, largely due to the reduced panel sized used this season compared to four years ago.
Due to the increased uncertainty in the true point value for performances, the percentage of places that are statistically NOT significant this season has significantly increased, and is now the vast majority of all places for some events.
The current spread inherent in the judges' marks does not support the decision to reduce the number of scoring judges for ISU and Olympic championships.
Mathematical Notes:
One commonly used measure of the spread of values in a data set is called the variance. The variance is the average of the square of the difference between each data value and the mean data value The positive square root of the variance is called the standard deviation.
The variance and standard deviation are measures of the extent to which the data values are spread out around the average, some values being greater than the average and some less. The standard deviation is usually used instead of the variance since it has the same units as the original variable and can be easier to interpret for this reason. That is, for skating scores, the standard deviation of the points involved is also some number of points (while the variance is some value of points squared) that measures the spread of points about the average points.
From the standard deviations for each element and component the uncertainty in the value of the program can be calculated -- measured as the standard deviation of the mean. If the difference in point value for two sequential is less than the uncertainty in the two program values the results for those two places is considered to be statistically NOT significant.
The goal for any scoring system should be that all places in an event are statistically significant. The more marks included in the calculation the smaller is the value of the standard deviation of the mean and the greater is the confidence in the results. The standard deviation of the mean is reduced and the confidence in the results are increased by increasing the number of samples (judges' marks) in the calculation.
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33 per cent of BPO staff working remotely
Published:Thursday | May 14, 2020 | 9:46 AM
Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - Contributed photo
Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, says 33 per cent of employees in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector are now working from home.
“They have moved operations to work at home, which is a new model that is emerging that some BPOs are finding to be particularly cost-effective and efficient,” he said in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
“What they are saying to us is that we may need to consider new regulations to cover that emerging new way of operating,” he added.
Holness told the House that inspection of BPO facilities continues and that more than 40 entities have been approved to operate.
“Others are at varying degrees of compliance and they are working to meet compliance,” he said.
The islandwide inspection of BPOs is among several measures being undertaken by the Government to prevent further spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) following last month’s outbreak at the Alorica call centre in Portmore, St Catherine.
The inspection process is being spearheaded by the newly established BPO task force, which has also implemented measures, including new inspection and audit protocols, a self-inspection checklist that has been signed off by all agencies and departments, the submission of daily reports by all BPO operators to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, and installation of closed-circuit televisions (CCTV) at all BPO facilities.
Meanwhile, Holness said that while the BPO market is very competitive, Jamaica has managed to do very well.
“In less than a decade, we have grown the business significantly to have approximately 40,000 persons working in the industry. We cannot allow the industry to suffer, but the industry will have to adjust and the Government is working… to ensure that it is able to adjust very quickly to the new work normal that has to emerge,” he noted.
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Kerry Barrett
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Save Crystal Palace!
This blog will really only be of interest to you if you live in South East London, but felt I had to write it because it’s something I feel so passionately about. So apologies to everyone else!
I love Crystal Palace Park. I really, really love it – it’s one of my favourite places in London. In fact, it’s possibly my actual favourite place in London. I spent a lot of my childhood there, roller-skating round the park, clambering over the gorilla statue, admiring the dinosaurs, and running across the grass with my brother, my cousins and our friends. I learned to dive at the brilliant diving pool, I started and finished my (very short) career as a synchronised swimmer there. On more than one occasion I was butted by a goat and ended up sobbing at the farm. My best friend and I used to walk down the wide stone steps that once led to the Crystal Palace itself and pretend to be princesses.
Now I take my children there. They love the dinosaurs. They love the new sandpit where they can uncover fossils. They love the farm and the ponds and they really, really love all the space.
We spent the day there yesterday. It was packed. As we arrived a charity 10km run was finishing in the stadium so there were hoards of runners leaving, proudly displaying their medals. It was a gloriously sunny day, and the playground was full of happy children. The café was heaving, the grass covered in families, couples and individuals soaking up the first proper sun of the year. The beach volleyball courts were full, there were people playing five-a-side football, basketball, swimming, rollerblading, running, cycling, scooting, you name it.
But that might all be about to change. In October 2013, it was announced that an investor from China – called Mr Ni – wants to redevelop the site of the original Crystal Palace, which burned down in 1936. It’s all still in the planning stages, but he fancies building a hotel, an art gallery, maybe a museum, perhaps a conference centre. Apparently, he fell in love with the history of the park and the Palace when his daughters studied architecture. Lovely. I have no doubt that’s true. The history of the Crystal Palace is amazing. I love Victorian London so it appeals to me, too.
But, frankly, the idea of developing the site leaves me cold. For so many reasons I almost don’t know where to begin.
I think the biggest worry I’ve got is the ethics. I don’t understand how an investor can swoop in, write a cheque and redevelop the site – a site that currently belongs to everyone – and presumably profit from it. Because as much as Mr Ni loves Crystal Palace, I doubt he’s just doing this out of the goodness of his heart.
I’m also worried that a hotel, a conference centre, whatever, won’t be open to everyone. Suddenly something that was a community asset, will be for business people; people coming from far away to visit – not the locals who value and love the park and who won’t be welcome any more. A museum could work, as could an art gallery. In fact, they’d be a great addition to the area. I’m guessing they don’t bring in the cash, though.
Apparently the park needs a massive injection of money to be restored. I’m sure that’s true. I just think there are better ways to do it.
I can see that Boris Johnson has transformed London. It’s growing, expanding, booming. Everywhere you look there are shiny buildings going up in the blink of an eye. There’s SO much money floating around and house prices are out of control. I understand that getting money from China by handing over some prized land benefits business and business people in London. I get it. But what about the normal Londoners? What about the people who live here, work here, walk their dogs here, watch their children play here? What about them? Are we going to benefit from any of this? Somehow I doubt it.
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It’s the women, stupid.
What I think about the EastEnders rape storyline…
I write women’s fiction set both in the present day and in the past. I’ve written stories about all sorts of exciting women from history including Suffragettes, smugglers, pilots, artists and dancers.
I’ve also written two novels in association with Emmerdale, set in the village from the TV soap during WW2, and one in collaboration with Kew Gardens, with the second coming early next year.
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Relativity Problem Revisited
Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Aitchison, Alperin, Finite Relativity, Geometry, Symmetric Generation — m759 @ 4:00 AM
A footnote was added to Finite Relativity—
“The relativity problem is one of central significance throughout geometry and algebra and has been recognized as such by the mathematicians at an early time.”
– Hermann Weyl, 1949, “Relativity Theory as a Stimulus in Mathematical Research“
“This is the relativity problem: to fix objectively a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to ascertain the group of transformations S mediating between them.”
– Hermann Weyl, 1946, The Classical Groups , Princeton University Press, p. 16
…. A note of Feb. 20, 1986, supplied an example of such coordinatizations in finite geometry. In that note, the group of mediating transformations acted directly on coordinates within a 4×4 array. When the 4×4 array is embedded in a 4×6 array, a larger and more interesting group, M 24 (containing the original group), acts on the larger array. There is no obvious solution to Weyl’s relativity problem for M 24. That is, there is no obvious way* to apply exactly 24 distinct transformable coordinate-sets (or symbol-strings ) to the 24 array elements in such a way that the natural group of mediating transformations of the 24 symbol-strings is M 24. ….
Footnote of Sept. 20, 2011:
* R.T. Curtis has, it seems, a non-obvious way that involves strings of seven symbols. His abstract for a 1990 paper says that in his construction “The generators of M 24 are defined… as permutations of twenty-four 7-cycles in the action of PSL2(7) on seven letters….”
See “Geometric Interpretations of the ‘Natural’ Generators of the Mathieu groups,” by R.T. Curtis, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1990), Vol. 107, Issue 01, pp. 19-26. (Rec. Jan. 3, 1989, revised Feb. 3, 1989.) This paper was published online on Oct. 24, 2008.
Some related articles by Curtis:
R.T. Curtis, “Natural Constructions of the Mathieu groups,” Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. (1989), Vol. 106, pp. 423-429
R.T. Curtis. “Symmetric Presentations I: Introduction, with Particular Reference to the Mathieu groups M 12 and M 24” In Proceedings of 1990 LMS Durham Conference ‘Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry’ (eds. M. W. Liebeck and J. Saxl), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series 165, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 380–396
R.T. Curtis, “A Survey of Symmetric Generation of Sporadic Simple Groups,” in The Atlas of Finite Groups: Ten Years On , (eds. R.T. Curtis and R.A. Wilson), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series 249, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 39–57
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Context of Immigration law & policy in the U.S
"Sanctuary cities" : legal issues
1954-1959 cumulative supplement to fourth edition of Immigration and Nationality Act : annotated, with rules and regulations
9/11 Commission : legislative action concerning U.S. immigration law and policy in the 108th Congress
A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825 : being a guide to published lists of early immigrants to North America
A brief account of the author's interview with his countrymen, and of the parts of the Emerald Isle, whence they emigrated : together with a direct reference to their present location in the land of their adoption, during his travels through various states of the Union in 1854 and 1855
A collection of nationality laws of various countries, as contained in constitutions, statutes and treaties
A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712
A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712
A comparison of alien admissions before and after IRCA
A comprehensive immigration policy and program
A constructive immigration policy
A digest of the treaty, laws, and regulations governing the admission of Chinese, their residence in and transit through the United States and its insular possessions : for the use of diplomatic and consular officers
A history of American immigration, 1820-1924
A history of Norwegian immigration to the United States from the earliest beginning down to the year 1848
A history of emigration from the United Kingdom to North America, 1763-1912
A journey to hell
A list of books (with references to periodicals) on immigration
A practical Spanish grammar for Border Patrol officers
A rational immigration policy
A research study concerning illegal entrants and illegal aliens in the United States
A selected chronology of the Rwanda crisis : April 5, 1994-September 30, 1994
A study of assimilation among the Roumanians in the United States
A study of selected refugee and migration issues : report of George Warren to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives
A tour in the United States : with two lectures on emigration, delivered in the Mechanics' Institution
A treatise on American citizenship
A treatise on the law of citizenship in the United States
A treatise on the law of naturalization of the United States
A treatise on the laws governing the exclusion and expulsion of aliens in the United States
A treatise upon the law of extradition : with the conventions upon the subject existing between England and foreign nations, and the cases decided thereon
A working document : quantifying genocide in the southern Sudan, 1983-1993
Adjusting immigrant and industry
Administrative decisions under immigration & nationality laws
Adult immigrant education : its scope, content, and methods
Afghan refugees : five years later
Afghans in crisis
Aiding the desplazados of El Salvador : the complexity of humanitarian assistance
Alien legalization and adjustment of status : a primer
Alien smuggling : recent legislative developments
Aliens and the law : some legal aspects of the national treatment of aliens in the United States
Aliens or Americans?
America and the refugees
America via the neighborhood
America's agricultural labor crisis : enacting a practical solution : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, October 4, 2011
America's immigration system : opportunities for legal immigration and enforcement of laws against illegal immigration : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, February 5, 2013
America's new welcome mat : a look at the goals and challenges of the US-VISIT program : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, March 4, 2004
America's own refugees : our 4,000,000 homeless migrants
America's workforce needs in the 21st century : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session on examining workforce needs in the high technology industry and at smaller companies, focusing on the need for additional H-1B visas, October 21, 1999
American Specialty Agriculture Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session on H.R. 2847, September 8, 2011
American citizenship : as distinguished from alien status
American deportation and exclusion laws : a report
American immigration policies : a history
American immigration policy, a reappraisal
American inquisition : the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II
American institutions and their preservation
Americanization and citizenship : lessons in community and national ideals for new Americans
Americanization questionnaire : containing the questions usually asked of aliens applying for citizenship papers : together with their answers, and other valuable information for those interested in Americanization work
Americanizing our immigration laws
Americans by choice
Americans in process : a study of our citizens of oriental ancestry
An Act to Allow Otherwise Eligible Israeli Nationals to Receive E-2 Nonimmigrant Visas if Similarly Situated United States Nationals are Eligible for Similar Nonimmigrant Status in Israel
An Act to Authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security, in Coordination with the Secretary of State, to Establish a Program to Issue Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards, and for Other Purposes
An Act to Enhance the Border Security of the United States, and for Other Purposes
An Act to Extend by 3 Years the Authorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program, the E-Verify Program, the Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program, and the Conrad State 30 J-1 Visa Waiver Program
An Act to Require the Accreditation of English Language Training Programs, and for Other Purposes
An American in the making : the life story of an immigrant
An abridged sketch of extradition to and from the United States
An act to amend the law relative to the citizenship and naturalization of married women, and for other purposes
An administration made disaster : the south Texas border surge of unaccompanied alien minors : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, June 25, 2014
An examination of point systems as a method for selecting immigrants : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 1, 2007
An immigrant nation : United States regulation of immigration, 1798-1991
An outline course in citizenship to be used in the public schools for the instruction of the foreign and native born candidate for adult-citizenship responsibilities
An overview of U.S. immigration laws regulating the admission and exclusion of aliens at the border
An overview of asylum policy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, May 3, 2001
An overview of judicial review of immigration matters
Analysis of the immigration laws and regulations of selected countries
Annual Immigration Law Conference
Annual consultation with the administration on the admission of refugees in fiscal year 1987 : hearing before Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session on the admission of refugees in fiscal year 1987, September 16, 1986
Annual refugee consultation : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session on reviewing the annual refugee consultation process, September 26, 1996
Annual refugee consultation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session on the seventh annual consultation between the administration and the Senate on refugee admissions, September 17, 1985
Annual refugee consultation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session on examining the President's proposed annual refugee admissions and allocations for fiscal year 1998, July 31, 1997
Annual refugee consultation for 1985 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session on consultation between the executive branch and the Judiciary Committees of the Congress to consider the administration's proposals for refugee admissions to the United States in 1985, September 11, 1984
Annual report of the Commissioner General of Immigration to the Secretary of Labor
Annual report of the Commissioner of Naturalization to the Secretary of Labor
Annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration to the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended
Annual report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
Another surge of illegal immigrants along the southwest border : is this the Obama administration's new normal? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, February 4, 2016
Anti-discrimination provision of H.R. 3080 : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives and Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session on H.R. 3080, anti-discrimination provision of H.R. 3080, October 9, 1985
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Application of contract-labor provisions of immigration laws to actors : hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, second session, on H. R. 8877, an act to clarify the application of the contract-labor provisions of the immigration laws to actors, February 17, 1933
Application of employer sanctions to longshore work : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session on H.R. 2138, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the application of employer sanctions to longshore work, June 14, 1989
Arizona v. United States : a limited role for states in immigration enforcement
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards Act of 2011 : report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate to accompany S. 1487, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to establish a program to issue Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards, and for other purposes
Asian adoptions in the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 8, 2006
Asylum abuse : is it overwhelming our borders? : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, December 12, 2013
Asylum adjudication : hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session on how do we determine who is entitled to asylum in the United States and who is not?, October 14 and 16, 1981
Asylum and "credible fear" issues in U.S. immigration policy
Asylum and inspections reform : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session on H.R. 1153, H.R. 1355, and H.R. 1679, Asylum Reform Act of 1993, April 27, 1993
Asylum and migration issues, the case of south Texas, February 1989 : a staff report prepared for the use of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session
Asylum fraud : abusing America's compassion? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, February 11, 2014
Asylum policies for unaccompanied children compared with expedited removal policies for unauthorized adults : in brief
At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943
At fortress Europe's moat : the "safe third country" concept
Australia : sea change : Australia's new approach to asylum seekers
Authority of state and local police to enforce federal immigration law
Authority to enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in the wake of the Homeland Security Act : legal issues
Authorization/oversight on the Immigration and Naturalization Service : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session on authorization/oversight on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, March 25, 1982
Authorizing Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement : hearing before the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, April 8, 2014
Barriers along the U.S. borders : key authorities and requirements
Basic guide to naturalization
Basic questions on U.S. citizenship and naturalization
Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session on H.R. 3083, July 20, 2000
Becoming an American : immigration & immigrant policy : 1997 executive summary
Becoming an American : immigration & immigrant policy : 1997 report to Congress
Benefits to the American economy of a more educated workforce : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, March 25, 1999
Beyond the headlines : refugees in the Horn of Africa
Beyond the melting pot : the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
Bibliography of immigration in the United States, 1900-1930
Biological Weapons Act of 1989; Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session on H.R. 237, Biological Weapons Act of 1989 and H.R. 4314, Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, May 1, 1990
Birthright citizenship : is it the right policy for America? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 29, 2015
Board of Immigration Appeals practice manual : questions and answers regarding proceedings before the Board
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act : report together with additional and minority views (to accompany S. 744)
Border and transportation security : possible new directions and policy options
Border and transportation security : selected programs and policies
Border security : U.S. Customs and Border Protection's management of a temporary facility in Texas raised concerns about resources used
Border security : U.S.-Canada border issues
Border security : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, March 10, 1995
Border security : immigration enforcement between ports of entry
Border security : immigration inspections at ports of entry
Border security : immigration issues in the 108th Congress
Border security : inspections practices, policies, and issues
Border security : key agencies and their missions
Border security : the complexity of the challenge
Border security and deterring illegal entry into the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, April 23, 1997
Border security and immigration enforcement improvements
Border security on federal lands : oversight field hearings before the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, Saturday, August 5, 2006, in Santee, California; Monday, August 28, 2006, in Hamilton, Montana
Border security, 2013 : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session
Border security--2015 : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, [Volume 1], Deferred action on immigration: implications and unanswered questions, February 4, 2015; Visa waiver program: implications for U.S. national security, March 12, 2015; Securing the southwest border: perspectives from beyond the beltway, March 17, 2015; Securing the border: assessing the impact of transnational crime, March 24, 2015; Securing the border: understanding and addressing the root causes of Central American migration to the United States, March 25, 2015; Securing the border: defining the current population living in the shadows and addressing future flows, March 26, 2015
Border technology : keeping terrorists out of the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security and Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, March 12, 2003
Border violence : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session on H.R. 2119, Immigration Enforcement Review Commission Act, September 29, 1993
Border vulnerabilities and international terrorism : hearings before the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, July 5 and 7, 2006
Brief history of comprehensive immigration reform efforts in the 109th and 110th Congresses to inform policy discussions in the 113th Congress
Brief of the legislation and adjudication touching the Chinese question referred to the joint commission of both houses of Congress
Building a secure community : how can DHS better leverage state and local partnerships? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, July 10, 2012
Building an immigration system worthy of American values : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, March 20, 2013
Burma and the United Nations : a proposal for constructive involvement
Burundi's uprooted people : caught in the spiral of violence
CBP and ICE : does the current organizational structure best serve U.S. homeland security interests : hearing before the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first and second session, November 15, 2005 and May 11, 2006, Pt. II and III
CBP and ICE : does the current organizational structure best serve U.S. homeland security interests? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 9, 2005
CT-43A Federal Employee Settlement Act and federal tort claims arising outside the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session on H.R. 3295 and H.R. 1371, June 8, 2000
Caging borders and carceral states : incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resistance
Cambodians in Thailand : people on the edge
Can marriage conquer "consular nonreviewability" for a spouse's visa denial?
Canada's fast-track refugee plan : unanswered questions and implications for U.S. national security : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, February 3, 2016
Caribbean migration : oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session on Caribbean migration, May 13, June 4, 17, 1980
Case of Helene Stomas : hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, second session, February 17, 1927 : statement of Hon. James O'Connor
Central American asylum-seekers : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, March 9, 1989
Central American migration to the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session on proposed legislation on the question of Central American migration to the United States, June 21, 1989
Changing landscape of immigrant investment programs
Checking terrorism at the border : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, April 6, 2006
Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2007 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session on S. 2135, April 8, 2008
Children migrating from Central America : solving a humanitarian crisis : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, June 25, 2014
Children of Mozambique : the cost of survival
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese exclusion
Chinese immigration
Chinese immigration : its social, moral, and political effect : report to the California State Senate of its Special Committee on Chinese immigration
Chinese immigration, in its social and economical aspects
Chinese students in America and human rights in China : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on H.R. 2712, a bill to facilitate the adjustment or change of status of Chinese nationals in the united states by waiving the 2-year foreign residence requirement for "J" nonimmigrants and by treating nonimmigrants, whose departure has been deferred by the Attorney General, as remaining in legal nonimmigrant status for purposes of adjustment or change of status, January 23, 1990
Citizenship Reform Act of 1997; and Voter Eligibility Verification Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session on H.R. 7, Citizenship Reform Act of 1997 and H.R. 1428, Voter Eligibility Verification Act, June 25, 1997
Citizenship and changing conditions : some papers read at National Council meetings, March, 1938
Citizenship and naturalization of married women : report [to accompany H.R 10960]
Citizenship based on birth in country : France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Citizenship bulletin of the Committee on American Citizenship, American Bar Association
Citizenship of the United States
Citizenship of the United States of America
Citizenship pathways and border protection : Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, EU Schengen Area
Citizenship sovereignty
City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Civic attitudes in American school textbooks
Civic education for the foreign-born in the United States : its place in today's educational program
Civics and citizenship toolkit : a collection of educational resources for immigrants
Clarifying the Immigration Status of Certain Aliens: P.L. 82-14, Ch. 23, 1st Sess., March 28, 1951 ; and Amendment to the Displaced Persons Act of 1948: P.L. 82-60, Ch. 167, 1st Sess., June 28, 1951
Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003 : (CLEAR Act) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on H.R. 2671, October 1, 2003
Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Code of federal regulations, Title 8, Aliens and nationality
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Memorial Mass for Sr. Maria
A Memorial Mass will be offered for our beloved former principal Sr. Maria Perez Caballero, MMB on August 11, 2016, Thursday, 9:00 AM at the OLMCHS Multi-Purpose Gymnasium to be followed by a Memorial Service. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Everyone is invited.
Sr. Maria joined her Creator on August 3, 2016 at 5:30 PM. Her remains will be flown from Guam to Saipan and will be buried at the Maturana MMB Cemetery. Rest in Peace Sr. Maria.
School office open M-F 8am to 5pm
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When depression affects your kids
Experts: If a child seems sad or withdrawn for 2-3 weeks, parents should be concerned
CNN News Wire | 8/13/2014, 11:35 a.m.
When we lose a beloved superstar like Robin Williams to an apparent suicide and learn he had been battling severe depression before his death, it's natural to think about our own loved ones.
We might look around at our adult family members and friends who are suffering and try to get them the help they need, but what we might not see is children and adolescents can get depressed and anxious, too.
And it's more common than we probably realize.
On any given day, according to studies, it is estimated that about 2% of elementary-school-age children and about 8% of adolescents suffer from a major depression, and 1 in 5 teens has had a history of depression at some time, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
But how does a parent differentiate between what might be considered normal irritability and moodiness, especially during those teenage years, and signs that something more serious is afoot?
"I think you should start worrying ... anytime there's enough of a change when you go, 'Oh my God they don't seem like themselves,'" said Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Raison says the timeline is key; parents should perk up if for two to three weeks their children are "unremittingly down," feeling hopeless and negative, if they start to withdraw from friends and activities, and if they experience dramatic changes in sleep.
Depressed teens might have difficulty falling asleep, not be able to fall back asleep after they wake up in the middle of the night or wake up very early in the morning. At the other end of the spectrum, they could be getting excessive amounts of sleep, sometimes sleeping 12 hours or more, psychiatrists say.
For younger kids, detecting depression gets "more complicated" for parents, Raison said, because children below the age of puberty don't necessarily show the same signs of depression as teens and adults.
"The younger the kid, the more scrambled the symptoms can be," he said. "They're easily upset. They cry more. They're scared to sleep alone at night. They become irritable. They act out more."
In younger children, parents aren't likely to see the "classic depressive pattern," Raison said. "But you're still looking for that same larger idea, which is if your kid shows a real maladaptive change in their emotions (and) their behavior, the light needs to go off in your head because something isn't right."
Melissa Atkins Wardy, a mom of two in Janesville, Wisconsin, and author of "Redefining Girly," said she was never aware that children as young as her daughter Amelia, who is now 8, could develop anxiety outside of a traumatic experience.
But halfway through first grade, Amelia said she didn't want to go to school, and reluctance to go to school "morphed into tears and nausea every day and then tears and worry at bedtime, too," said Atkins Wardy, founder and CEO of the company, Pigtail Pals & Ballcap Buddies, which creates empowering T-shirts for girls and boys.
"Eventually things just spiraled downward in second grade where her light just went out," she said. "I was like her happy childhood had been swallowed up in a dark hole."
Her daughter was eventually diagnosed as suffering from general anxiety and has been seeing a "wonderful" therapist, Atkins Wardy said, for about a year.
When help is needed
Atkins Wardy knew something was wrong and eventually sought professional help, but often parents seek reassurance by telling themselves their child will grow out of the behavior or get better, said Dr. Robert Hendren, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
When the behavior is going on for weeks, it's really time to assess what's happening, Hendren said.
The first step in the case of tweens and teens is being direct and discussing the issue head on, asking them, for instance, how they are feeling and if anything happened to make them feel unusually sad, he said.
"Most adolescents will answer," said Hendren, who is also a past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. "One of the things that we learn a lot as health care providers is the majority of the kids that we miss who have depression and who may go on and be at risk of suicide are kids who were just never asked."
Parents can also get more information by talking to the people around their child -- teachers, coaches, youth directors, even parents of friends.
"The parent is trying to gather data: 'Is my kid just acting unhappy, uncharacteristically unhappy like this at home, or is it being noticed elsewhere outside?' because ... if it's also outside, then we're talking about a larger issue," said psychologist Carl Pickhardt, author of the book "Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" and host of a weekly blog for Psychology Today.
Of course, not many children, if any, will be excited to run off to a therapist's office if their parents determine they need outside help.
Pickhardt says he deals with this all the time. He tells parents to tell their kids that they don't have to go and see anybody by themselves, but they do need to go see someone with their parent.
"You can choose to say something or not, but at least you can be here to hear what my concerns are and hear what the other person has to say," said Pickhardt, relaying the script he gives parents to use with their children.
"I've never had a kid not participate," he added.
Signs of suicide risk
Another huge challenge for parents is trying to determine when their child is at risk of suicide.
Hendren, who is also a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, recommends parents ask their children who appear depressed if they ever feel like their life is not worth living, or if they have ever thought about taking their own life.
Raising the issue does not give children the idea of suicide, said Hendren, putting to rest concerns that many parents might have.
"All the studies seem to indicate that you don't have somebody start thinking about suicide by asking them about it. They're either thinking about it or they're not."
That doesn't mean it's an easy discussion for any parent, said Devra Gordon Renner, a clinical social worker in Northern Virginia who has helped hundreds of families deal with childhood depression and anxiety.
"Saying to somebody, 'Are you thinking of harming yourself?' -- that's not a comfortable conversation for a parent to have with a child. But it is a healthy conversation, because it is acknowledging that your child may be feeling really bad and letting them know you are there to help and you are taking them seriously," said Gordon Renner, who is also the co-author of "Mommy Guilt."
When a child says he or she has thoughts that life is not worth living and has considered suicide, those are "ominous signs" that would call for an evaluation by a medical professional experienced with depression and suicide, Hendren said.
"If ... alcohol or other substances might be involved, then the risks really jump because in an altered state of mind, kids seem at a higher risk of doing something that might be harmful."
The stigma remains
Because of the stigma of depression and suicide, too many people are still hesitant to talk about it, even when talking about it helps people who are suffering realize they are not alone, experts say.
"'It's amazing that once you start talking about this, other people pop up with, 'Oh, my cousin had this, my sister had that,'" said Gordon Renner.
"Depression is an illness and it's a treatable illness, and in some cases it can metastasize and be fatal for some people, and I think it's important to know that, but it's rare," she added.
It was the stigma, in part, that drove Atkins Wardy to publicly share her daughter's battle with anxiety on Facebook. At first she questioned whether she was compromising her daughter's privacy.
But since her daughter's battle was already public as far as her school community was concerned, and after getting private messages from mothers looking for advice to help their daughters who also struggled with anxiety, Atkins Wardy decided the issue was bigger than her and her daughter.
"Ultimately, the reason I have continued to share our journey with childhood anxiety is that it is so greatly misunderstood and parents need help," she said.
"Had people who had experienced childhood anxiety not been brave enough to reach out to me and teach me what Amelia was experiencing, I think I would have made some really bad parenting choices."
As for her daughter, who went on a low dose of medication a short time ago, she is pretty much back to her old self again.
"We have our girl back. This is the person I knew was hiding under the mask of anxiety and I was willing to do anything to get her out."
Have you or any of your loved ones ever battled depression or anxiety? Share in the comments or tell Kelly Wallace on Twitter or CNN Living on Facebook.
For any information on how to talk to a child about depression or where to find help, contact the National Association of Mental Illness.
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Interview: Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi
By Brittany Vincent On June 11, 2011 In Interview With Comments Off on Interview: Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi Permalink
While scouring the floors and seeing the sights of E3 2011, Team Ninja was nice enough to invite us in for an in-depth look at Ninja Gaiden 3, their upcoming – and intensely bloody – sequel for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (and possibly Wii U). Headed by Team Ninja’s own Yosuke Hayashi, who also helped lead the blood-thirsty charge on Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Metroid: Other M, and Dead or Alive: Dimensions, we break out our intellectual katanas and pick his brain on what fans can expect when the game launches later this year.
Would you like to give us a little background information as to where this game fits in the series?
Ninja Gaiden 3 is taking a stab at showing Ryu Hayabusa as a Japanese dark hero, a dark hero that only Team Ninja could make.
Is this entry going to pick up directly after the previous installment left off?
It’s connected in a way that deals with Hayabusa dealing with the many people he’s killed in the past — he’s a killing machine and in Ninja Gaiden 3, he’ll face the consequences that come with doing that.
Ninja Gaiden has always been known for its legendary difficulty. Obviously you’re going to continue this trend, but will you offer easier modes for those who may feel intimidated?
Hardcore fans wear the difficulty as a badge of pride, so we’re looking for Ninja Gaiden 3 to satisfy hardcore fans with a challenge, but we’re also looking to make the game accessible to more people; people who have never been part of the series. It seems there are many groups of people with different skills. We’re looking at making the game respond to the different kinds of skills players bring to the game and to craft challenges that will fit everyone.
Will fans see the return of any familiar characters, aside from Ryu Hayabusa?
Of course, Ryu Hayabusa will return as the main character, but the story also deals with his past, as he’s killed so many people, so fans will definitely see familiar faces.
Are you looking to wrap up the series with the third game or are you looking to expand beyond that?
Team Ninja is linked with Ninja Gaiden – they’re inseparable. We are who we are because of those games. Looking ahead though, we can’t say one way or another. The team right now is focused on making the game the best it can be.
Will you be incorporating Kinect support?
Looking at the kinds of actions you would perform in Ninja Gaiden 3, the kinds of controls and play style we have, we don’t feel the Kinect works well with that. It doesn’t make the game fun. We have to concentrate on making the game fun, and if new technology makes the game fun, then we’re all for that. The core has to be the game.
Can you give us a little information about the way mowing through enemies will feel with the improved gameplay mechanics? Is that mainly a graphical augment?
The steel and bone segments are a concept for making the combat and killing someone more visceral. In the past, when you cut enemies, there was no reaction. We’re trying to improve the combat in Ninja Gaiden 3. We wondered what it was really like to cut someone down, when the blade is in muscles and bones, and when you can feel it get stuck in your opponent’s body. That kind of visceral violence is what we were trying to portray.
Can you go a little in-depth with the co-op segments? Would lesser-skilled players be able to play off of more expert players in order to reach a common goal?
Co-op is definitely something you can use to learn from another person and we will definitely be offering new challenges for the online space. We hope that people will keep coming back and playing online as well, it’s definitely a place where you can hone your skills.
What kind of multiplayer modes will be available aside from cooperative campaign mode?
In terms of multiplayer, we can’t reveal much right now. We’re looking at it, but we’re more focused on looking at honing single player, as that’s what fans know and love. We’re exploring multiplayer options, but we want to make sure they’re not there just to have multiplayer. We want to make sure we primarily satisfy the Ninja Gaiden fans.
Thank you so much for your time – we can’t wait to check out the game!
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Welcome To The Special Winter 2016 Newsletter of Richard Murphy Architects
RICHARD MURPHY'S HOUSE AT HART STREET EDINBURGH WINS RIBA / GRAND DESIGNS UK HOUSE OF THE YEAR 2016!
Last night on Channel 4 Kevin McCloud announced, to an estimated TV audience in the millions, that Richard Murphy Architects had scooped the top prize. The programme was the culmination of a four week series examining twenty houses and shortlisting seven. The house has already won an RIBA National Award, the Saltire Society “Best New House in Scotland” Award, a Civic Trust National Award, the Edinburgh Architectural Association “Building of the Year” and the Architects' Journal UK “House of the Year.”
The RIBA judging panel said ”Richard Murphy's own house in Edinburgh is a delightful essay in architecture. It speaks to its context with direct references to the Georgian terraces, and with a clever change of scale that is at once deferential and powerfully striking in the street. It makes great use of a small site, creating a delightful private outdoor space on the first floor, with light brought in through the roof, and a seemingly endless number of surprising spaces. It is a house that responds to the Scottish climate, opening up to the summer sun and then shutting itself down to create a snug refuge in the depth of winter. Sliding doors pull out of walls and roof shutters drop into place transforming the house from a light-filled space open to the exterior terrace, to an enclosed room, where candlelight wouldn't seem out of place. It does all this with wit and style, in an architecture that Murphy has honed over the years to make distinct and personal. It feels an intense and personal space, playful and inventive, each corner revealing something new. Full of references to his architectural heroes the building could be read as homage to architectural history. Murphy has described the house as 'a quarter Soane, a quarter Scarpa, a quarter eco-house and a quarter Wallace and Gromit, the latter referring to the various ingenious devices in the house. In fact the house is beautifully composed and uniquely his own.”
Richard Murphy said, ”We celebrated our 25th birthday last month and to receive this award is a wonderful present and with such astonishing level of public interest. It’s actually our 21st RIBA award, a record unequalled in Scotland, and it takes its place in a long line of awards for buildings small and large and for a whole variety of types including domestic, educational, health, arts and a new British Embassy. It emphasizes yet again that the practice demonstrates both great versatility and consistently high quality in all its work current and past”
You can download here a short essay “The Road to Hart Street” written by Richard Murphy for the exhibition “Home” staged at the Royal Scottish Academy earlier this year.
The lower photo at Hart Street shows Gareth Jones of Richard Murphy Architects, Kevin McCloud, Hiccup the dog and Richard Murphy.
DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY AND GALLERIES
We are very excited that this project, won in architectural competition in 2007, has been handed over to Fife Council. The museum galleries are now being fitted out and museum objects, books and furniture will move in January followed by staff with a building opening to the public in May. In the heart of the town's historic core the project forms a new elevation to the Dunfermline Abbey churchyard and lies alongside the world’s first Carnegie Library built in 1881. Internally it consists of a museum of 19th and 20th century Dunfermline, three art galleries, a town archive /reading room, children’s library, café, shop and meeting rooms. A dramatic top lit internal street orientates the visitor with a rising promenade route visiting all facilities and criss-crossing the street with a dramatic sequence of bridges.
THE O’DONOGHUE CENTRE FOR DRAMA,THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
Our joint project with Taylor Architects of Co. Mayo for a new performing arts centre inside historic warehouses in the centre of the University campus has been handed over to the client. An official opening is expected in March 2017.
PERTH THEATRE
At our Perth Theatre project the concrete frame is almost complete and the steel frame to the new studio theatre is in place; we can now for the first time have a sense of the new performance space within. Inside the remaining existing building the alterations and refurbishment works are progressing rapidly.
HOUSE IN DALKEY, IRELAND
Our house at Dalkey, Co Dublin has now been on site for seven months and M&P Construction has completed the concrete foundation work and the majority of the main steel frame and roof deck have now been erected. Granite rock excavated as boulders from the site is being broken into smaller sizes and used to construct the house walls and retaining walls in the garden. The dramatic north-south rooflight along the whole circulation spine of the building can be seen in this photograph.
SCIENCE FACULTY FOR ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE
The Science Centre project recently saw the completion of the main concrete frame with the steel roof elements due to be installed before the end of December. Overall completion is still on track for August 2017.
The final form of the central atrium space can now be better appreciated as the photograph from site shows. When complete, the majority of teaching rooms will face into the atrium space and are connected by open sided walkways. The walkways incorporate triangular projecting balconies, extending out into the atrium, providing casual meeting places for students and staff. Also evident in the atrium space now are the two larger drum shaped elements, each housing clusters of 2 person Psychology interview rooms and ultimately to be clad in vertical timber battens, providing both a distinctive appearance as well as aiding the internal acoustics of the space.
DONALDSON'S FORMER DEAF SCHOOL, EDINBURGH
Our project for City & Country at Donaldson’s Deaf School, Edinburgh is progressing well. Works to form the first phase of the 110 apartments that occupy the main building are well underway with mezzanine floors and internal dividing walls being installed. The voids that will eventually accept the new/modern communal stairs that rise through the building on three of the four corners are also being formed.
The concrete phase of the works to form the two 94 space subterranean car parks that sit under the morning and afternoon gardens to the east and west sides of the Playfair building is almost complete with the links to the existing building being the last sections to be formed.
Apartments are expected to be released for sale in Summer 2017.
ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY, CITY HOSPITAL, BELFAST
An official “sod cutting” ceremony was held to start the construction of our new 80 bed Acute Mental Health hospital in Belfast. Designed in conjunction with RPP Architects and Devereux Architects the building is being built by BAM Construction and is expected to be complete in Summer 2019.The Northern Ireland Minister for Health, Michelle O’Neil (in the centre of the picture) performed the ceremony.
THREE BUILDINGS ABOUT TO GO ON SITE
NEW HOUSING AT DONALDSON’S FORMER DEAF SCHOOL, EDINBURGH
Bam Construction have also been appointed as Main Contractor for the Shell and Core Contact of our new build development for Cala Homes within the grounds of Donaldson’s College. Construction work is now planned to start in January 2017.
NEW HOUSE AT TIPPERLINN ROAD, EDINBURGH
Work starts on a “secret house” in a garden off Tipperlinn Road. The house forms three sides of a courtyard garden and is invisible from the surrounding streets sitting low behind a historic stone garden wall. The site preparation work has begun already and the client is expected to celebrate Christmas 2017 in their new house.
EXTENSION TO GALERI CREATIVE ENTERPRISE CENTRE, CAERNARFON, NORTH WALES
We have been working closely with our client at Galeri Caernarfon and the other members of the design team and have now completed the stage 4 detailed design work on the extension project. Tender information is due to be issued shortly before the Christmas break with a start on site with the successful main contractor anticipated as early as possible in the New Year. Early work will include the formation of a safe temporary entrance to ensure the centre continues in operation during construction. As part of the interior and technical design process for the two new cinema spaces, we also took the opportunity of a study visit to the GFT in Glasgow, one of a handful of independent cinemas in Scotland and itself recently refurbished and extended.
TWO NEW HOUSE COMMISSIONS
A house near Woodbridge in Suffolk and a holiday house in Elie, Fife are two new house commissions. Images should be published in the next newsletter when both are expected to have been submitted for planning permission.
MAGGIES CELEBRATES ITS 20TH BIRTHDAY AND PLANNING PERMISSION RECEIVED FOR OUR EXTENSION
The very first Maggie’s Centre celebrated its twentieth birthday with an enormous turn out of well-wishers. The original building, a former stables at the Western General hospital was converted and opened in 1996 and five years later doubled in size. A further extension now has planning permission and is expected to start on site in April 2017. There are now almost twenty Maggies Centres in the world with four more new centres at varying stages of planning .The picture shows Lothians MSP Miles Briggs, the centre’s director Andrew Anderson and Richard cutting the birthday cake
The RIBA House of the Year Channel 4 programmes have received enormous press coverage, meriting features from the Architects’ Journal, Homes & Property, the Mirror, the Sun and the Daily Mail. The second programme, featuring Richard’s House at Hart Street being shortlisted for the Award, included Homes & Property magazine which described the house as a “palace of gadgets in Edinburgh”. The Architects' Journal featured the programme in an article called “Architects’ own homes added to the RIBA House of the Year shortlist".Scottish Construction Now confirmed that the RIBA Judges had described the house as “....a rare example of construction of a contemporary house within the World Heritage Site of the New Town of Edinburgh” and is “..... an architectural and environmental experiment”
Richard has also been interviewed for a number of broadsheet newspapers all of which are expected to publish today or tomorrow and he will be on BBC Radio 4 "Front Row" at 7:15pm tonight.
Our newly built Museum and Gallery at Dunfermline has been previewed ahead of its Spring opening by Urban Realm on 9 December - the building, which is currently being fitted out. Fife Cultural Trust said “The new building will serve as a gateway to the town’s illustrious past, opening up a new public space between the historic buildings of the Heritage Quarter”.
AND FINALLY WE WISH ALL OUR FRIENDS THE VERY BEST FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON
We stopped sending out Christmas cards some years ago and instead send the money saved to the Maggies Centre. If you would like to contribute to them as well please follow this link https://www.justgiving.com/4w350m3/donation/direct/charity/11237#MessageAndAmount
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What Is An Electron REALLY?
Probing Deeper Into The Strange World of the Subatomic Particle
Most of us know that the electron is a negatively charged particle that orbits the nucleus in an atom of matter. We also know it as the particle that moves inside conducting metals, creating an electric current, as well as the particle behind electrostatic sparks and lightning. Chemists among us know that the electron is what makes all chemistry possible. Electrons are responsible for the attraction between atoms, creating bonds that range in strength from weak dipole-dipole interactions to practically unbreakable covalent bonds. The electrostatically repulsive cloud of orbiting electrons is what gives an atom its physical size, and it's what prevents us from walking right through walls.
When we visualize what is going on with the electrons in these interactions, it is not difficult to imagine them as tiny physical dust-like particles. Electrons have mass, charge, angular momentum, an intrinsic magnetic moment and helicity, but they have no known substructure. No two electrons can occupy the same space at the same time. They are part of every atom but they can exist separately on their own as well. You can shoot a beam of electrons at a target for example.
At the turn of the last century, this was the emerging, and satisfying, picture of what an electron is. And I dare say this is the picture almost all of us, including many top particle physicists, still carry around in the mind. This picture of the electron recalls a time when physics made sense, before quantum mechanics reared its nonsensical head. We now call this description the classical description of the electron.
Two Models of the Atom
The picture of the electron changed when quantum mechanics came along just a few years later, in the early 1900's. At around this time, physicists were drawing from the Bohr model of the atom, in which electrons orbit the positively charged nucleus within various distinct energy shells. The Bohr Model is shown right.
Brighteorange; Wikipedia
E = hf means that when the electron's energy (E) equals frequency (f) times Planck's constant (h), it reaches a threshold of energy where it can release energy in the form of a photon of electromagnetic radiation and assume a lower-energy state in a lower energy orbit or shell (see the green arrow). It tells us that an electron has a frequency just as a wave does.
This is a simplified Bohr model of a hydrogen atom, the simplest atom there is, which is composed of just one electron orbiting one proton. Three orange rings, 1, 2 and 3, represent three possible energy levels (called energy shells) where the electron can be located. Closest to the nucleus, n = 1 is the lowest energy shell or ground state of the electron. This is the average state of all the atoms in the chair you are sitting on, for example. Atoms can absorb energy and become excited. This can happen when an atom is struck by a high-energy particle such an electron or a photon, or when it is in a very high-energy (high-temperature) environment. The electron can move up to and orbit within one of several possible higher energy shells (the image above is greatly simplified; even for hydrogen, there are many more than three possible energy states). The atom can return to ground state by releasing orbital energy. The electron can transition from n = 3 to n = 2, for example. It releases energy through the emission of a single photon of electromagnetic radiation. In this case, the 3 → 2 transition photon is in the visible light spectrum. It is red light.
Previous and ongoing work by several others in atomic physics led physicist Paul Dirac to surmise a new model of the electron - a model that was consistent with the "new physics." At the time, many great physicists were working on the same question - what is the atom? Dirac had an impressive list of contemporaries: Ernest Rutherford, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Albert Einstein and Max Planck among many others. Dirac's goal was fairly straightforward. He wanted a model that took into account the newly discovered fact that electrons possess intrinsic angular momentum, and he wanted the model to work within Einstein's new theory of special relativity.
This model is actually an equation called the Dirac equation. It incorporates Einstein's special relativity as well as the formulations of quantum mechanics.
Dirac's quantum mechanical theory of the atom has been around since the 1930's. As we will see, this means that the theory of the electron as a tiny physical particle is long gone. For many problems in physics, we can still think of the electron this way and we can think of the atom as the Bohr model of the atom, but it is no longer the most accurate conceptualization. The physical electron's long and continuing farewell is in most part thanks to our difficulty with understanding, and accepting, quantum mechanics.
The electron as a physical particle is a good way to begin to conceptualize the electron in junior and senior high school. We must start somewhere, and this concept fits perfectly into the framework of classical mechanics, which is also explored at this level. But once we have mastered that groundwork and we are curious about what exactly matter and energy are, we are ready to get into the gnarly and brilliant head of Paul Dirac. We must seek to understand not only what this model is, but also what it means for contemporary physics. The tenacious belief that no one can possibly understand quantum mechanics is holding us back from vast new undiscovered territory in theoretical physics.
What the Quantum Mechanical Electron "Looks" Like
Below we can see our ground state hydrogen atom as a quantum mechanical model based on the Dirac equation.
RJHall;Wikpedia
The electron orbital is no longer a distinct energy shell, a ring around about which an equally distinct electron orbits. Now it is a probability distribution instead. The electron at ground state is most likely to be located close to the nucleus, so the blue-green shading is most intense at the center, indicating the higher probability of it being located there.
This probability distribution tells us something profound about the atom. The electron is never 100% here, there or anywhere. And this is where many students throw up their hands and jump out the nearest window, perhaps fairly enough. This is also where our exploration starts to get very interesting.
The Dirac Equation
The Dirac equation is an enormous breakthrough in physics, and for this reason it deserves some effort in understanding and appreciating it. It is not well known outside of graduate-level physics, and that is a shame. Much of the problem is that it is complex. A symbolic equation that at first glance seems straightforward breaks down into a myriad of complex equations which can be overwhelming for those of us who are not mathematicians. However, these equations not only tie it into several prior disparate theories but also introduce new mathematical objects with new descriptive powers. Here, I aim only to introduce its essence to you, but if you are mathematically inclined, try mathpages.com. It goes through the process of taking a classical equation for the motion of an object and turning it into a relativistic quantum mechanical description based on the Schrodinger equation. Even reading the descriptions of the mathematical process there will offer you an idea of the power of this equation.
This will hopefully be a fascinating but discomfiting journey. Dirac's equation leaves many physicists with a sense of unease. Bringing its solutions into the physical world means that several disturbing paradoxes must come along with.
The Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation. This means it can describe particles such as electrons traveling close to light speed based on Einstein's theory of special relativity. It describes not only electron behaviour, but the behaviours of all fermion particles as well. Fermions are subatomic particles with spin 1/2. This means they have parity symmetry according to the Standard Model - a particle will possess one of two possible intrinsic spins - up or down. This is significant to us because it means that the Dirac equation describes both the electrons AND quarks - the two kinds of fundamental fermionic particles that make up an atom. Therefore it describes all matter at its most fundamental level. What makes it especially powerful to physicists is that it describes atomic behaviour in the context of BOTH quantum mechanics and special relativity. This allows physicists to describe in detail what is going on inside the electron cloud of the atom, where in energy shells further out, electrons maintain velocities approaching the speed of light. Large atoms with lots of electrons contain at least some relativistic electrons. These relativistic electrons significantly affect the physical and chemical properties of these atoms.
This theory also describes interacting magnetic fields inside the atom as a result of its multiple tiny moving magnetic dipoles (each electron is a tiny magnet or magnetic dipole). It describes the intrinsic quantum spin of the electron and it predicts the existence of antimatter.
The Mathematics of the Dirac Equation
To begin to appreciate the Dirac Equation, we must explore it mathematically. Below is Dirac's original equation in its simplest symbolic form.
It is fairly simple in this form. It describes the electron as a wave function, ψ. A wave function describes, in turn, the quantum state of either a particle or a system of particles, and it contains all the information about that system. This equation therefore can completely describe an electron with a rest mass m within a space-time coordinate x,t. The three p values are components of the momentum of the electron. "c" is the speed of light (incorporating special relativity) and ħ is Planck's constant divided by 2 π (incorporating quantum mechanics).
When Dirac set out, he simply wanted to describe the behaviour of an electron moving close to light speed, and he succeeded. However, the implications of this formula go so much deeper, and, as this article will suggest, they are not yet fully realized.
You can reduce Dirac's equation to a version of Schrodinger's equation that works inside Einstein's special relativity. The most common version of Schrodinger's equation, for a single particle moving in an electric field, is shown below.
This equation describes the wave function of a particle as a solution to the equation, again symbolized by ψ. It is derived from classical wave mechanics and based on de Broglie's hypothesis that any particle can be described as a wave, but Schrodinger's equation is unique because it goes much further to describe at once all the information that can be known about a system.
To this already powerful equation, Dirac added new components such as matrices (ak and B) as well as reformulating the wave function (ψ) into four complex number components, which transform under Lorentz transformations. This gives you space-time transformation in special relativity - time dilation and length dilation and so on. Measuring ψ at any point in space-time gives you something called a bispinor. The bispinor can be thought of as a superposition of four particles - a spin up electron, a spin down electron, a spin up positron and a spin down positron. In this bispinor modern physics caught its first theoretical glimpse of the antiparticles of antimatter.
Dirac's equation can be unraveled into four coupled partial differential equations, one for each of four values that make up the wave function (the complete description) of an electron. This four-component matrix describing the wave function was a giant breakthrough, and it was an entirely new mathematical object in physics. The introduction of this geometric algebra, today called Dirac algebra, which describes a wave function in four-dimensional space-time as a matrix, was an enormous breakthrough for quantum theory in general. It can describe the relativistic mass of a particle as well as how its wave function transforms as it approaches the speed of light.
The Dirac equation, beautiful as it is, also comes with prickly thorns. One thorny example is the Dirac Hole. When used to describe electron dynamics, for every quantum state possessing a positive energy state, there is a corresponding state with negative energy. An electron described by the Dirac equation will therefore have some components of its wave function in a negative energy state. As a consequence of this, there is nothing mathematically inconsistent about a free electron in a (positive energy) electromagnetic field spontaneously decaying into successively lower and lower, and eventually negative, energy states. All the while it would continuously emit all the excess energy it had as photons as it went into lower and lower energy states - a process that theoretically could continue forever without end. Today we can dismiss this crazy scenario because we know that electrons don't have negative energy, but Dirac must have felt this thorn acutely.
To address the problem, he introduced a new theory called the Hole theory. Here I can only imagine sweat on his brow and an almost panicked look on his face. Simply put, space-time is imagined as a many-body quantum state in which all the negative electron energy states are already filled. To introduce an electron, we must therefore put it into an unoccupied positive energy state. That keeps it nicely positive. This still allows an electron to lose energy by emitting photons but only until it reaches zero energy and no further. Dirac also theorized that a hole could exist where all the negative energy states are occupied except for one. That "hole in the sea" would respond to electric fields as if it were a positive particle. It would act like a positron in other words. This is the serendipitous discovery of antimatter. The discovery of actual antimatter (positrons) in a cloud chamber by Carl Anderson just a few years later strengthened Dirac's Hole theory, although Dirac himself incorrectly thought the positive particle was a proton. This theory, while serving up the discovery of antimatter, introduces a troubling new scenario - space-time as a vacuum containing infinite energy.
Quantum field theory reformulated the Dirac equation in a way that the positron is treated as a "real" particle rather than the absence of one. It also reimagines the vacuum of space-time as a sea where no particles exist rather than a sea of infinite particles. However, it does not address the problem of having a vacuum of infinite energy. Vacuum energy is now treated to a mathematical process called renormalization, a process in which you add a constant, for example, to an equation to get a solution that approaches either experimental results or at least something logical. It is often a warning signal that something in the equation is amiss or the theory itself is incomplete. In this case, renormalization is based on the assumption that we can only measure energy in a relative sense anyway, so an absolute value for the universe's vacuum energy is neither required nor possible. There are many additional thorny issues around vacuum energy, considering that it should exert gravitational force, which would affect the inflation and expansion of the universe, and it should have a nontrivial effect on the cosmological constant.
Another way to look at negative energy solutions is to think of them as positive energy moving backward through time. Most physicists, if they believe this is possible, limit it to virtual particles and thus remove the possibility of backward time travel from macroscopic systems and eliminate the horror of what backward time travel would do to the laws of thermodynamics. Richard Feynman famously incorporated backward and forward time arrows in his (extremely useful for visualizing) Feynman diagrams of particle dynamics.
Some experts consider Dirac's Hole theory less than elegant. But the Hole concept comes back to us when we explore solid-state physics. A sea of conducting electrons (not negative energy electrons in this case) in an electrical conductor contains unfilled spots or holes. An unfilled spot in this sea acts like a positively charged electron, although it is called a hole rather than a positron. In this case, Dirac's underlying arguments for his Hole theory work perfectly well.
In Dirac's equation, the electron is treated as a point mass with no physical dimension. It has no girth or diameter in other words. I, and others, find this puzzling because it seems that this state, where mass is confined to a point-like space, also describes a black hole, albeit a tiny microscopic one. There is an interesting exchange on physics.stackexchange.com where electrons are compared to completely evaporated black holes. What is even more fascinating to me is that this "black hole" obeys the laws of quantum mechanics, whereas Stephen Hawking's black holes are strictly objects of general relativity. These two theories, at least so far, refuse to commute with each other.
When we think about this further, we discover that the electron wave function and the black hole of general relativity (GR) are two very different species. In Dirac's equation, the electron is treated as BOTH a point AND a wave function. A GR black hole has no corresponding wave function description. The electron's wave function collapses, for example, during a collision, at which point it is a point but then it immediately reforms into a wave function once again. Once again as a wave function, we can no longer say that its mass is concentrated on one point because there is no absolute location of this one point. It is a spherical smear. A black hole, in contrast, has no smear. It is treated as a single point (a singularity) at the end of an infinite gravity well, inside of which the laws of physics break down and give us nothing but infinities for solutions. This comparison helps to bring into stark relief the clash between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Dirac's equation does not take into account general relativity. If it did, we would finally have a complete theory of particle physics.
Where Is the Real Electron?
If we return to the two contemporary models of the electron - the Bohr model and the quantum model - they seem mutually exclusive at first glance. The quantum model tells us that the location and energy (also described as momentum or velocity) of the electron cannot simultaneously be measured with prefect accuracy for an individual electron. One must give way to the other so that either location is known or energy is known but not both. The Bohr model tells us not only that the energy of the electron is precise, but it can only adopt a specific set of precise quantized energies as well. It cannot exhibit energy in between one of the energy shells.
Each model is powerful and accurate in terms of describing and predicting specific behaviours of the electron, and both are used in contemporary physics. So how can they both be accurate descriptions of the electron?
If we look more deeply into the Bohr model, we find that Niels Bohr devised his atomic model as a solution to a glaring problem with the prevailing atomic model at the time, the Rutherford planetary model. In this model, electrons orbit the nucleus in stable planet-like orbits. A Rutherford model of a lithium atom, with three each protons, neutrons and electrons, is shown below.
Fastfission;Wikipedia
It probably looks familiar to you. When introduced, it quickly captured the public's imagination and has been used in many insignias and emblems over the decades since. This vastly outdated model stubbornly remains with us.
Unlike planets in gravitationally stable orbits around the Sun, however, electrons are charged particles. The electron is in a state of acceleration (just as a planet is) and according the Larmor formula, any accelerating charged particle radiates electromagnetic energy. The electron's orbit should decay inward as it loses energy and the radiation should increase in frequency as it does so. This would not only result in an unstable atom but its electromagnetic radiation would be a smear across wavelengths rather than the discrete frequencies that had been experimentally observed by that time.
The Bohr model offers stability to the orbiting electron by describing its orbit as a standing wave. A standing wave is a stationary wave that stays in a constant position. Each higher energy orbit (or shell) in an atom is also a standing wave. He found that the energy spacing between these standing wave energy shells was a fixed integer multiple of the lowest energy shell. The energy of an electron shell (each orange ring in the earlier Bohr diagram) is the AVERAGE energy of the standing wave it represents. In the image below, the standing wave on the left fits the averaged energy shell of the electron. The wave on the right is not a standing wave (does not connect) and it does not represent an allowable energy level for the electron.
CK-12 Foundation;Wikipedia
For the hydrogen atom, the wave function for the electron described by the Dirac equation is a spherical cloud of probability of the electron's location around the proton nucleus. For an atom at ground state, this probability is highest very close to the nucleus, at a distance from it called the Bohr radius. This is exactly where the n=1 energy shell is located. This means that the Bohr model and the quantum mechanical model agree with each other, but that the quantum model offers far more information about the electron's orbit than the Bohr model does. The Dirac equation implies something about the electron that the Bohr model cannot describe. The electron's probability cloud extends infinitely outward in all directions. Although there is almost no probability that the electron in the hydrogen atom is very far away, even halfway across the universe, there is an extremely small chance it could be at any given time.
While we can fairly easily picture an electron as a tiny physical particle orbiting around a proton nucleus and we can imagine it jumping up and down the higher and lower energy shells of the Bohr model, our imagination fails us when we deal with the more sophisticated and technologically useful quantum model. This wave function model tells us that the electron is neither here nor there. It cannot be reduced to any kind of point particle unless its wave function collapses, such as when it collides with another particle. Even then we have only a ghost image of where and when the collision occurred. According to Dirac, at any point in space, the electron neither exists nor doesn't exist. It can only be described as a mathematical function. The same is true for the quarks that make up the atom's nucleus, as they too are fermions, which behave according to the Dirac equation.
Knowing this, it seems miraculous that almost all electron behaviours can still be reliably measured and observed, that we have any working physical description of them at all. Most observations are of large numbers of electrons behaving at ordinary energies where their inner quantum nature is hidden from view.
Young's Double Slit Experiment Peers Into a Secret Quantum World
There are experiments elegantly designed to offer us a glimpse into the hidden world of particle behaviour. Young's famous double slit experiment is an excellent example. Below, Dr. Quantum offers an easy-to-follow 5-minute introduction to this experiment.
A beam of light or electrons is shot through two parallel slits in a plate. Either photons or electrons go through the two slits and hit a detector screen behind the plate. Both electrons and photons build up interference patterns, which beautifully demonstrate their wavelike nature. However, when the beam of particles is reduced so that just one particle is shot at a time, something purely astounding is observed - the interference pattern is still created! The results of a double slit experiment are shown below right where an interference pattern is built up by electrons shot one at a time.
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Detectors have even been placed at the slit locations to verify that each photon or electron goes through just one slit and not both.
This demonstrates not only the dual wave-particle nature of particles but it also indicates that individual particles behave in a clearly probabilistic (building up the interference pattern) manner, which only quantum mechanics can account for. This experiment has been performed using "particles" as large as molecules called buckyballs.
The Young's double slit experiment, discussed in high school physics, may have a simple setup but it leaves us with very fascinating questions. It demonstrates to students how particles of light and matter exhibit both a particle nature and a wave nature depending on how they are measured, and this is where most discussions end on the matter. Slowing the beam down to individual particles shot one at a time reveals their true and bizarre quantum mechanical nature to us.
In describing this experiment, Wikipedia includes a quote from Richard Feynman, [this result is] "a phenomenon which is impossible [...] to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery [of quantum mechanics]." (Feynman, Richard P.; Robert B. Leighton; Matthew Sands (1965). The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 3. US: Addison-Wesley. pp. 1.1-1.8. ISBN 0201021188.) Wikipedia goes on to say that Feynman was fond of saying that all of quantum mechanics can be gleaned from carefully thinking through the implications of this single experiment. In 2002, Physics World readers voted the single electron version of the experiment the "most beautiful experiment" and I whole-heartedly agree with them.
Many variations on this experiment have been done since Young first performed it in the early 1800's. One of my favourite variations is called the delayed quantum eraser. This experiment is in itself a paradox UNLESS it is interpreted in a certain way.
First, two statements are made. If an electron manifests itself as if it came through just one slit, it must have entered the setup as a particle. If, on the other hand, the electron manifests itself as if it came through as two indistinguishable paths through both slits then it entered as a wave. Now the experimental apparatus is reversed mid-flight. And . . . the electron reverses its decision (AFTER going through one or two slits!) to be a particle or wave.
How can a measurement made in the present reverse a "decision" made by the electron in the past? This is a time paradox that can only be resolved if we consider the electron inflight to be in a superimposed state in which it is neither particle nor wave but has the potential to be either one. This is the interpretation made by John Wheeler in a series of thought experiments in the late 1970s before the actual experiment was performed. This setup, as well as recent far more complex experiments designed to explore (faster than light speed and backward through time) particle decision-making, concludes that the particle, either photon or electron, exists in a state that is neither particle nor wave, with the potential for both at the same time. Only when a particle is detected, does its wave function collapse and it shows either clear particle or wave behaviour. Detection also means that it is absorbed or deflected and therefore no longer in existence in its original state. These experiments also show that the particle travels both routes (through both slits) as well as just one route (it is detected as a particle when it can only travel through just one slit, creating no interference pattern). Einstein thought this was a clear indication that quantum theory was missing something or it was out-and-out wrong. Richard Feynman, however, saw this two-route scenario as an opportunity to rethink quantum behaviour (as we will see).
This still leaves us with a fundamental question. When two slits are open, how do the particles know where to go in order to work together to build up the precise interference pattern of a wave? At least it seams that this is what they are doing in the single particle experiment version, and it seems to look like a violation of causality, the tried-and-true experience of all cause and effect relationships. An experiment set up by Kim et al in 2000 (Kim, Yoon-Ho; R. Yu, S.P. Kulik, Y.H. Shih and Marlan Scully (2000). "A Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser". Physical Review Letters 84: 1-5. arXiv:quant-ph/9903047. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..84....1K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1) was designed specifically to test this retrocausality possibility. It is a complex setup that is best described on Wikipedia. Not everyone's interpretation will agree with those stated on the Wikipedia page, but the results of this experiment say two important things. First, there is no point at which a decision is made by the particle in-flight whether to be a particle or a wave. Second, only when the final signal at the detector plate is observed, regardless of how the particles are manipulated along the way, do the wave functions of the particles finally collapse into a total non-interference pattern (at Do). These manipulations include long delays in detecting one of two entangled particles. The researcher's interpretation is that this final signal comes to the observer as an ordinary beam of light. It is the only "real" component of the particle's behaviour, which travels no faster than light speed and, therefore, does not violate causality. As Wiki states, there are numbers of physicists that do not agree with that interpretation and do believe that causality is violated.
I would offer a third conclusion from this experiment, perhaps better stated as a question: Is an electron, then, the entire interference pattern? Does this experiment indicate that individual electrons are not individual at all, so when we observe individual electrons going through the slits, we are seeing what looks to us like separate pieces of what, in reality, is the whole picture? I think this implies the non-reality of time.
While we may agree that causality is not violated in this experiment, it does appear that particles are somehow acting outside of time, as we know it. I mentally find myself going back to the original single particle version. The Kim at al version of the experiment does not answer the question mentioned earlier of how individual particles shot one at a time, and with as long a delay as you want in between, STILL build up an interference pattern. Other variations of this experiment (they are on the Wikipedia page) have also proven that the order in which the particles are shot makes no difference whatsoever. The particles always randomly build up the pattern. There appears to be some kind of "space" in which these particles live all together as one and which is not observable by us. Richard Feynman has done more to conceptualize this space for us than any other physicist.
From Young's Experiment to Path Integral Formulation
Richard Feynman built on the results of Young's experiment to come up with the path integral formulation (PIF) of quantum mechanics. The classical behaviour of light (reflection, refraction, etc.) relies on the concept of a single trajectory of photons. PIF, in contrast, reflects not each actual photon's individual path but the path of greatest probability. I attempt to describe it in detail in the article The Behaviour of Light. Scroll down to Wave-Particle Duality in that article and read on from there, although I will describe it here as well. Like the Young experiment, this formulation is valid for all particles, including photons and electrons. It is mathematically derived from Schrodinger's equation.
An electron, for example, doesn't travel in a single straight line from A to B. It can potentially take one of an infinite number of paths, which can be curved or straight and can be any length, to get from A to B (and according to this theory it DOES take every possible path). The figure below illustrates just three of an infinite number of possible random particle paths. These paths are virtual paths rather than actual paths that the particle takes from A to B. That being said, neither does the particle move from A to B in a straight trajectory (the classical interpretation). The probability amplitude of the particle, however, does travel in a straight trajectory. I've drawn that amplitude arrow in blue below left.
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The photon's path from A to B is treated as a path integral rather than the single trajectory familiar to classical mechanics. The straight trajectory of the electron from A to B that we observe is a probability amplitude. It can also be thought of as a superposition of all possible virtual paths. This formulation is very closely related to the quantum mechanical model of the electron. In fact, Feynman's work continued where Dirac's work left off. By providing a sum over paths, Feynman offers us a connection between the classical mechanical and quantum mechanical worlds of physics. It also provides us with a physical meaning for the wave function, something that we can visualize. The PIF at macroscopic scales condenses into the classical mechanics of the classical three-dimensional world we experience in everyday life.
The path integral not only offers us a way to help us visualize the secret quantum world of the electron but it also offers insight into how it "experiences" space-time. The quantum world is symmetric with regard to space and time, a quality with huge ramifications. Our classical world is symmetric with regard to space but not time. We experience time as a one-way arrow, and all thermodynamics and mechanics are based on that forward arrow. A broken wine glass never rebuilds itself. Neither Schrodinger nor Heisenberg considered the symmetry of time in their formulations of quantum mechanics. The path integral formulation reproduces the Schrodinger equation and the Heisenberg equations of particle motion and not only shows that they are compatible with special relativity, where time is a variable (as in the Dirac equation), but it also shows that time is reversible at the quantum level.
The electron goes much further than "sensing out all possible routes" in the Young experiment. As a virtual particle, it takes all possible routes. As a real particle, it takes no route at all. The "real" route taken, the one we desperately look for in that double slit experiment, is nothing more than a probability amplitude. The only "real" particle is that which we detect, and as stated earlier, we can detect nothing more than the aftermath of a collapsed wave function, while the particle itself has already been absorbed or deflected and if it still exists, it exists in some other state.
The fundamental point about quantum particles: it is not the individual particle - a photon, a quark or an electron - that moves from place to place but the probability of that particle that moves. Put another way, all the particle behaviours we observe experimentally are actually our observations of their probabilities, and not of them as individual particles. The classical electron as an individual physical entity is gone. In its place is an interpretation of a quantum world inhabited by virtual particles which are no more than and no less than infinite potentialities of wave functions. Our senses contract this infinite and undefined reality into the classical world we comprehend. But the underlying reality is incomprehensible to ordinary scientific thought and a new approach is required. If we can even begin to think of the electron as a quantum entity, the fact that two particles separated by great distances can demonstrate quantum entanglement, a form of communication that far exceeds the speed of light, starts to seem just a bit more plausible.
The Electron Is Not a Physical Particle
So far we have explored the electron as an individual wave function and what this wave function means.
At everyday energy and in large numbers, electrons act like particles or waves, or sometimes both as in the case of the Young experiment. It depends only on how they are measured. But as we've seen, it is not the electrons themselves we are observing but their probabilities instead. We can now think of the electron as a probabilistic wave function. We have done what we can to build a concept of a wave function in our minds. However, it is tempting at this point to now think of the wave function as its own separate and distinct entity. Two interacting electrons, then, are simply two wave functions acting on each other across a distance. As I hope we will see, this too is a way of thinking that will require updating.
In addition to the Young double slit experiment, we can explore electrons and other particles, as well as atoms, at energy extremes. Particles near the coldest temperature possible, absolute zero, betray their secret quantum nature, and we can take advantage of that. In fact, it turns out that at such ultra-low energies, the curtain of random atomic kinetic movement pulls back just enough to reveal what might be the true nature of matter.
Do Electrons Stop at Absolute Zero? Is There Such A Thing As A Stationary Electron?
An electron can theoretically reduce to what most physicists would call a zero-energy state, where it would be perfectly stationary, even though some energy would be present as a mass equivalent (and there is irreducible momentum in its intrinsic spin). Experimentally, an electron is never found to be motionless. A Penning trap, which uses strong magnetic and electric fields to trap charged particles, can confine an electron's movement to a small elliptical-like plane, but it cannot suspend it in a completely motionless state. Cooling the electron can further reduce its kinetic energy, but an electron as a wave function can never maintain an absolutely still position. Thanks to its quantum mechanical nature, its position cannot be perfectly localized.
What happens to an electron in an atom when that atom is cooled to absolute zero? Can an electron in an atom ever slow down and stop moving? Until recently, it was thought that absolute zero could not be achieved but it could be approached using a variety of processes. Laser cooling, for example has achieved temperatures of less than a billionth of a kelvin. We expect all molecular motion to stop at absolute zero, as individual atoms achieve the lowest ground state possible. Atoms should stop moving at absolute zero because such a system should possess zero kinetic energy from the random movement of atoms. There should be no state colder than absolute zero.
An atom, which possesses its own wave function, will behave like any other quantum mechanical particle. Thanks to the either-or nature of quantum mechanics, once an atom's velocity reduces to zero, its location wave function should expand out toward infinity (this would also theoretically happen to an electron's wave function). An atom cooled to absolute zero should theoretically exist everywhere at once across the universe. Matter would not be recognizable as we know it.
This prediction was recently tested. In 2013, German researchers not only achieved absolute zero, but they went below it, a feat that seems logically impossible. They achieved negative kelvin temperatures in gas atoms, with mind-blowing results. Temperature depends on the kinetic movement of atoms (it is the measurement of their average kinetic movement) but it also depends on pressure and potential energy as well. By cooling atoms to a within a few nanokelvin and controlling their behaviour with magnetic fields, the scientists could manipulate these aspects of temperature. By maintaining negative pressure and limiting potential energy by introducing a special atomic lattice, they created something that was previously thought impossible - a negative kelvin environment.
What they found was astonishing. At everyday temperatures, atoms tend to settle in a state of minimal allowable kinetic energy. Some atoms have a little more energy and some have a little less, but on average they settle at the lowest possible potential energy state (this is called a positive Boltzmann distribution), and the temperature reflects their average kinetic energy. At (theoretical) infinite temperature, atoms are expected to exhibit an even spread of possible potential energies because all energy states within the upper and lower bounds are equally possible. At negative kelvin temperatures, they observed that atoms settle at the upper limit of their potential energy, exhibiting a negative Boltzmann distribution, an entirely unexpected result. In a sense, negative kelvin temperatures are not cold at all. They are hotter than infinite temperature. If a negative temperature system comes into contact with a positive temperature system (at any temperature), heat will flow from the negative system to the positive system. Negative temperature systems are also unique in regard to their dynamics. Instead of contracting under the force of gravity (as positive temperature systems do), negative temperature gases are stabilized against contraction, and this offers a possible clue into the nature of dark energy, the accelerating expansion of the universe.
According to this new research, it appears that sub-zero atoms not only do not stop but they speed up to their maximum potential (and kinetic) energy limit. Does this mean that there is no reality to the idea of an atom at full stop at absolute zero, with a corresponding wave function as large as infinity? Yes, for a single atom this would be true because negative kelvin temperature is possible, but it is possible only for systems that possess limited possible energy states, such as a tiny sample of a few gas atoms. Any larger system of atoms or particles cannot achieve negative kelvin temperature.
What does this mean for the wave function of the electron at absolute zero? One model, the model of a Fermi gas, predicts the behaviour of electrons in metals at absolute zero. It is odd to think of a gas state within a metal, but electrons in metals exist as a degenerate electron gas, which means that atomic nuclei share electrons equally. These free electrons behave like a gas of particles. Even in the coldest system approaching absolute zero (0 kelvin or -273.15°C), there is still movement. A gas of non-interacting electrons, for example, when cooled almost to absolute zero, is still filled with electrons whizzing around at great velocities.
Electrons are fermions. They are spin-1/2 particles and, as such, all electrons must occupy separate quantum states. This requirement is what contributes to electrons having very high velocities even at absolute zero. They still possess a maximum energy at absolute zero, called Fermi energy. In ultracold metal atoms, all electrons find the lowest possible energy configuration they can. Fermi energy is the energy of the highest occupied electron energy shell in this configuration (the kinetic energy or temperature of these electrons is estimated to be around 80,000 K). Because electrons are fermions, they cannot all fall down together into the same lowest possible energy shell because only two electrons (one spin up and one spin down) can occupy each orbital within a shell. Electron velocity increases as one moves to higher energy shells in an atom. The temperature reflects the electron velocity of the highest energy occupied shell. At absolute zero, the wave functions of these electrons are not affected beyond maintaining a lowest possible energy state. Fermi energy is why electrons inside atoms never stop. A free electron, however, can approach a near-stationary state, however, as described earlier.
Even an electron in a stationary state in a classical sense "moves" in a quantum mechanical sense. Stationary means that the particle has a constant probability distribution for its position, velocity, spin, etc. in a static environment. This does not mean that the wave function itself is stationary however. It is a standing wave, which means it is always changing its complex phase factor. According to de Broglie's relationship, the energy of this wave, which cannot be reduced, is its oscillation frequency times Planck's constant.
The Answer is No and No
You can always slow down a physical object, like a buckyball, to a full stop (at least in the classical sense!). But a particle with a single wave function, such as an electron or even an atom with its own wave function cannot achieve quiescence. Particles have quantum mechanical properties that are fundamentally by their very nature always in motion. Quantum mechanics means that a particle's position cannot be maintained precisely. Even if it could, the particle's wave function is always in motion. Third, an electron has fundamental spin, and in this sense too it always possesses an intrinsic momentum. An electron at full stop is no longer an electron.
Absolute Zero: A Glimpse Into the Weird Quantum World
The quantum world, in which objects behave as both particles and waves, where matter can be in many places at once, where time runs forward and backward and behaviours are based entirely on probability, phenomena are far too tiny to observe directly. A Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) is a rare case in which quantum mechanical effects (the rules of the very tiny quantum world) emerge into the classical world (where the rules of the large rule).
In a BEC, the wave functions of millions of atoms merge into one "giant" wave function about a millimeter across (large enough to observe). Atoms cooled to within a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero and held together in place by lasers and magnetic traps turn into one single wave function. Interestingly, only atoms in which the sum of their neutrons, protons and electrons add up to an even number can be made into BECs.
In an ordinary gas of sodium atoms, for example, the atoms fly around randomly in all directions. In a BEC (also called a Bose gas or an ideal quantum gas), those atoms move together in step as one, like soldiers marching in formation. A BEC is "a single matter wave propagating in one direction."
This is no ordinary matter. When two BECs are added together they do not mix like a gas does. Instead they interfere with each other like two overlapping waves. Within, atoms disappear and reappear somewhere else inside the BEC based on constructive (appear) and destructive (disappear) interference.
In classical mechanics, a collection of identical atoms in a gas can be, in theory, distinguished from one another and each atom's trajectory, velocity and location can be described at any point in time. In theory, the evolution of this collection of gas atoms can be calculated precisely. In quantum mechanics, however, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes its presence obvious. The evolution of a quantum mechanical system of gas atoms cannot be determined precisely. The trajectory of each atom cannot be calculated as a precise value, and as the system evolves, that precision grows even fuzzier. Ultimately a collection of atoms is a chaotic and unpredictable system.
And yet, this collection of atoms, at a cold enough temperature, exhibits a level of organization never observed until fairly recently in physics. Near absolute zero, the system's energy is low enough to significantly dampen atomic jiggling. Atoms become almost still. This system of atoms is called a Bose gas. The collection is so "calm" that its underlying fundamental quantum reality is able to reveal itself, and here we see atoms acting like the wave functions they really are. Under the right conditions these wave functions line up in step with each other and form one huge wave function, which in every quantum mechanical way, is one huge atom. This is a Bose Einstein condensate, or BEC. Atoms (fermionic composite particles), bosonic gases (diatomic molecules that act like bosons) and even photons (bosons) have all been successfully condensed into BECs. Ordinary everyday atomic motion obscures the quantum mechanical reality that is always present underneath.
This reality is, to put it lightly, odd. This reality is composed not of objects, time and distances but of probability distributions. And it implies that all particles are interwoven into each other, at least to some extent, through wave functions that cannot be thought of as distinctly separate entities since each one potentially extends to infinity. Wave functions under the right conditions also overlap with each other (and in the case of a BEC they completely overlap into one wave function). We only observe a particle such as an electron as localized because the probability of the electron's location being far away from its cloud drops off very quickly. We observe an atom as localized for the same reason.
The Quantum Vortex and Intrinsic Quantum Spin
BEC's demonstrate another fascinating quantum phenomenon called quantum vortices. Such vortices may hold clues about how particles such as electrons come into existence. As we move toward thinking of the electron as a probability distribution, a new question comes to us. How do these localized distribution clouds arise in the first place? Why isn't the universe a vast homogenous sea of probability (or is it)?
A vortex in a BEC can be created much like any vortex - by stirring the condensate with lasers or by rotating the confining trap. Both actions are like stirring a cup of coffee with a spoon. They are small but detectable - the core of a vortex can be up to ten micrometers across. Unlike macroscopic continuous vortices (such as tornadoes), BEC vortices are quantum in nature. In BEC's the vortex carries quantized angular momentum. Vortices can also exist in superconductors, where the vortex caries quantized magnetic flux.
At the center of each quantum vortex is a phase singularity around which the phase changes by a multiple of 2π. This 2π winding is exactly the same phenomena as the de Broglie matter wave. If you pick any point in space and call it 0 and then go around in a circle, coming back to 0, the phase has changed either by 2π or zero. The phase singularity at the center of a quantum vortex means that there are zero matter waves there. There is no superfluid in the core but a vacuum or nothingness instead, even though there is no pressure-related reason why it cannot be occupied (the core inside a tornado is filled with air).
What is a quantum vortex mathematically? The Schrodinger equation is a non-linear equation that describes waves in a medium. In one dimension, it describes something called a soliton, a self-reinforcing solitary wave. It is a localized standing wave that does not change shape with time, and it acts like a particle. A 2011 paper by Manfried Faber, for example, describes particles as stable topological solitons. In two or more dimensions it describes a vortex. Both solitons and quantum vortices are observed (as macroscopic excitations) in BEC's.
What Do Quantum Vortices Have to Do With Particles?
Intrinsic Quantum Spin Sets Up Our Story
Do quantum vortices exist in all quantum mechanical matter waves, hidden within all matter - are they behind the intrinsic angular momentum of each particle? Most particles have intrinsic angular momentum, or quantum spin, and this alone is a concept that is very difficult to grasp in a common-sense way. We often come across spin-1/2 particles called fermions (which includes the electron) and spin-1 particles called bosons (such as the photon) in particle physics. The Standard Model of particles also now includes the Higgs boson, a spin-0 boson.
Intrinsic quantum spin is not the kind of spin like a spinning top or a spinning ballerina. It is quantized in particles, which means that it is either 1/2, zero or one, or some multiple of these values, but never in between, whereas a spinning ballerina slows down or speeds up on a continuum, transitioning smoothly between spin rates. The quantum spin is also unique because it is intrinsic. A ballerina exists when she is not spinning. The spin of a particle is part of what makes it what it is. How do we even know that the electron, for example, has spin? You can prove it by working backwards from a macroscopic example. If you take any electrically charged object and spin it in the usual sense, you create a magnetic field around it. If you know the charge of an object and how fast it is spinning you can calculate its magnetic field. Now, if you measure an electron's magnetic field and its charge you can find its minimum spin rate (in the usual classical sense!). This little test at least tells us that the electron must be spinning, but it is not the whole story. There is a big problem.
The concept of intrinsic quantum spin comes from Dirac's equation. His new version of the Schrodinger wave equation incorporated special relativity. This relativistically invariant (this means that the charge of an electron is the same no matter how space-time transforms around it) equation offers an elegant solution to a problem with the magnetic field created by the electron. A rotating charged particle gives rise to a magnetic field. The problem is that the electron, then thought to be a physical particle with a size, has to very small. It has to have an upper radius limit of 10-22 meters, based on experimental results. A sphere this small would have to rotate faster than light speed to account for the measured strength of is magnetic field. According to special relativity, nothing can move faster than light speed. So how is this possible? This is yet another hint that the electron does not "live" in our classic three-dimensional world.
In Dirac's equation, the electron is no longer treated as a classical particle with size. It is a zero point particle that correctly predicts the observed magnetic field strength, or magnetic moment, of the electron. The closest thing to visualizing this is to think of an electron as a point in space spinning at infinite speed, but this visualization is incorrect and we need once again to go to the math behind it to get our best sense of what's going on.
The electron's intrinsic angular momentum is treated mathematically as something called a spinor. A spinor is like a vector or a tensor because it can describe a point that transforms in (usually three-dimensional) space. To understand a spatial vector for example, think of a thumbtack stuck in a flat sheet of cork. Let's tie a string to it at one end and tie a marker to it at the other end. Make the string taut and draw a point (at zero). Now you can draw a circle around the tack. You will find that you have to travel 360 degrees before you get back to point zero. A spinor is different. It takes a 720 degree rotation to get back to point zero. This obviously isn't the normal two-dimensional space of our cork sheet.
Are Particles Built Into Space-Time? Is It Einsteinian?
The 720 degree example lives in something called complex vector space. We can visualize ordinary two-dimensional (the flat cork sheet) and three-dimensional (a cube made up of cork sheets) vector space. We cannot visualize complex vector space. Ordinary vector space is made of real numbers, such as 4 or 6.7. Think of a coordinate system with x, y and z vectors. You can define the location of any point by giving it a location along each of the x, y and z axes. Complex vector space, however, is made of complex numbers, in the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers and i is an imaginary number that satisfies the equation i2 = -1 (you can't visualize it). Why go to this length to describe the electron spinor? This seams like a lot of unnecessary complicatedness but it allows you to solve equations that cannot be solved using real numbers alone, and it has many practical applications in physics as well as other sciences. Where does an imaginary number live? Nowhere we can conceptualize, and that is, in a nutshell, why quantum mechanics does not allow us to enter, at least not with our common sense.
The intrinsic spin of an electron traveling well under the speed of light is described as a spinor in three dimensions. A relativistic electron, one travelling close to light speed, is in contrast described by a Dirac spinor in four dimensions. This is the part of the Dirac equation that uses the Lorentz metric, the metric that intimately links space and time together and allows time dilation in special relativity. It is four-dimensional real vector space, often called Minkowski space.
It's intriguing, at least to me, that the spinor, a beast living in complex space, somehow can live in real-vector (no imaginary component) space-time. The mathematical reason it can is that complex numbers can represent an ordered pair (two points you can map) where sum and scalar product work just fine and can be mapped into real vector space.
We explored complex numbers and complex space in a previous series of articles called The Fractal Universe. There we found out that we can use complex numbers to describe spatial dimensions that "live" in between the whole integer dimensions (one, two and three dimensions, and so on) we are familiar with. These complex numbers create a geometry called fractal geometry. Many examples from nature as well as the Dirac electron, itself at the heart of all nature, suggest that the natural world may be better described in a non-linear, non-differentiable and non-Euclidean framework. Most theory in physics (including Einstein's space-time), in contrast, is linear, differentiable and Euclidean, owing to a centuries-long tradition of using these mathematical structures.
Complex mathematical structures such as intrinsic quantum spin may seem esoteric and hidden to us but they are not. Consider the rotation of our planetary system and the rotation of our galaxy. Both examples of classic spin owe their origin to the summed intrinsic angular momentum of all of the countless particles making them up.
How do quantum vortices correspond to two built-in properties of particles, quantum spin and magnetic moment? Is the particle itself some kind of stable quantum vortex in space-time, with no physical reality beyond its mathematical geometry? If so, what is doing the (quantized!) stirring and what is the medium being stirred? However these questions are answered, they seem to point us toward the possibility that the physical world we experience and measure is not fundamental reality, but instead an artifact of our perception.
What do we make of the electron? We find that all the matter around us, including ourselves, owes its properties and behaviours, in large part to the electrons within each atom building block. The physical, chemical, electrical and magnetic properties of all matter owe themselves to the electrons inside atoms. We expect the atom to be a physical building block and the electron to be a physical sub-component of the physical world we experience every day, and we are jolted to find it is not. The electron and the atom do not operate according to everyday classical mechanics and dynamics but according to quantum rules instead, in a world we cannot visualize or even conceptualize, where time and space lose their ordinary meaning and uncertainty means that rules are meant to be broken. This seemingly chaotic world translates into a reliable classical world at larger scales as a wonderful consequence of all possibilities averaging out. The stability of objects and the predictability of motion and forces come not from what individual subatomic particles themselves are doing but instead from a cloud of averaged activities. We cannot even know what individual particles are doing, not only because they cannot be pinpointed precisely but also because they are doing what they are doing within a geometry of space we can't possibly visualize. In fact, they themselves may BE the geometry we can't visualize.
The electron (like all other particles) is a wave function. Does it even have a physical reality? If it doesn't, doesn't this mean that the universe, composed of particles of matter and energy, is nothing more than a collection of mathematical formulas and probabilities - wave functions? Or, does it mean that there is an underlying fundamental physical reality that we do not have the conceptual tools to experience?
Philosophical Implications of the Electron as a Mathematical Particle
Are We Looking In the Right Place?
When faced with the questions - what fundamentally IS matter and energy, and what ARE these particles the search into their deepest nature leads first to Max Tegmark, a very well known American cosmologist, who holds to the idea that reality at its heart is purely mathematical. In fact, he goes further to postulate that all possible mathematical structures exist in the physical universe and that we, as self-aware mathematical substructures ourselves, perceive ourselves living in a physically real word. The physical world, therefore, is nothing more than a human perception or a human interpretation of a purely mathematical reality.
Is Tegmark right or not? And must reality either be physical or mathematical, or can other possible explanations exist? I recently read a book called The Quantum and the Lotus, where this troubling question is turned on its head by two scientifically trained men who are also intimate with Zen Buddhism. This book inspired me to wonder if HOW we think about quantum mechanics might be part of our problem with understanding it.
Do we think that if we can peer into the workings of the universe carefully and closely enough, we will be able, at some point, to see how it all fits together? Will we have one unified logically consistent theory of everything? Tellingly, I think, Wikpedia has two entrees for the theory of everything - one scientific (the previous link) and one philosophical. Both are worth a close look.
The electron works within special relativity. The next logical step for some is to get the Dirac equation to commute with general relativity so that we can describe the electron and other particles at the quantum level living within the gravitational fabric of curved space-time. Others look for a purely quantum gravitational reworking of space-time or for a string theory version of gravity. Either way, this largely mathematical approach assumes that a logical unified theory exists for all observable phenomena.
Other investigators are peering deeply into the very substance of space-time. One tactic is to look for extra (real vector) dimensions in space-time, as predicted by string theory. Another tactic may be to look within the dimensions of complex space. Fractal theory is beginning to make fascinating strides toward understanding what goes on in the hidden world of particles. L. Marek-Crnjac presents a brief history of the development of fractal space-time theory, which serves as a good introduction to it. Again I suggest a look at my series of articles called The Fractal Universe. Can this approach describe physics at the very large scale, and what should we look for as evidence?
How Are We Looking?
It is almost as if we are not hearing what the Dirac equation has been telling us for decades. The electron confronts us with mind-shaking consequences that we cannot ignore.
For example, what happens to locality, the principle that states an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings? Locality is the benchmark of classical physics. Interestingly, Newton's classical laws of gravitation, formulated in terms of "action at a distance," violated this principle and Newton himself knew it. He was certain that there must be some kind of mediating material to transmit gravitational force. Later, Einstein successfully reformulated gravity into his theory of general relativity. It obeys the principle of locality because it evokes a stretchy and bendable four-dimensional space-time fabric that pervades the universe. He was never a fan of "spooky action at a distance." Ironically, Einstein himself contributed significantly to the then-new theory of quantum mechanics and he famously stated that this theory must be incomplete somehow. There must be one or more hidden variables that would restore its locality. The idea that a particle such as an electron is really a vortex-like structure implies, I think, some kind of turbulent medium pervading the universe, an idea that is at heart localist. The quantum mechanical electron is non-local. Over the past few decades, a series of many experiments, called Bell test experiments, have convinced most theorists that the precept of locality is no longer valid. Experiments focused on the quantum entanglement of various kinds of particles convincingly tell us that the universe is nonlocal. The non-locality inherent in quantum mechanics brings up many questions about how time works. It has been shown that two separated entangled electrons, for example, would have to communicate faster than the speed of light. Either this, or particles in the quantum world do not experience the constraints of time and space that we perceive. It seems to me that the double slit experiments tell us that the latter is more likely.
Realism is the belief that reality is independent of our measurements and conceptions of it. The universe, therefore, exists independently of us. With realism comes the promise that, given careful enough observation and measurement, we will eventually come to a full understanding of this reality. In the sciences, we are trained in a manner that is both localist and realist. Objects, energies and forces are thought of as out there separate from us. Systems can be isolated, identified and manipulated. When some of us get into quantum physics, however, this approach is not only no longer useful but it can be a significant hindrance to our ability to understand the nature of the universe. Einstein and even Feynman and Tegmark are realists. Einstein was a physical realist. Feynman and Tegmark can be described as mathematical realists, in that a mathematical reality exists independent of us. The looming question: Is the electron real? An enormous collection of data tells us that the electron is not real in the physical sense in that it does not exist independent of our observations of it. Is it real in the mathematical sense? Is the Dirac equation the reality? Is the potentiality of the electron a peek into a deeper and far more obscure reality than we can imagine?
What of the possibility that, while physical experiment and mathematical theory offer us a framework in which to explore the workings of the universe, neither make contact with the true bedrock of reality? Calling reality bedrock or even calling it a word is, in the strictest sense, realist. Here we begin to see just how difficult it would be to be truly non-realist in our approach to quantum mechanics, where reality is no-concept. This may seem extreme but the point I wish to make here is to be cautious of where we hang our hat, or where we attach to one form of realism or another. Is our attachment necessary? Is it valid? Are we aware of our assumptions when we investigate the secretive quantum universe?
Quantum mechanics proves that particles obey neither locality nor (at least physical) realism. The electron, by its very nature, is neither here nor there. It is not strictly bounded by location or momentum. Its reality is blurred into the realities of other particles. There is no physically real electron hidden somewhere. The electron cloud is both empty and full - a startling and peculiar state of being that is foreign to most of us scientific minds, but is intimately understood by those, for example, well versed in Zen Buddhism. To understand this state of being, we will need to transcend the way we think. Deductive reasoning, so practically useful and sharply honed in the minds of physicists, gets us partway to understanding the electron.
We need to spend some time feeling out the uncomfortable space of the Dirac electron, to acquaint ourselves with its seemingly paradoxical nature, and dare I say it as a scientist, acquaint ourselves with our own natures. Are we getting in the way of ourselves in our quest for the "real" electron?
Next, check out Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.
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THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE by Brian Greene
SCHRODINGER'S KITTENS and the search for reality by John Gribbin
THE GHOST IN THE ATOM edited by P.C.W. Davies and J.R. Brown
EQUATIONS OF ETERNITY by David Darling
QED by Richard Feynman
FIVE EQUATIONS that changed the world by Michael Guillen
THE END OF PHYSICS by David Lindley
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Taxifolin
Title: Taxifolin
Subject: Flavonoid, Taxus chinensis
(2R,3R)-2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5,7-trihydroxy-2, 3-dihydrochromen-4-one
Dihydroquercetin
Taxifoliol
Distylin
Catechin hydrate
(+)-Taxifolin
trans-Dihydroquercetin
(+)-Dihydroquercetin
CAS number 480-18-2 N
PubChem 439533
ChEBI CHEBI:17948 Y
Jmol-3D images Image 1
OC1=C(C([C@H](O)[C@@H](C2=CC(O)=C(O)C=C2)O3)=O)C3=CC(O)=C1
Molecular formula C15H12O7
Molar mass 304.25 g mol−1
Appearance brown powder
N (verify) (what is: Y/ N?)
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Taxifolin is a flavanonol, a type of flavonoid.
1 Natural occurrences
2 Pharmacology
3 Metabolism
3.1 Glycosides
Natural occurrences
It can be found in conifers like the Siberian larch, Larix sibirica, in Russia, in Pinus roxburghii,[1] in Cedrus deodara[1] and in the Chinese yew, Taxus chinensis var. mairei.[2] It is also found in the açaí palm, in the silymarin extract from the milk thistle seeds and in small quantities in red onion.
Taxifolin is not mutagenic and low toxic compared to the related compound quercetin.[3] It acts as a potential chemopreventive agent by regulating genes via an ARE-dependent mechanism.[4] Taxifolin has shown to inhibit the ovarian cancer cell growth in a dose-dependent manner.[5] There is also a strong correlation (with a correlation coefficient of 0.93) between the antiproliferative effects of dihydroquercetin (DHQ, Taxifolin) derivatives on murine skin fibroblasts and human breast cancer cells.[6]
The capacity of taxifolin to stimulate fibril formation and promote stabilization of fibrillar forms of collagen can be used in medicine.[7] Also taxifolin inhibited the cellular melanogenesis as effectively as arbutin, one of the most widely used hypopigmenting agents in cosmetics. However, arbutin acts as quercetin extremely mutagenic, carcinogenic and toxic.[8]
Taxifolin enhanced also the efficacy of conventional antibiotics like levofloxacin and ceftazidime in vitro, which have potential for combinatory therapy of patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).[9]
The enzyme taxifolin 8-monooxygenase uses taxifolin, NADH, NADPH, H+, and O2 to produce 2,3-dihydrogossypetin, NAD+, NADP+, and H2O.
The enzyme leucocyanidin oxygenase uses leucocyanidin, 2-oxoglutarate, and O2 to produce cis-dihydroquercetin, taxifolin, succinate, CO2, and H2O.
Astilbin is the 3-O-rhamnoside of taxifolin.
Taxifolin 3-O-glucoside isomers have been separated from Chamaecyparis obtusa.[10]
(-)-2,3-trans-Dihydroquercetin-3'-O-β-D-glucopyranoside, a taxifolin glucoside has been extracted from the inner bark of Pinus densiflora and can act as an oviposition stimulant in the cerambycid beetle Monochamus alternatus.[11]
(2S,3S)-(-)-Taxifolin-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside has been isolated from the root-sprouts of Agrimonia pilosa.[12]
(2R,3R)-Taxifolin-3'-O-β-D-pyranglucoside has been isolated from the rhizome of Smilax glabra.[13]
(2R,3R)-Taxifolin 3-O-arabinoside and (2S,3S)-taxifolin 3-O-arabinoside have been isolated from the leaves of Trachelospermum jasminoides[14] (star jasmine).
(+)-Leucocyanidin [(2R,3S,4R)-3,4,5,7,3,4-hexahydroxyflavan] can be synthesized from taxifolin by sodium borohydride reduction.[15]
Flavanonols and their glycosides
3-Hydroxyflavanones:
Ampelopsin (Dihydromyricetin)
Aromadedrin (Dihydrokaempferol)
Dihydrogossypetin
Dihydromorin
Fustin (Dihydrofisetin)
Garbanzol
Taxifolin (Dihydroquercetin)
O-methylated flavanonols
Dihydrokaempferide
dihydroflavonol 3-O-glycosides
Lecontin
(+)-fustin glucoside
Astilbin
Chrysandroside A
Chrysandroside B
Engeletin
Eucryphin
Smitilbin (Isoastilbin B)
Xeractinol
Acetylated glycosides
Phellamurin
Flavonoid
Flavones, Isoflavonoid, Quercetin, Cancer, Citrus
Taxus chinensis
Pinophyta, Taxus, %s%s, Conservation status, Endangered species
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